>Friday 1455 hours 19 May 2006 ­ Briagolong Post Office: I spoke to Senior
>Constable Peter Andrews and said I was still suffering pain in the right
>rib-cage area where he struck me and that I will have to see a doctor about
>it. He laughed and laughed. I said it was no laughing matter--As a member of
>the GLBT community I had performed a protest on ANZAC Day 25 April 2006
>wearing my Gay & Lesbian Police Employees Network (GALPEN) jacket, my
>blood-stained Rainbow Sash and Jewish Yamulka. Getting arrested following a
>concerted and conniving effort to have me removed from the street, made by
>Athanasius, an Internet aus.religion.christian forum participant from the
>Egyptian Coptic community and local residents--which had a distinct flavour
>of religious intolerance: "If not in [th]is the fruit of his heretical
>Sabbatarian and Judaistic mixed non-Christian beliefs mixed with his
>physical ailments." [Athanasius 0730 hrs 1 May 2006]
>
>"Briagolong Police have been informed both of your postings on this group
>referring to the Assistant Police Commissioner (Vic) and your intentions for
>tomorrow's Anzac Day March protest in Briagolong.
>
>It is hoped that respect and concern for others including those who are
>grieving will be your offering to your new community tomorrow, rather than a
>contemptuous public rebuke. All following dribble by the above poster will
>be ignored: 'Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the
>kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
>adulterers, nor homosexuals [properly (Gk) MALAKOS -- pretension in the
>greatest degree as incorporeal treason], nor sodomites [properly (Gk)
>ARSENOKOITE -- men who act against covenant and constitution], nor thieves,
>nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the
>kingdom of God.' [1 Corinthians 6:9-10]" [Athanasius 1526 hrs 24 April 2006]
>
>"Leave Dolf alone Athanasius. The days of ridiculing and baiting people with
>the problems Dolf has should be behind us. You're not doing that very well,
>are you? What happened to the new persona you promised us after Easter?"
>[Theo Bekkers (atheist) 1542 hrs 24 April 2006]
>
>"And what problems, beyond your imagination might they be? 'I speak to your
>shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? No, not one that
>shall be able to judge between his brethren? But brother goes to law with
>brother, and that before unbelievers.' [1 Corinthians 6:5-6]" [Dolf Boek
>1732 hrs 24 April 2006]
>
>"It wasn't me that called in the police to harrass Dolf. It now appears they
>have paid him three visits since Athanasius contacted them." [Theo Bekkers
>(atheist) 0957 hrs 26 April 2006]
>
>"You have a penchant for annoying the authorities beyond the point of being
>ignored." [Theo Bekkers (atheist) 0958 hrs 26 April 2006]
>
>"Four. The last one being able to protect him from an impending angry mob.
>Good work all round I would say. Good protective community policing. Seems
>like even Dolf appreciated the protection he was afforded. Another job well
>done thanks to God. Peace and grace." [Athanasius 0915 hrs 27 April 2006]
>
>"That was the point I was trying to make. Thanks to a sensible local police
>force, I would have thought ..." [Jani 0853 hrs 27 April 2006]
>
>"Who were given the heads up by a servant of God. :) Like I said, Thanks to
>God. :) Peace and grace." [Athanasius 0906 hrs 27 April 2006]
>
>"Thanks to them being alerted to the situation by Athanasius. Except for
>that, Mr. Boek might well have been 'lynched' by a (justifiably) angry mob.
>So we can say it was a good thing that they intervened, can't we?" [Peter
>Wood 0932 hrs 27 April 2006]
>
>"Australians are pretty easy-going, on the whole. Only two things seem to
>get them really worked up: (a) Interfering with Anzac Day; (b) Being
>disturbed while watching sport on TV." [Dr. Ken Smith 0939 hrs 27 April
>2006]
>
>"I'm sure there must be more. '(a) Interfering with Anzac Day' and rightly
>so!' [Peter Wood 1019 hrs 27 April 2006]
>
>"No-one from the town was there at dawn--they were hijacking ANZAC day for
>their own ends and not out of regard for any sense of duty to the State."
>[Dolf Boek 0616 hrs 28 April 2006]
>
>My actions were in accordance with obligations to State (after viewing Sky
>satellite news broadcast of the Sydney ANZAC day event) and to adhere to
>Judaeo-Christian religious observances of Nature as the rising and the
>setting of the sun and the metathetic sequencing of time culminating in the
>Sabbath as the 7th day of the week. Observed as custom out of regard to the
>God Almighty of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as Yahweh. Which was the reason I
>was in the pre-dawn darkness on ANZAC day, talking to Kaine, a cameraman and
>Gorgi Quill, a reporter from the Channel 9 Television Today Show crew.
