Archive → February 9th, 2007
At least Poland recognizes Reagan’s greatness
At least Poland recognizes the role Ronald Reagan played in delivering the world from the evils of communism. While liberals in America still shudder at the mere mention of his name, citizens of Katowice, in southwestern Poland, have proposed erecting a statue to the memory of the conservative, anti-communist stalwart, according to Breitbart.com.
The statue of Reagan would replace a statue of Soviet soldiers who drove out the Nazi forces of Germany at the end of World War II, and would rename the city’s Freedome Square to Ronald Reagan Freedom Square.
Contrary to Brietbart.com’s report, Reagan did not serve as US President from 1980 to 1988; considering that US presidents are sworn in and leave office in the January following any election year, his actual term of office was 1981-1989.
City hall spokesman Waldemar Bojarun said the city would consider the issue and that he had enormous respect for Reagan, but that the cost of the change could be prohibitive… and estimated cost equivalent to $168,000 in US dollars.
If the Reagan memorial does not occur in Katowice, there are already separate plans to erect a Reagan memorial in Warsaw, Poland, the country’s capitol. While so many at home are still working hard to besmirch the memory of Reagan, it’s interesting that there are those in Europe who still recognize the important role he played in winning the Cold War between communism and capitalism, totalitarianism and freedom.
While conservatives and liberals battle each other over immigration issues like conducting a DNA test for immigration, gay marriage, and how big a plane Nancy Pelosi should jet around in, one has to wonder where the next big vision for our country will come from, once anti-terrorist George W. Bush leaves office.
NOTE: Image of Ronald Reagan is courtesy and (c) Breitbart.com and AFP.
Ellen Goodman goes too far
From Al Gore’s claims that scientists are being “paid by the Bush administration” to deny a human cause to global warming, to the all-too typical charge that any scientist who comes up with contrary evidence is being “paid off by the oil industry,” science has never been more politicized than it has been lately.
However, Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman stepped way over the “decency and good taste” line this week when she compared global warming skeptics to Holocaust deniers.
I realize that in the ivory tower, free-wheeling world of liberal media elites, no parallel is off limits as long as it serves to further the liberal agenda. But this comparison is a step too far.
Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League should look into this and issue a scolding, at least, if not demand an outright apology. Here’s the direct quote:
“Let’s just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.” – Ellen Goodman
That’s hate-speech if ever I’ve read it, and completely insensitive to Holocaust survivors. And yet there are those, like Goodman, who say that the hate speech is coming from global warming skeptics? I think Ellen Goodman should give up writing and sell kids furniture or something, if this is the level to which her demonization of folks who don’t see things her way has sunk.
Elie Weisel attacked by Holocaust denier
It’s trendy among some these days to praise Iran for their so-called “intellectual honesty” in “reinvestigating the historical accuracy of the claims and scale of the Holocaust.” Iran’s Holocaust-deniers conference in December of 2006 even drew some oddball Jewish scholars to the conference.
Yet that’s nothing more than a mask to the antisemitic hatred of Holocaust deniers. That was made clear on February 1 at a San Francisco hotel, when famed author Elie Weisel, whose memoir, Night, recalling his experiences surviving the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi Germany, won him a 1986 Nobel Prize for literature, was attacked by a man who’d been stalking him, apparently for weeks, and is a Holocaust denier.
According to a report on Examiner.com, the suspect accosted Weisel with the intent to get him to “admit” that is memoir, Night, was fictitious. However, when Weisel began screaming for help the assailant fled the scene.
In a disturbing development, a poster to the antisemtic Web site, ZioPedia.com, identifying himself only “Eric Hunt,” took credit for the attack, bragging out it and his intent. The San Francisco police are investigating and admit that “Eric Hunt” is the focus of their investigation.
Hopefully, Weisel can recuperate someplace safer, soon; perhaps at an Orlando vacation rental location. One would hope that he’d be safer there.
San Francisco is the home district of Democratic Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi.
