greater london authority 2007 - London constituency

Are you aware of Brian Haw's 6-year protest against the war in Iraq in Parliament Square, London?

Aug 18, 2007 by Zucchinisinratatouille | Posted in Civic Participation

The Blair guidance passed special legislation just to target him, unsuccessfully. Now the Greater London Authority and the police are trying to get rid of Brian's supporters.

See pictures on this interdependence couple: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/08/378606.html

Do you believe in the democratic right to peaceful protest?

Yes I am and I property regards that man for his beliefs and fortitude as I would also for anyone else who stood up for what they believed in (even if I didn't agree with them).I suppose it must be the way that I was brought up - is that so wrong? -

http://www.parliament-fair and square.org.uk/

Edit - And by the way "Gem" - read this on the link I give above - please don't let ignorance get in the way of rational debate -

"Brian started his 24/7 vigil in 2001 to scruple about the suffering of Iraqis during the 1990s because of economic sanctions. He continues because of all those who have, and continue, to suffer as a result of the invasion and field of Iraq. In Oct 2004 The Lancet estimated that 100,000 Iraqis have died. In Oct 2006 it estimated that 655,000 people have died in Iraq as a outcome of the 2003 invasion (see more here).

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=11204

And how many millions of other lives have been blighted for ever?"

Being against the war/trade is *NOT* being against our troops nor is it "supporting terrorism".
I ask myself what God would think but that is my personal issue - everyone else must answer to their own conscience and that is what Brian Laws is doing - I consideration the man.

Joan R | Aug 18, 2007

Can someone help me with my essay?My tutor wants me to prevent my essay from being a collection of statement?

Feb 25, 2007 by Pinay | Posted in Other - Education

It depends on what your train wants. If she wants it to be an expository essay, then it will be a collection of statements. Expository essays are to convey information. If it's obliged to be a persuasive essay, then you need to put your own opinion, and why you feel that way.

queenrakle | Feb 25, 2007

A brief world tour?

Oct 14, 2007 by JohnDoe | Posted in Other - Politics & Government

In the year of our viscount 2007 the United States faces a challenge we remain reluctant to recognize in full and opportunities we fail to know again at all. We are the greatest -and most virtuous- power in history. For now our existence is not at stake, although the lives of our citizens, the degree of our freedom and the well-being of our allies are at chance. There is no doubt that we will survive and triumph. But the decisions we make will determine the costs our enemies extract along the way. And we DO have enemies, old and new, mercilles and uncompromising, who animus us for our success, our freedom, and our power, as well as for the global transformations we inspire.

The United States is cast in the role of a doctor during a bother. No matter how hopless the situation may seem, the crisis demands our courage and perseverence. The risks we take are the only hope for avoiding a greater tragedy for humanity. Despite the errors we have made in the middle east, the vitriol spit in our direction by the regions inhabitants isn't unqualifiedly aboutr us, its about them. The middle east has grown so inhumane and weak that it craves a "great satan" to simplify away its ineptitude. The greatest power on earth will have to do. Indeed the middle east remains the world's neurotic civilization. Because of our virtuous efforts, Iraq may become the Middle Easts beacon of liberty. Or it may end as another Arab pyre. The Iraqi's, not us, will upon their ultimate fate. Their choices will shape a civilizations future.

