Unlike all previous Presidents, Bush kneels before the Pope. His cheeky informality hides his childish position with the various Popes. He acts and looks like a little boy with a priest: joking and getting buzzed from behind, I suppose. Aside from the obvious latent sexuality this particular guy shows, the fact that our President goes visiting the Vatican as if this is normal is dead wrong. Whoever a bunch of people want to worship as a leader, no religious leader sits on the same political level as our President.
US President George W. Bush sought Saturday to reassure Pope Benedict XVI over the plight of Iraq's minority Christians and also to mend fences with Italy's premier Romano Prodi after months of bilateral tensions.
The Presidents of Italy don't kiss up to the Pope so why is our President doing this? It is one thing for these guys to hobnob for some reason but for Bush to go knocking on the door of this religious dictator who has a very bloody history, one that our Founding Fathers abhorred, is very dangerous. Namely, this strikes at the separation of Church and State. For the last couple of decades as our empire rots and decadence sets in, the insinuation of religious leaders into our Capital has been very insidious. For example, the foreigner from Korea, Reverend Moon, insisted his political staff, some Congressmen working in his pay and not for their voters, crown him KING in the Congress itself. And they did! Shamelessly!
This tidbit of news was barely talked about as the media owners flack mixing Church and State all over the place. Namely, Zionists, for example who are big media owners, want everyone to approve of mixing the Church and State and having religious dictatorships.
And the Catholic Church has a long history of intolerance and political domination! The battle between dissident religions and it have been extremely bloody, so much so, our own Founding Fathers wanted to prevent this here by cutting out the Church and locking it out of the government.
From the story above:
Pool reporters present before the two went behind doors, however, were surprised to hear Bush repeatedly refer to the 80-year-old pope as "sir" instead of the expected "His Holiness."
This curious bit is interesting. I still remember when Reagan's second wife went to the Queen of England and curtsied to her. I suppose our Presidents and their entourages would have crawled on their bellies for the Emperor of China or kneel on the floor before the Kings of Siam, etc, ect, ectera....(cue the music for 'The King and I'). Of course, from day one, our very own Founding Fathers refused to do this. Indeed, the English representatives refused to do this. Ditto, the French. Etc. The point was, various despots wearing crowns and sitting on thrones wearing lacy robes and surrounded by eunachs could demand disgusting displays of menialism but they could not get that from the Imperial Powers such as English or American diplomats or leaders.
Namely, they had to play our game.
When a country like the USA loses face by having its top leader bow to the Pope, this doesn't make us stronger, it makes us weaker. I repeat: it makes us look like supplicants. Beggars. Already, we have lost vast oceans of power due to the fact that we have to beg the world to give us billions of dollars every day so we can get our empire out of bed every morning. The fact that Bush has no pride but goes begging to the Pope in the hope he will have his conspiritorial minions working withint the Church attack anyone running for office here who doesn't obey the POPE, for crying out loud, not only do we look weak, we are also destroying our Constitution and our country.
There were also violent riots in Rome when the President went crawling to the Pope like a puppy looking for bones. These riots were about our many imperial crimes as we war against Muslims. It is also interesting that the Kings and Sheiks in Araby all think our President is their butler. What a come-down for us. After all, the mayor of the Palace in Paris during the Dark Ages was the grandfather of Charlemange, founder of the Holy Roman Empire.
From the article:
Twenty-five CIA agents are being tried in absentia for the kidnapping of Milan imam Osama Mustafa Hassan -- better known as Abu Omar -- and transferring him to a high-security prison outside Cairo, where he claims he was tortured.Bilateral ties were also strained over the killing of Italian secret service number two Nicola Calipari, who was shot dead by an American marine in March 2005 on Baghdad's airport road in a so-called "friendly fire" incident.
The marine, Mario Lozano, is being tried in absentia in Rome, charged with voluntary homicide.
Bush's visit also came the day after Council of Europe investigator Dick Marty released a report saying the CIA ran secret prisons in Poland and Romania from 2003 to 2005 to interrogate terror suspects under a programme authorised by the countries' presidents.
The USA is ignoring this trial while the leader of Italy alternately snuggles up to and chides our own leader. And this is because the USA is the ultimate source of wealth as all nations push to have trade surpluses with us while our own trade runs now nearly $1 trillion in the red. Nations that ignore our crimes, ignore our invasions, get to ream us out in trade and they all want this badly. This is not good---we must stop it.
