What I'd do as president
Part 3

Saturday May 10, 2008

By Ellis Washington

"We the People" tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us. "We the People" are the driver, the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast.

– President Reagan's Farewell Address, Jan. 11, 1989

My recent column "What I'd do as president" received more responses than any other column I've written to date. Having struck a profound and poignant chord with readers in that column, I have continued that format in Part 2 and today in Part 3.

Policy No. 1 – As your president, if America doesn't have enough room on Mount Rushmore to build a fifth monument to President Reagan, I would conduct a nationwide contest to find who could most efficiently transform Theodore Roosevelt's likeness into Ronald Reagan's likeness.

Policy No. 2 – "People First, Environment Second." I love Theodore Roosevelt (my grandfather and uncle were named in his honor); however, TR was the first president to go way overboard on environmentalist policy, which 100 years later has devolved into irrational, unscientific and extremist policies:

• Rachel Carson's now patently discredited 1962 book ("Silent Spring") ultimately lead to the universal ban of DDT lead by the United States in 1972, a genocidal policy that to this day has doomed untold hundreds of millions of black Africans to death or a life of abject suffering due to malaria. Have you ever heard the so-called "civil rights movement" say anything about this "African Holocaust"?
  
  
• The green movement;
  
  
• Global freezing predicted by activist scientists with a socialist agenda in the early 1970s;
  
  
• Global warming and global climate change movements of the 1990s to the present; and
  
  
• The corn-based ethanol catastrophe that is currently causing food hoarding, shortages and food riots in Haiti, Mexico, Egypt, China, Africa and throughout the world.

Policy No. 3 – As your president, America would return to free market capitalism again both at home and aboard. Therefore, no tariffs, anti-competitive or protectionist interference from any country we trade with or from America. Let the free market regulate all commerce with very minimal intrusion from politicians or judges (most of which have never managed or operated a lemonade stand let alone a business enterprise of any relevance).

This policy alone would substantially lower the multi-billion dollar deficits we annually run against countries like China, Canada, Japan, Germany, Mexico, Nigeria and many other countries we trade with because these countries aren't burdened with the endless number of silly environmental regulations, union thuggery, shyster tort lawyers and the litany of socialist taxes just to pay for all the ancillary costs and red tape to hire and keep employees.

Policy No. 4 – As your president, my military foreign policy would be called "Rocket Diplomacy," following President Reagan's wise and masculine foreign policy, "Peace through Strength" and "Trust but Verify," that eventually led to the demise of the Soviet Union and freedom for tens of millions of citizens of former satellite Soviet states.

If a country messes with America in an egregious way – like 9/11, the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979, the truck bomb that killed 241 Marines in Lebanon in 1983, the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 – let the rockets do the talking. It saves American lives, protects the environment and puts existing and future tyrants on notice. (Remember how President Reagan bombed the palace of Libya's Colonel Gadhafi in 1986? Since Reagan's gutsy move we have had virtually no more problems from that tyrant.)

Policy No. 5 – As your president, I would promote a "Pursuit of Happiness" policy. I would champion those immortal words found in Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence and make that worldview a major policy throughout my administration, affecting all cabinet departments. It would be no longer criminal to be an American.

Following Jefferson's worldview, I would urge the American people to closely monitor any elected officials – Republican or Democrat – that tries implementing any policies that in any manner contravenes American's pursuit of happiness, which was adopted by Jefferson from Genesis 1:28, which reads:

And God blessed them (Adam and Eve) and God said unto them,

• Be fruitful, and
• Multiply (have lots of babies), and
• Replenish the earth, and
• Subdue it (organize, cultivate) and
• Have dominion (power, authority, control)
  over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Empire and the fall of communism in 1989, socialists, progressives, liberals, country club Republicans and the diabolical philosophies of transnational liberalism have morphed into the numerous tentacles of the environmentalist movement, which is a frontal assault against capitalism and free market enterprise. Controlling your daily behavior is what animates these people.

Conservative radio host Dennis Prager said it best: "Liberals love humanity, but hate humans."

God created the earth for mankind to rule over and enjoy, not for men and women to be treated by their governments like squatters, like landless serfs or intruders upon the earth, deferring to polar bears, melting polar ice caps, spotted owls, kangaroo rats, snail darters or puddles of water in your backyard which the Environmental Protection Agency retroactively now decrees is a "wetland."

Wake up, America! Who will you believe? The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob or that nitwit Al Gore and the globalist, corrupt plutocrats at the United Nations who utterly hate America, Israel and despise natural law, natural rights and natural liberties that can only come from God and therefore cannot lawfully be contravened by man? I choose God.

And that is what I would do if I were president of the United States.

Ellis Washington, former editor at The Michigan Law Review and law clerk at The Rutherford Institute, is a graduate of John Marshall Law School and a lecturer and freelance writer on constitutional law, legal history, political philosophy and critical race theory. He has written over a dozen law review articles and several books, including "The Inseparability of Law and Morality: The Constitution, Natural Law and the Rule of Law" (2002), "Beyond the Veil: Essays in the Dialectical Style of Socrates" and He has just completed the manuscript to his latest book, "The Nuremberg Trials: Last Tragedy of the Holocaust" (2007).

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