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MY EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY OF . . . .?
Only a few years late, a New Century, promised by the 1960s and ‘70s,
is blossoming in America. Thanks to
the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now and its former
officer Obama, its many congressional funders, and the generous oversight, or
overlook, provided by traditional mass media, this nation will be free again! The
millennia of human struggle against moldering ethical and legal concepts is
nearing victory. Someday is here, and
we have overcome! No
mere “City on a Hill,” America, the truly humane, will usher in a lasting and
world-wide era of peace. Equality and
justice will prevail. A new miracle of
chemistry will lift the toll of death from malaria for millions of black
babies. (We’ve already saved millions of birds.) Dirty and degrading technologies will fade
away—succeeded by tall and attractive windmills. (The cost may be a moderate
number splattered of birds.)
Everyone will have a home, and live in the sunshine. A
new Age of Enlightenment is dawning! The
requisite voting of the 2008 elections has already begun in the United States
of America. I.W. Parkins 10/08 |
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VOTER REGISTRATION
FRAUD? Although,
I always thought my dog …? I wonder how Bastiat is voting, or haven’t the ACORN people
added him to the roles yet? Bastiat is known for
the statement: government is that
great farce by which everyone contrives to live at the expense of everybody
else. My retort would be:
government is an institution created by man to facilitate the sharing of
knowledge and skills, and to require respect of persons for one another. I.W. Parkins 1008 |
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VERY DANGEROUS PERSONS By Ivan W. Parkins
Hitler was a very dangerous person. He was an outspoken racist and militarist;
he was clearly responsible for death camps and military operations that
killed several tens of millions. And,
he is not credited with any sign of regretting those outcomes. So, how would he feel if he could know that
others, mostly anti-racist and anti-militarist, have rivaled, perhaps
exceeded, his genocides? And, their
“accomplishment” is not even widely noticed.
That’s history. Our problem is
do we now want people who appear to be similar to those who secured the ban
on DDT to control the World’s largest economy and most powerful government? Certainly they will not emulate
Hitler. But, as the horrendous toll
from the DDT ban should warn us, the “good deeds” born of amateurish
enthusiasms are not guaranteed to have beautiful consequences. I
fear Obama and his enthusiastic following, for much the same reason that I
insist we should remember to compare Rachel Carson and her following with
Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot as Very Dangerous. Hitler promised and produced change, much
of it what he intended. Carson’s most
significant result was no doubt unintended. One
reason for favoring leaders with substantial records of service is that they
are seldom Very Dangerous. They try to
base changes upon the best of what we have already. I spent the 1960s-“70s on
college campuses in Florida, North Carolina, and Michigan. I began as a “liberal” Democrat and ended
as a Republican, mostly because I began to see many of my colleagues and
students as dangerous people. In
that period, there was an obvious shift of political opinions from an
historical basis to great emphasis upon “relevance.” The latter being mostly a matter of
matching with the mass media, especially television. And, when that sort of emphasis is combined
with events by which white people, who pride themselves on their hatred of
racism, can then fail to acknowledge clearly, acts that contributed heavily
to the malaria deaths of millions of black babies, there is reason to fear
for our republic. It
is too late for my life to be greatly affected by the coming elections, but I
will leave progeny. And I deeply desire that they and their America will
serve one another at least as well as I and my America have. I
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WHO’S WORD? --- WHO’S ELECTION? By Ivan W. Parkins How do Democrats imply that
Republicans are mainly responsible for both government deficits and the state
of our economy? Answer: A pro-Democrat information system does not make clear
the facts, available in any public library, that, for the past forty years,
Democrats have dominated most Congresses, even under Republican Presidents. How do you tag American
conservatives with the “racist” label? Answer:
They keep secret (almost) the fact that liberal environmentalists, with their
ban of DDT, contributed to the malaria deaths of millions of black
babies—perhaps the greatest racial genocide in history. How do you maintain that the
Youth Rebellion of the ‘60s and ‘70s was humane and progressive? Answer:
They don’t do the math; population of the youth group times the increase in
violent deaths among them, domestically, exceeded our combat deaths overseas
in those decades. How do you win the next
election—maybe? Answer: Democrats campaign against America’s recent history, as
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BETTER THAN GROWING MONEY ON TREES!?
