THE SLANDERING OF FREE PEOPLE MUST STOP NOW!
It must be noted that Israel openly condones the use of political assassination and kidnapping to permanently remove those they consider impediments to their policy goals. It is a concept flatly rejected by the United States. But if Israel condones the use of those extreme measures in countries around the world, would it be unreasonable to conclude that they would consider the United States a part of their strategic chessboard? Given our well documented inability to detect, deter, or in the aftermath, competently explain catastrophes visited on this nation by foreigners, they might well consider it so.
Is that statement hateful? Is it anti anyone or anything?
The charge has been made that past United States administrations have been heavily lobbied by Israel to pursue foreign policy that primarily puts Israel’s interests ahead of those of the United States…..and that we are expending young lives and treasure by militarily shaping the map to Israel’s specifications, the latest case being their desire to have the United States neutralize Iran. These are fair points that should be examined and debated by Americans.
In a recent video clip from Larry King, congressman and former presidential candidate Ron Paul was smeared by someone I once admired, and it was a contemptible, thoughtless and cowardly thing to do. Ben Stein, of Ferris Buehler fame, along with eye-drop commercials, stock market and political commentary lashed out at Congressman Paul, condemning his opinions as …”anti-semitic”!
The tactic, in social discourse, of the smear, the slander of American citizens voicing their opinion - a right defined by our United States Constitution - in order to intimidate, personally damage, or silence one who holds a differing position must end…now. The tactic of establishing a term or single word to accomplish their desired effect has slowly evolved from a once feared and extremely effective weapon to a time now in which the accuser ends up standing in the shameful light of a coward, unmasked and exposed. Their inability to debate with considered logic and articulate their position, or support their view, with mutual respect, results in an angry scream for …” silence”! But in the case of these unprincipled, pseudo-intellectual thugs, to use that word, would merely elicit mocking laughter from an opponent. Instead, to achieve that end especially when they have no counterpoint to offer or stand on no accepted principle, they reach for the destructive word substitute that is their venom…. that is their smear…”RACIST!….ANTI-SEMITE!….HOMOPHOBE!
So assaulted by this wholesale abusive hurling of these once potent and destructive epithets, Americans have become immune to the poison’s effect and a weary society, that once recoiled from the targets of the allegations, now focuses on the motives of the accusers and are repulsed by the despicable, spineless practice.
Professor Henry Gates had no logical argument to counter the events resulting in his arrest. Instead of a calm compliance and an intelligent response to a simple inquiry that would have quickly sorted out the fact that a good neighbor was watching his home, and thinking it might be violated called a good police officer, who investigated. What might have been an event ending in chagrined smiles and handshakes, demonstrating decent people looking out for one another, was turned into an ugly confrontation with a vile little man repugnant enough to try to damage good people by screaming…RACIST!
Ben Stein now includes himself in that cheap classless gang of opportunists who try to silence or determine what is legitimate debate in America. His attack on Ron Paul was so overtly misplaced and slanderous that Stein accomplished his mission of stopping Paul cold and redirecting the focus of the discussion away from Paul’s point to his outrageous smear, effectively ending the debate. But Stein betrayed his inner self.
America….know this!
Americans can, in this 21st century, criticize Israel, it is not a crime. You owe no individual or foreign agent or foreign country your allegiance or any recognition of any foreign country as a “special friend” to America. Our Constitution and Bill of Rights assures every American the right to have an opinion and without fear, to freely and publicly express that opinion regardless what foreign interests or those sympathetic to them may think. The one hazard of the smear artist trying to silence you and shape debate in our country has been exposed and it is rapidly becoming the slanderers who are being reviled. There are those who have no sympathy for Israel’s policies, problems, or politics to lesser or greater degrees, as there are for many other countries. But why are only Israel’s critics vilified in their own country with the sordid intent of personal destruction by groups of their fellow citizens ? It must end.
The outside interests in this country, some of foreign origin, desperately want to control American public opinion and the direction our country takes and if you fail to concur with their agenda or differ in your world view, they will publicly try to label you a mindless monster, consumed by hate!
Americans can no longer be muzzled by groups whose casual, routine charge of hatred and bigotry, who’s defamation in the name of anti-defamation besmirch patriots who have the audacity to put the interests of all Americans above the concerns of any group or foreign country, and the notion that slander, intimidation, or some feigned offense or liturgy of eternal persecution can void the rights and protections of a free nation, must never…ever stand in the United States of America.
Semper Fi
CW
I guess Ron Paul wasn’t really considered during the primaries but in light of the way career politicians have wrecked this country he certainly deserves another serious look. Ben Stein is a cartoon character and I am so so sick of everything is antisimitic.
Ron Paul’s posture hasn’t changed in thirty years and in light of current events he is starting to look positively admirable. Ben Stein is a clown and a buffoon. This spectacle is somewhat reminiscent of Amadinijad’s attempt to address the UN in Switzerland on rascism in Isreal. Ben Stein’s comments raise an interesting point though. Does he mean to say that Ron Paul is anti-semetic for his opposition to the Fed? It is apparent that the U.S. has been embroiled in needless foriegn wars almost from the moment that the Federal Reserve was created. Our entire foriegn policy apparatus has been manipulated for a very long time. Thanks to Larry King, Dr. Paul’s tireless efforts to educate the American public might actually take off with this type of exposure.