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"It was in 1952 that the American Psychiatric Association (APA) published its first Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM), containing a list of 112 mental disorders. DSM-II, published in 1968, aligned with the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases (ICD), mental health disorders section, and consisted of 163 disorders. . . ."In 1980, the third edition, DSM-III, was released listing an extra 61 disorders, bringing the total to 224. Some interesting developments had occurred. In the 'Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence' section, 32 new mental disorders were added, including: Attention Deficit Disorder, Conduct Disorder, Developmental Reading Disorder, Developmental Arithmetic Disorder, and Developmental Language Disorder. "In 1987, the number of mental disorders increased to 253 in DSM-IIIR. By 1994, DSM-IV had taken the total count to 374. . . . "[The] introduction to DSM-III [states]: 'For most of the DSM-III disorders . . . the etiology [cause] is unknown. A variety of theories [has] been advanced, buttressed by evidence not always that convincing to explain how these disorders come about.' "In other words, not one of the DSM's long list of disorders is supported by any objective diagnostic observations or criteria. . . . "[T]here is no proof that any of psychiatry's 374 mental disorders exist[s] at all; they exist because psychiatry says they exist." -- Excerpts from "Scientific Fraud -- Inventing the Diagnoses First," Documenting Psychiatry -- Shattering Your World with Drugs, page 7. Published by The Citizens Commission on Human Rights, CCHR International, 6616 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90028. Phone: 323-467-4242 (or) 800-869-2247. Fax: 323-467-3720. E-mail. Website. (Page 6 states: "In 2001, an international poll of mental health experts voted DSM-IV as one of the 10 worst psychiatric papers of the millennium, 'a monster, out of control'.")
"Here's why the UN is in fact a threat and how it all works. Sovereignty is the answer to the question: 'who's in charge?' You have to answer that question before you can answer the parallel question: 'who's responsible?' To have true sovereignty over our land we the people, through our elected representatives, must be in charge of decisions over it and we must have the responsibility to carry out those decisions."Keep in mind that you can voluntarily give up both control and responsibility. However, even if it is voluntary, it's still loss of control. The United States has been taking that path of voluntary surrender of control for several years through acceptance of a number of United Nations treaties and agreements. It is through this matrix, this spider's web of so-called 'international law', that this nation cedes control to the United Nations. "Consider just a few of the UN treaties and agreements that the United States has already agreed to abide. They include the World Heritage Sites Treaty, UNESCO, Agenda 21, the Convention on Climate Change, and The Man and the Biosphere program. Each of these is part of an agenda called 'Sustainable Development' which calls for changing the very infrastructure of our nation, away from private ownership and control of property to nothing short of national zoning and a whole lot more. . . . "Sustainable Development combines social welfare programs with partnerships between business and government, using environmental issues to make it all appear to be urgent. This environmental agenda is driven by the United Nations through two specific UN organization, the United Nations Environmental Program and the International Union of Conservation and Nature. . . . "By joining the Convention Concerning the Protection of World Culture and National Heritage, adopted in November 1972 at the 17th General Conference of UNESCO, the United States ceded control over Yellowstone National Park, the Everglades National Park, the Grand Canyon National Park, the Great Smokey Mountains National Park, Yosemite National Park, the Carlsbad Caverns National Park, and you will find this astounding, Monticello, Jefferson's home, and the Statue of Liberty! . . . "Now ask yourselves the question again: Who's in charge? And who's responsible? . . . "The only way for the United States of America to reassert and reestablish its sovereignty is to get out of the United Nations." -- Excerpts from "Entangling Alliances: George Washington vs. the UN," by Tom DeWeese, Media Bypass, April 2003, pages 44, 45. American Alternative Media LP, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website.
