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George Bush
XLI President of the United States: 1989 - 1993
Question-and-Answer Session With Students at the Saturn School of Tomorrow in St. Paul, Minnesota
May 22, 1991
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Q. Do you ever have any time to have fun, like go outside and, like, throw a frisbee or go out and play?
The President. Yes, we do.
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The New York Times
Push to End Prison Rapes Loses Earlier Momentum
By DEBORAH SONTAG MAY 12, 2015
NEW BOSTON, Tex. — The inmate, dressed in prison whites with a shaved head and incongruously tender eyes behind wire-rimmed glasses, entered the visiting room with her wrists joined as if she were handcuffed. At 31, she had spent her whole adult life behind bars, and it looked like a posture of habit.
She introduced herself: “My given name at birth was Joshua Zollicoffer, but my preferred name is Passion Star.”
A transgender woman whose gender identity has been challenged by Texas authorities, Ms. Star herself is challenging Texas’ refusal to accept new national standards intended to eliminate rape in prison, which disproportionately affects gay and transgender prisoners. Last spring, Gov. Rick Perry declared in a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. that Texas had its own “safe prisons program” and did not need the “unnecessarily cumbersome and costly” intrusion of another federal mandate.
Ms. Star, who says she is a victim of repeated sexual harassment, coercion, abuse and assault in Texas’s maximum-security prisons for men, disagrees.
“Look, I got 36 stitches and have scars on my face that prove the prisons are not safe and the current system does not work,” she said. “Somebody needs to be intrusive into this state’s business. Because if somebody was intruding, probably these things would not happen.”
After decades of societal indifference to prison rape, Congress, in a rare show of support for inmates’ rights, unanimously passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act in 2003, and Mr. Perry’s predecessor as governor, President George W. Bush, signed it into law.
“The emerging consensus was that ‘Don’t drop the soap’ jokes were no longer funny, and that rape is not a penalty we assign in sentencing,” said Jael Humphrey, a lawyer with Lambda Legal, a national group that represents Ms. Star in a federal lawsuit alleging that Texas officials failed to protect her from sexual victimization despite her persistent, well-documented pleas for help.
But over 12 years, even as reported sexual victimization in prisons remained high, the urgency behind that consensus dissipated. It took almost a decade for the Justice Department to issue the final standards on how to prevent, detect and respond to sexual abuse in custody. And it took a couple of years more before governors were required to report to Washington, which revealed that only New Jersey and New Hampshire were ready to certify full compliance.
With May 15 marking the second annual reporting deadline, advocates for inmates and half of the members of the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission, a bipartisan group charged with drafting the standards, say the plodding pace of change has disheartened them despite pockets of progress.
“I am encouraged by what several states have done, discouraged by most and dismayed by states like Texas,” said Judge Reggie B. Walton of United States District Court in the District of Columbia, who was appointed chairman of the now-disbanded commission by Mr. Bush.
Some commissioners fault the Justice Department for failing to promote the standards vigorously. Others blame the correctional industry and unions for resisting practices long known to curb “state-sanctioned abuse,” as one put it. All lament that Congress has sought to weaken the modest penalties for noncompliance, and that five governors joined Mr. Perry last year in snubbing the standards.
“There’s a whole kind of backlash, which is very depressing,” said Jamie Fellner, a former commissioner who is senior counsel for the United States program of Human Rights Watch. “It’s 12 years since the law passed. I mean, really. We’re still dealing with all these officials saying, ‘Trust us. We’ll take care of it.’?”
Last year, 42 governors signed a form providing “assurance” to the Justice Department that they were advancing toward compliance. But they were allowed to make that assurance without having conducted any outside audits; the commissioners protested this in a letter to Mr. Holder in November, expressing concern about “efforts to delay or weaken” adherence to the standards.
In fact, the ambitious goal to audit every prison, jail, detention center, lockup and halfway house in this country over a three-year period is far behind schedule.
Some 8,000 institutions are supposed to be audited for sexual safety by August 2016; only 335 audits had been completed by March, according to a Justice Department document obtained from the office of Senator John Cornyn of Texas; the department declined to provide numbers.
The Justice Department said it “remains steadfast in its commitment to the implementation of the National PREA Standards” — PREA is the acronym for the Prison Rape Elimination Act — and hopes for “full participation” from all states this year.
But states face only a small penalty, the loss of 5 percent of prison-related federal grants, if they opt out of the process entirely. “There are a lot of carrots in PREA, and not enough sticks,” said Brenda V. Smith, an American University law professor and another former commissioner.
Texas forfeited $810,796 — the equivalent of a minuscule fraction of its multibillion-dollar corrections budget — after Mr. Perry declined to sign an assurance letter. According to a spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, this loss “will not have any effect on T.D.C.J. operations.”
The other renegade states, as advocates called them, were Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Indiana and Utah.
Texas’ opting out was considered especially significant, however, because it has the largest prison population in the country and by far the most reports of sexual assault and abuse. Texas had three and a half times as many allegations as California in 2011, when California still had more inmates than Texas, according to the federal data.
Texas authorities attribute this to “extensive efforts to encourage and facilitate reporting.” Declining to discuss Ms. Star’s case, they said their “goal is to be as compliant as possible with PREA standards without jeopardizing the safety and security of our institutions.”
Twenty-seven of their 109 prisons have passed outside audits, they said, including the one where Ms. Star is now locked up for a teenage offense that the authorities considered kidnapping.
A Predatory Culture
In this rural area just west of Texarkana, the Barry B. Telford prison complex sits behind chain-link fences topped with coils of razor ribbon. It is where Ms. Star began her incarceration the year that Congress passed the prison rape law and where, after an odyssey through six other prisons, she unexpectedly returned at the end of March.
She is used to moving around. Born in Mississippi in late 1983, Ms. Star lived the peripatetic life of a military child, shuttling from state to state and twice to Germany before settling near Fort Hood, Tex., as a teenager.
On a summer day when she was 18, she accompanied her boyfriend, who was 23, to a Chevrolet dealership to test-drive a car. Her boyfriend took the wheel of a maroon Impala, a salesman got in the front passenger seat and Ms. Star sat in the rear.
When the salesman indicated it was time to return to the lot, the boyfriend said no, in Ms. Star’s recounting.
“I’m like, ‘Wow. What do you mean?’” she said. “And he’s like, ‘Be quiet.’ It was one of those things where keeping it real goes wrong. Where I could have been like, ‘Well, you need to stop,’ or gotten out, and I didn’t. We make bad decisions when we’re young.”
After 40 miles, they deposited the salesman on a rural road. He eventually flagged down a police car, and an alert was issued for the stolen Chevy. The couple kept driving north, even picking up a hitchhiker at one point, until, with the authorities in pursuit, their flight ended in a ditch.
Charged with aggravated kidnapping, a first-degree felony that carries a penalty of five to 99 years, Ms. Star accepted the same plea deal of 20 years as her boyfriend.
“The law applies a rule of parties, which allows them to charge the passenger with the same level of culpability as the primary actor,” said M. Bryon Barnhill, who was Ms. Star’s court-appointed lawyer. But, he added, the boyfriend (and the hitchhiker) told the authorities “they were acting in concert with the intention of stealing the car and traveling to Canada to start a new life.”
Ms. Star was 19 when she arrived at Telford, with no possibility of parole for a decade. She was quickly inducted into a gang-ruled world with an ultimatum, she said: “You’re going to ride with us, or you’re going to fight.”
“In the state of Texas, in the general population, there is a culture where gay men and transgender women in prison are basically preyed on by the stronger inmates,” she said. “They have to be the property of a person who’s in a gang, and this person is the individual who speaks for them. So basically they’re coerced into being sexually active to survive.”
Ms. Star said that after complaining fruitlessly to prison employees, she submitted to a coerced sexual relationship. She tried to leave the inmate once, she said, but he choked her in response.
The most recent national inmate survey by the Justice Department found that sexual victimization was reported by 3.1 percent of heterosexual prisoners, 14 percent of gay, lesbian and bisexual prisoners and 40 percent of transgender inmates.
