The New American articles from September 2001

The New American archives from September 2001

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
September 10, 2001... Inside the UN Tent In the July 16th issue of THE NEW AMERICAN, Tom Eddlem wrote a piece entitled "Conservatives Deceived by NGOs" in which my position as an NGO delegate was not fully represented. Mr. Eddlem suggested that I hold the...

Home Schooling: The Growth of a Movement.(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... In 1994, the Census Bureau estimated that 360,000 American children were being home-schooled. In 1996, the U.S. Department of Education pegged the number at 640,000. And on August 1st of this year, the department's National Center for Education...

Court Sides with Gun Makers.(California Supreme Court dismisses Merrill v. Navegar case)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... A high-profile shooting incident in 1993 helped instigate the litany of lawsuits against firearm manufacturers by sundry cities, counties, and states. On July 1st of that year, Gian Luigi Fern opened fire in a San Francisco skyscraper, killing...

Qaddafi Buys Increased Clout in Africa.(Muammar Qaddafi, dictator of Libya)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... According to a CNSNews.com report posted on July 26th, Libyan dictator Colonel Muammar Qaddafi has offered Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe a loan of almost $1 million for his re-election campaign in the run up to presidential elections next April....

U.S. "Race Relations" Under UN Scrutiny.(American social policy is questioned)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... In October 1994, the U.S. Senate ratified the UN's International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), which had been signed by the administration of Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966. In early August of this year,...

Face to Face with Big Brother.(government and security company joints efforts to spy on you)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... Big Brother has found another ally within private industry. Or so it would seem in light of recent developments regarding the use of surveillance cameras in Tampa, Florida, and Virginia Beach, Virginia. As noted in "Just Face It, You're on...

Forced Abortion by Quota.(China enforces its one child policy)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... The August 5th London Sunday Telegraph reported that provincial authorities in Guangdong (formerly Canton), China, recently ordered that 20,000 abortions and sterilizations be performed in the impoverished region of Huaiji before year's end....

KGB-vetted Propaganda for American TV.(television program based on the Russian security agency planned)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... Television producer Bob Van Ronkel has announced plans to create a program entitled Files from the KGB that will depict the notorious Soviet security and espionage service as "the good guys" of the Cold War era, reported the July 31st Moscow...

U.S.-Russia Missile Defense Convergence.(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... Despite the fact that Russia's continued transfer of missile technology to North Korea and Iran represents "a proliferation problem of significant proportion," the Bush administration is preparing to share missile defense technology with...

Gorbachev's New World Order.(Mikhail Gorbachev, former prime minister of the Soviet Union writes about international security in a nuclear-free world)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... The Summer 2001 issue of the New Age journal Lapis features an autobiographical article entitled, "Architect of Peace" by Mikhail Gorbachev. Ruling the Soviet Union, Gorbachev wrote, "provided me with insight into an unimaginable terror that...

Prosecuting the Victims of a NATO War Crime?(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... Dragoljub Milanovic, who was the head of Serbian Radio and Television (SRT) at the time of NATO's April 23, 1999 cruise missile attack on the facility, has been charged by Belgrade's district court "over his alleged responsibility for the...

Communist China's PSB in USA.(Public Security Bureau, internal security agency)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... In early July, several members of Communist China's Public Security Bureau (PSB), that regime's equivalent to the Soviet KGB, attended a seminar at New York City's John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York. "For...

The Gulag Is Still in Business.(concentration camps still running in Russia)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... "Russia is continuing to operate Gulag-style labor camps where thousands of North Koreans toil under grim conditions," reported the August 7th issue of The Scotsman. The continued existence of the Gulag, and the use of North Korean slave labor...

Greenhouse Lawsuits on the Way?(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... In recent decades, American businesses and institutions have been battered by lawsuits of all varieties as radical trial lawyers have sought to accomplish in the courtroom what the left has been unable to achieve through legislation. An opinion...

Coming Soon: A Respiration Tax!?(under a proposed law, you breath, you pay)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... "Take a deep breath; hold it," writes Terence Corcoran in the August 4th issue of Canada's National Post. "Now let's see: You hit 4.5 on Environment Canada's new Individual Carbon Polluter Exhaler, just a little above average. That means your...

Patients' Bill of Goods.(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... The proposed "Patients' Bill of Rights" has nothing remotely to do with extending basic traditional rights of citizenship to Americans or with providing protections against medical rationing to patients. It has much to do with providing a...

