Volunteering — a bridge to a closer community, and supporting the poor in the vicinity. As they say, “charity begins at home”. Scheduling this is often a mite difficult, and let’s bear in mind that this in itself is free time better used in actually volunteering.

Companies like Adaptive Marketing LLC, a firm from Connecticut whose programs, like Privacy Matters 1-2-3, bring value to customers, are stepping up to become the points of organization enabling their employees to make time for reaching out. Such initiatives were always rare events — but this has come to be seen as just the beginning. Shoe recycling initiatives and more active work like tree-planting weekends — these are just some of the activities that have been organized by Adaptive Marketing for its staff. By centralizing the organization individual volunteers’ tasks blossomed into events, with specific dates, locations and times publicized in advance to help those signing up with their time management. Making sure volunteers have a say in which activities the company supports is essential. Employees of Adaptive Marketing select from among many local volunteer programs. When looking for possible projects you see so many; getting involved in the entertainment and education of children and young adults, assisting with green programs, or supporting the community through arts and culture to name just a few. In many cases, the more they enjoy it, the more productive they are, so by offering so many initiatives Adaptive Marketing guarantee that their staff will make progress on all the initiatives.

A single big event or a regular addition to their schedule — these are the usual ways for a company to organize volunteer initiatives like these, possibly at a local school or the homeless shelter in town. Staff members may well say they have no time to give, though it would be pretty surprising if they truly cannot free up enough hours to lend a hand with one instalment of a long term project.

We’re sure that by now you’ve heard a number of examples of organizations supporting the people who live nearby. Adaptive Marketing like many other firms sponsors volunteer programs to help others and to generate goodwill within the local community through its members of staff actions. One thing volunteer initiatives are guaranteed to do is provide your employees with a healthy appreciation for what they can do, creating a motivated company. Helping your staffers to find the time to volunteer is beneficial in some very concrete ways.

The sense of brotherhood that develops among volunteers can unite their community, and of course it will fulfill the volunteers’ goal of assisting those who can’t support themselves. But how much time does it take to plan? You’ll discover that it’s easier to volunteer when an event is pre-planned. And volunteering is more fun when your co-workers are pitching in by your side!

This is a call, then, for companies to take a cue from far-sighted firms like Adaptive Marketing LLC. As well as financial and shopping benefits programs such as Your Savings Club created for the benefit of consumers, Adaptive Marketing organizes local volunteer activity so that its employees have the time to give back to the local community.

Such initiatives used to be rare, minor occasions — but this has come to be seen as a bare minimum. Running shoe recycling programs and more active work like tree-planting days — these and others are among the activities that have been made possible for its staff by Adaptive Marketing. For these events, the dates, times and locations of the events were posted, making sure that employees knew what to expect, and how much time it might take exactly. It’s hardly volunteering if there’s no choice between activities, of course. At Adaptive Marketing, the company behind Your Savings Club, the workforce have the chance to choose from a diverse list of volunteer projects. Earlier projects have included work in areas as diverse as education for children and young adults, green projects, and events related to artists. A volunteer who has fun is an effective volunteer, so through offering so many programs Adaptive Marketing ensure that progress will be made in as many projects as possible. Usually, when businesses encourage staff to get involved at homeless shelters or local schools, it tends to be for a specific event or a regular, perhaps weekly or monthly job. Regardless of how short the time you can spare, we’d expect you can still find some project to suit, so time is no obstacle to charitable work.

We’re sure that by now you’ve heard a number of examples of organizations finding ways of helping the people who live nearby. Goodwill comes from the volunteer work carried out by Adaptive Marketing’s staff over the course of these company-sponsored projects. Another upside is, one of the benefits of volunteer work is a sense of accomplishment and generosity — a positive feeling that uplifts the entire corporate culture. Encouraging your staffers to find the time to volunteer is a process which creates its own reward.

Daniel Wachira wished that the miracle of someday meeting his hero, Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant, would come true. At a charity event called the Miracle on 138th street, Daniel received his miracle. Kobe spent time with the boy, chatted with him and taught him how to dribble. A hug and a high-five later, Daniel thought he had experienced a miracle. What he did not know was that Kobe thought the very same thing.

Daniel’s story is nothing short of miraculous. He is one of the abandoned babies being saved all across Africa. Born on August 30, 2001, he was found in a slum in Nairobi, Kenya, abandoned in a garbage can, missing a left ear and left big toe after being eaten off by dogs.

