Posted on 12/04/2004 5:37:20 AM PST by GMMAC
DEMOCRACY NEEDS NO APOLOGY
Barbara Kay
National Post
November 24, 2004
I have singled out Globe and Mail columnist Heather Mallick for censure in the past, I'm rounding on her again today, and if she continues to set herself up for ridicule as Canada's paramount, almost parodic embodiment of liberal narcissism and corrosive anti-Americanism, I can't promise I won't dump on her in the future. It's nothing personal (we've never met). She just keeps putting a match to the American flag, and I just happen to walk by with a bucket of water. In deconstructing her Nov. 20 column I was, in her words, "spoiled for choice." For starters there was her implication of moral equivalence between the terrorist execution of CARE director Margaret Hassan and the unfortunate killing of a wounded insurgent by a jumpy U.S. Marine. That's offensive. Then there was her assertion that if she were dying, the 51% of Americans who voted for President Bush would "finish me off with a bullet," although, she claims, if they were dying "I'd offer them a drink."
But Mallick's anti-Americanism -- and her extraordinary self-regard -- is old news. We know only too well that she loathes George W. Bush ("this violent, stupid president") and indeed all American conservatives with a passion that often renders her incoherent. Her infidel conservative enemy having been re-elected, she has been stocking up the mini-Falluja of her political mindscape with journalistic bombs to wreak her vengeance. Last Saturday Mallick detonated one of them in eager support for a shameful post-election attack on Bush-voters by a small cadre of embittered American Democrats.
What do incensed liberals do when their candidate loses? Some run dreadful Web sites. The site Mallick favours, www.sorryeverybody.com, features pictures of people (and their babies and pets) "holding up written apologies to the planet" for Bush's re-election. Mallick comments: "What fine people these good Americans are!"
"Fine people"? "Good Americans"? Was Bush's victory a coup by a military junta? Were the polls closed to Democrats? George W. Bush was returned to power in a free and democratic election. In whose name are these people apologizing and by what right?
Mallick and the angry losers she champions seem not to understand the nature of apologies. Individuals may apologize to others for their own wrongdoings. A company president may apologize on behalf of his employees for his company having caused public harm. A nation may apologize to the world through its leader, as Bill Clinton did in Rwanda, for having abdicated its moral responsibility.
But surely this is the first time in history that a group of people joined only by ideology and an unshakable belief in their own moral pre-eminence have apologized to outsiders on behalf of fellow citizens for whose actions they have neither the responsibility nor the authority to speak, simply because they freely and democratically elected the "wrong" man. These Democrats, and the Bush-hating world who find conduits to vent their rage in like-minded journalists such as Mallick, are really saying that 51% of Americans were more than misguided, they were guilty of thought crimes and immoral behaviour.
"Millions" of people are visiting the apology site, Mallick reports with satisfaction: "Citizens of Austria ... have accepted Democratic apologies for what Republicans did and will do, as have Swedes, Canadians and even Muslims...."
Apologies today, show trials tomorrow. No journalist should be celebrating this contemptible Web site. Their "apology" is illegitimate and cannot be "accepted" by anybody. According to Mallick's curious strain of logic, if the Conservative party wins the next election, Globe journalists should apologize for the conservative opinions expressed in the National Post and rejoice when this apology is "accepted" by socialist readers of Danish, Austrian and French newspapers.
Mallick notes that Republican Web sites have struck back, arguing it is disloyal and even traitorous to submit internal divisions to foreign judgment. Mallick characterizes them thus: "There are hate Web sites and there are stricken-with-guilt websites ... You decide." Here is the imperial liberal mindset: It is a "hate Web site" to admonish your fellow citizens for disloyalty. But it is a virtue to spread messages of self-loathing -- for that is how the apology Web sites will be interpreted -- to America's enemies.
An apology for the choice made by your opponents -- whether it comes from the left or the right -- is an attack on the democratic process itself. As a vote of non-confidence in the will of the people, it is a subversion of the very premise of democracy, and an incipiently totalitarian impulse.
I cannot imagine a similar scenario -- conservatives apologizing to the world for a Kerry win -- if the situation were reversed. All reasonable people understand, and I wish Mallick did too, that the glory of democracy lies in neither side ever having to say it's sorry.
© National Post 2004
It's how these "progressives" and anti-Americans portray President Bush as "stupid".
I don't care which side of the ideological divide someone is on - you DO NOT get elected to the office of President of the United States of America by being stupid, asinine, or an idiot, to name some of the terms they use to describe the President.
Even a pandering snake like Bill Clinton - say what you will about his ideology or morality, the man is no slouch when it comes to cleverness and guile. (Except possibly when it comes to his taste in women LOL)
Just goes to show you that the Mallicks of the world understand little to nothing about democracy. In fact it's only democratic if their side wins. Fidel Castro must be very proud of them.
She can be reached at: hmallick@globeandmail.ca
Americans are so viral. They come at us in so many ways, via their culture (let's be honest and start calling it "peasant" instead of "pop"), their vicious corporate style that has turned their own citizens into serfs, and their faked Republicrat democracy. Even the smallest attempt to fight them off -- with Canadian content quotas, for instance -- brings out their Jack Valenti thugs.
I am not anti-American, I used to say hotly when people accused me of exactly that. But, of course, I am now, the older I get and the more I see of them. The only people I know who aren't anti-American are (a) very polite, (b) rich or gonna be rich if it kills them, or (c) not yet laid off.
Americans! Even their fencing is ersatz, like their president (Clinton at the time). Their literature hasn't counted since the 1930s, their newspapers are so soft you could lick them out of a cone, their movies are geared to infants, and you wouldn't watch their network news if they read it naked. Their relentless jargon injections have turned the English language into a corpse. Their law enforcement is so pathetic, they even have serial mass murderers -- they get to do it twice. They love guns so much that the begging of their combined police chiefs still can't stop the legal sale of guns with special handles that obscure fingerprints.
How low can a once-great nation sink?
Americans have even made themselves physically ridiculous. When you walk around Paris, the memory you bring home with you is not of the Seine or that embarrassing dog problem, it's les fesses enormes,the huge buttocks of the American tourists. They go one way, their owners go another. These people look like they're being stalked by something horrible, and to what purpose? It's not as if they enjoyed the process.
Americans themselves call it dumbing down, but I think it's more a matter of catering to Southerners. My theory is that the United States was ruined by air conditioning. That's what made possible the industrial rise of the South and finally allowed what was basically a swamp populated by yokels to be taken semi-seriously.
Let's just get on with the liberal/conservative civil war. I for one am d*mn tired of listening to their imbesilic ilk. Time for a 'liberal ethnic cleansing'. Almost as important as ridding ourselves from terrorists. They're practically the same in my mind, only a terrorist uses physical weapons, where liberals use hate speech for a more torcherous slow death of our nation and it's principals.
i'm one of the picture hijackers from sorryeverybody.com... see some of the funniest pics on my site listed in my tagline. what a bunch of pot-smoking, gorp-eating, hankie-headed, spoiled-rotten brats who have been educated far beyond their intelligence.
Re: [Then there was her assertion that if she were dying, the 51% of Americans who voted for President Bush would "finish me off with a bullet,"
I sure would!]
Not me! Even with reloading, the price of a cartridge is more than she is worth. I would much rather just sit there, enjoying her misery and stretching it as long as possible.
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