-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a prelude to war! CONGRESS ACTION: January 16, 2000 ================= CAMPAIGN REFORM, CLINTON STYLE: How much is the economic advice of a sitting Treasury Secretary worth to a presidential candidate? How much would a presidential candidate have to pay to get two sitting cabinet secretaries to make campaign appearances on his behalf? According to an expose in the Wall Street Journal, numerous current officials of the Clinton administration -- people presently on the public payroll and drawing a salary from American taxpayers -- are actively helping the presidential campaign of Vice President Al Gore. Presidential candidate John McCain's signature political issue is campaign finance reform. McCain wants to get the money out of politics. Perhaps the foolishness of that idea is now beginning to dawn on the Senator. How much salary is McCain paying his chief economics advisor? Al Gore's chief economics advisor is Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers. How much would it cost to get two retired cabinet secretaries to fly to a McCain campaign appearance and speak to reporters about McCain's sterling character and dynamic policies? Energy Secretary Bill Richardson and Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo recently flew to New Hampshire after the recent debates to spin reporters about Al Gore. How much would McCain have to pay medical experts to help craft a new health-care policy? White House deputy assistant to President Clinton for health-care policy has helped to design Al Gore's health-care plan. Obviously, Summers, Richardson, Cuomo, and the rest are all currently drawing federal paychecks. To all those supporters of campaign finance reform, all those who think that the amounts of money contributed to, and spent by, candidates campaigning for political office is an unalloyed evil and should be restricted or eliminated, and to all those McCain supporters, a question: How come you're contributing so much money to the Gore campaign? It is, after all, your tax money which the Clinton administration is spending so lavishly to get Al Gore elected president. It is no secret that presidents often indicate their preferred successors, and take steps to showcase that person in a positive light, especially when that successor is a current government official with legitimate duties of his own. It is thus not at all unusual to see Gore chosen to spearhead a new federal effort to clean up the Great Lakes. That Gore's role was announced when it would generate free media coverage in time for upcoming primaries in nearby states is simply politics as usual, and shows the inherent advantages of incumbency. But the fact remains that Gore will reap many hours of free publicity to highlight his environmental policies. It also shows that there is no such thing as a level playing field between incumbents and challengers, regardless of whether there are limits on contributions and campaign spending. How much would McCain have to pay to get comparable media coverage for his environmental policies? It is also no secret that this president treats taxpayer property as his own, and the federal treasury as his own private piggy bank. Special Commerce Department trips overseas solely for special campaign contributors, rental of the Lincoln Bedroom to campaign donors, campaign trips to New York for Senate candidate wife Hillary paid for by the American taxpayer. And how about the unique sight of a sitting Vice President addressing the United Nations Security Council -- the first time ever for such an appearance -- promising to spend an additional $150 million to combat AIDS worldwide, portraying the AIDS epidemic as a national security threat to the United States and the world. (A worse threat to national security, apparently, than Chinese or North Korean nuclear-armed ICBMs against which this administration -- the Clinton-GORE administration -- refuses to deploy a missile defense. A worse threat to national security, even, than nuclear and missile technology "stolen" by the Chinese.) It is no coincidence that Gore has been in trouble for many months with AIDS activists for, as the activist group Act Up portrayed it, siding with pharmaceutical companies at the expense of African AIDS victims. Once again, all those supporters of campaign finance reform, all those who think that money contributed to and spent by candidates is evil, that's your tax money, your $150 million that Gore promised will be spent by his administration, for the purpose of burnishing his image with the gay community. Of course Gore's pledge is only that, a promise, and any such funding would have to make it through the congressional appropriations process (hint to voters: better install a democrat congress to help President Gore fulfill his pledge). What if Bill Bradley or George Bush or John McCain thought that the public deserved to know about how taxpayer money is being spent to help elect Al Gore, and wanted to broadcast a series of campaign ads designed to publicize the way the Clinton administration is using the federal treasury for the benefit of candidate Gore? Sorry, Senator McCain, your own campaign finance reform act would limit how much you could receive in contributions, and therefore how much you could spend, on those ads. And if Senator McCain decided to publicize these facts within 60 days of the election, he would be even more limited in what he could say. In this case, the media revealed the facts. But if that newspaper had not, and if the candidates themselves were limited in what they could say, we might never know. Do we really want to make the media even more powerful as gatekeepers of the information we are allowed to know? And while we're on the topic of campaign finance reform, expect to soon begin hearing all sorts of horror stories from the campaign reform minded media -- accompanied no doubt by much hand-wringing from Senator McCain -- about how much money is being spent in the 2000 election. By one estimate already making all the rounds, as much as $3 billion might be spent for the presidential and congressional elections. That amount, of course, will not include the $150 million pledged by Gore for AIDS, or the $59 million seized by HUD Secretary Cuomo and being doled out for the benefit of Hillary's friends and supporters, or the value of all the State and private land seized by President Clinton for national monuments so as to polish the image