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Reflections On Technology - By Michael Schaffner

One of the great benefits of the Civil War Sesquicentennial was some of the people I met.  One of them was Michael Schaffner whom I met at the penultimate event the sesquicentennial of the grand review in Harrisburg PA in November 2015.  I asked for Michael's input on the recent troubles of CCH which went down for a couple of days due to a ransomware attack effectively paralyzing a multitude of tax practices.  I mainly asked him because of his interest in military affairs.  The tech-induced tax work stop image made me think of the relatively recent move by the Navy to reinstitute training in celestial navigation.  Although Michael never served in the Navy, he has reasons to know a good bit about it as you can learn in his novel War Boys, which I reviewed on another site.  

His thoughts were a bit too extensive for my Forbes piece so I am reproducing them in full here. - PJR

For what I'm doing now I'm a great fan of new technology but also very much indebted to older forms.  For example, I love the ability to go to the Archives, photograph regimental books with a smart phone, and getting a high enough resolution picture to bring home, put on a big screen (after sticking the thumb drive I downloaded the pics on into a laptop), and then transcribe the original handwriting onto my notebook.  At that point, however, the most useful skill I have is the ability to decipher sketchy cursive based on having learned it from nuns nearly 60 years ago and first performing this particular task as a clerk-typist 20 years later.

Going back to the older forms of office technology now would pretty much shut down any workplace, yet it was very helpful to know as the newer developed.  Writing short notes on memo pads taught brevity and clarity.  Needing to use a typist for formal interoffice communications taught another kind of economy.  Having to track transactions in a manual log or keep accounts on paper spreadsheets taught basic systems analysis and design.  I noticed later in my career that once office automation went beyond major mainframe applications (like personnel and payroll records) and encroached on the day to day work of an office (like updating the status of a budget or personnel request) a certain alienation occurred -- if something wasn't in "the system" then it couldn't be very important or anything anyone could be responsible for.

In that light, sorry to hear about all the accounting firms, but maybe they can take a hint from the Navy.  Learning the more primitive technology not only gives you a backup and makes you more appreciative of the modern approach, but it provides a deeper understanding of how things work and why.  Input screens are equivalent to paper forms.  Excel is equivalent to graph paper and a calculator.  The nature of the work -- the essential requirements of the job of an accountant or any other administrative employee -- is more a constant than we realize, and it helps to know how those before us got it done.

In my penultimate job, in a budget office, the mad genius who set up our detailed system for tracking line items down to the sub-object classification code and project or contract had started 30 years earlier as a GS-3 Payroll Clerk -- a job that probably doesn't really exist anymore except as a complex of algorithms.  For modeling the budgetary impact of workload changes and their reverberations through support offices I created Excel spreadsheets after sketching the relationships on paper and building the formulas from the same kind of simple math I learned playing Avalon Hill board games as a student years earlier.  Both of these efforts would, in other offices, have required contracts costing hundreds of thousands of dollars just to determine feasibility, with a few million more for development and implementation over the succeeding three to five years.  We could do it with equally modern but less cumbersome technology because we'd done similar things long before by hand.

Modern technology is wonderful -- if nothing else it helps office workers get their jobs done in a fraction of the time it used to, leaving more time for other work -- or for gossipy emails, designing glossy adverts for office parties, and downloading porn.  I used it to lift 19th century tactical manuals off Google Books and ransack the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion (on Cornell's "Making of America" site) for original reports on logistics and army administration -- all of which probably made more sense to me for having begun my career in the previous century using systems and techniques that had survived largely unchanged from the one before.

I love technology, old and new.  But it wouldn't hurt those who lean exclusively on the new to learn some of the old, as we are sometimes rudely reminded... 

A Day At Dinosaur Adventure Land

When my son William and I were driving across the country in 2010, our Garmin sent us on a dirt road, where we ended up stranded for a couple of hours.  So there was a bit of concern when the GPS set built into Evie's Subaru sent us down a dirt road.  After a mile or so William joked about hearing a banjo. Nothing like a Deliverance reference to lighten the mood. Finally, we came to a left onto another dirt road - Pearl Lane.

I was a little disturbed to note a bullet-riddled mailbox and similarly perforated stop sign,

William said not to worry about it.  It's an Alabama thing.

When the GPS told us we had arrived at our destination there was nothing, but I had faith and told William to drive on.  Shortly after we were rewarded with a view of the famous gateway to the adventure land.

It was not real clear what we were supposed to do.  William pulled in and I got out of the car and started walking around. A fellow with a beard said hello and directed us to the office where we could check in,

The Long Haired Julie

When we got there Julie was on an extended phone conversation.  Julie is from San Francisco and has been at DAL one year and five months with her husband.  Most people are short, but Julie is a bit shorter than most with long brown hair.  I think I would characterize her as perky.  I make up back stories about people which I consider hypotheses that I then test when  I get the chance.  I never got to test my hypothesis about Julie which is that she was a cheerleader in high school.

While I was standing there a slightly less short (possibly average height) guy with short gray hair was also standing there. He told me that he was a lawyer and that he had been CEO of CSE and that Kent's case was going to be reversed as if I should know what he was talking about. He was waiting to use the phone because his did not have coverage.

 Afterward, I tried to figure out who it was and when I looked at pictures, I thought I  might have met Paul John Hansen.  William confirmed the ID from one of Hansen's mugshots.

I offered to let him use my phone which had two bars, but he declined.  I reflected that that could be viewed as an attempt at intelligence gathering, which it was not at all.  I had decided that I wanted to experience Dinosaur Adventure Land like any other visitor rather than someone connected, however loosely, with what Mary Tocco calls the "obsessed party of internet fanatics dedicated to revealing to the world their perception of Kent  Hovind as a fraud and con-artist".

I know that if nobody else reads this piece some of the obsessed party will and the possible Hansen sighting might be a source of excitement.  For their benefit, I need to make clear my strongest take away from my day at DAL.  Hovind is running a real ministry there.  The focus is primarily on spiritual principles, which are altogether benign.  Just about every scientific observation was wrapped around a spiritual principle.

For example, when Julie showed us the rings of a tree dark alternating with light and dark, she told us that the light rings are soft and the dark rings are hard.  If the tree were all soft it would just fall over.  If it were all hard it would snap in extreme conditions.  And we should seek a similar balance in our lives.  Physical activity, reading our bibles for spiritual growth, socializing.

The displays which are mostly works-in-process are tied in with the days of creation.

There was this thing where a tube blows up a stream of air on which a sort of beach ball floats.  You can see how it changes position based on air pressure.  The spiritual lesson is that we always seek the place easiest for us.

Julie kept apologizing during the tour for not knowing the material well enough, but she more than made up for it with her enthusiasm.  There was a fog machine that blew really cool smoke rings.

In the section about trees Julie talked about being a tree lover and how people were extreme about that in SF. Another group came in - a couple with little kids -.  William politely offered to bail, but Julie had them pick up on Day 5 where we were.  Something about airplanes there.

At Day Six is the dinosaur payoff, where we see all the evidence for the coexistence of dinosaurs with people and the continued existence of the dinos.  It's just that back in the day they were called dragons.  And of course, because of the post-Flood decrease in air pressure, the big ones couldn't breathe.

A really compelling bit of evidence comes from China.  You know how they have the year of the pig and the year of the tiger, etc.  Well, there are eleven of them that are real animals we know about.  And they have the year of the dragon.  So dragons must be real too.  Checkmate atheists.

There were two places where Julie's enthusiasm was utterly infectious.  On Day 1 when she showed us the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, of which only a small part is visible, she shared how much she is looking forward to going to heaven, because we may have more senses and be able to experience the whole spectrum.

In going through the wonders of the creation she talked about how there is iron in our blood, so Adam and Eve might have been able to feel the directions and not needed a compass to know which way is North.

Doctor Hovind was off debating an atheist and he handles the outdoor tour so we were left free to wander the property. The hour we needed to wait for the tour stretched into three, but it did not trouble us at all

The Observant Shawn

William and I started wandering toward what looked like a small desert, probably the most dystopian section of DAL.

All of a sudden we were being seemingly challenged by someone on a golf cart type vehicle. William and I were both in the "OMG have we gone out of bounds?" mode.  He assured us that it was no problem and we started talking with Shawn who has been at DAL for three weeks and hopes to be there for the rest of his life.  He was recently released from several years of unjust imprisonment on a trumped-up drug charge.

He offered to take us on an abbreviated tour that would pale in comparison with the big boy tour that Doctor Dino would take us on with the "mule".  We saw the island with Slim the skeleton who is waiting for the perfect woman.  We saw the gazebo where weddings are performed.  I think he suggested that William might want to marry his girlfriend there.  That would really be something.

Shawn told us that he has taken responsibility for security and patrols the perimeter.  When I asked him about the bullet-ridden stop sign, he said it was not unusual to hear the reports of the firearms and they could note hits and misses from the pings.

Then we went to feed the fish (literally with fish food).  There were a lot of them.  He took us to see his hedgehogasaoous which was a rescue of sorts, which William, who is into animal rescue found touching.

The Smiling Anna

Anna, who is blond, which is a cross to bear around Hovind, had the biggest smile I have ever seen.  She helped us with shopping in the gift the shop.  We got shirts and a hat and a copy of the Kennel, which I would get autographed later.  Anna has been at DAL for two years.  We dropped just over ninety bucks in the gift shop, which does take credit cards, which is a good thing because my cash was running low.

The Lieutenant And The Lady

After shopping, we learned that Doctor Hovind was not done besting the atheist.  It was mentioned that there was a tour already scheduled, but thankfully there was room for us.  We met the couple that would be going along with us.

He was probably the most interesting person I met all day.  After 10 years as an enlisted man in the Air Force maintaining things like the F35 and the A10, he went through the course to be commissioned as an officer in the Marine Corps, which involves inter alia infantry training, because every Marine is a rifleman.  There is a subsequent 13 week course for those that will actually be doing infantry, but our Lt is at Pensacola in the early stage of flight training.  Lady Lt is pregnant and also blond which would earn her a Hovind insult on the tour.

As we were waiting for Doc Dino I mainly spoke with Lt about fascinating things that have nothing to do with DAL, so I will leave that out.

Cindy The Gardner

While I was paying homage to the manliest man on the scene William was engaging with Cindy who had wandered over.  Cindy is one of those women whose age I cannot judge.  Youthful attractiveness combined with some wisdom.  Someone who will be able to remain 39 for as long as she likes.

They were talking about plants. I did manage to get some back story from her.  She was running her own preschool in California.  It was explicitly identified as Christian, but when one of the moms started hearing about Jesus from her daughter she complained to Cindy that she was teaching her kids fables.

That got Cindy motivated to seek out proof of biblical truth, which led her to Kent Hovind's videos.  She came out for a brief spell as a volunteer and then felt called to come full time. (There was a story to that, but I probably don't have it straight, as I was not taking notes).

Cindy has been at DAL two and a half years.  She didn't say anything to that effect, but when Kent mentioned his wife during the tour, I asked if it was Cindy that was his wife and he confirmed that.

The Big Boy Tour

My excitement at meeting Dr. Hovind in person had been mounting.  Not fully identifying myself without being entirely disingenuous was really motivated by wanting to experience the tour.  There are a number of things that I agree with Kent Hovind on.  One of those is his "Swallow the meat.  Spit out the bone" principle.  And to follow that principle in this context, you need to let him put out his message unchallenged.  And it is not just listening to him talk, there is a physical performance that you can't get from watching youtube videos.

The "mule" is a rugged all-terrain vehicle.  Kind of an oversized golf cart.  For a jungle golf course.  Given what was coming seatbelts and helmets were probably called for, but this is Alabama where the power of the regulatory state is attenuated and there are no insurance rules at DAL, since to have insurance would mean no zip lines.  We had courageously signed the release.  I doubt there was anything that phased the lieutenant.

William and the couple sat in the back seat and I exploited my senior citizen status to ride shotgun with Doc Dino.  He referred to us as boys and girls occasionally.  And I have the sense that we got much the same tour as we would have gotten had we been ten.  And I loved it.

As the mule was running over the property there would be occasional forks.  At the first Kent asked whether we wanted the "Grandma tour" or the "Real tour".  We, of course, cheered for the "Real tour" which gave us some exciting ups and downs.  At one point we stopped near the edge of a high point for a spiritual lesson about the attraction of going down that big hill and then crept up to see that was actually a sort of cliff.  We need to heed our heavenly father's warning.

Probably most memorable was the session at the picnic table with the paper airplanes and the rubber band shooting contest where Kent kicked our asses.  He showed us his secret.  The mistake we make is having equal pressure on both sides of the rubber band which creates turbulence.  He had more pressure on one side, which provided a dramatic difference.  And in life, you need to have the stronger emphasis on the spiritual aspect - boys and girls.

