Zionism is a Form of Racism and Racial Discrimination
U N I T E D N A T I O N S
General Assembly Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/3379 (XXX)
10 November 1975
Thirtieth session
Agenda item 68
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/10320)]
3379 (XXX). Elimination of all forms of racial discrimination
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 1904 (XVIII) of 20 November 1963, proclaiming the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, and in particular its affirmation that "any doctrine of racial differentiation or superiority is scientifically false, morally condemnable, socially unjust and dangerous" and its expression of alarm at "the manifestations of racial discrimination still in evidence in some areas in the world, some of which are imposed by certain Governments by means of legislative, administrative or other measures",
Recalling also that, in its resolution 3151 G (XXVIII) of 14 December 1973, the General Assembly condemned, inter alia, the unholy alliance between South African racism and zionism,
Taking note of the Declaration of Mexico on the Equality of Women and Their Contribution to Development and Peace, 1/ proclaimed by the World Con-ference of the International Women's Year, held at Mexico City from 19 June to 2 July 1975, which promulgated the principle that "international co-operation and peace require the achievement of national liberation and independence, the elimination of colonialism and neo-colonialism, foreign occupation, zionism, apartheid and racial discrimination in all its forms, as well as the recognition of the dignity of peoples and their right to self-determination",
Taking note also of resolution 77 (XII) adopted by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity at its twelfth ordinary session,2/ hold at Kampala from 28 July to 1 August 1975, which considered "that the racist regime in occupied Palestine and the racist regimes in Zimbabwe and South Africa have a common imperialist origin, forming a whole and having the same racist structure and being organically linked in their policy aimed at repression of the dignity and integrity of the human being",
Taking note also of the Political Declaration and Strategy to Strengthen International Peace and Security and to Intensify Solidarity and Mutual Assistance among Non-Aligned Countries,3/ adopted at the Conference of Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Non-Aligned Countries held at Lima from 25 to 30 August 1975, which most severely condemned zionism as a threat to world peace and security and called upon all countries to oppose this racism and imperialist ideology,
Determines that zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.
2400th plenary meeting
10 November 1975
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1/ E/5725, part one, sect. I.
2/ See A/10297, annex II.
3/ A/10217 and Corr.1, annex, p. 3.
General Assembly Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/3379 (XXX)
10 November 1975
Thirtieth session
Agenda item 68
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/10320)]
3379 (XXX). Elimination of all forms of racial discrimination
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 1904 (XVIII) of 20 November 1963, proclaiming the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, and in particular its affirmation that "any doctrine of racial differentiation or superiority is scientifically false, morally condemnable, socially unjust and dangerous" and its expression of alarm at "the manifestations of racial discrimination still in evidence in some areas in the world, some of which are imposed by certain Governments by means of legislative, administrative or other measures",
Recalling also that, in its resolution 3151 G (XXVIII) of 14 December 1973, the General Assembly condemned, inter alia, the unholy alliance between South African racism and zionism,
Taking note of the Declaration of Mexico on the Equality of Women and Their Contribution to Development and Peace, 1/ proclaimed by the World Con-ference of the International Women's Year, held at Mexico City from 19 June to 2 July 1975, which promulgated the principle that "international co-operation and peace require the achievement of national liberation and independence, the elimination of colonialism and neo-colonialism, foreign occupation, zionism, apartheid and racial discrimination in all its forms, as well as the recognition of the dignity of peoples and their right to self-determination",
Taking note also of resolution 77 (XII) adopted by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity at its twelfth ordinary session,2/ hold at Kampala from 28 July to 1 August 1975, which considered "that the racist regime in occupied Palestine and the racist regimes in Zimbabwe and South Africa have a common imperialist origin, forming a whole and having the same racist structure and being organically linked in their policy aimed at repression of the dignity and integrity of the human being",
Taking note also of the Political Declaration and Strategy to Strengthen International Peace and Security and to Intensify Solidarity and Mutual Assistance among Non-Aligned Countries,3/ adopted at the Conference of Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Non-Aligned Countries held at Lima from 25 to 30 August 1975, which most severely condemned zionism as a threat to world peace and security and called upon all countries to oppose this racism and imperialist ideology,
Determines that zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.
2400th plenary meeting
10 November 1975
_____________
1/ E/5725, part one, sect. I.
2/ See A/10297, annex II.
3/ A/10217 and Corr.1, annex, p. 3.
UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION 3379
UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION 3379 (XXX)
Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
RECALLING its resolution 1904 (XVIII) of 20 November 1963, proclaiming the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, and in particular its affirmation that "any doctrine of racial differentiation or superiority is scientifically false, morally condemnable, socially unjust and dangerous" and its expression of alarm at "the manifestations of racial discrimination still in evidence in some areas in the world, some of which are imposed by certain Governments by means of legislative, administrative or other measures",
RECALLING ALSO that, in its resolution 3151 G (XXVIII) of 14 December 1953, the General Assembly condemned, inter alia, the unholy alliance between South African racism and Zionism,
TAKING NOTE of the Declaration of Mexico on the Equality of Women and Their Contribution to Development and Peace 1975, proclaimed by the World Conference of the Intenrational Women's Year, held at Mexico City from 19 June to 2 July 1975, which promulgated the principle that "international co-operation and peace require the achievement of national liberation and independence, the elimination of colonialism and neo-colonialism, foreign occupation, Zionism, apartheid and racial discrimination in all its forms, as well as the recognition of the dignity of peoples and their right to self-determination",
TAKING NOTE ALSO of resolution 77 (XII) adopted by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity at its twelfth ordinary session, held at Kampala from 28 July to 1 August 1975, which considered "that the racist regime in occupied Palestine and the racist regime in Zimbabwe and South Africa have a comon imperialist origin, forming a whole and having the same racist structure and being organically linked in their policy aimed at repression of the dignity and integrity of the human being",
TAKING NOTE ALSO of the Political Declaration and Strategy to Strengthen International Peace and Security and to Intensify Solidarity and Mutual Assistance among Non-Aligned Countries, adopted at the Conference of Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Non-Aligned Countries held at Lima from 25 to 30 August 1975, which most severely condemned Zionism as a threat to world peace and security and called upon all countries to oppose this racist and imperalist ideology,
DETERMINES that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.
2400th plenary meeting
10 November 1975
Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
RECALLING its resolution 1904 (XVIII) of 20 November 1963, proclaiming the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, and in particular its affirmation that "any doctrine of racial differentiation or superiority is scientifically false, morally condemnable, socially unjust and dangerous" and its expression of alarm at "the manifestations of racial discrimination still in evidence in some areas in the world, some of which are imposed by certain Governments by means of legislative, administrative or other measures",
RECALLING ALSO that, in its resolution 3151 G (XXVIII) of 14 December 1953, the General Assembly condemned, inter alia, the unholy alliance between South African racism and Zionism,
TAKING NOTE of the Declaration of Mexico on the Equality of Women and Their Contribution to Development and Peace 1975, proclaimed by the World Conference of the Intenrational Women's Year, held at Mexico City from 19 June to 2 July 1975, which promulgated the principle that "international co-operation and peace require the achievement of national liberation and independence, the elimination of colonialism and neo-colonialism, foreign occupation, Zionism, apartheid and racial discrimination in all its forms, as well as the recognition of the dignity of peoples and their right to self-determination",
TAKING NOTE ALSO of resolution 77 (XII) adopted by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity at its twelfth ordinary session, held at Kampala from 28 July to 1 August 1975, which considered "that the racist regime in occupied Palestine and the racist regime in Zimbabwe and South Africa have a comon imperialist origin, forming a whole and having the same racist structure and being organically linked in their policy aimed at repression of the dignity and integrity of the human being",
TAKING NOTE ALSO of the Political Declaration and Strategy to Strengthen International Peace and Security and to Intensify Solidarity and Mutual Assistance among Non-Aligned Countries, adopted at the Conference of Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Non-Aligned Countries held at Lima from 25 to 30 August 1975, which most severely condemned Zionism as a threat to world peace and security and called upon all countries to oppose this racist and imperalist ideology,
DETERMINES that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.
2400th plenary meeting
10 November 1975
An Amnesty for Stupidity, Patrick Buchanan
An Amnesty for Stupidity, Patrick Buchanan
Is it fair that businessmen who fail in neighborhood stores have to close shop and often sell their homes, while Wall Street titans are spared the consequences of monumental stupidity and greed?
No, it is not fair. Yet, Treasury's Hank Paulson may be right. To save the sheep who might have been wiped out in a general financial panic, we may have to save the pigs.
Life is unfair, said JFK.
Yet, this is going to be the mother of all bailouts. Paulson will be voted by Congress authority to spend $700 billion, 5 percent of our gross domestic product, to buy all that toxic paper stinking up the books of our biggest banks.
And this is not the first such bailout of foolish and incompetent financiers and politicians.
In 1975, when its cravenness to extortionate union demands had bankrupted New York, the Big Apple had to be rescued by Gerald Ford.
Marion Barry's Washington, D.C., was next in line at the cashier's window.
In the Reagan era, it was Chrysler. Later that decade, Citibank, Chase-Manhattan and Bank of America were staring into the abyss, as Latin American regimes, to whom they had lent scores of billions, were balking at paying their debts. Uncle Sam stepped in.
Then came the Mexican and Asian financial crises and the U.S.-IMF bailouts of the 1990s. The Mexican bailout was as much a rescue of Goldman-Sachs as Mexico City, as Treasury Secretary Bob Rubin's old firm was choking on all its Mexican paper.
The great myth is that these 1990s bailouts were models of U.S. financial statesmanship and great successes. The reality is the U.S. workers took it in the neck.
For the countries bailed out, like Mexico, Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea, were forced to devalue. This radically reduced the wages of their workers relative to American workers, creating incentives for U.S. manufacturers to shut plants here and move them abroad. The devaluations also slashed the price of foreign goods relative to U.S. goods. Imports flooded in.
Who ultimately paid for the Mexican bailout? Florida tomato growers wiped out by Mexican producers, the price of whose tomatoes was chopped two-thirds by the devaluation. U.S. autoworkers who saw Ford and Delphi plants shuttered as new Ford and Delphi plants opened in Mexico. U.S. textile workers whose mills closed and jobs vanished.
Middle-class American families have paid and paid -- in lost jobs, lower wages, a falling median income -- to save the big banks from the consequences of their follies. And those bank bailouts are behind the trade deficits that set five records in the Bush era, reached 6 percent of GDP, forced huge U.S. borrowings from abroad and ravaged the dollar.
Having bailed out Latin America, Mexico, Asia and their U.S. creditors, we now find our own country in trouble. And how are our allies reacting?
"Europeans on left and right ridicule U.S. money meltdown," ran the Los Angeles Times headline. Italy's finance minister compares us to corruption-ridden Albania, where "a nationwide pyramid scheme cost hundreds of thousands of people their savings and ignited anarchic civil conflict" in the 1990s.
How will the bailout work? Will every bank that brings in toxic paper be able to dump it on the Treasury? Will the Treasury buy securities based on subprime U.S. mortgages from foreign banks? Apparently so. What about mortgage-backed securities held by U.S. companies and individual investors? Is there to be a general amnesty for bad judgment, or just a bankers amnesty?
About one thing we may be sure. The U.S. deficit and national debt are going to soar. The credit rating of the United States, as this nation of non-savers has to borrow abroad to save its banks, and their banks, is going to fall. We are going to be a poorer nation and people.
As for the promises and plans of Barack Obama and John McCain -- be it for national health insurance or middle-class tax cuts -- they are going by the wayside. For the United States is as bankrupt as Lehman Brothers, with this difference: Uncle Sam can still borrow from abroad because foreigners see many juicy U.S. assets they would like to take off our hands with their hoards of ever-cheapening U.S. dollars.
Looking at the federal budget -- the five or six major items are Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, defense and interest on the debt. All are going up, as tax revenues fall. Add the cost of two wars and a bailout of U.S. banks that some estimate will cost $1 trillion to $2 trillion, and we appear to be looking at budget deficits ad infinitum.
"There is a great deal of ruin in a nation," Adam Smith once consoled a friend who lamented that Britain would be ruined if the 13 Colonies were lost.
We are about to test Smith's proposition.
Is it fair that businessmen who fail in neighborhood stores have to close shop and often sell their homes, while Wall Street titans are spared the consequences of monumental stupidity and greed?
No, it is not fair. Yet, Treasury's Hank Paulson may be right. To save the sheep who might have been wiped out in a general financial panic, we may have to save the pigs.
Life is unfair, said JFK.
Yet, this is going to be the mother of all bailouts. Paulson will be voted by Congress authority to spend $700 billion, 5 percent of our gross domestic product, to buy all that toxic paper stinking up the books of our biggest banks.
And this is not the first such bailout of foolish and incompetent financiers and politicians.
In 1975, when its cravenness to extortionate union demands had bankrupted New York, the Big Apple had to be rescued by Gerald Ford.
Marion Barry's Washington, D.C., was next in line at the cashier's window.
In the Reagan era, it was Chrysler. Later that decade, Citibank, Chase-Manhattan and Bank of America were staring into the abyss, as Latin American regimes, to whom they had lent scores of billions, were balking at paying their debts. Uncle Sam stepped in.
Then came the Mexican and Asian financial crises and the U.S.-IMF bailouts of the 1990s. The Mexican bailout was as much a rescue of Goldman-Sachs as Mexico City, as Treasury Secretary Bob Rubin's old firm was choking on all its Mexican paper.
The great myth is that these 1990s bailouts were models of U.S. financial statesmanship and great successes. The reality is the U.S. workers took it in the neck.
For the countries bailed out, like Mexico, Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea, were forced to devalue. This radically reduced the wages of their workers relative to American workers, creating incentives for U.S. manufacturers to shut plants here and move them abroad. The devaluations also slashed the price of foreign goods relative to U.S. goods. Imports flooded in.
Who ultimately paid for the Mexican bailout? Florida tomato growers wiped out by Mexican producers, the price of whose tomatoes was chopped two-thirds by the devaluation. U.S. autoworkers who saw Ford and Delphi plants shuttered as new Ford and Delphi plants opened in Mexico. U.S. textile workers whose mills closed and jobs vanished.
Middle-class American families have paid and paid -- in lost jobs, lower wages, a falling median income -- to save the big banks from the consequences of their follies. And those bank bailouts are behind the trade deficits that set five records in the Bush era, reached 6 percent of GDP, forced huge U.S. borrowings from abroad and ravaged the dollar.
