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THE EU DICTATOR

REVELATION 6:1-2,13:1-3,7-9,16
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(THIS IS THE EU DICTATOR)
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(7 HEADS ARE THE 7TH WORLD EMPIRE IN HISTORY (THE EU) AS WELL AS THE VATICAN WHICH IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS. 10 HORNS ARE 10 KINGS THAT ARISE FROM THE EU, THEN #11 COMES ON THE SCENE BECOMES THE HEAD OF 3 OUNTRIES AND THEN THE EU DICTATOR, COMES FROM 1 OF THE 3 COUNTRIES THAT RULE FOR THIS TERM. I BELIEVE THE 3 COUNTRIES RULING AT THE TIME ARE SPAIN AND 2 OF THE ORIGINAL 6 THAT STARTED THE EU. FROM 1 OF THESE 3 COUNTRIES COME THE FUTURE EU DICTATOR PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION WHO GUARENTEES ISRAELS SECURITY FOR A LAND FOR PEACE 7 YEAR TREATY.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(THE JEWISH EU DICTATOR GETS HIS POWER FROM SATAN,HE COMES FROM THE OCCULT).
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE DICTATOR HAS A FALSE RESURRECTION. JUST LIKE JESUS HAD A LITERAL RESURRECTION THIS DICTATOR GETS MURDERED AT THE 3 1/2 YR MARK OF THR 7 YEAR TREATY AND COMES BACK TO LIFE. THIS IS HOW HE CAN CLAIM TO BE GOD AND GET AWAY WITH IT AND CONTROL THE WHOLE EARTH.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950

Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.

EUROPEAN UNION ARMY

DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)

DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.

DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.

REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)

JOHN LOEFFLER TOWARDS AN INTERNATIONAL POLICE FORCE.(MARTIAL LAW)
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2010/01/john-loeffler-steel-on-steel-towards.html#links

MINISTERS OF DEATH-THE NEW WORLD ORDERS GOAL FOR 2/3RDS OF EARTHS POPULATION
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2010/01/caution-dialectic-process-at-work-part.html#links

GERALD CELENTE ON BRANNON
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2010/01/christianworldviewnetwork_05.html#links

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obama-surrenders-u-s-sovereignty-his-interpol-executive-order/

The White House-Office of the Press Secretary-For Immediate Release December 17, 2009Executive Order -- Amending Executive Order 12425

EXECUTIVE ORDER
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AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER 12425 DESIGNATING INTERPOL AS A PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION ENTITLED TO ENJOY CERTAIN PRIVILEGES, EXEMPTIONS, AND IMMUNITIES

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288), and in order to extend the appropriate privileges, exemptions, and immunities to the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 12425 of June 16, 1983, as amended, is further amended by deleting from the first sentence the words except those provided by Section 2(c), Section 3, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6 of that Act and the semicolon that immediately precedes them.

BARACK OBAMA-THE WHITE HOUSE,December 16, 2009.

Interpol and U.N. Back Global Policing Doctrine Sign in to Recommend
By DOREEN CARVAJAL Published: October 11, 2009

PARIS — Interpol and the United Nations are poised to become partners in fighting crime by jointly grooming a global police force that would be deployed as peacekeepers among rogue nations riven by war and organized crime, officials from both organizations say.On Monday, justice and foreign ministers from more than 60 countries, including the United States and China, are gathering in Singapore for a meeting hosted by the two international organizations. It is the first step toward creating what Interpol calls a global policing doctrine that would enable Interpol and the United Nations to improve the skills of police peacekeepers, largely by sharing a secure communications network and a vast electronic trove of criminal information, including DNA records, fingerprints, photographs and fugitive notices.

We have a visionary model, said Ronald K. Noble, secretary general of Interpol and the first American to head the international police organization, which is based in Lyon. More than 187 member nations finance the organization. The police will be trained and equipped differently with resources, Mr. Noble said.When they stop someone, they will be consulting global databases to determine who they are stopping.
Modern peacekeeping has evolved dramatically since the blue-helmeted U.N. military force won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1988. Since 2005, the number of police officers within the total force of 95,400 peacekeepers has more than doubled from about 6,000 to 12,200 in 17 countries. U.N. police are already battling kidnappings and drug crime in Haiti and illicit lumber trading in Liberia. The aim of the joint effort is to increase the ability to track the movement of criminals around the world by sharing resources and common standards, according to Mr. Noble. He is also pressing ahead with plans for special electronic passports for the agency’s staff of more than 600 Interpol investigators to speed border crossings. The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is contributing more than $2 million to finance the development of international global policing standards, according to Andrew Hughes, an Australian who currently heads the U.N.’s force of police officers. The ambition is to create a series of networks to counter borderless organized criminal operations, Mr. Hughes said. Women, in particular, are being recruited, with a goal of reaching 20 percent of the U.N. force and the development of all-female units like the group of 140 peacekeepers from Bangladesh that is about to be deployed.

We’re working with refugees,Mr. Hughes said.Many of the victims of atrocities are women, and they’ve had enough of men with guns and uniforms.He said that among the most critical tasks for a global police force were combating illegal arms and drug trafficking. His own officers in West Africa have watched the growth of cocaine smuggling by Colombian and Venezuelan drug cartels through weakened countries like Sierra Leone and Liberia to the lucrative consumer markets in Europe. The United States remains the biggest market for cocaine, according to the U.N.’s annual report on drugs and crime. But in the past three years, South American cartels have moved more drugs to Europe using transit points like Guinea Bissau, where the president and the head of the military were killed in sophisticated bombing attacks in March. Each year, at least 50 tons of cocaine from Andean countries passes through West Africa to the streets of Europe, where the drugs are worth almost $2 billion, according to the U.N. report. Organized crime is a business that looks for opportunity to expand their market enterprise, Mr. Hughes said. When you have a breakdown in police and courts and corrections, organized crime is ripe. We also see the toxic effect of corruption, because they are able to corrupt officials, which makes it difficult to build a functioning society.In Afghanistan, where heroin and hashish trafficking is also a thorny issue, NATO announced plans this month to start training the local police — a move it has avoided in the past to concentrate on military responsibilities. But Mr. Noble of Interpol says he takes a dim view of transforming warriors into beat cops, because the mind-sets are so different.