"Roe v. Wade was never about the law. It was never about the Constitution. It was never about privacy. It was never about the facts of the case. It was a political decision made by unaccountable legislators guised, fittingly, in black robes. . . ."The 1973 U.S. Supreme Court did not interpret the Constitution. And it did not represent the people of the United States. Instead, it overturned laws in 46 states outlawing abortion -- legislation approved by the will of the people -- and restrictions on it in the remaining four states. . . . [And the Tenth Amendment says . . .] "To justify its decision overturning legislation in 50 states, the Supreme Court was forced to come up with a constitutional excuse. So, it simply invented one -- a right of privacy that is nowhere found in the Constitution. In fact, in delivering the court's majority opinion, Justice Harry A. Blackmun frankly admits: 'The Constitution does not explicitly mention any right of privacy.'. . . . "[T]he Declaration of Independence [states]: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.' "Life is an unalienable right, which means man can't take it away through laws or through Supreme Court decisions. . . . "Roe v. Wade created rights where none existed and abrogated those that were enshrined as unalienable." -- Excerpts from "Why Abortion Is Still Illegal," by Joseph Farah, Whistleblower, January 2003, pages 3, 44. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.
"Though most people will spend their entire lives romancing the notion of freedom, few actually live in freedom because the price of freedom is responsibility for one's actions. Inseparable from freedom is responsibility -- responsibility for one's spiritual, political, physical and economic successes or failures."Historically, the bulk of humanity insists upon transferring the individual's responsibility to make important personal decisions regarding spiritual, political, physical and economic matters to organized religions and governments. "Said another way, people beg churches and governments to make decisions for them so they can be absolved of responsibility for their spiritual, political, physical and economic activities. "Said yet another way, people pay tribute to churches (tithes) and governments (taxes, fees, fines, penalties) so that they can be relieved of the 'burden' of freedom endowed upon them at birth. "Throughout history people have demonstrated they prefer to pay churches and governments to take their freedom as opposed to keeping it for themselves. . . . "Fueled by revenues extracted from the responsibility-abdicating masses, the authority of organized religion and/or government inevitably grows larger and larger in the minds of their people. Eventually peoples' behavior becomes so influenced by the dictates of these outside forces they begin to do as they are told. They, in turn, teach their children how to behave in a society that rarely questions the intelligence or morality of the 'laws' under which they exist. "The glue that holds people in this form of bondage is fear -- fear of the unknown and fear their unauthorized actions may prompt punishment from the authorities they themselves have imagined into existence by paying various forms of tribute." -- Excerpts from "What Is Freedom?" by DWH [who I assume is Don Harkins, editor], The Idaho Observer, May 15, 2003, page 24. Address: PO Box 457, Spirit Lake, Idaho 83869. Phone: 208-255-2307. Fax: 208-255-2607. E-mail. Website.
"It is of utmost importance to understand the roots of the latest project of the organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), 'The Holocaust on your plate,' a campaign that morally equates killing chickens with the Holocaust. . . ."G.K. Chesterton said about a hundred years ago: 'When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing, they believe in anything.' . . . "The death of God-based values is the major reason for the moral wasteland known as the university, the one place where America is regarded as a villain and the U.N. as morally progressive; where male and female are regarded as subjective constructs, not naturally distinctive identities; where Fidel Castro is a hero and Palestinian terrorists are freedom fighters. "And secularism explains the widespread belief in the equivalence of people and animals. The breakdown of belief in the God of the Bible has led to the demise of the belief in the sanctity of human life. If human beings are not regarded as created in God's image, but only in the image of animals, there is no reason to regard human life as worth more than that of an animal, including chickens. "It is not a coincidence that no mainstream Jewish or Christian denomination, no matter how liberal, agrees with PETA's campaign or teaches its adherents that humans and animals are of equal worth. You have to enter the moral chaos of full-blown secularism to believe that people burned alive, slowly frozen to death, medically experimented on, stripped naked and machine gunned family-by-family, forced to watch their children burned, or slowly asphyxiated in gas chambers suffer no more than slaughtered chickens, and that both acts are morally identical. It is impossible to believe in any normative expression of Judeo-Christian values and believe this. . . . "For 30 years, I have asked high school seniors throughout America which they would save first, their dog or a stranger. In every instance (except some religious schools), one third have voted to save their dog, one third for the stranger, and one third just didn't know." -- Excerpts from "PETA-Think: Chicken-Fried People," by Dennis Prager, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, May 12-18, 2003, page 31. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"[T]he history department at Harvard University no longer offers a course on the American Revolution. In its place, it now offers a course on the history of midwives and quilting."Worse yet, mainstream historians are driven by a pernicious political agenda that seeks to elevate 'group rights' over individual rights. By sanctifying the stories of oppressed and 'marginalized' groups, historians subtly indoctrinate students with the idea that justice and rights are synonymous with one's group identity, be it one's race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation. "But what of America's founding ideals, such as the principle of inalienable individual rights? "Ultimately, academic history is driven by a hatred of America and its ideals. It is common these days for students to be told that the colonization of North America represents an act of genocide; that the Founding Fathers were racist, sexist, 'classist,' 'homophobic,' Euro-centric bigots; that the winning of the American West was an act of capitalist pillage; that the so-called 'Robber Barons' forced widows and orphans into the streets; that hidden in the closets of most white Americans is a robe and hood. "To help put over this slander, historians dissolve American history into a chaotic hodge-podge of trivial stories about politically correct victim groups. It is no wonder that our children no longer learn the truly important facts about their nation's history. . . . "American children once learned about honesty from George Washington, justice from Thomas Jefferson, integrity from John Adams, independence from Daniel Boone, oratory from Daniel Webster, ingenuity from Thomas Edison, perseverance from the Wright Brothers, and courage from Sergeant York. They memorized and learned the principles of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Gettysburg Address. American history was taught as a grand story of epic scale and heroic accomplishment. The history of America was the history of freedom. "Today, our children are being taught to be ashamed of America. By denigrating the principles and great deeds of America's past and dethroning its heroes, today's college professors are destroying in our youth the proper reverence for the ideals this nation stands for. And a nation that hates itself cannot last." -- Excerpts from The Historians vs. American History, by C. Bradley Thompson, The DeWeese Report, May 2003, 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.
"Now that you have paid your income taxes, calculate how much you own of your own labor. You can do this by dividing the federal, state and local income taxes you paid (including Social Security and Medicare) by your taxable income."Generally speaking, the higher your income, the less you own of yourself. A person with $300,000 in taxable income will discover that government in the year 2002 has a claim to about one-third of his labor -- the maximum tax that could be levied on a medieval serf. "If you have a low income or work primarily off the books, you will be rewarded with an 'earned income tax credit' -- that is, you will receive a tax 'refund' even though you paid no tax. You not only own all your own labor, but also have legal claims to the incomes of higher-income persons. "Democracy produces the opposite results of feudalism. Instead of an upper class living off the sweat of a lower class, the lower class lives off the sweat of an upper class. Philosophers such as John Rawls created a philosophy to justify the latter as 'moral' and the former as 'immoral,' but it all comes down to the same thing: some people live off other people's activities. "Income taxes are not the only taxes. There are property taxes, wealth taxes, excise taxes and sales taxes. If you add together all the taxes you paid, you might find that you own no more of your own income than a 19th century slave. (A slave owed his master about half his work product, the rest being necessary for his own maintenance.)" -- Excerpts from Democracy's Serfs, by Paul Craig Roberts, Middle America News, May 2003, page 15. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.
"Since the 1960s, the American education system has been systematically dismembered and destroyed to the point where we're producing generation after generation of young people who don't have basic skills in reading, writing and comprehension. Beyond that they have no real body of knowledge about geography, history or civics. Americans who grew up in the 1850s and were educated in one-room schoolhouses were graduated with a better knowledge of civics and history than today's students."The schools have been turned into factories to produce graduates with 'proper attitudes' predetermined by the curriculum. We now have one of our greatest national disgraces ever, the doping and drugging of hundreds of thousands of students coast to coast. And the education system is so centralized in Washington that you might as well disband all the local boards of education. Meanwhile, Americans have been led to believe that all they need to fix everything is to make classes smaller and pay teachers more. That is nonsense!" -- Excerpts from Caruba Proves to Be Far from Boring, by Stephen Goode, Insight on the News, April 1-14, 2003, page 45, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"If you were active in the so-called 'peace' movement or in the radical wing of the civil rights causes, why would you tell the truth? Why would you tell people that no, you weren't really a 'peace activist,' except in the sense that you were against America's war. Why would you draw attention to the fact that while you called yourselves 'peace activists,' you didn't oppose the Communists' war, and were gratified when America's enemies won?"What you were really against was not war at all, but American 'imperialism' and American capitalism. What you truly hated was America's democracy, which you knew to be a 'sham' because it was controlled by money in the end. That's why you wanted to 'Bring the Troops Home,' as your slogan said. Because if America's troops came home, America would lose and the Communists would win. And the progressive future would be one step closer. "But you never had the honesty -- then or now -- to admit that. You told the lie then to maintain your influence and increase your power to do good (as only the Chosen can). And you keep on telling the lie for the same reason. "Why would you admit that, despite your tactical support for civil rights, you weren't really committed to civil rights as Americans understand rights? What you really wanted was to overthrow the very Constitution that guaranteed those rights, based as it is on private property and the individual -- both of which you despise. "It is because America is a democracy and the people endorse it, that the left's anti-American, but 'progressive' agendas can only be achieved by deceiving the people. This is the cross the left has to bear: The better world is only achievable by lying to the very people they propose to redeem." -- Excerpts from Hillary Clinton and the Racial Left, by David Horowitz, 2000, pages 10-11. Published by the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, 9911 West Pico Boulevard, Suite 1290, Los Angeles, California 90035. Phone: 800-752-6562. Fax: 310-843-3692. Website.
