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CHURCH OF THE LUKUMI BABALU AYE, INC., et al. v. CITY OF HIALEAH
Final Warning
ID: Alarming Development
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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 93 01:54:22 EDT
From: "Mitchell L. Silverman" <mitch@vesheu.sar.usf.edu>
Message-Id: <9306120554.AA26154@vesheu.sar.usf.edu>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject:
In message <13377.9306111520@sun016.leeds.ac.uk.sun.leeds.ac.uk>
to Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu, phy6sph@sun.leeds.ac.uk writes:
>Do any subG out there know what the large button on Macintosh
>SE computers are for? I mean the long one with the arrow on
>it. This may sound trivial but without this knowledge I find
>it difficult to maintain my slack level.
Yes, I know. I use it a lot.
Mitchell L. Silverman | "I hate quotations."
Student, New College of |
the University of South Florida | - R. W. Emerson
Reply-to: mitch@vesheu.sar.usf.edu |
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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 93 02:46:56 EDT
From: "Mitchell L. Silverman" <mitch@vesheu.sar.usf.edu>
Message-Id: <9306120646.AA26209@vesheu.sar.usf.edu>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: CHURCH OF THE LUKUMI BABALU AYE, INC., et al. v. CITY OF HIALEAH
The United States Supreme Court (officially) decided the
above-captioned case June 11, 1993, dealing with the religious
freedom to sacrifice animals. Less than it could have been
(you still can't smoke pot, say, just because your religion
says you can--the opinion cites to an Oregon in which Native
American Church members were fired as drug counselors for
using peyote. As the syllabus says:
> (a) Under the Free Exercise Clause, a law that burdens
> religious practice need not be justified by a compelling
> governmental interest if it is neutral and of general
> applicability. Employment Div., Dept. of Human Resources of
> Oregon v. Smith, 494 U. S. 872.
But still and all, the opinion is very stongly worded in saying
that the Hialeah City Council erred--and was decided
unanimously. As the opinion says:
> The principle that government may not enact laws that suppress
> religious belief or practice is so well understood that few
> violations are recorded in our opinions. Cf. McDaniel v. Paty,
> 435 U. S. 618 (1978); Fowler v. Rhode Island, 345 U. S. 67
> (1953). Concerned that this funda- mental nonpersecution
> principle of the First Amendment was implicated here, however, we
> granted certiorari. 503 U. S. ___ (1992).
> Our review confirms that the laws in question were enacted by
> officials who did not understand, failed to perceive, or chose to
> ignore the fact that their official actions violated the Nation's
> essential commitment to reli- gious freedom. The challenged laws
> had an impermissible object; and in all events the principle of
> general appli- cability was violated because the secular ends
> asserted in defense of the laws were pursued only with respect to
> conduct motivated by religious beliefs. We invalidate the
> challenged enactments and reverse the judgment of the Court of
> Appeals.
(Though there are *three* concurring opinions.)
This is just the syllabus--the entire case (syllabus, opinion
of the Court, and concurring opinions) are avaliable from
ftp.cwru.edu, in directory /hermes, with various
subdirectories available depending on format.
N.B.: I am *not* a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV. Read the
case yourself, and don't take what I say to be any more than
seat-of-the-pants political prognathousness.
Hail Eris!
Rev. Dkr. Mitch, KSC, usw.
Mitchell L. Silverman | "I hate quotations."
Student, New College of |
the University of South Florida | - R. W. Emerson
Reply-to: mitch@vesheu.sar.usf.edu |
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NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is
being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is issued.
The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been
prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader.
See United States v. Detroit Lumber Co., 200 U. S. 321, 337.
