Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE Micah Milhous Morrison Micah Morrison's article "Environmental Gore" (TAS, August 1990) took me back to the late '60s and the Nixonian paranoia that pervaded the right. Like Nixon,...
...Morrison set out on this safari with a gun loaded with innuendo, buzz words, and misrepresentation, not to mention a round or two of Nixonian paranoia...
...Unless I have missed something, the excess dollars presently flowing into the "Trust Fund" are "invested" in the safest securities in the world: U.S...
...The recent marketing binge regarding-"degradable" trash bags is evidence superlative of the real motives of the corporate world...
...No problem...
...The corporate world jumped on the bandwagon, when marketing wizards saw polls showing a great majority of Americans put environmental quality at the top of their priorities list for the '90s...
...We should not forget that Aldington began as a Lawrence supporter...
...The immediate problem is that since the government makes nothing and therefore creates no wealth, the in(continued on page 49) THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 1990 9 BOWMAN/AMIS CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 9) terest being earned comes from the taxpayer...
...If Aldington's account was indeed fallacious, why did it scare the hell out of Lawrence's admirers...
...In the 1988 presidential primaries, Albert Gore, Jr...
...By equating the aborted actions of EarthFirsters or the alleged enthusiasm for AIDS of "some Deep Ecologists" with the Green Revolution, he is trafficking in the same sensationalist innuendo Nixon used in his attempts to squelch the anti-war movement...
...Rather, it is the raising of the consciousness of industrial capitalism and making it take responsibility for its actions...
...Stove repeats the oft-told account that Aldington's scathing biography of Lawrence received a chilly reception from the "British establishment," despite the fact that "no one could convincingly dispute the truth of Aldington's findings...
...Cavender's extract fails to address the issues that Aldington raised...
...Kasten Doubts I have no problems with the underlying principles expressed in Senator Robert W. Kasten's article "Moynihan and the Conservatives" (TAS, August 1990), but I fail to understand his concern for some folks having to pay twice in any privatization scenario...
...Seventy percent of Californians recently voted to stop all offshore exploration for oil, yet Bush continues to call for it in the Santa Barbara Channel...
...Shouldn't Mr...
...Similarly, Albert Gore, Jr...
...In his enthusiasm to de-green Senator Al Gore, Micah aimed his partisan weapon not only at Gore but also at the Environmental Movement, per se...
...Like the denunciations which greeted Aldington's book in 1955, it insists on playing the man rather than playing the ball...
...As for Mr...
...The sale of chemical pesticides (whose use is outlawed in the U.S...
...You can't dispose of someone's biographical credibility by calling him an expatriate...
...Morrison, not concern for our environment, motivates corporations...
...When Lawrence himself created wholesale confusion about his achievements, is it surprising that Aldington eventually refused to take him at his word...
...He had done his research too well...
...Soon afterwards, a spokesman for Mobil Chemical Company, manufacturer of Hefty trash bags, stated that "degradability is just a marketingtool...
...recognized this and made rather obvious attempts to "run away from his record...
...He goes to the vault and gets out a couple of his super-safe securities and sells them to get the required cash...
...Jim Larkins Austin, Texas T. E. vs...
...Morrison has swallowed the corporate scam hook, line, and image is demonstrated by his stated belief that "not only has the corporate world jumped on the ecological bandwagon, but Bush will be making a mighty effort to remind voters that he is the environmental President...
...Stove has occasion to consult Jeremy Wilson's new biography of Lawrence...
...His ploy became so obvious that even his fellow dwarves were calling the matter to his attention...
...Nevertheless, I am grateful to Mr...
...Obviously duped by corporate flimflam and fitted with blinders, Mr...
...is just as liberal as his father, perhaps even more so...
...After inundating stores with "biodegradable trash bags," manufacturers were required to take them off the shelves when it was demonstrated that they were little better than their non-biodegradable counterparts...
...In it, Mr...
...Those who had wished in the 1950s to show that Lawrence was pathologically dishonest hoped that the contemporary documents would eventually demonstrate that they were right...
...Wilson copes when he comes to explain the Lawrence Bureau's behavior towards Aldington...
...This is a strange way of behaving towards a fraudulent book...
...It is much more plausible as a response to an accurate one...
...Overturning industrial capitalism is not the aim, nor has it ever been, of any major Environmental Group...
...Cavender for alerting me to the Wilsonwork's claims, and shall be interested to learn how Mr...
...He produced several versions of Seven Pillars: these differ not only from each other but from the Secret Dispatches on the same subject...
...Wilson writes that "Lawrence was not as Aldington claimed, a habitual liar, and Ethel Seven Pillars is remarkably accurate on questions of fact...
...government securities...
...In fact, the Lawrence Bureau tried desperately to prevent publication altogether...
...Albert Gore, Sr...
...I would like the senator to explain why only under the privatization scenario someone must pay twice...
...Without privatization and with no change in payroll taxes, a lot of folks will pay twice, even if Social Security immediately moves to a pay-as-you-go rate of taxation...
...Simple greed, Mr...
...Stove have treated these matters...
...The invested cash, now in the general fund, is used for general government expenditures, thus making the difference between government receipts and expenditures, The Deficit, appear much smaller than it really is...
...In the event, the documents have done exactly the opposite...
...I believe it was Richard Gephardt who said during the campaign: "Al Gore keeps tripping over his own record...
...Anthony Cavender Houston, Texas R. Stove replier Though I haven't yet read Jeremy Wilson's biography (not having been able to obtain a copy by the deadline date for my review), Mr...
...I hope Mr...
...As for Social Security, its manager looks at his balance sheet and sees a nice portfolio of Government Securities earning interest and says "all is well...
...That Mr...
...The purchaser is the tax-payer...
...Bush has come foursquare behind the oil industry in his advocacy of Offshore Drilling, even in the face of polls and initiatives on both coasts, indicating that the great majority of citizens favor a complete ban on any further drilling...
...Bush being the environmental President, actions give a far clearer understanding of his real loyalties than reading his lips...
...lost his seat in the U.S...
...Wilson also describes Aldington as an embittered expatriate who believed that if he could destroy Lawrence's reputation this would deeply wound the British establishment...
...Bringing this behavior under public scrutiny is the aim of us environmentalists, as any informed journalist well knows...
...Morrison's paranoia is further demonstrated when he states that "Greenpeace and the Rainforest Action Network do little to hide their larger agenda of overturning the real culprit in environmental carnage, industrial capitalism...
...As a former Tennesseean, I have followed the politics of the Gore family for years...
...R. J. R. J. Stove's review of a recent biography of Richard Aldington was very disappointing because it unequivocally endorsed Aldington's spiteful contempt for T. E. Lawrence (TAS, August 1990...
...Surely the appropriate response would have been either to ignore it or to laugh it away...
...Like Nixon, Morrison uses the eccentricities of the fringe elements to denigrate an entire movement...
...by Dupont and other manufacturers to Third World nations demonstrates a total lack of corporate consciousness and responsibility in the pursuit of profit...
...Lawrence himself, incidentally, told Bernard Shaw that Seven Pillars of Wisdom "was an effort to make history an imaginative thing...
...At some point down the road the Social Security manager sees that for a given time period he is not going to have enough cash coming in from current taxes to cover the required payments...
...As for Aldington's alleged embitterment, those who actually saw him on a regular basis during his later years were struck mainly by his singular freedom from bitterness, both before and after Lawrence of Arabia...
...Bob Joslin Whitefish, Montana Micah Morrison hit the bullseye...
...Senate when his connections with the Eastern liberal establishment became more important to him than his Tennessee constituency...
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