Having bailed out Latin America, Mexico, Asia and their U.S. creditors, we now find our own country in trouble. And how are our allies reacting?
"Europeans on left and right ridicule U.S. money meltdown," ran the Los Angeles Times headline. Italy's finance minister compares us to corruption-ridden Albania, where "a nationwide pyramid scheme cost hundreds of thousands of people their savings and ignited anarchic civil conflict" in the 1990s.
How will the bailout work? Will every bank that brings in toxic paper be able to dump it on the Treasury? Will the Treasury buy securities based on subprime U.S. mortgages from foreign banks? Apparently so. What about mortgage-backed securities held by U.S. companies and individual investors? Is there to be a general amnesty for bad judgment, or just a bankers amnesty?
About one thing we may be sure. The U.S. deficit and national debt are going to soar. The credit rating of the United States, as this nation of non-savers has to borrow abroad to save its banks, and their banks, is going to fall. We are going to be a poorer nation and people.
As for the promises and plans of Barack Obama and John McCain -- be it for national health insurance or middle-class tax cuts -- they are going by the wayside. For the United States is as bankrupt as Lehman Brothers, with this difference: Uncle Sam can still borrow from abroad because foreigners see many juicy U.S. assets they would like to take off our hands with their hoards of ever-cheapening U.S. dollars.
Looking at the federal budget -- the five or six major items are Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, defense and interest on the debt. All are going up, as tax revenues fall. Add the cost of two wars and a bailout of U.S. banks that some estimate will cost $1 trillion to $2 trillion, and we appear to be looking at budget deficits ad infinitum.
"There is a great deal of ruin in a nation," Adam Smith once consoled a friend who lamented that Britain would be ruined if the 13 Colonies were lost.
We are about to test Smith's proposition.
A Dollar for Your Soul, by Earl Vickers
A Dollar for Your Soul, by Earl Vickers
Originally published in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine #10, Autumn 1990.
George's latest theory concerned human corruptibility.
"Everyone has a price," he claimed, "and the price is usually quite affordable."
I knew laughing would just encourage him. "Yeah, but not everyone," I argued.
"Everyone has some weak point." He paused, staring me in the eye. "It's just a matter of finding the weakness and exploiting it."
I felt a cold draft from the air conditioner. The librarian was giving us a nasty look. "So what are you saying?" I whispered.
"I'm saying, if someone hasn't already sold out on everything they ever believed in, it's just because they haven't been given the right opportunity. I bet in a week's time a person could get every single kid in eleventh grade to sell their soul."
This time I laughed. "Well, if anyone could, it would be you, George."
"You know, you're right! What a great idea!"
"What, you're going to go around buying peoples' souls?"
"Sure, why not? I'll corner the market — the entire junior class. By next Friday." George thought for a moment. "Yeah, I bet I could do it."
"No way."
"Fine. Let's have a little wager. If I win, it proves my theory is right, that everyone is corruptible. If you win, I'll freely admit I was wrong."
"That would be a first," I said.
"Indeed."
I'd never known George to lose a bet, but there was no way he could win this one. He might get two or three souls — he did have an exceptional eye for defects in another person's character. But every single kid in eleventh grade? In one week? I, for one, had no intention of selling my soul to anyone, for any price.
I agreed to the wager.
Over the weekend, George printed up a batch of very official- looking soul-transfer forms. I watched him in action on Monday morning.
"Think of it as free money. Sign your name, get a dollar. It's that simple."
Mark Sommerfield took one of the forms and read it.
"'The bearer of this note hereby assumes full ownership of the soul originally belonging to the undersigned.'" He paused. "I don't get it. What do you want with our souls?"
"It's just a hobby," said George. "Like collecting stamps, or coins, or beer cans."
"Yeah, but this is different," said Mark. "I mean, don't you think my soul's worth more than a beer can?"
"Depends," said George.
"You could at least make it ten bucks."
"You know, that's the beauty of our free-enterprise system. If you can get ten dollars — or a million — somewhere else, be my guest. But I think you'll find the current exchange rate is...well, let me double-check." George pulled out his calculator and did a few quick computations. "Yes, the soul is trading at one dollar even."
Mark tried for a dollar and a half but finally gave in.
"Okay, one dollar. But I still think it's worth more than that." He hesitated. "I don't have to sign in blood or anything, do I?"
"Not necessary," George replied, removing a four-color pen from his shirt pocket. "A mere formality from the past. Ink is perfectly acceptable, though of course...red is preferred."
George clicked the red button on his pen and handed it to Mark. Mark signed the transfer-of-ownership form and received his dollar.
George got half a dozen more souls before second period, but lots of other kids turned him down.
I saw him again at lunch. The word had spread, and now he had people crowded all around him. Some of them wanted to prove how fearless or free-thinking they were. Others took his offer as a joke, and they were happy to play along. They figured the contract couldn't be legally binding. And for many, the motivation was simply to get their free dollars before the money ran out.
Billy Schoenwetter walked over to George's lunch table. George always called him Billy Bedwetter. Billy was shy, awkward, and not real bright. He would do anything to be part of the group.
"Will you buy my soul?" he asked, in his usual quavery, crackly voice.
"You don't have a soul," said George, "and if you did I wouldn't buy it."
Billy got all upset. "I do too have a soul."
"Prove it."
Billy looked confused. The other kids were trying not to laugh out loud.
"Well?" demanded George.
"I do too have a soul," repeated Billy.
"I doubt it. And even if you did, I wouldn't take it if you paid me."
"Yes you would."
"Get lost."
Billy looked as if he were about to cry. He took a dollar bill out of his wallet, wadded it up and threw it at George.
"There. Where do I sign?"
"Look," said George, straightening out the dollar, "I have to be selective. I can't just buy every soul that comes along."
"How much?" asked Billy.
"Five bucks."
Billy looked in his wallet. "I only got three."
George sighed. "Fine. Give me what you have and bring the rest tomorrow."
Billy gratefully assured George that he would bring the money first thing in the morning. He proudly signed the transfer form and showed it to George.
"See, I really do have a soul," he said.
George took the form and corrected Billy's grammar. "Did — past tense." Billy looked confused again.
George's business was booming now. It had become the new fad. But lots of kids still thought it was disgusting and wouldn't sell for anything.
After school I met George on the front steps. He opened his briefcase and showed me all the souls.
"I gave Ray two dollars for his," said George. "I figured a black guy has more soul."
I shook my head. "Where'd you get all the money, anyway?"
"Oh, I told my dad I was running a small start-up company, so he lent me fifty bucks in venture capital. I've already spent most of it," he said. "I think that's about all of the easy souls."
"So how are you going to get the rest?"
"I don't know. But I'll think of something."
Tuesday morning before school, a large crowd of students gathered, waiting for George. These were the same kids who had dealt with him the day before. Some were angry; others seemed scared.
They were talking about what horrible dreams they'd had all night. They said they didn't know it was going to be like this. George entered the building and was immediately surrounded.
"We've changed our minds," said Beth Reinhart. "We want our souls back."
"A deal is a deal," insisted George. "You should've thought of this before. I'm sure in time you'll get used to it. Lots of people don't have souls."
They didn't think they'd get used to it. Ever. They tried to describe the horror, the desperation, the guilt, the sense of loss. They tried pleading, begging, threatening.
"Give me back my soul," said Paul Chamberlin, "or I'm going to the principal."
There was an uneasy silence.
"Well, do what you want," said George, "but you'll get in trouble too. After all, what kind of person would sell his immortal soul for a dollar? And what if your parents found out? What would they think?"
Paul backed off. "Okay, okay. I won't turn you in. At least not right now. But I still want my soul back."
George suggested they all just keep quiet and let him think about it. They reluctantly agreed.
George sat in the back for first period English. His leg was nervously bouncing up and down, shaking the floor, vibrating the whole room. Suddenly his face flashed a familiar grin. I could tell I was witnessing the birth of a great and revolting new idea.
After class George was again mobbed by kids without souls.
"Okay," he said. "I've reconsidered. You can have your souls back" — their eyes lit up — "for ten dollars...and three more souls." His offer was met with shock and disbelief, as the implications gradually sank in.
"And," he continued, "the three additional souls must be from our class, at least until eleventh grade is all sold out. You might want to start with your best friends. Toward the end you'll probably need to be somewhat creative."
The kids lined up, took the blank soul-transfer forms, and walked away, slowly, as if in a trance. Their eyes were empty, their faces pale. I could see it beginning already: an army of zombies roaming the halls, looking for new victims. One of them, a guy I didn't even know, bumped into me by accident and asked if he could borrow my soul, just for a few minutes.
"I'll take real good care of it," he said. "Here, you can use my school I.D. for collateral."
I pushed him aside and went to have a talk with George.
"Don't you see what's happening?" I asked.
"Yeah. It's fascinating."
"But look at them! They've turned into walking, talking corpses."
"It's just their imagination," he explained. "One person wants his soul back, and suddenly they all do. It's contagious, just like the way everyone wanted to sell their souls yesterday."
"Yeah, it's like a disease, and you're making them spread it."
"I'm not making them do anything," said George. "I'm just giving them the opportunity. Yesterday they had a chance to prove what whores they are, and now they get to prove what pimps they are."
"So what does that make you?"
"Listen," he said, holding up one of the soul-transfer forms. "This isn't really a person's soul. It's just a piece of paper. Just like a dollar bill — it's only worth something because people believe it is. I'm just trading one piece of paper for another, and the green paper's more valuable, that's all." He smiled. "I knew there had to be a way to make money at this. Buy low, sell high!"
"And you can just sit back and watch while they do your dirty work for you."
"I call it M.Z.M....Multi-Zombie-Marketing. Yeah, I've really outdone myself this time."
"Yeah, you sure have." I walked away.
By afternoon the place had become a madhouse. The demand for souls was growing steadily. Rich kids offered bounties and finder's fees for information leading to the purchase of a third soul. Other kids, seeing an opportunity, moved in as middlemen: agents, brokers, bankers, scalpers, wholesalers, retailers. They thought they could profit from the turmoil without getting caught up in it. Everywhere I went I saw poker games, purse-snatchings, lotteries, auctions — souls begged and borrowed, bought and sold. The teachers were starting to wonder if something was going on.
The next morning, people were scrambling to buy up the souls that were left. Some of the kids were mad at me for not selling them mine.
George sat next to me for third period. While we were waiting for class to start, he told me everything that had been happening.
"I was getting my books, and Doug, the football jock, he comes over and picks me up and slams me against the lockers. Said something about wanting his soul back. I explained to him that if he ever wants to see it again, he should refrain from hurting me. In fact, he should see to it that no one else tries to hurt me either. So now I've got a bodyguard!"
"That's nice," I replied.
"And Amy's been selling her soul to everyone she can find. She's making all kinds of money, and then these kids come to me and think they're going to get their souls back, and I have to explain that I already have an Amy and theirs is a duplicate."
I didn't say anything.
"And then Roger brought in three souls and I didn't know who one of them was, so I asked him. Turned out it was his grandmother. He said she's always happy to do whatever she can to help him out with his school work. He was so upset when I told him it didn't count."
"This is all going to backfire on you, George," I said quietly. "It's not too late to call it off."
"No way."
"We can pretend like you won the bet, and you can keep all the money."
"No," said George. "Honor is at stake."
"Well, I don't think you're going to get too many more. A lot of kids have just given up. Plus they don't want to put their friends in the same situation they're in."
"Oh yeah?" George grinned. "I'll fix that."
Mr. Huffman came in and started writing on the blackboard. As usual, his trousers were covered in chalk dust. George wadded up a soul-transfer form and chewed on it for a minute. Then when it was nice and sticky he threw it so it landed on the board right next to where Huffman was writing. Huffman paused, then turned around. All eyes were on George.
"Is this yours, Mr. Foltz?" Huffman pointed at the spitball while staring George in the eye.
"No sir," said George. "I believe it belongs to Billy."
"Mr. Schoenwetter, is that true?"
"I...I hope not," said Billy. The other kids laughed, nervously.
"You don't know whether you threw a spitball or not?" asked Huffman, incredulously.
"Uh, no sir. I mean, yes sir, I do, but I d-d-didn't..."
"Mr. Huffman," said George, "I believe if you unwad that slip of paper you'll find Billy's name on it."
The students laughed again.
"I have no intention of touching that disgusting thing. Mr. Schoenwetter, perhaps you would be so kind as to remove your personal property from the blackboard so we can carry on with our discussion?"
"Yes sir." Billy half-ran toward the front and retrieved the spitball. "Thank you, sir."
Huffman gave George a raised-left-eyebrow stare, then turned and went back to his writing.
Later in the day, George was occasionally seen off in a corner playing with a cigarette lighter, burning little scraps of paper. Now the kids were more desperate than ever to get their souls back, before it was too late.
At the end of fifth period, Lisa Adams saw me on the second floor and came over and started talking to me. She was my girlfriend, sort of. She looked pale, like the other kids.
"You know that thing about people buying each others' souls the last couple of days? Well, I fell for it. I can't believe I was so stupid."
"Wow." I shook my head. "This has really gone too far. I wish there was something I could do to help."
"Well, actually, there is. See, George says he'll return it if I can just get him ten dollars and three more souls."
I took a step back.
"Oh, relax," she said. "I'm not going to ask you for money. You're too good a friend for that."
I drew back another step.
"I've already got the ten dollars, and two of the souls. I was just thinking, it would be really nice if you could..."
I turned and started walking away.
"...if you could let me have your soul."
"No!"
I walked faster. She was following me. I turned the corner and headed for the bathroom.
"I wouldn't ask you if I didn't love you!" she said.
I rushed into the boy's room. I found an empty stall and sat down. That was close.
But then the bathroom door swung open. "I know you're in there," she said.
Urinals were flushing and zippers were zipping. There was a chorus of protests.
"Where are you?" she sang.
She walked over and started peeking into the stalls one by one. Her voice was getting closer. "George says it's not so bad once you get used to it."
I got out of the stall and headed toward the window. She was right behind me.
"Please! You've got to help me!"
I took one look back at her. Then I jumped out onto the first story roof and ran like hell.
I got to the end of the building and climbed down to the ground. I decided to cut my last class.
Thursday morning, everyone wanted my soul. I was the only one left. I couldn't walk down the hall without being surrounded by zombies.
