The Liberal Rape Connection
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18 December 2010
Daniel Greenfield
When lefty stalwarts Michael Moore and Keith Olbermann decided to
jump to the defense of an accused rapist, relying on such authorities
as Bianca Jagger, they were either thinking that whether Julian
Assange raped two women was irrelevant, because he was doing more
important progressive duty. That was the same justification used to
support Roman Polanski for his brutal rape of a 13 year old girl.
It's more convenient to claim that the rape thing was a CIA plot, as
Bianca Jagger did (while keeping "rape" in quotation marks) and
Olbermann retweeted.
Predictably thin-skinned, Olbermann reacted to a feminist Twitter
campaign with shrill insults, before eventually huffing and puffing
and abandoning Twitter. Michael Moore penned an open letter to the
Swedish government accusing it of ignoring rapes in general. It's a
cynical pose that lets him play rape victim advocate, while defending
a particular rapist. What Moore ignored is that most of those rapes
in Sweden come from Muslim immigrants anyway. Image courtesy of the
Daily Gator)
Neither Olbermann or Michael Moore could wrap their heads around the
idea that the US government likely pressured Sweden to bring Assange
in-- and that Assange is still an accused rapist. That both can be
true at the same time.
The ideological paradigm has trouble coping with contradictory
information like that. If the evil US government is hunting Assange
then he must be a saint, and all accusations directed at him are the
product of a vast conspiracy to silence him. But Olbermann and Moore
should know better than anyone else that it's entirely possible to
push interested allegations that are actually true. They've done it
themselves when going after Republicans. More often though they've
lied. And that may help Moore and Olbermann believe that everyone lies.
So first they lied about the charges that Julian Assange is accused
of. They misrepresented the charges against Assange as not really
being rape-rape. When in one case it's pretty clear cut rape from the
start, and in the other it turned into rape. Whether Assange is
guilty of those charges is for a court to determine, but Olbermann
and Michael Moore are making a mockery of their own claims to be
protectors of women by defending Assange by mocking his accusers and
insisting that he can't be guilty because he's on our side. And
therefore a victim of "The Man."
This same kind of defense was used for Roman Polanski. The charges
against him were misrepresented. And the pro-Polanski documentary
Wanted and Desired (it deserves to be called a documentary about as
much as Moore's documentaries do) painted a portrait of Polanski as
the well-meaning victim of ruthless prosecutors. Polanski couldn't be
a rapist because he was one of us. Just like Assange is one of us.
One of the progressive good guys who see the world for what it is.
Let's take the case of Ira Einhorn, the Unicorn Killer, a leftist
radical who murdered his ex-girlfriend, and stuck her body in a
trunk. He managed to convince enough liberals that he was the victims
of a CIA conspiracy, that they helped him escape and continued
protecting him. He married a Swedish woman and parties around Europe.
This went on for a long time, until the US finally managed to extradite him.
Michael Moore and Keith Olbermann will ignore the obvious parallels
with the defenders of Iran Einhorn, who treated Holly Maddox as
another inconvenient victim. And why shouldn't they? This kind of
thing has been going on for a long time now.
David Horowitz of Front Page Magazine broke with the left over a case
like this. The murder of Betty Van Patter. But most liberals have
been willing to treat the Black Panther movement as heroes.
"I became a rapist. To refine my technique and modus operandi, I
started out by practicing on black girls in the ghetto... and when I
considered myself smooth enough, I crossed the tracks and sought out
white prey.
Rape was an insurrectionary act. It delighted me that I was defying
and trampling upon the white man's law, upon his system of values and
that I was defiling his women...
Recently I came upon a book of quotations from one of LeRoi Jones'
poems, takes from his book The Dead Lecturer.
"A cult of death need of the simple striking arm under the street
lamp. The cutters from under the rented earth. Come up black dada
nihilismus. Rape the white girls. Rape their fathers. Cut their
mothers' throats."
I have lived those lines and I know that if I had not been
apprehended I would have slit some white throats. There are, of
course, many young blacks out there right now who are slitting white
throats and raping the white girl.
That's from Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice, the man that liberals
turned into an icon, along with his Black Panther thugs.
By presenting his rapes as a response to racial oppression, Cleaver
legitimized them in the eyes of white liberals. But the not so hidden
truth is present all along. Cleaver did not just rape white girls. He
raped black girls. Because he was first of all, a rapist.
By passing off his rapes as revolutionary acts, he got liberals to
champion him and treat him as a hero. And his victims as irrelevant
details. The same way Ira Einhorn did. Or Julian Assange.
Of course it doesn't end there. You could easily write a book on this
sort of thing. It just wouldn't make for very pleasant reading. Some
time ago I wrote about the liberal love affair with Caryl Chessman
Caryl Chessman was a rapist who became the star of a worldwide campaign
"Telephone callers from Western Europe, Latin America, Africa and
Australia have importuned Governor Brown to spare Chessman's life.
Brown has received save-Chessman pleas from Belgium's Queen Mother
and from the Social Democratic members of Italy's Chamber of Deputies.
Secretary of State Christian Herter told his press conference last
week that the Chessman case had stirred up "quite a surprising amount
of interest" in South America. In Brazil, circulators of a
save-Chessman petition claim more than 2,500,000 signatures. In The
Netherlands, record dealers are profiting from brisk demand for a new
platter, in Dutch, called The Death Song of Chessman.
The London News Chronicle recently editorialized that "the great
American nation is humiliated because of the agony of Chessman," and
the London Daily Herald added that the day Chessman is executed "will
be a day when it will be rather unpleasant to be an American." Buenos
Aires' Critics called the Chessman case "the most terrible case that
has faced the world in recent history." - Time Magazine, Mar 21, 1960
Neil Diamond wrote a song about Chessman. So did Phil Ochs.
Then there's that all time hero of gonzo journalism, Hunter S.
Thompson, who made his reputation by mythologizing and defending the
Hell's Angels biker gang on charges of rape. He did it for that
incredibly progressive magazine. The Nation.
Thompson himself was on charged with rape. An unsurprising factoid,
but one that the liberals who treat him as a hero avoid discussing.
Again it's possible to keep going with this forever. But let's bring
it back to Sweden.
In his thoroughly cynical open letter, Michael Moore charges the
Swedish government with loving rapists. When actually he's talking
about himself. But he's not completely wrong. The Swedish government
does love and cover up for rapists. So do most European governments.
Why do they do it? Because the rapists are Muslim.
Most rapes in Sweden and Norway are carried out by Muslims against
the natives. And it isn't talked about anywhere. It's certainly not
mentioned by progressives. The French Arab and African of Eldridge
Cleaver create rape songs turning their rapes into an act of cultural warfare.
And so we're back where we started. Assange and the Muslim rapists
who boost Sweden's rape statistics have one thing in common. Liberal
defenders who lie for them and cover up for them.
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