Commentary
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X7905200301 |
| Published date | 01 July 1979 |
| Date | 01 July 1979 |
| Subject Matter | Commentary |
"ALL THE PERFUMES OF ARABIA WILLNOT "
The
trick of the 20th century is to give yourself agrandiloquent
title
and
such is the influence and lack of discrimination of the all-
consuming media
that
you have only to wait a short while for people
to accept you for whatever you have decided to call yourself.
There are many examples.
If
the "Anti-Nazi League" is what its
name would seek to imply, why does it behave exactly like the
Fascists it claims to hate, as so many injured police officers could
testify? The "People's National Party" makes one wonder which
people and which nation - does someone need an elementary lesson
in geography?
Then
again, there is the grandy titled Institute for Race Relations
which, perhaps could more aptly be titled the Institute to Exacerbate
Race Relations. Their record is so bad that they have even frightened
away the
support
of that rather pathetic body, the World Council of
Churches.
And, of course, then we have the National Council for Civil
Liberties. Which nation
and
whose liberties? They certainly do not
speak for the writer of this column nor, one would suspect for many
others.
Who elected them? Who asked them to speak for whom?
Or
are
they as the others, more probably
just
another
instrument for the
destruction of the society we love and serve
and
for which some of us
were
proud
to offer
our
lives?
We have been told more
than
once of the strong religious beliefs of
Senator
Edward Kennedy and his family, almost to the point of
nausea.
Does the Bible not teach
"First
cast the beam
out
of thine own
eye"?
Whilst no-one would seek to defend the ill treatment of prisoners
in police custody, the worst allegation so far made against the
RUC
has never been
that
anyone in police hands has died, or even
that
they
have been seriously injured.
But Airey Neave is dead, so are young
children.so
are more
than
100
RUC
Officers
and
for the matter of fact, so is the young lady
foolish enough to travel in Mr. Kennedy's car.
214 July 1979
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