LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY nebris)

..cross posted like a MoFo...and posted here for 'informational purposes'

First off, some Truth in Advertising, something I think we all can agree has been in rather short supply in certain places around here.

I am well known in some sectors of LJ as a lunatic, albeit an articulate and charming one, [modest too] and, if you check my User Page, that is not an entirely undeserved reputation. My personal and political agenda is, by contemporary standards, bizarre and extreme, and bluntly put, scares the crap out of some people. [even scares me some days]

But I am not here to promote that agenda, except in a general and oblique fashion. I am here to talk about our immediate future.

A Caveat: this post contains Politics, Religion, and gack! Economics. Sorry to inflict that upon you, but they are all kind of tied together. It's called Society.

I will do my best to keep this as short and simple as possible. I will provide an interesting pic and some nifty links along the way.

Okay, let me sum up recent events in two ways with a Narrative and a Political format.

Narrative: “Warriors For Innocence” culminated a two month campaign to get SixApart to delete certain journals by contacting SixApart's advertisers and saying “SixApart supports pedophilia”. Hundreds of LJ's, the vast majority of whom were innocent, get mass deleted. The LJ Community raises up and fights back. SixApart backs off...somewhat.

Political: An Extremist Political/Religious Group uses The Pedo Meme in a psychological warfare operation against a Capitalist Entity that provides a Free Speech Forum for profit. In the final phase of the operation, said Group escalates to economic terrorism, triggering a Greed/Fear reaction in said Capitalist Entity that comes at the expense of the Free Speech Rights of their customer base. The customer base responds with its own Psy-Ops and economic counter-terrorism, and said Capitalist Entity's Greed/Fear reaction changes course...for now.

Now here's the punchline. Important as this has been to many of us personally, this was mere a skirmish in a much wider war, this war:

Many of you might dismiss the good Rev. Briggs as a loony, and you'd be half right. He is a loony. But those of you who come out of Fundie households or who grew up in Bible Country, know he and his ilk cannot be dismissed except at our collective peril. These folks are Dominionist Christians. and here is what they have to say:

"Our job is to reclaim America for Christ, whatever the cost. As the vice regents of God, we are to exercise godly dominion and influence over our neighborhoods, our schools, our government, our literature and arts, our sports arenas, our entertainment media, our news media, our scientific endeavors -- in short, over every aspect and institution of human society." ~D. James Kennedy, leader of Coral Ridge Ministries.

"The long-term goal of Christians in politics should be to gain exclusive control over the franchise. Those who refuse to submit to the eternal sanctions of God ... must be denied citizenship, just as they were in ancient Israel." ~Gary North

“The first strategy and in many ways the most important strategy for evangelicals is secrecy. Sun Tzu says that’s what you have to do to be effective at war and that’s essentially what we’re involved in, we’re involved in a war. It’s not a war fought with bullets. It’s a war fought with ballots.” ~Ralph Reed

"In winning a nation to the Gospel, the sword as well as the pen must be used." ~Gary North

"I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior for whose kingdom it stands. One Savior, crucified, risen and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe." ~Dominionist Pledge of Allegiance, recited at 2004 conference Reclaiming America for Christ.

Have no doubt that these people hate you. wtf_omgz may make fun of furries every Friday, but no one over there would put you to death., which, given the chance, Dominionists would certainly do, along with gays, lesbians, liberals, Muslims, Harry Potters fans, etc...and plenty of Christians who were not sufficiently 'Christian' for them, e.g. they practice Jesus' message of Love and Tolerance.

“So, what's yer point, pal?” I hear some say. Well, I can sum that up in two words: GET ACTIVE! A first quick and easy step would be to join dark_christian, just Click and Click. Then read it...regularly. You'll get depressed sometimes. [okay, a lot of times lol]

But remember how you felt when your LJ's and fan coms vanished overnight without a word. This will sound 'dramatic', but that could happen to all manner of things, including human beings.

“Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty,” said Wendell Pierce. That may sound exhausting, but you do not have to do this alone. In the links below, you can find compatriots of like mind to join and work with. This requires basically the same actions we took with SixApart, only writ much, much larger.

I could go on and on and on and I will and I do, but not here and not now. Take time to digest what I have said here. Feel free to link it. I'm creating an RTF file with all the code if you wish to repost.

I post a lot of political information in my LJ [you can ignore my 'crazy stuff'] and I have many political LJ's on my Flist. Check them out. [ignore teh prOn lol] Below are some links, as well.

On Line Publications, Blogs, and PACS

http://alternet.org/

http://www.salon.com/index.html <- they make you watch an ad..it's over quick

http://www.villagevoice.com/

http://www.observer.com/

http://www.thenation.com/

http://antiwar.org/

http://www.prwatch.org/

http://www.newyorker.com/

http://www.dailykos.com/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/ <- overseas MSM looks very different

http://www.bbc.co.uk/

http://defendreason.blogspot.com/

http://www.pacificviews.org/

http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/

http://moveon.org/

http://www.truemajority.org/

That should get you started. And many of the above link to others.

Now, here are a pair of documentaries that are fascinating, informative, and rather terrifying. I highly recommend them.

The Century of the Self "This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy." ~Adam Curtis

The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear "At the heart of the story are two groups: the American neo-conservatives and the radical Islamists" ~Adam Curtis

Okay, that's it. See ya on the front line, kidz. =)