In the next series of posts the ArchAngel Institute presents a letter from an American prisoner of conscience.  This letter was written from a county jail by a Christian held in contempt by the federal court seventeen years ago.  The prisoner was held for refusing to pledge obedience to a judge-made law that he knew to be both unconstitutional (as was later held by the U.S. Supreme Court) and violative of his conscience.   The prisoner was held without hope of release short of making a pledge that offended his Faith.

A classic church-state conflict for this individual.

As such this letter is very much onpoint with the mission of the Institute.   We exist to further Christian activism and support Christians who are suffering persecution for the Faith.  This particular Christian activist got caught up in the federal system as he attempted to rescue an 83 year old great grandmother from rough handling during a false arrest.  She was later acquitted. 

The case that formed the backdrop for this letter and incarceration was Women’s Health Care, PA (George Tiller) v. Operation Rescue-National, 91-1303K, filed during the “Summer of Mercy” in Wichita in 1991.  The great grandmother who was roughly arrested was doing nothing other than standing, peacefully, with a pro-life sign on a local dentist’s  parking lot (that she had gained permission to stand upon).  When the police attempted to make her move — at the request of the local abortionist – this grand lady stood her ground.  She was soon placed under arrest, hands cuffed behind her back, confused and hurt in the back seat of a squad car without the benefit of her necessary medicines.  

When the Christian activist attempted to reason with the police he was arrested himself, and then alleged by abortionist George Tiller to have violated a federal injunction.

This letter to a federal judge will be presented without commentary over the next week.   Those wishing to post rebuttal to bring balance and thus help us impress the IRS are urged to do so.  Unfortunately Judge Patrick Kelly never answered this letter and now cannot do so due to his death.  (RIP)

This same Christian activist finds himself in a similar situation at the present.  Thus the look to the past to build Faith for the present.

This site previously presented, in six posts, Bryan Brown’s 1992 letter from a Kansas jail to federal judge Patrick Kelly (RIP).

That letter can now be viewed in the Angel vault, click  here and click on the text to enlarge.

The Internal Revenue Service has taken a long time to approve or deny the 501C3 application of The ArchAngel Institute, Inc.

We can yet offer any who give a tax deduction, but if we stay the present course we might not end up in that position.  We are, much like another application much discussed at this site, in legal limbo.

The IRS is concerned that we lack objectivity and fairness as to our presentation of the concepts of Christian Chivalry and “post abortion.”  We strike them as too strident. 

Now the Institute does, we assure you, want to be respected for having an informed perspective.

And the Institute does want to be “objective”  — although we are concerned about what the federal government means by use of that word.

And the Institute does want to air most all sides of any debate.  We do not edit comments left, and we welcome comments from all perspectives.

But that is probably not enough.

Thus we are seeking guest posters.  Won’t you please submit a posting?  And by ”you” we mean those who stand in opposition to our views on some of the most significant ideas of the day. 

We are especially interested in receiving posts from those who disagree with us on issues which we have addressed.

For example:

We are looking for those who will argue that the slave trade was a good thing in opposition to this post:  http://www.archangelinstitute.org/how-sweet-the-sound/

And we are looking for posts arguing that starving handicapped children to death is a good thing to do in opposition to these posts:

http://www.archangelinstitute.org/more-on-the-baby-doe-discussion/

http://www.archangelinstitute.org/executive-directors-post-july-4th-post-6/

And we are looking for those who will present an argument in favor of frivolous litigation in opposition to these posts:

http://www.archangelinstitute.org/nuisance-litigation-steals-away-a-soldier/

http://www.archangelinstitute.org/nuisance-litigation-backfires/

And we are looking for former fetuses who will argue that their abortion was the best thing for them in opposition to this post:

http://www.archangelinstitute.org/abortion-and-the-annunciation/

And we are looking for posts opposing us on “post abortion” in opposition to these posts.

http://www.archangelinstitute.org/real-pain-real-victims-real-sad/

http://www.archangelinstitute.org/54/

And we are looking or posts opposing our views on proper surgical center hygiene here:

http://www.archangelinstitute.org/archangel-raphael-division-in-the-news/

If you are interested in helping balance us out, please submit your guest post to archangelinstitute@gmail .com

We will be very grateful, no matter how hideous we find your pro-slavery, and/or pro-abortion and/or  pro-sanctionable litigation commentary.

So all of you denizens of the Culture of Death — here is your opportunity to take over this website for a post or three or more.  Hey, if the traffic increases we might even give you a running column!

Oh, and we are also interested in hearing of any other groups who had to do what we have done above …. you know, like Jewish groups having to solicit from holocaust deniers, or black heritage groups having to ask the KKK for help to prove their objectivity, or homosexual rights groups asking Focus on the Family to post at their website.

We are sure many such examples must be out there, so please send them all to us.  We are hoping for some big press in the near future, and want to then be able to show that pro-lifers are not the only ones singled out for such treatment.

Or are they?

For those praying with us for the Indiana Supreme Court to allow Bryan J. Brown to sit for the bar exam in 2009 …  they have denied his request.  See past posts for details.

Thanks for praying.   We welcome continued prayers.  God must certainly care about the Brown family.

For those just tuning in, here are some interesting posts from days gone by …. just click on the blue to go to the post.

Here is the local National Right to Life Affiliate breaking the story that we were starting something new at the former abortion clinic.

Here is our dedication service on May 19, 2007….it got things rolling for us.

Here is a pretty good overview of what we are all about from last March

We did a series on our open house last January-February, here is the opening post.

Here is the mission statement post from that series

Here is the much longer version of our mission statement and what makes the Institute tick

Here is one of the many acts (infanticide) of the Indiana judiciary that helped to radicalize those who founded the Institute.

Here is another (allowing frivolous lawsuits to visit harm on good people) that drove many in the Fort to take up spiritual arms against the local abortion clinic.

Here is one of the three reasons that the abortion industry drove the Institute’s founder out of Fort Wayne in 1991

Here is an incarnational explanation of the Institute

Here is the kind of thinking that the Culture of Death just hates to read

Three months ago we received the blessing of a VIP (Bishop John D’Arcy)

The local newspaper took note of our year long endeavor to rebirth the former abortion clinic as a place of pro-life ministry.

Here is some interesting background on Fort Wayne’s abortionist, Ulrich George Klopfer.

Here are our former Executive Director’s thoughts on a necessary new direction for the “Culture War” as he retired from 20 years in pro-life leadership.

Here is our take on TEA parties

Here is the reason life is worth living on this fallen planet

Here is the first of a three part series on the powerful  Indiana judge who ordered a death sentence for an Indiana newborn almost 30 years ago.

Here is the most important foundational issue facing our legal system in America.

Here is one of our many posts on President Obama’s coming culture war

Check out our categories at the right for more links. Many posts are placed in several categories. Don’t be shy, just jump right in. If you get lost just hit “front and center” in the upper left screen to get back to where you came in.

Thanks for stopping by. The tiles above reveal more on the big picture of what the ArchAngel Institute is all about. Putting the cookies on the bottom shelf, we are a band of dedicated Christians endeavoring to do ministry out of a former abortion clinic as three ArchAngels would see fit. And thereby please our Lord and Savior.

Won’t you join us? See “aiding and abetting” for details on how you can.

As we noted here (on the eve of the fateful 2008 election), Christian persecution can break out much more quickly than most realize.  Do not underestimate the hatred that the Leftists and the Elite have for us.  I (Bryan) have now lived through some the Left’s best early punches, and can assure the readers that I have met Leftists who very much want to punch very much harder.

Now, I am not talking crucifixions in the local sports arena or public floggings outside the synagogues as in the Acts of the Apostles.  In modern America the persecution will be professional and polite.  No license for therapists who believe that homosexuals can change their desires through Faith, no admittance to higher education for fundamentalists who put the Bible or Church teaching first.  No admission to  the state bar for Christian activists who are unwilling to abandon their passion for justice and willingness to speak truth to power.

A Proverb comes to mind:

‘The righteous detest the dishonest;
the wicked detest the upright.”

Proverbs 29:27

At the first of the year, even before our energetic national leader took the helm, Judge Robert Bork — a man who has taken more than his fair share of Left hooks — had some prophetic words about the coming Christian persecution.