"[A] working definition of slavery is that you work but do not have any rights to the fruit of your labor. Taxation and regulation constitute the confiscation of some or all of the freedom to own and use property. . . ."The federal cost of hiring 93,000 IRS employees is $6 billion. If these Americans weren't fooling around with the tax code, they could produce the entire annual output of the aircraft, trucking, auto, and food-processing industries combined. . . . "The only way the government can give one American one dollar is to confiscate it first, under intimidation, threats, and coercion, from another American. In other words, for government to do good, it must first do evil. . . . "Almost every group in the nation has come to feel that the government owes it a special privilege or favor. Manufacturers feel that the government owes them protective tariffs. Farmers feel that the government owes them crop subsidies. Unions feel that the government should keep their jobs protected from non-union competition. Residents of coastal areas feel that the government should give them funds for rivers and harbors. Intellectuals feel that the government should give them funds for research. The unemployed and the unemployable feel that the government owes them a living. Big business feels that the government should protect them from the rigors of market competition. Members of almost every occupation, profession, or trade feel that the government should use licensing requirements and other forms of regulation to protect their incomes from competition that would be caused by others entering the trade. . . . "Our government has become destructive of the ends it was created to serve. John Stuart Mill, who wrote the classic text On Liberty, said, in discussing the limits of government power, '[T]he only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized society, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.' Mill added, 'He cannot rightfully be compelled because it would be better for him to do so . . . because it will make him happier' or because, in the opinion of others, 'to do so would be wise, or even right.' Finally, Mill said, 'These are good reasons for remonstrating him, or persuading him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with an evil in the case he do otherwise.'" -- Excerpts from "The Legitimate Role of Government in a Free Society," by Walter E. Williams, Imprimis, August 2000, pages 2-5. Address: Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan 49242. Phone: 800-437-2268.
"I was talking to my brother the other day about the 'law maker' problem. I pointed out that, since freedom is having the option to choose either to do, or not do, some activity, that every law destroys freedom. That is because every law negates some option. My brother's comment was that we should start calling 'law makers' what they really are -- freedom destroyers."After the aforementioned discussion we arrived at what seems to be the root of the problem with our lunatic government. In the old days, laws were passed to punish people who had deliberately harmed others. But today laws are being passed to punish people for being able to harm others. 'You can't own that gun because you could use it to inflict harm.' But such laws are totally arbitrary because everyone (except helpless infants) could harm others. And every technological device ever invented could be used to harm others. And all knowledge of how to build potentially harmful technological devices could be used to cause harm. The politicians -- freedom destroyers -- have begun a process that will eventually lead to the outlawing of everything that differentiates us from animals. It's back to the caves for us! And by the way, the knowledge of how to start fire will also have to be outlawed. Fire could be dangerous." -- Excerpts from Don't Shoot the Bastards (Yet) -- 101 More Ways to Salvage Freedom, by Claire Wolfe, 1999, page 4 (quoting an unnamed "correspondent"). Published by Loompanics Unlimited, PO Box 1197, Port Townsend, Washington 98368. Phone: 360-385-2230. E-mail. Website.
