Alan Keyes in WorldNetDaily


On Crime: “Hate crime” laws inappropriately punish attitudes

Let’s say a ruthless drug dealer exterminates a person who crossed him up. Put that side by side with a crime that is motivated by racial, or religious bigotry, but with the end result being the deliberate murder of an individual. Should we have two separate standards for these two murders? The proper approach to take toward crimes is to judge the act, not the attitude. The real purpose behind the hate crime legislation movement, however, is to accord to the government the right to punish attitudes.
Source: (Cross-ref from Civil Rights) WorldNetDaily “hate crimes” Jun 14, 1999

On Gun Control: Columbine killers lacked moral development - not gun laws

The gun control mentality is that guns are in control of situations, and when we see kids like those in Columbine High School, we shouldn’t see human beings who have gone off the right moral road because their consciences and self-discipline have not been properly developed. Instead, we should see guns in control of the situation, and then we should react against the guns. “Gun violence” should be called human violence, leaving us at least the dignity of being responsible for our own sins.
Source: (Cross-ref from Juvenile Crime) WorldNetDaily “Standing on p Jun 14, 1999

On War & Peace: Kosovo sets precedent for more future intervention

Tony Blair and Bill Clinton have said that the NATO action in Yugoslavia is just the beginning. They view this war as a precedent for a new internationalism, and expect similar interventions to happen regularly. Our “victory” in Yugoslavia, should it occur, will be worse than hollow -- it will be ripe with the seeds of greater evil to come, now that America has begun to teach the world that the end justifies the means.
Source: (Cross-ref from Defense) WorldNetDaily “Terrorism -- America Jun 14, 1999

On Homeland Security: Kosovo sets precedent for more future intervention

Tony Blair and Bill Clinton have said that the NATO action in Yugoslavia is just the beginning. They view this war as a precedent for a new internationalism, and expect similar interventions to happen regularly. Our “victory” in Yugoslavia, should it occur, will be worse than hollow -- it will be ripe with the seeds of greater evil to come, now that America has begun to teach the world that the end justifies the means.
Source: WorldNetDaily “Terrorism -- American style” Jun 4, 1999

On War & Peace: NATO strategy against civilians is terrorism

The NATO campaign has followed a strategy that we know to be wrong and deeply immoral. Moral norms of decent and civilized people condemn a strategy that aims to break and destroy the civilian people of a country in order to achieve political objectives. The classic definition of terrorism is the use of force against civilians in order to get them to do your bidding as a result of the terror induced in their hearts. And we have been practicing a strategy based on just such a use of force.
Source: WorldNetDaily “Terrorism -- American style” Jun 4, 1999

On War & Peace: “Ends justify the means” is the path to evil

Aren’t we doing it for the sake of the Kosovars, and doesn’t that make it all right? The evil enemies we fought in this century did not consider themselves to be evil any more than we do now. The real evil in them was their acceptance of the principle that the end justifies the means. They are pushed into evil by people who persuade them that evil is necessary to achieve some greater good, and that the good justifies the evil. And this is what has happened to us with the war in Kosovo.
Source: WorldNetDaily “Terrorism -- American style” Jun 4, 1999

On Foreign Policy: Call to account those responsible for Chinese espionage

I cannot understand how any American can be complacent about [Chinese espionage detailed in the Cox Report]. We will be struggling to deal with the consequences of this devastating blow for the next 20 and 30 years. And yet many Americans are still just sitting and watching. We should have a deep sense of outrage, and our political leaders should call to account those who have been on watch. God help us if we accept a week or two of public hand-wringing over the Cox Report as an adequate response.
Source: WorldNetDaily “GOP folds on Chinagate” May 28, 1999

On Civil Rights: Warns that Supreme Court has advanced gay marriage agenda

The Supreme Court threw out California’s two-tier welfare system, as encroaching on the right of poor people to travel. [This ruling broadens] the Privileges and Immunities Clause of the 14th Amendment. [Pro-gays] will use it to invalidate efforts at the state level to reject the evil of homosexual marriage. The scheme is to get homosexual marriage accepted in one state, to move couples “married” into all the other states, and then go to court to recognize the marriages -- to demand equal privileges.
Source: WorldNetDaily “Constitutional immunity” May 21, 1999

On Gun Control: Gun control is an outcome of godless materialism

The premise of the gun control agenda is that people can’t control things, but that things control people. At the root of the gun control agenda, as with the sex education agenda and so many other liberal agendas, is a denial of our moral nature. And that denial of our moral nature rests ultimately on a denial of the existence of God and of a relationship between God and human things. So the gun control agenda is a natural outcome of the agenda of godless materialism.
Source: WorldNetDaily “Standing on principle” May 14, 1999

On Gun Control: Control people’s passions - not the things they use

[Gun control proponents] propose controlling the things we use, as if this will control people. Violence is not a function of the things; it’s a function of the heart. If the heart is wrong, then violence will come out of the heart as a consequence -- and if a gun isn’t handy, a machete will do. What is in control is not the thing, but the human being that allows his evil passions to control his actions, and thus lead to the awful situations we have seen from Indonesia to Littleton.
Source: WorldNetDaily “Standing on principle” May 14, 1999

On Gun Control: Columbine killers lacked moral development - not gun laws

The gun control mentality is that guns are in control of situations, and when we see kids like those in Columbine High School, we shouldn’t see human beings who have gone off the right moral road because their consciences and self-discipline have not been properly developed. Instead, we should see guns in control of the situation, and then we should react against the guns. “Gun violence” should be called human violence, leaving us at least the dignity of being responsible for our own sins.
Source: WorldNetDaily “Standing on principle” May 14, 1999

On Civil Rights: “Hate crime” laws inappropriately punish attitudes

Let’s say a ruthless drug dealer exterminates a person who crossed him up. Put that side by side with a crime that is motivated by racial, or religious bigotry, but with the end result being the deliberate murder of an individual. Should we have two separate standards for these two murders? The proper approach to take toward crimes is to judge the act, not the attitude. The real purpose behind the hate crime legislation movement, however, is to accord to the government the right to punish attitudes.
Source: WorldNetDaily “The trouble with ‘hate crimes’” Oct 16, 1998

On Civil Rights: “Hate crime” laws will be used to punish anti-gay opinions

The whole push with respect to hate crimes legislation is an effort to create a body of law that allows the government to coerce opinions, and to punish people because of their opinions. In this particular case, the opinion that is going to be punished is the opinion that homosexuality is immoral and against the laws of God. That opinion is now going to become a crime. And this whole push with respect to hate crimes is an effort to establish that agenda.
Source: WorldNetDaily “The trouble with ‘hate crimes’” Oct 16, 1998

On Homeland Security: Supports missile strikes against terrorists abroad

I believe that the [missile strikes against Sudan and Afghanistan] last week does serve the best interest of the country. Terrorism is not just a threat to our physical lives; it is also a threat to our way of life. We can already see this threat in the security that must surround people in our government, and the increasing presence of physical barriers in our public places. The real nature of the terrorist threat is the gradual shutting down the processes of an open society.
Source: WorldNetDaily “Why I support missile strikes” Aug 28, 1998

On Health Care: Universal health ID’s are a threat to liberty

Clinton & Congress [are moving forward with] assigning everybody a unique health ID card, providing centralized access to medical records and other personal information. When “identity” becomes a federal government-issued privilege, it becomes a direct threat to our liberty. The fundamental job of Congress is to protect our liberty, not “rationalize” our health insurance for us. We will lose liberty to somebody who wants to take our freedom so that he can help us.
Source: WorldNetDaily “The national ID number ” Jul 24, 1998

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