[revzeke]

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... On Saturday (051708), a precious 19 year-old university coed was looking at some of my martyrs art @ deviantArt, and made some comments --- exchanging some very personal messages with me...
... Going by: "MissBigMouthShout(...fortheSaviour)"...
... She was very thankful for comfort and courage she got from reading some of the martyrs' testimonies, but she wanted some assurance and some prayers offered up in behalf of herself and two other close Christian girlfriends...
... She & they are fully expecting to be arrested soon and probably put to death for their faith... Several of their friends have already been martyred, they pretty much know HOW they will die... (MBMSftS and her friends will likely be whipped & stoned almost to death, dismembered with a chain-saw & beheaded with a ceremonial scimitar, and at last, left exposed to nature)... This is a most common and deemed "appropriate" end for an "infidel" (esp a female) condemned under Islamic law...
... Several of their friends have already suffered this dire fate...
... They are students @ the University of Tehran in IRAN...
... What struck me close to home is that we, in this country, have NO real clue as to what it really means to BE Christians & pay the price for our confessions of faith...
... We're bored so easily while surrounded by so much...
... We plan "fun" activities for tomorrow --- while dear brothers & sisters plan for their own cruel executions and pray for grace to remain faithful, "enduring to the end"...
... Our precious Iranian sisters are probably blessed to be going "home" to be with Jesus --- forever at rest, beyond the pain and troubles of this world --- but what a tragic waste of life and human potential !!!
... It hit me hard because I've never had someone thank me like that in advance of experiencing a true martyrdom...
... She actually wrote on my two reflexology charts (hands & feet), that she hoped someone with my understanding of human anatomy and a measure of compassion would be there to hold her bruised, yet living members gently as they cut her up...
... Such unspeakably brave resolve !!!
... I'm SURE our Lord will send His angels to comfort her in that way...
... It's just awfully darned HARD to swallow !!!
... On her art site, she'd drawn some portraits and figures of herself and her friends --- ALL detailed but "faceless" (reminded me of some of our local Amish dolls)... [And, yes, from what shows --- they are absolutely beautiful young women --- full of life and vitality, with so many talents and unfulfilled dreams]...
... To be identifiable would definitely be grounds for certain trial and death, yet that's how their culture views them anyway --- w/o faces or any form of distinct God-given person-hood... How sad !!!
... They're NOT considered humans or of any societal value...

... My heart is hurting, so burdened for those who truly NEED help, and my arms can't reach out far enough...
... I know that HIS can, but this has gotten very personal for me, and I am feeling very helpless in their plight...
... I am SO humbled that God chose to use me and my art to, like the woman with the alabaster box, break that vessel of sweet perfume to (even at a distance) symbolically wash their feet and anoint these dear souls for their inevitable sacrifice ahead...
... They truly need and deserve our prayers...
... Thanks for being among the FEW who DO care !

WEDNESDAY AM (052108) UPDATE:
... I appreciate the continuing prayers and contact...
... I tried reconnecting w/ Iran around 0500 this am...
... Two of the three sites are gone now, and the third had been "stripped" from about 2 dozen illustrations to only two, then only one --- as I was watching...
... The one left was essentially a death note --- buzzards in a tree, near the local landfill, waiting for food...
... It was a photo, and our sister's attached comment was:
"... despite what these birds represent to MOST people I find the scene one of peace and rest from earthly labors and the likelihood of coming pain; I'm now ready to give myself to them..."
... I doubt there will be any further follow-up possible there...

... An Islamic "friend" to the girls, responded to me that "...the 'blaspheming infidels' had been duly disposed of, according to Allah's will"...
[... It's really hard not to hate someone with such a calloused attitude...] :-(...
... My only real regret I have to confess, is that I deleted most of our exchanges as being just too private for public viewing, AND I was too late to download copies of their artwork from our visit last weekend...
... I AM searching among mutual local friends' sites and gleaning a few "collected" works in order to later "blog" this otherwise untold account...
... Some were truly as inspiring as the words above...
... I DID screen-shot the buzzard pic and comment...
(Sorry, I have tried to link the jpeg photo to my response here, but I don't think it is working properly...)

... I have a sense of peace in my heart that this ordeal is over, and that our sisters' three sweet voices have been added to Heaven's choir... May we enter Heaven's gates, worthy of their fellowship...
... Keep praying for so many other dear brothers and sisters --- facing this same fate, daily...
... That last website was off-line Thursday (052208)

PS: You can view some of my martyrs' art and future vision art --- with full text accounts @ deviant art link deleted

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

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What's all that^^ about? A self-publicist?

