JEZEBEL CLINTON INSPIRES CHINESE COMMUNIST
nob...@nsm.htp.org
JULY 2, 1998
[between the lines] [Joseph Farah]
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[WND Exclusive Commentary]
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Hillary -- an inspiration to Beijing
Hillary Clinton is right where she
belongs. Her words and actions while
visiting China this week will undoubtedly
be widely studied and analyzed by the
Communist Party propaganda ministry. And
why shouldn't they be? The Chinese party
officials have been admiring her rhetoric
long before she arrived in Beijing.
Yu Quanyu, director of the Chinese
Academy of Social Studies, writes in the
latest issue of "Ideological and
Political Work Studies," a Communist
Party propaganda primer, that Hillary
should serve as a role model for
effective use -- or is it abuse? -- of
language.
"Communist Party cadres," Mr. Yu writes,
"should study the speeches of Hillary
Clinton because she offers a very good
example of the skills of propaganda."
What the party apparatchiks say they love
most about Hillary's rhetoric is a matter
of technique more than content.
"Her sentences are short and
stimulating," says Yu. "That's why she
gets a lot of applause. But Chinese
people have a habit of giving long
speeches in which the sentences are long
and tedious."
Yet, I have to suggest there are other
reasons Hillary's message is so
well-received. When was the last time she
was a bearer of bad news? When have you
ever heard her challenge Americans? When
have you ever heard her say anything to
an audience other than offer empty
promises about how government needed to
do more for people?
I'm convinced that's the real success
formula for Hillary and her husband.
Their essential message to Americans is
to relax and allow them, the first
couple, to do the heavy lifting. They
will take care of our every need -- from
health care to day care to ensuring we
always have jobs.
Their political trick is to trap enough
people -- preferably around 50 percent --
into dependency on government. If enough
Americans see their fate tied
inextricably to government action, they
win. And, despite one scandal after
another -- including many before they
ever got to the White House -- they have
won twice.
It's a simple strategy, and it has
worked. It has allowed them to advance
the cause of socialism-with-a-happy-face
in big ways -- dismantling states'
rights, empowering the central
government, increasing taxation,
regulation and control of private
enterprise and personal initiative and
creating the infrastructure for the
Beijing-style repression that will be
necessary for maintaining power.
Just look at their "accomplishments":
* They have increased the manpower,
firepower and authority of federal
police agencies well beyond anything
dreamed of by Clinton's
predecessors.
* They have chipped away at civil
liberties by dreaming up excuses for
eavesdropping on law-abiding
citizens, seizing private firearms
and maintaining sophisticated
computer databases on every single
man, woman and child in the country.
* They have instilled fear in their
political enemies by politicizing
powerful government agencies once
considered sacrosanct -- the FBI,
the IRS, yes, "X-Files" fans, even
FEMA.
* They have successfully, after a
major political setback just four
years ago, managed to nationalize
the best medical system in the world
-- turning the most private medical
secrets into matters of routine
government oversight.
* They have, perhaps most
impressively, done all this under
the noses of a mostly gleeful and
praising pack of press sycophants
who have kept the truth from the
people.
That's why Beijing really admires
Hillary, the real political mastermind of
the Clinton family. In a rare moment of
candor recently, her husband told Chinese
"journalists" that his goal was to bring
the United States and China closer
together -- to create a world in which
the two nations are more alike, where
there are fewer differences between them,
less hostility and more mutual respect.
Mission accomplished. China hasn't budged
an inch, but the United States is well on
the road to totalitarian serfdom. All it
requires now is the right excuse, a
convenient crisis, a sudden change in the
comfort level of the dependency class.
That's the real reason Hillary receives
such adoration in Beijing.
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