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Sending this to you- if you feel it is appropriate for the loop, would you
be so kind as to forward it. I haven't visited this 'site' yet- just read
about it in the NG.

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on 7 Feb 1997 00:38:30 GMT, "Johnson"
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>Opinion Column * V3X3 * 02.06.1997 * ISSN 1074-245X

>[Ed: This is an indicator of the "bipartisanship" we see ahead.]

> CIVILITY

>by Redmon Barbry

> Civility -- the very thought of Liberals demanding civility
>makes me want to froth. Civility is like peace: all tyrants
>want peace, so that they will be left alone to carry out their
>butcheries undisturbed. Naturally, the world's most brutal
>dictators all vigorously support a peace movement. And you know
>what? it works. People on the Left are so stupid or so
>treacherous that many of them have agitated on behalf of the
>dangerously absurd notions of unilateral disarmament, peace at
>any price, and moral parity between the United States and the
>Soviet Union.

> The Left cheered and made excuses as cities burned, riots
>tore up the streets, and protesters threw blood on police and
>called the president a baby-killer. So why do these same people
>all of a sudden want civility? Just [a few] months ago, they were
>characterizing their opponents as murdering the elderly,
>enriching themselves off the poor, and starving children. That
>creaky, old Stalinist and sanctimonious windbag, the dishonor-
>able Member from Florida, Sam Gibbons, stood up in the House and
>called the Republican balanced budget proposal mean: mean to
>children, the elderly, and the poor. (I suppose selling our
>children into the bondage of debt for the next fifty years, just
>to pay for your political phantasms, is not mean, Rep. Gibbons.)
>So, why ask for civility now?

> The brain-dead city I live in (Dallas) has a matching brain-
>dead newspaper that last week printed a brain-dead editorial
>bemoaning how uncivil we are to one another, parroting the
>left-wing leadership like a chorus of useful idiots. Their
>solution to the "growing incivility" is to run an advertising
>campaign consisting in billboards placed around town bearing a
>single word, such as, "Caring", "Responsibility", "Trustworth-
>iness", "Respect", "Citizenship", "Fairness", and so on, as a
>"reminder of our core values". Notice that no actual virtues
>were named, such as, Prudence, Justice, Temperance, Fortitude,
>Faith, Hope, and Charity; just derivative or para-virtues, like
>caring, respect, and citizenship: the watered-down milque-toast
>of an ad-man's morality. Standing up for what is right,
>honorable, truthful, and just, is missing from the list, because
>a citizenry that stood up for what is right would not put up
>with the city government we have, nor with the birdcage liner
>that calls itself The Dallas Morning News. (Actually, my bird
>won't tolerate it, either; he insists on back issues of The New
>Republic. And so, silly me, I give in.)

> The salubrious belief that the political atmosphere requires
>a return to civility comes from those who are threatened by
>incivility, namely, the thieves in Congress, the crooks, dopers,
>and scoundrels in the White House, and most of all, the
>bumbling, well-intentioned architects of socialism, who
>desperately need to silence their critics. Civility will let
>them pretend in front of the cameras that transfer payments are
>not theft, that Social Security is not a swindle, that the first
>amendment wasn't really supposed to protect political speech,
>that gun control is not the thin edge of tyranny, that the IRS
>is nothing at all like Louis XVI's tax-collectors, that the
>proponents of socialism are not really the mortal enemies of
>freedom, that the Left is not actually looting the public
>treasury to enrich themselves and their causes, that Bill
>Clinton really cares about each and every one of us, etc., ad
>nauseam.

> There not being any polite way to call someone a corrupt,
>lying traitor, civility will require us to be silent as the
>administration sells out our country's security and future on
>the world market just to line their pockets. Since such words
>as "chiseler" and "mountebank" are impolite, at best, civility
>will not permit us to characterize properly the administration's
>various financial plans, for instance, the Medicare so-called
>reform. And in view of the response that the term, "howling
>jackass", is likely to receive, civility means that we shall
>have to shut up in the face of this recent Ebonics nonsense,
>along with all the political correctness, the creeping
>environmental regulation idiocy, government oversight of every
>jot and tittle of our lives, the outrageous mismanagement of the
>executive branch, the vaulting ambition of the federal bench to
>reshape the Constitution into an instrument of social tyranny,
>the base corruption and thievery of the Congress, the elevation
>of perversion to a cherished social institution, and on, and on,
>and on...

> I will give you incivility: Jesus, whipping the money-
>changers out of the Temple! (See Gospel.) Did He first sit down
>and discuss His feelings with them? Did He "dialogue" with
>them, as the saying is in today's idiotic diction? Did He
>negotiate, perhaps? Compromise? Submit the dispute to binding
>arbitration? Did He blame His outburst on His inner rage,
>later? No, he went out, fashioned a whip, and drove the self-
>servers out of the Temple by force, unapologetically. Was that
>civil? No, but then, there was something more important than
>civility at stake: principle, and the obligation He had (as do
>we all) to set things aright.

> No, I will not keep silence. If that means that I am called
>uncivil, then I accept the accusation; I embrace it. If the
>press is saying that it is time to turn the heat down, that
>means that it is most likely time to turn the heat up another
>notch. Wickedness must be resisted, civility notwithstanding.
>Morality demands that one speak out against evil; truthfulness
>means contradicting lies; and virtue stands up for the rigorous
>application of the basic ethical standards of behavior,
>publicly and privately. The nomenclatura of American socialism
>want to enjoy their ill-gotten gains in peace, safe from the
>raucous outcries of their victims and opponents; and so they ask
>for civility, to shut us up. But I will not, for the sake of
>civility, refrain from criticism. And neither will you, I hope.

> Gospel:
> ...Passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to
> Jerusalem, and found in the temple those that sold oxen
> and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:
> and when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove
> them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen,
> and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the
> tables; and said unto them that sold doves, Take these
> things hence; make not my Father's house an house of
> merchandise.
> ... John 2:13-16

>Reprinted from FRATRICIDE, used with permission. Copyright 1997 by
>Redmon Barbry. Archives at http://redmon.deltos.com/frat.htm.
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