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EnronBurn Witch Burn... Feb - Mar., 2002
 As I watched the Congressional hearings surrounding the Enron Financial Collapse over the past several days and weeks, I have been shocked at what I observed (although not totally surprised).
 Senator after Senator from both sides of the aisle lined up to demonstrate their incompetency as a representative of this great country and their total lack of objectivity as someone seeking the truth. Almost without exception, every Senator clearly demonstrated having pre-determined their response with a total disregard for truth and a fair hearing of the facts. Clearly they were not asking questions with the anticipation of getting an answer. They already had their answers pre-determined and only had to tolerate the time the witnesses had to respond in order that they could then grandstand with some inane comments designed to woo their constituents back home into voting them back into office.

 When presented with a fact, the common response from the Senators was most often a reaction that they didn't even listen to what the witness had to say and chose rather to debase themselves with childish name-calling.
 Similar has been the response from committee after committee. Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) on the Sentate Commerce Committee clearly demonstrated his bias over and over again as he led his committee on their witch-hunt.
 When Skilling insisted to Sen. Ron Wyden they look at the actual documents he was asking questions about, Wyden reluctantly allowed Skilling to read "word-for-word" from one document. All the while Wyden squirmed in his seat and retorted by reading his own "out of context" document from a meeting that had no chronilocgical relevance. Obviously, he was getting into an area he didn't want to go because what he would likely find was not consistent with what he wanted to find.
 When Sen. Max Cleland (D-GA) asked Skilling for his opinion of what happened to cause the collpase, he got a detailed description from Skilling of a systemic problem occuring in our economy and one that Congress should be addressing. He went on to describe how the disastrous effects of MAC (Material Adverse Change) clauses that have creeped in to all levels of financial transactions. These clauses allow banks to pull money out of a company that is threatened. It was these MAC clauses that essentially triggered a classic "run on the bank" scenario and brought Enron down. What the Federal Reserve Board put into place to protect banks are automatically built into contracts for corporate America allowing banks to suck liquidity out of companies at the slightest provocation. I thought Skilling did a masterful job of turning the responsibility right back into Cleland's lap along with the rest of Congress. What was Sen. Cleland's response? He totally minimized Skillings reponse by comparing it to George Baley, Jimmy Stewart, and "It's A Wonderful Life." While that response drew laughter from fellow Senators, it clearly showed this bafoon didn't have a clue and didn't really want to know what caused the collapse of Enron... he just wanted a chuckle to help him get through his meaningless day.
 Not to be oudone, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) followed with her version of comedy with a video showing Skilling nodding his head in agreement to a suggestion that Enron employees buy Enron stock. And in another notable example of a total lack of responsibility, Sen. Boxer defended the government's role of imposing MAC clauses on corporate America and then completely ignored Skillings response to her question about the truthfulness of a "so-called simple fact" asserted by Ms.Watkins that a company can never use its own stock to generate a gain or avoid a loss on its income statement. When he responded with a specific example contradicting Watkin's claim and then going on to pointing out that she (Boxer) had introduced legislation to keep the executive stock option exemption in place, she found herself in an area of truth she didn't want to go. Since she didn't get the answer she wanted and Skillings response clearly put her on the defense, she replied by saying that she undestood stock options and quickly changed the subject.
 I do not believe these elected representatives have any intention of seeking the truth, let alone improving the lot of the American citizen. Rather, they are participating in a classical witch-hunt, where regardless of the truth, the "big bad corporate executives" are what's evil in our country and must be destroyed.
 From what I've seen, Senators from both sides of the aisle have but one objective in mind... and that is to further the cause of socialism in this country by denigrating the capitalist structures that are the foundation of our economic power. Clearly, they will not be happy until EVERY American institution is federalized and all power is vested in the sovereignty of the government.
 As common sense might dictate, perhaps our focus shouldn't be so much on the accounting practices of Enron and other American corporations, but do we really want the failed policies of a bankrupt American government to dictate to profitable corporations how to conduct business?
On numerous times, I heard Skilling and other witnesses offer suggestions regarding what the real problems might have been behind the collapse... only to be brushed off by the closed minded inquisitor with a meaningless remark. What the Senators did prove was they ARE NOT INTERESTED in the truth and don't want to hear about any solutions, they only want to make some childish remarks and engage in name-calling so they can tell their constituents back home, "they care."