>Excepting for the garbage collectors, a car or two and the attendance of the
>police and the flag raising by a gentleman--an amputee with a hook--we were
>all but alone!
>
>At Gorgi's request, I remained especially quiet whilst they took a video
>journal of the flag raising.
>
>How true it all turned out to be. From subsequent media reports of 19 June
>2006 concerning the Inquiry into the death of Private Jacob Kovco who died
>on 21 April 2006, there was the suggestion that he could have killed himself
>while dancing and joking around to the Cranberries song titled 'Dream' in a
>manner described as "(It was) almost to say this is so gay I would rather be
>dead." And saying 'Allahu Akbar (God is Great)' with his unchecked weapon a
>9mm pistol in hand--This apparent gay-abandon as lack of decorum and display
>of the private¹s proclivities would certainly have created a dissonance with
>the religious and cultural sensitivities of the Iraqi populace.
>
>GRIEVING MOTHERS
>This was not the first occasion where I have had to intervene in state
>affairs. On 11 November 2002 Reta Kaur, the woman behind the activist peace
>group Women For Peace, was arrested and charged with 'trespass' at
>Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance. Former Victorian RSL president Bruce
>Ruxton called Women for Peace member Reta Kaur an "old hag" as she chanted
>anti-war messages at Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance ceremony."Get back to
>where you came from you old hag," an angry Mr Ruxton told Reta Kaur. She was
>subsequently found guilty and sentenced to a one year 'good behaviour bond'.
>
>I was on about 10 February 2003, having a stroll down the tree lined
>boulevard known as St Kilda Road, when I came across Reta Kaur and another
>women outside the grounds of the US embassy at 553 St Kilda Road, Melbourne.
>Whereupon, as I passed by, I said "Oh daughter of Babylon, who sits in the
>street like a harlot, today your judgment has come." The anti-gay rhetoric
>to which I was then subject, invalidated any claim to a just cause which
>Reta Kaur could make.
>
>The last occasion was on 15 May 2006 when I responded to anti-war activist
>Cindy Sheehan and Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon urging the pullout of
>Australian troops from Iraq on the occasion Prime Minister John Howard
>together with the United States President George W. Bush, were performing a
>tree-planting ceremony at the Australian Consulate.
>
>Perhaps this was the same Cindy who was my salvo during the newsgroup
>dialogue above. I suggested then that there was a Natural Law problem
>associated with Cindy Sheehan's protestation against the War in Iraq. In
>that in common with Islam, Roman Catholics can make no common claim to
>Judaeo-Christianity and that apart from the linguisitic context as the Koran
>in Arabic script; and Latin for Roman Catholics, it is presumption to
>conclude that English which is a later technological achievement, has any
>spiritual fidelity to the older sacred tongues. I demonstrated this by doing
>an analysis of Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon's public media comments:
>
>"Our troops that are over there now are spending all their time and energy
>and resources just trying to stay alive. There's no spreading of democracy
>that's happening, there's no building of schools that's happening. The only
>thing that's been built are permanent bases that are there," [#24 -
>Important Distinctions/ Trouble from Indulgence; I-Ching: H5 - Delay;
>Mystery: #18 - Waiting]
>
>"So what are we accomplishing? What would we be running from? It seems as if
>we're the source of aggravation." [#32 - Natural Guide/ Virtue of Holiness;
>I-Ching: H44 - Coming On; Mystery: #43 - Encounters]
>
>"So I don't think that we would be cutting and running. I think that's just
>an expression that appeals to a macho mentality to get people to stay." [#14
>- Metaphysical Issues/ Praising the Mysterious; I-Ching: H19 - Approaching;
>Mystery: #9 - Branching Out]
>
>"But at a certain point, trying to explain to people why their children are
>being killed, both the Iraqi families and the Americans that are over there,
>I think you'd have a hard time selling cutting and running to those families
>that have people actually in harm's way." [#56 - Abstruse Virtuosity/ Virtue
>of the Mysterious; I-Ching: H55 - Abundance; Mystery: #46 - Enlargement]
>([#1])
>
>I am aware, in making my public newsgroup comments that they are accessible
>by an extra-ordinary number of people on all sides of the political
>spectrum. I appreciated the preparedness by which Cindy Sheehan and Susan
>Saradon were willing to accept abstruse advice and extricate themselves from
>a circumstance which had the potential to impugn their integrity: "I'm
>sorry. Yet I can't help thinking that those other individuals who may have
>disturbed the peace because they are lacking in restraint weren't also
>arrested, because of 'their potential to do so'. Stupid huh? All the world
>wonders after the Beast.