"Today the marriage rate is at its lowest point ever, the divorce rate is near its highest, and more children are living without their fathers than at any time in American history. Yet the prestigious American Law Institute (ALI), which exercises great influence on American jurisprudence, has just released a series of family law recommendations that would exacerbate these problems by trivializing the importance of marriage, encouraging divorce and accelerating fatherlessness."The marriage rate has dipped 40% over the last four decades and over a million couples divorce each year. A record 1.3 million babies were born out of wedlock in 1999, marking the first time in American history that a full third of all U.S. births were to unwed mothers. "Sociologists, economists, and child-welfare advocates agree that too many children are living without a father in the home, and the public echoes these sentiments. According to a 1996 Gallop poll, 79% of Americans believe that 'the most significant family or social problem facing America is the physical absence of the father from the home.' "Where have all the fathers gone? Maybe we should ask the family court system. Millions of decent fathers who have faithfully loved and supported their children have been downgraded to noncustodial parent status by courts that have stripped them of their natural right to the custody, care, and nurture of their own children. These fathers and the children who love them are victims of the greatest and least recognized problem in American family life today -- the epidemic of access and visitation denial which family courts often permit. "Rather than addressing these issues, the ALI's just released report, The Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution, instead proposes weakening marriage and families by giving incentives to spouses to leave their marriages and replace their children's biological parents. "Courts would reward this behavior by granting 'de facto parent' status to the cohabiting partner of a legal parent who has lived with that legal parent's children for two years and has performed caretaking functions. Thus noncustodial parents -- usually fathers -- could be forced to share custody of their own children with their ex-spouses' new boyfriends or girlfriends. . . . "Research establishes that children fare best in a married, two parent home, and that the largest single predictor of whether a student will graduate high school, attend college, become involved in crime or drugs, or get pregnant is a fathers' presence [or lack of presence] in that home." -- Excerpts from "Undermining the American Family," by Dianna Thompson and Glenn Sacks, Human Events, January 27, 2003, page 20. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.
"[T]here are now three ideologies competing to shape the future of mankind. They are militant Islam, Western European secularism and socialism, and American Judeo-Christianity and capitalism. The first is being spread both peacefully and violently, the second is being spread peacefully, and the third is not being spread."Though most people ignore the fact, almost all of the world's believing Muslims believe that all of mankind should be Muslim. This, in and of itself, is not troubling -- after all, most Christians would like the whole world to be Christian, and most Westerners would like the whole world to [be] democratic. What is troubling is that if only 10 percent of these Muslims are prepared to use violence to impose their religion on others, we are talking about 100 million people. "This is the reason about one million non-Muslim Sudanese have been killed in the last 15 years -- because they are resisting the violent imposition of Islam by the Islamic government in Khartoum. This is the reason for the Muslim-Christian violence in Nigeria -- Christians there, too, are resisting the violent imposition of Islam. And this is the reason for Islamic terror -- to weaken those countries, particularly the United States and Israel, that stand in the way of an Islamic takeover. . . . "The American way can only prevail if Americans believe in it. But with America's universities, unions, professional associations, major news media, and one of its two major parties ideologically aligned with Europe, and with big business undermining Judeo-Christian values, the battle within America itself for America's unique values is far from won." -- Excerpts from "Three Global Ideologies Compete for Humanity's Future," by Dennis Prager, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 3-9, 2003, page 33. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Also available on the Internet. "[E]ducation is a decidedly religious activity. Why? All human endeavor is constrained, informed, defined and imprinted with the worldview of the individual or institution. And worldview is a belief system determined by religious belief. What is religious belief? It is defined by the answers given to a few questions: What is the purpose of life? What happens when we die? How did life come into being?"Your answers to these questions determine how you approach every single endeavor in your life. All institutions have a worldview too, and it affects every single endeavor in which they engage. . . . "Take history class as an example: "Student: Was Hitler right to kill Jews?"Education by definition requires the search for truth. Therefore government must teach about immorality -- which the government can't do. Therefore, the government can't teach. That's why 'government education' is an oxymoron." -- Excerpts from "Pulling Kids Out of Government Schools," by Elizabeth Farah, Whistleblower, November 2002, pages 30, 35. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website. "The Green Party putatively was organized to save the environment by destroying the human race. Its founder, Herbert Marcuse, a Comintern operative and guru of the Black Panters and other terrorist groups, had other plans in mind. A 'refugee' from Nazism, he helped establish the neo-Marxist, neo-Freudian Frankfurt School as a major destructive force on religion, education, morality and all that makes for Judeo-Christian culture. Returning to Germany, he gathered together the tattered remnants of the Communist Party, gave them an 'environmentalist' mask -- and presto-change-o gave us the Green Party. In time the Greens moved to the United States to protect the tsetse fly and the anopheles mosquito from capitalism."-- Excerpts from "Nader Should Remember His Own Advice," by Ralph de Toledano, Insight on the News, March 4-17, 2003, page 56, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Insight Website. Washington Times Website.
