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The Political are Journal of the Special Forces Underground Volume II, Number 4 PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY THE John P. Zenger Press $ Spring 1996 $7.00 The Resister John Peter Zenger Publisher J.F.A. Davidson Managing Editor Melancton Smith Associare Edi!or L.S. Spooner· Contributing Edilor Zebulon B. Vance Consu/ling Edilor Dorothy Payne Polilica/ Advisor Peter Yarborough Advertising & Marketing Kevin L. Jamison Counselor Sandy Br·ighton Volume II Spring 1996 Number4 Distriburion $ The Resisrer is published qum1erly by CONTENTS Special Forces Underground and John P. Zenger Press. Address corTespondence to: Box holder, Open Letter PO Box 47095, Kansas City, Missouri 64188, ... On Dissent 2 U.S.A. Subscription price: U.S., $25.00, foreign, Editorials 530.00 per year Single copy: $7.00. The editor Social Security 4 will consider unsolicited material, but is not obligated to acknowledge receipt or to retum "Civil Rights'' 5 manuscripts. Any contributor who is not notilied The New Martial Ethic 6 by The Resisrer within 90 days alter submitting "The Children" 7 a manuscript may assume that The Resisler is Correspondence 9 unable to pub I ish the material. Copyright© 1996 by The Resister. All rights reserved. No Periodic Intelligence Report II part of this publication my be reproduced in Political Intelligence any fonn without prior written permission. Waco Cover-up Begins to Unravel -- L.J Jennings 15 Produced and distributed in compliance with DA The Inspectorate-- Dr. A. Anders 16 PAM 190-2, AR 210-10, AR 600-20, AR 360- 5, 18 uses~ 2385 and 2387. Fan·akhan Visits South Africa-- Aida Parker 17 Swifty, Giap, and Uncle Ho --Dorothy Paine 17 Statement of Policy fhc phllo:-.ophy of The Resister io.; qraightfon\ard. ARTICLES Indtvtdual right~. <;tnct con..,titutionali.sm, limited govemment, isolationism. lais.sez-faire capitalism, and republicanism; in short, the principles upon which this nation was founded. The Evil of State Education -- L.S. Spooner 19 We oppose: statism, socialism, collectivism, racism. Democracy is no Excuse -- D. van Oort 23 altruism, intemationalism, tribalism, unlmited democracy, Globalism and Sovereignty-- Thomas E. Woods Jr. 24 put! politics. and the .. ~ew World Order;·· in ~h011, the ideologies of all tyrannic~. Background on Centers for Disease Control's Our philosophical framework is Objectivism* (the Anti-Self-Defense Campaign-- Dr. Edgar Suter 27 rational morality of self interest- Life). Our political philm.ophy is grounded in the works of the Framers of the Constitution (government a.s .servant, not master- Liberty). Resistance Our economic philosophy is Jaissez-faire capitalism (the Penetrating the Opposition ... -- Michael Bateman 29 origin of true rights- Property). The Partisan We do not advocate the overthrow of the U.S. govem ment. We do advocate resistance to government tyranny. We The Principles of Escape (Part Two) -- Matthew Lyon 32 do not advocate the initiation of force in doing so. We do Book Reviews advocate appropriate force-in-kind in retaliation. We advocate Unintended Consequences (Reviewed by John Ross) 35 active resistance against the United Nations. Our goal is the restoration of the Constitutional Republic and to see Books, Newsletters, & Video Tapes Received Received 36 go\ ernment chained to the walls of its constitutional prison. *The editor.. of this publication accept Objectivism as their philo<.,ophical base: hO\\'e' er, v.·e are not spokesmen for $ Objectivism and we alone are responsible for the views e:~.;pressed here. Vol. IL No.4 1 The Resister Open Letter Looters I F YOU bought this issue at a gun to Our Readers or trade show from anybody but an authorized distributor, you are moocher, and the person who sold it to you is a thief. If you have been receiv ing a xerographic copy from a friend ... On Dissent (or, Why The Resister?) or associate on a regular basis because you know you can mooch a copy from M ODERN HISTORIANS are quick to blame the Wehrmacht for sitting him because you "want it," then you are on their hands during the latter years of the Weimar Republic, while an abject example of the something the National Socialists were maneuvering to gain political power in for-nothing mentality that has been Germany. The simple fact these historians ignore is that the Wehrmacht, and driving this nation into the socialist especially the Junkers who held the highest levels of command, epitomized what sewer for the past 135 years. our own chain of command refers to as an apolitical army, an army that has no The Resister doesn't just appear out concern with politics. The logical consequence of the Wehrmacht's political in of thin air because you "want it." difference was the savagery and barbarism of Nazi Germany. Of course, politi Months of work and thousands of dol cal concerns were beneath the apolitical Junker's contempt. They were, after all, lars are invested in each issue. When professional soldiers. Dissenters were reminded of"their place" in such an or a thief, who figures he can profit from derly arrangement. Incidentally, the Wehrmacht swore their oath of service to our work, our efforts, and the risks we whichever gang happened to occupy the Reichstag at any given time. take, makes xerogrpahed copies of The Compare the above to the public pronouncements of senior military leaders Resister, and sells them at his gun today about our own officially apolitical military. Juxtapose their pronouncements show table, he knows that he is steal with the increasing federalization of all law enforcement, military "cooperation" ing from us. with law enforcement, the de facto subordination of the military to the United Furthermore, when you stroll up to Nations, layer upon increasingly irrational layer of subjective "laws," the abro that table, and buy a xerographed