Posted on 02/11/2005 2:20:15 PM PST by swilhelm73
I started this thinking it was a leftist message, and that the DUmmies would be all over this as a cause celeb. Of course, I bet it gets barely a mention on DU now.
If it's accurate...
Wow! Was Babrbara Boxer there?
Babrbara=Barbara DUH!
All the rumors I have heard about Anti-American Mullahs and their sermons in the American Mosques come to me and I wonder how much attention the FBI attends to Islamics.
Well, after all, they are TROP.(sarcasm)
Does this happen at Mosques?
This is only one reason why I always like the retort, "Well, if you're not doing anything wrong, you don't need to worry about oppressive government."
The fact is, the United Nations considers anti-abortion views and objecting to homosexuality on moral grounds to be crimes against humanity.
Folks are kidding themselves if they think the government will never come for them, if they're abiding by what we normally consider the laws of our nation. Those laws are changing. AS we go global, we're not determining some of the laws these days. We are only rubber stamping what other NGOs and the U.N. think are reasoned laws.
One day, when it's way too late, it will finally dawn on folks what shmucks they were to agree to government having moment by moment control of their lives.
Perhaps this or such a group called the FBI.
Memo to FBI: It is long past time to end Project Megiddo. While certainly, Right Wing radicals exist, they are a miniscule fraction of the threat that Islamic jihadis and other foreign anti Western forces, not to mention domestic Left Wing radicals, are. Megiddo was a Clinton debacle, designed to distract the American public via the cannard of "Christian Right Wing Extremists." What a waste of resources. And by the way, this pastor is probably not someone you ought to be worried about.
Of course not, that would be a violation of the First Amendment, and it would be profiling, which might be a violation of the 15th amendment. Apparently only foreign crazies are now protected by those amendments.
Teh pastor should have asked if he'd been accused of a crime and, if so, by whom. If the FBI wasn't willing to tell him, he should have refused to talk to the agents. One real risk anybody runs in talking to FBI agents in a case like this is the False Statements Act which makes knowingly making a false statement to an FBI agent a crime, ala Martha Stewart. A False Statements Act allegation is terribly easy to make and can cause the target no end of horror. Hence, it, along with the Fifth Amendment, are good reasons to refuse to engage in any such conversations.
Being a priest is no license to promote violence or rebellion, so the FBI had a duty to look into the complaint and it appears they did their job well.
The fact that someone would call them and make such a complaint though is a bad sign.
No, they are protected by the FBI's political correctness guidelines.
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What church makes a 19 year old a minister??Did he even finish high school?
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