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A Special Report by the Official World Council of Spiritual Diplomacy Delegation as Independent Observers
“The Belarus Presidential Election of December 2010”
“Democracy in Transition”
Copyright 2010 Spiritual Diplomacy Foundation
Introduction
The Republic of Belarus under its Constitution elects a President every 5 years. The President is elected directly by the people of the Republic for a term of office of 5 years on the basis of a universal, free, equal, and secret ballot vote.
The Constitution requires the eligibility to run for the office of President as any citizen of Belarus birth who is at least 35 years old, an eligible voter, without a criminal record, and has been residing in Belarus for the prior 10 years. The candidates must be nominated by at least 100,000 registered voter signatures.
All the candidates nominated for President must provide to the Election Commission , their consent, their biographical data , declaration of income and assets, his spouse, his family, and close relatives as well as significant others sharing with the candidate.
The Commission also allows the candidates to engage in public relations, mass media, public events, campaign materials, and debates. Each candidate is entitled to free TV and Radio broadcasting, and press coverage on their election program at the governments cost. There is an additonal procedure for other than state funded information costs to each candidate as well as provisions for absentee voting (advance polling) for a 5 day period before the Presidential election itself.
At least 50% of registered voters must vote to enable a valid election of a President.
If any candidate feels there was not a proper vote, they have a 3 day period to submit their claim to the Central Election Commission. Any disputed ruling can be appealed to the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus.
The Protocol
The Spiritual Diplomacy Delegation was made up of 4 Independent Observers who were invited by the Belarus Government to observe and report if the elections were free and fair.
The Central Election Commission of the Republic Of Belarus operates under the rule of law and in particular the specific Section dealing with international observers is followed in accordance with part 3 of article 13 (155) of the Electoral Code.
The Commission operates under its Chairperson Ms. L.M. Ermoshina. The Secretary of the Commission Mr. N.I. Lozovik, has the duty to see the regulations of activities of foreign observers are followed.
Under the election law Spiritual Diplomacy and its individual team members was recognized as an international organization acquiring the right to carry out observance of preparation and holding the elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus “according to the procedure established by the Electoral Code of the Republic of Belarus.”
Under these regulations, The World Council of Spiritual Diplomacy was able as invited, to send 4 election observers to observe and comment on the election of the President of the Republic of Belarus in 2010.
The Delegation of the 4 international observers that were accredited consisted of, Dr. Michel Margolis, Michael Markham, Mark Bazalev and Russell Jones.
The Delegation members collectively and individually were allowed, and did attend meetings of the Election Commission, listen to and meet with the candidates for President, including their representatives. We also were present at the sealing of ballot boxes and took photographs; were present at the voting premises and observed the casting of votes. We were part of delegations who watched the voter registration and voting process, and the counting of votes, inspection of polling booths, voting information and vote records.
“Members of our delegation were present and watched with other official observers the sealing of ballot boxes at the polling stations”
(Mark Bazalev, Observer)
We were given the opportunity to report any voter irregularity.
Our delegates were given individual copies of the 52 page Electoral Code of the Republic of Belarus which we studied and considered. We consider that the Belarus Electoral Code document was complete, clear and a good election code that meets present international standards.
After the voting was finished we as a delegation and individually were given the opportunity to publicly in the media and otherwise to express our opinions about the process of voting and about the holding of the election. We were also encouraged to comment on our opinion on the legislation itself.
Our Observations
“We were given all necessary support and logistical assistance to complete our observations.”
(Michael A. Markham, Observer)
The delegation was provided with all information on the protocols of constituency, district and city voting procedures in Minsk and the “Logoysk District” outside Minsk. Our members collectively and individually observed the electoral process both in Minsk and outside the city.
It was of interest to our delegation that President Lukashenko appeared on the 10 person ballot as an independent candidate, as were the majority of the candidates for President. The two parties “Belarus National Front” and the “United civil Party” were clearly identified with their candidates standing for those political parties.
Pre polling Minsk
The morning of the first observation was cold with a light snow falling on a snow cover ground of about 1 foot deep, but not enough to stop people from voting.
We visited 4 election polling stations on two pre election days Friday and Saturday. One inspection was at the Agrarian University, the second at the College. The advanced voter turnout at the hour we observed would be described as “a light turnout”. We observed some very small ballot boxes that were being prepared for what we were told was for delivery to hospital shut in voters.
“It is our opinion and observation from our physical presence at advanced pre polling precincts, that the issue of ballots, running of voting, and adherence to the procedure established by the Electoral Code of Belarus was followed correctly”
Election Day
The delegation travelled to the city of Logoysk, about 60 km from Minsk to observe 2 polling stations. At one of the station the observers watched exit poll individuals from other independent organizations.
Because of the geographical distance we were only able to visit two polling stations. We concluded that the technical organization of the elections process was done properly and within the election law. At both polling stations we noted local observers and representatives from different organizations; including the Women’s League, Communist Party, Youth organization and local Union representatives.
While outside Minsk we used the opportunity to visit Khatyn’ memorial, dedicated to the village which was burned by Nazis during WW2 from which only one blacksmith was spared from death. The memorial bells of Khatyn’ reminded us of the tragic times the Belarusian people went through and the present Belarus Government’s commitment to honoring the human right of life.
Our observer Mr. Markham at the election centre reported that the western press was well represented and had extensive opportunity to interview and report on what they saw. The press was provided substantial facilities including telephone, FAX and internet. Private meeting rooms and staff for use of the media in publishing the election process were made available.
The members and the staff of the Electoral Commission were present and available at the media centre and Mr. Markham had an opportunity to speak directly with Mr. Lozovik, the Secretary of the Commission.
Follow-up
Each of the independent observers on the Spiritual Diplomacy team was given the opportunity to meet with the press and mass media after the official vote count and to present their observations.
The Election Commission leadership staff met Mr. Markham and made a commitment that they would provide a press conference interview room that was used by the other international observers. The Spiritual Diplomacy Delegation was traveling late the evening of the election and was tired so the head of the delegation Dr. Margolis declined the opportunity to hold a press conference at the official media centre.
Mr. Markham spoke to a professional polling organization at the election centre to confirm if their exit polling indicated consistency with the official declared results. The polling group leader (name available on request) stated to Mr. Markham that the results were consistent, especially in Minsk and a little less in the countryside. Mr. Markham commented that allowing of poll data was a new development in the election process and was apparently introduced from previous election observer recommendations.
The delegation observed and experienced different situations regarding the political rally and mass demonstrations that occurred during and at the end of the vote count.
From a purely technical point of view the delegation saw “political rallies and demonstrations that were peaceful and the authorities allowed those individuals to express their collective views during and prior to the vote.”
“The Election Commission reviews its definitions, and approach between short term observers and long term observers, and further defines and control what constitutes political comment as opposed to scientific observation of the electoral process by sanctioned observers”
We wish the people of Belarus the best of providence in their transition to responsible democracy.
Observing the political process in Belarus has made us optimistic about the future of Belarus. We believe the people and the leaders of Belarus have all the right skills to develop their own independent path forward into a great and bright future.
Appendix with Photographs
Arrivals,
Documentation
Pre Polling and voting
Checking the voter registration lists Candidate information at poll Sealed ballot box Official temporary sealing
Adminstrative and voter procedures Identification of precinctws Directions to the vote Observer registration
Elections,
Dr. Margoluis observing Mark Bazalev at polling place Inside the polling booth
Follow-up
TV interviews Mr. Bazalev Election Commission meetings
CIS Observers press conference Mr. Markham on TV Press questions to observers
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Spiritual Diplomacy Analysis Brief
Monday, January 03, 2011
Dealing with Political and Mass Demonstrations
“The Americans especially wish to create in the new emerging democracies the firm commitment to right of assembly and demonstrations for political grievance; it’s in the American Constitution along with a free press to ensure political debate on individual rights”
By Michael A Markham
One of the most divisive issues we encounter in Spiritual Diplomacy between nations of the East and West is the issue of “freedom of assembly for political purposes”.
Most of the time these issues are surrounded by the ideological positions of Western political and human rights groups dealing with the right of individual freedom to gather in small or large groups for the purpose of bringing political and social changes to governments.
The American (Article 1 of US Constitution) and European (English with Magna Carta of 1215) positions of using demonstrations or right of assembly to influence or change government policy of other nations are a matter of fact. The right of assembly and mass demonstration of political grievance is enshrined in the American Constitution. That is why the Americans are so committed to imposing that right on the newly emerging democracies. That is why they support and encourage those demonstrations inside other countries.
To understand the reluctance of non Western Democratic Governments to allowing mass protests, one must realize that in the European past history, revolutionary forces have used mass demonstrations to circumvent the political systems, democratic or otherwise, and to seize control of the government civil service and the military.
The Europeans in particular have a violent history of revolution which has been started and executed by mass movements of people taking over the streets and institutions of governments. There are too many examples to present here (see appendix) but it is safe to say Europeans have a historical memory of the use and dangers of mass demonstrations.
For the West it is not an issue to allow the demonstrations but how the demonstrations are handled as long as it’s peaceful.
For the Eastern Governments they would just as well have no mass rallies or demonstrations except those that are permitted and allowed by the state. Eastern governments see mass demonstrations as disrespectful to the government and an insult to their leadership.
The Americans and Europeans know about using and presently use mass demonstrations and public rallies for partisan political purposes. The recent “Tea party” movement inside the US is an example of how political change is influenced by organized and politically directed mass demonstrations.
Demonstrations and Counter Demonstrations are used by political party operatives to win elections and gain power. The purpose of the demonstrations is secondary or only an excuse for the process of partisan political victory, not to sincerely address the grievance.
The American and European attitude appears to allow any demonstration, just control it so it doesn’t become violent; and if it becomes violent, deny any political connections. “Peaceful” is the litmus test for right of assembly for the Americans, it does not matter if it’s a small group of protestors or millions of protestors, as long as they are peaceful.
The Western style of Democracy sees the demonstrations as legitimate means like a free press and political parties to allow groups to change the position of voters before they enter the polling booth to cast their vote.