[WilliamJenningsBryan]

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.....
... She & they are fully expecting to be arrested soon and probably put to death for their faith... Several of their friends have already been martyred, they pretty much know HOW they will die... (MBMSftS and her friends will likely be whipped & stoned almost to death, dismembered with a chain-saw & beheaded with a ceremonial scimitar, and at last, left exposed to nature)... This is a most common and deemed "appropriate" end for an "infidel" (esp a female) condemned under Islamic law...
... Several of their friends have already suffered this dire fate...
... They are students @ the University of Tehran in IRAN...
... What struck me close to home is that we, in this country, have NO real clue as to what it really means to BE Christians & pay the price for our confessions of faith...
.....

Friend, you tell a heart wrenching story that is all too common in the depraved journals of Islam. You can take solace in the righteous vengeance of the Lord and our Godly President GWB. He has already disemboweled tens of thousands of mooselimbs with our shells of depleted uranium and bunker buster bombs. With our 100 year bases in Iraq our next president McCain will soon be able to continue that battle into Iran and avenge those unjust deaths of which you so eloquently speak.

Glory!

[Brother Guy Bayard]

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Wife of founder of Ozarks Minutemen pleads guilty to fake rape claim

SPRINGFIELD | The wife of a founder of the Ozarks Minutemen has pleaded guilty to lying about being raped and shot by three Hispanic men.
Angela D. Wilburn, 44, appeared in Greene County Associate Circuit Court on Tuesday and pleaded guilty to making a false report, a class B misdemeanor. Wilburn is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 3. She could face up to six months in prison and a $500 fine.

Wilburn is the wife of Brian Wilburn, who helped form the Ozarks Minutemen. She was charged with the crime in December, after calling 911 reporting someone had shot her.

Angela Wilburn told investigators that three Hispanic men broke into her mobile home and that one of the men sexually assaulted her in the hallway, then shot her in the knee with a handgun.

She soon retracted her story and said she heard a noise, and grabbed her husband’s gun. She told police the gun went off as she reached for a flashlight.

By the time Angela Wilburn made the admission, Greene County deputies had already spent more than 100 man-hours investigating the fictitious attack.

The sheriff’s department said in December it would seek restitution from Angela Wilburn for the wasted time. Such repayment could be part of her sentence, said Greene County Chief Deputy Jim Arnott.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/639159.html

Restitution? What about restitution from the hispanics, who are such walking time-bombs of rape and knee-shooting? She was telling the truth: brown people rape and shoot almost every white woman in their path, even if her claim that they raped and shot her was mistaken, most likely due to failed intel. The claim that she "lied" is nothing but slander. Misled, maybe, the information she delivered may have been flawed, but she did not lie.

This woman didnt lie - she just filed the rape/shooting complaint too early - as you so eloquently put it, just because it hasn't happened yet, doesn't mean it isn't going to occur. If anything she should be praised for alerting the police to an imminent crime, so the law enforcement agencies can prevent it before it occurs...by rounding up every spick 'n' spaniard, tatooing, DNA swabbing, chemically castrating and beating them them before sending them back to Pooerto Reeko, niggeragua or Meheeko.wherever these swarthy fiends hail from.

[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

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Three acts of persecution today show what to expect if Obama-Biden win the election:

1. Free Speech OUTLAWED!

The Secret Service is following up on media reports today that someone in the crowd at a McCain/Palin event suggested killing Barack Obama, according to Secret Service spokesman Malcolm Wiley.

2. Second Amendment rights OUTLAWED!

Man shot three times in street by racist gunman - for wearing Barack Obama T-shirt

The Met said it was investigating the incident, which took place in South Norwood, and that police searched a nearby house which the attacker was seen going into.

3. Defending America from Mexican invaders OUTLAWED!

Investigators said that's when Tuck and Keith Robert Turner took the victim into the backyard and viciously beat him.

"They stomped his head with their boots while cursing him as being a Mexican," said Lt. John Denholm.

The suspects stripped the victim and sexually assaulted him with a PVC pipe, causing massive internal injuries.

Then, investigators said, the two suspects tried to cover their tracks.
"They also poured bleach all over his body in hopes of destroying any evidence they may have left," said Lt. Denholm.

The victim was found 12 hours later in the backyard by another one of the kids who had attended the party.

He was barely clinging to life.

Both Tuck and Turner face aggravated sexual assault charges and are in custody at the Harris County Jail.

Investigators said they are showing no remorse.

[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

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Those jackbooted thugs in blue have declared a jihad on America's most patriotic vehicle!

People who drive Hummers receive almost five times as many traffic tickets as the average driver, according to a new study.

