| As
Margaret Thatcher said when she was
bounced from the prime ministry in the
Dis-United Kingdom, “it’s a funny
old world.”
True. Consider the wails that went
heavenward when Joerg Haider the Devil
King arrived in this country. Crikey!
cried the Jews. “It’s the Erlkönig!*
don’t let him into the Holocaust
museum. You never know what ideas he
might get!
What has the fellow done? Set up a
concentration camp? Invaded Slovakia?
Bombed Belgrade? No. But it looks as if
he might get rid of that socialist
clique in Vienna. Hence the chorus of
protest from the socialist cliques in
London, Brussels and other burgs.
Moshe Ronen on
Haider
- "The Holocaust is not only
the worst crime of the 20th century, it
is one of the most monstrous crimes in
the whole history of mankind. Anyone who
does not say this clearly and
unambiguously is unsuitable to be
entrusted with any responsible public
position, either national or
international."
- - Moshe Ronen, President of the
Canadian Jewish Congress,
- National Post, February 18, 2000
It’s funny, too, that Israel can bomb
the b’Jasus out of Lebanon without being
hauled on the carpet. It can also occupy
Southern Lebanon for 20 years and do
considerable ethnic cleansing in what used
to be Palestine without Holy Roller
politicians getting their knickers in a
knot.
And wasn’t it only last Sept. that
Israel made the torture of Palestinian
prisoners illegal? But as the Canadian
Jewish Congress spokesman said, a little
torture in time of war is, unfortunately,
understandable.
- "Torture
is a sad albeit at times necessary
part of war."
- - Bernie Farber, Executive Director
(Ontario Region), Canadian Jewish
Congress
It was Israel that led the charge against
the Austrian, quickly followed by its
satellite state, the U.S., with
not-too-bright Mrs. Albright reading the
text, just as she did when all those
humanitarian bombs were being dropped on
Serbia.
It appears that saying the SS were a
decent bunch and had character, and that
Hitler got rid of unemployment, warrants a
sin rating on the political Richter scale.
But bombs and such-like are OK.
Raefel Eitan, former Armed Forces Chief
of Staff in Israel, could call Palestinians
“cockroaches scurrying in a bottle.”
Menachem Begin, the terrorist who became
prime minister, could say they were
“two-legged animals.” Also, he was good
at pouring people down wells, as at Deir
Yassin. But he could come to Canada and the
U.S. for fund-raising, while Haider gets the
pariah treatment.
Yet Haider’s stuff is nothing but fluff
and duff.
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Then
there are all those philosophers huffers
in Brussels — the Socialist New World
Order yelpers who seek a United States
of Europe, with themselves taking turns
as president and nationalism rendered
extinct. Haider thinks they’re a bunch
of leftist loonies. So do I.
Even worse is that he’s against
Austria being flooded by immigrants, who
now account for one in eight of his
small country’s population.
That's another funny thing: nearly
all of the cowed native folk of Europe
are against the kind of immigration
they’re getting, as are the cowed
populations of Canada and the U.S. But
in our managed democracies that
doesn’t count.
More racist comment. One of
Haider’s top critics — President
Chirac of France — once said that
immigrants from North Africa were
“noisy, stinking welfare cheats.”
There marches a champion hypocrite.
And how about the politically pure
president of the good old U.S. of A. —
the cigar-fancier. And let’s not
forget Tony Blair, who shakes hands with
and offers tea at No 10 Downing Street
to Gerry Adams, the Irish terrorist who
has dropped his dirty jeans and now
wears snappy suits.
If Haider took tea with terrorists
and let hundreds of killers out of the
clink in the name of glasnost the sky
would fall. But Tony and his toadies are
OK even if Earl Mountbatten’s killer
is now roaming the streets.
 Over
in New York, there’s a real
laugh-riot. John Rocker the baseball guy
says he feels like a foreigner in that
city, what with all those strange people
jabbering away in tongues. Also, he
doesn’t like riding the subway with
guys who have blue-dyed hair and rings
in their noses, and queers with AIDs.
Very reasonable. But not for the
Asbestos, Lead, and Hazardous Waste
Laborers’ Union. In their view, Rocker
is hazardous waste. So he’s hauled off
to the psycho ward for a brainwashing
session.
Rocker for mayor of New York, I say.
And Haider for president of Austria. Or
perhaps we could get him to come over
here as a refugee and make him Governor
General. We did, after all, allow that
leftist fem to come here from Hong Kong
who now preens herself as Governess
General.
You want some real comedy? Foreign
Minister Lloyd Axworthy tells Haider to
keep his repugnant thoughts to himself
while he’s in Canada. But he had no
objection to welcoming a bunch of
dictators and desperadoes from Africa to
that Francophone conference down East.
We are being asked to boycott
Austria. Me, I wanna go there for a
holiday. They have the best
Wienerschnitzel and Sachertorten in the
world. They also have a guy who’s
upsetting the New World Order.
*Erlkönig:
A goblin who lures little children to
the land of death.
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