Mark Dankof's America

There is little to cheer about for any real American conservative in the 2008 Presidential election sweepstakes.  The notion that John McCain, Hillary Clinton, or Barack Obama will celebrate a Presidential inaugural this January is an idea guaranteed to produce a tsunami of nausea for anyone associated with the Old American Right and Republic.

 

One thing is not in doubt:  subsequent to the January 2008 inauguration, American neo-conservatives will convince the next American Chief Executive to engage in a preemptive military strike on Iran, with or without overt Israeli involvement.  Take it to the bank.

 

In this present malaise, to borrow Jimmy Carter’s well chosen term for the late 1970s, there is one item fresh off the newswire guaranteed to produce at least some measure of satisfaction for those looking for an alternative to the three Zionist-controlled sockpuppets being offered as Presidential candidates by the two major parties in the coming fall of 2008:  the Constitution Party, America’s largest 3^rd party in total voter registrations nationwide, has just nominated Chuck Baldwin as its standard-bearer over Zionist shill, ex-UN Ambassador Alan Keyes. 

 

I know Baldwin personally.  He was the Constitution Party’s Vice-Presidential choice in 2004, when Michael Peroutka of Maryland accepted the Presidential bid.  Baldwin is correct in his policy positions when it comes to virtually anything I can think of, including what he believes on globalization, the Bill of Rights, gun rights, the protection of unborn life, the insanity of Mr. Bush’s war in Iraq, and the importance of an America-First foreign policy.  Equally as important, I know Chuck Baldwin to be a self-effacing, honest man, driven to seek his fledgling Party’s top post out of sole concern for a mutually shared belief--that America is on the edge of a precipice, and fast headed for cataclysm.

 

I derive equal satisfaction that the voting delegates to the National Convention of the Constitution Party in Kansas City, dumped Keyes in favor of Baldwin by a count of 384-126.  The Kansas City Star reports that in the wake of this decision, Keyes’s national political director, Tom Hoefling, whined and sniffed that, “They [the voting delegates] just rejected the most qualified man to be president.”

 

Yes, Mr. Hoefling, if the criterion for most-qualified is defined in terms of a candidate’s willingness to serve as a front man for the Zionist enterprise and the Israeli lobby.  Keyes, it will be recalled, did the bidding of William Kristol and American neo-conservatives as a last minute entry in the 1996 GOP Iowa Presidential caucuses.  Doing so diverted enough votes away from Pat Buchanan to guarantee Bob Dole’s Iowa victory and eventual nomination in San Diego later that fateful summer.  The Catholic columnist, Joseph Sobran, observed at the time that the forces behind Keyes were identical to those who promoted the Jewish-Zionist takeover of William F. Buckley’s National Review in the 1950s.  You get the picture.

 

Dole, in turn, tapped the moribund Jack Kemp as his running mate.  Kemp, disqualified as George Herbert Walker Bush’s running mate in 1988 after a Penthouse magazine expose of the former NFL star’s personal life, had 3 things going for his subsequent selection by Dole in 1996.  First, Kemp, it seems, accepted Mr. Dole’s appeal to Go Down on the Ship in an assuredly losing effort.  Second, Kemp assisted Dole in brokering a deal with Clinton, Gore, and major media moguls, to make the personal lives of all 4 candidates off limits to media discussion and analysis.  The Washington Post reported this Faustian affair on page one, the day after the 1996 elections.  Third—and perhaps most importantly—Kemp was on the Board of Directors of JINSA—the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs.

 

Additional evidence on Alan Keyes has been provided by author Michael Collins Piper, my colleague at the Republic Broadcasting Network, in the latter’s new book, “The Golem:  Israel’s Nuclear Hell Bomb and the Road to Global Armageddon.”  In chapter 11 of that work, Piper notes the existence of an organization called “The U. S.-India League,”  an organization staffed by a “virtual roster of some of Israel’s most vociferous boosters in Washington.”  These names include Don Feder, the league’s executive director and author of “A Jewish Conservative Looks at Pagan America”; Thomas Donnelly, former deputy executive director of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), founded by William Kristol.  PNAC once declared that American needed “a new Pearl Harbor” in order to begin expanding its imperial interests abroad; Kenneth R. Timmerman, author of the definitive “case” for Saddam Hussein’s “weapons of mass destruction” for the Moon-owned Insight magazine, and the ex-editor of a Paris-based newsletter allegedly financed by the Israeli Mossad; Clifford D. May, former New York Times correspondent, ex-Republican National Committee official, and chairman of the policy committee of the Committee on the Present Danger---and Alan Keyes. 

 

This weekend in Kansas City, the Constitution Party delegates offered a choice, not a Zionist-inspired echo.  God bless them.  God bless the Old American Republic.  And God bless a Godly-man named Chuck Baldwin.  Go get, ‘em, Chuck.

  

The libertarian Strike the Root site reminds readers that Mark Dankof's publicly stated record on the insanity of the War on Terror, and the notion of an American-Israeli preemptive attack on Iran, has been clear since 2001.  Strike the Root's archive of Mark Dankof's commentaries on that site may be accessed at:

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Mark Dankof's America returns to the Republic Broadcasting Network, beginning Sunday, April 20th, from 7-9 a.m.  Shows are subsequently archived at the Republic Broadcasting Network for later listeners. 

