From "Unsafe Mexican Trucks Headed for U.S. Roads," Middle America News, December 1999, page 5. Address: We the people Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Posted here 12-27-99.  "Mexican trucks that don't meet American safety standards are slated under NAFTA to get permission to drive anywhere in the U.S. on January 1, 2000."From "Newsbriefs," Middle America News, December 1999, page 4. Address: We the people Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Posted here 12-27-99. "An Illinois state appeals court says that a man's comments of 'faggot' and 'Mary' to a restaurant employee constitute a hate crime. Insensitive patron Kenneth Rokicki was sentenced to two years' probation, 100 hours of community service and barred from the restaurant."From "EEOC: Illegal Aliens Can Sue For 'Discrimination,'" Middle America News, December 1999, page 4. Address: We the people Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Posted here 12-27-99. "They can't work legally in the U.S., but the EEOC says illegal aliens are entitled to federal job protections."From "Newsbriefs," Middle America News, December 1999, page 7. Address: We the people Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Posted here 12-27-99. "Authorities who run Nevis High School in Nevis, Minnesota, have refused to allow yearbook editors to publish a photo that contradicts their ideology. School officials said a snapshot of senior Samantha Jones sitting on a small cannon outside a post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars violates the school's 'zero tolerance' policy on guns."From "Newsbriefs," Middle America News, December 1999, page 5. Address: We the people Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Posted here 12-27-99. "Because too many 'dead white males' have been honored, the Montgomery County, Maryland, school board will no longer allow communities to name their own schools. Localities must now choose names from an approved list. . ." which includes "Thomas Henry Andrews, Jr., a local cab driver who was murdered, . . . Vincent T. Foo, a local union leader, and Lee Jordan, a local janitor."From "Newsbriefs," Middle America News, December 1999, page 5. Address: We the people Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Posted here 12-27-99. "The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued orders that federal agencies must attain a 'handicapped' workforce of six percent, all the while denying that it imposes quotas."Reported on the McLaughlin Group, PBS, November 12, 1999. Website. Posted here 12-20-99. The "Zero Tolerance" program strikes again. Lamont Agnew, an Illinois second grader, was suspended from school for 45 days. Why? Because he brought a knife to class. Well, not really. It was a toe nail clipper. I guess there's "Zero Tolerance" for common sense at Lamont's school, too.From "1990s: The Socialist Decade," by Christopher Ruddy, Internet Vortex, November 1999, page 1. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website. Posted here 12-13-99. When did the greatest expansion in federal social spending take place? In FDR's 1930s? Lyndon Johnson's 1960s? Clinton's 1990s? The answer: The 1990s have produced "greatest expansion of social welfare spending, in real dollars, in the history of the country."From "Russia Prepares for War," Discerning the Times, November 1999, page 1. Address: EPI Environmental Perspectives, Incorporated 1229 Broadway, Suite 313, Bangor, Maine 04401. Phone: 207-945-9878. Posted here 12-13-99. "[T]he Kosovo bombing had little to do with stopping ethnic cleansing by Serbia, and everything to do with establishing the right of the international community to intervene in the affairs of sovereign nations."From "Capital Briefs," Human Events, December 3, 1999, page 2. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Posted here 12-6-99. "[OSHA] has announced plans to issue new regulations on ergonomics in the workplace before the end of the month. The new rules . . . will cost businesses $3.5 billion in their first year, claims OSHA. Another federal agency, the Small Business Administration, estimates they will cost $18 billion or more annually." [How can US manufacturers compete with non-US manufacturers who won't have to endure these costs? No wonder manufacturing industries are fleeing this country.]From "Special Report on Religion Under Fire," by the Rutherford Institute, pages 1, 3. Address: PO Box 7482, Charlottesville, Virginia 22906-7482. Phone: 804-978-3888. Fax: 804-978-1789. Posted here 12-6-99. THE GOVERNMENT ASSAULT ON RELIGION CONTINUES UNABATED: Arizona: "Psychologist lost his license for utilizing prayer therapy with Christian patients. . . ."California: "A firefighter was ordered not to read his Bible or have religious discussions during 'down time' at the fire station. . . ."Florida: "During a going-away party for a fellow employee, Mr. Weiss asked a new employee if she had found a church in the area to attend. Mr. Weiss suggested she visit his church. . . Mr. Weiss was fired for religious harassment."New Mexico: "Mrs. Todd, a third-grade teacher, was asked. . . whether Christians believed that you would only be able to go to heaven through Jesus. She said yes, that is what Christians believe. Mr. Todd was fired."From "Is Honor Color-Blind?," American Renaissance, November 1999, page 10. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website. Posted here 12-6-99. "The University of Virginia at Charlottesville has an honor code that requires expulsion for any student who lies, cheats, or steals. The 157-year-old code is now under attack because non-whites are more likely than whites to violate it and be expelled."From The Dave Bossie Investigative Report, November 1999, page 5. Address: National Media Enterprises, Limited, 522 Eighth Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003. Phone: 202-546-6590. E-mail. Posted here 12-6-99. "The most recent government audit found that federal agencies were unable to account for over $800 billion in government assets."From "HUD Mist De Boet Wid Pamflit," by Mildrade Cherfils, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, November 22-28, 1999, page 2. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 12-6-99. The Clinton Department of Housing and Urban Development has written a pamphlet intended for Haitians. The text tries to imitate Jamaican dialect. Quoting directly from the government document: "Yuh as a rezedent, ave di rights ahn di rispansabilities to elp mek yuh HUD-asisted owzing ah behta owme fi yuh ahn yuh fambily." Translation: "You as a resident have the rights and the responsibilities to help make your HUD-assisted housing a better home for you and your family." [Your tax dollars at work.]From "The Right Ear," Human Events, November 19, 1999, page 28. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Posted here 11-29-99. "[Chicago] School superintendent Paul Vallas has ordered a halt to all marksmanship training and rifle teams, including rifle competition, in the public schools, despite Chicago’s large Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) population. . . even though Chicago’s JROTC program does not use real rifles or ammunition."From "Janel Reno Must Go!," by Tom DeWeese, Insider's Report, October 1999, page 1. Address: American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Website. Posted here 11-29-99. "[A] police SWAT team in Compton, California broke into a home about 11:30 p.m. on August 9, 1999. They killed a retired grandfather by shooting him twice in the back. They then handcuffed his widow to a chair as she sat wearing nothing but panties and a towel. Six others were taken into custody -- none were charged with a crime. Police thought the house was being used as a mail drop by a drug ring. The charges were false."From "Janel Reno Must Go!," by Tom DeWeese, Insider's Report, October 1999, page 1. Address: American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Website. Posted here 11-29-99. "In 1998, Houston police shot and killed Pedro Oregon Navarro during a drug raid of his house. Police were there because of a tip from a man arrested for public drunkenness. The drunk told police he would lead them to a drug dealer if they let him go. Without corroboration or a warrant, police raided Navarro's home and shot him twelve times, because Navarro went for a gun to defend himself during the 1:40 a.m., military-style raid. Navarro wasn't a drug dealer."From "Raining on the Washington 'Surplus' Parade," The New American, November 22, 1999, page 6. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. Posted here 11-22-99. "While politicians are busy telling you what a gigantic 'surplus' we have, here are the cold, hard facts: When the federal government's fiscal year 1999 ended on September 30th, America was $130 billion further in debt than one year earlier. The total national debt is now approaching $5.7 trillion. The interest expense on the debt for fiscal 1999 was more than $353 billion -- gobbling up 40 million tax dollars an hour. . ." [Emphasis added.]From "DMV to Issue Licenses to Illegal Aliens," Media Bypass, November 1999, pages 44. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 11-15-99. "On Sept. 1, 1999, the California State Senate passed Senator Hilda Solis' SB371, which. . . will force the DMV to issue driver's licenses or ID cards to illegal aliens." [You can register to vote with a driver's license.]From "The Religion of Secular Humanism: Clergy in the Classroom," a video produced by Summit Ministries, 1998. Address: PO Box 207, Manitou Springs, Colorado 80829. Website. Website. Posted here: 11-15-99. "There is religion in the classroom; it's just not the Christian religion." [It's Secular Humanism.]From "Canada's Role in Sustainable Development," by Carl Teichrib, eco-logic, Fall 1999, page 7. Address: Environmental Conservation Organization, PO Box 191, Hollow Rock, Tennessee, 38342. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 11-15-99. "Recently, the Canadian federal government passed the acceptance of a new international tax on world monetary transactions. Known as the Tobin tax, the ensuing billions collected would be 'a feasible part of a new world order and new world vision,' as stated by Lorne Nystrom, member of the Canadian house of Commons."From "the Un-American United Nations," by Steve Farrell, eco-logic, Fall 1999, page 10. Address: Environmental Conservation Organization, PO Box 191, Hollow Rock, Tennessee, 38342. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 11-15-99. "Of the 17 individuals identified by the U.S. State Department as having helped shape US policy leading to the creation of the United Nations, all but one were later identified as secret members of the Communist Party USA."From "Creating the Global Student," by Kristie Snyder, Discerning the Times, October 1999, page 3. Address: EPI Environmental Perspectives, Incorporated 1229 Broadway, Suite 313, Bangor, Maine 04401. Phone: 207-945-9878. Posted here 11-8-99. "First introduced as America 2000 in 1991 by Lamar Alexander, Secretary of Education in the Bush Administration, Goals 2000 is patterned after the occultic outcome-based goals of the [United Nations] World Core Curriculum and today provides the educational cornerstone of most public school districts in America."From an October 11 letter from George Roche, president, Hillsdale College. Address: Hillsdale, Michigan 49242-1298. Phone: 517-437-7341 or 517-439-1524. Fax: 517-437-3923. Posted here 11-8-99. "[T]he Department of Education (DOE) has decided that educational tests having significant disparate impact on members of any particular race, national origin or gender are, by definition, discriminatory. Specifically targeted are the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and American College Test (ACT) that are used routinely by colleges in the admissions process. Therefore, reasons the DOE, colleges that continue to use such 'discriminatory' tests as a basis for admitting and/or excluding students may be subject to any number of government penalties, all of them intrusive and expensive."From "Are We in the Biblical last Days?," Discerning the Times, October 1999, page 1. Address: EPI Environmental Perspectives, Incorporated 1229 Broadway, Suite 313, Bangor, Maine 04401. Phone: 207-945-9878. Posted here 11-8-99. "The National Security Agency's Echelon electronic eavesdropping system already scans every e-mail, telephone call, and fax transmission in the world for key words that then trigger a more thorough analysis. . ."From "Another Imperial Clinton Directive," The New American, November 8, 1999, page 9. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. Posted here 11-8-99. "Mr. Clinton's assault upon the rule of law continued on September 27th, when he issued a "directive" to Attorney General Janet Reno declaring that immigrants from Liberia -- legal and illegal -- could not be deported from the United States for one year. This was done in contravention of existing law."From a solicitation letter from Morgan Norval, executive director, Selous Foundation. Address: 325 Pennsylvania Avenue, S.E., Washington, DC 20003-1148. Phone: 207-945-9878. Posted here 11-8-99. "Sometime earlier this year, the Clinton/Gore State Department secretly ceded eight Alaskan islands and a vast expanse of Alaskan sea territory to the Russians."From "Global Climate Change," World Concerns, published by Sovereignty International. Address: PO Box 191, Hollow Rock, Tennessee 38342. Posted here 11-8-99. "President Clinton has issued a decree saying [that] science will not be debated in activities of the President's Council on Sustainable Development. . . . Funding for global warming research has grown exponentially, but only for research that measures change and produces evidence of human influence. Scientists whose work produces evidence to the contrary, are defunded, if not fired."From "Congress Should Counter Efforts to Tax the Internet," by Adam D. Thierer, Human Events, October 29, 1999, page 28. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Posted here 11-8-99. "Although a formal plan has not yet been adopted by the [Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce], early proposals by some of its 19 congressionally appointed members support a pro-tax system for Internet and electronic transactions."From "The Right Ear," Human Events, October 22, 1999, page 24. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Posted here 11-1-99. "In 1996, race car driver Bobby Unser was lost in a blizzard on a snowmobile for two days. Disoriented, he accidently strayed into a federal wilderness area as he tried to reach safety. He was fined $75 for his illegal action, since humans are not allowed there unless certified by the government. He appealed on principle, but the Supreme Court turned him down. . ."From "Western Lawmakers Seek to Block Clinton Land Grab," by Audrey Hudson, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, October 25-31, 1999, page 3. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 11-1-99. The Clinton administration plans to designate 570,000 acres near the Grand Canyon as a national monument.From "The 'Glancing Duck' Syndrome -- Property Owners Are Sitting Ducks for Wetlands regulators," by Sigfredo A. Cabrera, eco-logic, Fall 1999, page 18. Address: Environmental Conservation Organization, PO Box 191, Hollow Rock, Tennessee, 38342. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 11-1-99. "On what legal authority does the federal government claim a right to regulate private property having no connection to interstate water bodies?. . . Federal bureaucrats exert their authority over isolated wetlands under the U.S. Constitution's Commerce Clause, which limits the federal government to regulate only 'interstate and foreign commerce.' The government's logic goes something like this: Migratory birds fly across state lines. therefore, federal agencies can regulate isolated wetlands that might be seen by flying migratory birds because the birds might choose to use them as a 'stopover' while flying to their winter habitats. . . ."From None Dare Call It Education, by John A. Stormer, page 65. Published in 1998 by Liberty Bell Press, PO Box 32, Florissant, Missouri 63032. Order book. Posted here 8-25-99. "If the Constitution were to be applied today as it was written there would be no $5-trillion federal debt. There would be no need for a federal income tax. The federal government would not have a million bureaucrats and 60,000 armed agents from dozens of agencies involving themselves in every area of a citizen's life, business, farming, transportation, education, etc."From "Clinton Wants to Lock Up Forests," by Audrey Hudson, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, October 18-24, 1999, page 10. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 10-25-99. "President Clinton on October 13 announced a sweeping plan to lock up 40 million acres of federally owned forest land -- an area the size of Virginia and West Virginia combined -- as roadless areas protected from development."From None Dare Call It Education, by John A. Stormer, pages 115-116, 118. Published in 1998 by Liberty Bell Press, PO Box 32, Florissant, Missouri 63032. Order book. Posted here 8-25-99. "During a five year period ending in 2001 control over education and employment practices will move from individuals, families, local and state school systems, state legislatures and employers to the unelected National Skills Standards Board and State Workforce Development Boards. Washington's power (and money) will by then have transformed local schools, shifting the purpose of education from creating thinkers to training workers.""Under the national school-to-work system, children's careers will be chosen for them by Workforce Development Boards and federal agencies. Our schools will be restructured to teach labor skills and to focus on changing attitudes and social behavior. The new skill standards replace higher academic standards and emphasize teaching vocational skills as well as social engineering." [This is quoted from a letter written by Congressman Sonny Bono two weeks before he was killed in a skiing accident, December 1997.]From "Former Carter Aide Admits Panama Got Canal by Threats," Middle America News, October 1999, page 7. Address: We the people Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Posted here 10-18-99. "America lost control of the Panama Canal because U.S. elites caved in to threats of violence from Panama's government, according to a report in the Dallas Morning News. The chief U.S. negotiator of the Panama Canal treaty admitted to the paper that terrorist threats against the U.S. from Panama's government were a 'primary factor' in President Jimmy Carter's controversial decision to hand over control of the canal to the small, unstable Central American nation. . . . About 13 percent of all U.S. seaborne trade goes through the canal."From The American Sentinel, October 1999, page 8. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail. Posted here: 10-18-99. We hear an unending cry from the Clinton administration that we need more gun-control laws; new, more restrictive, more powerful laws to corrupt the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Isn't that interesting, because there has been "a 46% decline in prosecutions by the JANET RENO Justice Department for [gun control] laws that are already on the books." Why do we need new laws when existing laws aren't enforced? The answer is quite revealing.From The American Sentinel, October 1999, page 3. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail. Posted here: 10-18-99. "[T]he Federal Communications Commission (FCC) directed in August that U.S. [cellular] phone manufacturers must build an eavesdropping device into all telephones so that the physical location of callers can be pin-pointed by the authorities in seconds."From "UN Secretary General Kisses Sovereignty Good-Bye," Human Events, October 1, 1999, page 4. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Posted here 10-11-99. "United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan declared last week that the concept of national sovereignty was going to have to step aside as the UN backs more wars of intervention in the name of human rights and international law."From "Congress Votes Itself a Hefty Raise," Media Bypass, September 1999, pages 45. Address: Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 10-11-99. Everybody now knows that the salary of the next President will be 100% more than Clinton's salary. What many don't know is that the President's salary is a cap for everyone else in government. No one can make more than the President, but with that cap now raised, many other government salaries will likewise be raised.From "By their Fruits. . .," The New American, October 11, 1999, page 41. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. Posted here 10-11-99. "London's Daily Telegraph for September 2rd reported that 'a boy of 14 whose 12-year-old girlfriend is three months pregnant, claimed yesterday that he became sexually active at nine and said he blamed explicit sex education lessons at school.'" The Sheffield, England youngster said, "We were told about how babies were made, but I was just interested in the sex part."From "Government Censorship in the Public Arena," Media Bypass, September 1999, pages 44-45. Address: Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 10-3-99. "A federal appeals court in Zion, Illinois ruled that a 100-year-old seal, which incorporated a cross and the motto 'God reigns' [is] unconstitutional. The seal, which was supported by 90 percent of the townspeople, was removed.""In Tulsa, Oklahoma, a fourth grader attempted to pray before a math test. He was sent to the principal's office and made to write 100 times, 'I will not pray in class.'""In San Jose, California the city ruled that a manger with the baby Jesus in it was illegal, but went on to build a half-million dollar, taxpayer-funded statue of the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, to whom tens of thousands of human victims were sacrificed in centuries past.""Two New York street preachers (who had ministered on the same streets for 10 years) were arrested for preaching without a permit and charged with disorderly conduct.'""There are thousands of such examples across America every month whereby Christians are being censored, harassed and denied public access, and the incidents . . . are growing geometrically. We are seeing the onset of official government censorship of Christianity in America. This is how it happened to Christians in Russia, China and Cuba. this is how it happened to Jews in Nazi Germany in the mid-1930s. First they were stereotyped, then vilified, then marginalized, then ostracized and finally persecuted, jailed and exterminated." From "Ejukashun Nashun," by Tom DeWeese, Media Bypass, September 1999, page 20. Address: Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 9-27-99. A textbook for seventh graders in public schools across the nation raves about James Lovelock and his "Gaia Hypothesis," and quotes him: "Gaia is Mother Earth. Gaia is immortal. She is the eternal source of life. She does not need to reproduce herself as she is immortal. She is certainly the mother of us all, including Jesus. Gaia is not a tolerant mother. She is rigid and inflexible, ruthless in the destruction of whoever transgresses. Her unconscious objective is that of maintaining a world adapted to life. If we men hinder this objective, we will be eliminated without pity." Who says there isn't religion in the schools? Christianity, no, but a religion nonetheless!From The Phyllis Schlafly Report, September 1999, page 3. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 9-27-99. "After parents whose children had been severely damaged from vaccines attended a couple of congressional hearings, we might have thought Bill Clinton's response would have been, 'I feel your pain.' Not on your life. The Clinton Administration instead floated plans to gut the federal trust fund that compensates the families of children who are injured or killed by reactions to vaccines."From "Chinagate: The Third-Way Scandal," by Richard Poe, Internet Vortex, July 1, 1999, page 24. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website. Posted here 9-27-99. "Originally a hardline communist, Mussolini recognized that he would gain more followers if he toned down his Marxist rhetoric. So, in 1919, he announced that he had found a 'third way' between capitalism and communism. Mussolini called it fascism. Under this system, Big Government would run the economy, while Big Business owned it. Adolf Hitler followed the same model in 1933, offering full employment to the masses and corporate welfare to the industrialists. Now it is Clinton's turn. Like Hitler and Mussolini, Clinton calls for a partnership between business and government. And, as with his jack-booted predecessors, Clinton's Third Way has fostered corruption and favoritism beyond measure. . . ." "'I'm grateful that the Third Way seems to be taking hold around the world,' said Clinton in a September 21, 1998 speech at New York University."From "Clinton's Imperial Powers," by Cliff Kincaid, AIM Report, August-A 1999, page 1. Accuracy In Media, Incorporated, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 202-364-4401. Fax: 202-364-4098. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 9-19-99. "On July 28, the New York Times disclosed a secret plan by the Clinton administration to develop what is called a Federal Intrusion Detection Network (FIDNET) system to monitor government and private computer network traffic, including personal e-mail. The Times reported that this stemmed from a Presidential Decision Directive, PDD-63, issued in May 1998."From "Rejecting the Anthrax Vaccine," The New American, September 27, 1999, page 5. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. Posted here 9-19-99. In 1997 Secretary of Defense William Cohen ordered that all armed forces personnel must be vaccinated against Anthrax by 2005. Of the 300,000 inoculated so far about 100 recipients have reported severe reactions. There seem to be two problems: the vaccine will protect against cutaneous Anthrax, the form absorbed through the skin, but "weaponized" Anthrax is delivered by aerosol, so the vaccine is of little use on the battlefield. Second, soldiers are getting sick from the injection. A side note: The FDA has repeatedly tried to close down the company that manufactures the vaccine.From Freedom Alert, September/October 1999, page 6. Address: Citizens for Constitutional Property Rights, Incorporated, PO Box 757, Crestview, Florida 32536. Phone: 850-682-6156. Posted here 9-12-99. Related material: YDS, pages 169-172, 175-176, 179-180. Order book. "On June 24th, President Clinton asked Congress to designate 5.2 million acres of our national parks as wilderness. . ." Material promoting the idea (part of Clinton's Lands Legacy Initiative) stated the purpose is "to leave a tangible environmental legacy that can be enjoyed now and by generations to come." Questions: how can the land be enjoyed by "generations to come" when regulations prevent the specified sites from being developed with roads, lodges, or campgrounds? Further, they may not be disturbed by snowmobiles, jet skis or bicycles. What we have here is another land grab by the federal government. All the people will ever get out of it is rhetoric.From "Closing of Forests in Florida Has Begun," Freedom Alert, September/October 1999, page 2. Address: Citizens for Constitutional Property Rights, Incorporated, PO Box 757, Crestview, Florida 32536. Phone: 850-682-6156. Posted here 9-12-99. Related material: YDS, pages 123-128. Order book. "The government does recognize deeded right-of-way," says Charlotte Hawks, land acquisition specialist at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, "but they deem what right-of-way is, and if they deem you shall crawl on your knees, then you shall crawl on your knees." [The government taketh, and if you don't like it, tough!]Excerpt from a Phyllis Schlafly column, titled "The Waco Scandal Just Won't Go Away," 9-08-99, forwarded to me via e-mail from a friend. (Thanks!) The column can be found on line. Posted here 9-12-99. "Why did the Clinton Administration attack a small and pitiful religious cult [the Branch Davidians] with a full-scale military offensive, using 700 men, machine guns, army tanks, and the secret, highly-trained U.S. Delta military force created for use against dangerous terrorists? Why did the FBI spend six hours pouring into the compound the gas known as CS, which is banned for use in war by the Chemical Weapons Treaty?From "Is this a Preview of America's Future?" 9 * 1 * 1, a publication of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform, August 1999, page 3. Address: PO Box 2744-117, Huntington Beach, California 92649. Phone: 714-921-7142. Posted here: 9-12-99. "El Cenizo, Texas, a community on the U.S.-Mexican border, has declared itself a 'haven' for illegal aliens. The city passed two laws. Under one ordinance, they declared Spanish as the official language and that all city government business must be conducted in that language. Under the second ordinance, the Mayor, a former illegal alien, announced that 'any city worker who helps the U.S. Border Patrol uncover undocumented immigrants (illegal aliens), will be fired.'"From "Spanking the Social Worker," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, September 6-12, 1999, page 37. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 9-12-99. ". . .[W]ith the help of a policeman, a California social worker forced her way into a private residence without a warrant, strip-searched a 3-year-old child and, finding no evidence of abuse, proceeded to lecture the child's mother about her inappropriate, and perhaps criminal, use of spanking."From "America's Judgements - What Lies Ahead?" (Part 4: "Bio-Chemical Warfare"), a video with John Trochmann, summer 1996. Address: MOM, PO Box 1483, Noxon, Montana 59853. Phone: 406-847-2735. Fax: 406-847-2246. E-mail. Website. Posted here 9-6-99. "The Food and Drug Administration soon plans to make final a temporary ruling that allows the Pentagon to use experimental vaccines and drugs on U.S. troops without their consent." (Quoted from the Gannett News Service.)From "August 22 Was Tax Slavery Day," by Bruce Bartlett, Human Events, September 3, 1999, page 9. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Posted here 9-6-99. "Tax Freedom Day fell on May 11 this year. This is the day . . . when Americans stop working for government and start working for themselves. The growth of Tax Freedom Day from April 30 in 1993 shows that Americans will work 11 extra days this year just to pay the higher taxes that have been imposed during the Clinton Administration."From "The Failure of Congress to Challenge Clinton's Executive Orders," by Tom DeWeese, Insider's Report, August 1999, page 3. Address: American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Website. Posted here 8-30-99. "Perhaps the most bazaar environmental Executive Order is #13112, entitled Invasive Species." It creates the Interagency Invasive Species Council, which will develop and enforce a plan to remove invasive species from public lands. The only trouble is that much of America is "infested" with invasive species, such as various fruit trees, flowers in the garden, wheat, barley, corn, the family dog or cat, etc., etc., etc. "Of course farmers and cattle ranches are the real target of this Executive Order. It is just one more plank in the stage that's being set for the radical transformation of America."From "Home Bible Study Makes Colorado Woman a Lawbreaker," by Valerie Richardson, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, August 16-22 1999, page 17. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 8-30-99. For related material see You Don't Say pages 61-70. Order book. One Mrs. Diane Reiter of Denver, Colorado conducted weekly Bible study meetings in her home for a dozen Christian women. Ah, but that's against the law in Denver. A city ordinance prohibits more than one "prayer meeting" at a private residence per month. Denver zoning administrator Kent Strapko says the once-a-month rule can apply to any gathering, including book club, poker game, or "Monday Night Football" party.From "Reptile Reconciliation Required by New York," by David E. Haddock, Human Events, August 20, 1999, page 11. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Posted here 8-30-99. "New York's endangered species law makes 'disturbing, harrying or worrying' a protected species unlawful." So who's to judge that some little bug, beetle, or other critter is disturbed, harried, or worried? Befriend your local EPA bureaucrat; he or she can destroy you.From "Netherlands Close to Legalizing Euthanasia," by Karen Iley, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, August 16-22 1999, page 24. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 8-30-99. For related material see You Don't Say pages 15-16. Order book. "The Netherlands plans to make history by legalizing mercy killings in a bill that would make children as young as 12 eligible for euthanasia."-- From "Republican Foot Dragging Slows Drive To Stop National ID," by Tom DeWeese, The DeWeese Report, September 1999, page 1, published by the American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Fax: 703-925-0991. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 8-30-99. "It has been estimated that nearly thirty percent of all information already stored in government data banks is incorrect."-- From "Billions for the Bankers -- Debts for the People," by Sheldon Emry, Free American Newsmagazine, August 1999, page 23. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 8-22-99. "The Federal Reserve has never been audited by the government since it took over our money and credit in 1913."From "Federal Purse Strings Allow Gore To Lavish Cash on Voters," by Ann McFeatters, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, August 9-15, 1999, page 9. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 8-22-99. Vice President Al Gore, in just the last month, announced federal grants, loans, gifts, and new spending plans totaling over $10 billion. That's about $100 per voter. Buying votes is expensive, isn't it. And we're still 14 months away from the election!From None Dare Call It Education, by John A. Stormer. Published in 1998 by Liberty Bell Press, PO Box 32, Florissant, Missouri 63032. Order book. Posted here 8-10-99. For related material see You Don't Say pages 93-100. Order book. What is School-To-Work? The U.S. Department of Education says ". . .School-To-Work changes the purpose of education from intellectual development to vocational preparation." What does that mean? It means that by the "7th or 8th grade, 'assessments' will be made which will determine what job a child's future education or vocational training will prepare him for." Is that going on in America? The 1997 Annual Report to Congress by the Secretaries of Education and Labor says, ". . .as of June 1996, 23 percent of the 115,000 elementary and secondary schools in America were engaged in STW. . . .and all 50 states have applied for and received STW planning grants." At the 1989 Kansas Governor's Conference Dr. Shirley McCune said, "We no longer see the teaching of facts and information as the primary function of education."A first grade math problem in a New York State school: "There are ten children in the small school Samuel goes to. There are five jars of paint. How many children can paint?" Do your own math before you read the answer. The answer: "If they share, they can all paint."A math problem in a Pennsylvania school: "There were four birds in the nest and one flew away. How do you think the bird that flew away felt?"Gays and lesbians in six northern California schools "gave 4th, 5th, and 6th graders detailed descriptions of sex toys and oral and anal intercourse."Texas Federal District Judge Melinda Harmon ruled that ". . .parents give up their rights when they drop children off at public school."In 1990 Thomas Sowell wrote that "high school students [are] being taken to a morgue to touch dead bodies." "This is part of a whole nationwide movement."John Dewey, atheist and socialist, has been enormously influential in American education. What is his philosophy? "Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone is interdependent."From "Inside the Beltway," by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, August 2-8, 1999, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 8-10-99. For related material see You Don't Say pages 171-172. Order book. "What do the Statue of Liberty, Independence Hall, Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, and Yellowstone National Park all have in common? Each of these national treasures, or so the National Center for Public Policy research reminds us, has been designated as a U.N. World Heritage Site -- 'regulated according to the dictates of foreign bureaucrats rather than according to the will of the American people.'"From "Zero Tolerance for Non-Compliance -- Clinton's Ten Steps Toward Lifelong Behavior Modification," by Berit Kjos, Free American Newsmagazine, August 1999, page 44. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 8-4-99. When a sixth grader called 12-year-old John Turner names, John said his tormenter must be stupid. The other boy hit John in the face. John hit back. The result? Honor student John Turner was arrested during recess, handcuffed, taken to juvenile hall, fingerprinted, and forbidden to call his mother. He had to sign a $250 bond and may face steeper punishment plus a life-long police blot on his personal computerized data file "if found guilty".When a young girl in Ohio was beaten by two other girls on her way to the school bus, all three girsl were sentenced to equal punishment: a ten-day suspension.A straight-A student in San Jose, California was expelled for bringing a fingernail clipper to school.Amber Nash, a high school honor student in Gobles, Michigan, brought a knife to school to cut a friend's birthday brownies. She was suspended for ten days.Brooke Olson, a 13-year-old from Texas, was suspended for carrying a bottle of Advil in her backpack.Hospitalized with kidney failure, a Florida woman called from the hospital to explain she would be unable to attend a mandatory Pasadena Fundamental School PTA meeting. The PTA authorities rejected the excuse and punished the woman by expelling her 5-year-old son from kindergarten.From "From the Littleton Crisis to Government Control," by Berit Kjos, Free American Newsmagazine, August 1999, page 40. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 8-4-99. Outstanding high school students from all over Arkansas are selected to attend the "Governor's School," Clinton's summer program to teach the brightest kids lessons in values-clarification, socialist economics, and radical environmentalism. Another major emphasis of the school: "freeing" students from parental authority and traditional values. A guest speaker at the school was author Ellen Gilchrist, who told the kids, "Students, do me a favor. Totally ignore your parents."From "Inside Politics," compiled by Greg Pierce, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, July 26-August 1, 1999, page 16. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 8-4-99. The United Nations Development Program just proposed a one-cent tax on every 100 e-mail messages sent throughout the world. Revenue, which would quickly amount to billions of dollars, would go to the UN. [And when do you suppose the tax would rise to two cents per 100 e-mails? To ten cents? To 50 cents?]From "Prisoner of Conscience," by Patrick Perry, Media Bypass, July 1999, page 54. Address: Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 7-29-99. In Kentucky in March of this year, one Mr. Amos Warren Lamb was jailed, mainly for not having his driver's license and car license plates, was subsequently sent to Western State Mental Hospital (without any proper arraignment), and was injected with medicines without his permission. Friends said Lamb is a caring, Christian, family man, with a wife and four children. He reportedly doesn't even take aspirin because he deplores all drugs.From "Sweeney Up for Life," by MB Staff, Media Bypass, July 1999, page 56. Address: Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 7-29-99. On February 28, 1998, U.S. Marshals broke into John Sweeney's home without a search or arrest warrant, arrested him and charged him with "criminal contempt of court" for allegedly disobeying orders that were never served. This year in June the Boston Federal Court refused Sweeney his right to a jury trial (guaranteed by the Constitution) and rushed him to criminal trial. Although evidence showed that no orders were served and Marshals admitted that no arrest warrant or search warrant was ever issued, the judge refused to dismiss the case.From "Clinton's Monument to Child Abuse," by Terence P. Jeffrey, Human Events, July 16,, 1999, page 7. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Posted here 7-29-99. For related material see You Don't Say pages 133-138. Order book. "What should the federal government do when an unlicensed Mafia-owned saloon serves bootleg liquor to minors, caters to teenage male hookers, harbors violent racists, employs a neo-Nazi bombmaker and is suspected of being the epicenter of a major hepatitis epidemic?" President Clinton knew what to do. One June 21 he named the now-defunct Stonewall Inn (which had also been a haven for homosexuals) and the surrounding streets of New York City as a national historical site.From "Huge New Land Grab Coming," The New American, August 2, 1999, page 5. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. Posted here 7-24-99. For related material see You Don't Say pages 123-128, 167-180. Order book. The Clinton Administration, according to the Washington Times, plans to invoke the "Antiquities Act" to set aside 600,000 acres in Arizona as a national monument. This is reportedly only a small portion of the initiative that will "stop mining, grazing, logging, and oil and gas exploration on 5 million acres in 6 states." Does that mean more park lands for camping, boating, and picnicking? Well, no. "All recreational uses would be banned, except for walking and meditating."From "Kosovo in America," by Cliff Kincaid, AIM Report, June-A 1999, page 1. Accuracy In Media, Incorporated, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 202-364-4401. Fax: 202-364-4098. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 7-24-99. "[A] reliable source within the government told a group of reporters on background that Secretary of State Madeleine Albright insisted on making demands at Rambouillet that she knew were unacceptable to Milosevic because she and her advisers wanted to bomb a little to force him to capitulate. Apparently they thought this would make Clinton look good and would divert attention from impeachment, the China spy scandal, and the Juanita Broaddrick charge that Bill Clinton had raped her in 1978."From "When Fish Are Ethnically Cleansed," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, June 28-July 4, 1999, page 37. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 7-24-99. For related material see You Don't Say page 209. Order book. The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks decided to introduce "native trout," Westslope Cutthroat Trout, into Cherry Creek and Cherry Lake near Boseman. How? Well, first, to remove all the "non-native trout" which would compete for food, they introduced poison in the waterways, enough to kill every living thing in the water. This step should take five years. Then they'll introduce the "native trout." If for any reason, however, the Rainbow, Yellowstone, or Brook trout (that were originally) survive, the project will be a complete failure. Oh, by the way, the Westslope Cutts never existed in these waters before.From "Education Report," by Robert W. Lee, The New American, July 19, 1999, page 41. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. Posted here 7-24-99. For related material see You Don't Say pages 99-100. Order book. The Austin, Texas Independent School District has been "indicted on charges of manipulating statewide test results to artificially augment school performance ratings." If the kids aren't getting a good education, well, heck, who needs to know?From "The Right Answers," by William P. Hoar, The New American, July 19, 1999, page 25. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. Posted here 7-24-99. For related material see You Don't Say pages 96-100. Order book. "As of the end of 1998, some $2.1 billion was spent on the four-year-old AmeriCorps -- President Clinton's vaunted plan to pay young people to volunteer. More than 100,000 members have served in the ranks of what has been called the 'domestic Peace Corps.'" What has this enormous investment founded? According to Investor's Business Daily: sponsoring a "Maxine Waters Day of Caring;" giving $400,000 to a subsidiary of the AFL-CIO; paying $400,000 to conduct diversity training; and aiding the EPA's "environmental justice campaign;" among other "vital" undertakings.From "Worshiping Mother Earth at Public School," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, July 5-11, 1999, page 32. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 7-19-99. For related material see You Don't Say pages 9-10, 61-70, 93-100. Order book. Third-graders in Bedford Central Schools in New York were required to make clay and construction paper cutouts of the elephant-headed Hindu god, Ganesh. Some school kids had to make "worry dolls" and take part in Earth Day worship services. Some students read books that say "The Mother of us all is the Earth. The father is the Sun. . ." A federal district judge ruled that the Hindu gods would have to go, but school officials say at assemblies that there are "too many people on the Earth and we need to do something about it." School book texts still state that when kids need to cut down a tree or remove a plant from their garden, they should pray to Mother Earth. Students are still playing the "Magic" card game, which is steeped in satanic imagery, signs, and rituals such as human sacrifice and the casting of spells. Liberals are against all religion in the schools. . .except their religion.From the New York Times, (1-28-98) as reprinted in 9 * 1 * 1, a publication of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform, May 1999, page 2. Address: PO Box 2744-117, Huntington Beach, California 92649. Phone: 714-921-7142. Posted here: 7-15-99. For related material see You Don't Say pages 71-72. Order book. "Twenty private contractors, hired by INS to administer U.S. citizenship tests, were indicted for falsifying the test results of 13,000 immigrants. In some cases the subcontractor would complete the exam or give the answers to the immigrants while others certified exams never taken. They [told some] immigrants that for $500 they would be guaranteed citizenship." Comment: Buying Democrat votes is expensive nowadays.From Journal of Personal Freedom, Jim Lord and James Stevens editors, Premier Issue, July 1999, pages 3-4. Address: PO Box 84910, Phoenix, Arozona. Phone: 888-925-2555. Website. Posted here: 7-15-99. Jim Lord and his wife taught their youngest daughter to read when she was just three years old. Upon entering first grade she was reading at the level of a third grader! But the school disciplined the girl and forced her to use the single-word, sight-recognition method of reading, which confused and frustrated her, and set back her reading ability significantly. To treat his patients in Kent, Washington, Dr. Jonathan Wright uses diet, vitamins, minerals, herbs, acupuncture, and homeopathic remedies. In 1992 armed agents from the Food and Drug Administration kicked in the doors of the doctor's clinic, held his staff hostage for several hours, and carried off all his computers and patient records. After spending $350,000 in legal expenses, the doctor found the case against him was dropped. What was his "crime"? Selling Vitamin B from Germany.From The American Sentinel, July 1999, page 11. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charoltte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail. Posted here: 7-12-99. A new federal regulation requires commercial mailbox renters (like Mail Boxes, Inc.) to send the names and identitites of their clients to Washington. Is anyone concerned about this invasion of privacy? What happened to the Fourth Amendment?From Center for Action, Bo Gritz newsletter, July 1999, page 13. Address: HCR 37 Box 472, Sandy Valley, Nevada 89019. Phone: 702-723-5266. Fax: 702-723-1356. E-mail. Posted here: 7-12-99. Related material: YDS, pages 181-192. Order book. "'Global 2000' is a document prepared by Cyrus Vance at the request of Henry Kissinger outlining how population reduction schedules must be carried out to achieve New World Order millennial goals. . . The great State of Oregon was first to legalize and offer physicians assisted suicide. . . . Oregon has now passed a law making them the first to offer financially assisted suicide! The State will loan the suffering party the money to end their life. Expenses covered includes the cost of poison ($45) and a phyusician's referral (minimum one visit at $50)."From The Limbaugh Letter, Rush Limbaugh, editor-in-chief, June 1999, page 16. Address: 2 Penn Plaza, 17th Floor, New York, New York 10121. Show line: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-536-9166. Posted here: 7-7-99. "Of the 250,000 felons caught by the Brady Bill's background checks trying to illegally purchase firearms, none has been prosecuted by the Clinton Justice Department."From The Limbaugh Letter, Rush Limbaugh, editor-in-chief, June 1999, page 9. Address: 2 Penn Plaza, 17th Floor, New York, New York 10121. Show line: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-536-9166. Posted here: 7-7-99. For related material see You Don't Say page 151. April 22 was the deadline for tearing down all those nasty Marlboro Man and Joe Camel billboards that threaten humanity. Outside of the Texas Stadium last year, however, the destruction crew ran into trouble. It seems a family of endangered red hawks had made a Marlboro Man sign home. Authorities had to wait until the two chicks were old enough to fly, then they used loud horns to roust all four of them from their nest. Are you allowed to frighten endangered birds like that?Information for the following items was found in The American Enterprise, July/August 1999, pages 86, 88. Address: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. Posted here 7-7-99. For related material see You Don't Say pages 95-100. "Many schools today are devoted to four Rs: reading, writing, 'rithmetic, and Ritalin. [Mary] Eberstadt of Policy Review is skeptical of the idea that 4 million children should consume the last of those, a drug, every day. Given a choice bytween cocaine and Ritalin, monkeys prefer Ritalin." "In 1996 Whittier Law School lost a suit brought by a student who charged she was discriminated against because she was only given 20 minutes extra to complete an exam, instead of the additional hour her ADD [attention-deficit disorder] required. The school subsequently banned pop quizzes because ADD sufferers needed extra time to take exams." "The United States still has lots of woodland -- about 731 million acres of forests, almost three acres per person -- and these forests are gorwing larger. The U.S. Forest Service reports that 37 percent more trees are planted than harvested. But despite all these trees, environmentalists are pushing to lock up more and more land as part of the national Wilderness Protection System. . . . Currently on the table are plans to make 6 million acres in New York and New England, 6 million acres in Utah, and millions of acres in montana and Idaho part of the U.S. wilderness system." Government Run Amuck items for the first half of 1999. The way back home. |