Scottsboro, Alabama - September 22, 2014, The 10 Commandments issue continues. After the Jackson County Commission meeting I ask the Chairman of the County Commission with the County Attorney, John Porter present, if I could inspect the agreement/contract with the Liberty Institute once signed. Porter's comment, "You may not have a copy as it is not a public record." Commission Meeting article
http://arklite.blogspot.com/2014/09/jackson-county-commission-regular.html
Section 36-12-40 Code of Alabama
Rights of citizens to inspect and copy public writings; exceptions.
Every citizen has a right to inspect and take a copy of any public writing of this state, except as otherwise expressly provided by statute. Provided however, registration and circulation records and information concerning the use of the public, public school or college and university libraries of this state shall be exempted from this section. Provided further, any parent of a minor child shall have the right to inspect the registration and circulation records of any school or public library that pertain to his or her child. Notwithstanding the foregoing, records concerning security plans, procedures, assessments, measures, or systems, and any other records relating to, or having an impact upon, the security or safety of persons, structures, facilities, or other infrastructures, including without limitation information concerning critical infrastructure (as defined at 42 U.S.C. §5195c(e) as amended) and critical energy infrastructure information (as defined at 18 C.F.R. §388.113(c)(1) as amended) the public disclosure of which could reasonably be expected to be detrimental to the public safety or welfare, and records the disclosure of which would otherwise be detrimental to the best interests of the public shall be exempted from this section. Any public officer who receives a request for records that may appear to relate to critical infrastructure or critical energy infrastructure information, shall notify the owner of such infrastructure in writing of the request and provide the owner an opportunity to comment on the request and on the threats to public safety or welfare that could reasonably be expected from public disclosure on the records.(Code 1923, §2695; Code 1940, T. 41, §145; Acts 1983, No. 83-565, p. 866, §3; Act 2004-487, p. 906, §1.)
A comprehensive guide to Alabama Records disclosure and exemptions from disclosure - Alabama Open Records Study Task Force, 2008 by the Law Firm of Balch & Bingham, 2008 and reviewed by the Alabama Legislative Reference Service.
Alabama Open Records Study Task Force Competent legal council has advised that contracts and agreements made by the County Commission are subject to be disclosed upon request. That a refusal to produce such records, such as an agreement with the Liberty Institute for legal council, would be a violation of 36-12-40.
The mission statement of the Liberty Institute ( along with bashing the ACLU here is their mission statement:
https://www.libertyinstitute.org/about ) contains a clause that some might consider radical and extremist. It is reflective of the same mantra as Islamic Jihadists. It states, "...
true religious liberty consists of recognizing individuals’ God-given right
to follow their conscience and to live and act according to their faith in
every area of life.” About the Islamic Jihad and Islam http://islamicsupremecouncil.org/understanding-islam/legal-rulings/5-jihad-a-misunderstood-concept-from-islam.html?showall=1 How far does the Liberty Institute intend on taking their mission in each individuals God Given right to live and act according to their faith? Does that include actions of Christian or Islamic extremists?
HISTORY ABOUT JEFFERSON, ISLAM and the SEPARATION of CHURCH and STATE or Ignorance Breeds an Extremist Theocracy of the few.
"In 1765, eleven years before composing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson bought a Qur’an. This marked only the beginning of his life long interest in Islam, and he would go on to acquire numerous books on Middle Eastern languages, history, and travel, taking extensive notes on Islam as it relates to English common law. Jefferson sought to understand Islam notwithstanding his personal disdain for the faith, a sentiment prevalent among his Protestant contemporaries in England and America. But unlike most of them, by 1776 Jefferson could imagine Muslims as future citizens of his new country."
"A handful of the Founders, Jefferson foremost among them, drew upon Enlightenment ideas about the toleration of Muslims (then deemed the ultimate outsiders in Western society) to fashion out of what had been a purely speculative debate a practical foundation for governance in America. In this way, Muslims, who were not even known to exist in the colonies, became the imaginary outer limit for an unprecedented, uniquely American religious pluralism that would also encompass the actual despised minorities of Jews and Catholics. The rancorous public dispute concerning the inclusion of Muslims, for which principle Jefferson’s political foes would vilify him to the end of his life, thus became decisive in the Founders’ ultimate judgment not to establish a Protestant nation, as they might well have done."
http://www.monticelloshop.org/208079.html
It is revealing that the Liberty Institute attempts to demean the United States Armed Forces by the false accusation that they do not support religious freedoms.
