You can tell Bosnia was a liberal
war from the solid support it got in the press.
Reporters would always begin a report from Serbia
by saying Serbia limited their freedom to report.
They would have a standard announcement that Serbian
authorities limited where reporters could go and
what they could say.
You know, it's funny, but they never said a word
about any limitations when they were reporting from
a COMMUNIST country. There were a lot of restrictions
on reporting from Communist countries, but no reporter
ever mentioned them.
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn spent many years in Siberia
facing Communist guards, guns, barbed wire and guard
dogs. He laughed at the fake courage of the American
press. He said that the American press acted very
brave when it was dealing with American authorities.
He said they didn't act so brave in Communist countries.
He pointed out that these brave American
reporters hopped to attention and obeyed when some
nasty little Red Guard in China told them to.
Now that's odd. I never heard any reporter talk
about problems in Red China, from the the Red Guard
or anybody else. They never complained about the
ever-present travel restrictions in any Communist
country. The press didn't want to make the Communists
look bad. Liberals did want to make Serbia look
bad.
American media are only interested in freedom of
the press when it serves the liberal cause.
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This is a follow up to my May 15 article
called "Wordism."
The opposite of nationalism is Wordism. Wordists
say that we should forget our race, our culture,
and everything about our natural identity. Wordists
say that the only important thing is their Final
And Absolute truth. Communism is a form of Wordism.
All the thousands of other philosophies that claim
to Unite All Men in Universal Peace are forms of
Wordism.
Nationalism, at its worst, cannot do as much harm
as Wordism has done. Protestant and Catholic Wordists
fought the religious wars that wiped out a major
portion of the population of Europe in the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries.
In our century, Communism has killed at least a
hundred million people directly and even more indirectly.
Wordism routinely kills so many people and causes
so much suffering that it makes Hitler look like
a piker. In America today, all the talk is about
racism and divisiveness. But here again, what is
actually destroying America is Wordism.
To a Wordist, an American is not someone who was
born in America. To a Wordist, a True American is
someone who BELIEVES in the right WORDS.
To a liberal, a True American is anybody who believes
in the Melting Pot and integration. Liberals would
love to replace us with hundreds of millions of
third world leftists who BELIEVE in leftism. To
a liberal, THAT would be a True America made up
of True Americans.
Many "Christian" conservatives
would LOVE to replace any native born American with
a fundamentalist Brazilian convert.
Libertarians want America to open up its borders
completely to unlimited immigration.
Yes, Virginia, each of these groups BELIEVES this.
I am NOT making this up. And these loons are not
extreme examples. Wordist nutcases RUN this country.
According to Wordists, America did not become great
because we are a special people. America is great,
according to Wordists, only because of the WORDS.
It is only the Constitution and the Declaration
of Independence that make America a free country.
The people who happen to be here are incidental.
According to Wordists, as long as we keep the right
words, any people on earth would do just as well
with this country as Americans do.
All any population needs to be America is THE RIGHT
PIECES OF PAPER. A Wordist conservative will say
that America is just the words of the Constitution
and the Declaration of Independence and the Gettysburg
Address.
For a Wordist liberal or a respectable conservative,
America is even less than that. To liberals and
respectable conservatives, as I explained on October
31, 1998, America is just "Five
Words and Emma Lazarus."
Any liberal will look you straight in the eye and
say that a True American is anyone on earth who
believes in what he believes in. A Wordist conservative
will tell you exactly the same thing.
This is the official doctrine of those people who
are always telling us "What America Is All
About." To the liberals and respectable conservatives,
America is all about WORDS. As long as we have the
words, the PEOPLE are interchangeable.
To Wordists, anyone who says America
is in any way a special PEOPLE is Evil. If you say
Americans are a special PEOPLE, you are a Nativist.
If you say Americans are a special PEOPLE, you are
a Racist.
You are a Nativist and a Racist unless you agree
that Americans are simply interchangeable with any
other people on earth.
I say that is nonsense.
I believe that the words of our nation's Founding
Documents were a product of the PEOPLE who wrote
them. I believe in a combination of heredity as
well as environment, of genetics as well as culture.
Our people are not interchangeable with any other
on earth.
Most white Americans today are the descendants of
people who came here before 1800. In The Wealth
of Nations (1776), Adam Smith points out that the
population of the American colonies was doubling
NATURALLY about every twenty to twenty-five years.
That means that for each couple that arrived in
1700, there would be an extra TWENTY people in America
in 1775!
The earlier you got here, the more offspring you
had. It is a simple geometric progression.
America had more German immigrants
than British immigrants. But we have more British
blood in our veins, because the British immigrants
got here earlier, and multiplied more.
By the time Ellis Island opened up, the NATURAL
INCREASE of Americans had slowed down enormously.
Those who settled in the cities through Ellis Island
did little more than replace their own numbers.
Even our big cities contain more descendants of
earlier Americans than of recent immigrants! Even
at the height of immigration in the late nineteenth
century, more Americans came into the cities from
the rapidly increasing population of the country
and small towns of America than came in from Europe.
In other words, America keeps what freedom it has
and its enterprising climate largely because we
still have the genes that founded the whole thing.
The genes that founded America, that opened the
frontiers, also produced huge numbers of offspring
in those frontier areas.
The Wordist has to claim that his words are everything,
and genes are nothing. Unlike the Wordist, I don't
have to claim that either genetics or environment
is everything. I think America is the result of
a combination of genes and culture. But the genes
are indispensable.
Americans are not interchangeable.
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