The New American articles from December 2002

The New American archives from December 2002

Rebutting Rockefeller. (Letters to the Editor).
December 2, 2002... William F. Jasper's response to Steven Rockefeller's letter upholding the Earth Charter was a masterful refutation of Rockefeller's attempt to mislead readers with half-truths, truths out of context, and outright lies ("Rebutting Rockefeller,"...

For the record. (Letters to the Editor).
December 2, 2002... Regarding Mr. John F. McManus' review of Quest of a Hemisphere ("Quest for True American History," October 21st issue), there is an error regarding the John Peter Zenger case of 1735. I do not know if the error was originally made by the book's...

Correction.
December 2, 2002... A photo caption on page 38 of the November 4th issue incorrectly gave the first name of an American Revolutionary War general. The correct name is General Richard Montgomery.

Universal California preschool? (Insider Report).
December 2, 2002... At a congress of Communist Party educators in 1918, schoolteachers in the newly formed Soviet Union were instructed: "We must remove the children from the crude influence of their families. We must take them over and, to speak frankly,...

Pyrrhic pro-life victory. (Insider Report).
December 2, 2002... In late October, the Bush administration "revised the charter of a federal advisory committee concerned with the safety of research volunteers to specify that embryos in experiments are 'human subjects' whose welfare should be considered along...

Saddam in the dock? (Insider Report).
December 2, 2002... "The Bush administration is building cases against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and more than a dozen members of his inner circle," reported the October 30th Washington Post. "The venue for prosecution has not been determined, but U.S....

Foreign poll-watchers in America. (Insider Report).
December 2, 2002... What was parody in 2000 became policy in 2002. In November 2000, as the Bush-Gore presidential contest in Florida went into extra innings, the satirical magazine The Onion "reported" that "Serbian president Vojislav Kostunica deployed more than...

Kosovo home to Afghan terrorists. (Insider Report).
December 2, 2002... "A year ago, Islamic relief groups were on the rise in Afghanistan," noted an October 23rd AP article. "But when the Taliban retreated under a withering U.S. air assault, most Islamic charities weren't far behind. Today, only a handful...

Balkans blow-back in Britain. (Insider Report).
December 2, 2002... It sounds like the plot of a bad made-for-television movie: Acting on a tip from tabloid reporters who had infiltrated an art theft ring, Scotland Yard foils a plot to kidnap a pop star and extort a five million pound ransom from her soccer...

Communists organize peace march. (Insider Reports).
December 2, 2002... The October 26th "peace" march in Washington, D.C., may have prompted many levelheaded conservative Americans uneasy about the prospective war on Iraq to throw their support to the president. The protest attracted an estimated 100,000 marchers,...

Soviet help for Carter presidency. (Insider Reports).
December 2, 2002... Former President Jimmy Carter's post-White House career has included innumerable trips to other countries to advise foreigners about how to run elections. But he showed a more ruthless side as president when he was trying to keep the reins of...

Civilian disarmament in Australia. (Insider Reports).
December 2, 2002... On November 5th, Australian authorities announced that "most semi-automatic handguns and all large-caliber revolvers will be banned from all but military, law enforcement and security purposes," reported the November 6th Sydney Morning Herald....

The insider agenda behind disarming Iraq.
December 2, 2002... Although the mainstream media treated the Security Council's unanimous approval of a new resolution on Iraq as "unexpected," regular readers of THE NEW AMERICAN were not surprised. In our October 21st cover story on Saddam Hussein, we made...

Weapons of mass insurrection. (Cover Story: The Home Front).
December 2, 2002... Revolutionary zeal unites Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam with urban street gangs and radical Muslim regimes, creating a serious threat to America's internal security. "I am God," taunted the D.C. sniper in a message left for police...

Extra copies available.
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EU deception: wider & deeper. (European Union).
December 2, 2002... The Irish referendum and the drive for a European constitution show that the Euro-elitists will employ every deception. U.S. elites are following the EU example with the FTAA. In June 2001, Irish voters rejected the controversial Treaty of...

