All the information that has come to light regarding the deliberations, inappropriate and shocking revelations, of the secret Health Care Task Force of President Bill and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton thanks to the lawsuit, AAPS v.

Recent Macon Telegraph articles and Letters to the Editor continue to discuss "separation of church and state," but frankly, many of them miss the mark. Our Founding Fathers, even Thomas Jefferson, meant something completely different in the "establishment of religion" clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution than what liberal pundits are leading us to believe.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;
or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,
and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances”
— First Amendment in the Bill of Rights

The State by Franz Oppenheimer (1864-1943) was recommended to me years ago by friends as a Libertarian classic of political science. However, having just finished this tome, I now suspect that some of them did not actually read the book, but instead only read passages from it.

The Founding Fathers of this great nation designed a Republican form of government. By this, they meant a government under the rule of law and not the capricious rule of man, under a written constitution whose main function is to clearly demarcate the limits of authority of the federal government.

The "Right" versus "Left" convenient but capricious political arrangement came from the seating position of delegates to the National Assembly during the French Revolution, but it is at times a confusing concept and too often subject to media and academic bias and even misinformation. I have found it easier to have a political spectrum based on degrees of government control.

From 1876 onward, after the North recovered its fortunes and the South was unburdened by the end of Reconstruction, the nation was ruled by laissez-faire capitalism, and freedom flourished for most (not all) of the nations' citizens. The rapid pace of the Industrial Revolution brought about an exemplary standard of living but also new problems for the rapidly developing nation, and socialistic or progressive "reforms" appeared in this country for the first time.

There was a time until the early 1960s when the terms to describe those of African decent, like me — African-American or Black or Afro-American — were almost unheard of.

I remember a distinct conversation with a friend discussing descriptive terms for ourselves in 1963 or ’64. The term “black” was just coming into vogue and he didn’t like it one bit. “Call me a Negro,” he said, “but don’t call me black.”

Dear Editor,

Deja Vu in Medical Care

Linear No Threshold Hypothesis
 
U.S. Senator Pete Domenici has asked the General Accounting Office (GAO) to update a 1994 study on radiation protection in the United States, pointing out that the agency should examine the validity of standards on which current policies are based.

This is a great book. It shows how American medicine is being socialized to the detriment of patients.

This political booklet subtitled "How Republicans Can Fight to Win," despite its optimistic tone, carries a disturbing message - namely, that because we live "in a democracy," for conservatives to win they will have to, in my words, "demagogue" themselves to victory. Politics is war and politics is about winning.

This outstanding book by a black American journalist for The Washington Post recounts the emotional and spiritual awakening of the author upon his fateful visit to his ancestral home, Africa. He vividly recounts his adventurers and journalistic travails on the Dark Continent, and finds he belongs happily and unregretfully in America. He thanks Providence for the fact his ancestors were brought to America, even as slaves, so that he could be born a free man in America. One of the most poignant scenes in the book sums it up.

Dear Editor,

The federal government is currently pressuring states with secondary seat belt law enforcement (SE) to change to primary enforcement (PE). With SE, a police officer cannot stop a motorist for non-seat belt use unless there is another traffic violation. With PE, the officer can stop motorists just for not using a seat belt.

The government claims with PE, there is a higher rate of seat belt use than in secondary states, which supposedly, translates into a greater reduction in highway fatalities.

With the recent report of the “Medicalization of Schools,”(1) it is increasingly important that all physicians act as Medical Sentinels in their own area so as to report and to prevent the insidious spread of this medical mischief.

No one can reliably predict our economic or political future, because actual events will depend on what millions of different people decide to do.

And yet some political events seem almost certain to occur — or not occur — in 1998...

It has taken more than thirty years since the political introduction of Medicare to verify the truth inherent in the 1962 medical profession’s predictions that if passed:

This bill would put the government smack into your hospitals! Defining services — setting standards — establishing committees — calling for reports — deciding who gets in and who gets out — what they get and what they don’t — even getting into the teaching of medicine — and all the time imposing a federally administered financial budget on our houses of mercy and healing.

No Escape

Dear Dr. Faria,

Thank you for your editorial entitled “To the Tune of Washington’s Pied Pipers,” published in the Fall 1996 edition of the Medical Sentinel. As the head of a non--profit conservative legal foundation that has been extensively involved in the protection of parent and student rights for the past several years, I am more than well aware of the attacks on our freedoms in this country in that regard.

Dear Dr. Faria,

I have just enjoyed your editorial “To the Tune of Washington’s Pied Pipers,” Volume 1, Number 3 of the Medical Sentinel, and I must say it is a real pleasure to hear from you in this new forum. In my view you are truly an outstanding person, in the way you fearlessly call a spade a spade in the liberal medical world in which we find ourselves...

Dear Editor,

Congratulations to Don Printz for his presentation to the Seniors Coalition, as published in the Medical Sentinel’s Fall 1996 issue, page 6.

The one paragraph summary of the veterinary ethic as practiced in England is a good overview, but the underlying subtleties are more gruesome than can be described in a single paragraph.

One of the hallmarks of a dictatorship is that its laws are deliberately vague. A dictator wants vague laws in order to make obedience difficult so that he may call you guilty whenever he likes.
Journalist Alan Stang

Show me the man, and I will find his crime.
Old communist imperative and motto of the former Soviet KGB
Both quoted in Vandals at the Gates of Medicine (pp.201 & 243)

Dear Dr. Guanzon,

For years, the conventional wisdom in politics has been, "A third party vote is a wasted vote." Although this occasionally may have been true, it more often than not was merely the agreed-upon pitch of the two major political parties to keep the voters in the fold, locked into a pattern of monotonous mediocrity, which kept the incumbents safe from any real challenge. This year's two major party contenders are working overtime to "keep with tradition." Senator Bob Dole, the least that the Republicans can offer, is at best a droll disappointment.

In A.D. 1212, a Children's Crusade was formed allegedly
to rescue the Holy Sepulcher. Instead, the children were
lured and sold into slavery by unscrupulous and cruel
traders. Thousands of innocent children died of hunger
and disease and from their brutal ordeal. It is said that
the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, who led
the children by the tune of his pipe,
derives from this dreadful affair.

The middle of the road leads to socialism.
Ludwig von Mises
Planning For Freedom, 1962

From Ancient Rome to Karl Marx

...Its leaders were supposed to save the country but now they won't pay her no mind.
...Because the people got fat and grew lazy, now their vote is like a meaningless joke.
You know they talk about law, about order, but it's all just an echo of what they've been told. 'Cause there is a monster on the loose. It's got our heads into the noose,
and it just sits there watching...

As every schoolboy or girl once knew (and now few learn it ever)
In fourteen hundred ninety two
the world was changed forever.
Within few scores of years since truth of the New World was granted
Migration westward hopeful came from Europe's disenchanted.

Dear Congressman,

Dear Editor,
Reference is made to "Census" in Medical Sentinel, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 36-37 that debunks the current politically correct population explosion myth and mania used to promote Hillary Clinton's proposal to estimate the 2000 census.

Arthur B. Robinson, PhD in his Access to Energy for December 1998 (Volume 26, Number 4) supports with concrete data my contention.