QUICKIES for May 2000

Mercifully short tidbits of news and/or analysis and/or comment.








"In the first five days of Elian's virtual incarceration at the [Maryland] plantation, the Justice Department spent $168,000 on security there, not counting the cost of the Coast Guard vessels patrolling the river. The [Chicago] Tribune reported that there are 58 federal agents on duty at the site." [And that would be in the "land of the free and the home of the brave."]
-- From "Armed (Federal?) Agents Bring Elian to Georgetown," Human Events, May 19, 2000, page 3. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Posted here 5-29-00.


"President Clinton spoke to the WTO in Switzerland and said, 'The United States is no longer a sovereign nation.' The First Lady Hillary, American journalists and Bill Bradley clapped and shook hands in agreement. . . ."
-- From "Calling a Spade a Spade," Media Bypass, May 2000, page 5. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 5-29-00.


"President Clinton's March trip to India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh . . . included nearly 80 aircraft, including 26 huge C-5 and C-17 cargo planes."
-- From "Scan," The American Enterprise, June 2000, pages 8-9. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 5-29-00.


"Social Security agreements change your legal status to U.S. citizen and make you subject to all U.S. Corporate Rules and Regulations. Now you have dual citizenship. You were born free as an American Citizen and you gave up your unalienable rights for government granted privileges granted to U.S. citizens and U.S. Residents. . . ."
-- From "Income taxes -- Voluntary or Mandatory?" by Jim Thomas, Media Bypass, May 2000, page 40. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 5-29-00.


"In Florida the winter vegetable industry has been decimated since the enactment of the NAFTA in 1994. Over 300 tomato and other vegetable growers have gone out of business since 1994. . . ."
-- From "Tomato Growers Join Parity Lawsuit," Media Bypass, May 2000, page 46. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 5-29-00.


"3.5 million trucks enter the U.S. from Mexico annually [many with tomatoes]. Only 140,000 [4%] of these trucks are inspected for cargo. Less than 1% of Mexican trucks are safety inspected. Over 50% of Mexican trucks are defective. 1,000-1,200 tons of cocaine and heroin come into the U.S. annually from Mexico."
-- From "NAFTA - Mexican Trucks - Drugs," 9*1*1, May 2000, page 3. Address: California Coalition for Immigration Reform, 5942 Edinger, Suite 113-117, PO Box 2744-117, Huntington Beach, California 92649. Phone: 714-665-2500. Fax: 714-846-9682. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 5-29-00.


"According to the Tax Foundation, Tax Freedom Day did not come until May 3 this year, making it the latest date ever. . . (In 1984, in the midst of the Reagan Administration, Tax Freedom Day came April 17, which was the earliest date in the last 20 years.)"]
-- From "Tax Freedom Day Very Late this Year," Human Events, May 19, 2000, page 24. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Posted here 5-29-00.


"Maryland Gov. Glendening . . . [a]t a March 22 press conference held to push his 'smart' guns mandate scheme . . . struggled for nearly two minutes trying to unlock a Saf T Lok magazine lock." [And for whom, may we ask, will the Saf T Lok provide safety? Why, for the criminal, of course.]
-- From "Fumbling Gun Locks and Funneling Money," America's First Freedom, June 2000, page 52. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website. Posted here: 5-29-00.


"According to his own testimony, [Gene 'Chip'] Tatum was 'tasked' by George Herbert Walker Bush to eliminate Texas billionaire Ross Perot. When he refused -- purportedly because Perot is a U.S. national -- Tatum and his wife were prosecuted under phony charges and falsely imprisoned. . . ."
-- From "Part 2: Inside the Bush Crime Family," by Uri Dowbenko, Media Bypass, May 2000, page 53. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 5-29-00.


"[The] Grand Jury request [Case Number 95Y107] states Oliver North, Jeb Bush, Neil Bush, George Bush Jr., Hillary Clinton, George Bush Sr., Leonard Millman, Phillip Mizel, convicted HUD figure Phillip Winn and others stole over one trillion U.S. dollars from the U.S. Treasury and investors and established the guns for drugs network."
-- From "Part 2: Inside the Bush Crime Family," by Uri Dowbenko, Media Bypass, May 2000, page 57. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 5-29-00.


