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03/03/2005: "Jude Law"

White, Christian Terrorists Strike: No Roundup of White Christians Planned

Earlier this week the husband and mother of Federal Judge Joan Humphrey
Lefkow were murdered, according to many people who carry badges, sport
crew-cuts, and own a dozen pairs off blue underwear, by what were most
likely members of a white supremacist group. Either that or Nicole
Simpson's REAL killers have struck again!!!

Most fingers are pointing in the direction of the followers of Matt Hale
who lists his job title as "Pontifex Maximus" of the World Church of the
Creator. Pontifex Maximus Hale is presently cooling his heels in a
correctional facility awaiting sentencing for attempting to arrange Judge
Lefkow's murder. It's seems that he was angry at Lefkow over her earlier
ruling that another group of pathetic, insane, bed-wetting weirdoes owned
the name "World Church of the Creator."

Back in '99, by the way, Hale called for "racial holy war". This call was
taken up by Hale follower Benjamin Smith, who went on a three-day shooting
spree killing two people, (including former Northwestern University
basketball coach Ricky Byrdsong) and wounded nine (That's a pretty crappy
average for a "soldier" of the White race) before killing himself.

If you want to see hypocrisy in action, take a tour of the right wing blogs
and see how they treat this story. Whenever some Muslim Allahole kills
someone the rightwing immediately respond with a deluge of "Islam: The
Religion of Peace - HA!" rants. Where are the demands that the FBI
infiltrate churches? Do you think that it's only a coincidence that,
earlier today, the BTK killer met with is pastor?

Sweet Mother of Hubbard - A the family of a Federal Judge have been
viciously murdered by religious fanatics will cells on American soil.
Should we raise the Terror Alert Warning to Burnt Sienna, or Iridescent
Puce, or something.


Thou Shalt Have No Other Website Before RATYHTL

While we're on the subject of religion and Law, I would be remiss if I
failed to mention to write about the Supreme Court's hearing of two cases
involving this display of the Ten Commandments on public property.

True; I've writing extensively on this topic and you already know my
position, right? Wrong. You probably think that I feel every single copy
of the "Ten rules for a happier Bronze-Age society" should be ripped from
the walls of every US courthouse and replaced with a sculpture of Karl
Marx reading the Karma Sutra. That's not exactly correct.

For example, I have absolutely no beef what-so-ever with the depiction of
Moses holding the Ten Do' and Don't's of the kosher crowd on the wall of
the Supreme Court building. On second thought, make that almost
beef what-so-ever. My fist objection would, of course, be with those who
use the presence of the Commandments (featuring Lionel Ritchie) on the
Supreme Court's premises as fodder for their half-assed arguments for the
necessity to "Put Gawd back in the gubberment." Secondly, most
archeologists agree that the Biblical story of Exodus was pure fiction.

The reason that I'm pretty much OK with the Ten Commandments and Snow White
as they appear on the Supreme Court building is because they're presented
as part of a "history of laws and lawgivers" which includes Confucius,
Solon, and Mohamed (Daily dose of irony: Muslims once petitioned to have
the image of Mohamed removed from the Supreme Court building because
any representation of the Prophet's features is forbidden under Sharia.
Jews and Christians, of course, have no prohibitions against Graven Images).

One great thing about the Supreme Court's depiction of Moses is his beard:
it flows down over the Ten Commandments, obscuring the "Thou shalt not"s
(written in Hebrew and thus reading from right-to-left) and transforming
God's instructions to the Israelites into "Kill", "Steal", and "Covet."
Bless you, Rabbi Bugsy Siegel.

So, if you're display of the Ten Commandments is placed in a historical
context I won't be losing any sleep over it. Particularly if that
historical context includes The Code of Hammurabi, from which many scholars
believe the Ten Commandments were stolen.

A Kentucky courthouse tried to get around this "historical context" thing
by adding copies of the Declaration of Independence and the Star Spangled
Banner (Which was described as "inspiring American revolutionaries'
despite having been penned during the War of 1812).

Of course there's still the question of "Which Ten Commandments?" Shit
Luther, you mean that there are more than one set of Commandments? There
are at least three; and as many as five.

Jews, for example, translate the Fist Commandment as "I am the Lord thy
God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
slavery" while Catholics read it as "I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not
have strange gods before me" (Normal Gods, sure; but no strange ones!),
and the Protestants come up with "Thou shalt have no other gods before me"
(Strange or otherwise).

Well, this is what you get when you translate something from Hebrew ("The
Ten Utterances" עשרת הדברות) into Greek ("Decalogue" δέκα λόγοι), then into
Latin and, finally, into English. Now you see why I encourage all of you to
learn Greek and Latin (I'm assuming that either you're all Jewish and
already know Hebrew or, failing that, at least know a Hebrew)?

Hell, even the placement of commas (non existent in Hebrew, Greek, and
early Latin) can cause an irreparable schism. Check out how the
Protestants punctuate the following sentence:

Verily, I say unto thee, This day thou shalt be with me in Paradise.

In other words, the thief on Jesus' left (or right? If you know; email me)
will be playing Yatzee with the Big J.C. in Heaven before midnight.

Here's how the Papists precariously punctuate:

Verily I say unto thee this day, thou shalt be with me in Paradise.

Translation: "Someday, and I'm not being specific as to when, you and I
will do lunch at the Paradise Café." This version leaves room for the
concept of Purgatory which, coincidently, Protestants don't believe in.

Now you see why I encourage all of you to be Atheists?

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Replies: 6 Comments

on Thursday, March 3rd, Nigel Tailwind said

What was the final verdict on the David Coresh/Waco deal. Was the gas injected into the house flamable and ignite or did Coresh tourch the joint?

The justice department certainly infiltrated those people!

on Thursday, March 3rd, razlerja said

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/03/schuster.column/index.html

Those poor down trodden supremicists. Why won't the liberal (read 'Zionist' owned) media give them a break?

on Thursday, March 3rd, billzebub said

I'm too damned angry after reading that to say anything witty. Let's quit bitching and start a revolution.

on Friday, March 4th, razlerja said

"Thursday, Mar. 03, 2005
From a jail cell at Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Center, White Supremacist Matt Hale issued his first statement this morning. The words came through his mother Evelyn Hutcheson, who speaks with her son once a week for a 15 minute phone call, which is monitored by the FBI. Here is what he said: "There is simply no way that any supporter of mine would commit such a heinous crime. I totally condemn it and I want the perpetrator caught and prosecuted. I only hope they sincerely wish to apprehend this animal instead of railroading the innocent. Only an idiot would think that I would do this. My sentencing date is April 6."

Hale, 33, is facing a jail sentence of up to 40 years for attempting to arrange the murder of Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow, who presided over a trademark dispute involving the name of Hale's organization. On Monday night, Lefkow’s mother and husband were shot to death in the basement of their home in the Lakewood/Balmoral neighborhood of Chicago.
" ~TIME Magazine

on Friday, March 4th, Paul Kircher said

The butler did it

on Saturday, March 5th, the drunk mailman said

i remember a song that went something like 'jesus is just all right'...i think that means he had two right hands which would mean it doesn't matter what side you're on on...you are always on jesus' right side...