08/16/2008

Projecting disunity, impotence

06/23/2008

 Marxism lives on

Ronald Bouwman, Oklahoma City

05/07/2008

Open for debate
    I saw Ben Stein's  Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed  and read David Grow's letter (Your Views, May 3). It's impossible to determine truth when none on either side has absolute proof beyond their own prejudiced beliefs. The argument in favor of Darwinism above Intelligent Design has evolved into another politically correct speech regimentation, where free expression of ideas is prohibited or silenced by slander, insult, judicial misbehavior and worse. The only fair alternative is to permit tolerance and civil debate on both sides and in all places. It's worthwhile and fair to observe the degree of tolerance or its absence on each side.
    Ronald Bouwman, Oklahoma City
 

02/27/2008
 
Beyond  Chamberlainism

   Steve Sampsons "Candidates are steeped in ignorance" (Your Views, Feb. 19) precipitates a question: Do the candidates own the ignorance or are they engaged in a more sinister plan to buy votes from ignorant people? The "movie star mentality" of young voters is a testament to the widespread ignorance of history and truth. Of particular concern should be the resurgence of "Chamberlainism," a single word to include all those "qualities" of appeasement, retreat, cowardice, pacifism, ignorance, excessive restraint and oblivion to developing threats.
   England's Neville Chamberlain surrendered Czechoslovakia to Hitler's Germany and assured the beginning of World War II. U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's action in ending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act suggests something even worse than "Chamberlainism."
   01/16/2008
Our sacred duty
   In response to Jo Watkins (Your Views, Jan. 8), Ross Perot's spoiler candidacy secured Bill Clinton's election in 1992 by a mere 42 percent of the vote. Those who voted for Perot cited contempt for the Washington establishment. Clinton decimated our national security and ignored terrorism for eight years. His international display of weakness and naivete so encouraged terrorists that America suffered the worst attack in its history on 9/11.
   Attention to truth is a sacred duty of all voters. To assign equal blame to both parties for the left's hatred and vitriol is only an attempt to provide cover for those who've practiced slander and subversion of our country and its government for the past eight years. Some of the 2008 crop of candidates now propose destructive changes harmful to both our national security and healthy economy. The high cost of energy is directly attributable to blockage of oil drilling and refineries by environmental demagogues. We must take care not to bring about our own destruction for the sake of "change."  12/10/2007  Hard, yet wondrous, times gone

   Among a senior's memories are those wonders of Christmas in the 1940s. There were no shopping malls, and downtown sidewalks were packed with hundreds of overcoated, package-loaded citizens from all walks of life. Many were uniformed soldiers and sailors on their way to war. Gasoline rationing had filled buses and trolleys. Throughout downtown, brightly lit streetcars beckoned riders to get aboard for their journey back to their 1,000-squarefoot homes.
   Snowflakes sparkled in departmentstore window lights, and traffic sounds were magically softened by fresh snow. Strangers bumped shoulders, then smiled and wished each other "Merry Christmas." Salvation Army bell-ringers were everywhere; the pleasant tinkle was part of the Christmas atmosphere. In spite of Pearl Harbor and Hitler, America maintained her spirit and courage.
   Those hard, yet wondrous, times are gone. The "war on Christmas" begins before Thanksgiving. Traditions are silenced by the anti-Christian bigotry of political correctness. Target Stores prohibit bell-ringers; other retailers prohibit any use of those cheery words "Merry Christmas." The national unity to win a war has been subverted by politicians working for our defeat.
   This isn't the devoted America that once rose from World War II and the Great Depression to become the greatest nation in the world.  09/12/2007  Sound reason

   Ruben Navarrette (Opinion, Sept. 4) suggests we should drop the "V" (for Vietnam) word from our vocabulary. He demeaned the president for reminding us of the millions who were imprisoned or murdered when we abandoned them after years of a fruitless "police action" patterned after President Truman's. We hear too little about too many historical truths because they don't fit the agenda of our liberal media or its allies in the education establishment. It's unlikely that this is out of innocent ignorance.
   There is sound reason that the word "liberal" is in disrepute. Increasing numbers of parents are homeschooling their children, watching Fox News and listening to talk radio. The liberal world knows that if left unchecked, these trends will escalate the exposition of its past. Beware of anyone who advocates that we forget history or place limits on political speech or truth.
 
08/11/2007
 
Rhetoric revives memories

   A recent Zogby poll showed approval of the Democrat-controlled Congress is minimal. Those of us fearing that a majority had swallowed the left's propaganda may have been overly pessimistic; perhaps an awakening is at hand. When considering the left's behavior, it's difficult to understand any support by thoughtful citizens. Our economy is healthy, government revenues are increasing and deficits are falling. Liberals want to destroy this by increasing taxes to punish "the rich." This Depression-style demagoguery ignores God's commandments against theft, envy and avarice. We're in a war declared by Muslim radicals. Liberals want our country to lose, to gain political advantage. Their rhetoric revives memories of Tokyo Rose and Jane Fonda. Rather than win debates on principles, liberals rely on character assassinations, insults and slander.   07/11/2007   Like Marx