Given an Internal Revenue Code that already defies the intellectual
grasp of almost everyone, why not add to it one huge delusional graft? Most people recognize that growing money on
trees takes a good deal of skill and a lot of hard work, but how many know
that it is not easy to do it with the Internal Revenue Code? Indeed, it does seem to be possible for at
least a few to do just that. THE
WALL STREET JOURNAL this morning, October 13, 2008, provides what may be THE
legendary October surprise, an editorial “Obama’s 95% Illusion.” The illusory part, according to the
Journal’s account, is that much of what Obama calls “tax cuts” is actually
just welfare or transfer payments made via changes in the tax code. The
“money tree” part of this is my translation.
It is the unlikely prospect that, even disguised as a mere change in
our tax code, a grand move toward socialism will produce a major improvement
in the economic well-being of most Americans. I.W. Parkins 10/08 |
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IN 2008, A DOUBLE WHAMMY By Ivan W. Parkins
Race appears to me as an especially perverted issue in this year’s
election. Mostly, I believe that it
obscures real issues of Barack Obama’s talents and experience.
One of my earliest impressions of Obama was that in appearance and
poise he resembled a black president of student-body when I was first in the
University of Chicago, just after WWII.
A second impression was that he seemed to have charms similar to those
of Jock. Jock was very African, and
very black. He was a pre-med student
sponsored by my M.D. brother-in-law and was present for several gatherings of
our very white family. So far as I can
recall, all members of our family found him to be both interesting and
intelligent company. My
point with such personal things is to try and establish why I reject, totally
and with some malice, the frequent implications of “liberals” that simple
racial prejudice plays a major part in the views of conservatives. I sacrificed two of my first three teaching
positions, partially at least, because some of my “superiors” found me to be
too liberal in matters of race. In the
third instance (1957), my two-year contract in a southern university was not
renewed, for reasons that the dean refused to discuss.
Much of the “liberal” response to Civil Rights Laws in the 1960s was,
I believe, selfish and malicious.
Younger colleagues especially were inclined to seek credits for rising
above the bigots. Mostly, they tried
to blame earlier practices on a very broad range of
conservatives. This nation’s
efforts to achieve real social adjustments and unity were confused, if not
thwarted, by the selfish and vindictive attitudes of people, many of whom had experienced little of the real
problems. I
contend that the ‘60s and ‘70s attitudes have been hugely destructive in
their effects. They contributed to an
increase of domestic violence, especially among young blacks, that exceeded
our sacrifices in military efforts abroad.
The ban obtained by environmentalists on DDT, has probably killed more
blacks than died in all the colonial and slavery violence of the past three
centuries. For America, and especially
blacks, recent liberalism has been a double--whammy! Liberals made integration and unity more
difficult to accept and more difficult for many whites to support. I.W.Parkins 1008 |
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ALL THE NEWS? By Ivan W. Parkins Did
your know that Jerry Zeifman, Chief Counsel for the House Judiciary
Committee, when it was planning to impeach President Nixon, later published a
book denouncing that procedure, CRIMES OF CAMELOT, 1995? I learned of it only recently while reading
a very new book, THE SECRET PLOT TO MAKE TED KENNEDY PRESIDENT, by Geoff
Shepard, 2008. Shepard, a Harvard Law
graduate, received a fellowship to work in the Nixon White House. He offers an extensively documented report
on the same point.
This “old news” hit me hard because it is so similar in nature to SELL
OUT, the denunciation by Chief Investigative Counsel David Schippers of what
he regards as a virtual House guarantee of Clinton’s acquittal. Like Zeifman, Schippers denounces
procedures in which he headed the staff, and both were life-long Democrats. If
you want to look at the closed-door discussions of the House Judiciary in the
Nixon case—live longer! The people’s
Representatives put a 50-year secrecy “hold” on their discussions of (whose?)
business. Am
I right in thinking that John Kerry has never released all of his war
records? Isn’t it peculiar that our
huge information system seems to overlook so much that is politically
significant, especially if it might embarrass Democrats? I.W.Parkins 102808 |
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