There is more, but the written word can't do it justice.

No Conspiracy Narrative On The Mule

Kent uses the layout of the property to explain his theory about the Flood accounting for the Grand Canyon rather than millions of years of drip drip.  I asked him why was it that when you went to the Grand Canyon you saw these signs about the millions of years.  He told me that that would be answered later.

There is a more comprehensive explanation next to a sort of dune or bluff.  Essentially layers form quickly as heavy stuff heads for the bottom.  And I asked him again why the millions and millions explanations are so prevalent.  He told me that people don't want to believe that there is a creator, because then they would have to think about what sort of rules the creator has for them to follow.

And The Jokes

To really remember a Hovind joke, you need repetition.  So I don't remember the blond joke he laid on the lieutenant's wife.  As we were assembling the paper airplanes there were a series of government military waste jokes about the scotch tape being some sort of special polymer costing thousands of dollars an inch.  He checked with the lieutenant on those after telling him that his father had been a Marine, the only survivor of his platoon in the Pacific.

So here are the two that I remember distinctly.  The mule can go from fifty to zero in one second - if it hits a tree.  You need some visual imagination for the other one.  "Somebody caught a fish here" - gestures with hands to show a considerable length - "this far from the dock".

Heard the fish joke four times.  The first time was from Shawn who is either in training to conduct the big boy tour or stealing Hovind's material.

What I Admire

The two things I admire most about Kent Hovind are his tremendous work ethic and his determination to live a purpose driven life.  This came up in the lessons from the trees which we had also gotten from Shawn.  They point out how the trees are always looking for the sun that nourishes them and that is what we should be doing with the things we keep in our lives.

Kent expanded noting that he could understand a kid playing with a ball, but grown men doing it for hours and other grown men watching them, he just didn't get it.  Do something useful.

Which brings me to another Kent Hovind maxim, that I endorse.  If you don't like what he is doing there in Lenox, go do something better.

On The Other Hand

My great wish for Kent Hovind professionally is that he will stay conventionally tax compliant and the beleaguered state of the IRS will have the statute of limitations on collections bail him out.  Running into Hansen is not a good sign.

We were invited to dinner and the bible study, which I would have loved to do, but William and I had a lot of driving ahead of us.  As we were getting ready to go, William reminded me to get my copy of The Kennel autographed.

I hunted around and found where they were eating, pausing respectfully as Kent finished grace.  He was sitting with the military couple when I came up to him for the autograph.  He told them that he was in prison for nine years for nothing,  They were just trying to shut him up.  Have you ever heard of structuring?

Kent's embrace of tax mishegas is, in my mind, tragic.  I know that I aggravate people with this view, but I find young earth creationism relatively benign.  Most of the counsel that Kent gives people about how to live their lives is good counsel.  Avoid alcohol, drugs and tobacco.  Work hard.  Live a life of purpose.  Have empathy for those who are imprisoned.

See For Yourself

So visit DAL and have a good time.  It might be wise to go for the Grandma tour.  Try to be kind and capture what is worth appreciating.  Just don't go there for tax and legal advice.

For reference here is the report on my previous encounter with Kent Hovind.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Peter J Reilly writes on taxes for forbes.com and has been following the Kent Hovind story for somewhat less than 6,000 years.

Holden Hardman did an undercover video of the tour which is on his youtube channel.  Check it out.

Discrepancy or Discrimination? Doesn’t matter

YTMP welcomes a new guest blogger - Amanda Retberg.  Amanda writes about her experience as a  professor at Wisconsin Lutheran College, which is sponsored by the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.  You know how you will run into members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans who are still fighting the Civil War -Excuse me meant to write War of Northern Aggression.  WELS can top that by evoking the Thirty Years War (1618-1648).  I know you knew the dates but you have to consider the other readers.  WELS still holds that the Pope is the Antichrist. - PJR

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Discrepancy

It is a simple discrepancy. This is the answer given to me after I inquired why some of the men I worked with were considered ministers and thus, eligible for the ministerial housing allowance tax benefit while the women I worked with were not considered eligible. Perhaps these men had different job descriptions than the women or had specific ministerial duties they were required to complete.

No, on the contrary, job descriptions were the same and both men and women were required to complete the exact same theology classes and requirements. Furthermore, the employment positions referred to above were college professors at a Christian college, not the traditional concept of ministers of a church. Why would college professors be considered ministers at a Christian college when that same college has its own campus pastors?

In short, denomination. This is a religious denomination that one could use as an example of having a basketball minister.  If you are reading this, you most likely are familiar with Tax Code Section 107(2) and aren’t surprised with loose definitions of “minister” for tax purposes.  In short, what one denomination considers a discrepancy, a rational person may instead consider to be discrimination. Yet it is all legal, complete with private letter rulings and a technical memo from the IRS.

I found all of this deeply troubling and personally, could no longer support this inequality. Therefore, awhile back I made the decision to leave the college and denomination. So why write about it now?

Simple – to help draw attention to an issue that still hasn’t received the attention it deserves.  Furthermore, this discrimination continues to this day and isn’t going away anytime soon. Men will continue to receive minister status, but similarly, situated women will not.  This status allows men to take advantage of the accompanying ministerial housing allowance also known as a parsonage allowance.

Discrimination

The Seventh Circuit just overturned Judge Barbara Crabb’s decision that the parsonage allowance is unconstitutional. Thus, it is here to stay.

If you read the amicus brief submitted to the Seventh Circuit by Professor Adam Chodorow and are persuaded that a tax exemption is equivalent to a government subsidy, then isn’t the government, by allowing churches to distribute these subsidies to men only, supporting discrimination against women?

In effect, the government is providing the means for churches to discriminate against women. People can argue that every church has the right to define minister for purposes of payroll. But, in practice, is this fair or equal? I would suggest that coupled with the parsonage allowance, it leads to discriminatory practices. Some churches only ordain men, some include “integral agencies” of the church and some consider teachers as ministers.

To provide a specific example, in my former denomination where only men can be designated as ministers, it is only male teachers who are able to take advantage of the parsonage allowance. All depends on the particular religious beliefs and practices and the narrow or broad definition of minister contained within. Unfortunately, these arguments fall short and truly don’t matter.

While I do strongly believe that churches should have every right to determine who is a minister according to their beliefs and religious practices, the parsonage allowance should not be available to benefit those so designated. Let the churches define who their ministers are but leave the government out of the payroll.

As a practicing Christian I usually don’t find myself on the same side of an issue as the Freedom From Religion Foundation; however, it is my sincere hope that they continue this fight.

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Amadna Retbert is a college professor, educator, and advocate. She is eager to teach, learn and research new ways to educate and is always willing to advocate for fairness and equality. She has an MA and a JD.
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Wisconsin Lutheran Responds

Wisconsin Lutheran College Provost Dr. John Kollander responded to inquiries from Peter J Reilly with the following statement.

Wisconsin Lutheran College (WLC) follows the established policies of our WisconsinEvangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) church body and the tax laws of the United States. This dual compliance has a tax benefit for male called workers. WLC has chosen to provide a stipend to female called workers toward the goal of compensation equity among all WLC called workers. 

Lunch At The Drowsy Poet With Eric Hovind

I hadn't planned on writing about my get together with Eric Hovind or even telling anybody about it other than my partner.

At the end of our time together, though, he indicated that he didn't mind if I wrote about it, so here is my report.  I'm going to assume my readers have all the background of who's who, but if you are interested you can always google.  I see the main audience for this piece as being what Marry Tocco harshly but fairly refers to as:

obsessed party of internet fanatics who invest an impractical amount of time and focus,dedicated to revealing to the world their perception of Kent as a fraud and con-artist.

Hanging In The Drowsy Poet

Evie and I were staying about an hour east of Pensacola, so I arranged to meet up with Eric at the Drowsy  Poet, which Jonathan Schwartz had told me is the go-to place for Pensacola evangelists.

We were meeting at noon, but I made a serendipitous error.  When we crossed the time zone line, our phones knew about it but not our computers, which is what I went by when I took off from the state park.  So I got to drink in the atmosphere of the Drowsy Poet for an hour.  There are actually a few of them, but I went to the mothership, which is not far from the Creation Today office.

There is a narrow corridor to the counter where you order as you come in and then a pretty spacious room with about six or eight tables of varying sizes.  I posted myself at a high one with my coffee and cake.

I think the table next to mine was having a church planting discussion, but I'm not sure.  More fascinating was across the room.  It was the middle management of the Drowsy Poet empire. Four youngish women and a two-year-old boy, who was probably the star of the table.  I learned a lot about the personnel problems you run into in running a coffee shop.  Did you know that it matters what order you pour the components into the mixture and that there are some people who just don't get it?

Worse Than Rape

Anyway, Eric showed up at noon along with another fellow.  I don't remember his name, so I'm going with Jim (That might be right).  Jim seemed a bit younger than me (I'm 67) bit older than Eric.  Jim was almost entirely silent only speaking when I addressed him directly with questions.  He is a welder and the big impression he has from the case is the judge's "Worse than rape" comment.  God, that has gotten a lot of attention.

Since it purportedly happened during sentencing, it's hard to see what difference it made.

Not Keeping Up

One of my problems in being a good interviewer is that I like to talk too much and Eric was asking me a lot of questions.  It seems like he has not really been keeping up on developments or reading my blog, so I filled him in on quite a few things.

At one point I told him that I mainly got information from Ernie Land and that I was disinclined to talk to Kent, because the impression I got from my one interview with him is that he only wants to debate rather than discuss things.

And at this point, I will tell you the personal issue that makes me particularly sympathetic to Eric.  My father died when I was 13 and I always have an envy for adult men who still have their fathers. I believe that not having a father during that crucial period in life accounts for issues that I have had with maturity.

Then I contemplate Eric who picked up the torch when his father went to prison and supported his mother, who finds himself condemned when his father is released.  He told me that he still catches flack for that whole debacle.

Apparently, he and Kent can't just agree to disagree on certain things and have a family relationship.  So he understands my reaction to talking to Kent.

Evidence

Mostly we talked about Jesus and creation.  The resurrection of Jesus changes everything and he was telling me about the historical evidence that is piling up to support that.  I told him that I thought that the extra-biblical evidence about Jesus is pretty thin.  He gave me a thumb drive which I haven't checked out yet.

The big piece of evidence is this tablet with a decree about not messing with dead bodies for nefarious purposes.  I looked into that a bit and I don't find it that compelling as evidence of the Easter story.  When I ran this by my facebook buds, one of them who is a devout Catholic responded, referring in particular to Eric's comment about the resurrection changing everything

To a great extent, that is the center of it all. If you believe that, then, I don't need to find writings from several professions that did not exist at the time but can trust the oral recollections (collected 20 to 40 years after) of a society that valued memory and oral retention. If you don't believe in the resurrection, then you are just wasting your time.

It reminds me of Father Murphy, who taught my high school freshman theology class.  He would draw a long line on the blackboard and then put a cross roughly in the middle and say "History is Christocentric".

I told Eric about all the crosses in our classrooms.  And he said that Jesus was still on them, but the Protestant crosses are empty, because of the resurrection.

Anyway, I sometimes envy people who have faith.  My friend who has a much stronger secular education than Eric is not going to trouble himself the way young-earth creationists do about extra-biblical evidence that supports a hyper-literal reading.

The Worries

I asked Eric if he was theologically aligned with Kent.  Apparently, there is this issue with repentance that I've heard about from other Kent critics, but never quite nailed down.  Other than that, I could not detect anything to indicate that Eric is doing anything other than following in his dad's footsteps when it comes to evangelism.  And unlike his dad, he does not expend energy on other issues.

Eric is very worried about what the IRS might have in store for Kent and his mother.  Apparently, Jo is not burdening Eric with whatever she is doing to deal with the situation.  I told him about the statute of limitation on collections which might be Jo's light at the end of the tunnel, but I don't know collections well enough to know whether there are exceptions to the exception when there are criminal issues involved.

All in, Eric strikes me as a fine person. I hope that the "obsessed band of internet fanatics", who include some of my favorite people and with whom I can well be counted, will lay off him.

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Peter J Reilly writes on taxes for Forbes.com.


Correction

In an earlier version, I referred to the coffee shop as The Lazy Poet, which is really lazy of me, since I could have just looked at my new coffee cup to confirm the name.

On The Bitterness Of The Gender War

Two of my Forbes pieces - Lesbians Want A Church of Their Own and Why Gender-Critical Radical Feminists Might Want A Church And Why IRS Approved - which broke out of the tax ghetto might have had my regular readers a little confused.  The over forty year dispute between some radical feminists and transgender activists is not that well known in the mainstream and will surprise some people particularly liberals and progressives who are sympathetic to the LGBTQ community without paying too much attention to its inner workings.

