I am America's most censored. Cyberstalkers go online with me because I write about crimes against humanity in the USA: secret murders and other abuses. Stalkers follow me to control computers and phones I use away from home. Police threaten to Taser and arrest me for revealing the secret murder of Larry Neal and The Cochran Firm fraud. Callers are sometimes told (678)531.0262 is out of service, and stalkers erase our messages. Widgets and links in this blog may lead to sites that use cookies.
CoIntelPro is out of the closet. Stalkers scheduled the show and ran the board at the Rev. Floyd Harris Jr. Blogtalkshow tonight. Rev. Harris tried to schedule the show and was told it was already scheduled.The host username and password did not work for me. With no access to the control board, I was unable to enter information for the show or take calls from our guest or the listeners. When I decided to use the time on air to discuss the prison industrial complex, I was disconnected for approximately four minutes. After that, stalkers admitted our guest, Florence Mason. I had no capacity to admit her to the show, because I was not in charge of the board. CoIntelPro was.
You can reach Ms. Mason at 732.248.9300 rm 251. She revealed her "strong-armed" eviction and alleged police brutality against her children, including an Autistic child of 14 and an 11-year-old. Listen to the entire 45 minutes of the Blogtalkradio show at the link below. Ignore pauses.
And when I tweeted the tweet below, it sat there in the input field, PLUS it showed up on my Twitter page although the tweet was still sitting in the input field. That means nobody saw it, probably, but those who go to my wall, which you can visit at @koffietime - http://twitter.com/koffietime
Associated Press is learning about the harsh realities about "freedom of press" these days. ‘NO POSSIBLE JUSTIFICATION’: ASSOCIATED PRESS LIVID AFTER DOJ SECRETLY OBTAINS 2 MONTHS OF ITS PHONE RECORDS
There is a song title that probably expresses my situation with my cyberstalkers right now: "Didn't I blow your mind this time?" http://youtu.be/lOvfctgwnug (Embedded below.) They are very DISTRAUGHT over my new venture: LEGAL VICTORIES. I was interviewed tonight on Civil Alert Blogtalkradio show about "Legal Victories," my new venture with a blog at http://LegalVictories.blogspot.com as well as social network sites at Facebook, Google+, and Twitter. Attorneys, paralegals and all my online friends are invited to join and post links and videos about legal victories from bygone years or current successes. My interview begins at the 10-minute point on the tape archived May 15, available at this linkhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/civilalertworld/2013/05/15/your-local-farmer--a-nationwide-meet-greet
Google, "they" won't let me put the email addresses that I would like to get my blogs from Blogger immediately upon publication. I input a few email addresses from my Gmail account, and the response was "Email addresses contain invalid user name." Unless you can get rid of my stalkers, I must go through my listed emails and find out who the stalkers do not want to receive my Blogger emails:
"actionla@lists.riseup.net" <actionla@lists.riseup.net>,
"adonovan@law.harvard.edu" <adonovan@law.harvard.edu>,
"African Voices" <africanvoices@aol.com>,
"africandiasporabkclb@charter.net" <africandiasporabkclb@charter.net>,
"AJC Voice of Atl" <rwhitt@ajc.com>,
"Alternet" <alternet@democracyinaction.org>,
jean kennedy <DrJeanKennedyRadioShow@gmail.com>,
Rev. Floyd Harris, Jr.
Yana Henriks
Pinkney Freddie <banco9342@sbcglobal.net>,
LEONNA BRANDAO <nvopres@verizon.net>,
Randy Short
Maurice Muhammad <mmuhammad95@gmail.com>,
"Yvonne L. Murphy" <yvonnelmurphy@hotmail.com>,
Ralph Poynter <ralph.poynter@yahoo.com>,
Mary Neal <mneal000@yahoo.com>,
Cynthia McKinney "HQ" <hq2600@gmail.com>,
"Shirley Moore"
coalition-the@googlegroups.com,
"Black List" <theblacklist@lists.riseup.net>
"Prison Reform Movement" <christyntruman06@aol.com>
I bet I know which ones they don't want to receive the Blogger emails - probably the same people who are not allowed to receive my emails from my MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com and people who were surreptitiously removed from my twitter account, @koffietime - some of them more than once.
You people make a mockery of U.S. military people who died and continue to suffer catastrophic injuries and deaths in military conflicts for this county. You make a mockery of everything that was ever written about "rights" for Americans - free speech, freedom of press, freedom of peaceful assembly (online), the right to petition my government for a redress of grievances, freedom of religion, and the right to be FREE. Some of you make mockeries of your own speeches and your oaths of office.