Because gay and transgender inmates are at such high risk, a prison’s efforts to protect them is seen by experts as a barometer of its commitment to eliminating rape. That is why Ms. Star’s advocates believe her case represents a pervasive problem in Texas; those defendants who filed a legal response to her complaint deny all allegations against them and contend they acted “in good faith.”
In her early years in prison, Ms. Star considered herself gay. She knew she was “additionally different,” but it would take a few more years for her to identify as a transgender woman, to adopt a “feminine alias” and to start feeling comfortable in her own skin.
“You know how penguins are?” she asked. “On land, if you look at a penguin when it walks around, it’s just an ungainly, clumsy creature. But in water, a penguin is one of the most graceful animals in the world.’’ She added: “I didn’t feel like I was in my element until, at all types of personal risk to myself, I became Passion.”
Becoming Passion in a maximum-security men’s prison in Texas was not easy. “Basically they frown on us expressing our gender,” she said. “I did at one point wear my hair longer, arch my eyebrows, shave my legs and my body and everything. I wore small, form-fitting clothes and made myself feminine underwear. But I was actually disciplined for it.”
It was only in 2014 that she learned from a notice in the prison newspaper that inmates were allowed to request classification as transgender, she said, and she did so.
But in their response to her lawsuit, Texas officials refer to Ms. Star as Mr. Zollicoffer, use male pronouns and “deny” she is transgender “as no such medical diagnosis has been made.”
“If she were seeking medical care — and she does intend to transition but until now she has been in survival mode — a diagnosis could be relevant,” Ms. Humphrey, her lawyer, said. “But whether or not she was diagnosed as transgender has nothing to do with whether or not she deserves protection from sexual assault.”
‘The Day-to-Day Horror’
As a researcher who studied prison rape when nobody wanted to know about it, Cindy Struckman-Johnson, a social psychologist at the University of South Dakota, was astonished when Congress passed the rape legislation.
“To me it was like a miracle,” said Ms. Struckman-Johnson, a former commissioner who described how she had become “persona non grata” in Nebraska in the 1990s after finding a high rate of prison rape there. “Ever since PREA, nobody can really be in denial.”
The law described prison rape as epidemic. Ideologically evenhanded, it referred at once to “the day-to-day horror of victimized inmates” and to “brutalized inmates more likely to commit crimes when they are released.” It spoke of the potential spread of H.I.V. and of the need for Congress to protect the constitutional rights of prisoners in states where officials displayed deliberate indifference.
The law, which established the commission, laid out a timetable under which the attorney general would publish the final antirape standards by 2007.
But after eight public hearings, 11 site visits and two public comment periods on draft standards, the commission did not release its final report and proposed standards until 2009.
“What took so long?” Ms. Smith said. “Resistance was coming from and still is coming from many correctional agencies. The resistance was: This is going to cost us too much money. But also, we were developing standards not just around preventing rape, but around respect and dignity and changing the culture that permitted or even encouraged rape in custody.”
It then took the Justice Department three additional years to issue final standards that were in the end “almost identical — very frustrating,” one commissioner said.
The 52 standards for prisons and jails apply to everything from hiring and staffing levels through investigation and evidence collection to medical treatment and rape crisis counseling.
State officials found some standards particularly intrusive. Mr. Perry protested that limitations on cross-gender strip searches, pat downs and bathroom supervision would force Texas to discriminate against its female officers. He said the requirement that youths in adult prisons be “separated by sight and sound” from grown-up inmates infringed on Texas’ right to set its age of criminal responsibility at 17.
Training and technical assistance related to the coming regulations began in 2004. Since 2011, the Justice Department has doled out some $31 million in PREA-related grants, and tens of millions more to set up and run the National PREA Resource Center.
And indeed, judged through a long lens, considerable progress has been made. That wardens across the country now profess zero tolerance for sexual abuse represents a cultural transformation itself. There are antirape posters on prison bulletin boards, hotlines to report sexual abuse, educational videos for inmates, and training sessions for guards. Statistics show some prisons and jails with very low or even no reported sexual abuse.
“I’m not on the top deck, I’m in the engine room with Scotty, and I see behavioral change on the yards and in the cellblocks,” said James E. Aiken, a correctional consultant and former commissioner. “This is not a speedboat; it’s a very big ship.”
John Kaneb, a business executive and former vice chairman of the commission, said he also thought “things are going well now.”
Over 500 specialized auditors have been certified, and, he said, the pace of audits is accelerating: “They’re not going to get 8,000 done in the next 15 months, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they had 1,000 done by end of year.”
Yet others are disappointed that the states are moving slowly and that the Justice Department declines to say how much longer it will allow governors to provide “assurances” instead of certifying compliance.
“This leaves open the absurd possibility that a state could kick the can down the road in perpetuity without ever incurring a financial penalty,” said Lovisa Stannow, the executive director of Just Detention International.
Pat Nolan, director of the Center for Criminal Justice Reform at the American Conservative Union Foundation and a former commissioner, said that Mr. Perry’s public challenge to the standards caused ripples of anxiety that linger.
“The fear is that if you get enough states thumbing their nose at this, the whole thing could unravel,” he said.
In the end, the former commissioners said, oversight might have to become the provenance of the courts.
“I think that’s the greatest hope, that the standards become the legal standards of care,” Judge Walton said. “If states realize they’re going to have multimillion-dollar lawsuits, that will be an incentive for them.”
A Quest for ‘Safekeeping’
At Lambda Legal’s offices on Wall Street, not long after Mr. Perry’s declaration to Washington, Ms. Humphrey started combing through letters from inmates complaining about sexual abuse.
“I was looking in our mailbag for a plaintiff who could illustrate the problems Texas was having,” Ms. Humphrey said. “And there she was.”
What Ms. Humphrey found was a thick envelope from Ms. Star containing the proposed draft of a legal complaint along with medical files, grievance reports and appeals — a meticulous record of her years behind bars.
In 2006, Ms. Star was transferred to the James V. Allred Unit in Wichita Falls.
Allred would soon be singled out by the Justice Department as one of the 10 most sexually violent prisons in the country. Five of the 10, in fact, were in Texas, and Ms. Star would end up doing time in three of them.
At Allred, she was immediately targeted as she had been at Telford, she said, but she was older and unwilling “to lay down and accept these things happening to me.”
So she embarked on what became her unrelenting quest to be placed in “safekeeping,” which is what Texas calls separate housing units for vulnerable inmates. She sought safekeeping not only because of recurrent sexual harassment, coercion and threats of violence, but also because of retaliation for reporting these incidents — from staff members as well as inmates, she said.
At Allred, when she told a prison official she feared for her life after refusing sexual demands, the official told her she would be fine because she is black, she claims in her lawsuit. Over the years, she came to believe the system’s protection program was racially discriminatory.
A racial breakdown of the inmates in safekeeping, provided by Texas, indicates she may have had a point. Of the 1,569 inmates with that status now, 57 percent are white, while whites constitute 30 percent of the inmate population. Twenty-three percent in safekeeping are black, compared with 35 percent over all, and 19 percent are Hispanic, compared with 33 percent.
In March 2007, Ms. Star was assigned to a cell with a gang member who instantly started demanding sexual favors. She informed a guard and asked for help, she said. Two days later, the cellmate raped her at knife point. After she reported the attack, he threw a fan at her head. It was the “worst moment of my life,” she said, making her feel “utterly powerless,” briefly suicidal and extremely fearful “it would happen to me again and again.”
Ms. Star said she did not know what happened to her cellmate after she went to the infirmary to be treated; under the standards, victims are supposed to be kept apprised.
A national panel, established after the rape law to examine institutions with the best and worst records, visited Allred and could find no indication that any sexual abuse claims had been substantiated. It noted that a significant number of claims had been filed by gay inmates — “whom staff members referred to as queens.”
“A question remains as to whether complaints from homosexual inmates are treated as seriously as they deserve,” the panel said of Allred.
Texas has a very low rate of substantiating allegations. Of 743 reports of sexual assault and abuse in the 2013 budget year, 20 cases, or 2.7 percent, were corroborated; the national rate is 10 percent. One prison rape case was sent to a grand jury that year.
