American 3rd Position Presidential Candidate Merlin Miller joins Mark Dankof on May 30th
Independent Film Producer Merlin Miller, the Presidential candidate of the American 3rd Position Party.
American 3rd Position Presidential candidate Merlin Miller will join Mark Dankof on “Mark Dankof’s America” on The Ugly Truth, Wednesday, May 30th, at 3 p.m. Central/4 p.m. Eastern/8 p.m. UTC.
Miller has written the screen play for Americana Pictures’s coming production, “False Flag,” chronicling Israel’s deliberate attack on the USS Liberty in June of 1967.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has fired a shot at the American 3rd Position Party. The Party has begun to respond. Good conversational material for “Mark Dankof’s America!“ Join us.
“False Flag,” the Americana Pictures film production depicting the truth of Israel’s deliberate attack on the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967.
Mark Dankof on “The Famine, The Watchman, and The Remnant” for the Lutheran Ministerium and Synod-USA
Pastor Mark Dankof in the 1990s.
[Pastor Mark Dankof’s address to the National Convention of the Lutheran Ministerium and Synod—USA in Chetek, Wisconsin on June 23rd, 2012 is entitled, "The Famine, The Watchman and The Remnant."]
[Open in prayer; read the three relevant Biblical texts]
Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them anymore. . . . Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.
Amos 8: 1-2, 11-12
I will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower, and look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.
Habakkuk 2: 1
And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive; I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.
The Apocalypse of St. John on Patmos, chapter 2: 8-11
All of us here today have been on an odyssey since birth. We trace our voyage from infancy through childhood; from childhood to adolescence and young adulthood; from young adulthood to middle age; from middle age to old age; from old age to death, which the Christian defines as a transition from this present life to a new life in a new plane of existence with the Triune God, the Lord Jesus Christ, and all of the Saints of God in a place called Heaven.
It was 45 years ago today that I began my long odyssey from childhood to adulthood. On June 23, 1967, my parents, my older brother, and I embarked on the USS Lurline, departing Honolulu for a 5 day journey to the Port of San Francisco. Our years together as an Air Force family living in Hawaii were coming to a swift end. I remember wishing that there had been more time.
The legendary Matson Lines liner, SS Lurline.
There are times at night when I can still hear the Matson Lines Orchestra and Band striking up the haunting strains of Aloha Oe, even as I still occasionally feel the Lurline beginning to physically pull away from the dock in Honolulu. As we began to depart, the ship was accompanied by a farewell flotilla of escorting canoes comprised of paddling Polynesian men and women. The women were decked out in Hawaiian tribal garb with bright colors. Their long, beautiful black hair was adorned with careful arrangements of the orchids of the Islands.
The huge crowd standing on the dock in Honolulu waved good bye to the departing until we were out of sight. There is still one face I see above all others in that sea of humanity bidding tearful farewell to the denizens of the USS Lurline. It was Pastor Frederick L. Von Husen of Trinity Lutheran Church and School in Wahiawa. The three years at his school, and my Baptism in his sanctuary, began my long journey in Lutheran Christianity, a wandering that in the providence of God continues to this day.
Pastor Frederick L. Von Husen of Trinity Lutheran Church and School in Wahiawa, Hawaii at the Dock of Honolulu on June 23, 1967, bidding farewell to Mark Dankof and family as the USS Lurline prepares to depart for San Francisco.
I did not want to leave the loving confines of Christ-centered Church and School in Hawaii in June of 1967. The USS Lurline was taking me on a voyage to an ultimate destination I wanted to disembark from.
I am reminded of the Lord’s solemn prophetic admonition to Peter:
“When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not. This spake He, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, He saith unto him, Follow me.” (John 21: 18-19).
Mark Dankof in Geek Days. 3rd row, center position. Teacher Paul Wangerin in back row, far right. Trinity Lutheran School, Wahiawa, Hawaii. 6th grade. School Year 1966-67.
Those initial years as a child at Trinity Lutheran were rooted in a love of The Lamb and of God’s Word which testified to Him in the sunshine of childhood on Oahu. As the years passed, I would more than occasionally experience a darker side in American Lutheranism, what Eugene O’Neill would have termed A Long Day’s Journey Into Night. The painful journey which began on the USS Lurline in 1967 was often accompanied by queasy turbulence and darkness as the speed of time in an increasingly ominous Age accelerated, even as my own encounter with the Theology of the Cross deepened in time. The Lord seemed to be suggesting that I was being prepared to go places I didn’t want to go, on assignments no sane person would volunteer for.
Paul Wangerin and Mark Dankof at El Mirador in San Antonio in March of 2012, 45 years after Teacher and Student days at Trinity Lutheran School of Wahiawa, Hawaii.
One of those assignments was to be a Watchman 25 years ago in the initial salad days of the American Association of Lutheran Churches (AALC). Those days, my role in them, and the historic events then which overtook many of us in this sanctuary now, are the reason for my acceptance of an invitation to be here in Wisconsin on June 23, 2012. We cannot know who we are today as a Confessional Body of Faithful Believers standing in the Reformation loci of Sola Scriptura, Sola Christus, Sola Gratia, and Sola Fide, and presently residing in the Lutheran Ministerium and Synod–USA, without understanding the situation of a quarter of a century ago in our predecessor body, anymore than anyone of us can possibly know who and what we are as individuals today without intimate acquaintance with, and memory of, our own historical pasts.
In short, we cannot know who we are, if we do not know where we have been.
You are invited to share today in only a small segment of my own journey that began almost half a century ago in the Hawaiian Islands as a child. I hope that my journey illumines the remainder of your pathway as a child of God before the Lord returns. Come, Lord Jesus, Come.
It is my great pleasure to be in attendance at a National Convention of the Lutheran Ministerium and Synod—USA. Dr. Ralph Spears has asked me to address all of you, keeping the theme of The Watchman in mind, and my past role in the American Association of Lutheran Churches (AALC) serving as one laboring under very painful circumstances that would subsequently come perilously close to destroying my life. The aftermath has impacted me in all the days and nights since that time.
For the record, Ralph Spears and John Erickson have stood by me for the last 23 years in the aftermath of the most horrific events of my career in Word and Sacrament ministry. They have never left me behind in all this time, even as a number of people in strategic positions in the AALC years ago did, not only to my detriment and longtime exile, but to the detriment of many rank-and-file Lutherans out of the old American Lutheran Church who made the same initial mistake that I did in believing that we had found a confessional fellowship and home in the midst of the larger darkness that has enshrouded American Lutheranism in my lifetime. That darkness accompanies the blackening clouds swirling above our country, clouds soon to pour down God’s verdict of condemnation upon a nation and institutional church that have collectively rejected Him.
It is an especially gratifying thing to see Dr. Ralph Spears, Dr. John Erickson, and Dr. Donald Thorson again after the passage of so many years. As has already been mentioned, each of us was a pioneer in the initially hopeful days that surrounded the creation of the American Association of Lutheran Churches (AALC) a quarter of a century ago. Between the years of hardship for each of these men that often accompanied toil in other Lutheran bodies prior to 1987, and what would fatefully transpire in the years that followed that date permanently etched in my own mind, I am reminded of the speed of the passage of time in this present cosmos, and the vicissitudes of life that accompany the turning of pages from one decade to the next. Moses knows of what he speaks in Psalm 90: 3-10 when he says that:
“Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which growth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
“For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
“The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.”
Thus, I briefly delve into a journey into the distant past, without rancor or bitterness and hopefully with Biblical perspective. I speak of these matters all these light years later, only because requested to by Pastor Spears, and because of the way in which the events and circumstances of a quarter of a century ago serve to illustrate and warn The Remnant in these presumably final days of human history.
The final days of human history, chronicled by Jesus Christ in the Olivet Discourse (Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21), have many parallels with the beginning of the end for the Northern Kingdom of Israel as Amos proclaimed it during the reign of Jeroboam II (Co-regency with Jehoash from 793-782 B. C.; sole reign from 782-753 B. C.; total reign 792-740 B. C.); with the Babylonian Exile of the Southern Kingdom of Judah which culminated in Nebuchadnezzar’s destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 586 B. C.; and the national judgment of Judah at the hands of Titus and the Romans in 70 A. D. because of the former’s rejection of Jesus Christ and the nature of the Kingdom of God He proclaimed during His First Advent. This last catastrophe was forecast by Jesus in the Olivet Discourse, shortly before His betrayal by Judas Iscariot and the climax of the plot against His life launched by the Jewish religious authorities of first century Palestine.
The reasons for each of these judgments in redemptive history, and the reasons for what I believe is a coming judgment on our own American nation in the 21st century, are absolutely identical. Political, economic, military, and cultural eclipse are always the result of rebellion against God, and total disdain for God’s Word. The final stage in total eclipse is a famine visited upon the land. And in an age where many of us are terrified of the very real possibility of physical food shortages and the societal turbulence which will accompany it, it bears noting that the famine chronicled by Amos is not a physical one. It is one that involves the progressive withdrawal of the presence of the Holy Spirit, and the evaporation of God’s blessings and protection. Heed then, the 8th century prophet as he warns both the Northern Kingdom of Israel then, and by extracted principles, all of us here today:
“Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.” [Amos 8: 11-12]
This is the critical perspective we must have on what has happened to the United States and to the Lutheran Church in your lifetime and mine.
For the record, I was the first Lutheran pastor in “days passed away“ [Psalm 90: 9] to be formally accepted onto the clergy roster of the AALC, on July 10, 1987. In those days, I was a young man, and serving a Lutheran congregation in Seattle, Washington known as St. Matthias Lutheran Church, which would subsequently be among the Charter Congregations comprising this daring venture into the Great Unknown.
All across the country then, there was much excitement among the early trailblazers in this endeavor and journey of faith. I shared in this Great Hope of that brief moment in time, feeling that after years of heartache in the Lutheran denomination, I was not only experiencing a turning point in my own life and calling, but witnessing a turning point in American Lutheran history that would define the future course of countless Lutheran Christians at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st to follow; a course destined to merge theological orthodoxy, love, and personal witness for Christ as the Church of Smyrna did in the dark early days of the Roman Empire and its persecution of disciples of Jesus Christ, accompanied by the Apostle John’s exile to Patmos at the hands of Emperor Domitian (A. D. 81-96) [Revelation 2: 8-11].
In those days, I especially looked forward to flying from Seattle to Minneapolis for national board meetings of the Association, and the mornings and evenings spent apart from official business that inevitably involved the swapping of stories, experiences, and future hopes with compadres like the late Pastor Jonathan Noel Kennedy of Faith Lutheran Church in Portland, Oregon; Pastor Dennis Brostrom, then of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Patterson, California; Pastor Ray Klug of Fairbury, Nebraska; Pastor Thomas Aadland of Duluth, Minnesota, an AALC Executive Committee member who would years later become the AALC’s Presiding Pastor; Dr. Christopher Barnakov of Washington, D. C., the editor of the AALC’s flagship national publication, The Evangel; Mr. Rollie Strommen of Janesville, Wisconsin; and our own Dr./Pastor John Erickson here today. Between 1987 and 1989, the course being charted for the AALC in closed session meetings was matched by a special fellowship with these aforementioned Saints, based in what Paul tells us in Ephesians 3: 9:
“And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ.”
But darker, demonic forces were also afoot in the AALC between 1987-1989. Events in that two year period of time would force me into a public role as The Watchman. I did not seek this assignment. The role sought me, for reasons only partially understood 25 years later.
Between 1987-1989, my involvement with the meetings of the Joint Council of the AALC in Minneapolis, and the early conclaves of the Board of Higher Education, revealed three (3) disturbing trends that underscore the Biblical truism for Watchmen and The Remnant throughout history that the Satanic threat to the Confessional Church of our Lord is not simply one posited by external threats and enemies. The threat and the enemy is often in our own midst. Jesus’s warnings to His people in the Olivet Discourse (Matthew 24/Mark 13/Luke 21) come to mind, especially the Lord’s eschatological admonition at the outset:
“Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ, and shall deceive many. . . . And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. . . . (Matthew 24).
And the Apostle Paul’s warning in Ephesians 6 reinforces that of Jesus in the Olivet Discourse:
“Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” (Ephesians 6: 11-12)
With these Biblical passages in mind, the three trends of Satanic infiltration in the AALC’s early days that I observed as a Watchman are as follows: 1) the attempts at the outset of the Higher Education Committee of the AALC to establish a Lutheran House of Study in conjunction with Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California; and the involvement of the AALC’s Executive Committee in those days in using representatives of the C. Peter Wagner Church Growth Institute of Fuller Theological Seminary, like Carl George, for seminars on how to create AALC congregations based on the principles of the Church Growth Movement(CGM); 2) the early embrace of key leaders of the AALC of the most radical elements of the Neo-Pentecostal and Charismatic Renewal Movements in the Lutheran church, even as it was claimed that the AALC was a continuation of the older American Lutheran Church (ALC) and the Lutheran Orthodoxy that once characterized that Synod; and 3) the attempt to synthesize a full subscription to the Lutheran Confessions (“quia“) with the inclusion of advocates of CGM, the Charismatic Movement, and Dispensational Premillennial eschatology and Christian Zionism as full fledged members of the AALC.
This underscores a truism: The attempt to synthesize truth and falsehood courtesy of the Hegelian Dialectic is destined to fail. This methodology is the enemy of Biblical Revelation and the Orthodox Lutheran Confessions. You and I cannot forget this. Ever.
