From: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com (roc-digest) To: roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: roc-digest V2 #315 Reply-To: roc-digest Sender: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk roc-digest Tuesday, February 1 2000 Volume 02 : Number 315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 30 Jan 00 07:06:35 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: A sharp stick in a gun grabber's eye (fwd) On Jan 29, Jim Zoes wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] The last two days, the media has been whining about the web site of candidate Dr. Michael Curtiss for the Republican nomination for candidate for the 17th Ill Congressional district. Dr. Curtiss is raffling off a new-in-the-box M1 Match Garand and an ArmaLite AR 50 in .50BMG. He calls the latter the "The Rod Blagojevich Special" after gun-grabbing Rod-the-Red, a liberal democratic Congressman from Chicago who wants to ban ownership and possession of .50's. Rod is very anti-gun. Naturally, the Chicago media is pissed off and is Red-Rod. And, the NBC outlet (WMAQ) in Chicago is calling it a ".50 cal machine gun." -- which, of course, it isn't. But the TV media has never let "accuracy" define their newscasts.... If you want to visit Dr. Curtiss' site it's at http://www.loveofcountry.com/ The gun raffle is at http://www.loveofcountry.com/contribute2.htm I'm sure he would like the support.... [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Jan 00 07:08:21 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Re: Amendment (fwd) On Jan 30, C. D. Tavares wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] I posted this back in December of 1998: >A bizarre warp in space and time floated through New England in 1987, in >the aftermath of which the Commonwealth found to its surprise that it had >actually done away with its discretionary License to Purchase, Possess, and >Use Model Rocket Engines. > >Seen any increase in grass fires? Home explosions? Downed aircraft? >Drive-by launchings? > >Conversely, thousands of previously restricted Boston residents are now >free to go to Toys R Us and buy their kids model rocketry outfits, just >like their relatives have always been able to do in the other 49 states. > >Public safety is unfortunately used too often as an excuse for tyranny. > >(On this topic, does anyone here have the text of Lord Dunmore's order to >his troops to confiscate the colonist's gunpowder in Jamestown? It >illustrates this principle perfectly, and I wanted an accurate copy for my >archives.) A couple of people asked me for this document if I ever found it. After a year, I have located a copy, along with a lot of related contemporaneous documents. It's fascinating in that if you rewrote it in modern English, it could easily be a recent White House press release on the "militia problem," and how guns have to be heavily controlled to keep them out of the hands of the "criminal element." Wednesday, 3 May 1775 (Virginia Gazette (Pinkney), 4 May 1775) Royal Chief Magistracy Advice of His Council to Governor Dunmore and His Excellency's Resultant Proclamation At a COUNCIL held at the PALACE May 3, 1775. Present, his Excellency the Governor, Thomas Nelson(, Sr.), Richard Corbin, William Byrd (III), Ralph Wormeley, junior, esquires, John Camm, clerk, and John Page, esquires. The board, resuming the consideration of the subject laid before them yesterday by the governor, advised him to issue the following proclamation; and the same was ordered accordingly. By his EXCELLENCY the right honourable JOHN Earl of DUNMORE, his Majesty's Lieutenant and Governor General of the Colony and Dominion of VIRGINIA, and Vice Admiral of the same. A PROCLAMATION. VIRGINIA, to wit. WHEREAS there is too much reason to suppose that some persons, in the different parts of this colony, are disaffected to his majesty's government, and by their weight and credit with the people are endeavouring to bring the country into such a situation as to afford them the fairest prospect of effecting a change in the form of it, covering their wicked designs under the specious appearance of defending their liberties, and have taken advantage of the unhappy ferment, which themselves have raised in the minds of their fellow subjects, in prosecution of their dangerous designs to oppose the most undoubted prerogative of the king, which in a late instance I thought it expedient to exert by removing on board his majesty's ship the Fowey, a small quantity of gunpowder, belonging to his majesty, from the magazine in this city; I have thought fit, by advice of his majesty's council, to issue this my proclamation, with a view of undeceiving the deluded, and of exposing to the unwary the destruction into which they may be precipitated, if they suffer themselves