October - December 2002 But America's government is not alone when it comes to running amok.
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"Hayward, Calif. public schools passed a unamimous resolution earlier this year allowing teachers to 'come out' in class and talk about homosexuality in front of students as young as six years old."From "Take Your Kids Out of Public Schools," by Art Moore, Whistleblower, November 2002, page 8. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.
"In Florida, a 12-year-old student was expelled for possession of drugs because he briefly held a Ritalin pill. The student reportedly held out his hand when another student on his bus asked him to take something. When he saw it was a pill, he threw it out the window."From "Take Your Kids Out of Public Schools," by Art Moore, Whistleblower, November 2002, page 9. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.
"In California, a 'pilot' law was recently approved by the legislature that is certain to be pushed in many other states. It holds that foster parents should undergo sensitivity training on the 'sexual orientation, gender identity and the challenges faced by gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender youth, or youth with gender issues."From "A New Trend in State Control of Parents," The American Sentinel, November 2002, page 11. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"The US government plans to resettle [in the U.S.] the entire 12,000-member Somali Bantu tribe, since they are said to suffer persecution at the hands of non-Bantus."From "Overwhelmed," American Renaissance, November 2002, page 14. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.
"One million two hundred thousand acres of land closed to development -- for the sake of 18 Pygmy Owls. Yes, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, supported by a few radical green environmental groups, proposes this huge acreage be set aside for 18 Pygmy Owls. 1,200,000 acres: almost 1900 square miles!" [That's 105 square miles per owl!]From "The Most Expensive Animal Alive?" by Glynn A. Burkhardt, Resource Roundup, December 2002, page 1. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.
"The income-tax system, observes [Heritage Foundation President Edwin Feulner], was launched in 1913 as a two-page form backed by 14 pages of law. Today, Americans struggle with 742 different forms and 2254 separate publications, backed by more than 17,000 pages of law. Notes Mr. Feulner: 'Clocking in at close to 6 million words, the tax code is more than seven times longer than the Bible.'"From "Tax Testament," Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, December 9-15, 2002, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"On Oct. 2, the Chicago City Council voted 44-0 to require all companies doing business with the city to disclose whether they ever profited from slavery."From "Windy City Blowhards," American Renaissance, December 2002, page 13. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.
"In early November, the Council of Europe approved an annex to a computer treaty that would criminalize publishing material online that 'advocates, promotes or incites hatred [or] discrimination.'" [And who will judge what is and is not hatred and discrimination? Political correctness marches on . . . at the expense of freedom of speech.]From "EU Cyper-Censorship," The New American, December 16, 2002, page 10. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.
"A Manistee, Michigan housewife was recently convicted and jailed for using the word 'spic' in a private conversation. Janice Barton was overheard by an off-duty Hispanic deputy sheriff, who wrote down her license number. Barton was later convicted of a 'hate crime.' On November 1, a Michigan appeals court reversed the conviction, but only did so on the narrow grounds that she could not have known she was committing a crime. Ominously, the court did not base its decision on her First Amendment right of free speech."From "American Jailed for 'Hate Crime'," The American Sentinel, December 2002, page 7. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"The Mexican government has asked the UN's help in its efforts to tear down our borders." [I'll bet the UN will be only too pleased to provide assistance.]From "Our 'Friend' to the South," The New American, December 16, 2002, page 19. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.
"A disgraced former judge yesterday was sentenced to three to nine years in prison -- where he could collect close to $1 million from his taxpayer-paid pension while he serves time on bribery charges."From "How the Government Works (You Over)," quoting The New York Post of October 29, 2002, in The Idaho Observer, November 5, 2002, page 2. Address: PO Box 457, Spirit Lake, Idaho 83869. Phone: 208-255-2307. Fax: 208-255-2607. E-mail. Website.
