September 10, 2005

A conversion

From reader Scott G. via Val comes this superb column in David Horowitz's FrontPage Magazine titled, The Fall of My Leftist House of Mirrors, by Michael Lopez-Calderon. It describes the conversion of a leftist when all of those cherished, though false, ideals came crashing down due to September 11. Here is an excerpt:

I was so disappointed, indeed stunned, by the meek reaction of so many on the Left to an act of mass murder that demanded more than the no-brainer “I’m against the terrorism of the WTC attack.” Here was an assault on a city that represents everything the Left supposedly espouses: A modern, liberal, chic, multicultural, multiracial cosmopolitan city built by a constant flow of immigrants from all corners of the world. You want women smashing through the corporate glass ceiling? Go to New York. You want ethnic enclaves contributing mightily to a great city? Go to New York. Want an atmosphere of embracing gay and lesbian politics, culture, and community? Go to New York. Want a city with great cultural, educational, and intellectual resources? Go to New York. Want a dynamic center of market capitalism? Go to New York.

New York’s World Trade Towers hosted a premier restaurant, “Windows on the World” on the 108th floor, but the city could just as correctly be called “The World’s Window on Itself.” The Islamist-Nazi religious fanatics attacked the greatest city on earth, one of the most important physical beacons of Enlightenment liberal democracy, second only to the U.S. Constitution. And the best the Left could offer in protest was a flatulent sound so meek that it was drowned out by a single ant’s footsteps.

Posted by George Moneo at September 10, 2005 09:19 AM

Comments

The guy has good genetics working on his favor. Good ol'gusano stock.

Posted by: CB at September 10, 2005 10:56 AM

What I always said - and the anti Bush freaks in San Fran take note - in NYC and in the United States we are blessed with so much liberty which is great! Yet the left doesn't know it - they protest the BUSH asdmin every chance they get yet if the LEFT with all the liberties they enjoy here were to live in IRAN, AFGANISTAN, or in any part of the Middle East they would be KILLED so fast.

Posted by: Mario at September 10, 2005 03:29 PM

Mario, they get it. Protesting someone who isn't going to do you any harm is a way to pretend to heroically stand up to evil without putting yourself at risk, essentially what Don Quijote was doing with the windmills (though even then, though they were not giants, they still managed to kick his ass). The presense of swarms of pampered and ill-informed moral exhibitionists with protest signs is a sign of our liberty, not of its absence.

Posted by: Murel Bailey at September 11, 2005 01:28 PM

"those cherished, though false, ideals"

Examples?

Posted by: Meyer at September 11, 2005 03:35 PM

What is amazing to me is that for lots of people it takes years and years to learn what I already knew when I was a 10 year old in Cuba, that comunism is evil.

Posted by: Isaac at September 11, 2005 09:24 PM


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