The New American articles from August 2002

The New American archives from August 2002

Hearing the thunder roll. (Letters to the Editor).
August 12, 2002... Kudos to William Norman Grigg for his article about Chief Joseph ("Protector of the Nez Perce," July 15th issue). When I was teaching college in Omak, Washington, a few years ago, I visited Chief Joseph's grave. It's on a hill outside Nespelem,...

The persecuted Huguenots. (Letters to the Editor).
August 12, 2002... I read with interest the article on the Vendeans written by William Norman Grigg ("The Valiant Vendeans," June 17th issue). I don't believe his intent was to downgrade the Huguenots. One of my great grandfathers by the name of Munch was among...

Anti-federalists on target. (Letters to the Editor).
August 12, 2002... In the article on James Madison ("Father of the Constitution," July 1st issue), Thomas Eddlem mentions the anti-federalists, Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, George Mason, and George Clinton. I would think it beneficial to do an article on...

Criminalizing capitalism. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
August 12, 2002... "Health care giant Johnson & Johnson reported second-quarter net income jumped 11.6 percent on record revenues as sales of its prescription drugs, medical devices and diagnostic equipment posted double-digit increases," reported AP on July...

Cable guy -- or government spy? (Insider Report).(war on terrorism, 2002)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2002... Since September 11th, we've had a lot of "Hollywood moments," as things we thought could only happen in B-grade movie fiction have become the "new reality." One such moment was the Bush administration's recent announcement that, beginning in...

Iran behind Buenos Aires bombing. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
August 12, 2002... A high-level defector from Iran's intelligence, Abdolghassem Mesbahi, testified that Iran ordered and masterminded one of the worst terrorist attacks in Argentina's history. According to Mesbahi, the Tehran government was responsible for the...

The garrison state: a case study. (Insider Report).(freedom of speech, a long gone dream)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2002... Earlier this year, James R. Otteson, a philosophy professor at the University of Alabama, was threatened with arrest at the airport in Traverse City, Michigan. His "offense" was to express the opinion that he and his family -- his wife and...

British common law under attack. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
August 12, 2002... The recent upsurge in violent crime suffered by citizens of Great Britain illustrates that suppressing the right to armed self-defense gives criminals a competitive advantage over the law-abiding population. But just as importantly, it...

Police State vs. Posse Comitatus. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
August 12, 2002... The Bush administration "has called on Congress to thoroughly review the law that bans the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines from participating in arrests, searches, seizure of evidence and other police-type activity on U.S. soil," reported the...

The "transformational" military. (Insider Report).(control of the United Nations over United States armed forces)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2002... Writing in the April 1995 edition of Special Warfare, professor James J. Schneider of Fort Leavenworth's U.S. Command and General Staff College predicted that for the U.S. military, "the future will be dominated by a single overwhelming...

State Department impugns critics. (Insider Report).(critics of visa system)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2002... Stung by criticism that the department's visa system facilitated the infiltration of our nation by al-Qaeda terrorists, State Department consulate personnel circulated e-mails denouncing their critics as "neo-Nazis." The missives were prompted...

Shaping things to come: seeking to impose their global vision of a tyrannical "utopia," powerful elitists have effectively used science fiction to evangelize for their cause.(Cover Story)
August 12, 2002... Between 1890 and 1920, Herbert George "H.G." Wells was arguably the most influential popular writer in the English language, producing a series of "modern fairy tales." By penning such works as The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, The War of...

From reel to real: to make their vision of the future a reality, Hollywood entertainment providers have long used science fiction to shape the public mindset. (Cover Story: At a Glance).(socialist and globalist propaganda in science fiction films)(Brief Article)(Cover Story)
August 12, 2002... Choose your collective: On both television and the big screen, Star Trek depicts a collectivist future, with the "benign" United Federation of Planets facing off against "evil" collectives, such as the cybernetic Alien apocalypse:...

Hijacking "Spaceship Earth": claiming that Earth is a spaceship with limited resources requiring central control, globalists are steering humanity into the black hole of UN-dominated world government. (Cover Story: Science Fiction).
August 12, 2002... [T]he ethical system which will dominate the world-state will be shaped primarily to favor the procreation of what is fine and efficient and beautiful in humanity.... And for the rest -- those swarms of black and brown and yellow people who do...

International Criminal Court sellout: predictably, the Bush administration has caved in on the ICC, exposing U.S. soldiers to prosecution and opening the door for dismantling America's time-tested judicial system. (Global Court).
August 12, 2002... Some things are reassuringly predictable. The sun will rise, seasons will change, water will run downhill...and "conservative" Republican presidents will sell out our nation on key matters of principle. Granted, physical laws do not dictate...

