realities that people evade in order to maintain their denial
If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than
the one
- if he had the power - would be justified insilencing mankind.
John Stuart Mill
POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private
advantage.
Fellow Citizens of the Republic,
I sincerely request that you read ever word of this speech. Put aside your preconceived
notions and views of what you have been told by the media about Mr Buchanan. My only point is to urge you to read and evaluate
the concepts and ideas that are made in this appeal to America. We have all lived under a climate of lies and distortions
of our history, traditions, institutions and culture. The continual assault on the principles that formed this Nation and
what has made America a unique experiment in human government, has created the current 'Political Correctness' viewpoint.
You have all been endowed with the capacity to think and choose a meaningful and responsible way of life. Now is a time to
use that critical ability to seek the meaning and value that lies in this text. My question to you is simple: "Is it
So"? Should our society and government reflect these values, policies and behavior?
This is a most powerful
speech. Why did you not hear it in its entirety on the national media? Well, we all know the answer to that. The ruling
elite's will do everything in their power to prevent you from being exposed to these ideas! You are told at ever turn what
to think and believe. My challenge to you is to read, think and make up your own mind; for yourself. What is important here
are the ideas and what kind of future you want for this country.
All
political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
John Arbuthnot
THE NEW PATRIOTISM
Good morning. Today, I am ending my lifelong membership in the Republican Party, and my campaign for its nomination; and I
am declaring my intention to seek the nomination of the Reform Party for the presidency of the United States.
This
decision was not made without anguish and regret. I will forever cherish the memory of having been perhaps the only Goldwaterite
in the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in 1961. Nor will I ever regret my nine years of service to Richard
Nixon, from his comeback campaigns of 1966 and '68, to our 49 - state triumph of '72, through the final days of Watergate.
I was with Nixon in China. And I also had the high honor of being Ronald Reagan's second in the Panama Canal
debates, and at his side when that great president refused to give up missile defense and walked out of the summit at Reykjavik
in Ronald Reagan's finest hour of the Cold War. From the thunderous reception we got at Houston in 1992, when I told the Buchanan
Brigades we had to come home and stand beside George Bush, to the ovations at Ames, Iowa, last summer, when I faced off with
his son, the Governor, the Republican party has been good to me. And I have tried to be loyal to it. But, as John F. Kennedy
said, Sometimes party loyalty asks too much. And today it asks too much of us.
Today, candor compels us to admit
that our vaunted two-party system is a snare and a delusion, a fraud upon the nation. Our two parties have become nothing
but two wings of the same bird of prey. On foreign and trade policy, open borders and centralized power, our Beltway parties
have become identical twins. Both supported NAFTA and GATT and the surrender of our national sovereignty to the WTO. Both
supported the extension of nuclear war guarantees to the borders of Russia. Both supported the illegal war on Serbia. Both
support IMF bailouts of corrupt regimes. Both vote for MFN trade privileges for a Communist Chinese regime that today targets
missiles on American cities. The appeasement of Beijing is a bipartisan disgrace, and we will not be a part of it.
Neither party speaks for the forgotten Americans whose jobs were sent overseas to finance the boom market of the 1990s
that the rest of us enjoy. Both parties are addicted to soft money. Both write laws with lobbyists looking over their shoulders.
Both embrace the unprincipled politics of triangulation.
And neither fights today with conviction and courage
to rescue God's country from the cultural and moral pit into which she has fallen. The day of the outsider is over in the
Beltway parties; the money men have seen to that. Never again will our political establishment permit a dissident to come
as close to capturing a nomination as we did in 1996. They have rearranged the primary schedule and rigged the game to protect
the party favorites.
Candidates of ideas need not apply, as both parties seek out the hollow men, the malleable
men, willing to read from teleprompters speeches scripted by consultants and pollsters for whom the latest print - out from
the Focus Group is sacred text.
We choose not to play our assigned role in their sham election. My friends,
this year is our last chance to save our republic, before she disappears into the godless New World Order that our elites
are constructing in a betrayal of everything for which our Founding Fathers lived, fought, and died.
Only the
Reform Party offers the hope of a real debate and a true choice of destinies for our country. "If we don't go now, Pat,"
I have been told by loyalists all across America, "every cause for which we fought for seven years will die." Well,
we can't let those causes die, because they are America's cause. So let me say to the money boys and the Beltway elites who
think that, at long last, they have pulled up their drawbridge and locked us out forever: You don't know this peasant army.
We have not yet begun to fight.
