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Vol I, No. X June 1994 All Rights Reserved

"Why be politically correct, when you can be right?" Joe Bartlett

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A BRIEF LESSON IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Of course, anyone my age or older (or perhaps, even, slightly younger) already knows the truth. We were taught it in school as children. Here are the facts.

The United States of America was founded by Christians, as a Christian nation. Back in those days, England had an "established" religion (actually, an established denomination of Christianity). That word right there )) "established" )) is very, very important. It carries very serious religious/political/legal implications, because it appears in the Bill of Rights (the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution". The word's great importance lies not only in what it means, but also in what it does not mean; because the tyrants presently in power have twisted the meaning from its original context. Momentarily, we'll take a look at the exact meaning of "establishment of religion" within its context in the 1st Amendment. We'll offer documentation as to its original intent.

But first let's backtrack a little. As we noted above, before this nation was founded on Christianity, England had an official, national denomination )) the Church of England. The government supported this denomination with tax monies. But that wasn't the problem. The problem was that with England having an officially recognized brand of Protestantism, other denominations were illegal; and their members were persecuted.

So these dissident Protestants left their European homeland behind forever and sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in little, wooden ships, among the earliest of which was the Mayflower, which landed at Plymouth in 1620. English-speaking Roman Catholics soon followed to set up permanent colonies. Of course, Catholic explorers and missionaries reached these shores more than a hundred years before any regular colonists. I haven't heard it or seen it written anywhere, but I assume the state of Maryland was named after Mary, the mother of Jesus; because it is a known fact that Maryland, as a colony, was founded as a religious haven for Roman Catholicism. We'll offer documentation of that fact shortly.

So there you have it, folks. The United States of America was originally settled and founded solely on the right of religious freedom. But wait a minute! Bear in mind, now, it wasn't just any old religious freedom. No, no, no! It was only the right to worship Jesus Christ according to the dictates of a man's denominational conscience.

Well, of course it was so! Everybody was a Christian, unashamed of the gospel. They believed Jesus, who said:

thus establishing that Christianity is the one and only true religion. They all believed it, mutual exclusivity being a basic tenet of all Christian denominations at that time (and even today among devout, true believers). So when they spoke of freedom of worship in those days, they were only concerned with keeping one Christian denomination from persecuting other Christian denominations. But it was taken for granted that you were one or another kind of believer in Jesus Christ.

That's how it was in the beginning, and that's the way it was all along in America for hundreds of years )) even until within a relatively few years ago )) even within my short lifetime. Oh, sure, I grew up in a good neighborhood, in the suburbs, but I can remember when, as a lad, if a new kid moved into the neighborhood, one of the first questions we asked him was: "Are you Protestant or Catholic?" I was assumed he was one or the other.

Even as a young adult in U.S. Navy boot camp, in 1969, when I met other young men from all walks of life and all parts of the country, we asked each other: "Are you Catholic or Protestant?" In those days, in boot camp, the U.S. Navy required that every recruit attend either one or the other of the two Christian divine services (or mass) every Sunday.

Every Sunday morning our Company Commander, Mr. Edwards, came into our barracks yelling. He was a nice guy, though. Once he asked for a volunteer to stow a locker for a sailor who had gone to the hospital, and I did it for him. He was always nice to me after that, but privately said: "Don't ever volunteer for anything. You might die."

"Sir, yes sir! But what if the thing is worth dying for, sir?"

Afterwards, if I made a mistake, he acted like he didn't notice. One night, after he'd gone home, I pulled a stunt in the barracks he didn't particularly appreciate. The next morning, at muster, he brought it up. I raised my hand to confess, but he acted like he didn't see. So when I started openly waving my hand he spun around with his back to us and said: "Don't do it again." And that was the end of it.

I didn't mean to get off the subject. But when Mr. Edwards came in on Sunday mornings he yelled: "ALL RIGHT, PROTESTANTS LINE UP ON THIS SIDE (pointing) AND CATHOLICS LINE UP ON THIS SIDE (pointing to the other side of the barracks). ALL OTHERS, FLIP A COIN!"

Then the two factions were marched off to their respective service or mass.

