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by Gordon Francis Corbett
A Commentary Some say that Hillary Clinton has persuaded many that the troubles plaguing her good husband Bill result from attacks by a "right-wing conspiracy." The truth is that few believe her lies, because many fail to consider them. Today's economy is troubled. When people hear, "A right-wing conspiracy is attacking my husband," they read it, "Troublemakers indirectly threaten your jobs." As nobody wants "immediate outplacement," they respond, "Why, those dirty so-and-so's. How dare they attack 'Our President'." When headlines blare officials' misconduct, most disregard them unless the possible ousters could cost them economically. That is due partly to our Liberal teachers, whose malpractice ensures that few know the Constitution. Current history indicates that the Liberals want to do to us what they have done to the Constitution. They have put it behind a pane of thick glass, with its back to a wall, and surrounded by a frame. They are beginning to lose the propaganda war, because technology has handed us a powerful weapon: the Internet. Thirty years ago we had few "weapons," and they were puny. Only during this decade have satellite dishes and the Internet let people investigate independently. As Ted Koppel cautions, no editorial staff checks Internet data. People must learn to judge them; and that will work for us. At first, they will say that conflicting allegations merely reflect differing philosophies. Later, as they see that ours prove right and our our competitors' prove wrong, the scales of trust will tip. Moreover, today's "weapons" reach much further than our old ones did. Take two defunct Conservative publications. "American Opinion's" and "The Review of the News's" subscriptions numbered about fifty-five thousand, and that was during a good month. Today, computer users can "visit" the John Birch Society web-site and Libertarian web-sites at will. When, in addition, they "visit" magazines like "Soldier of Fortune" and reporters like Christopher Ruddy, they learn still more. Once Joe Citizen has read a number of our analyses, and has found them to be right, he will begin to trust our philosophy. That trust will strengthen when he sees our philosophy substantiated in the Constitution or in the Federalist Papers. Seeking help against the drive to call a Constitutional Convention, a delegation of John Birchers visited a Floridian state legislator. He invited them into his office and read their pamphlets. Then he checked them with law-books from his own shelves. He got up, walked to his office door, and closed it. Turning to face them, he said, "You people are the only ones who have told me the truth about this." Few will come around so readily as that legislator-lawyer did, but more people will wake up. The question is, what will they do? Some will shut up. Some will wait to see how the battle goes. A few will join us. The eventual result is anyone's guess. There is a good reason for this. In a way, the Constitutionalist educational effort has long been seditionist. The Founding Fathers' philosophy has been out of power for at least seven decades; and, as Constitutionalists want to remove the order that replaced it, their foreswearing the initiation of force cannot remove that label. True, the Liberals are the real seditionists. They overthrew the Founding Fathers' schema by ignoring it, and they kept their power by proclaiming that the Founders' philosophy fostered the Depression. Since then, propaganda and precedent have lent them prestige. But here is our hardest problem. Reduced to lowest terms, the moguls who dominate our economy and run our government are gangsters, and everyone knows that gangsters rarely surrender peaceably. G. Edward Griffin reports in "The Creature from Jekyll Island" that while trying to defeat Andrew Jackson's effort to destroy the second Bank of the United States, its desperate defenders caused a mini-Depression. They did that in a fairly sound economy. Today's economy is not sound. When we pull the "Insiders" down from their lofty perches, they will make our people pay. We will gain far more than we lose, but Joe Citizen does not understand that. He only senses that deposing the "Insiders" will raise unholy Hell, and he rightly fears its flames. Somehow, we must persuade him that the prize is worth the price.
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