Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
Friday, February 16, 2007, 4 pm PST
This Week's Show
Guest: Mr. Douglas Lorenz
The attrition of the Bush Presidency on the Republican Party is only part of the reason that many Republicans are now discussing what must be done to restore the mission for small government, individual rights, and low taxes to their Party. Hear Doug Lorenz on this subject and how this might be accomplished. One way, Lorenz says, is to begin a dialogue that goes beyond rhetoric and into the hearts of all Americans.
Mr. Lorenz is presently active in the Republican Liberty Caucus and was elected recently to the position of National Chairman.
Douglas Lorenz founded the computer consulting firm, Lorenz Technologies, in 1990. With offices in San Francisco and Sunnyvale, he provided network solutions and computer systems to companies throughout the Bay Area. As the Internet began to grow as a business and communications tool, Douglas returned to college to update his focus.
While in college, Douglas became active in politics, and used his computer skills to encourage greater online communication among political efforts. Douglas has been very active in developing volunteer political organizations, having created the first online presence for the California College Republicans during his college years. He continued his activities with volunteer political organizations through the Republican Liberty Caucus, and was recently elected to the position of National Chairman. Adding to his technology background, Douglas completed his B.A. degree from California State University Sacramento in Public Relations, with a minor in Economics.
Douglas came to the political consulting firm Russo Marsh & Rogers in 2000, and developed the company’s current information technologies capabilities. Subsequently, during Bill Simon’s campaign for Governor of California, Douglas served as the campaign’s Director of Information Technologies, and designed the campaign’s mobile “War Room” capabilities, allowing campaign staff to stay connected to the main office during remote activities such as conventions and political debates.
Bringing government into alignment with the Lessons of Jesus:
The focus of our show is how to bring government into alignment with truth of our spiritual nature. So America started with the idea we are all, inherently free. We are free to choose, free to live, to breath, and to live our lives as we see fit. Government does not own us; government is just a contractor, providing service.
That framework is in alignment with the spiritual truth that each of us connects to God directly, needing no agency as an intermediary. To be free is to be free in the spirit ans so in the flesh that temporarily holds the spirit.
When Thomas Jefferson said we were all possessed of inherent rights, existing before government he was extending a spiritual truth into a civic form. It is that Mission Statement from the Declaration of Independence we need to keep in mind.
Because we are free and reject, as did Christ, the use of deceit, manipulation or violence we need to be conscious about our relationships with others and find ways to grow into the sense of connection and community that makes us One in Him.
This is especially true for Christians but it is true for everyone else as well.
Nearly every major spiritual viewpoint enunciates the idea that we are connected to each other and should be good to each other. Christians just have an even more exacting mission. Christians are to love every one, treating them as they would Jesus.
Jesus was very clear about how we were to treat others. He did not say that it was alright to be abusive, deceitful, and violent if we used government as our tool and agent. There was no exception, He wanted all of our hearts, minds and souls. Christ did not lay out any plan of government, but left it to the conscience of the individual, the same way He connects to each of us.
We are Americans but we are also members of a human family that connects us to something truly wonderful and immense.
So our job here at the Spiritual Politician is to look at Government as a human tool we use every day. We need to consider if government is working in a way that speaks that common understanding about our connections to each other and, if it is not, we need to change it.
Americans have had many successes over the last 231 years since our founding and, learning from both mistakes and successes we can consider that question. So here at the Spiritual Politician we look at the truth behind of rhetoric.
Given what is going on today in Government what we may decide to do it reboot the whole system.
To provide the examples of what has gone right and what has gone very wrong we here at the Spiritual Politician have put together several different kinds of segments you will hear on our show from time to time.
Founder and president of the Arthur C. Pillsbury Foundation
Books by Melinda: Links to Melinda's sites:
How the NeoCons Stole Freedom
Shards of Verse Melinda's Poetry
Greed: The NeoConning of America
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