LETTERS TO THE EDITOR -- 2000 to 2011
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Daily Record Editorials for 2008-9
The prize in the proxy war of the Middle East is not Iraq or Afgan conservatives- it is Eastern Europe. Christian Poland and the middle states earned a red badge of courage under Soviet rule. Russian slavery did not include 40 acres and a mule. Losing Eastern Europe through political naiveté makes every war of liberty- meaningless.Truth is: America was bushed by a CIA mole and Fannie Mae mice- San Francisco style.
Marching backwards to Selma, Alabama with a new age king is a Hollywood prop.
Spending borrowed money on welfare is a carpetbaggers dream. (The poor get a version of the million dollar mansion).
Underground sanctuary cities become foreign pharmacies in walking distance from the 60's generation.
The Spirit of America went south. Stupidity became paramount. The youth were deceived and the people said yes.
The great leap forward in transportation evolution stops the black witch of dirty Chinese coal from falling on Kansas tomorrow as clouds today are bombed for chemical rain. Demographic expansionism is America's ultimate challenge.
If true American principles are exchanged for dollar store values- we lose leadership with vision and the consensus of what is right and how to reach it.
All the while, television Evangelicals and Fundamentalists reverently incite the left to treason but raise a great shout for morality. They should look East- the new Messiah could be Iranian.
Gangland USA began with Graceland when America baptized herself with a Michael Jackson style. Like Doctor King- it captured the soul of America.
And then the brightest dream the Devil dreamt went to the pulpit: Armageddon- salvation without God. It was the age of lemmings, Cars and the moon shot. Hollywood drove a fast train to Vegas. Gradually, the village would raise a tribe and the tribe would raise a gang
The false prophet made high places low. Problem is: the high place in America was the small town- where citizens are born. People like John Clymer and Ronald Reagan.
It retrograde came the false baptist who poured war on poverty, war on drugs, war on terror and war on war. Where was the water? As C.S. Lewis said: Evil is good gone bad.
Rahm Emanuel may be the best ‘Gangs of South Chicago’ has to offer. But no match for Martial Arts Master Putin, the Russian mafia and strongman Hugo Chavez. So why has America elected bad boys to do a good man’s job? Because all the Presidents men rode off for the golden gravy train- especially the Generals, Captains and Colonels- no tears in their beers.
Campaigning for John McCain was like drinking cod liver oil. I often wondered when the U.S. bombed Hanoi, did Hanoi bomb us? China should scare the hell out of America.
China does not worship Buddha even the noble version Hillary Clinton wears on her face. China worships nothing. But you can believe this: the Chinese sharpen their knives for a fat pig.
Peloski-Reed-Obama will finish what Osama bin Ladin started: making the high places low and every middle-class American a slum dog. President Kruschev was right in saying it will be an inside job. It is.
Actually, the soul train began in Florida when George Bush humiliated Al Gore.
From there it stealthed north like a Sherman tank. Ducakias was a decoy. The south rose again like a drunken Confederate. The agenda was slavery with a modern twist against the white side.
Equality-ism government style.
But why has America forgotten that 200 years ago Thomas of Monticello, Merriweather Lewis and Clark resisted the tyranny of the king’s rule with a colorful quilt of township, range and homesteads for those who would earn their living- country style?
Letters to the Editor beginning in May to September
MAY, 2008
There is not a single Texan who likes the word ‘conservation’. Just the thought is anathema to their ears. Progress is a function of exploitation. President George Washington and most of the Continental Congress cited centuries of European history as a reason against a standing army. A standing army does not work, nor does it produce. It taxes a nation into poverty. Moreover, it does not ensure peace, it creates wars of opportunity. Our brand of capitalism has become the function of our standing army. Once established there is neither oversight nor control. Corporate America is only a subsidiary of General America. Exploitation is its religion. Unfortunately, the true wealth of nations is not in how they fight but rather how they work.
