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- RPSTOVAL REVIEW
- Vol. II No. 1 January-February 1992 $1.50
- *****************************************************************
- The following is the statement to congress from Henry Gonzales;
- Texas Republican Congressman. This issue was brought up when the
- Iraqi crisis was still in its "Desert Shield" stages. Since the
- address below was obviously denied wide coverage, we thought it
- would be appropriate to include this before the
- upcoming
- elections.
-
- January 16, 1991
-
- Mr Speaker, it is with great sadness, yet great conviction, that
- I introduce today a Resolution of Impeachment of President Bush.
- At a time when our nation is deeply divided over the question of
- war, we find ourselves on the brink of a world war of such
- magnitude that our minds cannot fully comprehend the destruction
- which is allowed to be leveled. The position we are in is a
- direct result of the actions of one man and the reaction to
- another.
-
- The Iraqi people are as opposed to war as are the American
- people, the difference is that the Iraqi people have no choice
- but to support their countries leader, but the American people
- not only have the right to oppose and speak out in
- disagreement with their President, but they have the
- responsibility to do so if our democracy is to be preserved.
-
- Today I exercise this constitutional right and responsibility to
- speak out in opposition to war in the Middle East and in support
- of removal of our nation's chief executive. When I took the oath
- of office earlier this month, as I had numerous times before, I
- swore to uphold The Constitution. The President's oath was the
- same - to uphold the Constitution of The United States. We did
- not pledge and oath of allegiance to the President, but to The
- Constitution which is the highest law of the land.
-
- The Constitution provides for removal of the President when he
- has committed high crimes and misdemeanors, including violations
- of the principles of The Constitution. President Bush has
- violated these principles. My resolution has five
- articles of impeachment. First, the President has violated
- the equal protection clause of The Constitution. Our
- soldiers in the Middle East are overwhelmingly poor white,
- black, and Mexican American. They may be volunteers
- technically, but their volunteerism is based on the coercion
- of a system that has denied violable economic opportunities to
- these classes of citizens. Under The Constitution all
- classes of citizens are guaranteed equal protection, and
- calling on the poor and minorities to fight a war for oil to
- preserve the lifestyles of the wealthy is a denial of the
- rights of these soldiers.
-
- Article II states that the President has violated the
- Constitution, federal law and the United Nations Charter by
- bribing, intimidating and threatening others, including the
- members of the United Nations Security Council, to support
- belligerent acts against Iraq. It is clear that the President
- paid off members of the U.N. Security Council in return for
- their votes in support of war against Iraq. The debt of
- Egypt was forgiven; a $140 million loan to China was agreed
- to; the Soviet Union was promise $7 billion in aid; Colombia was
- promised assistance to its armed forces; Zaire was promised
- military assistance and partial forgiveness of it's debt; Saudi
- Arabia was promised $12 billion in arms; Yemen was threatened
- with the termination of support; and the U.S. finally paid off
- $187 million of its debt to the United Nations after the vote the
- President sought was made. The vote was bought, and it will be
- paid for with the lives of black and Mexican-Americans.
-
- Article III states that the President has conspired to engage in
- a massive war against Iraq employing methods of mass destruction
- that will result in the killing of tens of thousands of
- civilians, many of whom will be children. No civilian lives have
- yet been lost, that we know of, but when we start using the
- weapons of mass destruction that are in place for this war,
- there is no doubt that thousands of innocent civilians will lose
- their lives. As killings occur, the principles laid down in
- the Nuremburg trial will be applicable. Their deaths will not
- only be a moral outrage, but they will constitute a violation
- of international law.
-
- Article IV states that the President has committed the United
- States to acts of war without congressional consent and
- contrary to the United Nations Charter and international law.
- From August, 1991, through January.1991, the President embarked
- on a course of action that systematically eliminated every option
- for peaceful resolution of the Persian Gulf crisis. Once the
- President approached Congress for a declaration of war, 500,000
- American soldiers' lives were in jeopardy-rendering any
- substantive debate by Congress meaningless. The President
- has not received a declaration of war by Congress, and in
- contravention of the written word, the spirit, and the intent of
- the views of Constitution had declared that he will go to war
- regardless of the views of Congress and the American people.
- Congress abdicated its responsibility, but the President
- violated the Constitution. I am dismayed with the Congressional
- leadership, but I am frightened by the President's unwillingness
- to uphold his oath of office in protecting and preserving the
- Constitution.