After the rape, Ms. Star was moved into “protective custody,” a form of solitary confinement that the standards say should be used for rape victims only short-term and if no alternative — such as safekeeping — is available.
Two weeks later, Ms. Star was transferred to a third prison where her new cellmate made her watch him masturbate, she said.
“I freaked,” she said. “Immediately I was like, ‘I can’t deal with this.’ For a long time, I bounced from cell to cell, cell to cell, cell to cell. And that’s when the tag ‘snitch’ started to stick to me because I was complaining constantly about people trying to force me into things.”
She said that over the years some prison officials had called her “faggot” and “punk;” others blamed her for bringing problems on herself. One suggested, using language that cannot be printed, that she perform oral sex, “fight or quit doing gay” stuff, her lawsuit says.
In her fourth and fifth prisons, Ms. Star’s complaints of continuing abuse and assault were dismissed with “formulaic” responses, her lawsuit says.
In denying her requests for safekeeping, Texas made references to her “assaultive history,” suggesting she could endanger other vulnerable inmates. Ms. Star says that her disciplinary history “is a direct reflection of T.D.C.J.’s not protecting me.”
“I have a disciplinary history for defending myself three or four times over 13 years,” she said. “I’ve never hurt anybody. But I’ve been hurt.”
Ms. Star was also denied parole — though her former boyfriend and co-defendant was released in April 2013, something Ms. Star learned in the interview.
“Wow,” she said. “That kind of makes me want to cry.”
On Nov. 19, 2013, with threats against her mounting, Ms. Star filed an emergency grievance appealing the most recent denial of her request for safekeeping. The next morning, heading to breakfast, Ms. Star found her path blocked by gang members. One repeatedly slashed her face with a razor. This was the attack that required the 36 stitches.
After that, she was transferred to her sixth prison. The same problems ensued. Begging again for safekeeping, Ms. Star wrote in a grievance: “Just recommending that I be transferred to another unit will not ensure my safety, just as it did not after the 3-29-07 sexual assault, nor after the 11-20-13 assault with a weapon. I am an offender with a ‘potential for victimization,’ otherwise I wouldn’t be constantly victimized and threatened by other offenders.”
This time, somebody listened. The prison’s classification committee agreed she should be put in safekeeping. The state, however, overruled it.
By this point, Ms. Star had been reaching out beyond prison walls — writing to the state-level corrections officials as well as to civil rights and advocacy groups, who report that they get more reports of sexual abuse from inmates in Texas than anywhere else.
“Passion is hardly alone but she is incredibly intelligent, incredibly well organized and her perseverance is unparalleled,” Ms. Humphrey said.
After the lawyer’s first visit with Ms. Star last summer, the inmate was moved into protective custody and spent 110 days in an 80-square-foot cell. Her lawsuit alleges that Texas officials “use confinement in isolation and the threat of isolation to deter people in custody from complaining about sexual abuse, threats, and other assaults.”
Last November, Ms. Star was transferred to her seventh prison, William P. Clements, another prison with a very high rate of sexual victimization. She immediately found herself back among gang members she knew, and encountered escalating threats of assault and rape.
In March, her lawyers filed an emergency motion asking that the court order Texas to place her in safekeeping or explain how it would otherwise keep her safe.
“I’m afraid Passion is going to get murdered — like this weekend,” Ms. Humphrey said then.
For that weekend, her lawyers agreed to let the authorities place Ms. Star back in solitary confinement while they negotiated a resolution. At that point, Texas appeared to be arguing that Ms. Star’s only alternative was to remain in isolation.
On March 20, The New York Times asked Texas for permission to interview Ms. Star.
On March 30, more than a decade after she says she first requested it, Texas put Passion Star in safekeeping. Her lawsuit, which seeks damages from the officials who allegedly failed to protect her, is continuing.
At the time of the interview, she had been in safekeeping only a couple of days, but already found the new atmosphere a relief. “Everybody’s calmer,” she said. “The tension level is extremely low. There are no gang influences that basically are threatening our lives. So it’s a change — a change for the better.”
As a reporter left the prison that day, an officer at the security entrance said, “So, did you see him-her?”
Fumbling for an answer, the reporter said yes and that Ms. Star had been “very nice.”
“For a kidnapper,” the officer replied.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
September 4, 2003
Statement on Prison Rape Elimination Act
Statement by the President
Today, I have signed into Law S. 1435, the "Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003." The Act provides for analysis of the incidence and effects of prison rape in Federal, State and local institutions, and for information, resources, recom-mendations and funding to protect individuals from prison rape. The Act also creates a National Prison Rape Reduction Commission.
Section 7(h) of the Act purports to grant to the Commission a right of access to any Federal department or agency informa-tion it considers necessary to carry out its duties, and section 7(k)(3) provides for release of information to the public. The executive branch shall construe sections 7(h) and 7(k)(3) in a manner consistent with the President's constitutional authority to withhold information when its disclosure could impair deliberative processes of the Executive or the performance of the Executive's constitutional duties and, to the extent possible, in a manner consistent with Federal statutes protecting sensitive information from disclosure.
GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
September 4, 2003.
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THE WEEK
What The Americans gets wrong about Russian spies
Aki Peritz
April 19, 2014
The big bad bear from Moscow is back, and not just in Crimea. FX's The Americans, about deep-cover KGB "illegals" living in Washington, D.C. in the early 1980s, is now midway through its second season. There's much to like about the show, from top-notch performances by Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys, to their reliance on clunky, retro-spy technology, to the clever manipulation of a common fear felt, no doubt, by most children at one point or another that their parents have secret identities (it ain't paranoia if it's true).
But I was in the intelligence business too, and a fundamental part of the series irks me. Even though the CIA hired me after the 9/11 attacks to fight a new menace — terrorism and Islamic extremism — the corridors at Langley still echo with the footsteps of old timers who recall the protean fight against the Soviets. And regardless of how that conflict is portrayed in Joe Weisberg's captivating series, it was not a sequence of increasingly lethal encounters between U.S. and Russian intelligence services.
To be sure, much about the show is based on reality. The premise — that Russian spooks were living double lives in the suburbs — was inspired in part by a real-life network of Russian illegals (made famous by the bombshell Anna Chapman) that was busted by the FBI in 2010. Then there is the series of background events — the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, Alexander Haig's controversial statement that "I'm in control here" — that situate the drama on an authentic historical timeline.
But The Americans' fidelity to fact often ends there: The KGB certainly ran significant intelligence gathering operations during the Cold War — and even carried out "dirty tricks," like organizing a racist letter-writing campaign, purportedly by American white supremacists, against African diplomats at the United Nations, and desecrating American synagogues and Jewish cemeteries to stir up discord and prove that the United States was a lousy place to live.
At the end of the day, however, the KGB never actually killed anyone in America.
Washington was a violent place back in the Reagan years, but not because Russian spies were murdering folks left and right.
After all, killing people — like the security guards, former assets, and random civilians that bite the dust in The Americans — in pursuit of intelligence is fraught with danger. Political murder would not only have focused America's domestic security apparatus onto Soviet affairs like a laser, it would have also threatened bilateral relations — with potentially devastating consequences. For instance, when U.S. government contractor Raymond Davis shot and killed two thieves on a Lahore street in 2011, the incident touched off a massive diplomatic row that threatened to upend an already-strained U.S.-Pakistan relationship. If the Soviets had behaved similarly on the streets of Washington during the height of the Cold War, they could have set off a massively destabilizing tit-for-tat escalation.
It should come as no surprise, then, that Cold War espionage involved more dead drops, covert meetings, and brush passes than brazen assassination attempts. In fact, there's only ever been one assassination of a Soviet defector in D.C. — in 1941 at the Bellevue Hotel, and it may have actually been a suicide. If Stalin's genocidal People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, or NKVD, could only muster one possible killing in America, Leonid Brezhnev and Yuri Andropov's KGB would not have dared.
