The New American articles from May 2002

The New American archives from May 2002

Truth about Vietnam. (Letters to the Editor).
May 6, 2002... First I'd like to thank you sincerely for THE NEW AMERICAN. Until a couple of years ago, I had only heard that the John Birch Society was an extremist group. Now that I've come to think for myself, I realize it is just that -- extremely correct...

Is it "Only Rock 'n' Roll"? (Letters to the Editor).
May 6, 2002... I am writing in response to the article "Is It 'Only Rock 'n' Roll'?" by Steve Bonta (THE NEW AMERICAN, April 8th issue). I will start off by admitting that Lam biased: Lam young; I am a liberal; and I love rock and roll music. That being said,...

"Queer" agenda for clergy abuse. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... In the media's handling of the child sex-abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, one pertinent fact is almost completely ignored: The perpetrators of these heinous crimes are not "pedophile priests," but rather predatory homosexuals disguised as...

Prime-time pederasty. (Insider Report).(Queer Duck television show)(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... Showtime cable network has announced the addition of the cartoon series "Queer Duck," which will be shown immediately after its breakout homosexuality-themed series "Queer as Folk." The new animated series portrays the picaresque adventures of...

Chavez returns to power. (Insider Report).(President Hugo Chavez)(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... After several tumultuous days, which saw Venezuela's Marxist President Hugo Chavez ousted from power by a low-key military coup, the revolutionary Marxist once again firmly controls the world's fourth-largest oil producer. Hugo Chavez, a former...

Ohio court backs gun rights. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... On April 10th, a three-judge panel of Ohio's First District Court of Appeals unanimously struck down as unconstitutional a long-standing state law that, for all practical purposes, has prevented peaceful private residents of the Buckeye State...

Carter accepts Castro's invitation. (Insider Report).(ex-President Jimmy Carter to Cuba)(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... Former President Jimmy Carter, who of late spends much of his time jetting around the Third World, has recently added another country to his busy itinerary: Cuba. According to Deanna Congileo, director of public information for the Carter...

Compulsory abortion training. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... Hippocrates was the father of modern medicine. For some 2,500 years, physicians have taken the Hippocratic Oath, named for him. In recent decades, however, the oath has been largely abandoned in favor of watered-down alternative vows (or none...

Computer ID chips inside humans? (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... The VeriChip, made by Applied Digital Solutions, will soon be available for implantation under a person's skin. The VeriChip is a programmable computer chip about the size of a grain of rice that emits a radio signal when a special scanning...

Big question for General Myers. (Insider Report).(Richard Myers)(Interview)
May 6, 2002... When General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was interviewed on CNN's "Novak, Hunt & Shields" program aired on April 6th, show co-host Al Hunt asked what he called "the big question for General Myers: One embarrassment for...

The International Criminal Court is coming. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... On April 11th at United Nations headquarters, a journey that began in Rome in July of 1998 reached its final stage: Ten nations deposited their ratifications of the Rome Statute simultaneously, jointly sharing the honor of bringing the...

Erasing our borders: globalists are maneuvering America into a merger with the rest of the Western Hemisphere via "free trade" agreements. Their goal, as with the EU, is regional government. (Cover Story: Regional Government).(Cover Story)
May 6, 2002... America is being hijacked, but the hijackers don't go by names like Mohamed, Omar, and Osama. The hijackers to whom we refer bear prominent names, such as Bush, Clinton, Kissinger, McLarty, Greenspan, Rubin, and Rockefeller. They don't use box...

Aztlan and Amalgamation: the Mexican government, radical Chicano separatists, and even the Bush administration are all seeking to open the U.S.-Mexican border. (Cover Story: Regional Government).(Cover Story)
May 6, 2002... Mexico is a friend of America. Mexico is our neighbor. And we want our neighbors to succeed. We want our neighbors to do well.... And that's why it's so important for us to tear down barriers and walls that might separate Mexico from the United...

