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oops - here's the pic of Larry Milligan
20.04.2005 21:41
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homeless
20.04.2005 21:58
I give my respects for all who organized and represented our fellow citizens that we have forgotten. Whether your anti-war, anti-sweatshop, anti-budget cuts, we need to organize and recognize this growing problem. It is too bad the homeless problem isnt as romantic as the anti-war rallies, but this problem will continue to grow unless all who stand against poverty fight against it. peace
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If You Really Cared
21.04.2005 07:16
If you reaaly "care" about the homeless why don't you all take one or two home with you to live. And when the lunitcs rape your 12 year old daughter, don't worry it wasn't their fault it was societies.
josh
hello josh the troll
21.04.2005 11:03
Josh the troll said, "when the lunatics rape your 12 year old daughter"..
Usually don't respond 2 trolls, but since u brought it up,
Corporate media scapegoating homeless people as rapists and child molesters when most rapists/molesters are in reality "family men" usually unhappily married, holding a well paying career and driving a nice car. They usually molest or rape somebody they know and due to their higher standing in the community are often not held accountable for their actions. The victim is also less likely to press charges because they are powerful and respected people in the community, and the reaction may be to blame the victim. Patriarchy is alive and well in the court of public opinion, and wealthy powerful males are still able to escape judgement for their crimes of violence and rape..
Lower income people don't have this luxury and therefore are convicted as guilty when in reality they may be innocent but easier to blame and scapegoat..
Would like to compare scapegoating violence on homeless to the litter problem often blamed on homeless people. The visiblity of the homeless living in a campsite is obvious, and any litter strewn about their campsite is blamed on them, regardless of origin. If a police officer wishes to give the housless campers a bad name, it is easy to carry a large garbage bag of litter from their police cruiser to the campsite, then strew the litter about and quickly leave (5 min)..
This is done when the homeless are away from the campsite. This was witnessed in Arcata California when the APD was attempting (they did) to shut down a campsite free space near the Arcata marsh. We were attempting to mirror the Dignity Village concept in Portland. The presence of litter is than blamed on the homeless and given as reason to move the homeless from this space, charging them with littering and tresspassing..
Don't some homeless people litter? Of course. There are always people who will give a bad name to their peers. The presence of litter makes it difficult for all homeless, it only takes a few to give everyone a bad name. This doesn't imply that the police can use the litter as a means to speed forced evacuation of a homeless camp. If someone returns to a campsite and notices litter that wasn't there when they left, the police are the likely cause, or some resident who dislikes homeless people and wants them to go away..
Littering and rape are very different, yet the similarity of scapegoating and stereotyping of homeless for both these offenses shows that society views humans with blinders on. While individual homeless people also rape, murder and molest children, assigning this behavior to a large and diverse group is ignorant and foolish. Wearing blinders also enables the real criminals to escape while innocent people are blamed because of prejudice..
If anyone was perceptive enough to notice a pattern with child kidnappings, femicide and rape (example; murder of 400 + women maquiladora workers in Jaurez) and the lack of effective police response combined with police/politician scapegoating of women as dressing seductive and therefore enticing their attackers, maybe their eyes would open to a very unpleasant reality. Patriarchy and police state tactics go hand in hand with blaming the victim and enabling the powerful wealthy males to escape judgement. Instead the peanut police blame the usual suspects, an Egyptian chemist and a gang of narco traffikers. No homeless here, but the truth is still buried under so much patriarchal bullshit that justice is once again delayed to benefit the wealthy..
People want to belive that drug dealers, foreigners, homeless, etc are the criminals responsible for the femicides and the wealthy powerful males are noble good citizens who love their family and community. Just look at all the good work they do!! How could these wealthy family men be rapists and murderers of women?? Of course not, it had to be that disgusting, dirty homeless drug addict. Now we all feel better, right America??
Puddin' POP anyone??
The above are also blanket statement generalizations but most likely more accurate than Josh Troll's statement that automatically labels homeless as lunatics. This is a bait and hook tactic on Josh Troll's part, yet it is also possible to throw this antagonism back atcha and bring up a related thread dealing with the fearmongering, stereotyping and scapegoating of homeless people..
luna moth
thanks luna moth
21.04.2005 13:18
for a great comment. you're so right...
reader
Homeless Rights & Commonsense...
24.04.2005 15:40
To the poster of the post titled;If You Really Cared.
That one is homeless or not has little to do with whether one is a rapist or not. Undoubtedly there have been and will be homeless people that do such things but being a rapist is not synonymous with being homeless, or vice versa.
For example most of the serial killer/rapist have not been homeless. Most appear to be single white males living a middle or lower middle class lifestyle. Which is not to say in any sense that the majority of single white males or middle class people are serial killer/rapists.
Most child molesters know their victims and have gained some level of trust before they act. They depend upon the victims shame in hopes of keeping the victim quit. A child molester is just as likely to be ones relative, a priest or even cop as it is a homeless person. Again this is not the same as saying that the majority of relatives,cops or priests are child molesters.
So called date rape occurs not just among the poor but also among middle class teens and adults. Look at the recent gang rape trial of the three young men from Rancho Cucamonga who were convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious teenage girl with a pool cue, juice bottle and cigarette as they filmed themselves on videotape. They all came from middle class families and one of them was the son of a wealthy former Orange County cop.
Back to the question that is raised by your comment, would I invite a homeless person to live in my home. Well not if I didn't know him. But that's just commonsense and would go for just about anybody homeless or not. Besides that is not the issue that the protesters are raising. Your comment is a "Red Herring" an illogical argument. A red herring is when someone introduces irrelevant material to the issue being discussed, so that everyone's attention is diverted away from the points made, towards a different conclusion. The potential pitfalls of inviting the homeless to live in ones personal home is not part of the protestors agenda. Their agenda is that the homeless have the right to exist and in doing so to occupy unoccupied public land in the course of perusing that right.
What you and others like you fail to understand is that it is fair to say that most of the people on such sites as indymedia or infoshop have a very different vision of the way society should be structured then does the conventional mainstream viewpoint. In the society that we invision there would be no homeless as land would be held by the community and the rights to it would be granted to a person based upon tangible occupancy and use and not upon abstract absentee property rights. No person could be forcibly removed from the place that they were born on or live in. Nobody could forcibly expropriate or occupy against the choice of the current occupants any occupied residency or land. Of course I can't speak for everyone on such sites or everyone who advocates for homeless rights but I do believe that there are many of them that would concur with this vision. It is out of either ignorance or with plain maliciousness that the poster JOSH can pose a question such as whether or not we would let a homeless person move into our homes. That is not the issue at all.
Saturday, July 16, 2011
For years, the City of San Diego has conducted
semi-military operations against the homeless. Using
police harassment, ticketing, closing volunteer
feeding programs and jailings in a futile attempt to
class cleanse downtown.
Block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood,
developers and speculators build high rise condos and
office towers; while politicians and city officials,
skimming the profits, instruct the police to prey upon
their fellow human beings, like jackals in the jungle.
April 15th marked the beginning of an insurgency
against San Diego's war on the "least of those among
us" as over 450 people gathered at the concourse in a
rally to urge the city to stop ticketing the homeless
for the human need of sleep and to create a safe area
where the unhoused can camp. Over half those attending
the rally were homeless: dragging their belongs, lying
on the cold pavement, looking up at the empty offices
of city hall (knowing, everyone who works there was
home enjoying a hot meal, a shower and a warm bed).
Yet, like a match struck in a solid dark, scary,
room, listening to the speakers; pastors and
professors, and, particularly Larry Milligan, whose
recent fast, led to this rally, the homeless there,
that night, began to understand that homelessness
should not be a crime. Called bums, scum, trash and
treated worse than stray cats and dogs, realization
began individually, then in discussions among
themselves, that, in fact, they were, indeed, victims.
When many homeless speakers took to the microphone
to tell their stories of police human rights abuses,
the quiet murmur among the unhoused grew to shouts as
reports of harassment, sleep deprivation, starvation,
verbal and physical abuse were given.
However, when the rally was over, like true
"liberals" who flock to most progressive events for
information (rarely transformation) and a modest sense
of guilty support (solidarity?), they returned to
their comforts and warm bed for the night.
Councilwoman Donna Fry accepted a invitation to speak,
then backed out; probably realizing that her integrity
and compassion would meet the demands of her political
future as she would be drawn personally to these
victims of San Diego's militarized economic processes
which benefit the rich and powerful downtown
developers.
Eight Quakers, from San Diego and La Jolla
Meetings, had previously decided that enough was
enough. They had contacted the media, the police and,
most importantly, their fellow members of faith, to
say that this war on the homeless must end; that they
could not, in good conscience, continue to exist in
safety and comfort while others were
attacked, demonized, starved, beaten, jailed and
killed.
Noting over 89 homeless folks died on city streets
last year and over 100 the year before; that police
gun down the homeless with impunity - one in Ocean
Beach for carrying a stick - these 8 Friends (as they
prefer to be called) bedded down for the night after
the rally. They were joined by 3 students of
conscience from Point Loma Nazarene University
(bringing not only our newest generation to the
struggle against this city's war of greed but,
perhaps, the greatest Nazarene of all time?)
About 50 homeless people bundled in with the small
human rights group as it bedded down for the night;
many out of a beginning sense of solidarity, others
out of sheer tiredness and inertia (the city's winter
shelter had closed the day before and there was simply
nowhere to go). When several dozen police officers
arrived just after 11:00 p.m. they gave everyone 10
minutes to disperse or they would be arrested for
"illegal lodging."
Like mechanical constructs out of a Disneyland
exhibit, they moved about the crowd, reading from a
prepared card, ignoring the questions of "where can we
lodge, legally?" Told by several organizers that all
the shelters were contacted and were full, the police
remained silent; their humanity and conscience tucked
safety in their lockers back at the precinct
headquarters. The Quakers present exchanged sad
glances; it had been but several months since they
held religious services outside the main police
station on Broadway to ask God's forgiveness for the
individual police persons forced to slice away at the
humanity and personal decency of the homeless. They
recognize that each time a uniformed person assaults
another, more vulnerable and helpless, they,
themselves, chip away a little of their own humanity,
their own connectedness to a spiritual source, and
become pimps and whores for the rich and powerful who
seek that space known as "downtown" for their own
pleasure and profit.
As the police waited their ten minutes, most of the
homeless gathered up their belongings, grumbling, and
departed. For most, this harassment was so routine
that no one questioned their own victimization; they
simply moved on, the new negroes and jews, outcasts
from a gentrified, new world order that rewards those
that serve the corporate interests and attacks those
who refuse or who are too fragile to compete in the
savage, competitive economic jungle of greed based,
corporate owned, capitalism.
Yet, seven homeless folks (one, a Vietnam veteran
in a wheel chair) drew strength from the housed
people of faith and from Larry Milligan who joined
together in a circle of mats and sleeping bags, held
hands and sang "Amazing Grace" as they waited to be
arrested. One by the one, the homeless joined the
circle of trembling hands (only one of the group had
ever been arrested before). Truth, love and human
goodness sat in defiance of power and greed as the
lights from tv cameras illuminated another one of
those historic, finest hours in human spirit and
community. There was no wealthy or poor, no young or
old, no women or men, no straight or gay, no black or
white; only people who held hands, singing, loving one
another, believing in the value and dignity of one
another, prepared to suffer the punishment of the rich
and their bought politicians, who demand and depend on
the power to determine who is worthy and who gets the
benefits of this world.
The police used to pouncing on the individual,
powerless homeless person were stunned with this show
of defiance and moral strength. The faltering look in
some of their eyes gave testimony that, perhaps, for
the first time in their professional lives, they
questioned their orders to feed on the misery of their
fellow human beings. For every action there is a
reaction, as they begun their own spiritual healing,
sensing that they make this system work, to reward
rich crooks like John Moores, greedy landlords like
Mayor Murphy and, everyone else, who relies on them to
do their shit work, victimize the poor. The Quakers
there, sitting on the cold pavement, understood and
shared the hope; that if we can free the police
officers conscience from the increasingly class-based,
militarized, totalitarian government that serves
corporate CEO's and rich investors, we move closer
toward a just world.
After 12 minutes the police retreated. From around
midnight, when the waiting paddy wagons were pulled
away, until 4:30 a.m., when the morning shift
commander decided that police power must at least be
shown, if not enforced, there existed in the City of
San Diego, at the base of City Hall, a safe place for
the homeless to sleep. A small victory in the least,
but a beginning nonetheless.
This small group of insurgents in San Diego's war
on the homeless, say they will return again and again,
until the city quits criminalizing the homeless,
ceases issuing tickets for the human need of sleep and
creates a zone for the homeless to camp.
What we must do, as human beings and citizens of
this community, is to look ourselves in the mirror,
searching for that inner compassionate, loving core
and question whether we can continue to eat good food,
enjoy our pleasures and sleep in a warm bed; while our
government hunts down human beings, like wild animals.
If we fail to act on the side of the homeless; to
prevent the suffering, the pain of personal valueness,
hunger, sleep deprivation and even death, then what
kind of human being are we? Are we any better than the
sick, twisted terrorists and corporate CEOs who would
carve out their view of reality for their own selfish
reasons?
Facing arrest, sitting on the cold pavement,
holding one hand with a shaking young college student
and the other with a housewife (whose best friend is a
police officer), one homeless woman said, "this is the
first time in years that I have felt like a person."
Let us work to make sure it is not her last.
--Rocky Neptun
(Rocky Neptun is a former elected member of San
Diego city government - mid-city planning board and a
member of San Diego Friends (Quaker) Meeting)
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right now hillcrest has so much heat!!!!!!
28.04.2005 03:05
i've been stopped by the cops 3 times this week for nothing.not to mention the roughly 10 times they drive by and give me the evil eye.what the fuck?ever since they shot jake faust they have been going crazy.the expieriances have been so humiliating.when they stopped me last night and ran my name i had no warrents.the cop sacasticly "so what your telling me is your a model citizen?" i said "not really".....
brian donovan
Home/Hope-Less in ParaDyse!!!!
11.05.2005 11:06
COMPLIANCE law of March, 2002 is against the POOR!
Does not CHRIST Himself say: "Blessed be the POOR; for THEY will inherit the Kingdom of Heaven?" and did not Jesus say :"Acursed is any that OFFEND these little ones who believe in me?"
Therefore, I CALL UPON the HOLY ONE, blessed is He, TO BRING PLAUGES, FAMINE, DISASTER, DEATH, PAIN & eternal DAMNNATION in the FIRES of TORMENT-NOW, TODAY: upon LANCE HUBNELL, MAYOR, LARRY SELIG, GARY ASHCRAFT, all POLICE, all CITY COUNCELLORS, ALL enforcers of the SATANIC CODE LAWS, especially upon the JACKSON HOUSE, MELISSA GASSOWAY, and THE EVIL WOMAN at the SALVATION ARMY who told me I WAS LESS THAN HUMAN; and CALLED THE POLICE on me FOR ASKING for a BASIC HUMAN RIGHT! To wit: TO USE THE BATHROOM! I CALL UPON CHRIST to RETURN UPON THIS SHAMEFULL HATEFUL CITY 10-fold, ALL the HATRED it PERPRETATES upon the POOR! AMEN & AMEN! And MAY THEIR EVIL BLACK SOULS BURN in ETERNAL UNBEARABLE AGONY, Amen Amen, FOR EVER & FOR EVER.
Please JOIN WITH me in these prayer....PERHAPS Our Merciful Saviour who HEARS the POOR ( Ezekiel 22:29 "The people of the land have used opression , and exercised robbery, and have VEXED the POOR and NEEDY...therefore have I poured out mine INDIGNATION upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my WRATH: their OWN WAY have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the LORD GOD!) will DO WHAT HE HAS PROMISED ME...(Malichi4,5-6: Behold, I [have] sen[t] YOU, ELIJAH[radioprophet] before the coming of the great and DREADFUL Day of the LORD; And he shall TURN the HEART of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, LEST I COME AND SMITE the [city of Hot Springs] WITH A CURSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!")
Showing these UNREPENTANT MONSTERS (our City Fathers and Mothers) the LOVE of JESUS will avail NOTHING! THEY MUST be SHOWN the TERROR of GOD! As The LORD shewed Himself AWFUL IN KILLING to the -ASSYRIANS in ISAIAH 37:36.."Then the ANGEL of the LORD went forth, AND SMOTE..of the ASSYRIANS a hundred and fourscore and five thousand, and,behold, they were ALL DEAD CORPSES!* Let these INHUMAN CRETINS, these CALLOUS MONSTERS and ABOMINATORS have a VISION, then perhaps they will REPENT & CIRCUMCISE their MONEY GRUBBING SOULS!
In THIS City (Rev.2:13) even where SATAN'S SEAT is...I see POOR PEOPLE treated WORSE than BEASTS, and TERRORISED!
Under FEDERAL LAW, in the PATROIT ACT, these POLICE are ELIGABLE for THE DEATH PENALITY! (Any crime that threatens life...is PUNISHABLE BY DEATH!) Being TERRORISED makes me SUICIDAL! This is a CRIME that THREATENS MY LIFE! Therefore, POLICE, MAYOR, CITY OFFICERS, GARY ASHCRAFT, ALL CHRUCH MEMBERS, ALL PREACHERS, PRIESTS, et al ARE SUBJECT to EXTERMINATION. God & The PRESIDENT, Geo, Walker Bush, has SPOKEN! The SUPREME COURT has UPHELD this ruling! Amen, Amen!
right now hillcrest has so much heat!!!!!!
28.04.2005 03:05
i've been stopped by the cops 3 times this week for nothing.not to mention the roughly 10 times they drive by and give me the evil eye.what the fuck?ever since they shot jake faust they have been going crazy.the expieriances have been so humiliating.when they stopped me last night and ran my name i had no warrents.the cop sacasticly "so what your telling me is your a model citizen?" i said "not really".....
brian donovan
Home/Hope-Less in ParaDyse!!!!
11.05.2005 11:06
COMPLIANCE law of March, 2002 is against the POOR!
Does not CHRIST Himself say: "Blessed be the POOR; for THEY will inherit the Kingdom of Heaven?" and did not Jesus say :"Acursed is any that OFFEND these little ones who believe in me?"
Therefore, I CALL UPON the HOLY ONE, blessed is He, TO BRING PLAUGES, FAMINE, DISASTER, DEATH, PAIN & eternal DAMNNATION in the FIRES of TORMENT-NOW, TODAY: upon LANCE HUBNELL, MAYOR, LARRY SELIG, GARY ASHCRAFT, all POLICE, all CITY COUNCELLORS, ALL enforcers of the SATANIC CODE LAWS, especially upon the JACKSON HOUSE, MELISSA GASSOWAY, and THE EVIL WOMAN at the SALVATION ARMY who told me I WAS LESS THAN HUMAN; and CALLED THE POLICE on me FOR ASKING for a BASIC HUMAN RIGHT! To wit: TO USE THE BATHROOM! I CALL UPON CHRIST to RETURN UPON THIS SHAMEFULL HATEFUL CITY 10-fold, ALL the HATRED it PERPRETATES upon the POOR! AMEN & AMEN! And MAY THEIR EVIL BLACK SOULS BURN in ETERNAL UNBEARABLE AGONY, Amen Amen, FOR EVER & FOR EVER.