The Eastern governments see the legitimacy of a cast vote for their administration as a validation of their leadership and do not see demonstrations as a means of changing the political establishment.
The issue for emerging democracy and its reformers is if the present governmental institutions will tolerate or allow non elected or appointed groups influence its established political procedures.
The critics of mass demonstrations ask “Where is the policy for government formed; in the street or in Parliament.
The Eastern emerging democratic reform and present institutions must address those issues of who, how, and what process develops the policy of an independent nation. Belarus and Ukraine are good examples of this unresolved ideological problem.
One of the international diplomatic issues for a country is that there are considerable international political risks for allowing mass demonstrations; especially if they are led by labour movements that are not under the direction of the government.
Mass strikes and their attendant mass marches through the streets give the appearance of economic instability, which becomes an issue for emerging economic models designed to attract foreign capital to fund economic expansion. When countries are dependent on foreign capital rather than self-sustaining demonstrations can have significant economic damage and become national security issues.
In our previous analysis of “The New World Order” we pointed out that the New World Order uses and direct international and global regulatory institutions to implement their Global Policy. The EU, and the Americans including NATO use the United Nations to implement Global regulations on all the nations of the world. These institutions will follow the global rules for demonstrations and mass political rally. The New World Order will only allow mass demonstrations that are under their criteria and control.
How to control mass demonstrations in an acceptable manner for the Western Democracies will be a major element in improving relations with the Eastern Governments. If Belarus sanctions mass rallies protesting the European interference in their political process will the world’s free press give those demonstration any credibility? We think not, unless the Belarus Government can show to the international press that the people in the demonstrations believe, of their own free will ,that they have grievance against the western interference.
There is an important issue regarding the idea that the free press is sort of a right that’s an extension of freedom to assemble to petition grievance to the Government. This idea will be further discussed in a separate analysis paper on “Spiritual Diplomacy position on the Media”.
Spiritual Diplomacy Recommendations
• Spiritual Diplomacy regards peace as a proactive act of love and more than an absence of violence or war.
• Spiritual Diplomacy regards government authority as legitimate to keep order and peace within a society.
• Spiritual Diplomacy sensitizes government leaders to the universal spiritual desires of people inside and outside the culture.
If individuals and groups are unhappy and have legitimate grievances which are not being dealt with by governmental apparatus in authority, then Spiritual Diplomacy will support and advocate with government leaders to enter dialogue with those in society and the culture that claim a grievance.
If the unhappy group or culture is unable to represent themselves, then, The World Council of Spiritual Diplomacy will by treaty agree to represent those disenfranchised groups. Many times the mass demonstration is a way of getting attention and some sort of recognition and even acceptance.
The roll of Spiritual Diplomacy is to provide a bridge for communicating in a peaceful, considered and spiritual manner. When it comes to mass demonstrations we wish to assist the parties in finding ways discovering the answers to their conflicts and desires before the risk to either side ends with mass protest out of control, where people become violent and hurt emotionally and physically.
Spiritual Diplomacy is there to show all of the parties the new road to peace (see the Spiritual Diplomacy report on steps to peace and reconciliation) and conflict resolution through love.
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“The Islamic Conflict and the New World Order”
by Michael A Markham
An internal analysis brief for the Council Members of Spiritual Diplomacy October 28, 2010
- Shia (Iran) vs Sunni (Saudi)
- Arab vs Persian
- House of Saud & Taliban vs Hezbollah & Al-Qaeda
- Islam vs West
Spiritual Diplomacy has an important role to play in the spiritual understanding the present civil war between the Sunni and Shia sects of Islam and their relationship to the agenda of the New World Order.
There is a religious, physical and political civil war between Sunni and Shia going on within global Islam.
It is claimed that there are over 1.3 billion Moslems and that about 200 million (15%) are Shia and the rest are Sunni. However in the Middle East Shia make up 60% of the Moslem population. They are presently engaging in a low level civil war. To understand this in a Western context the battle between Shia and Sunni in Islam is similar to the battle that went on in Europe for hundreds of years between the Catholics and Protestants. Some have called it the battle for Islam’s soul! *
We have seen in our last analysis of the New World Order and the Universal Church that conflict at the fundamental level is about tribal, ethnic and cultural identity and how faith can trump those divisive cultural elements.
The fundamental conflict and war between the Shia and Sunni is theological at its foundation tribal and ethnic in its manifestation. Similarly to the wars between Catholics and Protestants the opposition where was branded as heretics, to the orthodox Sunni the Shia religious services and worship were heretical and not the proper practice of Islam. So the heresy is about which group actually represents and has the ordained right to govern and be leader as Mohamed’s legacy.
Muhammad was born in Mecca 570 AD and died around that same area on June 6, 632 AD. The disputes and origin of Shia and Sunni conflict came from the struggle for succession and dominance of the spiritual and physical control of the new religion. Even today like in the past the sermons and words of Muhammad are translated differently by Sunni and Shia theologians.
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The Sunni claim the governmental right of succession through the “council of elders” who would choose the leader as Muhammad’s successor where the Shia claimed the authority and right of succession through the family, Ali being the cousin and son in law of Muhammad.
The Sunni claim the Islamic community according to the Profit could not agree to error. The Sunni don’t believe the leader needs to be a direct descendant of Mohammad or exhibit exceptional spiritual gifts, qualities or power; this is directly opposite to the Shia leadership like Ayatollah Khomeini who believed his connection to the 12th Imam and the return of the Messiah validates his leadership.
Presently in this century the civil war is being fought in the political and theological front between the traditional political and theological leadership of the Sunni Royal family of the House of Saud and the traditional minority Shias whose spiritual leader is Ali the Prophet’s cousin and Mohamed’s chosen successor.
The present dominate Sunni and exclusive Arab leadership and authority of Islam is being eroded and challenged by the rise of Iran’s political and theological messianic minority Shia.
The Shia claims their authority from Ali who Wikipedia says: “Ali is the executor of Gods will. They believe that the Prophet possessed special spiritual gifts and was free from sin. They believe that Ali and his decedents as successor was also endued with those spiritual and prophetic gifts. was the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and ruled over the Islamic Caliphate from 656 to 661.
Sunni Muslims consider Ali the fourth and final of the Rashidun (rightly guided Caliphs), while Shi'a Muslims regard Ali as the first Imam and consider him and his descendants the rightful successors to Muhammad, all of which are members of the Ahl al-Bayt, the household of Muhammad.
This disagreement split the Uma (Muslim community) into the Sunni and Shi'a branches.[1] Most records do indicate that during Muhammad's time, Ali was the only person born in the Kaibab sanctuary in Mecca, the holiest place in Islam.[5] His father was Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib and his mother was Fatima bint Asad,[1] but he was raised in the household of Muhammad, who himself was raised by Abu Talib, Muhammad's uncle. When Muhammad reported receiving a divine revelation, Ali was the first male to accept his message, dedicating his life to the cause of Islam
“ The Sunni were and are focused on authority of government to provide stability and order to protect the Muslim community. The Saudi Royal family was and is there to protect Islam’s interests and privilege rather than manifest the religion’s spiritual goals.
Theologically the Sunni preoccupation with the nature of God and the rational understanding of Gods will reflected in the Saudi implementation and obedience to Shira law.
In western terms Sunni are Conservative where the Shia is Radical. The Shia claim all inherited authority from Ali and his marriage to Fatima Muhammad’s daughter so Ali was the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and ruled over the Islamic Caliphate from 656 to 661.
Apparently the Sunni Muslims consider Ali the fourth and final of the Caliphs, while Shi'a Muslims regard and consider Ali as the first Imam and consider him and his descendants the rightful successors to Muhammad, as members of Muhammad’s family and household. This disagreement split the Ummah, (defined as the Muslim community) into the Sunni and Shi'a branches.
The major historical split in Islam was the slaughter of Karbala in (61 Islamic calendar) 680 CE of Ali’s son Husayn and 72 members of his family and followers. This slaughter or massacre was in response to Ali's revolt against the Arab character of Umayyad caliphate in Damascus and Baghdad. Husayn's sister Zaynab became a symbol of woman’s power in Islam and had inspired with Fatima a Mosque in Cairo as well as in other Shia pilgrim locations.
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The martyr of the Prophets grandson by other Muslims is a fundamental pillar of the Shia martyrs.
When the Shia suicide bombers attach a Saudi target they have in their collective memory and teaching the spirit of revenge for the slaughter of their prophet’s family.
The Shia believes that martyrdom is the highest example of faith. It’s like the Catholic view of Martyrs having an advantage getting into heaven.
The Shia women and men wear black and hold their hands at their side when they pray. The Shia clerics wear a black turban. The Shia use pictures and symbolism and marches more than Sunni and you see the Shia with the black showing sorrow for Ali’s death, red for his martyrdom, and green for his inheritance.
The Saudi Sunni look at all the visual representations as heresy. The Sunni don’t look to martyrs entry into paradise just yet they are more concerned with the worldly pleasures that wealth affords their position. They like domination in the present world order and would see themselves as leaders of an Islamic New World Order run from Mecca under Shira law.
In many ways the Shia and their rituals are similar to the Catholic even the Islamic atonement and worship of the bones of the Martyrs, especially in South Asia. An added complication to the puritanical spiritual mix is that the Sunni have a sect called Wahhabi (Saudi) and the opposing sect of Shia called Sufism a kind of spiritual puritanism.
A Moslem friend of mine in Bermuda explained that the Wahhabi was established more as ideological schools and theology centers where the House of Saud was the political arm; but they both acted in sync. Sometimes they come together to fight a common enemy like in Afghanistan. The Taliban were and are a group of Islamic puritans (against modernism).
Sufism is important because of its spiritual approach to the purity and unity of God and Mohammad’s encompassing of all believers in one God. The Sufi are purveyors of Muslim cultural innovations and spiritual values. Many Sufi are found in Africa and in Asia as well as globally.
