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Title: Idemia: The Corporation Building Spy Grid in China, National ID in India Also Creates Drivers Licenses in the U.S.
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Published: Aug 22, 2018
Author: Daniel Taylor
Post Date: 2018-08-22 10:13:21 by Deckard
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Big Tech has gathered unprecedented amounts of personal data from millions of people. At the same time, a system of total surveillance has been constructed: Facial recognition, biometric scanning, cell phone surveillance and more have amassed a huge amount of information. We see the stories about the growing surveillance state, but we dont hear about the gigantic multinational corporation that is helping to build the physical infrastructure supporting it. Idemia (formerly Morpho), is a billion dollar multinational corporation. It is responsible for building a significant portion of the world’s biometric surveillance and security systems, operating in about 70 countries. Some American clients of the company include the Department of Defense, Homeland Security, and the FBI. The company website says that Morpho has been “…building and managing databases of entire populations…” for many years. From the company site: Morpho has been building and managing databases of entire populations for governments, law enforcement agencies and other government bodies around the world, whether for national ID, health cards, bank cards or even driver license programs. In the United States, Idemia is involved in the making of state issued drivers licenses in 42 states. The company is now pushing digital license trials in the U.S. Delaware and Iowa are among five states involved in the trials this year. With the mobile license, law enforcement will be able to wirelessly “ping” a drivers smartphone for their license. The move is part of a wider trend toward cashless payment. Idemia is assisting China and India with building surveillance and ID systems, trafficking in huge amounts of biometric data across the world. In China, Idemia has helped build the massive biometric scanning and surveillance system that is used to keep Chinese citizens under a tyrannical boot. The company has provided biometric payment and authentication systems to the country. The company website says: “With a sales office in Hong Kong, Morpho offers services and solutions in the field of digital identity and smart transactions. The world leader in multibiometric identification technologies, Morpho supplies biometric identification systems to Chinese police forces and government immigration agencies.” “Morpho has also provided facial recognition systems to police agencies in Shanghai, Tianjin, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Jiangxi, Guangzhou and Wenzhou.” In India, the controversial Aadhaar national ID card system is also enjoying the support of Idemia through Safran Identity & Security, now part of Idemia. The company states that it is “in charge of all technological aspects of Aadhaar”. “Morpho is one of the companies chosen to take part in an unprecedented program called Aadhaar to count everyone residing in India and then assign each person a unique identification number. Morpho is in charge of all technological aspects of Aadhaar. Several court cases have gone to India’s supreme court on grounds of privacy violations from Aadhaar. The ID system has had serious security breaches, with access to a billion identities being sold for less than $10 through WhatsApp. The social credit trap One of the court filings (Mathew Thomas vs Union of India) details the rise of China’s social credit system, comparing the Indian Aadhaar initiative to the Chinese program. “The Chinese government initially permitted corporations to aggregate personal data of their customers and built algorithms that could then rate the worth of these customers. As such applications began to get integrated and large technology companies began to dominate every aspect of citizen lives, the ‘Social Credit Rating Systems’ that these companies ran became all the more pervasive. Once this system had taken hold of the entire country, the State Council of the Central Government in China released an Outline of the Social Credit System Construction Plan A disturbingly similar pattern is being followed in the United States. Big Tech (Google, Apple, Facebook) has already gathered most of our personal data. It has also absorbed around 90% of internet traffic, and is now openly allying with communist Chinese policies. Facebook has begun rating users “trustworthiness” on the platform. At the same time, other major tech companies like Apple are removing content at the request of the Chinese government. Between Idemia issuing digital drivers licenses to U.S. citizens and Big Tech’s data collection, we are inches away from a fully integrated national ID system and an accompanying social credit score. At the moment, the United States does not have a government backed program like the Chinese. However, if gone unchecked, a de-facto social credit system could still take hold due to the pervasiveness of big tech influence. Idemia is building the infrastructure of the massive world-wide biometric surveillance grid. Demand for “convenience” with wireless, cardless, cashless payment and shopping is driving us right into their hands. Thanks to Citizens Council for Health Freedom’s report Exposing Idemia: The Push for National Biometric IDs in America
Company that helps manufacture U.S. citizens drivers licenses brags of “building and managing databases of entire populations” across the globe.
(2014-2020), which specifies that such Social Credit Rating Systems would be integrated into their governance by 2020. This represents the integration of such infrastructure into
the central architecture of the State, and would ensure a devastating amount of State control over its citizens”.
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No he isn't. God is right here in this conversation - he's everywhere. He hears us. He knows why I am saying what I say, and he knows why you are saying what you say. He understands what I mean, he understands what you mean, I understand what you mean, you don't understand what I mean.
TRADITIONAL MORALITY - Traditional AMERICAN Morality - includes racial segregation and racial theory - UTTERLY ungodly, opposed to God's law. It includes a belief in violent suppression of crime for which God never gave the death penalty ("Hang them cattle rustler's high!" is murder under the law of God - you shall not kill over property theft.) It includes imprisonment for consensual sexual crimes between adults - God did not give that law to us. Our law and our traditional morality routinely favor the powerful in judgment and law enforcement, not simply as a matter of prejudice but as a matter of the actual structure of the system itself: a man cannot effectively defend himself in court where he will be held to the procedural standards of the law (because "ignorance of the law is no excuse" - a tradition of our law that is contrary to what God said in his - ignorance IS an excuse before God, but not before OUR traditions about God and law) without a lawyer, and lawyers cost a lot of money, so our system is structured to give an inherent advantage to the wealthier party in every litigation, and it has always been so. Our procedures for arriving at the death penalty look nothing like what God laid out when he laid out a judicial procedure. God's model was designed to make it virtually impossible to convict the innocent without a conspiracy of fraud - which itself carried the death penalty. Our procedures make it far, far easier to convict the innocent. God gave all of mankind all of the plants to use. Where did he authorize men to shed men's blood and kill men for using certain plants? Where did he authorize men to kill other men for breaking rules that men set up? He didn't. TRADITIONAL MORALITY does authorize those things, in fact, exults in them. We can go on. War? Tending to the sick? On and on it goes. We should be able to have a quiet, reasonable discussion about what God actually said, but we can't, because YOU are inflamed with political and patriotic and TRADITIONAL religious passions none of which came from God, and all of which work directly to unravel what God said to do. You can't have the state you want to have and the power you want to have, or accumulate the wealth our society wants to accumulate, and obey all of God's laws - the ones that actually APPLY to us, as opposed to all of the Hebrews in the Desert stuff that never did.
