SILENT WITNESS: THE UNTOLD STORY OF TERRI SCHIAVO

Happy Friday Kidz! Here is the link for early buy on Mark Fuhrmans book investigating the collapse and ultimate death of Terri Schiavo. He will blow the cover off Mike Schiavo and give us answers to some important questions,and even takes us where the media wouldn't! Heres the link, its gonna be a bestseller and I hope you will want to get to the ugly truth of this terrible tragedy thru Marks hard work and great investigative skillz. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060853379/qid=1114784300/sr=1-8/ref=sr_1_8/002-5473262-3955200?v=glance&s=books =^.^=

TERRI SCHIAVO is SMILING & The FAT LADY AINT SUNG YET!!

Thats a bizarre subject line to grab ya huh???? Well, FYI, it aint OVER! Many like me have been very sick,angry,confused,stressed and furious over our country allowing a mentally incapacitated young woman STARVE 2 DEATH.Not just the un dignified way, but all the little un answered questions I have brought up in many many posts and convos here and on air. I am pleased to tell you there is going to be some sh*t hittin' the fan now.Mark Fuhrman,the great Detective Mind of of our time,the FUHRMANATOR is kickin' in the back door to WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO TERRI the night of her 'heart attack/collapse' and the events which LED UP TO THAT POINT. So much time has passed, so much emotion,politics and slimy laywers and lame judges didnt help her case either, but there is hope that Mark will shake some cages and get some answers.Remember how Fuhrman took the Martha Moxley case 25 years later and solved it? It was almost a miracle to get a Kennedy relative busted for murder after being buried under a pile of lies,deciet and scummy corrupt scammers. Join me in peace of mind that MARK WILL GET ANSWERS 2 SOME IMPORTANT QUESTIONS burning in our hearts and minds.And also that this in justice may NEVER be done to any innocent ill person again. Look 4 Marks book in June! I predict Terris voice WILL be heard and her 'loving' (grabbing vomit bucket) HUSBAND MIKE will have massive 'splainin' 2 do. YYYYEEEAAAAAWWWHHHH!!! JUSTICE 4 TERRI SCHIAVO IS NEAR! =^.^=

INGRATE GRANNY PISSED @ Soldier grandson who didnt bring her a souvenir from IRAQ!

Hi! I usualy dont post Dear Abbys, but this one is so selfish,disgusting,disrespectful and rude I had to pass to you Military warriors! Also, one of my hometown boys Matt from Post Falls,Idaho wrote to this matter.READ ON!!! ~~READERS RAIL AT GRANDMA RAGGING ON HER GRANDSON DEAR ABBY: The letter about the grandmother who was angry because her grandson Adam didn't bring her a souvenir T-shirt when he came home on leave from Iraq left me stunned. I can't believe a so-called adult would act that way. This young man is putting his life on the line for his country, and all she can think about is whether he brought her a souvenir? Please give that woman a message for me: "Grandma, you DID get something. You got two weeks with your grandson, and you messed it up with your immaturity! Grow up and get a life!" Thanks for reading this, Abby. I'm sure you got a lot of responses to that letter. -- NICOLE IN GRAYSON, GA. DEAR NICOLE: I certainly did. That letter made a lot of readers see red, and I was flooded with mail. Read on: DEAR ABBY: When my nephew was serving as a Marine in Iraq, I wrote him every week. I didn't expect to get any letters back, and didn't care if he never acknowledged the packages we sent. (He did send two letters, for which I am exceedingly grateful.) All I cared about was my nephew's safe return home. Ironically, the same edition of the newspaper that featured the letter about that grandmother also featured my nephew's photo on the front page. He was killed by enemy fire in a town far away from his beloved Vermont. That greedy woman obviously has no clue what those soldiers are experiencing. They need understanding and supportive family members. They need love without strings. To the grandmother who thought a T-shirt was more important than her grandson, I would say, "You deserve a T-shirt that reads, 'I am a SELFISH MORON!'" -- and pray that no folded flag "souvenir" ever graces that young man's home. -- PROUD, GRIEVING AUNT IN VERMONT DEAR AUNT: Amen. Please accept my profound sympathy for your family's loss. DEAR ABBY: A tendency to become angry over nothing can be a sign of the onset of dementia. There can be no other excuse for the greed, insensitivity and utterly disgraceful attitude that grandmother has exhibited. She should be down on her knees thanking the Lord, just as my mother did when I returned from combat, that her "souvenir" wasn't a body bag. -- MATT IN POST FALLS, IDAHO DEAR MATT: Several other readers also suggested that the grandmother might be becoming senile. I hadn't thought of that angle. Thank you for pointing it out. DEAR ABBY: Adam's grandmother should consult her dictionary. GIFT: something bestowed or acquired without being sought or earned by the receiver. That young man should send his grandmother a box of camel dung. When my daughter was in the desert, she said it was plentiful and easily accessible. -- PROUD MOM, FORKS, WASH. DEAR MOM: In other words, "Sweets for the sweet." DEAR ABBY: I'm a flight attendant who flies these heroes to and from the conflict. Let me set the record straight on behalf of these soldiers. They are not allowed the regular checked baggage allowance set by the airlines. The armed forces allow these men and women to take only what can fit in a duffle bag, plus their weapons and safety gear. -- FLIGHT ATTENDANT IN ILLINOIS =^.^= GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS =^.^=

