Update:  For those who supported me in the May 2, 2006 primary, thank you.  Thirty percent (30%) was better than I expected with less than $2,000 to spend in a campaign against the most heavily funded, party-endorsed Indiana congressional incumbent!  I’m dropping out of the political scene for a while so that I can devote my full attention to my private law practice.  After spending about $40,000 of my own funds over the last four campaigns where I held no fund raising events, I have to draw the line until my law practice gets beyond the start-up phase or until I gain some talent in fund raising.  Someone else is going to have to stand up and fix the world’s problems for now.  I still maintain my one sound bite that “The most effective wmd is P orn-pr ostitution, and the achilles heel of militant Islam is social Western reform.”  c.f. Rev. 9.

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“The greatest want of the world is the want of men,–men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.”  E.G. White–Education, p. 57. (1903)

Together, we can choose our future!  Will it be life and peace or death and war?  Let us together choose life.

Do you value your constitution? I do. When I took the oath at the U.S. Naval Academy to defend our Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, I took it without reservation. That promise was reaffirmed by me when I served you as a deputy prosecutor in Elkhart, Lake and St. Joseph Counties, where I learnd that the state of this union, with its prison population tripling since 1975, is not a pretty sight.

I am running for Congress for many reasons, one of which is because our U.S. Constitution is under assault from both within and without our nation by more forces than just activist judges who isogetically (read into) interpret the Constitution without adequately responsible principles of hermeneutics.

One of the best questions you can ask a congressional candidate is not how they stand on any one issue. It’s how they interpret the Constitution. Ask them what their principles of hermeneutics are. I’m an original intent, strict constructionist. Any other method, in my view, turns your rights into a lottery of judicial opinion that has turned the Supreme Court into a continual constitutional convention.

It appears to me that the winds of strife are once again about to be unleashed upon the world, and it would not surprise me if anti-Semitism (a misphrase since Arabs are also ‘Semites’) is one route that we will take from here to there on a road fueled by one more wanna-be Platonic Republic Guardian, who, in fact, is simply another misguided charismatic whose ride to power is energized by his undisciplined bipolar genius upon the backs of destroyed lives whose cannon fodder resulted from the Machiavellian theory of “it’s better to be feared than loved.”

For instance, North Korea has called us “moral lepers.”  Iran still regards us as “Satan America,” and has called for Israel to be “wiped off the map.”  The former Indonesian (?) president has stated that Jews “run the world by proxy.”  Venezuela calls us “the enemies of all mankind” and has labeled the Jews as “the descendants of those who killed Christ.”  My theory is that the enemy of souls hates both Edenic institutions of marriage and workers’ rights (Sabbath) and, by proxy, will pursue, with his two Rev. 13 allies from the sea and land, the Jews in route to his final onslaught against those who “keep the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus.”  Rev. 12:17.

A plain reading of that text could only apply to the extreme minority of Sabbath keeping Christians as being the final target. In other words, the “mark of the beast” will likely be, in part, an international death decree forcing people to violate one of the front-sided Commandments (first four Protestant/Jewish or first three Catholic/Lutheran). See also Daniel 3 (2nd/1st Commandment in issue) and Daniel 6 (1st Commandment in issue) where preludes to the mark occurred.  For example, the Commandments were to be placed on the forehead and hand in Deut. 6, so logically, the mark on the same place will likely be a perversion of one or more Commandments.  There were 3 “sevenths” in Gen. 2 and three “sixes” in Rev. 13, and the Sabbath command is called “a sign” between God and Israel in several texts such as in Ex. 31 and Eze. 20.  It takes more than just a jot or tittle to move to the left or right on the calendar.  (No offense is taken if you do not agree.  Scholars with multple Ph.Ds don’t agree either).