Mark Dankof is a last minute guest host replacement on the Michael Collins Piper show tonight on the Republic Broadcasting Network.  The show begins at 8 p.m. Central time and may be heard live on the WWW at http://www.republicbroadcasting.org.  The show will be archived on the RBN site for later listening.
 
Tonight's topics:  Wheat disease in Iran--are Monsanto and Bush utilizing a new brand of germ warfare against the IRI regime in Tehran?
 
UK coverage of the Robert Kennedy assassination in 1968--was there a Mossad connection to the CIA and anti-Castro Cuban agents now known to have been present in the Ambassador Hotel ballroom in Los Angeles at the time of the June 1968 murder of RFK?  Should Obama be sweating????
 
Mark Dankof's letter to Attorney General Mukasey on the Al-Arian case.
 
The latest laughs from Jerusalem, courtesy of John Hagee and John McCain.  . . .
 
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13 March 2008



The Honorable Michael B. Mukasey
Attorney General of the United States
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
(202) 307-6777 Fax
askdoj@usdoj.gov

Dear Mr. Mukasey:

I write you today to request that Dr. Sami Al-Arian be freed from his federal detention center, effective immediately.

I became familiar with the Al-Arian case through interviewing Dr. Al-Arian's wife, Nahla, for a radio broadcast aired on the Republic Broadcasting Network.  I have also followed the details of the case through news updates provided by the Washington Report for Middle East Affairs (WRMEA) and other agencies.

As I see it, the two (2) salient points are as follows.  First, Dr. Al-Arian has been convicted of absolutely nothing in an American court of law.  The lion's share of the federal charges against him were rejected by a jury of his peers in the State of Florida.  While the remaining charges against him resulted in a hung jury, it is noteworthy that the vast majority of the sitting jurors voted for complete acquittal on these accusations as well.  

Let me be absolutely clear about who it is that writes your office today.  I am an orthodox Lutheran pastor and a Pat Buchanan Republican.  I am an endowed Life Member of the National Rifle Association.  My father is a retired United States Air Force Colonel with 32 years of active duty service to his country.  No credible person this side of Fox News and The Weekly Standard would possibly accuse me of being anti-American or pro-terrorist.

As one who is proud to be an American, I am, however, pro-Constitution and pro-Bill of Rights, which means that I possess the Constitutional presumptions of individual innocence until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, the sustenance of habeas corpus, and the rejection of the acceptability of the physical and psychological torture of suspects.  The Al-Arian case is especially noteworthy since the complete absence of adherence to said Constitutional foundations in this specific instance, is not simply a threat to this man's "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", but a potential threat to the life and liberty of any American accused of subversive activities and crimes, minus due process of law--the domestic machinations of the Israeli Lobby notwithstanding.

Let your office and the Congress of the United States work to restore our most basic and cherished principles as Americans.  The American public has had enough of Patriot Acts; the Military Commissions Act; NSA warrantless electronic surveillance; and the insistence of the current Presidential administration that it retains the prerogative to employ any form of surveillance or surreptitious entry it so desires against anyone in this country, without regard for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) provisions for judicial review and the foundational presuppositions of the Founding Fathers.

And let this entire recovery of what we once stood for in the land we love, begin with the release of Dr. Sami Al-Arian.


Sincerely,



Pastor Mark Dankof
Immanuel Lutheran Church
San Antonio, Texas
http://www.ilcsa.org

cc:

House Judiciary Chair:
The Honorable John Conyers, Jr
2426 Rayburn Building
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-5126
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john.conyers@mail.house.gov

Senate Judiciary Chair:
Senator Patrick Leahy
433 Russell Senate Office Building
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
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senator_leahy@leahy.senate.gov

Stefania Glenn is the young daughter of American Free Press correspondent Mark Glenn, and his wife, Vicki.  Stefania shares her parents burden for the people of Palestine and the evils perpetrated by Zionism.  Her latest offering is entitled," Playgrounds in the Valley of Death," and may be accessed here.

Curt Maynard, the Politically Correct Apostate, reviews Mark Glenn's No Beauty in the Beast: Israel Without Her Mascara. Maynard's site and Glenn's book are must reading for all Politically Correct Apostates around the world. Enjoy and ponder.

See:

http://pcapostate.blogspot.com/2007/03/no-beauty-in-beast-israel-without-her.html

Mark Dankof

Republic Broadcasting Network

 

 

Christopher Jon Bjerknes was the featured guest on Mark Dankof's America on the Republic Broadcasting Network on July 18th, discussing The Jewish Genocide of Armenian Christians.

The interview with Mark Dankof may be accessed online through the web site of the Republic Broadcasting Network. 

Bjerknes's web site is entitled Jewishracism.com. His 575 page manuscript entitled, The Jewish Genocide of Armenian Christians, may be downloaded here.

 

The Death of Harold O. J. Brown: Culture Wars Fought, Lost, and Misunderstood

by Mark Dankof for the American Free Press

 

 

 

 

 

            My old friend and academic mentor, Dr. Harold O. J. Brown, passed from this life on July 8^th, 2007.  For the uninitiated, Brown earned four degrees from Harvard University and Harvard Divinity School; taught at my alma mater, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and at Reformed Theological Seminary; wrote a pantheon of articles over many years for Chronicles, National Review, and Christianity Today; and authored many books, including my personal favorite, Heresies: Heresy and Orthodoxy in the History of the Church (Hendrickson Publishers).  For legions of Protestant evangelicals personally unfamiliar with his academic prowess, he is equally remembered for his tireless activism for the pro-life cause, which included co-founding the Christian Action Council (now known as Care Net) with ex-Surgeon General C. Everett Koop.

