Kali & Liberalism: Ideological Subversion (not only) in U.S.

[Guest guest]

I am not sure if you read this, but I did this morning and found it very nice.

Although I don't like the tittle the devotee choose for sharing the message.

He equates Kali with liberalism; the other extreme. I mean, it is because of

liberalism that we are preaching in America. Maybe this is not what he has

done, but no one picked up on such an important debate. --Ak

 

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Kali & Liberalism: Ideological Subversion (not only) in U.S.

 

Heston Speech At Harvard

 

Subj: Heston Speech At Harvard "Speak Out"

 

For 50 years, the Harvard Law School Forum has been sponsoring

speeches by luminaries ranging from Fidel Castro to Gerald Ford

to Dr. Ruth. Sometimes the speeches have generated a bit of

media coverage, sometimes not. But one given last month by

Charlton Heston has taken on a life of its own.

 

Heston, the actor and conservative activist, delivered a stem-

winder to about 200 listeners about "a cultural war that's

about to hijack your birthright to think and say what resides

in your heart."

 

"He knew he was coming to a liberal environment, and clearly a

group of his listeners was conservative and another was more

liberal," said David Christopherson, president of the forum.

"About half respectfully challenged him during the questions.

It generated a lot of debate around the campus. But what

happened caught us off-guard."

 

What happened was Rush Limbaugh's radio talk show. On March 15,

Limbaugh read the entire speech on the air, only to find

himself bombarded with thousands of requests for a copy of it.

The same thing happened at Harvard Law.

 

"We couldn't keep up with all the requests," said Mike Chmura

at Harvard. "It really didn't have legs and might have been

forgotten if Mr. Limbaugh hadn't decided to deliver it."

 

'Winning the Cultural War' - Charlton Heston's Speech to the

Harvard Law School Forum, Feb 16, 1999

 

I remember my son when he was five, explaining to his

kindergarten class what his father did for a living. "My

Daddy," he said, "pretends to be people." There have been quite

a few of them. Prophets from the Old and New Testaments, a

couple of Christian saints, generals of various nationalities

and different centuries, several kings, three American

presidents, a French cardinal and two geniuses, including

Michelangelo.

 

If you want the ceiling repainted I'll do my best. There always

seem to be a lot of different fellows up here. I'm never sure

which one of them gets to talk. Right now, I guess I'm the guy.

 

As I pondered our visit tonight it struck me: If my Creator

gave me the gift to connect you with the hearts and minds of

those great men, then I want to use that same gift now to

reconnect you with your own sense of liberty of your own

freedom of thought ... your own compass for what is right.

 

Dedicating the memorial at Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln said of

America, "We are now engaged in a great Civil War, testing

whether this nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated

can long endure." Those words are true again. I believe that we

are again engaged in a great civil war, a cultural war that's

about to hijack your birthright to think and say what resides

in your heart. I fear you no longer trust the pulsing lifeblood

of liberty inside you ... the stuff that made this country rise

from wilderness into the miracle that it is.

 

Let me back up. About a year ago I became president of the

National Rifle Association, which protects the right to keep

and bear arms. I ran for office, I was elected, and now I serve

.... I serve as a moving target for the media who've called me

everything from "ridiculous" and "duped" to a "brain-injured,

senile, crazy old man." I know ... I'm pretty old ... but I

sure, Lord, ain't senile.

 

As I have stood in the crosshairs of those who target Second

Amendment freedoms, I've realized that firearms are not the

only issue. No, it's much, much bigger than that. I've come to

understand that a cultural war is raging across our land, in

which, with Orwellian fervor, certain acceptable thoughts and

speech are mandated. For example, I marched for civil rights

with Dr. King in 1963 - long before Hollywood found it

fashionable. But when I told an audience last year that white

pride is just as valid as black pride or red pride or anyone

else's pride, they called me a racist. I've worked with

brilliantly talented homosexuals all my life. But when I told

an audience that gay rights should extend no further than your

rights or my rights, I was called a homophobe. I served in

World War II against the Axis powers. But during a speech, when

I drew an analogy between singling out innocent Jews and

singling out innocent gun owners, I was called an anti-Semite.

Everyone I know knows I would never raise a closed fist against

my country. But when I asked an audience to oppose this

cultural persecution, I was compared to Timothy McVeigh.

