Waterboarding vs. Torture

Throughout the last four years, there has been a lot of debate over the topic of waterboarding, and whether it should be defined as "torture" or not.

Here is the definition of torture, courtesy of dictionary.com:

tor⋅ture [tawr-cher]

–noun

1.	the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.

2.	a method of inflicting such pain.

3.	Often, tortures. the pain or suffering caused or undergone.

4.	extreme anguish of body or mind; agony.

5.	a cause of severe pain or anguish.

Notice that each of these definitions emphasizes the infliction of pain. And how much "pain" was inflicted upon the three suspected terrorists who were waterboarded? Sadly for critics, the answer is none. When an enemy combatant is waterboarded, their body is tilted back and their nose is covered with a wet towel to make the suspect feel as though he is drowning. It is certainly relevant to ask whether they actually are drowning or not. Again, the answer is no.

Let us take a good look at the news around the world, in order to have a greater understanding about what torture really is.

Iraqis pour out tales of Saddam's torture chambers

BAGHDAD — Pictures of dead Iraqis, with their necks slashed, their eyes gouged out and their genitals blackened, fill a bookshelf. Jail cells, with dried blood on the floor and rusted shackles bolted to the walls, line the corridors. And the screams of what could be imprisoned men in an underground detention center echo through air shafts and sewer pipes.

Iraqi Dictator Saddam Hussein's Shop of Horrors

Writing in The New Republic, foreign correspondent Robert Kaplan recalled the treatment meted out some years back to Robert Spurling, an American technician working at a Baghdad hotel. Spurling "had been taken away from his wife and daughters at Saddam International Airport and tortured for four months with electric shock, brass knuckles, and wooden bludgeons. His toes were crushed and his toenails ripped out. He was kept in solitary confinement on a starvation diet. Finally, American diplomats won his release. Multiply his story by thousands, and you will have an idea what Iraq is like to this day." Spurling was one of Saddam's luckier victims: He survived. Many thousands of others have been executed outright or tortured to death -- or forced to witness the torture or murder of their loved ones.

Water Cure

Water cure is a form of water torture in which the victim is forced to drink large quantities of water in a short time, resulting in gastric distension, water intoxication, and possibly death. Often the victim has the mouth forced or wedged open, the nose closed with pincers and a funnel or strip of cloth forced down the throat. The victim has to drink all the water (or other liquids such as bile or urine) poured into the funnel to avoid drowning. The stomach fills until near bursting, and is sometimes beaten until the victim vomits and the torture begins again.

Sixty-five Year Old Man is Hit with a Small Stool and a Water Bottle is hung from his Genitals

On June 3, 2001, Mr. Wang Enchang who at the time was 65 years old was brought to the Men's Group where Falun Gong practitioners are illegally detained. Group leader Wang Qi brutally tortured Wang Enchang in order to try to force him to give up the practice of Falun Gong. While beating Wang Enchang with both electric and rubber batons, Wang Qi said: "This is the law of our country." Then Wang Qi ordered two people to hit Wang Enchang's lower legs and knees with folding metal chairs and said: "I represent the government." Wang Enchang fell to the ground due to unbearable pain. Then Wang Qi ordered them to hit his shoulders and back with wooden rods and rubber batons. Wang Enchang felt his heart was exploding. Then the vicious men stepped heavily on Wang Enchang's genitals for over 10 minutes, giving him injuries that have still not healed. He is in so much pain that he wakes up more than ten times a night, and he is forced to kneel on the bed to relieve the unbearable pain in his groin and back . What's even more savage is that Wang Qi tied a water bottle to Wang Enchang's genitals to torture him. The only reason for the torture is to try to force him to give up Falun Gong and for Wang Qi to keep his "Advanced Group" title.

Beating with a weapon

Interrogators used weapons in 26 out of 41 cases. The weapons used are mostly rifle butts, police batons and clubs. Other weapons include: an iron pipe, and a police baton with nails. From the testimony of Mohammed Dagher: "Then, the interrogator severely beat me with an iron pipe on my elbows and knees. He asked me to stand up and to raise my hands. He beat me again on the elbows and knees and threatened that I should confess if I ever want to go back home again." From the testimony of Ibrahim Rashmawi: "When I asked if they were beating me because I had damaged the house of a collaborator with Israel, they beat me harder and beat me all over my body with sticks and the butts of the rifles."

