A BLOODLESS DEPRAVITY FROM THE RIGHT
Yesterday, April 9th, I read an article in the Myrtle Beach Sun News by a black man named Walter Williams, who claimed to be an economics professor at George Mason University. The article insidiously described social legislation by the progressives on the left as an unacceptable imposition to those on the right who desire nothing more than to turn a blind social eye on the plight of the less fortunate. He called for a “bloodless” but nevertheless irreconcilable severance of the States that demand limited central government from the States that tend to recognize a more stable order emanating from a stronger central government.
Reading Walter Williams’ Palinesque column in the April 9th edition of the Sun Times left me shaking with incredulous rage. Seldom have I read such a malevolent, bigoted concoction of half truths, innuendo and simplistic drivel. My initial reaction to the column was “go ahead, take away social security, medicare, affirmative action, health care and whatever else you deem to be an imposition upon your sanctimonious, aristocratic concept of social and political freedom. Then you will see just how much unjustifiable misery you have wrought upon so many with so little forethought.
What precisely constitutes ultimate freedom to this “mongrel dog” of academia? Will he be happy carrying a loaded weapon into an otherwise social gathering? Perhaps he would find a sense of self worth by denying poor kids decent sustenance because he perceives their parents as undeserving, lazy or useless. What is it you see desirable in a system of class warfare, Mr. Williams, where totalitarian rights are defined as haves and have nots? Is it your desire, Mr. Williams, to arrogantly dismiss the millions who wander unprotected in an old age without any of the three most significant (and obviously brittle) guarantees of the American constitution? While you proselytize on the ignominies of the Federalist Papers, I am unable to proceed past the lines “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”.
If you think that “being left alone” while others perish, either here or abroad, of malnutrition, ignorance, disease, filth and impoverishment is the answer to what ails humankind, then, sir, I would suggest that Milton was inexorably mistaken by suggesting that “no man is an island entirely unto himself. “
I read that you are an academic, Mr. Williams, at a school I once recognized as esteemed, but now fear is little more than a think tank for a regressive society predisposed to rewarding the undeservedly rich with the silver spoon of hypocritical indulgence while the masses huddle under a totalitarian government concerned primarily with corporate bottom lines and an increasingly immobile society that sees nothing wrong with the top one percent possessing more wealth than the bottom 95% COMBINED.
The concept of a Christian Hell, Mr. Williams, is a mythical horror I have long since put behind me. But I have read Dante’s Inferno, although I suspect that you have not, and in his system of eternal justice I would place you and your recent comments condoning a bloodless but holy secession right there in the furthest reaches of his ninth circle. You, and those who think like you, deserve no better. As a student of literature and philosophy, I have always anticipated the promise of some form of apocalyptic justice mixed with the sudden recognizable gnashing of aristocratic teeth.
Lawrence Young
April 10, 2010
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The Ten Commandments
"Outside it's not quite dark
But it's getting there." Dylan
The American Tea Party, a homogenous group of white, semi-middle class people who mostly limped out of some mediocre high school sometime in the 1950's and 1960's and whose consequent entanglement with deeper intellect has been limited to TV sound bites and books written by Ann Coulter, represents the new home grown terrorism. These people wish to threaten those who would defend the very fiber of democracy. They initiated their dissatisfaction with government, coincidentally, with the election of Barack Obama, who, coincidentally, is not white and does not read Ann Coulter or watch Fox News.
In order to enlist in this anti army which confuses socialism and fascism, capitalism and theft on a daily basis, one must subscribe to a couple of ancient looking stone tablets enumerating the 21st century's vision of the ten commandments. To wit:
1. God is an American idol. I love him above all else. He looks a lot like me. He speaks oftentimes to our glorious leaders who relate his infinite wisdom to us, especially the parts about how delusional others can be.
2. Socialism is a prominent evil, but I will reluctantly accept social security and medicare in order to continue my fight against socialism.
3. Hate all workers' unions despite the fact that without them our sorry asses would have never had a pension or health care. Since we never prepared for anything, we deserve everything, including a class A motorhome.
4. We don't want government making decisions about our health care. That work is best left in the hands of Wall Street execs who understand that we are more important than profits.
5. Taxes are inherently evil and serve no purpose. Teachers, public servants, firemen and police officers are overpaid with too many benefits and must be publicly humiliated by those of us who are not qualified to do anything of material value.
6. Guns are our friends and we need to stock pile them due to the socialist in the presidency.
7. Abortion became law in the 1970's but it is all Obama's fault. Besides, God hates it, he told us so. It is in the bible with the other stuff like selling your daughter into slavery and cooking live animals on the bbq grill. It is good to know these things.
8. Kill our enemies before they get the chance to kill us. Collateral damage can be expected, but they are not Americans so who cares.
9. Liberals are actually radicals and mean to hurt us by saying stuff like health care is a right and not just a privilege for the rich.
10. Shout nonsense and trite expressions at public gatherings and refuse to listen to anyone trying to be reasonable. Calm, rational folk are dangerous and just want to tread on the moral fabric of this country. I want "my" country back.
But it's getting there." Dylan
The American Tea Party, a homogenous group of white, semi-middle class people who mostly limped out of some mediocre high school sometime in the 1950's and 1960's and whose consequent entanglement with deeper intellect has been limited to TV sound bites and books written by Ann Coulter, represents the new home grown terrorism. These people wish to threaten those who would defend the very fiber of democracy. They initiated their dissatisfaction with government, coincidentally, with the election of Barack Obama, who, coincidentally, is not white and does not read Ann Coulter or watch Fox News.
In order to enlist in this anti army which confuses socialism and fascism, capitalism and theft on a daily basis, one must subscribe to a couple of ancient looking stone tablets enumerating the 21st century's vision of the ten commandments. To wit:
1. God is an American idol. I love him above all else. He looks a lot like me. He speaks oftentimes to our glorious leaders who relate his infinite wisdom to us, especially the parts about how delusional others can be.
2. Socialism is a prominent evil, but I will reluctantly accept social security and medicare in order to continue my fight against socialism.
3. Hate all workers' unions despite the fact that without them our sorry asses would have never had a pension or health care. Since we never prepared for anything, we deserve everything, including a class A motorhome.
4. We don't want government making decisions about our health care. That work is best left in the hands of Wall Street execs who understand that we are more important than profits.
5. Taxes are inherently evil and serve no purpose. Teachers, public servants, firemen and police officers are overpaid with too many benefits and must be publicly humiliated by those of us who are not qualified to do anything of material value.
6. Guns are our friends and we need to stock pile them due to the socialist in the presidency.
7. Abortion became law in the 1970's but it is all Obama's fault. Besides, God hates it, he told us so. It is in the bible with the other stuff like selling your daughter into slavery and cooking live animals on the bbq grill. It is good to know these things.
8. Kill our enemies before they get the chance to kill us. Collateral damage can be expected, but they are not Americans so who cares.
9. Liberals are actually radicals and mean to hurt us by saying stuff like health care is a right and not just a privilege for the rich.
10. Shout nonsense and trite expressions at public gatherings and refuse to listen to anyone trying to be reasonable. Calm, rational folk are dangerous and just want to tread on the moral fabric of this country. I want "my" country back.
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