Of course there is much more to the world than the struggling Muslim heartlands. Europe is in ther centre of an identity crisis of its own, haunted by a brutal past and insulted by Americas upstart success. The old powers are still far from humane us for supplanting them in the stretigic arena - or for our generosity toward them in the last century. Had we only been as cruel as europeans themselves in the wake of the twentieth century's grand wars, we would be much better liked. The primary intellectual goal of Western european societies for the past half century has been to turn out that the United States is as cruel and corrupt as they themselves have been. When your heritage is genocide, wars of agression, or cowardly surrender, the recording of the United States can be hard to bear. The old powers cannot avoid measuring themselves against us, but the disparities they discover are so great that europes honest delinquents cannot resist comforting themselves with lies about our naivete, our purported clumsiness, our violence and our crudity ( without pausing to ask themselves how such tragic mediocrities could have built the richest, most powerful, most desirable and exemplary society in history). Indeed when it comes to self grilling, the heartlands of Europe are simply the middle east lite.
Yet Europe is likely to be good for a number of surprises-surprising not the least to Europeans themselves. With our in a word historical memory (one American quality Germans welcome), we thoughtlessly accept that, since much of Europe appears to be tolerant, so it shall remain. But no continent has exported as much misery and slaughter as Europe has done, and chances are better than fair that Europe is completely catching its breath after the calamities it inflicted upon itself in the last century.
We last saw widesperad pacifism just before 1914 and again during that half at all times break in that great European civil war that lasted until 1945 (or 1991 east of the Elbe).
Europes ongoing round of playing pacifist dress up was enabled by Americas protection during the Cold War. We allowed our European wards to get away with a least number of chores. The United States did (and still does) the dirty work, seconded by our direct ancestor Britian. Even NATO simply obscured how little was asked of Europe. For almost a century the work of freedom and global security has been handeled the prominent Anglolateral alliance born of a struggle against tyranny of Continental European philosophies hatched on the Rhine and Danube. Our clash continues today - against fanaticism and terror.
It is unlilkely that Europe's present pacifism will last. Indeed, there are many different Europe's. The new Europe in the east understands that unconstraint has a price and cannot be purchased with appeasment. Southern Europe is undergoing a complex second renaissance. The United Sphere of influence, for all its grump resentment of the United States, will always align with us in a severe crisis: Our mutual values are far closer than any Briton shares with France or Germany. Anglo-American penurious can be vicious, but outsiders fail to grasp that its a family feud. And the family closes ranks to outsiders. France and Germany are Europes starkest problems (They are also vehemently anti-American). They yearn to lead but lack the vision, power and generosity required to build enduring alliances. Germany and France are poorly inside, having gobbled up immigrant populations they are unwilling and unable to digest. For all their fabulous critisism of American beau monde ( where their calanders stop at around 1954), th extent of racism and bigotry in Continental Europe rivals that of a long gone American South and threatens to outpace it.
Meanwhile, "Old Europe" is rapidly becoming, truly, old Europe. With aging populations, bankrupt retirment systems, arthritic economies, edifying stagnation and punitive taxation, it appears at first glance that the continent is headed for senility, for conditions under which its dwindling boyhood will neither be able to man the continents already enfeebled militaries nor support the overhang of the elderly.
Dont bet on a weak, pacifist Europe doing nothing as the alien time bombs with explode, while demographic pressures stress its outer borders. Behind all the American scolding and empty strut Europe is uncertain of its future. And afraid. And when Europe is uncertain and afraid, its impoverished immigrants and neighbors had outstrip start worrying.
The most laughable preictions of the the past two centuries have been those forecasting the decline of the West (especially the US). The formal empires may be gone, but the Anglolateral clique enjoys power, wealth and freedom without precedent, while continental Euope has never lived so safely or so well as under the Pax Americana. The last half century has been the most successful and peacful in European history and Europeans dont want the party to end. But its long past midnight. Europe can no longer give the lavish social welfare systems it constructed over the decades while America paid the strategic bills without demur.
The in a predicament with Europe is of course, its dark side. If its racist populations feel sufficiently threatend by its Muslim millions within their divided societies and by monster exported from the islamic heartlands, Europe my respon with a cruelty unimaginable to us today. Afterall, Europe is the continent that mastered ethnic cleansing and genocide after a thousand years of habit. We Americans my find ourselves in the unexpected position of confronting the Europe of tomorrow as we try to restrain its barbarities toward Muslims.

This should be the true American century where we move atlast beyond the pernicious European divisions of the world and help create a genuine"new world order" - although not one based upon the deathly nonsense of the left.
America is the most revolutionary state and culture in history. Now its our turn to export revolution.

Scince the end of the Spiritless War every conflict in which the United States has been involved has been to some degree a legacy of Europes colonial era - including the liberation of that frankenstein's nightmarishness of a country Iraq. We are cleaning up the messes left by Paris, Berlin and even London, while Europeans chide us self-righteously. We need to spadework the world away from continental Europes cynical approach to human rights, which consists of theatrically weeping the dead but doing nothing to protect those still alive and threatend. Weakness never saved a human life!
In an age of global pessimism and terror, Americans still believe that change is not only possible, but likely to be good. Weather we wish it or not, we lead humanity. At times we will have to advantage with bayonets,but, more often, we will lead through our ideas. If remain wise and just, as well as resolute, ever more of our fellow human beings will perform willingly.