to be longer guided by such infatuated counsels. Although I consider myself, under the authority of the crown, the only constitutional judge, in what manner the munition, provided for the protection of the people of this government, is to be disposed of for that end; yet for effecting the salutary objects of this proclamation, and removing from the minds of his majesty's subjects the groundless suspicions they have imbibed, I think proper to declare that the apprehensions which seemed to prevail throughout this whole country of an intended insurrection of the slaves, who had been seen in large numbers, in the night time, about the magazine, and my knowledge of its being a very insecure depositary, were my inducement to that measure, and I chose the night as the properest season, because I knew the temper of the time, and the misinterpretations of my design which would be apt to prevail if the thing should be known. Acting under these motives, I certainly rather deserved the thanks of the country than their reproaches. But, whenever the present ferment shall subside, and it shall become necessary to put arms into the hands of the militia, for the defence of the people against a foreign enemy or intestine insurgents, I shall be as ready as on a late occasion to exert my best abilities in the service of the country. In the mean time, as it is indispensably necessary to maintain order and the authority of the laws, and thereby the dignity of his majesty's government, I exhort and require, in his majesty's name, all his faithful subjects, to leave no expedient unessayed which may tend to that happy end. Such as are not to be influenced by the love of order for its own sake, and the blessings of this colony, as well as the dangers to which it is exposed from a savage enemy; who, from the most recent advices I have received from the frontier inhabitants, are ready to renew their hostilities against the people of this country. But, as on the one hand, nothing can justify men, without proper authority, in a rapid recurrence to arms, nothing excuse resistence to the executive power in the due enforcement of law, so on the other, nothing but such resistance and outrageous proceedings shall ever compel me to avail myself of any means that may carry the appearance of severity. Anxious to restore peace and harmony to this distracted country, and to induce a firmer reliance on the goodness and tenderness of our most gracious sovereign to all his subjects equally, and on the wisdom of his councils for a redress of all their real grievances, which can only be obtained by loyal and constitutional applications, I again call upon and require all his majesty's liege subjects, and especially all magistrates and other officers, both civil and military, to exert themselves in removing the discontents, and suppressing the spirit of faction, which prevail among the people, that a dutiful submission to the laws of the land may be strictly observed, which shall ever be the rule of my conduct, as the interest and happiness of this dominion ever have been, and shall continue to be, the objects of my administration. GIVEN under my hand, and the seal of the colony, at Williamsburg, this 3d day of May, 1775, and in the 15th year of his majesty's reign. GOD SAVE THE KING. - -- Tavares@alum.mit.edu | http://home.earthlink.net/~cdtavares | RKBA! Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. -- MAO ZEDONG (1938) [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Jan 00 10:13:41 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: VIN: Iowa Caucus JAN. 30, 2000 (fwd) On Jan 30, RichSlick@aol.com wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] FROM MOUNTAIN MEDIA THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz Why it's so important to ignore Iowa Democracy on a mass scale can be a good way to keep the peace, but it rarely produces much to be proud of. That's why the founders made democracy such a small part of our system. Federal judges don't stand for election (nor did U.S. senators, till 1912). Even the president is supposed to be chosen not by some mob, but by either Congress or an electoral college (whose delegates are not required to mimic the popular vote. In 1972 a Virginia elector cast his vote for Libertarian nominees John Hospers and Theodora "Toni" Nathan -- the first woman so honored. That elector's vote counted; he was not led away in chains.) If the group must settle on one thing for lunch, by all means let's get whatever the plurality of "voters" want. Just don't try to convince me the ballot results "prove" McDonald's offers the best cuisine in town. Consider the recent balloting among 700 "music professionals" which led cable network VH-1 to declare the Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction" to be the greatest rock song