Posted on 12/06/2001 6:38:01 AM PST by Elkiejg
There is concern among many Americans about the wartime loss of civil liberties that we have seen taking place since the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. We, as Americans, are not used to wartime in the sense that we are seeing it now, even those of us who remember WW II ... and my memories of it are sometime dim because I was a kid, and learned much about what went on after the war was over.
There's one mistake we as Americans cannot afford to make, and that is to confuse the liberal agenda with conservative concerns. The questions may sound the same but the objective is totally different.
Liberals are definitely on their old agenda, pretending to question the loss of civil liberties that never fazed them one whit at Ruby Ridge, Waco or in dozens of other incidents not so well known. What they really fear is that the Bush administration just may take more control and political turf than their Marxist-Berkeley crowd can recover, even with the help of major managed media which has taken a pie in the face from Fox News Channel. Never forget that a socialist/liberal has but one agenda: control by their side and their pro-Marxist, anti-Christian, revisionist doctrines of "hate America first."
Libertarians and "right-wing" Christians are concerned about the irretrievable loss of individual rights and freedoms under the Constitution and Bill of Rights in a situation where no official war has been declared by Congress, as provided by the Constitution. We're in a quasi-military status but under full wartime alert. Declared war has a terminus and restoration plan for civil liberties ... undeclared war and uncertain powers can be continued indefinitely and erode civil liberties indefinitely. What is at stake is personal freedom under the Bill of Rights. This is a far cry from the liberal agenda ... as far as being poles apart (that's poles, as in north and south, not polls, as in Gallup).
We're also in a war against an ideology, and if it is not to take on the character of a war against the Islamic faith and all Islamic nations, it is difficult to determine against what/who Congress would declare war. It is well to note one thing: war against ideologies may well involve U.S. citizens as well as foreign nationals on our soil, and radical elements in various cells all over the globe. Our own State Department has been a seedbed for radical anti-American elements since at least the early 1950's if not much earlier. The United Nations building is crawling with spies and both the government (under either party's administration) as well as informed citizens know this.
The spiraling downturn occurred during former president Lyndon Johnson's presidency. As much as Ronald Reagan was liked by conservatives for his policies, as far as we're aware he never took steps to clean out the State Dept. Nor did he make any moves to get the U.S. out of the United Nations or the UN building off American soil. Bush the Elder made, and kept, an agreement not to take out Saddam Hussein, a big mistake politically and militarily.
Of Clinton's disgusting give-away of America ... enough has been said, including the publication of numerous books. We should all be aware of his nauseating tenure in and besmudging of the White House. And we should also be aware to what extent the American public will vote what they perceive is the source of "prosperity" even at the cost of sacrificing the nation.
It is true that with the exception of free trade as agreed upon between merchants, this nation was conceived with a rather "isolationist" mindset, one which would keep us from becoming involved with all the world's ills, and a policy whose violations we should now regret. We were not to be the world's financier, free grocer, nation-builder or police force. We were to be America, a melting pot where people could come to participate but not undermine, a living demonstration of what individual free enterprise could accomplish. The socialists determined long ago that we could not make that happen or the world would never be theirs to conquer, and to that end, their agenda has been to denounce capitalism, free enterprise, and reduce America to a third-world economy dependent on an elitist global governance.
The key to political control in this nation has been obvious: control the media and the public mindset so that the pervasive "agenda" could infiltrate the schools, universities, corporations and social attitudes. The government agencies were expanded and staffed with adherents of this philosophy. Clinton's open borders allowed terrorists and illegal aliens to roam at large in this nation and now two big towers are missing from the New York landscape, and its rubble still smolders while the rest of America gets distracted by the economy or some whiney cause like the rescue of American-born Taliban fighter John Walker.
It is noted here that when John Walker saw anti-Taliban forces, apparently American forces because he spoke English, his words were something to the effect "I'm sure glad to see you guys." Indeed. An erstwhile traitor who wanted to see a "pure" Islamic state was glad to be liberated by people from the America he held in contempt.
Perhaps Walker's words are words that should be remembered by all the detractors of America. We're not faultless to be sure, but when an American who has lived in the freedom of this nation forsakes it and gets into the kind of trouble Walker did, it would be natural to be happy to see an American and to remember America. It's too bad Cynthia McKinney, Barbara Lee, many Hollywood notables who find so much wrong with our nation, and a number of idiot elected officials cannot sample Islamic "hospitality and spirituality" ... and that includes a possible two-year stint in Sudan or Libya for JesseJ, Al Sharpton and Louis Ferrakhan. I've noticed they don't seem inclined to leave America ... as much we wish they would.
Those of us on the Christian-right (formerly average conservative Americans) wish only to be guaranteeded limited government and our individual freedoms under our Constitution and Bill of Rights. To that end, we have to point out the areas where our nation is in danger ... even from those who, on the surface, may appear to agree with our views. We know they don't ... no greenie, Marxist, liberal socialist is good for America. Ever!
We also need to be watchdogs over what the government is doing to our personal liberties as U.S. citizens, as members of the Christian faith, and as constitutional conservatives.
I'm still happy that Al Gore isn't in the White House. Although it appears the restaurant in Tennessee was an unfounded rumor, it might not be a bad idea ... no one will give the guy an honest job. Or any job. He has to stumble through life on his inheritance while Bubba travels the world searching legacies for sale and OJ is still looking for the real killer while the FBI searches his Miami digs for Ecstasy.
Dorothy Anne Seese is a freelance political writer for Patch Work papers and a regular columnist for Ether Zone.
Dorothy Anne Seese can be reached at lightspd@extremezone.com
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