One of my sources who is a strong social justice warrior and is familiar with the issue urged me that only people who are personally involved in the issue should have anything to say on it and encouraged me to stay out of it.  Kind of a what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas approach to disputes within LGBTQ world.

I've decided to pretty much take that advice, but am writing this for my regular readers. And then there is the amateur historian in me that is particularly interested in reform movements of all sorts.  How they grow and evolve and fracture and rebuild. The way in which extremists often turn out to be considered right in the long run with credit for their ultimate success going to the more moderate implementers.  So here is my reading of the gender war and why it is so bitter.  First some definitions.

Some Definitions

Gender binary - There are two genders - male and female.  Not 31 as is suggested by the city of New York.  The radfems and many transgender activists seem generally OK with two. (Of course, the radfems don't think gender is anything more than a social construct). That simplifies this discussion.

Sex- Male and female.  Males are born with penises. Females are born with vaginas. -A very small number of people are intersex which is sometimes brought up as a kind of side argument to emphasize that things are much more complicated than we think they are.

Gender- Masculine and feminine. A variety of characteristics that are associated with either the male or the female.  Even the most conservative people who will have no use for either radfems, transgender activists, liberals or progressives will probably agree with Margaret Fuller who wrote that there are no wholly masculine men nor wholly feminine women and that it is handy for each of the sexes to have just a bit of the opposite gender in its tool-kit for use in the case of emergency.

Radical feminism -  This is from radfem Hub

Radical feminism, by definition, seeks to dis-cover and examine the root of women’s global oppression by men, and the sources of male power.  In our work, we have discovered that there are several key themes that appear over and over, and which transcend time and place — this is evidence that women’s oppression by men is class-based, that is, that women as a sexual class, around the world, share the experience of being oppressed by men because we are women.

Transgender -people who have a gender identity or gender expression that differs from their assigned sex. Transgender people are sometimes called transsexual if they desire medical assistance to transition from one sex to another.

The Most Bitter Part Of The Dispute

"Some women have penises" in one sentence sums up the heart of the dispute.  Trans women, regardless of how far they have gone in transition believe strongly that they should have access to spaces that are reserved for women and should be recognized as women for all purposes including being potential sexual partners of lesbians (Google cotton ceiling, if you are wondering about that).

Radfems think women are female persons.  Therefore people with penises don't belong in woman only spaces and lesbians should not be expected to accept them as potential romantic partners.

Of course there is a lot more to the dispute than that, but that is probably the easiest thing to understand if you don't want to dive into a lot of literature that can be difficult to follow.

Who Is Winning?

In liberal progressive circles, the transgender activists seem to be sweeping the board.  This is likely because they are able to frame their issue as part of the long civil rights march.  There's your white privilege, your male privilege and now there is cis privilege. Cis means that you identify with your gender assigned at birth.

Anybody who questions trans orthodoxy is a TERF, trans exclusionary radical feminists subject to being kicked out of academic jobs and not so welcome at many LGBTQ events.

Something that I can't get a handle on is how many people characterized as TERFs are actually radical feminists at all.

Regardless, the best historical analogy I can come up is this one.  You have your conservatives who think that gender is important and should mostly align with your sex and that you should be attracted to people of the opposite sex (or maybe pledged to celibacy).  They don't understand why when you mention patriarchy, you make it sound like it is a bad thing. . If you are not part of the 95% (more or less) that meets those criteria there is something wrong with you.  And then there is abortion, don't get them started. Let's call them the Axis.

There are the liberals and progressives pro-choice, pro gay marriage, LGBTQ - it's all good.  They are the Allies.

Radfems and transgender activists might not agree on much, but they agree that they don't like their country occupied by the Axis.  They each in different ways might have issues with the Allies, but they want their help.They are resistance groups.

In the current environment it is the transgender activists that  are providing the Allies with intelligence.  Back at SHAEF they can't figure out the radfems.  So they gave the radios to the transgender activists.

The transgender activists sometimes use the radios to call in air strikes on the radfems. C'est le guerre.

But Why This Fight Now?

The fundamental disagreement between transgender activists and radfems is clear if you look into it a little.  Transgender people think that gender is very important, more important than sex in terms of your true identity.  Radfems seem to believe that gender is mostly a made up thing that males use to oppress females.  They oppose transgenderism, but it probably would not make it to the top of their list of concerns.

So why don't transgender activists and radfems focus on beating the conservatives and fight their battle out later?  I think part of it is that they are competing in a very small space - the LGBTQ movement and parts of academia.  In the current state of the struggle the radfems are in danger of being ideologically homeless.  A recent collection of essays was titled Female Erasure.

It is harder to see why radfems are very important to transgender activists now that the transgender agenda has done so well in liberal, progressive circles.  Why not let them have their music festival and the occasional conference and rely on aging of professors to convert the womens studies programs into gender queer? Just ignore them.  Stopping calling people resisting TERFs, which gives publicity to radical feminism.  Blame it all on the religious right.

Anyway, I reached out to a couple of sources and here is what I got.

A Short Answer From A Radfem

Meghan Murphy of Feminist Current recently did a podcast on the Pussy Church.  In the intro she linked to one of my pieces.  I wrote to her asking about why the struggle is important to radfems. I included my understanding of the radfem view on gender ("Radfems see gender as entirely a social construct that the male bodied use to oppress the female bodied ").  Her response was short and to the point

Feminists have been forced into this fight against their will as our rights and spaces are under attack by trans activists... I don't think any of us are glad to have to waste all of our time arguing about nonsense...
And yes, re: gender, we see it as a means to naturalize and reinforce sexist stereotypes

A Longer Answer From A Transactivist

I asked Anotonia Elle D'orsay about why it is that transgender activists even bother to consider so-called TERFs who number perhaps in the thousands or maybe tens of thousands when they are being pushed back by millions of conservatives. Why not just ignore them?

For one, because they are the “liberal” or “left” arm of those millions. Brennan’s sites, 4WN, etc are all actively members of a broad based coalition of religious right groups such as ADF, American Family Association chapters, and related orgs.
They coordinate language and elements.
This is not new, either. Paul McHugh worked with and used the work of Janice Raymond to get trans issues blocked in the ADA, and to remove trans coverage from Medicare and Medicaid programs under the false rubric of “experimental”.
In short, they are part of that big enemy, and collectively have caused more harm than the religious right acting alone has in the same span.
This goes back to the origin of lesbian radical feminism and very birth of “gay rights” in the modern sense, with Sylvia being removed from a speakers list in 1972, then again in 1973, but speaking any way, after having been removed from the original gay rights groups the GAA and GLF.
More recently, the HRC was led by a terf who, in 99, actively recruited trans activists from all over to come to Washington, help write the first ENDA, then lobby for it over a week.
Then, the night before the trans contingent was to do their lobbying, struck a deal which stripped all the content from the bill relating to trans people, and never told them.
They found out from the Congress people late that afternoon they had spent the entire day lobbying for a bill they were excluded from.
When she was called out for it, she swore that HRC would never advocate for trans rights.
She went on to represent RIAA and BP, btw.
Not tens of thousands, either, merely thousands. But when they do things like the ROGD paper raising hell right now, we have to engage and show why their actions cause harm and how they are actively opposing our human rights.
To put this all together and make it short, it is because they have historically proven to be the greater threat.
Understand that 90% of all the arguments used against trans people were developed by TERFs.
Most of them in the book that gave me the Empress title — Raymond’s “The Transsexual Empire”.

Summary

So now you have an idea of what the fight is about and why it so bitter.  I have assembled some other material here. The dispute is tangential to my own ideology which is summed up in the words of Brendan Beehan:

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

It is a little humorous and metaphorical, but it is pretty much where I am at.  The virtue that I think is most worth cultivating is compassion, not that I am all that good at it.  It would probably help in the Gender War, but that is true of many things.

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Peter J Reilly writes about taxes on Forbes.com.  

Gender War - Dummy Guide - Where To Begin

Top rated guide so far

What I believe about sex and gender (and what I don't) by Kathleen Stock

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My coverage of the Pussy Church for Modern Witchcraft provoked some strong reactions.  Not surprisingly, they mostly had nothing to do with why I was discussing the organization on a tax blog.  They were mainly about my brief introductory explanation of the context of the ongoing conflict that it appears Pussy Church is addressing.

One comment that intrigued and that I am addressing here in a way is this one.

@peterreillycpa you'd really benefit from reading some radical feminist literature but I think if you managed to send out a round of inquiries for statements about a pussy church without realizing YOU DIDN'T ASK ANY WOMEN, you just may be too far gone 😂

— kthln m°y (@womanwalksaway) August 5, 2018

So I hesitate to mention this, since it might make me looking even lamer but I have been reading radical feminist literature for over six years.  Included in the piece was a link to the most recent book I had read (Mostly.  It was a collection and some of the pieces I did not get well enough to finish. Others were great.).

 And as it happens, accepting even the radfem definition of woman, I had asked a woman.  She just preferred not to be identified.  And for the purposes of that particular piece I was only interested in what someone involved in Pussy Church had to say about what Pussy Church was about, not what other gender critical feminists might infer what it was about.

Regardless kthln m°y inspired the project that this post on a blog with a smaller readership and looser editorial guidelines is a report on it.  I put out in a couple of ways the following question:

If someone just discovered the dispute between gender critical radical feminists and advocates for the trans community.  What is the very first thing he or she should read to begin getting educated? Asking for a friend. 

Here are the results SO FAR in the order that I have received them. I will indicate whether I have read them in full or not (listened to a recording counts) and rate them on how well I think somebody new to the issue would understand them and general relevance.  Rating is 1 to 10.  10 being - I think somebody with no background in the matter would understand this piece and it is relevant.  5 being - relevant understandable material but probably not where to start.  1 - What were you thinking when you suggested this as relevant entry level material?

The rating has nothing to do with whether I agree with the piece or not.  Also I might rate a piece I think is quite good lower because I think someone fresh might have a problem understanding it. For example if "cis" is included without being defined or Sheila Jeffreys is mentioned in a way that implies she is a household name, points are lost.  Also pieces that only explain a particular aspect of the controversy without giving the overall context lose points. I have rated a couple of things I did not finish, but I dug far enough to get a good sense of their content.

One of the advantages of this venue is that comments are allowed.  I apologize in advance to anyone who sent me something that I failed to include here and will fix it asap.

Leaving Liberal Feminism by Kate Leigh - Read in full - 8

Lezbehonest about Queer Politics Erasing Lesbian Women by Claire -Read in Full -5

What Does Transgender Mean? GLAAD  - Read in Full - 5

King James Version of The Bible Read in full (no kidding) - 1

How To Spot A Transphobe A.E. D'Orsay - Read in Full - 5

How The Social Justice of Equality, Discrimination, Diversity, Inclusion and Empowerment Are Being Used To Strip Women Of Rights And Freedom - Miranda Yardley Read in full - 5

Trans Women and Cis Women Are Different, and That's OK - Jesse Earl - Read In Full - 8

The war on the left between trans people and 'Terfs' could be ended with a bit of empathy by Deborah Orr Read in full - 10

Raquel Willis: TERFs Don't Deserve to Define Themselves as Feminists by Linda Young - Read In Full - 5

Stand Up For Female Rights And Say No To Changing The Gender Recognition Act Read in full - 4

Sex And Gender - A Beginners Guide Read in full - 4

Inauthentic Selves: The modern LGBTQ+ Movement Is Run By Philanthropic Astroturf And Based On Junk Science by Sue Donym -Did not complete due to time pressure - 7

Paper Genders - Walt Heyer -Did not read- Not rated

Gender and sex: anti-feminist, trans activist and feminist interpretations-by Magdalen Berns - video - watched full video - 6

Wake up, feminists! - on twitter - Scanned - 3

"TERF Wars: Narrative Productions of Gender and Essentialism in Radical-Feminist (Cyber) spaces" - Jennifer Earls -Did not finish - 4

TERF Is A Slur - Scanned - 4

Statistic Show the Difference in Rates of Violent Crimes Against Women Committed by 'Transwomen'  Versus Non-Transgender Males - Read in full - 6

FeministRoar   -  Twitter account - scanned - 6


Pieces I Have Found On My Own (With some curation)

What I believe about sex and gender (and what I don't) by Kathleen Stock - Read in full - 11

I've decided that regardless of how many pieces are on the list there will only be one that is an eleven.  In this piece Kathleen Stock identifies many of the elements in the debate rather thoughtfully.

Sheila Jeffreys - Wikipedia entry - 8
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With some exceptions most pieces will at least implicitly include something like:

The science is settled.  Any far minded person who has the true facts and is not blinded by the propaganda put out by the -------------------- will agree with us.