So what were these Soviet illegals actually doing in the suburbs? Probably not too much, according to retired KGB Maj. Gen. Oleg Kalugin, who wrote in his memoirs that the deep cover agents were the "least productive" of the KGB's branches working in the U.S. capital. The most recent batch of busted Russian deep-cover agents apparently only managed to collect open-source material during their stay in America — information that could have been discovered by anyone with internet access. In fact, the U.S. Justice Department didn't charge any of them with espionage because they never actually sent any classified information back to Moscow. It wasn't exactly the stuff of a Robert Ludlum thriller.
Nor were American spies the kind of cowboys portrayed in The Americans. Spoiler Alert: Much of the first season revolves around how the members of an FBI counterintelligence unit begin to take their jobs so personally that they try to kill a top KGB official at the Soviet Embassy, spurred purely by revenge. Even more incredibly, an American assassin manages to take out a KGB general in his Moscow apartment. Sure, there was plenty of skullduggery in the 1980s, but killing diplomatically protected individuals in America is a bridge too far. And sending assassins to Moscow to kill KGB officials is pure lunacy.
The reality is that it's far more practical to swap compromised assets for American human assets caught behind enemy lines. After all, that's what the FBI has traditionally done, monitoring real-life illegals like Anna Chapman before arresting and swapping them for compromised Russian personnel that were secretly working for the United States.
Finally, there was an unspoken understanding about reciprocal behavior between the United States and the Soviet Union, especially during the era of The Americans. Even abroad in hot wars like 1980s Afghanistan, there were general rules about taking lives. As Steve Coll noted in his book Ghost Wars, "The CIA and KGB had settled during the 1980s into a shaky, unwritten gentlemen's agreement that sought to discourage targeting each other's salaried professional officers for kidnapping and murder." This went beyond professional courtesy: Intelligence officials understood that the tables could be turned in another battlefield. Whacking KGB officers in Kabul could get CIA personnel bumped off in, say, Managua.
As such, even though the United States funneled all manner of high-tech weaponry and explosives to the Afghan mujahidin, the CIA refrained from sending certain night-vision goggles or sniper scopes that could be used to target specific individuals for assassination. The agency also refused to provide satellite imagery that would have revealed where specific Soviet officials lived. So even in a very ugly war, there were some limits.
With U.S.-Russia tensions on the rise over Ukraine, Syria, and elsewhere, the bogeyman from Moscow in The Americans feels ripped from today's headlines. But by portraying an increasingly baroque series of killings as a proxy for effective intelligence gathering, the series stays firmly in the world of entertainment. To be fair, Weisberg has always been open about his disappointment with the banality of real intelligence work. A CIA employee for a brief period in the 1990s, he decided he'd rather write about spies than be one. For those of us with experience in the shadowy world of intelligence, however, The Americans is a little too good to be true.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068473/quotes
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Deliverance (1972)
Quotes
Lewis: Can that chubby boy handle himself?
Ed: Bobby? He's rather well thought of in his field, Lewis.
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1901
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January 1
The birth of Pentecostalism at a prayer meeting at Bethel Bible College in Topeka, Kansas.
http://www.cbn.com/spirituallife/ChurchAndMinistry/ChurchHistory/Revival/The_100th_Anniversary_Topeka.aspx
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REVIVAL
The Roots of Azusa: Pentecost in Topeka
By Gordon Robertson
The 700 Club
CBN.com – With the 100th anniversary of the Azusa Street Revival, we should also remember the anniversary of the day when the church once again discovered the baptism in the Holy Spirit -- New Year's Day, 1901.
In October 1900 in Topeka, Kansas, a small band of believers led by Charles Parham started Bethel Bible School. The school "invited all ministers and Christians who were willing to forsake all, sell what they had, give it away, and enter the school for study and prayer, where all of us together might trust God for food, fuel, rent and clothing." No one paid tuition or board and they all wanted to be equipped to go to the ends of the earth to preach the gospel of the Kingdom as a witness to every nation. The only textbook was the Bible. Their concerted purpose was to learn the Bible not just in their heads but to have each thing in the Scriptures wrought out in their hearts.
As they searched the scriptures, they came up with one great problem - what about the second chapter of Acts? In December 1900, Parham sent his students at work to diligently search the scriptures for the Biblical evidence of the baptism in the Holy Spirit. They all came back with the same answer - when the baptism in the Holy Spirit came to the early disciples, the indisputable proof on each occasion was that they spoke with other tongues.
Armed with this head knowledge, they now sought to have it worked out in their own hearts. Parham called a watch night service on December 31, 1900. He assembled about 75 people including the 40 students. One of the students, Agnes N. Ozman asked that hands might be laid upon her to receive the Holy Spirit since she desired to go to foreign lands as a missionary. According to Parham, after midnight on January 1, 1901, he laid hands upon her and:
"I had scarcely repeated three dozen sentences when a glory fell upon her, a halo seemed to surround her head and face, and she began speaking in the Chinese language, and was unable to speak English for three days. When she tried to write in English to tell us of her experience she wrote the Chinese, copies of which we still have in newspapers printed at that time."
They continued the prayer meeting for two more nights and three days. According to Parham, "We all got past any begging or pleading; we knew the blessing was ours." The rest, as they say, is history.
http://www.pcg.org/#!history/c1a17
Pentecostal Church of God
PCG History
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
It was a cold, wintry 30th day of December, 1919, when a group of dedicated individuals met in Chicago, Illinois. These men and women were destined to organize what is known today as the Pentecostal Church of God. Eli DePriest, one of those present, reported that after they had concluded the business, prayer was offered, and while they were praying, the building where they were assembled was actually shaken by the power of God! The objective of this group was to unite their resources for the purpose of spreading the Gospel. Cooperative evangelism was the strength of their effort.
From this humble beginning emerged one of the leading Pentecostal denominations of our day—the Pentecostal Church of God. The church is part of the great Pentecostal revival that began around the turn of the 20th century.
TOPEKA, KANSAS, BETHEL BIBLE COLLEGE
The origin of modern Pentecostalism can be traced to Bethel Bible College, founded in October 1900 by Charles Fox Parham. The school was located in Topeka, Kansas in an elaborate unfinished mansion known as “Stone’s Folly.” In his monthly publication, The Apostolic Faith, Parham announced that anyone who prayed and diligently studied the Word was welcome to attend. Since this was a “faith school,” no tuition was charged. Parham was the only instructor and the Bible the only textbook.
Before leaving for a speaking engagement in Kansas City, Parham assigned the student body the task of determining from their study of Scripture, the evidence of receiving the Baptism in the Holy Spirit. When Parham returned he was amazed to learn that the students had reached the conclusion: the indisputable proof of one receiving the Baptism in the Holy Spirit was speaking with other tongues.
This conclusion was of tremendous importance, for it marked the occasion when speaking in tongues was first considered to be the initial physical evidence of one being filled with the Holy Spirit.
On January 1, 1901 the first day of the 20th century, Agnes N. Ozman requested those present to lay hands on her and pray that she might receive the infilling of the Holy Spirit. When this was done, she began to speak in tongues, glorifying God.
According to the report she was so overwhelmed by this new experience of Pentecostal power she could not speak in the English language for three days. Miss Ozman’s baptism inspired the other students to seek for a similar experience.
http://enrichmentjournal.ag.org/199904/016_genesis.cfm
ASSEMBLIES OF GOD
enrichment journal
The Genesis of the Pentecostal Movement
by J. Roswell Flower
On May 22, 1955, Mrs. Flower and I attended services in the Bethel Pentecostal Church of Newark, New Jersey, and were handed a copy of the current issue of the Pentecostal Evangel. We observed on page 15 a notice of the death of a pioneer Pentecostal minister, Howard D. Stanley, at the age of 79.
The passing of Howard D. Stanley would have been without particular significance if it were not for the fact he was one of the students at Bethel Bible College in Topeka, Kansas, who experienced a glorious baptism in the Holy Ghost on January 3, 1901. At Bethel Bible College, the momentous decision was made by the student body, from its study of the Book of the Acts, that the scriptural evidence of the baptism in the Holy Ghost is speaking in tongues as the Holy Spirit gives the utterance.
This was not the first time since Apostolic days the Holy Spirit had been outpoured, accompanied by spiritual manifestations including prophecy and speaking in tongues, as has been noted in With Signs Following, by Stanley H. Frodsham.
