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Ten
Commandments
by Edgar
J. Steele
July 16, 2005
"Today we are engaged in a
final, all-out battle between Communistic Atheism and
Christianity."
--- Joseph McCarthy (Senator, R-WI),
in his famous address to
the Ohio County Women's Republican Club (February 9, 1950).
(Note: With the fall of the Soviet Union came the release
of a torrent of documents, many of which corroborated virtually
all of Senator McCarthy's charges in the early 1950s, though he
inexplicably continues to be vilified in the eyes of most
Americans.)
The
road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
--- proverb
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Recently, God was banned
from America's courthouses. Imagine His surprise. Can't
even get a fair hearing in the courts of the very country founded in
His name.
The banning came in the
form of the forced removal of displays of the Ten Commandments from
courthouse hallways.
But, the US Supreme Court's ruling didn't end there, not by a long
shot. Despite some self-serving jargon in the Supreme Court's
decision about applying the First Amendment's Establishment clause
on a case-by-case basis, the Supremes quite clearly, though
turgidly, also said that all forms of religious expression on all
public grounds now have been
banned - not just in the courthouses of America. Little
girls don't get to say grace in private over their own school
lunches, after all. Well, little girls (and little boys)
should be home schooled, anyway, I suppose, given the disgraceful
condition of all things administered now by government.
The Supreme Court's
recent ruling in
McCreary County vs. ACLU now makes complete America's official breaking of all
of the Ten Commandments. How appropriate that this final
breakage concerns an actual display of those Commandments.
Perhaps the ultimate irony, in fact.
Naming the Ten Commandments has become like
naming the Seven Dwarfs to most Americans: several come
readily to mind, but it's that last two or three we have trouble
putting our mental fingers on. Let's go through the list and
see exactly how it is that America came to be the Godless, soon to
be God-forsaken, country that it is.
I. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
The removal of God from the schoolhouse, the courthouse and all other public
venues now has made this commandment moot. It doesn't say "Thou shalt have no
gods," after all, which is an entirely different proposition and precisely
what the Supremes have stated. By definition,
assuming that there is a God in the first place, then His being banned produces
precisely the same result from His point of view as placing other gods before
Him. Yet, oddly enough, most Americans claim to believe in God.
II. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.
No, we don't worship golden calves. But, we do worship money...and
celebrities of every sort, the vast majority of whom are the least worthy of
our admiration. You know who you are. Our TV sets have become graven
images in every sense of the phrase and we tend to them with a religious fervor.
Ultimately, we worship ourselves above all others. Secular
humanism. If it feels good, do it. Admit it - this isn't a purely
governmental failing, as this one is up close and personal with you, with
me...with all of us.
III. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain.
This goes on nonstop now, in all forums, both public and private. Again,
television and other forms of media figure prominently in the propagation of
blasphemy, not to mention profanity of every stripe.
IV. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
This doesn't mean simply going to church. Jesus reportedly said, if I
remember correctly: "Wherever two or more of you gather in my name, I
shall be with you," or words to that effect. I suspect there are a great
many churches, packed with people each and every Sunday, into which Christ never
sets foot. In fact, Jesus himself was a bit of a temple defiler - of course,
finding money changers in the temple will do that to some people. I'm not
even convinced that this means literally what it seems to say, either. At
minimum, though, it certainly means that we are to regularly and repeatedly
pause and reflect upon our origins, our effect upon others and our ultimate
mortality. In other words, get ourselves into context with regard to
the Universe. When was the last time you really paused and reflected upon
your place in the greater scheme of things?
V. Honour thy father and thy mother.
American society, in particular, has become the one in which the old are
disposable.
Wisdom and accumulated knowledge are shoved aside throughout America in pursuit
of youthful appearance, youthful exuberance and youthful stupidity. Again,
Western media, particularly television, has played a major role. This
repetitive pattern ought to be enough to cause us to throw out those TV sets.
No longer are children merely children. They are subject to government
fiat at all levels and for all manner of things: schooling, medication
and behavior, foremost. Thus does our government sanction the supreme act
of dishonoring both parents and families, in general. Is it any wonder
that children no longer honor their parents? We quite simply aren't their
parents any more, except when it comes to paying for them, of course. The
very existence of CPS departments throughout America ensures the daily breaking
of this commandment in all our names.
VI. Thou shalt not kill.
Except, apparently, in the name of oil, or global hegemony...or Israel.
Why, we even kill our own as a means to the end of political manipulation of our
own populations. The common markers of the false-flag terrorist event now
are surfacing in the recent London bombings: conveniently-placed
identification cards of the alleged perpetrators, all the perps allegedly dead,
all surveillance cameras mysteriously turned off at the time, professional
detonations pulled off by the rankest of amateurs... Come on,
you know the drill by now, after Oklahoma City and 9-11, not to mention the
Lusitania, the Reichstag fire, Pearl Harbor and so many other frauds committed
down through the ages in the name of expediency. And, if sending
our best and our brightest off to die in some Arab hellhole isn't killing them
just as surely as though you or I pulled the trigger,
then I don't understand the concept. This, of course, does not include the
children of our alleged leaders, who are neither our best nor our brightest, the
very best proof of which is George W. Bush, himself.
