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Rush
Limbaugh: America’s Truth Detector?
by
Jeff Elkins
Rush
Limbaugh: America’s truth detector; Talent on loan from God;
Destroying liberals with half his brain tied behind his back.
I
enjoy listening to Rush. I’ve done so almost daily, since the early
days of his radio broadcast in the late Eighties; I’ve purchased
and read both his books, watched his television show in the wee
hours when it was offered and think that at times he’s been a breath
of fresh air. He has a tremendous sense of humor and provided much
needed relief during the dark days of the Clinton presidency.
The
AM radio industry owes Limbaugh far more than it will ever be able
to repay. Mostly moribund before he sprang onto the scene, talk
radio now offers a widely diverse array of viewpoints, liberal,
conservative and libertarian. He almost single-handedly revitalized
the AM band. Every talk show host, both local and syndicated should
offer burnt sacrifices to the broadcast giant daily; truly, they
wouldn’t have jobs had Rush not traversed the ground before them.
Always
remember though: Rush Limbaugh is a statist. Despite the humor,
despite the bonhomie, despite the common sense he uses to
deflate liberals, Rush is an unabashed advocate of the State.
Today
(May 15, 2001), Rush praised President Bush’s appearance at the
annual memorial service honoring slain police officers, those killed
in the line of duty. Tuesday’s service memorialized police officers
who died while on duty in the year 2000, more than 150 officers,
according to various police organizations. Not a bad thing for a
president to do, left at that.
However,
Bush went much further than a mere ceremonial appearance. He used
the bully pulpit to propose "Project Safe Neighborhoods,"
an egregious expansion of State power. Unveiled Monday at a police
ceremony in Philadelphia, the project involves hiring 113 new assistant
U.S. attorneys and 600 state and local prosecutors to work with
police agencies and community groups on gun cases.
Bush’s
plan also calls for $44 million to upgrade law enforcement computer
databases and improve criminal record-keeping so so-called convicts
cannot legally buy guns; nearly $29 million to expand ballistics
testing so so-called illegal guns and ammunition can be traced;
and $19 million for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
to conduct a so-called youth gun interdiction initiative. All-in-all,
a massive increase in the power of the State, from a party supposedly
dedicated to a smaller government.
This
plan to further the scope of the American police state met with
Mr. Limbaugh’s wholehearted approval. Without consideration for
what he was advocating, Rush acted as a cheerleader for those who
want to disarm you, imprison you and ultimately, should you disagree
with them, kill you.
The
last thing our law enforcement community needs is an influx of still
more federal dollars and influence. As I’ve mentioned before, our
police, formerly local peace officers, are now merely satraps of
the standing federal army; junior partners perhaps, but soldiers
nonetheless.
113
new assistant U.S. attorneys and 600 state and local prosecutors
will do nothing more than increase the tide of prosecutorial misconduct
and malpractice. If anything, we need to reduce the ranks of these
pit bull prosecutors and sharply curtail prosecutions; we need informed
jurors as well, jurors who will vote their conscience, rather than
meekly obeying the dicta from a lawyer in a black robe and imprisoning
those accused of breaking unconstitutional laws.
$44
million to upgrade law enforcement computer databases and improve
criminal record-keeping? We already have many overt and covert efforts
on the part of myriad federal alphabet agencies to computerize and
pigeonhole citizens into categories; who owns a gun; who speaks
out against government; who contributes to an unpopular political
cause; who "owes" the government money. We don’t need more government
computers, we need to demand the destruction of
those they already operate.
$29
million to expand ballistics testing so so-called illegal guns and
ammunition can be traced? What is an illegal gun? What type of ammunition
is illegal? Why is "enforcing the laws on the books" a
good thing when those laws are patently unconstitutional and spit
in the very eye of liberty?
$19
million for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to conduct
a so-called youth gun interdiction initiative? Hasn’t this out of
control rogue agency murdered enough citizens? How many more must
suffer the jackboot in the night, before we wake up and demand that
it be defunded, disbanded and the criminals who inhabit it be jailed
for their crimes?
Rush
Limbaugh needs to untie that unused half of his brain and become
a real beacon of liberty. He needs to seriously examine the terrible
condition of personal liberty in this country and try to imagine
just where the policies of the statists, Republicans and Democrats
both, are taking us. Wake up Rush. Your country needs you.
May
17, 2001
Jeff
Elkins [send him mail]
is a freelance consultant and writer living in North Central Florida.
His personal website is located at www.elkins.org.
Copyright
© 2001 LewRockwell.com
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The libertarian therefore considers one of his prime educational
tasks is to spread the demystification and desanctification of the
State among its hapless subjects. His task is to demonstrate
repeatedly and in depth that not only the emperor but even the
"democratic" State has no clothes; that all governments subsist
by exploitive rule over the public; and that such rule is the reverse
of objective necessity. He strives to show that the existence of
taxation and the State necessarily sets up a class division between
the exploiting rulers and the exploited ruled. He seeks to show that
the task of the court intellectuals who have always supported the State
has ever been to weave mystification in order to induce the public to
accept State rule and that these intellectuals obtain, in return, a
share in the power and pelf extracted by the rulers from their deluded
subjects.
[[For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, Murray N. Rothbard,
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