And as for the attempt to synthesize Dispensational Premillennial eschatology and Christian Zionism with historic Biblical Christianity, let there be no mistake. The 19th Century Darbyism which led to the Scofield Reference Bible and subsequently to Hal Lindsey, Jerry Falwell, and John Hagee in our own time, has commingled Law and Gospel; it has perverted Jesus’ teachings on the otherworldly and eternal character of the Kingdom of God in favor of worldly doctrines of racial supremacy, secular nationalism, and the naked employment of economic and military power to achieve its ends. It has reduced the Confessing Church of Christ to status as a mere parenthesis in God’s dealings with racial, national Israel and Judah (see chart below on Daniel 9 and the “70th week” or 70×7=490 years). One can effectively argue that it is leading our country into dangerous and uncharted waters in the Middle East and domestically. As it repristinates in the modern era a belief in the same heresies and ideology that the New Testament indicates caused the rejection of the truth claims of Jesus Christ on the part of the Jewish religious and political leadership of two millennia ago in Palestine (John 8: 31-59; Matthew 27: 1-6), it may well reside at the center of the eschatological warning issued by Jesus in Matthew 24: 21-24:
“For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened. Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.”
Much of the deception surrounds the Dispensationalist and Christian Zionist interpretation of Daniel, chapter 9, The Prophecy of 70 Weeks. It began with John Nelson Darby in the 19th century, and subsequently the Scofield Reference Bible. The inroads into both the American churches and American foreign policy began in earnest with Chicago Dispensationalist and international businessman William E. Blackstone. The endgame is the Beast, the New World Order, and World War III. See the following chart:
Daniel’s 70th Week: Past Fulfillment or Future?
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Issues of Interpretation
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Roman View
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Eschatological Interval or Parenthesis View
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Beginning point (Decree of verse 25)
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One of the 3 Persian Decrees: 538, 458, 445 B. C.
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One of the decrees of Artaxerxes, 458 or 445 B. C.
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Messiah the Prince (verse 25)
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Jesus Christ
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Jesus Christ
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62 Weeks (62×7= 434 years)
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Added to 7 weeks to span from decree to point in the life of Christ (62 weeks or 434 years + 7 weeks or 49 years=69 weeks or 483 years)
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Added to 7 weeks and by using “prophetic years” ends at the triumphal entry. The prophetic clock stops. The parenthesis between the 69th and 70th week begins. |
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Messiah (verse 26)
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Jesus Christ
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Jesus Christ at the Crucifixion
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Covenant-Maker (verse 27)
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Jesus Christ |
Antichrist
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70th week (7×1=7 years)
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Roman destruction of Jerusalem by Titus, 70 A. D.
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Futuristic Tribulation corresponding to the 70th week of Daniel (7 years) which begins after the Rapture of the Church, the closing of the Parenthesis Era, and the resumption of National Israel and Judah’s role as the center of God’s plan in redemptive history. |
[Brief analysis of the Daniel 9/70 Weeks Chart Follows for Convention Attendees]
We must leave further analysis of these critical differences in the interpretation of Biblical eschatology and the character of the Kingdom of God as proclaimed by Jesus to future discussions. But I must leave you with two essential closing observations. First, Dispensational Premillennialism and Christian Zionism are incompatible with Orthodox Lutheranism (Augsburg Confession, Article 17). The former’s adherence to a doctrine of racial supremacy, a commingling of Law and Gospel, and a confusion of the kingdoms of this present realm with Christ’s Kingdom, are anathema to what Jesus taught about His Kingdom, its eternal character, and the universal eligibility of all to receive His gifts and promises. And the United States is yet to experience the tragedy of being linked as a nation to ongoing support of this monstrous heresy in the political, economic, and military realms. That tragedy shall be proven both catastrophic and apocalyptic in its implications. You can take that prediction to the bank, if there is still one left in your community in the next several years. . . .
Second, everyone in attendance today at this gathering, as well as many others who will be connected to our conversations in Cyberspace, must encounter the work of the late Westminster/Princeton scholar Oswald T. Allis published on this subject in 1945. His book, Prophecy and the Church, will demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt that the interpretative scheme of John Nelson Darby, the Scofield Reference Bible, Hal Lindsey, and John Hagee, is incompatible with the Lutheran and Reformed streams of the Protestant Reformation and their respective Confessions of the 16th and 17th centuries. The Remnant Confessing Church of our Lord ignores this warning at its peril. The AALC drove through this stop sign many years ago, when it officially recognized a Christian Zionist ministry as its own affiliated organization, one of the many egregious errors made in the initial years of the Minneapolis meetings which taken in the aggregate, spelled disaster and shipwreck.
Let there be no mistake. No orthodox Christian of any stripe, including the Confessional Lutheran, believes that the Church of Jesus Christ is a mere parenthesis in history in God’s exclusive dealings with racial, national Israel. No one can compatiblize this with the witness of the New Testament. As Dr. Allis testifies in his magnum opus, to believe this is to ultimately revert to Judaism.
The implications of all of this for the future direction of the AALC would be subsequently chronicled by me for the Lutheran weekly, Christian News, in February of 1994 in a front page story entitled, “The AALC: Not an Option for ELCA Conservatives.” I have brought copies of that piece with me today for those interested. It will cover in greater detail the particulars of the time in which I was barely surviving the assault, along with Pastor Spears, Pastor Erickson, Pastor Klug, and Pastor Brostrom.
I say barely surviving as my own congregation, St. Matthias Lutheran Church of Seattle, was being rent asunder by the infiltration of the same forces that had begun to permeate the national body. This was covertly being aided and abetted by two different officials of the AALC, as was documented at the time. By the decree of the Executive Committee of the AALC undertaken in between national meetings of the Joint Council and the Board of Trustees (of which I was a member), financial subsidy was being silently provided for what had been covertly transpiring in the Emerald City under radar. The only Early Warning System I possessed that I was in the crosshairs was provided by phone calls of concern from the then President of the Lutheran Bible Institute in Issaquah, and an ELCA pastor in the Puget Sound area who had inside information for me that connected all the relevant players in this Demonic Subterranean Netherworld, their past history, and current informal reports from the Midwest being conveyed to him by his own sources on a regular basis.
Translation: I had been the leading voice in closed door meetings in the Twin Cities expressing opposition to the national drift I saw in the organization’s decisions being made by its Executive Committee, its Joint Council, its Board of Higher Education. It was time that I be disposed of. The table had been set.
I kept asking myself in the middle of the night, “Could all of this really be happening to me after two years of service to the national organization, and with the friendships developed with key people in Minneapolis?” I was stunned. But every piece fit. The Watchman had let his guard down. He was in the crosshairs of forces he had failed to anticipate and identify. An excruciating price would be paid for this lack of vigilance. The spinoffs continue to the present day.
The lesson is clear. The Watchman and The Remnant can never let their guard down.
Failure to keep this lesson Front and Center is a catastrophic and potentially fatal mistake.
I will be forever grateful to Pastor Dennis Brostrom and Pastor Ray Klug for their official expressions of public dismay over this situation, along with Mr. Rod Kirchoff of Fairbury, Nebraska. Mr. Kirchoff led an official inquiry into events in Seattle when commissioned by the Executive Committee of the AALC to do so. His conclusions were submitted to that body before both he and the Fairbury, Nebraska congregation joined Pastor Klug in leaving the AALC formally. Pastor Brostrom also departed for other confines. Other people presently in this room today would also eventually head for the exit.
I would leave the AALC officially after their 1990 National Convention at Northwestern College in St. Paul, Minnesota. Five (5) years later, I would accept Pastor Ralph Spears’ invitation to join the new LMS-USA at its launching in Indianapolis in 1995. I have remained with all of you all these years since (17 years), out of conviction that this body represents a slice of The Remnant in these final days, even as I seriously doubt that a Second Reformation will ever grip this country or the post-Christian societies of the Western World generally. I have also remained in the LMS-USA out of eternal personal gratitude that Pastor Spears and Pastor Erickson understood the magnitude of the personal tragedy I had experienced in Seattle in 1989-90 and did not leave The Wounded Watchman by the side of the road.
They have been sources of encouragement and support in the Lord ever since. You can’t buy friendships like these over the counter.
What then, are the other lessons derived from this brief Journey into the Past, both for today’s Watchmen and The Remnant? For this, we return to where we began today, with the books of Habakkuk and the Apocalypse of John. I hope the charts provided to you are helpful here.
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Habakkuk in Judah and John on Patmos |
Today’s Watchmen and Remnant |
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Ministry in days of Judah’s “death throes.” The reign of Jehoiakim (609-597 B. C.) leads to destruction (2 Kings 23:34-24:5; Jeremiah 22:17). John exiled to Patmos by Emperor Domitian’s decree (A. D. 81-96) and after the national judgment of Judah and its Temple Destruction in A. D. 70, as prophesied by Christ (Matthew 24). |
Ministry in days of America’s “death throes.” Fill in your own contemporary particulars. . . . Roe versus Wade, national embrace of sexual perversion, national debt, crime, family disintegration, over extension of military empire abroad, New World Order, embrace of a deceptive and evil alliance with the Synagogue of Satan (Revelation 2: 9 with reference to Romans 2: 28-29), et.al. Church mirrors the nation with its higher Biblical criticism, embrace of sexual perversion, cultural accommodationism, corrupt leadership, financial greed, lack of love. Ephesus, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Laodicea or a combination of them (see Revelation 2: 1-3: 21) are today’s American church, including the institutional Lutheran version. The Remnant today must follow the Churches of Smyrna and Philadelphia (Revelation 2: 8-11; 3: 7-13) |
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Babylon as instrument of God’s judgment (1:6; 2:1; 3:16)
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Fill in your own contemporary particulars. . . . Who will it be? What configuration of world powers and forces?
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Habakkuk means “One Who Embraces or Clings.” See 3: 16-19 for the Prophet’s decision to Cling to God in all circumstances.
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Watchmen and Remnant must Cling to God and His Son. (Romans 10: 9; Revelation 3: 19-22)
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The circumstances for Habakkuk, Judah, and Babylon sometimes appear to contradict God’s revelation, His power, His purposes, His promises.
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Circumstances surrounding the institutional church and the nation sometimes appear to contradict God’s revelation, His power, His purposes, His promises to you and me.
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Habakkuk has extended dialogue with God (2/3 of entire book). First dialogue (1:1-11); second dialogue (1: 12-2: 20).
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Watchmen and Remnant must “Pray Without Ceasing“ (I Thessalonians 5: 17). |
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Perplexity over God’s purposes causes Habakkuk to stand upon a watchtower to wait for God’s reply. God’s reply is plain (2: 2), for an appointed time (2: 3), guaranteed to come and truthful (2: 3). 5 Woes are pronounced upon the guilty (chapter 2). |
Watchmen and Remnant must be the Churches of Smyrna and Philadelphia in the 21st century.
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God’s people must overcome in the midst of adversity, trial, and exile.
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The Watchmen and The Remnant must overcome (Revelation 2 and 3). The mandate is given to all 7 Churches of Asia Minor in Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.
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[Brief summation of main highlights of the chart with attendees].
For the sake of time, I will now permit all of you to comprehensively digest the chart’s entire contents in the days ahead.
And as this may well mark the last time I address a national Lutheran gathering of this type, given present conditions in the world, let me leave my segment of this program today with a final thought (s) for The Remnant, based on the last theme of the chart.
The Watchmen and The Remnant must overcome.
Strong’s Concordance on the Internet at http://concordances.org/greek/3528.htm explains the meaning and nuances of the word used by Jesus for His instructions to each of the 7 Churches of Asia Minor in the Apocalypse. The Greek word is [(nik-ah'-o)].
The literal translation is “I conquer, am victorious, overcome, prevail, subdue.” K. Wuest correctly conveys the idea that “The verb implies a battle.”
You and I are now in the very beginning of the ultimate battle in world history forecast in the Olivet Discourse and by John on Patmos.
The blackening darkness accompanying the emerging rule of The Beast proceeds apace (Revelation 13). The enemies of Jesus Christ and Biblical witness are many. Some are external threats. Others are ravening wolves in sheep’s clothing in our midst (Matthew 7: 15). We have already discussed some examples of this from a quarter of a century ago.
I will simply say this as a Lutheran pastor whose lifetime and ordained ministry have coincided with our perilous collective course.
As far as the Confessing Church in America in the 21st century is concerned, we are not simply losing. We have already lost. I agree with the prevailing published secular analysis and consensus which flatly states that the United States and Europe are post-Christian societies. The evidence of this is Legion: The decline in preaching and teaching in our churches that is based in solid Biblical exegesis and Orthodox Lutheran standards, increasingly replaced by the Health, Wealth, and Prosperity “Gospel” and entertainment galas; the Church of Jezebel’s accommodation of the greed, narcissism, and perversion which continues to permeates American culture as it has since the salad days of the Drug and Sexual Revolutions in the 1960s; the Culture of Death which continues to abound, symbolized by abortion, Zero Population Growth, euthanasia, and the organized homosexual rights movement; and the ongoing disappearance of healthy young families and communities built around a solid economy and Confessing Church, courtesy of the Globalist movement which underscores the truism that “No man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the Beast, or the number of his name” (Revelation 13: 17).
This then, is truly the age of The Beast and The False Prophet (Revelation 13). How then, to quote Strong’s Concordance and Wuest, do we “conquer, overcome, prevail, and subdue?“
The key for The Remnant is To Recognize. What must we recognize?
We must recognize the signs of the eschatological times in world history (Daniel 2, 7, 9; Matthew 24/Mark 13/Luke 21/; I Corinthians 11: 13-14; I Timothy 4: 1-2; I Peter 1: 5-7).
We must recognize the reality of the demonic forces at work against the people of God (Ephesians 6; I Peter 5: 8).
We must recognize that we can only battle demonic forces by donning the full armor of God (Ephesians 6: 11-18), even as the season of Antichrist approaches (2 Thessalonians 2; Revelation 13) with lying “signs and wonders.”
We must recognize the full implications of our status as a Remnant (Smyrna/Revelation 2: 8-11 and Philadelphia/Revelation 3: 7-13) of the Israel of God (Galatians 6: 16 and I Peter 2: 9-10).
