The Pentagon Sends Messengers of Apocalypse
The Pentagon Sends Messengers of Apocalypse to Convert Soldiers in Iraq
Actor Stephen Baldwin, the youngest member of the famous Baldwin brothers, is no longer playing Pauly Shore's sidekick in comedy masterpieces like Biodome. He has a much more serious calling these days.
Baldwin became a right-wing, born-again Christian after the 9/11 attacks, and now is the star of Operation Straight Up (OSU), an evangelical entertainment troupe that actively proselytizes among active-duty members of the US military. As an official arm of the Defense Department's America Supports You program, OSU plans to mail copies of the controversial apocalyptic video game, Left Behind: Eternal Forces to soldiers serving in Iraq. OSU is also scheduled to embark on a "Military Crusade in Iraq" in the near future.
"We feel the forces of heaven have encouraged us to perform multiple crusades that will sweep through this war torn region," OSU declares on its website about its planned trip to Iraq. "We'll hold the only religious crusade of its size in the dangerous land of Iraq."
The Defense Department's Chaplain's Office, which oversees OSU's activities, has not responded to calls seeking comment.
"The constitution has been assaulted and brutalized," Mikey Weinstein, former Reagan Administration White House counsel, ex-Air Force judge advocate (JAG), and founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, told me. "Thanks to the influence of extreme Christian fundamentalism, the wall separating church and state is nothing but smoke and debris. And OSU is the IED that exploded the wall separating church and state in the Pentagon and throughout our military." Weinstein continued: "The fact that they would even consider taking their crusade to a Muslim country shows the threat to our national security and to the constitution and everyone that loves it."
More Here http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/59161/
Every time I think that the BA has done all the damage that even they can imagine they prove me completely wrong. In this chapter they are taking advantage of confused and often frightened soldiers. This ploy can only be intended to take advantage of our over taxed, over tired, emotionally stressed soldiers to make them believe that they are in a holy war fighting for Jesus! This is brain washing 101. It resembles the technigues that groups like the Moonies use, except this group has help from IEDs and bullets as well.
- Login or register to post comments
Printer-friendly version- Send to friend
Join us & contribute
Proud members of the Democratic Party
Copyright 2006 Democrats.com. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy
Have any of the officers involved in this new 'crusade' ...
been identified out? I have seen that there are about 8 of them behind this situation. Wonder if Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin is one of them?
A mind once expanded can never return to its original dimensions.
Anne Hathaway: 1556-1623
The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.
Apocalyps now
I don't know more than the article told, but the Pentagon has to sanction it, I would think. I wonder who decides who can go to a war zone i.e. Baghdad? They sure would not let you or me go after a cursory check of our values, Grinch ;)
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross." ~ Sinclair Lewis
"I'm just pissed off that not enough other people are pissed off."~Bill Maher
"America Supports You", "Christian Embassy" and the Pentagon
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080307A.shtml
Try this for starters Grinch
http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/press-releases/christian_embassy...
It lists 7 officers who were involved in making a tape inside the pentagon without proper permission
The more that I follow the trail of this group the more "America Supports You", "Christian Embassy" and the top brass at the Pentagon seem to be related. I can't untangle the different Christian groups.
When you add the wing nut in the WH and the extreme belief in the need to bring on Armagedon that they all share and you get a very scary picture. The word "crusade" is used in their literature over and over. whether they intend it or not they {the Pentagon top brass] are playing with fire and putting us at risk.
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross." ~ Sinclair Lewis
"I'm just pissed off that not enough other people are pissed off."~Bill Maher
It's time to discredit him
Perhaps some of the fine people here would like to look up what percentage of Baldwin's wealth was in charitable giving since 9/11. If he gave, trust me, a big deal was made of it.
OMG! Could he HAVE a bigger ego?
The man makes me sick! His idea of charitable giving is to give of his time. Instead of giving his celebrity money to worthy causes, he does fund raisers. That's apparently even the extent of 'giving' that he gives to the breast cancer research fund his mother started after being diagnosed with bc.
Mr. Ego gives of his time but he reserves that wealth all for his Christian old self. How utterly 'religious' of him.
He lends his name. OMG...he lends his name.
Um....okay. There are women in the US without health insurance and with no hope of receiving the best treatment for their breast cancers because they've had to wait until it's at an advanced stage so that they can be treated in the ER, and Stephen is giving his time. I'm sure those women think of him while they have poison dripping into their veins. Perhaps a few of them should gather their hair up off the floor and send it to him as a token of their unwithering gratitude -- just for being Stephen Baldwin.