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The conduct of Pol Pot was abnormal in that he did push the logic of
what he believed into unmitigated actions.
What did Pol Pot believe? Here are some of his beliefs:
1. Men and women are merely animals and part of the animal kingdom;
2. There is no God;
3. The qualities of the human animal are derived from the economic
environment in which he is born and reared.
4. Human nature can be improved and ultimately perfected by the
provision of the appropriate environment;
5. He is one of the chosen who have the responsibility of providing the
therapeutic environment;
6. Physical labor is the creator of human nature;
7. The “Manifesto of the Communist Party, by Karl Marx and
Frederick Engels, provides a blueprint for the creation of a new and improved
human nature;”
8. The statement in the Manifesto–“By ‘individual,’ you mean
none other than the bourgeois, the middle-class owner of property. This
individual must indeed be swept out of the way and made impossible”–should be
taken literally, and applied as a guide to action.
Why are so many educated and
informed critics of Pol Pot unable to see the connection between his beliefs
and his deeds? I suspect that the answer is because they share many of his
beliefs while they abhor his actions.
It is a common human
tendency to judge others by ourselves. Consciously or unconsciously, it is easy
to conclude, “I believe many of the things Pol Pot believed, but I don’t feel
the urge to act as he acted. Therefore, his actions must not have been caused
by his beliefs.”
Nevertheless,
ideas do have consequences. The Psalmist says, “The fool hath said in his heart, ‘there is no God.’
They are corrupt, they have done abominable works. There is none that doeth
good.”
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The great Russian philosopher and author, Fyodor Dostoevsky, said, “If
there is no God, anything is permissible.” Pol Pot proved that both the
Psalmist and Dostoevsky are right.
If people are merely animals, why is it wrong to treat them as animals?
Consider a rancher who is devoted to an improvement in the quality of his herd.
Some of his animals have developed a debilitating disease due to the conditions
of their environment. He plans to move them to a new environment but is
confronted with the problem of what to do with the animals who have been
infected and who may convey the infection to others. He does not hate them; in
fact, some of his favorite stock may be involved, but it is necessary to
dispose of them so that his better herd may be created.
To the doctrinaire Communist Pol Pot, the human animals of Cambodia had
been infected with the capitalist disease, so he felt it his duty to eliminate
the potential sources of infection. His motivation was a strong delusion, not a
sadistic hatred.
Time
magazine reports, “The conundrum of the man is that he did not seem savage at
all. Before fleeing into the jungle in 1963, the French-educated son of
prosperous land-owners, born Saloth Sar, taught school in Phnom Penh and his
former students remember him as a soft spoken, even-tempered man. Not angry
shouting but with a gentle well-modulated voice.”
Intellectual pride is at the core of Communist classicide. The antidote
is recommended by St. Paul who taught, “In lowliness of mind let each esteem
others better than themselves,” and Jesus, who proclaimed the golden rule,
“Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”
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Readers
Express More Thoughts About Dr. Schwarz and The Schwarz Report
Dr. David Noebel
Over the past few month we have received an
outpouring of goodwill–for Dr. and Mrs. Schwarz in their retirement, for
the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade and for Dr. Bauman and myself.
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We are thrilled to see such a response of heartfelt goodwill for what we
are seeking to do viz., continue the work of Dr. Fred Schwarz and the
Crusade and make his writings available to this present generation (and
hopefully to the next as well).
Our first responsibility, of course, is to this newsletter, but
within six months we hope to have a significant portion of the Crusade’s
newsletters and some of Dr. Schwarz’ writings on the World Wide Web.
We already have a Web site and when it is ready we will announce it
in The Schwarz Report.
Dr.
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various leftist movements and cults in particular vying for the
attention of America’s youth. Thank
you for your expression of gratitude for this mission.
David A. Noebel, for the editors
From John Anthony: “Dear Dr. Noebel, You write an excellent
newsletter! I am so pleased to see that the work of the crusade has been
successfully passed along to a group of highly capable and well motivated
individuals. I will pray for your success in this venture and for the
enlightenment of America.
“Please find enclosed my payment for the
subscription to the newsletter The Schwarz Report. Keep on exposing
the left et al and I will expose your newsletters to those who might find
it profitable and may also wish to subscribe.
“My very best wishes for your success.
God Bless.”
From Ted Clayton: “Dear Dr. Schwarz, It was interesting and exciting
to receive the first copy of “The Schwarz Report”. It sets high
standards in all respects, and will be a challenge to keep future issues
so good. It is wonderful that you have been able to make all the
arrangements to carry on your work.