"[I]n the Muslim holy city of Mecca in March 2002 . . . 15 girls perished in a fire at their school. The Saudi Arabian religious police, the muttawa, would not let the girls out of the building: in the female-only school environment, they had shed the all-concealing outer garments that Saudi women must wear in the presence of men. The muttawa preferred that they die rather than transgress Islamic law, and actually battled police and firemen who were trying to open the school's doors."From Women and Islam, by Robert Spencer, 2002, page 1. Published by Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, 717 Second Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002. Phone: 202-546-3000 or 800-638-0660. Fax: 202-543-5605. Website.
"Very few child pornography cases were pursued under [Janet] Reno and prosecution of obscenity dropped by 80 percent."From "The Child Rapist Next Door," by Cliff Kincaid, AIM Report, 2002 #14, July 29, 2002, page 3. Accuracy In Media, Incorporated, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 202-364-4401. Fax: 202-364-4098. E-mail. Website.
"In 1965, when [Medicare] was created by Congress, the government predicted the hospitalization part of Medicare would cost $9 billion by 1990. The actual cost was $66 billion. . . Even though the program now costs more than $200 billion a year, most retirees are forced to buy supplemental insurance. . . Still, House Republicans want to spend $350 billion over 10 years for [prescription-drug benefits] and the Democrats want to spend between $700 billion and $800 billion."From "Government vs Corporate Crime," AIM Report, 2002 #14, July 29, 2002, page 4. Accuracy In Media, Incorporated, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 202-364-4401. Fax: 202-364-4098. E-mail. Website.
"Newly released statistics reported in mid-October show that since the British government passed one of the most stringent gun bans in the world in 1997, Britain's murder rate has risen to its highest level since records began being kept 100 years ago. The number of murders in the first eight months of this year has risen by as much as 22 percent in some of Britain's biggest cities, which account for the majority of homicides." [So, will the gun bans be rescinded? Ohhhh, noooo.]From "Brit Gun Ban Failure Worse Than We Thought," America's First Freedom, December 2002, page 25. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.
"A Paul Harvey radio broadcast in early November reported that the IRS was adding instructional procedures to its operations manual for the collection of taxes after a nuclear attack." From "Cockroaches and the IRS," The John Birch Society Bulletin, December 2002, page 11. Address: The John Birch Society, Inc., 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914-6521. Phone: 920-749-3780. E-mail. Website.
"In early 2002, Pima County [Arizona] adopted Ordinance 2002-2, 'The Inclusive Home Design Ordinance,' which requires that all new homes built in Pima County be constructed for the 'possibility of occupancy, accessibility or visitation by a disabled person.' The additional cost for new homes to comply with the ordinance ranges from $500 to %,000." [Our freedoms -- they are slipping away.]From "Restrictions on New Homes Opposed," The Litigator, Fall 2002, page 8. Address: Mountain States Legal Foundation Executive Offices, 2596 South Lewis Way, Lakewood, Colorado 80227. Phone: 303-292-2021. Fax: 303-292-1980. Website.
"Kansas Republican Sen. Pat Roberts organized the gathering of all 100 senators' signatures for a letter to the White House urging retention of a left-wing Clinton-era program that makes Americans pay for school lunches in other countries." [Charity begins . . . not here! Oh, how generous the politicians are with your money and mine.]From "Capitol Offenses," by Elizabeth Howard, Middle America News, December 2002, page 5. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.
"A British pub chain was fined $7,850 after undercover inspectors caught a few patrons dancing at two of its popular bars. The crime: Flouting licensing laws that ban 'rhythmic moving.' . . . Under British law, dancing is allowed only in pubs that have public entertainment licenses."From "You Can't Go Kevin Bacon in a British Pub," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, December 2-8, 2002, page 2. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"America has a problem. From the time you woke up this morning to the time you go to sleep tonight, 10,000 illegal aliens will have flooded into the United States from Mexico. Tomorrow, the same will happen. And the next day, and the day after that."From "Immigration Insanity," by Peyton Knight, The DeWeese Report, December 2002, 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.
