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I invite you today to look to Christ. When you wonder about the mystery of yourself, look to Christ who gives you the meaning of life. When you wonder what it means to be a mature person, look to Christ who is the fullness of humanity. And when you wonder about your role in the future of the world, look to Christ. Only in Christ will you fulfill your potential as a citizen of the world community.



- Pope John Paul II the Great (October 3, 1979)





Le invito hoy que mire a Cristo. Cuando usted se pregunta sobre el misterio de ser, mire hacia Cristo que le d el significado de la vida. Cuando usted se pregunta lo que significa ser una persona madura, mire a Cristo que sea la plenitud de la humanidad. Y cuando usted se pregunta sobre su papel en el futuro del mundo, mire a Cristo. Solamente en la voluntad de Cristo usted satisface sus posibilidades como ciudadano de la comunidad mundial.



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THE DAWN PATROL 160 LOW LUX NEGRO 1 AS

Now I am married to a wonderful human female who is as independent and opinionated as I am. She was nwever married while she lived and passed her time on Terra like many of you quietly going unnoticed by the flash of camera bulbs and absent from the covers of magazines and dailies. She was a normal person who had normal desires and wanted merely to be safe from harm and comfortable in her life until alas on aone fateful day her life was cut short.

Carol’s death came out of nowhere she couldn’t have possibly seen it coming it wasn’t as if she walked the verdant fields of Terra with a body scanner telling her the condition of her descending aorta. One minute she was a living breathing human working as a research assistant in the Bismarck, North Dakota public library and the next second she was on the floor of that lovely establishment dead from a massive stroke. Carol Henninger, dead at the age of 41.

I go into such intimate personal detail to make a point about fear which is the driving force behind the midterm elections coming up and I felt there needed to be a form of clarity made on such a fun and scary holiday for human beings in America. There is a laundry list of “scare” tactics being used by people who generally have very little to fear. Those people are the GOP operatives who get GOP candidates elected. Neither of these well paid groups have nay of the basic, read, normal fears average Americans have. They want not for food nor shelter, some have more than one home or ebven properties that they generate income from. They want not for initmacy physical or intellectual they have a mighty Internet at their disposal and all manner of muscled men and voluptuous women, a phone call well placed or an e-mail well sent away, ready and professionally willing to sweep away the ennui of their betrothed’s fading beauty.

I cannot separate the facts presented here about the right wing from similarities on the left save for one critical element. The right wants you to fear, terrorism, torture, arrest for treason, energy costs, airport security, taxes, and the especially want you to fear a 66 year old grandmother from California. While the democrats want you to hope. Hope it is time for change and oversight of a runaway executive branch, hope that you were not suckered into believing that a $20 tax cut when reversed will somehow become a $2000 tax increase and a hope that Big Pharma will get out of the shareholder ass kissing business and get back into the noble work of small margin big return research and development and eschew big marketing Madison Avenue marketing and decrese the number of Barbie doll hooker reps it sends out to physicians nation wide.

The choice is yours, you have one week upon which to ponder. Choose then, in that private moment, and choose well. Choose Hope.

The news of 160 Low Lux Negro 1 AS follows . . .

This has been in my memory the nastiest midterm election campaign ever. The Harold Ford commercial was just so very far over the top even for GOP I fear it will backfire among many of the conservative black voters who might have seen more in Corker than in Harold Ford. The thought of a pretty white woman, take Heidi Klum fior example willingly giving herself sexually to a black man makes the flesh crawl of millions of American white men most of whom are married to unattractive white women. Everyone cannot be blessed with rational mind, a lovely wife, smart children and the commonsense to recognize and appreciate these blessing like say, Ser Daryl Cobranchi’ But I digress.

DPRK to rejoin six party talks CNN reports.

New Bird Flu is really the scary kind not like that previously hyped up End of the World virus that turned out to be a pussy. Laal Hethri curiously silent on new strain of Bird Flu, spokesdemon scowls, slams door in reporter’s face.

This just in from the Department of Redundancy Department:

Katherine Harris is about to literally shit the political bed. The GOP dumped Florida senatorial candidate is planning to write a book. Sources close to the Daily Pitchfork in the DC metro area say it will detail how Harris was plied to call the election in 2000 for George W Bush. Laal Hethri sent to guard her now actually have to stay awake. Offically, Katherine Harris is insane.

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He’s back: Ward Burton returns to NASCAR (French …

He’s back: Ward Burton returns to NASCAR (French Bulldogs)

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Longhorns’ Lokey out with fractured leg
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Police Reports
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Broncos 17, Browns 7
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Moyer signs extension with Phillies
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Getzlaf’s goal in shootout lifts Ducks
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Freak dog breeds attacked by vets
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Augusten Burroughs shaken - and awed - by sharp “Scissors”
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The Devil (and Jim Carroll) hates Latin
“Progressives” hate Latin and Chant. It’s in the way of their insipid agenda that goes down much better with the musical farts of Haugen, Haas & Co and the “improv” by Father Feelgood. Latest case in point: the insufferable Jim Carroll, a former priest and current whiner about all things orthodox, writes in the Boston Daily Worker err Globe:
The first vote taken by the bishops of the Second Vatican Council in 1962 concerned liturgical reform, centering on use of the vernacular at Mass. If the Council fathers had voted against worshipping in language ordinary believers could understand, the revolutionary impulse driving that Council would have been stopped dead in its tracks, but the tally was overwhelmingly in favor. The Latin Mass was finished. With that single vote, the Council set loose a current of change that is still running.

Once Catholics entered into the mystery of the Mass as literate participants instead of as dumb spectators, an unprecedented renewal took hold. The vitality and warmth of today’s typical liturgy, involving intelligible encounters with sacred texts, has Catholic parishes surprisingly full, even in a time of widespread disillusionment with clerical leadership. The structure of order that was embodied in the old tradition, and its language, turned out to be dead letters in comparison to the meaning and nourishment that now regularly draw Catholics to the Eucharistic meal. What Tyndale did for English, English has done for American Catholicism. And so with other vernaculars, elsewhere.
So that’s why Mass attendance is at an all-time low ‘
Also, note his term “Eucharistic meal”.

One still hears of Catholic nostalgia for the Latin Mass. Classicists regret the loss of the Church’s museum function. Esthetes decry the banalizing of liturgy in which all worshippers are fully able to participate. More pointedly, reactionaries have never stopped campaigning for the restoration of Latin, understanding its twin significance as symbol and pillar of the old order. Unsurprisingly, that campaign has been reinvigorated lately, with a blessing from Pope Benedict — a futile shoring up of a rapidly collapsing clericalism. But Catholic Latin is a lost cause. For which one says, “Deo Gratias.”
Peter has more on the subject.

I’m not fixated on Latin or even the Tridentine Mass - even the flawed Pauline Mass could be perfect within its confines every time. The problem we have is the enemy in our midst. The Carrolls, Chittisters, Gumbletons. The dissenters, heretics, pantheists, neo-Pagans and syncretists. The horizontal people. The “meal” people. There are three segments in the Church - the vast majority of people who don’t know much about anything, the more traditional oriented people and the progressives who - ironically - don’t want to give up the Catholic Church for its institutional structure and prestige but other than that aren’t Catholic in the least. And, they usually hate Latin and the Tridentine Mass. Vernacular in itself isn’t bad, but, in this age it means an opportunity to inject the relativist, progressive agenda.

