Barack Obama's Racist Church
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Imagine if Mitt Romney’s church proclaimed on its website that it is “unashamedly white.”
The media would pounce, and Romney’s presidential candidacy would be over. Yet that is exactly what Barack Obama’s church says on its web site — except in reverse.
“We are a congregation which is unashamedly black and unapologetically Christian,” says the Trinity United Church of Christ’s website in Chicago. “We are an African people and remain true to our native land, the mother continent, the cradle of civilization.”
That’s just the beginning. The church has a “non-negotiable commitment to Africa,” according to its website, and its pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. subscribes to what is called the Black Value System.
While the Black Value System includes such items as commitment to God, education, and self-discipline, it refers to “our racist competitive society” and includes the disavowal of the pursuit of “middle-classness” and a pledge of allegiance to “all black leadership who espouse and embrace the Black Value System.” It defines “middle-classness” as a way for American society to “snare” blacks rather than “killing them off directly” or “placing them in concentration camps,” just as the country structures “an economic environment that induces captive youth to fill the jails and prisons.”
In sermons and interviews, Dr. Wright has equated Zionism with racism and Israel with South Africa under its previous policy of apartheid. On the Sunday after 9/11, Wright said the attacks were a consequence of violent American policies. Four years later, Wright suggested that the attacks were retribution for America’s racism.
“In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01,” Wright wrote in a church-affiliated magazine. “White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.”
In one of his sermons, Wright said, “Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run!...We [in the U.S.] believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God.”
As for Israel, “The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for over 40 years now,” Wright has said. “Divestment has now hit the table again as a strategy to wake the business community and wake up Americans concerning the injustice and the racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism.”
Obama says he found religion and Jesus Christ through Wright, whom he met in the mid-1980s. He has been attending Wright’s church regularly since 1988.
The church occupies a tan building on West 95th Street near a public housing project and railroad tracks. Since becoming pastor in 1972, Wright has seen the church’s membership grow to more than 8,500. The church is the largest congregation in the United Church of Christ, a predominantly white denomination known for its liberal politics.
In 1991, Obama joined the church and walked down the aisle in a formal commitment of faith. Wright later married Obama and Michelle Robinson and baptized their two daughters.
The title of Obama’s bestseller “The Audacity of Hope” comes from one of Wright’s sermons. Wright is one of the first people Obama thanked after his election to the Senate in 2004.
But Obama’s life does not exactly support Wright’s thesis that blacks in America are oppressed. A Harvard Law School graduate, Obama married a black Princeton graduate who also has a degree from Harvard Law School. Obama is a U.S. senator from Illinois; his wife is a vice president of the University of Chicago Hospitals. With his wife, Obama has been making more than $1 million a year.
On a few points, Obama has sought to distance himself from Wright’s teachings or explain them away. While Wright is his pastor and friend, Obama has said, they do not see eye to eye on everything. In particular, Obama has said he “strongly disagrees with any portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that advocates divestment from Israel or expresses anything less than strong support for Israel’s security.”
As for Wright’s repeated comments blaming America for the 9/11 attacks, Obama has said it sounds as if the minister was trying to be “provocative.”
Just before Obama’s nationally televised campaign kickoff rally last Feb. 10, the candidate disinvited Wright from giving the public invocation. Wright explained: “When [Obama’s] enemies find out that in 1984 I went to Tripoli” to visit Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, “a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in hell.”
According to Wright, Obama then told him, “'You can get kind of rough in the sermons, so what we’ve decided is that it’s best for you not to be out there in public.'” But privately, Obama and his family prayed with Wright just before the presidential announcement.
To his credit, Obama so far has avoided race-specific appeals as part of his candidacy, accounting in part for his widespread appeal.
Obama “has taught the black community you don’t have to act like Jesse Jackson, you don’t have to act like Al Sharpton,” conservative commentator Bill Bennett said on CNN on Jan. 3. “You can talk about the issues. [Obama has] great dignity.”
But if Obama rejects Wright’s warped view of this country, why does he continue to attend his church, raising the question of whether Obama secretly agrees with his friend and mentor? At the least, Obama’s membership in Wright’s church suggests a lack of judgment and an insensitivity to views that are repugnant to the vast majority of white Americans who are not bigots.
That same lack of judgment has shown up in Obama’s gaffes—threatening to invade Pakistan and offering prompt negotiations with anti-American despots. More frightening, Obama voted last August to give Osama bin Laden and other terrorists the same rights as Americans when it comes to intercepting their overseas calls in order to pick up clues needed to stop another attack.
Jen Psaki, a spokesman for Obama’s campaign, has tried to paper over the candidate’s support of the Black Value System by saying that Obama “believes its basic tenets of commitment to God, to community, to self-discipline and self-reliance continue to have applicability not only to the African-American community but to all people.”
But that is not what the Black Value System says. One can only imagine the outrage that would erupt if a white presidential candidate like Romney subscribed to something called the White Value System. Yet while Obama has been referred to in the media tens of thousands of times in the past month, only one story in the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire offhandedly mentioned Obama’s church’s “unashamedly black” slogan.
In contrast, in an exquisite example of the double standard they apply to Democrats versus Republicans, the media love to focus on Romney’s religion, which is not relevant to how he would perform as president. Close to half the media references to Romney refer to the fact that he is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Very few of them mention that he is both a Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School graduate, credentials that are relevant to how he would perform as president.
When Romney’s father ran for president, his religion was not an issue simply because the media rightly recognized that it was not pertinent to his candidacy. Today, as part of their coverage of Romney, the media run denigrating quotes about Mormonism that they would never dare to run about any other religion. At the same time, the media have largely ignored or downplayed the clearly racist slogan of Obama’s church and the anti-American and anti-Israel stances of its pastor.
In two exceptions to the media blackout, Tucker Carlson of MSNBC described Trinity as having a “racially exclusive theology” that “contradicts the basic tenets of Christianity.” Sean Hannity of Fox News confronted Wright on TV and asked how a black value system is any more acceptable than a white value system.
