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	3/1/2005

Max Boot - Henchman for Global Governance

I had seen the glowing review of Thomas Wood's bestselling book on politcally incorrect history in the New American (print version only, sorry.) I was not surprised then to learn via Ed Cone that Max Boot saw it necessary to excoriate both the book and its author.

This is not a red-state / blue state thing. This is a debate between facts and propaganda. Max Boot gets stompped himself here by one of my old favorites. Don't get upset, just tell me what points of fact given by Mr. Raimondo you would like to challenge with hard evidence other than Raimondo testy aside on Pearl Harbor foreknowledge.

For myownself, I would like to make a point on the importance of full disclosure. Yes, Mr. Woods was involved with the founding of the League of the South so he should have to answer at least to some extent on that point made by Boot. Mr. Boot though should come clean himself. He is working as a senior fellow at The Council of Foreign Relations. I can assure you The CFR is not a proponent of limited constitutional government. This puts them in direct oppostion to such types as The League of the South. If Mr. Boot wants to question people on the organizations people choose to associate themselves with, let's let him answer for his own organization the CFR.

One of the key founding members of the CFR was Edward Mandell House. Mr. House, the super Carl Rove of the Wilson adminstration despised the Constitution. As retailed in the New American, House laid out his political philosophy in his 1911 novel Philip Dru - Adminstrator.

"House described the novel as an expression of "my ethical and political faith"; thus it is of some moment that the book's hero seeks to establish "Socialism as dreamed of by Karl Marx," embellished with "a spiritual leavening." Among the most cherished reforms envisioned in Philip Dru is the creation of a "League of Nations" (the term specifically used by House in his novel) and the submergence of the United States into a world government."

When the US Senate wisely rejected the League of Nations as a clearly unconstitutional transfer of power to a supra-governmental authority, Mr. House and his friends did not just retire to lick their wounds. They went out and created the Council of Foreign Relations. These are the historical facts on Mr. House. Would Mr. Boot like to argue that the original principles and objectives of the organization he works for no longer apply: that they have no bearing on his continued employment by the organization?

OK, I will disclose too: My employer goes out of its way to villify the CFR as a major vehicle promoting world government at the expense of US sovereignty and our personal freedom.

11:22:51 PM

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Constitutional Oversight

Too busy, so I had to grit my teeth and be patient on an appropriate rebuttle to local Constitutional expert Ed Cone's article in the N&R two Sundays ago.

The article done by a highly educated journalist and published in a reasonalbly sized paper of record goes a long way to demonstrating just how far we have come from properly understanding our system of governement.

I will leave for another time a discussion of the other word besides "Christian" which is glaringly lacking from any of our nation's founding documents.

The point I would like to challenge all on is to read the first 10 amendments to the Constitution -- which later became known as the Bill of Rights -- and then tell me which rights you see being ennumerated in this official document. Hint: NONE. The preamble to the first 10 amendments may help your understanding on this. Most copies of the Constitution -- even those put out for the moment by the Birch Society I am sad to say -- leave this enlightening wording out. "Declaratory" sounds suspcious, but "Restrictive" is the operative word.

Imagining that there are any rights being handed out by government to the citizenry in some grand list is probably why a more studied scholar on the Constitution like Thomas Woods would dis Mr. Cone for making this mistake while trying to inform the public what the Constitution really says.

10:49:06 PM

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