Heads Up A Weekly edition of News from around our country February 21, 1997 #23 by: Doug Fiedor fiedor19@eos.net ---------------------------------------------------------- Previous Editions at: http://mmc.cns.net/headsup.html ---------------------------------------------------------- PARALLELS "Lets go for a walk! Lets go for a walk!" was the rallying cry early one morning about two weeks ago on college campuses. "Lets go for a walk!" the shouts could be heard throughout school corridors and out on the streets, echoing through the cold morning air. But the shouts were not necessary. All students were already up and ready to go. So too were the town folk -- the grandmothers and grandfathers, the mothers and fathers, and even the little children. They were meeting in churches for miles around. Nearly everyone was readying for their "walk" that cold winter morning; their walk in protest of an oppressive, heavy-handed central government. It was the student pro-democracy demonstrators, 50,000 strong by 8: AM, that got started first. They would join the group of over 200,000 people in the center of the city within an hour or so. This would be the tenth week of protests, and the police were ready too. The central government had put the riot police on alert. Previously, police had severely beaten protesters, even defenseless women and children. Yet, the protests continued. These people, you see, were determined. Opposition leaders had told the rally that police beatings would fail to defuse popular discontent against the government's authoritarian rule. And it was true. Police atrocities did nothing to quell the protests. As always, the esprit de corps of the people ran high. The city was Belgrade, of course. And the people were protesting Serbia President, Slobodan Milosevic's election fraud after he annulled local elections in fourteen cities where his party lost last November. Last week the people won a partial victory. Milosevic finally ordered his socialist allies in parliament to approve the elections, and on a vote of 128 - 2, the bill passed. The problem is, Milosevic is still in power. And, the majority of the parliament is from the same socialist party. So, although the people may now have those they rightfully elected running their local governments, a very oppressive group still controls the central government. And the central government is, as usual, where all the real power is concentrated. Of course, this story is not really a Constitutional issue, and probably does not belong in "Heads Up." Or does it. . . . Let's see here: They (we) have an over bearing central government. They (we) have local elections that were overturned by members of the central government because they did not like the results. They (we) have a central government police force that thinks they can kick butt any time they wish. And they (we) have a citizenry wondering how they can make change without going to actual war with their central government. Yeah, close enough. So let's continue. . . . One of their demonstrations lasted five continuous days -- outside, in the cold of winter. All of their demonstrations included at least 200,000 participants. And many of the demonstrations had a half-million or more people involved. And yeah, the police were liberally cracking heads there for a while. But then that bozo dictator they have for president put the police on 24 hour alert, out on the streets, in the cold. After a few days of that, the police kind of lost interest in beating people. They were more interested in getting warm. So the people kept coming. And most of them brought whistles to blow, too -- the noise of which drove everyone who was not part of the demonstrations right up that proverbial wall! They got results, too. Sure, not perfect results. And not complete results. But they got what they were protesting for. Reuters reported that Vuk Draskovic, the opposition leader, said Milosevic could not be trusted to fully implement the special bill recognizing the election results. We'll see. If he doesn't, the people are ready for more walking. All this with the world looking on, but no one helped. All this with the United States Army nearby, but our Army did not help. The people cry out for freedom and liberty, but no one lifts a finger to help. There is a reason for that. . . . It's the parallels of it all, folks. The precedent set by helping the people there could be over whelming to those in our military. For, if the United States Army helps the people of Belgrade for those reasons, could they then refuse to help their own people for some of the very same reasons when asked? Darn inconvenient question, that! STUPID GUN LAWS Slick Willie mentioned child safety locks in the State of the Union address last month. He said something about sticking some sort of foolishness like that in his new juvenile crime prevention bill. Most people just laughed. But apparently, some didn't. So, now comes Sarah Brady, still pushing the wheelchair for all to see, proposing that all handguns sold have gun locks. By the way, does anyone know how much she makes every year as head of Handgun Control? Anyway, the Chicago City Council recently passed an ordinance requiring that all handguns sold there have the locks. Now there is a proposal in Massachusetts to do the same. Brady said that "while parents must recognize the dangers of bringing guns into the home, these proposals (for locks) unabashedly demand that the gun industry start to take responsibility for the lethal products they manufacture." Hey Sarah, here's a hint: Guns are designed to be "lethal." Like the spear, the sword and the bow and arrow, guns are designed to kill things (sometimes people). Impeding the operation makes it no more than an inert object -- no more useful than the lamp Hillary threw at Slick. The gun industry does, in fact, take responsibility for the products they manufacture. They make them shoot properly. Funny thing about guns: They never do anything on their own! Not once has one ever got up of its own accord and fired. It cannot happen! And what kind of person is this who would trust anyone to drive a one and a half ton car 75 miles per hour not ten feet from where she is sitting in her car, but whine about the little hunk of iron in