THOUGHTS FOR 2000

Occasionally I'll post here some of my thoughts, comments, and musings.



MONDAY, December 18, 2000. I can't close the door on this whole election dispute debacle without a few more comments.

What was the Democrats' mantra during the whole month following the election? "Every vote must be counted!" And that led us to a meticulous search for hanging chad, dimpled chad, and pregnant chad, so we could dutifully discern the "intent of the voter".

Well, now comes word (as of December 15th) that it is impossible to create a dimple or indentation in a chad while a single ballot is in a voting device! Thus, the only way a dimple could be produced is when the ballot is somewhere other than where it should be when a citizen votes! Ergo, all dimples, bumps, lumps, ridges, craters, etc. are improper or illegal votes. So now we see more clearly what the "Every-vote-must-be-counted" campaign was all about: validating illegal votes for Al Gore.

There was legal wrangling and squabbling in all sorts of courts with leagues of lawyers all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court -- a couple of times -- and over what? Over what constitutes a citizen vote. How absurd. Instructions at each voting position carefully explain exactly what constitutes a valid vote: the chad must be removed from the card.

We have thus witnessed something very frightening. People were whipped up in anger. They demonstrated in the streets. They demanded a "full count" of the votes. They insisted on counting dimpled chad as votes. But the entire exercise was a hoax. It was Democrat fraud. It was a deviously clever scheme to steal a presidential election. We get pretty upset when elections are stolen in a Third World Country. I guess it's okay right here at home.

If the proper spin can be spun, apparently Americans can be induced to run off in any direction the Democrats desire. This is scary! What about the truth? What about honesty? What about doing what's right?

Is corruption now so complete that Democrats may take any action they please, legal or illegal? Without accountability? Without responsibility? Who's paying a price for the nearly successful election robbery? Who's paying a price for the Buddhist monk election money laundering? Who's paying a price for the secret and illegal deal with Chernomyrdin regarding Russian military sales to Iran? It's certainly not perpetrator Al Gore.


MONDAY, December 11, 2000. I CAN’T STAND IT! The media keep talking about the "uncounted" and "undercounted" votes. All the votes have been counted! There are no undercounted votes! The Democrats have once again been deceptive, demonically deceptive. When ballots were run through the counting machines, a bunch of ballots were registered as no vote for president or two or more votes for president. In every presidential election some people register their dislike for the candidates by voting for none or several of them.

A friend of mine was so determined to register such a "protest", she called her election supervisor to get assurance such a protest wouldn’t invalidate her entire ballot. (She obtained that assurance.)

The point is that Al Gore’s disciples wish to turn such "protests" into brand new (totally bogus) votes for Al. Let me repeat: There are no uncounted or undercounted votes! There never have been! There is only an army of partisans who wish to turn every bruise, smudge, nick, fold, or dent into a Florida vote for the Shameless One. And just to make sure "their" guy wins, if necessary they’ll provide the bruises, smudges, nicks, folds, and dents themselves! Have you noticed that the recounts always seem to produce more votes for the Democrat candidate? Statistics say that without tampering, this is impossible! Falling chad during recounts equal ballot tampering.

I've heard that the ratio of "protest" votes to total votes in Miami/Dade is below the national average. (Maybe some of the protest votes have already been transformed into "real" votes to up Gore’s total). This whole recount and contesting campaign is an outrage. Democrats call counted votes "uncounted", they call protest votes "undercounted", and they march along merrily, with the media cheering them on, trying to steal the election from the duly-elected winner! This whole exercise they've put the country through is nothing but a fraud and deception. It makes my blood boil!


MONDAY, December 4, 2000. The subtitle of Phillip K. Howard's book, The Death of Common Sense, explains our current presidential election predicament:"How law is suffocating America." Al Gore has no intention of using the rule of law to achieve justice; instead he is using it to overturn and/or circumvent Constitutional dictates.

My attorney told me that anyone can sue anybody over anything. And that's what Gore is doing, sueing everybody over everything, hoping he'll get lucky with a decision from a biased judge or a stacked court. So far he's been lucky on a couple of occasions.

If a president cries "It's only about sex," maybe the people won't notice it's really about obstruction of justice and lying under oath. If a presidential candidate cries "All the votes must be counted," maybe the people won't notice that all the votes have been counted. Maybe they won't notice that all the legal maneuvering is designed simply to buy time to convince a gullible public that Gore ought to be president even without enough electoral college votes. And of course in the meantime, votes for Gore can be fabricated, votes for Bush can be invalidated, and all sorts of votor fraud can be instigated to overturn the election. Proof.

Phillip K. Howard observes in his book (page 43): "Precise rules, most people believe, 'close off loopholes.' It happens to be the other way around. Loopholes only exist because of precise rules. The Constitution, a short document of general principles, has no loopholes."

Mr. Howard adds (page 61): "We have deluded ourselves into thinking that the right decisions will be ensured if we build enough procedural protection. We have accomplished exactly the opposite."

Columnist Tony Blankley sums up: "Al Gore and his band of terrorist lawyers are plundering our innocent laws, and are cynically using those very lows to render meaningless the election those laws were meant to protect." (The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, November 20-26, 2000, page 30.)


MONDAY, November 27, 2000. If nothing else, this past election season has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt one thing: If you believe the surveys and tracking polls, you're a fool.

Before the election NewsMax.Com listed the results of ten different "who-will-be-President" polls taken day by day and week by week. On one sample day (October 27th) eight polls had Bush winning, two had Gore winning. But the problem was that one poll showed Bush up by 7 points (+/- 4%) while another showed Gore up by 2 points (+/- 3%), so it was impossible for both polls to be correct, even within their margins of error! (The polling period was October 23rd-25/26.)

We have thus proven that polls do not necessarily provide an accurate representation of American opinion (at least the polls whose results are reported to the American public). So the next time you hear that "the American people have spoken," you have absolutely zero confidence what is reported is indeed the country's opinion. Remember when we were told the American people don't want Clinton impeached? How do you know that's what we collectively believed? When we are told Clinton's approval rating is -- whatever, why should we believe it? As Ann Coulter observed: "According to the polls, vast majorities of Americans supported a President they hadn’t voted for once they were assured he was also a pervert, a sexual harasser, probably a rapist, and certainly a felon. So how come nobody knows one such person who changed his mind and began supporting Clinton during impeachment?" (Human Events, 11-10-00, page 6.)

It therefore becomes apparent that polls can be and are used as mere tools to convince a gullible public to believe something that simply is not true.


MONDAY, November 20, 2000. When the game official placed the football on the playing field, he called it a first down, but it was such a critical first down, the chain was dragged out for a second measurement, which confirmed it was indeed a first down.

Now what would happen if the team on defense decided the chain should be examined to see if it might be too short? Maybe it was twisted. Maybe links had become snarled. Maybe mud was clogging the chain. Or what if the team asked the official to recuse himself because he had once rooted for the team with the ball? Or what would you think if the coach requested the measurement be made by other chains from other stadiums? What if the coach demanded the game stop until he could argue his case in a court of law?

What if team supporters were encouraged to march around the stadium chanting "Remeasure! Remeasure! Remeasure!" And what would you think if all the sports announcers went on the air to intone, "This is too important a first down to leave to a single chain. We need tape measures, we need surveyors, we need GPS!"

Such nonsense would turn the game of football into a circus. People would lose interest. Fans would begin to see the sport as a debating society where politics overwhelms reason, logic, and indeed the fundamental rules of the game!

But, fear not. No coach, no team, no franchise would be so outrageous as to make such demands. The game of football demands respect. The rules of the game must be upheld. Reason and common sense must prevail. Too bad presidential elections don’t warrant similar consideration.


