Day: May 20, 2008

Perspective, Political, , , , ,

The Democratic Republic of the United States

Our President and those with him, along with at least some section of our militaryYes, yes, support our military, but when will they support their constitutional duty. They should have “eliminated” the Chinese interrogators rather than take orders from them. have turned our country into a communist stooge state. From ABC News: Report: U.S. Soldiers Did ‘Dirty Work’ for Chinese Interrogators. Alleges Guantanamo Personnel Softened Up Detainees at Request of Chinese Intelligence.

U.S. military personnel at Guantanamo Bay allegedly softened up detainees at the request of Chinese intelligence officials who had come to the island facility to interrogate the men — or they allowed the Chinese to dole out the treatment themselves, according to claims in a new government report.

Buried in a Department of Justice report released Tuesday are new allegations about a 2002 arrangement between the United States and China, which allowed Chinese intelligence to visit Guantanamo and interrogate Chinese Uighurs held there…

Didn’t we stand in opposition to communism not too long ago (at least outwardly)? Didn’t we call small countries and some people communist stooges? Now it’s just a business deal I guess. We have become communist stooges.

And on the Uighurs (from Wikipedia):

Following 9/11, China voiced its support for the United States of America in the war on terror. The Chinese government has often referred to Uyghur nationalists as “terrorists” and received more global support for their own “war on terror” since 9/11. Human rights organizations have become concerned that this “war on terror” is being used by the Chinese government as a pretext to repress ethnic Uyghurs. Uyghur exile groups also claim that the Chinese government is suppressing Uyghur culture and religion, and responding to demands for independence with human rights violations. These include mass abortions of Uyghur children and forced termination of marriages between Uyghur people. Uyghur children who are born unauthorized are denied food and shelter by the government.

The war on terror being used as a pretext? Who’d have thought…

Fathers, PNCC

May 20 – St. Cyril of Jerusalem from the Catechetical Lectures

I received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, how that the Lord Jesus, in the night in which He was betrayed, took bread, &c.

Even of itself the teaching of the Blessed Paul is sufficient to give you a full assurance concerning those Divine Mysteries, of which having been deemed worthy, you are become of the same body and blood with Christ. For you have just heard him say distinctly, That our Lord Jesus Christ in the night in which He was betrayed, took bread, and when He had given thanks He broke it, and gave to His disciples, saying, Take, eat, this is My Body: and having taken the cup and given thanks, He said, Take, drink, this is My Blood . Since then He Himself declared and said of the Bread, This is My Body, who shall dare to doubt any longer? And since He has Himself affirmed and said, This is My Blood, who shall ever hesitate, saying, that it is not His blood? — Catechetical Lecture 22.