Spiritual Diplomacy and Spiritual insight into Islam In Western Christian religious history we see the changing manifestation of the Holy Spirit. We see how the move of the Spirit reforms and recreates individuals, churches, groups and even nation states.
The struggle of religious reformation in the west is also a history of who speaks for God. In Islam that substitute spirit is manifest in the Shia piety and that spirit which Islam is defined.
The Sunni have this idea of “communal consensus” very much like the communal congregations of Protestants who see themselves as the interpreters of the Gospel not an appointed priestly leadership by a Pope. The Shia would be spiritually more inclined to the Catholic model in the west. The Catholic Pope and his leadership are inflatable in proclaiming the voice and instruction of God. The Shia also believes the Prophet and his descendants are the legitimate voice and instruction of God. In Christian thought and theology the message is the Gospel but some Churches are about the messenger Christ as a person more than the interpreted message relayed through the traditional churches.
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Vali Nasr the author of a highly recommended book called “The Shia Revival” states it this way: “Shias believe that the Quran containes truths that come from the other world. Only the Profit and Imams, who like Muhammad are blessed with special knowledge concerning the things of God, can interpret those truths”*
The Sunni leadership always had a worry about the Shia claim of the bloodline of the Prophet, claiming political and spiritual leadership, along with freedom from sin; that’s why they feared Ailota Khomeini.
Even today the Sunni jurists reject the Shia right to marry people or even lead prayers. Some Sunni leaders do not even acknowledge them as Muslims. In Christian terms it would be like the family of Jesus from his mother Mary would be the true leaders of the Christian faith and that they would be without sin, and the Church rejecting them as anti-Christian.
The Messiah and the 12th Imam
But what is most important to the spiritual understanding in Islam today and for us in Spiritual Diplomacy is the part of Islam’s (Shia Islam in particular) understanding of the second coming of Jesus the Messiah!
Iran and its leaders are the key people Spiritual Diplomacy has a message which can be understood.
The Shia leaderships believe Jesus is a Prophet and the Mahdi and Jesus will be working together at the second coming.
Iran is Persian and not Arab. Khomeini and his followers were seen a direct threat to the Saudi Royal Family. Iran then and now is perceived as a direct physical and spiritual threat to the Sunni leadership In Saudi Arabia.
How may you ask has this to do with anything related to the return of Jesus as Messiah?
The leader of the Islamic revolution in Iran was Ailotala Khomeini who had been a student of philosophy and mysticism with particular expertise in the spiritual Islamic test of Sadras “Four Journeys” where a man searches for the truth in a four part journey leading to God.
He saw his Destiny in the nation of Iran and himself expressing the truth its mystical Shia theology. He saw himself as the vanguard of the 12th Imam. Khomeini believed God had sent Islam to be implemented by a council of guardians who carried the 12th Imams mandate to safeguard Islamic interest. He also believed he was the head of that guardianship. Khomeini believed he was to take the authority from the 12th Imam to Hasen and actively promote the return of the Messiah to make it happen and not just wait for the Mahdi return.
The revolution that Khomeini brought forth was the bring forth the return of the 12th Imam and all who opposed Khomeini opposed the12th Imam. Wikipedia says about the Mahdi and the 12th Imam, that: “Muhammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Mahdī (born c. July 29, 869; 15 Sha‘bān 255 AH) is a believed by Twelver Shī‘a Muslims to be the Māhdī, an ultimate savior of humankind and the final Imām of the Twelve Imams. Twelver Shī‘a believe that al-Māhdī was born in 869 and did not die but rather was hidden by God (this is referred to as the Occultation) and will later emerge with Jesus in order to fulfill their mission of bringing peace and justice to the world. He assumed the Imamate at 5 years of age. Sunnīs and other Shī‘ah schools do not consider ibn-al-Hasan to be the Mahdī , though the mainstream sect Twelvers do.”
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Here we see that the Shia believe that Jesus and the Mahdi will be returning to earth to bring peace and justice to the world.
We also see that the Shia believe the Mahdi did not die but was hidden by God to re-emerge later to work with Jesus.
One of the major methods of bringing the Mahdi was the martyr’s death (cult of martyrdom) program to get to heaven ahead of the line. Fighting and dying not for their country but for their faith and place in heaven.
Khomeini even had a special cult or messianic society dedicated to the 12th Imam called the Hojjatieh from which a number of the present leaders of Iran emerged notability the present President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinejad believes the 12th Imam is the true ruler of Iran and he and the government policy should be guided by the providing for his return. He even required his cabinet to sign a pledge of allegiance to the 12th Imam.
The Mahdi will be an infallible supernatural male decedent of the founder of Islam and is presently hidden or for all intents and purposes invisible in another dimension to be revealed at the Second Coming. There seems to be some sort of resurrection component to the reintroduction of a past hidden leader into the coming fight for justice which is joined with Jesus at the second coming.
The Occultation or what I call the emergence from being hidden, defines the Imai-Shi’ite movement from the time of Sixth Imam, to what is called the end of the lesser occultation of the Twelfth Imam.
Apparently what commentators say is, a picture emerges of a secret religious organisation with adherents all over the Islamic world, and that the organisation had to be secret because it was constantly subject to persecution from the different authorities.
The Shia in Iran are a major player in this scenario. For all the activities he controlled and being leader of Iran, Khomeini still wanted more. Like most leaders it’s about “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. It was said that Khomeini wanted to be the supreme leaders of all Islam, sort of a Global Spiritual Messiah. He wanted to take control of Mecca and Medina as their protector and ascend as Supreme Muslim leader of the World.
It seems to us that Khomeini underestimated the House of Saud and their organization to counter fundamentalism and defend Saudi interests. The strengthening of a Sunni Wahhabis network and huge investments of the Saudi economic and spiritual assets were focused to fight Khomeini; even to the extent of financing Sadam Hussein in his war against Iran, and financing the Taliban and Sunni extremism which massacred thousands of Shia.
The spiritual conflict between the Shia and Sunni manifest outwardly in escalating the violence between the two groups across the Middle East and in all parts of the globe.
Islam and its conflict with the New World Order
The New World Order is based on a secular materialistic system exploiting a pseudo religious church structure.
The New World Order will primarily be motivated by secular political and military power and secondly spiritual power.
That is why we believe the Islamic countries will continue to develop and acquire significant military weapons. Until the New World Order can establish a One World leader with supranational and alien power exercises through the Universal Church, they will continue to play the same worldly power game as all the others nations That power game today is who possesses the biggest nuclear weapons!
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We believe the most urgent issue for the New World Order and its conflict with Islam is the issue of Nuclear weapons held by Islamic countries, and how to control or contain the deployment of those weapons.
Pakistan has an “Islamic bomb” India has a “Hindu bomb”. Iran full of Shia wants its own nuclear bomb so the Saudis (Sunni) will need to have a bomb just to be seen as an equal power with the rest. Saudi Arabia can’t disclose its operative nuclear long range missiles because of disclosing its relationship with the Americans, but they want the secular power that goes with the public awareness they have a nuclear bomb.
The world watched Sadam Hussein launch missiles with chemical and biological capability on both Iran and Israel. If he had developed nuclear missiles he would have launched them against his enemies even if they were Sunni or Shia let alone Jewish.
The New World Order takes a secular approach in its Diplomatic relations with Islamic nations which will only lead to conflict with those Nations.
The present Sunni oligarchy has been educated in the secular schools and Universities of the west. That education has given the Sunni leadership an experience in dealing with the Europeans and Americans. Unfortunately it has also lead to some of the Sunni leadership living a dual life style; western lifestyle while away from home, conservative Islamic lifestyle when at home. That dual social and cultural behavior becomes psychologically schizophrenic and ultimately dysfunctional.
The dysfunctional behavior of the Sunni leadership will continue to put them in conflict and misunderstanding with the technocrats guiding the New World Order.
If the New World Order gives the Sunni leadership a seat at the table where the global decisions are made there could be some sort of accommodation with the Islamic world, but that would be at risk from any Shia leadership challenge.
The Spiritual Diplomacy approach to Islam and the West One of the largest challenges to Spiritual diplomacy in its outreach to the Islamic world. Islamic diplomacy is in its nature both western and Islamic at the same time because of the secular nature of the United Nations and the Global government structures.
Sunni and Shia groups have consistently reflected their persistent inability and unwillingness to negotiate over power and religious issues. Secular diplomacy in the West is driven by military conflict and violent response to Islamic fundamentalism. Spiritual Diplomacy communications with Islam is based on the love of God as exemplified in Christ which seems at first glance to be incompatible with the global reality. The spiritual element of Spiritual Diplomacy can bridge that gap.
Because Western diplomacy is based on secular models not spiritual or religious there is a lack of understanding in the policy.
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Not only do Western people have problems understanding who is a Muslim it is the same for other Muslims. Even Sunni fundamentalists don’t believe that Shias are Moslem!
The major Islamic power is of the Sunni conservative sect. Our response needs to consider the nature of that power. But what the Islamic countries have done is look to secular diplomacy and power politics of military weapons to pursue their agenda. Pakistan has the Islamic bomb which gives them secular power. If the House of Saud wants predominance it will need to admit to their own nuclear bombs they already have.
Spiritual Diplomacy must exhibit a new type of Diplomatic policy that the other nations can recognize and accept.
The old diplomatic treaties and conventions which were all based on nation states is not meeting people and national needs where Spiritual Diplomacy looks to other ethnic and cultural groups and nontraditional representation that need spiritual access between each other.
Traditional diplomacy does not address the emotional, religious and spiritual needs of the people groups on earth. Spiritual Diplomacy can bridge the secular west establishments to the religious Islamic institutions by decoupling traditional diplomacy from its military and financial extortion tendencies and reciprocity.
Spiritual Diplomacy can address and engage the Islamic leadership with a Western positive understanding of Mohammad’s teaching and common views of our common Abrahamic tradition.
It is well recognized in diplomatic and government circles that the nuclear issue in the Middle East it the most critical issue to be resolved; even before the Israel and Palestinian settlement.
