-Caveat Lector- Letter from Jim Thomas, publisher of Media Bypass http://www.4bypass.com/ This is our fifth year of publishing Media Bypass. We certainly have had our ups and downs, mostly downs. Internet rumors have sold Media Bypass down the river: 1. Our staff is loaded with CIA and FBI personnel; 2. we publish a militia magazine; 3. we are a white supremacist right wing group; 4. and many other things not to be mentioned here. I believe that Morris Dees has topped the list by listing me as one of the top ten most dangerous men in America. I did not show this to me wife or children so they have no idea what a bad person I really am. These are the things that make me chuckle. Several unpleasant events have taken place since the last issue such as the death of several schoolchildren in Littleton, Colo. Hindsight tells us that the event could possible have been avoided because of the warnings given to local law enforcement officers. It appears that there were no communications between the police and school officials. Our deepest sympathy goes to the parents of those deceased and wounded children. Why did such a thing happen? Bill Clinton says it was because guns. Gee, when I was a kid, many years ago, we all had guns and nothing like that ever happened. One thing that is different is the fact that drugs are dispensed in schools, which did not happen years ago. Many people are wondering why such events are taking place now. In searching for an answer, we went to a 19-year-old teenage for an answer. [HER ARTICLE APPEARS BELOW.] Other unexpected events were: My friend Jerry Thorstad was arrested and taken to jail on a warrant from Fresno, Calif. Most of you know that Jerry is marketing constitutional materials documented by Dr. Skousen. The sheriff in Fresno doesn't like that "anti-American propaganda." Jerry was moved to Fresno to stand trial on charges of operating an endless chain marketing concept. Another friend, Ron Sparks of Sonora, Calif., stood trial and was convicted in Federal Court at Oklahoma City on various criminal charges in connection with his banking operations at the Apache Indian Nations in Oklahoma. Ron will be appealing his case to a higher court. Ron reports that the federal judge mentioned Media Bypass several times throughout the trial, referring to the magazine as a right-winged militia magazine. Gee, I lean something new every day. I did not know that we published a militia magazine! On the more positive side of the news, we just received word that the Treasury Department has determined that the Liberty Currency is legal. We already knew this, but questioned whether they knew it or not! So if you have refrained from acquiring some Liberty Currency http://www.norfed.org or calling 1-888-421-6181 because of the question of legality, then your interest may be sparked. -End- Source: Media Bypass, June 1999, page 2. http://www.4bypass.com/ 1-800-4BYPASS to subscribe. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- FROM WHERE I STAND A Teenager's Voice from Inside the Culture of Death by Sarah Roney [Media Bypass Editor's Note: Perceived as an e-mail hoax from a 40- or 50-something right wing male, the following letter was written solely by an 18-year-old commenting on the Colorado high school shootings. She wrote her article at the computer in her bedroom in one hour. No adult touched it with revisions.] On April 20, 1999, there was yet another gruesome shooting in Littleton, Colorado. Kids killing kids. And again, the entire nation in its uproar is trying to figure out why. I am 18 years old. I live in a small town near Madison, Wisconsin. A small town just like the ones where these horrifying shootings always seem to take place. Every time those stories come on the television, I can't help but notice how easily it could be my small town next. And I want to know why this is happening just as badly as any parent or police chief or anchorman. The thing is, I am right in the middle of it. I am in the same age group as all of these high school kids. So I may have some insight for the world that has been otherwise unattainable since these shootings started some years ago. The night of the Littleton shooting, as I was flipping through the various news channels that were covering the story in Littleton, Colorado, I heard something that struck a chord in me. An anchorman was interviewing the mother of a victim in the Jonesboro shooting. His question was: "If you look at America in the 1950s, you will find that this kind of thing never happened; whereas if you look at America today, this kind of thing is becoming more and more frequent. Why do you think this is happening?" The woman, of course, could not answer the question. In fact, she didn't really even try. But I did. I though about it for a long time that night. And again the next morning, when my favorite morning radio talk show asked its listeners why they thought this has been happening. Many people said it's the parents of the kids. Many people suggested television and video games. Many people even turned to popular musicians, looking to put the blame somewhere. But I will tell you what I think it is. What I, a regular teenager riding on the coattails of Generation X, blame it on. It is not the parents or the movies or the rock stars. It is AMERICA. It is this culture of death, this culture in which liberals and feminists and activists are so anxious to let anything be "OK" that the once tightened knotted rope of society is unraveling right beneath us. Don't you see? There can be no order without discipline. All of those things people think are causing children to run into a school and shoot their teachers and peers and even kids they don't know--the movies, the video games, the parents, the rap artists--they are only REFLECTIONS of our society. Society breaks down, from one big metaphoric "family" into 50 metaphoric "families' and so on and so on, until you have the actual FAMILY, the one with the parents and the kids and the dog. It is not one thing or two things; it is the attitude of an entire "familiar' nation being reflected back at us in the kids. Just at that anchorman suggested, something was different about the 1950s. WE WERE CONSERVATIVE. We had boundaries; we had a definite knowledge of right and wrong throughout the entire nation. We didn't have feminists pushing women so hard to go get a job that a woman who didn't have job was somehow "bad," thereby leaving kids at home with inadequate parental guidance and often times with parents who were truly unhappy. We didn't have liberals fighting so avidly to legalize everything that it was at the point of completely blurring the line between good and bad. We didn't have a nationwide media surge dedicated to sex and violence so intense that if you weren't playing killing video games at age 14, then you were trying to choose between contraceptives beforehand or abortion afterwards. We didn't have disputes over whether or not we should help someone who is dying die sooner--over whether or not we should ASSIST them in committing SUICIDE. And we certainly didn't have a President who was in favor of NATO bombing and killing children in Serbia come on the television to grieve the loss for the families of children killed in America. We live in a loosely tied society, a culture dedicated to death. If you don't want the kid, kill it. If you don't want to live out the rest of your God-given days, kill yourself. Or better yet, have someone else come help you do it. I guess, no matter how horrible or gruesome of gut-wrenching it may be, it was just a matter of time before someone got that "killing-as-a-means-to-an-end" idea stuck in their head for the part between birth and death as well. Everything that happens in families and cities and states and countries is the mirror image of the big picture. We are falling apart as a society. Am I--some random normal teenage in Farmertown, USA--the only one who sees that? It's sad and it's hard to believe, but what's worse is that it's scary. I think it's time for our--America's--Mom and Dad to ground us--to say, "If you don't shape up by the time I count to three..." And then really count to three. Because we are running wild and pretty soon we're going to be too far from home to ever get back. There was once a great saying by a famous man that has rung true throughout the history of mankind--in every family and in every society and in every social group and in every religion--it was a frighteningly true statement that cannot be disputed. I am reminded of it now, in the wake of yet another indescribably tormenting result of a nation gone haywire... "By their fruits you shall know them." 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