Posted by
rycK on Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:11:34 AM
The Quest to Solve Global Problems Revealed by the New York Times: Keep the Borders Open and Attack Capitalism.
In an interview with Lou Dobbs, the NYT, known as the Walter Duranty Papers, instructs Lou in humanity and some factors to solve the global problems. We always expect the NYT to attack capitalism [c1], redistribute the wealth [c2], and minimize the laws that control crime [c3], celebrate Marxists whenever possible [c4] and other tenets. Today, in a maudlin political essay during a lobster bisque lunch, we are tautologically invited to side with Times against Lou in a wild myriad list of social issues. I would think warm millet gruel would be more politically correct. For this article, I deem it appropriate to merely number the leftist clichés implanted in this maudlin screed with the numbers keyed in as given above.
After the foreplay and food, we read:
“An honest person must concede a lot when arguing immigration with Mr. Dobbs: Yes, the borders and ports are insecure, and poor countries like Mexico have done too little to solve their economic and migration problems. Yes, illegal immigration hurts some Americans, globalization causes many global problems and big corporations love to stick it to the little guy.”
The first step in a good propaganda piece is to offer the offender a few concessions and, here, in lock step with good political training the author does exactly that, but reserves the criticism for later. Using this reverse circular logic the author gets to slither around both sides of the issue and appear to preserve the moral high ground, if morality had anything to do with the far left.
Mexico is a general disaster and has been so centuries before Columbus. This land has 500+ years of demonstrated failure. Only Africa has surpassed Mexico in the tedious study of how to achieve failure at all costs. It is a land of corruption, crime, poverty and political excesses almost unmatched anywhere except Europe or perhaps Cambodia. This half-Marxist social rubble called a country has created an economic latrine where there is no hope for any meaningful future for their citizens unless they seek jobs outside their borders and send the earnings back home to provide for the minimal basics of life. The disgusting Mexican governmental behavior is always beyond criticism by the NYT and other Marxist tomes. They have nothing better than to milk the poor by the use of their ‘diplomacy’ with the US and moving a few tons of dope in the process.
“My point to Mr. Dobbs was that the little-little guy — the “illegal alien” crossing our “broken borders” — was the wrong target. His overriding emphasis on solving globalization’s many ills by urgently sealing the borders strikes me as populism gone astray.”
Here, we now acknowledge the blame is unfairly placed on the little guy.
This allows the problems and solutions to be centered on the least able to change the system. Let us compromise our system for the foreign poor. Why not shut down capitalism and bring the Golden Age to the Americas? Apparently, the NYT places illegal aliens at the very fulcrum of the imbalance in wealth due to globalization. Of course, globalization started with the silk trade 2500 years ago in Egypt, or with gold and bronze in Ireland 4,000 years ago, but who is counting the decades?
The criticism then becomes more pointed:
“First, it’s ineffective, because the country will never be ziplocked as tightly as he wants it to be.”
Then, why not just let the borders stay open indefinitely? That leads to a lot of votes for the left—does it not? Many states do not check IDs before voting. Power to the People! How does the EU escape scrutiny here as all visitors must show passports and such and leave them at the hotels at night so the French police can inspect them? Can we just wander into Japan or Austria or Hong Kong without papers and find work?? [c3] fulfilled. The Berlin wall was effective for decades!
“Second, the obsession with enforcement dovetails with the agendas of some nasty people”
Here the Rule of Law [RoL] is abrogated where examples like Waco cannot be submitted in evidence on how to handle ‘crimes.’ The NYT can suborn torture of children by military CS gas dissolved in methylene chloride, a chlorocarbon toxic chemical, in an attempt to fulfill the Janet Reno version of the RoL, but let us not perturb the coyotes, drug dealers, flesh merchants, Islamo-Fascisti, tax evaders and other criminals who may become Democrats. The left needs the votes. They are just the little guys. Enforcement of such illegal actions would be ‘nasty.’ Burning down the Branch Davidians was not related to the concept of being politically nasty in the twisted history of the Times. That was justice and the antithesis of nastiness. [c3] fulfilled.
“Third, it does too little to attack the evil corporate elites that are Mr. Dobbs’s sworn enemy.”
Cynicism and a synthetic sop offered to Dobbs. The eternal attack on capitalism is ongoing. What else can we expect from the NYT? [c1] fulfilled.
The attack continues:
“The idea is to confront abusive corporate power with worker power. If day laborers end up in our suburbs, where the money and jobs are, then give them safe places to gather and help them work together to keep from driving wages and working conditions down. If companies take advantage of workers, empower the workers to fight back: as union members, legal residents, citizens.”
[c2] fulfilled. [c1] restated. Workers of the World Unite! [c4] celebrated.
What abusive corporate power is this? People hire day laborers and this is abusive? Now, we are injected with a ‘solution’ to the problems of globalization: ignore the laws and create safe havens so the illegals can set up unions!!
“Mr. Dobbs listened graciously and budged not. He said he respected immigrants, even illegal ones, who he felt had gotten an unfair shake from their governments. He reminded me of his fondness for Cesar Chavez.”
I was an eye-witness to the UFW union organizing of illegal aliens in Tulare County in the rural area of East Orosi during the 60s. They were cheap thugs and beat up those workers who would not voluntarily join the union while hustling hookers in the local towns like the village of Cutler at night using white nine-passenger sedans with blue cellophane to illuminate the wares for sale. Drugs were another glittering offer. They had a violent shooting war with the Teamsters resulting in several murders by shotguns. The Teamsters slinked away given the firepower. Chavez was little more than a cheap thug with enthusiastic Marxist support mostly from the Eastern liberals like Bobby Kennedy. Obviously, such a person would be an icon to the New York Times. Dobbs is just uninformed about this cheap crook and terrorist.
“We shook hands and I thanked him for the discussion. He made me promise to continue it. I assured him I would.”
Yes the far-leftist quest for the destruction of capitalism, which puts up an economic wall against the left and prevents their usurpation of wealth and enterprise, will continue on and on and can conveniently be reminded for us as the Biblical phrase “..as the dog leftist returns to its vomit, the fool NYT returns to its folly Marxian politics.”
Capitalism has crushed the left into a sorry pink slurry.
Grunt and Grab as always. The NYT has produced another slushy propaganda piece along the constricted guidelines established when their patron saint, Walter Duranty, was the leading intellectual in attacking capitalism and celebrating Marxism. Sausage machines spit out brats in a similar fashion. Some things never change and the propagandists at the NYT didn’t miss a cliché.
But, it was a fine piece in propaganda terms and the author, one Lawrence Downes, rates the Dean Acheson Prize for Leftist Political Stoogery. Any anti-anticommunist is a ‘patriot.’
rycK
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