We caution on making the delegation of civil police development tasks to military structures, Mr. Noble said, citing the example of an attack that freed hundreds of Taliban from a prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan, last year. Although Interpol immediately asked for information about the missing prisoners, he said, we were really shocked and dismayed to learn there were no fingerprints and photographs despite billions spent to train police there.With the meeting of justice ministers on Monday, which coincides with a general assembly of Interpol police members, the group is expected to debate the global police issue and to craft a declaration that would lead to an action plan for international police peacekeeping within 12 months.

WELL ALEX JONES OF INFOWARS.COM IS RIGHT,THE GOVERNMENT ROBBS THE PEOPLE OF EACH COUNTRYS MONEY BY LENDING IT TO THE BANKS OF EACH COUNTRY,THEN THE BANKS BUY UP ALL THE LAND AND PROPERTY AS THE PEOPLE LOSE IT DUE TO THE ECONOMIC SITUATION.

IN CANADA HERE THE BANKS WILL OWN ALL THESE NEWSPAPERS IN THE WORST CASE,THEN THE NEW WORLD ORDER HAVE CONTROL OF ALL THE BIG NEWSPAPERS IN CANADA........WE ARE IN TROUBLE CANADA......LOOKOUT.......BANK OR GOVERNMENT CONTROL AND NO RIGHTS FOR US.

Canwest puts papers up for sale Creditor protection sought as sale plan announced Friday, January 8, 2010 | 1:48 PM ET CBC News

Canwest Global Communications Corp. announced it is seeking buyers for its newspaper publishing unit at the same time as it requested creditor protection for the division.In a Toronto courtroom on Friday, the Canwest Limited Partnership, which holds all of Canwest's newspaper and online operations, filed for creditor protection under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act.The Winnipeg-based company's main television assets were put under court protection in October, but thus far, the publishing assets have operated outside that process.Along with the creditor protection filing, a group of the media conglomerate's lenders have agreed to bid for the unit's assets, a so-called stalking horse bid that is aimed at setting a floor price.

National Post excluded
The lenders have also pledged to put up $25 million to carry the affected business units through the restructuring process. The National Post was a part of the Canwest LP unit but is not part of the CCAA filing, the company said Friday.The entire proposal still requires the approval of a majority of the company's creditors. The company has hired RBC Capital Markets to canvass the market for superior offers for the business," a Canwest press release said.We have almost half of the secured lenders that are not only supporting a consensual financial restructuring, but that same group ... is also prepared to put an offering in to purchase the full integrated publishing group, Canwest spokesman John Douglas said.Canwest put most of its newspaper operations into creditor protection on Friday. (John Woods/Canadian Press) Should the lenders take over the new company, substantially all of Canwest LP's employees would come with it, and the company would assume all obligations related to pensions and benefits, said a statement from McMillan LLP, one of the law firms involved in the restructuring.

What it means is that by the spring, we expect that both the publishing group as well as the broadcast group will be able to emerge from creditor protection with significantly less debt and a lot more stability and able to capitalize on the Canadian economy as it begins to improve, Douglas said.Indeed, the filing is not necessarily a threat to the company's many newspapers across the country, experts say.I don't think it means anything shuts down immediately, Ross Howard, a journalism instructor at Langara College in B.C., told CBC News. Most of their newspapers across the country have been operating close to profitable … so I don't think it means we lose the Vancouver Sun or the Province or the Courier or any of the weeklies in the immediate future.Canwest LP owns and operates a host of daily and community newspapers across the country, including the Victoria Times Colonist, the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Edmonton Journal, the Calgary Herald, the Saskatoon StarPhoenix, the Regina Leader-Post, the Windsor Star, the Ottawa Citizen and The Gazette in Montreal.

Canwest puts newspaper division under court protection as prelude to a sale
Fri Jan 8, 12:59 PM David Friend, The Canadian Press

TORONTO - Canwest Global Communications (TSXV: CGS.V) has placed its cross-Canada newspaper chain under creditor protection and will put it up for sale next week, with a group of lenders led by the country's biggest banks ready to kick off the bidding.The Winnipeg-based broadcaster and publisher of the National Post and big-city dailies and websites from Vancouver to Montreal said Friday it had reached a restructuring agreement with its creditors, mainly the company's bankers.Under the deal, the banks agreed to make a stalking-horse bid setting the base price for an auction that could fetch more than $1 billion, according to some estimates.We have almost half of the secured lenders that are not only supporting a consensual financial restructuring, but that same group... is also prepared to put an offering in to purchase the full integrated publishing group, Canwest spokesman John Douglas said in an interview.Like many North American media companies, Canwest was forced to seek protection from creditors last fall when the recession squeezed advertising revenues at its newspapers and TV stations. As well, $4 billion in debts piled up from earlier acquisitions produced mounting losses and made it impossible for Canwest to stay out of the red.

Canwest said the creditor protection filing Friday does not include the assets of the National Post, which escaped from CCAA last fall when courts allowed Canwest to shift the national daily into the larger newspaper division. However, the Post will be included in the sale.Rumoured bidders for Canwest's newspaper group have included investment company Onex Corp. (TSX: OCX.TO), as well as some of Canada's largest pension funds and leveraged buyout firms.In their own statement, the lenders including Canada's five largest banks and unidentified international financiers, said their bid will at least ensure Canwest's newspaper division continues as a going concern.After due diligence, it was determined there is value in acquiring the whole of Canwest LP's business, given the operating synergies that can be realized from a national chain of newspapers and online businesses, the lenders said, adding they would ensure a majority of the company's voting shares remain in Canadian hands while it goes through the auction process.Douglas said that the company is already aware of some prospective buyers, though he declined to say how many might take part in the auction process.There has been interest, but no, we're not going to talk about it, he said.

Canwest has also arranged up to $25 million in financing from its senior lenders.