In the United States there were movings of the Holy Spirit as early as 1854 in New England, among those who were known as “The Gift People.” At Moorhead, Minnesota, in 1903, under the ministry of John Thompson, a minister of the Swedish Mission, the Holy Spirit was outpoured and those receiving the Spirit spoke in new tongues. The influence of that revival remains with us to this day. Then we learn from the Church of God that the Holy Spirit was outpoured in the early days of that church at the Shearer School House in Cherokee County, North Carolina, and those who were baptized in the Holy Spirit spoke in tongues, others prophesied, and miracles of healing occurred.
While there were notable movings of the Holy Spirit in which speaking in other tongues, prophecy, and the healing of the sick were experienced, none of these revivals grew into a Pentecostal movement, such as resulted from the outpouring of the Holy Spirit that took place at the turn of the century at Charles F. Parham's Bethel Bible College. When the students at Bethel Bible College decided from their study of the Scriptures that the scriptural evidence of the baptism in the Holy Ghost is speaking in tongues, and then tarried and expected that experience, the time had arrived for the inauguration of a Movement which was to encircle the world and become entrenched in every continent and in almost every nation on the face of the globe.
We are living in the age in which science has succeeded in smashing the atom, and we hear about nuclear fission and chain reaction. It would seem there is a parallel between the discovery of the secrets of the atom and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. On January 1, 1901, a young woman [Agnes N. Ozman], a student at Bethel Bible College in Topeka, Kansas, requested that hands be laid on her that she might receive the Holy Ghost, according to the pattern set forth in the Book of Acts. Although the leaders of the college had misgivings as to the authority they possessed, they responded to the request and laid hands on her, and God honored her faith by baptizing her in the Holy Ghost, and she spoke in tongues and glorified the Lord. It was as though a spiritual atom had been exploded, and produced a spiritual mushroom effect.
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/21708
The Smirking Chimp
I'm not against religion, I'm against religious hypocrisy
by Mary Shaw May 9, 2009 - 8:50am
And when closeted homosexual "Christians" fight against gay rights. (See Ted Haggard and Larry Craig.)
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=19608
The American Presidency Project
George Bush
XLI President of the United States: 1989 - 1993
Exchange With Reporters on Soviet-United States Relations
May 22, 1991
The President. I just wanted to spread good will. No questions, no questions.
Q. Why not?
The President. Spreading a little -- well, because mostly the answers are already out there. [Laughter] But I just wanted to say everything is fine.
Q. How did the Moiseyev meeting go, Mr. President?
The President. As far as I'm concerned, it went very well. We don't have all the results yet, obviously, but I talked to our experts, and they thought there was some progress out of our meeting. But it's at a stage where we need some confidential discussions going on. But I was pleased with it.
Q. Well, can you discuss at all -- --
Q. -- -- this week and on track a summit by -- --
The President. I hope so, I hope so. Well, there's two questions, as you know: CFE and START. But one thing I came away with was the idea that they genuinely want to resolve both these matters, and I really felt that.
Q. Well, is this a political matter or military matter at this point? Is the political will there but the military resist -- --
The President. No, I think it's an arms control matter. It's an interpretation of arms control agreements, and it's highly technical. But you know, there's some question as to whether the Soviets had wanted a deal or whether we did. And the answer is: we both do. So, I think -- the experts told me after the Moiseyev meeting that they felt there was some reason to be optimistic. Now, whether that held true after yet further meetings last night -- --
Q. Do you think they'll pull those divisions out, make them part of the -- --
The President. Well, I don't know. I don't know. But it's -- --
Q. That's sort of the problem on CFE.
The President. Well, on the total limits -- the full limits, counting on the full limits, that everything has got to be accounted for.
Q. So, you're optimistic about a summit then?
Q. If that's resolved this week -- --
The President. I can't quantify it. I just say the talks went reasonably well. But there's some story that we don't want a summit, and that's crazy. And I've assured Gorbachev of that personally.
It's great having you guys back on the plane again. It's wonderful.
Q. You don't want him in London?
The President. Who said I don't want him in London?
Q. Some anonymous official quoted by the New York Times says -- --
The President. That story is totally erroneous, I regret to say -- totally.
Q. What does that mean?
The President. That means that it's wrong.
Q. You want him at the economic summit? You'd like him there?
The President. No decisions have been taken on that. If his coming there can help with the reform and genuinely help with the reform, why, that would be a very, very important matter. But that story I can categorically say is wrong. And there was another one that said the same theme -- somebody is peddling an erroneous line. We are dealing straight with Gorbachev; we're not playing games with him. I think he knows that, and I think Moiseyev knows that.
Q. A June summit?
The President. It's been a pleasure, gang, it's been a great pleasure. Great pleasure to be with you.
Note: The exchange took place in the morning aboard Air Force One while the President was en route to St. Paul, MN. In his remarks, President Bush referred to Gen. Mikhail Moiseyev, Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Union, and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Young Guns (1988)
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Murphy: Well, I've had you pegged as the type that likes... educatin' young men.
http://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/3F09.html
Two Bad Neighbors [ The Simpsons ]
Original airdate in N.A.: 14-Jan-96
Mikhail: [speaks Russian to his driver, and laughs]
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=19610
The American Presidency Project
George Bush
XLI President of the United States: 1989 - 1993
Question-and-Answer Session With Students at the Saturn School of Tomorrow in St. Paul, Minnesota
May 22, 1991
The President. Any questions? I'll answer it without the computer. This guy, Lakers.
Q. Do you ever have any time to have fun, like go outside and, like, throw a frisbee or go out and play?
The President. Yes, we do. We go to Camp David. Have you ever heard of Camp David? And I go up there on the weekends. They've got all kinds of sports.
Q. You mean, you go up there and actually play around and stuff?
The President. Yes. We have a baseball pitching machine, for example; we have a bowling alley; we've got a place where you can shoot skeet; they've got a gymnasium, a lot of workout -- we play wallyball, which is a volleyball game inside the racquetball court. You can swing a golf club. It's wonderful. And there's swimming. You like swimming?
So, you do all that. And at the White House, you probably don't see it in the pictures, but there's athletic facilities in there, and that's fun. But when you go out, go outside the gates, you usually have a lot of people with you and stuff.
But at Camp David, why, it's more relaxing, so I can do pretty much what you can do. If I want to go out -- if my wife, Barbara, and I want to go out for supper, we can do it. We can go to a restaurant. But you have these guys come along, some of the press and some of the Secret Service and all of that. But it's not that tough.
Q. What's the best thing about being President?
The President. Well, in the most serious vein, I love coping with the problems in foreign affairs, and I'm determined to see this program that we're working on in education -- we call it America 2000 -- be a success. We've got to do better in education, we've got to do better in fighting against drugs and crime.
A President can't do all of this, but he can have a program. Then the Congress has to come and help, you see. But I like that part of the job -- trying to do something that'll help somebody, trying to do something that will enhance the peace.
Recently we had a war that you're all familiar with, and the President had to make the decisions -- you going to go to war or not. And there was a big principle there, and that was that a big guy doesn't bully his neighbor. It was an international principle with all the U.N. countries supporting what we did.
So, on the substance, that's what I like about my job. And the pleasure side, it's just -- people are very nice to me in the White House. There are wonderful people that work there, you know. Got a good staff and work with good men like our Secretary.
Yes, Vikings man.
Q. Would you admit your grandchildren to go to this school?
The President. Yes, I'd -- well, one of them is 14, and maybe he would be advanced a little more. We've got one who is -- we've got them all ages. But I hope that someday the schools they go to will have this kind of innovative program.
Q. Who inspired you to be President?
The President. That's a hard question. Because I was in politics and my dad started in public life. And you know, when you have a father doing something like -- he was a United States Senator, and then it evolved from that. In the late seventies, I tried and got defeated. And then I got to be Vice President -- was picked by President Reagan. And then it just flowed from there. Had tried in '80, lost, got up and dusted myself off and tried again.
