between 31 and 28 years ago, I was specifically "encouraged" to "vanish" flyers from hated groups like Wiccans, GLBT people, and so on (including "worldly" entertainments that were preached against- like movies and parties and anything remotely sexual in nature).  I did so regularly... and always replaced them with flyers supporting Pentecostal/Dominionist/Fundamentalist causes.

Now I'm ashamed of the wrong I did- but the point is- you're right.  Your fliers would vanish if a dominionist came around (and they thought they'd get away with it- we WERE usually careful, because we had heard how those 'evil' "people in the world" would "misuse the legal system against Christians").

Funny isn't it, how they think that they have rights, but they don't extend those same rights to anyone else???


by ArchaeoBob on Wed Sep 01, 2010 at 02:18:38 PM EST
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...those notice boards with locked glass covers.

by NancyP on Thu Sep 02, 2010 at 10:57:06 PM EST
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Those who destroy fliers are subject to UCMJ just like everyone else.  I don't think misbehavior justifies limiting signage for base services.

by lesh2000 on Wed Sep 01, 2010 at 02:31:09 PM EST
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(Sorry, but I can't get paragraph breaks to work no matter what I try.) The Navy has plenty of nukes, but by tradition it has a more educated officer class and a more globe-friendly outlook. The Marines are cautious about political entanglements because their mission as America's "other army" has always relied on Congress' good will. The Army, well, you know the Army will put up with anything asked of it by the Commander in Chief................. But then there's the Air Force.................. There's always been something creepy about the USAF, but I couldn't see it until about the time my dad retired. 90 years ago, a small cult of pioneering military aviators around the world built around the ideas of the author Douhet, who argued for terror-bombing of civilians as a way to deter war forever. The cult was derided at first, but the war came that let them cut loose, to the destruction of millions. Unfortunately, the wrong conclusions were drawn from the results of strategic bombing and the public was converted to the belief. People in the colonial world, however, simply changed the mode of war after 1945 and exposed the failure of strategic bombing. While too late to stop the bomber clique from creating an independent USAF that dominated the other services, this new war kept discrediting American military power in practice................ At this same moment, the Christian Right was freaked out about black power and gay power in the streets, reds abroad, and the failure of US power in Vietnam. I argue that they grasped at two straws: (a) Israel's victory in the '67 War as proof that the white man had to take the offensive against the brown horde, (b) Reagan's insistence that nuclear war was not unwinnable.............. I think all of that tied the movement's hopes on USAF. USAF is a metaphor for America's non-empire Empire. Run the most like a corporation of all the services, bland and personally inoffensive, it was seen as proof of America's superior entrepreneur-driven technology converted to a mission of hegemony only America could be allowed to attempt. USAF became the Vatican of Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, which could have been used for far more than justifiable defense.............. The only real question in this part is why the Christian Right invaded Colorado Springs, which already had the USAF Academy................. But in the larger history of fascist overthrows of democracy, USAF can be seen as having a domestic role as well. No matter how much like Allende's Chile or Republican Spain we become in the future, it will never occur to us that the Air Force might switch sides and deliver an ultimatum to Democratic cities: surrender or be blasted to oblivion. The Army cannot be trusted to carry this out and the Navy/Marines would never dare. But for the USAF, it would be the perfect fusion of the religion of Douhet and the religion of Rushdoony.............. The main question, then, is whether officers are being cultivated to carry out such a crime in the years to come. The fundamentalist movement has taken decades to get where it is, but the decline in the white population and the difficulty of the Right in recruiting Latinos means that time is running out to hold onto the Red States as a safe area for organizing treason. It is plenty of time, though, for mid-level Dominionist sleepers to move up into the top slots of the Command.

by super390 on Wed Sep 01, 2010 at 04:49:08 PM EST
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but, we still have to follow the Constitutional liberties from which SCOTUS upholds the Chaplaincy.

by lesh2000 on Wed Sep 01, 2010 at 04:33:57 PM EST
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http://discernment-ministries.org/ChristianImperialism.htm - This article explains why Dominionism is a heresy- and this is according to very evangelical Christians.

by zowie on Wed Sep 01, 2010 at 04:50:00 PM EST
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"Taliban II is coming, and this time they carry a cross!"

There are so many comparisons between the Dominionists and the Taliban that you'd almost think they were cut from the same cloth.

by ArchaeoBob on Wed Sep 01, 2010 at 06:14:30 PM EST
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