In deciding to support George Bush, Christian and
conservative leaders were buying a continuation of Clinton-Gore policies with a Republican
label.
Bush and Gore both favor some kind of gun control. Bush says he
favors trigger locks. He says you should not be able to carry a weapon until you are 21. I
do not know if he intended to disarm all of those members of the U.S. armed forces under
the age of 21. He did not make that clear, but he, nonetheless, regards the Second
Amendment as having exceptions.
Bush and Gore called each other liars about tax policy. This is one case
where I can agree with both of them because neither one was, in fact, advocating a
reduction in taxes. Each of them was advocating ways of rearranging the ways in which each
year, more taxes are to be extracted from us. When they talk about "spending
cuts", they are talking about reducing the increase in spending. When they say
"tax cuts", they are really talking about reducing the increase in taxes.
In fact, since the Republicans gained control of Congress in 1994, our
taxes have gone up from $1.3 trillion per year to $2 trillion per year, and spending
at the Federal level has risen from $1.4 trillion annually to $2 trillion annually.
The Republicans agree with the Democrats on an expanded Federal role in
education. Indeed, the Republicans have doubled Federal spending for the Department of
Education since gaining control of Congress in 1994.
Both support socialized medicine. The Republicans rejected it when
it was called "Hillary Care", but they voted for it when it was called the
"Dole-Kennedy-Kassenbaum" bill and in other incremental ways.
On the question of abortion, Mr. Bush, like Mr. Gore, said he did not
think there was anything he could do about the distribution of RU-486 and this, of course,
manifests an extraordinary ignorance of his duties as President and as to the fact that,
under the Constitution, regulatory agencies cannot legislate.
He said he would have no litmus test for judges. In Texas if there was a
litmus test, it was apparently pro-abortion, given the decisions of his appointees against
parental notification.
Bush, like Gore, supports Planned Parenthood funding.
Bush told Tim Russert that he would not support the
overturn of Roe vs. Wade until there was a change in public sentiment. He supports
abortion in the case of exceptions. He supports funding of the United Nations and its
population control activities.
He refuses to assert the personhood of the unborn child, and he apparently
intends to name as Secretary of State Colin Powell, who is 100 percent pro-abortion.
GOP CANDIDATE BUSH PLEDGES TRADE MERGER WITH LATIN AMERICA
William J. Gill, President of American Coalition for Competitive Trade
(ACCT, 216 Georgetown Court, 3220 N Street NW, Washington, DC 20007, August, 2000) notes
that "George W. Bush doesn't care that some 80 percent of Americans
are firmly opposed to NAFTA. Indeed, he wants to extend that terrible treaty to embrace
all of Central and South America."
FAST TRACK AND FTAA -- CLINTON, BUSH, AND GORE AGREE
"This is the word leaked out by one of his top foreign policy
aides, Condoleezza Rice. She says that one of the first things Bush would do when -- and
IF -- he is president would be to ask Congress for 'fast track' authority to negotiate the
'Free Trade Area of the Americas' (FTAA) and other trade deals around the world. The
FTAA monstrosity was signed by 34 countries, including the United States, in Miami in 1994
under the aegis of Bill Clinton with Al Gore riding shotgun in arranging the meeting.
"Gore's fingerprints were also on State Department
Document No. 10536, the 192-page 'Words Into Deeds' review of 'progress' toward
culmination of the merger unveiled by Clinton at a follow-on conference of The 34 in 1998.
The target date for completion of the amalgamation is 2005. ...
"Whether Bush or Gore wins the presidency this November either one
will try for the FTAA Fast Track and expansion of the governing role of the World Trade
Organization."
THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS MUST NOT BE INFRINGED
In my remarks to the Civil Rights Rally sponsored by the Capitol
District Shooters Committee on Political Education (SCOPE) and Organized Gun Owners of New
York State, I expressed disappointment that GOP Vice Presidential candidate
Dick Cheney, who had a good gun rights voting record when he was a member of
Congress from 1979 to 1989, was already falling into the pattern of Senator Bob Dole,
Governor George Pataki, and Congressman Rick Lazio -- engaging in "the politics of
preemptive concession" -- making concessions and offering to surrender our rights
while getting nothing in return.
The Republican Party, I observed (to 200 New Yorkers gathered
outside the State Capitol in Albany), is the party of "the four C's" --
"Consensus, Compromise, Conciliation, and Cooperation" -- as enunciated by Dick
Cheney's old boss, President Gerald Ford.
By that strategy, our side surrenders core principles, in the hope
that our enemies will be nice to us. But the right to keep and bear arms is a principle
which must not be surrendered, conceded, or compromised.
NO EXCEPTIONS
If you make even one exception to the rule, you have surrendered the
principle and opened the door to other compromises -- to a diminution of liberty which
leads inevitability to the registration -- and ultimately -- to confiscation of our
weapons.
IT IS OUR DUTY, AS WELL AS OUR RIGHT
We have not only the right, but the duty to defend our families and
our communities. We cannot delegate that duty or surrender that obligation.