Presently the world and the Middle East is at particular risk for a nuclear exchange. The benefit of such a nuclear exchange by an Islamic participant cannot have a positive outcome for any of the Islamic peoples in the region.
Even assuming the extremist view that death and going to heaven is better than life, the long term acceptance of Islam as a viable alternative to western culture and religion will be destroyed along with everything else in the explosion.
In our view peace through spiritual negotiations is a more attractive to Islamic leadership. We do not believe a nuclear launch or bomb will increase the return of the Mahdi and Messiah. We believe the Islamic scholars will confirm our view that a positive peace initiate will be more likely acceptable to Mohammad and the 12 Amman.
We in Spiritual Diplomacy also have a number of spiritual, prophecy and inspirational alternatives to move peace negotiations forward. Our methods may be unconventional because they are alternatives to traditional diplomatic initiatives.
The main issue for our team is how we can present our unconventional diplomatic methods in a manner that the secular traditional diplomatic services will accept, while not being seen to be competitive.
Our first diplomatic approach to the Islamic leadership is to identify how we can show our love to them.
What did Mohammad love and how did he express his love. If the Prophet loved pious fasting and prayer we need to express and assist that positive attribute of their spiritual leader. We need to understand the Shia and Sunni concept of “Truth” which is a fundamental tenant of Islam and focus on the path of truth and in particular that pursuit of truth in consistency and patience.
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Our Islamic outreach must revisit the promises of God to Ishmael in Genesis 16 & 17 and remember that Ishmael was only 13 when and his family were circumcised as God had instructed.
The Islamic leaders we meet are human with human frailties. In a previous analysis on the authority of God we saw that even Angels followed instructions and operated under Gods mandate and authority.
We should be looking to common authority in the world. We also need to recognize that God is presently accomplishing a quiet spiritual awakening in visions and apparitions of Jesus throughout the Islamic nations.
We in Spiritual Diplomacy must seek Gods face to confirm the work he will bring forth under his authority so that we may remain in his “rest” before proceeding with our Islamic outreach.
To comprehend what we in Spiritual Diplomacy must do we must ask ourselves before God some searching questions such as: 1. What would we do if the Islamic leadership approached us to initiate communications? 2. What would we be prepared to do for them? 3. Are we prepared to assist them in things they can’t do for themselves?
It is our understanding that the most useful application of our time is interaction with Islamic religious leaders and scholars. It is in this area along with our traditional methods that Spiritual Diplomacy may assist in bringing peace to the conflicts in the Middle East.
ORGANIZATIONAL CONCLUSIONS
The Islamic world will find its self in conflict with the New World Order and Spiritual Diplomacy may be able to be a spiritual bridge between East and West.
A bridge which is independent of the secular, political and religious obstacles that stands in the way of traditional peace movements.
Spiritual Diplomacy must seek new divine direction in its outreach to the Islamic world.
Spiritual Diplomacy needs to develop a study of Islam and Mohammad as well as encouraging some of our Council Members to reach out to those Christians who have information and experience in dealing with the Islamic world.
There are new and unearthed methods and information which will assist Spiritual Diplomacy in its new mission.
Spiritual Diplomacy stands for God’s Love, Tolerance and Peace. As our senior elder and leader Michael Margolis has stated repeatedly, Spiritual Diplomacy is man’s last hope for peace in the world, and that “Spiritual Diplomacy is the new road to World peace”
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Michael A Markham Esq. Council Member
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“Spiritual Diplomacy and the New World Order”
By Michael A. Markham
“Spiritual Diplomacy and the New World Order”
Introduction Thursday, September 09, 2010
We have been asked if the New World Order will replace the old traditional world religions to create a new form of society and crate the “”Universal Church”.
We in Spiritual Diplomacy maintain that even during this revolutionary time of change in the 21st century the traditional religious organizations are not just superfluous to a historical context of the present day nation states; but in fact are critical to understand the development of modern society and nations.
We believe that without a “spiritual context” governments cannot understand world history or national historical significance.
The global cyclical movements of modern nation states are only a part of the larger progressive purposeful direction of God.
We and our supporters are faced with a complex world of global relationships interfacing with numerous religious movements. The failures and successes of nation states need to be judged spiritually as well as politically, economically and socially.
The historical view of a universal history somehow enlightening the mind and illuminating the soul can’t be accurately interpreted without having a spiritual context. Historically the Church does not exist to serve the State but the State was established to serve God. It is only in recent times that the secular and atheistic argument against the separation of church and state has changed the perception of the role of government.
The early founders of America did not want to eliminate religion from culture and society but to ensure that one religious sect or church (especially the Catholic Pope) would not determine who would be its president.
Spiritual Diplomacy is a movement which assists national leaders to find solutions to the religious riddles of modern civilizations and nation states. It is a movement which allows leaders to see the church as transcending world history through the unity of God, a view that is rooted in a historical reality in the traditional religions of Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism.
We will explore the idea of tribalism and cultural evolution as spiritual developments in global development under a proposed one world government. The globalist New World Order with its “Universal Church” and one world leader will be examined and explored in our subsequent parts of this report.
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Spiritual Diplomacy and the New World Order Part I Friday, October 29, 2010
“With a strong Spiritual Diplomacy movement you have a restraint against totalitarian ideology”
Preface
First I must clarify what I mean when I use the phrase “The New World Order”, and how we in the Spiritual Diplomacy movement use that term.
We in Spiritual Diplomacy are particularly focused on the underlying and generally unseen spiritual elements in the establishment of a Global and One World Government.
Spiritual Diplomacy sees “The New World Order” as a proposed political and governmental structure motivated by unseen and conflicted spiritual forces. Spiritual Diplomacy believes in a history that is progressing to a specific direction and conclusion as compared to those inside the New World Order who see history as moving to the destruction of the human race and extinction of the human species without the rescue of a Global Government.
Spiritual Diplomacy sees spiritual redemption within the human culture and political process. We do not necessarily see man alone as the determination of the world’s destiny. The New World Order however sees man as a material and collective body overcoming his primitive evolutionary status to establish a “New World Order”.
We have used the term in a modern sense taken from the humanist, socialist, collectivist science fiction and political writer, H. G. Wells’, book by the same title “The New World Order” and his friend Huxley and his book the “Brave New World”.
Modern proponent of the New World Order H.G. Wells had postulated and proposed a global society and culture emerging from a humanist collective controlled and directed by an elite New World Order. That “New World Order” would arise from the conflict between individual rights leading to a “world social democracy” where the masses interest will be represented through regulation. That regulation would “finally eliminate the oppression of the rich and their credit money institutions and banking agents”.
This whole issue of what is the nature of money and who will determine the social activity and value of what money represents will be left to the elite in “New World Order”. Wells and his friends had little respect for gold as money or a store of value. For them gold was useful for art and crafts! In Spiritual Diplomacy we believe the silver and gold belongs to the Lord and that we as people are custodians.
Part of the “New World Order” was to redistribute not only the global wealth but also the global population. Even back then Wells saw the socialist model as a possible model to solve the “housing shortage in nearly every region of the world”. Wells and his friends wanted to have a global media and shame and blame propaganda program to improve housing conditions for the world’s poor.
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The driving ideological thrust of the New World Order was to bring about the making and creating of “World Peace”.
They needed to eliminate national states and private property contained within those Sovereign Nations and political systems to bring about what they say would be a global community without borders. "Armament should be an illegality everywhere, and some sort of international force should patrol a treaty-bound world. Partial armament is one of those absurdities dear to moderate-minded 'reasonable' men. Armament itself is making war. Making a gun, pointing a gun, and firing it are all acts of the same order. It should be illegal to construct anywhere upon earth any mechanism for the specific purpose of killing men. When you see a gun it is reasonable to ask: 'whom is that intended to kill?'" H.G. Wells the New World Order 1939
They saw the fundamental problem of the world and civilization as “It is the system of nationalist individualism and un-coordinated enterprise that is the world’s disease and it is the whole system that has to go”. We see the humanist scientific and technological development of nuclear weapons that are designed to destroy the very cultures they represent as the manifestation of the lack of spiritual and moral criteria in the policy of weapon deployment.
The “New World Order” is conflicted over who will control these new weapons of mass destruction. In Spiritual Diplomacy we see the world’s wealth in a custodial sense and that men and governments have responsibility for the spiritual development of mankind not for unjust personal enrichment.
Super Cultures in Collision
Some historical observers have postulated that in order to save the planet from destroying its self, the establishment of the “New World Order” will emerge from a collision of the three major super cultures represented by ; Western Civilization (European/American) , Asian Culture and Global Islam. The thinking is if a Super Culture is willing to physically and militarily destroy its cultural enemy it will use all resources it has, even nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, to gain its own cultural superiority.
It follows then that In order to prevent the destruction of the world the “New Global World Order” will somehow restore a balance of power between these warring cultural superpowers.
Even the Marxist, Capitalist and Socialist models of culture see what they understand as evolution of culture and society through class warfare; but because their materialistic and humanistic approach they lack the spiritual factors that we believe drive and motivate movements of mass culture change. "The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?" H.G. Wells the New World Order 1939
Super Cultures in conflict still have universal common economic and social elements that need to be addressed but they have local solutions to those problems." Directly we grasp this not very obscure truth that there can be, and are, different sorts of money dependent on the economic usages or system in operation, which are not really interchangeable, then it becomes plain that a collectivist world order, whose fundamental law is such a Declaration of Rights as we have sketched, will have to carry on its main, its primary operations at least with a new world money, a specially contrived money, differing in its nature from any sort of money conventions that have hitherto served human needs. It will be issued against the total purchasable output of the community in return for the workers' services to the community." H.G. Wells the New World Order 1939
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As we said before, after the First and Second World Wars the idea of some sort of world order arising from a multi-cultural community of equals was the creation of the liberal western intellectuals.
