 "NASA and Norway, in a joint project, launched a meteorological rocket to study the aurora borealis, but the Russian foreign Ministry never received notice of the launch due to a clerical error by an inexperienced staffer. As a result . . . Russia almost launched its nuclear missiles aimed at the United States. Only then-President Boris Yeltsin, not believing the West would attack, held off the launch. . . ." "China is icily, meticulously crafting what it is confident will be the ultimate biological weapon of mass destruction." "This unelected international board [the WTO] that issued the judgment [against the U.S.] ruled that $2.2 billion of U.S. tax reductions for American business violates the WTO's rules and therefore these tax cuts must be abolished by October of 2000." [Who says the WTO isn't taking away our sovereignty?] "President Clinton issued his Presidential Decision Directive 25 as part of an ongoing plan to surrender the U.S. military to the United Nations. . . . This practice [of issuing PDDs] is part and parcel of the President's continued use of Executive Orders that illegally make law." "Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, in his column in USA Today for January 7, 1999, argued that America's domestic policy is now being run by the Federal Reserve, and that our nation's foreign policy is under the purview of the International Monetary Fund and the Treasury Department." "Walking through the forest is harmful to the environment, according to a proposed rule by the Forest Service that critics say would restrict public access through the nation's forests. 'Unwanted or non-native plant species can be transported on vehicles and clothing by users of [forest] roads, ultimatesly displacing native species,' said the proposal printed March 3 in the Federal Register." "The December 1999 issue of the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin offers police officers guidelines to use in conducting traffic stops with suspected 'right-wing extremists.'" [One can only assume 'left-wing extremists' pose no threat.] "On January 26th, the Clinton administration signed on to an 'Optional Protocol' of the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child. The protocol would ban from combat all soldiers younger than 18 years of age. . . . Human Rights Watch gleefully observed that this was the first time that the United States had changed its national policy for globalist agreements. . . ." [Who now still thinks the UN isn't taking away American sovereignty?] "Jerry Christman, a 48-year old logger who lives in Athens County, Ohio was charged last month with a misdemeanor for possession of an endangered rattlesnake and faces a fine of $1000 and six months in jail." "[A pregnant] illegal immigrant . . . slipped in from Mexico, was abandoned by her smugglers and then apprehended by the Border Patrol. She popped one out while inside the van, and presto, the baby is a United States citizen by law! . . . The child is a full U.S. citizen with full benefits, SSI, welfare, childcare, medicate, ACLU-care. It is unlimited. Do you realize that child has more benefits than you?" "Suffering from sex discrimination lawsuits, the New York City Fire Department aggressively recruited women to join . . . Of those taking the physical exam -- which included exercises such as raising ladders and feeding hose -- 92 percent failed." "The American Federation of Government Employees has 17,000 more members than it did before Vice President Al Gore began his 'reinventing government' crusade, observes columnist Paul Gigot." "According to calculations made by the National Center for Policy Analysis, the average U.S. couple annually pays $1,141 more in taxes because they are married." "Three San Deigo students found a gun while walking to school. After briefly picking it up to see if it was a real gun, they threw it away and went on to school. When one of the students informed a teacher about the gun, all three students were suspended and currently face the threat of expulsion. . . The California state code requires the suspension of any student who possesses a firearm on the way to school, and the school principal sees no leeway in interpreting the rules." "President Bill Clinton's National Park Service is trying to prove that the Statue of Liberty was intended as a monument to black slaves in America. . . . "Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream, which makes a fortune hawking high-fat treats, got an $800,000 grant from the Feds to research the sale of its products to the former Soviet Union." "Janice Lachance, director of the Office of Personnel Management, was late closing down the federal government in DC during the January 25 snowstorm, putting at risk the lives of many employees who tried to get to work. Why the delay in deciding? Because she was in Iowa, campaigning for Al Gore, instead of home doing her job." "[O]ver the weekend it came out that the [Census] bureau has just mailed 115 million letters to incorrect addresses. Oops. . . . To make up for the goof . . . the government will buy 'several hundred thousand dollars' of additional advertising aimed at non-English speakers, even though they aren't affected by the snafu any more than English speakers." "Remember the story of the deadly pre-dawn drug war raid a few years ago on a Ventura rancher's home where the groggy owner was shot dead? No drugs were found. Ostensibly these government thugs were seeking marijuana plants (based solely on an 'informant' tip), but the reality was that they were seeking to seize his home under asset forfeiture law. As I recall, before the raid the culprits went to a realtor's office to run 'comps' to figure out how much each drug war agency would get from the theft of this man's property." "The federal Small Business Administration has entered into a special arrangement for assistance to small businesses owned by homosexual Latinos. . . SBA has similar agreements with 33 other Latino groups, 15 women's groups and 15 black groups." [Can you guess how many arrangements have been made with white groups or men's groups?] "New Mexico's state Supreme Court ruled that people cannot be disqualified from serving as jurors just because they don't understand the language used