Saudi Arabia: New Video Confirms Torture in Prison

Beatings and other forms of ill-treatment in Saudi prisons are far more common than the single incident captured in the video. In November, several prisoners at al-Ha’ir prison told Human Rights Watch that guards regularly beat them as punishment for perceived transgressions. One prisoner told Human Rights Watch: “I got into a fight. The guards came and beat us all. They made us lie down and beat us; they broke sticks on our backs.” Guards often beat prisoners collectively, regardless of who was responsible for the perceived transgression, prisoners said. “Last month, a prisoner had an argument with a guard,” another prisoner told Human Rights Watch. “The guard brought everyone from the wing outside and beat them.” Several other prisoners said guards had suspended them above the ground for prolonged periods. “If a prisoner complains about anything he is beaten,” said a third prisoner. “They also hang us by handcuffs with our feet suspended, or take our blankets.”

Horrifying tales of torture, execution in North Korea

She said she had witnessed numerous other atrocities, including the murder of newborn babies by guards and doctors. "While I was there, three women delivered babies on the cement floor without blankets," Ms Soon told a Senate judiciary subcommittee chaired by Democrat Edward Kennedy. "It was horrible to watch the prison doctor kicking the pregnant women with his boots. When a baby was born, the doctor shouted, 'Kill it quickly. How can a criminal expect to have a baby? Kill it.' "The women covered their faces with their hands and wept. Even though the deliveries were forced by injection, the babies were still alive when born. The prisoner-nurses, with trembling hands, squeezed the babies' necks to kill them."

N. Korean reveals childhood torture

When Mr. Shin was 13, his mother and brother attempted an escape, unsuccessfully. That day, a civilian car met Mr. Shin outside the camp school. He was driven to a secret, underground location. There, guards demanded details of the plot. Mr. Shin was ignorant of it. He was suspended over a fire. When he screamed, a hook was hacked into his groin. Unconscious, he was slung into a cell with a skeletal old man. The man cared for the child's festering injuries and gave him his own meager rations. It was the first time Mr. Shin had ever received affection from another human. "I will never forget him," Mr. Shin wrote. "I came to love him more than my parents." After seven months, Mr. Shin was released to witness his mother's hanging and his brother's execution by shooting. Mr. Shin noticed his father in tears, but he had only one emotion: "I was furious with them; as a result of their crimes, I was subject to torture." Life continued. His niece was raped and killed by guards. He dropped a sewing machine; guards chopped off a fingertip with a knife. Constantly hungry, he once found three corn kernels in a pile of cow manure, his "lucky day." Unaware of any world beyond the wire, his dreams were to excel at work, gain permission to marry or become a team leader.

Torture In Iran

Psychological torture is one thing, physical torture another. And Batebi says there was plenty of that too. "They kicked me in the teeth and broke them. There was a toilet that was stopped up with feces. They put my head into the toilet," he said. Batebi told Cooper the bottom of his feet and his back were beaten with a cable, and that his testicles were beaten as well. Asked how long this went on for, Batebi said, "This ha ppened the whole time I was in solitary confinement. It also happened at other times."

"They also used sleep deprivation against you, kept you up day and night. And they hung you from the ceiling with your hands tied behind your back," Cooper remarked. "At least five or six times they did this," Batebi replied. Batebi told 60 Minutes he never knew which days he'd be tortured or which technique they would use. Once he says, they cut him, and rubbed salt in his wounds. "I hadn't slept for maybe 72 hours. I couldn't think clearly. I was drooling. I wanted to sleep but they would slap me to keep me awake. In the final hours when even the slapping wouldn't keep me up, they cut my arms and hands and put salt in my wounds so the burning would keep me awake."

Meanwhile, in the United States, we're complaining about this:

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi recently went out of her way to refute the charge that she knew about the waterboarding procedure long before it was used as a weapon against the Bush Administration.

"In that or any other briefing…we were not, and I repeat, were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation techniques were used. What they did tell us is that they had some legislative counsel ... opinions that they could be used."

It turns out that the Washington Post confirmed that Pelosi was not only present to view the enhanced interrogation techniques, but that bipartisan congressional observers encouraged its use.

Yet long before "waterboarding" entered the public discourse, the CIA gave key legislative overseers about 30 private briefings, some of which included descriptions of that technique and other harsh interrogation methods, according to interviews with multiple U.S. officials with firsthand knowledge.

With one known exception, no formal objections were raised by the lawmakers briefed about the harsh methods during the two years in which waterboarding was employed, from 2002 to 2003, said Democrats and Republicans with direct knowledge of the matter. The lawmakers who held oversight roles during the period included Pelosi and Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) and Sens. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) and John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), as well as Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.) and Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan).

Individual lawmakers' recollections of the early briefings varied dramatically, but officials present during the meetings described the reaction as mostly quiet acquiescence, if not outright support. "Among those being briefed, there was a pretty full understanding of what the CIA was doing," said Goss, who chaired the House intelligence committee from 1997 to 2004 and then served as CIA director from 2004 to 2006. "And the reaction in the room was not just approval, but encouragement."

