10.11.2013 CRIMES AGAINST THE PARTY by andree seu peterson

found in worldmag,10.3.2013,p71

in our brave new world, scorched earth warfare has become socially acceptable.

'i am so ashamed and disgusted with myself.
i want to apologize.
i have been offensive.
i have apologized to my coach..and to my teammates.
i owe an apology to the fans and to this community.
i am so ashamed, but there are no excuses.
what i did was wrong and i will accept the consequences.
(philadelphia eagles wide receiver riley cooper, after his use of the N word at a concert went viral..)

i don't know, this apology doesn't do it for me.
where is the offer of his first born child?
i mean, todd akin lost his future in politics-which is only fair:
he shouldn't have said 'legitimate' when he meant 'actual'.
the noble media hath told us akin was insensitive to women.
if it were so, it was a grievous fault,
and grievously hath akin answered it.
we can be comforted that southern cooking maven paula deen
at least had her terror stricken, mascara streaked face
plastered on every tabloid,
with $7.5 million in endorsements
and $5 million in boob tube and restaurant deals publicly stripped from her.

'gotcha' existed when i was a kid
and probably long before the satraps of persia set daniel up
and then reported him to king darius daniel 6.3-9.
but generally speaking, if someone made an ignorant remark,
we used to say,
'that was an ignorant remark'
and move on.
what is different today is that gottach is institutionalized,
ravenous and
insatiable:
scorched earth warfare is socially acceptable.
my daughter told me that if you want to get someone in trouble in high school,
drop the R word (racist)
in a circle of onlookers and walk away.
the poison starts acting immediately.

the other notable aspect of the modern gotcha is its expanded application.
we no longer reserve it for murder, larceny, and graft,
but employ it for careless word slippage.
even in the case of more serious transgressions,
Jesus evinced a distinct distaste for gotcha
and sent an adulterous woman on her way when the pharisees
were too gleeful in reporting her. john 8.3-12
my earliest moral teaching was dispensed by aunt pris
the day a cadre of us cousins came
to elicit her righteous wrath upon another cousin for some minor infraction.
and she instead turned her ire on us for our treacherous motives.

the miserable cooper, deen and akin apologies sounded so oddly familiar.
nikita chrushchev said in his 1956 speech
to the 20th congress of the communist party of the soviet union,
'stalin originated the concept 'enemy of the people'.
this term automatically rendered it unnecessary
that the ideological errors of a man or men engaged in a controversy
be proven.
this term made possible the usage of the cruel repression...against...
those who were only suspected of hostile intent.
...this concept 'enemy of the people' actually eliminated
the possibility of...making one's views known on this or that issue,
even those of a practical character.
in the main..the only proof of guilt used...
was the confession of the accused himself,
and, as subsequent probing proved,
confessions were acquired through physical pressures against the accused.

one russian example from many:
on feb. 2, 1940, comrade eike, arrested in 1938 for slander,
had had enough,
and told the court how he made
'the so called confessions of mine...
under pressure from the investigative judge.
...after that i began to writ all this nonsense.
contemporary american culture doesn't yet
use the 'physical pressures' khrushchev cited
-unless you call career loss physical.

one american example"
the missouri state fair commission
last month banned a rodeo clown who wore an obama mask
'from ever participating ' again
in the state fair,
and a second clown who called obama a clown
profusely apologized.
before the state fair does anything with the missouri rodeo cowboy association agin,
it must receive 'proof that all officials and subcontractors of the MRCA
have successfully participated in sensitivity training'.
(perhaps they will share a cellblock with
football player cooper at the rehabilitation center.)

the NAACP, outraged, has demanded a justice department
investigation into the clowns' hate crime.
i surely wouldn't want to be the one who speaks out
urging moderation on that one.
no siree, i say we draw and quarter the guy.
'o brave new world, that has such people in't'
(william shakespeare, The Tempest)

YIPPEIA! persecution is about to FINALLY descend on the dead 'church' of america
..or..er..on the few remaining spiritually alive in (?) it?
blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the kingdom of God.
blessed are you when people revile you
and persecute you
and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely
on My account.
REJOICE and
BE GLAD,
for your reward is great in heaven,
for in the same way they persecuted the prophets..THE SPEAKER OUTERS OF THE WORD OF GOD!...who were before you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! matthew 5.10-11