This morning around nine, I saw Elizabeth Neumann on TV. The name sounded familiar. I put her in my search engine and found a post wherein I say I want Elizabeth to be my Joint Chief of Staff. I have been redeemed. All my family and friends who betrayed me – knew I was authoring several books – and they did much to destroy my credibility. They employed Their Tribes, knowing I had no Tribe, nor family. This morning I have the truth on my side!
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
I understood I was living under tribal rule and conditions after I pissed Gary off – but good! We were studying Mark 4. There were about five of our neighbors gathered in Greg Mel’s home. I asked our minister this question:
My Candidacy Declaration
Posted on January 13, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
I made these posts an hour ago. I declare I am a Republican Candidate for the Office of President of the United States. I am looking for people to help me get registered as such. I am not accepting any donations – at this time.
I want Elizabeth Newman to be my White House Chief of Staff.
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
NPR’s Leila Fadel talks to Elizabeth Neumann about the rise of Christian extremism. Neumann served as a Homeland Security official in the Trump administration. Her new book is Kingdom of Rage.
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LEILA FADEL, HOST:
Elizabeth Neumann served as assistant secretary of Homeland Security for counterterrorism and threat prevention in the Trump administration. She quit that post in 2020, but not before she warned about the increasing threats of domestic terrorism from far-right extremists. When she left, she said Trump was fueling the fire of that threat. On January 6, 2021, she watched the attack on the U.S. Capitol in horror, both as a security professional and a Christian.
ELIZABETH NEUMANN: The people that were committing these horrific acts were praying. They were carrying pictures of Jesus. They were carrying signs that had Bible verses on it.
FADEL: Since then, Neumann has continued to warn about the rising threat of domestic extremism. And in her new book, “Kingdom of Rage: The Rise Of Christian Extremism And The Path Back to Peace,” she gets personal as a Christian, speaking directly to her own community.
NEUMANN: I think for many Christians, we just assume that those people that were there on January 6 or those people that we might hear about from time to time, they’re not representative of us. They’re the fringe. And that can be true, but it also is true that we’re not doing a better job within the Christian community in denouncing that and making it clear to the community that that is not the way of Jesus.
FADEL: You know, I’m Muslim, and there’s violence that is used in the name of Islam that is co-opted by very dangerous and awful groups, and then Muslims all get thrown in a bucket with those groups. So I recognize your struggle as a Christian trying to diagnose a problem that you see within your community, but that is not your community.
NEUMANN: And quite frankly, the experience of the Muslim community after 9/11 is part of the conviction I had to write this book. We asked a lot of the Muslim community after 9/11. We said, please push back against this extremist interpretation of your faith, and many people did. If we asked that of the Muslim faith, shouldn’t we be asking that of the Christian faith?
FADEL: You write that this book is a, quote, “urgent alarm” directly to other Christians. What alarm are you sounding?
NEUMANN: We have data that’s showing us that a sizable portion of the population in the United States, depending on the survey, between 30 and 40% of adults believe that there are times when violence is justified to achieve your political aim. And that definition and that question that gets asked comes awfully close to the definition of terrorism. So we have 30- to 40% of adults in this country that at least cognitively are open to this idea that sometimes terrorism’s OK.
The good news is that that is more of a cognitive embrace. That’s not actually the numbers that would go on to carry out an act of violence. But it doesn’t take that many people to lead to violence and to lead to destruction in our communities. And we still have a number of people in our country. We have churches, conservative influencers who are actively saying in this election season that they should be prepared for violence. And when we have our politicians churning that kind of rhetoric out, it does create a very dangerous scenario.
FADEL: For a regular person who thinks, oh, my gosh, my cousin or this person who goes to my church or my dad, I think they might be getting radicalized, how do they recognize that?
NEUMANN: So radicalization is not a linear process. You could have an individual that meets the definition at some point and then jumps back to an earlier stage in the process, and trying to figure out where somebody is in that process actually can become kind of important because if they are just recently exposed to an idea, they’re testing it out, they’re not sure if they agree with it yet. If somebody is in that stage, you actually can insert doubt and that might help them reject the ideology that they’re toying with.
The way to insert doubt, though, is to ask questions, to be curious. And actually, what you’re really trying to understand is, what’s the unmet need here? What’s actually going on in somebody’s life that QAnon is now appealing to them or that the “great replacement theory” is appealing to them? What you don’t want to do is try to attack the ideology because that often has a backlash effect. Where you start to get more concerned is when people start withdrawing, when people start perhaps mentioning things that imply that they think violence is justified. Those indicators are really important that you contact law enforcement. That’s kind of the last stage when somebody has not only ideated an attack, but they’re planning for it.
I will say one of the concerns that we have in this community is that it’s very common for loved ones to observe behavior that’s concerning but then just chalk it up to nothing, dismiss it and push it aside. What we’re asking, what I’m suggesting is don’t do that. That doesn’t mean that your loved one is at risk of violence, but you should investigate. One of the core things for people that disengage from radicalization or extremism is that usually there’s somebody in their life that continued to show them love or somebody unexpected that showed them empathy. Empathy and love is a core part of why people finally walk away from extremism.
FADEL: In your dedication, you write the book is dedicated to the exhausted, tribeless, remnant of exiles. You are not alone. Take heart. He has overcome the world. Can you tell me who you’re talking to there?
NEUMANN: Yeah. I had my own experience of – when I spoke out in 2020 – of being rejected by many in my community, people who I had been in fellowship with at church. People – family members felt personally offended by my political take in 2020 and deeply wounded some people, and of course, their rejection of me deeply wounded me, right? It was kind of a very painful process.
FADEL: Yeah.
NEUMANN: And for many of us that feel like we’re trying to navigate a commitment to what the Bible teaches, it kind of feels sometimes like we’re alone, and there aren’t that many of us. And I’ve just met so many amazing people who have also walked through this difficult season. And I took great courage from meeting them in knowing that we’re not alone.
FADEL: Elizabeth Neumann is the author of a new book out this week, “Kingdom Of Rage: The Rise Of Christian Extremism And The Path Back to Peace.” Thank you so much for joining us.
NEUMANN: Thanks for having me.
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American Christianity Has Gone Insane
Posted on December 7, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
Jacob Chansley yells inside the Senate Chamber, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C.
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“The House has hired new staff to “blur some of the faces of persons who participated in the events of that day, because we don’t want them to be retaliated against and to be charged by the Justice Department,” Johnson told reporters Tuesday, adding that the censorship would also address “other concerns and problems.”
I woke up this morning reading my headline to be – in bed;
“THE REPUBLICAN PARTY – IS INSANE!”
This is an understatement. I put that label on American Christianity, because it has been aware – some REAL NUTS have declared themselves Christians so THEIR REAL NUTTY IDEAS can own real power via the Republican Party – and Gini Thomas – who brought to the attention of President Trump – he’s got a lot of NUTTY VOTERS out there! And, they can be politically exploited!
For the first time in American History, the seat of the Speaker’s Chair has been used as a Christian Pulpit so Pope Johnson can grant absolution and immunity to The Blurry Innocent Ones who gathered at the White House to merely pray for King Jesus to come out of the sky and place his hand on Trump’s head/
“In – THIS PRESIDENT – I am well pleased! Woe be to the Pretender President!”
Was this too much to ask? A million swing voters networking on the net, bragged for months how their prayers would put Trump back in the White House. When he lost, the Christian Internet was on the verge of collapse – and Gini Thomas knew it! How about her husband and Mark Meadows – who had to love the plan to make Antifa – Agents of Satan, and the Trumpster Magamites – God’s Holy Army!
Trump vowed to be a Dictator – for just one day! He lied about what he is going to do on that day. I believe he will employ the Armed Forces, the DOJ, FBI, and local police….to roundup as many members of Antifa as can be found – AND LOCK THEM UP – for turning His Holy Love-In at the Capitol – into a Violent Satanic Blame Fest.
I’m looking for a good attorney to sue Gini Thomas, Mark Meadows, and Michael Johnson a.k.a Pope Johnson,. for turning our Democratic Government into a Podium for their Holy Insurrection.
This morning I see Gini as Starfish, Meadows, as Kane, and Mike – as Jacob!
I’m trying to identify the Woman In Pink. I think she is a Big Christian Leader in Springfield.
John Presco
EXTRA! I got a tip that there were TWO JACOBS at the Insurrection. One of them was – Pope Johnson who has taken the names of his Holy Blurred Ghosts, and will conduct a private ceremony of Forgiveness – and Rapture Readiness! That’s Pope Johnson climbing up….Jacob’s Ladder!
Trump says he will be a dictator only on ‘day one’ if elected president
At town hall event in Iowa with Fox News host Sean Hannity, the former president was asked to deny that he would use ‘power as retribution’
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Former president Donald Trump declined to rule out abusing power if he returns to the White House, after being asked to respond to growing criticism of his authoritarian rhetoric.
The Republican presidential frontrunner has talked about targeting his rivals – referring to them as “vermin” – and vowed to seek retribution if he wins a second term for what he argues are politically motivated prosecutions against him.
Trump had to be asked twice during a televised town hall event in Iowa hosted by Sean Hannity of Fox News to deny that he would abuse power to seek revenge on political opponents if re-elected to the White House.
A second Trump term will be far more autocratic than the first. He’s telling us
“Under no circumstances, you are promising America tonight, you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody?” Hannity asked Trump in the interview taped in Davenport, Iowa on Tuesday.
“Except for day one,” Trump responded. Trump said on the “day one” he referred to, he would use his presidential powers to close the southern border with Mexico and expand oil drilling.
Trump then repeated his assertion. “I love this guy,” he said of the Fox News host. “He says, ‘You’re not going to be a dictator, are you?’ I said: ‘No, no, no, other than day one. We’re closing the border and we’re drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I’m not a dictator.’”
Chaos On Harlow Road
Posted on May 6, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
Well! Well! Look what I found! That is the flag of the ex-Soviet Union, like the one I wear at my demonstrations. Didn’t I wonder if I would die today, on Cinco de Mayo? I wonder if that guy who came up to me, had a gun in his car. Lucky this other dude came along and asked him about Obama giving billions to Iran.
I talked to the woman in pink.
All I did was go get me some groceries – with my walker! I will take my camera wherever I go from now on! The Devil has come to Springfield.
Seer Jon
Tribal Blue – River Revelations
Posted on April 26, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
New members of the Nazareth Baptist Church are baptized close to the church headquarters near KwaMashu, KwaZulu Natal, January 1998. The founder Isaiah Shembe is seen as a spiritual descendent of Moses and Jesus, and th church embraces traditional Zulu values and customs. Photo Greg Marinovich
I understood I was living under tribal rule and conditions after I pissed Gary off – but good! We were studying Mark 4. There were about five of our neighbors gathered in Greg Mel’s home. I asked our minister this question:
“Jesus is speaking in parables and riddles to the crowd who are struggling to get his message. Then he says he told his disciples the answer to his riddles, in secret, when they were alone. I’m wondering, why didn’t one of the disciple write these answers down so we can read them? We’re talking about ‘The Secret of The Kingdom of God!”
There was silence as Gary’s face turned red with anger. His ears were on fire. He said;
“You went over and over this passage just to………..trip me up!”
You could hear a pin drop. I looked at the look of shock from my neighbors that I was friends with – outside Gary’s Colonial Territorial Rule. How did Gary – want me to react? I learnded forward in my chair, looked him dead in the eye, and slowly said;
“No!….I…..did……not!”
It was like a showdown at the ‘I’m O.K. and You’re Not Coral.
“These people came here so they can own a simple faith, and you are preventing that!”
To be stamped a pariah in front of your peers, is serious business. Gary continued to feed his little chicks more pellets of simple faith. I could see some folks wre secretly mulling over my good question, wondering if I was really on to something – real forbidden! And, it would corrupt them if they delved any deeper. Surely, they would meet my fate, and be cast out.
At the end of the meeting, Gary took me aside in my good friends home, and said;
“As a Christian, I am bid to love you. But, it doesn’t mean I have to like you!”
I should have said;
“Where does it say that?”
Gary was referring to the great commandment that he read over and over and over again. He even read it at Bible college. I hadn’t read it yet.
For a second I thought about taking Gary outside – and whomp on his ass! This was the beginning of The Bad Ol Days of Good Ol Gary. I stopped going to Bible study, and kept going to his church. One beautiful Sunday morning, as I looked out the window at the blue jays and butterflies, Gary told us about another of his – inner feelings!
“Sometimes I pray that the Russians would drop an atomic bomb on San Francisco so as to kill all the queers!”
Can I get a witness?
I quickly looked around at the hundred people in the pews. Did they hear what I just heard? It took much strength not to stand up and say what I wanted to say.
“Are you saying you want the Russians to murder a millions of Americans just to wipe out a couple of thousand queers? Gary, some of the world’s greatest churches are in San Francisco. Would you care to retract that – desire?”