Named after the prophet who was fed to the lions and survived, he was cared for by Frances and Larry Jones of the Abandoned Baby Center in Kenya, a five-acre facility that provides temporary shelter and medical attention to abandoned babies. The center is a project of Feed the Children, an Oklahoma-based international charity group that has actively participated in child welfare efforts worldwide.

Feed the Children not only arranged Daniel’s meeting with Kobe Bryant but also for two surgical operations to repair his damaged face. Two Houston surgeons Sean Boutros and Michael Miller gave their free services to operate on Daniel.

Homework has been an integral part of learning throughout an individual’s academic years. With the advent of information technology, the process of doing homework has been revolutionized. More information has been made available to the student with just a few taps on the keyboard and some clicks on the mouse. Although information can still be found in books, too much reliance on the Internet for information has displaced most books so that actual library research can be replaced by Internet research. In addition, most of today’s schools require homework to be typewritten.

Such importance has been placed on the computer that students find computer problems to be an easy and reliable excuse for why they could not pass their homework. Although experiencing computer problems are overused excuses, it is nevertheless a plausible one, considering the emphasis laid on computers by schools. A student can reason out that she lost her Internet connection while doing her homework.

Another notable excuse, or lie, is that a virus ate the student’s homework; the use of such excuse has reached epidemic proportions. Yet, though an excuse, the scenario is still possible.

There are still a lot of computer problems being used by students as an excuse why they could not pass their homework, like a systems crash, defective components, or the ever handy “the printer ran out of ink.” Perhaps the only solution to this situation is teaching students how to manage time effectively, use the library, and give out motivation, like extra credits.

As technology progresses, life is getting a bit easier for most people and a tad harder at the same time. Education, for one, has reaped the benefits of information technology but also has definitely suffered some minor glitches.

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America’s #1 problem is not listening to George W. Bush.

If one listens to his supporters after a speech, one wonders if
there is a common “American-English” language anymore. His
supporters tend to make his words sit wherever they want them to
fit.

Listening to his opponents is difficult because most run out of
a room the moment he starts to speak- leaving nothing but
expletives in their wake.

Sadly, neither side really hears him or understands what he is
saying.

His Social Security “reform”, his attacks on all other aspects
of the “safety-net”, his lack of response to Katrina, and his
NSA eavesdropping were all predictable and available for anyone
to anticipate- if they had listened.

George W. Bush is a great cheerleader but a hopeless
co-conspirator. The man can’t help but giggle out his (and his
“Rangers”- Whoo-Yahh!!!) intentions prior to their taking place.

Had anybody done their homework (like Wall Street did), they
would have known the direction the country would take.

After all, this is a man who, in business school, said,
“People are poor because they are lazy” and that the
Federal Trade Commission and the Securities Exchange Commission
were “unnecessary hindrances” to “free market
competition”.

He thought that Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal was
“socialism”. Had it been done (the homework- that is) voters
may have found that he opposed Social Security, Medicare,
Environmental Protection, Public Schools, and Labor Unions.
All while he sat at a cushy chair at Harvard Business School.

Even had it not been done (the homework about his early years),
he gave ample warning about his intentions on how to manipulate.
He was taught early in his career. When asked to run for
Governor of Texas by businessmen he said, “You know I could
run for governor but I’m basically a media creation…”

Aahh yes, the media creation. It gets better though because Boy
George couldn’t hold back his exuberance both during his run for
“President” and subsequent to his being allowed to sit in a
place where giants sat.

For those amazed at how he could take the country into a fiscal
disaster, a military disaster, and a moral disaster, consider
what he said to a reporter as he was campaigning for the Oval
Office in 1999 and the Texas financial books were found to be
cooked: “I hope I’m not here to have to deal with it”.

FUUUNNNYYY STUFF! A guy you want to have a beer with.

Then he got “elected”. For those that are still scratching their
heads about Katrina and dispense with his talk in business
school as the simple words of a young man, the guy sitting in
the Oval Office said, “I don’t understand how poor people
think…” after the 2000 election to the Reverend Jim
Wallis, leader of Call to Renewal, a network of churches that
fight poverty.

The NSA thing is interesting. It is one of the reasons one must
listen to the bubbling brook Bush so intently. It is not that he
makes his pronouncements officially. They tend to leak out of
him because of his boyish excitement.

