-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! * Veritas Vos Liberabit * THE FEDERALIST(r) BRIEF The Conservative e-Journal of Record Date: 23 January 2001 Federalist #01-04.brf To retrieve today's Brief as HTML printer-friendly text, link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/current2001.asp To support or sponsor The Federalist, link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/support.asp ______--------********O********--------______ THIS WEEK'S FEATURED SITES Monday marked the 28th anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade declaration that unborn children are nothing more than political fodder. Tens of thousands gathered in Washington for a solemn ceremony to remember the 40 million children whose lives have been sacrificed on the altar of convenience. In addition to changing hearts about children yet to be born, we must also reach out to the mothers and fathers of aborted children, that they may have an opportunity for repentance and healing, and know love and respect for the life that was, so that they may fully love the life that is! Post-abortion trauma is an adverse reaction to abortion that 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 at -- http://www.healinghearts.org/ For additional information on post-abortion syndrome, contact the Elliot Institute at -- http://www.afterabortion.org/ To permanently recognize the loss of an aborted child, contact the National Memorial For The Unborn at -- http://www.memorial-unborn.org/ CONTENTS: The Founders Insight Good News ICTUS Imprimis Faith & Family Culture Liberty The Gipper Government Political Futures For the Record Policy Pages The Last Word ______--------********O********--------______ THE FOUNDERS "Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at the ways of Providence. So shall the life into which you have entered, be the portal to one of eternal and ineffable bliss." --Thomas Jefferson ______--------********O********--------______ INSIGHT "As long as our government is administered for the good of the people...as long as it secures to us the rights of person and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending...." --Andrew Jackson, father of the Democrat Party ______--------********O********--------______ GOOD NEWS "By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures." (Proverbs 24:3) "Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope." (Romans 5:3-4) "Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good." --Romans 12:9 "It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones." (Luke 17:2) ______--------********O********--------______ ICTUS IMPRIMIS "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********--------______ FAITH & FAMILY One of President Bush's first official acts was to reverse a Clinton executive order and reinstate a prohibition on the use of U.S. tax dollars to support international "family-planning" groups providing abortions. The following is an excerpt from Mr. Bush's message to those gathered on the Ellipse for the beginning of Sanctity of Life Week: "Two days ago, Americans gathered on the Washington Mall to celebrate our nation's ideals. Today, you are gathered to remind our country that one of those ideals is the infinite value of every life. I deeply appreciate your message and your work. You see the weak and the defenseless, and you try to help them. You see the hardship of many young mothers and their unborn children, and you care for them both. .. We share a great goal: to work toward a day when every child is welcomed in life and protected in law. We know this will not come easily, or all at once. But the goal leads us onward: to build a culture of life, affirming that every person, at every stage and season of life, is created equal in God's image. The promises of our Declaration of Independence are not just for the strong, the independent, or the healthy. They are for everyone -- including unborn children. We are a society with enough compassion and wealth and love to care for both mothers and their children, to seek the promise and potential in every human life. I believe that we are making progress toward that goal. I trust in the good hearts of Americans. ... All of you marching today have never tired in a good cause. Thank you for your conviction, your idealism, and your courage. May God bless you all." And a word from Norma McCorvey, "Jane Roe" of Roe v. Wade, who now runs a pro-life ministry in Dallas. "I think we all have the same dream: We'd like to see Roe v. Wade overturned." For more information on Sanctity of Life Week, please visit these Web sites. American Family Association http://www.afa.net/activism/aa011701.asp Care Network http://www.care-net.org/info.htm Roe v. Wade at 27 http://www.roevwade.org/ African American Family Association http://www.prolife.org/aafa/ The Ultimate Pro-Life Resource List http://www.prolifeinfo.org Pregnancy Centers Online http://www.pregnancycenters.org Pro-Life -- Anti-Violence http://www.prolife.org/ National Right To Life Committee http://www.nrlc.org/ Miracles ALBERT EINSTEIN http://www.federalist.com/imagodei2.html ______--------********O********--------______ CULTURE "Men who break their oath to defend the Constitution and attempt to undermine it are exactly traitors. These men should be tried for treason. But that won't happen, will it? Treason and blasphemy were once considered unspeakable sins in this country. Men were loyal to their country and respected their Creator. First we stopped respecting God's Name and soon after, we stopped being loyal to our country. The source sin, the one that leads to all the others, is the sin against God. It is the sin that leads to death. Death of a man, death