MONDAY, November 13, 2000. The American voters have spoken and our voices are loud and clear. More than half of us have now announced to the world by votes for Al Gore that we as a people (a majority) endorse big and ever bigger government. We want increased federal control of our lives and less individual freedom. We willingly overlook corruption, deceit, and illegality in a presidential candidate who will promise to take more of our money and redistribute it to special interests. We trust massive bureaucracy and distrust our own wisdom and common sense. We are eager to empower a world government even at the expense of our own nation, its Constitution, and its laws. We wish to make environmentalism the overriding principle in the determination of national and international policy. We are willing to let Marxist environmentalists decide issues based on political philosophy rather than science and proven theory. We eagerly forfeit our children to be molded by government schools that now indoctrinate them with the religion of Humanism, the morals of Carl Marx, and an intense eco-extremism. We condone governmental mandates that pump dozens of dangerous inoculations into our sons and daughters, drug them with Ritalin, and teach them from kindergarten that sex of all varieties is glorious and honorable. We agree that homosexuality should be encouraged, speaking English shouldn’t. We believe some people are so inferior they must be allowed special rights, affirmative action, and quotas to "balance the playing field". We are so generous and tolerant we welcome massive immigration, both legal and illegal. We don’t want a strong national defense and we certainly don’t want a missile system that could defend us from incoming warheads. We don’t like hand guns and we don’t like the idea of using them to defend ourselves. We believe the innermost thoughts of an individual can be determined and properly judged to be "hate" during the commission of a crime. We believe the U.S. Constitution is old and useless and politicians can and should violate it at will. We concede that our leaders are above the law and may break the laws of the country without penalty. In short, we no longer believe in the validity of the great American principals and values that sustained this great country for 200 years. We believe most fundamentally in government -- national today, global tomorrow. We believe a totalitarian authority is what’s best for the world and the future of all mankind. We kneel at the feet of Socialism and Communism.

God bless the U.S.A. May she rest in peace.


MONDAY, November 6, 2000. Is the mainstream media biased? A lot of people would say no. Certainly, most folks in the mainstream media say no. But now we have some interesting information that gives us a little quantitative analysis of the matter. According to the AIM Report (September-B 2000, page 1), when Al Gore on September 18th got mixed up and said "sonogram" when he meant "mammogram", a subsequent Nexis search found only three stories about the misstatement. However, when George W. Bush misspoke and said "subliminable" instead of "subliminal", the press pounced. Nexis found 103 stories pointing out to the world , how uninformed, unintelligent, and incompetent George is.

Want another example? The same AIM Report presents this statistic: During the political conventions this summer, ABC, CBS, and NBC gave the Democratic Convention 19 percent more coverage than they gave the Republicans.

Do you think the New York Times is giving you completely unbiased reporting when "literally three-quarters of the people deciding what's on the front page are not-so-closeted homosexuals"? Who said that? Richard Berke, a member of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, describing how the Times had changed in 15 years.

In an attempt to discredit George W. for the benefit of Al, Jr., the Times gave first-page coverage to the recent "Rats" commercial, admitting only near the end of the story that subliminal messages are ineffective. As a matter of fact, there is no scientific evidence whatsoever that subliminal messages have any effect on humans. Yet, a Nexis search found 638 stories about the "disturbing" Republican ad.

Still convinced the media are unbiased?


MONDAY, October 30, 2000. Equal rights! It has been the cry of causes for hundreds of years. Equal opportunity! Equal Treatment! The placards are paraded, the sentiment is shouted, and politicians prance about to pontificate on the theme.

Yet, here comes Alpha Al who boldly and proudly announces to America during the presidential debates that he favors affirmative action, which has at its very core unequal rights. Affirmative action is policy which favors one group over another, assuring -- heck, guaranteeing -- that equal rights will be violated. It is a uniquely un-American concept.

And this same Al Gore loudly, confidently proclaims that the U.S. Constitution is a living document. What this means is simply that the rule of law is malleable. There are no absolutes. If freedom of speech becomes uncomfortable for the politicians in power, well, ignore it. If guns in the hands of the people frighten the powerful elite, well, forget the Second Amendment and take the guns away. If the government wants some private property, well, just seize it. Don't bother about Constitutional guarantees that mandate proper compensation. A living Constitution is Play Dough; bend it, shape it, twist it into any result that suits your pleasure. Of course once that outcome is achieved, the Constitution is rendered meaningless and the foundation of this country is decimated. But don't worry about that.

And then to cap things off, Mr. Gore tells us he's all in favor of hate crime legislation. He wants written into law the idea that if Mr. Black shoots and kills Mr. White it isn't a hate crime, but if Mr. White shoots and kills Mr. Black it is a hate crime. This kind of idea turns the concept of equal justice into government-imposed unequal justice.

It astounds me that the vice president is willing to champion these un-American concepts, and what astounds me even more is that the citizens seem so comfortable with them, too.


MONDAY, October 23, 2000. It has been recently reported that Bill Clinton considers the two most outstanding achievements of his presidency to be 1) avoiding conviction in the U.S. Senate after impeachment in the House of Representatives, and 2) winning the budget battle that briefly closed down the government. Isn't it interesting and revealing that the Slick One has decided the crown jewels of all his "accomplishments" are merely political victories . . . personal political victories at that!

Did his grand achievements advance the cause of freedom in America or around the world? No. Did they better the life of the American people or make the citizens safer? No. Did they deal with fighting tyranny in the world, reducing poverty, limiting war, extending democratic influence, raising moral values? No. They were merely demonstrations that Bill Clinton was able to win two of his own personal battles.

So the great legacies of this president, from his own mouth, are his own monumental selfishness and arrogance. We now know what has been the prime motivating factor driving his decision-making process over the last eight years. And we now understand clearly what the Clinton Administration has been all about: Bill Clinton.


MONDAY, October 16, 2000. According to Wesley Pruden [editor-in-chief, The Washington Times, National Weekly Edition, September 25 - October 1, 2000, page 4], in an effort to appear properly God-fearing, and to up the anti when the collection plate is passed around for votes among the Christians on election day, "Al Gore . . . insists he goes about his own work wondering 'what would Jesus do?'"

Well, Mr. Vice President, forgive me for yelling, but for one thing: He'd tell the truth! Wouldn't you think that someone posing so hard to be religious might just try to act accordingly? I wonder if he has looked over the Ten Commandments recently and noticed that one of them states rather succinctly: "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour." [King James, Exodus, 20]

Perhaps for the "vice perpetrator," it's simply a question of defining what the word "false" means. Perhaps, on the other hand, the veep has merely concluded that the Ten Commandments provide no "controlling legal authority."

It's as though Big Al has a big bet with Big Bill to see who can lie the most. Since Mr. Number One was in the spotlight for so long racking up millions of lie-through-your-teeth points, Mr. Number Two apparently has to work real hard to catch up.

But catching up he is. If elected president, Big Al can be counted on to continue most of the policies of the Slick One . . . and most assuredly will continue to lie to the people, his staff, and presumably his wife, too. George Washington, were he around, would puke. - - [Related item: Perverting Truth -- a poem.]


MONDAY, October 9, 2000. Lee Bellinger, editor of The American Sentinel has done a clever thing. He has analyzed the voting record of U.S. Representative Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the only avowed socialist in Congress, and then compared it with the voting records of other members of Congress. The analysis was based on twenty House votes including abortion, displaying the ten commandments, the Kosovo war, control of education, trial lawyers, U.S. dues to the U.N., U.S. sovereignty, gun show laws, sharing bank information, the death tax, nuisance lawsuits, marriage tax, funding public broadcasting, federal land grabs, private property rights, spending cuts, political speech, frivolous lawsuits, the defense budget, and paying off the national debt.

