He Crossed The Deadline

It's a Blue Oyster Cult song. It's also a concept. In certain prisoner of war camps they have what are known as dead lines. You cross that line trying to run away and you're dead. Sometimes this happens in reverse. That guy on Sixty Minutes last night crossed that etherial "dead line" into North Korea and he soon found out he'd made a horrible mistake. He found out he might as well be dead. His life as he used to know it ceased to exist. There are points of no return in the Bible. Some people say that Jehovah is an angry god. Some say that he is a merciful god. He usual gives you ample rope so that if you're a sinner you can hang yourself. Samson is a key case that comes to mind. The Lord gave him all sorts of latitude in his conduct. You or I could pray to have as much latitude. But there was a point and Samson pretty much knew where it was, that he knew he dare not cross and if he did it would be curtains. The hair bit was going too far. One should always watch what secrets they reveal to foreigners. In response many Christians today play the micro game saying any perceptable shortfalling, no matter how slight, might as well be a mortal sin. What they do is major on the minors and minor on the majors, or as Jesus would put it, they strain out gnats and swallow cammels.

Let's talk about political figures who have gone beyond the pale. People say that Ronald Reagan was a great President. I just don't see it. Other than some unprecidented union busting activity with the air traffic controlers his first year in office, he really didn't give the Republicans much to crow about. Under his watch in 1983 265 Marines in Lebanon or something were killed in a truck bomb attack. Reagan's response to that was to withdraw all trops from the middle east. It would seem Reagan was continuing the same cowering tradition begun under Ford and Carter. Then he makes an alliance with one of the most dangerous men in the Middle East, Saddam Hussein. People talk about how Hussein gassed people in Iran during the Iran Iraq war but it was actually US intelligence that Hussein was relying on in order to hunt down those troops and gas them. Then of course there was Iran - Contra. After saying we're for Iraq we turn around and sell missiles to their (and our?) enemy Iran and use the money to fund the contras, whose activity in Nicaragua was banned by congress. I can't think of an incident with graver fundamental constitutional questions than this. But the worst part of this is the way Reagan "friends on the right" reacted. Rather than see Oliver North as a scoundral who betrayed his President, per change Reagan was "out of the loop" they make Oliver North a hero when he says Ronald Reagan told him to do everything he did. I've never been able to follow that. If I were Patty David I wouldn't forgove my father if all the stuff about her parents in her book is really true. In my oppinion Reagan was passing into "The Dead Zone" as early as his second term in office becomming "disengaged" and there are ample evidences of where Nancy Reagan just "took over" using astrology. In my oppinion Ronald Reagan crossed The Dead Line. I think he squandered any oppertunity in my mind to have credibility.

We then have George H W Bush. One fact came to light today I didn't know. I knew that when we invaded Iraq in Gulf War I in 1991 that George Bush Sr. encouraged the Iraqi people, both the Kurds, and the Shiites to rebel and overthrow Saddam. They took him up on his offer. Many people including me were puzzle at news occurring so fast it made our heads spin, that we're on the march one minute and the next -preserving Saddam Hussein's pride the next. We then as much as said he could keep his hilocopters and his bombers to bomb his own people with after we were gone. We didn't waste time pulling out in those days. But what I didn't know till today is that we were in fact still there and watching Saddam bomb the Kurds and Shiites, with orders not to intervene. Officers spoke of that helpless feeling. I guess God must feel impotent a lot of the time knowing Satan has been alloted vast areas of power where it's against the rules of engagement to touch him. If we had done the job in 1991 right we never would have had to go there in 2003 and this President could worry about entirely different things.

Ron Hubbard has spoken of degrees of psychic health and I think way down on the roster are things like psychic Suicide and psychic death. In late 1969 I was on a downhill slide. As you know I had been assigned group therapy in Santa Ana, run by Al Kaders and Judy Valasquez, by Vocational Re Hab. That was their "job plan" for me. I underwent a lot of culture shock and listing to the board and care people talk it was like something out of "The Strawberry Revival" by Chich and Chong. I went away thanking God I had a house to live in. If they offered you a job you had never considered doing before and you hesitated- they would hold it against you. Soon all they would do is mention a job and before I could speak a corus of people would chine in "Oh you know he isn't going to take the job". I wrote my parents a letter the turn of the decade from 1969 to 1970 with the line in it "as for the future, it looks gosh awful". That was kind of a hillbilly choice of words but it expressed my sentament about the future. I had been doing these "Suicide" cartoons in the latter part of 1969. D day was November 26th. 1969 according to these cartoons. I dropped out of college sometime this semester and delayed telling the family. After they knew I continued to lie about being in college to group into the next semester when I finally came clean in late February. In my baby book by far the most recent "document" in there was dated late 1969 the content I won't reveal to this Blog croud but let's just say I cosider it the ultimate act of betrayal. I found out in early March- - it was on a Saturday night and we were headed out to a movie - - "Number One" and "Collisus" I believe, my Mom let it slip that Voc Re Hab had closed me out. I was stunned. What I learned soon after in group was that Stanley E Abott, whom I had seen as part of a Voc Re Hab "diagnostic" in March of 1969, had declared me Scitzophrenic. Once again I felt a sense of betrayal. I was thinking "The addage is true; the quiet ones are always the worst". On Friday March 13th. I got my draft notice. I believe it was exactly a month after Febuary 13th. when I learned I had lost my student deferment. I hoped, and recorded on tape in early April my hope that I could talk to the Army psychiatrists and prove to them that I was sane. Of course it didn't go down like that. They just had their questions of a routine nature they asked and that was that. On Monday April 27th. I had a lot of things I wanted to talk over at group therapy. As it turned out they didn't meet that day. I wasn't very happy about that.

Death comes to a physical body when it is no longer capable of sustaining life. I guess it's true that Spiritual death comes when the spiritual link to God is broken. Insanity comes when the mind is unable to keep the personality together. As I have been saying a lot lately I think the Body of Christ known as the Christian Church will cease to exist in a few decades. Perhaps as little as fifty years. Nobody who has looked to the future sees Christianity in it. I think this has to be more than just coincidence. Personally I think the two party system has got to crack sometime. It's become a religion in this country. People are talking about who is going to inheret the Bush mantle among the republicans. Their two leading candidates don't look promising. One if an ex mavorick progressive who has as of late sold out to the conservatives and done some royal ass kissing. The other bullwark of the right is a three times divorced pro abortionist and pro gay rights ex mayor of New York who had his few moments of fame in his last weeks in office during the 9 - 11 crisis. How long can the right continue to milk 9 - 11? I look at the republicans and I don't see anything holding them together except perhaps hatred of liberals. I personally think we need more morality and statistics indicate in some ways the Youth is becomming more moral than they were thirty years ago. But people talk about the Two Party System in America as though it's some religion! In this internet age I don't see how certain institutions like churches and Bible teachers can stand up under the scruteny. People seem to be talking more than ever to each other but they aren't getting any smarter. I think that soon gay marriages will be the norm. Once one party cracks "the gay barrier" the whole thing will come crashing down. Once gayness becomes generally accepted I don't think the church has a chance because hetrosexuals are going to look at gays and say "You're going to criticize MY conduct when THEY exist?" Once you cross the dead line you become an exile from life, an exile from God, Country, and eventually an exile from Reality.