"The Left's Crimes of Silence"

Don your flame-retardant uniform.

A scorching, blistering diatribe by Ralph Peters at FrontPage, Jul. 21:

.... Reality has no weight for the ideologues who cannot live without the conviction that only the United States is ever guilty.

The silence of the Left in the face of uncomfortable truths is a hallowed tradition, of course, dating back to the earliest crimes of the Soviet Union. When the reality confronting the Left contradicts the theory, the theory must be preserved at any cost.

And there’s no sign of improvement, not a glimmer of the least scrap of conscience or integrity on the Left. It’s all about revenge against a democratic system that gives a blue-collar worker a vote equal to that of a university professor’s ballot, about hatred for the free market for providing better lives for the great majority while Marxism drowned in the bile of its victims....

Now, I'm not necessarily claiming cause and effect — but, if you posited the end result of decades of Marxist infiltration and subversion of the worlds of American entertainment and higher education, the result you'd get would be a lot like what Peters is talking about — no?

(Thanks, Malcolm.)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Fri. 07/23/04 07:49:05 AM
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