“I will not attempt to find words
adequate to express my admiration for the enormous commitment you made to
CACC, and the tremendous influence you have had in so many lives! I wish
you all the best in the very, very well earned retirement (at least, big
change) that lies ahead.
“With all best wishes, and love
always.”
From Joe Mason: “Dear Dr. Fred: I have
followed your ministry since I first heard you speak in a small church in
Albuquerque, N.M. It was at the time when Billy Graham was holding a
Crusade there.
“I have just read of your decision at age
86 to step down and turn the work to Brother Dave Noebel. It is my belief
that you could not have made a more wise decision. We know of his ministry
and of his background. He is truly a steadfast man of God and we pray for
him and for his work often.
“At age 87+ it is good to know that you
will continue by writing to be included in the Newsletter. . . .
“Best wishes as you continue the battle. Expecting to see you as we go
up together. Yours in the Beloved.”
From
Herb Richards: “My dear precious brother: Words cannot express my thanks
and gratitude for all the work that you have done for us over the cold war
period. Your newsletter was always a lift for me to read and encouraged me
in the dark years of Russia’s great threat to us.
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“I have been a supporter of yours since the early fifties when you came
to [my town], and spoke to [my church].
“You have run a wonderful race and I know God has a great prize
awaiting you and those that have helped you in this giant endeavor. I will look
forward to The Schwarz Report, David Noebel is a great man. Thank you,
Thank you, Thank you.”
From Aida Parker: “My dear David, I cannot tell you how really
delighted I was to read that you are taking over the C.A.C.C. and the
editorship of The Schwarz Report. I have worked with those people for
many years and always held them in the highest regard. I can think of no one
better suited to take over this work. I just wish I could do more to help you.
“Anyway, the very best of luck and good fortune in your new venture.”
From Patricia Balaguer: “Dear Dr. Noebel: One of the things that I am
looking forward to most when the Lord gathers us all together in Heaven, is
getting to talk with Dr. Schwarz and giving him a loving hug! What a blessing
he has been to me and to myriad others, I am sure. Although blessed with an
awesome intellect and awesomely well-read and knowledgeable about so much
spiritual truth as well as history , philosophy and political science, he seems
to me to be one of God’s best exponents for godly humility and Christian love,
delivering his verbal sword thrusts with a holy boldness but without animosity
or vindictiveness. He has truly been a much needed prophet for our times and a
beautiful role model for those who would serve the Lord and love His people. He
richly deserves the time of rest that he is beginning as he returns to
Australia.
“However, Dr. Noebel, I am most appreciative to you for your
willingness to take over the torch from him and provide ongoing information and
education: I was so pleased and gratified to receive my first copy of the
Schwarz Report and I immediately read it through from start to finish! It is
excellent. . . . I particularly appreciated the article by Dr. Nash,
“Christianity and Marxism”. It confirms so many things that I have felt about
the present status of the church in America. I find so many that are and will
be so easy to be deceived by the lies of the enemy and I am humbly grateful for
the light that God has graciously given me to see the truth that I do. . .
“Keep up the good work! God bless and encourage you as you provide
God’s truth in this frightening age we live in and ammunition to combat the
lies of the enemy! I . . . wish Godspeed to Dr. Schwarz and the best to his
wonderful family.”
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Jesus Christ, Karl Marx and Jacques Ellul, part 3
by
Dr. Michael Bauman
Not surprisingly, Ellul insists that, like the Old, the New Testament
also teaches anarchism. For example, the miraculous catching of a fish with a
coin in its mouth, a coin sufficient to pay the temple tax for both Jesus and
Peter (Matt. 17:24ff.), Ellul describes as an “absurd miracle,” one designed
“precisely to show that the obligation to pay the tax is ridiculous.” By it,
Ellul improperly insists, “Jesus held up power to ridicule.” But Jesus’
intention, as he himself clearly indicates, is not to give offence (v.
27). Ridicule is perhaps the furthest thing from his mind–though not apparently
from Ellul, who goes on to argue that the payment of such taxes is a matter of
indifference; we are free to pay or not to pay. “Doctrinally I should not,” he
writes, “but out of love I will”–as if the demands of Christian belief and of
Christian love were somehow different.
