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EDUCATION 10 Colleges Igniting Promiscuity by Selwyn Duke — Today’s colleges are actually hosting orgiastic events and pushing perversity on students, all the while helping numb the young into ignorance, iniquity, and atheism.

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SCIENCE 19 International Scientific oneinchpunch/ iStock / Getty Images Plus Conference Deems Evolution a “Hoax” 19 by Alex Newman — An international conference in Turkey sought to show that the theory of evolution is a sham and that the best evidence makes clear that everything was created by a Creator.

POLITICS 26 Who’s Behind the Michael Avenatti-Stormy Daniels Fake News Parade? by William F. Jasper — Stormy Daniels’ lawyer, Michael Avenatti, has not brought forth any damning evidence against Donald Trump, yet he gets TV interviews by the dozens — what gives?

BOOK REVIEW 29 The Triumph of Christianity

by Laurence M. Vance — A historian specializing in Christianity Photo: http://theoriginoflife.net explains how and why Christianity spread in the face of persecution, paganism, and impoverishment. 26 29 HISTORY — PAST AND PERSPECTIVE 33 U.S. Globalists Put Castro in Power and Kept Him There by Frank de Varona & Alex Newman — The U.S. government planned to help Cubans overthrow Fidel Castro in 1961; however, the American globalists responsible for putting Castro in power sabotaged the attack.

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We have taken our eye off the Scandinavians and other people in ball, by concentrating on the societal ef- Western Europe no longer have any reason fects of something, rather than the treat- to trust their political leaders. Our lead- able cause, long overdue for acknowledg- ers routinely lie about immigration, Islam, ment and correction. and many other subjects. “Stan” Stanfield Gunnar Unneland Sent via e-mail Sent via e-mail Printed in the U.S.A. • ISSN 0885-6540 P.O. Box 8040 • Appleton, WI 54912 Send your letters to: The New American, P.O. 920-749-3784 • 920-749-3785 (fax) Box 8040, Appleton, WI 54912. Or e-mail: www.thenewamerican.com Disrupting Sex ­[email protected]. Due to vol- [email protected] In his review of the book When Harry ume received, not all letters can be answered. Rates are $49 per year (Canada, add $9; foreign, add $27) Copyright ©2018 by Became Sally (TNA, April 23), Laurence Letters may be edited for space and clarity. American Opinion Publishing, Inc. 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Call 1-800-727-TRUE to subscribe today! 5 What does “family owned & operated” really mean? For the Clark family, it means getting up early for 45 years to work in their own community, and choosing to invest in the Inland Empire. In a time when Wall Street is trying to run Main Street, Clark’s Nutrition still believes that family owned and operated businesses are the backbone of the American dream, and feels privileged to help families live healthier and happier lives. Inside Track More Taxpayers Fleeing Illinois Than Any Other State Thanks to the mass exodus of citizens from the Land of Lincoln, gas there is 30 percent higher than the national average and the Illinois has dropped from the fifth most-populous state in the local tax burden is 10 percent greater. union to sixth, Breitbart reported May 22. This is largely because The exodus is eroding the tax base of Illinois and other states, the state is taxing them out of their homes. while the generous welfare schemes in these states are inviting Over the last two years, more than 70,000 people have left the poor to move there. This is a recipe for increasing the incen- Illinois for more tax-friendly climes such as Texas, Florida, and tive to move for those who can. Those fleeing high-tax — usually even South Dakota and Wyoming. In fact, Chicago is the only deep blue — states such as Illinois are being drawn to low-tax city in the United States that has consistently lost citizens over states such as Wyoming, South Dakota, Texas, and Florida, which the last five years. The so-called “U-Haul index” rates Illinois as are typically bright red. number one for outbound moving vans. They are no doubt getting out while the getting is good. Many of the state’s 656 public pension plans are so far under water that the state passed a law allowing something called an “intercept,” which allows pension boards to raid a delinquent municipality’s state income tax funds. The municipalities of Harvey and North Chicago have already suffered the indignity, and the pain, of hav- ing funds siphoned off to make those delinquent pension-plan contributions. But taxpayers are not just fleeing Illinois. With the passage of tax reform, high-income earners will no longer be able to take state and local tax deductions, making their cost of living in high- cost states such as California and New York even higher. Over the last 10 years, California has lost a million residents thanks to high taxes and high housing prices. The average California house now costs twice what the average U.S. house costs. The price of RiverNorthPhotography/ Getty Images Plus

Southern Baptists Cut Ties With D.C. Baptists Over Homosexuality

The Southern Baptist Convention After the DCBC failed to comply (SBC), the nation’s largest evangeli- with the SBC’s warning as of May 21, cal denomination, has severed ties with the SBC severed its relationship with the the District of Columbia Baptist Con- group. “The formal relationship between vention (DCBC) after the Washington, the SBC and the DCBC has come to an D.C., church group refused to discipline end,” said D. August Boto, the SBC’s a church under its jurisdiction that had Executive Committee president, in a pre- hired a pair of lesbian co-pastors. pared statement. In February, the SBC’s Executive Boto said that the SBC’s Executive Committee issued the DCBC a 90-day Committee had “expressed deep regret ultimatum to remove all congregations over the need to take this action, but felt in its fellowship that “practice affirming, compelled to affirm biblical truth over approving, or endorsing homosexual organizational relationships.” He added behavior,” Baptist Press News noted on that the committee embraced a “willing- May 22. The action came after one of the ness to consider resuming its relationship DCBC’s member congregations, Calvary with the DCBC in the future,” should the Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., voted in January 2017 to group act to remove Calvary Baptist from its fellowship. install a lesbian couple as co-pastors. However, while DCBC Executive Director Robert Cochran Calvary, a 155-year-old congregation founded by abolitionists, had earlier emphasized that the DCBC “has not affirmed, ap- had disassociated from the SBC in 2012, but was still part of the proved, or endorsed homosexual behavior in any way at any DCBC. But when the church called lesbian partners Maria Swear- time,” and that it “respects the official statements” on homosexu- ingen and Sally Sarratt co-pastors in 2017, the SBC’s Executive ality by the SBC, he made it clear that his group had “no plans to Committee charged that by failing to discipline the congregation, disassociate” with Calvary Baptist Church, and had not discussed the DCBC had tacitly approved of the unbiblical actions of Calvary. “the issue of homosexuality” with Calvary Baptist leadership.

www.TheNewAmerican.com 7 Inside Track Colleges: “Snowflake” Disability Now Gets You More Time on Tests Is being a snowflake a disabil- exams in low-distraction ity? This is apparently the case testing centers, are al- at (pseudo)elite U.S. colleges, lowed to get up and walk where up to one in four students around during class or are classified as “disabled” — bring a comfort animal often simply because they ex- to school, among other perience “stress and anxiety” measures.” The latter can — and are thus given special include being given twice accommodations. as long to take exams. Disabled classifications In fact, schools go to have skyrocketed in recent ridiculous lengths to ac- years, with only a doctor’s note commodate students. The necessary to be given the status simonkr/ E+/Getty Images Plus University of Minnesota, (and then federal law dictates the person must be accommodat- for instance, administered 9,681 tests to students requiring extra ed). At Pomona College in California, for instance, five percent time or those “low-distraction environments” — double the num- of students fell into the category in 2014 — now 22 percent are ber in 2013. Not only has this made it necessary for staff to re- classified as disabled. linquish their offices for the “disabled” test takers, but during the This merely reflects other private colleges. As the Wall Street past year the school actually had to rent 10,000 square feet of Journal reported May 24, “At Hampshire, Amherst and Smith col- space at a local hotel for them. leges in Massachusetts and Yeshiva University in New York, one in This disability-over-meritocracy craze not only threatens to five students are classified as disabled. At Oberlin College in Ohio, diminish the quality of future goods and services, but also our it is one in four. At Marlboro College in Vermont, it is one in three.” international competitiveness. After all, the Chinese already Students’ coping mechanisms are now provided by colleges. produce 10 times as many scientists as we do, and you can bet The Journal again: “The rise in disability notes for mental-health they’re not coddling students with “safe spaces,” low-distraction- issues has led to a surge in the number of students who take their environment rooms, and comfort animals.

Boy Scouts Leadership Mandates Condoms for 2019 Jamboree The Boy Scouts’ 24th annual World Scout Jamboree is sched- uled for July 21 through August 1, 2019, and global Boy Scouts leadership is mandating that condoms be “readily and easily ac- cessible” for the event. The theme of the 2019 jamboree is “Unlock a New World,” and the event is being hosted by three international Scouting groups — Scouts Canada, the Asociación de Scouts de México, and the Scouts BSA. “These three distinct cultures will join to- gether to host the world Scouting community in a celebration of cultural exchange, mutual understanding, peace, and friendship,” the official jamboree announcement explains. According to the mandate, issued by the World Scout Commit- tee in the latest handbook of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, the group hosting the World Scout Jamboree (in this Images Plus bauhaus1000/ iStock Unreleased/Getty case Scouts BSA) must “ensure that condoms are readily and ual boys and adult Scout leaders, transgender and cross-dressing easily accessible for all participants and IST [staff] at a number boys (and perhaps adults), and even an assortment of girls who of locations on the site.” have decided to join the once-respected organization. As reported by Charisma News on May 21, “It appears the In reality, this is not the first time that condoms have been made Jamboree guidelines were drafted after the 2015 World Jamboree available at World Scout Jamborees. As reported by CNSNews. in Japan in preparation for the 2019 event and were just recently com in 2008, “Bangkok’s public health ministry announced this released in an email.” week that condoms would be handed out to participants in the More than 160 Boy Scouts organizations from around the 20th World Scout Jamboree [in Thailand] on request.... A minis- world are expected to participate in next year’s 12-day jambo- try spokesman was quoted as saying the aim was to prevent the ree event in West Virginia, and with all the gender and sexuality spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) such as AIDS, not changes in the wind, participants could include openly homosex- to promote sexual activity.” n

8 THE NEW AMERICAN • JUNE 18, 2018 QuickQuotes

Trump Critics Readily Distort the President’s Statement “When all of our great-great-grandparents came to America, they weren’t ‘animals’ and these people aren’t either.” President Trump labeled only members of the murderous MS-13 gang as “animals.” He did not apply the term to all illegal immigrants. New York’s Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer claimed the presi- dent had used the term to describe all illegal immigrants. Schumer was not alone in issuing this type of “fake news.” Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) similarly distorted what the president had stated.

TSA Compiling Lists of People Who Don’t Behave While in Airport Lines Chuck Schumer “If I’m running late, having a bad day, and I’m rude to the screeners, AP Images do I get put on the list?” Forcing airline passengers to be totally submissive at airport screening locations is the goal of members of the Transportation Security Administration. Fred Burton, the chief security official for a Texas-based global intelligence company, doesn’t like the new watch list, which is also known as a “95 list.”

President Tells Annapolis Graduates to Be Prepared “The best way to prevent war is to be fully prepared for war. If a fight must come, there is no other alternative but victory.” In his May 26 commencement speech at the U.S. Naval Academy, President Donald Trump relied on the well-known truism that being ready for war customarily keeps war from occurring.

China’s Campaign to Absorb Taiwan Quietly Escalates “The Chinese government always says it wants to win the hearts and minds of the Taiwanese people. But their military threats against Taiwan and the diplomatic assault against Taiwan are not doing that.” Donald Taiwan’s foreign minister Joseph Wu knows that the ultimate goal Trump

AP Images of the Beijing government is to erase any sign of independence for the 23 million Taiwanese and their nation, the 22nd largest economy among the world’s nations. Recently, Gap clothing company reacted to pressure from China by apologizing and removing from stores a T-shirt that showed a map of China that did not depict Taiwan as part of China.

Ireland’s Choice of Abortion Generates Renewed Fight for the Unborn “Today is a sad day for Ireland and for people who believe in genuine human rights. The struggle to defend the most vulnerable has not ended, it has just changed.” As a leader of one of Ireland’s largest anti-abortion groups, Cora Sherlock acknowledged her chagrin about the May 25 pro-abortion choice of Ireland’s voters. But she pledged to continue campaigning for the right to life of the unborn.

Harvard University Welcomes 2016’s Loser for Commencement Address “There are forces and leaders in our country who blatantly incite people with hateful rhetoric, who stoke fear of change, [and who] see the world in zero-sum terms so if others are gaining, then everyone else must be losing. That is a recipe for polarization and conflict.” Without naming President Trump, Hillary Clinton aimed her remarks at the sitting U.S. president during her May 25 address to graduates of the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. Her remarks did not include labeling her opponents as “deplorables” or claiming that the rich are getting richer at the expense of the poor, as she did during her campaign. n Hillary — Compiled by John F. McManus Clinton AP Images

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10 THE NEW AMERICAN • JUNE 18, 2018 by Selwyn Duke an April 11 College Fix headline. The de- with a ‘Lascivious Ball’ in which students tails are even worse, but I’ll spare you. will not be required to wear clothing.” In s it all about sex?!” The answer Two days earlier, the College Fix re- 2015, the College Fix informed that “Har- to this common leftist refrain, ported that the “University of Tennessee vard University will soon mark its annual “I exclaimed when a traditional- at Knoxville is hosting ‘Sex Week’ [April ‘Sex Week’ observance, which this year ist complains about some sexual-dev- 6 through 12] at which students will learn features a workshop on how to navigate olutionary agenda, is “Yes — you have about a wide variety of sexual practices sex involving bondage and sadomasoch- made it so.” The “regressives” known and topics,” including a class “titled ‘Butt ism in the dorms — complete with whips as progressives have infused everything Stuff 2.0: The Pegging,’” which we’ll and floggers.” And in March, the publica- with sex, from media to entertainment to not describe here. The Fix also informs, tion told us that the “annual ‘Sex Week’ big business to, what is the topic here, “Other events during the week include an at Northwestern University will feature a education, with higher miseducation art exhibit titled ‘Send Nudes ;),’ a caba- Chicago-based dominatrix named ‘Lady being the highest in lascivious content. ret show, and a workshop about ‘Black Sophia’ who will teach the students vari- Thus is it no wonder that Johnny not only Liberation through Sexual Pleasure.’… ous BDSM practices.” can’t read but can’t tell right from wrong: Workshops such as ‘Masturbation Na- Yet what transpires every other week in Orgiastic environments don’t lend them- tion,’ ‘Trans Convo Starter Pack,’ ‘Tinder higher education can be just as sex-infused selves to intellectual or moral develop- and Tea,’ and the ‘Science of Abortion’ are and confused. In 2011, Northwestern Uni- ment. Moreover, marry someone to vice also on the schedule.” versity psychology Professor J. Michael on an emotional level, and he’ll be likely Far from the above being an outlier, Bailey hosted a guest lecturer whose pre- to later accept vice-imbued ideologies on university Sex Week events are common sentation was entitled “Networking for an intellectual level. today. For example, Campus Reform re- Kinky People” and which featured a live British philosopher G.K. Chesterton ported four years ago that the “University sex act on an auditorium stage. Also from predicted in 1926 that the “next great of Chicago is kicking off Sex Week 2014 the Fix (quotations are the publication’s): heresy is going to be simply an attack on morality; and especially on sexual moral- ity…. The madness of tomorrow is not in The College Fix reported that the “University of Moscow but much more in Manhattan.” Philosopher C.S. Lewis, the foundation Tennessee at Knoxville is hosting ‘Sex Week’ [April 6 for whose conversion to Christianity (from through 12] at which students will learn about a wide atheism) was born of reading Chesterton’s books, once observed, “Sex is not messed variety of sexual practices and topics.” up because it was put in the closet; it was put in the closet because it was messed up.” And just recently, at an early April conference at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, University of Virginia (UVA) religious studies Professor Vigen Guroian complained of higher education’s hypocrisy. Pointing out that colleges do in fact act in loco parentis, heavily policing alcohol and drug use, he asks why they also don’t police promiscuity. The short answer: When a heresy holds sway it be- comes orthodoxy, at least for a time — and you don’t question orthodoxy. Yet forget about policing promiscuity. Today’s colleges actually encourage it to a point of almost making Sodom and Go- morrah look saintly. Consider that the Ivy League’s Yale University hosted rapper Elizabeth Eden Harris, who goes by the moniker “cupcakKe,” at its April Spring Fling celebration. One student commenta- tor called her emanations “sins, not songs”

and “musical porn, plain and simple,” as AP Images she “sings about violent sex, oral sex, and Sodom in school: Now common on college campuses is “Sex week,” where perversion — having genitalia ‘like I’m eight,’” reports including bondage and sadomasochism — is celebrated, taught, and portrayed as normal. www.TheNewAmerican.com 11 EDUCATION

