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The World’s Only True Nations
Arutz Sheva ^ | 3-25-03 | Bruce Walker

Posted on 03/25/2003 4:41:30 PM PST by SJackson

The revolutionary principles of 1776 - government derives its power from the consent of the governed; governments are instituted to protect our individual rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; these individual rights come from God - has not yet reached the salons of Europe.

Washington understood how contrary these principles were to the thinking of Europe, and so he warned us to avoid entangling alliances. The regimes of Europe were not based upon principles, but power. Revolutions in France, Russia and Germany replaced old tyrants with new and worse tyrants - tyrants unrestrained by Christian conscience.

The regimes of Europe have never met our higher standard of legitimacy. Our first foreign war, against the Barbary pirates, is no different from our current war against Saddam Hussein. Like Lenin, like Hitler, like Napoleon, like the Barbary pirates, Hussein has only the legitimacy of violence.

Americans know that only one true nation exists: the nation of mankind as creatures of God. We know that only one true government exists for this nation: obedience to conscience given each of us by that loving God. Legalisms beyond these truths have no intrinsic value.

Our war with “Iraq” is simply a law enforcement action by those who have moral principles against a cruel and threatening thug who torments the fictional nation of Iraq, a geometric outline in the sand, whose boundaries were drawn by victorious empires at the expense of defeated empires after the First World War. The borders of “Iraq” are defined by how far the lash of Hussein can sting. This has been the model of regimes throughout history.

America and Israel are the only nations purposively created by people longing for freedom above wealth or power. The Puritans, Quakers and Baptists of early America and the Jews of modern Israel were the best educated, most articulate and most determined pilgrims in human history. The smug notion of modernists that these pioneers intended to do just what they did reflects the sloth and ignorance of our times and does not dim the luster of a single brave Christian or Jew of the past.

Americans have finally reclaimed the moral high ground that we once graciously relinquished to the children of Nazis and Bolsheviks. This threatens the gangsters and psychopaths who are courteously called “President” or “Chairman” by other goons of other sad lands.

Leftists, of course, point out that many of the most vocal critiques of America are made by democracies with basic liberties and the rule of law. France, Belgium and Germany are functioning democracies. Why is our voice more important than the voices those countries?

Yet, democracy, by itself, means nothing. Winston Churchill once rightly noted that democracy was the worst form of government in the word, except for all the rest. Historians paper over the tremendous popularity of the Nazis. Hitler did not seize power, but won power constitutionally through elections. In most of the territories annexed to the Reich - Saar, Rhineland, Austria, Sudetenland, Memel and Danzig - the annexations were very popular with the people living in those lands.

The people of Germany, France and Belgium today - indeed, the people of most democracies - do not care about what is right. They seem to care more about making business deals with monsters than in any notion of human rights. This should make us discard outright the concerns of these democracies or the results of public opinion polls.

Hitler might have acquired Poland peacefully. He gained Austria and the Czech part of Czechoslovakia without war. There might never have been a Second World War, and the democratically elected and constitutional government of Germany might have legally murdered twelve million Jews, Poles and Czechs in these new possessions. Would that be legitimate? Could the Holocaust have been acceptable under international law? Grimly, yes.

What are nations? What are governments? What is war? What is law? There are only two true nations on Earth - America and Israel - are it is not coincidence that these two, true nations are so hated by the false nations and their gaggle of false leaders.

War is what Hussein, Arafat and bin Ladin wage now against us. As Patrick Henry famously warned the Virginia Convention of Delegates: “It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace - but there is no peace. The war has already begun!”

When Henry spoke those famous lines, America was not a nation in the eyes of diplomats, but even then it was a nation in the hearts of Americans, and in the mind of God. Like Israel, America is a moral construct, and so a true nation. Morality is everything.

The dreary list of parties and governments in the rest of the world are shadows of a Judeo-Christian faith rooted in the only two real polities on Earth. The world knows it; the world hates it; the world is wrong. Just as it was in 1776.

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Bruce Walker has had almost two hundred articles published in the Oklahoma Bar Journal, Law & Order, Legal Secretary Today, The Single Parent, Enter Stage Right, Citizen´s View, The American Partisan, Port of Call, and several other professional and political periodicals.


