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Date: May 24, 2007 3:36:47 PM PDT
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Subject: Kill for Jesus, Rape for the USA
Diary of a Christian Terrorist
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/52317/#more
Visitors to Mark David Uhl's Myspace page will quickly learn that
Uhl is a student at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University, that he is
a devoted Christian, that his name means "Mighty Warrior" -- and
that he likes Will Smith's saccharine tear-up-the-club track,
"Switch." Uhl reveals his career ambitions on his page as well: "I
will join the Army as an officer after college." Already, Uhl was
preparing in Liberty's ROTC program.
Uhl waited until he was offline, however, to reveal his plot to
kill the family of itinerant Calvinist provocateur Fred Phelps
(famous for their "Fag Troops" rallies outside soldiers' funerals).
The Phelpses planned to protest Falwell's funeral, a bizarre stunt
designed to highlight Falwell's somehow insufficiently draconian
attitude towards homosexuals. Uhl made several bombs and allegedly
told a family member he planned to use them to attack the Phelps
family.
He was arrested soon after and charged with manufacturing
explosives. On the surface, Uhl appears to be the latest version of
Virginia Tech rampage killer (and "Richard McBeef" author) Cho
Seung-Hui. Indeed, both Uhl and Cho were alienated young men who
conceived or carried out campaigns of mass murder on college campuses.
But there is a crucial difference between Uhl and Cho: while Cho's
motives remain a source of intense debate, Uhl was an a devout
evangelical Christian who advocated religious violence in the name
of American nationalism. Uhl's blog, featured on his Myspace page,
offers a window into the political underpinnings of his bomb plot.
In one post, Uhl implores Christians to die on the battlefield for
"Uncle Sam." He justifies his call to arms by quoting several
Biblical passages and reminding his readers that the "gift of God"
is eternal life.
"Christians, we have been given life after death and we should help
others receive it and not sit here in our big buildings and sing to
ourselves so we can go home and feel good about ourselves," Uhl
writes. "Christians, fear of death, fear of death. The fear of
death shows you don't believe."
Uhl concludes, "God needs soldiers to fight so his children may
live free. Are you afraid??? I'm not. SEND ME!!! "
Uhl's imploration sounds eerily like the battle-cries of another,
more notorious religious radical: Osama bin-Laden. Consider what
bin-Laden < http://www.usvetdsp.com/osam_qts.htm> told the
Independent in 1993. "`I was never afraid of death... As Muslims,
we believe that when we die, we go to heaven. Before a battle, God
sends us... tranquility."
Christian right leaders from the late Falwell to James Dobson have
turned Muslim-bashing into a cottage industry, using the words of
bin-Laden and his acolytes to allege that Islam is an inherently
violent religion that "breeds" terrorism. After meeting with
President George W. Bush two weeks ago about Iran and Iraq, Dobson
conducted a hysterical five-part broadcast hyping the threat of
radical Islam. (CD's of those broadcasts will soon be available on
Focus on the Family's website, with all proceeds going to support
Dobson's kulturkampf -- and his paycheck).
The response of Dobson and his allies to Uhl's arrest will reflect
more on themselves than on any impressionable 19-year-old college
student. The Christian right has warped religious doctrine to
advance a Utopian political worldview that promises to purify the
land of liberal decadence. Through one of its flagship
universities, the Christian right produced a terrorist. Their
hysterical warnings of the threat of radical Islam sound
increasingly like projections.
But then again, maybe it's all Will Smith's fault.
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A recent study by the Department of Justice found that
military veterans are three times more likely to be incarcerated
for sexual assault than non-veterans.
When asked about the finding, Margaret E. Noonan, one of the
authors of the study, told the Associated Press, "We couldn't come
to any conclusion WHY."
Veterans less likely to end up in prison, but those who do are more
likely to be sex offenders
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/05/veterans_less_l.html
The Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics has released
a new report on military veterans in the nation's prison system.
The data show that 29% of active-duty prisoners were being held in
military prisons on rape or sexual assault charges.
Even more interesting was the finding that veterans were less
likely to be imprisoned than non-veterans, but those who did end up
in the correctional system were far more likely to be serving
sentences for rape or other sexual assaults. While 9% of non-
veteran inmates were serving sentences for rape or sexual assault
in 2004, nearly a quarter of the veterans in prison were there
because of sex-related convictions.
"We couldn't come to any definite conclusion as to why," Margaret
Noonan, one of the study's authors, tells the Associated Press.
"I don't want people to come away from this thinking veterans are
crazed sex offenders," she adds. "I want them to understand that
veterans are less likely to be in prison in the first place."
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