If a white presidential candidate’s church had a similar statement and “you substitute the word black for white, there would be an outrage in this country,” Hannity said. “There would be cries of racism in this country.'”
“If your spiritual advisor makes outrageous statements, it’s incumbent on you as a leader to denounce those statements,” says Brad Blakeman, a former Bush White House aide who heads the conservative Freedom’s Watch. “Silence is an admission that you agree with what your spiritual advisor pronounces.”
If his church membership calls into question Obama’s judgment, the dichotomy in the coverage of his and Romney’s religious affiliations spotlights the media’s double standard and how its skewed reporting influences who will become president.
But media bias or not, if Obama is his party’s nominee, his Republican opponent will rightly be able to make use of Rev. Wright and his radical teachings as effectively as supporters of George H.W. Bush used Willie Horton’s furlough to help Bush win the presidency.
Obama's Minister Honored Farrakhan
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Barack Obama’s longtime minister, mentor, and sounding board has been a key supporter of Louis Farrakhan and last month honored the Nation of Islam leader for lifetime achievement.
Farrakhan has repeatedly made hate-filled statements targeting Jews, whites, America, and homosexuals. He has called whites “blue-eyed devils” and the “anti-Christ.” He has described Jews as “bloodsuckers” who control the government, the media, and some black organizations.
“Do you know some of these satanic Jews have taken over BET [the Black Entertainment Network]?” Farrakhan said in a speech on Nov. 11, 2007. “Everything that we built, they have. The mind of Satan now is running the record industry, movie industry, and television. And they make us look like we’re the murderers; we look like we’re the gangsters, but we’re punk stuff.”
The month after that speech, Obama’s minister and friend, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. and his Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, honored Farrakhan at a gala, bestowing on him its Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Lifetime Achievement Trumpeteer award.
Obama has said he found religion through Wright in the 1980s and consulted him before deciding to run for president. He prayed privately with Wright before announcing his candidacy last year.
In the November/December issue of his church’s magazine, Trumpet, Wright heaped praise on Farrakhan, whom he helped in organizing the Million Man March in Washington in 1995. Wright lauded Farrakhan as one of the giants of the African-American religious experience in the 20th and 21st centuries.
“When Minister Farrakhan speaks, black America listens,” Wright said. “His depth on analysis [sic] when it comes to the racial ills of this nation is astounding and eye-opening. He brings a perspective that is helpful and honest.”
Hailing Farrakhan’s “integrity and honesty,” Wright said, “His love for Africa and African-American people has made him an unforgettable force, a catalyst for change, and a religious leader who is sincere about his faith and his purpose.”
A video quoting some of Wright’s opprobriums ran at the gala at the Hyatt Regency Chicago and appears on YouTube. However, while the mainstream media have hammered Mitt Romney over his religion, they have ignored or else downplayed Obama’s ties to Wright. No stories have appeared on Wright’s award to Farrakhan in December.
Wright’s church occupies a brick building at 400 West 95th Street near a public housing project and railroad tracks. Since becoming pastor in 1972, Wright has seen the church’s membership grow from 80 to more than 8,500. The church is the largest congregation in the United Church of Christ, a predominantly white denomination known for its liberal politics. Obama’s church runs an outreach program to attract gay and lesbian singles.
Born in Hawaii, Obama is the son of a white Christian mother from Kansas and a Kenyan father who was a Muslim but was not religious. From age 6 to 10, Obama lived in Indonesia, where he went to a Catholic school. For a year, he went to a public school where he attended Islamic religion classes.
Obama says he found religion and Jesus Christ through Wright, whom he met in the mid-1980s. Obama has been attending Wright’s church regularly since 1988. Wright warned Obama that getting involved with Trinity, with its radical reputation, might turn off other black clergy. But in 1991, Obama joined the church and walked down the aisle in a formal commitment of faith. Wright later married Obama and Michelle Robinson and baptized their two daughters.
The title of Obama’s bestseller “The Audacity of Hope” comes from one of Wright’s sermons. Wright is one of the first people Obama thanked after his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004.
For a Jan. 21, 2007 story in the Chicago Tribune, Obama said that Wright keeps his priorities straight and his moral compass calibrated.
“What I value most about Pastor Wright is not his day-to-day political advice,” Obama told the paper. “He’s much more of a sounding board for me to make sure that I am speaking truthfully about what I believe is possible and that I’m not losing myself in some of the hype and hoopla and stress that’s involved in national politics.”
However, Obama has said that in the fall of 2006, he broached the subject of a run for the presidency with Wright, who encouraged him to go ahead.
As noted in a Jan. 7 Newsmax article, “Barack Obama’s Racist Church,” in sermons and interviews, Wright has equated Zionism with racism and has compared Israel with South Africa under its previous policy of apartheid. On the Sunday following 9/11, Wright characterized the terrorist attacks as a consequence of violent American policies. Four years later, Wright suggested that the attacks were retribution for America’s racism.
“In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01,” Wright wrote in Trumpet. “White America and the Western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.”
In one of his sermons, Wright said to thumping applause, “Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run! ...We [in the U.S.] believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God.”
In an op-ed in the Philadelphia Tribune, Wright said that war is about “making the world safe” for American business interests. “When one goes against the war, one tampers with the financial institutions and the financial system that was put in place by the Founding Fathers of this country to keep the rich, rich!” he said. “The rich can only stay rich by keeping the poor, poor.”
As for Israel, “The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for over 40 years now,” Wright has said. “Divestment has now hit the table again as a strategy to wake the business community and wake up Americans concerning the injustice and the racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism.”
Those views run parallel to Farrakhan’s, who said in an interview this month with FinalCall.com that there will be “no peace for Israel, because there can be no peace as long as that peace is based on lying, stealing, murder, and using God’s name to shield a wicked, unjust practice that is not in harmony with the will of God.”
