In the five month hiatus of OmegaZine!'s updating I have come to realize that the left is no longer the enemy. More than a few on the left opposed the "humanitarian" intervention in Kosovo, saw the KLA as drug dealing thugs instead of "liberators", saw Serbia as the victim of NATO aggression, and see Al Gore as an enemy to their cause. True, leftists for the most part--even Alexander Cockburn of Counter Punch fame, a presenter at Anti-War.com's Left-Right Alliance Conference a couple of months ago, a Marxist, and Lenora Fulani, supposedly Pat Buchanan's Reform Party running mate, an avowed leftist--support more government spending on welfare and big government in general. A tried and true leftist mag, Mother Jones seems to me nowadays to be more populist than socialist/liberal/politically correct. And a tried and true leftist politician, former Texas Agricultural Commissioner, Jim Hightower, has always been more populist than socialist/liberal, a "little guy" kinda guy. Finally, the editor of this e-zine, yours truly Deborah Lagarde, used to be a very left-wing individual! If you run through old New York Daily News archives, dating back to May, 1971, when China (the PRC, that is) was being admitted into the UN, you will see me carrying a poster of Mao Tse-Tung! Honest!

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I have always been politically incorrect. Back in the late 60s and 70s when the conservatives--actually, the so-called "neocons"--ran the country and we were still in Vietnam, I was this extreme leftist. Though as I got older and wiser (do not confuse that with "more cynical" or "less idealistic", okay?) I did become a little more conservative by degrees, I can still honestly say I did not support Ronald Reagan, I would never support Reagan (however, since he cut free grants to grad students in 1981, I was forced to forget about grad school in Psychology at the New School for Social Research--and for that I will be eternally grateful, since had I gone and gotten a Ph.D. my life would be a mess now!), and anyone who says Reagan was a great President is full of it: Reagan is still the guy who instituted the infamous Rex84 Concentration Camp scheme, and you can say what you want about George Bush "making" him do it! Reagan is still the guy who called ketchup a vegetable so he could cut school lunch funds! So, don't tell me Reagan was "great"! And I could not or ever support "conservative" George Bush, who gave us the "New World Order", Gulf War Syndrome, the annihilation of civialians in Iraq which continues to this day, and a "beefed up" drug war--funny, since Bush himself is still the CIAs hand-picked friend of the drug lords (Did I say Bush was with the CIA? Tar and feather me!), among other "conservative" deals. What I'm saying is that "neocon-ism" was politically correct back then.

Everyone now "knows" that the term "political correctness" came into being with the leftist Clintonistas, and our notion of political correctness with it: it's bad to be a white male, gays have more rights than straights, trees and whales are more important than humans, it's okay to murder babies, God forbid you tell a female at work "hey babe" because you might find yourself on the wrong end of a sexual harrassment suit, and God forbid you admit you love Jesus!

However, the first use of "politically correct" did not originate with Clinton and did not originate in, for want of a better term, America's "bastions of higher learning". The first use ever of this expression was used by the Chinese Commies during the Great Chinese Cultural Revolution. Don't believe me? Then pick up a copy of the Red Book of Quotations of Chairman Mao Tse-tung where the "cadres" were told to impose the "correct political line" on the denizens of China's "bastions of higher learning", collective farms, grammar schools, etc. (The similarities between the persecution of white males at America's best universities--and, since I studied psychology, I know that being forced into sensitivity training means being forced into mind control and thus is persecution, no matter how warm and fuzzy the deal is--and the persecution of professors at Chinese universities back then when they were forced into "re-education camps", is striking.)

In my introductory paragraph I stated that every generation of ideologues and the power elite they created had its own political correctness. The politically incorrect at the time found themselves isolated, persecuted in the media of the day, crying in the wilderness. Yet, notice that the politically incorrect have always won in the long hual. Political correctness did not begin with Mao, and certainly not with Clinton. Think of it--

• The world's very first recorded case of political (and cultural) incorrectness was Noah. He alone was righteous in an antediluvian world of total decay. Noah was laughed at in the hundred years it took him to build the ark with his sons (neither history nor the Bible records Shem's, Japeth's, or Ham's degree of incorrectness, however, before the flood), mocked and maybe even persecuted by local authorities.
  

  Guess who survived the flood? Guess why he survived the flood?
  

• A few generations later, a guy named Nimrod got everyone to speak the same language and build a temple to reach Heaven. Nimrod created the first, but not the last, "one-world government". No one who built Babel spoke out against political correctness with any success, so God took matters into His own hands. Result? Every family spoke a different language and the world's first "one-world government" was smashed.
  

  New World Order crowd: take a lesson!
  

• After Moses led the Nation of Israel out of captivity, the people rebelled and built a Golden Calf as god, the politically correct thing to do, according to Dathan and a couple of other arrogant and wealthy Israelities. Well, the Israelites spent forty years wandering the Saudi peninsula (and not the Sinai as politically correct Bible scholars still insist). Dathan and his fellows were swallowed up by the earth. Then, during the rule by the Judges, Israel begged God to let them have a King because that was the politically correct thing to do, seeing as how that's what the Caananites, Hittites and the others had. So, God let them have a King. A hundred or so years later, Israel, then later Judah, was taken into a captivity the twelve tribes never fully recovered from--which has allowed phony "Christians" in the Identity movement to spout their "Adamic Seedline" crap (which even Pete Peters opposes!).
  

• Basically, the Roman Republic became the Roman Empire--which fell in less than four hundred years from hordes who never heard of political correctness--because Roman citizens demanded "stronger leadership" to keep all those enslaved lands under thumb and to keep events like Spartacus's Slave Revolt from happening again. Granting more freedoms to conquered lands and the lower classes was not the politically correct thing to do. Thus, the Caesers became the ruling family and Augustus an Emperor.
  

  Question: Did the average citizen of Rome have more or fewer rights under the Emperors? When did the Senate become ineffective? Answers: Fewer, and when the Emperors took over. So, why is it no one cried when the Empire fell?
  

• All the anti-Christian nonsense that creeped into Christendom after Rome's fall occurred because Constantine and others wanted to gather up the pagans into the Roman Church. Thus, we have "Christian" practices that have nothing to do with Christ, salvation, and the Bible: Christmas on December 25 (which coincides with the pagan Yuletide and the occultic birth of Tamuz, the child of Nimrod and Semirammis)--Christ, by the way, was born during the harvest season, late summer, when Roman rulers called for a census, which was why Christ was born in Bethlehem where taxes were collected and not Nazereth, where he would have been born otherwise. Another "Christian" practice is Easter: Easter is the outcome of getting spring reproductive rites pagans mingling with Passover. What, otherwise, would the death and resurrection of Christ have to do with bunnies? Santa Claus, St. Valentine, St. Patrick, all that stuff about the Virgin Mary--all of this and more was a matter of instituting Roman Church political correctness that lasted until after Martin Luther exposed it as fraud. Again, the politically correct were defeated.
  

  Fact: The "Inquisition" that today's politically correct use to justify persecuting Bible-believing Christians was, in fact, politically correct for its time!
  

• Another fact: the war in Vietnam lasted as long as it did and was as ineffectual in its stated purpose of stopping Communism's "dominoes" as it was precisely because for the longest time--about ten years--it was politically correct for us to be there. As long as the people took media spin hook, line, and sinker, that the war was winnable (the Tet offensive in spring 1968 proved it was not), and that "the enemy" were the "radicals" and "war protesters" and young folks like me who wouldn't wear those little American flags on their lapels and have "Love it or Leave it" bumper stickers on their cars, the warmongers, arms dealers and death merchants could get away with using our young men as cannon fodder for Exxon and what Eisenhower called the "Military-Industrial Complex". It was during that war that I learned just how much the media sucks up to the power elites when it ought to be questioning them.
  

  How sad it is that many (but not all!) of those who protested that war now crave the burning of human flesh in Serbia, Kosovo, Iraq, Sierra Leone, Chechnya, East Timor and other hellholes for politically correct "humanitarian" reasons.
  

  Shame On YOU!!!

  
  

  Thus, the enemy of freedom, liberty and happiness knows no "wing" of political thought. The left is not the enemy. The enemy--throughout all of recorded history--is the power elites, the "politically correct".
  

  And it is the fight against political correctness that is OmegaZine's mission.
  

  Deborah Lagarde, Editor, OmegaZine!
  

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