The Supreme Court gave us baby murder. It was a Republican-controlled court. The Supreme Court has always had the power to strike down baby murder, and it has been controlled by the Republicans CONTINUOUSLY since 1973 when it gave us baby murder in the first place. There have been 6 Republican Presidents and 3 Democrat Presidents during that time, and the entire Supreme Court has been replaced - so EVERY Republican justice on that court was appointed by a supposedly pro-Life Republican President. And yet baby murder remains the law of the land. You want to lay this at the feet of Democrats, because you hate them and this is the most evil thing. They do support it, yes indeed. But the fact is that we have baby murder BECAUSE OF Republicans - THEY put it in place, THEY have sustained it every single day since they did - THEY have ALWAYS had the power to strike it down and end it - THEY have replaced the court completely, and yet have not applied a litmus test on baby murder (Democrats do). And right now, you have yet another Republican appointee assuring us that Roe is "settled law". So, baby murder was given to us by Republicans, has been preserved continuously by Republicans for so long that new Republicans, who COULD still overturn the law, will point to the long reign of Republican rule that has sustained Roe, and say "too long, law is settled". And yet you dare to speak of me of the DEMOCRATS as the problem here? Your partisanship has simply blinded you to the truth. Whatever parade of endless excuses and hyperventilation you may engage in, I will return to the cold, hard, brutal reality: REPUBLICANS gave us abortion, and EVERY DAY SINCE REPUBLICANS have always had the power to strike it down, and they don't. Do not talk to me about Democrats on the subject. If you will not admit the truth, and will blame Democrats, you are simply a blazing partisan blinded by partisan hatred, and there is no honesty in you. That's too bad, too, because you have such passion it would be good if it were channeled for something good. And the Republican Party for which you so passionately advocate is not that.
I read the Bible, carefully, and I read what it says - about WHO has authority. It says clearly that GOD has authority, all authority. So, for example, when God SAYS at Sinai that this law for you here at Sinai, that means this law is for YOU here at Sinai, not for Gentiles living on the other side of the planet 4000 years in the future. We read the same book, but the reading comprehension of your teachers is abysmal, and so you believe nonsense. I listen to God precisely.
As did, and does, the Republicans with the power to end it today. The Republicans who GAVE us Roe, and the Republicans and Democrats who strongly support it. Of course, if we're going to end Roe, we have to step up and create the public welfare infrastructure necessary to raise 1 million new poor people, mostly minorities, ever year, year on year. I'm ready to do that. You Republicans? You think that taxes are theft and that welfare is evil. So, if we actually let you have your way, a million poor babies will be born - and rapidly we'll be at Third World levels of poverty, starvation and desperation, because you won't spend the money to create the social welfare structures necessary to raise these kids, given that their parents are often derelicts. You'll rage at the immorality of the parents, and I will agree with that, but you will not honestly, or with the eyes of Christ, face the fact HEAD ON that if you stop the abortions today, the immoral idiots will remain so, and there will 1 million or more desperately poor babies born every year, and they all have to eat, be housed, be clothed, be educated - and their single mother parent will not do it. You will heap derision and scorn on her, and if you must do that in your anger, so be it. But you will ALSO, then start shouting the lie that taxation is theft and social welfare is theft. SO - these babies WILL be born, destitute, and the existing social welfare AND dwindling Church welfare networks will be overwhelmed, but you will be money-worshipping pharisaic prigs, lie in God's face and say that taxes and welfare are theft, and WHAT? Just let the babies DIE? Rely on magic to cause social supports to exist where none do? In the Third World the supports do not emerge, and they won't here either: the babies will die. And you will let them evilly calling taxes and social support theft, lying about what God said about wealth. You Protestants DISGUST me with your money- grubbing Pharisaic evil about money and welfare. That is what you will do. That's what so many of you here on this board have made SO CLEAR. You will NEVER EVER engage on the economic fact and ADMIT THE NECESSITY. You will prattle on endlessly about your morals, and taxes being theft, etc. It's why your religion is obviously false, and why we don't need your "Traditional Values". They are not from God, and they do not work. JESUS SAID to provide for the poor. And YHWH's state had a whole structure to do it. Now, we don't have to do it per the Sinai law, with a 10% tithe, etc., but we bloody well HAVE TO DO IT, and pretending that it will just spontaneously arise is a lie. It NEVER DID, anywhere, before, not ever. It exists BECAUSE states took it on, and government (Church government, which you roundly reject with your Traditional Protestant Morality) before that. No, we don't need your traditions anymore. They don't work. They're not honest. They're not really Godly. And if applied to abortion, they would leave a million new babies every year destitute. I'm not interested in hearing a repeat of lies and platitudes from an illiterate read of Jesus. Tell me how you're going to feed the babies when you kill Roe. Republicans CAN'T, because you have no intention of feeding the babies. You either have not thought it all the way through - which means you're unfit to lead. Or you have, and you don't CARE about the mass starvation that will ensue, because "taxes are theft" (which God said nowhere, ever). You're not going to acknowledge the fundamental linkage between Roe, babies, welfare and taxes. You're going to keep them separated, because you love the idea of money accumulation more than you love poor humans. That's the visible truth with you Republicans. It's why your "Christian values" cannot be taken seriously. On another thread, Stone was trying hard to call me a hypocrite because of what I do with my money. If you read the exchange, you will realize that under the facts, he really humiliated himself. I am perfectly consistent with my values in all things over which I have rational control. Where I am weak and admittedly a sinner is on matters of the heart over which I do not have control, where I can control my actions but not my most earnest desires. I stand before the Lord every day. He knows my flaws as well as I do. There's no hypocrisy in me - there is sin, and I acknowledge it. And it doesn't bear on this subject because it doesn't affect it. Other than the screaming Protestant Puritan who points out that I HAVE sin - a sin of hypocrisy (that I don't actually have - his facts are wrong), and that THEREFORE I am utterly neutralized on all I might say. That's how you people operate. That's your Traditional PRotestant Values and the way you try to enforce them. It's why you have lost. I'm as close to God as any of you, and I don't hear God in any of these accusations. But I DO see God in those babies, and in their bellies, and I want you to explain to me how you propose to feed, clothe, house and educate them without using taxes, since "taxes are theft" you wrongly state and make up something that is pretty much the opposite of what God said. You yell at me, I yell at you. We getting anywhere? Not as far as I can see.