I won't list all the places and ways you censored me last night. I get sick of telling you how repulsive you are, so I thought I would do a blog that congratulates attorneys and judges who seem to have integrity. Now you attack my LEGAL VICTORIES venture. Because no matter what I might succeed in, you know my success would bring the public's focus to the one thing you want to hide most - the secret arrest (kidnapping) and murder of my harmless mentally and physically disabled brother in Memphis Shelby County Jail in 2003 and your continuous denial of due process of law to keep the murder covered up. You probably want to keep The Cochran Firm fraud under wraps to continue defrauding minorities, also. Important, wealthy, learned men and women - black and white - have so many people around my house today and stalkers working to interfere with my Internet input that one might think you fear this black woman you have impoverished and persecuted for nearly a decade for asking for justice for my family and for numerous others. I put the word "black" because that is all you see - race. You are black Confederate soldiers and Nazis who would not recognize fairness if it jumped up and bit you. YOU WANT ME DEAD LIKE MALCOLM SHABAZZ, and all I want for you and from you is Change.
Here is one reason why I have problems using the Internet:
CoIntelPro keeps removing this post from Mary Neal's Facebook wall. The pictures that are blocked are:
CoIntelPro later added back the second and third photo as single posts (I had put all three in a single row on my Facebook wall TWICE). But CoIntelPro did NOT add back the first photo with the black mother and child. What does that tell you about the cyber stalkers? Somehow, people are still able to comment on the post although it no longer shows on my wall. See the post below, if they let you. https://www.facebook.com/marylovesjustice
Google, I sent an email from my MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com account and immediately got this response: The conversation that you requested no longer exists.
The email was addressed to the USDOJ at AskDOJ@usdoj.gov and an administrative email box, and a law firm. My email account is monitored and stalked. Could you confirm whether or not the email was indeed sent? Ordinarily, when I used to write to the Whitehouse or to the USDOJ, I immediately received an automatic response. I received no such response recognizing receipt of my email. It stated the following:
In light of the three initiatives listed below by the Obama Administration, I hereby request an immediate response to my Freedom of Information Act requests, submitted in May 2009, concerning the secret arrest and wrongful death of Larry Neal, a mentally, physically disabled American who was secretly arrested (kidnapped) and murdered in Memphis Shelby County Jail in 2003, after 18 days of secret incarceration. Larry Neal's survivors have been denied any records and explanation as to why Memphis Police Department lied to his family and social worker and denied having the disabled American in custody throughout his fatal incarceration. The jail was already under federal overview through the USDOJ due to lawsuit by the USA prompted by a lengthy history of inmate abuse. After Larry Neal's murder, the jail withheld the inmate fatality report that was mandated by its Agreement with the United States of America, which was issued after lawsuit by the USA. (Wrongful Death of Larry Neal.com http://WrongfulDeathOfLarryNeal.com - See "Documents" tab)
Several years later, in 2006, the USA conducted Release hearings with the jail, during which time the jail also withheld information related to Larry Neal, a murdered inmate. The Release hearings were conducted in the United States District Court, Western District of Tennessee, where I sent a letter notifying the court and USDOJ officials in Memphis and Washington about the covered-up murder. The Release hearings continued and resulted in a Release being issued just as though Larry Neal's murder never happened, and the USDOJ refuses to answer any requests for documents, records, and things regarding this secret death. Instead, I was subjected to stalking online and in person, and my family has been monitored, censored, and terrorized for years to prevent public disclosure and as punishment for suing The (Johnnie) Cochran Firm, which pretended to act as our wrongful death attorneys but merely signed contract with the Neals in order to keep our wrongful death case from going forward.
At the end of the Tennessee statute of limitations for wrongful deaths, our file with the devious law firm was essentially empty, although lawyers and staff had lied (U.S. Mail fraud) and sent us bogus status reports about legal work that was not actually being done. The firm confessed at the end of the TN statute of limitations that its managing partner in the Memphis office was himself a Shelby County Commissioner, and the Shelby County Commission is owner and operator of Shelby County Jail. This was a secret conflict of interest that is indicative of everything regarding Larry Neal's murder - secret, corrupt, and total disregard for Larry Neal's constitutional rights and his survivor's right to open records and due process of law. Our rights were further violated when we sued The Cochran Firm for its fraud. Georgia Superior Court declared (falsely) that there was no office of The Cochran Firm in the State of Georgia. We then filed suit under the diversity rule in United States District Court, which determined that The Cochran Firm's fraud to protect our defendants, Memphis Shelby County Jail, et al, was "immaterial." Around the time of USDC's dismissal of our righteous law suit, incidents of stalking, phone tampering and computer interference intensified (proved by video and witness statements).
