A Pathology of Corruption
Greetings,
Last week a friend and co-belligerent, Keith Fournier, forwarded me a commentary from his newsletter in regard to executive orders signed by our new President. I quote:
"President Obama signed several Executive orders. The one of particular note was related to ensuring that the United States would not engage in torture; that we would treat even our enemies with proper recognition of their fundamental human dignity."
In that executive order, the new administration reaffirmed the requirements of the Federal Torture Statute... "Regulating the treatment and interrogation of individuals detained in any armed conflict, such persons shall in all circumstances be treated humanely and shall not be subjected to violence to life and person (including murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment, and torture), nor to outrages upon personal dignity (including humiliating and degrading treatment), whenever such individuals are in the custody or under the effective control of an officer, employee, or other agent of the United States Government...."
So far so good; I concur. However, the President went on, and again quoting Keith Fournier:
"Our new President signed another executive order. This one he signed quietly, late on a Friday afternoon, at the time when actions are usually taken with hopes they will not receive much coverage. It was not done with lights and cameras and words of explanation. With the quiet deadly stroke of a pen, President Obama rescinded what is called the "Mexico City Policy".
In short, the "Mexico City Policy" protected another group of human persons from being tortured, unto their death. Only these small people are not in a detention center. They are living in the first home of the whole human race, their mother’s womb. This humane policy also ensured that our tax dollars would not be used to torture them, through surgical dissection, suction, saline burns or chemical weapons and then kill them. That is if they lived in Brazil, or the Philippines or throughout Africa.
Now, with the stroke of a Presidential pen President Barack Obama has shown his disdain for our deeply held, moral position. He has also once again unleashed the evil that results from using tax dollars extracted from Pro-life citizens to fund the torture and killing of our first neighbors. It not only violates the Natural law right to life of the children who will be tortured and killed in every procured abortion, it violates our consciences by making us complicit in the evil. Sadly, this action indicates that the other promises the new President made to the supporters of abortion on demand may be on the horizon.
Using excerpts from the above definition of the USA’s Federal Torture policy, let us apply that definition to abortion:
" Such persons shall in all circumstances be treated humanely and shall not be subjected to violence to life and person (including murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment, and torture), nor to outrages upon personal dignity (including humiliating and degrading treatment), whenever such individuals are in the custody or under the effective control of an officer, employee, or other agent (the woman bearing the "child?") of the United States Government...."
And this is not an "enemy detained in an armed conflict" this is a defenseless baby. As Keith says, "All who love life need to pray and prepare for a long, difficult struggle."
It is my personal belief that many of the economic issues, not to mention wars, jobs, Wall Street blow out, automobile industry disintegration, real estate collapse, corrupt leaders, and innumerable other issues eating at the foundations of the nation are inter-related and cannot be divorced from our moral and spiritual condition. Or as someone recently termed it, we are realizing a Pathology of Corruption.
The USA is no longer the head but the tail. We are now a debtor nation; and not just economically.
Our 31st President, Herbert Hoover (1929-1933), was being prescient when he predicted that:
"Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitivities to evil. Our greatest danger is not from invasion by foreign armies. Our dangers are that we may commit suicide from within by complaisance with evil, or by public tolerance of scandalous behavior."
I do not want our new President to fail, but the man ain’t the Messiah either; however, recognize Sir & USA, God says through the prophet Malachi:
"I will put you on trial. I am eager to witness against all wicked men and adulterers and liars. I will speak against those who cheat employees of their wages, who oppress widows and orphans, or who deprive the foreigners living among you of justice, for these people do not fear me," says the Lord Almighty. I am the Lord, and I do not change…. you have scorned my decrees and failed to obey them."
However, there is hope."Now return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord Almighty."
That’s called repentance.
Selah. Stop and think and pray on these things.
Scott Ross
(Quotes above from Malachi 3. Actually reading all of chapters 3 and 4 would be beneficial. They are short chapters.)
Keith Fournier’s commentary:
http://www.catholic.org/politics/story.php?id=31774