You recently advised me to forward rejected posts to you for posting????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Best, Mike ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *Mike Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~~~~~~~~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day. ================================================================= ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 16:29:29 -0400 From: "L-Soft list server at America Online (1.8d)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Michael Spitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Rejected posting to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The distribution of your message dated Sat, 21 Aug 1999 13:29:22 -0700 (MST) with subject "Aldrich Says Everyone Needs to Speak Up --Insight Magazine (fwd)" has been rejected because you have exceeded the daily per-user message limit for the CTRL list. Other than the list owner, no one is allowed to post more than 7 messages per day. Please resend your message at a later time if you still want it to be posted to the list. ------------------------ Rejected message (248 lines) ------------------------- Received: from mx0-smtp.goodnet.com (envy.goodnet.com [207.98.129.151]) by listserv.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA07407 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 16:29:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from goodnet.com (goodnet.com [207.98.129.1]) by mx0-smtp.goodnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA27989 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 13:29:24 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 13:29:22 -0700 (MST) From: MICHAEL SPITZER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Aldrich Says Everyone Needs to Speak Up --Insight Magazine (fwd) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Aldrich Says Everyone Needs to Speak Up By Stephen Goode Former FBI agent Gary Aldrich has founded an organization dedicated to protecting whistle-blowers, fighting political correctness and preserving First Amendment freedoms. Three years ago Gary Aldrich published Unlimited Access, a book about the extraordinary behavior and serious breaches of security he witnessed while doing background checks on White House personnel as an FBI agent inside the presidential mansion. Unlimited Access was on the New York Times best-seller list for 20 weeks and has to date sold more than 500,000 copies. . . . . These days Aldrich is president of the Patrick Henry Center for Individual Rights, a group he founded to help whistle-blowers and to be a leader in the battle against political correctness. Aldrich enjoyed his 26 years in the FBI, but gave it all up to write and publish his book on the Clinton White House. His big concern today is that Americans are too cowed by the politically correct to speak what's really on their minds. The Patrick Henry Center's mission, says Aldrich in the center's News Bulletin is "to bring truth back into style and fight the PC police." . . . . Insight: How did you happen to name your foundation after Patrick Henry? . . . . Gary Aldrich: Actually the answer is pretty easy. In December 1995, when I thought I had an interest in writing a book about the Clinton White House and determined I could do it, I still had this nagging question I needed to answer: Why me? How could I be so presumptuous that I could write a book about the president of the United States and get away with it? . . . . As it happened, my son had some school work he had to complete which required us to go to Colonial Williamsburg. While I was down there, I was going through some of the material available on the Founders and found some very interesting information on Patrick Henry. . . . . Like everyone else, my knowledge of Henry was his speech at St. John's Church, "Give me liberty or give me death!" I knew he was a patriot and a brave man, but I had no idea of the depth of his participation in the founding. Five times governor of Virginia. He, George Mason and a few others were instrumental in assuring we had our Bill of Rights. . . . . He and others said, "We've just got rid of one monarchy and we're not about to install another!" Patrick Henry had the courage to speak his beliefs as he saw fit, and we need more of that. . . . . Insight: In a recent issue of the Patrick Henry Center's News Bulletin, you quote what Confucius said 2,500 years ago when he was asked what he would first do to change a corrupt government: "It would certainly be to correct language. If language is not correct, what is said is not what is meant; what ought to be done remains undone; morals deteriorate; justice will go astray; and the people will stand about in hopeless confusion." Do you see language as a task for the center? . . . . GA: Our primary mission here, I think, is to identify what we believe is the most pervasive problem that we have in this country today: political correctness. I have a belief that if folks really said or wrote what they really were thinking, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in today and we wouldn't have the problems we have in this society. . . . . But people have been so browbeaten into being quiet! We want to identify that as the problem and we want to identify political correctness as what eventually could bring this government down. . . . . I believe that with all my heart. Those of us who have an argument with the liberal agenda -- if you want to be kind and call it liberal -- have an obligation to stand up and speak out against it, whether it's in our own community, or in our school, or at our kid's college, wherever it may be happening. . . . . Insight: The First Amendment is very important to you. . . . . GA: When Patrick Henry and George Mason and the others put the First Amendment as the No. 1 amendment, they knew what they were doing. The whole idea of the First Amendment is critical free speech -- not the free speech that allows a Larry Flynt to publish Hustler magazine but critical free speech, which means that the population should be at all times free to express its beliefs. As far as I'm concerned, we don't have that now. We can express our beliefs as long as they line up with the view that's politically correct. . . . . Environment of course is one of them. Kids come home from school today very conversant on the recycling of aluminum cans. But they can't have a discussion with you about the importance, say, of the Second and Third Amendments. They can't talk about what sacrifices our Founding Fathers made for this country, but they know all about a species of endangered tree slugs. . . . . Insight: Have you thought about writing a follow-up to your critique of the Clinton White House that would discuss your experiences as a whistle-blower and critic of the current administration? . . . . GA: I've kicked around the idea and haven't closed the door on it. The trouble with writing a book like that is that it is so all-consuming of time and effort. I'd have to drop out to do it justice, and we've had so many victories here at the Patrick Henry Center that I would hate to drop out. . . . . Insight: What are some of those victories? . . . . GA: When Linda Tripp first surfaced in the Monica Lewinsky matter, I met with her attorney and we spoke about how the center could assist her. We went on to give consulting in areas such as fund raising. We realized she would have massive legal bills out of this. Having gone through it myself, I was able to walk them through the process and give them some advice on what to do and what not to do. . . . . We also sponsored a letter-writing campaign for her, so that people would write to her and encourage her, as well as donate to her legal fund. From my own experience, I knew that contacts from different people offering encouragement would be very helpful. If, for example, some one had put together some kind of letter-writing campaign for me -- where I would have been able to hear from average Americans who supported me -- it would have been beneficial, especially at the very beginning. . . . . There's a silence. Later, I learned that the people were out there and that they were very supportive, but it was difficult in the beginning. There's a natural tendency to think someone else is taking care of this, someone is supporting the victims. But in my case, there was no one else supporting me. I was the Lone Ranger. . . . . We also hired a media consultant for Linda Tripp to handle all the requests that came in for her spokesperson to be interviewed by radio, TV and print. We had all that coordinated so that they didn't have anything to do but communicate with the consultant on what the schedule would be, where to appear, where to take the calls; and we're still doing that. . . . . By the way, we're a Section 502(c)3 organization and we've been in compliance with Internal Revenue Service regulations, but of course there's the chance that sooner or later the IRS will take an interest in what we do here, and I would be pleased as punch to have IRS employees come in here and blow the whistle on the IRS. . . . . Insight: Were you surprised by Clinton's impeachment? . . . . GA: I expected it. What did surprise me was the degree to which the substantive issues were put aside in favor of this obsession for one whole year on Monica Lewinsky, and it's unfortunate. The judgment was made on the president's sexual conduct, not on the fact, for example, that the Chinese were able to get our [nuclear-weapons] secrets, not on the fact that the entire security apparatus had broken down! . . . . Insight: What's your reply when commentators claim that it isn't just the Clinton administration that's to blame for the loss of secrets to China, but other recent administrations, Republican and Democrat? . . . . GA: There's always been espionage going on. It's the degree to which the administration in charge can handle the damage to head it off is the answer, I think. You can't stop every spy, but you can stop most of them. Some administrations are better at protecting our secrets than others. What I saw at the [Clinton] White House was a wholesale breakdown. . . . . Insight: It's surprising there's whistle-blowers at all, isn't it, given the problems they face. . . . . GA: One of my big concerns is the fact the federal government has become what I would call "scientific" about discrediting whistle-blowers. The White House is not just reacting to a surprise that somebody has blind-sided them with an allegation of some kind. It's actually having a process in place. I don't know but that they have a checklist or a Chinese menu and go down and check the right blocks. . . . . The recipe is to try to discredit the whistle-blower so they move the person out of their assignment quickly, so they'd no longer have access to information. To get back to where you were at first takes years and lots of money, with no real hope of achieving victory. I had it in mind to take the experience I had and put it to good use to help others in similar circumstances. I know what's going to happen to them, having been an FBI agent for 26 years. I saw it happen to others in government and in my own agency as well. . . . . . . . . . . . . Personal Bio of Gary Aldrich: . . . . . . . . Born: May 22, 1945, Amsterdam, N.Y. . . . . . . . . Family: Wife, Nina; three children. . . . . . . . . Education: Dade College in Florida; accounting degree. . . . . . . . . Career: Founder and president of the Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty, Fairfax, Va. Twenty-six year veteran of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. . . . . . . . . Books: Unlimited Access: An FBI Agent Inside the Clinton White House, and the political thriller, Speak No Evil. . . . . . . . . Favorite reading: Henry Mayer's, A Son of Thunder: Patrick Henry and the American Republic. "For entertainment," a good novel by Tom Clancy. Books by Joseph Wambaugh and John D. MacDonald. . . . . . . . . Sports: Auto racing and football "are my first loves." ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *Mike Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~~~~~~~~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day. =================================================================
