Author Bios
Virgil Vaduva
Virgil Vaduva is a Greene County journalist, author, philosopher and blogger writing on issues of religion, politics and liberty. Virgil was born in Communist Romania and was actively involved in the anti-Communist revolution of 1989. He is passionate about freedom and liberty above all, and he is involved in the local community at many levels.
The term Deep Politics was created by English Professor Peter Scott to illustrate how cultures, societies, nations and groups of people tend to collectively and involuntarily suppress facts because of the social and psychological cost of not doing so. In other words, humans collectively suppress facts which are inconvenient and difficult to face, and often do this involuntarily, almost at an unconscious level. There is no better time when Deep Politics has been readily manifested in the public lives of Americans than now, when the public has been suddenly forced to face the actions of its Government, all thanks to WikiLeaks.
Having been lately fascinated with the Anabaptist way of life, I just watched the documentary “The Amish, A People of Preservation.” The documentary had the strange allure of a home-made movie, and throughout the entire film a strong thread common to all Amish emerged: they do not want to become slaves to Progress at the expense of their families, communities and Faith.
On Sept. 8, Mennonite Central Committee U.S. sent an open pastoral letter to Anabaptist churches. The letter calls for congregations to "redouble" efforts in reaching out to Muslims in their communities "amid increasing anti-Islam sentiment." Here is the letter:
A City of Xenia councilman is now the subject of an investigation by the Greene County Prosecutor's office after what appears to have been a road-rage incident in which the councilman followed a car through city streets and eventually stopped the vehicle and displayed a silver badge to the occupants.
The Christmas holiday of 2009 was also the 20 years anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, a spectacular and epic struggle by millions of people for freedom, individual liberty and justice. It coincided with the fall of Communist regimes across Europe, and the symbolic end of Soviet domination of a good portion of the world. These events prompted me to take a fresh look at what I believe the future holds for the United States of America.