After I publicized the intent to file suit against all conspirators regarding Larry Neal's secret arrest and wrongful death cover-up under the RICO Act, my home was burglarized, and the only stolen items were two boxes of court records regarding Neals v. The Cochran Firm and evidence we were prevented from putting before a jury in our two lawsuits. Luckily, we have most of the records on flash drives and discs. My home was invaded again (for the fourth time) in April 2013, when a woman pretended to be my 90-year-old home health nurse, but was an impostor who probably came to insert a poison suppository in her anus (Marilyn Monroe-style). I interrupted her when I walked into my mother's room, and she hurried away. My mother was the signer of the contract with The Cochran Firm regarding our wrongful death lawsuit the firm never intended to file and did not even investigate or do anything to bring forth.
After Larry Neal's secret murder, an unrequited death, we learned that Vice President Chaney, Attorney General Gonzales, and certain other officials and judges were indicted in Willacy County, TX in 2008 for withholding federal investigations regarding inmate brutality in return for prison profits or kickbacks. The case never went to trial.
Memphis Shelby County Government and the USDOJ were responsible for just treatment of inmates in Shelby County Jail after having signed an Agreement to ensure same. Instead, I contend that they united with The Cochran Firm, judges, police departments, and others to suppress Larry Neal's murder, which happened under secret incarceration. Please investigate and stop the racketeering surrounding this disabled Americans' secret arrest and murder in government custody.
This is notice to you that I plan to file a lawsuit under the RICO Racketeering Act against all parties for civil rights violations, conspiracy to cover up a murder, conspiracy to defraud the USA, conspiracy to defraud plaintiffs in a righteous law suit, conspiracy to deny the Neals' civil rights, and other charges as deemed applicable.
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
(from President Barack Obama)
SUBJECT: Freedom of Information Act
A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency. As Justice Louis Brandeis wrote, "sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants." In our democracy, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which encourages accountability through transparency, is the most prominent expression of a profound national commitment to ensuring an open Government. At the heart of that commitment is the idea that accountability is in the interest of the Government and the citizenry alike.
Part of the email was also emailed to the White House via whitehouse.gov
Thank You!
Thank you for contacting the White House.
President Obama is committed to creating the most open and accessible Administration in history. That begins with taking comments and questions from you, the American people, through our website.
Our office receives thousands of messages from Americans each day. We do our best to reply to as many as we can, but please be aware that you may find more information and answers to your questions online. To follow news and learn more about President Obama's plan for an America built to last, you can sign up for updates from the White House, read the White House Blog, or visit WhiteHouse.gov/Engage.
For an easy-to-navigate source of information on Federal government services, please visit: www.USA.gov.
Thank you again for your message.
The Office of Presidential Correspondence
All I can do is tell others what type of government we have: one in which a handicapped American is secretly arrested and murdered because he inconveniences police and the system colludes to harass and censor his family to keep his murder secret.
Exciting news! Tonight I will be a guest on the "RealTalk1Dr" Blogtalkradio show with Rev. Floyd Harris, Jr. and Dr. Jean Kennedy on May 8, 2013 at 11pm Eastern. The call-in number is 619.393.2837. Use this link for the show http://www.blogtalkradio.com/realtalk1dr Hopefully, the Georgia CoIntelPro agents will let us have a fruitful program. They have gathered in a house close to mine, possibly to interfere with my phone signal. That is something they did often when I began my regular appearances on the Rev. Pinkney Blogtalkradio Show on Sundays at 5:00pm Eastern. What makes me more exciting to CoIntelPro than other human rights advocates is probably the fact that my brother was secretly arrested for nearly three weeks and murdered in Memphis Shelby County Jail in 2003, and the United States Department of Justice refuses to recognize that Larry Neal had a right to life. My family is denied any accountability whatsoever for Larry's murder that happened in government custody in a jail that was already operating under USDOJ oversight after lawsuit by the USA for inmate abuse. In fact, it is an elaborate cover-up. We will discuss capital punishment with DNA tests denied and other injustices. The hosts are very admirable human rights advocates. See the Facebook page for Rev. Harris: https://www.facebook.com/floyd.harris.581 See the Facebook page for Dr. Jean Kennedy https://www.facebook.com/keepingitrealradioshow
