Wilberforce: Role Model for Anarchists

William Wilberforce worked to abolish the slave trade in Great Britain. His accomplishment was lionized in a movie earlier this year, Amazing Grace.

Eric Metaxas has written an excellent article on Wilberforce for Chuck Colson's Prison Fellowship: "How William Wilberforce Changed the World."

Wilberforce is an excellent role model for radical libertarians, as I explain here:

http://KevinCraig.us/wilberforce.htm

Happy Birthday, Bill Wilberforce

Today is the 250th anniversary of the birth of William Wilberforce.

Here is an excellent commentary by Charles Colson.

The Bible says slaves are to obey their masters, even wicked masters. They are to work for their masters as if they were working for Christ.

So wasn't it a mistake for Wilberforce to seek to abolish the institution of slavery?

The Bible says citizens are to obey their government, even wicked governments. They are not to resist them, but are to pray for them.

Would it be a mistake if we followed the example of Wilberforce and sought to abolish the institution of "government?" Why? Why not? Please add your comment below.

Note: I'm not saying we should abolish slavery the way it was abolished in the U.S.: by suspending the Consitution and killing half a million human beings. Wilberforce abolished slavery without firing a shot. Nor should we abolish the government the way America's Founding Fathers did so: by taking up arms and killing thousands of human beings.

But we need to abolish theft, murder, and kidnapping, and especially the institution that thrives on all three, stealing trillions of dollars to pursue its objectives of vengeance and the overthrow of governments of which it does not approve.

We need more Wilberforces today.

Big Resolutions for 2008

An excellent Reflection for New Year's Day from Chuck Colson at Prison Fellowship, who, of course, does not agree with my desire to abolish the institution of "civil government."

Men like William Wilberforce and John Newton worked to abolish the slave trade in Britain. Slavery was an institution. It was legally protected by "the government," which was also called an "institution," even called "a divine institution." Many great statesmen believed that abolishing the institution of slavery and freeing the slaves would result in cultural chaos and economic ruin. This belief is no longer respected. We can respect these great statesmen and still disagree with them, and work to abolish that which they are working to preserve.

How can a small group of Christians ever hope to abolish an entire institution?

Our New Year's Resolutions don't have to take the form, "I resolve to single-handedly abolish an inhumane institution that oppresses millions of people around the world and brings billions of dollars in profits to their exploiters."

All that's required is to resolve, "Every time I am given an opportunity, I will respectfully and winsomely denounce this inhumane and unChristian institution. Every time I get a chance, I will remind my neighbors that this institution needs to be abolished."

If 200 million Americans who claim to be Christian would make this little resolution, the effect would be extraordinary. It would change the world.

But 200 million Americans who claim to be Christian in 2008 are in the same boat as Christians in the days of Wilberforce and Newton: they accept the moral legitimacy of huge global institutional immorality. They never even think about it. They never ask the question, "Is this morally acceptable?" because they are only dimly aware of "this."

The institution of "the State" is the institution of theft, kidnapping, moral subversion and murder on a global scale. Many people sincerely believe that without it, we will be plunged into cultural chaos and economic ruin. We must be respectful to them as human beings, knowing that in the future their faith in this inhumane institution will no longer be respected.

The Manhattan Declaration

As Thanksgiving Day approaches, it is good not only to be grateful for God's blessings, but also to take action to protect them.

Charles Colson and James Dobson are promoting "The Manhattan Declaration," which is a pledge and call to protect things for which we should be thankful. The Declaration begins with a list of these things:

Christians are heirs of a 2,000-year tradition of proclaiming God's word, seeking justice in our societies, resisting tyranny, and reaching out with compassion to the poor, oppressed and suffering.

While fully acknowledging the imperfections and shortcomings of Christian institutions and communities in all ages, we claim the heritage of those Christians who defended innocent life by rescuing discarded babies from trash heaps in Roman cities and publicly denouncing the Empire's sanctioning of infanticide. We remember with reverence those believers who sacrificed their lives by remaining in Roman cities to tend the sick and dying during the plagues, and who died bravely in the coliseums rather than deny their Lord.