"When returning home from the NRA Annual Meetings, [Anthony] Gazzola had in his carry-on luggage a 4-inch milk chocolate pistol wrapped in plastic wrap. His daughter had bought the tasty treat for him to enjoy when he returned home. But a luggage screener had a different point of view. According to Gazzola, the screener said, 'I don't care if it's chocolate, you're not taking a gun on the plane.' Not wanting to leave the pistol behind, Gazzola ate the barrel off in front of the screener to prove it was, indeed, chocolate. But even without the barrel, the sinister piece of chocolate couldn't be taken aboard because 'gun parts' also weren't allowed."From "Gun Parts Are OK, If They're in Your Belly," America's First Freedom, December 2002, page 21. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.
"Pushed relentlessly by anti-gun forces, the Los Angeles City Council has passed a ban on the sale and possession of .50-caliber rifles -- a gun type that has never been linked to a single crime in the entire United States."From "Big Bores," America's First Freedom, December 2002, page 20. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.
"[T]he Endangered Species Act (ESA) . . . places the welfare of birds, insects, fish, reptiles, mammals, crustaceans, flowers, grasses, and trees above that of human beings. The law states that any action, administrative or real, that results in a 'taking' of a threatened species, or adversely affects its habitat, shall be considered unlawful. This broad, sweeping dictate has empowered those on the ideological left to trample property rights, lock up public land and squelch economic development -- all in the name of sustainable development. The ESA alone has caused more pain, grief and suffering to humankind than all the rest of the radical environmental agenda. The stories of those who have lost their homes, property, income and livelihood as a result of the ESA are far too many to list here."From "International Failure Gives Way to Domestic Realities," by Peyton Knight, The DeWeese Report, December 2002, page 8, 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.
"In 1979, then-President Jimmy Carter needed to give our Panama Canal to Panama so they would like us. Never mind that the canal is vital to American national security. . . . Well, if they took a vote in Panama now to see if its citizens still thought this was such a good idea for them, Jimmy and the boys might be surprised at the outcome. He might find a vote overwhelmingly in favor of bringing back those nasty gringos. Because the region is now experiencing exactly what opponents to the canal give-away, including Ronald Reagan, predicted all along. With no U.S. military presence anywhere near the canal, the region has become unstable. Worse, Panama is being invaded by the Communist Chinese. . . . China is now engaging in an 'immigration' invasion of Panama. There are now some 200,000 illegal and legal Chinese out of a total Panamanian population of just 2 million. . . . With the total departure of the U.S., including America's anti-drug task force at Howard Air Force base, drug lords and money launderers are making Panama city the base of their operations. Marxist guerrillas from neighboring Columbia enter Panama with impunity, and have been robbing banks and kidnaping foreigners and Panamanians. Without American control, Panama, and its canal, so vital to American security, is fast becoming an outpost for all of our enemies."From "Communist China Is Invading the Panama Canal," by Tom DeWeese, The DeWeese Report, December 2002, page 4, 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.
"It is estimated that the U.S. has contributed [to the U.N.] as much as $50 billion since the creation of the U.N. The U.S. General Accounting Office found that former President Clinton diverted over $24 billion to the world body between 1995 and 2001."From "Showdown at the United Nations," page 7, by Cliff Kincaid, a special report prepared by the National Committee Against the U.N. Takeover, a project of America's Survival, Incorporated, 8221 Frances lane, Owings, Maryland 20736.
"The U.N. is dominated by the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference." [Let's see, the U.S. has one vote . . .]From "Showdown at the United Nations," page 7, by Cliff Kincaid, a special report prepared by the National Committee Against the U.N. Takeover, a project of America's Survival, Incorporated, 8221 Frances lane, Owings, Maryland 20736.
