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I FEAR FOR MY CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN
Jeff Head Personal BLOG space ^ | May 26, 2005 | Jeff Head

Posted on 05/26/2005 9:05:27 PM PDT by Jeff Head

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To: LibFreeOrDie
Coincidentally, she's a "Mother Against Bush".

And the other is a new age nut. And Barbara Boxer was ranting and raving about this? Come on, Frist! Do your job!!!!!!!!!!

101 posted on 05/26/2005 11:05:02 PM PDT by Saundra Duffy (Terri Schindler was murdered - IMPEACH JUDGE GREER!!!)
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To: Lancey Howard

Soldiers all.


102 posted on 05/26/2005 11:07:52 PM PDT by Eastbound (Jacked out since 3/31/05)
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To: Jeff Head

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05147/511359.stm - Dems procedurally blocking an up or down vote on Bolton over secret docs the Bush administration won't release.

I fear for this country mainly because there are RINOS don't have the courage to admit that there's nothing left to talk about with most Democrats.


103 posted on 05/26/2005 11:12:49 PM PDT by risk
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To: Saundra Duffy
Voinovich is in the middle of an emotional meltdown, but you'll never read about in the press. Just like you didn't hear about Jim Jeffords suffering from Alzheimer's and repeatedly wandering the halls of the House of Reps looking for his Senate hearing room.
104 posted on 05/26/2005 11:15:25 PM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: Lancey Howard
I've also come to the conclusion that he is being blackmailed in some way. This is way over the top behavior.

Think how much easier it would have been for him to have just kept his mouth shut, and voted for Bolton. I can't see that he would have suffered any consequences whatsoever from Ohio voters.

105 posted on 05/26/2005 11:23:10 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: Lancey Howard

I think you may be right on with that. Sad.


106 posted on 05/27/2005 12:44:55 AM PDT by endthematrix (Newsweek lied, people died)
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To: Lancey Howard; Jeff Head; LibFreeOrDie; Eastbound; maggiefluffs; Txsleuth; MikeWUSAF
Voinovich is a CROOK.

Voinovich approved a $60,000 illegal payment from his 1994 gubernatorial campaign fund to the V Group, an architectural and construction company headed by his brother, Paul Voinovich.

In a sworn deposition, Vincent Panichi, the governor's 1994 campaign treasurer, told investigators that he was present at a meeting when the governor authorized an allegedly illegal reimbursement to his brother's company and former Columbus lobbyist Anthony Fabiano for Waste Technologies Industries (WTI) for hiring labor leader Ray Gallagher, a Voinovich partisan. Allegedly, the money was to be laundered through a third party, the political firm of Mamais & Associates.

On May 7, 1997, FBI and IRS agents raided Fabiano's Columbus office and seized his files and financial records as part of a secret grand jury investigation in Hamilton County.

42 posted on 05/13/2005 6:09:03 PM PDT by MikeWUSAF (Extreme vitriol and rancorous replies served daily. - Mike W USAF)

Voinovich sticks to his conscience

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Any more to this???

107 posted on 05/27/2005 12:53:08 AM PDT by endthematrix (Newsweek lied, people died)
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To: Jeff Head

I like the essay, but if you're going to send it out to more people, use a spellchecker on it first. I spotted at least fifteen typos in it. People take letters and essays less seriously when they're riddled with misspellings.


108 posted on 05/27/2005 1:15:11 AM PDT by Ichneumon
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To: endthematrix

Thanks for the information.
This begins to explain Voinovich, I think.

I just wonder WHO is behind Voinovich's bizarre, "sore thumb Republican" act in opposition to Bolton? As always, I suspect the answer is at the end of the money trail - - in this case, the oil-for-food money trail. Billions and billions of dollars buys a lot of "influence".


109 posted on 05/27/2005 1:50:16 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Jeff Head

I think the citizens of Ohio should seriously consider a recall. Doubt if anyone will, but that should be an option on the plate.


110 posted on 05/27/2005 4:28:29 AM PDT by SLB ("We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us." C. S. Lewis)
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To: Jeff Head

I'll do my part: I'm calling both my Senatidiots today and lambasting them at both their home and DC offices. Also, we are moving to squash DeWhine's son's race as a congresscritter.


111 posted on 05/27/2005 4:30:56 AM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of news)
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To: Jeff Head
It is time that we told and outlined a direct plan for the UN toi either shape up, or for us to end the relationship and invite them to leave our shores...permanently.

Nicely done, Jeff!

112 posted on 05/27/2005 4:34:28 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Jeff Head
Voidavitch probably found a horse's head in his senate cloak room locker just before his speech.

Which reminds me, I didn't seen much of capo de capos Hillary on the screen during this debacle. Hmmmmmmmm.

Leni

113 posted on 05/27/2005 5:19:32 AM PDT by MinuteGal ("The Marines keep coming. We are shooting, but the Marines won't stop !" (Fallujah Terrorists)
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To: endthematrix

http://www.conservativerevolution.com/index.php/2005/05/13/

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/3626974.htm

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/1998/11/03/loc_voinovich03.html


114 posted on 05/27/2005 5:36:28 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Jeff Head

Thanks for the ping. I get blocked so I will have to read the rest later from home. (dang it)


115 posted on 05/27/2005 5:37:25 AM PDT by MileHi
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To: Lancey Howard

I think you nailed it. Someone has dirt on this guy.


116 posted on 05/27/2005 5:56:28 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Jeff Head
he was unwilling to "risk" our representation at the UN

I'm unwilling to "risk" it too, that's why we should just pull out of this communist NGO and quit funding it. Then they can just change the name to the Third World Dicators Blood and Fun Club.