of the Clinton-GORE administration with environmentalists, or the cost of the Great Lakes cleanup strategically announced for the same purpose, or the cost of all the federally paid Gore campaign advisors, or who knows what else. Even so, that estimated $3 billion is quite a lot of money. Or is it? Numbers can be funny things, especially numbers involving national spending by and among a nation of over a quarter billion citizens, and especially if those numbers are simply announced in the abstract, standing alone without putting them into context. So lets put that $3 billion into context. Every year, while Americans are contributing and spending $3 billion helping to decide who will govern the nation and who will have control over a federal budget of over $2 trillion, Americans are also spending money on many other things, of course. Such as $3 billion on bowling, $3.4 billion on health club memberships, $4.5 billion on potato chips, $6.4 billion at the movies, $6.9 billion on videotape rentals, $8 billion buying pornography, $22 billion on cosmetics, $295 billion eating in restaurants, and $500 billion on gambling. Now, suddenly, that $3 billion in campaign spending doesn't seem like such a whole lot of money after all, does it? "Discussion of public issues and debate on the qualifications of candidates are integral to the operation of the system of government established by our Constitution. The First Amendment affords the broadest protection to such political expression in order to assure the unfettered interchange of ideas for the bringing about of political and social changes desired by the people. . A restriction on the amount of money a person or group can spend on political communication during a campaign necessarily reduces the quantity of expression by restricting the number of issues discussed, the depth of their exploration, and the size of the audience reached." Buckley v. Valeo; United States Supreme Court (1976) "What we have is two important values in direct conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both." -- Dick Gephardt, democrat, hopeful next Speaker of the House MYTHS TRUMP SCIENCE: It turns out that the preferred title of "Native American" for the American Indian may be a misnomer of world-class proportions. We may never know, however, as facts take a back seat to political correctness, and science loses out to mythology. In 1996, an ancient skeleton, now called "Kennewick Man", was discovered in Washington state, which dated back approximately 9000 years old. It was among the oldest and most complete skeletons ever discovered in North America. Initial analysis of the skull showed that Kennewick Man was distinctly Caucasoid and did not at all resemble the American Indian, according to the scientists who studied the skeleton, raising the possibility that the oldest humans on this continent were not the ethnic ancestors of today's Indians. Further study raised the possibility that Kennewick Man may have had Asian or Polynesian roots. Scientific study of the skeleton was, however, unforgivably cut short. Five Indian tribes presently living in the area where it was discovered demanded immediate return of the skeleton for reburial, according to a federal law which prohibits the desecration of Indian graves. The Indians insisted that Kennewick Man is their ancestor, because their mythology tells them that they were the first humans on this continent. And sure enough in this politically correct and ignorant age, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers enforced the Indian claims by confiscating the skeleton from the scientists who were studying it, with the intention of returning it to one of the tribes for burial. Then, with the excuse of "stabilizing" the site where the skeleton was discovered, the Corps, in a display of fast action which has many people amazed, proceeded to bury the site under 500 tons of rock and dirt, making further study of the site impossible. There is little doubt among outraged scientists that the unusually fast action by the Corp was motivated by political pressure from the highest levels. A group of anthropologists filed a lawsuit against the government demanding that they be allowed to study the skeleton, and suggested that DNA testing might determine genetic ancestry. In fact, the scientists who were studying it were preparing to do a DNA analysis when the skeleton was snatched by the Army Corps of Engineers. So far, the government has refused to allow DNA testing, and the Indian tribes are opposed to it. But in connection with that lawsuit, Department of Interior scientists did radiocarbon dating and verified that the skeleton was indeed between 9300-9500 years old. And this finding, according to the Interior Department, settles the matter. Why? Because the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act says that all human remains dating to before Columbus' 1492 voyage are by definition Native American Indians. Under the act, therefore, if the government rules that Kennewick Man is pre-Columbian, he will be returned to one of the Indian tribes for burial. Whether Kennewick Man is, in scientific fact, genetically related to American Indians doesn't matter in the least. He could be 100% Norwegian and still he would be defined by act of Congress and multicultural dogma as a Native American Indian. Case closed. So "Native American" will remain the common label of the American Indian, and any evidence that might prove the contrary will be legislatively defined as non-existent, confiscated, or destroyed. And being destroyed it is. The site where the skeleton was discovered is now unreachable, and although the skeleton itself remains in the "protective custody" of the federal government, a recent examination of it by an anthropologist from the Smithsonian Institution discovered that bits of the skeleton are disappearing, in what appears to be a deliberate case of vandalism of a significant scientific artifact. Kennewick Man could serve as a parable of our leftist-dominated culture, where feel-good ideology is more important than facts, and objective truth doesn't exist. Whether it be global warming, genetically altered crops, or a host of other issues, political correctness overcomes science, logic, and objective facts every time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mr. Kim Weissman [EMAIL PROTECTED] **COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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