High and Dry in the Klamath Basin.(farmers dried out of their crops to make room for a couple of fishes)
September 10, 2001... In southern Oregon, the Feds' choice of fish over farmers has made the region's rural communities and families likely candidates for the endangered species list. Klamath Falls, Oregon, has become the rallying site for a national movement...

Saving Fish Before Firefighters.(placing more value on the life of animals than that of humans)
September 10, 2001... During a recent forest fire, help for trapped firefighters was delayed out of fear that it might harm the "endangered" bull trout. Result: The fish were saved; four firefighters died. A crew battling a wildfire makes a radio request for a...

Leading America to Victory.(chat with G. Vance Smith, chief officer of the John Birch Society)(Interview)
September 10, 2001... G. Vance Smith William F. Jasper With sound leadership, effective plans, and God's help, The John Birch Society offers concerned citizens the means to preserve America and her heritage of freedom. G. Vance Smith is Chief Executive...

Young American Heroes.(tales of heroism)
September 10, 2001... Violence by young people makes headlines too frequently, but among America's youth are unsung heroes whose brave acts deserve more recognition. The cultural battle over the youth of America appears to have turned for the worse as news...

Strength from Above.
September 10, 2001... Thanks to his mother's choice not to undergo an abortion, "strongman" Bud Jeffries is alive and well, grateful for the chance to bring the power of God to America's youth. Almost every day, Bud Jeffries does something most people would...

The "Ten Commandments" Judge.(Roy Moore, chief justice, Alabama Supreme Court)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... Judge Roy Moore, chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and firm believer in the Ten Commandments, rouses the ire of liberals with a monumental statement. During his campaign for Alabama's highest judicial office last year, Chief...

Monument to a Higher Law.(Roy S. Moore, chief justice for the Alabama Supreme Court, on his decision to place a stone monument with the ten commandments carved on it in the court building)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... Remarks by Roy S. Moore, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, at the unveiling of a monument featuring the Ten Commandments in the Rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building, Montgomery, Alabama, August 1, 2001: By the authority...

A Gun Makes the Difference.(crimes against motorists)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... At around 5 p.m. on July 9th in Charleston, South Carolina, a 19-year-old motorist became lost. He stopped to ask a stranger for directions, but the man instead jumped into the passenger side of the vehicle, produced a 10-inch kitchen knife,...

Homeowner Cleared.(case of home invasion)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... On November 28th of last year, Charles Patrick Shirtcliff of Looking Glass, Oregon, saw a man in a ski mask (later identified as Michael Dale Monteleone) running away from his home. Armed with a handgun, Shirtcliff drove after the man and...

Pistol-Packin' Padre.(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... Father Rico Nobleza, 32, is a parish priest in Paranaque, Philippines. At around 5 a.m. on July 12th, he was traveling to the nearby neighborhood of Baclaran on a jeepney (a bus converted from a jeep) when Manuel Samson, 49, and his son...

Gun Thief.(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... When Charles Lies of Spartanburg, South Carolina, returned to his residence in the early evening of July 23rd to change clothes, he found a man in the kitchen with several of his firearms. Lies pulled a pistol he was carrying and fired twice,...

Taxi Drivers.(packing and driving)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... Rodney Jones, 36, is a taxi driver in Hamilton County, Ohio. He had never carried a weapon on the job, but the father of five told the Cincinnati Enquirer for July 22nd that from then on he intended to carry two guns to work. On July 2...

Concrete Jungle.(case of violence domestic)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... In February, Gregory Leroy Brown of Augusta, Georgia, was charged with assaulting and pointing a gun at former girlfriend Tammie Renee Thompson. He was released from jail after posting bond, and was awaiting trial when, shortly after 5 a.m. on...

THE RIGHT ANSWERS.(mail)
September 10, 2001... Q. What kind of an organization was the Pendergast "machine" when it backed Harry Truman for office? Was there ever any doubt that Truman was part of the machine? -L.A., McKeesport, Pa. A. Archetypal machine politician Tom Pendergast,...

CORRECTION, PLEASE!
September 10, 2001... Social Insecurity ITEM: President Bush's Social Security commission was accused of being unbalanced by the Minneapolis Star Tribune on July 27th. It has "issued a report that misleads the public on key concepts, exaggerates Social...