 

>From Time magazine to friends and colleagues, they're

essentially saying, "Chuck, how dare you speak your mind. You

are using language not authorized for public consumption!" But

I am not afraid. If Americans believed in political

correctness, we'd still be King George's boys --subjects bound

to the British crown.

 

In his book, "The End of Sanity," Martin Gross writes that

"blatantly irrational behavior is rapidly being established as

the norm in almost every area of human endeavor. There seem to

be new customs, new rules, new anti-intellectual theories

regularly foisted on us from every direction. Underneath, the

nation is roiling. Americans know something without a name is

undermining the nation, turning the mind mushy when it comes to

separating truth from falsehood and right from wrong. And they

don't like it."

 

Let me read a few examples. At Antioch college in Ohio, young

men seeking intimacy with a coed must get verbal permission at

each step of the process from kissing to petting to final

copulation... all clearly spelled out in a printed college

directive. In New Jersey, despite the death of several patients

nationwide who had been infected by dentists who had concealed

their AIDs ---the state commissioner announced that health

providers who are HIV-positive need not ..... need not .....

tell their patients that they are infected.

 

At William and Mary, students tried to change the name of the

school team "The Tribe" because it was supposedly insulting to

local Indians, only to learn that authentic Virginia chiefs

truly like the name.

 

In San Francisco, city fathers passed an ordinance protecting

the rights of transvestites to cross-dress on the job, and for

transsexuals to have separate toilet facilities while

undergoing sex change surgery.

 

In New York City, kids who don't speak a word of Spanish have

been placed in bilingual classes to learn their three R's in

Spanish solely because their last names sound Hispanic.

 

At the University of Pennsylvania, in a state where thousands

died at Gettysburg opposing slavery, the president of that

college officially set up segregated dormitory space for black

students. Yeah, I know ... that's out of bounds now. Dr. King

said "Negroes." Jimmy Baldwin and most of us on the March said

"black." But it's a no-no now. For me, hyphenated identities

are awkward ... particularly "Native-American." I'm a Native

American, for God's sake. I also happen to be a blood-initiated

brother of the Miniconjou Sioux. On my wife's side, my grandson

is a thirteenth generation native American ... with a capital

letter on "American."

 

Finally, just last month ... David Howard, head of the

Washington D.C. Office of Public Advocate, used the word

"niggardly" while talking to colleagues about budgetary

matters. Of course, "niggardly" means stingy or scanty. But

within days Howard was forced to publicly apologize and resign.

As columnist Tony Snow wrote: "David Howard got fired because

some people in public employ were morons who (a) didn't know

the meaning of niggardly, (b) didn't know how to use a

dictionary to discover the meaning, and © actually demanded

that he apologize for their ignorance."

 

What does all of this mean? It means that telling us what to

think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us

what to do can't be far behind. Before you claim to be a

champion of free thought, tell me: Why did political

correctness originate on America's campuses? And why do you

continue to tolerate it? Why do you, who're supposed to debate

ideas, surrender to their suppression?

 

Let's be honest. Who here thinks your professors can say what

they really believe? It scares me to death, and should scare

you too, that the superstition of political correctness rules

the halls of reason. You are the best and the brightest. You,

here in the fertile cradle of American academia, here in the

castle of learning on the Charles River, you are the cream. But

I submit that you, and your counterparts across the land, are

the most socially conformed and politically silenced generation

since Concord Bridge. And as long as you validate that ... and

abide it... you are -- by your grandfathers' standards --

cowards.

 

Here's another example. Right now at more than one major

university, Second Amendment scholars and researchers are being

told to shut up about their findings or they'll lose their

jobs. Why? Because their research findings would undermine big-

city mayor's pending lawsuits that seek to extort hundreds of

millions of dollars from firearm manufacturers. I don't care

what you think about guns. But if you are not shocked at that,

I am shocked at you. Who will guard the raw material of

unfettered ideas, if not you? Who will defend the core value of

academia, if you supposed soldiers of free thought and

expression lay down your arms and plead, "Don't shoot me."

 

If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you

see distinctions between the genders, it does not make you a

sexist. If you think critically about a denomination, it does

not make you anti-religion. If you accept but don't celebrate

homosexuality, it does not make you a homophobe. Don't let

America's universities continue to serve as incubators for this

rampant epidemic of new McCarthyism.