someone's belt? The buttinskys in the world make us wonder how we were able to grow up without government intervention. Most homes back then had guns. So did a lot of us kids above the age of fourteen years. Yet, unintentional shootings were so rare none of us here can even remember one. Sarah Brady knows that, too. That's why, from this end, it looks like she is in this for the money. AID FOR THE ENEMY Normally we would feel that a country still officially at war with us, a country still pointing guns at our American Military forces, would be classed as our enemy. Aiding the enemy, under a whole host of current laws, is illegal. Not for everyone, though, so it turns out. You see folks, those in government do not necessarily follow the law. Some in the central government are far, far above all of this "law" stuff that applies to us common folk. Here's an example: The United States has been at war -- OK, "Police Action" for you purists out there -- with North Korea for about forty years. The North Korean military killed many thousands of Americans back when it was a fighting war. And still today, they have guns pointed at our military. So, it stands to reason that we would be happy to learn that their government is falling apart. We should gleefully appreciate that the inept fool acting as the chief executive of North Korea is making a total mess of every single thing he tries to do. We should be happy when they have food and commodity shortages, and that the people are becoming understandably upset with their government. North Korea is the enemy. We want their government to disintegrate, and just as soon as possible. That little country has caused our government to spend billions and billions of our tax dollars, with no end yet in sight. So, why are we feeding them? Last year, we sent them at least $6.4-million in foodstuff and other donations. This year, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announced that we will send North Korea about 100,000 tons of commodities -- about $10-million worth. "We consider it a humanitarian mission to provide aid," she said. Why? So they can fight better? So their military will be healthy if and when they decide to attack our American military? That's stupid! Now, before the letters start . . . "Heads Up" is not proposing starving the citizens of North Korea. But, doesn't some payment for all this food seem appropriate? One logical payment that quickly comes to mind would include 100,000 tons of military equipment for a like amount of food. CLASSIST THEOLOGY -- PART 2 "The Heresy" by Bill Kasper The unstated socio-theology of classism which assumes the existence of two distinct sub-species of Homo-sapien, Working Man (Homo-ergos), and Administrative Man (Homo-bureaucratis), was an idea foreign to America by design (the Constitution) and by consensus (see "Democracy in America" by DeToqueville to see how European visitors saw a total lack of classist thought throughout America's 18th and 19th century population). Early Americans (actually, all Americans right up to, but not including, the first generation to grow up with New Deal "rights") knew that there were two ways to acquire material wealth on this earth: work hard, or steal from those who do. Since theft was punishable by death (or at least extreme and precisely- defined public unpleasantness), most folks went about their lives working hard, secure in the knowledge that those who did not do likewise would either naturally starve to death or, if they pursued the active "liberation" of other's property, be given a free sample of the latest in stylish noose-ware. These early Americans, whether they were cobblers, farmers, judges, or Presidents, inherently knew that their own lives, and the lives of their families, depended on their own personal ability to perform productive work and earn their own keep. They knew that no-one was excused from these responsibilities. Not Presidents, not preachers, not village idiots. Even the thief came right out and said "I steal from the productive" when asked how he made his living. At least he was honest about his crime, and his victims knew they had been victimized. There was a common ethic. This was in direct contrast to Europe where the opinion was held that Higher Man (Homo-bureaucratis, royalty, the gentry, etc.) was, by nature of his divine right of being preoccupied with affairs of state, art, and finance, imbued with the authority to extract his living from Lower Man (Homo-ergos) in the form of taxes (pieces of his bread/hours of his life). In return for Lower Man's bread, Higher Man would bestow upon him a System (at the point of a spear or gun of course). This System would avoid the unpleasantness of C&A (Chaos and Anarchy) through Monarchy, Democracy, or some other pseudonym of Force-archy. Of course, this system would also finance the organizations which managed the spears and guns used to finance the system, and keep Homo-bureaucratis firmly in his position behind the ox-cart which Homo-ergos was pulling. Laws existed in two basic forms: Those which covered interactions between Lower Men, and those which covered interactions between Lower Men and Higher Men. Strangely, interactions between Higher Men were left pretty much for them to sort out amongst themselves. After all, since they were capable of directing others' lives, surely they could direct their own. This was, for Homo-bureaucratis at least, a great state of affairs. Higher Man could steal from lower man, and instead of receiving the noose, receive a hearty "Thank You" from his victim, who didn't even know he was being victimized. A circular, closed, parasitic political paradise at its finest. Then, the birth of the American Republic via the Declaration of Independence introduced the political equivalent of the TV show "Sliders" (where infinite alternatives to the comfortable mundane exist) into the fray. This upstart American Republic supplied an alternate universe, or series of alternate universes. These alternatives were open to all the possibilities of individual human creativity and genius, and were unfettered by the traditional burden of an unproductive elite Administrative class. The Constitution, for the first time, detailed the fact that human beings were of one