03/02/04
THE COMING
TRAIN WRECK
There are unmistakable signs of a coming train wreck which will de-rail the United States of America, with worldwide effect. Various factors, both internal and external, point in the direction of the derailment of America’s status as world superpower.
The first
sign revolves around the march of the sodomites. They are increasing their demands for recognition of sodomite
marriage. In San Francisco they have
taken the law into their own hands to obtain marriage licenses. And in New York they are trying to do the
same, as the following article at http://www.nynewsday.com/nyc-gays0229,0,461422.story reports:
“…At least 50 gay and
lesbian couples plan to apply for marriage licenses at the City Clerk's office
on Thursday morning even as Mayor Michael Bloomberg maintains his defiant
no-nuptuals stance. The mass wedding
announcement came as City Council Speaker Gifford Miller and about 400
activists stood on the steps of City Hall Sunday to demand that Bloomberg allow
same-sex marriages. Both sides agree
the matter is likely to be resolved in the courts. But Miller, unlike Bloomberg, believes state law allows for the
immediate issuance of licenses as has been done in New Paltz and San
Francisco. "The right to marry is
a basic, fundamental civil right and if that is the case, then there is no
excuse for saying to some people 'Well, you can marry, but you cannot,'"
said Miller, a Manhattan Democrat who is considering a mayoral run in 2005. Miller was joined on the steps of City Hall
by a vocal gathering of local Democrats, gay and lesbian activists, a choral
troupe and couples waving marriage certificates from New Paltz and Toronto…”
Already the State
Supreme Court of Massachusetts has declared sodomite marriage to be the law of
the land in Massachusetts.
Most Christians are
still in denial as to what this all means.
But a Worldnetdaily article at http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37410 begins to expose the truth:
“…If there was any doubt whether "gay"
activists would settle for civil unions, it has been erased by events in San
Francisco, where the mayor has illegally ordered marriage licenses to be issued
to same-sex couples despite California's recently enacted "domestic
partner" law, which is nearly identical to Vermont's "civil
union" law.
Not content with creating counterfeit marriage by
another name, the activists are trying to seize marriage itself by whatever
means. California legislators have also enacted a series of laws that:
· deny state contracts to businesses that don't offer
benefits to homosexual couples, regardless of the business owner's beliefs;
In San Francisco itself, the state bar association
has forbidden judges to associate with the Boy Scouts of America. The city also
passed a law forcing businesses and charity organizations to give benefits to
homosexual couples or lose city business. In 1998, city supervisors passed a
resolution urging local media to reject ads from Christian groups that featured
an outreach by former homosexuals. One supervisor openly blamed Christian
groups for Mathew Shepherd's murder at the hands of two thugs in Wyoming.
As with the mayor's lawless order to issue
"gay marriage" licenses, the supervisors' resolution shows that the
homosexual agenda is not about expanding tolerance but about crushing everybody
else's civil rights under the steamroller of "gay" activism.
If you want to see where this is all going, take a
look at some other Western nations. In Canada, it is illegal to criticize
homosexuality over the airwaves, and print media is feeling the heat as well. A
Saskatchewan newspaper and a private citizen were fined in 2001 for publishing
an ad listing Bible verses about homosexuality. In November 2003, police in
Ontario visited the home of a pro-family Christian activist and investigated
him for a "hate crime" because some homosexuals disliked his defense
of marriage on his website.
In London, England, police investigated an
Anglican bishop in November 2003 for his advocacy of the view that homosexuals
can change. The Right Rev. Dr. Peter Forster, bishop of Chester, had said in an
interview with a newspaper, "Some people who are primarily homosexual can
re-orientate themselves." Acting on a complaint, police began a formal
hate-crimes inquiry. The bishop was not formally charged, but police told
reporters that if they had been able to make an arrest, they would have done
so.
In October 2001, Harry Hammond, an English pastor
who had been beaten by a gang of homosexual thugs for carrying a sign urging
homosexuals to repent, was convicted of inciting violence and disturbing the
peace. He was fined 300 British pounds (about $550) and forced to pay 395
pounds ($725) in legal costs. No charges were brought against the men who
physically assaulted him. A higher court recently rejected the Rev. Hammond's
appeal of this conviction.
