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PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1998, AND THEREAFTER

CLINTON'S COMMISSARS

The unwillingness of the American people to hold President Bill Clinton accountable for perjury and obstruction of justice -- felonies under the criminal code -- has placed the United States in a moral and legal quandary. Where is our standing as a people to hold Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic accountable with extra-legal NATO air strikes (unsupported by the United Nations) when we lack the fortitude to use legal and peaceful means to hold our own chief executive accountable?

The hypocrisy of the Clinton administration and the American people have destroyed the moral authority of the United States. Our leadership is reduced to "might is right" -- which puts us on the same level as Mr. Milosevic.

Here at home there is legal standing and constitutional obligation to hold our chief executive accountable. But there is no legal basis for our intervention in the internal affairs of Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia has not invaded an independent country or committed terrorist acts against the United States. Yugoslavia is trying to prevent its further fragmentation, this time at the hands of the Kosovo Liberation Army. Mr. Milosevic's forces are being just as brutal in Kosovo as the federal government was to the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas.

Brutal governments are abhorrent. If the American people support self-determination in Kosovo, let Congress declare war on Yugoslavia. But we should not resort to extra-legal means to use U.S. armed forces to affect outcomes in Yugoslavia when we lack the fortitude to hold our own chief executive accountable. Might is not right, not in Yugoslavia, not in the United States.

The rule of accountable and merciful law is a great human achievement. It was principally the achievement of the British people, and it spread with British influence. The United States is among the fortunate heirs. But we cannot both have a rule of law and violate it when it is politically convenient or in conflict with our momentary feelings.

A rule of law is one of those rare collective responsibilities. Feminists such as Patricia Ireland have made it clear that they prefer Bill Clinton to a rule of law. So have leaders of the "gay and lesbian community," the self-declared spokespersons for the black community, Republican-haters in the media, and a vast number of Hollywood personalities and university professors.

By making this choice, these people have placed themselves outside the American system. They do not support it. Instead, they support Clinton because he feathers their nests with federal judgeships, presidential appointments, legal privileges, and political support for their causes.

Something even worse is afoot. As Balint Vazsonyi documents in his seminal book, America's 30 Years War, these groups are at work creating a new politics of violence that combines the race hatred of German National Socialists with the class hatred of the Communists.

The new hate politics is directed at a new villain. The victim group is no longer the "workers of the world," who have been transformed into oppressors if they are white, but all people other than heterosexual males of British or European descent.

On a global basis, the villain group is as small as capitalists in Russia or Jews in Germany. The elimination of the new villains from positions of influence and from annals of historical achievement, if not from life itself, requires that commissars take the place of a rule of law.

Balint Vazsonyi shows how far we have traveled down the road to commissars. They exist in regulatory agencies, in university thought police, in Child Protective Services, in law schools where allegiance to political agendas has crowded out jurisprudence, and in courts where sexual harassment and affirmative action have created new offenses and "hate crimes" that only white heterosexual males can commit.

The American Commissariat is committed to expanding its power by overthrowing the rule of law. Bill Clinton, a white heterosexual male, would normally be a prime target of the Commissariat, despite the alliance of convenience he has formed with the new power centers by supporting their policy issues. President Clinton has been spared being pilloried as the abusive hegemonic white male because his administration has joined the Commissariat in a joint attack on the rule of law.

Bill Clinton has not just lied under oath and obstructed justice, he has flouted the requirement that presidential appointments be confirmed by the Senate, he has imposed illegal racial quotas throughout the U.S. government, and he has used government agencies to harass his political opponents. In his every word and deed he has made it clear that the causes of the Commissariat are higher than a rule of law.

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COPYRIGHT 1998 PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS



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