Dick Cheney, unfortunately, is now buying into the George W. Bush
compromises on gun control -- for example, embracing the stupid policy of requiring
trigger locks on the guns of law-abiding citizens.
JANET RENO'S GESTAPO DID NOT USE TRIGGER LOCKS
"Does he really believe," I asked, "that criminals and
government agents will have trigger locks on their weapons?"
When Bill Clinton's and Janet Reno's Gestapo invaded the Gonzalez home
in Miami to kidnap young Elian, there were no trigger locks on the assault weapons of
those Federal storm troopers.
CONTROL CLINTON'S GUNS, NOT OURS
"I am all in favor of controlling the guns which the Federal
government use against the American people," I said, "and I will fight to defend
the complete Second Amendment rights of the American people."
After all, the war for American independence began, not when Britain
taxed us without representation, but when the royal governors of Massachusetts and
Virginia moved to seize the arsenals of the people at Concord and Lexington and at
Williamsburg. I want a government which fears the people, not a people which is
defenseless against its government.
DOES HEAD START MERIT DICK CHENEY'S SUPPORT?
According to John Whitehead (Rutherford Institute News, 7/25/00),
"A civil suit filed by Rutherford Institute attorneys on behalf of 14 families
against Head Start, Tulsa City and County [Oklahoma], and various health officials
who conducted gynecological and genital examinations on grade-school children against
their will and without their parents' knowledge or consent will move to trial,
according to a recent ruling by a U.S. District Court Judge for the Northern District of
Oklahoma."
HEAD START CONDUCTED GENITAL EXAMS WITHOUT PRIOR PARENTAL KNOWLEDGE
OR CONSENT
"The court denied a motion to dismiss filed by the Head Start
program and Tulsa Public Schools. In refusing to dismiss the parents' claims for invasion
of privacy and unlawful search and seizure, the court stated that the lawsuit 'raises
serious privacy concerns.' 'Plaintiffs allege more than an unconsented touching,' the
court said. 'They allege that children were required to submit to a nude examination,
without their consent or the informed written consent of their parents, and that this
examination extended beyond mere nudity to an examination of the most private areas of
their bodies....surely removing [children's] underwear and gazing at [their]
genitalia, for whatever purposes, is such an invasion [of privacy].'"
THREE-YEAR-OLDS TERRIFIED BY HEAD START'S FORCED MANIPULATION OF
THEIR SEXUAL ORGANS
"On November 5, 1998, two LPN nurses arrived at the
Head Start program to examine the children, all between the ages of three and five. One
nurse took blood samples while the other performed the physicals. The second nurse placed
the children on a floor mat atop a school desk. Then, without wearing hygienic gloves,
she removed the minors' undergarments and proceeded to examine their genitals."
PARENTAL PRESENCE DENIED
"During the procedure, some of the children cried. One child
requested that his mother accompany him during the exam. The LPN refused. Misti Dubbs,
parent and assistant Head Start teacher, did go into the examination room with her
daughter."
YOUR TAXES FUND OUTRAGEOUS SEXUAL ABUSE OF SMALL CHILDREN
"When the LPN began to check her daughter's genitals, Dubbs
immediately removed her child from further examination. Dubbs also informed other parents
of what had happened. Parents were outraged. One parent took his child to his family
practitioner to check for sexual abuse; another parent reported the incident on a
sexual abuse hotline in Tulsa County."
HEAD START DEFENDS ITS PERVERSE PRACTICE
"The Head Start Director, Jerome Lee, said at the time of the
incident that he didn't think there was anything strange or unusual about the physicals. The
lawsuit, which alleges violations of assault and battery, invasion of privacy, intentional
infliction of emotional distress, violation of due process, and violation of equal
protection under the law, will proceed to the trial preparation stage, and Rutherford
Institute attorneys will take depositions of the Tulsa and Head Start officials."
BUSH JUDICIAL APPOINTEES KILL PARENTAL NOTIFICATION OF ABORTION
According to the RNC For Life Report (March/April 2000, No.
33), "The Texas law requiring that parents be notified prior to the performance of an
abortion on a minor has been virtually nullified by the Texas Supreme Court.
"On March 22, in a 6-3 decision, the Texas Supreme Court vacated a
decision by an appellate court upholding a district court ruling that a 17 year-old girl
is not mature enough to make an abortion decision without notifying her parents.
..."
GOP JUDGES ARE PRO-ABORTION
"All nine members of the Texas Supreme Court are
Republicans. The majority of the court -- led by Chief Justice Tom Phillips and joined
by Justices Craig Enoch, James A. Baker, Deborah Hankinson, Harriet O'Neill and Alberto
Gonzales -- said the girl's emotional well-being and the long-term family relationship
needed to be considered.
"Justice Hecht accused the majority, three of whom -- Baker,
Gonzales, and Hankinson -- were appointed by [Texas Governor George W.] Bush
to fill vacancies, of exhibiting judicial activism and re-writing the Parental
Notification Act...."