That’s why it’s important to listen to his “off the cuff”
remarks. Worried about your e-mail, browsing, and purchasing
records? He was way ahead of you and gave you a “heads up!”
warning on April 5, 2001 at the American Society of Newspaper
Editors during their annual convention held at the Marriott
Hotel in Washington D.C.

Boy George told them, “I’ll give you one area, though, where
I’m very cautious, and that’s about e-mailing. I used to be an
avid e-mailer, and I e-mailed to my daughters or e-mailed to my
father, for example. And I don’t want those e-mails to be in
public — in the public domain. So I don’t e-mail any more, out
of concern for freedom of information laws, but also concern for
my privacy.”

Interesting. Upon hearing that at first one would walk away not
thinking much. But digesting it might produce something like:
Doesn’t the White House have the “best and the brightest”
working on secure communications? In light of the question,
which had to do with freedom of information laws, why would a
note to a daughter or a father not be considered endearing to
the public even IF it were to be made public?

Or perhaps a bigger question. Why isn’t the privacy of the
average American (presumably one with absolutely NOTHING…
REALLY, REALLY, NOTHING to hide or keep private) worth as much
as this obviously exceptional moral man?

It’s kind of funny, in a way, there are no pictures of average
Americans kissing or holding the hand, in a loving way, with one
of the leaders of the main financiers (Saudis) of the butchery
currently called the GWOT.

For those frothing at the mouth over illegal aliens, he also
said some interesting things about immigration and jobs in 2001
(you “shoulda” seen it coming).

Ask Jeeves, Google, Yahoo (or whatever other search engine is
available) to look it up. Ask a simple question: “Anyone who
wants a job…?”

Then determine the “framing” of his statement and determine
where the “average” American hoping to achieve or continue the
“American Way Of Life (aka “Our Way of Life”) fits in
when it comes to BushLand.

HITLER & THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION
or The Theocratic State

By: Douglas William Krieger

To understand the appeal, the absolute, mesmerizing, and intoxicating drive behind Hitler’s success, one must go beyond the inequities of the Versailles Treaty and delve into the mysterious association that Herr Hitler placed upon the Christian religion. Don’t think that Adolf was way off into some cultic, overtly demonic world of fantasy and influence. True, the occult most assuredly was deeply engaged in his thinking and outlookbut the use of legitimate Christian imagery was his forte. He both understood the need to mobilize the masses and the religion that alone could sway their fidelity to his cause.

Furthermore, throughout his declarations and apparent pontifications, is a unique ability to uplift and galvanize the German peopleto so highly esteem them and to generate within them the self-esteem that would produce a people whose image of whom they really were would be unalterably changed and transformed into what was enunciated by der Fuhrer. They became transfixed and transported into another state of mind and beingfrom despair and rejection, to an exhilarating euphoria and total acceptance. They could BE ALL THAT THEY COULD BE and then some. Here is no buffoon strutting upon the stage of German dejection and riveting the German mind and will upon himselfno, no, no!

Here is the uniqueness of Adolf Hitler–one who could so enunciate with utter clarity what the German soul could be in its fullness and creative genius. Neither did his spoken word proclaim his own commitment and genius–it climaxed within the Germany he envisioned in such a rapturous expression and discovery of who they were, and what they could become, with God Almighty vindicating every breath they would take! Hitler injected into nearly every German heart a DIVINE SPARK, which morphed into an inferno of destruction and death unforeseen in human history–but its initial dissension upon its benefactors was replete with a baptism of power and light so transcendent that it captured an entire nation in the heart of Christian Europe. Its pristine message created the IMAGE of DAS VOLK, a people who were destined by the very triumph of their corporate will to be the consummation and commencement of the Kingdom of God–DAS THOUSANDE JAHRE REICH! (The promised millennial reign–one thousand year kingdom)!
But, firstly, the Weimar Republic’s failure was predictable. Its liberalism was far too watered down, far too immersed in its diversity and acceptance to galvanize the enthusiasm and concerted consecration of common folk, who longed for a winner, a leader, a “national champion.” Democracy, gone awry, alone can produce dictatorship–de facto, or elected! Ultimately, the Left (Weimar or Hollywood)–again by its very nature–simply cannot SUSTAIN the caliber of commitment and vision that can be produced by absolutism and rigid conservatism to which we allude here.
Today, the striking similarities, which you shall observe, of the Christian Right in America, assisted by its current allies among the so–called neocons (i.e., neoconservatives–pragmatic politicos), have forged a formidable alliance of convenience that wholly supports the rise of the New American World Order System. Its striking resemblance to Hitler’s appeals is frightful! Liberalism may rant and rave about societal freedoms and renounce governmental restrictions–but their voices and challenges are hollow sounding and even adjudged fallacious, when the triumph of his armies have so prevailed upon the Plains of Shinar! Libertarians and Constitutionalists–you do well to listen to this diatribe.