Old news. And fake news. First, the RCC hasn't done that since 1962. And second, who cares? I'm the Vicomte de [quelquepart], not the Catholic Church. Yes, you can point out the bad things or over-the-top things that the Catholic Church has done, and we could go doctrine by doctrine through the catechism, if you would like, and I will tell you what I think is right, what I think is a bit off, and what is really wrong. You will never do the same with your denomination, because you pretend to believe EVERY WORD...even though you probably don't actually KNOW all of the doctrines. Query: is "Tax is theft" actually a DOCTRINE of your religion? Did Jesus say to cooperate with theft and give to the thief? (If tax is theft, yes, he did.) The problem with trying to turn the light in my eyes is this: when I say I have talked to God and experienced the miracles I have described, I am telling the unadorned truth. I know God, and God knows me, and apparently he likes me enough to do those things for me. That is why I have studied what he left us as artifacts and in words SO VERY CAREFULLY - and applied the careful legal training in two languages that he saw to it I received. So I have answers to your challenges, and to the challenges of hypocrisy. I know what he said, I know what he wants, and I have adjusted almost all of my politics and actions to fit it. Can you say that. Where my borders are weak are on matters of wrath in response to violence. I was a professional military man by choice for nearly two decades, I was a missile officer and a pilot, and I think in terms of airstrikes and physically killing the enemy. I have to discipline myself NOT to reach for the sword as the solution to things, and VERBALLY, when I become enraged, I DO still reach for the sword and want to shed a great deal of blood. If I had the actual power of decision to do it, I always restrained myself when I was in the position, and I still would. So I come across on a chat site of belligerent males as being more willing to shed blood than I actually am. And the other thing is my internal weakness, which I don't need to marinate in in public. You want to treat Catholicism like a political party. Go ahead. It's a really shallow, young ardent man's way of looking at things. I look at the Church and I simply see the bulk of Christian practice moving forward through history, where the bulk of my ethnic roots lie. I was baptized there, and confirmed there, and sang in the choir for years. I dance with the one who brung me. Doesn't mean I'm a fanatic partisan. I'm a partisan of God. The Church is not so offensive to God that I feel any impulse from God to leave. He's never asked me to. My Catholicism arouses the bigotry of Protestants to a greater degree than it arouses my own religious passions. I'm French, Irish, Basque - in part. My mother was Catholic. I was baptized as a baby and grew up in a half-Catholic family - the kind, unified part - and a half-Baptist/Nazarene and atheist part - whose religion consisted primarily of worrying about my and my mother's Catholicism. I've seen ignorant religious bigotry since I was a boy, and I marvel at how otherwise educated people could be so obtuse. But I don't worry about it too much. In short: it is a waste of your time to keep bringing up my Catholicism. I'm Catholic and French and I think those are the best religion and the best ethnicities in the world. I recognize that Protestant Anglo-Saxons are the traditional enemy, and I recognize that that's because they always felt threatened by the Catholics and the French, were always poorer, were always culturally and intellectually way behind (and painfully aware of it), and that the Catholics and the French mostly won when it mattered. So, Shakespeare wrote a play about Agincourt, but that was just one in a hundred battles. The decisive battle was Patay, a few decades later, and that was a French Azincourt that decided the war in France's favor. Do I care about these things? No. I don't think about them at all, until I'm attacked. Then I do, and it is comfortable and reassuring to be on history's winning side.
That's only because you don't want to listen, you don't want to think, and you don't want to hear. You want everything to fit into your dumb little American, Republican, Anglo-Saxon Protestant little boxes, and what I say fits into none of them. You don't sit down, calm down, and try to talk to me nicely to figure it out - I'm one of the smartest men you have ever met and you could learn a lot from me. But you want to preach at me and rage at me with jejeune nonsense. You're not a bad person, I suppose, but you're never going to win anything important if you can't calm down and learn what you don't understand. You're raging at ghosts. If you talk to me about God and even your precious Bible, you'll learn more about it than you know. If you talk to me about history, you will learn things that will make you think and make you realize there is more in heaven and earth than is comprehended by your philosophy, Horatio. That would actually make your time here USEFUL, for YOU, over time. As it is, you're just flapping your jaws on a website before an audience of mostly old, retired men who grouse about politics. You can't effect anything here, you're not going change anything here, and you're not learning a damned thing. You COULD learn from me, but you're trying to lecture me, and you may as well go yell at the trees. The holes in what you say are gaping. I don't mock you for them - I'm actually not a mean guy. I would HELP you get a lot sharper. But you seem to think you're in the catbird seat, for some reason. Really, you're a mockingbird - copying the catcalls of other birds in a faraway flock - chirping at an old lion, who doesn't much care. You want to learn? Drop the attitude and come into sidebar and we will talk. You want to goad me? Meh. If that's what you've got to do, save it for the weekend, because I'm not going to bother to read it until then. Good night.