   "Dialed in; 'Fairness Doctrine' bid misguided" (Our Views, July 2) doubts that the left's pursuit of a "fairness doctrine" to silence conservative opinion bears any semblance to altruism. The Democrats' agenda does closely resemble the plan described by Karl Marx in "Das Kapital." Marx advocated seizure and redistribution of wealth, abolition of religion and absolute indoctrination of a subservient people. Democrats have too long enjoyed supportive propaganda in the union-controlled educational system, the leftist control of broadcast television and leftist newspaper dominance.
   Talk radio is a success because the public welcomes the expression of conservative, pro-American values and because advertisers see great investment potential. American freedom survives only by the constitutional protections of free speech, religion and the press; nothing could be less American than the repression of differing opinions. This is not Venezuela!  06/05/2007  Falling asleep
   "Eye on Iran; Why no urgency about growing threat?" (Our Views, May 31) describes the unstoppable freight train racing toward the helpless maiden America tied to the tracks. Years of anti-defense propaganda by the Democratic Party, the television broadcast establishment and newspapers in the New York Times/ Washington Post "class" have demoralized and cowed America. This has bolstered our enemies' confidence to the point that Iran's president probably believes a nuclear strike on Israel will be answered by impunity.
   Even after the Holocaust there is still enough worldwide hatred for Jews to identify Israel as the aggressor instead of the victim. Iran could enjoy the cheering from many nations. We can only hope for an Iranian revolution or a pre-emptive Israeli strike. America is too morally crippled and too ignorant of history to remember the 1930s, when Britons laughed and scoffed at Hitler while Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain boasted of "peace in our time."

04/25/2007  Coming to a close

   The era of Tom Brokaw's "Greatest Generation" is coming to a close. So also is the character of its beloved America. That generation was great because of the homes, schools and churches of the 1920s, '30s and '40s. Teachers and parents imparted a love for God, American history, our Founding Fathers and the Constitution.
   George Washington once said that religion and morality are the pillars of government and those who subvert those pillars were unpatriotic. His successor, John Adams, said our Constitution was unsuitable for a people of lesser morality. In 1831, French visitor Alexis de Tocqueville said, "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Those times are gone, and our country is in decline. American politics now resembles a European soccer game where fans riot with senseless emotion. "My side must win no matter what" now supersedes the best interests of an elected government of, by and for the people.
   Propaganda, demagoguery, character assassination and even subversion are now the qualities of politics. At the heart of this deplorable condition are people who swallow and repeat their party's line, without valuing truth, decency or loyalty. The Greatest Generation won World War II with national unity after Pearl Harbor. Current generations won't follow its example after 9/11; eventual disaster is inevitable.

Politics of personal destruction 3.16.07

Regarding "Why no rebuke?" (Short Takes, March 10): If liberalism has one pervasive trait, it's hate. Bill Maher is but one example. Liberal politicians have for years enjoyed media impunity while spewing their venom. Let a liberal find or create a single word that doesn't fit liberal political correctness and the media's relentless "politics of personal destruction" ends only when the victim is politically dead and buried. The list of Republican casualties is long.
Behind all acts of hate and barbarism is some degree of mental disturbance. The common symptom of paranoid schizophrenia is inexplicable anger at purely imagined persecutors. Those afflicted bring harm to innocents they don't even know. At His crucifixion, Jesus said of the mob, "Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do."
Particularly in the absence of challenge, it's all too easy for many to join the mob and swallow the cacophony of liberal hate. Are all Republicans liars and crooks? Are all Christians hypocrites? Are the rich really evil? Should opposing opinions be condemned and silenced? Is our country always wrong?

Insane liberal hatred 2.1.07

Lowell Adams (Your Views, Jan 22) said, "Our only hope for a peaceful future ... is to turn away from war ..." Not long ago, French President Jacques Chirac said that nothing's ever been solved by war. Chirac doesn't remember that the United States and Great Britain rescued France in both world wars. In 1938, Neville Chamberlain sold out to Adolf Hitler for "peace in our time." Winston Churchill said, "You could choose between war and appeasement. Now you have appeasement and war." Chamberlain became one of history's greatest fools.
Throughout its existence, Israel has made repeated concessions to the Palestinians, only to be attacked again and again. Throughout the 1990s, the Clinton administration took only minuscule, ineffective actions in response to terrorist attacks against the U.S. Our demonstrated weakness constituted appeasement and emboldened terrorists to make the 9/11 attacks. Our latter-day Hitler is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, another madman devoted to the annihilation of Jews. Iran is behind nearly all of the conflicts in the Persian Gulf, and Ahmadinejad is preparing to make nuclear attacks. The new Axis is Iran, Syria, North Korea and Venezuela.
Is history and naivete to be repeated? Is the danger to be ignored in favor of the insane liberal hatred for, and subversion of, President Bush?

