"Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietam servitutem"

The Roundhead Watch
January 15, 2001

The Radical Right
and the Christian Reform Movement
Part 2: Propelling the Movement

In Part 1: Understanding the Motivation Behind the Movement, we discovered in the radical rights own words, what the motivation of this Christian reform movement are. Also presented in the first part, was material on some of the numerous organizations, groups, businesses, and individuals which make up this extensive and complex Christian right network.

Part 1 also took a serious look at Thomas Jefferson, and how Jefferson felt about religion, and the all important and absolute Wall of Separation which is necessary between Church and State.

Another of the areas explored in Part 1, is how the constitutional rule of law has been intermingled with the Biblical rule of law, and how the constitutional rule of law is being altered and misconstructed to fit the specific agenda of the radical religious right, and the Biblical rule of law.

In Part 2, we will further explore the radical right, as well as the political vehicle(s) which propels this Christian right movement of extremist religious fundamentalism. It should be noted that the Islamic religion does not have a corner on the market for religious extremism, as the Christian right movement is equally as extreme.

With the Presidential Election of 2000 at a close, and a Presidential victory awarded on the basis of a clearly partisan United States Supreme Court decision, rather than by a manual count of ballots yet to be counted, raises many questions. Yes, it raises the obvious questions like what the unofficial final vote count will really be when everything is sorted out and all of the ballots are finally counted, but those are the obvious questions. What about the questions that are not so obvious?

One of those not so obvious questions which has yet to be addressed revolves around the partisan decision of the United States Supreme Court, the ultra-conservative Justices in that Court, and how that partisan Supreme Court decision may very well have aided in voiding out the constitutional provision that the United States shall guarantee to every State, and therefore every citizen and voter in this Union, a Republican Form of Government.

To understand how we got to this low point in our Nation's history, we need a better understanding of the powers and forces who guided us to this point in our history. And no one has done any more guiding than the varying and united forces of the radical religious right. This is why it is so important that the powers and forces of the radical religious right are given a closer inspection.

Part 2: Propelling the Movement, continues to unlock the mysteries about who and what the radical right are, and the inter-workings of the movement, in hopes that the reader will get a better sense and understanding of the extreme threat which this radical fundamentalist movement poses to the security and well being of the United States, its people, its Constitution, and to the constitutionally guaranteed Republican Form of Government.

I. THE QUEST FOR DOMINANCE

There are many different and unique pathway's in the Christian rights "Reconstructionist" movement, and each pathway of the movement is strewn with many objectives, and each of these independent objectives is focused on achieving the central goal and main agenda of the movement. Each of the different pathways objective's in the end, is the same though, and that is the ultimate goal of making "His Lordship"[God] and the Christian Bible the "...dominant influence on the whole culture." For the Christian radical religious right, the ultimate goal is to create a Nation and a World, where the orthodox Christian belief structure [Catholic & Protestant], its God, and its Bible, are the central and "...dominant influence on the whole culture." [1]

In short, the government of this 'New World Order' envisioned by the radical right, will be the ultimate marriage of Religion and State. The vision of the radical religious right is to create a new United States government and society, based on the moral code of its religion, with hopes this new Empire will even surpass that of the Byzantine empire, the great religious State established by decree of Constantine the Great in the fourth century AD.

For many decades now, the Christian radical religious right has been attempting to, and in some cases succeeding in its goal of exercising its religious driven dominion and policies over the Republican Party, and the rest of America. This fact is confirmed by the radical right in their own three part article, The Late Great GOP and the Coming Realignment, written by Colonel V. Doner and published at the Chalcedon, Inc. [chalcedon.edu], website in 1998. The premise for the Realignment [takeover/overthrow] of the Republican Party, is that the Christian radical religious right needs an already established political party-tool and mechanism, with which to spread its one-sided religious agenda into the arena of politics and government. The Christian right has always viewed the Republican Party as the political party of choice to takeover and realign to its way of thinking, mainly because the Republican Party has the conservative values closest to the religious right's own values, and therefore, more easily alterable to the agenda of the Christian reform movement. Doner writes in the Coming Realignment; "The GOP should remake itself into the party of moral virtue - preferably Biblical virtues." [2] [3]

The radical right has taken the position, that it is often times easier to take something and modify it for your use, rather than to re-invent it. There is no real magic to this type of thinking; it has been around and put into action for for thousands of years. Sometimes this type of thinking has been put to good use, but more often than not, it has been used for purposes which have not benefited humankind or the planet.

