From: Steven Wallace 
Subject: SNET: Fwd: A SILENT RAGE
Date: 9 Jun 2000 12:29:56 -0400
To: snetnews@topica.com, Stephen Wilson 

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Subject: A SILENT RAGE


> A SILENT RAGE
>
> John Dogette had a recent article, "What happened to the loyal
opposition,"
> on World Net Daily in which he was asking: "where's the rage?" from the
> Republican, the Reform and the Libertarian Parties at Clinton's antics.
> Perhaps he unknowingly answered his own question when he commented early
in
> the article: "... once the press took these issues off the front page,
it's
> almost as if they never happened."
>
> For whatever reason, it seems the American people only consider an issue
> important if the national media considers it important.  We seem to have
> become so dependent on the media to do our thinking for us that we have
> forgotten how to think for ourselves.  The consequence is that we are
being
> led like lemmings to the cliff's edge or like the children of Hamlin we
march
> to the tune of the pied-piper media.
>
> In past decades we would have had numerous voices speaking out and a few,
at
> least, would have continued sounding the alarm until the people woke.  Or
we
> would have had men of God occupying the pulpits and speaking out against
the
> evils of corrupt administrations until the parishioners opened stubborn
ears
> and began to listen.
>
> Not these days.  The major media has been co-opted by the few, who all
march
> to the tune of the same drummer, and the nation's pastors seem to have all
> been suddenly taken ill with a condition we might call 501-c-3-itis.
>
> Our erstwhile politicians, intent more on the next election than on the
> health of the nation (for the most part), are unwilling to buck what
appears
> to be a general consensus of "don't rock the boat" and do nothing while
the
> nation sinks into a cultural and moral swamp from which it may never
recover.
>  The few who do try to sound the alarm and offer a bit of rage are ignored
by
> the media and find no audience.
>
> Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign slogan "it's the economy,
stupid"
> had it half-right.  It isn't the economy, but the audience to whom he was
> speaking have proven themselves to be stupid.
>
> There remain a great number of us out here in the hinterland who are very
> disturbed and who are raging, albeit mostly a silent rage.  We are a
people
> without a voice because those we trusted to present the facts have decided
> they will only present those facts they consider relevant.  Most major
> newspaper dailies are no longer home owned and operated but have been
bought
> up by national or international conglomerates.  Their editorial policies
have
> become ditto marks for the left-wing elite.  Honesty in reporting has
become
> about the same as honesty in the White House ... on a par with hen's
teeth,
> an oxymoron.
>
> If the only thing happening was a little graft here and there the
situation
> would be bad enough but not critical.  But when the security of the nation
is
> being put at risk and the people's liberties are being incrementally taken
> from them we have a situation that is threatening the life of the nation
> along with the lives of its citizens.  If an ordinary citizen transferred
> military secrets and technical know-how to our enemies he would be
arrested,
> charged with treason and maybe even hanged.  But our president does it,
talks
> about it, smiles and people cheer.
>
> An article by Robert W. Lee, "Dangerous Disarmament," in the June 5, 2000,
> edition of The New American magazine states: "The drive to deprive
Americans
> of privately owned firearms is part of a larger plan to render the U.S.
> helpless before a Russian-Chinese axis or a nuclear-armed UN."  Clinton's
> push for gun registration (which will make confiscation easy) and his
> announced plan to reduce our intercontinental ballistic, nuclear warhead
> missiles by one-half are simply two sides of the same coin, and this week
he
> has been traveling about Europe (heading for Russia) proclaiming that he
> plans to share our missile defense plans and technology
> with .... just about everyone.
>
> From where I sit, the only way the Republican Congress can let Mr. Clinton
> get away with what he has been doing for nearly eight years is if they are
> both working for the same goals or if those FBI files contain some
powerfully
> damning evidence.  Either that or we have elected imbeciles to Congress
(and
> what does that make of us?).
>
> 06-03-00
>


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