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Subject: How Come It's Still 1984? by Vin Suprynowicz
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"The Duty of a Patriot is to Protect his Country from the Government."
-Freedom had been Hunted round the Globe - Reason treateded as Rebellion;
- and the Slavery of Fear - had made - Men Afraid to Think.-
But such is the irresistible nature of truth,
- that all it asks,- and all it wants,- is the liberty of appearing.-
~ Thomas Paine,Rights of Man, 1791 ~
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How Come It's Still 1984? by Vin Suprynowicz
Why are the Democrats - the party of my youth
- so widely dismissed as pathetic poseurs these days?
Let's see. George W. Bush makes a big speech
about how America promotes democracy throughout the world.
How do the Democrats respond?
By pointing out that our Founding Fathers purposely set us up
with a Republic, while strongly warning against direct "democracy"
as nothing but "mob rule," likely to vote the constitutional rights
of minorities out of existence at the first opportunity?
Of course not.
Do Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi - sitting there stiff-backed,
our modern equivalents of Herman and Lily Munster
- calmly acknowledge, "OK, if Mr. Bush can figure out a way
to promote participatory government in the Mideast, we'll admit
that's a good idea and we'll do what we can to support him,
even if we think selective bombardment and invasion
under false pretenses should not be our preferred opening gambit.
"But let's be honest about this: It was a Republican administration
that sent in Major Smedley Butler and the U.S. Marines to overthrow
the democratically elected government of Nicaragua, forcing
the legislature in Managua to sign a peace treaty in English
as American warships loomed offshore, a treaty giving us the right
to run the Nicaraguan railroads under the laws of the state of Maine.
"It was a Republican administration that overthrew the popular
government of Mohammed Mossadegh, the 'weeping mullah,' in Iran
in 1953, re-installing the Pahlavi shahs, whose secret police
surely ranked them among the most repressive despots in recent history.
"Let's not even get started on the regime-change assassinations
we backed in places like Chile and Vietnam, as little as 30
and 40 years ago. And if we're so in favor of democracy and
self-determination, why is President Bush making nice with KGB
assassin Boris Putin, when just last week the Russian special forces
murdered Aslan Maskhadov, the last elected president
of independent Chechnya?
"If we're really going to change our stripes now, a good start
might be to acknowledge to our own people the things we did
that caused our government to be so widely feared,
hated and distrusted, out there in the world at large."
Do the Democrats say any of this? Not in public, they don't.
And why?
Because they're complicit.
The Democrats have signed on to the old way of doing things;
Bill Clinton set out on many a foreign lark (albeit far less
effectively, being the distracted dilettante he was).
They have no principled alternative plan or world-view to offer.
Loyal opposition? The only thing the modern Democratic Party
can find to "oppose" are such irrelevant cosmetic features
as the churchgoing habits and adopted Texas drawls of the ancient
Connecticut banking family known for more than a century
as the Prescott Bush clan, while shrieking about
"tax cuts for the rich," when this other set of elite millionaires
who hasn't done their own grocery shopping in decades
secretly defines any private-sector slob who works hard enough
to own a house as "rich."
The only guy they could find to run against Bush was another,
less adept Yalie poseur from Skull & Bones, and the only "agenda"
they have to offer is to require us to ban smoking,
use helmets and seatbelts, sort our garbage into different colored
baskets, and hand over our foreign policy to Jacques Chirac
and Kofi Annan. Meanwhile, they block economic development
anywhere in this country under the rubric of "smart growth"
and protecting any "geographically distinct population"
of scraggly weed or bug their babbling ecofreak subsidiaries
can locate.
Oh, and - of course - ever higher taxes.
Some "alternative."
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Las Vegas police Lt. Steve Franks is concerned about the midnight
smash-and-grab theft of 1,700 blank Nevada driver's licenses
from the DMV office on Donovan Way on March 7
- along with a digital camera and all the other paraphernalia
necessary to turn them into realistic IDs - asserting last week
the purloined documents could easily be used to pass through
airport security checkpoints, etc.
Kind of like the way all those Arab hijackers
got through our security checkpoints by showing their fake IDs,
three-and-a-half years ago?
This follows the conviction last year of a Nevada DMV clerk
who took $300,000 in bribes to sell unauthorized licenses
and IDs to some 1,000 illegal aliens - that they know of.
So, do we have this straight?
All that billion-dollar "check-your-ID" crap at the airport
has improved our safety and security not one iota, instead
accomplishing nothing but creating jobs for thousands
of new blue-gloved butt-gropers-in-training while further conditioning
the American populace to be ready to show our
"government-issued photo ID" on demand, any time, anywhere,
and ...
The "driver's license" is nothing of the sort,
but rather constitutes the nine-digit nationally coded
"internal passport and travel document" which Franklin Roosevelt
solemnly promised our Social Security numbers
would never be turned into?
Just checking.
March 16, 2005
Vin Suprynowicz [send him mail] is assistant editorial page editor of the
daily Las Vegas Review-Journal and author of The Black Arrow.
Copyright © 2005 Vin Suprynowicz
Links referenced within this article
Vin Suprynowicz
mailto:[email protected]
send him mail
mailto:[email protected]
The Black Arrow
http://www.libertybookshop.us/mall/TheBlackArrow.htm?Ref=LEW
posted Wednesday, 16 March 2005
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Subject: How Come It's Still 1984? by Vin Suprynowicz
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"The Duty of a Patriot is to Protect his Country from the Government."