Please JOIN WITH me in these prayer....PERHAPS Our Merciful Saviour who HEARS the POOR ( Ezekiel 22:29 "The people of the land have used opression , and exercised robbery, and have VEXED the POOR and NEEDY...therefore have I poured out mine INDIGNATION upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my WRATH: their OWN WAY have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the LORD GOD!) will DO WHAT HE HAS PROMISED ME...(Malichi4,5-6: Behold, I [have] sen[t] YOU, ELIJAH[radioprophet] before the coming of the great and DREADFUL Day of the LORD; And he shall TURN the HEART of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, LEST I COME AND SMITE the [city of Hot Springs] WITH A CURSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!")
Showing these UNREPENTANT MONSTERS (our City Fathers and Mothers) the LOVE of JESUS will avail NOTHING! THEY MUST be SHOWN the TERROR of GOD! As The LORD shewed Himself AWFUL IN KILLING to the -ASSYRIANS in ISAIAH 37:36.."Then the ANGEL of the LORD went forth, AND SMOTE..of the ASSYRIANS a hundred and fourscore and five thousand, and,behold, they were ALL DEAD CORPSES!* Let these INHUMAN CRETINS, these CALLOUS MONSTERS and ABOMINATORS have a VISION, then perhaps they will REPENT & CIRCUMCISE their MONEY GRUBBING SOULS!
In THIS City (Rev.2:13) even where SATAN'S SEAT is...I see POOR PEOPLE treated WORSE than BEASTS, and TERRORISED!
Under FEDERAL LAW, in the PATROIT ACT, these POLICE are ELIGABLE for THE DEATH PENALITY! (Any crime that threatens life...is PUNISHABLE BY DEATH!) Being TERRORISED makes me SUICIDAL! This is a CRIME that THREATENS MY LIFE! Therefore, POLICE, MAYOR, CITY OFFICERS, GARY ASHCRAFT, ALL CHRUCH MEMBERS, ALL PREACHERS, PRIESTS, et al ARE SUBJECT to EXTERMINATION. God & The PRESIDENT, Geo, Walker Bush, has SPOKEN! The SUPREME COURT has UPHELD this ruling! Amen, Amen!
Homeless in paradise by Lawrence Solomon
In the 1960s and 1970s, homelessness was virtually unknown in North America, the term not even in public parlance. In 1964, Columbia University researchers scoured four Manhattan parks to count those sleeping there: They found one man. Likewise, in Chicago, Vancouver, Los Angeles, Montreal, and other major cities, homelessness was the exception and not the rule. In the 1960s, big city newspapers rarely ran stories on the homeless, unlike the last decade when they averaged one homeless story every two days. Until the 1980s, the homeless were not part of a widespread phenomenon; they were exceptional hard-luck cases.
Then these exceptions became the rule. Not because poverty suddenly increased — it didn't. Not because welfare was drastically reduced — generally welfare became more generous. Not much because mental institutions suddenly released their patients — the deinstitutionalization of mental patients that took place in the 1960s and early 1970s explains a small fraction, perhaps one-tenth or one-twentieth, of the torrent of homelessness that engulfed our major cities in the 1980s.
One factor, and one factor alone — changes in housing policy — accounts for the immense rise of homelessness: Governments outlawed much of what was then the bottom end of the housing market — the derelict apartment buildings, seedy hotels, and rooming houses — while legalizing vagrancy. In this way, and with only the best of intentions, governments replaced a vast supply of substandard, but low-cost housing with a much vaster, much more substandard, and much lower-cost supply of housing in the form of our streets, back alleys, and parks.
Before the government inadvertently converted our public spaces into sleeping quarters, poor people — including alcoholics and the mentally ill — lived in low-rent districts, muddling along as best they could. Those poorer still doubled up with them, or sublet rooms in exchange for cash or household services, typically babysitting for women, odd jobs for men. There was nothing particularly noble about most of these arrangements: The poor who put up still needier relatives on their living room couches would have preferred the space for themselves; those put up often felt dependent and unwelcome, and, had they the wherewithal, many would have left their position of servitude. Nevertheless they made do, keeping up appearances and maintaining relations, however poorly. Relatively few people relied on shelters.
Then came urban renewal, a euphemism for slum clearance that levelled much of the low-quality housing stock across the continent. Newark and New York City lost almost half of their low-rent housing between 1970 and 1990; New York City's Bowery, with 10,000 beds in 1965, had but 3,000 in 1980. In the 1970s and 1980s, Chicago lost 20 per cent of its low-rent housing; of the 10,000 spaces in the Loop area's cubicle hotels, 600 remained. By the early 1980s, Toronto lost virtually all of its 500 flophouse beds; by the end of the decade, it had lost one-third of its rooming houses. Between the mid-1970s and the late 1980s, the number of unsubsidized low-cost units fell 54 per cent in the typical large U.S. metropolitan area. Public housing — once a shining hope — failed utterly in housing the very poor.
While the stock of low-cost housing declined, the cost and difficulty of living on the cheap increased. Welfare recipients who doubled up with family members faced benefit reductions, giving them and their families reasons to drift apart. Rent control legislation, which stopped apartment building construction, backfired on the poor. While it kept rents low, a surplus of apartment seekers gave landlords the luxury of picking and choosing tenants: In competition with stable tenants able to pay rent on time and unlikely to damage property, the down-and-out had no chance. The housing shortage and rising land prices also spurred gentrification of old neighborhoods that housed the destitute, leading to their eviction. Even tenant rights legislation backfired. Because it prevented landlords from evicting the prostitutes, drug dealers, and rowdy tenants who caused good tenants to leave, they stopped renting to anyone with the potential to be troublesome. When governments extended rent control and tenant rights to rooming houses and single-room occupancy hotels, and tightened housing regulations to force landlords to better maintain the dwindling stock of decaying housing, the landlords themselves vacated. Much of the low-income housing was lost to fires, often arson was suspected.
With so much low-rent housing demolished, and so much of the balance reserved for respectable tenants, the poorest of the poor had no place to go but the streets, newly freed up through the repeal of vagrancy laws. To those with addictions, this dark cloud had a silver lining: Without accommodation costs, they could devote more of their meagre income to their habit.
Those we call homeless are not a homogeneous lot and, often, not even homeless. In many cities, the majority of panhandlers, squeegee kids, and other street people that we come across have fairly conventional abodes. Meanwhile, the majority of the truly homeless escape our view: In a 1989 study of Chicago's homeless, interviewers found most to be "neat and clean" and only 20 per cent to panhandle or take handouts. Most homeless do not make a career of it: They find themselves on the street following some unmanageable stress — the death or illness of a loved one, the breakup of a relationship, debt, and legal problems top the list — and then they pull out of it. Yet most remain deeply disturbed. According to a recent study of Toronto's homeless by the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, two-thirds have a lifetime diagnosis of mental illness, and two-thirds suffer from alcohol and substance abuse. Only one homeless person in seven in this highly vulnerable population suffers from neither.
Although most are mentally ill, few are seriously so. Only about 10 per cent of the homeless population has suffered from some severe mental illness, most often not the schizophrenia we associate with the homeless but a dark depression. While most of the severely ill lack proper treatment, few belong in institutions. The vast majority of mentally ill people, today as before deinstitutionalization, live in the community. Only today we've made the pavement the only practical housing choice for all too many of them.
The more important characteristics of the homeless — whether or not they're mentally ill — are that they have fewer work skills, fewer social skills, and less resourcefulness than the housed population. They have difficulty maintaining relationships with friends and family. Almost half reported that they could rely on "no one" in their lives. Only four per cent were married or in common-law relationships. All this speaks to their lack of community and numbing sense of isolation — conditions that, above all, explain much of the social pathology that is homelessness. Being society's least valued members, they are the first to be fired, the last to be hired, those most shunned in civil society, modern lepers.
Those who live on the streets do not appear as a line item in government books, except for the odd outreach program. Neither do taxpayers take a direct hit. Some resent, others pity, the panhandlers; some fear the talkers and ravers that they encounter, but most see the homeless as an unsettling but cost-free fixture on the urban landscape.
Failing to deal with homelessness is a false economy, quite apart from the great moral costs of turning our backs on this defenceless population. The homeless cast a pall on our use of our cities, prompting parents and their children to abandon the public parks they frequent, pedestrians to avoid places they might be accosted, and merchants to relocate. The homeless show up big time in our penal system — 30 per cent have spent time in police stations or jail in the previous year — and in our health care budget.
As shown in a study published in June in the New England Journal of Medicine — the first extensive documentation of the impact of homelessness on the health care system — the homeless have been exacting a silent toll on a society that ignores their plight. The homeless at New York City's public hospitals stayed an average of 4.1 days longer, and cost an average of $2,414 more per admission, than low-income patients who had homes. One group of psychiatric patients, whom clinicians believed couldn't be discharged safely, averaged 70 days more than otherwise called for. At the city's flagship Bellevue Hospital, nearly half the admissions were homeless. "The homeless account for less than one-half of one per cent of the city's population, but they are having a huge impact on the health care system," said Sharon Salit, the report's lead author. "The extra costs for a single hospital admission are as much as the annual welfare rental allowance for a single individual in New York."
About half the homeless admissions required treatment for mental illness or substance abuse, and half for skin disorders, respiratory complaints, trauma, and parasites – problems generally regarded as preventable among other populations. "For want of a place to clean between their toes, change their shoes and socks, and elevate their feet when they get swollen, homeless patients get infections in their feet" that often become a chronic condition called cellulitis, said Dr. Lewis Goldfrank, Bellevue's director of emergency medicine. "We almost never see that among people who have homes." A 1996 study of Los Angeles's homeless warned that TB could reach epidemic proportions.
The homeless need medical care, especially psychiatric care. We must generously fund outpatient programs: Just as nobody would release Alzheimer's patients onto the streets without adequate treatment and supervision, we cannot let these vulnerable people fend for themselves. We must also ensure that those few who are a danger to themselves or to the public receive compassionate care inside an institution. But most of all, the homeless need homes and an end to their alienation, without which their condition cannot improve. Most homeless advocates, while understanding the need for more housing, too often seek quick-fix solutions in government housing, forgetting that the last thing the homeless need is to be warehoused in anonymous public housing supervised by a faceless government bureaucracy. We must require the homeless to engage the rest of us.
The way out of homeless begins by backing out of the same path that created it. We must restore vagrancy laws, both to safeguard the public sphere for us all and to require housing for those unable to properly look after themselves. To shelter those evicted from the streets, welfare must provide the down-and-out with housing vouchers that can be used anywhere, not just in shelters but in exchange for that couch in a relative's living room. (To discourage a black market, each voucher should identify its recipient and be dated, and the landlords, rooming houses, and others who accept vouchers without housing the voucher recipient should be liable to fines.) Generous vouchers will minimize substandard housing.
To encourage friends and relatives to take the homeless in and other landlords to re-enter the business, we must throw out rules preventing easy evictions of tenants who disturb the peace or otherwise fail to meet their obligations to their neighbors and the landlord (even publicly funded hostels and shelters routinely evict or refuse to admit disorderly occupants). This accountability will prod some of today's homeless — whom the Clarke Institute found to be more aggressive, antisocial, moody, irritable, and less open to taking responsibility for change — to get along with those around them, as their counterparts once did.
While the government re-regulates the use of public spaces, it should deregulate the housing market to let the homeless find inexpensive housing niches for themselves. The largest sources of appropriate housing — ones that many municipalities wrongly ban — are basement apartments and other occupancies in residential districts.
Because most homeless individuals are neat, clean, and nonviolent, many would find shelter in middle- and lower-class residences willing to set aside some space in exchange for the housing voucher. Such a relationship would especially appeal to homeowners on fixed incomes, who find themselves single and perhaps frail in a large home, and who themselves need a little income and an occasional helping hand with household chores.
We live in times of plenty, with the means and the obligation to humanely look after our most unfortunate members of society. In helping others, we will also help ourselves through more hospitable streets, a healthier society, and the personal gratification of doing our share to help people who have fallen on hard times, and not always from sins of their own making.
semi-military operations against the homeless. Using
police harassment, ticketing, closing volunteer
feeding programs and jailings in a futile attempt to
class cleanse downtown.
Block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood,
developers and speculators build high rise condos and
office towers; while politicians and city officials,
skimming the profits, instruct the police to prey upon
their fellow human beings, like jackals in the jungle.
April 15th marked the beginning of an insurgency
against San Diego's war on the "least of those among
us" as over 450 people gathered at the concourse in a
rally to urge the city to stop ticketing the homeless
for the human need of sleep and to create a safe area
where the unhoused can camp. Over half those attending
the rally were homeless: dragging their belongs, lying
on the cold pavement, looking up at the empty offices
of city hall (knowing, everyone who works there was
home enjoying a hot meal, a shower and a warm bed).
Yet, like a match struck in a solid dark, scary,
room, listening to the speakers; pastors and
professors, and, particularly Larry Milligan, whose
recent fast, led to this rally, the homeless there,
that night, began to understand that homelessness
should not be a crime. Called bums, scum, trash and
treated worse than stray cats and dogs, realization
began individually, then in discussions among
themselves, that, in fact, they were, indeed, victims.
When many homeless speakers took to the microphone
to tell their stories of police human rights abuses,
the quiet murmur among the unhoused grew to shouts as
reports of harassment, sleep deprivation, starvation,
verbal and physical abuse were given.
However, when the rally was over, like true
"liberals" who flock to most progressive events for
information (rarely transformation) and a modest sense
of guilty support (solidarity?), they returned to
their comforts and warm bed for the night.
Councilwoman Donna Fry accepted a invitation to speak,
then backed out; probably realizing that her integrity
and compassion would meet the demands of her political
future as she would be drawn personally to these
victims of San Diego's militarized economic processes
which benefit the rich and powerful downtown
developers.
Eight Quakers, from San Diego and La Jolla
Meetings, had previously decided that enough was
enough. They had contacted the media, the police and,
most importantly, their fellow members of faith, to
say that this war on the homeless must end; that they
could not, in good conscience, continue to exist in
safety and comfort while others were
attacked, demonized, starved, beaten, jailed and
killed.
Noting over 89 homeless folks died on city streets
last year and over 100 the year before; that police
gun down the homeless with impunity - one in Ocean
Beach for carrying a stick - these 8 Friends (as they
prefer to be called) bedded down for the night after
the rally. They were joined by 3 students of
conscience from Point Loma Nazarene University
(bringing not only our newest generation to the
struggle against this city's war of greed but,
perhaps, the greatest Nazarene of all time?)
About 50 homeless people bundled in with the small
human rights group as it bedded down for the night;
many out of a beginning sense of solidarity, others
out of sheer tiredness and inertia (the city's winter
shelter had closed the day before and there was simply
nowhere to go). When several dozen police officers
arrived just after 11:00 p.m. they gave everyone 10
minutes to disperse or they would be arrested for
"illegal lodging."
Like mechanical constructs out of a Disneyland
exhibit, they moved about the crowd, reading from a
prepared card, ignoring the questions of "where can we
lodge, legally?" Told by several organizers that all
the shelters were contacted and were full, the police
remained silent; their humanity and conscience tucked
safety in their lockers back at the precinct
headquarters. The Quakers present exchanged sad
glances; it had been but several months since they
held religious services outside the main police
station on Broadway to ask God's forgiveness for the
individual police persons forced to slice away at the
humanity and personal decency of the homeless. They
recognize that each time a uniformed person assaults
another, more vulnerable and helpless, they,
themselves, chip away a little of their own humanity,
their own connectedness to a spiritual source, and
become pimps and whores for the rich and powerful who
seek that space known as "downtown" for their own
pleasure and profit.
As the police waited their ten minutes, most of the
homeless gathered up their belongings, grumbling, and
departed. For most, this harassment was so routine
that no one questioned their own victimization; they
simply moved on, the new negroes and jews, outcasts
from a gentrified, new world order that rewards those
that serve the corporate interests and attacks those
who refuse or who are too fragile to compete in the
savage, competitive economic jungle of greed based,
corporate owned, capitalism.
Yet, seven homeless folks (one, a Vietnam veteran
in a wheel chair) drew strength from the housed
people of faith and from Larry Milligan who joined
together in a circle of mats and sleeping bags, held
hands and sang "Amazing Grace" as they waited to be
arrested. One by the one, the homeless joined the
circle of trembling hands (only one of the group had
ever been arrested before). Truth, love and human
goodness sat in defiance of power and greed as the
lights from tv cameras illuminated another one of
those historic, finest hours in human spirit and
community. There was no wealthy or poor, no young or
old, no women or men, no straight or gay, no black or
white; only people who held hands, singing, loving one
another, believing in the value and dignity of one
another, prepared to suffer the punishment of the rich
and their bought politicians, who demand and depend on
the power to determine who is worthy and who gets the
benefits of this world.
The police used to pouncing on the individual,
powerless homeless person were stunned with this show
of defiance and moral strength. The faltering look in
some of their eyes gave testimony that, perhaps, for
the first time in their professional lives, they
questioned their orders to feed on the misery of their
fellow human beings. For every action there is a
reaction, as they begun their own spiritual healing,
sensing that they make this system work, to reward
rich crooks like John Moores, greedy landlords like
Mayor Murphy and, everyone else, who relies on them to
do their shit work, victimize the poor. The Quakers
there, sitting on the cold pavement, understood and
shared the hope; that if we can free the police
officers conscience from the increasingly class-based,
militarized, totalitarian government that serves
corporate CEO's and rich investors, we move closer
toward a just world.
After 12 minutes the police retreated. From around
midnight, when the waiting paddy wagons were pulled
away, until 4:30 a.m., when the morning shift
commander decided that police power must at least be
shown, if not enforced, there existed in the City of
San Diego, at the base of City Hall, a safe place for
the homeless to sleep. A small victory in the least,
but a beginning nonetheless.
This small group of insurgents in San Diego's war
on the homeless, say they will return again and again,
until the city quits criminalizing the homeless,
ceases issuing tickets for the human need of sleep and
creates a zone for the homeless to camp.
What we must do, as human beings and citizens of
this community, is to look ourselves in the mirror,
searching for that inner compassionate, loving core
and question whether we can continue to eat good food,
enjoy our pleasures and sleep in a warm bed; while our
government hunts down human beings, like wild animals.
