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| The Left's Crimes of Silence |
| 2004-07-29 |
| August will mark the anniversary of the needless death of tens of thousands of innocents, of callous disregard for the widespread suffering of the weak on the part of imperious governments. No, the anniversary has nothing to do with Iraq: It will have been one year since a heat wave swept Europe, killing more than 25,000 of the elderly and unprotected (15,000 in glorious France alone). The death toll wrought by nonchalant neglect in Europe last August remains considerably higher than the total number of fatalities in Iraq since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom—friendly, enemy and civilian combined. The American Left never blinked as the real "old Europe" perished in the multitudes. There wasn't a whisper of criticism of those "more humane" European governments whose apparatchiks refused to interrupt their summer vacations to respond to the mass dying among Europe's pensioners. Those admirable European health-care systems failed horrendously—yet they remain, of course, the models to which we should aspire (no matter that every European I know prefers private care, if they can afford it). Had the Bush administration allowed over 25,000 elderly Americans to die while our president cut brush at his ranch, howls of outrage would have shaken the heavens. The Left would have reminded us all of the virtues of Euro-socialism and the evils of a marketplace society. No matter that, with far higher temperatures routine in the U.S., such a massacre-by-neglect has never happened here and never will. Reality has no weight for the ideologues who cannot live without the conviction that only the United States is ever guilty. The silence of the Left in the face of uncomfortable truths is a hallowed tradition, of course, dating back to the earliest crimes of the Soviet Union. When the reality confronting the Left contradicts the theory, the theory must be preserved at any cost. And there's no sign of improvement, not a glimmer of the least scrap of conscience or integrity on the Left. It's all about revenge against a democratic system that gives a blue-collar worker a vote equal to that of a university professor's ballot, about hatred for the free market for providing better lives for the great majority while Marxism drowned in the bile of its victims. There's no one the new American Left so despises as the working man or woman who continues to believe in the United States. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #11 "The Left" is kind of a vague term. |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-07-30 12:06:31 AM |
| #10 Over there they call it "Heat Wave". Here in Texas we call it "Summer". |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-07-29 2:52:12 PM |
| #9 Thanks for the link |
| Posted by: B 2004-07-29 2:07:08 PM |
| #8 HERE WE GO! Denbeste has a list of essential readings http://denbeste.nu/cd_Articles/TheEssentialLibrary.shtml |
| Posted by: Anonymous4021 2004-07-29 2:02:14 PM |
| #7 Over there they call it "Heat Wave". |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-07-29 1:59:13 PM |
| #6 I like this guy! Anyone remember the movie 'Logans Run'. Kind of campy and corney but didn't that feature the killing of the elderly in favor of the productive youth? Seems like France is practicing it. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-07-29 1:55:57 PM |
| #5 Hell, where was Europe's Left? Has a single politician been held accountable? Seems as if they're all happy to go to there deaths as long as "their guy" is in power. Chirac: "I hear it's very cool 2 meters under" |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2004-07-29 1:35:18 PM |
| #4 He's quite a few really awesome articles and is suggested reading by Stephen DenBeste. http://denbeste.nu/ Crap, the site is down. |
| Posted by: Anonymous4021 2004-07-29 1:19:43 PM |
| #3 I donât know what OWNZ means, but I just ordered every book heâs ever authored on Amazon. I suppose my time might be better spent writing my resume to get a job, than reading Ralph..but itâs worth it (especially since I got one of his books for .01â¦but not to worry the rest cost me more) How else can I say âthanks!â??? I Luv ya, Ralph! Yoo dah man!!! |
| Posted by: B 2004-07-29 1:09:14 PM |
| #2 Ralph Peters OWNZ. |
| Posted by: Anonymous4021 2004-07-29 12:59:11 PM |
| #1 Iâm book-marking this one. Iâve been reading the internet for yearsâ¦and Iâve read many an excellent piece. This isâ¦.the VERY best â¦.that I have EVER read. It says EVERYTHING and MORE than I could ever hope to say. Jeezeâ¦Iâm almost tempted to send it to my family members and cement my alienation from them foreverâ¦.. Ahâ¦but maybe notâ¦.they may be misguidedâ¦but I still love them. |
| Posted by: B 2004-07-29 12:48:06 PM |