Liberals have a special code of commandments from which they never deviate. Right? To echo the Gilbert and Sullivan refrain about the Admiral who never used the Big Bad D, what, never? No, never. What, never? Well, hardly ever.
1. “Thou shalt not deny a passport or visa to any individual because of his political activities.” Under the freedom to travel rule, the State Department has permitted Wilfred Burchett, who led the third-degree interrogation of U.S. prisoners in Korea, to enter the United States and lecture at 18 leading universities including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Michigan, Oregon, Iowa, and the University of California Law School.
This lecture tour was after Burchett lost a libel suit in Australia which he brought after publication of sworn charges that he was a Soviet K.G.B. agent.
Meanwhile the State Department has refused to issue a visa to the anti-Communist pilot, Lt. Colonel Fan Yuan-yen, who flew a MIG-19 fighter plane from Red China to Taiwan. He is an outspoken critic of the repressive Red regime on Mainland China and would present eloquent eye-witness testimony about how miserable life is there.
Likewise, Soviet Lieutenant Viktor Belenko, who flew a MIG-25 from Siberia to Japan and is now in the United States, is apparently restricted from traveling about our country to give interviews about life in the Soviet Union.
2. “Thou shalt not engage in wiretapping or bugging. If the FBI, CIA or other U.S. intelligence agencies engage in such acts, the individual agents must be punished like criminals and the evidence destroyed, no matter how incriminating.”
But when the Soviet Embassy engages in electronic eavesdropping on all long-distance telephone calls in and out of Washington, D.C., there is no Administration demand that such outrageous snooping be stopped and no editorial outcry from the liberal columnists; just a sweep-it-under-the-rug acquiescence of this outrageous invasion of American privacy and acquisition of U.S. confidential information.
3. “Thou shalt not blacklist any entertainer because of his or her ideological activities. We must bury forever the so-called Red witch hunts of the 1940s and 1950s.”
So when Vanessa Redgrave engaged in anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) political activities, 20th Century Fox sanctimoniously declined to blacklist her from employment, saying: “We totally reject, and will not be blackmailed into supporting, any policy of refusing to employ any person because of their political beliefs.”
Ms. Redgrave’s right to engage in anti-Zionist propaganda without employment sanctions was also championed by Bud Sanford, executive secretary of the AFL-CIO American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) who wrote Fox: “This union applauds your position that no person should be denied employment because of their political views.”
Liberal spokesmen, however, have not accorded the same rights to Anita Bryant who spoke out against the Miami homosexual ordinance. She was denounced by AFTRA’s sister union, Actors Equity Council, and she has been blacklisted and frozen out of her formerly profitable television and concert bookings.
9. “Thou shalt not censor school textbooks to eliminate words and concepts offensive to Bible-believing parents.” The liberal community heaped scorn, ridicule and even criminal prosecution on West Virginia parents who wanted obscenities removed from school textbooks.
However, the Textbook Project Staff of the Office of Research of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is sending questionnaires to textbook publishers demanding the elimination of words and pictures that a small pressure group has labeled “sexist” because they show men or women in traditional roles. Academic freedom goes out the window as the HEW and Justice Department militants, with all the clout of Federal funds behind them, impose on schools and textbook publishers their new brand of unisex orthodoxy.
The liberals are never inconsistent? Well, hardly ever.
