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James Carder - Born in Alaska in 1950.

Ethnic background is a mix of Alaska Native (Eskimo)and Irish on mother's side; French and English on father's side.

Mother is a local girl from Skagway, Alaska.

Father is from Fort Monroe, Virginia.
 

               The Community of Lutak, 10 miles from the City of Haines, Alaska

                                      Chilkoot Lake and Chilkoot River

                                              Chilkoot State Park  

Father was employed with the old U.S. Army Petroleum Division out of Fort Richardson, Alaska at the Haines PDO.

  Photo Courtesy of © marenl100      

                                        Haines/Port Chilkoot, Alaska

 Haines Official Website

 Haines Video 

Raised up on pumping stations and pipelines and at 'Lutak' near Chilkoot Lake where father maintained a homestead under the old Homestead Act.

 

 Photo Courtesy of © vonnette

             'God's Country' - Chilkoot Lake Alaska State Park, Haines, Alaska

 
Attended 'Alaska's First Annual Boy's State' in 1967.

Served in Viet Nam between 1969-1972, with the U.S. Army.

Served as 'Warden' for the American Embassy in Hanoi, 1999 (Clinton Administration - Kosovo Crisis), under the Democratic Ambassador to Viet Nam, Pete Peterson, while working in the newsroom of Viet Nam News.  

                            
               
 Past political affiliations:                          

        Republican Party for 25 years

        RNC

        U.S. Defense Committee

        U.S. Republican Senatorial Inner Circle

Joined Democratic Party in 2003 in protest of the invasion of Iraq

                                                                             

  Photo Courtesy of vgregor    
 
Tribal Affiliations:

         Chilkoot Indian Association  (It was upon this tribe's ancestral
         lands that the old U.S. Army PDO was built in Haines. The lands 
         hence may revert back to the tribe (current news on this issue),           hitherto referred to as the C.I.A.)
    

         The Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska

        scholarship recipient

    

        SeaAlaska Corporation

        shareholder  

 

  Photo Courtesy of © ohaverma
                      Famed 'Chilkat Blanket' made with wild mountain goat hair.                                                  

Professional: 

Hold a BA degree in Management and Marketing from Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage.

An AA degree in Liberal Arts from the University of Alaska, S.E.

 

Occupation:

International Contract Teacher/Corporate Trainer. Currently under contract with Qatar Petroleum/IMTIAZ Management Training Center at Doha, Qatar (In the Middle East).

 

 The Most Cherished Human Attribute I admire:

'The capacity of a person to forgive'.        

            
Moral Compass:

Judeo-Christian (Abrahamic), no denominational preference

 

On Capital Punishment 

Unlike many, I do not support the death penalty unless it is presented to the condemned as an act of mercy, ie. the prisoner is given the choice of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, or the death penalty.

I also believe that if the condemned chooses death over life in prison that the means of death should be the prisoner's choice and self-induced (suicide)...not a punishment forced upon the condemned by the State. (Just as Jesus did not interfere as Judas proceeded to take his own life.)

I believe as I do about the death penalty because I do not believe in the infallibility of human justice, and I believe in the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the example he left for us to follow.

 

On Roe vs. Wade:

"I believe that abortion should be banned except to save the life of the mother and that any decision to abort should only be made by the father of the child. If the father of the child is not available, then the decision to abort should be made by the doctor or person doing the abortion."

This conviction is predicated on my belief that 'life begins at conception' and that the taking of the life of an innocent unborn child does not justify rape, fornication or adultery of any kind by an adult.

Two wrongs simply don't make a right.

Otherwise: fornication, rape and adultery cannot be morally corrected or justified by the murder of an unborn child."

Once these sins are committed, the only redemption from them is repentance and faith in Jesus Christ.

Those who believe and repent will live by faith that their sins have been forgiven by God...and this is the justice and mercy of the Lord.

...which says, 'the JUST shall live by faith'...and 'woe unto those who keep the poor from judgment...'

'Judgment' in this case meaning both correction or condemnation.

 

With an End-Time Attitude:

Re:22:10: ...And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
Re:22:11: He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
Re:22:12: And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
Re:22:13: I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Re:22:14: Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Re:22:15: For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie...

-The Holy Bible, King James Version 

 

  by James Carder

  A Democrat from the State of Oregon 

 

Due to Rotate back to the States in June, 2008.