Posts with the tag Falwell

The Republican Convention

Tejun — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:17:07 EDT

Dear Editor:
I am an Obama supporter, but in the beginning, deep down, I wouldn't mind if McCain had won. This is because I was a resident of Arizona when he was in office. I laughed and enjoyed his attitude back in his days on the "Daily Show" with Jon Stewart. McCain seemed to be a pretty cool guy.
I became leery after he did a commencement speech at the opening of Jerry Falwell's university. The religious nut job who blamed 9/11 on America's sin. Despite this I still had hopes he would be a fine president if he managed to beat Obama.
After the Rep Convention, where he failed to do anything but bash Obama, I lost all hope in McCain. Palin's speech was a snide one, meant to divide and ridicule. Obama's acceptance speech was different, it gave me hope, and I realized there is only one man fit to lead, Barack Obama! Obama rings with the spirit of real leaders, Kennedy or King, but McCain and Palin are sadly just politicians.
Tejun Fowler

Liberty University, Falwell's creation, McCain and the Religious Right

Wayne from Atlanta, GA — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:43:11 EDT

Here is the mission of the Liberty University Law School:

Liberty University School of Law is founded upon the premise that there is an integral relationship between faith and reason, and that both have their origin in the Triune God. Thus, from this perspective, legal education that purports to prepare individuals to pursue justice should skillfully integrate faith and reason as a means to the formation of law and a just society.

Such a legal philosophy was once the dominant one in America. The vision of Liberty University School of Law is to see that point of view renewed.

The proficient use of reason informed and animated by faith and a comprehensive Christian worldview is the means to revitalizing what is central to the American legal system—the rule of law.

The vision of the School of Law is to see again all meaningful dialogue over law include the role of faith and the perspective of a Christian worldview as the framework most conducive to the pursuit of truth and justice.

http://law.liberty.edu/index.cfm?PID=3813

And here are some comments of the Dean of their law school:

The law can establish order where there was chaos, provide security, and preserve life and liberty. But when separated from transcendent values, dissected of moral imperatives, and blind to the intrinsic worth of the human soul, law can be repressive and crush those it should protect.

At Liberty, we believe that the law is good and that the legal profession is a worthy calling, an exalted profession, and a position of trust. We take legal education seriously because we understand that we are training future lawyers, judges, educators, policymakers and world leaders.

http://law.liberty.edu/index.cfm?

Juxtaposition as Mind Control

Bigname Scientist — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:51:17 EDT

Individual Mind Control, aka Manchurian Candidate, is fiction. But Population Mind Control, aka psychological operations (psyops) and so called "Influence Science" does work. No individual can be forced to change their mind, but statistical sampling over time proves that some people do change their minds. Crowd psychology-based psycholinguistic and theatrical techniques can dramatically change the outcome of a poll or a vote. George Bush's popularity rating soared to 90% in September 2001.

Juxtaposition is more subtle, but here's how it works: Juxtapose a politician's picture next to an unrelated headline about a murder or a story about embezzlement, and watch their popularity ratings fall. Have authorities, who should have inside knowledge, like Condi Rice, Don Rumsfeld, and his "War Heads" shills repeately mention Iraq and 9/11 in the same breath, and polls will show that 70% of Americans came to believe Saddam was "behind" 9/11 (even though people previously believed the culprit was Bin Laden or other Islamic crazies, and Saddam was a secular dictator.)

Now McCain is running this picture ad all over the Internet. Not only does it misrepresent Obama's position on Diplomacy, but it juxtaposes Obama with the Reincarnation of Satan/Saddam, the unspellable Amadinajad!!! And the yes/no buttons don't even work!!

Well, it really sucks that this ad WILL be effective because of biologically-determined weaknesses in Human Psychology, that we subconsciously learn to associate spatial and temporal juxtapositions

Personally, I think Influence Science is an abuse of Psychology and should be banned. Until it is, I have taken the liberty of getting even with McCain's psyops team, with the following image juxtapositions:

My final image juxtaposition about McCain's campaign's use of his heroism so beyond the pale, that I can't preview it for polite company; please DON'T look!

The blame for 9/11

Chinni — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:20:01 EDT

Why did Jeremiah Wright take more heat than Jerry Falwell & Pat Robertson for his statements on the blame for 9/11?

Falwell & Robertson were dividing the people by blaming "the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America" for 9/11.

Wright was trying to unite the American people against the American Government's foreign policy.

Unfortunately, in the current media environment, division is more mainstream than protest.

On another note, Wright is scarier because his argument rings too close to truth to dismiss unlike Falwell & Robetson's comments.

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