Below is Pat Buchanan's controversial - and legendary - speech at the 1992 Republican National Convention. In the speech, Pat raises the battle cry for what has come to be known as the culture war. As Pat states, this isn't a war for territory, resources, or even political power, but the very hearts and souls of Americans everywhere. Today his words ring just as true as they did two decades ago. 

In the world in which nationalism (the belief in the nation-state system) is supposedly on the decline and internationalism (the belief in one-world government) is supposedly on the rise, there is still one event in which nationalism seems to be out of the grasp of the internationalist movement, the World Cup.

This year’s host is South Africa. As one would imagine, this has proved an ideal occasion for mass propaganda about the plight of Nelson Mandela and the black South Africans under the rule of the evil Afrikaaners. And while it is the case that ESPN and other media outlets are running stories about the racist history of South Africa, there is one area that the internationalist forces cannot touch, the element of national pride.

Despite the Leftist overtones surrounding the World Cup, there is nothing that can overcome the intense national and even ethnic pride that the World Cup incites. For Americans, who are phenomenal at every major sport but soccer, it is hard to comprehend just how significant the World Cup is for other nationalities.

The World Cup is the time every four years that a country’s eleven best men are put in front of the entire globe to represent their country in hopes of becoming the best in the world. It flies clearly in the face of internationalism, which preaches that all of mankind is one gigantic family and in no way should we compete with each other or assert that one group’s values are in any way superior to another’s. Diversity and competition are discouraged and replaced with uniformity and passivity, unless of course the subject at hand is the AIDS epidemic in Africa, or preserving millions of acres of land because it is the habitat of the rare New England flatworm, then action is encouraged. But otherwise, the nations are taught that they are to reject their heritage and reject their people’s identity.

This was most evident for Germans after the two world wars. During the First World War, German-Americas were told to put away any hint of their German identity and they consequently assimilated to the standards of the Anglophile establishment, hence large sections of German-American culture across the country vanished (though remnants still remain in the Northern states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, the Dakotas and pats of the West, where German communities were well established). However, the real blow came after the Second World War when Germans in Germany were taught that their country was a despicable excuse for a nation. According to the Fabian Socialist elites who used their own propaganda and the Leninists of the USSR, Germany and the Germans therein were revolutionized into a new breed of European. Germans were taught to do more than reject their heritage, they were taught to hate it in exchange for a new, cosmopolitan one.

This revolutionary agenda of the internationalists was almost fully realized in Germany until the summer of 2006 when Germany was the host of the World Cup. As a result of the tournament, Germans experienced a counter-revolutionary change. After World War II, Germans only found national pride in football; any other expression of German pride was immediately associated with and smeared as National Socialism. But in 2006, Germans' sense of national pride was restored when their national team placed third overall and the black, red and gold flew all over Germany.

Now in 2010, the same phenomenon is happening. In Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Cologne and all across Germany and the United States, German people are beginning to express their heritage with courage and boldness, unafraid of their detractors. But it is not just contained to Germany. All accross Latin America, Africa and Asia, people file into cafes, sports bars, street corners with radios, or radios just to watch or hear how their eleven best players are preforming, because it really is not just the eleven that are competing. It is the entire nation that is moving with the team. When the national team wins, the country wins. When the national team loses, the nation has lost. They are, in a sense, spiritually bonded.

The internationalists have attempted many times in many different ways to dilute the rise of national pride associated with the World Cup, but they have yet to accomplish their goal. The tournament works counter to their agenda as we have seen not only in Germany, but also in South Africa by unifying whites and blacks under a national banner, or in England where football fans display the cross of St. George with pride, and even in the United States where the American team is gaining in ability and success, creating a sense of national unity  identity. Our specific identity, no matter what the group, is something that should never be taken from us and something that should be preserved, because it is who we are as individuals and as a community.