Where did I learn all this American History, and that the founding of this nation was based on the right to practice Christianity? In grade school and high school, that's where. You may want to ask: "But you must have gone to a Catholic school or some other parochial school, right?" Wrong! I attended only public schools supported by tax dollars! I'm not making this up; I have documented proof right here! Not just proof of these historical facts, but proof I learned them in the public school system!

Shortly after the U.S. Marshals transferred me here to Ashland, I had a weird sensation with time passage perception. Examining the library here for the first time, I saw a big, thick book lying on the counter. It had a gold, blue, and black cover with an eagle on the front. The title: History of a Free People. It was published by the MacMillan Company in 1967. The authors were Henry W. Bragdon and Samuel P. McCutchen. It looked so familiar. Surely I'd seen it before. It was so familiar it seemed I should be the owner! Picking it up and leafing through it, I found myself so familiar with all the details in the maps, charts, graphs, illustrations, and photos, that I felt as if I must have studied that book fairly recently. Surely, I'd seen it within the previous five years. Where? Struggling to remember, suddenly it dawned on me. No wonder it was so familiar )) I'd carried that book back and forth to school and studied it every night...twenty-three years earlier, in my junior year of high school! It was my American history textbook.

At the time I was kicking around an idea about writing a historical novel about the American Revolution of the 1770's. So, needing to do some research, I tried to check it out, but there was no card affixed inside the cover. I asked the inmate librarian how I could check it out, and he just told me to take it with me and bring it back when I was finished. I've had it ever since )) three and a half years. (I'd been in custody two and a half by the time they transferred me here).

As I began re-reading the text, I was astonished, as I'm sure you will be, to be reminded of where we came from and how far we have fallen in such a short period...less than a quarter of a century.

Let me share just a few excerpts. I couldn't list all the references my high school textbook made to Christ, Christianity, Protestantism, Catholicism, and their roles in founding this country and defining what our nation stood for. But here are a few brief passages.

Page 10, under a section on the French colonies:

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In the back of the book there is an appendix listing the original thirteen colonies and the purposes of their founders. For several, the purpose is listed as being a haven for this or that branch of Christianity. It says the purpose for founding Maryland was:

In the same appendix, under a column headed Important Events or Developments:

[TBR note: emphasis added. Their concept of freedom of worship only included Christians! It had nothing to do with whether false (non-Christian) religions could be followed.]

Page 59 (in a section explaining the Declaration of Independence):

[TBR note: emphasis theirs! Yes, that's right )) that's what my class's textbook in a tax-financed, public school said. You may be wanting to ask: "How did they get away with it?" To which I would ask you: "Get away with what" It wasn't unconstitutional, that's how they got away with it. It wasn't unconstitutional then and isn't now )) not really. It only means that now we are ruled by tyrants who are openly hostile to our faith and to the faith and ideals of those great men who founded this nation.]

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The New England Puritans believed that citizens should learn enough English to read the Bible and understand the laws of the country. The famous Massachusetts General School Act of 1647 stated: "It being one chiefe project of the oulde deluder Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the scripture...it is therefore ordered, that evry township...after the Lord hath increased them in number to 50 householdrs shall appoint one to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and to reade."

Aside from spiritual matters, it is told on page 47 how, while the American colonies were still under the sovereign rule of Great Britain, the British Parliament passed several acts which were oppressive toward the colonies. The Americans called these new laws )) can you believe it? Intolerable Acts! Hey, Bill, hey Hillary, hey you left-wingers, that's where my people and I got the idea of being intolerant. We're just following a proud American tradition.

Ethan Allen of Vermont was the local commander of a band of armed American patriot guerrillas known as "The Green Mountain Boys." There is a profile of him on page 51. It begins thus:

Yes, that's right; I learned all these things in the public education system only 23 years ago. At that time it was important to remember where this nation had come from 200 years earlier. But now it is important also for us to remember where we were only 23 years ago. See, gentlemen, this generation, i.e., you and I, can still remember, easily remember, when the United States of America was still a great Christian nation. But if we remain idle until this generation is passed, the next one will have no recollection of the U.S. except as a wicked nation. Either that, or the Great Tribulation will come, and God will pour His wrath out on the world.

