Let me tell you about word crime

By Jack Furnari

Twisting the English language, by media and politicians alike, has reached such absurd levels I can’t take it anymore.

In my role as a political activist and consultant I have occasionally advised politicians in the use of “creative language.” However, I have never completely distorted the word meaning, only its flavor.

For example, a feel good innocuous sounding phrase like “educate the voters” or “educate the public” takes on much darker overtones when placed in the context of who says it and when they say it.

When used by politicians, the media and most do-gooder nonprofit types what it really means is one or all of the following: “the public totally disagrees with us, or we want more of your money” – in other words, “we’re smart and you’re dumb”.

Ever since the Florida state legislature decided to crack down on out of control local government spending we’ve been inundated by local officials looking to “educate us” on why they need to keep more and more of our money and how much better they spend our money than we ever could. Why, they’re so giving and thoughtful they even want to spend our tax money to “educate” us on why we need to give them more of our money.
If this is their idea of education then maybe all of us need to become drop-outs.

Likewise, “workforce housing” or “affordable housing” is housing built with your money that you won’t want to live in, and that will never be built within a mile of any politician’s home.

“To avoid even the appearance of impropriety” means “I know it’s wrong, you know it’s wrong and there is no law against it -- but since I’m up for re-election I’ll return the money.”

As well, government and non-profit bureaucrats calling the beneficiaries of our tax dollars “clients” really galls me. Hey, potato heads, the person who pays for something is the client, and that’s the taxpayer.

I’m not going to go down the “undocumented immigrant” road. Even the people who use the phrase “undocumented immigrant” know they’ve set a new standard in Orwellian “newspeak.”

“Stakeholder” is an insipid word class warriors use so complete strangers with no right to stick a nose into your business can tell you what to do. The elites who use this one think we’re so dumb we will confuse “shareholder” with “stakeholder” and grant a bunch of busybodies’ control over someone else’s property or business.

“Diversity is our strength” would be a real laugher if it wasn’t such a dangerous phrase of politically correct moral equivalency gibberish.

Would having more Al Qaeda members in America make us stronger? Do we really have enough members and sympathizers of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Taliban to be a fully diverse society?

If the “diverse” cultures we all came from were so wonderful then why did we come to America in the first place?

Make no mistake “the diversity is our strength” phrase is an attack on Western Civilization and American culture.

Diverse people becoming Americans and embracing American culture and values is what makes us strong and no one should ever forget it.

To spread the blame around a bit, the “war on terror” is as spineless a phrase as has ever come out of our nation’s capital. Is it possible to wage war against a tactic? If Al Qaeda decided to discontinue terror tactics and attack us with planes and tanks, would that then be a different war? Would we then be waging the “war on tanks and planes”?
We’re in a war against Islamic Fascism/Islamic Fundamentalism and to phrase it any other way is ridiculous.

Of course blaming the human propensity for violence on an inanimate object like the users of “gun crime” do, defies the very concept of logic. When I was in Europe this summer I sat in stunned amazement while watching a BBC special on “knife crime” in England. The BBC actually had some lefty do-gooder talking about banning knives.

I have an idea: let’s absolve everyone from responsibility for anything. Fat (that’s right I used the word fat) people are just victims of “fork crime” and despite our local politicians spending like drunken sailors, high taxes aren’t their fault; we’re just victims of “tax crime”.

After all-children are our future.