in the courtrooms. . . .." "The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has mandated that all wireless providers by 2001 be able to pinpoint the location of wireless phone calls. Cell phones are becoming homing devices for the government to track our whereabouts." "The Center for Disease Control (CDC) is trying to link [children's vaccinations] databases into a federal database containing every child's medical records. This will become a gatekeeper to deny admission to daycare, kindergarten, school or college, or even access to medical care for any child who has not had all government-mandated shots." "Judicial Watch learned through an anonymous source that the Clinton Justice Department run by Attorney General Janet Reno has been keeping a secret database against religious and pro-life leaders. The secret database is called 'VAAPCON.' When Judicial Watch learned of this secret illegal database, it filed a Freedom of Information Act request and confirmed that indeed VAAPCON existed." "The bullets fired from standard issue M-16 rifles have always been made of lead. There are several reasons for this. Lead is considered a soft metal, therefore, it won't shatter on impact and is less likely to ricochet from its target -- both a plus. Its malleability also ensures that it won't damage the inner barrel (or bore) of the rifle. Tungsten, on the other hand, is the hardest known metal. It is ruinous to the bore of a gun. It also lacks lead's ballistic superiority." [So guess what your government is up to now. It wants to switch from lead to tungsten bullets. Why? Because the "greens" say tungsten is "environment friendly" and lead isn't. Your tax dollars at work. And by the way, tungsten is about twice as expensive and the U.S. has no reserves of the metal. China has 40% of the world's reserves. Tungsten bullets also require a whole lot more energy during manufacture, but the "greens" don't seem interested in that.] [The government will soon make available its new Sacagawea gold-colored, one-dollar coin.] "The Sacagawea dollar's proponents say more expensive but durable coins for the $1 denomination will save money in the long run. But it would take 14 years to start realizing those savings - assuming coins replace the dollar bill, and polls have shown the public clearly opposes such replacement." "In 1998 alone, according to a study by the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, there was $35 billion in taxpayer funds lost due to government waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement." "[T]he Clinton administration rigged missile defense tests to fail." "[T]he FBI . . . altered parts of [the TWA Flight 800 wreckage] physically and removed other parts to conceal evidence that the plane was downed by high explosives. [The FBI has also altered on] the debris-field charts the location where certain pieces of wreckage were found. . . [R]adar data that were kept secret until last June . . . show what appears to be a missile streaking toward the plane. . . [Evidence now indicates] the FBI had hired scallop boats to dredge for discarded parts of a Stinger missile." "Alabama passed English as its official language. The Federal government still makes them have drivers' license tests in eight foreign languages. They speak over 100 languages in the state." "MeShelle Locke, 16, of Lacey, Washington -- a National Honor Society student -- was kidding around with a boy in her English class at North Thurston high School in early November. . . Lcoke . . . made a gun with her thumb and first finger, and said, 'Bang.' The . . . next school day, MeShelle was confronted by a police officer who read Miranda rights to her (but didn't arrest her). Then she was expelled from school for four days." [Hey, you can't be too careful about having guns in class.] "Gene Wheaton . . . a former Army CID investigator . . . described a covert unit created by the highly secretive National Reconnaissance Office, which used assassination and torture to eliminate 'enemies of the state.' . . . In 1985, Wheaton was approached by 'security consultants' to Vice President Bush's 'Task Force on Combating Terrorism' . . . 'They wanted me to help create a death squad that would have White House deniability to assassinate people they would identify as terrorists,' said Wheaton."
John Stormer's book, None Dare Call It Education presents a frightening picture of America's educational system and the future of this country. The book documents "how education 'reforms' are undermining academics and traditional values." Here are a few quotations:
"Governments now own more than 40 percent of all the land in America. At the insistence of the administration, both Democrats and Republicans in Congress are creating a $2.8 billion annual slush fund to continue buying more private property. America, once a bright beacon of hope to the rest of the world, is selling its soul to the socialist ideal of 'public' ownership of land. . . . The land government does not yet own, it controls. Under the misguided pretense of protecting the environment, the government has quietly taken control of virtually every square inch of land in America. There is some kind of law in place that gives the government jurisdiction to prevent the use of any privately owned land. Consequently, the government already has the power to transform this beacon of capitalism into just another slave of socialism. And the government is greatly accelerating its use of its power. By taking control of public education, government has succeeded in teaching two generations that wolves and grizzly bears are more important than humans. By handing out tax dollars to Green Advocacy Groups, the government has employed an army of propagandists working in virtually every community to demonize the concept of private property, and hold up the principle of 'public' control.. By utilizing the power of taxation to force behavioral changes, government is penalizing free market initiative, and rewarding socialistic conformity. . . . This land is no longer our land -- individually. It is 'our' land -- collectively, just as it was in the Soviet Union, and still is in China and Cuba. It is 'our' land individually, only to the extent government permits us to use it. . . ."