Democrat takeover a bad omen 12.7.06

Allen Roman Nose and Barry West (Your Views, Dec. 3) laud the Democrat takeover of Congress as some kind of American success. In this week of Pearl Harbor remembrance, it's time to observe the repetition of history. In 1938, Hitler made a peace agreement with England, France and Italy, giving the Czechoslovakian Sudetenland to Nazi Germany. In oblivion to the bitter fruits of appeasement, Great Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain boasted of "peace in our time." Hitler perceived weakness, formed an alliance with Japan and World War II began.
Hitler's obsession to exterminate Jews is now repeated by Iran and its surrogate terrorist organizations all over the world. After years of U.S. appeasement, emboldened Muslim terrorists gave us our latterday Pearl Harbor on Sept. 11, 2001, killing more Americans than did the Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941.
In World War II, Joseph Goebbels led a successful propaganda of hate and vitriol to secure support for Hitler. Our own Democrat Party and its supporting liberal media have now won an election by inciting hatred and without presenting any plans beyond surrender. This is a terrible omen. Nuclear weapons and missiles are under development in Iran and North Korea, and our enemies do not fear our divided country.

The liberal psyche 9.22.06




Letters by Chris Moses and Penni Ellis (Your Views, Sept. 15) on Bud Walker's amusing satire and hyperbole (Your Views, Sept. 10) seem to illustrate the characteristic liberal psyche and its clearly deliberate incapacity to recognize humor and levity. I wouldn't venture a guess at Moses' and Ellis' own motivations, but liberals in general are quick to ignore harmless intent in pouncing upon those who dare to criticize them. Yet, they exclude Christians and conservatives in their claims to be spokesmen for constitutional rights, simultaneously advocating the suppression of speech and religious expression in the name of political correctness. Where's their outrage at the hate, vitriol and bigotry of their own spokesmen, such as Kennedy, Dean, Murtha, Pelosi, Clinton or Biden? Where's their criticism of the left's litigious surrogate, the ACLU, the national champion of anti-Christian bigotry, the protector of our terrorist enemies, and the enemy of Christian free speech and religious exercise?

Bush remains a gentleman 7.26.06





Liberals endlessly search for ways to fabricate political propaganda to incite hatred of President Bush. Lowell Adams (Your Views, July 18) cited a number of recent terrorist acts that he blames on the administration. False witness against good men is often borne of hatred and envy by those who can't offer an honest debate or who mindlessly repeat any vitriol they hear. There lies the recipe for propaganda and slander.
Some truths deserve repeating. Terrorism did not begin with the Bush administration. There were many attacks
before and during the Clinton presidency, and they were essentially ignored. Terrorists finally resorted to the 9/11 attack for attention soon after President Bush was elected. The roots of the Middle East conflict are traceable to Hitler's insane obsession to annihilate millions of Jews. The establishment of a new Israel in the late
1940s was a direct precipitate. Pervasive anti-Jewish bigotry in the Muslim world and elsewhere brought us terrorism and sympathy for it. Attempts at appeasement have only brought more terrorism.
We're fighting barbarians who unabashedly broadcast an objective of the destruction of Israel and the U.S. Bush is not the liar liberals have called him, and new evidence proving him right about Saddam Hussein's intentions has surfaced. Bush remains a gentleman and does not respond in kind to his lesser attackers.

Refreshing departure 5.09.06





Phillip C. Norton's knowledgeable letter on petroleum commodities trading (Your Views, April 30) was a refreshing departure from all the "hate-and-punish the-rich" demagoguery so relished by the liberal media. Trading prices are based largely on anticipation of shortages or surpluses.
We wouldn't be paying the current prices for fuel if we were producing our own oil, and prices might drop much faster than many suspect if we began drilling on our own soil. That would present a threat of real competition and revenue loss to the Arab world. Senate Democrats blocked drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other locations; they contributed substantially to current price levels.

Killing the goose 3.26.06





"Seeing it through; Iraq is lost if Americans lose resolve" (Our Views, March 19) addressed the "American psyche" that could bring us to defeat. Subversives would have us believe they're doing their patriotic duty to "question" their government. In truth, their objective to destroy personalities is purely political, they are gleeful over any American failures they can cause and they happily contribute to anti-American propaganda. No American president has ever been more unfairly beleaguered than George W. Bush; critics have never been more vicious or dishonest.
Contrary to the left's spin that America has always been like this, those who remember World War II know better. Speaking on Truman's "no-win" Korean policy, Gen. Douglas MacArthur told of the disasters it could bring. His warning was validated when Congress cowed to protests, abandoning Vietnam. Liberals still take pride in that disgrace, and now they are trying to repeat the "success."
The old fable about slaughtering the goose that laid golden eggs best describes today's American psyche. We have the fairest and most benevolent government, and the most prosperous people, in all history. We're at war with unprincipled barbarians whose goal is our destruction. Our president is performing his duty to defend us, and our people have been convinced they shouldn't support him. What will we have when we've killed our golden goose?

Fighting back 2.13.06



Lowell Adams (Your Views, Feb. 1) employs one more spin on the tired old Marxist contention that capitalist business and the Republican Party are evil partners. The cultural war is real. It was started in the 1960s through misuse of the courts by liberals to circumvent constitutional legislative processes. People of faith have begun to fight back, and they have found honorable support in the Republican Party. In truth, there is a documented "money trail." The powerful ACLU, the liberals' defender of anti-Christian bigotry, and anything else destructive of George Washington's "pillars of religion and morality," has been successful because years of Democrat controlled Congresses gave it a limitless "money tree" in the U.S. Treasury.

