The New American articles from September 2004

The New American archives from September 2004

From the editor.(Editorial)
September 6, 2004... The Old Testament prophet Isaiah warned long ago: "Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst." We clearly live in a similar...

Keep US independent! Most Americans would oppose the Free Trade Area of the Americas if they understood the threat, which is why the FTAA's promoters must rely on deception.(Cover Story)
September 6, 2004... Imagine a not-too-distant future in which America's borders have become obsolete. Customs and border controls no longer exist. The former boundaries of the United States are merely registration stations for throngs of migrant workers, criminal...

Deliberate decline: the jobs needed to live the American Dream are fast disappearing--not because of unrestrained market forces but because of government policies including NAFTA.(North American Free Trade Agreement)
September 6, 2004... By the time you finish reading this magazine, 500 more American families will be out of work. Headlines around the country report the devastation: * "Lives Unraveled"--Kannapolis, North Carolina, is decimated when 4,800 families are left...

FTAA: forced to accept aliens: despite one opinion poll after another showing that Americans overwhelmingly support tighter immigration policies, FTAA proponents intend to erase our nation's borders.(Immigration)
September 6, 2004... When it comes to accepting immigrants, the United States of America has been more generous than any other nation in the world. In fact, for many years we have accepted more immigrants than have all other countries of the world combined. In...

An FTAA sneak preview: alarming trends among our Southwestern states--and in some metropolitan areas--offer a microcosm of what America would look like without borders.(Free Trade Agreement of the Americas)
September 6, 2004... Under the "free trade" fraud known as the FTAA, our already overburdened welfare state would become a giant immigrant magnet for the rest of an impoverished Western Hemisphere. An epidemic, illegal immigrant crime wave--currently raging in...

Funding socialism for Latin America: U.S. Insiders are proposing "a new Marshall Plan" to transfer tens of billions of dollars from U.S. taxpayers to corrupt, socialist Latin American governments.(New Marshall Plan)
September 6, 2004... Most American taxpayers are completely unaware that the architects of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) are planning the most massive transfer of wealth in world history--from the U.S. middle class to Latin American socialist regimes....

FTAA's drug deal: NAFTA was enacted despite warnings that it would increase the already-horrendous flow of drugs into this country. The FTAA would prove to be even more catastrophic.(Free Trade Agreement of the Americas )(North American Free Trade Agreement )
September 6, 2004... In early August, U.S. "Drug Czar" John Walters visited Colombia to assess Washington's efforts to train, equip and assist that nation's counter-narcotics efforts. "Plan Colombia," a $3.3 billion, five-year operation begun during the Clinton...

Demographic disaster: what would happen to the U.S.--economically, politically and culturally--after being absorbed into a regional government with the rest of Latin America?(Projecting Trends)
September 6, 2004... Some answers to the question raised above can be deduced by briefly reviewing some of the key demographics of the nations of Central America and the Caribbean. Six nations in that region--Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica...

The "New European Soviet": the European Union is rapidly descending into totalitarianism. Under NAFTA and the proposed FTAA, U.S. policymakers have adopted the same socialist EU program.(European Union)
September 6, 2004... I am going to tell you a story about Europe and America. It is a true story about tyranny and freedom, about hope, folly, deception and betrayal. It is also a warning about grave danger. Alarmed at the trends I see, I feel obliged to tell this...

Abolishing our nation--step by step: recognizing the futility of trying to create instant world government, the Power Elite is trying to implement their global agenda gradually--region by region.(Premeditated Merger)
September 6, 2004... Global economic trade policies and regional trade blocs are radically transforming our world. They are rapidly pushing nations toward economic convergence, while simultaneously leading toward the political merger of nations. The bipartisan...

In their own words: some of the promoters of so-called free trade agreements such as the FTAA have, at times, acknowledged that their purpose is to create supranational governments.(Premeditated Merger)
September 6, 2004... In 1994, President Clinton convened the Summit of the Americas.... As president, I will build on that spirit and help forge a new and broader "Community of the Americas." -- Senator John Kerry Interview in Poder magazine, August 2004 ...

Different paths, same destination: the architects of world order are simultaneously moving on multiple fronts toward their long-sought-after goal of world government.(Premeditated Merger)
September 6, 2004... While most Americans are involved in their daily affairs, or content to skim the surface of current events, "internationalists are always hard at work in quiet places making plans for a more perfect union," observed Newsweek senior editor...

Calling the shots on the EU & NAFTA.(Ahead Of The Curve)
September 6, 2004... ITEM: The June 18 Associated Press reported." "European Union leaders agreed Friday on the first constitution for the reunited continent, overcoming disputes about power-sharing, national sovereignty and even whether God deserved a mention,...

