Editorial
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
"Editorial" In musing over the various abominations committed by the duly constituted governments of this world, it has occurred to me many times that when General Washington and his colleagues gathered to...
...How successful their efforts were is still subject to debate, but the French Revolution bears historic testimony.to the Founders' perspicacity and to America's good fortune in having Washington, Madison, et al...
...They advocated relatively weak government, and it is not unreasonable to believe that as the Articles of Confederation's relatively weak government began to sputter, those worthies soon to be known as the Founding Fathers began taking melancholy walks into the forest...
...Castro and Yasir Arafat, the Third Worlders are uncorking parliamentary maneuvers so dubious as to edify the average Chicago alderman...
...Still their political ascendancy in their own countries, surprising though it may have been to the West's ritualistic liberals, was about what our Founding Fathers anticipated...
...They then took snipes at Cambodia, South Korea, and, through it all, the United States...
...They were a clever and worldly crowd, and as any careful reader of Madison's Notes will tell you, they held no delusions about government's time-honored proclivity to commit mayhem and atrocity on liberty...
...It was an eminently unfeasible undertaking, and it is no surprise that an inordinate number of the -old boys dieddestitute and pickled in booze...
...In the years of American infancy our leaders not only refrained from turning America into their own fiefdoms, but they tried to prevent future leaders from doing so...
...Such undignified politics are practiced in only one province in this country and that is Arkansas...
...And have the moralists of the Third World trampled the UN charter because South Africa follows an unjust policy of racial exclusion...
...A pox on all murderers, bigots, and tyrants—but an especially virulent pox on the swine of the Third World...
...Is the Third World indignant at South African police brutality...
...The young nation was already burdened with debt, the states were being governed by incompetents every bit as .fabulous as the present management of the Penn Central and the Postal Service, and across the ocean the crowned clowns of Europe were enjoying a voluptuous guffaw...
...The vast sums they have begged and borrowed have been squandered on palaces, sports stadiums, and personal indulgences that would cloy a tycoon from the Harlem numbers racket...
...Forging a new government" might have thrilled a few crusading journalists and their ilk, but most of the participants at Philadelphia probably knew it was only a matter of time before historians put them down as something akin to unindicted coconspirators...
...Why is it that the Solons and Numas of the Third World are in such a huff...
...Far from tingling with great expectations I suspect that the boys were apprehensive, ornery, and well into the sauce by the time they tied their limousines to the Indian Queen Tavern, their Waldorf Astoria for the next three or four months...
...Their tyrannized citizens have clung to the hem of starvation while their governments scotch progress and make off with foreign investment...
...Taken together they constitute a mob of rascals and swindlers whose depredations on theirabused citizenry are the authentic realization of our Founding Fathers' admonitions and fears...
...Civilization preserved for another year...
...There is a vast and numinous hypocrisy entrancing these Third World magnificoes which stands immune to logical discourse or analysis...
...The bill was sent to Washington and off they flew...
...Their prepotency at the United Nations is something else...
...Arafat's definition of terrorism, a sophistry which included the stunning line, "Whoever stands by a just cause and fights for the freedom and liberation of his land from the invaders, the settlers, and the colonialists cannot possibly be called terrorist...
...They have created a mess in the United Nations that is an infamy and an embarrassment even for New Yorkers...
...Or is it that Israel is a theocratic regime...
...In their last session they bounced Israel from UNESCO, denied it the right to reply to Arafat's slippery diatribe, and then landed feet first on South Africa...
...Acting in brazen contradiction of the UN charter, a charter meant to enjoin world peace through world law, they gratuitously evicted that country from their dizzy proceedings...
...The Founders must have realized that it was just a matter of time before their wives badgered them into drawing up a government that would remain solvent yet off their backs—at least until they all were in residence with the archangels...
...Those who are not arrant hypocrites and swindlers are arrant hypocrites, swindlers, and murderers...
...Today the bloom is off and their general characteristics are tawdry dictatorship, political assassination, mass hunger, petty warfare, a socialism better described as feudalism, periodic slips into bestial primitivism, rapacity at the top, poverty amongst the lower orders, and the propagation of highflown locutions that are self-serving, hypocritical, illogical, and about to replace French as the language of diplomacy...
...The men presiding over the birth of the American republic were sober advocates of limited and peaceful government not because they lacked the imagination of con artists like Indira Gandhi or because they lacked the opportunities for international mischief afforded by malevolent forums like the United Nations, but because they had read the history of the West and they realized that soon or late every government becomes the apparatus one scoundrel uses to fleece his neighbors or to act out his fantasies on a world stage...
...Stalin and Hitler have provided their political theory, a fact which the incomparable General Idi Amin readily admits...