Bellinger found 46 House Democrats voted 100% of the time with socialist Sanders on the twenty issues. Democrats as a party voted an average of 86% of the time with Sanders. By contrast, Republicans as a party voted only 19% of the time with Sanders. [Still too high, I'd say, but it's a lot better than 86%!]

Let's look at some specific comparisons: Bill Archer (R) voted 0% with Sanders. Dick Armey (R): 10%. Bob Barr (R): 0%. David Bonior (D): 95%. Dan Burton (R): 5%. Helen Chenoweth (R): 0%. John Conyers (D): 94%. Tom DeLay (R): 15%. Richard Gephardt (D): 95%. Henry Hyde (R): 21%. Rick Lazio (R): 42%. Ron Paul (R): 11%. Charles Rangel (D): 100%. James Traficant(D): 45%. Maxine Waters (D): 100%. Henry Waxman (D): 100%.

I'd say that when you look over the individual voting records, you can't help but conclude the Republican and Democratic parties are not, as so many people claim, mirror images of one other.

[This information was published in The American Sentinel, September 2000, supplement. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail.]


MONDAY, October 2, 2000. Some time ago I received a two-cassette package of audio tapes titled "The Real Reasons Why Public Education Is Failing," by Tom DeWeese. The back cover describes the contents: "It's all here . . . the restructuring of the classroom and how it's used for changing your child's attitudes, values and beliefs . . . School-to-Work . . . Block scheduling and group learning . . . Outcome-Based Education . . . How psychology is replacing academics . . . ADD and Ritalin . . . Radical Environmentalism and 'idiot' math . . . And how the politicians are ignoring the truth and perpetuating the system."

I have no financial interest in the distribution of these tapes, but I urge you to order a set. If you are a parent you must hear for yourself what's going on in the classroom today and what's going on behind closed doors in the education industry. The back cover concludes, "In this special presentation, Tom leaves no doubt as to why America's school children are leaving the classroom unable to read, write, or make change at a cash register. He tells you why, how it's being done, who is responsible, and what can be done to stop it."

Tom DeWeese, American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, Suite 316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Fax: 703-925-0991. Website.


MONDAY, September 25, 2000. Defenders of the Constitution and champions of its Second Amendment take great comfort in the knowledge that gun registration is not required in the United States. And they fight tirelessly to assure that the registration of fire arms is not required by law.

Well, when was the last time you visited a gun store? Did you know that when you purchase a hand gun or rifle you must complete a form identifying you as the owner of the weapon, and the weapon's description, including serial number, must be provided? Did you know that the form is kept in the store, but whenever the police want to know who owns a weapon, they simple call, and the store owner must provide that information? Further, did you know that if the store should close for any reason, all those records must be turned over to . . . the government?

Do you know how many government records are kept on each gun or rifle owner? I was startled to read a solicitation letter from Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (Alan Gottlieb, chairman, 12500 NE Tenth Place, Bellevue, Washington 98005. 425-454-4911. Website) stating, "Today, the government has an average of 18 files on each and every gun owner."

As I understand it, throughout history gun registration is inevitably followed by gun confiscation, which is inevitably followed by huge increases in crime (as in Australia, Canada, and England), and which is inevitably followed by a great loss of life (as in Turkey in 1911, the USSR in 1929, China in 1935, Nazi Germany in 1938, Cambodia in 1956, Guatemala in 1964, and Uganda in 1970. See my May 27, 2000 "Thoughts" below).

I guess we have a glimpse of our future.


MONDAY, September 18, 2000. A friend of mine, Mike, proposed an interesting hypothesis to explain the demise of Vince Foster. Suppose, said he, this was simply a fiendishly brilliant plan to demonstrate unmistakably to the politically powerful that if you crossed the mighty one, you'd be found lying peacefully in some quaint, little park.

The brilliance is that all the politicians would get a very clear message -- don't mess with Clinton -- while the great masses simply wouldn't believe their president could or would commit such an atrocity.

Mike has an interesting theory.


MONDAY, September 11, 2000. As Democrat calls for more affirmative action programs and quotas become louder and more rancorous, let's take their demands to a logical conclusion. If quotas are so necessary and beneficial:

  • Let's impose quotas on sports events and demand that all spectators represent exactly the racial proportions in the community. If a community is 10% black, then exactly 10% of the spectators must be black, no more, no less.
  • Let's do the same thing with the players. We certainly don't want skill and ability to determine team makeup, do we.
  • Let's say the number of shoppers in every store must be 100% representative of the neighborhood. Don't let any more whites in until the quotas for blacks, Hispanics, Orientals, homosexuals, etc., etc. have all been reached.
  • How about your own home: why not demand that for every 100 guests who enter, a certain percent must be women, a certain percent Eskimo, a certain percent handicapped, a certain percent left handed, a certin percent midgets, . . . .

    "Don't be absurd," you may be thinking. Well, that's what I'm thinking about those who wish to impose their cockamamie affirmative action programs and quotas on U.S. citizens!


    MONDAY, September 4, 2000. The villains are villainous, the heros heroic. The battles are brutal. We see right before our very eyes the evil, the wrongs often unrighted, the unending struggle of good versus bad.

    But in the world of professional wrestling what appears to be real is clearly staged. The good guys and bud guys are carefully manufactured and choreographed. The drama is a deception, for the outcomes are all predetermined. The emotions of the eager fans are played like a Stradivarius.

    Many wrestling enthusiasts who see the performers take "real" hits and bleed real blood might tend to conclude all the slams, bangs, and pain prove genuine emotions and honest action on the part of the wrestlers. But they'd be wrong.

    If we look closely, we might just discern that politics, whether played on a local, state, national, or even international stage, is a remarkably similar deception.


    MONDAY, August 28, 2000. If you object to statements that are brutally honest, then stop! Read no further. What follows is some brutal honesty some won’t wish to deal with.

    If a man chooses to get his jollies by poking his sex organ into a large bowl of lime Jell-O, a lot of people would call that weird or outlandish or simply dumb. If a man chooses instead to poke his sex organ into a huge vat of cow manure, a lot of people would call that sick, or psychotic, or deranged. Yet, if a man chooses instead to poke his sex organ into a channel which houses another person’s unexpelled manure, we’re supposed to call that "sexual preference".

    If someone considers such an act illicit, obscene, immoral, or disgusting, then that someone is said to be intolerant, homophobic, and despicable. When and how did we arrive at such a state?


    MONDAY, August 21, 2000. The more I learn about government schools, the more concerned I become. Doesn't anyone notice that home-schooled kids, taught by ordinary moms and dads, are producing much better educated students than can be produced by professional teachers? A couple of recently-published items only emphasizes the point that the teachers and school administrations seem to be getting dumber and dumber:

  • "Great Britain's labor government has published a booklet urging teachers to ban the game of . . . musical chairs. . . because musical chairs is a confrontational nursery game that 'encourages aggression.'" [Source: The Limbaugh Letter, July 2000, page 4. Address: 2 Penn Plaza, 17th Floor, New York, New York 10121. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-563-9166. E-mail. Website.]
  • "[T]he public schools of Chicago are failing miserably. . . So who's fault is it? Well, according to the Chicago public school system, the blame lies with . . . the parents. To get mom and dad on the stick, Chicago public school teachers have decided to start giving parents -- you guessed it -- grades. . . ." [Source: The Limbaugh Letter, July 2000, page 5. Address: 2 Penn Plaza, 17th Floor, New York, New York 10121. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-563-9166. E-mail. Website.]
  • "[I]n the upper class suburb of Boca Raton, Florida, they do background checks on high school prom dates. . . [A]dministrators at Spanish River High School screened dates who don't attend school there, and banned 'those they felt posed a threat.'"[Source: The Limbaugh Letter, June 2000, page 5. Address: 2 Penn Plaza, 17th Floor, New York, New York 10121. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-563-9166. E-mail. Website.]
  • "[L]iberals enjoy a near stranglehold on American college campuses," says Leadership Institute president Morton Blackwell, and he offers as proof a quotation from a college professor: "If you are a conservative, you might as well leave this class because your viewpoint is not welcome here." Sounds to me like all the good grades are reserved for those faithful to the liberal cause. [Source: Solicitation letter of August 7, 2000 from Morton C. Blackwell, president, The Leadership Institute, 1101 North highland Street, Arlington, Virginia 22201. Website.]


