Posted on 06/18/2003 5:37:59 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl
"We will take to the streets right now, we will delegitimize Bush, discredit him, do whatever it takes, but never accept him," cried Jackson outside the Supreme Court.
By Thursday, the spin doctors were trying to soften Jackson’s image, focusing on his conciliatory phone call to the President-elect. But make no mistake. The promised “civil rights explosion” is in the works, starting with mass protests scheduled for January 15.
Bone-weary from 35 days of election hell, the last thing most Americans want is an “explosion.” But we’re going to get it, whether we like it or not.
The radical Left is on the march. Jackson is a mere foot soldier in its ranks. His incendiary rhetoric is part of the plan.
In 1990, I interviewed former ‘60s radical Jerry Rubin for Success magazine. He explained how he and his fellow revolutionaries had used the power of “myth” to tear America apart.
“The first part of creating a mass movement is the mythic idea…” Rubin explained. “We put the myth out there that America was in chaos. America was not in chaos…
“When 100,000 people marched on the Pentagon in 1967, we put out the myth that America was divided in two. America was not divided in two.
“But we put the myth out there and what happened, by ’69, 1970, America was divided in two.”
In other words: Keep promoting the myth, and eventually it will come true.Jackson is doing that now. He is promoting the myth that Bush stole the election, that black voters were disenfranchised, and that America is on the brink of revolution.
Black Republican Congressman J.C. Watts Jr. disagrees.
"When all these charges first hit, I did my own investigation,” he told the Washington Times.
Watts found that people of all races had been stopped at polling places for routine checks, not just blacks. “The police officers were just doing their job,” he says.
Even Gore’s claim to have won the popular vote is suspect. Reports from around the country - largely ignored by major media - suggest that massive tampering may have inflated the Democrat vote.
Jackson is no doubt aware of all this. But, when making revolution, it is the myth, not the truth, that counts.
In his autobiography, Radical Son, David Horowitz recalls a series of discussions with Tom Hayden in which the Chicago Seven conspirator revealed his motive for inciting riots during the 1968 Democratic Convention.
Horowitz paraphrases Hayden:
“If people’s heads got cracked by police, he said… it `radicalized them.’ The trick was to maneuver the idealistic and unsuspecting into situations that would achieve the result…”
In short, the Chicago Seven had deliberately lured their followers into situations where they could be hurt or killed. The bloodier things got, the better for the cause.
Reared by Communist parents, Horowitz recognized the principle behind Hayden’s words.
He writes: “It was the extrapolation of a familiar radical idea: `The worse, the better.’”
The movers and shakers behind the current election crisis appear to be following a similar agenda.
On the night that Gore retracted his concession, Newsweek pundit and White House myrmidon Jonathan Alter spilled the beans on the Left’s destabilization plan.
The recounts would probably collapse into chaos, Alter predicted in a televised discussion. Each side would accuse the other of cheating.
But that was okay.
After weeks of recounting, Alter explained, there “would be a lot of pressure to say… let's end this thing. You get a series of irregularities all over the state of Florida, pretty soon nobody can figure out who really won. What happens then?"
Well, what happens, Alter seemed to imply, is that people become so disgusted that they are ready to accept any solution, no matter how extreme or un-Constitutional. Tom Hayden would have said they become “radicalized.”
That Friday, as if on cue, Hillary Clinton announced:
"It’s time to do away with the Electoral College and move to the popular election of our Presidents.”
She was further refining the “mythic idea.”
As Hillary framed it, the problem was not just one bad election. The problem was the Constitution itself. The work of the Founding Fathers would have to be undone.
Tighten your seatbelts, America. The Left means to shake this country to its foundations.
Just as in Chicago 1968, a lot of innocent people may get hurt. But, for Jesse, Hillary and the rest of the “worse-is-better” crowd, America’s pain will be their ecstasy.
“we put the myth out there and what happened, by ’69, 1970, America was divided in two.”
"We" was NOT "We the people".
Their "WE" couldn't sell any MYTH without their leftist PRESS pals = "WE".
During the 60s, they said they wouldn't live past the age of 35. After election 2000, they promised to go to France. They're still here. They're still lying.