I sat in the back row for third period math class. George took the empty seat next to me. He said he'd give me half of the money he'd made if I'd sell him my soul. I didn't answer.
He looked around the room at the other students. "Well, if you don't sell me your soul, one of these goons will find a way to get you to sell."
Mr. Huffman came in. He drew a big triangle on the board and started talking about chain letters and pyramid schemes.
"These schemes are based on what is called the 'greater fool' theory," he said. "They require an ever-growing number of greater fools to pay off the previous investors. Amazingly enough, at some point you always run out of fools."
"George," I whispered, "he knows something about the souls."
"Be quiet."
"In economics we find something called deficit financing. Can anyone explain how that works?" Huffman droned on and on.
"I bet he knows about the whole thing," I whispered.
"Think so?" said George. He didn't look disturbed at all. He was listening intently, probably soaking up ideas for his next scam.
"Where else do we see this basic pyramidal structure? How about the food chain? How about nuclear fission, the population explosion, the spread of disease. Again, the same geometrical progression, the same multiplier effect...."
"George, what if he turns you in to the principal? You'll get suspended."
"Shut up. This might be important."
"No, I don't think so. He wouldn't test us on this stuff."
"How about the spread of ideas?" said Huffman. "Publishing. Broadcasting. Even teaching, on those rare occasions when anyone bothers to pay attention."
"George, he'll make you give back all the souls."
George smiled. "I don't think so," he said. He pulled a slip of paper out of his briefcase and showed it to me.
"The bearer of this note hereby assumes full ownership of the soul originally belonging to the undersigned. Sincerely, John K. Huffman."
I looked up. Huffman was staring at me. His face was chalky, ghostly pale.
I saw George again after school. He increased his offer, throwing in everything he could think of.
George knew me better than anyone. He knew my greeds and hungers, my fears, my dreams, my nightmares. He tried all of them. Finally he ran out of ideas.
"Look," he said, "I don't know what else to offer. See if you can think of something. What do you want right now, more than anything?"
I just wanted him to give everyone's souls back. I started to say something but he interrupted me.
"I know," he said excitedly. "How about if you give me your soul in exchange for all the others? Then, if you want to, you can give them all back to the original owners."
I didn't know what to say.
"Just think," said George, "you'll be the most popular kid in the class. People will look at you and say to themselves, 'He saved my soul. He sacrificed his soul for mine. What a guy!'"
"But what about my soul?"
"I'll treat it as if it were my very own."
"Will I ever get it back?"
George tilted his head. "Hard to say.... So, is it a deal or not?"
I thought for a while. George looked at his watch a couple times. "Okay, okay," I said. "It's a deal."
I signed the form.
"So I guess I win the bet," said George, smiling.
"Looks that way."
I put the souls in a paper bag and left for home. I went to bed early that night. I didn't sleep very well.
In the morning, I thought about charging everyone a dollar apiece to get their souls back. It was only fair that I should get something out of it. But it seemed too creepy, so I didn't.
I started giving them back for free, between classes. But no one seemed particularly grateful. Most of the kids had reached a state of total apathy. If anything, they looked at me with cold distrust, as if the whole thing were my fault. I was sorry I'd ever tried to help them.
George talked to me after History.
"How many do you have left?"
I looked in the paper bag. "A dozen or so."
"I've been thinking. I feel really bad about you not having a soul of your own. Tell you what — I'll give it back in exchange for any one of the souls you have left. I'll even let you choose which one."
What was George up to now? If he was trying to tempt me, it was working. I closed my eyes and thought for a minute.
"Look," said George. "You sacrificed part of yourself for these kids, and what did you get? Nothing."
I opened the bag and leafed through the pieces of paper, looking at the names, saying them to myself. Finally I handed over one of the forms.
"Ah, 'Lisa Adams,'" he read. "Excellent choice."
Suddenly I realized what I was doing.
"You won't tell her, will you?"
"No, of course not," he said, handing me my transfer form. "Here's your soul back — it's only slightly damaged. I do hope you'll take better care of it in the future."
I folded the piece of paper and put it in my wallet. I felt better immediately, but not a lot better.
Later in the morning I finished giving back the rest of the souls. At lunch, Lisa came over to my table and started yelling at me. She was furious.
"George says you picked me to be the only person in the whole class who doesn't get their soul back."
I didn't know what to say. I felt terrible. I didn't think George would tell.
Lisa was crying. "How could you do this to me? I thought you were my friend. Why did you have to pick me?"
I got up and walked out. I wasn't very hungry anyway.
In the afternoon I cornered George and took him into an empty classroom.
"You betrayed me," I told him.
"You betrayed Lisa," he said. "I just thought someone should let her know."
"You said you wouldn't tell her!"
"I didn't tell her. I wrote her a note."
"You make me sick." I shook my head in disgust. "Aren't you getting bored with your little game yet?"
"Actually, yes I am," he replied. "You want to hear my latest plan?"
"No! I just want you to give Lisa's soul back."
"Forget it."
"But George, you've proven your point. You already got every single person in eleventh grade..." I stopped for a moment. "Wait a minute, maybe not."
"What do you mean?" he asked.
I looked at George. "I just realized — you haven't won your bet after all!"
"Sure I have."
"No. Remember, the bet said everyone in eleventh grade had to sell."
"They have. I checked all the names. You were the last one."
"No." I pointed at George. "You're the last one! You haven't sold your soul. Tell you what — I'll give you a dollar for it."
"That wasn't part of the deal and you know it!"
"I don't recall you making any kind of exception for yourself."
"Well, no," said George. "It was just understood."
"You said everyone could be bought. So how about you? Would you sell your soul to win this bet?"
George glared at me. "Do I look stupid?"
"Well, then, what would you sell it for? What's your price?"
"If you have to ask, you can't afford it," he said, acting unconcerned.
Lisa walked in. Apparently she'd overheard the whole thing.
"I think the reason you won't sell your soul is because you never had one," she said, with barely controlled rage. "Or else you wouldn't be so cruel. Maybe you've succeeded in proving that the rest of us are corruptible, but that's only because we're human, because we had souls to begin with. Unlike you."
"Hey, I have a soul. I have one right here," he laughed, waving a piece of paper.
Lisa grabbed for it. "That's not your soul, that's mine!"
"Not anymore it's not," said George, pulling the paper out of her reach. "It belongs to me, fair and square."
I got between them to keep Lisa from beating him to a bloody pulp. "Look, George, I've got an idea. You're saying that you're the owner of this soul, which used to be Lisa's, right?"
"Right."
"So, in a sense, this is 'your' soul, right?"
"That's right. My personal property."
"And you're the only one left who hasn't sold. So if you sell this soul, which is, quote, 'yours', that'll mean everyone in eleventh grade has sold their soul. Right?"
"I guess so. Sort of."
"So if you sell it back to Lisa, you'll win your bet, and Lisa will have her soul back."
George laughed. "Do you think your logic is sufficiently twisted?"
I shrugged. "Maybe. So is it a deal?"
"Well, I've grown rather fond of this one," he said, looking at the transfer form. "But if that's what I have to do to win the bet..."
Lisa cautiously handed George a dollar with one hand and took her soul back with the other. She stared at him resentfully.
"So, George," I said, "it looks like all you've done is proven you're just as corruptible as the rest of us. You finally went and sold your soul."
"Well, it wasn't really 'my' soul," said George. "It was Lisa's."
"Oh, so now it was my soul," said Lisa. "So you didn't really sell your soul. Well that's too bad. I guess you lose your stupid little bet after all!"
George started mumbling something about technicalities. Lisa and I looked at each other and broke out laughing.
"Come on George, admit it. You lost and you know it."
George hesitated, then grinned. "Okay, fine. You're right. I lost. I was wrong. Not everyone is corruptible."
He raised an eyebrow. "Just everyone except me!"
The End
Originally published in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine #10, Autumn 1990.
George's latest theory concerned human corruptibility.
"Everyone has a price," he claimed, "and the price is usually quite affordable."
I knew laughing would just encourage him. "Yeah, but not everyone," I argued.
"Everyone has some weak point." He paused, staring me in the eye. "It's just a matter of finding the weakness and exploiting it."
I felt a cold draft from the air conditioner. The librarian was giving us a nasty look. "So what are you saying?" I whispered.
"I'm saying, if someone hasn't already sold out on everything they ever believed in, it's just because they haven't been given the right opportunity. I bet in a week's time a person could get every single kid in eleventh grade to sell their soul."
This time I laughed. "Well, if anyone could, it would be you, George."
"You know, you're right! What a great idea!"
"What, you're going to go around buying peoples' souls?"
"Sure, why not? I'll corner the market — the entire junior class. By next Friday." George thought for a moment. "Yeah, I bet I could do it."
"No way."
"Fine. Let's have a little wager. If I win, it proves my theory is right, that everyone is corruptible. If you win, I'll freely admit I was wrong."
"That would be a first," I said.
"Indeed."
I'd never known George to lose a bet, but there was no way he could win this one. He might get two or three souls — he did have an exceptional eye for defects in another person's character. But every single kid in eleventh grade? In one week? I, for one, had no intention of selling my soul to anyone, for any price.
I agreed to the wager.
Over the weekend, George printed up a batch of very official- looking soul-transfer forms. I watched him in action on Monday morning.
"Think of it as free money. Sign your name, get a dollar. It's that simple."
Mark Sommerfield took one of the forms and read it.
"'The bearer of this note hereby assumes full ownership of the soul originally belonging to the undersigned.'" He paused. "I don't get it. What do you want with our souls?"
"It's just a hobby," said George. "Like collecting stamps, or coins, or beer cans."
"Yeah, but this is different," said Mark. "I mean, don't you think my soul's worth more than a beer can?"
"Depends," said George.
"You could at least make it ten bucks."
"You know, that's the beauty of our free-enterprise system. If you can get ten dollars — or a million — somewhere else, be my guest. But I think you'll find the current exchange rate is...well, let me double-check." George pulled out his calculator and did a few quick computations. "Yes, the soul is trading at one dollar even."
Mark tried for a dollar and a half but finally gave in.
"Okay, one dollar. But I still think it's worth more than that." He hesitated. "I don't have to sign in blood or anything, do I?"
"Not necessary," George replied, removing a four-color pen from his shirt pocket. "A mere formality from the past. Ink is perfectly acceptable, though of course...red is preferred."
George clicked the red button on his pen and handed it to Mark. Mark signed the transfer-of-ownership form and received his dollar.
George got half a dozen more souls before second period, but lots of other kids turned him down.
I saw him again at lunch. The word had spread, and now he had people crowded all around him. Some of them wanted to prove how fearless or free-thinking they were. Others took his offer as a joke, and they were happy to play along. They figured the contract couldn't be legally binding. And for many, the motivation was simply to get their free dollars before the money ran out.
Billy Schoenwetter walked over to George's lunch table. George always called him Billy Bedwetter. Billy was shy, awkward, and not real bright. He would do anything to be part of the group.
"Will you buy my soul?" he asked, in his usual quavery, crackly voice.
"You don't have a soul," said George, "and if you did I wouldn't buy it."
Billy got all upset. "I do too have a soul."
"Prove it."
Billy looked confused. The other kids were trying not to laugh out loud.
"Well?" demanded George.
"I do too have a soul," repeated Billy.
"I doubt it. And even if you did, I wouldn't take it if you paid me."
"Yes you would."
"Get lost."
Billy looked as if he were about to cry. He took a dollar bill out of his wallet, wadded it up and threw it at George.
"There. Where do I sign?"
"Look," said George, straightening out the dollar, "I have to be selective. I can't just buy every soul that comes along."
"How much?" asked Billy.
"Five bucks."
Billy looked in his wallet. "I only got three."
George sighed. "Fine. Give me what you have and bring the rest tomorrow."
Billy gratefully assured George that he would bring the money first thing in the morning. He proudly signed the transfer form and showed it to George.
"See, I really do have a soul," he said.
George took the form and corrected Billy's grammar. "Did — past tense." Billy looked confused again.
George's business was booming now. It had become the new fad. But lots of kids still thought it was disgusting and wouldn't sell for anything.
After school I met George on the front steps. He opened his briefcase and showed me all the souls.
"I gave Ray two dollars for his," said George. "I figured a black guy has more soul."
I shook my head. "Where'd you get all the money, anyway?"
"Oh, I told my dad I was running a small start-up company, so he lent me fifty bucks in venture capital. I've already spent most of it," he said. "I think that's about all of the easy souls."
"So how are you going to get the rest?"
"I don't know. But I'll think of something."
Tuesday morning before school, a large crowd of students gathered, waiting for George. These were the same kids who had dealt with him the day before. Some were angry; others seemed scared.
They were talking about what horrible dreams they'd had all night. They said they didn't know it was going to be like this. George entered the building and was immediately surrounded.
"We've changed our minds," said Beth Reinhart. "We want our souls back."
"A deal is a deal," insisted George. "You should've thought of this before. I'm sure in time you'll get used to it. Lots of people don't have souls."
They didn't think they'd get used to it. Ever. They tried to describe the horror, the desperation, the guilt, the sense of loss. They tried pleading, begging, threatening.
"Give me back my soul," said Paul Chamberlin, "or I'm going to the principal."
There was an uneasy silence.
"Well, do what you want," said George, "but you'll get in trouble too. After all, what kind of person would sell his immortal soul for a dollar? And what if your parents found out? What would they think?"
Paul backed off. "Okay, okay. I won't turn you in. At least not right now. But I still want my soul back."
George suggested they all just keep quiet and let him think about it. They reluctantly agreed.
George sat in the back for first period English. His leg was nervously bouncing up and down, shaking the floor, vibrating the whole room. Suddenly his face flashed a familiar grin. I could tell I was witnessing the birth of a great and revolting new idea.
After class George was again mobbed by kids without souls.
"Okay," he said. "I've reconsidered. You can have your souls back" — their eyes lit up — "for ten dollars...and three more souls." His offer was met with shock and disbelief, as the implications gradually sank in.
"And," he continued, "the three additional souls must be from our class, at least until eleventh grade is all sold out. You might want to start with your best friends. Toward the end you'll probably need to be somewhat creative."
The kids lined up, took the blank soul-transfer forms, and walked away, slowly, as if in a trance. Their eyes were empty, their faces pale. I could see it beginning already: an army of zombies roaming the halls, looking for new victims. One of them, a guy I didn't even know, bumped into me by accident and asked if he could borrow my soul, just for a few minutes.