This new order of institutional equality was manifest in the League of Nations and the establishment of the United Nations. The tools of implementing the “New World Order” are the operation and control of the global regulators. Presently we see the United Nations and the OECD and IMF along with other international institutions; implementing specific economic orders and sanctions on groups and states that refuse to comply with the global agenda. "To keep global resource use within prudent limits while the poor raise their living standards, affluent societies need to consume less. Population, consumption, technology, development, and the environment are linked in complex relationships that bear closely on human welfare in the global neighborhood. Their effective and equitable management calls for a systemic, long-term, global approach guided by the principle of sustainable development, which has been the central lesson from the mounting ecological dangers of recent times. Its universal application is a priority among the tasks of global governance." United Nations Our Global Neighborhood 1995
There has been a remarkable explosion of international and transnational regulatory civil servants and bureaucratic experts (paid by the taxpayers) to design and implement the global agenda.
We believe that these global institutions, which many are unseen and secret, are not acting under the authority of their own political governments but are actually guided by the unseen forces that many call the “New World Order”. Because these super international and transnational groups are confidential, sometimes secret and work together through formal and informal alliances and treaties; they are perceived to be involved with a conspiracy against nation states and individuals within those states.
It was Huxley and H.G. Wells and their friends who were the intellectual group that promoted and formulated the ideological ideas for the “New World Order” "A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers.... The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth." Aldous Huxley Brave New World foreword to 1946 edition
These unseen institutions with have real people, real buildings and real power originated from the European super culture that through its colonial past has internationalized its culture.
The fusion of culture if not marked by a dominant culture results in an incomprehensible culture. When you look at modern European culture and see the Protestant failure of a continual European Reformation and revival you have left only the Catholic Church as the central continuity of culture. A “New World Order” without an ideological atheistic communist system is now faced with a competitive Islamic world order that will emerge and wants to dominate over this “New World Order” Unfortunately it has been observed that if you remove the spiritual ideals from modern liberalism you get a cruel totalitarian state.
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We in Spiritual Diplomacy believe that with a strong Spiritual Diplomacy movement the world has a restraint against totalitarian ideology.
We are working through many of the issues that surround the political structures that govern nation states and the global economy but we disagree with the proposition and political and dictatorial structure that Orwell was proposing in his writings such as: The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness; only power, pure power....Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.... If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." O'Brien to Winston George Orwell 1984 1949
But the vanguard “New World Order” group that Wells, Huxley and Orwell were promoting has even extended to US Presidents as recent at George Bush and President Obama as well as other world leaders. "Ultimately, our objective is to welcome the Soviet Union back into the world order. Perhaps the world order of the future will truly be a family of nations." President George Bush Texas A&M University 1989
"We are moving toward a new world order, the world of communism. We shall never turn off that road." Mikhail Gorbachev 1987
"We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace." Fidel Castro United Nations 1979
So as we can see the global policy makers across the world are looking for an international body to secure the future of mankind.
Where is this relinquishment of national Sovereign states taking us? How willing will the large cultural groups within and outside the traditional Nations respond to their threatened loss of cultural and religious identity. That’s what we will address in Part II when we will explore the rise of a “Universal Church” to give the moral and spiritual credibility to a “New World Order” which has only a failed humanism for a moral imperative.
It is part two we will also see the emerging roll of a spiritual One World Leader who will ride into the 21st Century on the back of a “Universal Church” End of Part I
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“Spiritual Diplomacy and the New World Order” Part II
“Universal Church”
"Great stages of world culture are linked with changes in man’s vision of reality” (Christopher Dawson)
010/29/2010 7:05:34 AM Sunday
In our previous introduction we were asked if the New World Order will replace the old traditional world religions to create a new form of society creating a “”Universal Church”.
In order to answer this question we must first deal with the cultural developments of nation states and how that relates to the New World Order.
The fundamental underpinning of any important long term civilization is its collective and spiritual life being passed on educating the next generation to its fundamental cultural values. The primary social unit will respond to local changes by altering their view of life, the tribal groups and classes within the larger society. This is how cultural groups evolve into national governments.
A new emerging Global Government will need a spiritual ideology base and new vision of reality to support a New World Order. The new global culture will need a new inter faith religion which is generally referred to as the “Universal Church” in the New Age.
Culture & Government
The church in the west and religious tribal village groups with their priesthood has provided leadership and the ruling class with a perceived mandate of authority. The tribe, the village, the kinship groups, the family were and are fundamental to the political and governing relationships of a society.
Historically the ancient trails, roads and commercial highways brought social and economic change to the peoples living near those roads. It’s the same in the new “information highway” which is also bringing social, cultural and economic change today. In Spiritual Diplomacy we act as a bridge between cultures and governments. Where there are vast areas of social separation, it reminds us that local roots and community are the pillars of society. Where a foreign culture or power occupies a local culture it must be aware that if it doesn’t have a local organic relation to daily life with the people in its control, it will become dependent on the military and police rather than on a village or tribal consensus to govern. The Americans have realize this by their occupation military and political policy of “winning the hearts and minds” of the local population.
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The occupation of tribal and cultural groups by foreign governments is one of the primary areas that Spiritual Diplomacy is addressing. We use spiritual and physical programs (such as tree planting) in co-operation of governments and wealthy individuals to meet the tribal people’s needs.
The spiritual needs of the tribe, the village and culture manifests as religious and church groups. In the “New World Order” a Global Government needs to control the church and religious organizations, thus the reason they will support and participate in a “Universal Church”.
In order to achieve their global vision of world peace without the appearance of naked force they must have a religious inter faith organization which expresses order in the world adhering to the new world church.
In Western history and in particular modern western colonial history, we see a cultural legacy of imperialism. The Atlantic slave trade has left tens of millions of the black race stranded in cultural isolation from their African roots. We see the black African Diaspora as a major unresolved global issue. The return of the kidnapped racial groups to their origins will require a leader. Slavery within the social order has always been a major issue in the establishment of “world peace” and the “Universal Church”.
A solution to end the slave legacy will be a major element for the New World Order to facilitate world peace. Will a black diaspora leader emerge as a priest representative?
The New World Order needs to occupy the spiritual and religious mind of the culture to exert control.
Within that framework they and their leader must be able to exhibit and demonstrate their connection with supernatural power, validating the call to order and obedience. For this they will need priesthood. Prophecy verses Priesthood The classical struggle among cultures is the conflicts between the religious movements such as Jews vs. Christians, Sunni verses Shia, Catholic verses Protestant, and Hindu verses Buddhist.
The conflict stems from who is in control; the traditional organization of the priests, or the unconventional voices of the prophets. All cultures and governments (even secular) must address the issue of God and how God interacts with the people he has created. From the foundation of Egyptian civilization in Africa over 6.000 years ago to the Chinese pre dynastic era in Asia; kings, princes, chiefs, elder’s prophecy all faced the issue of a supernatural or natural God. A God who represented past, present or future exercise of physical and spiritual authority over the society.
In Spiritual Diplomacy we understand the unspoken and unseen questions governments have about the nature of God and how they as government carry out justice, equity within their own societies. We know of many politicians trying to reflect their culture, defining new movements, reflecting style, leading by example but trapped in the institutional bureaucracy of the past. History and future history can be viewed as a result of moral decisions not just natural evolution; design verses process, interpretation rather than explanation, prophecy rather than theology, the supremacy and rule of the people and not of the law. (Law was made for the man not man for the law)
The Priest administers the law which is designed and conservative. The Prophet calls for a change in the system that’s revolutionary. Is man governed by his spiritual, moral and religious belief or is he guided by blind adherence to the rule of law he still needs to examine the spiritual basis for his decisions. Spiritual Diplomacy has answers to these questions of government.
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Modification of Culture
The New World Order seeks to modify human and social behavior into an infrastructure of the New World Order under a Universal Church. In order to modify and change the culture and society they need to modify global DNA (Genetics), the environment, (Global Warming) the economy (International Banking) and the human mind (Mass Psychology)
We all know that language is the purveyor of culture and in some insistences the protector of culture. Language grouping in culture is paramount in controlling governments; English, Latin, Greek, French and Russian were ruling languages. The governing elite mandate a specific ruling class which uses unique language and terminology to consolidate their control on the operational reins of government. The global elite supporters have even invented their own language, Esperanto.
It was designed to distinguish and centralize communications among the new global order. The new language allows consolidation of governance with distance from the decentralization of multi-cultural and multi tribal languages. But a new language is emerging more powerful even than Esperanto which has failed to meet its expectations. The new language is the language of the machine. English is associated with Western Culture, Chinese with Asia, and Arabic with the Middle East.
The New World Order is faced with the tribalism language being managed into a new global language of technology; the machine, binary code and a merger where the dominate communication is in code not spoken language. Google instantly translates written languages on the internet into universal computer code shown in your own local language! But it is the code behind the written letters that is revolutionary.
A new important area for Spiritual Diplomacy is studying this new language in the spiritual realm. Areas such as “bible code” and Old Testament concepts of numbers having value and letter attachments. We are not speaking here about the magic of numbers but the spiritual implications of the numbers and letters. Spiritual Diplomacy overcomes these language barriers with the language of love. For us the spirit of the language of love is the most driving force all. Acts of love are a demonstration of love not just in words but in action.
Spiritual elements in a global government
The ancient Egyptians and their government believed that their god Khoum breathed life into the clay that made man. The clay was the physical the “ka” was the spirit.
The issue for Government today is not so much of how they control the body but how they can control man’s spirit and even god’s spirit. Governments are looking for ways to manipulate man’s emotions and feelings.
In order to control people’s lives a repressive government must be able to manipulate and control the soul and spirit of the culture. It is interesting to consider that black music in America was called “soul music” because of the music’s emotional response and elicitation. The soul music of the black culture is an expression of a spiritual condition. The culture of a community, tribe or nation manifests these spiritual and psychological connections to the spirit world; not just to a biological or environmental realm.
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When we look at the Old Testament views on this spiritual element in government, we see that the law given to Moses was an example of obedience to the law as means of restraining emotional excess.
Excessive emotions manifest an uncontrolled spirit or spirit which is in rebellion to the higher expectations of God. Expectations which include virtue, self-control, obedience to government and righteous behavior to our fellow man.