We are there now.

Click here for Bork’s commentary.

Coming up next:  The “rest of the story” on my 1992 imprisonment for refusing to pledge my absolute and unreserved obedience to a federal judge and his unconstitutional orders.

Why does an eclipse of the sun by the moon work so completely?    Think of an eclipse of the television by your favorite pesky kid …. you can usually see some of the television still, or, if the pesky kid is big, you cannot see the television but there is part of the kid that you see that is not blocking your view of the television.

Yet when the sun is eclipsed by the moon you (in yesterday’s case Asia) see only the corona of the sun, the heavenly body is completely blocked by that pesky moon.

It fits like a key into a lock.

Why?

According to this website, here is the mathmatical  reason:

The Sun happens to be 400 times the Moon’s diameter, and 400 times as far away. That coincidence means the Sun and Moon appear to be the same size when viewed from Earth. A total solar eclipse, in which the Moon is between the Earth and Sun, blocks the bright light from the Sun’s photosphere, allowing us to see the faint glow from the corona, the Sun’s outer atmosphere.

Ah, what a coincidence it is.

What are the odds that happened by mere chance?

Is it easiler to believe that a Creator hung the moon in its place?

And that was not the only coincidence in the heavens this week.

Think about this one and imagine the luck needed to have picked this at random.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-112
 
July 20, 1969  USA on the moon
25 years later
July 20, 1994  Comet strikes Jupiter
15 years later
July 20, 2009 A large black cloud appears on Jupiter

Here is what one scientist said (quote from above article) “

“We were extremely lucky to be seeing Jupiter at exactly the right time, the right hour, the right side of Jupiter to witness the event. We couldn’t have planned it better,” said Glenn Orton, a scientist at JPL.  “It could be the impact of a comet, but we don’t know for sure yet,” said Orton. “It’s been a whirlwind of a day, and this on the anniversary of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Apollo anniversaries is amazing.”

So the scientists are amazed by the orderliness of the seemingly random events.  That is something that scientists should be quite immune to by now, given that order is found everywhere in the allegedly “by chance” universe.

Back to Jupiter, aka Zeus, the symbol in ancient religions for the King of the Gods, the ultimate authority.  (Hmmm, how did the ancients know Jupiter was the largest planet?)   Something supposedly really did ”strike” Jupiter on July 20.  It must have been something really large  –  The scar on Jupiter’s face is the  size of the Pacific Ocean!

And we did not see it on the way there? 

Is someone asleep at the Hubble?

Or could it be that something is happening on the surface of Jupiter, that there was no strike at all, but instead, perhaps, an eruption from inside of Jupiter?  Just wondering – nothing as serious as the 400 times 400 above  – this is just speculation. 

But if it was a strike, as NASA claims (without explaining how they missed it on the way) that made a scar larger than our moon, then imagine if that blow had hit us, or our moon, or even a near neighbor?

Could really ruin one’s day.  Would your life have meaning if ended by such a ”coincidence?”  Now think a moment — If all  is mere coincidence, then does your life have meaning even before such a strike?  If all is mere chance, does your life have meaning in this moment?

Only the meaning found in random paint splatterings, much like a Jackson Pollack painting.   This is in reality the absence of meaning, and is the spiritual plague that calls itself modernity.  A finite point (you), said the postmodern philosopher Sartre, without an infinite reference point (the Creator) is absurd. 

But I have great news, your life is not absurd!!!

The universe is a mystery — and not mere coincidence and heat death, friends.   It has great meaning.  It has an infinite reference point.

It is designed and operated by a Designer.  Click here for more on that idea.

The same Designer who designed your body and who created your soul.

The same Designer that you will one day, probably not too far into the future, meet face to Face.  How is that for ultimate meaning?

Ready or not?  Click here for musings if not. 

It was a very well financed and powerful industry that trafficked in human suffering.  It had become deeply wed to the government and sneered at the Church and Christian chivalry as it preyed upon family structures.  It was the embodiment of the Culture of Death, a profit making entity that increased its power and influence by rendering human beings mere instruments of commerce.

No, I (Bryan) am not talking the abortion industry or Planned Parenthood.

We are talking the slave trade.

Anne and I just watched Amazing Grace last night — the story of William Wilberforce’s lifelong quest to end the slave trade and advance Christian chivalry in his day.

It was inspiring.  If you have not yet watched it, Anne and I suggest that you do so soon.  Click here for more details.

Let Wilberforce be remembered and celebrated as one who spoke  Truth to power to the glory of his Risen King.

That is the question in Honduras in this hour, and the Obama Admininstration seems bent on lining up with Friedrich Nietzsche instead of Thomas Jefferson, with Hugo Chavez instead of Simon Bolivar.

Click here for a fine analysis of that ongoing struggle between the Left and the rule of law. 

The Institute directs your attention to this crucial statement:  “Catholic Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga has condemned Mr. Zelaya’s violent tactics and says that Honduras does not want to emulate Venezuela.”

Earlier the Cardinal (pictured above), who is considered a possible future pope,  had this to say:  ”[The former president] doesn’t have any authority, moral or legal,” Rodriguez told the Spanish newspaper El Mundo. “The legal authority he lost because he broke laws and the moral authority he lost with a discourse full of lies. The most patriotic thing he could do is stay away. Anything else is just trying to impose Hugo Chavez’s project at all costs.”

Source

The logo of the Donegal Corridor

Donegal Corridor, LLC filed a motion to retire the injunction at 827 Webster Street  last April — a hearing was then set for Friday, July 24 at 10 am.

Bryan Brown filed a “me too” motion last week.

Click here for some details via Kevin Leininger in the News Sentinel.

Please pray for a just result on Friday, July 24.

Source for title of this post

“The federal budget is on an unsustainable path …”

Douglas W. Elmendorf, Director of the federal government’s Congressional Budget Office sounding the domestic policy alarm. Click here for more details

“The United States is declining as a nation and a world power with mostly sighs and shrugs to mark this seismic event,”. “Astonishingly, some people do not appear to realize that the situation is all that serious.”

Les Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, sounding the foriegn policy alarm.  Click here for more details

Art:  Poussin, Nicolas
The Adoration of the Golden Calf
1633-36
Oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

This post concludes the series of posts that began here.

On July 4, 2009 the ArchAngel Institute hosted a “tea party” celebrating the birth of our constitutional republic.

This final installment was our program after the pledge of allegiance.  Guest readers continued to illuminate our path with great quotes from great patriots.

After we all pledged allegiance to the Republic, we then entered into the final minutes of our July 4^th celebration. That final scene had us pledging the highlighted lines from the Declaration of Independence in unison.

The ceremony culminated with symbolic tea being poured in the streets.

After the pledge of allegiance and after a time of social networking we dove into the following:

“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children (America), the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.”

Ronald Reagan in 1964

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If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
– Samuel Adams

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These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.” – Thomas Paine

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We currently live in the most difficult of times for guarding against an expanding central government with a steady erosion of our freedoms.
Without a better understanding and a greater determination to reign in the state, the rights of Americans that resulted from the revolutionary break from the British and the writing of the Constitution, will disappear.

United States Congressman Ron Paul (Click here for Paul’s inspiring speech before Congress with audio)

Declaration of Independence
(Adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776)

The Unanimous Declaration
of the Thirteen United States of America

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

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The train of abuses set forth

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We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

Time is short but our course of action should be clear. Resistance to illegal and unconstitutional usurpation of our rights is required. Each of us must choose which course of action we should take education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience, to bring about the necessary changes.

But let it not be said that we did nothing.

Ron Paul

(Local activist Guy Hinson pictured.)

Thus ends our ceremony but not the ongoing struggle.

Let us stand up for the constitutional republic that our forefathers and foremothers sacrificed everything to found.

DO SOMETHING!!!

Or later regret having done nothing.  Perhaps with very bitter regrets.

Click here for something that you can do Friday afternoon. Huntington Patriots have asked the Fort Wayne patriots to protest unconstitutional actions outside of the office of Senator Evan Bayh on Friday.  Come between 3:30 and 5:00 if you can.

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