What the fuck is this doing on a government website???

his is from www.americasupportsyou.mil. Notice the .mil ending. This is on the motherfucking Pentagon's website:


Operation Straight Up Tour is working to help military children and families become stronger through faith-based entertainment, its founder said.

“OSU Tour is an organization dedicated to helping our armed forces with the common issues brave men and women face,” Jonathan Spinks said, referring to child rearing, troubled marriages, anger, depression, addiction, and post-traumatic stress disorder. “We’re addressing those things through entertainment.”

http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/americasupportsyou/Content.aspx?ID=44755552&SectionID=1


Okay, alarm bells should be going off in your head right now. What exactly is "faith-based entertainment"? The remainder of the article blabbers about high wire acts and comedians, but if you go to the Operation Straight Up founder's website, you get a very different story, under the headline "Military Crusade in Iraq":


We are most excited about this crusade and yes we are willing to go to the front lines with a very encouraging word straight from God, to our troops. We feel the forces of heaven have encouraged us to perform multiple crusades that will sweep through this war torn region. We’ll hold the only religious crusade of its size in the dangerous land of Iraq.

http://jspinks.org/iraq.html


And what kind of "faith-based entertainment" are they sending to Iraq?


Actor Stephen Baldwin, the youngest member of the famous Baldwin brothers, is no longer playing Pauly Shore's sidekick in comedy masterpieces like Biodome. He has a much more serious calling these days.

Baldwin became a right-wing, born-again Christian after the 9/11 attacks, and now is the star of Operation Straight Up (OSU), an evangelical entertainment troupe that actively proselytizes among active-duty members of the US military. As an official arm of the Defense Department's America Supports You program, OSU plans to mail copies of the controversial apocalyptic video game, Left Behind: Eternal Forces to soldiers serving in Iraq. OSU is also scheduled to embark on a "Military Crusade in Iraq" in the near future.


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The Left Behind videogame is a real-time strategy game that makes players commanders of a virtual evangelical army in a post-apocalyptic landscape that looks strikingly like New York City after 9/11. With tanks, helicopters and a fearsome arsenal of automatic weapons at their disposal, Left Behind players wage a violent war against United Nations-like peacekeepers who, according to LaHaye's interpretation of Revelation, represent the armies of the Antichrist. Each time a Left Behind player kills a UN soldier, their virtual character exclaims, "Praise the Lord!" To win the game, players must kill or convert all the non-believers left behind after the rapture. They also have the option of reversing roles and commanding the forces of the Antichrist.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?bid=15&pid=220960


Oh, and that's not all:


This controversy has not deterred OSU from encouraging US troops to play virtual rounds of kill or convert after a hard day of house-to-house searches and counterinsurgency warfare against Iraqi insurgents. What's more, OSU's "Freedom Packages" include a copy of evangelical pastor Jonathan McDowell's More Than A Carpenter -- a book advertised as "one of the most powerful evangelism tools worldwide" -- that is double-published in Arabic. Considering that only a handful of American troops speak Arabic, the book is ostensibly intended for proselytizing efforts among Iraqi civilians.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?bid=15&pid=220960


All with the blessing of the fucking Pentagon.

Thank you, Supreme Court, for protecting Bush's "faith-based initiatives" so bullshit artists like Stephen Baldwin can go on a "crusade" in Iraq spreading "faith based entertainment" to our soldiers which encourages them to kill or convert the unfaithful, all of it funded by our tax dollars.

Fucking sickening.