God and the Military Commissions Act

Hello All: I ask that you please not disregard this communication.

Many of us claim to be Christians or believers in God or a higher power. Now, it is time for us to put our money where our mouths are. We have stood long enough for an administration (monarchy) that rules through fear of "its subjects." It is now the moment for "WE THE PEOPLE" to let our voices be heard before we have given away all of the God-given rights that the founders of this country worked so hard ensure we had knowledge of.

So, then, what do our beliefs have to do with this? Everything. If we claim to have faith in an all-powerful God, then we simply cannot accept the fear-based reactions of our country and this administration to the terrorists - who, by the way, are getting exactly what they wanted. If we claim to live within the unfailing Love and Peace of God, then we are hypocrites if we are then afraid for our earthly lives to the point that we would punish others - even sacrificing many innocent others - simply to protect these bodies. This is exactly what we as a nation are agreeing to by silently allowing the Military Commissions Act to remain a law (see below).

Nobody would agree with you faster that what we see in this world is horrific. Just earlier this week, a gunman entered a Salt Lake City, Utah mall and opened fire, killing and injuring innocent by-standers. God is asking us with each incident such as this - with each brutal terrorist attack: "What will you choose now? Will you choose more death and destruction? Or will you choose Me and My Love?" My friends, we have been choosing the former much more often than the latter, which accounts directly - DIRECTLY - for the horrific violence, fear, and lack of compassion we see every which way we turn. Through our desire to exact revenge on or to become afraid of or even to ignore those who move through this world spreading their fear and darkness wherever they go, we have created this life of misery and pain.

Yet, we still sit idly by (some of us are even waiting for God to save us; here's a revelation: She won't save us. God waits for us to choose. God gives us what we choose for ourselves. This is what Free Will is all about, and the sooner we wake up to this, the sooner we will stop waiting for someone or something to save us and the sooner we will decide to save ourselves) while this administration laughs at having us right where it wants us to feed the power trip of its leader - George W. Bush - and his crony corporations (which by the way love the violence and hatred - love having us believing it's an us against them world). With our apathy, we have created ignorance, and our ignorance has allowed us to be bamboozled.

This administration, and many Americans - like the terrorists who commit such heinous acts of violence -live with the most selfish of fears. These fears have been perpetrated and spread to the extent that we are now willing to give up our God-given rights to make even the simplest statement of disagreement with those we elected to serve US. We can actually be imprisoned if the President deems us to be a threat (for whatever reason he or she chooses) without any of the protections of Habeus Corpus that our intelligent founders were careful enough to document in our Constitution.

Of course, we will first start using this against the Muslims who live in America because we are certain they all want us gentle, white Americans dead, but I can assure you that when it comes to feeding the incessant need for power exhibited by the grotesque violations of the constitution perpetrated by this "leader" (and future presidents and administrations to come) it will not stop there. Before long, even one of us could wind up accused, arrested, and locked away without any recourse simply for believing something contradictory to our dictator. You have to make it this real for yourself in order to begin to comprehend the implications of this. Why should even one person have to be sacrificed to our boiling fear? And who are we to decide who must be sacrificed?

Thus, we come back to God or the Source or Christ, or whatever you experience in your personal spiritual experience. Love (which I think we can all agree is what God Is) would never and can never submit to fear. Love would never and can never agree to do anything or obtain anything (such as security) at the expense of another human being or living thing. Make no mistake about it: We are being given a choice right now that will direct the future course of humanity, a choice that will decide whether we move upward and onward as a species or whether we stagnate and cease to exist. Love will take us to higher and more wonderful expressions of ourselves and fear will end us. It is this simple.

So, I hope now that you will get all the information you can about this fear-based law that we have submitted ourselves to. Then, I ask that you do your part to help the world choose Love. It does not take everyone to make a difference. Even a few of us (even one of us) can bring about great changes and correct injustices. Look at Christ, look at the Buddha, look at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., look at Martin Luther, look at Ghandi. These people have told us, "Look at me and see what YOU can do as well." Yet, these people, each person, made great changes in the world through Love. None of these men were violent. None of these men yelled at others or forced others to submit to their will. They simply said, "I have another way," and then gave us the chance to see Love in the way they offered.

Choose Love. Choose even to Love our oppressive, fearful president so that even he has the opportunity to choose Love once again. He is only afraid. We will not shout. We will not hate. We will not return the violence and injustice. And WE WILL NOT BOW DOWN TO FEAR. We will be persistent with our Love, knowing that the very moment in which we find ourselves is the moment in which we can turn everything completely around. We Are That Powerful When We Choose Love. But you have to try it to believe it. You must teach what you would learn, and now you have given yourself (with this very email) this opportunity to experience the truth of it for yourself.

Send a letter or call your respresentive in Congress, your Senator, and let them know that we choose another way besides fear to create and express our lives. Let them know that what we as a nation have made a new choice about the appropriate "reaction" to those who live in and perpetrate fear. Let them know that we choose Love and that we will prevail against those who hate only through unconditional acceptance and recognition of their dark, misguided presence, which will heal the world.

Thank you for your time and energy in this effort to free the world from fear.

Love,

Paul

P.S. See the letter from Thom Hartmann - an extraordinary man bringing his own energy of Love to our freedom quest - that first inspired this blog. He gives very specific information about this law as well as links to the specific wording of the law, and I saw no need to try to replicate it. My entry here is more of an impassioned plea for us to stop being satisfied with comfortably destroying our planet and species.