De VS, u weet wel, de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, wordt altijd geleid met de bijbel in de ene en de automatische wapen in de andere hand. John J, Whitehead vroeg zich af, hoe Jezus (met hoofdletter: ja nu moet ik het toch echt over een persoon hebben) zou zijn ontvangen in de huidige VS en hoe men met hem en z’n ouders zou zijn omgegaan, ook in het verdere leven van deze bijbelse figuur…….
Wat mij betreft, is de VS al jaren een politiestaat, maar wat ik hier las, deden me de haren te berge rijzen………..
Hier een moderne kerstvertelling, met een ‘iets andere’ boodschap (onder het artikel kunt u klikken voor een ‘Dutch vertaling’, dat neemt wel wat tijd in beslag):
The
Radical Jesus: How Would the Baby in a Manger Fare in the American
Police State?
By
John W. Whitehead
“Jesus
is too much for us. The church’s later treatment of the gospels is
one long effort to rescue Jesus from ‘extremism.’”—author
Gary Wills, What
Jesus Meant
December
22, 2016 “Information
Clearing House”
– Jesus was good. He was caring. He had powerful, profound
things to say—things that would change how we view people, alter
government policies and change the world. He went around helping the
poor. And when confronted by those in authority, he did not shy away
from speaking truth to power.
Jesus
was born into a police state not unlike the growing menace of the
American police state.
But
what if Jesus, the revered preacher, teacher, radical and prophet,
had been born 2,000 years later? How would Jesus’ life have been
different had he be born and raised in the American police state?
Consider
the following if you will.
The
Christmas narrative of a baby born in a manger is a familiar one.
The
Roman Empire, a police state in its own right, had ordered that a
census be conducted. Joseph and his pregnant wife Mary traveled to
the little town of Bethlehem so that they could be counted. There
being no room for the couple at any of the inns, they stayed in a
stable, where Mary gave birth to a baby boy. That boy, Jesus, would
grow up to undermine the political and religious establishment of his
day and was eventually crucified as a warning to others not to
challenge the powers-that-be.
However,
had Jesus been born in the year 2016…
Rather
than traveling to Bethlehem for a census, Jesus’ parents would have
been mailed a 28-page American Community Survey, a mandatory
government questionnaire documenting their habits, household
inhabitants, work schedule, how many toilets are in your home, etc.
The penalty
for not responding to this invasive survey can go as high as
$5,000.
Instead
of being born in a manger, Jesus might have been born at home. Rather
than wise men and shepherds bringing gifts, however, the baby’s
parents might have been forced to ward off visits from state social
workers intent on prosecuting them for the home birth. One couple
in Washington had all three of their children removed after social
services objected to the two youngest being birthed in an unassisted
home delivery.
Had
Jesus been born in a hospital, his blood
and DNA would have been taken without his parents’ knowledge or
consent and entered into a government biobank. While most
states require newborn screening, a growing number are holding
onto that genetic material long-term for research, analysis
and purposes yet to be disclosed.
Then
again, had his parents been undocumented immigrants, they and the
newborn baby might have been shuffled to a profit-driven,
private prison for illegals where they would have been
turned into cheap, forced laborers for corporations such as
Starbucks, Microsoft, Walmart, and Victoria’s Secret. There’s
quite a lot of money
to be made from imprisoning immigrants, especially when taxpayers
are footing the bill.
From
the time he was old enough to attend school, Jesus would have been
drilled in lessons of compliance and obedience to government
authorities, while learning little about his own rights. Had he been
daring enough to speak out against injustice while still in school,
he might have found himself tasered or beaten by a school resource
officer, or at the very least suspended under a school
zero tolerance policy that punishes minor infractions as
harshly as more serious offenses.
Had
Jesus disappeared for a few hours let alone days as a 12-year-old,
his parents would have been handcuffed,
arrested and jailed for parental negligence. Parents across the
country have been arrested for far less “offenses” such as
allowing their children to walk to the park unaccompanied and play in
their front yard alone.
