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From: Ian Goddard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Ian Goddard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, May 06, 1999 2:52 PM
Subject: Bringing the War Home (fwd)
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May 6, 1999
Violence Chic
By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
On cue, the midgets in the Senate are
holding hearings on violence in the
public schools. What's to blame for the
shootings in Colorado? Several members
lashed out at a predictable target:
Hollywood and its supposed glorification
of violence. But kids these days don't
have to go to the movies to see maiming
and killing. They can see the real thing
by turning on the nightly news. Once again,
it's government, not private industry, that
provides the worst example to children.
U.S. bombs do to Belgrade what
tornadoes did to Oklahoma and Kansas,
and the senators think they can send a
non-violent message to young people?
Worse, Clinton and Gore think pious
speeches can blunt the reality that the
U.S. military is killing civilians in
foreign countries every day. If offing
people you hate is OK in Pristina, why
not Littleton? The primary sponsor of
violence chic is not the movies, which
portray fantasy, but the government,
which engages in real-life war.
The seventy premature babies in a
Belgrade hospital, whose incubators
went dead after the U.S. "soft bombed"
an electrical plant, are the real-life
casualties of Clinton's war. To gin up
the Gulf War, the Bush administration
told stories about Iraqi troops dumping
preemies on the floor, stories which
turned out to be false. This time,
however, it is for real, but it is the
U.S. doing it.
The sixty people incinerated on board a
civilian bus in Kosovo were made of
flesh, bone, and blood, not frames on a
film. No wonder the violent
imagination of the killer Eric Harris
ran wild with dreams of joining the war.
He told one and all he was prepared to
fight, not for his country, but for the
sheer thrill of killing people who don't
stand a chance of fighting back. Unable
to get to Yugoslavia, he decided to
cover the home front.
If violence in the Balkans is getting to
be old hat, turn your attention to Iraq,
where the bombings and bloodshed,
not to speak of the murderous
sanctions, have been relentless. With
everyone's attention riveted on
Yugoslavia, the U.S. has stepped up its
war on Iraq, with almost daily
skirmishes against radar and other sites,
and the deaths of dozens of civilians.
While nature ravished the American
Midwest, an unnatural disaster befell
Northern Iraq. U.S. jets launched
missiles near Mosul, killing two
civilians and mutilating another 12.
Twenty-five miles north of Mosul, a
family of seven was snuffed out by U.S.
bombs.
Official excuse No. 1: the U.S. was
targeting air-defense sites. Gee, but isn't
that a funny place for a family to live?
Official excuse No. 2: Saddam Hussein
is placing these sites in civilian
neighborhoods to deter attacks. But
why would he think this would deter
anything, given the U.S. performance
in his own country and Yugoslavia?
Official excuse No. 3: The U.S. had to
act because Saddam was planning a
showdown while the Pentagon is
occupied in the Balkans. But what kind
of "showdown" is this broken regime in
a broken country capable of?
Enough of this nonsense. The credibility
of administration spokesmen has begun
to run very thin.
For instance: a court recently cleared
the owner of the Sudanese
pharmaceutical plant of having had any
connection to chemical weapons. But
this was a year after the U.S. reduced
the entire place to rubble, and insisted,
vehemently and for many months, that
it was making chemical weapons to be
used against Americans. Moreover,
these same administration spokesmen
denounced all skeptics as wackos with
an agenda, or people in the pay of
terrorists.
It is the Clinton administration, not the
movies, that is the source of the new
violence chic. And herein lies the
greatest tragedy of the present regime.
If there was ever any hope that Clinton
might do some good for his country, it
stemmed from his youthful protests
against aggressive U.S. wars. Was there
a commitment to something right and
true in this man who otherwise
appeared to have no moral core? If
nothing else, he might have kept us out
of war.
Alas, war is now one of his many
unsavory legacies. Not even his
redeeming qualities redeemed him in
the end. For him, that weapon of mass
destruction called government provides
tangible proof that he is somebody
important. He can turn off the power in
a Belgrade hospital. He can blow up
buses. He can decide who and what to
destroy, any place on earth. He can
determine whether sick children in Iraq
have access to medical supplies. (His
answer is no.) Thank God his plan to
nationalize all of American medicine
failed.
If politicians want to send a moral
message to American kids, let them
start by stopping their own acts of
violence. Then they could give us the
gun control we need: background
checks and waiting periods for
politicians trying to buy bombers, and
safety locks on Tomahawk missiles.
Parents, freed from the influence that
officially sanctioned violence has on
their children, can take it from there.
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. is president
of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in
Auburn, Alabama.
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