The short lived Republican revolution which brought the Republican Party and the right to power in 1994, commonly known as the 'Contract for America,' led by Newt Gingrich, came to a crushing end during the Clinton impeachment fiasco. Republican Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, is caught in an act of marital infidelity, and resigns in shame from Congress. The new Republican Speaker of the House fairs no better, and resign's shortly after taking the position; The reason? Another radical right Republican 'Sex Scandal' - what else!

The Clinton impeachment trial went poorly for the Republicans and the radical right. The Republicans in the US House were able to raise enough partisan votes in the House to impeach President Clinton, but the House is unable to raise enough votes in the US Senate to fully impeach President Clinton, and have him removed from office. The political situation does not look good for the Republican Party.

With the radical right US House Republicans unable to impeach Clinton over a clandestine sexual affair in the White House after spending tens of millions of dollars of US taxpayer dollars, and then having back-to-back resignations of Republican House Speaker's over illicit sexual affairs; the Republican Party and the Republican controlled Congress looked like it was in more disrepair and dysfunction than the man the Republicans were after in the White House. This at least appeared to be the outward appearance of the situation. So much so, many thought the Republican Party would be substantially weakened in the 2000 Elections. Using past political party blunders and scenarios as a guide, this is what should have been the case for the Republicans in the 2000 Elections.

For Congressional races across the country, this was pretty much the case. Democrats took back many seat's in Congress in the 2000 Elections, and although Democrats did not regain control of the House, they did manage to get an equal split of the seats in the US Senate. This situation with the US Senate split 50-50, has seriously effected the Republicans control of the 107th Congress, and the types of Congressional Bill's the Republicans and the radical right will be able to pass through Congress.

The 2000 Presidential Election by all calculations should have gone to Vice-President Al Gore, the Democratic nominee, and the Republicans should have ended up being the loser like they were in the Congressional races. In the end Al Gore walked away winning the popular vote and the hearts of the people, but that was not enough to win the White House. By the time the election was over and all of the political smoke had cleared, it turned out to be a politically motivated and partisan decision of the US Supreme Court, which in the end, gave the 43rd Presidency of the United States to Republican George W. Bush. Bush not only has the distinction of being the 43rd President, he also has the historical distinction of becoming America's first Judicially appointed President.

At one point in 1997, the hierarchy of the Christian radical religious right did not like, or even consider George W. Bush as material the right would even consider acceptable for President. This view is clearly expressed in the article, The Late Great GOP and the Coming Realignment, authored by the Christian right. In 2001, the marriage of George W. Bush, the White House, and the radical right has become a reality. This is in sharp contrast to the feelings the radical right had for Bush in 1997. What could have happened since 1997, to create this marriage of the radical right and George W. Bush, despite the obvious and open dislikes which many radical right hard liners still have for Bush?

To get a better understanding of what has happened with the Republicans and the radical right since 1997, it is necessary to backtrack to the Republican Presidency of Ronald Reagan. The Reagan Presidency was made up of a strong coalition of 1980's 'Evangelicals' and marks the start of the radical rights all-out campaign to return America and its people to "Traditional Values." The ultra-conservative Reagan years are considered to be the ideal era and Presidency by the radical right, and the cornerstone and model on which to future radical right Presidencies are to be built. Anything less than this is not acceptable to the right, and this attitude easily explains why the radical right has been disillusioned with the political climate of the White House ever since the Reagan years.