Vic is the smartest person he knows. lol Maybe Vic knows the end is near. Maybe he’s got some bad news. That sort of shit can change a way a man thinks. Maybe he’s been hiding the left side of his face from the forum mirror. Who knows.
I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
You said you would vote for Perot if you knew Clinton would win. You also prefer pro murder hillary to Pro life Cruz. You're a leftist wack job.
Yep when you said you would vote for Hillary if.... That is proof you are ok with abortion. You just like to pretend you are against it. And you are to a degree. It just isn't that important to you. It is Republicans like you that gave us abortion. Catholics gave us abortion and make sure it is legalized.
Which proves that Catholics don't get their religion from God. They change all the time. God doesn't change his moral standards.
No commie it is their parents responsibility by and large. They will need to step up to the plate. You are a welfare enabler. You are ok making the government steal other peoples money so you can feel good and pretend you did something.
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Lets see Vic. You are a lover of your self. No doubt there. You covet other peoples money to give it to non christians. You boast how smart and great you are. That makes you have the trait of pride. According to the Bible you blaspheme Gods word it seems to me. Were you disobedient to your parents? Did you tell them the truth about the cockroaches and lizards or rats or whatever you imagined. Unthankful and Unholy. Hmm I think you fail at least one of those too. I have some of those traits too.
No offense Vic, but if your parents weren't married in a Catholic church, then you're a bastard in the eyes of the church. My father was a prot, but he had to convert to Catholic to marry my mother. Her brother married a prot gal, and my grandmother & mother refused to attend the wedding, and wouldn't even talk to them for at least 30 years.
Btw This idemia Thing What was ross PeroT Doing in Iran In the sevenTies Some big broTher compuTer Thing Love If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !
First, that is false. Under the Canon Law, if parents are legally married, children are legitimate. If parents who weren't married when the child was born later marry, the child is also legitimate. Two Jewish parents who are legally married have a legitimate child under the Catholic Canon law. "Marriage" under the Canon Law does not equate to Sacramental Marriage, which is within the Church. Second, my parents WERE married in the Church. My father acceded to my mother's wishes in that regard. My father did not convert to Catholicism, but he agreed to raise me Catholic, and that was enough. Of course, after baptism, they DIDN'T do anything further to "raise me Catholic", so my being raised Catholic consisted solely of being baptized when I was a few weeks old, and nothing more. And finally, the legitimacy or illegitimacy of a child matters little under Canon law. The PARENT'S are not legitimately married. The child is a child. Priests baptize illegitimate children. Illegitimate children are catechized, take first communion, are Confirmed. The child is a separate soul. The legal status of a child's parents is not a mark on the child as far as the Church is concerned. The practical effect of illegitimacy is merely to complicate permissions and authorizations, etc., for sacraments involving the child. This is a clerical matter, not a spiritual one. The child is legitimately a child, and a separate soul, and not accountable for the sins of the parents. Obviously.
My parents have been dead for 25 years. The mouse and the lizard were raised within the last 5. So no, I did not talk to my parents. You are pronouncing some interesting judgments there, Stone. Some of them have some validity. Others are way off the mark. You're heaping coals on your own head by doing so. Remember that. You will be measured by the measure by which you measured. So will we all. For my part, I don't care about your personal sins. Those are between you and God; they are no skin off my nose. You're eager to judge mine, and to hammer home a political point by doing so. That's very, very unfortunate for you. I would recommend that you go back and read the parable of the unforgiving servant again, and Jesus' admonitions about measuring and judging. Don't let your resentment of me become a stumbling block on your own path with God. We are different people from different places, and we don't agree on many things. Don't get so inflamed by that that you start committing sins against yourself in your desire to strike at me. That is not good for you, in the long run. The better course is to shrug your shoulders and move on.
Translation: I am going to outlaw abortion. This will certainly cause 1 million new unwanted babies to be born into poverty each year, and their support and upkeep is not my problem. And that right there, my friend, is why abortion on demand will ALWAYS remain the law of the land. Because Christians and Republicans think like you do, and everybody knows it. Therefore, there will be no support for the babies you would like to force to be born, and there will be neglect, death and Third World conditions if we let you have your way on abortion. Everybody knows this. Which is why your position on abortion is the minority position, and why abortion on demand will remain the law of the land and cannot ever be changed. The lives of babies ran up against the Christian Republicans' love of money, and money won. So the babies have to die. That's the way it is. That's the way it's going to be. You ensure that it remains so by your stance. The ONLY WAY to save the babies is by having, in parallel, a massive social welfare safety net to provide for all of them, educate them, and give them the full opportunities in life. THEN - and ONLY then - will enough people shift position to let them live. You Protestant Christian Republicans love money too much to EVER let that social welfare safety net ever be built. So Roe will remain. Because of you. Of course, being self-righteous prigs, you will never accept your responsibility for any of it, just as you will never admit that it was you, the Republicans, who put Roe in place and who have kept it in place since 1973. And you'll never address the issue directly and realistically. You'll do what you did in the text I am answering. And that is how you ensure that Roe v. Wade will always be the law of the land. Your choice, not mine. I would forbid abortion and raise the babies to be solid adults, using public money to do it, because there is no other way. Given the choice between letting the poor babies live and grow up at great cost, and killing them and opposing taxation, you Protestant Republicans choose the later, and French Catholic me chooses the former. Alas, this is an Anglo- Saxon Protestant country so the babies and I lose, and you win. For now.
He does. Even in the Bible.
For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
Are f****** idiot in a liar
You talk as though you think you are, that's for sure.
