Commentary - April 2000

If I Were President

Part Two of a Series

by Lyle Brennan

Everyone, including myself has a complaint or criticism of our current and past Presidents. The complaints include things they have, and haven’t done.

Thinking through the process I have tried to incorporate in my company(s) philosophy in dealing with problems in business. I advise my staff that identifying a problem is the easy part. They must think it through and offer proposed solutions. Thus practicing what I preach, I propose to outline my platform, "If I Were President." (Note: I am not running for the office, hut I believe if I am to be a critic. I should suggest solutions.) This is the second part of a series. Platform Position Number One was published in the February 2000 issue.

I want you, as citizens of this great republic, to fully understand why I feel I must take very strong leadership positions with respect to some controversial issues in order to keep this nation from falling from greatness. The moral fabric of our nation is being torn apart by progressive immoral behavior to the point where stability and viability of our civilized citizenry and our nation is at risk. (Our society is deteriorating.) We must reverse this destructive trend before it destroys us all. To fully understand the situation, one only has to look at the statistics depicting the violence in schools, infidelity mid adultery. teenage pregnancy, fatherless homes, abortion, substandard performance of our public school system. genocide, sexual promiscuity, pervasive and addictive pornography, the proliferation of illegal drugs, etc.

All of these social pathologies attach and corrupt the essential ingredient to our civilized society, the family unit. If a behavior pattern adversely impacts the welfare of the people in our society, it must he restricted or prevented. This enables us to judge behavior objectively by evaluating its impact on society rather than judging people and their ideologies.

I certainly don’t want any citizen to think that I have arbitrarily determined what is good and what is bad for the future of this great nation. That has already been determined for me by a power far greater than any nation can hope to be. And that power was made the indivisible basis for the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States by our founding fathers; and they referred to that foundational power as the Law of Nature and Nature’s God." Our founding fathers possessed incredible wisdom and foresight. They knew that allegiance to the "Law of Nature and Nature’s God" instead of to laws promulgated solely by man is this nation’s best guarantee against tyranny, by me or any government agency or entity. They bequeathed to us a nation founded on political freedom. Now, too many of us are eorrupling this legacy in favor of "political correctness".

For example, of utmost importance, is the unconstitutional dccision of the Supreme Court, Engel v Vitale, 1962. This decision further promulgated the doctrine "separation of church and state" and removed prayer from the public schools. The First Amendment says only, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof?’ Congress has made no such law. But the Court has on its own authority effectively prohibited the free exercise of religion in our schools. The Court has exceeded its constitutional authority by eliminating prayer from the public schools without any precedent or legal basis for doing so. I agree with the intent of our Founding Fathers that there should he no law establishing a particular state religion.

As president-elect, I took the following oath administered by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of The United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of The United Slates." This means I have the duty to defend the plain wording of the Constitution against those who would by self-serving interpretation unconstitutionally change the document without proceeding through the amendment process it provides. I am bound by oath before God and you to protect the integrity of the Constitution from those who would corrupt its meaning to serve political purposes which will produce results that adversely affect the welfare of this nation.

One corruption of the meaning of our Constitution leads to another and yel another. Take the Court’s decision in Stone v Granvn, 1980, which prohibited the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools. The Court incredibly said, "If the posted Ten Commandments are to have any effect at all, it will be to induce the schoolchildren to read, meditate upon, perhaps to venerate and obey, the Commandments ... this ... is not a permissible state objective under the Establishment clause . . ." The Court has effectively and incredibly said that it is wrong for schoolchildren to obey the Commandment that tells them "Thou shalt not murder" We now are wondcring why our children are attacking schools and killing other children. The results of these decisions have had devastating effects on the moral fabric of this nation. Sixty-five percent of all crime in this country is committed by school-age children.

Platform Position #2: As President, I will not support this unconstitutional doctrine. Should any person have been or will be convicted of acts of prayer in schools or public places or free exercise of bona fide religion (as defined in the statutes), in any court in this nation, will receive an immediate Presidential Pardon upon proper review of the facts by a non-partisan commission selected by presidential appointment. However, no one will he pardoned who uses the cover of "religion" to commit acts destructive to society. The preservation of religious freedom is one of my top priorities; for without it, there is no political freedom. The first of the Communist Rules for Revolution (found by the Allied Occupation Fomes in Dusseldorf, Germany in 1919 after WWI) is, "Corrupt the young, get them away from religion, get them interested in sex. Make them superficial, destroy their ruggedness." I am sure that it was never the Supreme Court’s intent to corrupt the young; but, it has certainly been an unintended consequence.

Taking the measures I have explained above to attempt to nullify the Supreme Court’s actions removing prayer in public schools are only the beginning of what I intend to do to preserve this nation’s greatness. Stay tuned for the next issue, Platform Position #3

Lyle Brennan Publisher
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