Just before Obama’s nationally televised campaign kickoff rally last Feb. 10, the candidate disinvited Wright from giving the public invocation. Wright explained: “When [Obama’s] enemies find out that in 1984 I went to Tripoli” to visit Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, “a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in hell.”
According to Wright, Obama then told him, “'You can get kind of rough in the sermons, so what we’ve decided is that it’s best for you not to be out there in public.” Wright is retiring as senior pastor of the church in May. He asked his successor, Otis Moss III, to speak instead, but he declined. However, Obama and his family prayed privately with Wright just before the presidential announcement.
The media blackout on Obama’s radical minister is in striking contrast to the coverage of Romney. Nearly half the references to Romney in the media include a discussion of his membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
If Romney’s church proclaimed on its Web site that it is “unashamedly white,” the media would pounce, and Romney’s presidential candidacy would be over. Yet that is what Obama’s church says on its web site -- except in reverse.
“We are a congregation which is unashamedly black and unapologetically Christian,” says the Trinity United Church of Christ’s Web site. “We are an African people and remain true to our native land, the mother continent, the cradle of civilization.”
Moreover, the church has a “non-negotiable commitment to Africa,” according to its Web site, and the church and its pastor subscribe to what is called the Black Value System.
While the Black Value System encourages commitment to God, education, and self-discipline, it refers to “our racist competitive society” and includes the disavowal of the pursuit of “middle-classness” and a pledge of allegiance to “all black leadership who espouse and embrace the Black Value System.” It defines “middle-classness” as a way for American society to “snare” blacks rather than “killing them off directly” or “placing them in concentration camps,” just as the country structures “an economic environment that induces captive youth to fill the jails and prisons.”
In two exceptions to the media blackout, Tucker Carlson of MSNBC described Trinity as having a “racially exclusive theology” that “contradicts the basic tenets of Christianity.” Sean Hannity of Fox News confronted Wright on TV and asked how a black value system is any more acceptable than a white value system.
If a white presidential candidate’s church had a similar statement and “you substitute the word black for white, there would be an outrage in this country,” Hannity said. “There would be cries of racism in this country.'”
In response, Wright repeatedly asked Hannity how many books he had read by James Cone and others about black liberation theology. Cone, who is widely admired at Wright’s church, was quoted in the May 29, 2007, issue of The Christian Century as saying, “Theologically, Malcolm X was not far wrong when he called the white man ‘the devil.’... Any advice from whites to blacks on how to deal with white oppression is automatically under suspicion as a clever device to further enslavement.”
On a few points, Obama has sought to distance himself from Wright’s teachings or to explain them away. While Wright is his pastor and friend, Obama has said, they do not see eye to eye on everything. Without addressing Wright’s denunciations of Israel and Zionism as racist, Obama has said he “strongly disagrees with any portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that advocates divestment from Israel or expresses anything less than strong support for Israel’s security.”
As for Wright’s repeated comments blaming America for the 9/11 attacks, Obama has said it sounds as if the minister was trying to be “provocative.”
But Obama’s close association with Wright over more than two decades and the minister’s close ties to Farrakhan cannot be explained away so cavalierly. If Obama rejects Wright’s warped view of this country, why does he continue to attend his church? If Obama disagrees with Farrakhan and his anti-Semitic and anti-white statements, why doesn’t he denounce him rather than continue to associate with a minister and friend who is one of his advocates and who gave him an award for lifetime achievement? Does Obama secretly agree with some of their hate-filled, radical statements while publicly avoiding race-specific appeals as part of his candidacy?
That comports with Obama’s habit of not showing up for controversial votes or tackling tough policy issues, allowing him to broaden his appeal through charisma alone. Farrakhan himself recently spoke approvingly of Obama’s strategy, which is crucial to inviting whites to support him.
“Barack Obama has been very careful not to position himself as Rev. Jesse Jackson or Rev. Al Sharpton as a promoter of ‘The Black Cause,’” Farrakhan said in the interview with FinalCall.com. “He has been groomed, wisely so, to be seen more as a unifier, rather than one who speaks only for the hurt of black people.”
At the least, Obama’s membership in Wright’s church and close ties to Wright himself suggest a lack of judgment and an insensitivity to views that are repugnant to the vast majority of white Americans who are not bigots or anti-Semites.
That same lack of judgment has shown up in Obama’s gaffes -- threatening to invade Pakistan and offering prompt negotiations with anti-American despots. More frightening, Obama voted last August to give Osama bin Laden and other terrorists the same rights as Americans when it comes to intercepting their overseas calls in order to pick up clues needed to stop another attack.
To evaluate what Obama’s ties to Wright mean, picture America’s reaction if President Bush’s minister, mentor, and moral compass had the views of Wright and was an admirer and supporter of Farrakhan.
“He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas,” Benjamin Franklin said.
Obama may be a gifted orator, but his choice of a friend and advisor suggests he is masquerading as a moderate. While the liberal media have already decided Obama will be our next president, Americans may have a different view when they consider what his ties to Wright tell us about the presidential candidate’s true opinions and character.
Israel: 'No Options' Out on Iran Nukes
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JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told a powerful parliamentary panel on Monday that Israel rejects no options to block Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, a meeting participant said.
The statement was the Israeli leader's clearest indication yet that he is willing to use military force against Iran.
"Israel clearly will not reconcile itself to a nuclear Iran," the meeting participant quoted Olmert as telling the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. "All options that prevent Iran from gaining nuclear capabilities are legitimate within the context of how to grapple with this matter."
Olmert addressed the panel days after discussing Iran's nuclear ambitions in face-to-face talks with President Bush in Jerusalem.
The meeting participant spoke on condition of anonymity because the session was closed.
Holocaust Denier's Lawyer Gets Prison
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BERLIN -- A former lawyer for a well-known Holocaust denier was convicted of incitement in Germany on Monday for denying the genocide herself and sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison.
Sylvia Stolz, who represented Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel at his trial, also was banned from practicing law for five years.
During Zundel's trial, Stolz repeatedly disputed the Nazis' mass murder of Jews, called for hatred of the Jewish population and ended a legal document with the words "Heil Hitler."
