The New American articles from October 2004

The New American archives from October 2004

Finding America's heart and soul.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
October 4, 2004... I am writing in response to Steve Bonta's cover story "America's Hidden Strength" in the March 22 issue of THE NEW AMERICAN. Although I'm an American citizen, I have been living overseas since 1991. Nothing makes a person appreciate his country...

Correction.(Letters To The Editor)(Correction Notice)
October 4, 2004... In a photo caption in "Ballot Box Smear" in our September 20 issue, we mistakenly identified California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley as the plaintiff in Jasper v. Shelley. Mr. Shelley was the defendant.

The Beslan horror.(Insider Report)
October 4, 2004... More that 300 hostages died after terrorists seized a school in North Ossetia, Russia. The school in the town of Beslan was surrounded with land mines and high explosives. Children were kept in hot, unventilated rooms for more than two days,...

Saddam's generals on U.S. payroll.(Insider Report)(Saddam Hussein)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... On September 7, a grim milestone was reached when the U.S. military death toll reached 1,000. Supporters of "Operation Iraqi Freedom" insist that those killed in action gave their lives to defend our country, and liberate the long-suffering...

Police state preview in NYC--I.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... The GOP National Convention offered a preview of new technologies and tactics being developed by the Homeland Security Department, reported the September 13 issue of Newsweek. "That scruffy fellow scanning his handheld [computer] in the...

Police state preview in NYC--II.(Insider Report)
October 4, 2004... More ominous than any technology on display at the RNC was the arrogance of power that accompanied federalization of the riot control police. "In and around Midtown Manhattan, convention-goers got a taste of life in a society where the...

An independent elector?(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... Richie Robb, mayor of South Charleston, West Virginia, is one of that state's five Republican electors. He has provoked the hostility of the GOP leadership by announcing his intention to carry out the duties of that office as dictated by the...

Russia's "McCain-Feingold" act at work.
October 4, 2004... When "ex"-KGB officer Vladimir Putin came to power in 1999, "Russia had what approximated to an independent media," notes media critic Stephen Glover in the September 11 issue of The Spectator of London. "Now all television channels and nearly...

Bush administration's Medicare fraud.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... "The Department of Health and Human Services [HHS] has been ordered by the Government Accountability Office [GAO] to recover the salary paid former Medicare administrator Thomas A. Scully, because he ordered a staff member to withhold...

Anti-UN rhetoric vs. reality.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... "Not since the convention that nominated Barry Goldwater in 1964 has a gathering of the Republican faithful featured so much UN bashing from so many prominent players in the party," wrote columnist John Nichols of the liberal Madison,...

Spassky's appeal for Fischer.(Insider Report)(Boris Spassky, Bobby Fischer.)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... In mid-August, Japan turned down an asylum request from American-born chess champion Bobby Fischer, who faces extradition to the U.S. to stand trial for violating UN sanctions against Yugoslavia. In 1992, Fischer--in defiance of a UN embargo,...

Who will watch the watchers? Mexico's emerging surveillance state offers a sobering look into the future if the Power Elite's proposal for a "continental security" perimeter becomes reality.(Surveillance State)(Cover Story)
October 4, 2004... What would it take to force people to accept the loss of their privacy? Could people be terrified into surrendering their priceless right to be left alone by the state? How could a population be persuaded, or compelled, to accept such radical...

9/11 security holes remain: former U.S. Customs agent Diane Kleiman witnessed corruption and conspiracy in the front lines of our national security.(On The Home Front)
October 4, 2004... For Diane Kleiman, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 bit very close to home--both literally and figuratively. Her apartment, just three blocks from Ground Zero, shook violently when the first airplane hit the North Tower of the World...

Experts challenge the 9/11 report: dozens of whistleblowers from federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies--FBI, CIA, Customs and more--are uniting to expose and oppose the 9/11 Commission report.(On The Home Front)
October 4, 2004... For more than two years, Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI translator of Turkish and Turkic languages, has been warning the country of major security problems that remain unaddressed at the FBI headquarters in Washington. Mrs. Edmonds has been...

The one-party state: the Republican National Convention demonstrated that both major parties are committed to building the total state.(Politics)
October 4, 2004... "When a nation has definitely committed itself to a foreign war," insisted legal scholar John Henry Wigmore during World War I, "all principles of normal internal order may be suspended." In an August 7, 1918 speech, War Industries Board...