STUDENTS who QUESTION TEACHERS backed w/ support

As Sean always points out, there are some times a student must shut thier minds and pieholes and go with the flow to pass the class. AGAIN a TON of letters addressing this to us and Dear Abby had me pass this on to you all ;-)> =^.^= STUDENT QUESTIONING TEACHER IS BACKED BY SHOW OF SUPPORT DEAR ABBY: You printed a letter from a student who received detention for "respectfully disagreeing" with her teacher during a discussion of world events. In your reply, you suggested that the writer's comment may have been "disruptive," justifying the detention, and advised that it would have been more "diplomatic" to have voiced the disagreement in private. I take exception to your answer. I am semi-retired now, but as a manager I had tremendous difficulty convincing subordinates that it was not only safe to disagree with me, but that I needed their frank opinions. I trace this to a situation described by John Holt in his 1964 book, "How Children Fail," in which he points out that the education system kills creativity, teaching students to anticipate what the teacher wants to hear and to feed it back to him/her. I am currently co-director of the Master's in Health Physics Program at the Illinois Institute of Technology, engaged in the training of radiation safety professionals. It is essential that a safety professional be prepared to challenge his/her management when it proposes to do something that's contrary to law or regulation, or prejudicial to safe operation. The type of education described by Holt produces individuals who go along with management no matter what is proposed. It is despicable that a teacher would conduct a "discussion" in which she entertains only opinions that agree with her own and punishes those that don't. The result for the students and our country is tragic. You should have supported the student. -- LAURENCE F. FRIEDMAN, PH.D. DEAR DR. FRIEDMAN: You're right; I should have. And thousands of readers wrote to tell me so. (The e-mails, when printed out, weighed more than 15 pounds.) Read on: DEAR ABBY: Your advice to the student to follow the "diplomatic" approach and wait until after class to comment was still reverberating in my mind when I moved on to a USA Weekend story, "First Amendment Rights Lost on Teens," describing a Knight Foundation poll of 100,000 students which found that the majority of them assign little or no value to their constitutional right to free speech. Your response to that student makes you part of the problem. -- UPSET IN SANTA CRUZ DEAR ABBY: That teacher was behaving unprofessionally. I have been teaching for more than 20 years and have strong opinions of my own. One of them is that students be taught to think for themselves. The student should have been listened to with respect instead of punished. -- TEACHER IN EL CERRITO, CALIF. DEAR ABBY: Any educator who uses the classroom to pontificate on his or her political or religious views and allows no dissent is more a tyrant than a teacher. Send that kid to my classroom and give the teacher detention! -- ENCOURAGES THOUGHT IN INDIANA DEAR ABBY: Prejudice comes in many shapes and forms, and I applaud that student for standing up against it. Punishing a student for having a different political opinion sounds more like North Korea than the U.S.A. As it stands, these students are being cheated in their education because they are being taught about the world only through the narrow opinions of one misguided teacher. -- OUTRAGED IN DUBLIN, CALIF. DEAR READERS: My answer left something to be desired, and for that I apologize =^.^=

