1/18/99
ldlockman@telplus.net
The impeachment proceedings now unfolding in the US Senate
will be a daily source of cognitive dissonance for anyone who
truly cares about the rule of law in America -- apparently about
a third of the population, if the polls and personal anecdotal
experience are anywhere near accurate. Fasten your seatbelts, and
prepare for an unrelenting assault on your rational faculties by
Clinton's defenders. Understand that it's your rationality they
aim to smash.
Imagine a society where irrationality, with a smirk on its lips,
purposely and without apology stamps a jackboot into the face of
rationality, to teach the reasoning obedience, while chanting:
"We're here, you fear, get used to it!" Welcome to the
brave new world of the Clintonistas and their partisan rabble of
arrogant, amoral intellectuals and proudly dependent parasites.
In a recent Boston Herald column, feminist writer Margery Eagan
offered her opinion that the proceedings in the Senate resemble a
prurient Salem Witch Trial, conducted by an unappetizing lineup
of creepy-crawly white men probing matters sexual. This is
standard spin from leftist hate-mongers, and I guess we're all
used to it by now, aren't we? In fact, why don't we all just go
to the homes of these white, male, Christian lawyers and stone
them to death? And then kill their wives and children. Isn't that
what the Beautiful People who worship Clinton joke about doing?
It's when columnist Eagan approvingly quotes Linda Hirshman, a
women's studies professor at Brandeis University, that the mind
begins to bend. This is what a Clinton defender is saying about
the House managers:
"It reminds me of the Old Testament, the powerful patriarchs
in togas with their official wives and then the handmaids and
concubines and prostitutes they used and discarded. It reminds me
of powerful men making one set of rules for themselves and women
they have use of, and another for everyone else, particularly
women."
That statement, in defense of Clinton, is an example of the
assault on reason and logic the Ozarks Caligula has spawned. It's
enough to make rational people want to scream.
Has my brain been fried already, or isn't Bill Clinton the
toga-clad ruler who's used and discarded women, then trashed the
very women he already treated like trash?
Remember -- the operative principle of the Clintonistas is to
accuse your adversary of the offense you are most guilty of. And
always lie, lie, lie; the bigger the lie, the better.
Saint George Dons His Choir Robes
George Mitchell has joined the liars‚ chorus, and by
doing so he has cast his lot with the mob, and against the rule
of law that separates us from the savagery of regimes based on
brute force and the cult of personality.
The Big Lie, repeated over and over by Clinton's palace guard of
bullies and vermin (James Carville, Alan Dershowitz, Larry Flynt,
and the editorial board of the Bangor Daily News come to mind),
is that the charges against Clinton are about sex. George
Mitchell has chimed in with his dismissive conclusion that the
Clinton scandal must be the most heavily-investigated sexual
relationship in history. Even if the charges are true, according
to St. George, they "don't rise...." you know the rest
of the line.
That's the key -- keep saying it's about sex.
George Mitchell is a charming, intelligent, apparently ethical
man, so it's not easy to watch him sully his own reputation for
the sake of shameless white trash from Arkansas. Come on, George,
you're better than this. Why are you lying to protect this lying
low-life?
Bill Clinton is not on trial because he committed adultery. He is
on trial because he tried to fix a civil-rights lawsuit brought
by a fellow citizen, a lawsuit that a unanimous US Supreme Court
ruled he must answer. He chose to lie and cheat instead of
submitting to the rule of law his oath obligates him to uphold
and protect.
Clinton is not on trial for a sexual affair. He is on trial for
concocting an elaborate scheme to defraud not just the plaintiff
in the civil case, but the court itself and the judiciary, a
co-equal branch of government. He is on trial for his naked
aggression against our Constitutional system, which divides power
equally among three branches of government, and depends on the
sanctity of oaths.
He is on trial because the evidence shows he engaged in a
calculated, premeditated pattern of lying, deceit, intimidation,
and obstruction to avoid a liability judgment in a civil-rights
case. He lied, and encouraged others to lie, so he wouldn't have
to pay monetary damages for egregiously piggish conduct toward a
subordinate employee.
George Mitchell knows this. If he had any integrity, he would at
least keep his mouth shut about the matter, rather than jumping
into the cesspool of lies with Carville and Co.
Public Morals, Private Vices
We live in an age when personal morality has been redefined.
It doesn't matter if you're a liar, a cheat, a swine, or a
lecher. What matters is your public posture on the social issues
most dear to the culture warriors of the hard left. If you
support their dream of destabilizing and deconstructing the hated
heterosexist, patriarchal nuclear family -- and the social order
it undergirds -- you can be a loathsome puke in your
personal life, and still enjoy an exalted position in the
avant-garde of progressive politics.
Anita Hill herself, not alone among feminist academics, admitted
as much when she said she continues to support Clinton because of
the totality of his positions on "women's issues" (read
abortion, lesbianism, minority preferences). It doesn't matter
that Clinton is your classic workplace sexual predator/harasser
-- radical feminists will give him a pass because he effectively
advances their deconstructionist agenda.
Which brings us to Maine's two US Senators.
Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe are in lockstep with the
social-issues agenda of the leftist intelligentsia who revere
Bill Clinton's ability to move their cause forward. These two
Republicans are indistinguishable from Bill and Hillary on
partial-birth abortion, minority preferences,
diversity-mongering, "rainbow" indoctrination in the
schools, hate-crimes legislation, and minority status for anyone
claiming to be gay or perceived as gay.
Whatever they decide to do with the adolescent sociopath in the
White House, don't hold your breath waiting for Collins or Snowe
to act on principle or to exercise any genuine leadership on this
issue. They don't want to jeopardize their status as
"moderate" darlings of the DC media establishment. But
do let them know what you think, especially since the radical
left is orchestrating a letter and email campaign in support of
der Schlickmeister : senator@collins.senate.gov
and Olympia@snowe.senate.gov.
In closing...
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot
stamping on a human face -- forever." Those words, from
George Orwell's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four", describe
the ferocious triumph of brute force and irrationality over
reason and justice. War is peace, freedom is slavery, two plus
two equals five.
Reason is always the first casualty of tyrants. The full frontal
assault on rationality we have witnessed in the past year is a
chilling reminder that it's but a slender thread keeping the
barbarians outside the gate. That thread will be stretched to the
breaking point if the Senate shrinks from its duty. Pray that
Senators will foresee history's unsparing condemnation of those
who fail to do the right thing.
PS In my humble opinion, the most brilliantly incisive commentary
on what's at stake in these proceedings is coming from Dr. Alan Keyes.
Lawrence Lockman is chairman of Concerned Maine Families. |