Quality Planning Corp., which helps insurance companies identify risk, surveyed data from 1.7 million drivers and found the Hummer H2 and H3 are the most frequently ticketed vehicles on the road!

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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Here's an example of Christians being persecuted up in Canada, a hotbed of liberalism!

Controversial church loses charity licence

An evangelical church that used donor money to pay for gym memberships, Gucci fashion accessories and trips to Hawaii and elsewhere for its directors has been stripped of its charitable licence by the federal government.

The Dominion Christian Centre of Canada was set up in Hamilton by charismatic leader Peter Rigo, a former decorator who says a divine power summoned him in the year 2000 to “encourage believers to live effectively as Christians.” Rigo has said Dominion is a great church praying for the revitalization of downtown Hamilton; at least one family claims it is a cult and faces criminal charges for trying to remove their daughter.

After an audit of the church’s books, sparked by critics of its activities, the federal charity regulator has told the Dominion group that its assets have been misused, spent for the “private benefit” of Rigo, his wife and others.

The regulator found that money contributed by donors and destined for good works was instead paid to fund “numerous personal trips, payments for privately used vehicles, gym memberships, food, lodging and other unsubstantiated payments.”

Among the expenses that raised eyebrows, auditors say, were numerous purchases at “expensive fashion outlets such as Gucci and Dolce Gabbana.”

The audit, obtained by the Star, says the transgressions of Rigo, his wife, Peggy (also a pastor), and assistant pastor Dave Barhouma were many.

In response to the allegations, church leaders told the regulator that poor bookkeeping made it hard for them to address many of the concerns auditors had. The audit states that about a year ago, the church agreed to stop paying for food, trips, gym memberships and haircuts for church leaders. However, the audit goes on to say that a year later, the church had not addressed the issues raised by the audit, giving rise to the revocation of its licence.
[...]

Peter Rigo and Barhouma were previously on the board of directors, as well as being officials of the church. The audit states they have recently resigned from their board positions. New members of the board, the audit states, include relatives of Barhouma.
[...]

In 2005, police accused Dr. Renato Brun Del Re, 53, of kidnapping and forcible confinement after he was allegedly involved in kidnapping his daughter in an attempt to deprogram her from what he said at the time was a cult.

[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

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Jack-booted thugs hunting down American patriots!

MIAMI (Reuters) -- The former head of UBS AG's wealth management business, Raoul Weil, was formally declared a fugitive Tuesday after failing to surrender to U.S. authorities on charges of conspiring to help wealthy Americans...hide $20 billion of assets in Swiss bank accounts in order to avoid paying U.S. taxes.

Only under a Democrat administration:

Switzerland-based UBS, one of the world’s largest financial firms, has agreed to pay a $780 million fine and reveal the names of its U.S. clients with overseas accounts following a lawsuit by the [Kenyan-occupied] Justice Department.

In a first-of-its-kind case, the settlement exposes what [commiecrat] authorities long suspected: Americans are using Swiss banks to avoid paying federal taxes.

“At a time when millions of Americans are losing their jobs, their homes and their health care, it is appalling that more than 50,000 of the wealthiest among us sought to evade their duty to pay taxes,” said John A. DiCicco, acting assistant attorney general. [aka socialist commisar].

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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Activist Judge Orders Christian Woman to Stop Teaching From The BIBLE!

A judge in Wake County said three Raleigh children need to switch from home school to public school. Judge Ned Mangum is presiding over divorce proceeding of the children's parents, Thomas and Venessa Mills.

Venessa Mills was in the fourth year of home schooling her children who are 10, 11 and 12 years old. They have tested two years above their grade levels, she said.

"We have math, reading; we have grammar, science, music,” Venessa Mills said.

Her lessons also have a religious slant, which the judge said was the root of the problem.

"My teaching is strictly out of the Bible, and it's very clear. It is very evident so I just choose to follow the Bible,” Venessa Mills said.

In an affidavit filed Friday in the divorce case, Thomas Mills stated that he "objected to the children being removed from public school." He said Venessa Mills decided to home school after getting involved with Sound Doctrine church "where all children are home schooled."

Thomas Mills also said he was "concerned about the children's religious-based science curriculum" and that he wants "the children to be exposed to mainstream science, even if they eventually choose to believe creationism over evolution."

In an oral ruling, Mangum said the children should go to public school.

"He was upfront and said that, 'It's not about religion.' But yet when it came down to his ruling and reasons why, 'He said this would be a good opportunity for the children to be tested in the beliefs that I have taught them,'" Venessa Mills said.

All sides agree the children have thrived with home school, and Vanessa Mills thinks that should be reason enough to continue teaching at home.

