October 17, 2009
A month ago today I referred to MS-NBC’s falsified report that Town Hall protesters were bringing guns to Town Hall meetings as an intimidation tactic (“A Black and White Issue – NOT!” – September 17). At MS-NBC the end justifies the means — the means being a complete abandonment of journalistic ethics; the end being the conversion of the United States to a socialist governmental system.
I got to thinking about this and I naturally wondered, “Why are liberal journalists, academics and entertainers so committed to moving the country toward socialism, since those groups have not fared very well under socialist regimes?”
So I’ve tried to explore the “Liberal Logic” behind this phenomenon. This week I heard a sound bite from Bill Maher’s TV show in which he wishes out loud that we could just have a dictatorship like the Chinese so things could just be done without all this messy democracy. After all “the people are stupid,” said the ostensible populist.
Anita Dunn, the Obama administration’s communication director, ignited a firestorm when video surfaced in which she mentions Mao Tse Tung and Mother Theresa in the same breath as people whose methods she admires. This was rather indelicate, since Mao killed millions of Chinese people; mostly teachers, writers and artists, just the kind of people that usually vote Democrat. So what did she do to deflect the controversy? She blamed a Republican of course! She said she got the quote from Lee Atwater.
In every socialist regime, be it Communist, National Socialist (Nazi), or Islamo -fascist (as in Sadam Hussein), freedom of the press is eventually stifled. It has to be, because tyranny cannot survive the scrutiny of a free press. Hugo Chavez of Venezula apparently extinguished the last independent news voice in Venezuela a couple of weeks ago.
Coincidentally, President Obama this week took specific aim at Fox News, which has opinion programming that is usually critical of his policies. It’s started already.
So again the question. why are liberal journalists, academics and entertainers so eager for socialist policies to rule in America? If they thought about it, they would be as outraged by Obama’s veiled threats to Fox News as conservatives are. A government that can silence one voice can silence all. As Martin Niemöller said after World War II:
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