"Very few Americans understand the Liberal mind. Simply put, Liberals do not think, they feel. They feel sympathy, compassion, and they feel love for their fellow man. Theirs is a compassionate, well meaning, nice mind-set that wants good people to live in harmony and brotherly love. The Liberals cannot see the dreadful consequences of their actions; they can only deny that they are the cause."While all this seems nice, it totally avoids the facts of live. The most important thing about the Liberal mind is its complete refusal to face any facts. The Liberal makes excuses to remove facts that disagree with his feelings. Facing facts would require thinking. . . . "The cause of their folly is their wish that 'mankind is good by nature,' that there is some good in every man. This belief in the natural goodness in man leads to solutions for society's problems that not only do not work, but greatly magnify the problems. "The Liberal simply cannot understand that in his compassion for the AIDS victims he is demanding that they should have the right to spread the disease to others and not be quarantined (the only known method of combating an epidemic). Liberals have given the AIDS virus civil rights protection. "Their compassion for 'poor killers' has resulted in violence and fear in our streets. They believe that compassionate pleas will do the trick, that their love will reform the criminal; that taking away guns from the citizenry will save lives; that destroying religious beliefs that men are by nature evil will make people good. . . . "The Liberal believes (as did Marx, Engels, Stalin, Castro) that if he can erase the thoughts of society and replace them with the idea that man is by nature good, then men will learn to work hard, share, have compassion, be tolerant, and be law-abiding without the need for force. Liberals believe that if they could control the minds of one generation and erase greedy thoughts, intolerance, and teach the common good and brotherly love in a classless society, then men would become naturally good. "In order to accomplish this new way they must be totally intolerant of any ideas other than their own." [All emphasis above in original.] -- Excerpts from Inside the Liberal Mind, by Grant Russell, Midnight Messenger, January - February, 2003, page 5. Address: 9205 SE Clackamas Road, #1776, Clackamas, Oregon 97015. Phone/fax: 503-824-2050. E-mail. Website. "[W]hat Czar Nicholas failed to accomplish with 20 years of pogroms, "President" Castro pulled off in two years of his rule! He drove out the same percentage of Jews from Cuba as Assad drove out of Syria! Then he gets prominent American Jews drooling all over him!"He holds the record for length of time torturing black political prisoners – and gets the Congressional Black Caucus and NAACP singing his praises! "He spent 40 years executing and jailing any journalist who looked at him cockeyed – and gets fawning interviews, smooches and lovefests by the Beltway Media! "His firing squads pile up thousands as they yell "Long Live Christ the King!" – and the National Council of Churches does his bidding in the U.S.! "He takes power in an armed coup, jails and executes every political opponent, bans elections – and gets crowned "president" in every media mention!" -- Excerpts from "We Love You, Fidel, Oh Yes We Do!" by Humberto Fontova, NewsMax.
"So why does the Left hate America? The answer is because America stands as a massive refutation of every pet theory the Left has ever held."Capitalism is a failed economic system, the Left incessantly pronounces. How then, do they explain that the most free-market large nation on earth is also the richest? America, their mantra goes, is a racist country. Yet immigrants of color flock to our shores by the millions instead of spending their lives ruled by people of the same hue or ethnicity. Does the Left dismiss these people as masochists for coming here? The Left condemns Christianity, the dominant religion in America, as intolerant. In America, and every other predominantly Christian nation for that matter, people can practice any religion they want -- even ones that are inherently hostile to Christianity. In nations run by men of other faiths, Christianity's tolerance is not reciprocated. What the Left touts in theory, the American experience refutes in practice. . . . "[A]ctivists carp that America is an oppressive and intolerant country. The freedom and ease with which they express such odious sentiments show how wrong they are." -- Excerpts from Enemies Within, by Daniel J. Flynn, a 2001 booklet published by Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008, page 21. Phone: 202-364-3085. Website.
