Mark Dankof's America

Mark Dankof is a broadcaster for the Republic Broadcasting Network. A member of the Taft/Buchanan wing of the Republican Party historically, his radio show and print op-ed productions for BATR's Columnist Guild and the American Free Press warn of the dangers of a takeover of the American Republic by the advocates of globalism, central banking, and World Zionism. He is a severe critic of the Bush Administration's War on Terror, the influence of Jewish Neo-Conservatives on American foreign policy and culture, and the increasing utilization of American military might abroad as a first resort rather than the last. Like Mark Glenn and Michael Collins Piper of the American Free Press, Dankof represents a minority viewpoint within the American Right Wing in advocating an independent, autonomous Palestinian State and the serious curtailment of the domestic influence of the Israeli lobby in the government and news media of the United States.

Anti-Christian Zionist Activist Chuck Carlson: Mark Dankof's RBN Radio Guest for July 13th

Anti-Christian Zionist activist Chuck Carlson of We Hold These Truths joined Mark Dankof on the latter's Republic Broadcasting Network show of July 13th.

The threat of an American-Israeli war with Iran was covered on the show, along with reference to relevant articles posted on the Internet.

These articles included David Bromwich's "The Unitary Executive Congress," Al Cronkrite's post with Ether Zone titled "A Wicked Decision Dooms the Coming Election," and Wayne Madsen's "The Russian Israeli Mafia:  Off limits to FBI and U. S. Intelligence."  Mr. Carlson and Mr. Dankof also discussed Israeli intelligence assets Stephen Emerson of "The Investigative Project," and Yossef Bodansky of "The Freeman Center for Strategic Studies."

The show may be accessed on the Republic Broadcasting Network through its Archives for Mark Dankof's America on July 13th, 2008.

 

 

 

 

Mark Dankof to American Patriots: Bob Barr for President? Forget It.

Julie Bosman's front page story in the June 28th New York Times chronicles the 3rd Party Presidential campaign efforts of ex-Republican Congressman Bob Barr, who will run on the Libertarian Party ticket.

My candid advice to American Patriots.  Forget it.  And please spell that in capital letters for public distribution to people in our movement around the nation.

Barr and I have met personally on only one occasion--the Conservative Caucus symposium on Y2K issues held before the turn of the century in Washington, D. C.'s swank University Club.  He was one of the illustrious speakers scheduled for that event by Caucus Chairman Howard Phillips.  I recall the Congressman as an interesting speaker and an apparent gentleman. 

That having been said, Ms. Bosman's well positioned piece on the Barr candidacy in today's Times should prove fatal to the Georgian's chances for meaningful impact on the November election--if the Patriot movement glances at the record, effectively chronicled for the world in New York this June 28th.  Furthermore, his nomination by the Libertarian Party could seal the latter's permanent fate as well.

Why?  As page A 10 in today's Times underscores, Bob Barr voted in the United States Congress for 1)  the USA Patriot Act; and 2)  the "authorization" for Mr. Bush's war in Iraq in 2002.

It is difficult to imagine a more ludicrous scenario than this--a Libertarian Presidential candidate running as an "alternative" to the impending McCain-Obama/AIPAC tragicomedy unfolding before the American people, who has put his own imprimatur on the drive of the New World Order's elite to recast the United States as a domestic police state, and a nation at perpetual war on behalf of transnational corporations and the Israeli Lobby.

As I have already said--forget it.  In capital letters.

Ms. Bosman also notes that Barr is attempting to co-opt Congressman Ron Paul's constituency.  Reassuringly, the Times columnist notes the resentment of ex-Paul staffers and supporters, aimed at such a transparently fraudulent scheme being launched by the Libertarian Party and its dubious Presidential nominee.  That The New York Times honestly reports this development, suggests that Barr's sleight-of-hand with the American Right specifically, and the voting public generally, will mercifully crash land well before becoming airborne this fall. 

American Patriots, Constitutionalists, and Paleo-Conservatives are then left with one of three (3) choices going into November of 2008.

The first option is not to vote.  There is a compelling rationale behind this argument, namely to delegitimize a corrupt process firmly in the control of a well-financed, evil cabal, right down to the Diebold electronic voting machines and a sockpuppet news media parroting the line of the Masters of the Masses.  The libertarian web site LewRockwell.com has occasionally run well honed essays promoting this viable choice.

The second option materializes only if Congressman Ron Paul decides to launch his own 3rd party effort after the Republican National Convention is over.  Paul's assets are his ideological principles, a loyal grassroots constituency, and a higher degree of name recognition than would have been the case a year ago.  His liabilities include a less than effective communication style and bearing than one would like in a Presidential candidate in this media driven age, and the age-old problems confronting any 3rd party effort--money, ballot access, and media coverage.

There is a third option.  This involves casting a vote for Pastor Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution PartyI have endorsed Baldwin, on the basis of his ideological consistency and personal integrity, and also out of loyalty to my old friends in the Constitution Party.  Baldwin has already served the American Republic well by keeping Zionist shill Alan Keyes from taking over the 16 year old party founded by Howard Phillips in 1992.    If the Pensacola-based Baptist clergyman is to move his Party into better electoral results and the subsequent credibility such results would bring, he must prove to be a much better guerrilla political strategist and campaigner than his well meaning predecessors have been.  My advice to 2004 Constitution Party candidate Michael Peroutka, still available at Dave Black On-Line, holds true today for Chuck Baldwin.  He must pursue my Trinity Strategy with a vengeance, while targeting key swing states in a close election between the major party candidates.  If he manages this, his candidacy and the fate of his party might become exhiliratingly airborne like a Phoenix rising from the ashes.  If he fails, the Constitution Party will be consigned to the trash heap of history in the final days of the American Republic.

Finally, perhaps my friend Peter Phillips of Sonoma State University and Project Censored might have some thoughts on why The New York Times is willing to give Bob Barr and the Libertarians front page coverage, while ignoring Chuck Baldwin and his Constitution Party.  It may be more than a coincidence that the Georgia-based Congressman is an ex-operative of the Central Intelligence Agency, or that he is now associated with Dallas-based and H. Ross Perot-linked political consultant Russell Verney.  American Patriots may be interested in searching out these links and money trails in the days ahead--to see where they lead and what they mean.

Mark Dankof's Republic Broadcasting Network radio show is heard around the world on Sunday mornings, 7-9 am Central time.  He is a contributor to the Washington-based American Free Press and serves as pastor of Immanuel Lutheran Church in San Antonio.

 

 

The Riad Hamad Death in Texas: Alison Weir talks to Mark Dankof of RBN Radio on June 8th

 Mark Dankof's Republic Broadcasting Network show for June 8th explored the death of Palestinian activist Riad Hamad in a mysterious April drowning outside of Austin, Texas.  Mr. Dankof was joined by Alison Weir of If Americans Knew.  Also acknowledged in the Weir segment was the 41st anniversary of Israel's attack on the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967.

In the show's first hour, Mark Dankof covered Victor Thorn's June 2nd piece for the American Free Press on the execution style killings of 3 known homosexuals in Barack Obama's church in Chicago; Mark Glenn's story for the American Free Press on the orthodox Jewish burning of New Testaments in Israel; and Justin Raimondo's essay for Antiwar.com acknowledging Barack Obama's obeisance to the Israeli Lobby at the recent American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) convention.

The archived radio show may be accessed at the web site of the Republic Broadcasting Network.

Pepe Escobar Joins Mark Dankof on RBN Radio on Sunday, May 25th

 Pepe Escobar will be the special guest for May 25th (Sunday) on Mark Dankof's America on the Republic Broadcasting Network (www.republicbroadcasting.org).  The interview will constitute 30 minutes of Mr. Dankof's regularly scheduled Sunday 2 hour segment, which airs 7-9 am Central time.  The Escobar conversation with Mr. Dankof will air 8-8:30 am Central.  The entirety of the show will be archived for later listening on the Republic Broadcasting Network site.  The subject will be Iran, with special reference to Mr. Escobar's article of May 15th for Asia Times Online, entitled, "The U. S.-Iran Soundbite Showdown."

Mr. Escobar (born 1954) is a journalist based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He writes a column entitled The Roving Eye for Asia Times Online and is a correspondent for The Real News Network. His prescient article, 'Get Osama! Now! Or else...', was published by Asia Times Online two weeks before the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.[1]

Escobar is the author of two books, Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War (Nimble Books, 2007) and Red Zone Blues: A Snapshot of Baghdad During the Surge (Nimble Books, 2007).

Mr. Escobar's compendium of articles for Asia Times Online may be accessed at: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/others/Escobar.html.  His historic interview with anti-Taliban Northern Alliance leader Ahmad Shah Masoud took place in Afghanistan several weeks before the latter's assassination and the onset of the events of September 11, 2001.

America Wins, Israel Loses: Chuck Baldwin over Alan Keyes in Constitution Party Presidential Sweepstakes

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 3rd 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.

  

Strike the Root: Mark Dankof's Archives on the War on Terror and Iran

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:

http://www.strike-the-root.com/archive/dankof.html

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's America Returns to the Republic Broadcasting Network on April 20th, 2008

Mark Dankof's America will rejoin the Republic Broadcasting Network on Sunday mornings, beginning April 20th. The show will air live, 7-9 a.m. Central time, and be subsequently archived for later listeners on the Republic Broadcasting Network site at http://www.republicbroadcasting.org.

The show format will consist of news analysis of critical domestic and international developments, seen through the lenses of Mr. Dankof's Old Right, Paleo-conservative, anti-New World Order worldview. Guests will be drawn from political, media, and literary circles both in the United States and abroad, who contribute to the show's themes and edify the listening audience. The listener call-in format employed in the previous Mark Dankof's America stint on the Republic Broadcasting Network will be retained again.

Biographical Information:

Mark Dankof is a contributor to the American Free Press and serves as a talk show host and radio broadcaster for the Republic Broadcasting Network. Born in Wiesbaden, Germany, the son of a United States Air Force Colonel, he graduated from Valparaiso University in 1977 and from Chicago's Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 1983. In recent years, he has pursued post-graduate work in systematic theology and theological German at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. His thesis interest pertains to Martin Chemnitz's evaluation of the Council of Trent (1545-1563).

Formerly the 36th District Chairman of the Republican Party in King County/Seattle and later an elected delegate to Texas State Republican Conventions in 1994 and 1996, he entered the United States Senate race in Delaware in 2000 as the nominated candidate of the Constitution Party against Democratic candidate Thomas Carper and Republican incumbent William Roth. He is an Endowed Life Member of the National Rifle Association and a Life Member of the Texas State Rifle Association.

Pastor Dankof now serves Immanuel Lutheran Church of San Antonio at http://www.ilcsa.org. His personal web page may be accessed at http://www.MarkDankof.com. He is a member of the clergy roster of the Lutheran Ministerium and Synod--USA found at http://www.lmsusa.org.

Mark Dankof is Guest Host on RBN Radio for Michael Collins Piper on March 31st

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 topicsWheat 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.  . . .
 
Live call-in number to the Republic Broadcasting Network:  1-800-313-9443.

Mark Dankof Reads the Passion Narrative on Good Friday: Republic Broadcasting Network

Pastor Mark Dankof (http://www.MarkDankof.com) will join Mark Glenn of the American Free Press (http://www.americanfreepress.net) and Rev. Ted Pike of the National Prayer Network (http://www.truthtellers.org) on Good Friday, March 21st, in a special edition of the Michael Collins Piper show on the Republic Broadcasting Network.

The show airs live at 8 p.m. Central Time and may be accessed on the World Wide Web at http://www.republicbroadcasting.org. It will subsequently be archived for later listening on the Republic Broadcasting Network site.

The three guest hosts for Mr. Piper will read a narrative pertaining to the Passion of Jesus Christ for Good Friday. Pastor Dankof will join Mark Glenn and Ted Pike immediately after the conclusion of his own Good Friday service at San Antonio's Immanuel Lutheran Church (http://www.ilcsa.org), scheduled to begin in the Alamo City at 7 p.m. Central Time.

Mark Dankof to Attorney General Mukasey: Free Dr. Sami Al-Arian

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
(202) 225-0072 Fax
john.conyers@mail.house.gov

Senate Judiciary Chair:
Senator Patrick Leahy
433 Russell Senate Office Building
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-4242
senator_leahy@leahy.senate.gov

Playgrounds in the Valley of Death: Stefania Glenn

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.

Israel Without Her Mascara: No Beauty in the Beast

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

No Beauty in the Beast:  Israel Without Her Mascara 

 

Christopher Jon Bjerknes: The Jewish Genocide of Armenian Christians

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

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 8th, 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] 11th.  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?

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.
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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

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.

 
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