Dehumanize This

For This Saturday's rerun here is a rant I wrote two years ago that is still timely today.

Dehumanize This

I've always been amused by inconsistencies. Examples abound:

• Nixon asking for one FBI file (which he didn't get) was grounds for impeachment. Clinton having over 1000 FBI files was just a 'bureacratic snafu'.
• The feminists shrieking about Senator Packwood and demanding his head for sexual harassment. At that time the bar was set at 'if a man of power seduced an underling it was automatically sexual harassment'. And with Anita Hill, pubic hairs on coke cans and Long Dong Silver was sexual harassment, and what's more, the woman is always to be believed. Along comes Kathleen Willy, and Gloria Steinem gives us the one free grope rule. That set protection from sexual harassment back ten years. Oh boy! One free grope! Works for me! Thanks Gloria! Blowjobs by Monica (what a musical that would make and let's have Mel Brooks write it. ) become a private matter. I mean it's 'just about sex'. Here's the most powerful man in the world and a ditsy California airhead. Just imagine the difference if Clinton were a Republican. Or, just make him a senior miltary officer or a mean old CEO. Don't you just think Barbara Boxer, Gloria Steinem, Eleanor Smeal, (as long as we're throwing in shrieking harridans) Eleanor Clift (don't you just wish that just once, John McLaughlin would get out of his chair and bitch slap Eleanor?), and, (for the height of hypocrisy and chutzpah), Hillary Clinton would be calling for his head on a platter? Makes me want to puke!
• Along similar lines, comes the rape charge against Clinton. He was asked at a press conference about the rape allegations once (and once only) by Sam Donaldson. He did not deny it. He was never asked again. Compare that with the hectoring of Nixon by Dan Rather. And Daffy Dan, in an interview, when asked about the rape charge, said Clinton's sex life was a 'private matter'. OK Gunga Dan, does that mean Clinton can rape women at will? I never knew that rape was a private matter. Can we all rape women at will now? Is this like Gloria Steinem's one free grope rule? We get one free rape? When did the law change?
• Republicans (just to show I'm not just against Democrats) are for killing criminals and against killing babies. Kill the guilty and save the innocent. Hmmm...What's wrong with that? Oh yeah, they want to force women to have babies they do not want, but then, do not want to support the unwanted babies that the women did not want. (I know, that's redundant, but I'm trying to drive home a point here) Republicans do not want sex education in the schools. Look, our society has changed drastically in the last thirty-five years. Here, let's see what Fred has to say about it. Since both parents have to work ( Some say that's to pay a huge tax burden. Others say it is to enjoy the good life; upward mobility and all that), children are left to their own devices. Our children are being bombarded with sex constantly. I'm sorry, but they're gonna get it on. Give me sex education. Give me free condoms in school. Give me free birth control pills in school. Tell your kids not to do it. But, be prepared for the worst.
• Democrats, on the other hand, want to save criminals but murder babies. Save the guilty, kill the innocent. Now that doesn't sound good at all does it? I remember watching that super liberal twit Mike Farrell (B J Hunnicut on MASH) talking about how he was totally against capital punishment because it 'is not a deterrent'. Well, I'll tell you Mikey, it sure as shit is gonna deter that sorry sumbitch, from murdering again. I'll bet Mikey boy is for abortion, oooops, I mean a woman's right to choose. Look, I'm rather ambivalent about abortion. It is none of my or the government's business. It is between the woman, the father, and her God. She has to live with the decision for the rest of her life. I am, on the other hand, against infanticide, which is what 'partial birth abortion' is. That is murdering a live child and it is barbaric.

And barbarism leads to dehumanization which is the subject of today's blog.

As I was driving home from work today, I had the radio tuned to National Proletariat Radio (But I only listen to it for the music! Honest! And I only get Playboy for the articles), and, on Fresh Air (or as Terry Gross says Fresh shAir!), and Terry was interviewing a Palestinian writer in the 'Occupied Territories' and he was talking about the 'dehumanization' of the Palestinians. This was one of the many times I just wanted to scream at the radio, but instead, I tuned to something else. How about Ozzy singing No More Tears? That would be appropriate.

