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Dr. Herb Ruhs & grandson
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State of the Union
vs. Sermon on the Mount
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by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News
February 1, 2008
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Matthew 7:16
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According to our rulers:
• the Constitution is "just a piece of paper,"
meaning that they are above any law;
• the "laws" passed by Congress
are subject to executive
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rewriting, meaning that representative
government has been superseded by dictatorial executive rule via
signing statements;
• torture is what the executive says it is and even
admitted torture can be used when the executive wants, meaning that
executive power supersedes and can ignore any common understanding of
decency;
• the United Nations is "just a debating society," meaning
that there is no international law that applies to the US;
• victims of
natural disasters are on their own, meaning that any concept of a
meaningful social contract is defunct;
• the only constituency that
counts are the "haves and the have mores," meaning that our system is
formally recognized as a plutocracy;
• "faith based" reasoning
is supreme, meaning that rule is by a theocratic plutocracy;
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individuals do not have the rights specified in the Bill of Rights
whenever the executive wish to violate them, meaning that tyranny
reigns at a pre-Magna Carta level;
• war will be without end, meaning
that ours is a predatory society that claims any and all resources of
the entire world;
• impending ecological catastrophe is unimportant,
meaning that concerns about environmental destruction should not be
allowed to get in the way of profits;
• US government reserves the right to first use
of nuclear and continuing use of radiologically
toxic weapons, meaning that depravity is acceptable;
• the deaths of half a million
Iraqi children due to economic and trade sanctions "was worth it,"
meaning that any concept of human feeling and conscience has been
abandoned.
According to these observations and countless other possible examples, the Sermon on the Mount seems to apply:
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.Matthew 7:18-19
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