Collateral children

By Michael Moriarty
web posted October 1, 2001

It is a certainty, a historical inevitability, that Free World assaults
upon the enclaves of Islamic Jihad will eventually ignite a
worldwide war of protests.  These outbursts will, at first,
resemble the violent anti-globalization demonstrations in Seattle,
Vancouver, Montreal and Genoa.

Eventually [and more swiftly than anyone could anticipate], the
protesters will turn into terrorists themselves. Egged on by a
cause reminiscent of the anti-Vietnam-War crusade, these
children of Marxist universities will, in their romantic self-
delusion, prove just as willing to die for their cause as the
kamikaze pilots of September 11th, 2001 who crashed into the
Pentagon and twin towers of the World Trade Center in New
York City.

Which is more important to parents in the Free World?
Freedom or the lives of their children?

The psychological warfare inherent in what is actually the
revolution of Mao Zedong is, by far, the most cunning and
diabolically manipulative exploitation of youthful passion ever.

How could the elected officials of Western nations (as well as
Israel and Japan) find themselves having to choose between
individual freedom and their children's lives?

It's an unimaginable hell to put any parent through. The Free
World has been plunged into the nightmare the great French
writer, Albert Camus, laid open in his dramatic descriptions of
the living hell of World War II.  A Nazi officer forces a French
mother to select one of her sons to be executed for acts of the
French Resistance. She must pick one boy and then "see him
go."

Elected officials of democratic nations will have to determine
which children they will "see go." What can leaders of a
democracy do when confronted by terrorist children? What
recourse do they have when assaulted by legions of kill-crazy
kids whose parents have helped build the very "machine" these
children are so enraged by?

Do parents despair of their freedom for the sake of their
children? Do they succumb to the demands of Communist China
and its Gestapo arm, the Maoist Jihad?  Or do they see their
children mowed down to protect what is left of a true
democracy?

The collateral damage of a (so far non-atomic) World War III
will inspire Free World children to offer themselves up for
sacrifice. It is inevitable. The sentimental spin-doctoring of the
great protests against the Vietnam War, the heroic images of
Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, John Lennon, Phil Ochs, Jane Fonda and
many other artists and social activists will explode in a ripe
harvest of kamikaze children, aided and abetted by Leninists,
Maoists and Islamic Jihad.

The pre-Communist Chinese had an ancient tradition of showing
the greatest respect for their elders. However, since the
Communist takeover in 1949, Red China trashed its traditions
and taught its young people to grossly abuse their elders.
Communist China is now paying a horrendous price for that
neglect and permissiveness, most shockingly displayed during the
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-76).

Will Western Civilization discard its freedoms and opt for
tyranny to save the lives of its youth? Or will it exert its own
deep instinct for self-preservation and brook no blackmail from
its dangerously misguided younger generations?
I pray that North America opts for the latter course of action. To
resign oneself to tyranny is to commit cultural suicide. By
submitting to tyranny to save the children, we build a penitentiary
that imprisons the elders while serving as a place of execution for
the children who built the prison.

Michael Moriarty is a Golden Globe winning actor, best known for his 
role as Assistant District Attorney Ben Stone on Law and Order. Moriarty's 
current project is Taken, Steven Spielberg's mini-series on alien abductions, 
now shooting in Vancouver. Moriarty is also building a new political party 
in Canada -- The Realists (http://www.therealists.com/).

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