Constitution Party Campaign 2000 Presidential Nominee
(Excerpted from the Howard Phillips Issues and Strategy Bulletin - Sept. 2001)
September 2001
Our only safety is in the Lord. If God withdraws His hand of protection, no human precaution can save us from impending disaster.
We must pray that God will be merciful, and we must ourselves repent and rid ourselves of conduct and beliefs which are offensive to God.
We are still paying the price for Jimmy Carter's destruction of human intelligence capabilities at the Central Intelligence Agency in the 1970's and bad decisions by Bill Clinton in the 1990's. It takes decades to build the kinds of relationships which enable us to penetrate the immediate circles of those committed to our destruction. Even if we were doing everything possible today, it could well be many years before we are able in advance to know as well as needed the particular intentions of terrorists determined to destroy us.
Several Presidential administration, after having promised to take decisive action against terrorists, failed to comprehensively and thoroughly do so. Think how many thousands of lives would have been saved if Osama bin Laden and his ilk had been taken out during the Clinton Administration.
The events of September 11 were not, as high officials have suggested, an attack on freedom and democracy, rather, they were a manifestation of Islamic fanaticism. Unconstitutional interventionism on the part of the government of the United States, over many decades, has made America a target of hostility in many places all over the world. U.S. participation in U.N. interventions in the Balkans and our effort to play "power broker" in the Middle East have exacted a price.
The Executive Order prohibiting assassination should be revoked by President Bush. It is never moral to make innocent non-combatants a primary target. It would have been much more just, for example, for the U.S. military, to have assassinated Saddam Hussein and his immediate cohorts than to have placed at risk the Iraqi civilian population, U.S. military personnel, or even politically disengaged Iraqi soldiers.
Even if it is conclusively determined that Osama bin Laden is primarily responsible for the murderous attacks which our nation suffered, we must remember that, to some degree at least, he is merely the glove on the hand of regimes which regard us as their enemy. Action must be taken against every one of those regimes which have facilitated assaults on America.
In addition to being unconstitutional, foreign aid is ineffective and counterproductive. How chilling it was to read of Egyptians, for example, dancing in the streets, rejoicing in America's calamity, at a time when U.S. taxpayers annually provide their government with some $2 billion of foreign aid.
President Bush, in his brief Oval Office remarks on September 11, unfortunately failed to mobilize the nation behind the need for extraordinary additional expenditures on our own national security. In the same vein, we should stop misdirecting our scarce defense dollars on the placement of 72,000 U.S. troops in Western Europe and on the countless resources we have unwisely assigned to Kofi Annan and his New World Order armies of intervention.
Life will never be the same again in America. It is amazing that, thus far, we have been free of nuclear explosions on our territory, the poisoning of our water supply, or the spreading of disease in the context of chemical and biological warfare. If you prepared for a Y2K emergency, the preparations then taken may serve you well on future occasions.
It is essential that, as we deal with the fact that we are at war with an invisible foe, we not surrender the Constitutional boundaries, principles, and liberties with which we have been blessed.
We also must repudiate the Bush Administration's notion that we need permission from the U.N. or consultations with NATO to defend the United States of America.
U.N. AND NATO CLAIM AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL BASIS UNDER U.N. CHARTER FOR U.S. RESPONSE AGAINST TERRORISTS
"In unprecedented developments, the United Nations and NATO have moved to provide the international legal basis for a U.S. response to the terrorist attack on American soil. Acting U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. James Cunningham called the terrorist attack an assault on U.N. 'values' and thanked the U.N. Security Council, including Communist China and Russia, notorious supporters of terrorist regimes, for their 'support' after it passed a resolution authorizing a response.
"The U.N. General Assembly also passed a resolution denouncing the attack. 'Together, we've demonstrated - here today in the historic hall of the General Assembly - that we are united and strong in the face of terror,' Cunningham said to a group that includes Iraq, Sudan, Iran, Libya, and Cuba and the PLO. U.N. Boss Kofi Annan said, 'All nations of the world must work together to identify the perpetrators and bring them to justice.' NATO said it regards the attack on the U.S. as an attack on NATO and that NATO will respond under the authority of the U.N. Charter."
Source: Cliff Kincaid, America's Survival, Inc.
THE WORST IS YET TO COME - - - PREVENTIVE STEPS MUST BE TAKEN URGENTLY
Mark Helprin writes in The Wall Street Journal (9/12/01) that "[T]oday's enemy, though he is not morally developed enough to comprehend the difference between civilians and combatants, is neither faceless nor without a place in which we can address him...Our problem is not his anonymity but that we have refused the precise warnings, delivered over more than a decade, of those who understood the nature of what was coming- - -and of what is yet to come which will undoubtedly be worse.
