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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (230737)	4/26/2005 10:11:59 AM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574005

Jewish THOUGHT POLICE invade Air Force Academy [Interesting. Military people are being asked to die for their country, but their religious conviction (sort of related to death, no?) is forbidden from public discussion. In other words, in essence, by default you are dying for nihilism. So you're wounded on the battlefield, shot up, and the Thought Police is hovering over you to make sure don't say "Jesus" out loud so someone else could hear? The 90% at the academy who believe in Jesus have to limit their free speech and intellectual freedom to satisfy the .01 % Jews on campus who are offended by the word Jesus. I wonder if the the Air Force Academy has to also censor Mel's Passion of Christ since the Jewish community has decided that the film is anti-Semiti?.] Air Force Academy gets lesson on religious tolerance, by David Kelly, The Seattle Times (from Los Angeles Times), April 25, 2005 "In a crowded room on the edge of the Air Force Academy, Chaplain Melinda Morton was doing her bit for culture change. She dimmed the lights and rolled the video. It was Mel Gibson in a scene from the film "We Were Soldiers" addressing his troops on the eve of battle. "We are moving into the valley of the shadow of death," he said solemnly. "Where you will watch the back of the man next to you, as he will watch yours, and you won't care what color he is, or by what name he calls his God." Morton stopped the tape, and flicked on the lights. "In past years we have had incidences of spiritual insensitivity here at the academy," she told the 25 civilian and military personnel in the room. "Sometimes it was out of ignorance, but sometimes it was out of maliciousness. Respect is essential for mission success." Morton was teaching an RSVP — Respecting the Spiritual Values of all People — class, a 50-minute exercise in trying to stop what critics say is a culture of intolerance on campus. Over the past four years, there have been 55 complaints of insensitivity, many dealing with alleged harassment of religious minorities by evangelical Christians. Cadets and employees are being told they can't proselytize on campus, use government e-mail to send religious messages, put up posters with religious themes or use positions of authority to endorse a particular faith. They must also attend one RSVP class. About 90 percent of cadets here are Christian and many of them, as well as teachers and high-ranking officers, are evangelical. Academy Commandant Brig. Gen. Johnny Weida is a self-described born-again Christian. Last year, football coach Fisher DeBerry hung a banner in the athletic complex that said, "I am a Christian first and last ... I am a member of Team Jesus Christ." He later removed it and underwent sensitivity counseling. When the film "The Passion of the Christ" came out, some cadets hung posters and sent hundreds of e-mails on campus computers urging people to see it. Lt. Col. Edie Disler, an English professor who helps run RSVP programs, said some Christians questioned the value of the classes. "They have said, 'We are in the majority, why do we have to do this?' " she said. Mikey Weinstein, an academy graduate and lawyer in Albuquerque, N.M., has a son who is a sophomore at the school. The cadet has been called a "filthy Jew" among other things, Weinstein said. "This is not a Jew-Christian thing, it's an evangelical versus everyone else thing," he said." seattletimes.nwsource.com