So, let me lay out our Patriots' Road for America. With the Cold War over, we
shall craft a foreign policy for a new century rooted in the great tradition of Washington, Jefferson and John Quincy Adams
who wrote:
Wherever the standard of freedom and independence... shall be unfurled, there will [America's] heart,
her benedictions and her prayers be....But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
I pledge to
you: I will never send an American army to fight in a foreign war, unless our country is attacked or our vital interests are
imperiled. They call us "isolationists." Well, if they mean I intend to isolate America from the bloody territorial
and ethnic wars of the new century, I plead guilty. It is the first duty of a statesman: to keep his country out of wars that
are not his country's quarrel. And the junk yards of history are strewn with the wreckage of republics and empires that failed
to learn that lesson.
We intend to dust off an ancient document and restore it to its rightful place as the
altar piece of American government. You may have heard of it. It's called the Constitution of the United States. Under the
Constitution, before America goes to war, the Congress must declare war. By my reading of the Constitution, the soldiers,
sailors, airmen and Marines who take an oath of loyalty to the United States, are never to be used as the imperial troops
of anybody's New World Order. We will bring our soldiers home where they belong; and rebuild our military might and morale
so no nation will dare attack us.
And the first step to restore that morale is to evict from the Bully Pulpit
of the Oval Office, our own Elmer Gantry, Mr. Clinton, whose desecration of that temple of our civilization, and squalid behavior,
render him unfit to serve as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States.
We Americans are a
good and generous people. Our tradition of being first at the scene of natural disasters, providing food and shelter for the
victims, is rooted in deep our hearts. That tradition we shall maintain. But IMF bailouts of deadbeat dictators must end;
and we must phase out foreign aid and start looking out for the forgotten Americans right here in the U.S.A.
It
is time for a New Patriotism, where America's sovereignty is wholly and fully restored. And if, as Secretary General Kofi
Annan has threatened, we will lose our vote in the United Nations, if we don't give him the billion dollars he says we owe
him, I would give Mr. Kofi this word of advice: Sir, don't go there. Because if our vote in the UN is in jeopardy, your lease
on Turtle Bay is in jeopardy.
As for America's immense trade deficits, even Mr. Greenspan is now alarmed, as
they approach four percent of our entire economy. Because of NAFTA and GATT, America's industrial base has been hollowed out,
our manufacturing workers, who support families on a single wage, have been forced to compete with sweatshop labor abroad;
and our country has been left dependent on imports for the vital necessities of national life.
We must cut out
these cancerous trade deficits and make America a self - reliant nation again. And to those who prattle on about out duties
to the Global Economy, let me say it again: I'm not running for president of the world; I'm running for President of the United
States.
But of all the needs of this nation, none is greater for our peace and happiness than racial reconciliation.
The backsliding toward hyphenated - Americanism must end. Let us abolish quotas and set-asides, these un-American devices
that reward individuals based on what color they are, or what continent their kinfolk came from. Let us abandon a sterile
and futile politics of victims-and-villains, and rediscover what brings us all together as one nation and one people. All
of us must learn our English language. All of us must come to know our common history, heritage, and American heroes, so we
can get our great Melting Pot working its magic again. Any man or woman from any continent or any country can be a good American.
We know that. But it takes time to assimilate the thirty million who have come in the last thirty years. And we need time.
Indeed, we need a time-out on legal immigration, to ease the downward pressure on workers' wages and to defeat the forces
of separatism that threaten us and nations all over the world.
This land is our land; it belongs to all of us,
immigrant and native-born alike; and it would be unpardonable ingratitude if we, the children of pioneers and patriots of
every color, continent, and creed, lost this last best hope of earth, because we could not learn to live with one another,
and could not learn to love one another.
If America stands for anything in this world, it is freedom. Yet today
America is among the most over - taxed, over - regulated, and over - governed societies in history. Our Federal Government
collects a fifth of all the wealth we produce and controls perhaps half of it. Can anyone name a single regulation that has
been repealed in ten years, or a single agency that has been abolished? Even the National Endowment for the Arts soldiers
defiantly on.
We need to restore the old constitutional division of labor in government. Defense and foreign
policy are the province of the federal government, but welfare and education are the business of state and local governments.
And in children's education, parents come first, teachers second, and federal judges not at all.
Mr. Bush says
his Department of Education will write tests for fourth grade children in Idaho. But if I am elected president, the bureaucrats
at the Department of Education are not going to be testing kids; they're going to be testing the magic of the market place.
And all federal money for the school children of America will be sent back to the school districts of America, where accountability
begins and authority belongs.
