For January - June 2005 Excerpts from writings of interest to all.
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"Something ominous has occurred over the last few decades, and we are paying a terrible price for allowing it to happen."The courts have become the primary agency of self-definition in America. Our legislators are now close to irrelevant. Of course, the media still have tremendous power, but they can only 'propose." It is the courts that 'dispose' -- they decide. And their misguided moral decisions over the years have proven to be disastrous. So much so that it can be said the legal system is now the greatest threat to America's future. However, if you were a casual observer of the political scene, you'd never know it, thanks to our clueless media elite. And they're not the only ones at fault. "The American elite in general has betrayed this country. Its members have left the public in a condition of almost total ignorance of our catastrophic situation. The elite's primary historic responsibility has always been to warn of danger and guard the essential ethics of our civilization. They have done neither. [. . .] "In his farewell address, Ronald Reagan warned us against the 'eradication of the American memory.' Well, it's happening. We are losing our identity. And this makes it almost impossible for us to lead the free world, or to even defend ourselves from terrorists who do not love the idea of liberty." -- Excerpts from "The Essential Mr. Bush, 2004," by Bob Just, Whistleblower, September 2004, pages 20-21. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.
"Since the day 3,000 people were slaughtered, the day human beings jumped, fully conscious, from the 92nd floors of the burning towers, the primary concern of the Left has decidedly not been how to prevent the next attack, but how to protect allegedly endangered civil rights and stem the fictitious wave of 'Islamophobia' sweeping the country. [. . .]."The Left doesn't judge each U.S. action on its own merits -- U.S. action is by definition an evil to be fought. It doesn't matter what happened on 9/11. It doesn't matter that al-Qaeda brazenly trumpets its desire to annihilate America. It doesn't matter how many people die in the next attack. America's imperialism, its racism, its sexism, its homophobia, its greed and malice are the cause of it all. Islamic terrorists and their sympathizers thus become the victims, and their victims become the perpetrators of injustice. "Millions of Americans truly despise their own country, because, as [David] Horowitz expains [in his book, Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left], they live by the revolutionary utopian credo -- the belief in a perfect future. Horowitz points out that what communists and fascists have in common with today's radicals is that they are 'motivated by an abstraction -- the vision of a future that did not exist and had never existed, but which they were convinced they could create.' This fantasy 'is the reason radicals discount the freedoms and benefits of the actual world they live in. Their eyes are fixed on the revolutionary future that is perfect and just. Measured by this impossible standard, any actually existing society -- including America's -- is easily found deficient, even to the point where it is worthy of destruction.' "Ironically, such a worldview leads leftists to embrace precisely the kind of moral absolutism they abhor in George W. Bush's war on terror: 'The radical's universe is thus Manichaean, a world divided between good and evil'; as a result, a radical's 'political actions are always a choice between an oppressive present and the progressive future.' [. . .] "There are indeed two Americas -- one that wants to defend itself, and one that longs for its destruction." -- Excerpts from "Our Enemy's Friends," by Karina Rollins, The American Enterprise, June 2005, pages 55-56. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.
"Soon, freed Middle Easterners are going to make a few simple deductions: France profited mightily from Saddam; America removed him. The E.U. wanted nothing to do with the new democracy in Baghdad; Americans from places like San Antonio and Tulsa died to preserve it. An Iranian knows that the U.S., not Germany or Belgium, wishes him to be free and is more likely to take the risks to see it happen. An Afghan could assure him of that."The muscle-flexing of China has given Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan second thoughts. They worry not that the United States invites them into partnerships, but that we might not. The Americans allow outsourcing to India, buy thousands of Hondas, and send young men to the Korean DMZ. Europe sells China new bombs, the French fleet goes on maneuvers with the communists, and the E.U. keeps it[s] tariffs and subsidies high. A once-caricatured America starts to look very good again. "There is another wild card at plan that explains the decrease in anti-Americanism. After September 11, the American people are in a much less apologetic mood -- more likely to pull troops or cut off aid than to ask forgiveness for imaginary grievances. No one here laments that we left the Philippines or are departing Germany. We took out Saddam without Belgians and Frenchmen, without bases in Turkey, and despite, not because of, the U.N. or Arab league. [. . .] "Americans are finally beginning to wonder whether all these ungrateful folks are worth the toil and treasure. In response, critics abroad are beginning to sense that their cheap rhetoric may have real consequences, that maybe the U.S. was a good deal for the world, after all. "George W. Bush did not cause this new round of anti-Americanism. But he may well have done more than anyone to end it." -- Excerpts from "Anti Anti-Americanism," by Victor Davis Hanson, The American Enterprise, June 2005, page 47. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.
"The city of Redlands, Calif. -- to avoid an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit -- is removing a cross as part of its logo. It's been there 40 years. The ACLU sued an Ohio city for the same reason and won."An atheist sues to remove God from the Pledge of Allegiance and there was a lawsuit in San Francisco to stop church bells from chiming. It failed. For now. "So what's happening in Hamtramck [Michigan]? "In that city of 23,000 people, the local government voted unanimously to allow religion to be pushed into every aspect of life there, except for soundproof rooms. There aren't too many of those. "There was no public vote. The city council decided it. "Many citizens objected angrily at the council meeting -- to no avail. "Does it surprise you that the objectors are called 'Christian bigots'? "It shouldn't, because the religion in question isn't Christianity or Judaism. The religion being forced on the whole city of Hamtramck is Islam. "That council vote allows the several mosques in the city to broadcast -- over loudspeakers -- the daily Islamic call to prayer. "In Arabic -- five times a day, two to three minutes each time, between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m." -- Excerpts from "Ya'll Pray Now, Ya Hear?" by Barbara Simpson, Whistleblower, February 2005, page 41. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.
