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CNN REPORTS ANTI-ROCKER GOONS IN LOS ANGELES,
BUT NOT HIS ATLANTA FANS
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CNN has its headquarters in Atlanta.
But when the fans in Atlanta gave John Rocker a
screaming welcome after his suspension for making
politically incorrect remarks, CNN didn't report
on it. They faithfully reported every attack on
him, but just happened to miss his supporters.
Fans gave Rocker the wildest greeting anyone had
ever received in the Atlanta stadium. CNN wasn't
there. But when a bunch of goons threw bottles at
him in Los Angeles, three thousand miles away, it
was faithfully and repeatedly reported on CNN in
Atlanta. In addition, not a word of criticism of
those goons came from Mr. Fonda's network.
If those crowds had been that rude to someone for
making pro-Castro remarks, the entire national media
would be incensed. As it is, no respectable conservative
is going to mention this, so I have to.
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On the anniversary of the incident,
all the media were crying about the killing of Kent
State University rioters by National Guardsmen in
1970. Like the Littleton, Colorado incident, Kent
State is something liberals love to celebrate.
When I was working on Capitol Hill, my boss, Congressman
John Ashbrook, represented an Ohio district in Congress.
Each year, while leftists were bemoaning the Kent
State "Massacre," he would put a speech
into the Congressional Record called, "Kent
State Crybabies." The students, he said, were
acting like thugs, and they were treated accordingly.
Al Capp, the creator of Lil Abner, who described
himself as "a New York Jewish liberal who learned
better," made the basic point about the Kent
State riot. He wrote, "what these so-called
young revolutionaries seem to have forgotten is
that, in a revolution, BOTH sides are allowed to
shoot."
Capp also said, "It doesn't take a college
education to know that the best way to get killed
is to throw bricks at armed men." But until
Kent State, it was considered the right of leftist
rioters to throw bricks, rocks, and anything else
at anybody in uniform, and the uniforms could do
nothing back.
In one case of a full-scale race riot in the 1960s,
the National Guard was sent in WITH EMPTY GUNS,
for fear they might hurt some of the thieves and
burners they were sent against.
This sort of leftist whining occurred a few years
ago in North Carolina. A Communist speaker demanded
that the Klan come out and fight. The Klan did come
out and fight the Communists. Both sides were shooting.
Several Communists were killed, and others wounded.
No Klansman got a scratch. The leftists went to
court to demand the Klansmen be punished for their
violence against poor, innocent, armed Commies.
Even with the special rights the left has, this
didn't fly. The Klansmen were acquitted.
Back to Kent State. The average age of the Guardsmen
was almost certainly lower than the average age
of the students. The Guardsmen were largely a bunch
of teenagers facing a screaming mob throwing what
could have been dangerous missiles at them..
Liberals make good mobs, because cowards run in
packs. If you have ever been on the receiving end
of a howling mob, as most active rightists have,
you will realize that it takes a lot of maturity
and experience to face it calmly.
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Commentary magazine had an article in its April issue
called, "The Era of Big Government Is Not Over,"
which includes a discussion of the way in which government
is expanding its power in subtle but very effective ways.
One the most effective of these is by implying -- but
not specifically threatening -- punishment if one does
not comply.
I was glad to see someone bring this up. I have seen it
in action for many years.
Federal agencies are able to get away with specifying
race quotas by calling them "goals." This does
not sound like a quota. All the agency says is that, if
you follow the rules they don't call rules, you will be
safe from government action.
These guidelines can be enforced on big companies by implying
that they will be denied government contracts if they
don't comply. With small businesses, it's even easier.
Many conservatives were surprised to find that small businesses
often supported specific racial quotas. The reason for
this is that, while large firms have permanent legal staffs,
small business is lucky if their response to agency actions,
even legal letters, only costs them one or two hundred
dollars an hour.
In other words, legal fees amount to a fine on small businesses
for doing anything an agency can QUESTION. If you don't
meet their "guidelines," you can expect a substantial
fine in the form of legal fees, which very soon becomes
a burden that can put a small company out of business.
An agency can destroy a small business without even bringing
a serious action against it.
So when it comes to the hopeless complexity of hiring
by race, sex, sexual preference, disabilities, and a dozen
other things, small businesses are apt to say, "Please
just give a straight, simple QUOTA!"
The latest example of this sort of extralegal takeover
by Federal agencies is now occurring between the Justice
Department and the Los Angeles Police Department. The
Justice Department is deciding whether it will charge
the police with civil rights violations. They are openly
saying that they won't charge Los Angeles police if the
police department adopts "reforms" specified
by the Justice Department.
So if the police accept dictation from the central government,
there will be no prosecution. Once again, we have here
centralization of police authority, not by open fiat,
but by threat.
Back when the parents of missing children were trying
to get a national tracking system for missing children,
liberals fought it tooth and nail. Liberals said it would
lead to a "national police force." As always,
liberals were afraid the police would unite against their
clients, the repeat felons liberals love so much and degenerates
in general.
But now that a national police policy is being enforced
by the Justice Department for liberal goals and race quotas,
we don't hear a peep from the liberals.
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