 

            Brown joins a mighty pantheon of some of evangelical Christianity’s leading lights in a now fading age of twilight who once graced the halls of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and are now departed from this life.  The roll call includes Carl F. H. Henry, Gleason Archer, Paul Feinberg, Kenneth Kantzer, Warren Benson, J. Herbert Kane, Victor Walter, S. Lewis Johnson, and Thomas McComiskey.  One strongly suspects that we may never see their like again prior to arrival in eternity and the Kingdom of God.

 

            Personal notes and letters addressed to me by Dr. Brown over the last quarter of a century include several poignant gems.  4 days prior to the surgery for a cancerous tumor in the sinuses that would ultimately claim his left eye and begin a decade-long slide in health, he sent me a postcard dated December 7, 1996.  The note on the card was succinct but to the point.  He stated that, “We need people like you [Dankof] in the ministry, but apparently the churches don’t know it.  My big operation is Dec [sic] 11^th.  Supposedly, it is likely to be a success.  Merry Christmas!  In Christ, HOJ Brown.”  And in a fashion typical of Brown, the front of the purchased card seemed as important as what he had personally inscribed on the back.  I felt then, as now, that its message was pointedly directed by him to both of us:

 

“Know perfectly well that poverty and misfortune suit me better than riches and pleasure.  Christ the Lord, Himself, was poor for our sakes.”

 

Patrick of Ireland

 

            And beneath the quotation from St. Patrick’s Confession, the Celtic Cross, and the photograph of the formidable concrete pillars on the card’s front cover, was another message based on the Word of God:

 

“In God I trust; I will not be afraid.”

 

Psalm 56:11

 

            Other mental snapshots of my memories of Harold O. J. Brown also come flooding back.  In the earliest 1980s, I was a frequent house sitter and guardian of both his suburban Chicago home and canine friend, Sadie, when he and his beloved wife Grace were on the road traveling on behalf of the pro-life cause.  Part of that activism involved tireless work for the Ronald Reagan Presidential candidacy against Jimmy Carter.  The sense of deluded euphoria we all felt after the first Tuesday in November of 1980 was followed, for Brown, by a personal Presidential invitation to partake in a group photo-op with the Gipper and key conservative activists in the Oval Office after the Inauguration.  Unfortunately, that historic event, in turn, was followed by Reagan’s immediate and cynical betrayal of his politically naive Christian Right supporters when Sandra Day O’Connor was nominated and confirmed for a seat on the United States Supreme Court. 

 

            After the O’Connor appointment, Brown came storming back to his home in the wee hours after a frustrating road trip, motoring in a driving rain on a dark night from O’Hare International Airport in Chicago to his Deerfield abode.  He was drenched in simply walking from his driveway to the front door, where I awaited him in greeting.  He was furious.  It was the only time I ever witnessed him in such a state.  With reference to the arrival of the latest pro-abort to the nation’s highest court, and Reagan’s direct complicity in the tragedy, he announced he would never be used again in such a fashion by the President.  He nurtured a small glass of bourbon, provided me with a glass of German Weissbier, and invited me to discuss my take on the real meaning of what had transpired in Washington.  I recall two emphatic points as contributions of note to the dialogue on that grim night north of the Windy City, so long ago.  I told Brown that I suspected other betrayals of the conservative cause by Reagan and his Party would follow.  That observation was followed by the proffered recommendation to him that he and his fellow activists on behalf of traditional culture in America desperately needed to extract a painful political price from both the President and the Republican Establishment.  To do otherwise would ultimately consign the American Christian Right and its cultural allies to the ash heap of political irrelevancy in time and space.

 

            I reminded Brown of that stormy night in Chicago on the last occasion I would see him alive.  It was in his office on the Trinity campus in the summer of 1997.  It was my only return to Deerfield after an absence of a dozen years as a denizen of two other cities in another life.  Aside from our discussion of the possibility of my pursuit of further academic work at the graduate level, the talk turned to the state of America.  He asked me about my departure from the Republican Party a year earlier, after the demise of the Buchanan candidacy and the end of the Republican National Convention in San Diego.  My response was simply to say that my words to him on a dark, rainy night in his home in 1981 had proven distressingly prophetic.  I had concluded that the moral and intellectual prostitution of continuing with a political party that had sold itself to the manifestly demonic was simply unsustainable any longer.  I underscored this point by telling him exactly what I thought of the malignant contemporary state of Protestant Evangelicalism in the land, and the compromised character of much of its public leadership. 

 

My final contribution to the political end of that last exchange with Brown was perhaps the most painful for both of us.  It was apparent to me, I said, that the real Rosetta Stone in uncovering the character of the malaise in the entire country, was in identifying the spiritual, logistical, and financial force driving the United States to a day of reckoning in the final days of the American Republic.  The Core of the Stone is the alliance of the Jewish Lobby with our most basic and trusted institutions.  He was silent, but strangely contemplative.  He looked as solemn as he did on the night of our conversation about the Reagan betrayal in his home, 16 long years before.  The sadness was accentuated by the eye patch and elastic strap which now clothed his countenance, to conceal the after effects of the cancer surgery that had robbed him of half of his eyesight.

