Patriot Vol. 07 No. 32 Brief | 06 August 2007

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Patriot Vol. 07 No. 32 Brief | 06 August 2007
THE FOUNDATION: CONSTITUTION

“If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws — the first growing out of the last... A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.” — Alexander Hamilton
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INSIGHT

“Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions... are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.” — Walter Lippmann

LIBERTY

“[T]he ultimate stated goal of the U.S. Constitution  http://PatriotPost.US/histdocs/constitution/  is ‘to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.’ When it comes to the blessings of liberty, the Constitution places our posterity on an equal level with ourselves. Now, human life is the prerequisite for the enjoyment of all liberty, which makes the protection of human life a prerequisite for achieving the ultimate goal of the Constitution. Since it places our posterity on an equal level with ourselves, this implies an equal obligation on our part to respect the life of our posterity. This means that we cannot simply disregard the effects that our present decisions and actions will have on our descendants, even those we will not see and can barely imagine. This has implications for every area of policy, requiring at the constitutional level that every exercise of liberty or government power be mindful of its impact upon future generations.” — Alan Keyes

GOVERNMENT

“D. C. Mayor Adrian Fenty does not see guns the way our Founders did. In his view, they are not tools for defending individual liberty, they are instruments of criminality...Fenty announced that the District would appeal to the Supreme Court a March decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia that ruled that a District gun law was unconstitutional. The law in question flatly bans possession of a handgun — even in one’s own home — unless the gun was registered before 1976. ‘Wherever I go, the response from the residents is, Mayor Fenty, you’ve got to fight this all the way to the Supreme Court,’ said Fenty. In fact, however, the D. C. handgun suit pits individual law-abiding D. C. residents against a Constitution-flouting D. C. government. These individuals claim the government is violating their Second Amendment right to ‘keep and bear arms.’ The appeals court agreed. The District argues there is no such thing as an individual right to keep and bear arms, and that the Framers did not intend to protect one... The generation of Americans who ratified the Second Amendment  http://PatriotPost.US/histdocs/constitution/bill_of_rights.asp  would see such an outcome as a prelude to the extermination of all the other rights of the ‘people’ recognized in the Constitution. Gun ownership, in their view, was not merely an individual right, it was a natural right. If individuals had a God-given right to life, liberty and property, it obviously followed that they also had a right to individually posses the means to protect their life, liberty and property. That meant guns.” — Terence Jeffrey

CULTURE

“The fact that ‘The Simpsons’ has gotten more liberal is in part a function of the times. Conservatives and/or Republicans have been in power for a very long time (particularly in the eyes of Hollywood types). And the show is of necessity going to poke fun at those in power. This is a fact lost on some liberals who’ve declared ‘The Daily Show’ the Pravda of Progressivism. ‘The Daily Show’ takes shots at those in power. When or if liberals take back the White House or continue to hold on to Congress, those guys will make fun of them, or they will cease to be funny. It will be a painful lesson” — Jonah Goldberg  http://PatriotPost.US/opinion/entrylist.asp?source_id=43

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THE GIPPER

“Freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp. Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? Realize that the doctor’s fight against socialized medicine is your fight. We can’t socialize the doctors without socializing the patients. Recognize that government invasion of public power is eventually an assault upon your own business. If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he’ll eat you last.” — Ronald Reagan  http://Reagan2020.US/

IChThUS IMPRIMIS

“Atheism has nearly always been with us in one form or another, but the atheists we’ve been hearing the most from lately — chiefly Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris — are a new breed. Unlike the old-school humanists, the new atheists — or anti-theists, as some of them prefer to be called — don’t want to just deny the existence of God, they want to wipe religion off the map... That’s why I believe the anti-theist movement, as hot as it is right now with books like Hitchens’s topping the bestseller lists, is doomed to fail. The moment you take it seriously and start to study it, it falls apart. There’s no substance, just anger and a lot of hot air. Because anti-theists simply ignore evidence and arguments they don’t like, they’re ill-equipped to deal with them rationally. The old-guard secular humanists are questioning this new trend, and rightly so. Most traditional atheists simply had their own belief system, and if we wanted our belief system that was okay. The new breed reflects the death of truth. They’re like the Communists who feared religion more than anything else because it was a competing truth claim... When you think about it this way, you have to wonder if the anti-theists, in their heart of hearts, are a little uncomfortable with their own beliefs. After all, if you really believe that truth will win out — and to Hitchens and company, their idea of truth is so obvious that it cannot fail to win — you can let other people make their own claims and live by their own beliefs without feeling the need to destroy everything they stand for.” — Chuck Colson
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OPINION IN BRIEF

“When I speak on college campuses, students often ask what can be done about the ‘problem’ of young people who don’t care enough to vote. I always say that I don’t see it as much of problem ‘because most of you don’t know anything yet. I’m OK with you not voting!’ The students laugh, but I’m not joking. It wasn’t until I was about 40 that I started to believe I had acquired a good sense of what domestic policies might serve people well. (I still have no clue about international affairs.) I only started to think I knew what ought to be done after years of reporting and reading voraciously to absorb arguments from left and right. The idea that most voters vote without having done much of that work is, frankly, scary.” — John Stossel  http://PatriotPost.US/opinion/entrylist.asp?source_id=29