    MONDAY, August 14, 2000. I received a solicitation letter from Reverend Louis P. Sheldon, founder and chairman, the Traditional Values Coalition regarding his campaign to Stop the War Against Christianity. Some of the statistics presented are shocking. The question is asked, "What has happened since Christian principles were removed from American public life starting in 1962?" Answers provided are:

  • SAT scores are down 10%
  • Teen suicide is up 450%
  • Child abuse is up 2300%
  • Illegal drug use is up 6000%
  • Criminal arrests of teens is up 150%
  • Divorce is up 350%
  • Births to unmarried girls is up 500%

    Of course there's no proof the cause of these sickening statistics is the 1962 US Supreme Court ruling prohibiting the saying of non-denominational prayers in public schools, but I personally believe that ruling and the 1963 ruling banning Bible teaching in public schools, and the 1980 ruling ordering the removal of the Ten Commandments from public schools are significant contributing factors. [Traditional Values Coalition, PO Box 97088, Washington, DC 20090-7088. Website.]


    MONDAY, July 31, 2000. Friends of mine on the west coast of Florida told me an interesting story. Recently they received as a gift a Ginger Jar, a porcelain piece maybe twelve inches high and ten inches in diameter. It's beautifully decorated, but was at one time completely painted over with red paint. Though the original decoration is now visible once again, remnants of the paint remain.

    It seems the jar and many others like it were crafted in China, but when the cultural revolution struck, Chinese government authorities went door to door looking for such pieces of "art". Considered representative of a culture the government wished to eradicate, all jars with the beautiful Chinese art work were confiscated or destroyed, except jars painted over in red, the traditional color of the revolution. My friends said the red remnants on their jar were dramatic symbols for them of the power of tyranny and corruptness of the Chinese government. For them, the paint blotches were emblematic of a people's freedoms destroyed.

    My friends then suggested that while there's still time, perhaps we here in the United States should locate all copies we can find of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, and paint them red . . . or perhaps blue for the United Nations.


    MONDAY, July 24, 2000. There has been much talk lately concerning the question of whether or not the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) should continue to use public funds to underwrite "artistic expression". Perhaps that question is a little easier to deal with if we have a few good examples of NEA-funded "art". Consider:

  • The NEA used $70,000 to sponsor a gallery show featuring Shawn Eichman's "Alchemy Cabinet," a display which included a jar containing the remains of Eichman's own abortion.
  • The NEA supported performer John Fleck, who urinates on a picture of Christ on stage, and Annie Sprinkle, who masturbates on stage with several sex toys and invites the audience to join her.
  • Joel-Peter Witkin received four NEA fellowship awards since 1980, totaling over $50,000 for "works" including photographs of severed genitalia, arms, limbs, and dead fetuses. Other "art" includes pictures titled "Woman Castrating a Man", Arm F*** (which shows a man with his arm inserted past the elbow into the rectum of another man), and "The Kiss" (a photograph of a decapitated head which was cut in half and positioned so the corpse appears to be kissing himself).

    Congress continues to fund these "works of art" with your money. And Congress will continue to do so unless you and others object clearly and loudly. (Information from Children No More, by Brenda Scott, 1995, page 139-140. Published by Huntington House Publishers, PO box 53788, Lafayette, Louisiana 70505.)


    MONDAY, July 17, 2000. Last week I attended the Freedom 21 Conference in St. Louis. (Highlights.) It reminded me anew that there are many organizations and individuals making great sacrifices for the sake of America's future. The following groups particularly impress me with their dedication to freedom, truth, and Constitutional values, and I encourage your support of them:

  • Accuracy In Media (website)
    4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 202-364-4401. Fax: 202-364-4098.
  • American Policy Center (website)
    13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881.
  • Eagle Forum (website)
    PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. Phone: 618-462-5415.
  • Environmental Conservation Organization (website)
    PO Box 191, Hollow Rock, Tennessee 38342. Phone: 901-986-0099. Fax: 901-986-2299.
  • Hillsdale College
    Hillsdale, Michigan 49242-1298. Phone: 517-437-7341. Fax: 517-437-3923.
  • Judicial Watch (website)
    501 School Street, SW, Suite 725, Washington, DC 20024. Phone: 202-646-5172. Fax: 202-646-5199.


    MONDAY, July 10, 2000. A week or two ago a friend of mine and I met Brother Francis and the three of us spent an enjoyable evening together discussing issues, politics, and justice. During the conversation Brother Francis made a surprising comment. He said Elian had no signs of sunburn after his grueling ordeal in the waters between Cuba and Florida. Elian had no signs of exposure to the salt water, sun, or jelly fish; no physical signs of any kind from his harrowing odyssey. As a result, Brother Francis suggested that perhaps his float to Florida and the death of his mother might be a fabrication, a lie to lay the foundation for improved U.S. relations with Cuba.

    I find such an allegation hard to believe, but with an administration that continually misleads and deceives the American public, I suppose I shouldn't dismiss it so quickly. Could the Cuba and U.S. governments "stage" such an event? I suppose so. Obviously Clinton and Castro were working very closely together during the whole Elian affair. Is it any stranger than the story that TWA 800 exploded and then flew up another 3000 feet? No. Is it any more false than the President's claim, "I never had sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinski." No. Is it any more ludicrous than the claim that so many of Clinton's scandals are simply innocent snafues? I don't think so. And isn't that America's dilemma: who can believe anything this president or this Administration tells us?


    MONDAY, July 3, 2000. An article, "The Media Campaign Against Gun Ownership" in the June 2000 issue of The Phyllis Schlafly Report gives more evidence that guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens is not the problem. Here are a couple of quotations:

  • "The Centers for Disease Control could identify only 21 children under age 15 dying from accidental handgun deaths in 1996. But 40 children under the age of five drown in water buckets every year and another 80 drown in bathtubs." [Should we now register buckets and tubs?]
  • "The risk of a child drowning in a swimming pool is 100 times greater than the risk of dying from a firearm-related accident."
  • "On the average, murder rates in states without concealed-carry laws are 127% higher than in states having the broadest carry laws."
  • "Guns are used 430,000 times a year to commit crimes, but 2,000,000 to 2,500,000 times a year in self-defense to prevent deaths, rapes, assaults and other serious injuries."
  • "Switzerland has more guns per person than any country in the world, yet is one of the safest places to be."
  • "Brazil and Russia have complete gun control, and their murder rate is five times that of the United States."
  • "In 1996 Australia banned 60% of all firearms and required registration of all guns and the licensing of gun owners. Police confiscated 640,381 firearms, going door to door without search warrants. Two years later, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that all crime had risen and armed robberies were up 44%."