 

            Another ten years have now passed.  Harold O. J. Brown is now gone.  After 1997, there would be no further opportunity to compare political, cultural, and theological evaluations.  I wonder what he would say today about 9-11; the Project for the New American Century (PNAC); talk of a preemptive nuclear attack on Iran; the chronicle of Dr. E. Michael Jones in the April 2007 Culture Wars on the Jewish infiltration of the American Right through William F. Buckley and National Review;  the documentation of Canadian paleo-conservative Jayne Gardener regarding the central role of Jews in promoting the abortion industry in the United States; or the revelation that Dr. Brown’s old pal at First Things, Richard John Neuhaus, had taken $8.5 million dollars in contributions from Jewish neo-conservative sources as thanks for the latter’s support of the Israeli enterprise in perpetuity. 

 

            I cannot ask him now.  But I plan to do so again, when we meet once more in the eternal Kingdom of God in Heaven through Jesus Christ, a place Dr. Brown spent a lifetime proclaiming as a message of transcendent hope in an ever darkening temporal world. 

 

            He will be sorely missed.

 

 

 

Mark Dankof is the voice of Mark Dankof's America, heard live on the Republic Broadcasting Network, 7-10 am Central time. He was the Constitution Party candidate for the United States Senate in Delaware in 2000. His articles may be found through his blog with Al Bawaba of Amman, Jordan, and at http://www.MarkDankof.com.

Kenneth R. Timmerman: Israeli Mossad Front Man to Iranian Expatriates?

By Mark Dankof for the American Free Press

It may be more than significant that Kenneth R. Timmerman, neo-conservative columnist par excellence, has been recently interested in covering Iranian expatriate political activities in Europe and the United States designed to produce regime change in Tehran, most notably the recent "Iran Solidarity" conference held earlier this month in Paris.

Timmerman, of course, is the author of the now infamous disinformation piece published by Insight Magazine of the Moonie-owned Washington Times on October 15, 2002, alleging Saddam Hussein's possession of Weapons of Mass Destruction. The Insight headline advertising the essay, published half a year before Bush's preemptive military action in Iraq in early 2003, says it all:

How Saddam Got Weapons of Mass Destruction: Saddam Hussein's War Machine Is Being Built Systematically to Strike At the United States With New Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons Designed to Kill Millions.

Mr. Timmerman bases his now totally discredited case for war with Iraq on the "intelligence" provided by the nefarious Ahmad Chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress's (INC) committee of six, based in London in late 2002. And what he doesn't say in the essay of 56 months ago is as significant as the falsehoods pathetically put to paper on apparent behalf of his suspected master handlers in both Washington and Tel Aviv. In demonizing Mr. Hussein, he conveniently manages not to remind his readers of the long-standing relationship between Saddam and American intelligence, going back to the former's role as a CIA-hired trigger man selected to shoot the then-Prime Minister of Iraq in a failed assassination attempt in 1958. Nor does the Moonie-employed columnist bother to tell the uninitiated and unsuspecting about Hussein's pivotal performance as an instrument of Western intelligence agencies in provoking the eight year war between Iraq and Iran from 1980-88. Why? The answers may lie between the lines of the original text of the now embarrassing Insight story, still accessible on the Net by clicking here.

The public professional and political connections of Kenneth R. Timmerman are similarly suggestive. The online news service, The Newshoggers, informs the reader that: [bold type added for emphasis]

"Mr. Timmerman is also Executive Director of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran, an organization which he co-founded with PNAC founding member Peter Rodman, who is currently United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and some prominent Iranian dissident figures. As such, you might expect (and you would be right to do so) that this Foundation has the ear of the Bush administration, GOP members on the Hill and prominent neoconservative thinkers. The Foundation has a distinctly secular bent, unsurprising given Mr. Timmerman's negative opinions of the Islam in that country, and is dedicated to assisting regime change in Iran.

"More surprising, perhaps - and not mentioned in any official bio - is his presence on the Advisory Board of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) - an honor he currently shares with Rep. Eric Cantor, Michael Ledeen, Jack Kemp and Richard Perle. Past Board members include Vice President Dick Cheney, US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, and Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith. A heady and powerful grouping. JINSA, it has been alleged, is closely allied to neoconservative advocates of pre-emptive regime change and to the AIPAC group which is currently embroiled in a spying scandal.

"It appears, then, that Mr. Timmerman and his Foundation for Democracy in Iran are very well placed indeed to gain a great measure of influence and power should the US institute force regime change in Iran. Iranian members of his organization could reasonably expect high political office as appointees of any occupation authority in the same way that Ahmed Chalabi and Iyad Allawi were in Iraq. The parallels are obvious - providing shaky evidence and allegations of a WMD program to help foment a war that catapults them into political office."

And Mr. Timmerman's war will foment the deaths of thousands of innocent Iranians and apocalyptic blowback against the United States worldwide. This is apparently what the American and Israeli governments have militarily planned via CONPLAN 8022, along with the support of both the CIA and the Mossad for regional separatist groups operating within Iranian borders, in Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, Khuzestan, and Balochistan.

There is one other significant item to report. I am informed by a former seasoned covert operative in the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Operations that Kenneth R. Timmerman was once "the editor of a Mossad-financed newsletter based in Paris, France." Paris, France, as previously mentioned, was the recent venue of the "Iran Solidarity Conference."