"The well-worn fraudulent Protocols of the Elders of Zion is making a comeback right here in the United States. Fabricated by the Russian government early in the 20th Century to stir up anti-Semitism by outlining the alleged 'plans' for Jewish domination of the world, the tract is now being serialized by the Arabic-language Arab Voice newspaper in Patterson, N.J. . . . [T]he Protocols were proved to be a forgery as early as 1921."From "Protocols Again," The Right Ear, Human Events, November 11, 2002, page 24. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.
"The Senate last week approved a pay raise for the fourth consecutive year, bumping senators' and representatives' salaries by about $4,700 to $154,700."From "Senate Votes Itself Another Pay Raise," (Associated Press) The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, November 18-24, 2002, page 4. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"Bush and Fox plan post-election amnesty for illegal aliens."From "Bush and Fox Plan Post-Election Amnesty for Illegal Aliens," by Wayne Lutton, Citizens Informer, July-September 2002, page 1. Address: PO Box 221683, St. Louis, Missouri 63122. Phone: 225-338-9763. E-mail. Website.
"I asked Maurice Strong, the secretary-general of the first and second earth summits held in 1972 and 1992, what [sustainable development] meant. He told me that what they were trying to do was understand the value of the earth. Unlike corporations that have balance sheets and income statements that reflect their wealth, the United Nations had no way of understanding the wealth of the earth. Therefore, what they were trying to do was develop an income statement of how much resources the earth had and how much of the earth's resources were being used up. My follow-up question to Mr. Strong was about family-dependency ratio, a term I first saw in the Fourth Women's Document for Beijing, While the United Nations never defines its terms, after reading the document, I came to my own conclusions. The UN is concerned about . . . how much of [the] earth's resources are being consumed. It is called production and consumption. For example, four people live at 102 South Main Street. Mom and dad produce through their jobs. Baby and grandparent are non-producers, since they do not work. They are consumers. What the UN is working on is a way to measure how much of the earth's resources every house consumes and produces." [And what do you think the U.N. will do after that?]From "The Economics of Sustainable Development," by Joan Veon, UN Watch, July-October 2002, page 7. Published by The Women's international Media Group, Incorporated, PO Box 77, Middletown, Maryland 21765-0077. Phone: 301-432-7512. Website.
"A former Forest Service employee signed an affidavit that the San Bernardino National Forest staff had volunteers collect the seeds from . . . ESA [Endangered Species Act]-listed plants and spread them in the forest to stop mining and recreation on up to 44,575 acres of . . . mineral-rich forest."From "Ways to Stop Mining," by Don Fife, Resource Roundup, November 2002, page 9. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.
"Fifteen years from now, the Social Security program will run into severe problems, spending more on benefits than it take in through taxes -- $25 trillion more. The average taxpayer born in the 1970's will pay more than $200,000 into the system over his lifetime, but by retirement time, the program will be broke."From "Your Tax Dollars at Work," Middle America News, November 2002, page 8. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.
"After suffering through the antics of Rep. Gary Condit (D-CA) and his sexual relations with an intern who disappeared and was later found murdered, Rep. Brian Baird (D-WA) authored a House rule change to bar congressmen from having sex with interns. Before being considered, Baird's proposal was amended to prohibit sex only with interns working in the member's own office -- leaving congressional horny-toads free to seek gratification from youngsters working in other members' offices."From "Capitol Offenses," by Ellizabeth Howard, Middle America News, November 2002, page 14. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.
"For several years, [Florida] required whites and Asians to score 130 on an IQ test [for entry into gifted classes], but let in blacks and Hispanics who scored 116. . . . A group of white Florida parents sued arguing that race-based distinctions are unconstitutional, and won. Now, everyone has to score 130 -- but there is a catch. Any student who doesn't speak English very well or who qualifies for free school lunches still gets into gifted classes with a score of 116."From "Who's Gifted"" American Renaissance, October 2002, page 15. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.