TENS OF MILLIONS COULD BE KILLED BY SUCCESSFUL CBW OR NUCLEAR TERRORISM
"The first salvos of any war are seldom the most destructive. Consider that in this recent outrage the damage was done by the combined explosive power of three crashed civilian airliners. As the initial shock wears off it will be obvious that this was a demonstration shot intended to extract political concessions and surrender a call to fix our attention on the prospect of a nuclear detonation or a chemical or biological attack both of which would exceed what happened yesterday by several orders of magnitude.''
DELIVER MORE THAN WE PROMISE
"It will get worse, but appeasement will make it no better. That we have promised retaliation for decades and then always drawn back hoping that we could get through if we simply did not provoke the enemy is appeasement, and it must be quite clear by now even to those who perpetually appease that appeasement simply does not work...Above all, we must make no promise of retaliation that is not honored; in this we have erred too many times....
LAND FORCES ARE STILL NEEDED
"Let this spectacular act of terrorism be the decisive repudiation of the mistaken assumptions that conventional warfare is a thing of the past, that there is a safe window in which we can cut force structure while investing in the revolution in military affairs, that bases and infrastructure abroad have become unnecessary, that the day of the infantryman is dead, and, most importantly, that slighting military expenditure and preparedness is anything but an invitation to death and defeat.
"Short of a major rebuilding, we cannot now inflict upon Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden the great and instantaneous shock with which they should be afflicted. That requires not surgical strikes by aircraft based in the United States, but expeditionary forces with extravagant basing and equipment. It requires not 10 aircraft carrier battle groups but, to do it right and when and where needed, 20. It requires not only all the infantry divisions, transport, and air wings that we have needlessly given up in the last decade, but many more. It requires special operations forces not of 35,000, but of 100,000.
ISLAMIC FANATICS ARE AT WAR WITH US - - - WITH ALL AMERICANS THEIR TARGETS
"For the challenge is asymmetrical. Terrorist camps must be razed and destroyed, and their reconstitution continually repressed. Intelligence gathering of all types must be greatly augmented, for by its nature it can never be sufficient to the task, so we must build it and spend upon it until it hurts. The nuclear weapons programs, depots, and infrastructure...must in a most un-Albrightian phrase, be destroyed...Security and civil defense at home and at American facilities overseas must be strengthened to the point where we are able to fight with due diligence in this war that has been brought to us now so vividly by an alien civilization that seeks our destruction.
"The course of such a war will bring us greater suffering than it has brought to date...if, as we have so many times before, we rise to the occasion, we will not enjoy merely the illusions of safety, victory, and honor, but those things themselves."
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You might be right or you might be wrong. But guess what...... You know and I know what happened sept 11. aNd we both know why Sept 11 happened? We cannot turn a blind eye to Our imperialistic control over the middle east. Our bias support of Isreal. For example one crazy palestinian would blow him self up ..... then Isreal would use the weapons America gives them and destroy palestinian children. There is a god and what happened to America is just payback for years of ****ty policies and evil we have contributed.(Now dont get me wrong... I am sorry that innocent people had to lose their lives) but that is life, it works both ways. You can Back George Bush all you want... he is partly responsible for sept 11 happened.... Now he wants to go down as some great war general like Mac Arthur.... at the exspense of thousands lives that can be lost in Iraq. America is a bully and just because u and I are an american you should not hide from the truth? Let me ask you a question if the former soviet Union had nuclear weapons why didnt we talk about invading russia in the 70's and 80's. However we can talk so openly about invading Iraq? The answer to this question is because we are bullies. Geogge Bush know that if China or Russia had weapons it would be more than we could chew. However, we can easily invade Iraq and takeover.... why is that ? because we are bullies and we have been bullies ever since world war 2? The whole world is hesitant about us invading iraq , however with our bully mentality we say screw the UN!!! if they dont agree with us we will invade anyways.. Guess what George Bush got away with afganistan affair but there are going to make a big mistake....this time he will not win .. If you want to talk more to me about this thats fine i prefer instant message so i convey my thoughts.. I love debating these topics and thats what is great about this country our freedom to debate.... so you have nice day
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Thanks for the post Christopher. Keep on speaking up about the U.S. evil unconstitutional government. I wonder when the U.S. citizenry will wake up and rid themselves of such evil?
Allan
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