VII. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Lots of us, but not nearly enough, manage to avoid committing adultery, though
simply due to a lack of attractive opportunity, not steely self will.
No fool like an old fool is the textbook corollary to this commandment.
If Jimmy Carter was right about lust in the heart, then this is a commandment we
all break on a daily basis.
VIII. Thou shalt not steal.
Except in the name of the State, of course. Just ask
Ms. Kelo.
And the logical extension of the Supreme Court's recent Kelo decision is
positively frightening.
What was it for which we invaded Iraq again? Lessee, now - no weapons of
mass destruction, Saddam is in hand....er....oil? To make the Middle East
safe for America's svengali - Israel? Both are forms of theft, of course.
A raw material in the first place, the price of which has doubled since our
invasion, which implies that wasn't the real reason. That leaves only
Israel...again...always Israel...always, it seems. And now
those...people...are
calling for
us to start World War III. Incredible. So,
we're stealing the Arabs' liberty to make it possible for Israel to swagger
ever more boldly around
the block, it seems. And we're stealing from the taxpayer to make it happen.
And we're stealing the lives of our children to make it happen. And we're
stealing our own national soul to make it happen, make no mistake. Kind of
makes the income tax, which so many consider to be outright government theft, or
Enron, which exemplifies private theft, pale by comparison. Theft seems to
have become the national pastime...after television's graven image, of course.
IX. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Is there anybody left who doesn't lie in the name of expediency? To the
IRS? To obtain government benefits? At work? As our stock in
trade (lawyers and judges come to mind)? To our families,
even? Government now personifies the very definition of the compulsive
liar: lying even when there is no need. Clinton's lies were legion.
History will show that Bush's have made Clinton into a mere blip in the annals
of official prevarication. Again, we all must answer guilty to this charge
and, usually, on a daily basis.
X. Thou shalt not covet any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Unless it belongs to
Ms. Kelo, that is...or any one of us, for that matter, now that the Supreme
Court has outlawed private property. Always a personal problem, now theft is a national
pastime and an international mission of the American government, as the Iraqis
have so tragically learned.
A recent
poll disclosed that 72% of all Americans consider public displays of the Ten
Commandments to be "appropriate." Why, even half of all those who never
attend church joined in that belief. But, as is increasingly obvious
even to the most stupefied among us, what the majority of Americans believes no
longer matters. All three branches of American government now thumb their noses
at "We the People" with impunity...and, increasingly, impudence.
Amazing, isn't it? As they say, the road to Hell is paved with the best
of
intentions. America's intentions always have seemed
honorable and appropriate...until lately, that is. Now we
officially have broken the last of the Ten Commandments as a nation.
Some of us have struggled with some of them for our entire lives,
but now it is official and complete. And we let it happen.
And we let it continue to happen...day by day by day.
Every single day that we allow the rogues, scumbags, scoundrels
and charlatans who have hijacked America to continue their tyranny
of both America and, through her, the rest of the world, brings us
one day closer to the final day of reckoning. And, biblical or
not, that day will come to America. And, you know what?
We deserve it. All of us. After all, what did I
do today to change things? Well, I wrote and recorded this
column, to be sure, but that was easy. What have you
done?
New America. An idea whose time
has come.
______________________________________________
Just a few of your Emails from this past week:
Re: Judicial Relativism
---
Mary writes: "The Kelo decision is a total disaster for
property rights and paves the way for a governmental dictatorship that could be
so severe as to make Hitler and Stalin both envious."
Dennis writes: "
I AM AS MAD AS HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Steve writes: "My wife called me right away, shocked , and
said our house is as good as gone. It's a small house across the the street from
the Atlantic in Melbourne Beach, Florida. Prices are shooting up and our nice
little place is doomed to become a condo complex or a new disney soon. I'm not
mad, more sick to my stomach."
Charles writes: "Thank you
for making me THINK! I'm mad as hell!"
Another satisfied customer!
Larry writes: "I honestly believe that
if the jackboots were to let it be know in advance that they were coming for you
Ed, I wouldn't be the only one siding you when they got there and the cost of
gas to drive there...be damned."
Carolyn writes: "I have
pretensions of becoming a lawyer precisely because of the running roughshod over
people like Susette Kelo by corporate AmeriKKKa."
There are WAY too many lawyers already...but not nearly
enough good ones!
MailMarshal (an automated content monitoring gateway) writes:
"...stopped the following email for the following reason: It believes it
may contain unacceptable language, or inappropriate material...Please remove any
inappropriate language and send it again."
You would be amazed how many of these messages come back
with messages like this. Next time you don't get one of my regular columns
or rants, consider that your ISP is protecting your sensitivities for you - and without
ever telling you, either.
Bob writes: "Thank you for this article...it appears that you have
basically put yourself out of the lawyering business."
Actually, I did that quite a while ago...
