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Show The Paper That Dares To Take 'A A Stand November 24, 1977 The Utah Independent' Page 3 GUEST ARTICLE Olsnservativc Speaks on the It was a Rockefeller show, biased in favor of the giveaway of the Canal. Bill Moyers ran the is He written up in the program. Biographical Dictionary of the Left. He is a member of the Rockefeller elitest club, the Council on Foreign Relations (the CFR). Moyers may not be a member of the Trilateral Commission, but he didn't need to be because one of his propagandists in favor of the giveaway was Zbigniew Brzezinski, who is written up in the Dictionary, is a member of the CFR, and is one of the founders of the Trilateral Commission (an inner circle of CFR men who, along with some foreigners, are bent on ending U.S. sovereignty). In fact. David Rockefeller used Brzezinski to indoctrinate Jimmy Carter when Jimmy, after proper brain washing, was plucked out of relative obscurity and made our President by the POLITICAL ANALYST by FREEING Panama of the American "YOKE". Nothing was said about the NEW YOKE just put on Angola and Mozambique by Russia, working through puppet Castro. Nothing was said about interfering with the internal affairs of Rhodesia and South Africa, trying to bring about a ONE MAN, ONE Beginning Douglas If you speak what you the truth about our think nation's defense, and if that is not what the INSIDERS want, OFF COMES YOUR HEAD. No mention was made on Moyer's show of the three distinguished RETIRED military leaders who have so forcefully pointed out the grave danger of handing over our Canal dictator. to a McArthur. is ist There was a which rag-ta- g sob-scen- e in Panamanians GOVERNMENT, while we do not raise the same loud, public clamor when it comes to about 39 other African states being ruled by bloody dictators, to many of whom the slaughter, imprisonment or exile of thousands of fellow blacks is all in a day's savage fun. It w'as good that the U.S., France and Britain balked, in the U.N.. at total sanctions against South Africa. Somebody is getting the message past doorkeeper black racist Andrew Young that South Africa is packed with minerals and metals (such as chromium without which stainless steel cannot be made) that the western nations and Japan MUST HAVE. yearned for independence in the way our forefathers yearned for it when under British rule. The difference is that Panamanians do not have INDEPENDENCE now in their own country, which is a brutal, repressive dictatorship. These giveaway artists should try to give some freedom to Russians. Chinese. Cubans and Panamanians, before they stage a tearful program about Panama yearning to be out from under U.S. colonial" control. If the Senate ratifies the Canal treaty, not one Panamanian will be any less under the dictator yoke of Torrijos. Much was made of our setting an example to the rest of the world South Africa cracked down on some newspapers. So what? Somebody ought to be able to prevent CBS from producing warped, propagandists shows like the one on Panama. In this coun-- . try, judging by the way the crime statistics and our coming bankruptcy are covered up, 1 sometimes think a marginal curtailment of the managed media might help at least some way to hold Pima them accountable promoting untruth. for In South Africa the Communist party is outlawed. But a Communist influenced press can of keep up a drum-be- at lies that would tear up the fabric of an orderly society. In a recent U.N. debate, NOT ONE WORD was quoted from those articles in the S.A. press that caused the government to say, You have gone too far. Closing down a few papers doesn't compare with the Soviet iron curtain and Berlin wall that make slaves out of 230 million walled-i- n unfortunates. Every U.N. debate is disgustingly one sided. anti-governm- ent County Republican Gub - March 8, 1977. In addition to being one of the five Pima County Suprevisors, Conrad Joyner is professor of political science at the University of Arizona. If you like what he says you may want to write to him co the Pima County Courthouse in Tucson, Arizona. Then send a copy to your own elected officials. VOTE THE TOOTH KINGMAKERS. Also, the public is waking up. You can count on it that when The greatest media clamor for putthe Polish Brzezinski (a ting the black savage nations in naturalized citizen only since 1958) charge of white Rhodesia came and the liberal golden boy Bill about when Carter was wooing the Moyers are on a given side, it is the black electoral vote here (he got side of the Rockefellers. Those of over 90 of it). Now that he is in, you who saw the show saw only a until we oust him in 1980, the heat superficial debate". No mention on South Africa is abating a bit. Of course the issue will be kept was made of the Panama dictator known Communist before us by the managed media. A Torrijos background, and his friendship black on a hunger strike in a South African jail. He dies. DAYS with Castro. LATER they say he died of head One member of our Chiefs of injuries. He may have decided to Staff spoke FOR the giveaway. make of himself a martyr, and Rut we all know what happens to skimmed his head against cell bars. men in the military who DO NOT WHO KNOWS? YOU wont find TOE THE INSIDER" LINE. out. with to Joyner COLUMNIST LECTURER hour documentary" Panama Canal issue. Thomas 0. Breitling The following article is an excerpt of remarks by Conrad E.P. THORNTON CBS on Nov. 2nd had a one By (IDiif FAIRY IS NOT REAL by Conrad Joyner Consolidated government is a fashionable reform, like "civil service" and merit selection of judges" which is obsolete before it becomes completely or universally Unfortunately, implemented. and intelligent many business and professional people grew up when such panaceas were in vogue. They spend little time studying the actual application of reforms since they were told, many years ago, that ideas such as metro government were the wave of the future. Far too much energy is used discussing concepts and ideas such as these whose original proponents have long since been debunked and whose once original reform" proposals have long ago sunk to the level of cliches. Politically, these reforms are so many Easter Bunnies and Tooth Fairies. Unfortunately, the gullible and the naive actually believe in them. well-meani- ng REDUCE GOVT. SIZE? We are told by