By 1997, the radical right was fed up with the Republican Party [GOP] and the lower ranking in the party the right had been given by mainstream Republican's, and the right considered the GOP as being D.O.A. when it came to traditional conservative values and ethics. The radical right, in their own words, saw the GOP in 1997 as a Party that was:

• "1) faithless both to its proclaimed principles and to its allies;"
• "2) suffering from terminal stupidity and clearly out of touch with the concerns of average Americans;"
• "3) incapable of mobilizing the "Silent Majority" or "Moral Majority";"
• "4) visionless and morally bankrupt, without a clue as to how to restore the Republic to even a modicum of sanity."
• "Most damning of all, has been the inexorable dawning that its soul (i.e. its real power center) is much more comfortable with liberal secularists than Christian activists."

The radical right by 1997, was not only fed up with the GOP, they were also fed up with the higharchy of the GOP. Basically, it appears that if you are not in the radical right good-old-boys club or willing to adhere to the right's agenda, you are not liked or approved of. The Late Great GOP and the Coming Realignment goes into great detail describing the radical right's distaste for individuals like Bob Dole, Newt Gingrich, and other former Republican powerhouse figures. The only other individual more disliked and despised by the radical right at the time, was President Bill Clinton, and even now the right continues to despise and loathe the Clinton's. [4]

In the closing days of 1998, the radical right received an unexpected political gift created by Republican political blunders. This gift came in the form of the Republican Party being severely crippled by its inability to fully impeach and remove US President Bill Clinton from office, while at the same time having the rocking sex scandal's which led to the disgraceful resignations of two Republican Speaker's of the House, one of them being Newt Gingrich. While things may have never looked any worse for the GOP, especially this close to the 2000 Presidential Election, it appears to have been a made in heaven situation and opportunity for the forces of the radical right.

Then, with many investigative writers like myself watching and searching, a silence fell on new information available about what was happening within the Republican Party. Except for news briefs about this and that, and a new Republican Party Chairman, both the Republican and the radical right network fell silent, with little new information coming out about what was happening.

By the time the Republican Party Convention had arrived in 2000, there was no doubt in anyone's mind that the pre-ordained front runner for getting the Presidential nomination of the Party was George W. Bush, and that it was Amway and the other forces of the radical right who were footing the extremely high financial cost's of the campaign. Not only was the radical right handling the bill, they were also taking care of the advertising and media connections for the campaign, as well as the legal affairs for the campaign.

The marriage of Bush and the radical right shortly after the Republican political blunders in late 1998 and early 1999, could be termed as a shotgun wedding of convenience. The radical right had lost a lot of creditability with the Republican Party and America after the 1996 election and was looking for a boost, so when the political and moral blunders of the Republican Party brought down two of its top Congressional figures, it was just the moment of weakness the radical right was looking for to realign [takeover] the GOP to the radical right agenda. So it is easy to calculate through information and facts which is becoming more and more readily available, that by the time the 2000 Republican Party Convention had arrived, the radical right was firmly in control of the Republican Party and the entire Convention process.

"Elections are won by superior strategies using political technology, which can be broken down to organizational technology and communication technology."
Morton C. Blackwell, Executive Director Council for National Policy, September 19, 1998

How much of a part the radical right played in the tactics and background of the 2000 Election is still a question that has yet to be fully and satisfactorily answered. In the coming days and months, more and more information will start opening up about the 2000 Election and the crucial part radical right forces like The Judicial Watch played in the election of George W. Bush.

The greatest injury and injustice of the 2000 Election process could still come, even though the election process is over and done with for all practical purposes. This slap and in the face to the masses of American people, could come from those in power concluding that no thorough investigation of the election is necessary or warranted.

We need to be asking ourselves this conservative statement about justice and the US Constitution as loyal Americans: If the little infractions and problems of what Clinton did in office as President [or before he was President], resulted in creating the enormous amount of investigation's and legal problem's which they did, then doesn't the circumstances and events of the 2000 Election, and the part the radical right and those involved with the right, played in the 2000 Election, deserve and warrant the same and equal investigation as provided under the Equal protections of the 14th Amendment? Before we can go any further as a Nation, this is an issue that must be thoroughly investigated, and resolved to its fullest extent. Anything less than doing this, is depriving our Nation and ourselves of the constitutional protections which are afforded us, and which we deserve as Americans.