Canwest's Global Television operation was put under court protection several months ago, as was the National Post newspaper. Canwest later got permission to move the National Post as a separate legal entity to the larger newspaper division - amid a widespread expectation that all the publications would be sold.Until Friday, Canwest's main newspaper division, and some other parts of its business, had been operating outside of creditor protection while the company and its major creditors worked on a deal to cope with billions of dollars of debt.Canwest said putting the newspaper business under court protection was in the best interests of the company and the 5,300 employees at its publishing operations and will address the division's existing debts and protect its brands.Besides the Post, Canwest owns major dailies such as the Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Victoria Times-Colonist and two Vancouver dailies, the Sun and Province.Canwest's latest filing in an Ontario bankruptcy court also includes various community newspapers and a batch of news websites such as the Canada.com portal.As with other media companies, Canwest has been affected by the recession's impact on sales of newspaper and television advertising, its main source of revenue. It was been nearly buried under a mountain of debt amassed over the past decade as it expanded beyond the original Global Television business by purchasing much of Hollinger Inc.'s Canadian newspaper business.

WORLD TERRORISM

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men

LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.

JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

SINS OF PEOPLE

2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

DECIEVERS WAXING WORSE AND WORSE.

2 TIMOTHY 3:13
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

MORE SIN SIGNS

EPHESIANS 5:5-8
5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

Convicted bomber Ludwig arrested in B.C. pipeline blasts Friday, January 8, 2010 | 6:37 PM PT CBC News

Wiebo Ludwig, who served time for bombing Alberta oil and gas wells in the 1990s, has been arrested in connection with more recent bombings of EnCana pipelines in B.C., his lawyer says. (CBC) No charges have been laid against Wiebo Ludwig, an Alberta activist convicted of bombing oil and gas wells in the 1990s who was arrested Friday in connection with recent bombings at EnCana pipelines in northeastern B.C.That's going to be a wait-and-see situation, said Sgt. Tim Shields, media relations for the RCMP in B.C. Charges have not been approved by Crown counsel in British Columbia and ultimately, they are the ones who have to make that decision as to whether or not charges are going to be approved.

RCMP have not named the man they arrested early Friday in connection with the bombings.All they said is that they arrested a man in his 50s or 60s and were conducting a large search of an Alberta farm near Hythe, Alta., about 400 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, near the B.C.-Alberta border.Earlier in the day, Ludwig's lawyer, Paul Moreau, confirmed his client was in custody and said he expected Ludwig would be charged with extortion.Moreau said Ludwig was arrested at a hotel in Grande Prairie, Alta., on Friday morning after going there voluntarily to meet with a senior RCMP officer.A police roadblock is set up on the road leading to Wiebo Ludwig's farm near Hythe, Alta. (RCMP) Ludwig spent nearly two years in prison after being convicted on charges related to the bombing of oil and gas installations in Alberta in the 1990s. He sent an open letter to the EnCana pipeline bomber in September 2009, expressing his support but urging the bombings to stop.

Timeline

July 30, 2009 - EnCana posts $1-million reward.

July 16, 2009 - Letter reportedly from bomber sent to Dawson Creek newspaper.

July 4, 2009 - Natural gas pipeline bombed near Pouce Coupe, B.C.

July 1, 2009 - Wellhead bombed near Pouce Coupe, B.C.

Jan. 4, 2009 - EnCana natural gas facility east of Dawson Creek, B.C. attacked

Oct. 31, 2008 - Metering shed bombed northwest of Tomslake, B.C.

Oct. 16, 2008 - Pipeline bombed off Highway 2 near B.C.-Alberta border.

Oct. 11, 2008 - Blast set off at sour-gas pipeline east of Dawson Creek, B.C.
More than a dozen officers started searching the property for evidence related to the bombings.We cannot say what we are looking for specifically, or what information led us to the location, but we have followed a trail of evidence that ultimately led to the execution of the search warrant,said Supt. Lloyd Plante of the RCMP's national security program in B.C.EnCana spokesman Alan Boras said the company was pleased an arrest had been made.We hope this development leads to potential conclusion of these events but that remains to be seen, Boras said.

EnCana targeted
Since October 2008, there have been six pipeline bombings in the Tomslake area of British Columbia, near Dawson Creek, targeting the facilities of the Calgary-based energy company EnCana.Before the first attack, someone sent a handwritten letter to local news media demanding a stop to oil and gas operations.The letter called EnCana and other companies terrorists that are endangering our families with crazy expansion of deadly gas wells.(CBC) The note was followed by three successive explosions, two of which caused leaks of sour gas. Reserves in the Tomslake area are mostly sour gas, which contains hydrogen sulphide that can be deadly in high concentrations if released into the air.At the time of the sixth and most recent blast in July 2009, the RCMP labelled the attacks domestic terrorism.Residents of the town of Tomslake faced heightened scrutiny by the RCMP during the investigation over the past 15 months.News of an arrest was greeted with relief by resident Ardyth Overholdt, who wrote a critical letter about the bomber to the Dawson Creek newspaper last year.Some people say, well ... that bombing wasn't that big of a deal anyway — no one got hurt,which is a fairly odd attitude in my mind to take, she said Friday.So there so are those that say, Oh well, big deal, so what.' But for the rest of us, it's like it's a very big relief.

