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Puttin' the Sceer on 'em

One of the psychological warfare techniques of arguably the greatest general of the American War Between the States, Nathan Bedford Forrest, was to put what he called "the sceer" on the enemy. Forrest did this by exaggerating his own numbers, fire-power and positional advantage. He got whole Yankee garrisons to surrender by this means, with little fighting.

Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese military strategist, declared that a superior man defeats his enemy without having to fight him in battle. As the Clinton Justice Department's anthrax scare unraveled before our eyes, we were reminded of these tenets of psychological warfare, of our overseers desire to eliminate our spirit of resistance, by depicting anyone remotely associated with our cause as Vice-Regents of Hell and the spawn of Satan.

Calamities of cosmic proportions are almost daily linked to the words, "Arab" and "Iraqi" or "white" and "supremacist."Here in the Pacific Northwest we are especially plagued by these media scares. In north Idaho there's a story every week--sometimes every day--about a nefarious "white supremacist" plotting the destruction of humanity, Mom and apple pie. And if they can't be found in the open, then the inveterate busy bodies of the establishment media will ferret them out by detection.

This is what the intrepid investigative reporter Doug Clark of the Spokane, Washington, "Spokesman-Review" newspaper did recently, when he daringly scanned the want ads for politically incorrect merchandise that might be for sale.Aha! He struck pay dirt in the form of two, antique, Ku Klux Klan belt buckles offered for sale in Rathdrum, Idaho. Clark couldn't believe anyone would actually be selling these "evil" artifacts from America's past. Presumably they should have rushed to have them melted down the memory hole, where the neo-Bolsheviks wish to consign all record of the genuine history for which they have neither comprehension or curiosity. Clark was "floored" by the fact that a respectable Idaho couple, one of whom is of Judaic descent, were actually offering this "reprehensible trash" for sale.The reporter protested the couple's "complacency" and accused them of being "disconnected" from "stark reality."

Doug Clark is one of those establishment hacks whose "outrage" is about as daring as a night out at the ice cream parlor. How much actual courage does it take nowadays to condemn the free speech rights of the followers of Uncle Adolf?

What takes real courage in the media is to take on one of the powerful, politically-correct elites, to banish complacency in the face of what that one questioner told Madeline Albright about in Ohio: the Israeli slaughter of Palestinians. When CBS reporter and Coeur d'Alene native Terry Dolan came back home to tout his whitewash of Israeli atrocities in Palestine and Lebanon, did the Spokesman-Review reporter who interviewed him, ask him one probing question? Certainly not. The reporter lobbed creampuff after creampuff. The reporter couldn't even describe the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. He called it a "push in." Israeli planes didn't bomb civilians, they merely flew by. Mass shootings of Palestinian children? Not an issue. The article reeked of the very complacency Clark pontificates about. But in this case it concerns an evil Clark and his colleagues at the Spokesman-Review wouldn't dare touch with the proverbial barge pole--Israeli racism and war crimes.

Where is the outrage? It's reserved for easy targets, for costumed clowns.

In February another scare debuted on the media stage in north Idaho. The "Spokesman-Review" featured a banner headline about a "dangerous White Supremacist," who was covered head-to-foot in "swastika tattoos" and who had escaped from the Bonner County jail on Feb. 16. This delinquent youth was depicted as a sinister, racist skinhead. The hue and cry was raised by the media hysterics. The white supremacist scare was mounted--full tilt--by our concerned, righteous, "Spokesman-Review" newspaper. Well, the kid did escape and as of this writing, hasn't been caught. But in the interim, Bonner County's laid back Sheriff Chip Roos made hash out of the "Escaped White Supremacist" scare. According to the "Coeur d'Alene Press" newspaper (Feb. 21, 1998): "(Sheriff) Roos even doubted the man's credentials as an 'Aryan Warrior.'"I don't think he's a racist,' Roos said. 'He's just a doper that likes tattoos."

Oops. Another bogeyman bites the dust.The rush to judgment in these matters reflects the profound bias of the establishment media.

One searches in vain for alarms concerning the probable murder of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown or the "weapons of mass destruction" of the Israelis.

Clintonista and Zionist crimes and hatred are met with a "Let's not jump to conclusions" attitude from the kept press. When it comes to those topics, the media are transformed into paragons of skepticism and caution.

But if they have even the flimsiest hint that someone who once tried to invest some self-esteem in his heritage might possibly be involved in a crime of some sort, they blare and trumpet it like a crazed elephant, and woe to those "complacent" ones who refuse to join the stampede.Yes, they've put the "sceer" on the American people.

But there's a glitch. Those who sell wolf tickets run the risk of losing their credibility. This has already manifested in the "compassion fatigue" Americans exhibit in the face of the never-ending round of scares and alarms having to do with Mad Mullahs and Nefarious Nazis.

Meanwhile, the pin-striped Federal Reserve governors who loot us with a pen, the Holy People on the West Bank who gun down Arab kids firing slingshots, the abortionists who eviscerate infants' brains by vacuum suction, the Federal agents who shotto death Idaho mother Vicky Weaver and her son Sam--all get a pass from the self-appointed moralists in our fear-mongering media.

--Michael A. Hoffman II

Hoffman is a former reporter for the New York bureau of the Associated Press


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