I'll quote scripture. You quote the pedo enabler poop.
lol Apparently so. (I wonder which of his 37 voices is the smartest?)
So your position is that the Ten Commandments or any of God's laws, rules, documents are *only* valid to those who receive them *directly*? OR, just the Ten Commandments? I guess by that rationale, The Father also only intended that Jesus Christ die ONLY for the sins of the ancestors of those present in Israel...since there were no Frenchmen or Chinese there at the time. This is not trivial, it's important, precisely because of the "It's in the Bible so it's all binding LAW" nonsense that you Protestants do. This obsession of yours...and blame-game hatred projected upon Protestants is a bit unhealthy, no? But that said, if the Bible is NOT the word of God, conferring HIS authority, then for you, what comprises OTHER "authoritative words" of God other than in the Bible?? The whole reductionist exercise regarding the Ten Commandments that is the hallmark of traditional Christianity is not acceptable BECAUSE OF the stubborn legalism to which the Protestants and Catholics then turn when it comes to St. Paul's opinion regarding "faith" versus "works", a set of words that set up disagreements over which millions of people lost their lives in a century and a half of religious war in Europe. Let me understand what you're claiming; According to YOU, Paul is a liar. Paul did NOT speak on behalf of God. Moreover, in your mind, "works" earns a Believer "Salvation"? And now for one of the most absurd thing I've ever heard (and that's saying a lot given this is LF): You are actually seriously claiming that the Apostle Paul insistence in relaying a "faith versus works" message directly FROM Jesus Christ helped create the "disagreements" that led to "millions of people lost their lives in a century and a half of religious war in Europe." THAT is one wild theory and tortured logic.
I don't. I apply God's standard Golden Rule style. If you're putting a filter in there to allow the police or the army more, where are you getting that change to what God said? Not from God. You're getting it from tradition, or "reason", or any number of other things. You are flying around, popping up and about on tangents that could last beyond our natural life-span. No, I'm not going to read every select anecdotal challenge of yours (like this one on cops and LE) because it gets away from the original point of defining the "Traditional Morality" of America. Can we have this discussion on the terms I care about, or do we have to drag in the Church and the churches, Protestants and Catholics, the Jews, politics? I think the latter, and that's too bad. HUH?? Whoa, Nellie. "Terms"?? Is this a contract or surrender? I'll be polite and just say...YOU will NOT be lecturing ME. Especially not in the context of faith.
Republicans, with regards to Democrats, and Democrats, with regards to Republicans. If by deriding the term "purity", you are critical of the Republican Party for representing specific platforms for and of their constituency, call it what you want. It's a GOOD thing. Democrats represent Death, Evil, Lies, and Fascism. This is FACT. NOT arguable. NOT negotiable. By default that leaves the GOP as the party/rep of choice in 99% of the cases.
The Bible is the inspired WORD OF GOD, penned by man. What don't you understand?? He's everywhere. He hears us. He knows why I am saying what I say, and he knows why you are saying what you say. He understands what I mean, he understands what you mean, I understand what you mean, you don't understand what I mean. Relevance? Yes, we agree that God does indeed understand even the rantings of a mad man. And why. Did you consider the notion that just maybe I also understand what you're trying to confer or articulate...and maybe I just don't agree? Most people believe their own view or perspective is "truth". As they see it. THE truth isn't necessarily found in one's subjective opinion.
Let me understand what you're claiming; According to YOU, Paul is a liar. Paul did NOT speak on behalf of God. Moreover, in your mind, "works" earns a Believer "Salvation"? No, my view is not any of those things.
I don't understand why you believe that.
Ditto.
Here you go again, broad-brushing and making sweeping indictments of millions of people. That is utter bulls***, ignorance, and historical revisionism. It's *your* desperate way of knocking America's Protestant roots. Traditional American Morality -- AS I'VE CLAIMED -- has taken basis, its foundation, its principles within the chapters and verses of the Bible. INCLUDING Leviticus, Job, Proverbs, Mosaic Law and the Ten Commandments, the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Apostles. What really disturbs you is the notion that the "Protestant" work ethic became the American work ethic. The US Founders were is after all the result of 95% Protestant. It was THEIR Protestant morality and work ethic basis that created the Bill of Rights and the US Constitution combined the best of Biblical ethics along with its wisdom and morality, enabling the USA to become the ONLY nation on earth to accept immigrants across ALL colors, races, creeds, ethnicity and religions -- without any litmus test or standard. In NO Catholic nation could a USA ever been established. Only corrupt Monarchies flourished under RCC lands, where there are no real middle class poverty and elitism STILL are the way of life. If not for the USA, the EU would be speaking German or Russian today and living under either Communist or Fascist Third Reich rule. "Racial segregation" and "racial theory" are two different issues. NEITHER is institutionalize by the US Constitution. Racial segregation for a time was a provincial matter. Mankind has ALWAYS engaged in "segregation". According to family, extended family, bloodlines, tribes, interests, common needs and wants, common beliefs, etal. "Racial Segregation" is more a tribal phenomenon. Guess what? Blacks are "segregationist". So are Hispanic. Chinese. Italian. Irish. "Little Italy". "Chinatown". "Little Havana". Are they bigots to you? Forced "Segregation" is NOT a Biblical principle or "American" principle or "constitutional" principle. It includes a belief in violent suppression of crime for which God never gave the death penalty ("Hang them cattle rustler's high!" is murder under the law of God - you shall not kill over property theft.) What a drama queen. You're watching too much Tee-Bee. Who ever said the USA and its law were perfect anyway?? It includes imprisonment for consensual sexual crimes between adults - God did not give that law to us. Yeah...and your point? Oh right -- "Traditional American Morality" isn't perfect. But NOW look at American after YOUR ilk decided that it was over-officious and too prude. Now kids can watch gay porno in the comfort of their home! Militant Homos are demanding little Johnny and Jane learn how to masturbate and perform sodomy. Johnny can now decide to become a "girl" at age 10 -- "as a life choice". So while you continue to knock "Traditional American Morality", don't worry. It's dead. In the cultural void is the emotional, spiritual and physical wreckage your ilk's moral relativism. We can go on. Yes. I can continue forever making an azz of you and your contention that "Traditional American Morality" has been oppressive, counter-productive to liberty, and a divisive trait. War? Tending to the sick? On and on it goes. We should be able to have a quiet, reasonable discussion about what God actually said, but we can't, because YOU are inflamed with political and patriotic and TRADITIONAL religious passions none of which came from God, and all of which work directly to unravel what God said to do. War and tending to the sick. What about it? Christian compassion -- ever hear of it? America -- because of it's Protestant ethic -- became THE nation of choice for immigrants. WHY?? Because it espoused individual liberty while becoming THE most generous and charitable nation on earth. War. Who had defended the world from Communism and Fascism? Even allegedly fought a domestic war in order to allegedly right some wrongs. Wealth. For over 150 years people from distant lands emmigrated TO America. Poor became middle class and even wealthy. In NO other nation has that been done. But here YOU -- an self-described elite -- are complaining that some are wealthier than others. Guess what? GOD BLESSED AMERICA. He blessed it with wealth. Because they were good. Because they respected His laws. Heeded His laws. Were a Christian Nation in principle, in deed, in word.