-
- Article V states that the President had conspired to commit
- crimes against the peace by leading the United States into
- aggressive war against Iraq in violation of Article 2 (4) of the
- United Nations Charter, the Nuremberg Charter, other
- international instruments and treaties, and the Constitution of
- the United States. Again, there is a violation of law by a
- President who, believing he is king, decides for the country -
- unilaterally - that war is the answer.
-
- Mr. Speaker, it is sad day for our country, and it will be an
- even sadder day once the fighting begins. President Bush must
- be stopped - a divided Congress, reflecting a divided country, is
- no way to conduct a war. The preservation of lives is at
- stake, and the preservation of our country - our democracy - is
- at stake, as well. I urge my Colleagues to support this
- Resolution, and stand up to the President on behalf of the
- soldiers who will die, the civilians who will be massacred, and
- the Constitution that will be destroyed if this country goes to
- war in the Middle East.
-
- ***
-
- LEGALIZE ALL DRUGS NOW
-
- by
-
- Frater W.I.T.
-
- I, Frater W.I.T., firmly believe in the title of this article.
- While it is true that drugs destroy many people's lives, it is
- equally true that these are a small percentage of the total
- number of drug users. The vast majority of users are casual in
- their drug taking. Are we all to be victimized by our government
- because a few people have a problem? That seems to be the
- thinking of politicians in this ultra conservative era. Of
- course, it's perfectly fine for people to destroy their lives
- with alcohol and tobacco. I guess the political lobbies
- supported by these industries are more powerful than others such
- as the marijuana lobby. (Yes, there is one.)
-
- Why are drugs REALLY illegal? To protect the American public?
- Supporters of the use of drugs have been persecuted since Timothy
- Leary. Many drugs can produce profoundly spiritual states of
- mind without causing addiction, such as mescaline, have been
- outlawed out of hand. These can open up doors to true reality
- and forever destroy the narrow world view taught by our society.
-
- In the early 80's Nancy Reagan announced that Republican
- propaganda paean, The War on Drugs. For the past twelve years
- America has lived - and died - with this civil war. What else is
- a war on home soil called? Parents have turned in their children
- or kicked them out for using drugs. Children have reported their
- parents to the police for drug use. The excuse of "drug search"
- has given law enforcers free reign to persecute fringe elements
- of society. Also, people have been arrested for singing a song
- that a few felt was offensive and even for selling music. Is
- there a pattern emerging in all this? Where is The
- Constitutions? the Bill of Rights? our freedom of choice?
-
- It is not for a government to set standards of morals and
- behavior. In our precious historical political documents we the
- people of the United States of America are guaranteed certain
- unalienable rights to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.
-
- Church is to be kept strictly separate from government. Laws
- that violate our rights are not supposed to be passed. Yet, it
- is everywhere apparent that our Politicians In Government have
- dissolved these barriers to cater to their own greed and ambition
- and satisfy the lowest common denominator of society. There are
- many who want to be told what to do, what to think, and what to
- believe in, by institutionalized authority - as if the people who
- run such organizations are greater than human - but not I or any
- of my friends. To live as a slave is to trade in human
- intelligence for animal stupidity. It's a betrayal to all of us.
-
- It is so very true that the price of freedom is eternal
- vigilance. We Americans have not been vigilant and look at the
- result. The illegalization of drugs and its illegal sale by our
- government to support its shady dealings is just one symptom of
- the ever increasing totalitarianism sweeping this country.
-
- Each one of us can do something to help in the constant struggle
- for freedom. We can write letters to congresspeople, join and
- donate to political parties that really support freedom, and
- communicate ardent desire for freedom to continue by writing
- articles, newsletters, petition signing, etc. If we show our
- government that we are watching what's going on, and love freedom
- they will back down from tyranny. Power to the people! Legalize
- all drugs now! Further, legalize all other natural activities
- currently against the law because of "moral" reasons. (Who's
- morals? Certainly not mine.) Legalize prostitution and gambling.
- This will not only put an end to a vast amount of crime but allow
- police to concentrate on upholding laws that protect peoples
- freedoms such as murder, rape, theft, assault, and fraud. This
- will be a more pleasant, safer, freer, and more prosperous
- country but one with much less opportunity for con-men to
- manipulate their way to the top of the political and economic
- ladders. Do we really want such a country? Defend freedom; for
- the tyrants are at the door - your door!