ferent body parts and late at night Guroian penned a 2015 essay entitled “Sex and with a couple of beers things got more intimate. We were not so much Danger at UVA” with William Wilson, professor male and female as we were xx who emeritus of religious studies at the University of logically should give xy what they want and what we have. We were Virginia, in which the academics document that all one mutually using and abusing 18-year-old undergraduates really do enter “Dorm non-family. Sexual license was actively en- Brothels.” couraged and funded by the univer- sity. From “Spring-break fun packs” full of condoms and forms of con- • Dartmouth University offers physical pig of promiscuity. So now sex, reduced to traception handed out at the student education credit for undergoing “Sex- a mechanical act, can be described with a center with a cute note from a pudgy pert” training. term for linking two pieces of machinery. sunshine face wearing shades saying • An area of study at the elite all-wom- Another student provided even more “Have a Fun Spring Break!” to “Sex- en’s Smith College “has the stated goal detail, as Guroian and Wilson relate: ual Arts and Crafts” flyers plastered of ‘recognizing and disrupting notions of on the dorm halls — the message normative sexuality and gender.’” I arrived at UVA first semester just is clear: college is a parent-funded • “A workshop offered at the University like many other female University motel party of casual and impersonal, of Texas at Austin teaches students [that] students — wanting to make friends, but, yes, “safe sex.” bisexuality, pansexuality and ‘fluid sexu- excited for romance (genuine ro- ality’ should be embraced and supported.” mance), and getting to know bright Related to this, an April College Fix ar- • “A discussion scheduled for later this and intellectually motivated young ticle reported on Guroian’s recent Francis- month [April 2017] at California State men and women. Much to my sur- can U. appearance and wrote that he “also University San Marcos appears slated to prise things were not so.... I had been lamented the end of single-sex colleges delve into the wild world of animal-based thrown with others carelessly into a as a ‘great tragedy,’ claiming that many sex fetishes.” long-term hotel. problems seen today would not exist if One could fill volumes with such ex- Most of the people in your dorm even just dormitories were single-sex. amples, but the point has been made. were in the “friend zone.” Everyone When he was a student in the 1970s, ‘no Not surprisingly, this perversion extends was a “guy.” But even with sweat- one thought unisex dorms was [sic] pos- beyond the classroom. Guroian penned a pants on we recognized we had dif- sible.’” Yet it has gone beyond this now: 2015 essay entitled “Sex and Danger at UVA” with William Wilson, professor emeritus of religious studies at the Uni- versity of Virginia, in which the academics document that 18-year-old undergraduates really do enter “Dorm Brothels” (the title of a shocking 2005 article Guroian wrote). They presented the words a female UVA student wrote in a class assignment, relat- ing, “Sex pervades almost every aspect of dorm life that I have experienced. I have seen ‘dorm incest’ (the entire floor hooks up with everyone else on the floor), [been] ‘sexiled,’ by my roommate having sex on my dorm bed, and witnessed date rape.” Note that the term “hook up” (in the sense of sexual activity) was only at- tested “by 2003,” according to the Online Etymology Dictionary; this is no surprise. It’s a euphemism for “one-night stand” or “casual sex,” which itself is a euphemism for fornication. As sexual mores have Sean Murphy/ Photodisc/GettyImagesPlus degraded and the concept of “sin” has “A” stands for alcohol: The film Animal House made famous the line “Drunk and stupid is no been shelved, the language has been cor- way to go through life, son.” But it now is a way to go through college, with an alcohol-fueled respondingly altered to put lipstick on the “hook up” campus culture being the norm.

12 THE NEW AMERICAN • JUNE 18, 2018 Some campuses — such as Wesleyan University, Hampshire College, Ithaca College, and even Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to name just a handful — have clothing-optional halls, dorms, and, sometimes, whole campuses (virtually all students still regularly wear clothing, but reports of seeing an undergraduate au na- turale are not uncommon). Given this, it’s not surprising that Gu- roian and Wilson lament how higher edu- cation has abdicated its responsibility to provide the young proper moral guide- rails, how its apparent goal now vis-à-vis sex is merely to “manage” the promiscu- ity. Ensure that everything is “consensu- al” and that it’s “safe sex,” and the job is done. But as the two academics point out: AP Images Perusing the new college “sex man- Passing the buck: Who’s blamed for the casualties of colleges’ orgiastic environments? After uals” is like studying instructions creating campus occasions of sin, university administrators shift the onus onto male students — for the operation of machinery. In sometimes even innocent ones, such as in the 2006 Duke University rape frame-up case (shown). this hyper-bureaucratic vision, mind and will are described to exist in a supported by sanctions cannot make right and wrong. Thus, human “consent” macabre, disembodied state: a Car- a humane culture. Only moral con- supplants God’s consent. tesian dualism gone positively mad. victions about right and wrong en- And after creating this “liberated” envi- The University of Virginia docu- sconced in manners and customary ronment — what now-unfashionable peo- ment on sexual violence reads as restraints can ensure a healthy cul- ple once called an “occasion of sin” — and follows: “A person who has given ture of relations between the sexes. after Hell follows with it, modern higher Effective Consent to engage in Sex- Consent does not suffice for a sexual education engages in blame-shifting. As ual Contact or Sexual Intercourse morality, not even in deciding right Guroian and Wilson write, “Faced with may withdraw Effective Consent at from wrong. Bad and harmful sex sexual violence [real and imaginary], the any time. It is the responsibility of can happen even when there is con- allegedly ‘innocent’ university pleads that the person withdrawing Effective sent. Human beings often consent to it is not responsible, morally or legally, Consent to communicate, through being acted upon in ways that will for the anarchic and destructive sex that clear words or actions, that he or do them harm. Does consent alone happens. ‘It is all the fraternities’ fault. It she no longer wishes to engage in make it right for me to do something is the fault of the benighted heritage of a the sexual activity.” Sexual contact with or to someone to which she has Southern male institution. It is the fault of is “any intentional sexual touching, agreed but that I know will harm her? flawed policies that state and federal gov- however slight, with any object, ernments have mandated.’” Or, I’ll add, performed by a person upon another No doubt. Note that in 2003, 42-year-old it’s “toxic masculinity”; “male privilege”; person.” Now who believes that sex German computer expert Armin Meiwes or the “patriarchy,” that fearsome entity happens this way, where persons was convicted of killing and cannibal- whose existence in the West occupies a rule over their bodies like techni- izing 43-year-old Berlin engineer Bernd category with the tyrannosaurus rex. cians ­operating a robot? Brandes, as The Guardian reported at In fact, one could wonder if this blame- the time. The relevance? Meiwes had ad- shifting desire is partially why universi- Who? Those believing people are just or- vertised for a victim on the Internet, and ties so zealously and prejudicially per- ganic robots whose parts will sometimes Brandes responded and willingly partici- secute young men accused of sexual “hook up.” pated in his own destruction. The moral is misconduct, often treating them as guilty Yet there is much more to unpack here that no amount of consent can make right until proven innocent beyond doubt’s than can be addressed in one essay. First what is objectively wrong. very shadow (e.g., the Duke University consider the notion of “consent,” a term The implicit notion to the contrary, lacrosse rape frame-up case). Aside from appearing three times in the first two sen- so modernly American and fashionable being motivated by now ingrained anti- tences of UVA’s above guidelines. Gu- (though, of course, applied inconsistent- male prejudice and other biases, are some roian and Wilson tackle this: ly, like all lies), reflects something: the academics assuaging and expiating their deification of the individual, the idea that own guilt by sacrificing (sometimes) in- Administrative and juridical rules everybody can decide for himself what’s nocent blood on their altar of political

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strip freedom in every area but the one where you strip clothes. Moreover, being libertine themselves and having much to justify personally, they’ll never erect a moral standard by which they also would be condemned. Besides, to paraphrase the ancient Chinese sage Confucius, “I never knew anyone who loved virtue as much as sex.” College is now big business, and if sex is a strong selling point with the Bo- hemian boy and Gomorrah girl customers, it will be delivered. Nonetheless, virtue still has its fans, as there remains on college campuses a strong, if quiet, resistance to the libertine excesses of modern university life. For example, Dr. Duke Pesta, a tenured pro- fessor of English at a state university and the academic director of FreedomProject Academy, notes that when he teaches clas-

AP Images sic books that argue for chastity, temper- A key: Philosopher C.S. Lewis noted that sex “is not messed up because it was put in the closet; ance, and modesty, many students approve it was put in the closet because it was messed up.” Feminists themselves set the stage for sexual the message. “It’s remarkable,” Pesta abuse by branding libertinism “women’s liberation” and throwing open the closet of carnality. explained, “but when my students read Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Dostoevsky, correctness? Do some have the hope, she may instinctively erect a wall around or C. S. Lewis, many react positively to deep down, that if they turn the accused her heart and never let another man enter traditional sexual morality and deplore into a lust-breathing dragon and make a it so completely. Consequently, with that the trivialization of love and commitment show of slaying him, that their own cul- deep dream of truly bonding romantically that promiscuity leaves in its wake.” Pesta pability will go unnoticed? and becoming one flesh (after marriage) also points out that a number of his most Whatever the case, “Even as the evi- dashed, it isn’t just that she’s more likely vocal and self-described feminist students dence has mounted to undeniable propor- to pin her hopes elsewhere (e.g., career). “are greatly at odds with their teachers and tions that something has gone horribly She also may respond to having been emo- their culture” when it comes to sex outside wrong with relations between the sexes on tionally hurt by a man by developing hos- the framework of commitment: “In the our campuses, colleges will not admit cul- tility toward all men, which can lead to the same way we find surprising reservoirs of pability for the ugly scene,” Guroian and visceral reaction of embracing feminism. young college students who oppose abor- Wilson also state. “Most important, they In fact, scratch the surface of a militant tion much more deeply than previous uni- will not admit that the great experiment feminist, and you generally find in her past versity-educated generations, we are also of institutionalizing the sexual revolution a bad relationship with a man, such as a finding a more serious desire to reinstate has failed at the cost of many, many ru- boyfriend or father. personal and societal boundaries when ined lives.” This brings us to the notion of Moreover, the casual-sex phenomenon it comes to personal and societal sexual “safe sex.” When the two academics cite inculcates the divorce mentality. Gener- choices. The two are clearly related.” cases of wounded young women they’ve ally speaking, every succeeding romantic In addition, there are whole oases of encountered, it’s never that the student bond will be weaker than the preceding traditionalism, institutions such as the came crying for help because she con- one, and the bond-breakup, bond-break- aforementioned Franciscan University, tracted syphilis or chlamydia; most types up, bond-breakup pattern can become ha- Michigan’s Hillsdale College, Florida’s of VD are curable. Rather, what ails her bitual — which means it will carry over Ave Maria University, California’s Thom- isn’t remedied with a round of antibiotics. into marriage. as Aquinas College, and Virginia’s Lib- Many of us have witnessed the plight of There is a reason, of course, why to- erty University, to name a handful. New used and jilted girls (I’ve seen more than day’s universities make Sodom standard. American writer Steve Byas, a professor one). Here is the general pattern: A woman Part of it is that being a thoroughly left- of history and government, works at an- will tend to bond very strongly with the wing bunch, professors and administrators other such institution, Randall University first man with whom she has sexual rela- are wholly invested in the great sexual in Moore, Oklahoma. Weighing in on aca- tions. If that fellow — perhaps viewing the heresy. They believe in it, supposing that demia’s current status quo and contrasting encounter differently, as mere carnal plea- to suppress sexual “expression” is a great Randall with it, he said that it’s “beyond sure — then jilts her, she can be cut deeply. and intolerable tyranny, even as they en- doubt that debauchery is widespread on Not wanting to experience this pain again, force politically correct speech codes and the American college campus,” but he is

14 THE NEW AMERICAN • JUNE 18, 2018 “We were not so much male and female as we were xx who logically should give xy what they want and what we have. We were all one mutually using and abusing non-family.” — Female UVA student grateful to “teach at a Christian liberal who don’t always act like it. Some percent more likely than the men to have arts college, associated with the Free Will students come to Randall without to be transferred from their ships to land Baptist denomination.” Byas continued, Christ, and then later graduate with duty.) Or it’s like giving kids the keys to “Instead of ‘sex week,’ our students often not only a degree in their hands, but the candy store carte blanche and then give up their spring breaks to go on mis- also Christ in their hearts and lives. wondering why they gorge themselves sion trips. This is in addition to mission We have one dorm for the young to the point of nausea. A simple truth is activities in the summer months.” He fur- men and another dorm for the young ignored: Institutionalize occasions of sin ther elaborated: women. Twice a week we have cha- — and rampant sin will result. pel services — a time for inspiration, Yet the most serious consequence of There are no classes at Randall drawn from the Christian faith. sexual corruption is seldom understood. University on fornication, but we Is it mere coincidence that groups defined do have classes like the Bible and Most academics would consider the by what was once universally called sin Science. In fact, the Christian above model antiquated. Yet “eternal” is — whether homosexuals, people of easy worldview permeates the curricu- the proper word, and one everlasting prin- virtue, recreational drug users, etc. — tend lum. We don’t restrict the teaching ciple eluding these libertines is this: The to embrace what we call “leftist” politics? of the Christian worldview to cours- “enlightened” modern model for sexuality I think not. Nor do I believe that their sup- es on theology. On the contrary, my is much like Marxism and typical of left- port is explainable solely by the fact that classes on American History, Euro- ism in that it denies the realities of man’s leftists rubber-stamp their inclinations. pean History, and American Federal nature. Some may say, indulging a cari- To paraphrase Belgian poet and writer Government are taught in such a cature of individualism, that “college stu- Émile Cammaerts, “When people cease way that biblical Christianity is as- dents are responsible for their own sexual believing in God, it’s not that they start to sumed. We teach Western Civiliza- behavior.” Yet this is like putting young believe in nothing. It’s that they’ll believe tion and the role that the Christian men and women together aboard a navy in anything.” Upon hearing this, instinc- faith has had in shaping it. vessel and wondering why it becomes a tively theists’ heads will nod and atheists’ Sure, we have students on campus “love boat.” (Note that 3,840 — or 16 eyes roll, and it’s usually left there. Yet who are not Christians. And we have percent — of our female sailors became if the phenomenon is real, it can be ex- students from a Christian background pregnant in 2016, and that women are 50 plained — and it must be. skynesher/E+/GettyImagesPlus Miller High Life over intellectual life: With the occasion of sin of co-ed dorms, a party atmosphere, and sexual depravity, higher education’s corruption of minds and hearts makes them all the more receptive to corrupt ideology. www.TheNewAmerican.com 15 EDUCATION

actual rules (objective ones, that is; con- As Guroian and Wilson write, “Faced with sexual sensus preferences masquerading as rules don’t count) governing human behavior violence [real and imaginary], the allegedly — that “morality” is a fool’s illusion, as ‘innocent’ university pleads that it is not oh-so-smart sociopaths suppose — and they can believe in “anything.” Moreover, responsible, morally or legally, for the anarchic what if you then can shape their yardstick and destructive sex that happens. ‘It is all the for behavior, their emotions, as is done very effectively via media, academia, and fraternities’ fault.’” entertainment? You then can control what they believe. Before you can get people to believe in Tragically, the above also works with How does this relate to faithlessness, anything, you must eliminate their knowl- that for which it’s a metaphor: what people to return to Cammaerts’ observation? edge of what limits them to something feed their minds and hearts. I often write The answer is that atheism correlates (good): proper rules. For example, draw- about moral relativism/nihilism, and for with moral relativism/nihilism. After all, ing people away from healthful diets would good reason — it’s the characteristic phil- if there’s no God, what we call “moral- be easy if, somehow, you could convince osophical/spiritual mistake of our time. ity” can only be man’s creation; it also them that the rules of human nutrition This is evidenced by a 2002 Barna Group can only be his illusion because then mo- didn’t exist. There then wouldn’t be “bad” study showing that only six percent of rality, properly understood, cannot exist. and “good” foods, as there’d be no yard- teens (now well into adulthood) believed To present my standard explanation: If stick for drawing such distinctions, only in Moral Truth (absolute by definition). 90 percent of humanity said it preferred pleasing and unpleasant ones. So then taste Quite telling, and predictable, is some- chocolate to vanilla, it wouldn’t render becomes the only guide, and the credo is thing else the research found. Robbed of chocolate “right” or “good” and vanilla reduced to “If it tastes good, eat it.” And led the yardstick of rules for human behavior, “wrong” or “evil”; it would simply mean by taste, people would very likely gravitate it’s as in the diet example: Americans are that people happened to like chocolate toward junk food, those sinfully delicious most likely to use as a guide for making better. Yet would it be any more logical formulations, or might even try those pretty decisions the only yardstick they have left, to say that murder was “wrong” if our berries on the bush that are, truly, for the feelings (tastes). This is why “If it feels only basis for the claim was that most birds. Moreover, if you can somehow shape good, do it” long ago became a common all of humanity preferred that people not people’s tastes via manipulation, you can modern credo. kill others in a way we call unjust? If that control what they feed their bodies. Of course, convince people there are no were all it is, then the idea that murder was wrong would occupy the same cat- egory as flavors: the realm of preference. So here is the formula: Atheism=moral relativism/nihilism=no rules=no limits on belief. Ergo, one can believe in anything. Thus, if I wanted to fill young people’s heads with ideological junk food, I might first want to detach them from Truth. What is the best way to do this? An incen- tive must be provided — and this is where sin is invaluable. Someone has three basic choices when doing wrong: • Repent and resolve to change. This, the best choice, is difficult because ad- mitting error requires humility and the relinquishment of emotionally cherished behaviors. So this route is relatively un- popular. • Say, “I’ve done evil because I like evil and have no intention of stopping.” This is even rarer because people don’t like

