Republicans and the Rape of the Truth
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This article gives you some of the reasons why I no longer will vote for either the Republicans who are too gutless to live by the truth and the Democratic Party otherwise known as the "perjury party" in support of Bill Clinton's psychopathic lying. Until I see some reason to vote Republican again all my votes will first go to the Libertarian Party and then secondly go to the Republicans. The comment that "you'll be wasting a vote and handing the election to the Democrats" makes absolutely no sense to me anymore. There is no difference between the Demopublicans and the Republicrats!
This article was published March 3, 1999 by ©WorldNetDaily.com by Joseph Farah. He is the editor of WorldNetDaily.com and executive director of the Western Journalism Center, an independent group of investigative reporters.
Senator James Jeffords, R-VT, apologized over the weekend for saying the rape allegation by Juanita Broaddrick against Bill Clinton was a "private matter."
Maybe the remark was a slip of the tongue by an inarticulate nabob. But I submit it is further evidence of much more public rape that is taking place-the bipartisan rape by government of truth, of reality, of our Constitution and of our inalienable human rights.
For those of you looking for political salvation to the "Grand Old Party," it's time to get realistic.
There's not a dime's worth of difference between the Democrats and Republicans.
The nickel's worth of difference between the two major parties can best be summarized as the choice between the express lane and the regular commuter lane of the road paved with good intentions. And you know where that highway leads.
The Democrat-Republican trap is actually little more than a mutual-protection racket for an organized criminal conspiracy of the most dangerous kind. Here's what the modern political paradigm represents:
The theft and redistribution not only of actual private property, but a full-scale frontal assault on the whole sacred concept of private property. Thus, the only debate going on in Congress today is over the possibility and propriety of whether legalized confiscation of property should be stepped up or slowed down ever so slightly a la a modest tax cut.
Invasions of personal privacy that would make the boys in Beijing proud. Government not only decides which pitiful portion of personal property citizens are permitted to keep, it also seeks broader control of how citizens are permitted to use the wealth they have managed to accumulate under the watchful eye of Caesar. We're on the verge of mandatory national ID cards, banking regulations that track even cash transactions and electronic surveillance of our every move, conversation and communication.
The debate over a thoroughly failed government education system never touches on whether it should be scrapped, but focuses instead on how increasing amounts of forcibly confiscated taxpayer money should be spent to perpetuate the dumbing down of the citizenry-making government's "subjects" and "dependents" even more pliable and accepting of control.
The one trump card held by the remnant with enough historical memory to understand that government is supposed to serve rather than be served and be limited in power rather than unlimited-the constitutionally enumerated right to bear arms-has been so narrowly redefined and broadly attacked as to be rendered meaningless. It's simply a matter of time under the Demonicrats and Republicons before it is eliminated and government confiscates all weapons that would pose a threat to its authority and control. The day is coming. Mark my words.
It's not just the Washington political culture that is perverting the debate, narrowing the choices and subverting our freedoms. Take a look at last weeks political action in Virginia, a state in which Republicans control the governorship and one house of the legislature. Both houses of government unanimously passed a "patients' bill of rights" and Republican Gov. James Gilmore III is eager to sign it. There was not so much as a hint of suggestion in the debate that government intervention in health care has caused most of the problems consumers face. Instead, both sides agree with Bill and Hillary Clinton that government holds the key to solving virtually every problem encountered by mankind. Not one Virginia statesman bothered to ask whether "rights" descended from government, or pointed out that if they can be granted, they can be take away.
The founders of this once-great country believed that personal freedom could only be realized through self-government-the concept that each individual is responsible for governing himself. When was the last time you heard a Republican, let alone a Democrat, even use the term "self-government"? It's simply not even in their limited bureaucratic vocabularies.
Neither is the simple yet profound notion that "Government governs best which governs least."
Some will argue with me, saying that, despite their lack of vision, connection with the Constitution, understanding of America's founding principles and ability to distinguish themselves from the statist policies of the Democrats, Republicans represent the lesser of two evils.
My answer: America is too far down the road paved with good intentions to be salvaged by lesser degrees of evil. It's going to take a radical change of course for Americans to rediscover the wonders of freedom, limited government, individual rights and personal responsibility.
Have you heard any leader in either major party give more than lip service to such concepts?