If the Catholics of ages past were so ignorant and today’s Catholics are such good little conscious participants, how come the former went to Mass and knew their Catechism quite well whereas the latter may never even have seen a Catechism - or a church from the inside ‘

On a more general level, a trivial Mass destroys the sense of the sacred. That leaves room for those vultures. Once God is shoved to the sideline, once we’re all horizontal, we’re more open to listen to what they have to say. Once everything is community, and God is, in essence, an empty husk, there is room to fill up that husk with their agenda. Sure, it’s madness. But, make no mistake: it’s madness with a method.

The Importance of Routine.
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To Cheer or not to Cheer’ - The Wessex Scene
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Yes, Padre, God Is A Woman!
when I cheer brutishly for my favorite sports team. And I believe that The Almighty God is a woman

Senator Kerry with “Fighting Dem” Patrick Murphy in Newtown, PA
cheer from all the students in attendance. Patrick had been serving as a constitutional law professor… to JK and a big cheer erupted from the crowd again! After JK was finished speaking he asked

Radio Terror
in the rain talking to her. Recorded before a live audience, the saps eat it up and whistle, cheer

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Among the most highly prized possessions that any college basketball player can hope for is their college basketball jersey. The college basketball jersey represents a feeling of pride and belonging to the team. But the feeling is not restricted to the team. Jerseys are also prized by fellow students, who show up at college games dressed in the same colors to cheer on their team. Anyone who loves the game will have a favorite team and player. Wearing their jersey creates a special

NFL: On Carr, Young, Kubiak and what happened around the NFL
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THE TEACHER PART THREE
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Mike’s Mets: Why I Picked On Mookie (And Don’t Regret It)
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Online Holiday Shopping Sales Meet Record Breaking Expectations

As the dollar figures pour in and the numbers are tabulated and
with business analysts predicting a record breaking online
holiday shopping season, it appears the projections were right
on target.

Although the final holiday shopping sales figures aren’t in yet,
preliminary reports from a wide spectrum of sources point to
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Todays post is entitled “The rise and rise of consumer culture, and it’s relationship to the Swedish economy”, or alternatively, “I like shopping in IKEA”
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Compare these - silver, gold, and platinum. Which amongst them
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The Value of Platinum Over Gold

As early as the 7th century B.C., the Egyptians had already been
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There was a woman who was in such a hurry to go to the airport.She told the cab driver to step on it. She was so engrossedwith her own thoughts that she was not aware they were goingon a different…A Psychic Gift Helps You Distinguish…
Bad Luck … Or Blessing In Disguise’

U. may increase number of gender-neutral bathrooms (Embassy Suites Maui)
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The ‘Rushing Wind’ of the Reformation: the ministry of the Holy Spirit

“… the testimony of the Spirit is more excellent than all reason. For God alone is a fit witness to himself in His Word, so also the Word will not find acceptance in men’s hearts before it is sealed by the inward testimony of the Spirit. The same Spirit, therefore, who has spoken through the mouths of the prophets must penetrate into our hearts to persuade us that they faithfully proclaim what has been divinely commanded… By this power we are drawn and inflamed, knowingly and willingly, to obey him, yet also more vitally and more effectively than by mere human willing or knowing.” -John Calvin

“In the virginal conception God is fulfilling His promise to redeem His people by a work of divine restoration. What is in view is not “creation ex nihilo” but a new creation which is in the context of the old creation. The flesh by Mary weakened by the fall in which the Spirit operates in a way so mysterious that Scripture sheds no light on it whatsoever. Out of that humanity weakened by the fall, joining it to the persons of the Son of God the Holy Spirit sanctifies that human nature at the moment of His conception so that, that which is conceived in her is called holy, the Son of God. What then we have in the gospel testimony to the virginal conception is the notion that the Son of God enters into the closest possible union with humanity in its falleness in such a way that by the Spirit in the moment of conception that humanity is, by union with the Son of God, through the Spirit, sanctified in order that there may be in him the beginning of a new and holy creation. And the Spirit of God is however mysteriously active in this right from the very beginning of the human life of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit is present and active from the very inauguration of the life of Jesus so there is no point of Jesus existence as the Son of God incarnate in which the Holy Spirit is not already both present and active. This is one of the great mysteries of the Christian faith.” -Sinclair Ferguson

The Gospel of the Holy Spirit’s Love

By Horatius Bonar

Does the Holy Spirit love us’
There can be but one answer to this question. Yes! He does. As truly as the Father loveth us, as truly as the Son loveth us, so truly does the Spirit love us. The grace or free love which a sinner needs, and which has been revealed and sealed to us through the Seed of the woman, the “Word made flesh,” belongs equally to Father, Son, and Spirit. That love which we believe to be in God must be the same in each Person of the Godhead, else the Godhead would be divided; one Person at variance with the others, or, at least, less loving than the others: which is impossible.

Twice over it is written, God is love (1 John 4:8,16); and this applies to each Person of the Godhead. The Father is love; the Son is love; the Spirit is love. The Trinity is a Trinity of Love.

When it is said, “God is a Spirit” (John 4:24), the words refer to each Person. If we lose sight of the love of one, we shall lose sight of the love of all. That which is the glory of Jehovah, is the glory of each of the three Persons. Let us beware of misrepresenting the Trinity by believing in unequal love, a love that is not equally large and free in each.

When it is said, “God is light” (1 John 1:5), we know that these words are true of the whole three Persons; not merely of the Father or of the Son. The Father is light; the Son is light; the Spirit is light. As of light, so of love; and he who would doubt that the Spirit is love, must needs also doubt that the Spirit is light. That which is written of God, is written of the Spirit of God. That “name” which God has proclaimed as His, belongs to the Spirit as certainly as to the Father and the Son,- “The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands” (Exo 34:6). Shall we rob the Holy Spirit of that blessed name’ His personality claims it; and the gracious characteristics which go to make up the name, are as much those of the Spirit as those of the Father and the Son. The personality of the Spirit requires that what is thus written of one should be applicable to all. We are wont to say of the three Persons, “They are one God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory.” If so, then the love which we affirm of the whole we must affirm of each. They must be equal in love, as well as in “power and glory.”

Let not the old question of unbelief come in “How can these things be’” We cannot “find out the Almighty unto perfection” (Job 11:7); but shall this inability of ours lead to doubt’ Shall it not rather lead to faith’ Shall we rob the Spirit of His love, because we cannot understand the deep wonders of Godhead’ Shall we not rather say, If there be love in God at all, there must be love in the Spirit’ For to Him it is given to carry out in human hearts the purposes of redeeming love, in striving, awakening, drawing, convincing, quickening, comforting; so that it is impossible to suppose that His love can be less warm, less tender, less large, less personal than the love of the Father and the Son.