Our battle lines are clearly drawn. The march of events will choose the victor.
The march of events will choose the victor. Odd perspective. I'm not "battling" you. I'm merely defending the truth and actual US History. You've taken a contrarian position. What point or crusade are you defending or "battling" for? To reiterate, the USA was indeed a bastion for justice, for truth, and for liberty. The reason for this was because America was fundamentally AND traditionally a moral and ethical nation based on Biblical principles. That has no longer been the case since the mid-1960s. You on the other hand seem to feel America was "never great" nor ever "moral", parroting the mantra of quite a few Lefties these days. And IF it was, you give no credit where credit is due. Alas, you seem to bend over backwards in purposely discrediting the American Founders and vast majority of those Protestants who largely established the USA along with their underpinnings of liberty, rights, and opportunity. Why deny this? Lastly, you've often cited frequent misunderstanding of your positions. Maybe you can clarify; These so-called" "march of events" you mention as "choos[ing] the victor" -- are you implying that Socialism shall win the Day? Or are you intimating that Catholicism and the Vatican as "the victor"? Following along your train of thought, WHO THEN (or what) becomes "the Loser"?
You will NEVER EVER engage on the economic fact and ADMIT THE NECESSITY. You will prattle on endlessly about your morals, and taxes being theft, etc. It's why your religion is obviously false, and why we don't need your "Traditional Values". They are not from God, and they do not work. Wow. Ok. Q: What "religion" was Jesus Christ? Q2: Billy Graham. Did you consider his sermons on Salvation to be "prattling endlessly"? I'm still digesting and analyzing your Series of Disgust & Blame, and life philosophies. You seem to have some great hostility toward what seem to be based more on projection of a personal nature. (Or maybe you were just having a bad day.) Btw, if your interpretation of American "Traditional Values" is erroneous, then how do you account for a "good and great America"? (or again, is it your contention that America was never good OR great."?) In the meantime you have totally misrepresented the definition and beliefs "Protestants". Unlike Catholicism, they are NOT a mono-chromatic singular Group-Think cabal. They don't kneel before one "Dear Leader", any hierarchy or "chain of command" at a supposed annex of God, or any man-made "Church" that's created an exclusive rules & regs checklist to Heavenly Entry. Furthermore, IF as you seem to believe, The Bible, Scripture do NOT indeed provide all the instruction needed to know and eventually meet our Father in Heaven and Jesus Christ, then WHO or WHAT do YOU believe IS the desperately needed addendum (or source of Christian instruction & wisdom) for Salvation?
Our perspectives on life are very different. They are no doubt ifnformed by our life experiences, and therefore not very open to argument. I understand where you are coming from; the converse is clearly not the case. This is emblematic of where the country is. People are not listening to each other or trying to understand anymore, it’s all snarling, all the time. Which means that the outcome will be determined by political blunt force. I’m not too terribly concerned about that, because when I look at the correlation of forces, the things that are most important to me seem likely to prevail in the end.
Ok, I am willing to do a little more parsing of what you said, to make clear where we do not see eye to eye, and to explain myself more clearly. Let me hit the most salient points: "To reiterate, the USA was indeed a bastion for justice, for truth, and for liberty. The reason for this was because America was fundamentally AND traditionally a moral and ethical nation based on Biblical principles. That has no longer been the case since the mid-1960s." My response: You've reiterated this several times. My response is the same: America was a land of slavery and segregation affecting a very large percentage of its population over the course of centuries. It was not until the 1960s that the formal legal impediments to basic human equality were removed - as late as the 1970s interracial marriage was illegal in many states, and almost as soon as the legal barriers to equality were removed by the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court opened the war on babies with Roe v. Wade. So, quite contrary to your assessment that America was a bastion for justice, truth and liberty until the 1960s, I would respond that it was not any such thing before the 1960s, during the 1960s, or since. America has careened from one towering evil to another. Most countries have - it is the human condition. You wrote: "Alas, you seem to bend over backwards in purposely discrediting the American Founders and vast majority of those Protestants who largely established the USA along with their underpinnings of liberty, rights, and opportunity. Why deny this?" My response is pretty simple. I came onto these websites may years ago an ecumenist, seeking to smooth over the differences between Protestants and Catholics, and Catholics and Orthodox, to the greatest extent I could, really believing in the underlying goodwill of Christians. But I have been baited and treated so badly, so many times, by so many different Protestants, of different denominations, over the simple fact of my Catholicism, that I have come to realize I was naive. I offered love and was repaid with hate, again and again. And in the process hate has grown within me in proportion to the hatred I have had directed at me. Now, I have come to think of ecumenism as a fool's errand, and recognize that Protestants don't WANT peace and amity with Catholics. For my part, I didn't want to fight before, and I still don't. What was once a sense of "We're all in this together" has become what I described: disgust. Bonhomie is not possible: you don't want it. I did. Now I just don't care. Finally, this:Maybe you can clarify; These so-called" "march of events" you mention as "choos[ing] the victor" -- are you implying that Socialism shall win the Day? My response is that you define "socialism" to include social welfare that I do not consider to be "socialism" at all: Social Security, Unemployment Benefits, Food Stamps, Public Schooling, Medicare - this is not "socialism" as I define it. It is socialism as you define it. Using your definition of socialism, which I reject but I'll use your term because fighting over semantics is a waste of time in my view, then yes - social welfare has already won the day, and it will continue to do so. If you want to call that "socialism", then yes, "socialism" has already won the day, and will not be reversed. And I support that. Now, some other folks will copy that very paragraph, remove the context that I am using your words, and say that I have revealed myself as a socialist, and think they've "scored a point". That is the sort of childish self-delusion that goes on around here. It bores me.