After the barbarian tribes overran Europe, Christian monasteries preserved not only the Bible but also the literature and art of Western culture. It was Christians who combated the evil of slavery: Papal edicts in the 16th and 17th centuries decried the practice of slavery and first excommunicated anyone involved in the slave trade; evangelical Christians in England, led by John Wesley and William Wilberforce, put an end to the slave trade in that country. Christians under Wilberforce's leadership also formed hundreds of societies for helping the poor, the imprisoned, and child laborers chained to machines.

In Europe, Christians challenged the divine claims of kings and successfully fought to establish the rule of law and balance of governmental powers, which made modern democracy possible. And in America, Christian women stood at the vanguard of the suffrage movement. The great civil rights crusades of the 1950s and 60s were led by Christians claiming the Scriptures and asserting the glory of the image of God in every human being regardless of race, religion, age or class.

This same devotion to human dignity has led Christians in the last decade to work to end the dehumanizing scourge of human trafficking and sexual slavery, bring compassionate care to AIDS sufferers in Africa, and assist in a myriad of other human rights causes - from providing clean water in developing nations to providing homes for tens of thousands of children orphaned by war, disease and gender discrimination.

Libertarian scholar Thomas E. Woods has described these and many other things for which we can be thankful in his book, How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization -- a book which Protestants can enjoy as well. Alvin J. Schmidt did the same thing in his book, How Christianity Changed the World. Likewise, Rodney Stark is thankful for The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success. Easier reading is Kennedy and Newcombe's books, What if the Bible Had Never Been Written?, and What If Jesus Had Never Been Born?

We should be thankful for what we call "Western Civilization," which is really Christian Civilization, and one way of giving thanks is doing something to preserve civilization, and a worthwhile example is to read and sign The Manhattan Declaration.

The Department of Un-Subjection

People criticize pacifists like me for being "utopian." They say following Jesus the Pacifist is "impractical" and "unrealistic" in a world of terrorists and would-be invaders.

People also criticize anarchists like me for not being in "subjection" to government. They quote Bible passages like these:

Romans 13:1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
Romans 13:5 Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
Titus 3:1 Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
1 Peter 2:13-14 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.

They don't usually quote this verse, though it fits perfectly:

Matthew 5:41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.

Israel, you may recall, had been invaded by the barbaric, pagan, unclean Roman Empire, who put Israel under tribute, and stationed soldiers throughout the country. These soldiers were authorized to conscript Israeli citizens and compel them to carry the soldier's provisions for up to one mile. This infuriated many Israelites, who longed for the Messiah to liberate them from the Roman occupation. Many were making plans to be a part of a violent revolution against Caesar.

Jesus repudiated violent revolution. "Render unto Caesar." Pay your taxes.

This surely means that the American Revolution was not Biblically justified.

The Apostle Paul echoed Jesus in Romans 12 and 13. Jesus said "Resist not evil." Paul adds, not even the government, the greatest evil-doer of all.

And if we are not allowed to resist the powers that be, how can we justify resisting the powers that wanna be -- imperialists who are not yet "the powers that be," but are invading our country with the intention to set themselves up as "the powers that be."

Was it Jesus' position that Israel should have/could have resisted the Roman invasion, but once the invasion was successful, Israelites could no longer resist the occupation?

Those who patriotically support the government and the traditional interpretation of Romans 13 usually also "support the troops."

But isn't the Defense Department actually a Department of Un-Subjection? Isn't the Defense Department an unwillingness to obey Biblical commands to be in subjection, and not to resist the powers that be (or the powers that wanna be)? Isn't the U.S. Department of Un-Subjection not only fomenting resistance on our part, but actively engaged in resisting "the powers that be" in many foreign nations? If the people of Iraq were commanded by Jesus to "render unto Saddam," how is the U.S. Defense Department justified in violently overthrowing this foreign government, and exempt from these commands to be in "subjection?"

The same Greek word in Romans 13 is found in 1 Peter 2, where slaves are commanded to be "subject" to their masters. Were Christians like William Wilberforce violating the Biblical worldview by attempting to abolish the institution of slavery? What argument can be made that we should not abolish the institution of "the State" that would not prohibit us from abolishing slavery? Without slavery, slaves would not work, but would riot in the streets. Without "the State," those who are commanded to be "subject" to it will break out into crime waves and labor strikes.

Romans 13 does not command patriotic allegiance and flag-waving loyalty to Caesar, but only a pacifistic non-resistance to evil. "The powers that be" are evil. We eventually will overcome evil with good, as imperialists see our good works, and repent of the evil of being occupation troops and collectors of tribute.