in history. The winning entry may be the most familiar o song in rock history. It may be the most easily recognized o song in rock history. But it isn't even the Rolling Stones' best song, for heaven's sake. (This is the band that brought us "Brown Sugar," "Sympathy for the Devil," and "Tumbling Dice.") "Satisfaction," one will recall, is the classic anthem of teen rebellion against a commercial culture whose pitchmen tell us "how white our shirts can be" -- a major social crisis of the '60s which seems to have receded a bit with time, recorded by a set of scruffy teens who, at the earliest opportunity, ran out to buy country estates and Bentleys and medium-sized Latin American countries with more amiable banking laws. (And God bless them for it.) Anyway, what happens in such "democratic" tallies is that such masterpieces as "Stairway to Heaven (No. 4), "Hotel California" (No. 7), "Johnny B. Goode (No. 15) and "Layla" (No. 16) -- not to mention the life work of folks like Lennon & McCartney -- effectively cancel each other out. Acquired tastes are cast out, and what remains is a consensus of mediocrity. We can only thank our lucky stars the victory didn't go to "Wild Thing" (No. 50) or "Hang on Sloopy." Which brings us to the similar exercise now occurring in the parallel political universe, where Americans will soon choose whether the next corrupt millionaire socialist to rule America will be Al Gore, George W. Bush, John McCain, or Bill Bradley. Oh, is "socialist" too harsh? Just tell me which of these four candidates stands opposed to graduated federal taxes on income, corporations, and inheritances; and massive federal insurance programs for health care ("Medicare," "Medicaid") and old-age pensions ("Social Security.") Calls for such programs made up the major platform planks of Norman Thomas' 1932 Socialist Party, which even Franklin Roosevelt and his Democrats savagely reviled at the time as "fantastic and un-American" -- even if they did promptly turn around and enact most of it, as soon as they'd gotten themselves safely elected by promising "an immediate and drastic reduction of governmental expenditures ... of not less than 25 percent ... by abolishing useless commissions and offices." The only way to identify a non-socialist in American politics today is to wait for the Washington Post, the New York Times, and everyone allowed to appear on camera for CBS and NBC to shriek in unison that said candidate is a "doctrinaire right-wing extremist" who only gets votes "as a protest" or by "buying them." These commentators quadrennially mew that the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary are a terrible place to start choosing our presidents, complaining the demographics of these states are too white and too rural. They especially object to the caucus process, in which only the votes of those who are active in a political party, own cars, and are able to follow a map to the caucus location, count. What this objection really means, of course, is that the kind of folks who dominate the New Hampshire (and particularly the Iowa) process are politically knowledgeable Americans who work and pay taxes, speak English, and may even once have read the U.S. Constitution. Just look at how quickly these media poobahs assured you nothing important happened in Iowa last Monday. When they don't mind flogging hundreds of thousands of words about some 6-year-old Cuban immigrant found floating in an inner tube, why the big rush to drop the curtain of silence and "move on to New Hampshire" (and then quickly to states with even bigger numbers, where the races are even more dependent on the media), assuring us the Iowa caucuses are a dumb show that mean nothing, nothing at all? Because Iowans this winter got a close look at two candidates whom the national news media hope you'll never get to see. Other than Libertarians (who are apparently all painted that special shade of blue which disappears when placed in front of a TV camera), if one had to name the two candidates active in the process today who would be most likely to completely eliminate the personal income tax and the tyrannical, counterproductive War on Drugs, those candidates would clearly be magazine publisher Steve Forbes, and a black American and former ambassador named Alan Keyes. And when all those taxpaying rural Republicans got together in Iowa Monday night, only 40 percent of them voted for Texas Democrat (even Texas Democrats say he's a Texas Democrat) George W. Bush -- the anointed, big-money, "inevitable" candidate who was immediately declared the "victor." Wasn't he? While 44 percent of them voted for either Steve Forbes or Alan Keyes. Didn't they? But that wasn't worth a headline. Oh no. Because that might indicate that, after 67 years of "New Deal," the yokels are starting to