Letters to the
Editor
Dear Sam
Just
a line to let you know I agree with you completely — 1. morality
must come from within us. (Of course, unfortunately, it is possible
to legislate away all demonstrations of it) and 2. It would be highly
preferable for Christians & whatever to live side-by-side in toleration.
It sometimes works out that they do — until some government interferes
....
— Shirley; Urbana,
Illinois
Dear Sam
The
concept of world government has changed drastically since the 1950's.
The picture painted in the 50's is no longer taken seriously by anyone.
One of its best-known promoters then was Einstein, who was seen as a kindly
genius who had thought up the atom bomb by accident, & now wanted to
make amends. The US then perceived itself, & was largely perceived
by the world, as the great citadel of freedom, which had defeated the evil
fascists (although it was actually primarily the evil communists who had
defeated the fascists). The world government was conceived of as
a United States of the World, & this was seen as an ideal situation
— in fact the only objection to it was that it was just too, too utopian
to be real — that it would take at least a million years for people like
the benighted Japanese, Argentinians, or Angolans to learn to live like
us civilized Americans. Now perceptions are very different.
People realize that the many smaller nations of the world in the General
Assembly are often more rational & moderate than the US, but that the
US often gets its way by bribery, bullying, & the veto power of the
victorious Allies of WWII, & their position on the Security Council,
which makes the UN not a democratic institution, but a system created to
help the winners of WWII rule over the world — much less efficiently than
Hitler ran his huge empire in his bid for world domination. Now the
US no longer wants to have any part of the UN except "peace keeping", so
that it can control the way hot spots are run after they are pacified (&
of course any time the US doesn't like the way a country is run, they send
in the CIA to create a hot spot). The US wants no part of third World
development, which might develop a country in a way that would make it
independent of US control. The US doesn't pay its dues at the UN,
even though the UN is largely a US puppet. It's no accident that
the UN is located in the US. Ideally it would be located outside
Rome, & the Allies would no longer be permanent members of the Security
Council. But that too might take a million years to happen, &
so other means to world cooperation must be developed.
Your
Treaty
for the Alliance of American States is an okay way to present your
political ideals. Of course I agree with some of them, & disagree
with others. But of course nothing like your Alliance is going to
happen any time soon. The problem with Frontiersman is that it presents
many abstract ideas in their "ideal" form, without ever taking up issues
that are being argued in US politics today, & making a stand on a particular
side of a particular issue, based upon these ideals, & demonstrating
how your view is in accordance with ideas about the social contract &
constitutional government. This is the only way to have an influence
on the way the government & society moves, gradually, in the future.
— Elliot; N. Merrick,
New York
PS.
A states' rights issue dear to my heart right now is the current decriminalization
& legalization of marijuana & other drugs by referendum in Arizona
& California. The Drug War is of course an unconstitutional atrocity,
& now the federal government wants to nullify the will of the people,
as if Arizona & California were Angola, Haiti or Nicaragua. Democracy
only applies if the herd votes the way the Ruling Class wants it to vote.
US citizens have as much democratic freedom as the Algerians — they're
just too vegetablized to notice.
To
debate issues without first understanding the doctrines, assumptions, and
definitions which underlie those issue is doing it backward. Such
a process will result in issues being decided based on whim, preconceived
notions, or expediency. However, if you first resolve the basics
— doctrine, assumption, and definition — then you can reason your way to
consistent positions on every issue. This is why I try to concentrate
on the basics in the Frontiersman.
— editor
Hypocrisy Breeds
Contempt
Sam Aurelius Milam III
Santa
Clara County, California has forced
me out of my home because of an alleged arrearage of $32,000 on an
unproven child support obligation. At the same time, the U.S.
government is $1.4 billion in arrears on its acknowledged obligation to
the UN, and is unlikely to be punished at all.1
The contempt that I feel for such hypocrisy surpasses my powers of description.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
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The
News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Monday, December 16, 1996 |
New
Year's Resolution
Sam Aurelius Milam III
I
pledge deliverance from the flag of the United States of America, and from
the repugnance for which it stands: one abomination sundered from
God, inexcusable, with no liberty or justice at all.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
Acknowledgment
My
thanks to Sir Donald the Elusive for paying the production costs of this
newsletter.
— editor
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