We must recognize God’s providential plan and design in both the best and the worst times of our lives (Romans 8: 28, Romans 11: 33-34; Philippians 1: 12).
We must recognize that the Remnant Church confounds an unbelieving world and dying culture by preaching Christ Crucified (I Corinthians 1: 17-25) and Christ Risen (Romans 10: 9; I Corinthians 15; II Corinthians 5: 21).
We must recognize that the Final Victory is ours (Revelation 22); that we are Conquerors, and that nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8: 37-39).
This is the context in which we must see and understand what has happened to all of us in the passage of these last few decades. The American Empire is going the way of ancient national Israel and Judah; the American Lutheran Church’s descent into apostasy, sectarianism, institutional corruption, and increasing irrelevance, accompanies the sick national scene of which it is merely one component in the larger picture.
We of The Remnant must Cling to God and His Son. We must Cling to His Word and to His people. We must Cling to a lifetime of prayer and meditation. We must Cling to the Cross of Calvary and the Empty Tomb of Easter Sunday morning. We must Cling to the Promise that the Son of God, presently seated at the Right Hand of God the Father, will soon return for His People and the establishment of a Kingdom Without End.
Lutheran Synods are not necessary for this. Neither are District Presidents and Bishops, million dollar church budgets, satellite TV shows with televangelists, church growth demographic chart analyses, endorsements from secular political figures, or subsidies from non-profit organizations and NGOs. These sad sack ingredients are the reverse side of the counterfeit coin which captures the two major secular political parties in America, the corporate news media, Wall Street, and the worst elements of our declining educational system. Why see them as our deliverers from our lamentable individual and collective condition?
They are anything but deliverers. They are the ultimate symptoms of a fatal national and metastasizing malignancy which oppress and corrode the souls of God’s people. The discerning will throw them overboard. Paul warns us in the context of his own discussion of the Last Days offered to Timothy that such entities “have a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away” (II Timothy 3: 5).
We shall simply take Jesus at His Word with his blessed assurance to the beleaguered Saints of both the 1st century and the 21st: “Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer; behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life” (Revelation 2: 10).
I finally conclude my brief conversation with you today, by coming full circle to where we began an hour ago, with the story of a maritime voyage. It illustrates where you and I are headed together in our present journey. The Final Destination is assured and unmistakable. Be sure of this.
This maritime voyage transpired in my Night Thoughts of three (3) years ago, one late Spring evening right after the death of my father in San Antonio. The voyage was a nocturnal reversal of the sad maritime journey I had been forced to embark upon one early Hawaiian morning in the early summer of 1967.
In those Night Thoughts of 2009 in the Alamo City, I was suddenly a kid again. I found myself waiting at the Port of San Francisco with my youthful parents and my older brother. We were getting ready to board a ship, by walking up a long and steep ramp. The ship had Matson Lines of Hawaii markings. It was the SS Lurline.
My parents and my brother began the ascent up the ramp to board. I felt a hand upon my right shoulder. I turned and saw one who looked like the Ancient of Days. His garment was white as snow; the hair of His head was like pure wool. He was accompanied by the One whose hand was on my shoulder, one like the Son of Man (Daniel 7: 9, 13).
The One whose hand was upon my right shoulder smiled. It was a silent but sure reassurance that this voyage of 2400 miles would be a special one. I proceeded up the ramp.
The SS Lurline began to pull away from Pier One, the Embarcadero, and the western edge of San Francisco Bay on this early sunlit morning in the City by the Bay. As it did, my eyes focused on the Golden Gate Bridge and the skyline until they disappeared. There was a beautiful Pacific breeze that accompanied the panoramic view. The sun seemed to follow the luxury liner and its occupants across 2400 miles of the deepest blue ocean and whitest crests I had ever witnessed.
Five days passed in only an hour, much as one day with the Lord is like a thousand years (Psalm 90, 2 Peter 3: 8).
Suddenly the Port of Honolulu swept into view. As the SS Lurline approached Pier 11, the Matson Lines band and orchestra struck up Aloha Oe. A farewell in time had become a greeting in eternity.
The SS Lurline navigates the east side of Diamond Head in Honolulu.
The welcoming crowd was teaming on this sun drenched Honolulu morning. I saw Frederick L. Von Husen front and center among the beaming faces, waving to my family and to me. Then I noticed he was surrounded by other faces I had known my entire life, the faces of people I had always known were among the Saints of God. I had known them in so many different places as numerous as the stars in their courses. Some had preceded me in death and were now alive! Others had not known the sting of temporal death, because of the One I had just seen upon departure from the Port of San Francisco only an hour before. But how could we have crossed the Pacific so quickly?
The Polynesian men and women who comprised the Matson Lines canoe crews were alongside us again. The ladies looked as bright, colorful, and beautiful as they had so long ago. The young men were as athletic and vibrant as they had been light years before in another universe in time. But they were all now waving hello! They were accompanying us to a Pier of Arrival that made up the most joyous scene I had ever seen in my life. And suddenly I knew that my life was not ending but beginning, in a new plane of existence in a new cosmos that comprised The New Heaven and The New Earth.
SS Lurline arrives at the Port of Honolulu. Pier 11.
Amidst all of the tears of joy and the embraces that enshrouded me in the love of the Saints who had come to the Pier to greet me, I was suddenly in the presence again of One Like the Son of Man. But lo and behold, He is the Son of Man and the Only Begotten Son of the Father! His Legions of Angels surround him in an aura of Radiant Light! It is the Light of the Living Lord! It is the Victory of the One who Has come as He has promised!
And His people are the Victors, the Conquerors, the Ones Who Have Overcome in the Blood of the Lamb! The Dragon, the Beast, the False Prophet, the Whore of Babylon, and their followers throughout history are now consigned forever to the Lake of Fire! Death and Hell have been cast into this Lake. This is the Second Death. (Revelation 20).
And all of us have a Crown of Righteousness!
And all of you today in Chetek, Wisconsin are there! You too departed Pier One, the Embarcadero, the western edge of San Francisco Bay with me, on a most glorious luxury liner, destined to arrive at a place the world will never know, but which the People of God, the New Israel of God in Christ will live in forever and ever!
The Port of San Francisco on a clear day. Coit Tower remains on watch.
And then I remembered the words of the Apostle Paul:
“For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all of them also that love His appearing.” (II Timothy 4: 6-8).
And the vision of John on Patmos swiftly followed Paul’s words in the Night Thoughts and nocturnal dream that came to me after the death of my earthly father, an incredible gift of your Heavenly Father and mine:
“And I John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the Tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God.
“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
“And He that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And He said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
“And He said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
“He that overcometh shall inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.” (Revelation 21: 2-7)
This is your destiny. This is my destiny. It is by the grace of God alone, Christ alone, and faith alone. The Holy Scriptures testify to these truths. Do not doubt these truths, but cling to them. Your redemption draweth nigh in these dark, final days of human history.
I recall Paul’s admonition to all of God’s people who are both Watchmen and Remnant:
“Ye are all children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others, but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
“But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
“For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ. Who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.
“Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.” (I Thessalonians 5: 5-11)
God bless you and your household this blessed day. I bid you farewell.
The Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, awaits us.
Mark Dankof’s America Returns on The Ugly Truth Radio Podcast: Wednesdays at 3 p.m. Central
Mark Dankof in Washington, D. C. in November of 2011
Mark Dankof’s America returns to the airwaves on Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 at 3 p.m. Central and each Wednesday thereafter at that time, on The Ugly Truth Radio Podcast.
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The Full Court Press on Iran: John Hagee, Franklin Graham, Press TV Bans, and the Hispan TV Affair
Mark Dankof in Washington, D. C. in November of 2011
“Time, numbers, and space are with the colored world, with the Muslim nationalists and against Israel. What the colored world lacked has been unity and dynamism. Well, Israel is contributing to the unification and activation of the colored world for war against the outsiders. The white powers and the Israelis can never achieve ultimate and decisive force superiority over the colored world and the vast areas it populates.
“However, the western world–if guided by operational rationalism and calculation instead of mystical legalism, moralism, and traditionalism–could easily formulate propositions with the colored world mutually advantageous to all concerned. Only a return to [American] neutrality could ensure against our government fighting a third world war against overwhelming numerical odds. The more natives Americans kill, the better for the interests of native nationalisms. The pressure will be only on the American taxpayers and conscripts for the wars of perpetual intervention.”
Lawrence Dennis, American Nationalist, the 1950s
The Full Court Press on Iran continues unabated. The ongoing escalation in economic sanctions targeting Iranian oil, banking, and trade are accompanied by Zionist inspired terror within that country, using the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK/PMOI/MKO), PJAK, and Jundallah in the carrying out of premeditated murder in Tehran, Iranian Azerbaijan, Diyala, Khuzestan, and Balochistan provinces. The Washington Post concedes that there has been a five-fold “unexplained” increase in explosions in the last two years at Iranian nuclear sites and military installations, oil and gas facilities and pipelines, and electrical plants. This is supplemented by American, British, and Israeli financial support for various activities of political insurrection against the IRI regime, American violations of Iranian airspace with drones, and the deployment of three United States aircraft carrier task forces and two Marine amphibious assault units near the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz. The winds of a totally immoral and unjustifiable war of aggression continue to blow with greater force and speed.
I have a reiteration of a prediction with my own subsequent addendum. Lawrence Dennis, the great American Nationalist theoretician, is certainly correct in his assessment of the present crisis uttered over half a century ago.
Yes, this war will happen as Dennis predicted. But it is also a war that will irrevocably destroy what little remains of the United States and the Western World from the immediate post-World War II configuration of powers and cultures. The good news is that Israel will also collapse over time, along with Zionist fiat banking; fractional reserve banking; usury; Jewish cultural subversion of Christian and Islamic influence; and every other corresponding cancer of the New World Order. Out of short-term tragedy will emerge an aftermath in this present world with renewed reason for hope and life once more, or the Eschaton itself.
Yet the chief beneficiaries and apologists for The Beast will not go down without a fight. There are three (3) prime examples of this currently manifesting their poison-for-pay agenda in the interest of igniting a Zionist inspired Holocaust in Iran.
The first example comes from the Rotund Reaper of Deception himself, John Hagee, whose Christians United for Israel sponsored a March 28 airing of the agitation-propaganda film Iranium at the University of Texas in San Antonio about the alleged threat to the West posed by a weaponized Iranian nuclear program. The claims of the film are a repudiation of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on the subject produced by America’s 16 intelligence agencies, and what has emerged from the International Atomic Energy Agency as well. One of the film’s chief spokespersons is Clair Lopez of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Iran Policy Committee (IPC), the chief PR arm of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK) in Washington. Ms. Lopez and IPC chief Dr. Raymond Tanter of Georgetown University are key links in a spider web of American intelligence front organizations with symbiotic links to the Israeli Mossad and a Jewish-driven Neo-Conservative movement which has hijacked the American Right and much of the national security apparatus of the United States as well.
The second example has emerged this week, with the April 2012 Special Issue of Decision magazine, the flagship publication of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. It is entitled “Radical Islam’s Global War on Christians.”
A number of observations about this issue and the organization that produced it are in order. It is a matter of well buried but public record, that Billy Graham’s success for 60 years as America’s leading Christian Right evangelist is inextricably linked to his effective recruitment and deployment over the decades by the William Randolph Hearst media conglomerate, which in turn was effectively serving the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the emerging American corporate power structure during the Cold War and the anti-Communist crusade which accompanied it. Billy Graham was the pivotal figure in the enlistment of millions of American Protestant Evangelicals in this endeavor for forces not understood by the faithful. The outcome of this crusade was the end of the Soviet Union in 1989 as it had been previously constituted. That achievement was laudable.
But the crowd enamored of Graham was never informed that Soviet Bolshevism and its exportation abroad were largely empowered by Jewish recruits and international financiers like Jacob Schiff and the House of Rothschild. Concurrently, these American Protestant Evangelicals were never filled in by the Graham Empire or its Decision magazine of the disproportionate Jewish role in pursing a targeted strategy of destroying Christian culture in the United States via the abortion industry; the homosexual rights movement; the radical feminist movement; and the importation of Freud’s Vienna and the Frankfurt School for their subsequent infiltration of the highest echelons of American government, media, legal, and educational matrixes. Why? Clearly part of the answer is the influence of the Christian Zionist heresy fed by John Nelson Darby and the Scofield Reference Bible, and politically driven by Chicago businessman and Dispensationalist William E. Blackstone in the 19th and 20th centuries. Additionally, Billy and Franklin Graham presumably understood the necessity of cooperation with the Synagogue of Satan (Revelation 2:9) as a prerequisite to their own survival and promotion in an America increasingly co-opted as the driving surrogate force for Globalism, International Central Banking, and the New World Order. The success of this endgame necessitates carefully recruited front men in both secular and ecclesiastical realms. Understood in this context, Billy and Franklin Graham and John Hagee are the religious flipside of Fox News and CNN, singing the same tune in total concert with the latter regarding the necessity for war. Onward Christian Soldiers?
Analyzing the contents of Decision’s “Radical Islam’s Global War on Christians” reveals other unpleasant truths. Decision cites Frank Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy and ex-CIA chief R. James Woolsey as sources for its presentation. Gaffney’s long standing membership as a friendly source for the Israeli Lobby and as part of the larger Neo-Conservative Constellation for World Zionism is not mentioned. Neither is the sordid role of R. James Woolsey in receiving thousands of dollars for his public role in attempting to have the Communist Mujahedeen-e-Khalq cult delisted from the list of Terrorist Organizations compiled by the State Department. Franklin Graham apparently has no problem with complete Zionist cooperation with such an organization, infamous for its warped ideological synthesis of Communism and Islam, its murder of Americans in Pahlavi Iran several generations ago, its murder of Kurds at the behest of Saddam Hussein in the 1980s, its long history of terror and murder of Iranians since the Revolution of 1979, and the cultic leadership of Miryam and Massoud Rajavi in the brainwashing and terror applied to the organization’s own members when necessary. Graham, like Rick Santorum and Company, apparently also approves of the premeditated murders of Iranian scientists in recent years, along with all of the other aforementioned acts of war directed at that country. All in the name of a loving Jesus, of course.