Here is a clause from Article VI of the main body of the US Constitution, and a statement made by the radical religious right in the book, The Rebirth of America, and a question about that statement which we need to be seriously asking not only ourselves, but also those Representatives we have elected as our voice in the US Congress.

US Constitution, Article VI, third paragraph; "The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."

"In making your decision [about how to cast your vote as a Christian] let the Word of God [Christian biblical Scripture] be your guide... Vote for one [a qualified candidate] who is spiritually mature, vote for one whose personal principles and platform most clearly agree with your own Christian position, based on the Bible... Vote your Christian convictions..."
The Rebirth of America, radical religious right publication, page 218 [5]

The United States Constitution demands that no religious test will ever be required as a Qualification to [run, be elected or hold] any Office or public Trust in the United States. Yet, the above statement by the radical religious right in the publication, The Rebirth of America, is clearly in conflict with that constitutional requirement. In fact, the publication openly encourages and persuaders readers to vote using Christianity and the Bible, as a definitive guide to if a candidate is qualified to hold Office. The publication by the radical religious right openly approves of and encourages the requiring of a religious test to run for, and hold a public office.

The requirement that a religious test will not be a Qualification to run for or hold public office, is a constitutional requirement that is required of each and every American citizen. No one individual or group of individuals, organization, business, or other type of group, is exempt from this mandatory constitutional requirement, or in a class above that requirement because they think the Bible gives them the authority to do otherwise.

This being the case, then why do individuals in the radical right, in and out of Congress and the government, continue to get away with violating this all important constitutional requirement? This requirement follows the constitutional provision calling for those in offices of public trust to be bound by Oath or Affirmation to support the Constitution, indicating a direct emphasis on stressing the fact that the no religious test provision of the US Constitution is a solid constitutional requirement, and not an option.

So why isn't the radical religious right and those in it playing by the required rules of the US Constitution, and why isn't the right being forced to play by the rules? This is indeed a question that needs to be asked of those in the US Congress, and in our various State legislatures.

Yes, why is one class or group of citizens allowed to abandon the constitutional set of rules and requirements and play by there own set of rules, and be allowed to get away with it, while the rest of the masses of people in the United States have to play by the rules and be severely punished for an infraction of those rules, which by the way, are unbreakable by them? This is a question you can ask your elected official's, and one you will quickly find out is either ignored or dealt with in the good ole' lets side step the issue manner.

Either way, it never hurts to ask. In this case, asking is a lot better than not asking. The more light and focus that can be put on this issue and the radical right, the better off it will be for the future and welfare of the United States.

II. WE PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO...

It is a well known and established fact, that US Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, is not only a key functionary with the United States Congress, Lott is also one of the key functionaries in the decision making process of the radical right. Lott has strong ties to the Christian Coalition, the Rutherford Institute, the Heritage Foundation, and other radical right extremist groups, and is also a senior member of the Christian right's policy and decision making tool for the United States; the ultra-secretive Council for National Policy.

Senator Trent Lott is not the only member of the US Congress with strong and working ties to the radical right. Other Congressmen with active membership in the radical rights Council for National Policy, include; US Rep Richard "Dick" Armey, US Rep Dan Burton, US Rep Tom DeLay, US Rep John Doolittle, US Rep Robert Dorman, US Senator Jesse Helms, US Rep Ernest Istook, US Senator Jon Kyl, US Senator Don Nickles, US Rep Steve Stockman, and US Rep Barbara Vucanovich. There are also others in Congress, like US Senator Orrin Hatch, US Senator Pete Domenici, US Senator Fred Thompson, US Rep JC Watts, Jr., and former US Senator John Ashcroft, who are directly or indirectly involved with the radical right in one manner or another. Most of these individuals are all holding key Committee and decision making positions in the US Congress.