"Islam originated in Arabia in the 7th Century. At that time Egypt, Libya and all of North Africa were Christian, and had been so for hundreds of years. So were Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Asia Minor. But then Muhammad and his Muslim armies arose out of the desert, and -- as most modern textbooks would put it -- these lands became Muslim. But in fact the transition was cataclysmic. Muslims won these lands by conquest and, in obedience to the words of the Koran and the Prophet, put to the sword the infidels therein who refused to submit to the new Islamic regime. Those who remained alive lived in humiliating second-class status. [. . .]"On May 29, 1453, Constantinople, the jewel of Christendom, finally fell to an overwhelming Muslim force after weeks of resistance by a small band of valiant Greeks. According to Steven Runciman, the great historian of the Crusades, the Muslim soldiers 'slew everyone that they met in the streets -- men, women, and children -- without discrimination. The blood ran in rivers down the steep streets from the heights of Petra toward the Golden Horn. [. . .] "The first Crusade was called because Muslims were molesting Christian pilgrims in the Holy Land and preventing them from reaching the holy places. Some were killed. 'The Crusade,' noted historian Bernard Lewis, 'was a delayed response to the jihad, the holy war for Islam, and its purpose was to recover by war what had been lost by war -- to free the holy places of Christendom and open them once again, without impediment, to Christian pilgrimage.'" -- Excerpts from "No Apology for the Crusades," by Robert Spencer, Human Events, March 28, 2005, page 12. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.
"It is interesting to note that today we find many postmodern 'Javerts' in our midst. [In the 1979 film version of Les Miserables, Police Inspector Javert says to Jean Valjean, 'There is no God. There is only the law. Guilt and innocence do not exist outside the law.'] One example is Susan Estrich, Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Southern California Law School and a syndicated columnist who has worked with many liberal politicians and appeared on numerous television talk shows. Estrich was asked once why she supported Anita Hill when Hill Charged Clarence Thomas (during his confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court) with sexual harassment but opposed Paula Jones' sexual harassment allegations against President Clinton. Ms. Estrich replied simply, 'You believe in principle; I believe in politics.'"Ms. Estrich takes her cue from the playbook of Marx, Nietzsche and Foucault, implying that law is simply a tool of political power. Marx said, 'Political power, properly so called, is merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another.' Estrich intimates that she will use the law in any way necessary to get what she wants. Thus, the law is no longer a God-ordained, objective standard by which to judge men's actions and maintain an orderly society, but a weapon to beat political opponents into submission to your way of thinking. "The politics of power makes sense from the perspective of a Postmodern Marxist worldview. Starting with theological atheism and philosophical naturalism, the Postmodernist must rely on Darwinian evolution -- 'survival of the fittest'. With blind evolution forces at work, man becomes simply a product of his environment, and ethics become a matter of social preferences that have benefited our survivability as a species. In light of this postmodern 'creation' story, law is what men decide, and politics becomes the vehicle that the powerful use to get their way. In a postmodern world, the survival of the fittest equals the survival of those in power. As Marx put it, 'The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class'." -- Excerpts from "Communism Is with Us, Party Is Not," by David A. Noebel and Chuck Edwards, The Schwarz Report, February 2005, pages 1-2. Address: PO Box 129, Manitou Springs, Colorado 80829. Phone: 719-685-9043. Website.
"Actual satellite and weather balloon data -- as well as historic and geological records of numerous warming and cooling cycles -- contradict computer models, theories, and assertions that humans are causing disastrous weather events and climate shifts. Arctic temperatures were even higher in the 1930s, before cooling again for several decades."Science's editors didn't mention countless studies that analyze natural warming and cooling cycles -- or the fact that 18,000 scientists have signed a petition saying they see 'no convincing scientific evidence' that humans are disrupting the earth's climate. "All the countries in the world together are responsible for less than 3 percent of the Earth's total greenhouse gas emissions (the rest are natural), and the U.S. emits only 1/5 of this. The Kyoto treaty would force the U.S. to slash emissions and fossil fuel use by some 25 percent over the next decade -- an impossible task that would cost millions of jobs and over $300 billion annually, according to government and other studies. [. . .] "Global warming is big business. The U.S. government ladled out $15 billion on global warming research and 'education' between 1992 and 2000. The United Nations spent billions more, as did the European Union, and big foundations provided hundreds of millions more. "Unfortunately, most government money goes to researchers who support the position that human-caused climate change is a serious problem. Foundation money does likewise [. . .]. "Many climate alarmists see the Kyoto, and other treaties, as instruments of international power politics. Ultimately, they seek to give activists and centralized government bureaucrats control over fossil fuel use, economic growth, lifestyles, housing, and transportation. [. . .] "French President Jacques Chirac has termed the Kyoto Protocol, 'the first component of authentic global governance.'" -- Excerpts from "Prophets, False Prophets, and Profiteers," by Paul Driessen, eco-logic Powerhouse, February 2005, pages 8-9. Address: Environmental Conservation Organization, 1200 North White Sands Boulevard, Suite 110, Alamogordo, New Mexico 88310. Phone: 731-986-0099. Fax: 505-434-8992. E-mail. Website.