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
Syllabus
CHURCH OF THE LUKUMI BABALU AYE, INC.,
et al. v. CITY OF HIALEAH
certiorari to the united states court of appeals for
the eleventh circuit
No. 91-948. Argued November 4, 1992-Decided June 11, 1993
Petitioner church and its congregants practice the Santeria religion,
which employs animal sacrifice as one of its principal forms of
devotion. The animals are killed by cutting their carotid arteries and
are cooked and eaten following all Santeria rituals except healing
and death rites. After the church leased land in respondent city and
announced plans to establish a house of worship and other facilities
there, the city council held an emergency public session and passed,
among other enactments, Resolution 87-66, which noted city
residents' ``concern'' over religious practices inconsistent with public
morals, peace, or safety, and declared the city's ``commitment'' to
prohibiting such practices; Ordinance 87-40, which incorporates the
Florida animal cruelty laws and broadly punishes ``[w]hoever . . .
unnecessarily or cruelly . . . kills any animal,'' and has been
interpreted to reach killings for religious reasons; Ordinance 87-52,
which defines ``sacrifice'' as ``to unnecessarily kill . . . an animal in a
. . . ritual . . . not for the primary purpose of food consumption,'' and
prohibits the ``possess[ion], sacrifice, or slaughter'' of an animal if it is
killed in ``any type of ritual'' and there is an intent to use it for food,
but exempts ``any licensed [food] establishment'' if the killing is
otherwise permitted by law; Ordinance 87-71, which prohibits the
sacrifice of animals, and defines ``sacrifice'' in the same manner as
Ordinance 87-52; and Ordinance 87-72, which defines ``slaughter'' as
``the killing of animals for food'' and prohibits slaughter outside of
areas zoned for slaughterhouses, but includes an exemption for
``small numbers of hogs and/or cattle'' when exempted by state law.
Petitioners filed this suit under 42 U. S. C. 1983, alleging violations
of their rights under, inter alia, the Free Exercise Clause of the First
Amendment. Although acknowledging that the foregoing ordinances
are not religiously neutral, the District Court ruled for the city,
concluding, among other things, that compelling governmental
interests in preventing public health risks and cruelty to animals
fully justified the absolute prohibition on ritual sacrifice
accomplished by the ordinances, and that an exception to that
prohibition for religious conduct would unduly interfere with
fulfillment of the governmental interest because any more narrow
restrictions would be unenforceable as a result of the Santeria
religion's secret nature. The Court of Appeals affirmed.
Held: The judgment is reversed.
936 F. 2d 586, reversed.
Justice Kennedy delivered the opinion of the Court with respect
to Parts I, II-A-1, II-A-3, II-B, III, and IV, concluding that the laws
in question were enacted contrary to free exercise principles, and
they are void. Pp. 8-18, 20-26.
(a) Under the Free Exercise Clause, a law that burdens religious
practice need not be justified by a compelling governmental interest if
it is neutral and of general applicability. Employment Div., Dept. of
Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith, 494 U. S. 872. However,
where such a law is not neutral or not of general application, it must
undergo the most rigorous of scrutiny: It must be justified by a
compelling governmental interest and must be narrowly tailored to
advance that interest. Neutrality and general applicability are
interrelated, and failure to satisfy one requirement is a likely
indication that the other has not been satisfied. Pp. 8-9.
(b) The ordinances' texts and operation demonstrate that they are
not neutral, but have as their object the suppression of Santeria's
central element, animal sacrifice. That this religious exercise has
been targeted is evidenced by Resolution 87-66's statements of
``concern'' and ``commitment,'' and by the use of the words ``sacrifice''
and ``ritual'' in Ordinances 87-40, 87-52, and 87-71. Moreover, the
latter ordinances' various prohibitions, definitions, and exemptions
demonstrate that they were ``gerrymandered'' with care to proscribe
religious killings of animals by Santeria church members but to
exclude almost all other animal killings. They also suppress much
more religious conduct than is necessary to achieve their stated ends.
The legitimate governmental interests in protecting the public health
and preventing cruelty to animals could be addressed by restrictions
stopping far short of a flat prohibition of all Santeria sacrificial
practice, such as general regulations on the disposal of organic
garbage, on the care of animals regardless of why they are kept, or on
methods of slaughter. Although Ordinance 87-72 appears to apply to
substantial nonreligious conduct and not to be overbroad, it must also
be invalidated because it functions in tandem with the other
ordinances to suppress Santeria religious worship. Pp. 11-18.