Or how about Sweden, where "civil
unions" have been a reality for several years? Last year, the Swedes
passed a sweeping "hate crimes" law forbidding any criticism of
homosexuality. Last summer, Pastor Ake Green was arrested at a church in
Kalmar, Sweden, and charged with "hate speech against homosexuals"
for a sermon about homosexuality. According to the church newspaper Kyrkans
Tidning, the prosecutor, Kjell Yngvesson, justified the arrest this way:
"One may have whatever religion one wishes, but this is an attack on all
fronts against homosexuals. Collecting Bible cites on this topic as he (Pastor
Green) does makes this hate speech."
In the brave new world fashioned by homosexual
activists, this is what passes for "tolerance."
Yesterday, it was Czechoslovakia. Today it is San
Francisco, on its way to becoming London, or Stockholm by the Bay. People who
believe that all will be well if we appease homosexual activists with
"civil unions" had better wake up and smell the smorgasbord…”
Nor should we imagine
that revolution will stop at the doorsteps of the sodomites. Revolution begets revolution, and America
was conceived in revolution. When
Americans are unjustly deprived of their Constitutional speech rights, we can
expect that it will be met by revolutionary resistance. Impending civil strife, along with the curse
of sodomy, are certainly indications of internal US weakness.
Another internal sign of
collapse is America’s economic plight.
As reported in a BBC article entitled “America: An empire built on sand? “ at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3521691.stm
, the US economy is set on a weak foundation:
“… economist Will Hutton
told me of what he calls "the dark underside of the United States
economy" - the condition of its international accounts. Put bluntly it
owes the rest of the world $3trn dollars, and that is debt which is increasing
by $500bn a year. Mr Hutton makes a
persuasive case that America's current strength is built on other peoples'
money and he fears that the US economic bubble will eventually burst. "People
simply aren't going to carry on lending America billions and billions of
dollars and America's not going to carry on borrowing it," he told me. In
his view America's economic strength is "built on sand". “
These internal factors
are part of the larger issue of America’s moral decline. It has for the most part apostatized from
its Biblical Protestant heritage, and corrupted itself. God’s judgment is upon it for this spiritual
harlotry.
Besides
such internal signs as these, there are external factors that are working
against America. America is literally
at war with radical Islam. 911 is proof
of that, as are the on-going wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. So far, this war has been fought primarily
outside the US borders. But we should
not imagine it will forever stay there, as even 911 will attest. An article entitled “Suicide bombers coming to U.S.?”
points out just how fragile the situation is:
“A document discovered during a recent Israeli
army raid on some West Bank financial institutions found payrolls being
prepared for terrorists trained to commit suicide attacks – not just in Israel
but in the U.S. and Europe, Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin reports. Israel has reportedly shared the information
with the intelligence agencies of friendly countries, including the U.S. and
Russia, according to the premium, online intelligence newsletter… Suicide
bombers are growing more sophisticated, say G2B sources. Israeli counter-terror
experts who participated in a South Carolina conference introduced a number of
photos and actual products of suicide bombers' equipment including carry-on
bags and briefcases loaded with pipe bombs and activated by cell phones. The
cell-phone system is described as a method used by a team of attackers – one is
the mule carrying the bomb and the other dials the activating number at the
right moment. This method is also designed to avoid last-minute hesitations by
the bomb carrier… While suicide bomb attacks are common in Israel, they have
been unheard of in the U.S. They are on the increase, however, against U.S.
forces in Iraq. Last week Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the No. 1
threat to the new government and U.S. forces in Iraq comes from suicide
bombers.”
Islam has long been God’s
rod against corrupt Christianity.
The dangers are even
more profound when one considers the worldwide proliferation of nuclear
weaponry, especially in the hands of some radical Muslims. Contributing writer Al Hembd has pointed out
the findings of writer Seymour Hersh in his article "Why the US is going
easy on Pakistani nuclear proliferation”:
“Seymour Hersh is a
consummate researcher as a journalist. He documents below why Pakistan
got off with "slap on the wrist," over revelations that its chief
nuclear scientist had swapped nuclear secrets with Libya, Iran, and North
Korea. Apparently, the US has made a
deal with Mushareef to go easy on him for the nuclear proliferation. And
in return, Mushareef will now let US forces in to hunt down bin Laden. Don't hold your breath,
though. Lying is part of the Muslim religion. Lying and
double-crossing. Mohammed himself lied, and defended the practice in the
Koran.
