Jeff Wismer’s Theory of…
Theocrats Agitating Government (T.A.G.)
According to Wikipedia:
TAG is an informal playground game that usually involves two or more
players attempting to "tag" other players by touching them with an
object, usually their hands. Played throughout the world,[1]
tag is inherently simple — most forms require neither teams, nor scores, nor
sports equipment such as balls — but it may be made more complex with various rule
modifications.
I propose that in this light, Theocrats started playing the game of taking
over the
BACKGROUND
Jilting Justice for Jesus
Monica
Goodling, Fundamentalist Education, and the Impact on Religious Civil Liberties
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2007/5/21/8329/01731
HYPOTHESIS:
Quoting the late Saul Alinsky, who was renowned for his community organizing
skills, let it be noted that it only takes 2% of society to make change if it is a well-organized, fully committed cadre. "The other 98% is pretty inert."
THE MATH:
Failed
Voting System + Ignorance + Apathy thru Comfort = Theocracy in motion
THE METHODOLOGY:
To quote Marci Hamilton:
“When religious individuals believe that they
need not abide by the law, because their religious identity (as opposed to
their religious beliefs) demands it, we become a religiously divided
society--at a time when the variety of religious beliefs is expanding
geometrically. The logical result is Balkanization of the worst kind. ... At
the same time, religious devotion is trivialized, because it is treated as
though it needs special treatment in order to survive. Religion has become a
hothouse flower, and the law its prop. ... I now
believe this concern should be uppermost in each and every American's mind.
When protection for religious belief is transformed into protection for mere
religious identity, we create a caste society far removed from the dream of
disestablishment and liberty envisioned by the Framers.”
EXPERIMENT:
Cram as many theocrats
into positions of power from various learning institutions and universities
such as
Theocrat In Training Stations,
a.k.a. T.I.T.S…and Academic Studies Sending Evangelical
Sycophants a.k.a. A.S.S.E.S.
http://maxblumenthal.com/archives/78
Monica Goodling, One of 150 Pat
Robertson Cadres in the White House
Monica Goodling, a previously unknown
Justice Department official who served as liaison to the White House, has
become a key figure in the Attorneygate scandal. When
newly released emails revealed the prominent role Goodling played in
engineering the firing of seven US Attorneys, Goodling pled the Fifth
Amendment, refusing to testify under oath.
Josh Marshall writes that
Goodling may be “afraid of indictment for perjury because she has to go up to
Congress and testify under oath before the White House has decided what its
story is.”
Goodling’s involvement in Attorneygate is not the only aspect of her role in the Bush
administration that bears examination. Her membership in a cadre of 150 graduates of
Pat Robertson’s
Goodling earned her law degree from Regent,
an institution founded by Robertson “to produce Christian leaders who will make
a difference, who will change the world.” Helping to purge politically disloyal
federal prosecutors is just one way Goodling has helped fulfill Robertson’s
revolutionary goals.
Regent has assiduously cultivated close
ties to the administration and its Republican outriders. Gonzales’s
predecessor, John Ashcroft, is currently cooling his heels at Regent
as the school’s “Distinguished Professor of Law and Government.” Christian
right super-lawyer Jay Sekulow, who also teaches at
Regent and shares a
When the Bush administration came into
power, it looked to Regent for a reliable pool of well-groomed Republican
ideologues eager to wage the culture war from the inside. The former dean of
Regent’s Robertson School of Government, Kay Coles James, was
promptly installed as the Director of the Office of Personnel Management.
According to her bio, from 2001 to 2005,
James was “President Bush’s principal advisor in matters of personnel
administration for the 1.8 million members of the Federal civil service.” In
that role, James rolled
back the power of unions in the federal sector. Now that she’s out of
government, James is back among her Christian right allies, appearing
frequently as a guest on
James Dobson’s Focus on the Family radio show.
Another Regent figure who impacted White
House policy is Jim David,
the current Assistant Dean for Administration in the Robertson School of
Government. David was inserted in the Justice Department in 2003 as yet another
sop to the Christian right; he served as deputy director of the department’s
Task Force for the Faith-Based & Community Initiative.
Since leaving the DoJ,
David has spent a considerable portion of his spare time writing opinion pieces
that appear on Regent’s website. One of his most noteable
screeds, penned in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, described
a bright spot in the destruction of
At Regent, Goodling was drilled in the
importance of unflinching loyalty to the Republican program. Once in the
Justice Department, she proved an able cog in the Bush administration’s
political machine, meeting with Republican activists in 2006 to help plot the
firing of
But as scrutiny of her actions intensifies, the
evangelical Goodling resorts to the 5th Amendment — man’s law — to avoid
breaking the biblical commandment against lying. Only the goodly and godly Pat Robertson could have
prepared her to make such a decision.
THE RESULTS:
·
RLUIPA:
·
RFRA:
Religious Freedom Restoration Act
·
Faith Based
Initiatives
·
USDOJ First
Freedom Project (http://www.firstfreedom.gov/)