-Caveat Lector-
Published in Washington, D.C. 5am -- September 17, 1999
www.washtimes.com
When the chickens fly home to roost
Let's see who we can blame now.
Bill Clinton, who cut short his trip to New Zealand only to be cheated
out of an opportunity to be photographed feeling somebody's pain in the wake
of Hurricane Floyd, imagines he can exploit the tragedy in Fort Worth to
bullyrag Congress into enacting more useless gun laws.
"Yet again, we have seen a sanctuary violated by gun violence, taking
children brimming with faith and promise and hope before their time."
Naturally this underscores a need to enact more feel-good laws.
Ron Fornier of the Associated Press wants to blame George W. Bush: "The
shooting posed a potential political problem for the two-term governor who
signed a 1995 law allowing Texans to carry concealed weapons with a permit,"
he writes, quoting only himself. "Democrats have questioned his commitment
to federal and state efforts to require background checks at gun shows . . .
Yet he didn't budge from his belief that new anti-gun laws are not the
answer."
The Fort Worth gunman did not, in fact, have a permit to carry a
concealed weapon, making the concealed-weapon law irrelevant. But when we're
in the hysterical mode hysteria is all that counts.
George W., on the other hand, gets it. "There seems to be a wave of
evil passing through America now and we as a society can pass laws and hold
people accountable for the decisions they make, but our hopes and prayers
have got to be that there is more love in society. This man obviously was
acting as a result of evil in his heart. I don't know of a law -- a
governmental law -- that will put love in people's hearts. It's hard to
explain how hatred lurks in somebody's heart to the point where he walks
into a church where children and adults were seeking God's guidance and
shoots them."
What's obvious, to anyone who isn't sound asleep, is that the secular
assault on religious faith, the partisan campaign to demonize evangelical
Christians, the relentless attempt to drive all expression of religious
faith from the public square and with it our ancient moral code, and above
all the determination of the irreligious to destroy society's traditional
respect for faith, is having a cumulative effect. This is what the elites
have said we ought to have, and maybe we're not supposed to complain when we
get the behavior of the jungle.
How much of the blame for the stalking of Christian girls at Columbine
High, for the assault on the Jewish day-care center in Los Angeles, and now
for the slaying of the faithful at Wedgwood Baptist Church in Fort Worth,
should be attached to those who have declared war on the public expression
of religious faith? The ACLU tirelessly seeks out cranks, nuts, malcontents,
nerds, ginks and anyone else who might qualify as a plaintiff in a lawsuit
to eliminate public exercises of faith. The bar association once frowned on
barratry, the promiscuous incitement of litigation, but now we've got so
many lawyers there aren't enough clients to go around.
The hatred of Christians at Columbine and Fort Worth as a motive
driving killers is usually ignored in the media. "The media were very quick
in August to draw the conclusion that the shooter at the Jewish community
center in Los Angeles was motivated by anti-Semitism," notes Brent Baker,
vice president of research and publications for the Media Research Council.
But in Fort Worth reporters and their editors are "being much more hesitant
to assign a motive."
Reporters and editors who are not careful are easily manipulated by
special pleaders, hence the double standard. When Matthew Shepherd was
beaten to death on a lonely rural road in Wyoming the reporters and editors
quickly leaped to the conclusion that it was a "hate crime" because Mr.
Shepherd was recognized as a homosexual by the thugs who killed him.
The feds, from the president on up, just as quickly got in line. But
Thursday someone asked Janet Reno, the attorney general, whether the Fort
Worth shooter, who shouted blasphemous curses as he emptied his automatic
pistol three times, was driven by similar hate.
Of course he wasn't. Miss Reno, who concedes that she sometimes doesn't
know what's going on, insists merely that "we must get answers" and "move
carefully" to be sure that "we understand exactly what happened." And of
course: "We should not jump to conclusions."
Harold O.J. Brown of the Howard Center for the Family, Religion and
Society finds a "similarity between the way the Roman authorities charged
Christians of that era with odium humani generis -- 'hatred of the human
race' --and the way the political and media establishment charge the
Christians with creating a 'climate of hate.' "
Scary stuff.
Wesley Pruden is editor in chief of The Times.
http://www.washtimes.com/politics/pruden.html
Bard
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