11 October 2004 Federalist Patriot No. 04-41 Monday Brief Restore the legacy! Support The Federalist -- http://FederalistPatriot.US/support.asp
*Manage Subscription: To change your e-mail address, select editions and formats, view recent archives, send comments or to unsubscribe, Link to -- http://FederalistPatriot.US/services.asp For the real story on John Kerry and John Edwards, Link to -- http://Kerry-04.org/ Visit the Patriot Shop: Link to -- http://PatriotShop.us/ CONTENTS: THE FOUNDATION INSIGHT IChThUS IMPRIMIS FAMILY CULTURE LIBERTY THE GIPPER OPINION IN BRIEF GOVERNMENT BUSH CAMPAIGN JOURNAL JFK DEMO-LITION DERBY RE: THE LEFT POLITICAL FUTURES FOR THE RECORD SELECT READER COMMENTS THE LAST WORD ______----********O********----______ THE FOUNDATION "Government is instituted for the common good...the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it." --John Adams ______----********O********----______ INSIGHT "The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society." --H. L. Mencken ______----********O********----______ IChThUS IMPRIMIS "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Understanding is not enough; we must do. Knowing and understanding in action make for honor. And honor is the heart of wisdom." --Johann von Goethe ______----********O********----______ FAMILY "Once again we are witnessing the imperious judiciary blatantly ignoring the will of the voters. These tyrannical judges continue to show an eagerness to legislate from the bench, imposing their own agendas, and those of their activist allies, upon American families. The will of the people of Louisiana could not be clearer -- this amendment passed with the support of nearly eighty percent of the votes. Yet this judge saw fit to disenfranchise those voters in favor of a radical social agenda. This attack only confirms the need for an amendment to the federal constitution defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Without this protection, individual courts and rogue local officials are allowed to classify marriage however they see fit. Only a federal amendment is adequate to shield America from the undermining of its moral foundation." --Dr. James Dobson ______----********O********----______ CULTURE "When you look out at the world from Vienna or Stockholm or Manchester and search for something to deplore, what do you see? You see Russia spiraling down into dictatorship after a brief interlude of struggling democracy. You see North Korea, arms salesman to the world's criminals, boasting of nuclear capability. You see genocide in Darfur. And of course, you see the ghastly face of terrorism in Madrid, Bali, New York, Washington, Tel Aviv and most especially Baghdad, where terrorists grab and behead innocent Americans and Europeans, and proudly videotape their savagery. But where do many Europeans focus their wrath? On the United States. ... There is something sickly about the European approach to the world." --Mona Charen ______----********O********----______ LIBERTY "In just three years, Afghanistan went from a nation that had never in its history allowed its people self-determination, to one in which -- despite the strictness of Islamic law that still dominates much of its people -- millions voted. The picture on the front page of Sunday's Washington Post said it all: a woman, garbed head to toe in a burqa, only her hands visible, pushing her paper ballot into a ballot box. According to one report, pollsters weren't able to get good exit polls because the Afghanis were reveling in their ability to keep their votes secret." --Jed Babbin ______----********O********----______ THE GIPPER "I believe that history shows that every great civilization that has ended up in history's dustbin did so after forsaking their God or gods. At the same time, I believe in every American's right to worship whatever God or gods he or she chooses or not God at all. I also believe, however, that the God of Moses and His Son admonished us to go into all the world and spread their word. But those who hear must decide for themselves as to accepting that word." --Ronald Reagan ______----********O********----______ OPINION IN BRIEF "A lot of Reagan conservatives are threatening to cut off their noses to spite their faces. They think that because President Bush hasn't done every single thing they want, or has done some things they didn't want, they should punish him by staying home on Election Day or voting for some third party candidate who hasn't got a chance to win in November. It should be obvious to them that they will therefore help elect the Kerry-Edwards team that will do nothing they want and everything they don't. Somehow this idiocy seems to make sense to them -- dump a conservative president for a pair of socialists who, given four years in the White House, will wreck this country's economy and in the process probably lose the War on Terrorism, as well. What bothers me is the insistence of these dissident conservatives that they are devoted to the legacy of Ronald Reagan, who understood the truth of the old adage, 'Politics is the art of the possible.' In other words, you get what you can and wait for a chance to get the rest. These people think that if they don't get everything they want they are willing to accept nothing, but that's not what my father stood for. My father would say, 'If I can get 80 percent, or 60 percent, or 50 percent of what I'm looking for, I'll take that and I'll go back later on for the rest of it'." --Michael Reagan ______----********O********----______ GOVERNMENT "Back in the last decade, [Newt] Gingrich's rants against the Democrat congressional establishment and its penchant for spending were perceived as partisan Republican attacks. But nowadays, the Republicans themselves -- in control of the