I will answer your second set of questions seriatim. "Q: What "religion" was Jesus Christ?" Jesus of Nazareth was a Jew. He brought special revelations from God to alter Judaism. Some Jews followed him. The bulk did not and still don't. "Q2: Billy Graham. Did you consider his sermons on Salvation to be 'prattling endlessly'?" I have never heard a sermon by the late Reverend Graham and am not in a position to opine on what he himself said. I understand from what I have been told that Graham was an ecumenist who did not judge Catholics for being Catholic, so I have always viewed him as one of the good guys, on account of those reports. I never actually heard him speak (other than a few lines excerpted in the news), and I never read anything he wrote, so I am in no position to comment on his actual sermons. You: "I'm still digesting and analyzing your Series of Disgust & Blame, and life philosophies. You seem to have some great hostility toward what seem to be based more on projection of a personal nature. (Or maybe you were just having a bad day.)" Tip O'Neill said that all politics is local. I will go further: people vote their OWN pocketbooks and their OWN lives - all politics is personal. The politics of the rich are personal - they do not favor tax breaks in the abstract, they lobby for very specific tax breaks and narrow regulations that favor THEM. Everybody else is the same way: our politics are based on our lives and philosophies. Your own politics are your projection of your own personality, obviously. Because this is universally true of every human being on the planet, it goes without saying and isn't much of an accusation. To accuse a man of having politics based on his personality is to accuse him of being human. Yes, I am human. So are you. Our politics differ because our life experiences differ, and we have come to different conclusions about things based on those experiences and based on what we value and what philosophies hold highest sway in our own court. Everybody is the same in this regard. "Btw, if your interpretation of American 'Traditional Values' is erroneous," If. "then how do you account for a 'good and great America'? (or again, is it your contention that America was never good OR great.?)" Great means powerful. America is powerful and long has been. It also means wealthy and grand. America is those things. It's a huge country of great natural wealth, with a huge population of diverse talents. It's a great country. "Good" is a different kettle of fish. If defined as Jesus defines good, then no one is good but God. Do you use Jesus' definition of good? If you do, then why do you call America "good"? If you don't, then tell me what definition you do use for the word "good", and then I will tell you whether or not I think America is, or ever has been, "good". "In the meantime you have totally misrepresented the definition and beliefs 'Protestants'. Unlike Catholicism, they are NOT a mono-chromatic singular Group-Think cabal." I know that I have lumped all of the Protestants together, and done so under pejorative language that demeans you all and calls you all scumbags. Do you know WHY I have done that (when I don't even believe it)? I have done it as a direct parallel reaction to your Protestant bullshit regarding Catholicism. Let's start with the "Mono-chromatic singular Group-Think cabal" description of Catholics you made above. Now let's add these gems from your pen: "kneel before one 'Dear Leader'," - right, because we're NoRKs. Got it. "a supposed annex of God, or any man-made 'Church' that's created an exclusive rules & regs checklist to Heavenly Entry." - Catholics don't actually believe what you write about us. Anyway, you and several other Protestants here on this board authorize yourselves to be really ignorant and really nasty regarding the Catholic Church, and to direct your vituperation personally AT the most visible Catholic who posts here as a Catholic. It's obnoxious. The ignorance is equally obvious - a hostile caricature of what we believe, in abusive and judgmental terms. And you folks do it a LOT. I am just as capable of writing in parallel about Protestants, just to be nasty and belittling, for the exact same reason that you guys do it. I won't bother trying to defend doing that: it's just nasty and destructive. I get pissed on. I get pissed. I piss back. So when I say that the battle lines have been drawn, that further conversation is useless, and that the march of history will decide the outcome, that's the position that I've come to rest at. There is no meeting of the minds across the religious divide, or the political divide, or even the divide of basic manners, of what one may say to another person with whom one disagrees. This place is brutal because people with the dominant political beliefs here are brutal. Their beliefs are brutal, and they're brutal. There's no reasoning with them, and the only way to speak with them is to accept that you're just going to get attacked over and over and over again. And then one comes to the realization: Wait a minute. My view of things is, in fact, carrying the day on almost everything. We already have the safety net in place that obeys Christ's mandate (imperfectly, but substantially). We've done that without reducing the country to real socialism. We have come to accept, and enforce by law, the complete equality of the races before the law, and the equality of the sexes. So in large part, I've already won. All that I have to do is hold the ground already taken, and shore up some of the weaker flanks. This is not hard to do - inertia and the weight of history carry it forward. You - you want to overturn those things and effect revolutionary change. To do that, you're going to have to convince people. How convincing can you be when you wall yourself off in a tower of untouchable cultural and ideological icons and talisman? You're not appealing to anybody but people like yourself. And the number of people like yourself is dwindling, not because of me, but because of the policies put into place by the people you hail as leaders, or with their tacit approval. As far as your final point: "Furthermore, IF as you seem to believe, The Bible, Scripture do NOT indeed provide all the instruction needed to know and eventually meet our Father in Heaven and Jesus Christ, then WHO or WHAT do YOU believe IS the desperately needed addendum (or source of Christian instruction & wisdom) for Salvation?" I think what you need to know is in the Bible, but you have to read the Bible carefully and correctly. Read wrong and applied wrong, you can end up serving Satan by, for example, burning witches or justifying slavery by "the Mark of Ham", prohibiting marriages based on race, and any number of atrocities. Read wrong, you can call basic taxation "theft", and tattoos evil, and long hair on men disgraceful, and say that women should be silent. Jesus never said such things, and he's the one we're supposed to follow.
