Heads Up
A Weekly edition of News from around our country
February 21, 1997 #23
by: Doug Fiedor fiedor19@eos.net
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PARALLELS
"Lets go for a walk! Lets go for a
walk!" was the rallying cry early one morning about two
weeks ago on college campuses. "Lets go for a walk!" the
shouts could be heard throughout school corridors and out
on the streets, echoing through the cold morning air.
But the shouts were not necessary. All
students were already up and ready to go. So too were
the town folk -- the grandmothers and grandfathers, the
mothers and fathers, and even the little children. They
were meeting in churches for miles around. Nearly
everyone was readying for their "walk" that cold winter
morning; their walk in protest of an oppressive,
heavy-handed central government.
It was the student pro-democracy
demonstrators, 50,000 strong by 8: AM, that got started
first. They would join the group of over 200,000 people
in the center of the city within an hour or so.
This would be the tenth week of protests,
and the police were ready too. The central government
had put the riot police on alert. Previously, police had
severely beaten protesters, even defenseless women and
children. Yet, the protests continued. These people, you
see, were determined.
Opposition leaders had told the rally that
police beatings would fail to defuse popular discontent
against the government's authoritarian rule. And it was
true. Police atrocities did nothing to quell the
protests. As always, the esprit de corps of the people
ran high.
The city was Belgrade, of course. And the
people were protesting Serbia President, Slobodan
Milosevic's election fraud after he annulled local
elections in fourteen cities where his party lost last
November.
Last week the people won a partial
victory. Milosevic finally ordered his socialist allies
in parliament to approve the elections, and on a vote
of 128 - 2, the bill passed.
The problem is, Milosevic is still in
power. And, the majority of the parliament is from the
same socialist party. So, although the people may now
have those they rightfully elected running their local
governments, a very oppressive group still controls the
central government. And the central government is, as
usual, where all the real power is concentrated.
Of course, this story is not really a
Constitutional issue, and probably does not belong
in "Heads Up."
Or does it. . . .
Let's see here: They (we) have an over
bearing central government. They (we) have local
elections that were overturned by members of the central
government because they did not like the results. They
(we) have a central government police force that thinks
they can kick butt any time they wish. And they (we)
have a citizenry wondering how they can make change
without going to actual war with their central government.
Yeah, close enough. So let's continue. . . .
One of their demonstrations lasted five
continuous days -- outside, in the cold of winter. All
of their demonstrations included at least 200,000
participants. And many of the demonstrations had a
half-million or more people involved.
And yeah, the police were liberally
cracking heads there for a while. But then that bozo
dictator they have for president put the police on 24
hour alert, out on the streets, in the cold. After a few
days of that, the police kind of lost interest in beating
people. They were more interested in getting warm.
So the people kept coming. And most of
them brought whistles to blow, too -- the noise of which
drove everyone who was not part of the demonstrations
right up that proverbial wall!
They got results, too. Sure, not perfect
results. And not complete results. But they got what
they were protesting for.
Reuters reported that Vuk Draskovic,
the opposition leader, said Milosevic could not be
trusted to fully implement the special bill recognizing
the election results. We'll see. If he doesn't, the
people are ready for more walking.
All this with the world looking on, but
no one helped. All this with the United States Army
nearby, but our Army did not help. The people cry out
for freedom and liberty, but no one lifts a finger to
help.
There is a reason for that. . . .
It's the parallels of it all, folks. The
precedent set by helping the people there could be over
whelming to those in our military. For, if the United
States Army helps the people of Belgrade for those
reasons, could they then refuse to help their own people
for some of the very same reasons when asked?
Darn inconvenient question, that!
STUPID GUN LAWS
Slick Willie mentioned child safety
locks in the State of the Union address last month. He
said something about sticking some sort of foolishness
like that in his new juvenile crime prevention bill.
Most people just laughed. But apparently, some didn't.
