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                           Vol. 04                                    Issue 08                   November/ December 31, 2004

A FREEWHEELING CONSERVATIVE COMMENTARY DEDICATED TO THE DEFENSE OF FREEDOM, THE NEXT GENERATION, AND THE WAY THINGS OUGHT TO BE.   TO UNDERSTAND THIS NEWSLETTER, IT IS NECESSARY THAT YOU ARE ABLE TO READ AND TO THINK.

Updated occasionally on this website when I decide to do it.                               

 J. E. Sohmer   Jefferson, CO Flyover country, where the air is thin, the heavens bright, and the hunting and fishing are good.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR !

Serious Considerations:

12/25/04

As the year draws close to a close, and we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, we pray for world peace, an elusive condition in the affairs of men.  Peace cannot be wished into existence, and to imagine that it can invites the worst instincts of mankind, and terrorism.   In the Middle East today, in the wake of the death of terrorist thug Yasser Arafat, Palestinians are groping for a new approach, or are they?  There seems to be a heavy investment, especially in the western press, in the formal election to office of one Mahmoud Abbas, aka Abu Mazen, new candidate chairman of the PLO, founder of Fatah.  Perhaps this will happen, perhaps not, and in any event, in the context of Palestinian disarray, it may not matter.

Meanwhile, on the Israeli side, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is taking steps to form, in effect, a coalition government with his old rival, Labor Party Chairman Shimon Peres.  This is the ultimate political act of national self defense, intended to erect a national political mechanism for negotiations over Palestinian statehood on the West Bank, on the premise that Palestinians can get their act together.  A very big "if".  The Prime Minister's step is major, and, in his judgment, necessary, in the overall context of domestic Israeli politics and international pressure.  So it is that, once again, the Israelis are at the table, inviting Palestinian sensibility yet to be determined.

Among a long list of difficult issues to be confronted is the issue of the future of Jerusalem, arguably the ultimate touchstone of peace or hell on earth, and possibly elsewhere.

In addition to the absence of Arafat, but not his followers, Palestinians must eventually adjust to a new reality in the Middle East: the possible unfolding success of Arab democracy.  However things eventually play out in Iraq, the tectonic plates of Arab culture are shifting.  So it is that on this Christmas Day, in celebration of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, we pray for eventual peace in the tortured Holy Land, and the world.  May God bless President George W. Bush, and the American Military for their precious sacrifices and perseverance.  The trail ahead will be long and hard, however which way it turns.  In God we Trust.  JES

12/20/04

Re: Donald Rumsfeld and the controversy (ies) attending his continued tenure:

Mountain Observer believes that the recent attacks on our Secretary of Defense are motivated by a broader range of issues than what has been publicly scripted.  A common "bi-partisan" thread through all of this is the fear of change in the configuration of our defense establishment, threatening, so it seems, vested interests in the Department of Defense, certain intelligence operations, private contractors, and certain congressional fiefdoms.  Mr. Rumsfeld is properly taking steps that adjust our defense resources and abilities so as to be better prepared to confront the realities and nature of IslamoFascist attacks against us and our interests.  Among other things, he is trying to shift away from the large army on the ground format toward special operations and covert action style warfare.  I believe he is right to do so. 

Complaints about remarks made by the Secretary concerning the issue of armor on "humvees" usually start with a failure to quote his entire statement, misrepresent the original intended purpose of "humvees" (they were intended to replace "jeeps), and fail to acknowledge that the same room full of soldiers ended the session with a "standing O" for the Secretary.  As for the portion of his comments that "-- we go to war with the army we've got--", he is correct.  Ask any surviving Marine today of his experience on Guadalcanal.  The Left continues its program of sabotage of our efforts, and will continue to become more isolated for their efforts.  JES