Laying aside the disputes of intellectual pride, the questionings of vain human reason, the puzzling suggestions of unhumbled self-righteousness, the fond endeavours to comprehend the hidden things of God, the stubborn determination not to believe unless we see “signs and wonders” (John 4:48), let us recognize in that simple formula, God is love the foundation of our faith as to the Spirit’s gracious character, and the solution of all our perplexities as to His personal and ineffable love. True, He did not take flesh for us; He did not become poor for us; He did not die for us; He did not weep for us the human tears which the Son of God wept over Jerusalem; but none the less does He love us; and none the less is His work for us and in us the work of love,-love without bounds, or change, or end.

We are baptized “in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Matt 28:19). That threefold name is love; or rather, that one name in its threefold connection with the three Persons, unfolds itself as the expression of the threefold love of Father, Son, and Spirit. The name thus named upon us is the divine declaration and pledge to us of “the love of the Spirit.” Our baptism says, not only, “God the Father loveth us,” not only, “God the Son loveth us”; but also, “God the Spirit loveth us.” We are baptized into the love of the Spirit.

Perhaps much of our slow progress in the walk of faith is to be traced to our overlooking the love of the Spirit. We do not deal with Him, for strength and advancement, as one who really loveth us, and longs to bless us, and delights to help our infirmities (Rom 8:26). We regard Him as cold, or distant, or austere; we do not trust Him for His grace, nor realize how much He is in earnest in His dealings with us. More childlike confidence in Him and in His love would help us on mightily. Let us not grieve Him, nor vex Him, nor quench Him by our untrustfulness, by disbelieving or doubting the riches of His grace, the abundance of His loving-kindness.

He is no mere “influence,” but a living “Personality”; and there is a vast difference between these two things. An “influence” cannot love us, and we cannot love an “influence.” If there is to be love, there must be personality; and, in this case, it must be the personality of love.

The fresh breath of spring is an influence, but not a personality. It cannot love us nor call on us to love it. The voice of that which we call “nature” is an influence, but not a personality. There can be no mutual love between it and us. But a being with a soul is a personality, not an influence; and the love of man or woman is a personal thing, a true and real affection-one eye looking into another, and one heart touching its fellow. So is it with the love of the Spirit.

There is a personality about Him passing all the personalities of earth,-passing all the personalities of men or angels; and it is this divine personality that makes His love so precious and so suitable, as well as so true and real. There is no reality of love like that of the Spirit. It has nothing in common with the coldness or distance of a mere “influence.” It comes closely home to a human heart, because it is the love of Him who formed the heart, and who is seeking to make it His abode for ever.

The proofs of His love are abundant. They are divine proofs; and, therefore, assuredly true. It is God who has given them to us, that no doubt of the Spirit’s love may ever enter our minds. They are spread over all Scripture, in different forms and aspects. While the Bible was meant to be specially the revelation of the Son of God, it is also the revelation of the Holy Spirit. He reveals Himself while revealing Christ. He utters His own love while showing us the love of the Father and the Son.

The thoughts of the Spirit are thoughts of love.
The apostle uses the words, “the mind of the Spirit,” in connection with His gracious intercession (Rom 8:26,27); and we know that intercession implies love. The “groanings that cannot be uttered” are awakened in us by the Spirit in His love. He thinks of us; and His thoughts are “precious” (Psa 139:17). Yes; He thinks of us; and His thoughts are thoughts of peace (Jer 29:11). The Bible is filled with the thoughts of the Spirit; and they are love. They breathe in every page of Scripture; for holy men of God “spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.”

The ways of the Spirit are the ways of love.
His manifold dealings with the sons of men, in “opening hearts” (Acts 16:14), teaching, sanctifying, chastening, are the dealings of love,-love which many waters cannot quench, and which the floods cannot drown. The faintest touch of His hand is the touch of love. The gentlest whisper of His voice is the whisper of love. All His dealings from day to day, whether of cheer or of chastisement, whether of warning or of welcome, are those of love. In a thousand ways He beckons us to come to the Cross; He draws us, unconsciously and imperceptibly, but irresistibly, away from sin and self to God and heaven. He has not, indeed, human tears to shed, like the son of God when he wept over Jerusalem; but not the less are His yearnings true and tender, and all His ways toward us are ways of unutterable compassion (see Gen 6:3; Psa 51:11,12; Isa 55:8). He is “very pitiful, and of tender mercy.”

The works of the Spirit are the works of love.
When He “garnished the heavens” (Job 26:13), it was the work of love. When he moved upon the face of the deep (Gen 1:2), it was in love. When He came upon holy men of old, it was in love. When He wrote the Scriptures, it was in love,-love to us. When He anointed Jesus of Nazareth to preach the gospel to the poor, it was in love to us. When He fulfills His office of “guiding into all truth,” it is in love. When He opens eyes and hearts, it is in love. When He chastens, it is in love. When He comforts, it is in love. When He sheds abroad the love of God in our hearts, it is in love. When He, as one with the Father and the Son, wrote the seven epistles of the Revelation, it was in love,-as the close of each of them shows: “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches” (Rev 2:7). His works in the soul of man, in regenerating, upholding, and perfecting, are the works of love,-love like that of Christ, “that passeth knowledge”: love to the chief of sinners; love to those who have vexed and resisted and quenched Him; love which says, “How shall I give thee up, Ephraim’ how shall I deliver thee, Israel’” (Hosea 11:8).

The words of the Spirit are the words of love.
That which we call “the word of God” is specially the Spirit’s word: and it overflows with love; love which, while it condemns the sin, presents pardon to the sinner; love which, while it spreads out before us “the exceeding sinfulness of sin,” proclaims aloud, to the guiltiest of the guilty, free forgiveness and “deliverance from the wrath to come.” The gospel of Christ contains in it the good news of the Spirit’s love. “He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost” (Matt 3:11) are the words in which is described the fitting out of men for preaching the good news; and in this baptism we have the manifestation of the Spirit’s love. He baptizes because He loves. He sends out men to tell of His love; and the baptism with which He baptizes them is to fit them for this message of love. By this baptism the words of love are put into their lips; and these words are truly those of the Spirit Himself, from whatever lips they may come, by whatever pen they may be written down. They are the words of sincerity and truth. He means what He says when He sends out His servants with the language of love upon their tongues.

Hear some of His words of grace,-grace as boundless and as suitable as that of the Father and the Son; grace which has lost none of its largeness or freeness by the lapse of ages or the desperate resistance of human hearts:
“Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies” (Psa 103:3,4); “O Lord, I will praise thee: though Thou wast angry with me, Thine anger is turned away” (Isa 12:1); “Seek ye the Lord while He may be found” (Isa 55:6); “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool” (Isa 1:18); “As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked” (Eze 33:11); “I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love” (Hosea 11:4); “Who is a God like unto Thee, that pardoneth iniquity” (Micah 7:18); “The Lord is good; a stronghold in the day of trouble” (Nahum 1:7); “How great is His goodness” (Zech 9:17). These are the Spirit’s own words; and He writes them as the witness for God, the revealer of the divine character, the Unfolder of the love of Father, Son, and Spirit. They are the words of the Spirit, spoken before the Son of God came into the world to reveal and to embody in Himself the love of God to man. The New Testament is yet more abundant in its utterances of love: and in every one of them the Spirit has His part: till all is summed up in the wondrous words which time cannot weaken, and which long use cannot make stale: “The Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely” (Rev 22:17).