"99% of all Chinese who attend college in the U.S. never return to China even though all agreed to return to China after completing their degrees before coming to the United States."
-- From an item in the Detroit News, 4-29-00, as reported in "Visas to Diplomats," 9*1*1, May 2000, page 3. Address: California Coalition for Immigration Reform, 5942 Edinger, Suite 113-117, PO Box 2744-117, Huntington Beach, California 92649. Phone: 714-665-2500. Fax: 714-846-9682. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 5-29-00.




"Though in [free] America with his family, [Juan Gonzalez] is surrounded by Castro's and Clinton's agents. Meanwhile, in Cuba his parents have been put in a special compound where they are closely watched by Cuban secret police."
-- From "The Fear Factor: Cuba's Invisible Iron Curtain" by William F. Jasper, The New American, May 22, 2000, 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. Posted here 5-22-00.


"[The] Sierra Times has learned that most in attendance at the left-wing-extremist rally [the 'Million Mom March'] were bussed in from synagogues around the Capital area, [from] the Pentagon and other government agencies. In short, they were ordered to be there by their employers and/or local 'religious leaders.'"
-- From an article by Nancy Johnson in the The Sierra Times, forwarded to my by e-mail. Thanks, Marilyn. Posted here 5-22-00.


"In the U.S. teen suicides have tripled since 1960; today, suicide is the second leading cause of death. . . In Israel . . . the suicide rate dropped 10 percent during a 1997 period when Israel's psychologists went on strike."
-- From "Is Ritalin the Root of Student Violence?," Insider's Report, May 2000, insert. Published by the American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Fax: 703-925-0991. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 5-22-00.


"Yesterday, a federal appeals court upheld the Internal Revenue Service's decision to revoke the tax-exempt status of a church that had paid for newspaper ads against then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton in 1992. The revocation is the first in the history of the IRS and serves as a warning from the federal judiciary that churches may not fund partisan activity." [So I guess the churches now work for the state.]
-- From this website. Posted here 5-22-00.


"Bill 602P will permit the Federal Govt. to charge a 5 cent surcharge on every email delivered by billing Internet Service Providers at source. The consumer would then be billed in turn by the ISP. . . . The U.S. Postal Service is claiming that lost revenue due to the proliferation of email is costing nearly $230,000,000 in revenue per year. . . . Since the average citizen received about 10 pieces of email per day in 1998, the cost to the typical individual would be an additional 50 cents per day or over $180 dollars per year, above and beyond their regular Internet costs. Note that this would be money paid directly to the U.S. Postal Service for a service they do not even provide." (Kate Turner, Assistant to Richard Stepp, Berger, Stepp and Gorman Attorneys at Law, 216 Concorde Street, Vienna, VA)
-- From an e-mail. Thanks, Peter. Posted here 5-22-00. [NOTICE, 7-3-00: see 6-20-00 correction posted in the website comments section.]


"Top White House talent employed by the taxpayers is helping Vice President Al Gore write his campaign speeches, work up attacks against Republican rival George W. Bush's budget and develop everything from crime-fighting proposals to health and education reforms."
-- From "White House Workers Aiding Gore Say They're Not on Clock," by Sandra Sobieraj, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, May 8-14, 2000, page 11. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 5-22-00.


"'I want to offer my best wishes for a successful event," [says Al Gore of the World Pride 2000 Celebration, which will include the World Pride 2000 sodomy rally, which will include promotion of a leather fetish party on July 7th]."
-- From "Al Gore Endorses Attack on Catholic Church" The New American, May 22, 2000, page 6. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. Posted here 5-22-00.


"In July 1996, a human skull was found along the Columbia River near the town of Kennewick, Washington . . . .with features consistent with those of a Caucasian. . . . Indian activists weren't amused, for the present system of incentives and rewards in which they operate depends on the constant assertion of Indian victimhood and white guilt. . . . [T]he Army Corps dumped five hundred tons of rock and gravel on the site from a helicopter, then layered the shoreline with three hundred tons of dirt and logs. They then planted trees on top of the newly configured terrain." [We certainly don't want the truth of this archaeological find to come out, do we.]
-- From "Bones of Contention," Heterodoxy, February/March 2000, page 1. Address: PO Box 67398, Los Angeles, California 90067. E-mail. Website. Posted here 5-22-00.


