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Technology moves very fast. Those
of us who are older carry around time capsules in
our bodies. Most of us still have some of the old
silver fillings in our mouths. And on our arm, all
of us from my generation have a piece of yesterday
-- a smallpox vaccination scar.
Everybody had to have them. As late as the 1970s,
you had to prove you had had a fairly recent smallpox
vaccination in order to travel into many countries.
Now the only living smallpox viruses left are in
a handful of laboratories. Smallpox does not exist
outside of a few laboratories. The World Health
Organization has recommended that even those disease
stocks be destroyed.
Smallpox is probably the only disease that human
effort has so far destroyed completely all over
the world. But Europe got rid of leprosy almost
as completely centuries ago.
You know all those movies you see where evil superstitious
Europeans are forcing innocent lepers to live in
their own places? This is usually presented as the
old fashioned ignorant approach to such diseases.
But in the real world, it worked. Leprosy was made
to disappear from Europe by isolating it.
The reason WHO says the remaining smallpox virus
should be destroyed is because of its potential
use in biological warfare.
We are facing a large number of threats of this
sort. We are trying to prevent nuclear proliferation,
bacteriological warfare, and other types of mass
terrorism. The only real answer is to take advantage
of our advancing technology to spread the threatened
population out. As I explained on March 6, 1999,
in "How Tomorrow's Confederacy
Will Deal With Tomorrow's Reality" the
real solution to this is to use our technology to
SPREAD OUT.
The ruling leftist policy is the exact opposite
of this rational policy. We are told that the solution
to our problem is to force Serbians into living
as closely as possible to Albanians, blacks and
whites must be mixed together in prescribed percentages
for racial balance, and the like.
None of this is necessary for the PROFESSED liberal
aims. Through computer technology and simple travel,
we will in any case have more CULTURAL INTERACTION
between different groups than we have ever had before.
We don't have to be jammed together physically to
have cultural interaction.
Like everything else liberals propose, forcing groups
together won't work. Once again, we must do the
opposite of what liberals propose. In a world where
a single extremist can destroy a city, we will have
to spread out, not integrate.
I have watched liberals for decades, and this is
typical. Every day it becomes more possible for
terrorists to kill everybody in a confined area.
The liberal solution to this is to jam as many potentially
hostile groups as closely together as possible.
Can you imagine that leftists would recommend anything
else?
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I don't think we can be warned too
much about how similar today's McCain is to yesterday's
Rockefeller. And not since Rockefeller has there
been a Republican the national media loved as dearly
as they do John McCain.
They had reason to love them both.
Rockefeller did his work for the leftists a generation
ago.
Back then, Rockefeller pushed their policies as
an openly liberal Republican. Such outright liberalism
has been discredited, even for a national candidate
of the Democratic Party. So today McCain does his
work for the liberals, not as a liberal, but as
the most respectable of respectable conservatives.
The fact that McCain lost the nomination is not
the end of his usefulness to the media and other
liberals. Rockefeller did his best job for them
after he had lost a nomination. That was in 1960.
In 1960, the Republican Convention that nominated
Richard Nixon for president passed a very, very
conservative platform. The conservatives who would
nominate Goldwater in 1964 were already showing
their muscle.
As a moderate, Nixon of course immediately sold
out the conservative Republican convention. Conservatives
had always supported Dewey, a liberal Republican,
when he was nominated in 1944 and 1948. Needless
to say, liberals were not so accommodating. Governor
Rockefeller of New York made it clear that, unless
Nixon rewrote the platform for him, he and his fellow
liberal Republicans would not support him.
So Nixon got on the phone in California and called
Governor Rockefeller in New York. Over the next
several hours, he and Rockefeller rewrote the whole
platform. Republican conservatives at the convention
did what they always did. Nixon kicked them in the
teeth and they came up smiling. He told them to
do what Rockefeller wanted and, as always, they
did. Not one conservative even hinted he might not
support Nixon.
To pile it on thicker still, Nixon made Henry Cabot
Lodge, a Massachusetts liberal, his running mate.
No one today understands how difficult it was for
Nixon to lose the 1960 election.
Even after he made every possible mistake, it took
Democratic Mayor Daley of Chicago all night following
the 1960 election to steal enough votes to put Illinois
in Kennedy's column. The margin was razor-thin.
Theodore H. White, in "The Making of a President,
1960," made a point which no one since has
disputed. He reviewed the tight races in state after
state in the election, citing one after another
where Kennedy barely won. White pointed out that
if Nixon had been just a little bit more conservative,
he would have carried a few more Southern states,
and won the election. He also said that if Nixon
had moved to the left, he would have carried several
eastern states and won.
It took a liberal Rockefeller and a moderate Nixon
all night on the coast-to-coast telephone to work
out the only deal that could have lost the 1960
election!
The liberal media look for the same kind of performance
from their new ally in the Republican Party, John
McCain. You can almost see the liberal media's tongue
hanging out as they discuss a deal between Bush
and McCain. If history is any guide, it will be
a second Deal of the Century for the left, a repeat
of 1960.
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