"The new anti-war movement has centered on an umbrella group named International ANSWER (an acronym for 'Act Now to Stop War and End Racism'). However, under that new name is an old political group: ANSWER is an off-spring of Workers World, a Communist splinter party. [. . .]"Answer and a second group called United for Peace and Justice along with thousands of other allied satellite groups organized the massive protests on March 20, 2004 that marked the first anniversary of th war in Iraq. [. . .] "The irony of the modern 'peace' movement is that it has very little to do with peace -- either as a moral concept of as a political ideal. [. . .] The leaders of anti-war groups are modern-day Leninists. As Lenin used Russian war-weariness in 1917 to overthrow the Czar, so American street revolutionaries use reactions to the war on Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein as a way to foment radical political change at home. "The current peace movement is 'neo-Communist,' says David Horowitz, the one-time radical-turned-conservative. This is a revealing and accurate label. In fact, the movement is heir to the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), even though the party's global base -- the Soviet Union -- no longer exists. "A variety of CPUSA splinter groups claim the mantle of the Left even as they spin-off a dizzying series of front groups and issue-oriented action 'committees.' ANSWER is only the largest of these groups, which also include United for Peace and Justice, Code Pink, Not In Our Name, the Green Party and the Institute for Policy Studies. [. . .] Their aim is a 'struggle' against 'oppression' and 'imperialsim,' code words in the lexicon of revolutionary socialism. [. . .] "[M]any of today's anti-war organizers used to support the Soviet Union and its proxies such as the Vietcong, the Sandinistas, North Korea, Castro's Cuba and the Communist guerrillas in El Salvador. It is no exaggeration to say that the modern peace movement is composed of the ideological remnants of Communism. These groups are motivated by anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, anti-Semitism and anti-globalization. They are enamored of socialism, world revolution and class solidarity." -- Excerpts from "The Politics of Peace: What's Behind the Anti-War Movement?" by John J. Tierney, Capital Research Center Organization Trends, March 2005, page 3. Published by Capital Research Center, 1513 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1480. Phone: 202-483-6900 or 800-459-3950. E-mail. Website.
"AARP has championed high taxes, Big Government and bureaucratic boondoggles since the first day it opened for business in the 1950s."The group loves taxes -- all kinds of them -- and opposes tax cuts. It says, 'Stable and reliable public policies and programs require an adequate and consistent source of revenues' and Congress should reconsider 'any tax changes yet to take effect.' "Amazingly, AARP even favors taxes on death. Of course, 'estates' are what is left over after a lifetime of paying taxes. Death taxes are greedy government's final grab. Yet AARP says, 'Congress should retain an estate tax as an important component of our tax structure.' "Other taxes mentioned favorably by AARP include capital gains taxes, the marriage penalty, and the earnings limit for younger seniors 62 to 64. [. . .] "In light of all of this, it is outrageous that AARP has received an average of nearly $60 million each year in federal funds. Over the last 15 years, AARP has received a total of more than $1 billion of our tax dollars. "Currently, the IRS gives AARP $3.4 million a year to help seniors with their tax returns. The incredible irony is that AARP should be the last organization to dispense advice, since AARP paid the IRS $135 million to settle a serious dispute over back taxes owed. [. . .] "Federal support for AARP should be ended." -- Excerpts from "AARP -- Big Government Billionaires," by William Brindley, USA Next (supplement to Human Events), a project of United Seniors Association, Volume 1, Number 3, page 14. Published by: United Seniors Association, 3900 Jermantown Road, Suite 450, Fairfax, Virginia 22030. Phone: 703-359-6500. Website.
"With the decline of the authority of Judeo-Christian values in the West, many people stopped looking to external sources of moral standards in order to decide what is right and wrong. Instead of being guided by God, the Bible and religion, great numbers -- in Western Europe, the great majority -- have looked elsewhere for moral and social guidelines."For many millions in the twentieth century, those guidelines were provided by Marxism, Communism, Fascism or Nazism. For many millions today, those guidelines are . . . feelings. With the ascendancy of leftist values that has followed the decline of Judeo-Christian religion, personal feelings have supplanted universal standards. In fact, feelings are the major unifying characteristic among contemporary liberal positions. [. . .] "The animals-and-humans-are-equivalent movement is based entirely on feelings. People see chickens killed and lobsters boiled, feel for the animals, and shortly thereafter abandon thought completely, and equate chicken and lobster suffering to that of a person under the same circumstances. "The unprecedented support of liberals for radically redefining the basic institution of society, marriage and the family, is another product of feelings -- sympathy for homosexuals. Thinking through the effects of such a radical redefinition on society and its children is not a liberal concern. "The 'self-esteem movement' -- now conceded to have been a great producer of mediocrity and narcissism -- was entirely a liberal invention based on feelings for kids. "The liberal preoccupation with whether America is loved or hated is also entirely feelings-based. The Left wants to be loved; the conservative wants to do what is right and deems world opinion fickle at best and immoral at worst. [. . .] "And why do liberals continue to endorse race-based affirmative action at universities despite the mounting evidence that it hurts blacks more than it helps? Again, a major reason is feelings -- sympathy for blacks and the historic racism African-Americans have endured. [. . .] "Reliance on feelings in determining one's political and social positions is the major reason young people tend to have liberal/left positions -- they feel passionately but do not have the maturity to question those passions. It is also one reason women, especially single women, are more liberal than men -- it is woman's nature to rely on emotions when making decisions. [. . .] "To be fair, feelings also play a major role in many conservatives' beliefs. Patriotism is largely a feeling; religious faith is filled with emotion, and religion has too often been dictated by emotion. But far more conservative positions are based on 'What is right?' rather than on 'How do I feel?' [. . .] "And that, in a nutshell, is what our culture war is about -- Judeo-Christian values versus liberal/leftist feelings." -- Excerpts from "The Culture of Feelings vs. Conservative Values," by Dennis Prager, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, February 28 - March 6, 2005, page 32. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery. Between 800,000 and 900,000 women, men, young children and teens are trafficked across international borders each year. The U.S. State Department estimates that between 18,000 and 20,000 of those victims are ferried into the U.S. Most traffickers force their captives into the shadowy world of commercial sex and sex-related entertainment. Others press their victims into forced labor in homes, restaurants, agricultural fields, and sweatshops. [. . .]"According to HHS, human trafficking is the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world, in part because it flourishes in plain sight. Many trafficking victims appear to observers as paid workers, but are actually held in debt-bondage, working to pay off 'expenses' traffickers incur bringing them to the U.S. [. . .] "The commercial sex industry is the largest slice of forced labor in the U.S. and accounts for almost half the problem. Driven by high profits and often linked to organized crime, trafficking feeds the demand for cheap and often perverse sex, including specialized fetishes such as pedophilia or the raping of virgins. [. . .] "Traffickers may abduct their victims to America outright, or bait them with the promise of lucrative jobs or higher education -- then switch the terms on arrival. They introduce their victims to servitude, then hold them prisoner, using a toxic mix of isolation, shame, terror, and violence. Some literally jail their captives, keeping them locked up when they aren't actually working. [. . .] "Wade Horn, assistant secretary for HHS's child and family services department [. . .] said, "Most Americans, if you asked them whether the Civil War outlawed slavery, would say yes, and they'd be right. If you asked them whether that means slavery no longer exists in the U.S., most would say yes, and they'd be wrong.'" -- Excerpts from "Slavery, American-Style," by Llynn Vincent, Capital Research Center Compassion and Culture, March 2005, pages 1-2. Published by Capital Research Center, 1513 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1480. Phone: 202-483-6900 or 800-459-3950. E-mail. Website.
"When Judaism demanded that all sexual activity be channeled into marriage, it changed the world."It is not overstated to say that the Torah's prohibition of non-marital sex made the creation of Western Civilization possible. Societies that did not place boundaries around sexuality were stymied in their development. The subsequent dominance of the Western world can largely be attributed to the sexual revolution initiated by Judaism, and later carried forward by Christianity. "The revolution consisted of forcing the sexual genie into the marital bottle. It ensured that sex no longer dominated society, heightened male-female love and sexually (and thereby almost alone created the possibility of love and eroticism within marriage), and began the arduous task of elevating the status of women. "By contrast, throughout the ancient world, and up to the recent past in many parts of the world, sexuality infused virtually all of society. [. . .] "Judaism [. . .] declared that no one is 'interchangeable' sexually. And as a result, it ensured that sex would in fact be 'fundamentally interaction' and not simply 'a doing of something to someone.' "To appreciate the extent of the revolution wrought by Judaism's prohibiting homosexuality, and demanding that all sexual interaction be male-female, it is first necessary to appreciate just how universally accepted, valued and practiced homosexuality has been throughout the world. "The one continuous exception was Jewish civilization -- and a thousand years later, Christian civilization. "'None of the archaic civilizations prohibited homosexuality per se,' notes professor of sociology Dr. David E. Greenberg. "Judaism alone declared homosexuality wrong. [. . .] "Judaism cannot make peace with homosexuality because homosexuality denies many of Judaism's most fundamental principles. It denies life, it denies God's expressed desire that men and women cohabit, and it denies the root structure that Judaism wishes for all mankind, the family. [. . .] "[T]he major reason for women, and men concerned with women's equality, to be concerned with homosexuality is that there seems to be a direct correlation between the prevalence of male homosexuality and the relegation of women to a low societal role. At the same time, the emancipation of women has been a function of Western Civilization -- the civilization least tolerant of homosexuality. [. . .] "To a world which divided human sexuality between penetrator and penetrated, Judaism said, 'You are wrong -- sexuality is to be divided between male and female.' To a world which saw women as baby producers unworthy of romantic and sexual attention, Judaism said, 'You are wrong -- women must be the sole focus of erotic love. "To a world which said that sensual feelings and physical beauty were life's supreme goods, Judaism said, 'You are wrong -- ethics and holiness are the supreme goods." -- Excerpts from "Why Judaism Rejected Homosexuality," by Dennis Prager, Whistleblower, November 2004, pages 22, 26-27, 31-32. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.
"[W]hat's wrong with regarding the Constitution as a 'living, breathing' document as, indeed, a great many people do today?"Of course, the Constitution can be changed through the amendment process -- as it has 17 times since the adoption of the first 10 amendments in the Bill of Rights. But the idea of a 'living' Constitution is very different; it means the contract between America and her government is to be 'interpreted' anew by each generation. "Here's the problem: Though our technology, knowledge base and culture have all changed dramatically over the centuries, human nature and human character weaknesses haven't changed a bit. Objective reality -- 'the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God' as the Declaration of Independence puts it -- hasn't changed. The Bible and the 10 Commandments haven't changed. The universal appeals to man's pride -- ambition, greed, lust, envy, power -- haven't changed. Specifically, the tendency for too much power to corrupt those entrusted with it has most definitely not changed. "Thus the need for strictly constitutional government with clearly defined and limited powers is still necessary, because, despite our advances, absolute power still corrupts absolutely. "Unfortunately, in today's America, the judiciary has assumed something approaching absolute power. "Without question, there are some fine judges in America today, including several on the Supreme Court. But far too many see themselves, not as humble servants and guardians of a sacred, 200-plus-year-old contract between Americans and the government they created, but rather as high priests of a new order, chosen to chart the path of civilization in the new, globalist, more enlightened world. [. . .] "[I]f the Constitution -- meant to be the standard by which we measure all other laws -- can be changed on the whim of the current court, then we really have no Constitution." -- Excerpts from "Buying the 'Big Lie' of Church-State Separation," by David Kupelian, Whistleblower, December 2004, pages 14-15. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.
