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Greenleaf wants homeowners to arm themselves

10:54 AM MDT on Friday, September 22, 2006

GREANLEAF - A small Canyon County town is considering a city ordinance that would recommend every homeowner have a gun and know how to use it.

A Greenleaf city council member proposed the idea as part of a plan to handle civil emergencies.

It would create citizen response teams and neighborhood watch groups, but would also recommend citizens own a gun and ammunition.

"We aren't choosing to pick a fight. We're choosing to organize and learn how to defend our own homes," said Greenleaf Mayor Brad Holton.

Holton assumes nearly every person living in his town already owns a gun.

"That's just the nature of our community," said Holton.

So he says little would be changed by adopting this ordinance that "recommends every head of household maintain a firearm and ammunition."

"It's requesting. It's not requiring," said Holton.

Holton says this is part of a larger plan to establish an organized response to a town emergency and a way to ensure Greenleaf's way of life is protected.

"The law enforcement agencies are not able to take care of each person and each private property, so it's up to local cities and local governments to develop a plan of how you're going to do that," said Holton.

The ordinance not only recommends gun ownership. It also recommends training on how to use them.

“If I was a burglar or if I was wanting to cause harm and I had all these cities to go to, why would I pick a city that is organized and trained? I wouldn't. I'd pick a city who isn't," said Holton.

Not everyone in town is in favor of the plan. Quakers founded this city a century ago.

“Historically, we're one of the peace churches," said Friends of Greenleaf Church Pastor Alan Weinacht.

Pastor Alan Weinacht says this ordinance goes too far.

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"I'm not going to support that. I think that is falling into that culture of fear, and I'm not going to support that. I'm not going to encourage it. I think that's stepping over a line. It's where we don't need to go," said Weinacht.

Weinacht isn't opposed to owning a gun. He has a few himself but says the city has no business encouraging the use of firearms under any circumstance.

"If we would invest as much time into thinking about creative non-violent responses to violence as we did violent responses, we'd probably gain some ground," said Weinacht.

He sees this proposal could too easily be seen as a call to arms or the development of a city-created militia.

"I think the burden is upon city council to prove this is not what this is about, because it sure sounds like it," said Weinacht.

"Greenleaf isn't about being a vigilante, it's probably the exact opposite. It's a peaceful, small community and quality of life is very, very important to the people that are here," said Holton.

A Japanese General, during World War II, once said that Japan would never had tried to invade because in America "there is a gun behind every blade of grass."

Arm Yourselves.

Just some extra stuff...

If you are going to comment, please use a pen name, your real name, a nick name, anything that you will be able to use time and time again. Hell, even sign up. I would like to be able to identify who is saying what, to possibly create somewhat of a community of people who want to talk about this stuff, NO MATTER WHAT SIDE OF THE ARGUMENT THEY ARE ON (I stress this because I WANT other people to post here). I am willing to even monitor and moderate an entire forum based on political discussions for people up here at PSU, or anywhere for that matter. But I have a very hard time getting the word out due to the lack of help from the Collegian and my large workload from classes and work. What the Collegian doesn't allow is everyone's opinions to be heard or at least stated where anyone can access them. I am willing to provide this, free of charge. I already have a forum set up for it, I am just waiting for the word to spread. The Collegian could do this.

A History Lesson

This was just sent in to the Daily Collegian in response to Alex Muller's editorial:

This is directed to Alex Muller.

Over 450 years before the crusaders entered Jerusalem, Mohammed said this, "Accept Islam and you will be safe."

632: Mohammed Dies

634: Sophronius makes a Christmas sermon complaining of the Moslems' "savage, barbarous and bloody sword" and how difficult that sword has made life for Christians.

638: The Moslems sack Jerusalem. This marks the begining of centuries of Moslem aggression, and Christians in the Holy Land faced an escalating spiral of persecution.

Early in the 8th Century, sixty Christian pilgrims from Amorium were crucified; around the same time, the Moslem Governor of Caesara seized a group of pilgrims from Iconium and had them all executed as spies-except for the small number of them that converted to Islam. Moslems also threaten to ransack the Church of the Resurrection if they didn't pay them money. Later in the 8th century, a Moslem ruler banned the display of the cross in Jerusalem. He also increased the anti-religious tax (jizya) that Christians had to pay and forbade them from instructing their faith, even to their own children.