"I cannot sit back and allow this to happen to other home schoolers. I don't want it happening to my children,” Venessa Mills said.

Mangum said he wouldn't talk with WRAL News Thursday about the details of the case because he hasn't issued a written ruling yet. He said he expected to sign it in a few weeks.

An estimated 71,566 students were taught at home during the 2007-08 school year, according to figures released by the state Division of Non-Public Education. The enrollment amounts to about 4 percent of students ages 7 to 16 in North Carolina – students in that age range are required by state law to attend school. About two-thirds of the schools classified themselves as religious schools.

Home school students and their parents plan to come to Raleigh on March 24 to lobby at the state Legislature. They want to demonstrate they have a strong voice regarding education.

We need to support these Christian Homeschooled children with all of our hearts! Wreite to your congressman today and urge them to take action!!

NO MORE PERSECUTING CHRISTIAN FAMILIES!!!

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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[Nobar King]

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Here's another one for your evidence file. NO PRAYING AT COLLEGE!!

Christian students sue Peralta college district, saying they were disciplined for praying

By Peter Hegarty

04/09/2009


ALAMEDA — Two students are suing the Peralta Community College District, arguing that their civil rights were violated after administrators at the College of Alameda threatened to suspend them for praying on campus. Kandy Kyriacou and Ojoma Omaga, who are Christian, say they were formally threatened with suspension a year and a half ago when an instructor became angry with them after witnessing Kyriacou praying with another instructor.


"The main thrust of our case is that private prayer between consenting adults cannot be prohibited by the government," said attorney Kevin Snider of the Pacific Justice Institute, a nonprofit group that specializes in cases involving religion, parental rights and civil liberties. Along with seeking to have their suspension letters rescinded, Kyriacou and Omaga want the district to revise its student conduct policy to allow student prayer and religious expression. They also want the district to pay their attorney and court costs.


Peralta spokeswoman Shirleen Schermerhorn declined to comment on the case, which was filed Dec. 24 in U.S. District Court. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston on March 31 rejected an attempt by the college district to dismiss the case, a ruling that the students' attorneys say indicates their lawsuit has merit.

"It's not about money at all, it's about principle," said Steven Wood, a Walnut Creek attorney who filed the lawsuit. "The students want the district to admit that it was wrong, apologize and recognize that they have the right to take part in nondisruptive prayer."


According to court documents, Kyriacou was praying with an instructor in December 2007 — after the instructor said she was feeling ill — when another instructor entered the office and told the student that praying was not allowed. Soon afterward, Kyriacou was talking with Omaga in a hallway, where the same instructor confronted them and said, "You can't be doing that in there. That's our office."


Less than a week later, both students received letters informing them that they were being suspended, citing violation of Section III.A.12 of the district's student conduct policy, which reads, "Disruptive or insulting behavior, willful disobedience, habitual profanity or vulgarity; or the open and persistent defiance of the authority of, refusal to comply with directions of, or persistent abuse of, college employees in the performance of their duty on or near the school premises or public sidewalks adjacent to school premises."


Peralta administrators later backed away from the suspensions after meeting with the students and their attorney. Instead, administrators formally warned the women that they cannot engage in disruptive behavior.


Wood said Wednesday that he will meet with Peralta lawyers within the next several weeks to try to resolve the case, including through mediation. He said they are seeking a revision of the district's policy so that prayers would not be prohibited as long as they are not disruptive. If they cannot reach agreement, the case could go to a jury, Wood said.


Kyriacou and Omaga routinely pray while at school, according to court documents. According to the complaint, "They sometimes take short breaks to quietly pray with each other or with other classmates on the balcony outside class," and Kyriacou "occasionally makes quiet, nondisruptive personal prayers during class and lab, such as saying 'Lord Jesus, help me.' "

[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

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I've been quietly editing the origional post to add to the list. Here are the latest 5:

26. Republican minister arrested for pre-emptively defending against illegals
27. Conservative activist framed and persecuted
28. Excorcist waterboarder persecuted by freedom-hating government!
29. Football team persecuted by feminized public schools system
30. It's official! Freedom of Speech is DEAD!

[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

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Dinosaur adventure land destroyed because they want GOD to pay taxes!

Kent Hovind, who founded the park and a ministry, Creation Science Evangelism, is serving 10 years in federal prison for failing to pay the Internal Revenue Service more than $470,000 in employee taxes.

He was found guilty in November 2006 on 58 counts, including failure to pay employee taxes and making threats against investigators.

The conviction culminated 17 years of Hovind sparring with the IRS. Saying he was employed by God and his ministers were not subject to payroll taxes, he claimed no income or property.

