The Government of the United States must be secular…Period.
The Government of the United States must be secular, and indeed, is so through the First Amendment of our Constitution.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Yet, the US has just set up a government in Iraq, whose constitution outlines it as, essentially, an Islamic republic. This is not a secular action, and violates our First Amendment protections.
The Founding Fathers clearly established a secular government, one reason for which was this: U.S. taxpayers should never be burdened with religious expenditures. Period.
Therefore, the fruits of the U.S. involvement in Iraq are illegal under U.S. law, and furthermore, too: sending foreign aid to religious theocracies is Unconstitutional. Period.
What is a theocracy? Using our “secular yardstick”, it is a government that supports one religion over another. In other words, by the measure of how much a government is not secular, it is religious, and is therefore that much more off-limits as a recipient of U.S. “foreign aid”.
The U.S. must not support one religion over another. As our “Great Experiment” has shown, religious strife is all but gone in our country — instead, we export said strife, either unwittingly … or purposefully.
Since secular government is an American ideal, and we can clearly see how the Founding Fathers expected the First Amendment to accomplish a relatively peaceful religious experience in our great nation — and toward that end, we have been very successful.
In further posts, I will explore precisely what non-secular countries receive aid from the U.S., and how the unConstitutional nature of sending this money abroad should — indeed, must — be used to advance our U.S. ideal of secular government.
Now you’ve seen the punchline.
Let’s explore where this (currently) illegal aid is flowing to…in alphabetical order:
Egypt. Iraq. Israel. Saudi Arabia.
the United Kingdom.
and the list goes on. In my next post, I will skip Egypt, and explore the unConstitutional nature of establishing and supporting unsecular government in Iraq…also, there’s a matter of what Bremer did with over 8 billion dollars, which remains unaccounted for. That’s $8,000,000,000+ dollars in cash that was forklifted onto planes, flown (alledgedly) to Iraq, and (so Bremer has testified to Congress) used there to further U.S. interests (or so he says).
Ladies and gentlemen, the U.S. has ignored this Rule of Law long enough, and it’s high time we start taking back this country. The First Amendment is much too important to be trod on by sleazy politicians.
[ I'm informed that the UK doesn't receive funds from the US, nor does the Church of England receive UK funds. While the Prime Minister does participate in selection of bishops, I'm going to strike the UK from the list. I stand corrected! -Ekton ]
…er, Period. End of entry.
-Ekton Graves