Q. You still didn't answer my question, though. Why did you want to become President?
The President. Well, see, the reason I just gave her. But I want to try to help. I headed up there, and it's -- you know, you have to have some motivation -- ideological motivation. I think that our administration is doing good things for the country -- so, doing good things for the country is one. And then I think when you're my age and maybe younger, too, you want to think that you can contribute to world peace. It's a big picture thing. But you look around the troubles -- the Soviet Union and China and South America and all of this. I think we can help. I think the United States is still respected, and I think people still look up to us. So we want to use that respect and credibility to help them. It's wonderful in that sense.
Q. How does it feel to be President?
The President. Well, it feels pretty good, except at times, when you have some big problems out there. But I'm lucky, because I have very good people: the White House staff, very good people in the Cabinet, very good people that are working -- these ambassadors and people that are working the problems I was telling this guy about.
So, it's not that complicated. You have to have good advice, and there's certain things you have to do. You just can't say "do this," because you have to go to Congress and work with them. But it's a wonderful challenge. I love it. Every single day I'm there I like it very, very much.
Q. How old were you when you thought about becoming President?
The President. How long ago did I start?
Q. How old were you when you thought about -- --
The President. That's a good question -- started thinking, I mean. I don't know the answer. I honestly don't know the answer, whether it crossed my mind when I was in high school. It might have. In those days, everybody wanted to be President. You wanted to be a fireman and a policeman in sixth grade, and you want to be a President when you get about a senior in high school. So, a lot of people did. But I can't say I was motivated and driven by that period in my life.
I've got two more, and then I've got to go. They're signaling me to get out of here.
Q. When were you first interested, or did you ever expect to be running for the President or being the President?
The President. Well, I can't remember, as I told him, when I was first interested, but then I think seriously started thinking about it in the late seventies.
Q. Do you like having to get up and having to go -- like split-second having to go to different countries and stuff like that?
The President. I like that kind of travel. I loved coming out here today. I love getting out of the White House, and I love that. And I like listening to you guys. You say, well, I wonder whether he's just putting this on or whether he's acting or whether he likes it. I like it. I learn; each question, I learn what might be on your mind. I learn in the classroom. I learned here. And we're trying to revolutionize education. And I see these good questions, see what you can do with this, and I'm thinking we've got to succeed.
So, I like getting out for that reason and, yes, I love to go abroad. Our country is still very well respected around the world, and we have a leader -- we're the leader of the free world and people look up to us. So, you go there and try to encourage programs or policies that will enhance that, will make it better.
This guy, and then I've got to run. They're signaling. I'll give the pilot one chance after this. Go ahead.
Q. When you go bowling, do you always have like the Secret Service agents go with you?
The President. Yes. Well, close by. If I went there, we'd have to have Secret Service guys there. They go there ahead of time, and they'd want to protect the other bowlers from me. [Laughter] I'm a bowler. But no, you can go do that. You just ask them, and you've got to give them a little advance notice. But there's a lot of -- we saw yesterday the death of a good friend of mine in India. I don't know whether anybody noticed that. But his name was Rajiv -- did you see it?
Q. Yes. Last night.
The President. You're right. Rajiv Gandhi. And we knew him well. Barbara and I knew him well. I just talked to his wife this morning. Here was a man, he was out campaigning, and a terrorist got him. Allegedly a bomb in a flower basket -- he goes by and somebody pushes a button. So, there's a lot of stupid people out there that think you can change things by terror. We have to be on guard in this country, even though we've been blessed by having less of it.
Last question.
Q. How do you feel about Saddam Hussein's actions?
The President. Condemn it. The most brutal thing we've ever seen. It was without any moral underpinning. The whole world rose up against him. Do you remember, he tried to say it's him against -- the Arabs against the United States? But the United Nations said something different: It's the whole world against his brutality. When you see what he did to the environment, when you see what he did to the people of Kuwait, when you see the principle that he offended, principle of aggression against a neighbor -- nonaggression against a neighbor, why, you say this man has no redeeming value. He's a bad person. Unfortunately, there are people like that in the world.
Well, I had better run, but thank you. Thank you so much.
Q. Thank you so much. Thank you for visiting.
The President. I like to do -- you've got a good man over here, hoping he's a teacher. You did a great job. Thanks a lot. It made it much more interesting this way. Thank you all. Good luck. Nice to see you.
Reporter. Mr. President?
The President. No press conference. Let me explain something to you guys in the class. The press -- these ones you see -- now, you'll see him on Channel 4 tonight. No, on NBC tonight. So, you watch. And their job is to ask me questions and for me to give answers as best I can. Sometimes I do it. We have press conferences. Maybe you've seen it. And then sometimes they'll understandably want to get an answer to a question. But I can't do it all the time. I have to do it in a rather organized fashion. So, we do it mostly in press conferences.
But they've got their job to do, like he is and wants me to answer. I'm not going to answer it right now. Not that I'm afraid to answer the question, but I just have to get on the schedule, and once we get bogged down, we're in the middle of a press conference. But that's the way it works. But you'll see some of these people tonight. Jim [Jim Miklaszewski, NBC News], you'll see. And who else have we got? But it'll be on the television. Brit Hume back there with ABC -- and they come along. See, they come on most of the trips, not all. Sometimes we answer the questions, and then they write the stories. You'll see them reporting on the visit to the school tonight. That's the way it -- now, whether Time magazine over here -- you ever heard of Time? Well, see, now, he's going to write a glowing piece about this education program. [Laughter.] We've got high hope.
But everybody, all these guys -- and they won't say it, but they'll all be impressed with what they've seen here. And in various ways that will help other schools take the initiative that your school has taken.
Hey, listen, thanks a lot. Nice to see you. Good luck to you.
Note: The question-and-answer session began at 12:30 p.m. in the Discourse Room. In his remarks, the President referred to Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander; Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India, and his wife, Sonia; and President Saddam Hussein of Iraq. A tape was not available for verification of the content of this session.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087231/releaseinfo
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The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)
Release Info
USA 25 January 1985
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087231/quotes
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The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)
Quotes
Christopher Boyce: It wouldn't have made a difference. I freely chose my response to this absurd world. If given the opportunity, I would have been more vigorous.
http://articles.latimes.com/1999/oct/28/news/mn-27277
Los Angeles Times
Bush Plans TV Chat to Explain His Absence in Debates
October 28, 1999 From Times Staff and Wire Reports
HANOVER, N.H. — Hours before his Republican rivals gather tonight for a debate, presidential hopeful George W. Bush will appear via satellite on a New Hampshire television station to explain his absence.
"He wants to explain to the people of New Hampshire why he isn't going to be there and to answer questions that might have been asked at the debate," Bush spokeswoman Mindy Tucker said Wednesday.
Bush, the Texas governor and front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination, is feeling the heat for missing GOP debates. He is not scheduled to join his rivals until Dec. 2.
Bush said a schedule conflict kept him from the Republicans' initial debate last week in New Hampshire, and he says he can't attend tonight's event because he wants to be with his wife when she receives an alumni award from Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
http://www.umc.org/what-we-believe/guidelines-the-umc-and-the-charismatic-movement
United Methodist Church
Guidelines: The UMC and the Charismatic Movement
Introductory Statement
In 1976 General Conference approved "Guidelines: The United Methodist Church and the Charismatic Renewal." These Guidelines served the church well. At the 2004 General Conference the GBOD was assigned the responsibility to review and revise the Guidelines, while retaining their general focus and purpose.
Glossary
Terminology associated with the charismatic movement is confusing because of varying usage.
Pentecostal. This term refers to the movement whose roots began late in the nineteenth century, resulting in the formation of a number of pentecostal denominations in the early years of the twentieth century. Classic pentecostalism affirms what is sometimes spoken of as initial evidence, which includes the concept of requisite "baptism in the Holy Spirit," that every Christian must experience the "baptism in the Holy Spirit" that is accompanied by glossolalia or speaking in tongues as an "initial evidence." Pentecostals also emphasize strongly the full recovery of the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Charismatic. The word charismatic comes from the Greek word charismata, meaning "gifts." The root words in Greek mean grace and joy. By definition, a charismatic should be a joyful, grace-gifted Christian. Charismatic Christians emphasize the need to recover the empowerment and the gifts of the Spirit for ministry today. They affirm the importance of all the "gifts of the Spirit."