ADOLF HITLER–THE GERMAN SOLUTION IS A CHRISTIAN ONE

The tone and substance coming from the mouth of Herr Hitler, although the context is, of course, unique to European Christianity, is eerily compatible to what we are increasingly hearing today from certain political leaders within the American New World Order System. What you are about to read will shock many of you–will utterly cause you to have a spiritual seizure; a revulsion akin to a full-blown, stomach-bending, vomit–but you must come to terms with why this is happening and how religion–the Christian religion–is the most powerful tool that can be utilized in order to capture the “believing” masses and to promote, through “moral covering” and political dedication, an agenda that resounds within the heart of the common man within the Western context.

Hitler, like today’s champions of Americana, knew that the “believing masses” had been beaten down, had suffered their World War (Viet Nam), had their beloved Germany (America) battered about with moral decline and “radical secularism” that caused the “moral fiber” of the nation to collapsesomething had (has) to be done–someone with guts and glory had (has) to arise to capture the imagination of the nation to rise from its depravity and crimes, from its vulnerability (be it from “them socialists” or “terrorists”), from its self–inflicted and debilitating social ills . . . someone is needed to alter our self-perceptions!

The problem was created by the Devil himself–The Cabaret Society of the Weimar Republic (They never represented true Germany!). “We’d been maligned by every creeping thing imaginable upon our streets: Socialists, Communists, radical Unionists, Jews, Secularists, Liberal Theologians, Homosexuals, Raunchy Entertainment, ad nausea–and this upon our wretched economic woes and that ‘Paper from Hell’ (i.e., the Versailles Treaty).”

Now–the Devil would provide the solution to the aforementioned problem. He would provide the solution through a man, a party, that would reach down to the common man and pull upon his heart strings–upon that which is made to respond to the highest ideals of man: His religious conscience would be the springboard to launch a fully consecrated and absolutely committed people, sold out to the one who could so uplift and empower them. Thence, this resolution to Germany’s defeat must be ensconced within the language of power and persuasion–it must carry the fervor of the EVANGELIST, the power of the PROPHET, the message of the APOSTLE! Yes, convoluted–but done with such passionate skill, that the unwitting and desperate would believe the LIE. Indeed, a true LIE is so close to reality that its frightening resemblance obscures all semblance to the truth!

Ultimately, a lie told long enough, and amplified to the uttermost, resounds with familiarity–YE SHALL BE AS GODS, KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL! This original deceit confounded our original forebears. This is no ordinary lie–it is THE LIE. Godhood, the ultimate UBERMENSCH, is the final destiny of the German race–of Hitler’s “Religion.” But first, the people must be prepared, until they realize their supreme destination and status as DAS VOLK!
HITLER–I CAN’T BELIEVE HE SAID IT! (Hitler/Nazi Comments in BOLD)

“We demand liberty for all religious denominations in the State, so far as they are not a danger to it and do not militate against the morality and moral sense of the German race. The Party, as such, stands for positive Christianity, but does not bind itself in the matter of creed to any particular confession.” (Item #24 of the German Worker’s Party “Programme” cir. 1920s)

At the earliest formation of the Nazi Party, Hitler expressed his Christian support to the German people and soldiers. In the 1920s, Hitler’s German Workers’ Party (pre Nazi terminology) adopted a twenty-five-point program with the clear intent to persuade the German people that “positive Christianity” was in full conformity to the “moral” convictions of the Partyi.e., the Party fully embraced the morality of Christianity and that Christianity was viewed as “singular” in the minds of that PartyCatholic and Protestants were considered as the foundation of German Christianity in its fullness and jurisdiction (the Party embraced both as one).
“MY LORD AND SAVIOR . . . IN THE BOUNDLESS LOVE AS A CHRISTIAN . . . HE HAD TO SHED HIS BLOOD UPON THE CROSS. My feelings as a Christian point me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them. This is God’s truth! He was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before in the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice….
“And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people.

“When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil, if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom today this poor people is plundered and exploited.”