RE: THE LEFT

“In her first risible lie of the [YouTube] debate, Hillary said Chelsea went to public schools in Arkansas. But when they moved to Washington, they were advised that ‘if she were to go to a public school, the press would never leave her alone, because it’s a public school. So I had to make a very difficult decision.’ ‘Unfortunately,’ she said, it was ‘good advice.’ Was it really that difficult a decision not to send Chelsea to public schools in Washington, D. C.? This is how The New York Times recently described the schools in Washington, which it called ‘arguably the nation’s most dysfunctional school system.’ ‘Though it is one of the country’s highest-spending districts, most of the money goes to central administration, not to classrooms, according to a recent series of articles in The Washington Post. Its 55,000 mostly poor students score far worse than comparable children anywhere else in reading and math, with nearly 74 percent of the district’s low-income eighth-graders lacking basic math skills, compared with the national average of 49 percent.’ So Hillary was dying to send Chelsea to the D. C. public schools, but ‘unfortunately’ did not do so only because of the press? Did she also agonize over whether to allow Chelsea to play in traffic?” — Ann Coulter
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POLITICAL FUTURES

“If a candidate is of compassionate nature, you can harass him. But that’s all the Dems have: compassion and anger, not ideas. Stick pins in their egos, point out their all-too-obvious connections to the activist media, and they’ll spend more time defending their weaknesses than attacking Republicans’... And don’t continue to let the media set the time and place where the battle is joined. The Republicans can’t cure media bias, but they can overcome it. They can’t wait for weeks or months for the next debate. They need to be on America’s television screens, in their radios and IPods and on the Internet. If the Republicans only play their pat hand, they’ll lose the opportunity. The more the Dems are alone on the airwaves, the more people will assume they are the only ones worth listening to.” — Jed Babbin

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FOR THE RECORD

“Let me be clear about one thing: Obama is full of it. This country is never — never — going to stage a major military action against Pakistan. Pakistan is a nation of 170 million people that has nuclear weapons and whose admittedly problematic and troublesome regime has, to some extent, cooperated with the United States in the war against Al Qaeda both in ways we know and ways we have no idea about. The concern that this strategically vital county might become an Islamic fundamentalist state is, should be, and will be paramount in every and all discussions about how to conduct the fight against Al Qaeda. What’s more, every serious person knows the United States won’t invade Pakistan, even with Special Forces — since the reason we canceled the proposed action against Al Qaeda in 2005 is that it was going to take many hundreds of American troops to do it. This isn’t 15 people dropping like ninjas in the darkness. It’s an invasion, with helicopters and supply lines and routes of ingress and escape. It would have had unforseen and unforeseeable consequences, but it would have been reasonable to assume the Pakistanis would have turned violently against the United States and hurtled toward Islamic fundamentalist control. If the evil Bugotcha2ler Cheney Rumsfeld Monster wouldn’t do it, nobody will do it. And you can bet there isn’t a single person in line to run a Democratic State Department or Democratic Defense Department who would give the idea three seconds of thought. Obama is using Pakistan to talk tough, in the full knowledge that he will never actually pull the trigger. He is trying to put one over on the American people, which is certainly using the ‘audacity of hope’ in an entirely new way.” — John Podhoretz

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“As a former Green Beret, very few things frighten me, but the course the House and Senate leadership is taking is almost enough to keep me awake at night. It seems as though they are intent upon giving up on life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in order to attempt to placate radical Islam. It won’t work, and to use ‘OIF as political fodder’ is, as you noted, ’treasonous’  http://PatriotPost.US/alexander/edition.asp?id=342 .” — San Angelo, Texas

“The fifth paragraph of Alexander’s essay, ’OIF: Good news is bad for surrender monkeys’
http://PatriotPost.US/alexander/edition.asp?id=545  alone is, itself, worth a year’s subscription. Never have I seen or heard the Democrat Party described more succinctly, yet with such comprehensive precision. Republicans should lift that paragraph and use it as their battle cry.” — St. George, Utah

“You asked if you left out any descriptive words for the once proud Democrat party. Well, yes. Despicable, treasonous, dishonest, witless, half-baked, incorrigible and fatuous, to think of a few.” — Hayes, Virginia

“In Alexander’s column, ’OIF: Good news is bad for surrender monkeys’ 
http://PatriotPost.US/alexander/edition.asp?id=545 , analysis does not get much better than the closing line. After House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) mused, in response to a question about improvements in Iraq, ‘Well, that would be a real big problem for us, no question about that,’ Alexander notes, ‘Guess that depends upon whose side you’re on.’ Amen.” — Los Angeles, California

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THE LAST WORD

“’The old rules’? Would that be the U.S. Constitution? Well, as I never tire of repeating, the Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government. And we can thank three generations of liberals for that — including those who feel that arbitrary executive and judicial power has suddenly fallen into the wrong hands. If only we can get it back into the hands of people who know what to do with it! People named Clinton, Obama, Edwards, or Gore, or even a progressive-minded Republican... Now that so many nominal conservatives have forgotten what real conservatism is, I pray that some wise liberals will discover it... It’s a lovely attitude of caution, prudence, respect for tradition, love of peace, and fear of concentrated power — the opposite of all the official fanaticisms of our age.” — Joseph Sobran

Veritas vos Liberabit—Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus, et Fidelis! Mark Alexander, Publisher, for The Patriot’s editors and staff. (Please pray for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm’s way around the world, and for their families — especially families of those fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, who granted their lives in defense of American liberty.)

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