...In short order theft was legalized, murder was a virtuous political expedient, and Frenchmen were governed by an emperor who was a dwarf and a nuisance to all Europe...
...well then what of the women and children slaughtered by the heroic P.L.O...
...It is there, I dare say, that they have carried their excesses even beyond the Founders' gloomiest imaginings...
...what have they to say about the massacres of the Bahutu by Burundi's Watusi or the massacres of the Watusi by Rwanda's Bahutu...
...but for the most part the Founders held whiggish scruples about placing "power" in the hands of their fellows...
...Is Israel avaricious for insisting on its borders gained in the 1967 war...
...I did not confect this tale of revisionism to bring scorn or snickers to the memory of the Founding Fathers, but rather to contrast their admirable circumspection about government's usefulness with the utter abandon that characterizes the founding fathers of more recent years, especially the prehensile scoundrels who have absconded with political clout in those primitive purlieus which we choose to call the Third World...
...well what of Uganda's mass exportations and the antiwhite statutes of Liberia...
...Old Philadelphia may have echoed nightly with the cluck cluckings of the eighteenth century counterparts to the League of Women Voters, but over at the Indian Queen the Founders probably had to pass the jug far into the night before dozing off, so full were they with visions of the McGoverns and Nixons waiting in the wings...
...Deport the Third World to Little Rock...
...Though we have all heard tell of how the Founding Fathers strode into Philadelphia loaded with patriotic brag and bounce, I suspect that in reality they trudged into town begloomed and besotted...
...The Founders feared what Madison once described as "gradual and silent encroachments" and "violent and sudden usurpations," but the fuliginous Machiavels of the General Assembly have acted neither gradually nor silently...
...What is more they did not make America into an international nuisance as so many of the African leaders are now doing...
...well what of the P.L.O.'s stated intention to gobble up all of Israel...
...well then allow me to present Saudi Arabia, Libya, and the so-called progressive governments of Syria and Iraq...
...It should surprise no one that they act as one at the United Nations, at world food conferences, or wherever else civilized men can easily be put down by boorishness and the bandito mentality...
...Now I realize that the pedagogues tell us these were revolutionaries charged with lofty purpose and eager to launch the freest, most virtuous, government in Christendom...
...at Maalot, at Qiryat Sh'monah, at Nahariya, at Beit Shean, and at Rihaniya...
...and so for the first time since Danzig the international halls of justice echoed with a good word for lebensraum...
...Is it because Israel jails a few terrorists...
...Internationally they have gained influence by honeyfogling the civilized nations or throwing temper tantrums...
...In their recent session they swallowed whole the invidious proposals of the Palestine Liberation Organization and invited its leader to strut and bluster before them, where he paid his respects to the UN's peaceful ideals by toting a pistol during the entire preposterous assembly...
...A more modern reminder of how fortunate America was in its infancy has been afforded us by that assortment of Arab, African, and pseudosocialist nations christened since the end of World War II and launched in a gorgeous froth of democratic idealism so bogus it would have brought a scowl to the sunny countenance of a William Jennings Bryan...
...They are almost to a government unrepresentative, unprogressive, disingenuous, illiberal, and trashy...
...The only practical solution to their behavior is for a troop of New York's finest to march into the glass zoo on the East River and evict its inhabitants for disorderly conduct...
...But the show was not over yet, for just before it was time for the Third Worlders to return to their various democratic republics and after they had reflected on the length and breadth of their noble exertions they decided that everyone deserved a raise, a raise to be paid for fittingly enough by the world's leading menace to human rights, the United States...
...for shortly after our Founding Fathers headed for home a more sanguine and energetic conception of government got hold of French politicoes...
...Taking one event with another, thiswas a prodigious session, even for energetic charlatans like the Third Worlders...
...And finally they accepted Mr...
...Their rhetoric is an eclectic Marxism iced with humanistic goo...
...In musing over the various abominations committed by the duly constituted governments of this world, it has occurred to me many times that when General Washington and his colleagues gathered to devise a constitution those many years ago they must have felt pretty low...
...Today they regularly turn the podium over to professional murderers who harangue about peace and justice with the kind of lissome logic that was the specialty of Corporal Hitler...
...After all most of the leaders of these nations gained their high political office by scratching, gouging, and butchering their opponents...
...around when the Hanovers became intolerable...
...Though their armed forces could be rounded up by a regiment of dog catchers, they have—in a matter of years—quite literally rampaged and subdued the United Nations, thoroughly debauching that quaintly idealistic organization, which was chartered in 1945 to make the world safe for Adlai Stevenson...
...When they are not wildly applauding murderers like Dr...
Vol. 8 • March 1975 • No. 6