Washington D.C. is an occupation government, just as Rome was in Israel.

In order to save America the Christian nation, we must abolish Washington D.C., the atheistic empire. We will overcome this evil regime with good, not with the Second Amendment.

Terrorist Anniversaries

This week commemorates three great anniversaries of terrorism.

Yesterday (Feb. 12) was the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Birthday. At least 618,000 Americans died in the Civil War, and some experts say the toll reached 700,000. William Wilberforce abolished slavery in Great Britain without killing anyone. But then, Lincoln's primary goal was not ending slavery.

Today (Feb. 13 -- actually, Feb. 12-14) is the anniversary of the Allied (U.S. and Great Britain) bombing of the capital of Saxony, an art city, “the Florence of the Elbe,” Dresden.

Doug Wilson draws the parallels and makes an interesting point about Ahmadinejad and Terrorism:

Yesterday (9/24/2007) I saw a talking head on television waxing indignant over Ahmadinejad's visit to New York. One of the things he was angry about was the fact this man, a terrorist, engaged in killing American soldiers, was able to come over here and say his bit.

We have to be careful not to let the passions of war run away with careful definitions. Admadinejad waging war on our soldiers is not terrorism. That is what enemy combatants do, they fight. To blow up an American armored vehicle is not terrorism. To shoot down an American heliocopter is not terrorism. It is war.

Now Admadinejad is a terrorist -- say a bunch of Iraqi civilians at a bus stop are blown up, civilians deliberately targeted in order to demoralize the opposition -- that is terrorism. If that is why he is being called a terrorist, then that is accurate, and be my guest. But this fellow on television was calling him a terrorist, it appeared, for no other reason than that he was fighting us.

But the problem with defining terrorism carefully this way is that it sometimes includes people we don't want included. When Lincoln let Sherman conduct his infamous march to the sea, what was that? When the Allies firebombed Dresden in the Second World War, what was that? According to Paul Johnson, in his magnificent book Modern Times, the bombing of Dresden was pointless carnage. Unless the point was to wage war directly on civilians in order to demoralize all of Germany -- but that makes it terrorism.

Finally, tomorrow (Feb. 14) is "Valentine's Day," which commemorates another act of state-sponsored terrorism: the execution of St. Valentine. Here is The Hidden History of VALENTINE'S DAY -- Murder and Empire.

The greatest terrorist organizations on the planet are those we call "governments."

The good news this week is that many conservatives are thinking seriously about not voting for anybody for President this November. The Right's leading lights are urging conservatives to reject McCain. Republican turnout in several primaries was only half that of Democrats. It's a good thing to vote for Nobody. Perhaps they'll come to the same conclusion in other races besides President:

http://NobodyForCongress.com

Pay Your Taxes!

Yesterday I tried to make clear my belief that all taxation is theft, and Americans are less than admirable Americans if they don't oppose today's taxes, which are ten times greater than the taxes America's Founding Fathers took up arms to fight.

Every 4th of July millions of Americans celebrate "Independence Day," without remembering for a second that the central message of that day is abolishing the government. Any government that seeks to "be as god" (Genesis 3:5) -- especially by taxing more than God demands (ten percent) -- is a "Tyranny" according to The Declaration of Independence. We have not just a right to abolish such an idolatrous government, but the duty.

The question is not whether we should abolish the government, but how.

I submit America's Founding Fathers gave the wrong answer to this question. They took up arms. They killed fellow Christians.

America's Founding Fathers were not perfect. They were products of their times. Although Christianity had been exercising its civilizing effects for 1700 years, there was still much maturing and growth to be done on issues such as slavery, war, and capital punishment.

The Bible could hardly be plainer: we are to pay our taxes and submit to Caesar.

This is not to say that Caesar has a right to do what he does. It simply means that we do not overcome Caesar's evil acts with greater evil.

Here are the key passages:

Matthew 5:38-48 (click the link to read the passage)

There was a law in Israel that permitted Roman soldiers to conscript Israelis and compel them to carry the soldiers' backpacks for up to one mile. Nobody in his right mind would concede that the Roman Empire had a moral right to conquer Israel, put them under military occupation, and order citizens of the conquered nation to perform slave labor. Jesus doesn't deny that the Roman Empire is in violation of "international law" and the Geneva accords. Jesus doesn't deny that government conscription is evil. In fact, He plainly affirms it: "But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil."

