THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume VI, Issue # 97, May 14, 2004
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
THE BIGGER WAR -- THE CULTURE WAR:
THE WAR TO PRESERVE TRADITIONAL AMERICAN CULTURE:
MORAL CERTITUDE VERSUS POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY
By Christopher G. Adamo
FULL STORY:
For the sake of its own integrity, and in an effort to ensure the future safety and security of the nation, the panel has officially
and resolutely purged itself of one of its most questionable members. The action described here is not in reference to the Commission
investigating of the 9-11 terrorist attacks upon the U.S.A., but to the Alabama Supreme Court, and its final decision last week
to reject any appeal for reinstatement by Roy Moore, its former Chief Justice.
Moore is, of course, the judge who refused a federal court order to remove a
monument to the Ten Commandments that he installed in the rotunda of the
Alabama Supreme Court. He further inflamed the situation by flatly rejecting
the notion that his monument should somehow be rendered benign by the
inclusion of other “historical” writings (much as courthouse Nativity
displays throughout the nation are deemed constitutional only when
accompanied by tributes to Rudolph and Frosty).
Elsewhere, former Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, the 9-11
Commission’s most questionable member remains firmly and immovably in place .
The silence on this matter from the rest of the Commission likewise calls
into question the integrity of every member. The credibility of the Warren
Commission could not have been more thoroughly compromised, had Jack Ruby
been instated as a member. Gorelick is the smokiest gun thus far uncovered
during the Commission hearings, having authored the memo for which much of
America’s lack of preparedness in the face of mounting terrorist threats
throughout the 1990’s can be blamed.
Further evidence that she not only implemented the bureaucratic obstruction
which hamstrung FBI and CIA operatives from sharing information of upcoming
attacks, but also that she bolstered that obstruction with ensuing memos, is
treated as an insignificant detail by the Commission. But of what purpose is
the Commission, if not to pinpoint the flaws in American security and thus
correct them in order to prevent any recurrence of the attacks? Somehow, the
most obvious evidence of disgraceful government bungling, in service to some
other cause (such as the likely cloaking of Bill Clinton’s underhanded
dealings with China) is dismissed by the Commission as irrelevant to its
work.
Worse than the brazenness with which Gorelick and her cohorts on the
9-11 Commission display their contempt for its ostensible purpose, the total
absence of a deafening and universal outcry from the public indicates a far
greater problem. Americans, throughout the political spectrum, are able to
readily subjugate any moral outrage to the pragmatism of partisan politics,
chiefly because, in this present age, morality in the American culture has
all but ceased to exist. Judge Moore’s fate stands as inarguable proof.
Other striking examples of the creeping moral vacuum are evident elsewhere.
In the City of Hamtramck, Michigan, Mosques have just been given the blessing
of the City Council to begin publicly broadcasting Islamic “calls to prayer”
over loudspeakers. To date, not a single ACLU lawyer is on record demanding,
on constitutional grounds, that each of the five daily pronouncements be
accompanied by references to Ali Baba or Aladdin. For Christians in the
community, who may take issue with the inescapable noise, not to mention the
religious effrontery it represents, the operative word from the City Council
is “tolerance.” In contrast, when complaints are launched against symbols of
Christianity throughout the nation, “tolerance” is immediately abandoned and
supplanted by the interests of those who “take offense.”
It is crucial to understand here that the events occurring in Hamtramk do
not represent some new and radical change on the part of Muslims, who are
merely doing what their religion has commanded them to do for well over a
thousand years. Rather, the situation has resulted from a major lapse in an
American culture that would formerly have been in place to protect its
people from any such incursion.
Military “might” cannot, by itself, preserve the heritage and culture of a
people. Americans, having abandoned their spiritual roots during the past
four decades, are susceptible to cultural invasion, not on the basis of the invader's
strength, but of their own spiritual weakness, which itself results from the
rampant moral ambiguity being foisted on them in the media, and throughout
every level of the public education system.
Saddam Hussein and the Taliban are gone. America’s skyscrapers and airways
appear to have been rendered fairly safe during the past three years. But, on
another, more significant front, and with no guarantee of American victory,
the real war rages on.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Morality, Decency, & Traditional American Family Values
Religion, Secularism, & America
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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