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THE COMPULSION TO APOLOGIZE |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 01 March 2007 |
I've
written often, such as in Rejecting The Evil
Eye, about liberals' fear of envy.
This fear is what makes them liberals.
Thus the key insight:
Liberalism is not a political ideology or set of
beliefs. It is an envy-deflection device, a psychological strategy to avoid
being envied. It is the politicalization of envy-appeasement.
Nothing
more epitomizes liberals' fear of envy than their compulsion to apologize. Apologize to the world for the existence
of exploitative America. Apologize to the Earth for the existence of
polluting humanity. Last Sunday (2/25),
the Democrat-controlled legislature of Virginia voted to "apologize"
for the state's role in slavery.
When you
apologize for something that your great-great-great-great grandfather, at the
latest, might have done (and most likely not, for the overwhelming majority of
Virginia residents are not the descendants of slave owners), you require
psychiatric counseling.
Another
example of how liberalism is a psychological affliction - a particularly
dangerous one when it's the basis of foreign policy.
Which
brings us today to a Democrat Congressman from California, "Moonbat Mike" Honda.
Moonbat
Mike represents that bastion of liberal guilt, Silicon Valley. He is a member of the Cop Killer Caucus, one
of 31 - all Democrats - who last December voted against (368 votes for) a House
Resolution condemning the city of St. Denis, France for naming a street in
honor of Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted murderer of Philadelphia police officer
Danny Faulkner.
One of his
favorite activities is raising money for radical Moslem groups like CAIR. His official
House website praises Army Lt. Ehren Watada for "risking his freedom for
peace," and expresses "admiration" for Watada's "breaking one law in furtherance of a higher, moral one." Watada is facing a court-martial for refusing deployment in
Iraq.
Moonbat Mike's latest cause is House Resolution 121, which
demands that: "The Government of Japan
should formally acknowledge, apologize, and accept historical responsibility in
a clear and unequivocal manner for its Imperial Armed Force's coercion of young
women into sexual slavery, known to the world as `comfort women', during its
colonial and wartime occupation of Asia and the Pacific Islands from the 1930s
through the duration of World War II."
One would think Japan had paid its karmic debt for its
wartime atrocities by getting nuked twice.
But the fact is that Japan has repeatedly apologized for this particular
episode. In 1994, Prime Minister
Tomiichi Murayama declared
in a formal statement:
On the issue of wartime
"comfort women", which seriously stained the honor and dignity of
many women, I would like to take this opportunity once again to express my
profound and sincere remorse and apologies.
His successors, Prime Ministers Ryutaro Hashimoto, Keizo
Obuchi, Yochiro Mori, and Junichiro Koizumi have all written similar letters of
apology. Officially speaking for the
government of Japan, Koizumi wrote:
As Prime Minister of Japan, I thus extend anew my most sincere
apologies and remorse to all the women who underwent immeasurable and painful
experiences and suffered incurable physical and psychological wounds as comfort
women.
Yet here is Moonbat Mike demanding Japan keep
apologizing. Why?
Because Japan is an ally of America's.
The issue of "comfort women" is being revived by liberals to
damage relations between our country and its best friend and ally in Asia. That's the purpose of H. Res.
121. If Japan were an antagonist
instead, like say, Communist China, you can bet Moonbat Mike would be making no
demands for apologies.
It's a safe bet because when asked if he would ever condemn
the Chicom slaughter of tens of millions of Chinese, the wholesale lack of
democratic freedom and civil rights in China, he refused, because "things can
change."
What's also a safe bet is that liberal Democrats in Congress
will never propose a resolution demanding apologies for atrocities and crimes
against humanity committed by America's antagonists.
To test this, a Republican Congressman will soon be
circulating a House Resolution demanding that Saudi Arabia apologize for
Moslems practicing slavery for over 1,300 years.
Drawing upon massive historical documentation of the Arab
slave trade as presented in such scholarly works as Slavery
in the Arab World by Murray Gordon, the resolution will conclude that an
apology is owed to the world by the country claiming to represent True Islam
for the horror of Islamic slavery inflicted upon countless millions for
centuries.
The very first of his colleagues across the aisle this
Congressman will ask to be a co-sponsor will be Moonbat Mike Honda.
And if he gets a quid-pro-quo
I'll-sign-yours-if-you-sign-mine, the Congressman has a ready response: "Sure, Mike - as soon as you show me any
letters from Saudi kings apologizing for the Arab slave trade, and regretting
that slavery is sanctioned by Allah in the Koran. As I'm sure you know, Mike, Saudi Arabia didn't legally ban
slavery until 1962, and slavery continues in many Moslem countries to this
day."
Think Moonbat Mike will sign up? Not a chance - because liberal causes like H. Res. 121 invariably
have something anti-American at their core.
If it's not anti-American, or anti-an- American-ally, deal them
out. Bet on it.
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