ry King. Clinton later appeared with arnsad face to comfort the widow, reminiscentrnof the famous shot of the Presidentrnleaving Ron Brown’s funeral, laughingrnwith an aide until he spied a video camerarnaimed at him, whereupon he weptrncrocodile tears. As for the late lamentedrnSecretarv of Commerce, Ruddy has recentlyrnuncovered the fact—confirmedrnby tw’o Army pathologists—that Brown,rnwho ma’ have been about to save hisrnown skin at Clinton’s expense, apparentlyrndid not die of his plane crash injuries,rnhaving suffered a .45 caliber bulletrnwound to the head and a “lead snowstorm”rnin his brain. The Army, which refusedrnto have an autopsy performed atrnthe time, claims that the X rays showingrnthe bullet fragments, although takenrnon a nev’ machine, were defective andrnthat later films show no such fragments.rnHowever, the X rays allegedly showingrnno lead in Brown’s brain have “disappeared.”rn(Christopher Ruddy has arnsuperb website, by the way, for thernlatest on all of this and more:rnmnv. ruddynews.com).rnAmbrose Evans-Pritchard’s and ChristopherrnRuddy’s books have beenrnsmeared, even in the conservative press,rnas the work of loons. There are, broadlyrnspeaking, two opposing ways to view thernstate. The first sees it as a sodalit}’ of public-rnspirited t)’pes dedicated to the commonwealrnand the national interest.rnSince these people are thought truly tornrepresent us —indeed, in a democracy,rnto belong to us —they are presumed asrnwell to have our best interests at heart. Inrnpursuit of these interests they feed thernhungr)’, educate the young, and punishrnevildoers here and around the world.rnThe American government, accordingrnto this way of thinking, is a veritable fontrnof truth. Virtually never has it donernwrong, and then only by mistake.rnThe opposing view holds the state tornbe a criminal cabal, hi order to gain thernconsent of the governed on which allrnstates rely, it pretends a hypocritical concernrnfor the public welfare. The only differencernbetween private thugs and thernstate, as a 19th-century anarchist pointedrnout, is that gardcn-variet)’ crooks do notrnst)le themselves the Honorable—or tellrnus, as they demand our money or our lifern(sometimes taking both), that the forfeiturernis for our own good, hi this viewrnWashington, D.C., to keep the publicrnfrom catching on to the racket of government,rnemploys the lie as a basic tool ofrngovernance.rnMessrs. Evans-Pritchard and Ruddyrnare not anarchists. Indeed, they are notrneven radicals. Their work takes a closernlook at several landmark events in thernhistor)’ of one American presidential administration.rnThe result, a hammerrnblow to the public-interest notion of government,rnoffers additional reasons forrndismantling the government of the UnitedrnStates as it exists today.rnThus left-liberal and neoconser’ativernpublications have dismissed The SecretrnLife of Bill Clinton and The StrangernDeath of Vincent Foster as “conspiracyminded”rn—a phrase t’pically employedrnto describe anyone who concludes thatrnour government is up to no good. Likernmost other politicallv driven smearrnterms, it should in fact apply to anyonernwho simply keeps his eyes and earsrnopen. crnR E G A R D I N G I M M I G R A T I O N .rnl.MMIGRATIONrn’NL’7!il. .rnAMF.RICA. iDHNTrrVrnA publication of The Rockford Institutern232 pp., paperrn$14.95 List Price (plus $2.50 for shipping & handling)rn44 Fl I or a decade, writers in Chronicles have beenrngrappling with this elemental and nation-breakingrnforce in their brilliant, often literary, sometimes histrionic,rninvariably idiosyncratic but undeniably diverse way. The presencernin this volume of California’s Governor Pete Wilson, easily reelectedrnsince his essay ‘Citizenship and Immigration’ first appearedrnin Chronicles^ November 1993 issue and now widely mentioned asrnthe possible catalyst of the immigration issue in presidential politics,rnis only one reason Chronicles^ editors can fairly say: you read it herernfirst.”rn—Peter BrimelowrnTo order by credit card, call: 1-800-397-8160rnOr send check or money order in the amount of $17.45 ($14.95+$2.50 shipping & handling) tornChronicles, P.O. Box 800, Mt. Morris, IL 61054rn*For immediate service, please list on payment or mention when ordering SOURCE CODE: A9509, andrn^ ^ . . ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ – — ^ ^ ^ _ ITEM CODE: MGRT. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^rn26/CHRONICLESrnrnrn