Three excellent points (7 min)

Interesting . . . (3 min)

Impeachment Article Statement 7/25/08 (6 min)

Book Recommendation:

End of America by Naomi Wolf. I just finished it last night . . . excellent!

It compares what's going on in America today to the rise of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, the American Revolution, Chile (1973 under Allende/Pinochet), etc.

Interesting article about the counter-intuitive effects of porn:

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The Media shuts down Naomi Wolf (5 min)

Why 9/11 matters . . .

Though compared to the importance of accepting and daily living the truth and ordinances of the Gospel, the truth about 9/11 isn't as critical . . . maybe it's not so unimportant as people think.

Freedom (the right to exercise our Free Agency) is the entire "just cause" of the Book of Mormon and the book's main topic aside from Christ. It's the entire reason for the War in Heaven, the reason this nation was established by God Himself AND the historical victim of ALL tyrannical regimes throughout history. It's the one thing Satan wants to deny us, and the first thing his henchmen go after (the King Men, Hitler, Stalin, etc).

Moroni raised the Title of Liberty not only in defense of the actual lives of his people, but also in defense of their RIGHTS - and he raised that very title against those working from WITHIN to topple the nation, destroy the church and establish a king.

So as our nation crumbles because most people are "uninterested," maybe there's some accountability there. Will anyone care when the next fake attack happens, an attack that triggers complete martial law and ends Constitutional government?

The Nephites mourned when the secret combinations destroyed their government. But those same secret combinations only succeeded because the people either ignored them or, worse, actively built them up and supported them (Helaman 6:38).

"Wherefore, O ye Gentiles, it is wisdom in God that these things should be shown unto you, that thereby ye may repent of your sins, and suffer not that these murderous combinations shall get above you, which are built up to get power and gain—and the work, yea, even the work of destruction come upon you, yea, even the sword of the justice of the Eternal God shall fall upon you, to your overthrow and destruction if ye shall suffer these things to be."

Going after the chief judge . . .

Food for thought . . .

Why does the Book of Mormon mention the assasination(s) of the chief judges and kings so often?

Just thinking out loud . . .

I've been wondering why people have such a hard time even thinking about the POSSIBILITY that 911 was controlled demolition. There are so many reasons why it would be hard for people to even look at with an open mind; it made me think of this:

If the shooting of an apparently healthy individual, by a known criminal is captured on video and shows the bullet hitting the victim's upper right shoulder (far from the heart), most viewers would assume the wound would not be fatal.

BUT if the person does die, then the viewer would assume that it was the shot after all, despite the fact that normally such a shot wouldn't be life threatening.

The viewer assumes the shot killed the person because A) It is obviously a traumatic event, and B) from the viewer's current perspective, it is the only possible cause.

Now, if a well respected doctor comes to the scene and proclaims the bullet responsible for the victim's death, the viewer's opinion is set in stone. Not only did the viewer see the bullet (on video) hit the victim, but his assumptions are cemented by an "authoritative source," who couldn't POSSIBLY have ulterior motives.

But what if some viewers learn that no autopsy was performed, that the doctor did have nefarious motives and that there was much evidence for another (more plausible) cause of death.

The viewers that learn the truth will have a devil of a time convincing other viewers because of the fixed "paradigm" that has been set and the conventional wisdom that has taken over - ESPECIALLY if the public has already taken the "obvious" assailant to court, found him guilty and sent him to prison.

Add to the difficulty when the original video is replayed, the doctor's testimony is oft-quoted and the unconvinced viewers are ridiculed.

Re-examining our basic worldviews and admitting that we may be wrong is one of the most difficult things possible, especially when there's an emotional reason to cling to the original, more comforting suppositions.

Interesting: Courtesy of Jeff (3.5 min)

Trailer (2 min)

Pre-emptive war

If you simplify the concept of "preventive" or "pre-emptive" war to a dispute between two individuals . . .

John has a problem with Tom. Tom has made several extremely serious threats against John and his family, and John is ALMOST sure that Tom has purchased a handgun and "knows" Tom would use it.

So John decides that the only way he'll ever be safe is if he shoots Tom first, before Tom has the opportunity to harm John's family.

(If the immorality of John's decision isn't obvious - read on)

John then walks accross the street, aims the gun at Tom . . .

A. Tom is killed because he actually did not possess the suspected gun to defend himself - thus John is a murderer.

B. Tom is killed because he did own a gun, but wasn't fast enough to retrieve it - John is still a murderer.

C. Tom does own a gun, he sees John on his property, approaching with the loaded gun and shoots first. John is still morally at fault because Tom is NOW acting in self defense - John is the aggressor.

By going on the offensive John loses all claim to the moral high ground (thus the protection of God), and so do we as a nation. What then is John's solution? I think the answer starts in Alma 48:15.

Dwight D. Eisenhower:

"Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing."