posted on September 12, 2005 12:26:33 PM new
As I have said all along, Polotical Correctness with be the death of us all.
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The most deadly threat faced by the United States is not killer hurricanes. It is not even the jihadists who want to harm us with the best weapons petrodollars can buy. Our worst threat comes from within, as is nearly always the case when a nation or a person accumulates extraordinary wealth and power, and is therefore able to practice folly on the grandest scale.
Michael Barone has some astonishing facts in his current US News & World Report column:
--- "A team of Indiana firefighters, volunteering to help rescue victims of Katrina, went to Atlanta, where Federal Emergency Management Agency staffers told them that their job was to hand out fliers and that their first task was to attend a multi-hour course on sexual harassment and equal employment opportunity."
--- " This is, astoundingly, standard operating procedure at FEMA. And in other parts of the federal government."
--- "Former CIA agent Robert Baer writes in his recent book how in Central Asia he asked headquarters to send someone who spoke Afghan languages, and Langley offered to send a four-member sexual harassment team instead."
Sexual harassment has now turned into a ball and chain for our military, our police, and even for the rescuers in New Orleans. Looney-tunes Political Correctness is not the only culprit in the Hurricane Katrina response, but it looks like one of the biggest.
It's been killing us for years.
PC made 9/11 possible. I'm sorry, but it's true. Political Correctness made it a venal sin to raise the alarm when Mohammed Atta was identified as the likely leader of a murderous Al Qaeda cell in 1999, two years before 9/11. This was six years after the 1993 attempt to blow up the Twin Towers the first time around.
PC erected Jamie Gorelick's infamous legal Wall between the FBI, CIA and DOD, so that Mohammed Atta, identified by the Able Danger group, had to be erased from the record. You see, he was in the country legally, and the Department of Defense is not supposed to engage in domestic law enforcement. It was PC that blinded us to the hijackers who killed 3,000 innocent people four years ago.
PC kept CNN from showing the death jumpers from the burning Twin Towers, for fear of enraging the American people and making them feel angry at Muslims. But just a few days ago, Political Correctness made in necessary for CNN to get a court order allowing it to televise the bloated bodies of the children and elderly African Americans who drowned in New Orleans. To teach the American people a lesson, in living color.
PC made Hazel O'Leary prohibit color-coded security badges at the Energy Department during the Clinton years, because NOBODY should ever have a better color badge than anybody else. The Energy Department is in charge of our nuclear weapons labs, like Los Alamos, where security became a bad joke when PC took over. Hazel O'Leary should have become a laughing stock, but she is probably thriving somewhere, spreading the virus.
While the Energy Department couldn't protect our nuclear secrets because of PC, Political Correctness made it just fine to sell national security secrets to China. After all, it would be racist to discriminate against China, and they deserve missiles that work just as well as American missiles.
PC made the Clinton Administration treat Osama Bin Laden with great regard for his civil rights. So in spite of multiple offers from the Sudan, the Clintonites could never decide what to do with Osama on a platter.
PC has kept the liberal media from telling the truth about all the ills that the Left has inflicted on us with for decades, from the lies about heterosexual AIDS thirty years ago to the breakdown of the Black family under the tender mercies of the welfare state.
The problem is that lies kill, and Politically Correct lies are practically tailor-made to kill. If the voters of New Orleans had not been lied to year after year, they would have demanded that money be spent on levees. It's not that they lacked the will to live. They were just the latest victims of Politically Correct lies --- by the media, by the educrats of a disastrous school system, and yes, by all the Mayor Nagins and all the Governor Blancos, all the Clintons and the Carters. All the folks who don't think that telling the truth matters a lot.
When people have been suckered long enough, they start to think the truth-tellers are out to kill them. A lot of Black people in this country are convinced that George Bush hates Black people, and that he somehow made those levees fail. Go ask Condi Rice about that.
Bush's disregard for PC might be the biggest reason why the Left hates him so ferociously. He just doesn't believe it. Neither do most of the American people.
Hurricane Katrina will not be the last great threat in the life of this country. If disaster comes knocking at your door, just forget Political Correctness. The life you save may be your own.
posted on September 12, 2005 02:55:45 PM new
I like this one too, bear. Sounds to me like what our secular left tries to do to make us more PC.
Gave me a good chuckle....cause it's so very, very true.
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Original American Sin
September 12th, 2005
We wake up in the morning, and our evil deeds begin before we have time to curse the alarm.
As we slept, our refrigerators were hard at work giving Chileans skin cancer.
We turn on the air conditioner, and amphibians grow extra limbs.
We breathe and contribute to global warming and killer hurricanes.