CIA bomber calls for attacks on US in video By NAHAL TOOSI and MAAMOUN YOUSSEF, Associated Press Writers – Sat Jan 9,10

ISLAMABAD – The Jordanian doctor who killed seven CIA employees in a suicide attack in Afghanistan said in video clips broadcast posthumously Saturday that all jihadists must attack U.S. targets to avenge the death of Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud.The footage showed Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi — whom the CIA had cultivated as an asset against al-Qaida — sitting with Mehsud's successor in an undisclosed location. It essentially confirmed the Pakistani Taliban's claim of responsibility for one of the worst attacks in CIA history, though a senior militant told The Associated Press that al-Qaida and Afghan insurgents played roles, too.The development may lead the U.S. to further aid and push Pakistan to crack down on Taliban militants on its soil. The success of the attack on the CIA also raises doubts about the effectiveness of the Pakistani military's ongoing ground operation against the Pakistani Taliban in its stronghold in the South Waziristan tribal region.Speaking in Arabic in the video shown on the al-Jazeera network, al-Balawi noted the Pakistani Taliban had given shelter to emigrants — Muslim fighters from abroad. Mehsud, the group's longtime leader, was killed in August by a CIA missile strike.We will never forget the blood of our emir Baitullah Mehsud, said al-Balawi, who wore an Afghan hat and a camouflage jacket on a 1 1/2 minute video clip. We will always demand revenge for him inside America and outside. It is an obligation of the emigrants who were welcomed by the emir.A similar clip appeared on the Pakistani channel Aaj, though in it al-Balawi read haltingly from a piece of paper in English, a language Pakistanis are more familiar with than Arabic.The 32-year-old al-Balawi was apparently a double agent — perhaps even a triple-agent — with links to al-Qaida, the CIA and Jordanian intelligence. He was invited inside the CIA facility in Afghanistan's eastern Khost province bearing a promise of information about Ayman al-Zawahri, al-Qaida's second-in-command. Instead, he blew himself up in a Dec. 30 meeting, killing seven including the CIA's base chief.

In the Arabic clip, al-Balawi appeared to mock assertions that U.S. or Jordanian intelligence had employed him. In the English version, he said he had given up millions of dollars offered by the agencies to join the militants.The emigrant for the sake of God will not put his religion on the bargaining table and will not sell his religion even if they put the sun in his right hand and the moon in his left, he said in Arabic, referring to a verse in the Quran.Al-Balawi ended by saying the Pakistani Taliban under the leadership of the new chief, Hakimullah Mehsud, would fight till victory.In Jordan, al-Balawi's father confirmed that the man on the clip was his son.He was very opposed to what was happening in Iraq, the occupation of Palestine and the killings of Muslims in Afghanistan, a downbeat Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi said.We knew he was very zealous for God and his religion.IntelCenter, a U.S.-based group monitoring extremist sites, said the video was released by the Pakistani Taliban. Behind Hakimullah Mehsud and al-Balawi was a banner bearing the Muslim creed,There is no God but God, and Muhammad is His messenger.The CIA attack would be the most prolific strike on a U.S. target by the Pakistani Taliban under the 20-something Hakimullah Mehsud's watch. It is also unusual because the Pakistani Taliban rarely claim responsibility for strikes in Afghanistan.But statements by Afghan Taliban and al-Qaida leaders since the attack have confused the issue of who backed the plan, and it appears increasingly likely it was a joint operation.A Pakistani Taliban militant told AP that al-Qaida and the Haqqani network, a highly independent Afghan Taliban faction, also were involved in the suicide attack. Al-Balawi received training from Qari Hussain, a leading commander of the Pakistani Taliban believed to have run suicide bombing camps, said the militant, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of security reasons.In an earlier interview with AP, Hussain claimed responsibility on behalf of the Pakistani Taliban for the attack.

Mahmood Shah, a former security chief for Pakistan's tribal regions, said the Pakistani Taliban likely provided logistics to the bomber, but al-Qaida probably provided the recruit himself. That's because the terror network is more able to tap into a reservoir of educated Arab militants, said Shah, who added al-Qaida may have formulated the overall plot as well. The Haqqani network likely gave consent because it controls much of Khost, he said. A major Pakistani army offensive in South Waziristan tribal region is believed to have forced many Pakistani Taliban leaders to go on the run to other parts of the lawless tribal belt along the Afghan border. Hakimullah Mehsud, for instance, is believed to be evading the Pakistani military offensive by hiding somewhere along the border dividing South and North Waziristan tribal regions. Though the group initially appeared to be in disarray after the August missile strike and the offensive, it and linked militant groups are suspected in a rising tide of violence in Pakistan since October. More than 600 people have died in a range of suicide and other bombings across the nuclear-armed country during the wave of bloodshed. Pakistani Taliban involvement in the CIA attack could mean more pressure on Islamabad to act against the group, though Shah said Pakistan was doing everything it could do with limited resources. He asserted that past claims of links between al-Qaida and the Pakistani Taliban had not always been taken seriously by the U.S., and that this attack might change that. The U.S. has already been providing logistical support for the operation in South Waziristan.

Though linked, the Pakistani Taliban and the Afghan Taliban are separate movements.

The Afghan Taliban are focused on ridding Afghanistan of Western troops and toppling the U.S.-backed government in Kabul, while the Pakistani Taliban are primarily determined to overthrow the U.S.-allied government in Islamabad. But both militant movements are largely driven by Pashtuns, an ethnic group that straddles both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border and whose members easily slip back and forth between the countries. The secretive eastern Afghan CIA base that was attacked was reportedly was used as a key outpost in the effort to identify and target terror leaders, many of whom were taken out by the drone-fired missile strikes. Despite the suicide bombing's devastating blow to the human intelligence of the CIA, there's been a surge in missile strikes on Pakistan's tribal regions, where many of the top terror leaders including Osama bin Laden are believed to be hiding. There have been at least five such missile strikes in North Waziristan since the bombing in Khost.
Youssef reported from Cairo. Associated Press writers Jamal Halaby in Amman, Jordan, and Kathy Gannon in Islamabad contributed to this report.

EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

EARTHQUAKES

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

COME ON PEOPLE! WAKE UP THE PROPHECIES ARE COMING TO PASS FAST AND FURIOUS AND THE SIN IS GETTING WORSE IN THE WORLD INSTEAD OF REPENTING AND ASKING GOD (KING JESUS IN TO THEIR HEARTS SO THEY CAN BE SAVED.

Strong earthquake strikes near Solomon Islands
Sat Jan 9, 5:03 am ET

SYDNEY – A strong earthquake shook the South Pacific near the Solomon Islands on Saturday, just days after a large earthquake and tsunami hit the country. No tsunami watch was issued after Saturday's quake.The 6.3 magnitude quake struck 90 miles (146 kilometers) southeast of the provincial capital Gizo at a depth of 22 miles (35 kilometers), the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued no tsunami warning.On Monday, a magnitude-7.2 quake sent a tsunami up to 10 feet (3 meters) high crashing into the shores of Rendova Island and nearby Tetepare Island. No serious injuries were reported.The Solomon Islands lie on the Ring of Fire — an arc of earthquake and volcanic zones that stretches around the Pacific Rim and where about 90 percent of the world's quakes occur.