Google their names for videos and California radio shows and to see some of the fights for human rights Rev. Harris has undertaken over the years. The second reason I am censored is to contain bad press about what is possibly a CoIntelPro law firm - The (Johnnie) Cochran Firm. The lawyers there signed contract to be our wrongful death attorneys, but the firm worked for the jail behind our backs to help hide the death instead. Google "Cochran Firm Fraud" for more information on this 21st century lynching that has accessories after the fact that you might not expect. Censorship is applied to prevent disclosure. "RealTalk1Dr" already has its own censorship drama, I discovered last night. I met Rev. Harris on Facebook, and he invited me to listen to some of the pre-recorded shows archived at BlogtalkRadio. I listened to the show recorded on December 22, 2012, but not without problems. The cyber stalkers (I don't think it was Blogtalk or Google) put on my screen a cartoon figure of a man saying that listening to that show would hurt my computer. That is how I knew I was in for some good news for justice at "Keeping It Real." I copied the cartoon and dropped it into an email screen. The cartoon did not show up, but all of this did: [Message clipped] View entire message Oh, well, the stalkers are here. They will not allow the computer codes to be copied into this blog. I will have to do it from another IP address. They take over whatever computer they know I use, and sometimes, they send people to follow me and report what computer I use at the library or at Kinko's FedEx. Those computers soon fall under remote access control, also. Try the "view entire message" link above and see what they let show, if anything. I am America's most censored - Mary Neal. And apparently, from what happened last night and what I learned in a conversation with Dr. Kennedy this morning, other human rights activists experience CoIntelPro cyber stalking like I do, particularly blacks. Listen to the show live tonight, if you can. If not, check the archives for the May 8, 2013 show. Use this link to access Part 1. Tune in May 9 for Part 2.http://www.blogtalkradio.com/realtalk1dr/2013/05/09/rev-harris-dr-kennedy-interview-mary-neal Blessings!
The following post at Google+ was marked "This post violates our policies. It is visible only to you."
They let me join Al Jazeera America! Thank you, CoIntelPro. I used my FB to enter and got no password. Also, my new +Google Chromebook clicked the entire time while I had +AL JAZEERA open on the computer. That never happened before - a CLICKING sound. Obviously, CoIntelPro doesn't want me to communicate with Al Jazeera. They can monitor me without all that clicking. I'm tired of them destroying my computers, so I logged out when the clicking resumed AFTER I reset the Chromebook OS. It is so taxing to be "America's Most Censored - Mary Neal" http://goo.gl/aELp3 - Obviously, they want to keep the crimes against humanity that I write about a domestic issue. But . . . the secret arrest and government murder of Larry Neal, a disabled black man, has NOT been resolved domestically, and it has been nearly 10 years! Nobody can say I have not been "long-suffering."
The International community is more apt to publish my report than American media is, i.e., +Press TV. They won't let me see this video http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/256184.html where I showed the bloody towels from my "directed energy" attack. They do let you see a TINY bit of my interview with PressTV here http://youtu.be/584tgKJwobY . It is difficult operating in freedom of press/free speech that has so many LIMITATIONS, isn't it?
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Now what part of that post is offensive? There are no dirty words, no ponography, and nothing false. It is VERY offensive to be the victim of continual monitoring and terrorism to prevent the world from knowing about a secret government murder, particularly of a disabled American who was my own brother. See "Wrongful Death of Larry Neal" website for details at
And see a picture of Larry at the "about me" section of this blog in the right margin. I wonder what on earth these people plan to do to keep people from having access to my book, "The Cochran Firm Fraud," if they cannot stand to see in print the truth about my oppression that happens to hide my brother's murder. It is absolutely amazing.
In Jesus' Name. In the mighty name of Jesus Christ, our savior. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus! My Lord and Savior. Mighty son of the Almighty God. Praise the Lord, oh, my soul, and everything within me. Praise His holy name. No other name under heaven can lead man back to Creator God. Jesus, JESUS, JESUS!
Did y'all know these people have criminalized Christianity in the U.S. Military? Just wait until they make praying in Jesus' name in churches illegal. They will. And the Homeland Security preachers, the "Clergy Response Team" members, will stop calling out to God in the name of Jesus. The Antichrist HURTS when he hears that precious name. See an online letter from Chaplin Klingenschmitt to warn us that Christianity has been criminalized. Even now, come, Lord Jesus!
Navy Criminalizes Christianity
Gordon James Klingenschmitt
Chaplain Court-Martialed for Praying
“In Jesus’ Name”
Dear Concerned Friend,
As we joyfully embrace this Season of our Savior’s birth, the gavel’s ominous rap still echoes in my ears. Even now it’s hard for me to fully grasp that this could be happening to me in this Christian nation of ours. But it’s an inescapable fact: I’ve been found guilty of the “crime” of praying in Jesus’ name while in uniform.
But throughout this blessed Christmastide, I’m still striving to faithfully serve as a chaplain in the U.S. Navy – appealing a court-martial verdict that will cost me and my family everything. You see, the Navy just ordered me to separate from the service by 31 January 2007. They are hoping to permanently end my career after 15.5 years of award-winning evaluations. I’m losing my pension, and my family is now being evicted from military housing, without health care benefits, on the street in the cold.
I am writing to warn you: The day has dawned in America when it is criminally punishable to pray in Jesus’ name, to quote Scripture passages in a military chapel, to voice evangelical messages about Jesus. So I pray you’ll read my story, because your help is needed to right this wrong. Something much bigger than my personal situation is at risk. Precariously hanging in the balance is our Constitution’s guarantee of freedom of religion. And I am prepared to defend that vital principle all the way to the Supreme Court. But justice takes time. And money.
I have faith God will provide. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. I’d rather continue to pray in Jesus’ name and obey God’s will, than compromise and dishonor our Lord.
But what about all those other spiritually-shackled chaplains who are being coerced into silence throughout our armed forces? These men of God face the same fate I confront. Unless they betray their conscience and faith by uttering only generic, watered-down, nonsectarian, politically correct prayers, their careers are over, too, as are most of 68 chaplains suing the Navy. And what about this ungodly legal precedent that will then be further abused to silence Christian prayers by federal, state and local government employees? More than that, what will this mean to your freedom of religion as a professing Christian?
CRIMIMALIZATION OF CHRISTIANITY HAS OFFICIALLY BEGUN!
Navy Criminalizes Christianity
No exaggeration, our Navy criminalized worshipping in public! In fact, the military judge more or less told me it’s a crime to pray in Jesus’ name outside of Sunday chapel, if your commander orders you to stop “worshipping in public” in uniform.
So I’m now a federal convict, guilty of a “speech crime” against the government, because I simply read a prayer in uniform!
Who will stop liberal judges from censoring our prayers? Will you? If so, I need you to stand with me and support my legal defense fund.
You see, if we don’t appeal this ruling, it remains the legal precedent future courts will use to punish other chaplains.
That’s the reason for this letter: So you and others will know the criminalization of Christianity is officially under way. This Orwellian, out-of-control “politically correct” agenda, now evident in the U.S. military, is soon headed your direction. Something must be done, and I am calling you to stand with me on God’s side. Please help defeat this threat and right this wrong by signing the enclosed petition to the Secretary of Defense. Anti-Christian liberals won’t be satisfied until God and the Bible are banished from our society and America is utterly transformed into a Jesus-free zone. And, right now, the U.S. Navy is playing into their hands.
Some flatter me as a modern-day Daniel because I faithfully pray in Jesus’ name. Let me assure you, I’m certainly no Daniel. As I told reporters after the guilty verdict, “Jesus was crucified, Peter and John were flogged, and I got a minor reprimand. I’ve not yet become a martyr for the faith.”
But I honor these Bible heroes, who refused to flinch when ordered not to pray. Daniel continued to do what he knew in his heart was right, regardless of the consequences. So did Peter and John, when the Pharisees “commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.” These men obeyed God, and kept on praying and preaching in Jesus’ name. So must I. While I’m not in danger of being eaten alive in a lions den, politically correct wolves are howling for my hide. So please read on – but for your sake, not mine! As you do, please keep in mind that my gaveled “crime” is something you do daily – pray in Jesus’ name.
I believe God called me to serve as a chaplain. To step up to that role and as a Lieutenant in the Navy, I stepped down from the rank of Major in the U.S. Air Force back in 2002. I volunteered for that demotion in rank, and its significant pay cut, to answer God’s ministry call. The desire to do God’s will is still the driving purpose in my life. My heart’s desire was and is to help our men and women in uniform, to bring them the Lord’s comfort and mercy.
Navy Chaplains have prayed Christian prayers in public since 1775, and since 1860 federal law and regulation protected us: “An officer in the chaplain corps may conduct public worship according to the manner and forms of the church of which he is a member.” But the Navy recently has changed. What seemed an innocent “memo of suggestion” in 1998 by the former Chief of Navy Chaplains – that chaplains who pray in Jesus’ name “ought not participate” and either be censored or be excluded from public ceremonies – was strengthened into a repressive policy on February 21st, 2006.
As the Navy goes, so go all the other military branches. Atheists and liberals will make sure of that. That same month, the U.S. Air Force revised its “guidelines for religious expression,” reported in Jewish Week newspaper under the headline “Jesus barred from Air Force invocations.” If nobody had challenged this policy, the ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church and State would undoubtedly use this unholy precedent to subvert our God-given right to free exercise OF religion, into their coerced freedom FROM ANY religious expression – not just in the Navy but all over America. NAME ABOVE ALL NAMES NOW DEEMED “OFFENSIVE” Liberals and atheists especially can’t stand to hear the name of Jesus, because deep inside they know “there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.” Remember: the ungodly want our children banned from saying “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance in our public schools. Why? Because the mention of God might “offend.” Yet the ungodly care not how their anti-religious coercion hurts Christians. Their same pretext of being easily “offended” is abused in attempts to banish from our common life Ten Commandments plaques, crosses, and manger scenes across America.
Jesus taught us to forgive, to turn the other cheek. He also expects us to shine the light of His truth and dispel the darkness, so all will see that Christ is the way to God’s salvation. That’s why I continued to pray in Jesus’ name, even outside the chapel, even in public. And together we challenged the Navy’s illegal prayer policy. Over 300,000 people petitioned the President to intervene. Many more called Congress, and 75 Congressmen and 35 pro-family groups called for an executive order, which never happened. Then the House of Representatives passed a bill to strengthen the 1860 law which already allowed chaplains to pray according to their faith. That bill was blocked by liberals in the Senate.
Liberal politicians wanted to impose “theological sensitivity requirements” on the content of all chaplain prayers and sermons. If passed by this new House and Senate, they could make matters far worse, requiring the Pentagon to punish “insensitive” prayers. Five times the White House spokesman answered media questions about me. Five times he gave the same answer: “The President cares about chaplains, but he also wants the Pentagon to make their own policies on how they should pray.” Emboldened by Presidential inaction, the Navy passed the worst prayer policy in 231 years – SECNAVINST 1730.7C, which banned praying “in Jesus’ name” anywhere outside of Sunday chapel.
That Navy policy holds that uniform-wearing chaplains violate the law by worshipping in public. We can only pray in Jesus’ name and quote Bible passages in chapel on Sundays – the only time and place the Navy now protects “public worship.” The Navy’s top JAG investigator enforced that policy, ruling that I was “properly punished” for quoting the Bible in the chapel on a Saturday, during an optionally attended “Christian Memorial Service” to honor the faith of a deceased Sailor, a member of my flock. “That wasn’t public worship,” they told the newspapers. The Navy defended my commander who punished me for quoting “offensive” Bible verses like John 3:36 in chapel, and for preaching that “Jesus is the way to heaven” in my sermon, ruling: “Lt Klingenschmitt was free to choose to deliver a message at the memorial service that, while being true to his own beliefs, could also have commanded the assent of the vast majority of his audience. Nevertheless, Lieutenant Klingenschmitt chose to deliver a message he knew to be, by his own description, ‘exclusive.’” – Navy JAG investigator
So they defended the skipper and punished the chaplain, taking a black-tip marker to my Bible, and banning John 3:36: “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on him.” Is this Bible verse too “exclusive” for Navy chapels? Are our Christian Sailors no longer entitled to a Christian burial? Should we stand and let the Navy enforce their new policy?
I had enough. On March 30, I wore my uniform to a public Christian event outside the White House that included prayers and Bible readings. Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore delivered a hard-hitting homily to highlight the program. My ONLY “speech” in uniform that day was reading Christian prayers and scriptures. Yet the Navy wrongly contends my prayers were “not public worship.” They insist worship must be restricted to the Sunday chapel. Prayer, however, is still worship in my book, whether in chapel on Sunday or outside the White House on Thursday. I was charged at court-martial with violating Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, even though I got written permission to wear my uniform at any worship service or any religious observance. The court-martial judge ignored Navy Uniform Regulations which state: “Chaplains have the option of wearing their uniform when conducting worship services and during the performance of rites and rituals distinct to their faith groups.” During the court-martial I conducted my defense “by the Book” – the Bible – and rested my case without calling any witnesses, following Isaiah 53:7, which states Jesus “was oppressed and afflicted yet he did not open his mouth.” It was obvious to me: worshipping in public is the same as public worship. But not to the judge. On Sept. 13, I was gaveled guilty of disobeying a “lawful” order.
