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http://www.sierratimes.com/03/03/14/edcw031403.htm
Setting the Record Straight
By Christopher Westland
It�s not an exaggeration to say that anti-Americanism has been the main
marching tune of the post-modern left for decades. Almost uniformly, they
insist that America and her semi-competitive private corporations are evil.
On the other hand, and all the monopoly corporations of the socialist states
and petty third world dictators with obscene, secret bank accounts, are
unquestionably good, no matter how many hundreds of millions they�ve
murdered in the name of the �progressive� cause. If some mass-murderer
pretends to care about the plight of the impoverished �workers of the world�
trapped under the lion�s paw of private corporations, he�s automatically
elevated to the status of socialist deity. You know, �the only good monopoly
is a state monopoly�. The left insists it has the A.N.S.W.E.R. for all of us.
But the veneer of their thought process has worn extremely thin, along with
the patience of most rational minds.
And in the wake of a waning 911 memory, the anti-American mania has
reached a new high. The egalitarian fantasies of the communo-cultists on
the far left have soared beyond the realm of mild neurosis, to sheer,
irrational psychosis. Their attachment to their Stalinist utopian pipedream
has become the political equivalent of the garage physicist�s obsession with
a perpetual motion machine. How else can anyone explain the non-logic of
the pop rhetoric? And at the forefront, for the entire world to view, are the
Hollywood media stars. These people have convinced themselves that if
they can play a Ph.D., they can think like a Ph.D. And these movie mavens
of intellectual acuity have finally even outdone themselves.
Notables like Harry Belafonte � whose main claim to fame was being one of
the first black persons to sing on white radio � thinks that makes him
superior to not only the rest of us, but the highly educated Dr. Condoleza
Rice and Colin Powel, two individuals who have achieved some of the
highest and most demanding positions in black history. Then there�s the
spelling-challenged, Jewish Barbara Striesand, would have us believe that,
like Neville Chamberlain before us, we can appease the neo-Nazi Islamo-
Fascists who swear they�ll kill every Jew on the planet, and somehow she
and Israel will go unscathed. And George Clooney claims �we can�t beat
anybody anymore�. Should we suggest he just speak for himself on that
one? Especially the next time he visits a public bar without bodyguards. Fat
chance, of course. Which brings us to our point.
Martin Sheen himself, the icon of liberal activism, the �real� American
President of the American West Wing Left -- since George W. Bush is
considered an illegitimate child -- has become the self-appointed
spokesperson for the anti-American peace movement of the 21st Century.
>From the Mid East to Europe, from South America to Singapore, the world
is choosing up sides against American Liberty in a way not seen since the
late 1930�s, and Sheen wants us to become pacifists. May we be forgiven if
this seems as astonishingly irrational as a woman offering to �turn the other
cheek� to a violent rapist [SIC].
Now Sheen�s activism is clearly genuine, if not perhaps misguided, so we
can charitably assume he sincerely means well. And he did have the
chutzpah to publicly call George W. Bush �a moron�. But by his own
admission Sheen allowed that he doesn�t �have the kind of intelligence or
the makeup to be a president�. And incredibly, in a 2001 BBC interview, he
insisted that the only original things of importance that the U.S. has ever
exported to the rest of the world were �Alcoholics Anonymous and Jazz
Music�.
Oh, really.
Well, just to set the record straight, let�s examine that last anti-American
statement in at least a little depth before we follow this guy and his fellow
glitterati all the way to the �Virtual White House�, and possibly into a
complete new global dark age of neo-feudal totalitarianism. Let�s just take a
look at just a few of the things officially recognized as America invention
exported to the rest of mankind. Other than the twelve-step program and
reefer madness music, of course.
Besides the modern constitutional representative form of government given
to the world by the Founding Fathers, the one we now call �democracy�,
here�s a selected few of the �Oscar� quality achievements bequeathed to the
world by �stupid white American men�.
