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On the "Talk Back Live"
segment I discuss below, Professor John Lott of
the University of Chicago made a point we should
tell EVERYBODY about. Arguing against Clinton's
knee-jerk demand for more gun control, he explained
how a recent "save-the-children" gun control
law had worked out.
In Mississippi, a student started shooting people
in school. One of the faculty had a gun permit,
and he had a gun in his car. But the car was over
a thousand feet from the school, as required by
the new Federal law. While people died, he had to
run all the way to the car and get the gun, bring
it back, and subdue the shooter with it.
As Lott pointed out, this man was a genuine hero.
And, as always when a private citizen uses a gun
to do a heroic deed, the press ignored his act of
heroism completely.
The press ignored him, and that means respectable
conservatives ignored him, too. Lott mentioned this
hero and another in Pennsylvania who used a gun
to subdue a school shooter. Have you heard about
them from any conservative? Do you ever expect to
hear about them from any respectable conservative
on any talk show?
Are we all clear now on the function respectable
conservatives get paid to perform?
No one who is going to kill people in a school is
going to worry about the law against having a gun
within a thousand feet of the school. Only this
law abiding hero obeyed that law, and it cost lives.
This is the only incident where this law has had
any known effect.
Lott is the professor who did the University of
Chicago study which demonstrated that the passage
of a "right to carry" law leads to an
IMMEDIATE decrease in the crime rate. As I explained
last week, this is the sort of information that
embarrasses liberals, so respectable conservatives
never bring it up. (See May 8 article, "Armed
Switzerland and the Colorado Shootings.")
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Michael C. Tuggle's Edgefield Journal
article, "True Believers and the South,"
reminded me about Eric Hoffer. Hoffer was a philosopher
many of our so-called "intellectuals"
are trying desperately to forget. He had several
characteristics the modern academic cannot stand.
To start with, the ideal of the modern academic
is Karl Marx.
Karl Marx, the left's Champion of the Working Class,
never did a day's labor in his entire life. Academics
all insist they are "friends of the working
class," but they don't want to hear from anybody
who actually does any work.
From the point of view of our so-called "intellectuals,"
Hoffer's first crime was that he was an actual working
man.
Hoffer was a longshoreman who read a lot. He never
had any formal education, but he wrote a number
of brilliantly intellectual books, starting with
"The True Believer." He repeatedly pointed
out that intellectuals who claimed to be "friends
of the working class" had nothing but contempt
for real working people.
This real working man had contempt for other leftist
pretensions. President Johnson appointed him to
the Civil Rights Commission, and within a few weeks
he declared the whole thing a fraud. Later he was
given a professorship at Berkeley. Within a few
weeks he pointed out that these high-powered university
students were great at repeating cliches, but "They
simply cannot THINK!"
Hoffer wrote in the 1950s and 1960s, back when almost
all professional academics declared that working
people needed a socialist economy. Hoffer's statement
on how socialism treated real working people was
as blunt as the rest of his comments. "Under
capitalism," he said, "We are expected
to work for money. Under socialism, we are expected
to work for words."
For a sane person, reading the Soviet Constitution
after their so-called "Worker's Revolution"
is hilarious. In 1917, once he became the Soviet
dictator, Lenin -- who also had never done a day's
work in his life -- declared that Russia was now
"a nation of workers, peasants, soldiers, and
INTELLECTUALS."
Now let me ask you something, gang. Which one of
these groups -- workers, peasants, soldiers and
INTELLECTUALS, is going to sit on its backsides
and give orders to the rest?
Lawyers, bureaucrats, and academics, these are the
people who rule us. All of these people produce
only one thing: Words. For those words they expect
lots of money and ALL the power. These people constitute
a vast and almost unimaginably powerful lobby dedicated
to the importance of words over everything else.
The only purpose of government, from their point
of view, is to give them money and power.