FLOOD OF SUPPORT SPURS CONGRESSIONAL ACTION
My story ran in 600 newspapers that week. One poll asked: Should military chaplains be allowed to lead prayers in Jesus’ name during public events that are not religious services?” And 85 percent of respondents agreed with me, and said “yes.” So many good citizens were angry at the Navy, they called Sen. John Warner (R-VA) who surrendered to public opinion in a speech on the Senate floor, just one week after my court-martial:
“I am being besieged by telephone, by bloggers, by everything else... I think that we should put in report language in our bill two things: First, that the Secretary of Defense will stay—that means hold in abeyance—enforcement of these newly promulgated regulations until such time as the Congress has had an opportunity to hold its hearings...I am basically assured by the Department of Defense that they will Comply.” – Sen. Warner, 19 Sep 06
Despite a solemn promise by the Secretary of Defense to “not enforce” that Navy prayer policy, they’re still enforcing it against me today! Navy lawyers are still defending that illegal policy in court, as the legal basis to kick me out. God spoke to me three times during my court-martial, that if I’d lay down my life, he would resurrect me. Responding to your petitions, the House & Senate attached a conference report to the 2007 Defense Authorization Act stating:
“The conferees direct that the Secretary of the Air Force rescind the policy and revised interim guidelines concerning the exercise of religion...The conferees further direct the Secretary of the Navy rescind Secretary of the Navy Instruction 1730.7C dated February 21, 2006, titled “Religious Ministry within the Department of the Navy.” – Congress Conference Report
STILL THE VERDICT MUST BE OVERTURNED
This is a move in the right direction, as long as it lasts. The battle isn’t over, however, and it won’t be until the unholy, precedent-setting verdict against me is overturned. You see, despite Congressional action, chaplains still aren’t free to pray publicly in Jesus’ name! The Navy’s previous policy that “suggests” we not pray in Jesus’ name still allows commanding officers to determine what their chaplains may and may not do.
As it now stands, any chaplain who dares to do what’s right runs the risk of being disciplined by a commanding officer. And the skipper is always right, backed up by the “brass.” So you see why my appeal must be overturned, either in Navy or federal courts, in order to set this matter straight.
Congressional action, you see, doesn’t allow my case to be “grandfathered,” so my career apparently is over. The freedom purchased for others has cost me everything.
People ask, “Chaplain, would you do it over again?” Without hesitation I answer, “Yes.” It was worth it to sacrifice my career for Jesus, for our Sailors, and for religious liberty, because now other chaplains will have the liberty I was denied. So I am being drummed out of the Navy, just like 68 other chaplains still suing the Navy for religious harassment, all of them evangelicals, most of them no longer in uniform, passed over for promotion because they preached Jesus Christ, and prayed in Jesus’ name, without compromise.
LITTLE REPRIMAND MEANS BIG CONSEQUENCES
In my case, the jury recommended only a letter of reprimand and suspended monthly fine of $250. The misdemeanor Navy court, first offense, had NO legal authority to kick me out of the Navy. But top officials immediately moved to separate me from the Navy – using strange administrative proceedings never before attempted on any chaplain – and to take away my pension. This is the latest of many reprisals against me for speaking to the Congress and the press. A March 22 email from Vice Adm. John C. Harvey Jr., the Chief of Naval Personnel, to Adm. Michael G. Mullen, the Chief of Naval Operations, proves they planned to kick me out before I wore my uniform to pray at the White House.
Eight days before the March 30th event for which I was later court-martialed, Vice Adm. Harvey recommended my “involuntarily release” from the Navy “due to lack of career potential.” He noted in his email: “This officer is the individual who conducted a hunger strike in front of the White House several months ago and has engaged in other actions concerning (Defense Department) and Navy Religious Ministry policies.”
PERSECUTION AWAITS US ALL – YES, EVEN YOU!
It’s no secret that liberals don’t want to see or hear anything Christian. The mere mention of Jesus’ name raises questions deep inside, that atheists don’t want to answer.
Jesus promised in Matthew 10:22, “All men will hate you because of me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved.”
Take it from me: Persecution awaits – in the form of ostracism, discipline and punishment – anyone who mentions anything specifically Christian.
We must take our final stand. Don’t let our Christian chaplains be compromised and silenced or, worse, ousted from service.
Take action with me now, to guard our nation’s freedom of religion, guaranteed by the Constitution.
Yes, I staged an 18-day hunger strike last Christmas, skipping Christmas dinner, drinking only water, to pray and fast for our President, losing 14 pounds. The devil hated that, but God loves the power of prayer and fasting. Yes, I’ve gone on record as saying my superiors are breaking their oath to support and defend the Constitution, by actively pressuring chaplains to water down their prayers into generic, non-sectarian forms, against centuries of Navy tradition. But punishing a whistle-blower for his complaints is against the law. These Admirals think because I stand up for what’s right and am true to my God, I’m not worthy of promotion. I’m not worthy to wear the uniform. Thus I must go. But I will not go quietly. I’ll continue to fight for Jesus. And I need your help.