11/30/04

Having accomplished election results generally favorable to the political right, a word of caution is advised.   For starters, be advised that these days there are a lot of people running around claiming conservative credentials who are really more opportunistic than seriously consistent.  It was disturbing to me a couple of days ago, listening to an also ran "conservative" talk show host who seems to have frequent serious bouts of PMS, rant on about the immigration issue and stumbling into an almost racist reaction to the President's nomination of Carlos Gutierrez as Secretary of Commerce.  His complaint was incoherent.  Now this web site has loudly complained about the President's posture on border issues, immigration, and political correctness; I need not repeat it all here.  However, what this web site has never done, and will never do, is to fail to welcome to our shores genuine victims of statist regimes who come to us in peace, prepared to become productive American citizens.  Few people fill the bill as does Carlos Gutierrez.  As for his qualifications for the job, his tenure with Kellogg's is pretty impressive.  Did he close a plant?  Yes, and probably saved the company, and a lot of American jobs as a result.  Does this talk show host know who I am talking about?  I'm sure he does, and my advice to him is that he needs to stop acting like a woman from Brooklyn and cool his jets.   We have a hard struggle ahead of us in developing sound immigration and border control law and policies; conservatives do not need to shoulder the burden of improper and incorrect accusations of racism.   Carlos Gutierrez, welcome to America from a very Conservative American.  JES

11/30/04

Listening to a different talk show out of Chicago this morning, the subject revolved around the question of inaction by school administrators, and boards of education, in instances of bullying students effectively terrifying other students.  I'm sure that parents and students frequently have legitimate complaints.  What was entirely missed, however, in this radio discussion, was the fact that the real problem is that the teachers, administrators and board members themselves are afraid of the same thug students, and terrified of the legal shields that have been erected to protect them.  School thuggery and gang behavior is only going to continue to get worse until the legal trends of the last few years are reversed, and discipline re-allowed in the schools.  Meanwhile, bring on the vouchers.  JES

11/20/04

Post election, it is time to speak to an issue that I have not addressed, in any detail, in a long time.  I refer to the matter of Left Wing fascism.   I refer you back to my 11/20/00 letter, embedded in the Mission Statement of this web site, in which I alluded to the "handshake" on the back side of the Left-Right spectrum, which is really a circle, with communists and fascists joining hands in a common defense of socialist Statism, albeit in different formats.  ( Also visit Old Mountain Observer Letter LFMOLWEB 103 LETTER 01-02 ).  The far left wing (communist) model organizes an economy on the basis of central planning and control of state owned enterprises; private ownership disallowed.  The far right wing (fascist) model organizes an economy on the basis of central planning and control of state regulated private corporate enterprises; i.e. socialism on the cheap (using other people’s money).   It has been my contention for the years that following the collapse of the USSR, left wing Liberal Statists (upon close examination, communists), having recognized the failure of their socialist communist model, switched horses to the fascist economic format.  Go re-read the Mission Statement, if you have not already done so. 

Stop and consider the words and actions of the far left of the American Democrat Party over this past year.  Go analyze the political registration and campaign contribution patterns of many large "multinational" American corporations and their top management, and go analyze the social causes they support.  The penetration of Statist fascist thought into elite leadership, both Democrat and Republican, of this country may be stunning only to those who have not watched this happen. 

I am not proposing any grand conspiracies.  I am proposing an avenue of analysis important to understanding the direction in which we have been headed, which I believe is Statism, at the expense of American republican democracy.  To me it is clear that the primary thrust is from a Statist Left, bitter and angry at their continued loss of power to Conservatives on the Right who continue to gain political ground in their defense of traditional American values and republican democracy.  As the Democrat Party continues it's slide into the quicksand, the Republican Party moves left, soaking up the vacuum, and opening up a discussion within itself between corporate liberals and traditional conservatives. 

As an example, follow the discussion within the Republican Party between those who will accommodate cheap and illegal immigration, and those who insist on reform and a fence.  The fault lines of this conflict follow other crevasses as well, which I will attempt to flag as we move forward.  This web site will continue to follow the discussion, which at a core level may be the most important to understand, much the rest being symptoms.  In spite of current conventional wisdom, Left-Right analysis will continue to be important. 