If we fail to act on the side of the homeless; to
prevent the suffering, the pain of personal valueness,
hunger, sleep deprivation and even death, then what
kind of human being are we? Are we any better than the
sick, twisted terrorists and corporate CEOs who would
carve out their view of reality for their own selfish
reasons?
Facing arrest, sitting on the cold pavement,
holding one hand with a shaking young college student
and the other with a housewife (whose best friend is a
police officer), one homeless woman said, "this is the
first time in years that I have felt like a person."
Let us work to make sure it is not her last.
--Rocky Neptun
(Rocky Neptun is a former elected member of San
Diego city government - mid-city planning board and a
member of San Diego Friends (Quaker) Meeting)
- e-mail:: rockyneptuno@yahoo.com.mx
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right now hillcrest has so much heat!!!!!!
28.04.2005 03:05
i've been stopped by the cops 3 times this week for nothing.not to mention the roughly 10 times they drive by and give me the evil eye.what the fuck?ever since they shot jake faust they have been going crazy.the expieriances have been so humiliating.when they stopped me last night and ran my name i had no warrents.the cop sacasticly "so what your telling me is your a model citizen?" i said "not really".....
brian donovan
Home/Hope-Less in ParaDyse!!!!
11.05.2005 11:06
COMPLIANCE law of March, 2002 is against the POOR!
Does not CHRIST Himself say: "Blessed be the POOR; for THEY will inherit the Kingdom of Heaven?" and did not Jesus say :"Acursed is any that OFFEND these little ones who believe in me?"
Therefore, I CALL UPON the HOLY ONE, blessed is He, TO BRING PLAUGES, FAMINE, DISASTER, DEATH, PAIN & eternal DAMNNATION in the FIRES of TORMENT-NOW, TODAY: upon LANCE HUBNELL, MAYOR, LARRY SELIG, GARY ASHCRAFT, all POLICE, all CITY COUNCELLORS, ALL enforcers of the SATANIC CODE LAWS, especially upon the JACKSON HOUSE, MELISSA GASSOWAY, and THE EVIL WOMAN at the SALVATION ARMY who told me I WAS LESS THAN HUMAN; and CALLED THE POLICE on me FOR ASKING for a BASIC HUMAN RIGHT! To wit: TO USE THE BATHROOM! I CALL UPON CHRIST to RETURN UPON THIS SHAMEFULL HATEFUL CITY 10-fold, ALL the HATRED it PERPRETATES upon the POOR! AMEN & AMEN! And MAY THEIR EVIL BLACK SOULS BURN in ETERNAL UNBEARABLE AGONY, Amen Amen, FOR EVER & FOR EVER.
Please JOIN WITH me in these prayer....PERHAPS Our Merciful Saviour who HEARS the POOR ( Ezekiel 22:29 "The people of the land have used opression , and exercised robbery, and have VEXED the POOR and NEEDY...therefore have I poured out mine INDIGNATION upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my WRATH: their OWN WAY have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the LORD GOD!) will DO WHAT HE HAS PROMISED ME...(Malichi4,5-6: Behold, I [have] sen[t] YOU, ELIJAH[radioprophet] before the coming of the great and DREADFUL Day of the LORD; And he shall TURN the HEART of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, LEST I COME AND SMITE the [city of Hot Springs] WITH A CURSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!")
Showing these UNREPENTANT MONSTERS (our City Fathers and Mothers) the LOVE of JESUS will avail NOTHING! THEY MUST be SHOWN the TERROR of GOD! As The LORD shewed Himself AWFUL IN KILLING to the -ASSYRIANS in ISAIAH 37:36.."Then the ANGEL of the LORD went forth, AND SMOTE..of the ASSYRIANS a hundred and fourscore and five thousand, and,behold, they were ALL DEAD CORPSES!* Let these INHUMAN CRETINS, these CALLOUS MONSTERS and ABOMINATORS have a VISION, then perhaps they will REPENT & CIRCUMCISE their MONEY GRUBBING SOULS!
In THIS City (Rev.2:13) even where SATAN'S SEAT is...I see POOR PEOPLE treated WORSE than BEASTS, and TERRORISED!
Under FEDERAL LAW, in the PATROIT ACT, these POLICE are ELIGABLE for THE DEATH PENALITY! (Any crime that threatens life...is PUNISHABLE BY DEATH!) Being TERRORISED makes me SUICIDAL! This is a CRIME that THREATENS MY LIFE! Therefore, POLICE, MAYOR, CITY OFFICERS, GARY ASHCRAFT, ALL CHRUCH MEMBERS, ALL PREACHERS, PRIESTS, et al ARE SUBJECT to EXTERMINATION. God & The PRESIDENT, Geo, Walker Bush, has SPOKEN! The SUPREME COURT has UPHELD this ruling! Amen, Amen!
right now hillcrest has so much heat!!!!!!
28.04.2005 03:05
i've been stopped by the cops 3 times this week for nothing.not to mention the roughly 10 times they drive by and give me the evil eye.what the fuck?ever since they shot jake faust they have been going crazy.the expieriances have been so humiliating.when they stopped me last night and ran my name i had no warrents.the cop sacasticly "so what your telling me is your a model citizen?" i said "not really".....
brian donovan
Home/Hope-Less in ParaDyse!!!!
11.05.2005 11:06
COMPLIANCE law of March, 2002 is against the POOR!
Does not CHRIST Himself say: "Blessed be the POOR; for THEY will inherit the Kingdom of Heaven?" and did not Jesus say :"Acursed is any that OFFEND these little ones who believe in me?"
Therefore, I CALL UPON the HOLY ONE, blessed is He, TO BRING PLAUGES, FAMINE, DISASTER, DEATH, PAIN & eternal DAMNNATION in the FIRES of TORMENT-NOW, TODAY: upon LANCE HUBNELL, MAYOR, LARRY SELIG, GARY ASHCRAFT, all POLICE, all CITY COUNCELLORS, ALL enforcers of the SATANIC CODE LAWS, especially upon the JACKSON HOUSE, MELISSA GASSOWAY, and THE EVIL WOMAN at the SALVATION ARMY who told me I WAS LESS THAN HUMAN; and CALLED THE POLICE on me FOR ASKING for a BASIC HUMAN RIGHT! To wit: TO USE THE BATHROOM! I CALL UPON CHRIST to RETURN UPON THIS SHAMEFULL HATEFUL CITY 10-fold, ALL the HATRED it PERPRETATES upon the POOR! AMEN & AMEN! And MAY THEIR EVIL BLACK SOULS BURN in ETERNAL UNBEARABLE AGONY, Amen Amen, FOR EVER & FOR EVER.
Please JOIN WITH me in these prayer....PERHAPS Our Merciful Saviour who HEARS the POOR ( Ezekiel 22:29 "The people of the land have used opression , and exercised robbery, and have VEXED the POOR and NEEDY...therefore have I poured out mine INDIGNATION upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my WRATH: their OWN WAY have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the LORD GOD!) will DO WHAT HE HAS PROMISED ME...(Malichi4,5-6: Behold, I [have] sen[t] YOU, ELIJAH[radioprophet] before the coming of the great and DREADFUL Day of the LORD; And he shall TURN the HEART of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, LEST I COME AND SMITE the [city of Hot Springs] WITH A CURSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!")
Showing these UNREPENTANT MONSTERS (our City Fathers and Mothers) the LOVE of JESUS will avail NOTHING! THEY MUST be SHOWN the TERROR of GOD! As The LORD shewed Himself AWFUL IN KILLING to the -ASSYRIANS in ISAIAH 37:36.."Then the ANGEL of the LORD went forth, AND SMOTE..of the ASSYRIANS a hundred and fourscore and five thousand, and,behold, they were ALL DEAD CORPSES!* Let these INHUMAN CRETINS, these CALLOUS MONSTERS and ABOMINATORS have a VISION, then perhaps they will REPENT & CIRCUMCISE their MONEY GRUBBING SOULS!
In THIS City (Rev.2:13) even where SATAN'S SEAT is...I see POOR PEOPLE treated WORSE than BEASTS, and TERRORISED!
Under FEDERAL LAW, in the PATROIT ACT, these POLICE are ELIGABLE for THE DEATH PENALITY! (Any crime that threatens life...is PUNISHABLE BY DEATH!) Being TERRORISED makes me SUICIDAL! This is a CRIME that THREATENS MY LIFE! Therefore, POLICE, MAYOR, CITY OFFICERS, GARY ASHCRAFT, ALL CHRUCH MEMBERS, ALL PREACHERS, PRIESTS, et al ARE SUBJECT to EXTERMINATION. God & The PRESIDENT, Geo, Walker Bush, has SPOKEN! The SUPREME COURT has UPHELD this ruling! Amen, Amen!
Homeless in paradise by Lawrence Solomon
In the 1960s and 1970s, homelessness was virtually unknown in North America, the term not even in public parlance. In 1964, Columbia University researchers scoured four Manhattan parks to count those sleeping there: They found one man. Likewise, in Chicago, Vancouver, Los Angeles, Montreal, and other major cities, homelessness was the exception and not the rule. In the 1960s, big city newspapers rarely ran stories on the homeless, unlike the last decade when they averaged one homeless story every two days. Until the 1980s, the homeless were not part of a widespread phenomenon; they were exceptional hard-luck cases.
Then these exceptions became the rule. Not because poverty suddenly increased — it didn't. Not because welfare was drastically reduced — generally welfare became more generous. Not much because mental institutions suddenly released their patients — the deinstitutionalization of mental patients that took place in the 1960s and early 1970s explains a small fraction, perhaps one-tenth or one-twentieth, of the torrent of homelessness that engulfed our major cities in the 1980s.
One factor, and one factor alone — changes in housing policy — accounts for the immense rise of homelessness: Governments outlawed much of what was then the bottom end of the housing market — the derelict apartment buildings, seedy hotels, and rooming houses — while legalizing vagrancy. In this way, and with only the best of intentions, governments replaced a vast supply of substandard, but low-cost housing with a much vaster, much more substandard, and much lower-cost supply of housing in the form of our streets, back alleys, and parks.
Before the government inadvertently converted our public spaces into sleeping quarters, poor people — including alcoholics and the mentally ill — lived in low-rent districts, muddling along as best they could. Those poorer still doubled up with them, or sublet rooms in exchange for cash or household services, typically babysitting for women, odd jobs for men. There was nothing particularly noble about most of these arrangements: The poor who put up still needier relatives on their living room couches would have preferred the space for themselves; those put up often felt dependent and unwelcome, and, had they the wherewithal, many would have left their position of servitude. Nevertheless they made do, keeping up appearances and maintaining relations, however poorly. Relatively few people relied on shelters.
Then came urban renewal, a euphemism for slum clearance that levelled much of the low-quality housing stock across the continent. Newark and New York City lost almost half of their low-rent housing between 1970 and 1990; New York City's Bowery, with 10,000 beds in 1965, had but 3,000 in 1980. In the 1970s and 1980s, Chicago lost 20 per cent of its low-rent housing; of the 10,000 spaces in the Loop area's cubicle hotels, 600 remained. By the early 1980s, Toronto lost virtually all of its 500 flophouse beds; by the end of the decade, it had lost one-third of its rooming houses. Between the mid-1970s and the late 1980s, the number of unsubsidized low-cost units fell 54 per cent in the typical large U.S. metropolitan area. Public housing — once a shining hope — failed utterly in housing the very poor.
While the stock of low-cost housing declined, the cost and difficulty of living on the cheap increased. Welfare recipients who doubled up with family members faced benefit reductions, giving them and their families reasons to drift apart. Rent control legislation, which stopped apartment building construction, backfired on the poor. While it kept rents low, a surplus of apartment seekers gave landlords the luxury of picking and choosing tenants: In competition with stable tenants able to pay rent on time and unlikely to damage property, the down-and-out had no chance. The housing shortage and rising land prices also spurred gentrification of old neighborhoods that housed the destitute, leading to their eviction. Even tenant rights legislation backfired. Because it prevented landlords from evicting the prostitutes, drug dealers, and rowdy tenants who caused good tenants to leave, they stopped renting to anyone with the potential to be troublesome. When governments extended rent control and tenant rights to rooming houses and single-room occupancy hotels, and tightened housing regulations to force landlords to better maintain the dwindling stock of decaying housing, the landlords themselves vacated. Much of the low-income housing was lost to fires, often arson was suspected.
With so much low-rent housing demolished, and so much of the balance reserved for respectable tenants, the poorest of the poor had no place to go but the streets, newly freed up through the repeal of vagrancy laws. To those with addictions, this dark cloud had a silver lining: Without accommodation costs, they could devote more of their meagre income to their habit.
Those we call homeless are not a homogeneous lot and, often, not even homeless. In many cities, the majority of panhandlers, squeegee kids, and other street people that we come across have fairly conventional abodes. Meanwhile, the majority of the truly homeless escape our view: In a 1989 study of Chicago's homeless, interviewers found most to be "neat and clean" and only 20 per cent to panhandle or take handouts. Most homeless do not make a career of it: They find themselves on the street following some unmanageable stress — the death or illness of a loved one, the breakup of a relationship, debt, and legal problems top the list — and then they pull out of it. Yet most remain deeply disturbed. According to a recent study of Toronto's homeless by the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, two-thirds have a lifetime diagnosis of mental illness, and two-thirds suffer from alcohol and substance abuse. Only one homeless person in seven in this highly vulnerable population suffers from neither.
Although most are mentally ill, few are seriously so. Only about 10 per cent of the homeless population has suffered from some severe mental illness, most often not the schizophrenia we associate with the homeless but a dark depression. While most of the severely ill lack proper treatment, few belong in institutions. The vast majority of mentally ill people, today as before deinstitutionalization, live in the community. Only today we've made the pavement the only practical housing choice for all too many of them.
The more important characteristics of the homeless — whether or not they're mentally ill — are that they have fewer work skills, fewer social skills, and less resourcefulness than the housed population. They have difficulty maintaining relationships with friends and family. Almost half reported that they could rely on "no one" in their lives. Only four per cent were married or in common-law relationships. All this speaks to their lack of community and numbing sense of isolation — conditions that, above all, explain much of the social pathology that is homelessness. Being society's least valued members, they are the first to be fired, the last to be hired, those most shunned in civil society, modern lepers.
Those who live on the streets do not appear as a line item in government books, except for the odd outreach program. Neither do taxpayers take a direct hit. Some resent, others pity, the panhandlers; some fear the talkers and ravers that they encounter, but most see the homeless as an unsettling but cost-free fixture on the urban landscape.
Failing to deal with homelessness is a false economy, quite apart from the great moral costs of turning our backs on this defenceless population. The homeless cast a pall on our use of our cities, prompting parents and their children to abandon the public parks they frequent, pedestrians to avoid places they might be accosted, and merchants to relocate. The homeless show up big time in our penal system — 30 per cent have spent time in police stations or jail in the previous year — and in our health care budget.
As shown in a study published in June in the New England Journal of Medicine — the first extensive documentation of the impact of homelessness on the health care system — the homeless have been exacting a silent toll on a society that ignores their plight. The homeless at New York City's public hospitals stayed an average of 4.1 days longer, and cost an average of $2,414 more per admission, than low-income patients who had homes. One group of psychiatric patients, whom clinicians believed couldn't be discharged safely, averaged 70 days more than otherwise called for. At the city's flagship Bellevue Hospital, nearly half the admissions were homeless. "The homeless account for less than one-half of one per cent of the city's population, but they are having a huge impact on the health care system," said Sharon Salit, the report's lead author. "The extra costs for a single hospital admission are as much as the annual welfare rental allowance for a single individual in New York."
About half the homeless admissions required treatment for mental illness or substance abuse, and half for skin disorders, respiratory complaints, trauma, and parasites – problems generally regarded as preventable among other populations. "For want of a place to clean between their toes, change their shoes and socks, and elevate their feet when they get swollen, homeless patients get infections in their feet" that often become a chronic condition called cellulitis, said Dr. Lewis Goldfrank, Bellevue's director of emergency medicine. "We almost never see that among people who have homes." A 1996 study of Los Angeles's homeless warned that TB could reach epidemic proportions.
The homeless need medical care, especially psychiatric care. We must generously fund outpatient programs: Just as nobody would release Alzheimer's patients onto the streets without adequate treatment and supervision, we cannot let these vulnerable people fend for themselves. We must also ensure that those few who are a danger to themselves or to the public receive compassionate care inside an institution. But most of all, the homeless need homes and an end to their alienation, without which their condition cannot improve. Most homeless advocates, while understanding the need for more housing, too often seek quick-fix solutions in government housing, forgetting that the last thing the homeless need is to be warehoused in anonymous public housing supervised by a faceless government bureaucracy. We must require the homeless to engage the rest of us.
The way out of homeless begins by backing out of the same path that created it. We must restore vagrancy laws, both to safeguard the public sphere for us all and to require housing for those unable to properly look after themselves. To shelter those evicted from the streets, welfare must provide the down-and-out with housing vouchers that can be used anywhere, not just in shelters but in exchange for that couch in a relative's living room. (To discourage a black market, each voucher should identify its recipient and be dated, and the landlords, rooming houses, and others who accept vouchers without housing the voucher recipient should be liable to fines.) Generous vouchers will minimize substandard housing.
To encourage friends and relatives to take the homeless in and other landlords to re-enter the business, we must throw out rules preventing easy evictions of tenants who disturb the peace or otherwise fail to meet their obligations to their neighbors and the landlord (even publicly funded hostels and shelters routinely evict or refuse to admit disorderly occupants). This accountability will prod some of today's homeless — whom the Clarke Institute found to be more aggressive, antisocial, moody, irritable, and less open to taking responsibility for change — to get along with those around them, as their counterparts once did.
While the government re-regulates the use of public spaces, it should deregulate the housing market to let the homeless find inexpensive housing niches for themselves. The largest sources of appropriate housing — ones that many municipalities wrongly ban — are basement apartments and other occupancies in residential districts.
Because most homeless individuals are neat, clean, and nonviolent, many would find shelter in middle- and lower-class residences willing to set aside some space in exchange for the housing voucher. Such a relationship would especially appeal to homeowners on fixed incomes, who find themselves single and perhaps frail in a large home, and who themselves need a little income and an occasional helping hand with household chores.
We live in times of plenty, with the means and the obligation to humanely look after our most unfortunate members of society. In helping others, we will also help ourselves through more hospitable streets, a healthier society, and the personal gratification of doing our share to help people who have fallen on hard times, and not always from sins of their own making.
This is in response to Missus Jennifer Franks,[I cannot exit my
downtown home through the designated main door, because there is a
bench there frequented by up to four homeless people at a time,
drinking beer, smoking and dancing to imaginary music as a result of
their recent drug intakes. I hope your writer's next article is about
the steps he has taken to help their cause, and not about the failures
of society and the brutality of our police force.
JENNIFER M. FRANKS] and her blatant "hate-speech" rhetoric against the
"Poorest & Assessable" Target for what, in my youth (Pre- Martin
Luthern King/ Civil Rights Truman, 1950's America) Was called "Blatant
Intolerant Prejudice." Whether against Blacks, Mexicans, Japs or
Whites....Intolerance is "RACISM" wearing Transvestite's Rags. I am a
Jewish Rabbi, so I shant touch the Similarities betwixt Missus Franks
and this "British Lady" quoted in a Book Published in 1854..."degrades
him
who gives more than him who takes; charity which treads the
downtrodden still deeper in the dust, which demands that the degraded,
the pariah cast out by society, shall first surrender the last that
remains to him, his very claim to manhood, shall first beg for mercy
before your mercy deigns to press, in the shape of an alms, the brand
of degradation upon his brow. But let us hear the English
bourgeoisie's own words. It is not yet a year since I read in the
Manchester Guardian the following letter to the editor, which was
published without comment as a perfectly natural, reasonable thing:
"MR. EDITOR,-- For some time past our main streets are haunted by
swarms of beggars, who try to awaken the pity of the passers-by in a
most shameless and annoying manner, by exposing their tattered
clothing, sickly aspect, and disgusting wounds and deformities. I
should think that when one not only pays the poor-rate, but also
contributes largely to the charitable institutions, one had done
enough to earn a right to be spared such disagreeable and impertinent
molestations. And why else do we pay such high rates for the
maintenance of the municipal police, if they do not even protect us so
far as to make it possible to go to or out of town in peace? I hope
the publication of these lines in your widely- circulated paper may
induce the authorities to remove this nuisance; and I remain,-- Your
obedient servant,
"A Lady."
Understand, the Accusation I make, Very Candidly and with Full Intent
toward Condemnation of Political Correctness, is the Same as was
Voiced by the Writer of the Assignment, "The Homeless are the NIggers
of the 21st. Century" The Homeless are Targeted by Press, Talk-Radio,
News Reports on Television, and FASCIST
Multi-Nationals, knowing quite well the Old Axiom "Hate Sells!"
And, as my late Great Uncle, Edward L. Bernays, found, the The methods
invented and
tried out in the war were too valuable for the uses of governments,
factions, and special interests." Sigmund Freud's nephew, Edward
Bernays, took the techniques he learned in the CPI directly to
Madison Avenue and became an outspoken proponent of propaganda as a
tool for democratic government. "It was, of course, the astounding
success of propaganda during the war that opened the eyes of the
intelligent few in all departments of life to the possibilities of
regimenting the public mind," wrote Bernays in his 1928 bombshell
Propaganda. "It was only natural, after the war ended, that
intelligent persons should ask themselves whether it was not
possible to apply a similar technique to the problems of peace."What
happens to a
democracy whose citizens have been so steadily and artfully deceived
that they no longer detect any difference between reality and its
counterfeit – or even care?
Underlying PR is an unspoken assumption that most people are not
capable of intelligent, independent thought and action and that "for
the greater good" they must be programmed en masse to act in
prescribed ways. "It is now possible to control and regiment the
masses according to our will without their knowing it," wrote Edward
Bernays. "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the
organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element
in a democratic society."
Bernays' chilling vision has come to pass. and the Human Need to Hate
is always a Prime Vehicle for Political Advancement.
I have spent 30+ Years living amongst the "Hobo'' folks, as a Folk
Musician, a "Boxcar Slim" traveling Tourbadour, I would be "Ashamed"
to arrive at a "Bluegrass Festival," or "Old Timey Music" Gathering,in
a Gas Guzzeling Luxourious Tour Bus, billed as a "Hobo Entertainer!"
What Hyprocracy!
I am a Realistic Environmentalist, not a Idiotic posteourist...I live
in a "Okie Dust-Bowl" Motor Coach...a A.L.I.C.E. PACK! It burns
Calories, not Gasoline! I carry my Dell L400 Laptop, my Guitar, and,
HALLE-JEW-YAH! My Yaesu FT-817 Micro-Minature Short Wave "Ham Radio"
with me....and my 58 Year Old Frame is Fit as a Fiddle! 5' 2" tall,
112 Pounds, carrying ONE-HALF MY BODY WEIGHT EVERY WHERE I GO!
Try THAT, Missy Franks, you flatulent frump.
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San Diego Opens New Fronts in War on Homeless
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Rocky Neptun | 24.04.2005 09:11
The City of San Diego continues to expand its human rights assults against the homeless as 3 politicians join the war wagon. City Council members and the City Attorney are escalating San Diego's War on the Homeless.
Two new fronts were recently opened on the city's ongoing persecution of the homeless. San Diego police officers from the Eastern Division, with shock troops from the downtown precincts, joined city bureaucrats, probably armed with box cutters, who invaded the San Diego riverbed area, south of Mission Valley to hunt down poor human beings like wild animals.
Recent Homeless Solidarity Sleep-Out | San Diego's War on the Homeless | Audio from the sleep-out | Photos
City Council members, City Attorney, Escalate San Diego's War on the Homeless
Two new fronts were recently opened on the city's ongoing persecution of the homeless.
San Diego police officers from the Eastern Division, with shock troops from the downtown precincts, joined city bureaucrats, probably armed with box cutters, who invaded the San Diego riverbed area, south of Mission Valley to hunt down poor human beings like wild animals.
The April 21st attack was led by City Attorney, Michael Aguirre, who's pathological need for publicity and exposure has led him to shift his attention from an incompetent mayor, brain-dead council and dysfunctional city manager, to join the human rights abuses and class cleansing of downtown by expanding the perimeter of operations to include the riverbed and surrounding canyons.
Meanwhile, Councilpersons Michael Zuccet and Scott Peters shot themselves in the foot by attempting to target the homeless. Their proposal, outlined at the City Council's Land Use and Housing Committee meeting April 20th, to limit RV parking on city streets to 4 hours drew almost a thousand protesters.
Drawing the ire of working-class folks who don't have large lots to park rv's and spokespersons for the rv industry, dealers and rv clubs, Peters fumbled with explanations for the proposed ordinance.
Several courageous homeless folks stood before the crowd; most homeowners, some with quarter of a million dollar motor homes, and articulated the true thrust of this class-based legislation. Paula Jones, who works and lives in a motor home, asked the council committee. "Where are we supposed to go.?" While, John Adams, who also works but said his wages won't pay for an apartment, said, "If you don't want people living in their vehicles on city streets, create a special parking area that is safe." He said he didn't consider himself homeless, just in "alternative housing."
Councilman Zuccet, who is not a member of Land Use and Housing Committee, began testimony on the proposed ordinance by saying that the present 72 hour ordinance is not working, unenforceable, so we need to shift to just 4 hours. Huh, duh? Let's hope he does better at his criminal trial. Peters, first limited, then cut the amount of speaking time, thus effectively keeping homeless advocates from pointing out that this was but another attempt to give the police expanded tools and weapons against human beings sleeping.
The City of San Diego has continued to expand and intensify its war on the homeless. From hammering public feeding programs, to zoning restrictions and pressure from redevelopment agencies on non-profit social service agencies, to outright harassment and beatings by police officers; the homeless are being driven out of downtown, tared and feathered with the internalized hatred of those developers, condo buyers and council member politians, who's greed makes them fear so much.
The police department has pretty much been given free rein to conduct a terror campaign, aware that human rights abuses are encouraged by merchants and ignored by the media.
Just before the new year, an army of police officers swept through the riverbed, ensnaring over 200 people. Ed Hanson said he witnessed the assaults, where police beat and forcibly removed people from their encampments.
Meanwhile, the San Diego Union-Tribune, ever a supporter of gentrification not matter the human cost and who's reporters were ordered to stay away from the April 15th homeless rights rally of almost 500 people at the Concourse, ran a story April 22, on how social service agencies downtown were "considering" taking advantage of rising land values to relocate. The story ignored the pressure of the Center City Development Corporations, wealthy developers and condo owners associations to attack homeless services. Moving against the Interfaith Coalition for the Homeless's feeding program at 14th and Broadway last year, then attacking it when it was moved to the Salvation Army; there is a concerted effort to starve human beings as public policy. The Rescue Mission also had to drop its feeding program for single men and other food providers downtown are under the gun with conditional use permit threats; while others propose actual prohibitions on lines.
Police have also stepped up their harassment and ticketing of homeless folks for sleeping. In 1994, when statistics first began to be collected, there were a little over two hundred tickets handed out, while today "illegal lodging" tickets are averaging 1500 a year.
A group of human rights activists, led by Quakers from the La Jolla and San Diego Meetings, have said that this war on the homeless will not continue. They plan to begin by badgering the city council, reminding them each Tuesday before they meet (during public comment and passing out fliers on the Concourse) that "what we do to the least of these among us" reflects who we are, not only as a culture, but as individuals; that without love, compassion and help for our fellow human beings we are but another bug sloshing through the mud.
They need your help. Volunteer a couple of hours on a Tuesday morning, any Tuesday morning. The group promises to be there until the human rights abuses against the homeless in San Diego ceases.
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BoxcarHobo_A1 the Folk Singing Feller
09.05.2005 17:17
Well, here I am, having been a HOMELESS HOBO folk singer/guitar/mandolin/french harp playing rambeler, dangeler, EScapER from Immortality & 50 LUNITIC asylems...Left up outer the OZARK Mountians way back in 1945...seeking FAME, FORTUNE and a MOVIE STAR life! Being a METHOD ACTTTTTER...I decided (seeins how CHARLIE CHAPLIN were done dead...) I shold SHOULD....PerFect his FAMOUS Charicter...The Littel HOBO! Now...60 YEARS of UNDERstudy (possessed by Chappies GHOST!) I goits it PREfected! So when I wents up to HOLLYWOOD to PRESENT myself at MGM...they RUN ME OVER with a MUTSS-SHE-BEETCHI pick-up-trukk! So I come to SAN DIEGO! I come AFTER being RELEASED from JAIL in ROME! (Rome, georgia) FER rIDING ON A fREIGHT tRAIN wITHOUT pERMISSIONS! (this was DURING Hurrycaine IVAN!) Being an EXPERIANCED "Rabble-Rouser/Rubbish Eater" I can BENIFIT the folks....PRE-FORMING! Also, I am POSSESSER of a F.C.C. RADIO LICENSE...< 10 May 2005 @ 00:01:59 UTC
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Homepage:: boxcarhobo_a1@yahoo.ca
Homeless Sweep: 14 May...
24.05.2005 10:53
Ah, well...Saturday Night, at approx. 11:30 PM, I was lying in my tent, listening to W6OOB on 3840 KCs (75 Meter Ham Band) in QSO with his "cronies...(W6OBB is a HAM RADIO OPERATOR & also well known as "ART BELL" through his AM Coast-To-Coast Xcast!) I saw LIGHTS shine upon my domicile...and a VOICE commanding "You in the tent; ACHTUNG! Come OUT with your HANDS in front!" (The SS/Gestapo had Discovered ANOTHER hiding JEW!) Upon my exit, Lo & Behold! MILITARY TROOPS! In FULL Battle Gear! Flak Suits! A Squadrion of MARINES? NO! The "River Patrol!" I can say, We Little Old Men must be Very Dangerious Fellers....to warrent a SWAT Team! I was NOT allowed to take ANYTHING, the Sergant First said "We have had complaints from the Security Guards at Kiser/Permemente that YOU THREATENED them...I replied "No, SIR! I speak to them BOTH upon leaving & returning, at 6:30 AM the Coloured Feller UNLOCKS & I leave, at 6:30 PM his Fellow Officer LOCKS UP & I return." Then Sarge presented ANOTHER fantisty..."We KNOW you have NUMBERIOUS PEOPLES in & out!" No, SIR! I replied..."You see in here, a TOSHIBA LAP-TOP Computer, a $500.00 Canadian SeaGull CutAway Guitar, a High Frequency Amateur Radio Transciever, BRAND NEW Icom IC-703, 5 2 Meter & 220 MCs. Handi-Talkies, a Short Wave Reveiver & a Number of Study Books on the shelves (Milk Cartons,) I ALLOW NO BODY in here....some street peopole steal!" The Sarge got IRATE..."It don't matter, WE ARE JUST DOING OUR JOB, FOLLOWING ORDERS!" PLEASE, understand, gentle readers, I Refrained from my USUAL rejounder..."That Defense DIDN'T Work at NUREMBERG!" Fortuneately, upon my release, (@ 5:30 THURSDAY MORNING!!!) +++++EVERYTHING WAS SAFE & SOUND!++++ (Halle-Jew-Yah!) & NO fines or Fees were levied....BUT, I now FULLY understand San Diego's "WAR ON THE HOMELESS!" Here is a QUOTATION from Engel's "Condixtion of the POOR in England" from ca. 1850's...NOTE: 150 Years AGO! NOTHING HAS CHANGED!!!!
Let no one believe, however, that the "cultivated" Englishman openly
brags with his egotism. On the contrary, he conceals it under the
vilest hypocrisy. What? The wealthy English fail to remember the poor?
They who have founded philanthropic institutions, such as no other
country can boast of! Philanthropic institutions forsooth! As though
you rendered the proletarians a service in first sucking out their
very life-blood and then practising your self-complacent, Pharisaic
philanthropy upon them, placing yourselves before the world as mighty
benefactors of humanity when you give back to the plundered victims
the hundredth part of what belongs to them! Charity which degrades him
who gives more than him who takes; charity which treads the
downtrodden still deeper in the dust, which demands that the degraded,
the pariah cast out by society, shall first surrender the last that
remains to him, his very claim to manhood, shall first beg for mercy
before your mercy deigns to press, in the shape of an alms, the brand
of degradation upon his brow. But let us hear the English
bourgeoisie's own words. It is not yet a year since I read in the
Manchester Guardian the following letter to the editor, which was
published without comment as a perfectly natural, reasonable thing:
"MR. EDITOR,-- For some time past our main streets are haunted by
swarms of beggars, who try to awaken the pity of the passers-by in a
most shameless and annoying manner, by exposing their tattered
clothing, sickly aspect, and disgusting wounds and deformities. I
should think that when one not only pays the poor-rate, but also
contributes largely to the charitable institutions, one had done
enough to earn a right to be spared such disagreeable and impertinent
molestations. And why else do we pay such high rates for the
maintenance of the municipal police, if they do not even protect us so
far as to make it possible to go to or out of town in peace? I hope
the publication of these lines in your widely- circulated paper may
induce the authorities to remove this nuisance; and I remain,-- Your
obedient servant,
"A Lady."
There you have it! The English bourgeoisie is charitable out of
self-interest; it gives nothing outright, but regards its gifts as a
business matter, makes a bargain with the poor, saying: "If I spend
this much upon benevolent institutions, I thereby purchase the right
not to be troubled any further, and you are bound thereby to stay in
your dusky holes and not to irritate my tender nerves by exposing your
misery. You shall despair as before, but you shall despair unseen,
this I require, this I purchase with my subscription of twenty pounds
for the infirmary!" It is infamous, this charity of a Christian
bourgeois! And so writes "A Lady"; she does well to sign herself such,
well that she has lost the courage to call herself a woman! But if the
"Ladies" are such as this, what must the "Gentlemen" be? It will be
said that this is a single case; but no, the foregoing letter
expresses the temper of the great majority of the English bourgeoisie,
or the editor would not have accepted it, and some reply would have
been made to it, which I watched for in vain in the succeeding
numbers. And as to the efficiency of this philanthropy, Canon
Parkinson himself says that the poor are relieved much more by the
poor than by the bourgeoisie; and such relief given by an honest
proletarian who knows himself what it is to be hungry, for whom
sharing his scanty meal is really a sacrifice, but a sacrifice borne
with pleasure, such help has a wholly different ring to it from the
carelessly-tossed alms of the luxurious bourgeois.
We have the SAME EFFITE SNOBS today...their Hideous "QUALITY OF LIFE" Laws. They are RICH Piggies, Goyim Swine, and they CANNOT ABIDE to SEE, SMELL or be Pan Handled by VERMIN such as We Are!
IS THERE ANYONE WHO WISHES TO DEBATE my DOGMA? I have been "Homeless" over 30 (Thirty) Years. I am a TORAH Student, and a Chronic Schizophreniac (They called JOHN the BAPTIST, Elijah the Tishbite & Jesus the Christ a Lunitic....I am in GOOD COMPANY!)
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downtown home through the designated main door, because there is a
bench there frequented by up to four homeless people at a time,
drinking beer, smoking and dancing to imaginary music as a result of
their recent drug intakes. I hope your writer's next article is about
the steps he has taken to help their cause, and not about the failures
of society and the brutality of our police force.
JENNIFER M. FRANKS] and her blatant "hate-speech" rhetoric against the
"Poorest & Assessable" Target for what, in my youth (Pre- Martin
Luthern King/ Civil Rights Truman, 1950's America) Was called "Blatant
Intolerant Prejudice." Whether against Blacks, Mexicans, Japs or
Whites....Intolerance is "RACISM" wearing Transvestite's Rags. I am a
Jewish Rabbi, so I shant touch the Similarities betwixt Missus Franks
and this "British Lady" quoted in a Book Published in 1854..."degrades
him
who gives more than him who takes; charity which treads the
downtrodden still deeper in the dust, which demands that the degraded,
the pariah cast out by society, shall first surrender the last that
remains to him, his very claim to manhood, shall first beg for mercy
before your mercy deigns to press, in the shape of an alms, the brand
of degradation upon his brow. But let us hear the English
bourgeoisie's own words. It is not yet a year since I read in the
Manchester Guardian the following letter to the editor, which was
published without comment as a perfectly natural, reasonable thing:
"MR. EDITOR,-- For some time past our main streets are haunted by
swarms of beggars, who try to awaken the pity of the passers-by in a
most shameless and annoying manner, by exposing their tattered
clothing, sickly aspect, and disgusting wounds and deformities. I
should think that when one not only pays the poor-rate, but also
contributes largely to the charitable institutions, one had done
enough to earn a right to be spared such disagreeable and impertinent
molestations. And why else do we pay such high rates for the
maintenance of the municipal police, if they do not even protect us so
far as to make it possible to go to or out of town in peace? I hope
the publication of these lines in your widely- circulated paper may
induce the authorities to remove this nuisance; and I remain,-- Your
obedient servant,
"A Lady."
Understand, the Accusation I make, Very Candidly and with Full Intent
toward Condemnation of Political Correctness, is the Same as was
Voiced by the Writer of the Assignment, "The Homeless are the NIggers
of the 21st. Century" The Homeless are Targeted by Press, Talk-Radio,
News Reports on Television, and FASCIST
Multi-Nationals, knowing quite well the Old Axiom "Hate Sells!"
