New York Times reporter, Linda greenhouse recently broke into sobs as she spoke to a Harvard University audience. Part of what she said was:
"Our government had turned its energy and attention away from upholding the rule of law and toward creating law-free zones at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, Haditha, and other places around the world. And let’s not forget the sustained assault on women's reproductive freedom and the hijacking of public policy by religious fundamentalism.")
Tim Hedges, formerly Middle East News Director for the NY Times, is now a senior fellow at The Nation Institute, the foundation of the far-left magazine, and in January he'll publish a book, "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America." Last week, Hedges predicted Bush would go to war with Iran, perhaps "in as little as three weeks." He concludes his Truthdig column:
"If you are sure you will be raptured into heaven, your clothes left behind with the nonbelievers, then this news should cheer you up. If you are rational, however, these may be some of the last few weeks or months in which to enjoy what is left of our beleaguered, dying republic and way of life."
The week before that, when questioned by the Chicago Tribune about the incendiary title of his upcoming book, he responded: "This is a potent and a ruthless mass movement that would like to dismantle American democracy."
An article written in November 2004, while Hedges was still a reporter for the Times (his last byline appears under a "Public Lives" profile dated March 3, 2005) is topped by this explanatory header: "This is an article by Chris Hedges that no major publication would print."
The title of his upcoming book, given it has a similar title: "The Christian Right And The Rise of American Fascism."After comparing Christian conservative opposition to gay marriage with "the state suppression of opponents" by the Nazis, he really unveils his paranoia: "All debates with the Christian Right are useless. We cannot reach this movement. It does not want a dialogue. It cares nothing for rational thought and discussion. It is not mollified because John Kerry prays or Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday School. These naive attempts to reach out to a movement bent on our destruction, to prove to them that we too have 'values,' would be humorous if the stakes were not so deadly. They hate us. They hate the liberal, enlightened world formed by the Constitution. Our opinions do not count.
This movement will not stop until we are ruled by Biblical Law, an authoritarian church intrudes in every aspect of our life, women stay at home and rear children, gays agree to be cured, abortion is considered murder, the press and the schools promote 'positive' Christian values, the federal government is gutted, war becomes our primary form of communication with the rest of the world and recalcitrant non-believers see their flesh eviscerated at the sound of the Messiah's voice."
I never ever remember any Church group suggesting these actions. Yet, it is becoming commonplace to hear media and TV programs promote such hysterical ideas. Boston legal said similar things this week on a show about "Religious Freedom".
I just cannot wait until the libs take over the Congress and start persecuting Conservatives.
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