wake up. So it's: Pay no attention to the little people behind the curtain. They're not "diverse" enough. They're too "conservative." They're too "white." They're too "rich." They're too inconvenient. Vin Suprynowicz is assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. His new book, "Send in the Waco Killers: Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1993-1998," is available at 1-800-244-2224. *** Vin Suprynowicz, vin@lvrj.com "The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it." -- John Hay, 1872 "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -- H.L. Mencken * * * To subscribe, send a message to vinsends-request@ezlink.com, from your NEW address, including the word "subscribe" (with no quotation marks) in the "Subject" line. All I ask of electronic subscribers is that they not RE-forward my columns until on or after the embargo date which appears at the top of each, and that (should they then choose to do so) they copy the columns in their entirety, preserving the original attribution. The Vinsends list is maintained by Alan Wendt in Colorado, who may be reached directly at alan@ezlink.com. 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[------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Jan 00 16:59:22 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Fw: EU and another perspective (fwd) On Jan 31, The McGehee Zone wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] The last attempt at a European Super-State, designed by Adolf Hitler, was a temple to genetic purity built on a graveyard -- naturally it collapsed under sufficient pressure. It had risen partly in opposition to a fortress built on mud, Stalin's Soviet Union. I've always been of the opinion the European Union is an exercise in self-delusion by Euro would-be empire builders -- soft socialists in the Cold War West who consider it their destiny to take up the cause of world domination by a European center of power. A castle, if you will, built on the still-unstable ruins of other failed attempts at the same objective. Failure may very well be inevitable for the EU as it was for the USSR and the Third Reich, but both of those other opponents succeeded in putting the entire world in danger as they sought to achieve their ambitions. Kevin McGehee Newnan, Georgia mail@mcgeheezone.com http://www.McGeheeZone.com/ - ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Williams To: KL7DW Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 1:50 PM Subject: EU and another perspective http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j013100.html January 31, 2000 THE GLOBALIST CULTURE WAR by Justin Raimondo Rewriting the past as Orwell pointed out, a totalitarian regime must invest heavily in this essential task. In Orwell's famous novel, 1984, the regime of Big Brother openly proclaims the malleability of history in the following slogan: "Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past." No one understands this better than the propagandists of the European Union (EU), who are now embarked on a new project, the founding of a "Museum of Europe." As a cultural monument, this Museum is faced with an almost impossible task: to imbue the bloodless soul-less diktaks of the Brussels bureaucracy with the aura and mystery of an instant tradition, a faux "culture" conjured entirely out of thin air. The result confirms my theory of humor: that the best of it is unintentional. . . . THE SOULLESS MONSTER The Eurocrats are not unaware of their predicament: the Museum's mission statement admits that most see the EU as a "cold, bureaucratic monster, a soulless producer of administrative edicts." Ah, but this can be overcome, they aver, by dressing up the Monster in different historical costumes, and inventing a fake "history" of the "European idea." As the Museum's mission statement puts it: "The European Union which is taking shape before our eyes is not a recent invention born of politicians' whims but the product of a long maturation of a time-honored idea as old as Europe itself." In opening up the question of the history of the European idea, its political and ideological antecedents, the Eurocrats are putting their cards on the table cards that bear some pretty provocative symbols starting with the swastika. FASCISM AND "THE EUROPEAN IDEA" Ah yes, the "time-honored tradition" of pan-European integration. EU propagandists have pointed to the postwar "pan-European" movement as having grown out of the resistance to Hitlerism, but the reality is quite different . Nazi propagandists were the first modern purveyors of European continentalism a program forcibly implemented by Hitler's legions as they overran a vast territory from Normandy to the Urals. The earliest purveyors of Italian fascist and German ultra-nationalism latched on to the