[Note, “Brood of vipers” appears in Matt. 3:7 & 12:34. John 2:15 depicts Jesus driving out the moneychangers (adders) from the temple.]
Adolf Hitler, in his speech on 12 April 1922

“We were convinced that the people needs and requires this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out.”
–Adolf Hitler, in a speech in Berlin on 24 October 1933

Indeed, Hitler’s speeches and proclamations, even more clearly, reveal his faith and feelings toward a Christianized Germany. Nazism presents an embarrassment to Christianity and demonstrates the danger of blending “faith with politics.” Do you find it “spiritually disconcerting” to discover the depth of Hitler’s hermeneutic? How about his exegesis of Matthew 3:7, 12:34 and John 2:15? Hitler’s depiction of Jesus as the FIGHTER, not as the sufferer, is a distortion of the Scriptural intent of this reading; however, without knowing the full contextual nature of the Word, one could (as Hitler did) surmise a MILITANT JESUS is in view, and not a suffering Jesus.

It has been said, “the Bible can be read to say anything!” Examples abound: “Judas hung himself . . . go thou and do likewise!” This classic piece of cut and paste, though stupid, is precisely what many so-called expositors do with the Word of GodHitler was no exception. But, the shedding of the blood of Jesus as the ultimate payment for “truth and justice and the German way” is frightening and turns true Christianity on its head! Note that Hitler claims to be a Christian and, as such, he has a duty to his own peoplehe too, like Jesus, must be a fighter for truth and justice–he must rid the Temple of the moneychangers, of the abominable Jews who harass his people, like Jesus did. The German people, according to Hitler, were being “plundered and exploited” and he would be NO CHRISTIAN if he didn’t do something about it. Hitler’s identification as a Christian was one of activism–not in name only! In this artful persuasion he under girded the German people in their predisposition to anti-Semitism, the full spiritual justification for their participation in the “Final Solution.”

In sum: Hitler showed his disdain for atheism, and pagan cults, and revealed the strength of his Christian feelings–make no doubt about that. Likewise, his was no meaningless and superficial theology–it was clearly demarcated and set forth in all its hideous implications with righteous gusto.

CHURCH UNITY–HITLER WAS A FIRM BELIEVER IN IT

“It will at any rate be my supreme task to see to it that in the newly awakened NSDAP, the adherents of both Confessions can live peacefully together side by side in order that they may take their stand in the common fight against the power, which is the mortal foe of any true Christianity. “
Adolf Hitler, in an article headed “A New Beginning,” 26 Feb. 1925

“This is for us a ground for satisfaction, since we desire that the fight in the religious camps should come to an end… all political action in the parties will be forbidden to priests for all time, happy because we know what is wanted by millions who long to see in the priest only the comforter of their souls and not the representative of their political convictions.”–Adolf Hitler, in a speech to the men of the SA at Dortmund, 9 July 1933, on the day after the signing of the Concordat (Agreement with the Roman Catholic Church, the Papacy).

The unity of the Church is a recurrent message delivered by Hitler. His object, of course, was “against the power” — i.e., the international Jewish conspiracy against the Church, and, of course, the German people and the world in general. The technique of solidifying the churches into the “Hammer of God” was a strategy that appealed to the vast majority of German Christians. That he would see in them such an instrument of righteous indignation was commending–both to them as the object of his insight, and to himself for his discernment of such.

It is my firm conviction that this is precisely what is happening in America today. The appeal to the Christian religion in the battle “against evil” within the West is NOT an historic first! Don’t be so quick to terminate this reading–let me explain. Who are those who most clearly understand the language of THE EVIL AXIS? Who are those who clearly grasp the “spiritual reality” behind Islamic terrorism? The current President is no fool in appealing to the most religious in leading his charge against the forces of evil that assail the current drama. The appeal to religious unity in the face of extremity is manifested in Islamic Jihad–Holy War.
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About the Author

Doug is a member of several evangelical prophetic alliances (www.lastdaysnetwork.com; www.the-tribulation-network.com; www.thetribnet.org). Their ministry provokes analysis of current Political and Religious topics…drawing attention to the “Last Days” phenomenon of the Great Apostasy and the “Falling Away from the Faith.”

In order to win the presidency in America, candidates must stir up the religious fervor of the voters (gay marriage/civil union) and then vocally (and in some cases visually) wear your (new) Evangelical beliefs on your sleeve. It used to be candidate vs. candidate, then party vs. party, big business vs. the common (wo)man, platform vs. platform, then region vs. region, but now none of that matters as a new America has emerged, an America in which the majority with a religious manifest rules the minority with a secular agenda.