Zundel's first trial collapsed after Stolz was banned from the proceedings on the grounds she was trying to sabotage them.
Zundel's second trial at Mannheim state court ended in February 2007 with his conviction for incitement for denying the Holocaust _ a crime in Germany.
The 67-year-old Zundel, who was deported from Canada in 2005 and also once lived in Tennessee, was sentenced to the maximum five years in prison.
In sentencing Stolz, Judge Rolf Glenz said she used Zundel's trial in order to deny the Holocaust and to spread revisionist ideas.
"Stolz has a basic reflex to make far-right statements," he said.
Stolz, who called the Holocaust "the biggest lie in world history," also was convicted of disparaging the country and its symbols and insulting the court.
NBC Producers Need Sensitivity Training-L&O Episode Defames Christians and Student Ministries
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FT. LAUDERDALE, Florida -- Last week an episode of Law & Order on NBC, which regularly adopts real life events and blurs the line between fiction and fact, portrayed a leader in a college Christian ministry as being guilty of making death threats against a professor because the Christian was anti- homosexual. The lead detective calls Christians "Bible thumpers."
"There is a relentless attempt on the part of the media to stereotype Christians as being violent," said Dr. Gary Cass, Chairman and CEO of the Christian Anti- Defamation Commission. "Apparently NBC producers need sensitivity training. It seems they can't distinguish between peaceful Christians and violent gang members. It is outrageous to defame the thousands of conscientious Christians who faithfully minister to hurting students on today's college campuses.
"To allow their protagonists to derisively portray Christians as unenlightened, violent and out-of-step is galling," said Cass. "Dick Wolf, the show's executive producer, is not aware that eighty-five percent of Americans identify themselves as Christian. He is the one who is out of step. NBC would never insult other religious faiths in this way. I have never heard devout Jews or Muslims or Hindus and Buddhists insulted because they believe their scriptures or writings."
Over the years, Law & Order has dramatized many high-profile cases dealing with abortion, euthanasia, malfeasance by church officials and other controversial topics. Every time one of these cases is spotlighted, people of faith are portrayed as unenlightened buffoons. The CADC will continue to monitor and expose this bigotry and encourages all people who oppose anti-Christian bigotry to contact NBC and tell them to stop the Christian bashing.
The Christian Anti-Defamation Commission is a non- profit organization devoted to protecting the rights of Christians to confidently live their faith. Dr. Gary Cass has degrees from Westminster Theological Seminary. He previously served as Executive Director of the Center for Reclaiming America for Christ, an outreach of Coral Ridge Ministries founded by the late Dr. D. James Kennedy.
To schedule an interview with Dr. Gary Cass of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission, please contact Kevin McVicker at Shirley & Banister Public Affairs at (703) 739-5920 or (800) 536-5920.
Dr. Alveda King to Address 'Let Them Live Rally' at State Capitol Today
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ATLANTA -- Dr. Alveda King, Pastoral Associate of Priests for Life, will speak today in support of Georgia's Human Life Amendment at the "Let Them Live Rally" to be held at the State Capitol. She issued the following statement in advance of the rally.
My uncle, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., said that "life's most urgent question is, what are you doing for others?" I implore our Georgia legislature to do what is right for others.
For too long in our state's history, our officials looked the other way when those who had no voice were denied their rights. Black people were killed just because of who they were.
Today, there are still those who have no voice. They're killed not with guns or nooses, but medical instruments. These voiceless people are terminated not by men wearing sheets, but by those wearing doctors' coats. What's different today from the days of lynching is that the people wearing doctors' coats are now far more successful at eliminating the Black population than the Klan ever dreamed. Roughly 15 million Black children have been aborted since 1973, more than one-third of the current African-American population. Our legislators once turned their heads when Black people hung from trees. Today they turn their heads as our babies of all races are torn limb from limb. But no more!
This year, this month, this day, the Georgia legislature has the opportunity to do what is right for the most helpless and oppressed among us, our unborn children. Today, each and every one of us has the opportunity to do for others by encouraging our representatives to pass the Human Life Amendment.
To those who have supported abortion either publicly, in secret, or by just turning your heads and saying nothing, I say today is your chance to think of others; to do for others who cry out for mercy and justice. To those who fret that this might not be the time to pass the Human Life Amendment, I again quote my Uncle Martin, "The time is always right to do what is right."
Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.
Court Disregards Petition Conditions, Allows Distrusted Prosecutor to Direct Tiller Grand Jury
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WICHITA, Kansas -- A grand jury was impaneled today and instructed that the prosecutor who would be directing the investigation of late-term abortionist George R. Tiller is Deputy District Attorney Ann Swegle.
Swegle was involved in the 2006 grand jury that investigated Tiller in the 3rd trimester abortion death of Christin Gilbert, which failed to indict on four counts by only one vote.
"It was because of Swegel's handling of the '06 grand jury that this petition specifically demanded that District Attorney Nola Foulston and anyone associated with her not be involved in the grand jury," said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. "We highly suspected monkey-business during that last grand jury and wanted to avoid the same kind of corruption with this one.
"Over 7,500 people signed the grand jury petition under the condition that Foulston's office and Morrison not be involved. Now, the courts have chosen to disrespect the will of the people and have appointed the very person that we believe submarined the last investigation. Appointing Swegle to oversee this investigation is a slap on the face to every citizen who signed that petition."
Operation Rescue and activist Mark Gietzen filed an eleventh hour motion late yesterday to disqualify Foulston and disgraced Attorney General Paul Morrison from participating in the grand jury.
Early this morning Gietzen had a half-hour long conversation with presiding Judge Michael Corrigan about the motions. Confusion over the motions seemed to define the morning. Corrigan assured Gietzen that Morrison would not be involved in the case, but would not rule out Foulston's involvement through Swegle.
