Morality Matters - Convict the President 

by Steve Farrell (Nevada)

Someone once said, “There are no rules in war.”  In life and death struggles, people and nations seem to reach back in time or within themselves to rediscover their most basic and perhaps most primitive instinct - survival.

As a general rule of thumb, with the weaker of our race, and especially in a White House whose chief villain's "scorched earth" policy has frightened away the rule of law, this argument has some merit. But not everyone, is like Bill Clinton.

For human nature is not so shallow, simplistic, and mechanized, as liberals would now have us believe. Reason, taught Madison, set mankind apart from the beast. And with reason comes agency.

Most of all of us understand that this agency gives us the freedom to choose good or evil, wisdom or ignorance, in any given situation. We are not, as some claim, like Pavlov's dog, predestined to salivate at the ringing of every bell or at the invitation of harlots and money changers. How can we doubt it?

It takes but only a moment of honest reflection for us to realize that millions do choose to do good, to be virtuous, noble, courageous, and law abiding, even against fierce odds and multitudes of testing situations, each and every day. If it were not so, we would live in chaos.

Who is not familiar with at least one instance of someone who placed God, family, or country, above career, convenience, and lust? Men and women can truly be virtuous, and despite the imperfections of man, examples of this virtue surround us everywhere.

But while virtue surrounds us, so does depravity, and at the top of the list of the depraved is William Jefferson Clinton, President of the United States. Where in the history of this great nation, can we find a parallel? But what is worse than his immorality and disrespect for the law is the zealous manner in which he and his supporters seek to convince the world that morality and law really don't matter.

Think about it. Here has been a president, a collection of lawyers, an entire political party, and a sizable portion of the media, all bent on promoting one startling thought -- that their never has been, there is not now, nor ever will there be, such a thing as virtue. They have told us, again and again, that all men have sinned on an equal level with this President. Indeed, they have dug up dirt, and at times fabricated lies, about current opponents,  and even America's founding fathers.

In doing so, they have violated the law, and threatened all who might stand up to their arrogance and amorality. There has been no depth to which these entrenched criminals have not steeped to preserve their grasp on power. Of this, we should not be surprised, for disrespect for the law is the natural byproduct of the debunking of virtue.

That is why Washington warned: "Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, Religion, and Morality are indispensable supports. -- In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and Citizens. The mere Politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them.  A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice?"

Is not this then the root cause of the Clinton camps disrespect and defiance for the law?

The fact is, that when morality becomes bereft of the fixed standards of religion, virtue becomes relative, and when virtue becomes relative, so does the law. Therefore, the amoralists of our day bellow that the economy is good, popularity ratings are high, and thus enforcing the law on the President is irrelevant.

But it is relevant and we should be deeply troubled by such thinking. Hitler, we know, lifted the German economy out of a horrendous depression, and was very popular for so doing. But economics and popularity were not that important in that situation, were they?

Clinton, is certainly not a Hitler, but he is also no trusted friend of liberty.

In the closing moments of this Impeachment, we should all remember, and remind our Senators, how above the law, this President really has been.

A few examples: He stands accused of instigating politically motivated IRS audits against his "enemies" in the press. He is suspected of ordering a raid on the headquarters of the American Spectator in order to capture unsavory evidence. He is suspected of having ordered cell phone ease dropping on the conversations of Newt Gingrich. He stands accused of numerous accounts of witness harassment. He and his Justice Department stand accused of unrivaled examples of obstruction of justice. There is around his circle of friends and ominous plethora of suspicious deaths and of key witnesses fleeing to other nations. There is still the looming and overwhelming evidence of the reception of bribes and possible treason with Communist China in exchange for military secrets. And finally, how can we forget the enormous and irresponsible expansion of federal police powers during his administration which climaxed with an assault on the religious liberties of our people, and the burning by fire of men, women, and children in Waco Texas.

The damage that President Clinton has inflicted upon our Constitution should be adequate warning that private morality truly does affect public performance, and for any of us to take comfort in the state of the economy or the popularity of this deviant President is extreme folly.

It is time, that the United States Senate, in contrast with the reckless exercise of agency exhibited by President Clinton, exercise their freedom of choice in a more noble way. Let them look at the big picture, that bigger picture which places morality and the law above political expediency, and then let them do their duty. The charges they have before them are serious enough, but let them not forget the rest.

Theirs is the chance to reinthrone the nobility of the law, or to hurl it, thoughtlessly, into obscurity. Let us pray that they do the former. Heaven help us, if they do not