"[A]sset forfeiture laws[,] originally designed to target illegal profits from drug kingpins . . . have been expanded to allow the government to seize property in cases of suspected prostitution, illegal gambling, or failure to pay sales taxes." [Press secretary of the Libertarian Party, George] Getz points out, 'Federal agents can now seize property under 200 different statutes. And RICO laws, originally designed to target Mafia crime bosses, are now used against stores that allegedly sell obscene videos, against the tobacco companies, and against investment companies for skirting tax laws.'" [Wave goodbye to the Fourth Amendment.]From "Central Data Banks and American Justice," The DeWeese Report, May 2002, page 4, 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.
"Three years after its splashy introduction by the U.S. Mint, the Sacawagea gold-tinted $1 coin has proved to be as big a flop as the Susan B. Anthony $1 coin -- only more costly to taxpayers. The U.S. Mint frittered away an astonishing $67.1 million on a marketing campaign designed to get people interested in the new coin."From "Close the U.S. Mint," by Richard Rahn, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, September 30 - October 6, 2002, page 32. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"The Washington Post reports that [police] line officers were so suspicious of Muhammad and his co-assailant that they pulled his car over 10 times -- before a lucky tip broke their superiors' apparent resistance to searching for a non-white assailant."From "Politically-Correct Police Overlooked Illegal Aliens," The American Sentinel, November 2002, page 6. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"The INS admits that 10,000 illegal aliens cross the 1,940-mile long Mexican-American border each day."From "Mexican Border Remains Unsealed," The American Sentinel, November 2002, page 7. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"A liberal New York congressman [Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY)] believes non-U.S. citizens engaged in homosexual relationships with U.S. citizens should have immigration privileges identical to those of an alien married to a citizen, and nearly a quarter of the members of the House of Representatives support the idea."From "Congressman Promotes Immigration Privileges for Homosexuals," Media Bypass, November 2002, page 45. American Alternative Media LP, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website.
"At the direction of Congress, U.S. taxpayers will shell out $8 million in partial funding for a rest home in Louisiana for aging chimpanzees once used for scientific and medical research. . . Companion legislation provides $30 million for continuing care for chimps -- a payout almost as generous as the congressional pensions that the chimps' cousins on Capitol Hill get."From "Monkey Business," Your Tax Dollars at Work, Middle America News, November 2002, page 8. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.
"Massachusetts gun owners are banned from firing at human-shaped silhouettes on firing ranges."From "Puritanism Alive and Well in Massachusetts," The American Sentinel, October 2002, page 5. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"Scotland has begun a £1 million campaign to rid the country of 'racism.' Prompting the campaign was a poll of 2,000 Scots, which revealed 52 percent don't want the number of non-whites living in Scotland to increase."From "Scots Must Change," American Renaissance, November 2002, page 16. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.
"The State Department official who was forced to retire because her office allowed most of the September 11 hijackers into the United States has won an 'outstanding performance' award of $15,000."From "Employee Whose Office Let in Hijackers Got 'Performance' Bonus," by Tom Carter, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, November 3, 2002, page 19. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"Communist China has the ultimate weapon of mass destruction (the nuclear bomb), and their defense minister said, 'war with the U.S. is inevitable.' . . Yet, we are giving China over $100 billion a year in aid, via the free trade loophole, to expand their military might. We have allowed China to close (or never open) over 3,000 U.S. factories at a cost of over 4,000,000 jobs and over $600 billion in added national debt. And we are paying them over $5 billion a year in interest on mortgages they hold against our federal treasury."From "The Insanity of War Against Iraq," by Gus R. Stelzer, Media Bypass, October 2002, page 3. American Alternative Media LP, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website.
"Under Section 302 of Title III [of the USA Patriot Act], any assets you own can be forfeited to police, if they assert that such a seizure furthers the 'anti-terrorist goals' of the government. If you've ever contributed even one dollar to a group the government brands as 'terrorist,' everything you own could be seized without trial or hearing. Under Section 207(III), federal agents can eavesdrop on your phone calls, faxes and e-mails at will -- without any search warrant. . ."From "Your Privacy -- A Casualty of 9/11?" by Jarret Wollstein, NewsMax.com (the magazine), October 2002, page 56. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.