    If Americans are willing to ignore facts, logic, and statistics in favor of feel-good emotion, then surely our country is lost.


    MONDAY, June 26, 2000. If I told you 180,000 Americans die each year as a result of a certain kind of accident, would you be outraged? In 1995 there were 1,400 accidental deaths from firearms and the media has gone berserk over gun control. Have you heard anything about the 180,000 deaths caused from errors or complications dealing with the use of prescription drugs? Doesn't that strike you as a little odd?

    No, of course not. The media repeat over and over that old "gun control" refrain, so now the people are humming it along with them. That 180,000 perish from prescription mistakes is apparently no big deal. The press obviously doesn't care, so why should you? In ten years we didn't lose as many Americans in the entire Vietnam War as are lost in a single year from prescription goofs. Why no editorials about this atrocity? Well, prescription reforms just don't advance the liberal agenda. Gun control does.

    Oh, by the way, more children die as a result of bicycle accidents each year than die from all types of firearm accidents. Don't hold your breath waiting for bike control laws. (Statistics from Media Bypass, June 2000, page 22.)


    MONDAY, June 19, 2000. I think it's rare to find a statement so axiomatic, so fundamental, so intuitively obvious, that all thinking people -- conservative, liberal, or otherwise -- would be in agreement with it, but how about this: "The family is the basic unit of society and is a strong force in social cohesion and integration and its stability should be strengthened."

    Who could possibly disagree with that? Well, as a matter of fact, the Clinton Administration disagrees with that! According to the Washington Times, the Administration's U.S. delegation to the UN opposed that exact statement in a special session for human rights. So, let the record be clear, the U.S. is opposed to the idea that the family is basic in society and should be strengthened. Aren't you proud to be an American? (News item reported in Human Events, 6-16-00, page 2.)


    MONDAY, June 12, 2000. I'm in the middle of a book, Prince Charles, The Sustainable Prince, by Joan Veon (Hearthstone Publishing, Ltd., 1998), and I was amazed when I came across this passage (page 57): The World Bank and United Nations are looking to measure how much each household in the world consumes, and how much of the earth's resources it produces. . . The World Bank is currently working on a way to assign a value to production, both at work and at home. What is consumed is then deducted from the total produced at work and at home to see if a household is adding to, or taking away from, the earth's resources. . . .

    This is socialism at its ultimate. Liberals, with consummate arrogance and stunning effrontery, are deciding the "worth" of each and every human being on earth based on what liberals have determined as each human's "value" to the planet. Of course the question that is begged is the most frightening of all. When the globalists' measurements are complete, just what will they wish to do with those they've determined to be the "worst" of the world's consumers? (See related census item, bottom of page).


    MONDAY, June 5, 2000. If telemarketing calls that come at all hours of the day and night bother you as much as they bother me, you might be interested in the information I received recently in an e-mail: It is relatively simple to terminate the receipt of annoying junk mail and intrusive telephone calls from long distance telemarketers. Simply call the following phone numbers and tell them to place you on their 'Don't Call - Don't Mail' list: AT&T - 1-800-222-0300, MCI - 1-800-950-5555, Sprint - 1-800-877-4646. To determine who is providing your long distance service, call 1-700-555-4141. You will receive a message similar to 'Thank you for using Unitel.' .

    I also came across a notice in my phone book stating that in Florida, you can sign up to be listed under the "No Sales Solicitation Calls law." Cost is $10 for the first year, $5 each year thereafter. For more information, call 800-435-7352, or check out their website.


    MONDAY, May 27, 2000. Before we begin, maybe you'd like to take a look at this article, "It's Amazing What One Has To Believe...To Believe In Gun Control."

    While watching the McLaughlin Group on PBS a week or so ago, I was amazed as some of the panelists (Mort Zuckerman in particular) said they weren't convinced by the facts presented to them (proving that restricting Second Amendment rights increases crime), and they thought that more gun control laws were called for. A better example of liberal emotion stifling logic and common sense might be hard to find.

    An article, "Million Mom March (Betrayal)," in 9*1*1, May 2000, provides more ammunition:

    1911: TURKEY established gun control. From 1915-1917, 1.5 million disarmed Armenians [were] exterminated.
    1929: USSR established gun control. From 1929-1953, 20 million disarmed citizens [were] exterminated.
    1935: CHINA established gun control. From 1948-1952, 20 million disarmed citizens [were] exterminated.
    1938: NAZI GERMANY established gun control. From 1939-1945, 13 million disarmed citizens [were] exterminated.
    1956: CAMBODIA established gun control. From 1975-1977, 1 million disarmed citizens [were] exterminated.
    1964: GUATEMALA established gun control. From 1964-1981, 100,000 disarmed Mayan Indians [were] exterminated.
    1970: UGANDA established gun control. From 1971-1979, 300,000 disarmed Christians [were] exterminated.

    Does anyone see a pattern here? [9*1*1, 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.]


    MONDAY, May 22, 2000. I met Dr. Len Horowitz three, four, or five years ago at a Prophesy Club meeting in West Palm Beach. He spoke on the topic "Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola". Just a week ago or so I viewed a video of his talk given at another Prophesy Club meeting. It's hard to believe that this country developed and produced AIDS as part of its biological warfare program, but Dr. Horowitz presents convincing evidence that it's true. Also presented are the dangers (sometimes life threatening) of vaccines which the government now mandates for every child in America. He presents data showing that about as many infections are caused by the vaccinations as are contracted naturally. Also disclosed are disturbing correlations between the rise of cancer incidents and vaccination use. If you think you can handle the shock, I strongly recommend this video. It can be ordered from The Prophesy Club, Box 750234, Topeka, Kansas 66675. Tetrahedron website (Horowitz's website). (I derive no financial or other gain from sale of these videos.)


    MONDAY, May 15, 2000. This Elian incident has crystalized in my mind perhaps the most significant factor that keeps Americans prancing down the path to this country's destruction. And that factor is the innate, unflinching, total trust in the mainstream media. The media say no one was hurt in Elian's taking. That's not true (reference), but the public believes it unquestioningly. We were told Elian's Miami family broke the law. That's not true (reference), but the people, once told it is true by the media, take it as gospel. The media parroted Janet Reno's statement that negotiations with the family broke down. Once again, it's not true (reference), but the people think it is. The media tell us Elian must, according to the law, be returned to his father, but fathers of illegitimate sons have no rights to their sons according to this country's laws (reference).

    Truth is no longer a factor. Perception is omnipotent. We now know Clinton lied when he said "I never had sexual relations with that woman . . ." Yet citizens apparently haven't grasped the concept that if he lied once, he has probably lied many times. Make that many, many times.

    Until Americans begin to scrutinize what they're told by their government, the mainstream media, and other "sacred" information sources, the truth will forever elude us, justice will be but an empty promise, and this country's fate will be oblivion.


    MONDAY, May 8, 2000. There's a group of highly-respected professionals in this country that gets away with murder. Literally. It's premeditated murder, too. And the local police don't care, nor the state police, nor the FBI. These revered professionals who commit murder and are paid handsomely for it, ironically are the same highly-trained individuals who before they take a single life take a simple oath and pledge to "do no harm."

    The doctor who, on his own volition, chooses to become an abortionist knows he's committing murder. Milwaukee abortionist Dr. Neville Sender made it official: "We know it is killing, but the state permits killing under certain circumstances."

    The slaughter is on a scale almost unimaginable. Four thousand murders a day. One and a half million killings a year. The toll now exceed all the deaths of Americans in all of this country's wars. And the carnage persists: another 28,000 abortions this week, another 28,000 next week, another 28,000 the week after that.

