Should John McCain reject and denounce Minister John Hagee

The February 26th debate between Democrat’s Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama may have opened a Pandora’s box that will swarm the political debate in this country with issues related to Church and state separation, the true meaning of the US Constitution’s anti-establishment clause, US unconditional support for Israel, and the role of Evangelicals and Jewish groups in shaping US public policy. It may also set off a competition between denominational religious groups of various faiths, all seeking to be represented in the political process and most specifically the 2008 Presidential election.

Hillary Clinton, in what appeared to be a desperate attempt to create a wedge between Obama, AIPAC, the Jewish Lobby, the Jewish community at large, and Evangelicals, while attempting to rattle Obama, opened Pandora’s box when she suggested that Barak Obama should denounce and reject the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Farrakhan had issued a public statement saying that Barak Obama is the hope of the United States and the world. Clinton premised her demand for renunciation and denouncement of Farrakhan upon previous Jewish accusations that Farrakhan is an anti-Semite. Farrakhan, many Muslims and non-Muslims, who know him, vehemently deny the charge, a charge, which seems to surface at least once in every Presidential political cycle. It is a charge that is perhaps part of a larger effort to politically marginalize the US Muslim and Arab American communities, and their various branches of Islam, hoping to prevent our view of the Palestine/Israel conflict, and our critique of US foreign policy in the Middle East from reaching the US mainstream media, or being included in the political dispute over US foreign policy, including the preemptive strike policy and the so-called war on terrorism.

Among the contents of Pandora’s Box, the one that might prove to be the most contentious is the issue of Jewish and Evangelical political activism, contrasted by government pressure and media complicity in discouraging Muslim and Arab political activism and outright ignoring the political sentiments and issues that interest US Muslims and Arab Americans. There is little doubt among Muslims and Arabs that the detainment and imprisonment of US Arab and Muslim pro-Palestinian activists such as Dr. Sami Al Arian, and the raids and attacks on Muslim charities, mosques and organizations by the FBI that began prior to 9/11, and picked up afterwards, were intended to frighten Muslims and Arabs away from mainstream assimilation, and also the political arena. These raids and other acts of intimidation reached their apex during the run up to the Iraq war, which lends to the suspicion that a government and media attempt to silence Muslim and Arab political speech and to prevent Muslim political activism is, and has been underway. The scurrilous attacks by leaders of the Jewish and Evangelical communities and the talk radio hosts that promote their brand of Islamophobia and anti-Muslim and Arab hatred and hysteria, not only added to the intimidation, but created a rift between US Muslims, Arab Americans and their fellow Americans that has resulted in a general apathy and disinterest in Arab and Muslim 1st amendment rights, even though this apathy threatens the rights of every American to hold a dissenting view, or as members of religious or other minorities, to enjoy unfettered, their Constitutionally protected civil liberties and rights.

In response to Hillary Clinton’s provocation, Barak Obama did reject and denounce Minister Louis Farrakhan. In less than 24 hours after his denouncement of Minister Louis Farrakhan, Republican political candidate John McCain appeared in a televised news conference with the Islamophobic religious extremist and radically pro-Israel, anti-Muslim and Arab activists Minister John Hagee. Hagee is the leader of Christians United for Israel, which calls itself a Christian version of AIPAC. According to Hagee, who is also the head of a mega church in Texas; the primary aim of his organization is to prevent the US from “ramrodding” Israel into giving up too much land to the Palestinians. His organization is opposed to the US roadmap, which calls for a two state solution to the Palestine/Israel conflict. He also preaches that there will be a “pre-tribulation” rapture of Evangelical Christians and Jews who are covered by the Old Covenant, into heaven to meet Jesus. According to Hagee, a Russian/Islamic alliance will prevent Israel from destroying the Dome of the Rock Islamic shrine in Jerusalem, and as a consequence, God will destroy all Muslims and Russians with his supernatural powers. Hagee also says that the fire and brimstone mentioned in the Biblical Book of Revelations is a metaphor for Israeli nuclear weapons that will rain down, killing all Muslims and Arabs (Hagee, Beginning of the End, pgs. 143-158, and Final Doom over Jerusalem, 144-146).