pi gation of self-existing individual rights in favor of government grants of so-called rate copy, you are declaring that you "civil rights," this nation's headlong descent into soCialism, the disarming of the approve of his action. This speaks vol citizenry, and the senior chain of command's pragmatic disregard of their oath umes about your mental state, and to support and defend the Constitution (and by default, its philosophical and le nothing about how much value you gal bases). Consider the above. If your skin does not crawl, you are either a prag claim to place on The Resister. In base matist yourself, a promoter of socialism, an opportunist, or a zombie. terms, your "thought" process contends Dissent in the military cannot be discussed rationally without a philosophical that The Resister will suddenly appear framework. The specific framework in question is the Constitution of the United (somehow), it will get financed (some States. The philosophical basis of that document is contained in the writings of how), and it will be distributed (some both the framers, and the works of the philosophers from whom the framers de how). In other words. you want it rived their ideas and beliefs; ideas and beliefs that the framers expressed in the therefore it is. This is crap. Constitution. Thus the soldier's oath to support and defend the Constitution is The same goes for internet postings. not only an oath to support and defend the legal document that defines the con There is only one authorized source for stitutional republic, it is also an oath to support and defend the very philosoph the electronic version of The Resister. ical premises, moral precedents, and objective legal constructs, from which the It is not free; you must subscribe to it original Constitution derived. That the uncompromising editorial position of The (see ad, page 23.) Resister, in support of those values. is considered dissent, should give all sol The Resister, as we have said many diers pause to reflect on what political direction this nation is headed. times, was never intended to be a pub The Resister does not exist to incite mutiny, disobedience to military author lic publication. therefore it originally ity, subversion of good order and discipline, nor sedition of the force. The Re had no copyright notice. When \:ve did sister exists to educate the force about the meaning and intent behind their oath release The Resister publicly, we reg of enlistment, the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and property embodied in istered our masthead as a trademark, the Constitution, and to expose the origins, and underlying meaning, behind the and copyrighted its contents. A limit increasing abrogation of the very Constitution soldiers are sworn to defend. This, ed grant in the first few public issues of course, frightens the shit out of socialists, and the compromisers and pragma permitted subscribers to make a small tists who appease them. number of white copies. but this was An often heard criticism of The Resister is that soldiers should just follow not a grant to sell them. Our current orders and keep their opinions, particularly their political opinions, to themselves. copyright expressly prohibits duplica During his interview with Mr. Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes, Lieutenant General tion without written permission. Scott stated that The Resister "[I]s singularly unhelpful in the ongoing debate ...." When you obtain a bootleg or pi rat The "debate" LTG Scott was referring to is just how deeply the U.S. military ed copy of The Resister, you are dem should be involved in domestic law enforcement and internal security, and to what onstrating exactly the irrational Continued on page 3 Continued on page 31 2 Vol. IL No.4 The Resister Open Letter advocates), and dedicated to reducing ground newspapers' by soldiers off the individual to little more than an post, on their own time, and with indentured servant of the state, The their money and equipment is gen Resister would logically be considered erally protected under the First Continued from page 2 dissent. In a military commanded by Amendment guarantees of freedom extent the military should become an those assisting those improbities, by of speech and freedom of the press. international gang of armed social design or indifference, The Resister Unless such a newspaper contains workers (like the Canadian army), to must be considered a threat to order language that is forbidden under spread "democracy" in Third World and discipline. You see, principled dis Federal law (e.g. 18 United States dunghills at the whim of the United sent is always considered a threat by Code, Section 2387 or the Uniform Nations and their one-world socialist those with no principles. Code ofM ilitary Justice), authors of progenitors, the Council on Foreign But, to declare The Resister a for an 'underground newspaper' Relations. bidden publication, in writing, as a may not be disciplined for "Debate," to the appeasers and com policy statement, would paint the chain mere publication. [Emphasis promisers in the chain of command, of command into a comer they do not added.] simply means to what degree the mil publicly want to be seen occupying. itary will fulfill these roles, not whether Not that don't belong there, they just Funk & Wagnalls New Practical it should happen at all. Appeasement don't want to be seen there. Standard Dictionary (1946) defines and compromise are the hallmarks of How, exactly, would the chain of dissent: "To disagree in opinion; with pragmatists- and commanders in an command, sworn to support and defend hold assent; also, to withhold approv apolitical military. the Constitution, explain the overt sup al and consent. .. " Since The Resister Note for the record that not a sin pression of a publication devoted to is vehemently opposed to any and all gle