Interesting junk mail.(The Last Word)

Who doesn't get junk mail? Whose mail box isn't regularly stuffed with requests for donations, pleas for political support, "fantastic" bargains for goods and services, "now or never" savings on subscriptions, etc.? All of us wonder at times how we got on a list that enabled the dispenser of the junk mail to locate us. In one case of a well-stuffed mail box, however, the answer is both very clear and remarkably revealing.

A man I know quite well decided about a year ago to subscribe to Foreign Affairs, the prestigious journal of the Council on Foreign Relations. The man, a student of world affairs and a strong advocate for national independence, maintains that the CFR is the epicenter of the powerful drive to create a tyrannical world government. So he subscribed, as he stated, not to be a supporter of such a view but "to see what the enemy is up to." Because he was disinclined to have the CFR know precisely who he is, he did something a bit unusual: He subscribed using a fictitious name and a post office box address. The magazine began to arrive, along with a steady stream of junk mail.

Our man in question uses the fictitious name at his mail box address only for his subscription to the CFR's magazine. As a result, when the unwanted solicitations arrived addressed to his pseudonym, he deduced that the CFR was cooperating with the senders.

The Foreign Affairs staffers either sold or donated their mailing list to all these solicitors. Since sellers of a mailing list don't offer their names to ideological or political adversaries, it's reasonable to conclude that the CFR finds no disagreement with those to whom it provided its list. And it's quite enlightening to know who sought and obtained the Foreign Affairs list.

Not very surprisingly, both major political parties received the list. Back in 1966, Bill Clinton mentor Professor Carroll Quigley approvingly identified the CFR as the U.S. branch of a "secret society" to rule the world. About the national Democrats and Republicans, Quigley enthusiastically remarked that "the two parties should be almost identical," and should differ "only in details of procedure, priority, or method." The CFR is manipulating the political scene to suit its own ends, so it came as little surprise to our Foreign Affairs subscriber when he received solicitations from both Democrats and Republicans during the current election cycle. He already knew there wasn't much more than a dime's worth of difference between the two.

Identifying herself as "House Democratic Leader," Rep. Nancy Pelosi asked for contributions in five separate missives, two offering a "Fighting ...