Coincidence? The report in my possession has also been personally corroborated by Philip Giraldi of Pat Buchanan's The American Conservative.

True Iranian patriots who have their own reasons for wanting regime change in Iran, like Shirin Neshat of Sarbazan, beware.

Mark Dankof is the voice of Mark Dankof's America, heard live on the Republic Broadcasting Network, 7-10 am Central time. He was the Constitution Party candidate for the United States Senate in Delaware in 2000. His articles may be found through his blog with Al Bawaba of Amman, Jordan, and at http://www.MarkDankof.com.

Dilip Hiro ("The Iranian Labyrinth" and "Blood of the Earth"), joins Mark Dankof's America Tuesday, June 26,2007, on the Republic Broadcasting Network.  Listen live from 7-10 am Central time in the United States via Internet hookup through the Republic Broadcasting Network web site, or after the fact through the online archives of the Network, based outside Austin, Texas.  Access the Republic Broadcasting Network by clicking here.

Tom Englehardt's TomDispatch.com has Dilip Hiro's latest article on the subject to be covered with Mark Dankof by Mr. Hiro tomorrow.   See "Nuclear Weapons Programs Are About Regime Survival:  The Iranian Bomb in a MAD World" by clicking here.

 

 

The Alliance of Giuliani and the “Christian” Right:  Has the War on Terror Merged With War on the Unborn?  

by Mark Dankof for the American Free Press  

My good friend, Dr. Paul Gottfried of Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, goes a long way toward explaining the real agenda of the American “Christian” Right in his latest effort for The American Conservative, entitled The Giuliani-Driven Christians. 

Dr. Gottfried notes that Quinnipiac polls indicate Giuliani’s present status as the most popular Presidential candidate among Protestant evangelicals, and that Hizzoner’s present lead in the polls in key swing states, especially Florida, is directly attributable to “white Evangelical voters.” The Washington Post has chimed in, reporting in February that Giuliani is “surging among white Evangelicals.” 

The implications of this burgeoning phenomenon are as striking as they are demonically draconian.  Hizzoner, after all, is a leading advocate of abortion-on-demand, even as he chides Islamic societies in Fox News-sponsored Presidential debates for attitudes and policies allegedly detrimental to the rights and dignity of women.  And aside from the Big Apple Mayor’s publicized liabilities in personal life and conduct, it seems incredible to the point of the outrageously satirical to contemplate Giuliani’s adulation by the likes of Religious Right mogul Cal Thomas, given Hizzoner’s strident support of the militant homosexual rights constituency.  That support, symbolically expressed by Rudy’s past personal appearance in Costume Drag in New York for a Gay Pride parade, suggests that all things are now possible in the increasingly comfortable alliance of the “Christian” Right with the globalist, Rockefeller wing of the Republican Party.  What is next, a Giuliani campaign appearance at a National Prayer Breakfast in Babylon-By-The-Potomac with Pat Robertson, John Hagee, Billy Graham, Al Goldstein, and Barney Frank? 

In the case of abortion, Republican hypocrisy is nothing new.  

It was, after all, Dutch Reagan who appointed pro-choice Sandra Day O’Connor to the Supreme Court after making the pro-life position a staple of the Republican campaign diet in 1980.  It was George Herbert Walker Bush who brought David Souter into America’s judicial mix during the former’s one term of office.  And neither Republican Chief Executive, nor a series of Republican Congresses after 1994, ended Federal tax subsidies for Planned Parenthood and the American abortion industry. 

And what has escaped public notice and media scrutiny in more recent times is the hard reality that the April 18^th, 2007 Supreme Court decision in Gonzales versus Carhart, which upheld the Congressional ban on “partial-birth abortion,” will not in and of itself prevent one late-term, partial birth abortion.  As explained by Paul Likoudis in the April 26^th edition of The Wanderer, the decision actually upholds the infamous 1973 Roe versus Wade decision, as did the bill itself passed by Congress.  Gonzales only says that the federal government and the states may pass legislation declaring restrictions on this particular technique; that such restrictions are not unconstitutional.  Likoudis goes on to explain that according to Justice Anthony Kennedy, abortions of late-term babies can continue up to the moment of birth, even utilizing the partial-birth abortion technique, as long as the child is killed in utero.  The [Congressional] Act’s definition of partial-birth abortion requires the fetus “to be delivered, until, in the case of a head-first presentation, the entire fetal head is outside the body of the mother, or, in the case of breech presentation, any part of the fetal trunk past the naval is outside the body of the mother.  The Attorney General [Gonzales] concedes, and we agree, that if an abortion procedure does not involve the delivery of a living fetus to one of these anatomical ‘landmarks’ where, depending on the presentation, either the fetal head of the fetal trunk past the naval is outside the body of the mother, the prohibitions of the Act do not apply.” 

Put another way, fetal poisoning and dismemberment are fine, as long as they take place within the confines of the womb itself. 

Placed in this judicial and cultural context, the “Christian” Republican Right has achieved virtually nothing in the wake of 34 years of post-Roe political activism.  The much vaunted Cultural War may in fact, be over.  The Left has won.  A post-Christian America is now the order of the day. 