So, now comes Sarah Brady, still pushing
the wheelchair for all to see, proposing that all
handguns sold have gun locks. By the way, does anyone
know how much she makes every year as head of Handgun
Control?
Anyway, the Chicago City Council recently
passed an ordinance requiring that all handguns sold
there have the locks. Now there is a proposal in
Massachusetts to do the same.
Brady said that "while parents must
recognize the dangers of bringing guns into the home,
these proposals (for locks) unabashedly demand that the
gun industry start to take responsibility for the lethal
products they manufacture."
Hey Sarah, here's a hint: Guns are
designed to be "lethal." Like the spear, the sword and
the bow and arrow, guns are designed to kill things
(sometimes people). Impeding the operation makes it no
more than an inert object -- no more useful than the lamp
Hillary threw at Slick. The gun industry does, in fact,
take responsibility for the products they manufacture.
They make them shoot properly.
Funny thing about guns: They never do
anything on their own! Not once has one ever got up of
its own accord and fired. It cannot happen!
And what kind of person is this who would
trust anyone to drive a one and a half ton car 75 miles
per hour not ten feet from where she is sitting in her
car, but whine about the little hunk of iron in someone's
belt?
The buttinskys in the world make us wonder
how we were able to grow up without government
intervention. Most homes back then had guns. So did
a lot of us kids above the age of fourteen years.
Yet, unintentional shootings were so rare none of us
here can even remember one.
Sarah Brady knows that, too. That's why,
from this end, it looks like she is in this for the money.
AID FOR THE ENEMY
Normally we would feel that a country
still officially at war with us, a country still pointing
guns at our American Military forces, would be classed
as our enemy. Aiding the enemy, under a whole host of
current laws, is illegal. Not for everyone, though, so
it turns out.
You see folks, those in government do not
necessarily follow the law. Some in the central
government are far, far above all of this "law" stuff
that applies to us common folk. Here's an example:
The United States has been at war -- OK,
"Police Action" for you purists out there -- with North
Korea for about forty years. The North Korean military
killed many thousands of Americans back when it was a
fighting war. And still today, they have guns pointed at
our military.
So, it stands to reason that we would be
happy to learn that their government is falling apart.
We should gleefully appreciate that the inept fool acting
as the chief executive of North Korea is making a total
mess of every single thing he tries to do. We should be
happy when they have food and commodity shortages, and
that the people are becoming understandably upset with
their government.
North Korea is the enemy. We want their
government to disintegrate, and just as soon as
possible. That little country has caused our government
to spend billions and billions of our tax dollars, with
no end yet in sight.
So, why are we feeding them?
Last year, we sent them at least
$6.4-million in foodstuff and other donations. This
year, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announced
that we will send North Korea about 100,000 tons of
commodities -- about $10-million worth. "We consider it
a humanitarian mission to provide aid," she said.
Why? So they can fight better? So their
military will be healthy if and when they decide to
attack our American military? That's stupid!
Now, before the letters start . . . "Heads Up" is not
proposing starving the citizens of North Korea. But,
doesn't some payment for all this food seem appropriate?
One logical payment that quickly comes to mind would
include 100,000 tons of military equipment for a like
amount of food.
CLASSIST THEOLOGY -- PART 2
"The Heresy" by Bill Kasper
The unstated socio-theology of classism
which assumes the existence of two distinct sub-species
of Homo-sapien, Working Man (Homo-ergos), and
Administrative Man (Homo-bureaucratis), was an idea
foreign to America by design (the Constitution) and by
consensus (see "Democracy in America" by DeToqueville
to see how European visitors saw a total lack of classist
thought throughout America's 18th and 19th century
population).
Early Americans (actually, all Americans
right up to, but not including, the first generation to
grow up with New Deal "rights") knew that there were two
ways to acquire material wealth on this earth: work
hard, or steal from those who do. Since theft was
punishable by death (or at least extreme and precisely-
defined public unpleasantness), most folks went about
their lives working hard, secure in the knowledge that
those who did not do likewise would either naturally
starve to death or, if they pursued the active
"liberation" of other's property, be given a free sample
of the latest in stylish noose-ware.
These early Americans, whether they were
cobblers, farmers, judges, or Presidents, inherently knew
that their own lives, and the lives of their families,
depended on their own personal ability to perform
productive work and earn their own keep. They knew that
no-one was excused from these responsibilities. Not
Presidents, not preachers, not village idiots. Even the
thief came right out and said "I steal from the
productive" when asked how he made his living. At least
he was honest about his crime, and his victims knew they
had been victimized. There was a common ethic.
This was in direct contrast to Europe
where the opinion was held that Higher Man
(Homo-bureaucratis, royalty, the gentry, etc.) was, by
nature of his divine right of being preoccupied with
affairs of state, art, and finance, imbued with the
authority to extract his living from Lower Man
(Homo-ergos) in the form of taxes (pieces of his
bread/hours of his life). In return for Lower Man's
bread, Higher Man would bestow upon him a System (at the
point of a spear or gun of course). This System would
avoid the unpleasantness of C&A (Chaos and Anarchy)
through Monarchy, Democracy, or some other pseudonym of
Force-archy.
Of course, this system would also finance
the organizations which managed the spears and guns used
to finance the system, and keep Homo-bureaucratis firmly
in his position behind the ox-cart which Homo-ergos was
pulling. Laws existed in two basic forms: Those which
covered interactions between Lower Men, and those which
covered interactions between Lower Men and Higher Men.
Strangely, interactions between Higher Men were left
pretty much for them to sort out amongst themselves.
After all, since they were capable of directing others'
lives, surely they could direct their own.
This was, for Homo-bureaucratis at least,
a great state of affairs. Higher Man could steal from
lower man, and instead of receiving the noose, receive a
hearty "Thank You" from his victim, who didn't even know
he was being victimized. A circular, closed, parasitic
political paradise at its finest.
Then, the birth of the American Republic
via the Declaration of Independence introduced the
political equivalent of the TV show "Sliders" (where
infinite alternatives to the comfortable mundane exist)
into the fray. This upstart American Republic supplied
an alternate universe, or series of alternate universes.
These alternatives were open to all the possibilities of
individual human creativity and genius, and were
unfettered by the traditional burden of an unproductive
elite Administrative class.
The Constitution, for the first time,
detailed the fact that human beings were of one
fundamental type, and that one common ethical constant
would be applied to all (to paraphrase George Orwell's
Animal Farm): Some animals are *not* more equal than
others. And the so-called Farmer class is a convenient
fiction, since no-one is entitled to anything except that
which he produces.
This was and is stunningly uncomfortable
(both philosophically and materially) to the Farmers who
were quite immersed in their false religion of
superiority and harvesting-the-productive. Why, how
could such a system (comprised of mere working
"animals") possibly function without their tradition of
administrative guidance and benevolent ownership? The
same laws for *everyone*? Ridiculous!
Unfortunately, we are now seeing the
results of "sliding" into a universe where the freedom
from Homo-bureaucratis was never won, and Homo-ergos is
so busy discussing the details of his master's handouts
today that he forgets to curse him for yesterday's theft,
or guard against tomorrow's. The moral battles our
forefathers fought are not only forgotten, but redefined
into irrelevancy by Homo-bureaucratis-stacked courts.
It is as though Pepsi's advertising
department has started telling everyone that "Coke is
the choice of a new generation," and that Pepsi is
terribly outdated and must be interpreted to mean "Coke."
Fortunately, there are those in America
whose thirst for the "Real Thing" is not satisfied by
shallow slogans, and they are wondering just what the
hell happened to that great old revolutionary taste.