Far more sinister 11.26.05

A number of recent letters have extolled the patriotism of those who abuse their right to free speech with vitriol, character assassinations of elected officials, slander of our country and more. President John Adams said that our form of government was suitable only for a religious and moral people and was wholly inadequate for anything less. The current efforts to subvert the effort in Iraq with contrived falsehoods and personal attacks don't measure up to Adams' standards of American decency and are something far more sinister than honest debate and disagreement. Some of us remember Tokyo Rose and Jane Fonda.

Dangerous, subversive groups 10.14.05





In "ACLU files suit over monument" (news story, Oct. 7) on the ACLU Ten Commandments lawsuit against Haskell County, plaintiff Jim Green was quoted as saying, "I am a patriot." President George Washington would not agree. In his farewell address, Washington said, "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars."
Increasingly, the ACLU and other agents of anti-Christian bigotry are gaining infamy as being dangerous and subversive. President Clinton successfully nominated an ACLU lawyer to the Supreme Court. The Democratic Party that supports the ACLU is suffering heavier tolls as growing numbers of Americans see the connection between those entities. It remains to be seen if the Democrats' hateful propaganda can ever cause sufficient damage to overshadow this.

Iraq war may be lost at home 9.2.05


The Iraq war resembles Vietnam in one aspect — we could lose the war at home. The virtues of patience and perseverance are no longer the way of America. Those who insist on an impossible instant end to the war cannot see, or do not care, about the consequences of handing the enemy a victory. As enemies witness this crumbling, they taste a forthcoming victory by default, encouraging still more terrorism. The charges against our role in the war are nonsense. It was a logical strategic move against terrorism; U.S. allies now flank Iran on two sides, and Syria's border is facing a new threat. There were many legitimate justifications. Saddam's violations of a chain of U.N. Security Council resolutions made it clear that he sought no peace. The Security Council objections have now been traced to the corrupt oil for-food program.
Largely because of its great tradition of religion and morality before the '60s, the United States has been the most successful, prosperous and benevolent government in world history. We all have civic obligations to support this fair and legitimate government elected by a majority of our people. Aid and comfort to an enemy may be mindless or deliberate. Only at our own peril may we continue to exhibit cowardice and division.

Slow learners 7.7.05



I wouldn't presume to know Lowell Adams' motives in advocating an immediate abandonment of Iraq (Your Views, June 29). Were President Bush to pursue such a course, it would be one of the most foolhardy blunders in American history. That's probably why the left wants it. Many liberals who are making such statements are so irrationally intent on damaging Bush that they're willing to endanger our troops and national security to achieve their objectives. Ted Kennedy called Bush a liar, Newsweek published a phony story on mistreatment of Guantanamo prisoners, Dick Durbin likened our military to Nazis and Soviets and DNC Chairman Howard Dean has spouted a plethora of insane hate. They've either lost, or never learned, the qualities of civil discourse, decency, reason and loyalty to their country and its elected government.

Religious repression propaganda 4.1.05





Robert J. Haupt (Opinion, March 25) offers an outstanding example of the propaganda favoring religious repression. Early documents and quotations of our Founding Fathers are replete with contradictions to Haupt's account of history. For but one example, George Washington was not a Deist, but a devout Christian. Prior to the revolution, he and Martha regularly attended church in Williamsburg, Va. They had their own pew, which remains there to this day. Accurately paraphrased, Washington said in his farewell address that religion and morality were indispensable supports to our political system and no one could remain a patriot if working to subvert them.
Despite all the frivolous twisted interpretations beginning in 1947, the Constitution was ratified on June 21, 1789. It provides for free speech and religious exercise without exceptions for speaker or location; it prohibits Congress from establishing a body of government such as the Church of England. Out-of-context quotations of Thomas Jefferson in 1802 or 1823, or any other person or time, before or after 1789, do not alter those basic truths.

Tide is turning 1.5.05





Rob Abiera (Your Views, Dec. 27) wrote that the First Amendment "serves to restrict expressions of religion on government property..." It does not. It provides for free speech and makes exemptions for neither religious expression nor government property. It also prohibits government from interfering with the free exercise of religion, without exemption for public property. One of its original intents was to prohibit Congress from enacting legislation to "establish" a national church, such as the Church of England; that clause has been abused by anti-Christian courts in order to overrule the rights to free speech.
Now that the left has lost its television propaganda monopoly, The Oklahoman and other newspapers, the Internet and Fox News are telling the truth about the abuse of Thomas Jefferson's "separation of church and state." People of faith are learning what has been done to them and they've had enough. The tide is turning against repression. If the left continues to ignore and condemn this growing new political conviction, the country will benefit even more.

