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GOP Representative and “Family” Member Preaches Sedition

Com­ment: While wav­ing the flag with one hand, the GOP has been warn­ing of or open­ly preach­ing seces­sion. The lat­est GOP lumi­nary to preach sedi­tion is Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Zach Wamp. As we will see in the Salon.com arti­cle below, Wamp is a mem­ber of “The Family”–a con­sum­mate­ly pow­er­ful, fun­da­men­tal­ist Chris­t­ian orga­ni­za­tion with close ties to the Under­ground Reich.

“GOP Rep. and TN-GOV Can­di­date Wamp: States Might Have to Con­sid­er ‘Sep­a­ra­tion from This Gov­ern­ment’ ” by Eric Kleefeld; Talk­ing Points Memo; 7/23/2010.

Excerpt: Rep. Zach Wamp (R‑TN), who is run­ning in a heat­ed three-way Repub­li­can pri­ma­ry for gov­er­nor of Ten­nessee, has a dire warn­ing about the new health care reform law: If a new Con­gress and pres­i­dent aren’t elect­ed in order to repeal the bill, states might just have to secede.

“I hope that the Amer­i­can peo­ple will go to the bal­lot box in 2010 and 2012 so that states are not forced to con­sid­er sep­a­ra­tion from this gov­ern­ment,” said Wamp, who has also promised to refuse to imple­ment the law at the state lev­el if he is elect­ed, in an inter­view with the Hot­line.

Wamp also praised Gov. Rick Per­ry (R‑TX) — who has also float­ed the idea of seces­sion — for lead­ing the fight against the health care bill. “Patri­ots like Rick Per­ry have talked about these issues because the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment is putting us in an unten­able posi­tion at the state lev­el,” said Wamp. . . .

Com­ment: Wamp, as men­tioned above, is a mem­ber of “The Fam­i­ly.”

“Sex and Pow­er Inside the ‘C Street House’ ” by Jeff Sharlet; Salon.com; 7/21/2009.

Excerpt: . . . . Today’s roll call is just as impres­sive: Men under the Fam­i­ly’s reli­gio-polit­i­cal coun­sel include, in addi­tion to Ensign, Coburn and Pick­er­ing, Sens. Chuck Grass­ley, R‑Iowa, and Jim DeMint and Lind­sey Gra­ham, both R‑S.C.; James Inhofe, R‑Okla., John Thune, R‑S.D., and recent sen­a­tors and high offi­cials such as John Ashcroft, Ed Meese, Pete Domeni­ci and Don Nick­les. Over in the House there’s Joe Pitts, R‑Penn., Frank Wolf, R‑Va., Zach Wamp, R‑Tenn. . . .

Discussion

2 comments for “GOP Representative and “Family” Member Preaches Sedition”

  1. Amer­i­ca is doomed if Alex Jones is our only hope. He is a half baked con­spir­a­cy guess­er. He extrap­o­lates his­to­ry onto cur­rent events. He is way off.

    He is a clos­et repub­li­can.

    Posted by Rodney Ito | July 24, 2010, 7:35 pm
  2. The forced drink­ing of holy blood is just a metaphor for a friend­ly vol­un­tary wine-tast­ing event, right? Right? *gulp*

    Talk To Action
    David Lane Calls for Domin­ion­ist Rev­o­lu­tion
    Sat Jun 29, 2013 at 07:55:25 PM EST, Fred­er­ick Clark­son

    The theo­crat­ic inten­tions of Chris­t­ian Right lead­ers some­times sur­face in unex­pect­ed ways. Most recent­ly David Lane, a top Chris­t­ian Right polit­i­cal oper­a­tive and long­time behind-the-scenes “pow­er bro­ker” called for vio­lent domin­ion­ist rev­o­lu­tion in an essay pub­lished (and then tak­en down) by World Net Dai­ly.

    Lane has, among oth­er things, been the nation­al finance direc­tor for The Response, the 2011 prayer ral­ly that served as the de fac­to launch of Texas Gov. Rick Per­ry’s ill-fat­ed run for pres­i­dent, as well as the orga­niz­er of the Texas Restora­tion Project, which had boost­ed Per­ry’s polit­i­cal career. He has worked with and for such GOP pols as Newt Gin­grich, Mike Huck­abee and Michelle Bach­mann, and most recent­ly, Sen. Rand Paul (R‑KY). Lane cur­rent­ly leads the Amer­i­can Renew­al Project of Don Wild­mon’s Amer­i­can Fam­i­ly Asso­ci­a­tion which is tar­get­ing twelve states for polit­i­cal devel­op­ment towards the 2014 elec­tions.