The Holy Spirit is no mere mechanical agent in the great work of a sinner’s deliverance, and of the Church’s upbuilding, obediently doing the work appointed to Him. “I delight to do Thy will” is as true of the Spirit as the Son. He loves the sinner; therefore He lays hold of him. He pities his misery; therefore He stretches out the hand of help. He has no pleasure in his death; therefore He puts forth His saving power. He is longsuffering and patient; therefore He strives with him day by day; and though “vexed,” “resisted,” “grieved,” and “quenched,” He refuses to retire from, or give up, any sinner on this side of eternity. The extent to which we resist Him, and the amount of His forbearing love, we cannot know. This only we may say, that our stubbornness is something infinitely fearful and malignant, while His patient grace passeth all understanding.

We are little alive to the injury we do to ourselves by any misunderstanding as to the mind and the work of the Spirit. The injustice which we do to Him is great; and the wrong which we inflict upon ourselves is no less so. No mistakes as to the Spirit’s gracious character can be trivial or harmless. To regard Him as “austere,” or “hard,” or inaccessible, or needing to be persuaded to do His work in us, is to treat Him as at variance with the Father and the Son; slow to carry out the great purpose of divine love, in which purpose the three Persons of the Godhead are equally concerned. To raise questions as to the riches of His grace is to misread Scripture, and to put a dark and false construction upon His testimony for Christ, as well as upon His dealings with the sons of men,-His dealings with those who have been saved, as well as with those who are lost. For what do the saved ones not owe to His love; and what would that love not have done for the lost, had they not stubbornly set it at nought to the last! “How often would I have gathered thy children” were the words which accompanied the tears of the Son of God over the rebellious city; and they are words equally expressive of the Spirit’s feelings toward the stout-hearted of every age and nation.

Imperfect views of the Spirit’s character may not be regarded by some as serious or fatal, but it is hardly possible that they can be entertained without exercising a darkening and deadening influence upon the soul: not in the same way as defective views of Christ’s work affect us, but still with a most evil result both upon the conscience and the heart,-as if there were something in the Spirit which repelled us, whatever there might be in Christ to attract us; as if the light which the Cross throws upon the love of the Spirit were not quite in harmony with that which it reveals of the love of Christ; as if the Spirit were not always as ready with His help as is the Son.

All wrong thoughts of God, whether of Father, Son, or Spirit, must cast a shadow over the soul that entertains them. In some cases the shadow may not be so deep and cold as in others; but never can it be a trifle. And it is this that furnishes the proper answer to the flippant question so often asked, Does it really matter what a man believes’ All defective views of God’s character tell upon the life of the soul and the peace of the conscience. We must think right thoughts of God if we would worship Him as He desires to be worshipped; if we would live the life He wishes us to live, and enjoy the peace which He has provided for us.

The want of stable peace, of which so many complain, may arise from imperfect views of the Spirit’s love. True, our peace comes from the work of the Substitute upon the cross, from the blood of the one sacrifice, from the sinbearing of Him who has made peace by the blood of the cross. But it is the Holy Spirit who glorifies Christ to us, and takes the scales from our eyes. If then we doubt His love, can we expect Him to reveal the Son in our hearts’ Are we not thrusting Him away, and hindering that view of the peace-making which He only can give’ Trust His love, and He will make known the Peacemaker to you. Trust His love, and He will show the precious blood by which the guiltiest conscience is purged, and the peace which passeth all understanding is imparted. He is the Spirit of peace, and His work is the work of peace. His office is to make known to us the Prince of Peace. Can there be peace without the recognition of the Holy Spirit’s love’ Can there fail to be peace when this is recognized and acted on’ Doubts as to the love of the Spirit must inevitably intercept the peace which the peace-making cross presents to us.

Perhaps the want of faith, which we often mourn over, may arise from our not realizing the Spirit’s love. “Faith [no doubt] cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God”: yet it is the Holy Spirit who shines upon the word; it is He who gives the seeing eye and the hearing ear. Under the pressure of unbelief, have we fled to Him and appealed to His love’ “Lord, I believe; help Thou mine unbelief,” may be as aptly a cry to the Spirit as to the Son of God. He helpeth our infirmities; and in the infirmity of our faith He will most assuredly succour us. It is through Him that we become strong in faith; and He loves to impart the needed strength. He giveth to all men, liberally, and upbraideth not. Yet in our dealings with Him regarding faith, let us remember that He does not operate in some mystical or miraculous way, as if imparting to us a new faculty called faith; but by taking of the things of Christ and showing them to us; so touching our faculties by His mighty yet invisible hand, that, ere we are aware, these disordered souls of ours begin to work aright, and these dull eyes of ours begin to see what was all along before them, but what they never had perceived, “the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Thus He works in us, often slowly and imperceptibly, but with divine power, making us to understand the gospel and to draw out of it that light and life which it contains for the dead and the dark. Looking at the cross, under the Spirit’s enlightenment, we grow in faith. For never does He produce or increase faith in us without keeping our eye steadfastly fixed upon the great redeeming work of the incarnate Son. He is not the Spirit of unbelief or bondage, but of faith and liberty; and His desire is that we should be delivered from unbelief and bondage.
He loves us too well to be indifferent to our remaining in distance or in distrust. He longs to see us children of faith, not of unbelief; to make us strong in faith; to remove whatever from within or without hinders its growth. Trust His love for the increase of faith; for deliverance from the evil heart of unbelief; for revealing to you the bright object of faith,-Christ, and “God in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing unto men their trespasses.” As truth is the foundation of faith, so, as “the Spirit of truth,” He guides us out of error into truth, and thus leads us out of unbelief into faith; making us to see that the root of what we called our want of faith, was not that we were believing the right thing in a wrong way (as is so often said), but that we were not believing the right thing, but something else which could not bring rest to us in what way soever we might believe it.

Perhaps our want of joy may arise from our over-looking the love of the Spirit. Peace is one thing; joy is something more,- “joy unspeakable and full of glory.” Assuredly He is the Spirit of joy, and as such delights to impart His joy. He who, by the lips of His Apostle, said, “Rejoice in the Lord always,” wants to see you a joyful man. Will you trust Him for this’ Will you rest in His love for this gift’ Do not say, Joy is a secondary thing: a man may be a Christian without joy; some of the best of God’s people have gone mourning all their days. These are poor excuses for not possessing what God wants you to possess, and what would make you ten times more useful to all around. God wishes you to be joyful. Your testimony to God is imperfect without joy. Cultivate joy; and in order to do so effectually, take firmer hold of the Spirit’s power, and rest more implicitly in His love. He loves you too well to wish you to be gloomy. Be filled with the Spirit and you will be filled with joy. Joy is a great help in living a holy and consistent life. Holiness is joy, and joy is holiness. Accept the Spirit’s love for both of these.
The “seal of the Spirit” (Eph 1:13); the “witness of the Spirit” (Rom 8:16); the “indwelling” of the Spirit (Rom 8:11); the “inworking” of the Spirit (Eph 1:19); the “help” of the Spirit (Rom 8:26); the “liberty” of the Spirit (2 Cor 3:17); the “strengthening” of the Spirit (Eph 3:16); the “fullness” of the Spirit (Eph 5:18); the “teaching” of the Spirit (John 14:26); the “baptism” of the Spirit (Mark 1:8);-all these are most closely connected with the “love of the Spirit”; and he who would separate them from that love, would rob them of all their meaning and power and consolation.It is the loving Spirit that seals, and witnesses, and indwells, and inworks, and helps, and liberates, and strengthens, and teaches, and baptizes. So that in seeking these blessings we must ever remember that we are dealing with one whose love anticipates our longings, and on whose side there exists no hindrance to our possessing them all. Nowhere in Scripture has God led us to suppose that the Holy Spirit would be awanting to us in any time of need, or that we could be beforehand with Him in any desire of ours for any spiritual blessing. “If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children; how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him’” (Luke 11:13).