The great battles and wars ahead will revolve around both scarce energy and philosophy/theology.  We can limit our exposure to the first risk by technological development; however, we can not have peace by ignoring the role of religion in politics while some in the Islamic “east” are deceived into believing that “martyr” murdering innocent civilians gives them a “do-not-pass-go-and-do-not-collect-$200″ ticket to paradise where they will commit infinite adultery at a rate far greater than the American entertainment and athlete “celebrity” incognoscenti ignobility.  Conversely, shall we in the American West allow the First Amendment to be perverted into a systematic blood-letting suicide pact by giving a pass to the apostate, overly per capita dominated Jewish p orn-pr ostitution business and the typically Christian h arlot “actors” who are transforming our children into a mass of self-abusing v oyeurs with a STD rate of 50% by the age of 25 on our route to the #1 contender for repeating, on the literal level of interpretation, what the apocalyptic ”Babylon” did in “ma[king] all nations drink the wine of the wrath of her fo rnication” (“porn” in Greek).  Rev. 14:8. KJV.

At my 10th reunion at Georgetown last summer, I asked former CIA Director George Tenet if he thought that the militant Islamists might be able to accomplish by their high birth rates and our high STD rates what they could not militarily in 14 centuries.  He stated, “could be.”  One of my Lebanese friends indicated to me that Christians once held the majority there; however, “we breed faster” turned the population tide in the Islamic favor.

If any of our elected officials knows how to win a war against militant Islam, then they appear to be taking  a politically correct stance and not telling us that history records that militant Islamicists are best countered by reforming one’s society.  i.e. The Ottomon Empire was not the “sick man of the east” until AFTER the Reformation.  If this topic interests you, I can refer you to the Historian Gibbons in his book “The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire” and to what Methodist founder John Wesley saw in Rev. Chapter 9 as a small sampling of holders of this now abandoned politically-incorrect position. Both of them saw there more than just a Mansonian Beatles song.

One of my G-town classmates, MSNBC Chief White House Correspondent Norah O’Donnell told me that politicians are not addressing the needs of the people.  I agree.  Shall we consume our political debate with prioritizing fighting over day-light savings and toll road leasing or should we defend what even the pagan Cicero called the “first bond of society,” marriage, by slam dunking, what has almost always historically been and still remains today, the truly ultimate WMD-the neo-Mammon/Caanan-Baal p orn-pr ostitution cults-that produced about 100,000 Web sites linked to child p orn by 2001, according to the U.S. Customs Department, and by lifting the burdens of the workers of the world who are definitely not united?

We have declared unwinnable, losing trench-warfare “wars” on poverty, drugs and terror in large part because we have neglected the real war that we should be fighting which is the one against the marital relationship.  It’s no accident that Moses ranked adultery right under homicide.  If you do not believe me, then read the history of the Israelite and Judean kings and ask yourself why the historians judged the promotors of Baal prostitution cults as “evil” and the ones who tore down the “high places,” “sacred groves” and “sacred poles” as doing what was “right in the sight.”

Marx, though in left field when he declared “religion,” perversions of which cause war, to be the opiate of the masses, was actually in the outskirts of the ball park.  Marital love, which good religion promotes, is the real opiate of the masses, and government leaders need to get back into the business of “promoting the general (not selfish) welfare.”  For instance, Adam, the ultimate capitalist, owned the world, yet he probably didn’t last a day without it not being “good” to be without his Eve.

I spent a significant portion of the entire 1990s studying history and scripture, so it’s a major part of my vocabulary.  I firmly believe in religious liberty and that a “man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.”  What I oppose is the current state of theological illiteracy and the culture of non-debate over centuries of recorded wisdom and learning.  We have freedom in this brief period of human history, but what value is it if historical ignorance reigns supreme while we repeat the errors of those who have gone before us?  Once I get time, I’m going to further investigate the occurrences of the word “terror” in the NKJV.  Lev. 16 speaks of one curse of the covenant is that God would “appoint terror over you.”  Ezekiel 22-23 talks of giving Judah “over to terror” as a judgment, in part, for their tolerance of mass pr ostitution.  Note also that one of Jesus’ first and last acts after his baptism was to cleanse the temple from buying and selling.  After his death, the NT declares our bodies to be the “temple.”  Shall we now buy and sell sex with out body temples?  Could the “War on Terror” be, in part, a judgment for our toleration of 100,000 child p orn Web sites and for a culture that proudly calls harlots and wh oremongers “stars?”  Ezekiel recorded women turning to ancient Chinese secret “male images” shortly before they went into seventy years of captivity.  David’s statement how “the beauty of Israel [was being] laid waste” on the high places is applicable to this day .  In other words how a society treats its women and daughters may be directly related to how its men and sons experience war.

