Laigle’s Forum

You deserve some good news

By Donald Hank

Recently Joseph Farah suggested that despite the bad batch of presidential candidates from which to choose, he is optimistic, because he believes our institutions are changing in a positive way. I believe he is on to something. Last year WND’s hardcopy periodical Whistleblower dedicated an entire issue to abortion. Despite the dismal reports it contained, eg, that more unborn babies had died in abortions since Wade-Roe than in Hitler’s and Stalin’s murder sprees combined, the whole tenor of the issue was upbeat. The good news was that it was becoming increasingly difficult to find doctors to perform abortions. This in turn, I think, was certainly due to the excellent work done on the front lines by ordinary people writing letters to legislators and newspapers, attending rallies or carrying posters and picketing at strategic locations throughout the US. There had always been a lot of controversy over those posters with graphic photos of dead fetuses and their body parts, which are certainly hard to look at and take us way out of our comfort zone.

But oddly, many of the people who hated these posters and the truth they display so graphically were the ones who wound up giving ground on the issue of abortion. These included prominent Democrats and even some of the pioneers of the abortion movement.

The truth, resisted so fiercely for so long, had ultimately sunk in and had had a devastating effect on the abortion industry. So much so that no matter who becomes president, they will have to contend with an increasingly mighty backlash against abortion, and the prospect of giving ground or losing popularity.

Likewise, in one of our recent articles, we saw how author Ryan Sorba’s speech at Smith College was curtailed by a bunch of howling lesbian termagants.

Someone who saw this article emailed me in a pessimistic tone suggesting the world may be coming to an end or the like because of this incident. I told this emailer not to worry, that things like this fix themselves when the public becomes aware of how their rights are being threatened.

I was thinking back on things that had happened in the past that would cause people gloom but that were corrected when the news came out, and not by coincidence, but precisely because the news came out and was presented in an objective way that showed how the event in question was a threat to this or that right.

For example, consider last summer’s failed amnesty bill that was killed by the grassroots in an elitist Senate that was suddenly overpowered by regular people like you and me. Or look at the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), an issue that came to a head when the presidents of the US, Mexico and Canada met secretly in Canada. The public outcry was so great that ranking officials have recently declared the SPP a dead issue. Of course, that means that it will morph into something else, which in turn will have to be exposed to the sunlight.

The good news is that the public outcry against supranational enterprises of this type has helped chip away at the stealthy effectiveness with which they had once succeeded almost unopposed. Laigle’s Forum played a part with some of our articles beginning back in June 2006 with a 3 part series containing: an original column entitled The supranational movement; our translation from the HazteOir web site (in Spain) entitled The call effect in Spain, and our translation (from the Portuguese) of Olavo de Carvalho’s scholarly expose Behind the subversion, and later others, including my column at WorldNetDaily entitled Europe’s frog stew and a column entitled The EU is an evil empire.

But getting back to the riot at Smith College, here is why I am no longer worried that our First Amendment may not survive the homosexual onslaught:

Today there was this video at ABC News that shows a sea change.

Now don’t be surprised if ABC has taken it down by the time you click. But the damage has been done, and not to our side, but to the homosexual cause. This video is the first report I have ever seen presented at a mainstream news site (I assume it aired on TV) in which the reporter actually show objectively how homosexual bullies deny people their rights, muzzle opponents and squelch debate.

What really stunned me was that, with a candor and balance I have never seen in the mainstream news, the reporter tells us that a member of the American Psychiatric Association had tried for 2 years to organize a symposium discussing why people become gay and whether a gay can “go straight,” but that the gay community had staged a protest so vigorous that the symposium had to be cancelled. Until this time, the public had not been privy to the fact that the gay agenda is directly opposed to free discussion. The report concludes:

“He [the organizer of the symposium] wishes people would stop shouting and start talking.”