military officer resigned or ever uncompromising defense of that very vestiges of socialism, and the United spoke out in protest against the U.S. document, and the philosophical prin Nations and everything it stands for, Army's active, and willing, participa ciples upon which it was founded? In The Resister is, without a doubt, dis tion in the Waco massacre. But enlist reality, they don't have to. Having sentious. ed soldiers, who are not permitted to jumped on the latest politically correct But, since The Resister does not resign, are expected to simply shut-up bandwagon, the chain of command advocate the violent overthrow of gov about such things and follow orders. simply declares The Resister a "threat• ernment, or advocate disobedience of No. to good order and discipline." That is orders, or incite mutiny, it is, by regu Note also that not a single officer all it takes. lation at least (for now), protected will go on record opposing military In a way, that is a good thing. That speech. This does not mean the chain "assistance" to law enforcement, the declaration clearly reveals their true of command must suffer The Resister blatant subordination of the U.S. mili beliefs vis a vis the oath they swore. gladly. They are within their authority tary to the United Nations, the obvious Remember, actions are a reflection of to declare it prejudicial to "good order ly communist inspired "world peace" moral and ethical values. and discipline." They just have a long movement, or any other socialist poli We are not, however, naive enough way to go to explain why. cy put forth by our increasingly tyran to think that they could take any other We recently spoke with an eminent nical federal government. "We're course of action. The chain of com retired colonel who expressed the opin professionals," they bleat, "we aren't mand is obligated to implement poli ion that, while he agrees with almost concerned with politics." cies and actions as directed by the everything The Resister advocates, he Well, we at The Resister are. National Command Authority. They could not, in good conscious, advocate The chain of command's reaction to may not like what they are told to do, its continued existence. To those who The Resister is a stark example of the and they may even disagree with it, but have not spent a lifetime in the mili depths of socialist depravity into which you can bet your last dollar that they tary, or commanded soldiers, that state this nation's political and military will expend every effort to see it suc ment may seem to be an impossible "leadership" has fallen. During the cessfully through to completion. contradiction. We assured him we un mandatory briefings on "extremist" In a military under the command of derstood his position. organizations in February, the instruc competent, rational civilian authority The Resister did not begin as a tor for the United States Army Special it could not reasonably be otherwise. In whim. There was a great deal of con Operations Command stated, "Before a military under the command of whim templation and debate regarding its you ask the question, the chain of com worshipping, socialistic, irrational ci potential consequences. The decision mand considers The Resister a threat vilian incompetents, the military sows to publish it was deliberate, with full to good order and discipline. Don't get the seeds of this nation's destruction knowledge of both the risks involved, caught having anything to do with it." when they comply without question or and its probable effect. Indeed. In the eyes of a socialist dissent because they are not "con The Resister stands as exhibit "A" government moving to erase the last cerned" with politics. in its own defense as principled dis vestiges of liberty embodied in the Department of the Army Pamphlet sent. Constitution, eradicate the remaining 190-2, Guidance on Dissent, para The defense rests. pretenses of true capitalism (not the graph 4( d), states: mercantilist tripe referred to as "free J.F.A. Davidson trade" by GATT, NAFTA, and WTO [T]he publication of 'under- Melancton Smith Vol. II, No. 4 3 The Resister No man's life, liberty, or property Editorials is safe while the legislature is in sesszon. Judge Gideon]. Tucker Social Security: The Evil Heart ofA merican themes that polarized antifederalist dissenters and federalist proponents Welfare Socialism was the phrase, "[P]romote the gener al Welfare ... ," in the Constitution's preamble. Antifederalists considered SO CIAL SECURITY is an evil construct that is the foundation of Ameri this part of the preamble to be an un can welfare socialism. Like all forms of welfare, its moral premise is an defined, unchecked clause that would ever increasing advocacy of compulsion and force to gratify the increas ultimately be used to justify increasing ing demands for the unearned, coupled with an ever decreasing pretense to "jus ly centralized, abusive, and tyrannical tify" such compulsion. There is nothing noble about social security, nor is there government. Federalists argued that anything dignifying about living off the income of others. The covert purpose of the preamble in general, and the of social security, from its undisguised socialist beginnings, was always to foster fending phrase in particular, autho and enshrine parasitism-dependency on the state. Parasitism is the only means rized no powers or authority to the by which the political gang warfare of democracy can be perpetuated. federal government that were not del The contention that social security is a government insurance policy to pro egated to it by the states, and the peo vide "retirement with dignity" is a lie. It is a tax on productive activity, because ple, in the body of the Constitution. such activity is productive: exactly the same as any other tax. The mechanism of Remarking on the antifederalists' social security is no