Thank you for responding in this very well-thought out, considerate post. It appears we *can* communicate so that we can understand each other -- even if we can't agree on some issues; On some we do find common ground. I'll comment on this as well as others in more depth when I can.
No rush. I'm pretty burnt out on political and religious discussion for now. Just watching events unfold and living my life. My latest project has been to go back through Jesus' life, everything he said, and write out the Law of Jesus.
Tell it to God. He's the Author.
#16. To: Liberator (#12)
Which is, "TRADITIONAL MORALITY".
#17. To: Liberator (#12)
Well, 0bama, the Clintons and Bernie (Democrats all) supported BABY MURDER. It's a political party that surrounded themselves with ONLY baby-murderers
#18. To: Liberator (#12)
Whose Word are YOU heeding and following? Whose Book do you read?
#19. To: Liberator (#12)
Well, 0bama, the Clintons and Bernie (Democrats all) supported BABY MURDER. Now tell me -- WHO supported and was the REAL "demon spawn"??
#20. To: Liberator (#12)
But while we are on that subject, the RCC CONDEMNS ALL who do not believe that the Roman Catholic Church has THE Final Word on Salvation.
#21. To: Liberator (#12)
Frankly, I don't know what you actually believe...and oddly, neither do you seem to have a definite handle on it.
#22. To: Liberator, Vicomte13 (#21)
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I'm one of the smartest men you have ever met
#23. To: Vicomte13 (#10)
This is how YOU lie. I was a Perot supporter. I accept that meant Clinton won
#24. To: Vicomte13 (#17)
And yet you dare to speak of me of the DEMOCRATS as the problem here?
#25. To: Vicomte13 (#20)
First, the RCC hasn't done that since 1962.
#26. To: Vicomte13 (#19)
Of course, if we're going to end Roe, we have to step up and create the public welfare infrastructure
#27. To: Vicomte13 (#21)
I'm one of the smartest men you have ever met and you could learn a lot from me.
#28. To: All (#27)
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
#29. To: Vicomte13, bastard Catholic, AKA Stone (#20)
. I'm French, Irish, Basque - in part. My mother was Catholic. I was baptized as a baby and grew up in a half-Catholic family - the kind, unified part - and a half-Baptist/Nazarene and atheist part - whose religion consisted primarily of worrying about my and my mother's Catholicism.
#30. To: A K A Stone (#28)
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boris
#31. To: hondo68 (#29)
(Edited)
No offense Vic, but if your parents weren't married in a Catholic church, then you're a bastard in the eyes of the church.
#32. To: A K A Stone (#28)
Were you disobedient to your parents? Did you tell them the truth about the cockroaches and lizards or rats or whatever you imagined.
#33. To: A K A Stone (#26)
No commie it is their parents responsibility by and large. They will need to step up to the plate. You are a welfare enabler. You are ok making the government steal other peoples money so you can feel good and pretend you did something.
#34. To: A K A Stone (#25)
Which proves that Catholics don't get their religion from God. They change all the time. God doesn't change his moral standards.
#35. To: Vicomte13 (#34)
#36. To: Vicomte13 (#33)
#37. To: A K A Stone (#35)
For I am the Lord
#38. To: Vicomte13 (#37)
#39. To: GrandIsland, Vicomte13 (#22)
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Vic is the smartest person he knows.
#40. To: Vicomte13 (#13)
(Edited)
The Ten Commandments were explicitly given to Hebrews at Mt. Sinai. They are not on their face, and never have been commandments for the whole world.
#41. To: Vicomte13 (#13)
Where do you stand on applying a different standard to the police?
#42. To: Vicomte13 (#14)
As to "purity", WHO exactly is demanding IT??
#43. To: Vicomte13 (#15)
No he isn't [the author of the Bible].
#44. To: Liberator (#40)
So your position is that the Ten Commandments or any of God's laws, rules, documents are *only* valid to those who receive them *directly*? OR, just the Ten Commandments?
#45. To: Liberator (#43)
The Bible is the inspired WORD OF GOD, penned by man. What don't you understand??
#46. To: Liberator (#41)
I'll be polite and just say...YOU will NOT be lecturing ME. Especially not in the context of faith.
#47. To: Vicomte13 (#16)
TRADITIONAL MORALITY - Traditional AMERICAN Morality - includes racial segregation and racial theory - UTTERLY ungodly, opposed to God's law.
#48. To: Liberator (#47)
#49. To: Vicomte13 (#48)
Our battle lines are clearly drawn.
#50. To: Vicomte13 (#19)
You Protestants DISGUST me with your money- grubbing Pharisaic evil about money and welfare. That is what you will do. That's what so many of you here on this board have made SO CLEAR.
#51. To: Liberator (#50)
#52. To: Liberator (#49)
#53. To: Liberator (#50)
#54. To: Vicomte13 (#53)
#55. To: Liberator (#54)
I'll comment on this as well as others in more depth when I can.
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