Look, I'm getting tired of these whining Palestinians. They could have had their fucking state fifty fucking years ago. (My friend Gwen, says she likes my writing, and I should use less profanity but, even Lileks goes overboard sometimes. I don't intend to do it, and my father told me that cursing was the crutch of the conversational cripple, but when I get going, I cannot stop). The bastards turned down the partition of Palestine in 1948 and ever since then, they have been trying to drive the Israelis into the sea. Even today, according to a poll on Drudge, 51% of the Palestinians are for the total destruction of Israel. These are people who take their most cherished possessions, their children, strap bombs on them and send them to explode next to women and children. And they should have a state? What do you want to call it? The Blow Up A Child A Day Nation of the Middle East? But these are acts of desperation! Bull! Shit! Acts of desperation for the Palestinians would be acknowledging that Israel is here to stay, dealing with that, and negotiating in good faith. Instead, let's turn our precious children into homicide bombers. As Golda Meir said 'There will never be peace until the Palestinians love their children more than they hate the Jews'. How very true.

I have nothing but contempt for the Arabs and the Palestinians. If the Arabs weren't sitting on all that oil do you think Yassir Arafat would still be alive? He's the godfather of terrorists. He invented airline hihacking. He invented homicide bombing. Let's see. The Greeks gave us democracy. The Romans gave us laws. The Palestinians gave us homicide bombers. That sure is a nice thing to be known for. And how about that bug eyed bastard saying the Israelis tried to kill him. Listen bucko, if the Israelis wanted you dead, you'd be looking for your seventy-two virgins right now. Only where you're going I don't think you're gonna find any virgins.

And where does it say that the winners in a war have to give conquered territory back? You bastards declared war on Israel in 1967 and lost! You're lucky Israel didn't annex the West Bank and Gaza and kick your sorry asses out. In retrospect they're probably sorry they didn't. I know if the Israelis had lost, the Jews would have been expelled and there still would not have been a Palestinian state as the land would have been divided up between Jordan, Egypt and Syria and you'd still be whining and be worse off. You think other Arabs would put up with your shit?

Israel is willing to give land for peace, but the Palestinians want all the land or there will be no peace. And they have the nerve to talk about dehumanization? They bitch about the fact that people die because Israel won't let the ambulances past checkpoints. Hey, Abdullah, you are the bastards that are using the ambulances to transport bombs. Cry me a fucking river. A pregnant woman was stopped at a checkpoint. That's because you dickheads are dressing up female bombers (no need for affirmative action here. Homicide Bombers Inc is an equal opportunity employer) as pregnant women. My heart is pumping purple panther piss and peanut butter. I saw a black humor cartoon a few weeks back that had two Palestinian women wearing heavy robes and one turns to the other and says 'Does this bomb make me look fat?'

It looks like our latest policy is just to ignore Arafat. He has two goals in life: the destruction of Israel and a Palestinian state with him as the leader. It's looking less and less like either of those things are gonna happen. Wouldn't that be great! All his life's work to no avail. And with our new friends the Russians (Hey Putin, ya wanna take out those towel head bastards in Chechnya? Go ahead. Need any help?), selling us oil, it looks like we may be able to tell the Saudis to kiss our ass. Prince Abdullah, we don't need any bullshit lectures from you. Kiss my ass!

And isn't it funny how the Israelis seem to care more for Palestinian civilians than the Palestinians do? Those big brave Pali's just love to hide behind women and children. When the Israelis went into Jenin, they took more casualties than they had to simply because they were trying to not kill civilians. That is the difference between civilized people and barbarians. Or the difference between humans and animals.

Maybe one day the Palestinians will decide to join the human race. Maybe one day they will find leadership that rejects violence and really wants peace. On that day, I'm sure Israel, if it hasn't been dehumanized by the constant pointless and tragic deaths of the Palestinan homicide bombers, will welcome them and the two nations will truly be partners in peace.

Unfortunately, I fear I will not see that in my lifetime. Hatred is a disease only time can cure. And the Palestinians have a real bad case of hatred.

So for now, all I have to say to the Palestinians is 'Dehumanize this!'

Posted by denny at March 27, 2004 04:38 PM