In the category of Health and Medicine:
1842 Crawford Long: ether anesthetized surgery
1880 Dr. C. D. Fleet: �chapstick�
1905 Albert Einhorn: Novocain
1913 William D. Coolidge (for General Electric): the X-ray tube
1933 John Lundy: intravenous anesthesia, using sodium pentathol
1935 Robert R. Williams: isolated and synthesized vitamins
1940 Vladimir Zworykin & James Hillier: the electron microscope
1943 Selmen A. Waksman: streptomycin (curing tuberculosis)
1945 (circa) Alfred Free: glucose detection for diabetes
1954 Jonas Salk: polio vaccine
1960 Frank B. Colton (G.D. Searle and Company): the oral contraceptive
1978 Raymond V. Damadian: the MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
device
In the category of Food and Agriculture
1794 Eli Whitney: the cotton gin
1794 Thomas Jefferson: the American "moldboard" wooden plow (he
refused to patent it and encouraged free public use)
1834 Cyrus Hall McCormick: the mechanical reaper
1838 John Deere: the American cast steel plow
1886 Clarence Birdseye: frozen food
In the category of Labor and Industry
1797 Eli Whitney: parts standardization, thereby inventing mass production
1805 Oliver Evans: the refrigeration machine
1847 Richard M. Hoe: the rotary printing press
1851 Richard Dudgeon: the Hydraulic Jack
1855 William Kelly: pneumatically refined ("Bessemer", or mass produced)
steel
1868 Alvin J. Fellows: the tape measure
1868 George Westinghouse: air brakes
1871 Simon Ingersol: the pneumatic drill
1873 t Christopher Sholes: the typewriter
1886 Frederick E. Ives: the halftone printing process
1952 Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver: the bar code
In the category of Lifestyles and Fashion
1787 Levi Hutchins: the alarm clock
1838 Chauncey Jerome: an affordable clock (thereby giving rise to the
expression, "Yankee Ingenuity")
1849 Walter Hunt: the safety pin
1850 Levi Strauss: the blue jean
1869 O. A. North: the wire coat hanger
1874 William Blackstone: the home washing machine
1878 Thomas Alva Edison: the first practical electric light bulb
1882 Henry W. Seely: the electric clothes iron
1886 Josephine Cochran: the dishwasher
1893 Whitcomb Judson: the zipper
1911 Willis Haviland Carrier: the air conditioner
1912 Henry Warren: the electric clock
1927 Warren Marrison: the quartz clock
1930 Richard G. Drew (for 3M): Scotch Tape
1945 Percy Lebaron Spencer (for Raytheon): the HEM (Microwave Oven)
1955 George de Mestral: VELCRO�
In the category of Science and Technology
1839 Charles Goodyear: vulcanized rubber
1844 Samuel F. B. Morse: the electromagnetic telegraph
1876 Alexander Graham Bell: the telephone
1877 Thomas Alva Edison: the phonograph
1885 William Seward Burroughs: the calculating machine
1885 Charles T. Tainter: the Dictaphone
1885 Edward Weston: the electric speedometer
1896 Elmer Ambrose Sperry: the gyroscopic compass
1903 Wilbur and Orville Wright: the airplane
1906 Lee De Forest: the vacuum tube
1907 Leo Hendrik Baekeland: plastic
1930 Ernest Orlando Lawrence: the cyclotron
1931 Igor I. Sikorsky: the helicopter
1932 Julius Nieuwland (for Du Pont): synthetic rubber (neoprene)
1935 Wallace Hume Caruthers (for Du Pont): nylon
1938 Roy J. Plunkett (for Du Pont): teflon
1938 Chester F. Carlson: the xerographic photocopier
1939 George R. Stibitz: the digital computer
1940 (circa) Jay W. Forrester: RAM memory
1942 Donald Fletcher Holmes (for Du Pont): polyurethane (foam rubber)
1948 William B. Shockley (for Bell Laboratories): the transistor
1950 John Backus (for IBM): FORTRAN, the first high level computer
programming language
1959 Gordon Gould: the laser
1959 Jack S. Kilby: the integrated circuit
1961 David Paul Gregg: the optical disc (laser disc)
1964 J. C. R. Licklider, for the Pentagon: the Internet (sorry Al!)
1965 James T. Russell: the compact disk
1970 Donald B. Keck (for Corning): the telecommunications optical fiber
1970 James Fergason (for Westinghouse): the LCD (Liquid
Crystal Display)
1971 Marcian E. Hoff (for Intel): the microprocessor
1972 William Hewlett and David Packard: the pocket calculator (HP-35,
which replaced the slide rule)
1976 Seymour Cray: the Supercomputer
1977 Steve Wozniak: the personal computer
And finally, In the Category of Hollywood�s Special Elite
1870 John W. Hyatt: celluloid
1876 Alexander Graham Bell: the microphone
1879 George Eastman: dry plate photography
1881 Frederick E. Ives: color photography
1884 George Eastman: flexible photographic film (the Kodak)
1887 Thomas Alva Edison, the motion picture camera (by commission of
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson):
1895 Nikola Tesla: the wireless radio
1904 Ernst F. W. Alexanderson (for General Electric): radio frequency
oscillator (making modern radio and television transmission possible)
1906 Thomas Alva Edison: the "cameraphone" (sync motion picture sound)
1914 Max Faktor (Max Factor): grease paint for actors
1918 Edwin Howard Armstrong: the superheterodyne radio receiver
1929 Philo T. Farnsworth: the television
1929 Vladimir Kosma Zworykin for RCA: the cathode ray tube
1933 Edwin Howard Armstrong: FM (frequency modulated) radio
1956 Charles P. Ginsburg (for Ampex): the VTR (video tape recorder)
Of course there are some that probably insist that most if not all of these
things were actually invented in the former Soviet Union for the good of all
mankind (in Solzhenitzyn�s �First Circle� perhaps?), and secretly suppressed
by American corporate interests until they could make a profit from them.