AP Images believing they’re wicked — unless they Oases in an arid moral desert: Rare institutions such as Liberty University are still what college happen to be Aleister Crowley or Anton used to, and is supposed to, be: places in which students learn a traditional Western curriculum LaVey. and where Truth is valued over titillation. • Rationalize away the actions, claim-

16 THE NEW AMERICAN • JUNE 18, 2018 ing they’re not really wrong because Also note that sin is psychological poi- ies (and minds) with the same university ______. This is the road most traveled, son, though it’s not recognized as such by pods. It also should be mentioned that as it enables someone to indulge in both a moral relativist any more than physi- while atheism correlates with moral rela- favored sins and the illusion of relative cal poison would be recognized by a true tivism/nihilism, claimed belief in God saintliness. dietary relativist. It thus causes unhappi- does not nearly as strongly correlate with This brings us to the appeal of moral ness and often anger, and, since people embrace of Truth. For Barna reports that, relativism/nihilism. Probably the major would generally rather blame their mis- strikingly, only nine percent of “born reason it’s rampant today is that it’s the ery on others than themselves, it may be again” teens believe in it. It’s as if they ultimate rationalization, the one obviating easy to direct that anger at external tar- fancy God some kind of flower-child all other rationalizations. After all, my sins gets. Just make the women believe they “creative force” whose only priority is to can’t be sins if morality is mere social con- can’t be happy without ending the “patri- “not harsh their mellow.” It’s a tribute to struct. As serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, the archy,” the minorities believe they can’t the effect of sin and the appeal of moral “Milwaukee Cannibal,” revealed later in be happy without “deconstructing white- relativism/nihilism. life about his fateful teenage conclusion: ness,” the envious believe they can’t be Yet the Truth has not only its own ap- “If there’s no God, why can’t I just make happy without destroying capitalism, the peal but also another quality: endurance. up my own rules?” environmentally inclined believe they In contrast, lies, such as that of “sexual So if I were a university ideologue bent can’t be happy without bringing industry liberation,” have short legs. Secular aca- on winning young converts to a godless to heel, and so on. They’ll be so focused demia may indulge “the pleasures of sin cause, I’d employ a one-two punch: Use on trying to fix the world, they won’t no- for a season,” as the Bible puts it, but they occasions of sin to seduce the students tice that it’s the inner man who’s broken. will fade away with that season. If they’re into vice, which they’ll want to justify, Having said this, our problems don’t recorded at all, they’ll be remembered in often by becoming more relativistic. start at the university. As the Barna Group history like Caligula, as a great and per- Then, while they’re being further un- data on teens reveal, dislocation from verted mistake and cautionary tale. moored from eternal laws, opportunisti- Truth is already widespread by the time Modern academics may think they’re cally fill their heads with corruptive ide- high school concludes, no surprise given the men of the future, but they’re the mis- ology. Interestingly, this is precisely what that lower levels of schooling, the media, takes of the past — and always have been. happens at today’s universities. and entertainment all try to snatch bod- For only the good remains in the end. n

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International Scientific Conference Deems EVOLUTION“A HOAX An international conference in Turkey sought to show that the theory of evolution was a sham and that the best evidence makes clear that everything was created by a Creator.

within Turkey. In fact, Turkey is now one of the most anti-evolution nations in the world, with the government announcing last year that the controversial theory would no longer be pushed on students in primary and secondary schools. Already, the efforts to use science against the evolution theory are bearing fruit across the Islamic world and be- yond. Now, conference organizers and speakers are hoping that their efforts will have an effect across the West, too. “We share a language that declares Al- mighty God created the universe from nothing,” said Adnan Oktar, the honor- ary president of the conference and one of the world’s leading Muslim creation- ists. “We thank the speakers who trav- eled thousands of kilometers from their homes to come here and expose the dic- tatorship of Darwin.”

Photo: http://theoriginoflife.net This article will provide a very brief DNA’s design: Biochemist Dr. Fazale “Fuz” Rana, vice president of the scientific creationist group sketch of what the experts at the con- Reasons to Believe, argued that DNA is God’s programming language. ference had to say. The purpose is to present the other side — the side those who get all of their information from the by Alex Newman Each speaker at the 3rd International Con- media or the government’s schools may ference on the Origin of Life in Istanbul not even know exists, at least within the STANBUL, Turkey — Did you come had his or her own specialty. They had var- scientific community. On the other hand, from slime and monkeys? Not accord- ied religions, too, ranging from evangeli- this piece is by no means definitive or I ing to scientists here. A collection of cal Christians, Catholics, and Mormons to comprehensive. Readers, particularly prestigious academics and experts from Muslims and more generic deist-mono- those who may never have been exposed around the world, representing various theists. But they all agreed on one point: to scientific anti-evolution arguments, are disciplines, came together in late April A growing battery of scientific evidence invited to consider what the experts have to challenge what many described as a debunks the evolution hypothesis, which to say, and, if the article piques an inter- “lie” or a “hoax.” This ruse, they said, has some in attendance even compared to a est, to explore further. underpinned all manner of evils since it powerful false religion. first gained widespread acceptance. From The scientific conference, put on by Biochemist Touts communism and national socialism to ter- the Turkish Technics and Science Re- God’s Design of Human Genome rorism, atheism, and eugenics, this theory search Foundation along with the Foun- Biochemist Dr. Fazale “Fuz” Rana, vice has been crucial to propagating countless dation for the Preservation of National president of research and apologetics at curses and scourges that have afflicted hu- Values and the National Values Founda- Reasons to Believe, a Christian organ­ manity for centuries, they argued. tion, has played a major role in undermin- ization that uses science to promote its The Enemy: The theory of evolution. ing trust in the evolutionary worldview views on creation, gave a fascinating talk

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system that is far more complex than we initially imagined.” Contrary to earlier beliefs among scientists that Citing the growing understanding of the genome, the biochemist closed with much of the DNA sequence was useless “junk” — an Psalm 139, in which David writes: “I argument used by evolutionists for years — the latest praise you because I am fearfully and discoveries show it has a purpose. wonderfully made; your works are won- derful, I know that full well.”

Physicist on Design on “The Human Genome: Encoded by The Cell’s Design: How Chemistry Re- Principles in Biology Design.” From the start, he argued that veals the Creator’s Artistry, focused in Another scientist who focused on the scientific evidence points to the existence particular on the design of the human scientific evidence of creation was Dr. of God, and “undermines the evolutionary genome. The sequence of it, he argued, is David Snoke, a professor of physics at paradigm.” His speech emphasized God’s the language God used to create mankind. the University of Pittsburgh and the head programming language used in DNA, and Even then-President Bill Clinton, hardly a of the Christian Scientific Society. In he made a powerful case. One point in paragon of religious ideals, described the his speech, “How biologists are already particular he focused on was the incred- human genome sequence as “the language widely using intelligent design prin- ible complexity of the chemistry and the in which God created life” in 2000 as more ciples ... and why their explanations for biological systems of a cell, and how ev- was being learned. this are problematic,” Snoke argued that erything must work perfectly together for Contrary to earlier beliefs among sci- scientists all over the world rely on the it to function. entists that much of the DNA sequence assumption that biological systems are “As a Christian and a scientist, I am was useless “junk” — an argument used designed — even if they refuse to accept convinced that nature provides evidence by evolutionists for years — the latest the logical implications, namely, that a for God’s handiwork,” he explained, discoveries show it has a purpose. The brilliant Creator did the designing. “The citing the book of Job and the growing ENCODE project, short for the Encyclo- whole universe looks like it is designed scientific evidence supporting Creation. pedia of DNA Elements, which helped and has purpose,” he said. “And yet, when presented with compel- decipher the purpose of the genes, was To begin with, he used the analogy of a ling evidence for design that comes from crucial to exposing the “junk DNA” falla- microchip given to an engineer, who was biology, so many skeptics reject the evi- cy. “The set of genes found in the human tasked with reverse engineering it. The dence — and with this rejection, they re- genome are like words used in the dic- engineer would only have two options to ject belief in God.” tionary,” added Rana, who converted to explain its origins: Either it was designed Rana, who in addition to authoring nu- Christianity from Islam. “It’s not a waste- by a master engineer, or it was randomly merous scientific papers wrote the book land of junk, but an elegant biochemical created by chance after many attempts. “It is assumed that living systems are opti- mally designed,” he explained, noting that engineering principles today are common in biology. The scientific literature today is filled with references to purpose and design, he added. Information intrinsically implies te- leology, or a purpose, he continued. To illustrate his point, he showed a video representation of DNA’s duplication mechanism at work, something so com- plicated it could scarcely be imagined by a mere mortal. “Imagine in your mind the dance that God has put into the cell,” said Dr. Snoke. “This mechanism has to work before natural selection can do anything, because you have to copy the DNA. All of this is necessary for life to even exist.” In a follow-up interview with The New American, Snoke said many sci-

Alex Newman entists still reject God and Creation be- Doing it without admitting it: University of Pittsburgh physics professor Dr. David Snoke, chief of cause of “social reasons,” not scientific the Christian Scientific Society, told attendees how biologists already use intelligent design principles. evidence. Addressing one of the non-sci-

20 THE NEW AMERICAN • JUNE 18, 2018 Still, in 1960, Francis Drake estimated that there ought to be a million planetary systems in the galaxy capable of send- ing a signal to Earth. “But half a century later, we know there are many more fac- tors required than he considered,” said Nemati. “And since the probability that they all are present for a planet is propor- tional to the product of their individual probabilities, a simple calculation shows that we should not expect to see a single Earth in a thousand Milky Way-sized gal- axies. The Earth is very rare. This goes directly against the so-called Copernican principle.” Far from being a common, insignificant speck, then, the Earth is “a very special planet in a very special place,” Nemati added, citing Psalm 19 and its assertion that “the Heavens de-

Photo: http://theoriginoflife.net clare the glory of God.” Old-Earth friendly: Theology Professor Dr. Ken Keathley from Southeastern Baptist Theological “There is abundant, solid evidence that Seminary gave his views on the Bible’s Book of Genesis and how it should be interpreted. the work is designed, and we can infer as well that God wants us to study this entific reasons for the rejection of God ating Our Uncommon Place in the Uni- world and see its design and realize the — the notion that talk of God would re- verse.” While the ruling paradigm in sci- glory of its Creator,” he concluded. “So, sult in superstition, mysticism, and other ence today rejects a Creator, this view is far from being a mere blue dot, our planet perceived problems — he argued in his inadequate to explain the evidence and was not only made for supporting life, speech and the interview that it would do countless questions. “For example, what but it was also made to support knowing no such thing. Indeed, in the wake of the is the nature of consciousness?” asked about the universe, and extending from Reformation, the majority of scientists Nemati, who spent more than 15 years that observation, to know, and be amazed were Christians, he explained. working at NASA. “What is the origin of by, its Creator.” Among the high-profile Christian scien- morality? Does it even exist? What about tists were the founders of modern science. love, or mercy?” Muslim Brain Surgeon “Newton believed strongly in God,” said Nemati told a story that was used by Ridicules Darwinism Snoke. “He wrote two books on science Carl Sagan to promote his materialist Perhaps the most energetic speech came and four on theology.” Other examples in- view, about what happened as NASA’s from Dr. Oktar Babuna, a U.S.-educated cluded William Harvey, father of modern Voyager 1 spacecraft photographed the neurosurgeon and prominent Islamic medicine; Blaise Pascal, founder of fluid solar system it was leaving. In short, the creationist who has spoken on the topic mechanics; G.W. Leibniz, father of cal- scientists had trouble finding Earth. But all over the world. While he is a Muslim culus; William Thompson (Lord Kelvin), then, when they did find it, it looked like who believes the Koran, he called for an father of thermodynamics; Wernher von a pale blue dot, with Sagan suggesting alliance between Muslims and Christians Braun, father of space travel; and more. it was a “delusion” to believe that the to battle against Marxism and evolution- “All of these scientists are saying that Earth, and therefore humanity, had some ism. Separately, he said, Christians and God can be seen in what He has made,” privileged position in the universe. But as Muslims could be defeated by Darwin’s Snoke concluded, echoing scripture. Be- Nemati explained throughout the rest of adherents. “But together we can defeat lief in God and that God designed the uni- his speech, Earth really is unique, as far as this, and religious morality will prevail,” verse for a purpose “led people to do very can be determined. he said. good science.” The astrophysicist went through the Much of his speech was scientific in dizzying array of criteria needed to con- nature. For example, he showed how Astrophysicist Highlights ceivably host life on a planet. It must be proteins are synthesized and that DNA Uniqueness of Earth terrestrial, it must have water, it must be is needed to synthesize proteins. “There Another prestigious scientist, Dr. Bijan in the circumstellar habitable zone (where have to be proteins for proteins to come Nemati, an Iranian-born convert to Chris- water can be liquid someplace), it must into existence,” said Dr. Babuna, a native tianity who serves as principal research have a magnetosphere to protect from of Turkey. “A living cell must exist first, scientist at the University of Alabama- cosmic rays, and it must be in a planetary then it can synthesize proteins. This is a Huntsville, spoke to the audience about system within the galactic habitable zone fatal blow to Darwinism.” “The Pale Blue Dot Revisited: Appreci- — among other criteria. The fossil record is the second “fatal

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cal Seminary professor Dr. Ken Keathley, gave his view in his speech, “The Seven Days of Genesis One: An Old-Earth In- terpretation.” He believes God created the world and that Darwin was wrong. The respected theologian, diverging from many American evangelicals, argued that the Bible’s Book of Genesis should not be understood literally. Instead, he said that God more likely created the universe bil- lions of years ago. In America, about half of people sur- veyed say they believe God created hu- mans in their present form sometime within the last 10,000 years. That is a common view among creation scientists and theologians in the United States, too. Many even argue that to be a creationist and a Bible-believing Christian, one must accept that the Earth is less than 10,000 years old. “I would like to respond to this,” Keathley said, adding that young- Earth creationists are still his “brothers”

Photo: http://theoriginoflife.net despite the disagreements. Two of the speakers, philosopher Dr. Hans Köchler (left) and sociologist Fabrizio Fratus (right), sit “Typically we should interpret the on either side of prominent journalist Luca Steinmann (center), who reported on the conference. Bible literally, unless the text provides good reasons not to,” he said, noting that blow” to Darwinism, Babuna argued. “If “Prophet” Jesus, he said Islamic scrip- the Bible is “inerrant and has no errors we evolved, we must have transitional fos- tures acknowledge that Jesus had no in it at all.” But in this case, as in others sils,” he said, referring to fossils showing earthly father and was born of a virgin. he cited, the director of the L. Russ Bush creatures between two different kinds of He also gave some examples that Chris- Center for Faith and Culture argued that creatures. “We have 700 million fossils, tians would recognize, such as God’s it is theologically “essential” that Genesis and yet there are no transitional fossils — transformation of Moses’ staff into a be interpreted in non-literal terms, offer- not one. The foundation [that organized living snake. “God creates from nothing ing a number of arguments. Basically, the conference] will pay $3 million to with no need for natural causes,” he said, he said the “days” in Genesis ought to anyone who can show one.” He showed adding that God was not constrained by be understood as “ages.” In a follow-up fossils that he said were many millions of the laws of nature that He created. interview with The New American, he years old or even older, and showed how On the other hand, he said, evolution pointed to the time it takes light to travel the creatures all look exactly the same as is simply based on lies, and they are not from stars to the Earth as a scientific rea- the creatures that exist today. new. “Evolution is a pagan superstition son for his argument. “Science is anti-Marxist, anti-Darwin- dating back to the ancient Egyptians and Other Christians, though, disagree with ist, and anti-materialist,” Babuna said. Sumerians,” Babuna said. “We will see that idea. Creation Ministries International “Darwinism will definitely be defeated.” scientifically that evolution is impos- (CMI, Australia) managing director Dr. In fact, he predicted the end of Darwinism sible.” Today, Darwinism is “the official Don Batten, a Ph.D. in plant science, told within five years as more and more sci- state ideology in almost every country, The New American that science and the- entists lose their fear of speaking out and even in Muslim countries,” Babuna said, ology both require a young earth. “Jesus the evidence continues to pile up. “Science adding that this official ideology has un- believed Genesis was history and in the confirms the facts of creation,” he added. leashed tremendous evil and suffering on biblical (‘young earth’) timeframe (e.g., “Chance or coincidence had no role in the humanity. Mark 10:6); so do I,” he said in an e-mail. creation of the universe.” “Jesus put the origin of mankind at the be- Babuna’s speech also focused on theo- Theology: Theologian ginning of creation. Old-Earth creationists logical arguments, which included many Interprets Genesis put it at the end of time. But this is just one passages from the Islamic Koran about Creationists differ on whether the Earth is little thing.” Creation that bear some similarities to billions of years old, or less than 10,000 Batten gave a number of additional ar- biblical texts. Both say clearly that God years old. guments, and suggested that the old-Earth created everything by speaking, for in- One of the prominent speakers at the view undermines fundamental biblical stance. While he repeatedly referred to summit, Southeastern Baptist Theologi- doctrines that are core to the Christian