Helping the enemy 5.30.04

Carol Ruth (Your Views, May 24) charged that President Bush should "tell the truth," suggesting that he is dishonest. This is characteristic of the vitriol we have learned to expect from the left. As does any other human, George W. Bush deserves common decency and civility. We're engaged in a war declared upon us by horrible barbarian terrorists, principally because we are not a Muslim nation. Bordered by Syria and Iran, Iraq is at the strategic geographical center of terrorism. Victory is essential to America. Political character assassinations over the war only offer encouragement and comfort to our enemies, and demoralization of our own people.

Baseless attacks 10.21.03

Without basis, Democrats of late have been labeling President Bush "liar," "gangster" and more. Sen. Edward Kennedy, best known for the nonfictional Chapaquiddick affair, has been a leader in this infamy. Recent letters in this column have so closely parroted his vicious rhetoric that the authors should be embarrassed by their plagiarism.
President Bush inherited a declining economy and an intelligence community made dysfunctional by previous Congresses. Just a few months later, 9/11 happened. Unlike past presidents, he courageously set out to solve serious problems on his own watch. He hasn't wavered. He's remained a gentleman in the face of cruel and baseless political attacks. This is a great man.

Submitting to evil 9.11.03

Just as "cold" is defined by scientists as being the absence of heat, "evil" may be defined as the absence of goodness and warmth. Multitudes of quotations by our Founding Fathers show they believed that goodness and tranquillity came from God and obedience to His commandments, and that these beliefs were essential to the health and stability of the nation.
To accept all these premises upon which the U.S. was founded with an enduring Constitution, containing a guarantee of religious liberty, it's difficult not to conclude that those who seek to suppress religious expression are cold and evil enemies of God, our country and our Constitution. To accept the unconstitutional decisions of corrupt jurists as "the law of the land" is to submit to evil.
Judges don't possess the right to make new law; that power is reserved for Congress, which never would or could circumvent the Constitution to pass legislation to suppress religion. Behind all court decisions such as the Alabama matter are liberal Democrats who can only achieve their objectives with end runs into court and around Congress.
Yet they could not succeed without an apathetic and acquiescent public and its negligent congressional representation.

Widely respected 7.22.03


The Democratic Party and the national television networks are desperately searching for a way to tear down President Bush, hoping they can win the 2004 election. The latest effort is to portray him as dishonest, capitalizing on part of a sentence (they even cut out the leading clause because it discredits their charges) in the State of the Union speech.
This will work for some, but the Democrats have lost control of their propaganda monopoly to Fox News and talk radio and to exposures of dishonest bias by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. The American public is fickle and unpredictable, but Bush is widely respected. The Democratic Party may be digging its own grave.

Support Bush on Iraq 11.4.02




After Sept. 11, 2001, there was a brief period in which all America recognized the danger of terrorism. Yet after the loss of thousands of innocent American lives, there are now those who propose that we need to leave Iraq alone until an attack on Saddam Hussein can be justified by still another disaster.
Some simply want to deny George W. Bush any success for purely partisan political reasons. Some are as naive as Neville Chamberlain and Jimmy Carter, unable to grasp the concept of pure evil. Some deny the obvious connection between Iraq, Palestinians, several terrorist organizations and the Arab world's hatred for Jews and Americans. Some truly despise our own country, which grants them the unique right to speak freely against it. In any case, most of them are liberal Democrats, and they endanger our security.
Many political careers begin at lower level state offices. Don't help any of these people get started by voting for them, no matter what office they seek.

Educate kids so they will prosper 9.10.02




Harold Crain ("Your Views," Aug. 30) questioned the benefit of mathematics courses for all high school students. For our educational system to do anything less is to ensure that some teens will someday find themselves unqualified for opportunities they didn't envision as youths.
The youthful mind has an infinite capacity for absorption; without information, it's crippled. Only harm can come from keeping our kids dumb. Teens or poorly educated parents often can't recognize those benefits of learning that lie beneath the surface.
From math and science come an appreciation for logic and truth. English and literature create effective and persuasive communication skills. Latin and German language courses instill an intuitive understanding of the English vocabulary. Studies of American history and government can preclude the election or appointment of tyrants. World history teaches those mistakes we must never repeat.
The only people who gain from a dumbed-down populace are political demagogues who will promise government giveaways of our taxes to the ignorant, the gullible and the unsuccessful. Let's protect our freedom, educate our kids and make them prosperous

Covetous system 5.29.02


TO THE EDITOR:
Regarding "Capitalist Revolution; Look Who's Embraced the Flat Tax Idea" (editorial, May 23): Without a sea change in American politics, we'll never see such good sense in the U.S. Depression-era, class-envy demagoguery has been the core of the Democrat Party's political strategy for at least 70 years. Thanks to a poor education in economics, history and morality, many people still fall for the "hate-and-punish-the rich" nonsense.
Karl Marx believed that government should be the caretaker of all wealth, the provider of all work and the only god to all citizens. The Soviet Union collapsed in failure after this dumb experiment, leaving a ruined public spirit; only a few now have the knowledge, experience, ability, incentive and opportunity to provide for themselves, and it may be another quarter century before Russia returns to any semblance of normalcy.
Beyond the folly of Marxist ideology is the immorality of it. Envy is among humanity's most uncivilized behaviors; this is why the commandment tells us, "Do not covet ..." A graduated tax is covetous because it permits the public to steal from those it envies. Were this a moral society, the prevailing attitude would be that one person's wealth is not another person's business.