the proponents of consolidation (or metro or unigov or whatever it is called in different locales) that it will reduce the size of government. We are The size of never told how. be government can only reduced by getting rid of the total number of em ployees employees and the various tools they use. from filing cabinets to automobiles, from buildings to road graders, are what government make governmental budgets. Rearranging them, absorbing them, calling them something else none of this gets rid of anybody. The of proponents tell never you who they plan to get rid of, if they plan to get rid of anyone at all. Just unify everything, and government will be cheaper. How? All evidence, in fact, leads to the opposite conclusion. Take MUM as an examconsol-metro-unig- ov ple. MUM was a pilot project for everything the proponents of consolidated government want, and ckiim will save you money. It was a combination of the City Water Department and the County and City Sanitation Departments. What happened? Since the City and County operations were housed separately and neither had enough space to take in the other, additional space had to be acquired to accommodate the new consolidated agency. The acquisition of the former Pioneer Title Bldg, at a cost to the taxpayer of $1.5 million is directly attributable to MUM. (Ironically, the building never housed MUM.) DISECONOMIES OF SCALE Next, since the agency was now twice as large as the two agencies it absorbed, the administrative staff of the combined agency was entitled to higher salaries because they were supervising more people. None of the people in middle management could be demoted because they were still supervising the same folks they had before. The administrative staff would have grown larger, and their overhead would have increased proportionately. No one working for government would have stopped working for government. The net amount of office space occupied by government would have increased, not decreased. No cars or desks or typewriters used by the government employees would have felt the auctioneers gavel except when they were replaced by newer models befitting the prestige of a new consolidated agency. The bottom line on MUM was it would have cost the taxpayers more than the present City County systems. Again, this is but a sample of what consolidated government w'ould. in reality, be like. I ask metro's proponents to explain how their plan, in reality, would work any different or save any money. I believe their scheme would cost more money to the taxpayers I am I find inelected to represent. creased costs more than sufficient reason to oppose metro. But I find an even more significant reason to oppose metro. CRISIS IN AMERICA Democracy in America is slowly reaching a crisis. The increase in by all segments of the electorate grows annually. People who run for office make promises to solve problems. Then, after they are elected, little or nothing does happen. The electorate becomes even more cynical, frustrated, and I feels increasingly impotent. sympathize with the voters. As an elected official working daily, not only with my colleagues in Pima County and our bureaucracy, but with a myriad of appointed bureaucrats at all levels of government, I am bewildered. The frustration and impotence is not possessed solely by those who vote for public officials such as myself. I share those emotions constantly as 1 deal with state, local, and national bureaucrats. Something very sad has happened to representative government in America. We are no longer governed by those we elected to govern us. non-participat- TOM BREITLING should be apparent to anyone familiar with the constitutions of any Latin American country presently run mostly by army officers. The constitutions of those nations, mostly modeled on our own, are excellent documents and beautiful policy" unfortunately they suffer from their present implementation". To separate policy and its implementation is to attempt to square the circle, to search for the Holy Grail, to believe in the Tooth Fairy. People elected to public office find that most of the substance of their office doesnt exist and wonder why. The answer is simply that their predecessors have given so much of the power to make decisions away to the unelected bureaucracy that they are little more than ombudsmen for their constituents. Moreover, this ombudsmen role can only be fulfilled if the will allow officeholders sufficient and correct in information. Democracy America is slowly giving away to what is, at its best, technocracy, and at its worst, the tyranny of bureaucracy no better than the feudal barons because it is masked in expertise and jargon. Expertise and jargon are designed to fulfill the bureaucrats first law that bureaucrats are out to protect their bureaucracy rear ends. GOVERNMENT BY EXPERTS I find too Unfortunately, much of the proexpert mentality in the proponents of consolidated government. Their proposal would abolish many of those governmental functions still held by elected officials, and replace them with appointed bureaucrats all in the name of efficiency". They would erode much of the popular government that still exists on the county level. I must oppose this trend, as I opposed those who successfully took from the people their right to select their judges two years ago. This trend is to be greatly feared. It is time for those of us who still have AMERICA RUN BY faith in the democratic process to BUREAUCRATS & JUDGES do more than simply oppose these America today is run by constant erosions of people's bureaucrats and judges, all of the rights. former and most of the latter elected by no one. It is they, not TAKE BACK POWERS those of us chosen by the people, It is time for us to admit our who make most of the decisions own political impotence, whether Their power is caused by our actions, our that matter. growing, our power is d iminishing. colleagues actions, the actions of We as a nation have collectively our predecessors, or a combination bought the myth that the elected of them. It is time for us to take officials set policy and that the back from that great unelected bureaucrats bureaucracy the powers and resmainly "implement" that policy. ponsibilities that we have allowed The ultimate fallacy of the self-appoint- anti-democrat- ic, ed policy implementation logic Continued on page .7 |