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Springmeier Laments "Merciless" Attitude to Criminals

February 27, 2011


zebrauniforms2.jpgEditor's Note: In a letter to Henry Makow dated Feb. 2, Fritz writes that he still does not know why he was re-arrested on January 12. He is told only that he is "under investigation." He still hopes and believes his release date will remain March 26. "I was not doing anything illegal, nor was i doing anything wrong, so all I can do is speculate about what pretext was used to arrest me."

Fritz is "trying to make the best of the situation. it's difficult ...when you're locked up 20 hours a day,not to mention poor living conditions and marginally nutritional food. It is what it is. Prison is prison.   I've done it before and I'm able to do it again. At the moment I know basically nothing about what is happening in my situation. My current address is:

Fritz Springmeier Reg No. 65941-065
Federal detention center
P.O. 6000
Sheridan, OR 97378"

Here is a new article written by Fritz,
included in this letter. Fritz has served eight years for a crime he did not commit. 

by Fritz Springmeier

(for henrymakow.com)

Sometimes a bad idea is passed down for so many generations it becomes entrenched in a culture that has lost track of where the mistaken thinking originated.

In 1623, beginning with a separatist Puritan group called the Pilgrims, and then continuing with a mainstream congregationalist Puritans under John Withrop a few years later in 1630-31, a great experiment was started to create a model Christian community.

As the Puritans believed in predestination, you were either of the elect or you weren't, and that was that They didn't believe in evangelism or grace, so much as identifying whether you were of the elect. And if you weren't -- well, there wasn't anything that could be done for you because obviously God made you an object for destruction. Many Old Testament concepts were used as the basis of their rules. As there was no segregation of church and state in their theocracy, the state was run by the church, and yet only stock holders of the Bay Company were allowed to vote. The company and church ran things.

If you broke the rules, you were obviously not of the Elect, and as a convicted criminal you were held to be unredeemable.

That is why the Puritans tortured and actually branded their faces for breaking the law. Or as a lighter punishment, whipped the person until his or her back was a bloody mess and forever scarred. Once a convicted criminal, always a criminal, because that obviously was the person's nature and his state of being predetermined by God Himself.

This was not a one-time mistake, a lapse of proper thinking or perhaps immaturity, but a sign that the person was permanently lost and not of the Elect. The criminal was supposed by them to have had a permanently depraved soul which was permanently lost.

It could be interjected at this point that this unmerciful attitude not only is self-fulfilling prophesy ensuring that the Puritan's criminals remained criminals; but also it had the effect of helping the Puritan experiment to fail. Such harshness was no shining model to the world.

And yet years later, this unmerciful attitude was still the common view in New England when the Bay Colony became the new state of Massachusetts in the new USA. This new nation created the world's first two penitentiaries which served as models as models around the world.

Representatives from around the world studied these first first two pens, the one at Auburn NY, based on Puritan thinking, the one at Philadelphia, Eastern State Pen, based on Quaker thinking.

Like the American invention of toilet paper, the concept of penitentiaries soon spread worldwide. Europe liked the Quaker idea. American liked the Puritan model. One of the original wardens, Warden Elam Lynds, who grew up with the Puritan view that criminals are unredeemable, permanently flawed characters, promoted the Puritan view.  His promotion worked as the cynical attitude persists and permeates America today, even to the point of many criminals accepting it.

History could teach us the negative consequences of this Puritan thinking, but who cares, let alone studies history? After all, the Puritan experiment to be a model community came to nothing Will the great experiment called the USA also cease to be a shining model for the world as we lead the world in incarcerating, criminalizing and demonizing our population?

While criminalizing large segments of our population during Prohibition proved counter productive, we persist in doing the same today, doing more harm than good.

On my part, I refuse to accept the label of unredeemable. It takes a strong self-image to ignore most peoples' misguided judgmental viewpoint, but to acquiesce is to allow the "flock of chickens" to peck one to death." None of us has to contribute to the prejudicial stereotyping. It is a choice. So why can't we make better choices?   