In our day, when that which is miraculous or supernatural is suspected or scorned, it is not easy even to gain a hearing for such truths. The Holy Spirit, we may say, is discarded as the most incredible part of the supernatural and impersonal. He Himself is regarded as an airy nothing, or as mist; and His direct and divine agency is treated as the dream of diseased enthusiasm. The removal of the supernatural from religion means specially the removal of the Spirit. To retain Him personally in our theology is considered to be retaining the most incredible part of the supernatural,-the most visionary article in our creed.

Hence the need of bringing fully into view both His personality and His character. That modern unbelief should dislike the whole subject, and treat it as incompatible with reason, and therefore incapable of proof, as being wholly beyond the range of our senses, need not surprise us: nor would we attempt to meet Rationalism on its own ground. But what we say is this: Our information regarding the Holy Spirit must come wholly from revelation; and the question is, Does the Bible bear us out in the above statements’ It certainly does seem to contain the doctrine we have been affirming. Its Author evidently meant us to accept that doctrine as true. If that doctrine cannot be true, it must be honestly struck out of the Bible; not by explaining texts away, or misinterpreting whole chapters, but by boldly affirming that Scripture is inaccurate. The words regarding the Spirit are too plain to be diluted into unmeaning figures. He who inspired the Bible has used language that cannot be mistaken. He has not left us in any doubt as to what He intended. Hence the quarrel of unbelief is a quarrel with revelation, and more specially with the Author of revelation. This is the real point at issue in these days, in the controversy with Rationalism.

The doctrine of the Holy Spirit’s person and work must stand or fall with the Bible.
If it is incredible, then Scripture has utterly deceived us, and the God who made us has given us a book, as the revelation of divine truth, which contains what no man ought to believe or can believe. If the innumerable references to the Spirit be mere figures of speech (Orientalisms) meaning nothing real, then to accept them as literal, and to believe in a personal Spirit, must be pure fanaticism; and as to such a thing as the love of the Spirit, only visionaries or mystics would accept it.

Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure; and the Word of God is true and real. Heaven and earth may pass away, but one jot or one tittle of what is written in Scripture cannot. What God has made known to us concerning the Spirit,-His wisdom, love, holiness, and power, remains unaltered throughout the ages; as true to us in these last days as it was in the beginning.

That the Holy Spirit is the producer in the human heart of everything that God calls religion, is beyond question to any one who accepts Bible statements as divinely true. He begins, carries on, and consummates in us all spiritual feeling, all spiritual worship, all spiritual life and energy. Nor can there be anything more hollow and unreal than religion without the Holy Spirit. That which is external and superficial,-which manifests itself in dress, and music, and routine service,-may flourish without Him; nay, can only flourish in His absence. But the deep and the real must be His work from first to last. The love of the Spirit is absolutely necessary to a religion of love, and liberty, and joy. Religiousness is at every man’s command. Any man may get it up in a day; but religion cometh from above, and is the product of the Spirit dwelling and working in the heart.

The bustle of the present day hinders our discernment of this difference; nay, it grieves the Spirit provoking Him utterly to depart; thus leaving us with a hollowness of heart which yields no rest nor satisfaction, and which cannot be acceptable to God. “The Spirit of God,” says Melanchton, “loves retirement and silence; it is then He penetrates into our hearts. The Bride of Christ does not take her stand in the streets and cross ways, but she leads her spouse into the house of her mother” (Song 8:2).

“The gifts of the Holy Ghost”!
This is the Church’s heritage (Acts 2:38,39). How far she has claimed it or used it is a serious question; but that this gift was meant for her in all ages is beyond a doubt. The whole book of the Acts of the Apostles is evidence of this. “My Spirit remaineth among you,” is a promise for the Church as truly as for Israel (Hag 2:5).

From the beginning it has been so; and the holy men raised up by God to speak His words or do His works were men “filled with the Holy Spirit” (Exo 31:2). It is this Spirit that has been the life of the Church. When He came, all was life; when He departed, all was death. Nothing was lacking so long as He was in the midst, and when He left nothing could compensate for His withdrawal. When He was present, the Church was the garden of the Lord; when He forsook her, every herb and flower of that garden withered.

Even in Old Testament days it was so; but since Pentecost, more largely and more powerfully. The indwelling and inworking Spirit, who is the promise of the Father and gift of the Son, is that which belongs to the Church of every age, little as she may have claimed or welcomed her peculiar glory.

“The gift” and “the gifts” are, both of them, expressions used in connection with the Spirit (Acts 8:20-10:45). He is one, yet manifold; called “the seven Spirits of God,” and “the seven lamps of fire,” and the “seven eyes,” and the “seven horns” (Rev 3:1; 4:5; 5:6). He is not only spoken of in connection with each saint, but with the body, the Church universal, which is the “habitation of God, through the Spirit” (Eph 2:22); “the temple of the Holy Ghost” (1 Cor 3:16; 6:19); and, as such, possessor of His love.

Such is the manifold fullness of the Spirit which as the gift of Christ, is the property of the whole Church of God. That fullness is not only the fullness of peace, and wisdom, and holiness, but of love. It is given her, not for herself only, but for the world out of which she has been called. She is to shine in the light of this love upon a dark earth. She is to pour out of the fullness which she receives upon a parched and needy world; out of her are to flow rivers of living water (John 7:38). Great is the world’s need; but not greater than the provided supply: for the fountain of love, out of which the Church receives and pours this living water, is inexhaustible and divine.

The love of the Spirit is, like that of the Son, a love that passeth knowledge, a fountain whose waters fail not: “A pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb” (Rev 22:1).

In the possession of this heavenly gift (of these sevenfold gifts) the Church is unspeakably rich, whatever her outward condition may be. Enjoying the fullness of this abiding Spirit, she manifests her character as the witness for Christ and as the light of the world. These gifts of the ascended Christ (Eph 4:8) made her what she was meant to be in the midst of the world’s evil and of the powers of darkness, “a burning and shining light.” In the power of such gifts she went forth to do battle with the idolatries and immoralities of heathendom. Boldly entering the cities of classic fame, she took possession of pagan temples and Jewish synagogues; and thousands everywhere, through apostolic preaching gathered round the throne.

It was not the gift of miracle, of healing, or of tongues, that did the work. These were not subordinate things, and in many places never used by the apostles. These were not “the best gifts” which we are commanded to covet (1 Cor 12:31).

