Liberty, Vanunu, Dylan and Doors

On January 7, 2008, I received the following goodone's enemies and remaining nonviolent even while
news email from Mordecahi Vanunu:being nailed to a cross.
Hi There,Nuclear weapons and military occupation are in direct
The news:conflict with what Jesus taught and lived.
The court hearing today postponed. Israel Gov' byJesus also taught liberation from the bondage of the
their prosecutor agree to change the 6 monthscorrupt teachers of The Law, who made their bread
prison sentence to community service. Next theoff of the poor. The Temple priests made their living
prosecutor will discuss with us which communityby convincing the people that God would only accept
service I will do. So all this trial and sentence for thethem after they paid for ritual baths and sacrificing
last 3 years come to nothing.livestock, that only the Temple priests could perform.
Wishing you to see me free very soon,vmjcJesus was a dissident, a subversive, social justice
Ever since Vanunu was convicted in July 2007 andradical revolutionary Palestinian devout Jewish road
sentenced to six more months in jail for thewarrior who challenged the job security of the
interviews he gave foreign media in 2004, this civilianTemple priests by teaching the people that they
journalist has suffered a guilty conscience because Ididn't need to pay the priests a dime to be OK with
have been streaming 2005 and 2006 video ofGod, for God already loved them, just as they were;
Vanunu on my site and YOUTUBE. I figured if Israelsinners, diseased, outcasts, refugees, prisoners all
would send Vanunu back to jail for interviewsliving under Roman Military occupation.
nobody is reading anymore, what would they do toWhat got Jesus crucified was disturbing the status
him for videos that are currently freely streaming onquo of the Roman Occupying Forces because he
the World Wide Web?taught the people that in God's eyes everyone is
This civilian journalist also owes her very career toequally valuable and Caesar only had power because
Vanunu, so I am in his debt for he inspired me toGod allowed it.
realize my childhood dream of growing up to be2,000 years ago the cross has NO religious
Brenda Starr, the red headed ace investigativesymbolism. When Jesus said: "Pick up your cross and
journalist of the Sunday comics. Because of a chancefollow me," everyone then understood he was issuing
crossing of paths with Vanunu in June 2005 that leada political statement. The Roman Empire crucified
him to share with me about his childhood and journeythousands of agitators, rebels, dissidents and any
into Christianity, I was also inspired to imagine anothers who disturbed the status quo, and the road
adult hope; of becoming the 21st century Dorothyto Jerusalem was lined with the Roman Occupying
Day, a radical Christian who birthed The CatholicForces method of the death penalty.
Worker newspaper that gave voice to the poor andJesus did not speak Hebrew, he spoke Aramaic. The
oppressed in the 20th century.word Nero, written in Aramaic was valued at 666 in
Because I had been reporting on Vanunu's historicthe Hebrew numbering system. The Roman Empire
year and a half long freedom of speech trial inoppressed Jews and Christians and both communities
Jerusalem I was asked to speak in California onused codes, symbols and numerology understood by
October 13, 2007-Vanunu's 53rd birthday- at the NOtheir members, but not the empire.
More Wars for Israel Conference, which had beenI asked Rich had he ever considered that the
dedicated to him. I went with the hope and desire toanti-Christ might actually be nuclear weapons. Had he
raise some funds for Vanunu's Defense before hisever considered that the anti-Christ is not a man at
January 8, 2008 appeal.all but is the evil that comes from a heart that seeks
And another door opened to me when I heardpower, control and empire. I asked Rich had he ever
another speaker there say,wondered about how governments promote nuclear
"It was God that kept us afloat."weapons as instruments of peace, but nukes only
That speaker was Phil Tourney, a USS LIBERTYreap destruction and instability for they fill others with
Veteran who has now become a brother, a friendthe desire to obtain them.
and comrade in the good fight for justice for theRich hadn't thought of such a thing and neither had
USS LIBERTY.Vanunu when I raised the very same question to him
Liberty also means freedom from captivity.in June 2005.