But the fact is that they have all undeniably improved the standard of living
for nearly every human being on this earth, and they are still officially
recognized as American in origin. And they�re just a few of the many.
Now it would seem that any comment on this list would be superfluous. But
we can�t resist. Let�s take them by category.
In Health and Medicine, Is there anyone out there that would really like to
trade surgical anesthetization or Novocain during dentistry for a little Jazz?
Come on, Martin. How about it? Let�s trade.
And in Food and Agriculture, the poorest people on the planet often wear
cotton tee shirts. Prior to Eli Whitney, everyone but the aristocracy of the
world, who could afford cotton, wore coarse, itchy, burlap underwear.
Anyone want to trade in your tie-died rainbow, �a woman without a man is
like a fish without a bicycle� tee shirt, for a nasty medieval hair shirt? Aw,
c�mon!
Let�s see. Labor and Industry? I suppose the global print media could trade
the halftone process, the lines at consumer checkout stations could grow
longer by trading the bar code, and railroad and trucking could make the
world a bit more unsafe by trading airbrakes�.for the 12 step method of
dealing with drunks?
What about Lifestyles and Fashion? It�s possible to imagine giving up
Velcro, the washing machine, and the electric light. But it�s very difficult to
imagine the peace-marching left getting by without their Levis. I mean really.
What would they do without their blue jeans and the easy tap foundation
money of Levi Strause?
In Science and Technology we can imagine the Peace Nicks of the world
finding something besides foam rubber on which to park their asses. Or
plastic, or the photocopier, or even the airplane. But give up their Steve
Wozniak credited personal computer and the Internet? God forbid!
And finally, in the Category of Hollywood�s Special Elite, is there any sane
person left in the world that can imagine Martin Sheen or any of his
Hollywood, lockstep free thinkers failing to comprehend that America has
given them than the ability to make millions per year? From the celluloid for
film, to the microphones that they use to project their opinions, to the motion
picture camera to the television and the video tape recorder, all these
American inventions provides not only them, but the entire world with the
media we call �The Movies�.
And all American ever gave the world was Alcoholics Anonymous and
Jazz?
So was Sheen just being cynically abusive toward the country that gave not
only the world all the things we�ve iterated, but gave him personally the very
ability to become a wealthy Point Dume pretend-presidental spokesperson
for the rest of us? Or was he just kidding? Or is he just naturally that
myopic?
And if, while speaking for the modern progressive left, he can be that far off
the mark, how can any of the sane among us believe he�s correct or fair
about anything else he wants us to believe? Is he really capable of
determining foreign policy? Do we assume he has private encrypted
contacts with the world�s heads of state, that he has access to National
Security intelligence, or that he has any intelligence at all?
Oh, I suppose he could be right. It�s a long shot, and not a particularly
reasonable conclusion, but maybe. But what if he�s wrong? What if America
stands at a cross roads like a dominant stag in the woods surrounded by
hungry, rabid wolves? What if Martin Sheen, the rest of the not-particularly-
insightful Hollywood elite, and the entire pro-Stalinist cult of those Lenin
called �useful idiots� are wrong? What conditions would the poor, the
hopeful, and the lost of the world really do without the continued American
contribution? And what will all the billions of hopeful individuals either
already under, or rapidly falling under, the ugly spell of the totalitarian
impulse do without the hope they owe to America? What will we all do if the
Hollywood and Stalinist left is wrong?
Did we, or didn�t we, sacrifice the lives of 500,000 men and women,
2,000,000 casualties, and several trillion in today�s dollars toward the
Marshal Plan, to rebuild both our allies and our enemies alike after World
War II? Does anyone really imagine a Middle East dictator or Communist
despot EVER doing the same for us?
Really.
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