Every Texan knows Conservation is the enemy of Capitalism. It is the difference between gardening and corporate farming. Europeans drive diesel automobiles at 55 mpg that run (like a Deere) without maintenance for 20 years. But, this is not in the interest of Corporate America or General America.
Taxation begins in the spirit. Essentially, every preacher in America is a Southern Baptist- who simply follows the corporate model- regardless of color of fleece or how high or low the pulpit. Naturally, every Texan knows the ring is placed in the bull’s nose- not its tail. This form of exploiting the spirit is best seen in the latest technology for youth- Limewire. Anyone who ever gardened would pucker at the thought of planting seeds so early in spring.
Finally, preacher prophesy becomes self-fulfilling. Exploiting the spirit is like shooting from the hip- whoever has the fastest draw wins the show. Imagine Americans dressing like Egyptians and following their preachers into the Red Sea. In Texas they call that a dry gulch.
Rance DeWitt
One thousand militarized bully pulpits have replaced a God-fearing Congress and Senate. Our very government has been compromised. It all began with Billy Graham and television.
Protestantism evolved as anti-Church. Mother Church like Mother Earth and Mother Nature became disposables- anything but sacred. Evangelicals and Fundamentalists cite C.S. Lewis but Lewis cites them as rebels- men without chests- who should lay down their arms. Will they?Archimedes put the mathematics of Pythagoras into words.
Give me a fulcrum and with a lever I will move the world, he said. Not change the world- but move. For what changes cannot move and what moves need not change. America now changes everything and moves nothing.Today, electronic tube religion separates man from the Church. All that is left is a multitude of loose cannons shouting Jesus for money. He said, you will shout my name from every street corner but I do not know you and you are not mine.
Christianity is no religion.
Salvation is a solution based upon His completing the human genome from Alpha to Omega. The accounting combines Heaven and Earth in a co-operative agreement between mankind and Him. The path is both ontological and apostolic. That is the definition of Orthodoxy.AUGUST LETTER
Americans are two kinds- those who build up and those who tear down. My father’s instruction of 40 years led me to the 32 degree of Scottish Rite Masonry. These men built cathedrals by fashioning the Bible into living stone. In America, bible and stone combined into Liberty then downsized to freedom for all- becoming a slippery slope.
To the Orthodox this is no sing-song. Whether Catholic, German Baptist, Mennonite, Witness or Mormon- Truth is not an opinion poll.
Nor is it merchandize in the marketplace.
Truth is the 'lost word' of our traditions.REWRITE- PUBLISHED VERSION: September 2008
the ethnic Basque speak Euskara- a shepherd’s language from the fabled people of Eden living 7,500 years ago on the now-flooded shores of the Black Sea.
The message of Fatima came to me from a chance encounter with Pope John Paul in Christchurch, N.Z., November 23rd 1986.
But the force of Lenin’s anti-church evangelism is still at large in Russia today with a resident evil. But also here in America with the faith-based-Jesus-is-god religion. The more it’s pushed the further it falls. Here, market futures are bought and sold by hawkers and vendors. The apostles of apostasy.
On the other hand, Pope John Paul in the spirit of Chief Seattle revealed Fatima’s redeeming message of consecrating Nations and Nature (to the sacred and holy) as from a God... with no name. Neither brandished the prophet’s iron. In fact, little children would lead them.
It finally comes down to the farmer’s choice- the separation of church and market. America’s Orthodox and traditional peoples must stand united for what is thought and sold- even on Sunday for goodness sake! So, the spirit of Fatima may speak with assurance for our children beyond the prophetic year: 2012.
‘Mother of God’ is not Catholic. Born Celtic and Mediterranean, in religious language it means: God speaks through the woman.
Eve, Mary and Martha carry that tradition. Rachael Carson too.