House, the Senate and the White House -- bear the greatest responsibility for the apparently unstoppable expansion of government. ... Yet, while there is campaign talk about tax cuts and the resultant deficit, mostly from Democrats, I hardly hear anyone from either party crusading against the government spending that is equally responsible for the deficit and that will, if unchecked, force taxes up again anyway." --Anne Applebaum ______----********O********----______ BUSH CAMPAIGN JOURNAL "[Senators Kerry and Edwards] don't understand the nature of warfare or the nature of this enemy when they suggest that the War on Terror can be neatly wrapped up in a matter of months. The United States will be engaged in a prolonged offensive against terrorists at home and abroad for many years. That offensive is, and will continue to be, fought with military, diplomatic, legal, financial, law enforcement and homeland security efforts. Our commander in chief understands that and has conveyed that message not only to our troops on the ground but also to the citizens of this country. Bush understands that victory is made more difficult when carping critics like Kerry and Edwards rally the masses to the cause of appeasement." --Oliver North ______----********O********----______ JFK DEMO-LITION DERBY "As best I could make out, John Kerry proposed to better wage this 'wrong war at the wrong time in the wrong place.' He would do it by forging a broader and effective 'coalition of the bribed, the coerced, the bought and extorted.' The senator would have removed the threat of Saddam Hussein without removing Saddam Hussein, who represented no real threat. When he wasn't demanding the troops be brought home from Iraq, Mr. Kerry was urging more of them be sent. Our troops, who are engaged in a 'colossal error' and 'a grand diversion,' are not fighting in vain. Out on the campaign trail, the senator may believe this administration 'has lied to us, they have misled us,' but he has never accused his opponent of lying. It was only when one listened to the senator's words closely that questions arose. If you just drifted along with him, it all sounded good enough for government work. Besides, he's a lot taller than the president." --Paul Greenberg ______----********O********----______ RE: THE LEFT "Bush and 'But'-Head: John Kerry made some strong and sensible statements during the debate last [Thursday], but did you notice what the next word usually was? Here are some Kerry quotes: 'I'll never give a veto to any country over our security. But...'; 'I believe in being strong and resolute and determined. And I will hunt down and kill the terrorists, wherever they are. But...'; 'We have to be steadfast and resolved, and I am. And I will succeed for those troops, now that we're there. We have to succeed. We can't leave a failed Iraq. But...'; 'I believe that we have to win this. The president and I have always agreed on that. And from the beginning, I did vote to give the authority, because I thought Saddam Hussein was a threat, and I did accept that intelligence. But...'; 'I have nothing but respect for the British, Tony Blair, and for what they've been willing to do. But...'; 'I couldn't agree more that the Iraqis want to be free and that they could be free. But...'; 'No president, through all of American history, has ever ceded, and nor would I, the right to pre-empt in any way necessary to protect the United States of America. But...'; 'I've never wavered in my life. I know exactly what we need to do in Iraq, and my position has been consistent: Saddam Hussein is a threat. He needed to be disarmed. We needed to go to the UN. The president needed the authority to use force in order to be able to get him to do something, because he never did it without the threat of force. But...'; Maybe Kerry misunderstood when someone told him he needed to have the 'qualifications' to be president. But it'd inspire a lot more confidence if he had followed any of these remarks with a 'therefore' clause instead of a 'but' one." --James Taranto _________________________________________________ There are only THREE weeks left before the election! Check out all the great Patriotic items at our Patriot Shop. Link to -- http://patriotshop.us/catalog/index.php _________________________________________________ ______----********O********----______ POLITICAL FUTURES "'Every child in America will receive health care from Day One if John is elected. Period,' [Teresa] Heinz Kerry said. Having grown up in Mozambique, then a dictatorship, Teresa seems still to be unaware that in the United States, Congress must approve new legislation. The chances that Congress would approve Kerry's health care program at all are slim. The chances that this would be done the day of Kerry's inauguration are zero. Kerry's plan also would pay 75 percent of all medical costs above $50,000 for all Americans, and would provide tax subsidies to business owners to provide health insurance for their employees, his wife said. I'd have gotten a lot fewer emails if the editors hadn't cut the last sentence of my story: 'Heinz Kerry didn't say how much these programs would cost, or how her husband plans to pay for them'." --Jack Kelly ______----********O********----______ FOR THE RECORD "Then, in the 1990s, while today's Islamo-fascist peril grew unchecked, America took no mighty stands. That may have spared us some street demonstrations in Europe. It did not save us from the series of bombings that finally brought the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 -- the declaration we could no longer ignore of a global war America did not seek, but which had already begun." --Claudia Rosett ______----********O********----______ SELECT READER COMMENTS (Our servers automatically delete "Reply" messages to