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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 366
synagogues, and African-American denominations.
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2004 – In Pennsylvania in July, an evangelical activist, Michael Marcavage, was charged
with “hate speech” because he read passages from the Bible condemning homosexuality at a
Lansdowne Borough Council meeting. Marcavage had good reason for his actions. He was
“questioning the efforts of some in the borough to make Lansdowne one of the more attractive
gay destinations in Delaware County.” He did not disrupt the meeting, it was his turn to speak.
He only spoke 2 minutes before being arrested.
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Kevin Lee, an open homosexual, had recently
been appointed to the Council. The council president allegedly stated, “That's hate speech” The
Assistant District Attorney, Alyssa Kusturiss, stated that the “Council perceived what he was
reading as hate speech. It would be homophobic today. They couldn't let him go on. You can't go
up to the podium and start reading from the Bible.”
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The charges were eventually dismissed.
In October of 2004 Marcavage was arrested again along with 10 members of his
organization, Repent America. They were “charged with rioting, reckless endangerment,
obstructing a highway, failing to disperse, disorderly conduct, ethnic intimidation and possessing
an instrument of crime.” As reported by the Delaware County Times, Marcavage's crime was
quoting Bible scripture at a Gay Pride event called “OutFest” held on a public street. His
instrument of crime was a bullhorn. They further reported that it was the homosexuals who were
shouting obscenities, blowing whistles, blocking the access of the group to the event, disorderly,
and confrontational and that a “video of the incident makes it pretty clear that Marcavage’s
group was not rioting or otherwise breaking the law.” The judge who viewed the video
disagreed.
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Five of the members of the Repent America were facing up to 47 years in prison and up
to a $90,000 fine. The charges were eventually dropped but the judge compared the group to
Nazis and the KKK.
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As reported by WorldNetDaily.com, “Homosexual 'OutFest' organizers
in Philadelphia announced plans in advance of their October 2004 street festival to block
Christians from access to the publicly sponsored event.” After the Christian group was
confronted, blocked and harassed by homosexuals. Homosexual attorneys from the US Justice
Department Civil Rights Division who where in attendance at the event advised police on the
scene to arrest the Christian protesters according to a source within that agency.
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2005 – The Civilian Inmate Labor Program of 1997 was revised. The summary states:
“This regulation provides guidance for establishing and managing civilian inmate labor programs
on Army installations. It provides guidance for establishing prison camps on Army installations.
It addresses record keeping and reporting of incidents related to the Civilian Inmate Labor
Program and/or prison camp administration.”
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2005 – A federal appeals court ruled in the case of Jose Padilla, a former gang member
and US citizen arrested in Chicago in 2002 and who was later designated an “enemy combatant”
by the Bush administration. Padilla had been in prison for three years without formal charges or
a trial. The court affirmed the governments “power to indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen captured
on U.S. soil without any criminal charges, holding that such authority is vital during wartime to
protect the nation from terrorist attacks.”
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Experts state that the war on terror will not end in
our life-time which means we'll never see a return of our full constitutional rights.
2006 – In January Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR), a subsidiary of Halliburton, was
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