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: 14 July 2000 Federalist #00-28.dgst To retrieve today's Digest as HTML printer-friendly text or PDF, link to: http://www.Federalist.com/current00-2.asp To support or sponsor The Federalist, link to: http://www.Federalist.com/support.asp ______--------********O********--------______ THE FOUNDATION "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." --Thomas Paine ______--------********O********--------______ FEDERALIST PERSPECTIVE In the news this week, "You've got mail!" -- and so does Janet Reno. You may recall that "Echelon," the NSA macro-tracking system for monitoring electronic communication, caused some consternation among our European allies. This week, the FBI confirmed it has deployed an automated system to track e-mail communication of "suspects." The system, known as ''Carnivore,'' is placed at an Internet service provider, and scans all incoming and outgoing e-mail for key words related to a criminal probe. The problem, of course, is not one of the legitimate use of such technology, but of the potential for its abuse -- and the present administration has aptly demonstrated how to abuse the FBI, ATF, INS and IRS for its own political purposes. That pesky old Fourth Amendment still guarantees "the right of the people to be secure in their ... papers ... against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated...." On the other hand, if the system had been deployed on White House servers, we might have all of Al Gore's "missing" e-mail. Speaking of e-mail.... The military is not the only department of the central government that has become a "grand social experiment." As The Federalist has frequently noted, Clinton's "Commissars of Diversity" have decreed that centralized agencies will be devoid of dissension from the Clinton/Gore advocacy of homosexuality. An e-mail from a National Park Service ranger exemplifies that agency's sentiment on the subject. On the heels of the Supreme Court's decision that the Boy Scouts did not have to recruit homosexual scoutmasters, Canaveral National Seashore Ranger Don Mock sent the following message to Larry Glantz at Nez Perce Park: "Re: President Proclaims June as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month, God bless the Boy Scouts of America." Glantz responded, "Amen." Unfortunately, the message ended up on the agency's Intranet broadcast system. Mock's superintendent at Canaveral sent the following NPS Intranet message: "We want to apologize for Mr. Mock's insensitive comment regarding the recent Supreme Court ruling.... His thoughtless act has reverberated throughout the Service and hurt many of our colleagues...." Glantz's boss also issued an apology for the "Amen": "His support for the insensitive comment by another employee offended many...is hurtful and extremely inappropriate. The very essence of the NPS system is an appreciation of our nation's...cultural diversity." (Not exactly what Congress had in mind when authorizing the National Park Service.) Not to be left out of the loop, Robert Stanton, NPS Clintonista in Charge, e-mailed all employees: "Two NPS employees wrote personal messages that could be interpreted as [anti-homosexual] [Their] superintendents...have apologized and are taking appropriate action [against] the authors of the negative messages." We suspect Mock and Glantz are on their way to a Death Valley outpost. Open Query... "Does the Constitution mean whatever the Supreme Court says it means, or do words have an objective meaning?" --Don Feder **In this era of "what the meaning of 'is' is"? The BIG lie... "There is no point in telling the American people we're doing something that turns out to be a fraud." --The Great Prevaricator urging Republican lawmakers to be truthful >From "The most ethical administration"... "Leon Johnson is black. And a judge. In the South. Sitting in judgment over the President of the United States. That's real change, and that's what the bureaucratic liberals cannot understand and don't want to see." --Peter Roff after a fourth judge recused himself from handling Bill Clinton's disbarment trial, leaving it up to Judge Leon Johnson, appointed by Arkansas Republican Gov. Mike Huckabee, to hear the case. News from the Swamp... In the House of Commons, lawmakers want to raise their current $141,300 salaries by $3,800, their third increase in four years, prompting this comment from Paul Weyrich: "...[T]hose of you who have to...worry if your performance pleased the boss enough to get you a raise, just think about your Congressman and Senators. They get the pay raise just for being there." In the House of Lords, Senate Republicans are preparing to repeal inheritance taxes. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers warned that the measure faces a certain veto by Clinton. The real issue here is that most Americans' estate residual would not be subject to taxation based on the current exemptions allowed by the IRS. Eliminating taxes on wealthier Americans, like replacing the so-called "progressive" tax with a flat tax, is fodder for the Left's class warfare rhetoric. In the Supreme halls of justice... Justice Scalia's dissenting remarks, on the Supreme Court's decision to strike down a state law barring infanticide, are worth repeating: "I am optimistic enough to believe that, one day, Stenberg v. Carhart will be assigned its rightful place in the history of this Court's jurisprudence beside Korematsu and Dred Scott. The method of killing a human child one cannot even accurately say an entirely unborn human child proscribed by this statute is so horrible that the most clinical description of it evokes a shudder of revulsion. And the Court must know (as most state legislatures banning