Lawyers, bureaucrats, and academics insist that
the only purpose people are united under one government
is for purposes THEY lay down.
Lawyers, bureaucrats, and academics believe that
a common race or a common culture means nothing.
It is DOCUMENTS that unite men. To them, an American
is neither more nor less than a person who has filled
out the proper papers. All that matters to our rulers
today are the words and documents they produce and
control.
Those who want lawyers, bureaucrats and academics
to rule are the opposite of nationalists. Nationalists
believe that men are united by a common heritage
and by blood ties, not by words and documents. Lawyers,
bureaucrats and academics believe that the only
thing that makes one a citizen of a country is words.
A person who believes that men should be united
according to their nation -- their common race and
culture -- is a nationalist. One who believes that
men are only united by words should therefore be
called a "wordist."
Every wordist says that his philosophy will unite
all mankind into one huge, loving community. But
in the real world, different kinds of wordists are
every bit as divided as nationalists are, and infinitely
more vicious. Communism is a form of wordism. Communism
is supposed to unite all mankind into a single,
loving unit. The Communist form of wordism has killed
over a hundred million people this century.
All wordists claim they love everybody and that
their words unite everybody.
Then they proceed to kill real people by the millions,
all in the name of their words.
Every wordist claims that his particular words will
unite all mankind. The religious wars that slaughtered
millions of Europeans in the sixteenth century were
fought between fanatics who believed the words of
Protestantism united all men and the fanatics who
insisted the words of Catholicism united all men.
Each form of socialism is a form of wordism. Each
form of socialism claims it makes all mankind one.
There are many different kinds of socialism, and
each form of socialism claims to unite all mankind.
Actually, each type of socialism unites only the
people who are dedicated to the same form of socialism.
Willy Brandt, the anti-Communist mayor of West Berlin
during the 1950s, was a Democratic Socialist. He
was the opponent of his fellow socialists, those
of Soviet Communist variety, in East Berlin.
Meanwhile, the Chinese Communists, who claimed their
form of socialism united all mankind into a single
loving unit, were enemies of Brandt AND East Germany.
And, as usual with loving wordists, the Chinese
Communists were busy murdering tens of millions
of people in the name of their particular form of
Love and Brotherhood.
A lot of noise is made about how brutal and vicious
war between different nations or different races
can be. But the worst wars in history were wordist
wars. Those who devote themselves to Catholicism
and Protestantism in the sixteenth century were
wordists. Like all wordists, they said their philosophy,
their books, their doctrines would unite all mankind.
But, as usual, the only people they united were
the people who agreed with their books and their
dogma. But people who subscribed to the OTHER wordist
dogma were their deadly enemies.
When the Protestant wordists and the Catholic wordists
went to war with each other in the religious wars
of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the
slaughter was incredible. In our century, we talk
endlessly about Hitler's killings, but he was an
amateur compared to Stalin. Hitler was a piker compared
to the wordist Communist Mao Tse-Tung.
Today, the media talks about the ethnic cleansing
of Milosevic. But compared to the Cambodian Communist
Pol Pot, Milosevic is nothing. Pol Pot killed a
QUARTER of the entire population of his country,
whose population was about equal to that under Milosevic.
By comparison, Milosevic is small change.
But Pol Pot is excusable, because he did what he
did in the name of wordism.
Milosevic is a fanatical nationalist, so he is like
HITLER. Wordism is dear to the hearts of a society
ruled by lawyers, bureaucrats, and academics. For
the wordists who rule us, it is nationalism, not
killing, that is the only crime that matters.
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RESPECTABLE
CONSERVATIVES NEVER SAY, "I DON'T BELIEVE YOU"
TO A LIBERAL'S FACE
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In congress and in the media, the relationship of respectable
conservatives to liberals is that of servant to master.
If you want to be a respectable conservative, you can
disagree with liberals only on the things they allow you.
But the moment they declare something unrespectable, like
saying integration is a bad idea, you must immediately
agree with them on it.
