Crime Against Humanity

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Day 188 of 2008
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Kalaima: Criminal
 PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Man nogut: Criminal
 HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “A thief is also a liar.”
 HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it” (MLK)
WEB SURF SPOTS OF THE WEEK — Nude Recreation Week
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — War Crimes on You Tube
NETCAST OF THE WEEK — Apple Phone Show
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
War Criminal
43rd U.S. President & War Criminal George W. Bush’s Birthday - 1946
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“There is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes,” Antonio Taguba, the retired major general who investigated abuses in Iraq, declares in a powerful new report on American torture from Physicians for Human Rights. “The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.” Read The Truth Commission by Nicholas D. Kristof

EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 6th
1535 Sir Thomas More is executed in England for treason.
1785: Congress resolves that U.S. currency is to be named “dollar” & adopts decimal coinage
1798: U.S. law makes aliens “liable to be apprehended, restrained,… & removed as alien enemies”
1923: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed.
1958: Alaska becomes the 49th state
2001: Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen pleads guilty to 15 criminal counts and agrees to give a full accounting of his spying activities for Moscow
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BORN ON THIS DAY — July 6th
1921: Nancy Davis Reagan, former First Lady
1925: Bill Haley, original rock star
1927: Janet Leigh, actress
1927: Pat Paulsen, comedian/presidential candidate
1931: Della Reese, singer/actress
1937: Gene Chandler, rocker
1937: Ned Beatty, actor
1946: Jamie Wyeth, artist
1946: Sylvester Stallone, actor/director
1951: Geoffrey Rush, actor
1953: Nanci Griffith, country singer

Fear Creates Petty God

July 6, 2008 Raphael O'Suna 1 Comment

One can learn a great deal about a people, culture, civilization. society or consciousness, by examining the nature of its God or gods.

The Judeo-Christian religion has a very peculiar conception of God. This conception shows no great depth or profundity of thought and a consciousness filled with fear, guilt, violence, along with faith and hope. God, in this incarnation, resembles a very moody and inept man. A kind of screw-up, who has to eventually send down his son to be tortured, in order to try to make things right.

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