As the old saying goes, "A lie told often enough will become the truth."

Fast forward to the present.

The CIA has confirmed that by waterboarding 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Muhammad, he revealed valuable intelligence that aborted a 9/11-style attack on Los Angeles.

Here is the difference in terms of our reaction:

CNSNews.com: CIA Confirms: Waterboarding 9/11 Mastermind Led to Info that Aborted 9/11-Style Attack on Los Angeles

According to the previously classified May 30, 2005 Justice Department memo that was released by President Barack Obama last week, the thwarted attack -- which KSM called the “Second Wave”-- planned “ ‘to use East Asian operatives to crash a hijacked airliner into’ a building in Los Angeles.” KSM was the mastermind of the first “hijacked-airliner” attacks on the United States, which struck the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Northern Virginia on Sept. 11, 2001.

Huffington Post: CIA Waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 183 Times In One Month

So: two two-hour sessions a day, with six applications of the waterboard each = 12 applications in a day. Though to get up to the permitted 12 minutes of waterboarding in a day (with each use of the waterboard limited to 40 seconds), you'd need 18 applications in a day. Assuming you use the larger 18 applications in one 24-hour period, and do 18 applications on five days within a month, you've waterboarded 90 times--still just half of what they did to KSM. The CIA wants you to believe waterboarding is effective. Yet somehow, it took them 183 applications of the waterboard in a one month period to get what they claimed was cooperation out of KSM. That doesn't sound very effective to me.

The difference in effectiveness, of course, is Los Angeles. Had we abolished the use of waterboarding, the City of Angels would have suffered terribly from another terrorist attack.

The media's reaction to KSM's life-saving interrogations:

What if Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Had Died? AlterNet - ‎21 hours ago‎ Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times. We practiced sleep deprivation on him for 11 straight days. I don't know how many times we smashed his ... Waterboarding 2 members of al Qaeda 266 times constitute a crime? CNN Political Ticker Planner of 9/11 attacks waterboarded 183 times-NYT Reuters

Not even a word about Los Angeles made the headlines.

Even if you are amongst the three enemy combatants, I can guarantee that you were never:

• Having your eyes gouged out.
• Having your genitals blackened.
• Being tortured for months with electric shock, brass knuckles, and wooden bludgeons.
• Having your toes crushed and your toenails ripped out.
• Being kept in solitary confinement on a starvation diet.
• Being forced to witness the torture or murder of your loved ones.
• Drinking large quantities of water mixed with urine or bile in a short time with your nose closed.
• Taking a beating on your shoulders and back with both electric and rubber batons and wooden rods.
• Having your genitals stepped on.
• Having a water bottle tied to your genitals.
• Being beaten with an iron pipe, clubs, rifle butts, and a police baton with nails.
• Being beaten on your back until a guard's stick breaks.
• Being hung by handcuffs with your feet suspended.
• Having a "prison doctor" squeeze the neck of your newborn baby, killing it.
• Being suspended over a fire.
• Having a hook in your groin.
• Witnessing your mother's hanging.
• Having your fingertips chopped off with a knife.
• Being kicked in the teeth to the point where they break.
• Having your head dunked in a toilet full of feces.
• Having your testicles beaten with a cable.
• Being deprived of sleep for 72 hours, slapped, and cut, with salt in your wounds to keep you awake.

And yet, opportunistic politicians are willing to put their own country in the same category as the ruthless dictatorships that practice these barbaric means of torture.

We Are Living Saul Alinsky's Wildest Dreams

"Hence tyrants are always fond of bad men, because they love to be flattered, but no man who has the spirit of a freeman in him will lower himself by flattery; good men love others, or at any rate do not flatter them. Moreover, the bad are useful for bad purposes; 'nail knocks out nail,' as the proverb says. It is characteristic of a tyrant to dislike every one who has dignity or independence; he wants to be alone in his glory, but any one who claims a like dignity or asserts his independence encroaches upon his prerogative, and is hated by him as an enemy to his power. Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table; for the one are enemies, but the Others enter into no rivalry with him."

- Aristotle, Politics

Frank Marshall Davis

Barack Obama's campaign acknowledged that Frank Marshall Davis is the "Frank" identified in Dreams of My Father during the presidential campaign. Frank Marshall Davis was Obama's mentor from the US Communist Party during his high school days.

Here's an excerpt from the Obama campaign's smear piece against the "fringe bigot", Jerome Corsi, author of Obama Nation:

LIE: “But the key role Frank Marshall Davis plays in the autobiography is not to provide Obama with words from his poems as a voice for Obama’s black rage. Instead Davis is the mentor Obama seeks for wisdom and advice, for instance when he has a crisis with his grandmother that was so traumatic Obama still mentions it today.” [p 87]

REALITY: OBAMA MEMOIR CHARACTERIZED FRANK DAVIS MARSHALL AS A FIGURE FROM HIS YOUTH WHO “FELL SHORT” AND WHOSE VIEW OF RACE WAS “INCURABLE”

The "reality" doesn't say much. Many could argue that Obama's views on race couldn't be more divisive. No questions are answered as to how intimate this relationship was.

The reality buried in the sand is that Davis would defend convicts who conspired to overthrow the Government by force and violence, who were members of the Communist Party.

In the Honolulu Record, October 20, 1949, page 6, Davis is quoted, "I feel strong sympathy for the Communist minority who are being oppressed for their political beliefs."

To leave it at that would leave out a far more scandalous affair. As it turns out, Mr. Davis was also a pedophile according to The Telegraph in the UK.

The article confirms that Davis wrote under a different name about his bizzare sex life.

“I could not then truthfully deny that this book, which came out in 1968 as a Greenleaf Classic, was mine.” In the introduction to Sex Rebel, Mr Davis (writing as Greene) explains that although he has “changed names and identities…all incidents I have described have been taken from actual experiences”.

He stated that “under certain circumstances I am bisexual” and that he was “ a voyeur and an exhibitionist” who was “occasionally mildly interested in sado-masochism”, adding: “I have often wished I had two penises to enjoy simultaneously the double – but different – sensations of oral and genital copulation.”

The book, which closely tracks Mr Davis’s life in Chicago and Hawaii and the fact that his first wife was black and his second white, describes in lurid detail a series of shockingly sordid sexual encounters, often involving group sex.

One chapter concerns the seduction by Mr Davis and his first wife of a 13-year-old girl called Anne. Mr Davis wrote that it was the girl who had suggested he had sex with her. “I’m not one to go in for Lolitas. Usually I’d rather not bed a babe under 20.

“But there are exceptions. I didn’t want to disappoint the trusting child. At her still-impressionistic age, a rejection might be traumatic, could even cripple her sexually for life.”

He then described how he and his wife would have sex with the girl. “Anne came up many times the next several weeks, her aunt thinking she was in good hands. Actually she was.

“She obtained a course in practical sex from experienced and considerate practitioners rather than from ignorant insensitive neophytes….I think we did her a favour, although the pleasure was mutual.”

On other occasions, Mr Davis would cruise in Hawaii parks looking for couples or female tourists to have sex with. He derived sexual gratification from bondage, simulated rape and being flogged and urinated on.

Obama's Involvement With Community Organizing

Here is an abridgement from a previous piece entitled, "The Truth About The Community Organizer."

Saul Alinsky was a transformational Marxist who was deeply influenced by Antonio Gramsci, an Italian communist philosopher. Gramsci and Alinsky believed that you could not change the West with a confrontation. Instead, a "long march through the institutions" was required to change it from the inside out. As opposed to a Bolshevik-style revolution, a revolution on the United States would have to be achieved through the democratic process by the practice of infiltrating the institutions, such as churches, courts, universities, and schools through a trained stealth facilitator - otherwise known as a community organizer.

The ultimate goal of the community organizer was to weaken the firm beliefs of the middle class through a series of discussions among a diverse group in order to achieve a pre-planned outcome. In short, it is twisting the truth to achieve a concensus among the group.

In order to achieve the consensus, the meetings must consist of all five of these elements:

- a diverse group
- dialoguing to consensus
- over a social issue
- led by a trained facilitator
- toward a pre-planned outcome.

The diversity of the group is necessary in order to shake down an individual's firm convictions by the means of peer pressure. The fear of a man's rejection from society will cause him to remain silent about his convictions unless he is to change his mind. The goal of this manipulative process is to achieve a paradigm shift - a change in the individual's thought process altogether.

For three years, Obama worked as a consultant and instrucor for the Gamaliel Foundation, which claims to represent over a million people worldwide. The name “Gamaliel” refers to a teacher of Saint Paul in the book of Acts, who was considered to be first great congregation-based organizer, according to Saul Alinsky. Another connection between the Gamaliel Foundation and Saul Alinsky is that a key topic in training is to see "the world as it is" versus "the world as it should be," which came directly from Chapter Two of Alinsky's notorious playbook, Rules for Radicals.


ACORN Fraud & Embezzlement

ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) is another byproduct of Saul Alinsky, which grew out of the National Welfare Rights Organization. The NWRO has specialized in flooding the welfare rolls by organizing sit-ins and disruptions at welfare offices, pressuring social workers to remove restrictions on its potential recipients.

Saul Alinsky is credited for coining the phrase, "Think globally, act locally." For years, that was the tactical motto for ACORN. Chicago, unsuprisingly, is home to one of its strongest chapters. The organization is known for its "in your face" approach, and operates through the use of aggression and intimidation.

Madeleine Talbot, once a leader of Chicago ACORN, took notice of Obama's community organizing skills to the extent that she invited him to help train her own staff. During a minimum wage debate, Talbot made an attempt to storm the Chicago City Council, resulting in the arrest of six arrests out of the 200 ACORN protesters who disrupted the Chicago City Council session.

ACORN is currently under a federal investigation, and the findings are set to expose them as a mob-style racket. They are being tried under RICO statutes (under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) for voter fraud.

Project Vote, which Obama personally directed in 1992, has illegally received donor lists from the Obama, Kerry, and Clinton campaigns. ACORN staffers received payments through Project Vote for partisan campaign activities. The Project Vote development plan was to ‘approach maxed out presidential donors’, and ‘allegedly use the funds for voter registration drives.’ ACORN based which states Project Vote would conduct voter registration drives on political considerations. These were often conducted in battleground states to change the outcome of the elections. In 2007, there was a $9 million discrepancy in the ACORN affiliated accounts.

The program for the ACORN voter registration drives is Muscle For Money. ACORN affiliate Citizens Services International (“CSI”) received almost $900,000 from the Obama campaign for voter registration, voter identification, turnout and get-out-the-vote services. ACORN members were paid to intimidate such corporations as Sherwin-Williams, H&R Block, Jackson Hewitt, Money Mart, among others. The main goal of this strategy was to extract corporate donations.

Much of this information has come to light, thanks to Heather Heidelbaugh, an attorney serving on the Executive Committee of the Republican National Lawyers Association. Heidelbaugh is currently testifying before Congress in regard to this massive extortion racket.

A Parody of Reverend Lowery's Inaugural Benediction

The original benediction:

Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around -- (laughter) -- when yellow will be mellow -- (laughter) -- when the red man can get ahead, man --(laughter) -- and when white will embrace what is right.

And my benediction...

Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day...

When the Taliban are not Sacred Cows again.

When political correctness will not infect us.

When our Constitution trumps Congress' intrusion.

When our gas will not be taxed.

When the dead man does not give up his bread, man.

When our president is born a resident.

When a platitude has some facts, dude.

When family values trumps tranny values.

When the Left will not resort to theft.

When the Center will choose a gender.

And when the Right will put up a fight.

Amen!

Cultural Agitators Hijack Oscars

In light of the Oscars, it is obvious that Hollywood is one of the most politically and religiously slanted social institutions in America. Upon accepting the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Milk, gay activist Dustin Lance Black proclaimed:

When I was 13 years old, my beautiful mother and my father moved me from a conservative Mormon home in San Antonio, Texas to California, and I heard the story of Harvey Milk. And it gave me hope. It gave me the hope to live my life. It gave me the hope one day I could live my life openly as who I am and then maybe even I could even fall in love and one day get married.

I wanna thank my mom, who has always loved me for who I am even when there was pressure not to. But most of all, if Harvey had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he'd want me to say to all of the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight who have been told that they are less than by their churches, by the government or by their families, that you are beautiful, wonderful creatures of value and that no matter what anyone tells you, God does love you and that very soon, I promise you, you will have equal rights federally, across this great nation of ours.

Thank you. Thank you. And thank you, God, for giving us Harvey Milk.

Milk only grossed $31,279,982 worldwide, a disappointment considering it stars Sean Penn. Wall-E, nominated for the same award, grossed $534,741,772 worldwide. This is not to suggest that the award is solely based on the size of the audience. Evidently, it's based on the sexual orientation of the audience. Consequentially, Milk received more attention at the Oscars than it did at the box office.

As a result of Hollywood's preferential treatment of a film based on its worldview, I figured I grant the same appreciation for films that didn't necessarily top the box office, but deserve credit for advocating the values of God, family, and country. These films represent a counter-cultural market that has met a demand for taste and representation.

The Passion of The Christ

Shortly before The Passion of The Christ hit movie theaters nationwide, Entertainment Weekly asked on the cover, "Can Mel Gibson Survive 'The Passion of The Christ'?"

Not only did this film survive, it became the highest grossing non-English film and most successful R-rated film in the United States. The film went on to stump Hollywood elites, who had no prior idea how powerful the counter-cultural market could prove to be.

Aside from its profitability, the film portrayed the most powerful depiction of the crucifixion the world has ever seen.

Facing The Giants

Members of Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia pull off an impressive film about Grant Taylor, a football coach who struggled to lead his team into a winning season for six years. Taylor and his wife also face the drama of infertility as they long to conceive a child.

Taylor's trials and tribulations are confronted when he brings God onto the team. Gradually, the Giants become confident in themselves and each other.

This film has plenty of humor in it as well.

Bobby Lee Duke is an egomaniacal coach who has led his team into the championship for years. As the Giants get their act together, Duke's ego is replaced by madness. As very few would suspect, this role was played by Sherwood Baptist associate pastor Jim McBride.

J.T. Hawkins Jr, and upbeat assistant coach (and a black man) pokes fun at Taylor's ongoing journey into baldness:

When a black man loses his hair. He still looks cool. Look at Michael Jordan... Samuel Jackson... [continues with all the black bald men he can think of] And what do you have? Cool Jack.

Fireproof

Described as "the best work of my life" by actor Kirk Cameron, Fireproof grossed $33,415,129 (more than Milk) and the highest grossing independent film of 2008. At the height of his career on Growing Pains, Cameron converted to Christianity and began insisting on more immaculate story lines.

Fireproof is the story of Caleb Holt, a firefighter who is brave and courageous on the job, but at home, his marriage is headed for divorce. The story begins with the classic breakdown of a relationship caused by a lack of love and respect. Throughout the film, the sins of Caleb and his wife come to a head. Caleb is not only addicted to internet pornography, but ignorant of his wife's family situation - her mother is disabled and in need of hospital equipment.

In an effort to save the marriage, Caleb's father gives him a book of daily guidelines to win back the love of his wife. Initially resistant to accepting God in his life, he is frustrated with the lack of recovery:

John Holt: Has she thanked you for anything you've done the last 20 days?

Caleb Holt: No! And you'd think after I washed the car, I've changed the oil, do the dishes, cleaned the house, that she would try to show me a little bit of gratitude. But she doesn't! In fact, when I come home, she makes me like I'm - like I'm an enemy! I'm not even welcome in my own home, Dad. That is what really ticks me off! Dad, for the last three weeks, I have bent over backwards for her. I have tried to demonstrate that I still care about this relationship. I bought her flowers, which she threw away. I have taken her insults and her sarcasm, but last night was it. I made dinner for her. I did everything I could to demonstrate that I care about her, to show value for her, and she spat in my face! She does not deserve this, Dad. I'm not doing it anymore! How am I supposed to show love to somebody over and over and over who constantly rejects me?

John Holt: [touches, then leans against cross] That's a good question.

The Onion's Scott Tobias whacked the film, saying that "Fireproof gets hung up in a lot of Promise Keepers hoo-hah about reaffirming marriage as a covenant with God rather than a contract filed at City Hall." Regardless, Fireproof would go on to become Cameron's second most successful film in his career.

An American Carol

From Naked Gun producer David Zucker comes a slapstick political comedy, much in the vein of his previous work. Although Zucker voted for Al Gore in 2000, he credits such personalities as Dennis Prager and Charles Krauthammer for inspiring a change in his worldview.

Michael Malone (played by Kevin Farley) mimics the antics of Michael Moore as he vows to ban the Fourth of July with the help of a couple jihadist friends. Throughout his efforts, he meets General George S. Patton (Kelsey Grammer), among other American icons to persuade him to embrace his home country, rather than propagate against it.

The gags are mostly political, which alienates a good portion of the audience, but reaches out to a market that rarely attends to slapstick comedy. This may explain why Fox News ended up cancelling The 1/2 Hour News Hour, which was well-done, but would have found more success on Comedy Central.

American conservative talk radio personalities such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and Mark Levin praised the political comedy, and encouraged their listeners to see it. Although it opened grossing only $3.8 million at the box office, it still topped Bill Maher's anti-religious Religulous.

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

Ben Stein stars as the host of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, which challenges an atheistic scientific establishment to a debate over the origins of mankind. The science of intelligent design is addressed for the most part as a cultural struggle, but the film is sure to present such theories as irreducible complexity in order to validate its scientific merit.

Controversial from the get-go, the film dares to link the role of evolutionary theory to the most inhumane societies of the 20th century, especially Nazi Germany and the Former Soviet Union. The link to Hitler's extremes to wipe out "inferior" races resulted in a harsh condemnation from the Anti-Defamation League:

"The film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed misappropriates the Holocaust and its imagery as a part of its political effort to discredit the scientific community which rejects so-called intelligent design theory. Hitler did not need Darwin to devise his heinous plan to exterminate the Jewish people and Darwin and evolutionary theory cannot explain Hitler's genocidal madness. Using the Holocaust in order to tarnish those who promote the theory of evolution is outrageous and trivializes the complex factors that led to the mass extermination of European Jewry."