Throughout the centuries, most of the wars have been based on religion, something all people realize to be true. Iraq is divided into a power struggle of three religious factions; the same in the former Yugoslavia; the annihilation of the Jewish people in Germany; African genocide, and let’s not forget the last 800 years in England and Ireland, to name but a few. The same thing is beginning to happen in America. We are so split between our ideals and beliefs - and religion is winning! Separation of church and state is being debated more and more often. Soon, if you’re not like everyone else, religion’s minorities will be faced with fear and uncertainty as history has proved throughout time. Proselytization will become rampant, with people converting so as to be in the majority. Missionaries will be like door to door sales(wo)men spreading their word that they are the true defenders of ‘the American Way.’

The First Amendment of the Constitution is just words. However, the actions to support it without question are what make it alive with meaning. With the division we now have in America, will it still be supported? Or will it be changed little by little by a soon-to-be lopsided, right-wing Supreme Court. No one knows, but many are fearful of what may happen, especially after last night’s surprising, or not-so-surprising, main issue.

In the presidential election of 2004, 82% of the voters said that their main concern was moral (religious) beliefs. That was more than the economy, education, the environment, terrorism, energy, and the war in Iraq. It was the number one concern in America; the basis of most people’s decision on who gets their vote. Does that make any sense when our country is filled with so many more pressing ills right now? However, in reference to it, and give it its due process, one must ask: Whatever happened to ‘live and let live?’ Whatever happened to tolerance? Whatever happened to ‘love thy brother?’ What has happened to America, the land of the free to live our lives as free, consenting adults and pursue our forefathers’ foresighted decree of ’separation of church and state?’

Ask yourself: Why do I have to swear on the Bible in court when the Ten Commandments cannot be displayed in a federal building?
What will happen next? Only time, and the actions of our President, will tell.

Bruce Schwartz is a lifelong political activist. THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, his novel on politics today, discusses this subject as well as others that affect every American. It is on sale on the Web at http://www.thetwentyfirstcentury.com and at http://www.amazon.com. All of the author’s royalties is being donated to the Alzheimer’s Association.

[Author’s Note: First few sentences inspired and written Sunday, April 7, 2002, but everything beyond the first two lines was done Wednesday, April 10, 2002.]

I have said before that I detest the slaughter of animals because it is tantamount to Racism. I hold an incalculable hatred for Affirmative Action, though, because it is Racism! To this Affirmative Action — does it not lift value off of the shoulders of courage and skill and put the value on the shoulders of skin color and race? Does it not discourage intellectual development and foster ignorance? Is it not a source of cruelty, denying what rightfully belongs to the deserving, handing over the jewels of opportunity to the undeserving? Is it not responsible for hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of qualified students and workers losing their scholarships and jobs, just because they are not a certain race, a certain color? Is it not also responsible for putting in unqualified workers, as well as bolstering anyone who has been inadequate or unskilled in a job, simply because of their race? Affirmative Action is a so-called equal-rights program, but it hardly is even based on the equality of the rights of men! If a person loses their job to a minority because of Affirmative Action, who in their sane mind would look this over as being in opposition to Racism? It is an absurdity and a bruise on the face of liberty. When I ask if Affirmative Action is responsible for promoting the unskilled and demoting the skilled — that is, to say, debauching merit, neglecting virtue, abhorring passion, in return for loving vice, harnessing inexperience, promoting ignorance — when Affirmative Action is responsible for all that is destructive to the true nature of equality, it can only be called an institution of Racism, a gross code with injustice as its nature, and cruelty as its fundamental.

Of what breed of man can be proud to take such a job? It is the epitome of shame to claim that you are the student at your university, or the worker at your job, because of your race. Is there any merit in genetics? One may run faster, be built taller, or have a particular shade of skin color; yes, these are the facets of genetics. But are these truly any method for judging a man? The reasoning behind Affirmative Action argues that race is of no value concerning jobs and scholarships. Yet, the very foundation of Affirmative Action is to discriminate on race! It does not uphold the theory that men and women should get their jobs on their skill, nor on their merits. It defends the theory that race is a significant factor, that one’s own value as an individual and a worker is irrelevant, and it is this foul doctrine of Affirmative Action that what a man cannot control — his genetics — is more important than what a man can control — his knowledge, his skill, his ambition, the substances of individuality and the fuel of acheivement.

