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THE FEDERALIST(r) BRIEF The Conservative e-Journal of Record * Veritas Vos Liberabit * 21 January 2002 Federalist Edition #02-04 Monday Brief *To support The Federalist, Link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/support.asp *To sponsor The Federalist, Link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/sponsor.asp *To retrieve today's Brief as HTML printer-friendly text or PDF Link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/current2002.asp *To change your e-mail address or format, see instructions in footer. ______----********O********----______ THIS WEEK'S FEATURED SITE Tuesday marks the 29th year since the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision, effectively negating the Declaration's guarantee of right to life for all citizens and the Declaration's subordinate guidance -- our Constitution's 9th and 10th Amendments. Since 1973, the lives of more than 40 million unborn children have been sacrificed on the altar of convenience. In addition to the trauma of abortion, post-abortion trauma syndrome is now a widely diagnosed disorder. PATS may take years to emerge and manifests as depression, emotional distress and self-destructive behavior. If you have had an abortion and are now suffering emotionally, you are not alone. For information on post-abortion trauma, contact Healing Hearts -- http://www.healinghearts.org/ For additional information on post-abortion syndrome, contact the Elliot Institute -- http://www.afterabortion.org/ For the mothers and fathers of aborted children, there is a special place for repentance and healing, a place to acknowledge tangibly love and respect for the life that was, so that they may fully love the life that is! To permanently recognize the loss of an aborted child, contact the National Memorial For The Unborn -- http://www.memorial-unborn.org/ Read the proclamation by President George W. Bush on the sanctity of human life -- http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/01/20020118-10.html CONTENTS: The Foundation Insight Good News ICTUS Imprimis Family Culture Liberty Opinion in Brief Editorial Exegesis The Gipper Government Political Futures For the Record Policy Pages Reader Comments The Last Word ______----********O********----______ THE FOUNDATION "The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men." --Samuel Adams ______----********O********----______ INSIGHT "Abortion is Murder in the womb.... A child is a gift from God. If you do not want him, give him to me." ++ "I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a direct killing of the innocent child...." ++ "Please don't kill the child. I want the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child, and be loved by the child." -- Mother Teresa ______----********O********----______ GOOD NEWS "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well." (Psalm 139:13-14) "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth." (Psalm 46:10) ++ "Where there is no vision, the people perish." (Proverbs 29:18) ++ "A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country." (Matthew 13:57) ++ "For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then I shall know even as I am known." (I Corinthians 13:11-12) ++ "Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good." (Romans 12:9) ++ "Live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature." (Galatians 5:16) ______----********O********----______ ICTUS IMPRIMIS "[The] law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole globe, is everywhere and at all times binding upon mankind.... [This] is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control." -- Rufus King, Signer of the Constitution, Framer of the Bill of Rights ______----********O********----______ FAMILY "Today's kids, and even law students, are taught that the Constitution is a 'living document.' That is, it has no fixed meaning, and means whatever a judge says it means today. In effect, kids are taught that we have no Constitution." --David C. Stolinsky ______----********O********----______ CULTURE "I'm all for symbolism. I love symbolism. But I love truth more. And the problem with changing the races of the men who were photographed raising the flag is that it's not true. It's not factual. It didn't happen that way. Why does it matter? It matters because truth always matters. In fact, it's all that matters.... Once you start slicing and dicing truth, there's no end to it. And once you become comfortable with little adjustments to truth, a tweak here and a tweak there, you begin not to notice when truth disappears altogether. Where truth is absent, tyranny reigns. Such, ultimately, is the loathsome promise of political correctness. But it's only a statue, you say, just a little thing no worse than a white lie (pardon the exclusion). If it makes people feel better, what's the harm? It's not the symbol, darling. It's what the symbol stands for, which isn't truth. If not truth, then what if not a lie?" --Kathleen Parker ______----********O********----______ LIBERTY "It is far better to focus our efforts on immigration reform and ridding our country of suspected terrorists than to restrict the constitutional liberties of our own citizens. The fight against terrorism should be fought largely at our borders. Once potential terrorists are in the country, the task of finding and arresting them becomes much harder, and the calls for intrusive government monitoring of all of us become louder. If we do not want to move in the direction of a police state at home, we must prevent terrorists from entering the country in the first place. Finally, meaningful immigration reform can only take place when we end the welfare state. No one has a right to immigrate to America and receive benefits paid for by taxpayers. When we eliminate welfare incentives, we insure that only those who truly seek America's freedoms and opportunities will want to come here." --Rep. Ron Paul ______----********O********----______ OPINION IN BRIEF "The systematic destruction of the Afghan culture was steeped in religious fanaticism, but driven by political correctness as well, and therein lies the lesson for others elsewhere. We've got a ministry in waiting for the protection of virtue and prevention of vice in America, and it's alive, well, and already practicing a venomous hatred for all that displeases. The political correctness running amok in America, if unchecked, could be as destructive as the religious quackery in Afghanistan. Some of America's greatest heroes, with whom every American schoolchild was once familiar, have been thrown out or are about to be. Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, only yesterday regarded as Virginia's most beloved sons, icons of generations of Southerners and held in veneration nearly everywhere else as an authentic American hero, are regarded now as villains by the cultural elites, who have spooked a lot of people who know better. Even James Gilmore, the just-retired Republican governor, was afraid to rise to the defense of history when the illiterates of the left demanded that Lee and Jackson be erased from Virginia's heritage. And not just white Southerners, though dead white men are particular targets. American Indians have forced Christopher Columbus off the calendar in many places. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson are under assault from certain blacks for having owned slaves. (Abraham Lincoln will no doubt be under similar assault as soon as the red-hots learn to read and find out what he thought about the idea of social and political equality for blacks.) In California, Hispanics not only won the establishment of Cinco de Mayo, a Mexican holiday, as a state holiday in California, but forced the state to replace a statue of an American hero of the U.S.-Mexican War with a statue of the pagan Aztec god Quetzalcoatl. Mark Twain is an annual target of the sensitivity police, along with James Joyce, Harper Lee and Flannery O'Connor. Not all yahoos wear turbans, grow long beards and pray five times a day." --Wesley Pruden ______----********O********----______ EDITORIAL EXEGESIS "The next immediate step should be to relocate the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the country's capital. In every presidential campaign, the candidates declare their willingness, even eagerness, to do this. The eventual president, however, discovers that somehow the moment is not opportune. This is supposed to be tactful to the Arabs, but more often than not they interpret it as a failure of political resolve. As things stand now, Islamist extremists are attacking Israel in the expectation that one more suicide bomber will somehow blow the country apart, and there will be no more Jews in it. Like Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, they have parted company with reality. Yasser Arafat bleats that he can do nothing about the terrorists whom he is supposed to be governing. In this quandary, the Sharon government hesitates to adopt the obvious tactic of occupying Palestinian territory and cleaning out everyone who possesses a gun or a grenade. To relocate the embassy is a simple but highly symbolic step, signifying that Israel's legitimacy and secure future are beyond question. This not only acts to reassure Israelis, but also serves notice on Islamist extremists that they are deluding and harming themselves in their attempt to eliminate Israel. After the Afghan success, even small symbolic acts of power may serve to enforce reality and stabilize the Middle East." --National Review ______----********O********----______ THE GIPPER "God's greatest gift is human life ... We have a sacred duty to protect the innocent life of an unborn child [which] should be entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ... We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life -- the unborn -- without diminishing the value of all human life. ... Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free... Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide... There is no cause more important for preserving that freedom than affirming the transcendent right to life of all human beings, the right without which no other rights have any meaning." --Ronald Reagan. ______----********O********----______ GOVERNMENT "Yet the illusion persists that the state is 'protecting' us, when it has been more destructive than all the private-sector criminals and terrorists in the world. Its very purpose, its telos, is to create an abnormal society. Whether or not the planners have been candid about their real intentions, what they have achieved is very remote from the intentions they proclaimed. Not that this will move them to remorse or self-examination; they remain as fanatical as ever in pursuit of their policy goals, with no desire to give up the power they have amassed. The abnormal society has been realized. It has its ludicrous features, but it is not a joke. Anything so profoundly abnormal must die." --Joseph Sobran ______----********O********----______ POLITICAL FUTURES "Almost assuredly the time is coming -- and it's not far off -- when Saddam [Hussein] will have these weapons [of mass destruction] ready for use against anyone he considers an enemy, including the United States and Israel. An ounce of prevention being worth a pound of cure it would seem logical to destroy Saddam and his weapons-making capabilities before he is able to build them and use them, which, being a nut, kind of an insane Hussein, he can be expected to do. It is likely that the U.S. would have pretty much to go it alone if it chose to attack. But that is the price it must pay for being the world's numero uno and it is a price we should be willing to pay. Delay could make the price infinitely higher. Though other nations might object to any steps the U.S. might take they could do nothing to stop us and in their secret hearts they would probably thank us. As for America's homegrown peaceniks, a pox on them. Regardless of what others may say, the fact is that it is the height of foolishness for the U.S. to let itself continue to be a sitting duck waiting for terrorists and terrorist nations to make the first move. Sept. 11 should have taught us that." --Lyn Nofziger ______----********O********----______ FOR THE RECORD The $4,900 pay raise Members of Congress voted themselves (unconstitutionally, we might add!) worsened the wage gap between the citizens (median household income of $42,148) and their representatives (over three