"I'll take real good care of it," he said. "Here, you can use my school I.D. for collateral."
I pushed him aside and went to have a talk with George.
"Don't you see what's happening?" I asked.
"Yeah. It's fascinating."
"But look at them! They've turned into walking, talking corpses."
"It's just their imagination," he explained. "One person wants his soul back, and suddenly they all do. It's contagious, just like the way everyone wanted to sell their souls yesterday."
"Yeah, it's like a disease, and you're making them spread it."
"I'm not making them do anything," said George. "I'm just giving them the opportunity. Yesterday they had a chance to prove what whores they are, and now they get to prove what pimps they are."
"So what does that make you?"
"Listen," he said, holding up one of the soul-transfer forms. "This isn't really a person's soul. It's just a piece of paper. Just like a dollar bill — it's only worth something because people believe it is. I'm just trading one piece of paper for another, and the green paper's more valuable, that's all." He smiled. "I knew there had to be a way to make money at this. Buy low, sell high!"
"And you can just sit back and watch while they do your dirty work for you."
"I call it M.Z.M....Multi-Zombie-Marketing. Yeah, I've really outdone myself this time."
"Yeah, you sure have." I walked away.
By afternoon the place had become a madhouse. The demand for souls was growing steadily. Rich kids offered bounties and finder's fees for information leading to the purchase of a third soul. Other kids, seeing an opportunity, moved in as middlemen: agents, brokers, bankers, scalpers, wholesalers, retailers. They thought they could profit from the turmoil without getting caught up in it. Everywhere I went I saw poker games, purse-snatchings, lotteries, auctions — souls begged and borrowed, bought and sold. The teachers were starting to wonder if something was going on.
The next morning, people were scrambling to buy up the souls that were left. Some of the kids were mad at me for not selling them mine.
George sat next to me for third period. While we were waiting for class to start, he told me everything that had been happening.
"I was getting my books, and Doug, the football jock, he comes over and picks me up and slams me against the lockers. Said something about wanting his soul back. I explained to him that if he ever wants to see it again, he should refrain from hurting me. In fact, he should see to it that no one else tries to hurt me either. So now I've got a bodyguard!"
"That's nice," I replied.
"And Amy's been selling her soul to everyone she can find. She's making all kinds of money, and then these kids come to me and think they're going to get their souls back, and I have to explain that I already have an Amy and theirs is a duplicate."
I didn't say anything.
"And then Roger brought in three souls and I didn't know who one of them was, so I asked him. Turned out it was his grandmother. He said she's always happy to do whatever she can to help him out with his school work. He was so upset when I told him it didn't count."
"This is all going to backfire on you, George," I said quietly. "It's not too late to call it off."
"No way."
"We can pretend like you won the bet, and you can keep all the money."
"No," said George. "Honor is at stake."
"Well, I don't think you're going to get too many more. A lot of kids have just given up. Plus they don't want to put their friends in the same situation they're in."
"Oh yeah?" George grinned. "I'll fix that."
Mr. Huffman came in and started writing on the blackboard. As usual, his trousers were covered in chalk dust. George wadded up a soul-transfer form and chewed on it for a minute. Then when it was nice and sticky he threw it so it landed on the board right next to where Huffman was writing. Huffman paused, then turned around. All eyes were on George.
"Is this yours, Mr. Foltz?" Huffman pointed at the spitball while staring George in the eye.
"No sir," said George. "I believe it belongs to Billy."
"Mr. Schoenwetter, is that true?"
"I...I hope not," said Billy. The other kids laughed, nervously.
"You don't know whether you threw a spitball or not?" asked Huffman, incredulously.
"Uh, no sir. I mean, yes sir, I do, but I d-d-didn't..."
"Mr. Huffman," said George, "I believe if you unwad that slip of paper you'll find Billy's name on it."
The students laughed again.
"I have no intention of touching that disgusting thing. Mr. Schoenwetter, perhaps you would be so kind as to remove your personal property from the blackboard so we can carry on with our discussion?"
"Yes sir." Billy half-ran toward the front and retrieved the spitball. "Thank you, sir."
Huffman gave George a raised-left-eyebrow stare, then turned and went back to his writing.
Later in the day, George was occasionally seen off in a corner playing with a cigarette lighter, burning little scraps of paper. Now the kids were more desperate than ever to get their souls back, before it was too late.
At the end of fifth period, Lisa Adams saw me on the second floor and came over and started talking to me. She was my girlfriend, sort of. She looked pale, like the other kids.
"You know that thing about people buying each others' souls the last couple of days? Well, I fell for it. I can't believe I was so stupid."
"Wow." I shook my head. "This has really gone too far. I wish there was something I could do to help."
"Well, actually, there is. See, George says he'll return it if I can just get him ten dollars and three more souls."
I took a step back.
"Oh, relax," she said. "I'm not going to ask you for money. You're too good a friend for that."
I drew back another step.
"I've already got the ten dollars, and two of the souls. I was just thinking, it would be really nice if you could..."
I turned and started walking away.
"...if you could let me have your soul."
"No!"
I walked faster. She was following me. I turned the corner and headed for the bathroom.
"I wouldn't ask you if I didn't love you!" she said.
I rushed into the boy's room. I found an empty stall and sat down. That was close.
But then the bathroom door swung open. "I know you're in there," she said.
Urinals were flushing and zippers were zipping. There was a chorus of protests.
"Where are you?" she sang.
She walked over and started peeking into the stalls one by one. Her voice was getting closer. "George says it's not so bad once you get used to it."
I got out of the stall and headed toward the window. She was right behind me.
"Please! You've got to help me!"
I took one look back at her. Then I jumped out onto the first story roof and ran like hell.
I got to the end of the building and climbed down to the ground. I decided to cut my last class.
Thursday morning, everyone wanted my soul. I was the only one left. I couldn't walk down the hall without being surrounded by zombies.
I sat in the back row for third period math class. George took the empty seat next to me. He said he'd give me half of the money he'd made if I'd sell him my soul. I didn't answer.
He looked around the room at the other students. "Well, if you don't sell me your soul, one of these goons will find a way to get you to sell."
Mr. Huffman came in. He drew a big triangle on the board and started talking about chain letters and pyramid schemes.
"These schemes are based on what is called the 'greater fool' theory," he said. "They require an ever-growing number of greater fools to pay off the previous investors. Amazingly enough, at some point you always run out of fools."
"George," I whispered, "he knows something about the souls."
"Be quiet."
"In economics we find something called deficit financing. Can anyone explain how that works?" Huffman droned on and on.
"I bet he knows about the whole thing," I whispered.
"Think so?" said George. He didn't look disturbed at all. He was listening intently, probably soaking up ideas for his next scam.
"Where else do we see this basic pyramidal structure? How about the food chain? How about nuclear fission, the population explosion, the spread of disease. Again, the same geometrical progression, the same multiplier effect...."
"George, what if he turns you in to the principal? You'll get suspended."
"Shut up. This might be important."
"No, I don't think so. He wouldn't test us on this stuff."
"How about the spread of ideas?" said Huffman. "Publishing. Broadcasting. Even teaching, on those rare occasions when anyone bothers to pay attention."
"George, he'll make you give back all the souls."
George smiled. "I don't think so," he said. He pulled a slip of paper out of his briefcase and showed it to me.
"The bearer of this note hereby assumes full ownership of the soul originally belonging to the undersigned. Sincerely, John K. Huffman."
I looked up. Huffman was staring at me. His face was chalky, ghostly pale.
I saw George again after school. He increased his offer, throwing in everything he could think of.
George knew me better than anyone. He knew my greeds and hungers, my fears, my dreams, my nightmares. He tried all of them. Finally he ran out of ideas.
"Look," he said, "I don't know what else to offer. See if you can think of something. What do you want right now, more than anything?"
I just wanted him to give everyone's souls back. I started to say something but he interrupted me.
"I know," he said excitedly. "How about if you give me your soul in exchange for all the others? Then, if you want to, you can give them all back to the original owners."
I didn't know what to say.
"Just think," said George, "you'll be the most popular kid in the class. People will look at you and say to themselves, 'He saved my soul. He sacrificed his soul for mine. What a guy!'"
"But what about my soul?"
"I'll treat it as if it were my very own."
"Will I ever get it back?"
George tilted his head. "Hard to say.... So, is it a deal or not?"
I thought for a while. George looked at his watch a couple times. "Okay, okay," I said. "It's a deal."
I signed the form.
"So I guess I win the bet," said George, smiling.
"Looks that way."
I put the souls in a paper bag and left for home. I went to bed early that night. I didn't sleep very well.
In the morning, I thought about charging everyone a dollar apiece to get their souls back. It was only fair that I should get something out of it. But it seemed too creepy, so I didn't.
I started giving them back for free, between classes. But no one seemed particularly grateful. Most of the kids had reached a state of total apathy. If anything, they looked at me with cold distrust, as if the whole thing were my fault. I was sorry I'd ever tried to help them.
George talked to me after History.
"How many do you have left?"
I looked in the paper bag. "A dozen or so."
"I've been thinking. I feel really bad about you not having a soul of your own. Tell you what — I'll give it back in exchange for any one of the souls you have left. I'll even let you choose which one."
What was George up to now? If he was trying to tempt me, it was working. I closed my eyes and thought for a minute.
"Look," said George. "You sacrificed part of yourself for these kids, and what did you get? Nothing."
I opened the bag and leafed through the pieces of paper, looking at the names, saying them to myself. Finally I handed over one of the forms.
"Ah, 'Lisa Adams,'" he read. "Excellent choice."
Suddenly I realized what I was doing.
"You won't tell her, will you?"
"No, of course not," he said, handing me my transfer form. "Here's your soul back — it's only slightly damaged. I do hope you'll take better care of it in the future."
I folded the piece of paper and put it in my wallet. I felt better immediately, but not a lot better.
Later in the morning I finished giving back the rest of the souls. At lunch, Lisa came over to my table and started yelling at me. She was furious.
"George says you picked me to be the only person in the whole class who doesn't get their soul back."
I didn't know what to say. I felt terrible. I didn't think George would tell.
Lisa was crying. "How could you do this to me? I thought you were my friend. Why did you have to pick me?"
I got up and walked out. I wasn't very hungry anyway.
In the afternoon I cornered George and took him into an empty classroom.
"You betrayed me," I told him.
"You betrayed Lisa," he said. "I just thought someone should let her know."
"You said you wouldn't tell her!"
"I didn't tell her. I wrote her a note."
"You make me sick." I shook my head in disgust. "Aren't you getting bored with your little game yet?"
"Actually, yes I am," he replied. "You want to hear my latest plan?"
"No! I just want you to give Lisa's soul back."
"Forget it."
"But George, you've proven your point. You already got every single person in eleventh grade..." I stopped for a moment. "Wait a minute, maybe not."
"What do you mean?" he asked.
I looked at George. "I just realized — you haven't won your bet after all!"
"Sure I have."
"No. Remember, the bet said everyone in eleventh grade had to sell."
"They have. I checked all the names. You were the last one."
"No." I pointed at George. "You're the last one! You haven't sold your soul. Tell you what — I'll give you a dollar for it."
"That wasn't part of the deal and you know it!"
"I don't recall you making any kind of exception for yourself."
"Well, no," said George. "It was just understood."
"You said everyone could be bought. So how about you? Would you sell your soul to win this bet?"
George glared at me. "Do I look stupid?"
"Well, then, what would you sell it for? What's your price?"
"If you have to ask, you can't afford it," he said, acting unconcerned.
Lisa walked in. Apparently she'd overheard the whole thing.
"I think the reason you won't sell your soul is because you never had one," she said, with barely controlled rage. "Or else you wouldn't be so cruel. Maybe you've succeeded in proving that the rest of us are corruptible, but that's only because we're human, because we had souls to begin with. Unlike you."
"Hey, I have a soul. I have one right here," he laughed, waving a piece of paper.
Lisa grabbed for it. "That's not your soul, that's mine!"
"Not anymore it's not," said George, pulling the paper out of her reach. "It belongs to me, fair and square."
I got between them to keep Lisa from beating him to a bloody pulp. "Look, George, I've got an idea. You're saying that you're the owner of this soul, which used to be Lisa's, right?"
"Right."
"So, in a sense, this is 'your' soul, right?"
"That's right. My personal property."
"And you're the only one left who hasn't sold. So if you sell this soul, which is, quote, 'yours', that'll mean everyone in eleventh grade has sold their soul. Right?"
"I guess so. Sort of."
"So if you sell it back to Lisa, you'll win your bet, and Lisa will have her soul back."
George laughed. "Do you think your logic is sufficiently twisted?"
I shrugged. "Maybe. So is it a deal?"
"Well, I've grown rather fond of this one," he said, looking at the transfer form. "But if that's what I have to do to win the bet..."
Lisa cautiously handed George a dollar with one hand and took her soul back with the other. She stared at him resentfully.
"So, George," I said, "it looks like all you've done is proven you're just as corruptible as the rest of us. You finally went and sold your soul."
"Well, it wasn't really 'my' soul," said George. "It was Lisa's."
"Oh, so now it was my soul," said Lisa. "So you didn't really sell your soul. Well that's too bad. I guess you lose your stupid little bet after all!"
George started mumbling something about technicalities. Lisa and I looked at each other and broke out laughing.
"Come on George, admit it. You lost and you know it."
George hesitated, then grinned. "Okay, fine. You're right. I lost. I was wrong. Not everyone is corruptible."
He raised an eyebrow. "Just everyone except me!"
The End
Sarah Palin–Israel’s ‘Bitch’, by Mark Glenn
Sarah Palin–Israel’s ‘Bitch’, by Mark Glenn
‘Bitch’–It’s an ugly word, for sure, and not one I am accustomed to using as cavalierly as some might imagine here. I always winced when I heard it growing up as a kid, mostly because I always held women in such high respect and because I was sure that in 9 out of 10 cases where the word was used it was most likely unjustified. After all, they–women–are the bringers of life and who civilize us (hopefully) through their influence in the home. Can you imagine what a mess the world would be in if it was the guys raising the children instead of the gals? The kids would speak in mono-syllabic grunts rather than full sentences and would settle all issues with their fists instead of their mouths and brains.
