WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! * Veritas Vos Liberabit * THE FEDERALIST(r) DIGEST The Conservative e-Journal of Record Date: 15 September 2000 Federalist #00-37.dgst To retrieve today's Digest as HTML printer-friendly text or PDF, link to: http://www.Federalist.com/current00-10.asp To support or sponsor The Federalist, link to: http://www.Federalist.com/support.asp CONTENTS: The Founders Federalist Perspective Insight Upright Editorial Exegesis Body Politic Dezinformatsia Sociocrats Village Idiots Short Cuts ______--------********O********--------______ THE FOUNDERS "An elected despotism is not the government we fought for." --Thomas Jefferson ______--------********O********--------______ FEDERALIST PERSPECTIVE In the news this week, one of the Democrats' four cornerstones of support (unions, Hollywood glitterati, trial lawyers and "victims" of all descriptions) is in trouble. Trial lawyers, long a staple of Democrat coffers, have given more than $7 million to the Demos in recent months in a quid pro quo to ensure Albert Gore will oppose any effort at tort reform. Of course, such quid pro quos are accomplished with winks and nods leaving no paper trails -- until now. A memo from the last presidential campaign cycle may prove problematic for Gore. In 1995, he was in Houston collecting from trial lawyers but did not connect with pal Walter Umphrey. So Don Fowler, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, called Umphrey on Gore's behalf, using a prepared memo prompting, "Reason for call is 'Sorry you missed the Vice President; I know (you) will give $100K when the President vetoes tort reform but we really need it now. Please send ASAP if possible'." Clinton vetoed the Republicans' tort reform bill in May 1996, and Umphrey anted up $100 large. Since then, Umphrey and his firm have given $800,000 to the Democrats, $420,000 in the current campaign. Then Clinton led the charge against tobacco companies, creating a $3.3 billion windfall for trial lawyers after a $17.3 billion settlement. And they, being a grateful sort, have reciprocated by rewarding Demo campaigns across the nation with large "gratuities." Gore spokesman Jim Kennedy says, "Republicans and [the Justice Department] have had this for more than 1,000 days. No one found it interesting till 1,000 hours before the election." Of course, the Demos have had Janet "Blockade" Reno for more than 2,700 days. Unfortunately for justice, "the most ethical administration" and its media props have so obscured the line between right and wrong that a majority of couch potatoes no longer care. Ironically, this latest assault on constitutional "rule of law" occurs as we -- at least a few of us -- prepare to celebrate the anniversary of the signing of our U.S. Constitution this Sunday. It was September 17, 1787, that 39 delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed that foundational document for which they had toiled in war since 1776 under the leadership of George Washington. Perhaps Clinton-Gore-Lieberman can lay a wreath on its display case at the national archives. In other news.... The Millennial Summit concluded this week, fortunately with no set template for a unified world government. But, as a reader brought to our attention, this admonition from Lady Margaret Thatcher in a recent lecture is most apropos: "Today's international policy makers have succumbed to a liberal contagion whose most alarming symptom is to view any new and artificial structure as preferable to a traditional and tested one. So they forget that it was powerful nation states, drawing on national loyalties and national armies, which enforced UN Security Council Resolutions and defeated Iraq in 1991. Their short-term goal is to subordinate American and other national sovereignties to multilateral authorities; their long-term goal, one suspects, is to establish the UN as a kind of embryo world government." Quote of the week... "We must elect people to these offices who will defend our liberties, defend the integrity of the Constitution, and take on the full responsibilities they are supposed to exercise as the stewards of that Constitution. I believe that both president and Congress, in recent decades, have failed us in this regard. And in doing so they have unleashed a judicial tyranny that is destroying the soundness, moral and otherwise, of our land." --Alan Keyes On cross-examination... "Bill Clinton says that the budget surplus cannot be used to reduce taxes because it would 'cost' too much. Just what does that mean? The very idea of government 'costs' is strange. Since government does not generate wealth, but simply spends wealth generated by the people, the only costs being borne are those costs borne by the public." --Thomas Sowell The BIG lie... "If I'm entrusted with the presidency, I am going to do something about this." --Vice Prevaricator Al Gore saying he would give "entertainment" cartel bosses six months to "clean up their act" or risk government sanctions. Gore was responding to a well-timed FTC report that the entertainment industry markets its most violent and offensive films and video games to children. The report states, "While the entertainment industry has taken steps to identify content that may not be appropriate for children, the companies in those industries still routinely target children under 17 in their marketing of products their own ratings systems deem inappropriate or warrant parental caution due to violent content." Out of 44 teen-oriented movies rated "R" for violence, the FTC found that 80% were marketed to kids under the age of 17. One film's marketing plan read, "Our goal was to find the elusive teen target audience and make sure everyone between the ages of 12-18 was exposed to the film." Of course, the report was timed to give Gore a platform to appear that he is really not a Hollywood patsy after collecting $13.6 million from his Hollywood sycophants in just the last few months. Gore is not going to do anything to threaten this cornerstone of his political foundation. To wit, inquiring minds want to know why hasn't Gore issued this "six month ultimatum" at some date in the last eight years? "Suddenly," said Bush campaign spokesman Dan Bartlett, "Al Gore is telling Hollywood to clean up its act after aggressively cleaning out their wallets for the past year. Al Gore waving around a report that he denounced at a Hollywood fund-raiser just a year ago makes him a deserving candidate for an Oscar award in hypocrisy." Gore's feign of concern about his Hollywonk benefactors is a diversionary "tension" strategy originally perfected by Clinton-Gore in their 1995 dodge of Fred Thompson's investigation into quid pro quo mega-bucks from Red Chinese operatives. Clinton-Gore handlers leaked the story that there was "serious tension" with AG Janet Reno -- and the media propagated the myth that Clinton wanted Reno out. This set up an effective cover for Clinton so that when Reno ultimately undermined Sen. Thompson's investigation, her refusal to prosecute Clinton-Gore was deemed "objective" because, after all, there was this "serious tension." Now Gore, who (like Clinton before him) has taken truckloads of money from the Hollywood elite, offers the pretense of a "tension" with the entertainment cartel, thus appearing to be innocent of any collusion. Better yet, Gore's open criticism of his wealthiest constituency even lends the appearance that he has high integrity. Thursday night, Gore, the penultimate hypocrite, attended a glitterati-studded fund-raiser at New York's Radio City Music Hall, hosted by Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein. He collected another $5 million from these would-be arbiters of American culture. >From "The most ethical administration"... "[Gore] should say, 'Look, this [visit to a Buddhist temple] is no different from people visiting the black churches or any churches or a Jewish temple. There's nothing wrong.' He shouldn't feel embarrassed or ashamed of relating to the temple. He should feel very proud of himself." --Gore fund-raiser Maria Hsia, convicted of five felony counts for lying about the major Demo-donations Gore picked up while at the temple. **Of course, Gore is most proud of the fact Janet "Blockade" Reno declined to have an independent counsel investigate Gore's illegal fund-raising activities. News from the Swamp... In the People's House, having failed last week to muster enough votes to override Clinton's veto of their bill to terminate estate taxes, this week failed to override his veto of the Republican bill to end the marriage tax penalty. The vote was 270 to 158, 16 votes shy of the two-thirds needed. Naturally, Clinton was spewing mountains of classist rhetoric justifying his veto. The same evening, hobnobbing with the rich and famous, Clinton said, "We've had more millionaires and more billionaires in the last eight years than any other time in history and I hope...maybe I can be one of them." Of course, next year Clinton will no longer be subject to the marriage penalty tax because he, most likely, won't be in one! In better news, the House voted overwhelmingly, 362 to 12, to defeat a bill revoking the Boy Scouts' 84-year-old federal charter because they won't accept homosexual scout masters. The bill's sponsor, Demo Rep. Lynn Woolsey, was doing some swift back-paddling, given the overwhelming opposition. "We're not saying the Boy Scouts are bad; we're saying intolerance is bad," she said. Memo to Mr. Bush: Ask Albert "Family Values" Gore where he stands on this one! Then, having saved the Scouts from persecution for their "opinion of homosexuals," the House joined the Senate in backing Clinton's favorite piece of legislation adding the categories of "sexual orientation, gender, and disability" to the current so-called "hate crimes" legislation. Of the bill's sponsors, Penny Nance, with Concerned Women for America, said, "We are disgusted by the idea propagated by Senator Kennedy and Representative Frank that only some crimes are singled out for special treatment or punishment. Clearly these men do not understand the meaning of violent crime. Senator Kennedy said in a recent Senate hearing on the issue that rape is not necessarily a hate crime. As a victim of attempted rape, I wish to inform him that sexual violence is always a matter of hate. What could possibly be more hateful than violence against women and children?" Washington Post columnist William Raspberry wrote, "Hate-crime legislation finally turns out to be an attempt at thought control. It says we'll punish you for what you did, yes, but also for what you were thinking when you did it. ... [The legislation creates] the division of American citizens into various categories more or less worthy of whatever protection the law can give them. If we want to provide special status for blacks and Jews, for instance, what about homeless bums who may find themselves subject to attack for who they are?" And a footnote: Just in time for Clinton's big "hate crimes" push, Bookseller Barnes & Noble, one of the nation's largest distributors of pornography, launched a national ad campaign stating, "Intolerance isn't something children are born with. It's learned. Therefore it can be unlearned." The ad highlights a few books for parents to read with their children "to break the cycle of hate through reading." Topping the list: "Heather Has Two Mommies" -- one of a series of titles promoting the normalization of homosexuality. Regarding your IRS overpayment... This month's "Demo-Plunder Sweepstakes Award" goes to -- you guessed it -- Albert Arnold Gore, whose populist plan to distribute government largess, according to the Congressional Budget Office, ads $2.7 trillion in additional spending -- overspending the cumulative