And, as my late Great Uncle, Edward L. Bernays, found, the The methods
invented and
tried out in the war were too valuable for the uses of governments,
factions, and special interests." Sigmund Freud's nephew, Edward
Bernays, took the techniques he learned in the CPI directly to
Madison Avenue and became an outspoken proponent of propaganda as a
tool for democratic government. "It was, of course, the astounding
success of propaganda during the war that opened the eyes of the
intelligent few in all departments of life to the possibilities of
regimenting the public mind," wrote Bernays in his 1928 bombshell
Propaganda. "It was only natural, after the war ended, that
intelligent persons should ask themselves whether it was not
possible to apply a similar technique to the problems of peace."What
happens to a
democracy whose citizens have been so steadily and artfully deceived
that they no longer detect any difference between reality and its
counterfeit – or even care?
Underlying PR is an unspoken assumption that most people are not
capable of intelligent, independent thought and action and that "for
the greater good" they must be programmed en masse to act in
prescribed ways. "It is now possible to control and regiment the
masses according to our will without their knowing it," wrote Edward
Bernays. "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the
organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element
in a democratic society."
Bernays' chilling vision has come to pass. and the Human Need to Hate
is always a Prime Vehicle for Political Advancement.
I have spent 30+ Years living amongst the "Hobo'' folks, as a Folk
Musician, a "Boxcar Slim" traveling Tourbadour, I would be "Ashamed"
to arrive at a "Bluegrass Festival," or "Old Timey Music" Gathering,in
a Gas Guzzeling Luxourious Tour Bus, billed as a "Hobo Entertainer!"
What Hyprocracy!
I am a Realistic Environmentalist, not a Idiotic posteourist...I live
in a "Okie Dust-Bowl" Motor Coach...a A.L.I.C.E. PACK! It burns
Calories, not Gasoline! I carry my Dell L400 Laptop, my Guitar, and,
HALLE-JEW-YAH! My Yaesu FT-817 Micro-Minature Short Wave "Ham Radio"
with me....and my 58 Year Old Frame is Fit as a Fiddle! 5' 2" tall,
112 Pounds, carrying ONE-HALF MY BODY WEIGHT EVERY WHERE I GO!
Try THAT, Missy Franks, you flatulent frump.
((i))
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San Diego Opens New Fronts in War on Homeless
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Rocky Neptun | 24.04.2005 09:11
The City of San Diego continues to expand its human rights assults against the homeless as 3 politicians join the war wagon. City Council members and the City Attorney are escalating San Diego's War on the Homeless.
Two new fronts were recently opened on the city's ongoing persecution of the homeless. San Diego police officers from the Eastern Division, with shock troops from the downtown precincts, joined city bureaucrats, probably armed with box cutters, who invaded the San Diego riverbed area, south of Mission Valley to hunt down poor human beings like wild animals.
Recent Homeless Solidarity Sleep-Out | San Diego's War on the Homeless | Audio from the sleep-out | Photos
City Council members, City Attorney, Escalate San Diego's War on the Homeless
Two new fronts were recently opened on the city's ongoing persecution of the homeless.
San Diego police officers from the Eastern Division, with shock troops from the downtown precincts, joined city bureaucrats, probably armed with box cutters, who invaded the San Diego riverbed area, south of Mission Valley to hunt down poor human beings like wild animals.
The April 21st attack was led by City Attorney, Michael Aguirre, who's pathological need for publicity and exposure has led him to shift his attention from an incompetent mayor, brain-dead council and dysfunctional city manager, to join the human rights abuses and class cleansing of downtown by expanding the perimeter of operations to include the riverbed and surrounding canyons.
Meanwhile, Councilpersons Michael Zuccet and Scott Peters shot themselves in the foot by attempting to target the homeless. Their proposal, outlined at the City Council's Land Use and Housing Committee meeting April 20th, to limit RV parking on city streets to 4 hours drew almost a thousand protesters.
Drawing the ire of working-class folks who don't have large lots to park rv's and spokespersons for the rv industry, dealers and rv clubs, Peters fumbled with explanations for the proposed ordinance.
Several courageous homeless folks stood before the crowd; most homeowners, some with quarter of a million dollar motor homes, and articulated the true thrust of this class-based legislation. Paula Jones, who works and lives in a motor home, asked the council committee. "Where are we supposed to go.?" While, John Adams, who also works but said his wages won't pay for an apartment, said, "If you don't want people living in their vehicles on city streets, create a special parking area that is safe." He said he didn't consider himself homeless, just in "alternative housing."
Councilman Zuccet, who is not a member of Land Use and Housing Committee, began testimony on the proposed ordinance by saying that the present 72 hour ordinance is not working, unenforceable, so we need to shift to just 4 hours. Huh, duh? Let's hope he does better at his criminal trial. Peters, first limited, then cut the amount of speaking time, thus effectively keeping homeless advocates from pointing out that this was but another attempt to give the police expanded tools and weapons against human beings sleeping.
The City of San Diego has continued to expand and intensify its war on the homeless. From hammering public feeding programs, to zoning restrictions and pressure from redevelopment agencies on non-profit social service agencies, to outright harassment and beatings by police officers; the homeless are being driven out of downtown, tared and feathered with the internalized hatred of those developers, condo buyers and council member politians, who's greed makes them fear so much.
The police department has pretty much been given free rein to conduct a terror campaign, aware that human rights abuses are encouraged by merchants and ignored by the media.
Just before the new year, an army of police officers swept through the riverbed, ensnaring over 200 people. Ed Hanson said he witnessed the assaults, where police beat and forcibly removed people from their encampments.
Meanwhile, the San Diego Union-Tribune, ever a supporter of gentrification not matter the human cost and who's reporters were ordered to stay away from the April 15th homeless rights rally of almost 500 people at the Concourse, ran a story April 22, on how social service agencies downtown were "considering" taking advantage of rising land values to relocate. The story ignored the pressure of the Center City Development Corporations, wealthy developers and condo owners associations to attack homeless services. Moving against the Interfaith Coalition for the Homeless's feeding program at 14th and Broadway last year, then attacking it when it was moved to the Salvation Army; there is a concerted effort to starve human beings as public policy. The Rescue Mission also had to drop its feeding program for single men and other food providers downtown are under the gun with conditional use permit threats; while others propose actual prohibitions on lines.
Police have also stepped up their harassment and ticketing of homeless folks for sleeping. In 1994, when statistics first began to be collected, there were a little over two hundred tickets handed out, while today "illegal lodging" tickets are averaging 1500 a year.
A group of human rights activists, led by Quakers from the La Jolla and San Diego Meetings, have said that this war on the homeless will not continue. They plan to begin by badgering the city council, reminding them each Tuesday before they meet (during public comment and passing out fliers on the Concourse) that "what we do to the least of these among us" reflects who we are, not only as a culture, but as individuals; that without love, compassion and help for our fellow human beings we are but another bug sloshing through the mud.
They need your help. Volunteer a couple of hours on a Tuesday morning, any Tuesday morning. The group promises to be there until the human rights abuses against the homeless in San Diego ceases.
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BoxcarHobo_A1 the Folk Singing Feller
09.05.2005 17:17
Well, here I am, having been a HOMELESS HOBO folk singer/guitar/mandolin/french harp playing rambeler, dangeler, EScapER from Immortality & 50 LUNITIC asylems...Left up outer the OZARK Mountians way back in 1945...seeking FAME, FORTUNE and a MOVIE STAR life! Being a METHOD ACTTTTTER...I decided (seeins how CHARLIE CHAPLIN were done dead...) I shold SHOULD....PerFect his FAMOUS Charicter...The Littel HOBO! Now...60 YEARS of UNDERstudy (possessed by Chappies GHOST!) I goits it PREfected! So when I wents up to HOLLYWOOD to PRESENT myself at MGM...they RUN ME OVER with a MUTSS-SHE-BEETCHI pick-up-trukk! So I come to SAN DIEGO! I come AFTER being RELEASED from JAIL in ROME! (Rome, georgia) FER rIDING ON A fREIGHT tRAIN wITHOUT pERMISSIONS! (this was DURING Hurrycaine IVAN!) Being an EXPERIANCED "Rabble-Rouser/Rubbish Eater" I can BENIFIT the folks....PRE-FORMING! Also, I am POSSESSER of a F.C.C. RADIO LICENSE...< 10 May 2005 @ 00:01:59 UTC
Callsign: KD5MPM Class: Technician Codes: HAI USA
Name: John C Bernay, Jr
Addr1: 3260 Production Ave
Addr2: Oceanside, CA 92054
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Coordinates: 34.471685 -93.103345
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Johnny Bernays KD5MPM
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Homeless Sweep: 14 May...
24.05.2005 10:53
Ah, well...Saturday Night, at approx. 11:30 PM, I was lying in my tent, listening to W6OOB on 3840 KCs (75 Meter Ham Band) in QSO with his "cronies...(W6OBB is a HAM RADIO OPERATOR & also well known as "ART BELL" through his AM Coast-To-Coast Xcast!) I saw LIGHTS shine upon my domicile...and a VOICE commanding "You in the tent; ACHTUNG! Come OUT with your HANDS in front!" (The SS/Gestapo had Discovered ANOTHER hiding JEW!) Upon my exit, Lo & Behold! MILITARY TROOPS! In FULL Battle Gear! Flak Suits! A Squadrion of MARINES? NO! The "River Patrol!" I can say, We Little Old Men must be Very Dangerious Fellers....to warrent a SWAT Team! I was NOT allowed to take ANYTHING, the Sergant First said "We have had complaints from the Security Guards at Kiser/Permemente that YOU THREATENED them...I replied "No, SIR! I speak to them BOTH upon leaving & returning, at 6:30 AM the Coloured Feller UNLOCKS & I leave, at 6:30 PM his Fellow Officer LOCKS UP & I return." Then Sarge presented ANOTHER fantisty..."We KNOW you have NUMBERIOUS PEOPLES in & out!" No, SIR! I replied..."You see in here, a TOSHIBA LAP-TOP Computer, a $500.00 Canadian SeaGull CutAway Guitar, a High Frequency Amateur Radio Transciever, BRAND NEW Icom IC-703, 5 2 Meter & 220 MCs. Handi-Talkies, a Short Wave Reveiver & a Number of Study Books on the shelves (Milk Cartons,) I ALLOW NO BODY in here....some street peopole steal!" The Sarge got IRATE..."It don't matter, WE ARE JUST DOING OUR JOB, FOLLOWING ORDERS!" PLEASE, understand, gentle readers, I Refrained from my USUAL rejounder..."That Defense DIDN'T Work at NUREMBERG!" Fortuneately, upon my release, (@ 5:30 THURSDAY MORNING!!!) +++++EVERYTHING WAS SAFE & SOUND!++++ (Halle-Jew-Yah!) & NO fines or Fees were levied....BUT, I now FULLY understand San Diego's "WAR ON THE HOMELESS!" Here is a QUOTATION from Engel's "Condixtion of the POOR in England" from ca. 1850's...NOTE: 150 Years AGO! NOTHING HAS CHANGED!!!!
Let no one believe, however, that the "cultivated" Englishman openly
brags with his egotism. On the contrary, he conceals it under the
vilest hypocrisy. What? The wealthy English fail to remember the poor?
They who have founded philanthropic institutions, such as no other
country can boast of! Philanthropic institutions forsooth! As though
you rendered the proletarians a service in first sucking out their
very life-blood and then practising your self-complacent, Pharisaic
philanthropy upon them, placing yourselves before the world as mighty
benefactors of humanity when you give back to the plundered victims
the hundredth part of what belongs to them! Charity which degrades him
who gives more than him who takes; charity which treads the
downtrodden still deeper in the dust, which demands that the degraded,
the pariah cast out by society, shall first surrender the last that
remains to him, his very claim to manhood, shall first beg for mercy
before your mercy deigns to press, in the shape of an alms, the brand
of degradation upon his brow. But let us hear the English
bourgeoisie's own words. It is not yet a year since I read in the
Manchester Guardian the following letter to the editor, which was
published without comment as a perfectly natural, reasonable thing:
"MR. EDITOR,-- For some time past our main streets are haunted by
swarms of beggars, who try to awaken the pity of the passers-by in a
most shameless and annoying manner, by exposing their tattered
clothing, sickly aspect, and disgusting wounds and deformities. I
should think that when one not only pays the poor-rate, but also
contributes largely to the charitable institutions, one had done
enough to earn a right to be spared such disagreeable and impertinent
molestations. And why else do we pay such high rates for the
maintenance of the municipal police, if they do not even protect us so
far as to make it possible to go to or out of town in peace? I hope
the publication of these lines in your widely- circulated paper may
induce the authorities to remove this nuisance; and I remain,-- Your
obedient servant,
"A Lady."
There you have it! The English bourgeoisie is charitable out of
self-interest; it gives nothing outright, but regards its gifts as a
business matter, makes a bargain with the poor, saying: "If I spend
this much upon benevolent institutions, I thereby purchase the right
not to be troubled any further, and you are bound thereby to stay in
your dusky holes and not to irritate my tender nerves by exposing your
misery. You shall despair as before, but you shall despair unseen,
this I require, this I purchase with my subscription of twenty pounds
for the infirmary!" It is infamous, this charity of a Christian
bourgeois! And so writes "A Lady"; she does well to sign herself such,
well that she has lost the courage to call herself a woman! But if the
"Ladies" are such as this, what must the "Gentlemen" be? It will be
said that this is a single case; but no, the foregoing letter
expresses the temper of the great majority of the English bourgeoisie,
or the editor would not have accepted it, and some reply would have
been made to it, which I watched for in vain in the succeeding
numbers. And as to the efficiency of this philanthropy, Canon
Parkinson himself says that the poor are relieved much more by the
poor than by the bourgeoisie; and such relief given by an honest
proletarian who knows himself what it is to be hungry, for whom
sharing his scanty meal is really a sacrifice, but a sacrifice borne
with pleasure, such help has a wholly different ring to it from the
carelessly-tossed alms of the luxurious bourgeois.
We have the SAME EFFITE SNOBS today...their Hideous "QUALITY OF LIFE" Laws. They are RICH Piggies, Goyim Swine, and they CANNOT ABIDE to SEE, SMELL or be Pan Handled by VERMIN such as We Are!
IS THERE ANYONE WHO WISHES TO DEBATE my DOGMA? I have been "Homeless" over 30 (Thirty) Years. I am a TORAH Student, and a Chronic Schizophreniac (They called JOHN the BAPTIST, Elijah the Tishbite & Jesus the Christ a Lunitic....I am in GOOD COMPANY!)
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Thursday, January 27, 2011
Secrets Of The Watchtower
Secrets of The
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
Their Connection to Freemasonry and the New World Order
Better Known as The Jehovah's Witnesses
By Robert Howard
See an early edition of the Watchtower
with this Masonic crown and cross on its cover. earlyWTcover.jpg
Photo coutesy of Star Trek .com
Notice the surrounding wreath. Yes Gene Rodenberry creator of Star Trek was a mason. Yes the United Nations is made up of the same people who want to bring about a New World Order.
Notice the pyramid in the above picture. The same was erected over Russell's grave.
To Use There Own Words.
"It is not a form of religious persecution to say and to show that another religion is false. for an informed person to expose publicly a certain religion on being false, thus allowing persons to see the difference between false religion and true religion."
(Watchtower 11/15/63, p. 688:)
More will be added to this list as it is gathered. Please check back often.
Updated
02/21/2002
Bravenet.com
The following information is excerpts from reliable sources throughout the web. Most of these articles quote from the Watchtowers own printed material, which at one time the Watchtower ordered to be turned in by its members. To fully understand these excerpts one must read the material from which they came. It has been proven that The Watchtower Society has been involved in Enochian magick since its founding by Charles Taze Russell. Russell himself has been linked to a Satanic bloodline and was operating with key figures whose agenda has been a New World order. We all know how important the bloodline was to Christ through David. So is the bloodline to Satan to bring about the Anti-Christ New World Order. Russell was part of this bloodline. To understand the Satanic Bloodlines, start here. The Satanic Bloodlines
To bring about a new world order one would need to infiltrate all matters of government, religion, school systems, police enforcement, etc., etc. The following list is only a partial list. Groups Promoting A Globalist, Anti-American Agenda
You would then need a strong-arm force such as the United Nations to enforce this agenda worldwide.
"No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a LUCIFERIAN Initiation." (David Spangler, Director of Planetary Initiative, United Nations)
I hate to say this more than you can imagine, but through research and direction of the Holy Spirit, I have come to the conclusion that it is the United States who will help bring about this new world order. Our history is not what we have been taught. Our true history has been hidden by these key figures of power, the Satanic Elite. Satan's right hand men. Rewriting U.S. History Even the late American Professor Revilo P. Oliver, a confirmed atheist, was forced to conclude: "The question of precisely what fires the will of the wealthy supranational elites seeking to manipulate and control world events, has not escaped the attention of serious students of conspiracies and cover-ups. A theory that a conspiracy has been working consciously for many centuries is not very plausible unless one attributes to them a religious unity. That is tantamount to regarding them as Satanists engaged in the worship and service of supernatural evil. The directors of the conspiracy must see or otherwise directly perceive manifestations, which convince them of the existence and power of Lucifer. And since subtle conspirators must be very shrewd men, not likely to be deceived by auto-suggestion, hypnosis, or drugs, we should have to conclude that they probably are in contact with a force of pure evil." Prof. Revilo P. Oliver, (Conspiracy or Degeneracy? USA)
You may be familiar with the term of the Illuminati. The enlightened ones. Some of these are the people who founded this country. The United States. A large portion of men who wrote our constitution. Almost every one of the Presidents have been involved with this group at some level, or have been lead by the power behind them. The group mostly responsible for the United States part of the New World Order has infiltrated the Freemasons. Yes they hide it very well through good deeds and much secrecy. But it is a large portion of the Freemasons who are responsible under the direction of Satan himself for the state of affairs here in the U.S. As I said earlier, almost every President has been involved in Freemasonry. Start here. U.S. Presidents and The Masonic Power Structure
Now we come to Russell's part. Russell was a freemason. It has been recorded in his own material, his admittance to being a Freemason." I am very glad to have this particular opportunity of saying a word about some of the things in which we agree with our Masonic friends, because we are speaking in a building dedicated to Masonry, and we also are Masons. I am a Freemason." Charles Taze Russell. (The Temple of God-Pastor Russell page 120)
The Rothschild's had long had a plan to create a personal fiefdom for themselves and the Illuminati in Palestine and that plan involved manipulating Jewish people to settle the area as their "homeland." Charles Taze Russell, of the Illuminati-reptilian Russell bloodline, was the man who founded the Watchtower Society, better known as the Jehovah's Witnesses. He was a Satanist, a pedophile according to his wife, and most certainly Illuminati. His new "religion (mind-control cult) was funded by the Rothschild's and he was a friend of theirs, just like the founders of the Mormons who were also Rothschild-funded through Kuhn, Loeb, and Co. Russell and the Mormon founders were all Freemasons. In 1880, Charles Taze Russell, this friend of the Rothschild's, predicted that the Jews would return to their homeland. It was about the only prediction Russell ever got right. Why? Because he knew that was the plan. He wrote to the Rothschild's praising their efforts to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. WAS HITLER A ROTHSCHILD?