"Antioch College will host convicted murderer Mumia Abu-Jamal as a commencement speaker."
-- From "Cop Killer Commencement," by Daniel J. Flynn, CampusReport, May 2000, page 1. Address" Accuracy in Academia. 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 5-22-00.


"[T]he 13-year-old [girl] . . . tells the audience how 'She gently and slowly lays me out on the bed and just our bodies rubbing together makes me come [sic]. Then she does everything to me and my coochi snorcher [vagina] that I had always thought was nasty before, and wow.' When it's all over, the little girl concludes that thanks to the experience, 'I'll never need to rely on a man.'" [Describing a performance of Eve Ensler's play, The Vagina Monologues.]
-- From "Applauding Rape at Georgetown," by Robert Swope, CampusReport, May 2000, page 5. Address" Accuracy in Academia. 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 5-22-00.




"Two days after the INS's violent seizure of Elian Gonzalez, scores of Cuban-American Democrats lined up at the Dade County (Miami) elections office to change their voter registration to Republican."
-- From "Capital Briefs," Human Events, May 5, 2000, page 2. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Posted here 5-15-00.


"President Clinton sent 20,000 U.S. troops and spent $20 billion to invade Haiti in 1994 under the pretense of 'restoring democracy.' But ever since January last year when he dissolved parliament, Haitian President Rene Preval has been ruling by decree while political murders and riots continue unabated."
-- From "Clinton's Failure in Haiti," Middle America News, May 2000, page 7. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 5-15-00.


"After it was announced that Clinton would not stop in Pakistan during a trip to India, Pakistani interests poured $75,000 int Hillary's campaign coffers. . . Once the money was in hand, Clinton reversed himself and agreed to make the visit, which had been considered 'too dangerous'."
-- From "First Carpetbagger's Campaign," by Elizabeth Howard, Middle America News, May 2000, page 16. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 5-15-00.


"Through early February, a House committee says, Hillary's campaign trips to New York cost taxpayers nearly $114,000. She's repaid only $25,500. . . ."
-- From "First Carpetbagger's Campaign," by Elizabeth Howard, Middle America News, May 2000, page 16. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 5-15-00.


"[Coca-Cola's] chief executive Doug Daft has just announced that 'diversity' is going to become one of the company's top priorities and that top managers' pay -- including his own -- will be tied to how few white men they can manage to hire or promote. . . ."
-- From "Gone Daft," American Renaissance, May 2000, page 13. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website. Posted here 5-15-00.


"An anonymous source at the U.S. Naval Academy has spilled the beans on a new 'diversity' policy that appears likely to replace merit with sex- and race-quotas. . . ."
-- From "Slanting the Deck," American Renaissance, May 2000, page 16. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website. Posted here 5-15-00.


"[Today in] Spain . . . it is legal for grown men to have homossexual sex with children as young as 12 years of age."
-- From "The Overpopulation Lie," by Anthony C. LoBaido, WorldNet, May 2000, page 5. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website. Posted here: 5-15-00.




"In an attempt to get a broader student population, [Colorado] College said it will allow certain minority and disadvantaged applicants to forgo the traditional entrance exams -- like the ACT or SAT -- and take a test using Lego blocks instead." "The new entrance requirements will also be based on things such as public speaking and conflict resolution skills."
-- From "Legos Replace College Exam," American Family Association Journal, May 2000, page 8. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website. Posted here 5-8-00.


"Seriously disabled children and young people are being left to die because doctors have deemed their quality of life so poor that they do not merit being kept alive."
-- From Electronic Telegraph, as reported on Lucianne.com. Posted here: 5-8-00.


Only Two Presidents were ever Impeached: William Jefferson Clinton -- a Democrat from Arkansas, and Andrew Johnson -- a Democrat from Tennessee. Only one President was ever Censured: Andrew Jackson -- a Democrat from Tennessee. What does history teach us? Note Albert Gore -- a Democrat from Tennessee.
-- From The Right Angle. Posted here: 5-8-00.


"'He [Elian's 5-year-old cousin, Lazarito Martell] cannot sleep at night,' his father, Alfred Martell, told the Miami Herald on Friday. 'And the tear gas has worsened his asthma.' He awakes in the night and cries out, 'Donde esta Elian? (Where is Elian?)' Martell said his boy is currently undergoing psychotherapy. In her accounts of the government's assault on her house, Marisleysis Gonzalez noted that agents pointed a machine gun at little Lazarito, just as they had his older cousin."
-- From Newsmax.com. Posted here: 5-8-00.


