-Caveat Lector- >FrontPage Exclusives - http://www.frontpagemag.com > >The Time for Talk Is Over >By Richard Poe >URL: http://frontpagemag.com/editors_note/en11-27-00.htm >11/27/00 > >BUSH HAS WON Florida. But the Gore team fights on. For the first time in >our history, Americans face the possibility that the president we elected >may not be allowed to serve. > >The question is: What are we going to do about it? > >If you're like most Americans, you probably shared your Thanksgiving table >with at least one or two Gore supporters, maybe more. > >Perhaps you tried arguing with them. But of course they wouldn't listen. > >Why should they? The talking hairstyles on CNN have told them that Gore's >machinations are perfectly normal and legal. And so they believe it. > >It is time to stop arguing with people who think that way. It is time to >gird ourselves for action. > >Like most Americans, I was taught that the Germans were fools to follow >Hitler. Popular films such as The Sound of Music reinforced this view. The >bad guys were conveniently marked with swastika armbands and evil leers on >their faces. Like most Americans, I concluded that no one with half a >brain could have fallen for Hitler's cant. > >But real life is not like the movies. A lot of decent, intelligent Germans >supported Hitler - people not unlike our friends and relatives who now >support Al Gore. > >Not long ago, I watched a television interview of Leni Riefenstahl, the >filmmaker whose propaganda epics Olympia and Triumph of the Will helped >build Hitler's following. > >The interviewer asked her why she had lent her talents to the Nazi cause. > >I don't remember Riefenstahl's exact words, but she said something like, >"It is easy in hindsight to know that Hitler was evil. But it was not so >easy for people at the time, who had no way of knowing what the future >would bring. Even today, how do we really know which of our politicians >will lead us to a better future?" > >Riefenstahl's critics have never accepted this sort of answer. They insist >that she should have known better. And, of course, she should have. Yet, >she still had a point. > >When Hitler annexed the Sudetenland in 1938, every radio broadcast and >newspaper in Germany reported that it was the Czechs who were trying to >pick a fight with Germany, not the other way around. > >When Hitler attacked Poland in 1939, the German press reported that it was >the Poles, not the Germans, who had attacked first. > >There was no Internet, no Fox News, no Drudge Report in Germany then to >give the dissident view. Even so, I'll bet plenty of Germans argued over >their dinner tables, "The press is lying. Hitler is starting a war over >nothing." > >"Nonsense!" their friends and relatives shouted back. "Don't be so >cynical. Our government would never start a war without a good reason." > >And so the arguments raged. Endlessly. Pointlessly. Irresolvably. Just >like the arguments we Americans are having today over the vote count in >Florida. > >The Nazi press confused people by charging Hitler's opponents with every >crime that Hitler himself committed. > >Our press plays the same trick, faulting "both sides" for this election >crisis, even as massive evidence of Democrat vote fraud mounts. > >Leni Riefenstahl was correct, in one regard. It is not so easy to pick the >right side. There is no crystal ball to tell us whom to follow or whom to >believe. > >Each of us must make that choice alone, in the solitude of his own heart. >I have made it for myself. And you, gentle reader, have no doubt made it >too. > >When our forefathers faced a similar choice in 1776, many chose the wrong >side. Some chose no side at all. But a brave few stood and fought for >liberty. > >Thomas Paine wrote: "These are the times that try men's souls. The summer >soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the >service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and >thanks of man and woman… Let it be told to the future world, that in the >depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the >city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and >repulse it." > >This weekend, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets, in every >major city. Some cried, "mob rule!" Fainter hearts, on both sides of the >political divide, called for restraint. > >But restraint is not appropriate when freedom hangs in the balance. >Republicans and Democrats alike must accept that the time for talk has >ended. > >Now we will see who has the courage to prevail. >---- >Richard Poe is editor of FrontPageMagazine.com and SlapHillary.com. 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