Elizabeth Wright's Issues and Views

African-American Elizabeth Wright's Issues and Views is an excellent, hard-hitting, responsible paleo-conservative source of information and analysis.

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U.S. Health Freedom on Verge of Collapse by Byron Richards

The anti-American FDA is actively seeking to undermine U.S. laws and harmonize our dietary supplement laws with Mexico and Canada. This is being done through the Trilateral Cooperation Charter – an illegal agreement set up with health regulatory agencies in Mexico and Canada. It is part of the campaign towards a North American Union, one which would be a catastrophe for health freedom in this country as dietary supplement laws in Canada and Mexico are far more restrictive than in the U.S......

FDA Wants to Eliminate Natural Health Care by Tom DeWeese

The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has launched another sneak-attack, trying to regulate your health freedom into oblivion. Through FDA’s unholy partnerships with Big Pharma and the Codex Alimentarius Commission (an offshoot of the UN), we are very close to losing alternative health care in America. This is a crisis, and needs your immediate action......

Jewish Women Re-affirm Commitment to the Death of the Pre-Born: Jewish Telegraphic Agency

WASHINGTON (JTA) – Supreme Court decisions usually are considered final, but Jewish groups that favor abortion rights are taking this week's ruling upholding a ban on late-term abortions to lawmakers.

The groups, which consider the April 18 ruling a rollback of the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that upheld abortion as a matter of privacy and a woman's choice, say they will now go to state legislatures and to Congress, and ultimately make it a matter for the 2008 presidential elections.

"This isn't going to go away," said Phyllis Snyder, president of the National Council of Jewish Women, perhaps the most vocal group advocating for reproductive rights. "This is the beginning of a new fight now."

Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in his majority ruling that those opposing a 2003 U.S. law banning late-term abortions "have not demonstrated that the Act would be unconstitutional in a large fraction of relevant cases."

Kennedy said other procedures are available to women whose lives are threatened by their pregnancies.

Reaction from Jewish groups was swift.

The decision's "disregard for the rights of the so-called 'fraction' of women who, for a range of reasons, including the preservation of their own lives, need specific reproductive health services, is heartless and insensitive," the Reform movement's Religious Action Center said.

Hadassah: The Women's Zionist Organization of America said the court "inappropriately inserted itself into the personal lives of American women."

The minority decision in the 5-4 ruling, written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who is Jewish, said the majority decision "chips away" at women's rights.

Ginsburg wrote that the ruling "recalls ancient notions about women's place in society and under the Constitution – ideas that have long since been discredited."

Supporters of the law say "health exceptions" are murky and note that the bill includes an exception when birth would threaten a woman's life. Opponents counter that women in such dangers may obtain the abortion only through a legal challenge, a process they say is burdensome.

Among Jewish groups, only the fervently Orthodox Agudath Israel of America praised the decision.

"At a time when social and cultural trends tend to undervalue human life, laws that prohibit the killing of partially delivered fetuses serve as a vital reminder of the enormity of the moral issues surrounding the taking of human life," Agudah said.

Other groups expressing disappointment in the decision included the Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the umbrella body for Jewish community relations councils across the country.

"We hope Congress will act to reverse the unfortunate legislation that triggered this decision," JCPA Chairwoman Lois Frank said.

The Orthodox Union, the modern Orthodox umbrella body, had no comment. In the past it has said that decisions on abortion – including late-term abortion, a method that conservative groups call "partial-birth abortion" – should be left to the mother, her doctor and her cleric.

Jewish religious law considers the mother's health paramount, and Jewish activists – even the conservative – traditionally have sought to write protections for women into abortion legislation.

This was a case where halacha, or Jewish law, and justice should coincide, said Susan Weidman Schneider, editor of Lilith, a Jewish feminist magazine, "and it certainly doesn't with this Supreme Court decision."

"There is a sense I have that Jewish women have not been on the ramparts as much as they used to be," she said. "The question is why and what do we do now" that can help mitigate this decision.

Dr. Paul Blumenthal, a professor of obstetrics at Stanford University, said the decision undermined the physician-patient relationship.

"It means that women are no longer going to get the best possible care from physicians because a lot of clinical decision-making is taken out of our hands," he said.

The immediate political focus, Snyder said, would be on a Democratic effort in the U.S. Congress to codify the Roe v. Wade findings into law. Lead sponsors for the Freedom of Choice Act in both houses are Jewish: Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.)

"NCJW will certainly rev itself up and be working" on the act, Snyder said. The probability of a presidential veto would be less important than the fact that passing the act "puts Congress on record in support of the right to choose."

The fight will be defined in part by where anti-abortion groups empowered by the decision take their reinvigorated efforts to end abortion

"It's likely two-fold, both at the state level and in Washington on Capitol Hill," said Jeff Sinensky, general counsel for the American Jewish Committee. "We're sure to see efforts around the country to introduce anti-abortion legislation."

The AJCommittee, which filed an amicus brief in the case, expressed its "disappointment" with the ruling.

"AJC opposes governmental interference in a woman's ability to choose the safest medical procedures that best protect her ability to bear children in the future," the group said.

Sinensky said the decision would ultimately play out in the 2008 elections.

"Obviously it pushes the issue of abortion rights into the presidential campaign as a major issue," he said.

