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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.