European idea from the very start, organizing exhibitions and conferences eerily similar to those now making their debut all across Europe under EU auspices. As the New York Times reports, "Lack of consensus has not hindered the proliferation of museum shows emphasizing" the new "Pan-European culture"; the Council of Europe is sponsoring a traveling exhibition, which is now on tour. Reading this immediately brought to mind the photograph illustrating the second chapter of John Laughland's remarkably learned and provocative book, The Tainted Source: The Undemocratic Origins of the European Idea. It is a photo that shows a photographic exhibition organized by the French Waffen SS in Paris, 1944, entitled "The Waffen SS is fighting for Europe." French collaborators, dressed in full Nazi regalia, schmooze with their German conquerors, and the caption reads: "Just over a year later, it was soldiers from the French Waffen SS division 'Charlemagne' who were to be among the last to defend the Reichstag from Soviet attack." CHARLEMAGNE'S GHOST Speaking of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman emperor has become the Eurocratic icon of choice, a fitting symbol of their overarching ambition but not without some opposition. A battle royale is breaking out among the Eurocrats between Greek classicists and medievalists. Greece has taken umbrage at the Museum directors over their concept of the European idea as being rooted in the Middle Ages. Clearly, the Greeks assert, this is a slight to the classical era: is not Greece the "cradle of democracy"? Well that may be, reply the Museum's officials, such as scientific director Elie Barnavi, but that is simply not good enough: the problem, reports the Times, is that "Greek civilization failed to promote a larger European consciousness . . . because it discriminated between citizens and barbarians. Roman civilization featured a similar dichotomy," avers Barnavi, and so cannot meet the EU's high standards of political correctness. And so it is out with the first philosophers, the founders of the world's first republics not only Aristotle but the original explicators of natural law theory, the Stoics and in with the ninth century absolutism of Charlemagne and rule by "divine right." Such are the political uses of history. HEIL EUROPA? The Orwellian character of the EU and its propaganda is eerie in the extreme. On the one hand, the Nazis are held up as the ultimate symbol of evil, and this is truer in Germany the geographic center of the Soulless Monster than practically anywhere else on earth. Yet the "we are the wave of the inevitable future" rhetoric employed by the advocates of a EuroSuperState bears a striking resemblance to the prewar pronunciamentos of Italian, French, and German fascists, who hailed the rise of "Europa." As John Laughland puts it in The Tainted Source: "Because the fascists believed that they were the harbingers of a New Order (much fascist thought was overtly futuristic) they argued that the concept of national sovereignty was simply out of date a view which is peddled vigorously by pro-Europeans today. In Vichy France, the senior Vichyite minister and admirer of Hitler, Jacques Benoist-Machin, who was a Secretary of State in the Vichy government in charge of Franco-German relations from June 1941 until September 1942, declared that France's policy of collaboration required 'the abandonment of old illusions'. France would be able to join the new Europe, he asserted, only when she abandons all crumbling forms of nationalism which was itself in reality only an anachronistic particularism and when she takes her place in the European community with honour. . .'" THE COURT HISTORIANS As the Eurocrats go about their gigantic project of social engineering on a continental scale, they are not content with the usual paraphernalia of phony "nationhood": a flag, a currency, a symbol-embossed passport even a national (or supranational) anthem. Now, that's one song virtually no one can hum, let alone the lyrics, not even the Eurocrats themselves. But perhaps their children will, and that is the goal of the pan-European educational system now taking root. With Brussels overseeing the writing and publication of textbooks that teach history from a "European" point of view, the little Europeans of tomorrow will be spoon-fed and force-fed, if necessary a version of history that legitimizes the EU kleptocracy. Previous efforts to distribute an official EU history textbook were thwarted by the troublesome Greeks, who objected to a volume by the French historian Jean-Baptiste Duroselle on the grounds that the contribution of Hellenic civilization was almost completely overlooked in the text. STRANGLED IN THE CRADLE? But the Eurocrats can afford to wait, or so they think. According to Peter Ludlow, of