The Mossad and the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK/PMOI): Pals of Franklin Graham's friends, including R. James Woolsey of the CIA.
Former CIA Station Chief Philip Giraldi of the Council for the National Interest, provides the context for understanding the nonsense promoted by Franklin Graham and Decision magazine in the former’s essay entitled, “The Islamophobia Excuse.” Christians might also enjoy comparing the Koran’s evaluation of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary with that proferred by the Jewish Talmud, or reading Tarif Khalidi’s The Muslim Jesus: Sayings and Stories in Islamic Literature. Or asking why Christian Right sock puppets like Franklin Graham and John Hagee are siding with the enemies of Christianity in the American Culture Wars, even as the Islamic world stands against these trends in the United Nations and their promotion and financing internationally by Hillary Clinton’s State Department in the world body.
And finally, someone needs to ask Franklin Graham what the Bible has to say about the reasons for the national Jewish disenfranchisement at the hands of Babylon (B. C. 586) and Rome (A. D. 70). Why did the Jewish-inspired mob demand Pilate’s release of Barabbas, the Menachem Begin of his time (Matthew 27)? Was it because that mob, working in conjunction with the Jewish Chief Priests, Scribes, and Pharisees of Jerusalem, wanted the death of a Messiah who had repudiated both Jewish racial supremacism and a kingdom based in this world and not the next? If so, why affirm that ideology now in the 21st century as the chief foundational reason for the establishment of the modern Zionist State of Israel? And risk the survivability of the United States in the process? Franklin Graham and Decision magazine are stone cold silent. This is one stone that will not be rolled away from the Tomb serving as the Repository of the Secrets of Subterranean Masters.
And given the ersatz American patriotism of John Hagee, Franklin Graham, and Company, why is their absolute silence on the nature of Jesus Christ’s teachings about the Kingdom of God in the New Testament accompanied by their identical AWOL status on Deir Yassin, the Meyer Lansky crime syndicate’s relationship to the Zionist State, the Lavon Affair, the Kennedy Assassination, the USS Liberty attack, and the laundry list of Israeli espionage operations against the United States since 1948 including the Pollard spy case and the PROMIS affair? Will following the money trail provide the answers?
The third example of the Full Court Press on Iran does not involve promoting and financing Israel’s friends. It has every thing to do with its logical counterpart: silencing Iran’s opportunity to make its own direct public case to the world, and to an American public presently at the mercy of Zionist Corporate Media.
Only a fool could fail to see the implications of the Ofcom case made against Press TV in the UK, or the more recent ban on that network in Germany courtesy of the Munich regulatory agency that ordered Press TV removed from SES Astra. These bans will likely be accompanied in the future by regulatory actions against Hispan TV, the media outreach being developed by the national Iranian news agency for the airing of issues in South America. Adam Housley of InterAmerican Security Watch sounds the Neo-Conservative alarm at such a prospect in “Iran Moving in on Latin American Television Market“. The United States Congress joins in Mr. Housley’s chorus by adding the ”Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act” which will eventually pass both the House and Senate in some final version. These alarms have nothing to do with the canards of “Anti-Semitism” and “Terrorism.” They have everything to do with both North and South Americans having the chance to see patriotic and academically respectable Americans like Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, Dr. Philip Giraldi, Dr. Paul Sheldon Foote, Dr. E. Michael Jones, and Mark Glenn, making the case not simply for avoiding war with Iran, but providing an honest analysis of who and what has shoplifted the American political process, the economy, the media, and the culture.
The First Amendment and Jeffersonianism will triumph. The descendants of Lawrence Dennis, like Michael Collins Piper, Mark Glenn, Mark Dankof, and E. Michael Jones will emerge victorious.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the domestic American Jewish Lobby, and their Pit Puppies in the American Establishment understand this. If Press TV, Hispan TV, Russia Today, and other international media outlets capable of reaching American and European audiences from abroad ever succeed in facilitating the connection of the real dots in this Internet age for masses of people in the Western world, these jokers are finished. The game will be over.
But the Beast will not go out without a fight. It will begin with a False Flag Incident which mirrors Fort Sumter or the Kuwaiti Baby Incubator Fraud of 1990. And as Billy Graham’s handler, William Randolph Hearst once put it, “You give me the pictures, I’ll give you the war.”
Only this time, the Good Guys will win the war the Bad Guys begin. And Franklin Graham will join John Hagee, Kenneth R. Timmerman, and Howard Phillips in going on oxygen.
Mark Dankof on The Zionist Media Plot and the Treyvon Martin Tragedy
Mark Dankof in Washington, D. C. in November of 2011
Press TV in Tehran contacted me today for a phone interview on the Treyvon Martin case.
In a nutshell, the Treyvon Martin case is a classic manipulation of the American public, and a diversionary tactic par excellence on the part of a Zionist-controlled American Corporate Media for reasons classically obvious only to those in this country who can still think, and exercise dispassionate judgment accordingly.
Irresponsible, racially oriented demagoguery comes to us via electronic barrage from the usual Establishment shills in the African-American community, evidenced by the inflammatory rhetoric and self-serving actions of Jesse Jackson, Maxine Waters, and Chicago Congressman Bobby Rush (D-IL), among others. Although it has received less media attention, the racist wing of the American Right Populist movement has been equally irresponsible, as evidenced by simian statements and analysis laced with vicious appellations directed at African Americans like “nigger,” “chimps,” and “coons.” Neither side can claim to know yet what really happened in Florida and all of its nuances and dimensions. Both sides fail to understand the Real Game in how this terrible situation is being deliberately exploited at the expense of decent people of good will with different shades of skin color.
One thing is not in doubt. The issues surrounding this tragedy discussed by Pat Buchanan in his essay, “It’s All About Race Now,” will not be aired on CNN or MSNBC.
A second thing is not in doubt. Lost in all of this is the way the false Hegelian dialectic between mutually public racists African American and European American serves as a strategically-designed diversion from the real issues confronting a sick and terminally ill American culture, economic, and political system. The diversion from real issues of mutual interest to African and European Americans serves only our Zionist Political Masters and the Corporate Media in their employ. These Masters are pitting the two camps against one another on a racial basis, even as these camps fail to recognize a common plight they share, or the common enemy bent on manipulating and destroying the viability of their respective constituencies when functionally advantageous. Sun Tzu knew what he was talking about in The Art of War. One had better learn the identity of his real adversary and the political coalitions necessary to combat him.
Matthias Chang of the Perdana Peace Organization and Mark Dankof in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. November 2011.
Whatever the real, objective truth about what happened in Florida and why, there are some obvious truths on the subject which will not air on MSNBC, CNN, or Fox News tonight.
Truth Number One is this: The Treyvon Martin shooting, and the fanned public demonstrations that have followed, have blinded both African and European Americans to the most serious and ominous development on the near term horizon. The United States and Israel are in the process of laying the groundwork to attack Iran and ignite an unjustifiable conflict that may mushroom into a full fledged Third World War on behalf of Benjamin Netanyahu’s dream of an Eretz Yisrael which expands Zionist borders from the Nile River to the Tigris and Euphrates. The other constituencies served by this planned program of Mass Murder are International Central Bankers and their globalist New World Order economic system of Usury, Fiat Money, and Fractional Reserve Banking, which destroy the lives of African and European Americans equally well; and the rapacious Multi-National Energy Consortiums that desire to carve up the Middle East and Central Asia for themselves, at the expense of indigenous peoples in that part of the world and working Americans of every racial stripe at the local gasoline pump as well.
Even as the Treyvon Martin case saturates the airwaves, why is Corporate American Media concurrently failing to report what Russia Today has, that 2 American aircraft carrier task forces and 2 Marine amphibious assault groups have been deployed in the Persian Gulf region for reasons obvious? And that a third American aircraft carrier task force is due to join them in another month? And that thousands of American troops are being deployed to Israel? Why does the average American of any skin color not know of the utilization of the terrorist Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK/PMOI) by the Israeli Mossad and the Neo-Conservative wing of the American intelligence community for criminal actions in Iran, including the assassination of 5 Iranian nuclear scientists and what the Washington Post terms an “unexplained” 5-fold increase in explosions and bomb blasts in that country in the last two years, especially in Iranian Azerbaijan, Khuzestan province, and Balochistan province? And why has the cogent analysis of Pepe Escobar on the American Imperial Wars in Central Asia escaped coverage by Wolf Blitzer and Dana Bash of CNN, and Sean Hannity of Fox?
The Mossad and the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK/PMOI): The Alliance of Terror Against Iran
Equally ominously, Russia Today is reporting tonight that NBC News deliberately altered the 911 transcript of the conversation between George Zimmerman and his dispatcher, an allegation that if true simply underscores the larger implications of what is happening. . . .
The Treyvon Martin tragedy is a marvelous diversion from the ultimately compelling issue of the survivability of this planet and who threatens it. There is a sobering accompanying reality: The disproportionate number of African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and European Americans from small towns in the United States of under 10,000 in population, who are presently enlisting in the American Armed Forces because of a dearth of economic opportunity due to the deliberate exportation of this country’s manufacturing sector abroad, will all die in equally horrific numbers on behalf of an immoral war prosecuted on behalf of the interests already aforementioned. And why are Jesse Jackson, Maxine Waters, and Bobby Rush joining American Neo-Conservative Brownshirts like John McCain and Lindsey Graham in failing to put the Zionist monolith under a critical microscope for its real motives and actions?
The late Alabama Governor George Wallace got it right several generations ago: On the real issues, there “isn’t a dime’s bit of difference between the Democratic and Republican Parties. . . .“
Finally, one might ask why the obvious discrepancy between the demagogic media circus coverage of events in Sanford, Florida, in glaring contrast to relative media indifference to the recent murder of an Islamic Iraqi woman in El Cajon, California. Her brutal bludgeoning to death at home by assailant or assailants unknown, was accompanied by the leaving of a note by the perpetrator (s) tagging her as a “terrorist,” and as one who should have “gone home where she came from.” The suicide note is alleged to have contained rhetoric borrowed from recent Zionist and Neo-Conservative political events in southern California drenched in Islamophobia. Where are Wolf Blitzer and Dana Bash? Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly? Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai Brith? Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center? Jesse Jackson, Maxine Waters, and Bobby Rush?
It would seem that the Empire’s “responsibility to protect” (R2P) is most selectively applied, either in North Africa, the Middle East, or within the domestic United States. Cui bono?
If you haven’t figured it out by now, may God have mercy on your life and soul.
False Flag Operation Prototype for the Coming War with Iran: The Kuwaiti Incubator Baby Deception
Mark Dankof in Washington, D. C. in November of 2011
Last night at the gym after my usual stint at the pullup bar and the leg extension and leg curl machines, I proceeded to the treadmill. I was there for one hour at varying speeds and inclines throughout the 60 minutes. The ceiling-suspended television sets for treadmillers at this particular training location in San Antonio always involve ESPN; one of the major networks when it offers a bad soap opera or sit-com; and the incessant droning of the CNN newsroom where the presence of Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper proves especially annoying and wearisome, although informative in ways not intended by the Masters of Corporate Media.
Last night was more of the same. I was stationed in front of CNN during my treadmill session. Wolf Blitzer was interviewing a Fred Burton of Stratfor Global Intelligence based in Austin, Texas. Mr. Burton is their Vice-President for Counterterrorism and Corporate Security. The subject was the mysterious January 16th, 2012 killing of Iranian medical student Gelareh Bagherzadeh, age 30, a woman with a profile as an activist in the Iranian women’s rights movement and professionally based at Houston’s world-famous M. D. Anderson Medical Center. She was found slumped over the wheel of her car after being shot in the head once by an unknown assailant. The crime took place at the site of the wealthy housing estate in Houston where her family lived. Houston police summoned after the gunfire found Ms. Bagherzadeh’s vehicle crashed into the door of a garage with the engine still running and the tires spinning. She had apparently been speaking on her mobile phone to an ex-boyfriend at the time of her death. It is still unclear whether she had been followed home, or the victim of an assassin lying in wait for her as she arrived. No one is presently in custody.
Who really killed Gelareh Bagherzadeh?
She was a coordinator of a Houston-based protest organization called SabzHouston. Cursory scan of their web site reveals a strong affiliation with the Green Movement and the past Presidential campaign in Iran of Mir Hossein Mousavi. The site alleges massive fraud in the Iranian election of June 12, 2009. The site’s section dedicated to the memory of Gelareh Bagherzadeh asks for all to refrain from speculation about motivation for the tragedy.
Someone forgot to inform CNN about the avoidance of baseless speculation. Wolf Blitzer’s line of questioning led Fred Burton of Stratfor into a line of analysis which revealed that although Mr. Burton had no factual basis for what he was implying, he was clearly hopeful that viewers would infer the direct probable involvement of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), both in the Bagherzadeh tragedy and in the allegations surrounding the supposed involvement of Tehran in a most improbable and counterproductive scheme to assassinate the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States in Washington. This is all on top of the assumptions made by many Americans about Iranian involvement in reported recent acts of terror in Bangkok and Delhi aimed at Israel according to CNN and other media outlets. Gareth Porter’s recent article should be a word of caution on this. Ditto for Richard Sale’s recent piece on Israel and the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK/MKO/PMOI) chronicling this Demonic Dynamic Duo’s program of assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists and other related criminal acts of terror. My recent interview with the Habilian Association chronicled at Iran Interlink contains other articles and leads that may provide a completely different set of suggestions as to where to look for possible motives and answers in the Gelareh Bagherzadeh murder case in Houston. Be advised.