It was the fullness of spiritual power, possessed and exercised by holy men, awakening, quickening, sanctifying, that wrought the mighty changes which history records.
It is well that we should look back to Pentecost, with wistful eyes, longing for a ministry of Pentecostal power, as the only remedy for the unbelief of the last days. But mere physical miracles are not the desirable things. The gifts of the Spirit, the Church’s inalienable inheritance, are quite apart from bodily manifestations; and they remain with us still. But do we claim them’ Do we use them’ Do we not trust in other strength’ Do we not lean on learning, on science, on talent, as if by these we were to fight and overcome’ And, in so doing, do we not mistake our true position, and character, and mission’ Nay, do we not grieve and quench the Spirit’

Yet, the love of the Spirit is unquenchable.
He is unwilling to depart. He despises not the day of small things; but He bids us look beyond and above them. Formalism, routine, and external religion, the excitements of mysticism,-these are poor substitutes for the life, and glow, and energy of the Holy Spirit. Nothing but His own presence can avail to lift us out of the unreal religiousness into which we have fallen; to transform creeds into realities, and the bodily bowing of the head, or bending of the knee, into spiritual worship; turning the “dim religious light” into the sunshine of a heavenly noon; drawing out of our hymnals the deep heart-music of divine and blessed song; delivering us alike from Rationalism and Ritualism, from a hollow externalism, and from an impulsive and unreasoning fanaticism. It is His presence only that can vitalize ordinances; clothe ministry with power; unite the broken Church; fill the void of aching hearts; impart to service, liberty and gladness; ward off error; and make truth mighty,-filling our sanctuaries with living worshippers, and sending forth men of might to preach the everlasting gospel; and to proclaim, as in primitive days, the Christ that has come, and the Christ that is to come again.

He has come, in His love, to quicken the dead in sin;
and He is daily moving upon the face of the waters,-bringing life out of death. Nor is His arm shortened, that it cannot save.

He has come, in His love, to give light for darkness.
Nor is there any human heart too dark for Him to illumine. He lights up souls. He lights up Churches. He lights up lands, making them that sit in darkness to see a great light.

He has come, in His love, to gather in the wanderers, far and near.
No strayed one has gone too far into the wilderness for Him to follow and to bring back. The “ends of the earth” form the vast region into which His love has gone forth to seek, and find, and save.

He has come, in His love, to guide the doubting heart.
He takes lovingly and gently the hand of the perplexed and inquiring, and leads them into the way of peace. He knows all their troubles and fears, so that they need not fear being misunderstood. He teaches their ignorance and shows them their mistakes, and points their eye to the cross.

He has come, in His love, to bind up the broken-hearted.
His name is the Comforter, and His consolations are as abundant as they are everlasting. “Comfort ye, comfort ye my people,” are the words which he has written down for every sorrowful one (Isa 40:1). In all trial, bereavement, pain, sorrow, let us realize the love of the Spirit. That love comes out most brightly and most tenderly in the day of mourning. In the chamber of sickness or of death, let us find strength and peace in the presence, companionship, and sympathy of the gracious Spirit.

He has come down, in His love, to seek after the backslider.
From a heart that once owned Him, He has been driven out, and He has retired sorrowfully. But He has not ceased to desire a return to His old abode. He still pities, and yearns, and beseeches. “Turn, ye backsliding children, for I am married unto you,” are His words of longing and pity.

He has come, in His love, even to the misbelieving and the deluded, seeking to remove the mists with which a rebellious intellect has compassed itself about; and to lead them out into life, and love, and day.
They are groping for an idea; and He brings them into contact with a Person, even God Himself. They are crying vaguely for knowledge; and He presents to them the wisdom deposited in the Person of the Word made flesh. They are in search of sympathy for their wounded hearts; and He places Himself before them in the fulness of His all-sympathizing love. They are asking for a creed of certainty and perfection, on which their faith may rest; He offers Himself to them as a living and unerring Teacher,-the Author of an infallible Book, all whose pages sparkle with the love of its loving Author. They crave beauty in worship, something to please the eye,-aesthetic beauty, as they call it! He draws the eye to Him who is “the chiefest among ten thousand, and altogether lovely.”

He has come, in His love, to build up His own.
He seeks to fill, with His holy presence, the soul into which He has come. He wants, not a part of the man, but the whole,-body, soul, and spirit,-the entire being, that it may be altogether conformed to Himself. He has come to His temples, and His purpose is to make them in reality, what they are in name, the “habitation of God, the temples of the Holy Ghost.”

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Tall Tales of Apple Pie

If you go to the doctor in East Tennessee, he will examine you carefully. Do a few tests. Listen to your heart with his stethoscope. But truth is he knows that the best medicine they is is fresh-baked home-made apple pie. One slice and you are feeling better. Apple pie can cure the common cold, insomnia, rheumatism, depression, chicken pox, measles and dysentery. One doctor I know in Bristol, Tennessee prescribes apple pie for broken bones.

The apple pie is well-known hereabouts. It’s something special. We acknowledge that it has medicinal power. We don’t doubt the power of pie. We are recipients of its many fine blessings. We got strong, healthy children to prove the point.

We know first-hand the wonder of apple pie. The First National Bank over in Blountville offers apple pie to its customers. Apple pies can draw more than just flies. Customers find themselves in the bank, when they wasn’t even going to the bank. The scent of an apple pie can break down barriers. Open doors. Attract crowds. Some days you got to stand in line outside the bank to get in. They busy.

Apple pie can boost the immune system. That fresh fruit filling nestled in a flaky, hand-made crust can heal the sick. Once sprung from the oven the pie goes about working miracles right and left. Even the scent of apple pie can cure folks of the blahs.

Just sink your teeth into an apple pie and wait. In no time, the sweetness invades mind and body. Even the thought of gobbling down an apple pie is enough for most folks to straighten up. Children warned that if they don’t behave they will receive no apple pie. So it goes with convicts at the Tennessee State Penitentiary. You wouldn’t believe the effect of such a threat. Hardened criminals grow soft at the very notion of someone withholding apple pie from their diners. It’s unthinkable. Cruel and unusual punishment.

Apple pie has always been popular. Scientists have studied its effects on the general population and found that people who eat apple pie on a daily basis are smarter and more energetic than those who don’t.

The chunky apples in a pie, when you sink your teeth into them, provide a blessing unlike no other food. We can think more clearly after the first bite. And somewhere following the last bite we enter a state of bliss.

We understand things we couldn’t before eating a slice of apple pie. Its striking how anyone who eats an apple pie is suddenly endowed with powers of compassion for the human race. We feels so sad for them who don’t have pie to eat.

A bite of pie to allay our fears. Cast out demons. We are immediately relaxed. Our minds expand, thoughts occur to apple pie eaters that would not otherwise. Like what can I do to be a better member of the community’ How can I improve’ How can I be more helpful to othe

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What we heard: For years, rumors have bounced around that Blizzard is secretly developing a third installment in its groundbreaking Diablo role-playing series. Just this past February, a flurry of speculation followed the posting of several job listings for leads to join “the team behind Diablo I and II” for “an unannounced PC project.”