It is after all, the duty of those in the right who hold offices of public trust, to keep faith [ALLEGIANCE] with those in the right who made it possible for them to hold that office of public trust. For those in the right, this keeping faith with those who made you idea, also extends to keeping faith with the main agenda of the right, which is making the orthodox Christian belief structure [Catholic & Protestant], its God, and its Bible, the central and "...dominant influence on the whole culture." Everything which the right does is central to this objective, and everyone involved with the right has a strict ALLEGIANCE to personally seeing to it, that this objective is carried out and put into effect.

"When we choose righteous men [for political office] who recognize God's soveringty and are accountable to Him, they will be submissive to and dependent on God..."
The Rebirth of America, published by The Arthur S. DeMoss Foundation, 1986, page 209.

God and the Bible means everything to the radical right, and they are first and foremost in importance to them. Because of this belief structure, those in the right hold a strict ALLEGIANCE to God and the Bible, and firmly believe, "...that every area dominated by sin must be "reconstructed" in terms of the Bible. This includes, first, the individual; second, the family; third, the church; and fourth, the wider society, including the state". Nothing is without sin to those in the right, and because of this belief, those in the right believe that it is up to them to see to that everything around them is "reconstructed" in terms of God and the Bible. [6]

"The Christian Coalition does not endorse candidates, but that does not exclude Coalition activists from involvement with a political party or candidate.

Politics is not an event, it's a process. We're not in a sprint. We're in a marathon. Anything that can be won in this election can be lost in the next election. The challenge that we have is that people in this culture expect something for nothing, or they expect immediate return on effort. This is a lifetime commitment. We've got to stay involved."
Charles H. Cunningham, National Operations Director, Christian Coalition, September 19, 1998

The political process is extremely important to the radical right. It is the one tool that the right has learned to exploit and use to its fullest extent. The right knows that for it's agenda to have any chance at all of succeeding, the political machinery at all levels of government [local, State & National], must be under the control of the radical right. In order for all of this to work, everyone and everything involved with the radical right movement, must have one central point of ALLEGIANCE and focus. That ALLEGIANCE and focus is on making the God and Bible of the radical right, the "...dominant influence on the whole culture." This is one point about the radical right and its movement, which can not be focused and stressed upon enough.

III. CROSSING LINES & BARRIERS

To some extent, the radical right movement crosses religious lines and barriers. While the Christian radical right has yet to embrace Islam and those in it with open and loving arms, it has opened up its doors to other Christian belief mechanisms. There are even a handful of outlaw Jewish Rabbi's, like the Rabbi Daniel Lapin, who freely express that they are 'proud' to be a part of the radical 'religious right.'

In 2000, the Southern Baptist Convention, under the helm and leadership of the Rev Paige Patterson, who is also a member of the radical rights Council for National Policy, became one of the newest Christian sects to fall under the control and dominance of the radical religious right. Shortly afterwards, the former US President Jimmy Carter, renounced his membership in the Southern Baptist Convention.

Many Christians and others throughout America write off Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Tim LaHaye, James Dobson, RJ Rushdoony, Robert Grant, D. James Kennedy, Andrew Sandlin, and a host of other religious figures and voices associated with the right as having a small voice in the Christian community, with no real power or real voice within the movement. That belief is far, in fact, very far from what is the reality of the truth. The idea [propaganda] that these individuals and others with the radical right have had, or continue to have a small and insignificant voice in the overall philosophy of the Christian community in the United States, is nothing but a propaganda filled lie. A lie which has been purposely manufactured by the propaganda machine of the radical right. It is a lie designed to act like a red herring and to purposely move the people away from the actual truth(s) about the radical religious right, and those involved with it.

The religious voices of the radical right, like Robertson, Falwell, LaHaye, Dobson, Rushdoony, Grant, Kennedy, Sandlin, and many of the other religious figures and voices in the right's extremist movement, are also members of the radical rights Council for National policy. These religious voices command a vast network of media and communications concerns, from the small markets in the rural areas, to the gigantic markets in the urban sprawl of America. Nearly every cable company across the United States carries one or more channels devoted to full time religious programming. Most, if not all of that programming is controlled by the voices of those within the radical right. This vast radical right wing communications and media propaganda tool reaches millions of individuals daily, and because of this, the radical right has the ability to directly influence what its viewers and readers are thinking and perceiving as the truth.