  

 




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Comments for "Springmeier Laments "Merciless" Attitude to Criminals "

Debra said (March 1, 2011):

Whilst Mr. Springmeier's research covered many topics, I believe work on mind-control and
the relation to NASA was most troublesome to them, since technology comes from NASA
which may be a primary central department controlling everything from ground to air to TV.
I'm not a researcher of these things, yet, observe the connection between innocent soldiers.

John Hill ( the producer of the "7/7 Ripple Effect" film) has also been imprisoned, and for no
good reason, or any offense ("what did he do?"), but once one views His film, I firmly believe it is worrisome to them, and not the connection to the catastrophe with the Gov't, because arrogantly they could care less how much the people hate their Gov't and actually seem
to fester that sentiment, but what worries them is if/when people would wake-up and "see" the degree of vast mind-control and literally
everywhere, affecting everything most people do day in and day out even to those that think they're awake, there would be a marked effectiveness against them and finally the people would see how they give their personal power away to it.
And that, The Illuminati Satanists fear, like the magicians hiding
behind the tricks of illusion.


Brad said (February 28, 2011):

While I agree that those who can be rehabilitated should be, there are many of those who cannot and need to be locked up and kept away for the protection of society. The attitude toward wrongdoers in the USA in some ways might be unduly harsh, but up north in your own country of Canada criminals are treated with kid gloves and most of them just laugh at the lenient sentences given to them.

I think a return to hard labor would be a good idea. This would achieve two goals. One, the prisoner would be too tired at the end of the day to think about anything but sleep and this would keep him out of trouble while in prison. Two, the time in prison would be so unpleasant that it would have a deterrent effect on the criminal. He simply wouldn't want to go back to performing hard labor.

You make prisons pleasant places where the criminal has access to luxuries and allow him free access to socialize with the other prisoners, you are simply creating a place which breeds the planning of crime. Nothing is achieved as the criminal just considers it the "price of doing business" ala the Canadian model.

I don't really think that crediting the Puritans or Calvinists with giving us the model of the prisons we have today is realistic. Prisons today are run by Secular Humanists and no flavor of Christianity ever comes into the picture. The concept of "sin" is totally alien to these people.


Austin said (February 28, 2011):

I quite like Fritz' recent article too - the faults and failings of Calvin and the Puritans should be exposed. What should be remembered is that it was largely due to the RC church's influence, that Europe suffered the Dark Ages and as a result, also suffered the terrifying Inquisition, which lasted for hundreds of years, and killed aproximately 60 million people. Not all of them were protestants, but as in Hitler's time last century, many of them were non converting pagans, Romanies (gypsies) and many Jews!

Admittedly, some of Calvin's doctrines were closer to the RC faith, than the rest of the Reformers, but it must be remembered that the "Reformation" was just that - an attempt to reform the RC church, not to become a separatist movement.

I would take issue with Jeannon in him/her stating that protestants were of the 'Jewish revolutionary spirit'. The church which began more than 500 years ago, was on a wilderness journey (like ancient Israel) coming out of the spiritual darkness and horrible bondages of Rome, and God in his divine wisdom imparted progressive revelation to certain individuals and movements, and in so doing actually restored (not reformed) the protestant church, back to 1st Century Christianity.

Sadly, the 'church' we see today is a far cry from those who made trememndous sacrifices and evangelised the known world in their time, with their missionary exploits. However, we have been warned that 'certain men have crept in unawares' and the church has been infiltrated and watered down to the point where genuine christian people are leaving in droves from the "merchant church" (the one that sells Jesus Christ for money) and are meeting in their homes like their 1st century brethren before them. This is where Christ will find His faithful people in the end times - NOT inside the 'magisterium' of Rome...

Surely the end of this wicked generation can't be all that far away...


Robert said (February 28, 2011):

The United States has been an example to the world in some respects, but the heritage of Puritanism is its Achilles heel, for it causes people to act out of judgement rather than out of love, which is the only motivation that will lead ultimately to good. Of course not all Americans are Puritans, but the ill effects of this philosophy on their institutions and relations with other peoples has been deleterious, and sometimes catastrophic.