Victims of the Hanoi gulag. (Vietnam).
December 2, 2002... Normalizing U.S. relations with communist Vietnam was supposedly going to improve human rights there. Actor Don Duong and Fr. Nguyen Van Ly know otherwise. For many years, Don Duong has lived a relatively privileged life in Vietnam. The...

The Skeptical Environmentalist. (Books in Brief).
December 2, 2002... The Skeptical Environmentalist, by Bjom Lomborg (Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 515 pages, paperback, $28.00. By now everyone knows, or thinks that they know, that humanity is destroying the environment. We...

Bias. (Books in Brief).
December 2, 2002... Bias, by Bernard Goldberg (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2002), 232 pages, hardcover, $27.95. Motivated by self-preservation, Procopius did the sensible thing. An eminent historian and bureaucrat during the reign of the...

Emergency driving lesson. (The Goodness of America).
December 2, 2002... Nine-year-old Jacoyia Polk attends third grade in Orlando, Florida. On October 24th, Jacoyia was riding in a vehicle driven by her 63-year-old grandmother when she suddenly realized that something was wrong. Jacoyia's grandmother was having a...

"Armed" boy saves trapped puppies. (The Goodness of America).
December 2, 2002... August 9th was a hot day in Watsonville, California. The temperature had reached 90 degrees when 9-year-old Isiah Ayala noticed two puppies in a parked car near his home. The vehicle was locked and a window was cracked only slightly. It was...

Honest hiker helps another. (The Goodness of America).
December 2, 2002... In August 1975, Roy Huff of Winnetka, California, attempted to climb 13,000-foot University Peak in the eastern Sierra Nevada mountain range with three friends. The climb proved more onerous than expected, and as darkness approached they...

Bowlers protect little girl from kidnapper. (The Goodness of America).
December 2, 2002... On the evening of October 13th at the Park Place Bowling Lanes in Windham, New Hampshire, several bowlers noticed a young girl following close behind a man walking toward an exit. Something did not seem right, so they approached the man and...

Rescuer earns Medal. (The Goodness of America).
December 2, 2002... On May 4, 2001 in Westerlo, New York, Matthew T. Golden, 18, and Diana A. Johnson, 18, were involved in a car accident that sent the vehicle driven by Golden careening through the wall of a garage. Both Golden and Johnson were rendered...

Irreconcilable differences. (History -- Struggle for Freedom).
December 2, 2002... In 1919, a group of patriotic senators saved America from becoming entangled in the fledgling League of Nations. These stalwart souls became known as "The Irreconcilables." The Washington, D.C., home of Alice Roosevelt Longworth had hosted...

Rapist reined in. (Exercising the Right).
December 2, 2002... Between September 25th and October 8th in the East End area of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, six women (ages 14 to 33) were assaulted by a violent deviate who would approach them from behind while they were walking, try to make conversation,...

Parking dispute. (Exercising the Right).
December 2, 2002... Shortly before midnight on October 4th, Wilburt Larkins, 33, entered a paid parking lot in Ybor City, Florida. When attendant Ian C. McGeehan, 30, approached to ask for the fee, Larkins pulled a gun, grabbed McGeehan, and demanded money. Rather...

Exonerated. (Exercising the Right).
December 2, 2002... The marriage of Monica Jarvis of South Jordan, Utah, and husband Seferino Rodriguez was a stormy one. They had separated, and Jarvis, 42, was reportedly planning to seek a restraining order against Rodriguez, 50. Shortly after midnight on...

Three strikes and out. (Exercising the Right).
December 2, 2002... The home of Mr. and Mrs. James Roberts in the Springhill area of Saline County, Arkansas, was recently broken into and robbed twice in one week while the couple was at work. But during the morning of October 10th, while Mrs. Roberts was again...

Quotable. (Exercising the Right).
December 2, 2002... "Time and again, states adopting concealed carry laws have experienced lower rates of murder, rape, and assault. Criminals are less likely to attack a victim who may be armed; those who do attack are more likely to be scared off if their...

Correction, please!
December 2, 2002... ITEM: "Massive increases in cigarette taxes that 20 U.S. states are enacting to help plug budget holes are so far swelling coffers as expected despite also raising sales of 'contraband' smokes, states say," said a Reuters dispatch in the San...

Not a conservative victory. (The Last Word).
December 2, 2002... The 2002 congressional election is now history. Traditionally, the party controlling the White House will suffer losses, not gains, in a non-presidential election year. But this year's Republican Party, spurred on by President Bush's determined...

"Ark of Hope" comes to Rockford. (The Right Perspective).
December 16, 2002... When I received the September 23rd issue of THE NEW AMERICAN, I was immediately captivated by the headline for William F. Jasper's article on "The New World Religion." Being a student of the Bible and various faiths/religions, I was interested...

D.C. snipers and answered prayer. (Insider Report).
December 16, 2002... Ron Lancz doesn't consider himself a hero, but thanks to his alertness and heroic action, D.C. sniper suspects John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo were nabbed, ending a three-week terror spree. Mr. Lancz, a 62-year-old truck driver, was just...

"Utaztlan"?! (Insider Report).
December 16, 2002... Since the 1960s, radical Chicano activists (with financial and moral support from major tax-exempt foundations) have championed the notion that the southwestern United States is actually "Aztlan," the mythical homeland of the Aztec Indians....

Homeland Security behemoth. (Insider Report).
December 16, 2002... Ending a months-long standoff over legislation to create a new Cabinet-level Homeland Security Department, the Senate voted on November 19th to approve the new agency. The new mammoth department will absorb 22 agencies, including the...

Bush "Saves" the UN. (Insider Report).
December 16, 2002... "Maybe George W. Bush Has Saved the UN From Itself," mused the headline to George Melloan's November 12th Wall Street Journal column. While the Left assailed Mr. Bush's "unilateralism," and his Republican defenders hailed him for supposedly...

How pro-life is gop, Bush? (Insider Report).
December 16, 2002... "Will Congress really ban partial-birth abortion," asked American Life League (ALL) president Judie Brown in a November 8th press statement, "or just give prolifers lip service by once again passing a meaningless regulation containing an...

Abortionists mock Christmas. (Insider Report).
December 16, 2002... Is nothing sacred? Obviously not, when it comes to pro-abortion militants--except, of course, the gospel of "Choice." Annually collecting millions of taxpayer dollars from federal, state, and local governments, Planned Parenthood has no...

Planned Parenthood's perversion. (Insider Report).
December 16, 2002... "Blasting Myths About Lesbians" is the title of an article currently running on Planned Parenthood's "Teenwire" Internet website. "Girls Come Out" is another propaganda article for lesbianism profiling two high school girls who publicly have...

Orwell lives in London. (Insider Report).
December 16, 2002... In early November, London residents who use the city's mass-transit system were greeted with posters depicting a double-decker bus beneath four floating eyes. "Secure beneath the watchful eyes," read the poster's caption. "CCTV and Metropolitan...

Ominous NATO expansion. (Insider Report).
December 16, 2002... NATO is "widening" its membership and "deepening" its powers and jurisdiction in the most sweeping expansion of the Cold War alliance's 53-year history. At a NATO summit in the Czech Republic capital of Prague on November 21st-22nd, membership...

Independent probe of 9-11 attack. (Insider Report).
December 16, 2002... On November 15th, before adjourning for the year, the House of Representatives voted to establish an independent commission to investigate the 9-11 terrorist attacks. The legislation passed overwhelmingly, by a vote of 366-3 in the House,...

Protecting the Elite from the ICC. (Insider Report).
December 16, 2002... In a review of Henry Kissinger's critique of the UN's International Criminal Court (ICC), THE NEW AMERICAN predicted that America's political Establishment would seek an arrangement with the ICC through which "well connected members of the...

