January 30, 2001
The man protected by
angels of darkness helped to let loose the demons in the souls of
others. William Jefferson Clinton set a tone in the White House
from his very first day in office in 1993 that infected the political
appointees who served him. Staffers were disrespectful,
insulting, and arrogant to members of the U.S. armed forces,
including the man who became Clinton’s ineffectual drug
czar, Gen. Barry McCaffrey. Many White House staffers had to
receive waivers for their security clearances in order to enter and
leave the White House, as they had arrests and convictions
related to illegal drug use. And White House staffers in the
Clinton years shared their boss’s penchant for believing
that all opposition to them was illegitimate, thus justifying all of
their lies, personal attacks, leaking of information to the media
(about Henry Hyde, Bob Barr, Robert Livingston, Dan Burton),
and outright distortions on matters of public policy.
So it should come as no
surprise that Clinton’s White House staffers trashed and
vandalized many of the taxpayer-purchased and
government-owned facilities in the White House offices where they worked.
At first, news reports indicated that the W keys on
computer keyboards had been “playfully” removed.
Even if that had been all that had been done, that is vandalism in
and of itself, a willful destruction of the property of the
government of the United States of America that would cause
more taxpayer dollars to be spent to undo the damage done. Yes,
even if the removal of the W keys on computers was
“all” that had been done, that would have been a
very important indication of the contempt in which the American
taxpayer was held by those who worked in the Clinton White
House. Those arrogant, self-righteous, sanctimonious
barbarians believed that citizens have no inherent natural-law
right to their own income and that the vandals could do as they
pleased with the property assigned to their use while they were
on the federal dole. There is absolutely no difference between
that and the attitude of rioters who loot stores to take things that
they do not own and have not purchased with their own money.
Reports circulating on
January 25, however, now indicate that the extent of the
vandalism in the White House by the Clinton staffers before they
vacated the premises went far beyond the “playful”
removal of the W key. Staffers for President Bush have
reported the following to the Drudge Report, even though they
were warned not to leak any information to the media:
- Phone lines were cut, rendering them inoperable;
- Voice mail messages were changed to obscene,
scatological greetings;
- One Bush staffer had his grandmother call from the
Midwest. She was horrified by what she heard on the other end
of the line;
- Many phone lines [were] misdirected to other
government offices;
- Desks [were] found turned completely upside down
and trash [was] deliberately left everywhere;
- Computer printers ... were filled with blank paper
but interspersed with pornographic pictures and obscene slogans
that would be revealed only as items were run off the computer;
- W keys weren’t just pried off more
than 40 keyboards, some were glued on with Superglue; some
were turned upside down and glued on;
- Filing cabinets [were] glued shut;
- Vice Presidential office space in the Old Executive
Office Building [was] found in complete shambles. Mrs. Gore had
to phone Mrs. Cheney to apologize, first reported by Rich
Galen’s Mullings.
- Lewd Magic Marker graffiti [was] found on one office hallway.
President Clinton set the
tone for all of that. His contempt for the rules and for simple
decency was reflected in the personnel he hired, people who
reflected the worst of the barbarianism extant in our nation
today. Those who do not believe that they live as subjects of God
and must conform their behavior to His immutable laws become,
in their own minds, gods themselves. They become a law unto
themselves who may do and say and act however they want.
After all, what’s the big deal about trashing property you
do not own and will not be repaired at your own expense if you
believe that little children in their mothers’ wombs can be
suctioned, poisoned, dissected, and dismembered under cover of
law? Really, what’s the big deal about desecrating the
office and residence of the president of the United States when
you can desecrate the image of God in an unborn child? There is a
direct connection between support for abortion and the rise of a
personal sense of lawlessness and irresponsibility, especially
among young people who have known nothing other than
legalized abortion during most of their lives (as is the case with
the Clinton staffers).
Indeed, there are so many
instances of the Left acting in this way. In 1987, at a conference in
Maryland, a staffer for Senator Edward Kennedy spat at a
woman who worked for Human Life International. In 1990,
homosexual and lesbian “activists” “acted
up” at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in New York,
desecrating the Blessed Sacrament. Several years ago, urine was
sprayed on people participating in a Rosary procession at the
Human Life International Conference in Montreal; many of
those doing the spraying were self-professed “dykes on
bikes.” In 1999, a man working for the campaign of
Republican presidential aspirant Gary Bauer found he was
suffering from AIDS and decided to try to infect everyone in the
office with his own self-inflicted disease, licking doorknobs and
other items people would have to touch, in hopes that his saliva
would give people the disease. And that is to say nothing of the
acts of violence committed in the name of art and funded by
taxpayer dollars, including the “painting” of our
Lady smeared with elephant dung. Oh, no, the Left is quite good
at preaching nonviolence and love while practicing violence and
hate against anyone who dares to dissent from their infallible
pronouncements.
Bill Clinton will probably
smirk and shake his head when asked to comment on the damage
done in the White House. He is responsible, however. He
didn’t see any of it? None of it was reported to him? Bill
Clinton is a pig. It is one thing to sin and to seek out the mercy of
our Lord in the Sacrament of Penance. It is another to wallow
arrogantly in one’s own sanctimonious sense of being
better than everyone else, of believing that one is immune from
all of the laws of even natural civility and decency, no less the
binding precepts of the Divine positive law and the natural law.
Those who are found to be
responsible for the vandalism in the White House must be
prosecuted to the full extent of the law. It would be a terrible sign
for the Bush administration to let this slide in the interests of
“national unity.” Crimes have been committed
against the people of the United States. Those crimes must not go
unpunished.
I am critical of the new
president for his lack of understanding of the primacy of life: he
can say on Saturday that the issue facing us is to make sure
abortions are “safe and whether they are numerous or
not,” while issuing a statement in his name on Monday
saying that every child should be “welcomed in the world
and protected by law,” a contradiction of his support for
the killing of children in the cases of rape, incest, and alleged
threats to the life of a mother. Nevertheless he is a decent man
who was brought up to respect the property of others. I do not
believe pro-lifers have a true friend in the White House —
otherwise, Bush would not have surrounded himself with the
bevy of pro-aborts who make up his inner circle. However, we
are well rid of the Clinton crowd and well rid of all of their
indecency and incivility.
However, it remains an
open question whether the American taxpayer, who gave Clinton
such a free ride on matters of character and integrity the past
eight years because of economic prosperity, will come to
understand just what contempt Clinton and his people had for
the citizens who put them in office and paid their salary, no less
the total contempt Clinton and his people had for everyone who
disagreed with them and opposed them.
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