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Mr. Milde, NOTE: Conservative preachers blame God for earthquakes ..

One of the most callous reactions to the Haiti disaster thus far has come from televangelist Pat Robertson, who told viewers [ http://www.salon.com/news/2010/01/13/haiti_robertson/index.html ] of his Christian Broadcasting Network on Wednesday morning that he knew the real reason for the quake: The country's long-standing pact with Satan.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=45515977 .. also fore and aft ..

NOTE: Republican governor blames God for oil spills ..

Perry questioned whether the spill was “just an act of God that occurred” and said that any “politically driven” decisions could put the U.S. in further economic peril.

“From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented,” Perry said.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/36691.html

NOTE: Fred Waldron Phelps, Sr, says God hates the US, Canada AND Australia ..

. (born November 13, 1929) is an American pastor who is the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church
(WBC), an independent Baptist church based in Topeka, Kansas [...]

The following quotes were taken from: "Sermon_20010914.mp3". WBC Download Center. Westboro Baptist Church. September 14, 2001.

* "God hates America, and those calamities last Tuesday [September 11, 2001] are none other than the wrath of God, smiting fag America... That wasn't any accident. That wasn't any coincidence. There's only America to blame for those tragedies."

* "How many do you suppose of those hundred (sic) and thirty soldiers died (sic) in the Pentagon last Tuesday were fags and dykes? And how many do you suppose were working in that massively composed building structure called those two World Trade Center buildings, Twin Towers? There were five thousand or ten thousand killed and, counting all those passengers in those airplanes, it's very likely that every last single one of them was a fag or dyke or a fag enabler, and that the minute he died, he split hell wide open ....... continued ..

Ouch! Such bile. Phelps, makes Rev. Jeremiah Wright, look like a most peaceful preacher.
I ask any. LOL. Wright blamed America's terrorism abroad. Freddy Phelp's, blames God.

Which of those lends more to reason? ...... Oh, noooooo, now loook at dis ..

Australia

The following quotes were taken from: "God Hates Australia." WBC Video News. Westboro Baptist Church. February 12, 2009.

* "God hates Australia, land of the sodomite damned! The fag-infested land of Australia is burning. The fire of God's wrath is sending hundreds of those filthy Australian beasts straight to hell! We at Westboro Baptist Church are rejoicing, and we are praying that the dear Lord would burn many more Australians alive!"

* "Don't you stupid Aussies get it? Australia is doomed! Nothing, and nobody, can
help you. You have sinned willfully after you have received knowledge of the truth."

Insert: there are a number on iHub, who say the above about me and that America is doomed. Wonder if many of them are Phelpers.

Canada

The following quotes were taken from: "God Hates Canada." WBC Video News. Westboro Baptist Church. July 31, 2008.

* "Canada is a filthy country run by fags, which has Draconian laws making it a crime to preach the Gospel there. .. much more ..
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fred_Phelps

Seriously, Sod, must be freaking at these guys. No offense meant, just spoke to God and she said
she quite liked the nickname. Actually, the lovely lady i speak to has quite a sense of humor.
LOLOLOL .. enough .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=51220082

NOTE: John Hagee says Icelandic Volcano is God’s Wrath on Britain
http://thechurchofjesuschrist.us/2010/04/john-hagee-says-icelandic-volcano-is-gods-wrath-on-britain/
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=51220082

NOTE: Pat Robertson's Christian militia connection plot to kill police not only to get the country back, but to get his own ..

Hutaree militia sought new country
April 2, 2010

David Stone snr called the US government a 'terrorist organisation' and wanted to reclaim the nation, writes Nick Bunkley in Detroit.

An undercover federal agent went on training exercises with the Hutaree militia for at least eight months before nine members of the militant Christian group were arrested and charged with plotting an uprising against the government, prosecutors said.

The Stone family and the fiercely militant group that revolved around them even invited the agent to family weddings, where brides, grooms and guests - including children - wore fatigues and carried high-powered assault rifles.

The militia's leader, David Brian Stone snr, asked the agent to provide explosives to be used to attack police officers and told him to make armour-piercing bombs using pieces of road signs as shrapnel, an assistant US attorney, Ronald Waterstreet, said at a hearing on Wednesday.

Citing the agent's reports and audio recordings of militia members, Waterstreet described the militia as a relatively small group of weapons fanatics planning to wage a war against the government and all law enforcement officers, their spouses and children. Stone wanted eventually to have his own country and had assembled two nine-member squads, led by himself and his son, Joshua, to begin by taking over several southern Michigan counties, he said.

A search of Stone snr's ramshackle trailer, which his lawyer estimated was worth $US500, yielded 300 pieces of evidence, including explosive materials, bomb-making components and shrapnel, said Waterstreet.

Describing the hierarchy of Hutaree, Waterstreet said Stone snr led the militia and Joshua Matthew Stone was a squad leader. He said Stone jnr, the elder Stone's 19-year-old son, was in charge of detonations and explosives.

Kristopher Sickles, 27, led the militia in Ohio and others had responsibilities including communications and recruitment. Michael David Meeks, 40, and Thomas Piatek, 46, were ''heavy gunners'' in charge of ''laying down heavy fire'' in encounters with the ''enemy''.

The Hutaree website lists names of ranks in the organisation as gunner, senior gunner, master gunner, lukore, bronze rifleman, silver rifleman, gold rifleman, arkon, zulif, boramander, and presumably the commanding rank of ''radok''.

In Indiana, a judge ordered Piatek to be held without bail and transferred to Michigan to face weapons and conspiracy charges with the other defendants.

A federal prosecutor testified that FBI agents found 46 guns and 13,000 rounds of ammunition in Piatek's home.

In a recording played during the hearing in Michigan, Stone snr described the government as a "terrorist organisation" and told his followers: "Now is the time to strike and take our nation back."

The comments were part of a speech he planned to deliver during a meeting with other militias in Kentucky in February, before a winter storm forced the group to turn back in Indiana, Waterstreet said.

On the way back to Stone's home in Clayton, Michigan, he spotted a police officer from a nearby town and said, "We're going to pop him, guaranteed," Waterstreet said.

Stone jnr, who was arrested after fleeing to a neighbouring county, pleaded not guilty at the hearing. The seven other defendants stood mute and had not-guilty pleas entered on their behalf.

The defendants' lawyers said they were angry that prosecutors presented their case without allowing them to cross-examine the undercover agent. They argued that the defendants, most of whom have no criminal records, have a First Amendment right to criticise the government and did not act violently against anyone.

"All you've got is a lot of talk from people who like to dress up in fatigues and carry around guns in the woods," said Michael Rataj, the lawyer for Tina Stone, Stone snr's wife.

The context of Hutaree life in and around Adrian, Michigan, where guns and resentment of federal authority are fairly common, is crucial to understanding the Hutaree and the Stones, many people in the area say.

Yes, they shot guns, did skirmish exercises on their land and hosted regular monthly meetings of people in military clothing, said one neighbour. But they also kept to themselves, and their talk was deemed by many people to be just that.

''We never thought they were dangerous,'' said Jane Ream, 68, who lives nearby with her husband, Dick. ''And lots of people shoot guns - that's normal around here, so you don't pay any attention to it.''

Several people who have known the Stones for years said they were unsure what, if anything, might have transformed angry rhetoric into what the Department of Justice called an active conspiracy against law enforcement.

The retired principal at the school attended by Stone snr, remembered him as a pupil who ''stayed in the middle and didn't get noticed'' or in trouble.

Richard Butler, 79, who worked his whole career in Adrian schools, said Stone - pictured in a yearbook in the early 1980s with short hair and a flamboyant vest - loved dirt bikes and played in a band all through high school. Stone never seemed headed for trouble. ''Whatever happened to him happened after high school,'' he said. .. http://www.smh.com.au/world/hutaree-militia-sought-new-country-20100401-ri32.html