Dear Fellow Christians,
Please Wake Up!
By Chuck Baldwin
May 4,
2007
I suppose there was a time in American politics when there
was a significant
difference between conservatives and liberals,
between Republicans and
Democrats, and between Christians and
unbelievers. However, with only
limited exceptions, that time has
largely gone. When it comes to the salient
issues that are currently
waging war against America's future survival, it
is extremely
difficult to distinguish those differences.
If one removes the
issues of abortion and gay rights from the debate, there
is precious
little that distinguishes the modern Christian conservative from
his
liberal counterpart.
Federal spending sure doesn't apply.
President George W. Bush and his fellow
"conservative" Republicans
have the dubious distinction of outspending
practically every
administration and Congress during the entire 20th
century. Only the
Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson administrations
compare to the
insatiable spending habits of the current administration.
Then
there is the illegal alien invasion currently taking place in America.
What was virtually nonexistent twenty years ago and only a minor
nuisance
before Bush was elected President has now become a
full-fledged assault that
threatens our country's very survival. And
remember, the Republican Party
controlled the entire federal
government during the six years that the bulk
of this invasion was
taking place. And, except for a few conservative
congressmen (mostly
in the House of Representatives), not only did they do
nothing to
stop it, they sat back and watched as President Bush actively
encouraged and facilitated it, something he is doing to this very
day.
Then there is the obsequious manner in which our national
Christian leaders
treat "big-name" Republican presidential
contenders. This is especially
disconcerting when one considers that
many of these contenders are people
with very dubious track records:
either bitterly betraying conservative
principles or, in some cases,
openly subscribing to positions that are
downright antithetical to
those principles.
For example, conservatism does not have a worse
Judas turncoat than Newt
Gingrich. His track record as Speaker of
the House is more than dismal. Just
talk to any of the members of
the House freshman class of 1995. Ask Joe
Scarborough. Ask Steve
Largent. Ask Bob Barr. Ask them if Newt Gingrich is a
conservative.
They would, no doubt, remind you that it was
Newt Gingrich who used the
power of the Speaker's office to rush
GATT and the WTO through a lame-duck
session of Congress before the
more conservative '95 freshman class arrived
on Capitol Hill,
because he knew they would derail passage of these two
draconian
pieces of legislation.
I'm sure they would also remind you that
one of the first things Gingrich
did after being elected to Congress
in 1978 was support the creation of the
Department of Education, and
Most Favored Nation trade status for Red China.
They would also
remind you that Newt Gingrich voted for taxpayer dollars to
be used
to facilitate trade with the communist Chinese.
Furthermore, does
anyone need to be reminded that Newt Gingrich is a member
of the
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), which is nothing more than a
cabal of elitists dedicated to the promotion of global
government?
Gingrich proved himself to be such a Judas that he
had to resign or face
ouster by the very conservatives he professed
to lead. And if one wants
further testimony regarding Gingrich's
infidelity, ask his first two wives.
Yet, Newt Gingrich is being
lauded and cheered as a "true American
statesman," to quote one
national Christian leader. That leader also said,
"Mr. Gingrich is
certainly one of the brightest men I know in public life
today, and
he is becoming one of our great ambassadors for reawakening the
spirit of our Founders."
Then there is Rudy Giuliani. The
same Christian leader who lavished praise
upon Newt Gingrich
recently wrote this about Rudy Giuliani: "I personally
have great
respect for Mr. Giuliani in terms of his leadership in law and
order
and national defense issues. In these areas, I believe he would be a
potentially great president."
This seems to suggest that if
Giuliani could just convince us that he is now
genuinely "pro-life"
and "pro-family," we Christian conservatives should
support him. But
is that really all there is that qualifies a candidate for
President? Would Giuliani truly be a "potentially great president"
when it
comes to "law and order" issues?
Are we supposed to
forget that Rudy Giuliani has been one of the most
outspoken
proponents of gun control in the entire country? Does it not
matter
that for years Giuliani used the power of his office to disarm honest
American citizens and trample the Second Amendment?
For
example, Gun Owners of America has this to say about Rudy Giuliani's
track record on gun control: "[T]he record shows that the Mayor
continually
tried to export his gun control agenda to the rest of
the nation.
"In 1993, before even being sworn in as mayor,
Giuliani met with
then-President Clinton at the White House to
discuss national gun
registration. Giuliani supported the Brady
bill, which had recently passed,
but argued that it didn't go far
enough.
"The President, largely crediting Giuliani for the idea,
enthusiastically
sent Attorney General Janet Reno off to develop a
gun licensing and
registration system . . . .
"In May of
1994, as the battle over the ban on certain semi-automatic
firearms
reached its height, Giuliani threw his support behind the ban. On
the eve of the final vote, he noted that so-called assault weapons
'have no
legitimate purpose.'
"When the ban passed, Giuliani
commented that, 'This is an important step
towards curtailing the
indiscriminate proliferation of guns across the
nation.'"
Is
this the kind of "law and order" that Christian conservatives expect
from
their elected leaders today? If so, they should throw away the
Bill of
Rights and embrace the Communist Manifesto, because the
latter more closely
mirrors Giuliani's brand of law and
order.
Dear fellow Christians, please wake up! Gun control is not
a secondary
issue. Runaway, out-of-control federal spending is not a
secondary issue.
The invasion of America by millions of illegal
aliens is not a secondary
issue. The creation of a North American
Community, which integrates the
governments of Mexico, Canada, and
the United States, is not a secondary
issue. The NAFTA superhighway
currently being constructed is not a secondary
issue. The abuse of
our Bill of Rights under the Patriot Act is not a
secondary issue.
The blatant disregard for constitutional government by our
elected
leaders is not a secondary issue.
There is more to a candidate's
qualification for public office than his or
her opposition to
abortion and gay marriage. Are we really so shallow and
undiscerning
that we cannot see what our political and corporate leaders are
doing to our country? Do we not recognize evil when we see it? Do we
really
think that we can ignore these issues and not pay the
consequences?
We are in desperate need of leaders who will
distinguish themselves as
standing foursquare on the fundamental
principles upon which America was
founded. We need leaders who will
respect the U.S. Constitution and who will
aggressively stop the
invasion taking place across our southern border. We
need leaders
who will rein in federal spending and reduce the size and scope
of
the federal government. We need leaders who will refuse to allow the
United States to be integrated into a North American Community of
any kind.
And most of all, we need Christian conservatives to
wake up to what is going
on in this country, and to stop trying to
grovel before the neocons in the
Republican Party, and to start
acting like real conservatives again.