The most encouraging news in this struggle was the defeat, in this last election, of the Old Media.  Clearly, the rise of the internet as a tool of communication and education is a major technical achievement in behalf of the First Amendment.  The battle against the Statist Leviathan has only begun; it is the prediction of the Mountain Observer that much turmoil lays ahead, but in America, anything is possible.

To further develop your understanding of the truly Statist mindset of the contemporary American Left, I direct your attention to 2 different books by David Horowitz; see Current Reading Recommendations, below.   JES

11/03/04

This morning we face a sense of relief for our country, and the recognition of the fact that we ducked a bullet.  What has happened here demands reflection.  I recall in 1992 the genuine shock I found myself in to discover that the nation had actually selected an obvious left wing scam artist and his communist wife over a decent, if somewhat out-of-touch, centrist.  The eight years that followed were clearly disastrous in many ways, with, perhaps, a single exception.  This exception was an accelerated extension of an awakening on the part of many Americans of the destruction to our society that had occurred over the preceding decades of socialist statism.  The consequences of domestic collectivism and intellectual relativism were brought into sharp relief with traditional and fundamental American culture and values.  A broad and popular process of self examination has ensued, and many corrective initiatives have been launched, but the task ahead of us is massive.   One does not stop a run-a-way coal train on a dime.  While we have good reason to celebrate the outcome of this election, we also have every reason to reflect on the domestic forces of subversion that struggled for American defeat.  Unlike many, I do not hesitate to apply the terms treason or unpatriotic when they clearly apply.

President George W. Bush is to be congratulated.   Like most conservatives, I have a list of serious criticisms of some of the President’s actions, especially on the domestic front.  Now, among conservatives, we can re-engage in a discussion about mistakes made and initiatives to be pursued.  The political retail imperatives of the 4^th year in office are always hell on those of us yearning to think and speak freely.

The President has made some mistakes that may, or may not, have been responsible for a close call.  It should now be clear to everyone that “compassionate conservatism” has its limits, when what has been needed all along is a harder emphasis on really tough love.  What he has done so far, to his everlasting credit, is to have returned personal honesty and integrity to the Oval Office, and much of what he has done, or attempted, was correctly aimed, including tax cuts and a correct re-ordering of our foreign policy. 

The War on Terror was correctly conceived, and if there was an error concerning Iraq, after 12 years of equivocation, it was to move too slowly, although I understand the logistical difficulties inherited from 8 years of willful neglect by the previous Administration.    In the opinion of the Mountain Observer, our actions in Iraq were not only correct, but in fact should have happened even if we knew then what we don’t know now about Iraqi WMD, and even if the September 11^th 2001 attacks had not occurred at all.   The reasonable objection to my point is that the American people would clearly have been unwilling to support such a position, and that it would not be consistently conservative to have proceeded in the face of such objection.  It is in this context of what I believe should have happened, in the hypothetical, and what has happened, in fact, juxtaposed against a now documented endorsement by the electorate, that the absurdity of the Left’s apparent analogy with Vietnam is exposed.  While even many conservatives may differ on the point, the case can be made that our direct national interests in Vietnam were tenuous and marginal, whereas our direct national interests concerning the unfolding threats of Islamic Fascism are a clear and present danger, and would only be further encouraged by pacific response.  While the President correctly identified a three part Axis of Evil, including North Korea, a second tier of mischief should also included Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, each with its own particular profile.  However, accepting the premise of these realities, what should be the conservative response now be?  Most of us will find it unsatisfactory to just stand by.  We need to follow through on the original pre-emptive logic.

This President, not entirely conservative himself, has been pushing in the right direction on many issues.  Differences among conservatives are largely over strategy, not goals, certain paleo-conservatives notwithstanding.   If we have a problem it is because conservatives are not generally driven by polls, but by principle, which is as it ought to be, and which will be increasingly understood by future electorates.   I think we should begin again by recognizing what we are up against, which, just for starters, includes, not only RINOs*, but over 200 years of existentialist perversion in one form or another.  Conservatives, by nature, are not activists.  We tend to prefer to be left alone and to go about our own daily business, which is to say that we are poor at keeping track of what others, not so inclined, intend for us on their own behalf.  So it is that producers find themselves funding slackers and the faithful find themselves shoved aside by those who imagine themselves to be God.   It is impossible to engage in any constructive dialog with those who are dishonest with themselves, including the French.

