Posted by
KsReaganite on Tuesday, December 19, 2006 2:16:20 AM
For those amongst us, principally the RINOs, that speak big today about the need for 'moderation', let us not forget the words from another era when principled defenders of human rights faced the same vanilla blathering from the RINOs of their time. One of the foremost doyens of American journalism and an intellectual progenitor of the Republican Party, sensing the faint-hearted selfishness of the 'moderation' elite, had this to say in the inaugural New Year 1831 issue of his newspaper:
I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; – but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest – I will not equivocate – I will not excuse – I will not retreat a single inch – AND I WILL BE HEARD. The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal, and to hasten the resurrection of the dead.
That was William Lloyd Garrison, the fiery Massachussetts editor/publisher of the Liberator, back in the era when Massachussetts had real men who spoke truth to the debauched Boston Brahmin power.