Edmund Burke once famously said “That the only
thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good [people] men do
nothing”
I would add two corollaries to this. The first
is that the only things necessary are also “ that good people not believe that
evil exists” and the second is “that good people not hear the
truth.”
We have seen evil at work once again in Boston on
April 15th at the Boston Marathon as yet more Americans died or were maimed and
wounded at the hands of terrorists bent on carnage for the sake of God knows
what. While reasonable people recognized this evil for what it was, far too many
politicians saw only crass political opportunity. It did not take long for the
leadership of the Democratic party to blame the attack on the sequester or the
fact it was “Tax Day“. Nor did it deter “progressive” leftists such as David
Sirota to openly hope on Salon.com that the bomber is a white American, because
otherwise the Obama agenda re immigration, defense reductions and leaving
Afghanistan would be jeopardized and Muslims might be victimized whereas white
people, who have priveledge… never are. At MSNBC Chris Matthews yearned that
the terror was done by right wing extremists. Barney Frank yelped that this
proves that tax cuts should be discarded. The blood was not even cleansed from
Boylston Street when these disgusting and inappropriate things were said or
written.
The intrusion of base politics into the horror of Boston almost immediately, is in truth part of a war aimed at our national soul and national unity.
In this war for the soul of our country, we are
losing the threads that have made us whole…we are losing the glue that keeps us
whole… and we are in danger of losing the will to keep us whole. E Pluribus
Unum is becoming E Pluribus Pluribus as we are divided by race, gender, age,
religion, class, ethnicity, income and politics into a balkanize nation of
warring tribes.
And while reasonable people see the truth for
what it is, far too many political types either ignor the truth or distort
it. The City Council of New Rochelle warps our history by banning a flag from
flying over the New Rochelle Armory that was the same flag Americans first
fought under at the beginning of the American Revolution. This is a flag that
is still flown on US Naval vessels and at forward US Marine bases in the
mountains of Afghanistan. All five Democrats on the City Council voted for
this ban and then sent city workers to confiscate the flag to prevent, I assume,
revolution from breaking out in New Rochelle. One Democrat leader likened the
Flag known as the Gadsden Flag or the Culpepper Flag which shows a coiled snake
with a yellow background and the words ”Don’t Tread on Me” to the Nazi
swastika. Others likened it to the Confederate “Stars and Bars” or to the
Rainbow flag of “Gay Rights”. The real reason I suspect is that the flag has
become associated with the Tea Party movement which Democrats in great numbers
seem to loath and wish to paint as a fascist movement.
The real fascists however are these
“progressives” with their elitist “evolved”worldview that propels their every
effort to make a new “Leviathan” of the state that will control our lives, our
culture and our future in ways that would make Stalin blush.
Now is the time for lamentation and the
expression of grief. We need as a united people to mourn our dead and comfort
our afflicted. We do not need bombast or propaganda or disrespect. Every crisis
is not an opportunity for political opportunism. The nation needs to heal to
get past this evil assault on all of us. We need to let our laws work so that
justice can prevail and defeat the demonic forces who attack us. We need to
identify our enemies foreign and domestic and defeat them once and for all to
prevent them from committing future evil acts against us. We need peace,
sanity, a return to our historic values and rational justice within the land and
we need to tell those who would divide us to go away… far away …and allow us to,
in the words of Stephen Foster, to help us reach that promised land where “hard
times come again no more”.
ERLANDSSON
(This commentary was broadcast on
The Vernuccio/Allison Report on 04/20/2013 WVOX 1460 AM
/ www.wvox.com
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