There is much CNN did not say last night, or today, when Fred Burton of Stratfor was brought on again to spin the story of the Gelareh Bagherzadeh assassination.
CNN viewers are not told about the biography of Wolf Blitzer for openers. As recently chronicled by the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA):
“Blitzer is a former employee of AIPAC, Israel’s behemoth Washington, DC lobby (see former Sen. James Abourezk’s “Wolf Blitzer, AIPAC, and the Saudi Peace Initiative” in the July 2007 Washington Report, p. 16, also posted on our Web site). The CNN anchor also is the author of Territory of Lies: The Exclusive Story of Jonathan Jay Pollard: The American Who Spied on His Country for Israel and How He Was Betrayed (the title seeming to imply that it was Pollard, rather than his native country, who was betrayed).”
Neither does CNN mention the strong links between Stratfor and the Israeli intelligence and journalistic communities. The Austin-based intelligence oriented think-tank was begun by Zionist Texas academic Dr. George Friedman and figures prominently in some of the leaked cables emanating out of the Wikileaks/Bradley Manning case. Even stranger, a controversy has recently emerged on the American populist Right regarding charges that Texas-based populist radio commentator Alex Jones is Strafor linked. While that controversy remains in the realm of unproven allegation, Michael Collins Piper’s new book, “The Confessions of An Anti-Semite,” does provide possible context to Alex Jones’s attacks in recent years on members of the anti-Zionist American Right and his occasional apologies for Israel on page 23 of that volume:
“On October 6, 1940, The New York Times featured a revealing story reporting that Arthur Greenwood–deputy leader of the British Labor Party and member without portfolio in the British War Cabinet–had ‘assured the Jews of the United States that when victory was achieved an effort would be made to found a new world order [emphasis added] based on the ideals of ‘justice and peace,’ and that–as the Times assessed it–’after the war an opportunity would be given to Jews everywhere to make a “distinctive and constructive contribution” in the rebuilding of the world.’ The Times not only featured the phrase ‘New World Order’ in the headline, as shown above, but in a secondary subhead repeated the concept: ‘New World Order Forecast.’ As anyone who understands the special role of the Times as a voice for Jewish interests–and the New World Order–knows, this specific phraseology was no accident.
“Now, today, long after Hitler and the Nazis were vanquished in World War II, they are still the subject of constant discussion by Alex Jones–the self-described ‘biggest name’ in the ‘truth movement,’ whose lucrative career was launched by a Jewish-owned television station in Texas and now sponsored by the Jewish-owned radio giant Sirius–and by Glenn Beck, the television and radio rabble-rouser made into a superstar by Zionist billionaire Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News. . . .”
I now take the reader back to last evening and the gym treadmill. As Blitzer and Fred Burton of Stratfor were conversing, their discussion receded from my mind even as I continued watching the screen while speed walking.
Suddenly, in my mind, I was back in my late godfather’s house in suburban Washington, D. C. in October of 1990. I had come out to see him for a couple of months after leaving Seattle for good in August of that year, the same month and year that Saddam Hussein and Iraq made a fateful decision to attack Kuwait claiming the latter’s guilt in a horizontal drilling scheme illegally siphoning Iraqi oil. President George Herbert Walker Bush was pushing for an American invasion and land war against Iraq, but polls at the time revealed a public division in the United States on the wisdom of this move. The division was roughly a 50-50 split.
In this instantaneous mental reversion to October of 1990, I was suddenly seeing my godfather and I watching television in his den in Olney, Maryland. He had a fantastic mahogany bar in that den, to complement the considerable stash of liquid goodies. While he nursed a martini, I was imbibing courtesy of a bottle of German Weissbier. We were watching the evening’s replay on a local Washington station of some very interesting testimony before the House Human Rights Caucus that had transpired on a day far more pivotal in American and world history than either of us could possibly have imagined then.
The young lady we watched testifying almost 22 years ago with great visible emotion in the voice and welling tears in the eyes was a 15 year old Kuwaiti testifying under the pseudonym “Nurse Nayirah.” The alleged reason for the phony name was “fear of reprisals.” The thrust of the testimony was her supposed firsthand knowledge of war crimes and atrocities being committed in Kuwait by the Iraqi army. The clincher in that day’s riveting witness by Nurse Nayirah is reprised here via transcript. It goes as follows:
“I volunteered at the al-Addan hospital. I saw the Iraqi soldiers come into the hospital with guns, and go into the room where 15 babies were in incubators. They took the babies out of the incubators, took the incubators, and left the babies on the cold floor to die. [emphasis added]“
After the performance was over, I asked my late godfather, a retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel and past denizen of Air Force Intelligence what his reaction was to the hearing. There was a moment of silence while he downed the remaining portion of the martini. Then he opined, “Sounds like these Iraqi soldiers would be great employees in a routine day at an American abortion clinic. Aside from that, this woman’s testimony strikes me as total bullshit. That’s my reaction. Maybe we should have switched channels to watch pro wrestling. . . .”
The Colonel passed away seven years later in 1997. He now rests in section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery. He was a great man in more ways than can possibly be recounted here, but that single evening of watching Washington D. C. news in his den over drinks cemented the brilliance of his political instincts. The iron clad proof of his cut-to-the-chase discernment appeared in December of 1992.
Now forgotten by a brain-dead American public is that in December 1992, there was the airing of a documentary produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and its television show entitled The Fifth Estate. The documentary is entitled, To Sell a War. That program, largely suppressed in the United States, revealed that Nurse Nayirah was none other than Nijirah al-Sabah, the daughter of Kuwait’s ambassador to the United States, Saud Nasir al-Sabah. She was never a nurse. Her entire testimony was a complete fabrication. Her lines, and her dramatic presentation, were the result of the coaching of PR firm Hill and Knowlton. This corporate exercise in perjury before Congress, a criminal offense, was joined by the obvious moral duplicity of the Bush Administration and other elements of the War Party, including Corporate Zionist News Media Incorporated.
But it worked. Honest historians note that Nurse Nayirah, a. k. a. Nijirah al-Sabah, and her coached charade before the fawning House Human Rights Caucus, was the turning point in King George Herbert Walker Bush’s public relations campaign to rally the American public for a war mired in false premises, and for a campaign of two decades plus of duplicity, death, displacement, and destruction that appears headed for final consummation in Israel’s demand for preemptive war with Iran and the genesis of World War III. I reiterate what I have said continuously. It will begin with a False Flag Operation par excellence, likely to supersede 9-11 in galvanizing force and deception. Its endgame is to bring the United States into Netanyahu’s Crusade with the full backing of a comatose and moronic American electorate. Eretz Yisrael is the objective, as it always has been in American foreign policy in the Middle East.
It is in light of this grim reality and circumstantial evidence surrounding recent events in Delhi, Bangkok, Mexico, and now Houston, with the advent of the Gelareh Bagherzadeh assassination, that the Wolf Blitzer/Fred Burton roadshow on CNN in the last 24 hours must be suspiciously evaluated. CNN now has Mr. Burton of Stratfor mentioning Gelareh Baghderzadeh’s past history in Paris as a possible point of intersection with what he claims is a major European center for intelligence operations of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Mr. Burton omits what is far more provable, and what points in the opposite direction. Paris is a major point of intersection for the operations and presence of both the Israeli Mossad and the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK/MKO/PMOI). Why does he fail to consider the possibility that the Baghderzadeh killing is the work of the latter, in a developing campaign of ongoing false flag incidents designed to convince Americans that Tehran is in the process of commencing an all out war of terror in the United States as a means of providing the Zionist State and its backers in the American government and media with their own effective version of the Kuwaiti Incubator Baby Deception?
I will reiterate the pattern I enumerated in my recent piece entitled, “Fort Sumter, False Flags, and The Empire’s Coming Crusade Against Iran.” This pattern is a recommended grid to utilize in evaluating everything that emerges in what may be the greatest unfolding tragedy in all of human history:
“The pattern of Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt, Bush, and Obama has essential components and ingredients. Chief among these are: 1) The understanding of each of these Presidents that their continuance as a Chief Executive of the United States necessitated the furtherance of the power agenda of a central banking cabal; 2) This furtherance would require the involvement of their nation in a war; 3) Hostilities would commence courtesy of a false flag incident, used to disguise the identity of the real perpetrators and their agenda; 4) The war would of necessity involve the employment of mass media in legitimizing the rationale for the conflict among the masses with a barrage of viscerally powerful images and metaphors soaked in notions of moral crusade, absolutism, the sanction of Divine Providence, blind nationalism, and religious visions containing distorted notions of Manifest Destiny, messianic fervor, and millennial fanaticism; 4) Legitimate dissent from the Crusade, rooted in sounder notions of Constitutional restraint, diplomacy, and what Jesus Christ actually teaches about the Kingdom of God, would be met with demonization, economic impoverishment, persecution, imprisonment, and death. What worked for Lincoln in this final regard, is being arranged nicely for Obama in the form of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), as demonstrated recently by Jonathan Turley in The Guardian (UK). Building on the foundations of the two Patriot Acts, the Military Commissions Act of 2006, the jettisoning of Posse Comitatus laws, the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretap program, and the circumventing of the Federal Court established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the NDAA has formally codified George W. Bush’s observation that the Constitution of the United States is nothing but a “Goddamned piece of paper.” Presumably the lives and liberties of American citizens, not to mention The Empire’s victims abroad, fall into the identically condemned status and subsequently fateful demise.”
Well, Wolf and Fred, what do you think?
Barack Obama strides to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) stage in Washington.
Mark Dankof’s Conversation with Iran’s Habilian Association: Latest Observations on the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK/PMOI)
Mark Dankof in Washington, D. C. in November of 2011
The Iran-based Habilian Association renews its conversation with American populist Right commentator Mark Dankof on the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK/PMOI/MKO), the latest developments surrounding it, and the implications for American foreign policy as tensions between the United States and Iran increase because of the Zionist State of Israel and the flexed political muscles of the domestic Jewish Lobby in an American Presidential election year, as evidenced by the upcoming American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conclave in Washington.
Mark Dankof was the Constitution Party’s candidate for the U. S. Senate in Delaware in 2000. He is now teamed up with radio broadcaster Mark Glenn on The Ugly Truth. Their most recent broadcast dealt with the doctrine of “Eretz Yisrael” ["Greater Israel"] and the threat this ideology presents to peace in the Middle East, Palestine, Central Asia, and globally. Mr. Dankof’s most recent appearance for Iran’s Press TV dealt with the Bradley Manning/Wikileaks controversy.
Habilian Association: Mr. Dankof, there have been allegations recently that the MEK was involved in the recent bomb blasts in Thailand. What do you think of these allegations? If you place any validity in them, for what purposes would the MEK have been involved?
Mark Dankof: I am aware of the allegations made by Syedsulaiman Husaini, the Shia leader of Thailand, that the MEK was directly involved, and that all four (4) of the suspects were MEK operatives. His allegations were published in the Bangkok Post. Mr. Husaini’s allegations make perfect sense to me. In the first place, the Iranian government is not reckless enough to sanction such an absolutely absurd undertaking, any more than the so-called Saudi Ambassador assassination plot in the United States Iran was linked to by the American media. I emphasized this in my last conversation with you fine folks and with Press TV. Tehran would have everything to lose by such actions, in essence handing the Zionists the public casus belli they seek in conjunction with the Zionist-affiliated War Party in the United States. Everything about this recent incident in Bangkok points to a False Flag Operation conducted by the Mossad and the MEK for purposes of discrediting Iran, facilitating their propaganda campaign about Iran’s posited danger to the international community, and diverting attention from their own obvious acts of terror within Iranian borders in recent years, including the assassinations of the 5 Iranian nuclear scientists. NBC News has all but confirmed MEK/Mossad involvement in these killings, quoting an “unnamed senior U. S. official” as confirming a direct Israeli/MEK involvement not only in these 5 murders, but in other acts of terror in Iranian Azerbaijan, Khuzestan, Balochistan, and Khorasan provinces. The published research on all of this by Philip Giraldi of the Council for the National Interest, a former CIA station chief, underscores what NBC, Newsweek, Time, and CNN aren’t really attempting to conceal anymore—that there is a systematic campaign against Iran that involves assassinations, drone airspace violations, bomb blasts, cross-border black operational raids, Western intelligence money being funneled to political dissidents, and now the central bank and oil/gas industry sanctions designed to isolate Iran and wreck its economy. When the Washington Post admits that there has been a “five-fold increase” in “unexplained” explosions affecting Iranian oil and gas facilities and pipelines, military installations, and nuclear power-related operations, it doesn’t take a genius to see that these “unexplained” events are quite explainable. They are obviously being facilitated by Israel through the MEK, and secondarily through Jundallah in Balochistan and PJAK in northern and northwestern Iran. Giraldi tells readers of Pat Buchanan’s The American Conservative and Antiwar.com to pay particular attention to Iranian Azerbaijan as a place where Israeli and American intelligence will be especially active. He states the following:
“A separate finding on Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program was signed in 2007 by President Bush. It authorized attacks against Iranian nuclear scientists and other facilities in Tehran and elsewhere as well as coordination with the Israelis to develop computer viruses to disrupt the Iranian computer network, a program that led to the production of the Stuxnet worm. While the media credits ‘the Israelis’ in the assassinations of Iranian scientists, the reality is that no Israeli (or American) intelligence officer could possibly operate effectively inside Iran to carry out a killing. The assassinations, which are acts of war, have actually been carried out by followers of the dissident Iranian Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK), the separatist Baluch Jundallah, and the Kurdish PJAK, all acting under direction from American and Israeli intelligence officers. The MEK’s role in doing the CIA’s and Mossad’s dirty work is one reason so many neoconservatives and national security experts have been calling for the group to be removed from the U.S. terrorist group list.