When Phil spoke those seven words, I immediatelyBut Vanunu did reply, "The only way to peace is
knew in my heart/gut, I had to do something. In lesspeace; the only way is nonviolence. The only answer
than three months, I have heard those same wordsto Israeli nuclear weapons, their aggression,
affirmed by every USS LIBERTY survivor andoccupation and oppression, and the wall and refugee
supporter, I have thus far spoken with; and I havecamps is to answer them with truth and a peaceful
only just begun.voice. When I became the spy for the world, I did it
Although Vanunu's and the LIBERTY Vet's situationsall for the people of the world. If governments do
are very different, they are also very connected innot report the truth, and if the media does not
my heart/gut. In both instances governments thatreport the truth, then all we can do is follow our
claim to be democracies told truth tellers to SHUT UPconsciences. Daniel Ellsberg did, the woman from
and both governments have lied and covered up........Enron did, and I did. The United States needs to
I made a phone call on January 5, 2008, to LIBERTYwake up and see the truth that Israel is not a
CENTRAL/Rich Schmucker. I thought I was justdemocracy, unless you are a Jew. Israel is the only
doing another USS LIBERTY article, but another doorcountry in the Middle East where America can right
opened up to me.now find nuclear weapons.
Rich wasn't on the USS LIBERTY, the spy ship that"America can also find where basic human rights have
Israel attacked and tried to destroy during the Sixbeen denied Christians: right here in Israel.The time
Day War, but he has been a supporter andhas come for the United States to see the truth of
accumulator of records galore about that day inZionism. It began as a secular nationalist movement,
infamy when the USA Government failed to supportnot a religious one. Then some Christians believed
the troops, Congress went limp and the MSM wentthat when Israel became a nation, it was the
MIA.beginning of the second coming. They are deluded if
Rich told me, "From 1963 until 1969, I was a CT, athey believe peace will come through atomic
Communications Technician stationed at the Navalweapons. Atomic weapons are holocaust weapons.
base in Wahiawa, Hawaii. CT's are apart of theChristians should be the first people against them.
intelligence community and our work was classified. I"The Christians in America should be helping the
never heard a word about what happened on June 8,Christians here. America needs to wake up to this
1967 in the Mediterranean until I was in a library infallacy that Jesus will come back by nuclear war.
Auburn, Nebraska in 1979 and came across Jim Ennis'sAmerica needs to wake up to the fact that the
book, ASSAULT ON THE LIBERTY.Palestinian Christians here have no human rights.
"I checked it out and after reading it, I became soAren't Christians supposed to be concerned about
dang angry because I hadn't heard anything about itother Christians? Aren't Christians supposed to be
while in the Navy, or in the newspapers or on TV, soconcerned about all the poor and oppressed?"
I began doing research. Through the years I haveI totally agreed with Vanunu and told him, "It is
obtained over two hundred pounds of documentsnon-negotiable: all of that stuff Jesus said about doing
and I have stuff the crew never even knew about.for the least and the oppressed. It is non-negotiable
What I read opened more doors and I was led tofor Christians; we must forgive our enemies, and we
contact Russians, Egyptians, Israelis and others andmust love those who hate us. Whatever we do or
my phone bill was higher than a kite.do not do, we do it unto God. Every time I went
"I got the USA documents using the Freedom ofthrough a checkpoint, saw The Apartheid Wall, or
Information Act and most of the time I got what Iheard a story of oppression, I wondered how God
asked for, but sometimes, I was completely ignored.can stand this situation. I can't. I also think you were
I signed a secrecy agreement when I entered thecrucified for telling the truth."
Navy and I think one of the reasons our governmentVanunu agreed, "My human rights have been denied
has ignored me was because they didn't want tome because I am a Christian. When I was on trial, I
give me any credibility. The only negativity I met withwas treated just like a Palestinian: no human rights at
was when I received a package from Paris, France.all, and cruel and unusual punishment, all because I
Two hours after opening it up, I landed in the hospitaltold the truth. The government spread slander about
because it had some kind of poison in it. Apparentlyme, that I was a homosexual, that I hated Jews,
somebody in France didn't like me because I wasthat I wanted fame and money. What I did was
asking questions about the USS LIBERTY. I havesacrifice my life for the truth. In prison, I really began
gotten a couple of phone threats, but it's the one'sto feel like Jesus and Paul. When Jesus threw the
who won't talk to you, you have to worry about. "money changers out of the temple, it was like me in
Rich's comment caused me to reflect upon the link IDimona, exposing the Israelis' dirty secrets. I felt like
have to my website that affirms that the USAPaul, being thrown in prison for speaking the truth.