In a courageous move, Stein confronts Richard Dawkins, the leading advocate against the intelligent design movement.

Richard Dawkins: We know the sort of event that must have happened for the origin of life.

Ben Stein: And what was that?

Dawkins: It was the origin of the first self replicating molecule.

Stein: Right, and how did that happen?

Dawkins: I've told you, we don't know.

Stein: So you have no idea how it started.

Dawkins: No, no. Nor has anyone.

Grossing nearly $3 million on its first weekend, Expelled became the third biggest opening for a documentary.

When we look at the lack of success from films such as Milk, and notice that they have been shined upon by the film industry, we come to understand that Hollywood has been hijacked by agenda-driven elitists who are at war through political activism.

What did Harvey Milk accomplish that was so significant? A lot, if you put sodomy on a pedestal. Nothing, if simply being a member of the San Fransisco Board of Supervisors and a cultural agitator is all that can be spoken of.

A Nation of Cowards?

All throughout Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, he promised "change we can believe in." He positioned himself as a reformer of the political process, giving millions of Americans hope that civil discourse would be conducted in a respectful manner. Unfortunately, fewer people than ever have reason to believe in the "change" they voted for.

Whenever Barack Obama finds himself under the gun, he uses the historically oppressed half of his race as a defense mechanism (he's also half white by the way).

That may seem like a radical statement, but in light of Attorney General Eric Holder's recent comments, and given the overall shakedown approach of other members of the Obama Administration, it appears to be a major portion of their agenda.

Any positive contribution of the Civil Rights Movement to society was overshadowed by his tirade of contempt for a nation that elected their first president of African decent:

"Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards."

First of all, it is not the job of an Attorney General to discuss racial relations (or, one might say, to foment sophomoric racial tension). Given the race-baiting nature of Holder's approach, he doesn't appear to be qualified to head law enforcement on a national level. Secondly, this is not how you address a maturing nation about Black History Month. Americans are remorseful for the grievances and injustices that African-Americans dealt with for over 400 years.

Given the sensative nature of race, Eric Holder may wonder why many Americans do not wish to discuss the subject. Seemingly, anyone who disagrees with the left's racial agenda is tired of being called a "racist" for simply disagreeing with affirmative action or reparations for slavery. Race is a subject that turns otherwise decent people into bullies when they are faced with affirmative action horror stories. In light of Bill Cosby's crucifixion, the black community needs to wage war on the subcultures responsible for the negative influences that led to the tragic examples of a wedlock majority and high abortion rates among the black community.

During the Bush Administration, which gave minorities more appointments to high government posts than ever before, we weren't faced with this kind of approach. At worst case scenerio, there was a misunderstanding of the "three-fifths compromise" of the U.S. Constitution by Former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. Even so, her comments were not intended as a cheapshot of zero-sum multiculturalism. In other words, shaking down one group as a tactic to advance another.

Since the campaign, Obama has distanced himself from the racial tolerance and progress of the Bush Administration. In a frustrated tirade of his own, he attacked his critics and accused them of being racist fear-mongers.

"What they’re going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know, he doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills. We know what kind of campaign they’re going to run. They’re going to try to make you afraid. They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?"

Because nobody bothered to call out this candidate for his "Hymietown" moment, we have the most racist administration in history - filled with tax cheats, lobbyists, race-baiters, and street agitators. It is a combination of Clinton's attack dogs and a new class of classless lilliputians.

Obama's race-baiting has a history as well. In this video from 1995, Obama acts as though he is a street agitator who sat in the pews of Reverend Jeremiah Wright. He attacks "white executives" for not wanting to pay more taxes to inner city children. He bases his salvation on his ability to redistribute wealth. Come to think of it...



It's 2009, and very little has changed. When asked about the "Porkulus" bill, Secretary of Labor (and former Berkeley professor) Robert Reich made it clear that it was an act that would not only dismiss highly trained professionals from infrastructure projects, but would write off the opportunities to white males who fell on hard times.

"I am concerned, as I’m sure many of you are, that these jobs not simply go to high-skilled people who are already professionals or to white male construction workers…I have nothing against white male construction workers, I’m just saying there are other people who have needs as well."

Obama has been in office for only a month. And yet, the examples of pinning of one race against another are endless and frequent. Even his Inauguration, he was sure to consider a race-baiting reverend such as Reverend Joseph Lowery to deliver a benediction that attacked anyone of Asian and European decent:

"Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around -- (laughter) -- when yellow will be mellow -- (laughter) -- when the red man can get ahead, man -- (laughter) -- and when white will embrace what is right."

