Posted on 07/10/2008 4:40:40 PM PDT by slickeroo
The propaganda sheet of Cuba's Stalinist regime has almost outdone the mainstream international media in vilifying Jesse Helms. It's a close-run thing. You be the judge:
“To many around the world,” recently wrote London's Financial Times,“he was little less than a monster.”
"Few senators in the modern era have done more to resist the tide of progress," concluded the New York Times when Helms retired in 2003.
"He fought for the values of the old confederacy. He resisted the new South. He resisted the opportunity to fight for a more perfect union," said Rev. Jesse Jackson (who bellowed “Viva Fidel!-Viva Che!” while arm in arm with Castro in Havana in 1984.
“It is hard even now to think of him with charity,” runs the obituary in the UK Guardian. Helms was “a baleful influence” with a “malign impact” on American foreign policy. “He caused an international furore by joining forces with Congressman Dan Burton of Indiana to push through the Helms-Burton Act, extending American jurisdiction to international companies trading with Cuba.”
“There are men in the world who become paradigms of disgrace to the human race,” wrote a Castro-court eunuch in Cuba's official paper, Granma, this past Monday.“A titan of intolerance!” continues the scribbling eunuch in this propaganda organ for a regime that jailed and tortured political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin's and executed more in its first three years in power than Hitler's murdered in its first six.
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Revisionist historians will no doubt print their lies, but God and those who lived when he was around will know the truth.
Ahh...win the Liberals get this angry in print, you know Helms had them foaming at the mouth in private....
A tip o’ the jar to you Senator Helms, gone but not forgotten, and still driving the MSM to the edge of grand mal seizures..
And what will this race bating, class pimp, jack ass who kisses the asses of WHITE DIMOCRATS in Sodom on the Potomac SAY AND DO when the old KKK grand wizard Robert Byrd kicks the bucket????? How are you going to smooze that one over Jessie, you stupid jack ass.
I can imagine no greater endorsement.
Death to the liberal media.
““A titan of intolerance!””
Whenever I see the word “intolerance,” I pretty much write the speaker off as mentally-challenged and pushing a point way too far in the name of agenda. It’s one of those words that no longer has any meaning outside of an attempt to disparage someone through villification.
It’s also pretty similar to “progressive,” in that it implies a lot more than it should actually mean.
The media (even worldwide) is beginning to appear mentally unbalanced.
A badge of honor and truth. We salute you sir! Enjoy Heaven!
Jesse Jackson quotes are oddly devalued of late...
Senator Helms was a great right wing conservative who fought the lefties tooth and nail.
May he R.I.P.
I admire your restraint and subdued use of language. ;)
Well, he must have done something right to be hated. Well done, my good and faithful servant.
The Jesse Helms You Should Remember
Thursday July 10, 09:25:36 GMT-0700 2008 · by Tailgunner Joe · 7 replies · 630+ views
washingtonpost.com ^ | July 7, 2008 | Marc Thiessen
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043479/posts
I take off my hat to you, good Senator, may you rest in peace knowing you did all you could to stem the tide of idiocy in this nation as it turns its back on its founding principles of self determination and rugged individualism and looks towards the bleak future of gunpoint enforced altruism, where work is punished and sloth rewarded, where success is measured in how much of a victim you are and not for your personal accomplishments.
My main problem with Helms was that he was a career senator. Yes, I hold that against anyone, as that wasn’t the plan.
Being vilified by the likes of Jesse (I want to cut his nuts off) Jackson is a compliment I’m sure Helms is relishing in the afterlife.
You are known by your enemies. Jesse can take comfort that his enemies are also enemies of freedom. RIP Jesse.
” My main problem with Helms was that he was a career senator”. I JUST WISH WE HAD 50 CAREER SENATORS JUST LIKE HIM. We wouldn’t be in the shape we’re in right now.
Yep...and I hope he and my relatively recently deceased Dad are yakkin' up a storm up there.....Pop (94 when he died) always respected the man.
Yeppers..hope the old guys are having a blast up there!
As for you, I and all of us....carry on soldiers and fight for right!
Hated by Castro for those reasons — is a hero to free people everywhere.
If Castro is “progress” then may we never have “progress”.
I wish we didn’t have any career senators, as they start looking at politics and power as a career instead of the job just a temporary service to their country as it was meant. “We wouldn’t be in the shape we’re in right now.”
Somehow I think old Jesse wouldn’t give a rat’s rear end about what Cuban Communists think of him.
If it was meant to be that way it would have been put in the Constitution. The founding fathers knew what they were doing. Today’s voters do not.
There's a lot of stuff that was clearly meant to be by the Founding Fathers who trusted that they didn't need to be so explicit in the Constitution.
Take the monopolies of copyrights and patents. Madison considered them a necessary evil and tried to persuade Jefferson (who was against them) that they wouldn't be abused, "Is there not also infinitely less danger of this abuse in our governments than in most others? ... Monopolies are sacrifices of the many to the few. ... Where the power, as with us, is in the many not in the few, the danger can not be very great that the few will be thus favored."
Then look at copyrights and patents today, completely NOT what it was meant to be, as the "few" are extremely favored at the expense of the "many." Had the founders been prescient enough, I am sure the Copyright Clause would have been worded differently to prevent today's situation.
But to the subject at hand:
"All [reforms] can be done peaceably, by the people confining their choice of Representatives and Senators to persons attached to republican government and the principles of 1776; not office-hunters, but farmers whose interests are entirely agricultural. Such men are the true representatives of the great American interest, and are alone to be relied on for expressing the proper American sentiments." --Thomas Jefferson to Arthur Campbell, 1797.Here was Jefferson's plan:
"I had proposed that they [senators] should hold their places for nine years and then go out (one third every three years) and be incapable forever of being re-elected to that house. My idea was that if they might be re-elected, they would be casting their eye forward to the period of election (however distant) and be currying favor with the electors and consequently dependent on them. My reason for fixing them in office for a term of years rather than for life was that they might have an idea that they were at a certain period to return into the mass of the people and become the governed instead of the governor, which might still keep alive that regard to the public good that otherwise they might perhaps be induced by their independence to forget." --Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Pendleton, 1776Career legislators were not the plan, and indeed considered dangerous.
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