"Think back. If you attended public school in the last few decades, you probably remember being taught that America was founded by a lively assortment of slaveholding Christians, deists and free-thinkers who insisted on instituting a 'constitutional separation of church and state.' Thomas Jefferson, you were reminded, had famously affirmed this 'wall of separation' in his 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists."You could be forgiven for inferring from all this 'education' that, back in the good old days at least, government scrupulously kept religion at arms length. "But that would be a truly deluded secularist fantasy. In reality, throughout the late 1700s -- the era of the Revolutionary War and the subsequent adoption of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, including the First Amendment -- Christianity permeated America from top to bottom. "-- In 1777, with the Revolutionary War threatening the flow of Bibles from England, Congress approved the purchase of 20,000 Bibles from Holland to give to the states."In other words, the original American government under the Constitution would have driven the American Civil Liberties Union stark, raving mad." -- Excerpts from "Buying the 'Big Lie' of Church-State Separation," by David Kupelian, Whistleblower, December 2004, pages 14-15. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.
"Humans allegedly started out as primitive single-cell protozoa in a primordial ooze. With the passage of time, some individuals always continued the evolutionary process. Cells became unsegmented worms, some then turned into fish, then individuals began to inhabit dry land as amphibians, eventually becoming more mobile as reptiles; birds then developed from reptiles, finally, birds evolved into mammals, and eventual evolution resulted in humans. No explanation is provided as to where the primordial slime or the one-celled protozoa originated. [. . .]"The exact mechanism regarding gene mutations is not completely understood, because the exact nature of different genes remains a mystery. It is known that a mutation is an unpredictable, evidently random, change in a complex genetically programed system. The mutation amounts to a mistake in the transmission of genetic information. Mutation is a random process that always turns out to be harmful. Natural selection is the mechanism that acts as a culling process, straining out individuals with mutations, and thereby keeping the population unchanged. Mutation and natural selection, therefore, do not lead to progressive evolution. [. . .] "The evolution theory envisions an evolutionary growth process from particles to people over billions of years of earth history. Where is the evidence for such a system that is presented as fact? How did it result in the development of protein into cells, cells into the major categories of plants and animals, fishes into birds, and apes into humans? Quite simply the evidence does not exist. Three examples illustrate the extent to which evolutionary 'scientists' have tried to establish proof of human evolution -- Piltdown man, Peking man, and Java man. Piltdown man was a hoax, Peking man has been 'lost' for over 50 years, and Java man proved to be an artificial construct of a human thighbone and the skull of a gibbon. [. . .] "Billions of fossils are located, often in large batches, all over the earth, from every recognized geologic age. If any transitional or intermediate forms ever existed, they should be represented in reasonable statistical abundance among this reservoir of remains. The fact is, not even one evidential specimen has been produced substantiating evolution in any or its supposed forms; i.e., gradual evolution, or evolution by jumps. [. . .] "There is no evidence that by biological change through mutation and natural selection, any species has ever evolved into a more complex species in the past, is evolving now, or could ever do so in the future. [. . .] "Credible scientists have determined that evolution is not possible [. . .] "It would be one thing if the theory of evolution remained as a topic of debate in the halls of academic institutions. The primary concern, however, is that it has become fundational to our education system, and is being taught as established fact in the name of science in public schools and universities. [. . .] "Abraham Lincoln once observed, 'The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.'" -- Excerpts from "Cowboy-Up American," by Ronald J. White, eco-logic Powerhouse, March 2005, pages 4-6. Address: Environmental Conservation Organization, 1200 North White Sands Boulevard, Suite 110, Alamogordo, New Mexico 88310. Phone: 731-986-0099. Fax: 505-434-8992. E-mail. Website.