Government, Israel [and France!] are consistently in"The only real way to worship is in loving one's
the Top 20 out of 70+ countries that hit on WAWAenemies. It was not easy to love my tormentors; it
every day. Nobody from any of those governmentswas only because I felt so much like Jesus crucified
ever email me, but I have been and remain gratefulon the cross, and as if I was crucified in prison, that I
they are interested in this little sister of Christ, for Bigcould do it. It was not ever easy. I have forgiven but
Brother is out of control and it is empire that I amnot forgotten anything, and I never will. In Israel, a
challenging on the web.life sentence is twenty-five years. Even murderers go
Rich continued, "It's not the Jewish people or thefree after seventeen. They imposed the same
Jewish religion I have a problem with. It's therestrictions on me that Palestinians receive: no human
governments of America and Israel that colluded inrights at all; no phone; no visitors, except family, and
the cover-up that I have a problem with…Thisonly through an iron grill; no vacation; no holidays; and
is off topic, but I want to tell you that one day Ino gifts. Even murderers get out for vacations! I was
was just sitting there looking at a picture of the Starlocked up for eighteen years and still cannot go on
of David and I realized it had six little triangles, sixvacation; I cannot leave, and that is all I am asking
sides in the center and six points and I wondered if itfor, just to leave here. For eighteen years in prison,
was the Mark of The Beast; you know 666 from thethey even attempted to control my thoughts on
Book of Revelation."paper. I would write exactly what I wanted and they
I had never heard of such a thing but I do know thatwould censor words like kidnapped and atomic bomb.
some modern day Biblical scholars contend that theThey would show me how they chopped up my
number 666 was code for the Roman Emperor Nero.letters, but I continued to write exactly what I
The ancients used numerical codes of the alphabetwanted. They held my body, but never my spirit or
and writers were thus able to name without actuallymind."
naming those contemporary figures that were......After I said good bye to Rich I immediately flipped
politically dangerous to openly criticize.my Bible open to the Book of Revelation as I prayed
Some current day Christian fundamentalists believefor a revelation of my own. What jumped out at me
that 666 is a code for the letters of a name or titlewas:
of the Antichrist. A particular cult of modern day USA"The beast was given a mouth to utter proud
fundamentalist Christians who are pro-war,words…to blaspheme God and to slander his
pro-torture, pro-military occupation and lust forname and his dwelling place…He who has an
Armageddon best exemplify what centuries ofear, let him hear…If anyone kills…he
theologians understood to be what the termwill be killed." Rev.13: 5-10
anti-Christ is really all about."I saw a new heaven and a new earth…I saw
The term "antichrist" never appears in John'sthe Holy City, the New Jerusalem coming down out
Revelation or Daniel, two disparate works ofof heaven…and I heard a loud voice saying,
literature written three centuries apart and under"There will be no more death, or mourning or crying
very different circumstances, yet some modern dayor pain, for the old order of things has passed away."
Christian fundamentalists have woven them togetherRev. 21: 1-4
and have left behind what the author who coined theCome senators, congressmen
term 'antichrist' actually penned. The writer of 1 JohnPlease heed the call
and 2 John-the only sources in the Bible where theDon't stand in the doorway
term appears wrote:"...as you have heard that theDon't block up the hall
antichrist is coming; even now many have come..."- IFor he that gets hurt
John 2:18Will be he who has stalled
To be anti anything is to be against something. To beThere's a battle outside
anti-Christ is to be against what Jesus was all about;And it is ragin'.
and Jesus was all about forgiving, blessing and loving