Center for European Policy Studies, the official EU thinktank headquartered in Brussels, we are in for a "sea change." They may not yet know the words to the EU's anthem, but they'll know what a Euro is in 2002, when they have to trade in their francs, marks, pounds, and what-have-you for the spawn of the European central bankers. Yes, but will this be enough to inspire the loyalty of millions? If the pure economism of the Eurocrats is correct, then the answer is yes: if not, then the pockets of resistance to the coming dictatorship of the acronyms are bound to expand. The British Tories show signs of waking up to the danger, and in Austria, Greece, and throughout the continent opposition to the Soulless Monster is mobilizing. The Monster could be strangled in its cradle if we're lucky. THE EUROPEAN THREAT It strikes me as incredible that the growth of a single European Super-State is seen as a benign development by our national leaders, while such marginal despots as Slobodan Milsovic and Saddam Hussein loom large in the official imagination as monsters of Satanic proportions. In their endless search for overseas enemies, the interventionists of the Left and the Right have both overlooked this obvious danger: the rise of a nuclear-armed European Super-State, that sees itself as a great liberator of peoples, an Empire to rival our own, with its own energizing ideology as well as a formidable military force. The Republican wing of the War Party is railing at a third world nation like China, whose standard of living and military is fifty years behind the West, while the vast technological resources of Europe are being mobilized in the service of a new and burgeoning Brussels-based Power. THE ENEMY THEY OVERLOOKED The same Times piece reports that a soon-to-be-published volume put out by a pro-EU thinktank opines that the geographic reality and reach of the European Idea is elastic, apparently infinitely so. According to Professor Heinrich Schneider, of the University of Vienna: "How far Europe will reach tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, or in the next century and later, cannot be looked up in a historical atlas of the Antique, the Middle Ages, of the 20th century, or of the cold war period." This has an unmistakably messianic ring to it, an idea that seems inherently aggressive and expansionist. As the engine of European socialism, extending the rule of the Third Way into Eastern and Southern Europe, including even Turkey, the EU seems much more of a potential challenge to American interests and "hegemony" than either Russian or China, or even both combined. Yet never do we hear a peep out of the War Party, either wing of it, on this question: this is the one enemy they have apparently overlooked. REVISIONIST HISTORY The smashing of old icons, and the creation of new gods and new heroes, this is the process of European cultural integration in action a sinister ritual that bears a remarkable resemblance to what is going on in the US. We, too, face the purgation of old, politically "incorrect" symbols the Confederate flag, the "Indian" sports franchises, the slave-owning Founders and the enthronement of new gods and heroes: Jefferson is out, Saint Martin Luther King is in, and our children are taught that the Founders of this country were white male heterosexual sadists, who did not merely colonize but enslaved a continent, murdering and raping their way from sea to shining sea. It is not only the textbooks of Europe, but also our own that have been rewritten to fit the same multi-culturalist anti-particularist agenda. A WARNING The announcement that the EU intends to raise its own army is a warning to the last independent pockets of resistance, such as Serbia, that continue to defy the Euro-lords. The European integrationists attach a lot of importance to their very first war, in which the declared enemy was the idea of sovereignty, and the nationalistic Serbs were given the honor of being singled out for subjugation and humiliation. But Milosevic fought them to a standstill, and stood up for the idea of national sovereignty against these would be Holy Roman emperors. The issue remains dangerously unresolved, and with plenty of potential to drag the United States into yet another European conflict. In the civilizational struggle between Western Europe and the Orthodox East, the US and the EU are lined up against the Slavs and anyone else who dares challenge Western global hegemony. NEITHER HOLY NOR ROMAN The crusade to export MTV, Democracy, and the cultural hegemony of Hollywood to the four corners of the earth is, for some, a holy crusade, albeit a purely secular one. In spite of the Eurocrats' pathetic pretensions, and their highly dubious claim to represent the imperial legacy of Charlemagne, this rising Euro-imperialism