(to be continued)
MONTICELLO IS UNDER THE UN
What would your reaction be if bureaucrats
in the federal-government conspired to give away control
of one of our states to the United Nations? And no,
we're not necessarily talking about a big state, like
California, Texas, Alaska, or New York, either. Just one
of the smaller states -- like maybe Delaware or Rhode
Island.
The basic take-over would not include
anything as brash as a blue-helmeted UN Army invasion of
the state. That's not necessary. Nor would the UN
necessarily get into the actual day to day operation of
the state. Rather, the socialists in power at the United
Nations would only write regulations and directives --
you know, laws -- as to how the land and infrastructure
of the affected state would be allowed to be used.
So all in all, it would be a peaceful
takeover. One which would not be immediately perceptible
to many of the state's citizens.
Well . . . that is, the change would not be
immediately apparent until citizens tried to change
something in their neighborhoods. Then they would find
they needed permission from some UN regulator. And, just
think of the potential problems involved with that! For
instance, some unelected bureaucrat -- maybe from Asia,
Africa or South America -- would be calling the shots on
what American citizens could or could not do in their own
home town, or even with their own property! Heck,
American citizens might even need a translator to speak
to the regulator dude.
Not acceptable, you say? Right! The whole
concept is ridiculous.
Well then, let's scale it down some. How
about if our federal government only relinquishes domain
over a few tracts -- of a few hundred-thousand acres
each -- to UN control?
For instance; let's say that they start
with forty-seven such tracts called "Biosphere
Reserves" -- like the Great Smoky Mountains Biosphere
Reserve, for instance. Then add another eighteen
properties labeled "Heritage Sites." These would include
places like Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite National
Park, The Grand Canyon National Park, The Statue of
Liberty Park, Independence Hall, and such.
Still unacceptable? Yeah, it sure seems
like it. But, these are all federal properties. So,
can't the federal government give them away if it wishes?
No? Well then, you had better get on the
horn and tell them so. Cause it's already a done deal!
These areas are already under "protection" of the United
Nations. Look for the UN and UNESCO signs. They are
there to inform you that you tread on UN controlled
property.
Oh. And now Washington is considering
giving about a half-million prime acres in Southwest
Kentucky, called "Land between the Lakes," and a million
or more acres in Central Michigan away too. So, watch for
UN signs in your neighborhood too, folks. Giving away
prime chunks of America seems to be getting really
popular with this administration.
You see folks, the bipolar thinkers in
Washington are not giving away whole states, like Rhode
Island or Delaware, to UN and UNESCO control. No, they
know they probably couldn't get away with that. But, in
total area of United States land, they gave away a lot
more of our country than those two States combined! And
you didn't even notice. . . . Well, did you? Of course
not. That was part of the plan.
If the United Nations sent an army in here,
a few of us might notice. And a few million of us might
become rather upset. Therefore, they used a whole mixed
gobbledygook of agreements, treaties and laws to get it
done. That way they can control us by bureaucratic
regulation.
Anyway, don't go looking for a UN
director's office in The Great Smoky Mountains or at
Yellowstone, or even at Monticello or Mammoth Cave
National Park. You won't find one. Such an office would
be trashed in a heartbeat if Americans saw it. The UN
knows that. So, everything happens stealthily. We were
not supposed to notice -- that is, until later, when the
flurry of UN regulations start.
If you question the reason behind the
UN and UNESCO signs, you will be told that the area is
simply a "registered" area to be "protected" by the UN.
Sure it is! Complete with use regulations, and a few
dozen other restrictions. And that's just for starters.
Why would America need some rinky-dink
third world bureaucrats from wherever to protect our land
anyway? The fact is, we do not! And that should be your
primary hint, folks: There is much, much more to this
than what they will tell you publicly.
You see, it's a control thing. They're the
controllers. We're the controllees. That's the way of
the "Third Way." And we had better start understanding
that concept quickly. Because, whether you noticed or
not, we are now living it.
Outrageous, isn't it! So, tell Congress. After all,
we elected them.
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