Two decades ago while most American's were going about their everyday daily activities and worrying about where the next paycheck was coming from, radical religious right activists like the D. James Kennedy, Derric Johnson, J. Edwin Orr, US Senator Jesse Helms, John Whitehead, David Jeremiah, Armand Nicholi Jr., Erwin Lutzer, John Price, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Arthur S. DeMoss, Charles W. Colson, Holland "Holly" Coors, Jeffrey H. Coors, Morton C. Blackwell, Nancy Leigh DeMoss, John W. Chalfant, Richard M. DeVos, Edwin J. Feulner, Jr., Eugene Meyer, Del Fehsenfeld Jr., and Darla St. Martin, were busy at work building a political and propaganda machine for the religious right movement.

The political and propaganda machine worked so well for the radical religious right, that by the time 2001 had arrived, not only had the radical right significantly re-seeded and re-established orthodox Christian fundamentalism back into the Christian Church in the United States, the right had also managed to cross over what looked like insurmountable obstacles and barriers, to propel the Christian right back into power in both the White House and the US Congress.

This being where the radical right thinks it is right now, may be a rose for the right, but it may very well end up being a rose with a lot more sharp and pricking thorns on it than the right had anticipated, or is ready to deal with.

IV. NOTHING HAPPENS BY ACCIDENT

Radical right publications like The Rebirth of America, published by The Arthur S. DeMoss Foundation in January of 1986, were intentionally designed by the radical religious right, to carefully move the mentality and thinking of the reader towards the radical right's way of thinking. It is carefully orchestrated and put together radical right propaganda publications like The Rebirth of America, along with radical right television and radio programs, that has given the radical religious right the edge, power, and control it enjoys in 2001.

Nothing happens by accident with the radical right. The radical right is extremely well organized, and because of this organization, the radical religious right has the ability to raise enormous amounts of financial funding. Every decision and everything that those in the right do, is carefully considered and calculated before it is carried out, to make sure it is focused on making the radical right, it's God and it's Bible, the dominant factor(s) in the United States, and on this planet. The combination of those factors, makes the right a dangerous power that clearly has to be dealt with, and not ignored.

If the radical religious right continues to be insistent about anything, it is that "God's people have been used as salt to influence government and society to adopt God's moral laws," and that God's people must continue to be that salt, and to exert God's influence over government and society, and make government and society adopt the laws of God as outlined in the Bible. In order for this to happen in as short a time as possible, everything that the radical religious right has done, and continues to do, is first calculated and thought out, and then well planned in advance.

The radical religious right did not get to the important and powerful places they are at in Washington, DC, and in our Nations government in 2001, by being shy and naive Christians, or by being polite and courteous, or by 'pussy footing around' and 'beating around the bush,' although over the next four years, we can probably expect to see the right beating around the Bush, to get what it wants from the White House.

In 2001, the radical religious right and the Republican Party, and those in it, have become the very thing(s) the right was preaching and fighting against in 1986; "Where half plus one can squash the rest... Where a fanatical majority can deprive the individual of his rights, his life, his property." In 1986, the radical religious right and its members supported "A republic in which the power to govern was checked and balanced by devices designed to stop the tyrant in his tracks." By the time 2001 had arrived, the radical religious right in favor of it's own goal and agenda, of making the Christian God and Bible the "...dominant influence on the whole culture," had circumvented and violated many of the 'declaratory' and 'restrictive' devises in the US Constitution that act as constitutional checks and balances. [7]

Yes, by 2001, the radical religious right has very much become the same type of tyrant, and dishing out the same type of tyranny it was shouting so loudly about in 1986. The 2000 Election and the voting situation in Florida, is a situation where one half plus one squashed the constitutional rights of thousands of voters, and where a fanatical majority deprived thousands of American citizens of their constitutional and equal right's. And those in the right like to call themselves compassionate conservatives. The only thing the right is really compassionate about, is their own goal and agenda. The 2000 Election has proven this truth beyond any shadow of a doubt.