No Jesus was the foundation stone; there were no stones chiseled out before he came; none could be accepted before that. He did the great work of founding this great order to which we belong, the order of free and Accepted Masonry. (The Temple of God-Pastor Russell page 121)
You know that in these orders of Masonry, as they progress from one step to another; they learn more and more, and there are Masons in the thirty-second degree that know a great many things that Masons on the fourteenth or sixteenth plane that would not know. (The Temple of God-Pastor Russell page 123)
Albert Pike addressing the 23 Supreme Councils of the world on July 14, 1889:- "To you, Sovereign Grand Instructors General, we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the 32nd, 31st and 30th degrees: 'the Masonic Religion should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the LUCIFERIAN Doctrine. . ."
Mat 21:42] Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the scriptures: 'The stone that the builders (aka Freemasons) rejected has become the cornerstone; by the Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes'?
[Mat 21:43] Therefore, I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that will produce its fruit.
A thousand years during which these Knights Templars are to scatter blessings to all the families of the Earth. We may not wear our white feathers now but we will all have white raiment by and by. "They shall walk with Him in white for they are worthy." Now the question arises, How can we become members of this order? Would you like to become one of these Knights Templar on a heavenly plane. (The Temple of God-Pastor Russell page 122) see also: SATANIC SOURCES CLAIM KNIGHTS TEMPLAR TO BE SATANIC! THIS IS MORE PROOF THAT FREEMASONRY IS ALSO SATANIC
All our historians, at least nearly all of them, agree that Freemasonry owes very much to certain occult societies or groups that flourished -- often in secrecy -- during the late Middle Ages, and even into the after-Reformation times. Chief among these were the Rosicrucian's and the Knights Templar. (H. L. Haywood, The Great Teachings of the Lodge (Richmond, Virginia: Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Company, 1971), page 94.) C.T. Russell's View of Masonry and Symbolism External Link| mason1.gif
Many articles have proved that Freemasonry is involved with Satanism. Start here. FREEMASONRY PROVEN TO WORSHIP SATAN * FORMER ILLUMINIST WITCH REVEALS WITCHCRAFT TIE TO FREEMASONRY * THE MASONIC NEW WORLD ORDER * Freemasonry Exposed * Communion With the Gods The Pagan Altar of Freemasonry
Who controls the Freemasons? The Jesuits!! Who Controls the Jesuits? Lucifer!! The Black Pope
The Jesuits have met and enforced their Protocols. The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
Russell was buried with a pyramid site marker or headstone if you will, with Masonic symbols engraved on it.
This is a picture of the Masonic crown on Russell's tombstone. Click On Picture To Visit This Site!
The above picture was taken from a Masons site in Texas. They have since removed the picture after this article.
http://www.exjws.net
The above crown with the cross is very much a Masonic symbol. A close up of the plaque below reads "Watchtower Bible and Tract Society".
Russell's Instructions for his funeral
I desire to be buried in the plot of ground owned by our Society, in the Rosemont United Cemetery, and all the details of arrangements respecting the funeral service I leave in the care of my sister, Mrs. M. M. Land, and her daughters, Alice and May, or such of them as may survive me, with the assistance and advice and cooperation of the brethren, as they may request the same. Instead of an ordinary funeral discourse, I request that they arrange to have a number of the brethren, accustomed to public speaking, make a few remarks each, that the service be very simple and inexpensive and that it be conducted in the Bible House Chapel or any other place that may be considered equally appropriate or more so. (from Watchtower Reprints, 12/1/16) for those wishing to visit the gravesite: The area is the North Hills area of Pittsburgh. It is in the "Rosemont United Cemeteries at Allegheny, in the Bethel Family plot, according to his request." (Jehovah's Witnesses In The Divine Purpose, 1959, p. 62) Charles T. Russell Gravesite External Link
Owned by our society, in the Bethel Family plot. Look at picture #2 for the society who owns this Bethel family plot. External Links
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So I ask you to entertain a question. If Russell wasn't a Mason then why would the Watchtower allow a Masonic erected pyramid to remain at his grave site. It wouldn't be the fact that Russell is buried next to the Greater Pittsburgh Masonic Center would it?
Update: The above crown and cross is the Masons York Rite Knights Templar emblem. See below.
The Crown and cross emblem on the left from this Masonic Drawing clearly indicates the emblem is the York Rite of Masonry Knights Templar. To see the full picture click here.
Some might mistake it for a Christian symbol, but Masonic author Ray Denslow reveals its true meaning:
"The Cross and Crown may be said to be confined almost exclusively to the historical degrees in Masonry as exemplified in the various orders of knighthood of York and Scottish rites. In Gaul we find the cross to have been a solar symbol when it had equal arms and angles; to the Phoenicians it was an instrument of sacrifice to their God, Baal; and to the Egyptians, the crux ansata was his symbol of eternal life." (Ray V. Denslow, Masonic Portraits, Transactions of this Missouri Lodge of Research, vol. #29, p.7---emphasis in the original) http://poweredbychrist.homestead.com/files/dallas1/seminary1.htm External Link
Now that we have established that Russell was a York Rite Knights Templar, same as 32 or 33rd degree Freemason. Lets look at Enochian Magic. What is Enochian Magic? Have you ever heard of Aleister Crowley? He was one of the most evil men besides Hitler to walk this Earth. In his book "Confessions." Crowley claimed that he had been initiated as a 33-Degree Mason in the Ancient and Accepted Rite of Masonry (A&AR). He probably did this in Mexico, where he went after the break-up with the Golden Dawn. To learn a bit more about Crowley start here. Aleister Crowley. See also illuminati_faq.htm The Order Of The Golden Dawn Golden Dawn - Ubermen von der Golden Dawn - Hitler
There are books on the subject available to anyone who wants to learn this Enochian magic. Learn the laws of Enochian Magick, how to use the Watchtowers and the six forces of Magick, learn Enochian Yoga and travel in the Body of Light.
The Enochian Magick of Dr. John Dee: The Most Powerful System of Magick in its Original, Unexpurgated Form
Geoffrey James
The Enochian Magick of Dr. John Dee: The Most Powerful System of Magick in its Original, Unexpurgated Form Order# K367
ISBN# 1-56718-367-0
6'x9", illus., appendices
Price: 14.95
You may have heard people speak of it in hushed tones: Enochian magick! Some say it is dangerous. Others say it is the most powerful magick known. Now you can find out the truth when you read The Enochian Magick of Dr. John Dee by Geoffrey James (previously published as The Enochian Evocation of Dr. John Dee).
This system was received by Dr. John Dee, astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I of England, and his assistant, Edward Kelly. Together, through a series of evocations, they discovered a system of magick so potent that some people fear to use it. Now you can learn the entire Enochian system as never before.
Previously, people went to secondary sources such as the Golden Dawn or Aleister Crowley for information on the Enochian system. Here, for the first time, are the diaries of Dr. Dee, which reveal the entire system so you can use it for a wide variety of magical purposes.
Presented here is the definitive version of the forty-eight angelic keys according to Dee himself. Revealed are the names of the sixteen good angels who are most skilled and powerful in medicine and in the curing of diseases, as well as the sixteen angels of the four elements. Every step of the method by which Dee and Kelly worked their evocations is fully explained so you can recreate their experiments and tap into some of the most powerful magick available.
The Watchtowers. It was believed that angels ruled a certain compass direction and they lived in the ends of the earth (more like the ends of the universe). These angels are to record every event that occurs in the world.
WATCHTOWERS, GUARDIANS OF: 1) A term used to describe the Elementals who are Energy Forms, Raiths or Spirits of the 4 Elements. 2) Originally used in the Enochian Tradition of Ceremonial Magick but whose usage is now widespread. 3) Those Entities connected to the Elements & Directions & certain attributes as follows:
North Air thought & intellect Male yellow
East Earth stable, solid, dependable Female green...
South Fire change, passion, willpower Male red.....
West Water emotions & purification Female blue....
Center Spirit intuitiveness unisexed soul
They are both visible & physical and invisible & spiritual. They are invoked during ritual as protectors of our Circle of Power & sometimes as advisors. Some 'set' these Guardians, during rituals in a more complex exercise than simply invoking the Elements. http://www.ancientpathway.com/reference/glossary.html External Link
See also: The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn ® / Golden Dawn Enochian Magic External Link
Now lets look at a bit of history of Enochian Magic. The Golden Dawn history. This secret society made great impact on the European magic of the XX century with the publishing of its secret material by its former members. According to a story that circulated among the members of the society, it is based on a coded manuscript that Win Westcot, one of the founders, freemason and occultist found in an antique store. Then Westcot contacted Samuel Lidel McGregor Mathers, who was a respectable magician and Egyptologist in that time, and they together decoded the manuscript which consisted of four complicated rituals. In the manuscript they found an address of a certain person called Mrs. Spriengel from Germany who was responsible for a secret magic order, supposedly from the tradition of the Rosicrucian's. From Mrs. Spriengel they received a letter of approval for founding the secret magic order Golden Dawn with the first lodge Isis-Urania in London. The founders and the heads of the society were Mathers, Westcot, and Woodman, another English occultist and freemason. Early Medieval magic
Learn Aumism: the doctrines of the Golden Age. Its Modern day founder is a freemason, Rosicrucian, Martinist Lodges, Knights of the Holy Grail, occultist and so on. Aumism - Universal Religion - The Doctrine of the Golden Age
OK we have proved that Enochian magick is a reality. We see that Russell was involved with Freemasonry and used Freemasonry symbols on his earlier magazines. We also learn that the Freemasons were involved in the occult and The Golden Dawn order, which used Enochian Magic. The Freemason is heavy into the Pyramids and the worship of Isis and Osiris. The ancient Egyptians, for example, constantly refer to a remote Golden Age they called Zep Tepi, 'The First Time' of Osiris, (Both of these terms are older terms for NEW WORLD ORDER) which they believed had long predated the Pyramid Age. The Sphinx: Guardian of the Treasure of the gods External link
We have also learned those three phrases of terminology that are popular with Enochian Magic, and the Freemasons are "Millennial Dawn", "Golden Age" and "Watchtower." Russell named his organization Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. His earlier magazine was called The Golden Age. Before the name of Jehovah's Witnesses was established the followers of Russell's teachings were known as Russellites and Millennial Dawnist. Not a chance this is coincidence.
It is the restoration of that corrupt "Golden Age" of incarnate demons which the Egyptian mystery religion represented and continues to represent. It is an ancient violent and immoral world which developed before the Flood which New Age spirit guides are seeking to re-establish, but which will be swept away by the War of Armageddon. The term "Golden Age" is a very misleading one, as is the term "spirituality" when used in conjunction with Adam Weishaupt whose "spirituality" was referred to as "horrifying." The Illuminati's fundamental principles pervert the noble meaning of spirituality, and are working for the establishment of a "horrifying" "Golden Age." New Age Army Expose, Psychic Warrior Subversion Exposed
Now keep all of this in mind when reading the Watchtowers false predictions, and their constant change of doctrines. Oh yes and a little FYI. (For Your Information). The WT Society performs a secret ritual every year, which is their primary ritual. This ritual is actually the ancient Gnostic (Satanic) ritual of saying no to the body of Christ. Of course the lower rank and files JW's do not know this. This ancient Satanic ritual is now secretly practiced under the disguise of the Memorial Supper - where the elements of communion are passed and no one partakes of the elements. (When I say "no one" I mean that in a qualified sense-only a small group is allowed to partake. The actual figures of how many partake of the elements is a totally fictitious figure according to my sources, which is created at Bethel headquarters in Brooklyn. The_Russell_Bloodline
In their main textbooks for indoctrinating new converts, "You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth," and "Knowledge that Leads to Everlasting Life", the Watchtower Society subtly presents circular reasoning and cleverly formulated arguments garnished with half-truths to begin the process of thought control on unsuspecting individuals sincerely interested in learning about the Bible.
Here is a bit of Watchtower History. At the end of each excerpt will be the link from which it came.
Biblical Test for a Prophet
The test for a prophet is found in Deuteronomy 18:20-22. This scripture teaches that a prophet must be tested by checking his prophecies. Also. Jesus said, "Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. "This is not telling us to examine a prophet's good works. Many false prophets have led moral lives. The fruit of a fig tree is its figs. The fruit of a prophet is his prophecies. One false prophecy (even if some true prophecies are given) and that person is a false prophet. It does not matter how sincere he or his followers are. It does not matter how often his followers pray or what feelings they seem to receive in answer to their prayers. He is a false prophet.
Yes their prediction's unknown to most starts back this far.
1776 "And this long persecution, in which many were purified and made white and tried,' and in which the Mother of Harlots was 'drunk with the blood of the saints and the martyrs of Jesus' (Rev. 17:6) ended as we have already shown, practically in 1776." {BATT 584} [Also see 1799]
1816 Jehovah's Witnesses trace their origins to the nineteenth century Adventist movement in America. That movement began with William Miller, a Baptist lay preacher whom, in the year 1816, began proclaiming that Christ would return in 1843. His predictions of the Second Coming or Second Advent captured the imagination of thousands in Baptist and other mainline churches. Perhaps as many as 50,000 followers put their trust in Miller's chronological calculations and prepared to welcome the Lord, while, as the appointed time approached, others watched nervously from a distance. Recalculations moved the promised second advent from March 1843 to March, 1844, and then to October of that year. Alas, that date too passed uneventfully. The Branch Davidians who died at Waco, Texas, under the leadership of David Koresh also trace their roots to the same Millerite source through a different line of descent. A Short History of the Watchtower Organization
1872 Charles Taze Russell (One of The Satanic_bloodlines who founded the International Bible Students Association. Forerunner to the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. Before they became known as the Jehovah's Witnesses, they were called Russellites, Millennial Dawnists, and International Bible Students. Russell was a Knights Templar Mason of York Rite, in Allegheny Pa. Confirmed Mason. Also Russell had a secret Rosicrucian membership with the Quakertown, PA group of Rosicrucian's, as revealed by the pyramid he ordered erected over his grave site. His use of the Winged-Sun-Disk. Russell owned a cemetery in Pittsburgh. Leading Satanists try to own cemeteries for several reasons. First, it facilitates the disposal of human sacrifices, which are buried in pieces below the fresh holes dug for someone else's burial. When the casket is placed in the hole, it would be rare for anyone to dig below the casket level ever again. Second, magic power is associated with cemeteries. The spiritual power of the dead is pulled up by making a circle of light over them, and then within the circle a naked Satanist lays. Third, specific bones are sought such as the skulls and left hands. Left hands are preserved in order to hold candles for certain ceremonies. Confirmed Mason. The_Russell_Bloodline
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Full view of Watchtower assembly hall used for years in New York, still in use.
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Winged sun god Ra on outside of Queens, New York Assembly Hall
Chrysler uses this symbol to.
What is this winged disk? One explanation is: ( Holy Order of The Winged Disk, an old magickal organization dedicated to hermetic, qabalistic, gnostic, rosicrucian, and alchemical practices. The Winged Disk recognizes that there is a seed of truth in every tradition. The International Academy of Hermetic Knowledge is an independent home study program offering the techniques of western magick, spiritual practice, and special guidance not available in any books. Phaedron is named as its director. He implements the Order's philosophy of approaching the subject in a thorough, safe, and realistic manner. As an Adept, he receives sincere seekers, teaches privately, counsels spiritually, and holds small group classes in ritual magick and related esoteric methods. ("Teachings of the Winged Disk" by Phaedron Info/Order book)
John Russell - Pastor C. T. Russell's stepmother was executor of his will. His mother was the one chosen to dance with famous Mason and Illuminatus Lafayette when he was in Philadelphia. 1. (Nevin, Adelaide Mellier. The Social Mirror A Character Sketch of the Women of Pittsburgh) 2. (Vicinity during the first Century of the County’s existence. Society of today. Pittsburgh, PA: T.A. Nevin Publisher, 1888, p. 19. b. The Pittsburgh Directory) 3. (1878-79 showing Elizabeth the widow of John, and c. John Russell in the 1850 Census, and John Russell’s Will.)
Things Russell Would Currently be Disfellowshipped (excommunicated) For: Anti-organizational teachings, celebrating birthdays, Christmas and holiday observance, military involvement tolerated, not draining blood from food, considering self to be the "faithful and discreet slave," selling "Miracle Wheat," dabbling in the occult and signing his own books. Watchtower Presidential Era Summaries External Link
Charles Taze Russell died Halloween night, or was he silenced? River Phoenix died Halloween night also. Or was he Satanically ritually murdered? "Who Killed River Phoenix?" | Halloween Deaths: Satanic Ritual Murders or Natural Causes?
1874 The Lord became present in October, 1874" {TKIC 1923 Ed 235} [many other references in HOTW, TIAH 170, OLOR 27, HIS2 133]
1874-8 "Our Lord's presence as Bridegroom and Reaper was recognized during the first three and a half years, from A.D. 1874 to A.D. 1878." {TIAH 1913 Ed 239}
1876 January when he was 23 years old, Russell received a copy of The Herald of the Morning, an Adventist magazine published by Nelson H. Barbour of Rochester, New York. One of the distinguishing features of Barbour's group at that time was their belief that Christ returned invisibly in 1874, and this concept presented in The Herald captured Russell's attention. It meant that this Adventist splinter group had not remained defeated, as others had, when Christ failed to appear in 1874 as Adventist leaders had predicted; somehow this small group had managed to hold onto the date by affirming that the Lord had indeed returned at the appointed time, only invisibly. Wealthy Russell paid Barbour's way to Philadelphia and met with him to discuss both beliefs and finances. The upshot was that Russell became the magazine's financial backer and was added to the masthead as an Assistant Editor. He contributed articles for publication as well as monetary gifts, and Russell's small study group similarly became affiliated with Barbour's. Russell and Barbour believed and taught that Christ's invisible return in 1874 would be followed soon afterward, in the spring of 1878 to be exact, by the Rapture-the bodily snatching away of believers to heaven. The Witnesses do not believe in rapture in modern day doctrines, but that only a 144.000 will go to heaven. A Short History of the Watchtower Organization External Link
1878 When this expected Rapture failed to occur on time in 1878, The Herald's editor, Mr. Barbour, came up with "new light" on this and other doctrines. (Sound familiar) Russell, however, rejected some of the new ideas and persuaded other members to oppose them. Finally, Russell quit the staff of the Adventist magazine and started his own. He called it Zion's watchtower and Herald of Christ's Presence and published its first issue with the date July 1879. In the beginning it had the same mailing list as The Herald of the Morning and considerable space was devoted to refuting the latter on points of disagreement, Russell having taken with him a copy of that magazine's mailing list when he resigned as assistant editor. At this point Charles Russell no longer wanted to consider himself an Adventist, nor a Millerite. But, he continued to view Miller and Barbour as instruments chosen by God to lead His people in the past. The formation of a distinct denomination around Russell was a gradual development. His immediate break was, not with Adventism, but with the person and policies of N. H. Barbour. A Short History of the Watchtower Organization External Link
1891 For 62 years, 1891 to 1953, the WTS taught that God resided on the star Alcyone in the Pleiades constellation and that from this star he governed the universe! This belief was taught in 1891 in Volume 3 of Studies in the Scriptures and was based on passages in the Bible. The WTS also taught that the Great Pyramid of Egypt provided additional proof of God's throne in the Pleiades! (The Golden Age 1924 September 10 pp. 793-794) Astrology and the Watchtower Society * Jehovah: Ancient Astronaut?