Taxation is evil. We should not resist evil by violent acts against tax collectors.

The Apostle Paul echoes Christ's teachings and again applies the tactics to the Roman Empire:

Romans 12:17 - 13:7

We are not to overcome evil with evil, but with good.

Romans 13 is a dangerously misrepresented text. It is used to legitimize acts of conquest and violence: "The powers that be are ordained of God." The word "powers" means "demonic forces," as in Ephesians 6:12,

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.

So we do indeed "wrestle" or deny the moral legitimacy of "the powers," but our weapons are not muskets and cannons (1 Corinthians 10:3-5).

1 Peter 2:11-25

Notice in this passage that a conquered people are to submit to the conquerors, and a slave is to obey his slavemaster as if he were obeying Christ Himself (Ephesians 6:5-7). It was not wrong to persuade slave owners to release their slaves (Philemon 1:14-16). Just as the abolition of the institution of slavery was a Christian thing to do (as Wilberforce did it, but not as Lincoln did it), even though God commands slaves to obey their masters, so the abolition of the taxing institution would be a Christian thing to do, if done through persausion rather than violence, even though God commands us to obey evil extortionate tax collectors.

America's Founding Fathers believed some taxation was necessary. They were wrong. We must purge our collective consciousness of the idea that some people have a moral right to use violence against others.

In the mean time,

"Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor" (Romans 13:7).

Genocide, then Reconciliation

"You killed my wife and my children. I forgive you."


Does Neo-Conservatism, the Theory of Evolution, or the New Deal bring about reconciliation like this?

Bishop John Rucyahana from Wilberforce Project on Vimeo.

300 posts

I've now posted over 300 times to this blog. This may not be of any benefit to anyone else, but I want to download a copy of all my posts, so here they are:

1. Welcome To The Site
2. 32 Tuesdays
3. The Big Picture: "Vine & Fig Tree"
4. The Big Picture: "Liberty Under God"
5. "Winners" and "Losers"
6. The Libertarian Pledge
7. More on the Libertarian Pledge
8. Libertarian Morality
9. The Immigration Issue Takes to the Streets
10. The Benefits of 40 Million Illegal Aliens
11. The Criminal Culture of Immigrants
12. Immigration and the War on [Some] Drugs
13. Take Two
14. Congressman Ron Paul
15. Happy Birthday Booker T.!
16. Federal Education Promises Never End
17. Is the Republican Party a Cult?
18. The Gospel of Judas and the Gospel of Bush
19. Acheson and MacArthur
20. April 12: A Triumph of "Voluntary Effort"
21. April 13, 1743 - Thomas Jefferson born
22. Good Friday
23. An Al-Queda Easter
24. The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
25. Oklahoma City - April 19, 1995
26. Unions vs. the Free Market
27. A Catholic Worker Seder
28. Catherine Morris, Public Servant
29. Immigration and Health Care
30. The Company I Keep
31. "Your Papers Please"
32. National Day of Prayer
33. Trouble for Ron Paul?
34. The Death of Wisdom
35. Branson Democrats
36. Letter from Iran
37. Gas Prices in Perspective
38. Teach Republicans a Lesson
39. U.S.: Defender of Freedom?
40. Happy Mothers' Day
41. Alligators and Environmentalists
42. "Minuteman" Founder Jim Gilchrist
43. Constitution Party, Part 2
44. Iraq and the Constitution Party
45. Minuteman Founder on UN, Sodomy, Draft, and more
46. Are Unbelievers Believable?
47. They Died in Vain
48. Democracy Assassinated the Family
49. Phyllis Schlafly's Goose and Gander
50. Marriage Amendment
51. The 4th of July
52. 4th of July
53. Congress Perceived as Unethical
54. Pink Pistols Survey
55. A Libertarian Manifesto: July 4th, 1776
56. 9-11 in the News
57. Nobody Believes in the 4th of July Anymore.
58. 16 Tuesdays
59. Who Creates Your Vote?
60. Flight 800 - July 17, 1996
61. Stop The SPP
62. Abolishing "Vital Government Services"
63. Apple Pie and Torture
64. Christianity and Capitalism
65. The Cult of Social Security
66. The Cult of "National Security"
67. I'd Push the Button
68. On Pushing the Button
69. Hiroshima / Nagasaki
70. Stiff Competition
71. There is no Button
72. Campaign Wiki
73. Why Incumbents Always Win
74. The SPP Coup d'Etat
75. Canadians Against SPP
76. SPP Deception
77. More SPP Deception
78. A Neglected Anniversary
79. Jim Rutz on Democide
80. Rep. Ron Paul on SPP
81. More Canadian Opposition to SPP
82. SPP = European Union
83. Freeman's Journal Candidate Survey
84. CAGW vs. WHTI
85. The Meaning of 9-11
86. The Meaning of 9-11
87. The Real Enemy: Bush or al-Qaeda?
88. Bush's Transportation Secretary and NASCO
89. Global Supply-Chain Fascism
90. SPP Destroying Evidence?
91. Anti-SPP Resolution in Congress
92. Tell me what Blunt thinks
93. Kupelian on 9-11 Conspiracies
94. The Foley Scandal
95. A Thank-You Note
96. Is it a SIN to vote for Roy Blunt?
97. Secular Education and the War on Drugs
98. NO on Amendment 2
99. Saddam Will Hang
100. Post-Election Spin
101. Send the Marines?
102. Elton John: "Ban religion"
103. Nobel Prize-Winning Libertarian Dies
104. Rendition
105. Pearl Harbor and 9-11
106. Libertarian Party Anniversary
107. Ramsey Clark: Three Reasons to Impeach
108. Gerald R. Ford, Mass Murderer
109. A Libertarian's New Year's Resolutions
110. Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them
111. Robert E. Lee
112. LP Flash Needed
113. Death to Valentine!
114. George Washington
115. MEK
116. North Korea
117. St. Patrick: Christian Libertarian
118. Happy Birthday Tom!
119. April Violence
120. Ozarks Virtual Town Hall
121. Greene County Libertarians: Immigration
122. Libertarian Candidate Filters
123. Immigration and Gun Control
124. Welfare and Immigration
125. Immigration and the LP Platform
126. Jerry Falwell, 1933-2007
127. 9-11 and School Shootings
128. Would Jesus Celebrate Memorial Day?
129. On Overthrowing Governments
130. Ann Coulter on Immigration
131. America's Psikhushka for 9/11 Truthers
132. Josef Mengele Released from Prison
133. Phillies, Falwell, and Goldwater
134. Do Communists Make Better Spouses?
135. Sibel Edmonds and Valerie Plame
136. Second Cold War
137. Global Warming and the G8
138. The Surgeon General
139. Conservative Christians for Hillary
140. Response to Jason
141. I am a Bigot
142. The Latest Laziness
143. How Big is America?
144. Al Capone and the Zetas
145. Apology accepted, Dr. Kuznicki.
146. Advertising under God
147. Providence and "The National Malaise"
148. Iraq: Lexington and Concord for Today
149. Lexington, Concord, and Plainfield
150. Stem Cells Endowed by Their Creator
151. What Would the Signers Think?
152. U.S. Ready for a Third Party?
153. Shunning Government Down