“The new finding on Iran extends existing initiatives and is intended to strangle Iran by creating insurgencies along all of the country’s borders. It includes involvement with the Azeris, who inhabit northwestern Iran and share a common border, language, and culture with the people of Azerbaijan. Twenty million ethnic Azeris in Iran make up nearly 25 percent of the population. When combined with the 2 percent who are Baluchs, 7 percent who are Kurds, and 3 percent who are Arabs, it is easy to understand that Iran has a significant ethnic problem concentrated along its borders. This is precisely what the covert action seeks to exploit by encouraging ethnic fragmentation in the country’s border regions and supplying dissidents with communications equipment, training, money, and weapons.”
And now Israel has concluded a $1.6 billion dollar arms deal with Azerbaijan.
Here is the bottom line. The United States and Israel are already at war with Iran, as Ron Paul has correctly observed. The recent articles by Pat Buchanan, Pepe Escobar, and Alex Newman of the New American are among those which chronicle the real reasons for this bellicose policy of unmitigated aggression. These reasons have nothing to do with the Zionist propaganda poured into American homes every evening by Corporate Media. The Zionist doctrine of Eretz Yisrael; Iran’s forced entrance into a Jewish dominated international central banking system at gunpoint; and the control of Iranian oil, natural gas, and pipeline routes by Western multinational energy consortiums, is the real agenda. And one of history’s most bitter ironies and paradoxes is that the Marxist-Leninist MEK is a tool in the achievement of these evil objectives. The real point of intersection in all of this may well be the truism that Marxism, Zionism, and Multinational Corporate Capitalism have an identical disregard for God and a complete lack of respect for the sanctity of human life—especially Iranian human life.
Habilian Association: The hue and cry of the MKO is that the conditions at Camp Liberty in Iraq are dire and inhumane, and that Iraqi forces are a threat to the wellbeing of the MKO inhabitants, even though the United Nations has confirmed that Liberty meets international standards. What do you think of all of this? Is the MEK going to resist further attempts at relocation? What will Iraq’s reaction to continued resistance be?
Mark Dankof: The propaganda campaign being waged by the MKO over their status in Iraq is being aided and abetted by Israel’s Lobby in the United States, as is made clear by reading Ron Kampeas’ piece for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the Jerusalem Post entitled, “Pro-Israel Voices Want MKO off Terrorist List.” I have some advice for both Iraq and Iran. I believe all 3,400 MKO members should be returned to Tehran. Those determined to have been directly involved in crimes should face a public tribunal for their massively expansive list of violent acts undertaken in that country since 1965. The witnesses in the tribunal would include a rather impressive list of Westerners victimized by the MEK, including Constance Wilson Andresen, the ex-wife of Professor Raymond Tanter of Georgetown University who heads up the MEK’s chief front organization in the United States, the Iran Policy Committee. The world needs to hear Mrs. Tanter’s story, the stories of the American family members whose loved ones were assassinated by the MEK during the days of Pahlavi Iran, the role of the MEK in killing dozens of members of the IRI government in Iran in the early 1980s by bomb blasts, the utilization of the MEK by Saddam Hussein against Iran during the Iran-Iraq War from 1980-1988, the role of the MEK in carrying out the murder of Kurds at Mr. Hussein’s directive, and the particulars of the murders of 17,000 Iranians by this Marxist-Leninist cult. The horrific criminal record of this organization, when exposed by open public tribunal, will simply underscore the moral bankruptcy of the Israeli government presently in league with these people, and the connivance of Israel’s agents in the United States government with these murderers.
Habilian Association: What do you think of barring Miryam Rajavi [co-leader of the MEK with husband Masoud Rajavi] from entrance into the UK?
Mark Dankof: She should be barred. She should also be expelled by France, along with her husband, and sent back to Tehran to stand trial along with the other MEK expatriates currently in Iraq. Ed Blanche’s piece in June of 2009 for The Middle East on the MEK discusses the Rajavis. It should be read by everyone in the United States currently feasting on Zionist propaganda on the subject, along with the RAND Corporation dossier on this organization and its sordid history. The latter may be accessed at RAND_MG871 MEK PAPER .
Habilian Association: Any final thoughts today?
Nuclear Israel's plan for Non-Nuclear Iran? Will Obama Give Netanyahu the Green Light?
Mark Dankof: The sickening spectacle of the national gathering of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Washington this coming week is, nonetheless, a pivotal event in world history, but for tragic and demonic purposes. Benjamin Netanyahu is coming here in an American Presidential Election Year to extort support from a groveling American Chief Executive of the United States, his wannabe opponents in the Republican Presidential Primaries, and key Congressional members of both major parties on Capitol Hill, also known as Zionist Occupied Territory. What happens at this gathering, and in the private meeting of Netanyahu with Obama and his Republican neo-conservative counterparts, may well determine the date when Israel’s overt aerial military operation against Iran begins. I believe it will happen before the American election. When it does, Philip Giraldi’s essay, “What World War III May Look Like,” underscores the horror and tragedy of the intended—and unintended—consequences that will undoubtedly follow.
I’d like to express one more thought tonight. I have always loved Iran since I first traveled there in 1974. It was my intention to return there for a visit this year, an intention unfortunately preempted by events beyond the control of any of us. I’d like any Iranian who reads my remarks, either in English, or in a Farsi translation, to know from the bottom of my heart that I am truly and sincerely sorry for the direction the relationship between our countries has taken in recent years because of the poison disseminated by the Zionist beast, and that I and many similarly powerless Americans are sickened and outraged by what is likely to transpire in the next year. I’ll never forget Iran and the kindness of its people as I encountered them personally many years ago as a young person. My memories remain bright. They will never die. The Old American Republic already has.
Mark Dankof to Howard Phillips: A Violation of the 8th Commandment Requires a Public Apology
Pastor Mark Dankof in the 1990s.
I am reminded today of the spring of 1969, when I was confirmed in a traditional German Lutheran Church in Dayton, Ohio, after two years of catechetical instruction. In those days, the class had to memorize many Bible passages, and entire sections of Luther’s Small Catechism. This rigor included the memorization of the 10 Commandments, and the brief written expositions on the meaning of each provided by the 16th century Father of the Reformation.
The 8th Commandment, and Luther’s subsequent explanation, are simply as follows:
“Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against Thy Neighbor. [8th Commandment]
“What Does This Mean? [Luther's posited question]
“We should fear and love God that we may not deceitfully belie, betray, slander, nor defame our neighbor, but defend him, speak well of him, and put the best construction on everything. [Luther's Answer]“
In the annotations provided by Edward W. A. Koehler in the version of Luther’s Small Catechism published by Concordia Theological Seminary Press in Fort Wayne, Indiana, we read the following supplementary comment on Luther’s exposition:
“False witness is making an untrue statement and making it with the intention of harming a reputation.”
With this in mind, Howard Phillips, the founder of the Constitution Party and the Chairman of Washington’s Conservative Caucus, has borne public false witness against me in an article penned by Zionist sock puppet Kenneth R. Timmerman in the ironically named Accuracy in Media (AIM). Timmerman’s piece, entitled “Tehran TV Loves Ron Paul,” is clearly directed against Press TV/Iran, and against American conservatives who have appeared on that network to publicly state their opposition to an Israeli-provoked American war with that country. Philip Giraldi, Paul Craig Roberts, Paul Sheldon Foote, Mark Glenn, and I are among those Mr. Timmerman has in his gun sites. But most interestingly of all, Timmerman has drawn Howard Phillips into participation in a hit piece designed to hurt the Presidential candidacy of Congressman Ron Paul of Texas (R-TX). Why?
The public professional and political connections of Kenneth R. Timmerman may explain exactly why. The online news service, The Newshoggers, informs readers that:
“Mr. Timmerman is also Executive Director of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran, an organization which he co-founded with Project for the New American Century (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.”
This is neither the first, or the presumably last time that Howard Phillips has been in the unmistakable service of an obvious asset of the Israeli Lobby in the media arena. In the run-up to the 2008 elections, Phillips was publicly promoting Dr. Jerome Corsi as the best Presidential candidate available to the Constitution Party to run in that cycle. Corsi is the author of “Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians,” and a Harvard-educated pundit connected to Joseph Farah’s Neo-Conservative/pro-Zionist World Net Daily. Corsi dropped out of contention for the nomination of Phillips’s party only a handful of weeks after appearing on my old radio show on the Republic Broadcasting Network. There, Corsi spoke openly of his regular trips to the Zionist State, and his regular consultations with his “political advisors and friends in the Israeli Knesset.”
Kenneth R. Timmerman and Jerome Corsi are two of the most identifiable figures in the American Neo-Conservative Press working with The Lobby and The War Party. Yet Howard Phillips, the founder of a political movement originally rooted in the disenfranchised Pat Buchanan wing of the Republican Party, is a provable player and participant in their activities, even as Phillips has a longtime track record of rhetorically attacking “The Neo-Cons” and “The Globalists” in a shopworn public profile as an America First patriot. That record includes membership in the shadowy Council for National Policy (CNP), the Trilateral Commission of the American Right. The Internet trail on this is extensive, including Jackie Petru’s observations on Phillips in a piece entitled, “Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing.”
To purloin Pat Buchanan’s turning-of-a-rhetorical-phrase at the Republican Party National Convention in Houston in 1992, it would appear that Phillips has pulled off the greatest instance of “. . . cross-dressing in American political history.”
At least until now. When it comes to my U. S. Senate race in Delaware in 2000, Phillips and Kenneth R. Timmerman publish palpable falsehood in the following way:
“But what about his credential as a former U.S. Senate candidate? Dankof claims on his website that he was the “nominated candidate of the Constitution party” in Delaware in 2000. It turns out, however, that the Constitution Party never held a formal nominating process or a party primary, and that Dankof essentially nominated himself to run in that year’s U.S. Senate race.
“‘Anybody can be a candidate just by filing the forms’,” said Howard Phillips, Conservative Party founder and long-time standard bearer. “‘Mark was never anointed by the Constitution Party; he decided to run by himself.’”
My response is simply as follows. Howard Phillips is a liar. He has violated the 8th Commandment. He owes me a public apology.
For the record, 1) Phillips called me personally at my apartment in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in January of 2000 to ask me to run for the U. S. Senate seat in Delaware in the fall of that year. When I decided to run, against my better judgment, Phillips met me at his Washington, D. C. office on a number of occasions to plan out strategy for the operation. This included a move to Claymont, Delaware [across the border from Philadelphia, PA] and a change in drivers license to legally permit me to make the race. 2) There was, in fact, a public caucus of existing Constitution Party activists in Dover, Delaware (an event mentioned in their media in one location at the time), which formally recognized me as the standard-bearer that year. Howard Phillips was in physical attendance at the public caucus, and spoke on my behalf. The papers which were subsequently filed on behalf of my candidacy after the public caucus were filed either by Phillips himself, his staff member Alison Potter at Constitution Party of Virginia headquarters, or the State Chairman of the Constitution Party of Delaware at their behest. I did not file them. 3) Howard Phillips asked Pat Buchanan to formally endorse two Constitution Party candidates for the U. S. Senate that year, in states where the Reform Party had no one on the ballot. One was in Michigan. Mark Dankof in Delaware was the other. 4) At the National Convention of the Constitution Party in Baltimore in 2000, nationally televised by C-SPAN and chronicled in their archives for DVD sale, Mark Dankof’s 30 minute address to all of the National Convention Delegates from the podium was featured along with speeches by Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch, Christopher Ruddy of NewsMax, and Mr. Phillips himself. 5) Howard Phillips’ nationally distributed Issues and Strategy Bulletin formally acknowledged my candidacy in 2000 in a word of expressed appreciation to me as well as his other candidates for Federal offices, after the election was over. 6) As a quid pro quo for my agreeing to run, Howard Phillips issued me a written agreement as an Independent Consultant to research and ghost-write his nationally distributed Senate Roll-Call Report under Conservative Caucus auspices, for remuneration for a period not to exceed one year. This was designed to cover my loss of income in 2000 when I agreed to devote myself to running, even as I suspended my theological studies at Westminster Theological Seminary in 2000 at Phillips’ request, to do what I thought was a favor for a friend. Now an ex-friend. 7) In 2000, Howard Phillips’s national television show on public access channels, Conservative Roundtable, chose only two Constitution Party national candidates to showcase as featured guests in the Washington, D. C. studio connected to Morton Blackwell’s Leadership Institute. Lou Wein, the Constitution Party candidate for the U. S. Senate in New York was one. The other was the Constitution Party candidate for the U. S. Senate in Delaware—Mark Dankof. The published archives for the show reveal that I was interviewed by Phillips in July of 2000, show episode 237.
Steve Farina, a System Engineer and System Programmer in Delaware in 2000 (now in Massachusetts), also has a different memory of what happened there in 2000 from that of Howard Phillips. Mr. Farina, and his wife Liz, hosted a meeting in their home in The First State to promote my candidacy and organizational efforts for the Constitution Party. Steve recently commented on Timmerman’s smear in Accuracy in Media on LinkedIn by stating that:
“I sat in my den with Mark [Dankof], Howard [Phillips], Jim Clymer [the National Chairman of the Constitution Party in 2000], and some Constitution Party supporters from around Delaware in 2000. There is no doubt that Howard [Phillips] and all involved recognized Mark [Dankof] as the ‘anointed’ candidate for the U. S. Senate seate in Delaware.”
Saved e-mails, official letters under Phillips’s signature sent to me, as well as what is in the public record from 2000, will also corroborate who is telling the truth, if the issue is pressed.
As for my ex-friend, I reiterate my request. I demand a public apology for publicly uttered untruth issued with clear malicious intent.
There is a simple second second request. If you desire to continue working with War Party stooges to promote World War III on behalf of Israel, Central Bankers, and the New World Order, please cease and desist with your Political Cross-Dressing as an America First patriot and Constitutionalist.