My grandmother was 70 when I first saw her.. She mentored me for another 29 years as an Eastern Star Mason. No soul searcher or shaky hands for Jesus- she was solid as a rock. Her religious notation was Christian Science. Science quantifies while religion qualifies. Consequently, she lived for 99 years without drugs or doctors. Her face was on Texas’ Parade magazine at the age of 95- with a phone call from Jimmy Carter. Her wrinkles were covered by a countenance rarely seen today except in Alaska.
When God looks down from heaven, he sees what shines. Usually the face of children or the works of saints- Catholic, Orthodox and those traditional peoples who work in the community of spirit.
Today in America, the only thing that shines is chrome. It is everywhere. Like Jesus, Americans have become God. Proud as chrome they shine like giants- even Goliaths. I sold my gaudy motorcycle and painted the wheels of my car flat black when I saw this. I do not want to be seen or counted with a chrome-plated generation.
America has two sides. Both Left. If Osama had gone to Hollywood, New York would have paraded for him. Count them as one. Powers of the rich and principalities of the poor. But the truth is: only the middle class matters.
Once upon a time, good fences made good neighbors. Today, equality-ism the ‘Religion of the Left’ barters birthrights for stew while our colors run after a melting pot. America has lost its center.
When will this end? Sooner is better than later. The future belongs to our children, not drugged-out elders of the 60’s who have no wisdom. They are an anchor gone thru the hull. The ship sinks with them. Blame it on Russia as Lenin did. But Napoleon said it right: a precisely divided people are a precisely conquered people.
Scapegoats were Jewish CPA’s. If literate and political- remembered as Prophets.
Jesus was both and more because he offered an accounting that reached beyond the Jewish public.
His accounting introduced a way to combine Heaven and earth in a co-operative agreement between mankind and Him.
It is unique in evolution- nothing compares. Centuries before, Archimedes said: “Give me a fulcrum and with a lever I will move the world”. Jesus is the fulcrum and the lever is the Church.
Jesus only becomes Christ as the triangle/fulcrum/rock beneath the Church.
Without the Church- there can be no Christ..only a Jesus.
Note, he did not say change the world- he said move. They are opposites. What moves does not change and what changes cannot move. Here you see the problem in America- it changes everything and moves nothing.
Ultimately, the salvation that Jesus offers as Christ has an exclusive accounting and is simply impossible without the Church. I say Orthodox because all the broken pieces of the lever are not ‘Church’. Until all these pieces are returned to there proper place- there can be no accounting. Michaelangelo in paint and Pope John Paul in poetry reveal this truth so simply- a child could understand. Go see for yourself.
To those who hold the broken pieces of the lever – whether they count their love gifts on golden devans basking in television light, or shout from windows of leer jets- I give them the words of Jesus: “No one can hear my Word or teaching who does not deny himself... though you shouted Jesus! ..Jesus! from every street corner...I tell you- I do not know you.... those who enter by any of these gates are thieves and murderers". Go figgure.
Everyone in America wants a good accounting of themselves and their country. But, this cannot be with a mantra of division called diversity. A thousand militarized bully pulpits are a poor substitute for diplomacy expected from a God-fearing Congress and Senate.
They too are opposites. You can get on you knees, but it will only be to these. For as the singer says, ‘God is watching from a distance’ (and growing).
Rance de Witt
Protestantism is a pyramid game based upon America’s temporal prosperity. Its founder — Martin Luther intended to reform the church. Instead the reformers became rebels who made churches for their own purposes. There was debate whether the book of “Revelations” should be included in the Bible. The church knew it was written by a Nostradamus 110 years after Christ, but — through the urgings of St. Augustine’s mother it was included as a warning to what would happen if the church was ignored. Subsequently by the 20th Century-prophesy (tele-vision) helped it evolve into the mantra of the American rebels- primarily those established in Hollywood. Like drugs it has spread into the mainstream.
I started at the Greek Orthodox at the age of 5 and by 30 had attended every church I knew of in Dallas. I knew them all (except the Catholic Church) like the back of my hand — like a kid who gets a ticket to all the rides at the carnival. It wasn’t until I left the carnival that I understood who they were and what they were doing.
