Unwise rulings
Taki
RRougemont oh Hughes is among the most knowledgeable of football writers, and he called the free kick awarded to David Beckham 'dubious'. I am not as learned as Hughes, at least as far as football's concerned, ergo I shall call it an outrage. The Dutch referee, a jerk by the name of Dick Jol (he's a dick, alright), kept giving Beckham free kicks as if they were party favours on Christmas Eve at the local orphanage. After 93 minutes, in which a gallant Greek side showed the English to be strong and fast but totally lacking in talent, the dick called a foul on a Greek player whose only crime was to have judged a header better than the English oaf in front of him. Some victory.
So the 2-2 tie robbed my tiny country of a historic win, but at least our goals were worthy ones. In fact, both were brilliant, whereas England's goals came after nonexistent fouls. Our new German trainer had organised the team so they outplayed England. His task was made easier due to the lack of talent, creativity and imagination of the home side. I was very proud to be Greek last Saturday because they played the game the way it should be played, and but for that dick we would have had a famous victory. After the game the camera zoomed in on the 'fans'. Their beer-bellies hanging down, their shaved heads glistening with sweat and 'patriotic' fervour, their eyes those of satyromaniacal perverts: a Less appealing bunch I have not met except outside Kabul United stadium during a public hanging.
But enough about football, a yobbish game more suited to Taleban tendencies
than to sporting ones. St Tropez was wonderful, cool and full of beautiful classic sailing boats for the Voiles de St Tropez week. There is nothing quite like seeing the port full of classics, not a stinkpot in sight, a reminder of how wonderful life used to be before, say, the ghastly Beatles and Rolling Stones. (Perhaps this dates me a bit, but what the hell.) One night, while walking on the quai, I noticed a very good-looking young man, blond and bearded with very curly hair. He looked awfully familiar, so I approached him. 'Oh, hi dad, what are you doing down here?' My son and heir was crewing on a Fife, the Nan, and was busy explaining to every old salt in sight the innermost secrets of sailing. I wonder where he got that from? J.T. now plans to sail across the ocean to Brazil, which is probably the safest place for one's child to be. Even Harry Laden (Le Rosey and White's) will not waste a hijacked airliner on a sailing boat in the middle of the ocean.
And speaking of minorities such as Harry bin Laden, the American philosopher Eric Hoffer once said that 'a dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority; what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority'. Hear, hear. What Hoffer said is truer today than ever, with the anti-globalists posing as environmentalists and dogooders. They are nothing of the sort. They are simply anti free enterprise, and regard the results of democratic elections as illegitimate. They are the new liberators, in the same way that the scum of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) during the Sixties would lead us to the new utopia, one founded on bombing and other forms of violence. From Seattle to Genoa, the new liberators are determined to destroy the only economic system which has brought a measure of happiness to so many people, the one which lifts disadvantaged societies to a bearable level of existence.
Make no mistake about it. The new liberators will do their best to see America fail in its war against terrorism. This is where Plato and Aristotle come in. Plato made almost no democratic concessions in his Republic, feeling the only true superiority is that of the wise over the unwise. In his second-best state, old Plato was willing to accept good birth, age and property as evidence of better-than-average wisdom. Aristotle was also damn good. A large, urban democracy was bound to open the door to demagogues, and become disorderly and lawless.
George W. Bush should follow Plato's and Aristotle's advice. This is no time for democratic niceties. The intelligence failures came about because of the liberals in Congress and their blame-America-first mindset. Senator Frank Church started it, and Robert Toricelli has continued it. Let's free the hands that fight for us, and that includes clubbing down the new liberators rather hard.
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