This shit is scary! Far more than any terrorist!

Occaisionally, Montana hard right Republican politician Jerry O'Neill pops his head out of the toilet he lives in to demand something quaint-- like getting paid in gold and silver for his services or having state legislatures elect senators again, rather than ordinary Americans. 

O'Neill lives in the tiny hamlet of Columbia Falls (which has under 1000 families, 96.27% of whom are white; there are a few Native Americans and even a Black person too) and people there must like him. They keep voting for him. That might change now that he's introduced a bill in the state legislature that slips corporal punishment back into the judicial system, long a goal of the crackpots in the  "Christian Reconstructionist" cult.

Max Blumenthal covers that crew of dangerous right-wing sociopaths in his book, Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party, starting with the man pulling the strings for these nut fuckers, R.J. Rushdoony. His whole shtick was about religionists taking over the government and reconstructing it along Biblical lines. 

According to Frederick Clarkson, a pioneering researcher of the Christian right, “Reconstructionism seeks to replace democracy with a theocratic elite that would govern by imposing their interpretation of ‘Biblical Law.’ Reconstructionism would eliminate not only democracy but many of its manifestations, such as labor unions, civil rights laws, and public schools. When would be generally relegated to hearth and home. Insufficiently Christian men would be denied citizenship, perhaps executed."

Calling for the literal application of all 613 laws described in the Book of Leviticus, Rushdoony paid special attention to punishments. Instead of serving prison sentences, criminals would be sentenced to indentured servitude, whipped, sold into slavery, or executed. "God's government prevails," Rushdoony wrote, "and His alternatives are clear-cut: either men and nations obey His laws, or God invokes the death penalty upon them." Those eligible on Rushdoony's long list for execution included disobedient children, unchaste women, apostates, blasphemers, practitioners of witchcraft, astrologers, adulterers, and, of course, anyone who engaged in "sodomy or homosexuality."

I guess nobody told Rushdoony about the difference between Levi Preist Caste Jews, and Christians.

Burning at the stake, death by "the sword," and hanging were some of Rushdoony's preferred modes of execution. However, his son-in-law Gary North, a self-styled Reconstructionist economist (who eventually fell out with his father-in-law) and former advisor to libertarian Republican representative Ron Paul of Texas (an outspoken admirer of the John Birch Society), advocated stoning evildoers to death. Rocks, North argued, are free and plentiful, making them ideal tools for the financially savvy executioner.

This is the same insanity that drives Islamic lunatics to blow themselves up for God... There is no difference between these asshats and the Taliban, they want the same thing, the murder of anyone that does not believe as they do, the subjugation of women, the elimination of individuality, art, freedom and joy.....

And these dangerous fucktards seem to have more political clout than reasonable people, who elect morons and regressive misogynists to office.

STOP IT!

Bill Moyers interviewed Rushloony, he espouse his 1st century mentality, devoid of  two thousand years of human endeavor, progress, learning, science and culture.
http://youtu.be/paL2s4HJScg


I weep for the willful ignorance needed to believe this insanity!