| The Impact of the Apocalypse of John on an Emerging Police State Expensive short-ranged fighter planes more suited to combat in the Middle East than patrolling the Arctic expanse; a massive prison building program when crime is at an all-time low (and expected to stay that way, and perhaps drop ever further because of an aging population); and now legislation which will give the police the power to: • monitor everything we do on the internet, including read our emails, text messages and tweets; • compel all service providers to provide a backdoor to the websites they host to allow police to bring down or sabotage websites at will; • allow police to track our movements in real-time whenever we use our GPS-enabled cell-phones to access the internet, send emails, text messages or tweets. Could the Prime Minister’s latest totalitarian obsession have anything to do with his belief in The Apocalypse of John i.e. The Book of Revelation? It is an article of faith among Evangelical Christians that their brethren, who were not deemed Christian enough to be Raptured, will have to prove their Paradise-worthiness by fighting the forces of evil in a delaying action until Jesus comes down to defeat the wicked, once and for all, at a place called Megiddo in the Jezreel Valley of northern Israel, and usher in Judgement Day. A means of quickly identifying the evil people i.e. the atheists, the agnostics, those who believe in a woman's right to choose, those who favour sex education and contraceptives, the environmentalists, the animal rights people, the world government promoters, the secularists … there whereabouts, and having plenty of prison space to house them will definitely favour the forces of good over the forces of evil, and make Jesus' job that much easier when he returns. The Left Behind series of 16 best-selling novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins dramatize the life and times of those left behind in action-packed Revelation-inspired prose. It’s Christians against the global community and its leader, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Nicolae Carpathia — the Antichrist. The Left Behind books are the most read books by Evangelicals after the Bible. The media is leery about asking the Prime Minister if any part of his punitive intrusive legislative agenda, what writer Michael Den Tandt described as a “bizarre crime fixation”, has anything to do with his religious beliefs. A brother is an Evangelical. The nicest person you will ever meet. He radiates the warmth that our Prime Minister can, when he wants to, but he does it all the time, it’s not an act. He is of course honest about his Faith. I hope the Prime Minister will be honest about his. He is the Prime Minister, and religion being the taboo subject that it is for the Canadian media where politicians are concerned, I e-mailed his office, the PMO (Prime Minister’s Office), a baby-step of an enquiry: “Has the Prime Minister read any of the ‘Left Behind’ best-selling novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins?” ----- It was once suggested to the leadership of the former Soviet Union, which wanted to cut down on the cost of spying on its own people, that they should do away with paper currency and give everyone an American Express card. Prime Minister Harper’s plan to spy on just about every Canadian via the internet is something Stalin could have only dreamt and drooled about. Bernard Payeur February 18, 2012
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