European superstate in the making: over the course of half a century, the architects of the European Union's various incarnations have lied to conceal their true goal of a socialist regional superstate. (Cover Story: Regional Government).(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... By all counts, Steven Thoburn is not a dangerous criminal. He threw no bombs, threatened no one, harmed no one. He has no prior criminal record. He is a greengrocer in Sunderland, England, a small shopowner who sells fresh fruits and vegetables...

Lessons of the past relevant today: the collected essays in Bonfire of the Humanities highlight multiculturalism's devastating effect on today's universities and the humanities' vital importance in higher education. (Book Review).
May 6, 2002... Bonfire of the Humanities: Rescuing the Classics in an Impoverished Age, by Hanson, Victor Davis, et al., Wilmington: ISI Books, 2001, 373 pages, hard-bound, $24.95. When it comes to problems in America's education system, what usually...

Answers to homeschool questions: knowledgeable answers to seven frequently asked questions about homeschooling explain the benefits of home education and dispel some typical misperceptions. (Education).
May 6, 2002... Here are seven of the most frequently asked questions about home education and home educators: Q: Why do families choose to homeschool? Dr. Brian Ray of the National Home Education Research Institute offers this on his website:...

Alert citizens help police catch thief. (The Goodness of America).(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... At around 8:20 a.m. on March 4th, 12-year-old Chris Ebbers was about to leave home to catch his school bus when the lanky Elk Grove, California, seventh-grader heard some strange noises from the attached garage. Before he could investigate,...

Honest man. (The Goodness of America).(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... Orem, Utah, resident Gary Mendenhall, 46, has worked for Utah Power & Light Company for some 23 years. On March 27th, he was inspecting a power pole in an empty field when he noticed a $20 bill on the ground, then another, and yet another,...

Trooper of the year. (The Goodness of America).(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... At around 11:30 p.m. on July 6, 2001, off-duty Alaska State Trooper Larry Erickson was pulling into his driveway after completing his swing shift when he received a report that a Toyota Corolla was swerving erratically through downtown...

Steadfast fighter for freedom: from valiant exploits during the Vietnam War to persuasive speaking tours across the U.S., Army Brig. General Andrew J. Gatsis has steadfastly fought for America's freedom. (American Hero).
May 6, 2002... Thanks to the movie We Were Soldiers, our Vietnam War heroes are receiving well-deserved and long-overdue recognition. While the movie staffing Mel Gibson depicts the heroism of Colonel Hal Moore, THE NEW AMERICAN proudly acknowledges the valor...

Hidden gun thwarts crime. (Exercising the Right).(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... Roy Chatham lives with his 25-year-old son Jason in southwestern Wilkes County, North Carolina. He is a newspaper carrier for the Winston-Salem Journal, and was at work in the early morning of March 8th when two men knocked on the door of the...

Living room stakeout. (Exercising the Right).(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... In early March, someone broke into the home of Jerald Miller in Bristol Township, Ohio, and stole $80 in change, a pocketknife, and a compass. It numbered among several recent burglaries at the residence. Hoping to catch any future intruder,...

Father defends son. (Exercising the Right).(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... A Blockbuster video rental store in Orange City, Florida, was robbed in January by two thugs who, among other things, dragged one of the employees around by his ponytail. When another store employee, 20-year-old Gabe Shockey, insisted on...

Pain in the neck. (Exercising the Right).(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... At around 10 p.m. on March 20th, Bobby Drum, 68, and wife Dorothy, 64, were at home in Dentsville, South Carolina, when someone attempted to break in through a front screen door. While Mr. Drum rushed to a back room to retrieve his 9 mm...

Correction, Please!(rectifying biased media coverage of international stories)(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... Arafat: Terrorist for Peace? ITEM: The Bush administration isn't branding Yasser Arafat as a terrorist "because there is more he can do to further the peace process, Secretary of State Colin Powell said," reported the Press-Enterprise for...

Sisyphus in the Middle East. (The Last Word).(Brief Article)(Column)
May 6, 2002... Following World War II, wrote Zbigniew Brzezinski in the April 7th New York Times, "America stepped into the Middle East as British and French colonial domination receded," thereby becoming "the chief guarantor of the region's peace...." This...

Can America be saved? (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
May 20, 2002... I was quite disappointed to read Larry Greenley's review of Pat Buchanan's latest book The Death of tire West ("Can America Be Saved," April 8th issue of THE NEW AMERICAN). While I bought the book but still haven't read it, I've read umpteen...

Deadly German School shooting. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... Shortly before 11:00 a.m. on April 26th, students at Gutenberg High School in Erfurt, Germany, were taking their final college-level exams when 19-year-old Robert Steinhaeuser, dressed in black and wearing a ski mask, emerged from a restroom...

Sarah Brady: illegal gun purchase? (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... Did Sarah Brady, aka "Mrs. Gun Control," violate Delaware state law when she purchased a high-powered rifle for her son? In her new memoir, A Good Fight, Brady reveals that she bought James Brady Jr. a Remington .30-06 for Christmas 2000. "I...

French nationalist Le Pen smeared. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... You'd think the sky had fallen, to judge from the media's apoplectic reactions when French presidential candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front received 23 percent in national elections on April 21st, forcing an unexpected runoff with...

The Osbournes. (Insider Report).
May 20, 2002... It wouldn't be quite accurate to say that in its latest "reality TV" tour de force, The Osbournes, MTV has sunk to new lows. Television' s premier purveyor of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll has a long, consistent, and unenviable record of...

Marxist-Muslim alliance. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... The April 20th rally in Washington, D.C., that brought together a large assortment of Communists and veterans of the radical Left, demonstrated the alarming extent to which these forces have forged ties with Muslim communities in the United...

Middle East conflicts in America. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... America is being polarized into pro-Sharon and pro-Arafat camps, which are daily becoming more strident and militantly antagonistic. The giant Israel Solidarity Rally on April 15th and the pro-PLO Mobilization to Stop the War on April 20th....

Reparations racket. (Insider Report).(slave reparations)(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... On March 26th in Brooklyn, the first lawsuit seeking reparations for blacks from companies that supposedly profited directly or indirectly from pre-Civil War slavery was filed in U.S. District Court. The targeted firms include Aetna...

Private land lockup: federal and state agencies are, in essence, pulling the land right out from under the feet of private property owners as part of the United Nations' radical Wildlands Project. (Cover Story-Land Grab).(Cover Story)
May 20, 2002... One moment they were responsible, law-abiding owners of forestland in rural Washington; the next, they were ecocriminals confronting onerous fines and eviction from land they thought they owned. What had they done? Nothing -- and that was the...

Rancher wins fight for rights: Rancher Wayne Hage's decade-long struggle for his property rights resulted in a significant victory this year in the United States Court of Federal Claims. (Cover Story - Land Grab).(Cover Story)
May 20, 2002... On January 29, 2002, the United States Court of Federal Claims handed down a decision promising to have a widespread impact on the debate over western lands and property rights in general. It also has much to do with government accountability...

Globalization's false opposition: a coalition of radical subversives led by the Communist Party is spearheading a deceptive campaign to empower the UN and its global institutions. (Deception and Subversion).
May 20, 2002... On April 20th-23rd tens of thousands of radical activists converged on Washington, D.C. It was the latest in a string of street theater extravaganzas demonstrating the revolutionary pincer strategy of "pressure from above" and "pressure from...

Castro's stooge in South America: though ousted by a recent coup, Venezuela's Marxist President Hugo Chavez was brought back to power by his goon squads -- the Bolivarian Circles -- with a little help from Cuba. (Venezuela).
May 20, 2002... At the recent Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico, Venezuela's Marxist President Hugo Chavez was one of the centers of media attention. Poised and confident at a press conference, Chavez parried aggressive questions...