"Before Kosovo, the U.N. could not act inside the borders of a sovereign nation without an invitation by that nation. At the 54th General Assembly, both the Secretary-General [of the U.N.] and the President of the United States said that national sovereignty would no longer prevent the United Nations from taking action to protect the 'security of the people' inside any nation. The term 'security of the people' signals a major shift in the philosophy of the U.N. And it has already occurred. Security of the people is not threatened only by armed conflict. The production of greenhouse gas that threatens global climate is seen by many U.N. delegates to threaten the 'security of the people.' . . ." [In what country must the U.N. intervene to combat that threat?]
"Washington [DC] . . . seeks to 'parent' our children through the educational system by the implementation of Goals 2000 nationwide. This agenda was signed into law March 31, 1994. . . . Goals 2000 seeks to create the perfect global citizen for the 21st century. The right attitudes, beliefs and behaviors replace academics as the main outcome of education. . . . Goals 2000 is based on the United Nations' World Core Curriculum. . . . Goals 2000 is based upon philosophies that originated with a spirit guide. Published by Lucis Trust, originally named Lucifer Publishing Company, [Alice A.] Bailey's 24 books [which the UN used to build its World Core Curriculum] teach that Lucifer is the light of hope for mankind. [T]he mind-set inherent in the architects of policies such as Goals 2000 [is described in a 1972 address to the Association for Childhood Education International]: 'Every child in America entering school at the age of five is insane because he comes to school with certain allegiances toward our founding fathers, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being . . . . It's up to you, teachers, to make all of these sick children well by creating the international children of the future.'"
The January 2000 issue of The American Sentinel contains several examples of how the government has run amuck: "U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan publicly asked the Security Council to tackle the 'easy availability' of small arms in the world . . . Annan's remarks represent the first time the U.N. has publicly telegraphed its plans to eradicate private small arms ownership. . . ." "[C]onfiscation of cash by police has skyrocketed because 75-97% of U.S. currency has traces of cocaine on it. The courts have affirmed that the existence of even the slightest amounts of cocaine residue warrant the forfeiture of cash." "The Cato Institute says that since 1995, Clinton has covertly funneled $6 million+ [of federal government monies] to left-wing groups. . . ." "[The] EPA pursues radical left's scheme to ban family backyard barbeques." "Late last year. . .a father of nine children was shot 8 times by a local SWAT team that executed a late 'no-knock' raid on his home. Turns out the police had the wrong address. . . The number of people gunned down by law-enforcement remains information that is unavailable to the public." "The EPA projects clean-up costs for Uncle Sam's pollution holocaust be to $300 billion . . . about five times the cost of environmental harm done by all private businesses!" "Federal agencies are exempt from most environmental laws, even as private landowners are jailed/fined for trivial infractions and increasingly deprived of the use of their land."
"FBI field agents have admitted that they have found no evidence of right wing terrorism. They say all evidence leads to the Left, but they are under orders from Janet Reno's Justice Department to ignore it and stick to investigating the Right."
"In late July, the Clinton administration unveiled a new plan to use the FBI to monitor all Internet traffic, both on military and nonmilitary networks, under the guise of protecting the nation from terrorists who might use the Internet for nefarious purposes. According to a draft of the plan, a sophisticated monitoring system would be put in place to constantly track all computer activity, looking for 'suspicious patterns.' This would help keep tabs on the activities of the usual suspects: drug traffickers, child molesters and terrorists. . . But when the authorities have the power to track child porn, they have the power to track anything. It's a very short step to their reading our mail, investigating our medical records, and tracking commercial and financial transactions. . . ."
"Who's the worst polluter in the United States? The federal government, a new investigative report charges. It has a sordid history of leaking radioactive waste into drinking water, dumping sewage into national parks, spewing jet fuel into the ocean, and pouring PCVs into rivers . . . [T]he estimated cost of cleaning up the damage done by federal agencies and the military could pass $800 billion. That's five times the cost of environmental harm done by all private businesses. Even more chilling, many federal agencies are exempt from environmental laws such as the Clean Water Act, and individual bureaucrats are immune from criminal prosecution. . . ."
Government Run Amuck items for the first half of 1999. The second half of 1999. The way back home. |