 

But what can you do? How can anyone prevail against such

pervasive social subjugation? The answer's been here all along.

I learned it 36 years ago, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial

in Washington, DC, standing with Dr. Martin Luther King and two

hundred thousand people. You simply ... disobey. Peaceably,

yes. Respectfully, of course. Nonviolently, absolutely.

 

But when told how to think or what to say or how to behave, we

don't. We disobey social protocol that stifles and stigmatizes

personal freedom. I learned the awesome power of disobedience

from Dr. King ... who learned it from Gandhi, and Thoreau, and

Jesus, and every other great man who led those in the right

against those with the might.

 

Disobedience is in our DNA. We feel innate kinship with that

disobedient spirit that tossed tea into Boston Harbor, that

sent Thoreau to jail, that refused to sit in the back of the

bus, that protested a war in Viet Nam. In that same spirit, I

am asking you to disavow cultural correctness with massive

disobedience of rogue authority, social directives and onerous

laws that weaken personal freedom.

 

But be careful ... it hurts. Disobedience demands that you put

yourself at risk. Dr. King stood on lots of balconies. You must

be willing to be humiliated ... to endure the modern-day

equivalent of the police dogs at Montgomery and the water

cannons at Selma. You must be willing to experience discomfort.

I'm not complaining, but my own decades of social activism have

taken their toll on me. Let me tell you a story.

 

A few years back I heard about a rapper named Ice-T who was

selling a CD called "Cop Killer" celebrating ambushing and

murdering police officers. It was being marketed by none other

than Time/Warner, the biggest entertainment conglomerate in the

world. Police across the country were outraged. Rightfully so-

at least one had been murdered. But Time/Warner was

stonewalling because the CD was a cash cow for them, and the

media were tiptoeing around it because the rapper was black. I

heard Time/Warner had a stockholders meeting scheduled in

Beverly Hills. I owned some shares at the time, so I decided to

attend.

 

What I did there was against the advice of my family and

colleagues. I asked for the floor. To a hushed room of a

thousand average American stockholders, I simply read the full

lyrics of "Cop Killer"- every vicious, vulgar, instructional

word.

 

"I GOT MY 12 GAUGE SAWED OFF.

I GOT MY HEADLIGHTS TURNED OFF.

I'M ABOUT TO BUST SOME SHOTS OFF.

I'M ABOUT TO DUST SOME COPS OFF..."

 

It got worse, a lot worse. I won't read the rest of it to you.

But trust me, the room was a sea of shocked, frozen, blanched

faces. The Time/Warner executives squirmed in their chairs and

stared at their shoes. They hated me for that. Then I delivered

another volley of sick lyric brimming with racist filth, where

Ice-T fantasizes about sodomizing two 12-year old nieces of Al

and Tipper Gore.

 

"SHE PUSHED HER BUTT AGAINST MY ...."

 

Well, I won't do to you here what I did to them. Let's just say

I left the room in echoing silence. When I read the lyrics to

the waiting press corps, one of them said "We can't print

that."

 

"I know," I replied, "but Time/Warner's selling it." Two months

later, Time/Warner terminated Ice-T's contract. I'll never be

offered another film by Warner's, or get a good review from

Time magazine. But disobedience means you must be willing to

act, not just talk.

 

When a mugger sues his elderly victim for defending herself ...

jam the switchboard of the district attorney's office.

 

When your university is pressured to lower standards until 80%

of the students graduate with honors ... choke the halls of the

board of regents.

 

When an 8-year-old boy pecks a girl's cheek on the playground

and gets hauled into court for sexual harassment ... march on

that school and block its doorways.

 

When someone you elected is seduced by political power and

betrays you...petition them, oust them, banish them.

 

When Time magazine's cover portrays millennium nuts as

deranged, crazy Christians holding a cross as it did last month

.... boycott their magazine and the products it advertises.

 

So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in

the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience's of history

that freed exiles, founded religions, defeated tyrants, and

yes, in the hands of an aroused rabble in arms and a few great

men, by God's grace, built this country.

 

If Dr. King were here, I think he would agree. Thank you.

 

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