Committee Wants Skilling to Clarify Congressional Testimony, Feb 28, 2002Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling
 As part of their continuing investigation into the financial collapse of Enron corporation, House Energy and Commerce committee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-LA), along with Ranking Member John Dingell (D-MI), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman James Greenwood (R-PA) and Subcommittee Ranking Member Peter Deutsch (D-FL), today called on former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling to clarify remarks delivered in recent weeks during sworn testimony before Congress.
 Perhaps had they actually listened to the sworn testimony, these Congressmen would not need "clarification." In the hearings that I observed, Jeffrey Skilling was very clear in most of his responses to the questions. I've heard Skilling answer their repetitive questions over and over again with the same clearly articulated answer, only to have the Senators ignore his answers and reply rather with their own cutesy remark. The problem was not "clarity" but that Skilling did not answer them with the answers they already had prepared. They weren't interested in what Skilling and the other witness had to say because they had already made up their minds.

 Over and over again I've heard these pinhead Senators make remarks insinuating that as CEO, Jeffrey Skilling was somehow responsible to know EVERYTHING about EVERYTHING and when he didn't, they called into question his integrity or competence. In many of the examples they cited, the events in question occurred years ago and they couldn't understand how he wouldn't recall minute details, yet as a distinguished Senator sitting in the Congress of the United States of America, they didn't have a clue to what they had just heard moments earlier. What hypocrisy!
 In other questions, Senators totally misrepresented the facts and framed their questions that in some cases didn't even make sense, but they still wanted Skilling to respond. How can anyone truthfully answer a question that at the foundation is not based on fact?
 Also common in these sham hearings has been comments from Senator after Senator of the importance of accurate financial statements. They point to the credibility of the large corporations and impugned the reputation of the accounting firms representing them. But, these Senators rather should be doing some internal house cleaning and correct their own bogus financial statements and fraudulent use of taxpayer monies. I'd like to hear them explain how they shift Americans' tax dollars amongst their confusing maze of budgets... making their off-balance sheet expenditures to make it appear that the U.S. Government has a balanced budget, for example. Or, how they shift dollars around to bolster the retired American's confidence in a bankrupt retirement system. How many times have we heard them refer to a "surplus" in recent years that doesn't exist. Or what about the so-called Social Security Trust Fund? It doesn't exist except in the minds of warped Senators and gullible citizens.

 In essence these hearings are a TOTAL waste of yours and my tax paid dollars and are nothing short of a kangaroo court. These events wouldn't be so tragic except for the fact that these same incompetent legislators will be introducing bills in the future to further erode the very foundations of this great country.
 Accountability is important. If there was fraudulent activities by Enron and its executives, they should rightfully be held accountable for their actions. But, at the same time, the Senators and others involved in this fiasco should also be held accountable for their sell-out of all American's freedom to the socialist forces at work in America. Destroying our way of life is not the solution I would envision... yet that's precisely what they're doing with these bogus Congressional hearings.
 I imagine that at the end of the day, when most of the facts are known, if Congress was held to even half the accountablity that America's businesses are, nearly every Senator and Congressperson would be sitting behind bars.

Jeffrey Skilling was ultimately convicted on 19 counts of fraud, conspiracy, insider trading and lying to auditors. Apparently, jurors decided Skilling had lied about Enron's financial health when they knew an illusion of success was propped up by accounting maneuvers that hid debt and inflated profits... not unlike how our government works.


