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35 REASONS NOT TO VOTE FOR AL GORE, JR.

1. Gore thinks "human civilization is now the dominant cause
of change in the global environment." Nevermind the sun, the
oceans, volcanoes, and other natural phenomena that actually
do control the environment.

2. Gore believes that "industrial civilization" is engaged in
a "terrible onslaught against the natural world." Of course,
without industrial civilization, we'd all be riding horses and
growing our own food. Forget about cars, computers, air
conditioning, television, telephones, plastic,
pharmaceuticals, et cetera.

3. Gore's "strategic goal" is to "eliminate the internal
combustion engine" by the year 2020. This particular kind of
engine can be found in automobiles, trucks, vans, and a whole
host of labor saving devices.

4. Gore believes that the "cumulative impact" of automobiles
"is posing a mortal threat to the security of every nation
more deadly than that of any military enemy we are ever again
likely to confront."

5. Caught making campaign finance calls from the White House,
something that is against the law, Gore declared that there
was "no controlling legal authority" regarding this improper
behavior. Like any longtime legislator, he knew federal law
prohibits soliciting campaign funds in a federal building.

6. Gore favored a government crackdown on the tiny trickle of
electricity used by devices like television sets, whether they
are on or not, because it results in a steady emission of
carbon dioxide. All his talk of greenhouse gases and global
warming ignores the fact that 95% of all carbon
dioxide produced annually comes from the evaporation of water
from the oceans, decaying organic matter, and the respiration
of human beings and animals.

7. In October 1997, Gore told television weathermen gathered
at the White House that global warming could be eliminated if
the over-population of Third World nations could be
controlled. This is a kind of Final Solution approach. The
entire population of the world could live in Texas.
Populations in industrialized, prosperous nations have
steadily decreased.

8. Gore was responsible in having Timothy Wirth named
Undersecretary of State. Wirth is on record saying, "Even if
the theory of global warming is wrong, to have approached
global warming as if it is real means energy conservation, so
we are doing the right thing anyway in terms of economic
policy and environmental policy." Since there is no global
warming (the earth hasn't warmed in over 50 years), this is a
justification for a bad policy based on bad science. Wirth now
administers Ted Turner's billion-dollar gift to the United
Nations.

9. Gore has pushed hard to make environmentalism the basis for
our foreign policy. He called it "a turning point in US
foreign policy." A turn for the worse since national security
and the advancement of our economic growth is widely regarded
as a sound basis for foreign policy.

10. While the economy of Japan remains stagnant, Gore advised
them in 1997 to agree to "limit carbon monoxide and other
greenhouse gases" by supporting the much-disputed UN Treaty on
Climate Control. This treaty exempts nations that *******
China and India. The US Senate is on record saying it will
never approve it.

11. Gore attended an April 29, 1996, campaign fundraising event
at the Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple in Hacienda Heights, California
and then called it "a community outreach" program. Three
months earlier, his own staff had told him it was a
fundraiser.

12. During his Democratic nomination speech, Gore told of his
grief over the death of his sister caused by her having smoked
cigarettes. He neglected to mention that his family's fortune
had been based on raising tobacco in Tennessee and that the
family farm continued to do so for years after her death or
that he continued to accept tobacco industry political action
committee money through his re-election as Senator in l990.

13. Gore once told reporters that Eric Segal's novel, "Love
Story", was based on the romance between himself and his wife
Tipper. When Segal said this was nonsense, he disclaimed his
statement calling it "a miscommunication."

14. Gore has compared the "struggle to save the environment"
to "the struggle to vanquish Hitler" adding that this time
"the war is with ourselves." Apparently, the entire human race
is now the enemy.

15. Gore advocates that the United Nations consider "the idea
of establishing a Stewardship Council to deal with matters
relating to the global environment." In other words, give the
UN total control over the actions and decisions of sovereign
nations worldwide. Meanwhile, the UN already has a plan for
"global governance" complete with the ability to tax nations,
set up its own permanent army, and now has an international
court which can indict and convict American citizens.

16. Gore has written that the "deforestation of Haiti, perhaps
as much as the repression of the Duvalier regime" was the
cause of Haitian immigration, numbering over a million,
legally and illegally, to the US. Sure, they all left because
trees were chopped down.

17. Gore once claimed that, if the Republicans didn't go along
with the Clinton Administration's environmental legislation,
"our drinking water would be dirtier; (it) would make more
people sick, and would kill more people." This is typical of
his habit of overstatement and harsh attacks on opponents of
his beliefs.

18. Gore has claimed during a 1999 interview with CNN's Wolf
Blitzer that "During my service in the United States Congress,
I took the initiative in creating the Internet." The
preliminary discussions for the creation of the Internet took
place in 1967 and, in 1969, the Defense Department
commissioned the creation of the "Arpanet." Gore was 2l years
old at the time and it would be eight more years before he was
elected to the US House of Representatives.