The horrible, Great Tribulation will come when it does because of a cowardly, lukewarm "Christian" generation.

These are dangerous words that I write; but I write them anyway, because I know it would be even more dangerous not to write them.

I was listening to a Christian radio talk show many months ago (I can't bear to listen to them anymore, due to their cowardice, compromise, and their focus on irrelevant issues.) The guest was telling of a discussion he had had with a U.S. Congressman. The Congressman was an attorney who, in law school, had specialized in Constitutional law. They were talking about government oppression, or some such thing, when the Congressman had asked: "What about 'separation of church and state?'"

The preacher told the congressman that the U.S. Constitution doesn't say anything about "separation of church and state" )) that those words do not appear anywhere in the Constitution. I don't remember the Congressman's exact words, but he said something like: "Look you're a preacher, and I'm a Constitutional attorney; and you're going to try to tell me the 'separation of church and state' isn't in the U.S. Constitution?"

The preacher stood his ground and suggested they look it up, to which the Congressman agreed. Here's what it says:

So the Congressman said: "I'm embarrassed..." and went on to explain that, in law school, the law professors never required the students to actually read the Constitution for themselves, but simply lectured them on what they wanted the students to believe the Constitution meant.

So there you have it, folks. You don't have to go to law school to understand the meaning of the 1st Amendment. All you need is basic reading comprehension of the English language to see that it was enacted as a safeguard to prevent the "government" from persecuting us. But, more and more, they're using it as an excuse to persecute us and hound belief in God and the Bible.

In the back of my high school textbook, the glossary of terms offers this definition:

And so, in summary, as TBR is convinced it has thoroughly proven: since our founding fathers in 1791 were virtually all Christians (of various denominations) believing, rightly, that Christianity is the one, and only, true religion; and since, at the time they wrote the Constitution with its Bill of Rights, they were remembering how the earlier pilgrims had come to America fleeing persecution at the hands of a different denomination of Christianity; therefore, when they wrote into law: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," they meant only that government must not officially endorse one particular denomination of christianity and exalt it over others! The only reason they didn't specify it that way was because they felt that that much was already understood, for Christ's sake. At that time the American public was almost entirely Christian and always had been. The founding fathers were so devout they couldn't have imagined it would later become what we see today. So they were obviously expecting that it would always be understood that their 1st amendment was meant to forbid )) above all else )) rulers from ever suppressing any general (nondenominational) Christian expression and/or practice anywhere at any time...even in a tax-financed public school!

Yes, I was taught these things right out of the textbook in just such a school. But that's not all. In my public school, during the home room period before we reported to our first class in the morning, the teacher had us stand up, face the American flag which stood to the side of the chalkboard, put our right hands over our hearts, and recite the pledge of allegiance to the flag, including the words "...one nation, under God, indivisible..." [TBR note: did you know that the original version did not have "under God" in it, and that the U.S. Congress passed a law adding those two words in 1953? Within my lifetime!] Do they still do that in public schools today? I'm asking that question seriously, not rhetorically, because I really don't know. It's hard for me to imagine they still do.

That's not all that happened during home room. In my public school the principal came on the intercom and read a few verses of Scripture right out of the Bible to the whole school. He didn't stop there. Then he said a little prayer out loud IN THE NAME OF JESUS! Yes, you read me right )) in a public school )) and, so help me, I have several hundred witnesses (my classmates) that I'm telling the truth.

These things happened in the mid-to-late 1960's; and yes, I do know that the "Supreme" (ugh! gag!) Court ruled such conduct to be "unconstitutional in 1963 )) several years earlier! I have told you the truth nevertheless. Of course, some of you are my age or older, so you know it's true, because you saw it with your own eyes and heard it with your own ears.

The fact that my high school principal would conduct himself like that as a public educator )) what did it mean? Did it mean he was a hard-core, militantly defiant, right-wing, Christian zealot? No, not at all. By today's standards, yes. But by the standards of those days it just meant he was an ordinary, everyday kind of guy. That's the way things had always been, so we just considered it routine. How quickly and how far our nation has fallen!