I oppose the use of warm and fuzzy, meaningless sound bites.  However, if I had to sum up my views in one meaningful sound bite, it would likely be “Historically and presently to date, the most effective implemented weapon-of-mass-destruction is p orn-pro stitution in all its forms, and the Achilles heel of Eastern militant Islam is Western social reform.”

In other words, my current opinion is that engaging in civil asset forfeiture for ad ultery book stores would be a more effective way to fight this sixty-three plus nation trench “war on terror” than bankrupting our grandchildren with the half trillion we will have spent on Iraq and Afghanistan by the end of 2006.  For example, Baalam (roughly translated as ‘conqueror of the people’) could not even curse Israel until he enticed them into ad ultery, and after Josiah took out the p orn pimps of his day, Egypt offered to fight his battles for him.  A modern parallel might be when President Johnson’s liberal p orn commission was coupled with our inability to beat just 1/2 of Vietnam; whereas after President Reagan made a token effort to combat p orn with his conservative p orn commission, the Iron Curtain fell in 1989 without a shot needing to be fired by us.

It now appears that my human trafficking press release has sparked debate on many Web sites and blogs.  If I would have just left out the three words of “guillotine” and “lynch mobs,” this debate never would have occurred.  When I held my press conference on this issue, no media appeared.  I never said that I would commit to vote for those two; however, if a sex offender has three prior pre-pubescent (under the age of 12) victims and then commits his crime a fourth time, then I would be willing to “debate” something other than the threat of potential prison that clearly didn’t sent the message previously.  I might even be willing to debate the issue before an offender gets to his 4th victim or to substitute a “mill stone.”  Finally, the U.S. Supreme Court has banned capital punishment only for “adult” ra pe victims.  They have never declared that the 8th Amendment prohibits it for the ra pe of children.

I know with my minority positions, I’ll likely never get elected to even the neighborhood can collector office, and that is probably a positive boon for my personal happiness; however, I am not smart enough to keep my mouth shut, so I will just have to endure one more election where my opponent again refuses to “engage me in any conversation” or debate “whatsoever.”  [2002 Campaign].   As much as I would like to lock myself up and contemplate the scriptural forms, duty calls and 13 years of college education is enough before I need to contribute back a small fraction of the blessings I have been so fortunate to receive.

If you haven’t figured it out yet, then please note that I’m more interested in stimulating healthy public debate than I am about winning this race.  I’m keeping my day job.  However, if my Naval Academy Class of 1992 motto of “Fortune Favors the Bold” turns out to be accurate and if I’m bold enough to merit winning this race, and if I can successfully introduce into the public record the bills that I am proposing to improve our society, then I will not rule out running for V.P. some day.  If Congressman Kucinich with his title could get into the democratic debates, then perhaps I’d have a chance to jump into the Republican ones with the same title.  Some of you are now probably thinking “Yeah right, when pigs fly.”

The first and last press releases are from 2006, and the middle ones are from 2004.    Feel free to e-mail me with any questions.  I believe I have answered all e-mails as of  6/30/06 with the exception of some comcast e-mails which get bumped back to me.

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“Intimately connected with these laws affecting religion, was that which reduced the union of marriage–the most sacred engagement which human beings can form, and the permanence of which leads most strongly to the consolidation of society–to the state of a mere civil contract of a transitory character, which any two persons might engage in and cast loose at pleasure. . . . If fiends had set themselves to work to discover a mode of most effectually destroying whatever is venerable, graceful, or permanent in domestic life, and of obtaining at the same time an assurance that the mischief which it was their object to create should be perpetuated from one generation to another, they could not have invented a more effectual plan that the degradation of marriage. . . . Sophie Arnoult, an actress famous for the witty things she said, described the republican marriage as ‘the sacrament of adultery.”‘–Sir Walter Scott, The Life of Napoleon, vol. 1, ch. 17.

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Please feel free to e-mail me with any typo corrections or suggestions for re-wording paragraphs.  I am running this 12 county campaign entirely by myself, and I have a very limited amount of time to devote to this since I am running two law offices without any staff, so any public assistance is appreciated.

You are cordially invited to examine the issues presented here. I invite you to respond on my discussion board and to contact me with any questions at campaign2008@tonyzirkle.com.

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