Does the Liberty Institute support the Islamic Jihad and are they anti-U.S. Military? In this document the Liberty Institute falsely claims in testimony before Congress, "...the military used existing laws, regulations, or policies to justify its hostility towards religious freedom."
http://docs.house.gov/meetings/AS/AS02/20140129/101681/HHRG-113-AS02-20140129-SD011.pdf The Liberty Institute's claim is a false claim, they use an Equal Opportunity training course which describes hate and religious intolerance as a basis for their claim. Other right wing organizations then pile on supporting the attack on Race Relations Equal Opportunity Training in the military along with the usual bashing of President Obama. Reference:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/10/31/pentagon-training-manual-white-males-have-unfair-advantages/ Then as if it is a justification for absurdity and fallacy they use the opinion of a former military officer who is a disgrace, LTC Allen West who should have been Court-Martialed for his undisciplined actions and threats to Prisoners of War which included the coercion of false confessions by the threat of murder. West accepted non-judicial punishment and was forced to retire. The true story about a disgraced commander. Mr. West provides Fox News and the Theocratic Republicans their not so perfect African American token.
http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2010/03/allen_west_military_career_abuse_iraqi_detainee.php The right wing Republican Theocrats are always looking for additional tokens. Such as the case of the Alabama theocratic right : "see, we are not bigots, we pardoned the Scottsboro Boys." An act which could have accomplished much, such as race relations education. But of course, that is a real solution to problems and education costs money which right wing corporate theocrats do not wish to expend, they prefer their facts, not actual facts which support science, math and enlightenment.
WHAT IS ALL OF THIS ABOUT? Simple, "the theocratic right, "Religous Right," regressive populism, and White racial nationalism make up a hard right political sector that is distinct from and sometimes in opposition to mainstream Republicanism and the internationalist wing of corporate conservatism." From the Public Eye -
http://www.publiceye.org/lnk_antidem.html#Christian Right
"The best known sector of the hard right--dogmatic religious movements--is often called the "Religious Right" It substantially dominates the Republican Party in at least 10 (and perhaps as many as 30) of the 50 states. As part of an aggressive grassroots campaign, these groups have targeted electoral races from school boards to state legislatures to campaigns for the US Senate and House of Representatives. They helped elect dozens of hard-line ultraconservatives to the House of Representatives in 1994. This successful social movement politically mobilizes a traditionalist mass base from a growing pious constituency of evangelical, fundamentalist, charismatic, Pentecostal, and orthodox churchgoers."
"The goal of many leaders of this ultraconservative religious movement is imposing a narrow theological agenda on secular society. The predominantly Christian leadership envisions a religiously-based authoritarian society; therefore we prefer to describe this movement as the "theocratic right." A theocrat is someone who supports a form of government where the actions of leaders are seen as sanctioned by God--where the leaders claim they are carrying out God's will. The central threat to democracy posed by the theocratic right is not that its leaders are religious, or fundamentalist, or right wing--but that they justify their political, legislative, and regulatory agenda as fulfilling God's plan."
Enter Mr. McGill, Mr. Guffey, Jackson County Commission, their legal representative and the Liberty Institute; supported by right wing ultraconservative hypocritical theocrats.
More on right wing extremism:
http://www.hsaj.org/?fullarticle=2.2.3
Welcome to Alabama - We Dare Defend Our Rights! When this motto was first conceived it was representative of white males. Commissioner Guffey has remarked, "We are the majority and we should not bow to the minority." What Mr. Guffey and others who stand for ignorant concepts of theocratic rule is this, we are not a Democracy nor a Theocracy; WE ARE A REPUBLIC, where the rule of law governs our nation and communities for the benefit of all Americans, not just a few or the majority.
Many of us have shed our blood and given our lives so that even ignorant citizens may rise to office. It is the citizens responsibility to insure our nation remains a REPUBLIC and not decline into the throws of a theocracy by right wing religious extremists..