22 THE NEW AMERICAN • JUNE 18, 2018 faith. For example, if the old-Earth view is correct, that means “God created a world “Evolution is a pagan superstition dating back to the of death, disease and suffering,” because that means there are hundreds of millions ancient Egyptians and Sumerians,” Babuna said. “We of years of rock and fossil records predat- will see scientifically that evolution is impossible.” ing Adam and Eve. God would not have described this as “very good,” Batten sug- gested, along with a number of other theo- tion. One example she used is the claim to human and family relationships, the logical arguments. He said a proper under- that evolution explains the observed consequence is the loss of our very hu- standing of this is crucial to understanding fact that children are more likely to be manity, and, even more importantly, be- why Christ had to come. abused by step-parents than birth par- yond that, it means the loss of our di- The creation scientist also said the sci- ents. The evolutionary thinking is that, vine, God given, eternal identity,” said entific evidence demands a young-Earth because birth parents want to perpetu- Larcher, a Mormon from Germany who understanding. To back up his view, he ate their genes, then they are more likely received her advanced degrees at U.S. pointed to 101 scientific evidences col- to carefully protect and love their natu- universities. “Without agency and re- lected by CMI that support the view that ral child. Of course, correlation doesn’t sponsibility, there is no humanity and no Earth is around 6,000 years old. Among equal causation. Increased rates of abuse divine identity in our lives. We become others, he said DNA has been extracted in stepfamilies could be caused as well mere marionettes.” Even love, compas- from fossils that are claimed to be al- by the stresses of a second marriage and sion, and other human emotions become most half a billion years old, though DNA the same problems that led to the break meaningless, she said, arguing that this, would be destroyed if it were more than up of the birth family carrying on into in and of itself, is enough reason to reject a few thousand years old. “I have many the stepfamily. As she says, “There is no evolutionism. more evidences that I have collected, but scientific test that could possibly separate But evolution will not die easily. “Un- ‘101’ has a nice ring to it,” Dr. Batten said. evolutionary causes from the host of so- fortunately, a story that has become as Most of the speakers at the conference cial and personal causes of this sort of popular as evolution has become often believed in an old Earth. child abuse.” takes on a life of its own,” the psychologist The moral implications of the evo- and business owner concluded. “Before Mormon Psychologist on lution view are troubling, too. “When long, its very popularity convinces many Human Emotions and Genetics such genetic explanations are applied that there is no alternative explanation Anna Manja Larcher, who holds a mas- ter’s degree in theoretical psychology from Brigham Young University, high- lighted the propensity of psychologists to try to explain human behaviors using evolutionary theory. But in her talk, “Be- ware the Procrustean Bed: Evolutionary Explanations of Love and Compassion,” she made a compelling case that the view is wrong — and totally unscientific. The talk was built around the legendary Greek robber Procrustes, who infamously either stretched his guests or cut part of their legs off to make them fit in his bed. “Genetic explanations of behavior de- rived from evolutionary theory have be- come a Procrustean bed,” argued Larcher, who wrote a paper on the subject with BYU Wheatley Institution Director Rich- ard Williams. “Proponents of these genetic explanations have become quite expert at stretching and cutting as need be to make the facts fit the theory.... But the price of preserving genetic explanations of our be- havior is too high.” The effort also relies on logical falla- Photo: http://theoriginoflife.net cies — “affirming the consequent,” in Not alone: The conference, organized by Turkish foundations that oppose Darwin’s evolution particular — and unscientific specula- theory, brought together hundreds of students, businessmen, officials, and more. www.TheNewAmerican.com 23 SCIENCE

different species because of changes in genetic coding caused by evolution — The hundreds of attendees in the mostly young, hip drawings that are now almost universally crowd included university students, ambassadors, condemned as fraudulent, even by die- hard evolutionists. Similarly, Italian text- business leaders, political figures, and more. books cite “Lucy,” a skeleton that evolu- tionists long touted as a “missing link” between apes and humans but which of our behavior.” Even still, though, “we Dr. Fratus, a Catholic whose doctoral was actually just a regular ape. Fratus should not agree to spend even one night thesis focused on scientific creationism, also slammed “lies” about DNA, saying in Procrustes’ bed,” she added. explained that school books in his home- that to go from an ape to a human would land were filled with lies marketing evo- require some 240 million mutations. “So, Sociologist Slams lution. Among the examples he used is the transition from ape to human is to be Lies in School Books the “Archaeopteryx,” a fossil that many considered impossible,” he said. Sociologist Fabrizio Fratus, among Ita- evolution theorists claimed represents a The prominent Italian creationist also ly’s leading creationists, spent his time “missing link” or a “transitional fossil” pointed out that observation and observ- attempting to show that lies and frauds — such fossils should be everywhere if able facts would show that evolution can- are used to support the evolution theory. evolution is true — between birds and rep- not happen as imagined. “Genetic muta- “The theory of evolution unbelievably tiles. In reality, he said, it is just a normal tions never add new information, but, on claims to explain the genesis of the forms bird, as even some leading evolutionists the contrary, the result is always a loss through a series of processes that all lead have conceded. of information, as shown by the work of to degradation,” he said, speaking in Ital- He gave as another example of a fraud, the geneticist John Sanford from Cornell ian. “All the verifiable expectations of being used to promote the theory of evo- University,” he said. “Mutations are the the theory of evolution have been dashed, lution to children, the supposed “draw- errors in reproduction, and the accumu- and in Italy, as in many other countries of ings” of “embryos” by pseudo-scientist lation of errors certainly cannot create the world, Darwin’s theory is presented Ernst Haeckel, in which all embryos ini- something complex. Natural selection through scientific falsification.” tially look identical, but then grow into produces less biodiversity and reduces genetic diversity.... It is folly to think that a collection of errors could improve a liv- ing organism.”

Philosopher Explores Monotheism and Coexistence The conference was not all about evolu- tion. With the world shrinking at a rapid pace, and with civilizations now in con- stant contact, the topic of coexistence among different peoples and faiths was explored by Dr. Hans Köchler, the retired chairman of the department of philosophy at Austria’s University of Innsbruck who now leads the International Progress Or- ganization. In his speech on “Monotheism and the Meaning of Coexistence: A Philo- sophical Perspective,” Dr. Köchler began by stating the obvious fact that humanity is now in an unprecedented era. “Anywhere on the globe, the human being is faced with the simultaneity of different metaphysical conceptions and belief systems,” he said. “This diversity exists under conditions that are increas- ingly determined by technology.” Before, communities could retreat, and seek to

Photo: http://theoriginoflife.net isolate themselves. Today, that is no long­ Speakers row: Dr. Bijan Nemati (closest) of the University of Alabama, who worked for NASA for er possible. The question now is how to 15 years, sits next to some of the speakers and their wives at the conference. deal with it. In short, Dr. Köchler advocat-

24 THE NEW AMERICAN • JUNE 18, 2018 ed dialogue and understanding, and even coexistence between the monotheistic re- in primary and secondary education, au- cooperation, among the world’s three most ligions can indeed become the cornerstone thorities and attendees at the conference significant monotheistic faiths. of a lasting order of peace and justice in defended the decision. “If there exists only one God, then this the 21st century.” Even in America, despite evolution God must be one and the same for all,” being taught in schools for generations, he said. “There cannot be three different The Attendees polls show less than one-third of Ameri- ‘gods’ for Jews, Christians and Muslims The hundreds of attendees in the mostly cans identify as (theistic or atheistic) evo- — only three different perceptions of God young, hip crowd included university stu- lutionists. Meanwhile, about half identify or manifestations of truth in the context of dents, ambassadors, business leaders, po- as young-Earth creationists. The number the respective revelation. Awareness of this litical figures, and more. The event featured of creationists is growing, too. All across logically obvious, but nonetheless often beautiful dancing and performance arts. the country, activists, ministries, churches, neglected, truth can foster a deeper sense The audience was thoroughly impressed. scientists, and conferences are working of community among believers and may But impressing the audience was not the hard to promote creationism and debunk contribute to religious and societal peace point. Instead, the goal, as proclaimed by evolution. And with the rise of the Inter- beyond historical and socio-cultural dif- one of Turkey’s most celebrated TV hosts net and increasing public skepticism about ferences.” Of course, plenty of believers in who served as master of ceremonies, was what is taught in public schools and what each of those faiths would disagree, but his to bring down the “dictatorship of Darwin” is promoted by the establishment press, speech was well received nevertheless. and all the evil associated with it — not just evolution theory is likely to come under The search for truth can unite people, in Turkey, but worldwide. growing pressure in the years ahead. he continued. “Endowed with the capacity The theory of evolution has become With more and more scientists now de- of self-reflection which cannot merely be increasingly discredited in Turkey, with bating whether God created the universe reduced to the physical realm, the human public schools no longer teaching it to thousands or billions of years ago, rather being has always striven for the ultimate young Turks. Adaptation and mutation, than whether He created it at all, this may truth and meaning of life,” he said. “The which are observable and well established, be the start of a major paradigm shift. And search for the transcendent has united are still taught. But while secularists and either way, as G.K. Chesterton explained, thinkers of all civilizations throughout the evolutionists around the world expressed a miracle is still just as miraculous wheth- ages.… In the spirit of ‘unity in diversity,’ outrage over the move to drop evolution er it occurred quickly or slowly. n

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venting stories, he still received the royal BEHIND media treatment. Nevertheless, Wolff didn’t provide the Trump takedown that the Michael Avenatti-Stormy Daniels anti-Trumpers had hoped for. Likewise for James Comey’s media saturation book Fake News Parade? tour. Even though the former FBI boss has Stormy Daniels’ lawyer, Michael Avenatti, has not brought been transformed into a Big Media celeb- rity, Comey’s charges have failed to catch forth any damning evidence against Donald Trump, yet fire. Thus, it looks like the Fake News he gets TV interviews by the dozens — what gives? gangs have settled on Avenatti (known in- creasingly as “the creepy porn lawyer”) as the latest Trump takedown ticket. by William F. Jasper burger, the “mainstream” media can’t get According to a recent tabulation by enough of him. Like Robert Mueller’s Bill D’Agostino and Rich Noyes for the ichael Avenatti is giving am- “Trump-Russia collusion” witch hunt, Media Research Center (MRC), Avenatti bulance-chasing lawyers a bad Avenatti provides grist for the nonstop was “interviewed a staggering 147 times M name. The publicity-hound at- 24/7 “Get Trump” media mill. They’ve on broadcast and cable news shows” dur- torney for porn star Stormy Daniels has already milked gossip-meister Michael ing the 10-week period from March 7 so discredited himself that the barrister Wolff’s fact-free Fire and Fury book tour (when the publicity first began) through tribe is woefully remiss for failing to pro- for all they can. Even though Wolff ad- May 15. “More than half of those inter- tect news consumers. The least they could mitted in the book’s prologue that many views (74) were on CNN, which almost do is disavow his membership in the legal of his accounts of alleged activities and certainly makes Avenatti the most ubiqui- fraternity or file a lawsuit against him for conversations in the Trump White House tous guest in the network’s history,” the impersonating a legal expert. are “badly untrue,” and even though many MRC report states. Despite the fact that Avenatti’s “evi- liberal critics lambasted Wolff’s factual “No guest — not Donald Trump or Ber- dence” thus far has been a giant nothing- inaccuracies and his known record for in- nie Sanders in 2016, nor Adam Schiff in

26 THE NEW AMERICAN • JUNE 18, 2018 2017 — received anything close to the out- and are getting increasingly sloppy about Avenatti Viewer Fatigue pouring of free media coverage that CNN covering their tracks. Case in point: rev- Not everyone in medialand is totally en- has bequeathed to Avenatti,” it notes. “The elations that CNN’s Don Lemon is palsy- amored of the bald, limelight-chasing law- media’s massive donation of publicity is walsy with Michael Avenatti. This came yer. In a May 17 article entitled “Gaffes, obviously the main reason why Daniels out in a tweet by lobbyist Juanita Scar- threats should mean it’s time to take and Avenatti have been able to use a crowd lett, who boasted she was “thrilled” to Avenatti off air,” Joe Concha, media re- funding site to raise a whopping $500,000 have met Michael Avenatti “at the Sag porter for The Hill, outlined a number of to fund their anti-Trump lawsuits, with Harbor soiree” of CNN host Don Lemon. the problems with Avenatti, including his many of the thousands of anonymous do- The tweet included a photo of Avenatti slimy “off the record” tweet threatening to nors citing the interviews as they make and at least three CNN regulars at Lem- sue reporters from The Daily Caller for re- their gifts,” the MRC reports. on’s home in the Hamptons: Lemon, porting unfavorably on him. Concha also “While CNN has been the friendliest political commentator Errol Louis, and reminded us of a photo from an Avenatti network, hosting the Trump-bashing law- LGBT “Republican” activist-commen- tweet of March 22 showing a DVD lying yer an astonishing 74 times, MSNBC has tator Margaret Hoover. The tweet-photo on a desk. Avenatti’s titillating text accom- been close behind, donating 57 segments was deleted, but not before conservative panying the tweet asked: “If ‘a picture is featuring Avenatti,” D’Agostino and Noyes writer Stephen Miller saved it. worth a thousand words,’ how many note. “On a single day (May 3), MSNBC Then there’s CNN words is this worth?????” In an interview featured Avenatti a stunning seven times — with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, from 7am ET (Morning Joe) through 10pm ET (The Last Word). Rounding out the tally were interviews on ABC (six), CBS (five), NBC (four) and the Fox News Channel (just once, on FNC’s Fox News at Night back on March 20).”