Similarly, the standard progovernment views that most
theologians take toward Jesus’ famous injunction to give to Caesar those things
that are Caesar’s and to God those things that are God’s (Matt. 22:21), Ellul
characterizes as “unbelievable conclusions.” Jesus’ words, according to Ellul,
as any “pious Jew of Jesus’ time” would surely recognize, mean that, because
God is the master of everything, “Caesar is the legitimate master of nothing,
except for what he makes himself,” and those things “belong to the order of the
demonic.” But considering that the question posed in this passage to Jesus by
the Jews concerned the right of Caesar to rule the Jewish homeland and not
whether or not all government is illegitimate; and considering that the demonic
order is nowhere in view, either in this verse or in the entire chapter from
which it comes; Ellul’s anarchist conclusions are simply gratuitous. Ellul here
is arguing as if all political power is and only could be exercised after a
Machiavellian model; as if all political measures were Draconian; and as if the
only acceptable alternative to Machiavelli and Draco is anarchy–all of which
are patently false. Although Jesus’ words clearly rule out any facile
identification of the divine and the political, they do not rule out the
political altogether or relegate it to the realm of the irremediably perverse.
They are, quite to the contrary, an explicit sanction of government,
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though not of all that governments have done. Christ’s words clearly
indicate the possibility (and implicitly reveal the advisability) of loyalty to
both God and government. In no way should this passage be construed as a
vilification of all political power for all time and in all circumstances. Such
assertions are simply the idiosyncratic contortions of Ellul’s bizarre dance
upon the text. They are not the carefully ascertained teaching of the text
itself; and they are not exegetical scholarship.
When Jesus later declares that his kingdom is not of this world (John
18:36), Ellul again finds what he believes is grist for his anarchist mill.
These words, Ellul writes, teach that “apart from the Kingdom of God, any power
exercised is evil” and “should be obliterated.” With these words, Ellul argues,
“Jesus . . . launches a fundamental attack on power.” But Jesus, of course, has
said or done absolutely nothing (here or elsewhere) so politically doctrinaire
or irresponsible as that. In fact, Jesus tells Pilate something quite the
opposite: “You would have no power over me,” Jesus said, “if it were not given
you from above” (John 19:11). Pilate’s power, of course, was political. It was
also far-reaching, including even the power to judge matters of life and death.
We have it on the highest authority, furthermore, that Pilate’s power was given
to him by God himself. In other words, the dominical utterance to which
Ellul alludes has nothing at all to do with the establishment or endorsement of
universal political anarchy or the iconoclastic overthrow of all political
power. Those things can be found nowhere in Scripture, much less here in John’s
gospel. They are the result only of Ellul’s egregious and misshapen
interpretation.
Ellul then dismisses out of hand what most exegetes
would identify as the locus classicus of the New Testament’s teaching on
government: Paul’s word in Romans 13 that we ought to submit ourselves to the
governing authorities because, as rulers, they have been established by God
himself as a force for good. This passage, says Ellul, is “much too
celebrated.” He writes, “This text, it seems to me, should be reduced to its
real meaning: rather than giving us the last word on the matter of political
authority, it seeks to apply love in a context where Christians detested the
authorities.” In spite of Ellul’s imaginative supposition, we have no evidence
whatever that either Paul (who was imprisoned repeatedly by the authorities) or
the Roman Christians to whom he wrote ever “detested the authorities.” Indeed,
some of those to whom Paul addressed his admonition were themselves
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quite possibly active agents in the government and part of the
ruling authority, as a number of biblical considerations might lead us to
believe. Detesting political authority is a characteristic of Ellulism, not of
apostolic Christianity.
In short, the anarchism that Ellul espouses, and with which he labels
both Testaments and Christ himself, is not the political ideology of Scripture;
it is the yield of Ellul’s own anarchic hermeneutic, a hermeneutic that refuses
to submit itself to the precise verbal parameters established by the language
of any given biblical text. If the Bible entails any sort of political
orthodoxy, it is not anarchism.
