The New American articles from October 2002

The New American archives from October 2002

From the editor.
October 7, 2002... Could Osama bin Laden (if he is still alive) ever hope to conquer the United States? How about Saddam Hussein? How about all of the world's terrorists and terrorist sponsors combined? Of course not! America is too powerful, and the American...

The action is in the reaction: the terrorist leaders and their sponsors are providing the pretext for the U.S. government to institute police-state measures. (Terrorism).
October 7, 2002... [T]he battle has moved to inside America.... I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. Government will lead the American people -- and the West in general -- into an unbearable hell and a choking life. -- Osama...

A no-win war without end? By embracing state sponsors of terrorism like Russia and China, our leaders ensure that the "war on terror" will never end in conclusive victory. (Terrorism).
October 7, 2002... America has also accepted a great challenge in the world; to wage a relentless and systematic campaign against global terror.... We are in for a long and difficult war. It will be conducted on many fronts. But as long as it takes, we will...

From law to lawlessness: using the threat of terrorism as an excuse to eradicate constitutional safeguards, the Bush administration is laying the foundation for tyranny by putting itself above the law. (On the Home Front).
October 7, 2002... A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt's dramatization of the life and martyrdom of St. Thomas More, timelessly illustrates the value of the rule of law. Serving as Lord Chancellor of England, More, a devout Catholic, provoked the wrath of Henry...

Foundations of the Garrison State: far from being a reaction to 9-11, the proposed Department of Homeland Security is based on an elitist blueprint finished and on the President's desk before Black Tuesday. (On the Home Front).
October 7, 2002... One of the themes trumpeted in the news media as a "lesson" to be learned from 9-11 is that the federal government is too disorganized and inefficient to combat effectively a threat like terrorism. On October 8, 2001, President Bush established...

Militarizing Mayberry: state and local police agencies are being transformed into paramilitary affiliates of a centralized police force controlled by Washington, D.C. (On the Home Front).
October 7, 2002... In the mythical hamlet of Mayberry, as depicted on the beloved Andy Griffith Show, Sheriff Andy Taylor wore his authority lightly, rarely even carrying a gun. His comically high-strung deputy, Barney Fife, was issued a single bullet, which he...

Their target: your guns; with America on the front line of the terror war, it would be insane to disarm law-abiding citizens. Yet this is what the UN seeks -- and the Bush administration is quietly acquiescing. (On the Home Front).
October 7, 2002... "This declaration of rights, as I take it, is intended to secure the people against the mal-administration of the government," stated Congressman Elbridge Gerry (Mass.) as he opened discussion of the Second Amendment on August 17, 1789. "If we...

TIPping off Big Brother: if the Bush administration's citizen informant program "TIPS" is fully implemented, America may end up a nation of tattletales and civilian spies that would make Big Brother proud. (On the Home Front).
October 7, 2002... Of all the horrors depicted in George Orwell's Fictional dystopian classic 1984, none is more depressing than the fate of Parsons, the dull-witted, good-natured neighbor of the novel's protagonist, Winston Smith. Early in the story, Winston,...

Toward a global police state: under both republican and democratic administrations, the U.S. government has been implementing a decades-old strategy to make the UN the most powerful force on earth. (World Government).
October 7, 2002... If a group of would-be megalomaniacs intended to create a global police state, the path to success would be far easier if countries would establish their own national police forces first. Once established, and once political betrayals had...

From Republic to Reich: Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime exploited a terrorist assault on the Reichstag Building to carry out a pre-positioned strategy to convert the Weimar Republic into a police state. (In Light of the Past).
October 7, 2002... It had taken nearly 15 years, but Adolf Hitler's National Socialist German Workers (Nazi) Party had finally clawed its way to power. On January 30, 1933, Reichschancellor Hitler solemnly swore an oath to uphold the Weimar Republic's...

JBS: defending the rule of law; leading the Americanist cause for more than four decades, The John Birch Society uniquely understands the globalist conspiracy and how to win the battle to preserve freedom. (Freedom Fight).
October 7, 2002... "The people never give up their freedom except under some delusion," warned James Madison -- and the father of our Constitution was right. The enemies of freedom are masters of delusion. And before the American public had absorbed the horrors...