"[Larry] Nichols [said] that during the Clinton impeachment hearings he was in fairly regular touch with Tim Russert, the host of NBC's 'Meet the Press' Sunday morning interview show. In fact, Russert would sometimes call Nichols at home. During the impeachment process, Tim Russert told Nichols that NBC's internal tracking polls showed that 80% of the people wanted Clinton removed from office. A few weeks later Nichols was watching 'Meet the Press' when Russert threw up the figures we all heard and saw incessantly: that 70% of the people wanted Clinton to stay in office."
-- From an April 4th Network America "e-wire" forwarded to me. Thanks, Marilyn. Posted here: 5-8-00.


"When Hillary Clinton made a pilgrimage to a former Soviet Republic, she stepped right off of Air Force One and rode in a motorcade to a brand new abortion clinic -- set up by the U.N. with U.S. taxpayer money -- and cut the ribbon at the opening ceremony."
-- From "The Overpopulation Lie," by Anthony C. LoBaido, WorldNet, May 2000, page 7. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, california 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website. Posted here: 5-8-00.


"Just as the left made Hillary Clinton into a transcendent symbol of feminism, so that any questioning of her record was perceived as an 'attack on women,' McCain has used his prisoner-of-war experience to cast himself as the embodiment of honor, from which exalted station he regards any criticism of his politics as a personal affront."
-- From "McCain: A Dangerous Man Who Reflects the Triumph of Clintonism," by Lawrence Auster, Internet Vortex, April 2000, page 28. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website. Posted here 5-8-00.


In 1991 17% of U.S. teenagers said they were comfortable with homosexuality in society. In 1999 54% held that view.
--From Seventeen Magazine as reported in USA Today, as reported in the American Family Association Journal, May 2000, page 13. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website. Posted here 5-8-00.


In 1998 32.8% of all U.S. births were illegitimate. Presently, "a child is born out of wedlock every 25 seconds."
--From The Washington Times, 3-29-00 and USA Today, 3-29-00, as reported in the American Family Association Journal, May 2000, page 17. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website. Posted here 5-8-00.




"A mistrial was narrowly averted in a federal money laundering trial in Miami after four jurors said that the weekend's seizure of Elian Gonzalez made it difficult for them to trust the U.S. government."
-- From The Sun Sentinel. (Thanks, Sherry) Posted here: 5-1-00.


"At hundreds of campuses across the country, Valentine's Day has taken on a whole new meaning. Feminists have convinced school administrations that the day should instead by known as 'V-Day,' short for 'Vagina-day.'"
-- From "X-Rated Academia," by Eric Langborgh, CampusReport, March 2000, page 1. Address" Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue. NW. Suite 330. Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 5-1-00.


"[In 'Sanitation,' an exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York,] New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, along with conservative activist Pat Robertson, presidential candidate Pat Buchanan and Sen. Jesse Helms, North Carolina Republican, [are portrayed] as Nazis." [Can you imagine the fuss the press would have raised if those so portrayed were Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and Janet Reno?]
-- From "Controversial Museum Among Recipients of NEA Grants," by Julia Duin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 24-30, 2000, page 14. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 5-1-00.


"[T[op levels of the Democrat party are quietly backing a reparations package of up to one million dollars per head to all descendants of slaves in the U.S." "[Representative John] Conyers [D-Michigan] has introduced a reparations bill every year since 1989. . . ."
-- From The American Sentinel, April 2000, page 2. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail. Posted here: 5-1-00.


"In 1963, a nuclear test-ban treaty was signed in Moscow by Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States. It prohibited the exploding of nuclear devices in the air, in outer space, or underwater. More than 100 countries later signed the treaty. By 1998, the treaty had been broken by almost all countries with nuclear capability except the United States."
-- From "The Use of Terror," at this Website, 4-25-00. Posted here: 5-1-00.


"If death is legally determined by the absence of brain waves and a heartbeat, then any humans who have these things should be considered alive and eligible for constitutional protections, members of Congress said in a resolution introduced on April 12." [Have you heard about this on TV on in your local newspapers? Why do you suppose that is?]
-- From "Proposal Defines Presence of Life, Abortion Advocates Cry Foul," by Cheryl Wetzstein, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 17-23, 2000, page 14. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 5-1-00.






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