Charismatic Movement. Throughout this report the term charismatic movement is used to identify the movement that began about 1960 in mainline Christian bodies, both Protestant and Roman Catholic. This movement emphasizes the central importance of the "baptism of the Holy Spirit," but without the elevation of "speaking in tongues" as the initial evidence. A focus is placed on the need to recover the Holy Spirit's empowering and gifts for ministry today. These gifts include prophecy, healing, tongues, and interpretation of tongues, because these gifts are perceived to have been neglected by the Church.
In a biblical sense there is no such person as a "noncharismatic Christian," since the term charismata refers to the gracious gifts of God bestowed upon all Christians to equip them for ministry: "A demonstration of the Spirit is given to each person for the common good" (1 Corinthians 12:7).
Pentecostals and Charismatics emerged out of Christianity in the West, where for long periods Christianity neglected the importance of the gifts of the Holy Spirit in the life of the church. However, the activity of the Holy Spirit is not merely restricted to Western Christianity. Indeed, when the gospel reached different parts of the non-Western world, many Christians learned of the Holy Spirit's work in the Bible. In simple faith they believed, and many began exercising the gifts of the Spirit. Although the ministries of such individuals and churches are similar to those of the Pentecostals and the Charismatics in many ways, they do not owe their origins to these Western sources. Rather, they sprang up entirely on their own under the direct leading of the Spirit.
Neo-charismatics, or Third Wave (the Pentecostals being the first wave and the Charismatics being the second wave). These are Christians who, unrelated or no longer related to the Pentecostal or Charismatic renewals, have become filled with the Spirit, are energized by the Spirit, and exercise gifts of the Spirit without recognizing a baptism in the Spirit separate from conversion. Speaking in tongues is considered optional or unnecessary. Signs and wonders, supernatural miracles, and power encounters are emphasized. Third-wavers form independent churches and do not identify themselves as either Pentecostals or Charismatics. (Synan, p. 396)
Guidelines
We believe the church needs to pray for a sensitivity to be aware of and to respond to manifestations of the Holy Spirit in our world today. We are mindful that the problems of discerning between the true and fraudulent are considerable, but we must not allow the problems to paralyze our awareness of the Spirit's presence; nor should we permit our fear of the unknown and the unfamiliar to close our minds against being surprised by grace. We know the misuse of mystical experience is an ever-present possibility, but that is no reason to deny spiritual experiences.
In facing the issues raised by charismatic experiences, we plead for a spirit of openness and love. We commend to the attention of the church the affirmations of Paul on the importance of love in First Corinthians 13 and of Wesley-"In essentials, unity; in nonessentials, liberty; and, in all things, charity" (love that cares and understands). Without an active, calm, objective, and loving understanding of the religious experience of others, however different from one's own, harmony is impossible.
The criteria by which we understand another's religious experience must include its compatibility with the mind and the spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ, as revealed in the New Testament. If the consequence and quality of a reported encounter with the Holy Spirit leads to self-righteousness, hostility, and exaggerated claims of knowledge and power, then the experience is subject to serious question. However, when the experience clearly results in new dimensions of love, faith, joy, and blessings to others, we must conclude that this is "what the Lord hath done" and offer God our praise. "You shall know them by their fruits" (Matthew 7:20).
http://www.cnn.com/1999/ALLPOLITICS/stories/12/15/religion.register/index.html?_s=PM:ALLPOLITICS
CNN
Des Moines Register: Candidates focus on Christian beliefs
By Stephen Buttry/Des Moines Register
December 15, 1999
Web posted at: 10:44 a.m. EST (1544 GMT)
DES MOINES, Iowa (Des Moines Register) -- Jesus and God are unofficial but often-mentioned running mates of the Republican candidates for president.
Five of the six candidates at Monday night's debate in Des Moines sponsored by WHO-TV invoked the name of God or Christ, or both. In all, candidates made more than 20 direct references to the father and son of the Holy Trinity of the Christian faith.
The sixth candidate, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, an Episcopalian, is running radio ads in South Carolina that stress his Christian faith.
The debate illustrated the importance Republican candidates place on wooing Christian voters, publicly declaring their personal faith and stating issues in religious terms.
In the Democratic race, Vice President Al Gore, a Baptist, speaks often about his own faith. Former Sen. Bill Bradley, a Presbyterian, avoids discussion of his faith in the campaign, calling it a personal matter.
Texas Gov. George W. Bush, a Methodist who leads the Republican race in opinion polls and fund-raising, gave the most personal testimony in Monday's debate. Each candidate was asked what "political philosopher or thinker" he identified with most. (In an interview Tuesday morning with Des Moines Register reporters and editors, Bush said he understood the question to be, "Who"s had the most influence on your life?")
Bush, the third candidate to answer in the debate, said, "Christ, because he changed my heart."
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: posted by H.V.O.M at 4:18 PM Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 15:55:11 -0700 (PDT) [ PERSONAL EMAIL SENT TO SENATOR PATTY MURRAY AT HER SENATE EMAIL ADDRESS ]
Dear Senator Murray,
But back then, through all of it, I just knew it could not continue forever. Even people with the empathy of a sociopath would realize eventually that this is an unsettling experience. But it continues and shows no sign of stopping. So that means several things. One is that it supports my theory that my adversaries have unlimited resources. Someone like Bill Gates. He could spend a billion dollars on lawyers just because he wanted to. If he thinks he has the right to treat his employees like animals, then I believe he would indeed spend a billion dollars to fight this just because he can. During my first days of employment at Microsoft, my manager was telling me about how Bill Gates would date people in the company. I haven’t heard any rumors that he is secretly gay and I got the impression she was talking about him dating women, but then again I have heard closeted homosexuals refer to men as women, just to avoid revealing their preference. So maybe he was preying on Microsoft employees all along but no one wanted to risk losing their job by talking about it openly.
And then it seemed highly suspect when Mayor Jim West of Spokane was outed as a closet homosexual. I suspect that it is how all this followed me to Spokane last year. I have been trying to figure out how all these people could know who I am and what means of communication they are using. If I have a gay stalker, they are all secretly communicating through some channel that gays use for communication. The internet makes all this possible now for anyone anywhere to communicate easily and generally privately. I was thinking that everyone knew that everyone else knew how people knew about this, but then I began to suspect that it was all being spread around by rumors and on different websites. Where I was thinking there was a central organization controlling it all, it was actually some kind of grass roots effort or some kind of internet phenomenon. And then I was seeing signs that even George W. Bush knew who I was.
I got that impression one day when I was in Spokane. I was watching CNN or something one day and I saw Bush making some comments about something. I commented out loud to myself that he looked terrified or something like that. For a while after that, the reporters were talking about how his press conferences were not going to be televised. I suspect, strongly, that I have been secretly monitored in the places I live and they have been listening to every sound I make. For some reason, Bush has an interest in what I say to myself and when I commented about him looking scared they decided he shouldn’t be seen for awhile until he could get control of himself. They wouldn’t want to embolden the terrorists by showing that he was getting rattled by it all. So maybe it isn’t the government that has been spying on me, it is some kind of stalker that is reporting the information they collect to websites. And maybe Bush knows who I am because he is tied into those gay websites too like Jim West and that is how he knows about me. I have some other evidence to support my theory, but needless to say he isn’t going to risk being outed like West was. They will probably end up secretly murdering me before that happens.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 31 August 2005 excerpt ends]
From 10/28/1955 ( Microsoft Bill Gates the transvestite and 100% female gender as born and the Soviet Union prostitute and the cowardly International Terrorist violently against the United States of America actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the United States of America and United Nations chartered allies ) To 7/22/2006 is 18530 days
18530 = 9265 + 9265
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/16/1991 ( date hijacked from me:my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) is 9265 days
From 3/20/1958 ( premiere US TV series episode "Navy Log"::"One Grand Marine" ) To 12/7/1998 ( my first day working at Microsoft Corporation as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and the active duty United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel circa 1998 ) is 14872 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/22/2006 is 14872 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2013/05/presently-there-are-several-ships.html ]
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20060723&slug=westobit23m
The Seattle Times
Sunday, July 23, 2006
Jim West, Republican politician, dead at 55
By David Postman and Ralph Thomas
Seattle Times Olympia bureau
Jim West died Saturday of complications from surgery.