But instead of seeing our danger, our nation thinks it is great, these nations love us. Even as their own people go insane with rage when our leader approaches.
From the article:
At the news conference, Bush praised Italy's leadership role in Lebanon and its military presence in Afghanistan.
And here it is: all nations wanting to invade and control Muslim nations simply line up with the USA and voila! They get to renew their imperial colonialist past! So, after WWI and WWII, they can once more, for free, dominate other nations and get their own way! Lovely.
And the Pope has lusted for this for centuries. By sword or by preaching, they work day and night to dominate the earth. They have always wanted to rule over all kings and leaders. This is why the Pope wears that bizarre looking crown, it is several crowns! Each one on top of the other, and no king is able to do this.
Six human rights groups on Wednesday released a list of 39 people they believe have been secretly imprisoned by the United States and whose whereabouts are unknown, calling on the Bush administration to abandon such detentions.The list, compiled from news media reports, interviews and government documents, includes terrorism suspects and those thought to have ties to militant groups. In some suspects’ cases, officials acknowledge that they were at one time in United States custody. In others, the rights groups say, there is other evidence, sometimes sketchy, that they had at least once been in American hands.
The history of the Catholic Church arresting and holding for years, while torturing them, hosts of people, many hundreds of thousands, is what our Founding Fathers hated. They wanted to have equality and the rule of law, not dictate from Popes. And so they set up this system which is now being utterly destroyed. And the Supreme Court now has a bunch of Papists sitting there who are decreeing that we don't need any of this anymore and they destroy our Constitution from within. And this process which is anti-liberal, is also anti-American.
President Kennedy was very careful to protect the glory and elevation of the status of 'President of the United States' and he was our only Catholic President. Today, we have a supposed Protestant who is really a satanist, kissing up to the Pope at every possible opportunity and this demeans not only his office but our entire nation.
Just like giving Israel's Jews dominance, giving the Pope dominance is deadly. And this is totally different from having Jews or Catholics hold positions of power. They can be Catholic or Jewish while being 100% American. But that means upholding the Constitution, not putting Israel or Rome before Washington, DC. And this goes for any religion, all of them, Buddhist or Muslim. Even worshippers of Pegasus must first support the USA and not swear fealty or bend the knee to anyone else. If anyone wants to do this, they can do it as a private citizen, not as a public official.
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Hi Elaine!
There are two or three factors in play here. The president suffers from a "borderline"/sociopathic condition. Then we have Cheney, and the neocon media plantation, and the CFR, et al. Then we have a population that is fragmented and alienated, and has been "educated" to believe in more of the impossible that the possible. And, frankly, the procedures established by the "founding fathers" are hopelessly unable to address the infrastructural and cultural realities of the present day. I have worked hard to find democratic methods that can cope with all the changes, but they need to be implemented, and our current stock of citizens utterly lack the imagination and boldness to implement them. So mass education is probably the first step that must be taken.
Did you get all those e-mails I've been sending?
Posted by: blues | June 10, 2007 at 06:32 AM
Elaine wrote...."It is also interesting that the Kings and Sheiks in Araby all think our President is their butler."
In Canada, and I'm sure it's a shared opinion in the U.S. as well, we just think that your President is a butt-hole.
Posted by: Canada, Eh! | June 10, 2007 at 08:37 AM
I got the emails, Blues! I have been out of town and got home after midnight last night.
Posted by: Elaine Meinel Supkis | June 10, 2007 at 06:04 PM
You have a quote "Today, we have a supposed Protestant who is really a satanist". I hope you weren't kidding when you wrote that because I agree with it 100%. Although the Catholic Church has some problems, I think you are being too hard on it.
Posted by: Sean Fields | June 11, 2007 at 12:05 AM
No one can be too hard on an organization that condones, covers up, and enables child abuse. No one.
Posted by: DeVaul | June 11, 2007 at 11:50 AM
Protestant leaders in America are often heading towards pure satanism what with them longing for the Apocalypse which will be caused by Christians being the exact opposite of Jesus.
Posted by: Elaine Meinel Supkis | June 12, 2007 at 02:59 PM
I just wanted to thank you for your amazingly ignorant, childish, hate-filled blog ! When you put drivel like this up, it only helps the cause of conservativism. Peace out, peacenik !
Posted by: James | June 14, 2008 at 05:45 PM