The Enemies at Home

We know them, we love them. Well, we love how pathetically ignorant & foolish they are. Michelle (John Doe) Malkin. Charles (Little Green Footballs) Johnson. Pamela ("Shrieking Harpy") Geller. Debbie (Debbie Schlussel) Schlussel. Yes, four of the all-time leaders in the paranoiac stupidity sweepstakes that is the right-wing side of the blog-o-sphere. (Not that there aren't many, many, more, but these are the top of the urine-soaked panties heap.) Campus shooting? Asian suspect? Oh, the PC media is saying "Asian," but they're hiding that he's a Pakistani jihadi! Bridge collapse in Minnesota? One of our commenters saw a guy in a turban driving on the very same bridge last week! Industrial accident? Refinery explosion? Five-car pile-up on the freeway? Eeeek!! Look! There's a mosque w/in two miles of the explosion/accident! Foot-baths for Moooslim students? A woman wearing a headscarf on the windiest day of the year? Holy Cow, it's the end of Western Civilization & Judeo-Christian values! Yes, these sad, frightened little people are convinced that This Great Nation of Ours™, and all of "The West," are in immediate mortal danger from the Islamo-fascist hordes. Never mind that this is the sole military superpower on the face of the Earth. Forget that the "Islamic hordes" are a few thousand, at most, fanatics, holed up in caves, whose navy may consist of a few dhows, and whose air force consists of no less than zero aircraft. Part of the thrill of their narrative is that sissified, immature, multi-culturalist, left-wing America-haters within are going to sell us out to the Red BrownMoon God menace. Because, as we all know, ever since the post-World War I Red Scare, the agenda of the Democratic/liberal/leftist/progressive conspiracy in the United States has been the elimination of labor unions, imposition of religious rule, subjugation of women & religious, racial & ethnic minorities, & the summary execution of homosexuals. You know, the Democratic Party platform that made Al Gore lose to George Bush by 500,000 votes in 2000. If there is an actual internal threat to these United States, besides greed, unbridled capitalism, and sheer lust for power, you won't hear about it from The Four Horsemen mentioned above. It doesn't mesh w/ their Us vs. Them, "Clash of Civilizations" story. Because the only real threat to the American Way of Life™ comes from their side. Recent revelations (Click here, then keep moving up; maybe a third of the items between then & now concern Blackwater, etc.) about the political & religious inclinations & connections of the founder & executives of "private security contractor" Blackwater USA, & its various subsidiaries & affiliates, have brought this danger into sharper focus. Let's take a gander at what can only be called Christo-American sharia, starting from the pages of Mother Jones:

Christian Reconstruction [is] an obscure but increasingly potent theology whose top exponents hold that Christian crusaders must conquer and convert the world, by the sword if necessary, before Jesus will return. [..] Reconstruction has slowly absorbed, congregation by congregation, the conservative Presbyterian Church in America (not to be confused with the progressive Presbyterian Church [USA]) and has heavily influenced others, notably the Southern Baptists. George W. Bush has called Reconstruction-influenced theoretician Marvin Olasky “compassionate conservatism’s leading thinker,” and Olasky served as one of the president’s key advisers on the creation of the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. Bush also invited Reconstructionist Jack Hayford, a key figure in the Promise Keepers men’s group, to give the benediction at his first inaugural. Deposed House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, though his office won’t comment on his religious views, governs with what he calls a “biblical worldview”—one of Reconstruction’s signature phrases. And, for conspiracy buffs, two heavy contributors to the Chalcedon Foundation—Reconstruction’s main think tank—are Howard Ahmanson and Nelson Bunker Hunt, both of whose families played key roles in financing electronic voting machine manufacturer Election Systems & Software. Ahmanson is also a major sponsor of ultraconservative politicians, including California state legislator and 2003 gubernatorial candidate Tom McClintock. Yet for all its influence, Reconstruction is almost invisible to the media and secular society. Atlanta is ground zero for most Reconstruction activity—home office to DeMar’s publishing house and home district to movement prophet Larry McDonald, who served four terms in Congress in the 1970s and 1980s—but the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has done only one major article on the movement. The entire Lexis-Nexis database includes only 43 articles from all of the U.S. media that make reference to Reconstruction, and only a handful of those explore the movement. [...] “The long-term goal of Christians in politics should be to gain exclusive control over the franchise,” Gary North, a top Reconstruction theorist, wrote in his 1989 book, Political Polytheism: The Myth of Pluralism. “Those who refuse to submit publicly…must be denied citizenship.” [...] The Old Testament—with its 600 or so Mosaic laws—is the inflexible guide for the society DeMar and other Reconstructionists envision. Government posts would be reserved for the righteous, as long as they are male. There would be thousands of executions a year, with stoning a preferred method because it would turn the deaths into “community projects,” as movement theologian North has noted. Sinners in line for the death penalty would include women who commit adultery or lie about their virginity, blasphemers, witches, children who strike their parents, and gay men (lesbians, however, would be spared because no specific reference to them can be found in the Books of Moses). DeMar told me that among Reconstructionists he is considered something of a liberal, because he’d execute gays only if they were caught indulging in sodomy. “I’m happy to just drive them back into the closet,” he said. [...] Besides facilitating evangelism, Reconstructionists believe, government should largely be limited to building and maintaining roads, enforcing land-use contracts, and ensuring just weights and measures. Unions would not exist, and neither would unemployment benefits, Social Security, and environmental protection laws. [...] And, perhaps most importantly, the state is “God’s minister,” as DeMar puts it in Liberty at Risk, “taking vengeance out on those who do evil.” A major task for the government key Reconstructionists envision is fielding armies for conquest in the name of Jesus. [...] Rushdoony, who died in 2001, articulated a doctrine called “presuppositionalism.” All issues are religious in nature, he posited, and people don’t have the right or the ability to define for themselves what’s true; for that they must turn to a literal reading of the Bible. His defining tome, the 800-page Institutes of Biblical Law, was published in 1973. But because of its extremism and overt racism—Rushdoony denied the Holocaust and defended segregation and slavery—Institutes and its author were largely ignored in mainstream circles until the movement launched by Schaeffer found its intellectual grounding in Rushdoony’s writings. [...] Adam and Eve broke their covenant with God, and Satan seized dominion. Christian Reconstruction claims it has a reconstituted covenant with God and the right to a new dominion in his name. In this worldview, the mandate for Christians is not just to live right or to help their neighbors: They are called upon to take over or eliminate the institutions of secular government. [...] Gary North wrote in 1982, in an effort to reach Baptists,“We must use the doctrine of religious liberty…until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government. Then they will get busy constructing a Bible-based social, political, and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God.” [...] Reconstruction’s major impact has been through helping to found and guide cross-denominational and secular political organizations. The Council for National Policy—a group that holds meetings for right-wing leaders, once dubbed “the most powerful conservative group you’ve never heard of”—was founded in 1981 as a project of top John Birch Society figures. Its members included Rushdoony, Gary North, Tim LaHaye, former Reagan aide Gary Bauer, and activist Paul Weyrich, who famously aimed to “overturn the present power structure of this country.”

Make no fucking mistake about it: These people are serious, they are powerful, and an organization like Blackwater fits right into their plans. Note the connection between Erik Prince's father, Edgar, & Gary Bauer (from Blackwater Runs Red):

The elder Prince was widely known for his close association with anti-choice crusader Gary Bauer. Bauer was a domestic policy advisor in the Reagan White House before succeeding Jerry Regier (a former Reagan official, as well) for the leadership role of the Family Research Council (FRC) in 1988. With Edgar's help, Bauer put the FRC on the map.

Information from the horse's mouth on the American Taliban & sharia: The American View The Chalcedon Foundation Christian Exodus The Council for National Policy/Policy Counsel