"Sweden is about to pass a constitutional amendment banning all speech or materials opposing homosexuality. When it does, remarks that offend gays could bring a jail term of up to four years. Christians would not be allowed to speak out against homosexuality, even in churches." [Killing two birds - freedom of speech and freedom of religion - with one stone.]From "Upward Creep of Coercion," by John Leo, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, October 21-27, 2002, page 30. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"Rafael Velasquez, 29, a Democrat candidate for Florida's House of Representatives, voted twice in the 1990s, even though he didn't become a citizen until 2001, reported the Miami Herald. Foreigners are banned from participation in elections by Florida election law, violations of which are a felony. So far, however, Florida's law enforcement authorities show no interest in prosecuting." [But, if he were a Republican . . .]From "Alien Votes Illegally, Now Runs for Office," Middle America News, October 2002, page 12. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.
"In April 2001, Steven Thoburn, a fruit and vegetable trader from northeastern England, was convicted of selling bananas using scales labeled in pounds and ounces. His crime? Breaching the Weights and Measures Act. Mr. Thoburn brazenly defied this Act, and refused to sell his bananas in kilos and grams. . . . [T]he Associated Press reports that Thoburn can't even appeal his conviction. Three judges in Britain's highest court of appeal, the House of Lords, have refused Thoburn permission to challenge a High Court ruling that EU law on metric measure ranks supreme in Britain." [Note well the encroachment on sovereignty.]From "Not an Ounce of Sense," The Limbaugh Letter, September 2002, page 5. Address: 2 Penn Plaza, 17th Floor, New York, New York 10121. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-563-9166. E-mail. Website.
"The cost of the U.S. legal system is growing at four times the rate of our economy."From an undated solicitation letter (page 7) from Judicial Watch, 501 School Street, SW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20024. Website.
"Inflation is often falsely defined as a market-driven rise in prices and wages. In reality, it's when government increases the money supply, thereby devaluing the dollar."From "Inflation: What We're Not Being Told!" The New American, October 21, 2002, page 29. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.
"[T]he federal regulatory beast is consuming some $854 billion annually, more than 8 percent of the GDP, according to a study by the Cato Institute, compared to $946 billion in corporate profits. The after-tax regulatory cost for the median two-earner family is about $7,400."From "Deregulation Myths," Correction Please, The New American, October 21, 2002, pages 42-43. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.
"The mayor of Frederick, Md., ordered police to stop a group of activists carrying a 'Save the Ten Commandments' banner from marching in a recent parade. The group's leader, who had a permit to march in the parade with a banner, was handcuffed and detained until the parade had passed."From "Commandments Banner Pulled from Parade," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, October 14-20, 2002, page 11. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"If the State Department had followed the law, at least 15 of the 19 [terrorists] should have been denied visas -- and they likely wouldn't have been in the United States on September 11, 2001."From "The Visas that Shouldn't Have Been," by Joel Mowbray, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, October 14-20, 2002, page 35. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"In Miami-Dade [following the recent primary election], 32 precincts reported no Democratic ballots cast despite more than 12,000 Democrats registered there, but 7 precincts reported Democratic turnouts of more than 100 percent."From "Florida Election Stymies Technology," by Phyllis Schlafly, North Florida Advocate, October 2002, page 4. Address: 132 SW Elim Church Road, Fort White, Florida 32038. Phone: 386-497-2523. Fax: 386-497-4987. E-mail.
"Thousands of children are taken from their families every day across the nation and most are never returned. The numbers speak volumes about the true nature of the DCF [Department of Children and Families] and similar agencies, whose bloated budgets get bigger still the more they fill their 'quotas' of children seized on the flimsiest of pretexts. . . . To believe in God and the protected rights of all Americans is now deemed as an unsafe environment for children by the DCF."From "Another Victim of the Nanny State," Media Bypass, October 2002, page 15. American Alternative Media LP, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website.
