Liberalism hacks off the branch on which society sits, then
blames conservatism for its fall. On smug shows like
Hardball, liberals gasp self-righteously about the
assassination of abortionist George Tiller and the shooting at
the Holocaust Museum.
How — they ask while glancing furiously at the “right” — did
killing become thinkable in America?
Mother Teresa answered their question over a decade ago at a D.C.
prayer breakfast that they snored through: “Any country that
accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use
any violence to get what it wants.…If we accept that the mother
can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill
one another?”
The fashionable left presides over a culture of death, using
man-made legal parchments to mop up its encircling pools of
blood. But the blood never comes out; the stain remains and grows
more obvious with time.
What threatens America’s future the most is not the transparently
rancid extremism of the insane, but the “mainstream” extremism of
the rich and powerful. To a Chris Matthews, left-wing extremism
is somehow rendered “respectable” by law and recent custom. But
reality is impervious to such phony distinctions.
As Abraham Lincoln said of legal slavery and the inexorable
patterns of history that ripple from injustice, “every drop of
blood drawn with the [slaveholder’s] lash shall be paid by
another drawn with the sword.” Do we really think that every drop
of blood drawn with the abortionist’s scalpel is exempt from the
invisible laws of justice? The longer we permit this scourge to
continue the more horrible America’s fate will be.
That hidden James Von Brunns exist in the hinterlands of America
is scary. But what’s more chilling is the commonplace legal evil
done “in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by
quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and
smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices,” as
C.S. Lewis once put it. Extremists exist not just on the margins
of society but in the center of it: the Park Avenue feminist on
her third abortion, the charming and “brave” abortionist feted at
cocktail parties, the celebrity who pens an anguished memoir
about drugging to death an enfeebled and annoying parent.
Around the time James Von Brunn was preparing to shoot up the
Holocaust Museum, Barack Obama’s extremist mentor was shooting
off his mouth about “them Jews.” The liberal elite are shocked by
the former, yet tolerant of the latter. Jeremiah Wright still
sits at their posh dinner parties in Chicago, as do for that
matter Muslim activists, whose statements about Israel and the
Jews differ from Von Brunn’s, if at all, in degree not kind.
Killing the weak and undesirable is the “final solution,” said
Hitler, but as Chris Matthews and company walk through the
Holocaust Museum in shock at such notions they neglect the extent
to which their own moral philosophy mirrors his. The culture of
death which they excuse and extend is essentially Hitlerite: the
“final solution” to an inconvenient pregnancy is abortion; the
“final solution” to soaring health care costs is euthanasia; the
“final solution” to disease is experimenting on embryos; the
“final solution” to disability is prenatal screening, etc., etc.
“Every child a wanted child” is a slogan Hitler himself could
have devised. Instead, pro-abortion liberals did, and they have
been killing “unwanted” children ever since. They are in no
position to lecture “the right” on America’s violence.
