Tuesday, December 28, 2004
Author, Woman of Letters, and "Human Rights Activist" Susan Sontag Dies
"Susan Sontag, one of America's most influential intellectuals, internationally renowned for the passionate engagement and breadth of her critical intelligence and her ardent activism in the cause of human rights, died today of leukemia. She was 71.":
Here is the LATimes lionizing a woman who justified and bolstered her war on America by apologizing for the brutality of the Communist North Vietnamese, Communist Dictator Fidel Castro, and the Communist Sandinistas of Nicaragua, each of whom are responsible for grave human rights abuses. Sontag lived as a spoiled product of America and chose to criticise the same. What greater hypocracy can there be than an American woman who has the right to write and express herself freely using this platform from which to support repressive, free-pressless, and hegemonic regimes. Regimes under which idiots like Sontag would not be premitted to scribe her drivel. "Vietnam offered the key to a systematic criticism of America" she wrote and later, "it was really America 'the strong' that obsessed me-- the contours of American power, of American cruelty, of American self-righteousness."
Yeah, Susan, America has always show its cruelty in its criticism adn censoring of morons like yourself. May the horrors that you supported in life be visted upon you.
Here is the LATimes lionizing a woman who justified and bolstered her war on America by apologizing for the brutality of the Communist North Vietnamese, Communist Dictator Fidel Castro, and the Communist Sandinistas of Nicaragua, each of whom are responsible for grave human rights abuses. Sontag lived as a spoiled product of America and chose to criticise the same. What greater hypocracy can there be than an American woman who has the right to write and express herself freely using this platform from which to support repressive, free-pressless, and hegemonic regimes. Regimes under which idiots like Sontag would not be premitted to scribe her drivel. "Vietnam offered the key to a systematic criticism of America" she wrote and later, "it was really America 'the strong' that obsessed me-- the contours of American power, of American cruelty, of American self-righteousness."
Yeah, Susan, America has always show its cruelty in its criticism adn censoring of morons like yourself. May the horrors that you supported in life be visted upon you.
What Really Happened in 1948
Misinformation surrounds the story of 1948. Palestinians who fled their homes are angry, bitter and distraught. No one can blame them. Yet they seem to have been taught who they are supposed to hate, who is the guilty party and who should be punished for their problems. People's memories are so short. It is easier to focus on one enemy ? especially an enemy who does not belong to the same "tribe" -- than to analyze a complex situation such as the Palestinian refugee disaster. It is not my intent to discuss who belongs in that tiny region called Israel, but I will risk being shunned by my own community to set the record straight. The question is: why did Arabs flee the area that became Israel? After all, the ones who remained in their homes still live there today and prosper.
I find that I am constantly shocked and horrified at the double standards applied to righteous causes. It seems that there are approximately 49% of the voting American public that believes in the causes liberal. By these I mean being sympathetic to the Palestinians, believing that guns kill people and contribute to crime rates, see American democracy as just a choice amongst many valid political systems, and most importantly, feel the crushing guilt that success seems to foster in the left of center. Now I am not saying that each an everyone of the 49% I reference above hold each of these enumerated views yet they voted to elect a man who does; voted to elect that man not to one of 435 house seats, but to the position of leader of America.
I've said it many times and will continue to reiterate the fact that there is a massive case of self-delusion on the part of the left. America is the greatest power on earth not because we have raped the third world or because of luck, rather, we find ourselves in the "enviable" position we have attained by virtue of sacrifice and work. The moral equivalence that we see in the NYTimes and on the part of the leftist punditry with regard to communism, terrorism, and other causes celebres is nothing more than moral bankruptcy. The feigning of impartiality we see in the press is a sham and is belied by value laden copy: Hate America First is the mantra and it contributes nothing to the dialogue of progress.
However, we can rest easy knowing that the counterculture and its musing have the effect of probing and strengthening convention. Over time, the onslaught and battle waged by the left tends to bolster the right?s position. Counter cultural movements should be fostered in that they are given right to exist but must always be seen as they are, counter to that which is correct and true. The benefit of the doubt must always be given to the establishment.
I find that I am constantly shocked and horrified at the double standards applied to righteous causes. It seems that there are approximately 49% of the voting American public that believes in the causes liberal. By these I mean being sympathetic to the Palestinians, believing that guns kill people and contribute to crime rates, see American democracy as just a choice amongst many valid political systems, and most importantly, feel the crushing guilt that success seems to foster in the left of center. Now I am not saying that each an everyone of the 49% I reference above hold each of these enumerated views yet they voted to elect a man who does; voted to elect that man not to one of 435 house seats, but to the position of leader of America.
I've said it many times and will continue to reiterate the fact that there is a massive case of self-delusion on the part of the left. America is the greatest power on earth not because we have raped the third world or because of luck, rather, we find ourselves in the "enviable" position we have attained by virtue of sacrifice and work. The moral equivalence that we see in the NYTimes and on the part of the leftist punditry with regard to communism, terrorism, and other causes celebres is nothing more than moral bankruptcy. The feigning of impartiality we see in the press is a sham and is belied by value laden copy: Hate America First is the mantra and it contributes nothing to the dialogue of progress.
However, we can rest easy knowing that the counterculture and its musing have the effect of probing and strengthening convention. Over time, the onslaught and battle waged by the left tends to bolster the right?s position. Counter cultural movements should be fostered in that they are given right to exist but must always be seen as they are, counter to that which is correct and true. The benefit of the doubt must always be given to the establishment.