-Freedom had been Hunted round the Globe - Reason treateded as Rebellion;
- and the Slavery of Fear - had made - Men Afraid to Think.-
But such is the irresistible nature of truth,
- that all it asks,- and all it wants,- is the liberty of appearing.-
~ Thomas Paine,Rights of Man, 1791 ~
$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$
Find this article at:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/suprynowicz/suprynowicz20.html
«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«Â
How Come It's Still 1984? by Vin Suprynowicz
Why are the Democrats - the party of my youth
- so widely dismissed as pathetic poseurs these days?
Let's see. George W. Bush makes a big speech
about how America promotes democracy throughout the world.
How do the Democrats respond?
By pointing out that our Founding Fathers purposely set us up
with a Republic, while strongly warning against direct "democracy"
as nothing but "mob rule," likely to vote the constitutional rights
of minorities out of existence at the first opportunity?
Of course not.
Do Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi - sitting there stiff-backed,
our modern equivalents of Herman and Lily Munster
- calmly acknowledge, "OK, if Mr. Bush can figure out a way
to promote participatory government in the Mideast, we'll admit
that's a good idea and we'll do what we can to support him,
even if we think selective bombardment and invasion
under false pretenses should not be our preferred opening gambit.
"But let's be honest about this: It was a Republican administration
that sent in Major Smedley Butler and the U.S. Marines to overthrow
the democratically elected government of Nicaragua, forcing
the legislature in Managua to sign a peace treaty in English
as American warships loomed offshore, a treaty giving us the right
to run the Nicaraguan railroads under the laws of the state of Maine.
"It was a Republican administration that overthrew the popular
government of Mohammed Mossadegh, the 'weeping mullah,' in Iran
in 1953, re-installing the Pahlavi shahs, whose secret police
surely ranked them among the most repressive despots in recent history.
"Let's not even get started on the regime-change assassinations
we backed in places like Chile and Vietnam, as little as 30
and 40 years ago. And if we're so in favor of democracy and
self-determination, why is President Bush making nice with KGB
assassin Boris Putin, when just last week the Russian special forces
murdered Aslan Maskhadov, the last elected president
of independent Chechnya?
"If we're really going to change our stripes now, a good start
might be to acknowledge to our own people the things we did
that caused our government to be so widely feared,
hated and distrusted, out there in the world at large."
Do the Democrats say any of this? Not in public, they don't.
And why?
Because they're complicit.
The Democrats have signed on to the old way of doing things;
Bill Clinton set out on many a foreign lark (albeit far less
effectively, being the distracted dilettante he was).
They have no principled alternative plan or world-view to offer.
Loyal opposition? The only thing the modern Democratic Party
can find to "oppose" are such irrelevant cosmetic features
as the churchgoing habits and adopted Texas drawls of the ancient
Connecticut banking family known for more than a century
as the Prescott Bush clan, while shrieking about
"tax cuts for the rich," when this other set of elite millionaires
who hasn't done their own grocery shopping in decades
secretly defines any private-sector slob who works hard enough
to own a house as "rich."
The only guy they could find to run against Bush was another,
less adept Yalie poseur from Skull & Bones, and the only "agenda"
they have to offer is to require us to ban smoking,
use helmets and seatbelts, sort our garbage into different colored
baskets, and hand over our foreign policy to Jacques Chirac
and Kofi Annan. Meanwhile, they block economic development
anywhere in this country under the rubric of "smart growth"
and protecting any "geographically distinct population"
of scraggly weed or bug their babbling ecofreak subsidiaries
can locate.
Oh, and - of course - ever higher taxes.
Some "alternative."
------------------------------------------------------------------
Las Vegas police Lt. Steve Franks is concerned about the midnight
smash-and-grab theft of 1,700 blank Nevada driver's licenses
from the DMV office on Donovan Way on March 7
- along with a digital camera and all the other paraphernalia
necessary to turn them into realistic IDs - asserting last week
the purloined documents could easily be used to pass through
airport security checkpoints, etc.
Kind of like the way all those Arab hijackers
got through our security checkpoints by showing their fake IDs,
three-and-a-half years ago?
This follows the conviction last year of a Nevada DMV clerk
who took $300,000 in bribes to sell unauthorized licenses
and IDs to some 1,000 illegal aliens - that they know of.
So, do we have this straight?
All that billion-dollar "check-your-ID" crap at the airport
has improved our safety and security not one iota, instead
accomplishing nothing but creating jobs for thousands
of new blue-gloved butt-gropers-in-training while further conditioning
the American populace to be ready to show our
"government-issued photo ID" on demand, any time, anywhere,
and ...
The "driver's license" is nothing of the sort,
but rather constitutes the nine-digit nationally coded
"internal passport and travel document" which Franklin Roosevelt
solemnly promised our Social Security numbers
would never be turned into?
Just checking.
March 16, 2005
Vin Suprynowicz [send him mail] is assistant editorial page editor of the
daily Las Vegas Review-Journal and author of The Black Arrow.
Copyright © 2005 Vin Suprynowicz
Links referenced within this article
Vin Suprynowicz
mailto:[email protected]
send him mail
mailto:[email protected]
The Black Arrow
http://www.libertybookshop.us/mall/TheBlackArrow.htm?Ref=LEW
posted Wednesday, 16 March 2005
End
********************************************************************
This is (Possibly) copyrighted material, We believe this constitutes
a 'Fair Use' as provided for in Sec.107 of the US Copyright Law.
In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material
is distributed without profit. For more information go to:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml.
Posters note: I created none of what appears above, I simply copied and possted it, because, as I said at the outset, Readers might find the following of interest, or so I thought. Do with it what you will.