Senate Democrats started it 3.28.02




Two letters published March 23 in "Your Views" defended Democratic obstruction on the Senate Judiciary Committee with that old "you guys did it, too" excuse. Democrats are experts at this kind of spin; they've always covered their own chicanery by convincing the public that all politicians are crooks and that there's no honor on either side. It should never be forgotten that Senate Democrats started all this with their character assassinations of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas.
George W. Bush is no Bill Clinton. He's an honorable man who is appointing other honorable men and women. Senate Democrats are blocking Bush nominations purely because the nominees are "constructionists" who will vigorously defend the Constitution; this admirable trait does not fit the Democrat agenda.
The Democrats instead seek to circumvent the legislative process by making illicit and unpalatable law in the courts, where the party's involvement is usually hidden behind lawsuits authored by the ACLU and other left-wing covers.

Anti-Christian bigots 2.15.02

TO THE EDITOR:
The American Civil Liberties Union was founded in 1920 by an unabashed advocate for Marxism and communism, Roger Baldwin. For many of its early years, the ACLU's main pursuit was the defense of communists facing government charges of subversion. For the past half century, it's been the foremost representative of anti-Christian bigotry in malicious lawsuits based on a mythical "separation of church and state." These were clearly directed at revoking constitutional guarantees of free speech, religious exercise and equal treatment under the law.
It's difficult to believe that the ACLU's objectives are anything more honorable than the subversion of decency and the American culture. By sterilizing our schools of religious expression, it has created a cold, uncivil climate. James P. Barnhart ("Your Views," Feb. 6) questioned how one might be certain an attorney didn't belong to the ACLU. Just find out what political party he belongs to. You won't find many Republicans working for the ACLU.

Eroding freedom 10.10.01


TO THE EDITOR:
John W. Karlin's letter ("Your Views," Oct. 5) bristled with contempt for religion when he repeated the old angry liberal cliché of "don't impose your beliefs on me." A belief can't be imposed on anyone who can think for himself, but the statement sounds equivalent to "shut up, my freedom to hear supersedes your right to speak." Karlin has a natural freedom not to listen, but no more. Were he to have his freedom from religion, those constitutional rights to free speech, religious exercise and equal treatment under the law would all have to be repealed. Such repression would be commensurate with the "separation of church and state" language in Article 124 of the former Soviet Union's constitution and with the ACLU's roots in Marxist ideology.
The ACLU's success with pettifog lawsuits against people of faith, in sympathetic left-wing courts, has systematically eroded our freedoms, subverted the intent of the Founding Fathers and unraveled the American social fabric. Even in this time of our greatest national trial and disaster, the ACLU's encouragement of anti-religious bigotry surfaced when a few in Broken Arrow disgraced Oklahoma to insist that "God" be removed from "God Bless America." There's never a time for such intolerance. To attempt it now is unconscionable.

Personal attack on decent man 9.8.01





In a perfect example of today's climate of incivility, E.G. Ward ("Your Views," Sept. 1) hurled a personal insult at President George W. Bush over his mistakes with the English language. This is the same sort of speech as that of those liberals who attempted to paint Ronald Reagan or Dan Quayle as stupid. The motive is clear: A personal attack on a decent man is the only available avenue for those who can't think of any legitimate criticism beyond their political loyalty.
Bush is a principled, Christian American with innocent human defects. He has not taken campaign money from the Chinese military, assaulted or defamed women, consorted with known criminals, committed perjury, lied to the public or used racism and class envy for political gain. He honors the United States of America.


Circumventing The Constitution 8.1.01

Debbe Leftwich ("Your Views," July 28) said it's "mudslinging" when her critics accuse Democrats of tyranny and socialism. Is truthfulness mudslinging?
On June 21, 1788, New Hampshire ratified the U.S. Constitution, establishing a balanced, self-correcting, representative government by and for the people. The document was designed by the great minds of principled, religious and moral men who'd endured the loss of loved ones, property and freedom. Their sacrifices alone speak for their honor and passion.

The Constitution is the rock upon which our government and our freedom stand; members of the judicial, legislative and executive branches swear to defend it when they take their oaths of office.

When liberal U.S. Senate Democrats vowed to block the judicial nominations of "constructionist" constitutional defenders, they openly expressed clear intent to circumvent and overrule the Constitution, the people and the Congress and to make their own whimsical law via the judiciary. If this isn't tyranny, what is it?

Monsters, Crooks 6.17.01

The most unfortunate aspect of James Turner's letter ("Your Views," June 9) is that there isn't enough room on the editorial page for adequate attention to the "party of tyranny." The U.S. has been dealing with Marxist ideology since the 1920s, but this latter-day crop of liberals is bolder, less principled, more fanatical and more dangerous than anything we've seen since Lenin's Soviet Union or Hitler's Germany.

As did the communists and Nazis, they've created a propaganda system that has little or no regard for truth, fact or decency; it is geared to inciting emotion, buying votes and gaining power. Their propaganda is spread in our schools and over our TV "news" broadcasts.