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Icy hazards persist through US, deep into South By KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press Writers – Sat Jan 9, 12:39 am ET

ATLANTA – The unyielding cold spell gripping much of the nation was expected to hang on tight over the weekend, though some areas that saw snowfall during the week were expected to have drier weather.In Atlanta, more accustomed to winter temperatures in the low 50s, a glaze of ice coated roads Friday after light snow overnight melted and froze. And authorities said the continuing freeze called for renewed caution on the roadways.Nearly 30 cars piled up in a pre-dawn crash near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.I wanted to stay home today, but my boss never called me back, so I thought I should try to get in, said Beth Ament, 30, who was fueling her car so she could get to a nearby transit station to take the train to her job in downtown Atlanta.In Alabama, packed shelters brought out extra cots and opened doors for people fearful of the deadly cold.You have to be inside the way it is now. If you're not, they'll find you stiff, said Elizabeth Austin, a homeless woman who sought warmth at an inner-city Birmingham church.Multiple deaths have been blamed on this week's cold, including a 44-year-old man whose body was found face-down in the snow early Friday in Billings, Mont.

In Ohio, a winter storm warning was in effect until Saturday morning. That's on top of the snow that had already coated Interstate 70, where a tractor-trailer spun out of control Thursday, crossed the median and swerved into oncoming traffic, colliding with a small bus transporting adult disabled passengers, the Ohio Highway Patrol said.Three passengers on the bus were killed, as was its driver. Six other passengers on the bus, which was carrying 11 people, were injured, as was the driver of the commercial truck, Sgt. Raymond Durant said.Schools in at least 10 states were closed, as were many roads and government offices.The National Weather Service said 5 to 7 inches of snow was expected Friday across western Pennsylvania. In Pittsburgh and the surrounding areas, it had snowed every day since New Year's, a stretch that meteorologists say is unusual.Travel was beginning to return to normal Friday at Chicago's airports, after a storm that dumped about 8 inches of snow. The Chicago Department of Aviation said there were still minor delays at O'Hare International Airport because crews had to deice aircraft before they could take off.Some Nebraska cities were cut off because highways leading in and out of town were blocked or all but impassable.Amtrak announced that its train between Chicago and Denver wouldn't operate Friday because of blowing and drifting snow in Nebraska.Snowfall was heaviest in Minnesota and parts of South Dakota, where some drifts were too big for snowplow drivers to clear.

Nowhere was it colder than in Bismarck, N.D., where wind chills hit 52 below zero Thursday and the temperature reached 14 below. Wind chills were still near 50 below in the Dakotas on Friday.While North Dakotans get plenty of practice bundling up, folks in other parts of the country were still learning the basics.In Mobile, Ala., hit by a rare arctic chill on the coast, Salvation Army spokesman Stacey Killingsworth said shelters were filled to the brim. One that normally holds up to 28 homeless men a night has been averaging 115 in recent days, she said. We don't turn anyone away, including women and children. We've used cots and mats. We've put people in the auditorium and hallways, she said. In Florida's Panhandle, vapor was rising off the Gulf as warm water met the frigid air. It's so cold that sparrows that have crawled under the plastic on our heated deck don't want to leave, said Scooter Montgomery, manager of Peg Leg Pete's Oyster Bar on Pensacola Beach. AP Writers Melissa Nelson in Pensacola, Fla., and Jay Reeves in Birmingham, Ala., contributed to this story.

Europe shivers as cold snap brings travel misery
JAN 9,10

BERLIN (AFP) – Europe faced weekend weather misery with scores of flights cancelled on Saturday as snow blanketed swathes of the continent, severing key highways and disrupting rail and electricity links.Germans were urged to buy enough food and medicines to last for up to four days in the face of a blizzard. The government said all non-essential travel should be avoided.More than 200 flights were cancelled at Frankfurt, Europe's third largest airport, with spokesman Juergen Harrer saying that many more had been delayed.Traffic on the A5 highway between Germany and France was paralysed after French police blocked off the border road to trucks due to heavy snow, German traffic police said.With much of Britain already shivering through the worst spell of bad winter weather for more than 30 years, a further blanketing was expected. Forecasters say up to 20 centimetres (seven inches) could settle in the east.The conditions hit weekend sports games -- five English Premier League football matches were called off and five out of the six Premiership rugby union fixtures were also cancelled.In London, the Serpentine outdoor swimming lake in Hyde Park was closed for the first time in about 140 years amid icy conditions.Air travel was also being disrupted -- at London's Heathrow airport, staff have been working round the clock to keep the runways clear and predicted delays and cancellations.The Eurostar rail link between Britain and continental Europe said it was operating two-thirds of services.Twenty-seven major companies in Britain were ordered to halt using gas Friday in order to maintain overall supplies amid unprecedented levels of demand.

In France, significant snowfalls caused major delays to train services and southern areas experienced electricity cuts with at least 7,000 households affected, according to officials. Related article:Eurostar disrupted-With more snow forecast, authorities asked airlines to cut a quarter of flights on Saturday at Paris's main Charles de Gaulle airport. Traffic was suspended at Toulouse airport but expected to resume later Saturday.Several trains were cancelled and many high-speed trains were running late, the national rail operator SNCF said on Saturday.Ireland, experiencing its worst weather since 1963, was again hit by fresh snowfall in the east which led Dublin airport to suspend all operations.Education Minister Batt O'Keefe ordered all state primary and secondary schools to remain closed until January 14. Police and the Automobile Association said temperatures were well below zero on all routes with dense freezing fog causing additional problems.Freezing temperatures were reported Saturday in Spain and Portugal, affecting road links. Authorities in Lisbon kept two metro stations overnight to shelter the homeless.In the Netherlands, thousands took to the ice Saturday as skating federation KNSB gave the green light for impromptu skating events on three lakes in the centre and north-east of the country.Dutch Railways deployed special teams to prevent railway points from freezing at key junctions but nevertheless warned of possible delays.

