[geocentrism] Fw: Get ready
- From: "philip madsen" <pma15027@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "geocentrism list" <geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:31:27 +1000
A preview of what is to come in the U. S. courtesy the ADL and the SPLC. and
their vigorous support of the hate crimes bill now being cobbled up in congress.
bob b.
If you were right then, we re right now.
If we are wrong now, you were wrong then.
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Immigration, abortion, homosexuality
Secularist Europe Silences Pro-Lifers and Creationists
By Paul Belien, Brussels Journal
Monday, June 25, 2007
Last week, a German court sentenced a 55-year old Lutheran pastor to one year
in jail for "Volksverhetzung" (incitement of the people) because he compared
the killing of the unborn in contemporary Germany to the holocaust. Next week,
the Council of Europe is going to vote on a resolution imposing Darwinism as
Europe's official ideology. The European governments are asked to fight the
expression of creationist opinions, such as young earth and intelligent design
theories. According to the Council of Europe these theories are "undemocratic"
and "a threat to human rights."
Without legalized abortion the number of German children would increase
annually by at least 150,000 -- which is the number of legal abortions in birth
dearth Germany. Pastor Johannes Lerle compared the killing of the unborn to the
killing of the Jews in Auschwitz during the Second World War. On 14 June, a
court in Erlangen ruled that, in doing so, the pastor had "incited the people"
because his statement was a denial of the holocaust of the Jews in
Nazi-Germany. Hence, Herr Lerle was sentenced to one year in jail. Earlier, he
had already spent eight months in jail for calling abortionists "professional
killers" -- an allegation which the court ruled to be slanderous because,
according to the court, the unborn are not humans.
Other German courts convicted pro-lifers for saying that "in abortion clinics,
life unworthy of living is being killed," because this terminology evoked
Hitler's euthanasia program, which used the same language. In 2005, a German
pro-lifer, Gunter Annen, was sentenced to 50 days in jail for saying "Stop
unjust [rechtswidrige] abortions in [medical] practice," because, according to
the court, the expression "unjust" is understood by laymen as meaning illegal,
which abortions are not.
Volksverhetzung is a crime which the Nazis often invoked against their enemies
and which contemporary Germany also uses to intimidate homeschoolers. Soon, the
German authorities will be able to use the same charge against people who
question Darwin's evolution theory.
Indeed, next Tuesday, the Council of Europe (CoE), Europe's main human-rights
body, will vote on a proposal which advocates the fight against creationism,
"young earth" and "intelligent design" in its 47 member states.
According to a report of the CoE's Parliamentary Assembly, creationists are
dangerous "religious fundamentalists" who propagate "forms of religious
extremism" and "could become a threat to human rights." The report adds that
the acceptance of the science of evolutionism "is crucial to the future of our
societies and our democracies."
"Creationism, born of the denial of the evolution of species through natural
selection, was for a long time an almost exclusively American phenomenon," the
report says.
"Today creationist theories are tending to find their way into Europe and
their spread is affecting quite a few Council of Europe member states. [,Ķ]
[T]his is liable to encourage the development of all manner of fundamentalism
and extremism, synonymous with attacks of utmost virulence on human rights. The
total rejection of science is definitely one of the most serious threats to
human rights and civic rights. [,Ķ] The war on the theory of evolution and on
its proponents most often originates in forms of religious extremism which are
closely allied to extreme right-wing political movements. The creationist
movements possess real political power. The fact of the matter, and this has
been exposed on several occasions, is that the advocates of strict creationism
are out to replace democracy by theocracy. [...] If we are not careful, the
values that are the very essence of the Council of Europe will be under direct
threat from creationist fundamentalists."
According to the CoE report, America and Australia are already on their way
towards becoming such undemocratic theocracies where human and civic rights are
endangered. Creationism is "well-developed in the English-speaking countries,
especially the United States and Australia," the report states.
"While most curricula in Europe today unashamedly teach evolution as a
recognised scientific theory, the same does not apply to the United States. In
July 2005, the Pew Research Center conducted a poll that showed that 64% of
Americans favoured the teaching of intelligent design alongside the theory of
evolution and that 38% would support the total abandonment of the teaching of
evolution in publicly owned schools. The American President George W. Bush
supports the principle of teaching both intelligent design and the theory of
evolution. At the moment, 20 of the 50 American states are facing potential
adjustments of their school curricula in favour of intelligent design. Many
people think that this phenomenon only affects the United States and that, even
if it is not possible to be indifferent to what is happening on the other side
of the Atlantic, it is not the Council of Europe's role to deal with this
issue. That, however, is not the case. On the contrary, it would seem crucial
for us to take the appropriate precautions in our 47 member states."
Though one may disagree with people who take the Book of Genesis literally
(believing that God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh),
surely secularist political organizations telling people what they may or may
not believe, constitute a far greater threat to human rights than religious
institutions telling their faithful how to vote. In the voting booth people are
free to do what they like, whilst in contemporary Europe people are no longer
free to publicly voice their own, deeply felt opinions in public.
In Germany, believing abortion to be as murderous as the holocaust is a crime,
and educating your own children is a crime too. In France, saying that
"homosexual behaviour endangers the survival of humanity" is a crime, and so is
the distribution of pork soup to the poor. In Belgium, speaking out against
immigration is a crime.
In the latest issue of the Dutch conservative magazine Bitter Lemon the Dutch
author Erik van Goor writes that European courts are silencing conservative and
orthodox citizens. Freedom of speech no longer exist, says van Goor.
"While many in the West still idolize the second-hand fighters for free
speech, such as [Ayaan] Hirsi Ali and Theo van Gogh, the true victims of
curtailment are deliberately kept under wraps. Hirsi Ali, [Pim] Fortuyn and
Theo van Gogh were not curtailed by the state or by court, Johannes Lerle is.
The former voiced mere opinions -- expressions of a public opinion which one
may or may not value or believe. The latter -- Dr Lerle -- shows that what is
at stake is not merely opinions, but a moral order which is being questioned; a
reality of life and death which is at risk."
Hirsi Ali, Fortuyn and van Gogh did not defend Europe's traditional Christian
moral order. People such as Johannes Lerle and Christian Vanneste, the French
parliamentarian who was convicted for "homophobia," do. The latter are being
persecuted by Western Europe's political regimes -- a phenomenon which is
ignored completely by the Western mainstream media, who participate in the
persecution.
Paul Belien is the editor of the Flemish quarterly Secessie and the
editor-in-chief of The Brussels Journal. He is a columnist at the Flemish
weekly Pallieterke and at the Flemish monthly Doorbraak and a regular
contributor to the Flemish conservative monthly Nucleus, which he co-founded in
1990.
Paul can be reached at: letters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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