Hagee’s designation as a Minister and Church leader, as well as the head of an organization that is dedicated to the destruction of Palestine, and all Muslims and Arabs with Israeli nuclear weapons should raise some eyebrows. Why isn’t anyone asking if John McCain should be prodded and forced into rejecting and denouncing the boisterous and unapologetic Hagee’s endorsement? Should Hagee, his organization, or the GOP be subjected to a DOJ investigation for what appears to be a clear and brazen breech of the US Constitution’s establishment clause? Should their offices be raided and any or all of them detained for seeking to undermine the peace process? According to the Supreme Court, the establishment clause requires government to avoid excessive involvement with religion? It also, according to other interpretations, prevents the merger of denominational religion with the state, and it prevents the state from promoting one religion, or faith group over another.

Hagee’s brand of Muslim and Arab hatred, and Islamophobia should be no more tolerable to the American public, or government than anti-Semitism. Farrakhan was called an anti-Semite because of his rhetorical comments regarding Zionism’s distortion of the Jewish faith, a position that is supported by many Jews, including Rabbi Dovid Weiss of Neturai Karta, an orthodox Jewish movement that opposes Zionism and the establishment of a Jewish only state in Palestine. Hagee, on the hand is clearly a racist and religious extremist ideologue that is shamelessly preaching not only hatred of Muslims and Arabs, but also their destruction with Israeli nuclear weapons. Should John McCain denounce and reject the political endorsement of Minister John Hagee? Of course he should, but don’t hold your breath because Hillary wont press him on it, and neither will Obama.. The special treatment that such groups have received as a result of their pro-Israel stand, and the protection they receive from their Zionist cohorts in our government includes the absolute acceptance of their hateful and divisive brand of Judeo/Christian political activism, that is perhaps the cause for the chilling, and deprivation of US Muslim and Arab American civil rights and liberties in the US. If that doesn’t warm your blood, consider that Hagee’s crusading is likely one of the causes of death of nearly 4,000 US soldiers and Marines in Iraq, and more than one million innocent Arab and Muslim Iraqis, along with hundreds of thousands of Palestinian and Israeli lives, lost over the years in the ongoing and illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine, supported by Hagee and his Judeo/Christian movement, and our government. They are also a major force behind potential wars with Iran and Syria and the use of nuclear weapons to settle such disputes. It’s hard to imagine that Hagee’s endorsement will do much to help McCain. It’s pretty clear that it will do nothing to help our country get out of Iraq with honor. Short of nuclear Armageddon, Hagee also has nothing to offer either Israel or Palestine, except more of the same hatred and violence.

God v. Mukasey

It should be clear to everyone by now that the US Judiciary is and has been the primary battleground for the Zionist neo-con war against the American people, and especially our government, our Constitution, our minorities and our political and religious dissidents. Ironically it was the US Congress, lead by Feinstein, Schumer and Specter that orchestrated what they might believe was the final turn over of the US republic to the Judeo Christian Zionist forces of Pat Robertson and his Zionist movement. This turn over was staged as an outcry against the former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who was charged with politicizing the Department of Justice in an effort to make it subservient to the Republican Party. It was a brilliant performance aimed at perpetuating the lie that we have two parties in the US and a representative democracy. It was also a very convincing performance that may have even fooled Gonzales who finally gave up and resigned, but only after he perhaps realized that he was not fighting a political battle, Democrats v. Republicans, but rather he was sitting in someone else’s seat. That someone was the Chief Zionist judiciary executioner, the powerful man whom some might call dishonorable, the Robes Pierre of our time, the judge Michael Mukasey.

It seems that Gonzales finally figured it out, after several rounds of Congressional grilling and media beatings, that he was not being forced out of the Department of Justice for sanctioning torture, or violating his oath to protect the US Constitution, nor for Abu Ghraib, or the witch hunt being carried out in US courtrooms against Muslim and Arab political activists and other minorities and dissidents. It seems that at some point, Gonzales either figured out, or someone tugged his coat tail and advised him that he was standing in the way of the complete Judeo Christian Zionist take over of the US republic, and he resigned. Like the synchronized workings of a fine watch, Gonzales resigned and Mukasey was nominated, with a presidential threat to refuse to nominate anyone other than Mukasey, which may have meant that the final stage of the takeover had been reached, and no more substitutes or stalling would be allowed.

