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Murder, Martyrs, and Issues

Gordon Francis Corbett

          Fellows like Timothy McVeigh cloud the issues.

          McVeigh has been touted as a political conservative, and some of his statements seem conservative.  So, suppose that some conservative and libertarian ideas, in which McVeigh himself may or may not have believed, are correct.

          Consider a few.  Our real leaders are bigwigs in the Council on Foreign Relations and The Trilateral Commission.  They are ignoring, and may plan formally to abolish, our Second Amendment and its Constitution.  They want a world government under the United Nations, and through it, they intend to govern the world.

          We must be careful when we debate these issues.  Our standards of right and wrong cannot determine what is true factually.  What is true factually cannot decide our standards of right and wrong.  We must determine whether an alleged issue exists, and then decide which side of it is morally right.

          I do not favor ignoring or abolishing the Second Amendment, let alone its parent Constitution.

          I do not want us to participate in a world government.

          I do not want us to have an empire.  Any empire's first victims are its own citizens.  Empires are always founded to obtain riches, and they always collapse when their rebellious subjects drain more blood and treasure than their home people can bear.  George Washington Carver said, "You can't keep a man down unless you stay down there with him."

          Nevertheless, some people want to forbid our owning firearms, to abolish our Constitution, to found a world government, and to set up an empire.

          To discuss these issues rationally, we need clear minds.  Political murderers militate against that clarity, because they turn innocent people into martyrs for the ideas they ostensibly oppose.  As we need intellectual clarity when discussing limitations on our liberty, their dispelling it may be their worst crime.

(Editor's note:  This article was written before the Sept. 11 attacks, but its plea for intellectual clarity is needed now more than ever.)