Gunning for the 2nd amendment: President Bush's proposal to fight gun-related crime through Project Safe Neighborhoods undermines our federal structure and threatens our God-given right to self-defense. (Law Enforcement).(Brief Article)
August 12, 2002... During remarks at a National Governors' Association Conference in Washington on February 26, 2001, President George W. Bush recalled that "the Framers of the Constitution believed that our freedom is best preserved when power is dispersed."...

"Maid" of piety and patriotism: Joan of Arc, nicknamed "the Maid," was one of history's first modern patriot/nationalists. Her unique blend of piety and patriotism laid the foundation for a free, unified France. (History: Struggle for Freedom).
August 12, 2002... The afternoon of May 7, 1429 was typical of late spring in France's Loire Valley. The waters of the Loire River, still muddy from the spring rains, ran past newly plowed fields and the emerging foliage of hedgerows and forests. Yellowhammers,...

Snoops. (Making a Difference).(Brief Article)
August 12, 2002... The Cherry Creek school district in the suburbs of Denver, Colorado, has a "zero tolerance" conduct code that bars students from engaging in "violent and aggressive behavior." On March 22nd, a playground monitor noticed seven fourth graders at...

Religious rejoinder. (Making a Difference).(case of church and state separation)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2002... On January 29th, the Louisiana branch of the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit against the small town of Franklinton in west central Washington Parish, Louisiana. Town officials were forced to remove four signs on public property...

Out of the Circle. (Making a Difference).(Brief Article)
August 12, 2002... Phillips Petroleum is the parent company of the Circle K chain of convenience stores. For more than a decade, Phillips officials have come under fire from pro-family activists for allowing the Circle K outlets to carry sleazy magazines of the...

Scrappy. (Exercising the Right).(joy ride case)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2002... Chamberlain Academy is a school for troubled children in Chamberlain, South Dakota. At about 11:30 p.m. on June 26th, Pete Paul Fast Horse, 16, and Jeremy Feltman 15, broke a window at the academy, escaped, then embarked on a 12-hour vehicle...

Robbers routed. (Exercising the Right).(theft aborted)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2002... The Springfield, Ohio, area had been experiencing a string of armed robberies when two armed men entered the local Beverage Oasis store at about 11 p.m. on June 22nd. As one of the thugs, wearing a green mask and wielding a 12-gauge...

Exercising the Right.(jury in a self-defense case finds the defendant not guilty)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2002... Shortly before noon on November 21st of last year, Darrell Coad, 21, and Michael E. James Jr., 24, began arguing in a Cincinnati, Ohio, street. Coad subsequently told authorities that James had beaten him severely the day before, and that he...

Correction, please!(Correction Notice)
August 12, 2002... The End is Nigh... Again ITEM: The "Earth Will Expire By 2050," bannered the Sunday Observer. "Earth's population will be forced to colonize two planets within 50 years if natural resources continue to be exploited at the current rate......

Y2K and 9-11. (The Right Perspective).(Brief Article)
August 12, 2002... Though it now seems little more than a trivial event from the distant past, only a few short years have gone by since the U.S. and the world shuddered in collective dread of the so-called Millennium Bug. Back then, in the years leading up...

Taking the voucher bait. (The Last Word).(Brief Article)
August 12, 2002... Many misguided conservatives are hailing the Supreme Court's June 27th decision in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris as a victory for school choice -- a euphemism for a government voucher system that parents can use to pay their children's tuition. In a...

Y2K and 9-11: avoidable tragedies. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
August 26, 2002... Mr. Dennis Behreandt's lucid article "Y2K and 9-11" (August 12th issue of TNA) states the problem articulately and straightforwardly. The subtlety comes in his last paragraph: "If we want to ensure national security...." (Emphasis mine.) I...

Putting information into action. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
August 26, 2002... Regarding "U.S. Opposition to ICC a Sham?" in the "Insider Report" (July 29th issue), I wrote to President Bush after I learned what he did from my newspaper. I told President Bush I was ashamed that as our president he caved in to the United...

The death penalty and human dignity. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
August 26, 2002... The article "Ten Anti-Death Penalty Fallacies" by Thomas Eddlem in the June 3rd issue was excellent. However, he left out the most important objection to the death penalty, one voiced by Pope John Paul Hand the Catechism of the Catholic Church....

Communist China and the "Wolf" at the door. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
August 26, 2002... It is very interesting, and almost cockle-warming to me, to read that THE NEW AMERICAN took "our" man in the State Dept., Paul Wolfowitz, to task for his seeming uncertainty about the peaceful proclivities of the former "Red China," now merely...