ATTACK ON AMERICA?
 In the wake of the terrorist attack on America, I keep hearing especially politicians saying "we must do what needs to be done so that it never happens again." I believe that's the wrong question to be asking, but rather should be asking, "why did we allow it to happen in the first place?"
World Trade Center Following every tragedy that happens here in America, the response in recent years has been to erode more liberties in exchange for the promise that it will never happen again. And the result is it continues to happen again and again.
 We heard the argument following the rash of hijackings during the '70s and following the crash of TWA 800 and bombing of Pan Am 103. The result was that four airplanes could be hijacked simultaneously and used to attack Americas financial center and our nations capital. We heard the argument following the bombing in Oklahoma City. The result was the total destruction of the World Trade Center. We heard the argument following every school shooting and kids continue to carry weapons into schools to murder other students.
 Terrorists everywhere can celebrate the attack on America because their goals are being accomplished. Their desire to instill fear into the hearts of Americans is accomplished as Americans fear flying and are willing to exchange their freedom for the false feeling of security. Their desire to destroy our free democratic system is accomplished as we allow the government to further intrude into our private lives in exchange for a false feeling of security.
 No, we don't need to ensure it never happens again... we need to get at the root of the problem and why we allowed it to happen at all. Americans should look inward and ask why our great country can support despots throughout the world in exchange for oil and wonder why the victims in those regions consider us the enemy.

SUMMER OF MERCY REVISITED, Wichita Kansas , July, 2001
 [July 17] It was an endless parade of praying and singing Christians gathered today outside George Tiller's killing center to again raise up the name of Jesus and speak out for the unborn babies. In a reversal of the city ban on parades around the abortion clinic, U.S. Judge Thomas Marten said the city had overstepped their authority when they blocked a pro-life parade outside the abortion clinic on East Kellogg. "I do believe, in this instance, the First Amendment was violated," Marten said.

Choose Life over Death
Exercising their First Amendment rights, pro-life supporters staged a series of parades around George Tiller's abortion center.

 Organized by Operation Save America, two parades were scheduled today at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Along the parade route, I heard one bystander remind those parading that ten years ago, they were being arrested for doing what today they were able to do.
 In the summer of 1991 Christians from around the nation descended on Wichita, Kansas to bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the very gates of hell. Thousands were arrested. Eighty-two pastors laid their lives down at the abortion mill doors to speak for those who could not speak for themselves.
 The parade route circled an area adjacent to Tiller's killing center and effectively closed down access to the clinic during the parade which lasted one hour. Participants were mostly prayerful as they sang worship songs and pleaded for God to intervene in this American holocaust.

 Some of the pro-death demonstrators were silenced by the evidence presented to them of what they were defending. Many marchers carried large signs with photos showing the results of what happens behind the guarded gates of Tiller's Women's Health Care Services. Only as paraders passed by the gates of the killing center and on one corner of the parade route were pro-death demonstrators present to heckle the marchers.

Pro-death supporters
Confronted by the graphic results of an abortion, this young pro-death protestor still managed to laugh and mock the grisly results of what she was defending.

 The battle for the unborn is being slowly won as gentle Christians live out their faith in the streets of their cities. Abortions across America have declined almost 40% and the number of abortion killing centers have declined by over 40% as has the number of abortionists declined by 40%.
 Three people instrumental in bringing us the era of Roe v. Wade; Norma McCorvey, the Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade; Dr. Bernard Nathanson, the founder of the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL); and Sandra Cano, the Mary Doe of Doe v. Bolton, are all today, confessing, professing Christians.
 However, the battle for the unborn is not over. While abortions are dropping across the country, in Kansas the number of abortions are actually going up. According to an Associated Press report, the number of abortions in the state of Kansas has increased 30%, in large part, because of the number of out of state women coming to Kansas to kill their children at Tiller's killing center.


George Tiller
Pray for George Tiller
 [July 16] The skies were gray following an early morning rain as pro-life and pro-death forces mingled outside late-term abortionist Dr. George Tiller's clinic on Monday morning. As groups of Christians prayed and sang praises to God, pro-death supporters and a small group of young anarchists chanted slogans as if they thought they could stop the praises being lifted up to a sovereign God.
 Among the small crowd, George Gardner of College Hill United Methodist Church, laughed with and encouraged his pro-death cohorts. George Gardner is known for "baptizing" babies after Mr. Tiller murders them.
Pro-death supporters
Faces of death ten years ago.

 At the other end of the blocked-off street, it looked almost like a media frenzy as numerous news organizations had parked their remote broadcast trucks awaiting an event that surely they could misreport.

