Should the US Allow China to Purchase UNOCAL?

Any way you slice it, China is an enemy to the United States. They are currently beefing up their military readiness in preparation to go to war with the United States! This did not just begin. The Chicoms have been working toward this end for decades now. They KNOW there will be a war and they intend to win it!

Look, they already have missiles targeted on our west coast cities. They are in competition, with us, for space in orbit, around the earth, for their military satellites. They are actively planning on a “moon base” from which to launch missiles at any spot on earth.

Back here on earth, they have control of both ends of the Panama Canal, which former President Jimmy Carter made accessible when he gave the Canal to Panama. (Panama NEVER owned that Canal! We took it from Columbia!)

China’s military is a monster. The last time we openly fought them it was a draw. That was, of course, in Korea in the early ‘50’s. There has never been a peace treaty signed officially ending that war. All we have, on paper, is a “Cease Fire”.

Now, we are going to allow our enemy to control a part of our oil supply… and refining? Say what? Surely we can’t even be considering this!

But we are!

The Chicoms are representing themselves as a “Company” not the government. Yeah… right! Remember, China is a communist, socialist, country. They do not allow private enterprise. Except… as a front for their government.

You know, before the Second World War we sold scrap iron to Japan, which they threw back at us as bombs, and planes, and tanks, and bayonets, and sundry other weapons. Oh, we also cut off their oil supply! To this day, the “Blame America First” crowd claims that was the reason Japan attacked the US in the first place. We had it coming for cutting off Japan’s oil supply!

So, here we go again. We are about to make a stupid, no, a MAJOR, stupid mistake.

Sometimes I wonder why Providence allows this country to continue to exist!

Back in “THE DAY” the Soviet Union boasted that America was so dumb we would provide them the rope they’d use to hang us. But, along came a great American, named Ronald Reagan, and tossed that prediction out on it’s ear and saved this country… yet again.

The thing is… we can’t count on there always being an American President with the cajones to stand up to our enemies, of which, China is one of the worst.

It’s time for the US government to intervene and stop this sale of Unocal to China. Anything else is just plain stupid!

“Longstreet”

US Flag Amendment

The Flag Amendment has passed the US House AGAIN and will now go to the Senate where it faces it’s best chance for passage… ever. If the Senate should pass it, it will go to the states for ratification. It will require 39 states to ratify it. Predictions are that it will be the fastest ratification of an amendment to the US Constitution in history. All 50 states have passed resolutions supporting the Flag Amendment. In other words, if, and that is a big if, it gets through the Senate, it is a done deal.

The complaint against it, most often heard, is that burning a US Flag, in protest, is "protected free speech". Yeah, right!

The proposed amendment reads thusly: "The Congress shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States." That’s it! Once it is passed... then, the Congress will have to rule on the wording of a new statutory law to protect the flag. The US Supreme Court, in 1990, made this clear. First comes the amendment and then the statute.

Time and time again polls have shown that nearly 80% of Americans approve of, and support, this amendment. They want their flag protected! A few on the left, and a few misguided individuals on the right, are standing in the way.

The vote in the US Senate is expected to be so close this year, that there is a chance the amendment could pass, or fail, by one vote. This is the shortcoming of a representative democracy… when the representatives refuse to represent their constituents. But that is why we have elections. It will be remembered how the Senators vote on this bill.

For a hundred years, until the Supreme Court threw it out, the law protected the flag. No longer. As of 1990, the Supreme Court ruling changed that. Now we must change it back.


Contact your Senators and demand that they vote in support of the US Flag Amendment. Do so right away.

How often has Old Glory protected us? Now, she is in need of our protection. Let’s do the right thing!

“Longstreet”

The Supremes Have Done it Again!

So you thought if you worked hard, bought a piece of land and built your dream house on it, and settled in to raise a family and then enjoy the Golden Years of retirement all in YOUR House… On YOUR Land…. you were entitled to do that, and you were protected by the law. You actually BELIEVED THAT? HA!