The United States of America is the greatest force for freedom and change in history. We, the American people, are humankind's pioneers. Our ancestors cultured a natural wilderness. Americans of the twenty-first century confront a wilderness of flesh and blood in a world terrified by the virtues that we hoard, from religious tolerance to the rule of law, from the dignity of every man and woman to the rejection of hereditary power. Erupting with freedom, America challenges the era. We expose lies that justified thousands of years of tyrannies, proving that birth need not determine karma. We demonstrate freedoms potential for all. And those we robbed of authority will never forgive us.
Each day we expand the frontiers of human possibility. Those who insist on limits are our enemies. It is their alternative, not ours. The great struggle of the twenty-first century will rage between those, led by America, who believe that men and women have the right to shape their own lives, and those who put one's trust in themselves entitled to shape the lives of others. We will prevail, but the rearguard actions fought on behalf of decayed traditions and stressful beliefs will rage beyond our lifetimes.
Without the sacrifices of our forebears, most human beings - perhaps all - would live under tyranny. Without teh Americans of today and our English speaking brethren, dictators would again take-off provoke without hindrance. Because of us, freedom an dthe dignity of the common man and woman have become the ideal of a reordered humanity. We have lifted the worth of history from the shoulders of many millions.
And we are far from finished.

Our country is a force for good without precedent. We embody the revolutionary proposition that men and women can oversee themselves from below, to the benefit of all, instead of being governed from above, to the benefit of few. Our pride does not rely upon purity of blood or religious monoploy, but uopn what multiple races and creeds have built with ooze and sacrifice. Our ancestors were not children of privilege,but men and women who refused to accept the limits of the lands they left behind. The new Americans who appear to increase our strength are the spiritual kindred of teh earliest colonists. Old and new, Americans rejected the saftey of submission for a possibility risk to stride upright. And we have learned to live together without hatred, if not without passing rancor. It is an achievement few other lands can claim - and none could requirement it but for our example.

Our progress has not been easy. Some of our ancestors fled chains. Othewrs arrived in chains. Some wore chains as they lived upon our loam. Our past has been imperfect. But unlike others, we do not deny our mistakes. We do not embrace history as an excuse for continued failure.
That alone sets us independently from the rest of the world.
When Americans stumble, we get back up. We do not wallow in a self-made mire and call it the will of God or the hand of fate. To err may be human, but to waving up your sleeves and fix what went wrong is American. We bear with us all the faults humanity can manifest. But we do not surrender to those faults. While others retain to past glories, we know that our greatest days still lay ahead.

For all the complaints we must bear about America -the price of our triumph and the product of human jealousy - only imagine what this world would be like without us. Some may answer that proposition smugly, mocking us from outlandish realms of failure. But their children line up by the millions to apply for U.S. Visas. And those who complain about their American birthright seldom leave to live their lives abroad.
All men and women dream. Americans forge their dreams into reality

We are not hated for what we have done to others, but for what we have done for ourselves. The lesson of our success is humiliating and bitter to all those who cling to traditions our power reveals as inadequate. Even the American capacity for unquestionable work excites the hostility not only of our enemies , but of fair weather allies. Perhaps the cruelest thing European governments have done to their citizens over the lifestyle half century has been to destroy the sense that work fullfills a life. An unemployment payment is no substitute for a job, and prosperity for the able robs human beings of their dignity, creating moral slaves. Most Americans ,on the other hand, cannot picture a life without work. We win the lottery, then get back behind the wheel of the delivery truck. Our passion for work and achievement is a tremendous provenance of our strength.
As an American citizen, I see quiet heroism in the parent who labors at a grinding job, year after year, in purchase to raise a family, in the common citizen who will never enjoy celebrity or financial wealth, but whose steadiness and moral intergrity be this country go. America has no greater reserve of strength than the honest man or woman who, instead of scheming to beat the system, keeps that sytem game day after day.