No, nothing the radical religious right does is by accident, coincidence, or chance. Everything is calculated out, right down to the littlest detail. For the right, this is just part of doing business and winning the game, while at the same time taking over the United States of America. Why else would the Republican Party and the forces of George W. Bush have secured permits from the US National Park Service for inauguration space in Washington, in November 1999, one year before the election? The reason is that the radical right Republican 'political fix' was already in place, and had already secured the White House for Bush and the forces of the extremist right.

V. THE RIGHT COUP D’ETAT

How far the radical religious right coup d’etat of the United States and it's government will go, is just about anyone's guess at this point. Most Democrats and other main stream political folk, have yet to wake up to the realities of what just happened, or was done to them and America by the right. For the rest of America's sake, let's just hope that the Democrats and other main stream political folk wake up before it is to late. We very well could have passed that point already.

Not exactly a sobering thought to think about, but one that seriously needs to be considered and dealt with by all freedom and liberty loving Americans, but it especially needs to be dealt with by the Democrats in Congress, and elsewhere throughout America. Up to the 2000 Election, Democrats have proved themselves as being reluctant and unwilling [basically useless] to do anything about the extremist forces of the radical right, and the rights continued hostile aggression towards the US Constitution and its form of government.

Will the 2000 Election coup d’etat by the forces of the radical right signal an attitude change within the Democratic Party, and the Democrats past unwillingness to deal with the rights continued hostile aggression towards the US Constitution and its form of government? Only time will tell, but a failure of the Democrats to act in a positive manner, especially the Democrats in Congress, will be a clear signal to the rest of America, that Democrats openly approve of, and fully endorse, the radical rights continuing hostile attacks on both the US Constitution and the US Government.

According to radical right philosophy and thinking; "The Constitution Was Designed To Perpetuate A Christian Order," and "the American system is the political expression of Christian ideas...a nation founded upon the rock of religion" where " the irrefutable truth is that the soul of America is at its best and highest, Christian." This extremist orthodox Christian religious philosophy and thinking is as equally extreme and dangerous, as that of the Islamic Taliban, and other extremist religions and religious cults. The extreme right is the extreme right, no matter what color you paint it, and the extreme of anything is most always dangerous to humans, and in total disagreement with most of a humans natural freedoms and rights. And it does not make any difference if the extreme is religious. Adding the religious factor to the extreme, just means more of a reason to be worried.[8]

The time for taking the passive and 'don't worry about it' approach towards the radical religious right and their one-sided dominant agenda for America and the World, must come to an end. The continuing 'hostile' attitude, intent, and actions, which the radical religious right continues to aim at the US Constitution and government of the United States, must come to an immediate and permanent end, and there is a no better time to start putting an end to the right, and the the rights death like stranglehold on America, than right now.

The alternative to doing this, is accepting the introduction of a Federalist Religious/Police State, and saying good-bye to the constitutional protections of the United States Constitution as envisioned and put forth by our founding American forefathers.

The radical religious right will not rest, or deter from its work, until the Christian God and Bible, are the "...dominant influence on the whole culture." For the Christian radical religious right, the ultimate goal is to create a Nation and a World, where the orthodox Christian belief structure [Catholic & Protestant], its God, and its Bible, are the central and "...dominant influence on the whole culture."

All of the danger flags are flying. The question is; are enough people paying attention to those danger signals?