(c) Each of the ordinances pursues the city's governmental
interests only against conduct motivated by religious belief and
thereby violates the requirement that laws burdening religious
practice must be of general applicability. Ordinances 87-40, 87-52,
and 87-71 are substantially underinclusive with regard to the city's
interest in preventing cruelty to animals, since they are drafted with
care to forbid few animal killings but those occasioned by religious
sacrifice, while many types of animal deaths or kills for nonreligious
reasons are either not prohibited or approved by express provision.
The city's assertions that it is ``self-evident'' that killing for food is
``important,'' that the eradication of insects and pests is ``obviously
justified,'' and that euthanasia of excess animals ``makes sense'' do
not explain why religion alone must bear the burden of the
ordinances. These ordinances are also substantially underinclusive
with regard to the city's public health interests in preventing the
disposal of animal carcasses in open public places and the
consumption of uninspected meat, since neither interest is pursued
by respondent with regard to conduct that is not motivated by
religious conviction. Ordinance 87-72 is underinclusive on its face,
since it does not regulate nonreligious slaughter for food in like
manner, and respondent has not explained why the commercial
slaughter of ``small numbers'' of cattle and hogs does not implicate its
professed desire to prevent cruelty to animals and preserve the public
health. Pp. 21-24.
(d) The ordinances cannot withstand the strict scrutiny that is
required upon their failure to meet the Smith standard. They are not
narrowly tailored to accomplish the asserted governmental interests.
All four are overbroad or underinclusive in substantial respects
because the proffered objectives are not pursued with respect to
analogous nonreligious conduct and those interests could be achieved
by narrower ordinances that burdened religion to a far lesser degree.
Moreover, where, as here, government restricts only conduct
protected by the First Amendment and fails to enact feasible
measures to restrict other conduct producing substantial harm or
alleged harm of the same sort, the governmental interests given in
justification of the restriction cannot be regarded as compelling.
Pp. 24-26.
Kennedy, J., delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts
I, III, and IV, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and White, Stevens, Scalia,
Souter, and Thomas, JJ., joined, the opinion of the Court with respect
to Part II-B, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and White, Stevens, Scalia,
and Thomas, JJ., joined, the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts
II-A-1 and II-A-3, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and Stevens, Scalia,
and Thomas, JJ., joined, and an opinion with respect to Part II-A-2, in
which Stevens, J., joined. Scalia, J., filed an opinion concurring in
part and concurring in the judgment, in which Rehnquist, C. J., joined.
Souter, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and concurring in the
judgment. Blackmun, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment,
in which O'Connor, J., joined.
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From: Don Weiss <donw@cscns.com>
Subject: Final Warning
Message-Id: <C8H2Mu.3ss@cscns.com>
Organization: Community_News_Service
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 19:40:06 GMT
A friend found this in the USA Today of 5/27/93 and ask that I post
it. Please don't respond to me directly as I am moving and won't be
available for a while. There's an address at the end if you are
interested in what they have to say.
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USA TODAY 5/27/93
Undercover "Away Team"
from
Distant Space
Goes Public with Final Warning
The following statements could sound very presumptuous. However,
these facts do come into focus or "prove" themselves if they are
seriously explored a step at a time. They could also sound very
"doomsdayish." Though, in truth, they will be the most joyous
"sound of music" to the ears and eyes of those who have been
waiting for them.
* The Earth's present "civilization" is about to be recycled --
"spaded under." Its inhabitants are refusing to evolve. The
"weeds" have taken over the garden and disturbed its usefulness
beyond repair.
* The human kingdom was created as a stepping stone between the
animal kingdom and the true Kingdom of God (the Evolutionary
Kingdom Level Above Human).
* It is the soul that progresses from one kingdom level to
another -- each kingdom level has its own unique physical
containers (bodies) for the souls that reside in that kingdom
level.