this procedure have concluded) that demanding a 'health exception' which requires the abortionist to assure himself that, in his expert medical judgment, this method is, in the case at hand, marginally safer than others (how can one prove the contrary beyond a reasonable doubt?) is to give live-birth abortion free rein. The notion that the Constitution of the United States, designed, among other things, 'to establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, . . . and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,' prohibits the States from simply banning this visibly brutal means of eliminating our half-born posterity is quite simply absurd... I dissent." In other halls of injustice on the left, an appeals court ruled that central-government agents may maintain the records of legal gun buyers for six months -- which serves no other purpose than to provide the groundwork for confiscation of weapons. The NRA will appeal. Regarding your IRS overpayment... "I'm deeply disappointed that an agency that could send a man to the moon now can't even balance its books to the nearest half-billion." --House Science Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner after his committee detected a $590 million accounting error that went unnoticed by the NASA's own independent auditors. The Commissars... "We are still one of the most violent nations in the world. We can do something about it, but we have got to wake up America." --AG Janet Reno in her latest call for more gun control. Actually, if you are not a gang member or drug dealer, your chances of being murdered are as comparably low as in most other Western nations. >From the states... In New Hampshire, the state House voted overwhelmingly to impeach that state's chief justice for alleged ethics violations. Now, there is an idea for the U. S. Congress, not that the Senate would ever impeach a justice for fabricating the Constitution! The Colorado State Board of Education passed a resolution encouraging schools to display the national motto "In God we trust," which Congress approved in 1864. The ACLU's Sue Armstrong says they will wait until schools post the motto before challenging it. Oregon conservatives have put an initiative on November's ballot which, if approved, would withhold state funding from schools that "encourage, promote or sanction" homosexuality. Speaking of education, Berkeley, California law enforcement authorities began cracking down on home schoolers, summoning parents to truancy hearings and then demanding that the Alameda County district attorney prosecute them for contributing to the delinquency of minors. In other Left Coast news, California's Supreme Court ruled that the state attorney general could add a wide variety of guns to the state's list of outlawed "assault weapons." Attorney General Bill Lockyer says, "The Supreme Court decision ... represents a major victory for gun safety and public safety in California. My office will immediately begin taking the necessary steps to ensure that the state assault weapons laws will be fully and vigorously enforced." The "Dumb and Dumber" Department... Philadelphia Police Chief Timoney has rejected any comparisons between the videotaped beating of a black suspect (who shot a police officer and stole his patrol car) and the beating of Rodney King by LA's finest in 1991. "For people to start making comparisons to Rodney King, I just think is outrageous," Timoney said. "[The suspect was] resisting throughout." Another small problem for the "race baiters": There were black officers joining in on the melee. In business news... Lingerie-maker Frederick's of Hollywood filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Los Angeles. Analysts revealed that market is a bust after the bottom fell out.... Around the world... Still looking for a reputable legacy, with little success from the Madrid conference, the Oslo I and Oslo II accords and the Wye River accord, Clinton reconvened Palestinian terrorist Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak at Camp David this week. "This is perhaps the most difficult of all the peace problems in the world," Clinton said (if you exclude his marital problems with HILLARY!, who, incidentally, has already told us how this tale ends -- a Palestinian state). Paul Greenberg notes, "How each side envisions peace may be so different that it's hard to see how a summit can produce anything but, at best, another ambiguous paper agreement that will be interpreted quite differently by all the signers." Of course, HILLARY! and Al Gore stand to gain the most from any "peace agreement" between Israel and the Palestinians. In other "legacy" news, Bill Clinton, who protested on foreign soil against his own nation's armed services during the Vietnam War, announced a landmark trade agreement with Ho Chi's team in Vietnam saying it represents "another historic step in the process of normalization, reconciliation and healing between our two nations." We don't doubt for a moment that Clinton would have readily posed on an anti-aircraft gun in Hanoi in 1969 -- if only given the opportunity. Faith Matters... Pope John Paul II is not amused by the World Gay Pride 2000 celebration in Rome coinciding with the Catholic Holy Year celebrations there. "In the name of the Church of Rome, I must express sadness for the affront to the Great Jubilee of the year 2000 and the offense to Christian values of a city that is so dear to the heart of Catholics of the whole world. ... Homosexual acts are against nature's laws. The church cannot silence the truth, because this...would not help discern what is good from what is evil." In related news from the "Village Church" bulletin, the Episcopal General Convention passed a resolution to