    Such nuts and bolts elec­toral work not with­stand­ing, Lane called in his essay for Chris­tians to “Wage war to restore a Chris­t­ian Amer­i­ca.” The depth and feroc­i­ty of Lane’s vision is so remark­able that it can­not be explained away by the pun­dits of pooh pooh. Per­haps that is why it has gone unmen­tioned in the main­stream press. But Lane’s words tak­en togeth­er; in the con­text of the pol­i­tics of the moment as he under­stands it; and in set in the series of epochal his­tor­i­cal and bib­li­cal moments he invokes — his mean­ing is unam­bigu­ous.

    He opens by quot­ing Chris­t­ian Recon­struc­tion­ist author Peter J. Lei­thart:

    “Through­out Scrip­ture, the only pow­er that can over­come the seem­ing­ly invin­ci­ble omnipo­tence of a Babel or a Beast is the pow­er of mar­tyr­dom, the pow­er of the wit­ness to King Jesus to the point of loss and death.”

    Lane goes on, still quot­ing Lei­thart, to denounce Amer­i­can Chris­tian­i­ty for fail­ing to pro­duce mar­tyrs and for sub­sti­tut­ing a “hereti­cal Amer­i­can­ism for Chris­t­ian ortho­doxy.” He insists that to put things right “Chris­tians must risk mar­tyr­dom” to force peo­ple to either “acknowl­edge Jesus [as] an imper­a­tor and the church as God’s imperi­um or to begin drink­ing holy blood.”

    Lane express­es frus­tra­tion with what he regards as the super­fi­cial pol­i­tics of press releas­es of “inside the Belt­way” Chris­t­ian Right­ists. He calls for “cham­pi­ons of Christ to save the nation from the pagan onslaught impos­ing homo­sex­u­al mar­riage, homo­sex­u­al scouts, 60 mil­lion babies done to death by abor­tion and red ink as far as the eye can see.” The cham­pi­ons for Christ of his vision will “wage war for the Soul of Amer­i­ca and trust the liv­ing God to deliv­er the pagan gods into our hands and restore Amer­i­ca to her Judeo-Chris­t­ian her­itage and re-estab­lish a Chris­t­ian cul­ture.”

    “Amer­i­ca’s sur­vival is at stake,” he declares, “and this is not tall talk or exag­ger­a­tion.”

    “If the Amer­i­can exper­i­ment with free­dom is to end after 237 years,” he sug­gests, “let each of us com­mit to brawl all the way to the end because,” he explains, quot­ing a famous radio address by Win­ston Churchill dur­ing the dark­est days of the war with Nazi Ger­many: “Upon this bat­tle depends the sur­vival of Chris­t­ian civ­i­liza­tion.”

    “You ask,” Lane con­tin­ued, “What is our goal?” To wage war to restore Amer­i­ca to our Judeo-Chris­t­ian her­itage with all of our might and strength that God will give us. You ask, “What is our aim?” One word only: vic­to­ry, in spite of all intim­i­da­tion and ter­ror.”

    Final­ly, he calls for a con­tem­po­rary “Gideon” and a “Rahab the Har­lot” to rise to the occa­sion. Gideon is the Bib­li­cal fig­ure who as a young man leads an Israelite army against the oppres­sive Mid­i­an­ites, who wor­shiped false gods. Rahab is revered for shel­ter­ing two Israelite spies in prepa­ra­tion for the sack­ing of the city of Jeri­cho by Joshua’s army, which result­ed the mas­sacre of every­one but Rahab and her fam­i­ly. That Lane is call­ing for a net­work of spies to inform an army aimed at destroy­ing an oppres­sive, “pagan” gov­ern­ment, is also unam­bigu­ous.

    Almost as rev­e­la­to­ry as the con­tent of Lane’s essay is the lack of a response from the media and the polit­i­cal com­mu­ni­ty. Even as it was cov­ered a bit in the blo­gos­phere, notably by Denise Oliv­er Velez, a fea­tured writer at Dai­ly Kos and by Right Wing Watch and The New Civ­il Rights Move­ment, its been pret­ty much crick­ets every­where else.

    Posted by Pterrafractyl | July 1, 2013, 8:29 am

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