Because ideas have consequences, and because bad ideas have bad
consequences, an anarchistic reading of Scripture is not without its untoward
effects. Relying on exegesis of this sort, for example, enables one unabashedly
to insist, as does Ellul, that “the state’s prosperity always implies
the death of innocents,” and that “a person can exercise political power only
if he worships the power of evil.” But by this logic, voting–the supreme act of
power in any democratic republic–would be unspeakably wicked and ought to be
resisted by all Christians as a point of true spirituality and moral
responsibility. The same would apply (in most free nations) to paying taxes,
military service, sending letters (and delivering them), pledging allegiance,
testifying in court, serving on a jury, filing a lawsuit, or even purchasing
and using a library card at a public library, all of which are exercises of,
and participation in, political power. Furthermore, simply by saying publicly
what he does, Ellul himself “worships the power of evil” because the exercise
of free speech and public discourse are political acts of power, as the
ancient Greeks well understood and as has been reemphasized in modern times by
Leo Strauss and those who identify with Strauss’s school of political
theorizing, among others. Furthermore, because publishing, preaching, teaching,
and persuading are powerful political actions; because these avenues of
expression are open to Ellul primarily because his government (and others)
protect his freedom of speech, his academic freedom, and the freedom of the
press; and because Ellul continues to practice those liberties and to value
them highly; he must not say, as he does, that “political power never has any
value in itself.”
But here as else where, Ellul’s thought has been
misdirected and imprecise. As his exaggerated language frequently indicates,
his theological and political beliefs often are inadequately nuanced. For
example, Ellul speaks of “the radical
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incompatibility of the gospel and the state,” which, in light of the
fact that he lives in a country that guarantees his right to believe as he
chooses, and in light of the fact that so many European countries have
Christian churches that spread the Gospel at home and abroad–churches that are
sponsored by the state–is a grossly distorted exaggeration. Had he mentioned
only the incompatibility of the Gospel and some states, his remark would
have been more credible. As it is, however, one has a good deal of difficulty
working up any confidence in Ellul’s theological and political judgments
because of their habitually exaggerated verbal configuration.
But faulty exegesis, internal inconsistency, and imprecise language are
only part of the problem of Ellul’s anarchism; it is also eminently
unrealistic. That is, rather than observing what human existence is really like
and deducing, as Thomas Hobbes did in the seventeenth century, that life in a
fallen world is typically nasty, brutish, and short; and rather than tying his
political theorizings to that fundamental diagnostic fact; Ellul seeks to foist
onto an already ruptured world the ineffective anarchic vision concocted in his
own head, unchecked as it is by human reality or the biblical text. In other
words, because it is not subject to the dictates of any external restraint,
Ellul’s political theory, in effect, is epistemologically anarchistic.
Put differently, Ellul has succumbed to what Jeane J. Kirkpatrick,
former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has characterized as the
unfortunate disjunction between political ideas and human experience. When such
disjunctions develop, she says, irresponsible political and economic theories
proliferate. These theories, which she labels “the rationalist perversion,”
“tend . . . to be abstract and unembarrassed by the need for empirical
indicators of their major assumptions.” “Rationalist theories are speculative
rather than empirical and historical; rationalist reforms seek to conform human
behavior to oversimplified, unrealistic models.” Rationalist theoreticians
ignore the fact that human institutions arise out of human behavior and that
human behavior is notoriously intractable. This same ideological
unperturbedness precisely describes Ellul, who is undaunted by the acknowledged
unlikelihood, perhaps impossibility, of his anarchistic political vision.
We must not become discouraged if our anarchist declaration fails to
lead to an anarchist society, or if it does not overthrow society, destroying
its whole framework. . . . In spite of everything, in spite of this human
reality, we want to destroy power. This is the Christian hope in politics.
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The Truth About Kinsey
Washington, D.C., June 17, 1998: The following few briefing points
relate to recent statements by Senators Trent Lott and Dick Armey citing the
authority of the Bible to adjudicate homosexuality as a “sin”. Lott and Armey were repudiated by White
House press secretary Michael McCurry, whose authority was the “American
Psychiatric Association” which over “two decades ago” declared homosexuality
normal. “The subject is no longer a matter for conscience, but for science”
said McCurry (The Washington Times, June 17, 1998, p.1, 16).
IME’s president, Dr. Judith Riesman, in her newest book, Kinsey,
Crimes & Consequences (1998) and in her paper “Kinsey and the
Homosexual Revolution,” (The Journal of Human Sexuality, 1996, pp.
21-28), documents how Kinsey’s fraudulent science was used to radically alter
American sexual attitudes, laws and public policies on everything from rape and
child custody to sodomy and homosexuality.
The following seven points briefly address Kinsey as the authority for
the APA and “science” on homosexuality.
Full documentation is available upon request.