Anti-Trump Derangement Addiction Not surprisingly, the MRC study found that CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 and MSNBC’s The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell “were the most smitten with Avenatti, interviewing him the most of any program (20 times in the case of Coo- per, 16 in the case of O’Donnell).” CNN newsie Brian Stelter, in a recent interview with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, admitted that “I’m a Trump addict.” For his part, Kristof con- ceded that both he and his wife also suf- fer from “Trump addiction.” To be more accurate, both Kristof and Stelter should have said that they suffer from Anti- Trump Derangement Addiction (ATDA). Swooning over Avenatti: CNN’s April Ryan, perpetually afflicted with Anti-Trump Derangement In fact, it’s obvious that there is an insti- Addiction, is all twitterpated over Michael Avenatti — like everyone else at CNN. tutional epidemic of the condition at both the Times and CNN. Clearly, these people analyst April Ryan, who posted a picture Avenatti said the pictured disk contained need help. Kristof and Stelter have taken on Instagram of herself and Avenatti — evidence proving Stormy Daniels’ claims the first step to recovery by admitting their all smiles and arms around each other — of an affair with Donald Trump in 2006. addiction, but they still have a long way with the gloating caption: “Was I sing- The impression Avenatti has tried to to go. And they are marinating in a toxic ing ‘Stormy Weather’ to Stormy Daniels’ give in his media appearances is that the employment environment surrounded by attorney Michael Avenatti? You had DVD contains video or photo evidence of fellow addicts suffering from the same to have been there to know why we’re Trump-Daniels sexcapades. ATDA psychosis. both smiling so hard.” In the interests of This Avenatti buildup has all the mak- Recovery prospects are not good. transparency and full disclosure, do any ings of being many times worse than Ra- Their Stage 4 ATDA has obviously of the “journalists” interviewing or com- chel Maddow’s epic fail during her much- clouded their judgment to such a degree menting on Avenatti ever mention their much-much-hyped “reveal” of Donald that now they don’t even bother with the chummy relationships with him? Not that Trump’s tax returns, on March 14, 2017. pretense of being objective and unbiased, we are aware of. She and MSNBC led viewers to believe www.TheNewAmerican.com 27 POLITICS they had obtained the “holy grail” — Mark Penn in The Hill. It is a question that the obvious questions; because doing so President Trump’s much sought-after tax the high-dollar journalists in Big Media would risk exposing their conspiracy to returns. Turns out, after a pre-show Twit- should be asking (and should have been bring down Trump. ter buildup and more than 20 minutes of asking all along). But, of course, they are Avenatti is not merely a media-hound the program opening with teasing and too busy fawning over Avenatti and posing lawyer (although he is that); he is, primar- suspense-building blather, Maddow had for selfies with him to trouble with such ily, a political hack, a Democrat attack dog only two pages of an old 1040 return from basic, Journalism 101 questions. trained by political street fighter Rahm 2005. To top it off, Trump came off pretty Penn notes that Avenatti “wants to make Emanuel, currently the mayor of Chicago. well; the old tax return showed he had paid the discussion all about where Michael Emanuel, a longtime asset of Goldman millions of dollars in taxes, and it provid- Cohen, President Trump’s personal at- Sachs, served as senior advisor to President ed no evidence of any wrongdoing. Even torney, got his money but, to have clean Bill Clinton before moving on to a three- many of Maddow’s Trump-hating com- hands, Avenatti needs to come forward term stint in the House of Representatives, rades in the media and in Camp Clinton with exactly who is financing his opera- and then a plum role as White House chief were chagrined, or even outraged, at hav- tion, who his sources were for detailed of staff for President Barack Obama. ing been misled. Maddow and MSNBC banking information, and whether he re- “Avenatti learned some of his hard- were roundly (and rightfully) mocked and ally is an attorney solely representing charging ways in the toughest of all arenas, scorned for the deceptive oversell. Stormy Daniels or just using her as cover the political world,” according to an article But, apparently, the lessons that should to wage a political operation.” by Suzie Frisch in the July 2009 issue of Su- have been learned from the Maddow tax “From the beginning,” says Penn, perLawyers. “After his time at Wharton as disaster have been lost on the ATDA-af- “this has been fishy. Daniels’s previous a University of Pennsylvania undergrad, he flicted Trump haters in the establishment lawyer advised her to stick to her agree- spent five years at a political consulting firm media bubble. Anti-Trump Derangement ments. In contrast, Avenatti okayed her run by Rahm Emanuel, the current [2009] Addiction, clearly, reigns in the main- violating with impunity her non-disclo- White House chief of staff,” wrote Frisch, stream media (MSM) “news” rooms. sure agreement on ‘60 Minutes’ despite noting that Avenatti worked on nearly 150 CBS’s 60 Minutes allowed Avenatti and a binding arbitration judgment against campaigns in 42 states. And now he’s work- Daniels to push their evidence-free sala- her. She acknowledged on Twitter that ing on the biggest one of his career, to bring cious charges to 22 million viewers on she is not paying for her lawyer. So who down the president of the United States. March 25. And they have continued to is? And did he indemnify her against all But who is he working for? As noted push the same story unchallenged in many multimillion-dollar penalties?” Basic above, he has reportedly raised $500,000 dozens of friendly interviews since. questions. Why is no one at the Times, through crowd-funding online. But we CBS, CNN, MSNBC, etc., asking them? don’t know from whom that has come, and Follow the Money Our question is rhetorical, naturally. We that is not likely to be sufficient to cover “Who is paying Michael Avenatti?” That know why the relentless anti-Trumpers in potential legal costs. The recently released question forms the title of an article by the discredited “prestige” press don’t ask report of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) has revealed that Democrat operative Daniel Jones, a former top aide to Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), is leading an ongoing $50 million opposition research operation against President Trump involving British agent Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS. These are the same folks who fabricated the “salacious and unverified” hit piece known as the “Steele dossier.” And they are being funded, noted the HPSCI report, to the tune of $50 million by “7 to 10 wealthy donors located primarily in New York and California.” Is some of this money being sluiced into Avenatti’s legal-media attacks on President Trump? Or is he being funded by other Democratic mega-donors? Rachel These are legitimate, relevant ques- Maddow tions, yes? Just don’t hold your breath

AP Images waiting for Anderson Cooper, Chuck Another epic fail: MSNBC follows close behind CNN in the total number of Avenatti appearances Todd, Joe Scarborough, Jake Tapper, or (57 to 74) from March 7 to May 15, calling to mind Rachel Maddow’s much-hyped (and justly any of the other talking heads of the Fake scorned) fake reveal of President Trump’s tax returns on MSNBC. News commentariat to ask them. n

28 THE NEW AMERICAN • JUNE 18, 2018 BOOK REVIEW The Triumph of Christianity A historian specializing in Christianity explains how and why Christianity spread in the face of persecution, paganism, and impoverishment.

cient triumph of Christianity proved to be The idea for the book struck Ehrman 20 the single greatest cultural transformation years ago during his first trip to Athens. As our world has ever seen,” says Bart D. he explored the archaeological wonders of Ehrman in his new book The Triumph of the city, he stopped at the Areopagus, or Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Mars Hill. There he visited the spot where Swept the World. “Without it the entire the Apostle Paul, on his second mission- history of Late Antiquity would not have ary journey, came “to preach about Jesus happened as it did.” and his resurrection.” While standing on Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distin- the site, he thought about “Paul, his ser- guished Professor of Religious Studies at mon, and his surroundings.” Then the re- the University of North Carolina, Chapel alization struck him that “in the end, Paul Hill. He is a leading authority on the New won.” What Paul preached on the Areopa- Testament and the history of early Christi- gus “eventually triumphed over every- anity, who has written or edited more than thing” in the Agora and on the Acropolis, 30 books (including New York Times best- including “both the Temple of Hephaestus sellers), appeared on numerous television and the Parthenon.” “Christianity eventu- programs (including the History channel), ally took over Western Civilization.” and been featured in major newspapers The Triumph of Christianity contains and magazines. nine chapters, preceded by an introduction Although Ehrman once claimed to be and followed by an afterword. The book is an evangelical Christian, and is a gradu- enhanced by a timeline of relevant histori- ate of the evangelical Wheaton College cal events from the reign of Caesar Augus- in Illinois, he now says that he is “not a tus, the first Roman emperor, to the writ- by Laurence M. Vance Christian” and has “no interest in pro- ing of The City of God by Augustine; an moting a Christian cause or a Christian appendix on the rate of Christian growth; The Triumph of Christianity: How a For- agenda.” He now considers himself to be endnotes; and an index. bidden Religion Swept the World, by Bart “an agnostic with atheist leanings” whose Ehrman begins (chapter 1) and ends D. Ehrman, New York: Simon & Schuster, “life and views of the world would be ap- (chapters 8 & 9) with Constantine, the 2018, xiv + 335 pages, hardcover. proximately the same whether or not Jesus Roman emperor who “converted” to existed” (above quotations from Ehrman’s Christianity in 312. Constantine did not lthough the majority of Ameri- book Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Ar- make Christianity the Roman empire’s cans may not attend church gument for Jesus of Nazareth, 2012). He official religion, although within 80 years A weekly, and the share of adults does not view the “Christianization” of the “Rome would become predominantly and who describe themselves as Christians is Roman Empire as either “a victory for the officially Christian.” What happened in- in decline, most Americans still identify human race and a sign of cultural progress stead was that “the imperial apparatus that with some form of Christianity. Certainly on the one hand, or a major sociopolitical before then had been officially opposed to most conservatives and Republicans con- setback and cultural disaster on the other.” Christianity and worked hard, in some re- sider themselves to be Christians. Accord- As an orthodox conservative Christian, I gions of the empire, to extirpate it com- ing to a new analysis by the Pew Research disagree with much of what Ehrman has pletely suddenly came to support it, pro- Center, 91 percent of the members of Con- written in his other books on Jesus, the moting Christianity instead of persecuting gress describe themselves as Christians, New Testament, and Early Christian- it.” Constantine presided over Christianity including all but two Republicans. At 80 ity. However, Ehrman’s agnosticism and going from “a persecuted faith to being percent, even Democrats in Congress also ambivalence are actually a plus when it the religion of most-favored status.” He are overwhelmingly Christian. comes to The Triumph of Christianity, just provided the clergy with “funds out of the This is remarkable considering that as in the case of his aforementioned book imperial treasury for use in their congre- Jesus Christ began His ministry with a on the existence of Jesus. He approaches gations” and “arranged for the building of group of 12 disciples almost 2,000 years his subject as an unbiased, objective his- major churches throughout his empire.” ago in the midst of the polytheism and torian who cannot be charged with writing His agreement with his co-emperor Li- paganism of the Roman Empire. “The an- from a pro-Christian agenda. cinius led to the so-called Edict of Milan,

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Success,” Ehrman explores the reasons for Jesus Christ began His ministry with a group of 12 the triumph of Christianity over paganism. Many pagans were drawn to “the idea of disciples almost 2,000 years ago in the midst of the one ultimate divinity” who was to be wor- polytheism and paganism of the Roman Empire. shipped to “the complete exclusion of all other gods.” Christianity, unlike Judaism and paganism, was a missionary reli- which “gave complete freedom of reli- were not kept distinct.” Roman religions gion that sought converts, “not by public gious expression to all inhabitants of the were all polytheistic, with “gods for every preaching or door-to-door canvassing of empire.” With but one exception, “every municipality and every family,” although strangers” but by “their everyday social remaining Roman emperor was Chris- some pagans were henotheists who ac- networks.” The “combination of evange- tian,” although “some of Constantine’s knowledged “one ultimate divinity” above lism and exclusion proved to be decisive successors did not share his commitment the mass of divine beings. Instead of es- for the triumph of Christianity.” Ehrman to tolerance.” After the death of Constan- tablished doctrines, ethical requirements, also adds that “one other feature of Chris- tine, pagan sacrifices were outlawed and and detailed rules to follow, “there was tianity that made it different from all the temples were ordered closed, but as Ehr­ instead an enormously varied set of ritual pagan religions throughout the empire is man points out, “These laws were directed practices, each one formed by many years that it encompassed numerous aspects of to specific locales, not empire-wide, and of custom and tradition.” The ubiquitous life that had always been kept distinct.” there existed no state apparatus to ensure temples were not for worship, but to house Christianity also had an “ethical code” that they were carried out” — not until Em- the cult statue representing the temple god. was lacking in paganism. peror Theodosius I, who reigned from The Roman state was tolerant of almost In chapter 5, “Miraculous Incentives for 379 to 395, made Christianity the official any religion as long as its practices were Conversion,” Ehrman explains what fac- state religion. Under Theodosius, “vio- not “deemed socially dangerous.” This tors persuaded pagans to become Chris- lence against pagan sacred places and ob- eventually led to the persecution of Chris- tians: stories of Jesus, his apostles, and jects became increasingly pronounced” as tians, who were “often accused of being their successors that verified the Christian “Christian leaders appeared with political atheists” because they refused to acknowl- message; the teaching of an afterlife in power at their disposal and the will to use edge any god beyond the one they wor- a “utopian existence” or an “everlasting it in order to impose their religious prefer- shipped and rejected the traditional modes hell,” neither of which most pagans sub- ences on others.” After Theodosius, about of honoring the gods that were thought to scribed to; and Christian endurance in the half the empire claimed to be Christian, bring health and prosperity to the commu- face of martyrdom. and Christianity became “the greatest and nity. This is probably the most fascinating In chapter 6, “The Growth of the most powerful institution Western Civili- and informative chapter in the book. Church,” Ehrman looks at the sources zation has ever seen.” In chapter 4, “Reasons for the Christian and nature of the data on the growth of In between the chapters on Con- the church. Here, and in the related stantine, Ehrman chronicles the appendix, he interacts with Rodney spread of Christianity during its first Stark’s popular book The Rise of four centuries. He believes that “the Christianity (1996). ultimate triumph of Christianity did In chapter 7, “Christians Under not require the conversion of the Assault: Persecution, Martyrdom, emperor Constantine” because “if and Self-Defense,” Ehrman relates Christianity had simply continued the extent of local and empire-wide to grow at the rate it was growing at Christian persecution, especially the [time] of the emperor’s conver- under the emperors Valerian and sion — or even less — it still would Diocletian. He emphasizes that have eventually taken over.” “not revering the city or state gods In chapter 2, “Back to the Begin- meant not being faithful to the city ning: The Conversion and Mission or state.” of Paul,” Ehrman recounts the bibli- The Triumph of Christianity is an cal story of who he considers to be important work that is masterfully “the most significant Christian con- written. Although I highly recom- Bart D. vert of all time”: the Apostle Paul. Ehrman mend the book to the Christian and In chapter 3, “The Religious non-Christian, to the religious and World of Conversion: Roman Pa- the non-religious, and to the atheist ganism,” Ehrman discusses religion and the theist, I think it especially in the Roman empire. Religion was essential reading for Christians, “virtually omnipresent,” and “the most of whom are ignorant of the religious and sociopolitical realms early history of their faith. n Photo: Dan Sears

30 THE NEW AMERICAN • JUNE 18, 2018 THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA

Police Escort Mother’s Day Surprises Barbara Foy was eating alone at Ruby When Dakota Pitts returned to school one Mother’s Day is a day on which moth- Tuesday’s and struck up a conversation week after losing his father, Terre Haute, ers throughout the country are honored with her waitress. Foy admitted that she Indiana, Police Officer Rob Pitts, in the for their selflessness and for the valuable was a bit depressed because she did not line of duty, he was stunned by what roles they play in the upbringing of our hear from her son and was alone on Moth- awaited him at his school. nation’s youth. And while Mother’s Day er’s Day. Seventy Terre Haute police officers and often provides an opportunity for children When the other waitresses caught Vigo County sheriff’s deputies were wait- to celebrate their parents, these stories wind of this, they decided they wanted ing for Pitt at Sullivan Elementary School prove that even strangers can honor each to bring Foy a bit of cheer. General Man- on May 14. other on Mother’s Day. ager Lauren Nave told WMBF that three Dakota’s aunt, Kelly Jones, was at the Brenda Pearson had a wonderful Moth- waitresses — Christianna Smith, Kabria school with Dakota that morning and was er’s Day on May 13, thanks to a do-gooder Hasty, and Mariah Brown — went to a moved to tears by the outpouring of sup- named David Platt. nearby store and purchased a few items, port from the local officers and sheriffs. Pearson was working at the 4 Star Diner including a backscratcher, to place in a “He will definitely know his dad was a in Roland, Mississippi, when Platt came gift basket, which they gave to Foy. They hero. Blood doesn’t always make family. in to order a cheeseburger. His food took also combined resources with Nave and And I think the blue family went above a bit longer than expected because the another store manager, Don Donnelly, to and beyond,” Jones told WTHI. cook originally got Platt’s order wrong, treat her to lunch. Video footage captured by the Tri- but the delay gave Platt a chance to con- “We were not OK with a mother feel- bune Star shows Dakota walking past a verse with Pearson and learn a bit about ing unloved on Mother’s Day,” Brown line of police officers before one of them her. “It was late and there wasn’t really told TODAY Food. “Growing up, I was presents him with a SWAT shirt, which anybody around and so I got talking to her told to treat others the way you wanna Dakota proudly donned along with his a little bit,” Platt told KFSM. “We talked be treated. Me personally, if that was father’s badge as he entered the school about the Lord and about her life and her anybody’s mom I would have done the that morning. children. I got the impression that she was same thing.” “Welcome back to school, bud,” one of having a hard time of it, so I thought I’d A random customer also got involved, the officers says. just help her out a little bit.” and gave Foy a rose. Detective Les Hamm told WNDU that And by help her out “a little bit,” Platt The waitresses’ kindness certainly there is a brotherhood amongst police offi- means he tipped her $1,000 for his cheese- turned the day around for Foy. “I really felt cers that compels them to step up in times burger order. And as if that was not gener- like I was queen for a day … mother for a of need. “Guys are close, you form bonds ous enough, Platt returned an hour later day!” said Foy. “I’ve never been made to that you wouldn’t form in a different pro- to order a piece of pie. He then left her feel so special.” fession. When somebody’s in need, we go, another $1,000 tip. She told Today that she wants to repay especially for a fallen officer and his kid,” Pearson told KFSM that she was so their good deed by taking them out on a Hamm explained. overwhelmed by Platt’s generosity that lunch date, but she states that she could CNN reported that Sullivan Elementary she “could hardly breathe.” never fully repay them for what they did. Principal Samantha Phegley helped to fa- She told the news outlet, “I have two “This is a life-changing experience for me. cilitate Dakota’s surprise in order to make children at home. I’ve been a stay-at-home Those girls are so special, the managers, his return as easy as possible. “A student’s mom for a couple of years. It will help us all of them…. They told me I was part of return to school after the death of a loved get caught up on the move and it was just their family,” Foy said. one, especially a parent, is difficult,” she God-sent.” More good news! When Ruby Tues- told CNN. “Having the support of Rob’s But Platt acted as if leaving a waitress day’s corporate office learned of what the police family helped Dakota take those $2,000 tips is just a normal, everyday oc- waitresses did for Foy, they decided to re- first few steps.” currence. “Money is just paper or numbers ward their employees by giving them each “Our hope is that Dakota’s first day on a screen,” said Platt. “Self-gratification a $1,000 bonus. back to school after his father’s passing only goes so far. So, when you’re helping Foy joked that when her son learned of is one that he will remember forever and another person, you’re adding something what happened, he felt guilty for forget- that he will always know how much his to the world. It’s an investment, and peo- ting to call his mother on Mother’s Day, father’s sacrifice meant to all of us,” she ple, people are what’s important.” though it was the catalyst that led to such added. And while Platt was making Mother’s a beautiful day. “He does love me,” said Police Officer Pitts was fatally shot Day a little more special for a mother in Foy as she chuckled. “I bet he won’t forget by a 21-year-old suspect while respond- Mississippi, waitresses in Surfside Beach, Mother’s Day again or forget to call his ing to a call. He was a 16-year police South Carolina, took it upon themselves to poor little mama.” n veteran. turn a lonely mother’s special day around. — Raven Clabough www.TheNewAmerican.com 31 A Superior Degree of Reliability

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U.S. Globalists Put Castro in Power and Kept Him There The U.S. government planned to help Cubans overthrow Fidel Castro in 1961; however, the American globalists responsible for putting Castro in power sabotaged the attack.

