tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29361741.post116300060272177478..comments2023-12-30T05:22:27.108-05:00Comments on The New York Crank: It’s time to move the political center a few feet to the left.The New York Crankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04489472134701718697noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29361741.post-1163078135876290482006-11-09T08:15:00.000-05:002006-11-09T08:15:00.000-05:00Occasionally, non-bloggers send me e-mails at etao...Occasionally, non-bloggers send me e-mails at etaoinshrd@aol.com.<BR/><BR/>A reader called Geff and some of his friends wrote in with this quote, from Oliver Cromwell when he unseated the English crown:<BR/><BR/>"It is high time for Me to put an End to your Sitting in this Place, which you have dishonoured by your Contempt of all Virtue, and defiled by your Practice of every Vice;<BR/>"Ye are a factious Crew and Enemies of all good Government; Ye are a Pack of mercenary Wretches and would, like Esau, Sell your Country for a Mess of Pottage; and like Judas, betray your God for a few Pieces of Money; Is there a single Virtue now remaining amongst you?<BR/>"Is there one Vice that you do not possess? Ye have no more Religion than my horse! Gold is your God: Which of you have not bartered your Conscience for Bribes?<BR/>Is there a Man amongst you that has the least care for the Good of the Commonwealth?<BR/>"Ye sordid prostitutes! Have you not defiled this Sacred Place, and turned the Lord's Temple into a Den of Thieves by your immoral Principles and wicked Practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole Nation.<BR/>"Your Country therefore calls upon me to cleanse the Augean Stable, by putting a final Period to your Iniquitous Proceedings in this House, and which by God's Help, and the strength He has given Me, I now come to do.<BR/>"I command ye, therefore, upon the Peril of your Lives, to depart immediately out of this Place;<BR/>Go! Get out! Make haste, ye Venal Slaves, begone!"<BR/><BR/>Geff then added this from a more contemporary enemy of big and corrupt government:<BR/><BR/><BR/>"President Bush said that if illegal immigrants want citizenship they'd have to do three things: pay taxes, hold meaningful jobs, and learn English. Bush doesn't meet those qualifications."<BR/>--PJ O'Rourke<BR/><BR/>Thanks, Geff and friends, for both contributions. And keep coming back to this blog. Postings usually go up about twice a week.<BR/><BR/>-=The CrankThe New York Crankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04489472134701718697noreply@blogger.com