Medical Cannibalism.(stem cell research and ethics)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... The quotes you are about to read are true. The circumstances have been changed in order to illustrate the fatally flawed moral reasoning behind President Bush's unconstitutional decision to subsidize experimentation on existing "lines" of stem...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.(Letter to the Editor)
September 24, 2001... Nuremberg's Legacy I was flattered that Jennifer A. Gritt chose to quote a couple of sentences from my book Hitler's Legacy in her article discussing the Nuremberg trials precedent in your August 27, 2001 issue. I must note for the record,...

NATO'S New Terrorist Partner.(Albanian leader Ali Ahmeti)(Brief Article)
September 24, 2001... Cleaving with remarkable consistency to the Balkans policy of its predecessors, the Bush administration has not opposed the rechristening of Albanian terrorist leader Ali Ahmeti as a "statesman." This duplicates the Clinton administration's...

Ken Starr's New Case.(Mark Jimenez's connection to Clinton campaign funds)(Brief Article)
September 24, 2001... During the struggle to impeach Bill Clinton, THE NEW AMERICAN repeatedly asked why both Congress and Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr chose to focus upon Clinton's sexual misconduct and related offenses rather than upon the bribery and treason...

"Privatizing" the UN: International Fascism.(Brief Article)
September 24, 2001... With the UN acting as the occupying power in East Timor, Kosovo, and elsewhere, the world body may consider "the partial privatization of nation-building activities," suggested Jamie Frederic Metzl of the Council on Foreign Relations in an...

Bush Backs IMF Bailout of Argentina.(Brief Article)
September 24, 2001... "When President George W. Bush took office this year, administration officials had declared their intention to end former President Bill Clinton's repeated bailouts of chronically ailing economies such as Argentina's," the New York Times...

IRA: A New Narco-Terrorist Power?(Brief Article)
September 24, 2001... Gerry Adams, president of the Sinn Fein -- the political wing of the Marxist terrorist Irish Republican Army (IRA) -- announced in early August that he would visit Fidel Castro in Cuba. Adams, who was a frequent White House guest of Bill and...

Rohrabacher Shills for the KLA.(Rep Dana Rohrabacher and the Kosovo Liberation Army)(Brief Article)
September 24, 2001... The Albanian-American Civic League (AACL) is an American group that lobbies on behalf of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). The guest of honor at the group's July 23rd fundraiser in Edgewater, New Jersey, was Representative Dana Rohrabacher...

Mexico's Border Crackdown.(Mexico seeks to strengthen Guatemala border)(Brief Article)
September 24, 2001... Even as Mexican President Vicente Fox, and his Marxist foreign minister Jorge Castaneda, demand that the United States effectively tear down its border with Mexico, the Mexican government is working to shut down its own southern border with...

Bush Amnesty Looms for Illegal Aliens.(Brief Article)
September 24, 2001... The Bush administration has been torturing the English language in an effort to craft a new amnesty for millions of illegal aliens without saying the dread word: "amnesty." Some newly devised euphemisms include "regularization," "legalization,"...

An Infernal Machine.(gun-destroying machine in UK)(Brief Article)
September 24, 2001... On August 16th, Sir John Stevens, commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police, proudly displayed for reporters "a new piece of fire-power in their crime busting arsenal -- a machine that destroys guns," reported The Scotsman. The device in...

U.S. Blows Up Last Missile Silo for START.(Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty)(Brief Article)
September 24, 2001... With no fanfare and almost zero press attention, on August 24th the U.S. blew up the last Minuteman III missile silo scheduled for destruction under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I). The silo at Grand Forks Air Force Base, which...

Bush Administration Supports Clinton-Reno on Elian Raid.(Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez)(Brief Article)
September 24, 2001... On August 8th, the Bush-Ashcroft Justice Department asked a federal appeals court to dismiss an excessive force lawsuit filed by Elian Gonzalez's Miami relatives against former Attorney General Janet Reno, former Deputy Attorney General Eric...

Facing Big Brother in Beijing.(Visionics sells FaceIt technology to China)(Brief Article)
September 24, 2001... If the proposed sale is finalized, Communist China will soon possess the same face recognition technology currently stirring up controversy in Tampa, Florida, and Virginia Beach, Virginia. Visionics Corporation plans to sell the system, known...

