Resurgence of liberty in Boston?

By Charles A. Morse
web posted August 6, 2001

Is Boston, the "cradle of liberty," bestirring after generations of
somnambulance to the ancient siren call of its creed? Is the
"Athens of America" reacquainting itself with genuine intellectual
thought? Will the "Hub of the Universe" reclaim its moral
birthright, which was as the champion of freedom and common
sense? Will Boston once again view itself as the proverbial "City
on the Hill?" Stay tuned, several recent initiatives point in that
direction.

Libertarian candidate for Governor Carla Howell will soon file an
initiative petition to abolish the state's personal income tax.
Howell recently garnered 12 per cent of the vote for US Senate
against the colossus of Massachusetts's politics, Ted Kennedy.
She is generating an increasing interest amongst Massachusetts
voters. The idea of an overarching, overstuffed government, the
gospel of the eastern seaboard liberal establishment these many
generations, seems to be aging. Like buckling linoleum, the
hinges are beginning to show.

To paraphrase John F. Kennedy, it's "time to build anew."
Former Governor Michael S. Dukakis, perhaps the last hero of
the big government great society, in his last decrepit year in
office, proclaimed that the people would starve in the streets if
the state budget were cut. One year later, the new Republican
Governor, William F. Weld, substantially cut the budget and led
a movement toward privatization. The economy proceeded to
flourish and none have starved. Has the torch been passed to a
new generation of Americans?

California millionaire businessman Ron Unz is in town introducing
a ballot question that would dismantle bilingual education.
Massachusetts, not surprisingly, has the nation's oldest bilingual
education law. This program is tailor made for the left-wing
Brahmin elite and their blue blood imitators. Bilingual education is
the perfect liberal scam. Rivers of state and federal revenue flow
toward the maintenance of fashionable lifestyles for liberal
bureaucrats who mostly live in leafy, predominantly white Boston
suburbs like Dover, Weston, and Concord while the poor non-
English speaking inner city student is condemned by their
methods to live in a perpetual underclass. The bilingual program
neatly lends itself to other liberal scams, which provide liberals
with sources of "revenue" such as welfare, social services,
therapy, special education, whole language, or any educational
program with the word "new" attached to it. The liberal gets to
perpetually travel in the insufferably self-congratulatory vineyards
of "the underprivileged" from the safe distances of towns like
Sudbury, Lexington and Winchester.

Matt Daniels, director of the Alliance for Marriage, along with
Bryan Rudnick, Brandeis student and director of Massachusetts
Citizens Alliance, are introducing a ballot initiative defining
marriage as between one man and one woman who are not
presently married and who have reached the age of consent. The
left establishment seeks to define marriage, ultimately, as a
contract between anyone and anything. The left establishment
believes in a Freudian concept called "Polymorphous Perversity."
This holds that sex with anyone, at any age, in any combination,
at any time, is a utopian virtue. Constructs such as marriage are
viewed as artificial and repressive entities. The legal recognition
of gay marriage would begin the process of turning the
autonomous traditional marriage on its head. The issue of equal
access to employment benefits is the Trojan horse entering the
courtyard. While in a free society consensual adults can do
anything they want, and the debate over employment benefits is a
genuine one, everyone, regardless of sexual proclivities, has a
stake in upholding the traditional concept of marriage.

These three progressive initiatives will draw out all the usual
suspects. The haters will cry about hate and the racists will
screech about racism as they attempt to turn the tables. They will
scream about poverty as they seek ever-increasing transfers of
wealth to the government and themselves while the economy and
jobs shrink. They will yelp about racism as they defend a
program that fails to teach young people the lingua franca thus
condemning them to a life of little opportunity. They will
caterwaul about homophobia as they vent their spleen on the
institution of heterosexual marriage. The haters still control the
high ground in Boston but the spirit of Bunker Hill is yet still alive
and they may be soon running scared.

Chuck Morse (www.chuckmorse.com) is the author of the
upcoming book "Why I'm a Right-Wing Extremist."

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