    If you think abortion is simply a question of "choice," I urge you to order a copy of the 85-minute video "The Massacre of Innocence." It will shock you, sicken you, enrage you, and change your thinking about abortion. (Order from American Portrait Films, Incorporated, PO Box 19266, Cleveland, Ohio 44119. Call 800-736-4567. I derive no benefit from the sale of this video.)


    MONDAY, May 1, 2000. It seems to me the people who have no qualms about heavily-armed military men breaking into a private home at 5:15 in the morning and abducting at gunpoint a helpless, screaming six-year-old child, without any kind of proper "arrest warrant," are the same people who don’t mind if the government forcibly takes guns from the citizens, seizes property from landowners (without properly compensating them), administers mind-altering drugs (e.g.: Ritalin) to grade school kids, directs U.S. forces to serve in foreign (U.N.) Armies, gives away precious U.S. assets (e.g.: the Panama Cannel), trades invaluable technology secrets with an enemy (China) for political campaign funds, wishes to impose draconian controls on U.S. production and consumption (via the Kyoto Treaty, Wildlands Project, Sustainable Development, etc., etc., etc.), and pursues all manner of other actions contrary to the best interests of Americans.

    If the polls are proper and valid (I believe they are not), then about two thirds of all Americans think it was okay to forcibly seize Elian. If my hypothesis is correct, then about two thirds of all Americans don’t care about the U.S. Constitution, have no respect for the rule of law, and maintain no particular interest in, passion for, or devotion to freedom.

    Bill Clinton and his well-trained and obedient pit bull Janet Reno must be very proud.


    MONDAY, April 24, 2000. On April 5th I had lunch with someone (I'll call him Terry) who spent some 20 months of his life in prison. Terry was sent there by the IRS. What were the charges? There were no charges. But wait, isn't that unconstitutional, to imprison someone here in the U.S. without any charges? Oh yes, of course it is.

    According to Terry, before his incarceration he had an estate worth 5 to 7 million dollars. What happened to it? Well, the government took it. And on what legal authority? As far as Terry knows, there was no legal authority for such a confiscation. But Terry can't get his money back. The government is keeping it -- permanently.

    Oh yes, one other thing. Terry's life was threatened. By a thug? A common criminal? Some extortionist? Yes indeed, by a representative of the U.S. Government.

    We don't hear about these kinds of cases, but Terry told me he knows for a fact that 250,000 political prisoners are now being held by our government. What? Political prisoners held by the government of these United States of America? Absolutely, says Terry.

    I told Terry he should be able to sue the government and collect tens of millions of dollars in damages. He told me he has spoken to several attorneys about such a lawsuit, but not one will take his case. The reason? They're all afraid that if they did take the case, they themselves would become political prisoners!


    MONDAY, April 17, 2000. A short time ago I had a very disquieting conversation with a friend (let's call him Gene). He said my book (You Don't Say), past TV programs, radio interviews, and other politically-related activities have probably been sufficiently upsetting to the liberal power elite to cause them to take action against me. He said there's a good chance my phone is tapped, the FBI may have a file on me, and I may be listed as a conservative subversive of some sort.

    I would scoff at such suggestions coming from almost anyone else, but I respect Gene greatly, his many years in politics impress me, and I believe he's a level-headed, straight-shooting guy.

    Gene said there are about 16,000 federal employees whose job is basically to spy on Americans for the government. They infiltrate NRA and other conservative meetings, investigate the activities of militias around the country, listen to tapped telephone conversations, and gather mountains of data which can be used to discredit, disgrace, or disparage those of us who are conservative, religious, pro-life, or hold some other view contrary to the liberal globalists. This sort of activity might be tolerable if the target were terrorists, but it's intolerable when the target is patriotic, freedom-loving Americans.

    I'm not sure I'm ready to buy into the idea that I'm on the surveillance list of the American Gestapo, but I get a strong sense liberals have transformed the good old USA into the USSA.


    MONDAY, April 10, 2000. I was given a copy of the "ballot" (produced by Kids Voting, USA, Broward) used in the Broward County government schools -- elementary, middle and high -- on the day of the Florida primaries. This is an amazing piece of propaganda. Pictures of the candidates with their names are displayed in a row across the sheet. But the quality of the photos of the two Democrats is crisp and clear, while the quality of the photos of every one of the six Republican candidates is washed out and hazy. A fine subtle way of conveying a message. But worse, the Democrats are shown smiling with pleasant, relaxed expressions on their faces, while the Republicans look worried or frightened, and not a single one is smiling. The kids may be learning how the election process works, but they're also learning that Democrats are good and Republicans are bad.

    Your tax dollars at work.


    MONDAY, April 3, 2000. Have you noticed that just about every time there's an issue over U.S. interests versus communist interests the present administration seems to side with the communists? How about North Korea, China, Russia, Taiwan, Cuba, and on and on? (Is the present flap over little Elian Gonzalez being "resolved" by AG Janet Reno's concern for Elian or for Fidel?) At one time in our country's history when someone sold out America to an adversary or enemy, it was called treason. I have every reason to believe that long tradition would still be in place if the president and his minions were wearing other than bold liberal stripes.


    MONDAY, March 27, 2000. Have you received and filled out your census form? Did you get the impression the questions were invasive, inappropriate, improper? I did. And I'm not alone. According to a letter forwarded to me (thanks, Sherry), other people are also uncomfortable with the questions, even on the "short" form. Here's a letter one disgruntled citizen wrote:

    Kenneth Prewitt, Director Bureau of the Census
    Washington, DC 20233-2000

    March 3, 2000

    Dear Mr. Prewitt:

    Thank you for your interest in the age of and racial composition of our household. While we understand your assertion that this information is needed to facilitate the redistribution of wealth from those who earned it to those who did not, we respectfully decline to participate in this portion of the US Census 2000 program.

    However, as per the requirements of Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution, we have gladly submitted the number of persons in our household to help enable proper apportionment of our US Congressional representation. We feel that the other information you requested grossly exceeds the intent of the enumeration described in the above stated Clause. Our age, sex and racial origin have nothing to do with how many Congressmen our state will receive to represent us or how any direct taxes shall be levied against our state.

    Further, whether or not we are male, female, black, white, purple or green ought not have anything to do with how much of the money we earned will be returned to our community for education, roads, hospitals, child care, etc.

    Any government assistance programs that rely on race as a factor of who should receive benefits would seem to be violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

    We have spoken to our Congressman regarding this matter and he has agreed to help. So if you have any further questions regarding this matter, please contact him (Hon. Virgil Goode, Jr., 5th District, Virginia).

    Respectfully, [name withheld]


    I admire whoever it was that wrote this, but I'm afraid I won't be sending any such notice to the Census people. Why? Because I'm scared of what the government can and would do to me. Call me chicken, timid, or meek, but the government is now so powerful and the people so weak, if some bureaucrat somewhere in the lowest reaches of the bureaucracy wanted to punish me for not "cooperating" with the census takers, they could make my life absolutely miserable. My government is not my friend. It has no interest in my well being, my rights, my security, or my future. Its agenda does not match or even come close to my agenda.

    More information about the census.