So my use of the word ‘bitch’ comes with a LOT of hesitation, believe me. Mz. Palin is the mother of 5 children, and for that she deserves mucho respecto as far as I’m concerned. She–like a good number of women in the ‘Christian’ west these days–could have kneeled at the communion rail of Roe V Wade on many occasions, including when she learned her most recent child would be born with Down’s Syndrome. Instead, she elected to have the chalice pass from her lips, much to the rage of feminists who pay to have their children killed for matters of simple convenience in what has become something of a sacramental rite in America these days, God help us. Despite what I consider to be her seriously-misguided religious ideas concerning Israel and the Jews, I’m sure had she been around in a better time period in this nation’s history–meaning a time when the Jewish state and her spies DID NOT dominate our political system–she would have been a great stateswoman.
Let me clarify further–I use that ‘b’ word in describing her not because she stomps around barking out orders at those around her, complaining about this and that and generally making life hell for everyone in her vicinity. In this case, the word ‘bitch’ encompasses that other use of the word we hear so much these days, meaning ‘whore’, or someone willing to lower herself (or himself) into doing immoral, degrading, and life-threatening things for a fistful of dollars, or, as in the case of our elected representatives, a fistful of political power. As she demonstrated to the world in the last few weeks since her nomination as Republican VP, she–like a streetwalker negotiating with a prospective client over what services she’s willing to perform and for what price–has let it be known she is willing to go ‘all the way’ with Israel’s demands, regardless of how raunchy or immoral these demands are. Not only towing the line with regards to the fatal myth that the Jews are ‘God’s chosen’ and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, namely stealing the real estate between the two ‘great rivers’ of the Nile and the Euphrates as well as the right to murder anyone they see fit at anytime they so decide, she has also embraced the other fatal myths of our modern times as well–that Iraq was responsible for 9/11 and that Iran must be stopped at all costs from ‘wiping Israel off the map’. She calls herself ‘pro-life’ but in perfect Zionist double-speak has signaled she will use her office to rain down death on millions, possible even billions of innocent people and all of it for the ‘Jewish cause’. She calls herself a Christian and yet has promised Israel that the Jewish state will continue receiving her daily diet of 15 million dollars from good ole Uncle Sam so she can continue de-Christianizing the land made sacred by the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and in general making life for the Palestinians there a living hell.
And if these weren’t bad enough, Mz. Palin has now gone on record saying that war with Russia is a real likelihood, and not ‘war’ as in the ‘cold’ one but rather the real deal, just as the Neocons have wanted since Trotsky and his gang were ousted from power in the early 20th century.
And so, at least in the political sense, Palin IS a whore, or, using the less-polite language of gangstaz and gangsta-wannabes, ‘a bitch’. By her own admission, she will do anything, no matter how dirty, degrading or immoral it is so that Israel and her supporters ‘get off’ the only way they can, which is through bloodshed, the suffering of innocent people and corruption of otherwise healthy political systems. And in the event some don’t like my choice of racy words here, remember this–I am only following the example set forth by the man destined to replace the aging, swelling John Hagee as Supreme Pontiff of the Christian Zionist movement, none other than pastor Rod Parsley himself, John McCains’s ‘spiritual mentor’ who used the very same racy verbiage when he, speaking about America’s proclivity towards killing Muslims exclaimed like a seasoned snake-handler speaking in tongues ‘We’re bred for battle!…We get off on war!!!
Putting this in better perspective, consider the fact that Palin ‘the patriot’ (as she is now being fashioned by the Jewish mass media in America) is throwing her support behind a Marxist-founded state that has–
1. Blown up American buildings in Egypt in what was known as the Lavon Affair…
2. Attacked a United States ship, the USS Liberty, resulting in the deaths of 34 American sailors with the intention of sinking her so Egypt could be blamed and WWIII started between the US and the USSR…
3. Played an active part in the bombing of the US marine barracks in Lebanon in 1983, resulting in the deaths of almost 250 servicemen…
4. Plotted to assassinate George HW Bush at the Madrid peace conference in 1991 in order to–surprise, surprise–’blame the Arabs’…
5. Stole America’s most sensitive national security secrets from her spy Jonathon Pollard and then sold them to America’s enemies at that time, the USSR. If indeed America finds herself at war with Russia as Israel would like to see take place, no doubt these secrets will be used to better kill America’s young men and women, assuming of course that it remains a war solely outside the confines of the US, which is highly doubtful…
6. Played an indispensable role in the attacks of 9/11, so much so that hundreds–let me repeat for emphasis–HUNDREDS of Israeli spies were arrested, some in circumstances as incriminating as filming the Twin Towers coming down and cheering and who later admitted on Israeli TV that they were ‘sent to document the event’…
…and this is only the tip of the proverbial iceberg. One day, after this mess is all over and assuming the US has not been reduced to ashes following a nuclear war, there will be an entire wing of the Library of Congress devoted to the problems this nation has endured as a result of Israel and her influence over our affairs.
And this folks is the ugly truth concerning Palin. As I said, were these better times, I would be getting all hot and bothered about her candidacy too, but the fact is that she is there for one reason and one reason only, which is to get an otherwise unelectable John McCain elected president so that the Jews can have the other wars they have scheduled, meaning Iran, Syria and Russia. You can bet your last dollar that were she not ‘right with God’, meaning were she the least bit contrary to Israel and the demands of the Jewish state, be it the war in the Middle East or whatever, she would remain in that obscure, out of the way place and no one would know Jack Squat about her.
The other thing of course to consider, but unmentioned up to this point, is the fact that I am not the only one saying this about her, that she is ‘Israel’s Bitch’, and this is where it gets REALLY ugly. The fact is, this is what the Jewish state and her supporters think of her, their public comments notwithstanding. Yes, guys such as Brooks and Lieberman and all the others may at present be swooning and fawning all over her as if she were Esther reborn, but to them she is just a piece of gentile meat created by God to serve the Jews, what they refer to in their own parlance as a ‘Shiksa’.
Yes, that’s right, all you conservative, bible-believing Christians out there who think that the Jews have finally ‘come around’ and seen the light with regards to the things near and dear to our conservative hearts pertaining to protecting the unborn, the Constitution and ‘family values’ as we define them, the fact is this–She is just another Britney, Madonna, or any other Barbie doll-creation of the Jewish mass media. She–like they–has been shoved out on the stage where–politically-speaking–she bats her eyes, moans and groans, suggestively rubs her hands over her body, wiggles and jiggles and bumps and grinds in front of us and all in the interest of keeping us excited, excitable, and distracted from what the hell is really going on in the world.
And make no mistake about it. All the praise they are heaping on her right now will be short-lived. Keep in mind how the Jews welcomed Jesus into Jerusalem as a king, shouting ‘Hosanna to God in the Highest’ and laying palm leaves in His path and then a week later these same creatures were calling for him to be crucified and the murderer Barabbas released.
No, once Palin has been used for their purposes, meaning once they have gotten from her what they want (meaning getting warmonger John McCain elected to the presidency) the ‘honeymoon’ will be over and she will be told to ‘get the f*** out of here bitch’ just as they would to any ordinary whore whose services were no longer required.
And the real truth is, Mz. Palin has a lot more to worry about than simply being ‘removed’ from the political scene by any scandals that may develop around her. Washington DC–a veritable outpost (in both the literal and figurative sense) of Meyer Lansky’s Murder Inc–has become a gangland where individuals live and die based upon whether they are worth more dead than alive to the powers-that-be. It may very well turn out that what is REALLY planned here is the classic one-two knockout punch, meaning Palin gets McCain elected, and then, batta-bing/batta bang/BATTA-BOOM–she is assassinated by some ‘Islamic terrorist’ and McCain makes Lieberman his VP (which was the original plan anyway) and then when Little Johnnie has some ‘accident’ befall him, Lieberman becomes prez, America falls into Israel’s hands like a ripened fruit and thus all impediments removed from the Jewish state getting what she really wants. Remember–we are talking about people here who believe they are the embodiment of God and who have–not just the capability of doing the worst, but rather the proclivity. After all, lest we forget, it is the Talmud itself, the engine that drives these people and their agenda that states “Tob shebe goyyim harog’, meaning “Even the best among the Gentiles deserves to be killed.’
And so, my fellow Americans, fellow humans, lovers of peace and justice, if you think my opinion and the language used in expressing this opinion too harsh concerning that ‘good Christian woman’ Mz. Palin who is most likely destined to be our next vice president (at least until her motorcade is blown up by Al Qaeda) what I say in my defense is thus–I am tired of the non-stop political pornography we see these days…, sick of seeing bitch after bitch after bitch paraded out before us who degrade themselves and degrade what is supposed to be their sacred duties to our nation by whoring themselves out for the benefit of the Madame of the house, Israel. I am sick to the point of vomiting over the manner our elected officials–who swore an oath to be faithful to America, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in heath, for better or for worse till death do us part as they take turns getting down on their knees and or on all fours and then perform whatever disgusting services are demanded of them by the Jewish state, an insatiable nymphomaniac for political power that never seems to get her fill. I am sick of America suffering from all the ills-political, social, cultural or whatnot, resulting from the legion of venereal diseases we have contracted through our illicit, immoral intercourse with the Jewish state. We have become a sterile, barren woman whose womb is so polluted through immoral behavior that it can no longer produce any life for our nation, meaning peace, prosperity and political stability. I long for the by-gone days of fidelity and continence of American political life, where America was first, second and third in the hearts and minds of our leaders instead of them putting the interests of a terrorist state ahead of our own. I lament the day that men like George Washington, John Adams and others–men who would never have consented to sell their country for 30 pieces of silver to ANY interest nor allow the governing infrastructure of America to be infested with spies and saboteurs as it exists today–were replaced with the likes of George Bush, John McCain and the rest.
It is something we are going to have to decide folks–we are either going to have America as a beacon of light where Lady Liberty runs the show or a brothel dominated by whores for Israel, and as one wise man once said, ‘You cannot serve two masters, for you will either love the one and hate the other or hate the one or love the other.’
For myself, this latest creation in the person of Mz. Palin leaves much to be desired, no matter how low she is willing to go in debasing herself in what has become the Zionist Burlesque Revue. Give me someone not as easy on the eyes but whose love for America does not take 2nd place to the interests of a foreign power and who understands that when she takes that oath of office, what she is really saying to America is ‘for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in heath, for better or for worse till death do us part.’
‘Bitch’–It’s an ugly word, for sure, and not one I am accustomed to using as cavalierly as some might imagine here. I always winced when I heard it growing up as a kid, mostly because I always held women in such high respect and because I was sure that in 9 out of 10 cases where the word was used it was most likely unjustified. After all, they–women–are the bringers of life and who civilize us (hopefully) through their influence in the home. Can you imagine what a mess the world would be in if it was the guys raising the children instead of the gals? The kids would speak in mono-syllabic grunts rather than full sentences and would settle all issues with their fists instead of their mouths and brains.
So my use of the word ‘bitch’ comes with a LOT of hesitation, believe me. Mz. Palin is the mother of 5 children, and for that she deserves mucho respecto as far as I’m concerned. She–like a good number of women in the ‘Christian’ west these days–could have kneeled at the communion rail of Roe V Wade on many occasions, including when she learned her most recent child would be born with Down’s Syndrome. Instead, she elected to have the chalice pass from her lips, much to the rage of feminists who pay to have their children killed for matters of simple convenience in what has become something of a sacramental rite in America these days, God help us. Despite what I consider to be her seriously-misguided religious ideas concerning Israel and the Jews, I’m sure had she been around in a better time period in this nation’s history–meaning a time when the Jewish state and her spies DID NOT dominate our political system–she would have been a great stateswoman.
Let me clarify further–I use that ‘b’ word in describing her not because she stomps around barking out orders at those around her, complaining about this and that and generally making life hell for everyone in her vicinity. In this case, the word ‘bitch’ encompasses that other use of the word we hear so much these days, meaning ‘whore’, or someone willing to lower herself (or himself) into doing immoral, degrading, and life-threatening things for a fistful of dollars, or, as in the case of our elected representatives, a fistful of political power. As she demonstrated to the world in the last few weeks since her nomination as Republican VP, she–like a streetwalker negotiating with a prospective client over what services she’s willing to perform and for what price–has let it be known she is willing to go ‘all the way’ with Israel’s demands, regardless of how raunchy or immoral these demands are. Not only towing the line with regards to the fatal myth that the Jews are ‘God’s chosen’ and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, namely stealing the real estate between the two ‘great rivers’ of the Nile and the Euphrates as well as the right to murder anyone they see fit at anytime they so decide, she has also embraced the other fatal myths of our modern times as well–that Iraq was responsible for 9/11 and that Iran must be stopped at all costs from ‘wiping Israel off the map’. She calls herself ‘pro-life’ but in perfect Zionist double-speak has signaled she will use her office to rain down death on millions, possible even billions of innocent people and all of it for the ‘Jewish cause’. She calls herself a Christian and yet has promised Israel that the Jewish state will continue receiving her daily diet of 15 million dollars from good ole Uncle Sam so she can continue de-Christianizing the land made sacred by the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and in general making life for the Palestinians there a living hell.
And if these weren’t bad enough, Mz. Palin has now gone on record saying that war with Russia is a real likelihood, and not ‘war’ as in the ‘cold’ one but rather the real deal, just as the Neocons have wanted since Trotsky and his gang were ousted from power in the early 20th century.
And so, at least in the political sense, Palin IS a whore, or, using the less-polite language of gangstaz and gangsta-wannabes, ‘a bitch’. By her own admission, she will do anything, no matter how dirty, degrading or immoral it is so that Israel and her supporters ‘get off’ the only way they can, which is through bloodshed, the suffering of innocent people and corruption of otherwise healthy political systems. And in the event some don’t like my choice of racy words here, remember this–I am only following the example set forth by the man destined to replace the aging, swelling John Hagee as Supreme Pontiff of the Christian Zionist movement, none other than pastor Rod Parsley himself, John McCains’s ‘spiritual mentor’ who used the very same racy verbiage when he, speaking about America’s proclivity towards killing Muslims exclaimed like a seasoned snake-handler speaking in tongues ‘We’re bred for battle!…We get off on war!!!
