The bumper sticker against David Duke for governor of Louisiana read, “Elect the Crook, It’s Important.”
They recognized that he was running against a crook.
No one cared that the crook didn’t give a damn about Louisiana or that David Duke loved and cared about the state in which he was born and raised. That didn’t matter because he dared to care about his race, too.
So they elected his opponent, knowing he was a crook and that he didn’t give a damn about Lousiana. And gthe establishment in the City of New Orleans, which had elected the integrationist Hale Boggs as its congressman long since, led the charge against Duke.
They have been electing the same kind of people ever since, people who did not care about their welfare but who also didn’t about their race, which was the only important thing. You can’t love your country and hate your race. You can’t love your state and hate your race. You can’t love your city and hate your race.
“Democracy,” it has been said, “Is a system of government where people get what they deserve.” That is tragically true.
New Orleans was afraid of what might happen to its tourist trade if Duke were elected. Thanks largely to the kind of people they elected to avoid political boycotts, the tourist trade in New Orleans will not be a problem for a long, long time.
Maybe, just maybe, something good could come of this tragedy. Maybe they are ready for a revolution in Louisiana. Maybe when the streets are drained the people of Louisiana will want a chief executive who will make them safe as well.
Duke for Governor.
#1 by joe rorke on 09/08/2005 - 3:10 pm
Duke for president!
#2 by willing on 09/09/2005 - 12:56 am
IMO,there’s no way that any U.S. President,no matter who it would have been,
would let David Duke have any real executive control over the Louisiana
National Guard.Every decision made in every department of the state
government under a Duke administration would first require clearance
by the Justice Department before it could be implemented.The Feds,
acting in the interests of those that they truly represent,
would make certain that a Duke administration not succeed.To them,
letting New Orleans drown would have been a small price to pay.
#3 by Bob on 09/09/2005 - 2:24 am
Willing, good point.
But Duke woud make all that front page news, the Feds versus the governor.
That’s where revolutions come from.
#4 by joe rorke on 09/12/2005 - 5:08 pm
I have read some of what David Duke has had to say on this and that. I have not yet read any of his books. I think he has had at least two books published. Everything that I have heard him say makes perfectly good sense to me. If I had to listen to anything coming out of the Mainstream Media/Corporate Media, call it what you will, or listen to something that David Duke had to say, I would want to hear David Duke speak, write, whatever. Why? Because I think he is an honest man. And that’s enough. I can’t say that about anyone in the Corporate Media. I have given up completely on the liars that inhabit the airwaves, newspapers, magazines, etc. There is no chance that I am going to get the truth from these sources. Duke has been smeared by the Corporate Media for as long as I have heard of his existence and that has been quite a long period of time. I kid when I call him God but at least I think he is an honest man. At least relatively speaking. Bob Whitaker? Why wouldn’t I want to hear from Bob Whitaker? Would I rather hear from Peter Jennings, Dan Rather, Mike Wallace, Ted Koppel, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Barbara Walters, Hugh Downs, does it ever end? I want to hear from people that I think are going to tell me the truth. That last sentence doesn’t contain the names of anyone that I think is going to tell me the truth about anything. I can trust David Duke. I can trust Bob Whitaker. And, thank God, there are others coming down the pike that I can trust too. Maybe the smoke is rising.