support homosexuals in committed, monogamous relationships -- a bridge measure to next year's effort to recognize "marriage" between "same-sex couples." On the frontiers of science... A few weeks ago, Governor George Bush delayed the execution of a Texas inmate so that DNA evidence could be reviewed. That review backfired, providing additional evidence that the inmate was, indeed, guilty. University of Utah Professor Paul G. Cassell had this observation about all the death-penalty yada-yada: "Avowed opponents of the death penalty caught the attention of Al Gore among others when they released a report purporting to demonstrate that the nation's capital punishment system is 'collapsing under the weight of its own mistakes.' Contrary to the headlines written by some gullible editors, however, the report proves nothing of the sort. .. Indeed, missing from the media coverage was the most critical statistic: After reviewing 23 years of capital sentences, the study's authors (like other researchers) were unable to find a single case in which an innocent person was executed. Thus, the most important error rate -- the rate of mistaken executions -- is zero. "...The Bureau of Justice statistics has found that of 52,000 inmates serving time for homicide, more than 800 had previously been convicted of murder. THAT sounds like a system collapsing under the weight of its own mistakes - and innocent people are dying as a result." And last, remember all the 1997 hoopla over the "racially motivated church burning" conspiracy -- that wasn't? Turns out the Justice Department did nab one arsonist who has pleaded guilty to 26 church arsons in eight states. But he wasn't a racist. He was a Satanist who called himself a missionary of Lucifer. And, for the record, the only church arson in the last decade involving fatalities was the one precipitated by the Justice Department's presence outside the compound of a religious cult in Waco, Texas. ______--------********O********--------______ INSIGHT "Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory." --Franklin Pierce Adams {} "When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law." --Frederic Bastiat {} "While we have heard of stupid haste in war, we have not yet seen a clever operation that was prolonged." --Sun Tzu {} "The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone." --Henrik Ibsen {} "We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers." --Robert E. Lee {} "I say to you in all sadness of conviction, that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists." --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. {} "True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings." --William Shakespeare {} "Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance." --C.S. Lewis {} "Quemadmoeum gladuis neminem occidit, occidentis telum est." (A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands.) --Lucius Annaeus Seneca, circa 45 AD ______--------********O********--------______ THE GOOD NEWS "Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance." (James 1:2-3) ______--------********O********--------______ UPRIGHT "I can't imagine the Founding Fathers intended the Constitution to protect infanticide." --Dick Armey. ++ "It's time for the leftist justices to retire, get their gold watches, and head for the country club." --Rep. J.C. Watts Jr. ++ "...[F]ive verbose jurisprudes who can't bear to describe what they have declared lawful and can't provide a single coherent reason why they replaced the legacy of Hippocrates with that of Dr. Mengele." --Tony Snow on "live-birth abortion." ++ "When the history of the rise and fall of America is finally written, it may well be recorded that the beginning of the end was signaled by the blind submission of a pagan people to the tyranny of a 'nine-headed Caesar'." --Linda Bowles ++ "Using the force of law to teach children that religion must be kept private is at least as much an establishment of religion as seeming to approve of student prayer." --Maggie Gallagher ++ "Wouldn't it be wonderful if the [Supreme] court would honor the Constitution as much as it does those deplorable cases misinterpreting it?" --David Limbaugh {} "If you love politically incorrect movies...go see The Patriot. It has some left-wing movie critics in a perfect snit. Everything they hate is in it." --Charlie Reese ++ "This film is about personal freedom -- which many people take for granted today. ... It's a good thing that historians are going to harangue this and say, 'It's not accurate.' Good. It'll make somebody pick up a book." --Mel Gibson ++ "It comes from the Israel of the Bible: Sooner or later, the king unchecked will come for your sons. That should be a universal message, untied to any ideology, since tyrants have come in all hues, shapes and sizes throughout history." --John H. Fund ++ "For more than a century we have been plied and belabored with theories purporting to explain history in terms of rival inevitabilities, of the inexorable working out of this or that iron law of history's unfolding. Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free choices of remarkably few Americans defying an empire." --George F. Will ++ "Is it too much to ask late 20th century critics to grasp that people who lived 200 years ago did not necessarily harbor quite the same superstitions that we do?" --Samuel Francis {} "They don't need campaign funds. They need spinal fluid." --Andrea Lafferty on the 13 Republican Senators who voted to make "hate" a federal crime for politically correct identity groups. ++ "To call Congress emasculated is to insult eunuchs." --David C. Stolinsky *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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