1902 July 15, While it is true that the white race exhibits some qualities of superiority over any other, we are to remember that there are wide differences in the same Caucasian (Semitic and Aryan) family; and also we should remember that some of the qualities which have given this branch of the human family its preeminence in the world are not such as can be pointed to as in all respects admirable....The secret of the greater intelligence and aptitude of the Caucasian undoubtedly in great measure is to be attributed to the commingling of blood amongst its various branches; and this was evidently forced in large measure by circumstances under divine control. (Zion's Watch Tower, July 15, 1902, p.215-216) Blacks and the Watchtower * The Population Control Agenda
1904 8th of April. Aleister Crowley claimed that, in Cairo at 12 noon exactly and for the following two days at the exact same time—he actually heard a voice in his ear, dictating the words of the text (as if through some transmitter in his brain), and that he transcribed them faithfully. It was not "inspired," then, so much as received. The voice itself claimed to be that of Aiwass, or Aiwaz, "the minister of Hoor-paar-kraat," or otherwise, Horus, the god of force and fire, child of Isis and Osiris, and self-appointed conquering lord of the New Aeon, officially announced through his chosen scribe, "the prince-priest the Beast." This much of Crowley’s controversial life and claims is more or less confirmed. It is, as promised, to be found, there in the writings themselves—the proof as it were is in the pudding. Anyone who has read the work, and suffered the resulting conflictive feelings of admiration and disgust, will not doubt that there is something about the "little red book" that puts it in a class all its own. The whole apparatus of ceremonial magick (as conceived and adapted by the Golden Dawn and its offshoots, many of which were directly influenced by Crowley) that formed the true inner protocol of Nazism (originally spawned by the Thule Society) is dedicated—in theory—to the one single end and purpose of: contact with preterhuman or extraterrestrial forces.
1906 This testimony was given by Mrs. Russell on direct examination on Thursday, April 26, 1906 from a suit for a separation brought by Martha (sic) F. Russell against Charles Taze Russell, her husband, popularly known as Pastor Russell Then he said, "I am like a jellyfish. I float around here and there. I touch this one and that one, and if she responds I take her to me, and if not, I float on to others"; and she wrote that out so that I could remember it for sure when I would speak to him about it. And he confessed that he said those things. Founder of Jehovah's witnesses: CHARLES TAZE RUSSELL- CHILD MOLESTER!
1906 Two of the key early Watchtower Society leaders were Bundy's. These were Walter H. Bundy, who went with Charles Taze Russell to Great Britain on his May 29-31, 1909 trip, and Edwin Bundy who worked at the Bethel Headquarters at the turn of the century and traveled around the U.S. for the Watchtower Society from 1906 to 1910. The_Bundy_bloodline
1914 The supposed end of the "Gentile Times", Jesus would come to judge the earth and annihilate the wicked. A Short History of Jehovah's Witnesses
1914 Russell's prediction for Armageddon fails.
1914 The Watchtower Society started transferring all of the doctrines about 1874 to 1914. They explained that Christ's kingdom had been set up invisibly in 1914, and that although secular governments were still in place, their rule was no longer valid. Based on the Society's writings, Jehovah's Witnesses looked forward to momentous events in the year 1918.
1915 Russell's prediction for Armageddon fails.
1916 Joseph Franklin Rutherford, assumes control of the Watchtower and Bible Tract Society. (Jehovah's Witnesses) In Rutherford's (The Finished Mystery), published in 1917, they said that Armageddon would really break loose in 1918 with the destruction of "Christendom" and all the church members and by 1920 all kingdoms of the earth would pass away. In 1918 the "little flock" would pass beyond the veil and 1921 would be the last year to make it to heaven and would see the death of all in the "great multitude" class. The Finished Mystery claimed, as did other Watchtower material in 1917, that they were directed and supervised by the spirit of the dead "Pastor" Russell and others of the deceased "anointed" class. This is necromancy, or communicating with the dead, which the modern day Watchtower Bible and Tract Society has called spiritism and demonism. (But yet they still use and teach his doctrines, and their Bible inspired by demons) Was Rutherford a Spirit Medium? In relating to friends he could be despotic; in dealing with enemies, ruthless. He was moody and sometimes blunt to the point of rudeness with an explosive temper that could occasionally excite him to physical violence. He also had a streak of self-righteousness, which caused him to regard anyone who opposed him as of the Devil. But most curious was the fact that while in some ways he was a Puritan of Puritans, in others he was thoroughly dissolute. He used vulgar language, suffered from alcoholism, and was once publicly accused by one of his closest associates of attending a nude burlesque show with two fellow elders." (Apocalypse Delayed, University of Toronto Press, 1985, p. 47-48) Jehovah's Organization or Joe's Organization?
“Even though a teetotaler, Moyle can hardly be charged with being overly critical of the drinking habits of his brethren at Bethel, and he was quite accurate in his assessment of the judge’s self-righteous, choleric actions and breakfast-table tirades. Furthermore, he was simply eager to correct what to him were serious examples of unchristian conduct and to stress that Rutherford had an immediate responsibility to remedy the conditions which had caused his resignation and protest. But Rutherford, who sometimes had difficulty in distinguishing his own position from that of Jehovah or Christ Jesus, regarded Moyle’s letter as nothing short of apostasy itself.” (Apocalypse Delayed, page 81 (soft-cover)
Rutherford was cited for contempt of court on at least three occasions. Proof of this is found in Morgan County Book 13, page 251 for August 8, 1894 and Cooper County Book 2, page 376 on May 15,1895. His worst known impropriety in law during the Missouri years was recorded in Permanent File #5113 of the Cooper County Circuit Court dated February 4, 1896 and involved a case heard by Judge Dorsey W. Shackleford. Rutherford was representing the National Cash Register Company against David Nicholson of Boonville.
After Nicholson had levied a writ of attachment on a cash register machine that had been used at the saloon of Charley Merstetter, a deputy constable named Wright went to seize the machine but Rutherford met him at the saloon, held papers before Wright and told him that if Wright would go to see William Muir Williams the attorney representing Nicholson and who later became a state supreme court judge, then Williams would confirm that Rutherford held possession of the machine. Wright left the machine to speak with attorney Williams and upon returning found that machine gone. Rutherford then lied that the machine had been sent on to Sedalia, Missouri, for deputy Wright found it "concealed" in a second office of Rutherford beneath some papers.
The Best is Yet to Come. See pt2
Secrets Of The Watchtower pt: 2
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
Their Connection to Freemasonry and the New World Order
Better Known as The Jehovah's Witnesses
By Robert Howard
See an early edition of the Watchtower
with this Masonic crown and cross on its cover. earlyWTcover.jpg
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Notice the surrounding wreath. Yes Gene Rodenberry creator of Star Trek was a mason. Yes the United Nations is made up of the same people who want to bring about a New World Order.
Notice the pyramid in the above picture. The same was erected over Russell's grave.
To Use There Own Words.
"It is not a form of religious persecution to say and to show that another religion is false. for an informed person to expose publicly a certain religion on being false, thus allowing persons to see the difference between false religion and true religion."
(Watchtower 11/15/63, p. 688:)
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The following information is excerpts from reliable sources throughout the web. Most of these articles quote from the Watchtowers own printed material, which at one time the Watchtower ordered to be turned in by its members. To fully understand these excerpts one must read the material from which they came. It has been proven that The Watchtower Society has been involved in Enochian magick since its founding by Charles Taze Russell. Russell himself has been linked to a Satanic bloodline and was operating with key figures whose agenda has been a New World order. We all know how important the bloodline was to Christ through David. So is the bloodline to Satan to bring about the Anti-Christ New World Order. Russell was part of this bloodline. To understand the Satanic Bloodlines, start here. The Satanic Bloodlines
To bring about a new world order one would need to infiltrate all matters of government, religion, school systems, police enforcement, etc., etc. The following list is only a partial list. Groups Promoting A Globalist, Anti-American Agenda
You would then need a strong-arm force such as the United Nations to enforce this agenda worldwide.
"No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a LUCIFERIAN Initiation." (David Spangler, Director of Planetary Initiative, United Nations)
I hate to say this more than you can imagine, but through research and direction of the Holy Spirit, I have come to the conclusion that it is the United States who will help bring about this new world order. Our history is not what we have been taught. Our true history has been hidden by these key figures of power, the Satanic Elite. Satan's right hand men. Rewriting U.S. History Even the late American Professor Revilo P. Oliver, a confirmed atheist, was forced to conclude: "The question of precisely what fires the will of the wealthy supranational elites seeking to manipulate and control world events, has not escaped the attention of serious students of conspiracies and cover-ups. A theory that a conspiracy has been working consciously for many centuries is not very plausible unless one attributes to them a religious unity. That is tantamount to regarding them as Satanists engaged in the worship and service of supernatural evil. The directors of the conspiracy must see or otherwise directly perceive manifestations, which convince them of the existence and power of Lucifer. And since subtle conspirators must be very shrewd men, not likely to be deceived by auto-suggestion, hypnosis, or drugs, we should have to conclude that they probably are in contact with a force of pure evil." Prof. Revilo P. Oliver, (Conspiracy or Degeneracy? USA)
You may be familiar with the term of the Illuminati. The enlightened ones. Some of these are the people who founded this country. The United States. A large portion of men who wrote our constitution. Almost every one of the Presidents have been involved with this group at some level, or have been lead by the power behind them. The group mostly responsible for the United States part of the New World Order has infiltrated the Freemasons. Yes they hide it very well through good deeds and much secrecy. But it is a large portion of the Freemasons who are responsible under the direction of Satan himself for the state of affairs here in the U.S. As I said earlier, almost every President has been involved in Freemasonry. Start here. U.S. Presidents and The Masonic Power Structure
Now we come to Russell's part. Russell was a freemason. It has been recorded in his own material, his admittance to being a Freemason." I am very glad to have this particular opportunity of saying a word about some of the things in which we agree with our Masonic friends, because we are speaking in a building dedicated to Masonry, and we also are Masons. I am a Freemason." Charles Taze Russell. (The Temple of God-Pastor Russell page 120)
The Rothschild's had long had a plan to create a personal fiefdom for themselves and the Illuminati in Palestine and that plan involved manipulating Jewish people to settle the area as their "homeland." Charles Taze Russell, of the Illuminati-reptilian Russell bloodline, was the man who founded the Watchtower Society, better known as the Jehovah's Witnesses. He was a Satanist, a pedophile according to his wife, and most certainly Illuminati. His new "religion (mind-control cult) was funded by the Rothschild's and he was a friend of theirs, just like the founders of the Mormons who were also Rothschild-funded through Kuhn, Loeb, and Co. Russell and the Mormon founders were all Freemasons. In 1880, Charles Taze Russell, this friend of the Rothschild's, predicted that the Jews would return to their homeland. It was about the only prediction Russell ever got right. Why? Because he knew that was the plan. He wrote to the Rothschild's praising their efforts to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. WAS HITLER A ROTHSCHILD?
No Jesus was the foundation stone; there were no stones chiseled out before he came; none could be accepted before that. He did the great work of founding this great order to which we belong, the order of free and Accepted Masonry. (The Temple of God-Pastor Russell page 121)
You know that in these orders of Masonry, as they progress from one step to another; they learn more and more, and there are Masons in the thirty-second degree that know a great many things that Masons on the fourteenth or sixteenth plane that would not know. (The Temple of God-Pastor Russell page 123)
Albert Pike addressing the 23 Supreme Councils of the world on July 14, 1889:- "To you, Sovereign Grand Instructors General, we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the 32nd, 31st and 30th degrees: 'the Masonic Religion should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the LUCIFERIAN Doctrine. . ."
Mat 21:42] Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the scriptures: 'The stone that the builders (aka Freemasons) rejected has become the cornerstone; by the Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes'?
[Mat 21:43] Therefore, I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that will produce its fruit.
A thousand years during which these Knights Templars are to scatter blessings to all the families of the Earth. We may not wear our white feathers now but we will all have white raiment by and by. "They shall walk with Him in white for they are worthy." Now the question arises, How can we become members of this order? Would you like to become one of these Knights Templar on a heavenly plane. (The Temple of God-Pastor Russell page 122) see also: SATANIC SOURCES CLAIM KNIGHTS TEMPLAR TO BE SATANIC! THIS IS MORE PROOF THAT FREEMASONRY IS ALSO SATANIC
All our historians, at least nearly all of them, agree that Freemasonry owes very much to certain occult societies or groups that flourished -- often in secrecy -- during the late Middle Ages, and even into the after-Reformation times. Chief among these were the Rosicrucian's and the Knights Templar. (H. L. Haywood, The Great Teachings of the Lodge (Richmond, Virginia: Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Company, 1971), page 94.) C.T. Russell's View of Masonry and Symbolism External Link| mason1.gif
Many articles have proved that Freemasonry is involved with Satanism. Start here. FREEMASONRY PROVEN TO WORSHIP SATAN * FORMER ILLUMINIST WITCH REVEALS WITCHCRAFT TIE TO FREEMASONRY * THE MASONIC NEW WORLD ORDER * Freemasonry Exposed * Communion With the Gods The Pagan Altar of Freemasonry
Who controls the Freemasons? The Jesuits!! Who Controls the Jesuits? Lucifer!! The Black Pope
The Jesuits have met and enforced their Protocols. The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
Russell was buried with a pyramid site marker or headstone if you will, with Masonic symbols engraved on it.
This is a picture of the Masonic crown on Russell's tombstone. Click On Picture To Visit This Site!
The above picture was taken from a Masons site in Texas. They have since removed the picture after this article.
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The above crown with the cross is very much a Masonic symbol. A close up of the plaque below reads "Watchtower Bible and Tract Society".
Russell's Instructions for his funeral
I desire to be buried in the plot of ground owned by our Society, in the Rosemont United Cemetery, and all the details of arrangements respecting the funeral service I leave in the care of my sister, Mrs. M. M. Land, and her daughters, Alice and May, or such of them as may survive me, with the assistance and advice and cooperation of the brethren, as they may request the same. Instead of an ordinary funeral discourse, I request that they arrange to have a number of the brethren, accustomed to public speaking, make a few remarks each, that the service be very simple and inexpensive and that it be conducted in the Bible House Chapel or any other place that may be considered equally appropriate or more so. (from Watchtower Reprints, 12/1/16) for those wishing to visit the gravesite: The area is the North Hills area of Pittsburgh. It is in the "Rosemont United Cemeteries at Allegheny, in the Bethel Family plot, according to his request." (Jehovah's Witnesses In The Divine Purpose, 1959, p. 62) Charles T. Russell Gravesite External Link
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So I ask you to entertain a question. If Russell wasn't a Mason then why would the Watchtower allow a Masonic erected pyramid to remain at his grave site. It wouldn't be the fact that Russell is buried next to the Greater Pittsburgh Masonic Center would it?
Update: The above crown and cross is the Masons York Rite Knights Templar emblem. See below.
The Crown and cross emblem on the left from this Masonic Drawing clearly indicates the emblem is the York Rite of Masonry Knights Templar. To see the full picture click here.
Some might mistake it for a Christian symbol, but Masonic author Ray Denslow reveals its true meaning:
"The Cross and Crown may be said to be confined almost exclusively to the historical degrees in Masonry as exemplified in the various orders of knighthood of York and Scottish rites. In Gaul we find the cross to have been a solar symbol when it had equal arms and angles; to the Phoenicians it was an instrument of sacrifice to their God, Baal; and to the Egyptians, the crux ansata was his symbol of eternal life." (Ray V. Denslow, Masonic Portraits, Transactions of this Missouri Lodge of Research, vol. #29, p.7---emphasis in the original) http://poweredbychrist.homestead.com/files/dallas1/seminary1.htm External Link
Now that we have established that Russell was a York Rite Knights Templar, same as 32 or 33rd degree Freemason. Lets look at Enochian Magic. What is Enochian Magic? Have you ever heard of Aleister Crowley? He was one of the most evil men besides Hitler to walk this Earth. In his book "Confessions." Crowley claimed that he had been initiated as a 33-Degree Mason in the Ancient and Accepted Rite of Masonry (A&AR). He probably did this in Mexico, where he went after the break-up with the Golden Dawn. To learn a bit more about Crowley start here. Aleister Crowley. See also illuminati_faq.htm The Order Of The Golden Dawn Golden Dawn - Ubermen von der Golden Dawn - Hitler
There are books on the subject available to anyone who wants to learn this Enochian magic. Learn the laws of Enochian Magick, how to use the Watchtowers and the six forces of Magick, learn Enochian Yoga and travel in the Body of Light.
The Enochian Magick of Dr. John Dee: The Most Powerful System of Magick in its Original, Unexpurgated Form
Geoffrey James
The Enochian Magick of Dr. John Dee: The Most Powerful System of Magick in its Original, Unexpurgated Form Order# K367
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You may have heard people speak of it in hushed tones: Enochian magick! Some say it is dangerous. Others say it is the most powerful magick known. Now you can find out the truth when you read The Enochian Magick of Dr. John Dee by Geoffrey James (previously published as The Enochian Evocation of Dr. John Dee).
This system was received by Dr. John Dee, astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I of England, and his assistant, Edward Kelly. Together, through a series of evocations, they discovered a system of magick so potent that some people fear to use it. Now you can learn the entire Enochian system as never before.
Previously, people went to secondary sources such as the Golden Dawn or Aleister Crowley for information on the Enochian system. Here, for the first time, are the diaries of Dr. Dee, which reveal the entire system so you can use it for a wide variety of magical purposes.