"In a world of cultures in conflict, Islam possesses what may prove to be a decisive advantage over all others. It is built around a universal message, the Islamic religion, in which most participants in Islamic culture passionately believe. While China has organizational and technical skills that Islam lacks, it has no message that can even pretend to universal appeal. To be Chinese, you have to be born Chinese."The West has a universal message, the Christian religion. But the sad fact of the matter is, Western culture today is largely de-Christianized. Both pop culture and the mainstream elite culture, which was the counter-culture of the 1960s, are hostile to Christianity and especially to Christian morals. In Europe, the churches are empty (while increasingly, the mosques are full). Americans are still churchgoers, but even much churched Americans accept the secularization of public life. Religion is to be only a private matter, a vague kin to eczema or psoriasis. "As Russell Kirk wrote, culture comes from the cult. When the cult, the faith, that lies at the heart of a culture dies, the culture itself soon follows. If Christianity is not yet quite dead in the West, it is certainly prostrate on its sickbed. It is in no condition to lead its culture in a war of survival. "Here, the contrast with Islam could not be greater. Not only is Islam a vibrant faith, easily able to contend with the secular state -- look at the number of states forced to replace secular law with Islamic law, sharia -- it is, as we have already shown, a religion of war. No religion could be better suited for a world of cultures in conflict. Unlike Christianity, Islam is not uncertain about the morality of war; it embraces war against the unbeliever wholly, enthusiastically, without reservation. It is a religion made for the 21st century -- as, perhaps, in some corner of Hell, it was." -- Excerpts from Why Islam Is a Threat to America and the West, "Essays on Our Times," by Paul M. Weyrich and William S. Lind, 2002, page 9. Published by the 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.
"The role of illegal immigration in the deconstruction of America is not a failure of policy or an 'accident,' but a triumph of the liberal agenda. A decade of aggressive catering to aliens who flagrantly violate immigration law goes far beyond the 3,000+ lives lost at the hands of 19 hostile aliens in September 2001. Those events have overwhelmed America's free institutions, leaving our country a place where grandmothers are manhandled at airports and law-abiding citizens are snooped on as though we are the problem, instead of the many hostile foreign scofflaws that continue to roam freely in our midst."Revealingly, even as official Washington orchestrates the spectacle of unconvicted corporate executives being paraded in handcuffs before TV cameras, no bureaucratic heads have rolled for the September 2001 attacks spearheaded by hostile illegal aliens." -- Excerpts from The American Sentinel, October 2002, page 1. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"Harvard, which accepted millions of dollars from the bin-Laden family fortune, refuses to allow students who accept scholarship money from the American military to train on campus. Some money, it seems, is too dirty for the 365-year-old school."Campuses once memorialized those who built our country. Today, they honor those who sought to destroy it. Rutgers and Penn State honored Paul Robeson, winner of the 1952 Stalin Peace Prize, by naming cultural centers for him. Angela Davis, a running mate of Gus Hall on the Communist Party presidential ticket and 1979 Lenin Peace Prize recipient, was awarded the University of California's highest academic honor, the Presidential Chair. For a time, a branch of the City University of New York even awarded $500 'Ho Chi Minh Scholarships' and 'Assata Skakur Schoolarships'; the former named for the Vietnamese dictator, the latter for a Marxist cop-killer now living in Cuba. In 1996, the tallest public building in the state of Massachusetts, the 26-story tower library on the campus of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, was named in honor of W.E.B. Du Bois, a Stalinist proponent of racial separation who renounced his American citizenship. New York's Bard College boasts an Alger Hiss Chair of Social Studies named for the Soviet spy and convicted perjurer. "All of this is usually done under the guise of an ideology falsely labeled 'multiculturalism.' Multiculturalism, as it exists on campus, is rarely about promoting other cultures. It is more often about debasing our own. . . . "Multiculturalists axiomatically state that all cultures are equal. Common sense tells us that they are not. Cultures are not equal because the worth of their contributions to the happiness and betterment of mankind vary. . . . "The tolerance that multiculturalists demand of Westerners looking at other cultures, they discourage among those inspecting our own society. In the multicultural vernacular, tolerance has a double-meaning. For Third World cultures it means uncritical appreciation and praise. For the First World, it means highlighting faults. Thus, slavery becomes a Western invention while its popularity among primitive societies is ignored. "Cultural equality is achieved the same way most equality is achieved: through leveling. The principles of Marxism are applied to cultures. 'Rich' ones are knocked down a few rungs and 'poor' ones are given a boost upward. The need to do this, of course, is an admission that some cultures really are better than others and that cultural equality can only come by artificial means." -- Excerpts from Enemies Within, by Daniel J. Flynn, a 2001 booklet published by Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008, pages 15-18. Phone: 202-364-3085. Website.
