| You Can Say That Again, Mr. President |
| Neal Boortz Friday, April 5, 2002 |
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| Were you listening to President Bush's statement on the Israeli-Palestinian situation yesterday? In this and the next section I plucked two sentences to point out to you. Certainly not the most important parts of the speech, but they just rang a bell somewhere for me. |
| First we have this statement: ;Progress is impossible when nations emphasize their grievances and ignore their opportunities. |
| I just wonder if this only applies to countries or could it apply to races too? Sure would like some reporter to ask the president that one. |
| Now, the second statement: The Israeli government should be compassionate at checkpoints and border crossings, sparing innocent Palestinians daily humiliation. |
| Compassionate at checkpoints? Tell me, Mr. President, if the Israeli government can be compassionate at checkpoints checkpoints used by suicide bombers if the Israeli government can spare innocent Palestinians of daily humiliation, why can't our own Transportation Security Agency screeners show some compassion at airport checkpoints? Why can't these wonderful, professionalized, federal workers spare business travelers in the U.S. daily humiliation? |
| Just thought I'd ask. |
| I Wish I Had Paid More Attention |
| If I could go back and change this, I would. All I can do now is play catch-up. |
| For the first 30 years of my tenure as a radio talk show host I never really could whip up any fervent interest in the Middle East. I took no time to study the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Now the attention of the entire world is focused on this area and I'm having to read and learn as fast as I can. |
| Time is running short I have to head for the studios so I'll just share some thoughts from last night's reading. This is by no means comprehensive or complete ... just random thoughts. |
| Yassir and his goons wouldn't be dealing with Ariel Sharon if they had not turned their backs on that 1999 peace plan. It was a plan that gave Yassir and his goons fully 95 percent of their negotiating demands ... and Arafat walked away to ratchet-up the violence. |
| The most logical conclusion you can draw from the actions of Arafat and the rest of the Arab world is that this is not about land. It is not about a Palestinian homeland. It is all about the presence of Jews in the land of Islam. |
| As David Horowitz puts it, the Arabs, and this includes the Palestinians, consider Jews to be heathens in the empire of Islam. |
| As for that land called the West Bank ... Israel was attacked in 1967. They responded and defeated their attackers. They retained control of the West Bank after that war. This was the land that was used as a staging area for war against Israel. |
| The aggressors lost ... and when you lose, you lose real estate. That's the nature of war. |
| To this date the Arab states have refused to make peace with Israel or to even recognize its existence. You can't find Israel on world maps in Palestinian schools. Tell me ... just why should Israel return land to aggressors who refuse to talk peace and refuse to recognize Israel's very existence? |
| Israel occupies only 1 percent of the entire Middle East and it's a 1 percent with very little oil, by the way. Jordan occupies far more of the land that Palestinians claim as their mandate than Israel, yet there is no holy war against Jordan. Why? Because Jordanians aren't Jews and this is about religion, not land. |
| It's About Grandstanding Not Gathering Information |
| For weeks now Democrats in the Senate and the House have been raising hell because Bush won't allow Homeland Security adviser Tom Ridge to testify before a Senate committee. |
| The reason is simple. Ridge's appointment wasn't subject to approval by the Senate. He's a presidential adviser. Presidential advisers, no matter what their role, aren't subject to being called to testify under oath before the legislative branch of government concerning the advice they give the president. |
| We've told you before that Ridge holds frequent open briefings for members of Congress. They're free to attend and ask questions. |
| They don't. They sit in their offices on Capitol Hill and whine. |
| Just this week Mr. Pork, Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, rejected (yet again) an informal private briefing of U.S. senators. Byrd wants that hearing room ? the cameras ... the reporters ... the publicity. |
| It's clear. Relics like Robert Byrd aren't necessarily interested in getting information from Ridge. They just want their faces on TV as they grill him on Bush's homeland defense policies. |
| Three Strikes Let's Keep It |
| I've mentioned it briefly this week ... will bring it up again today. The U.S. Supreme Court is considering the constitutionality of the various three strikes; laws around the country. Do they amount to cruel and unusual punishment? So-called 'civil rights advocates are calling for an end to the laws because someone, they say, can be jailed for a long, long time for some relatively minor crime. |
| Well ... the activists have it all wrong. These people aren't being jailed for one relatively minor crime. They're being sent off for a long rest because of their demonstrated inability to live within our laws. Once you've been caught and convicted for three qualifying crimes, there's no telling how many you got away with. |
| I love freedom and I love living in a free society. No free society can continue to exist, though, if those who choose to prey on others go unpunished. |
| If you are willing to live your life without preying on others, you are welcome to enjoy the benefits of liberty. If you show yourself to be incapable of living within the framework of our laws then you get removed from society. Just that simple. |
| Let's keep the three strikes laws and enforce them. |
| Growing Strong |
| The Neal Boortz Show has been growing rather well in the months following 9/11. I just wanted to drop this little note in here thanking all of you who have been sending me those I just discovered your show!!! e-mail messages. There are so many of you that I can't possibly answer your messages personally. |
| Just know that I appreciate you letting me know that you've discovered Belinda, Royal and myself and let us know what we can do to make your listening experience more enjoyable. |
| They're Mad About the Copying Fee, But ... |
| It's crazy! |
| So sayeth a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He's upset because the university is going to start charging 8 cents per page for every sheet of paper he prints from the campus computer labs. |
| Students are outraged, they say it's not fair. The university pays about $110,000 a year for this printing ... and students are griping because they have to foot the bill. |
| Now ? here's why this upsets me. These very same students will soon be out of school and out there presumably earning a living. The federal government will force them to take nearly 15 percent of each paycheck to invest in a hideous and risky income redistribution scheme known as Social Security. At best these former UWM students will get a 1 to 1-1/2 percent return on the money. |
| Will they gripe? Will they complain? Will they sign petitions? Probably not. Nor will they complain about forking out over 40 percent of their annual income in various taxes. |
| Don't bother them with the big stuff. It's the 8 cents per page that counts. |
| How to Discredit a News Story |
| Are there four words that you can put at the beginning of a news story that will cause a rational person to develop immediate skepticism? Four words that would cause a truly informed person to immediately doubt the veracity of the story? |
| Well, as a matter of fact, I can think of three such three-word groupings: |
| Bill Clinton said today |
| Hillary Clinton said today |
| An environmental group says |
| Bill and Hillary? We all know they lie. It's their primary method of communication. You can tell they're lying because their lips are moving. |
| Now we know that environmental groups lie too. We had that situation with the Klamath River basin. The spotted owl controversy. Planting of evidence. You name it, they do it. Like the Clintons, they recognize no law or any necessity for telling the truth when it comes to promoting their anti-capitalistic agenda. |
| Neal Boortz is the hugely popular nationally syndicated radio host. |
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