"Assurances are just too good enough. That's not how courts work. Courts issue orders. Where is the one page order telling us Morrison will not be involved? As sitting Attorney General, he still has the ability to influence this investigation, and as a man who has been accused of illegally attempting to influence other Tiller cases, it is absolutely outrageous and arrogant that a court order has not been issued. Everyone now associated with this process is tainted with the appearance of impropriety, the very thing we hoped to avoid," said Newman. "It looks like the fix is in."
Operation Rescue is one of the leading pro-life Christian activist organizations in the nation. Operation Rescue recently made headlines when it bought and closed an abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas and has become the voice of the pro-life activist movement in America. Its activities are on the cutting edge of the abortion issue, taking direct action to restore legal personhood to the pre-born and stop abortion in obedience to biblical mandates.
Beijing Christian Businessman Shi Weihan Released on Bail -- Government Officials Decide Not to Pursue Criminal Charges
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BEIJING, China -- China Aid Association has learned that on January 4, Christian bookstore owner, Shi Weihan along with two dozen others associated with his case, have been released on bail. Chinese officials have decided against a formal trial for Shi, and criminal charges against the accused have been dismissed.
Eyewitnesses told CAA that Shi was in good spirits and relatively stable physical condition. Shi's family members asked CAA to thank the tireless efforts of the international community for his release.
Shi, and the others, have been detained for the past 37 days under charges of illegal printing and distribution of Christian literature. According to Chinese law after 37 days of administrative detention, a formal arrest warrant must be issued or the accused must be released.
Sources state that the Beijing Haidian District prosecution office assigned to Shi's case determined that they were unable to proceed with formal charges due to "insufficient evidence." Regardless of the reasoning for Shi's unconditional release, it is evident that international attention and pressure on the case were instrumental in influencing the court's decision.
"The Chinese government has made a positive step in the right direction regarding this case," CAA's President Bob Fu stated. "This is a clear victory of rule of law and international intervention."
The Government's upright decision to release Shi and the others is a virtuous development following the Communist party's conference on the collective study of Religion and Religious policy on December 18, 2007. During the conference President Hu Jintao, reiterated the Government's stance on the "implementation of free religious policy" stressing law-abiding management on religious affairs and support to self-governance of religious groups.
While the Government's decision in the Shi Weihan case should be lauded, hundreds of prisoners persecuted for their beliefs, still remain in custody. As is the case of Xinjiang church leader Zhou Heng, who was arrested in August of 2007, for receiving "illegally printed" Bibles. Zhou, who was arraigned on the same charges as Shi Weihan, continues to serve an unjust sentence behind bars. These accounts, and others, are examples of the Chinese Government's failure to remain consistent in cases receiving less international attention.
CAA encourages the Chinese Government to follow the example set in the Shi Weihan case, and maintain consistency in its policies and rhetoric on religious freedom.
Philanthropy Expert Calls Upon Creflo Dollar and Other Media Ministers to Open their Financial Books
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In a televised interview on CNN, Friday, January 4, 2008, Larry King interviewed media minister Creflo Dollar of Atlanta. Dollar and several other ministers have been recently targeted by a Senate probe initiated by Sen. Charles Grassley (R- Iowa). In light of the allegations of opulent lifestyles, extravagant spending, and possible financial scandals, Grassley is seeking to investigate the ministries of Paula and Randy White, Eddie Long, Benny Hinn, Joyce Meyer, Ken and Gloria Copeland, and, Creflo Dollar.
When asked by Larry King why Dollar was unwilling to provide Sen. Grassley with a full accounting of his ministry's financial matters, Dollar conceded he would not on the basis of "principle" only.
What Creflo Dollar and other media ministers do not seem to understand is that, in a garden of secrecy all that grows is suspicion. In the book, The Giving Myths, I devote an entire chapter to the culture of secrecy regarding individual giving that the Church has promoted for decades. It may be one thing for a donor to insist his or her charity be kept a secret, but it's another thing entirely when a ministry, as the beneficiary of a donor's charity, refuses to disclose just how the ministry is managing the resources entrusted to it.
Therefore, for the sake of moral integrity and the credibility of media ministry, I respectfully call on Creflo Dollar, the other ministries under Grassley's investigation, and all media ministries in general to remove the veil of secrecy surrounding their ministry income and expenditures and willingly disclose this information.
Suspicion sows doubt and doubt gives way to mistrust. When donors mistrust their ministers, just as a garden cannot survive without rain, those ministries will eventually dry up from lack of support. And, well they should, if a refusal to disclose is their modus operandi. I see it all the time in my giving ministry in virtually every denomination in America ( www.stevemcswain.com). In virtually every church and denomination in the US, donors are asking, even expecting, a full disclosure of the church's income and expenditures. There isn't a church in America that would survive very long if a leader withheld such information from those persons from whom the leader requested financial support. Media ministers should be just as accountable and provide every donor a complete disclosure of the ministry's financial matters (i.e., how much is received, what is being done with the money, as well as the ministry's payroll, including what's paid in salary to the media minister him-or- herself). Any ministry that would refuse to cooperate in disclosing all financial matters is a suspect ministry at best and may be hiding a garden full of weeds.
Donors beware.
In light of the suspicions and, ultimately, the disappointments that resulted from the exorbitant salaries, lavish lifestyles, and moral failures associated with Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart, you would think every media ministry in America would take the initiative in cultivating confidence in the way they receive and disperse a donor's gift and the way they report on both. The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA) would gladly assist any of these ministries. They have provided accreditation and oversight to Christian nonprofits for nearly three decades.
Sooner or later, and my hope is, sooner than later, the day will come when every media ministry that wishes to be trusted, or viewed credible in any way, will be required to provide a full disclosure of all funds received and be held accountable for how those funds are disbursed. Media Ministers should not need a Senator or the IRS to enforce the moral values of integrity, accountability, and honesty. But, if that's what it takes, so be it.
Dr. Steve McSwain is senior vice president of Cargill Associates, Inc., (1-800-433-2233), ( www.stevemcswain.com). As an expert in philanthropy and fundraising, McSwain has provide oversight and spiritual guidance to hundreds of Catholic, Evangelical, and Protestant churches nationwide helping them raise hundreds of millions for Christian causes. His most recent book is entitled: The Giving Myths (Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.).
