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It’s a miracle he attracted the caretakers, wives, girlfriends and young SF writer friends, that kept him from homelessness. Guy was a mess.

Had a wild imagination, though.

According to wikipedia “By the late 1960s, Buckley disagreed strenuously with segregationist George Wallace, and Buckley later said it was a mistake for National Review to have opposed the civil rights legislation of 1964-65. He later grew to admire Martin Luther King, Jr. and supported creation of a national holiday for him. In 2004, he explained a past statement pertaining to ‘cultural superiority, saying, “the point I made about white cultural supremacy was sociological and linking his usage of the word “Advancement” to its usage in the name NAACP, continuing, “The call for the ‘advancement’ of colored people presupposes they are behind. Which they were, in 1958, by any standards of measurement.” During the 1950s, Buckley had worked to remove anti-Semitism from the conservative movement and barred holders of those views from working for National Review.”

It seems to me that buckley’s organization of data was so orderly that most can never hope to surpass or even refute his level of thought. He was an intelligence so intense that no one could best or offer any logical response to any of his arguments.

It would be like Phil Donahue trying to teach Milton Friedman a lesson on economics…you can’t, see for yourself – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWsx1X8PV_A

Even in the face of pure logic, I’m sure to this day Donahue opposes Capitalism in favor of Socialism or worse.

On September 15, 1963 a bomb went off at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 4 black girls and injuring many more children. (Those killed were Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair; McNair had been a classmate of the young Condoleezza Rice). The bomb was set by members of the Klu Klux Klan, as part of a wave of terror designed to intimidate the civil rights movement. Here is how National Review commented on the bombing in the October 1, 1963 issue of their biweekly Bulletin: “The fiend who set off the bomb does not have the sympathy of the white population in the South; in fact, he set back the cause of the white people there so dramatically as to raise the question whether in fact the explosion was the act of a provocateur – of a Communist, or of a crazed Negro. Some circumstantial evidence lends a hint of plausibility to that notion, especially the ten-minute fuse (surely a white man walking away form the church basement ten minutes earlier would have been noticed?). And let it be said that the convulsions that go on, and are bound to continue, have resulted from revolutionary assaults on the status quo, and a contempt for the law, which are traceable to the Supreme Court’s manifest contempt for the settled traditions of Constitutional practice.”

So there you have: barely a whit of sympathy for the murdered and a quick desire to exonerate “the cause of the white people” and to shift the blame elsewhere, to a suppositious “communist”, to an imaginary “crazed Negro” and to the Supreme Court (guilty of ruling that segregation was unconstitutional). The real perversity of this editorial is worth dwelling on. The church bombing was not an isolated incident; it was part of a long tradition of extra-judicial white supremacist violence that goes back centuries, a pattern anyone familiar with American history knows well. Therefore, in trying to argue that the bombing couldn’t have been done by a white person, the editors were being wilfully obtuse. The purpose of the editorial is to obfuscate the question of guilt and blame the victims of a slaughter for their temerity in standing up for their rights.

You who do nothing more than feed on the minority votes are only eroding them and this nation, rather than supporting policies that would strengthen the whole nation.

Say what you will about Buckley and others…anyone with any intellectual honesty and common sense knows who really has done more to help minorities…the Buckley’s of the world who encourage the minorities to lift themselves or you who simply sit there and buy their votes with broken promises leaving them to rot in the sess pools of the inner cities you created!

this picture taken by saleem for gudia specialy not any one else ………………

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this is because of this sweet picture only

thanks