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| Dave Marlett, Editor | theconservative@usa.net | Number 32 |
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"It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation-states, however powerful." -- Maurice Strong, co-chairman, UN Commission on Global Governance
"Nationhood as we know it will be obsolete, all states will recognize a single, global authority.... National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all." -- U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott
"The world is a system, not a collection of individuals," -- Al Gore
"I've presided over the so-called reinventing government program to downsize our federal bureaucracy, including, more than any other, the Pentagon and the Defense Department." -- Al Gore
TCN -- the actually count in the Defense Dept. 18 Army divisions to 10 (up to four of those, according to the DoD, have not been "combat ready"), the Navy from 562 ships to 305, and the Air Force from 36 fighter wings to 20. What bureaucracy has been cut??? Most non-military bureaucracies have increased and many new ones have been "invented" !!!
"If the public doesn't want a populist or a phony, it probably doesn't want a phony populist." -- Wall Street Journal
"Gore clings to his lies even after their falsity has been established beyond all question." --American Spectator
If trends continue, the United States will remain on the present path of de facto demobilization and possess a diminished capacity to shape and influence world events and to safeguard and protect U.S. national interests in the future." -- Center for Strategic and International Studies
"With Powell and Rice, their blackness is incidental to their history of accomplishment. By contrast, the people that you saw in Los Angeles -- the quote, unquote, diverse folks you saw parading across the stage in Los Angeles -- are typically people who have punched the card of racial grievance. That's the difference between Gore's vision of diversity and Bush's." --Center for New Black Leadership's Brian Jones
"Some have suggested that Democrats have no central rallying theme this year. I have a suggestion: 'Prosperity without a Clue'." -David Limbaugh
Though he should be sent "up the river," Gore took a post-convention cruise down the Mississippi on a riverboat named "Mark Twain," a feisty old curmudgeon who once quipped, "What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin." That sums up what Al "Taxman" Gore intends to do to "working families." - The Federalist Digest
"Because further investigation is not likely to result in a prosecutable case...I have concluded that a special prosecutor is not warranted," -- Janet Reno dismissing Justice Department investigator Robert Conrad's recommendation for the appointment of a special prosecutor.
"One estimate, by the National Taxpayers Union, puts the dollar size of Mr. Gore's programs at more than $2 trillion over 10 years -- enough to take up the entire non-Social Security surplus without anything left over for tax cuts. Even the lowest estimates in the press put the figure at well over $1 trillion...." Bruce Bartlett of the National Center for Policy Analysis
"...[Hillary Clinton] is ambitious without ability; she craves honor without achievement. She is a parody of feminism; her political career is as much a credit to her sex as Mme. de Pompadour's. ...Hillary Clinton took the express elevator to the First Lady level, and thinks she can stroll over the skywalk into the Senate." --Richard Brookhiser
"When Republicans abandon their conservative/libertarian bloc of voters, they don't expand their base, it evaporates. The political graveyard is full of contemporary examples. Gerald Ford. George Bush. Bob Dole. The Republicans in Congress in 1998." --Stephen Moore
"I never thought it was my style or the words that I used that made a difference: It was the content. I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things...." --Ronald Reagan
"What is the agenda of the Democratic Party if not to attack the market by the back door? What is universal health care but socialized medicine? What is the public-school system but a socialized educational institution? ... Their agendas are to tie people to the state, to make them dependent on the state, and to control them. If that isn't a classic socialist agenda, I don't know what is." - David Horowitz
"You must
study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty
and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take
it for granted that you mean to do right." --Robert E. Lee
By Geoff Metcalf
© 2000 WorldNetDaily.com
A spokesman for the U.S. Navy has officially denied allegations, raised in a WorldNetDaily report, that President Clinton will alter long-standing Navy regulations to allow the U.S. flag to be flown in a subordinate position to that of communist Vietnam.
WorldNetDaily reported recently that, according to highly placed and credible Navy sources, President Clinton plans to visit the People's Republic of China and the People's Republic of Vietnam on a U.S. Navy destroyer before the end of his term. The Naval officers, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the president also plans to alter long-standing naval regulations and tradition in order to allow the American flag to be flown below that of Vietnam when the vessel sails into the communist nation's territorial waters.
