Agitprop: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Propaganda

Too Much Crazy For One Day

Everyone's favorite rapture-ready eliminationist Randall Terry is back!

Can you imagine somebody saying, 'Let's have one of the leaders of Germany come in -- we don't really like what he did with that Jewish thing, but they build great roads, and they gave people hope, and they helped rebuild the economy.' It's crazy.

The specter of President Obama speaking at a Catholic university was enough to summon Randall out from his cave and back into the public eye to compare Obama to Adolf Hitler. 

Terry - a veteran holy warrior - was arrested earlier this month for trespassing on the Notre Dame campus. That didn't stop him from returning to the campus yesterday to protest President Obama's commencement address:

Our mission is to so tar President Obama with the blood of the innocent that he can never escape his role in the history of the killing of the innocents...we want people to think Barack Obama equals dead babies so that in 2012 he cannot seduce Catholics and moderates who supported him in the last election.

I first took notice of Terry when he was leading the "pro-life" protests outside Terri Schiavo's hospital in early 2005. Recall the mood back then. President Bush had just been coronated for a second term, the "values voters" that supposedly won him re-election were flexing their political capital and a brain-dead woman on a feeding tube was the national emergency.

Terry chose to motivate his loving flock with words of hatred and anger:

I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good . . . Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a biblical duty, we are called by God to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism. Our goal must be simple. We must have a Christian nation built on God's law, on the ten Commandments. No apologies.

After his Christo-Fascist Revolution, Grand Inquisitor Randall Terry will organize the Christian re-education camps and revolutionary justice tribunals. Here's what he thinks of medical doctors who perform abortions:

When I, or people like me, are running the country, you'd better flee, because we will find you, we will try you, and we'll execute you. I mean every word of it. I will make it part of my mission to see to it that they are tried and executed . . . There is going to be war, [and Christians may be called to] take up the sword to overthrow the tyrannical regime that oppresses them.

Ok, you've probably read enough crazy quotes from Christian holy warriors in the previous post so I won't subject you to anymore. 

Just a thought...every time the abortion issue rears its head, men seem to form the loudest, most virulent anti-choice voices. It wouldn't have anything to do with men wanting to control women's bodies through fear, oppression and legislation now would it? Would it?

Um, yeah. Duh.

Onward Christian Soldiers!

By now you've probably seen Donald Rumsfeld's top secret motivational Power Point presentations on how to wage Christian Jihad in Iraq.

None of this should shock you, since we've known about the intersections between evangelical Christianity and the U.S. military in the Bush administration's War on Terror for several years now. Plus, this is no surprise, because Christianity has been providing ideological cover to U.S. imperial machinations since manifest destiny. What is news is our old pal Rummy's role in organizing this ideological passion play from the top. 

Remember Lt. General William Boykin and his Power Point presentations? As Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, he toured the nation's churches in full uniform providing updates on our war against Islam:

I knew that my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol . . . Our spiritual enemy . . . will only be defeated if we come against them in the name of Jesus.

Rummy and Boykin must have shared slides.

According to Boykin, you can blame God for selecting George W. Bush in 2000.

Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him . . . I tell you this morning that he’s in the White House because God put him there.

Another holy warrior, Lt Col. Gareth Brandl, rallied his troops before entering Fallujah in November 2004 saying:

The enemy has got a face, he's called Satan. He lives in Fallujah and we're going to destroy him!

Well then, I guess Satan has been dead for almost five years. I don't think anything survived the siege of Fallujah.

In 2003, Rumsfeld said he could not control rogue generals from making these sorts of comments because we are a "free people" who are allowed to say what we want. Wait - I thought freedom of speech didn't exist in the military. You only say what the chain of command wants you to say. Whatever.

Well, now we know that Rumseld not only gave the green light to the Christo-Fascist takeover of the Department of Defense, but also participated in the ideological justifications of the war.

I find it a little odd that a publication like GQ is presenting this re-examination of Rummy as opposed to a Sulzberger operated joint. On the GQ main page just below this story you'll find a link to video of a bikini-clad Megan Fox sucking on ice cubes. You won't get that at the New York Times!

Perhaps this is the future of investigative journalism marketing.

Lure readers in with sex, then tell them who and how fucked up their overlords are. It worked for Matt Taibbi's great article The Big Takeover, which was featured in Rolling Stone issue 1075 - the one with the gossip girls sharing a dripping ice cream cone on the cover.

As newspapers continue to fail, one can only hope to see investigate journalism fill the pages of Maxim and Complex. I'd love to read an article about the latest clusterfuck in Afghanistan sandwiched between an Adriana Lima photo shoot.