Scores of flights were cancelled in Brussels as Belgium experienced its first heavy snowfalls. Traffic on highways was affected. Polish authorities said about 25,000 households were without electricity in the southern region of Kielce and Katowice after power lines were snapped by heavy branches felled in the snow. In Italy, heavy winds and rain toppled trees in the centre of the country and around Rome, leaving some 65,000 people without electricity, civil protection officials said.

5 climbers killed in avalanche in Russia's south By SERGEI VENYAVSKY, Associated Press Writer – JAN 9,10

ROSTOV-ON-DOV, Russia – An avalanche in Russia's southern Caucasus mountain range has killed five climbers including an instructor, an emergency official said Saturday.Four climbers in a party of nine survived the snow slide, which struck as they were ascending the Gedan-tau peak Friday, local emergency spokesman Oleg Ugnivenko said. Eight novice climbers were all in their 20s and extremely well equipped, he said.The body of their 40-year-old instructor was found immediately, and a search operation including helicopters and 100 rescuers turned up four frozen corpses Saturday morning, Ugnivenko said.The mountaineers were climbing the mountain, about 40 miles (60 kilometers) east of Europe's highest peak Elbrus, along the simplest route. They began the ascent Friday morning and were near the Gedan-tau's 12,140-foot (3,700-meter) summit when the avalanche hit, Ugnivenko said.The novice climbers, all from Moscow or St. Petersburg had undergone an intensive, six-day training course in the climbing base of Bezengi, in the province of Kabardino-Balkaria, immediately before the ascent, he said.The North Caucasus is a popular destination among Russian climbers but suffers from underdeveloped infrastructure, and is perilously near the violence-wracked regions of Ingushetia, Chechnya and Dagestan.Bezengi, from where many climbers tackle the 18,510-foot (5,642-meter) Elbrus and other peaks, is about 90 miles (140 kilometers) west of Ingushetia, the westernmost province hosting an active Islamist insurgency.Sochi, the venue for the 2014 Winter Olympics, is around 125 miles (200 kilometers) west of Bezengi.

Martial Law vs. Christian Responsibility
Robert Hawes Campaign For Liberty Friday, January 8th, 2010

It is one thing to know something intellectually, and quite another to see it suddenly happen before your eyes. I experienced such a moment in 2005, during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, when I watched (via the Internet) as police officers went door-to-door in New Orleans neighborhoods, forced law-abiding citizens into the streets, cuffed them, and then searched their homes for firearms before leaving them bewildered and helpless. There were no warrants involved. No probable cause was mentioned. No charges of wrong-doing were filed. Intimidation and brute force were the order of the day. And as much as I wish I could believe otherwise, I’m afraid that what we saw in New Orleans is merely a preview of coming attractions.Since September 11, 2001, the federal government has been busily advancing preparations for the day when it might impose martial law throughout the United States, thus presenting us with the specter of the sort of thugery we witnessed in New Orleans being carried out all across this land of the free. A quasi-legal apparatus has already been put into place for this, via such legislation as the PATRIOT Act, the John Warner Defense Authorization Act, the Military Commissions Act, and the National Security and Homeland Security Directive. But legislation, although important in creating the illusion of legitimacy, is only one of the two boots with which the authoritarian state tramples freedom; the other is propaganda, and it is even more essential than force because it allows the state to conquer by stealth, and thus with a minimum of effort.

The state that employs only force to achieve its aims will rule only as long as it can subdue the people; but if it can successfully use propaganda, it can rule indefinitely because the people will subdue themselves. Propaganda deludes the slave into seeing his servitude as sacrifice, even as an honor. It transforms political prisoners into the enemies of the people, turns massacres into purgings, makes partisanism look like saintly perseverance, sells torture as retribution, portrays dissent as sabotage, and masks aggression in the guise of crusading. As Adolf Hitler observed in Mein Kampf, By an able and persistent use of propaganda heaven itself can be presented to the people as if it were hell and, vice versa, the most miserable kind of life can be presented as if it were paradise.And of all the varied forms of propaganda, religious propaganda is by far the most effective; for, it provides fallible men with the sanction of heaven, which must not be resisted nor even questioned. Our government is well aware of this and, from all indications, is ready to use religious propaganda in order to help pacify the American population in the event that martial law is declared.For years, rumors circulated to the effect that the U.S. government would use members of the clergy in efforts to pacify Americans should martial law ever be declared. Many scoffed at the idea, calling it so much conspiracy theory nonsense. Then, in 2007, KSLA Channel 12 in Shreveport, Louisiana, reported that, following Hurricane Katrina, clergy response teams were utilized to assist the government with public relations (click here to watch the video). According to the story, such teams will likely be used in future emergency situations, with an emphasis on their potential role in a martial law scenario. Here’s a quote from the story:Such clergy response teams would walk a tight-rope during martial law between the demands of the government on the one side, versus the wishes of the public on the other. In a lot of cases, these clergy would already be known in the neighborhoods in which they’re helping to diffuse that situation, assured Sandy Davis. He serves as the director of the Caddo-Bossier Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.A member of one such clergy response team, Dr. Durell Tuberville, was interviewed by KSLA, and stated that Christians have a responsibility to obey the government, no matter what. The government’s established by the Lord, said Tuberville.That’s what we believe in the Christian faith. That’s what’s stated in the scripture.

As a Christian myself, I understand where people like Dr. Tuberville are coming from. I remember my ninth grade Government teacher telling our class (Christian school, mind you) that Soviet citizens had no right to defy their government because, no matter how oppressive the Soviet State was, it was ordained by God (when asked about whether the American patriots were right to rebel against England, however, he equivocated). This reasoning is based on several passages of scripture, but particularly on the following remarks made by the Apostle Paul in Romans, chapter 13 (as the KSLA news story pointed out):Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves. For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from the same; for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil. Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.