If the piece does not also implicitly include

The arguments put forth by ----------------- and their allies are so ridiculous and hateful that they don't bear repeating

I still might give it a high score

The key factor though is the assumption that the reader is starting from zero. And of course a piece like that might be rated very low for other purposes.

Remember what I am looking for is something that allows someone to grasp that there is a controversy and how it can be framed. Earlier this year I attempted this sort of thing with a pretty arcane topic that has some general interest - The Tax Cuts And Jobs Act - Here it is.

An advantage of this site is that it allows comments.  I really don't have any restrictions more of an aspirational standard which I explained when we had comments on forbes.com.  Some people can probably come up with something nasty enough to merit deletion.  We'll see.

What I would most appreciate is additions to the list. As I noted above if something somebody sent me is left off, it was by accident and easy to fix.

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Peter J Reilly writes on taxes for forbes.com.  Almost anything you can think of will have a tax angle eventually, so he sometimes find himself in unrelated arguments.

https://www.quora.com/What-are-your-opinions-on-Transgender-Exclusionary-Radical-Feminists-TERFs-Do-you-feel-they-have-set-feminism-back

https://www.quora.com/profile/Kes-Sparhawk-Amesley


Links not yet evaluated

https://sarahditum.com/    https://sarahditum.com/2018/09/10/six-years-in-the-gender-wars/

https://discoversociety.org/2018/04/03/viewpoint-understanding-anti-transgender-feminism/

https://medium.com/@BeaJaspert/sex-lies-and-trans-activism-30cd9c3d6559



https://medium.com/@tan.ith9/an-open-letter-to-my-friend-who-thinks-transwomen-are-women-491659de2efb

https://www.socfem.net/faq



https://lgbt.libdems.org.uk/en/page/trans-manifesto


https://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2016/03/24/north-carolina-pushes-back-against-transgender-mandate-to-eliminate-sex-based-protections-for-women-and-girls/https://lgbt.libdems.org.uk/en/page/trans-manifesto https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/08/07/feature-what-is-the-trans-spousal-veto-and-why-does-it-matter/ https://handsacrosstheaislewomen.com/about/

Pay Your Taxes!

So this will be a longish introduction to a really long piece.  I will start with the disclaimer that the views expressed by Johnny Cirucci (below the dotted line) are not the views of Peter J Reilly or Your Tax Matters Partner. There is stuff down there I agree with, but most of it I see as batshit crazy and some of it as arguably hateful. 

 And I am growing very fond of Johnny Cirucci, because it is possible in the alt-right conspiracy bubble, which the woes of Kent Hovind introduced me to, Johnny is sui generis.  Possibly somewhat exaggerating his underlying views, it seems like he think he and three or four other guys actually get it and the rest of them are either dupes or controlled opposition, a few of whom have been "read in" and are getting the bennies.

The tax protest movement always kind of mystified me, because their legal arguments were so lame and they always lost in court (except in a few willfulness cases, where people convinced a jury they were too stupid to understand they were breaking the tax law, thereby avoiding criminal, but not civil, liability).  I finally realized that their arguments implied a large conspiracy involving pretty much everybody involved in the federal government except for maybe a couple of park rangers and the leadership of the E-4 mafia.

And observing the Hovindicators I noted that they chomped on conspiracy theories like they were Lays Potato Chips.  Oddly a few of them seemed kind of quaint as when God's Property Radio called me a Jesuit and Rudy Davis talked about how they operate in the open unlike the Jesuits.

I really like Rudy Davis and I know him well enough to feel comfortable that when I say that he is a redneck, he will take it as a compliment.  Ernie Land, Kent Hovinds consigliere, also has some redneck sensibilities as does Dominating Deborah who recently posted here.  Kent Hovind, himself, is kind of a redneck wanabee.

There is a special fondness between rednecks and white urban ethnics memorialized in the bromance between Montgomery Clift and Frank Sinatra in From Here To Eternity.

But we are different tribes.  Johnny Cirucci and me, that is something different.  Even though I am 100% Irish descent, I am kind of Italian by association from growing up in Fairview NJ.  And Johnny is a Jersey boy.  When rednecks talk about Jesuits and the Pope, it is kind of amusing.  If they ever heard of transubstantiation, they think it has something to do with auto repair.

Johnny has the background and education though.  And Johnny buys conspiracy theories by the bushel,  Nonetheless, he has an overarching theory that makes it all fit together.  It is the Vatican that is pulling the strings and at least for the last 500 years it is the Jesuits that you will find lurking in every corner.  

Just for an example.  Take Donald Trump.  Wharton graduate right?  Yes, but two years at Fordham University starting out.  And of course your typical redneck thinks that Fordham is dinner at the diner next to the dealership and can't see the Jesuit connection so obvious to a Jersey boy.

At any rate, I asked Johnny to write about Kent Hovind and he gave me a lot more than I asked for.  I think his biggest weakness as a writer is that he spends too much time on tangential support for his positions, but de gustibus non est disputandum.

Oddly enough Johnny and I have a pretty consistent evaluation of Kent Hovind, but you will have to skip down quite a bit to get to his take on Hovind.  It is worth reading the whole thing, but try not to get to bewildered and don't even attempt to go down all the rabbit holes. Johnny's technique might be compared to the Gish Gallop, although I am sure he looks at it differently.

Any way, here you go. - PJR



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How “Stormy Daniels” and Kent Hovind brought a conspiracy theorist and Forbes CPA together.

by Johnny Cirucci

Pay your taxes!

If you’re a Johnny Cirucci fan (one of his “flying monkeys”), I’ll bet you were surprised to see him write that.

If you’re a Peter J. Reilly fan, I’ll bet you’re asking, “Who the heck is ‘Johnny Cirucci’?!”

About Johnny Cirucci

I ran across Peter about three years ago.  I had just published my first book, IlluminatiUnmasked, and had begun doing interviews.

Invariably, the subject of Kent Hovind would come up.

Kent was slated for possible release from prison but the hearing didn’t look hopeful.  He was a hot topic for “alternative” Christian media at the time.

As a Jesuit-educated writer for Forbes, I considered Peter one of “them” and avoided corresponding with him.

But Peter is an interesting guy.  While I tend to be an excitable Italian and former Catholic, he remains an unflappable Irishman and, he assures me, a former Catholic.  He recently related his first experience in a Protestant Church to the current troubles the Trump Foundation is having paying taxes in the state of New York.

It wouldn’t be the first time a wily Jesuit had gone undercover!

Although I write that tongue-in-cheek, I firmly believe that such was the case for a host of prominent people from the Jesuit-educated critic of Christianity, François-Marie “Voltaire” Arouet to the “former” late Jesuit priest Malachi Martin.

The Jesuits are the ultimate order in service to the Papacy and it’s a tough sell to present the idea that a Catholic priest wants to serve...but not that much.

Martin’s book, The Jesuits, sits well-highlited and noted upon my shelf.  My summary would be, “The Jesuits used to be a great bunch of guys but then they turned a bad corner and went Communist.”

By the way, that’s not hyperbole.

Though the movement has been global since its inception, it was above all in Latin America that the strange alliance between Jesuits and Marxists gathered its first practical momentum.  It was there that this new Jesuit mission, entailing as it does nothing less than the transformation of the sociopolitical face of the West, first entangled lives far more profoundly than McGovern and theoreticians like him anticipated.  Quickly, scores of Jesuits began to work with the passion and zeal that has always been so typical of them, for the success of the Sandinocommunists in Nicaragua; and, when the Sandinistas took power, those same Jesuits entered crucial posts in the central government, and attracted others to join at various regional levels.  In other Central American countries, meanwhile, Jesuits not only participated in guerrilla training of Marxist cadres, but some became guerrilla fighters themselves.  Inspired by the idealism they saw in Liberation Theology, and encouraged by the independence inherent in the new idea of the Church as a group of autonomous communities, Jesuits found that all was permitted-even encouraged-as long as it furthered the concept of the new “people’s Church.”

Such men were the dream and ideal of the true Liberation Theologians.  For they were the fighters, the cadres who took Liberation Theology from theory to what they called praxis-the implementation of the people’s revolution for economic and political liberation.  From that praxis, the Liberation Theologians insisted, from “below among the people,” would come all true theology to replace the old theology once imposed autocratically “from above” by the hierarchy of the Roman Church. ~ The Jesuits, Malachi Martin, Simon & Schuster (1987), pp. 17-18

Apparently, the Jesuits haven’t returned from their hard Left turn.  Another “ex-Jesuit”, Greg Galluzzo, trained Barack Obama in Chicago “community organizing”.

The Catholic periodical “Our Sunday Visitor” lists Chicago one of the “Top 10 Catholic Communities” and even takes note of its ... “ethnic diversity” (code for racial unrest generously encouraged by Rome).

Chicago’s Catholic heart is based in its ethnic diversity.

As the Windy City became industrialized in the mid-19th century, immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe flocked to Chicago — joining the already present Irish and Germans — to become part of its workforce. Ethnic communities naturally formed, and ethnic Catholic parishes naturally followed. Today, more than 350 Catholic churches remain, many built in impressive European style.

It has been rumored that, once a Jesuit proves themselves truly dedicated to Rome, they are invited to take a “Blood Oath” in which they swear to have no will of their own, “perinde ac cadaver”, to be as a dead man in the strictest obedience to the Pope.

This “Fourth Vow” is said to have sold Alessandro Farnese⁸—Pope Paul III—on consecrating the new order for Spanish nobleman Ignacio López (later known as Ignatius of Loyola).

After a serious injury in the military and during a lengthy rehabilitation, Ignatius Loyola (b. 1491, d. 1556) turned his focus from “military enthusiasm to ghostly fanaticism.⁽²⁾  Ignatius assumed the name and office of Knight of the Virgin Mary, seeing himself as Mary’s favorite.  Ignatius wanted to start a new order, The Society of Jesus (or the Jesuits) and presented the idea to the Pope.  He told the Pope that the idea had been inspired by heavenly revelations.  At first, the Pope hesitated, but when Ignatius added a fourth vow (in addition to the regular poverty, chastity, and obedience), “absolute subservience to the pope,” promising to do whatever the Pope wanted and go wherever he wanted, the Pope agreed and sent the new order out to “invade the world.”  While other monks of other orders sought to separate themselves from the world, the Jesuits went out into the world and obeyed whatever command the Pope gave.  Often this was to win the world with the sword.  No violent act was withheld if the order came from their top “general.”⁽³⁾ ~ The Jesuit Agenda and the Evangelical/Protestant Church, Roger Oakland, Understand the Times/Lighthouse Trails Special Report

But now, a Jesuit is the Pope.  —And it raised more than one eyebrow to see that the vacancy provided for Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was the resignation of Pope Benedict; an event that had not occurred in the previous 600 years.  It wouldn’t be the first time the Jesuits were accused of mafioso skullduggery.

Bergoglio, himself, has a murky past, hidden behind Argentina’s “Dirty War”.  A series of corrupt military dictatorships purged Argentina of their political enemies under the guise of “anti-Communism”.

Many of the victims were held for months in official institutions, where they were repeatedly tortured before being killed, their bodies “disappeared.”  Justifying the purge, which was spoken about euphemistically but carried out in secrecy, the Argentine military espoused a brand of anti-Communist ferocity that echoed Franco’s Fascist witch hunt, which had previously devastated Republican Spain — a brand of ferocity that also shared his deeply entrenched ultra-Catholic and anti-Semitic views. ~ The New Yorker

Devout Roman Catholic Francisco Franco Bahamonde had no less a spiritual advisor than Father José María Escriva de Balaguer, the founder of Opus Dei.

Franco was a monster who availed himself of both the knowledge and instruments of the Inquisition to torture any victim he felt worthy of it.

How was he able to do that?  —The Inquisition was never disbanded by the Vatican.  It quietly became the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.  In fact, before he was elected “Pope Benedict XVI”, former Nazi Youth Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was Prefect of the Inquisition.  He also helped Jesuit scholar Karl Rahner map out Vatican II.  Unfortunately, none of these “accomplishments” were enough to insulate him from an “invitation to retire early”.

It’s hard to imagine worse than Inquisition torture but Franco managed it: child trafficking.

For Whom The Bell Tolls

In Spain, hundreds of thousands of babies were stolen from their parents and trafficked by the Fascist government of Francisco Franco via the Catholic Church.

Up to 300,000 Spanish babies were stolen from their parents and sold for adoption over a period of five decades, a new investigation reveals.

The children were trafficked by a secret network of doctors, nurses, priests and nuns in a widespread practice that began during General Franco’s dictatorship and continued until the early Nineties. ...

Several mothers say they were told their first-born children had died during or soon after they gave birth. ...

