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Remember
when it was Racist to think that Illegal Aliens
might be Mexicans? |
Since I am the only American who has a memory, let me
remind you of a liberal campaign that was under way
before September 11, 2001. Nobody, but nobody
mentions it today.
Minority leaders were appearing on national television
demanding that profiling on the Mexican border be
stopped. They said that blond people were being
allowed into the United States while brown people who
spoke little English were being stopped and checked.
This, they said, was racism.
If you want to be a respectable conservative and get
on national television, you never remind liberals of
anything that might embarrass them. If somebody
showed what liberals were saying about profiling on
the Mexican border before September 11 they would be
humiliated.
So, I am the only person who will bring this up.
Minority spokesmen were also tearfully pointing out
that poor black kids in an affluent neighborhood were
far more likely to be checked out by the police than
were middle-aged whites in limousines.
This, too, was Hitlerism.
All this was serious stuff. I remember Vice President
Cheney getting on TV and choking up at the idea that
black people, just because black people commit ten
times as many crimes a whites, might be checked more
often by police than white people are.
Nobody has heard a word of any of this since September
11.
Does anybody care to guess why?
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Good
Politics is Stepping on the Right toes
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Until September 11, 2001 anything anti-white was good
and all racial profiling, no matter how realistic it
was, was bad. Police were indicted for checking out
black people despite the fact that black people were
ten times as likely to be up to something criminal as
whites were.
Blacks were given jobs that white workers wanted and
everybody cheered.
After all, the only people hurt by anti-white policies
of this kind were working people. Rich people have
plenty of police protection, so it didn't really
matter if the police were made less efficient by being
forced to check out as many whites as blacks.
But after September 11, 2001, all these silly
anti-profiling ideas began to hit people who
mattered. Nobody minded when busing led to dangerous
schools where children were searched.
But after September 11, 2001 white American
grandmothers were being strip-searched and the media
started raising hell.
No, it wasn't just that grandmothers were being
searched that caused all the trouble. What mattered
was that the WRONG grandmothers were being searched.
At the airports after September 11 the whole nonsense
of nondiscrimination began to cause problems for
people who fly in airplanes. Al Gore got searched.
Rich people got searched. Potentially dangerous Arabs
did not get searched because profiling was outlawed.
Step on white working people and the media will
worship you. But the minute you hit the upper middle
class, expect to get kicked in the teeth.
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Liberals want the Draft back because they Want the
Sixties Back
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Black congressman Charles Rangel of New York has
proposed that the military draft be renewed for the
war on terror. Liberals say they want the draft back
so that all classes of Americans would share the
burden and risk of military service.
Back on Planet Earth, the last time the draft helped
share the military burden was during World War II when
practically everybody was drafted. Since then the
rich have avoided serious military service if they
wanted to, draft or no draft.
The reason the left wants the draft back is because
Bush is using the War on Terrorism to win elections.
The peace movement today is very, very weak.
The liberals' real reason for wanting the draft back
is because they want the hippies back. Rangel wants
all those wonderful leftist protests on campus
springing up the way they did during the Vietnam War.
Back in the 1960s those campus riots were used to
force the government to move left. Back in the 1960s
those protests by young people on campus were also
used to show that leftism was "the way of the future".
If the draft is renewed liberals think it will mean a
return of The Good Old Days.
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The Wrong Feet are the Same
Today as They Were in the Sixties |
Actually all those campus protests in the 1960s had
nothing to do with political leftism. The day that
the military draft disappeared was the day that
students totally lost interest in anti-war protesting.
What happened to the fashionable war protests in the
1960s was exactly what happened to the fashionable
campaign against profiling after September 11, 2001.
Until the Vietnam War got serious, nobody minded the
draft much. Working people got drafted but anyone
who mattered could get an exemption by going to
college or something.
During the Vietnam War very few upper income people
were drafted and even fewer were forced into combat.
But in the 1960s the slightest threat to the comfort
of the class of people who fly commercial airliners
today caused a major political explosion.
Even a hint of a serious military draft could cause a
political revolution, and a serious draft has been
politically impossible for decades.
Now if there is any kind of draft, Congressman Rangel
has put liberal fingerprints all over it. He is
stupid enough to be a respectable conservative.
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