The Dead Remember Our Indifference
November 27, 2003
So the President steps to the podium and begins his address:
The dead remember our indifference; the dead remember our silence.
I came here tonight to be congratulated, but today when I visited the Red Cross camps overwhelmed by the flood of refugees fleeing from the horror of Kazastan, I realized I don't deserve to be congratulated - none of us do. Let's speak the truth. The truth is we acted too late.
Only when our own national security was threatened did we act. Radek's regime murdered over 200,000 men, women and children and we watched it on TV. We let it happen. People were being slaughtered for over a year and we issued economic sanctions and hid behind a rhetoric of diplomacy. How dare we? The dead remember. Real peace is not just the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice.
Tonight I come to you with a pledge to change America's policy. Never again will I allow our political self-interest to deter us from doing what we know to be morally right. Atrocity and terror are not political weapons and to those who would use them, your day is over. We will never negotiate. We will no longer tolerate and we will no longer be afraid. It's your turn to be afraid.
And amazingly, the liberals rise in thunderous applause and nominate him for two awards...Academy Awards. The year was 1997 and the “president” was Harrison Ford. Well, at least he got it right in “Air Force One”.
In 2003, on his own time, Ford thought differently about “atrocity and terror”, “I regret what we as a country have done so far”. I guess when you’re not getting paid $20, a regime murdering over 200,000 men, women and children is neither here nor there...a little Radek here...a little Hussein there. At least for $20 million dollars Ford can be paid to speak sense. Don’t some people call that prostitution?
And speaking of prostitution, there is always senator Hillary. From her Iowan rant, “We can criticize and we should.” Tell that to the Heritage Foundation, the Western Journalism Center, The Christian Coalition, the National Rifle Association, Citizens against Government Waste, the American Spectator, the National Review, Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers, Juanita Broaddrick, Elizabeth Ward Gracen, Billy Dale and Bill O’Reilly...all who were audited by the IRS after “criticizing” the Clintons.
But don’t let a fear of reprisal paralyze your larynx. A tongue-lashing Hillary warns that, “None should be afraid to dissent and criticize....” That is of course unless you “criticize” the Clintons...in which case you are at least part of the vast right wing conspiracy, if not directly responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing!
On the outside chance that you do “criticize” and somebody like purported Clinton operative Anthony Pellicano (now in jail) breaks your car’s windshield and leaves, “a dead fish on the front seat,” immediately contact Hillary. But beware...you never know if, “"Anthony Pellicano was a private investigator hired by Mrs. Clinton herself.”
Oh, pardon...Hillary means it’s ok to “criticize” President Bush. It’s even better if you “criticize” his policy in Iraq, “...and anyone who tries to say it is unpatriotic (to criticize and dissent) should be held to account.” Now I understand! You may not “criticize” a Clinton for obstruction of justice, perjury, stealing government property or using the Oval Office as a bordello, but you really should muck things up for American soldiers in harm’s way.
The Clintons are habitual...they do the talking while somebody else does the dying. As New York’s junior senator joins the sing-along with; Teddy “I’ll do the driving and you do the dying” Kennedy, Howard “I’ll do the skiing and you do the dying” Dean and Al “Let’s kill the interlopers” Sharpton...America’s enemies see greater license for the unfettered murder of America’s finest.
If these “patriots” want to harmonize a “dissent”, they should be singing “Let’s Kill Hussein”. The only real criticism of Bush, in defense of our troops, is the lack of ruthless determination to liquidate Hussein, bin Laden and the rest of the terrorist “leadership”. With “country club” style, the current administration seems almost indifferent to the terrorist-inspired deaths of American troops. It is time for the murderers’ “turn to be afraid”.
We have men and women on multiple battlefields. We are facing ruthless enemies who wish to end the American way of life. We have battles not yet fought in Iran, Syria and North Korea. And we have pathetic Democratic politicians who hide behind Constitutional entitlements for political gain...at the cost of American lives.
Agreement with the Bush policies is not the issue. Fact is the issue: The fact that we have soldiers in hostile foreign territory; the fact that we are living in an age of instant news dissemination; the fact that our enemies are constantly probing for American weakness and instantly exploiting that weakness; and the fact that Hillary, like Jane Fonda before her, is costing American lives. Soapbox posturing is not the venue for responsible criticism when our troops are on the battlefield.
Responsible politicians who take issue with administration policies can do so behind the closed doors of their Congressional committees. After Viet Nam, one would expect responsible people to realize that ego-gratifying soapbox posturing is aid and comfort to the enemy. The goal is solving problems...not selfishly greedily exacerbating them. Leaders can trust the mindless millionaire brats from Hollywood to man the treason brigade. Who cares about the troops anyway? Most of them don’t know a Syrah from a Muscatel.
After Fonda’s 1972 visit to the Hanoi Hilton, the treatment of American POW’;s worsened. “We were Jane Fonda's ‘war criminals.’ When Jane Fonda visited Hanoi, I was asked...if I would be willing to meet with her. I said yes, for I wanted to tell her about the real treatment we POWs were receiving, which was far different from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and parroted by various peace activists as 'humane and lenient.' After doing so, I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees with outstretched arms with a piece of steel placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane every time my arms dipped.” Even those who survived remember the indifference.
With art imitating life, Fonda won an Academy Award for her performance in “Klute”...as a hooker in the same year she was an accessory to the murder of American POW’s. There is only one profession to describe a senator who one minute votes for the war, panders with, “...we must keep faith with these young men and women who are doing the work of freedom right now in Iraq” and the next minute pulls the rug right out from under those very troops by calling a jihad “...to dissent and criticize”. That indifferent profession is even older than politics.
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