Br'er rabbit's FTAA opposition: phony anti-FTAA groups oppose the FTAA only because it doesn't go far enough. They want regional government that leads to world government, but only if it is sufficiently socialist.(False Opposition)(Free Trade Area of the Americas)
September 6, 2004... A brief Internet search will turn up hundreds of activist groups opposing the envisioned Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). Most of those opposition groups seem to offer a credible case against the trade pact's most objectionable features....

What you can do: there is little time left to head off an FTAA agreement. But a small group of determined patriots can succeed by following good strategy.(Free Trade Area of the Americas)
September 6, 2004... The Bush administration hopes to conclude an F'FAA agreement with the other Western Hemisphere nations by January 2005. The measure will then need to go before both houses of Congress, where it will be voted up or down following "fast track"...

John Newton on film?(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
September 20, 2004... There was a time when I thought that Amazing Grace ("The Man Behind Amazing Grace," August 9 issue) was simply an old black spiritual of nameless origin. Then, many years ago, I read extensively about John Newton. Your author, John White, must...

"Marriages" that aren't.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
September 20, 2004... In "How to Protect Marriage" (August 9 issue), author George Detweiler always uses quotes around the word "marriage" when it is used in this context of homosexuals. The quotation marks are appropriate--but let's go back to the root of the...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
September 20, 2004... In "How to Protect Marriage" in our August 9 issue, we accurately quoted Dr. Ralph Rossum, dean of faculty of Claremont McKenna College, but misidentified the location of the college. The college is located in Claremont, California.

Campaign finance reform and free speech.(Insider Report)
September 20, 2004... Reacting to the controversy over ads run by "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth"--an advocacy group made up of Vietnam veterans who dispute John Kerry's account of his wartime heroism--President Bush "urged that all campaign ads by independent...

Homeland security 101.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
September 20, 2004... "Homeland security will be the biggest government employer in the next decade or so," predicts Steven David, chair of a graduate certificate program in homeland security at Johns Hopkins University. Noted the August 25 issue of USA Today:...

New mercury scare risks lives, harms fish industry.(Insider Report)
September 20, 2004... "E.P.A. Says Mercury Taints Fish Across U.S." blared the New York Times headline on August 24. The article's opening sentence reads: "The head of the Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday that fish in virtually all of the nation's...

Slouching toward Kyoto.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
September 20, 2004... "In a striking shift in the way the Bush administration has portrayed the science of climate change, a new report to Congress focuses on federal research indicating that emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gasses are the only...

More compelled abortion in China.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
September 20, 2004... Last January in China's Gansu province, a woman named Ma Weihua was arrested while transporting 56 ounces of heroin. Under the Communist Chinese criminal code, people convicted of trafficking that amount of heroin can be executed--unless, of...

The anti-Christian EU.(Insider Report)(European Union)
September 20, 2004... Ake Green, a Pentecostal pastor in Sweden, was sentenced to a month in prison for the supposed crime of preaching against the sin of homosexuality. In a 2003 sermon, Green described the vice as "abnormal, a horrible cancerous tumor in the body...

Presidente reconquista.(Insider Report)
September 20, 2004... "Yo soy Presidente George W. Bush, y yo apruebo este mensaje," stated President Bush at the beginning of a Spanish-language television ad. According to Lionel Sosa, an adviser to the Bush campaign, the ad shows that "all the Latinos are...

Leftists celebrate ruling against Chile's Pinochet.(Insider Report)(Augusto Pinochet)
September 20, 2004... In a stunning reversal of its earlier decisions, Chile's Supreme Court on August 26 stripped Gen. Augusto Pinochet of immunity from prosecution, paving the way for possible trial of the former president on charges of human rights abuses. The...

UN poll monitors in U.S.(Insider Report)(United Nations )(Brief Article)
September 20, 2004... "Election monitors that normally would be expected to observe elections in fledgling democracies like Azerbaijan and Moldova are scheduled to watch the vote in a more established democratic nation the United States," reported Fox News on August...

Electoral College in peril?(Insider Report)
September 20, 2004... This November, Colorado voters will consider Amendment 36, a measure that would make that state the first in the union to allocate electoral votes proportionately according to the popular vote. If approved, Amendment 36 would go into effect...

More government is not the answer: instead of making it more difficult for terrorists to enter this country, the 9/11 Commission would intrude on the freedoms and privacy of all Americans.(Terrorism)(Cover Story)
September 20, 2004... Many of our recommendations call for the government to increase its presence in our lives.--9/11 Commission report The lead sentence in an August 18 Tucson Citizen story on Adnan G. El Shukrijumah stuns up the alarming content: "A suspected...

Solutions to the terrorist threat: there are a number of practical steps that can be taken, from securing our borders to restoring multiple layers of defense.(Terrorism)(Cover Story)
September 20, 2004... On September 11,2001, the federal government failed in the most important of its few constitutionally enumerated functions--protecting our homeland from attack. The only effective defense of our country on that day came from a handful of...