772: The Caliph Mansur ordered the hands of Christians and Jews to be stamped with a distinctive symbol (Hitler?). Conversions TO Christianity were dealt with harshly; In 789, Moslems beheaded a monk that had converted from Islam and plundered the Bethlehem monastery of Saint Theodosius, killing many more of its monks. Many more suffered that fate.

Early in the 9th century, persecutions grew so severe that large number of Christians fled their home lands to Constantinople and other Christian.

923: Additional churches were destroyed.

937: Moslems go on a Palm Sunday rampage in Jerusalem, plundering and destroying the Church of Calvary and the Church of the Resurrection.

In Islamic theology, if any land has ever belonged to the House of Islam, it belongs to it forever - and Moslems must wage war to regain control over it.

974: Faced with a string of losses to the Byzantines, who had recalimed some of their territories back from the Moslems, the Sunni Calip in Baghdad declared Jihad.

1004: Shi'ite Caliph Adu 'Ali al-Mansur al-Hakim turned violently against the faith of his mother and uncles (two of whom were patriarchs), ordering the destruction of churches, the burning of crosses, and the seizure of Church property. He moved against the Jews wth similar ferocity. Over the next ten years, THIRTY THOUSAND churches were destroyed, and untold numbers of Christians converted to Islam simply to save their lives.

1009: al-Hakim gave his most spectacular anti-Christian order: He commanded that the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem be destroyed, along with several other churches (including the Church of the Resurrection). The Church of the Holy Sepulcher, rebuilt by the Byzantines in the 7th century after the Persians burned an earlier version, marks the traditional site of Christ's burial; it also served as a model for the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Al-Hakim commanded that the tomb within be cut down to the bedrock. He order Christians wear heavy crosses around their necks and for jews, a heavy block of wood in the shape of a calf. His last order was to accept Islam or leave his dominions, which were conquered Christian and Jewish lands.

The Byzantines rebuilt the Church of the Holy Sepulcher after al-Hakim had vanished, which is included in the story that started the sect called Druze. Nevertheless, in 1056, the Muslims expelled 300 Christians from Jerusalem and forbad european Christians from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the most holy of sites for Christians, taken over by the Moslems.

The Moslem Seljuk Turks swept down from Central Asia enforcing new Islamic rigor on the people, and in 1071 chrushed the Byzantines at Manzikert, taking the emperor Romanus IV prisoner.

1076: The Seljuk Turks conquered Syria.

1077: The Seljuk Turks conquered Jerusalem, promising not to harm the inhabitants. Once the Turks entered the city, 3000 people were murdered.

The Christian Byzantium empire, which before Islam's bloody wars of conquest, which were started by its founder, had ruled over a vast expanse including southern Italy, North Africa, the Middle East and Arabia. Now their lands were reduced to little more than Greece. It looked as if its death at the hands of the Moslems was imminent. The Church of Constantinople considered the popes schismatic and had squabbled with them for centuries, but the new emperor Alexius I Comenus, swallowed his pride and appealed for help.

And that is how the First Crusade came about: It was in response to the Byzantine Emperor's call for help.

Mohammed is the first founder of a religion to see his religion spread...and he did it with the sword and commands it to be spread by the sword by all those who embrace Islam.

A history lesson, Alex.

(Sources are mainly R. Spencer and his sources)

I do not like it when people, who are in a position of power, choose to skew history and facts by presenting them off-handed like Alex Muller. It is a serious flaw in journalism and clearly a serious flaw in his character.

Moslem Outrage Typical of the Religion of War

This was sent into the Collegian. I doubt it will be published, as I will never put any hope on a liberal institution, but you never know. I urge you all to keep your eyes on Islam, it will not be long until something like this begins to happen in the United States because we are not tapping ever single Mosque here. We will be faced with this soon enough and you will have to react, to defend, not to start the hostility, but to end it. Tell your friends, Islam is not a religion taken over by radicals, it is a radical religion allowed to thrive in a world that tolerates it. No more.

Moslem Outrage Typical of the Religion of War

I find it very hard to believe that no one at the Collegian found the events happening in Basra and most likely in every Mosque in the world newsworthy.