And if this is the final verdict of history, it should not escape attention that a Rudy Giuliani Presidential candidacy, the geometric location for the latest intersection of the alliance of the American “Christian” Right with the much heralded Jewish and Israeli lobby in the United States, epitomizes the victory of the latter in America’s cultural wars if the issue of the sanctity of unborn life in the land is the definitive yardstick for measuring the conflict’s ultimate outcome.  Alexandria J. Wall, staff writer for J, The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California, and Matthew E. Berger of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, chronicle mainstream American Jewish support for the pro-choice position in an April 30, 2004 article for J entitled “Locals Join Thousands At D. C. Pro-Choice Rally.”  Major representatives of key Jewish activist organizations were front and center at the event:  Hadassah, The National Council of Jewish Women, and representatives of Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist Judaism stood proudly in the glare of media coverage.  This 2004 rally stands as a microcosm of the larger truth before and since that time:  Jewish media, political, logistical, and financial support for the abortion industry is the lifeblood of the movement of mass death for the pre-born.  No serious research on the subject can deny the patently obvious.  This is truly a Holocaust most of American Jewry can truly unite behind. 

So how do “evangelical” Protestants justify a larger political alliance with Giuliani, the Jewish power elite, and the system of the Beast Hizzoner clearly represents?  Dr. Gottfried unveils the tale of the tape:   

“But it must be stressed that the issue that has come to trump all other evangelical concerns is fighting the war on terror [reviewer’s emphasis]. Cal Thomas has extolled his fellow evangelicals to recognize the big picture: ‘Character is seen as less important than who can face the multiple challenges facing the nation’—specifically, the struggle against international terror. From the evangelical perspective, this confrontation with terror is so intertwined with other issues that it serves as a kind of shorthand. Israel, Zionism, and the glorification of American democracy as a world model are all at least implicit in the evangelical conception of the struggle against terror [reviewer’s emphasis]—one that Giuliani is imagined to be able to lead better than any other presidential contender. During a visit to New York by a Saudi Arabian prince soon after 9/11, Giuliani took the occasion to speak out against the visitor’s attempt to link the lack of goodwill for the U.S. among Arabs to American indifference to the Palestinian cause. His tirade was directed against those who suggest ‘moral equivalency between liberal democracies, like Israel and the United States’ and their current enemies. This broadside has continued to come up on evangelical websites pushing Giuliani’s candidacy.

“Another related factor here, which the New York Times underscored in an April 30 feature story, is that evangelicals have moved away from divisive issues like abortion to stress an apparently less controversial ‘human rights’ agenda. The movement’s leaders have worked overtime to sway the White House to pursue democratization worldwide, and publications like Christian Century have moved away from the Moral Majority kind of politics characteristic of evangelicals in the past to affirming the need for exporting American political practices [reviewer’s emphasis]. Significantly, the ‘Letter of Support for Democracy’ that was sent to President Bush on Feb. 25, 2003, calling for regime change in Iraq, was signed by World Evangelical Alliance dignitaries as well as prominent neoconservatives. This exhortation was fully consistent with the stated political views of the National Alliance of Evangelicals and the World Alliance of Evangelicals [reviewer’s emphasis]. Despite the erosion of support among evangelicals for the Iraq War from its onetime high of almost 80 percent, it is, according to polls, still well over 50 percent.”

Is this really the state of institutional evangelicalism in America?  If the burgeoning evangelical Protestant support for the Presidential candidacy of Rudolph Giuliani reported by Quinnipiac and the Washington Post is factual, the derivative implications are beyond calculation.  One can only conclude that the “Christian” Right has become a driving force in what real Christianity and Constitutionally minded Americans have correctly concluded is clinically evil.  This overt evidence of the demonic in history has manifested itself in the United States with an incessant vengeance.  It includes the drive toward globalization and World Government, the destruction of the manufacturing sector of the American economy, the elimination of the working middle class, an un-Constitutional war in Iraq that has killed 650,000 civilians (on top of 500,000 deaths of Iraqi children under age 5 through economic sanctions), the militant pursuit of cultural degeneracy embodied in the deaths of 45 million pre-born since 1973, the placing of an imprimatur on George Bush’s suspension of habeas corpus, and the support of Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian land and genocidal methodologies directed at its voiceless victims. 

This is the antithesis of the New Testament proclamations of Jesus Christ.  The “Christian” Right has perverted the meaning of God’s covenants, confused the Kingdom of God with the secular realms of Domitian and Bush, advocated the utilization of violence against the defenseless, sided with spiritual wickedness in high places vis a vis the dispossessed and the disenfranchised, lobbied for a preemptive nuclear strike against thousands of innocent Iranian civilians, and falsely defined the modern Zionist State of Israel as the Israel of God. 

The result is an evil synthesis of the War on Terror with the War on the Unborn and the Constitution of the United States. 

The antidote for this cancerous brew is the uniting in common cause against the system of the Beast, held in place by multinational corporations, Zionism, and the organized international Jewish lobby.  The victims of the Beast, including the Palestinians, the American working middle class, and the unborn, are natural allies.  They must seek their solutions in divinely inspired guidance and intercessory prayer, accompanied by a willingness to sacrifice their own lives for the vulnerable and powerless in their respective lands and communities.

And Biblically oriented Christians, who possess the Holy Spirit of God, must jettison 501 C (3) Christianity, the false prophets of the American Religious Right, and their veiled financial supporters in central banking and on Wall Street who bring the world ever closer to apocalyptic disaster.

And for first measures?  Dump Giuliani, along with Bush, McCain, Romney, Clinton, Obama, Edwards, and the other spokespersons for the Beast at The Weekly Standard and Fox News.  Give Cal Thomas and John Hagee the permanent boot as well.             