Their politics has become a new godless religion; they hate Christianity and traditional moral standards. They seek any opportunity to silence speech that contradicts them. They reach their goals through sympathetic corrupt courts because they can't accomplish them with legitimate congressional action. We must never forget that well-intentioned but gullible people have elected a lot of monsters and crooks, both here and abroad. Every citizen has a responsibility to be vigilant.

Back to barbarism 3.21.01

Kathleen Parker (column, March 18) addressed the extreme but perhaps necessary measures that schools are using to discourage all reference to guns and violence. No observant person can doubt that there's a deep problem in our schools, but no level of restriction will ever solve it. We must look into the fundamental character and spirit of our youth.

Basic innocence, decency and gentleness have disappeared from American society; they've been replaced with a hard-hearted, worldly incivility that's deemed sophisticated and chic. This has been evolving for so long that only the elder among us can remember when the atmosphere was very different. We see examples of this "new way" every day, from the coward on the freeway who makes an obscene gesture, to the jerk in the restaurant who abuses the waitress. The character of our last president shows what we've become.

Western civilization grew out of barbarism into decency through the standards taught by the Christian faith over the past 20 centuries. For 175 years, the United States was the moral leader of the Western world; for the most part it brought us domestic tranquillity and the admiration of other nations. In 1962, Earl Warren's Supreme Court reversed our course by declaring "separation of church and state" and beginning the movement to suppress religious speech and practice. We've now come down from our lofty attainment and are returning to old evils of past civilizations.

Left uses separation as weapon 2.9.01

Raven LaBlanc ("Your Views," Jan. 4) claimed the Founding Fathers envisioned the "separation of church and state." This phrase was first written long after the Constitution was adopted, by our third president, in a letter to the Danbury, Conn., Baptist Association. Its original intent has been mischaracterized and abused.
It doesn't appear in any founding documents, and it was never recognized as law until the Warren Court ignored precedent and made it so in 1962. The First Amendment "establishment clause" was written to prohibit Congress from "establishing" a religious arm of government with executive and legislative powers, such as the Church of England.

"Separation of church and state" as applied today is a weapon of the radical left and the Democrat Party's surrogate legal organizations, which win by tyrannical court decree that which can't be gained from public support and legitimate acts of Congress. Its inspiration is anti-Christian bigotry, its true author was Karl Marx and its objective is the revocation of the First and 14th Amendment rights of Christians. There's no greater threat to our society than from governmental acts against religion.


Why does GOP ignore corruption? 11.2.00

One of the most curious things about this presidential election contest is the Republican reluctance to mention the corruption issue. It certainly can't be because it hasn't been proven; there have been convictions of low-level participants in the Communist Chinese Army's campaign contributions, and it's clear that Janet Reno ran interference for Clinton and Gore by ignoring reports from FBI Director Louis Freeh and her own special investigator, Charles LaBella.
Does it really serve America to ignore this? Is corruption now acceptable? Must we keep the truth out of the campaign in the name of "fairness"? Are the Republicans avoiding the truth just to be "nice guys" for those voters who won't or don't see what's happening? Are they afraid of the liberal media's vengeful propaganda machine? Are the Republicans afraid the Democrats will publicize the secret contents of all their illegally obtained personal FBI files?

The Clinton-Gore administration may well have been the most corrupt in all American history. How long will it be, if ever, before the participants must pay a price for their crimes? Obviously, it will all be swept under the rug if the Democrats have significant victories.

What if Republicans win big? Will they continue to ignore it? If they pursue it, will the media portray it as a "witch-hunt"? Will there be another left-wing exodus to foreign countries to escape prosecution?


Giving Up Freedom 9.27.00

Two civics lessons from my school days were that we should be ever vigilant for assaults on our freedoms and we should keep ourselves well informed of historic and current truths. The standing of Democrats in opinion polls indicates that a lot of people aren't paying attention any more. There have been the matters of Communist Chinese money and influence, release of weapons secrets, terrible abuses of power, a decimation of the military, a great deficiency in character and morality, a new level of anti-Christian bigotry, punitive or excessive taxes and much more.

Should Al Gore and other Democrats win in November, three more liberal Supreme Court justices will surely be appointed. Such a court would be a rubber stamp for the Democrats and its kindred spirit, the American Civil Liberties Union. The new court would unlawfully legislate and govern with shocking new excesses, against the will of the people and without accountability.

This is tyranny, not self-government by a free people. Many Democrats and their ACLU brothers and sisters seek to protect criminals, obscene and immoral conduct, flag burning, pornography and more; yet they simultaneously betray their self-portrait as defenders of freedom when they seek to ban free speech and practice for people of faith.

The ACLU's activities over the past 50 years have subverted American society more than any other thing; the ACLU should be recognized as public enemy No. 1. If the left wing gains absolute control of the country via a more corrupt judiciary and a submissive Congress, we shall have accepted a government far worse than that which provoked the American revolution.

Do we really want to surrender our freedom to the left wing and the ACLU?