Some will argue that it is a form of equalizing, that Affirmative Action is here today to level off the damage done by European-owned universities and jobs that refused jobs to African humans. This is tantamount to saying that Racism is brutal and inhumane — an belief that men are not equal and not all are deserving of liberty — and then, after stating such of Racism, it concludes that the best action now is to engage in the very practice of Racism! It is equivalent of offering bread to those who are full and neglecting those who are starving, to watering a tree that is submerged underwater while neglecting a flower in the desert, to building a home for the kings of the world, who are unscathed by the vehement nature of weather, and ignoring those who have no roof to sleep under? Would any man deny air to one who is suffocating, in favor of giving it to a man who is well in supply of oxygen? Only an insane or sickly sadistic person would do so. In the same fashion, I ask, who could support this abomination called Affirmative Action? Does it not also give what belongs to the deserving to the deserving? To simplify, does it not also embrace the shroud of inequality and injustice?

There are others who still boast of this great equalization movement. They claim that they are giving opportunity to those who never had opportunity, jobs to the jobless, food to the hungry. But this is a lie, and a debasement of truth. Giving quality to people means giving them all equal education, an equal chance to be efficient, the will and ambition to be a good person. It does not mean the luiqidation of equality or the absolution of liberty. Affirmative Action ignores the parts of society that could be improved. Its advocates are not working to improve schools, nor are they working to improve universities or hospitals or worker’s and consumer’s rights. They are not improving the condition of the minorities by giving them what they need to be good, productive members of society. Instead, they simply place unqualified and incompetant members into jobs in society and seats in universities — not because they are smart, not because they are qualified, not because they are an exemplary product of education, but entirely because of their race! I could, in part, excuse Affirmative Action if it offered social services to the minorities. That is, if they offered them aid in learning skills and trades. But even if they did that solely to minorities, they would fall to the same corrupt hypocrisy: aiding one race instead of the whole of humanity — holding limitations on how far justice and charity can go. Instead, however, Affirmative Action hos gone to the point where it is a deterent to productive society, to a happy population. It has put unqualified people in jobs that they are incapable of managing, it has firing qualified people from jobs that they could manage. It is the debasement of equality. By “equalizing” society, Affirmative Action puts minorities into work and universities when they are undeserving on the sole grounds that they are minorities. It is absolutely and appallingly ridiculous that such a practice can even exist, and can even be instituted into the government!

If it had true aim when it came to improving society, it would help the weak and the poor, the uneducated and the ignorant. There would be no one race that needed improvement. Charity does not have selective vision. It does not seek out one gender, one color, one religion. Its net of kindness is cast out over the whole of all creation; any being capable of suffering is not handed over to the carelessness of inhumanity. Affirmative Action, however, does not work as such. Instead, its vision is very selective. It can only see colors. One man is not a person of intellect and passion, a lover of virtue and a hater of vice — he is simply a color: white, yellow, black, or red. To the other nature of men and women, Affirmative Action is unconcerned. As long as Affirmative Action sees only the colors of men, sees only white and black, — as long as this profane institution wishes give jobs to men and women who are unskilled, but fitting a certain racial background, — vision and truth will always be blurred and justice will forever be unacheivable.

After engrossing itself in the delusion that all men are all equal in every aspect to the same degree, Affirmative Action’s efforts engage to destroy equality and embrace iniquity. By putting incompetant people to work at jobs and under-educated students to learn in universities based on their ethnic background, we are doing a grave injustice to equality. Affirmative Action does not see the weaknesses of people, it does not see that people may be unskilled no matter what race they are. It abhors the scientific fact that men are all different, in all fields. So it labors on, giving jobs to those who are inadequate and positions to those undeserving, because it focuses on the color of one’s skin rather than the merits of their character. Affirmative Action strips every piece of bark from the tree of liberty and then poses as the model of truth and knowledge, only degrading the existence that equality ever had.

I detest Affirmative Action because I detest Racism. One is not the solution to the other, but rather one is the form of the other. Affirmative Action manages to commit multiple crimes against humanity. It forces hard-working individuals out of their jobs to be replaced by someone else who is inadequate, for the sake of race. It gives important jobs and scholarships to unworthy people instead of those who are deserving, for the sake of race. It denies the very principles of equalities, ignores the individual, upholds iniquity; turns a blind eye to the nature of the human being — it speaks of diversity as though the word only means the color of one’s skin; it does not accept the fact that every living, breathing human is a conscious being, each with their own set of skills and fields of knowledge, each with their own degrees of efficiency in those areas. It is for this reason, that Affirmative Action is unfair and an injustice — a calamity on the globe of freedom — that I detest Affirmative Action.