117 posted on 05/27/2005 9:04:25 AM PDT by PistolPaknMama (Will work for cool tag line.)
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To: PistolPaknMama
I agree whole heartidly. Later in my article...which I had to excerpt here...I say the following.
The UN is corrupt. From the leadership down to many, if not most, of its organizaions and agencies. We need someone to make clear, in unmistakable terms, that the United States of America is done coddling the UN, done paying for the UN's corruption and abjectly anti-American stance on so many issues, done standing by while nations who are unabashadly totalitarian and violating the civil rights of their own people and others are named to committees that supposedly watch over the civil rights of other member states. The inconsistancies and out and out hypocracy would be laughable if they weren't such serous issues...if American taxpayers were not only being fleeced to support such activities, if American soverignty were not being threatened by them.

It is time that we told and outlined a direct plan for the UN to either shape up, or for us to end the relationship and invite them to leave our shores...permanently.

118 posted on 05/27/2005 9:12:54 AM PDT by Jeff Head
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To: MileHi
Here's the whole article. Since I am the author and own all rights...I figure its okay to post it in its entirety here:

I FEAR FOR MY CHILDREN AND GRANCHILDREN
By Jeff Head, May 26, 2005

Today, May 26, 2005, the American public and people all over the world witnessed a spectacle on the floor of the US Senate. A US Senator from Ohio, Senator Voinovitch, broke down on the floor of the Senate and cried as he expressed his opposition to President Bush's nomination for UN Ambassador, John Bolton. In his impassioned and (apparently) sincere plea, he cried and told America and the world how he was unwilling to "risk" our representation at the UN to Mr. Bolton, and how he, Senator Voinovich feared for his children and grandchildren.

Apparently in considering Mr. Bolton, Senator Voinovitch was not present at the confirmation hearings where Bolton testafied and has not met with Mr. Bolton. This alone makes one suspicious of the true nature of today's spectacle.

But, a grandfather fearing for his children and grandchildren is not something to take lightly or cavalierly dismiss. As the father of five children, and the grandfather of three grandchildren with a fourth on the way, I know this to be true. So, I wanted, grandfather to grandfather...father to father...to respond to Senator Voinovitch.

I understand his feelings. I too fear for my children and grandchildren.

But I do not fear having a man such as John Bolton as our Ambassador...I fear NOT having a man such as Mr. Bolton as our Ambassador to the UN.

The UN is corrupt. From the leadership down to many, if not most, of its organizaions and agencies. We need someone to make clear, in unmistakable terms, that the United States of America is done coddling the UN, done paying for the UN's corruption and abjectly anti-American stance on so many issues, done standing by while nations who are unabashadly totalitarian and violating the civil rights of their own people and others are named to committees that supposedly watch over the civil rights of other member states. The inconsistancies and out and out hypocracy would be laughable if they weren't such serous issues...if American taxpayers were not only being fleeced to support such activities, but American soverignty were not being threatened by them.

It is time that we told and outlined a direct plan for the UN toi either shape up, or for us to end the relationship and invite them to leave our shores...permanently.

Despite whatever shortcomings this nation has or may have had, it remains the beacon for individual liberty and soveriegn constituional republicanism. Our shores are the place where the poor and down trodden still yearn to set foot on...to kiss the very earth. It has remained that way precisely because, when America needed them, there were men of unwaivering and unequivocable judgement and principle who were willing to look all of those in the eye who would steal, harm, corrupt or otherwise injure America and her soveriegnty and freedom and tell them to back down or face the dire consequences.

We desparately need such men and women today, who stand on American principle, which has created a society which is the envy of the world, and not equivocate.

Some may say this is not diplomatic. I say...too bad!

When it comes to principle, when it comes to the survival of the foundaltional values and way of life that made this nation great...there is no room for diplomacy. There is need for steel, for forthright statements of fact and stance. I have faith enough in our system of government (in so far as it is constitutionally adhered to) that I do not fear the adverse reaction or hurt feelings of nations who would like nothing more than see that very manner of government, to see our very liberty corrupted and destroyed.

No, Mr. Voinovitch, I fear MUCH more the lack of such a man at the UN than the fear of what other nations may think because of those unequivocable stances. I was taught by my own father and have learned through the school of life that principle cannot be equivocated or diplomatically negotiated away so "everybody is happy". Particularly amongst individuals, organizations, or nations who would like nothing more than to see you equivocate so that another notch, andother chunck of the concrete and steel that make up the fabric of our constitutional republic can be whittled and chipped away.

A Mr. Chamberlain of England one time made impassioned statements similar to yours Mr. Voinovich. History teaches us where that path leads

I only wish to God that we had 61 Senators in the US Senate who thought and acted with this manner of directness and uncompromising principle. Who would not equivocate, who would stand firm for our constitutional republic and the foundational moral values upon which it rests. Perhaps then we would see more Judges who do the same...and with those two parts of our governance secure, perhaps we would be well on the way to restoring our constitutional republic to the strength and greatness it not only deserves, but MUST represent.

119 posted on 05/27/2005 9:20:47 AM PDT by Jeff Head
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To: henderson field
With him and so many others like him...and even worse. Samual Adams said it best...and sadly, it is something that large portions of our society have forgotten...or never learned.
"[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He therefore is the truest friend of the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen onto any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man." Samuel Adams

120 posted on 05/27/2005 9:26:18 AM PDT by Jeff Head
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