DOMESTIC TERRORISM

What are followers of Jesus Christ (Blessed are the peacemakers) doing to stop it?

John Whitehead, President of the Rutherford Institute, defined the Christian "conventional wisdom" in Jerry Falwell's "National Liberty Journal" for April 1997. Talking about the actions of the abortion clinic bombers and shooters, he said they were motivated by "bad theology." "Bad theology", Whitehead wrote, "teaches that God wants to protect the lives of innocent babies, no matter whose blood is shed in the process."

To really grasp Whitehead's point, it is necessary to examine his underlying premise. His inference is clear: Bombers and shooters attack in ways that can endanger the innocent as well as the guilty. According to Whitehead, that is "bad theology." Good theology then, according to Whitehead, would "plainly demonstrate that God does not want the innocent many to suffer for the crimes of the guilty few."

There are few people who would argue with Whitehead about his theological inferences. But his inferences are totally beside the point and have absolutely nothing to do with the actual situation surrounding legalized abortion in the USA today. Unfortunately for us all, the only innocent parties in the United States of America are the babies you and I and John Whitehead are slaughtering through our collaboration with legalized abortion.

John Whitehead paused, then said, "I don't understand your question."

I said, "Well, if I'm going down the street and I see somebody take out a knife and start to cut a baby's head off, am I supposed to pick up a pen and write a letter to my congressman, or run off looking for a policeman, or am I supposed to step in and physically do everything I can do to stop that baby from getting killed?"

As I was standing there watching John Whitehead begin to sweat, I felt a tap on my elbow. I looked around and a man leaned over and said, "We understand what you're saying and we're preparing to do something about it. Most of these people here don't actually understand abortion. Don't make a scene now, and I promise you you'll see new developments before you leave here."

And I did. While in South Florida, I met several people who had already been to jail for blocking clinics; I heard about the beginning of a national strategy of non-violent civil disobedience that had high hopes of ending legalized abortion in our lifetime. Over the next decade, that strategy was implemented in organizations like Operation Rescue. And, of course, John Whitehead and all the Christian "leaders" like him stood on the sidelines and watched as thousands of Christians were thrown in jail trying to arrest legalized abortion.

What's the point? John Whitehead did not understand the question I tried to ask that day so long ago. He does not understand that men of God are not called by God to stand impotently and watch God's children being slaughtered day after day, year after year after year. John Whitehead does not understand that God gives every man the right and duty to protect the "least of these" utilizing every means available, bar none, except those that are counter-productive. To this day John Whitehead and the great majority of Christian leaders act like they do not understand it is an exercise in cowardice to arrive at a place where a baby is in imminent danger of being slaughtered and then refuse to physically step in and rescue that child from death--Cowardice that can only be explained as evidence the person values their own life more than they value the life of the child.

As a spokesman for Christian leadership in the USA, John Whitehead's words prove that the Christian leadership in the United States of America is suffering from an acute case of Denial with a capital D, Denial of the truth about legalized abortion in the USA.

What is that "truth"? This: Our willingness to stand impotently on the sidelines as babies are being slaughtered makes us accessories before and after the fact of murder. Since we all have done that at one time or another, it means that God knows every citizen of this nation is guilty of murdering babies, the least of God's children.

But of course we don't have our wits about us. Like the Big Chief in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, we're walking around in a fog. That's why Whitehead and virtually every Christian in the United States of America live their lives as if the legal decisions of the government of the United States of America have no power to turn Christians into collaborators with those decisions.

Hasn't anybody ever thought about what it means to inherit an authority system that derives its authority from we the people? Christians themselves are the quickest people on the planet to stand up and tell everyone that God wants all His people to pray for those in authority, to obey those in authority, yet Christians somehow manage to deny their culpability when mistakes are made by the government of the USA--a government that derives its authority from "the people." Like the Amish, Christians believe they are "separated" even as their dollars buy the bullets and build the bombs that explode in peoples' faces ripping their heads off their lifeless bodies.

Let's face it, Whitehead, et al, live their life as if Caesar was still on the throne. Yet everybody else on the planet except unknown hidden tribesmen in the rainforests and Christians in the USA knows for a fact that the government of the United States of America is an expression of the will of the people--Christians included. Everyone except Christians and those who think like them knows that government policy makes every person who cooperates with those policies accessories before and after the fact of any crimes created by those policies.

But what does Whitehead do? He talks about the "bad" theology of the bombers.

If the truth were known, which of course it is not, the bombers are acting out the corporate guilt, rage and attendant pain that should be experienced by every citizen of the United States of America as the least of God's children are slaughtered daily as a matter of government policy.

Few people deny that domestic terrorism is likely to increase during the future. Yet what are we doing that can effectively defuse that dynamic?

Virtually nothing can be done as long as virtually every citizen in the nation is participating in the logic of denial perfectly personified by John Whitehead.

The logic of denial means we are left with only one way to combat domestic terrorism: increased police and military protective measures.

But those measures, instead of alleviating the impulse behind domestic terrorism, will only make the patient sicker.

Then why will we do it?

Simple: The police power "cure" is the only medicine presently supported by the majority, the consensus presently ruling our "popular" government. Even though most politicians know we are doing nothing to dig out terrorism at its root, they will rely on the increase-the-police "cure" on the premise that doing something will at least cover their collective ass from accusations of impotence and indifference. And in the process our "leaders" will do nothing to halt domestic terrorism. In fact, that response actually creates domestic terror because the response of leadership produces cynicism, one of the primary emotions leading to the pain and the rage that lie beneath all acts of domestic terrorism.

If you meditate on the process described in the preceding paragraphs, you can clearly see the deadly cycle leading to domestic terrorism: counterproductive government action which leads to frustration, frustration which leads to cynicism, cynicism which leads to hopelessness, hopelessness which leads to pain, pain which leads to rage, and rage which leads to bombs--ever bigger bombs, bigger and bigger and bigger until the million man march or something like it is incinerated with a five megaton sleeper nuclear device irradiating inside the beltway--or the White House is vaporized.

At that point, domestic terrorism becomes the driving force in the world around us: we all become slaves to the rule of terror.

Since we understand that domestic terrorism is going to increase, and since we have some real insight into the dynamics behind domestic terrorism, isn't it possible that we can do what is necessary to defuse the march toward greater domestic terrorism?

Certainly it is possible; but to do so we would need a strategy that can interrupt the pain at the root of domestic terrorism.

Is there a splinter in the body politic of the United States of America?

Actually, this nation suffers from a malady much more dangerous and grave than a splinter: this nation is suffering from a disease called amnesia.

Amnesia is a dangerous ailment for any nation, but for one like the United States of America, it can be fatal.

George Will says the USA is unique among all nations on earth because we are a nation created not in response to racial characteristics nor historic cultural alignments but in response to a mutual consent to propositions, mere words that define our self-image as a nation-- "Self-evident Truths" they were called. When we forgot the propositions that define us as a nation, we came down with terminal amnesia.

The Creator's Rights Party is a political mechanism that can allow a non-terroristic outlet for the pain and rage that feed the terroristic impulse. Those who decide to support the effort begun here can actually arrest the forces behind the movement toward domestic terrorism. Conversely, those deciding to ignore the message contained here will continue to be, like John Whitehead and all of his ilk, what they have been in the past--prime movers in the escalating domestic terrorism in this nation.

Follow this upcoming link and see for yourself what we are slaughtering in the name of freedom of privacy and freedom of choice..