Poles, Jews, Rob J. King and other enemies of fascist thought ;-)

I am a HUGE Duke Blue Devils basketball fan! Coach K, Coach Johnny Dawkins and of course Coach Wojo have continued the Duke basketball tradition of excellence from their 1980's and 1990's playing days (Dawkins and Wojo) to now form a formidable coaching trio that will solidify Duke as the College Basketball Program of ALL TIME (I am a bit biased having been a "Cameron Crazy" for 3 years!).

Part of what makes Duke basketball so powerful is its staunch Polish Catholic heritage. To be Polish has historically meant to also be a strong Catholic. Coach K was even invited to speak at the Duke University Divinity School a couple of years ago in order to give a presentation on Christian Leadership!

Jews are also integral to Duke University's institutional identity. The Jewish student population has historically been very active, usually religious and all in order to further human rights across the globe.

Now there is me. I am a "double Dukie" having completed two master's degrees at Duke, having served as a Resident Advisor and then Area Coordinator for Residence Life, having served on a Dean selection committee, worked as youth pastor to the Duke Chapel kids (like the former Duke President's son! ;-) and I am about as 'Duke blue' as you will find. I even guarded former Duke basketball swingman Ricky Price in pick-up basketball one time. 6'5" Ricky Price against 5'11 and 1/2" Rob King (6' officially according to the Army ;-)

Sadly, in spite of the goodness of America, goodness politically (like my tree-hugging Seattle liberal environmentalist friend Chad Lupkes :-], goodness militarily (like my close Shorecrest Prep and Davidson College fellow football player, Major Curtis Burns), and goodness religiously (like my super-nun friend, Sr. Jacinta Krecek, a Franciscan who can play Praise Music with the best of any Evangelical Protestant . . . ;-), in spite of such goodness in America, we are also a nation that has many elements of fascism cropping up.

For example, I have personally witnessed fellow Officers in the Army ridiculed for only being women or possibly even subtle anti-African American racism.

I have also seen politics utterly corrupted, say for example how my friend Dr. Mark Klein, a retired Jewish psychiatrist suddenly had his Iowa Straw Poll vote vandalized in 2006 (he was in the lead, and if such sabotage hadn't happened, Mark Klein might have been in the Mitt Romney front-runner position by now!)

I have also seen religion become utterly corrupt, whether it is Liberal Mainline Protestantism that no longer believes in anything Christian (for example, Bishop Sprague of the United Methodist Church who didn't even believe in Jesus' Resurrection) OR corrupt Judaism that has forsaken her covenant with YHWH and instead become a bunch of secular humanists addicted to prescription pharmaceuticals to alleviate their supposed 'mental illnesses.' Give me TRUE JUDAISM like my good friend Mark Klein, a Moses-like Father and keep your secular humanist commies to yourselves in Brooklyn.

Anyways, will you not join me in opposing FASCISM in all its forms! Like the Poles, the Jews and myself, yes it will be a battle to fight American FASCISM, but like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we shall prevail!

IN JESUS' NAME, FOR FREEDOM, FOR FAMILY, FOR PRO-LIFE, FOR MILITARY FAMILIES,
Rob J. King