Friends, this week's Newsmaker Show is typically exquisite in its masterful dissection of current events and sundry historical themes.
In terms of the here and now, Brian and I talk about the ongoing media assault on law enforcement, and the tragic experiment that is unfolding in Seattle, where an "autonomous zone" is embracing chaos over law and order. We also discuss the campaign of vandalism underway against any and all historical monuments that offend the far-left, and the underwhelming response by police and local leaders. To a point, violence against public property is being legitimized as a form of protest against "racism". I predict that this will only beget more violence, since the Left appears to be emboldened by its recent successes.
In our coverage of "This Day in History," Brian and I talk about the Watergate burglary...and the political uses to which it was put. We also cover the legacy of the O.J. Simpson murder trial and its implications for race relations. Finally, Brian and I talk about the brutal Soviet suppression of the abortive revolt in East Berlin in 1953, which set a precedent for the further tightening of the Soviet noose in Eastern Europe. We point out the irony that many left-wing protestors now embrace communism, when a REAL communist regime would sweep such misfits away in a heartbeat.
Tune in today!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQZ5I3izTDs&feature=youtu.be
And don't forget Hungary 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy and Ray: First, my dissenting view on the East Berlin riots. A perhaps unmentioned aspect of that event was the Russian vs German aspect. It may have been humanly too much to ask of a Russia wronged beyond anything any country has experienced in modern times, by Germans, any mercy for uncooperative Germans under their control as that control was short of the annihilation Germans had worked upon them.
ReplyDeleteThat said, simply as a matter of fact, no more, the Russian reaction was of course typical Communist brutality and totalitarian disregard of any but their own views. This has been reprised ad infinitum, ad nauseum from Hungary '56 to today's incipient and promised eventually lethal, leftist onslaught in America.
Dr. Waddy: What strikes me immediately about the silly Seattle neo '67 Haight dreamers in their arrogantly declared "zone" is their consummate contempt for all inhabitants of the "zone" who might dare to disagree. This is absolutely essential leftist totalitarianism. Too bad for Seattle; I was there in 1970 when it was a regular kind of place.
ReplyDeleteAnd their DEMANDS. OOOOHHH, take me back to '68-75, oh do! A demand carries with it a clear suggestion of very objective remedial action to be taken should it be insolently denied. But these are nonviolent protestors are they not (NOT!). They actually hope to see the coercive organs of the rule of law disarm themselves and resort to sweet reason when they themselves have achieved their very temporary sway through violence and have implied their violent response should but ALL of their whims be satisfied. Of course the considerable and very familiar to the police, cynical and essential, criminal element in the protestors rejoices at this, as they do in prison riots, which they cannot but know will be crushed by the justice of the rule of law and the protection of the lawful.
Dr. Waddy: And gee! Those Seattle heroes pretend to defend the 1st amendment right of "free speech". I can just hear their far left managers gagging in the background at this offense to their ears.When the left moves in, freedom of speech is OUT and everyone knows it. Look at the MSM, look at American "universities" with their speech codes; look at the present regime of forceful suppression of all but its approved doctrine, consider the leftist inspired origin of the term "political correctness". These people are thoroughly, almost laughably (but for their totalitarian intent) transparent. It remains only for the real America to resign itself to the onerous reality that in our midst strive people committed to destroying all we value, ALL OF IT (do not think them possessed of any restraint, any limits!)
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy: And I thank them for their "demand" that government support of the "arts" be reasserted and that that would guarantee a restoration of a "rich" art scene in their environs. What "Piss Christ"? Santa Claus's elves having sex? How about the Virgin Mary pelted with elephant turds?. Why the even partial defunding of such redeeming masterpieces is worth taking over six city blocks, ain't it?
ReplyDeleteAnd attacks on property? Well, I hear the Mayor of Olympia , Washington, hitherto an apologist for the rioters, got her dander up when HER property was vandalized. Sic semper . . . .
Jack, you're quite right that the Russians reserved a special measure of hatred (and fear) for the Germans after 1945. In fact, their coercive measures in 1953 were far less deadly than they could have been. To me, it's rather incredible that the Russians could have contemplated friendship with any portion of the German people after WWII, but in fact they did. It's not much more incredible that WE became fast friends with the Japanese. The Cold War made for some strange bedfellows.