Putting this in better perspective, consider the fact that Palin ‘the patriot’ (as she is now being fashioned by the Jewish mass media in America) is throwing her support behind a Marxist-founded state that has–
1. Blown up American buildings in Egypt in what was known as the Lavon Affair…
2. Attacked a United States ship, the USS Liberty, resulting in the deaths of 34 American sailors with the intention of sinking her so Egypt could be blamed and WWIII started between the US and the USSR…
3. Played an active part in the bombing of the US marine barracks in Lebanon in 1983, resulting in the deaths of almost 250 servicemen…
4. Plotted to assassinate George HW Bush at the Madrid peace conference in 1991 in order to–surprise, surprise–’blame the Arabs’…
5. Stole America’s most sensitive national security secrets from her spy Jonathon Pollard and then sold them to America’s enemies at that time, the USSR. If indeed America finds herself at war with Russia as Israel would like to see take place, no doubt these secrets will be used to better kill America’s young men and women, assuming of course that it remains a war solely outside the confines of the US, which is highly doubtful…
6. Played an indispensable role in the attacks of 9/11, so much so that hundreds–let me repeat for emphasis–HUNDREDS of Israeli spies were arrested, some in circumstances as incriminating as filming the Twin Towers coming down and cheering and who later admitted on Israeli TV that they were ‘sent to document the event’…
…and this is only the tip of the proverbial iceberg. One day, after this mess is all over and assuming the US has not been reduced to ashes following a nuclear war, there will be an entire wing of the Library of Congress devoted to the problems this nation has endured as a result of Israel and her influence over our affairs.
And this folks is the ugly truth concerning Palin. As I said, were these better times, I would be getting all hot and bothered about her candidacy too, but the fact is that she is there for one reason and one reason only, which is to get an otherwise unelectable John McCain elected president so that the Jews can have the other wars they have scheduled, meaning Iran, Syria and Russia. You can bet your last dollar that were she not ‘right with God’, meaning were she the least bit contrary to Israel and the demands of the Jewish state, be it the war in the Middle East or whatever, she would remain in that obscure, out of the way place and no one would know Jack Squat about her.
The other thing of course to consider, but unmentioned up to this point, is the fact that I am not the only one saying this about her, that she is ‘Israel’s Bitch’, and this is where it gets REALLY ugly. The fact is, this is what the Jewish state and her supporters think of her, their public comments notwithstanding. Yes, guys such as Brooks and Lieberman and all the others may at present be swooning and fawning all over her as if she were Esther reborn, but to them she is just a piece of gentile meat created by God to serve the Jews, what they refer to in their own parlance as a ‘Shiksa’.
Yes, that’s right, all you conservative, bible-believing Christians out there who think that the Jews have finally ‘come around’ and seen the light with regards to the things near and dear to our conservative hearts pertaining to protecting the unborn, the Constitution and ‘family values’ as we define them, the fact is this–She is just another Britney, Madonna, or any other Barbie doll-creation of the Jewish mass media. She–like they–has been shoved out on the stage where–politically-speaking–she bats her eyes, moans and groans, suggestively rubs her hands over her body, wiggles and jiggles and bumps and grinds in front of us and all in the interest of keeping us excited, excitable, and distracted from what the hell is really going on in the world.
And make no mistake about it. All the praise they are heaping on her right now will be short-lived. Keep in mind how the Jews welcomed Jesus into Jerusalem as a king, shouting ‘Hosanna to God in the Highest’ and laying palm leaves in His path and then a week later these same creatures were calling for him to be crucified and the murderer Barabbas released.
No, once Palin has been used for their purposes, meaning once they have gotten from her what they want (meaning getting warmonger John McCain elected to the presidency) the ‘honeymoon’ will be over and she will be told to ‘get the f*** out of here bitch’ just as they would to any ordinary whore whose services were no longer required.
And the real truth is, Mz. Palin has a lot more to worry about than simply being ‘removed’ from the political scene by any scandals that may develop around her. Washington DC–a veritable outpost (in both the literal and figurative sense) of Meyer Lansky’s Murder Inc–has become a gangland where individuals live and die based upon whether they are worth more dead than alive to the powers-that-be. It may very well turn out that what is REALLY planned here is the classic one-two knockout punch, meaning Palin gets McCain elected, and then, batta-bing/batta bang/BATTA-BOOM–she is assassinated by some ‘Islamic terrorist’ and McCain makes Lieberman his VP (which was the original plan anyway) and then when Little Johnnie has some ‘accident’ befall him, Lieberman becomes prez, America falls into Israel’s hands like a ripened fruit and thus all impediments removed from the Jewish state getting what she really wants. Remember–we are talking about people here who believe they are the embodiment of God and who have–not just the capability of doing the worst, but rather the proclivity. After all, lest we forget, it is the Talmud itself, the engine that drives these people and their agenda that states “Tob shebe goyyim harog’, meaning “Even the best among the Gentiles deserves to be killed.’
And so, my fellow Americans, fellow humans, lovers of peace and justice, if you think my opinion and the language used in expressing this opinion too harsh concerning that ‘good Christian woman’ Mz. Palin who is most likely destined to be our next vice president (at least until her motorcade is blown up by Al Qaeda) what I say in my defense is thus–I am tired of the non-stop political pornography we see these days…, sick of seeing bitch after bitch after bitch paraded out before us who degrade themselves and degrade what is supposed to be their sacred duties to our nation by whoring themselves out for the benefit of the Madame of the house, Israel. I am sick to the point of vomiting over the manner our elected officials–who swore an oath to be faithful to America, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in heath, for better or for worse till death do us part as they take turns getting down on their knees and or on all fours and then perform whatever disgusting services are demanded of them by the Jewish state, an insatiable nymphomaniac for political power that never seems to get her fill. I am sick of America suffering from all the ills-political, social, cultural or whatnot, resulting from the legion of venereal diseases we have contracted through our illicit, immoral intercourse with the Jewish state. We have become a sterile, barren woman whose womb is so polluted through immoral behavior that it can no longer produce any life for our nation, meaning peace, prosperity and political stability. I long for the by-gone days of fidelity and continence of American political life, where America was first, second and third in the hearts and minds of our leaders instead of them putting the interests of a terrorist state ahead of our own. I lament the day that men like George Washington, John Adams and others–men who would never have consented to sell their country for 30 pieces of silver to ANY interest nor allow the governing infrastructure of America to be infested with spies and saboteurs as it exists today–were replaced with the likes of George Bush, John McCain and the rest.
It is something we are going to have to decide folks–we are either going to have America as a beacon of light where Lady Liberty runs the show or a brothel dominated by whores for Israel, and as one wise man once said, ‘You cannot serve two masters, for you will either love the one and hate the other or hate the one or love the other.’
For myself, this latest creation in the person of Mz. Palin leaves much to be desired, no matter how low she is willing to go in debasing herself in what has become the Zionist Burlesque Revue. Give me someone not as easy on the eyes but whose love for America does not take 2nd place to the interests of a foreign power and who understands that when she takes that oath of office, what she is really saying to America is ‘for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in heath, for better or for worse till death do us part.’
Bush is a fundamentalist/evangelical
Bush is a fundamentalist/evangelical. Under Bush, the fundy-damn-mentalists have gone from viewing Hades pornography in their heads to actually being in bodies in Hades and doing the re-enacting. All that is required, according to Dr. Jeramiah, is to get “evicted” as an evangelical. It’s “live” undead, instead of memorex, and even a dateless nerd like Falwell can get laid. Sad, sad, Saducess and wild, wild, west. Two Men and a Truck. Jump into the Seine. The evicted are then trapped in Hades, having left behind their home on Earth. Term limits illiteracy. Bush is like Jim Jones orchestrating this mass homo(sexual)cide IED-HIV-HPV terrorist “states-of-affairs”/ affairs of the state depart-MEAN-T Colin “large in-test-in penis hole superimposed on your large intestine” Powell-Condo-lease-a “lesbo” leezza Lisa Rice Coolio-Kool-Aids. It’s Bob Jones University, the zionist/racist terrorist-tear-o-our-is-t neurological-pyschopathological “state” of Israel, the z hole (v hole, d hole, n hole, a hole) mouth and (Tony Beison-Torri Wells) ton-gue of Fritz Haber-Zyklon-B-Paula Abdul. All that exists are Julia-Lewis (Luis Gaghole) Dreyfus states-of- affairs, that supervene each other in memory – ex: The high-tech Hades Matrix. The “transexual” “movie” is directed by “rah-rah” Gampy, the Abraham incestuous sodmite “Father”, who thinks of itself as a fundamentalist/evangelical “Spartacus” “sadomasochist” “ar-MEAN-ian” who, although serious, isn’t really mean enough, never could get past the wimp factor, even with the voice of the solomonite Kirk Douglas and the s/hell game one in ¾’s “girls”; and still the neutered nerdy Pre-eclampsia stillborn hope is that there can be some limited freedom obtained through Lola Laura “the librarians” “razor blade” “four men” “suck my friends dick” mouth. But with eviction, as with the end of a presidential term, at least when the gleichshaltung has run out of steam, there is no longer any “address” or memory, except RAM BAM reamings Rambus DRAM ROM; and all the chaos, flux, and indeterminacy of guilt, loneliness, and isolation of had Had-es…
We The People Must End the Reign of ZOG
It is obvious that the pregnancy of Bristol was planned, so what does it mean? The daughter's "5 month" pregnancy is an attempt to tie in the 17 year olds fertility, imagined as virility, to Sarah Palin's "vice" presidency, which already includes Sarah's "veto" of a bill that would have denied benefits to gay state employees and their partners. Here is a brief summary of the veto (1):
"Log Cabin Republicans are optimistic but admittedly in the dark about Palin's positions on gay and lesbian issues. They cite Palin's veto as governor of a bill that would have denied benefits to gay state employees and their partners. However, her reasons for vetoing the legislation are complicated (2).
The Associated Press has reported that she didn't sign the bill on the advice of the Alaska attorney general, who adviser her it would be unconstitutional. The bill was a direct response to a 2005 Alaska Supreme Court decision requiring the state to offer benefits to same-sex partners.
A statement released with Palin's veto suggests she opposed the benefits: 'The Governor's veto does not signal any change or modification to her disagreement with the action and order by the Alaska Supreme Court.'"
What do the two have to do with each other, the pregnancy of Bristol, obviously planned to be at "five" months when announced, and the "veto" on the bill which would have denied benefits "to gays and their partners".
It's simple: If you know the jews are cursed by God for doing sodomy, and that the jews want to lure anyone they can into Hades, but also close the "arbeit macht frei" gates of Hades upon the Earth, then you can see the "carrot" the jews are offering to the schmucks of Hades: Sexual health and activity as exhibited in a young healthy looking Alaskan female named Bristol who is five months pregnant at age seventeen just as her mother Sarah accepts the Vice Presidential offer of John McCain.
Talk about some Co-Caine! Man, this is like uncut late 70’s Columbian or, for you jews, pure crack co-caine; and injectible, if you like: A chance to go to Westworld, "Just Like Heaven" (3), and engage in sexual contacts with Her Majesty's Government, a.k.a. Bristol; or, if your a Mormon moron, the Old Testament loophole, a.k.a. Sarah, who will espouse family values, but abominably vote duh, yet according to the law, ya' all. Was accepting the in Vitro Down Syndrome child, Trig, according to the law, Sarah? Or is that too "complicated"?
“Hey, wait a minute?” would be the response of any even short con schmuck, looking for the angle, say Bogart: “Sees, I dunno why yous promising sexuals health and all, and that little baby got that sickness is all”. Sounds like mengele “heaven”, even to a schmuck heathen. So, why Obama “Jim Jones” LSD/LDS “euphoria” at the Republican Convention?
It’s simple: If you’re a networked shit-for-brains zombie, it doesn’t matter whether your republican or democrat. You are or you will be rendered a mindless automaton of the “two” party totalitarian bolshevic/menshevic system, and all its crack whores on Oracle machinations.
And this just in: Photos of the seventeen-years-old-and-five-months-pregnant Bristol have surfaced. In one she is holding a gigantic bottle of Captain Morgan’s Spiced Rum with “her friend” (4). And in another, just below it, you can see Bristol and another girl each holding a “shooter”, while looking up at the Gampy cam, which appears to be in the smoke detector!
Do these girls represent the Bush twins (5)? For those who still don’t know, George W. is the catamite malakoi bitch of Gampy, who done raised him wanting him to go straight, even getting that boy he’s very own Country Star (6). And when George W. didn’t “take” the twins? Well, Gampy just helped heself. And what did the jews give Gampy, for a’ helpin’ ta confuse homosexuality with sodomy all under the rubric of sodomy? Gampy spends he’s time in Hades hotel rooms, with the helmet cam, and ¾ “girls”. George W. did finally get the twins bedded, even showing Jena how ta be a man and take herself, which was actually daddy in her body and the body of others, both men and women.
So, are these photos some kind of code indicating continuity to those in the Bush-McCain camp? Yes. You see, with Barack Obama annihilated by Patrick M. Griffin, Ari Fleisher (7), “the butcher” who gave Sarah Palin that “beautiful Down Syndrome baby”, that “going down” into Hades “sin drome”, wants the entire county to vanish into a sink hole of Jaws and Jurassic Park horrors under the direction of the Republican Party, which the retarded crack whore on Oracle Fleisher conflates with Humanity, for having rejected Obama (8).
What Fleisher is doing is saying to the Human Race, “damned if you do, damned if you don’t”, or, perhaps more accurately, considering the past and recent “stereotypical” white trash publicity stunts, “Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't”.
We The People must reject Obama and McCain, and end the reign of ZOG.
Notes:
(1). See: http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2008/09/04/3382/gay_republica...
(2). See: http://mediamatters.org/items/200808290025
(3). See: http://www.justlikeheaven-themovie.com/
Note that the actress Reece Witherspoon has a genetically altered body that is made to look slightly Down Syndrome and the head slightly with hydrocephalus. See Witherspoon at the end of this Obama ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZdi1JnMxFU&feature;=user
(4). See: http://www.techbanyan.com/1258/bristol-palin-drinking/
(5). See: http://www.thefirsttwins.com/both2004.html
(6). See: http://www.georgestrait.com/
Note the current George Straight is amalgam of George Straight with Phil Hartman.
Jeb was with Mama, but it’s unclear if Bare were sadistic.
(7). Ari Fleisher is still serving as Press Secretary, and I believe is behind the pregnancy of Bristol, which was no doubt in Vitro, and the taking and release of the photos showing her and others with alcohol.
