what does the "J" stand for anyway?

[garybeck]

J Kenneth Blackwell

can't we call him by his real name?

[jeff30997]

1. Jay ?

[garybeck]

2. i'm guessing not.

every place I see it written it's J. Kenneth. I would think if the name was Jay they would spell it out.

[madmom]

3. jackass

[MelissaB]

7. That gets my vote.

[riqster]

4. As Edward Abbey said...

"You can always tell a shithead by that initial initial"

[Peace Patriot]

13. Did he now? That great old B.S. detector! n/t

[KaliTracy]

5. Just John though I bet

he thinks it's something "holier"


http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blackwell.html#RQ61B2HYZ

Blackwell, John Kenneth (b. 1948) — also known as J. Kenneth Blackwell; Ken Blackwell — of Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. Born February 28, 1948. Republican. Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1979-80; candidate for U.S. Representative from Ohio 1st District, 1990; Ohio treasurer of state, 1994-99; secretary of state of Ohio, 1999-. Black. Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Freemasons. Still living as of 2001.


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Religious Liberty:
The Most Precious of Our Liberties
On Principle, v11n3
December 2003

by: J. Kenneth Blackwell



We Americans are touchy about our rights. Sometimes it seems that we think anything that’s good—from clean water to good housing—is a right owed us. These are “rights” many think government should provide. In all our talk about rights, we often tend to forget the more fundamental rights: the rights we have by virtue of our humanity, the rights we have against government, and the inalienable rights endowed to us by our Creator. We forget, in other words, both the moral basis of human rights and our responsibility to protect those rights.

Why have we forgotten? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn once noted that the most significant trait of the 20th Century was that “Man has forgotten God.” He went on to say “A tree with a rotten core cannot stand.” Can a nation without a moral foundation respect human rights? Can those who cannot recall the source of human rights encourage their protection around a dangerous world?

In 1948, just fifty-five years ago, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The achievement was momentous and lasting. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights set enduring standards for the entire international community, standards to which each nation could be held so the devastation and cruelty the world had seen just ten years prior to the adoption of the Declaration might not ever be repeated.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is more than just a proclamation. It is an ideal to which all nations have at least agreed to aspire. It is a guide for emerging nations as they make the often-difficult transition from tyranny and poverty to democracy and prosperity. It is the founding document of the human rights movement, its Ten Commandments and its Declaration of Independence.

When Eleanor Roosevelt chaired the first session of the



http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/onprin/v11n3/blackwell.html

[Peace Patriot]

14. The man is psychotic (out of touch with reality).

He twists the "religious liberty" (of the title) around so that it is in opposition to "clean water" and "good housing" (essentials of human life). To be for "clean water" and "good housing" is to "forget the moral basis of human rights." That's what he's saying.

Then he goes on about "the Universal Declaration of Human Rights" while cavorting with torturers and mass murderers--egregious violators of human rights--not to mention the human rights he himself violated in the 2004 election. The Bush Cartel slaughtered over 100,000 innocent people in Iraq (according to the British doctors' report). They committed this mass murder to get control of the Iraqis oil and to strut around as the lords of the earth. What could possibly be more stupifyingly at odds with "the Universal Declaration of Human Rights"? This is Orwellian insanity!

And poor Solzhenitsyn--whose complete lack of experience of democracy led him into the grave error of advocating a Godly-state--would surely not approve of these Bush Cartel parasites and slaughtering, torturing, billionaire God-talkers. Solzhenitsyn had his blind spots (rather big ones), but at least he was sincere.

How is it that we have "forgotten God" by wanting people to have the essentials of human life (clean water, good housing)? WHO is it who is truly "without a moral foundation"?

I'll take an atheistic human rights worker, who provides food, water and shelter to the poor, and who opposes torture, ANY DAY, to these utter hypocrites of Christians who glory in mass bloodshed, and in executing the imprisoned, and who laud the rich for pigging out on Social Security and on all our tax revenues intended for the poor and the common good!

Eleanor Roosevelt is turning over in her grave--to be cited by such a person!

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Translation of Mr. Judas Kenneth Blackwell's message:

"I am God. I say what God is and what God wants. Clean water interferes with the human rights of the rich to pollute and poison you. The rich are anointed by God to rule the earth. Ergo, God wants you to bow down and kiss the behinds of the rich, and let them poison you, and do anything they want to you. If God wanted you to have good housing, He, in His Almighty Beneficence, would endow you with good housing. But He has not done so. Ergo, you don't deserve it. And until you are God's anointed rich and deserve it, you can live in hovels and rat-infested projects.

"God gave certain anointed human beings the right to be rich and to lord it over the rest of you. Get used to it. That's what human rights are really all about. Human rights are for humans. And you, the poor, are not quite human, and won't be fully human until you are rich and a lord of the earth. Food, water, shelter--these are the petty desires of semi-humans and are nothing compared to the Godly Imperative that the rich get richer and thus glorify God's will.

"And to make all this sound palatable and sort of liberal, I'll call up the name of Eleanor Roosevelt--a ferocious advocate of the poor, against the predation of the rich, and a champion of the rights of my own race, who would be utterly horrified at what I have done with the rights and advantages she worked so hard to secure--the woman who was a tireless advocate of the New Deal, which we unfortunately have to dismantle now, to help the rich get richer for the better Glory of God. The woman whom the Rush Limbaughs of the 1940s made nasty remarks about and reviled. The Grand Damme of Liberal Godlessness! I'll just slip her name in here to fool y'all. Amen."

[KaliTracy]

15. hear, hear! I totally agree. And... it gets worse...

Conservative churches to flex muscle; Pastors statewide organizing effort to elect candidates.



One goal for the group is to help Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell win the governor`s office in 2006.

Christian conservative leaders from scores of Ohio`s fastest-growing churches are mounting a campaign to win control of local government posts and Republican organizations, starting with the 2006 governor`s race.

In a manifesto that is being circulated among church leaders and on the Internet, the group, which is called the Ohio Restoration Project, is planning to mobilize 2,000 evangelical, Baptist, Pentecostal and Roman Catholic leaders in a network of "Patriot Pastors" to register half a million new voters, enlist activists, train candidates and endorse conservative causes in the next year.

The initial goal is to elect Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, a conservative Republican, as governor in 2006. The group hopes to build grass-roots organizations in Ohio`s 88 counties and take control of local Republican organizations.

http://www.kenblackwell.com/news.asp?formmode=release&id=61

[dave502d]

6. JEB.n/t

[Fly by night]

8. Jabberwok: the ghoul that stole Christmas (at least in my family's fables)

[smartvoter]

9. Judas. nt

[AtLiberty]

10. Jerk

[Peace Patriot]

11. Judas. n/t

[Peace Patriot]

12. Oh, smartvoter, you beat me to it! You're so smart! n/t