We need a new Supreme Court where only constitutionalists need apply, a court
that will respect both states rights and human rights, that will begin to undo the damage done this nation by judicial aggressions,
beginning with that abomination they call Roe v. Wade.
We need a President and a Congress that will pick up
the whip the Founding Fathers left in Article III of the Constitution to herd the justices back into the narrow stalls to
which they were first consigned by Hamilton and Madison.
What is a self-governing people doing, waiting meekly
each week for nine jurists to tell us how we may govern ourselves? As our fathers threw off a tyranny of kings, let us throw
off this tyranny of judges-and let America be America again!
As for our IRS tax code, it is an insult to a free
people, the product of an endless series of corrupt bargains between lobbyists and legislators. Let us rip this weed out by
its roots, cut taxes to the lowest level in modern history, eliminate taxes on savers and small business, and shift the burden
where it belongs, on a transnational elite that has no loyalty to any country.
For every tax on manufactured
goods that are made in the U.S.A, let us put an equal tax on foreign goods dumped in the U.S.A. For every tariff China puts
on us, let us put an equal tariff on them. That way, Mr. Clinton's campaign contributors down at the Chinese embassy can start
contributing to the upkeep of the Seventh Fleet.
Friends, ours is truly the best of times and the worst of times.
With our miraculous advances in medicine, science, and technology, none of us would want to go back to yesterday. But something
good has been lost from those years as well: The old patriotism, a popular culture that undergirded the values of faith, family,
and country, the idea that we Americans are a people who sacrifice and suffer together, and go forward together, the mutual
respect, the sense of limits, the good manners; all are gone. My life has been spent in the great and good vocations of politics,
journalism, and government. None commands the respect it once did; all today are in disrepute.
I cannot think
of a time since Watergate, so poisoned with rancor and hostility, and I don't know if any president can change that, the way
Ronald Reagan infused his time with his spirit and unabashed love of country. But I do know this: I will try.
America
needs a Government of National Unity and econciliation that draws from the best of all parties, and I promise you: I will
create that kind of government. And if we build it, they will come.
My friends, all the great empires of Europe
that began our century so full of swagger and bombast came crashing down to ruin. All are now surrendering their identities
and their independence to a super state that pays homage to the god of Mammon. America alone still endures, independent and
free. The great questions before us are these: Shall we, too, yield to their temptation, follow their path, and suffer their
fate? Is the call to empire irresistible? Is a world government inevitable? Or can America remain forever a light unto the
nations, an example to mankind of how a free people should govern themselves, a republic above whose sovereignty stands the
sovereignty of God alone.
That is our cause. And so it is that in the name of the Founding Fathers, we go forth
to rescue America, and we will not quit this fight as long as there is breath within us. God save the Republic, and God bless
America.
"If you can't completely eradicate wrong ideas, or deal with inveterate vices as effectively as you could wish, that's
no reason for turning your back on public life altogether. You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't
control the winds."
For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced
by the things that seem than by those that are.
Government has become an entity whose existence is more important than the individual it is supposed to protect.
The
original notion that government is there to protect us from government is dead. But then the phrase in the Bill of Rights
and Constitution "shall not be infringed" is not part of the lexicon of the collectivists and expanders of the state.
There will be no right to self-protection against government because the citizen will find himself breaking "hate"
crimes or speech laws, or accused of treason. - Just who are the Traitors?
The citizens of the United States are
accepting the death of the Constitution through corrupted language and devious and inhumane pressure to conform. They are
accepting it because they are ignorant and apathetic and have replaced it with faux freedoms and political correctness.
When I was last in Washington DC, my first stop was to visit the National Archives to see the Declaration of Independence
and the US Constitution. That was back in 1979. Then I went off to confront my Congressman. Did it do any good? Not as
much as I had hoped. Why? Because you were not at my side. Now you abandoned the entire cause and have become the 'collectivist'
that supports the death of our Nation. And you wonder why I have lost all respect for your kind? Just don't tell me you
are a good Conservative American, for your actions prove you understand very little what it means to be an 'American' . .
. .
The real goal for the individual is to attain a peace of mind that they have acted responsibly, met their duty to themselves
and their fellow man, and have maintained their integrity in thought and deed. If you can do this, you have succeeded. The
next step is to confront your society, its institutions, economic relationships and governing entities; with the objective
to put into place methods of behavior that will respect each other individual in this larger community.
SARTRE
Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.
The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these
are the only people who count.
- Robert Heinlein
Political scientists almost everywhere
have promoted the expansion of government power.
