By Doug Bandow:
One of the great ironies of modern Christianity is how warlike many Christians are. Not all Christians, certainly. And many believers at many times in history have put state and ruler before church and God. Yet it remains striking how many conservative evangelicals unabashedly acted as shock troops backing the Iraq invasion. Everyone from Jerry Falwell to Pat Robertson to Chuck Colson to D. James Kennedy to James Dobson to a host of lesser Christian leaders propagandized on behalf   more...of President George W. Bush. A few war supporters have been humbled by the resulting catastrophe in Iraq, but most disclaim any responsibility for the debacle. Some, such as John Hagee, who has endorsed Sen. John McCain for president, now bray for war against Iran.
Laurence Vance, a serious Christian writer and teacher, offers a dramatic counterpoint. In his latest book, Christianity and War, Vance collects 79 essays on military and foreign policy. He spares no one, declaring: "Christians who condone the warfare state and its nebulous crusades against ‘evil’ have been duped. There is nothing ‘Christian’ about the state’s aggressive militarism, its senseless wars, its interventions into the affairs of other countries, and its expanding empire."

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I-am-Scammed, I-am-Scammed, Vote-scammed-I-am

Vote-scammed-I-am With black-box spam!
I do not like this vote fraud plan!

Do you like Diebold machines?
I do not like them, Scammed-I-am. I do not like Diebold machines.

Would you like them here or there?

I would not like them here or there. I would not like them anywhere.
I do not like Diebold machines. I do not like them, Scammed-I-am.

Would you want them at your polls? Tampering with the voter rolls?
Would you rig the ballot box? Would you cheat with phony   more...locks?

No ballot box with phony locks. Not at the polls, no voter rolls.
I do not like them here or there. I do not like them anywhere.
I do not like Diebold machines. I do not want rigged black-box schemes.

Can they? Are they? From afar? Cheating? Robbing? Yes they are!
They would, they could, cheat from afar.
They are cheating, you will see. They don't want us to be free!
All I want is to be free. Not squeezed to death! You let me be!

I will not trust a sealed black-box, the one that's called "OK" by FOX.
I do not want them at the polls to jigger up the voter rolls.
I do not like them here or there. I do not like them anywhere.
I do not like Diebold machines! I'm full to here with black-box schemes!

Say! In the dark? Here in the dark! Would you, could you, in the dark?
That's where they rob you, in the dark. They give your vote to other men.

You may not see it, but it's plain there in the dark without a pen.
Not in the light for all to see I do not like them, Sam, you see.
Not at the polls. Not in a box. No hanging chad. No lying FOX.
I want no Diebold machines there. I do not like them anywhere!

You do not like them. So you say. Try them! Try them!
And you may. Try them and you may, I say.

Sam! If you will let me be, I will try them. You will see.

Say! I like Diebold machines -- vaporized by laser beams!
I like them smashed by monster trucks! I like them fertilized by ducks!
And I will leave them in the rain, and in the dark, under a train.
Beneath a car. Dropped from a tree. They're all so damnable, you see!
So I will take this damned black-box, and I will feed it to a FOX.
Yes! I will smash it with a sledge. And I will grind it into shreds.
Yes, I will burn them here and there. Say! I will crush them ANYWHERE!

I do so like Diebold machines! I finally see just what you mean!

© 2008 Dann McCreary (aka creator)
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From projectcensored.org:
Alexander Hamilton wrote in The Federalist #84 in August of 1788:

The establishment of the writ of habeas corpus are perhaps greater securities to liberty and republicanism than any it [the Constitution] contains. The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny. The observations of the judicious [British eighteenth-century legal scholar] Blackstone, in reference to the latter, are well worthy of recital:   more...

“To bereave a man of life” says he, “or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism, as must at once convey the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole nation; but confinement of the person, by secretly hurrying him to jail, where his sufferings are unknown or forgotten, is a less public, a less striking, and therefore a more dangerous engine of arbitrary government.”
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