1) Kinsey’s data in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) was
and continues to be the basis for massive legal and social change making
homosexuality normal today. Kinsey
claimed to prove that 10% to 37% of the male population was homosexual for some
period of their lives. However, we now
know that Kinsey’s“normal” male subjects included at minimum 86% male deviants;
e.g., 1,400 sex offenders, plus thousands of prisoners, homosexuals, male prostitutes
and roughly 1,888 boys sexually abused for Kinsey’s “data.” Moreover, a Kinsey colleague officially
revealed that Kinsey secretly purged three-fourths of his subjects. His was a fraudulent study, mislabeled as
“science” (Reisman, 1998,p.54).
2) Writing in Sexual Politics and Scientific Logic:
The Issue of Homosexuality (1992) Dr. Charles Socarides reported the
process by which the American Psychiatric Association Task Force removed
homosexuality “from the category of aberrancy.” The APA December 1973 homosexual ruling was political and grounded
on Kinsey. Said Socarides, the APA:
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rationale for removing
homosexuality relied heavily on the work of Alfred Kinsey and his belief in the
normality of homosexuality. . . . The Kinsey Report has had in several ways a
severe and damaging delayed impact on our sexual mores, especially as they
pertain to homosexuality (p.322).
3) The small, elite hand-picked APA Task Force on Homosexuality
included Kinsey Institute Director Paul Gebhard and Kinsey Institute advisor
John Money and was strictly Kinseyan, said Socarides. Money calls for legalizing all adult-child sex in The Journal
of Paedophilia, (Spring 1991, pp.2-13) while Gebhard, co-author of Kinsey’s
fraudulent research, was a sexual participant in the now exposed sex crimes
carried out at the Kinsey Institute.
These crimes included the sex abuse of thousands of children for the
Kinsey “data” and protecting a man sought by the police for the sex murder of a
young girl (Reisman, 1998, p. 18)
4) Recent evidence finds that Kinsey, while married and a father,
engaged in criminal sexual conduct with many males. Kinsey’s sexual “partners” included his two student co-authors,
Pomeroy and Martin. Kinsey was sexually
active with his research staff during his “research” on Sexual Behavior in
the Human Male. Kinsey engaged in
crimes of homosexual adultery, criminal sexual sadism and criminal pornography
production, that he was a masturbatory addict and masochist who, it appears,
died as a result of complications from a disease sustained from long-term sexual
self abuse. (National Review, October 13, 1997, p. 69-70; Reisman, 1998,
Chp. 2-4, 7)
5)The recent 50-year jubilee re-release by Indiana University Press and
Kinsey Institute of Kinsey’s books, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948)
and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953) reconfirms IU’s on-going
institutional promotion of the Kinsey Institute and the Kinsey data. This is despite proof of science fraud, sex
crimes and unconscionable mass child sex abuse conducted under the auspices and
protections provided by Indiana University.
6) The APA cited no other normative American
scientific sex data and now Kinsey is revealed to be a fraud. If McCurry seeks to defend homosexuality as
normal and to renounce Biblical laws which assert that legitimizing “fornication,”
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“adultery” and “homosexuality” leads to massive social disorder,
disease and chaos, then McCurry must defend the APA use of Kinsey’s
“scientific” data. Kinsey’s
fraud is the source authority for both the APA and McCurry’s regarding
homosexuality as ‘normal’ whether he knows it or not.
7) Will McCurry also defend pedophilia as normal?
Because the same Kinsey ‘science’ which found homosexuality as
normal includes “scientific” data from pedophiles who sexually abused
infants as young as 2 months of age for 24-hour orgasm experiments seen as
Tables 30-34 in the Kinsey Reports.
Conclusion: McCurry’s stand with the “science”
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“hysterical tears (especially among the younger children)” and
“striking the partner, “ were signs of “orgasm” in male infants
who were too young to speak. If McCurry cites the APA decision that the ‘science’ says
homosexuality is normal, then McCurry must also cite Kinsey’s other sex
“findings,” including Kinsey’s claim that his screaming little
subjects “derived definite pleasure from “their rapes and molestation.
The above summarizes the “science” and
the APA upon which McCurry’s argument for homosexual normality rests.
(For full documentation see, J. A. Reisman, Kinsey, Crimes &
Consequences, The Institute For Media Education, Arlington, VA, 1998.)
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q “When I talk
about the Christian Coalition, I’m not talking about all of the members
of the Christian Coalition. I
am a Christian. I am talking
about the leadership that sets the agenda, creates the message and builds
these very sophisticated campaigns. . . .
I’m talking about the
leadership. I’m not talking
about the people who hear a message that sounds good and go along.