MILITARY WIDOWS/WIDOWERS/FAMILY HELP! AWESOME!!!

Would you please help us to inform the many elderly widows and widowers of retired or honorably separated military officers that they are eligible to live at Air Force Village I in San Antonio, Texas? Most believe, incorrectly, that since their military spouse is no longer alive, they are therefore not eligible to live in the Villages. The Villages are three retirement communities in San Antonio whose primary purpose is to care for surviving officer spouses of all branches of the service who need a secure, comfortable and dignified place to live. Further, we have a Fellowship Fund that can help meet the financial needs of widow(ers) of retired Air Force officers who do not have adequate financial resources to cover their living or health-care expenses. Our foundation is proud to say that no otherwise qualified widow or widower is ever turned away due to inability to pay. The identity of the people who receive assistance is kept strictly confidential. Thank you, for helping us get the word to these eligible folks. -- JACK BARBEAU, COL. (RET.), AIR FORCE VILLAGE FOUNDATION ~~~DEAR COL. BARBEAU: I am pleased to help you publicize this worthwhile program. Readers, the Air Force Village Foundation's toll-free number is 800-762-1122 =^.^= Pass on ,its a great thing! =^.^=

The RED SOX Get their CHAMPIONSHIP RINGS(insert BRONX CHEER HERE!)

You know I am Sporty Spice and I couldnt let this one fly by! I aint crying FOUL, but, I am calling BITCHY!! At yesterdays Red Sox/Yankee Game in Boston the Red Sox were FINALY given their rings for beating my Yanks for the championship.Yup, they get the rings and cheers from fans right under our Yankees noses.More like rubbing it IN THIER NOSES! Ironic,justice,vengence...whatever.....TACKY!!! So the curse of the Bambino is over, for now.And yeah, you also have the NFL hardwear, so all in all Boston/New England fanz are as giddy as Michael Jackson at a Boy Scout meeting! But REMEMBER......ya'll still are STUCK with KENNEDY & KERRY! snap! ;-)> YYYYEEEAAAAWWWHHHHH!!!!!! =^.^=

