The Constitution Party’s
Michael Peroutka Is The One in 2004
Mark Dankof
Ron Holland correctly solicits the opinion of
his readers regarding
Dixie Daily News and what its take should be on the presidential
election in the United States on the first Tuesday in November.
The first clarifying notion for American and Southern Conservatives
about this year’s Presidential election should be the jettisoning of any
thought of voting once more for George W. Bush. Mr. Bush’s
continuation of an Empire oriented, neo-conservative foreign policy along
the lines of Woodrow Wilson has handed all of us 700+ American dead (and
counting), 20,000 dead Iraqis (and counting), and a bill for this lunacy
approaching $200 billion (and counting). As Paul Craig Roberts notes
today, the Bush Administration’s disastrous and unwarranted preemptive
military action in Iraq stands on the precipice of an even larger military
conflict in the region which threatens the initiation of a theater-wide
conflict involving Syria and Iran. And Mr. Bush’s endorsement of Ariel
Sharon’s illegal annexation of West Bank land (and the latter’s unilateral
denial of any Palestinian Right-of-Return to lands seized in 1948)
underscores a policy which will inevitably lead to more violence,
terrorism, and the continuation of America’s own development as a military
garrison state. Mr. Roberts and Pastor Dave Black of Southeastern Baptist
Seminary in Wake Forest warn us that these policies and their catastrophic
consequences may well be backed by a return to involuntary American
military conscription early next year, which begs the question: How
many of us want to lose our fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, and
brothers and sisters for this madness?
David D. Kirkpatrick’s recent
article in the New York
Times on American conservative
dissonance with Bush and Empire amply illustrates that Mr. Bush is not a
candidate that should be supported by any American or Southern
Conservative concerned with our nation’s Constitution and the dangerous
tendency to support War, Empire, and the expansion of the Central State at
the expense of individual liberty at home and positive relations with
foreign nations abroad. Mr. Kirkpatrick’s expose reinforces what is
already being reemphasized in the State of Pennsylvania in Mr. Bush’s
Republican primary endorsement of Arlen Specter over conservative Pat
Toomey. Mr. Bush is a Rockefeller Republican. Period. He is not, and
has not been our friend.
Mr. Kirkpatrick’s extensive tome in today’s New York
Times emphasizes another truism--that there is
not a dime’s bit of difference between Mr. Bush and his Democrat opponent,
Mr. Kerry, on the core issue of War and Empire.
Both are clearly in favor of both, in the furtherance of the perceived
interests of Mr. Sharon, the Israeli Lobby, and the international oil
consortiums. The admission in Kirkpatrick’s article today by
neo-conservative William Kristol of the Weekly Standard that he
would prefer the election of Mr. Kerry to the Presidency if the
alternative was a conservative of the traditional Old Right stripe of Pat
Buchanan should say it all. Neither of the major party candidates is
committed to anything other than the continued march to a New World Order
and the deification of the Leviathan State. Along with War and Empire,
Mr. Bush and Mr. Kerry stand together on the USA Patriot Act, NAFTA, GATT,
the WTO, and PMFN trading status for Communist China. They are two
sides of an obviously counterfeit coin.
Mr. Kerry is obviously a tax-and-spend liberal domestically. But what
about Mr. Bush and his Republicrat Party? George W. Bush has
handed us a $2.3 trillion Federal budget, $535 billion in budget deficit
this year, and $550 billion in foreign trade deficit--all of which will
cause a long-term devaluation of the dollar. He has increased the budgets
of the Federal Department of Education and the National Endowment of the
Arts above and beyond those of his predecessor, Mr. Clinton. The list
goes on and on.
And what about the perceived differences between the two major
party candidates on social issues? Mr. Kerry is clearly pro-abortion
and owned by the homosexual lobby operating within his own party. But Mr.
Bush has continued Federal subsidies for Planned Parenthood, endorsed a
“modified” policy on human stem-cell research, and openly endorsed the
participation of the homosexual Log Cabin Republican lobby in the larger
Republican electoral strategy for the fall campaign. The President states
that he disfavors homosexual marriages, but concurrently endorses the
concept of “civil unions” which confer virtually all of the
benefits and recognition involved in the former. And why Mr. Bush’s need
to tamper with the United States Constitution with a proposed
Constitutional Amendment to define marriage as a relationship between one
man and one woman, when all that is necessary is to follow the
Constitutional formula of Article III, Section II which provides for what
this country really needs--a curbing of the jurisdiction of the
activist Federal judiciary in areas that are quite clearly none of its
business and the prerogative of the States and the People? The
proposed Constitution Restoration Act in Congress underscores this
already existing remedy. Why does Mr. Bush not speak of this clear remedy
to the basic problem of Federal courts acting unilaterally as left-wing
legislative bodies?
I believe that the clear alternative for
Dixie Daily News readers to these
representatives of Empire and the New World Order is clear: Michael
Peroutka of the Constitution Party.
If American and Southern Conservatives choose this year to vote for Mr.
Peroutka in significant numbers in the 42+ states where he will appear on
the ballot, a significant message will be sent to the Corporate Elite
presently engaged in a stranglehold on the American electoral process. It
will guarantee automatic Ballot Access for the Constitution Party in the
next Presidential election cycle--if there is one. And finally, it will
give each of us committed to the traditional American understanding of
individual freedom and Republic a clear conscience in knowing that
principle preempted expediency in a world where the latter threatens to
bring us to total extinction.
Mr. Peroutka may be found at
http://www.Peroutka2004.com.
April 21, 2004
Mark Dankof is a Lutheran pastor and free-lance
journalist, occasionally contributing to Breaking All the Rules, Iran Dokht, Al Bawaba,
Nile Media, CASCFEN, and other Internet news sites. Once a
third party candidate for the United States Senate in Delaware (2000), he
maintains the web-site Mark
Dankof’s America while pursuing post-graduate theological
education at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia.
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