 Patrolling the cordoned off street were dozens of yellow-shirted city police officers as bicycle patrol officers stalked the neighborhood. When a bus load of replacement yellow shirted officers arrived, a round of applause arose from the clinic gates.

 It was ten years ago on these same streets outside the killing center of George Tiller that I was confronted with the issue of abortion. I had been pretty apathetic about it up to this point, but when confronted with the choice between life and death, I could only choose life. I remember watching the faces of those gathered on both sides of the debate outside that killing center and I discovered it was fairly easy to distinguish between the faces of good and the faces of evil. Pro-life Christians were gathered in groups praying and singing praises, walking the sidewalks or standing by passively as opposing groups of angry pro-death supporters yelled, chanted and cursed at them.


Some of the most vile language you can imagine was captured on video 10 years ago as this pro-death supporter mocked everything from your daughters honor to the holiness of God.
 It was because of those experiences ten years ago that I began to publish the Jeremiah Project, looking at the world today from a distinctively Christian worldview. And several years later, God put the following message on my heart: Legalized abortion on demand will end ... someday.

 The crowd was more subdued today than it was ten years ago, but the faces were the same. As I walked among the intermixed pro-life and pro-death crowd I tried making eye contact with many of those gathered. My gaze was returned with either a smile or a blank stare. What I saw in the eyes of the Christians was peace, joy and hope. In the eyes of the pro-death folks I saw turmoil, sadness and loneliness. I was reminded of the importance to pray for these lost people who see so little hope for their lives that they would choose death over life.

Arrested Protester
The scene outside Tiller's killing clinic ten years ago as pro-lifer's were hauled away. Federal Judge Kelly warned pro-lifer's to bring along their tooth brushes if they were going to show up at the killing fields.

 Tiller's fortress clinic has made a massive transformation over the past ten years. Today it stands with high walls erected around it and observation cameras mounted on poles at the corners of the building. It reminded me more of high security prison than a so-called medical facility located in a quiet city neighborhood.

For the latest schedule of events and other news about the Summer of Mercy Renewal 2001, please visit the website at www.jesusisthestandard.com

DUMB DOWN VOTING IN FLORIDA OR SOMETHING ELSE?, Nov., 2000
Voting for Dummies Are the voters in Florida as dumb as it would appear? Or is there something more sinister going on?
 While the media and across America, attention is focused on butterfly-ballots and elderly voters who cannot complete a ballot, beneath the surface is brewing yet another incremental attack on the Constitution of the United States of America by Socialists determined to quietly overthrow this country.
 As has been their method for years, Socialists understand that they will not be able to radically change this country over night. Rather, theirs is a step-by-step incremental approach of first undermining the foundations of this country by creating doubt and distrust by the TV-educated and uninformed American public.
 As politicians and lawyers descend upon Florida for hand recounts upon recounts, Americans are fed a daily dose of propaganda designed to sway them away from the Constitutionally established norm of electing Presidents in this country. Perhaps for the first time in history, the next President of the United States will not be elected by the Electorate system, but rather by the Courts.
 Is this something new? Hardly! The Socialist influenced Courts have systematically been disassembling the U.S. Constitution - one line and one amendment at a time. Years ago, the Constitutionally established right to coin money in the U.S. was turned over to the privately held banks (Federal Reserve) and a system of taxation has been established to ensure the poverty of most Americans. Rights once guaranteed to Americans by the First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Amendments of the Constitution have been stripped from the population. The right to life of unborn babies has been denied them by the courts, the right to pray to their creator God has been denied young Americans in schools across the country. The right to peaceably demonstrate has been denied abortion protesters. The right to a fair and speedy trial has been denied to minority groups of all races. And, the list goes on.
 This latest attack on the Constitution does not come as a surprise. It is simply part and parcel of an ongoing and systematic dismantling of our Constitution. And, folks, Democrats and Republicans alike are not only being duped by the Socialist propaganda, but in many cases are championing it.
 Open your eyes! Because everything you have taken for granted will soon be gone if you don't begin to do something about it.

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CHILDREN'S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT, April 22, 2000
 Once again, the federal government is working "for the children."
 Government agents plan to surf thousands of Web sites to ensure they are complying with a new federal law that bans Internet companies from collecting personal information from children without a parent's permission. Under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, which goes into effect April 21, 2000, sites that collect personal information like a name or address from a child under age 13 without a parent's permission could be fined as much as $11,000.
 On the surface, this NEW federal regulation seemingly protecting children seems reasonable. But its reasonableness stops at the surface. In reality, this is just the first veiled attempt by the federal government to further extend its heavy hand into ecommerce exploding on the Internet.
 Taxing ecommerce on the Internet is not too far behind this one! As with nearly all Clinton Administration efforts, the real agenda behind this Act is "money, control, and jurisdiction." This law begins to give the socialists in government the jurisdiction necessary to control the Internet using the powers of the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) - in the name of "the children." The $11,000 fine is their control mechanism requiring sites to comply or pay. The money part follows later... either through taxes, user fees, or some other Clintonisque payment. Watch for it... it's coming!
 The impact this law will have on small business is still yet to be seen, but the possibilities are downright scary. One outcome that seems evident is that it will tend to drive small Internet companies out of business by imposing on them a huge financial burden of compliance with federal law. If you collect names for a mailing list, will you now have to verify the persons age? What if you maintain on on-line Forum, a guestbook, user survey, or conduct an on-line contest? Will you now have to move your web site to a secure server and implement credit card verification services? Will you be required to maintain a database that parents can use to review the information you have online? What will the costs be to implement all that?
 Already commercial Web sites are scrambling to get ready for the new rules, which require sites to get parental permission before obtaining any information from kids under the age of 13. Some sites are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to make their sites compliant with the rules. How many small business do you think can afford that kind of expenditure to comply with federal law?
 Web site operators who operate commercial sites directed at children under 13 and who collect personal information about them OR those who operate a general audience web site and have actual knowledge that it collects personal information from children under 13 will have to comply with the rule. To be in compliance a web site will have to post notices about their practices on their sites; obtain verifiable parental consent - either by credit card, signed document or some other form of verification - before collecting and disseminating that information. The law also includes a provision that would permit parents of children under 13, with proper identification, to review the information and stop its disclosure.
 FTC Kidz Privacy Site
 FTC To Look Into Cost of Implementing Child Privacy Act
 FTC Testifies in Support of Federal Legislation Protecting Children's Online Privacy

PROTECTING OUR CHILDREN?, Nov. 16, 1999
 Were Washington Liquor Control Board agents with the assistance of Troopers from the Washington State Patrol and agents with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms who stopped a truck and van on Interstate 5 in Washington Saturday doing so to protect the children? Perhaps they were concerned that Washington residents would be exposed to some health risk if the trucks made it to their destination. Were the trucks transporting escaped criminals or illegal aliens or packed with explosives? Just what motivated their action?
 It was not the children they were thinking of or the health or safety of residents of Washington. They weren't after escaped criminals and they had no hopes of averting another Oklahoma City type explosion. No, they were there to collect their 82.5 cent per-pack tax on cigarettes headed to Indian reservations in Washington. According to an article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, apparently, the state of Washington loses about $115 million a year in taxes not being paid on cigarettes bought at smoke shops on sovereign Indian reservations in Washington.
 Because the state does not have jurisdiction on reservations, it cannot go after the smoke shops, Tricia Currier, a liquor board spokeswoman said. Instead, state investigators go after large shipments. The state plans to auction the cigarettes off to wholesalers, who will be taxed.
 What happened to their "for the children" mantra, or their concern of escalating health care costs for smokers? Folks, it's not about children or health care ... it's ALL ABOUT MONEY!

