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By: Chris Adamo | Published on 01/11/07    

Despite the complete disdain that conservative America holds towards former Assistant Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, it is hardly likely that she actually intended to help Bin Laden’s terrorists to successfully perpetrate the September 11 attacks. Rather, her goal was to stifle the ability of the justice system to hold her boss, Bill Clinton, accountable for the corruption being conducted from his office. Bin Laden merely benefited from her enablement of Clinton’s exploits.

Unfortunately, her lack of sinister intent, at least as it might pertain to
the terrorists, was irrelevant to the ultimate harm she caused her country.
More unfortunate still is the fact that in the aftermath of the attacks,
those who, along with Gorelick had left the nation vulnerable, remained
focused on their own interests and thus continue to act in a manner that
poses a grave danger to the country.

The ongoing saga of former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, and the
selective myopia of the “9-11 Commission” stand as grim reminders of such.

As horrendous as are these examples, a greater tragedy is that they are in
no way isolated, but rather are representative of the current morally
bankrupt mindset that completely dominates Washington. America, at this
crucial juncture, survives not because of its day-to-day conduct, but rather
as a result of the momentum that remains from past actions. Yet as everyone
should know, momentum eventually dissipates. And America’s is waning fast.

Washington is overwhelmingly, (almost universally) populated with
self-serving individuals and special interests who seek their own
advancement, enrichment, and empowerment with little or no consideration for
the dire unintended consequences that might befall the rest of the nation.
Yet they remain largely indifferent to the harm they continue to cause,
presuming that the nation will somehow recover, as it has done in the past.

Few among them really believe their own efforts will be the “straw that
breaks the camel’s back,” or that they will succeed in trashing the
Constitution, abolishing constitutionally based freedom, or eradicating
American sovereignty to hostile and unscrupulous entities, thus dooming
their own prospects for the future.

Rather, they suppose that since the system has survived similar incursions
thus far, and managed to mend itself in the aftermath, it will surely
continue to do so in perpetuity.

It was in angry response to such thinking that conservative America rashly
chose to send Republicans packing last November, thus empowering a far worse
version of this mindset in the form of Democrat congressional majorities.
Sadly, the remaining Republicans either failed to get the message, or are
determined to remain ignorant of it.

But no nation can deny the principles on which it was built and through
which it has flourished, and abandon its defenses (both internal and
external) without forfeiting the very lifeblood that sustains it. A day of
reckoning is coming for America. The pending immigration reform/amnesty bill
represents nothing less.

Americans at the grassroots almost instinctively know that if passed,
amnesty will likely push the nation past a “tipping point” from which it
will never recover. Already, the ability of honorable law-enforcement
officials to protect their fellow citizens is being critically compromised.
Who can expect the safety and well-being of average citizens to remain
unthreatened in such a climate?

On a daily basis, reports of dangerous deteriorations in the quality of the
nation’s food supplies render it ever closer to resembling something one
might expect from third-world countries. And the callous indifference to the
nation’s governing institutions to such concerns of the citizenry on this
issue is itself reflective of something from a “Banana Republic.”

“We the People” are becoming an underclass, shoved around and trampled at
the whims of the “elected aristocracy” that seeks only to advance its own
interests. “Rights” are systematically being granted to a class of people
who are within our borders illegally, simply because they hold the promise
of blossoming into a robust voting bloc once they extort the title of
“citizenship” from the government. And when such “rights” are arbitrarily
bestowed where they do not belong, they are concurrently eroded among those
who are properly entitled to them.

The American culture that stood as a moral and philosophical “fortress”
against such threats from within and without, is no longer being passed on
to the ensuing generation. Hence, that generation has no understanding of
the concept that it should require those things from its leaders.

Such quaint concepts as heritage and allegiance are secondary to the
interests of those inside the Beltway, and are increasingly subordinated to
the pragmatism of the moment. Yet the politicians who engage in such
seditious behavior at the behest of the special interests who increasingly
control them, are content to let someone else pick up the pieces down the
road.

Word is out that the immigration “reform” bill is a done deal. Democrats,
along with the President, are enthusiastic about its passage. Republicans,
shell-shocked in the aftermath of last November’s elections, are moving to
fully embrace and institutionalize the very manner of compromise and
capitulation that initially aroused anger and antipathy among their
conservative voting base.

Discussion of the “need” for a third party, the predictable public reaction
to such callous indifference from the Washington elites, most often
discounts the fact that third parties rarely succeed. While third party
organizations may be birthed on fervent platforms of noble ideology and
principle, they invariably lack a sufficient understanding of the process or
the resources needed to garner effectiveness on a national scale.

Yet with Washington Democrats so committed to a course that sacrifices
America’s very future, and with their Republican counterparts equally
committed to concession and submission, it is perhaps time to start
considering the establishment of a “second” party.

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