With “The Passion of the Christ”, Mel Gibson proved that the Truth is a hot commodity with people.  That incensed the Regime, the powerful and the wealthy who keep their position in disregard of the real needs of the people.       

            The Regime controls the United States of America.  It consists of the socio-economic and cultural elites.  They are elites only because they have power which is garnered through money and all that it can buy.  They are not elites because of their wisdom or goodness. 

            Diane Sawyer did not get to be a hostess on ABC’s “Good Morning America” because of her commitment to the Roman Catholic Faith.  She got the job for other reasons, but she had to agree to say the Regime’s party line and do its bidding.  And her latest mission occurred on October 12 and 13 when she interviewed Mel Gibson.  One of the pre-approved lines she spouted was “As we said, it is a phenomenon of American life that a Hollywood actor and director has become the fulcrum for discussion of some of the toughest issues in American society.”

            “Some of the toughest issues in American society” refers to “anti-semitism.”  That term is never explicitly defined by ABC or by Sawyer, but we can infer from them that it means statements, or actions, that Jews may not like.  Arabs, certainly the vast majority of semitic people (worldwide, there are 300 million Arabs compared to about 14 million Jews), are not included when it comes to “anti-semitism”.  “Anti-semitism”, according to ABC and Sawyer applies only to Jews.   

            So, allow me to ask you a number of questions.  In your life, how many times have you seen Jews physically beaten?  How many times have you seen Jews discriminated against for jobs or in the professions?  How many times have you seen Jews made to scour the streets?  How many times have you seen Jews denied housing or food or personal items?  How many times have you seen Jewish houses burned? How many times have you seen Jews ridiculed or attacked on television, in the movies, in newspapers, in magazines? 

            Depictions of Jews have always been favorable or sympathetic in the movies and in the media.   Jews are represented in the powerful, culture forming professions such as law and media and academia to a degree that is 10 to 12 times their representation in the general population.  There are no pogroms against Jews.  There are no persecutions of Jews.  That all may have been another time, and another place.  But it is not so in the United States of America today.

            Based on our own experiences, don’t we have to conclude that anti-semitism is not, like Sawyer says, “one of the toughest issues in American society”?  Don’t we have to conclude that it is not even an issue for those of us in the rank and file of this society?  Anti-semitism then must only have importance for the Regime.  Does it not follow then that the Regime has made the claim of anti-semitism a central issue (perhaps even, dare I say, a tool?) in exercising control of this society? It does not seem the Regime cares that much about Catholics.   (Remember the statements by Ted Turner a few years back in which he used an ethnic slur against Pope John Paul II – where was Diane Sawyer then, or does she only focus on those who have been drinking?)

            Mel Gibson has apparently violated one of the Regime’s rules.  Sawyer of “Good Morning America” and ABC, powerful tools of the Regime, were sent out to bring him back into line, and to do it publicly.  He was questioned on national, no international, television.

            What did he do to merit such attention and handling by the Regime?  He supposedly said, while admittedly intoxicated, the following:  “Are you a Jew?”, “F***ing Jews” and “Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.”  He made these statements to a police officer who, oddly enough, was a Jew.  Mel also made some remarks about a policewoman’s anatomy, but that was not the object of the ABC-Sawyer inquisition.  No.  The whole thing centered around comments about Jews made by Mel Gibson, who was intoxicated and had apparently been driving an automobile at a high rate of speed, to a police officer who was a Jew.  But the Regime sponsored public interrogation was about more than that.

            For the Regime, it was a way to punish Mel and to discredit one of the greatest films of all time – “The Passion of the Christ”.  The way to do that was to claim Mel is an anti-semite, and that the film is anti-semitic.  Why, you ask? 

            That motion picture revived the faith of millions.  It gave hope to countless men and women who were suffering silently in their day to day lives.  They could make sense of their miseries and join it with those endured by the Son of God.  Hope is a dangerous thing to the Regime, for it gives people the strength to resist, or, at least not to be completely dominated.

            The Regime failed to discredit Mel and “The Passion”, and, interestingly enough, that failure occurred on October 13 – the 89^th anniversary of the miracle of the sun at Fatima, Portugal.  That day in 1917, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Sr. Lucia and her two companions for the last time, and the Blessed Virgin performed a miracle that involved the sun and was observed many miles away by nearly 70,000 people.

            Mel Gibson succeeded in showing the Regime to be hypocrites.  After all, it had supported the notion of alcoholism as a disease, and that is what Mel says he has – a drinking disease.  Throughout society, a culture formed by the Regime, alcoholism and drug abuse is something to be treated, and, with that, mercy to be shown to those suffering from this condition.  Judging by the uproar, the show itself, and the malevolent aging face of Sawyer, that was the farthest thing from the mind of the Regime and its lackies.  So, here was the Regime trying to hold Mel guilty for statements made while he was drunk.  In trying to impale Mel Gibson, the rulers ended up hoisting themselves up on the petard of hypocrisy.

            As Mel so correctly noted, many horrible things are said when people are drunk.  And, in so stating, Mel relegated racial hatred, such as anti-semitism, to its rightful place – just one of many terrible hateful things that people do.  He defeated the Regime’s attempt to make anti-semitism the only, or the greatest, mortal sin of the New World Order.

            Then there came the point in the interview, right at the end of the October 12 program, when they thought they had him.  Sawyer asked Mel “But if it’s not in you, is it gonna come out?”  Mel replied “It has to, it has have [sic] some kind of place somewhere.  And you have to ask where is it coming from?”  That exchange was trumpeted by the Regime as the way to prove its case – that anti-semitism was already in Mel Gibson.  And if anti-semitism was in him, then “The Passion of the Christ” must be anti-semitic for that is his motion picture. 

