It started back on 12/9/2006. I was having a little get-together at my house, and David Brownlow showed up late, fresh from an encounter with the Oregon State Police. He acted out the whole drama for us, showing how he had submitted himself for arrest, as he turned around and bent down to extend his hands behind his back, ready for the handcuffs.

Police Officer Threatens Family, Violates Rights

I figured that he was willing to be arrested as a publicity stunt, since he knew that the First Amendment would vindicate him. His rationale was very different; however. He said that he felt he deserved to suffer the inconvenience of detention or jail time, because of his guilt over having been silent for so long about the injustice of the Iraq war. He had not exactly been silent, as he had been writing articles and speaking out against it; but he knew that whatever he was doing, it was not enough to absolve himself of the guilt we all share for our complacence by silence over the unjustified bloody aggression of the current regime.

For the sake of my own witness to the truth, I joined him in a new organization he was forming, called Believers Against the War. There is a deafening silence from the Christian churches of America over the lies, murder, and tyrannical usurpations of the Bush administration. Dutifully bowing to their Caesar, they parrot the slogans of world conquest, and turn a blind eye to the wanton abuses of power that bring shame to the name of Christ, and America, around the world.

I remember an unbeliever once confronting me in a rare moment of honesty. He admitted that abortion was murder, but questioned the hypocrisy of a faith that would promote murder by the support of unjust war. I know that non-Christians will cling to any excuse they can to hate Christianity, but this was one that I could not easily answer. I have also heard from others abroad, that unbelievers latch on to American foreign policy as justification for their rejection of Christ, and say that they wish to have nothing to do with the god of George Bush. How is it that Bush, a known occultist, could deceive so many people into thinking that he was a Christian? How could he deceive so many Christians into believing that his wars were justifiable?

I took up the statement ?Unjust War is Murder?, and have displayed with from overpass sidewalks, and the rear of my vehicle.

Many people have honked to give me a thumbs up, or to flip a middle finger, and others have confronted me in person to discuss this. One interesting discussion was with a decorated career military man who was a veteran of WWII. He agreed with me that the Iraq war was unjustified. His theory, which I have heard often, was that the real reason for this war was a personal vendetta of the Bush dynasty. America's brave young men are dying for this?

We still get threats from the Oregon Department of Transportation for our overpass displays, but the State Troopers refrain from arresting us, pausing merely to take photos. With a lawsuit still pending on the Constitutionality of our actions, they refuse to concede a written statement that First Amendment rights are protected in Oregon. Why will they not do this? I fear they are beholden to new masters already, with the billions of Homeland Security dollars training them in new Humane Denial methods of crowd control that are being put in place to squash future public demonstrations.

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A few days earlier, we had held a public debate on opposing Christian views of the justice of the Iraqi War. My favorite part is where David Brownlow gets the question, "Does opposing the war give aid and comfort to the internal enemies of America?"

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