Neal Boortz
June 12, 2001

OK, that's what you will see. Now for what you won't see or hear. You won't hear that NOT ONE of these European nations has ratified the Kyoto Treaty. It is universally repudiated. You won't hear that the U.S. Senate sent the Kyoto Treaty packing by a unanimous vote. Not one Senator voted for it.

You'll also have to read long and far to find out that some former Clintonistas – Clinton administration officials – are now saying that the Kyoto Treaty is flawed and that it would cost American consumers at least twice as much as the original Clinton administration estimates. For instance, how about a 70-cent increase in the price of each gallon of gasoline?

Remember – it's not so much what the media tells you. It's also about what the media doesn't tell you.

Remember – The Man's a Socialist

Ted Turner is at it again. He's on the anti-Bush bandwagon, slamming Bush for actually wanting to make sure that American business and industry have the energy they need to remain viable and to continue producing one-fourth of the world's goods and services.

It's so easy, isn't it, Ted! Because Bush comes from an energy background, you can climb on your anti-capitalist podium and say that Bush is just trying to fatten the pockets of his oil buddies with his energy policies.

Remember, friends. Yes, there are true environmentalists out there who simply want to see appropriate steps taken to protect the air we breathe and the water we drink. But the environmental movement has become home to the old communist and socialist movements once left homeless by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Their goal is not so much a clean environment as it is the end of capitalism and the crippling of the industrial and business might of the United States.

Let's take the Kyoto Treaty, for instance. Turner says that the U.S. is now being called a rogue state because of Bush's repudiation of this treaty. Why didn't Turner mention that only one nation (of such insignificance I can't even remember its name) has ratified this treaty?

Remember – Turner has expressed his admiration of socialism. Now he's just expressing his unbridled admiration for a treaty that will bring his dream to fruition.

And the Name of the Submarine Is …

Remember Tom Clancy's "The Hunt for Red October"? Fantastic book and a great movie. It's all about a technologically advanced Russian (Soviet) submarine that could sneak through the world's oceans virtually undetected to project Soviet power.

Well, fiction becomes reality. The Russians have now launched a new advanced submarine they claim to be the world's quietest.

In Clancy's book they named the submarine after the month that the Russian Revolution began, October.

We must assume that the Russians are going to follow suit and name the new submarine after another hero to the Russian state. They're calling it the Gephardt.

Behind the Demand for Power Plant Takeovers We Find …

… Our old friend, organized labor.

Out there on the left coast California labor unions are really excited about the idea of a government seizure of power plants and other energy sources. And just why would that be? Because labor unions thrive and flourish in a government atmosphere. In the public sector labor unions are floundering. Their only real strength is in the government sector – organizing government employees.

If the power plants were taken over by government, the power plant employees would become government employees. This would mean more political strength for the union posses.

Free enterprise? Do these labor unions give a damn about free enterprise? Not when their personal power is at stake, they don't.

Want Your Voice Heard on the United Nations?

After the debacle over the U.N. Human Rights Commission, many Americans are starting to doubt whether the U.S. should continue to be such an active participant in the various schemes of this wannabe world government. The Heritage Foundation is running a little online poll. The questions are fairly stated and worthy of your consideration. Here's your link: http://surveys.heritage.org/showsurvey.cfm?sid=2&cid=1&rsrc=opalert

Criticize the Imperial Federal Government? Then You're Like Timothy McVeigh

The execution of Timothy McVeigh has afforded various idiots the opportunity to slam me and all other conservative or libertarian talk show hosts. I knew it was coming – and even looked forward to it!

I can summarize the e-mail messages rather easily. I am a critic of big government. McVeigh was a critic of government. McVeigh killed 168 people by bombing a federal office building. Since I share a suspicion of big government with McVeigh, this means that I share the blame for the bombing.

No surprise here. It's leftist logic at work. The people who send me these messages are intellectually incapable of calling to argue with me point-for-point on the threat to freedom brought by big government. They just wait for a violent act against a government target and yell "See what you caused?"

The Race Card Wins Again!

It's so easy – almost fashionable – to cry racism to get what you want nowadays.

Case in point: Chicago's Southside Catholic Conference. It's an athletic league of 21 Catholic grammar schools. Representatives from each school recently voted on whether to admit the St. Sabina School to the league.