With these things in mind, I’d like to take some time to examine the issue of how Christians should react to the prospect of martial law in America.
Government officials are not the highest authorities in America The first thing I would like to point out to people like Dr. Tuberville, who think Christians should obey government officials no matter what because they are the higher powers, is that there is another, yet higher power to which even such officials are beholden: the Constitution of the United States.This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land. Article VI, Section 1.It is from the Constitution that our elected officials, both federal and state, derive their office and legitimate powers. Their powers are delegated, not inherent; concrete, not elastic, and, as clearly set forth by the 9th and 10th Amendments, they are limited to the specific areas of authority that the Constitution either grants to the Union or denies to the states. Further, our elected officials are “bound by oath or affirmation” to support the Constitution and its provisions, including the limitations placed upon their own powers: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… (Article VI, Section 3).

Thus, in taking up the powers and responsibilities of political office, our elected officials are also agreeing to place themselves under the law. This is one of the foundational ideas of the American political system: the concept that everyone is under law and equal in its eyes. For this reason, if government officials violate the Constitution, their actions are illegal and void of authority, and they are no better than common criminals. It is absolutely critical that Christians understand this when they contemplate their relationship to the government. Our elected officials are not the source of their own power; rather, they are representatives who have been entrusted with the authority of the American people as defined in the United States Constitution. If they violate that trust, they are as much criminals as the guy who robs your local 7-11 store; they just dress better, make other people use the guns, and almost never go to jail.
Martial Law is Unconstitutional and, therefore, Illegal

The Constitution does not directly address martial law; however, it does contain a provision that clearly makes martial law impossible. Consider Article IV, Section IV:
The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.Republican government is civil, representative government; martial law is military rule. Since the former is specifically guaranteed here, the latter is necessarily precluded. This provision, which our government officials are sworn to support as being part of the supreme law of the land, makes martial law unconstitutional and thus illegal. The moment that martial law is declared, the federal government will have stepped outside of its sphere of lawful powers. In fact, in a very real way it will have conducted a revolution, as it will have overthrown the legitimate government of the Constitution by force of arms.
The President is Commander in Chief, not Dictator in Chief.The war powers of the President are a woefully misunderstood aspect of constitutional law, thanks primarily to the success of Abraham Lincoln’s war and further developments under those who inherited his theory of government. Said theory boils down to the idea that, technically, anything the government does in order to safe-guard the country (really its own power) is constitutional.The Constitution itself differs with that idea. It describes the war powers of the President in Article II, Section II, where we read:The President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States.That’s it. That is the sum total of all the Constitution has to say about the war powers of the President. Everything else that has developed since the adoption of the Constitution where such powers are concerned, from peace-keeping missions to covert operations, is extra-constitutional (and largely a perversion of the war powers the Constitution grants to Congress in Article I). Indeed, the military powers that presidents exercise today would have seemed kingly to our country’s founders. Under the American system, presidents were to be limited chief executives, not self-empowering monarchs who could overthrow the rights of the people or commit the country’s military to action for any reason whatsoever. The history of centuries of blood-letting under the crowned heads of Europe had taught Americans better than to trust such powers in the hands of one individual. They forgot that lesson rather quickly once they were free to determine their own affairs, but that initial understanding is enshrined in the Constitution’s language to this day, and the reasoning behind it is still just as sound.The Commander in Chief clause, read as it is plainly written, gives the President authority to act as a sort of commanding general of all U.S. armed forces in their constitutional role of providing for the common defense. It makes him a unifying military leader, capable of coordinating the country’s defenses in order to repel an aggressor; it does not make him a dictator, nor does it authorize him to use the military offensively or for law enforcement purposes. Note that the authority granted in Article II, Section II is military, not civilian, and that it does not release the President from his sworn duty to uphold the Constitution, nor does it revoke the right of the states to a republican form of government.

In response, some will undoubtedly argue that we now face dangers that our country’s founders could not have envisioned, and, for that reason, certain things must change. But the founders provided us with a means of changing the Constitution in the face of new circumstances or new wishes on the part of the people. We call this provision the Amendment Process (see Article V). So why is it that our leaders are not using this legitimate, constitutional tool, if indeed they believe that they require additional powers in order to meet modern challenges, and if indeed their motives are pure? Defenders of the Bush administration and its congressional allies (particularly Christians seeking to invoke Romans 13) should give serious thought to this question.Consider that nearly seven years have elapsed since the September 11, 2001 attacks, and yet, in all that time, in spite of all the powers that Bush and Congress have usurped, they have not once prepared or even suggested a constitutional amendment to legitimize any of it. And the reason for this? Quite simply, they don’t believe they need to legitimize their actions. They do not recognize any authority above themselves, neither the Constitution of the United States nor the people who elected them.

Beware Government Agents quoting Scripture

The common perception of propaganda is that it is the art of telling lies, but in fact lies are only part of the picture. No, the true master of propaganda is skilled not only in telling outright lies, but also in employing distortion and half-truth.
For an example of this, consider Romans 13 again. The standard snake oil sold by the Dr. Tuberville’s of the world (unwittingly or not), where this passage is concerned, is that government is the higher power and must be obeyed in all things. This is what you’re likely to hear when a clergy response team member shows up on your doorstep, flanked by national guardsmen and demanding that you hand over your firearms, supplies, and/or valuables, or that you accompany them to Hotel Halliburton. Yet, as we have already seen, the Constitution, not the government, is the highest power in the United States of America, and those who act outside of it are criminals.Note also that the Apostle Paul was arguing that Christians should support the higher powers because government is ordained by God to be an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil.Rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, Paul tells us, but for evil, after which he admonishes us to be in subjection not only because of wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.So what then of a government which, instead of punishing evil, actually practices evil itself? Can Paul have been suggesting that Christians should view the evil actions of a lawless power as somehow bearing the approval of God? Can a Christian either condone or submit to evil doings “for conscience’ sake”? Is it possible to do good by sanctioning, submitting to, or participating in evil? As Paul himself was fond of saying, God forbid!

When in Rome?