    MONDAY, March 20, 2000. How about these suggestions: 1) Allow the UN General Assembly to become more powerful and invasive in the private matters of countries all around the world. 2) Let the UN regulate all corporations and financial institutions. 3) Let the UN tax you. 4) Remove the veto power from the UN Security Council. 5) Establish a UN army. 6) Let the UN register all firearms worldwide (i.e.: nullify the Second Amendment). 7) Enforce the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (i.e.: invalidate the precepts of our Declaration of Independence). 8) Strengthen the UN International Criminal Court (i.e.: take away protections of our Constitution). 9) Let the UN control economic and environmental matters worldwide. 10) Empower a UN International Environmental Court (i.e.: overrule the US Congress and US laws). 11) Let the UN assume that global warming exists so the UN can impose draconian controls on our use of energy, food, natural resources, etc. 12) Give the UN power to reduce poverty worldwide (i.e.: take money from rich nations and give it to poor nations).

    Is your blood boiling? Well, it should be. But those 12 actions are exactly what Charter 99 is all about. Read it yourself. And to think there are still some Americans who consider the UN is a good thing. If you like serfdom, you’ll love the UN.


    MONDAY, March 13, 2000. (Includes 3-20-99 update.) Where do we learn right from wrong? Where do our fundamental ideas of good and back come from? Well, it used to be religious institutions that instilled in us our values, our morals, our fundamental principles.

    But today, official government school policy is that the teachings of certain religions, particularly Christianity and Judaism, are for all intents and purposes banned. Kids quickly learn that the religious principles they come to school with are inappropriate, invalid, even dangerous. Religious values they've been taught in the home and church or temple are rejected, disapproved, disallowed by the state. Perhaps that's not the original intent of "separation of church and state" policy, but public schools unmistakably send that message.

    So what in the way of morals are the schools teaching? Well, besides smatterings of Earth worship, magic, Indian rituals, mysticism, hedonism, and assorted pagan beliefs, the government schools teach principally the religion of Secular Humanism:* You and you alone (without any input from family or friends) decide what's right and wrong. Can you imagine anything so absurd as telling grade schoolers to make up their own value system? Yet, that's exactly what's going on in today's government schools, which by the way are teaching U.N.-directed curriculums.

    And today Americans react with shock and surprise when some kids decide it's OK to shoot up their classmates, burn buildings, choose dangerous life styles, and adopt abhorrent anti-social behaviors. Kids are in school to learn; and that's exactly what they do there.

    * See the video The Religion of Secular Humanism - Clergy in the Classroom, produced by Summit Ministries, PO Box 207, Manitou Springs, Colorado 80829. Phone: 719-685-9103. E-mail. Website. Distributed by American Portrait Films, PO Box 19266, Cleveland, Ohio 44119. Phone: 800-736-4567.


    MONDAY, March 6, 2000. What if I told you I know of a way to save from death over 4,000,000 people per year. Pretty astounding claim, isn't it. But, it's easy to prove.

    Let me quote from a Jan/Feb 2000 issue of Freedom Alert, page 6: "Prior to the banning of DDT, malaria and other insect born diseases had been reduced from an estimated 5 million victims a year to approximately 200,000." So the solution is easy: bring back DDT! So what if a few birds or insects don't like it; it saves human lives!

    Maybe you've never heard of Freedom Alert. Well, then, listen to what the Wall Street Journal said 9-2-99: "A child dies of malaria every 12 seconds, and for every person who dies, 200 survivors are burdened by disease that saps their productivity. In South Africa, malaria rates are up 500% in recent years [since DDT was banned], and the disease kills far more people than AIDS. For the sake of a possible environmental threat to birds of prey in the 'civilized' world, millions of people in developing countries are dying."

    Is it that these liberal environmentalists who have banned DDT simply want to get rid of people in South Africa? Or is it that they think birds, insects and creepy-crawly things are more important than human beings? Remember the "sage" words of Dr. Charles Wurster, Environmental Defense Fund, commenting about the potential of mega-deaths resulting from a DDT ban: "The world has too many people and this is as good a way to get rid of them as any."


    MONDAY, February 28, 2000. Here's a bunch of names. Most of these people (if not all) will be familiar to you: Madeleine K. Albright, Bill Bradley, Steven G. Breyer, David Brinkley, Tom Brokaw, William F. Buckley, Jr., Richard B. Cheney, Bill Clinton, William S. Cohen, Christopher J. Dodd, Barney Frank, Richard A. Gephardt, Newt Gingrich, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Alan Greenspan, Bernard Kalb, Henry Kissinger, Joe Klein, Jim Lehrer, John McCain, Daniel Moynihan, Sandra Day O'Connor, Dan Rather, David Rockefeller, Jr., Charles Schumer, Donna E. Shalala, Strobe Talbot, Paul A. Volcker, Barbara Walters, Christene Todd Whitman. Okay, here's the question: What do all these people have in common?

    The answer: They're all current or past members of the Council on Foreign Relations, an organization dedicated to globalism, the establishment of a socialistic world government. Doesn't that give you an uncomfortable feeling in the pit of your stomach? It does me. If all these people belonged to almost any single organization, I think I'd be uneasy.

    (These names were taken from a list of hundreds of powerful bankers, politicians, news people, university presidents and professors, stock exchange members, federal bureaucrats, corporate presidents and CEOs, foundation executives, labor leaders, etc., etc. compiled by the Fund to Restore an Educated Electorate (FREE), PO Box 33339, Kerrville, Texas 78029, dated 3-98.)


    MONDAY, February 21, 2000. I was flipping through the TV channels a week or so ago and noticed that David Duke was talking on C-SPAN, so I listened to what he had to say.

    I know what you're thinking: that racist, that bigoted, intolerant white supremacist, that disgusting, repulsive, outrageous excuse for a human being. Yes, these were the descriptions that went through my head when I saw his name at the bottom left of the screen. But why was that?

    Because the media have chosen to demonize this person, and their scorn and hate have colored our thinking. We don't have to listen to David Duke to determine if he's an evil disciple of the devil; the media have decided. So the public is permanently poisoned with the "proper" media-determined prejudice.

    Just like the media's smear of the John Birch Society. Just like the media's destruction of Joe McCarthy. Just like the media's demonizing of Newt Gingrich. Just like the media's embrace of John McCain (I've seen more puff pieces about him on TV -- his bravery, honor, decency, dedication -- than all the other candidates combined!). Just like the media's tolerance of and leniency for Clinton's illegal and treasonous acts. Just like the media's adoration for everything black and scorn for everything white. Before you let the media tell you how to think, get some facts so you can decide for yourself.

    (Want some facts about David Duke? Check out his website. His organization, the National Organization For European-American Rights, NOFEAR, also has a website, but it now appears to be identical to his personal website. Duke's new book is My Awakening.)


    MONDAY, February 14, 2000. My American College Dictionary defines "misanthrope" as "a hater of mankind." It occurs to me as I ponder this definition, that a whole bunch of liberals fit that description pretty well. When Prince Phillip says "If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels," when Jacques Cousteau says "[W]e need to eliminate 350,000 people a day," when Yale environmentalist Dr. LaMont Cole says "To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world overpopulation problem," when Wildlands Project director Dr. Reed Noss says "The collective needs of non-human species must take precedence over the needs and desires of humans," when Ted Turner says "A total world population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal," when Earth First! founder Dave Foreman says, "AIDS is not a malediction, but the welcome and natural remedy to reduce the population of the planet," when an environmentalist says "I think . . . the extinction of Homo sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of earth-dwelling species. Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental," doesn't that sound like haters of mankind?

    Yet it seems many Americans almost genuflect to the environmentalists, worship the animal rights wackos, and hold in awe every word uttered from the likes of Prince Phillip, Jacques Cousteau, and Ted Turner. Why aren't our news media people telling us about all this hatred going on? Could it be that they are all misanthropes, too? [All quotations above are found in my book, You Don't Say.]


