Col. David Antoon - A Father confronts the need for justice in the Middle East

With the Host of the Spiritual Politician
Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

Friday, June 1, 2007, 4 pm PST

This Week's Show
Guest: Col. David Antoon

Col. David Antoon graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1970 ans served nearly three tours of duty in Vietnam. During his tour of duty in that war zone he received 3 Air Medals, the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Meritorious Service Medal. He retired from the Air Force in in the early 90s and now flies a 747 for a major airline. He has received two graduate degrees and has lived in the Middle East and has traveled extensively around the world, including the middle east. His last job before retiring was oversight of part of the construction of the B – 2 Bomber.

In the early 80s Col. Antoon became a father, he and his wife, Linda, a former AF Major and neonatal ICU nurse, have four children and it was fatherhood that made him revisit the issues he had encountered while first in the military.

Those issues brought him to confront national policy, the use of war to subsidize corporations, how our money is spent, and the genocide that is presently being carried out against Palestine. His oldest daughter, a Fulbright Scholar, is studying maternal child health issues in the Middle East.

All of us know about the genocide that took place in Nazi Germany; some of us know about the genocide visited on the Armenians in the opening years of the 20^th Century and other blood baths that have been carried out for political purposes across the face of the globe. But how many of us are aware that today in Palestine another genocide is underway? Carried out under cover of euphemistic media coverage, carefully worded to disguise an agenda of death, thousands are dying slowly, blown to bits. Children are targeted, shot, maimed. Using a terror that makes Nazi Germany look mannerly and compassionate, lives are being snuffed out coldly as part of a long term plan to eliminate a nation from the face of the Earth.

Will we continue to tolerate a genocide in our midst? What can a father do to stop it? What can a father do when that genocide is distorting the world for the children he loves? One father answers that and other questions.

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 and 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.

To Contact us e-mail: the.melinda@yahoo.com

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

Seventh Voice

Greed: The NeoConning of America

Brett Kimderlin - The Music the Makes a Movement

With the Host of the Spiritual Politician
Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

Friday, May 24, 2007, 4 pm PST

This Week's Show
Guest: Brett Kinderlin

In the 60's we were fighting to bring the boys home from a war that was destroying the soul of America; today we are fighting not only to bring them home but to have a home for them to return to. The music that the 60's and 70s generation heard, that resonated deeply into mind and soul has become a part of that generation. At each time in our history the music has been point, giving us direction and disseminating the ideas of freedom, justice, and peace.

Today the music is rising and one of those who is creating that music is Brett Kimberlin, Director of Justice Through Music (JTM), a non profit org that works with famous bands to inspire young people to vote and support civil rights. JTM has helped to register tens of thousands of people to vote over the past five years through its website, text messaging software and on the ground campaigns at colleges and music events.

On the show we will be talking about the music, the music Brett is creating, the movement it is powering, and all the music that is rising to challenge our present direction politically and consciously.

Every national election season, JTM produces a ROCK YOUR RIGHTS DVD featuring interviews and concerts of 25 bands discussing important issues of the day. JTM gives away tens of thousands of the DVDs to voter registration orgs around the country to educate youth and urge them to get involved with the political process. Recent artists include the Indigo Girls, Dar Williams, the FIXX, Yellowcard and Ministry.

JTM has also given voice to artists and bands that need an outlet to express their protest music. The JTM website, www.jtmp.org, has scores of protest videos and songs from bands of all genres. JTM was the first online site to stream Neil Young’s Living With War CD, and JTM is helping to promote Al Gore’s Live Earth concert on July 7^th.

Two years ago, JTM co-founded VelvetRevolution, a non-profit org that focuses attention on election reform, media reform, conflict resolution and government accountability. VR reaches millions of people each month and now has over 150 organizations affiliated with it and it has become a leader on many of these issues.

Brett is a seasoned musician and songwriter, and leads the band, Op-Critical . The band works closely with JTM to create protest songs and videos. Recently, he wrote new lyrics for the John Lennon song, Happy Xmas, War is Over. It is now called Happy Springtime, Bush is Over. JTM produced a video of the song featuring the Harmonic Angels children’s choir singing the chorus. In the first two weeks on YouTube and MySpace, the song and video have been played over 100,000 times.

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 and 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.

To Contact us e-mail: the.melinda@yahoo.com

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

Seventh Voice

Greed: The NeoConning of America

Chris Rodda: Take Bush's finger off the button with the Truth

With the Host of the Spiritual Politician
Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

Friday, May 18, 2007, 4 pm PST

This Week's Show
Guest: Chris Rodda

Chris Rodda was on a discussion board discussing American history when confronted with something she suspected had to be a lie. She started digging. Those excavations into the original documents proved to her and will prove to you that the TheoCons know perfectly well they are lying about America's roots and the intentions of the Founders for separation of Church and State. It is time you read her book, Liars for Jesus.


We used to dismiss them as 'those nutty evangelicals.' We learned to avoid them when they came to the door. My middle daughter, Dawn, once invited them in to participate in her Wiccan Rites. They scampered off like cockroaches when the light comes on. Dawn has always been different. But that was a number of years ago; before one of their number was sort of elected President. With Bush in the White House the whole thing has gotten more serious. Someone who thinks Armageddon is a GOOD IDEA has his finger pressed on the button.

Scared yet?

Wait, there is more.

They took over America's Military. New cadets to the academies, their minds open for new ideas and ready to be reprogrammed, are met with a phalanx of evangelical chaplains standing shoulder to shoulder in numbers that would make you think Jesus was sighted on the horizon.

Worried?

Cadets are subjected to the same kind of group-think techniques that parents paid to have undone in the 60s and 70s. But those kids were not being trained to control the mightiest military force in the history of the world. These are.

And there is more coming.

In Junior ROTC, in many text books, material is now popping up justifying every stupid, ignorant thing these people ever said about American History. That is what many of our children are learning as fact, the arguments, mostly constructed that allows the change over from America as we know it to an America that uses the Bible instead of the rule of law is underway.

We have a weapon for the defense of the truth. That weapon is a book written by Chris Dodda titled, “Liars for Jesus.” You need to know the truth. This is the book the TheoCons fear. This is the book that will blow them out of the holy water.

Every day more people are becoming aware of what is going on. Every day more people are coming together to stop them. Visit the Military Religious Freedom Foundation as well to find out more about what is going on by voices from within America's Military. Help them change America's direction.

Hear Chris Dodda on The Spiritual Politician Friday, May 18th at 4pm Pacific time. The audacity of the TheoCons will shock you; Chris will delight you.

You need to know. More of the officers and men who think Armageddon would be a delight are coming on line every day; one day soon they could decide they have waited long enough.

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 and 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.

To Contact us e-mail: the.melinda@yahoo.com

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

Seventh Voice

Greed: The NeoConning of America

Captain Eric May on the possible events of May 11th.

With the Host of the Spiritual Politician
Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

Friday, May 10, 2007, 4 pm PST

This Week's Show
Guest: Captain Eric H. May

Sometimes life calls you to do things you never, in your worst nightmares would have thought necessary. That is the story of Captain May and the Ghost Troop.

We all know that the NeoCons are strange and there have been many reports that they fancy themselves the inheritors of the powers of the Illuminati. One wonders if they perform rituals in the Oval Office – or if those little interludes take place in the basement of the White House. If that is the case does Karl Rove look as dumpy in his ritual garb with whatever symbology stretches across his belly as he does the rest of the time? It it fact that many of the shocking events of the last years, for instance September 11^th, have taken place on the 11^th Day of the month. When that happens it usually coincides with U. S. exercises of some kind. Right now a massive Homeland Security Exercise is taking place. Tomorrow is May 11^th.

While none of us believe in the esoteric significance of numerology if that is a factor in the bizarre world inhabited by the NeoCons then noting the dates becomes a way of understanding them, tracking their MO. The odd coincidences in dates have been noted and followed for sometime by a small group of savvy journalists, for instance Leon Smith of the Iconoclast. Smith queried Captain Eric May on what he thought of a story on the possibility that May 11^th might be the stage for a much needed 9/11 type event yesterday. The e-mail and response from May is below.

Captain May will be the guest on my show, the Spiritual Politician tomorrow, May 11^th, to talk about the inner workings of minds that use numerology in their continuing attempts to make themselves into kings and queens. Also on the plate will be their TheoCon friends and playmates, who use their own rewritten version of the Bible to do the same. They use different scripts but both spell disaster for all of us.