Spinning a larger web: the Trilateral blueprint for shaping a community of the developed nations of North America, Western Europe and Japan has been extended to other parts of the globe.(Trilateral Commission)
October 4, 2004... When it was formed in 1973, the Trilateral Commission's benign-sounding purposes included gathering prominent Western Europeans, North Americans, and Japanese to promote the "enhancement of cooperative relations," "analysis of major issues,"...

Sowing the seeds of honesty.(The Goodness Of America)
October 4, 2004... In March, Gerald Parish of Spencer, Iowa, passed away at age 85. During the July 4th weekend, his three children (Jody Gardner of Omaha, Nebraska, and her two sisters from California) held a holiday party in his memory at the family home on...

"You go, girl!".(The Goodness Of America)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... Gregory Holloway, a longtime resident of Covington, Kentucky, had steady employment until he became addicted to crack cocaine a few months ago. The father of two then turned to bank heists to support his drug habit. In early July, he stole an...

The birth of the Republic: Rome's astonishing ascent was not based wholly or even mostly on her military exploits, but on the moral sensibilities of her people and the limitation of government power.(History--Rome)
October 4, 2004... This is the first installment in a series of, articles on the rise and fall of the Roman Republic. As with most ancient nations, the origins of Rome are clouded by legend. The first inhabitants of what became the city-state of Rome may...

Cat and mouse.(Exercising the right: "... the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.")(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... On April 12, Todd Keller of Tucson, Arizona, was mountain biking in a remote area of Sabino Canyon in the foothills of the Santa Catalina mountain range north of Tucson. He was looking for a certain trail but couldn't find it, despite...

Pipe versus gun.(Exercising the right: "... the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.")(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... At around 4:30 p.m. on August 14, Stanley Hagzan armed himself with a metal pipe, entered a video store in Smithtown, New York, and demanded money. Store clerk John McMurray gave Hagzan some cash, after which Hagzan tied McMurray up. McMurray,...

Tables turned.(Exercising the right: "... the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.")(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... James Lyttle, a retired Troy, Michigan, police officer, runs a security company. Shortly before 5 a.m. on August 8, Lyttle was in his SUV making his rounds near a construction site in southwest Detroit, when he stopped at an intersection. Five...

Break-in.(Exercising the right: "... the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.")(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... Shortly after he awoke on the morning of July 9, John McCarroll of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, noticed a suspicious vehicle parked in the driveway of a house he owns that is located next to his own home. The residence had been burglarized in the...

And not a shot was fired.(Exercising the right: "... the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.")(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... On April 12, a neighbor alerted Ronnie Breland and his son, Joshua, that trespassers had been seen in an area of Mobile County, Alabama, where Mr. Breland owns some land. Mr. Breland and Joshua, who was armed with a handgun, immediately drove...

Poor figuring.(Between The Lines)
October 4, 2004... ITEM: The August 28 Chicago Tribune reported: "The political responses were just what you'd expect in the heat of a presidential campaign. They started within minutes of... Census Bureau reports showing that the number of Americans living in...

Argentina's beef with IMF.(Between The Lines)(International Monetary Fund)
October 4, 2004... ITEM: Hundreds of protesters in Buenos Aires, reported Reuters on August 31, "sparred with police and burned tires just a stone's throw away from where [International Monetary Fund] chief Rodrigo Rata was meeting... with Argentine officials on...

The democracy shibboleth.(The Last Word)
October 4, 2004... The assortment of dictionaries at desk informs me that the Hebrew word shibboleth can be used to refer to a stream, a flood or an ear of corn. But the word comes into notice in Old Testament history purely with respect to its use as a password,...

Beware asset forfeiture.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
October 18, 2004... Regarding "Honesty Can Still Be Found" (July 12 issue), Tom McAnally, the man who lost $11,000 in cash he had been carrying, was fortunate in a way not mentioned in your story. He is lucky that the police did not confiscate this legally earned...

On target.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
October 18, 2004... Your articles in the special September 6 "Erasing America" issue are right on target. In the 1992 presidential debates, Ross Perot described the loss of American jobs to Mexico due to the North American Free Trade Agreement as a "giant sucking...

