Kleagle Clinton
O'Rourke 22, P. J.
22 Kleagle Clinton A meditation on the Caribbean refugee crisis. by P J. O'Rourke E d Crane, president of the Cato Institute, the redoubtable libertarian think tank, and I were having a cocktail...
...Only individuals suffer...
...Oh no...
...The worship of collective power always ends in some kind of drive-by shooting...
...The power-grubbing, self-regarding Bill Clintons of the world tell us so...
...In Clinton's Caribbean policy we get a glimpse of the president's true nature, a look at the Inner Bill, a peek at the scum beneath the flab...
...And this is why liberals are always championing laws and social programs that are theoretically good for a class of people while being provably disastrous for people themselves: racial quotas, busing, welfare, my goddamned taxes...
...Calling Dr...
...These people are mastering their fates...
...They're going to America to start a new life...
...After a few sets of 86-proof curls with the liquid-free weights, Ed made a perspicacious comment about the Cuban rafters and Haitian boat people currently being persecuted by our Coast Guard on orders from the Commander in Chief...
...linton's excuse for refusing sanctuary to the C Haitians and Cubans is that they are economic refugees...
...Indeed, it may be argued that liberalism is worse than the KKK insofar as Klansmen only hate some people while liberals hate them all...
...The president and his sanctimonious twit of a wife have worked for decades to build a society like this, and here people are taking their lives in their hands to get away from it...
...Pain cannot, no matter what the unctuous creep in the White House says, be shared...
...Damn it, P.J.," he said (I'm quoting from memory, so excuse me, Ed, if I don't do your eloquence justice...
...Give them their passports right on the Florida beach—no oaths, no exams, no forms to fill out...
...If they start their own businesses, they will vote Republican...
...Liberals have the same morals as Fascists, Communists, Crips and Bloods...
...You can see the liberal hatred of people in the enormous liberal excitement about abortion and contraception...
...As for Clinton's attitude toward the Haitians, why he's glad to invade their country...
...As if God didn't create Adam and Eve but a Recovering Fruit of Knowledge Taste Test Support Group...
...Haitians and Cubans want to come to the United States, get jobs, work hard, start their own businesses...
...The president and his sanctimonious twit of a wife have worked for decades to build a society like this, and here people are taking their lives in their hands to get away from it...
...That's where Bill comes in...
...The core of the liberal belief is that the mass is more important than the man...
...by P J. O'Rourke E d Crane, president of the Cato Institute, the redoubtable libertarian think tank, and I were having a cocktail hour chat about whether the Clinton administration should be sewn up in a sack full of cats or locked in a small, warm room with Michael Dukakis...
...Haitians and Cubans must think there's such a thing as free will, maybe even individual responsibility...
...Look for us on the sand, with our trousers rolled, holding aloft the sacred prize of freedom—shaken not stirred...
...Damn it, these people get on board things made out of oil drums, orange crates, balsa wood and cardboard boxes...
...What would we have thought of Konrad Adenauer if each P. J. O'Rourke, a member of The American Spectator's editorial board, is the author most recently of All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty, just published by Atlantic Monthly Press...
...The American Spectator November 1994 person who came over the Berlin Wall had been shipped to a—give me another name for it—concentration camp...
...T here may be—measured by some cold and pointless statistical means—such a thing as a greater common good...
...And how are the liberals ever going to be able to control people brave enough to sail to Florida in a rum carton...
...administration—Democratic and Republican—for thirty-four years...
...L et's face facts about our disgusting political opponents...
...And maybe me, if I recover from this hangover...
...Taking their lives in their hands"—one more reason for Bill to despise our island neighbors...
...Only crazy people would flee from a country with free medical care, guaranteed employment for life, and first-rate gun control...
...And about human sacrifice—liberals like that even better...
...But these are not the kind of people our infinitely compassionate, sharing and caring, hug-mongering sop of a president wants in America...
...As if Christ were a committee...
...The will, the conscience, the very existence of the person must be destroyed for the benefit of the mob...
...Bill hates them and he fears them, especially the Cubans...
...Their liberal dream is to control people, to oppress and exploit them for some "higher" goal...
...But any good liberal knows we're part of a collective enterprise...
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...But there is no such thing as a greater common bad...
...These are the kind of people we want in America...
...Bill...
...Bill knows the Cubans are crazy...
...Then suppose that, once those East Germans were packed behind barbed wire, they were told they would have to go back to East Germany to apply for West German visas...
...They're thugs...
...Infact, even people of far less mettle than Haitian and Cuban refugees are difficult to control...
...In this case, those individuals are packed into sad, unseaworthy little crafts trying to make it to that ultimate bastion of individualism, America...
...But let them drive cabs in New York City...
...I say they're citizens...
...We've been nice to the liberals for too long...
...Do Haitians like their martinis with one olive or two...
...Pearl Harbor, for example...
...Yes, these people are seeking real freedom, material freedom, freedom to do, have, and be...
...And they're probably not as interested as Bill is in the liberal idea of freedom—freedom to hand out child-sized condoms at day-care centers and so forth...
...Of course Bill Clinton hates them...
...Which is run by Bill...
...Liberals don't just lose sight of the individual or ignore his needs in the pursuit of broader goals, liberals detest, abhor, and spit upon the human being...
...To achieve our common destiny we need leadership...
...A civilized person should no more tolerate the presence of a liberal than the presence of a member of the Ku Klux Klan...
...CI Only crazy people would flee from a country with free medical care, guaranteed employment for life, and first-rate gun control...
...Bill Clinton has blocked the only exit from the totalitarian nation of Cuba, closed an escape route held open by every U.S...
...This is why liberals hate people...
...I've got to quit putting vermouth in the gin...
...He's perfectly willing to shoot Haitians...
...But, when they get here, they're going to discover that the only person welcoming them is Ed Crane...
...Liberalism, however dressed in "sharing and caring" modernity, is ultimately about the primitive, ignorant, troglodyte tribal idea of collective life...
...If people are hard to control, then ipso facto more people will be harder...
...they cross hundreds of miles of shark-infested ocean, suffer hunger, thirst, and exposure, and brave treacherous currents, high seas, and storms just to come to America...
...And all our ills are the result of society's sickness...
Vol. 27 • November 1994 • No. 11