Look, citizens of this country own NOTHING. Everything belongs to the government. If you don’t believe this… try withholding your taxes for a few years and see how fast your home, your car, your payroll checks, your pension checks, and yes, your Social Security checks, will be taken by the Government.

Now, the Supreme Court of the United States says: sure, a city can take the land you own, the home you built, paid for, and are living in…. and it’s legal. Now, A jury will decide how much you are paid for the property the municipality is taking. Before this ruling it was “Fair Market Value”. No longer. Now a Jury can decide how much you will be offered.

Take a look at the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution:

FIFTH AMENDMENT [U.S. Constitution] - 'No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb, nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.'

The ruling was a 5 to 4 decision. It set the entire bank of Liberal justices, who voted for the ruling, against the Conservative justices, who voted against the ruling. The Conservative justices are: Rehnquist, Thomas, Scalia, and O’Connor.

Many of us have been decrying, for some time now, the powers the Supreme Court has assumed. Powers it does not constitutionally have. The run away decisions, made recently, seem to indicate they are on some sort of “Power Trip”.

We have been saying for sometime now that Congress needs to rein in the Court. Congress has the power under the Article three of the US Constitution. They should use it.

Some reforms are desperately needed at the Supreme Court. For starters… no lifetime appointments. Allow each Justice to serve no more than 12 years. Then have each decision of the Court reviewed by the US Congress.

In the meantime, concerned citizens of the US should push the Democrats in the Senate to approve the President’s conservative choices for the court.

The Supreme Court of the US is in “Run Away” mode. It is time to bring some common sense and reason back to the Court.

The expectation is that very shortly, possibly within days, at least one Justice, possibly two, will announce their retirement from the Court. President Bush will send up to the Senate names of Conservative nominees. The Democrats will fight those Conservative nominees with their last breath. The Republicans, in the US Senate, must be prepared to use whatever legal means necessary to see that the Presidents choices for the bench of the Supreme Court are approved and control of the Court returned to the people of this country.

Your Obedient Servant,

“Longstreet”

Fellow Republicans: Below is the list of Senate Republicans who sold the Republican Party out with their “agreement” with the Democrats on the filibuster of Conservative Judicial Nominees.Republicans: Lincoln Chafee (Rhode Island) 08, Susan Collins (Maine) 08, Mike DeWine (Ohio) 06, Lindsey Graham (South Carolina) 08, John McCain (Arizona) 08, John Warner (Virginia) 08, Olympia Snowe (Maine) o6.The next election is next year. You know how to vote. Your choice is “clear cut”.

Bolton, Durbin, and the Sedition Act

Bolton, Durbin, and the Sedition Act.

The Republicans, in the US Senate, fell 6 votes short of winning a cloture vote Monday night (June 20th, 2005) and bringing the President’s nominee for ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, to a vote of the full Senate.

It’s time to stop playing “footsie” with the Senate Democrats.

We urge President Bush to make a “recess appointment” of Mr. Bolton, to the ambassadorship, during the Senate’s upcoming July 4th recess. He can legally do this. Mr. Bolton then WOULD BE the UN Ambassador until January 2007 … WITHOUT Senate approval. By that time we will have had another election and more Republicans elected to the Senate and we can run his name back through the Senate for approval at that time.

And another thing: Censure Senator Durbin. Do so ASAP! An apology is no longer acceptable. Nothing Senator Durbin can say can undo the damage he has done. If he should, by some quirk of nature, feel a twinge of regret, he should resign from the Senate immediately. There is no place in the US Senate for anyone who equates American service men, and women, with the Nazis. No place at all.

And finally, bring back the “Sedition Act”. It was repealed in 1921 because nobody in the US thought it would ever be necessary again. However, the loyalty of Americans to their country is not what it was in those early, innocent, days. Entirely too much harm is being done by loose cannons, in our government, and in our Mainstream Media, to allow it to go unchecked. The Sedition Act would put a serious crimp in the activities of those who wish America less than good fortune.

It is time to start playing “hardball” with the enemies of America.