"Would you first save the dog you love or a stranger if both were drowning? . . . . [O]ver the course of 30 years of asking [that question,] two-thirds have voted against the person. They either don't know what they would do or actually vote for their dog. . . ."[S]ecular values provide no basis for elevating human worth over that of an animal. Judeo-Christian values posit that human beings, not animals, are created in God's image and, therefore, human life is infinitely more sacred than animal live. "That is why people estranged from Judeo-Christian values (including some Christians) support programs such as 'Holocaust on Your Plate,' the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) campaign that teaches that there is no difference between the slaughtering of chickens and the slaughtering of the Jews in the Holocaust. A human and a chicken are of equal worth. . . . "More and more people believe as PETA does that even if we could find a cure for cancer or AIDS, it would be wrong to experiment on animals. . . [M]any animal rights advocates oppose killing a pig to obtain a heart valve to save a human life. "Belief in human-animal equivalence inevitably follows the death of Judeo-Christian values, and it serves not so much to elevate animal worth as to reduce human worth. . . . "[I]f man was not created by God, the human being is mere stellar dust -- and will come to be regarded as such. . . That is what the creationism-evolution battle is ultimately about -- human worth. . . [T]he way evolution is taught, man is rendered a pointless product of random forces -- unworthy of being saved before one's hamster." -- Excerpts from "Secular Society Equates People with Animals," by Dennis Prager, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, February 14-20, 2005, page 38. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"In four years, George W. Bush has nationalized airport security, created the largest bureaucracy in history in the form of Homeland Security, tossed our constitutional protections we used to take for granted, enacted the largest expansion of welfare in three generations with the prescription drug benefit, intruded into local schools as never before with No Child Left Behind, brought many industries under protectionist regulation, hammered corporate upstarts with antitrust law, and undertaken two major wars that have cost hundreds of billions and left only destruction and chaos in their wake. Clinton increased spending 13.4 percent in his first term and 16 percent in his second, but Bush's first-term spending soared +29. [. . .]"Where are the cries of betrayal? They exist among libertarian intellectuals and thoughtful people all over the country but the impulse among the pundit class, think tanks, and the party rank-and-file has been to cheer every step down this road to serfdom. Had Clinton done half as much damage to the cause of limited government, there would be loud outcries for his scalp, and rightly so. But Bush has gotten away with this by invoking party loyalty, fear of a worse opposition, and because of the needs of national security in the post 9-11 era. [. . .] "Ten years ago, those who saw the interests of liberty as being well served by the proxies of free enterprise alone, family alone, faith alone, law and order alone, were profoundly mistaken. There is no proxy for liberty, no cause that serves as a viable substitute, and no movement by any name whose success can yield freedom in our time other than the movement of freedom itself. We need to embrace liberty and liberty only, and not be fooled by groups or parties or movements that only desire a temporary liberty to advance their pet interests." -- Excerpts from "Red Statism," by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., Free Market, March 2005, pages 4-6. Address: The Mises Institute, 518 West Magnolia Avenue, Auburn, Alabama 36832-4528. Phone: 334-321-2101. Fax: 334-321-2119. E-mail. Website.
"The California Senate Fact Finding Committee on Un-American Activities in 1948 found: 'The ACLU may be definitely classified as a communist front or transmission belt organization. At least 90 percent of its efforts are on behalf of communists who come in conflict with the law.'"The House Committee to Investigate Communist Activities in the United States made similar findings: 'It is quite apparent that the main function of the ACLU is to protect the communists in their advocacy of force and violence to overthrow the U.S. government.' [. . .] "But, we know the ACLU best through its annual tradition of striking fear into the hearts of anyone, anywhere, who dares to commemorate Christmas in a public place. "That's because the ACLU is not so much a champion of civil rights, as its officials and members like to say. It is more an organization at war with God. "In fact, it's this ongoing war with God -- any mention of God, any recognition of God, any acknowledgement of God, any expression of faith in God -- that most accurately characterizes the soul of this organization." -- Excerpts from [1] "ACLU Founder: 'Communism Is the Goal," by Joseph Farah, Whistleblower, December 2004, page 5. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.
[1] "Sold over several decades to the European people as a beneficial trade agreement, the EU's progress toward gaining ultimate domination included publication of the EU Draft Constitution in 2003. Among its 465 articles in 250 pages, Article I Stated: '. . . this constitution establishes the European Union [that] shall have primacy over member states.' [. . .]"[W]hat can be detected by anyone studying the Draft Constitution, is that the promoters of the European Union intend not only to have the EU supersede the governments of all member states, but to make it conform to 'the principles of the United Nations Charter.' [. . .] "Even without a fully approved Constitution, the EU already has an executive branch (EU Commission), legislative branch (Council of Ministers and EU Parliament), and a judicial branch (the EU Court of Justice). It has an EU flag, anthem, motto, passport, auto license plates, Olympics, youth orchestra, and annual EU Day." [2] "In the words of the Declaration of Independence, we [in the United States] 'are endowed by [our] Creator with certain unalienable rights,' such as life, liberty and property. Moreover, to 'secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.' That is, our rights come from God, not from government or rulers. Government is the servant, not the master. This is so fundamental that it cannot be overstated. "In polar opposite contrast regarding rights, the EU Constitution states in Article I-7: 'These rights shall be exercised in accordance with the conditions and limits defined by this Constitution and by the measures adopted to give it effect.' It adds in Article II-52: 'Any limitation on the exercise of the rights and freedoms recognized by this Charter must be provided for by law. . . .' In other words, in the Eurocrats' worldview, rights are 'recognized' by the 'Charter,' meaning they come from government. And, those rights may be limited as the rulers deem necessary." -- Excerpts from [1] "Merger Mania," by John F. McManus, The New American, September 20, 2004, pages 27-28. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. [2] "EU Socialist Manifesto," by Christopher S. Bentley, The New American, September 20, 2004, 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.
