The Separation between State and Religion

In time we will realize that Democracy is the entitlement of individuals to every right that was in its times alloted to kings. The right to speak and decide, to be treated with decency, to serve and be served by people in a State of “love” that is, to serve with one’s work for the development of ‘life’. To belong to the Kingdom of Human Beings without racial, national, social or academic separations. To love and be loved. To die at the service of the whole and be honored in one’s death, for one’s life and work was legitimately valued. To be graceful and grateful. To have the pride and the humility of being One with the Universe, One with every realm of Existence, One with every living and deceased soul. To treat with dignity and be treated with dignity for One is dignified together with All others and Life itself. To walk the path of compassion, not in the sorrow of guilt but in the pride of being. To take responsability for one’s mistakes and sufferings and stand up again and again like a hero and a heroine and face the struggle that is put at one’s feet and in one’s hands. Millions of people, millions and millions of people might take many generations to realize the consciousness of our humaneness but there is no other dignified path for the human being.

The “work” as I conceive it is psychological and political. Psychology is the connection between the different dimensions within one’s self and Politics is the actualization of that consciousness in our practical lives. Religion is the ceremony that binds the connectedness between the individual and the Universe. The separation between religion, politics and science, the arts and sports is, in the sphere of the social, the reflection of the schizophrenia within the individual and the masses. The dialogue between individuality and the "human" belongs to consciousness. The tendency to develop cults resides in the shortcomings we’are finding in life as it is structured today. “Life” has become the private property of a few priviledged who cannot profit from it because as soon as it is appropriated it stops to be “life” or “life-giving”.

We are all the victims of our own invention and each one is called upon to find solutions. The only problem is believing our selves incapable of finding them. We are now free to use all Systems of knowledge objectively, sharing them without imposing our will on each other. To become objective about our lives means to understand that the institutions that govern its experience are critically important. That we are one with the governments, one with the religious activities that mark its pace, that the arena’s in which we move our bodies and the laboratories in which we explore our possibilities are ALL part and parcel of our own personal responsibility. That WE ARE ONE WITH EACH OTHER AND EVERYTHING AROUND US and acknowledge for ourselves a bond of love in conscious responsibility. That we human beings know ourselves part of each other and are willing and able to act on our behalf for the benefit of each and every individual. That we no longer allow governments, industries, universities or any other institution to run along unchecked by the objective principles of humaneness. That we do not allow gurus to abuse their power or governors to steal the taxes and use them to their personal advantage in detriment of the whole. That we do not allow abuse from anyone anywhere because life is too beautiful to do so and that we are willing to stop the rampant crime with the necessary compassion Conscious knowledge is every individual's right. Conscious action is every individual's duty.

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Friday 4 March 2011

The Absurd Prosecution of Bidder 70 By Robert Redford


The Absurd Prosecution of Bidder 70

By Robert Redford, Reader Supported News
04 March 11

n 2008 a young environmental activist named Tim DeChristopher bid on 13 parcels of land quietly put up for auction by the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in the waning days of the Bush Administration. This land was part of a larger offering by the BLM of federal public land in an attempt to open it up to oil and gas exploration. The majority of the land was near national parks in southern Utah.
In an effort to derail any number of oil, gas, and mining interests from getting their claws into this land and endangering some of the last great places on earth, DeChristopher risked going to jail to stop it. This afternoon he was found guilty and jail seems more of a potential reality than ever.
Part of the statement issued this afternoon by US Atty. Carlie Christensen praising the guilty verdict, alluded to DeChristopher's actions "... disrupting open public processes and causing financial harm to the government and other individuals." Really?
There's something wrong with this picture. Major financial institutions in this country brought the nation's economy to its knees yet not one person associated with the debacle is in jail. The human consequence of their actions is indescribably profound and not one person responsible for any of it went to jail. And yet the federal government prosecuted this young activist's act of civil disobedience and he now faces jail time.
Every day, oil, gas, mining and other energy and extractive industries are indiscriminately polluting our air, land and water as the new US Congress works diligently to take away the power of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate their actions and protect the well-being of the nation's people. There's something wrong with this picture.
And when you consider that weeks after DeChristopher bid on his 13 parcels, a federal judge in essence agreed with him and blocked the sale of all the parcels, DeChristopher's prosecution becomes even more troubling. Add to that the fact that the Obama Administration's Dept of Interior said the overall sale was improper and pulled all the parcels from auction and DeChristopher's prosecution borders on absurd.
DeChristopher's defense team was barred from bringing either of these facts to the attention of the jury in arguing their case. There's something radically wrong with this picture.

