Capitol Area Christian News (Fall, 1996)
Dear Friends,
It is the eve of our presidential election. Many of you are despairing over the fact that we have no “prolife” candidate and that Ahab and Jezebel will likely rule for another quadrennium. This is justifiable mourning. What to do? (Revolution? Secession? New political parties?) In this scanty issue (we refer to quantity of pages, of course), we shall supply you with our coveted counsel to guide you in the impending election. Other items include the White Rose Banquet, the release of Curt Beseda in Washington state, the persecutions of Jennifer Sperle in Norfolk and Steven Mears in New Hampshire, our Web site, and a begging notice.
Dopey GOPers
After the senate failed to override Ahab’s veto of the bill to outlaw “partial-birth” infanticide, several Christian church leaders, theologians, and pundits who had gathered in D.C. expressed their disgust to the press. Now that two of three branches (and most of the third?) publicly supported the killing of the innocent, the legitimacy of the national government was questioned by Richard John Neuhaus, Chuck Colson, and others. A subsequent symposium consisting of five essays by scholars from around the country, including Robert Bork, was featured in the next (Nov.) issue of First Things, edited by Neuhaus. In the lengthy introduction, Neuhaus extensively defends his use of the term “regime” in defining our national government. Most revolutionary are the pungent remarks of Chuck Colson:
In America today, we have very nearly reached the completion of a long process I can only describe as the systematic usurpation of ultimate power by the American judiciary – a usurpation that compels evangelical Christians and, indeed, all believers to ask sobering questions about the moral legitimacy of the current political order and our allegiance to it.
It is a succinct evaluation. I would sharpen its accuracy by deleting certain qualifiers: “very nearly” and “moral.” (The discerning reader, however, expects the discerning powers of a man who condemned Paul Hill to be blunted.)Protestant and Romanist leaders were in harmony in response to this regime’s blatant violation of God’s law which prohibits murder. We are happy to see such ecumenical disapprobation of the federal government. The most prominent offender (currently being challenged for the centennial Darth Veder award by Ahab himself) is the U.S. Supreme Court. (Ahab really is a true champion of evil when we consider that he has had only four years to excrete his policies upon the land. The Court has been at it for decades.) The words used by Luther in the sixteenth century against the pope would more appropriately apply now to describe our unholy Supreme Court, viz. “He is the anus through which the devil spreads his excrement upon the earth.” (Not to worry too much. To comfort ourselves, we can always find solace in the knowledge that the Really Supreme Court will put these black robed pretenders – along with Ahab – away for a long, long time.)
Truth and justice are preserved and advanced against apostasy and decline by reformation. And reformation sometimes necessitates separation. (Sometimes there is even a time to kill.) Our federal government is worthy of being overthrown. Maybe foreigners will do it. (The Chinese have some nice bombs which they were pointing at L.A. recently. The Muslims are resurging and cultivating a healthy hatred of our distribution of pornography and abortionists into their lands.) Maybe the militia will clean us up from the inside.
Before proceeding to the justifiable “extremes” of secession or revolution, it is reasonable to seek to create alternative political parties. If there is not enough zeal or numbers to establish a simple political party with enough energy to advance basic principles, then there surely are no resources available for the more drastic and costly methods.
Just as God’s people pulled out of apostate Christian denominations from the early part of this century and established multitudinous “non-denoms,” so they will pull out of the mainline political parties and establish new political parties. But in order to function effectively, they must find common ground in their political goals. There are legitimate compromises to be made in order to establish one effective alternative political party.
The GOP, like the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, or the Presbyterian Church USA, or the United Methodist Church, (etc.) is lost. These all fell away because the people neglected to exercise party or church discipline. They permitted those who denied constitutional principles (or platforms) to remain in leadership or positions of authority. (How is it that the GOP has a “prolife” platform and then permits abortion supporters to run on GOP tickets all over the country including the presidency?)
The most viable alternative is the U.S. Taxpayers Party. It is not that we are naive enough to think that Howard Phillips will win this year. But he or Pat Buchanan could threaten the establishment parties in 2000 or 2004. The pernicious policies of Ahab and Jezebel may serve to produce a repentant reaction in the (stupid) American People. The success of this party will be expedited by a noteworthy showing in this election along with the continued decadence of the establishment parties.
Repudiate the GOP in its treacherous treatment of the truth! Bring on a new political party which will stand for truth and refuse to field candidates who reject it. Let justice for the child in the womb roll like a river!
Beseda Unchained
A dozen years. He was released on 3 October. What is it about the persecution of Christians “over there”? Plenty of it going on right in the good old USA. Shelly Shannon has a 31-year sentence; Joseph Grace has 13 in and counting; Anderson has 14 in and counting.
No, admittedly; they weren’t jailed for declaring themselves to be Christians. But they were prosecuted for acting like Christians and loving their neighbors.