Everyone was smiling. I assumed they heard this kind of fantasying before, and, it didn’t hurt the collection plate. I guess they never heard of Jim Jones. Was Gary going to ask for a show of hands, followed by a free batch of coo-aid?
I still own a vision of what would have happened if I had stood up. Gary would have rushed me, taken hold of me to throw me out of his church, and I would have had to knock him out, beat the crap out of him. Simple faith – my ass! You mass-murderer!
We now know Gary was ahead of the times. If he had lived longer, he would have been King Bobo’s personal spiritual advisor.
On the Bad Streets of Blue River was the White River Café, where the Good Ol Boys had breakfast. They wore blue overalls. There grandpas were Confederate officers who fled here after they lost the Civil War. They made a living, logging. They gave Gary hefty checks. It was something to see. They sat at their usual table. There were big plates of hash browns, bacon, eggs, and toast. These were extra big plates ordered from Chicago, and kept in a special cabinet in the back room. The cook always gave them a little bit more. The waitress, was always there to freshen up their cups of coffees. These were King Oinkers right out of Orwell’s Animal Farm. Gary was protecting them from me. He did not want me to get between them and their Checkee-Poohs!
This is why Gary choked when I suggested the Gospel Choir come up river and sing. What Gary and Boys wanted, was to see a Good Ol Celtic River Dance. They wanted to see more white people gathering by – their river!
I would like to see a Colony of Mandaeans take over Blue River, and turn this Ghost Town into a beautiful Oasis of Love. The Neo-Confederate Hogs, are gone. They got Defolked by old age. I don’t think they left any markers behind. Everything got closed down!
At some point, Gary was supposed to ask me if I wanted to be Baptized. Instead, he asked me to play Judas in his Churches Passion Play. My kin and good friend, Michael Dundon, was going to play Jesus. I declined the offer, declared myself a Nazarite, Baptized myself in the McKenzie River, then went to town in search of other Nazarites – on a computer! I found my church – in South Africa. I wrote them a long letter. I told them about Blue River Revelation. I own a vision of a plane landing at the Eugene airport, and my Tribe and Church getting onto a bus to come dance and sing in the place where I talked to Jesus.
“Be not afraid. Spiritual Courage will be met by Spiritual Courage!”
Millions of folks want to get into the water so that they can be healed of their hatred of their neighbor. Most don’t know this yet!
As I look back, I can see God did not give me the preacher-man I wanted, but, he was my go-to man of God. I can honestly say, I liked Gary Johnson, and, even loved him. He was at his best out in his garage. God gave him a great garage. He knew how to fix stuff. It made me sad when I heard the Church board of directors, sent him on a sabbatical. There was a rebellion, and the church split in two. I drove by and saw balloons and banners on the new Church. A great era, had come to an end.
Seer John
Play both videos at the same time.
Gini Thomas Leads Insurrection
Posted on March 25, 2022 by Royal Rosamond Press
(CNN)The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 riot has in its possession more than two dozen text messages, 29 in total, between former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, a conservative activist and the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, according to multiple sources familiar with the messages.’
January 6 committee has text messages between Ginni Thomas and Mark Meadows – CNNPolitics
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Tuesday the House is working to blur the faces of some participants in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots featured in new public video footage to prevent them from being charged by the Justice Department—leading to accusations he is purposely blocking the DOJ from receiving tips about rioters who have yet to be held accountable.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., conducts a news conference on December 5, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images© Provided by Forbes
Key Facts
He made the comments in response to a question from a reporter during his weekly press conference about what he believes is inaccurate about the official accounts of that day by the Justice Department’s and now-defunct Jan. 6 House committee.
“We’d have to be here for a long time,” Johnson responded, calling the Jan. 6 committee a “partisan exercise” and accusing it of issuing a “biased report” that “hid some of the important evidence.”
Johnson, who began releasing portions of the 40,000-some hours of surveillance footage last month, said the tapes will allow the “American people to draw their own conclusions” and prevent them from being “dictated by some narrative and accept that as fact.”
The comments generated bipartisan pushback: Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) accused Johnson of “actively working to shield insurrectionists from accountability,” former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) said he was “aiding and abetting” criminal activity, former Department of Defense Special Counsel Ryan Goodman called the statements are some of “the most objectionable I’ve heard on this from an elected official about January 6th,” and former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann described them as “open contempt for the rule of law and a violation of his oath of office.”
Speaker Mike Johnson Claimed to Be Protecting January 6th Rioters From the DOJ
Johnson spokesperson Raj Shah responded to the criticism in a statement that said faces will be blurred “to prevent all forms of retaliation against private citizens from any non-governmental actors,” adding that “the Department of Justice already has access to raw footage.”
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A horn-wearing ‘shaman.’ A cowboy evangelist. For some, the Capitol attack was a kind of Christian revolt.
July 6, 2021 at 7:00 a.m. EDT
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Late last month, one of the accused Jan. 6 Capitol insurrectionists told a D.C. judge that she didn’t recognize his authority and was making a “divine special appearance.” Another one of the accused streams a solo religious service each week that he calls “Good Morning Sunday Morning.” A third runs a 65,000-subscriber YouTube channel where she shares Bible verses and calls herself a “healer of deep inner wounds.”
Pauline Bauer, Stephen Baker and Jenna Ryan were among the thousands who descended on the Capitol in protest of what they falsely called a stolen election, including some who saw themselves engaged in a spiritual war. For many, their religious beliefs were not tied to any specific church or denomination — leaders of major denominations and megachurches, and even President Donald Trump’s faith advisers, were absent that day. For such people, their faith is individualistic, largely free of structures, rules or the approval of clergy.
Many forces contributed to the attack on the Capitol, including Trump’s false claims of electoral victory and American anger with institutions. But part of the mix, say experts on American religion, is the fact that the country is in a period when institutional religion is breaking apart, becoming more individualized and more disconnected from denominations, theological credentials and oversight.
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That has created room for what Yale University sociologist Phil Gorski calls a religious “melee, a free for all.”
“There have been these periods of breakdowns and ferment and reinvention in the past, and every indication is we’re in the middle of one of those now,” he said. “Such moments are periods of opportunity and creativity but also of danger and violence.”
Some scholars see this era as a spiritually fertile period, like the ones that produced Pentecostalism or Mormonism. Others worry about religious illiteracy and the lack of supervision over everything from theological pronouncements to financial practices.
For some Christians, the Capitol riot doesn’t change the prophecy: Trump will be president
Even before Jan. 6, some sociologists said the fastest-growing group of American Christians are those associated with independent “prophets” who largely operate outside denominationalism. Less than half of Americans told Gallup in March that they belonged to a congregation, the first time that has happened since Gallup started asking in the 1930s.
Many Christians at the Capitol on Jan. 6 were part of more conventional, affiliated faith, including pastors, Catholic priests and bused-in church groups. But what researchers studying Jan. 6 find remarkable are the leaderless, idiosyncratic expressions of religion that day. Among them are those of Bauer, who wrote to a judge last month that she’s a “free living soul” and an “ambassador of Christ,” and of Jake Chansley, the “QAnon Shaman” who prayed to Christ at a dais in the Senate and calls himself a “multidimensional being.”
“Those who are unmoored to a local church body are subject to the danger of allowing politics or business or sports or any other matter to become an inordinate focus of their lives. This problem is compounded by the effort to ‘bless’ such actions with a religious patina,” Adam W. Greenway, president of Southwestern Baptist, one of the seminaries of the Southern Baptist Convention, told The Washington Post of the trend of DIY Christianity. “Pastors help their members keep matters in perspective and avoid Lone Ranger Christianity in which they are unaccountable to fellow believers.”
Some have found in recent years a growing overlap between White Americans who put a high value on individualism and libertarianism and those who embrace Christian nationalism, a cultural belief that America is defined by Christian identity, heritage and social order and that the government needs to protect it. They are now looking at the way Trump’s presidency united disparate groups — largely White— under the umbrella of Christian nationalism.
But Christian nationalists are not necessarily religious by conventional metrics, such as going to church, being part of a religious organization or scripture reading. Several studies in recent years have found differences between Christian nationalists who are religious and those who are less so.
Americans who have Christian-nationalist beliefs who do not attend church are more likely to have voted for and support Trump, compared with those who attend more regularly, said Paul Froese, a sociologist at Baylor University who published a paper on the topic in January.
For such people, Froese’s paper says, affirming a kind of “mythical or even sacred” Christian nationalism can become a key part of their religious observance, one that comes from sources outside traditional church.
“You have people who have these idiosyncratic relationships with God — you’re sort of taking off on your own,” Froese told The Post. “You can say, ‘God told me whatever.’”
Robert Pape, a University of Chicago political scientist who studies political violence, said his research on the Jan. 6 insurrectionists suggests what he has seen with other extremist movements: Where religion plays a role, it’s not due to deep indoctrination or education.
Such individuals “tend to have a thin knowledge and understanding of their religion,” Pape said. “Recruits tend to be making individual decisions about the ideologies they want to follow and even what it means. It’s very much at the level of the individual.”
The Post analyzed court documents and images of the nearly 500 people charged in the Jan. 6 attack to learn more about those who cited their faith in some way. Here are the stories of three of them.
A cowboy pastor
Couy Griffin, a New Mexico county commissioner known for his black cowboy hat and frequent grin, grew up in a little Baptist church his grandfather helped found in a rural part of the state where life revolved around logging and sawmills — a “very American” upbringing, Griffin said in an interview, that was scarred by environmental laws passed in the 1970s and ’80s that dramatically cut back the area’s industry.
Griffin rode bulls competitively in college and then moved to Paris to perform as a cowboy in Disneyland Paris’s “Wild West” show. During a visit to Versailles, he said, he had a powerful experience with God — he was struck by the idea that he could be forgiven for his sins, his burdens and guilt relieved. He wanted to share this new feeling with everyone.
He returned to the United States in the 2000s, fired up about two things — sharing the gospel and fighting environmental regulations he saw as un-American limits on freedom. He rode on horseback from San Francisco to Jerusalem (with a flight in between) handing out tracts and talking about abortion.
Later, he ran for public office, focusing on reviving logging and milling. He founded Cowboys for Trump and met the former president, who promised Griffin that he would help revamp the way forests were handled.
Seeing the way other GOP contenders and Trump critics would fall away proved to him that Trump “was always the horse out in front and that had everything to do with God,” Griffin said.
For a few years Griffin was a preacher at a little “cowboy church,” which fit for a Christian with no formal religious education.
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Cowboy churches “have no real rules — they’re just country-minded,” said Mary Barber, a member of New Heart Cowboy Church, where Griffin preached. “We aren’t connected with any denomination, people dictating what we do. The only one who can dictate what we do is the Lord.”
Griffin was in D.C. on Jan. 6 after a friend said he’d had a vision of a million people declaring Christ is Lord. The friend said Griffin could be part of the vision. “He said, ‘Just find a group and a bullhorn and lead them in prayer.’ It was like the call was laid back on me,” Griffin said.
In the days after Jan. 6, Griffin said in several public forums that he would return to D.C. to defend the Second Amendment, predicting that “blood will be running out of that building.”
He has been charged with unlawful entry related to the Jan. 6 riot and pleaded not guilty.
Some in Griffin’s community are angry with him. A judge recently approved a request to move ahead with an effort to recall him from his role as county commissioner, and the pastor at New Heart told Griffin that some in the small congregation wouldn’t come if he did. So Griffin left.
Griffin said his faith “is much more personal than a church group. … In my opinion, churches and pastors many times can be much more focused on traditions than seeking out God’s will.”
Caught in a culture war, this multiracial family navigates a predominantly White evangelical world
A double life
When Stephen Maury Baker appeared on a live stream on Jan. 6, imploring with a smirk from inside the Capitol for watchers to “repent,” most of his colleagues at Middle C Music in Northwest D.C. were floored.
Clash On Harlow
Posted on May 5, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
It is 2:07 P.M. I just got back from shopping at Wal-Mart next to Harlow Rd where I saw about 20 cops and ambulances.
I saw three women walking off the overpass. I asked them what was going on, and, pressed for more details. One was wearing a “Jesus For Trump” t-shirt that I asked about. They told me they had joined the larger group. They asked me why I was asking so many questions. I told them I own a newspaper. All of a sudden they did not want to talk.
“We don’t talk to the liberal press.”
I asked them why Christians are for a man who lied 10,000 times. They said this was a lie. I asked about the Access Hollywood tape. A dude came over and asked the three women if I was bothering them. I took a step forward and said they could call a cop if I was. There must have been 30 of them within a hundred yards. I assumed he was one of them. He defended Jesus and the End Times. He thought I was the Register Guard, who were on the overpass. He called the free press liars. He too did not want to hear my side of things, and, this is what is scary. The Trumpites are encouraging their FOLLOWERS to vote their faith, which means, don’t listen to anyone but them. This is worse than Secular Fascism. Rather than be for a state religion, Hitler went after a religious group.
The Kimites came after me because they did not want a religious opinion to exist in McKenzie Meadows, but their own. Like the Jews – who rejected Jesus – I needed to be locked up – and shut up! My neighbors had to be warned about me. I asked one of the women protestors if I could have a pamphlet so I could get a good look at their site. She went to get one in her car, and another Thug Hog Woman, said;
“Don’t give him one!”
“There is it. The free press is not worthy to receive any of their good news. The enemy press will distort the truth. I told them Trump lied 10,000 times, and they shrieked!
I conclude that on this day, Trump became a Religious Dictator.
Seer Jon
https://www.registerguard.com/news/20190505/clash-at-rally-closes-harlow-road-bridge-over-i-5
Eugene police are asking people to avoid the area around Harlow Road bridge over Interstate 5 Sunday afternoon after two groups clashed during a rally.
At 12:19 p.m. Sunday, Springfield Police Department called for the assistance of Eugene police at the Harlow Road bridge overpass as a group holding a rally and counter protestors clashed.
Apparently a group called America First is waving American flags and holding up signs for the highway traffic. A group of counter protestors waving their own flags and signs are situated next to them on the bridge. At 1:45 p.m. Sunday there were about 50 America First protestors and about 100 counter protestors.
The Harlow Bridge over I-5 has been closed for the time being, Eugene police said in the advisory.
Travelers are asked to avoid the Harlow Road Area near the I-5 highway.
This story is developing and will be updated.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-secular-life/201607/jesus-trump-and-american-morality
https://www.thedailybeast.com/evangelicals-side-with-trump-over-jesus-on-immigration
The Christian Calvary Is Coming
Posted on February 11, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
I Saw The Future
Posted on August 18, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
All by myself, but for Casey Farrell, I looked into the future and saw what was coming. The attack upon my psyche by my daughter and her family. weighs on me this morning. Patrice stole my child that should have been my psychic ally, and used that child to get power, fame, and money. Patrice Hanson is a witch! I have been attacked – by witches! The women of Afghanistan are suffering.
Europe is talking about STRATGIC AUTONOMY which is a topic that fills this blog. The ghost of Ian Fleming – is on my side! Victoria Rosemond Bond – is the model for a new direction
John ‘The Seer’
President Joe Biden’s chaotic exit from Afghanistan has sent a shiver of frustration and bewilderment through allies at home and abroad who regarded his inauguration as a break from former President Donald Trump’s oft-haphazard approach to foreign policy.
“I think that what has happened shows that Europe needs to develop this famous ‘strategic autonomy’ in order to be ready to face challenges that affect us eventually,” European Union High Rep. Josep Borrell, a former Spanish politician who now leads the bloc’s diplomatic corps, told reporters Tuesday.https://www.dianomi.com/smartads.epl?id=3533
That ideal of “strategic autonomy” was the litany of the EU smart-set during the Trump years. Biden’s inauguration was heralded in Brussels as the “magic” moment when an intemperate former reality TV star would give way to a president with decades of experience, flanked by a host of advisers lauded for their professionalism and competence. Now, Biden’s allies at home and abroad are stunned to see him follow Trump’s line in Afghanistan and compound that choice with mismanagement.
“In implementing this flawed plan, I am disappointed that the Biden administration clearly did not accurately assess the implications of a rapid U.S. withdrawal,” said Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, on Tuesday. “The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will continue fulfilling its oversight role with a hearing on U.S. policy towards Afghanistan, including the Trump administration’s flawed negotiations with Taliban, and the Biden administration’s flawed execution of the U.S. withdrawal.”
The Puritan Spirit Is With England
Posted on August 18, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
The Spirit of Cogswell family – are on my side! They have raised – KANE! The people of England and Europe are wondering if they can trust the United States any longer. The Evangelical Insurectionists want to make war on half of America – till kingdom come!
Last night I put forth the idea of the Three Friends having a reunion in Boston, at the Ritz-Carlton. I am going to contact Anthony Hayden-Guest and see if he wants to be there for….
THE RETURN OF THE PROPHET
John ‘The Puritan Prophet’
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I Am Solomon Kane
Posted on September 17, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press
I am ordained to carry on the cosmology of Solomon Kane!
At the first snowfall of winter, I put on my boots, my Bobby cape, my black hat, and took a walk up to Fort Hill that was in the center of the Mel Lyman commune. As I walked across the open square, enjoying the sound of the fresh snow cracking under my boots, I saw a man shadowing me as I made my way to the tower.
Solomon Kane
Snow Down On Fort Hill
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The man who was stalking me, got to the tower as I did.“What are you doing here?” he asked.
“What are you doing here? I asked.
“I’m guarding this place? he answered.
“Are you packing a gun?
“Yes!” he answered.
We now had an ecorteric conversation on freedom of speech, and the idea of folks carrying guns to protect their point of view. There is no doubt what-so-ever that I was talking to Paul Williams, an armed guard for Mel Lyman and his wife, Jessie Benton, who are found in my family tree, after Christine married Garth Benton.
Paul would later flee for his life from the Lyman Family, he convinced they were a dangerous cult who would kill anyone who threatened them.
Defying the Boston Mafia
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Eugene Black Panthers and Ferry Bridge Village
Posted on September 15, 2022 by Royal Rosamond Press
The Eugene Black Panther Party membership was about 20 members with 15 underground members. Howard Anderson was the Captain and Ray Eaglin, the General.
Being an investigative reporter, a historian, and a seer, is about the most thrilling thing you can be. Yesterday I was going to post….All Roads Lead To Marilyn….and suggest those four streets on the Waterfront be named after her….Marilyn Road. Marilyn Street. Marilyn Way. Marilyn Lane. Why? Because this White Woman has done more for the Black Man, and the Indian Man, than is believable!
Above is a pic of Marilyn with her half-sister, Shanah. M went to live with her in Paris after graduating from High School. She found herself surround by radical blacks. After Shanah disappeared, her mother saw Eldridge Cleaver on the Pat Robertson show, and sent him a letter asking if he knew where Shanah was. He did. There was a reunion. I met S in Eugene. I doubt she knew there was a chapter of the Black Panthers in Eugene. The founders came from Compton that is next to Watts when M and S went to hear Jazz. S was married to Les McCann’s drummer, Ron Jeffries. J.J. Johnson made dinner for M when she was fifteen. The LA Story – is fiction.
For some reason I wanted to hold a contest to rename the Waterfront streets after Lena and her sisters who came up from the South to make ships for the war. I then found the truth in a thesis written by a graduate of the U.of O.
The Ferry Bridge Village was located in Alton Baker Park where the Black Culture Festival was held. I am sure they did not know. You could see this Hobo Camp from EWEB and the Waterfront Park. Many of the black residents came up from the Bay Area where they worked making Liberty Ships. When the war ended, the cities the Government made for them – were abruptly closed. I founded The Marin Shipmates around this travesty!
I’m waiting to hear the decision of the Judge who stopped the investigation of Donald Trump who stole Top Secret documents. Imagine if the Black Panther stole Top Secret documents – and rushed the Capitol as an angry mob bent on overthrowing the U.S. Government. We would be watching public executions by firing squad.
Shanah lived with Carlos Moore who wrote a book about Fela that became a his musical. I want to write a musical titled…..Compton on the McKenzie. It’s about Black Panther relocating from Compton to Eugene Oregon. This musical play – writes itself!
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The Marin Shipmates
Posted on August 29, 2020 by Royal Rosamond Press
Yesterday I am sitting on the bus bench looking at these two good ol boys come out of a black Japanese-built beater – with a Confederate flag on top. They had big guts and grey hair. They were letting it all hang out after Franklin Graham gave our President ABSOLUTION in the White House Rose Garden. They then went inside a phone store. I debated about crossing the street and yanking that flag from atop the car. These seniors were about my age. Were they looking to go down in a blaze of glory? I then thought about going over and talking to them, inform them I am about to form a branch of the Black Panther Party called…
MARIN SHIPMATES
I bought MARINSHIPMATES.COM before I went to see my doctor. The night before, I watched a old movie about MARINSHIP. It was about the Government BUYING land in Marin County, and city named MARIN CITY to build Liberty Ships – and oil tankers. Then I see King Faidal and his bodyguards coming aboard the flag ship
THE TAMALPIAS
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Bobby Seale
The Black Panther Party, founded by me and Huey Newton in Oakland-California in 1966 grew quickly into a national organization. While Huey P. Newton sat in jail, a political prisoner, I organized five thousand people into the Black Panther Party in forty-nine chapters and branches across the USA. This is the history of one of those chapters:
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