A nation of pigs

Sometimes these columns practically write themselves.

As many of my readers are aware, those who are dedicated to the wholesale destabilization of America work on two primary fronts, these being the political and the cultural. A couple of items that have gained media attention over the past couple of weeks speak volumes to the degradation of American culture; while they have proven disturbing to many Americans, I believe that some elucidation is in order regarding the big picture.

On Sept. 26, 2009, film director Roman Polanski was arrested by Swiss police in Zürich, Switzerland, while trying to enter that country. The arrest was in connection with an outstanding warrant from the U.S. that dated back to 1978; Polanski had fled the U.S. that year to avoid prosecution for the rape of 13-year-old Samantha Geimer, in every way imaginable by most people. He stayed abroad, avoiding prosecution for 30 years.

Authorities in California (where the crime occurred) hoped to have Polanski extradited to the U.S., but there were a couple of hitches: One was that there was no guarantee of cooperation from Swiss authorities.

The other was probably a bit less expected. On Sept. 28, over 100 individuals, including several top Hollywood directors and a host of other entertainment industry celebrities, signed a petition protesting Polanski's arrest and detention by the Swiss. Among them was the stepdaughter-seducing comic director Woody Allen. Given the high profiles of these parties, of course, the story of their solidarity with the fugitive director, now 76, became as big as that of his arrest.

Learn about the depths the secular culture goes to in corrupting your kids – read "The War on Children: How Pop Culture and Public Schools Put Our Kids at Risk"

Then, on Oct. 1, during a taping of CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman," the late-night host publicly admitted that he had engaged in sexual affairs with female staffers. The impetus for this confession lay in a recent blackmail threat relating to these liaisons. On Oct. 5, Letterman publicly apologized to his wife for these indiscretions, again, during the taping of that night's show.

Some Americans, and much of the establishment press, have lauded Letterman's confession and apology as extraordinarily honorable and praiseworthy.

Hello?

So, Letterman's stinginess overcame his pride. Big deal. The man is obviously not stupid; he knew that progressives (like the majority of his audience) don't kick their own to the curb for that sort of thing; they exalt them. Whether he outed himself, or was betrayed by the blackmailer, it was a win-win situation for the late-night icon.

In the case of Polanski, the concept of a klatch of contemptible, insular libertines pleading the case of a pedophiliac rapist is simply beyond despicable; it reveals what depraved, loathsome creatures these people are, and illustrates in magnificent detail why their value system ought not only be eschewed by Americans at large, but demonstrably derided.

While the political left has been busy neutralizing our liberties and compromising the U.S. abroad, progressives in government, the press and the entertainment media are transforming us into a nation of pigs – and altogether too many of us are not yet aware of it. Anything prurient goes, and the degree to which Americans' morality has already been undermined will likely take decades to repair as it is.

A few cases in point:

Just this week, WND reported on a high school in Virginia that is dispensing profoundly disturbing, sexually-deviant media of various types to its students.
Cable TV's ABC Family Channel (the appropriateness of this name depends upon what one's particular meaning of the word "family" happens to be) features the popular show "The Secret Life of the American Teenager." This insidious fare showcases the shallowest troupe of middle-class, sex-obsessed high-schoolers one could dream up. Episodes of this program employ the words "sex" or the phrase "have sex" an average of 48 times. I counted.
As recently showcased in the non-establishment press, President Obama's new director of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools is a radical homosexual.

Think of these examples like cockroaches; for every one that you see, there are hundreds more that you do not see.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Amendment I, Constitution of the United States of America

The left's convoluted logic and specious contentions vis-a-vis First Amendment provisions for free speech can no longer be allowed to stand. If Congress shall make no law, and has made no law, no one's rights have been violated. Whatever measures the populace takes to curtail the actions of dissolute entertainers and public servants are also protected, so long as they are nonviolent.

And it is time that those measures be taken. Americans must begin to act toward the preservation of a reasonably decent, moral environment, in similar fashion as they have begun to act toward the preservation of their liberties.