Curt is the senior ex-convict among all those on this side of barbed wire. In second place is John Brockhoeft (about seven years) followed closely by Dennis Malvasi (about six). (Sorry about the sloppy records. We don’t have any federal money, like Planned Barrenhood, to hire secretaries to keep track of all our workers.)
The Bureau of Prisons hired a shrink of its choosing to give Curt a mental evaluation on 18 October to see if they need to inject him with psychiatric drugs. Well, we suppose that if you confine a person to 12 years behind barbed wire and surround him with blasphemers, sorcerers, sodomites, murders, and other miscreants he might go a little crazy. But what do sycophant, government bureaucrats working for a Clintonite abortion regime know about sanity anyway?
You may write Curt letters of congratulations at 7503 77th Dr. S.E., Snohomish, WA 98270.
Jennifer Sperle
Trial is scheduled on 12 November in Norfolk. She is the great prize of Reno’s multi-million dollar VAAPCON investigation involving about 100 subpoenas to grand juries in Portland, Alexandria, and Norfolk. (We don’t know how many people were summoned to meet with prosecutors and interrogated without appearing before the Star Chamber.) We have not confirmed whether the newly-installed prosecutors – products of the unprecedented purge of the Justice Department’s DAs at the accession of the Clinton regime – are sodomites. But we are confident that prosecutors Kenneth Forder and Thomas Burrows would not be offended by the rumors. Surely it would behoove homosexuals to note their deviance on resumes and thereby get on the fast track to promotion in this regime.
In any case, these two chums are working hard on this $500 damage case. They still want to accomplish a little more. Got to get those elusive conspirators. It seems they have plenty of support from the trial judge in Norfolk District Court, one Raymond A. Jackson. One of the unusual motions the judge granted the persecutors was that all the recorded conversations Mrs. Sperle had while in the federal jail in New York City (Metropolitan Correctional Center) be turned over to the prosecutors. Prosecutors have also put in a motion to the judge to require Mrs. Sperle’s private doctors to hand over all her records to them. (It is expected that the judge will deny this one.)
Mrs. Sperle, you recall, was in jail for a month at the request of the prosecutors so that she could undergo in-patient psychiatric evaluation by doctors of the prosecution’s choice. (Of course the defense has to pay for its own evaluations by its own selection of doctors.) Normally, prisoners sign a form acknowledging (and giving permission; they have no other choice if they want to phone anyone) for the prison to monitor phone calls. The putative purpose of in this intrusion into privacy is jail security as well as the prevention of gangsters from directing associates to kill informants and the like.
In this case, the government is in desperate pursuit of those wicked anti-choice conspirators. The maniacal obsession with securing a conspiracy conviction seems to be energized by the regime’s manifest zeal to stamp out opposition and establish abortion as a cultural norm. Reno’s VAAPCON, moreover, needs to justify its name – Violence Against Abortion Provides Conspiracy. We don’t know whether the prosecution is conspiring with Judge Jackson, but the fact that he even allows the feds to prosecute Mrs. Sperle for trying to save babies indicates at least that he “breathes with” them, sharing the same abortion-tolerant mind-set.
Trial is set for 12 November at the U.S. District Court in Norfolk. Location and mailing address is: Walter E. Hoffman Courthouse, 600 Granby St., Norfolk, VA 23510. Judge Jackson’s office number is (751) 441-3173. All who would like to attend in support of Mrs. Sperle are welcome to contact Don Spitz at (757) 421-2543 or (fax) 3732; or Rae Powell at (804) 466-0232. The Double Tree Club Hotel is seven miles away from the courthouse; $55 for two double beds, (800) 933-9600.
A Brief Radical Fringe Update.
Unfortunately, because there are people who send their money to Randy Terry, National Right to Life, etc., instead of CACN, we haven’t had the resources to investigate recent forceful deeds of deliverance and provide a decent report for you. But it just wouldn’t be right to put out an issue of CACN without supplying our dependent fringies with a little sustenance.
Onn or about 10 September, a man (or angel) entered into the Planned Barrenhood abortuary in Tempe, Arizona. Like Samson before him who destroyed the property of Philistines, he wielded a club (or was it the jawbone of an ass?) against the child-slaughter house, smashing its walls and computers. Witnesses might have heard the accused 28-year-old Brian Charles say, “These are my Father’s children!” But news report only records the words, “There won’t be any more babies killed here today.”
“No one was hurt, but about 20 people at the Planned Parenthood clinic were frightened, a clinic spokeswoman said” (Washington Times, 11 Sept.).
A malediction for the abortionist and associates: May the frightened employees find new jobs at a real clinic lest an angel of death be assigned to accomplish mortal judgments upon their persons.
A benediction for Mr. Charles: May the Lord bless and keep him; make His face shine upon him and be gracious unto him; may the Lord lift up His countenance upon him and give him peace.
Allies of the Unborn? (1986) Religious Liberty, Closer to Home (CACN June 1991)
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