is neither Holy nor Roman. It isn't even a proper Empire, as it has no Emperor, nor even a sense of its own majesty only faceless bureaucrats who thrive on anonymity. There is indeed something distinctly unholy about this international crusade against the idea of national sovereignty, and the rise of regionalism, and "the European idea," straight out of Nazi and fascist propaganda of the 1930s even as nationalists, such as the Freedom Party of Austria, are denounced as "neo-Nazis" for their opposition to the dictatorship of Brussels and the liquidation of national identity and history in the face of the pan-European cultural blitzkrieg. THE STRUGGLE FOR THE WORLD On every front, from Europe to Latin America, from the Middle East to the Straits of Taiwan, the great struggle in the world comes down to two forces, two great antagonists locked in mortal combat: the emerging world state versus the rest of mankind. At the center is he metropolitan megalopolis, North America, Great Britain, and Western Europe, with the second tier the former colonies of Great Britain and the emerging nations of Eastern Europe. Extending its reach into the Ukraine and the Baltics, and through Turkey into the Caucasus, the great Acronymic Alliance of the EU and the US is now making its bid for world hegemony, with the prize being the fantastic oil wealth to be found in the Caspian Sea region. It is a vision that combines the megalomania of Alexander, the hubris of Napoleon and a Hitlerian sense of messianic inevitability. [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Feb 00 13:44:22 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: [slick-d] Fwd: Liberty Update/Executive Orders (fwd) On Jan 29, DBuhlman@aol.com wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] This is an important effort being undertaken in DC, led by Congressman Ron Paul of Texas. Please take a minute to read the update on the effort to halt unconstitutional Executive Orders issued by the President. These EOs actually only apply to the Executive Branch, but get treated by the major media and other operatives as law. Only Congress can pass federal laws, according to the US Constitution. The President must be reigned in by Congress to curb any president's dictatorial tendencies. Thanks. From: "Liberty Study Committee" To: "LibertyStudyCommittee List Member" Subject: Liberty Update/Executive Orders Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 18:25:15 -0500 Reply-To: Distribution@LibertyStudy.org **You are receiving this message as an update to your participation in the effort to stop the abuse of presidential executive orders.** Dear friend of liberty, On behalf of the Liberty Study Committee, I thank you for writing your U.S. representative about H.R. 2655 - The Separation of Powers Restoration Act that was submitted to the U.S. House on July 30, 1999 by Congressman Ron Paul and Congressman Jack Metcalf. Due to your efforts and the efforts of 21,332 other Americans during the last several months, H.R. 2655 now has 29 co-sponsors! Two sets of hearings on executive orders were held in the House last October. Last month, Congressman Ron Paul appeared on 15 radio talk shows from coast to coast talking about executive orders and H.R. 2655. Phase II is now underway. The Liberty Study Committee asks for your help again: 1. Review the updated information on the home page of http://www.executiveorders.org which includes testimony given at two congressional hearings. Three of Congressman Ron Paul's radio interviews are featured on the media page. 2. See if your U.S. representative is one of the 29 co-sponsors of H.R. 2655 by clicking on http://www.executiveorders.org/co-sponsors. 3. If your representative has not signed on H.R. 2655, please send him another message urging him to become a co-sponsor. If your representative has signed on, please send him a message of thanks. Please go to the home page of http://www.executiveorders.org to send your message. 4. Please tell your friends about H.R. 2655. Congress is back in session. Our goal is to double the number of co-sponsors to 58 by April 1. We've picked April 1 because we want to tell our national government that we won't be fooled anymore. Thanks again for your help! Kent Snyder Executive Director Liberty Study Committee http://www.libertystudy.org If you have a question or comment, please mailto:mail@libertystudy.org. To SUBSCRIBE, please mailto:subscription@list.libertystudy.org with the words "subscribe libertystudycommittee" as the first and only line in the body of the message. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please mailto:subscription@list.libertystudy.org with the words "unsubscribe libertystudycommittee" as the first and only line in the body of the message. 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