EU cyber-censorship. (Insider Report).
December 16, 2002... In early November, the Council of Europe approved an annex to a computer crime treaty that would criminalize publishing material online that "advocates, promotes or incites hatred [or] discrimination." The European Commission (EC) has also...

Defender of the decalogue: determined to preserve the Founders' vision of God-given rights, chief justice Roy Moore has been targeted by Morris Dees and like-minded leftist radicals. (Interview).
December 16, 2002... Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore first attracted national attention as an Alabama state circuit judge in 1995, when the ACLU unsuccessfully sued in an attempt to require the judge to remove from his courtroom a homemade plaque of...

Our "Friend" to the south: even as it seals off its own southern border, the Mexican government seeks the UN's help in tearing down its border with the United States. (Mexico).
December 16, 2002... On November 8th, Mexico's representative on the UN Security Council joined the 150 vote to authorize using force against Iraq. Less than 24 hours earlier, the Mexican government asked the UN to intervene against the United States. This...

A Christmas to remember. (History-Struggle for Freedom).
December 16, 2002... A great gift to his countrymen, Washington's Christmas crossing of the delaware and victory over the enemy at trenton gave new life to America's struggle for freedom. Christmas morning dawned gloomy and cold over the rebel camp. The low,...

The American miracle. (History-Struggle for freedom).
December 16, 2002... Our War for Independence seemed destined for failure. But with the intercession of providence at key points, the American cause succeeded in spectacular fashion. The creation of a new government hung in the balance. After almost five weeks...

The Sound of Music. (The Goodness of America).
December 16, 2002... Victor and Laurie MacDonald of Orange, Massachusetts, met in 1981. From the first, Mrs. MacDonald recently recalled, "we knew that the Lord was going to use us as we combined our talents, Victor being a self-taught fix-it man and my having the...

Overdue honor. (The Goodness of America).
December 16, 2002... During World War II, the Naval Armed Guard carried out the vital--and perilous--mission of protecting U.S. troops and merchant vessels from enemy attack in hostile waters. Aboard slow-moving ships, guardsmen traversed what German U-boat...

Teen heroes. (The Goodness of America).
December 16, 2002... On March 3, 2001 in Geneva, Ohio, Jefferey E. Finehout, 39, emerged from a flatbed truck when the vehicle, its engine still running, began rolling backward down a slight grade. Grasping the door handle with one hand and the steering wheel with...

Robert Welch University summer camps: passing the torch of liberty. (At a Glance).
December 16, 2002... When America was founded, our country was steeped in a culture of religious faith, self-reliance, and limited government. The Founding Fathers, proclaiming that rights came from God rather than from any manmade source, created a constitutional...

Squirrelly confrontation. (Exercising the Right).
December 16, 2002... Britain's domestic disarmament regimen, often lauded by U.S. anti-gun zealots, has come under heavy fire in recent months. On November 8th, for instance, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported that the "rising level of gun crime on...

Auto shop shootout. (Exercising the Right).
December 16, 2002... In March of last year, some three weeks before opening Ntense Kustoms & Car Audio in northeast Richland, South Carolina, Sterling Patterson, 23, bought a handgun for protection. He hoped that he would never have to use it, but that aspiration...

Quotable. (Exercising the Right).
December 16, 2002... Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas), in his "Texas Straight Talk" weekly column for October 28, 2002, stated: "Perhaps the only good that can come out of these senseless and tragic killings [the recent serial-killer shootings in and around...

Gop abortion compromise. (Correction, Please!).
December 16, 2002... ITEM: On his November 8th PBS television show, "NOW with Bill Moyers," the commentator fumed that for "the first time in the memory of anyone alive, the entire federal government--the Congress, the Executive, the Judiciary--is united behind a...

The nerve of the UN. (Correction, Please!).
December 16, 2002... ITEM: "Iraq has ordered 1.25 million doses of an antidote for nerve agents in what could be an attempt to protect its military personnel if Saddam Hussein uses those weapons on the battlefield, administration sources said...," reported the...

Extreme Democrats needed. (Correction Please!).
December 16, 2002... ITEM: On The Progressive's website in early November, editor Matthew Rothschild bemoaned that the post-election landscape was "barren." Republicans, he predicted, "will have their way." The GOP will, for instance, be able to "cement Bush's...

Goforth in faith. (The Last Word).
December 16, 2002... It's interesting to imagine how the Holy Family would have fared if Bethlehem had been cursed with a Child Protective Services agency. Judging from the zeal of contemporary CPS commissars to break up healthy families while invoking "the best...

"Gay" goes Mainstream. (Letters to the Editor).
December 30, 2002... Thank you for your accurate and timely article "Unmentionable Vice Goes Mainstream" by William Norman Grigg (November 18th issue). As the conservative daughter of a lesbian activist I have felt the edge of the liberal sword. Politically and...

"Utaztlan"?! (Letters to the Editor).
December 30, 2002... Regarding "'Utaztlan'?!" in the December 16th issue of THE NEW AMERICAN, prior to publication of the Nov. 17th Salt Lake City Tribune article about "Aztlan in Utah," I had been writing to Roberto Rodriguez about his theory and the fact that he...

Russia's Communist renaissance. (Insider Report).
December 30, 2002... "President Vladimir Putin agreed [on November 26th] to reinstate the Soviet-era Red Star as the Russian military's official emblem -- in the latest reincarnation of Communist symbols that has sparked fears of a return to the repressive past,"...

Bush's foreign aid "competition". (Insider Report).
December 30, 2002... On November 25th, the Bush administration unveiled a blueprint for its "Millennium Challenge Account," an ambitious proposal to administer a new $5 billion foreign aid fund. "Under the plan, a new federal corporation will be set up to...

Foreign aid folly. (Insider Report).
December 30, 2002... The U.S. Constitution does not authorize the practice of "foreign aid" -- extracting money from U.S. taxpayers to subsidize foreign governments. In effect, this pernicious practice amounts to taxation without representation, since the foreign...

Civil rights at bayonet point. (Insider Report).
December 30, 2002... "When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it," declared incoming Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) at a retirement party for Senator Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.). "And if the rest of the country had followed...

Homicidal homosexual in Chicago. (Insider Report).
December 30, 2002... Fifty-one-year-old Mary Stachowicz was a soft-spoken, devout Catholic mother of four from Chicago. On November 15th, police recovered her body from a crawlspace under the apartment floor of her confessed murderer, 19-year-old homosexual...

9-11: the Balkans & prior warning. (Insider Report).
December 30, 2002... Saudi nationals Tareq and Yaser al-Jahini are among the 345 people sought by the FBI in connection with Black Tuesday. According to the November 11th Portland Oregonian, Tareq came under FBI scrutiny more than three years before the 9-11...

Passing the terrorist torch. (Insider Report).
December 30, 2002... As the dumpy, balding, middle-aged man entered the Cape Town courtroom, one spectator cried, "Viva, John! Viva!" Scores of other voices joined the refrain praising the "labor activist" known as John Pape, who -- according to a news account --...

Outcry scuttles TIPS spy program. (Insider Report).
December 30, 2002... Official Washington responded to 9-11 with an avalanche of frightful police-state proposals. One of the most chilling was when the Bush administration announced a new federal program called Operation TIPS (Terrorism Information and Prevention...

TIPS down, but what about TIA? (Insider Report).
December 30, 2002... The Operation TIPS program envisioned a vast human intelligence program utilizing millions of citizen spies. The Total Information Awareness program, TIA, opts for governmental omnipresence and omniscience through more hi-tech means. Under...

Kofi Annan's Gettysburg address. (Insider Report).
December 30, 2002... During a November 17th visit to Sarajevo, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan dedicated a marble memorial to 257 UN personnel who died in Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo during the Yugoslavian civil wars. "This memorial will serve to reinforce our...

