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Whitaker's Current Articles June 21, 2003
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Fun Quote:
If any reader had a lingering hope that
Whitaker had any taste at all, this pun should put it to rest:
What do you call people of the Hebrew
persuasion who live in Northern Ireland and support the Protestant
Government there?
You call them Orange Jews.
Does that pun apPEAL to you?
New
York Gun Law is Imposed on Iraq
There is now a one-year mandatory prison
sentence for Iraqis with banned weapons.
Now where did they get that law?
In New York there is a one-year mandatory
prison sentence for anyone who has a gun. Washington, DC copied
that law. It is standard liberal policy.
By the way, another standard liberal policy is
opposition to all mandatory sentencing except for gun control.
There are huge differences in the Iraq law and
the New York law. But anything that smells of the
New York law should be attacked and debated. Is there a single person who believes that such a law
will keep one single terrorist from getting a gun?
Of course not. Gun laws only apply to
honest people.
Fourteen rifles have been handed in so far in
Baghdad.
Anyone whose house is searched and a banned gun found will go to prison
regardless of circumstances if
the law is enforced. So the US authorities will either enforce it,
which will be a disaster, or not enforce it, which will be a disaster.
The American Federal system has given us fifty
different experiments in controlling weapons. General
mandatory sentencing for possession has been a failure here.
It's probably a bad start in Iraq, too.
Conservatives could generate a new debate on
the failure of gun control by brining this issue up. Gun
control lost the last election for Gore.
But conservative spokesmen remain respectable by
staying away from issues that could really hurt the left.
Conservatives begin Crying About Poor Martha Stewart
Respectable conservatives are city people who
keep quiet about the insanity of gun control. Since it is soldiers
in Holy Uniforms who have imposed the New York gun law in Iraq, this
gives them an added impetus to stay silent about it.
So what are the conservatives screaming
about? They are sobbing loudly over the Federal prosecution of the
hard left limousine liberal Martha Stewart. Martha fights for gun
control. Martha likes nothing better than to see a
law-abiding people imprisoned when
they have guns to protect themselves in DC and New York.
Martha Stewart would be the first to report on
an honest person who had a gun and send them to prison. She blames
her problems on the “vast right wing conspiracy.”
So why are conservatives going to pieces about
Poor Martha? For the same reason they are ignoring the
false start in gun control
in Iraq. If men in Holy Uniforms enforce gun control in Iraq,
that trumps any concern about whether it makes sense.
Such a debate would be good for America and for
Iraq. But the good of America is never the first concern of
respectable conservatives any more than it is for liberals.
For conservatives, anything done by a Holy
Uniform is Good. By the same token, conservatives have
another rule: Martha Stewart is Rich and therefore Martha Stewart is
Good.
When a Liberal Gets Mugged, I Cheer
I can’t be a good pro-lifer because there are
lot of things that are more important to me than life. For
example, I would much rather go down shooting than stand helplessly
while thugs trashed my house and abused my family
Britain bans weapons for every honest
citizen. British burglars no longer wait for people to leave their
houses. Almost half the burglars go in and trash the place while
the family is there and the father is cowering in a corner. The
Brits don’t mind that, because it is truly pro-life: no criminal
gets killed and all life is precious.
Leftists object to the New Hampshire state
motto, "Live Free or Die" that is on the state's license plates.
They would "rather be Red than dead." A lot of pro-lifers on
the right are finding common cause with a lot of liberals because of
this myth that life is infinitely precious.
When the left and the respectable right get
together, you are really in trouble. The left and the
respectable right are getting together for Martha Stewart. The
left and the respectable right got together to defend Bill Gates,
Junior when he faced anti-trust charges.
When Bill Gates, Junior got prosecuted,
conservatives were outraged. Please see
May 7, 2000 -
MICROSOFT CASE: A LIBERAL GETS MUGGED. Conservatives
told each other that Bill Gates was a poor boy who made good. They
said Microsoft was started on nothing in a garage.
Recently Bush
proposed an end to the inheritance tax. A group of fabulously
wealthy liberals came out against him. Leading the list was the
fabulously wealthy Bill Gates, SENIOR. He was rich when Bill
Junior was born, and Gates’ limousine liberal mother was a
high-ranking executives who made the contacts he needed to get
Microsoft going.
But all conservatives
could say was, “Him Rich, Him GOOD.”
When government mugs
liberals, I cheer. They want everybody else mugged. They can have
guards with guns, so they want us arrested for having guns to defend
ourselves.
That’s the kind of
logic we are enforcing in Iraq. Nobody thinks it will work. But
liberalism never works.
The liberal media
is pleased with the gun law in Iraq, and that is all that matters to
the Bush Administration. It looks respectable and New Yorkish.
That kind of wimpy
nonsense could make Iraq a graveyard for Republican politics.
James Bond, the British Class System and
Interracial Coupling
The latest James Bond
movie is famous because of its co-star. She is black and she is the
girlfriend of the white James Bond.
When they want a
white person to do a first in interracial coupling, they do it with
an English white person and an American black. The first time a
white girl was shown in a romantic scene with a black on American television,
the couple was Harry Belafonte and English singer Petula Clark.
James Bond in the
person of Roger Moore was the first white man to kiss a black girl in a major
movie. As far back as the 1950s every single newspaper had a
picture of the queen of England dancing with the black president of
newly independent Ghana.
British accents often front for leftists in
America.
The media has long
had a desperate shortage of liberal radio talk show hosts. They
used to have a guy with a British accent who, like a good little
Englishman, repeated every conceivable liberal cliché with a
perfectly straight face.
Another Englishman, Christopher Hitchens, was
the token Marxist on American television. But be made a fortune on
Public Television and is becoming too American now in his political
opinions. They might have to find another Englishman to front
for the nut left in America.
I think the reason
for this use of Englishmen for interracial couplings and liberal
clichés is that an American who did it would be laughed at. But,
for an American, an Englishman is one step removed from reality.
The Queen of England
wants anybody in the old British Commonwealth to be able to come to England. A peasant,
she says, is a peasant, no matter what “colour” he might be.
Anybody who is loyal to the Queen, says the Queen, is as English as
anybody else who is loyal to the Queen, and has just as much right
to live on that cold little island as someone who was born there.
So the Queen is everything because of how she was born. A white
Englishman is nothing because of how he is born.
The modern Englishman
eats that up.
The English do not
discriminate. To be able to tell one thing from another is one
meaning of the word “discriminate.”
Truly, the trendy Englishman does
not discriminate. That makes him the perfect shill for
American leftists.
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