Gentlemen:To the Republican Platform Planning Committee (28 March 1994)
Gentlemen:
I have answered your poll according to my best judgment. I regret that the tenor of the poll seems to indicate that you see all this as "business as usual." In fact, however, the next few years will determine whether America will even continue to exist.
In 1944, I participated in the Warsaw Insurrection and was taken to Germany as a Prisoner of War. While Warsaw fought, Stalin's Red Army sat on the other side of the Vistula River, letting the Germans do the dirty work of killing Poles zealous for their country's independence. In 1945, having been liberated by the British Army, I decided not to return to what was now Communist Poland. A Polish radio broadcast announcing that I, as a former member of the Underground, had been sentenced to ten years in jail proved the correctness of the decision.
In 1952, I came to the United States. I was soon terrified by the direction in which America was going, by the evidence of subversion and increasing decadence in the churches, the schools, the justice system, and so on. I remember discussing all this with an agent of the FBI, a former Army intelligence officer. He told me that my observations were entirely correct; the problem was not that the rot was unrecognized, but that the entire subject was not of interest to politicians who did not want to hurt their re-election chances by bringing up issues which were "unpopular" with their constituents. He urged me to go into politics and to "scream" about this matter. Although my circumstances kept me from going into politics, I have now been screaming for forty-two years. My rewards have been words of praise from those who have read my letters in various newspapers and a signed photograph from President Reagan [see above left]. So much by way of introduction. I will return to some of this later.
Now some comments about my answers to your questions. First I turn to your Omnibus Question.
No doubt about my "yes" concerning the Federal deficit; it will destroy America.
Also no doubt about my "yes" concerning crime. America's crime statistics are the highest in the world. Everyone talks about it; no one does anything. American "law," instead of repressing crime, is a scandal by which lawyers make money by setting professional criminals free. The only possible answer is two-fold. First, law-abiding citizens should be positively encouraged to obtain firearms and to defend themselves, their families, and their property. Second, anyone using a firearm to commit a felony should be tried by a special court, found guilty, condemned to death, and hanged within three months. [Webmaster's Note: In a February 1992 letter to Patrick Buchanan, Mr. Bakierowski indicates that this is exactly what was done in Poland after the First World War to restore order.]
Abortion: there can be no question in any decent mind that abortion is the murder of a living human being. Its widespread acceptance since your f–king Supreme court first legalized it is all the evidence that one needs of the moral rottenness of today's American society.
Education: you even ask about this? In the entire Western world, America has the highest illiteracy rate.
Now let us turn to your more detailed questions.
Section 2: The Economy. While we obviously need to balance the budget, I would prefer us not to tinker with the Constitution, lest we encourage tinkering precisely from those who are out to destroy what is left of it.
Section 3: Immigration. Welfare for illegal immigrants? If you even need to ask about this, you are plainly brainless. It is bad enough to subsidize our own home-grown freeloaders, even worse to subsidize foreign spongers. Why do we not just send checks to everybody in the world??? Idiotic.
Section 3: Abortion. Certainly law cannot prohibit everything which is morally evil or command everything which is morally good. The law can and should, however, prohibit and punish what is clearly murder. At a minimum, this issue should be returned to the states, almost every one of which had laws, before they were overturned by the Supreme Court, to discourage abortion.
Section 3: Gun Control. On the one hand, the Constitution assures us the right to keep and bear arms. On the other hand, the Supreme Court, the other courts, and the ACLU aid and abet criminals. Today, more than ever, with the government both unable and unwilling to do anything effective about crime, the law-abiding citizen needs to have the means of self-protection.
Section 4: Health Care. While I would like to see those in real need get health care, I am utterly opposed to the government's giving such care. I note that the Medicare which I get today is less generous than the help that some third-generation "poor" people on welfare are getting today.
Section 5: Education. While the old one-room schoolhouses gave their students an education that enabled them to build a strong America, today's schools produce diplomaed idiots, primarily because the teachers' unions and their government counterparts use preconditioning, indoctrination, and manipulation to produce people who will fit into the schemes of the policy makers, especially those behind the scenes. Education is the right and the responsibility of parents; the Federal government should altogether get out of the business.
Section 6: Foreign Policy. I am in favor of an American leadership role, simply because I do not see anyone who can or will defend America's world-wide interests if America does not do it for itself. Consider, however, whether this country can exercise a leadership role when many of its students cannot even find their own country on a map!
You ask about homosexuals in the military. Please note that, under the Roman Republic, the penalty for homosexual acts by men in the army was death. The Romans, of course, unlike us, were serious about their army. I will add that the participation of women in the armed forces should be curtailed drastically and, better yet, eliminated altogether. If newspaper reports indicate that the armed forces are having trouble getting quality recruits today, that may be precisely because the kinds of men whom we would like to see in uniform are unwilling to become part of a "political correctness" experiment which has nothing to do with serving and defending one's country.
One thing, I note, you did not ask about; there was not a single question concerning the national defense as such. Here we come full circle to my introduction. Poland was enslaved by the Soviet Union because Roosevelt, as stinking a piece of slime as ever occupied the White House, sold it out to his friend Stalin. Today, despite all of its troubles, Russia remains a superpower. While its army may have fallen apart, its Strategic Rocket Forces are still capable of ending our national existence. If our unilateral disarmament and "denuclearization" continue, Russia may soon be able to do exactly that — and to get away with it. It may yet happen that, because of our stupidity and ignorance, Russia will become the instrument by which America is punished for both its betrayals of its friends into Communism and for its own moral corruption.
Finally, I would like to comment on your 1996 Presidential Preference Poll. Some of the names are almost unknown to me. The names which I recognize include members of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Freemason, and a lot of "business as usual" politicians. William Bennett seems to understand that America's crisis is primarily moral, but he is unknown to most Americans and, as a "Big Government Conservative," may support the same growth of the Federal government which has contributed to our corruption. Pat Buchanan seems also to understand that our crisis is primarily moral in nature, but he is a demagogue and his isolationism is simply irresponsible in what continues to be a very dangerous world. Bob Dole has the right resume, but I doubt that he has the guts and the brains to save America, or even to realize that it is in need of being saved.
For years, Americans cast their presidential votes on the basis of their judgment concerning who was the better man for the office. Of late, they have generally voted against the man whom they considered to be worse for the office. Although they generally despise both parties, the "achievements" of Clinton and Co. give the Republicans an exceptional opportunity to regain the White House in 1996. Bad as Clinton is, however, you cannot fight something with nothing, with "more of the same," with more "business as usual."
The very fact of your poll, conveying as it does that directly opposite positions are equally acceptable to the Republican Party, as long as a majority is in favor of them, provides evidence that the Party may have neither ideas nor convictions.
Yours very truly,
Waclaw Bakierowski.