(8). Is Ari Fleisher Barack Obama? No doubt the only other extra-terrestrial alien I know of, Condoleezza Rice, is Michelle Obama. I at first doubted that Ari Fleisher was Barack Obama, but now I think it just might be the case, especially as I have recently viewed nerdy footage of Barack Obama, and the “Jim Jones” stoned faces of h/is “supporters”. Remember that Ari Fleisher still controls the Bush Presidency, which is essentially just the ZOG Condoleezza Rice Department of State terrorist state of Israel. See: http://www.sodahead.com/blog/13886/
Everyone should be on high alert.
"Log Cabin Republicans are optimistic but admittedly in the dark about Palin's positions on gay and lesbian issues. They cite Palin's veto as governor of a bill that would have denied benefits to gay state employees and their partners. However, her reasons for vetoing the legislation are complicated (2).
The Associated Press has reported that she didn't sign the bill on the advice of the Alaska attorney general, who adviser her it would be unconstitutional. The bill was a direct response to a 2005 Alaska Supreme Court decision requiring the state to offer benefits to same-sex partners.
A statement released with Palin's veto suggests she opposed the benefits: 'The Governor's veto does not signal any change or modification to her disagreement with the action and order by the Alaska Supreme Court.'"
What do the two have to do with each other, the pregnancy of Bristol, obviously planned to be at "five" months when announced, and the "veto" on the bill which would have denied benefits "to gays and their partners".
It's simple: If you know the jews are cursed by God for doing sodomy, and that the jews want to lure anyone they can into Hades, but also close the "arbeit macht frei" gates of Hades upon the Earth, then you can see the "carrot" the jews are offering to the schmucks of Hades: Sexual health and activity as exhibited in a young healthy looking Alaskan female named Bristol who is five months pregnant at age seventeen just as her mother Sarah accepts the Vice Presidential offer of John McCain.
Talk about some Co-Caine! Man, this is like uncut late 70’s Columbian or, for you jews, pure crack co-caine; and injectible, if you like: A chance to go to Westworld, "Just Like Heaven" (3), and engage in sexual contacts with Her Majesty's Government, a.k.a. Bristol; or, if your a Mormon moron, the Old Testament loophole, a.k.a. Sarah, who will espouse family values, but abominably vote duh, yet according to the law, ya' all. Was accepting the in Vitro Down Syndrome child, Trig, according to the law, Sarah? Or is that too "complicated"?
“Hey, wait a minute?” would be the response of any even short con schmuck, looking for the angle, say Bogart: “Sees, I dunno why yous promising sexuals health and all, and that little baby got that sickness is all”. Sounds like mengele “heaven”, even to a schmuck heathen. So, why Obama “Jim Jones” LSD/LDS “euphoria” at the Republican Convention?
It’s simple: If you’re a networked shit-for-brains zombie, it doesn’t matter whether your republican or democrat. You are or you will be rendered a mindless automaton of the “two” party totalitarian bolshevic/menshevic system, and all its crack whores on Oracle machinations.
And this just in: Photos of the seventeen-years-old-and-five-months-pregnant Bristol have surfaced. In one she is holding a gigantic bottle of Captain Morgan’s Spiced Rum with “her friend” (4). And in another, just below it, you can see Bristol and another girl each holding a “shooter”, while looking up at the Gampy cam, which appears to be in the smoke detector!
Do these girls represent the Bush twins (5)? For those who still don’t know, George W. is the catamite malakoi bitch of Gampy, who done raised him wanting him to go straight, even getting that boy he’s very own Country Star (6). And when George W. didn’t “take” the twins? Well, Gampy just helped heself. And what did the jews give Gampy, for a’ helpin’ ta confuse homosexuality with sodomy all under the rubric of sodomy? Gampy spends he’s time in Hades hotel rooms, with the helmet cam, and ¾ “girls”. George W. did finally get the twins bedded, even showing Jena how ta be a man and take herself, which was actually daddy in her body and the body of others, both men and women.
So, are these photos some kind of code indicating continuity to those in the Bush-McCain camp? Yes. You see, with Barack Obama annihilated by Patrick M. Griffin, Ari Fleisher (7), “the butcher” who gave Sarah Palin that “beautiful Down Syndrome baby”, that “going down” into Hades “sin drome”, wants the entire county to vanish into a sink hole of Jaws and Jurassic Park horrors under the direction of the Republican Party, which the retarded crack whore on Oracle Fleisher conflates with Humanity, for having rejected Obama (8).
What Fleisher is doing is saying to the Human Race, “damned if you do, damned if you don’t”, or, perhaps more accurately, considering the past and recent “stereotypical” white trash publicity stunts, “Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't”.
We The People must reject Obama and McCain, and end the reign of ZOG.
Notes:
(1). See: http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2008/09/04/3382/gay_republica...
(2). See: http://mediamatters.org/items/200808290025
(3). See: http://www.justlikeheaven-themovie.com/
Note that the actress Reece Witherspoon has a genetically altered body that is made to look slightly Down Syndrome and the head slightly with hydrocephalus. See Witherspoon at the end of this Obama ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZdi1JnMxFU&feature;=user
(4). See: http://www.techbanyan.com/1258/bristol-palin-drinking/
(5). See: http://www.thefirsttwins.com/both2004.html
(6). See: http://www.georgestrait.com/
Note the current George Straight is amalgam of George Straight with Phil Hartman.
Jeb was with Mama, but it’s unclear if Bare were sadistic.
(7). Ari Fleisher is still serving as Press Secretary, and I believe is behind the pregnancy of Bristol, which was no doubt in Vitro, and the taking and release of the photos showing her and others with alcohol.
(8). Is Ari Fleisher Barack Obama? No doubt the only other extra-terrestrial alien I know of, Condoleezza Rice, is Michelle Obama. I at first doubted that Ari Fleisher was Barack Obama, but now I think it just might be the case, especially as I have recently viewed nerdy footage of Barack Obama, and the “Jim Jones” stoned faces of h/is “supporters”. Remember that Ari Fleisher still controls the Bush Presidency, which is essentially just the ZOG Condoleezza Rice Department of State terrorist state of Israel. See: http://www.sodahead.com/blog/13886/
Everyone should be on high alert.
It's that Obama is a Sodomite, Retards.
Barack Obama is a sodomite. Sodomites don't like the New Testament. The New Testament is the teachings for Christians, and all Christians must be committed to destroying the sodomites. Only with the destruction of the sodomites, the diasporic space of sodomy known as judaism, can the Earth be saved, and the Kingdom of God established here on Earth, with the merging of Heaven with the Earth. This is the return of the Natural/Supernatural Order, the very order that the sodomites have damaged and driven from the Earth. People must recognize their Christianity is essential to sound environmental policy and stewardship of the Earth.
The jews wrote the Old Testament for one reason: God had destroyed sodom and gomorrah, and the jews wanted to make a "loophole" for sodomy (1), so that they could continue to do sodomy. The jew tactic was to bury and confuse the prohibition on sodomy with a large number of other regulations, many of which were jibberish and nonsense (2). Here is the passage from Obama’s “Call to Renewal Keynote Address” (3) that was in the video:
“And even if we did have only Christians in our midst, if we expelled every non-Christian from the United States of America, whose Christianity would we teach in the schools? Would we go with James Dobson's, or Al Sharpton's? Which passages of Scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is ok and that eating shellfish is abomination? How about Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith? Or should we just stick to the Sermon on the Mount - a passage that is so radical that it's doubtful that our own Defense Department would survive its application? So before we get carried away, let's read our bibles. Folks haven't been reading their bibles.”
Leviticus is trouble for sodomites, because in no uncertain terms it, the very law of the Old Testament, clearly prohibits sodomy (4), and with the penalty of death (5). So, what does Obama do? Same as the jews did with Leviticus and the rest of the Old Testament: They added other laws, and many of them, to confuse and obfuscate that it was just the doing of sodomy that got the jews cursed. Obama mentions two from Leviticus that are absurd: The allowing of slavery and the rule that eating shellfish is abomination. Obama then cites another absurd consideration from Deuteronomy (6), "which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith".
Then Obama follows up the slick but very shortened use of this long ago exposed approach with a drunken haymaker, an attack on the Sermon on the Mount! (7). The Sermon on the Mount is perhaps the most important of the teachings of Jesus Christ about the new age and the eschatological Kingdom He has come to proclaim. It is like a mini catechism and summary of Christian beliefs and principles. To assail this cornerstone of Western and World civilization after a very lame attempt to confuse the Old and New Testaments as "the Bible" is very strange indeed, especially because in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus Christ tells his followers to be even more generous than the Mosaic law requires: “Be ye perfect,” he says, “even as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect”.
Is the Sermon on the Mount, as Obama states, “a passage that is so radical that it's doubtful that our own Defense Department would survive its application”? Certainly Obama knows the things that I am stating in this essay, although Obama and h/is cronies would not have thought it possible just a little over two years ago, that We The People of The United States of America and The World would have the ability to educate ourselves and each other about the conspiracy of judaism against We The People. Yet even then Obama, or at the very least the jewish speechwriters, were particularly concerned about American military might; and especially the possibility that such awesome power might soon be in the hands of We The People of the United States of America and in the defense of liberty for all Humanity (8).
Notes:
(1). Hence the ludicrous account in Genesis 18: 16-33, no doubt written by the Pharisees, where Abraham haggles not so much for the saving of sodom and gomorrah as for the secure future of jewish diasporic sodomy worldwide:
Genesis 18:16-33 (New International Version)
Abraham Pleads for Sodom
16 When the men got up to leave, they looked down toward Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them on their way. 17 Then the LORD said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do? 18 Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him. 19 For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, so that the LORD will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him."
20 Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous 21 that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."
22 The men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD. [a] 23 Then Abraham approached him and said: "Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked? 24 What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare [b] the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it? 25 Far be it from you to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge [c] of all the earth do right?"
26 The LORD said, "If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake."
27 Then Abraham spoke up again: "Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes, 28 what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city because of five people?"
"If I find forty-five there," he said, "I will not destroy it."
29 Once again he spoke to him, "What if only forty are found there?"
He said, "For the sake of forty, I will not do it."
30 Then he said, "May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak. What if only thirty can be found there?"
He answered, "I will not do it if I find thirty there."
31 Abraham said, "Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty can be found there?"
He said, "For the sake of twenty, I will not destroy it."
32 Then he said, "May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?"
He answered, "For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it."
33 When the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, he left, and Abraham returned home.
Footnotes:
a. Genesis 18:22 Masoretic Text; an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition but the LORD remained standing before Abraham
b. Genesis 18:24 Or forgive ; also in verse 26
c. Genesis 18:25 Or Ruler
(2). Other instances when jews have used this tactic include the 888-page Warren Commission Report Report, to which the Commission published 26 volumes of supporting documents, including the testimony or depositions of 552 witnesses and more than 3,100 exhibits. Don’t find that strange? Among the 3,100 exhibits were a study of Ruby’s mother’s dentures and Oswald’s pubic hairs.
Obama’s disregard for “folks” sounds very similar to the contempt for the American People that Allen Dulles, a Warren Commission member, had:
"But nobody reads. Don't believe people read in this country. There will be a few professors that will read the record...The public will read very little."
(September 6, 1964, Warren Commission internal memo)
The fact is that whether or not People know of the jibberish minutia of Mosaic and Talmudic law, they know that sodomy is wrong. There is a huge difference between a ban on eating shellfish – no doubt made because many had gotten sick from eating shellfish because of the lack of refrigeration – and the ban on sodomy. Sodomy violates the sacred sexual essence with which God created Human Beings. Humans Beings have an intuitive knowledge of this from their Nature, and are not going to be talked out of it by anyone, no matter how slick or seemingly distinguished they sound or act.
(3). Here is the entire address:
Call to Renewal Keynote Address
June 28, 2006
Washington, DC
Good morning. I appreciate the opportunity to speak here at the Call to Renewal's Building a Covenant for a New America conference. I've had the opportunity to take a look at your Covenant for a New America. It is filled with outstanding policies and prescriptions for much of what ails this country. So I'd like to congratulate you all on the thoughtful presentations you've given so far about poverty and justice in America, and for putting fire under the feet of the political leadership here in Washington.
But today I'd like to talk about the connection between religion and politics and perhaps offer some thoughts about how we can sort through some of the often bitter arguments that we've been seeing over the last several years.
I do so because, as you all know, we can affirm the importance of poverty in the Bible; and we can raise up and pass out this Covenant for a New America. We can talk to the press, and we can discuss the religious call to address poverty and environmental stewardship all we want, but it won't have an impact unless we tackle head-on the mutual suspicion that sometimes exists between religious America and secular America.
I want to give you an example that I think illustrates this fact. As some of you know, during the 2004 U.S. Senate General Election I ran against a gentleman named Alan Keyes. Mr. Keyes is well-versed in the Jerry Falwell-Pat Robertson style of rhetoric that often labels progressives as both immoral and godless.
Indeed, Mr. Keyes announced towards the end of the campaign that, "Jesus Christ would not vote for Barack Obama. Christ would not vote for Barack Obama because Barack Obama has behaved in a way that it is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved."
Jesus Christ would not vote for Barack Obama.
Now, I was urged by some of my liberal supporters not to take this statement seriously, to essentially ignore it. To them, Mr. Keyes was an extremist, and his arguments not worth entertaining. And since at the time, I was up 40 points in the polls, it probably wasn't a bad piece of strategic advice.
But what they didn't understand, however, was that I had to take Mr. Keyes seriously, for he claimed to speak for my religion, and my God. He claimed knowledge of certain truths.
Mr. Obama says he's a Christian, he was saying, and yet he supports a lifestyle that the Bible calls an abomination.
Mr. Obama says he's a Christian, but supports the destruction of innocent and sacred life.
And so what would my supporters have me say? How should I respond? Should I say that a literalist reading of the Bible was folly? Should I say that Mr. Keyes, who is a Roman Catholic, should ignore the teachings of the Pope?
Unwilling to go there, I answered with what has come to be the typically liberal response in such debates - namely, I said that we live in a pluralistic society, that I can't impose my own religious views on another, that I was running to be the U.S. Senator of Illinois and not the Minister of Illinois.
But Mr. Keyes's implicit accusation that I was not a true Christian nagged at me, and I was also aware that my answer did not adequately address the role my faith has in guiding my own values and my own beliefs.
Now, my dilemma was by no means unique. In a way, it reflected the broader debate we've been having in this country for the last thirty years over the role of religion in politics.
(4). Leviticus 20:13 (New American Standard Bible)
13'(A)If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them.