To donate to the Tim DeChristopher legal defense fund, go to: www.bidder70.org
 

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+12# Activista 2011-03-04 08:54
very corrupt system - very corrupt judges - go to any court hearing in WA - tons of people - poor - ticketed for tags, seat belts, insurance (half of the elected are insurance business) - to keep revenue to state flowing.
Fines are absurd - you can get $500 for having a rooster on the end of town. $500 is what some people live all month on.
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+15# Lingolayne 2011-03-04 09:15
Why are we allowing these Corrupt Bastards to destroy our country as we once knew it. Bush, Cheney & Halliburton continue to destroy even while they're not in office. The documentary GASLANDS says it all...I have never felt so devastated by what is going on in our Government.
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+10# motamanx 2011-03-04 09:27
Why doesn't Senator Jay Rockefeller, one-time Peace Corps exec, step in and put an end to this nonsense?
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+7# Brenda 2011-03-04 10:08
What gets me is how the Republigoons manage to get away with all their dishonest and morraly corrupt deeds. I'd really like to see all the Republigoons called into a congressional hearing to investigate their misdeeds, and also I would like to see a federal investigation into the money that they got as "contributions" and their other income as well. And while we're at it, call in the Democrats and see if they got monet y to keep their mouth shut, so as to allow the Republigoons a free pass to continue on with their covert actions. 
I'm fuming mad at this current federal government.
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+4# Marcia 2011-03-04 10:41
Money. That's how. The Koch brothers own the GOP and half od the Supreme Court. Thomas, Alito and Scalia are all paid by Tea Party/Koch Industries. Americans for Prosperity is another of their Right Wing groups. Obama promised investigations into Bush and Cheney and their Regime when he ran for office but as soon as he was elected that was off the table. I'm sure he was threatened with life and limb if he pursued that investigation. Our government is as corrupt as some of those we are at war with.
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0# Robert Flynn 2011-03-04 10:51
" I'm sure he was threatened with life and limb if he pursued that investigation. Our government is as corrupt as some of those we are at war with."
Marcia, I have thought the same thing. Why wouldn't they use that tactic on any "enemey."
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0# Robert Flynn 2011-03-04 11:00
Koch Industries' paper products:
Vanity Fair 
Quilted Northern
Angel Soft
Sparkle
Brawny
Mardi Gras 
Dixi3
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+7# Ryan Langemeyer 2011-03-04 10:10
It is either revolution or nothing! We live in Alice's Wonderland now. We live in George Orwell's "1984" now. We live in "up is down", war is peace", 'hate is love". We live in an insane society. It is revolution or death. The people of Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya
understand what it takes to throw off a tyrannical government. We had best follow them. Take to the streets. Shut the government down. Demand that the plutocracy leave the country. Close the War Department. Open the Peace Department. Bring ALL military people home. End this insanity.
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+3# Marcia 2011-03-04 10:43
Absolutely! That's what I have been saying for several years. I think the teachers in WI have it right. Now to get the rest of the people fired up.
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+5# Noitall 2011-03-04 10:19
You critics write as though you believe that we still live in a Republic. I'm 63 years old and I don't recall living in a Republic in my lifetime. "A Republic, Maam, if you can keep it." I don't think we kept it very long. Our percentage of voters in any given election is evidence that our citizenry have lost interest and are leaving it up to someone else to run their lives. 'Someone else' has stepped forward and getting more comfortable with the freedom. Demand reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine and we might see a turn-around. Ignorance is not bliss. Remember when it was uncool to lie?
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+1# DPM 2011-03-04 10:43
Actually, one "white collar" swindler did go to jail. Bernie Madoff got 150 years for fraud and other financial manipulations. Essentially a Ponzi scheme. See, there is some justice. Of course, he only ripped off wealthy patrons. You see, if you defraud the wealthy, the big corporate criminals, the government, you WILL go to jail. That's a crime. The rest of us, however, are fair game.
fight back! Start with boycotting some Koch products. Don't buy Sparkle, Dixie, Brawny and Northern tissue. You don't need them. Take your money out of BofA. Put it in credit unions. Those sorts of thing are "shots" that can be heard. Parade those bastards wallets around on pike poles every chance you get. Keep it up and one day we'll go after and get the people responsible for the suffering they have caused. On Wisconsin!
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0# Merschrod 2011-03-04 10:50
How can the judge, who railroaded the trail through out of context be censured?

Why can't the officials of the BLM who orquestrated the bidding incorrectly be tried for their crime?

Appeal is the hero's only option, but the system needs to be changed.
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0# George Baggett 2011-03-04 10:54
Another important aspect of the information exposed by DeChristopher is the extent of the reach of oligarchy into the business of the US Government. Though it is easy to blame the Obama Administration, anyone familiar with agencies and the revolving door are aware it would take a sleuth or team of sleuths to rout out the infiltration in controlling natural resources. Look at the Gas exploration industry - having expanded so insidiously, and one should be aware the effort to assess all such activities is staggering. Add the factor of MSM without the fairness doctrine and one may think there is little hope.
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0# BishopAndrew 2011-03-04 10:55
I am convinced that as long as the Democratic Party and its so-called leadership is guilty of moral cowardice such travesties of this magnitude will continue. How clearly this infuriatingly sad spectacle illustrates the inherent inequity of our system, how profoundly it proves that it is money that matters nothing else. The Tea Party Republicans and their henchmen would have stolen the Lord's Supper(and as I have said before they still are trying and sometimes succeeding in doing so)and sold the Passover Meal to the Devil himself as long as it proved profitable! Unless there is a revolution it is only a matter of time before the notion of progressive government will be only a faint whisper of things once tried and believed and an outlawed whisper at that. China with all its major flaws if it addresses them may be the last great hope for well being of people instead of corporations. As a bishop in the Christian community I state here and now and without reservation you cannot claim to be a follower of Jesus Christ and be a Republican and or a so called free market capitalist! Jesus is a verb not a noun and that verb is Love and Love cannot be packaged and hyped, or used to destroy the earth and or sold like stocks and bonds, nor does it devalue the worker,the elderly or the sick or the student, nor can it serve mammon which is the Republican Religion!
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