Miller Delivers Floor Speech on ‘Deficit of Decency’ in America

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Thursday, February 12, 2004

Miller Delivers Floor Speech on
Deficit of Decency in America

WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Zell Miller (D-GA) today delivered the following statement on the floor of the United States Senate addressing several social issues facing the country:

The Old Testament prophet Amos was a sheep herder who lived back in the Judean hills, away from the larger cities of Bethlehem and Jerusalem. Compared to the intellectual urbanites like Isaiah and Jeremiah, he was just an unsophisticated country hick.

But Amos had a unique grasp of political and social issues and his poetic literary skill was among the best of all the prophets. That familiar quote of Martin Luther King, Jr. about Justice will rush down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream are Amoss words.

Amos was the first to propose the concept of a universal God and not just some tribal deity. He also wrote that God demanded moral purity, not rituals and sacrifices. This blunt speaking moral conscience of his time warns in Chapter 8, verse 11 of The Book of Amos, as if he were speaking to us today:

That the days will come, sayeth the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land. Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the word of the Lord.

And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east. They shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.

A famine in the land. Has anyone more accurately described the situation we face in America today? A famine of hearing the words of the Lord.

But some will say, Amos was just an Old Testament prophet a minor one at that who lived 700 years before Christ. That is true, so how about one of the most influential historians of modern times?

Arnold Toynbee who wrote the acclaimed 12 volume A Study of History, once declared, Of the 22 civilizations that have appeared in history, 19 of them collapsed when they reached the moral state America is in today.

Toynbee died in 1975, before seeing the worst that was yet to come. Yes, Arnold Toynbee saw the famine. The famine of hearing the words of the Lord. Whether it is removing a display of the Ten Commandments from a Courthouse or the Nativity Scene from a city square. Whether it is eliminating prayer in schools or eliminating under God in the Pledge of Allegiance. Whether it is making a mockery of the sacred institution of marriage between a man and woman or, yes, telecasting around the world made-in-the-USA filth masquerading as entertainment.

The Culture of Far Left America was displayed in a startling way during the Super Bowls now infamous half-time show. A show brought to us courtesy of Value-Les Moonves and the pagan temple of Viacom-Babylon.

I asked the question yesterday, how many of you have ever run over a skunk with your car? I have many times and I can tell you, the stink stays around for a long time. You can take the car through a car wash and its still there. So the scent of this event will long linger in the nostrils of America.

Im not talking just about an exposed mammary gland with a pull-tab attached to it. Really no one should have been too surprised at that. Wouldnt one expect a bumping, humping, trashy routine entitled Im going to get you naked to end that way.

Does any responsible adult ever listen to the words of this rap-crap? Id quote you some of it, but the Sergeant of Arms would throw me out of here, as well he should. And then there was that prancing, dancing, strutting, rutting guy evidently suffering from jock itch because he kept yelling and grabbing his crotch. But then, maybe theres a crotch grabbing culture Ive unaware of.

But as bad as all this was, the thing that yanked my chain the hardest was seeing that ignoramus with his pointed head stuck up through a hole he had cut in the flag of the United States of America, screaming about having a bottle of scotch and watching lots of crotch. Think about that.

This is the same flag that we pledge allegiance to. This is the flag that is draped over coffins of dead young uniformed warriors killed while protecting Kid Crocks bony butt. He should be tarred and feathered, and ridden out of this country on a rail. Talk about a good reality show, theres one for you.

The desire and will of this Congress to meaningfully do anything about any of these so-called social issues is non existent and embarrassingly disgraceful. The American people are waiting and growing impatient with us. They want something done.

I am pleased to be a co-sponsor of S.J. Res. 26 along with Senator Allard and others, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to marriage. And S.1558, the Liberties Restoration Act, which declares religious liberty rights in several ways, including the Pledge of Allegiance and the display of the Ten Commandments. And today I join Senator Shelby and others with the Constitution Restoration Act of 2004 that limits the jurisdiction of federal courts in certain ways.

In doing so, I stand shoulder to shoulder not only with my Senate co-sponsors and Chief Justice Roy Moore of Alabama but, more importantly, with our Founding Fathers in the conception of religious liberty and the terribly wrong direction our modern judiciary has taken us in.

"Everyone today seems to think that the U.S. Constitution expressly provides for separation of church and state. Ask any ten people if thats not so. And Ill bet you most of them will say Well, sure. And some will point out, its in the First Amendment.

Wrong! Read it! It says, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Where is the word separate? Where are the words church or state.

They are not there. Never have been. Never intended to be. Read the Congressional Records during that four-month period in 1789 when the amendment was being framed in Congress. Clearly their intent was to prohibit a single denomination in exclusion of all others, whether it was Anglican or Catholic or some other.

I highly recommend a great book entitled Original Intent by David Barton. It really gets into how the actual members of Congress, who drafted the First Amendment, expected basic Biblical principles and values to be present throughout public life and society, not separate from it.

It was Alexander Hamilton who pointed out that judges should be bound down by strict rules and precedents, which serve to define and point out their duty. Bound down! That is exactly what is needed to be done. There was not a single precedent cited when school prayer was struck down in 1962.

These judges who legislate instead of adjudicate, do it without being responsible to one single solitary voter for their actions. Among the signers of the Declaration of Independence was a brilliant young physician from Pennsylvania named Benjamin Rush.

When Rush was elected to that First Continental Congress, his close friend Benjamin Franklin told him We need you. . . we have a great task before us, assigned to us by Providence. Today, 228 years later there is still a great task before us assigned to us by Providence. Our Founding Fathers did not shirk their duty and we can do no less.

By the way, Benjamin Rush was once asked a question that has long interested this Senator from Georgia in particular. Dr. Rush was asked, are you a democrat or an aristocrat? And the good doctor answered, I am neither. I am a Christocrat. I believe He, alone, who created and redeemed man is qualified to govern him. That reply of Benjamin Rush is just as true today in the year of our Lord 2004 as it was in the year of our Lord 1776.

So, if I am asked why with all the pressing problems this nation faces today why am I pushing these social issues and taking the Senates valuable time? I will answer: Because, it is of the highest importance. Yes, theres a deficit to be concerned about in this country, a deficit of decency.

So, as the sand empties through my hourglass at warp speed and with my time running out in this Senate and on this earth, I feel compelled to speak out. For I truly believe that at times like this, silence is not golden. It is yellow.

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[Inspectorette]

Sitting in the same chamber is a man drunken murderer called Ted Kennedy.

[cynicom]

In the same room and in the same political party. When people say they are a dem or a pub, I ask them what that means.

[gaspar]

Over a couple of MGDs, I noodled with a couple of friends trying to determine what present politicians would be worthy of inclusion in the Roman Senate during the early Republic period. We came up with Miller and Kyl. No one else. Actually, we had a lot of fun finding roles for our senators in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

[Lancey Howard]

But as bad as all this was, the thing that yanked my chain the hardest was seeing that ignoramus with his pointed head stuck up through a hole he had cut in the flag of the United States of America, screaming about having a bottle of scotch and watching lots of crotch. Think about that.

Wow! No wonder the Democrats have disowned him.

[concerned about politics]

Now, he shows himself to be a man both decent and honorable. Maybe he changed.

Confession. He's making amends with his maker. Repentance has to come before he dies. He's giving the country a warning. The nation should heed it.
We've seen the fruit of liberalism. It's rotted and diseased.

[bboop]

Perhaps you didnt think he was excellent in that way that parents get smarter when their kids get older. I wrote to him, suggesting that as soon as he was free of the Senate would he please run for President.

[Lancey Howard]

Sitting in the same chamber is a man called Ted Kennedy.

And Barbara Boxer and Patrick Leahy, Dick Durbin and John Edwards, Hillary Clinton and Harry Reid.....
I'm sure every one of these scumbag was appalled at Zel's speech.
You can just picture them listening and fidgeting and looking around.

[4CJ]

In his book he writes that he was so disgusted by the party that he no longer attends their Tuesday strategy meetings.

[cynicom]

When my friends tell me they vote democrat because they are
democrats, I can understand how such filth as Kennedy remains in the senate. Term limits should have been in play long ago. CSA in their constitution installed term limits. We being "wiser" did not.

[3catsanadog]

It's about time.

Trouble is, all the decent Congress critters are bowing out. God only knows what will replace them.

[3catsanadog]

Sitting in the same chamber is a man called Ted Kennedy. . . . .

. . . .burping up Chivas smelling breath and holding an ice bag on his hungover head.

[cynicom]

At the state of the union speech, Ole Ted looked like he was about a quart over full.

[Muzzle_em]

He is one good apple that is in a barrel of rotten ones.

He is an island in a sea of stupidity.

[hinterlander]

I haven't read his book. But I know first hand from my time working in the Senate that the line he gave when asked why he wasn't at the Tuesday meetings was that he wanted the rest of the party to be able to talk freely about him.

[Freedom4US]

We need to clone that guy. What a national treasure.

[Dawgreg]

He's the ONLY Democrat I would ever consider voting for. I know he beleives in his party the way it "used to be", but it has been hi-jacked by the loonie leftists and I don't understand why he doesn't switch..........but I suppose it doesn't matter since he won't seek re-election, but what a plus he would be to a Republican administration. I hope GW, after his re-election, will remember Zell.

[4CJ]

But I know first hand from my time working in the Senate that the line he gave when asked why he wasn't at the Tuesday meetings was that he wanted the rest of the party to be able to talk freely about him.

I'm sure they do, and Sen. Miller knows it. And quite frankly, if maggots such as Leahy, Kennedy, Schumer, Feinstein, Clintoon, Daschle, &c have ill feelings toward Sen. Miller, then he did something right!

[Veritas_est]

Folks,

As a Lt. Governor Zell was 100% Damocrat (did I misspell that?). As a Governor Zell was 100% Damocrat. I didn't like him even a little bit.

I don't know if he has had a Spiritual awakening or what, but Senator Zell Miller has made some drastic changes over the past few years. Because of his past reputation of flipping and flopping on issues (ergo his old nickname, Zig Zag Zell) I have been slow to accept that he is really what he seems to have become.

I have decided . . . . . HE IS!

Over the years I have endured sermons from the pulpit in Church with less kick and bite than 'Deficit of Decency'. All I have to say is, "AMEN ZELL."

This man is for real.

God bless you Senator. You have served us well in the U.S. Senate.

I hate to see you go!

[WSGilcrest]

Just received this in an email and did a search before I posted it BUMP!!

[Federalist 78]

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