THE MOUNTAIN OBSERVER

Vol. 1                                                   Issue 9                                                           10/14//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.

J.E. Sohmer P O Box 129, Jefferson, CO 80456

Fly over country, 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)

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Blowing off steam:

Those who currently propose that Osama bin Laden and his evil band should be issued an arrest warrant and brought before the bar of justice as an alternative to war should be challenged as to the appropriateness of a Nuremberg type trial for the huge number of Communist leaders and western "useful idiots" who have escaped accountability entirely with the collapse of various evil empires.  The agenda of Statist Liberals can be readily discerned by examining the vectors of their alleged concern and hate.  In the present instance, those most directly responsible were Islamic zealots who captured and flew four American aircraft into eternity.   They are already dead by their own hand and I would doubt they are in Paradise.   Their surviving colleagues around the world are equally guilty of acts of war and I have no interest in examining their motives or their excuses. To do so is to engage in moral temporizing and relativism, and to advance a process of declaring that the real victims are the purps and the real purps are the victims.  It is a given that the Liberal American mainstream press will eagerly assist as a transmission belt for Taliban propaganda in this effort.  I am sick and tired of Liberal "journalists", shrinks and trial lawyers perverting the fundamental fact of free will and personal responsibility.  Murder is murder, whether caused by misguided religion or too much Prozac.  America and Americans need not apologize for anything. The only civilized response to evil is war and the unconditional destruction of our identified enemies.  This is not a time for lawyers, but for soldiers, seeking not surrender but destruction.  God can sort out the consequences more convincingly than F. Lee Bailey or the New York Times. To temporize is to be complicit.  Freedom, patriotism and courage versus slavery, totalitarianism and fear.  America, love it or leave it.  God bless America and Benjamin Netanyahu.

America has its own Taliban, namely the ACLU.

"Through the dust clouds of September 11, and during the difficult task ahead, one person hovers over the wreckage - and that is Bill Clinton.  His legacy gets darker with each passing day."  Andrew Sullivan, The Sunday London Times.

The Democrat Politburo continues in the OJ Billyboy tradition of subverting America's ability to defend itself and demonizing private capitalist culture, and freedom.  I would suggest that those of you who continue to pull that donkey lever from this day forward, given the intellectual perversion of the last 35 years, are totally feckless.  It appears to me that your continuing efforts to portray George W. Bush as incapable reflect, in fact, a fear on your part that such a charge should be applied to the Democrat Politburo.  In fact, you know the Democrat Politburo is culpable and a largely feminized pack of pacifists and socialists who are ashamed of America.  As an American Nationalist Conservative, my concern with the President comes from the opposite direction; that ideologically he is too Liberal and too willing to compromise with those of you who would destroy him and anyone who represents and advances the conservative perspective.  However whatever my concerns about the President, he is not incapable.  Liberals enjoy that monopoly.

Bush Score Card:

            Good Job:

- The President's speech before Congress outlining the American response to the recent attacks upon our country was a masterstroke.

- On 10/07 our conventional forces got to business.  A key to the success of this effort has to be that it remains an American affair, consisting of a variety of coalitions that can be individually summoned and adjusted according to our bi-lateral interests.   What needs to be avoided is the morphing of a single coalition into an international model under which America would inevitable lose control of events and have its interests subject to an extra-American veto.  That is the mistake made in 1991, the consequence of which is that Saddam Hussein is still running around loose and the Iraqi people continue to suffer so much.

President Bush, please keep General Wesley Clark at a great distance.  The Balkan policy model is exactly what is not needed.  Your announced policy of unconditional surrender by terrorists is what is needed.  Dead or alive, but of course, preferably dead.

Your economic stimulus package, including the capital gains tax cuts and the acceleration features, is excellent and the timing is perfect.  Make Congress do it and hack into the domestic spending and corporate welfare while you're at it.  Go do it.  This is exactly what the national economy needs right now, not next spring.

            Not So Good:

I am disturbed that you apparently continue to find it necessary to continue to imply an Israeli fault in their failure to make peace with their Palestinian tormentors.  That is the height of hypocrisy.  Palestinians, and apparently all Arabs, want Israel driven into the sea.  The need for attitude adjustments resides elsewhere than Tel Aviv.