Although U.S. Navy regulations and traditions dating back to before the Revolutionary War prescribe that no country's flag be displayed in a position superior to that of the U.S. flag, Vietnam reportedly has a rule demanding that the Vietnamese flag shall always fly in a superior position to any other country's flag. Thus the alleged planned pandering on the part of the president not to offend the sensibilities of Vietnam's totalitarien government.
WND contacted several government agencies in an effort to get official response to two basic questions:
In response, Alan P. Goldstein, assistant chief of information for technology integration in the Navy's Office of Information in the Pentagon answered WND's questions in writing:
"The Navy is not aware of any planned trips by the President to China or Vietnam aboard a Navy ship. I have also read the article in the Internet publication and can assure you that there are no plans to change the regulations governing the flying of the U.S. flag on U.S. Navy warships. Federal statutes determine Navy Regulations on the flying of the national ensign on Navy vessels, and are not subject to alteration by the Department of the Navy."
Highly placed Navy sources believe this action on the president's part would further devastate already tenuous Navy morale. The results of a record-breaking WorldNetDaily reader poll (over 99 percent of 15,000+ respondents said they would be either "outraged" or "ashamed" if "the U.S. Navy dips the American flag to the flags of Vietnam and China") indicate those expressed concerns may be an understatement.
Goldstein included excerpts from Navy regulations that apply:
Navy Regulations, 1990, Chapter 12
Section 1277, Paragraph 1: "When the national ensigns of two or more nations are required to be displayed from the same masthead, the United States national ensign, if required, shall be displayed to starboard of all others. The national ensigns of other nations shall be displayed, starboard to port, in alphabetical order of the names of the nations in the English language; except that the ensign of a foreign nation within whose waters the ship is located, if displayed, shall be to starboard of other foreign ensigns.
Paragraph 3:
"In rendering honors, the national ensign of one nation shall not be displayed above that of another nation at the same masthead."
Section 1279, Paragraph 3:
"When dressing or full-dressing ship in honor of a foreign nation, the national ensign of that nation shall replace the United States national ensign at the main, or at the masthead in the case of a single-masted ship; provided that when a ship is full-dressed or dressed in honor of more than one nation, the ensign of each nation shall be displayed at the main, or at the masthead in a single-masted ship."
Paragraph 6:
"Ships not under way shall be dressed or full-dressed from 0800 until sunset. Ships under way shall not be dressed or full-dressed."
Sources have emphasized that the alleged plans were reported in high-level briefings, and that although concerns for career advancement and military politics have intimidated them, they were anxious that the story be reported in the hope "disinfectant sunshine" would kill the plans.
The federal Compensation and Pension Service (CPS) is a division of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The CPS administers military service-related compensation, non-service-related disability pensions, dependency and indemnity compensation (and death pensions) for dependents, and sundry burial benefits for our veterans.
In a June 2nd letter to all VBA regional offices and centers, CPS Director Robert J. Epley revealed the extent of the VBA's participation in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). After noting that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) had incorporated "into the category of those adjudicated as a mental defective" the VA definition of incompetence that includes those who "lack the mental capacity to contract or manage their own affairs," Epley asserted that the VBA, through "a Memorandum of Understanding with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), is providing the FBI with information on veterans rated as incompetent, incompetent surviving spouses, adult helpless children and dependent parents."
In November of last year, the letter continues, VBA provided NICS with an initial "load of data" from "information in the Benefits Delivery Network (BDN) and the Fiduciary Beneficiary System (FBS)." It covered 88,898 individuals, most if not all of whom will presumably be barred for life from purchasing or redeeming firearms. There is a procedure for challenging an incompetency ruling, but only by running an onerous and complicated maze of administrative appeals.
According to Director Epley: "If an individual previously rated incompetent has their competency restored, under the law they are still permanently restricted from purchasing or redeeming a firearm and information concerning that individual will not be stricken from the NICS index." That reprehensible provision is further evidence that the ultimate goal of the gun control gang is not firearm safety, but domestic disarmament made possible by compilation of a long-term gun registration list. How else can one construe a policy that precludes the restoration of gun rights to individuals no longer deemed to be incompetent, and the retention of their names on the NICS index ad infinitum?
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