Bobby writes: "Happy
4th of Jew Lie."
JJ writes: "We, as a country, are
indeed on very slippery ground but it's still too soon for the revolution."
Remember - our ancestors didn't shoot first, they shot back.
Carl writes: "I hope and
pray America will wake up soon. It is getting so sad.
Doesn't anyone think of the Seniors anymore?"
R.S. writes: "Isn't
there a law that says a law is null and void if it violates the Constitution?"
Indeed there is. Case law issued by the Supreme Court back when
it knew what it was doing.
Ron writes: "Your
'rants' often help me to understand my own thoughts on a given subject and help
me to put those thoughts into focus."
Thanks. That made my day.
Franklin writes: "You intimate
you're Republican. Yet, you note the achievements of liberal policy without
calling it thus. You even rightly point out the nation's decline began with the
murder of JFK. It's difficult to understand exactly where you're situated on the
political spectrum, since you seem to make an honest attempt to tell the truth.
Except for your wrongheaded rants against Jews, you are mostly on the ball.
Remember, the real enemies always use minorities and women to front their
programs, e.g., Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Kenneth Blackwell, the Florida
harpy who was punted into congress, etc. All of this sedition comes from the
Republican right. Do you agree or associate yourself with these criminals? You
have a great sense of humor for a Republican. Perhaps you're in the wrong
party."
It's difficult for me to tell, too. I think both the Democrats and
Republicans are crooks. You can't be on the American political spectrum
and still tell the truth, which perhaps is the source of our difficulty in
ascertaining my position. And plenty of "sedition" comes from the liberal
left. I may be closest to being a "Classical Liberal," who looked more
like recent conservatives than anything else, what with their belief in liberty,
justice, self reliance and all that hooha. BTW, you
can't really call people minorities if they are in charge...to be a minority is,
by definition, to be in somebody else's control. Usually, that is a
majoritarian result. However, America has been stood on her head. Besides,
anybody in control is fair game...
William writes: "You
just hit another grand slam! Outstanding!"
Whistle writes: "All you who
talk about doing something are cowards when it comes to being afraid of
government power. When our committed mercenaries are dying while occupying
foreign nations, you fools are supporting the unconstitutional regime who
ordered that aggressive war. Instead of just say no to drugs, why don't you:
just say no to volunteering to pay tax on income?"
Mark writes:
Regarding the Kelo decision, I want your opinion
on boycotting all of New London, including
products made by companies headquartered
there...I believe the entity behind this is a
large pharmaceutical company. What about
boycotting all of its products also?"
Great idea. Pfizer is the company. Here's your
slogan: "Pf*** Pfizer!"
Gregory writes: "That
Kelo decision hasn't received any airtime in the media here in the UK that I am
aware. But if you think Government is intrusive in the US, you should try living
here in Europe!"
Re: Bush Must Go!
Cynthia writes: "Edgar
Steele is a bit of a wing-nut."
I must be slipping, too, because this is the closest thing
to hate mail I've received lately.
Re: Kelo, Roe and the President's Liver ---
Charles writes:
"Only 99% of Lawyers, Judges and Politicians are corrupt, and it gives the other
1% a bad name."
John writes: "Very
appealing rant, Mr. Steele. Many things I had not thought about. I'll forward
it to all my friends and see how many I have left afterwards."
When I was single, I took the "dishwasher" approach to
dishes and utensils. If it didn't survive the dishwasher, it got thrown
out. That way, everything I owned was dishwasher safe. I began to
approach all of life that way quite some time ago, including personal friends.
Funny thing: Since adopting that outlook, I have more real (really real)
friends than I ever had before...lots more.
Joe writes: "You lost me with your diatribe about religion. It's the
loss of belief in God, especially the defection from the Catholic Church that's
causing the problems in society."
Bob writes: "We need American Patriots NOW, more so
than ever before. Patriots who join us after the Battle and claim victory, may
stay at home or go to Canada, their choice, but please advise every Free
American Citizen to stand up now or surrender to the World Elite, who will surly
become your Masters if you wait for others to bear the sacrifices we now must
face and endure."
John writes: "I am happily pro-choice and don't see or care about the
issues you bring up about abortion. As a supporter of almost everything you
write - it's also up to me to say that we don't agree on religion, morality,
etc."
Andy writes: "even good people, who are put into a
position of power, or a position of low or little accountability
will also abuse their power...here's the link...(to)
the Stanford Prison Experiment. Go to
http://www.prisonexp.org/. This
experiment, where healthy (mentally and physically) men were put
in control over other men, had to be stopped after only six days
because the men put in control became sadistic. If
these men became sadistic within six days,
then consider the nature of a man/woman who has been controlling
other men and women for years, such as pretended
"presidents," "judges" and "governors."
Awesome and very chilling study, Andy. Thanks for
the link.
Thanks for sharing, folks...I got a ton of email, mostly
very thoughtful, after this most recent series of articles and wish I could
reproduce every single one. The snippets I selected above may seem like a
lot, but they barely do justice to the volume and flavor of the response I
received this time around.
-ed
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