Perhaps you need to consult with Rudy Giuliani who had the good sense to return un-cashed a $10,000,000 check to a certain Saudi prince.

            Terrible:

There you go, playing kiss-ass with the Greenies.  Just leave General Electric and the trace amounts of PCB's at the bottom of the Hudson River alone.   It's not clear to me that G E ever violated the law, or that in the current context the striped bass are unsafe to eat.  Before you tear up the river bottom perhaps you ought to check in with the hard working stiffs (who tended to vote for you) and solicit their thoughts. Either get that Christie Todd Whitman under control or show her the door.  She's just another northeastern Republican running amuck.

There are still domestic affairs to be considered.  The reluctance of this President, and the Republican party in general, to take on the issues of quotas, set-asides and affirmative action (reverse racism) is a primary reason I am not a Republican.  The recent decision by the Administration to flip off Randy and Valery Pech (Adarand Constructors) is sickening.

Ad Nausium:

American National Conservatism will prevail with time and patience for the simple reason that it is framed on objective reality and the truth.  Sadly, the human species, as a whole, may not do as well, but some of us will make our best effort. A serious concern through the tensions and emotion of the present crisis is that Statist Liberals will advance their agenda at the expense of the Constitution and America's founding principles.  I simply do not trust them.

Americans currently are understandably focused on events in the Middle East and the Islamic world.  I would suggest, however, that the greater long range challenge, and interest, remains in the Far East.  In reconfiguring our military, diplomatic and economic postures from the inept nihilism of the 90's, we must take into account the challenges presented by all of Asia and North Africa.  The immediate problem is that our curtailed force structures, real and imagined, leave us vulnerable in the Far East to miscalculation by our advisories.  The current situation in the Middle East works in favor of Communist China and North Korea and against the interests of America and our Far Eastern allies.  There ought to be an item in the U.S. Code that adds Liberal inspired pacifism to the definition of treason.

Conservatives, as a fundamental premise, insist on judging people as individuals, not as members of a group.  Conservatives are also first in line to defend the right of people to freely and openly worship God as they choose as specified under the original intent of the First Amendment.  Accordingly, it is with great interest on my part that the President's principled extension of this concept to Muslims worldwide seems to be meeting with a deafening silence.  I am not particularly surprised by this given that even many American citizens seem not to understand the discussion within the context of our own system.  However, under the current circumstances, it is pertinent that while a Christian or Jewish American is subject to great scrutiny for questioning the motives of a Muslim, there is no condemnation if the matter is reversed.  Given the general silence of Muslim clerics, or, at best, a stream of excuses and victimology, perhaps we need to consider the possibility that Osama bin Laden's interpretation of the Koran is the dominate position of the faith.  Then we are, in fact, in a religious war not of our choosing.

Americans, by nature, are a very generous people, arguably the most generous on earth.  It is hard to imagine any other peoples going to such an extreme, given the provocations visited upon Americans, to recognize the distinction between the tormentors and the innocent civilian populations the tormentors claim to represent.   I refer, of course, to the food and medical airdrops to Afghani civilians.  However Americans must be careful with this, and realistic.  We should recognize that it is our wealth and power that affords us the luxury of such generosity and at the same time, in the minds of many Americans, our military response is a source of guilt with respect to those less fortunate.  Given the objective imperatives of the situation, I would caution my fellow Americans about imagining too much the complete innocence of much of the civilian populations of Afghanistan or any other country in the region.  Bombing them with pop-tarts is unlikely to change their allegiance.  The Taliban and their supporters enjoy wide popularity, and there is no such thing as an anti-septic war.

Wealth, such as it exists at all in the Middle East, was generated by American oil companies beginning in the 1930's.  That is the component of our relationship with the area that must be withdrawn eventually to restore a more realistic accountability among Muslims of their own importance.  We really do not need their oil, or the aggravation.  In the meantime we are at war and civilians will suffer.  Is it really necessary to remind ourselves that this got started by a deliberate attack on our civilian population at the cost of thousands?  I don't think so.  Let us remember that our one true friend in the area, and the only democracy, is Israel, from whom we should learn much.