* As the human goes out to find servants within the animal
kingdom, from beasts of burden to seeing-eye dogs -- if that
animal grows to find pleasure only in serving its master, no
longer identifies as an animal, but sees itself as a family
member in that human family, and its behavior is pleasing to that
human -- the two become bound together. The human family then
provides the body (a human infant) for that soul to enter,
allowing it to move up into the human evolutionary kingdom.
(This is not to suggest that all human infants are containers for
souls moving up from the animal kingdom, for most human infants
are containers for human kingdom returnees still bound to that
family unit.)
* Likewise, when a member of the true Kingdom of God receives
instruction to incarnate among humans in order to seek out the
souls that might want to "separate from the pack" and are
desirous of becoming only servants in the Evolutionary Level
Above Human, He then offers them the knowledge and behavior that
can open that door to them. If that human changes to the degree
that he no longer desires any human behavior and he pleases that
member of the Kingdom Level Above Human, a bond is formed and a
body belonging to that new Kingdom is provided for that soul to
move up into.
* Both Kingdom Levels are physical and biological. However, the
human kingdom is made up of mammalian -- "seed-bearing" -- plants
or containers, while the Kingdom of God is made up of non-
mammalian, non-seed-bearing "containers" for souls, and their
young or "children" are those who have risen above -- overcome --
all human-mammalian characteristics and behavior through the
tutorship (midwifing) of a member of the Kingdom of God who has
been through that transition and bonded to His Father at a
previous time.
* Just as an animal sees his human tutor as the one and only
"master," likewise a human, as he becomes aware of a Member of
the Kingdom Level Above Human, sees Him as the one and only
"God." However, the individual that that human related to as God
sees Himself as a "child" in that higher, many-membered Kingdom
and knows that only through His "Father" (an Older Member in that
Kingdom) can He become a better member in that Kingdom.
* A "student" or prospective "child" of a member of the true
Kingdom of God can, with the help of an Older Member, overcome or
rise out of all human mammalian behavior -- sexuality and gender
consciousness -- and all other addictions and ties of the human
kingdom. He must complete this change to the point of abhorring
human behavior before his soul can become a "match" with a
biological body of the true Kingdom of God -- for that new body
is genderless and incapable of functioning at a human level.
* The true Kingdom of God, the "Headquarters" of all that is, is
a many-membered Kingdom which physically exists in the highest,
most distant Heaven -- a non-temporal place (outside of time, and
with eternal life). It is the only place from which souls, life,
and all creating originates. Being non-temporal, it was, is, and
forever will be -- a concept that we, as temporal creatures, are
not designed to comprehend. That Kingdom designed the "temporal"
world outside its "borders" and designed its temporal creatures
to have a progression of bodies or "vehicles" (through kingdom
levels, such as animal and human) for souls to evolve through.
If the soul survives and moves forward through all its tests
along the way -- it can, with the help of a member of the true
Kingdom of God, lose its temporal characteristics and become a
part of their non-perishable, non-corruptible world. However,
all other souls who reach a certain degree of corruption (having
of their own free will chosen to become totally separate from
their Creator) will engage a "self-destruct" mechanism at the
Age's end, manifested when opposing camps, be they human or
"Luciferian," come together and destroy each other -- thus
assisting in the plowing under of the "garden" for the Creator.
* The reason the term "TRUE" Kingdom of God is used repeatedly
is because there are many space alien races that through the
centuries of this civilization (and in civilizations prior) have
represented themselves to humans as "Gods." We refer to them
collectively as "Luciferians," for their ancestors fell away from
the keeping of the true Kingdom of God many thousands of years
ago. They are not genderless -- they still need to reproduce.
They are nothing more than technically advanced humans who have
retained some of what they learned while in the early training of
members of the true Kingdom of God, e.g., limited space-time
travel, telepathic communication, advanced travel hardware
(spacecrafts, etc.), increased longevity, advanced genetic
engineering, and such things as suspended holograms (as used in
some religious "miracles").
* These "Luciferian" space races are the humans' GREATEST ENEMY.