GENOCIDE AGAINST BLACKS, Oct. 11, 1999
 Comb the mainstream liberal newspapers and you'll likely NOT find the story about the African-Americans who held a three-day civil rights march this weekend on behalf of the estimated 1,452 black children who are aborted every day in the United States. With a little digging, however, I did find a news report in Religion Today. With all the talk about "hate" crimes going on right now, you'd think this kind of story would be in the headlines. But, since it's the kind of government and societal sanctioned hate crime, little is made of it.
 What these marchers want to point out is that abortion is the biggest killer of African-Americans and they consider the practice to be genocide against blacks. Former Green Bay Packer Reggie White said that, "quite simply, the history of the abortion rights movement is a history of genocide against black Americans." The abortion rates for blacks are higher than any racial or ethnic group, says the Alan Guttmacher Institute, the research arm of Planned Parenthood. Whites have abortions at the rate of 18 per 1,000 women, while black women have abortions at the rate of 38 per 1,000. In a US News and World Report article dated August 12, 1996, results about abortion from the Alan Guttmacher Institute stated, "Blacks who make up 14% of all childbearing women, have 31% of all abortions and whites, who account for 81% of women of childbearing age, have 61%". Since Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton over 10 million African American babies have been sacrificed for any reason or no reason in "clinics" offering "safe" and legal abortions.
 Johnny Hunter, a black pastor and a march organizer, said "Black people love children, but the whole idea of ‘choice' they bought into is a lie." Hunter is national director of Life Education and Resources Network, an African-American pro-life ministry that publishes information about "the racist origins" of Planned Parenthood, the country's largest abortion provider.
 Indeed, it's a lie propagated by racist whites and population controllers in an effort to wipe out the black race. Margaret Sanger popularized the notion in 1934 in the American Weekly Magazine. She wrote of Planned Parenthood's plan to rid the world of "inferior" human groups. In the June 1932 issue of Margaret Sanger's magazine, The Birth Control Review, Elmer Carter, a magazine editor, wrote an article titled "Eugenics for the Negro" in which he states "that the race problem in America is infinitely aggravated by the presence of too many unhappy born, sub-normals, morons, and imbeciles of both races. Therefore, those fighting for birth control must take eugenics into consideration."
 Eugenics is the ideology of neo-Malthusianism and socialism which Margaret Sanger promoted that seeks to improve races through the control of hereditary factors--encouraging reproduction from those who are assumed to have the best genes. Neo-Malthusians of the 20th century based their ideas on Robert Malthus's 19th century view of population growth which was "population will always grow faster than available food supply."
 Juluette Bartlett Pack, in her article, "A Historical View of Eugenics and Its Role in Abortion in Black America," wrote, "Subsequently, the seeds of the eugenics movement of which abortion is only one way it is manifested, are bearing a bountiful harvest today, For every 3 Black babies born, 2 are aborted. Every month more than 133, 333 babies are aborted, more than 4 1,000 are Black Americans. It is no accident that 78% of abortuaries are located in or near predominately minority neighborhoods."
 It is no surprise to me that the liberal news media does not report these facts and keeps the story of black Americans protesting genocide buried in their newspapers. After all, most of these same newspapers, along with their editors, support the neo-malthusian and socialist ideology and don't want black Americans to know what plans they have in store for them. It is possibly one of the largest "hate crimes" in America today, yet it is "white"washed and promoted by our top national leaders and even many within our communities.

WHO BENEFITS FROM CLINTON'S TAX CUT VETO?, Sept. 29, 1999
 When President Clinton vetoed the most recent Republican tax cut legislation, he said he was doing so to protect the children (education) and the elderly (social security). Never mind he has already claimed victories over those issues.
 Within days of his veto, Mr. Clinton announced to the heads of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund that he will take a major step to help wipe out the debt owed by some of the world's poorest countries. "I am directing my administration to make it possible to forgive 100 percent of the debt these countries owe to the United States," Clinton said. What do you suppose made it possible to forgive those debts? Your taxes possibly? Smacks of the socialist redistribution of income, don't you think?
 Mr Clinton also announced he was giving himself a raise! Not the sort of raise that working Americans are accustomed to ... No! He doubled his and subsequent Presidents paychecks. I don't think he mentioned children or the elderly when he did that. To be fair, it should also be noted that it was not just Presidential pay raises that were on the table. Congress also gave themselves a nice pay raise, thanks to the American taxpayer.