different from mugging a stranger on the street, and giving objection to the general welfare clause, the loot to your grandmother-because she "needs" it. Social Security, for all James Madison wrote: practical purposes, is welfare. Social security, like all welfare, is nothing less than the compulsory redistribution of wealth - in other words, blatant theft. But what colour can the objec The issue is that simple-and that obscene. tions have, when a specification of Social security accomplishes exactly nothing that an individual, planning for the objects alluded to by these gen his own future security, could not accomplish on his own by saving a portion of eral terms, immediately follows; .. his income, or investing it, with an eye tQward the future. The spurious notion For what purpose could the enumer that social security is a government insurance policy is disproved by its imple ation of particular powers be insert mentation. Even ignoring that compulsory "savings" are antithetical to very idea ed, if these and all others were of saving, that employers are compelled to provide half these "savings" reveals meant to be included in the preced social security as only one of many systematic looting raids, by government, on ing general power'l [The Federalist productive individuals and business, to advance socialism. XLI] Social security, and welfare, redis tributes wealth to government desig nated classes, special interest groups, self-described "victims," self-appoint ed minorities, politically correct "dis abled" (alcoholics, drug addicts, the fat, the crippled-you name it); not in order to benefit the "general welfare" of the nation, but to benefit the specif ic welfare of favored groups. Every socialist wealth redistribution scheme, ranging from farm subsidies, social security, welfare, food stamps, Aid to Families With Dependent Children, Medicaid, Medicare-in short; every dime looted from the productive and redistributed to the unproductive, the inept, the incompetent, or the "needy," finds no authority under the Constitu tion. During the ratification debates on the Constitution, one of the persistent 4 Vol. IL No.4 The Resister Madison's well intentioned statement is clear: the federalists implied that the it is called an "entitlement" and "retire preamble merely introduced the meaning of those powers delegated to the feder ment with dignity." If non-government al government, by the states, in the body of the Constitution. And, in fact, no insurance agencies tried the same wording in the body of the Constitution specifies or implies any grant of power fraud, they would be indicted under to government to provide welfare, of any kind, to anybody, for any reason. But RICO. well meaning intentions implying limitations on government power do not se But far more odious than the base cure those limitations, as the antifederalists well knew. criminal premise behind social security During the ratification debates in Virginia, the antifederalist Patrick Henry is that the Social Security Act of 1935 observed of federalist implications: established the groundwork to "legal ize" redistribution of wealth; a central They say that every thing that is not given is retained. The reverse of the prop construct of communism. osition is true by implication. They do not carry their implication so far when they Social security and welfare apolo speak of the general welfare. No implication when the sweeping clause comes. gists, those who advocate the impossi Implication is only necessary when the existence of privileges is in dispute. The ble contradiction of "welfare existence of powers is sufficiently established. If we trust our dearest rights to im capitalism," speak about the "right" to plication, we shall be in a very unhappy situation. [Virginia convention, June 7, economic security when the morality of 1788] social security is questioned. Yet, to advance the notion of a "right" to eco The antifederalists, in retrospect, were right. Socialism smuggled itself into nomic security is to admit desiring the the federal government behind an unspecified clause in the preamble- the gen abrogation of the very concept of eral welfare clause. rights. Advancing the notion of a pre Like all philosophies of evil, socialism is camouflaged by altruistic motives, sumed "right" to economic security is and a not too subtle appeal to the irrational something-for-nothing mentality of no different from advancing the notion the mob. Franklin D. Roosevelt, America's first fascist president, a man who not of a "right" to enslave those who pro only tolerated, but actively recruited communists into his administration, made duce, to benefit those who do not. just such an appeal with his "retirement with dignity" speech that inaugurated There is no right to enslave. social security in 1935. The welfare socialist state built by The essential premise underpinning social security is that age and infirmities New Deal and Great Society socialist are moral blank checks on the ability of "others" to earn a living and, therefore, democrats, and consolidated by Fabi a justification to loot the livelihood of the productive and redistribute it to the an socialist republicans, cannot and unproductive. The authority to cash this blank check devolves on government, should not be "reformed." It must be which uses force of "law" to ensure that the check does not bounce. eviscerated, and left to die in the gut Social security is an altruistic Ponzie scam; a socialist extortion racket. It is ter of statism from which it grew. official fraud on a colossal scale. Recipients get checks for more than they paid into the scam. When government runs the con, or collects the extortion money, J.F.A. Davidson "Civil Rights" Abrogate the and Senate, and only ratified by over riding the negative votes of states that 1st Amendment opposed it. In other words, the 14th Amendment was added to the Consti tution through the lowest use of force N OWHERE in the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confed imaginable. It was added by fraud. eration, the Constitution, or the writings of the Framers, can the term It is illustrative to describe exactly "civil rights" be found. There is a simple explanation for this omission. what was originally meant by the tenn Civil rights do not exist. The only rights that exist obtain only to the individual. "civil rights." During debate on the The very tenn "civil" right is an oxymoron, an irreconcilable contradiction in Civil Rights Act of 1866, Senator fact, and usage, of the meaning of rights. The notion of so-called civil rights is Trumbull oflllinois declared that "civil so thoroughly collectivist that only socialists could use the term with any pre rights" were: "[T]he right to make and tense of seriousness. enforce contracts, to sue and be sued, True rights (which mean individual rights), are those which, when exercised, and to give evidence, to inherit, pur do not deny other individuals the exercise of their rights. My exercise of speech, chase, sell, lease, hold and convey real press, association, rei igion, or petition does not infringe on your exercise of those and personal property." Note also the same rights. My right to bear arms does not infringe on your right to bear anns. wording of Section I of the 14th Carried through to the 9th Amendment, no exercise of my individual rights de Amendment when it refers to unde nies you the exercise of yours. fined "privileges and immunities of Not so, regarding civil rights. citizens of the United States." Only a The first mention of civil rights occurred shortly after the Civil War, with the government can grant "privileges and passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1866. The Civil Rights Act itself was made immunities." Only an individual can possible only by the adoption of the 14th Amendment. The 14th Amendment was exercise rights. The very thrust of the only passed by Congress after expelling opposition representatives from the House 14th amendment was collectivism. Vol. II, No. 4 5 The Resister Through a slow and deliberate process of subversion, propagandizing, and the right to discriminate in favor of any insidious deception on the part of communists and their fellow travelers, "civil citizen, tribe, gang, or pressure group. rights," which by definition obtain only in the acquisition, use, and disposal of In other words, government has no le property, have been perverted to mean government grants of "immunities and gitimate right to compel the prevention privileges" that can only be possessed by members of a tribe, gang, or pressure of discrimination by individuals, and group. This means that "civil rights" have not only lost any meaning in their it has no right to practice discrimina original sense and intent, they have assumed exactly the opposite meaning of tion itself. rights. "Civil rights" are now, to be precise, anti-rights. Tribalist-collectivist organizations Consistent with their establishment was the horrifying consequence that vio such as the NAACP, and their numer lating somebody's "civil rights" is a political crime. Once that shameless idea ous (for all practical purposes) Com was accepted, the obscenity referred to as "hate crime" was not long in follow munist allies, represent nothing less ing. Consistent with the tribalist-collectivist notion of "hate crime" is its estab than a frontal assault on individual lishment as political thought crime. "Civil rights" can only be exercised, and rights and property rights. The shrill enforced, at the point of the government's gun-with the finger of every tribe, bombast of the NAACP, and the grov gang, or pressure group on the trigger. One of the most blatant government ob eling and scraping of appeasers in the scenities is the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, Criminal Section. media and government to their every It is exactly for those reasons, and in those contexts, that the very idea of"civil whim and baseless pronouncement, rights," and its necessary adjunct "hate crime," are anathema to the exercise of has effectively eliminated any rational one's I st Amendment rights, and are thus unconstitutional. Although it is care discussion of racial issues. That result fully concealed among the tribalist-collectivist rhetoric and twisted rationaliza has always been the NAACP's intent. tions of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People The NAACP's demand for govern (NAACP), socialists, and other irrrationalists, "civil rights" were from the be ment grants of racial quotas, in every ginning, are now, and always will remain, anti-life, anti-liberty, and anti-prop sphere of human action, is overtly anti erty. They are, by definition, anti-capitalism. capitalism. Their demand to define and The negation of property rights, and freedom of association, has always been focus government force to enforce their the purpose of so-called civil rights legislation. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 racial gangsterism in all realms of hu was the most egregious breach of individual rights and property rights in Amer man interaction, abrogates the very ican history. Although racism (judging individuals by their genes) is a morally foundation of human action- the nat reprehensible, and irrational doctrine, doctrines cannot be forbidden by law. Just ural rights of freedom of association, as a socialist's doctrines are evil, and his right to express them must be protected and the acquisition, use and disposal of (putting them into action is another matter), so must the racist's rights, includ property. ing the right to acquire, use and dispose of private property, be protected. This means that the individual's An individual's beliefs are not, and cannot be, in a free society, a legal con exercise of his 1st Amendment rights sideration. They are a moral consideration and morality cannot be legislated. is subject to the whims of a tribalist Racist beliefs can only be addressed privately. For example; if a man's discrim pressure group that has reserved for ination against another is predicated solely on the basis of skin color, his busi itself the role of political crime judge, ness may be boycotted, or he may be socially ostracized, but the use of force to jury, and executioner. Who gave them compel him to use or dispose of his property in a manner he does not accede to, this power? The answer is, they arro or associate with individuals he would not, of his own free will normally associ gated it to themselves, and the miser ate with, is never morally justified. This principle applies equally to all the rap able appeasers- no, the unprincipled idly expanding special interest tribes, gangs, and pressure groups that demand moral cowards-who make up govern grants of government "privileges and immunities" at the expense of individual ment at all levels, let them assume it liberties. without opposition. Government, in its proper role as defender of individual rights and liberties, does not have the right to discriminate against any citizen. This moral principle Melancton Smith especially applies to the military. Government, in the same vein, does not have The old martial ethic was based on The New Martial Ethic: the principles ofDuty, Honor, Country. This standard held those entrusted with Compromise, Appeasement, Pragmatism the defense of this nation to an abso lute standard of moral conduct. "Duty," in this original sense, was N OT SEVENTY years ago, mandatory political education, and citizen not the collectivist notion ofblind obe ship manuals issued to soldiers, explicitly denounced democracy, and dience that has since reduced duty to relegated that ideology to the same status as communism and anarchy. an anti-concept that relegates the indi Rightfully so. Then how did it come to pass, that United States soldiers, who are vidual to the status of unquestioning gratuitously deployed to peasant back-waters and savage dung-heaps, at the be drone. Duty meant that the personal hest of whim worshipers, are now referred to as "ambassadors of democracy?" If goals and motivations of the individu you possess any personal integrity, and have served in the military, it's not that al undertaking the martial life were for hard to figure out. his own, long-term selfish benefit. 6 Vol. II, No. 4 The Resister Duty meant that soldiers were morally obligated to uphold and defend the Con ness, equal opportunity and consider stitution, and by default, the philosophical principles upon which it was based, ation of others. while at the same time knowingly (albeit temporarily) surrendering their own Fairness is not a value; it can only right freely, and fully, to exercise those rights. This understanding of duty was be consistently reached through com not an altruistic personal sacrifice (a surrender of value), rather, it was a selfish promise. Equal opportunity is not a investment to preserve the future, and value, of one's own liberty. value; it can only be consistently "Honor" meant that the soldier's moral and ethical standards countenanced achieved by appeasement. Consider no deception or guile regarding the performance of his duty. Honor, in this orig ation of others is not a value; it can only inal sense, was the manifestation of self-made, self-generated self-esteem made be consistently practiced by a pragma visible in a soldier's daily conduct with his subordinates, peers, and superiors. tist. Honorable soldiers did not grovel and scrape before the latest pronouncements Captain Kimberley Mondonedo, of pressure groups or special interests, nor to the irrational whims of superiors training officer for the USMA Leader who did. Development Branch, provided the "Country" was not a te1m describing a collectivist entity. Country was the ideal most revealing statement about the true of America as the physical expression of the natural consequence of free men purpose behind the new martial ethic. exercising their natural rights to life, liberty and property. "Most cadets," she gushed, "buy into But that was years ago. Men who held such views, particularly those who had it." no qualms about expressing them, were systematically identified, hunted down, That is exactly the way con artists and "encouraged" to leave the service. Those who resisted were simply forced talk about their marks. out of the military through treachery, deceit, or fraud. The new martial ethic admits to no identifiable principles. The new martial J.F.A. Davidson ethic can best be summarized as Compromise, Appeasement, Pragmatism. Compromise, posit the advocates of the new martial ethic, recognizes no prin ciples and no moral issues. Knowledge, according to the compromisers, is rela tive. Any foggy notion, or muddy claim, or out-of-focus pronouncement, is as "The Children" valid as any other. Compromisers absolve themselves of the responsibility for principled thought and action. They surrender any pretense of truth, any con cept of right, and any ethical standard, to the first liar, fraud, or pervert who Stalking Horses of demands an equal voice to reach a "consensus." • Tyranny Appeasement, as practiced by the advocates of the new martial ethic, is the acknowledgment of, and deference to, the in·ationality and willful evil of others. It is the suspension of moral judgment, a surrender to, and acceptance of, irra tionality. The new martial ethic of appeasement condones obvious falsehoods and FOR OVER 150 years, socialists tolerates intellectual fakery to pacify the irrational, the malicious, the dishonest, have advanced their slave state and the stupid. ideology by appealing to the le The new martial ethic of pragmatism dismisses the idea of absolute princi thargic, the indolent, the envious, the ples and standards. To be precise, the pragmatists contend that principles are false altruistic and the stupid in order to per because they are principles; that principles are too simplistic, and that those who petuate their life-hating social, eco adhere to principles are too extreme, and that their ideas are impractical. The nomic, and political "reforms." hallmark of the pragmatist is the wholesale rejection of absolute standards and Sensing final victory, socialists have the uncritical acceptance of prevailing "standards." finally played their trump card- "The Although the new martial ethic has been spreading throughout the military Children." Just who are these "Chil for decades, it is now firmly enough established for it to be openly proclaimed dren," and why should anybody care with little or no opposition. We refer you to the "improved" honor code at the about them? United States Military Academy. Child advocates are not refering to A code of honor is, by definition, an absolute. One adheres to an honor code, your children when they invoke "The or one does not. Since its inception, the honor code stated simply: "I will not lie, Children." They are referring to an cheat, or steal, or tolerate those who do." It was an absolute. It brooked no com undefined mob of unassailable, unim promise. It acknowledged no appeasement. As a principle, it was the antithesis peachable icons. They are referring to of pragmatism. It was the affirmation of moral conduct. It was a standard. an unspecified and unquestioned shib No longer. boleth that whitewashes their tyranni According to Lieutenant General Howard Graves, Superintendent, United cal schemes. "The Children" are States Military Academy, cadets cannot be expected to live up to an absolute moral nothing but a bromide, a catch phrase standard because they have not been required to before admission at West Point. to recast socialist agendas into issues "The idea that there is an absolute [standard]," remarked LTG Graves to an Army affecting children in order to smear Times editor last falL "is [a new concept] for some of them." So rather than make opponents as "mean spirited." Chil cadets live up to an absolute standard, LTG Graves pragmatically changed it. dren Defense Fund founder Marian Acknowledging that absolute standards of conduct are no longer expected, LTG Edelman even admits this. "I got the Graves defines the new honor code as, "[L]et's ... say we are men and women idea," she said in 1973, "that children who revere honesty and fairness and respect for others." might be a very effective way to broad Cadets receive 62 hours of instruction on the honor code. They are now re en the base of change." quired to take an additional 50 hours of study in such "bedrock values," as fair- The simple fact is that "The Chi!- Vol. II, No. 4 7 The Resister dren" do not exist, apart from being an amorphous pack of stalking horses used is nothing - unless you count de to advance socialism by any current advocate of tyranny who invokes their unas mands for more handouts and advoca sailable status. "The Children" have no voice, apart from adult socialists who cy for more socialism. Eighteen speak as self-appointed advocates for them. "The Children" have no standing, year-olds should confine their political apart from the anti-family constructs of those who define their standing to suit opinions to the pages of coloring their immediate purposes. "The Children," are icons of altruism who exist sole books, not deposit them in ballot box ly as tools to advance the socialist programs of tyrants and aspiring dictators. es. Every piece of legislation purported to be based on the "needs" and "rights" Whenever you hear a politician pro of children is nothing less than a blatant exercise in force and fraud. We are told pose legislation that benefits "The that "The Children" have a "right" to an education, to food, to housing, to a decent Children," or a bureaucrat advocate a standard of living, to name very few. But the only way these so-called rights can regulation to protect "The Children," be obtained is by extorting somebody else to pay for them- in other words, by or an internationalist whine about the naked force, at the point of the government's cocked gun. Inevitably, there is an suffering of "The Children" in some army of government social workers skulking nearby to make sure the govern dung-heap, it is time to clean and re ment's threat of force is never too far removed. load your weapons. In foreign policy, emotional masturbation is appealed to by tear-jerk journal Behind "The Children" lurk dicta ism. Hysterical film footage and infantile stories in print appeal for collective tors stalking your liberties. sacrifice, billions of dollars in handouts, and the deployment of our military all to save "The Children." Wretched children starving in Somalia; pathetic chil Melancton Smith dren suffering in Bosnia; filthy children living in a swamp in Bangladesh; dis eased children crawling with flies in Zaire, and hopeless children prostituted in Asia. The litany of emotional jerk-offs concerning "The Children" is endless and completely irrelevant. Real children are potentials, not actualities. Real children are, by definition, CHANGE OF ADDRESS incompetent. Real children have no rights, because they are dependent upon their parents for support. It is precisely the subversion of these facts that is the goal of If you change your place of legislation smuggled in behind demands for selfless concern, in the name of"The Children." residence, or mailing address, Observe the use of "The Children" as shills by government to advance pro kindly remember to inform us. grams and legislation that, if defined honestly, and posited without recourse to Indicate your old address and some alleged greater good, would find proponents of such legislation twisting in your new address, and send the breeze for the thieves they are. Note that demands to expend national wealth this information to Boxholder, in some Third World dung-heap are ultimately couched as appeals to ease the suffering of a mob of starving, diseased, fly.-blown little irrelevancies. 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Gow AND SILVER CoiN 1(800) 289-2646 A TENDER IN PAYMENT OF DEBTS" -U.S. Constitution, Article 1. Section 10 : : Call Frank Marzullo, Ext 2104 8 Vol. II, No. 4 - ----- The Resister Correspondence ... the republic ofl etters. Thomas Jefferson A GOVERNMENT that does not Second, we have federal prosecutors inism?" (Vol. II, No.3, Winter 1996.] obey its own Constitution, but mocking the constitutional prohibition I guess not. You probably think requires its citizens to obey the against double jeopardy by indicting women are too busy nagging their hus government, is a government not of individuals (who were acquitted of bands to death or out fighting a sexu principle, but of hypocrisy. As an in criminal wrongdoing in a jury trial), al-harassment suit. stitution of hypocrisy it can invoke no under some nebulous political crime Why the stereo-type [sp]? Are we principles to justify its actions, and no called "violation of civil rights." A [sic] feeling a little insecure about our one is bound by law or by honor to be PCP addict whines, "Can't we all get own gender? Huh? Could it be that? lieve it sincere if it tries. along?" - and federal prosecutors Well, I suggest that you take your A government that does not obey its appeal to add to the sentences of the sexist, primitive, fascist, disillusioned, own Constitution, admits that it has political prisoners. bigoted, hypocritical "Warfare Jour abandoned the stability of reason for Where is the cowardice? It's the nal" and a nice big shovel, and really the chaos of whim, forsaken the equal result of federal law enforcement fail go "underground." About 6 feet. No, ity of justice for the inequities of pow ure to take action against that poster wait, better make that 12 feet. Afterall er, and usurped the very rule of law for child of irrationality, Louis Farrakhan. [sp], you gotta [sp] have room for that a lawless gangsterism of men. following his whirlwind visits with Big Fat Head of yours. Also, you al A government that does not obey its Muslim crackpots and dictators. I ways complain about the government, own Constitution can pass no laws that would also mention his failure to reg when it's assholes [sp] like you that have any legal merit. It willfully and ister as a foreign agent of Libya, a na [sic] are running it. lawfully subjects itself to the breaking tion of goat herders, run by a loony-bin Now, go fuck yourselves, and leave of those laws by a citizenry that would that fancies itself a government. politics to someone who knows what not be engaged in criminal activity If you or I had visited a single coun they're talking about. under a legal government, but whose try on the State Department's forbid Unsigned moral acts make them de facto crimi den list, we would have been Jenkintown, PA nals under a criminal government. shaken-down upon reentering the U.S. A government which does not obey and our passports would have been re After due consideration of the its own Constitution, yet requires an voked. Last time I checked, Louie's [above] exhibit consisting ofs uch log oath from its armed forces to defend passport was not only "in order," he icrzl, rational, literate and polite argu that Constitution, is a government was working on his tan in Hawaii. ments, entered into evidence by the which has morally and legally un The fact that sophists out there con channing lady - I rest my case. leashed its own armed forces against sider my views "extremist" says rath Melancton Smith itself. er more about their politics than my Your resistance is justice. May it views. T HE AUTHOR of the article, prevail. An Extremist "Gun Laundering," in the last "V" Infantry Hall, FBGA issue, states that gun confisca America tion can only take place after complete I THINK that if the BATF really registration. He then states that loop D 0 YOU want to know the wants to improve its image it ought holes still exist, so there is still time. worse thing about being a sup to stop raiding white gun dealers To the unknowing, this suggests that porter of a so-called "extrem for paperwork violations, and start there is ample time [to obtain "clean" ist Organization?" It's being given a going after all the stolen firearms in the guns] because no registration exists. I label in an obvious attempt to demon hands of the Crips and the Bloods. disagree. ize whatever point of view I wish to Figure the odds. In 1993 our Com The feds have been forward-tracing take. For example; I think that we have munist-in-Chief declared gang leaders imported firearms for several years. I just seen more proof of the cowardice the "urban leaders" of tomorrow. live in Allegheny county in Pennsylva of the federal law enforcement ma Sharon nia. The Justice Department has giv chine. "E" Ring, Pentagon en a grant to Pittsburgh Gun Task First, we have the Marshals, ATF, Force and Carnegie Mellon Universi and the FBI expend around ten million TO THE EDITOR (or Associate ty to develop a database of gun owners dollars to surround a homestead in Ida Editor.) Did it ever occur to you in the county. They use concealed car ho, and murder innocents, because two that you may have had [sic] ry permits, hunting licenses and hand $200 dollar tax stamps hadn't been women readers when you (Melancton gun registration for the database. paid for. And they are later presented Smith) wrote "Admiral Macke: Sac This computer system will be able awards for this. rificial Animal in the Abattoir ofFe m- to spit out, at the press of a few keys, Vol. II, No. 4 9