154. 1776-Style Radical Transformation
155. 1776-Style Theocracy
156. Who is more "Radical?"
157. Hindu Prayers in the Senate
158. Vengeance vs. Self-Defense
159. "The Lust of the Eyes"
160. Letters of Marque and Reprisal
161. Can Charity Solve Poverty?
162. More on Poverty
163. No Free Exercise of Religion
164. Hiroshima - Gulf of Tonkin
165. Bridges One Week Later
166. Nagasaki, August 9, 1945
167. IRS and the Rule of Law
168. Inventions and "National Security"
169. "Suspicious Behavior"
170. Secret Military Intelligence
171. Abolish the USA!
172. "Corruption" is Inescapable
173. Corruption in the Military
174. More on Military Corruption
175. 9/11 - Six Years Later
176. Family Research Council on 9/11
177. Petraeus: America Safer? "I don't know."
178. Constitution Day?
179. War and Public Relations
180. Two Manifestos, Two Different Nations
181. "Do Violence to No Man"
182. Eminent Domain Sociopaths
183. McCain and "Christian America"
184. Columbus and Civilization
185. "Media Bias"
186. Holocaust Denial in the Service of War
187. Conservative Christians for Hillary
188. Government Theft Admitted
189. Update on Government Theft
190. Cheney's Victory in Iraq
191. Conservative Christians Reject Huckabee
192. Wilberforce: Role Model for Anarchists
193. Veterans' Day Weekend 2007
194. Thanksgiving 2007
195. Zogby: "Voters in a nasty frame of mind"
196. Pearl Harbor, 1941-2001
197. Winter of Our Discontent
198. Spitting in the Wilderness
199. Heisman Career Nearly Ended
200. Holiday Hypocrisy
201. Advertising Milestone
202. Sound as a Dollar
203. John McCain vs. Al Gore
204. The 12 Days of Liberty
205. Day 1: Incarnation and Liberty
206. Day 2: I'm Dreaming of a Large Christmas
207. Day 3: The Birth of the Anti-King
208. Day 4: Defeating the Enemies
209. Taking Year-End Inventory
210. Day 5: Peace on Earth
211. Day 6: Peace on Earth, Goodwill Toward Capitalists
212. McCain Leads in Rasmussen Poll
213. Day 7: Kingmas: Christ = King
214. Big Resolutions for 2008
215. Day 8: Let's Keep Christmas Commercialized
216. Day 9: A Christmas Nagocracy
217. Denver Talk Show Host Slanders Ron Paul
218. Denver Talk Show Host Responds
219. Day 10: Christmas for the Lowly
220. Day 11: "All Flesh Will See the Salvation of God"
221. Day 12: The Christmas Millennium
222. Torture: Stereotyping vs. Analyzing
223. Liberal Fascism
224. Choosing Slavemasters
225. Ron Paul: Racist?
226. 1776 and the Plantation
227. Allegiance: Obama's Hand and Heart
228. Secularist Questions
229. Ron Paul, 1924
230. Martin Luther King
231. Roe v. Wade 35 Years Later
232. Reasons to be "Pro-Choice"
233. John Mark Reynolds vs. Huckabee
234. 1.Hillary; 5.Giuliani; 6.Huckabee; 8.Obama
235. God and Huckabee, part 2
236. Obama's Big Changes
237. The Beheading of Obama
238. Ron Paul Book Bomb
239. Iraq: A Chinese View
240. Garfield and Gore
241. The Rogue Co-President
242. "Cookie" and America's Founding Fathers
243. Charles Thornton: American Archetype
244. Terrorist Anniversaries
245. Obama's "Economic Plan"
246. The Myth of the "Senseless Killing"
247. 1,000 Words on Global Warming
248. An Affordable Ferrari
249. George Washington's Birthday
250. Federal Reserve Video
251. Rationing Ferraris
252. More on Presidents' Day
253. I've often wondered myself
254. Candidate Filing and Interview
255. The Cult of the Omnipotent State
256. More Lies from Bob Enyart
257. Naomi Wolf: "The End of America"
258. The End of Impeachment
259. The $2 Trillion Nightmare
260. The State vs. Society
261. Unilateral Disarmament
262. Would God Bless This?
263. Client 9: Elliot Spitzer
264. Tax Relief At Last!
265. Spitzer Conspiracy?
266. Happy St. Patrick's Day!
267. St. Patrick for Today
268. Holy Week
269. Republican Rallying Cry
270. Spitzer Conspiracy Pt. 2
271. Good Friday
272. An Uninspiring Easter Message
273. Patrick Henry Was Wrong
274. Gore-Clinton or Gore-Obama
275. Government as Criminal Syndicate
276. Government Health Care
277. Ron Paul is a Warmonger
278. MLK Murder
279. Yoder and Pierce
280. Rachel's Educator
281. Rachel's Messiah
282. Bob Barr and Ross Perot
283. Christmas on the Potomac
284. Pay Your Taxes!
285. War Tax Refusal
286. Battle of the Cults
287. Mormons and Davidians
288. April 19, 1775, 1993, 2008
289. Video Interview
290. Jill Lepore's America
291. The Money Tree in Kinder's Garden
292. McCain's Murder of 1st Amendment
293. Chuck Baldwin - Constitution Party
294. Mary Ruwart's "Child Porn Scandal"
295. National Day of Prayer
296. Immigration: Where in the Constitution?
297. Who Owns the Holy Land?
298. Buy American? U.S. Concentration Camps
299. Mother's Day Town Hall
300. Slavery, Capital Punishment, and the Bible
301. State Pension Fraud
302. The Masks of Hollow Men