Correction.(Letters To The Editor)(Correction Notice)
October 18, 2004... In "Merger Mania" in our September 20 issue, a statement was incorrectly attributed to Vaclav Havel that was actually made by Vaclav Klaus. Vaclav Havel was, and Vaclav Klaus is, president of the Czech Republic. Vaclav Klaus warned that...

Our veteran publisher begins a new chapter!(Brief Article)
October 18, 2004... Beginning with this issue. John F. McManus no longer appears on our masthead as "Publisher." John has embarked on a new chapter in his life. Because he has played a key leadership role with THE NEW AMERICAN from its inception, we are pleased to...

Romney in 2008?(Massachusetts Governor and republican, Mitt Romney)
October 18, 2004... All of the "political stars" in the GOP, commented liberal columnist Mark Shields during PBS's coverage of the New York convention, are social liberals--pro-abortion, pro-homosexual "rights" and pro-civilian disarmament. Among those mentioned...

Full-service subversion.
October 18, 2004... "The Mexican Consulate and LaCasa of Goshen [Indiana] will be assisting Mexican citizens residing locally to obtain identification cards, and Fifth Third Bank will be on hand to explain the benefits and safety of the American banking system,"...

Canadian agent provocateur speaks.
October 18, 2004... Notorious Canadian racist Grant Bristow has now corroborated publicly what THE NEW AMERICAN reported years ago: that he was a paid government agent provocateur, whose vicious diatribes and violent behavior were used to demonize conservatives...

China's inroads in Western Hemisphere.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
October 18, 2004... "China's Public Security Ministry is set to dispatch a 130-man 'special police' unit to Haiti this month in the first deployment of Chinese forces to the Western Hemisphere," reported Washington Times Pentagon correspondent Bill Gertz on...

Hollow "victories" in terror war.(Brief Article)
October 18, 2004... "Justice Department officials insist their record since the attacks on the United States reflects a successful strategy of catching suspected terrorists long before they can launch deadly plots, even if that involves charging them with lesser...

Terrorists welcome!(Brief Article)
October 18, 2004... It's not just Mexicans who joined the illegal immigrant surge that began with President Bush's amnesty announcement in January. Border Patrol agents in McAllen, Texas, acting on a late-night tip, discovered 22 Chinese men who had been abandoned...

New UN global army.(United Nations)(Brief Article)
October 18, 2004... In our cover story for June 28, "Creating a Global Army," we reported on President Bush's proposed Global Peace Operations Initiative. That incredible proposal, which has been virtually blacked out by the Establishment media, would rob billions...

They can't tell us what's secret.
October 18, 2004... On Independence Day 2002, multi-millionaire libertarian activist John Gilmore was forbidden to board a flight from either San Francisco or Oakland to Washington, D.C., when he refused to display a photo I.D. Gilmore, co-founder of the...

Bush's new CIA chief.(George W Bush)(Brief Article)
October 18, 2004... "I couldn't get a job with CIA today," commented Congressman Porter Goss (R-Fla.) in a videotaped interview with leftist film producer Michael Moore last March. "I am not qualified. I don't have the language skills. I don't have the cultural...

Imagining a brighter tomorrow: the key to advancing human progress is not to rely on government to provide our every need, but to limit government so that the people can produce and prosper.(The Road Ahead)(Cover Story)
October 18, 2004... For a total of 27 days in late 1995, the federal government was shut down when Congress and the White House reached an impasse over budget priorities. Government spokesmen and news anchors, their brows furrowed with contrived concern, spoke...

Unfriendly skies: courageous federal agents are warning against airport security weaknesses that existed prior to 9/11--and still exist today.(Heroes Under Fire)
October 18, 2004... Bogdan Dzakovic is one of America's elite warriors in the fight against terrorism. Incredibly, he is being punished for telling the truth about our nation's continuing dangerous vulnerability and for exposing federal agencies and bureaucrats...

Agents challenge 9/11 Commission: agents on the front lines of the war on terror have risked their careers to warn America about the corruption and culpable negligence that continue to put our nation in peril.(Heroes Under Fire)
October 18, 2004... Shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America, the FBI went on a hiring binge for language translators. Special Agent John M. Cole, who was working in the FBI's Washington, D.C., headquarters, was assigned to do risk assessments on...