"that could happen 2 me". Brain damaged childs family face tuff choices

That could happen to me�: One family with a brain-damaged child talks through a hard choice The Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Tenn. The Spencers chose the study with the cheery rose-covered wallpaper border and their grandkids' crayoned drawings as the setting for their discussion about death. Mom and Dad, Uncle Joe and sister Maya gathered round. Two phones were propped on the desk so that more siblings could listen in. Then 29-year-old Thor Spencer backed his wheelchair next to a file cabinet, and waited for his mother to explain why they had convened this Easter night. It was 11 years earlier, after another Easter gathering, when Thor had the car accident that put him in a coma for months and left him impaired by brain damage. Living at home now, he returns to the hospital several times a year to deal with setbacks or surgeries - sometimes staring down death. He once told his mother, after an especially grueling procedure, "If this is what my life is going to be like, Mom, I don't want it." But no one mustered the courage to ask him directly: If it ever came down to it, would you want to live or die? Then Thor saw Terri Schiavo on the news. His mother, Cheryl, explained that Schiavo never put her wishes in writing, and so the ultimate decision of whether to keep her alive artificially was left to her husband - and he and her parents couldn't agree. "That could maybe happen to me, couldn't it?" Thor said, and then asked for a family meeting to talk it out. And so they came together - after a dinner of taco salad and strawberry shortcake and chatter about college hoops and movies. It's been said that Terri Schiavo launched a national discussion about living and dying. This is one family's part of the conversation. --- "Our beloved Father in heaven, we're thankful for this opportunity to gather together as a family to talk about family matters ...," Cheryl Spencer prays to open the meeting. After a chorus of "Amen," she turns to business, referring to the Schiavo case and adding, "It kind of got Thor thinking that maybe he needed to make some plans about his life, what choices were out there for him. ... He didn't want to be in Terri's condition, and he didn't want our family to be in the same place as ... her parents." At 53, Cheryl is a ball of energy - the matriarch and cheerleader who has kept the house operating and spirits up in the years since Thor's accident. She traded a career running a secretarial service to take care of him, and is now president of the Tennessee Brain Injury Association. She has her own strong opinions about what makes a life worth living and when to say "enough." When doctors over the years asked if she would want to sign a do-not-resuscitate order on Thor's behalf, the answer was always, "Absolutely not." Devout Mormons, the Spencers believe in eternity and a purposeful life after death. "The bigger concern," Cheryl has said, "is whether or not you're done here. ... If you kill all hope, then you'd never see miracles." Nonetheless, she also has seen her son's face twisted in pain, heard his anguished cries, and watched helplessly when all she wanted was to make it stop. She remembers wondering: If the decision to end treatment was hers to make, could she? The meeting takes it out of her hands. But she worries that her son's wishes may be very different from her own. She keeps these fears to herself and moves on to the documents she e-mailed to the family: a living will prepared by the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and a "Guide To Health Care Decision Making." "What they're saying," she commences, "is our medical technology has kind of outstripped the mechanisms that we have to deal with people who have really severe health situations." She describes circumstances in which someone might want a living will - terminal illness, permanent disability - and reasons why a person might refuse treatment. Is the condition irreversible? Is the treatment extreme? Does the discomfort outweigh the benefits? Does the treatment prolong life under intolerable conditions? As his wife talks, Rick Spencer, a 55-year-old business analyst, listens from a rocking chair. He has told Cheryl his view of death: If anything were to happen to him, just let him go, bury him in a pine box and move on. He's comforted that Thor can still make choices for himself. Of the Schiavo case, Rick's views are clear: "It's not a court question; it's a family question." But he, too, doesn't know what to expect from Thor - or the other kids participating in the meeting. Their youngest, 18-year-old Maya, sits on the floor clutching a pillow. Three more are on