Will the real God stand up! Will the new god of the New World Order please stand up! Will there be a person who will take credit for creating new genetically modified life form? Will the new scientists be considered gods who create life? Will new cures for disease and healing practices be under the authority and control of the New World president so he can take credit for all this creation?
As we stated before, we believe the leader of the New World Order will do everything he can to genetically change the makeup of man. To change the original sinful nature of man requires a new biological and social organism. Alive but physically and psychologically constructed. Using genetics and Pharmacia drugs for behavior modification. We have in the past (a paper on Prophetic Speculation) referred to this as the “Psychogenetic Revolution”.
We in Spiritual Diplomacy see the ultimate goal of the new order under the agenda of “world Peace” the elimination of human sin by reconditioning and recreating the nature of man. What national government can stand up against such a powerful social and ideological agenda? Who can stand against a global policy against correcting personal imperfection and sin? From the farmer to the nuclear scientist, all will be subject to the New World Order; there will be no allowance for rebellion.
The choice will be either biological reengineering or physical elimination; that was the message of George Orwell in his books like Animal Farm and 1984. Human rights will no longer be human, inalienable, but licensed and granted by government as it determines to be beneficial to its self-interests and society. Under the new system what is considered human nature was flawed and in need of repair. It does not matter if it was personal, tribal or cultural. The old order is to be eliminated and replaced with the new order.
Redistribution
In Part I we referred to the New World Order plan to redistribute the global population.
Population and wealth redistribution and its tribal cultures will allow for a new social order to be created replacing the old culture. Removing the poor from their substandard housing and relocating them into a new government built and planned community is what will rescue them from unhealthy urbanization. Wholesale removal and relocation of religious groups (Islam) away from the urban centers into more manageable and controlled community will be a necessary policy.
The new Global government will be faced with how to control the large urban population areas which are developing into their own autonomous economic units of the new super city states. The wealth redistribution will remove what’s left of independent economic power of those groups to oppose the New World Order.
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The whole issue of the dramatic rise of the super city state is an area that Spiritual Diplomacy wishes to address; especially in regards to diplomatic relations between Mayors of those city states.
We see the widening gap between the rich concentrated populations of the city dwellers as opposed to the poor people in the countryside. It will be critical for the future to bridge these social dynamics. Country populations cling to the traditional ways of doing things like their fathers and ancestors while the city populations are parasitic off the economic vitality of the city.
The modern global issue is if a modern super city state can be self-sustaining in isolation of its original culture and government. Just look at China and Korea.
Malcolm Muggeridge in the 1960’s believed Western Europe was losing its vitality and the riches of its culture were in a decline into a “new dark ages”. He was looking forward to contemplating the “New Jerusalem “” and the “City of God” to keep his last years focused on a positive future.
We recognize the precedents of the death of nations and cultures such as Egypt, Greece, and Rome. As Western European culture decays we look to who and what culture and nations will emerge to form this new world order . Which groups of tribes and communities, religious or secular, will manifest the creative spiritual energy and vitality to sustain a new civilization?
We look for new cultures to emerge from these cultural wars of the 21st century. We see the results from past cultural conflicts between the European and American Indian Nations.
We see the Barbarian and Mongol resurgence and the destruction of historically important and significant societies as the battle for control of the “New World Order” and its Universal Church is played out in human history.
The dynamics of Spiritual Diplomacy, the New World Order and the “Universal Church” The change agenda of the New World Order and its Universal Church” and the Global Government will necessarily include someone or group representing the new order.
This new elite will necessarily integrate themselves into the present international governmental and religious organizations. These people will function to direct, redirect and adapt the old and present institutions to the new global agenda.
To include a successful introduction of the new religion and Universal Church will require a leader who can change the perceived reality or religious belief of society. How this emerging leader will do this integration is a matter of great debate among the major religious groups of Islam and Christianity.
Islam is looking for the Mufti and fundamentalist Christians the anti-Christ. In Europe there are over 20 million Moslems causing great cultural tension and conflict. The new reality is already upon Europe and Western Culture which is steadily losing its dominance and cultural will to fight or resist the cultural invasion of its territory.
For Europe its cultural reality is changed but the inherited political systems are not prepared for the physical and violent confrontation to come between the 20 million Shia and Sunni communities in Europe.
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For Europe the new “Universal Church” will look like an answer to their problem and will be a political priority to implement a multi-cultural and multi religious institution to counter the power and furor of fundamentalist Islam.
If the New World Order cannot mitigate radical Islam with its global goal of worldwide domination, Shira law and a world Islamic Government, then the New World Order will be co-opted by Islam its self.
The Universal Church ( without its acknowledgement of a traditional God) under the New World Order will provide a place for the secular and atheistic activists who could not function under Shira law and the Moslem agenda especially in the areas of what they see as human rights.
We foresee that the groups behind the global church will initiate a global registration requirement for all religious denominations to be listed with details of names, addresses, and leadership registration and sect information; such as Shia, Sunni, Catholic, Protestant, Hindu Buddhist and even Pagan.
Environmentalism and the Universal Church
The new world church sees the environment challenges such as “Climate Change”, “Global Warming” as too great an issue to be left to local and national governments.
They do not believe the present political and social structures can fix the environment problem so they call for a centralized Global Environmental Regulatory body.
The traditional religious views about the creation of the earth and who is responsible for maintaining it will be redefined within the new global church. The traditional view that God gave dominion over the earth to the humans he created will be rejected or modified to interpret that to be collective rather than individual.
There is a conflict with the materialism of the global industrial revolution and the conservative social structures that following the same old path that is not solving the pollution problems. They see the need to push for new bio friendly non fossil fuels as a way to institute green energy for the progressive agenda of ultimate control. The global environmentalist movement has seen the information technology industry as part of the solution because they see man’s attempt to implement technology will save himself from his own destruction as a solution.
We in Spiritual Diplomacy recognize the significance of this new technological information revolution that the world is presently facing. We see an additional risk in the spiritual area of the underlying need for a personal and physical social connection between people across all racial and social groups. An avatar physically appearing black, brown, oriental or white is not a real racial person; its representative. In a virtual reality the avatar is the new person in a new reality that the players create like God.
It may be easier for the global technology to improve race relations in cyber space but it’s another matter in the real physical world. The new religion will use technology to consolidate its influence over the global information technology sectors of entertainment and propaganda. They will integrate and use the generational changes of the new social dynamic to co-op the traditional nation state and political models. They will use the new global media and environmental movements to systematically destroy the culture and social structures and values of Western cultural Influence including the political and governmental institutions.
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Elimination of the Nation State
We see the continued effort of peoples and groups to protect their culture and traditions from structural attacks internally and externally.
For example the internet, email, Facebook, twitter and other social networks are fundamentally changing national and global culture and is finding opposition from social regulators who are urgently trying to draft new legislation to control this new culture.
There are spiritual values being propagated through this new technology that most governments cannot allow on the basis of its self-survival. As the traditional national governments begin to recognize their social disintegration of their culture, they will ignite a counter reaction to the technology which is challenging their authority. However it will not be an easy task because the dynamics of the social and cultural changes are generational even in their development of a new popular technological language evolving hourly like “texting” with its own terms and symbols only the youth understand.
This new technology carries the seeds of the nation state destruction. It carries the complex sub culture and cross culture of the blended family and multi culture society, an antithesis to the older classical family models going back even 6000 years ago to ancient Egypt.
The destruction is like a virus within the technological code. We see increased calls for community participation and individual involvement at the various levels of the new technology as cries for help and desperation from people themselves who are no longer active in their present and physical culture, but caught in a new cyber culture without borders.
We believe the culture changing spirit works on the culture changing groups and the leadership who are responsible for preserving the culture or introducing the change. The educational establishment failures and the purposeful institutional self-interest of present school systems will be completely subdued to a new global government who will insist on direct control of all education.
The 1960’s the “Age of Aquarius” with its drugs sex and “rock and roll” was a physical manifestation discarding the traditional cultural restraints. Fee love, promiscuous sex, nudity, swearing all were challenge authority. The movies and theater with musicals like “Hair” were symptomatic of a spirit asserting it’s self in western culture change. The leaders were possessed to politically change the law, allowing for immorality. That spirit continues today the remnant movement of the 1960’s. Only Islam has stood against it and is now on the front line in Europe to confront the liberalism of the Age of Aquarius.
Some believe that the new cultural changes will be accompanied by the destruction of the minority groups that are now becoming the standard bearers of cultural tradition.
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The Universal Church
The old definition of the Universal Church was the original name of the Roman Church, in the second century. In fact before and after the Edict of Milan in 312 AD, the Roman or Roman Catholic Church called itself the Universal Church.
But we are referring to a new “Universal Church” Will the new “Universal Church” be a multi-cultural or multi-racial inter faith church? Will the church mandate a new social life, a new social and ideological evolution in global culture? Will the new church be seen as an organ of western cultural imperialism? Will the new church promote a different God from the traditional religions of Christianity and Islam? Will the old ancient religious idea of many separate Gods be reintroduced?
We believe there will be a movement with the new inters faith church to promote some sort of Christ like leader to endorse the new Global Government agenda. A merger of Church and State within the New World Order!
The new church will direct their view of advancement of world culture by integrating what we call Pop Culture popular culture, and entertainment. The movie industry has and will continue to be more than entertainment but an attempt to create a new world art form to explore the possible future culture of a social order of machines, computers and man. A struggle to define and redefine the nature of man and his soul; who created man and what does his creator want.
Now we do not see the American Universal Church as the present denomination sees its self “We are one with the totality, the creative source. We are one with the all of the Universe. We do not exist outside of the Universe nor does the Universe exist outside of us” We see that present US based Universal Church as part of universalism where they believe that there is one universal truth and that this truth extends far beyond any theological, social, or geographical limits
But we see the New Universal Church as an intricate part of a New World Order of Global government. We see the new church as an organization which will be used to control man, not to free man, a church which will have a central authority and a central agenda to be implemented by its members.