    MONDAY, February 7, 2000. This video should be shown on every TV channel in America. It should be seen by every citizen. It should be studied and discussed in every classroom. Waco, a New Revelation is a vital history lesson for the people of this country.

    You'll see proof that Janet Reno lied about Waco. You'll see proof that Bill Clinton lied about Waco (surprise!). You'll see proof that Hillary Clinton is deeply involved in this scandal. You'll see proof the FBI lied about Waco. You'll see proof the government shot upon and killed innocent U.S. citizens. You'll see proof the government started the Waco fires. You'll see proof that will shock and sicken you.

    This 110-minute video is absolutely riveting. As I watched, all my fears about a government out of control were confirmed. A church and its congregation of some 80 men, women, and children were badgered, gassed, bombed, and then torched. Sharp shooters fired on and murdered those who weren't incinerated in the inferno. And then government officials set about to destroy all the evidence and blame innocent Davidians for the government's misdeeds. It's a tragic national disgrace.

    You need to see this video. Call 1-877-GET-WACO, order the tape, and learn what kind of respect your government has for its citizens. Also, take a look at the Waco website. Also: U.S. Military bombs Waco. Buy video here. (I get absolutely no financial benefit of any kind from sales of this video.)


    MONDAY, January 31, 2000. I just finished reading Animal Rights: The Inhumane Crusade, by Daniel T. Oliver (Capital Research Center, 1999. Distributed by Merril Press, PO Box 1682, Bellevue, Washington 98009. Phone 425-454-7009.) Here are a couple of quotes you may find of interest:
  • "We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature." (Dave Foreman, co-founder of Earth First!)
  • "Mankind is the biggest blight on the face of the Earth." (Ingrid Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - PETA)
  • "When two animals fight, human beings [ought to] intervene." (Ingrid Newkirk)
  • The Humane Society of the United States is "committed . . . to the 'eradication' of zoos."
  • "[Pets] are like slaves, even if well-kept slaves." (John Bryant, New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance)
  • "[T]he life of an ant and that of my child should be granted equal consideration." (Michael Fox, vice president, Farm Animals and Bioethics, Humane Society of the U.S.)
  • Terminally ill and suicidal people should die for the environment and animal rights movements by blowing up dams, power plants, fur warehouses, and paper mills. (Earth First!)
  • Research should be conducted to find "a species-specific virus" to destroy mankind. (Earth First!)
  • "Even if animal research produced a cure [for AIDS], we'd be against it." (Ingrid Newkirk)
  • "A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy." (Ingrid Newkirk)
  • "Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses." (Ingrid Newkirk)
  • "We feel that animals have the same rights as a retarded human child because they are equal mentally in terms of dependence on others." (Alex Pacheco, chairman, PETA)
  • When asked if he would save a baby or a dog if a boat capsized: "If it were a retarded baby and a bright dog, I'd save the dog." (Tom Regan, professor of philosophy, North Carolina State University)

    For related material see You Don't Say pages 81-84, 155-160, 173-192.


    MONDAY, January 24, 2000. I was encouraged to see some results from an exercise conducted in several junior high and senior high schools. Teachers asked students to write unsigned papers on the subject: "What are the things you wish your parents would do or not do?"

    What an open invitation to trash your parents. But no, even though the students didn't have to identify themselves, here are some of the responses: "Be stricter." "Be more dedicated to church work and go to church as a family." "Be fun-loving." "Tell me right from wrong, but don't be too harsh about it." "Be trustworthy." And "I would like my parents to be more thoughtful of one another. Love one another. Love me." And it's interesting to note that these thoughts were among the most often expressed responses. (From "Our Life & Times," Media Bypass, December 1999, page 44. E-mail. Website.)


    MONDAY, January 17, 2000. My Universal Almanac (Andrews & McMeel, 1995) says the average life expectancy in the U.S. in 1993 was 75.5 years (page 221), a decline (yes, decline, perhaps from the influenza epidemics that year) of 0.2 year compared with 1992. But that doesn't include abortions. What if we factored them into the equation? Then, what would the expectancy be? There were 4,039,000 U.S. live births in 1993, but perhaps a million abortions (the almanac doesn't report abortion statistics).

    The infant mortality rate (number of deaths of infants age one year or less, per 1000 live births) was 47 in 1940, but dropped to 8.5 in 1993. But again, that doesn't include abortions. Assuming a million abortions, the 1993 mortality rate would leap to 256! Our pride in the statistics of life expectancy and infant mortality would have no basis if the abortion factor were taken into consideration.


    MONDAY, January 10, 2000. I wish the Clinton Administration would act as passionately and energetically about getting our citizens off of drugs as it acts about getting Americans to stop smoking. How many times have you heard Clinton sermonizing about the evils of tobacco? (Numerous times.) How many times have you heard him talk tough about drugs? (I've never heard him do so.) There are ads on TV now, maybe you've seen them, that show a figure clad in black and wielding a scythe (it's obviously Mr. Death), admonishing the board of directors of a tobacco company about how their product is overworking his duties. I've seen no comparable ads extolling the dangers of cocaine or marijuana or any of the other dangerous drugs. On the contrary, I see state and local governments passing laws to allow marijuana use and I hear politicians suggesting that all drug use should be permitted.

    Hey, I think a "stop smoking" campaign is a good thing, but a "stop drugs" campaign is about a 100 times more important. Since Clinton smokes and has snorted cocaine, I surmise the anti-tobacco rhetoric is totally insincere and is merely for political gain. It must appeal to the soccer moms.


    MONDAY, January 3, 2000. Every December I hear politicians and politically correct commentators referring respectfully to the celebration of "Kwanzaa". Where did this "holiday" come from? How was it started? What's it all about? Well, I found many answers to my questions in an article titled "The True Spirit of Kwanzaa," by William Norman Grigg in The New American, December 20, 1999, page 44:

    "'Kwanzaa,' a seven-day annual 'African' festival . . . runs from December 26th to New Year's Day. Mr. Clinton has described Kwanzaa as 'a vibrant celebration of African culture' that links . . . 'diverse individuals in a unique celebration of a dynamic heritage.' In fact, Kwanzaa is a product of violent black separatism, and it was designed to foment insularity and a sense of racial grievance.

    "The founder of Kwanzaa is a petty criminal named Ronald Everett, alias Ron Kerenga. . . . 'Karenga's' so-called Nguzo Saba (seven principles) for his 'new black value system' are little more than Marxism transposed into an afrocentric key. . . . To provide a tangible symbol of his seven principles, 'Karenga' appropriated the menorah from Judaism, adorning it in Kwanzaa's seasonal colors (red, black, and green) and re-christening it the 'kinara.' . . . .

    "In 1970, 'Korenga' and two of his followers were arrested and charged with conspiracy and assault in the torture of Deborah Jones and Gail Davis, two of his female followers. Believing that the women had tried to poison him, 'Karenga' forced the women to disrobe at gunpoint and had them beaten. 'Vietnamese torture is nothing compared to what I know,' he informed his victims, whereupon he forced a hot soldering iron into the mouth of one while the other had a toe squeezed in a vice. Both women were also forced to consume detergent and a caustic liquid as part of their 'discipline.'

    "According to the July 27, 1971 Los Angeles Times, a psychological profile of 'Karenga' described him 'as a danger to society who is in need of prolonged custodial treatment in prison.' . . .

    "In recent years the mainstreaming of Kwanzaa has proceeded at an astonishing pace. The U.S. Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp in 1997, and the Smithsonian Institute sponsors an annual celebration. . . .

    "[Mr. 'Karenga'] is presently professor and chair of the department of Black Studies at California State University-Long Beach. . . ."






    Thoughts for 1999.





    The way back home.