We must stop this godless plot to silence truth and banish Jesus from the public square. We cannot let them melt down the Christian faith into a meaningless one-size-fits-all sham, nothing more than sounding brass or tinkling cymbal. There is no more fundamental American principle than the inalienable right to freely worship our Creator, and I hope all Christians will pray publicly in Jesus’ name – without fear! For any government official to mandate “non-sectarian” prayers is for him to force his government religion upon me – to censor, exclude and punish me for my obedience to Christ.
Stand with the Lord Jesus and sign our new petition that calls upon the Secretary of Defense to keep his promise, and “not enforce” that illegal (rescinded) prayer policy against chaplains like me who pray “in Jesus’ name.”
I am not alone in resisting this outrageous persecution – God, of course, is with me. I have a fine legal defense team. And the Declaration Foundation, a God-honoring organization, championed by Alan Keyes, boldly stands for Christ Jesus with me. But I’m still paying the legal bills from my court-martial, not to mention the expensive upcoming appeals, and just forget about my pension, housing, utilities, medical and food. The Navy won’t pay my salary anymore. My family and I are in God’s hands.
IN JESUS’ NAME PROJECT TAKES ACTION
I pray you will stand with us, by helping the In Jesus’ Name Project, an effort by the Declaration Foundation to aid my cause. Please give $35, $50, $100, or $500 to help us in this fight.
Somebody might even give a fifth-wheel motor home, so I can travel and preach, or at least have a temporary roof overhead – starting next month!
Perhaps I’ll soon be accepting speaking invitations. Tell your pastor if you’d like me to come, then send me an email: chaplaingate@yahoo.com But at least, TAKE ACTION and sign the petition, along with making your generous contribution to help reverse this wrong and keep such persecution from other military chaplains. In Jesus’ Name Project will deliver your signed petition to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and bring this outrage to national attention, with education and publicity drives. If those in power can silence me today, they will silence YOU tomorrow! It’s true: All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men and women to do nothing. Think of it: While our troops fight and die for freedom abroad, Navy chaplains face court-martial for praying for those same troops in the name of our Lord!
Regardless of what happens to me, the constitutional right to quote Scripture and pray in Jesus’ name must be upheld throughout the military. That’s why I beg you to support the In Jesus’ Name Project by the Declaration Foundation. In this glorious Christmas season, full of our grateful joy for the birth of Our Lord, lift up our Christian chaplains in your prayers, that they may hold true to their faith in the God of the Bible, and His Son Jesus Christ, who alone holds the key to heaven.
Be sure to sign the accompanying petition! Ask the Secretary of Defense to revoke this outrage and safeguard the Constitution’s guarantee to our free exercise of religious faith.
“And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all In the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.” – Colossians 3:17
I hope you will send back your signed petition with your best gift to help the Declaration Foundation stand up for the right of Christians, in uniform and out, to pray in Jesus’ name.
Please don’t delay. Act right now. I took a stand. Now it’s up to you. Stand up for Jesus today! God bless you.
Merry Christmas, In Jesus’ name.
Gordon James Klingenschmitt
P.S. As a special Christmas faith commitment, please take action now, for Christian chaplains, for our troops, indeed for America. Let’s give Jesus the honor of public worship he richly deserves. Then please prayerfully and financially support the right to pray publicly in Jesus’ name – today!
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I'm a criminal for Jesus Christ, my Lord. I will pray in His name, sing in His name. In him do I move and have my being. Amen!
In Jesus' Name. In the mighty name of Jesus Christ, our savior. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus! My Lord and Savior. Mighty son of the Almighty God. Praise the Lord, oh, my soul, and everything within me. Praise His holy name. No other name under heaven can lead man back to Creator God. Jesus, JESUS, JESUS!
I have faith God will provide. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. I’d rather continue to pray in Jesus’ name and obey God’s will, than compromise and dishonor our Lord.
Jesus taught us to forgive, to turn the other cheek. He also expects us to shine the light of His truth and dispel the darkness, so all will see that Christ is the way to God’s salvation. That’s why I continued to pray in Jesus’ name, even outside the chapel, even in public. And together we challenged the Navy’s illegal prayer policy. Over 300,000 people petitioned the President to intervene. Many more called Congress, and 75 Congressmen and 35 pro-family groups called for an executive order, which never happened. Then the House of Representatives passed a bill to strengthen the 1860 law which already allowed chaplains to pray according to their faith. That bill was blocked by liberals in the Senate.
This is a move in the right direction, as long as it lasts. The battle isn’t over, however, and it won’t be until the unholy, precedent-setting verdict against me is overturned. You see, despite Congressional action, chaplains still aren’t free to pray publicly in Jesus’ name! The Navy’s previous policy that “suggests” we not pray in Jesus’ name still allows commanding officers to determine what their chaplains may and may not do.