Whitaker's Current Articles October 11, 2003
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October 11, 2003 --
No One Will Mention That Kobe Bryant Defense is Based Partly on
"White Racism"
October 11, 2003 -- Does
Being in a War Make You A Hero?
October 11, 2003 -- Heroism and Drugs
October 11, 2003 -- Rush Limbaugh, Been There, Done That
Fun Quote:
Socialists and libertarians say the only
important issue in politics is how big the government is. That
is like saying that transportation is entirely a matter of how
many airplanes there are.
Short Observation:
You remember how Clinton's Attorney General
used to react to Administration scandals?
She said, "We will investigate." That was the
last you ever heard of it.
You know about that attack on September 11,
2001? Two years ago I said nobody in the Intelligence
bureaucracy would even be criticized, much less fired, for letting
that happen.
In 2003 the Bush Administration still says, "We will
investigate."
No One Will Mention That Kobe Bryant Defense is
Based Partly On "White Racism"
Kobe Bryant is a black man who is one of
American basketball’s best players. Kobe Bryant has been accused of
sexually molesting a white woman. I am proud to announce that WhitakerOnline has enough foreign readers to make this explanation
worthwhile.
In the preliminary hearing Bryant’s lawyers
implied that his accuser had had sex with two men on the two
consecutive nights before she had sex with Kobe Bryant. They
probably have some proof of this. But it is a good tactic for
another reason.
A white woman who is alone with a married man
is usually assumed to be there to go all the way. A white woman who
is alone with a BLACK man in a motel room is assumed to be there to
go all the way for sure.
This is a prejudiced attitude. But those who
want limits on sex are accused by the Playboy/ Penthouse types of
being just plain prejudiced against sex. To an Inquisitor, mercy
is just a prejudice. To an integrationist, any white who doesn’t
want to marry a colored person is prejudiced. To a libertine, all
sexual morality is prejudice.
When the Marquis de Sade wrote the introduction
to his novel Justine, which was "dedicated to the triumph of evil
over good," he referred to his opponents repeatedly as "bigots."
He was writing in French, but the word meant exactly the same thing
it does in English: anyone who did not approve of torture as a means
of sexual pleasure was just prejudiced.
Fashionable opinion says that a white girl who
does not kiss a black man is just prejudiced. Nonetheless, if a
white girl goes to a motel room and voluntarily
starts kissing a black man, it is hard for the average person to
believe she didn’t intend to go all the way.
If she violates one "prejudice" one tends to
believe that she will probably violate another.
You can scream at me all you want to, but that
is the way real people think.
So Kobe Bryant’s lawyers are using what they
would call “racial prejudice’ as part and parcel of their defense.
I am the only person who will mention this.
Does Being In a War Make You A Hero?
Those who worship uniforms forget a basic fact
of life.
When heroes go into battle on one side, there
are Evil Ones on the other side who are also wearing uniforms.
So how do you tell the heroes from the villains?
Here’s a clue: No one on the winning side has
ever been convicted of a War Crime.
No one on the winning side has ever been
ACCUSED of a War Crime.
Uniforms are worshipped if they were worn by
the winning side.
Heroism and Drugs
We all know that a lot of junkies came back to
America from the Vietnam War. Drugs were cheap and easy in Nam,
and they were one of the few forms of relief our people over there
had.
It is less well known that over a hundred
thousand morphine addicts came back from the Union Army after the
Civil War. There were no good pain-killers then except for
morphine, which had only recently been developed from opium. Union
Army doctors called morphine G.O.M., God’s Own Medicine.
Ironically the Confederate Army had many less
addicts because the Union, in direct violation of the rules of war,
used its blockade to keep medicine out of the South.
But this huge “addiction problem” after the
Civil War was not that much of a problem. Union veterans ordered
their morphine in large quantities cheaply through the mail in the
plain brown wrappers that are still being used for other things. If
there had been a War on Drugs then it would have been a disaster.
The War on Drugs made criminals out of Vietnam
Era addicts.
The point is that many a man who won medals in
war could not throw off drugs later on, while they ruined him, his
family, and everything else. If being in a war automatically made
you a general-purpose hero, these post-war drug problems would never
have occurred.
Rush Limbaugh, Been There, Done
That
Rush is right. There is nothing heroic about
being hooked on drugs.
Yes, Virginia, I did THAT wrong, too! I went
through recovery and “the program” for a long time.
It can’t be just a matter of Will Power and
Courage. The death rate in recovery is enormous, and a lot better
men than I am died trying to dig their way back from addiction.
You might think that people with a low level of natural drive would get hooked on stimulants, “uppers.” You
might think that people who are too “up” would take calming drugs to
get “down.” It’s just the opposite.
In my high-pressure occupation I used
stimulants to keep working day and night. In high-pressure places
like Hollywood and Capitol Hill it is the stimulant cocaine that is
popular. Over a century ago Conan Doyle had his wildly aggressive
Sherlock Holmes using cocaine, not opium or morphine.
So I tend to think that Rush fell into his drug
overuse by accident. I don’t think he would naturally choose
the drugs he did because they are “downers.” He could not stop
using them after they were prescribed.
This “uppers” and “downers” business is not an
absolute rule.
Anybody who states an absolute rule about
addiction is a self-righteous moron or he is somebody who gets paid
for his opinions.
And he probably lies about other things, too.
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