They hold humans in unknown slavery only to fulfill their own
needs. They cannot "create," though they develop races and
biological containers through genetic manipulation and
hybridization. They even try to "make deals" with human
governments to permit them (the Luciferians) to engage in
biological experimentation (through abductions) in exchange for
technically advanced modes of travel -- though they seldom follow
through, for they don't want the humans of this civilization to
grow to be another element of competition. They war among
themselves over the spoils of this planet and use religion and
increased sexual behavior to keep humans "drugged" and ignorant
(in darkness) while thinking they are in God's keeping. These
Luciferians see to it, through the "social norm" (the largest
Luciferian "cult" there is) that man continues to not avail
himself of the possibility of advancing beyond human. Many
things have become the accepted "norm," but that doesn't make
them right!
* Just as the biological body is the "container" for the soul,
the soul is the "container" for Mind (Spirit). Mind translates
into the brain as information (knowledge). Information is
available to humans from only two sources -- the mind of the
Luciferians -- or the Mind of the Kingdom of God. The mind of
the Luciferians yields misinformation (promoting the behavior and
concepts of this world). The Mind from the true Kingdom of God
yields true information (though the Luciferians and their
servants would reverse this interpretation). As we change, in
the progression of overcoming humanness -- the percentages change
-- of which mind occupies our soul -- Truth increases as
misinformation decreases. If we revert back to humanness, the
process reverses -- the Truth is aborted as the soul becomes more
filled with mammalian mind. That Truth can even be taken from us
if we abuse it. When our "eye becomes single" or our soul is
filled only with Mind or Spirit from the true Kingdom of God, it
becomes pure or Holy Mind (Spirit).
* The true Kingdom of God's design permits the presence of a
"Luciferian" element, during a human civilization, as a catalyst
for growth. Without it, we would have no choices -- our free
will could not be exercised. Our right choices find us in
alignment to recognize the Truth when it is offered.
* Two thousand years ago, the true Kingdom of God appointed an
Older Member to send His "Son," along with some of their
beginning students, to incarnate on this garden. While on Earth
as an "away team" with their "Captain," they were to work on
their overcoming of humanness and tell the civilization they were
visiting how the true Kingdom of God can be entered. The humans
under the control of the Luciferians killed the "Captain" and his
crew, because of the "blasphemous" position they held, and
quickly turned the teachings of the "Captain" -- the Older
Member's "Son" -- into watered down Country Club religion --
obscuring the remnants of the Truth.
* That same "away team" incarnated again in the 1970's in the
mature (adult) bodies that had been picked and prepped for this
current mission. This time the "Admiral" (the Older Member, or
Father, incarnate in a female vehicle) came with the Son --
"Captain" -- and his crew. As the two Older Members put out a
"statement" and held public meetings over about a 9-month period
in 1975-76 to bring their crew together, the media tagged them
the "UFO cult" because of their expectation of leaving aboard a
spacecraft (UFO) at the completion of their "overcoming." The
two Older Members then went into seclusion with their crew
(students), "lifting them out" of the world for almost 17 years
(not accepting any new students), making Earth's surface their
classroom. This isolation was absolutely necessary. The degree
of their overcoming of sexuality, addictions, and ties to the
human environment had to be taken to the point of matching the
behavior and consciousness of the Evolutionary Kingdom Above
Human. Only then would their new "Next Level" bodies be
functional. They resurfaced briefly for about a 31U2-month
period in 1992, allowing some of their "dropouts" to rejoin them.
* This changeover (sufficient "overcoming" to inherit Next Level
bodies) has been completed, and before they return, they are
instructed to share this statement with you.
* The Luciferians are about to be "recycled" (annihilated) at
the same time as this human civilization is "spaded." They know
that "rumor has it" that their days are numbered. They refuse to
believe it and are desperate to recruit souls from the human
kingdom into their "Heavenly Kingdom." There are many
"counterfeit" heavens, and each "heaven" is at this time
collecting "names in their book," forcing a stand of allegiance,
polarizing each individual's commitment to his chosen "God."
