[Former deputy prime minister] Hellyer wants to use alien technology to eliminate burning fossil fuels. He pointed out to the Ottawa Citizen ... that alien spacecraft have to travel vast distances to reach Earth. So they must have extremely advanced propulsion systems that don't rely on sweaty little green guys shoveling coal into a flying saucer furnace. [...]How about that? The solution has been right under our noses in Roswell, N.M. all this time! Would someone please tell Washington?
Hellyer, 83, told the Ottawa Citizen, "We need to persuade governments to come clean on what they know. Some of us suspect they know quite a lot, and it might be enough to save our planet if applied quickly enough."
Moving along to a more sane (and chilling) point of view from Canada, The Old Bill recently wrote about evil and what it might look like. He concludes that it's likely to resemble Erik Prince (founder of Blackwater Security, a private mercenary army for hire that has the largest private military base in the world) or his father, Edgar, founder of the Family Research Council.
Old Bill is concerned about other member's of Prince's family too:
Erik's mom Elsa is a board member of Focus on the Family. His sister, Betsy, one time head of the Michigan Republicans, married Dick Devos, son of Amway - their foundation is a strong backer of Focus on the Family. His Freiheit Foundation funds numerous theocon/religious right groups.What's Old Bill's conclusion?
Let's see, a major war-profiteer, mercenary army CEO. . . does that seem a bit at odds to the gospel? to the person/spirit/ethos of Jesus?If you think Old Bill is overreacting, then consider this statement from Aaron, a priest-in-training at Ave Maria University in Naples, Florida (built by Tom Monaghan, Domino Pizza billionaire):
[...] having watched the rise of the religious/theocratic right in the US for almost 3 decades, I'd never considered the possibility of them creating their own army, I'd underestimated the wiliness of the devil. Yet here's a group that has created its own army, with the blessing of the Bush administration, and is amassing huge profits. Appears Corrie ten Boom was right. Sounds over the top, I know, but I think as Canadians we need to start asking what we will do if/when the US drifts/lurches into a fascist state, a theocracy. . . And as Christians, we need to start asking the questions Bonhoeffer asked, at what point must we give up our silence, our comfortable acquiescence? [emphasis added]
Aaron argued that the United States can only be saved from moral perdition if it, like Ave Maria, embraces the magisterium as supreme. "We don't believe in the separation of church and state," he said, "and this country should orient itself toward Christ. The foundation of Western civilization rests on Christendom, which means that America owes its existence to the Catholic Church." [emphasis added]Our country should orient itself toward Christ? A good starting point would be to end the war in Iraq, the one based on a lie.
4 comments:
A fascist state? I used to be absolutely convinced that it can't happen here. Now I'm absolutely convinced that it can. The last 7 years have taught us a lot about the character of America, and it isn't very flattering.
There is a lot of hate out there. I listened to talk radio the other day
America owes its existence to the Catholic Church.
The Catholic church owes a lot to priest molested American children, too.
Abi and Graeme, I have to agree that we've definitely turned ugly over the past few years. I've often said the tone set at the top (from government down to our officials to media, etc.) has an influence on the masses. We're living with the results of their lying, cheating, and manipulating now and it's not pretty.
Lew, I thought that remark of his was odd since early Americans were primarily Anglican, Presbyterian and Episcopalians (sp?). The Catholics came over with later immigrants from Italy, Poland, etc.
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