The vote was a close 11 to 9, with one school missing the vote. Most of the schools that voted against admitting St. Sabina were concerned for the safety of their children. That's because the neighborhood around St. Sabina has a high crime rate.

Just how high is the crime rate? Many of the conference schools are in Evergreen Park, where there was one murder, seven assaults, and 23 robberies in 1999. In the district where St. Sabina sits, there were 30 murders, 1,877 assaults, and 1,208 robberies that same year!

Reverend Michael Pfleger is the pastor of St. Sabina's Church. His response to the vote not to bring St. Sabina into the league was to cry racism! Racism! All those racist white parents want to keep their kids from interacting with the mostly-black students of St. Sabina.

It's also worth noting that Pfleger's own foster son was killed by stray gang gunfire in the neighborhood. Pfleger insists that kind of violence can happen anywhere, anytime. Sure, Reverend. It can – but it doesn't. Just check the statistics for the Chicago Police.

Are Pfleger's accusations of racism working? You bet they are. Officials of the Archdiocese of Chicago agree with Pfleger. Last Thursday, conference officials announced that they'd vote again later in the month.

I think we know how this vote is going to go, now that the race-baiters in Chicago have the local Catholic schools running scared.

Another Jesse Jackson Shakedown

Meet 49-year-old Eddie Edwards. He's the owner of Glencairn Ltd. It's a Pittsburgh-based company that manages several TV stations owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group. The Sinclair Broadcast Group helped Edwards to launch his career as a television executive with a 1991 loan. Sinclair is owned by a white family. Edwards is black.

Three years ago, Edwards tried to sell his management business to Sinclair. But the Federal Communications Commission got involved – thanks to Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. Rainbow/PUSH filed several petitions with the FCC to block the sale. The chair of the FCC at the time was Bill Kennard, a friend of the Sloganmaster.

What's the gist of the Rainbow/PUSH complaints? They say Eddie Edwards is just a minority front man for a white-owned company. Jackson's complaints have held up Edwards' business plans for three years ... and cost him a pretty penny.

Jackson has a track record when it comes to media mergers. His group filed FCC petitions in 1999 to block several media mergers. But they reversed their position in each case – and by the end of the year they had received sizeable contributions and other gifts from the companies involved.

Edwards, however, refuses to cave in to Jackson's shakedown tactics. He refuses to join the growing list of companies that feed Rainbow/PUSH protection money to avoid boycotts and bad press. He says "there's absolutely no way" he'll give in to Jackson.

This is how Jesse Jackson operates, my friends. He finds something that's not to like about a corporation – say, not enough blacks in management positions – and goes to the management. He threatens a boycott or a protest outside the corporate offices. He threatens to bring news cameras and reporters. What does he ask in return? Oh, only a modest donation to the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. The executives pay up, and Jackson goes away ... for a little while, at least, until he decides he wants more money. Or favors for his family and friends. Like that Anheuser-Busch beer distributorship he got for his sons Yusef and Jonathan after targeting the brewing company for protests.

The only way for Jesse Jackson to lose his grip on national race relations is for businesses and the public to just ignore him. Given his talent for seizing the spotlight, that's not likely to happen soon.

Fish Versus Humans ... Again

The National Marine Fisheries Service is worried about the Chinook salmon. Which means residents of Idaho are about to get screwed.

Federal officials say the Idaho Power Company needs to release more water out of its Brownlee Reservoir before the end of July to help the salmon migrate downstream. Recent drought conditions have hindered the migration of young salmon to the Pacific Ocean.

How much water does the fisheries service want to force Idaho Power to release? 360,000 acre-feet. That's enough to submerge 360,000 acres of land under 1 foot of water. For those of you who live in north Georgia, it's about one-fifth of all the water in Lake Lanier. It's enough water to flush a toilet 29.3 billion times!

Idaho Power used to be reimbursed for flushing water for salmon. This time, though, the fisheries service wants the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to order the flush without compensating Idaho Power.

It's not just the free flush Idaho Power is worried about. Electricity rates for Idaho Power's 384,000 customers could rise, too, since there would be less water available for generating power.

All of this, apparently, matters little to the Imperial Federal Government. State political leaders are furious that the feds want to impose their will on state waters.

But, hey. This is the federal government we're talking about. Everything in this country belongs to the government, except for some money they let us keep every now and then.

Neal Boortz is the hugely popular nationally syndicated radio host.