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How Come It's Still 1984?
by Vin Suprynowicz
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Why are the Democrats - the party of my youth - so widely dismissed as
pathetic poseurs these days?
Let's see. George W. Bush makes a big speech about how America promotes
democracy throughout the world. How do the Democrats respond? By pointing
out that our Founding Fathers purposely set us up with a Republic, while
strongly warning against direct "democracy" as nothing but "mob rule,"
likely to vote the constitutional rights of minorities out of existence at
the first opportunity?
Of course not.
Do Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi - sitting there stiff-backed, our modern
equivalents of Herman and Lily Munster - calmly acknowledge, "OK, if Mr.
Bush can figure out a way to promote participatory government in the
Mideast, we'll admit that's a good idea and we'll do what we can to support
him, even if we think selective bombardment and invasion under false
pretenses should not be our preferred opening gambit.
"But let's be honest about this: It was a Republican administration that
sent in Major Smedley Butler and the U.S. Marines to overthrow the
democratically elected government of Nicaragua, forcing the legislature in
Managua to sign a peace treaty in English as American warships loomed
offshore, a treaty giving us the right to run the Nicaraguan railroads under
the laws of the state of Maine.
"It was a Republican administration that overthrew the popular government of
Mohammed Mossadegh, the 'weeping mullah,' in Iran in 1953, re-installing the
Pahlavi shahs, whose secret police surely ranked them among the most
repressive despots in recent history.
"Let's not even get started on the regime-change assassinations we backed in
places like Chile and Vietnam, as little as 30 and 40 years ago. And if
we're so in favor of democracy and self-determination, why is President Bush
making nice with KGB assassin Boris Putin, when just last week the Russian
special forces murdered Aslan Maskhadov, the last elected president of
independent Chechnya?
"If we're really going to change our stripes now, a good start might be to
acknowledge to our own people the things we did that caused our government
to be so widely feared, hated and distrusted, out there in the world at
large."
Do the Democrats say any of this? Not in public, they don't. And why?
Because they're complicit. The Democrats have signed on to the old way of
doing things; Bill Clinton set out on many a foreign lark (albeit far less
effectively, being the distracted dilettante he was). They have no
principled alternative plan or world-view to offer.
Loyal opposition? The only thing the modern Democratic Party can find to
"oppose" are such irrelevant cosmetic features as the churchgoing habits and
adopted Texas drawls of the ancient Connecticut banking family known for
more than a century as the Prescott Bush clan, while shrieking about "tax
cuts for the rich," when this other set of elite millionaires who hasn't
done their own grocery shopping in decades secretly defines any
private-sector slob who works hard enough to own a house as "rich."
The only guy they could find to run against Bush was another, less adept
Yalie poseur from Skull & Bones, and the only "agenda" they have to offer is
to require us to ban smoking, use helmets and seatbelts, sort our garbage
into different colored baskets, and hand over our foreign policy to Jacques
Chirac and Kofi Annan. Meanwhile, they block economic development anywhere
in this country under the rubric of "smart growth" and protecting any
"geographically distinct population" of scraggly weed or bug their babbling
ecofreak subsidiaries can locate.
Oh, and - of course - ever higher taxes.
Some "alternative."
Las Vegas police Lt. Steve Franks is concerned about the midnight
smash-and-grab theft of 1,700 blank Nevada driver's licenses from the DMV
office on Donovan Way on March 7 - along with a digital camera and all the
other paraphernalia necessary to turn them into realistic IDs - asserting
last week the purloined documents could easily be used to pass through
airport security checkpoints, etc.
Kind of like the way all those Arab hijackers got through our security
checkpoints by showing their fake IDs, three-and-a-half years ago?
This follows the conviction last year of a Nevada DMV clerk who took
$300,000 in bribes to sell unauthorized licenses and IDs to some 1,000
illegal aliens - that they know of.
So, do we have this straight?
1.
All that billion-dollar "check-your-ID" crap at the airport has
improved our safety and security not one iota, instead accomplishing nothing
but creating jobs for thousands of new blue-gloved butt-gropers-in-training
while further conditioning the American populace to be ready to show our
"government-issued photo ID" on demand, any time, anywhere, and ...
2.
The "driver's license" is nothing of the sort, but rather constitutes
the nine-digit nationally coded "internal passport and travel document"
which Franklin Roosevelt solemnly promised our Social Security numbers would
never be turned into?
Just checking.
March 16, 2005
Vin Suprynowicz [send him mail] is assistant editorial page editor of the
daily Las Vegas Review-Journal and author of The Black Arrow.
Copyright � 2005 Vin Suprynowicz
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