September 30, 2005 -- Reagan Administration member, Bill Bennett, has been accused of practicing free speech.  No longer an accepted universal right in America, free speech is now limited to liberals, and in their case  includes the right to lie without consequence.

What Mr. Bennett did on his Morning in America radio talk show was to react to a suggestion that abortion can be viewed as a tool to reduce crime.  I happened to be listening to that show when the event in question took place.  Mr. Bennett is no more racist than George W. Bush.  That is, neither of these damn good men is racist.  So why are they being painted as racists by the radical leftists now in control of the Democrat Party and the large media outlets in this nation?. 

This is about the fall of 2006.

Take the stupid journalist test

Mr. Bennett is charged with having said that one could reduce crime levels by aborting all black children. The charge is true. I heard him say it.  Now, do you see this space?  (    )  That is where the idiots who dominate Oregon journalism would stop lifting the quote. By not including anything further in this paragraph, they would leave their readers and viewers with the impression that Bennett is a racist andOregon Magazine supports him .   Now, for the rest of the story. The point Bennett was making, was, "This kind of statement -- aborting all black babies would reduce crime -- is an example of how you can at the same time say things which are true and ridiculous.  Reasoning taken to the extremes sometimes does that." 

(As an aside, I am amazed that liberals are shocked, at all.  The only reason a single black baby can be legally aborted today is Roe vs. Wade -- the legal decision they supported. Bill Bennett is against abortion.  If it was left up to him, not one single black baby would be aborted.  But, it is not left up to Bennett.  The liberals got their way, and there is a high abortion rate in black urban communities.  All of those tens of thousands of dead black babies sucked from their mother's wombs, stuffed into medical waste bags and deposited in dumpsters are the fault of the people who are today hammering Bennett!  How's that for irony?. An historical one, as it turns out, because Margaret Sanger, the mother of the abortion movement and a heroine to all liberals, was a very progressive thinker in the field of eugenics.  You would be fascinated by her views on the birthrates of "inferior" Americans.)

Now for your stupid journalist test.  Here's the premise.

If you pick an urban area -- say, NE Portland -- which contains both the highest concentration of Oregon's black citizenry and by all media reports a great deal of crime, the place can be brought to a crime-free status simply by aborting all the children of the people who live there. 

Is that a true statement?  Go ask a cop, any cop of any color, who commits the burglaries, the robberies, the muggings, the shootings.  Go look through the windows of any jail or prison.  See for yourself the age of those who are there.  The age.  Crime is essentially a young man's profession. Abortion eliminates the young.  Take away the young and you take away most of the crime.

Now, is there a reader of this magazine who would dispute that premise?  Is there a stupid liberal journalist in Oregon who argues that the statement is untrue?  Can one human being be found who would challenge the statement that genocide reduces the crime rate in the specific group wiped out, and by mathematical laws thus would reduce the overall societal crime statistics?

Bennett was talking about a book titled "Freakonomics," which has made the statement that single mothers have a great many abortions, and the children of single mothers are stastistically more likely to be apprehended and convicted of a crime.  The books' assertion is that abortion has therefore killed many criminals before they grew big enough to commit a crime.   A practitioner of the classical principles of logic and reason -- and a gifted one -- Bennett's comments here have been lifted out of context and are being used as a weapon, just like the lies about Bush racism during the hurricane.  Just like the latest charges about Tom Delay.

It's all about 2006

Liberals and their propagandists in the Big Left Media are no longer in control of things in America.  They are angry about this.  Lacking in moral values -- particularly the superb Christian set of values used to create this nation -- they are free to attack using any methods at hand, ethical or no. 

They have lost the White House, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives. If President Bush's nomination to replace the retiring Sandra Day O'Conner is a conservative one, then they have also lost the U.S. Supreme Court.

Add to that the media you are reading, now, which is part of a mix that includes broadcast radio, a major cable network and one or two metropolitan daily newspapers on the East Coast, and both the places of power and the media that protected liberal control of them are gone with the wind.

The accusations are flying like flakes in a blizzard.  The storm will increase in intensity as we approach the 2006 mid-term elections.  The American liberal movement sees the walls of their houses of power falling down around them, and are moved to desperate panic.

If this is, as I suspect, the visible signs of a great ball of traditional beliefs and values rolling down a steep hill, gaining momentum in America, we will one day soon see the most shocking thing of all.  Our schools will stop feeding our children a load of leftwing propaganda and begin to teach them how, instead of what, to think.

Look to the sky, then.  Trumpets will blare out in the clouds and angels will be descending from on high.

Bennett isn't a racist and didn't say anything wrong, folks.  A George Soros website grabbed a line out of context, and the Big Left Media of your nation took the hint and ran with the charge. When you hear somebody say otherwise, you are listening to an idiot.

(LL)

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