projected surplus by $1.9 trillion (not including Social Security taxes, which both Bush and Gore promise to leave in the Social Security "trust fund"). Memo to Al: "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." --Thomas Jefferson >From the department of military correctness... The Navy's Pacific air command are requesting that urinals need to be removed from its aircraft carriers, and be replaced with "gender-neutral water closets." Coincidentally, a report from Vice Adm. Lee F. Gunn, the Navy inspector general, concludes, "From captains to airmen, we heard grave concern that Navy leadership is either out of touch or uniformed, or just does not care enough to address the plight of our people in meaningful ways." The Commissars of Correctness... Department of Labor employee Don Terrill, whose familial roots in Virginia go back to Jamestown, has filed a discrimination lawsuit against Secretary Alexis Herman after the department denied his request to participate as a "Confederate American" in the department's Diversity Days Celebration. >From the states... In the People's Republic of Massachusetts, the state legislature is mounting a recall process against Superior Court Judge Maria Lopez after she released a 22-year old transsexual "man," who admitted he abducted a 12-year-old boy and subjected him to a terrifying sexual assault. Gov. Paul Cellucci noted, "[This is] every parent's worst nightmare." Judge Lopez claims, "The defendant was given a fair sentence. In this case, there were certain facts before me...that were part of the plea conference and cannot be revealed by me." The "Dumb and Dumber" Department... >From the "Not Quite Ready for Prime Time" files, last week Rep. Cynthia McKinney, a black Demo from Georgia, released a statement saying of Gore's lack of concern about claimed "discrimination" by the Secret Service, "Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high." This week, Ms. McKinney claims her comment was part of a press release still "in the editing process," and added, "I disclaim all the comments. And let me warn any Republicans who might be tempted to use the comments that were attributed to me, which I have now disclaimed and retracted, to divide and confuse the voters: I will not stand for it." Upon hearing those words, the editorial staff around this shop fainted in fear! Around the world... The current protest against soaring fuel prices (now approaching $6 per gallon) Britons are forced to pay, in part because of high fuel taxes, is a preview of what Americans can expect if Al Gore is elected. Al Gore recently commented, "I wrote in this book 'Earth in the Balance' that we should set as a strategic goal the phasing out of the internal-combustion engine over a 25-year period. I accept now that was a mistake. Twenty-five years is far too long for a goal like that. I think we can do it quicker. And I think that the Big Three automakers are going to do it quicker than that." All in the name of halting the advance of "global warming," says Gore. How would he do that? By micromanaging the auto market through regulations on manufacturers and instituting additional heavy taxes on fuel to discourage the sale of larger vehicles. Memo to Mr. Gore: If the planet is cooling down, as a growing body of scientists is now claiming, shouldn't we all be driving SUVs? Perhaps SUVs could become a government entitlement for "working families." Culture comment... This month's "Heterophobia" Award goes to the gaggle of homosexuals protesting Dr. Laura Schlessinger's new television program. Dr. Laura is an outspoken advocate for traditional family values and moral behavior in society. Her inaugural program was on the topic of teen drug use, but she has, on occasion, spoken clearly about the immorality of the lesbian and sodomite sex practices. For that, she has lost major advertising sponsors such as Procter & Gamble, who have wantonly agreed to homosexual demands they not support Dr. Laura. Homosexual activists want Dr. Laura off the air -- regardless of the topic she is discussing, another fine example of "tyranny masquerading as tolerance." Of course, many of the corporate sponsors who have pulled support from Schlessinger continue to support outstanding examples of responsible television like the Jerry Springer Show. And last, you've undoubtedly heard about that "right wing conspiracy" to subliminally induce viewers of a Republican TV ad to think Gore is a rodent because the word "RATS" is superimposed in one frame. Journalist Tony Snow first reported this glitch as a humor item two weeks ago on Fox News. "Nobody bit on the story, presumably because they understood that in moving the word 'bureaucrats' from left to right across a television screen, the final four letters naturally would appear together," says Snow, adding, "until, on a slow news day in a laggardly news week, the Gore campaign called [the New York Times] with its 'scoop'." Gore has expressed shock and dismay that Republicans would do such a thing, knowing full well that the trailer frame with "RATS" was not "subliminal propaganda." Naturally, Gore and his media hacks did not mention that a few frames earlier in the same ad, there is another trailer frame, which reads "WIT." Somehow we don't think the "right wing conspiracy" is paying good money to induce the public to think Gore is a witty guy rather than an android. And, if you play the film backwards, the message is that Gore's a "STAR." Since Red China's candidate, Albert Gore, brought this "conspiracy" to the attention of the New York Times, it should be noted that each of the 12 years in the Chinese zodiac calendar is named for an animal, reflecting the nature and character of those born in that year. Albert Gore was born on March 31, 1948 -- Year of the Rat. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? 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