Life-saving teamwork. (The Goodness of America).(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... Prior to April 1st, Air Force Staff Sergeant Jon Fremstad and Wisconsin State Trooper George Riedel had not met, but their paths crossed that day to save the life of a child seriously injured in an automobile accident. Ruthie Hopkins of...

Unsung heroes. (The Goodness of America).(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... Salt Lake Tribune columnists Paul Rolly and JoAnn Jacobsen-Wells occasionally report instances of honesty and Good Samaritanism. On March 18th, for instance, they noted three refreshing examples of "unsung heroes who restore our faith in...

Good neighbor. (The Goodness of America).(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... On the evening of March 19, 2001, one-year-old Ashley Stone was asleep in her bedroom crib when a fire broke out in the adjoining living room of the Stone's one-story home in Green Bay, Wisconsin. A neighbor, Shannon Marie Segura, 25, saw the...

Meet the "Liberal" Mr. & Mrs. Buttons: noted author Taylor Caldwell tells of her childhood encounters with the "thriftiness" of Liberals and how these experiences turned her into a "grim 'Conservative.'". (Opinion past).
May 20, 2002... Recently a flowery young "Liberal" male with flowing hair and flowing hands -- and a flowing tongue, too -- demanded of me that I explain why and when I became a "Conservative." He wanted to know how I got this way. Frankly, I couldn't...

Real-life Law and Order. (Exercising the Right).(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... Shortly after 9:00 p.m. on March 30th, Asize Lee Coady, 73, and boyfriend Odie Harper, 63, were watching the television program Law and Order at Coady's home in Memphis, Tennessee, when someone knocked at the door. Coady went to see who it was,...

Targeting the elderly. (Exercising the Right).(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... For much of this year, Dentsville, Alabama, resident Arlo Gilliam, 65, has been ill. When he heard a knock at his door on March 11th, he thought it was his son coming to help care for him. Instead, when he opened the door a man pressed a gun to...

Guilt by association. (Exercising the Right).(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... At around 10:00 a.m. on April 3rd, a homeowner in Kansas City, Missouri, heard noises in the basement of his one-story house. Grabbing a .38-caliber handgun from under his bed, he went to investigate. According to police, he encountered a youth...

Digging his own grave. (Exercising the Right).(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... Robert Littleton, 30, was visiting George Teague, 60, at the latter's home in Birmingham, Alabama, on March 28th when some sort of dispute arose. Littleton was asked to leave. Although he complied, he returned shortly after 6 p.m. with a...

Failure to learn a lesson. (Exercising the Right).(ex-convict wounded while robbing convenience store)(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... On March 15th, Willis Brown, 44, attempted to rob Zipp's Deli, a convenience store in Muncie, Indiana. Claiming to have a gun in his jacket, he demanded money. The clerk complied, then pulled a gun of his own and fired five shots, at least one...

Scare tactics. (Exercising the Right).(restaurant robbery foiled in Selma, Alabama)(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... Late in the evening of March 26th, two men entered Our House Restaurant in Selma, Alabama, when owner Bernice Gill and a cleaning lady were the only ones present. Gill later recalled for the March 28th Selma Times -Journal that "one of...

Schools for scandal. (Correction, Please!).(school privatization in Philadelphia, PA)(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... ITEM: "After a day of heated protests," reported the Philadelphia Inquirer for April 18th, "Philadelphia's School Reform Commission decided... to hand over 42 of the district's low-performing schools to seven outside managers.... The...

"Free" health care flaws. (Correction, Please!).(United Kingdom National Health Service)(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... Item: Gordon Brown, Britain's chancellor of the exchequer, unveiled a crash 40 billion pound program of "investment" in the National Health Service, reported The Guardian for April 18th. "Taking a massive political gamble that voters will see...

Subjecting civilians to military power. (The Last Word).(creation of Office of Homeland Security raises concerns about Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 prohibitions)(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... The pros and cons of employing federal troops to enforce the post-Civil War Reconstructionist policies in the South became an issue during the 1876 presidential election. There is evidence that rising citizen distaste for the military...