It is to be hoped that by the time you get this issue, the media brainwashers will not yet have returned to business as usual, as they eventually will, after the Soviet murder of 269 passengers of flight KAL 007.
What was surprising and shocking about that event was the number of people who found it surprising and shocking. They were the people who still do not understand the nature of the Soviet regime. Are you surprised and shocked that a viper has venom in its fangs? Only if you do not understand the nature of vipers.
One who understood the nature of the Soviet viper unusually well was a passenger on the plane: Congressman Larry MacDonald, M.D., whose congratulations on our 10th anniversary we brought but last month. He knew that you don't punish a viper, you don't retaliate, you don't invoke sanctions, and least of all do you negotiate with it; you take protective measures, you deter it, you arm against it, and you make sacrosanctly sure that if it should attack nevertheless, you are most certainly able to kill it.
Understanding the nature of the Soviet viper means diligent study, not blind, emotional hatred. And one of the things that the student will discover is that when the Soviets shoot down an airliner or kill a few million in the Gulag or torture a few hundred dissidents to death or use poison gas against the Afghans, they regard it as a duty-dictated chore; they do not revel in death or actively wish for it.
In that they differ slightly from the Nazis ("Only in battle, when we hear the dull sound of skulls cracking under our rifle butts, do we fully feel that we are men"(1)) or from Noel Perrin, Professor of English at Dartmouth College ("What's needed from the nuclear industry is an actual catastrophe
¾such as it almost gave us at Three Mile Island...We do need a nuclear accident¾a nice big one. Soon! ... Three Mile Island would have done nicely...probably no more than a hundred people would have died from the initial contact with the radioactive steam"(2)). This is not to say that Perrin is a Nazi: the Nazis, after all, had a degree of competence. Perrin's infantile ignorance, to the contrary, prevents him from realizing that his pious wish has long since been granted: Far more than a hundred people have now died through Three Mile Island: in the fuel cycle of the substitute power replacing the safe power that used to be supplied by the two TMI reactors. One of them is ready to go and prevent or delay these needless deaths; but it is being kept shut, ultimately due to the hysteria fanned by intellects such as Perrin's.Surprising? Not very; not to the student of what has happened to the American university, especially in the liberal arts. Dartmouth, for example, is a university whose former president John Kemeny (yes, the one of TMI "fame") tried to stop a $10,000 alumni donation to the conservative Dartmouth Review, and where a student circulating the weekly was bitten by a college official in the chest.(3)
Surprised that the New York Times should have published this piece of sub-Nazi filth across the width of its page, illustrated, and under the oversized headline "What This Country Needs Is a Meltdown"?
Yes. Granted that the New York Times has lost its influence with all but the mass of brainless parrots, that it has long censored important news and opinion, that it is promoting appeasement, and that it has ceaselessly hammered home the outrageous distortions by the likes of Anthony Lewis and Tom Wicker
¾there is still room for a little shock that a leading, "free" American newspaper should descend so far below its normal gutter level, approaching that of the Nazi press of half a century ago.But then, there are only three months to go to 1984. "The creatures outside," George Orwell ended his Animal Farm, "looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to tell which was which."
1) Almanac issued to the equivalent of the Hitler Youth in the Sudetenland, 1937.
2) New York Times, 20 Aug. 83.
3) "Is the press free at Dartmouth U.?" Conserve Digest, Nov. 1982.
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