“Longstreet”
Fellow Republicans: Below is the list of Senate Republicans who sold the Republican Party out with their “agreement” with the Democrats on the filibuster of Conservative Judicial Nominees.Republicans: Lincoln Chafee (Rhode Island) 08, Susan Collins (Maine) 08, Mike DeWine (Ohio) 06, Lindsey Graham (South Carolina) 08, John McCain (Arizona) 08, John Warner (Virginia) 08, Olympia Snowe (Maine) o6.The next election is next year. You know how to vote. Your choice is “clear cut”.

Re-enact The Sedition Act

Re-enact The Sedition Act

With all the moaning and complaining about the war,coming from the Left side of the political spectrum, and a few lonely voices on the Right, and considering the damage all this is doing the war effort and , too, considering that all this anti-war, anti-Bush, rhetoric is, at some level, giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the US…isn’t it about time we re-enacted The Sedition Act?

I understand that many today have never heard of The Sedition Act, but the US found it useful during the First World War. (It was repealed in 1921.)

Now, when one backs away, a bit, so as to get a look at the broader picture of the attempts by the MSN, and the politicos on the Left side of the political spectrum, in this country, and then read the old Sedition Act, one begins to see the damage so many of us fear is being done to the US by those continually nipping at the ankles of the US Military as it tries to do it’s job.

I have managed to get a copy of the wording of the Sedition act and here it is. You will find it interesting reading and it might help you understand why some of us are so worried about the loud mouth complainers and moaners and whiners of the US today. Read it. And think seriously about what it says and think about those today who would be easily convicted under the terms of this Act:

Text of the Sedition Act:

SECTION 3. Whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully make or convey false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the military or naval forces of the United States, or to promote the success of its enemies, or shall willfully make or convey false reports, or false statements, ...or incite insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States, or shall willfully obstruct ...the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States, or ...shall willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States, or the Constitution of the United States, or the military or naval forces of the United States ...or shall willfully display the flag of any foreign enemy, or shall willfully ...urge, incite, or advocate any curtailment of production ...or advocate, teach, defend, or suggest the doing of any of the acts or things in this section enumerated and whoever shall by word or act support or favor the cause of any country with which the United States is at war or by word or act oppose the cause of the United States therein, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than 20 years, or both....

United States, Statutes at Large, Washington, D.C., 1918, Vol. XL, p. 553 and following.

The above is just a portion of the amendment to Section 3 of the Espionage Act of June 15th, 1917. The Act was repealed in 1921.

As I listened to the diatribes from the floor of the US Senate Chamber last week, I began to wonder if it wasn’t, indeed, time to drag out the “Sedition Act” and dust it off and re-enact it as The Sedition Act of 2005.

Something to think about as we listen, and read, the scurrilous attacks on our military, and this country, while they/we are at war.

Your Obedient Servant,

“Longstreet”
Fellow Republicans: Below is the list of Senate Republicans who sold the Republican Party out with their “agreement” with the Democrats on the filibuster of Conservative Judicial Nominees.Republicans: Lincoln Chafee (Rhode Island) 08, Susan Collins (Maine) 08, Mike DeWine (Ohio) 06, Lindsey Graham (South Carolina) 08, John McCain (Arizona) 08, John Warner (Virginia) 08, Olympia Snowe (Maine) o6.The next election is next year. You know how to vote. Your choice is “clear cut”.

Cutting US Dues to the UN !

Cutting US Dues to the UN

Well, finally, the US House passed a bill, a few days ago, aimed at beginning the clean up of the UN. Or else. Or else... we will cut our funding in half. The US supports the UN to the tune of somewhere between 22% and 26% of their operating budget, annually, depending on who you ask.

The UN has become rotten to the core. Even with all the evidence of corruption, there are many in the US Congress who support the UN just as it is. Many of them are in the US Senate. That is where this bill will run into trouble.

Heck, the Senate can’t even allow themselves to vote on the President’s choice for Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton. Does anyone really think they’re going to pass this bill? No way!

The “One World Government” crowd is well entrenched in the Senate. They’re not about to let go of their dream for the US, and it’s constitution, to come under, and become secondary to, the rule of the UN. Ridiculous you say? Not so, say I. Who do you think is sitting on the Bolton nomination?

This bill is long overdue. But, frankly, I do not believe it has any chance of clearing the Senate... and if it does, the President will veto it. So, it is, for all intents and purposes, dead right now.

Our suggestion continues to be that the United States pull out, completely, from the UN. I don’t like my country associated with such a corrupt organization. It’s embarrassing. We also suggest the UN move it’s headquarters to, oh, say, Paris. Heck, the French deserve to have that bunch of incorrigible reprobates on their soil for a few decades. The UN would feel right at home... and I doubt the French would even notice their presence.

There comes a time in the course of every failing project to cut your losses and get out. That time has long since come, and gone, for the US to get out of the UN.

The bill from the US House is woefully inadequate, anyway. It puts off the "dues cutting" until way down the road... some three years from now. Why not cut the dues now, and get their attention? But, as I said, this is a moot point, as the bill will not survive the Senate.

At the risk of beating a dead horse, I still urge the US to get out of the UN and get the UN out of the US.


Your Obedient Servant,

“Longstreet”
Fellow Republicans: Below is the list of Senate Republicans who sold the Republican Party out with their “agreement” with the Democrats on the filibuster of Conservative Judicial Nominees.Republicans: Lincoln Chafee (Rhode Island) 08, Susan Collins (Maine) 08, Mike DeWine (Ohio) 06, Lindsey Graham (South Carolina) 08, John McCain (Arizona) 08, John Warner (Virginia) 08, Olympia Snowe (Maine) o6.The next election is next year. You know how to vote. Your choice is “clear cut”.

Freedom Fries, the Congressman, and Fleeing the Battlefield!

Freedom Fries, the Congressman, and Fleeing the Battlefield.

For the life of me, I cannot understand what has happened to Congressman Walter Jones of North Carolina. Where in the world did he get the idea that to win a war you tell the enemy when you’re going to quit?

Congressman Jones is WAY out of touch with his constituents, here in North Carolina, most of whom are flabbergasted at his comments. The good Congressman may get to retire in ’06. Then the people of his Congressional District will get to send someone to DC to represent THEM.

Look, folks, you can take any “good ole boy” from North Carolina, and ask him, and he will tell you that you quit the game… when the game is over! You do not cut and run. That is not the way of the Southerner. It is a slap in the face to even suggest surrender, or anything approaching it. But, the good Congressman seems to have fallen into the trap laid by his liberal friends. I’d certainly like to think that is what happened. I sure don’t want to believe that Congressman Jones has come to this conclusion on his own. If he did, I would expect the constituents in his district will be calling for his resignation very soon now.

To state the obvious, (well, maybe it’s not so obvious, at least to Congressman Jones!) If you tell your adversary when you intend to leave the battlefield, he will simply lie low, conserve his manpower and material, and wait until you leave. Then he will begin, anew, his effort to take the battlefield for his own, and since you will not be there, he will succeed. It is just that simple. Any commander of troops knows this. It is elementary. Combat 101.

Congressman Jones has made a serious error. We call upon the Congressman to reconsider his conclusion on announcing a date for withdrawing US troops from Iraq, … or consider tendering his resignation.

In the meantime, the North Carolina Republican Party should be looking for a replacement for the Congressman in ’06. Already the North Carolina Democrats are rubbing their hands in glee, preparing to offer a Conservative Democrat (Oh yes, there are such animals! We have one here in my Congressional District of NC.) for Mr. Jones’ position. And frankly, right now, the Democrat has every chance of winning.

Your Obedient Servant,

“Longstreet”
Fellow Republicans: Below is the list of Senate Republicans who sold the Republican Party out with their “agreement” with the Democrats on the filibuster of Conservative Judicial Nominees.Republicans: Lincoln Chafee (Rhode Island) 08, Susan Collins (Maine) 08, Mike DeWine (Ohio) 06, Lindsey Graham (South Carolina) 08, John McCain (Arizona) 08, John Warner (Virginia) 08, Olympia Snowe (Maine) o6.The next election is next year. You know how to vote. Your choice is “clear cut”.