Approximately
one in four of the Pakistanis "aiding US military forces" in
Afghanistan and Pakistan are themselves Al-Qaida. Virtually all Pakistanis
outside Islamabad and Karachi are Taliban--disciples of Islam as taught by the
Taliban in Afghanistan. The Pakistanis are cooperating--but their cooperation may not
prove to be worth much. "Never trust a Muslim."
The article entitled “The
Deal” is at http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040308fa_fact . Here is an
excerpt from the article:
“The greatest risk may
be not to Musharraf, or to the stability of South Asia, but to the ability of
the international nuclear monitoring institutions to do their work. Many
experts fear that, with Khan's help, the world has moved closer to a nuclear
tipping point. Husain Haqqani, who was a special assistant to three prime
ministers before Musharraf came to power and is a visiting scholar at the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, noted, with some pride, that his
nation had managed to make the bomb despite American sanctions. But now, he
told me, Khan and his colleagues have gone wholesale: "Once they had the
bomb, they had a shopping list of what to buy and where. A. Q. Khan can bring a
plain piece of paper and show me how to get it done-the countries, people, and
telephone numbers. 'This is the guy in Russia who can get you small quantities
of enriched uranium. You in Malaysia will manufacture the stuff. Here's who
will miniaturize the warhead. And then go to North Korea and get the damn
missile.'" He added, "This is not a few scientists pocketing money
and getting rich. It's a state policy."
…Robert Gallucci, a
former United Nations weapons inspector who is now dean of the Georgetown
University School of Foreign Service, calls A. Q. Khan "the Johnny Appleseed"
of the nuclear-arms race. Gallucci, who is a consultant to the C.I.A. on
proliferation issues, told me, "Bad as it is with Iran, North Korea, and
Libya having nuclear-weapons material, the worst part is that they could
transfer it to a non-state group. That's the biggest concern, and the scariest
thing about all this-that Pakistan could work with the worst terrorist groups
on earth to build nuclear weapons. There's nothing more important than stopping
terrorist groups from getting nuclear weapons. The most dangerous country for
the United States now is Pakistan, and second is Iran." Gallucci went on,
"We haven't been this vulnerable since the British burned Washington in
1814."
The
reality is that America is resented by most of the rest of the world –
especially the Islamic world - for varying reasons and with varying degrees of
justification. In a world of Islamic
terrorists and nuclear proliferation, this is an extremely precarious position
to be in. It is especially precarious
given that many Muslims reside within America’s very borders.
If and when the American
superpower collapses, the question will be: who will take its place? In other articles at Puritan News Weekly we have
noted how the Vatican is positioning itself to assume the role of the world’s
next superpower. Contributing writer Al Hembd has supplied us with this
additional resource on the topic:
“At http://home.red.net/fpchurch/EbBI/fpm/2003/November/article7.htm is an article by Reverend John MacLeod entitled "Growing Vatican Sovereignty." It reviews a brilliant article by a Tory in Britain, whose name is Adrian Hilton. Talks about how the Vatican is seeking to undermine national sovereignties through "regionalisms." The EU. The FTAA. The African free trade area. The strategy, says Hilton, is to undermine nationalism. And to replace it with "commonality of the religion." The author says, the end goal is to make the Pope the "new Caesar." I think people will fall for it, on the ground that any order is better than anarchy. The author points out the extreme differences between British law, and Roman law. Roman law presumes the accused guilty, unless he can prove himself innocent. It also presumes the government agency to be supreme, and to be the delegator of officially recognized rights, which it in turn claims the authority to revoke. Hilton proves that the International Court of Justice claims these prerogatives. Mr Hilton comments on how Rome considers it "immoral" for the national Church to encourage patriotism and national sovereignty. Of course, because in so doing, this detracts what the Vatican considers "due allegiance to the King of Kings--the Pontifex Maximus."
America clearly faces competitors that want to
take its place. And the Vatican has the
resources and experience to do the job, when America de-rails.