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1 posted on 03/25/2003 4:41:30 PM PST by SJackson
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Yehuda; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; ...
If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.
2 posted on 03/25/2003 4:41:47 PM PST by SJackson
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To: SJackson
Absolutely incredible! Another winner from you and another article bookmarked.
3 posted on 03/25/2003 4:46:56 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Stamp out Freepathons! Stop being a Freep Loader! Become a monthly donor!)
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To: SJackson
Any article that quotes Patrick Henry is worth a bump.
4 posted on 03/25/2003 4:57:42 PM PST by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
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To: SJackson
Great piece! Thank you.
5 posted on 03/25/2003 5:01:33 PM PST by Brian Allen (I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny ....)
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To: SJackson

THE CRIMINALS AT THE UN
& THE AXIS OF WEASELS

The criminals are getting desperate. The criminals who had sweet deals with Saddam, selling him weapons and all kinds of nasty stuff in exchange for oil. France, Germany, Russia, China, and the UN. Saddam's partners in crime. His aiders and abettors. His co-conspirators. They are demanding that the US and UK step aside after the war in Iraq and let them take over. They are trying desperately to keep the truth of their corruption and wickedness from being revealed. This cannot be permitted. Let the truth be known! Let the world see them for what they are -- Saddam's Whores!

There is no way in hell that Bush can allow Annan, Chirac, or any of the other criminals who made dirty deals with Saddam, to have anything to do with post-war Iraq. All they want to do is cover everything up. All they want to do is get their hands on the WMD, hide their complicity, and then pass the WMD on to terrorists. They cannot be trusted. They cannot be allowed to take possession of the WMD. This cannot be stressed more strongly. The depth of their corruption knows no bounds, and they cannot be permitted to pervert and destroy everything we and our coalition are accomplishing in Iraq with our blood.

Kofi Annan, Jacques Chirac, and all the others who stood against the United States and Great Britain in the righteous cause of eliminating Saddam Hussein's evil and barbaric regime and liberating the people of Iraq, must not be allowed to have any participation in post-war Iraq. Their crimes must end with the fall of the regime. The coalition of the willing is disarming Iraq, and only the coalition of the willing must be responsible for what is done in post-war Iraq.

France, Germany, Russia, China,
and the UN=Saddam's Whores

Enough is enough. These criminals prohibited us from ridding the earth of Hussein back in 1991. And for the past twelve years, they have propped him up.

They sold him weapons and they sold him equipment.

They violated their own sanctions, and they smuggled contraband disguised as humanitarian aid.

They concocted the fiction of inspections not to disarm Hussein, but to give him cover and run interference for him while he turned his nation into a poison factory.

They NEVER had any intention of disarming him, and EVERY intention of using him as a proxy to wage war against the United States and Israel.

They signed on to Resolution 1441 never intending to actually enforce it, and when President George W. Bush forced their hand, they declared themselves as the bonafide enemies that they are. And now that the coalition of the willing led by President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair is doing the job that they refused to do, they are issuing threats and making demands. They insist that we wash our hands of the matter so, like the jackals they are, they can sink their teeth into the newly liberated Iraq not to help it in any way, but to cover their tracks, hide evidence of their crimes, take possession of the WMD, and distribute it to whomever they will.

This cannot stand. This cannot be allowed. The United Nations and the Axis of Weasels, who refused to fulfill their duty to humanity, have abrogated all rights to the future of liberated Iraq. They refused to do the heavy lifting, so they cannot be permitted to perpetrate this fraud. They have absolutely no right to what they claim. They had their chance, and they chose to slink away rather than lead. They cannot be allowed to slink their way back.

The United States of America and Great Britain have accepted the responsibilities of liberating Iraq and protecting the world from weapons of mass destruction, and they must not relinquish these responsibilities. Least of all to those who by their actions have revealed themselves to be unworthy of trust and unable to accept a position of leadership in this world. For their treachery, the traitor UN and the traitor nations must be rewarded with irrelevancy, for that is what they deserve.


6 posted on 03/25/2003 5:06:16 PM PST by laz17 (Socialism is the religion of the atheist.)
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Look im conservative and have nothing but contempt for the current stock of Continentals, but Democracy didn't solve the problems of continental Europe, it created them Europe was doing fine when it was ruled by kings, Woodrow Wilson created Europe's problems. Its time for American conservative to acknowledge that following the enlightment that monarchy had a better record for Democracy. Democracies evolve into welfare states which degenerate either to anarchy or totalitarianism.
7 posted on 03/25/2003 5:19:17 PM PST by weikel (Walter Cronkite the most distrusted reporter in America)
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To: laz17
Excellent Laz.