The race for the next Presidential contest begins today.  I believe the challenge will be greater than what we have just witnessed.  The American seed will survive; I have that faith, however I am sufficiently grounded in reality to recognize that America may, at some point, be submerged by history until a future generation wakes up, and I may not live that long.   The primary function of this website will continue to be to address that future generation, for there is no error that has occurred that cannot be corrected by a generation determined to do so.   Russell Kirk, Bill Buckley, Ronald Reagan and many others have given us a pretty good kick start.   Above all, let us never forget that there is a greater Authority looking out over all of this.   The Lord instructs us to do our best, and He will take it from there.    Conservatives have another enormous asset: the truth is on our side.

God Bless America.            JES.                  

*RINO Republican In Name Only, AKA “Northeastern” or “Coastal” types.

One error in foreign policy I see shaping up is the false convenience of pretending that we can afford to ignore the growing menace of Communist China. The illusion that the tiger can be tamed by trade will eventually be exposed for the fraud that it is.  North Korea could not continue without Communist Chinese complicity and Taiwan is slowly being sucked into the vortex.

11/03/04                                                                                                                       

Presumably, this morning, Pat Buchanan is disappointed.  The Greek money wasn’t enough.  Pat reflects a political strand of thinking once thought dead on December 7^th, 1941 when Jap Zeros launched from aircraft carriers should have put to rest the notion that we were safe behind two oceans.  Although I think that there is an additional component to Pat’s thinking, I will be kind, for the moment, and leave him alone to commiserate with Michael Moore.  The fundamental flaw with Pat’s entire position is the premise that the electorate has always preferred to run and hide under the rubric of non-intervention.   No, Americans have always been nationalist, carefully gauging our foreign policy to our capacity to act in our own national security interests.  Which is also a reason why John Kerry lost this election.   We do not need foreign instruction and approval on the right to defend ourselves.   JES

11/03/04

As it now turns out, the election is all over, and George W. Bush has won Re-election as Ohio is conceded to Bush, coupled with a Bush win in Nevada.  New Mexico and Iowa are still open, but neither can affect the outcome either way at this point.

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According to Fox News, as this is written, the President has won Ohio and is one electoral vote short of election.  I anticipate that the honor will go to New Mexico.   George W. Bush has been through 4 years of hell.  Agree or disagree with everything he has done or not done, you have to respect this man.  In the tumult to continue, the Mountain Observer salutes the dignity and respect he has returned to the Oval Office. I recognize that the Democrats, according to longstanding custom, will do whatever they can to subvert the democratic process with trial attorneys and judges.

To be sure, there has frequently been confusion on the American scene about the identity of Conservatism in America.  The Founding was framed on revolutionary ideas concerning the relationship of an individual with government, while at the same time claiming the lessons and experience of British, Roman and Judeo-Christian heritage as the foundation of the framework.  So it is that American Conservatives find themselves defending a revolution founded on conservative wisdom.   It has been recently suggested that "Paleo" conservatism was initiated as a reaction to Liberalism.   Perhaps so, but then I would suggest we are not talking about Conservatism at all.   Conservatism is the wisdom of the ages, which includes the matter of self defense.   The Paleo author of this concept of "recent invention" correctly links himself to the 1930's "America First" reaction to the initiatives of the Wilson Administration.  The writer's observation, perhaps inadvertently, also correctly links "paleo" concept of "reaction" with 20th Century "run and hide from modern reality" thinking, the mother of the League of Nations, ignoring the consequences in Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hawaii.   None of this, in my view, is correctly Conservative.  Conservatism is not an ideology, but an analytical process that accepts human nature as it is, has been through the ages, and documents the development of real world insight and experience.  When people drop bombs on you, as in 1941, or fly planes into buildings, as in 2001, you react.  Yes, in the last century this has certainly included a "reaction to Liberalism", but that is certainly not where it started.  History did not start in 1914, or 1898.  I prefer to reach back at least to Abraham (not Lincoln), perhaps not far enough.  So-called Paleo Conservatives need to re-examine their self consumption with the "evils" of Empire, Preemption, the Neo-Conservatives and the USA and reconsider their own history and priorities.    Genuine American Conservatism includes an examination of the totality of history, which includes empire and preemption, and only lately "neo-conservatives" and "paleo-conservatives", among much more, and also French and domestic American deceit.   

The Paleo template of American history, that the founding fathers prescribed non-intervention as an ongoing fundamental policy, endorsed by future waves of the electorate, is just plain poppycock.   George Washington and Jefferson advised caution and circumspection in the context of the weak and fragile condition of the new Republic.  Subsequently, our history, beginning with Jefferson taking out after the Barbary pirates, and the Louisiana Purchase, was positive within the context of our ability to project.  Ask any Siberian American his opinion about American inclinations about "empire".  No Pat, you've got it wrong.   The American electorate has not always been permanently disposed toward isolation or non-intervention; it has always been disposed toward American Nationalism, occasionally calling for circumspection, and occasionally recognizing either opportunity or the need to defend itself.   In the current context, I'm about fed up with knee-jerk blaming of the USA and Israel for all the faults in the world, and so, apparently, is most of this electorate. from the election results that have unfolded before us,

The President should roll out the new bunker buster bombs and just get on with business in Iran, with free tickets in the press box for Kim Jong Il and Abu Musab al Zarqawi.   

The key to re-assembling the 4th Amendment is to fix the nation's borders.

Corrections:

None

Bush Score Card:

Excellent:   

You won.  Congratulations.  Now in a second term the political utility of Compassionate Conservatism has lost meaning or purpose, and it is time to recognize, and act on the fact, that Liberals do not like you.  Incidentally, you need a new Secretary of State.  I think the best available man would be Ann Coulter.

Not So Good:  

You are a nice guy.

How come we continue to financially support the Palestinian Authority?  Time to let Israel use discretion.

How come we continue to support the Saudi Royal Family?  Time to pull the plug and let them go to hell.

How come we haven't flattened Fallujah?  Our election is over.

How come Fidel Castro is still alive?

Terrible- or even worse: 

Your policies and proposals on immigration and the border, and you have allowed "homeland security" to be trumped by political correctness, multiculturalism and a fear of profiling.

The absence of any apparent plan or strategy to deal with our balance of payments problem.  Herein lays the smoking time bomb of the future, and what is really at the bottom of the problem with jobs in this country.

You need to get control of the spending.  We need some genuine program cuts, and the elimination of some real unnecessary nonsense.  You have revealed yourself as a big government "Republicrat".  STOP THE SPENDING AND SHRINK THE GOVERNMENT!

Wall Street & Main St

12/21/04

It's now official, the market indexes are back at least even with their highs earlier this year.  It's called recovery from the political threat of The BAD DEAL, incomprehensible to free markets, the guaranteed consequence of a possible presidency of a John Francois Kerry, the French looking guy, pretender to the office des le roi des Etats Unis to be accompanied by First Lady Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry.  However, perhaps something else is at work.  There is evidence that congressional conservatives are digging in for a fight, with their own President if necessary, on the issue of spending and the budget.  The civil war within the GOP, ongoing for several years, is likely to become more public.  As Democrats continue to collapse, the battle within the GOP is the only political discussion of substance that matters.

12/08/04

I find the public, and perhaps political, fascination with the "survival" of certain domestic airlines interesting.  Some of them just need to go bankrupt.  If there is actually a market demand for air travel services on the affected routes, then the only thing that will change will be the color of the paint on the planes, and some union contracts.  Service, and passengers, would probably come out ahead.  Employees would discover what they are actually worth in the marketplace (At what point does disruption of free market measurement of value morph into confiscation?) , and the municipal owners of certain airport facilities would be compelled to reconcile actual market demand with previous statist decisions.  There are no national security issues at stake.

12/08/04

Looks like I've bought my last computer from IBM.  Too bad, because I've liked my ThinkPad.

12/04/04

The United States has been on the wrong side of the international balance of payments ledger from the mid 1980's forward.  It is not productive to point fingers because honesty would require that all of us could be pointed at by everybody.   However, it is long since overdue that we all recognize at least the outlines of what is going on, at the very least, as a matter of personal self defense.  Over these years, American consumers have been lured into spending too much and saving too little by "free market" anti-protectionist policies, not always constrained by American national interests, coupled with a lot of bad tax policy against producers, government over-spending and regulation, and immigration run amok.  Foreign governments, and investors, none with our interest in mind, have been incrementally funding our profligate ways through the purchase of our debt with various financial instruments.  Left unchecked, what has to happen, sooner or latter, will be a general international crisis in confidence in the American dollar.  If you run up too much personal debt on your credit cards, there comes a point at which the banks curtail your credit, or worse.  It is no different.  On an international level, there have been several "moments", shall we say, of international hesitancy about our country's spending habits.  So far, two things have stalled the "sheriff".

1). By comparison with everyone else, the USA has the strongest economy on earth

2). To pull the plug on the American economy would be international economic suicide.

So far, this game of international "high noon at the OK corral" has kept the Ponzi scheme afloat.  There will come a point in time when that may not happen.  I am not about to predict that the current collapse of the dollar's value against the Euro signals the day of reckoning, but then neither will I say it does not.  What foreign investors are really looking for is a more productive investment (higher rates of return) for their money, and there will come a point in time when they think they may have found it, as in China.  There are plenty of current signs of recent EU / Chinese economic cooperation and collaboration.  Again, no predictions; just something to think about.  It is a very complex subject.

Let us say, for the sake of discussion, that the run on the dollar becomes real; what then?

a). US interest rates skyrocket, so does the price of all imports.

b). Personal American disposable income disappears; the government prints money and inflation ensues.

c). A depression ensues, much more serious that the 1930's, with unforeseeable political consequences around the world.  It is not a pretty picture.  Do you have a place in your yard, if you can keep it, to grow potatoes?

Something to think about, and blaming whoever is President is absurd.  Look at yourself in the mirror.  International investors may be tempted into this scenario at such a time as they calculate that their money is better invested elsewhere than in an American economy that no longer matters.   JES

1/30/04

Now it appears that 3rd quarter GNP growth was 3.9 %

11/06/04

A note on the $50.00 oil.   It is a serious problem because the economy is configured on $25-30.00 oil, and a run-up this fast is causing serious market adjustment problems.  This can be put in fuller perspective when one realizes that based on 1970 dollars, the high price for oil today would be 90.00/bbl.  Of course the market is going to have to work through these adjustments.  Cheap energy is gone, but as I have argued elsewhere, the answer is to get the government out of the way of petroleum development, and alternatives to petroleum, like nuclear, etc.

Meanwhile, new jobs soar, and the post election financial markets take off.

11/25/04

Well, folks, it appears that the lessons of the 1990's have not yet sunk in, perhaps best illustrated by the run-up of Google’s stock prices.  Go look at their P/E ratio and tell me that this makes any sense to you, under any circumstances.  Coupled with oil at over $50.00 a barrel and a balance of payments situation gone crazy, I am about prepared to say that the best thing that could happen to this country is a good old fashioned economic collapse.  I understand all the implications, and I am serious.  It' time to sort people out, foreign and domestic.  It's time to shake out the banking and market system, here and around the world, and inventory real value.  American "men" might be compelled to learn how to clean out their own gutters and mow their own grass.

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Prediction:

In 2004 the Democrats will run Hillary Rodham, not a tough call to make.  They are a party of women; it just makes sense.

Heartland Rebellion Update:

Folks, the problem is not Walmart; the problem is ourselves.

Americans, wiser and older than in 1992, shift Right, however slightly.

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                                                                   God Bless America

                                                                   Jim                             

                                                                    American Nationalist Conservative

                                                                    Jefferson, CO 80456