February 1, 2001
As critical
as I am of George W. Bush, he is the legitimately elected and inaugurated 43rd
president of the United States of America. Those, including his predecessor,
who contend that he “stole” the election are engaging in the sort of
revisionism and wishful thinking that characterize disciples of the New Age
movement. It was Vice President Al Gore and his collection of attorneys and
paid stooges who tried to steal the election in Florida during the 36 days
between November 7 and December 12. Indeed, at least one recount of the votes
in Dade County, that conducted by the Miami Herald, indicated that Bush
picked up six votes, putting the lie to all of the nonsense about votes having
been stolen. We elect the president in the United States through the Electoral
College, and George W. Bush won the Electoral College vote quite legitimately.
However, as I noted last month in
“Bill Clinton Will Be
Everywhere,” the 42nd president is not going away. As shameless as
ever, he left office only hours after entering into a plea arrangement with
Independent Counsel Robert Ray. On January 21, Ray noted in a news
conference that one of the reasons he accepted a plea arrangement with Clinton
was that Bush had indeed let him, Ray, know that it was his intention to pardon
Clinton if Ray’s office secured a grand-jury indictment of
America’s perjurer-in-chief. A jury might not have convicted Clinton if
the case had gone to trial, but it would have been quite a reaffirmation of
“equal justice under the law” even to put the master manipulator
and liar in the dock.
Once again, Clinton skates on the edge of
the law. Can there any doubt but that the man is Satanically protected? Who
else could enter into a plea arrangement to admit that he knowingly gave false
and misleading information when he was deposed by attorneys representing
Paula Jones on January 17, 1998, and at the same time act as though he were a
conquering hero. Who could remain popular in the eyes of nearly two-thirds of
the American populace while doing so? Who else could admit to having
subverted the system of justice — long after Judge Susan Weber Wright, in her
contempt-of-court citation against him, ruled that he had done so — and then
turn around and issue 140 pardons to a variety of fellow criminals, murderers,
thieves, liars, scoundrels, and miscreants? The man is shameless to his very
core, walking into a delicatessen in Chappaqua, New York, the day after he left
office simply to be patted on the back and receive the adulation of mindless
people who consider his law-breaking — and his contempt for the law and the
courts — admirable.
Among those granted pardon or
clemency by Clinton as the minutes ticked away on his corrupt presidency were
Susan McDougal; his half-brother Roger Clinton; Susan Rosenberg, a member
of the radical Weather Underground (an offshoot of SDS, a Communist-front
organization), who was linked to the robbery of a Brinks armored vehicle and
the murder of two New York state troopers; and one Marc Rich, who fled the
United States owing $48 million in taxes and whose ex-wife Denise is a major
fund-raiser for the Democratic Party. Interesting, however, that the man who
kept his mouth shut about the extent of the Clinton scandals, former Deputy
Attorney General Webster Hubbell, was left out of the pardoning process.
Wonder whether Webb is going be writing himself a book about his former
golfing buddy Bill and his former law partner Hillary?
There is no need to recite the long list of
crimes committed by the former president and covered up by his ever-compliant
attorney general (who has returned to Florida, where, conveniently, her pal
Donna Shalala is the new head of the University of Miami). Each of us knows
only too well about Whitewater, Travelgate, Filegate, Vince Fostergate,
Wacogate, Buddhist Temple Fundraising-gate, White House political fund-
raisers and coffees and sleepovers-gate, the sellout of American national
security to the Chinese Communists-gate, Lewinskygate, the bombing of Iraq
and the Sudan and Afghanistan to divert attention from Lewinskygate, the
defiance of a federal judge’s order to disclose the members of Hillary
Rodham Clinton’s secret health-care advisory committee-gate, the
disappearance of computer hard drives containing this nation’s nuclear
secrets-gate, and on and on and on.
Those criminal activities do not include
the uninterrupted succession of outright lies Clinton and his minions told about
governmental policy and the goals of their hapless opponents, the Republicans.
He lied all the time about every single bit of policy. Weren’t our troops in
Bosnia supposed to be home by Christmas 1996? As for those Republicans, Bill
Clinton could not have conjured up a more hapless and inept opposition if he
had asked Barbara Eden to fold her arms and blink up a group of political
adversaries who would always make him look good: “Jeannie, I want a
group of people who will roll over when I say boo, people who will confirm
whomever I send up to them to confirm, people who will let me use the
American military as my personal plaything whenever I want to use them as
such, people who will look the other way as I sell out American sovereignty and
claim state lands for federal use, people who will strain to outdo me in my
desire to sustain programs opposed to the plain language of the Constitution
and violative of the natural-law principle of subsidiarity, yes, people who will
be afraid of my very name.” A screenwriter could not have conjured up
people better able to fit that request than former Senate majority leader Bob
Dole, current Senate majority leader Trent Lott, former House Speaker Newt
Gingrich, et al.