Judicial tyranny 8.13.00

"Defining Difference" (editorial, July 30) and state Rep. Bill Grave's "Point of View" both addressed the very real threat of our freedom presented by the Supreme Court's latter-day illicit position as supreme legislature and final arbiter of right and wrong. Most alarming of all, America seems to have forgotten the purpose and roles of our balanced governmental powers and appears to have meekly and dutifully accepted this oligarchy as the rightful ruler of the nation. Most rulings that havebeen absent of constitutional foundation have dealt with advocacies of the Democrat party, which could not force its agenda upon the people through legitimate congressional actions. The ACLU, other such left-wing organizations and appointed leftist judges have all served as the party's litigation surrogates to tear America down to the present state. This is, indeed, tyranny; the public should be screaming bloody murder. Congress should be impeaching judges and justices on a large scale.

ACLU biases 6.23.00

Michael Camfield ("Your Views," June 18) insists that the ACLU's endless campaign against Judeo-Christian expression is not evidence of an anti-Christian bias. Millions would find this hard to swallow. Camfield knows well that the "establishment clause" was intended to prohibit congressional establishment of a governmental body such as the once-despised Church of England and that today's "separation of church and state" essentially began only with the Warren Court's 1962 Engel vs. Vitaledecision on school prayer.
A Texas history professor, David Barton, has compiled volumes of material regarding measurable linkages between the 1962 Warren Court decision and the unraveling of the American social fabric, which, not coincidentally, began in 1962. Are ACLU members at all troubled that they may have had a great deal to do with this decline, which includes incidents such as Columbine and others? Does the ACLU recognize that it encourages anti-Christian bigotry? What percentage of ACLU members are liberalDemocrats? Is it only coincidental that ACLU founder Roger Baldwin expressed open admiration of Marxism?

Separation anxiety 5.17.00

Wanda Herring ("Your Views," May 12) said the separation of church and state "protects the free exercise of religion." Nothing could be further from the truth; separation and free exercise are mutually exclusive. Separation dictates that people of faith be denied their constitutional rights to free speech, free exercise and equal treatment under the law as soon as they set foot on public property. Separation of church and state is neither mandated nor even mentioned by our Constitution. TheSoviet Union's constitution did state, "In order to ensure to its citizens the freedom of conscience, the church is separated from the state and the school from the church." Clearly, current policies are an example of the influence of godless Marxism upon the political left in our judiciary and are responsible for the decline of character and morality since the Warren Court invented "separation" in 1962.

Chinese aggression predictable 5.13.00

Cal Thomas ("Monday Morning Quarterbacks," Feb. 28) spoke of how China is closer to getting Taiwan. Even the timing is now predictable. Communist China didn't help finance the 1996 Democrat campaign without expecting something in return and it probably won't make its move in time to hurt Democrat chances in the November elections. That leaves a small window of opportunity between Nov. 7, 2000, and Jan. 20, 2001, when a new president takes office. Of course, China may wait just a little longer to give the Dems a chance to blame it on a new Republican president. Either way, Clinton will be able to let China have Taiwan with impunity for both.

Honorable men avoid media 'swords' 1.23.00

Karen L. Avery ("Your Views," Jan. 16) asked why good people can't be found to run for political office. Is it true that there are none or is it only true that we don't see them? If we stereotype all politicians as being without character, we wrongfully offer safe harbor for the crooks and impassable seas for the honorable. In these times, George Washington or Abraham Lincoln would be politically destroyed in short order. Their enemies would portray them as religious fanatics.Thetelevision"news" media would hammer on that mythical evil for their entire campaigns, the public would swallow it whole and lesser men would win the elections. Honorable men can't stoop to the same slander, falsehood and demagoguery that will defeat them.
The public now lacks the wisdom and will to recognize the higher character behind morality and decency. In recent years, many who could have been great leaders have fallen to the swords of television "news" and the hate speech of evil,yet successful, politicians. The losers are not only those good men destroyed; the big losers are the citizens who allowed it. Only a wiser public can revive this once great country.

How to stop speeding 11.18.99

The American way to attack most problems is with slip-shod, token solutions that never really get the job done. Just a few days after all the publicity, police visibility and multitude of citations, the Hefner-I-44 "Speedway" had nearly returned to normal; 75-to-80-mph vehicles are again commonplace. Concrete barriers aren't going to slow them down. Diverted Broadway Extension traffic will make the danger they create even greater. There's an immediately available and comparatively economical solution in automated radar-operated cameras and citations. Of course, all those who are unconcerned with, or contributing to, the hazard will reject this as draconian, even though it would undoubtedly work.

Questions for Clinton 8.29.99

The move to damage George W. Bush with unsubstantiated rumors of drug use serves well to illustrate the hypocrisy, double standard, treachery and clear bias of television "news" and its Democrat party.

Some may recall that reporters tried to propagate a bare-faced lie about President Bush's infidelity to deflect or detract from Bill Clinton's record of poor character.

Why aren't these same reporters badgering Clinton with questions about his own reportedly observed cocaine use, whether Juanita Broadderick's rape charge is true or if Taiwan has already been sold out for campaign money?

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