A recent article about Canadians going to Iraq as human shields has gotten me thinking. My immediate reaction
to the headline was, "Cool!" This has nothing to do with Canadians. In fact, I really like our neighbors. Being
near the border, I have several Canadian friends and acquaintances. The reason I got excited about the idea of
these folks going to be human shields has nothing to do with their being Canadian. It has to do with improving the
race and culture through the elimination of inferior genes and cultural ideas. If these nuts want to hang out in
Iraqi hospitals that happen to be over nuclear weapons facilities with war impending, I won't stop them. I will
happily nominate them for Darwin Awards after the war.
I ask you, if you were a general, or even a US political leader, trying to effect regime change, would you care
if there were stupid foreign nationals at your target locations? Foreign nationals who had voluntarily gone there
for that purpose? Would you be concerned about US citizens volunteering? Would your semantic reactions be any
different if they were Saudi or Libyan nationals? Or is it just natural selection? If they happen to survive
while sitting on targets, round them up as enemy combatants, toss them in one of Iraq's nastier jails, and forget
them. Idiots like this do not deserve to live. Their protests should have no effect and no point. (If they do
have effect, maybe politicians who sacrifice the good of the nation for a few nuts need to be introduced to Iraq's
lovely prisons?)
In fact, I think that we should encourage those who would be Saddam's human shields to go forth and get killed
in this manner. We should provide free transportation like the Democrats provide buses to polling places. We
could buy seats on United Airlines and send them en masse; thereby infusing cash into that failing venture. After
we have blasted them to Kingdom Come, we can then enlist volunteers to be human shields for Fidel Castro as we take
the Regime Change Express on the road. There are enough liberals in the US to provide human shields for all of
the world's dictators and Saudi princes. If we don't pursue what the Canadians have started, we will be missing a
great opportunity to improve the average intelligence of the human species.
This brings up some other ideas. For instance, if the members of PETA are so against testing on animals, have
they ever considered volunteering for human testing? It really is much more accurate to test on humans than on
animals, but our current laws don't allow it. After animal trials, then companies can test on humans. Why not
change the law to allow liberal human volunteers? I hear the calls for test subjects for experimental medications
all the time on the radio. What if the research companies were to be allowed to solicit human stand-ins for the
animal tests? Imagine hearing this on the radio: "Okay, PETA members, come down to be our test subject or this
mouse, Mickey, gets the injection in your place. Will you be a selfish speciesist, or will you save Mickey?"
Taking this further, what if organizations such as PETA and Greenpeace were required to give their membership
and donor lists to companies who are experimenting? What if these companies were legally allowed to harvest test
subjects from these lists? Some might think that this is not the American Way to roust people out of their homes
and experiment on them, but if one has the right to assemble and protest, then one has the responsibility to step
forward and solve the problem. The problem is a lack of human test subjects. The companies have solved that
problem through the use of animals. If PETA members want to protest the use of animals, then they should be
willing to step forward as test subjects. It ought to be a covenant of joining or contributing to the
organization.
There is no right that comes without responsibility. Liberals have the right to protest the US's stance toward
Iraq and Saddam Hussein al Tikriti, but they have the responsibility to come up with a solution that works to
eliminate this dictator that they will not be whining about. Protecting the true human rights abusers at the
expense of those who are trying to solve the world's problems is an idiocy that should carry its own reward.
F. B. Knight is Curmudgeon-in-Residence at the Attila the Hun School of Management. He can be reached for questions
at
fbk@attilathehunschool.net.