Clinton blamed Republicans for forcing
him into dealing with the issue of sodomites in the military when the truth of the
matter was that he had raised the issue the day after his election in 1992. During
the government-shutdown crisis in 1995–96, he said Republicans wanted to cut
the budget and starve the elderly. In making that charge, he deliberately
characterized a proposed cut in the rate of projected government spending as
a cut in actual spending — an abject lie. He demagogued on the issues of health
care and Social Security, took credit for the “balanced budget” and
“welfare reform,” and kept lying and lying and lying about the
“rarity” of partial-birth abortions.
Above and beyond everything else, Bill
Clinton was the abortion president. From the moment he entered office to the
time he left, Clinton did the Devil’s bidding concerning the promotion of
contraception, abortion, sodomy, sex instruction, and every other manner of
evil and perversion extant in our culture today. And he did it shamelessly in both
domestic and foreign policy. He appointed pro-aborts to every level of the
federal judiciary (with Republican “pro-life” senators, just going
along to get along, confirming almost every single one of Clinton’s pro-
abortion nominees). He used slogans (“safe, legal, rare”) designed
to obscure the reality of what happens every time a child is systematically
dismembered or poisoned in his mother’s womb, which is why President
George W. Bush’s expressed intention to see abortions become
“safe and less numerous” is so very troubling. (That was an
extemporaneous remark right from the horse’s mouth, not a statement
issued in Bush’s name that he did not write.) Clinton made war upon the
Holy See’s efforts to combat the evils being promoted by the United
States in the United Nations and related agencies, and he showed nothing but
contempt for Catholics who took their Faith seriously and wanted to safeguard
the family from his own vicious attacks and those emanating from the United
Nations. He appointed several notorious anti-life, anti-Catholic bigots, such as
James Hormel, to government positions.
As I noted three years ago during the
impeachment proceedings, Clinton should have been impeached by the House
and removed from office by the Senate solely because he supported the
execution of innocent children in their mothers’ womb under cover of
law. No one who supports a single abortion is fit to serve in any capacity in
government, much less in the presidency of the United States of America.
The Devil had his way with Bill Clinton.
In my piece “From Luther to Clinton to Gore” — in the December
issue of my newsletter Christ or Chaos — I made the point that
Clinton is just the logical result of a set of forces that have been at work in the
world from the days of the Renaissance and the Protestant Revolt and the rise
of Freemasonry. Indeed, he is a poster boy for what was wrought when Luther
posted his theses on the church door in Wittenberg in 1517. As horrible as Bill
Clinton is — and as Satanically protected as he is — Clinton was never the
problem, ladies and gentlemen. Hillary Clinton is not the problem. Al Gore is
not the problem. Those people are only symptomatic of the much greater
sickness plaguing our nation and the world: a mindset that accepts secularism
and religious indifferentism as culturally normative and beyond human change.
Clinton is gone from office, although he will be everywhere. But his legacy is
much more subtle than his overt actions of lying and obstructing justice, and
granting pardons and clemency to those undeserving of them. No,
Clinton’s real legacy illustrates the Devil’s cleverness of raising
up people who are so bad that anyone else looks better in the eyes of
well-meaning people. That is why so many people are rushing to repose religious
faith in George W. Bush. After eight years of the stench and the corruption of
Bill Clinton, good, well-meaning people mistake geniality for a commitment to
fundamental justice founded in Truth. However, as I demonstrated last month
in my column “Get a Grip on
Reality,” Bush’s intellectual shallowness is such that he can
have a statement read in his name that seems to indicate his opposition to all
abortions even though he has said repeatedly that he supports abortion in
certain cases. Glad to be rid of Clinton, though, a lot of good people
don’t even want to see the inconsistency; they don’t want to apply
the reasoning that the light of cold logic brings to bear on statements. (The
principle of non-contradiction states that two mutually contradictory
statements cannot both be true.) They want to believe that they have a hero now
after eight years of looking at the Devil in the face. What they fail to realize is
that that very attitude is one of the ways the Devil triumphs in our popular
culture.
We must be about the business of praying
and working for the Social Reign of Christ the King, not losing our minds to
believe that anyone other than Clinton is our friend and will be committed to
the pursuit of fundamental justice founded in Truth. Many of Bush’s
appointees could have felt very much at home in a Gore administration; indeed,
Colin Powell said last summer that he would have considered serving in such an
administration. The only antidote to the poisons that have been spreading
through the world in the past 700 years is Catholicism. Never lose sight of that
fact, ladies and gentlemen. We place our trust in our Lord through His true
Church, not politicians and their empty promises.
Our Lady, Seat of Wisdom, give us the wisdom to see the world clearly through
the eyes of the true Faith.
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