There's your modern-day "civil rights legends" at work.

The Truth About the Community Organizer

On January 20, 2009, America sworn in its first community organizer turned president. As they did in the campaign, every major media network paid little attention to the big story and emphasized President Barack Hussein Obama's race everywhere you turned. Governor Paterson of New York, successor of the disgraced whore-monger Eliot Spitzer, even suggested that mentioning the term "community organizer" at repetition amounted to racial overtones.

Unfortunately, the GOP used it as a laughing matter to make a point about Obama's second greatest weakness - his lack of experience. Throughout the campaign, John McCain was sure to avoid the subject of Obama's greatest weakness - his radical political mentors.

Take the third presidential debate for example, with Bob Schieffer. McCain was asked about Obama's associations with Weatherman Underground bomber William Ayers, a man who is said to desire the extermination of 25 million capitalists who refused to fold on their convictions. At first, McCain dodged the question entirely. It reached a point where Schieffer had to push McCain to even discuss the issue.

While coming off as passionate about running a dignified campaign, McCain was clearly disinterested in revealing Obama's controversial past. Sarah Palin was able to scratch the surface on Obama's past, but only used the "community organizer" title for humorous purposes.

You may want to take a deep breath before I go on.

According to L. David Alinsky, the son of Saul Alinsky, Obama is a master of the tactics his father taught. In the Boston Globe, he wrote this letter to the editor:

"ALL THE elements were present: the individual stories told by real people of their situations and hardships, the packed-to-the rafters crowd, the crowd's chanting of key phrases and names, the action on the spot of texting and phoning to show instant support and commitment to jump into the political battle, the rallying selections of music, the setting of the agenda by the power people. The Democratic National Convention had all the elements of the perfectly organized event, Saul Alinsky style.

"Barack Obama's training in Chicago by the great community organizers is showing its effectiveness. It is an amazingly powerful format, and the method of my late father always works to get the message out and get the supporters on board. When executed meticulously and thoughtfully, it is a powerful strategy for initiating change and making it really happen. Obama learned his lesson well.

"I am proud to see that my father's model for organizing is being applied successfully beyond local community organizing to affect the Democratic campaign in 2008. It is a fine tribute to Saul Alinsky as we approach his 100th birthday."

Saul Alinsky was a transformational Marxist who was deeply influenced by Antonio Gramsci, an Italian communist philosopher. Gramsci and Alinsky believed that you could not change the West with a confrontation. Instead, a "long march through the institutions" was required to change it from the inside out. As opposed to a Bolshevik-style revolution, a revolution on the United States would have to be achieved through the democratic process by the practice of infiltrating the institutions, such as churches, courts, universities, and schools through a trained stealth facilitator - otherwise known as a community organizer.

In an effort to appear centrist, Alinsky and his followers would frown upon overt 1960's throwbacks that protested the Vietnam War and lacked personal hygiene. They would dress professionally as they spoke to the common man. When speaking to the middle class and their blue-collar followers, they would persuasively articulate what they called "common sense solutions for working families." Only in their inner circle would they vent about "racism," "sexism," and "oppressive corporate systems."

The ultimate goal of the community organizer was to weaken the firm beliefs of the middle class through a series of discussions among a diverse group in order to achieve a pre-planned outcome. In short, it is twisting the truth to achieve a concensus among the group.
In order to achieve the consensus, the meetings must consist of all five of these elements:

- a diverse group
- dialoguing to consensus
- over a social issue
- led by a trained facilitator
- toward a pre-planned outcome.

The diversity of the group is necessary in order to shake down an individual's firm convictions by the means of peer pressure. The fear of a man's rejection from society will cause him to remain silent about his convictions unless he is to change his mind. The goal of this manipulative process is to achieve a paradigm shift - a change in the individual's thought process altogether.

Obama's ties to Alinsky are furthermore exposed in a speech given by Michelle Obama on the campaign trail. The language was nearly identical to Chapter 2 of Saul Alinsky's stealth Marxist manifesto, Rules for Radicals. From Michelle Obama:

"Barack stood up that day and spoke words that have stayed with me ever since. He talked about 'The world as it is' and 'The world as it should be...All of us driven by a simple belief that the world as it is just won't do -- that we have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be."

This utopian tidbit is based on this selection found in Rules for Radicals:

"The means-and-ends moralists, constantly obsessed with the ethics of the means used by the Have-Nots against the Haves, should search themselves as to their real political position. In fact, they are passive -- but real -- allies of the Haves... The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means... The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be."

I leave you with a chilling video on this subject matter found on You Tube: