Posted by
Phil E. on Wednesday, August 08, 2007 10:33:51 PM
A "minister of religion?"How convenient.The REAL issue
The
buzz today (Wednesday, August 8) is over why none of Mitt Romney's 5
sons, who ostensibly support the war, haven't acted to support the war
in the most tangible way: enlisting. As usual, Hugh Hewitt is busy
today running Damage Control for his friend Mitt Romney, playing Mitt
Romney's (typical) dodge of the question over and over (and over) again
on the radio, ad nauseum.
But the REAL issue, which highlights something that should concern you, is how Mitt Romney avoided the Vietnam draft...
with help from the Mormon church!The power of the Mormon church
If
you troll the blogs, you'll see Mormons often parroting homosexuals on
blogs critical of Mitt Romney's Mormonism by posting questions like
"What are you afraid of?" The implication of the former is that if you
think homosexuality is sin, evil and wrong, you must be irrationally
afraid of homosexuals. The implication of the Latter (pun intended) is
that if you are worried about collusion between the Mormon church and
government, you must be irrational also. Yeah, right.
Having seen years of abuse by Mormons in government and the Mormon church (go to
The RipoffReport
and do a search for "Mormon" or peruse this cite for abuses by
Mormons), I am afraid. It is not an irrational fear. Don't forget,
Mormons swear an oath of allegiance in their temples to the Mormon church. And by extension, to their brothers and sisters in the church.
Be afraid. Be Very Afraid. (Of the Mormon church.)
From a former Mormon at
The Mormon Curtain,
Last
night on the news was a story about Romney explaining away his absence
from serving during the Viet Nam war: he went on a mission. Boy, do I
ever know that story oh so well.
During that time there was 3
ways to stay out of the draft: 1) Keep a II-S deferment by staying in
school, which was only good for 4 years 2) Go on a mission 3) A
combination of both.
The trick was to stay in school until you
were called on a mission. Before leaving on a mission, you put your
name on the Army Reserve or Nation Guard waiting list. When you got off
your mission, your name was up for the Army Reserve or National Guard
in addition to re-enrolling in school.
What a neat
trick! Could you go on a mission for your local church and use that to
get a deferment from the U.S. Government? I don't think so. The
government seems slightly biased toward the Mormon church.
From
The Boston Globe quoting Mitt Romney's Mormon advisor then,
"I
was aware of the fact that there was an agreement of some sort of
between the church and the Selective Service because there were some
wards mostly in the West [code word for "Utah"] where the congregation
was large and the number of youth was large," Mayo said.
CROCK-odile tears?
Hugh Hewitt says that Mitt Romney now "regrets" not being able to serve our country, but says he
had to go on his mission instead. (So, to Mitt Romney, the Mormon church comes first. Which is what I've been trying to tell you.)
Someone
in the blog-o-sphere should research this more to see if there were any
games played, per above, when Mitt Romney got his deferment.
According to The Boston Globe, it's a little suspicious.
As
the Vietnam War raged in the 1960s, Mitt Romney received a deferment
from the draft as a Mormon "minister of religion" for the duration of
his missionary work in France, which lasted two and a half years.
Before and after his missionary deferment, Romney also received nearly three years of deferments for his academic studies.
Yeah,
I'll bet he regrets that now that it's coming back to haunt him. In the
Bible, it's also reported that Judas "repented himself." But it wasn't
genuine repentance. (And you know where Judas is now.)
Translating Mitt Romney
As
an aside: Listen carefully when Mitt Romney gives his long winded,
obfuscating answer to Rachel Griffiths. He goes on a long winded side
bar about his niece "out West," whose husband was called up into the
Guard, about how they had to have their property landscaped within a
year. (I.e., while he would be away.) She woke up the next morning to
see all her "neighbors" helping to landscape.
Anyone wanna bet
that "out West" means "Utah," and "neighbors" means "members of the
Mormon church?" (A Mormon bishop probably ordered his minions to do
this good deed.)
Go ahead. Vote for Mitt Romney. Put a Mormon in
the White House. You'll never know exactly what he believes. Nor will
you ever really know what he means. Worse than any politician, he'll
say one thing, but mean quite another.
And you'll never know what favors Mitt Romney will bestow on other
members of his church as did the Selective Service. It will be
impossible to know what deals are made in Mormon temples throughout the
country.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.