and a half times that). And this means Senators and Representatives are increasingly insulated from the painful economic effects their legislative acts wreak on their constituents. Pete Sepp of the National Taxpayers Union offered a historical comparison: "During the Depression era, lawmakers actually reduced their salaries in 1932 and 1933 as gestures of sympathy to millions of fellow citizens who were suffering economic harm." Moreover, during World War II, congressional salary increases were deferred. More recently, Florida legislators overturned pay raises already enacted, and South Carolina Gov. Jim Hodges shaved $4,000 off his annual salary, and Sen. Russell Feingold has been returning the unconstitutional portion of pay boosts. ______----********O********----______ POLICY PAGES/POINTS OF INTEREST Regardless of one's conclusion about Martin King's proper place in history given what we know about his personal character issues, his association with known Communists, questions about the originality of his doctoral dissertation and other writings, and the violation of his "dream" by those who succeeded him (Je$$e Ja�k$on, et al.), the two texts below are well worth reading -- for each of them proclaim the truth. "I HAVE A DREAM" http://www.federalist.com/histdocs/HaveDream.htm "LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL" http://www.federalist.com/histdocs/BirmJail.html ______----********O********----______ SELECT READER COMMENTS (To submit an editorial comment or read other comments, link to: http://www.Federalist.com/postededs.asp) "The Federalist wrote: 'With a unanimous 12-0 vote, the Boston City Council banned city use of a very naughty word -- "minority" -- calling the term "outdated" and "offensive" in describing people or ethnic groups. (City Councilor Charles Yancey suggests substituting "people of color" instead.)' We have finally come full circle: the 50's we were colored people, the 60's we were Negroes, the 70's we were black, the 80's we were Afro-American, the 90's we were African Americans and finally in the 00's we are people of color, AKA colored people." "Ted Kennedy's speech on budget cuts was lacking two minor items: Truth and Fact." "I don't think it is wise to point out 'The so-called A-team, code-named Tiger 03' or this, 'A-teams are each composed of up to 18 lightly armed infantrymen and air controllers....' Terrorists have singled out people who harmed them. Editor's Reply: Our material on such matters is submitted for review by the appropriate analysts prior to appearing in The Federalist. We obviously don't want to compromise any individuals! "The Federalist wrote: 'In one century we went from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to offering remedial English in college.' Why is it that we no longer teach Latin or Greek, but are likely to be soon required to learn Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic (not necessarily a rhetorical question)?" "It is correct that Admiral Yamamoto never uttered the words from Tora Tora Tora mistakenly attributed to him by Bob Schieffer. However, the Admiral did say 'Nekubi o kaite wa ikenai, which translated means 'It does not do to slit the throat of a sleeping man.' The phrase is from Feudal Japan when Samurai, respecting the honor of their opponents, would wake them before engaging them in a fight. To slay an opponent with no warning and with no chance to defend was seen as anathema to those who held personal honor higher than all other things." "Subject: The source. Comment: The Judeo Christian principles this country is built upon are not exclusively Jewish or Christian. America was founded upon the principle '... that all men are created equal....' Note the term 'all men' opposed to 'all Christians.' We all would do well to live by the principles of love and tolerance that Jesus taught, but Jesus was not the only one who taught these things. God loves us all, even liberals." Editor's Reply: Firstly, your opening sentence contradicts itself. Secondly, Jesus may not have been the only one to teach love and toleration, but he is the only one to teach and exemplify those in a perfected sense, as he is the absolute and perfect embodiment of love and toleration (among countless other qualities), which today might be called "tough love." Indeed, God loves us all, and is unceasingly admonishing us and guiding us to perfection, and He's working overtime with Leftists because they have the farthest to go. ______----********O********----______ THE LAST WORD "In every war, the first casualty is often vocabulary, as the distance between the reality we experience and the words we hear widens. So we see the fragility of language in the present war against terrorism -- as Americans have had to amend their lexicon, ignore what they are told, and trust instead to what they see and hear. ...B-52: an old 1950s rerun that the Taliban somehow missed; 'But': in the Middle East, this conjunction follows expressions of false sympathy and precedes empty threats; Carriers: if spotted offshore in groups of two or more -- flee! CNN: commentary -- Not News; Crusade: as taboo a word as jihad is not; Daisy-cutter: a nuke without the fallout and mushroom; House arrest: on the West Bank and in Pakistan entails loss of VCR privileges; 'Islamophobia': mostly a cover for anti-Semitism; Israel: quite obviously the sole cause of poverty, illiteracy, and misery among a billion Muslims; Military tribunals: feared more by American professors than by al Qaeda terrorists; 'Misspoke': got it right the first time; 'Moderate' governments: abettors of, rather participants in, terrorism; NATO: Not an Alliance, Treaty, or Organization; Profiling: can be done to, but not by, Americans; Ramadan: a holy month when Muslims should be allowed to shoot at, but not be shot at by, the Infidel; 'Republic of ------': outside the West, means no elections; U.N.: few united, fewer still nations; Unilateralism: an intended slur that is sure praise." --Victor Davis Hanson This Week's Leftoons: http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/garner.htm http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/welcome.asp -- PUBLIUS -- *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. 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