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WEDNESDAY
SEPTEMBER 22
1999
Liberals don't
solve problems
Plus: Has Annan
lost his mind?
© 1999 WorldNetDaily.com
So, you're still a liberal after seven years of Bill Clinton and
decades of liberal activists making your life miserable from the
bully pulpits of the bureaucratic agencies? That's too bad; maybe
this story will finally change your mind.
According to the Associated Press, the San Francisco Unified
School District is ready to embark on another nonsensical policy to
further integrate and "diversify" their public schools.
The concept is called a "diversity index," and it is designed to
make sure that an equal number of ethnic groups are represented
at each school. Students are screened upon -- among other things -
- their ethnicity, income, test scores and English proficiency.
"A student whose 'individual profile will contribute to increasing the
diversity of (a) school will have priority for assignment/admission to
that school,' according to the plan, worked out over the summer by
a 27-member committee of district employees," wrote AP. Now, a
federal judge (no, not a state judge) will consider this proposal at a
Nov. 5 hearing.
This plan will replace earlier school integration policies, which
barred schools "from having more than 45 percent of students from
any one ethnic group and required (schools) to have at least four
ethnic groups represented."
That policy, according to AP, was initially created because the
NAACP -- sensing that blacks weren't afforded equal opportunities
to go to certain public schools -- sued the school district and won.
But that suit "also prompted another lawsuit, filed in 1994, in which
several Chinese-American families claimed their children were
being unfairly excluded from some schools -- including one of the
city's most prestigious," the report said. "School officials, the
NAACP and lawyers for Chinese-American students and parents
agreed to a settlement in February which said, in part, that 'race or
ethnicity may not be the primary or predominant consideration in
determining ... admissions criteria.'"
And yet, the new rules -- if ordained by a High and un-Holy Federal
Judge -- will force the school district to do precisely what these
group leaders have said they wouldn't do, which is admit students
based on a racial and ethnic set of realities.
"Ethnicity, English proficiency, test scores, and income." Oh, heck
no -- there's not going to be any bias in determining those factors,
unless you're white or you speak English well.
Flaming liberals have infested our government schools at every
level of leadership. But that wasn't good enough because now
some of their own are still challenging every damned thing they do.
If it weren't so sad, it'd be funny.
Liberalism in this country has fostered lawsuits like this one --
mostly from other liberals -- and has created an environment where
the insanity of pure democracy (everyone has an equal say) has
been fully implemented. Such circumstances turn very simple
concepts (like attending school) into legal quagmires and public
relations nightmares because the reality is you simply cannot
accommodate everyone all the time.
Getting an education in this country shouldn't be a political issue,
nor should it be an issue driven by a selfishly grandiose agenda or
statistical data. It's no wonder Americans are getting their kids out
of public schools when they can.
All of this serves the liberals right -- they created this mess. But
unfortunately all kids involved in the incubus of today's public
education system are suffering from the stupidity of liberal parents
and adult education peers. This is yet another example of how
socialistic liberals create more problems than they ever solve --
especially when they upset the natural order of things.
Has Kofi Annan lost his mind?
Being Secretary General of the United Nations must be a really
tough job, because I think Kofi Annan has lost his mind.
In a story published yesterday, the U.N. leader pronounced that he
foresees increasing international intervention in trouble spots like
East Timor as the world moves "from a culture of reaction to a
culture of prevention."
Stupid me; I still believed the world was mostly filled with nations
who'd rather take care of their own problems -- just like the
hypocrite western nations who champion this lunacy called
"globalism" and who would never allow, say, China, to deploy their
"peacekeepers" in our streets.
In a speech delivered to the U.N. body on Monday, Annan said
state sovereignty is being redefined by the forces of globalization
and international cooperation and declared, "The state is now
widely understood to be the servant of the people, and not vice
versa." In his dreams.
Traditional considerations of national sovereignty will no longer be
taken into account, Annan said, and governments "must not allow
divisions within the Security Council to derail legitimate intervention
in places such as Rwanda and Kosovo," according to the
Washington Times.