of a country, death of an ideal. We are sinking into a morass of death; we are up to our very eyeballs in it. Abortion, euthanasia, violence for entertainment -- all spiced with occasional arcade game murders of foreign nationals by our out of control government. As if government sanctioned killing is somehow trivialized by its inclusion in a fabric of homicide woven together by the entertainment media, the news media and the amusement arcade." --Michael Peirce ______--------********O********--------______ LIBERTY "What rights you have, or whether you have any rights at all, depends entirely on whether you are deemed 'progressive' (up to date) or 'reactionary' (attached to tradition). The 'progressive' forces want to destroy freedom, yes, but their real goal is the destruction of normal life itself. That's why they attach a sacramental importance to abortion as well as to the filthiest couplings imaginable." --Joseph Sobran ______--------********O********--------______ THE GIPPER "I believe with all my heart that standing up for America means standing up for the God who has so blessed our land. We need God's help to guide our nation through stormy seas. But we can't expect Him to protect America in a crisis if we just leave Him over on the shelf in our day-to-day living." --Ronald Reagan ______--------********O********--------______ GOVERNMENT "We define a set of fairly simple catechisms, the first part of which is we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights. These rights include life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Government exists to secure these rights, not to deliver happiness." --George Will ______--------********O********--------______ POLITICAL FUTURES "John Ashcroft's public ordeal is almost over, and a good thing, too. He promised to reinvent himself to bipartisan specifications, to leave Roe v. Wade alone, to learn to hate guns and obey all laws dear to Democratic hearts. ... Maybe with an evenly divided Senate boiling in a climate of ideological intimidation and partisan terror, this is the only way a man of conscience and character can assure himself of confirmation by a Senate infested with moral frauds. It's nevertheless enough to make an honorable man throw up, and a pity he can't throw up on Chuck Schumer and Teddy Kennedy (who probably wouldn't notice)." --Wes Pruden ______--------********O********--------______ FOR THE RECORD Bill Clinton left the White House Saturday, but not before pardoning or commuting the sentences of 140 convicts -- some of whom are profiled below. To understand why Clinton would set a record for pardons, consider another record set by his administration: 33 Clintonistas have been convicted of criminal activity, while 122 have pleaded the Fifth Amendment or fled the country to avoid testifying. Of the pardons, Clinton said, "The word 'pardon' is somehow almost a misnomer. You're not saying these people didn't commit the offense. You're saying they paid, they paid in full." A prime example of someone who paid in full is billionaire Mark Rich, whose former wife gave $1.3 million to the Clintonistas after her husband fled to Switzerland to escape his conviction on 50 counts of wire fraud, racketeering, trading with the enemy and evading more than $48 million in income taxes -- crimes that could have earned him more than 300 years in prison. (Just think, Rich's back taxes -- if only collected -- could have paid for Robert Ray's investigation of Clinton!) And a sampling of others, according to the Associated Press: William A. Borders Jr., the once-prominent Washington attorney and former president of the National Bar Association, was convicted of conspiracy along with then-U.S. District Judge Alcee L. Hastings in a Miami racketeering case. While Hastings was acquitted, Borders was sentenced to a five-year prison term and disbarred. Borders was also held in contempt of court for refusing to testify during Hastings's criminal and Senate impeachment trials. Henry Cisneros, former housing secretary during Clinton's first term before moving to Los Angeles to run Univision, the nation's largest Spanish-language television network: In 1999, Cisneros pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor after a four-year, $9 million probe into charges he lied about payments to a former mistress. Donald R. Clark, sentenced to life in prison in 1991 for his role in a $30 million high-grade marijuana ring: Clark was one of the leaders in a conspiracy to grow and sell "Myakka gold," an especially potent marijuana grown on a 600-acre former sod and watermelon farm leased by Clark in Myakka City, near Sarasota, Fla. More than 25 people, including Clark's sons Duane and Gary, were indicted in the drug ring. Roger Clinton, Bill Clinton's half brother, who pleaded guilty in a 1984 case to a charge of conspiracy to distribute a single gram of cocaine, was sentenced to two years in prison, served more than a year, and testified in other trials. The prosecutor was Asa Hutchinson, who later was a U.S. House manager in Clinton's impeachment. Bill Clinton told Hutchinson later that the drug prosecution was "the best thing that ever happened" to his half brother. John Deutch, CIA director from May 1995 to December 1996, stored and processed hundreds of files of highly classified material on unprotected home computers that he and family members also used to connect to the Internet, according to an internal CIA investigation. Patricia Hearst, the newspaper heiress was kidnapped by radicals in 1974 and convicted of joining them in a San Francisco bank heist. Billy Langston, sentenced to 30 years in prison in 1994 for conspiracy to manufacture PCP: His sentence became a symbol for