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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (628)	10/12/1998 9:10:00 AM
From: SOROS	Respond to of 1151

You are correct, Bob. Add to that the moral slide, and the picture is almost complete. CNN - 10/12/98 RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) -- In a letter to bishops, 363 United Methodist clergy and laity urged the church to end its ban on celebrating gay and lesbian marriages. The letter was released Sunday by the Rev. Jimmy Creech of Raleigh, who was asked to leave a church in Omaha, Nebraska, after performing a same-sex blessing ceremony for two women in September 1997. "Clergy colleagues will stand together, supporting one another, in the celebration of these unions," said the letter, signed by people in 37 states and Washington, D.C. "Our church is adrift, buffeted by forces that seek to steer our course away from the prophetic, just and compassionate course of Christ." In August, the 9.5 million-member United Methodist Church elevated a guideline against same-sex marriages into church canon and said ministers performing the ceremonies could be defrocked. The action came after a church jury acquitted Creech, who is on a voluntary leave of absence, of disobeying the church's Social Principles. United Methodist spokesman Tom McAnally in Nashville, Tennessee, did not immediately return a message at his home.

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (628)	10/13/1998 9:46:00 AM
From: SOROS	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1151

Check out this HEADLINE! Just a bunch of intellectuals -- NOT! Anyone who considers themselves a part of the Illuminati and does not know the origins is a complete moron. All the others who do know -- they do Satan's bidding. washingtonpost.com The Illuminati Rally Around the President October 10, 1998 By Nat Hentoff In a fanfare of indignation, an array of international intellectuals and glittering entertainment figures have signed an urgent petition. They rise not to stop the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo or the mass starvation in the south of Sudan. They demand that President Clinton be freed, at long last, from "inquisitorial harassment by a fanatical prosecutor with unlimited power." Among the initiators of this appeal (as reported in the Sept. 24 Post) are Nobel laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Others of the illuminati involved are William Styron, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Sophia Loren and Lauren Bacall. They instruct us to remember that "a statesman is answerable to public opinion or to the law only for his public acts." By their reckoning, committing perjury before a federal grand jury is not a public act. Nor was the president's subverting the right of Paula Jones -- a citizen of lower pay rank -- to due process in her lawsuit when he corrupted evidence by lying in his deposition in her case. The leader of the free world also lied to his Cabinet and to his faithful retainers in the White House, thereby deliberately sending them forth to lie publicly to the rest of us. But all of Clinton's desperate tricking of his beloved American people was due -- according to the illuminati -- to the "inquisitorial harassment by a fanatical prosecutor" who has modeled himself after Inspector Javert. Apparently Kenneth Starr forced the president to go against his better nature. It is remarkable how many diversely accomplished public figures have allowed themselves to be duped by this flimflam man. There is Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz, for example, who sometimes shows exemplary courage in his choice of clients in appellate cases. But now -- defending the president in the carnival booths of cable television -- Dershowitz keeps braying, "Sex lies! Sex lies! It's all about sex lies!" I don't expect Archbishop Tutu or Bernardo Bertolucci (who was another signer of the petition) to know much about how the American system of law works. But surely William Styron and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. were taught in high school that our courts depend on witnesses not lying under oath. This does happen from time to time. But, as constitutional law professor Ronald Rotunda -- whose book is widely used in law schools -- points out: "If the president can perjure himself with no consequences, is there really a basis then for saying he is covered by any law?" I would commend to the illuminati rallying around this persecuted president a cautionary note by Sir Thomas More in Robert Bolt's "A Man for All Seasons": "This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast -- man's laws -- not God's -- and if you cut them down . . . do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?" I must admit, however, that this president's chutzpah exceeds that of any public official in my experience. When Clinton appeared recently at New York University Law School, he said (as reported in the Sept. 23 New York Post) that it is his Republican enemies who are threatening the Constitution by their remorseless pursuit of him. This is the president who has eviscerated the right to habeas corpus, thereby greatly increasing the possibility that innocent men and women will be executed because -- with few exceptions -- they now have only one year to persuade a federal court to review their convictions or sentences. Since 1973, nearly 70 men have been released from death row after six or more years because they have been proved innocent. The literati who are thronging to the support of this president forget that he insistently tried to get the Supreme Court to uphold the Communications Decency Act, which would have removed from the Internet anything "indecent" -- not fit for children. Another herd of independent literary minds has rallied behind Clinton in the Oct. 5 New Yorker -- among them Toni Morrison and Janet Malcolm. Morrison charges that "the president is being stolen from us." The "bootsteps of the Independent Counsel," she elegantly adds, have tramped on his privacy. Does she mean jackboots? This is the president who tried so hard to get Congress to give the FBI the power to use "roving wire taps" without the bother of getting a warrant. Also in the New Yorker, Jane Smiley instructs us that whatever happened in the Oval Office was "at the very least" the president's "desire to make a connection with another person. . . . This desire to connect is something I trust." She means this penetrating insight to be taken seriously, for these are serious times.