* When members of the Level Above Human are physically present,
the opposing forces work the hardest against them in order to
support their own position. They do almost anything to keep
humans from following the path toward the true Kingdom of God.
They "turn up the heat" at this time in the area of mammalian
behavior, primarily sexuality. This has become such an
overwhelming presence in the Earth's atmosphere that even some of
the crew that came with us were lost to its temptation. Don't
forget that when the Luciferians were expelled, in order to
support their own desires, they had to condemn the true Kingdom
of God and see it simply as another path -- inhumane and
radically uncompromising.
* The religious "cults" who have separated from the world have
"picked up on" one major aspect of what is "in the air" at this
time when the information of how to move from one kingdom level
to another is available. What they may have failed to recognize
is that experienced "clinicians" are necessary to take souls
through that "weaning" -- that difficult "withdrawal" from human
addictions and binding "misinformation" concepts. If it weren't
necessary to have clinicians present who have previously been
taken through that transition, we wouldn't need to be here. Some
religious "cults" might have children, participate in physical or
mental abuse, hold members against their will, have weapons, or
break laws in general -- while we have long been aware that that
type of behavior is inappropriate, especially for a transitional
"classroom."
* When the present "away team" leaves (which will be very soon),
the Truth will go with them. You cannot preserve the Truth in
your religions. It is with you only as long as a Truth bearer is
with you. Only those from the Land of Truth can bear it. It can
only be your future if you "reach out and grab it" while it is
offered. The Truth can be retained only as one is physically
connected with the Next Level, through an Older Member, and that
relationship requires that non-mammalian thinking and behavior be
sustained.
* Humans were, from the beginning, given a "prime directive" NOT
TO KILL OTHER HUMANS. "In defense" or for "rightness" are no
exceptions. Righteousness is what most frequently causes
conflict. "I'm right, you're wrong." "You're causing me trouble,
I'll wipe you out" (in the best interest of all, of course). The
world's systems continue to make laws permitting the breakage of
higher laws -- God's laws. Weapons designed for killing humans
are inexcusable. There are numerous methods of controlling a
violent person without the necessity of murder. The irony is,
each killer sends its victims to exactly where they want to go
(to their chosen heaven). Humans fight for their desires -- what
they choose to not overcome -- what they cling to. Our desires
and attachments (or lack of them) determine which heaven we're
going to.
* A soul cannot end its own existence. Though it may incarnate
many times and the body or vehicle it is wearing may be
terminated, only the true Kingdom of God -- the Evolutionary
Level Above Human -- can terminate the soul. This termination of
the soul is the only proper application of the term DEATH.
* When a soul "awakens" in a particular "season" or incarnation
(usually sometime between college age and mid-life), it is
picking up where it left off at the end of its previous
incarnation. What an individual participates in prior to that
"awakening" is of no real significance. If a soul had previously
overcome such human characteristics as family ties and
relationships, at his "awakening" he is seen by those around him
as suddenly becoming unstable, for he is compelled to once again
separate from those imposing ties and seek to connect with what
he had previously sought or connected with. What he primarily
learns is what is not for him as he seeks for the Highest Truth
or Reality.
* The media seems devoted to "saving" the public from radical
ideologies or "cults," particularly of seeming "religious" types.
Also a news "scoop" requires haste. These two elements together
predetermine that they search for any and all negative quotes
that will discredit the groups' leaders and the groups' behavior.
The fact still remains that negative reporting far outsells
positive reporting -- and after all, positive reporting of
radical material can end or ruin a reporter's career. Well, it
won't be hard to discredit this group from its leaders down, for
prior to and during their "awakening" and subsequent coming
together, they all made many mistakes and learned from them.
Plus -- you don't give up the ways of the world without the
condemnation of those who still advocate what you have overcome.