FOOTNOTES:

[1] A Reconstructionist Manifesto, Andrew Sandlin, www.chalcedon.edu/article_as_2.html [RETURN]

[2] Colonel V. Doner, according to material published by Chalcedon, has more than thirty years of experience in "Republican and Christian Politics", and Doner is also considered by many of his own peers, to be one of the key architects of the "Christian Right" (radical religious right) movement. In his span of time with the Christian Right movement, Doner has guided and carefully orchestrated political work, which has been responsible for the defeat of more than thirty-six fairly religiously-neutral members of Congress, and then having those Congressional seats filled with unwavering members of the Christian Right. These are individuals who owe their first and primary allegiance to the Bible and the Christian Right, and after that to the US Constitution. The credentials of Colonel V. Doner are found in the third part of The Late Great GOP and the Coming Realignment, by Colonel V. Doner. www.chalcedon.edu/article_cd_2.html [RETURN]

[3] The radical religious right also gained the majority of control and power over the Reform Party during the Presidential Election of 2000. This was the faction of the Reform Party which supported Pat Buchanan, and stripped the Reform Party away from Haglin and others who were running the party. The Late Great GOP and the Coming Realignment, "...the Reform Party itself may remain a viable voice for a reform-oriented populism." Eric Owens, a member of the radical rights all important Council for National Policy [CNP], played an instrumental part in wresting the power of the Reform Party away from Haglin and other moderate conservatives controlling the Reform Party at the party's 2000 Convention in Long Beach, California. Shortly thereafter, the power and control of the Reform Party was handed over to Pat Buchanan and the radical right. [RETURN]

[4] The Late Great GOP and the Coming Realignment, is a must read for anyone wanting to know more about the inside workings of the radical right and the takeover of the Republican Party by the right. This article by the right answers a lot of questions about the GOP, the radical right, and the 2000 Election, while at the same time opening up a multitude of new questions. www.chalcedon.edu/article_cd_2.html [RETURN]

[5] The Rebirth of America, published by The Arthur S. DeMoss Foundation, 1986. Written and compiled by Robert Flood, the publication also has written works in it by John W. Whitehead, US Senator Jesse Helms, D. James Kennedy, Jerry Falwell, and other notable radical right figures. This is one of many propaganda tools which the radical religious right has used, and continues to use, in it's ongoing Christian takeover of the United States and its government.

The radical religious right has also used small printed publications called 'tracts,' which are small story telling booklets. These 'tracts' have been used for many years to slant information and material towards the radical right philosophy, and against the government and many of the constitutionally established interpretations of the US Constitution. Distribution of these 'tracts' has been under-way since the early 1980's, by various religious groups and their members. Many times these 'tracts' have been distributed within the Churches themselves, with the explicit knowledge and approval of the Pastor of the Church.

Not all of the 'tracts' and other printed publications by the right have been about religion, or have they spoke innocently about the US Constitution, the government, taxes, or money. Many times these so called religious and educational 'tracts' have been used to intermingle God and the Bible into affairs of the US Constitution and government. Many of these 'tracts' and fliers have also gone so far as to establish a religious test as a qualification for a candidate to hold public office. This is in direct violation of the third paragraph of Article VI, of the US Constitution. [RETURN]

[6] The Creed of Christian Reconstruction www.chalcedon.edu/creed.html [RETURN]

[7] The Rebirth of America, page 19. [RETURN]

[8] The Rebirth of America, page 21. [RETURN]

[A] "To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy." Thomas Jefferson, 1819. The precedent setting decision by the US Supreme Court, and approved of by the Chief Justice, which made George W. Bush the 43rd US President, has raised this constitutional dilemma; the decision of the US Supreme Court has in all probability violated the constitutional guarantee of a Republican Form of Government [Article IV, section 4], as the US Supreme Court became the ultimate arbiters in an all encompassing constitutional question about the election of a US President, and made a partisan decision clearly in favor of the select few, and against the masses, thereby proving the form of government in the United States to be an oligarchy, and not a Republican Form of Government. Something to question your favorite US Congressperson about the next time you communicate with them. If you do ask - Don't be surprised if you are totally ignored, as almost all of the elected Representatives to our US Congress, have forgotten the real meaning and intent of the word 'support,' especially when it comes to properly supporting the 'declaratory' and 'restrictive' clauses of the US Constitution.

Part 3: The It's So Argument of the Right

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