Yet More
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by Mia T, 4/9/99, updated 4/19/03 -
Nothing demonstrates this principle of unboundedness better than the clinton rapes.
You will recall that the protectors of the impeached rapist rapidly became the protectors of marauding Milosevic rapist-guerrillas. Had the protectors of the impeached rapist denounced the Milosevic rapists, they would have thrown a monkey wrench into the Senate's show-trial deus ex machina of choice, willful ignorance. And so the rape of Albanian women by Milosevic thugs went virtually unreported... and unopposed.
This dynamic became especially clear when the protected. i.e, the rapist, became the protector. Whereas bill clinton took every opportunity to demagogue the Bosnia rapes, he never once mentioned the rapes that occurred in Kosovo. This seeming inconsistency evaporates when one realizes that during the intervening period clinton was fingered as the serial rapist of Juanita Broaddrick, 19-year-old Eileen Wellstone, an as-yet-unnamed, drugged 14-year-old, and others.
Analogous behavior by the rapist provides additional inferential evidence of this dynamic: clinton, the unabashed Balkanizer had no problem denouncing Milosevic's Balkanizing. clinton, the brazen thug had no problem denouncing Milosevic's thuggery. Yet clinton, the about-to-be-outed closet rapist, was mum on the Milosevic rapes.
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--a senator to Henry Hyde -
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It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it. Patrick Henry In a dark time, the eye begins to see. Theodore Roethke But even as Clinton fails to grasp the scandal's metabolism he understands all too well its most significant byproduct. You can see it in his eyes. Once reflecting a Machiavellian confidence, they now dart back and forth reflexively, searching futilely for approval, attempting desperately to dispel his own certain knowledge that his moral authority is gone. . .
forever.
Mia T -
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