>From an Americian religious newsletter. ====================================== 8. EVERYONE WILL BE A CRIMINAL With the present plans for Hate Crimes legislation, forced acceptance of homosexuality, a national ID card, national health and employment databases, total gun control, government access to private computer encryption codes, ever-widening FBI wiretap authority, proposed Know Your Customer bank reporting requirements, special military and police training to counter Christian terrorists, bureaucratic indifference toward individual freedom, the Clinton UN, environmental and population control agendas (with real terrorist threats and Y2K disruptions a ready excuse to impose even tighter controls over the general population), all freedom-loving Americans face a future fraught with danger and an increasingly hostile federal government. Activist lawyer Phyllis Schlafly, who led the successful fight to stop the feminist Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) during the 1970s, recently wrote, Hitler and Stalin gave us the model of how tyranny maintains itself. Pass so many laws that everyone is a potential criminal, and then law enforcement can be arbitrary, selective, and very political. That's why the Clinton Administration has pushed the creation of hundreds of new federal crimes by legislation and thousands more by federal regulations. Any act of dishonesty in which a mailed item, a telephone call, or a bank deposit plays a role has now become a federal crime. In Nazi Germany, those who remained willfully ignorant and uninvolved ultimately stood by and watched as their Jewish neighbors' businesses closed and as the Jews quietly disappeared. Dr. Jay Grimstead, the theologian who laid the groundwork and organized the commission which produced The Chicago Statement on the Inerrancy of Scripture, has said, There is no room in their worldview for us [Bible-believing Christians]. If they acted consistently with what they believe, they would line us all up and shoot us! 9. CONSERVATIVE POLITICS IN A CULTURE OF BARBARISM The great conservative strategist, Paul Weyrich, who has probably done more than any other single man to help Christians make a difference in Washington, recently wrote in a letter to conservative friends, I no longer believe that there is a moral majority...if there really were...Bill Clinton would have been driven out of office months ago... In truth, I think we are caught up in a cultural collapse of historic proportions, a collapse so great that it simply overwhelms politics... I don't have all the answers or even all the questions. But I know that what we have been doing for 30 years hasn't worked...while we have been fighting and winning in politics, our culture has decayed into something approaching barbarism. Paul Weyrich is right, but so was James Carville (although he had something different in mind) when he said, It ain't over until it's over! An Omnipotent Holy God still sits upon His Throne and He will judge the whole earth in righteousness! Let all men tremble at His Word! It is time for Christians to seek the face of God, and a time for pastors to lead their Churches regularly and frequently in genuine Solemn Assembly. God is our only hope! We must cry out for mercy to Him, day and night. If we will, He will hear our cries. If we do not, America will go the way of all the nations that forget God (Psalm 9:17), but Jesus Christ will still be King of all kings and Lord of all lords. [ED. NOTE: The above comments came from The Capitol Hill Prayer Alert by Sound the Trumpet Ministries, 325 Pennsylvania Ave., S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003, (703)754-3629, fax (703)754-3838, website: http://prayeralert.org.] ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is the Neither public email list, open for the public and general discussion. To unsubscribe click here Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=unsubscribe To subscribe click here Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=subscribe For information on [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.neither.org/lists/public-list.htm For archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
