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ENDLESS WAR FOR FUTURE PEACE
Americans Playing A Dangerous Game
EXCERPT:
The reasons we do what we do are as important as what we do.
It is never right to do wrong in order to do right. There is a
right way to do everything. To be willing to allow our country's
leaders to do wrong in the name of right is wrong. We teach our
children this, do we not? Why then do we not practice what we
preach?
An undeclared war is an everlasting war; it never ends. It
has no clear objectives, no exit strategy. It provides politicians
from both parties an opportunity to forever increase federal
spending. When Republicans are in charge, deficits increase. When
Democrats are in charge, taxes increase. Either way, the result is
the same: the size and scope of the federal government continue to
expand. That means more federal meddling, more federal snooping,
more federal tracking, more federal regulations, more federal
eavesdropping, more federal agents, and more federal crimes. It
never stops.
NOTE: We've come to that critical turning point folks. Either mankind
unite as kind men, or the love of power of a corrupt power elite will
continue to invert, subvert and otherwise pervert the power of love...
breaking the Law in the name of law... destroying peace in the name of
peace... eliminating freedom in the name of freedom. For all who have
eyes to see, this is the same fork-tongued, two-faced serpentine logic of
the original plot out of hell that promised the forbidden fruit of power,
prestige and profit without principle, saying to the gullible sheeple,
"Thou shalt not surely die." Who will make a stand for Greater LOVE as
the Constitution of Universal Law Language as will harmonize and heal
this warring planet? Heaven watches the great drama that gives great
souls the opportunity to show their worth. -Christos
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by fear of punishment and the
other by arts of love.
Power based on love is thousand times more effective and permanent
than power derived from fear of punishment..."
--Mohatma Gandhi
"Where love rules, there is no will to power.
And where predominates, there love is lacking.
The one is the shadow of the other."
-Carl Gustav Jung
Americans Are Playing A Dangerous Game
By Chuck Baldwin
Posted: February 19, 2003
NewsWithViews.com
One of the indictments against this generation of Americans is that it is
woefully lacking in serious and deliberative thinking. This is true for
conservatives as well as for liberals. The only thing that seems to
matter to either group is winning elections. Actual policies count for
little. However, when the policies of our elected leaders concern war and
national security, they become deadly serious.
Unfortunately, whether someone supports or opposes policy decisions seems
to depend more on who is making the decision than on what decision is
being made. This kind of shallow reasoning poses more of a threat to our
national survival than any foreign adversary. It blinds us to truth and
justice and makes us slaves to the whims of political parties.
For example, the people supporting an impending war with Iraq are mostly
the same people who voted for Bush. People opposed to the war are mostly
people who didn't vote for Bush. Therefore, support for the war is mostly
a referendum on Bush.
This is a dangerous mindset, to say the least.
America was founded on certain bedrock principles. Politicians and
political parties come and go; fundamental principles remain the same, or
at least should. How is it then that we allow ourselves to forget or to
forfeit those principles simply by virtue of the fact that a politician
has an "R" or "D" after his name?
Furthermore, the reasons we do what we do are as important as what we do.
It is never right to do wrong in order to do right. There is a right way
to do everything. To be willing to allow our country's leaders to do
wrong in the name of right is wrong.
We teach our children this, do we not? Why then do we not practice what
we preach?
The U.S. Constitution requires our nation to obtain a Declaration of War
from Congress before we attack any country! Why is that so difficult for
people to understand? The Constitution is the supreme law of our land.
Our elected leaders take an oath to obey the Constitution, not party
bosses. How can we treat that oath and that supreme law so flippantly and
still call ourselves patriotic Americans?
Patriotism is more than waving a flag and beating war drums. Patriotism
involves reverence and submission to the laws and principles contained in
our Constitution and in our heritage. It does not mean blindly following
a politician-any politician!
Patriotism also demands that the American people hold their elected
leaders accountable to the Constitution.
Therefore, if we are going to go to war with Iraq, we must do so for the
right reasons and in the right manner. In a previous column, I asked the
question, "Has Iraq attacked us or taken peace from our land?" The answer
might be yes.
