From: rhinoceros (rhinoceros@freemail.gr)
Date: Mon May 24 2004 - 21:33:18 MDT
[rhinoceros]
For once I thought I'd check this one and it turned out an interesting exercise (in futility).
[Joe Dees]
This sort of thing seems to go both ways...
A Little Reality Is A Good Thing
By Paul M. Weyrich
CNSNews.com Commentary
http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewCommentary.asp?Page=\Commentary\archive\200405\COM20040524b.html
In San Diego, a couple of teachers were suspended for showing the pictures of American Nick Berg being killed by his Muslim captors in Iraq. Oh, the outrage -- that our delicate high schoolers would be subjected to reality.
Far from suspending these teachers, we should give them medals (maybe the ones John Kerry threw away). They have done their students a big favor. They have introduced these soon-to-be-adults to the notion that it is a dangerous world out there.
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[rhinoceros]
Showing raw violence to the students is a legit opinion, although many psychologists might argue against it and others might argue against the specifics of the incident. I guess most students had already seen it on the net anyway. No big deal here.
The cheap jab to Kerry alerts the reader that the author actually wants to get at something else, but other than this, no big deal. Soon, however, the author guides us to what he means by reality. Don't miss what follows!!!
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For decades now in many of our school systems, students have been shielded from reality, while a false utopian society was pushed in social studies classes, which feature all of the liberal constructs. Ah yes, the wonderful UN guiding us to enlightened world government where, to paraphrase a just-arrested drunk, "We can all just get along."
The notion that there is a worldwide effort to eradicate Christians and Jews is utter nonsense, concocted by the same feverish minds who dreamed up the worldwide Communist conspiracy. Where are all those documents from Russia that detail the conspiracy? We don't want to deal with ancient irrelevant history.
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[rhinoceros]
The author is trying to be sarcastic. Apparently, his reality does include "a worldwide effort to eradicate Christians and Jews" *and* it used to include "a worldwide communist conspiracy". These "realities" are so obvious to him that he uses them as negatives in his sarcasm, to show how blind to the ugly reality we have become. Surely he thinks that the students should hear all about it. There is more:
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Guns are to be hated because guns, not people, kill. War is caused by the United States because we steal the world's resources. War can be avoided because the UN is ready, willing and able to bring peace forever more.
There is no need to worry. There is no effort to kill Americans for who we are. Right. Still, just in case we might be tempted to demonstrate our "learned male aggressiveness" and want to defend ourselves, guns should be confiscated -- especially in this country, of course. No need to confiscate them elsewhere.
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[rhinoceros]
The author continues his attempt at sarcasm. The guns argument alone is a legit topic of discussion and I won't touch it here. The feigned insults which the author throws at himself are also legit topics of discussions.
Remember, however, that all these things are part of a discussion where the author has already presented us his ugly reality of "a worldwide effort to eradicate Christians and Jews" and "a worldwide communist conspiracy" and guess what the guns "especially in this country" are needed for.
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After all, if we would just ratify the Kyoto treaty and scrap our capitalist free enterprise system, we would no longer be stealing the world's resources so no one would want to kill us any more.
Besides, it doesn't matter. We are all going to die from global warming anyway. Heard of Omaha Beach? Not that place of fame during World War II. No, this is in Omaha, Nebraska where the oceans will at last surround a narrow strip of land. Maybe, just maybe, we could save ourselves if we just adopted Socialism and turned over all governance to those beloved peace-oriented diplomats at the UN.
Peace is so comforting. Just ask those in a nearby cemetery. Freedom is so messy...so unpredictable. You can't always plan the outcome. Besides there are risks involved with freedom and risks are unacceptable in a utopian society. The one value we maintain is equality. Not equality of opportunity, but equality of result. In a Socialist world, risks are unnecessary because without freedom there is no need for such outmoded thinking.
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[rhinoceros]
Here the author is in a free rant mode of irrelevancies. Just panic and enjoy.
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The audio and pictures of Nick Berg were from the real world. Did they shock and sicken some of the students? It is well if they did. It is time that they learn that there is no restart button. There are people who want to kill us and against whom we should defend ourselves.
It is time young people learn that the reason our Founding Fathers included the Second Amendment to the Constitution as part of the Bill of Rights was precisely to insure that a relatively free people who wish to defend themselves may do so.
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[rhinoceros]
What can I say? "Did you see Berg's beheading? You are in danger! Get a gun, as our founding fathers provided."
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Yes, and they ought to understand that capitalism, especially capitalism as one side of the coin and free enterprise as the other side of the coin, works. In fact, it is really the only system that works. Nick Berg was certainly killed because he was an American. His death probably was insured when his captors learned that he was Jewish.
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[rhinoceros]
Capitalism one side of the coin and free enterprise the other one? George? Is it you?
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(Paul M. Weyrich is chairman and CEO of the Free Congress Foundation.)
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[rhinoceros]
A chairman and CEO? I have to see this.
http://www.freecongress.org/about/index.asp
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Will America return to the culture that made it great, our traditional, Judeo-Christian, Western culture? Or will we continue the long slide into the cultural and moral decay of political correctness?
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[rhinoceros]
Return to "our traditional Judeo-Christian, Western culture". Figures.
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