US missionary held in Chad to be freed soon - group
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Rebels in northern Chad are expected to release shortly a U.S. missionary they seized in October on the suspicion he was a Chadian government spy, a member of the organisation he worked for said on Sunday.
Cash Steven Godbold, a member of the Christian organisation The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM), was kidnapped on Oct. 11 in the northern Tibesti mountains near the Libyan border by the rebel Movement for Democracy and Justice in Chad (MDJT).
At the time of his seizure, Godbold was working on a humanitarian assistance project drilling water wells in the Zoumri region, funded by the U.S. Department of Defense.
The MDJT, which was formed in 1998, issued statements last week saying its inquiries showed Godbold was not working for the Chadian government as it had originally suspected.
"We expect him to be released shortly ... hopefully in a week," the Reverend Carl Hodges of the TEAM organisation in Chad told Reuters by telephone.
At the request of the MDJT, another humanitarian organisation working in Chad was helping to arrange the release of the kidnapped missionary, Hodges said, adding that this organisation had asked that its name not be released.
"I myself talked to him (Godbold) on December 28. I was able to confirm that he was fine -- the only thing he wanted was his liberty," Hodges said.
He said the MDJT, which in 1998 launched an armed insurgency in Chad's north under the leadership of President Idriss Deby's former defence chief, Youssouf Togoimi, had made no demands.
GA Schools Shying away from Bible Classes
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It's now legal to teach courses on the Bible in Georgia's public schools.
But some school systems don't offer the Bible courses and don't plan to, saying they'd rather leave that instruction to the church.
"We found that since many of our students have such a strong spiritual upbringing that is firmly grounded in Christianity, there was very little interest on the part of the students to take such a class," L'Angra Webster, a spokeswoman for the Hancock County school system, told Macon.com.
No Money, No Time, No Interest
Other school systems say the costs for materials, scheduling conflicts and possible legal implications are reasons why school systems aren't planning on providing the two courses -- Literature and History of the Old Testament and Literature and History of the New Testament.
Wilkinson County schools doesn't have the money, and Monroe County school officials said if they added a Bible course, they'd have to drop another course to compensate.
"There is not really one that we want to drop," Assistant Superintendent Maggie Bowden said.
In Crawford County, the focus is more on offering courses that fulfill the new graduation requirements, school officials there said.
One church leader said he's not surprised by the low school participation.
"I think it's easier for systems to duck that issue than deal with the legal issues that accompany church and state and religion," said Joe McDaniel, associate pastor at Mabel White Memorial Baptist Church. "Although it is the Bible Belt, there are different denominations and faiths here. We've become so multicultural, and something said that is kind or unkind about one religion may bring issues. It's easy for some systems not to touch it."
Keeping School out of Bible Interpretation
The Rev. Johnny Mathis of Cornerstone of Praise Church, an independent denomination, said he's not a proponent of public schools' teaching Bible courses anyway.
"Advancing of religion is best done by the religious community, not schools," Mathis said. "There should be a separation of the two."
In 2006, Georgia lawmakers passed a bill allowing publicly funded Bible courses, offering students who wanted to study the Bible's literary style and influence on art, history, music and culture, the chance to do so through an elective class.
Supporters say fully understanding history, literature and political science requires knowledge of the Bible. But critics worry the classes will turn into endorsements of Christianity.
How Many School Systems Participating Unknown
State officials say they won't know how many of the 180 systems are offering the courses until June, when student records are sent to the state.
The courses were not offered last school year, since the curriculum was being designed.
The National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools reported last year that at least seven systems in Georgia had adopted courses on the Bible.
The council also noted that more than 380 school systems in 37 different states have taught a course using the Bible and the council's curriculum.
The courses have never been challenged legally because it presents the Bible objectively and as part of the regular program of public school education, they said.
Lawmakers in Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas have considered similar plans this year, although none has received final approval.
India: Hindus Work to Annihilate Christians
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It's been three weeks since Hindu radicals launched a brutal attack against Christians in the Indian state of Orissa.
Hundreds of homes and churches were destroyed.
More than 2,000 Christians are in refugee camps. Hundreds more are hiding in the jungles for fear of another attack.
CBN News reporter George Thomas gained access to some of the hardest-hit areas in Orissa's Khandmal District.
Getting to these areas is no easy task.
For the past several weeks, Indian authorities have not allowed journalists, religious leaders or aid workers to travel to some of the most affected villages.
But with the help of local contacts, CBN News got a first-hand look at communities gripped with fear and anxiety.
"As the mob was destroying our churches, I could hear them chanting "victory to our Hindu gods, "said Solomon Naya, a pastor in Kandhamal. "All we could do was hide in our homes and pray."
The troubles started on December 23.
Christians in a village, some 800 miles southeast of New Delhi, were preparing for a special Christmas service. According to church leaders, Hindu radicals were opposed to the event and began attacking Christian homes and churches.
Hindu hard-liners insist the fighting started only after Christians tried to attack a prominent Hindu leader in the area.
More than 700 homes were destroyed in three days of fighting.
"They burned everything that I had," said Obed Diggal, a resident in Kandhamal District. "This is all I have left, what I'm wearing."
Four people lost their lives.
"I saw my grandfather burned to death right in front of my eyes, and I could do nothing to save his life," said Nabaghana Naik, another resident of Kandhamal District.
Across this district, church after church became targets for the raging mob.
"They warned us not to spread the love of God and not to tell others about Jesus," said Sunderson Digal while standing on what is left of his small village church.
Digal's church is just one of the close to 100 churches that were destroyed in the attacks that began on December 23.
Despite all of the violence and destruction, all of the residents that CBN News spoke with said that in due course, these churches will all be rebuilt.
Sajan George, who heads the Global Council of Indian Christians, was asked if he had any evidence that the violent onslaught was a coordinated and planned attack.
