Takeover Complete

A quiet takeover has already happened. Once you've got the government and the judiciary in your control, what's next? The military. The debate over Don't Ask, Don't Tell is only the tip of the iceberg. The Air Force Academy had been a place where leadership for the force and the country had been developed. The code of ethics still states " Military professionals must remember that religious choice is a matter of individual conscience" and new recruits had been met by an assortment of pastors, priests, and rabbis. But the Academy is now for the purpose of creating Christian warriors (the "leadership" part is gone) and if the pastor isn't Evangelical he watches from the balcony as the new recruit is exhorted to convert his classmates. This commentary contains a long list of how that code of ethics has been violated by the military brass. Some is even backed by law. In 2005 the Public Expression of Religion Act says that attorneys who successfully challenge government actions that violate the establishment clause of the First Amendment shall not be entitled to recover attorney's fees. The military has completely blown apart the separation of Church and State and we can no longer sue the government to correct it. Perhaps Iraq is a good thing -- it keeps the troops from turning their zeal against the American populace. Alas, you can imagine what that is doing to our reputation abroad.