I have been attacked by a so called conservative because I told her to take her pleas to allow the UN to help in Bashra to the DU.

We will be swamped with the left wing mediots and their buddies trying to jam the UN now and at the end of the war.

They want the Iraqi oil, control and prestige to shore up the UN again.

Tough! The UN as you noted is Irrelevant.

8 posted on 03/25/2003 5:25:36 PM PST by Grampa Dave ("Those who are kind to the cruel end up being cruel to the kind")
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To: SJackson
How very beautiful, but in denial of the present state of (im)morality and (non)education in both of these sole nations.

Happily, I've read the Bible and I know the ending, the time of which is upon us.

9 posted on 03/25/2003 8:23:51 PM PST by Taiwan Bocks
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To: Grampa Dave
I have been attacked by a so called conservative

ANYONE who puts even a single iota of faith or credence in the UN is the enemy, no matter what disguise they wear. The UN is part and parcel of the Axis of Evil and the Axis of Weasels, make no mistake. The whole cabal is a global, socialist mafia that must be kept as far away as possible.

10 posted on 03/25/2003 8:43:56 PM PST by laz17 (Socialism is the religion of the atheist.)
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To: laz17

THOSE WHO OPTED OUT OF THE WAR,
WILL BE MADE TO OPT OUT OF THE PEACE

No United Nations, French, German, Russian,
or Chinese involvement in post-war Iraq!


11 posted on 03/25/2003 8:47:29 PM PST by laz17 (Socialism is the religion of the atheist.)
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To: SJackson
America and Israel are the only nations purposively created by people longing for freedom above wealth or power.

Of the two nations mentioned, which protects its citizenry with a formal Constitution, and which does not?

12 posted on 03/25/2003 8:51:55 PM PST by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: weikel
but Democracy didn't solve the problems of continental Europe, it created them Europe was doing fine when it was ruled by kings, Woodrow Wilson created Europe's problems.

Oh I'm going to have to call you on this.

but Democracy didn't solve the problems of continental Europe, Europe doing fine under kings?
I suppose you could say that if you call one war after another doing fine. Also could you name me two democracies European or otherwise that have gone too war with each other, cause right off the top of my head I can't think of any.

Woodrow Wilson created Europe's problems.
How so? Now I'm no fan of Wilson but really!

Democracies evolve into welfare states which degenerate either to anarchy or totalitarianism.
"democracy is the worst form of government even devised by man, except for all the others."
W. Churchill(dead white guy)

13 posted on 03/25/2003 9:15:58 PM PST by Valin (Age and deceit beat youth and skill)
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To: Willie Green
Your point?
14 posted on 03/25/2003 9:18:14 PM PST by Valin (Age and deceit beat youth and skill)
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To: SJackson
What about Iceland? I'd add them to the list.
15 posted on 03/25/2003 11:08:45 PM PST by DBtoo
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To: laz17
Man, you have quite a collection of enemies!
16 posted on 03/25/2003 11:12:24 PM PST by DBtoo
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To: SJackson
I'm very serious about Iceland BTW. They are probably one of the most civilized and peaceful countries in existance. That's why no one ever hears anything about them, and they have one of the oldest forms of governments of any nation on this planet.
17 posted on 03/25/2003 11:19:33 PM PST by DBtoo
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To: weikel
The Second Reich, aka the German Empire, create a welfare stat in the 1880's.
18 posted on 03/26/2003 12:22:40 AM PST by rmlew ("Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.")
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To: SJackson
My thanks for your pings...An absolutely eloquent piece!
19 posted on 03/26/2003 12:33:07 AM PST by lainde
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To: SJackson
French are not French anymore, in the Greek sense of self development and knowing yourself and representative government. France is not in its own cultural image, but in the image of its leaders and vague and bloody revolutionary cries for the useful idiots. Hence, yes, AMerica and Israel seem to be the only two nations that strive to know itself, Israel through Judaic studies and America through its own brand of study of diversity of views that span its represented.

Hence, France in fact, should be called Napoleonia, and that is true of any faction colonizing a nation and nationalist ideological tribe taking over an entire nation, giving itself fake credence based on fascist racial, ethnic lines. I don't care whether Saddam is Iraqi, he is no Iraqi as it is, and he certainly cannot colonize his own country.

That said, we have to be careful, being right and them being wrong today, does not mean we can forgo making it right for the future generations either. We have to keep in perspective the need for due process in this.
20 posted on 03/26/2003 3:16:28 AM PST by lavaroise
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