"This was well-coordinated, well-orchestrated because it has happened in 80 different places," he replied.
Dr. Sajan's organization documents the persecution of Christians in India. He says the attacks weren't just random acts of violence.
"They marked the houses, they knew where the churches were and they spontaneously went and attacked," said Sajan.
Sajan and other Christian leaders believe the attacks are part of a much larger campaign by Hindu fanatics to stop lower-caste Hindus, known as Untouchables or Dalits, from converting to Christianity.
"God is moving among the Dalits and setting us free," said Daniel Digal, a Dalit convert. "The Hindus don't like this, so they accuse us of bribing and forcing others to convert, and this is not true."
Umasankar Acharya is a top leader of Bajrang Dal, a Hindu extremist group that often uses violence against Christians and other minority faith groups. He accuses Christians and foreign missionaries of using conversions to try and lower the number of Hindus in India.
"This is a problem, and we will deal with it," said Umasankar. "We will get all the Hindus together, the whole Hindu nation, and whoever stands against the rights of Hindus, we will finish them."
In an effort to counter the spread of Christianity, Orissa and several other Indian states have laws that require people to get permission before they can change their religion.
"They want to annihilate the Christians of India," said Pastor Solomon. "They want to turn this country into a Hindu nation."
This is a goal that Archirya and other extremist Hindu leaders say is worth fighting for.
"Every time you read the pages of history, you see that Hindus have fought for this nation and for their religious rights," said Archirya. "india has always been, is, and forever will be a Hindu nation."
These are words that do little to comfort the Christians living here in Kandhamal District.
On a recent Tuesday morning, a group of Christian villagers stood in the ruins of their church and sang of their commitment to their faith and their determination to pray for those who've carried out these acts of terror.
"I am praying that through this devastation, people will experience the love of Jesus," said Sunderson Digal, a resident of Minia Village.
"And the bottom line is that if we live, we'll live for Christ," said Babulok Maliga, a pastor in Kandhamal. "If we die, we'll die for Christ. Whatever happens, we will worship our Lord."
A New Weapon in Fight for the Unborn
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The battle over abortion has been going on for more than 35 years. Now there's a new weapon in the pro-life movement to save the lives of the unborn.
Taking It to the Streets
A 32-foot-long, brightly colored mobile home dodged in and out of traffic and made its way down the narrow streets of New York. It's a sight you don't see every day.
But this isn't just any old RV. This one has a portable ultrasound unit onboard - and its mission is to save unborn babies.
It's called 'Operation Frontline' and it's a pro-life mobile ultrasound clinic - the first of its kind in New York. Veteran pro-life activist Chris Slattery heads the operation.
CBN News recently went for a ride in the life-saving vehicle.
"We go out to the toughest neighborhoods in the South Bronx and the most international area of Queens where there's a huge pocket of abortion clinics along a strip we call it 'Abortion Row.'"
Four days a week Slattery, along with his full time ultrasound technician and bi-lingual crisis pregnancy counselor, pull up to an abortion clinic in Bronx, New York.
They offer free ultrasounds and friendly compassionate crisis counseling to all pregnant women who are on their way to have an abortion.
"We're probably intervening with a dozen women a week who we get to take an ultrasound, talk with the counselor in either English or Spanish. We are successful probably eight out of 10 times. We're successful in turning the mother around if we can get her in to talk with us," he said.
'Operation Frontline' also reaches out to pregnant women who plan to keep their babies
Julie Beyel works with Slattery as a sidewalk counselor.
"What I do is I basically look…to see if women may be getting dropped off in a cab and I approach that woman to let them know we offer free help for pregnant women."
She says she explains to the woman that an abortion clinic does not really help women. She explains that instead "it leaves women with negative feelings - maybe feelings of guilt."
Time for a Baby Shower
Ultrasound technician Wadiya Penzellna says the results are amazing and rewarding. She says that some of the women who decide to keep their babies will return with pictures of their infants.
"I have pictures. We speak a lot, go to baby showers. It's been nice," she said.
So what's the response from the abortion clinic?
Slattery says, "There's nothing they can do except the cursing they throw at us and occasional harassment of us. We're pretty much free to do what we want on this public sidewalk."
He says the idea for a mobile pro-life center is catching on.
We're finding people are coming here to visit us to see how we're doing this from around the country," he said. "We've even had inquiries from New Zealand about opening up a mobile clinic like this."
But despite the positive results, Slattery says he has one regret.
He said, "I just wish we had thought of this many years ago. We're going go full whole hog with this now and save as many lives with this tactic as we can."
Boim: Building Will Continue in Jerusalem
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JERUSALEM, Israel - Israeli Housing and Construction Minister Ze'ev Boim (Kadima) said construction in Jerusalem neighborhoods would continue and talk about dividing the nation's capital should cease.
Speaking at the monthly meeting of Jerusalem's economic forum Sunday, Boim spoke out against U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's criticism of the southeast Jerusalem Har Homa neighborhood.
"Jerusalem has municipal boundaries that were established and within these domains, it is our right to build," said Boim.
"If we don't say this, we're pulling the rug out from under ourselves and placing a question mark on certain neighborhoods -- from [the northern Jerusalem neighborhood of] Ramot to Gilo [at the southern end of the city]. That is unacceptable," he said.
"We clearly explained our position to the U.S. It is permissible and even necessary to argue with friends about this," he said. "America's position with regard to Jerusalem is not new. Since the days of [Israel's first prime minister] Ben-Gurion, they didn't accept this. They accept it de facto and not de jure."
Boim said he went over the planned construction in Har Homa with U.S. ambassador to Israel Richard Jones.
"I showed him that the planning stages started 11-12 years ago. The matter was made public during a sensitive time, and I'm not saying that we need to raise a fuss like what was done during the Shamir government. But this doesn't mean that we need to halt the construction," he said.
No to Dividing Jerusalem
Boim also spoke out strongly against Israeli Vice-Premier Haim Ramon's plan to cede east Jerusalem neighborhoods, with large Arab populations, to the Palestinian Authority.
