October
11, 2005
How the Left Harmed America This Week
By Dennis
Prager
Not a week
goes by that some part of the Left does not hurt America. But
in the past two weeks, three examples stood out for the degree
of such harm.
The first
example involved the ACLU, which has threatened Southwest Airlines
with a lawsuit. Southwest ordered a passenger off a flight after
she refused to cover her T-shirt on which was printed an expletive
-- "Fu--ers" -- referring to President George W. Bush,
Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice.
The ACLU
position is not surprising. That organization had once defended
a high school student whose school had prohibited him from wearing
to class a T-shirt that read "Big Pecker."
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I have previously
noted in this column the widespread approval of foul language
on the Left, such as the expletive-filled entertainment at a John
Kerry fundraiser organized by MoveOn.org. Nor is it surprising
that a high percentage of my e-mail from people on the Left contains
obscenities. To most Americans, the huge increase in public cursing
is a sign of a deteriorating civilization; to the Left it is a
sign of a freer, less hypocritical one.
The second example
was a federal judge appointed by former President Bill Clinton
ordering the Defense Department to release all remaining photos
of prisoner abuse by Americans at Abu Ghraib prison. Though it
is certain that the only effect of the photos will be to further
endanger Americans at home and abroad and increase the danger
to American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, and though there is
absolutely no need for the public to see these photos, the judge
ordered their release.
Thanks to this decision
by one judge, we are in for another orgy of anti-Americanism in
the foreign and domestic news media and another propaganda victory
for those who murder people trying to vote, place bombs in tourist
hotels and slaughter innocent human beings like sheep.
To understand the
destructive nature of this decision, imagine what would have happened
during World War II if photos of similar (or more serious) abuse
of alleged Nazis were available. Would any judge in America have
ordered that they be published? Would such a lawsuit have ever
been brought?
Many on the Left
regard the term "national security" as essentially a
right-wing cover for conservatism, which they equate with a form
of fascism. That explains the Left's contempt for the Patriot
Act, and it helps explain the decision of U.S. District Judge
Alvin K. Hellerstein. That Americans will be killed as a result
of a judge's decision to release photos is of no consequence to
the Left. Indeed, for the ACLU, release of the photos is a victory
precisely because it does weaken American ability to fight Islamic
terrorists.
A third example is
the Left's libel of Bill Bennett. I covered this issue in detail
in my last column. Suffice it to say here that a prominent liberal
writer, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sees the larger
issue raised by the nearly universal left-wing smear of Bennett
as a racist who advocates the abortion of all black babies. In
a courageous column, Cohen wrote that "The GOP was the party
of Joe McCarthy. . . . Now, though, it is the Democrats who .
. . stifle debate and smother thought."
From the pointless
judicial weakening of American security, to the fight to force
airlines to allow passengers to display obscenities, to the ongoing
libel of Bill Bennett -- a libel as far from truth as is the infamous
"blood libel" that claims that Jews slaughter Gentile
children to use their blood for baking matzo -- this was just
another week of harm to a great civilization by barbarians inside
the gates.
©2005 Creators Syndicate
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