speaker phone - daughter April, 28, and sons MacArthur, 27, and Morgan, 26. So far the group, Thor included, has remained utterly quiet. "Can you guys hear me at all?" Cheryl asks those on the phone. "We can hear you just fine," April assures her mother. Cheryl continues, stressing that everyone could have a different interpretation of "intolerable" or "extraordinary." Then she turns to Thor: "Why don't you just tell us what your concerns are." The room is very still as he begins to speak. These days, Thor is the embodiment of those miracles his mother so believes in. Though mostly confined to a wheelchair, he can walk short distances using grab-handles. He showers alone, uses an electric toothbrush, combs the coat of his service dog, a golden retriever named Hoffman. On May 8, he expects to graduate from technical college with an associate's degree in business management. All of this is a far cry from the battered 18-year-old snared in a maze of feeding tubes and ventilator lines. In 1994, the Spencers lived in Sierra Vista, Ariz. Thor had moved to nearby Tucson to work construction while saving money to go to college. That Easter, he drove to his parents' house. On the way home, he fell asleep at the wheel. At the hospital, doctors told Cheryl and Rick there was "just nothing" going on inside Thor's brain. But he woke up from his coma, went home, went on. Problems remain. He is legally blind, deaf in one ear and suffers memory loss. He has endured bouts of pneumonia that put him back on a ventilator, and an agonizing procedure to drain spinal fluid. Though he can talk, his speech is badly distorted. Knowing that, his family watches his lips as he searches for the right words. "I know it's uncomfortable," he begins. His next few words are unintelligible, but what follows is clear: "I don't want to die." Cheryl, acting as interpreter for those listening by phone, jumps in. "OK, you don't want to die. Is that what you said?" "Whatever it takes," Thor replies, speaking slowly to enunciate each syllable. "An-y-thing." "So if you need extraordinary intervention?" his mother asks. Thor interrupts: "I'd rather be alive than dead." But Cheryl wants to be sure. "Now, you know they say, `vegetative state,�" she presses. "Do you know what that means?" "I'd rather have that, too," Thor says. Then, he runs down the list of obstacles he has overcome. Doctors said his clenched right arm might never relax. It did. Doctors said he might not learn to talk again. He can. Doctors said he probably would never walk on his own. He does. "They were wrong," he says. "They were wrong every time. So, don't make that decision from what they say." "Is there any circumstance where you would feel differently?" Cheryl asks. A few seconds pass before Thor responds: "Not that I can think of." For those on the phone, Cheryl offers a recap. Thor, she says, wants "whatever measures are necessary" to preserve his life. MacArthur's voice comes over the line: "Regardless of the situation?" "Yes," Thor insists. Cheryl begins a roll call. "Mac, are you understanding that?" "Yes." She asks the same of her other children who are listening, and Rick, and Joseph Rifenbery, Thor's uncle. All understand. They'll pass the word to Thor's other brother, Mason, who could not join in. "I've gotta tell you, I'm real relieved," Cheryl says. "I was a little worried." She sits back, and finally allows herself a smile. --- It took 13 minutes. Eleven years of wondering, and 13 minutes to put their questions to rest. The Spencers quickly moved on to more pleasant topics. Thor didn't sign anything specifying his wishes; that will come later. What matters, the family agrees, is that everyone now knows what he wants. Thor explained his decision: Not long after his accident, in the dark obscurity between coma and awareness, he remembers not really knowing whether he was alive or dead. Then he saw his mother enter the room, and he cried out in joy: "I'm alive!" "I was fighting to get out of that," he says, "because I didn't want to die." But isn't it terrifying to allow himself the possibility of going there again? "Scared isn't the right word," he says. "I wouldn't like it. But if it comes, I'm gonna fight." Thor didn't want his family to give up on him because he isn't ready to give up on himself, despite what he's said in the past. "Never have," he says. "Never will." The meeting concluded as it began, with a prayer. Then Uncle Joe said goodnight, Maya went to bed, and Dad had dessert while Mom snacked on strawberries. Thor parked his wheelchair in the family room next to Hoffman and stroked his dog's ears. For the longest time, they stayed that way, both as content as could be ~~~~~~GOD BLESS you THOR & FAMILY =^.^=