Kissinger: cover-up king; hailed by President Bush as a respected public servant, Henry Kissinger has actually been the faithful servant of a corrupt international elite bent on total power. (Cover Story: Conspiracy).
December 30, 2002... Only by exhuming and reanimating Earl Warren could President Bush have made his intentions clearer. Warren's stewardship over the notorious independent commission to investigate the JFK assassination made his name forever synonymous with...

Burying the truth: acting on behalf of the behind-the-scenes ruling Establishment, President Bush has rigged the "independent" 9-11 Commission to cover up prior knowledge of the attack. (Cover Story: Conspiracy).
December 30, 2002... The primary impetus for the bipartisan commission on 9-11 came from family members of Americans killed in the attack, who seek accountability for intelligence and security lapses contributing to the disaster. Now that Henry Kissinger has been...

UN politics: a rigged game; current appeals to increase U.S. influence at the UN to advance our national interests are dangerous ploys meant to draw us further into the world government trap. (United Nations).
December 30, 2002... Should the U.S. forcefully "re-engage" the United Nations and make a determined effort to use the UN to advance democracy throughout the world? That is the party line of America's foreign policy establishment. It is a refrain that has remained...

Pulling the plug on Fujimori: globalists operating through the UN and the U.S. government crashed Peru's economy and toppled its duly elected government to advance their new world order. (Peru).
December 30, 2002... In April 2000, Peru's President Alberto Fujimori said he was confident that he would win a third term in office despite what he called an "international conspiracy" to undermine his campaign with accusations of election fraud. The highly...

Scorn for porn: from the Internet to the classroom, purveyors of porn are targeting our children. Americans must defend themselves and their families against this culture-destroying onslaught. (Book Review).
December 30, 2002... Protecting Your Child In an X-Rated World, by Frank York and Jan LaRue (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers), 307 pages, paperback, $12.99. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too...

A lesson in Free Enterprise: a childhood race teaches a valuable lesson about the difference between Free Enterprise and socialist "share the wealth" schemes. (Opinion Past).
December 30, 2002... I am not one to genuflect when Free Enterprise is mentioned, nor do I drop my voice in reverence when speaking of it, myself. I do not think it is God's system for bringing Heaven to earth, nor do I believe the angels shout with joy when...

Magical moment. (The Goodness of America).
December 30, 2002... Jake Porter, 17, is a senior at Northwest High School in McDermott, Ohio, a city of about 3,000 near the Kentucky border. He was born with chromosomal fragile X syndrome, a genetic malady that causes mental retardation. Despite the disability,...

Good Samaritan in an SUV. (The Goodness of America).
December 30, 2002... Mr. and Mrs. Sione Falepapalangi and their five children live in West Valley City, Utah (a suburb of Salt Lake City). On the afternoon of November 27th, they set out for California in the family van, intending to spend Thanksgiving with Mr....

Author of the preamble. (History - Greatness of the Founders).
December 30, 2002... Best known for writing the preamble of the U.S. Constitution, Gouverneur Morris used his legendary wit, eloquence, and insight to make many other contributions to liberty. We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect...

Homeowner cleared. (Exercising the Right).
December 30, 2002... Shortly after 3 a.m. on October 18th, police in Woodburn, Oregon, responded to a 911 call that a man armed with a knife was threatening a family. By the time they arrived at the home of Paciano Reyes-Vieyra, however, the suspect, later...

Grizzly confrontation. (Exercising the Right).
December 30, 2002... Late in the evening of October 27th, 15-year-old Daniel Pickar of Kalispell, Montana, thought his dog, Bessie, was chasing a small animal, so he went to look for the pet. Taught by his father to carry a firearm, he took his 20-gauge shotgun...

Shooting in self-defense. (Exercising the Right).
December 30, 2002... Shortly after midnight on March 2nd, during an after-work get-together at Jennifer Meyer's apartment in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a man began repeatedly calling Meyer on the phone. Told that she was asleep, and unable to speak to him, the...