BUSH DEFERRED TO THE COURT
"Governor Bush signed the Parental Notification Act
into law, and refers to it frequently when addressing pro-life audiences on the campaign
trail. However, when it was passed last year, he went along with the curious provision
which assigned to the Texas Supreme Court the authority to write the guidelines rather
than spelling them out in the legislation. ..."
NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE IS IN THE BAG FOR BUSH
"Texas Right to Life and its parent organization
National Right to Life Committee have thrown their wholehearted support behind George W.
Bush in his quest for the presidency, despite his refusal to commit to nominating pro-life
judges."
GOVERNOR DUBYA APPOINTS PRO-HOMO, PRO-ABORTION JUDGE
According to the Republican National Coalition for Life
(FaxNotes, 4/20/00), "Pro-life, pro-family Texans were disturbed to learn that George
W. Bush has appointed a liberal Democrat supporter of the Houston Gay and Lesbian
Political Caucus and also of Planned Parenthood, Martha Hill Jamison, to the 164th
District Court in Houston. Judge Jamison is the daughter of former Texas Supreme Court
chief justice and unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate John Hill, a powerful Texas
Democrat.
She was appointed to a bench vacated by a
Democrat. Many are questioning why Bush would appoint a former Democrat (she recently
'converted' to the Republican Party) and an apparent liberal at that, when there are many
conservative Republicans who could easily have filled that slot."
"NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE SOME OF THE TIME"
COMMITTEE WARNS AGAINST VOTING PRO-LIFE
"In its recent newsletters, the National Right to Life
Committee, the nation's largest anti-abortion group, has repeatedly urged its members not
to stray to a third party. The group has not officially endorsed Mr. Bush but leaves no
doubt of its support. ...
"This preaching of pragmatism has been partly orchestrated by the
Bush campaign, according to both conservative leaders and Bush advisers, but it also
reflects independent judgments by many prominent conservatives.
"It underscores an appreciable shift from the 1980's -- even from
four years ago -- when conservative groups advocated no compromises on abortion. Many
of the leaders said they were so willing to embrace Mr. Bush because he could well win.
..."
MIKE FERRIS [SIC], RALPH REED, ET AL ARE
"BOUND FOR GLORY" WITH GOP
"While well-known conservative leaders like Pat
Robertson, Jerry Falwell and Ralph Reed have lined up behind Mr. Bush, the campaign has
quietly enlisted the support of many other influential conservatives.
"For example, Mike Ferris [sic], president of the Home School
Legal Defense Association, was a national co-chairman of Mr. Buchanan's campaign four
years ago but this year is advising Mr. Bush. (He said he would also be satisfied with
the positions of Steve Forbes.)
"Mr. Ferris [sic] said he was about to publish several articles to
urge his followers to be pragmatic. 'Some people think it's a matter of great faith just
to support the things that are unrealistic; I don't read the word of God to say that,' Mr.
Ferris [sic] said. 'We stand for ideals. But we stand for ideals in a way that they are
going to be accomplished.'"
FARRIS WARNS AGAINST THIRD PARTIES, FAVORS
PREEMPTIVE SURRENDER
"Although Mr. Ferris [sic] said 'Buchanan takes a
stronger pro-life view than Bush,' he urged his supporters not to back his former
candidate because 'he's not going to get elected.'"
PRAGMATISM IS THE BATTLE CRY OF THE BELTWAY CHRISTIANS
"Richard Land, president of the Ethics and
Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, said that because of his
position in the church he would make no endorsement. But he said that he had been
spreading the word of pragmatism at church retreats. ..."
WHITHER DR. DOBSON?
"One of the most influential conservative voices,
James C. Dobson, leader of Focus on the Family, whose daily radio show draws five million
listeners, has stayed silent for months, perhaps an encouraging sign for Mr. Bush. Dr.
Dobson has for years been particularly close to Mr. Bauer but has not endorsed him despite
pleas from the Bauer campaign.
"'Gary has talked to Dr. Dobson about it and would
very much like Dr. Dobson's official endorsement,' said Tim Goeglein, a spokesman for Mr.
Bauer. 'We want to do what we can to get it.'
"Some conservative leaders said Dr. Dobson was not inclined to
side with Mr. Bauer because Mr. Bauer stood little chance of winning the nomination.
Carrie Earll, an official at Focus on the Family, said people should not interpret Dr.
Dobson's failure to endorse 'as a failure of Dr. Dobson to be supportive of Gary or of
disinterest in his campaign.' Dr. Dobson has not taken a public position on Mr. Bush,
she said, because 'there are still a lot of unknowns' about Mr. Bush's stands."
BUSH IS COUNTING ON LEADERS WHO WILL BETRAY
THEIR FOLLOWERS
"The effort to reassure the party's conservative base
is central to Mr. Bush's strategy for winning the Republican nomination and the White
House. By opposing abortion rights, but softening his oratory on the issue, Mr. Bush
has sought to satisfy conservative as well as more moderate voters, particularly women,
whose support he would want in a general election."
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