groups opposed to mandatory federal sentencing standards. Susan McDougal was a partner of Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Whitewater land development in northern Arkansas. She was convicted of misusing proceeds from a federally backed loan and was jailed 18 months on a contempt of court citation for refusing to testify against the Clintons before a Whitewater grand jury. Samuel Loring Morison, employed at the Naval Intelligence Support Center in Suitland, Md., from 1974 to 1984, was convicted of spying for leaking intelligence photographs in 1984 to Jane's Defence Weekly, a British military magazine. In a case that matched First Amendment issues against national security concerns, Morison was the first person convicted of espionage for furnishing classified data to a journalist. Robert W. Palmer, a Whitewater defendant, pleaded guilty to a felony count of conspiracy to file false appraisals for Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan of Little Rock, which was owned by James McDougal, a former business partner of President Clinton. He was sentenced to a year of home detention. Stephen A. Smith, a University of Arkansas communications professor, pleaded guilty in a Whitewater case to a misdemeanor count of conspiring to misapply funds from a federally backed business loan of $65,000. Christopher V. Wade, a Whitewater real estate agent, admitted hiding assets in a bankruptcy case and pleaded guilty to bankruptcy fraud and submitting a false application to a bank, though the charges against him were not related to the Whitewater development. Garran Dee Barker, one of many Arkansas pardonees, convicted of conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud. Harlan Richard Billings was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute in excess of 1,000 pounds of marijuana. William Robert Carpenter was convicted of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute. Philip Vito DiGirolamo was convicted of conspiracy to import marijuana, willfully subscribing to a false tax return. Peter Welling Dionis was convicted of conspiracy, importation, and possession with intent to distribute hashish. Peter Bailey Gimbel was convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Martin Joseph Hughes was convicted of aiding and abetting the falsification of union records, aiding and assisting in the submission of false tax records, making false statements to a government agency. Daniel Wayne Keys was convicted of possession with intent to distribute marijuana. Larry Ray Killough was convicted of unlawful distribution of prescription drugs. Pierluigi Mancini Alpharetta was convicted of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. Edward Francis McKenna III was convicted of possession with intent to distribute anabolic steroids. Andrew Kirkpatrick Mearns III was convicted of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine. Philip James Morin was convicted of distribution of cocaine. John Russell Raup was convicted of larceny of government property and wrongful possession of marijuana. David Ronald Chandler, at one point, was in line to be the first person executed by the federal government since 1963. He was convicted in 1991 of running a drug ring that trafficked marijuana from the foothills of northeast Alabama and was condemned to death for ordering the murder of an associate-turned-informant. Dorothy Marie Gaines was convicted on conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and possession with intent to distribute, cocaine base. Kemba Niambi Smith was convicted on conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base, conspiracy to engage in money laundering, making false statements to an agent of the United States. Jacob Elbaum was one of three men convicted in January 1999 of stealing tens of millions of dollars in federal grants and loans to finance a fictitious yeshiva in Brooklyn. The other two were also released. Arnold Paul Prosperi, a college friend of Bill Clinton and a fund-raiser for him, was convicted of filing false tax returns and scheming to steal millions from a client. Melvin Reynolds, a Chicago Democrat, resigned from the House after being convicted in 1995 of having sex with a teenager. He had more than two years left to serve on a 6 1/2-year federal sentence imposed after being convicted of lying to obtain loans and of illegally diverting campaign money for personal use. He had previously served 2 1/2 years of a five-year state sentence for having sexual relations with an underage campaign worker. MEMO to Webster Hubbell: Sorry, you didn't make the cut! ______--------********O********--------______ POLICY PAGES & POINTS OF INTEREST George Bush's Inaugural Invocation http://www.federalist.com/bushinvoc.htm George Bush's 1st Inaugural Speech http://www.federalist.com/bushinaug.htm ______--------********O********--------______ THE LAST WORD Capitalist Conservatives' summary of the Clinton legacy: Whitewatergate Cattlegate Nannygate Helicoptergate Haircutgate Travelgate Troopergate Gennifer Flowersgate Filegate Vince Fostergate I Wonder Where Those Whitewater Billing Records Came Fromgate Joycelyn Eldersgate Paula Jonesgate Federal Building Campaign Phonecallgate Lincoln Bedroomgate White House Coffeegate Drug Dealer Donationsgate Buddhist Templegate Web Hubbellgate Lippogate Chinesegate Blame Kenneth Starrgate Right-wing Conspiracygate Zippergate Lewinsky Jobsgate Perjurygate Kathleen Willeygate Los Alamosgate Wag-the-Doggate Juanita Broaddrickgate PBSgate Bomb the Aspirin Factorygate Eleanor Roosevelt's Ghostgate Hillary's Memoir Advancegate 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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