THE WAY I SEE IT
by Don Polson Red
Bluff Daily News 7/12/2016
Media wants to avert your gaze
Summer’s first bookend is behind us; I wrote what I
hope were illuminating and informative perspectives on America’s Declaration of
Independence (and our current tenuous state of independence). Some issues and
events still warrant attention; others, not so much.
Trump University faded as a campaign/media obsession
just as it was coming to light that Bill Clinton pocketed some $16 million for
lending his name and backing to a “university” that delivered far less than
Trump’s did for enrollees. Look up, “Hillary University: Bill Clinton Bagged
$16.46 million From For-Profit College as State Dept. Funneled $55 million
Back” (Stephen K. Bannon).
You see, Hillary launched what she thought was a
devastating attack on the Donald over a lawsuit by disgruntled students. It was
a thinly-veiled deflection from “her deep involvement with a controversial
for-profit college that made the Clintons millions, even as the school faced
serious legal scrutiny and criminal investigations. In April 2015, Bill Clinton
was forced to abruptly resign from his lucrative perch as honorary chancellor
of Laureate Education, a for-profit college company.
“The reason for Clinton’s immediate departure:
‘Clinton Cash’ revealed, and Bloomberg confirmed, that Laureate funneled Bill
Clinton $16.46 million over five years while Hillary Clinton’s State Dept.
pumped at least $55 million to a group run by Laureate’s founder and chairman,
Douglas Becker, a man with strong ties to the Clinton Global Initiative.
Laureate has donated between $1 million and $5 million to the Clinton
Foundation.”
“During Bill Clinton’s tenure as Laureate’s
chancellor, the school spent many millions a year on aggressive telemarketing,
flashy Internet banner ads, and billboards designed to lure often unprepared
students from impoverished countries to enroll in its for-profit classes. The
goal: get as many students, regardless of skill level, signed up and paying
tuition.” This reads so much like what you would expect (if you were a liberal)
to be a scam fomented by Republican Trump. And yet, it actually illustrates the
mega-narrative of avaricious, grafting, manipulative and, yes, Clintonian
financial skullduggery.
For Clinton and her media sycophants and
water-carriers, Clinton U. was a “time to move on, nothing to see here” moment.
Then (for the media gatekeepers), it was “Another Islamic terrorist killed
Americans; time to shift the debate to gun control and LGBT rights.” Along came
gay pride demonstrations and an Occupy/Social-Justice-Warrior sit-in and
publicity stunt by Democrats in Congress to analyze and obsess over. Anything
to avoid issues American voters care about: our sub-par economic recovery, uncontrolled
immigration and Islamic terrorism.
About a month ago, soon after the Orlando terrorist
slaughter, John Lott, author of the statistically correct “More Guns, Less
Crime,” wrote “Why terrorists target gun-free zones.” He made the irrefutable
observation that not one of the mass shootings since at least 2000, including
Sunday’s, would’ve been stopped by these (proposed) laws. Nor would renewing
the federal ‘assault weapons ban’ solve the problem; even research paid for by
Bill Clinton’s administration found no evidence the ban reduced any type of
crime…
“PoliceOne, a private organization with 450,000
members (380,000 full-time active law enforcement and 70,000 retired), polled
its members in 2013 shortly after the Newtown, Conn., massacre. Eighty percent
of respondents said allowing legally armed citizens to carry guns in places
such as Newtown and Aurora would have reduced the number of casualties. Another
6 percent thought the presence of legally armed civilians would ‘likely’ have
prevented the innocent casualties altogether.”
Illustrating the convergence of suicidal gun-free
zones and agenda-driven news media, I’ll remind readers of the words of an
actual “ISIS sympathizer who planned a shooting at one of the largest churches
in Detroit. An FBI wire recorded him explaining why he had picked the church as
a target: ‘It’s easy, and a lot of people go there. Plus people are not allowed
to carry guns in church. Plus it would make the news.’” My hopes aside,
terrorists will continue killing.
And yet, we saw and heard Emperor Obama bemoan the
ease for “individuals, who are troubled or disturbed or want to engage in
violent acts, to get very powerful weapons…That’s a problem (for which) we need
to do some soul searching.”
Conservative 2nd Amendment advocate Dana
Loesch showered the Twitter-verse with ways to complete the sentence, “We need
to do some soul-searching says the president… 1) who gave guns to Mexican drug
cartels and Garland Islamic terrorist Nadir Soofi, 2) whose administration kept
the Tsarnaevs on welfare and a watch list, 3) whose administration admittedly
refused to prosecute fraudulent 4473s (ATF gun purchase forms),
“4) who allowed illegally possessed gun crime
prosecutions to plummet in his watch, 5) whose administration cut arms deals
with middle eastern countries that punish homosexuality with death, 6) who
released terrorists back to the battlefield to kill our troops, 7) who wants to
render innocents defenseless while domestic terror attacks increase, 8) who
refuses to bring charges against terror suspects on lists thus allowing them to
buy guns.”
No, Barack Obama’s name won’t be on the ballot but,
make no mistake, he and Hillary and every Democrat that votes will cast their
choice for Obama’s third term economy, further diminishment of your gun rights
as a law-abiding American and continued Islamic terrorism.
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