>
>We have that kinda thing in the U.S. too, they don't call it this (I don't
>think) but it is what it is: pre-emptive law enforcement. For one example,
>those who had bumper stickers or t-shirts supporting Kerry or criticising
>Bush are blocked from public Bush appearances and speeches because it is
>assumed they are there to cause problems and could disturb the peace or
>start a riot etc. One woman with a t-shirt they objected to, began to
>protest as she was being removed, and then they used that to prove they were
>right, and that she was a troublemaker. Personally, I see that as a load of
>crap. Big brother is back in business.
>
>Of course this all makes it appear that there is no problems, and all are in
>unity and supportive of government policies when it's reported by the media.
>This paranoid behavior seems to go hand in hand with pre-emptive war. Let's
>go to war, to prevent a war. Who ever did anything so completely illogical
>except the first second and third Reich Respectively-- Pagan Roman Empire,
>Papal Roman Empire, and Nazi Germany. And why when these things are being
>discussed are we the ones being called paranoid?" [Cindy, 0105 hrs 26 April
>2006 commenting on 'My being arrested on suspicion of a potential to disturb
>the peace--that my comments could have caused some individuals who otherwise
>lack restraint to disturb the peace']
>
>CATHOLIC CONSCIENCE, PRAGMATISM & NATURAL LAW
>Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman's twilight wedding of Sunday 25 June 2006
>gives an opportunity to question whether the Australian Catholic Church's
>performance of their nuptuals at St. Patrick's Manly Parish, is due to the
>Roman Catholic Church adopting a far more inclusive, pragmatic and reasoned
>approach to autonomous rights as accountabilities within Natural Law:
>
>"The manifesting norm (norma denuntians), which determines the moral quality
>of actions tried by the discriminating norm, is reason. Through this faculty
>we perceive what is the moral constitution of our nature, what kind of
>action it calls for, and whether a particular action possesses this
>requisite character." [Catholic Encylopedia]
>
>This moral incongruety with regards to the Natural Law as matter of
>conscience, was especially apparent in 'The Weekend Australian' Newspaper of
>24-25 June 2006 where the newly Papal appointed Archbishop of Canberra, Mark
>Coleridge (ordained 18th May 1974 at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne) is
>pictured in a suit and a Bulldog's football scarf kicking an Aussie Rules
>football. Whilst an ecclesiastical conservative, who is not 'ideologically
>driven', he remains a fan of Cardinal Pell's 'immense compassion and good
>humor' as rare qualities which makes him obviously a leader for which he has
>'enormous admiration and respect'. The consideration then, is whether Mark
>Coleridge needs to give an accountability as to why in his admiration of
>Cardinal Pell, he is prepared to overlook his past anti-homosexual stance as
>rhetoric equivalent to German Nazism which can be regarded as continuing
>violation of Natural and Common Law, Human and Constitutional Rights:
>
>'Archbishop Mark Coleridge said "The only thing I have as a bishop is Jesus.
>It sounds a bit blunt; it's not a question of my own insight, wisdom and
>brilliance. The power that Jesus has can bring strength from weakness, light
>from darkness and life from death. I have to go wherever there is a
>weakness, darkness and death with the faith that out of them will come
>strength, light and life."
>
>Archbishop Coleridge is wary about the pragmatism underlying Australian
>culture attaining an unhealthy level in national politics. "Its not enough
>to indulge in pragmatism that adopts the approach of 'whatever works' or
>'whatever it takes' as an ethical basis for public life," he says.
>
>"The Australian ethos and culture tend to be pragmatic, but sheer pragmatism
>can give way to cynicism. Once that happens, the ethical base deteriorates
>quickly", he says, and while we are not at that point we should be aware.
>
>Still, he is not going to stick the boot into the politicians. Politics is a
>noble calling. I want to support and help politicans to do their best in
>their noble calling at a time when it's not easy to be a politician." [Jill
>Rowbotham 'From one noble call to another', The Weekend Australian 24-25
>June 2006, p 27]
>
>The Catholic Encyclopedia suggests, whilst radically, the natural law
>consists of one supreme and universal principle such as Marriage {ie.
>Hymenealism deifies this principle}, from which are derived all our natural
>moral obligations or duties--There are many erroneous opinions regarding
>what is this fundamental rule of life.
>
>That within it there also exists an alternate Chronological Principle of the
>Seventh-day as weekly metathetic cycle comprising 7 x 24 x 13 [2184 days of
>'oth cycle = 6D as 6 x 364] x 49 = 6J as 294 x 364 = 293 x 365.2425 years,
>from which are derived all our natural moral obligations or duties within
>the Decologue as relating to its Hyponomic Character of the Hypostatis.
>Centrally, there is a polarity and priority contention on this principle of
>Natural Law as therefore between the norm as 'order of male and female'
>espoused by philosophy of religion drawn from symbolic theology and the 7th
>day Sabbath associated to the 'constant sequence of sun and moon' as 354 x 3
>+ 30 day intercalation = 1092 days x 2 = 2184 days of 'oth cycle. He makes
>them the canonical model for all eternity: "Surely my Sabbaths you shall
>keep, for it is a sign-'oth between me and you throughout your generations,
>that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you. You shall keep the
>Sabbath, therefore, for it is holy to you..." [Exodus 31:13-14]
>
>Judaism requires the connection of Heaven (YANG/HEAVEN/FATHER/MALE) and
>earth (YIN/EARTH/MOTHER/FEMALE), as the spiritual and physical, through the
>performance of mitzvot, which spiritualize the body through a physical
>action performed in the service of God. However, Judaism speaks of them in
>terms of 'bar mitzvah' or "son of the commandment" as the traditional Jewish
>celebration for a boy when he becomes thirteen years old and a girl
>automatically becomes 'bas mitzvah' or "daughter of the commandment" at the
>age of twelve--whereupon they willingly embrace Jewish living in mitzvah
>performance of an intellectual and spritual vitality as regime comprising
>#613 as the total number of Torah commandments.
>
>The 248 positive commandments, according to Rabbi Osher Chaim Levene of
>Project Genesis, are actions that build and further man's bond to his
>Creator. The 365 negative commandments are those forbidden activities that
>threaten to break down this relationship. While the former entail positive
>measures indicating love of God, not violating the latter reflects man's
>fear of God and desire not to ruin the relationship. Together, the 613
>commandments forge the ideal relationship where the two parties become one.
>The phrase 'echad basar (one flesh) [Genesis 2:23-24; Matthew 19:3-10] and
>'echad kesher (one unit, or one bond) being equally expressive of this dual
>relationship between God and man [Galatians 3:28]: "For there is no
>partiality with God, for as many as have sinned without the law will also
>perish without the law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged
>by the law (for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but
>the doers of the law will be justified; for when the Gentiles, who do not
>have the law, by nature do the things contained in the law, these, although
>not having the law, are a law to themselves. Who show the work of the law
>written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between
>themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them) in the day God
>will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my Gospel."
>[Romans 2:11-16 (New KJV)]
>
>That Natural Law jurisprudence has in common with virtue ethics a vitality,
>as a live option being the basis for a first principles ethics theory in
>analytic philosophy. To translate this within the context of the qualifying
>decider between the Australian Socceroos and Italy of 26 June 2006, we can
>readily view in this example, this vital principle of Natural Law at play.
>The mitzvah here might be viewed as the Penalty Kick and the mezuzah analogy
>the box square before the goals: "Man is the paradoxical synthesis of two
>parts. He has a physical body, within which pulsates a Heavenly soul. How
>can these opposite forces unite? The physical and spiritual connect in the
>performance of a mitzvah. A mitzvah can be described as the action and force
>that expresses the spiritual world of God in the physical world of man. How
>the force of a mitzvah transforms the physical into the metaphysical
>reflects the fascinating relationship between two very different worlds.
>
>Everything physical is a reflection and crystallization of a spiritual
>reality. Torah is the DNA of the universe. The physical universe was formed
>for mitzvah observance. mitzvot are not a result of a reaction to the
>reality of the physical world. Rather, the converse is true. The Torah
>system is the cause that results and translates into the existence and
>creation of the physical world. For example, the spiritual energy of the
>mitzvah of mezuzah as the concept of the Oneness of G-d, leads to the
>physical reality in which people dwell in homes with doors and doorposts
>with which to perform this commandment--The box is physically just a box.
>It's primary and central purpose is to protect the Mezuzah as the parchment
>scroll with the writing on it, that is inside it.
>
>This means that physical phenomena are simply the projection of their
>originating spiritual forces. Access to the Heavenly realm requires the
>interaction through the conduit of the human body. Judaism requires the
>connection of Heaven and earth, spiritual and physical, through the mitzvot,
>which spiritualize the body through a physical action performed in the
>service of God...
>
>A mitzvah is therefore the point of transcendence where man meaningfully
>connects with his Creator, where opposite realms converge, where the
>physical becomes spiritual, where finite actions dovetail into infinity,
>where the ephemeral becomes eternal.
>
>The prescription to true fulfillment and contentment in Jewish life and to
>development of one's personality based upon an eternal connection and
>relationship to God is found only within the framework of mitzvah
>observance, an infinitely rich and rewarding experience." [Copyright 2004
>mitzva.org "SET IN STONE", Published by Targum Press, Inc]
>
>--
>
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