Presented here is the definitive version of the forty-eight angelic keys according to Dee himself. Revealed are the names of the sixteen good angels who are most skilled and powerful in medicine and in the curing of diseases, as well as the sixteen angels of the four elements. Every step of the method by which Dee and Kelly worked their evocations is fully explained so you can recreate their experiments and tap into some of the most powerful magick available.
The Watchtowers. It was believed that angels ruled a certain compass direction and they lived in the ends of the earth (more like the ends of the universe). These angels are to record every event that occurs in the world.
WATCHTOWERS, GUARDIANS OF: 1) A term used to describe the Elementals who are Energy Forms, Raiths or Spirits of the 4 Elements. 2) Originally used in the Enochian Tradition of Ceremonial Magick but whose usage is now widespread. 3) Those Entities connected to the Elements & Directions & certain attributes as follows:
North Air thought & intellect Male yellow
East Earth stable, solid, dependable Female green...
South Fire change, passion, willpower Male red.....
West Water emotions & purification Female blue....
Center Spirit intuitiveness unisexed soul
They are both visible & physical and invisible & spiritual. They are invoked during ritual as protectors of our Circle of Power & sometimes as advisors. Some 'set' these Guardians, during rituals in a more complex exercise than simply invoking the Elements. http://www.ancientpathway.com/reference/glossary.html External Link
See also: The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn ® / Golden Dawn Enochian Magic External Link
Now lets look at a bit of history of Enochian Magic. The Golden Dawn history. This secret society made great impact on the European magic of the XX century with the publishing of its secret material by its former members. According to a story that circulated among the members of the society, it is based on a coded manuscript that Win Westcot, one of the founders, freemason and occultist found in an antique store. Then Westcot contacted Samuel Lidel McGregor Mathers, who was a respectable magician and Egyptologist in that time, and they together decoded the manuscript which consisted of four complicated rituals. In the manuscript they found an address of a certain person called Mrs. Spriengel from Germany who was responsible for a secret magic order, supposedly from the tradition of the Rosicrucian's. From Mrs. Spriengel they received a letter of approval for founding the secret magic order Golden Dawn with the first lodge Isis-Urania in London. The founders and the heads of the society were Mathers, Westcot, and Woodman, another English occultist and freemason. Early Medieval magic
Learn Aumism: the doctrines of the Golden Age. Its Modern day founder is a freemason, Rosicrucian, Martinist Lodges, Knights of the Holy Grail, occultist and so on. Aumism - Universal Religion - The Doctrine of the Golden Age
OK we have proved that Enochian magick is a reality. We see that Russell was involved with Freemasonry and used Freemasonry symbols on his earlier magazines. We also learn that the Freemasons were involved in the occult and The Golden Dawn order, which used Enochian Magic. The Freemason is heavy into the Pyramids and the worship of Isis and Osiris. The ancient Egyptians, for example, constantly refer to a remote Golden Age they called Zep Tepi, 'The First Time' of Osiris, (Both of these terms are older terms for NEW WORLD ORDER) which they believed had long predated the Pyramid Age. The Sphinx: Guardian of the Treasure of the gods External link
We have also learned those three phrases of terminology that are popular with Enochian Magic, and the Freemasons are "Millennial Dawn", "Golden Age" and "Watchtower." Russell named his organization Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. His earlier magazine was called The Golden Age. Before the name of Jehovah's Witnesses was established the followers of Russell's teachings were known as Russellites and Millennial Dawnist. Not a chance this is coincidence.
It is the restoration of that corrupt "Golden Age" of incarnate demons which the Egyptian mystery religion represented and continues to represent. It is an ancient violent and immoral world which developed before the Flood which New Age spirit guides are seeking to re-establish, but which will be swept away by the War of Armageddon. The term "Golden Age" is a very misleading one, as is the term "spirituality" when used in conjunction with Adam Weishaupt whose "spirituality" was referred to as "horrifying." The Illuminati's fundamental principles pervert the noble meaning of spirituality, and are working for the establishment of a "horrifying" "Golden Age." New Age Army Expose, Psychic Warrior Subversion Exposed
Now keep all of this in mind when reading the Watchtowers false predictions, and their constant change of doctrines. Oh yes and a little FYI. (For Your Information). The WT Society performs a secret ritual every year, which is their primary ritual. This ritual is actually the ancient Gnostic (Satanic) ritual of saying no to the body of Christ. Of course the lower rank and files JW's do not know this. This ancient Satanic ritual is now secretly practiced under the disguise of the Memorial Supper - where the elements of communion are passed and no one partakes of the elements. (When I say "no one" I mean that in a qualified sense-only a small group is allowed to partake. The actual figures of how many partake of the elements is a totally fictitious figure according to my sources, which is created at Bethel headquarters in Brooklyn. The_Russell_Bloodline
In their main textbooks for indoctrinating new converts, "You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth," and "Knowledge that Leads to Everlasting Life", the Watchtower Society subtly presents circular reasoning and cleverly formulated arguments garnished with half-truths to begin the process of thought control on unsuspecting individuals sincerely interested in learning about the Bible.
Here is a bit of Watchtower History. At the end of each excerpt will be the link from which it came.
Biblical Test for a Prophet
The test for a prophet is found in Deuteronomy 18:20-22. This scripture teaches that a prophet must be tested by checking his prophecies. Also. Jesus said, "Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. "This is not telling us to examine a prophet's good works. Many false prophets have led moral lives. The fruit of a fig tree is its figs. The fruit of a prophet is his prophecies. One false prophecy (even if some true prophecies are given) and that person is a false prophet. It does not matter how sincere he or his followers are. It does not matter how often his followers pray or what feelings they seem to receive in answer to their prayers. He is a false prophet.
Yes their prediction's unknown to most starts back this far.
1776 "And this long persecution, in which many were purified and made white and tried,' and in which the Mother of Harlots was 'drunk with the blood of the saints and the martyrs of Jesus' (Rev. 17:6) ended as we have already shown, practically in 1776." {BATT 584} [Also see 1799]
1816 Jehovah's Witnesses trace their origins to the nineteenth century Adventist movement in America. That movement began with William Miller, a Baptist lay preacher whom, in the year 1816, began proclaiming that Christ would return in 1843. His predictions of the Second Coming or Second Advent captured the imagination of thousands in Baptist and other mainline churches. Perhaps as many as 50,000 followers put their trust in Miller's chronological calculations and prepared to welcome the Lord, while, as the appointed time approached, others watched nervously from a distance. Recalculations moved the promised second advent from March 1843 to March, 1844, and then to October of that year. Alas, that date too passed uneventfully. The Branch Davidians who died at Waco, Texas, under the leadership of David Koresh also trace their roots to the same Millerite source through a different line of descent. A Short History of the Watchtower Organization
1872 Charles Taze Russell (One of The Satanic_bloodlines who founded the International Bible Students Association. Forerunner to the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. Before they became known as the Jehovah's Witnesses, they were called Russellites, Millennial Dawnists, and International Bible Students. Russell was a Knights Templar Mason of York Rite, in Allegheny Pa. Confirmed Mason. Also Russell had a secret Rosicrucian membership with the Quakertown, PA group of Rosicrucian's, as revealed by the pyramid he ordered erected over his grave site. His use of the Winged-Sun-Disk. Russell owned a cemetery in Pittsburgh. Leading Satanists try to own cemeteries for several reasons. First, it facilitates the disposal of human sacrifices, which are buried in pieces below the fresh holes dug for someone else's burial. When the casket is placed in the hole, it would be rare for anyone to dig below the casket level ever again. Second, magic power is associated with cemeteries. The spiritual power of the dead is pulled up by making a circle of light over them, and then within the circle a naked Satanist lays. Third, specific bones are sought such as the skulls and left hands. Left hands are preserved in order to hold candles for certain ceremonies. Confirmed Mason. The_Russell_Bloodline
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Full view of Watchtower assembly hall used for years in New York, still in use.
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Winged sun god Ra on outside of Queens, New York Assembly Hall
Chrysler uses this symbol to.
What is this winged disk? One explanation is: ( Holy Order of The Winged Disk, an old magickal organization dedicated to hermetic, qabalistic, gnostic, rosicrucian, and alchemical practices. The Winged Disk recognizes that there is a seed of truth in every tradition. The International Academy of Hermetic Knowledge is an independent home study program offering the techniques of western magick, spiritual practice, and special guidance not available in any books. Phaedron is named as its director. He implements the Order's philosophy of approaching the subject in a thorough, safe, and realistic manner. As an Adept, he receives sincere seekers, teaches privately, counsels spiritually, and holds small group classes in ritual magick and related esoteric methods. ("Teachings of the Winged Disk" by Phaedron Info/Order book)
John Russell - Pastor C. T. Russell's stepmother was executor of his will. His mother was the one chosen to dance with famous Mason and Illuminatus Lafayette when he was in Philadelphia. 1. (Nevin, Adelaide Mellier. The Social Mirror A Character Sketch of the Women of Pittsburgh) 2. (Vicinity during the first Century of the County’s existence. Society of today. Pittsburgh, PA: T.A. Nevin Publisher, 1888, p. 19. b. The Pittsburgh Directory) 3. (1878-79 showing Elizabeth the widow of John, and c. John Russell in the 1850 Census, and John Russell’s Will.)
Things Russell Would Currently be Disfellowshipped (excommunicated) For: Anti-organizational teachings, celebrating birthdays, Christmas and holiday observance, military involvement tolerated, not draining blood from food, considering self to be the "faithful and discreet slave," selling "Miracle Wheat," dabbling in the occult and signing his own books. Watchtower Presidential Era Summaries External Link
Charles Taze Russell died Halloween night, or was he silenced? River Phoenix died Halloween night also. Or was he Satanically ritually murdered? "Who Killed River Phoenix?" | Halloween Deaths: Satanic Ritual Murders or Natural Causes?
1874 The Lord became present in October, 1874" {TKIC 1923 Ed 235} [many other references in HOTW, TIAH 170, OLOR 27, HIS2 133]
1874-8 "Our Lord's presence as Bridegroom and Reaper was recognized during the first three and a half years, from A.D. 1874 to A.D. 1878." {TIAH 1913 Ed 239}
1876 January when he was 23 years old, Russell received a copy of The Herald of the Morning, an Adventist magazine published by Nelson H. Barbour of Rochester, New York. One of the distinguishing features of Barbour's group at that time was their belief that Christ returned invisibly in 1874, and this concept presented in The Herald captured Russell's attention. It meant that this Adventist splinter group had not remained defeated, as others had, when Christ failed to appear in 1874 as Adventist leaders had predicted; somehow this small group had managed to hold onto the date by affirming that the Lord had indeed returned at the appointed time, only invisibly. Wealthy Russell paid Barbour's way to Philadelphia and met with him to discuss both beliefs and finances. The upshot was that Russell became the magazine's financial backer and was added to the masthead as an Assistant Editor. He contributed articles for publication as well as monetary gifts, and Russell's small study group similarly became affiliated with Barbour's. Russell and Barbour believed and taught that Christ's invisible return in 1874 would be followed soon afterward, in the spring of 1878 to be exact, by the Rapture-the bodily snatching away of believers to heaven. The Witnesses do not believe in rapture in modern day doctrines, but that only a 144.000 will go to heaven. A Short History of the Watchtower Organization External Link
1878 When this expected Rapture failed to occur on time in 1878, The Herald's editor, Mr. Barbour, came up with "new light" on this and other doctrines. (Sound familiar) Russell, however, rejected some of the new ideas and persuaded other members to oppose them. Finally, Russell quit the staff of the Adventist magazine and started his own. He called it Zion's watchtower and Herald of Christ's Presence and published its first issue with the date July 1879. In the beginning it had the same mailing list as The Herald of the Morning and considerable space was devoted to refuting the latter on points of disagreement, Russell having taken with him a copy of that magazine's mailing list when he resigned as assistant editor. At this point Charles Russell no longer wanted to consider himself an Adventist, nor a Millerite. But, he continued to view Miller and Barbour as instruments chosen by God to lead His people in the past. The formation of a distinct denomination around Russell was a gradual development. His immediate break was, not with Adventism, but with the person and policies of N. H. Barbour. A Short History of the Watchtower Organization External Link
1891 For 62 years, 1891 to 1953, the WTS taught that God resided on the star Alcyone in the Pleiades constellation and that from this star he governed the universe! This belief was taught in 1891 in Volume 3 of Studies in the Scriptures and was based on passages in the Bible. The WTS also taught that the Great Pyramid of Egypt provided additional proof of God's throne in the Pleiades! (The Golden Age 1924 September 10 pp. 793-794) Astrology and the Watchtower Society * Jehovah: Ancient Astronaut?
1902 July 15, While it is true that the white race exhibits some qualities of superiority over any other, we are to remember that there are wide differences in the same Caucasian (Semitic and Aryan) family; and also we should remember that some of the qualities which have given this branch of the human family its preeminence in the world are not such as can be pointed to as in all respects admirable....The secret of the greater intelligence and aptitude of the Caucasian undoubtedly in great measure is to be attributed to the commingling of blood amongst its various branches; and this was evidently forced in large measure by circumstances under divine control. (Zion's Watch Tower, July 15, 1902, p.215-216) Blacks and the Watchtower * The Population Control Agenda
1904 8th of April. Aleister Crowley claimed that, in Cairo at 12 noon exactly and for the following two days at the exact same time—he actually heard a voice in his ear, dictating the words of the text (as if through some transmitter in his brain), and that he transcribed them faithfully. It was not "inspired," then, so much as received. The voice itself claimed to be that of Aiwass, or Aiwaz, "the minister of Hoor-paar-kraat," or otherwise, Horus, the god of force and fire, child of Isis and Osiris, and self-appointed conquering lord of the New Aeon, officially announced through his chosen scribe, "the prince-priest the Beast." This much of Crowley’s controversial life and claims is more or less confirmed. It is, as promised, to be found, there in the writings themselves—the proof as it were is in the pudding. Anyone who has read the work, and suffered the resulting conflictive feelings of admiration and disgust, will not doubt that there is something about the "little red book" that puts it in a class all its own. The whole apparatus of ceremonial magick (as conceived and adapted by the Golden Dawn and its offshoots, many of which were directly influenced by Crowley) that formed the true inner protocol of Nazism (originally spawned by the Thule Society) is dedicated—in theory—to the one single end and purpose of: contact with preterhuman or extraterrestrial forces.
1906 This testimony was given by Mrs. Russell on direct examination on Thursday, April 26, 1906 from a suit for a separation brought by Martha (sic) F. Russell against Charles Taze Russell, her husband, popularly known as Pastor Russell Then he said, "I am like a jellyfish. I float around here and there. I touch this one and that one, and if she responds I take her to me, and if not, I float on to others"; and she wrote that out so that I could remember it for sure when I would speak to him about it. And he confessed that he said those things. Founder of Jehovah's witnesses: CHARLES TAZE RUSSELL- CHILD MOLESTER!
1906 Two of the key early Watchtower Society leaders were Bundy's. These were Walter H. Bundy, who went with Charles Taze Russell to Great Britain on his May 29-31, 1909 trip, and Edwin Bundy who worked at the Bethel Headquarters at the turn of the century and traveled around the U.S. for the Watchtower Society from 1906 to 1910. The_Bundy_bloodline
1914 The supposed end of the "Gentile Times", Jesus would come to judge the earth and annihilate the wicked. A Short History of Jehovah's Witnesses
1914 Russell's prediction for Armageddon fails.
1914 The Watchtower Society started transferring all of the doctrines about 1874 to 1914. They explained that Christ's kingdom had been set up invisibly in 1914, and that although secular governments were still in place, their rule was no longer valid. Based on the Society's writings, Jehovah's Witnesses looked forward to momentous events in the year 1918.
1915 Russell's prediction for Armageddon fails.
1916 Joseph Franklin Rutherford, assumes control of the Watchtower and Bible Tract Society. (Jehovah's Witnesses) In Rutherford's (The Finished Mystery), published in 1917, they said that Armageddon would really break loose in 1918 with the destruction of "Christendom" and all the church members and by 1920 all kingdoms of the earth would pass away. In 1918 the "little flock" would pass beyond the veil and 1921 would be the last year to make it to heaven and would see the death of all in the "great multitude" class. The Finished Mystery claimed, as did other Watchtower material in 1917, that they were directed and supervised by the spirit of the dead "Pastor" Russell and others of the deceased "anointed" class. This is necromancy, or communicating with the dead, which the modern day Watchtower Bible and Tract Society has called spiritism and demonism. (But yet they still use and teach his doctrines, and their Bible inspired by demons) Was Rutherford a Spirit Medium? In relating to friends he could be despotic; in dealing with enemies, ruthless. He was moody and sometimes blunt to the point of rudeness with an explosive temper that could occasionally excite him to physical violence. He also had a streak of self-righteousness, which caused him to regard anyone who opposed him as of the Devil. But most curious was the fact that while in some ways he was a Puritan of Puritans, in others he was thoroughly dissolute. He used vulgar language, suffered from alcoholism, and was once publicly accused by one of his closest associates of attending a nude burlesque show with two fellow elders." (Apocalypse Delayed, University of Toronto Press, 1985, p. 47-48) Jehovah's Organization or Joe's Organization?
“Even though a teetotaler, Moyle can hardly be charged with being overly critical of the drinking habits of his brethren at Bethel, and he was quite accurate in his assessment of the judge’s self-righteous, choleric actions and breakfast-table tirades. Furthermore, he was simply eager to correct what to him were serious examples of unchristian conduct and to stress that Rutherford had an immediate responsibility to remedy the conditions which had caused his resignation and protest. But Rutherford, who sometimes had difficulty in distinguishing his own position from that of Jehovah or Christ Jesus, regarded Moyle’s letter as nothing short of apostasy itself.” (Apocalypse Delayed, page 81 (soft-cover)
Rutherford was cited for contempt of court on at least three occasions. Proof of this is found in Morgan County Book 13, page 251 for August 8, 1894 and Cooper County Book 2, page 376 on May 15,1895. His worst known impropriety in law during the Missouri years was recorded in Permanent File #5113 of the Cooper County Circuit Court dated February 4, 1896 and involved a case heard by Judge Dorsey W. Shackleford. Rutherford was representing the National Cash Register Company against David Nicholson of Boonville.
After Nicholson had levied a writ of attachment on a cash register machine that had been used at the saloon of Charley Merstetter, a deputy constable named Wright went to seize the machine but Rutherford met him at the saloon, held papers before Wright and told him that if Wright would go to see William Muir Williams the attorney representing Nicholson and who later became a state supreme court judge, then Williams would confirm that Rutherford held possession of the machine. Wright left the machine to speak with attorney Williams and upon returning found that machine gone. Rutherford then lied that the machine had been sent on to Sedalia, Missouri, for deputy Wright found it "concealed" in a second office of Rutherford beneath some papers.
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Secrets Of The Watchtower pt: 2
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