But the women, often young and unmarried, were told they could not see the body of the infant or attend their burial.

In reality, the babies were sold...

Official documents were forged so the adoptive parents’ names were on the infants’ birth certificates. ...

Journalist Katya Adler, who has investigated the scandal, says: “The situation is incredibly sad for thousands of people.”

“There are men and women across Spain whose lives have been turned upside-down by discovering the people they thought were their parents actually bought them for cash.  There are also many mothers who have maintained for years that their babies did not die – and were labelled ‘hysterical’ – but are now discovering that their child has probably been alive and brought up by somebody else all this time.”

Experts believe the cases may account for up to 15 per cent of the total adoptions that took place in Spain between 1960 and 1989.

It began as a system for taking children away from families deemed politically dangerous to the regime of General Franco, which began in 1939.  The system continued after the dictator’s death in 1975 as the Catholic church continued to retain a powerful influence on public life, particularly in social services. ~ Daily Mail⁸³

What made the scheme easy to accomplish was that the Catholic Church ran schools, orphanages and hospitals, and still does (even in “Protestant” countries like America).

In Fascist Spain, however, the power of the Catholic Church was as blatant and all-encompassing as it is in Ireland.

On April 1, 1939, Generalísimo Francisco Franco, crusading leader of the rebellious Nationalist forces, triumphantly declared the Spanish Civil War over.  The Catholic Church was the institution that most benefitted from Franco’s victory. Its hierarchy had blessed the Nationalist uprising as a crusade and had justified the war to the world as an “armed plebiscite.”  Now it reaped the reward.  Franco quickly abolished all those Republican** measures that had undermined the Church’s spiritual and social roles, and entrusted it with more power and privilege than it had enjoyed since the 18th century.

For the Church, the privileges constituted a spiritual “reconquista” complementing the political “reconquista” enjoyed by Franco and his Nationalists.  What the political “reconquista” meant was the return to Castilian centralism and the elimination of other ideologies.  The “reconquista” for the Church signified Catholic monopoly over the life of all Spaniards, a vital privilege if society was to be “re-Catholicised”.  This “re-Catholicisation” was not an easy undertaking keeping in mind that, in supporting the Nationalists during the War, the Church had alienated a large percentage of the population. ...

For Cardinal Gomá, primate of Spain, the only way was to impose “divine totalitarianism”, i.e. the imposition of Catholic values on all Spanish society. Franco was only too glad to help.

The privileged status of the Church was granted immediately following the Civil War. A little later —in June 1941— its rights were outlined in an Agreement between the Vatican and the Franco government, and finally formalised in a Concordat signed in August, 1953.  Amongst the provisions were:

1. recognition of Catholicism as the official religion of the country;
2. Mandatory religious instruction at all educational levels in conformity with Catholic dogma;
3. Financial support of the church by the state (paying the salary of priests and contributing to the (re)construction of church buildings);
4. Guaranteed representation in both press and radio.

 ~ Spain Then And Now⁸⁴

The fact that the government of Spain, in collusion with the Catholic Church, were the institutions that kidnapped babies meant that it is impossible to account for them all.  Despite media white-washing, it is a foregone conclusion that many of the children weren’t simply “sold” to good Catholics who wanted them, they were trafficked, tortured and ritually slaughtered.

Proof is found in how Rome maintained these crimes against the Spanish people long after Franco’s death.

Generalísimo Francisco Franco was personally assisted by Father Josemaria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei.⁸⁵

It would not be the last time Opus Dei was the vehicle by which children were trafficked, abused and murdered. ~ Eaters of Children, Giovanni Augustino Cirucci, CreateSpace (September 11^th, 2017), pp. 74-76

The same outrages occurred during the Argentinian Dirty War.  However, no institution of repute is daring to link Cardinal Bergoglio (now Pope Francis I) directly to child trafficking.

Below mainstream media, former Church of Canada Priest-turned-human-rights activist Kevin Annett does level the accusation.

A former civil servant in the Argentine military junta who is living in exile in Spain claims that Pope Francis engineered the kidnapping and trafficking of children of political prisoners during the Dirty War of the 1970’s.

The man bases his claim on his personal involvement in meetings between Bergoglio and senior junta members that secured the child trafficking networks using Catholic orphanages and religious bodies as covers.

A Spanish reporter who has interviewed the former civil servant states,

“This guy is genuine and has many names and dates, and notes from meetings. Apparently, Bergoglio was promised the top spot in the Argentine church if he cooperated with the junta. So it’s small wonder that as the Pope, he’s made it harder for honest catholics to report child abuse, considering his own complicity.” ~ ITCCS.org

Unfortunately, Annett and his “International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State” harm their credibility with delusions of grandeur; frequently proclaiming that an “international court in Brussels” has convicted Bergoglio of child trafficking.

That was 2014.

Exactly what law enforcement agency is going to be doing the arresting, Annett doesn’t say.  In fact, Bergoglio has never been arrested for child trafficking and, if a “trial” ever took place he was tried in absentia.

Argentina’s “Dirty War” was supposedly an “ultra-Right” purge of “Communists”, yet Pope Francis I maintains a posture that is nothing less than far-Left.³

From “global warming” to gun control, Papa Francisco seems to have gone to the “opposite extreme” of his Communist-hunting Cardinalcy.

Pope Francis Blames “Human Selfishness” For Global Warming, BBC

Pope Francis Scolds Congress for Gun and Weapons Sales, Breitbart.com

Pope Francis: After U.S. Gun Control Marches, Church Leader Wants Youth To Keep Shouting, Newsweek

Pope Francis Apologizes to Indigenous Peoples for “Grave Sins” of Colonialism, Indian Country Today

Pope Francis Attacks EU Over Treatment of Immigrants, The Guardian

Pope Says Immigrants No Threat to Europe’s Christian Identity, Crux Now

Pope Francis: Overcome Fear of Immigrants and Refugees, America Magazine (Official Jesuit publication)

Pope Francis to Immigrants: “Do not be Ashamed of Your Traditions”, The Washington Post

“Please do not be ashamed of your traditions,” he told the audience.  “Do not forget the lessons you learned from your elders, which are something you can bring to enrich the life of this American land.  I repeat, do not be ashamed of what is part of you, your lifeblood.  You are called to be responsible citizens and to contribute, like others who with so much strength did before you . . . fruitfully to the life of the communities in which you live.”

Francis also culled American history to underscore his remarks about the treatment of immigrants.

“We remember the great struggles which led to the abolition of slavery, the extension of voting rights, the growth of the labor movement, and the gradual effort to eliminate every kind of racism and prejudice against the earlier arrival of new Americans,” he said.

In an era of deadly terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, decades of wide-open borders are nothing less than treason.

Although “mainstream media” decries any attempt to close the borders as “racist”, the issue isn’t “race” as much as “religion”.

As in America’s past, the vast majority of immigrants pouring across those open borders are Roman Catholic.

However, in stark contrast to waves of Catholic immigrants of yester-year, simply walking across an open border means you don’t have to assimilate.

Consequently, ghettos of Spanish-speaking illegal immigrants are common to every state in the Union.  This exacerbates the refusal of U.S. officials at all levels of government to enforce immigration laws and causes natural-born citizens (at least those whose parents didn’t consider labor pains as synonymous with a starting gun) to react in anger at said Spanish-speakers.

The situation is worsened when, not only Federal, State and local governments provide Spanish-speaking service to illegal immigrants but most businesses do, as well.

One would think that encouraging “immigrants” to wear their background on their sleeves—and then reiterating the encouragement—makes a bad situation even worse.

Although the Jesuits have oft been accused of masterfully manipulating civic discontent to steer in their favor, surely Pope Francis knows not what he does.

This is all academic, of course.  Donald John Trump, who spent 2 years under the Jesuits at Fordham before transferring to the “public” University of Pennsylvania, was elected based upon his repeated theatricalvows to “build a wall”.

While sources like New York Magazine rail against Trump’s “racist immigration policy”, the truth is that, like Barack Obama on his promise to close Guantanamo Bay,¹ Donald Trump has been all show and no stay.

As Trump’s Conservative constituency begins to get impatient, they are encouraged to be satisfied with real progress such as Attorney General and former ensconced 20-year United States Senator Jeff Sessions telling Justice Department bureaucrats to be sure and say “illegal alien” whenever speaking of “undocumented visitors”.

Top Jesuits are even managing to upset Conservative Catholics.

When it comes to homosexuality, Pope Francis says, “Who am I to judge?”

On eternal salvation or damnation, the Jesuit White Pope has stated that even atheists can go to Heaven and, it’s all good because Hell doesn’t exist anyway!

His counterpart in the Order, Superior General Arturo Sosa (known as the “Black Pope”²) has backed up the Jesuit disappearing of eternal damnation by telling the Spanish newspaper El Mundo that Satan is just a man-made “symbol”.

In relation to the words of Jesus Christ recorded in Mark 10:9 on the sanctity of marriage — “What God has joined, let no man separate,” — Sosa told Swiss journalist Giuseppe Rusconi that no one used a “tape recorder” to chronicle the words of Jesus and, therefore, they should be examined “in context”.

What does all this have to do with Peter J. Reilly, Kent Hovind and paying your taxes?  —Nothing.  It was just my introduction.

And Now For Something Completely Different

I’ve come a long way since 2015.

Somehow, Peter and I were connected on Twitter—I think he reached out and I was at a point where curiosity about “the other team” was overcoming my trepidation so I returned the “follow”.

That put Peter on my feed and when I saw him “like” a “tweet” from an unexpected source, I had to jump into the fray.

Her real name is Stephanie Gregory⁵ Clifford, but that’s not what the media calls her.  She’s a pornography “actress” and the media not only plastered her and her breasts all over the airwaves (which was wonderful for your children to see) but they were always sure to use her porn name, “Stormy Daniels”.

Supposedly, “Stormy” had sex with your president just after his third wife had their latest child, “Barron”.⁷

The media has used this literal harlot to make pornography a household item for the youngest of children.Who would think to put a parental block on the 5 o’clock news?

This actually could have been the ultimate motive the entire time; so much so that it’s quite possible Donald Trump never even met Stephanie Clifford.⁹

I find it particularly ironic that Vatican sources like the Catholic News Service seem to be on the forefront of this revelation.

The percentage of Americans who say pornography is morally acceptable increased more over the past year than in all other years this decade combined.

While the acceptability of porn still holds minority status in the United States, it has climbed to 43 percent, according to Gallup Poll figures released June 5.  The number increased by 7 percent from last year’s figure.

In 2011, when Gallup first started asking this question, only 30 percent said pornography was morally acceptable.  As of last year, that figure had climbed to 36 percent, a rise of 6 percent.

While acceptance of pornography had trailed other social issues earlier this decade, such as doctor-assisted suicide, same-sex relations, sex between unmarried people and out-of-wedlock childbirth, the 2017-18 surge means that porn has eclipsed all other social issues in their growing acceptance by Americans this decade, according to Gallup.

A report on the poll’s findings by Gallup analyst Andrew Dugan said that while Americans had grown more tolerant on social norms over the decade, the reason behind the steep climb on pornography is “less clear.”

One theory Dugan offered is that adult film actress Stormy Daniels, a “fierce critic of President Donald Trump, has given pornography a sense of moral credibility that it previously lacked.” ~ Crux Now

Does this just happen to be “one theory” or does the Catholic News Service have an insider source?

Unfortunately, Donald Trump is far from being unfairly wounded here.  In fact, another aspect of this contrived “scandal” is damage control.  Trump’s secrets are actually more dark and perverse than a “fling with a porn actress”.  That’s how he was selected to be “elected”: he’s a slave to the blackmail of his deviant past.

In comparison to what Donald Trump really is, the “Stormy Daniels” scandal is tame, even appealing to some with looser morals.  It’s a well-used tactic.

Hillary Rodham continued to play the role of strong-man by illegally going through the FBI dossiers of their political enemies for blackmail.  Neither the existence of the dossiers nor the activity were addressed with prosecution.

In fact, the corruptions that occurred during the Clinton Administration that were being ignored were so vast a side-show was fabricated over a sexual tryst Bill had in the Oral Office.  Meanwhile, in best Hegelian fashion, Bill’s Jesuit keepers were ordering him to keep backwards Communist China in full threat status by sending them nuclear secrets and supercomputers; all acts of high treason that were shoved under Monica Lewinsky’s stained dress. ~ Can We Finally Call Hillary A Roman? Johnny Cirucci, JohnnyCirucci.com, 25 July 2016

If Trump hasn’t met Stephanie Clifford (or maybe she’s one of many such harlots he’s bought), why did his handlers choose her for the spotlight?  She has greatly benefited from the show.

Her recent arrest and release may give some insight.