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Punkerslut (or Andy Carloff) has been writing essays and poetry on social issues which have caught his attention for several years. His website http://www.punkerslut.com provides a complete list of all of these writings. His life experience includes homelessness, squating in New Orleans and LA, dropping out of high school, getting expelled from college for “subversive activities,” and a myriad of other revolutionary actions.

Prince Charles has put his Royal foot in it again. At a time so close to the wedding, Prince Charles has provided the press with an ideal opportunity to rub its hands in glee at the comments he made at a photocall in the Swiss Mountains.

Prince Charles, William and Harry posed for a photocall without realising that microphones had been placed in the snow merely a few feet from where they sat. It was for this reason alone that the comments were recorded with crystal clear clarity in what was supposed to have been a private conversation between the Prince and his two sons and which ended up being reported by the press as a disaster of his own making.

Reported as a Public Relations disaster, Clarence House officials were quick to point out that Prince Charles had not been pleased with paparazzi photographs taken the day before of William and his girlfriend Kate Middleton.

At one point Nicholas Witchell, reporter for the BBC, addressed the Royal group with the question “Eight days now to the wedding, how are you, William and Harry feeling at the prospect of marriage?” Muttering under his breath Charles commented, “Bloody people, I can’t bear that man, I mean he is so awful he really is”. Unfortunately Prince Charles was unaware just how close and sensitive the microphones were.

Just what can we conclude from this incident? Is Prince Charles a pompous old stick in the mud? Should he have made such comments? Why such animosity towards Nicholas Witchell in particular?

To understand things a little better we need to look back into the past when Witchell upset Prince Charles with his coverage of the deaths of Princes Margaret and the Queen Mother. This same reporter also reported incorrectly that Prince Harry may have taken cocaine. Prior to these incidents Witchell has a history of reporting on the Royal family that has not always been favourable and has caused some bad feelings between Prince Charles and the BBC. It has also been reported in the press that Nicholas Witchell is not popular with work colleagues and that there is something about him that causes people to dislike him.

So what can we conclude from this? A Royal Photocall such as this should have presented the Prince positively and this event was an ideal opportunity for the Prince to woo the general public and talk cheerfully about his forthcoming marriage and family. A famous person should know how to react in front of the cameras and should expect to be hunted down and photographed by hordes of Paparazzi, shouldn’t he? How did it all go so tragically wrong? Did it actually go wrong? Perhaps this was the best thing that could have happened.

Looking at this in an entirely different light let us consider the following points. First and foremost, Prince Charles has had a tough time of it in the press. He struggles to keep the marriage low key amidst claims that the Queen and other members of the Royal Family are not happy about the marriage. How might you feel? Finally, Prince Charles gets away from it all to spend some time with his sons on a skiing holiday. Even on holiday he and his family are not left alone. Whilst being an organised photocall, is it really any wonder that Prince Charles said the things he did?

These outspoken comments by the Prince might have actually done him no harm at all. Many people have been highly amused by the comments and the banter between the Prince and his sons. Finally, here it is, the human side of Prince Charles. In the face of mindless paparazzi and media gannets a pissed off Prince finally gets to speak his mind. Bravo Sir. Whatever anyone thinks of the Royal Family or their general views on the Monarchy there will be many people who will remember this event fondly. The press deserve all they get. Do I have any sympathy for reporters on the receiving end of this Royal outburst? Not at all.

Put yourself in Prince Charles position for just a moment. You are wealthy with two wonderful sons. For years you have put up with your private life being invaded and you have braved the torrents of abuse and the whims of the press over the years. A big event in your life is literally days away when you will marry the women you love and some dickhead asks you how you are feeling at the prospect of marriage? What possible answer is there other than that you are feeling very happy about that prospect? What a stupid question. What other inane questions would the Prince have to answer?

No, I think that had I been blessed with the trappings of Royalty I would not hanker after the day I might become king. My sense of duty to the nation would have waned with each tirade of criticism over the years. I think I might sit back, count my lucky stars and quite blatantly tell them all to f**k off and go home. Thats what I would do.

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