-
- ***
-
- CHINA'S BEHAVIOR CONSISTENTLY INHUMANE
-
- by
-
- Secundus Kerub
- (1-07-92)
-
- Canadian legislators were kicked out of China after being
- kidnapped and interrogated for planning to lay flowers in honor
- of China's 1989 pro-democracy demonstrators.
-
- Svend Robinson, a New Democratic Party legislator from British
- Columbia said: "We were kidnapped and manhandled. It was the
- worst treatment of my life." Geoff Scott, a representative from
- Ontario and member of the Progressive Party was quoted as saying:
- "If this is the kind of human rights the Chinese demonstrate to
- legislators of the Canadian Parliament, then God help the people
- of China".
-
- It is becoming increasingly clear that Bush's motives to
- encourage trade with China is to relieve America's dependence of
- Japanese made products. Responsible Americans cannot allow the
- exploitation of slave labor at any cost.
-
- ***
-
- WORDS ARE INDICATORS OF SOCIAL ECONOMIC-CONDITION
-
- by
-
- Secundus Kerub
-
- I always thought a "FRIENDLY FIRE" was when you got together with
- your friends at camp fires, sang songs and told stories.
-
- There are other words which baffle the imagination: Do you
- recall when "SANITARY LANDFILLS" were simply called "dumps".
- What is so sanitary about a place we bury our garbage? How
- about: "ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS"? the term which described the
- condition of your house after a Friday night party.
-
- Remember when a "DRUG RAID" was the never ending quest for better
- Acid? and the "BATTERING RAM" was the thing your boy-friend kept
- in his pants, or the pet name for your favorite bong?
-
- Do you recall when the "DRUG CZAR" was the guy in your
- neighborhood who always had the best weed? or "JUST SAY NO" was
- advise given to teenage girls on their first date?
-
- How about "JOINT PAIN"? the phenomena associated with not being
- able to score? or "STRATEGIC BOMBING": which meant getting
- stoned with a purpose?
-
- How about "RECESSION"? the unfortunate predecessor to balding?
-
- Remember when "INCURABLE SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE" was
- herpes? and AIDS was a weight loss plan?
-
- Boy...things sure have changed in the last 10 years! Imagine Rip
- Van Winkle waking up in a world where "GOD SQUAD" is a term given
- to a group of people instated by our government to decide whether
- or not an endagered species should be allowed to go extinct for
- economical reasons.
-
- ***
-
- ECOTIP
-
- COMPOSTING: The final chapter
-
- In order to conclude our ECOTIP series on COMPOSTING, we have
- included the following information illustrating the time frame
- needed to decompose certain materials, and hope that with this
- data in mind you may realize the importance of recycling.
-
- We thank our own Frater Alizar for his input, and for bringing
- this knowledge to our attention.
-
-
- Paper Containers..................................2-5 mos
- Orange Peels..................................up to 6 mos
- Wool Socks.......................................6-24 mos
- Plastic Coated Cartons............................5 years
- Cigarette Butts.................................10-12 yrs
- Plastic Bags....................................10-20 yrs
- Leather Shoes...................................25-40 yrs
- Plastic Containers..............................50-80 yrs
- Vibram Soles....................................50-80 yrs
- Aluminum.......................................80-100 yrs
- Styrofoam...........................................NEVER
-
- ***
-
- "DON'T SHOOT: I'M ONLY THE PIANO PLAYER"
-
- by
-
- Secundus Kerub
- (11-15-91)
-
- The US Department of Defense is planning a comprehensive program
- in order to educate military personnel in the proper method of
- identifying enemy and friendly vehicles. The program was
- instigated by the high number of troops killed by their own side.
-
- Twenty-five percent of American casualties in the Iraq war were
- caused by "friendly fire". One can't help but to think of the
- shark accidentally eaten by its fellow sharks in a feeding
- frenzy.
-
- ***
-
- THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE
-
- by
-
- Amare Obscuritas
-
- Jehovah still gets our first born, sometimes our second or our
- third. Times have changed since the Hebrew sacrifices; there are
- no ceremonies capable of lightening the obscenity of the crime.