"The rations officially allowed by the state [Cuba], even when they are available in reality and not just on paper, are insufficient. [. . .] [The egg] ration is eight per person per month in Havana, 4 or 5 per month elsewhere. The rice ration is six pounds per person, which works out to be about three ounces per day. Beans are another staple, but a common complaint is that the canasta basica (ration book) includes less than ever. Nor are the rations free: prices have increased in recent years but wages have not. Beef, except in tourist hotels, is not available, and Cubans joke that cows are revered in their country as they are in India: 'everyone steals, but cattle theft can yield twenty years in prison.'"'Luxuries' like coffee (ration: enough to make 4-5 cups once per week) or soap (one small bar per person per month, which is heaven for small boys but hard on others) are hard to come by. [. . .] "Cuban wages range from the peso equivalent of almost $4 per month for an unskilled laborer, $8 per month for a typical worker, $16 per month for an experienced lawyer, and $20 per month for a judge. A minimum-wage American earns $5.15, or $10,300 over a 50-working-week year, over 200 times what an unskilled Cuban worker earns. [. . .] "[Father] Pini explained, 'The government allows us to have fluorescent lights but prohibits the purchase of technical material, which includes fluorescent light bulbs. [. . .] We can have a copier but we cannot purchase replacement parts.' [. . .] "Medical visits are free but medicine is scarce; hospitals are seen as unhygienic, and at one hospital the new tradition is BYOX -- Bring your own x-ray film. [. . .] "When a baby is born, parents get a card that is supposed to entitle them to a quart of milk per week until the child is seven years old. But Cubans regularly say that some milk never shows up and other portions are watery. [. . .] "Young people see few opportunities and are tired of having no control over their own lives. . . People generally have learned to be two-faced, super-friendly on the outside but ready to stab you in the back if they need to in order to survive. [. . .] "Any humanitarian aid sent to Cuba through official government channels or through governmental pseudo-NGOs like the Cuban Council of Churches goes to strengthen the totalitarian apparatus. Even if those offering charity choose to ignore the regime-strengthening effects they still fail in their attempts because kleptocracy swallows all: Milk for children turns into ice cream for tourists." -- Excerpts from "Milk, Medicine and Old-Age Homes," by Marvin Olasky, Capital Research Center Compassion and Culture, September 2004, pages 1-3. Published by Capital Research Center, 1513 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1480. Phone: 202-483-6900 or 800-459-3950. E-mail. Website.
"[Democrat] radicals opposed our funding of the Contras in Nicaragua. They opposed our support for El Salvador against Marxist guerillas and, generally, our support for freedom fighters anywhere in the world. They opposed our weapons systems as the main threat to world peace. They attacked, resisted, tried to cancel or cut just about every weapons system that President Reagan proposed to win the Cold War. The list is long: the B-1 Bomber, the MX missile, the Pershing missile, the Abrams tank, the Bradley fighting vehicle, the Trident submarine, and many other fighters and carriers. All were condemned as militaristic and unnecessary."In place of a strong national defense, they proposed the nuclear freeze, the ban on nuclear testing, more U.N. funding, unlimited foreign aid and unending negotiations. These, they told us, were the paths to a safe world. [. . .] "[T]hey called the Iraq war 'the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time.' In their eyes the war was doomed and somehow illegitimate because it was an 'American process' and not an 'international process'. They smeared our allies, saying they were 'a coalition of the coerced and the bribed.' And then these same critics attacked the President because he did not have more such allies. [. . .] "Even though they knew our troops would be put at increased risk by a misperception that America was trying to colonize Iraq or grab its oil, they went ahead and made those dangerous and damaging charges. They knew it was terribly wrong not to provide funding for our troops fighting in the field. They said it themselves. But then these same leaders voted against funds for our troops in the most gutless and reprehensible vote ever cast in time of war. In almost every situation where their responsibility to their country conflicted with their desire for political power, they chose political power over the best interest of their country." -- Excerpts from "Vietnam, Iraq, and the 2004 Election," by Zell Miller, Imprimis, the National Speech Digest of Hillsdale College, January 2005, pages 2-3. Subscription free upon request. Address: Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan 49242. Phone: 800-437-2268. Imprimis Archive. Hillsdale College Website.
"As a famous Soviet dissident joke put it: 'In the Soviet Union, the future is known -- it's the past which is always changing.'"Given the relationship between changing the past and totalitarianism, there is reason to be amply frightened by the decision of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to change the seal of Los Angeles County. Solely because of a letter from the American Civil Liberties Union threatening a lawsuit against Los Angeles County, the Board voted three to two to remove a tiny cross from the seal.  "To some people this is not an important issue. These people do not understand what is at stake. But the ACLU knows what is at stake -- the removal of religion, specifically Christianity, from American history; and the replacing of Judeo-Christian values with leftist ones. That is why it threatened a lawsuit and gave the Board of Supervisors almost no time to deliberate. [. . .] "The cross represents the Christian history of Los Angeles County. It no more advocates Christianity than the Goddess Pomona [on the seal] advocates Roman paganism or the cow promotes Hinduism. It is therefore a lie to argue Los Angeles County is pushing Christianity on its citizens. As for the argument put forth by the ACLU's Ramona Ripston that the tiny cross makes non-Christians feel 'unwelcome', as a Jew I find the comment equally absurd and paranoid. [. . .] "What we have here is an American version of the Taliban. The ACLU and the [Los Angeles County] supervisors are leftist versions of the Taliban -- attempting to erase the Christian history of America just as the Muslim Taliban tried to erase the Buddhist history of Afghanistan when they blew up ancient Buddhist sculptures in their country." -- Excerpts from "Taliban Comes to Los Angeles," by Dennis Prager, Whistleblower, December 2004, pages 30-31. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.
"When it comes to mankind's relationship to nature, the idea of 'dominion,' as expressed in the opening chapter of the Book of Genesis, is for some people, one of the most objectionable concepts imaginable. For them, human dominion can never mean anything more than a license to wantonly pollute and pillage the earth."That is why professor Lynn White, in his famous article in Science magazine in 1967, largely blamed 'orthodox Christian arrogance toward nature' for our present 'ecological crisis.' "That is why Woodstock-era activist Tom Hayden, in his 1996 book The Lost Gospel of the Earth, maintained that the anthropocentric values of the traditional Judeo-Christian model must be rejected, and replaced with a rediscovery of pagan animism that properly values and extols the needs of nature on an equal footing with those of people. "And that is why practically the entire contemporary environmental movement, from 'conservation biologists,' to promoters of 'sustainable development,' believe that the best thing people can do for nature is to leave it alone, and therefore, the fewer people on earth needing food, clothing, houses, energy and water, the better." -- Excerpts from "Fruitful Dominion: A New Environmental Ethic," by David Rothbard and Craig Rucker, eco-logic Powerhouse, January 2005, page 8. Address: Environmental Conservation Organization, 1200 North White Sands Boulevard, Suite 110, Alamogordo, New Mexico 88310. Phone: 731-986-0099. Fax: 505-434-8992. E-mail. Website.
"[I]n December of 1913, Congress with many members away for Christmas holidays, passed what has since been known as the Federal Reserve Act. [. . .] Omitting the burdensome details, it simply authorized the establishment of a Federal Reserve Corporation, with a Board of Directors (The Federal Reserve Board) to run it, and the United States was divided into 12 Federal Reserve 'Districts'."This simple, but terrible, law completely removed from Congress the right to 'create' money or to have any control over its 'creation,' and gave that function to the Federal Reserve Corporation. This was done with appropriate fanfare and propaganda that this would 'remove money from politics' (they didn't say 'and therefore from the people's control') and prevent 'Boom and Bust' from hurting our citizens. The people were not told then, and most still do not know today, that Federal Reserve Corporation is a private corporation controlled by bankers and therefore is operated for the financial gain of the bankers over the people rather than for the good of the people. The word 'Federal' was used only to deceive the people. "Since that 'day of infamy,' more disastrous to us than Pearl Harbor, the small group of 'privileged' people who lend us 'our' money have accrued to themselves all of the profits of printing our money -- and more! Since 1913 they have 'created' tens of billions of dollars in money and credit, which, as their own personal property, they then lend to our government and our people at interest. [. . .] "The millions of working families of America are now indebted to the few thousand banking families for twice the assessed value of the entire United States. And these banking families obtained that debt against us for the cost of paper, ink, and bookkeeping!" (More information.) -- Excerpts from "Billions for the Bankers; Debts for the People," by Sheldon Emry, American Free Press, October 2001, pages 2-3. Address: 1433 Pennsylvania Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20003.
"In the name of 'social equity,' a euphemism for 'redistribution of the wealth,' the UN's Law of the Sea Treaty will replace the freedom of the seas concept with central control from an international body, specifically the United Nations. Under UN control a new supranational agency has been created called the Seabed Authority. [. . .]"The Seabed Authority will have the power to regulate all the seas -- roughly seven-tenths of the world's surface area. It will have the sole power to issue permits for fishing and mining and drilling operations under the surface. It can fix prices of sea products and impose quotas on how much is produced. It can levy international taxes and impose production quotas on deep-sea mining and oil production; control ocean research and exploration; and create a multinational court to enforce its dictates. [. . .] "The Seabed Authority can force governments and private companies to file for permits and impose fees and it can delay production for years. Yet, in the end, after charging up to a million dollars for permit fees, there is nothing in the Treaty that requires the Authority to EVER issue even a single permit. In addition, the provisions establishing the Authority give it the power to set up its own mining and drilling activities and compete right next to private efforts. That provision alone should set off alarm bells concerning the fairness of permit decisions. "The revenues raised by the Seabed Authority make it a powerful force that will likely be controlled by the Third World block. This new wealth and power may lead to the establishment of a cartel of sorts where the Third World nations could control all assets of the seas for their own interests, leaving developed nations at their mercy." -- Excerpts from "Senate Republicans are about to Hand Control of the Seas to the United Nations," by Tom DeWeese, The DeWeese Report, April 2004, page 2, 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.
"On November 2, the American people overwhelmingly voted down the overtly anti-Christian far-left agenda adopted by the Democratic Party leadership. Now the Democrats have laid out a scheme to win back morality voters by subverting Christian doctrine with the claim that Jesus was a socialist. [. . .]"The strategy is to paint fiscal conservatives as un-Christian because they oppose using the state as a modern-day Robin Hood. [. . .] "The Democrats overtly advocate a socialist agenda, which lives on today under new names, such as universal health care, the social safety net, and development assistance. And the theme is that leftists who advocate socialist government policies are generous, and those who refuse to redistribute the wealth are opposing Christian principles. "But the welfare state does not operate by the principle of moral generosity; it relies on a legalized form of theft (forcibly taking from some to give to others) and is driven by greed and envy. The welfare state breeds greed by offering wealth without work and generates envy by promoting class warfare. [. . .] "Socialism is the theft and redistribution of wealth through force. [. . .] That's why totalitarians, from Lenin to Hitler, adopt broad socialist policies in order to enslave society. The liberals are misleading people into believing that forcibly redistributing wealth, something that would be a crime if one individual did it to another, is a moral good and a foundation of 'democracy'." -- Excerpts from "Socialism Isn't Christianity," by Thomas R. Eddlem, The New American, December 27, 2004, page 44. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. 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. Must-Read items for January-June 2003. July-December 2003. Must-Read items for January-June 2004. July-December 2004.The way back home. |
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