"Legitimate intervention?" Who decides what this is?
President Clinton -- the ever consummate "compassionate" man
and globalist -- agreed, telling U.N. delegates, "Regional groups of
nations should have the right to launch collective military action to
stop mass killings in their part of the world."
There are several things wrong with this mental illness.
First, who in Sam Hill is Kofi Annan to elevate himself to the level
of global arbiter? If he personally believes it is appropriate to
"intervene when necessary" in another nation's sovereign business,
then he ought to be outfitted with the latest military uniform and
gear, provided with a weapon and a few magazines full of
ammunition, and sent on his way. He can take Clinton the draft
dodger with him, but I won't wait up for them.
Secondly, who gave the U.N. -- or the U.S. government, for that
matter -- permission to send my son and your son to Rwanda,
Kosovo, or East Timor on behalf of a global organization that was
established to work out solutions through diplomacy, not
weaponry? Our leaders are supposed to decide when it is in this
country's best interest to fight, not the United Nations' king. We
don't always agree with our leaders, but it is their job -- not Kofi
Annan's job or fat cat bureaucrats sitting around some globalistic
"security council" table. To heck with that.
Can you believe the kind of arrogance it must take to make such
proclamations about the fate of billions of people over whom you
were never elected to serve? What kind of "brass" does it take to
tell billions of people you have the "right" to sentence their sons
and daughters to death fighting on your behalf for a cause that
doesn't affect you or your country (our own politicians do this
enough already)? What kind of hubris must a man have to assume
that he has a "right" to order an attack on your country if the
leadership doesn't follow his beliefs or fit into his personal agenda?
Yes, there is horror in this world. Yes, there is pain and suffering.
Yes, there should be people speaking out against it.
But there are other ways to deal with despots who use their own
people for selfish gain and power. Trade sanctions (no, real ones),
arming the enemy, or just plain ignoring them are all better
alternatives than filling American body bags.
As I see it, Annan is behaving no differently than other notable
despots, like Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Kaddafi, or Joe Stalin.
Anyone who is arrogant enough to believe he or she has "The
Right" to attack and kill other people because he/she doesn't like
what they're doing is, in my book, a despotic lunatic.
Granted, there is a difference between saying you want more
international intervention and actually intervening. But let's get real:
The record -- especially under this administration and
congressional "leadership" -- clearly demonstrates that we have
globalists, not nationalists, in office who love to send our troops
into quagmires overseas, for "humanitarian" reasons.
But the record also shows that none -- zip, nada, not one -- of the
U.N.'s multi-year "interventions" have been successful. All the U.N.
has succeeded in doing is costing contributing governments lots of
money, lots of lives, lots of equipment, and lots of anguish. Korea,
Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo -- and likely E. Timor -- are anything but
smashing successes.
I support the U.N. financially because the IRS and the federal
government force me to. I do not, however, support the mission of
the U.N. nor what the concept of the U.N. has morphed into over
the years. At one time it was a good thing; not anymore.
The U.N., like the IMF, the WHO, the World Bank and the U.S.
government -- succeed only in wasting breath, money, resources
and time -- all contributed by people other than those who make
these crazy decisions. Like these other entities, the U.N. is prone
to corruption and cronyism, patronism, incompetence, and power
perpetuation. Governments like China actually have the right idea --
they largely ignore the U.N. for the impotent mass of bureaucracy it
has become. Ironically, China -- a communist country -- is more
concerned about national sovereignty than the U.S., even though
America had to fight to throw off dictatorial chains just to be born.
Annan may be mentally ill, but I'm not. Arrogant interventionism is
nothing more than an excuse for power mongering and empire
building. And I want no part of it. No American truly concerned
about protecting his freedom should.
I say Annan is free to speak his mind, but he sure as blazes better
stay out of my yard.
Jon E. Dougherty is a contributing editor to WorldNetDaily.
© 1999 WorldNetDaily.com, Inc.
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