I remember years ago reading a comment by a native American about incarceration, which he could not understand at all and thought was both useless and savagely cruel. For him, when somebody in the tribe went astray you sat him down with elders and straightened him out. (If he didn't improve, I suppose he was banished.) It's a pity that the native approach, which assumed intrinsic worth in others, didn't catch on more when Europeans settled the continent.

The natives had a culture of sharing too, which might have saved us from the idiocy of widespread economic hardship persisting in an economy bursting with material wealth of every kind and capable of producing many times more. Again, this is a direct result of the Puritan obsession with judgement, which is the antithesis of the example Jesus set by the distribution of loaves and fishes to hungry crowds. [Be careful here to distinguish between distribution and (socialist) redistribution, the latter always involving theft.]


Jeannon said (February 28, 2011):

Thank you, Fritz, for a great article.

I deepened my understand about many things regarding the "development" of Christianity since the Protestant Reformation.

Calvin and Luther both decided they knew best how to interpret the scriptures. So all of Protestatism, which infests all of what we call America, is Judaized heretical reading of the Old Testament and the total absence of sound Christian doctrine.

You can "proof text" the Old Testament to justify just about any depraved behavior, just as Henry VIII did with his multiple wives and break from the Roman Catholic Church and establishing himself and England as "the Church." Calvin murdered a whole bunch of Catholics in Geneva.

Dr. Jones, author of "The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit" often says something like "Protestants are basically Christians who want to act like Jews." Protestantism is Judaized Christianity

The infestation of the Jewish revolutionary spirit grabs hold of a people in an era and then lets go and moves on to like where it is today - neocons - neoconservatism.

The Calvinist Church of England and the attitudes toward predestination as eternally damned from birth is the kind of despostism and totalitarianism that always results when the interpretation of scriptures is separated from the magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church.


Tom said (February 28, 2011):

Fritz needs to understand that HE is truly 1 of God's chosen and is suffering the same fate as his King. Please understand this Fritz!!! Your bravery gives the rest of us an exemplary model. You may be the 1st of many and there are many (ie soviet Russian Saints) who preceded you.


Jerry said (February 28, 2011):

Loved the article by Mr. Springmeier! Calvinism is such nonsense and one of the best quotes that I have ever come across that best sums up the error of their ways is this from Jay Atkinson:
"The enlightened spiritual mind will accept predestination as a result of the foreknowledge of God, and not the exclusive unconditional election of puritan preferences."

People have woefully forgotten to take into consideration God's foreknowledge of events and there is no better illustration of that than the Gog and Magog of Ezekiel 38 and 39 which is not Germany and Russia and certainly has got nothing to do with Israel as well past, present or future!!!!

Nothing!!! It is simply a test that occurs after the one thousand year reign of Christ on this planet whereby God with the release of Satan from his prison {REV. 20} will learn who actually belongs to Him and who doesn't. These Gog and Magog therefore are destroyed because of rebellion! It is or will be an act of treason on their part and for that they will be deserving of the destruction coming upon them as foretold by God. AND ISN'T IT INTERESTING THAT THIS IS GIVEN TO US BFOREHAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MEANING GOD WANTS PEOPLE TO BE EDUCATED ABOUT THE FUTURE WHICH ULTIMATELY MEANS THAT THESE PEOPLE CALLED GOG AND MAGOG WILL TRULY BE TRAITORS OF THE WORST KIND. FOR THEIR EYES WILL BE OPENED GOING IN OR SHOULD BE OPENED GIVEN HOW THIS IS ALREADY WRITTEN AND FOREWARNED. ITS AS SIMPLE AS THAT!!!

AS FOR THE PURITANS IT COMES DOWN TO GOD KNOWING BEFOREHAND THOSE WHO HAVE REPENTED OF THEIR SINS AND NOT THIS CHOOSING OUT THOSE WHO ARE BORN DIFFERENTLY FROM ANY OTHER. WHAT UNIMAGINABLE NONSENSE.

No wonder there are those who have regarded Calvinism as one of the most bizarre and dangerous teachings ever to come from the mouth of so-called theologians!
TRULY ST. PAUL WOULD NEVER HAVE BOUGHT INTO THIS NONSENSE.


Henry Makow received his Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Toronto in 1982. He welcomes your comments at