Of course few of those Americans see themselves as revolutionaries. Yet we live in the most revolutionary society in history. We upset oppressivetraditions that endured, unchallenged, for millennia. Defiantly, we created new possibilites. The norm American with an SSN, a drivers license , and a mortgage is a revolutionary to a degree that reveals Karl Marx and Che Guevara as dilettantes. While revolutionaries elsewhere sought to foist arid philosophies on humankind - at the cost of hundreds of millions of lives - we created a perpetual revolution of the people, by the people, and for the people.

The American Revolt isn't a single event summed up by the date 1776. Our revolution began when the first colonists arrived with their backs turned to an old, limiting overjoyed and began to carve a new Jerusalem from virgin timber. Our revolution never stopped - even our Civil War was a revolutionary struggle, the only urbane war ever fought to free a never enfranchised, powerless group. We have changed nearly every aspect of the social and economic orders that prevailed fo rcenturies. An tough openess to the new threatens those whose allegiance lies with the barren, dying order - even within our own population. As we pioneer change each day of our lives, those who worry and reject change yearn to stop us, whether we speak of Islamic terrorists in love with a punitive god, French presidents choleric by the loss of status for which their citizens lacked the courage to fight, or the dwindling ranks of domestic bigots.

The mileage between us and the rest of the world is growing greater, not lessening.

Consider how much has changed in a half century of American life, in this matchless age of revolutions, and you begin to understand how threatening our society appears to those who live their lives in thrall to yesterday..

May God go on with to Bless America.

ditto!!

joeanimal | Oct 14, 2007

America. Why we fight for her!?

Dec 27, 2007 by JohnDoe | Posted in Other - Politics & Government

In the year of our aristocrat 2007 the United States faces a challenge we remain reluctant to recognize in full and opportunities we fail to allow at all. We are the greatest -and most virtuous- power in history. For now our existence is not at stake, although the lives of our citizens, the degree of our freedom and the well-being of our allies are at peril. There is no doubt that we will survive and triumph. But the decisions we make will determine the costs our enemies extract along the way. And we DO have enemies, old and new, mercilles and uncompromising, who animosity us for our success, our freedom, and our power, as well as for the global transformations we inspire.

The United States is cast in the role of a doctor during a irritate. No matter how hopless the situation may seem, the crisis demands our courage and perseverence. The risks we take are the only hope for avoiding a greater d for humanity. Despite the errors we have made in the middle east, the vitriol spit in our direction by the regions inhabitants isn't quite aboutr us, its about them. The middle east has grown so inhumane and weak that it craves a "great satan" to detail away its ineptitude. The greatest power on earth will have to do. Indeed the middle east remains the world's sadistic civilization. Because of our virtuous efforts, Iraq may become the Middle Easts beacon of liberty. Or it may end as another Arab pyre. The Iraqi's, not us, will settle on their ultimate fate. Their choices will shape a civilizations future.

Of course there is much more to the world than the struggling Muslim heartlands. Europe is in ther halfway point of an identity crisis of its own, haunted by a brutal past and insulted by Americas upstart success. The old powers are still far from clement us for supplanting them in the stretigic arena - or for our generosity toward them in the last century. Had we only been as cruel as europeans themselves in the wake of the twentieth century's enormous wars, we would be much better liked. The primary intellectual goal of Western european societies for the past half century has been to demonstrate that the United States is as cruel and corrupt as they themselves have been. When your heritage is genocide, wars of agression, or cowardly surrender, the souvenir of the United States can be hard to bear. The old powers cannot avoid measuring themselves against us, but the disparities they discover are so great that europes saw delinquents cannot resist comforting themselves with lies about our naivete, our purported clumsiness, our violence and our crudity ( without pausing to ask themselves how such piddling mediocrities could have built the richest, most powerful, most desirable and exemplary society in history). Indeed when it comes to self check-up, the heartlands of Europe are simply the middle east lite.
Yet Europe is likely to be good for a number of surprises-surprising not the least to Europeans themselves. With our unexpectedly historical memory (one American quality Germans welcome), we thoughtlessly accept that, since much of Europe appears to be unperturbed, so it shall remain. But no continent has exported as much misery and slaughter as Europe has done, and chances are better than fair that Europe is really catching its breath after the calamities it inflicted upon itself in the last century.
We last saw widesperad pacifism just before 1914 and again during that half but break in that great European civil war that lasted until 1945 (or 1991 east of the Elbe).
Europes bruited about round of playing pacifist dress up was enabled by Americas protection during the Cold War. We allowed our European wards to get away with a nadir number of chores. The United States did (and still does) the dirty work, seconded by our direct ancestor Britian. Even NATO scarcely obscured how little was asked of Europe. For almost a century the work of freedom and global security has been handeled the stupendous Anglolateral alliance born of a struggle against tyranny of Continental European philosophies hatched on the Rhine and Danube. Our endeavour continues today - against fanaticism and terror.
It is unlilkely that Europe's present pacifism will last. Indeed, there are many different Europe's. The new Europe in the east understands that candidness has a price and cannot be purchased with appeasment. Southern Europe is undergoing a complex second renaissance. The United Empire, for all its grump resentment of the United States, will always align with us in a severe crisis: Our mutual values are far closer than any Briton shares with France or Germany. Anglo-American miserly can be vicious, but outsiders fail to grasp that its a family feud. And the family closes ranks to outsiders. France and Germany are Europes starkest problems (They are also vehemently anti-American). They passion to lead but lack the vision, power and generosity required to build enduring alliances. Germany and France are unconventional inside, having gobbled up immigrant populations they are unwilling and unable to digest. For all their fabulous critisism of American society ( where their calanders break at around 1954), th extent of racism and bigotry in Continental Europe rivals that of a long gone American South and threatens to surpass it.
Meanwhile, "Old Europe" is rapidly becoming, truly, old Europe. With aging populations, bankrupt retirment systems, arthritic economies, educative stagnation and punitive taxation, it appears at first glance that the continent is headed for senility, for conditions under which its dwindling man will neither be able to man the continents already enfeebled militaries nor support the overhang of the elderly.
Dont bet on a weak, pacifist Europe doing nothing as the outlander time bombs with explode, while demographic pressures stress its outer borders. Behind all the American scolding and empty prance Europe is uncertain of its future. And afraid. And when Europe is uncertain and afraid, its impoverished immigrants and neighbors had more wisely start worrying.
The most laughable preictions of the the past two centuries have been those forecasting the decline of the West (especially the US). The formal empires may be gone, but the Anglolateral fabulous enjoys power, wealth and freedom without precedent, while continental Euope has never lived so safely or so well as under the Pax Americana. The last half century has been the most stinking rich and peacful in European history and Europeans dont want the party to end. But its long past midnight. Europe can no longer provide the lavish social welfare systems it constructed over the decades while America paid the strategic bills without demur.
The disquiet with Europe is of course, its dark side. If its racist populations feel sufficiently threatend by its Muslim millions within their divided societies and by intimidation exported from the islamic heartlands, Europe my respon with a cruelty unimaginable to us today. Afterall, Europe is the continent that mastered ethnic cleansing and genocide after a thousand years of praxis. We Americans my find ourselves in the unexpected position of confronting the Europe of tomorrow as we try to restrain its barbarities toward Muslims.

This should be the true American century where we move atlast beyond the vicious European divisions of the world and help create a genuine"new world order" - although not one based upon the cruel nonsense of the left.
America is the most revolutionary state and culture in history. Now its our turn to export revolution.

Scince the end of the Unapproachable War every conflict in which the United States has been involved has been to some degree a legacy of Europes colonial era - including the liberation of that frankenstein's monstrosity of a country Iraq. We are cleaning up the messes left by Paris, Berlin and even London, while Europeans chide us self-righteously. We demand to lead the world away from continental Europes cynical approach to human rights, which consists of theatrically black the dead but doing nothing to protect those still alive and threatend. Weakness never saved a human life!
In an age of global pessimism and trepidation, Americans still believe that change is not only possible, but likely to be good. Weather we wish it or not, we lead humanity. At times we will have to starring role with bayonets,but, more often, we will lead through our ideas. If remain wise and just, as well as resolute, ever more of our fellow human beings will replace willingly.