The Marine Corps does more to promote world peace than all the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream ever made." ~ PJ O'Rourke, Give War A Chance
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Olympic curler George Karrys didn’t believe that journalists were anti-US and anti-Israel ... until the war in Iraq. In a letter to *Mark Steyn’s site, he writes regarding Hamza Hendawi:
When a rock-tossing amateur athlete can spend less than 15 minutes on the web confirming a writer's humiliating legacy of bias, after reading one of his stories for the first time, then ya gotta know the jig is up.
Fact-checked by a rock-tosser. Excellent.
"We broke the dams when the Iraqi army left. We want to teach our children how to fish, how to move on the water again."
Qasim Shalgan Lafta, a Marsh Arab and former fisherman who helped restore the water to the Iraqi wetlands that Saddam had destroyed, Chicago Tribune, 6/13/03
"Thanks be to Allah for giving our water back! Thanks be to George Bush!" Jawad Mutashir, watching water refill the wetlands that have been dry since
Saddam dammed the Euphrates, Chicago Tribune, 6/13/03
"Before, we saw Saddam on one channel, then we saw Saddam on another channel. When the signal went off, we'd hear Saddam. Even in our dreams, we heard his voice. It’s better than before."
Tahir Sadeq, an Iraqi hotel manager, The Washington Post, 6/13/03
"Before, we couldn't speak. Before, we couldn't live. But life has changed from bad to best in Sulaymaniyah. I hope everyone in Iraq can live like us soon."
Abdul Karim, a 70-year-old Iraqi, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 6/12/03
"In a country where the slightest criticism of Saddam's personality cult was treated as treason, and public adoration led to promotions and other rewards, almost no one dared to speak the truth him for more than 33 years. It took the sight of American tanks rolling through their cities to get many Iraqis talking freely about Saddam's reign."
Associated Press, 6/12/03
"We're trying to show the world that Iraqis have a great culture."
Hisham Sharaf, directing the Baghdad Symphony Orchestra in its first performance since the war, Agence France Presse, 6/12/03
"People want to see the truth about Saddam. Saddam always talked about his faith and what he was doing for the country, but the reality was different."
Ali Zowrayi, former torture victim who now sells copies of Saddam's home movies, Associated Press, 6/12/03
"I want to know the secrets of Saddam. Before, we couldn't even say his name, and now we can know the truth."
Abdul, who bought a copy of one of Saddam's home movies, Associated Press, 6/12/03
"I am Ahmed Hassan. Five members of my family were executed. I came here in order to help this neighborhood."
Ahmed Hassan, giving his candidacy speech for the district-wide council in Iraq, Los Angeles Times, 6/12/03
"Ibrahim Kadhim. I could not be appointed a teacher because I was not a member of the Baath Party so I worked as a merchant. I'd like to work on this committee to help set aside the past."
Ibrahim Kadhim, giving his candidacy speech for the district-wide council in Iraq, Los Angeles Times, 6/12/03
The war exposed decades of left-wing lies about our military and our nation. The evil capitalist "military industrial machine" was the liberator of the oppressed. Our troops are the honorable good guys. Americans aren't racists. Our men aren't pigs. Our women aren't macho (in spite of Maddie Albright and Hill). "Peace at any price" means the left is willing to defend a monster as long as his atrocities are buried or imprisoned far from public view (and the bad guy admires Stalin). Americans will die for strangers in foreign lands they have no interest in "occupying". Saddam, not President Bush - 1 or 2, was responsible for the starvation of children - for the mass-murder of the Iraqi people.
The left is sowing dissent and undermine our efforts daily in Iraq because the left loses if the Iraqi people and freedom win. Please help expose them by writing letters to the editor, calling your Senators and Reps. and looking beyond the daily news (lurker advice - Freepers know). Our troops need our help.
We deserve better from our AMERICAN reporters - raised in freedom - still selling out their awesome heritage for a handfull of Utopian beans. No deadline or byline or Pulitzer prize can excuse intentional lies from professional journalists during wartime and aiding our enemies and further terrorizing the longsuffering Iraqi people during the difficult post-war stabilization goes beyond politics to endangering our troops and threatening our national security.
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