Bush's "striking shift" on global warming.(Ahead Of The Curve)
October 18, 2004... ITEM: On August 26, 2004 the New York Times reported a "striking shift in the way the Bush administration has portrayed the science of climate change...." The Times detected the supposed shift in position in a new report the administration...

Using a "forgotten" power.(Ahead Of The Curve)
October 18, 2004... ITEM: On September 23, the Associated Press reported that "the House passed legislation [today] that would prevent the Supreme Court from ruling on whether the words 'under God' should be stricken from the Pledge of Allegiance.... The bill...

Global warming? ... Or global cooling?(Snapshots)
October 18, 2004... National Geographic devotes 74 pages of its September 2004 issue to three related stories warning not only that the Earth is heating up, but that it is doing so at an alarming rate. Twenty-eight years ago, National Geographic stated: "Most...

Postal heroes.(The Goodness Of America)
October 18, 2004... Letter carriers, due to the nature of their work, are often first on the scene of accidents, crimes and other crises. In 1974, the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) initiated its annual Heroes of the Year Awards to honor letter...

Storybook ending.(digger finds and returns the lost money of a bank)(Brief Article)
October 18, 2004... In July 2002, when the merger of two banks in the South was underway, more than $46,000 turned up missing at a Columbus, Georgia, branch of one of the institutions. Bank officials reported the loss to the FBI, and the money was written off...

Close call.(policeman saves 2 children;gets Carnegie medal)(Brief Article)
October 18, 2004... On July 5, 2003, in Ledgedale, Pennsylvania, two-year-old Scott Brown and his eight-month-old brother Christopher were securely restrained in car seats in the rear of a sports utility vehicle when it suddenly rolled down a boat ramp and plunged...

Bravery under fire.(The Goodness Of America)(Brief Article)
October 18, 2004... On the evening of November 15, 2002, Alex McKay, 84, was in the side porch of his home in Lake Wales, Florida, when a gas explosion blew the roof off the house. A section of the roof blocked the porch, trapping McKay inside. Mechanic...

The Republic matures: the Roman Republic was not built in a day, but was the product of generations of reform and even some serious reverses.(History--Rome)
October 18, 2004... This is the second installment in a series of articles on the rise and fall of the Roman Republic. About 15 years after the founding of the Roman Republic in 509 B.C., an apparition appeared one day in the Roman Forum. It was no phantom or...

Hard lesson.(intruder gets amputed after being shot at)(Brief Article)
October 18, 2004... In early May, after multiple attempted burglaries of his mobile home in Cross, South Carolina, Jerron Richburg was understandably concerned for the safety of his wife, their child and himself. On May 2, for instance, someone sought to gain...

Bear scare.
October 18, 2004... Bear sightings in western Massachusetts have become increasingly common in recent years. According to state wildlife officials, black bears alone now number at least 2,500 in the region, so it is hardly a surprise that confrontations between...

Fighting words.(Exercising The Right)(Brief Article)
October 18, 2004... On December 12, 2003, Freddie Johnson was trying to break up a fight in a Macon, Georgia, neighborhood when the altercation spilled into the front yard of Marshal Lee Wright's home. When Wright came out and told the men to leave, Johnson pushed...

Family feud.(Exercising The Right)(Brief Article)
October 18, 2004... On July 13, John Anderson of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was confronted on his front porch by his 21-year-old son, Steve, and Carl Billetdoux, Steve's 56-year-old roommate. Arming himself with a shotgun, John Anderson told them to leave. Instead,...

Assaulting our liberties.(Between The Lines)
October 18, 2004... ITEM: Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry rebuked President Bush on Monday for letting a ban on assault weapons expire, reported Reuters for September 13. The senator said in part: "So, tomorrow for the first time in 10 years when a...

Porous borders.(Between The Lines)
October 18, 2004... ITEM: Illegal immigration is on the rise in the U.S., reported the Washington correspondent for the Melbourne Herald Sun (Australia) on September 13. "Border controls have become a key political issue since the September 11, 2001 attacks, with...

An end to judicial tyranny?(The Last Word)
October 18, 2004... The passage of the Pledge Protection Act of 2004 (H.R. 2028) by the U.S. House of Representatives on September 21 by a vote of 247-173 has highlighted some very encouraging signs in Congress. And I do not simply mean that the Pledge of...