Welcome to the inaugural column of Stiff Right Jab! A daily serving of admittedly partisan to Christianity and partisan to the Constitution, right-on-target jabs to the jaw of liberalism - a liberalism we feel exemplifies the ruling sentiment of both the Democratic and Republican Parties - two parties, that appear to these skeptics as but two wings of but one big turkey of a party - the Establishment.
You won´t get any apology from us for voicing that sentiment. We are sure to make enemies, especially among those Republicans who resent having their pink donkey undergarments hung out to dry in a public place, but then - so be it. At least it is comforting to know that the Republican leadership is capable of truly taking aim at something.
Bill Clinton, the most criminal, anti-constitutional President in our history, they complained about, but failed to impeach, err, refused to impeach, even as they legislatively cozied up to him in a bipartisan effort to avoid gridlock. But Pat Buchanan, that firebrand who was as true and fierce a defender of the old party platform as there ever was, he they not only castigated, but cast out to be devoured by the wolves in the wilderness. You see, the Republican Party knows who its true enemies are.
The compelling truth is, the party leadership no longer cares a thing about principle, but only about power. It was the grass roots that started the ball rolling for the Impeachment of Clinton, anyway. The Republican Party only went along for the ride, so far as they thought it advantageous for re-election hopes. That´s why when the polls turned south, they turned sour on the rule of law, giving way to everything Clinton and his lawyers wanted - a scolding for bad behavior, and silence about gross constitutional violations, China, and treason.
But that was not all. Just ask yourself: How many astronomical budgets, and socialist programs did the Republicans compromise on? How many horrendous scandals did they investigate and do nothing about? How many secret presidential orders which surrendered US sovereignty to the UN did they him-hah about? How many land grabs did they fail to grab back for the people? How many thug-like intimidation tactics did they sweep under the rug, as if this was but just another day at the office?
What is worse, we may never know the full extant of the Republican Party betrayal to this nation, for the current President, the current Republican chief, is more concerned about civil society, then the rule of law, more concerned about appeasing the Chinese, then standing up to those American haters like the President of the greatest and most powerful nation on Earth ought to.
Why won´t we blindly praise the Republican Party, as some pundits do? This is but the tip of the iceberg - why.
What´s a democrat in drag? In part, it´s someone who speaks out of both sides of his mouth. The beau ideal is George W. Bush.
This column received hate mail prior to Bush´s election, when, on a number occasions it pointed out what seemed so obvious, that the man was deceptive, and for that matter, so were his supporters.
The classic of all classics was Bush´s legendary, "we can´t be all things to all people." Conservatives played it over and over again. But failed to play the first half of the same sentence. "We do have an obligation to the world."
That´s masterful deception.
Little surprise than that Mr. Bush has now invented "international compassionate conservatism," wherein 50 percent of foreign loans to dead beat nations, will be replaced with US taxpayer subsidized grants, and that the same "conservative" pundits who failed to quote the full quote in 2000, are looking the other way in 2001.
Or how about Bush´s promised Third Way decentralization. He told us that local people, local financial concerns, and local solutions, ought to be the stuff of environmental decision making, but then there were those federal tools he would give the locals, the federal fascilitators who would help them make those "local" decisions, base on "local" needs. Just ask the 1200 farmers in Klamath, Oregon, how that works. It seems they´re not the only ones who were suckered.
Just how far have proper attitudes about gun rights and private property rights sunk in this country? Contrast what you know about current American law, with what privileges George Washington granted the British after Cornwallis´s defeat at Yorktown. In Washington Irving´s classic, George Washington: A Biography, we read:
"The garrison was to be allowed the same honors granted to the garrison of Charleston when it surrendered to Sir Henry Clinton. the officers were to retain their side arms, both officers and soldiers their private property, and no part of their baggage or papers was subject to search or inspection."
The ACLU wants kids to be able to access online porno at public libraries. According to a recent newsletter: "[It is s]ocially valuable, protected speech."
The case is: Multnomah County Library et al., vs. United States of America, et al., No. 01-CV-1322
Wary Eye - The ICC, Pinochet, and UN Hypocrisy
William F. Jasper, in what is probably the finest expose ever written on the United Nations, The United Nations Exposed, gives us this insight on the arrest of Chile´s former President.
"In 1998, while the 82-year old Pinochet was visiting England for medical treatment, he was arrested and held on a warrant issued by Baltazar Garzon, and investigative magistrate from Spain. Judge Garzon, a Marxist activist, was pursuing a revolutionary political agenda, not seeking justice for real crimes. Many legal authorities condemned Garzon´s action for violating established canon of international law. Eduardo Fungarino, Spain´s chief government prosecutor, filed a court motion charging that the judge had broken many legal procedures in issuing the arrest order, and that Garzon had "an absolute lack of jurisdiction" over alleged crimes committed outside of Spain against citizens of other countries."
Jasper sums up the UN ICC Pinochet fiasco as follows: "But the phony ‘human rights´ activists demanding Pinochet´s scalp could not care less about genuine violations of human rights and real justice for bloody dictators. At the time of Pinochet´s arrest in England on the Spanish warrant, Communist dictator Fidel Castro was welcomed to Spain and PLO terrorist Yassir Arafat was a guest in the Clinton White House. Likewise, Jiang Zemin, the butcher of Tiananmen Square, as well as the bloody-handed Soviet tyrants Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and Vladimir Putin - and virtually every other mass-murdering despot of the left - have been conspicuously ignored by the self-righteous frauds leading the ICC choir."
Do we really need the ICC and the UN?
Why was the electoral college system preferred by the Founders, rather than a more democratic mode? Many reasons. Says Madison at the Constitutional Convention on July 25, 1787, "Public bodies are always apt to be thrown into contentions, but more violent ones by such occasions [the election of a President] than by any others."
Direct democracy, remember, is the stuff of violent revolutions, so no wonder the electoral college has been a regular enemy of the left.
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