'05 MUZZLE AWARDS 4 FREE SPEECH VIOLATORS (or SHUT YER PIEHOLE AWARDZ!)

FCC Among 2005 Muzzle Award Winners� Tuesday, April 12, 2005 12:33 a.m. ET By ZINIE CHEN SAMPSON Associated Press Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- The Federal Communications Commission and the motion-picture rating board are among the 2005 winners of the Jefferson Muzzle awards, given for perceived squelching of free expression. The FCC was recognized for "substantially escalating sanctions for broadcasting 'indecent' material over radio and television airwaves but doing little to define such material," according to the Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression. Other "muzzles" announced Tuesday in the 14th annual awards include the Democratic and Republican national parties for allowing authorities to curb protests during the 2004 presidential race; the Virginia House of Delegates for passing a bill criminalizing low-riding pants; and the U.S. Marshals Service for confiscating and erasing journalists' audio recordings of a speech by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Each year, the awards mark the April 13 birthday of Thomas Jefferson, the nation's third president and First Amendment advocate. "This year there's a greater concern with the content of entertainment than we've seen for some time," said Robert M. O'Neil, director of the Charlottesville center and a law professor at the University of Virginia. The "wardrobe malfunction" involving pop singer Janet Jackson's exposed breast at the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show played a key role in motivating the FCC to step up sanctions on broadcasters. Several months after the FCC fined CBS $550,000 for its broadcast, 66 ABC affiliates declined to air the World War II movie "Saving Private Ryan" on Veteran's Day out of fear that its graphic language and violence would invite FCC fines. The Motion Picture Association of America's Classification and Rating Administration won its Muzzle for initially giving Matt Parker and Trey Stone's movie "Team America: World Police" its strictest rating, NC-17, because it showed wooden puppets having sex. The movie's graphic depiction of the bullet-riddled bodies of puppet "celebrities" didn't raise eyebrows, but Parker and Stone had to submit increasingly tamer versions of the sex scene before the MPAA's panel would grant an "R" rating. The FCC fines and movie rating issues mark "a growing sense that government and private entities should be protecting society from unwelcome material, whether it's technically indecent or simply offensive and intrusive," O'Neil said. The Democratic and Republican national parties earned Muzzles for allowing police to suppress protesters during the 2004 presidential race, ostensibly to curb terrorism. At the Democratic convention, protesters were barred from the area immediately surrounding Boston's FleetCenter and an alternate "free speech zone" was set up about a block away in a fenced pen. At the GOP convention in New York, nearly 2,000 protesters were swept up in mass arrests. In Virginia, legislation targeting low-riding pants earned a Muzzle for the House of Delegates. The House approved the measure calling for a $50 fine on people whose pants hang so low that their underwear shows in "a lewd or indecent manner." Senators killed the bill two days later, after the issue made Virginia a target of mockery. The U.S. Marshals Service was cited for an incident last April in which Scalia was speaking at a Hattiesburg, Miss., high school and audio recorders belonging to two reporters, including an Associated Press reporter, were seized. Scalia later apologized for the incident and the government conceded the marshal violated federal law. ___ On the Net: Complete list of 2005 Jefferson Muzzles: http://www.tjcenter.org ~~~~~~ ALSO check out www.towardfreedom.com GOOD ONE =^.^= ~~~~~~~~

My local radio STATION PULLS ANTI-POPE AD! And its Rush's channel here!