China exporting forced abortion. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
August 26, 2002... Communist China is seeking to compel Taiwanese women who visit the mainland to undergo abortion or sterilization, according to Patrician Lin of Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF). Lin, the SEF's legal services director, told the...

UNESCO & the "war on terrorism". (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
August 26, 2002... The U.S. withdrew from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1984. Earlier this year, Congress authorized $67 million to pay for U.S. re-enrollment in the UN organization. At the time of this writing,...

The fraud of corporate "reform". (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
August 26, 2002... This summer's stock market plunge provoked an orgy of corporation-bashing, as politicians from both parties, led by President Bush, laid blame for the debacle exclusively at the feet of supposedly greedy corporate CEOs and corrupt accountants....

Washington follows Idaho's lead. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
August 26, 2002... Even if Idaho's media largely ignored passage of an anti-UN resolution at the state's Republican Party Convention in mid-June, Vice President Dick Cheney Wasn't happy when he heard about it. His telephone message to an ally in the Gem State...

Behind Bush's Kyoto sellout. (Inside Report).(Brief Article)
August 26, 2002... The Bush administration's unfolding sellout on "global warming" has been covered extensively in these pages. In his July 22nd column, Washington correspondent Robert Novak offers critical details about the role played by National Security...

FBI-mafia axis. (Inside Report).(Brief Article)
August 26, 2002... "For more than 20 years, FBI headquarters in Washington knew that its Boston agents were using hit men and mob leaders as informants and shielding them from prosecution for serious crimes including murder," reported the AP on July 28th....

Support our local police! (Inside Report).(the new supercops, the Federal Bureau of Investigations)(Brief Article)
August 26, 2002... As the Bush administration, under the rubric of the "War on Terrorism," accelerates our nation's plunge into a garrison state, some state and local law enforcement leaders are offering timely resistance. The process of centralizing and...

FTAA progress report. (Insider Report).(Free Trade Area of the Americas )(Brief Article)
August 26, 2002... Just before its August recess, Congress voted to give President Bush Trade Promotion Authority (TPA). Formerly known as "fast-track" authority, TPA was included in H.R. 3009, the Trade Act of 2002. The House passed H.R. 3009 by a 215-212 vote...

"Clash of civilizations" and Marxism. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
August 26, 2002... As momentum builds for a potentially apocalyptic "clash of civilizations" between fundamentalist Islam and the secular West, Americans must understand the true roots of Islamic militancy. Writing in the July 27th London Independent, British...

Criminalizing capitalism: blaming corrupt corporate officers for the recent stock market slide, both the White House and Congress are imposing socialist "reforms" that will exacerbate the downturn. (Cover Story: Economy).
August 26, 2002... "We need to strip corrupt corporate kingpins of their ill-gotten gains," ranted Congressman Tom DeLay (R-Texas) during a July 26th press conference. "We're taking the mansion. We're draining the accounts. And we're coming after the yacht." ...

Mishandling "the people's money": not even the most corrupt "corporate kingpin" can match the federal government's achievements in financial dishonesty and bookkeeping fraud. (Cover Story: Economy).
August 26, 2002... If you're a CEO and you think you can fudge the books in order to make yourself look better, we're going to find you, we're going to arrest you, and we're going to hold you to account," blustered President Bush shortly before signing the...

Money and debt. (Cover Story: At a Glance).(Brief Article)(Cover Story)
August 26, 2002... Because the U.S. dollar is fiat currency, there is no limit to how much can be pumped into the economy via the banking system. The biggest debtor: The U.S. government. Currency con: Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution authorizes...

Reporting to the UN: the Bush administration's compliance reports to a new Security Council committee show the extent to which we are now willing to let the United Nations dictate terms to us. (Terrorism).
August 26, 2002... With all the attention paid to the domestic war on terrorism and the dangers it poses to our liberties -- the PATRIOT Act, the Department of Homeland Security, the TIPS program, and so forth -- scant notice has been given to the United Nations'...

Texans issue a challenge. (The Right Perspective).(Brief Article)
August 26, 2002... During President George W. Bush's climb to the White House, the Republican Party of Texas produced a series of comprehensive and hard-hitting platforms that he has either refused to endorse or has ignored. In 1998, for instance, Texas...

Individual rights going up in smoke: if the coercive utopians can deny child-custody rights to smokers, there is no telling the extent to which they can regulate our lives--for our own good, of course. (The Law).
August 26, 2002... "I'm just stunned over this," Johnita DeMatteo told the New York Post for March 26th, "I feel this is a violation of my rights." Utica-based New York State Supreme Court Justice Robert F. Julian had just ruled that DeMatteo would no longer be...