Let me share just one more piece of Americana with you before sharing some U.S. historical archives with you. This'll give you an idea of how far we have fallen, and how prevalent Christianity was in this country even as recently as the mid-1960's. By and large, managers of rock and roll radio stations are liberals, right? Thank you. Do you also agree with TBR's position that moral truth never changes and that people, attitudes, conduct, and issues should be appraised by eternal, unchanging standards? Thank you. You'll be asked that question again in a future issue of this journal.

Those who scoff at God, though, don't believe in eternal standards. So, measured by today's left-wing (false) standards, those who operated rock stations in the mid-60's were a bunch of hard-core, radically ultraconservative, Christian fanatics. Don't laugh )) I'm about to prove it's true. You can look it up. You might already remember it.

When I was a thirteen year old growing up in a Northern Kentucky suburb of Cincinnati in 1964, WSAI-AM was the rock station in town. If you were a cool dude you listened to WSAI. In those days, of course, rock music wasn't anything like the satanic stuff they call "rock" nowadays. In that year the Beatles were the most popular band. But one of their members, John Lennon, committed a faux pas taken very seriously by the American public. He said: "We're more popular than Jesus."

That was all we needed to hear. Immediately, WSAI and rock stations all across America imposed a total ban on the Beatles' music. It was grudgingly lifted only after the Beatles apologized and tried to explain that the comment had been taken out of context.

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Following this section will be reprints of some of our national archives, historical documents hundreds of years old. These things are extremely important! You can be sure they will appear in the book which will be compiled from these reports.

You may have read the Declaration of Independence at some point earlier in your life. We urge you, we beg you: please read it again, because its self-evident truths are more applicable to you today than at any earlier time in your life. Please! Don't just read it )) study it carefully, because this document more urgently needs to be understood today than at any other time in our nation's history, including, even, that time when it was first written and then signed on the 4th of July, 1776.

The Declaration of Independence was written by the heroically narrow-minded, heroically intolerant, heroically manly (left-wing translation: sexist) Thomas Jefferson, who later became the third President of the United States. Can you believe that such a shameful, communist, cowardly sissy as Bill Clinton claims to be ideologically aligned with Thomas Jefferson?! Clinton doesn't believe in one single thing Jefferson believed in!

Thomas Jefferson believed:

The very centerpiece of the Clinton "administration" has been the slaughter of his own people )) American babies. They, of course, were too young to vote for him.

Thomas Jefferson believed in American independence and was a brave enough man to risk his life to bring it about. Bill Clinton is a cowardly puppet (and a female puppet, at that) who is in collaboration with his bosses of the New World Order to surrender us to these, our enemies. He's doing everything within his power to strip away our national sovereignty, bit by bit, and to take away our independence as a free nation.

Whereas Bill Clinton believes in disarming us for that very reason )) so that American men will not have the means to resist the tyranny of his New World Order!

In so many words, Jefferson believed that, since the right to life is given by God Himself, no human ruler can take it away. They can't legally "put a lien" on innocent people's lives. So if they slay innocent people it only means they took these people's lives, not their right to their lives. It means they violated the dead victims' intact rights. Bill Clinton believes just the opposite. He believes he is doing more than just merely killing these babies. He believes it is within his and/or the "Supreme" Court's power to assume the "authority" to strip the babies of their right to life in the first place and then he kills them!

When a tyrant acts in such a way, Thomas Jefferson believed in...

And how does Bill Clinton feel about that? Well, for the moment, let's forget about the concept as a whole and just look at two of the words in the statement: "...manly firmness..." In your wildest imagination, can you imagine turning on the TV, seeing a Bill Clinton press conference, and hearing such a feminist sissy uttering the words "manly firmness" in any context? You'd be thoroughly shocked, wouldn't you? You'd think you wee in the twilight zone, wouldn't you? Well, gentlemen, you'll never hear such "sexist" words as "manly firmness" come from the mouth of Willy Clinton, but you're in the twilight zone anyway. We're mired in a horrible tragedy, and it's up to you to reverse this nightmare. If you don't do it, the job won't get done.

But, no, you'll never hear Clinton mention "manly firmness" )) it would be impossible for such a feminist to get the words out )) he'd choke on them. You couldn't bribe him with two million dollars to utter those two words on TV )) he'd be scared to death that even one member of his anti-God, leftist friends of the National Organization of (some) Women might be watching.