-
- We dress them in green uniforms that symbolize our lust for
- money, and in our cowardice we send the into the slaughter, that
- some unknown enemy may kill the most important things in our
- lives. A small price to pay, a token to prove our loyalty, a
- gesture of thanks for the vulgar life we live. We create a void
- which will never go away.
-
- We are environmentally conscious now, haven't you heard? we bury
- them in neat recyclable aluminum boxes; a way to ensure they stay
- locked inside, unable to seek their deserved revenge. But their
- smiling faces will come back to haunt us every time we see
- another child, in more fortunate hands.
-
- Or sometimes we burn their bodies to ashes, where they mix with
- the filth in the air and their smoky gray fingers seem to tighten
- around our throats while their lifeless faces remind us of their
- unconditional love.
-
- He asked you: "Dad, do you want me to die?", you turned your
- back on him, to face a bloody flag and said: "Yes".
-
- ***
-
- THE CULINARY CORNER
-
- by
-
- Soror Alice
-
- COOKING WITH HEMP SEED
-
- Keeping in line with this months issue; I thought the following
- recipe would fit in rather well! A few notes on one of the
- ingredients found in this recipe is in order. Firstly, some
- nutrition facts; Hemp seed the second most complete vegetable
- protein on the planet. Soybeans have more protein, but hemp seed
- is utilized more efficiently by the body AND its less expensive
- to produce. Secondly, hemp seed contains more enzymes than any
- food. One pound of hemp seed contains almost 25% protein!
- Thirdly, irradiated hemp seed will NOT get you high and is
- legally available.
-
- This recipe contains hemp seed "meal". To prepare the meal, the
- seeds are dry roasted in the oven on a cookie sheet at 250-300
- degrees for 20 to 30 min. or until crunching one between your
- teeth produces a pleasant roasted flavor. When they cool, put
- them into a blender VERY BRIEFLY to crack the hulls. Separate the
- meal from the hulls by using a coarse strainer. Put the meal
- into a grinder of some sort and grind through twice. And there
- you have your finished seed meal.
-
- HEMP ENRICHED SALAD DRESSING
-
- Put into a blender:
-
- 1/4 pound firm tofu
- 1 Tablespoon hemp seed meal
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder or 1 crushed clove
- 1 juiced lemon
- 1 cup chopped herbs (basil or dill, parsley & cilantro)
- 1/2 chopped onion (small)
- 1/2 chopped green pepper
- 1 Tablespoon tamari or soy sauce
- *1/2 teaspoon garam masala
-
- * (this is a mix of spices, including ground coriander,ground
- cumin, and ginger, available from Indian specialty shops; or you
- can make your own)
-
- Turn on blender and slowly add:
-
- 1 cup olive oil
-
- And there it is. I would personally like to thank Frater W.I.T.
- for his wonderful input on this subject. Enjoy!
-
- (The following are two sources for sterilized hemp seed:
-
- HAPPY BIRD SAMPLE PACK ($5.00) UNITED PACIFIC SEED
- Bach - PO Box 71093 201 South Cactus Ave.
- Los Angeles, CA 90071-0093 Rialto, CA 92376
-
- ***
-
- WHAT HAS BUSH BEEN SMOKING?
-
- by
-
- Secundus Kerub
-
- Well folks, here we are: 1992, a failing economy, no sign of a
- health care program worth mentioning, and no relief of heavy
- taxation in mind, and I have to ask just one question: How is
- the Bush administration using our millions of tax dollars to
- fight the "war on drugs"?
-
- While people everywhere are losing their jobs, homes, and pride,
- criminals are being bribed by the administration to testify
- against Manuel Noriega. Remember him? when we went into another
- country and invaded it to kidnap that country's leader?
-
- Floyd Carlton, airplane pilot/drug smuggler - received permission
- to bring his drug earnings in from Panama, and has been granted
- US citizenship for his wife, three children, and nanny.
-
- Ricardo Belonick - allowed to keep $3.9 million in drug money and
- the charges for tax evasion have been lifted.
-
- Ricardo Streidinger - the man the Justice Department referred to
- as "the number 1 drug man in the U.S." - granted immunity from
- prosecution and allowed to keep his planes and yachts in Key
- Biscayne.
-
- Steven Kalish, serving a life sentence plus 245 years - sentence
- reduced to 9 years (gets out in 1993) and has received $500,000
- to pay his legal bills.
-
- All this to justify the Bush Administration's little multi-
- billion dollar invasion of Panama to get Manuel Noriega: not
- because he was involved in the drug trade, but because he was
- pals with a small time communist named Fidel Castro.
-
- It is obvious that the Bush administration is going to great
- lengths and expense to hide the lies and obscenities it has
- committed: at our expense and with our money.
-
- And to further insult our intelligence he has announced that he
- plans to increase the "war on drugs" funding to $12.7 billion
- dollars in 1992. In a speech to the National Religious
- Broadcasters, Bush said he intends to spend $500 million on a
- program called "weed and seed", which will enable local law
- enforcement agencies to work together with federal agents.
-
- Considering the under-handed dealings which continue in The White
- House, the drug money laundering, the weapons trafficking, the
- covert operations whereby CIA agents act as middle men for
- nations exchanging drugs for weapons, it seem's clear that what
- the Bush Administration really wants is a monopoly on drug
- dealing. It is simply doing away with the competition.
-
- ***
-
- BUSH ADMINISTRATION FAILS TO RECOGNIZE CHILDREN'S RIGHTS
-
- by
-
- Soror Alice
-
- After decades of debate the United Nations General Assembly in
- 1989 decided to recognize the Children's Bill of Rights. Since
- then the bill has been signed by 109 countries and to this date
- enacted by 40 of them. The bill states the following rights for
- children:
-
- The right to affection, love and understanding.
-
- The right to adequate nutrition and medical care.
-
- The right to full opportunity for play and recreation.
-
- The right to a name and nationality.
-
- The right to be among the first to receive relief in times of
- disaster.
-
- The right to learn to be a useful member of society and to
- develop individual abilities.
-
- The right to be brought up in a spirit of universal peace and
- brother/sisterhood.
-
- The right to enjoy these rights, regardless of race, color,
- sex, religion, national or social origin.
-
- Since that time the United States has neither recognized nor
- signed this history making bill. President Bush is often
- photographed with school children touting his "education" status;
- but he falls short of his "goal" by failing to support this
- legislation. PLEASE write your local legislator(s) and most
- importantly write to the President and demand that he adopt this
- bill NOW!
-
- Remember: children ARE the future.
-
- REGISTER TO VOTE!
-
- ***
-
- THE AMERICAN VOTE
- - 1992 Style -
-
- by
- Frater Alizar
-
- Well, another election year is here, YAWN, YAWN, right. WRONG!!
- Even though we, as Americans, choose the person that occupies the
- highest elected office in the land every 4 years, every year is
- an election year and every election is important.
-
- America has set yet another record that the rest of the world
- will not soon beat. We have the ABSOLUTE WORST voter turnout of
- any democracy in the world. Elections are routinely decided by
- less than half of the eligible voting population. America has
- grown complacent! All around the world there are people fighting
- and dying for the right to vote and we, as Americans, take our
- right to vote for granted.
-
- You've heard it all before... Mine is just one vote, it doesn't
- really matter in the overall scheme of things, All the candidates
- are crooks, There is no one worth voting for, so I'm not going to
- vote, It doesn't matter who gets elected, Nothing is going to
- change regardless of who gets elected, All the politicians are
- out of touch with the common person, and on, and on, and on...
-
- Well folks I'm here to tell you that YOUR vote DOES matter, there
- are many elections that are decided by just a few votes and some
- by just ONE! Yes, that one vote could be yours! Now I am not
- here to tell you what issues to vote for or against, or which
- candidate to vote for or against; that is up to you!
-
- I hear you saying that it is too much of a hassle to register and
- then go and cast your ballot on election day. Well, here in
- America, you can go to the Post Office and ask for a voter
- registration form and register by mail, and you can call a phone
- number and get an absentee ballot and mail it in, no long lines
- to wait in on election day. Or you can just say 'the heck with
- it' and sit at home and watch TV on election day, but if the day
- should come that you lose the privilege of being able to vote
- freely, you'll only have yourself to blame. And if you didn't
- bother to cast a ballot; don't bother to complain about any
- decisions that were made by any of the people that were elected.
-
- Every man and woman in this country possesses a powerful Magick,
- that magick is a say in the direction of our collective destiny -
- the right to vote. You can be your own master or...
-
- "...the slaves shall serve."
- AL II:58
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