Recently, I did an interview in my office with a reporter who asked me whom I considered my most important contemporary political hero.
I pointed to my refrigerator door where I still have a "Buchanan for President" bumper sticker. I said: "Well, I kind of liked that one."
The reporter was mildly surprised.
Why should he have been? Like millions of other Americans, I admired and trusted Buchanan. It felt like a punch in the stomach when he walked out on us, and I have often wondered how Buchanan would come back - if ever there would be a come-back.
Will there be an encore? Who knows?
I say there will be only if Buchanan faces his true enemies in ways that are uncompromising and that are recognizable and understandable to the great masses of Americans. That will take guts. It will mean naming the real villains and exposing their hand in the destruction of America - and it will mean standing tall when the tomatoes start to fly.
Buchanan's August 7 column might be a start in that direction.
Titled "Manhattan Theatre Club underwrites hate crime against Christians", it talks about the latest play of three-time Tony Award-winner Terrence McNally.
Here's how Buchanan put it:
"The central figure in McNally's 'Corpus Christi' is a Jesus character named Joshua who is crucified as 'king of the queers.'
"By The New York Times' account, 'Joshua has a long-running affair with Judas and sexual relations with the other Apostles. Only one sexual encounter, a non-explicit one with an HIV-positive street hustler, takes place in any form on stage.' (...)
"The play ends with a taunt: 'If we have offended you, so be it. He belongs to us as well as you.' That line, says syndicated columnist John Leo, 'doesn't seem to make much sense, artistically or scripturally. It seems more like politicized, in-your-face Christian baiting.'
"Exactly; that's the idea. McNally's purpose is to insult, offend, wound and outrage Catholics and all Christians by blaspheming their Savior and mocking their moral code. (...) McNally's play is nothing less than a hate crime of modernity directed against Christians."
Here is where Buchanan becomes relevant to what we have to say in websites such as the Zundelsite. I have made no pretense about my feelings about Christianity. I believe as it exists today, it is so thick with con-men, infiltrators and morally blind boosters of miltaristic Israel, it is barely recognizable as "Christian" any more. It offers me nothing any longer and offends me deeply on many occasions. But once upon a distant time and in its less adulterated form, it was the glue that made our people what they were - good, kind, moral, decent, clean and honorable.
And there is nothing in the 'isms' of today that have come riding in on spotted ponies that could have promised the religious cohesion that once defined our kin. Corruption is the norm - right from the White House down. I miss the billows of clean laundry that marked our yesterdays. Therefore, if someone comes along with a bucket full of slime and pours it over what our people once held sacred as part of our heritage - that act of blasphemy offends me to the core. Who are these interlopers to dare to befoul what our ancestors believed? What they decided should be the foundation on which they built America? What's in it for a person who gives you the big middle finger for no good reason whatsoever? Why is it necessary to be in our faces - every minute of the day?
Two things: The need to offend, and the need to destroy - while playing peek-a-boo behind the First Amendment, which is the ***only*** thing that stands between us who speak out against the culture rapists, and a life in the new Gulags of tomorrow, whose elaborate camps in decommissioned former military bases, I am told by well-informed friends, already dot the landscape of a slumbering America.
Buchanan knows that perfectly. He writes:
"(B)ehind the customary claptrap about no censorship, our elite shares McNally's hatred of Christianity, especially its teachings on sexual morality."
Our "elite"? Who is our "elite"? Who has appointed them "elite"? Does our "elite" not have a name by which it can be identified and held accountable? Does Pat Buchanan have the courage to pronounce it - loudly and for all to hear?
He comes close when he writes:
"Ask yourself: Would McNally dare to make a comedy about Auschwitz or a play about the sex life of Martin Luther King Jr.? If he did, that would be the end of the Tonys for Terry. Would our cultural elite sit still for a play making sport of AIDS patients? If a public school began issuing 'Little Black Sambo' as a second-grade reader, would the elite defend it as 'academic freedom'? How would TV critics respond to reruns of 'Amos 'n' Andy'? What would our elite say if Ted Turner announced his movie channel was going to update and colorize 'Birth of a Nation,' whose heroes are the men of the KKK?
"McNally's play is but part of the daily sewage of modernity. Of far greater interest is what it says about who holds moral power in society today and whom it is permissible to mock and hate."
It is permissible to mock and hate those who have websites such as I. It is permissible to mock and hate our struggle. But that is our problem, and we will solve it - mark my word. But even in the last few weeks, when Christian crosses started sprouting back in Auschwitz, Poland, we've seen the hallmark of an out-and-out resistance to the ones who mock the Christians' sacred Cross - and damned be every consequence!
Buchanan wraps it up for all of us who strive for our birthright, our rightful "Lebensraum" - where we can lead our lives in clean surroundings free from that filth that is the thumbprint of the ones we have so recklessly permitted to become America's self-appointed "elite":
"The most sacred of Christian beliefs are today mocked, and priests and nuns are second only to Christian ministers as comic and malevolent figures on stage and screen. Big Apple mayors proudly march up Fifth Avenue in Gay Pride parades that feature the floats of the North American Man-Boy Love Association, nuns in drag and half-naked men simulating homosexual sex before St. Patrick's.
"Rarely does the nightly news focus on these revolting creatures, but let a single sign in a 100,000-person right-to-life parade call for clemency for an abortion-clinic bomber, and that will be the news.
"In recent years, the inquisitors of political correctness have burned the following heretics at the stake: Jimmy the Greek, sports handicapper, for discoursing after a long lunch at D.C.'s Duke Zeibert's on why black athletes seem superior; Marlon Brando for a single derogatory term about Jews; Jackie Mason for using a Yiddish slur for black mayor David Dinkins; Andy Rooney for simply suggesting that people with AIDS, like smokers with emphysema, may be at fault for their condition; Footballer Reggie White and Trent Lott for airing Bible-based beliefs about homosexuality.
"In the dispensation of modernity, no mocker of God's Son ever suffers a sanction so severe."
Not for much longer anymore! When the sleeping giant, America, awakens and shakes off its fear of offending "elites", that day there will be different news - writ large. That will be the day when all across a morally rearmed Christian world the Cross will once again spring up - just as the Yellow Ribbons did that told Iranians that taking sovereign Americans as prisoners was where the line was drawn, and just as the Blue Ribbons sprouted on the Internet when Germany, on orders from the Wiesenthalers, attacked the Zundelsite across the ocean - in America.
That day will come. It will.
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
"The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of men and women. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.
(Thomas Paine)