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August 8, 2000
Patriots battle to retain USA's character
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Will the United States remain a republic?
Or is it her destiny — and that of all nations —to submit to the rule of world government? This is the issue of the millennium.
Across the Atlantic, ancient states are yielding control of their frontiers, money and defense to a socialist superstate. They soon will cease to be nations and become provinces of "Euroland." Thus, our new Reform Party sets as its first goal derailing the new world order.
The outcome may seem pre-ordained. Clinton Democrats are on the other side of the struggle, while Bush Republicans are unaware there is a struggle. The U.S. establishment has gone over entirely.
But hope lies with our new Reform Party, which is bustling with eager recruits on the eve of our convention. If there is an issue on which all of our disparate factions are united, it is the preservation of American sovereignty.
The heartland is with us, for true patriotism is at war with globalism. No people want to lose their country, nor will men give love and allegiance to an entity larger than the nation.
No one will die for the European Union or the United Nations. Our natural allies are the patriots of all nations, who are desperate to preserve their unique national identities.
Given power, we first would restore "the Great Rule" of U.S. foreign policy, dissolving all of the entangling alliances erected to fight a Soviet empire that has been stone-cold dead for 10 years.
In 1961, Eisenhower urged us to bring the troops home from Europe and let Europeans defend their own continent. Now, bring them home from Asia as well, where they are no longer needed.
Not isolationists
We do not wish to isolate the United States from the world. We only wish to isolate it from wars that are not America's wars. Since 1989, we have invaded Panama, Haiti and Somalia and smashed Iraq and Serbia.
For what?
Somalia and Haiti are in shambles. Our Panama Canal now is run by agents of Beijing. We are bogged down in the Balkans. And we must defend the kings, sheiks and emirs of the Gulf from Iran and Iraq, even as they collude with Iran and Iraq to rob us by tripling the price of oil.
With 40 nations defaulting on debts, the U.N.'s stumbling bloodily in Africa, International Monetary Fund blunders and rising hostility to the World Trade Organization, the time is ripe to ring down the curtain on world government.
A child of Europe
Now to the issues about which people talk constantly, but from which politicians recoil: immigration and race. We come from all countries and continents, in all colors and creeds. But we are an English-speaking people, a child of Europe, a part of the West.
Without apology, our party would resist the use of mass immigration to alter the character of our country, and we would abolish all racial preferences and quotas. They are as unjust when used against white Americans as they were when used against African-Americans.
To give the great American melting pot time to work its magic again, we would reduce immigration to more traditional levels — 300,000 a year — and use the U.S. military, if necessary, to defend our borders. Arizona, after all, means more to us than Bosnia.
If the ideal of "one nation, one people" is to be realized, we must address the danger of Balkanization that faces us and every great nation from China to Canada and Britain to Brazil.
There is another time bomb ticking: a trade deficit closing in on 5% of gross domestic product. To defuse that, we would enact a revenue tariff of 10%, generating $1 trillion in 10 years.
Add that to the $2 trillion in projected surpluses, and we have the money to repeal all death and capital-gains taxes and give America the lowest tax rates of any industrial democracy.
Finally, we would corral a renegade Supreme Court and roll back its social revolution, restoring a constitutional republic in this land. The power is there in the Constitution, if only Congress and the president have the courage to pick it up.
Republicans may be conscientious objectors in the culture wars, but we are not stacking arms. By restoring our republic and making this God's country again, we take as our sacred texts the Constitution and the Old and New Testaments. God's law should be the inspiration and source of man's law.
If this be extremism, make the most of it.
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Patrick J. Buchanan is a presidential candidate for the Reform Party, which begins its convention Thursday in Long Beach, Calif.
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© Copyright 2000 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc.
August 8, 2000
Patriots battle to retain USA's character
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Will the United States remain a republic?
Or is it her destiny — and that of all nations —to submit to the rule of world government? This is the issue of the millennium.
Across the Atlantic, ancient states are yielding control of their frontiers, money and defense to a socialist superstate. They soon will cease to be nations and become provinces of "Euroland." Thus, our new Reform Party sets as its first goal derailing the new world order.
The outcome may seem pre-ordained. Clinton Democrats are on the other side of the struggle, while Bush Republicans are unaware there is a struggle. The U.S. establishment has gone over entirely.
But hope lies with our new Reform Party, which is bustling with eager recruits on the eve of our convention. If there is an issue on which all of our disparate factions are united, it is the preservation of American sovereignty.
The heartland is with us, for true patriotism is at war with globalism. No people want to lose their country, nor will men give love and allegiance to an entity larger than the nation.
No one will die for the European Union or the United Nations. Our natural allies are the patriots of all nations, who are desperate to preserve their unique national identities.
Given power, we first would restore "the Great Rule" of U.S. foreign policy, dissolving all of the entangling alliances erected to fight a Soviet empire that has been stone-cold dead for 10 years.
In 1961, Eisenhower urged us to bring the troops home from Europe and let Europeans defend their own continent. Now, bring them home from Asia as well, where they are no longer needed.
Not isolationists
We do not wish to isolate the United States from the world. We only wish to isolate it from wars that are not America's wars. Since 1989, we have invaded Panama, Haiti and Somalia and smashed Iraq and Serbia.
For what?
Somalia and Haiti are in shambles. Our Panama Canal now is run by agents of Beijing. We are bogged down in the Balkans. And we must defend the kings, sheiks and emirs of the Gulf from Iran and Iraq, even as they collude with Iran and Iraq to rob us by tripling the price of oil.
With 40 nations defaulting on debts, the U.N.'s stumbling bloodily in Africa, International Monetary Fund blunders and rising hostility to the World Trade Organization, the time is ripe to ring down the curtain on world government.
A child of Europe
Now to the issues about which people talk constantly, but from which politicians recoil: immigration and race. We come from all countries and continents, in all colors and creeds. But we are an English-speaking people, a child of Europe, a part of the West.
Without apology, our party would resist the use of mass immigration to alter the character of our country, and we would abolish all racial preferences and quotas. They are as unjust when used against white Americans as they were when used against African-Americans.
To give the great American melting pot time to work its magic again, we would reduce immigration to more traditional levels — 300,000 a year — and use the U.S. military, if necessary, to defend our borders. Arizona, after all, means more to us than Bosnia.
If the ideal of "one nation, one people" is to be realized, we must address the danger of Balkanization that faces us and every great nation from China to Canada and Britain to Brazil.
There is another time bomb ticking: a trade deficit closing in on 5% of gross domestic product. To defuse that, we would enact a revenue tariff of 10%, generating $1 trillion in 10 years.
Add that to the $2 trillion in projected surpluses, and we have the money to repeal all death and capital-gains taxes and give America the lowest tax rates of any industrial democracy.
Finally, we would corral a renegade Supreme Court and roll back its social revolution, restoring a constitutional republic in this land. The power is there in the Constitution, if only Congress and the president have the courage to pick it up.
Republicans may be conscientious objectors in the culture wars, but we are not stacking arms. By restoring our republic and making this God's country again, we take as our sacred texts the Constitution and the Old and New Testaments. God's law should be the inspiration and source of man's law.
If this be extremism, make the most of it.
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Patrick J. Buchanan is a presidential candidate for the Reform Party, which begins its convention Thursday in Long Beach, Calif.
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© Copyright 2000 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc.