MAKE IT GO AWAY, MOMMY!
March 13, 2007
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In the television and movie era of horror pictures, some small children cannot stand to watch the monster get its victims.
Consequently, they cover their eyes during those scenes, and some very young ones even say “Make it go away, Mommy.” This action of our youth is occasionally carried into our adult reaction of not wanting to view the reality of an unpleasant future scene of horror.
I h ave lived
a rich life, being blessed by God like a stick floating down a stream protected by angels from many dangers.
I have no complaints!
God gave me a fantastic wife, seven wonderful children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren – So it is easy for me to understand why those less than sixty years in age are very hopeful they can live to be eighty, and then it will be alright for this Age of the Gentiles to end with a great war in the Middle East. I am ashamed to confess that was my desire at the time
I entered the Seminary. I changed my mind during the thirty-three years I have been pastor of Dardanelle MBC. And, since the late seventies, I have been driven by a burning desire to tell as many as will listen, that it is very unlikely those now in their fifties will be able to reach my current age before the war begins.
To most of the American public, the following excerpt from the recent Newt Gingrich speech in New Hampshire will be accosted as a political action, which is designed to create a non–existent monster. But there is a very real Islamic caliphate monster rising across the Middle East.
THE CHILLING WORDS OF NEWT GINGRICH
Gingrich Speech in New Hampshire. Apparently it is causing a firestorm.
NEWT GINGRICH: The third thing I want to talk about very briefly is the genuine danger of terrorism, in particular terrorists using weapons of mass destruction and weapons of mass murder, nuclear and biological weapons. And I want to suggest to you that right now we should be impaneling people to look seriously at a level of supervision that we would never dream of if it weren’t for the scale of threat.
Let me give you two examples. When the British this summer arrested people who were planning to blow up ten airliners in one day, they arrested a couple who were going to use their six month old baby in order to hide the bomb as baby milk.
Now, if I come to you tonight and say that there are people on the planet who hate you, and they are 15-25 year old males who are willing to die as long as they get to kill you, I’ve simply described the warrior culture which has been true historically for 6 or 7 thousand years.
But, if I come to you and say that there is a couple that hates you so much that they will kill their six month old baby in order to kill you,
I am describing a level of ferocity, and a level of savagery beyond anything we have tried to deal with.
And, what is truly frightening about the British experience is they are arresting British citizens, born in Britain, speaking English, who went to British schools, live in British housing, and have good jobs.
This is a serious long term war, and it will inevitably lead us to want to know what is said in every suspect place in the country, that will lead us to learn how to close down every website that is dangerous, and it will lead us to a very severe approach to people who advocate the killing of Americans and advocate the use of nuclear or biological weapons.
And, my prediction to you is that either before we lose a city, or if we are truly stupid, after we lose a city, we will adopt rules of engagement that use every technology we can find to break up their capacity to use the Internet, to break up their capacity to use free speech, and to go after people who want to kill us to stop them from recruiting people before they get to reach out and convince young people to destroy their lives while destroying us.
This is a serious problem th
at will lead to a serious debate about the first amendment, but I think that the national security threat of losing an American city to a nuclear weapon, or losing several million Americans to a biological attack is so real that we need to proactively, now, develop the appropriate rules of engagement.
And, I further think that we should propose a Geneva convention for fighting terrorism which makes very clear that those who would fight outside the rules of law, those who would use weapons of mass destruction, and those who would target civilians are in fact subject to a totally different set of rules that allow us to protect civilization by defeating barbarism before it gains so much strength that it is truly horrendous.
This is a sober topic, but I think it is a topic we need a national dialogue about, and we need to get ahead of the curve rather than wait until actually we literary lose a city which could literally happen within the next decade if we are unfortunate.
This is a very sober description of the Isl
amic terrorist threat we are faced with We are NOW at war with a culture that wants, not to take over our land, but to KILL us.
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