"Europe as we have known it is disappearing. Soon there will be no France, no Germany, no Italy, no Austria, no Spain, no Denmark, no Belgium, no Netherlands, no Greece, no Ireland, no Great Britain. Every country will be gone. In their place will be the European Union."The sovereign countries of Continental Europe and Great Britain are products of unique histories and rich cultural distinctiveness. Each country's language, art, literature, philosophy, music, architecture, cuisine, and mores reflects the uniqueness of each country's history. "This amazing diversity is to be replaced with an artificial creation that has no history and no language. What is the European Union but a centralized bureaucracy with a monetary unit? . . . "British opponents to European Union argue that constitutionally a British government cannot surrender Britain's sovereignty to the European Union and that any such transfer is an act of treason. "These opponents, many of them legally learned, might well be correct. However, the test of sovereignty under international law is given by the answer to the question: 'Are the edicts of the European Union regularly followed in the territories over which the EU claims governance?' If the answer to this factual question is 'yes,' then the European Union is the sovereign. "Many wonder what public choice model or theory of government behavior explains the willingness of national politicians to give up power by ceding sovereignty to the European Union. The surrender of sovereignty has dire implications for the British, because it means the end of the due process, habeas corpus and trial by jury protections to which they are accustomed." [It takes no insight at all to see how this lesson applies as well to U.N. sovereignty over the U.S.A.] -- Excerpts from "Europe's Nations Fading to the Left," by Paul Craig Roberts, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, December 9-15, 2002, page 35. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"The Declaration's statement of principles begins: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. . . .' . . . The important question is: equality in what sense? Humans obviously differ in intelligence, talents, beauty, strength, and many other attributes. What then did the Founders mean by calling human equality a 'self-evident truth'?"They meant something very definite: Human beings are equal in the life and liberty they are born with and deserve to keep. As stated in the first sentence of the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776, which became the model for several other states' Bills of Rights: 'all men are by nature equally free and independent.' "In other words, although human beings are unequal in many ways, no one human or class of humans is superior to another human or class of humans in the way that all humans, since they are rational creatures, are superior to dumb beasts. . . James Madison explains in The Federalist 54 that every human being, but no cow, is held morally accountable for violence committed against others, because every man is free to choose his behavior. To that extent, all men are equal and therefore deserve to be treated as such. . . . "The Progressive Era [liberal] denial of human nature and rejection of natural rights led to the adoption of a new goal for government: equal condition rather than equal rights. This goal requires the government to assign rights unequally. So far, it is primarily property rights that have been affected: redistribution of wealth is the operative mode of American government today. But government has also begun to reassign speech rights. Those who are thought too wealthy no longer have the right to publish whatever they wish. Government now limits that right through campaign finance laws. All this is counter to the principles of the founding. As Jefferson wrote: 'To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not, exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.'" -- Excerpts from The Rise and Fall of Constitutional Government in America, by Thomas G. West and Douglas A. Jeffrey, a 20-page booklet available (for $3.00) from the Claremont Institute (for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy), 250 West First Street, Suite 330, Claremont, California 91711. Phone: 909-621-6825. Fax: 909-626-8724. Website.  Must-Read items for March-May 1999. June-August 1999. September-December 1999. Must-Read items for January-April 2000. May-August 2000. September-December 2000. Must-Read items for January-June 2001. July-December 2001. Must-Read items for January-June 2002. July-December 2002.The way back home. |