We put on our clothes and cover the world with sweatshops.
We put on our shoes and tie children to workbenches with the laces.
We poison the soil by eating breakfast.
We drive to work and drown Pacific Islanders.
We go to the doctor and kill cuddly, little animals.
We devastate countries we have never heard of.
We are Ugly Americans, crude, boorish, and brutal, as ashamed of our tastes as we are of our genocide.
How did we become so evil? According to the doctrine of Original Sin, human nature is stained with the sin of our remotest ancestors. According to the doctrine of Original American Sin, we are stained with the sins of our remote ancestors, whether or not they were actually our ancestors. The politically correct instill in us guilt and shame and then offer to cure us of them in exchange for our becoming politically correct ourselves.
We exterminated the Edenic Native Americans;
the sin of slavery and segregation belongs to us alone.
We are guilty of unconscious racism, forever injuring blacks without realizing it.
We don't know how, but we are starving poor people in the Third World.
But in the midst of Babylon a miracle. Some people do not have the stain! Their opinions have washed them clean. They live on land stolen from the Indians and owe no debts. They have no more intention than we do of giving the land back, but we are the problem, and they are the solution.
If their ancestors held slaves, it is not their fault.
They wear the same clothes we do, but their clothes cause no sweatshops.
They wear the same shoes but do not exploit children.
They can eat what we eat, drive as much as they'd like, spend a month in the hospital, and, lo, the soil is fertile, the ocean does not rise, and animals frolic in the sun.
They can slander the police and not suffer from crime.
They can enjoy peace and belittle the sacrifices necessary to obtain it. They can be against war and share in its spoils. They can condemn Corporate America while they build up their portfolios.
They do not want their daughters to be raped, but refuse to dirty their hands by using them to restrain or capture the actual rapists. They do not want their homes invaded by marauding armies, but will not sully their consciences defending them. Their protectors have dirty hands, guilty consciences, and danger; they have clean hands, clear consciences, and safety. They hate war and are shocked when people die in it.
To wash away our stain, we must do the impossible; all they have to do is to believe the unbelievable. We have to rid ourselves of evil; they have to think that we are uniquely evil. We have to sin no more; they have to act surprised that we continue to sin. We have to defeat the evil within; they have to defeat us. We have to have faith in God; they have to have faith in faithlessness. We have to believe that God is watching us and watching over us; they have to believe that God will look away. We have to beg God for forgiveness; they have to call us hypocrites.
They call us racist, sexist, homophobes and say that we do not respect people we disagree with. They call us the Taliban and say that we ignore the feelings of others. They say that we are full of hate and that we should follow their example and love everyone.
Their shepherds call us a generation of vipers and plead for unity. They say that we fail to understand people different from us.
They say that what they do is nobody's business, and they are perpetually offended by what others do.
They make our personal political and our political personal. We impose our beliefs on others; they want to make the world a better place. They say that life is up to a woman and her doctor, and they try to take over the health care system.
We think that truth is one thing and falsity quite another, and they think us unsophisticated. We think that truth is discovered; they think it is invented.
They cite Machiavelli and marvel that we do not trust them, cite Nietsche and say that our God is dead, cite Heidigger and accuse us of fascist sympathies, cite Foucault and say that we are hung up on sex. They call us uncultured and call Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe Dead White European Men. They say that we have no appreciation of the arts, and they watch pornography and call it art.
They say that we are a threat to free speech and try to shut us up.
They give voice to the voiceless, and no one else can be heard. They call us egomaniac and say that we resent our fall from power. They call America racist and call us un-American. They blame America first and say that we are out of the mainstream.
They say that we are arrogant because we believe that God made man in his own image; they are humble because they believe that man made God in his own image. We are willful because we attempt to conform to God's will, while they remake God at will.
Their doctrines are discredited and their foreign sponsors gone, but they dominate much of our lives. We carry around in our heads a miniaturized Index of Forbidden Thoughts and Sayings so that we can escape their giant Index of Political Correction and its enforcer, the Great American Character-Assassination Machine.
They said that "Negroes" should be called "Blacks," and we call them Blacks. They say that "Blacks" should be called "African-Americans," and all at once university presidents, network executives, and politicians of both parties call them African-Americans. They tell us (correctly) not to judge others by the color of their skin, and then they tell us to judge others by the color of their skin.
We can't say that men and women are different, and then we can't say that they are the same, which we never believed anyway.
They tell us to worry about global cooling, and then they tell us to worry about global warming. They cut off their hair and tell us that they are the reincarnation of the '60s. The postmodernists tell us that there is nothing outside the text and that the whole world is a text.