Only cancer could end Jim West's dream of a renewed political career.
The former Spokane mayor died early Saturday in Seattle of complications from surgery. He was 55. He already had lost his office by recall and his reputation by allegations of sexual misconduct.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 3:10 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Child Online Protection Act
I can think of two good examples of the hypocrisy that creeps into this "community standard" business. One was when former Mayor Jim West of Spokane said that he was scared to admit he was gay because he wouldn't have gotten elected. In public, he was an oppressor of gays, in private, he was gay. Another example of hypocrisy is Dick Cheney not only hunting without the proper license, but then blaming his staff for not having the proper permits.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 17 February 2006 excerpt ends]
http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/Stargate:_The_Movie_Transcript
STARGATE WIKI
Stargate: The Movie (1994)
DANIEL
Who the hell translated this?
http://www.snpp.com/guides/quimby.html
The Simpsons Archive
The Quimby File
[7F21] [to the Comic Book Convention crowd]
"Is, uh, this on?" "uh, Young people of Springfield, as your mayor I'd like to welcome you to our annual funny book convention. And thank you for pumping almost three hundred dollars into the local economy."
[waves to crowd]
"Your youthful high spirits have emparted a glow into this old warhorse, you might say I feel like Radiation Man."
Jimbo: That's Radioative Man jerk
"I, uh, stand corrected. Well, have fun and be sure to clear out by six for the shriners."
[to one of his bodyguards]
"Get that punk's name, no one makes a fool of Diamond Joe Quimby."
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DC COMICS DATABASE
1975, November
Superman Vol 1 293
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1975, December
Superman Vol 1 294
http://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/08/arts/tv-people-s-court-reality-in-the-morning.html
The New York Times
TV: 'PEOPLE'S COURT,' 'REALITY' IN THE MORNING
By JOHN J. O'CONNOR
Published: September 8, 1981
COURTROOM drama has long been a television staple, from the early days of the ''night court'' re-creations specializing in divorce and disturbing-the-peace cases to the successes of ''Perry Mason'' and his imitators. Now, trying to cash in on the medium's new ''reality'' trends, along comes ''People's Court,'' a weekday series that had its debut on WABC-TV yesterday morning at 10:30. As in much of the new reality scene, including such things as ''Real People'' and ''That's Incredible!,'' the line between hard fact and pure entertainment becomes exceedingly fuzzy, if not invisible.
''People's Court'' explains, rather hastily, that the plaintiffs and defendants on the program are ''real.'' The cases, mostly of the small-claims variety, are real. But in accepting an invitation to television's ''People's Court,'' the adversaries have ''agreed to dismiss the court case and to have the case settled here.'' Presiding over the television court is Joseph A. Wapner, who presumably is a real judge and who makes an effort to explain the finer legal points involved in the various cases. The participants have agreed to abide by his decisions. People will agree to anything, evidently, for a few moments in the television spotlight.
Wandering about the small courtroom is an announcer who sets the scene and prepares us for the commercial breaks. Yesterday, he cheerfully swung right into the case of the ''frat boys versus the young lady.'' Describing herself as less a landlord than an innkeeper, she was suing the two young men for $750, charging that they had reneged on the rent for a room in her apartment and then walked off without paying the telephone bill, in addition to carting off some small household items.
She was thorough in her presentation, helped by a large poster listing the items. Her opponents spoke about her ''taking advantage of two guys from the East Coast,'' conceding that ''the relationship between her and us was not the greatest.'' With the judge declaring that ''I think I've heard enough,'' the announcer explained that he would discuss the case with the courtroom spectators during the commercial break. After some pitches for tuna fish, shampoo and cream cheese, the announcer, returning to a snippet of thumping music, disclosed that the general consensus seemed to be on the side of the plaintiff.
Sure enough, after a brief lecture on the crediblity of witnesses, the judge decided in favor of the plaintiff - but only to the tune of $614. She said she was not terribly happy. The defendants were understandably not very happy. Time for another commercial break.
The second case of the day - an awful lot can be stuffed into about 20 minutes of program time - was ''The Vanished Volkswagen,'' in which a police lieutenant and his son claimed that a garage owner was responsible for the theft of a car that had been left in his care. The garage man argued that he had kept the car only as a favor and, in holding the keys in his office, he was as careful as could reasonably be expected. Although the consensus of the courtroom spectators supported the defendant, the judge once again ruled in favor of the plaintiff, explaining that if the car had been taken off the street and put in the garage, the defendant would not have been liable.
This is not, as must now be obvious, the stuff of searing or even mildly absorbing drama. The case of the vanished Volkswagen did manage to work up a minor bit of interest when the principal witness for the plaintiffs turned out to be the defendant's cousin. After the verdict, he conceded, with a sheepish smile, that he would probably never get a job with that particular relative again. The defendant agreed. Given the chronic clogging of the nation's courts in real life, televsion's ''People's Court'' could technically run forever. However, like the judge, I think I've alre ady heard enough.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0514057/releaseinfo
IMDb
Apt. 2F (TV Series)
Pilot (1997)
Release Info
USA 13 July 1997
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0514057/
IMDb
Apt. 2F: Season 1, Episode 1
Pilot (13 Jul. 1997)
TV Episode
Release Date: 13 July 1997 (USA)
http://variety.com/1997/tv/reviews/apt-2f-1117329640/
Variety
Review: ‘Apt. 2F’
This wildly unfunny sitcom revolving around twin brothers looks more like a TV Land reject than an MTV-sanctioned production. Jason and Randy Sklar, while exhibiting nice brotherly chemistry and comic timing, have transferred characters and bits from their New York stage shows to a boringly traditional sitcom setup.
The premise has the brothers dwelling in a skanky downtown apartment in Gotham. Randy is a film student at NYU, works in a video store and hosts a comedy club in the student union. Jason works in a large corporation called Products Inc., which would be funny if the joke weren’t so obvious.
The “Apt. 2F” episode reviewed, dubbed “Sometimes When We Touch,” centers on the fact that the guys can’t bring themselves to touch each other, which becomes a problem for the boys when the women they are involved with or want to be involved with take this as a sign that the twins have trouble with intimacy.
There is no character development. The Sklars, who wrote this episode, have thrown a bunch of people at the audience with nary an introduction: It’s like watching a bunch of exhibitionist strangers spew dialogue. The classic three-act structure clunkily sketches out the type of plotting not seen on TV since “Joanie Loves Chachi.”
“Apt. 2F” is also infected with the standup-to-sitcom stiff acting syndrome. Jerry Seinfeld had it, Roseanne had it, and the Sklars have it. Fortunately, as Roseanne and Seinfeld have proven, this is a curable disease, but the supporting cast of the show is amateurish, and could do a little more time in the Actors Studio.
MTV has shoveled out a lot of misses, but its hits have all turned on some original, edgy, non-network concept: “Beavis and Butt-head,” “Daria,” “The Real World,” “Oddville.” What’s most disappointing about “Apt. 2F” is the conventionality on display here, complete with on-cue studio-audience laughs.
The Sklars could take the format into wild extremes: The comedy club offers an opportunity to showcase standups mid-show (the mildly funny Keith Robinson was featured in this episode); another promising idea is the Sklars’ insertion of satirical short films into the plots, like this episode’s “Bleeding Fist of Liberty” cult-recruiting video (although the satire, of Heaven’s Gate and anti-government militias, misses the mark).
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/791702/Bush-back-on-track-after-DUI-flap.html
Desert News
Bush back on track after DUI flap
By Peter Nicholas
Knight Ridder Newspapers
Published: Sunday, Nov. 5 2000 12:00 a.m. MST
By Saturday, the campaign was back on track. Bush aides believed they had patched the problem quickly and neutralized the damage by aggressively raising questions about Democratic "dirty tricks."
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=terminator-2-judgment-day
Springfield! Springfield!
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
- Just trying to help this punk.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 10:26 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Wednesday 20 May 2015
