Public Nuisances: Sea of Hate/Boss Hillary
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
Sea of Hate The recent blood- shed in the West Bank and Gaza reminds me of an adventure of mine some 2 5 years ago. What made that adventure sud- denly vivid in memou's eye was...
...She has clearly been less than truthful in her comments to investigators and too eager to follow President Clinton's method of peddling access for campaign donations...
...His sublive cheek by jowl with peoples who were jects excelled at commerce...
...In time no alternative but to resist its neighbors...
...As the humors moved him he would relent, give his victims a few weeks off, and then thrust them back to die...
...One of my favorites pension, well that's a benefit, you paid for it...
...But the 2S YEARS AGO IN The American Spectator Responding to my piece, which Security...
...The saga of the travel office their lives back together...
...This savagery against two defenseless men made the Israelis' compensatory missile strike against the Palestinian police station appear civilized-the Israelis at least gave ample warning...
...N...
...firings fascinates me...
...He pressured Israel to offer land without military safeguards...
...The populace has had to be brought kicking and screaming to approve them...
...What struck me was the ~ý88 House's continued defaming of its former employees, years after their exoneration...
...If you buy an insurance policy or a retirement annuity or a But if I get it from other taxpayers, ordinarily I would call it a subsidy But under Social Security, subsidies to people are called benefits...
...In the middle of the years ago earned me the epithet "typical last century he would treat those who American know-nothing" from the proPalestinian Columbia University English teacher, Professor Edward Said...
...Sea of Hate The recent bloodshed in the West Bank and Gaza reminds me of an adventure of mine some 2 5 years ago...
...In that sea of hate members The Harper's writer was pro-Arab...
...We need our people in...
...Surprisingly, however, the editorial was not an endorsement of her opponent, but of her...
...It took these men years to put final judgment was not the validation of the Spectator's account of Hillary's role in Travelgate nor her breezy dismissal of Ray's findings...
...All would warlike by nature and adherent to a reli- have benefited from trade with the Eurogion that encourages bellicosity, or jihad, peans and surely they were clever enough to use the official tenn...
...Israel has no been those who wax eloquent on the Boy alternative to remaining powerful and President's right to privacy in conductresolute, as I noted years ago...
...Then a hysterical mob fell on it, and one enraged brute repeatedly slammed what appeared to be a window or screen frame on the Israeli, who by then was, mercifully, dead...
...Call me an "Amer- every reason to treat foreign ~,~kC ~ ican know-nothing," but I concluded that emissaries from Russia, France, history and politics had landed the Jews on and Britain better than he treata plot of ancient land where they were to ed the likes of Stoddart...
...Where are the civil libertarians to defend the victims of the Clintons' lies...
...But my long-held beliefs...
...of the tiny Israeli minority could all meet In and around Israel, I have no doubt, similar grisly ends...
...I had traveled through Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza...
...Hillary is a Tammany Hall pol through and through...
...Western diplomats surely know about this history of stubborn cruelty...
...They left the region closer to full-scale war know about the resentment that man?' in the Arab world feel toward Western material advances...
...Lying can be amusing...
...The cruelty of Islamic potentates has benefited no one, yet it remains...
...Israel has emirs inclined towards brutality...
...Stonewalling and otherwise obstructing legitimate inquiries, Hillary has lied about her role for seven years (all the while complaining about the inquiries' cost...
...Her fondness for stonewalling in response to legitimate questions about financial or legislative matters contributed to the bad ethical reputation of the Clinton administration...
...Remember Kenned).' with Khrushchev...
...December 2ooolJanuary 2 o o i 9 TheArnericon Spectator have been charged and convicted, for instance with contempt of court, and duly fined...
...We need our people in...
...It can bring owing to the power of the federal government, some lies can trample civil rights...
...Yet in pursuit of a legacy for himself, Bill Clinton rushed both the Boss Hillary W hat struck your eye when Independent Counsel Robert Ray reported that Hillary Rodham Clinton, contrary to her vows to the public, played a key role in firing seven White House travel office employees back in 1993 and then gave "factually inaccurate" testimony to govermnent investigators...
...The enmities of the Middle East are ancient...
...Now tell me, is an involuntary payment a contribution...
...It's an utter misnomer, it's a program whereby you impose a very bad tax in order to ister Sheik Yamani placed a Harper's writer under house arrest for days...
...A bully, a liar, a corrupt fundraiser, a stonewaller, that is just the kind of politician New York Democrats of a certain, shall we say "moral toughness" went for in years gone by...
...One, Billy Dale, had been prosecuted for embezzlement after being smeared by the FBI...
...Remember, she did not have to lie...
...12 December 2ooo/January 2ooz . The American Spectator the Europeans had their thrones and their bug pits...
...There had never been anything ille- and almost all the rest of the eminences gal about replacing the employees...
...results from my researches I deposited in At any rate, the emir and his fellow a piece about Israel's plight then and for Islamic potentates of Central Asia had the foreseeable future...