We do not see the new “Universal Church” as a collection of individuals who meet to worship a traditional personal God. We see the new church emerging from the same intellectual spirits that create and promote the New World Order .
"A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge.” Carl Sagan “ ”The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity.” Albert Einstein
We believe the new “Universal Church” and its leader will be the spiritual force behind the New World Order which will be the front organization for the new spiritual agenda to change the nature of humanity.
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Dealing With Political and Mass Demonstrations
Spiritual Diplomacy Analysis Brief Monday, January 03, 2011
Dealing with Political and Mass Demonstrations
“The Americans especially wish to create in the new emerging democracies the firm commitment to right of assembly and demonstrations for political grievance; it’s in the American Constitution along with a free press to ensure political debate on individual rights”
By Michael A Markham
One of the most divisive issues we encounter in Spiritual Diplomacy between nations of the East and West is the issue of “freedom of assembly for political purposes”.
Most of the time these issues are surrounded by the ideological positions of Western political and human rights groups dealing with the right of individual freedom to gather in small or large groups for the purpose of bringing political and social changes to governments.
The American (Article 1 of US Constitution) and European (English with Magna Carta of 1215) positions of using demonstrations or right of assembly to influence or change government policy of other nations are a matter of fact.
The right of assembly and mass demonstration of political grievance is enshrined in the American Constitution. That is why the Americans are so committed to imposing that right on the newly emerging democracies. That is why they support and encourage those demonstrations inside other countries.
To understand the reluctance of non Western Democratic Governments to allowing mass protests, one must realize that in the European past history, revolutionary forces have used mass demonstrations to circumvent the political systems, democratic or otherwise, and to seize control of the government civil service and the military. The Europeans in particular have a violent history of revolution which has been started and executed by mass movements of people taking over the streets and institutions of governments. There are too many examples to present here (see appendix) but it is safe to say Europeans have a historical memory of the use and dangers of mass demonstrations.
For the West it is not an issue to allow the demonstrations but how the demonstrations are handled as long as it’s peaceful.
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For the Eastern Governments they would just as well have no mass rallies or demonstrations except those that are permitted and allowed by the state.
Eastern governments see mass demonstrations as disrespectful to the government and an insult to their leadership.
The Americans and Europeans know about using and presently use mass demonstrations and public rallies for partisan political purposes. The recent “Tea party” movement inside the US is an example of how political change is influenced by organized and politically directed mass demonstrations. Demonstrations and Counter Demonstrations are used by political party operatives to win elections and gain power. The purpose of the demonstrations is secondary or only an excuse for the process of partisan political victory, not to sincerely address the grievance.
The American and European attitude appears to allow any demonstration, just control it so it doesn’t become violent; and if it becomes violent, deny any political connections.
“Peaceful” is the litmus test for right of assembly for the Americans, it does not matter if it’s a small group of protestors or millions of protestors, as long as they are peaceful.
The Western style of Democracy sees the demonstrations as legitimate means like a free press and political parties to allow groups to change the position of voters before they enter the polling booth to cast their vote.
The Eastern governments see the legitimacy of a cast vote for their administration as a validation of their leadership and do not see demonstrations as a means of changing the political establishment.
The issue for emerging democracy and its reformers is if the present governmental institutions will tolerate or allow non elected or appointed groups influence its established political procedures. The critics of mass demonstrations ask “Where is the policy for government formed; in the street or in Parliament. The Eastern emerging democratic reform and present institutions must address those issues of who, how, and what process develops the policy of an independent nation.
Belarus and Ukraine are good examples of this unresolved ideological problem. One of the international diplomatic issues for a country is that there are considerable international political risks for allowing mass demonstrations; especially if they are led by labour movements that are not under the direction of the government. Mass strikes and their attendant mass marches through the streets give the appearance of economic instability, which becomes an issue for emerging economic models designed to attract foreign capital to fund economic expansion. When countries are dependent on foreign capital rather than self-sustaining demonstrations can have significant economic damage and become national security issues.
In our previous analysis of “The New World Order” we pointed out that the New World Order uses and direct international and global regulatory institutions to implement their Global Policy.
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The EU, and the Americans including NATO use the United Nations to implement Global regulations on all the nations of the world.
These institutions will follow the global rules for demonstrations and mass political rally.
The New World Order will only allow mass demonstrations that are under their criteria and control. How to control mass demonstrations in an acceptable manner for the Western Democracies will be a major element in improving relations with the Eastern Governments.
If Belarus sanctions mass rallies protesting the European interference in their political process will the world’s free press give those demonstration any credibility? We think not, unless the Belarus Government can show to the international press that the people in the demonstrations believe, of their own free will ,that they have grievance against the western interference.
There is an important issue regarding the idea that the free press is sort of a right that’s an extension of freedom to assemble to petition grievance to the Government. This idea will be further discussed in a separate analysis paper on “Spiritual Diplomacy position on the Media”.
Spiritual Diplomacy Recommendations
- Spiritual Diplomacy regards peace as a proactive act of love and more than an absence of violence or war.
- Spiritual Diplomacy regards government authority as legitimate to keep order and peace within a society.
- Spiritual Diplomacy sensitizes government leaders to the universal spiritual desires of people inside and outside the culture.
If individuals and groups are unhappy and have legitimate grievances which are not being dealt with by governmental apparatus in authority, then Spiritual Diplomacy will support and advocate with government leaders to enter dialogue with those in society and the culture that claim a grievance.
If the unhappy group or culture is unable to represent themselves, then, The World Council of Spiritual Diplomacy will by treaty agree to represent those disenfranchised groups.
Many times the mass demonstration is a way of getting attention and some sort of recognition and even acceptance. The roll of Spiritual Diplomacy is to provide a bridge for communicating in a peaceful, considered and spiritual manner.
When it comes to mass demonstrations we wish to assist the parties in finding ways discovering the answers to their conflicts and desires before the risk to either side ends with mass protest out of control, where people become violent and hurt emotionally and physically.
Spiritual Diplomacy is there to show all of the parties the new road to peace (see the Spiritual Diplomacy report on steps to peace and reconciliation) and conflict resolution through love.
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REFERENCE MATERIALS US Constitution: Article 1 “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. “
REFERENCE BY http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment01/21.html#1 Taken without permission for private research purposes. Background and Development The right of petition took its rise from the modest provision made for it in chapter 61 of Magna Carta (1215). 207 To this meagre beginning are traceable, in some measure, Parliament itself and its procedures in the enactment of legislation, the equity jurisdiction of the Lord Chancellor, and proceedings against the Crown by ''petition of right.'' Thus, while the King summoned Parliament for the purpose of supply, the latter--but especially the House of Com mons--petitioned the King for a redress of grievances as its price for meeting the financial needs of the Monarch, and as it increased in importance it came to claim the right to dictate the form of the King's reply, until, in 1414, Commons declared itself to be ''as well assenters as petitioners.'' Two hundred and fifty years later, in 1669, Commons further resolved that every commoner in England possessed ''the inherent right to prepare and present petitions'' to it ''in case of grievance,'' and of Commons ''to receive the same'' and to judge whether they were ''fit'' to be received. Finally Chapter 5 of the Bill of Rights of 1689 asserted the right of the subjects to petition the King and ''all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning to be illegal.'' 208 Historically, therefore, the right of petition is the primary right, the right peaceably to assemble a subordinate and instrumental right, as if the First Amendment read: ''the right of the people peaceably to assemble'' in order to ''petition the government.'' 209 Today, however, the right of peaceable assembly is, in the language of the Court, ''cognate to those of free speech and free press and is equally fundamental. . . . [It] is one that cannot be denied without violating those fundamental principles of liberty and justice which lie at the base of all civil and political institutions--principles which the Fourteenth Amendment embodies in the general terms of its due process clause. . . . The holding of meetings for peaceable political action cannot be proscribed. Those who assist in the conduct of such meetings cannot be branded as criminals on that score. The question . . . is not as to the auspices under which the meeting is held but as to its purposes; not as to the relation of the speakers, but whether their utterances transcend the bounds of the freedom of speech which the Constitution protects.'' 210 Furthermore, the right of petition has expanded. It is no longer confined to demands for ''a redress of grievances,'' in any accurate meaning of these words, but comprehends demands for an exercise by the Government of its powers in furtherance of the interest and prosperity of the petitioners and of their views on politically contentious matters. 211 The right extends to the ''approach of citizens or groups of them to administrative agencies (which are both creatures of the legislature, and arms of the executive) and to courts, the third branch of Government. Certainly the right to petition extends to all departments of the Government. The right of access to the courts is indeed but one aspect of the right of petition.'' 212 The right of petition recognized by the First Amendment first came into prominence in the early 1830's, when petitions against slavery in the District of Columbia began flowing into Congress in a constantly increasing stream, which reached its climax in the winter of 1835. Finally on January 28, 1840, the House adopted as a standing rule: ''That no petition, memorial, resolution, or other paper praying the abolition