* When we came before (2000 years ago) the world "cleansed" or
"saved" their world from our "blasphemy" and merely got us our
boarding passes back to the true Kingdom of God on the true
"Enterprise" (spaceship or "cloud of light"). If you seek to
cleanse the world of our "blasphemy" this time, you would simply
be the instrument of our "days being shortened" while destroying
your "last chance" in this civilization to advance.
* Now at the close of an Age -- every significant soul of this
civilization has returned (and is in or attached to a physical
body) to reap their reward. Most who think they are for the
Kingdom of God are in fact working for the opposing side -- the
counterfeit "Gods" -- and will want to condemn us. Your actions,
even your thoughts of condemnation toward us, out of allegiance
to your "God," will cause our part of the Heavens to look upon
your "god" with the same rejection.
* Many say they live only for the "Harvest Time" -- the "Last
Days" -- the "Second Coming." Those are all finally here! --
Will you accept us as them? You cannot bypass us even in your
prayers -- you cannot insult your Creator by refusing to go
through the ones He has sent to you. There are souls here now
for the express purpose of connecting -- and eventually bonding
-- with the Next Level through us. Those souls will be protected
-- out of harm's way -- and "saved" from the approaching sorting
out, recycling, and "spading under" of the Luciferians and their
human servants. If you can get your name in our "book," on our
spacecraft's computer (and only there), making your actions
reflect that desire -- then you will go with us.
SUMMARY: Our surfacing is in reality a test of the public's
"civility." Can a society that is still dealing with bigotry and
prejudices against races, religions, and sexual preference extend
the right of existence to some who see humanity as a stepping
stone toward the Kingdom of God, and desire to take that step and
briefly offer it to others? Or is Earth's present civilization
still as primitive as it was 2000 years ago? We'll see!
If we can help you, write to:
Total Overcomers Anonymous
c/o Omega Agency
P.O. Box 833842 #293
Richardson TX 75083-3842
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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 02:59:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: RYAN Alan Porter <ryan@rtfm.mlb.fl.us>
Reply-To: RYAN Alan Porter <ryan@rtfm.mlb.fl.us>
Subject: ID: Alarming Development
To: Extropians@gnu.ai.mit.edu, Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Cc: strick@osc.versant.com, gt7950b@hydra.gatech.edu
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I was in my vet's office today after having my rabbit castrated and found
an alarming article.
It was concerning a fairly new invention that our local vets are almost
all endorsing, it is a small device, about the size of a grain of rice,
apparantly, which is implanted under the skin of your pet with a needle
for $30 in a five minute operation. The device contains some kind of
microelectronics which allow it to be read by a scanner. Each one has a
unique serial number.
The scanner pictured looked a lot like a barcode scanner, apparantly it
doesn't have to be very close and it is very reliable and easy to scan an
animal and tell whether or not they have been implanted.
The implant itself is passive, so there are no batteries to wear out, and
it is reportedly indestructible. It was referred to as an AVID, or
American Veterinery Identification Device.
There is now a national database known as PetTrack, or a company by that
name, or something, that part wasn't very clear...which keeps track of all
of the implanted animals. There has been some problem in the past with
settling on a standard numbering method and such, and there are apparantly
four different kinds of scanners on the market, so the technology is quite
new and unstandardized.
Reason for concern: This look suspiciously like a test campaign to create
a large, centralized database for keeping track of people with a method
that can be verified instantly and automatically. What is to stop the
feds from discovering this and using it to track convicts? Once they have
society convinced of the benefits of tracking convicts, what is to stop
them from using it to track everyone?
I have alarming visions of a world where you are implanted at birth with
your social security number or whatever, and then tracked every time you
get on a plane, cross a state border, go to a public restroom... Hell,
what's to stop satellites from keeping track of every single citizen at
every single instant, no matter where on the planet they may wander?
Am I being paranoid for being concerned at this possible new tool for
invading privacy?
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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 01:44:17 -0400
From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Message-Id: <199306120544.AA27763@world.std.com>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: xtals
I think we should believe the crystal nerds and take them at their
word and make crystals require a prescription from a neuro-geologist.
But that's only because I happen to run the world.
-b, as in Believe it or leave it.
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