Cross references:
Leviticus 20:13 : Lev 18:22
(4). Although the Talmud, the secret loopholes to the Mosaic law for the elders, the Pharisees, allows homosexuality if it is done while studying the Talmud! There are also loopholes for pederasty, which might explain why NAMbLA is such a sacred cow of judaism. See: http://www.rense.com/general73/judm.htm and http://come-and-hear.com/editor/america_6.html
(5). See this article for an excellent discussion of the teachings against homosexuality in the New Testament and an outstanding expose of a homosexual "scholar" of the Bible, Boswell: http://www.mindspring.com/~scarlson/greek/boswell.html
(6). I believe this is the passage where the “suggestion” Obama refers to is given:
Deuteronomy 13:6-11 (New International Version)
6 If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, "Let us go and worship other gods" (gods that neither you nor your fathers have known, 7 gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other), 8 do not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity. Do not spare him or shield him. 9 You must certainly put him to death. Your hand must be the first in putting him to death, and then the hands of all the people. 10 Stone him to death, because he tried to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 11 Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and no one among you will do such an evil thing again.
(7). The Sermon on the Mount is recorded in Matthew 5-7 and Luke 6:20-49.
In the Gospel of Matthew, the first sermon of Jesus is the Sermon on the Mount.
The Sermon on the Mount begins with the Beatitudes. It also contains the Lord's Prayer; the Golden Rule (“Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them”); the commandments to turn the other cheek, go the extra mile, and cast not pearls before swine; the image of false prophets as wolves in sheep's clothing; and many other well-known teachings, including: “Ye are the salt of the Earth,” “ Love your enemies,” “Consider the lilies of the field,” “Judge not, that ye be not judged,” “ Ask, and it shall be given you,” and “ By their fruits ye shall know them.”
Matthew 5-7 (New International Version)
Matthew 5
The Beatitudes
1Now when he saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him, 2and he began to teach them saying:
3"Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
5Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit the earth.
6Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.
7Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.
8Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God.
9Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called sons of God.
10Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11"Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. 12Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Salt and Light
13"You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.
14"You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. 15Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
The Fulfillment of the Law
17"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. 19Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.
Murder
21"You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, 'Do not murder,[a] and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.' 22But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother[b]will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, 'Raca,[c]' is answerable to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says, 'You fool!' will be in danger of the fire of hell.
23"Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift.
25"Settle matters quickly with your adversary who is taking you to court. Do it while you are still with him on the way, or he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison. 26I tell you the truth, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.[d]
Adultery
27"You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery.'[e] 28But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. 30And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.
Divorce
31"It has been said, 'Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.'[f] 32But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.
Oaths
33"Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, 'Do not break your oath, but keep the oaths you have made to the Lord.' 34But I tell you, Do not swear at all: either by heaven, for it is God's throne; 35or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King. 36And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black. 37Simply let your 'Yes' be 'Yes,' and your 'No,' 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.
An Eye for an Eye
38"You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.'[g] 39But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. 40And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. 41If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. 42Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
Love for Enemies
43"You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor[h] and hate your enemy.' 44But I tell you: Love your enemies[i] and pray for those who persecute you, 45that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? 47And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? 48Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Matthew 6
Giving to the Needy
1"Be careful not to do your 'acts of righteousness' before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
2"So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. 3But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
Prayer
5"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrite
The jews wrote the Old Testament for one reason: God had destroyed sodom and gomorrah, and the jews wanted to make a "loophole" for sodomy (1), so that they could continue to do sodomy. The jew tactic was to bury and confuse the prohibition on sodomy with a large number of other regulations, many of which were jibberish and nonsense (2). Here is the passage from Obama’s “Call to Renewal Keynote Address” (3) that was in the video:
“And even if we did have only Christians in our midst, if we expelled every non-Christian from the United States of America, whose Christianity would we teach in the schools? Would we go with James Dobson's, or Al Sharpton's? Which passages of Scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is ok and that eating shellfish is abomination? How about Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith? Or should we just stick to the Sermon on the Mount - a passage that is so radical that it's doubtful that our own Defense Department would survive its application? So before we get carried away, let's read our bibles. Folks haven't been reading their bibles.”
Leviticus is trouble for sodomites, because in no uncertain terms it, the very law of the Old Testament, clearly prohibits sodomy (4), and with the penalty of death (5). So, what does Obama do? Same as the jews did with Leviticus and the rest of the Old Testament: They added other laws, and many of them, to confuse and obfuscate that it was just the doing of sodomy that got the jews cursed. Obama mentions two from Leviticus that are absurd: The allowing of slavery and the rule that eating shellfish is abomination. Obama then cites another absurd consideration from Deuteronomy (6), "which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith".
Then Obama follows up the slick but very shortened use of this long ago exposed approach with a drunken haymaker, an attack on the Sermon on the Mount! (7). The Sermon on the Mount is perhaps the most important of the teachings of Jesus Christ about the new age and the eschatological Kingdom He has come to proclaim. It is like a mini catechism and summary of Christian beliefs and principles. To assail this cornerstone of Western and World civilization after a very lame attempt to confuse the Old and New Testaments as "the Bible" is very strange indeed, especially because in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus Christ tells his followers to be even more generous than the Mosaic law requires: “Be ye perfect,” he says, “even as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect”.
Is the Sermon on the Mount, as Obama states, “a passage that is so radical that it's doubtful that our own Defense Department would survive its application”? Certainly Obama knows the things that I am stating in this essay, although Obama and h/is cronies would not have thought it possible just a little over two years ago, that We The People of The United States of America and The World would have the ability to educate ourselves and each other about the conspiracy of judaism against We The People. Yet even then Obama, or at the very least the jewish speechwriters, were particularly concerned about American military might; and especially the possibility that such awesome power might soon be in the hands of We The People of the United States of America and in the defense of liberty for all Humanity (8).
Notes:
(1). Hence the ludicrous account in Genesis 18: 16-33, no doubt written by the Pharisees, where Abraham haggles not so much for the saving of sodom and gomorrah as for the secure future of jewish diasporic sodomy worldwide:
Genesis 18:16-33 (New International Version)
Abraham Pleads for Sodom
16 When the men got up to leave, they looked down toward Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them on their way. 17 Then the LORD said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do? 18 Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him. 19 For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, so that the LORD will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him."
20 Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous 21 that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."
22 The men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD. [a] 23 Then Abraham approached him and said: "Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked? 24 What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare [b] the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it? 25 Far be it from you to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge [c] of all the earth do right?"
26 The LORD said, "If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake."
27 Then Abraham spoke up again: "Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes, 28 what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city because of five people?"
"If I find forty-five there," he said, "I will not destroy it."
29 Once again he spoke to him, "What if only forty are found there?"
He said, "For the sake of forty, I will not do it."
30 Then he said, "May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak. What if only thirty can be found there?"
He answered, "I will not do it if I find thirty there."
31 Abraham said, "Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty can be found there?"
He said, "For the sake of twenty, I will not destroy it."
32 Then he said, "May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?"
He answered, "For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it."
33 When the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, he left, and Abraham returned home.
Footnotes:
a. Genesis 18:22 Masoretic Text; an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition but the LORD remained standing before Abraham
b. Genesis 18:24 Or forgive ; also in verse 26
c. Genesis 18:25 Or Ruler
(2). Other instances when jews have used this tactic include the 888-page Warren Commission Report Report, to which the Commission published 26 volumes of supporting documents, including the testimony or depositions of 552 witnesses and more than 3,100 exhibits. Don’t find that strange? Among the 3,100 exhibits were a study of Ruby’s mother’s dentures and Oswald’s pubic hairs.
Obama’s disregard for “folks” sounds very similar to the contempt for the American People that Allen Dulles, a Warren Commission member, had:
"But nobody reads. Don't believe people read in this country. There will be a few professors that will read the record...The public will read very little."
(September 6, 1964, Warren Commission internal memo)
The fact is that whether or not People know of the jibberish minutia of Mosaic and Talmudic law, they know that sodomy is wrong. There is a huge difference between a ban on eating shellfish – no doubt made because many had gotten sick from eating shellfish because of the lack of refrigeration – and the ban on sodomy. Sodomy violates the sacred sexual essence with which God created Human Beings. Humans Beings have an intuitive knowledge of this from their Nature, and are not going to be talked out of it by anyone, no matter how slick or seemingly distinguished they sound or act.
(3). Here is the entire address:
Call to Renewal Keynote Address
June 28, 2006
Washington, DC
Good morning. I appreciate the opportunity to speak here at the Call to Renewal's Building a Covenant for a New America conference. I've had the opportunity to take a look at your Covenant for a New America. It is filled with outstanding policies and prescriptions for much of what ails this country. So I'd like to congratulate you all on the thoughtful presentations you've given so far about poverty and justice in America, and for putting fire under the feet of the political leadership here in Washington.
But today I'd like to talk about the connection between religion and politics and perhaps offer some thoughts about how we can sort through some of the often bitter arguments that we've been seeing over the last several years.
I do so because, as you all know, we can affirm the importance of poverty in the Bible; and we can raise up and pass out this Covenant for a New America. We can talk to the press, and we can discuss the religious call to address poverty and environmental stewardship all we want, but it won't have an impact unless we tackle head-on the mutual suspicion that sometimes exists between religious America and secular America.
I want to give you an example that I think illustrates this fact. As some of you know, during the 2004 U.S. Senate General Election I ran against a gentleman named Alan Keyes. Mr. Keyes is well-versed in the Jerry Falwell-Pat Robertson style of rhetoric that often labels progressives as both immoral and godless.
Indeed, Mr. Keyes announced towards the end of the campaign that, "Jesus Christ would not vote for Barack Obama. Christ would not vote for Barack Obama because Barack Obama has behaved in a way that it is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved."
Jesus Christ would not vote for Barack Obama.
Now, I was urged by some of my liberal supporters not to take this statement seriously, to essentially ignore it. To them, Mr. Keyes was an extremist, and his arguments not worth entertaining. And since at the time, I was up 40 points in the polls, it probably wasn't a bad piece of strategic advice.
But what they didn't understand, however, was that I had to take Mr. Keyes seriously, for he claimed to speak for my religion, and my God. He claimed knowledge of certain truths.
Mr. Obama says he's a Christian, he was saying, and yet he supports a lifestyle that the Bible calls an abomination.
Mr. Obama says he's a Christian, but supports the destruction of innocent and sacred life.
And so what would my supporters have me say? How should I respond? Should I say that a literalist reading of the Bible was folly? Should I say that Mr. Keyes, who is a Roman Catholic, should ignore the teachings of the Pope?
Unwilling to go there, I answered with what has come to be the typically liberal response in such debates - namely, I said that we live in a pluralistic society, that I can't impose my own religious views on another, that I was running to be the U.S. Senator of Illinois and not the Minister of Illinois.
But Mr. Keyes's implicit accusation that I was not a true Christian nagged at me, and I was also aware that my answer did not adequately address the role my faith has in guiding my own values and my own beliefs.
Now, my dilemma was by no means unique. In a way, it reflected the broader debate we've been having in this country for the last thirty years over the role of religion in politics.
(4). Leviticus 20:13 (New American Standard Bible)
13'(A)If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them.
Cross references:
Leviticus 20:13 : Lev 18:22
(4). Although the Talmud, the secret loopholes to the Mosaic law for the elders, the Pharisees, allows homosexuality if it is done while studying the Talmud! There are also loopholes for pederasty, which might explain why NAMbLA is such a sacred cow of judaism. See: http://www.rense.com/general73/judm.htm and http://come-and-hear.com/editor/america_6.html
(5). See this article for an excellent discussion of the teachings against homosexuality in the New Testament and an outstanding expose of a homosexual "scholar" of the Bible, Boswell: http://www.mindspring.com/~scarlson/greek/boswell.html
(6). I believe this is the passage where the “suggestion” Obama refers to is given:
Deuteronomy 13:6-11 (New International Version)
6 If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, "Let us go and worship other gods" (gods that neither you nor your fathers have known, 7 gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other), 8 do not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity. Do not spare him or shield him. 9 You must certainly put him to death. Your hand must be the first in putting him to death, and then the hands of all the people. 10 Stone him to death, because he tried to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 11 Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and no one among you will do such an evil thing again.
(7). The Sermon on the Mount is recorded in Matthew 5-7 and Luke 6:20-49.
In the Gospel of Matthew, the first sermon of Jesus is the Sermon on the Mount.
The Sermon on the Mount begins with the Beatitudes. It also contains the Lord's Prayer; the Golden Rule (“Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them”); the commandments to turn the other cheek, go the extra mile, and cast not pearls before swine; the image of false prophets as wolves in sheep's clothing; and many other well-known teachings, including: “Ye are the salt of the Earth,” “ Love your enemies,” “Consider the lilies of the field,” “Judge not, that ye be not judged,” “ Ask, and it shall be given you,” and “ By their fruits ye shall know them.”
Matthew 5-7 (New International Version)
Matthew 5
The Beatitudes
1Now when he saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him, 2and he began to teach them saying:
3"Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
5Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit the earth.
6Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.
7Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.
8Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God.
9Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called sons of God.
10Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11"Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. 12Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Salt and Light
13"You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.
14"You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. 15Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
The Fulfillment of the Law
17"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. 19Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.
Murder
21"You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, 'Do not murder,[a] and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.' 22But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother[b]will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, 'Raca,[c]' is answerable to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says, 'You fool!' will be in danger of the fire of hell.
23"Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift.
25"Settle matters quickly with your adversary who is taking you to court. Do it while you are still with him on the way, or he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison. 26I tell you the truth, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.[d]
Adultery
27"You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery.'[e] 28But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. 30And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.
Divorce
31"It has been said, 'Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.'[f] 32But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.
Oaths
33"Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, 'Do not break your oath, but keep the oaths you have made to the Lord.' 34But I tell you, Do not swear at all: either by heaven, for it is God's throne; 35or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King. 36And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black. 37Simply let your 'Yes' be 'Yes,' and your 'No,' 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.
An Eye for an Eye
38"You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.'[g] 39But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. 40And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. 41If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. 42Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
Love for Enemies
43"You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor[h] and hate your enemy.' 44But I tell you: Love your enemies[i] and pray for those who persecute you, 45that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? 47And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? 48Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Matthew 6
Giving to the Needy
1"Be careful not to do your 'acts of righteousness' before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
2"So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. 3But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
Prayer
5"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrite