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All I Want for Christmas is a Gilchrist Victory
By: Reed R. Heustis, Jr.
October 19, AD 2005

Last May the City of Los Angeles elected Antonio Villaraigosa as its mayor. Villaraigosa has always opposed meaningful border control, and as a result illegal aliens will continue to flood into the city. Also an ardent pro-abortionist, Villaraigosa's policies undoubtedly will continue to promote the abortion holocaust, namely by elevating various pro-aborts to government positions.

As I wrote in the May 18th edition of The Heustis Update, the election of Villaraigosa ushered in a dark day for Los Angeles, and thus for Southern California and for the rest of the nation.

However, just south of Los Angeles sits Orange County which features the 48th Congressional District where its voters currently enjoy a golden opportunity to elect a dynamite alternative to Congress - a man whose policies are diametrically opposed to everything Villaraigosa represents. Southern Californians finally have something to cheer about!

Jim Gilchrist, American Independent Party nominee for Congress, shocked the nation by garnering just under 15% of the vote in the 17-candidate October 4 special election; preventing Republican frontrunner John Campbell from obtaining the necessary 50% of the overall vote. (The American Independent Party (AIP) is the California affiliate of the Constitution Party.)*[Note from Author: On 9/10/2006, I resigned from the Constitution Party, and have since joined the American Heritage Party, America's only explicitly Christian party.] Gilchrist's feat forced a runoff on December 6 where five political parties' top vote-getters will appear on the ballot in a winner-take-all final.

Just in time for the Christmas season a Gilchrist victory would provide Americans with three much-needed gifts: staunch immigration reform, pro-life reliability, and the nation's first ever Constitution Party Congressman.

Immigration Reform Now

Perhaps no other issue plagues Southern California as much as mass unfettered immigration. Both major political parties refuse to address the issue seriously, and aliens continue to cross the borders at record clips. Most Americans outside California have no idea how big this issue is because quite frankly, it hasn't yet come to bite them in the posterior.

Gilchrist founded the Minuteman Project (MMP) in 2004 to combat this problem and has made national headlines in these efforts. The MMP seeks "a peaceful and respectable resolve to the chaotic neglect by members of our local, state and federal governments charged with applying U.S. immigration law."

In these efforts, Gilchrist successfully has raised unprecedented awareness to this issue. If it weren't for Gilchrist, many Americans outside California would never even know the magnitude of the immigration problem.

Unfortunately, many Californians pass the buck by rationalizing that there is nothing that Californians can do since the issue is a "federal" issue. Many of these types are conservative Republicans who are supposed to be the friends of American sovereignty and tight borders. Gilchrist proved otherwise though. As a member of the AIP, Gilchrist took advantage of the fact that he is not beholden to one of the two major parties by exploiting his God-given freedom, liberty, and creativity to create the largest minuteman organization since the American War for Independence.

Staunch on Right to Life

There are too many immigration reformers out there who take the correct stand on immigration, but then who take the morally opposite incorrect stand on the other biggest issue of our day, abortion.

Every year 1.4 million babies are butchered, maimed, and slaughtered in atrocities due to abortion. This blood stain is therefore the darkest blot on the American fabric since institutionalized slavery.

Millions of God-fearing church-going Christians regularly pray for the well being of the nation and for God's continual blessings upon the land. Indeed, a sign of a blessed nation is one which has the strength and will to control its own borders and to protect its people from foreign invaders.

Ironically some of these same Christians would actually cast votes for immigration reformers who simultaneously hold to pro-abortion positions. This then begs the question, How can the immigration reform movement be expected to succeed when many of its activists oppose the unalienable right to life, which is protected by the Constitution and the Ten Commandments?

We cannot "go it alone". Without God we can accomplish nothing. Immigration reformers who are pro-abortion can therefore actually do more damage to the cause of American prosperity than their opponents.

Like Pat Buchanan, Jim Gilchrist takes the correct stand on abortion, and stands for the right to life without compromise. It was this issue alone that convinced this writer to support his campaign. Moreover, instead of hiding the issue, Gilchrist has displayed his view prominently on his campaign website:

"As a moral conservative, I stand firmly on the words of the Declaration of Independence in defending the right to life. I do so proudly, without equivocation or exception.

"According to the Declaration, there can be no right to abortion, since abortion means denying the most fundamental of rights to human offspring in the womb. The Declaration states plainly that we are all created equal, endowed by our Creator with our basic human rights, including the right to life.

" If human beings -- whether legislative bodies, courts, mothers, or anyone else -- can choose who is human and who is not, the doctrine of God-given rights upon which rests all the rule of law is utterly corrupted. We then become a nation governed by the arbitrary rule of those with privilege and power."
- Jim Gilchrist

Genuine pro-lifers including Christians can now comfortably support an immigration reformer like Gilchrist, not only because he is pro-life, but also because Gilchrist is a doer.

Through the MMP, Gilchrist has proved that he is a get-things-done kind of guy. Unlike his Republican rival Campbell, who gives mere lip service to Gilchrist's issues, Gilchrist is one who accomplishes things that many thought impossible. Pro-lifers can therefore rest assured that Gilchrist will take similar principled stands on the floor of Congress when the issue of abortion comes up.

First Ever Constitution Party Victory?

*[Note from Author: On 9/10/2006, I resigned from the Constitution Party, and have since joined the American Heritage Party, America's only explicitly Christian party.]

Founded in 1992 as the U.S. Taxpayers Party, the national Constitution Party is relatively young at a tender 13 years old. Moreover, because it changed its name to the Constitution Party in 1999, it has only been known as "the Constitution Party" for a mere six years.

Yet, a Gilchrist victory not only will set off celebrations for border control activists and pro-lifers nationwide, but it would likewise mark the historical event of the first ever Constitution Party Congressional victory.

The fact of the matter is that Gilchrist and the Constitution Party are a match made in heaven on the two biggest issues of our day.

Like Gilchrist, the Constitution Party takes a hard line stand for sovereignty:

"We affirm the integrity of the international borders of the United States and the Constitutional authority and duty of the federal government to guard and to protect those borders, including the regulation of the numbers and of the qualifications of immigrants into the country.... We call for the use of U.S. troops to protect the states against invasion."

*[Note from Author: On 9/10/2006, I resigned from the Constitution Party, and have since joined the American Heritage Party, America's only explicitly Christian party.]

Like Gilchrist, the Constitution Party is likewise uncompromising on abortion:

"The pre-born child, whose life begins at fertilization, is a human being created in God's image. The first duty of the law is to prevent the shedding of innocent blood. It is, therefore, the duty of all civil governments to secure and to safeguard the lives of the pre-born.... We affirm the God-given legal personhood of all unborn human beings, without exception."

*[Note from Author: On 9/10/2006, I resigned from the Constitution Party, and have since joined the American Heritage Party, America's only explicitly Christian party.]

A Very Merry Gilchristmas?

The December 6 election in the 48th Congressional District looms just weeks away. Yet, Gilchrist has made believers out of many. He has accomplished what very few have ever set out to do.

On immigration, Gilchrist is right. On abortion, Gilchrist is right. And on his registered party affiliation, Gilchrist is right.

If the people of the 48th District set aside their pre-conceived notions of voting AIP for once, then they will notice that Gilchrist is the best candidate on the ballot based solely upon the issues. In fact, out of all five candidates on the ballot, Gilchrist is the second highest vote getter, even over the Democrat Steve Young. That makes Young the "third party candidate" and Gilchrist the second party.

As each day rips from the calendar en route to December 6, you might be able to hear some people humming, "All I want for Christmas is a Gilchrist victory...."

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