"There is no reason or need, and it is not possible to divide and share sovereignty over our capital city," he said.
"There is not one capital city in the world that is divided," Boim said. "The only capital city with a wall was Berlin. It fell, just like we brought down the wall in Jerusalem 40 years ago," said the housing minister.
While the Palestinians are demanding all of east Jerusalem, along with Jerusalem's Old City, including the Kotel (Western Wall), Boim said "creative solutions" must be found for the estimated quarter of a million Arab residents of the city.
East Jerusalem neighborhoods, housing some 180,000 Israeli Arabs, must remain under Israeli sovereignty, he said.
First Indian-American Governor Sworn In
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BATON ROUGE, La. - Republican Bobby Jindal, the nation's first Indian-American governor, was sworn in Monday in Louisiana and moved quickly to make good on a campaign promise to clean up the corrupt image of this hurricane-battered state.
"We have the opportunity - born of tragedy but embraced still the same - to make right decades of failure in government," Jindal said in his inaugural speech, referring to hurricanes Katrina and Rita of 2005.
Jindal, a former congressman, became Louisiana's first nonwhite governor since Reconstruction. He took the oath from the state Supreme Court's chief justice, Pascal Calogero. Jindal's wife Supriya held the Bible.
He said he will call a special legislative session Feb. 10 to address the state's image as a haven for cronyism and self-serving politicians. In his speech, he made numerous references to a "new Louisiana" and a "new beginning" for the state.
"We can build a Louisiana where our leaders and our people set the highest standards and hold every member of our government accountable, a Louisiana where incompetence is not a synonym for government, a Louisiana where corruption does not hold us back," he said without providing specifics.
Jindal, 36, a conservative Republican, won more than 50 percent of the vote in October's primary election. He takes over from Democrat Kathleen Blanco, who had defeated him four years earlier. Blanco chose not to run after heavy criticism of her performance after Katrina.
While Jindal has focused on fixing the state's shady reputation and overhauling ethics laws, he inherits an array of problems that have dogged his predecessors. Louisiana is among the nation's most unhealthy and poorest states, its students still perform below average on national educational tests and its population is dwindling.
Worsening the state's long-term history of problems, back-to-back blows from hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated much of south Louisiana and left New Orleans struggling to recover. The pace of hurricane rebuilding has been sluggish, with thousands of homes left abandoned, thousands of residents displaced and basic government services destroyed.
The boyish-looking Jindal will be the youngest U.S. governor in office, but he's used to being among the youngest people in the room in his previous posts.
By the time he first ran for governor at age 32, Jindal already had served as Louisiana's health care secretary, president of one of its university systems and an assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under President Bush. Republican former Gov. Mike Foster tapped Jindal to be the state's health secretary in 1996, when Jindal was only 24.
Earlier Monday, newly elected legislators unanimously backed two of Jindal's choices for leadership posts. Republican state Rep. Jim Tucker was elected Speaker of the House, while Democratic state Sen. Joel Chaisson was elected president of the Senate. Both were elected without opposition.
On Sunday, Jindal attended a prayer service where churchmen from around the state read scripture and offered support. Jindal, a Roman Catholic who converted from Hinduism as a teenager, sat in a front pew next to wife and other family members at St. Joseph Cathedral in downtown Baton Rouge.
Dozens in Texas town report seeing UFO
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In this farming community where nightfall usually brings clear, starry skies, residents are abuzz over reported sightings of what many believe is a UFO.
Several dozen people — including a pilot, county constable and business owners — insist they have seen a large silent object with bright lights flying low and fast. Some reported seeing fighter jets chasing it.
"People wonder what in the world it is because this is the Bible Belt, and everyone is afraid it's the end of times," said Steve Allen, a freight company owner and pilot who said the object he saw last week was a mile long and half a mile wide. "It was positively, absolutely nothing from these parts."
While federal officials insist there's a logical explanation, locals swear that it was larger, quieter, faster and lower to the ground than an airplane. They also said the object's lights changed configuration, unlike those of a plane. People in several towns who reported seeing it over several weeks have offered similar descriptions of the object.
Machinist Ricky Sorrells said friends made fun of him when he told them he saw a flat, metallic object hovering about 300 feet over a pasture behind his Dublin home. But he decided to come forward after reading similar accounts in the Stephenville Empire-Tribune.
"You hear about big bass or big buck in the area, but this is a different deal," Sorrells said. "It feels good to hear that other people saw something, because that means I'm not crazy."
Sorrells said he has seen the object several times. He said he watched it through his rifle's telescopic lens and described it as very large and without seams, nuts or bolts.
Maj. Karl Lewis, a spokesman for the 301st Fighter Wing at the Joint Reserve Base Naval Air Station in Fort Worth, said no F-16s or other aircraft from his base were in the area the night of Jan. 8, when most people reported the sighting.
Lewis said the object may have been an illusion caused by two commercial airplanes. Lights from the aircraft would seem unusually bright and may appear orange from the setting sun.
"I'm 90 percent sure this was an airliner," Lewis said. "With the sun's angle, it can play tricks on you."
Officials at the region's two Air Force bases — Dyess in Abilene and Sheppard in Wichita Falls — also said none of their aircraft were in the area last week. The Air Force no longer investigates UFOs.
One man has offered a reward for a photograph or videotape of the mysterious object.
About 200 UFO sightings are reported each month, mostly in California, Colorado and Texas, according to the Mutual UFO Network, which plans to go to the 17,000-resident town of Stephenville to investigate.
Fourteen percent of Americans polled last year by The Associated Press and Ipsos say they have seen a UFO.
Erath County Constable Lee Roy Gaitan said that he first saw red glowing lights and then white flashing lights moving fast, but that even with binoculars could not see the object to which the lights were attached.
"I didn't see a flying saucer and I don't know what it was, but it wasn't an airplane, and I've never seen anything like it," Gaitan said. "I think it must be some kind of military craft — at least I hope it was."
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