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Brothers and Sisters,
The time is now near at hand which must probably determine
whether Americans are to be free men or slaves,
whether they are to have any property they can call their own,
whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed
and themselves confined to a state of wretchedness from which
no human efforts will deliver them.
The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage
of this
army.
Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of
brave resistance or the most abject submission.
We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die."
-- George Washington
Updated November 15, 1999
Joseph
Sobran
by Joseph
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TILL WE MEET AGAIN
After 20 years as a
highly respected columnist,
Joseph Sobran calls
this "a leave of absence."
He'll return to
writing his column should the
Constitution Party
not make it to the White
House next year.
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WASHINGTON -- I've
been writing this column for more than
20 years, the last
15 years with the Universal Press Syndicate.
Today I begin a
leave of absence.
On Sept. 4 in St.
Louis, I received a singular honor: Howard
Phillips, who seeks
the U.S. presidency on the ticket of the
Constitution Party
(formerly the Taxpayers Party), chose me as
his running mate.
With a little luck, I will be inaugurated as your
vice president in
January 2001. I look forward to presiding over
the Senate and
attending funerals of world leaders.
Meanwhile, most
editors understandably feel it's inappropriate to
run columns by an
active political candidate. So for the time
being, this column
won't appear in this newspaper. Readers with
an uncontrollable
craving for it may find my campaign writings
on my Web site:
www.sobran.com/columns. In the unlikely
event that the
Phillips-Sobran ticket is edged out in November
2000, I'd hope to
resume the column thereafter; if we win, I plan
to resume in 2009,
at the end of Howard's second term.
You may ask: What
are my qualifications for the vice
presidency? That
was the first question that occurred to me. So
far I have found
three: I am a natural-born citizen of the United
States, I'm over 35
years old, and I've lived in the United States
for more than 14
years.
I can also claim a
more specific qualification: When I take the
oath to "preserve,
protect and defend" the Constitution, I'll mean
it. I've devoted my
career to correcting official lies and errors
about what the
Constitution means. I've been an advocate for
limiting the
lawless federal government to its few legitimate
powers.
This is what
induced Howard to ask me to join his campaign.
What makes it such
an honor is that Howard himself is one of
the most remarkable
men I've ever known. He combines
principle, energy,
and an awesome knowledge of the workings of
government.
Howard long ago
discovered what it took me many years to
realize: that the
great majority of the U.S. government's current
activities are both
unconscionable and unconstitutional. This is
why he founded the
Constitution Party, to restore the limited and
lawful government
our ancestors created.
He also saw, before
others did, that conservatives are wasting
their time, energy
and votes if they stay in the Republican Party.
No more than the
Democrats do the Republicans honor the
Constitution. They
merely violate it at a slower pace.
Contrary to Rush
Limbaugh, the members of the Constitution
Party aren't
disgruntled Republicans who have petulantly
defected from the
GOP and are spitefully trying to help Al Gore
win next year. We
reject both the Democratic and the
Republican versions
of unconstitutional rule. The Constitution is
not an option; it's
a minimum.
We think the very
least the voter should be able to expect -- and
demand -- of our
rulers is that they keep their solemn vows to
uphold the
Constitution, in all its rigor, making no laws it doesn't
expressly
authorize. Neither of the two major parties takes this
duty seriously. In
fact they are so far from doing so that to some
voters it will seem
utopian to ask that our rulers do what they are
sworn to do. We
hear about Bill Clinton's perjury, but nearly
every member of
Congress begins his career by making a
solemn vow he has
no intention of keeping.
Merely returning to
the Constitution will, all by itself, achieve
many things. It
will end excessive spending and taxation; it will
abolish all the
programs whereby taxpayers are forced to support
the unproductive;
it will restore sound money and end inflation; it
will forbid
usurpations -- legislative, executive and judicial -- of
the powers reserved
to the states, thereby restoring, among other
things, the
abortion laws of all 50 states; it will prevent
undeclared foreign
wars; it will forbid oppressive regulation by
unelected federal
bureaucrats; it will make private property truly
private again. And
this is the short list.
As they say,
everything old is new again. The U.S. Constitution
is an idea whose
time has come back.
As I depart, for
now, I'd like to express my heartfelt gratitude to
the Universal Press
Syndicate, to my editors, and to my readers
for your loyalty
and kindness over the years. Thanks for putting
up with me. I don't
deserve you.
COPYRIGHT 1999
UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE
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1. A Democracy: Three wolves and a
sheep voting on dinner.
2. A Republic: The flock gets to
vote for which wolves vote on
dinner.
3. A Constitutional Republic:
Voting on dinner is expressly
forbidden, and the sheep are
armed.
4. Federal Government: The means by
which the sheep will be fooled
into voting for a Democracy.
5. Freedom: Two very hungry wolves
looking for dinner and finding a very
well-informed and well-armed sheep
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