At this point, some might argue that the Roman Empire was evil in many ways, and that if Paul informed Christians that they needed to be in subjection to such a regime, surely today’s Christians have no excuse for resisting the will of the U.S. government, constitutional questions aside. And while I would agree that Rome was certainly a ruthless and brutal government, there are three important things that should be kept in view here:

1) Rome did not rule under a supreme Constitution such as we have.

2) While Paul instructed Christians to recognize Roman rule, he never once suggested that they should sanction or participate in Roman brutality. Indeed, the Bible contains a number of passages that instruct us to aid the oppressed (not to aid in their oppression):Proverbs 24:10-12: If you are slack [weak, feeble] in the day of distress, your strength is limited. Deliver those who are being taken away to death, and those who are staggering to slaughter, Oh hold {them} back. If you say, See, we did not know this,Does He not consider {it} who weighs the hearts? And does He not know {it} who keeps your soul? And will He not render to man according to his work?

Isaiah 1:16-17: Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Remove the evil of your deeds from My sight. Cease to do evil, Learn to do good; Seek justice, Reprove the ruthless, Defend the orphan, Plead for the widow.

Jeremiah 21:12: O house of David, thus says the LORD: Administer justice every morning; And deliver the {person} who has been robbed from the power of {his} oppressor, that My wrath may not go forth like fire and burn with none to extinguish {it,} because of the evil of their deeds.

Jeremiah 22:2-3: Thus says the LORD, Do justice and righteousness, and deliver the one who has been robbed from the power of {his} oppressor. Also do not mistreat {or} do violence to the stranger, the orphan, or the widow; and do not shed innocent blood in this place.

The above passages make it clear that no one who claims to fear God should have anything to do with oppressing the innocent; but, rather, they should actively reprove those who do such things and deliver those who are being victimized. Genesis 14 tells the story of how Abraham attacked and overcame a group of kings who had taken his nephew, Lot, captive; and, in Job 29, we’re told that, among the good deeds Job was known for, he delivered the poor who cried for help, and the orphan who had no helper, and broke the jaws of the wicked and snatched the prey from his teeth. The Bible refers to both Abraham and Job as righteous and upright. Further, in I Timothy 5:8, the Apostle Paul, who wrote Romans 13, remarks: But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.Surely providing for one’s own involves protecting them from those who would do them harm.

3) Two recorded instances from the Apostle Paul’s own life demonstrate that a Christian need not submit to injustice simply because it is perpetrated by agents of the state. Both examples come to us from the book of Acts.The first is recorded in Acts 22, where Roman authorities questioned Paul in relation to his part in a riot that had just taken place in Jerusalem. Not satisfied with his answers, the Roman chief captain ordered that Paul be subjected to a bit of enhanced interrogation, 1st Century style (they were going to scourge him while questioning him further). Now, Paul was a Roman citizen, and under Roman law it was illegal to scourge a citizen. Paul pointed this out to his captors in Acts 22:23, and was spared the torture in favor of a trial.The second example comes from Acts 25. Paul, who was then on trial before Porcius Festus, the Roman governor of Judea, saw that the governor was probably not going to give him a fair trial, and so he invoked the supreme right of a Roman citizen: he appealed to Caesar himself in hope of justice. He did this respectfully, but resolutely.Clearly, the Apostle Paul had no problem with questioning authorities or appealing to the law in his defense, and I see no biblical reason why modern Christians are under obligation to act any differently. The Constitution is our supreme law, our supreme authority; we have every right to appeal to its provisions and to demand that those provisions be respected and not overthrown.

Conclusion

In summary, be aware of the fact that our government has already begun using religious propaganda to get its way, and that it fully intends to do so again. Beware those who would preach to you concerning how you should obey them as authorities over you, if they refuse to obey the authority over them. Beware those who talk about the law if they themselves are law-breakers. Beware those who would speak to you of duty, if they themselves have broken their oaths and violated the trusts of their offices. Contrary to the propaganda you’re likely to hear in the event of a martial law situation, neither Romans 13, nor any other passage of scripture, can be twisted to the effect of forcing Christians to buckle under to, participate in, or otherwise sanction, illegal actions or outright atrocities committed by the state.You who are members of the clergy: could you go door-to-door telling people that God wants them to turn in their guns (or fuel, or food, or gold) and to leave themselves bereft and helpless because the state says so? You who are members of the military or law enforcement agencies: could you force yourselves on, or actually fire on, otherwise law-abiding American citizens who might only be trying to defend themselves, their property and their families against those who have decided to toss the law out like yesterday’s garbage? Could you justly take part in unjust actions? How many of history’s wars and other atrocities could have taken place had those ordered to carry them out simply said No.? Could Rome have enslaved and tortured millions of people without the consent of its soldiers? Could any of the tyrants of the past have plundered their citizens had they been forced to wield the sword by themselves? Could a single Southern farm have been burned had Northerners not consented to Lincoln’s rampage? Could Stalin or Mao have murdered tens of millions of their own countrymen without the assistance of their Peoples’ armies? Make no mistake, if the United States government ever decides to oppress its own people, for whatever reason, it will not be the President or members of Congress, or the Joint Chiefs who go around intimidating people, kicking in doors, muzzling protest, dividing families, jailing and/or torturing dissenters or carrying off property. It will be you. They will expect you to do these things for them. The question is: can you live with it? And even more importantly: can you answer to God for it?

II Corinthians 5:10 — For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. (Note — I see no exceptions granted here for those acting under orders).

Finally, don’t wait for the crisis to come before you act. The day martial law is declared is not the time to begin doing something about it. That time is now, today, before it happens. Start by familiarizing yourself with passages of scripture such as those I’ve listed above; and always consider what the Bible says for itself, not how others would interpret it to their own advantage. Familiarize yourself with the Constitution, with relevant legislation and presidential executive orders, and with the history of martial law situations and military occupations both here in the U.S. and in other countries. Share what you learn with your friends and family. Consider joining up with groups like Ron Paul’s new Campaign for Liberty, where you can work for change alongside other concerned Americans. Never forget that an intimate knowledge of truth is the best defense against the lies, distortions and half-truths of the propagandists.