What can be done. (The Last Word).
October 7, 2002... The September 11th attacks showed how vulnerable America has become to terrorism and how urgent it is to revamp our national security. Over the past three decades, our nation's multi-layered system of internal security has been dangerously...

George W. Bush: Master of Disguise. (Letters to the Editor).
October 21, 2002... The article by Gary Benoit entitled "George W. --Master of Disguise" in the September 9th issue is a disgrace to the title of your magazine. How dare you -- or any American -- demean the president as you did in your article? Not only were your...

Garrison State Overture. (Letters to the Editor).
October 21, 2002... I am writing regarding "Garrison State Overture" by William Norman Grigg in the August 26th issue of TNA. As someone who is going into law enforcement, this is a typical example of the personnel that are now being given police power. It is a...

FBI agent testifies to 9-11 forewarning. (Insider Report).
October 21, 2002... Testifying behind a screen to protect his identity, an FBI special agent told a stunned House and Senate joint intelligence panel on September 20th that two weeks before the 9-11 attacks he had begged his superiors in Washington to begin...

Bush: U.S. rejoining UNESCO. (Insider Report).
October 21, 2002... "As a symbol of our commitment to human dignity, the United States will return to UNESCO. [Applause.] This organization has been reformed and America will participate fully in its mission to advance human rights and tolerance and learning' So...

Stem cell politics. (Insider Report).
October 21, 2002... Embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) involves cannibalizing embryonic human beings for "stem cells" that can be used to grow vital tissues. This requires destroying a developing human being supposedly to benefit others. During the summer 2001...

Abortion Lobby's child exploitation. (Insider Report).
October 21, 2002... Nearly every pro-abortion rally features the sight, both heartbreaking and nauseating, of a small child carrying a sign proclaiming: "I'm a choice." It is difficult to fathom the mindset of parents who would dehumanize their own children in the...

English duplicity. (Insider Report).
October 21, 2002... "I have been increasingly alarmed by the evidence from inside Iraq," declared British Prime Minister Tony Blair in the foreword to a much-heralded British "dossier" on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. In the document, published on September...

"Pre-emption, Russian style. (Insider Report).
October 21, 2002... Invoking the same doctrine of "pre-emption" articulated by George W. Bush, Russian President and KGB veteran Vladimir Putin informed the UN on September 12th that Russia reserved the right to attack Georgia as part of the "war on terrorism."...

Drug cartels taking over forests. (Insider Report).
October 21, 2002... Environmental policies are driving ranchers, loggers, and recreationists off the vast land tracts in the western states managed by the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. And violent marijuana growers serving foreign drug...

Should America go to war? When our freedoms and sovereignty are threatened, we have to fight. But resuming the war on Iraq would actually empower a far greater threat--the United Nations. (Foreign Quarrels).
October 21, 2002... When the Twin Towers collapsed on 9-11, the American public was told that "everything changed," and an instant cliche was born. A year later, the Bush administration is striving to convince the public that its impending attack on Iraq is a...

Abetting our enemy's allies: if America aids and abets China and Russia, and China and Russia aid and abet terrorist regimes like Iraq and Syria, then why are we threatening war against Saddam Hussein? (Foreign Quarrels).
October 21, 2002... During the Vietnam War, massive amounts of aid and trade flowed from the United States to the Soviet Union and her Eastern European satellites, the actual suppliers of Communist North Vietnam. The John Birch Society cogently asked: "Why fight...

Building the beast of Baghdad: Saddam Hussein's capacity to unleash weapons of mass destruction is doubly horrifying when one considers that past administrations have helped him develop that technology. (Foreign Quarrels).
October 21, 2002... A few hours had passed since hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 had plowed into the Pentagon. Emergency operations continued at both the Pentagon and Ground Zero in lower Manhattan. Across the nation, Americans were still trying to digest the...

Fighting fire with Arson: the same globalists who gave Saddam Hussein the matches and gasoline are now demanding that the U.S. lead another international UN fire brigade into Iraq. (Foreign Quarrels).
October 21, 2002... In June, the tinder-dry forests of Arizona and Colorado exploded into blazing infernos. In both states federal "public servants" have been arrested and charged with starting the conflagrations. A part-time federal firefighter has been charged...