Charges against adult film actress Stormy Daniels for allegedly touching three undercover detectives while performing at an Ohio strip club were dismissed Thursday, her attorney said.

Daniels, who gained notoriety after suing President Donald Trump following an alleged affair, had faced three misdemeanor counts of illegally touching a patron, court records show.

Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, posted a $6,054 bail and was released Thursday morning, and was due to be arraigned Friday, records show.

Under an Ohio law passed in 2007, an employee who regularly appears nude or seminude at a sexually oriented business is prohibited from touching patrons, except for family members.

Because Daniels does not regularly appear at the club, the charges were dismissed, according to court documents.

“I’ve determined that these crimes were not committed, based on the fact that Ms. Clifford has not made regular appearances at this establishment as required under the law,” Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein said in a statement after reviewing the case.

Daniels had planned to plead not guilty to the three misdemeanor charges, her attorney, Michael Avenatti, tweeted.

The arrest of Daniels and two others was part of a “long-term investigation into allegations of human trafficking, prostitution, & other vice related violations,” Columbus police said in a statement. ~ CNN

Not only was Clifford (whom CNN prefers to call by her porn name) released, but she admitted that two other strippers who were arrested with her were not.

Maybe she just had a better lawyer.

Michael John Avenatti has an education very similar to Donald Trump, having first received Catholic instruction at the public-sounding Saint Louis University before transferring 900 miles east to the University of Pennsylvania to be given a more overtly “public” degree.

Perhaps the clue can be found in the arrest being the result of a “long-term investigation into allegations of human trafficking...”  As I’ve already shown you conclusively, real power is sealed through the abuse of children.  That includes the power to avoid prosecution (which seems to be the case for virtually every high-profile pedophile I’ve researched).

According to Ken Wooden, a child safety expert who has interviewed more than 1,000 sex offenders and abductors, the biggest mistake parents make is to think it’s enough to tell children, “Don’t talk to strangers.”

“In the eyes of a kid, a stranger is some character who’s very scary and a monster type,” said Wooden.  In reality, though, molesters can look like ordinary, friendly, engaging adults, Wooden warned. ~ ABC News

Is Stephanie Clifford a “lure” to help bring unsuspecting children into an obviously dangerous environment?  Does she hook young girls with telling them how profitable her lifestyle is?

Exactly what a “porn actress” puts in her “trophy case” can only be imagined but one wonders who you can or even should show off such “trophies” to.

You would think that an adulterous “porn actress” scandal would cripple someone like Donald Trump, who rode into the White House via the “Conservative”, Christian, Republican vote but not only does it appear not to have affected him, a second scandal was released by the media almost identical to the first.

President Trump’s longtime lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, secretly recorded a conversation with Mr. Trump two months before the presidential election in which they discussed payments to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump, according to lawyers and others familiar with the recording.

The F.B.I. seized the recording this year during a raid on Mr. Cohen’s office.  The Justice Department is investigating Mr. Cohen’s involvement in paying women to tamp down embarrassing news stories about Mr. Trump ahead of the 2016 election.  Prosecutors want to know whether that violated federal campaign finance laws, and any conversation with Mr. Trump about those payments would be of keen interest to them. ~ The New York Times

A single source—The Telegraph—says “Playboy Playmate of the Year” Karen McDougal “became religious” but curiously leaves out exactly what her “religion” is.

She maintains a website with her name “.com” (which one would assume would be hard to obtain) but it has no content other than a photograph of her—a somewhat decently-dressed one, fortunately.  At one point there was an “About Me” page but it has since been taken down.  What is Karen hiding about her background?

Once taking the plunge for porn, it was all smooth sailing for McDougal...or, rather, “driving”.

McDougal’s first modelling assignment was being a promotional model at a Harley-Davidson bike show in Detroit.^[8]

Playboy

In 1997, McDougal tried out and won her local Venus Swimwear swimsuit competition in Michigan, earning her place at the international final in Florida.  Her victory caught the eye of Playboy photographer David Mecey.^[4]  Soon after that she was approached by Playboy for a test shoot at Playboy Studio West which she accepted.^[6]  Upon completing her test shoot, she was promptly selected to return for a complete photo and video shoot and chosen as Miss December 1997.^[4]  Her pictorial, which was shot by photographers Richard Fegley and Stephen Wayda, has a winter theme^[1] and its outdoor portion was shot in the snowy fields near Park City, Utah.^[9]  Her video, the “Playmate Profile”, was featured on Playboy TV soon after her magazine debut.^[2]

In May 1998, she was announced to have been chosen by Hugh Hefner and fans as Playmate of the Year (PMOY) of 1998 at a luncheon at the Playboy Mansion.^[10]

As part of being named PMOY, she was awarded $100,000 and a special edition silver Shelby Series 1 convertible with a customized Michigan license plate “PMOY 98”.^[3]  McDougal’s PMOY pictorial was featured in the July 1998 issue of Playboy where she also appeared on its cover.^[11]  In contrast to her Playmate pictorial, her PMOY pictorial has a tropical theme and its outdoor portion was shot at Saint Lucia.^[3]  According to her interview in her Playmate of the Year “Video Centerfold” which was released soon after her PMOY issue debuted, she believes her physical imperfections are her “funny” smile, her crooked pinkies which she inherited from her grandfather and her “ugly feet” which she wishes others would not look at.^[5]  Because of the popularity of the VH1 television series “Pop-up Video“ at the time, one of the segments in her PMOY video was done as a Pop-up Video parody filled with factoids about her and Playboy.^[5]  During her appearance on The Magic Hour to promote her PMOY issue, McDougal demonstrated her signature pose, straddle split on TV in front of a live studio audience.^[12]

In an online chat in 2002, McDougal expressed interest in posing nude for Playboy again if offered.^[13]

Fitness Modeling

In March 1999, McDougal became the first woman to appear on the cover of Men’s Fitness magazine.^[4]  Since then she expanded her career into fitness modeling by appearing in fitness and body building magazines such as Muscle & Fitness (January 2000), Physical (June 2004) and Iron Man (October 2005, January 2006, June 2007^[14] and November 2009^[15]).^[8]  She appeared in a 10-page pictorial in the January 2006 issue of Iron Man as “Hardbody” of the month,^[16] and on the cover of its October 2005 and June 2007 issues.  McDougal returned as “Hardbody” of the month in the November 2009 issue in a pictorial together with fellow Playmate Katie Lohmann.^[15]  In interviews, she stated that her transition to fitness modeling was unintentional.^[15][17] ~ Wikipedia

Truly, the wages of sin are big money and a top-of-the-line sportscar...at least until it comes time to pay the bills.⁶

If McDougal is just another pair of breasts being presented to America’s children via the evening news, the next question is what we asked about Stephanie “Stormy Daniels” Clifford: why her?  Perhaps becoming “religious” was a bigger benefit than you might think...if it’s the right “religion”.

Wikipedia claims she is “of Cherokee, Scottish and Irish descent.”  You probably aren’t seeing any “Cherokee” (neither am I), and “McDougal” can bespeak of Scotland but “Irish” certainly leaves a clue that the “religion” Karen found was Roman Catholicism.

It worked for another “former” porn actress, Jenna Jameson.

Jameson also “got religious”—more specifically, she got Roman Catholic.

Interestingly, she seems to find no conflict with her past and, although she’s a “former porn actress” she told Larry King in 2013 that she wouldn’t return to porn because she’s too old for it, not because it was in any way offensive.

Perhaps the fact that Jameson “found” Roman Catholicism also explains how she had the pull to land an interview with Larry King.

We can only guess about what religion Karen McDougal became “religious” in, but no guesses are necessary for the Trump lawyer being trumpeted as the epicenter of Porn Scandal II: Michael Cohen is Jewish.

Once again, we see a Hebrew in a high-profile but low-influence position bolstering the “conspiracy theory” I maintain that willing Jews are human shields for Romans.

It was here that I noticed Peter Reilly getting involved.  He had “hearted” a “tweet” from Stephanie “Stormy Daniels” Clifford that I found quite obnoxious.

Once again I found myself on one end of an issue and Peter on another.

Being temperamental and ornery (shocking, I know), I messaged a ribbing to Peter.

Being even-tempered and reserved (might I call him “cagey”?), he side-stepped the issue and opened a dialogue.

I wanted to stay angry but, instead, I was disarmed and intrigued.  In fact, it was damn Jesuitical of him!

I realized that I had squandered three years by not reaching out to Peter sooner.

If nothing else, I could attempt to understand how a Jesuit-trained Forbes CPA sees things.  Hell, maybe I might be able to win him over in some way.

If anything, the three years since Peter and I first met have seen me align perfectly with him on the subject of Kent Hovind.

I now see Hovind, not as an unsung hero, but as a reckless, selfish and incompetent father, husband and Christian steward at best and an agent of deception at worst.

Is Kent Hovind a Roman Luciferian?

To begin with, Kent is a “Creationist” like Ken Ham: a Christian who seeks to put dinosaurs in the Garden of Eden.

This tactic does more harm than good and one wonders if men like this know that.

If anything, a much more radical understanding of our cosmology does far more to validate the Bible and, if carefully examined, gives more real observational (“zetetic”) evidence.

Such an examination has been maligned as “flat Earth” but, without the labels, this community asks some serious questions the “experts” seem ill-equipped to answer.

Daring To Think The Un-Thinkable

For instance, if you make your own observations, the sun and moon appear to be nearly exactly the same size and relatively close to your position.

However, experts claim that moon has a radius of 1,079 miles while the sun has a radius 432,169 miles—roughly 400x bigger.

These same experts claim that the moon is 238,900 miles away from the Earth and that the sun is 92.96 million miles away.  By “random chance”, the sun is 400x bigger than the moon but also 400x further away giving it the “optical illusion” of being the same size.  If this weren’t the case, eclipses would be impossible.

At best this is an astounding case for “intelligent design” behind the creation of our “universe”.

According to NASA, the Earth is spinning at 1,000 mph (breaking the 767mph sound barrier) at the equator.  The Earth revolves around the sun at 67,000 mph.  The solar system moves through the Milky Way at 500,000 mph.  The Milky Way moves through the universe at 670,000,000 mph.

All that movement and yet the North Star is right there, day after day, year after year, century after century.

NASA assures us that, again, our eyes are playing tricks on us and this is another “optical illusion” created by the vast distance between the Earth and the North Star.  Just trust them...really!

The experts tell us that the Earth is a spinning globe with a radius of approximately 3,965 miles.  Google explains that “Using the Pythagorean theorem, that calculates to an average curvature of 7.98 inches per mile or approximately 8 inches per mile (squared).”  That means that, across 1 mile, there is an 8 inch drop to the horizon.  At 2 miles, there is a 64 inch drop (5¹/₃^rds feet).  At 10 miles the drop is 66²/₃^rds feet and at 100 miles it’s an ominous 666²/₃^rds feet.

There are many places around “the globe” where the naked eye can see far beyond any perceived “curvature” but then the “experts” say you can’t trust the ups and downs of terrain.

You can, however, trust that water always finds its own level.  If you pour coffee into a cup with hills of sugar, it’s still a flat, calm surface once you pour enough.  If you then travel to the Suez Canal you see an astounding 120-mile-long surface with no detectable drop to the horizon.

Even more interesting is how flight of either the tiniest insect or the most massive aircraft isn’t affected by the Earth’s rotation in the slightest.  If the Earth rotates from east to west, air travel in one cardinal direction should take twice as long or be twice as short in another.  Of course, this is difficult to observe as an airline passenger thanks to crazy and seemingly inefficient connecting flights—but I’m sure there’s a logical reason for them.

The experts tell us that, no, you can’t keep water on a spinning ball or have centrifugal force negated for anything on the surface of that ball but if the ball gets really, really big, at some magical point unknown to “science” something called “gravity” cancels the effect of movement and keeps everything conveniently in place.  You can’t test this for yourself, you again have to trust the experts.

The experts tell us that the Earth’s atmosphere is composed of 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 0.9% argon, and 0.03% carbon dioxide along with other trace elements and water vapor.  Just outside that atmosphere is the icy-cold vacuum of space.  If you were to try and duplicate that, the vacuum would instantly rip the atmosphere away but, again, we are told to trust to the magic of “gravity” and the knowledge of the “experts”.

For instance, Albert Einstein’s “Special Theory of Relativity” does explain how “gravity” makes you feel “relative” to a stable, flat plain instead of a ball spinning faster than the speed of sound...it’s just too complex for you to understand.

Consequently, “conspiracy theorists” have begun to question whether the Jewish scientist was trying to deceitfully pull the collective wool over our eyes.  The fact that his close friend was a Jesuit-trained Belgian Catholic priest named Georges Lemaître has nothing to do with it, we’re sure!