Inflation.(WORTH REPEATING).(Brief Article)
August 26, 2002... Inflation: an increase in the amount of currency in circulation, resulting in a relatively sharp and sudden fall in its value and rise in prices. Webster's New Twentieth Century Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language (1957)

The crime of inflation. (Worth Repeating).(Brief Article)
August 26, 2002... The damage done by inflation isn't caused by the merchant who raises his prices or the working man who seeks higher wages. The crime of inflation is committed by whatever agency (or agencies) increases the amount of currency. When the...

Europe in the fourteenth century. (Worth Repeating).(Brief Article)
August 26, 2002... The business of banking began in Europe in the fourteenth century. Its function was to evaluate, exchange, and safeguard people's coins. In the beginning, there were notable examples of totally honest banks which operated with remarkable...

Inflation. (Worth Repeating).(Brief Article)
August 26, 2002... Inflation itself is a form of taxation. It is perhaps the worst possible form, which usually bears hardest on those least able to pay. On the assumption that inflation affected everyone and everything evenly (which, we have seen, is never...

Deep waters. (The Goodness of America).(from to football to the army)(Brief Article)
August 26, 2002... As a linebacker at Arizona State University, Pat Tillman developed a reputation for fierce play, characterized by bonecrunching tackles. In 1998, the National Football League's Arizona Cardinals drafted him in the seventh round. In 2000, as a...

Close call. (The Goodness of America).(Brief Article)
August 26, 2002... During 26 years delivering propane Dennis Schmotzer of Tampa, Florida, never considered his job particularly risky --until June 24th of this year. At around noon that day he was filling a 100-pound propane cylinder when an excess flow...

Winner(s). (The Goodness of America).(lucky friends)(Brief Article)
August 26, 2002... Michael Pinney of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and Larry Quinn of Plymouth, have been friends since high school. Pinney, 33, tests air for an asbestos removal company, while Quinn, 35, recently started a landscaping business. Since high...

Maryland's "First Citizen": the Maryland senate issues a "First Citizen" award every year as a well deserved tribute to Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the wealthiest signer of the Declaration of Independence. (History-Greatness Of The Founders).
August 26, 2002... Newspapers nationwide mournfully marked the end of a generation on November 15, 1832. The last living signer of the Declaration of Independence, Maryland's Charles Carroll of Carrollton, died in his sleep the previous evening. "The only...

Break-in. (Exercising the Right).(Brief Article)(Interview)
August 26, 2002... Fu Tan, 48, acquired the Sun Hing Chinese Food Carryout in West Baltimore, Maryland, about four years ago. He and his wife live in rooms above the restaurant. In early May of Last year a thief broke into the apartment while they were away...

Home invasion. (Exercising the Right).(self-defense)(Brief Article)
August 26, 2002... Shortly before 1 a.m. on June 22nd, Ramon Lopez and a few guests finished watching a movie at the Lopez home in Tampa, Florida. As the guests walked to their vehicles, two masked men armed with handguns entered the fenced yard and forced them...

Sending a message. (Exercising the Right).(self-defense)(Brief Article)
August 26, 2002... Burglars have attempted to break into the home of Stanley and Helen Morawski in Des Moines, Iowa, so often that Mrs. Morawski has expressed embarrassment at having to call police so often. Neighborhood thugs may have second thoughts in the...

Rewarding illegal aliens. (Correction, Please!).(Brief Article)(Correction Notice)
August 26, 2002... ITEM: Representative Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.), reported the Los Angeles Times on July 23rd, said that his party "soon would introduce legislation that would allow millions of illegal immigrants to move toward U.S. citizenship." In a speech "to the...

Prescribing away drug R and D. (Correction, Please!).(Brief Article)(Correction Notice)
August 26, 2002... ITEM: "Prescription drug costs in the United States are skyrocketing," writes William Novelli, the executive director of the American Association of Retired Persons in the AARP Bulletin for July-August 2002. AARP, he says, "is working hard to...

China in the bull shop. (Correction, Please!).(Correction Notice)
August 26, 2002... ITEM: "Beijing has hit back at the U.S., accusing the Pentagon and a congressional commission of fabricating a 'China threat' and warning that one of the biggest risks faced by China was continuing U.S. arms sales to Taiwan," reported CNN for...

Garrison state overture. (The Last Word).(police abuse case)(Brief Article)
August 26, 2002... Of necessity, the grim history of police states focuses on large-scale honors -- the gulags, gas chambers, and killing fields. But before a police state can carry out such monumental atrocities, it will announce its arrival with a proliferation...