(from the e-mails exchanged)

The Lone Star Iconoclast - News wrote:

Captain May:

In light of this week's events, do you have any comments regarding this story?

W. Leon Smith

The Iconoclast

Editor-In-Chief

http://www.lonestaricon.com/absolutenm/anmviewer.asp?a=1419&z=134

Dear Mr. Smith,

I believe that the Sunday (5/6) U.S. media release of a new "Al Qaeda / Al Zawahari" message is meant to revive the American people's fear of "Islamic terrorism." You noted, no doubt, that Al Zawahari's remarks labeled the Democrats as defeatists emphasized the importance of Iraq and generally insulted the USA. These are all points that might have come from the mouth of Karl Rove, since they mirror Bush Administration rhetoric. In fact, I think the statements -- and the entire message -- did originate with Karl Rove and the White House, which has constructed and controlled the Al Qaeda myth since 9/11.

On Tuesday, (5/8) the U.S. medial promulgated an FBI story about a "home grown" terror cell's intention to attack soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey. This story was an echo of summer, 2006, "Global War" propaganda asserting that "Canadian Al Qaeda" intended to capture Parliament and behead the prime minister, and that Florida-based Al Qaeda "wannabes" intended to blow up the Sears Tower.

Today U.S. media is spinning the Fort Dix plan as reminiscent of 9/11 and Al Qaeda, thereby causing the most anxiety to the American people. The Bush Administration/U.S. media propaganda cycle, in short, supports our concern that the Homeland Security/Defense Department mass terror exercises now under way across much of the nation may be a pretext for a pre-planned false flag terror attack against the American people.

Please accept this as an official Ghost Troop alert to the prospect of more government treason like 9/11. Please do not read my remarks as a prediction. The nature of the information contained in your article and my observations is not specific enough for this command to issue a prediction.

As you know, I have published with your newspaper on the date-coding of false flag terror attacks. Informed people know that "Al Qaeda" has been credited with attacks that, amazingly, frequently carry the odd-numbered month with the 11th day of that month. For instance, New York (2001) was on 9/11, Madrid (2004) was on 3/11, and Mumbai/Bombay (2006) was on 7/11. There are date-code variations such as Amman, Jordan (2005) which carried the 11/9 date code (9/11 reversed), and London (2005), which carried the date-code 7/7 (or 7 x 11). However you look at it, whether as a true believer of the official Al Qaeda story or (like you and me) as a skeptic who believes that Al Qaeda is in reality " Al CIA duh," these terror events show that terror attack planners are obsessed with the number "11."

5/11 occurs Friday, and 5/11 is the missing date code in the sequence containing 3/11, 7/11, 9/11. Accordingly, I urge you and all other patriots to be especially vigilant on 5/11.

Best regards,

Captain Eric H. May

CO,Ghost Troop

PS: For those who want to know more about Ghost Troop, our work, or me. I refer them to my "May Day interview" with the Iconoclast, published last week: http://www.lonestaricon.com/absolutenm/anmviewer.asp?a=1386&z=132. At the end of the interview you kindly posted key references to our prior work in analyzing and anticipating false flag terror.

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 and 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.

To Contact us e-mail: the.melinda@yahoo.com

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

Seventh Voice

Greed: The NeoConning of America

Jane Stillwater: Insights from War Zone America - Baghdad to Berkeley

With the Host of the Spiritual Politician
Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

Friday, May 4, 2007, 4 pm PST

This Week's Show
Guest: Jane Stillwater

Jane Stillwater will be our guest on the Spiritual Politician this Friday. Ms. Stillwater recently returned from Baghdad as correspondent of the Iconoclast with insights that only a former flower child and grandmother would have garnered. Those insights include a new look at what is happening here, in War Zone America, as the present Administration of NeoCons, in service to their CorporaMasters, continue their evisceration of what was once a free nation.

What can ordinary people do to change the course of disaster the NeoCons have set for us? What can a grandmother do? What can all the grandmothers do, for that matter. Tune in for insights and answers. You will not want to miss this.

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 and 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.

To Contact us e-mail: the.melinda@yahoo.com

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

Seventh Voice

Greed: The NeoConning of America

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