ANOTHER REASON FOR MEDIA BIAS TOWARDS CHRISTIANS, Sept. 17, 1999
 Michael Medved had another observation about the shootings at Wedgwood Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Tx and why the media has not given the incident much press. In comparing the event to what happened at Columbine High School in Colorado, many people including those in the media could relate to the Colorado students who were shot much more because those kids could have been their own. You know the kind: white middle class kids, jocks and cheerleaders, attending public school. Just like the reporters kids, right?
 Now how well do you suppose those same reporters and editors can relate to a group of kids attending a Christian worship activity? And Baptist to boot? I would imagine that Baptists are a bit too conservative for them and they couldn't imagine THEIR kids at such an event. Not mainstream or liberal enough for them and as a result not deserving of the news coverage given to jocks and cheerleaders being shot.

TROUBLED LONER KILLS SEVEN AND SELF IN TEXAS CHURCH, Sept. 15, 1999
 Kill a black person and it's a hate crime. Kill a homosexual and it's a hate crime. Kill a Jew and it's a hate crime. Kill children in a high school and it's a hate crime. Kill Christian teens in a church and all the pundits can't figure out what might have been the motive.
 This latest rampage in Fort Worth Texas not only reinforces the fact that our culture is in decline, but it also points out the bias of the news media and the hatred that liberals have towards Christianity. Had this shooting involved a black church, Jewish synagogue, homosexual bath house, or high school campus, all the mainstream media reporters would be on location with live reports and news special reports focusing on dissecting the scene of the crime. Commentators would fill the airwaves with pleas of anti-hatred propaganda.
 Not so when Christians are murdered in a church in Texas. What little coverage the media did devote, they spent most of the time talking about a mentally disturbed person, a troubled loner, who apparently acted randomly. No mention of hate!
 I'm sure part of the reason the media did not devote much coverage was because they were so focused on reporting about a Hurricane battering the East coast. The media spent days reporting about a storm they initially described as possibly the largest storm to ever hit the United States. So much was made of the storm that many East coast communities were evacuated in what has been described as the largest peace time evacuation in U.S. history. Schools were closed, businesses were closed, government offices were closed and even the Disney amusement park was closed for the first time in history. As it turned out, there was very little loss of life and damage was far less than anticipated. Even after the storm was downgraded to not more than a tropical storm, the news media continued to report about it.
 I believe what we really have here is a good example of the bigotry and hatred that the mainstream media has against Christianity. It's apparent from the lack of news coverage afforded the story in Texas. And, it's apparent from the lack of reporting (or should I say slanted and biased reporting) ignoring the hate crimes angle. To the liberal news media, an angry man shouting anti-Christian slurs and curse words as he shoots down innocent Christian children is not filled with "hate" but only acting on a random act. How pathetic.
 Attorney General Janet Reno said it was too soon to declare the attack a hate crime. “We should just find out what happened and why,” she said at her weekly news briefing. President Bill Clinton, in the predictable "for the children" statement to reporters at the White House, said the attack should serve to remind parents that “we have to redouble our efforts to protect our children. We know we have to act as if it were our own children being targeted.” To his credit, Texas Gov. George W. Bush cut short a presidential campaign trip in Michigan to return to Texas and “add some comfort.” “It’s hard to explain how somebody would have enough hatred in their heart to walk into a church where people are seeking God’s guidance and shoot them,” he said.
 Well, Ms. Reno, Mr. Clinton and Gov. Bush, I've said it before and it bears repeating now, while your are so busy studying the problem, you simply can't see (or refuse to see) what is clearly before you. And, why don't they see it? Because as the Bible says, "The way of peace they do not know; there is no justice in their paths. They have turned them into crooked roads; no one who walks in them will know peace. So justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We look for light, but all is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows. Like the blind we grope along the wall, feeling our way like men without eyes. At midday we stumble as if it were twilight; among the strong, we are like the dead. We all growl like bears; we moan mournfully like doves. We look for justice, but find none; for deliverance, but it is far away. For our offenses are many in your sight, and our sins testify against us. Our offenses are ever with us, and we acknowledge our iniquities: rebellion and treachery against the LORD, turning our backs on our God, fomenting oppression and revolt, uttering lies our hearts have conceived. So justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance; truth has stumbled in the streets, honesty cannot enter. Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey." (Isaiah 59:8-15)

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