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The Assassination of Brad Will and the White Owl of Oaxaca

By John Dickie

Special to The Narco News Bulletin

October 29, 2006

A Report from Oaxaca by the British Journalist Who the Radio Declared Dead for an Hour After Brad Was Gunned Down

During the course of our lives, transcendental moments come along, and we are forced to sit up and take notice. Everybody has their moments. We all react differently.

It is difficult to figure out how to begin retelling the story of any one of those moments. Presumably, it is up to each person to do their best to convey the transcendence felt, and for each listener to absorb it as their own.

In this instance, all I can do is begin by telling you that, yesterday, for around a hundred minutes, I was dead.

* * *

Illustration: D.R. 2001 Fly

Sometime between five and five-thirty in the afternoon, yesterday, Friday, October 27, in broad daylight, a White Owl circled above our house. My friend Jonathan watched it from the balcony. I never saw it. Hovering completely still, he said, 50 feet above his head, it had been staring straight at him for several minutes. Yet in the split-second it took him to come into the house, tell me to come out and see it, and step back outside, the White Owl had disappeared. Jonathan was aghast. He felt I wasn’t meant to see it.

As we considered the meaning of it all, my cell-phone rang. It was my friend Diablo, the crime reporter. In other words - I later realized - the Devil was calling me up to remind me of my fate. He immediately asked if I was okay. A foreign journalist had been shot in the city center. Said he thought the guy’s name was Andrés. I didn’t know anyone by that name. “Call Victor,” said Diablo, “he’s down at the scene.”

So I called Victor. It was a bad line. In bad English, he told me the guy’s name was Bradley. Bradley Roland Will. Bullet in the chest. Died on his way to hospital. Worked for Indymedia. Only Jonathan standing next to me could describe my expression when I heard the news. Bradley. It was Bradley. Brad! Brad, who I had met the week before when we coincided at a apprehension of a group of drunken youths who had assaulted a young couple. We had both been filming. It was the first time I had met a foreign journalist since I started filming the uprising in Oaxaca. Of course, we spoke, exchanged details, shared a few jokes, agreed to swap footage, and I set him up with a few people who could suggest where he could film. Real nice guy; a real, nice, honest guy doing his best to record events in this fucked-up situation with the hope of a grabbing few crumbs of attention from the world’s news consumers. Brad, you called me the morning of Friday, October 27, your last day on earth, to ask where you could rent a motorbike. Now, you’re gone. You’re the first foreign casualty since the region was plunged into this living hell. The thirteenth casualty in all. And, sadly, probably the most important of all.

Naturally, my first thought was, “it could have been me.” And, for a while, it was me.

I tell Victor to wait for me at the office, then grab a small digital camera, jump on the bike and head straight down to the scene. As the sun went down, the world grew dark.

I decide to detour to the incident, but it was very hard to get through. The barricades were being reinforced. Trucks had unloaded tons of earth to block the streets at strategic points. I spoke to someAPPOpeople (News-speak: “leftist protesters”; State prosecutor: “urban guerrilla terrorists”), the same people who had tried to keep Brad from passing out after he got shot and had bundled him into the back of a VW bug to take him to a private hospital (he died en route), the same people who set up barricades to protect themselves and their neighborhoods from criminals and paramilitary hitmen who in recent weeks have restarted their drive-by shooting campaign.

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What you will not be told by most media, especially in Mexico, is that the three hitmen that attacked the barricade, where Brad and other journalists were, have been identified as local policemen. They wielded AR-15 rifles and various pistols and fired indiscriminately into the crowd. Brad was probably not targeted (even though state radio (Radio Ciudadania: 99.1FM- pirate government radio broadcasting from unknown location) is saying Brad “was an armed terrorist, and there is more to this than meets the eye” and “Indymedia is a branch of theAPPO”), but he was the unlucky one, hit full in the chest, right in the solar plexus, by a 9mm wide pellet of steel traveling at around 1000 meters per second.

What you probably won’t hear either is that theAPPOpeople do not carry any firearms. Their only weapons are rocks, clubs, molotov cocktails, and the occasional home-made fireworks mortar. To my knowledge, in five months of protests, they haven’t fired a single shot from a firearm. All the casualties have been on the side of the ‘protesters,’ eitherAPPOor teachers. It may well be true that theAPPOdoes have an array of firearms, but have taken a brave political decision not to use them.

Dropping a few names, theAPPOlets me through the barricades and I arrive at the neighborhood of El Bajio where Victor was waiting for me. I know a lot of people in the area. A group of local journalists have a dingy office here, in a concrete block that stinks of urine. A police blotter, Noti Roja, run by crime news godfather El Chiricuto, is based upstairs. And, next door, Diablo has a bare spare room with a mattress where I sometimes stay the night. I often come here to hang out, get information, check out any new footage and photos, and have a beer. Chiricuto, Victor, Bermudez, Teo, Zurco, Diablo, Chavez: I have known them all for about three years. And, I’m a tall white guy with a rat-tail, so the whole neighborhood knows me, even if I’ve never spoken to some of them.

When I turn up, at around 7:OOpm, there are about 20 people gathered in the street. Some are crying. As I pull up on the motorbike, I call out to Chiricuto. Seeing me, his face drops. He looks angry. “Yon! Is that you, Yon’!” The others turn to look at me, aghast. I realize they are all drunk. But they look like they have all seen a ghost. In fact, they are staring straight at one. “What do you mean’” I ask. “Fuckin’ Yon, get off the bike!”

I still don’t get it. As I turn off the engine and dismount, Chiricuto approaches slowly. He pinches my arm. “Yon!” he exclaims, wrapping his arms around me.

Teo cries out, totally wasted: “I fuckin’ told you! I told you so! Yon, only I really believed!”

Chiricuto: “Yon, you were dead! We all thought you were dead!” Everybody on the street gathers around, frantically hugging me. Chiricuto is overwhelmed. “My son! My son! He is still alive!” He pulls out the camera and starts clicking away. Everybody wants a picture with the dead guy. People start flooding out of their houses.

Teo: “They said your name on the radio! They said you had been shot and killed! Zurco said he saw your body in the back of a VW bug! You were foaming at the mouth! He has been crying ever since. You need to go and see them! (Referring to the people at the barricade, three blocks away where I had been filming). They all think you are dead.”

Chiricuto comes back with a 5-litre plastic tub of mezcal. “This is for you, you have to pour everyone a drink. It is mezcal for the Dead.” As I start to pour out little shots for everybody, he tells me he had been crying. “There could be ten dead… but not Yon. If Yon goes down, I swear the governor is next.” The wiry little Chiricuto, talking like a revolutionary tiger. I spill a drop of mezcal on the floor before downing the shot, in recognition of my fate. Between crying out to people to come out onto the street, spreading the news and taking photos of us all, Chiricuto goes on: “We were about to go and pick you up from the morgue and were going to hold a wake for you… all of us here… in the centre of the graveyard over there.” We were standing a block from the gates of the city cemetery; the street here is called Caminito al Cielo: “Little path to the sky.”

John Dickie and friends after learning he had not been killed Photo: D.R. 2006 John Dickie

I had arrived at my own wake. Tears welled up and rolled down my cheek. For them, my one hundred-minute flatline was over.

