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POPSEliminationism on parade: Coulter, Joe the Plumber, and military chaplains' leader wish for deaths As noted in the Newsweek story, last fall - as the presidential election was heating up, retired Colonel E.H. "Jim" Ammerman, in the official September 2008 newsletter of his Department of Defense approved chaplain endorsing agency, published a letter which suggested, per the advice of a fabricated Abraham Lincoln quote, that four US Senators should be be "arrested, quickly tried and hanged!!!"... The alleged crime ? - voting against a Senate bill that would have established English as the official language of the United States. Newsweek did not reveal the names of the four senators. But a May 20, 2009 Huffington Post story by Military Religious Freedom Foundation Senior Researcher Chris Rodda does: Democratic Party senators Dodd, Biden, Clinton, and Obama.
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POPSAmerica's Holy Warriors Another important article by Chris Hedges, author of "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America". Here we are warned that the U.S. military and law enforcement are dangerously close to being co-opted by the radical Christian right. Scary stuff. Ignore at your own risk. See also American Fascism? clipped by communicatrix.
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POPSWhere is the military chaplaincy headed? Christopher Hitchens, citing Madison's well-established opposition to the military chaplaincy, argues that the recent legislative initiatives show a seriously misguided attitude towards that institution.