Snyder said NCJW would maintain its aggressive posture regarding the makeup of the Supreme Court.

"We'll be watching upcoming judicial nominations," she said.

NCJW was nearly alone among activist groups in aggressively campaigning against President Bush's two successful court nominees, John Roberts and Samuel Alito. The pair tipped the balance since 2000, when the court last considered a late-term ban – and rejected it.

"This ruling underscores once again that the composition of the Supreme Court matters," the NCJW statement said. "Who serves on the court has a direct bearing on our ability to exercise our constitutional rights, including reproductive freedom."

It's a message Hadassah was coming around to, said Shelley Klein, the organization's director of advocacy.

"It's strikingly clear that the Supreme Court and the federal court system are no longer the bulwark of rights we hoped it would be," she said. "If federal courts do not protect rights, then it comes back to legislatures. It makes Congress more significant, states more significant."

The Legacy of Sam Francis: Dr. E. Michael Jones for Culture Wars

I first met Sam Francis at a meeting of the John Randolph Club in Chicago. He was sitting at a table with Tom Fleming. Both men are two years older than me. Both gave me the impression that I was a freshman trying to sit at the Junior Lunch Table in the School Cafeteria.

The last time I saw Sam Francis, it was at a meeting in Washington. Sam was the moderator at a talk given by Joseph Tyndal, a leader of the National Front in England. Mr. Tyndal was trying to get us enthused about being white guys, and so he launched into a peroration about the glories of Elizabethan England. Since Elizabethan England was the place where Catholic priests, like Edmund Campion, SJ, could be hanged until not quite dead, drawn and quartered and have their entrails thrown into boiling oil for the crime of saying the Mass, I was less than enthralled by the picture Mr. Tyndal had painted for us. In fact, if his intention was to bring us all together, his talk had the exact opposite effect. Since both Father Campion and Lord Burghley and his henchman Walsingham were all white, just what meaning did this fact possess?

Patriots Question 9-11: The Latest List of Questioners of the Official Party Line

Charlotte Iserbyt has sent to Mark Dankof of BATR this web site, entitled Patriots Question 9-11. The list of nonbelievers is growing, impressive, and formidable. Is the 9-11 Truth Movement following in the footsteps of those who questioned the Roberts Commission account of Pearl Harbor, and the Warren Commission spin on the death of President Kennedy? Stay tuned.

For the Patriots Question 9-11 web page, click here.

Smearing of USS Liberty Crew by Jewish Bankruptcy Judge Jay Cristol Backfires: William Hughes

When Ahron Jay Cristol, a self-described “amateur historian,” showed up at the National Security Agency's (NSA) National Cryptologic Museum at Fort George C. Meade, MD., on Jan. 14, 2004, there was something almost sacrilegious about his presence there.

He was there to peddle his pro-Zionist Israel book, “The Liberty Incident.” It is a clever, but seriously flawed, apologia, that attempts to mask the wrongdoing associated with Israel’s premeditated attack on the USS Liberty, an NSA-fitted spy vessel, on June 8, 1967. That attack killed 34 brave Americans and wounded 172 others. His book also smears those demanding justice in the Liberty matter as “conspiracy theorists.”


Who is Cristol? Now, in his 70s, he has worked mostly as a bankruptcy judge, a federal sinecure that doesn’t need congressional approval. He has a non-combat background in the U.S. Navy.

Two days before his appearance, Cristol was on a State Dept. panel, in DC, pontificating about the 1967 “Six-Day War” and the fate of the Liberty. When survivors of the Liberty, during the Q&A period, began to speak out about the “Whitewash,” one Marc Susser, a State Dept. honcho, ordered them silenced.

Cristol’s insufferable mantra: “The Israelis’ attack on the Liberty was an accident,” was repeated by him ad nauseam at the book signing. However, the overwhelming credible evidence shows that the Israeli attack was intentional (James M. Ennes, Jr.’s “Assault on the Liberty”), and that an insidious cover-up of that fact has continued down to the present day (James Bamford's “Body of Secrets”). Recently, two individuals from the U.S. intelligence community have come forward to verify that they had viewed intercepted real-time transcripts, on June 8, 1967, between Israeli jet pilots and their ground controllers, in which the Israelis clearly acknowledged that they knew that they were attacking, and worse still, trying to sink, “the American ship.”

(http://www.ussliberty.org/smoking.htm).

Captain Ward Boston and the USS Liberty Investigation/Cover-Up: Hesham Tillawi's Current Issues TV

Captain Ward Boston, Senior Counsel to the U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry investigation into the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty was ordered 40 years ago not to say anything about the investigation...

Captain Ward Boston felt obliged to reveal what he knew of the attack in the Navy Times after U. S. Federal Bankruptcy Judge Jay Cristol in Florida published articles and gave talks which supported the official Israeli Government version. Cristol made 13 trips to Israel before publishing the Jewish Party Line.

A couple of days ago he spoke to Mark Glenn, American Free Press reporter who is writing a story on the USS Liberty.

Both men will be with us this Tuesday April 3 to discuss the biggest US naval loss since WWII.

With the US Navy in the Persian Gulf, will there will be a replay of this scenario if Israel bombs Iran?

Hour One of Hesham Tillawi interview with Ward Boston: Click here.

Hour Two of Hesham Tillawi interview with Ward Boston: Click here.