No longer alone

Mr. Mikey Weinstein,

A couple of days ago I read the following entitled article in Truthout: “No Dominion: The Lonely, Dangerous Fight Against Christian Supremacist Inside the Armed Forces.” Then yesterday, I received an Internet mailing from your organization, “MMRF.” Mr. Weinstein, I’m in my 70s now, and for many years I was the only person I knew that had read the works of R. J. Rushdonney — or, knew of the movements, “Christian Reconstruction and Dominionism.” Also, it is not that they have tried to hide their objectives of using the freedoms granted under the U.S. Constitution to pervert that same constitution to their fundamentalist religious ends — the end of American democracy. It is just that the majority of American citizens reside within the closed circle of beliefs and not within reality in the natural world. To an enormous degree, they don’t question or do historical research. Or if they do, it is using the efforts of people like David Barton, con man deluxe, for the knowledge source of that same history.

Likely, over the past 35 years or so, I have recorded and searched hundreds of sermons from characters like D. James Kennedy, etc. I wrote letters to the editor of our local paper long before I had heard of Chris Rodda or Mikey Weinstein, trying to warn people that a highly organized and funded movement was domestically trying to destroy our democracy and replace it with a Christian fundamentalist vision of the government of Iran, or worse. Definitely, to be eventually worse. As well, I paid attention to the storm that was gathering it crackpot clouds in the Colorado Springs area, but did not understand the degree of the danger until fairly recently. And that understanding multiplies greatly with the beginning of “MMRF.” I read some of the nasty crap you have received personally in your emails. Not so much though, as I don’t like to fill my old head with such mindless, incredible hatred and ignorance. I am sorry you must read such garbage, and I am even sorrier that you family is in the cross-hairs of such ignorant hatred.

I can’t help financially. I retired early because of severe back problems, therefore, my income matches the back problems, often picking between pain and doctors/medicine. However, I do own a computer, both to do my research and to occasionally write those letters mentioned — close to a hundred by now — with some fairly pointed, but I can’t match your directedness. Mostly, I want to encourage you in your struggles to protect our constitution from what I call the American Taliban. At least, of lately, I don’t feel so lonely as if I was the only one I knew that understood that these people represent a real threat and not simply another wacky far-out conspiracy group.
You know, Mr. Weinstein, I have read so much of their garbage and listened to so many of their sermons that I can read or hear material from many sources, including the con man Glen Beck, and know just what particular source they are quoting — and often, plagiarizing.

A friend gave me one of Barton’s books some years ago, I read the first four chapters and threw the book in the trash. My friend knew of my love for history and appreciation for our nation’s founding and founders. He also knew I did my own research and had read most all published correspondence between those founders and founding authors. David Barton is simply another con man of the religious stripe, a little lower in character than a virus. In fact, when I watched the videos on Rodda’s site, I actually was offended for the name, Jesus Christ, as Barton pranced back and forth with the name on the wall behind him. I was offended and I am more of a Deist than a Christian.

I repeat, thanks again for carrying on the struggle, and for making me not feel so lonely anymore. Oh yeah, you do know that Erik Prince and family, the man with a private army on American soil, have long been associated with the Dominion movement and its worst members.

(name and location withheld)