Pat Buchanan dropping truth bombs on Russia Today, the only honest and worthwhile news station:

Whether or not you are Christian, I believe that honoring the traditions of those who came before us remains an important component to being a true Conservative. That said, today is the most important day in all of Christendom. It is Good Friday, the day of commemoration of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, God come in the flesh of a mere man to atone for the sins of the elect. Today will be a day marked by the most solemn of all church services throughout the Christian year. As a Christian, this day of commemoration gives me great pause to contemplate both the level of my sin and the level of the gracious mercy and love of God to redeem mankind from sin. But as well Good Friday speaks to the entire Western world, as it does to individuals. As an individual, a believer approaches the Cross of Calvary by reflecting on what he has done wrong to transgress God and receive not mercy, but judgment. He then comes to realize that he is totally depraved in terms of his behavior and lifestyle and must repent, (in the New Testament Greek metanoeō which means to change one's mind for the better and heartily to amend with abhorrence of one's past sins).

But what does Good Friday mean for the West? For the West it means that the West has to come to terms with the crimes that it has committed not against others, those since have already been paid for. Rather it has to come to the sins which it has committed against itself.

Firstly the slaughter of innocent children via abortion and calling it a right. Westerners who are aware of the declining birthrate of Europeans are rightly aware of the lack of pro-creation amongst Europeans. But what about the abortion toll? The Jihadists kill other people, but the West has adopted the most suicidal position possible, the slaughter of its children who are its future. The West cannot move forward until it confesses its most grievous of trespasses and changes direction back to honoring the gift of life.

The West also needs to repent of its abandonment of honoring her ancestors. Soldiers who fought on the fields of Trafalgar, San Jacinto, Hattin, Kursk, Thermopile, Tours or Vienna? Millions of men, dating back to the pre-Christian era, have laid down their lives for the honor and survival of their nations, of their families and many, if not most, for the continued evangelizing of the Gospel. The Fifth Commandment that the LORD gives us is to honor thy mother and father. This is an obligation one owes to God and one that a person owes to his parents. But traditionally this has been understood beyond the parents to include grandparents and all ancestors.

Lastly is the perversion of society. Whether it is the perversion of marriage from the traditional form God intended it to be, which is interestingly enough the standard for all major world religions and societies or the loss of the work ethic in society and the shift to slothfulness and gluttony as found in our grossly obscene welfare state. For remember, the Bible even touched on nature of the welfare state in II Thessalonians 3:10 “If a man will not work, he shall not eat." The West does the exact opposite and steals from the workers to give to the non-workers. This demonstrates for us that not only is the West in “trouble,” but in fact it has cancer. A cancer that can be cured with genuine repentance, but it will require a rediscovery of the orthodox faith of our fathers and an adherence to the traditions of our ancestors.

Right-wingers can campaign and crusade against the Left all they want. But the desired change that the conservative Right wants to see will not occur, until we as the members of the Right, begin to live out the virtue that we want to see. The Left is well known for their glorification of decadence and perversion, but we as the Right represent that which is true, honorable, just and pure. In my view, that cannot be done without religion and recognition of an established, Universal Truth, which is the God of the Bible. Because if one is to reject the Universal Truth, I believe what remains is intellectual despair and materialistic anarchy, which is the foundation of the atheistic Left. If we are going to appeal to the Centrists and Leftists, the Right must just not talk about how we are correct, but rather we must show them our genuine fidelity to honor, tradition, family, nobility, chivalry and God. Then if we can live out the life that Christ on the Cross atoned for us can the Right recapture Europe and America for the forces of justice over the forces of the Revolution.

A number of conservative organizations are gathering in Arlington, VA to sign the "Mount Vernon Statement" this afternoon. It is a statement of conservative principles that will serve as the philosophical cornerstone of the Tea Party movement and their Republican allies in Congress.

Excerpts:

“In this time of moral and political crises, it is the responsibility of the youth of America to affirm certain eternal truths,” ...

Buckley’s conservative manifesto focused on international Communism as the greatest threat to American liberty, while the “Mount Vernon Statement” states that the present culture, as well as the universities and politics of today, pose as the chief threats to the principles of the American founding.

YWC is the only conservative student organization in America that takes the cultural rot of relativism, nihilism, and multiculturalism seriously. It is our first priority. Whereas other student organizations focus on expanding individual freedom, YWC dares to ask what should we do with our liberties. We're not defending the freedom of the individual to live a dissolute, meaningless, licentiousness lifestyle. A healthy culture is based on virtue, purpose, and community. In this sense, YWC's stated mission is an affirmation of the Mount Vernon Statement.