Dont support Glen Innes, NSW guys. Not unless its the committed christians. They have had a hard time under the pro-Celtic mob in that town.
I was in Glen Innes on the Sunday of the two days of the Celtic festival in 2005 and I was in a lively christian church and you could feel the oppression in the air from the dark side of the evil spirit realm upon that small church group. The occult folk were in town for the festival and had set up their stalls all over town...and invisible powers had come with them.
A few of days later when I got home I wrote to the Glen Innes Examiner "letters" column and questioned the Celtic heritage thing and all of the occult behaviour that it had brought into the town. Not long afterwards a lady from the area rang me up, a really on-fire-for Jesus christian lady, and spoke to me about some dead (read sacrificed) chickens the local police had found up at the standing ring of stones above the township (stonehenge built all over again) but were keeping quiet about it.
I subsequently exposed this in the Examiner with another letter that the editor checked out with Glen Innes police to see if it was a true story...and had found it truthful enough a story sufficient to have my letter printed. Backwards and forwards, once the chicken slaughter had been exposed, went the two-way chat on the Examiner web Your Say column until after a some weeks all of the talk got deleted. I assumed the editor came under so much pressure that he eventually buckled under the weight from the pro-witchcraft group...and he simply gave up.
The pro-witchcraft group in town had much influence on the Severn Shire Council that they had a story on the council website about a mythological figure called Arwen. Occult witchcraft stuff it was. The Pagans are into this tree hugger stuff. This too disappeared from the Council website no long after exposure of the dead chickens...the Council running and hiding in their embarrassment.

Managing slack government:

An ostracism system where the leader not necessarily the party can be removed by the people mid-office. The ancient Greeks did this. Obviously, we would need something more sophisted than black mables, but the priciple would remain the same.

I think in the US one state [California?] a governor can be ostracised/removed by voters.

Remember politicians at the end of the day our temporary employees.

Invisible oppression, stalls around town - yep thats got to be far worse than being killed, jailed etc which occult practitioners have dealt with for centuries from cristains. Dead chickens, dam and I was thinking about going out and buying one for lunch.

The idea of sacrificing one as part of a religious ceremony is sick but as long as it's done quickly and with the least pain possible not so bad in the big scheme of things.

Did any of the local churchs have chicken on the sandwiches they had at the fellowship lunch they probably had as part of their spiritual warfare against dark powers that weekend?

The description of christians being oppressed does not seem to have any actual content other than christains not liking competition. Kind of like Wollies or Coles complaining about being oppressed by the local IGA.

R0bert

Oliver the way things are set up now it is those who complain that are ostrasized, the ones who do the wrong thing are promoted.

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Gibo. What you doing is old school, religion has severed its purpose.

I feel sorry for you.

For those wondering why christains might not have a lot of cause to be concerned about the morality of a couple of chooks being sacrificed as part of a religious ceremony you may want to consider what their god has in her history

http://bible.cc/2_chronicles/7-5.htm "King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. Thus the king and all the people dedicated the house of God."

There are other examples of large numbers of animals being slaughtered and commands from their god to do so in times past.

R0bert