And a second notion comes to mind:  It is now time for another Barmen Declaration.

  

Mark Dankof is a guest contributor to the American Free Press, and the past Constitution Party candidate for the United States Senate in Delaware (2000). A Lutheran pastor in San Antonio, he is the host of Mark Dankof's America heard live on the Republic Broadcasting Network, Monday through Friday, 7-10 am Central. In addition to writing for the paleo-conservative BATR News on the World Wide Web, his columns are posted at http://www.MarkDankof.com and the Al Bawaba/Middle East Gateway site in Amman, Jordan at http://blogs.albawaba.com/kramfoknad

Giuliani, Ron Paul, and Operation Ajax:  Or Is It Operation Blowback? 

Book Review:  The CIA in Iran:  The 1953 Coup and the Origins of the U. S.-Iran Divide

Edited by Christopher J. Petherick

American Free Press Books

ISBN:  0-9785733-2-3153 pages, $20 

by Mark Dankof for the American Free Press  

Rudy Giuliani’s now infamous exchange with Ron Paul in the Fox-sponsored Republican Presidential debate revealed the former’s inadvertent—or willful—ignorance of the obvious connection between American foreign policy and insidious “blowback,” both in the Middle East and elsewhere. 

My recent radio guest on the Republic Broadcasting Network, Dr. Jerome Corsi of both Human Events and WorldNetDaily, displayed a similar discomfort with acknowledging the connection between actions of the United States Government around the world, and predictable acts of retaliation and retribution on the part of past recipients of these American military and covert intelligence operations.  Dr. Corsi rightly pointed out that the latter phenomenon is not justified by the former.  But neither did Ron Paul indicate such, either in the Fox Presidential debates or in any other forum in which the Texas Congressman has participated over the course of many years. 

Giuliani and Corsi may well profit by perusing the Chalmers Johnson trilogy on the American Empire, the three volumes known respectively as The Sorrows of Empire, Blowback, and Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic.  And as for the specifics of the unfolding tragedy in the Middle East, surely the fury of the insurgency against American occupation in Iraq must of necessity be inextricably linked to at least two (2) obvious phenomena:  the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children under the age of five as a result of the economic sanctions against Saddam’s regime in the last 15 years, and the civilian casualties inflicted on that nation since the American military attack of March of 2003.  According to the British Lancet medical journal, those numbers have reached 650,000.  MIT and Johns Hopkins University researchers concur with this apocalyptic estimate.  So did Chalmers Johnson when I posited the question to him on Mark Dankof’s America.  What say Giuliani and Corsi about these latest manifestations of the foreign policy of the United States? 

And then there is Iran.  It is not an accident that Ron Paul pointed to the 1953 coup directed against the Mossadeq regime in Iran by the American CIA and the British MI6 in his televised exchange with Giuliani, as proof positive evidence of a clear connection between cause and effect in the link between American interventionism abroad and subsequent blowback of the most virulent strain.  The plot would be forever known as Operation Ajax. 

When it comes to providing the ironclad documentation of the specifics of Ajax and its implementation, there is no book available that surpasses the excellence of the American Free Press’s The CIA in Iran: The 1953 Coup and the Origins of the U. S.-Iran Divide.  Read in tandem with Stephen Kinzer’s All the Shah’s Men:  An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (John Wiley and Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey, 2003, 258 pp.), the AFP’s offering underscores the tragedy that has enshrouded American-Iranian relations in the half century since the launching of Ajax by Kermit Roosevelt, the head of the CIA’s Near Eastern Division, at the behest of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and CIA Director Allen Dulles.   

The CIA in Iran: The 1953 Coup and the Origins of the U. S.-Iran Divide, is essentially the publishing of a once-secret planning document of the Central Intelligence Agency, penned by Dr. Donald N. Wilber, one of the principal organizers of Operation Ajax.  Originally published by Clandestine Service as Historical Paper Number 208 (October 1969) with the title Overthrow of Premier Mossadeq of Iran:  November 1952-August 1953, it provides the reader with irrefutable evidence of the dark methodologies implemented by the London-Washington alliance that led to the demise of a democratically elected government in Tehran.  The reverberations have echoed in the chambers of world history ever since. 

The motives of the members of the alliance are clear.  In the case of Britain, her imperial designs and activities in Iran must be seen against the backdrop of the D’Arcy oil concession, the creation of the Anglo-Persian [Iranian] Oil Company, and the infamous 1919 Anglo-Persian Agreement which effectively reduced Iran to the status of a British protectorate.  The rise of nationalist Mossadeq in the context of the anti-colonialist movement of the developing world after World War II, had to be undermined by London to maintain British petroleum hegemony in Khuzestan Province.  In the case of the United States, the desire to check Soviet designs in Persia, already expressed in the confrontation between Truman and Stalin over Azerbaijan, resulted in the decision to cast Mossadeq overboard--by falsely portraying the latter, not as a nationalist, but a demagogue of port-Pink hue with dangerous leanings toward Soviet Communism and the expansion of the latter’s sphere of influence in the region. 