They don’t care about children that don’t look like them.
They don’t care about children that are not white, middle-class
Christians. As far as
they’re concerned, others can be eliminated.”
Jane
Fonda, quoted in The Washington Times, June 25, 1998; A 2
q “The
past year has seen a national campaign to turn a man generally and
deservedly forgotten into an African American hero.
According to his advocates the singer Paul Robeson, who would have
turned 100 this year, deserves to join the ranks of Martin Luther King Jr.
and W.E.B. Dubois as the subject of a U.S. postage Stamp. . . .
“The
pro-Robeson campaign represents the latest attempt to sell the American
people a falsified, anti-anti-Communist, upside-down version of their
history. . . .
“Robeson
received the Stalin Prize the year the dictator died, and signed a eulogy
expressing a grief in which Robeson found himself completely bereft of his
vaunted eloquence. ‘Slava—slava—Stalin, Glory to Stalin,’ he
babbled. ‘Forever will his
name be honored and beloved in all lands.’
“The
suggestion that Robeson betrayed his country would provoke howls of rage
today. American intellectuals
observe a double standard: Fascist enemies of democracy . . . were
criminals; but Communists were democracy’s best friends. . .
“The man has no more business on a U.S. postage stamp than
Benedict Arnold or John Wilkes Booth.”
Stephen
Schwartz, The Washington Times, June 24, 1998; A 2
q
“Beijing does not practice free trade; it conducts “strategic
trade” to strengthen itself for the coming clash.
In China there is no distinction between the private and the state.
Thousands of Chinese companies — from hotels to toy factories—
are run by the People’s Liberation Army.
The PLA exploits its unrestricted access to the huge U.S. market to
earn hard currency for the aggrandizement of state power.
China’s civilian sector buys what strategic interests dictate,
like those 46 supercomputers recently sold by the United States, the
precise whereabouts of which we cannot confirm.
U.S. companies are lured into China by offers of access to the
“world’s greatest market” and a low-wage labor force.
Once there, the U.S. firms find that access to China’s consumers
is restricted and the hidden price of low-wage Chinese labor is mandatory
transfer of technology to Chinese “partners,” who copy the American
machines and begin replicating our factories.”
Patrick Buchanan, The
Washington Times, May 27, 1998; A 15
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q “The
Georgian government is convinced that Russian Foreign Minister Yevgini
Primakov personally ordered the assassination attempt of Georgian
President Eduard Shevardnadze. ‘Every
bit of evidence we have,’ a Georgian official tells SI, ‘points
directly to a highly sophisticated effort organized by the Russian KGB
under the direction of its former director Primakov.
As a Stalinist apparatchik and Russia’s premier imperialist,
Primakov is determined that Russia control all access to Caspian oil.
So he will use any means to prevent Azerbaijan and Georgia from
exporting Caspian oil directly, bypassing Russia.
This includes sponsoring secessionism in the Abkhazia and Ossetia
regions of Georgia, and NagornoKarabagh in Azerbaijan; promoting Robert
Kocharian as leader of Armenia and encouraging him to militarily attack
Azerbaijan; and now, trying to kill our president as well.’
The official concluded that ‘during the Soviet days, the Russians
used Marxist ideology to justify their empire—today, we are back to the
pure naked Russian imperialism of old.’” Strategic Investment,
March 18, 1998, p. 3
q On May 28,
President Clinton issued a “FURTHER AMENDMENT TO EXECUTIVE ORDER 11478,
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT” asserting that:
“By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution
and the laws of the United States, and in order to provide for a uniform
policy for the Federal Government to prohibit discrimination based on sexual
orientation, it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 11478, as amended,
is further amended as follows:
“Section 1. The first sentence of section 1 is amended by substituting
‘age, or sexual orientation’ for ‘or age’.
“Section
2. The second sentence of section 1 is amended by striking the
period and adding at the end of the sentence”, to the extent permitted
by law.’.”
This
action by President Clinton is an assault on the religious liberties of
millions of Bible-believing Americans who accept God’s admonition that
homosexual practices are an abomination.
It is also an affront to those who oppose discrimination on the
basis of inherited characteristics such as race, putting genetic
attributes on a par with corrupt conduct.
We not only have a
right but a duty to discriminate against conduct which is unlawful in the
sight of God.
The Howard Phillips Issues and Strategy Bulletin
HPISB#599—-, June 15, 1998;p 1
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