...keeper of one of Islam's cultural treaMy adventure in the Middle East 2 F sures, the bug pit...
...His body was flung from a second-story window like a sack of fodder heaved to the animals...
...There they would waste away, feasted upon by vermin...
...Milton Friedman JANUARY 1976 Adapted from RET's weekly Washington a similar policy with his gulag, as AnnanTimes column syndicated by Creators do Valladares, a survivor, has recorded memorably...
...I had read extensively about the history and religions of the region...
...The offended him, such as the British officer Charles Stoddart, to extended stays in the bug pit...
...Hold out the hand of peace, but Israel must remain militarily formidable and politically resolute...
...But rarely has it been noted that some of their lies have cost ordinary citizens their good names and even their jobs...
...As she might have told the editorialists at the Times, Tammany's new organ, "We need those people out...
...Let me give you appeared ill Harper's, the Saudi oil min- the greatest sacred cow of them all, Social provide very inequitable benefits...
...But the tax that you and your employer pay under Social Security is labeled a contribution...
...Instead of making some bland response exploiting Ray's decision not to prosecute Hillary, the White House excreted a statement saying Ray's report "confirms what we have long said: There were financial improprieties in the travel office," blah, blah, blah...
...All this cruel injustice was visited upon these otherwise ordinary citizens because, as a White House aide's memo quotes Hillary as telling him, "We need those people ont...
...Conquests over the adamantine realities of action during the Clinton scandals have history are more difficult...
...Many times they have been caught...
...They should have recognized that this peace process pursued by the Clinton administration without regard to Arab history and Islamic belief is boy's customary conquests are too easy...
...And if she stomps on a few innocent citizens, so what...
...Almost a year before So, what struck my eye in reading the the rest of the press recognized the injus- reports of the independent counsel's tice, The American Spectator reported that Hi]lary was behind the firings...
...of the Balkans have been circumspect is the Emir Nasrullah Khan of Bukhara, about performing on television...
...r~ ing sex education classes at the office...
...In the first place, it has nothing to do with social and it has nothing to do with securiB...
...Syndicate...
...Again, does this treatment of innocent private citizens not summon up thoughts of police-state tactics...
...But the record of dealing cameras...
...to have maintained their independence at modern wars was irrefragable...
...That encouraged Palestinian anger that has than at any time in the past two decades...
...What made that adventure suddenly vivid in memou's eye was the TV footage of the final minutes of one of those two doomed Israeli soldiers in Ramallah...
...I found that an early confirmation of the validity of my piece, and an amusing validation it was...
...In interviews in the Spectator the?' described how they were subject to tactics reminiscent of those of a police state...
...viewed by many Arabs as insulting...
...Who says that Tammany Hall is dead...
...Castro followed mental activity has had to be sold to the populace at large by misleading advertising that Madison Avenue would blush at...
...The seven White House employees had been summarily thrust into the ranks of the unemployed...
...Otherwise no less an authority than Yasser Ararat has assured Almost every single expansion of governus that Israel would be eliminated: hea~ ed from a window, so to speak, and pummeled into the ancient pavement...
...Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, been accused of more lying than any administration in history...
...Israelis live in a sea of ethnic and religious hate difficult for Westerners to appreciate...
...Which puts me in mind of another of democratic process to confusion...
...In the Orwellian language that is used to sell Social Security, what you and I would call taxes are called contributions...
...The playRemember Clinton with Monica...
...The evidence of 7oo years and four least until Lenin came to power...
...The only civil libertarians I have seen in In its historic editorial of October 22, the New York Times admirably summed up Hillary's vices when it noted, "The investigative literature of Whitewater and related scandals is replete with evidence that Mrs...
...In a way it is...
...Yet in this incomparable administration have she lied, possibly to escape responsibility for the brutal way the men were treated and the false charges that were made against them...
...Possibly it has taken place in with Islamic potentates is bloody with the Balkans, another seething ethnic and centuries of stubborn truculence and religious cauldron, but even the enragds appalling cruelty...
...They cannot be wished away...
...Clinton has a lamentable tendency to treat political opponents as enemies...
...Playboys make incompetent diplomats...
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...Dale's defense cost him nmch of his personal savings before the phony charges brought against him were dismissed by a jury in little more than two hours...
...In the continuing political career of Hillary it is only a matter of time before cartoonists begin to depict her with a cigar between her thick fingers and a silk top hat cocked back on her head...
...Where else have we live many decent and even noble Arabs witnessed such carnage performed before and Muslims...
...Sometimes they 14 Israelis and the Palestinians to the peace table...
...Much more fundamentally, the program was sold to the American people under essentially false pretenses, on the ground that the ordinary people were so shiftless, so little concerned with their own future that unless they were compelled by government to contribute to a fund and paid a pension afterwards, they would all become charges of the state...
Vol. 33 • December 2000 • No. 10