"Tens of thousands of U.S. military and government computers containing sensitive information are easily accessible over the Internet, a computer security firm that cracked the networks said on August 16."From "Experts: U.S. Military Computers Easily Cracked," Media Bypass, October 2002, page 44. American Alternative Media LP, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website.
"Stephanie Bell, a fourth-grade teacher at Williams Elementary School, taught the word 'niggardly' to her class last week in an effort to improve her students' vocabularies. Now, a parent wants her fired. Although the word means stingy, Akwana Walker said it was inappropriate to use it because it sounds similar to a racial slur. . . . Ms. Bell, who is white, . . . has already sent home letters of apology with her students, as her principal instructed."From "Parent Offended by Lesson in Vocabulary," Media Bypass, October 2002, pages 44-45. American Alternative Media LP, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website.
"Exactly 236 bureaucrats from the Department of Health and Human Services, at a whopping cost of $3.6 million, traveled to Barcelona in July to participate in a world AIDS conference."From "Barcelona Baggage," Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, October 21-27, 2002, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"In Nigeria, an Islamic court sentenced a couple to death by stoning for having an affair. . . . In the U.S., Muslims do not yet have enough votes in any jurisdiction to force the adoption of such practices. They key word is 'yet.' Thanks to mass immigration, Islam is America's fastest gorwing religion."From "Diverse Justice Coming to the U.S.?" Newsbriefs, Middle America News, October 2002, pages 5 and 7. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.
"The Detroit Free Press recently reported that the State of Michigan can't find 302 abused and neglected children, most of them from the moribund Detroit area. . . In Florida, critics say the state can't find as many as 500 children who are supposed to be monitored under the watchful eyes of the state's Department of Child and Family Services."From "Incompetent Elites," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, October 2002, page 3. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.
"The Miami Herald reported last month that Florida's child welfare agency employs at least 183 people with criminal records, including felonies such as child molestation, child abuse, sex crimes, and dealing in illegal drugs."From "Dangerous Elites," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, October 2002, page 3. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.
"The United Nations now administers more than five hundred treaties, of which 175 treaties and protocols directly influence policies of the federal, state, and local government." [The sea of global governance is engulfing us.]From "U.N. Influence over Domestic Policy," by Michael Coffman, and Henry Lamb, eco-logic, Summer 2002, page 4. Address: Environmental Conservation Organization, PO Box 191, Hollow Rock, Tennessee, 38342. E-mail. Website.
"John Walker Lindh was able to plea bargain his sentence to 20 years."From "How to Fight and Win the War on Terror," by Joseph Farah, Whistleblower, September 2002, page 9. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.
"In early August, GI Joe caused a security alert at Los Angeles International Airport because its 2-inch plastic gun was considered a dangerous weapon. . . . Defending the action [refusing to let a passenger board a plane with the toy], a spokesman for Los Angeles International Airport said, 'We have instructions to confiscate anything that looks like a weapon or a replica," . . . "If GI Joe was carrying a replica then it had to be taken from him.'"From "'GI Joe' Disarmed at Los Angeles Airport," Whistleblower, September 2002, page 16. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.
"The Endangered Species Act as currently written is a draconian law that allows almost no room for compromise or common sense in its implementation. Once any creature is listed as 'endangered,' all other interests must defer utterly and immediately to whatever the biological regulators prescribe." [Sounds like the definition of tyranny, to me.]From "Calamity in Klamath," by Blake Hurst, The American Enterprise, October/November 2002, page 30. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.
"Because of the presence of [']endangered species['] such as fairy shrimp, gnatcatchers and the California least tern seabird, amphibious [training] landings [at Camp Pendleton's Red Beach] today have to be made at severely restricted areas on base. After coming ashore, vehicles must stick to designated roads as not to harm a weed. Marines can't dig random fighting positions without waivers. Small signs posted on wire fences alerting Marines to protected habitat or endangered plants are as important as keeping out of the life of imaginary fire. . . Marines today must avoid 60% of the landing area because of endangered bugs and birds. . . . Since passage of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, close to 1,000 animals and plants have been listed as endangered or threatened (with 4,000+ recommended for future listing)."From "Endangered Species or Endangered Warriors: An American Dilemma," by Bill Horn, The DeWeese Report, October 2002, page 8, 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.
"Five-year-old Jordan Locke was suspended from Curtisville Elementary School in Deer Lakes, Pennsylvania for 'bringing a weapon to school.' His 'crime?' He was dressed as a fireman for his class Halloween party, and his costume included a small plastic firefighter's axe."From "Zero Common Sense," The American Enterprise, December 2001, page 14. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.
"A second-grader in Alexandria, Louisiana innocently brought his grandfather's pocket watch to school for 'show and tell.' But, to his misfortune, the pocket watch had attached to its chain a tiny pocket knife with a one-inch blade. This weapon-toting young 'criminal' was suspended and hustled off to an alternative school for a month as punishment."From "Zero Common Sense," The American Enterprise, December 2001, page 14. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.
"Beijing is building a new fleet of nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles with a strike range that will include, according to U.S. military experts, nearly all of the United States. . . . China's ever-growing fleet of intermediate-range missiles will crush Taiwan in a lightning-quick strike. Meanwhile, the U.S. Pacific Fleet will be held at bay through nuclear blackmail."From "China's New ICBMs Targeting New York and D.C.?" NewsMax.com (the magazine), September 2002, page 57. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.
"In his study Death by Government, Professor R. J. Rummel documented that during the 20th century, nearly 170,000,000 people were murdered by their own governments."From "The Rising Police State," by Warren Mass, The John Birch Society Bulletin, October 2002, page 8. Address: The John Birch Society, Inc., 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914-6521. Phone: 920-749-3780. E-mail. Website.
"Did you know that a person's chances of being mugged in London are six times higher than in New York City? . . . Did you know that in England self-defense of person or property is regarded as an antisocial act, and that a victim who injures or kills an assailant is likely to be treated with more severity than the assailant? . . . In England the penalty for possessing a handgun is 10 years in prison. . . . The British government forbids citizens to carry any article that might be used for self-defense. . . . A British Petroleum executive was wounded in an assault on his life in a London Underground train carriage. In desperation, he fought off his attackers by using an ornamental sword blade in his walking stick. He was tried and convicted of carrying an offensive weapon."From "How the British Maximize Crime," by Paul Craig Roberts, The New American, October 2002, page 72. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.
"Last May, a Texas school district employee was sanctioned for using the office e-mail system to send the text of President Bush's National Day of Prayer proclamation to a friend. LaDonna DeVore was told by her supervisor that 'religious worship or proselytizing' was forbidden in the district's e-mail, even though non-work-related messages such as jokes, chain letters and other personal messages are permitted." [The freedom-from-religion crowd is at it again.]From "ACLU's Tyranny," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, September 2002, page 5. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.
"Amtrak . . . [l]ast year . . . lost $1.1 billion . . . . Despite (or more likely, because of) its high fares -- flying is frequently a cheaper alternative -- Amtrak cannot cover its costs, requiring subsidies to the tune of $87.20 per passenger."From "Amtrak: A Permanent State of Crisis," by Matthew Rippon, Waste Watch, the official newspaper of Citizens Against Government Waste, Summer 2002, page 12. Address: 1301 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20036-1838. Phone: 800-BE-ANGRY.  Government Run Amok items for First Half of 1999. Second Half of 1999. Government Run Amok items for First Quarter, 2000. Second Quarter, 2000. Third Quarter, 2000. Fourth Quarter, 2000. Government Run Amok items for First Quarter, 2001. Second Quarter, 2001. Third Quarter, 2001. Fourth Quarter, 2001. Government Run Amok items for First Quarter, 2002. Second Quarter, 2002. Third Quarter, 2002. The way back home. |