            This exchange lead ABC to make the remarkably and patently false statements that “He admits they [anti-semitism] was in him” and that Mel “acknowledged that even if you say bigoted things while drunk, it’s no excuse.”  That is not what Mel said, and, as a minimum, in the spirit of fairness, ABC, Sawyer and the Regime should have given Mel a break.  (But mercy is not one of the values or characteristics of the rulers of America, and so when their day of reckoning arrives, it will be a terrible one, indeed.)  What Mel clearly said, and what ABC chose to ignore, was the following:

            “Sawyer:  People say alcohol just liberates you to say what you really feel.  It’s what you really feel.  It’s not changing.

            Gibson:  Oh, that’s patently false.”

No benefit of the doubt given to the Roman Catholic – not a new story there, is it? 

            On the following morning, October 13, Mel told Sawyer he did not know where the words came from that night.  ABC, knowing this was his response, intentionally broke the interview immediately before that answer so as to give the watching audience the impression that Mel admitted anti-semitism was in him.  Those actions are fundamentally manipulative and dishonest.     

            When asked if he thought the Jews were responsible for all the wars, Mel Gibson said “Strictly speaking…that’s not true because it takes two to tango”.  And he said that Jews are not blameless when it comes to the growing, and alarming, tensions in the Middle East over the last 40 years.  Undoubtedly, this fairness concerned the Regime which has a real interest in showing one side as good and the other as bad in the Middle East.  Perhaps that is why Sawyer conducted “several rounds on the Middle East” with Gibson that were not aired.  We only heard him say that “I don’t believe that Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.”  And, technically, that is more or less true.

            Mel Gibson used the interview to counter-attack.  He explained how he had been wronged by the Hollywood establishment and by the Regime when he made “The Passion of the Christ” He came out swinging when he said “I probably had my rights violated in many different ways as an American…as an artist, as a Christian, as, just as a human being….”  He went on to say  “The film came out, it was released and you could have heard a pin drop, you know.  Even the crickets weren’t chirping.  But the other thing I never heard was one single word of apology….”

            Mel Gibson was being called on the carpet for statements made when he was drunk, and his accusers have issued no apology for the vicious attacks they launched against him when they were sober.  Giants of Hollywood like the diseased Jerry Lewis, and a number of other Jewish producers, actors, and directors called Mel a jerk and demanded that no one have anything to do with him.  Are these the Christian values of forgiveness and solidarity that we see being expressed towards Mel Gibson in Tinseltown?  No, but then whose values are they?  And why are they so preeminent in society? 

            Then came the attacks to divide him from his wife and from his father, Hutton Gibson.  As to his wife, Mel put himself at the mercy of the mother of his seven children.  We can sense she will be true to her marital vows, her Christian life, and forgive him 7 times 70.  As to Mel’s father, Sawyer and the bloodlusters wanted Mel to finger his father as the one responsible for his actions.  It fits into the worldview that says people are responsible for the errors of their parents and forebears, except for the Jews.  Hutton Gibson has questioned the extent of the Jewish Holocaust, and this is a mortal sin under the moral code of the New World Order.  Mel would not do what they wanted.  He took personal responsibility, and Sawyer looked stupid.

            Mel spoke of God, and insisted that we need God in our lives, especially if we have to deal with alcoholism.  In doing so, he recognized that God, not man, must be our shepherd.  Some would say that is the very reason a war is being waged half way around the world – to end this reliance on Him, or what some may think He is. 

            Mel spoke of the brokenness of all people, a uniquely Roman Catholic concept that means we all suffer the effects of sin, particularly Original Sin.  He correctly noted that there are bad people of all races and creeds.  This kind of talk is forbidden in America 2006, but here he is saying it to millions in the USA and around the world. 

            The Regime wants us to believe that there are bad people, bad religions.  And they, the members of the Regime, are immune from any failings.  They are infallible and they will infallibly dictate who it is that is broken, who is evil, who is bad, and who we must war against.  Can anyone doubt this about the Regime?  Years ago the enemy was the Southern white man, then it became men in general, and, of course, it has always been the Roman Catholic Church.  Now, we are being told to go fight the Moslems.  Like dogs, we are to respond to our master’s orders. 

            Mel Gibson, humble servant of Jesus Christ, reminds us that our value is not dictated by the powerful in society.  Our value comes from having been created by God.  And once that is established, people are free for they have hope.  They can appeal to a higher authority than the New World Order.  In a few divinely inspired moments on ABC on Friday morning, we were told that we were free.  We caught a glimpse of hope.

            Hypocritical.  Unforgiving.  Unapologetic.  Unrepentant.  Illegitimate.  That is how Mel Gibson made Hollywood, his accusers, and the Regime appear.  He beat them again. 

            Mel Gibson must have followed the Gospel admonition to trust in the Holy Spirit to give him the words for that moment because his responses confounded and infuriated his accusers, and I might add, our accusers.  His weakness, his brokenness, was his strength for we know that is how the Lord uses us.  God takes the weakest, the most broken, those despised by man and puts them to work confounding the mighty, and rescuing the lowly.

            This whole incident was another round in the fight that Satan, and his followers,  have waged for more than 2,000 years now against the Son of God, and His followers. 

            Satan lost this round.  Christ won.

            Mel Gibson is a good foot soldier, a true laborer in the vineyard of the Kingdom of God.  We should all aspire to such service.