Mukasey’s nomination, and confirmation was a perfectly staged event with the Democrats playing their assigned role as protectors of the US Constitution and the rule of law, while the Republicans played their complimentary role, spouting the rhetoric of fear and hatred of Muslims and Arabs and Islam, and war on terrorism, as a cause for abolishing the US Constitution and adopting the laws of the Old Testament, (not the Torah) as interpreted by the Zionist neo-cons in their Talmud and the pro-Israel Christian Zionist pimps who have defiled the pulpits of the United States with their desecration of the Bible and blasphemy against Jesus in support of the illegal and inhumane Israeli occupation of Palestine and Iraq, and their disdain for Blacks and other minorities. .


If the witch-hunt against Arabs and Muslims that began under the Clinton administration with the illegal detention of people like Palestinian activist Dr. Musa Abu Marzook and other Arab and Muslim political activists from Algeria and also Palestine didn’t convince us that our judiciary is neither independent, or just, an 11 year sentence handed down to the Palestinian activist Dr. Abdel Haleem Ashqar November 21st in a federal district courtroom in Chicago Illinois, after he was acquitted by a jury of the charge against him, should leave no doubt in anyone’s mind. In fact it would probably not be an exaggeration to suggest that the Judeo-Christian Zionist movement in the US has successfully taken over the executive branch of the US government, the Congress, and now our judiciary. A temporary state of unfortunate circumstance.

After his confirmation, Mukasey thanked what might be deemed in any other such instance, his co-conspirators, and pledged to wipe out and punish those who have in his words, hurt others with their hatred. This is coded Zionist speech that might mean that Mukasey understands and accepts the assignment, and will act to wipe out all pro-Palestinian activism, criticism of Israel, political dissidence, and opposition to the Judeo-Christian Zionist movement. His job as head of the Department of Justice, which controls not only the courts but also law enforcement in the US, is the perfect instrument to accomplish such a purging. Congress has given him a new thought crimes bill to enforce. The new law, which is set to clear the Senate any day now, is designed to silence anyone who would speak out against their illegal coup, and the Zionist ideologically that is their cause, deeming such dissidents criminal radicals, while criminalizing free speech, and also thinking, all in violation of our US Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Under any other form of government this illegitimate Congress, a Congress that is not representative and that has less than a 19% approval rating, would be dissolved and new elections would be held to seat new, and real representatives of the people. Ironically the Constitution that these Congressional charlatans hate and seek so desperately to destroy is the very law and idea that the people of this country love and are sworn to, and is all that keeps this Congress in power. I imagine that even those who would talk secretly of succession from this illegitimate government’s authority are no doubt held back by love of the union, and the people who have been joined as brothers and sisters, and the citizenry for over 200 years of common struggle to perfect the idea liberty and justice for all people equally, and to protect the soil and property that gave that idea a staging ground for what was deemed the great American experiment.

My fellow Americans, a bleak picture has been painted upon the United States canvass, and the true reflection of the Founder’s of this once great country has been erased. This new image, this ugly and idol god, is a picture not unlike the picture of the Russian Bolsheviks that we so passionately hated, so long ago, yet have embraced with such enthusiasm today. It is a picture of our plotted future, which except for faith in and belief in God might cause most of us to tremble with fear, and to faint, and to give up the struggle inherited from our country’s Founders, and the traditions established by them. It is an inheritance of private property and individual rights, and the courage to stand to the last man and woman, in defense of our Constitution and Bill of Rights, and to demand our inalienable rights, and liberty and justice for all.

The sacrifice of thousands of our children, killed and maimed on foreign shores, used as sacrificial sheep in a geo-political war intended to expand and to strengthen the empire being pursued by these modern day Philistines, afforded with our own tax dollars, is enough cause to resist.

When the people love their government, because it protects their rights and freedoms, and guides them through just laws nearer to God and to their prosperity, God said in the Holy Scripture that He will love that government, and will bless its people and its land. Yet, when a government becomes an enemy to God and His people, seeking to remove their rights and freedoms, a government that hates justice and upholds evil, and immorality, exploiting and oppressing the people, while robbing them of their wealth in disobedience to God and the civil laws of man, God will curse that government, and it will fall.

Now is indeed the time for all good and true American men and women to come to the aide of our country.