On Tuesday, speaking to professors in Germany, the Pope quoted the 14th Century Byzantine emperor Paleologus as saying, "Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." As any scholar of Islam would know immediately, this quote is absolutely true in its evaluation of Mohammed and his religion of War, Islam. The Pope was merely quoting Paleologus as an example of dated thoughts about Muslims, and to possibly create new dialogue on the issue of the most violent religion the world has seen. But, the real news shouldn't be what the Pope said, but how Moslems reacted to it. Violently. Burning effigies of the Pope. Throwing Molitov Cocktails at churches in Tulkarem, Tubas near Jenin, three churches in Nablus and one in Gaza. Not to mention the killing of a Catholic Nun and her bodyguard in Somalia, one of the most violent Moslem areas in the world.

When the reaction to a simple quotation is thus, you do not have to wonder why it was made in the first place.

When was the last time a Jew has thrown himself in a german subway station and blown it up. Or when was the last time a Christians in Somalia destroyed entire villages of men, women and children. Where is the violent protest and murders of Madonna and her sparkling cross that she hangs herself on in obvious mockery of the Catholic church and Christians worldwide.

That is the difference.

Discuss it at http://DoctorAwkward.blogspot.com, where anyone can say what they want for open discussion on the issue and not have to worry about being filtered out by the Collegian or any other media.

Here are a few links:

Al Qaeda threat over pope speech

Nun's Death

Does this surprise any of you?

UPDATE

The article, or most of the article was published....

Read the Collegian version here!

9/11

“A great people has been moved to defend a great nation. Terrorist attacks
can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot
touch the foundation of America. These acts shattered steel, but they
cannot dent the steel of American resolve. America was targeted for
attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity
in the world. And no one will keep that light from shining.”
President George W. Bush
September 11, 2001

I know most of you don't need reminding, but we should never forget the events of September 11th, 2001. Never forget the people whose lives were lost, or the people that were forever made heroes in the eyes of every American. The men and women who sacrificed seeing their families one last time to re-enter a building they knew was doomed. They forgot their mortal bodies and decided in an instant that something needed to be done, and they did it. It is for them, and those that died that we must, as American Citizens, forever remind ourselves and those around us of the sacrifice that all Americans made that day, a day that forever changed the face of the greatest Nation ever. We must also never forget why it happened and those that did it, for there will come a time when we must speak out, as leaders and ordinary citizens, against an evil so great that it allows their followers to take the lives of 3,000 innocent men, women and children in the highest glory it has to offer. We must never forget. We must never forgive.
-Dr. Awkward

We Will Never Forget...
We Will Never Forgive...
9/11

And it starts with the Collegian.....

I was standing on the steps of Willard today listening to my friend The Willard Preacher. I decided to grab a Daily Liberal. By carefully tossing the Sports page into the trash I opened up to the Opinions page, as I usually due. As I began to read, I felt my blood pressure rising and the rage began to build up. The Article in question is not even worthy of a reprint in my small lowly Blog. Click the link to read it but be warned, symptoms of rage and bleeding about the eyes may be had. I wrote into the Collegian with thus:

I am usually never surprised the trash that I read on the Opinions page of the Daily Collegian due to it's lack of logic and wealth of emotion. But the person who wrote the article about Lebanon and Iranian help just simply crossed the line into the outrageous and profane.

Let's get something straight first: The true Lebanese people are not Arabs. They are descendants of the Phoenicians who converted to Christianity. The Lebanese people are not Arabs or Muslims.

Now that we have that straight we can move on to the real ridiculous statements. The writer of the article has the audacity to recommend that Lebanon, who has fallen victim to the tyranny of Islam through Syrian and Iranian influence, agree to allow 15,000 troops from the country, Iran, who is supplying many of the members and weapons to Hezbollah, the Muslim Gang that runs rampant in Lebanon. I can not truly believe that this article was printed with any research done about Hezbollah, Lebanon or the Syrian/Muslim/Iranian invasion of Lebanon. The author of this article should at least be reprimanded if not fired for their obvious disregard for any type of journalistic due process. I truly hope you get a writer with some true knowledge of Middle Eastern politics and more importantly, History. I'd be more than willing.

I was truly surprised at that article. I just simply can not believe how fucking outrageous someone could be. Apparently, and I am entirely serious about this, some people are just absolutely stupid. Dr.Savage wrote a book called "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder," and the more I read the news and see this kind of shit in the paper, the more I honestly and truly believe that there is actually something wrong with Liberals because almost everything they say and do is entirely illogical and ridiculous. I hope they print the article. Maybe it'll piss some other people off and I can finally get a Muslim to ome on the site, or perhaps come to Willard for a nice friendly talk about their Cult of Death.