I have been outspoken about homosexual issues in the past and was never intimidated by these activists. I like to think this is because I have always taken my orders from my Commander-in-Chief, who said I was to love sinners. My theory is that perhaps those who shy away from confrontations, or give in to “gay” marriage demands, for example, are those who down inside really do hate, resent or fear gay people and are afraid these untoward feelings might surface in a confrontation (as they did, for example, when Michael Savage told a homosexual caller: “you should die of AIDS”). At any rate, for whatever reason, by and large, the media, including most of the “conservative” media, have always been particularly gutless in countering or even questioning the gay agenda.

But ABC has started a trend that, in my perception, is new. It was long overdue.

I also suspect that Ben Stein’s expose of academic intolerance has actually shaken more than a few consciences, just like those pro-life activists who mightily smote the national conscience, and his film Expelled may in fact have influenced ABC’s reporters.

At any rate, for whatever reason, ABC did the right thing in suggesting that the screaming stop and the talk begin.

Thank you, ABC!

My point is that no matter how bad our next president is or how much he or she differs from the grassroots in terms of viewpoint, politicians are not omnipotent. They rely on a certain degree of popularity to carry out their agendas. You and I still decide whether they get that.

And God decides whether or not they succeed.

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We had previously reported on the Holmen church-and-state issue where a national atheist organization tried to sue to have a religious symbol removed. Here is Anthony Horvath’s latest report:

http://sntjohnny.com/front/holmen-star-church-and-state-issue-coming-to-a-boil/294.html

I hope you have already seen “Expelled,” but if not, do not hesitate to see it with your family.

Rev. Michael Bresciani shares his thoughts on Expelled, which already is causing a furor in the academic world. As I walked out of the cinema with my family after seeing the film, I realized that it was a watershed event. Academic history would henceforth be delineated between the pre-Expelled era and the post-Expelled era.

I think one of the most striking, and revealing, things about the movie was when Stein took a tour through a Hitler-era “hospital” for the mentally retarded, where in fact, many inmates were “culled” as unfit to live, sent to cyanide showers and then incinerated, Hitler’s Endlösung of choice. It reminded me of many related things in today’s America and today’s Germany.  For example: Terri Schiavo and how Obama said he regretted voting to keep her alive; the German government’s modern day holocaust against home-schooled children and their parents, etc. But the lady guide’s response when Stein asked her what she would say to the people who once ran this death hospital was the most revealing statement about our prevailing post-modern relativist ideology. She said she was not qualified to judge them. She woulnd’t admit that what had been done was evil. Why should she? Public education in the West has eliminated the only criterion for moral judgements of this kind: God.  Darwinism was the driver of change.

It was decided at the Nuremberg trials that people have the duty to reject evil even when they are ordered to perpetrate it by their superiors. Many nazis were convicted on that criterion. Incredibly, that way of thinking seems to be widely rejected in today’s Germany.

But it isn’t only Germany, is it?

We’re all in this together.  The prevailing theory of origins and the attendant relativist — nay, nihilist — ideology that motivated Hitler and Stalin is still driving the dominant institutions of Western culture.  Western moral development was stopped, or rather reversed, in the late 1800s.

Comes Ben Stein and challenges us to move forward. His movie Expelled is long overdue. It has been said that God is not always early, but never too late.

Donald Hank

Expelled the Movie - Ben Stein Exposes Flat World Academics

by Rev. Michael Bresciani

Ben Stein’s ‘Expelled’ could  properly be called ‘Exposed the Movie’ because
it is a nerve rattling jolt to academicians who are ready to bounce or
ostracize anyone who so much as mentions or has a dream in the night about
the theory of intelligent design.

No movie review in history as far as I know starts with instructions about
how to watch the film. Expelled is a documentary and contains hundreds of
interviews and deep conversations with some of the most highly regarded
minds of the time. It has a rhythm and a depth that requires full attention
and you may want to forgo the popcorn, soda and other distractions.

You will also discover something radically different about this film from
the audience reaction. It has been reported that people applaud sometimes
throughout the film and in some theatres it ends with audiences rising to
give it a standing ovation.