Rather
than disappearing from the history books from his early teenaged
years to adulthood, Jesus’ movements and personal data—including
his biometrics—would have been documented, tracked, monitored and
filed by governmental agencies and corporations such as Google and
Microsoft. Incredibly, 95
percent of school districts share their student records with outside
companies that are contracted to manage data, which they
then use to market products to us.
From
the moment Jesus made contact with an “extremist” such as John
the Baptist, he would have been flagged for surveillance because of
his association with a prominent activist, peaceful or otherwise.
Since 9/11, the FBI
has actively carried out surveillance and intelligence-gathering
operations on a broad range of activist groups, from animal
rights groups to poverty relief, anti-war groups and other such
“extremist” organizations.
Jesus’
anti-government views would certainly have resulted in him being
labeled a domestic extremist. Law enforcement agencies are being
trained to recognize signs of anti-government extremism during
interactions with potential extremists who share a “belief
in the approaching collapse of government and the economy.”
While
traveling from community to community, Jesus might have been reported
to government officials as “suspicious” under the Department of
Homeland Security’s “See Something, Say Something” programs.
Many states, including New York, are providing individuals with phone
apps that allow them to take photos of suspicious activity and report
them to their state Intelligence Center, where they are
reviewed and forwarded to law-enforcement agencies.
Rather
than being permitted to live as an itinerant preacher, Jesus might
have found himself threatened with arrest for daring to live off the
grid or sleeping outside. In fact, the number of cities that have
resorted to criminalizing
homelessness by enacting bans on camping, sleeping in vehicles,
loitering and begging in public has doubled.
Viewed
by the government as a dissident and potential threat to its power,
Jesus might have had government spies planted among his followers to
monitor his activities, report on his movements, and entrap
him into breaking the law. Such Judases today—called
informants—often receive hefty paychecks from the government for
their treachery.
Had
Jesus used the internet to spread his radical message of peace and
love, he might have found his blog posts infiltrated
by government spies attempting to undermine his integrity,
discredit him or plant incriminating information online about him. At
the very least, he would have had his website hacked and his email
monitored.
Had
Jesus attempted to feed large crowds of people, he would have been
threatened with arrest for violating various ordinances prohibiting
the distribution of food without a permit. Florida officials arrested
a 90-year-old man for feeding the homeless on a public
beach.
Had
Jesus spoken publicly about his 40 days in the desert and his
conversations with the devil, he might have been labeled mentally ill
and detained in a psych ward against his will for a mandatory
involuntary psychiatric hold with no access to family or friends. One
Virginia man was arrested, strip searched, handcuffed to a table,
diagnosed as having “mental health issues,” and locked
up for five days in a mental health facility against his
will apparently because of his slurred speech and unsteady
gait.
Without
a doubt, had Jesus attempted to overturn tables in a Jewish temple
and rage against the materialism of religious institutions, he would
have been charged with a hate crime. Currently, 45
states and the federal government have hate crime laws on
the books.
Rather
than having armed guards capture Jesus in a public place, government
officials would have ordered that a SWAT team carry out a raid on
Jesus and his followers, complete with flash-bang grenades and
military equipment. There are upwards
of 80,000 such SWAT team raids carried out every year, many on
unsuspecting Americans who have no defense against such government
invaders, even when such raids are done in error.
Instead
of being detained by Roman guards, Jesus might have been made to
“disappear” into a secret government detention center where he
would have been interrogated, tortured and subjected to all manner of
abuses. Chicago
police “disappeared” more than 7,000 people into a
secret, off-the-books interrogation warehouse at Homan Square.
Charged
with treason and labeled a domestic terrorist, Jesus might have been
sentenced to a life-term in a private prison where he would have
been forced
to provide slave labor for corporations or put to death by
way of the electric
chair or a lethal mixture of drugs.
Either
way, whether Jesus had been born in our modern age or his own, he
still would have died at the hands of a police state. Indeed, as I
show in my book Battlefield
America: The War on the American People,
what Jesus and other activists suffered in their day is happening to
those who choose to speak truth to power today.
Thus,
we are faced with a choice: remain silent in the face of evil or
speak out against it. As Nobel Prize-winning author Albert Camus
proclaimed:
Perhaps
we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are
tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if
you don’t help us, who else in the world can help us do this?
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