{"id":2847,"date":"2008-04-11T11:28:31","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T18:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/04\/11\/the-matter-of-james-bevel\/"},"modified":"2008-04-11T11:28:31","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T18:28:31","slug":"the-matter-of-james-bevel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/04\/11\/the-matter-of-james-bevel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Matter of James Bevel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would sure like to know what series of editing attempts\u00c2\u00a0brought the following sentence into the wikipedia article on James Bevel:<\/p>\n<p><em>James Bevel [&#8230;] in order to get his ideas on education into the limelight, ran as the vice presidential candidate in 1992 on Lyndon LaRouche&#8217;s ticket.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Understand the relatively lack of imporatnce of the association with Larouche to James Bevel&#8217;s life\u00c2\u00a0story is shown in the AP article&#8217;s mention of his\u00c2\u00a0running mate status\u00c2\u00a0as the final paragraph, guaranteed to be cut off in\u00c2\u00a0just about every newspaper that picks the story up.\u00c2\u00a0 Whatever the back story of this association,\u00c2\u00a0the wikipedia sentence about &#8220;getting his ideas on education into the limelight&#8221; come across as a white-wash.\u00c2\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/alt.activism\/browse_thread\/thread\/af23d21c2c979485\">Curious items<\/a>?)<\/p>\n<p>The sick joke comes with what his &#8220;ideas on education&#8221; apparently were, as evidenced in the Incest Trial.\u00c2\u00a0 Here are his &#8220;ideas on education&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><em>The woman said her family&#8217;s communal life included &#8220;meetings&#8221; and &#8220;informal classes&#8221; in which Bevel taught his philosophy of nonviolence and offered instruction on &#8220;overcoming shame and lust and guilt about sexuality.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"body_after_content_column\"><em>As a young girl, she said, &#8220;I did see my father have sex with my mom. My only thought was they looked like a cricket.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Earlier, her mother, Helen Williams, said her former husband espoused a philosophy &#8220;that parents need to sexually orient their children.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But, she said, when Bevel once suggested she have sex with their son, &#8220;I was shocked and repulsed by the idea.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>AND<\/p>\n<p><em>The public defender told the jury to focus on the charge and not on other interactions Bevel had with Machado. Hoffman asked Bevel whether he had ever rubbed Machado&#8217;s chest &#8212; another allegation she has made but one that is not part of this criminal case.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, I have engaged in rubbing [her] chest in an educational context,&#8221; he said. Bevel testified that as a minister and a teacher, he has educated people, including his children, on the &#8220;science&#8221; of sex and marriage. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That \u00e2\u20ac\u0153educational context\u00e2\u20ac\u009d refers to Bevel&#8217;s views that sex should only be used to procreate, not in recreational, commercial or military ways. He referred to rape as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153military sex.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>In regards to rubbing a woman&#8217;s breasts, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153it&#8217;s not sex if it&#8217;s not sexual,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Bevel said.<\/p>\n<p>Several times, he distinguished between fornication and what he termed \u00e2\u20ac\u0153constitutional intimacy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Constitutional intimacy, according to Bevel, is when a man and woman have sex in order to have children, which is the way it should be done, according to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fornication to me is unlawful,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The father of 16, according to his testimony, often referred to offspring as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153economically independent institutionally sovereign scientists and citizens.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>If Bevel&#8217;s scientific definition of marriage is carried out, each girl born should take on the roles of mother, daughter, sister and wife immediately, while each boy should take on the roles of father, son, brother and husband immediately, he said.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n&#8230; Well, it is all about creating a Scientific Revolution, I suppose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would sure like to know what series of editing attempts\u00c2\u00a0brought the following sentence into the wikipedia article on James Bevel: James Bevel [&#8230;] in order to get his ideas on education into the limelight, ran as the vice presidential candidate in 1992 on Lyndon LaRouche&#8217;s ticket. Understand the relatively lack of imporatnce of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-larouche-challenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}