Sen. John McCain has shown a red badge of courage by taking a stand for truth. Confronting this horde of over-sized, over-indulged babbling idiots takes a strain of character that only Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan and FDR had.
However, there is one senator who is not off the cover of Mad Magazine or Vanity Fair. He thinks he can navigate through the ruins. In history this was when Constantine and Christianity were born. What will emerge now? No one knows. The Vandals watch. Sen. John McCain is not Nero. He may be Rome’s last hope. Everyone in the Empire — from pagan to rebel should pray for John McCain.
Rance DeWitt
Ellensburg
The Holy Grail spoke in Fatima on October 1917 to stop the German train of events sealed with Vladimir Lenin and his message of misery he cast on Russia, China and the free world.
I heard her warning firsthand with Pope John Paul in Christchurch N.Z in 1986. There could be nothing more important in the world than the message of Fatima.
This next presidential election is a test case for humanity- it ends in 2012. I know that year from another age sharing the Mexican desert with Carlos Casteneda in the 60’s. 2012 erupted again when the CWU geology department was invited by Jim Chatters to a Kennewick Man party. Kennewick Man was a 10,000 year- old shaman risen from the sands of the Columbia River with a message for the world- like Fatima.
Chatters, CWU-Anthropology (then forensics) hosted him on 60 Minutes, Scientific American, Science, Science News, Discovery, Time, Life, and every newspaper and journal in America for a decade. I studied 5 years climatology and glaciation of the Ice Age maximum of 18,000 to track his steps to this new world.
Lastly it led me to
Spain to hear the Basque people speak Euskara- - the shepherd’s language linked to the fabled people of Eden on the shores of the now Black Sea (flooded 8,000 years ago). Again I was reminded of 2012. Now, here it is...already.
The Holy Grail hangs in halls of tradition- not from caves of soothsayers. However, it’s seldom read outside those subways.
This coming election will begin and end like a bottle rocket going nowhere or a Roman candle showing the way. Red, white and boom- or bust.
When that end comes, there is only one way for the salvation of the world. It was shown and proven with poet Solsenetzen, President Gorbechev, Pope John Paul and President Ronald Reagan. Together, a better-late-than-never provisional consecration of Russia was made.
America was saved by the bell.
Think of Holy Mother as Mother Nature, Mother Earth or the spirit of life on earth. As dubbed by Chief Seattle.
Forget the religious jargon of anti-church rebels- the deeds of their high command are done. Today, if all the Traditional and Orthodox peoples of America (they know who they are) stand together- if not in form- at least in substance they can consecrate America in the Spirit of Fatima and Pope John Paul. America will survive 2012.
Rance DeWitt
Feburary 2009.........After the election of Obama.
We shall overcome when Lincoln pennies go for an energy plan. Natural gas, high tech diesel, electricity and clean coal is the agenda of tomorrow. The great leap forward in transportation evolution is more than a chrome 4-wheel ride. The black witch of dirty Chinese coal falls on Kansas in 10 years as clouds are bombed for chemical rain.
Taking responsibility for domestic and demographic expansionism is America's new challenge. If true American principles are exchanged for dollar store values, we become a pundit nation. The consensus is snatched from what is right and how to reach it.
Jesus said, “I will give you a new heart”. Pope John Paul came from Catholic Poland (core of Celtic ancestors) and recognized a ‘problem’ in Rome. There he worked in solidarity with Presidents Reagan and Brezhnev to give the West a new hope in resisting the false sacrament of Communism and it’s right to march Left.This winter, Vladimir Putin fired one shot and froze Western Europe into submission. But Catholic Poland and the middle kingdoms have a tough heart with a remembrance for freedom and a will to be America’s shield. Without these- more than confidence will be lost.
The stakes are high but the cards are on the table- red and black. The question is: what’s our game- hearts or spades? Furrows or foxes?