Radio station pulls anti-Pope ad Posted: Saturday, Apr 09, 2005 - 09:49:41 am PDT By BRIAN WALKER Staff writer Spot on 'wickedness of the Roman Church' aired just twice POST FALLS -- A Spokane radio station yanked an ad Friday placed by a controversial Post Falls minister who compares the Pope to Hitler. KQNT 590 AM decided Friday after two airings to kill the ad, which was read and submitted by Jon Smith, pastor of Post Falls Presbyterian Church. The ad stated: "Isn't it just great that finally all men speak well of the Pope? Well, to tell the truth, no. Jesus said, 'Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for their fathers used to treat the false prophets in the same way.' "True Protestants still protest the wickedness of the Roman Church. Why? Because Rome mocks the perfect righteousness of Christ." The 60-second spot ran one time each on Thursday and on Friday surrounding the Pope's funeral. It was scheduled to run again after this weekend, said Kosta Panidis, general manager of Clear Channel Radio of Spokane, which owns six stations. Smith said he ran the ad "to warn people not to believe the Pope." "The Pope is the Antichrist," he said. "That is the historic Protestant position." Smith, who said he had full support from his elders and 20 or so members to run the ad, said he submitted the ad close to the Pope's funeral because "that was the best time." Smith was the center of controversy last year for flying a Confederate flag at his Post Falls home. Members at St. George's Catholic Church in Post Falls and St. Thomas and St. Pius X Catholic churches in Coeur d'Alene on Friday said they hadn't heard about the ad and that the priests were gone. When told about the ad, Marcy Woodward, member of St. George's, said: "My response is, 'Bless their hearts anyway.'" In an interview, Smith compared the Pope to Hitler. "This man damned billions of souls," Smith said. "Don't we have the duty to expose such wickedness as that?" Panidis said the decision to pull the ad wasn't about the content, but public concern. "It was purely about a large percentage of our listeners telling us they didn't like the comments, so we have to respond to that," Panidis said. Panidis wouldn't estimate how many calls the station received other than to say, "It was enough to get our attention." Panidis said he doesn't regret running the ad and that the programmers were aware of the content before it ran. "By law, we have to allow reasonable access to any denomination or religious or cultural group," Panidis said. "I ride this very sharp edge of allowing people to express their points of view as long as it's not vulgar, profane or violent, and this wasn't any of those. But I need to be sensitive if my listeners are vocal." Panidis said that after hearing the ad himself, he could see where it could be taken as "inflammatory to people of certain religions." The ad states that Hebrews 10 teaches that Christ offered one sacrifice for all time, having perfected those for whom He died and that Romans 6 says Christ is never to die again. "But the Roman Church says the opposite," the ad states. "You must attend Mass, which is identical with the sacrifice of the cross in which Christ dies again and again. Rome says Christ's righteousness alone will not get you into Heaven; you must add yours and Mary's and the saints' righteousness, and perhaps you will go to Heaven." Besides the public outcry, Panidis said he considered the concerns expressed by Doug Waltar, pastor of Community Presbyterian Church in Post Falls. The churches, though they have similar names, are not affiliated with each other. Panidis said Waltar was the first caller to the station, stating that the churches are separate. "You could see where the confusion comes into play," Panidis said. Waltar said he wants to make clear the position his congregation holds. "As followers of Jesus Christ, we stand together with brothers and sisters around the world who are part of the Christian family," Waltar said. "I personally hold Pope John Paul II in highest regard for his Christian service and vision for peace and justice in our world, and grieve his death." Waltar said he also called area Catholic churches, clarifying that the ad did not come from him or his congregation. He plans to talk to an executive of the church on Monday to see what type of response to the ad, if any, will be taken. "We have deep concerns about the misunderstandings that may result from this radio spot," Waltar said. "I'm glad the public reacted, and they had every right to." Waltar hadn't heard the ad on Friday, but said he was "horrified" by the tone that was communicated to him. Community Presbyterian Church is affiliated with Presbyterian USA Church. Smith said the church he pastors was formerly attached to the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, but currently doesn't belong to a denomination. Smith said he was simply upholding the Presbyterian confession, which states, "There is no other head of the Church, but the Lord Jesus Christ." "If I don't preach this, then I'm denying the confession of faith I vow to uphold," he said. Smith said he was disappointed but not surprised at the decision to stop the ad from running again. "Because they are a privately owned company, they have the right to do that," Smith said. "I just wish they were willing to speak the truth apart from public opinion." Smith said that as of Friday afternoon, he'd received about 10 calls complaining about the ad. "But that's probably nothing compared to what the radio station received," he said. Smith has other radio ads that are running with a similar message, but not pointed specifically at the Pope or the Catholic Church. Panidis has no plans to pull those because they haven't received a backlash from the public. ~~~~~~~Just a little local news from Krazy Karpet Kitten Kountry =^.^= ~~~~

My local radio STATION PULLS ANTI-POPE AD! And its Rush's channel here!