this email. To submit comments for publication, link to http://federalistpatriot.us/main/editorial.asp. Please include your city and state and hold your comments to 75 words if you want them posted. To review reader comments, link to http://federalistpatriot.us/main/comments.asp. "The Patriot's essay, 'John Kerry: More "aid and comfort"...' [http://FederalistPatriot.US/alexander/] was powerfully written and well documented. Great column. You did an excellent job of providing evidence regarding Kerry's well-documented history of aiding our enemies. While such evidence can't be refuted, the Left doesn't really care about facts, and hasn't for decades. But some people still do! I admire your courage in writing so forcefully (and truthfully) in such a politically correct world. Thanks!" --Lexington, Massachusetts "Before the presidential debates, I did not know: 1. Cargo containers coming into our ports were not being checked for explosives? 2. Our baggage was being checked for explosives, but airplane cargo compartments were not? 3. That our bridges, tunnels, chemical and nuclear plants, and hospitals are not protected? I would venture to say most of America did not know these facts. I would also conclude that the al-Qa'ida cells in the U.S. did not have such clear evidence of this either -- until John Kerry started repeating these facts in the debates -- and in about every stump speech across the nation. So I ask you, how can someone who claims to have our best interests at heart, be so desperate for the presidency, that he would put the lives of every American in greater danger, by disclosing our security breaches and intent to develop weapons for national security?" --New York, New York "The starkest and most distressing difference between the candidates was plain in the debate Friday night. President Bush said he will select judges who are 'strict constructionists.' In Kerry's response, he said he will select judges and justices who 'interpret the Constitution based on the law.' The United States is a constitutional republic whose foundation is the constitution against which all law is to be measured -- NOT the other way around. The constitution is NOT to be molded, squished, schmoozed, and otherwise adjusted based on whatever laws have been passed!" --St. Louis, Missouri Editor's Reply: As The Patriot has noted on many occasions, that Mr. Bush's commitment to nominate judges who are "constitutional constructionists" is the most important commitment he made in his 2000 campaign. He has made good on that commitment, despite obstruction from Kerry, Kennedy, et al. "The Patriot reports, 'The United Nations is going the way of the League of Nations. It's just taking a lot longer. Nations, including the U.S., want to keep the moribund institution alive even if its ideas are already dead. The League of Nations ended when nation-states lacked common courage.' I say, The League of Nations failed because the U.S. would not join! The UN will likewise fail when the U.S. gets out!" --Marvin, Washington "An excellent summary of where the UN stands today. Its hypocrisy, biased agenda, 'all talk, no action' attitude, and above all its denial in recognizing that without the support of the USA it is totally helpless, make it clear to me that it is time for you folks in America to utterly withdraw from this organization. America is no longer welcome in the UN, and so therefore it is time that she no longer welcomes the UN on her own soil." --South Africa Editor's Reply: Unfortunately, the U.S. will not likely get out in the near future. "How to survive the debates? I plan to drink a shot of Jack Daniels every time Kerry says 'I have a plan.' Neville Chamberlain had a plan, too. The guy who introduced New Coke had plan. Ken Lay at Enron had a plan. Even OJ has a plan to find the real killer." --Montgomery, Alabama ______----********O********----______ THE LAST WORD "My favorite part of the [vice presidential] debate...was when Edwards mentioned how he 'agreed with John Kerry on Thursday night.' You gotta love it that even John Edwards has to nail down the exact time and place that John Kerry said something he agreed with. You can't just say 'I agree with John Kerry.' That's like saying the globule in the lava lamp is oval. Wait a minute and that will seem ridiculous. So you've got to nail it down. ... No seriously -- imagine that you struck up a conversation with a relatively informed person who said, 'I agree with John Kerry about the war on terror.' What, exactly do you think that person would mean? Would he be trying to communicate that we should stay the course? That we blundered going to war in the first place? That we were right to go to war but handled it wrong since we were there? That it was a good cause? A grand diversion? We should bug out? Finish the job? Or simply that he doesn't know anything about the war except that George Bush is always wrong?" --Jonah Goldberg Lex et Libertas -- Semper Vigilo, Paratus, et Fidelis! Mark Alexander, Publisher, for the editors and staff. (Please pray on this day, and every day, for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm's way around the world in defense of our liberty, and for the families awaiting their safe return.) *Printer-friendly format Link to -- http://FederalistPatriot.US/current2004a.asp -- PUBLIUS -- Support Operation Shields of Strength! The Federalist Patriot is receiving new requests from military chaplains in Iraq serving Army and Marine units which have recently been deployed on rotation. If you're able to support Operation SoS and can help provide Shields of Strength to ground forces on the frontlines with Jihadistan, please link to http://FederalistPatriot.US/news/sos.asp SUBSCRIBE: FREE by E-mail! 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