I was reminded of the fact that respectable conservatives
are servants of the liberals as I watched the discussion
of Clinton's new gun control proposals on CNN's "Talk
Back Live."
The hostess of the show said that she wanted everybody
to understand that nobody was talking about taking guns
away from honest citizens. Then a member of the audience
said that the government should take all guns away from
everybody, and a major portion of the audience applauded.
Then the congresswoman pushing Clinton's new gun control
proposal said that the NRA wanted everybody to go to schools
with guns. Then she said she could not understand why
anti-gun control people were suspicious of gun control
advocates like her.
Obviously what someone should say at this point would
be that she had just said that the NRA demanded that everybody
go to school armed, and she knew that wasn't true. Why
should we trust somebody who says something so obviously
ridiculous? But that is one thing no respectable conservative
ever says to a liberal, face-to-face, in the media.
Respectable conservatives are the liberals' servants,
and the servant never looks his master in the face and
says, "I don't believe you."
Liberals are always saying that to conservatives. I remember
on "Crossfire" when Pat Buchanan said he believed
that blacks should have equal rights and the liberal looked
him right in the eye and said he didn't believe Pat. You
will never hear Pat say that to the official liberal on
the show. Faced with your master, with your job on the
line, you never say anything about him personally except
that he is a fine, upstanding, idealistic, professional,
dedicated, emotionally balanced, friendly, patriotic,
all-American guy you are privileged to know and work with.
Above all, his intentions are good and he speaks nothing
but the truth as he sees it.
Every media conservative says that all the time about
all of the liberals he debates with.
No matter how insane hysterical Bill Press got, Pat could
not say, "You call anybody who disagrees with you
either a racist or an isolationist. You're being ridiculous
again."
That is what liberal do to us, and it works. If a rightist
says that somebody is being pro-Communist, the liberal
simply laughs and says, "Don't be absurd." But
any time a conservative doubts we should kill Serbians,
he is accused of being an "isolationist." Does
the conservative EVER say, "Don't be ridiculous."
Of course not. The servant is never sassy with his master.
Which, of course, keeps them from representing us. Our
problem with liberals on gun control is that we know they're
lying like dogs, and anything they get is a step toward
their goal of disarming every honest citizen in this country.
"Hysterical Bill" Press is going to accuse the
NRA of not caring if people get killed.
But no conservative, including Pat Buchanan, would ever
point out how outrageous it is for Bill Press to use every
tragedy to push his agenda on gun control. They have to
say how idealistic, if slightly misguided, good old Bill
is.
As long as you give any support to respectable conservatives,
you are asking for liberals to go ahead with their program
without real opposition. You are asking the liberals'
paid servants to protect you from the liberals.
I felt sorry for black congressman Major Owens a couple
of years ago. For decades, he had done what every liberal
does: imply that any conservative disagreement was inspired
by Hitler. Any time anybody disagrees with anything any
liberal says, especially about poor people or racial quotas,
a liberal implies he is thinking like anaziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.
When a liberal says a conservative who is against busing
sounds like Hitler, no one says, "Don' t be a damned
fool." No. Every conservative always gets flustered
and respectfully, very, very, very respectfully, tries
to show that he is not really like Hitler. So when the
Republicans came up with their 1995 economic proposals,
Major Owens said they sounded like Hitler.
Any other time, this would have been just fine. It had
always been fine before, and today no conservative would
dare object to it. But Owens said it in 1995, the one
year when Republicans had just won both Houses of Congress
and were feeling their oats. They raised hell and Owens
backed down and apologized.
But, as I say, that was in 1995, during a very brief period
when conservatives forgot their proper place and got uppity.
Conservatives are back in their proper place now, at the
back of our national political bus.
Liberals love conservatives, but only if they know in
their place.
And if any conservative gets uppity, all the respectable
conservatives in the media will unite against him.
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