Radio station pulls anti-Pope ad Posted: Saturday, Apr 09, 2005 - 09:49:41 am PDT By BRIAN WALKER Staff writer Spot on 'wickedness of the Roman Church' aired just twice POST FALLS -- A Spokane radio station yanked an ad Friday placed by a controversial Post Falls minister who compares the Pope to Hitler. KQNT 590 AM decided Friday after two airings to kill the ad, which was read and submitted by Jon Smith, pastor of Post Falls Presbyterian Church. The ad stated: "Isn't it just great that finally all men speak well of the Pope? Well, to tell the truth, no. Jesus said, 'Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for their fathers used to treat the false prophets in the same way.' "True Protestants still protest the wickedness of the Roman Church. Why? Because Rome mocks the perfect righteousness of Christ." The 60-second spot ran one time each on Thursday and on Friday surrounding the Pope's funeral. It was scheduled to run again after this weekend, said Kosta Panidis, general manager of Clear Channel Radio of Spokane, which owns six stations. Smith said he ran the ad "to warn people not to believe the Pope." "The Pope is the Antichrist," he said. "That is the historic Protestant position." Smith, who said he had full support from his elders and 20 or so members to run the ad, said he submitted the ad close to the Pope's funeral because "that was the best time." Smith was the center of controversy last year for flying a Confederate flag at his Post Falls home. Members at St. George's Catholic Church in Post Falls and St. Thomas and St. Pius X Catholic churches in Coeur d'Alene on Friday said they hadn't heard about the ad and that the priests were gone. When told about the ad, Marcy Woodward, member of St. George's, said: "My response is, 'Bless their hearts anyway.'" In an interview, Smith compared the Pope to Hitler. "This man damned billions of souls," Smith said. "Don't we have the duty to expose such wickedness as that?" Panidis said the decision to pull the ad wasn't about the content, but public concern. "It was purely about a large percentage of our listeners telling us they didn't like the comments, so we have to respond to that," Panidis said. Panidis wouldn't estimate how many calls the station received other than to say, "It was enough to get our attention." Panidis said he doesn't regret running the ad and that the programmers were aware of the content before it ran. "By law, we have to allow reasonable access to any denomination or religious or cultural group," Panidis said. "I ride this very sharp edge of allowing people to express their points of view as long as it's not vulgar, profane or violent, and this wasn't any of those. But I need to be sensitive if my listeners are vocal." Panidis said that after hearing the ad himself, he could see where it could be taken as "inflammatory to people of certain religions." The ad states that Hebrews 10 teaches that Christ offered one sacrifice for all time, having perfected those for whom He died and that Romans 6 says Christ is never to die again. "But the Roman Church says the opposite," the ad states. "You must attend Mass, which is identical with the sacrifice of the cross in which Christ dies again and again. Rome says Christ's righteousness alone will not get you into Heaven; you must add yours and Mary's and the saints' righteousness, and perhaps you will go to Heaven." Besides the public outcry, Panidis said he considered the concerns expressed by Doug Waltar, pastor of Community Presbyterian Church in Post Falls. The churches, though they have similar names, are not affiliated with each other. Panidis said Waltar was the first caller to the station, stating that the churches are separate. "You could see where the confusion comes into play," Panidis said. Waltar said he wants to make clear the position his congregation holds. "As followers of Jesus Christ, we stand together with brothers and sisters around the world who are part of the Christian family," Waltar said. "I personally hold Pope John Paul II in highest regard for his Christian service and vision for peace and justice in our world, and grieve his death." Waltar said he also called area Catholic churches, clarifying that the ad did not come from him or his congregation. He plans to talk to an executive of the church on Monday to see what type of response to the ad, if any, will be taken. "We have deep concerns about the misunderstandings that may result from this radio spot," Waltar said. "I'm glad the public reacted, and they had every right to." Waltar hadn't heard the ad on Friday, but said he was "horrified" by the tone that was communicated to him. Community Presbyterian Church is affiliated with Presbyterian USA Church. Smith said the church he pastors was formerly attached to the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, but currently doesn't belong to a denomination. Smith said he was simply upholding the Presbyterian confession, which states, "There is no other head of the Church, but the Lord Jesus Christ." "If I don't preach this, then I'm denying the confession of faith I vow to uphold," he said. Smith said he was disappointed but not surprised at the decision to stop the ad from running again. "Because they are a privately owned company, they have the right to do that," Smith said. "I just wish they were willing to speak the truth apart from public opinion." Smith said that as of Friday afternoon, he'd received about 10 calls complaining about the ad. "But that's probably nothing compared to what the radio station received," he said. Smith has other radio ads that are running with a similar message, but not pointed specifically at the Pope or the Catholic Church. Panidis has no plans to pull those because they haven't received a backlash from the public. ~~~~~~~Just a little local news from Krazy Karpet Kitten Kountry =^.^= ~~~~