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6.14.2003
Inhofe Watch : Ewwwww Doggie! I felt a little guilty about not keeping up with my Inhofe watch. I strayed (as I do often) into other interests. But boy, did I pick a good time to do my little "Google News" search for Inhofe? That was a rhetorical question, but for those who are rhetorically challenged the answer is YES. Alternet Interview with Jeffrey Sharlett, Meet the Family Seems like our two senators, Inhofe and Nickles have close ties to a group called the Fellowship, a fundamentalist Christian group that works to introduce powerful men to Jesus. It does so by building up cells of people that have a "covenant" with each other to pursue a common goal. That goal: Spiritual Warfare. Harpers Article: Jesus Plus Nothing by Jeffrey Sharlett Most interesting is the notation by Sharlett that the Family's leadership considers "Democracy a manifestation of Ungodly Pride." This fits in nicely with the themes I have noticed in the hard line religious right. I hinted at this in the previous days writings. Uppity humans ruling themselves are an affront to Gods power over them. Alternet: Really at its fundamental core, almost monarchist. We would be told time and time again, "Christ's kingdom is not a democracy" This is their model for leadership. They would often say, "Everything you need to know about government is right there in the cross - it's vertical not horizontal." So we should ask the question: If Inhofe is our Representative, a human stand in for the people of Oklahoma, shouldn't he believe in the legitimacy of his role as such? I think he does not, and his actions have proved as much over the course of time. Why we continue to re-elect this man is a mystery to me and an insult to democracy. Harpers : The Family was founded in April 1935 by Abraham Vereide, a Norwegian immigrant who made his living as a traveling preacher. One night, while lying in bed fretting about socialists, Wobblies, and a Swedish Communist who, he was sure, planned to bring Seattle under the control of Moscow, Vereide received a visitation: a voice, and a light in the dark, bright and blinding. The next day he met a friend, a wealthy businessman and former major, and the two men agreed upon a spiritual plan. They enlisted nineteen business executives in a weekly breakfast meeting and together they prayed, convinced that Jesus alone could redeem Seattle and crush the radical unions. Amusing that Jesus would take the time out of his busy schedule to pull together a group of wealthy businessmen for the sake of crushing the unions and the Wobblies. I'm sure they had no clue that none other than Jesus was the prime union buster. Unions being not only an affront to God for wanting some amount of control over their own lives, but an affront to capitalists that wished to keep exploiting their labor. Alternet: Then there are associates, usually about 150 associates and they are the key individuals in their areas, and then there are the people who are in a cell with an associate and they are very close. And then there are close friends. Senator James Inhofe, Republican from Oklahoma, is frequently, for instance, referred to as a close friend. and... Alternet: I think they are definitely a force for fascism. I think a lot of the way the world looks is a result of their work. They were instrumental in getting U.S. government support for General Suharto, for the generals' juntas in Brazil. Just take those two countries alone, they are two of the biggest countries on Earth. Those countries might have been progressive democracies a long time ago had it not been for U.S. support for those regimes ... That Inhofe is cozy with this group is assured. That their positions on democracy and human freedom are outside of the mainstream is certain. Why we allow our democractic representatives to belong to such a group is beyond me. And if you think that The Family is a benign little church going group I would encourage you to read both of the article I reference today. I posted nothing about the reverance that these people have for the leadership styles of Hitler, Mao and Stalin. I mention nothing of the bizarre cult-like atmosphere that Sharlett studied while he actually lived amongst the "brothers" Go read! | |
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