However, I must mention that Lemaître is the astronomer who rose to the occasion and provided an answer on behalf of Darwinian evolutionists for the question, “If this all happened by random chance, how did it start without God?”  Lemaître’s response can basically be summarized as “First there was nothing, and then it exploded”.  The “scientific” phrase is “Big Bang Theory”.

One wouldn’t expect a Jesuit-trained Catholic priest to be so helpful to the Darwinians but in 2014 the Jesuit Pope, himself, reaffirmed that both “evolution” and the “Big Bang” are “real”.

Jesuits have run to the aid of floundering Darwinians more than you know.

Critics of the champion of chimpanzee conjecture caused a conundrum with the query “What was the adaptive ‘link’ between apes and man?”  During the awkward silence, Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J., thought he would help things along a bit.  When no fossil could be found to provide the evidence, he simply fabricated one; “Piltdown Man”.

What was a Father who was known as the “father of New Age spiritism” doing hoaxing archeological evidence?  Perhaps the accusation that a top priority of the “Society of Jesus” is to discredit the Bible doesn’t seem quite so inflammatory.

At this point, tinfoil-hat-types are beginning to ask in the language of Rome, “Cui bono?”  “Who benefits?”  If the Catholic Church is “Christian”, why has it been so helpful to the Darwinian atheists who manage to explain away the Creation?

Actually, Rome has been far more helpful than you’ve been told and the motive is to attack and discredit the Bible, forcing the Pope to be acknowledged as the premier authority on both “science” and “spirtuality”.

Interestingly, both Kent Hovind and Ken Ham⁴ join the Jesuit Pope in disregard for these criticisms of modern “science”.  In fact, they go even further and vehemently attack them.  —Odd behavior for men who claim that validating the Bible is their highest priority.

But from a “conspiracy theorist” perspective, Kent is even more appealing to “the Machine” because of the quagmire of protesting taxation.

There can be no doubt that the complexity of the tax code is a form of tyranny.  America will never see a flat tax nor will any governmental authority examine the Sixteenth Amendment despite some interesting claims that it was unconstitutionally ratified.  In fact, a really sharp pleader could even make a case against the Sixteenth Amendment based upon Original Intent of the Constitution—the idea that the Federal government is entitled to skim your paycheck before you receive it and what it skims, it arbitrates from year to year.

The very fact that we need specialized Jesuit-trained CPAs like Peter J. Reilly proves this point.  Even if the tax code isn’t weaponized to target producers and common citizens, its complexity is in-and-of-itself a bulwark that the super-rich can hide behind by highering armies of Peter J. Reillys to help squirrel away their wealth in legendary “offshore accounts”.

When It Comes to Taxes, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Have 1 Thing in Common, The Nation
Tax avoidance by the wealthiest Americans—including the presidential front-runners—costs the U.S. government an additional $130 billion per year.¹⁰

Encouraging citizens who are discontented and disenfranchised with a weaponized tax code to “protest” it “ghetto-style” by simply not paying it is the ultimate sucker punch.  As the old saw goes, “You can’t fight City Hall” and Kent Hovind proved that resoundingly.

Worse, Hovind failed those who depended upon him most.  He refused to provide the safety nets of health and life insurance required by law for his employees and his premeditated tactics such as “structuring” (keeping transactions under $10,000 for the purposes of tax avoidance) netted his wife, Jo, jail time as an accomplice.

She stayed with him through both their confinements but, sadly, after he was released from prison, they divorced.

As far as I’m concerned, Peter Reilly fairly destroys any defense by Hovind and his “Hovindicators”.

Kent Hovind Not A Tax Protester?

Kent Hovind adamantly maintains that he is not a “tax protester”.  I have some issues with that.  If you go to the flagship website of his supporters #FreeKent you can follow the links to Proof Number one “Letters from professionals absolve Kent Hovind from all wrong-doing”.  The first letter is from Kent to one of the professionals and starts with:

“I am writing to request your professional opinion regarding the voluntary nature of Form 1040.”

The responses are something of potpourri of tax protester arguments, that have been ruled by courts to be frivolous.  As Hovindicators often correctly point out Kent Hovind was not convicted of tax evasions, so the letters, which were clearly meant to set up what is called a Cheek defense, really have little to do with what he was convicted of.

Then there is Creation Science 103:Class 6 “Income Tax”

A bit after the two minute mark Kent says that everybody should follow the law including the government and that he has not filed in 28 years and if there is a law that requires filing, he would like to see it.  The discussion that follows has nothing to do with his status as a minister and his vow of poverty.  A bit past the six minute mark he launches into the explanation as to why trading services for money is not “income”.  At 7:30, he gives a qualified plug to Irwin Schiff, who may well have originated many of the arguments used by, for lack of a better term, tax protesters.  Irwin Schiff is also in federal prison.

One disingenuous thing Peter does do is conflate shocking aspects about the case against Hovind as synonymous with his “defense”.¹²

The arguments that are brought forth in defense of Kent Hovind are multifarious and include things like Jo Hovind not being allowed to put on a robe when she was arrested, a prosecutor who committed suicide when arrested as a pedophile and Judge Margaret Casey Rodgers not allowing open Bibles in the courtroom during the trial.

* Kent Hovind’s wife was treated by authorities with needless brutality unbecoming a citizen’s understanding of who their “law enforcement” is composed of.
* Kent Hovind’s (assistant) prosecutor was a pedophile.
* Kent Hovind’s judge was a vehemently anti-Christian woman.¹¹

Of course these facts have nothing to do with whether Hovind was guilty of tax evasion.

But they absolutely add weight to the accusation of my third book that the United States is secretly controlled by a cabal of Christian-hating pedophiles based in Rome.

This may seem droll and passé to Peter because of the faulty logic used by Hovind and his “Hovindicators”—

Kent regularly brings up the fact that one of the prosecutors in his first trial was John David Roy Atchison who hung himself in a prison cell after being arrested in a pedophile sting.  My hesitancy in listening to even more interviews has to do with not wanting to, once again, hear about the doll and the jar of Vaseline that Atchison had in his possession when arrested.  The implication is that someone as wicked as Atchison must have spent his time prosecuting godly people.

—but it has nothing to do with tax evasion at the citizen level and everything to do with corruption and conspiracy at the national and (forgive me) “global” levels.

I can think of few things more foolish than fighting a war with the United States government in its own judiciary in an effort to deprive the government of your money which it claims it is entitled to.

Across the decades, politicians have over-spent twenty one trillion dollars of your money.  The numbers are actuallybeyond comprehension.

You can easily make a case that any politician involved in the guaranteed fiscal collapse of the United States has committed treason.

Not very long ago, those convicted of treason were executed.

To think that you can deprive the government of your money without an army of lawyers and/or accountants is beyond folly; it’s suicide.

To encourage those who trust you to do the same is a heinous betrayal of that trust.

What’s more, if you have a distrust of government, wouldn’t it follow that a corrupt court would rather frame you and/or change its rules than see you win at their own game?

A single successful “tax protester” brings down the entire system.  With “all the marbles” at stake, the side that owns all of the machine guns, armored trucks, helicopters, radios and CCTV cameras wins.

If this is common sense (and it is), there are only two explanations for why someone would willingly attempt a no-win fight like this:

1) The individual in question is not processing this information as a healthy adult.  Failure to receive and process accurate information is no excuse.  A mature adult knows that if you don’t know how to fly a plane, you don’t volunteer to take your family for a vacation flight with yourself at the helm.

2) The individual in question is an agent of deception being used to lure disenfranchised citizens into committing suicide with them.  Variations on this include a dupe who is manipulated to become even more appealing than without help, to a fully-trained operative who is in no real danger of prosecution.

At best, I can only hope that Kent Hovind is a dysfunctional dupe but it is noteworthy that, upon his release from prison, he not only jumped feet-first into the “flat Earth” debate, both on the wrong side and seemingly without proper investigation, he also has warned against understanding prophetic passages of Scripture like Daniel 2 and 7 or Revelation 17 thru 20 as having anything to do with the Catholic Church.

When I first started to question the role and power of the Vatican, the only “expert” to pop up that had reliable information was “Eric Jon Phelps”.

Phelps labels himself a “White Separatist American Freeman, Dispensational, Fifth Monarchy, Seventh-Day Baptist-Calvinist”.

Racial division is one of the most powerful “divide and conquer” weapons that has been used both repeatedly and successfully by the Elite.

Phelps also offers a 3-day course in how to litigate against the United States government.  For $2,000 you can learn to turn the “ALL CAPS” of official documents against the Leviathan!

Recently, Phelps was promoted in his local newspaper as the arch-typical “anti-Catholic white separatist”.  He dispenses information about the Vatican that is unavailable anywhere else and then he completely discredits himself with Jesuit Biblical eschatology, racism and a “solution” that is patently absurd: start his own country.

It’s great press...for the Catholic Church.

Eric Phelps’s Reformation Bible Puritan Baptist Church is Lebanon County’s only organization plotted on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s map of hate groups, but his picturesque farmhouse near Newmanstown doesn’t look like a headquarters of hate. ...

While he insists he isn’t hateful, Phelps is a proud and active advocate of racial separation and anti-Catholicism — and he has big plans for Lebanon County.  His goal: a community that secedes from the United States and Pennsylvania, is devoid of Hispanics, African-Americans and Catholics, institutes the death penalty for “doing dope,” and forbids homosexuality and adultery.

“These Hispanics and these blacks that commit crime everywhere — they have reduced Lebanon to nothing but a savage war zone, for the most part.  That’s all done by the Pope — he brought them in here,” Phelps said.  “If I can’t have (racial separation) in Lebanon, I’ll move to another county where we can do it, but we have to go to a white county that’s historically Protestant.”

Phelps isn’t idle while waiting for the consummation of that dream.  He pastors his church, which meets in his home to study the Bible and eat fellowship meals of “white Protestant cuisine,” like meat and potatoes.  Attendees include his family and a few others, but his personal invitation is required to join.

He also broadcasts an Internet radio program with followers around the world and hosts “private citizenship” classes in Myerstown that have been attended by as many as 25 paying customers, he said, preaching an anti-Catholic gospel message wherever he goes.

In 2008, Phelps was a speaker at the 8^th Annual “Conspiracy Conference” or “Con-Con”.  He presented his material dressed as and speaking as, a Jesuit priest.

Again, I am reminded of the preamble reputed to be used for a Jesuit “Fourth Vow” ceremony:

My son, heretofore you have been taught to act the dissembler: among Roman Catholics to be a Roman Catholic, and to be a spy even among your own brethren; to believe no man, to trust no man.  Among the Reformers, to be a reformer; among the Huguenots, to be a Huguenot; among the Calvinists, to be a Calvinist; among other Protestants, generally to be a Protestant, and obtaining their confidence, to seek even to preach from their pulpits, and to denounce with all the vehemence in your nature our Holy Religion and the Pope; and even to descend so low as to become a Jew among Jews, that you might be enabled to gather together all information for the benefit of your Order as a faithful soldier of the Pope.

You have been taught to insidiously plant the seeds of jealousy and hatred between communities, provinces, states that were at peace, and incite them to deeds of blood, involving them in war with each other, and to create revolutions and civil wars in countries that were independent and prosperous, cultivating the arts and the sciences and enjoying the blessings of peace.  To take sides with the combatants and to act secretly with your brother Jesuit, who might be engaged on the other side, but openly opposed to that with which you might be connected, only that the Church might be the gainer in the end, in the conditions fixed in the treaties for peace and that the end justifies the means.

You have been taught your duty as a spy, to gather all statistics, facts and information in your power from every source; to ingratiate yourself into the confidence of the family circle of Protestants and heretics of every class and character, as well as that of the merchant, the banker, the lawyer, among the schools and universities, in parliaments and legislatures, and the judiciaries and councils of state, and to be all things to all men, for the Pope’s sake, whose servants we are unto death.

Adding to the evidence of this tactic, I have chronicled several moments in history that seem to fit my premise with sinking perfection: the repeated betrayal of oppressed Patriots in Communist tyrannies by the CIA—an organization founded and run by Roman Catholics.

Again and again, the Central Intelligence Agency has enabled the radical Left and Communism to maintain stasis and stability as an important factor in the Hegelian Dialectic of thesis, antithesis, synthesis (more colloquially known as “problem, reaction, solution”).  Communists and Communist nations were always behind the West in technology, capability and prosperity.  As a result, Roman-controlled bankers, billionaires and intelligence bureaus repeatedly betrayed their Western nations of birth to keep the Communists afloat — sometimes with vicious results.