fundamental type, and that one common ethical constant would be applied to all (to paraphrase George Orwell's Animal Farm): Some animals are *not* more equal than others. And the so-called Farmer class is a convenient fiction, since no-one is entitled to anything except that which he produces. This was and is stunningly uncomfortable (both philosophically and materially) to the Farmers who were quite immersed in their false religion of superiority and harvesting-the-productive. Why, how could such a system (comprised of mere working "animals") possibly function without their tradition of administrative guidance and benevolent ownership? The same laws for *everyone*? Ridiculous! Unfortunately, we are now seeing the results of "sliding" into a universe where the freedom from Homo-bureaucratis was never won, and Homo-ergos is so busy discussing the details of his master's handouts today that he forgets to curse him for yesterday's theft, or guard against tomorrow's. The moral battles our forefathers fought are not only forgotten, but redefined into irrelevancy by Homo-bureaucratis-stacked courts. It is as though Pepsi's advertising department has started telling everyone that "Coke is the choice of a new generation," and that Pepsi is terribly outdated and must be interpreted to mean "Coke." Fortunately, there are those in America whose thirst for the "Real Thing" is not satisfied by shallow slogans, and they are wondering just what the hell happened to that great old revolutionary taste. (to be continued) MONTICELLO IS UNDER THE UN What would your reaction be if bureaucrats in the federal-government conspired to give away control of one of our states to the United Nations? And no, we're not necessarily talking about a big state, like California, Texas, Alaska, or New York, either. Just one of the smaller states -- like maybe Delaware or Rhode Island. The basic take-over would not include anything as brash as a blue-helmeted UN Army invasion of the state. That's not necessary. Nor would the UN necessarily get into the actual day to day operation of the state. Rather, the socialists in power at the United Nations would only write regulations and directives -- you know, laws -- as to how the land and infrastructure of the affected state would be allowed to be used. So all in all, it would be a peaceful takeover. One which would not be immediately perceptible to many of the state's citizens. Well . . . that is, the change would not be immediately apparent until citizens tried to change something in their neighborhoods. Then they would find they needed permission from some UN regulator. And, just think of the potential problems involved with that! For instance, some unelected bureaucrat -- maybe from Asia, Africa or South America -- would be calling the shots on what American citizens could or could not do in their own home town, or even with their own property! Heck, American citizens might even need a translator to speak to the regulator dude. Not acceptable, you say? Right! The whole concept is ridiculous. Well then, let's scale it down some. How about if our federal government only relinquishes domain over a few tracts -- of a few hundred-thousand acres each -- to UN control? For instance; let's say that they start with forty-seven such tracts called "Biosphere Reserves" -- like the Great Smoky Mountains Biosphere Reserve, for instance. Then add another eighteen properties labeled "Heritage Sites." These would include places like Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite National Park, The Grand Canyon National Park, The Statue of Liberty Park, Independence Hall, and such. Still unacceptable? Yeah, it sure seems like it. But, these are all federal properties. So, can't the federal government give them away if it wishes? No? Well then, you had better get on the horn and tell them so. Cause it's already a done deal! These areas are already under "protection" of the United Nations. Look for the UN and UNESCO signs. They are there to inform you that you tread on UN controlled property. Oh. And now Washington is considering giving about a half-million prime acres in Southwest Kentucky, called "Land between the Lakes," and a million or more acres in Central Michigan away too. So, watch for UN signs in your neighborhood too, folks. Giving away prime chunks of America seems to be getting really popular with this administration. You see folks, the bipolar thinkers in Washington are not giving away whole states, like Rhode Island or Delaware, to UN and UNESCO control. No, they know they probably couldn't get away with that. But, in total area of United States land, they gave away a lot more of our country than those two States combined! And you didn't even notice. . . . Well, did you? Of course not. That was part of the plan. If the United Nations sent an army in here, a few of us might notice. And a few million of us might become rather upset. Therefore, they used a whole mixed gobbledygook of agreements, treaties and laws to get it done. That way they can control us by bureaucratic regulation. Anyway, don't go looking for a UN director's office in The Great Smoky Mountains or at Yellowstone, or even at Monticello or Mammoth Cave National Park. You won't find one. Such an office would be trashed in a heartbeat if Americans saw it. The UN knows that. So, everything happens stealthily. We were not supposed to notice -- that is, until later, when the flurry of UN regulations start. If you question the reason behind the UN and UNESCO signs, you will be told that the area is simply a "registered" area to be "protected" by the UN. Sure it is! Complete with use regulations, and a few dozen other restrictions. And that's just for starters. Why would America need some rinky-dink third world bureaucrats from wherever to protect our land anyway? The fact is, we do not! And that should be your primary hint, folks: There is much, much more to this than what they will tell you publicly. You see, it's a control thing. They're the controllers. We're the controllees. That's the way of the "Third Way." And we had better start understanding that concept quickly. Because, whether you noticed or not, we are now living it. Outrageous, isn't it! So, tell Congress. After all, we elected them. -- End --