There seems to be credible evidence that Saddam Hussein was at least
partially responsible for the bombing of the Murrah federal building in
Oklahoma City. However, not once has President Bush or any member of his
government even broached that possibility. As far as a majority of
Americans are concerned, there is no connection between Iraq and the
Oklahoma City bombing.
Furthermore, Iraq's connection to al Qaida is no stronger than that of
Saudi Arabia's. If Iraq is in any way responsible for the terrorist
attacks on September 11, 2001, Saudi Arabia is many times more so. Yet,
Bush is not preparing a preemptive strike against the Saudi kingdom.
Again, if brutality against innocent people warrants a preemptive strike
from the United States, there is no more deserving target than that of
The Sudan. That ghastly government has murdered millions, not thousands,
of innocent people, most of them Christians. There are no plans to attack
The Sudan, however.
Yet, if Iraq did conspire to blow up the Murrah federal building, it was
an act of aggression against our country, and a Declaration of War
against it is warranted. If such evidence exists, why doesn't the Bush
administration do the honorable thing and provide the American people
with a just cause and a lawful expenditure of war with Iraq?
Instead, Bush's whole vindication for war is that Iraq possesses terrible
weapons. Good grief! If we attacked every nation that has terrible
weapons, we would be at war with most of the world! That Iraq has
terrible weapons is not, by itself, justification for war.
If one wants to worry about the potential of chemical and biological
weapons being used against the United States, look no further than ninety
miles off the tip of Florida to the island nation of Cuba. Reports say
that Castro has all kinds of biological and chemical weapons, and unlike
Iraq, he is close enough to use them against the United States. If the
possession of terrible weapons justifies a preemptive attack, start with
Cuba! I say again, why we do what we do, and doing the right thing in the
right way are immensely important!
Recklessness with the Constitution will cost us dearly. Since Bush and
Congress are unwilling to declare war, the policy of open borders will
continue. Bush may yet provide amnesty to millions of illegal Mexicans.
Teeming thousands of illegal aliens will continue to pour across our
borders with virtual impunity making us ever vulnerable to future
terrorist attacks.
This is madness, but this is what happens when people allow their leaders
to play foot loose and fancy free with the Constitution.
Beyond that, an undeclared war is an everlasting war; it never ends. It
has no clear objectives, no exit strategy. It provides politicians from
both parties an opportunity to forever increase federal spending. When
Republicans are in charge, deficits increase. When Democrats are in
charge, taxes increase. Either way, the result is the same: the size and
scope of the federal government continue to expand. That means more
federal meddling, more federal snooping, more federal tracking, more
federal regulations, more federal eavesdropping, more federal agents, and
more federal crimes. It never stops.
Our nation's founders insisted that Congress be required to declare war
for good reason. They knew the propensity of rulers to seek power and to
trample liberties. Therefore, they designed a system of government
whereby the causes and justification for war, as well as the limits and
boundaries of war, could be properly and lawfully observed.
However, the American people seem determined to blindly put their
confidence in politicians and political parties rather than to
thoughtfully follow established principles. As a result, they are playing
a very foolish and dangerous game.
� 2003 Chuck Baldwin - All Rights Reserved
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The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to
Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following
reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their
people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good
of the people was the object. This, our Constitutional Convention
understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and
they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should
hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. --Abraham
Lincoln
iNFoWaRZ Footnote:
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were totally opposed to the
policies now embraced by the Bush Administration. wake up America. If you
claim to be Conservative, then what are you trying to conserve? Are you
conserving the heritage of our founding fathers, the Constitution,the
Bill of Rights, and our Freedom or are you conserving the socialist
status quo?
"Peace. commerce, and honest friendship with all nations--entangling
alliances with none."
- Thomas Jefferson, in his first inaugural address
"Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own
to stand upon foreign ground?
Why by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe,
entangle our peace and prosperity
in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humour or
caprice?
- George Washington, in his farewell address
"Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and
harmony with all... The Nation which indulges toward another an habitual
hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave
to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to
lead it astray from its duty and its interest ... Tis our true policy to
steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign
world." -- George Washington, Farewell Address, 17 Sept. 1796 11.
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