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of slavery in the District of Columbia, or any State or Territories of the United States in which it now exists, shall be received by this House, or entertained in any way whatever.'' Because of efforts of John Quincy Adams, this rule was repealed five years later. 213 For many years now the rules of the House of Representatives have provided that members having petitions to present may deliver them to the Clerk and the petitions, except such as in the judgment of the Speaker are of an obscene or insulting character, shall be entered on the Journal and the Clerk shall furnish a transcript of such record to the official reporters of debates for publication in the Record. 214 Even so, petitions for the repeal of the espionage and sedition laws and against military measures for recruiting resulted, in World War I, in imprisonment. 215 Processions for the presentation of petitions in the United States have not been particularly successful. In 1894 General Coxey of Ohio organized armies of unemployed to march on Washington and present petitions, only to see their leaders arrested for unlawfully walking on the grass of the Capitol. The march of the veterans on Washington in 1932 demanding bonus legislation was defended as an exercise of the right of petition. The Administration, however, regarded it as a threat against the Constitution and called out the army to expel the bonus marchers and burn their camps. Marches and encampments have become more common since, but the results have been mixed. The Cruikshank Case .--The right of assembly was first before the Supreme Court in 1876 216 in the famous case of United States v. Cruikshank. 217 The Enforcement Act of 1870 218 forbade conspiring or going onto the highways or onto the premises of another to intimidate any other person from freely exercising and enjoying any right or privilege granted or secured by the Constitution of the United States. Defendants had been indicted under this Act on charges of having deprived certain citizens of their right to assemble together peaceably with other citizens ''for a peaceful and lawful purpose.'' While the Court held the indictment inadequate because it did not allege that the attempted assembly was for a purpose related to the Federal Government, its dicta broadly declared the outlines of the right of assembly. ''The right of the people peaceably to assemble for the purpose of petitioning Congress for a redress of grievances, or for anything else connected with the powers or the duties of the National Government, is an attribute of national citizenship, and, as such, under the protection of, and guaranteed by, the United States. The very idea of a government, republican in form, implies a right on the part of its citizens to meet peaceably for consultation in respect to public affairs and to petition for a redress of grievances. If it had been alleged in these counts that the object of the defendants was to prevent a meeting for such a purpose, the case would have been within the statute, and within the scope of the sovereignty of the United States.'' 219 Absorption of the assembly and petition clauses into the liberty protected by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment means, or course, that the Cruikshank limitation is no longer applicable. 220 The Hague Case .--Illustrative of this expansion is Hague v. CIO, 221 in which the Court, though splintered with regard to reasoning and rationale, struck down an ordinance which vested an uncontrolled discretion in a city official to permit or deny any group the opportunity to conduct a public assembly in a public place. Justice Roberts, in an opinion which Justice Black joined and with which Chief Justice Hughes concurred, found protection against state abridgment of the rights of assembly and petition in the privileges and immunities clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. ''The privilege of a citizen of the United States to use the streets and parks for communication of views on national questions may be regulated in the interest of all; it is not absolute, but relative, and must be exercised in subordination to the general comfort and convenience, and in consonance with peace and good order; but it must not, in the guise of regulation, be abridged or denied.'' 222 Justices Stone and Reed invoked the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment for the result, thereby claiming the rights of assembly and petition for aliens as well as citizens. ''I think respodents' right to maintain it does not depend on their citizenship and cannot rightly be made to turn on the existence or non-existence of a purpose to disseminate information about the National Labor Relations Act. It is enough that petitioners have prevented respondents from holding meetings and disseminating information whether for the organization of labor unions or for any other lawful purpose.'' 223 This due process view of Justice Stone has carried the day over the privileges and immunities approach. Later cases tend to merge the rights of assembly and petition into the speech and press clauses, and, indeed, all four rights may well be considered as elements of an inclusive right to freedom of expression. Certain conduct may call forth a denomination of petition 224 or assembly, 225 but there seems little
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question that no substantive issue turns upon whether one may be said to be engaged in speech or assembly or petition. Footnotes [Footnote 207] C. Stephenson & F. Marcham, Sources of English Constitutional History 125 (1937). [Footnote 208] 12 Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences 98 (1934). [Footnote 209] United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542, 552 (1876), reflects this view. [Footnote 210] De Jonge v. Oregon, 299 U.S. 353, 364 , 365 (1937). See also Herndon v. Lowry, 301 U.S. 242 (1937). [Footnote 211] See Eastern R.R. Presidents Conf. v. Noerr Motor Freight, 365 U.S. 127 (1961). [Footnote 212] California Motor Transport Co. v. Trucking Unlimited, 404 U.S. 508, 510 (1972). See also NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co., 458 U.S. 886, 913 -15 (1982); Missouri v. NOW, 620 F.2d 1301 (8th Cir.), cert. denied, 449 U.S. 842 (1980) (boycott of States not ratifying ERA may not be subjected to antitrust suits for economic losses because of its political nature). [Footnote 213] The account is told in many sources. E.g., S. Bemis, John Quincy Adams and the Union, chs. 17, 18 and pp. 446-47 (1956). [Footnote 214] Rule 22, para. 1, Rules of the House of Representatives, H.R. Doc. No. 256, 101st Congress, 2d sess. 571 (1991). [Footnote 215] 1918 Att'y Gen. Ann. Rep. 48. [Footnote 216] See, however, Crandall v. Nevada, 73 U.S. (6 Wall.) 35 (1868), in which the Court gave as one of its reasons for striking down a tax on persons leaving the State its infringement of the right of every citizen to come to the seat of government and to transact any business he might have with it. [Footnote 217] 92 U.S. 542 (1876). [Footnote 218] Act of May 31, 1870, ch.114, 16 Stat. 141 (1870). [Footnote 219] United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S 542, 552-53 (1876). [Footnote 220] De Jonge v. Oregon, 299 U.S. 353 (1937); Hague v. CIO, 307 U.S. 496 (1939); Bridges v. California, 314 U.S. 252 (1941); Thomas v. Collins, 323 U.S. 516 (1945). [Footnote 221] 307 U.S. 496 (1939). [Footnote 222] Id. at 515. For another holding that the right to petition is not absolute, see McDonald v. Smith, 472 U.S. 479 (1985) (the fact that defamatory statements were made in the context of a petition to government does not provide absolute immunity from libel). [Footnote 223] Id. at 525. [Footnote 224] E.g., United States v. Harriss, 347 U.S. 612 (1954); Eastern R.R. Presidents Conf. v. Noerr Motor Freight, 365 U.S. 127 (1961).
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[Footnote 225] E.g., Coates v. City of Cincinnati, 402 U.S. 611 (1971). The Virginia Declaration of Rights is a document drafted in 1776 to proclaim the inherent rights of men, including the right to rebel against "inadequate" government. It influenced a number of later documents, including the United States Declaration of Independence (1776), the United States Bill of Rights (1789), and the French Revolution's Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789). The following is the complete text of the Virginia Declaration of Rights: A DECLARATION OF RIGHTS made by the Representatives of the good people of VIRGINIA, assembled in full and free Convention; which rights do pertain to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of Government. I. That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. II. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them. III. That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation or community; of all the various modes and forms of government that is best, which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration; and that, whenever any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal. IV. That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services; which, not being descendible, neither ought the offices of magistrate, legislator, or judge be hereditary. V. That the legislative and executive powers of the state should be separate and distinct from the judicative; and, that the members of the two first may be restrained from oppression by feeling and participating the burthens of the people, they should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station, return into that body from which they were originally taken, and the vacancies be supplied by frequent, certain, and regular elections in which all, or any part of the former members, to be again eligible, or ineligible, as the laws shall direct. VI. That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people in assembly ought to be free; and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community have the right of suffrage and cannot be taxed or deprived of their
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property for public uses without their own consent or that of their representatives so elected, nor bound by any law to which they have not, in like manner, assented, for the public good. VII That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority without consent of the representatives of the people is injurious to their rights and ought not to be exercised. VIII That in all capital or criminal prosecutions a man hath a right to demand the cause and nature of his accusation to be confronted with the accusers and witnesses, to call for evidence in his favor, and to a speedy trial by an impartial jury of his vicinage, without whose unanimous consent he cannot be found guilty, nor can he be compelled to give evidence against himself; that no man be deprived of his liberty except by the law of the land or the judgement of his peers. IX That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed; nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. X That general warrants, whereby any officer or messenger may be commanded to search suspected places without evidence of a fact committed, or to seize any person or persons not named, or whose offense is not particularly described and supported by evidence, are grievous and oppressive and ought not to be granted. XI That in controversies respecting property and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other and ought to be held sacred. XII That the freedom of the press is one of the greatest bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments. XIII That a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that, in all cases, the military should be under strict subordination to, and be governed by, the civil power. XIV That the people have a right to uniform government; and therefore, that no government separate from, or independent of, the government of Virginia, ought to be erected or established within the limits thereof. XV That no free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. XVI That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator and the manner of discharging it, can be directed by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other.
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Adopted unanimously June 12, 1776 Virginia Convention of Delegates drafted by Mr. George Mason The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (also known as The Charter of Rights and Freedoms or simply the Charter, French: La Charte canadienne des droits et libertés) is a bill of rights entrenched in the Constitution of Canada. It forms the first part of the Constitution Act, 1982. The Charter guarantees certain political rights to Canadian citizens and civil rights of everyone in Canada from the policies and actions of all levels of government. REFERENCE MATERIAL FOR EUROPE European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) (formally the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948
Previous Note on Observation of Belarus Election Protests
Unfortunately it was after the vote the delegation members saw and experienced different situations with crowd control when there was an outbreak of violence within the demonstrations and protest.
After the vote count was completed there were apparently a number of crowds that assembled in the city squares and streets.
One of our delegates personaly witnessed the demonstration from his position inside the Minsk hotel. This is what he described: “looking out the dining room windows I watched the helmeted police squads engage in a limited, restrained and directed use of police physical force against elements of the protestors who were running away from the square”. He further stated “after the police intervened and dispersed the crowd the streets and the city appeared calm and returned to normal within a few hours.”
One of our observers Russ Jones was actually in the crowd to see what was going to happen during the protest and was present where the violence took place. Mr. Jones came close to being struck on the head and was upset when returning to the hotel.
The technical and official election government forms and information on our activity was processed and returned to the Election Commission without incident.
One of the members of the Spiritual Diplomacy delegation Dr. Morgulis was able to directly address President Lukashenko at the after election Presidential press conference.
Our Conclusions
Our Delegation of Independent Observers concluded that based upon what we have seen:
“The Belarus Presidential Election process of 2010 was fair and open, representing the views of the majority of voting citizens as mandated by the election laws.”
Our Recommendations
“The Election Commission should examine how the political expression of assembly can be regulated during and immediately after a political campaign to prevent unnecessary violence. “
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The Spiritual Diplomacy Delegation wishes to thank the various individuals and government agencies who have assisted us in our task of Independent Election Observers and allowing us to carry out our obligations under the Belarus Election laws with the highest level of ethics and integrity.
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