[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

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Obama's war on marriage continues, persecuting an Arkasas Evengelist and declaring his 5 marriages to be nonexistant. Yet if he's married men, the democrats would be applauding him! Their twisted reasoning is based on their unBiblical "age of concent", a concept made by man, not God.

More information on the Bible's support for Polygamy.

TEXARKANA, Ark. – Evangelist Tony Alamo used his stature as a self-proclaimed prophet to force underage girls into sham marriages with him, controlling his followers with their fears of eternal suffering.
...the 75-year-old, who preyed on followers' young daughters and took child "brides" as young as age 8....has made millions through his ministry...Alamo used his influence as both a father figure and a pastor to force himself upon impressionable girls who feared "the loss of their salvation."

"You are described by others who testified as a prophet of God, a person of trust, a person of supreme authority in the church," Barnes said, staring the pale preacher....Before Barnes' ruling, Alamo told the judge: "I lean on the lord Jesus Christ."

"I'm glad I'm me and not the deceived people in the world," the evangelist said.

Five women, age 17 to 33, testified in July that Alamo "married" them in private ceremonies while they were minors, sometimes giving them rings. Each detailed trips beyond Arkansas' borders for Alamo's sexual gratification.

With little physical evidence, prosecutors relied on the women's stories to paint an emotional portrait of a charismatic religious leader who controlled every aspect of his subjects' lives. The women said Alamo ordered beatings or punitive fasts for minor infractions or at the whim of his paranoia.

Defense lawyers said the government targeted Alamo because it disapproves of his apocalyptic brand of Christianity. Alamo never testified at trial, but spoke to Barnes twice during the hearing Friday. He first told the judge he thought his defense team provided him adequate legal help, though he wanted them to harshly cross-examine the women to show "that the people who were testifying against me were lying."

My lawyers "did prove that I never took girls out of state to have sex with them," Alamo said.

Three of the five victims spoke in court Friday about how Alamo stole their childhoods and tore apart their families to satisfy his sexual perversions. One woman Alamo took as a child "bride" at age 8 described how she shook uncontrollably when he first molested her. [That's a religious experience! There's even two sects dedicated to it, the Shakers and the Quakers.]

..."There's no question he's done a lot of good," said Don Ervin, a Houston lawyer who led Alamo's defense, outlining the church's efforts to reach the poor. "He's an unusual man and an unusually great man."

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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THIS is a fairly comprehensive list of the worst examples of Christian Persecution of 2009 by the Christian Anti-defamation Commission. I hope you will all join me in sending out Imprecatory Prayers against each and every persecutor.

CADC has just released our list of the top ten incidents of anti-Christian defamation, bigotry and discrimination in the US from last year. The list was selected by you, our readers, by narrowing down the top ten from a list of twenty of CADC’s top stories from 2009.

It is arguable that anti-Christian hatred has spilled over into material forms of persecution in 2009. Christians were killed and bullied for their witness, ministers and churches threatened with violence and vandalized for standing for marriage, and Christians were fired for not compromising their faith. If these are not bona fide examples of persecution, than I wonder what more it might take?

The Top Ten Anti-Christian headlines for 2009 according to you are

10. Pro-life Pastor Reverend Walter Hoye of Oakland, CA was jailed for exercising peaceful, pro-life speech.

9. Rev. Fred Winters was murdered while preaching in his pulpit in Maryville, Illinois.

8. HBO’s program "Curb Your Enthusiasm" aired an episode where the main actor urinates on painting of Jesus. When confronted HBO would not apologize.

7. The overt homosexual participation in Obama's presidential inaugural events by “Bishop” Vickie Eugene Robinson, the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington D. C., and a homosexual marching band.

6. Police called to East Jessamine Middle School in Lexington, Kentucky to stop 8th graders from praying during their lunch break for a student whose mother was tragically killed.

5. Pro-life activist Jim Pullion was murdered in front of his granddaughter's high school for showing the truth about abortion.

4. An activist judge ordered a home school mom in New Hampshire to stop home schooling her daughter because the little girl “reflected too strongly” her mother’s Christian faith.

3. The Federal Department of Homeland Security issued a report entitled "Right wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate" that labeled conservative Christians extremists and potential terrorists.

2. President Obama's appointment of radical anti-Christians like homosexual activist Kevin Jennings as the "safe school czar;" pro-abortion advocate Kathleen Seblius made Secretary of Human and Health Services, and Chai Feldblum, pro-homosexual and anti-religious liberty judge nominated for Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

1. The Federal Hate Crimes Bill that attacks religious liberty and freedom of speech. For the first time in our history ministers are vulnerable to investigation and prosecution for telling the truth about homosexuality.