It is precisely in the area of the massive, covert propaganda campaign against Mossadeq that the character of the CIA-MI6 operation in Iran in 1953 may be fairly evaluated.  Wilber’s manuscrept, which contains many of the planning documents generated by American and British intelligence planners at the time, demonstrates the extent to which the ill-fated Iranian Prime Minister was the victim of a well financed and executed agitation-propaganda effort aimed at generating mass hysteria and suspicion among targeted Iranian constituencies, augmented by hired provocateurs assigned to provoke and exacerbate street incidents.  This, in turn, was supplemented by the selection of General Fazollah Zahedi to take control of the military and the government in conjunction with funding provided for this expressed purpose by both Washington and London. 

The appendices in the Wilber report, repristinated in The CIA in Iran: The 1953 Coup and the Origins of the U. S.-Iran Divide, are the irrefutable proof of what happened.  A cursory look at two of its documents, entitled Initial Operation Plan for Ajax as Cabled from Nicosia To Headquarters 1 June 1953 and London Draft of the Ajax Operational Plan, cinch the deal.   

A sampling of the contents of these documents as they pertain to Mohammed Mossadeq is most revealing.  In the case of Initial Operation Plan for Ajax, the CIA decided upon two false charges against the Prime Minister as the basis for creating “popular dissatisfaction” with the Mossadeq government.  The first was the “anti-religious” tag, made to stick by associating the Prime Minister in the public mind with the Soviet Union.  The second was the phony allegation that Mossadeq was totally mismanaging the economy

. . . .  the CIA would give widest publicity to all fabricated documents [reviewer’s emphasis] proving secret agreement between Mossadeq and Tudeh [Communist Party of Iran].  . . .  Just prior to movement, CIA would give widest publicity to the evidence of illegally issued paper money.  CIA might have capability to print masses excellent imitation currency [reviewer’s emphasis, page 97].   

The London Draft is even more specific (pages 111 and 112): 

. . .  The material designed to discredit Mossadeq will hammer the following themes:  Mossadeq favors the Tudeh Party and the USSR (This will be supported by black documents.)  Mossadeq is an enemy of Islam since he associates with the Tudeh and advances their aims.  Mossadeq is deliberately destroying the morale of the Army and its ability to maintain order.  Mossadeq is deliberately fostering the growth of regional separatist movements through his removal of Army control over tribal areas.  One of the aims of the removal of control by the Army is to make it easier for the Soviets to take over the Northern Provinces.  Mossadeq is deliberately leading the country into economic collapse.  Mossadeq has been corrupted by power to such an extent that no trace is left of the fine man of earlier years, and he now has all the repressive instincts of a dictator.  Consistent with these themes will be the persistent slant that Mossadeq has been the unwitting victim of his unscrupulous, personally ambitious advisors [reviewer’s emphasis throughout]. 

And what were the results of the successful coup against Mossadeq and the restoration of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi to his Peacock Throne?  Dilip Hiro, in The Iranian Labyrinth (preface, page xli) gives the short-term verdict: 

Following the 1953 coup, the Shah, advised by Washington, retained the nationalization law but reduced the National Iranian Oil Company to a paper organization.  It leased the rights to, and management of, Iranian petroleum for the next twenty-five years to a consortium of Western oil giants.  Over the next two decades, this Western consortium exported twenty-four billion barrels of crude at the paltry price of $1.80 a barrel.  No CIA-driven coup since then has proved so lucrative to Western economies. 

In the end, though, this bonanza ended so dramatically—with the Shah’s ignominious departure from Tehran ostensibly for “holiday” in January 1979—that it had a traumatic impact on Western economies, with the oil price spiraling to $31 a barrel. 

Furthermore, from being an integral part of the Iran-Israel-Saudi Arabia triad on which Washington’s anti-Soviet strategy in the Middle East rested, the emergent Islamic Republic of Iran not only expelled the American influence from its own territory but also attacked the pro-American Gulf monarchies and inspired Muslims throughout the region to challenge the hegemony of the U. S. 

We come full circle to the Fox Republican Presidential Sweepstakes Debate once more.  Does American foreign policy in Iran represent “blowback,” Mr. Giuliani?  Is there a connection between the coup of 1953 in that country and the Islamic Republic of Iran’s revolutionary victory in 1978-1979?  Does the Republican Party—and the American Empire—really support Mr. Bush’s apparently planned utilization of tactical nuclear weapons against Ahmadinejad’s Iran (Presidential National Security Directive 35 in support of CONPLAN 8022), as the United States employs preemptive military force as the surrogate--not of British Petroleum as in 1953--but as the janissary force of Zionist Israel in the Middle East? 

Buy, read, and contemplate The CIA in Iran:  The 1953 Coup and the Origins of the U. S.-Iran Divide.  Give it to your family members and friends.  Demand answers to the questions it begs.  Your life—and those of your loved ones—may well hang in the balance.

   

Mark Dankof is a guest contributor to the American Free Press, and the past Constitution Party candidate for the United States Senate in Delaware (2000). A Lutheran pastor in San Antonio, he is the host of Mark Dankof's America heard live on the Republic Broadcasting Network, Monday through Friday, 7-10 am Central. In addition to writing for the paleo-conservative BATR News on the World Wide Web, his columns are posted at http://www.MarkDankof.com and the Al Bawaba/Middle East Gateway site in Amman, Jordan at http://blogs.albawaba.com/kramfoknad. 

In the 1970s, Pastor Dankof’s father served as a director of logistics for the Shah of Iran’s Imperial Iranian Air Force.  His 1976 diary from Tehran is located at his web site under the title, “A Summer of a Thousand Nights:  From Tehran to Susa."