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Sinking the plan: The landing spot of the invasion was changed from Trinidad, which had docks and infrastructure and would have been excellent, to the Bay of Pigs, which was perhaps the worst location possible. Harvepino/ iStock / Getty Images Plus

by Frank de Varona and Alex Newman in American history that has been largely what would be later called Assault Brigade overlooked — until now. 2506 on April 1, 1961. He and about 100 IAMI, Florida — When the The plan to invade Cuba, as originally other CIA recruits joined the Brigade just young men of Assault Brigade formulated, was brilliant. And it had a weeks before the assault. The goal: Liber- M 2506 landed at Cuba’s Bay of very real chance of successfully over- ate his homeland. Upon arrival in Guate- Pigs, many realized that something was throwing the barbaric regime installed mala, he met his older brother, Jorge de not right. Their bravery was astounding. in Cuba by globalist American officials Varona, and many of his cousins and class- But in their wildest dreams, they could not and communist butchers in Moscow. But mates from Cuba. have imagined the depths of the betrayal enough pressure was brought to bear by The bulk of the soldiers, sailors, and pi- that had been engineered in Washington, CFR members and their allies in strategic lots of Assault Brigade 2506 were trained D.C., by well-placed globalist power bro- positions that it was possible to sabotage for more than nine months in Panama, kers. The betrayal had global repercus- the entire mission, handing communism Guatemala, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, and sions that are still being felt today. an unprecedented morale boost while even the United States. The trainers were First, the establishment — Deep State demoralizing anti-communist forces ev- mostly members of the U.S. Armed Forces operatives from the globalist-minded erywhere. and CIA personnel. The American military Council on Foreign Relations in key roles instructors were astounded at the passion at the U.S. State Department and the New Preparing the Invasion and fervor displayed by the “brigadistas,” York Times — installed a mass-murdering In March of 1960, after doing everything as they came to be called, and by how communist dictatorship in their country. possible to bring Castro to power, as this quickly they learned military tactics. Then that same establishment stabbed in article will show, President Dwight Eisen- The men who joined the effort to liber- the back the brave freedom fighters sent hower ordered the Central Intelligence ate Cuba represented a true cross-section to liberate Cuba. It was an incredible vic- Agency to begin planning for regime of Cuban society: all races and classes, tory for tyranny and a brutal blow to lib- change in Cuba. The CIA began recruit- all sorts of professional backgrounds, and erty. And it remains a shameful episode ing anti-communist Cubans in America all different regions of the nation were for the purpose. These men were trained among the courageous patriots. Their av- Frank de Varona invaded Cuba with the Brigade in several places, but mostly in the hills erage age was 23. One boy was just 15; at age 17 and spent almost two years in a Cuban of Guatemala. he had to lie about his age to join. Some prison. He now lives in Miami and recently became One of the writers of this article, Frank had been wealthy before communist slav- director of press and information for the Bay of Pigs de Varona, who fled Cuba after commu- ery descended on their homeland; others Veterans Association. nists stole his family’s cattle ranch, joined had been humble working-class people.

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Several C-46s dropped 177 paratroopers from the First Battalion in different places The plan to invade Cuba, as originally formulated, was brilliant. of the Bay of Pigs area. With the excep- And it had a very real chance of successfully overthrowing the tion of the survivors of the sinking of the Houston, the rest of the battalions landed barbaric regime installed in Cuba by globalist American officials and at Playa Larga and Playa Girón. For three communist butchers in Moscow. days, the abandoned Brigade soldiers at the beaches fought bravely against the over- whelming number of enemy soldiers, es- Most were members of Cuba’s sizable War II-era Liberty-class transport ships, timated in the tens of thousands, and aided middle class. But all were united for the which had been designed to haul cargo to by Soviet tanks and planes. cause of freedom. Europe in WWII. De Varona, one of the The freedom fighters were outnumbered writers of this article, was aboard the Hous- about 20 to 1, yet they dealt devastating Invading at the Bay of Pigs ton as it sank. He swam to shore, but more losses to Castro’s forces. Estimates sug- The invasion of Cuba began 57 years ago, than two dozen of his brothers-in-arms were gest the Brigade inflicted approximately on April 17, 1961. It took place on the killed by enemy planes, drowning, or sharks 6,000 casualties on the enemy, despite the southern coast of the island at the Bay of that fateful morning. Both the Houston and handicaps. But after the third day of heavy Pigs near the Zapata swamps. The brave the Rio Escondido, which were carrying fighting, the Brigade ran out of ammuni- young men who participated in the effort military supplies, food, gas and oil for the tion, and no more would be forthcoming. were under the impression that the goal airplanes, ammunition, and communication The soldiers retreated into the swamps, was to destroy the Castro regime that had equipment, went down that day. The other where some “brigadistas” continued to enslaved their island. But in Washington, ships were driven away under heavy fire. fight for several more days until they were D.C., and New York City, globalists and On the fourth day, the outgunned, out- all killed or captured. subversives in high places had other plans. manned, desperately tired survivors of the By the time the Brigade ran out of am- Before the actual invasion started, the Fifth Battalion’s sunken Houston fought munition, they had lost 104 soldiers and Brigade Air Force, made up of B-26s, off communist militia soldiers who arrived pilots. More than 100 were wounded. And C-46s, and C-54s, dropped supplies to in two boats. A couple of CIA officials the remaining 1,200 soldiers, out of ammo support the anti-communist guerrillas that and some pilots from the Alabama Na- and practically delirious from the lack of were already fighting the regime from Cu- tional Guard participated in the battle, too. sleep, were captured by Castro’s forces. ba’s Escambray Mountains. The Brigade Grayston Lynch, a CIA officer who was Navy conducted numerous infiltration the first to land at the Bay of Pigs, wrote in Trials, Jail, Terror in Havana operations, sending clandestine teams to his book Decision for Disaster: Betrayal at After a year of imprisonment in the Cas- deliver weapons and supplies to the un- the Bay of Pigs, published in 2000, how the tillo del Príncipe in Havana under the most derground forces battling Castro’s Soviet- Brigade soldiers “fought like tigers.” inhumane conditions imaginable, Brigade and U.S.-armed military. Several weeks prior to the invasion, a number of Brigade 2506 infiltration teams were sent to different cities of Cuba to work with the underground anti-communist reb- els. Some of these brave soldiers were killed and wounded in the operations. Most of the rest ended up captured and sentenced to lengthy prison terms. A few were able to escape, entering Latin American embassies to obtain political asylum. The actual invasion of the Bay of Pigs began early in the morning on Monday, April 17, 1961. Assault Brigade 2506’s infantry, numbering some 1,474 soldiers, including paratroopers, made it to shore, and many pilots participated. They en- gaged the tens of thousands of enemy soldiers in combat during three days of furious battle at Playa Larga, Playa Girón, AP Images San Blas, and other combat zones. A Times “story”: New York Times propagandist and Council on Foreign Relations member Enemy T-33 jets, B-26s, and Sea Fury Herbert Matthews interviewed Fidel Castro and painted him as Cuba’s “George Washington,” planes sank two of Brigade 2506’s World though Castro had already been arrested for taking part in a communist uprising.

34 THE NEW AMERICAN • JUNE 18, 2018 the Bay of Pigs generally offers a number of excuses for the failure. For instance, a common refrain holds that the plan was flawed from the start. Media outlets often claim that the invasion failed because of the dictatorship’s alleged public support — a ludicrous idea. And finally, there is the demonstrable lie that Brigade fighters, who mostly lacked formal military expe- rience beyond their training, surrendered quickly to communist forces. The reality is that the Brigade was be- trayed by globalist insiders in the Kennedy administration who appear to have wanted them to fail. There were two key elements of the plan that were sabotaged before the invasion that made all the difference. Like a household stool, which needs all of its

AP Images legs to stand, the original plan developed Hiding the obvious: Raúl Castro (left) and Ernesto “Che” Guevara were obviously communist by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the CIA re- revolutionaries, and had been for years. They slaughtered captured opponents to prove it. quired all of its legs to stand. When two of the legs were cut off a few days before the soldiers were sentenced in April 1962 to one toilet and two showers. The minus- invasion, obviously, the rest of the stool 30 years of hard labor. The other alterna- cule, disgusting “food” rations available to collapsed as well. tive offered by the communist regime: the prisoners were often poisoned to make The first problem was a last-minute Ransom money, ranging from $25,000 to the victims even more sick. It was as close decision to change the landing site. The $500,000 for each prisoner. Their shame- as possible to hell on Earth. original spot selected by the military and ful “trial” was in violation of the Geneva The prisoners were housed like sar- CIA planners was in the southern Cuban Convention, since prisoners of war cannot dines in a can, sleeping on the bare floor. city of Trinidad — a site with many advan- be subjected to a trial. They were often beaten by communist tages. For one, it was next to the Escam- While in prison, the brigadistas were re- prison guards. The intolerable conditions bray Mountains, where anti-communist lentlessly beaten and tortured. To survive, and abuses perpetrated against the 214 rebels were already on the ground fighting they drank water with dead rats in it. They members of the Brigade, as well as the the Castro regime. The original site also suffered from hepatitis, dysentery, and all other 5,000 political prisoners on the Isle had docks, which were crucial to allow the types of skin diseases, owing to the lack of Pines, led to a hunger strike that lasted obsolete Brigade ships to unload gasoline, of even the most basic hygiene. One un- three days. The strike was finally called off oil, communications gear, and other criti- treated brigadista died of hepatitis. Others when the prison guards cut off the water, cal supplies. Another key benefit of Trini- lost their minds and never recovered. The and several prisoners, near death, fainted. dad was the presence of an airfield for Bri- prisoners of war were denied medical and After 20 months of inhumane condi- gade planes. It had a defensible beachhead dental treatment, in violation of the Ge- tions in prison, the United States, under and a couple of roads that led to the city neva Convention. the direction of President John F. Kenne- of Havana. The local population, number- After the illegal “trial,” 211 Brigade pris- dy, ransomed the prisoners by paying $53 ing about 26,000, was dissatisfied with oners of war, each of whom had a ransom million in medicines, food, and cash to the the regime and was expected to join and value of $100,000, and the three leaders of regime. President Kennedy and First Lady help the Brigade. There were also grocery the Brigade, worth $500,000 each, were Jacqueline Kennedy welcomed them on stores with food and hospitals staffed by placed in isolation for seven months in the December 29, 1962 at the Orange Bowl in doctors for the wounded. worst prison in Cuba, located on the infa- Miami. The president promised to return Instead, globalist officials in Washing- mous Isle of Pines. De Varona, as well as his the flag of Brigade 2506 presented to him ton, D.C., decided to change the landing brother Jorge, suffered immensely along- to a free Havana. But that never happened. site to the swampy, sparsely inhabited side the men who were sent to the infamous And it turns out that Kennedy’s own min- villages of Playa Girón and Playa Larga prison of the Presidio Modelo on the Isle ions at the highest levels of government at the Bay of Pigs — landing spots with of Pines. Their health never fully recovered. were responsible for betraying the briga- no real infrastructure, no docks, no local The more than 200 high-value prisoners distas in the first place. anti-communist forces to assist, and were packed into a small room, which had numerous other disadvantages. Mak- a capacity for 40 people. They were denied What Went Wrong ing matters worse were the treacherous soap, toilet paper, toothpaste, and medi- The official narrative pushed by the estab- reefs at the Bay of Pigs that made the cine for seven full months. They shared lishment surrounding the catastrophe at landing even more difficult. And finally, www.TheNewAmerican.com 35 HISTORYHISTORY — PAST AND PERSPECTIVE

betrayal, and the disaster represented by quashing the air strikes. CIA officer Gray The freedom fighters were outnumbered about 20 to 1, yet they Lynch, one of two American CIA opera- dealt devastating losses to Castro’s forces. Estimates suggest the tives who went ashore with the Brigade, highlighted the significance of it. Among Brigade inflicted approximately 6,000 casualties on the enemy, other key points, Lynch argues that the op- despite the handicaps. eration could have succeeded in toppling the Castro regime and liberating Cuba — if not for the decision to cancel more than there were no good options for retreat, them to allow the planes to come. Global- three-fourths of the planned pre-invasion and no good ways to advance forward. ists in D.C. refused. air sorties intended to take Castro’s air In short, it was perhaps the worst imag- The original plan was supposed to in- forces out of the game. inable spot to land. Indeed, changing the clude five bombing raids using the entire Even Donald Trump, who became the landing from Trinidad to the Bay of Pigs fleet of the Brigade Air Force. The fleet first presidential candidate ever to be en- is widely viewed as one of the primary was made up of 16 B-26 bombers, which dorsed by the Bay of Pigs Veterans, had reasons for the Brigade’s defeat. Presi- were supposed to be used to destroy Cas- long appeared to recognize the betrayal. “I dent Kennedy told Allen Dulles that he tro’s Air Force, his heavy Stalin tanks, his really admire toughness and courage, and I did not approve landing at Trinidad be- trucks, heavy artillery, oil refineries, and will tell you that the people of this brigade cause he didn’t want to interfere with other military targets that were crucial to really have that,” Trump told the Brigade civilian life there. the regime’s ability to defend the island. veterans at the Bay of Pigs Museum in Possibly even more important to ensur- For the operation to succeed, the original Miami in 1999. “You were let down by ing the invasion’s defeat was the inexcus- plan needed to be followed completely our country.” And indeed, they were. able order canceling the overwhelming — especially considering that the com- Marine Colonel Jack Hawkins, a deco- majority of the air sorties by Brigade munist regime had more than 200,000 rated veteran of World War II and Korea pilots, intended to neutralize Castro’s air soldiers and militiamen armed by the So- who helped train the Brigade, also viewed forces, his tanks, and more. When Brigade viet Union, as well as a significant Air the tragedy as a betrayal. “They fought Air Force Chief Reid Doster heard about Force. Instead, most of the Brigade’s air magnificently and were not defeated,” he the decision from D.C., he was quoted as sorties were ordered grounded, and the said. “They were abandoned on the beach saying: “What?! Are they nuts?! There number of planes was cut by 50 percent, without the supplies and support prom- goes the whole f***ing war!” The sen- ensuring that Castro could muster plenty ised by their sponsor, the government of timent was widespread among the men. of planes, tanks, and more to defeat the the United States.” Reports about radio traffic say that U.S. freedom fighters. Navy radios were bombarded with calls A number of invasion participants Globalist Players Behind the Betrayal from the embattled brigadistas imploring have highlighted the significance of the A number of top officials in the Kennedy administration were to blame for the di- saster. And virtually all of them had one thing in common: membership in, or strong ties to, the Council on Foreign Re- lations, which this magazine has exposed on numerous occasions. The organization, which openly pursues global governance and has historically dominated the Cabi- nets of presidents from both parties, also had members in the media who played an important role in sabotaging the Bay of Pigs invasion. Among the key CFR members within the administration were U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, White House Director of National Security McGeorge “Mac” Bundy, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson. Along with other senior officials, all of these CFR members urged President Ken-

AP Images nedy to cancel the Brigade’s airstrikes U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, a member of the globalist Council on Foreign Relations, following the initial sorties. While the played a key role in persuading President Kennedy to betray and sabotage the Bay of Pigs invasion. second-in-command of the CIA and the

36 THE NEW AMERICAN • JUNE 18, 2018 Joint Chiefs of Staff pleaded to allow the airstrikes to go forward, Kennedy took the advice of the CFR crowd and ordered them canceled. Kennedy’s deci- sion to cancel the remaining air strikes, lobbied for by Rusk, was made after the Brigade was already en route. The deci- sion was later justified by claiming that allowing the strikes to proceed would have been perceived as too much U.S. “involvement” and might have been bad for world opinion. At that point, CIA Director Allen Dul­ les, another CFR operative who served as a leader there and played a key role in sab- otaging the invasion, should have called off the whole plan, knowing it could never succeed without air power. Instead, he al- lowed it to proceed, ensuring its failure — and a powerful victory for communism.

On the day of the invasion, Dulles had left AP Images for Puerto Rico. Brigade members widely Admiral Arleigh Burke, chief of U.S. Naval Operations, tried desperately to convince President view the decision to proceed without the Kennedy not to betray Brigade 2506, as recommended by CFR members in the administration. airstrikes and doom the Brigade to death or capture as an act of criminal negli- gence, at best. read the New York Times,” a frustrated Washington, D.C., that “Fidel Castro talk- The globalist pedigree of the Brigade President Kennedy reportedly told White ed and acted like a communist, and should saboteurs is well established. Consider, House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger. not be supported by the United States.” In for example, Secretary of State Rusk, one response, Ambassador Gardner was pres- of the key players. His background, like so Bringing Castro to Power sured to resign his position on June 16, many of those responsible for the orches- Many of the same people and organiza- 1957. He was prevented from briefing his trated failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion tions responsible for betraying the Bay of successor, with CFR member and Times and even Castro’s rise to power, is domi- Pigs Brigade were also involved in bring- propagandist Matthews being brought in nated by links to the globalist establish- ing Castro to power. And once again, CFR for that purpose. But Gardner’s replace- ment. Among other examples, Rusk served members were the star players. It began ment, U.S. Ambassador Earl Smith, no- as a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation during the administration of President ticed the same thing, and dutifully warned starting in 1950, eventually going on to be- Dwight D. Eisenhower. Back then, in Washington as well. come president of the globalist operation 1957, before becoming a mass-murdering But despite those warnings, the U.S. that the Congressional Reece Committee dictator, Castro was in Cuba’s Sierra Mae- government acted to ensure the removal investigation of tax-exempt foundations stra mountain range fighting a guerrilla of Batista — and thereby, the success of had exposed as subversive less than a de- war against the Cuban government. Castro. On June 13, 1958, Secretary of cade earlier. He was also deeply involved Here, the New York Times played a key State John Foster Dulles, who actually with the CFR. role, with Times reporter and CFR member helped found the CFR decades earlier, di- Outside of government, CFR members Herbert Matthews interviewing the guer- rected Ambassador Smith to give a mes- and fellow travelers in the establishment rilla leader and portraying him as a heroic sage to Batista: “Request his government media were doing their part to ensure a freedom fighter struggling against an op- to disengage from combat activities men Castro victory. Prior to the invasion, for pressive regime. The paper even celebrat- who were trained by the U.S. Military example, the New York Times, widely ed Castro as the “George Washington” Assistance Program (MAP) and not to viewed as the megaphone for the CFR of Cuba while relentlessly demonizing use weapons, ships, and aircraft supplied and a publication that helped market Cas- Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. Aside by MAP.” tro and his revolution to Americans, wrote from Matthews, Times Board Chairman Some 75 percent of Cuban aviators and articles describing how anti-Castro forces Arthur Sulzberger and publisher Orvil virtually all of the mechanics, along with were being trained in Guatemala by U.S. Dryfoos were also members of the CFR. the elite of the Cuban army and navy, had military personnel and CIA operatives, Of course, plenty of people knew bet- been trained by MAP. The outrageous order thus alerting Castro that the invasion was ter than to dub Castro a freedom fighter. by Dulles was opposed even by top U.S. imminent. “Castro doesn’t need spies in The U.S. ambassador to Cuba at the time, military officials such as Admiral Arleigh the United States; all he needs to do is Arthur Gardner, reported to higher-ups in Burke, who warned that the Cuban govern-

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thereby making it possible for Fidel Cas- tro to take over the government of Cuba.” The whole operation that resulted in the enslavement of millions of people was very similar to what happened in China years earlier. There, CFR member and Secretary of State George Marshall and the CFR-controlled media painted mass-murdering butcher Mao Tse-tung as an “agrarian reformer” and nationalist U.S. ally Chiang Kai-shek as a tyrant. The exact same process was used, too. First, propaganda to paint the anti-communist government as evil and the communists as oppressed freedom fighters: then, a U.S. government-enforced arms embargo against the anti-communist U.S. ally, com- Bad start: One of the writers of this article, Frank de Varona, was on board the Houston as it sank bined with endless weapons and behind- just off the coast of Cuba during the Bay of Pigs invasion attempt. the-scenes machinations aimed at helping communist terrorists rise to power. The ment was fighting “elements allied with headed by Carlos Marquez Sterling of parallels between Cuba and China are nu- communism” and that the State Department the Ortodoxo Party, to take power in an merous and extraordinary. should not tell a sovereign nation what to election, thereby ensuring a peaceful tran- do. In the end, the protests fell on deaf ears. sition. But the U.S. government, seem- The Great Lie It was a devastating blow to a key U.S. ally ingly determined to see Castro in power, Supposedly, all of this was some monu- and a bulwark against communist expan- refused to do that. Without this betrayal of mental mistake — a miscalculation of sion in the Western Hemisphere. an anti-communist U.S. ally, the Bay of epic proportions. The establishment’s nar- All the while, Castro was allowed to get Pigs invasion would never have even been rative would have Americans believe that all the arms from America and the Soviet contemplated. the U.S. government officials and jour- Union that he needed to overthrow the in- Lest there be any doubt that the U.S. nalists responsible for bringing Castro to creasingly embattled government. In fact, government — really the CFR operatives power — almost all of them CFR mem- just those actions alone so demoralized within its upper ranks — brought Castro bers or toadies — were simply naive. But and weakened the Cuban military that they to power, Ambassador Smith wrote a full that cannot possibly be true. In fact, there have been widely blamed for ensuring that book about what he observed entitled The should have been no question that Castro Castro and his “freedom fighters” could Fourth Floor: An Account of the Castro was a communist. His own actions proved seize power in Havana. Communist Revolution. He also testified it. And this was hardly a secret. It got even worse from there, however. in the U.S. Senate, saying that Castro was For one, at least three U.S. ambas- According to the book Foreign Relations in power because of the actions of U.S. au- sadors, including Smith and before him of the United States, 1958-1960, Volume thorities. And he wrote a letter to the New Gardner, had sent clear warnings to their VI (1991), on December 17, 1958, U.S. York Times several years after publishing superiors in Washington. Being in Ha- Ambassador Smith was given another his book, stating clearly that the top levels vana, they would be expected to know. order by the State Department. This time, of the State Department were the cause of But they were hardly alone. In mid- he was instructed to tell Batista that the Castro’s rise. 1958, former Assistant Secretary of State U.S. government thought he should step “Castro could not have seized power in Spruille Braden warned about Castro, down and flee to Spain. “It is my unpleas- Cuba without the aid of the United States. too. “Rebel chief Fidel Castro is a pawn ant duty to inform the President of the Re- American government agencies and the in the Kremlin’s international intrigue,” public that the United States will no longer United States press played a major role in he warned. U.S. Ambassador to Mexi- support the present government of Cuba,” bringing Castro to power,” Smith wrote, co Robert Hill sent similar warnings to Smith was quoted as saying. citing his own Senate testimony. “As the Washington, to no avail. Understanding the implications of the United States ambassador to Cuba during Instead of proclaiming the truth and betrayal, President Batista realized there the Castro communist revolution of 1957- ceasing all aid to Castro and ending all was nothing more he could do. So on De- 1959, I had first-hand knowledge of the efforts to remove Batista, Secretary of cember 31, 1958, he fled from Cuba. In- facts which brought about the rise of Fidel State Dulles and other CFR members in stead of allowing Castro to take the reins Castro…. The State Department constant- the Eisenhower administration persisted of power, the hyper-interventionist U.S. ly intervened — positively, negatively, in supporting Castro. Despite warnings, government could have simply asked that and by innuendo — to bring about the they also refused to remove pro-commu- Batista allow the democratic opposition, downfall of President Fulgencio Batista, nist operatives in the U.S. government

38 THE NEW AMERICAN • JUNE 18, 2018 such as top State Department official William Wieland and his supervisor, As- sistant Secretary of State Rubottom, a A number of top officials in the Kennedy administration were key supporter of the arms embargo and to blame for the disaster. And virtually all of them had one thing communist coup against Batista’s anti- communist government. in common: membership in, or strong ties to, the Council on They could not claim ignorance. Con- Foreign Relations. sider what happened at the 1948 Organiza- tion of American States (OAS) meeting in Bogotá, Colombia. On April 9 of that year, days I was a student at the University of emboldened the international communist communists burst onto the scene to disrupt Havana,” he said. Indeed, the evidence of conspiracy — and not just in Cuba. In the meeting in bloody fashion. A 21-year- that was clear and overwhelming to any- particular, it gave free rein to Soviet dic- old Fidel Castro took part in the horror body willing to look at it. tator Nikita Khrushchev, who promptly show, seizing a radio station and shout- As if to confirm people’s worst suspi- built the Berlin Wall in August 1961 and ing, “This is a Communist revolution.” cions, after the administration removed then put intercontinental ballistic missiles Castro and other communists murdered both Gardner and Smith from their ambas- in Cuba in October 1962 aimed at Amer- hundreds of innocent people while setting sadorships to Cuba, Eisenhower appointed ica. During the October Missile Crisis, fires and wreaking havoc. He was arrested the pro-Castro Philip Bonsal to that role, Kennedy made a pact with Khrushchev and charged with murder. But instead of a move that was praised by the New York to never invade Cuba and dismantled repenting, he boasted, “I did a good work Times. His actions, which speak louder the U.S. ICBMs in Turkey and Italy, as today; I killed a priest.” Colombian au- than words, exposed his real agenda. U.S. the price for the Soviets to withdraw the thorities deported him. citizen William Morgan had fought with missiles from Cuba. Subsequent U.S. Beyond the myriad ambassadors Castro in the revolution. But when he re- presidents have abided by the Kennedy- sounding the alarm, outside of govern- alized Castro was a communist, he turned Khrushchev pact despite the communists ment, astute analysts were warning about against the tyrant and began plotting his rarely obeying agreements. Castro, too. Robert Welch, for instance, removal. Ambassador Bonsal immediately The betrayal of Cuban freedom fight- who went on to found The John Birch told the Cuban regime, resulting in Mor- ers to save the tyrannical and oppressive Society, warned about Castro in his mag- gan being shot dead by firing squad on Castro dictatorship also emboldened Cas- azine American Opinion months before March 11, 1961. tro and his reign of terror. A direct result the tyrant-in-waiting succeeded in en- of that was the mass exodus of Cuban slaving Cuba. “Now the evidence from Aftermath of the Bay of Pigs immigrants to the United States, and Castro’s whole past that he is a Commu- The betrayal at the Bay of Pigs by the especially to South Florida. More than nist agent carrying out Communist or- CFR-dominated Kennedy administration 800,000 Cuban-Americans now live in ders and plans is overwhelming,” wrote Welch in September of 1958. In his 1963 book The Politician about Eisenhower, Welch pointed to the March 14, 1958, decision to block weapons shipments to Batista as the beginning of the end for a free Cuba. Author James Perloff, who has been a leader in exposing the CFR, highlighted this betrayal in his 2002 book The Shad- ows of Power: The Council on Foreign Relations and the American Decline. “Perhaps the greatest shame of the Eisen- hower administration was allowing Fidel Castro to transform Cuba into the Soviets’ first outpost in the Western Hemisphere,” he wrote. “Despite reasonable evidence, some of the president’s apologists long contended that Castro had not been a com- munist when he originally took power.” Philip Fidel However, after coming to power, the Bonsal Castro

Cuban dictator gave a speech on Decem- AP Images ber 2, 1961 refuting this claim. “I have The pro-Castro Philip Bonsal was appointed as U.S. Ambassador to Cuba after two previous always been a Marxist Leninist since the ambassadors were removed for warning D.C. about Castro’s obvious communist leanings. www.TheNewAmerican.com 39 HISTORYHISTORY — PAST AND PERSPECTIVE

an “agent of influence” for Castro. The implications are enormous. As this magazine has documented for decades, the CFR is essentially the Amer- ican headquarters of an international globalist movement seeking to erode na- tional sovereignty and individual liberty worldwide. Basically, they support what many describe in public as a “New World Order,” which top globalists such as for- mer President George H.W. Bush have described as a world in which the vision of the UN’s founders can be implemented by the UN’s military power. Billionaire George Soros said the murderous com- munist regime enslaving China should “own” this New World Order. If the CFR and its allies at the Trilateral Commis- sion, the Bilderberg group, and other organizations in the “Deep State Behind the Deep State” eventually succeed, the

Photo: Frank de Varona fate of Cuba and China will be the fate of Brigadistas: Frank de Varona (shown), Humberto Diaz Arguelles, and Vicente Blanco, Bay of Pigs all humanity. vets, present a Brigade insignia to Donald Trump on behalf of the veterans. It is clear that the U.S. government under President Eisenhower was respon- Greater Miami. While they have helped successful entrepreneurs, elected and sible for facilitating the rise to power of turn Greater Miami into a prosperous in- appointed leaders, professionals in a the communist regime of Fidel Castro ternational city, the countless tragedies variety of fields, and highly skilled in Cuba. It is clear that the U.S. govern- — families separated, horrifying deaths workers. Several were elected to the ment under President Kennedy was later at sea, being driven out of one’s home- House of Representatives and Senate of responsible for undermining and betray- land by terror — are a ghastly reminder the Florida Legislature. One is still serv- ing Brigade 2506. This ensured that they of the evil unleashed by globalist insiders ing as a Metro-Dade Commissioner. One would fail, while consolidating the Castro on their fellow human beings. Castro’s served as a member of the Miami-Dade regime’s power over Cuba for generations. regime would later go on to fund terror- County School Board. Another one be- This sad chapter in the history of America ism and revolution across the hemisphere came a writer, associate superintendent, and Cuba needs to be explained to Ameri- and beyond, even aiding and abetting do- and interim deputy superintendent of cans and Cubans alike. Not only is it right mestic communist terror groups in the schools in the Miami-Dade County Pub- and just that people should have the truth, United States such as Bill Ayers’ Weather lic Schools. it would also help expose the real agenda Underground. of the subversive globalists seeking to im- After the Brigade prisoners returned, The Globalist Game Goes On pose the New World Order on humanity. more than 200 joined the U.S. Armed To this day, the globalist CFR and its Candidate Donald Trump was en- Forces. Many of them went on to obtain members continue to play a key role in dorsed by the Bay of Pigs Veterans As- high ranks, including a major general of propping up the murderous regime in sociation. And Trump warmly thanked the National Guard, six colonels, 19 lieu- Cuba and aiding its allies worldwide. Brigade members, promising to reverse tenant colonels, 29 captains, and 64 lieu- In 2013, The New American online Obama’s shameful unilateral concessions tenants. More than a few fought bravely highlighted the fact that Castro apolo- to the Cuban regime. So far, he has taken in the 1965 invasion of the Dominican gist Julia Sweig, who actually thanks some positive steps to end U.S. support Republic and during the Vietnam War, convicted terrorists in her book and was for and recognition of the gang of terror- where some died and more were wound- close to the late tyrant Castro in Havana ists and murderers still enslaving Cuba ed in combat. Other Brigade members for decades, was running the CFR’s to this day. But more needs to be done joined the CIA and worked throughout Latin American Studies program and to undo the enormous damage unleashed Latin America. Two Brigade members serving as the Nelson and David Rock- by America’s previous presidents — and working for the CIA even assisted the efeller senior fellow for Latin America Obama in particular. Exposing the true Bolivian army in capturing and executing Studies. Some prominent analysts, in- history of Cuba’s enslavement, the be- the Castro regime’s executioner, Ernesto cluding a former U.S. military intelli- trayal of the Brigade, and the role of the “Che” Guevara. gence official whose career was spent CFR would go a long way toward waking Other Brigade members became tracking Cuban spies, said Sweig was up the American people. n

