Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
Friday, November 24, 2006 4 pm PDT
This Week's Show
Our Guest: Angelina Alexander
Angelina Alexander, a mother who has been struggling in Orange County, California, to retrieve her little son from a system that admits they should never have taken him – but refuses her pleas. The show airs Friday, November 24, 2006 at 4 PM PDT
Ms. Alexander if the mother of three children. Her son, Jonathan was taken from her five years ago and her rights severed although Children's Services admitted they acted without cause after an investigation. Angelina has never stopped thinking of her little boy and trying to contact him. She knows he remembers her because just once she managed to talk to him briefly before his 'adoptive' parents grabbed the phone and hung up.
Now, Ms. Alexander spends all of her spare time helping the growing numbers of other bereft parents whose children have been stolen legally and without cause by the same agency that took Jonathan. Unsettling evidence now points to a system and intentional policy to take children out of good homes for reasons that run from adoption to use in medical experiments.
Americans need to know that corruption does not stop with elections and Congress. Corruption in America is destroying families every day. We need to take action so that children such as Jonathan can be saved and returned to their parents. Angelina Alexander will share her story with us Friday.
What the Show is about and being a Spiritual Politician
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
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