THE MOUNTAIN OBSERVER

Vol. 1                                                   Issue 6                                                           07/13/01

 A FREEWHEELING CONSERVATIVE COMMENTARY DEDICATED

  TO THE DEFENSE OF FREEDOM AND THE NEXT GENERATION.

                          READER DIALOG ENCOURAGED.

Produced occasionally when I'm good and ready, but    probably at least 10 times a year.

                        Where the air is thin and the hunting and fishing are good

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SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES:  "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."                          (It's not about hunting ducks)

NOTICE TO THE PRESIDENT:

Sir:  With all due respect, you are running the ragged edge of losing your core political base.   It would appear that you prefer New York votes to the security and safety of our Navy and Marine Forces.   You are expanding the Federal role in education.   You are showing no leadership in presenting free-market alternatives to our semi-socialized medical system.  You cannot forthrightly standup and defend the Constitution with respect to “campaign finance reform”.   You are now allowing the Democrat Politburo to set the agenda and there is too much kiss-ass with Liberals.  I believe you are capable of better things, but you need to pull on a pair of pants, eat some raw bear meat, and cut the crap about a “new tone in Washington”.  You are in a war with people who want to destroy you and the country.   Where is George Patton?

Sometimes things get so bad that it is necessary to do something even if it's honked up.  So it is with the new tax legislation, and Bush 43 is to be congratulated for making something happen.  The idea of a tax cut to Democrats is so appalling that they are absolutely beside themselves.  The idea that we have any Federal income tax at all is to me totally Fascist.  So we got some crumbs, and the truth is that, politically, 43 probably did the best he could do.  It is from this perspective that I contemplate the future.  But as I have indicated above, now it looks to be all downhill.

Well the big buzz this month has to be the takeover of the Senate by the Democrat Politburo.  It really should not make that much substantive difference given that it’s the same cast of characters.  I have repeatedly made the point since I first wrote on 11/20/00 that Conservatives were in a squeeze with this Congress, so what has happened here is no particular surprise.  The change is administrative (Democrats vs. Republicans), not substantive (Liberals vs. Conservatives).  Liberals owned it all along. The downside is that Liberals will be in a better position to engage in obstructionist tactics.  They have nothing positive or constructive to offer, and this should soon be apparent.  George W. should be learning that he is dealing with street fighters and give up on his silly concept of a "new tone in Washington".  Under the Constitution it is still Bush's job to make judicial nominations, not up-Chuck Schumer's.

Meanwhile, among the upsides and downsides:

-Liberals are revealing themselves publicly as to their true nature: Statists, without principle or honor.  James Jeffords was elected by Republicans 6 months ago, and was unwilling, like Phil Graham a few years ago, to submit this turn-about to his electorate.

-James Jeffords has made my point about northeastern Republicans really being a set of croquet playing me-too Liberals in disguise.  I'm glad to see the cockroach out of the party, and I hope the rest like him follow.  What we need is more honesty and less pandering to this bunch. Maybe it will give honest Conservatives in Vermont, if there are any left, a chance to re-group.  No easy task.  I will follow the fortunes of Bret Schundler in New Jersey with great interest, but without illusions.

-It sets up the right conditions to dump the Republican Senate "leadership".  Where is Malcolm Wallop?         

-John McCain, who has no discernable or coherent political philosophy other than himself can also take a hike.  Apparently a recall effort has been started by Arizona Republicans. Given that northeastern transplants have become politically significant in Tucson and Phoenix, I have no feel for where a recall might go. What is clear is the danger that McCain could become the Ross Perot of 2004 resulting in a Clinton repeat.

Timothy McVeigh is gone, as he should be, but with timing and under circumstances of extreme convenience to those with an interest in "moving on".  The FBI is off the hook, and so it is with Ruby Ridge.

Nothing better represents my concern about international creeping Statism than the Kyoto Treaty and the so-called "process" that goes with it. It really has nothing to do with the "environment".  It represents bad science at its worst.  What it is really all about is an international power grab of American wealth and sovereignty.  No informed American can possibly support this neo-fascist measure.

If you want a look into the future of unrestricted Liberalism then observe the model of the EU (European Union) policy makers in Brussels Belgium.  Watch Tony Blair destroy Great Britain.  The EU is soft fascism running amok, and a classic example of my theory that with the failure of communism all the Statist Lefties are becoming fascists.  At some point that soft fascism will turn hard.  Keep pulling that donkey lever and find out.

United States support of peace in the Middle East would be much more effective if Colin Powell would just shut up.  The Palestinians are slow learners and they don't need any encouragement from our side. The Liberal Press is bad enough.

I find the decision not to sell Taiwan, "at this time", 4 Aegis equipped destroyers disturbing.

Only economic and political perverts can see an upside to the continued growth of the U.S. trade deficit.  Much of this hard currency continues to fund the ChiCom military buildup.  Diane Feinstein, (D- CA) who do you represent?

Robert Redford needs to find a useful job for himself, and the Bush Administration needs to cut the crap about "Compassionate Conservatism".   Sucking up to communists doesn't work.

My suggestion for the bombing range fiasco at Vieques, Puerto Rico, is to bomb the protesters.  Eventually there will be none left, depending on our flying skills.  Senator Inhofe, soldier on.

John McCain's bastard legislation to rip apart the 1st Amendment in the name of "campaign reform" will have to be stopped.  It is flat-out unconstitutional.  Nothing better represents the irresponsibility of certain members of Congress toward the Constitution than this measure, which further empowers the Liberal Statist press.  Real "campaign reform" consists of lifting all spending restrictions and then requiring immediate public disclosure of all contributions above a personally nominal amount.  That any of this is even debatable is a measure of the success of Statist penetration into the American culture.

There are two issues domestically tearing at the heart of the Republic:

1) The current rate of production of little bastards.  It is much too high. Adoption by qualified parents, and orphanages, is the immediate response required.

2) The current rate of production of energy & fuel.  It is much too low. The economy cannot really recover without this matter being corrected.

Without correction these twin disasters will eventually bring down the Republic.

I am delighted that the United Nations has recently revealed its true colors with a vote removing the United States from its "Human Rights Commission".  This gang of international Statists has determined that the Sudan, Sierra Leone and The Peoples Republic of China are more worthy defenders of human rights than the United States.  American Statist Liberals are, predictably, blaming George W. Bush.  However, these domestic Statists will suck up to anyone who proposes to internationalize the United States out of existence.  The United Nation's next big thrust will be at private gun ownership by law-abiding Americans.  Americans really need to begin to connect the dots.

It is quite clear that "Diversity" is the functional equivalent of what was once referred to as "Jim Crow".

John Ashcroft is to be commended for issuing a clear statement recognizing the Constitutional fact that gun ownership is the prerogative of individuals, not the government.  That it was even necessary for him to do this speaks volumes about the state of American education, and political gullibility.

CURRENT READING RECOMMENDATION:

            1.) AMERICA'S REAL WAR

                        RABBI DANIEL LAPIN

                        MULTNOMAH PUBLISHERS                 362 PGS                       $19.99

            2.) PC, MD: HOW POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IS CORRUPTING MEDICINE

                        DR. SALLY SATEL

                        BASIC BOOKS                                     285 PGS                       $27.00

3.) THE BETRAYAL OF LIBERALISM: HOW THE DISCIPLES OF FREEDOM AND EQUALITY HELPED FOSTER THE ILLIBERAL POLITICS OF COERCION AND CONTROL

                        ED BY HILTON KRAMER AND ROGER KIMBALL

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God Bless America

            JIM

            JIM SOHMER

            AMERICAN NATIONALIST CONSERVATIVE

            JEFFERSON, CO 80456

                                            IN GOD WE TRUST