Erasing the "Thin Blue Line".(police fear being called racist)
September 24, 2001... Often accused of racism and frequently facing federal probes into their conduct, police across the nation are pulling out of minority neighborhoods. In major cities across the nation, criminals are winning the war for the streets -- not...

To Protect and Serve.(police experiences)
September 24, 2001... America's police officers often go beyond the call of duty to serve their local communities. Here are the stories of several who put their lives on the line to protect their fellow citizens. America's beleaguered police forces face many...

Klamath Falls Freedom Day.(dispute over water supply)(Brief Article)
September 24, 2001... Tuesday, August 21st, was "Freedom Day" in Klamath Falls, Oregon. Thousands of people rallied in support of desperate farmers and ranchers who have been battling for survival since April, when federal authorities cut off their water to benefit...

Colossus of Independence.('John Adams')(Review)
September 24, 2001... David Mccullough's new biography of John Adams brings into sharper focus the life, works, and character of one of our nation's more neglected Founding Fathers. John Adams, by David McCullough, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001,751 pages,...

NCCAA's Example.(National Christian College Athletic Association)(Brief Article)
September 24, 2001... In 1968 the National Christian College Athletic Association was formed so that Christian colleges could have a basketball competition of their own. The NCCAA's growth since then is indicated by the 21 championships it will hold this year,...

CWF Takes on WWF.(Christian Wrestling Federation)(Brief Article)
September 24, 2001... In order to provide an alternative to the WWF's culturally corrosive rendition of pro wrestling, especially for American youth, former college football player Bob Vaughn launched the Texas-based Christian Wrestling Federation (CWF) in May of...

Target: Tokyo!(Jimmy Doolittle's World War II raid on Tokyo)
September 24, 2001... In the bleak early months of World War II, Japan looked invincible. But then Jimmy Doolittle led a daring raid on Tokyo that changed the course of the war. The warm, shallow waters of the Gulf of Thailand lapped darkly at the shore of the...

Surprise!(Washington D.C. bank robbery)(Brief Article)
September 24, 2001... Two men, one armed with a gun and the other with a knife, entered the First Cash Advance loan center in Washington, D.C., at around 9 a.m. on August 6th and announced a holdup. The seemingly helpless customers got on the floor as they were...

The Awakening.(Stephen Hastings, policeman)(Brief Article)
September 24, 2001... Stephen Hastings, 27, has been a deputy constable in Texas for five years. At around 2 a.m. on July 29th, he was traveling from his ranch in Porter to his home in Clear Lake when he became drowsy. He pulled off the interstate and parked in...

Purse Snatcher.(Brief Article)
September 24, 2001... On July 20th, an off-duty Cook's County, Illinois, sheriff's office employee was driving to work at around 6 a.m. when he witnessed the theft of a woman's purse. The 37-year-old lawman followed the suspect and was soon joined by a Chicago...

On Guard.(Tyrone Nelson's case)(Brief Article)
September 24, 2001... On July 23rd, Tyrone Nelson, 37, broke into the basement of a Chicago residence, apparently unaware that the resident was a security guard. The 57-year-old off-duty guard confronted Nelson and fired a single shot that struck the intruder in the...

Friend in Need.(Richard Connell shoots man in self defense during store robbery)(Brief Article)
September 24, 2001... Shortly before 1:00 a.m. on July 14th, Channing Michael Page, 27, entered a Shell Food Mart in Gainesville, Florida, wearing a green ski mask. He demanded money from clerk Richard Wilson, 68. When Wilson said he did not have a large amount of...

THE RIGHT ANSWERS.(Brief Article)
September 24, 2001... Q. Which group rates the highest with the U.S. public? Which ranks at the bottom? L.D., Elgin, Ill. A. The American public still has the most confidence in the military, as has been the case since the 1980s, with 66 percent of...

CORRECTION, PLEASE!(Jesse Jackson vs. Toyota)(Brief Article)
September 24, 2001... Jackson's Shakedown Utility Vehicle ITEM: Jim Press, chief operating officer of Toyota, announced on August 9th a "breakthrough" strategy. The company will make, as noted in a press release, "an $8 billion investment in diversity." Said...

Unsafe in Any Form.(United States and the International Criminal Court)(Brief Article)
September 24, 2001... Those who think that getting half a loaf is better than getting nothing may be correct in the case of the starving man. But in political matters, the adage can play right into the hands of an enemy. This may turn out to be the case with the...