I celebrated my own resurrection with them for about half an hour. I explained to them that the guy who had been killed was a friend of mine and that I had to take care of a few things. I had a lot on my mind: I had to contact Zurco; I had to find Brad’s body - because I figured I might be the one to identify him - which also meant going to the city morgue - no easy task; I had to contact the embassy - both the US embassy for Brad, and the UK embassy for me. What if my name had gone out over the radio, and the embassy got wind of it and tried to notify my parents’ I don’t even want to think about that possibility… But, I had no phone numbers. What I did have with me was that minor miracle called a cell-phone. I fished it out and flicked through the contacts list.

First, I decided to call Pati, a wonderful young girl who stoically manned the roadblock that Zurco was in charge of. Her friend Olga picked up, who I also knew. As soon as I said “it’s me, John”, she flipped out. All she could say was “Yon’ is that you, Yon’ Yon, is that really you’!” She must have said it twenty times, until all I could do was shout: “Olga, it’s me! It’s me! Calm down! I’m on my way over there!”

I jumped on the bike and headed to the roadblock, which was 300 yards away. As I approached, I noticed the scene felt much more sinister than on previous nights. This time they had assembled around a dozen public buses to block off the ten streets that make up this major intersection. Fires raged all around: burning tires, sofas, telegraph poles. All electric lights were off. I turned off the lights on the bike as I drew closer, a standard practice. They flashed a huge floodlight in my face, shouting,“No hay paso! Date la vuelta!”(”There is no way through, turn around!”).

“It’s me, John!” I shouted back.

“Yon’! Is that you, Yon’!” Olga and Pati screamed like little girls and rushed over to me, hugging and kissing me. “Thank God you are ok! My mum hasn’t stopped crying! We heard on the radio that you had been shot and killed! Zurco said he saw your body in a car!” The rest of the barricade crew ran over. There must have been a hundred people circled around me. They hugged me and shook my hand and patted me on the back. One old lady wouldn’t let go of my arm. The big man Zurco came over and crushed me with a big hug. His wife was in tears. I was overwhelmed. All I could say was, “Gracias, gracias, I’m fine, I’m fine. I’ve been at home. It was a friend who was killed, not me. I knew him a bit.” They asked me about Brad and I told them what I knew. They thought about his family and hoped that theUSAwould now apply pressure on the Mexican government to resolve the situation here. “Now, the governor really has to go,” said some. And, today, Saturday, federal forces are again gathering at the airport military base, arriving in six massive troop transport planes.

Wrenching myself away, apologizing and saying I had to take care of some things for Brad, I walked to the end of the block and pulled my phone out again. First, I called Daniela at the Anglo-Mexican foundation in Mexico City, who I knew had close ties to the British embassy. “Just tell them that if they hear that I’m dead, it’s not true.” She also gave me a US embassy emergency number, which I dialed after hanging up.

Some embassy operator guy answered. “My name is John Dickie, I am a British journalist in Oaxaca and I’m calling because an American journalist was just shot and killed here.” The guy’s tone of voice immediately pissed me off.

“Who do you work for’”

“What does it matter who I work for’ITN, for fuck’s sake.”

“So, who do you want to talk to’”

“You tell me, man! Whoever the fuck you think I should talk to about a dead American journalist!”

Robert Zimmerman, the deputy head of the press office, came on the line. He was more helpful. I told him the story and gave him Brad’s full name. They had not received word yet.

“There is no authority in Oaxaca right now,” I said, “so you probably won’t hear anything. I am sending you the word.” He was skeptical because I hadn’t seen the body. Fair point. But I had spoken to witnesses and had seen the photos already.

“I’m on the way to the morgue. Call me in half an hour.”

Vigil for Brad Will at the Mexican Consulate inNYC Photo: D.R. 2006 Paul DiRienzos and Joan Moossy

Then I called the US consul in Oaxaca - an aloof prick - and left a message. Then I called another friend who knew Brad, to accompany me to the morgue. Victor and Bermudez, two local journalist friends, also came. We left the roadblock in a convoy of motorcycles. This wasn’t too clever considering paramilitary hitmen ride around on motorbikes, so theAPPOis very wary of groups of bikers. Plus, we were going to have to negotiate our way through the city center. Victor led us along a safe route. We did not see a single car.

Arriving at the morgue, where I know some of the staff, we went over to greet the head forensic doctor - they call him Dr. Muerte. He let us in to see Brad; I won’t describe the operating theater. Once inside, standing next to the cold stone slab, which I had so often filmed for a documentary the year before, I was now faced with a body I had known in life; every crime journalist’s worst nightmare. I nodded gently. It was, indeed, Bradley Roland Will. His brown eyes were wide open, staring straight through me, into infinity. His chest was sown up, but the bullet hole was obvious. I didn’t linger. Dr. Death put his arm around my shoulder and escorted me outside, where he showed me the two 9mm bullet tips he had removed from Brad’s chest. I wondered why he had them in the pocket of his white coat.

Outside, Brad’s roomates, an Indymedia colleague, a Spanish photographer, and a Human Rights worker, were gathered. We all spoke for a while. They had been with Brad at the time. A pick-up truck had burst through a barricade and several men had opened fire on the “protesters.” Brad had been at the front of the pack, hit from around 30 metres away. They had also been fired on from rooftops. The gunmen have since been identified from press photographs and video stills as local police, and have supposedly been handed over to the ‘authorities.’ The shooters hadn’t covered their faces; in Oaxaca, when you are the law, impunity is a sport.

The morgue people told us they could not do an official identification without Brad’s passport and the consul present. We decided his roommate would take care of it in the morning.

At around midnight, we rode again through the night streets, back to the barricade. I stayed up for another couple of hours at the roadblock before heading down the street to Diablo’s spare room. Before going to bed, Chiricuto and I watched the news.Televisashowed uncut footage of the shootings and of Brad’s death. It was gruesome to watch. But the most gruesome part was listening to the presenter saying the shots were fired by “neighbors” who are tired of the conflict and who have turned against theAPPO. In Mexico, the extent of political influence is unbounded.

Sixteen hours after the White Owl appeared, I stood on the balcony with Jonathan, and we recalled a local saying:

“Cuando la lechuza vuela, El indio muere.”

“When the White Owl flies, the Indian dies.”

The White Owl had appeared at exactly the time of Brad’s death. No doubt we would never see it again. Because there was no White Owl, and now there is one less Indian in the world of the living.

Vigil for Brad Will at the Mexican Consulate inNYC Photo: D.R. 2006 Paul DiRienzos and Joan Moossy

As for Brad and me, our destinies divided. I stayed here. He was called back.

At least it looks like Bradley Roland Will’s death may help bring an end to this conflict, because, after five months of complete apathy, the federal government looks like it has been moved to act, finally sending in the federal police to restore public security. Did George W. have a quiet word with Fox’ Probably. And for helping set off this chain of events, Brad and his family can be proud. However, whether a sudden federal incursion will solve the problem remains to be seen. Tomorrow we might know. TheAPPOwon’t move until the governor is removed from office. But the everyday folk of Oaxaca deserve to at least be allowed to live in a secure environment, regardless of their allegiance. What is certain is that the rotten apple that is local government culture in southern Mexico needs to be ripped clean from its throat. It will doubtlessly take several generations.

Finally, the question has to be asked: does a gringo always have to die for the world to act’

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