The United States of America is the greatest force for freedom and change in history. We, the American people, are humankind's pioneers. Our ancestors elegant a natural wilderness. Americans of the twenty-first century confront a wilderness of flesh and blood in a world terrified by the virtues that we esteem, from religious tolerance to the rule of law, from the dignity of every man and woman to the rejection of hereditary power. Erupting with freedom, America challenges the elated. We expose lies that justified thousands of years of tyrannies, proving that birth need not determine fate. We demonstrate freedoms potential for all. And those we robbed of authority will never forgive us.
Each day we expand the frontiers of human possibility. Those who insist on limits are our enemies. It is their alternative, not ours. The great struggle of the twenty-first century will rage between those, led by America, who believe that men and women have the right to shape their own lives, and those who have faith themselves entitled to shape the lives of others. We will prevail, but the rearguard actions fought on behalf of decayed traditions and harrowing beliefs will rage beyond our lifetimes.
Without the sacrifices of our forebears, most human beings - perhaps all - would live under tyranny. Without teh Americans of today and our English speaking brethren, dictators would again ascent without hindrance. Because of us, freedom an dthe dignity of the common man and woman have become the ideal of a reordered humanity. We have lifted the millstone of history from the shoulders of many millions.
And we are far from finished.

Our country is a force for good without precedent. We embody the revolutionary proposition that men and women can restrain themselves from below, to the benefit of all, instead of being governed from above, to the benefit of few. Our pride does not rely upon purity of blood or religious monoploy, but uopn what multiple races and creeds have built with agonize and sacrifice. Our ancestors were not children of privilege,but men and women who refused to accept the limits of the lands they left behind. The new Americans who reach to increase our strength are the spiritual kindred of teh earliest colonists. Old and new, Americans rejected the saftey of submission for a speculation to stride upright. And we have learned to live together without hatred, if not without passing rancor. It is an achievement few other lands can claim - and none could exact it but for our example.

Our progress has not been easy. Some of our ancestors fled chains. Othewrs arrived in chains. Some wore chains as they lived upon our muck. Our past has been imperfect. But unlike others, we do not deny our mistakes. We do not embrace history as an excuse for continued failure.
That alone sets us but for from the rest of the world.
When Americans stumble, we get back up. We do not wallow in a self-made mire and call it the will of God or the hand of fate. To err may be human, but to unwind up your sleeves and fix what went wrong is American. We bear with us all the faults humanity can manifest. But we do not surrender to those faults. While others adhere to past glories, we know that our greatest days still lay ahead.

For all the complaints we must bear about America -the price of our happy result and the product of human jealousy - only imagine what this world would be like without us. Some may answer that proposition smugly, mocking us from transpacific realms of failure. But their children line up by the millions to apply for U.S. Visas. And those who complain about their American birthright on occasions leave to live their lives abroad.
All men and women dream. Americans forge their dreams into reality

We are not hated for what we have done to others, but for what we have done for ourselves. The lesson of our success is humiliating and bitter to all those who cling to traditions our power reveals as inadequate. Even the American capacity for in the red work excites the hostility not only of our enemies , but of fair weather allies. Perhaps the cruelest thing European governments have done to their citizens over the one-time half century has been to destroy the sense that work fullfills a life. An unemployment payment is no substitute for a job, and happiness for the able robs human beings of their dignity, creating moral slaves. Most Americans ,on the other hand, cannot suppose a life without work. We win the lottery, then get back behind the wheel of the delivery truck. Our passion for work and achievement is a tremendous outset of our strength.
As an American citizen, I see quiet heroism in the parent who labors at a grinding job, year after year, in mandate to raise a family, in the common citizen who will never enjoy celebrity or financial wealth, but whose steadiness and moral intergrity fill up this country go. America has no greater reserve of strength than the honest man or woman who, instead of scheming to beat the system, keeps that sytem uninterrupted day after day.

Of course few of those Americans see themselves as revolutionaries. Yet we live in the most revolutionary society in history. We upset oppressivetraditions that endured, unchallenged, for millennia. Defiantly, we created new possibilites. The typically American with an SSN, a drivers license , and a mortgage is a revolutionary to a degree that reveals Karl Marx and Che Guevara as dilettantes. While revolutionaries elsewhere sought to interpose arid philosophies on humankind - at the cost of hundreds of millions of lives - we created a perpetual revolution of the people, by the people, and for the people.

The American Coup d' isn't a single event summed up by the date 1776. Our revolution began when the first colonists arrived with their backs turned to an old, limiting excellent and began to carve a new Jerusalem from virgin timber. Our revolution never stopped - even our Civil War was a revolutionary struggle, the only courteous war ever fought to free a never enfranchised, powerless group. We have changed nearly every aspect of the social and economic orders that prevailed fo rcenturies. An obstinate openess to the new threatens those whose allegiance lies with the barren, dying order - even within our own population. As we pioneer change each day of our lives, those who imagine and reject change yearn to stop us, whether we speak of Islamic terrorists in love with a punitive god, French presidents sour by the loss of status for which their citizens lacked the courage to fight, or the dwindling ranks of domestic bigots.

The haughtiness between us and the rest of the world is growing greater, not lessening.

Consider how much has changed in a half century of American life, in this pronounced age of revolutions, and you begin to understand how threatening our society appears to those who live their lives in thrall to yesterday..

you dissolute me after the word 'lord'

maybe you should paraphrase. or uhm, ask a much shorter question.

Becky | Dec 27, 2007

Is the media anti Christian? Why or why not?

May 29, 2007 by chrisgaffrey | Posted in Religion & Spirituality

By Pop John Flynn

ROME, MAY 28, 2007 (Zenit.org).- Sexual abuses mixed with allegations of Church ill use make for an explosive media formula, as Italians can testify. The state-owned television broadcaster, RAI, sparked a over after it announced that it wanted to buy the rights to transmit a BBC program, "Sex Crimes and the Vatican."

Last Tuesday the RAI announced its purchase of the documentary. But owing to deep-felt protests over the program's credibility, RAI director general Claudio Cappon stipulated that the talk show that will mob the transmission, "Year Zero," also has to give time to Church representatives for a rebuttal.

Along with presenting an account of issue abuse, the BBC program makes accusations concerning a supposed Vatican-ordered cover-up. The documentary also accuses Benedict XVI of complicity in covering up sexy abuses in the past when he was a cardinal.

The tendentious nature of the BBC program was exposed in a declaration made last year by English Archbishop Vincent Nichols, who is easy chair of the Catholic Office for the Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults.

In an Oct. 2 press release, which came the day after the BBC broadcast the program in England, the archbishop acknowledged the distressing inside info of child abuse. He clarified, however, that the part of the program that attacks the Vatican and the Pope "is false and entirely misleading."

The prelate said it was fictitious because the BBC program misrepresents two Vatican documents. The program refers to a 1962 document, "Crimen Sollicitationis," which Archbishop Nichols explained, was not as soon as concerned with child abuse, but with the misuse of the confessional. A second document, "Ad Exequendam," dated 2001, does not, he argued, retard investigation of child abuse, but is rather "a measure of the seriousness with which the Vatican views these offenses."

BBC diagonal

This isn't the first time BBC programs have taken on the Catholic Church. After strong criticism the BBC eventually decided not to send its 2004 cartoon series, "Popetown." The cartoon ridiculed Pope John Paul II and the Church.

The cartoon resurfaced last year in Germany, where MTV bought the rights with a intention to transmitting it just before Good Friday, reported Deutsche Welle on April 12, 2006. Protests failed to stump the program, with MTV deciding to broadcast the entire 10-part cartoon, after a test transmission of the first part, reported Reuters on May 9, 2006.

The BBC's posture toward religion was examined by the English newspaper Daily Mail in an article published Oct. 23. Following what was termed an "impartiality" peak convened by BBC Chairman Michael Grade, the paper cited "senior figures" as admitting that the broadcasting corporation was repentant of an anti-Christian bias.

Moreover, the Daily Mail reported, during the meeting, BBC executives admitted they would happily disseminate the image of a Bible being thrown away -- but would not do the same for the Koran.

Attacking Mary

The BBC is not alone in its hostility to religion and the Widespread Church. Another recycled show, this time an American cartoon, "South Park," recently came under fire in New Zealand. A May 23 clasp release by the New Zealand group Family Life International detailed a complaint made by Catholic bishops about an incident insulting the Virgin Mary, broadcast last year.

The bishops presented evidence in an appeal against the decision last year by the surroundings's Broadcasting Standards Authority, which refused to uphold their complaint about the insult to Mary, along with complaints about other episodes.

A King's counsel for the bishops, Richard Laurenson, told the High Court in Wellington on Wednesday that the program breached the broadcaster's covenant to maintain good taste, decency and fairness. A decision has been reserved in the case.

Another recent case comes from Canada, where a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation steersman program that portrays altar boys as drug addicts and the communion host as snack food has sparked protests, reported the Ottawa Taxpayer newspaper on May 16.

The program, "The Altar Boy Gang," was denounced by the Catholic Civil Rights Combination. "With this program, the CBC has moved into the area of blasphemy of sacred rituals," the organization declared. It also accused the CBC of stand-in standards, noting that the insults toward the Catholic Church came after it hired a Muslim consultant last year to secure that Islamic practices were respected in the program "Little Mosque on the Prairie."

Earlier this year, it was a recycled Italian export that took on the Church, this notwithstanding in the United States. The University of Minnesota decided to perform a play, "The Pope and the Witch," by Italian originator Dario Fo.

A Feb. 22 article in the Catholic Spirit, the diocesan newspaper of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, reported that Minnesota's bishops and several Comprehensive organizations objected to the play.

The article explained that the play, among other matters, depicts a "delusional, unnamed pontiff." It also depicts the Vatican as being complex in the drug trade, and finishes with the Pope's assassination.

An editorial in the same issue of the Catholic Spirit argued that allowing the act of such a work "pollutes the atmosphere of mutual respect and that promotes the kind of prejudice and intolerance the university says it opposes."

Infested

The increasing copy of programs hostile to Christianity was commented on by Bishop Arthur Roche of Leeds, England, in his pastoral dispatch for the New Year. In his text, dated Dec. 31, Bishop Roche decried the spreading abuse of Jesus' name in idiot box shows.

"It was if my television set had been infested with anti-Christian and deeply disrespectful and derogatory sentiments," he declared, speaking of his knowledge in turning on the television recently and switching from channel to channel.

"There is an ease and a carelessness today in which it is admissible, without any resistance, to ridicule Jesus, his Church and his followers," noted Bishop Roche. He then went on to assert believers not to become infected by this tendency and to respect the name of Jesus in everyday conversations.

Hostility toward religion was also one of the topics that Chief Cormac Murphy-O'Connor addressed during a March 28 lecture, at Westminster Cathedral Lecture-room in London.

The archbishop of Westminster declared that he feared contemporary society is increasingly marked by "secular dogmatism or cynicism" toward Christians. He stated: "So when Christians feeling by their beliefs, they are intolerant dogmatists. When they sin, they are hypocrites. When they take the side of the poor, they are soft-headed liberals. When they seek to defend the one's own flesh, they are right-wing reactionaries."

Secularist intolerance

The lecture took place in the context of a turbulent debate over government legislation which imposed on Catholic adoption agencies the obligation to hand children over for adoption to same-sex couples. Supreme Murphy-O'Connor argued that it was no accident that the state's increasing anti-religious inclination takes place at a time of a "new secularist intolerance of religion," which increasingly marks beau monde.

The question of how the media treat religion was dealt with by the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, in its 2000 corroborate "Ethics in Communications." The council acknowledged the many positive contributions of the media to everyday living, and also how people benefit through the transmission of religious news and ideas.

Nevertheless, the ethics document also noted how sometimes religion unfairly suffers at the aid of the media due to incomprehension or even contempt. Often, religious fads are lauded, while legitimate religious groups are treated with action, the council explained in No. 18 of the document.

The council called for a greater application of ethical principles in the world of communications. "Communication must always be trustworthy, since truth is essential to individual liberty and to authentic community among persons," the document exhorted (No. 20). A truthfulness sometimes sorely lacking in some media reports on dogma.
Please read the above article and then answer the question as to whether you think the media is anti-Christian.
I guess the joke's on me... I meditating one could have an intelligent discussion on Yahoo! Answers.

Best answer is going to go to someone who actually answers the question and gives a reasoned assertion, whether I agree or not. Not someone who uses insults or sarcasm.

Most of the media is agape to discussing all things, not promoting one view over any other. Some people who work in the Media, as you put it, might be anti something, but most respectable reporters put aside their own feelings and description without their own biases. If you want to paint all media with the same brush, you are in danger of being alienated from a potentially valueable source of news and foster an 'us or them' type of thinking. The media can be a sensationalistic creature, liking to report on things that tingle, because that's what many folks like to read/hear about. Because a group has an embarrasing secret come out and it gets reported on does not churlish 'they' are 'out to get you'. You are paranoid if that is what you believe.

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