40 THE NEW AMERICAN • JUNE 18, 2018 “... the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” EXERCISING THE RIGHT

Gun Owners Stand Up gain,” GOA’s executive director, Erich Americans about gun rights and firearms Pratt, was quoted as saying by Reuters. education. Toure is currently spending a to Anti-gun Banks In the end, the bill did pass on May 24 month in Chicago, which is a hotbed of The New American recently reported on without the wording proposed by GOA, but gun violence and gang activity, and his how major banks are working behind the the potential for a long-term battle between group has raised thousands of dollars scenes to implement gun control through the gun lobbies and the big banks seems to and hosts training seminars all over the banking rules, rules that the anti-gun be on the horizon. Charles Adcox, a GOA nation. Black Guns Matter has received lobby hasn’t been able to get passed member who owns a gun shop in Missouri, help from NRA members. through the legislature. While that story now refuses to accept Citi and Bank of The Chicago Tribune covered the Black certainly was disheartening to support- America credit cards. Adcox said that the Guns Matter training session in Chicago, ers of the Second Amendment, the good change was not an issue for his customers which went into detail about how felons, news is that gun owners are not taking and added that the feedback he’s received especially those with nonviolent offenses, this lying down. U.S. News & World Re- seems to indicate that his customers plan to may get their gun rights restored. Black port reported on May 18 about how both stop using those banks in their own lives, Guns Matter held their training at a public Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America pub- as well. “My more loyal customers don’t library in order to attract as many people licly declared their intentions to stop of- mind paying in cash. Some even wish to as possible. Toure felt that a neutral loca- fering financial services to gunmakers if drop their credit-card companies for gun- tion where guns are not permitted to be the gunmakers don’t comply with certain friendly alternatives,” Adcox told Reuters. carried under state law might make peo- anti-gun demands, such as to stop selling The NRA is also getting in on the fight ple more at ease when discussing such guns such as the AR-15. and has begun running ads online that are a controversial subject as looking to get These moves by banks to force changes critical of Citigroup and Bank of Amer- gun rights restored for convicted felons. on the gun industry, which have stalled ica. “The NRA will continue to promote “They don’t have to be nervous…. It’s a through political means, were actually awareness of those companies who seek safe, comfortable and open space,” Toure cheered on by anti-gun politicians who to infringe upon the Second Amendment told the Chicago Tribune. The Black Guns normally talk about how much they cherish rights of American citizens,” William Matter session also got into standard gun democracy and the legislative process. “We Brewer, an NRA attorney, wrote in a pub- safety, as well as a discussion of First Aid applaud this model of corporate responsi- licly released statement. options for treating gunshot wounds. This bility and we hope that this is the path for- event was only a small preview of a much ward for similar financial entities,” wrote larger one that Toure has planned in the Senator Dianne Feinstein and 12 other Black Guns Matter near future. Toure has found a sympathetic anti-gun politicians in an open letter to the A sad fact of American politics is that friend in the group Chicago Guns Matter, financial industry. The short-sightedness of black voters overwhelmingly support which is a local group that also advocates the banks was soon revealed as it quickly restrictive gun control, and black politi- for gun rights and the Second Amendment. became apparent that the Republican sup- cians make up some of the most anti-gun It would appear that this innovative port they were counting on for some de- legislators out there. That’s why it might outreach is gaining traction, as Toure saw sired regulatory changes in the financial come as a surprise to read that a black a good turnout at his event and expects industry might be in jeopardy. hip-hop artist by the name of Maj Toure attendance at future seminars to grow. Reuters reported on May 18 that both is hoping to reverse this trend. The Chi- There are similar efforts being spear- Gun Owners of America (GOA) and the cago Tribune reported on May 17 about headed by other black political activists National Rifle Association (NRA) were Toure, a Philadelphia-based rapper and all over the country to change the hostil- both pushing back against the big banks. gun owner, and his groundbreaking ef- ity of the black community toward the Banking lobbyists have long been push- forts to get blacks to embrace the Second Second Amendment to a perspective of ing to get modifications of the 2010 Dodd Amendment. respect and appreciation. Frank act that could prove to be quite lu- Toure was shocked when he toured While it is certainly an uphill battle to crative for big banks such as Citigroup the country as a musician and discov- make inroads in a demographic where and Bank of America. But not so fast! ered how many black people were facing polling reveals near unanimous opposi- GOA recently began lobbying legisla- criminal charges for illegal possession tion to gun rights and broad support for tors to modify the proposed deregulation of firearms. Toure soon found out that expansive gun-control measures, one with a statutory provision that would pro- many of these people would have been can’t help but applaud the impressive ef- hibit banks from discriminating against able to legally obtain and carry the guns, forts of people such as Toure and groups firearms makers. “Citigroup and Bank but they simply did not even bother to such as Black Guns Matter to fight of America are threatening our Second- try and comply with the law. So Toure for our Second Amendment-protected Amendment rights. They do not realize created a grassroots organization entitled rights. n how much more there is to lose than to “Black Guns Matter” to teach African- — Patrick Krey

Call 1-800-727-TRUE to subscribe today! 41 Trump Accused of Burying Collusion Charges Item: On May 21, an online article by the New York Times Editorial Board ap- peared under the headline “Trump v. the Department of Justice.” The article claimed — once again — that President Trump is using inflammatory hyperbole to dodge “the Russia investigation” as it “burrows closer to the Oval Office.” In particular, the opinion piece — slanted so far to the left as to not be able to see the right — claims that President Trump’s tweet the previous Sunday demanding that the Department of Justice (DOJ) “look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or AP Images surveilled the Trump Campaign for Politi- Only he can be dubbed dirty: According to many in the media, President Trump is trying to evade cal Purposes — and if any such demands prosecution for Russian collusion by having the FBI and DOJ investigated for improperly trying to or requests were made by people within the alter an election, though there is much proof of that accusation and none about Trump colluding. Obama Administration” is evidence that “President Trump sank to a new low” in as an “explosive theory” and an “unveri- In fact, the House Intelligence Commit- trying to quash the investigation. fied claim,” the article states that “Trump tee’s report of its year-long investigation The article goes on to challenge the has used similar claims in the past to try — in which the committee “interviewed reader to “consider the seriousness of the to discredit the Russia investigation.” 73 witnesses, conducted 9 hearings threat posed by a president ordering federal As proof that this is a tired, old Trump and briefings, reviewed approximately law enforcement officials to investigate the tactic, AP provides exactly one example: 307,900 documents, and issued 20 sub- people who are investigating him.” In fact, President Trump’s claim that the Obama poenas” — “found no evidence of collu- the article opens with: “As the old saying administration “ordered wiretaps on his sion, coordination, or conspiracy between goes, if the facts are against you, argue phones during the election.” the Trump campaign and the Russians.” the law. If the law is against you, argue Correction: This is far from the first And while the liberal media chose ei- the facts. If both the facts and the law are time the New York Times has ignored the ther to ignore the committee’s findings against you, pound the table and yell.” most basic of journalistic principles to or claim that the report was evidence of The article maintains that tone through- twist facts beyond recognition, but it may GOP spin, the salient fact is that Demo- out, flogging the stillborn horse of Trump/ be one of the most glaring. The “newspa- crats have had to admit the same thing: Russia collusion with no fewer than 10 per of record” really went out of its way No evidence of collusion. Even Represen- references to allegations that the Trump this time. In an effort to spin the major tative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the most campaign — and perhaps even Donald story that the FBI had (likely illegally) vocal Democrat accuser, has admitted as Trump himself — colluded with Moscow inserted a spy into the Trump campaign much. And he has done so at least twice. in the 2016 presidential election. By con- into an anti-Trump hit-piece, the “Gray In April 2017, Schiff told CNN’s State of trast, the article makes one three-word Lady” showed that she is no lady at all; the Union that there is no solid proof that overt reference (“Look, a mole!”) and a ladies, after all, are expected to be honest. there was ever any link between Russia mere three shaded references to the recent First, there is no evidence whatsoever that and the Trump campaign. “I don’t think revelation that the FBI had at least one spy the “Russia investigation burrows closer we can say anything definitively at this in the Trump campaign. to the Oval Office.” In fact, as this maga- point,” he said. Almost a year later, Schiff Item: In an online article dated May 19, zine has reported in multiple previous ar- appeared on the View and attempted to the Associated Press (AP) claims to fer- ticles — both online and in print — after dodge the question of whether there was ret out the answer to the question, “Where more than a year of burrowing (a good evidence that would be “enough for [Spe- did Trump’s claim of an FBI mole come choice of words to describe the various cial Counsel Robert] Mueller to bring from?” Referring to the established fact investigations), not one piece of evidence charges.” When pressed, the most he that 73-year-old Cambridge Professor has been uncovered that Donald Trump would say is that it “looks a lot like col- Stefan Halper infiltrated the Trump cam- or anyone in his campaign colluded with lusion.” However, saying that it “looks paign for the purpose of spying for the FBI Russia in the 2016 election. Period. a lot like collusion” is not the same as

42 THE NEW AMERICAN • JUNE 18, 2018 saying that there is evidence of collusion. fice of then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew In a clear case of attempted misdirec- So, since there is no evidence, there is McCabe addressing an “insurance policy” tion, the AP article ignored the fact that nothing for the president to dodge or the “secret society” had in place in case Trump’s “wiretap” claim was based in quash. The Times’ Editorial Board may Trump won the election. solid fact and was true. While Obama — like Schiff — want there to be evi- It appears that both the facts and the law himself may not have signed off on the dence, but wanting doesn’t make it so. If are on the side of Trump and against the electronic surveillance, his administra- it did, Hillary Clinton would be president. Editorial Board of the Times. Perhaps that tion did indeed order and conduct it. As for the Times’ claim of “the seriousness explains the Times’ proclivity to “pound Furthermore, in at least one instance of the threat posed by a president ordering the table and yell” about Trump/Russia — the electronic surveillance of Trump federal law enforcement officials to in- collusion even as the narrative collapses campaign associate Carter Page — the vestigate the people who are investigating under its own bloated weight. Obama FBI and DOJ bent rules past the him,” consider the alternative: A president The AP article is another prime example breaking point, misleading the Foreign is stripped of his executive power to order of the regurgitation of liberal pablum in Intelligence Surveillance Court to obtain the DOJ — which is directly under his au- place of — and in a naked attempt to dis- a warrant for that surveillance. thority — to investigate crimes commit- tract from — the facts. Similarly, by referring to President ted by someone simply because they are First, the only real answer to the ques- Trump’s “claim of an FBI mole” as an “ex- investigating him. This is a clear attempt tion, “Where did Trump’s claim of an plosive theory” and an “unverified claim,” by the Times to dodge the real question: FBI mole come from?” is that despite the article ignores established facts. For in- Did the Obama-era FBI break the law by the best efforts of Deep State operatives stance, on May 23, former Director of Na- planting a spy in the Trump campaign for in the FBI and DOJ, House Intelligence tional Intelligence James Clapper appeared political purposes? Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R- on the View, where he told the anti-Trump The real answer to that question is ob- Calif.) and his investigators managed to women’s panel, “Unfortunately, the identity vious in light of the facts. Text messages discover the fact that Halper had infiltrat- of this informant is now out in the media.” between FBI agent Peter Strzok and his ed the Trump campaign as an FBI spy. If the man who was, at the time of the mistress, DOJ lawyer Lisa Page (who Following up on that, Nunes — finally mole being planted in the Trump campaign, were both assigned to the Clinton e-mail fed up with being “stalled” and “stone- the director of national intelligence (whose investigation and the Trump/Russia inves- walled” even after issuing a subpoena for office oversees the FBI and other intelli- tigation), mention a “secret society” with- information about Halper — threatened gence agencies) says there was an “infor- in the FBI and DOJ that worked to protect to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions in mant” planted in the campaign, then it is Clinton while attacking Trump. The mes- contempt of Congress if the information a fact, not a theory, and a verified, rather sages also mention a meeting in the of- was not forthcoming. than unverified, claim. And while it would be tempting to forgive AP’s mischaracter- ization (since it was made before Clapper made his verifying remark) the wire service has not only not corrected the error, but has doubled down on it. In an article headlined “Seething over Russia probe, Trump tears into ‘spygate’” and dated May 24 — a day after Clapper’s remarks on the View — AP stated, “It remains unclear what, if any, spying was done. The White House has given no evidence to support Trump’s claim that the Obama administration was trying to spy on his 2016 campaign for po- litical reasons.” Given the way both the Times and AP have ignored the known facts to spin the very real revelation that the FBI planted a spy in the Trump campaign, one would

AP Images reasonably be led to believe that they are Smoking gun? House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) has indicated that little more than two outlets of the media a year-long investigation of Trump collusion found no evidence of it (though the GOP is generally arm of the Deep State. n anti-Trump). — C. Mitchell Shaw

www.TheNewAmerican.com 43 THE LAST WORD by C. Mitchell Shaw Spygate Bigger Than Watergate

he liberal mainstream paign of one candidate while media appear deter- violating both the law and the T mined to either ignore fundamentals of investigation the recent revelation of “Spy- to protect the other candidate gate” — the scandal of the from facing the consequences FBI having planted a spy in of her crimes. And remember the Trump campaign in 2016 that the Strzok/Page text mes- — or spin it as an anti-Trump sages mention both a “secret story. However, the reality is society” within the FBI and that this is (as President Trump DOJ (including then-FBI tweeted) the “all time biggest Deputy Director Andrew Mc- political scandal.” And, yes, Cabe) and an “insurance poli- that includes Watergate. cy” in the event Trump won. While “Watergate” refers Furthermore, when the generally to the overall scan- House Intelligence Commit- dal, it specifically refers to the tee’s investigators managed break-in at the Democratic to uncover the spy — Uni-

National Committee (DNC) ands456/iStock /Getty Images Plus versity of Cambridge Profes- headquarters located in the sor Stefan Halper — the DOJ Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., in June 1972 to initially refused to comply with a congressional subpoena for bug the offices of the DNC. more information. In fact, Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) While Nixon attempted to dodge being implicated, the “smok- had to threaten Attorney General Jeff Sessions with charges of ing gun” tape handed over to Congress was proof that he was at contempt of Congress before the DOJ caved and briefed the the head of efforts to obstruct the FBI’s investigation. The tape, committee on Halper. ironically recorded by Nixon himself just days after the Water- Going back a little further, the FBI and DOJ — while protecting gate break-in, is of a conversation he had with his chief of staff, Clinton from being charged for her illegal use of a private e-mail H.R. Haldeman, wherein they discussed “the Democratic break- server to send and receive thousands of classified documents — in thing,” specifically mentioning “the problem area because the abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to illegally ob- FBI is not under control” and the fact that the FBI investigation tain a surveillance warrant on Trump campaign associate Carter was “leading into some productive areas” that Haldeman aptly Page. That warrant’s application was based on the now-discredit- described as “some directions we don’t want it to go.” ed Trump “dossier” written by ex-MI6 agent Christopher Steele Congress investigated and began what certainly would have and illegally financed by the DNC and Clinton campaign (and been a successful impeachment ending in Nixon’s removal from based on information provided by Russian government sources). office. To avoid that, Nixon followed in the steps of his first vice No wonder President Trump tweeted a quote by Fox Business Net- president, Spiro Agnew, and resigned. He was later pardoned work anchor David Asman on May 18, saying, “Apparently the for his many crimes by Agnew’s (and Nixon’s) replacement, DOJ put a Spy in the Trump Campaign. This has never been done President Gerald Ford. before and by any means necessary, they are out to frame Donald By the time the dust had settled, America had a new (unelected) Trump for crimes he didn’t commit.” And on May 23 — as more president and vice president, 69 people involved in Watergate had information came to light — he tweeted, “Look how things have been indicted, 48 (including some top Nixon officials) were con- turned around on the Criminal Deep State. They go after Phony victed, and some 20 of them went to prison. Watergate so dam- Collusion with Russia, a made up Scam, and end up getting caught aged the credibility of the Republican Party that it was perhaps in a major SPY scandal the likes of which this country may never the decisive factor in putting Jimmy Carter in the White House. have seen before! What goes around, comes around!” Largely due to the fact that the media had been involved Whatever one’s opinion of President Trump, he is right about in breaking the case through solid investigative journalism, this. Watergate was about a president and key officials in his the term “Watergate” has become synonymous with political administration breaking the law both to spy on their political op- scandal, with subsequent scandals being referred to by simply ponents and to cover up for their crimes. Spygate is about Deep adding the suffix “gate” to the end of their names. Now, you State operatives in the FBI and DOJ conspiring first against can add “Spygate” to that list. Spygate is a bigger scandal than a presidential candidate and then against the president to ma- Watergate, but the liberal mainstream media — acting as the nipulate the entire direction of the United States. Once more propaganda arm of the Deep State — are trying to cover it up. is known, it would not be surprising to see a litany of criminal Consider the implications of the FBI planting a spy in the cam- indictments and convictions resulting from Spygate. n

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