Bohemian Grove regular Dwight Eisenhower⁴⁶² repeatedly promised in his 1952 campaign to “liberate” the Eastern European nations that were given to Joseph Stalin (reputed to be a Freemason, guaranteed to have been influenced by Freemasonry⁴⁶³ and was a Roman Catholic with Jewish heritage trained to be a Jesuit priest⁴⁶⁴) by Scottish Rite and Shriner Freemason Franklin Roosevelt⁴⁶⁵ along with Freemason Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (Studholme Lodge 1591⁴⁶⁶).  The game was rigged from the beginning.

Eisenhower was the perfect puppet.  He somehow managed to avoid a single leadership billet throughout his entire military career (never a Platoon Leader, Company Commander, Battalion Commander, Brigade or Division Commander) until becoming Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force⁴⁶⁷ just prior to becoming Supreme Allied Commander, Europe.  Armchair warriors make the best yes-men.

The modus operandi of Jesuit-controlled Freemasonic Western leadership was to set up the real Communist-fighting Patriots and then pull the rug out from underneath them.

Chinese revolutionary Chiang Kai-shek had the power and popular support to guarantee barring Communists entry into China so General “Vinegar Joe” Stillwell, General George C. Marshal and President Franklin Roosevelt made sure he failed and was overthrown (particularly in prohibiting necessary supplies like small arms⁴⁶⁸) guaranteeing the advent of Mao Zedong; a true monster who murdered so many of his own people that the counts are unsure even today but they start at 60,000,000.⁴⁶⁹

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was another example of treason and betrayal by Rome’s intelligence puppets.  Traitors in the West had been pleading with Hungarian Patriots to revolt —

It is a well-known fact that Radio Free Europe and the Voice of America in the 1950s encouraged resistance to — if not an outright revolt against — Communist oppression.  In a 1998 interview with CNN, Hungarian Ambassador to the U.S. Geza Jeszensky, who was 15 years old at the time of the revolution, remarked: “I kept listening to Radio Europe like 10 million Hungarians did.  Radio Free Europe certainly encouraged the Hungarians to resist the Soviets.  But it was not Radio Free Europe which instigated the Hungarian Revolution.  Perhaps the Hungarians were misled, not by the radio, but by the propaganda language by the U.S. administration.  It spoke about liberation and rollback.  Eisenhower kept speaking about liberation, but as a historian put it, it proved to be only a myth.  Liberation was not meant seriously.”²  Radio Free Europe also had an impact on [Soviet] Premier [Nikolai Alexandrovich] Bulganin and his Politburo.³ ~ Thomas J. Torda, Ph.D., The American-Hungarian Federation⁴⁷⁰

Once Hungarian Patriots were convinced to commit themselves, Western traitors stepped back and Soviet brutality stepped in.  [italics suspended]

The defeat of the Hungarian revolution was one of the darkest moments of the Cold War.  At certain points since its outbreak on October 23 the revolt looked like it was on the verge of an amazing triumph.  The entire nation appeared to have taken up arms against the regime.  Rebels, often armed with nothing more than kitchen implements and gasoline, were disabling Soviet tanks and achieving other — sometimes small but meaningful — victories throughout the country.  On October 31, the tide seemed to turn overwhelmingly in the revolution’s favor when Pravda published a declaration promising greater equality in relations between the USSR and its East European satellites.  One sentence was of particular interest.  It read: “[T]he Soviet Government is prepared to enter into the appropriate negotiations with the government of the Hungarian People’s Republic and other members of the Warsaw Treaty on the question of the presence of Soviet troops on the territory of Hungary.”

...Washington’s role in the Hungarian revolution soon became mired in controversy.  One of the most successful weapons in the East-West battle for the hearts and minds of Eastern Europe was the CIA-administered Radio Free Europe.  But in the wake of the uprising, RFE’s broadcasts into Hungary sometimes took on a much more aggressive tone, encouraging the rebels to believe that Western support was imminent, and even giving tactical advice on how to fight the Soviets.  The hopes that were raised, then dashed, by these broadcasts cast an even darker shadow over the Hungarian tragedy that leaves many Hungarians embittered to this day. 

Once the Soviets made up their minds to eliminate the revolution, it took only a few days to complete the main military phase of the operation.  By November 7 — coincidentally, the anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution — Soviet forces were firmly enough in control of the country that Kádár could take the oath of office in the Parliament building (even though the Nagy government had never formally resigned). ~ Malcolm Byrne, NSA Archive⁴⁷¹

To make absolutely sure Soviet armor had as much time as was needed to slaughter as many Hungarian Patriots as possible, Eisenhower had his Ambassador to the United Nations, Adlai Ewing Stevenson II, delay any possible U.N. intervention.⁴⁷²

The exact same scenario replayed itself 12 years later in Czechoslovakia.  After goading Czech Patriots into action for the 1968 “Prague Spring”, all of Western Intelligence not only went silent, it went dark.

... 27 divisions of Soviet Russians, Poles, Hungarians and Bulgarians — around 300,000 men, armed with 2,000 heavy cannons — marched into the small state of Czechoslovakia to end the experiment of “socialism with a human face.” It was the largest military operation since the World War II...

For months, the eyes of the world had been on Prague, where a group of officials around Communist Party chief Alexander Dubcek had challenged the Soviets with new civil rights for Czechoslovakia, new press freedoms and plans for privatization.  Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the USSR’s Communist Party, ordered a number of threatening military maneuvers in and around Czechoslovakia starting in May. 

But when the maneuvers grew serious, the American, British and German governments seemed to look the other way, judging by documents from the NATO archive in Brussels as well as intelligence files seen by SPIEGEL.  “Not a single evaluation” managed to predict the Soviet invasion of Prague, according to the NATO Military Committee, the alliance’s highest military authority.  ~ Der Spiegel⁴⁷³

Western media pushed the laughable idea that — despite Western leaders being given daily (probably hourly) briefs on Czechoslovakia — a WWII-sized Soviet invasion force was simply “lost” to the combined efforts of Allied intelligence operations.

Seven years earlier, in 1961, a similar treason was conducted on the Patriots of Cuba.  These Cuban exiles, however, had direct interaction with the CIA in their training, organization, equipping and transportation.

They received everything except what they needed most; a flight of 6 A-26 Invaders as air support.  National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy (Skull and Bones 1940) personally saw to this betrayal as has been noted by Air Force Colonel and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chief of Special Operations for President Kennedy, Leroy Fletcher Prouty.⁴⁷⁴

Bundy would go on to blame John F. Kennedy for sabotaging the Bay of Pigs leading up to his assassination by the Jesuit-run CIA⁴⁷⁵ as well as see to it that CIA fingerprints were covered up.⁴⁷⁶ ~ Secret History, Johnny Cirucci, CreateSpace (November 24^th, 2016), pp. 524-529

What’s my solution?  —It certainly isn’t to fight the government at its own game.

There is deep wisdom in the way Jesus dealt with the issue—but keep in mind that it was presented to Him as a trap with no right answer.

Then the Pharisees went and plotted how they might entangle Him in His talk.  And they sent to Him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that You are true, and teach the way of God in truth; nor do You care about anyone, for You do not regard the person of men.  Tell us, therefore, what do You think?  Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”

But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test Me, you hypocrites?  Show Me the tax money.”

So they brought Him a denarius.

And He said to them, “Whose image and inscription is this?”

They said to Him, “Caesar’s.”

And He said to them, “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

When they had heard these words, they marveled, and left Him and went their way. ~ Matthew 22:15-22, New King James Version

It’s not a stretch to interpret Jesus’ words to mean, “The game is rigged so stop trying to beat the dealer.”

The Roman Empire of Christ’s time ruled overtly by tyranny and military occupation but the Roman Empire of our time can only rule by hiding itself behind the illusion that we’re still in control.

If that curtain of deception is ripped away, one can easily see those who were fooled into serving the Fateful City, turning upon her.

Then he said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues.  And the ten horns which you saw on the Beast, these will hate the Harlot, make her desolate and naked, eat her flesh and burn her with fire.  For God has put it into their hearts to fulfill His Purpose, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the Beast, until the Words of God are fulfilled.  And the woman whom you saw is that great city which reigns over the kings of the Earth.” ~ Revelation 17:15-18

1.  Although this might seem to be a Left-wing agenda, it would’ve been a healthy move towards stemming the “Global War on Terror”.  Holding “terrorists” offshore provides the United States military and the Central Intelligence Agency with loopholes regarding humane treatment of victims.  It’s no coincidence that the facility is in the nation of America’s vehement Communist “enemy”, Cuba.  Fidel Castro learned tyranny and Communism through three separate Jesuit institutions while growing up; Colegio Lasalle and the Colegio Dolores, in Santiago and the Colegio Belen, a Jesuit preparatory school in Havana.  The mistreatment of prisoners guarantees that, if they ever leave Guantanamo, if they weren’t “terrorists” coming in, they were going out.  Obama’s CIA Director, Jesuit-trained Roman Catholic John Brennan did the same.  His indiscriminate drone attacks, in blatant disregard for any nation’s sovereign airspace, guaranteed more, rather than fewer, enemies of the United States.  The agenda may even be more sinister than that.  During the September 11^th 2012 attack on the CIA waystation in Benghazi, Libya, a former Guantanamo detainee was there and may even have lead the raid.  The CIA has been accused of doling out weapons to jihadis out of Benghazi and it has been rumored that Ambassador Chris Stevens arrived because someone at the State Department had qualms about including surface-to-air missiles in the plan.  Not only was Stevens captured, tortured and murdered (insuring that his mission was not accomplished), his escape to a “safe room” was thwarted by terrorists who had inside information.  Was that information given to the likes of Sufian bin Qumu during his “visit” to Guantanamo Bay?
2.  Jesuit admirers say this nickname derives from the humble black priest’s cassock the Superior General always wears while detractors say it stems from the dark, evil, all-encompassing power wielded by Loyola’s successor.  They may even make the accusation that the Clinton Administration attack on Waco (where 80 men, women and children were burned alive, Inquisition style) and the blowing up of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma city “commemorate” Loyola’s Generalship.  All three happened on April 19^th.  For more terrible events on or about April 19^th, read my book Illuminati Unmasked!
3.  Perhaps there is something, after all, to the rumored “Fourth Vow of Extreme Unction” as it acknowledges “You have been taught to insidiously plant the seeds of jealousy and hatred between communities, provinces, states that were at peace, and incite them to deeds of blood, involving them in war with each other, and to create revolutions and civil wars in countries that were independent and prosperous, cultivating the arts and the sciences and enjoying the blessings of peace.  To take sides with the combatants and to act secretly with your brother Jesuit, who might be engaged on the other side, but openly opposed to that with which you might be connected, only that the Church might be the gainer in the end, in the conditions fixed in the treaties for peace and that the end justifies the means.”
4.  By a “quirk” of serendipity, both men share the initials “K.H.”  —or is there something more at work here...?
5.  A “porn actress” with a man’s middle name?  This implies parental misconduct of a perverse nature.  Unfortunately, when children grow up to be involved in perversion, the roots usually run through the parents.
6.  As I’m fond of quoting from the Luciferian movie produced by Disney and Marvel, Dr. Strange, “The bill comes due.”  For the wages of sin is death, but the Gift of God is Eternal Life in Christ Jesus our Lord. ~ Romans 6:23
7.  Hey, it sounds good when you’re breathing the rarefied air of a billionaire with his super-model Catholic wife—although, I guess not “super-model” enough.
8.  “Farnese” is one of the names that should be coming up when you research who really rules the world behind the scenes; as well as Medici, Orsini, Aldobrandini, Colonna, Borgia and Breakspeare.  Instead, “Rothschild” and “Rockefeller” are delivered to you, courtesy of the search engine whose birthday is the same as the Company of Loyola.  However, there have never been any Rothschild Bishops, Cardinals or Popes whereas those other names have been staples in Roman clergy.
9.  That’s just a conjecture to open your mind to the plausibility of the “scandal” being contrived.  Unfortunately, it’s just as plausible that a billionaire pervert bought himself nookie with a porn star.  I’m sure it was more distasteful than her usual “co-stars” but also a lot quicker.
10.  Even here the Leftists at “the Nation” spin this important story in the wrong direction: the issue isn’t how much “people’s candidate” frauds like Trump and Hillary “cost the government”.  The issue is that the rules are always different for the Elite.  The bloated, parasitic government syphons your life blood but those who rule over you are insulated from the bloodletting.
11.  If you’ve heard my show, I frequently mock the far-Left culture of women in authority positions they often show evidence of not being qualified for, inserting their maiden name without a hyphen to confuse those around them.
12.  To his credit, this is unlike the galante CPA and, perhaps we’ll just write it off to being “unclear”.  So-called “Hovindicators” have offered up these facts as conflated with Hovind’s defense and Peter simply parroted them rather than be clear.  He may have little reason to but it’s all a smoking gun for me!