It’s time to be honest and Come Out of the Closet, Howard. To quote John Lennon in Imagine, “It’s Easy if You Try.” It should be especially easy when you’re about to hang it up.
Postscripts: The interview I did with Howard Phillips at his Conservative Caucus headquarters in Washington in 1998 for the German Lutheran weekly Christian News, was re-posted by World Net Daily and is ironically entitled “The Last Honorable Politician.”
Richard Mellon Scaife is the chief financial backer of Accuracy in Media. Check out the Rense listing for “Israel Moles Behind 9-11 and Iraq War: The Pollard Affair Never Ended which reposts the work of the Executive Intelligence Review. It tells us that:
On July 8, 1996, Richard Perle, now the Chairman of the Defense Policy Board, an advisory group that reports to Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, presented a written document to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, spelling out a new Israeli foreign policy, calling for a repudiation of the Oslo Accords and the underlying concept of “land for peace”; for the permanent annexation of the entire West Bank and Gaza Strip; and for the elimination of the Saddam Hussein regime in Baghdad, as a first step towards overthrowing or destabilizing the governments of Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. The document was prepared for the Jerusalem and Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies (IASPS), a think tank financed by Richard Mellon-Scaife. The report, “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm,” was co-authored by Perle; Douglas Feith, currently the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy; David Wurmser, currently special assistant to State Department chief arms control negotiator John Bolton; and Meyrav Wurmser, now director of Mideast Policy at the Hudson Institute.
Richard Mellon Scaife is number #2 among those financing Islamophobia in the United States at the behest of the Zionist State, according to the Center for American Progress (CAP). Edward Spannaus’s expose on Richard Mellon Scaife for the Executive Intelligence Review is also revealing.
Mother Jones gives its spin on Howard Phillips.
Howard Phillips has announced his retirement from the Conservative Caucus. See the Conservative Times story.
Mantiq al-Tayr weighs in on Howard Phillips, Kenneth R. Timmerman, Larry Klayman, Morton Blackwell, William A. Rusher, Paul Weyrich, Marvin Leibman, Chris Bedford of the “New Guard” Magazine of the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), and other Zionists and Zionist-fellow travelers in an essay entitled, “Stealth Zionism.” This piece chronicles the briefing of Howard Phillips and his Conservative Caucus entourage in Israel by Benjamin Netanyahu himself. . . .
Fort Sumter, False Flags, and The Empire’s Coming Crusade Against Iran
Mark Dankof in Washington, D. C. in November of 2011
It is no accident that Michael Gerson, a major schill of the Establishment Corporate Media’s (ECM) chorus for a Zionist-inspired war with Iran, has stepped forward in the Washington Post to broadside Congressman Ron Paul of Texas, and to concurrently publish a breathtaking synthesis of ignorance and duplicity regarding the American War Between the States in the 19th century. Gerson is joined in his transparent machinations for the Israeli Lobby against the Presidential campaign of the Texas Republican Congressman by fellow agents Wolf Blitzer and Dana Bash of CNN, who pulled the plug on U. S. Army Corporal Jesse Thorsen during an on-air interview with the Corporal on the night of the January 3rd Iowa Caucus. It seems the young man’s comments on why the United States didn’t need to be a surrogate military force in the Middle East for the Jewish State were too much on target to be placed before the American people for honest examination and consideration. George Orwell lives. The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA), which has ruthlessly exposed the backgrounds of Blitzer and Bash, has the video of the latest version of the Hasbara Project online. Check out the following synopsis from WRMEA:
Blitzer is a former employee of AIPAC, Israel’s behemoth Washington, DC lobby (see former Sen. James Abourezk’s “Wolf Blitzer, AIPAC, and the Saudi Peace Initiative” in the July 2007 Washington Report, p. 16, also posted on our Web site). The CNN anchor also is the author of Territory of Lies: The Exclusive Story of Jonathan Jay Pollard: The American Who Spied on His Country for Israel and How He Was Betrayed (the title seeming to imply that it was Pollard, rather than his native country, who was betrayed).
Senior congressional correspondent Bash joined CNN as Dana Schwartz, her maiden name. Her father, Stu Schwartz, is a senior broadcast producer at ABC News and her mother, Frances Weinman Schwartz, is, according to Wikipedia, “an educator in Jewish studies and author of the book, Passage to Pesach, and co-author with Rabbi Eugene Borowitz of two books, Jewish Moral Virtues and A Touch of the Sacred.” In 1998 the CNN correspondent married her first husband, Jeremy Bash, chief of staff to Leon Panetta in his capacities as both defense secretary and former CIA chief. The son of the chief rabbi of the Arlington Fairfax (VA) Jewish Congregation, Bash was chief minority council to the House Intelligence Committee when the pro-Israel Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) was its top Democrat prior to the 2006 elections. The Bashes divorced in 2007. The following year Dana Bash married fellow CNN congressional correspondent John King, who converted to Judaism prior to their marriage.
But we are not to worry. There was no conspiracy to silence Corporal Thorsen on international television on January 3rd. And there is nothing to the allegation that Jews disproportionately control major American and world media outlets. . . .
We return to Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo, the author of The Real Lincoln. He dissects Michael Gerson this week in print, exposing the latter for the historical ignoramus he truly is. Di Lorenzo’s post is essential reading, as is my review of his magnum opus on Lincoln penned during the beginning of King George’s War on Terror which commenced a decade ago and continues to unfold as a tragedy with eschatological dimensions under King Barack.
The essential point clinched by DiLorenzo is this: The pattern of Presidential duplicity, criminality, and mythologically-wrapped spin which legitimized unnecessary state-sponsored violence and war, was foundationally established by the 16th President of the United States, a pattern which was expanded in relentless application by Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the typological 20th century Presidents of the American Empire. Wilson and Roosevelt, in turn, have strengthened the hand of either the 44th or 45th President of the United States in the 21st century in launching the genesis of World War III, at the behest of Benjamin Netanyahu and the cabal of central bankers and Zionist agents utilizing the American government as their personal instrument in the achievement of global conquest and the solidification of the New World Order.
The pattern of Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt, Bush, and Obama has essential components and ingredients. Chief among these are: 1) The understanding of each of these Presidents that their continuance as a Chief Executive of the United States necessitated the furtherance of the power agenda of a central banking cabal; 2) This furtherance would require the involvement of their nation in a war; 3) Hostilities would commence courtesy of a false flag incident, used to disguise the identity of the real perpetrators and their agenda; 4) The war would of necessity involve the employment of mass media in legitimizing the rationale for the conflict among the masses with a barrage of viscerally powerful images and metaphors soaked in notions of moral crusade, absolutism, the sanction of Divine Providence, blind nationalism, and religious visions containing distorted notions of Manifest Destiny, messianic fervor, and millennial fanaticism; 4) Legitimate dissent from the Crusade, rooted in sounder notions of Constitutional restraint, diplomacy, and what Jesus Christ actually teaches about the Kingdom of God, would be met with demonization, economic impoverishment, persecution, imprisonment, and death. What worked for Lincoln in this final regard, is being arranged nicely for Obama in the form of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), as demonstrated recently by Jonathan Turley in The Guardian (UK). Building on the foundations of the two Patriot Acts, the Military Commissions Act of 2006, the jettisoning of Posse Comitatus laws, the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretap program, and the circumventing of the Federal Court established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the NDAA has formally codified George W. Bush’s observation that the Constitution of the United States is nothing but a “Goddamned piece of paper.” Presumably the lives and liberties of American citizens, not to mention The Empire’s victims abroad, fall into the identically condemned status and subsequently fateful demise.
Thomas DiLorenzo (“The Lincoln Myth“) and Frank Conner, author of The South Under Siege 1830-2000: A History of Relations Between the North and the South, largely agree on the fundamental causes of the War Between the States and the agenda of Abraham Lincoln and the banking/mercantilist cadre which instigated its ignition. Conner’s contribution is especially valuable in outlining the path of America’s 16th President in arranging for the “First Shots” at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, an installation on an island in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. As for DiLorenzo, he reminds his readers of what they are not likely to have ever been told in an American grade school, or by Michael Gerson and Wolf Blitzer, about Lincoln as the prototype for Bush and Obama and their ongoing war with Persia. The Loyola College professor debunks the six (6) most prominent myths about the most mythologized Chief Executive in American history as follows:
Myth #1: Lincoln invaded the South to free the slaves. Ending slavery and racial injustice is not why the North invaded. As Lincoln wrote to Horace Greeley on August 22, 1862: “My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it . . .”
Congress announced to the world on July 22, 1861, that the purpose of the war was not “interfering with the rights or established institutions of those states” (i.e., slavery), but to preserve the Union “with the rights of the several states unimpaired.” At the time of Fort Sumter (April 12, 1861) only the seven states of the deep South had seceded. There were more slaves in the Union than out of it, and Lincoln had no plans to free any of them.
The North invaded to regain lost federal tax revenue by keeping the Union intact by force of arms. In his First Inaugural Lincoln promised to invade any state that failed to collect “the duties and imposts” and he kept his promise. On April 19, 1861, the reason Lincoln gave for his naval blockade of the Southern ports was that “the collection of the revenue cannot be effectually executed” in the states that had seceded.
Myth #2: Lincoln’s war “saved the Union.” The war may have saved the Union geographically but it destroyed it philosophically by destroying its voluntary nature. In the Articles of Confederation, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution, the states described themselves as “free and independent.” They delegated certain powers to the federal government they had created as their agent but retained sovereignty for themselves. This was widely understood in the North as well as the South in 1861. As the Brooklyn Daily Eagle editorialized on Nov. 13, 1860, the Union “depends for its continuance on the free consent and will of the sovereign people of each state, and when that consent and will is withdrawn on either part, their Union is gone. The New York Journal of Commerce concurred, writing on Jan. 12, 1861, that a coerced Union changes the nature of government from “a voluntary one, in which the people are sovereigns, to a despotism where one part of the people are slaves.” The majority of Northern newspapers agreed.
Myth #3: Lincoln championed equality and natural rights.. His words and, more importantly, his actions, repudiate this myth. “I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races,” he announced in his Aug. 21, 1858 debate with Stephen Douglas. “I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.” And, “Free them [slaves] and make them politically and socially our equals? My own feelings will not admit of this. . . . We cannot, then, make them equals.”
In Springfield, Illinois on July17, 1858 Lincoln said, “What I would most desire would be the separation of the white and black races.” On Sept. 18, 1858 in Charleston, Illinois he said: “I will to the very last stand by the law of this state, which forbids the marrying of white people with negroes.”
Lincoln supported the Illinois Constitution, which prohibited the emigration of black people into the state, and he also supported the Illinois Black Codes which deprived the small number of free blacks in the state any semblance of citizenship. He strongly supported the Fugitive Slave Act, which compelled Northern states to capture runaway slaves and return them to their owners. In his First Inaugural he pledged his support of a proposed constitutional amendment that had just passed the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives that would have prohibited the federal government from ever having the power “to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.” In his First Inaugural Lincoln advocated making this amendment “express and irrevocable.”
Lincoln was also a lifelong advocate of “colonization” or shipping all black people to Africa, Central America, Haiti – anywhere but here. “I cannot make it better known than it already is, “he stated in a Dec. 1, 1862 Message to Congress, “that I strongly favor colonization.” To Lincoln blacks could be “equal,” but not in the U.S.
Myth #4: Lincoln was a defender of the Constitution. Quite the contrary: Generations of historians have labeled Lincoln a “dictator.” “Dictatorship played a decisive role in the North’s successful effort to maintain the Union by force of arms,” wrote Clinton Rossiter in Constitutional Dictatorship. And, “Lincoln’s amazing disregard for the Constitution was considered by nobody as legal.”
James G. Randall documented Lincoln’s assault on the Constitution in Constitutional Problems Under Lincoln. Lincoln unconstitutionally suspended the writ of Habeas Corpus and had the military arrest tens of thousands of Northern political opponents, including dozens of newspaper editors and owners. Some 300 newspapers were shut down and all telegraph communication was censored. Northern elections were rigged; Democratic voters were intimidated by federal soldiers; hundreds of New York City draft protesters were gunned down by federal troops; West Virginia was unconstitutionally carved out of Virginia; and the most outspoken member of the Democratic Party opposition, Congressman Clement L. Vallandigham of Ohio, was deported. Duly elected members of the Maryland legislature were imprisoned, as was the mayor of Baltimore and Congressman Henry May. The border states were systematically disarmed in violation of the Second Amendment and private property was confiscated. Lincoln’s apologists say he had “to destroy the Constitution in order to save it.”
Myth #5: Lincoln was a “great humanitarian” who had “ malice toward none.” This is inconsistent with the fact that Lincoln micromanaged the waging of war on civilians, including the burning of entire towns populated only by civilians; massive looting and plundering; rape; and the execution of civilians (See Mark Grimsley, The Hard Hand of War). Pro-Lincoln historian Lee Kennett wrote in Marching through Georgia that, had the Confederates somehow won, they would have been justified in “stringing up President Lincoln and the entire Union high command” as war criminals.
Myth #6: War was necessary to end slavery. During the 19th century dozens of countries, including the British and Spanish empires, ended slavery peacefully through compensated emancipation. Among such countries were Argentina, Colombia, Chile, all of Central America, Mexico, Bolivia, Uruguay, the French and Danish Colonies, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. (Lincoln did propose compensated emancipation for the border states, but coupled his proposal with deportation of any freed slaves. He failed to see it through, however). Only in America was war associated with emancipation.
In sum, the power of the state ultimately rests upon a series of myths about the alleged munificence of our rulers. Nothing serves this purpose better than the Lincoln myth. This should be kept in mind by all who visit the new Lincoln statue in Richmond.
The essential connection of the dots provided by DiLorenzo with contemporary events is this: Just as Lincoln’s war of aggression against the South had nothing to do with the moral issue of slavery, but the agenda of the Northern banking cabal, the ideology of British economic mercantilism, Henry Clay’s “American System,” and the preservation of Lincoln’s personal power, the coming war with Iran has nothing to do with any credible military threat against the United States. It has everything to do with preserving Israel’s regional supremacy in the Middle East; forcing Iran at gunpoint to fully integrate its banking system into that of the Globalist Cabal’s; protecting the status of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency; and purloining oil and natural gas deposits and pipelines for energy consortiums. It is inextricably linked with the money trail which bankrolls American Presidential and Congressional elections, and Establishment Corporate Media (ECM).
Discerning readers worldwide have already concluded that the American-Israeli conflict with Iran is based on the overt aggression of the former, and being perpetrated for publicly stated reasons that are palpable falsehoods soaked in mythology and the American commitment to “democracy,” the ”rule of law,” ”human rights,” and the ”security of the international community.” These convenient canards are belied by the employment of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), the Kurdish PJAK, and the Jundallah terrorist organizations for bomb detonations and assassinations of Iranian citizens within their borders, acts of criminality etched with the fingerprints of the Israeli Mossad. Covert incitement of ethnic/tribal tensions by Western intelligence in Iranian Azerbaijan, Khuzestan, and Balochistan Provinces is a supplement to this strategy. Violation of Iranian airspace with American drones will continue. As Ron Paul has underscored, the economic sanctions aimed at the Iranian banking and oil sectors are additional overt acts of war. It is also crystal clear that the American Fifth Fleet in Bahrain is being publicly touted as the ace in the hole of the War Party in an escalating war of words that may well make the Strait of Hormuz a 21st century Fort Sumter.
And for what? To remove the “threat” of an Iranian weaponized nuclear program, an accusation unsupported by the last American National Intelligence Estimate on this issue and the ambiguity of recent International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reports? Even as Israel, a non-signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), sports a nuclear monopoly in the region with supplemental chemical and biological stockpiles and the area’s premier conventional military? The smell of the putrid stench of Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi National Congress (INC), and their “substantiation” of Saddam Hussein’s “Weapons of Mass Destruction” is in the air.
And for Americans who dissent from their government’s policies in the Middle East, especially in the last decade, Lincoln’s 19th century Crusade against the Constitution of the United States stands as a warning. Chapter Six (6) of The Real Lincoln warns us that America’s 16th President launched an invasion of the South without consulting Congress, as required by the Constitution; declared martial law; blockaded Southern ports; suspended habeas corpus for the duration of his administration; imprisoned without trial thousands of Northern citizens; arrested and imprisoned newspaper editors critical of him; censored all telegraph communication; nationalized railroads; created several new States without the consent of the citizens of those States; ordered Federal troops to interfere with elections in the North by intimidating Democratic voters; deported United States Congressman Clement L. Vallandigham of Ohio for criticizing the administration’s income tax proposal at a Democratic Party rally; confiscated private property; confiscated firearms in violation of the 2nd Amendment; and eviscerated the 9th and 10th Amendments to the Constitution.
DiLorenzo puts a 19th century historical perspective on the current vulnerability of those Americans who oppose the codification of the suspension of habeas corpus by Barack Obama and a complicit American Congress in the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA):
“Secretary of State William Seward established a secret police force that made thousands of arrests on mere suspicion of ‘disloyalty,’ broadly defined as disagreement with Lincoln’s war policies. Prisoners were not told why they were being arrested, no investigations of their alleged ‘crimes’ were carried out, and no trials were held. There was no legal process at all, and many Northern citizens were imprisoned for such alleged infractions as ‘being a noisy secessionist,’ selling Confederate trinkets, or ‘hurrahing for Jeff Davis.’ An Episcopal minister in Alexandria, Virginia was arrested for omitting a prayer for the President of the United States in his church services as required by the Lincoln Administration. A New Orleans man was executed by General Benjamin Butler for merely taking down a U. S. flag. [The Real Lincoln, page 138]“
And as the Loyola College professor ominously reminds us, Fort Lafayette in New York Harbor came to be known as the ‘American Bastille’ [read Guantanamo] because it housed so many political prisoners during the Lincoln Administration [more than 13,000 is the consensus among historians].
I will say again on this day of the New Hampshire Republican Primary: World War III is coming; it will be accompanied by a catastrophic destruction of American citizens domestically whose lives and Constitution will be eradicated forever by its ignition in an unjustifiable attack on Iran; and the not-so-hidden Hand behind it all is the government of Israel and the domestic Zionist lobby in the United States which owns the American Presidency, the Congress, the Judiciary, and the Establishment Corporate Media [ECM].
Ron Paul: Will you finally connect the dots and step up to home plate on this in your remaining time in this Presidential campaign, or will your equivocation and obfuscation continue? The clock is ticking toward midnight.
The clock is also ticking toward the ultimate irony and tragedy in human history, if the 44th President of the United States, from The Land of Lincoln and mythologically “emancipated” by the 16th President, proves to be the ultimate consummation in history of the utilization of capricious and usurped powers that destroy the Constitutional freedoms of his countrymen, even as the planet itself is engulfed in mass murder and death. We may live to see the fateful lifting of the Seventh Seal.
Home from Kuala Lumpur: Observations on November 22nd
Mark Dankof: "The Linear Line from Dealey Plaza to 9-11 and War with Iran"
It is November 22nd in the United States. To those of us old enough to remember, that date will be inextricably linked with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. Old shopworn debates will be revived on the Warren Commission, conspiracy theories, ballistics, and grassy knoll gunmen. What will be left undiscussed is the most important aspect of what happened in Dealey Plaza 48 years ago: the linear line which can easily be drawn from November 22, 1963 to the events in New York City on September 11th, 2001, and now what would appear to be the impending character of an American-Israeli attack on Iran. This latter event is one which Leon Panetta warns will have “unintended consequences.” In terms of these looming consequences, perhaps all that remains to be determined in another American Presidential Election Cycle is the date when this insanity will proceed, and whether or not the go-ahead for the Apocalpyse will be sanctioned by Barack Obama or a GOP Neo-Conservative sock puppet like Newt Gingrich. Michael Collins Piper’s Final Judgment remains as one of the best ways to connect the dots of this linear high-speed progression to the depths of Hades itself.
Mark Dankof and Michael Collins Piper in the Nation's Capitol: November 2011
The Linear Progression from Dealey Plaza to 9-11 and War with Iran: Mark Dankof photo of Elm Street from the Grassy Knoll in Dallas, September 1st, 2010.
As for a war with Iran, the latest must-read is Mehdi Hasan’s missal for The Guardian (UK) entitled, “If You Lived in Iran, Wouldn’t You Want the Nuclear Bomb?“ The logic of the piece leads to the inevitable conclusion: Yes.
I have just returned from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The purpose of my trip was two-fold. First, I had not had the opportunity to travel in Southeast Asia for almost 40 years, and wanted to add Malaysia to my list of places visited. Second, I had successfully procured a meeting with Matthias Chang of Future FastForward and the Perdana Peace Organization.
Meeting Chang is quite an experience. We covered his role of leadership in the Malaysian humanitarian aid mission to Gaza, his prison experience of a year and a half ago, and his observations on developments both Malaysian and global. His predictions of global economic tsunami in his Trilogy appear to be well on their way to fulfillment, paralleling my own forecasts of the last eight years of an American-Israeli-Iranian military conflict. One can well argue that the two trends are symbiotically linked to each other.
Chang’s observations on Corporate Media in Malaysia in his office conversation with me mirror my own brief experience in Kuala Lumpur with newspapers like the New Straits Times and The Star. In terms of hard news, prescient analysis, and spirited debate in the Letters to the Editor section, forget it. Like their American counterparts, Malaysian thinkers and political activists of every stripe are absolutely dependent on alternative media and the Internet for the real stuff.
Matthias Chang and Mark Dankof in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: November 2011
I decided to test my own theory (and Chang’s) about Corporate Media Controversy Avoidance and Management by writing a Letter to the Editor of the New Straits Times regarding the Seksualiti Merdeka (“Sexuality Merdeka ['Independence']“) controversy festering in the print dailies during my sojourn in Kuala Lumpur. For the uninitiated (which included me prior to the last couple of weeks), Seksualiti Merdeka is the LGBT (Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgendered) rights organization operating in this definitively Islamic country in Southeast Asia. A public demonstration of the organization was shut down by the local police a couple of days into my 2 week visit. You can begin to monitor the issue and the controversy over the actions of the police by clicking here.
The New Straits Times did not disappoint me. To my knowledge, they didn’t print what I submitted. Fair enough, but the Malaysian establishment is kidding itself if they ignore the larger implications of this movement in their country. You can destroy a nation militarily, through economic manipulation with global central bankers, or through cultural subversion. Take your pick. Where it comes to Seksualiti Merdeka, an investigation of their funding, and their relationship to certain Western NGOs and anti-Islamic elements in the United States and Europe with ties to Jewish and Israeli interests globally, would be a great place to begin.
Here is what I said, for the record:
Malaysia's Seksualiti Merdeka: Who is Really Behind the Militant Gay Rights Movement in an Islamic Country?
The Editor New Straits Times 31,
Jalan Riong, 59100,
Kuala Lumpur FAX (03-2056-7148)
To the Editor:
I wish to second the concerns raised by Jeremiah Tan to the New Straits Times on Monday, November 14th, 2011, in his Letter to the Editor entitled, “Stop Gay Culture in Showbiz, Too.” Malaysia, and Islamic culture globally, are at the same risk of infiltration and subversion as the older Christian culture in the United States was 50 years ago. The America of today bears no resemblance whatsoever to the country I knew as a young boy. Homosexuality, lesbianism, heterosexual promiscuity, abortion, drugs, and pornography, are now standard operating procedure in the United States. The Hollywood industry of John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck, and Fred Astaire has been replaced by a Hollywood in the moral and cinematic sewer. Elton John is a poster boy for what has happened in the Western world generally. Who was, and is, behind this tragedy in my country? The answer will never be found in Corporate Media in the United States for obvious reasons. But your readers will find the answer through Google search, and consulting American conservative cultural commentators like Dr. E. Michael Jones of Culture Wars.
The overwhelming political, logistical, cultural, and financial force behind all of this in the United States is clearly the domestic Jewish Lobby and its minions. Just as the Zionist monolith has hijacked American foreign policy, and Jewish banking usury has destroyed the American middle class with the Federal Reserve Board, fiat money, and fractional reserve banking, the cultural cancer metastasis already cited comes from the identical source.
Malaysians and faithful Moslems take the advice of a traditional Christian and Pat Buchanan political conservative from America: Beware.
Mark Dankof
San Antonio, Texas U. S. A.
On to a second observation about Malaysia, this one involving the presence of American, British, and Australian expatriates I encountered in two different hotels in downtown Kuala Lumpur. The identical theme was being sounded repeatedly in low-key conversations over drinks and food in comfortable surroundings. It was something on the order of, “I don’t have good feelings about what’s going on right now.” The spectrum of thoughts being expressed ranged from the overwhelmingly anxious to the enshroundingly ominous. Economic cataclysm, societal meltdown, and World War III were the three (3) leading fears of the Western faithful.
My reassuring thought to each and every one of them who confided in me: Don’t worry. Between Barack Obama, the Congress, the GOP Presidential Contenders, and the American National Security Establishment, your worst fears are guaranteed to transpire. Have another Carlsberg, or another Tiger. . . . [the two most popular beers in peninsular Malaysia].
During my time in Kuala Lumpur (“Muddy Estuary“) I had a great time getting away from American media and the NFL Gladiator Empire Cult on Sunday afternoons. In addition to talking to Matthias Chang and a contact on the faculty of the International Islamic University of Malaysia about Christian Zionist eschatology, I went to some great places in this most fascinating city. I discovered the relatively new Kuala Lumpur City Gallery on Merdeka Square’s south end, the National Art Gallery , St. Mary’s Cathedral , Plaza Low Yat, the Islamic Arts Museum, Central Market, the National Monument, and the National Mosque among others. I met a lot of great people on the streets, the KL Monorail, the National Museum, and in the endless shopping malls and kiosks. Malaysia has much to offer, and a great future if it can continue to distinguish between sharks and minnows. Let us trust that it will.
Late at night in my hotel room, I went back to my own roots, in reading. In the wee hours when I wasn’t sleeping all that well, I poured over George Washington’s Farewell Address, some of the warnings of Thomas Jefferson to the American people, the Gospel of John, the Olivet Discourse, the Book of Romans, and John’s Apocalypse. For the “I don’t have good feelings about what’s going on right now“ crowd of Western expatriates in Kuala Lumpur, I recommend these treasures for the deeper reservoir of truths that would really explain what has happened to them, and to the dying cultures and Empires they represent. Their predicament stands as a warning to the good people of Malaysia.
Finally there is my return to my home in San Antonio. In my first Sunday back at Immanuel Lutheran Church in the Alamo City, there was a envelope and a note waiting for me after the conclusion of the Liturgy and the celebration of the Lord’s Supper. It serves as a reminder that there is a faithful, albeit embattled remnant left in America in these dark days and nights. The note read:
Pastor Mark:
Ever since your very first day with us on September 10th of 2006, we have grown in our great appreciation of you for all that you are, and bring to us. If God’s will continues in our favor, we hope to have you with us at least until the end of this millennium!! We hope that’s not asking too much–of you or God!!!
During these last three Sundays without you, we have come to appreciate you even more, and have extended [Pastors] Appreciation Month to all of November.
Your Loving Congregation at Immanuel Lutheran of San Antonio.
Night Thoughts in Kuala Lumpur: Where is America and the West Headed? Can We Turn Back?
Malaysian Kids on a Field Trip at the National Museum: Do They Look Like "Terrorists?" or the Kids You Went to School With?