ReplyDeleteWhat will become of the "autonomous zone" in Seattle? A fascinating question, and as the days and weeks tick by it may become a vexing problem for the Left. President Trump keeps threatening to send in the troops. I'm with those who caution restraint...because we have far more to gain by letting the Left twist in the wind! I say let good ole Governor Inslee decide how much of his state he's willing to surrender to the mob.
Tucker Carlson has been discussing this topic for a few nights now. He calls it the "Country of". At first, I was all for just sending in the troops. Not anymore, I agree, let the inactive governor and the "Summer of Love" mayor deal with it. One already sees the "Country of" imploding.
ReplyDeleteI will come back to comment more later.
Dr. Waddy and Linda: I fully agree: let them bustle. They are doing a very good job of affirming the expansive nature of this countrywide leftist uprising with their reckless and imperious demands. Its a long way from perceived police brutality to mandated taxpayer support for their effete visions of "art" and its exemplary of the left's ever totalitarian intent. These punks are just a little more impatient than are the far leftist pros coordinating this insurrection. My only misgiving about letting the Seattle juveniles act out is the wrong done to the lawful in that neighborhood. What of them, I say to Washington State's recent California invader generated leftist junta?
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy et al: The renewed assault on Confederate memorials and of course the imminent extension of it to our flag and the Founding Fathers, is analogous to the looting practiced by non doctrinal, purely criminal camp followers of the "idealists". It is purely opportunistic and no more. The thugs see a chance for material gain; the vindicators see a chance for dissembling on a scale sure to exacerbate the apocalyptic conflict they seek as a prelude to totalitarian takeover.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy: In Buffalo, where "Juice" was much liked for his time with the Bills, the intense tawdriness of the entire Simpson story to the present day, is felt with acute discomfort. How could we not have discerned the evil of this man?
ReplyDeleteWatergate: I remember seeing a picture of a granny glassed scruff dancing outside the White House fence after Nixon resigned and thinking "Well ya finally got ya wanted didn't ya".
Their vicious decades long campaign to eject this unforgiveably unstylish man from public life had finally succeeded, due only to an entirely unlooked for fortune on the cusp of the most redeeming victory this tormented figure had experienced - an excruciating coincidence. He was pilloried for an offense which would surely have been forgiven a Kennedy and was, many times over, of William Clinton. The fashionistas, the snobs, the insolent and fantastically naive and impressionable boomers, the leftist prostituted press which never forgave him for his resolute prosecution of Commies, the "Democrat" party; they never relented in seeking the destruction of this detested symbol and substance of John Doe. I rejoice at his apparent continuing rise in the regard of historians and perhaps some of the brats(like me) who hounded him. Most of us could not begin to reprise his achievements and his final fall was tragic.
Linda, the only benefit of "sending in the troops" would be that the Left would have to castigate the military as a force of inveterate racism, and I would hope that the American people would have none of that!
ReplyDeleteJack, I too feel sympathy for the people who live and work in Seattle's "autonomous zone". To a point, though, if you live in a city or a state run by Democrats, you should know by now that the law will only be applied to assist you if you happen to be in one of the Left's "protected classes". Otherwise, your welfare is, at best, a distraction from the real business of building a socialist utopia.
Jack, I wonder when the leftist mob will target the American flag (assuming it hasn't done so already -- it's not like the media would inform us if it had). In fact, I wonder when the progressive rabble will start burning Biden in effigy, because, let's face it, they despise him almost as much as they do Trump!
Was O.J. "evil"? Interesting question. He did something horrible, yes, but a lot of people have the capacity to perpetrate violence if the right circumstances present themselves. As far as I know, O.J. might have had nasty arguments with his wife before, but he had never been in serious trouble with the law for violent behavior prior to the double murder. I guess what I'm saying is that I don't feel able to pass judgement on O.J. as a man -- all I know is that he killed two people, and that's a crime (a mighty big one!). You do the crime, you ought to do the time. Period.
Jack, yes, history has been kinder to Nixon than most of his elite contemporaries were...and that's heartening.