As our friend Joe Bartlett would say: "If Clinton is the answer, it must be a stupid question."

Folks, I didn't mean to ramble on and on about Clinton, so, without further ado, there's the Declaration of Independence which gave birth to our beloved Republic. Two summers ago I set aside five days; and, working eight hours a day, memorized it word-for-word from beginning to end. By the time I'd memorized the complete text, I was so stirred up and so proud of the courage of the 56 heroes who signed it on the 4th of July, 1776, that I memorized all their names, too. To make it easier to memorize their names I wrote them in alphabetical order on a separate piece of paper, putting a little mark by each name on the document as I put it in order. So if my publisher photocopies it just as I'm sending it to him, that's why those little marks are there, in case you're wondering. Sure, I have a lot of time on my hands, here in prison, to memorize long documents like this, so I don't expect you to memorize it,k verbatim. But please take your time to study it slowly and carefully, to absorb and understand the vital truths set forth in it. It's your duty to God and country. Do it.

P&A Ed: Take a break now and do as John says. Read the Declaration of Independence, which is reprinted on the next page, with all John's funny marks intact. Afterwards you may return to this page and resume reading his story.

Did you read the names of the signers? If so, you noticed Joe Bartlett's name there. That's right. Our friend Joe Bartlett, the author of last month's "Dietrich and George and the Time Machine", was named after Josiah Bartlett. [Ed: Hey, guess who else is listed? Benjamin RUSH!]

The following article describes the sacrifice and suffering these signers endured for their daring stand. It was published in Life Advocate in December, 1992. If you like The Brockhoeft Report, you'll like Life Advocate. Shelley Shannon sent me the article over a year ago, before I started getting LA myself.

You might recall from your school days that Patrick Henry was that founding father who roared: "GIVE ME LIBERTY, OR GIVE ME DEATH!" on the eve of the Revolutionary War over two hundred years ago. I doubt that they teach kids about Patrick Henry nowadays, because he was a giant of the Christian faith (politically incorrect), and they can't possibly want school boys to know what it means for a man to walk like a man and talk like a man. In other words, as you are probably aware, the public education system is totally dominated by the left-wing. As far as I had always known, the few words quoted above made up Patrick Henry's entire statement. I did not know they were only the last words of a long speech. That is, until Shelley sent me a transcript of the whole speech. Please read and study it. actually, it is more thrilling, by far, than the Declaration of Independence, especially the last third of it. It is reprinted on the opposite page, page 17. Please read it.

The next article, on page 18, is reprinted from the back side of a flyer entitled "An Open Letter to Prolife Republicans", which was signed by Howard Phillips (1992 U.S. Taxpayers Party Presidential nominee), Randall Terry (Founder of Operation Rescue and talk show host), George Grant (President, Legacy Communications), Joseph Sobran (syndicated columnist), and Julie Makimaa (Founder, Fortress International).

The article after that, on page 19-21, is a manifesto written by an anonymous modern author. It was reprinted in AntiShyster, a newsletter dedicated to reform of the legal system. Another inmate lent me a copy of the whole newsletter. Then, just before he was transferred to another prison, he asked for it back. I asked him to first let me photocopy one page. He asked what I wanted, so I explained I just wanted the page with the picture of the minuteman in the three-cornered hat priming his flintlock rifle. I wanted the illustration to put on the front cover of my book. The inmate tore out the whole article for me. It's been kicking around in my locker now for about three years. Now I'm glad I have the whole thing to offer for your education and reference purposes only. My publisher has simply recopied it; the editorial introduction is by the editor of AntiShyster, not me or my publisher.

And finally, on page 22, is one last article from a newspaper, Jubilee, which I've never heard of until another inmate showed it to me a few weeks ago. [Ed: Jubilee promotes the "White Identity" theology. Not to be confused with Jubilee Fellowship, published by Charles Coulson.] I'm sure I wouldn't agree with all Jubilee's positions, but I enjoyed this article and offer it here only for your educational and reference purposes.

That's it for this issue, folks. Thanks for reading.

Yours-in-Christ,

Johnny

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