The Heretik

BUSH: WHAT GROWS WHEN IRONY IS DEAD

When a dictatorship controls the political life of a country, responsible opposition cannot develop, and dissent is driven underground and toward the extreme.  And to draw attention away from their social and economic failures, dictators place blame on other countries and other races, and stir the hatred that leads to violence.

By now it should be clear that authoritarian rule is not the wave of the future; it is the last gasp of a discredited past.  It should be clear that free nations escape stagnation, and grow stronger with time, because they encourage the creativity and enterprise of their people. 

It should be clear that economic progress requires political modernization, including honest representative government and the rule of law. 

And it should be clear that no society can advance with only half of its talent and energy -- and that demands the full participation of women.

Freedom has determined enemies, who show no mercy for the innocent, and no respect for the rules

. . . when the regime of fear is broken, and the people find their courage and find their voice, democracy is their goal, and tyrants, themselves, have reason to fear.

The trumpet of freedom has been sounded, and that trumpet never calls retreat. 

GENERATIONS HENCE MAY SAY WE LIVE NOW IN THE AGE WHEN IRONY DIED.
The words above were spoken by President of the United States George W. Bush yesterday March 8, 2005.

from The White House

Thanks to POP

On the Harlot Ann Coulter

From the Man: James Wolcott.

"Press passes cannot be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president."

Tell it like it really is, James.

"Arabs of course are fair game on talk radio and the trash punditry, of which Ann Coulter is stringbean queen. Presumably Helen Thomas's very ancestry, about which I know nothing, makes her an incipient terrorist threat, though presumably commando call boy Jeff Gannon would have been coiled to pounce into action if the octegenarian made any sudden violent moves. Coulter's typically crass wisecrack is the cartoonish version of the hostile profiling of Arabs and Muslims being conducted all over the neoconservative right, as typified by Michelle Malkin's pioneer work to excuse the Japanese internment in order to justify the preemptive incarceration of Muslims and other suspicious elements."

 

From The Book of Heretikus for 02/27/05