Are you on the terrorist watch list? Sen. Ted Kennedy and 350 other Americans have been delayed or prevented from boarding flights after their names mistakenly appeared on the terrorist "no-fly" list.(On The Home Front)
September 20, 2004... Imagine the following scene: A distinguished-looking septuagenarian approaches the US Airways ticket counter at Boston's Logan airport. He is heading for Washington, D.C. He hands his electronic ticket to the ticket agent, who checks his...

Ballot box smear: leftist political activists in California have adopted a new attack vehicle to smear patriots under the banner of protected political "free speech.".(Politics)
September 20, 2004... The political season is hard upon us. Even the completely apolitical person knows this by the avalanche of nasty attack ads flooding the radio and TV airwaves and slick voter hit pieces crowding the mailbox. From ancient Greece to present day,...

Merger mania; European Union member nations are close to voting on a newly created Constitution. Europeans are awakening to the serious reality of losing their independence.(European Union)
September 20, 2004... If the leaders of European nations decide that their countries should commit suicide, and their peoples allow them to do so, shame on them. The road toward this destination has actually been traveled for more than 50 years--from the 1952...

EU socialist manifesto.(European Union)
September 20, 2004... I the words of the Declaration of Independence, we "are endowed by [our] Creator with certain unalienable rights," such as life, liberty and property. Moreover. to "secure these rights, governments are instituted among men. deriving their just...

Lost and found.(The Goodness Of America)
September 20, 2004... It is not known if the ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes ever found the "honest man" for whom he searched, but if someone were to resume that quest today, the Kalispell/Whitefish area of Montana might be a good place to start. For instance:...

Good neighbor.(The Goodness Of America)(Brief Article)
September 20, 2004... Early in the morning of July 24, a young woman in Bismarck, North Dakota, called 911 to report that a man had broken into her apartment, then forced three boys (ages 12 to 14) to accompany him while he vandalized vehicles with a baseball bat....

The Founding Fathers & the classics: the stream of classical history was one of the primary tributaries of American political thought at the time of the Founding.(History--Struggle For Freedom)
September 20, 2004... I have but one lamp by which my feel are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.-- Patrick Henry March 23, 1775 p Patrick Henry's view of the value of history was not unique....

Armed robber shot.(Exercising The Right)(Brief Article)
September 20, 2004... Shortly after midnight on July 21, Roy Rhodes of Waycross, Georgia, came home from work. As he was about to enter his residence, he heard someone approaching from behind. Turning, he saw the silhouettes of two men rushing at him, at least one...

Luck runs out.(Exercising The Right)(Brief Article)
September 20, 2004... Shortly after 10 p.m. on June 22, Samuel "Lucky" Parker robbed the D&D Texaco in Alexandria, Louisiana. Alexandria is the parish seat of Rapides Parish, where Parker is also a suspect in numerous other armed robberies, including at least 16 in...

Dog turns on owner.(Exercising The Right)(Brief Article)
September 20, 2004... At about 9:20 p.m. on July 26, a Rottweiler belonging to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, resident James Cox suddenly attacked Cox and began viciously biting one of his legs. Several neighbors ran to help the beleaguered pet owner, but could not...

Drinking leads to shooting.(Exercising The Right)(Brief Article)
September 20, 2004... Shortly after 6 a.m. on June 9, 2002, police in Plattsburgh, New York, responded to a 911 burglary call and found Andrew Leroux lying dead on a sidewalk near the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Crouthers. Leroux had been shot once in the...

Bizarre confrontation.(Exercising The Right)(Brief Article)
September 20, 2004... On June 19, William Glover of Parkman, Maine, left home wearing camouflage clothing and carrying two shotguns. His wife later recalled that he was not acting like himself. Sometime after 4:30 that afternoon, Glover emerged from the woods...

Tax cuts and class warfare.(Between The Lines)(Brief Article)
September 20, 2004... ITEM: A Reuters story on August 13, headlined "CBO Report: Bush Tax Cuts Tilted to Rich," reported: "One-third of President Bush's tax cuts have gone to the wealthiest I percent of Americans, shifting more burden to middle-income taxpayers,...

Energy extravagance.(Between The Lines)(Brief Article)
September 20, 2004... ITEM: The Christian Science Monitor for August 16 reported: "Humanity has the hardware in hand to halt the rise in heat-trapping greenhouse gases it pumps into the atmosphere and forestall the worst effects of global warming projected for the...

Hurting boys for equality.(Between The Lines)(Brief Article)
September 20, 2004... ITEM: As the Olympic Games opened, USA Today for August 16 reported: "Somewhere Hera, the patron goddess of female Olympians, must be proud. Back in the good ol' boys club of the ancient Olympics, circa 776 B.C., women were not permitted to...

The "exalted we".(The Last Word)
September 20, 2004... James P. Hogan is both an accomplished engineer and a highly regarded science fiction author. Hogan's new book, Kicking the Sacred Cow: Questioning the Unquestionable and Thinking the Impermissible, is a spirited polemic against those whom he...