The nuclear option remains on the table, as it should be.

So what now is the position of the Democrat Politburo on the closing of the Vieques bombing range off Puerto Rico?  It is a matter of fact that today there are Navy and Marine pilots on the way to war whose training has been compromised by the shameless interference of the likes of Terry McAuliffe (read OJ Billyboy), the Reverend Al Sharpton and Hillary Peron Clinton.

Perhaps Americans should give pause this year to making politically correct contributions to UNICEF.  What tiny portion of these contributions actually gets into the hands of the advertised recipients is labeled UNITED NATIONS.  U.N. bureaucrats are an increasingly dubious set of international extortion artists.  If pop-tarts remain your weapon of choice, consider giving to an American charity so that the packages are labeled U.S.A.

I'm getting sick and tired of the Liberal inspired attack on the character of the American cowboy.  The American cowboy is as American as apple pie and motherhood.  American cowboys will have their fingerprints all over our pending military efforts, as they always have in the past. Now, honestly, would you prefer to share your foxhole with an American cowboy or a Liberal?  People who have problems with cowboys are generally ashamed to be Americans.

"When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt.  It's going to be decisive."  President George W. Bush 09/17/01.

I would recommend to the President that we seek Israel's support in deploying an Israeli brigade of half-naked female commandos on PMS against the Taliban. Certainly this would be effective.

One subversive technique rapidly gaining favor among Liberal Statists and Environmentalists is the "precautionary principle".  For example, they assert that high voltage transmission lines may constitute a health hazard, therefore a newly proposed line should not be approved until it can be proven that there is no hazard.    Practical examples of this reasoning abound all over, and for the gullible this is an effective way politically to disable the economy, foreign and domestic policies, the military, indeed the entire country.  In fact I believe that's what it's all about.

Now that it is time to severely cut unnecessary Federal domestic spending I would suggest that it an ideal time to raise the issue of constitutional authority as criteria.  I would further suggest that among the hundreds, if not thousands, of un-constitutional spending activities at the Federal level is the matter of the "War on Drugs".

As distasteful as it is for me to say it, as I read the Constitution, I find no authority therein for a Federal effort to save people from themselves, albeit the consumption of drugs, cigarettes, bad whiskey or sodium hydroxide.  Clearly the authority exists to regulate interstate commerce, but not voluntary individual activities and consumption in a free market society.  As Conservatives, I think we are depriving ourselves of the benefits of the laws of social Darwinism in depriving stupid anti-social people from the opportunity to destroy (kill) themselves.  Our tax dollars, at the local level, would be better spent assisting the actual victims left behind. The legal battle, at the Federal level, should focus on the unauthorized interstate distribution of deadly formulated substances as identified by peer-reviewed privately funded scientists chartered with the burden of proving actual imminent physical harm.  (Plutonium might qualify.)   But let any users kill themselves legally and settle their own accounts with God.  Good riddens.  This would also tend to improve the quality of voter registration records.

Heartland Rebellion:

LA VERKIN, UT.  $10 honorary citizenship certificates have been made available to any good red-blooded          American so as to defray the costs of its anti-UN campaign. Consider them as sort of non-redeemable war bonds. Apparently sales have been impressive.

CURRENT READING RECOMMENDATION:

            1.) MAKING PATRIOTS

            WALTER BERNS

            UNIV. CHICAGO                                           XXX                                         $20.00

            2.) SUBURBAN WARRIORS: THE ORIGINS OF THE NEW AMERICAN RIGHT

            LISA McGIRR

            PRINCETON UNIV.                                       395 PGS                                 $31.95

            3.) RONALD REAGAN

            DINESH D'SOUZA

            THE FREE PRESS                                        292 PGS                                 $25.00

YOU CAN OBSERVE A LOT BY JUST WATCHING         -YOGI BERRA

God Bless America

            JIM

            JIM SOHMER

            AMERICAN NATIONALIST CONSERVATIVE

            JEFFERSON, CO 80456

                                       IN GOD WE TRUST