I found myself applauding along with other theatre patrons when I saw the
film. It was proof solid for me that while Americans are being asked to get
the nonsense of religion out of their heads the idea of an omnipotent
creator God is still firmly planted in their hearts.

Frivolous lawsuits are being thrown at the producers of the film from
animation companies and John Lennon widow Yoko Ono. Neither suit seems to
have any foundation but the flak from every academic quarter is ample proof
that a nerve has been touched. Is the film fair, is it reasonable, and is it
intelligent? Not only is the answer yes, yes and yes but the film is yet
something much more, something rarely found in a documentary. It is
emotionally charged.

Ben Stein is marvelous in the film. Known more as a comedian he doesn’t poke
fun at anyone and rarely resorts to humor throughout the documentary. It is
clear from the outset that he is not arguing or contending with others views
but only imploring them to seriously ponder their own unquestioned
assertions. He does this with a straight face and the fewest words possible.
The result is obvious; these questions are no joke.

Near the end Stein is found quietly standing alone with his own thoughts in
the middle of a holocaust museum. His thoughts are narrated in the
background and they are perhaps the most profound moments of the film. Stein
has conducted himself discreetly and some might say masterfully throughout
the documentary so at the films conclusion nothing is lost.

The heart of the movie is easy to see. Academics have for a generation now
fed us the idea that the big bang theory and the subsequent lightning
hitting the primordial ooze is the only way to go when it comes to the
question of how life began.

The rapid rise in intelligence in this generation has caused completely
unforeseen phenomena that academicians are not prepared for.  It is not just
faith in God that makes the question bubble to the surface but our own
enlarged understanding of the complexities and vast intricacies of our own
universe. The admonition to question all authority that academics so
blithely espoused to young minds a generation ago has returned to bite them
on the butt. It is the intelligent that are questioning the not so
intelligent refusal of the intelligencia to give some credence to
intelligent design; not doing so is just dumb.

This generation understands that when science leaves the area of repeatable
and observable phenomena and relies on speculation and ‘prior philosophic
postulation’ to explain the origins of life they have entered the realm of
faith. Physical evidence for evolution remains spurious, sparse and suspect
at best so speculation is all that is left to explain what took place four
hundred million years ago. The evolution crowd has been thumping “The
Origins of Species” with evangelistic fervor that makes the best Bible
preachers look tame by comparison. This is what Expelled is about.

The implacability of the evolutionists is compared to the Berlin wall
throughout the film. Nazism and communism are also alluded to for the most
obvious reasons. A party line must be held and enforced for any kind of
fascism to have a reasonable chance to survive. The cost of fascism has
always been the loss of freedom. Expelled centers in on this by likening the
refusal to include the possibility of intelligent design to incarcerating
intelligence not furthering it.

Expelled hones in on the loss of academic freedom, jobs, tenure and respect
for many of those interviewed in the film but it also provokes the larger
question of the number of young minds lost to this generation because of
what is fast becoming rigid Darwinian dogma. Move over inquisitors here come
the evolutionists!

One of the highlights of Expelled is the interview with famed atheist
Richard Dawkins. It may be the only time you will ever see Dawkins visibly
perturbed and almost at a loss for words. Ben Stein managed to pull what
might even be considered an admission from Dawkins that some intelligent
designer may have created everything but that he, she or it would have to
have evolved first. The double talk aside it is a moment well worth the
ticket price alone.

Most movies are rated on a scale of one to five or in some cases a scale of
one to ten. I will not rate this movie at all. What I will do is rate the
‘must see’ element of the documentary. Whether you are an evolutionist or a
believer of “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Gen
1:1) if you consider yourself even nominally intelligent the must see factor
for Expelled on a scale of one to ten is twenty.

For a list of theatres playing Expelled or further information visit
http://laiglesforum.com/wp-admin/ Rev Michael Bresciani is a
columnist for many online conservative, news and Christian sites and
magazines. Visit The Website for Insight at http://laiglesforum.com/wp-admin/