Quest for true American history: today's history textbooks indoctrinate America's youth in socialist propaganda. But quest of a hemisphere accurately portrays history while teaching Judeo-Christian values. (Brook Review).
October 21, 2002... Quest of a Hemisphere, by Donzella Cross Boyle, Appleton, Wis.: Robert Welch University Press, 2002 (originally published in 1970), 633 pages, hardcover, $24.95. (For ordering information, see the bottom of page 26.) Of the many laudable...

Inflation: what we're not being told! Inflation is often falsely defined as a market-driven rise in prices and wages. In reality, it's when government increases the money supply, thereby devaluing the dollar. (Economics).
October 21, 2002... No economic term in general usage is more widely misunderstood than "inflation." This article will give you the basics about this cruel hidden tax that has taken a 1940 dollar and made it worth less than 5cents today. What Is Inflation?...

Salt of the Earth. (The Goodness of America).
October 21, 2002... West Burlington, Iowa, farmer Dewey Byar died of cancer in April 2000 at age 68. The shy bachelor was such a private person that he reportedly asked close friends not to publish his obituary in the local newspaper. According to an August...

Resuscitation. (The Goodness of America).
October 21, 2002... According to the American Medical Association (AMA), at least a dozen states currently face serious medical liability crises, largely fueled by an ultra-litigious cultural mind-set and jury awards jumping by more than 70 percent (to an average...

The old wagoner: Daniel Morgan brilliantly commanded American soldiers during two of the lowest points of the War for Independence, rightfully earning the title of American Hero. (History - Struggle for Freedom).
October 21, 2002... British Major Gordon Forbes advanced his men southward as the spearhead and the center of the British invasion force. His men broke out of the woods, into the wheat field and toward a farm house known locally in that upstate New York area as...

Room service Robbery. (Exercising the Right).
October 21, 2002... Last year, Steven D. Robey, 46, and daughter Sarina, 16, moved to New Smyrna Beach, Florida, from Cape Coral, but they recently decided to move back. While house hunting, they were staying at a hotel in Fort Myers when, at around 9 a.m. on...

Tennessee home invasion. (Exercising the Right).
October 21, 2002... At around 1 a.m. on August 18th, two men, at least one of whom was armed with a handgun, forced their way into a home in the northwest section of Shelby County, Tennessee. The homeowner, 26-year-old Jeffrey S. Rushing, confronted them armed...

Tennessee times two. (Exercising the Right).
October 21, 2002... One week after the incident described above, another attempted robbery of a Tennessee home also ended with one of two intruders dead and the armed homeowner unscathed. On August 25th in Frayser, also located in Shelby County, Donnie M....

Knife attack after quarrel. (Exercising the Right).
October 21, 2002... On March 19th, Brian Ted Conrad, 31, became embroiled in a quarrel with neighbors Charlotte Venters, 29, and her boyfriend, Brent Billings, who lived across the street in the Muncie, Indiana, mobile home park. Arrested at least 17 times...

Ritter blows hot and cold. (Correction Please!).
October 21, 2002... ITEM: In an interview with Time magazine on September 14th, former UN top weapons inspector Scott Ritter said that Iraq's Saddam Hussein doesn't seem to have weapons of mass destruction. Questioned about his drastic switch, Ritter stressed: "I...

Deregulation myths. (Correction Please!).
October 21, 2002... ITEM: Joseph Stiglitz, former chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers, writes in The Atlantic Monthly for October 2002 that the "history of the 1990s needs to be rewritten." Opines Stiglitz: "If there was ever a time not to...

Diplomatic backpedding. (Correction Please!).
October 21, 2002... ITEM: "Bush May Drop N. Korea from 'Axis of Evil'--Japan PM," read a Reuters headline on September 20th. The president "was quoted as telling Japan's Prime Minister [Junichiro Koizumi] that he may drop the reclusive communist state from his...

Will parents dare to discipline? (The Last Word).
October 21, 2002... Thanks to the major media, "monster mother" Madelyne Gorman Toogood is turning out to be a threat to all American children, and not merely to her own four-year-old daughter. The widely broadcasted videotape of Toogood's abuse is being parlayed...