19. Gore was a supporter of the creation of the so-called
"Superfund" to clean up toxic sites. It was supposed to be a
short-term program costing $1.6 billion. The program still
exists and has cost more than $30 billion without having
successfully cleaning up more than a fraction of sites.

20. Gore was an advocate of the "V-chip" to permit parents to
block out programming they considered inappropriate for their
children. It is widely regarded as a complete failure.

21. Despite the viewing public's disenchantment with the
television show, "Ellen", starring Ellen DeGeneris, an
outspoken advocate of the lesbian lifestyle, Gore lauded the
star for "forcing" millions of Americans to "look at sexual
orientation in a more open light." They stopped looking and
the show was canceled.

22. A comparison between the statements found in Gore's book,
"Earth in the Balance", and the "Manifesto" of the Unibomber,
demonstrates that it is impossible to determine which one is
the author of which statement. (See "How to Tell the
Difference Between Al Gore and the Unabomber" on this site.)

23. Gore is on record declaring William Jefferson Clinton as
one of the greatest Presidents of modern times.

24. Gore has placed some of the most radical advocates of
environmentalism in posts throughout the Clinton
Administration, first of whom would be Carol M. Browner,
director of the Environmental Protection Agency. The bad
science, bad laws, and lies coming out of this single agency
will impact the US economy for years to come. Another Gore
appointee, the former director of the White House Council on
Environmental Quality, Kathleen McGinty, has resigned to play
a role in his presidential campaign. There are others too
numerous to name.

25. Gore was put in charge of "reinventing government" in the
Clinton Administration, but not a single union job was found
expendable. Nearly three-fourths of the positions that were
eliminated came from the Defense Department, which lost 16% of
its civilian jobs. Many other jobs that were supposedly
eliminated were "privatized", using government contracts.
Other reductions came from retirements. The Federal Register
of new laws and regulations has increased dramatically during
the term of the Clinton-Gore Administration.

26. During the 1992 campaign, Gore said that the government
should fund the "information highway", but reversed himself
the following year saying the private sector should pay for
it.

27. The Gore family had close, personal ties to oil magnate,
Armand Hammer. After his defeat as Senator, Al GoreSr.,
given a $500,000 a year job to head up the Occidental
Petroleum's coal division. Hammer, however, was a longtime
Soviet agent, a personal friend of Lenin and the only American
to receive the Order of Lenin from the then Soviet government.
Today, Al GoreJr., as co-chairman of the US-Russian
Joint Commission on Economic and Technical Cooperation, better
known as the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission.

28. Despite being provided with evidence in 1995 by the
Central Intelligence Agency of the personal corruption of
Victor S. Chernomyrdin, Gore dismissed the findings and did
not want to receive further reports.

29. Gore's advocacy of the widely disputed global warming
theory led him to blame it for everything from floods in North
Dakota, droughts in Texas, and forest fires in Florida. One
would think that floods, droughts and forest fires had never
occurred before, but history reveals they are a common annual
occurrence.

30. Gore did serve briefly in Vietnam, but his assertion that
he came under enemy fire is false. He served as a journalist
behind the front lines and never saw combat.

31. While a journalist in Tennessee, Gore said that his
reporting "put people in prison." An examination of the record
shows this did not occur and he admitted that he lied about
this.

32. Both Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, have admitted to being
"recreational" marijuana smokers when he attended Harvard. The
Clinton-Gore Administration is notorious for having failed to
stem the flow of drugs into the country.

33. When President Clinton gave misleading testimony about his
relationship with Monica Lewinsky to the Grand Jury and the
tapes were shown on television in September 1998, Gore
characterized his behavior saying, "My overall impression was
that it was much ado about not much new."

34. On a visit to New Hampshire in 1998, Gore predicted that
Clinton would end his term in office "with a distinguished
record and will go down in history as a virtuoso performance,
producing economic recovery and an American renaissance with
new solutions to problems once thought impossible to solve."
Most people believe Clinton has disgraced himself and the
office of the Presidency. The nation's economic success is
attributed to the end of the Cold War and the former Soviet
Union. Policies administered by Alan Greenspan, chairman of
the Federal Reserve are also credited. By contrast, the
Clinton Administration has been engaged in efforts to purchase
more of the nations landmass to put it off limits to any
development or the use of our natural resources. The Clinton-
Gore Administration has attacked major industries that *******
tobacco and one of the most successful corporate enterprises,
Microsoft.

35. Gore once accused then President Bush of having "taken our
tax dollars and subsidized the moving of US factories to
foreign countries", but omitted that the program he was
describing, the Caribbean Basin Initiative, was one for which
he had voted when he served in the Senate.

For these and many other reasons, Al Gore, Jr. is a proven,
accomplished liar, an environmental fanatic, and co-equal with
President Clinton in the cover-up of