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"He's no Moses, he's the bad guy"
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He's no Moses, he's the bad guy
August 16, 2002
BY JUAN ANDRADE
Like many Americans, I was deeply saddened to learn that Charlton Heston had been diagnosed as having symptoms of Alzheimer's, that dreadful disease that afflicts tens of thousands of Americans each year. You would never wish such a disease on anyone, no matter what role he may have played in real life or, as in Heston's case, in reel life.
I've had some difficult experiences with dreadful diseases. The people who have influenced me the most all succumbed to one dreadful disease or another. I lost my father to cirrhosis and my mother to cancer. My closest cousin, Noah, died of cancer, and my cousin Amado died of cirrhosis. My dearest mentor, Dr. Jose Rivas, also died of cirrhosis. The dean of Latino politics in Chicago, the late Cook County Commissioner Irene Hernandez, also died a victim of Alzheimer's. And, two years ago my second oldest son, Joaquin, was diagnosed with an awful form of cancer that nearly claimed his life. That's why my heart goes out to those so afflicted, as well as their families.
All my loved ones struggled against their respective diseases with dignity, and I don't take affliction lightly. I respect and have enormous compassion for those who suffer. It was with that sentiment that I first reacted when the news hit early last Saturday morning about Heston.
Most of us baby boomers grew up thinking of Heston as Moses. No one who ever saw the movie ''The Ten Commandments'' could ever forget the scene of Moses saying ''Behold His mighty hand'' and parting the Red Sea. The look on his face was equally unforgettable. According to the way some people interpret the Bible--and this includes me--Moses was so holy that he didn't even have to die before going to heaven. Moses was an awesome dude and, in our own subconscious equalization, if Heston could part the water, he could probably walk on water too.
For many of us, whenever we thought of Moses we saw Heston's face. That's how closely we associated the two. Disagreeing with Heston almost ran the risk of offending God! Or so we thought. Heston's public image was reaching saintly status until he opted to trade his shepherd's staff for a rifle, and his saintlike image for the logo of violence: the National Rifle Association. Gun-control advocates like myself felt betrayed. With Heston's saintly status and star quality, you couldn't blame the NRA for enlisting his support. But last Saturday morning, it wasn't long before Heston reminded me and perhaps countless others why now he is more reviled than revered by millions of Americans.
In his taped remarks, Heston compared himself and his own resolve to John F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Ronald Reagan: three of the most revered names in America. He has nothing in common with any of them, save for Reagan, with Alzheimer's. Kennedy and King both were shot down in the prime of their lives by idiots with rifles. How dare Heston invoke their names! Just who does he think he is? What a pathetic display of pompous self-adulation. What a hypocrite! What a disgusting manipulator.
And Heston just couldn't leave bad enough alone. As if to somehow comfort us and assure us that he will always be with us, Heston said, ''I parted the Red Sea, but I can't part with you.'' ''I'' parted the Red Sea? Give us a break. That was Moses, the Deliverer. With all due respect to Heston, he parted ways with me and tens of millions of Americans when he joined up with the NRA to help give us an overly armed and undertrained society of gun owners, where criminals with superior weapons outnumber police.
I hope Heston steps down as president of the NRA. He'd like to stay through the remainder of his term. I would strongly urge him to drop the NRA and use whatever politically redeeming value he may have left to promote funding for more Alzheimer's research. I just hope he doesn't try to do both. Attacking Heston is not fun, especially after his diagnosis. But if he stays, he's fair game.
E-mail: docandrade@ushli.com
http://www.suntimes.com/output/andrade/cst-edt-juan16.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
He's no Moses, he's the bad guy
August 16, 2002
BY JUAN ANDRADE
Like many Americans, I was deeply saddened to learn that Charlton Heston had been diagnosed as having symptoms of Alzheimer's, that dreadful disease that afflicts tens of thousands of Americans each year. You would never wish such a disease on anyone, no matter what role he may have played in real life or, as in Heston's case, in reel life.
I've had some difficult experiences with dreadful diseases. The people who have influenced me the most all succumbed to one dreadful disease or another. I lost my father to cirrhosis and my mother to cancer. My closest cousin, Noah, died of cancer, and my cousin Amado died of cirrhosis. My dearest mentor, Dr. Jose Rivas, also died of cirrhosis. The dean of Latino politics in Chicago, the late Cook County Commissioner Irene Hernandez, also died a victim of Alzheimer's. And, two years ago my second oldest son, Joaquin, was diagnosed with an awful form of cancer that nearly claimed his life. That's why my heart goes out to those so afflicted, as well as their families.
All my loved ones struggled against their respective diseases with dignity, and I don't take affliction lightly. I respect and have enormous compassion for those who suffer. It was with that sentiment that I first reacted when the news hit early last Saturday morning about Heston.
Most of us baby boomers grew up thinking of Heston as Moses. No one who ever saw the movie ''The Ten Commandments'' could ever forget the scene of Moses saying ''Behold His mighty hand'' and parting the Red Sea. The look on his face was equally unforgettable. According to the way some people interpret the Bible--and this includes me--Moses was so holy that he didn't even have to die before going to heaven. Moses was an awesome dude and, in our own subconscious equalization, if Heston could part the water, he could probably walk on water too.
For many of us, whenever we thought of Moses we saw Heston's face. That's how closely we associated the two. Disagreeing with Heston almost ran the risk of offending God! Or so we thought. Heston's public image was reaching saintly status until he opted to trade his shepherd's staff for a rifle, and his saintlike image for the logo of violence: the National Rifle Association. Gun-control advocates like myself felt betrayed. With Heston's saintly status and star quality, you couldn't blame the NRA for enlisting his support. But last Saturday morning, it wasn't long before Heston reminded me and perhaps countless others why now he is more reviled than revered by millions of Americans.
In his taped remarks, Heston compared himself and his own resolve to John F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Ronald Reagan: three of the most revered names in America. He has nothing in common with any of them, save for Reagan, with Alzheimer's. Kennedy and King both were shot down in the prime of their lives by idiots with rifles. How dare Heston invoke their names! Just who does he think he is? What a pathetic display of pompous self-adulation. What a hypocrite! What a disgusting manipulator.
And Heston just couldn't leave bad enough alone. As if to somehow comfort us and assure us that he will always be with us, Heston said, ''I parted the Red Sea, but I can't part with you.'' ''I'' parted the Red Sea? Give us a break. That was Moses, the Deliverer. With all due respect to Heston, he parted ways with me and tens of millions of Americans when he joined up with the NRA to help give us an overly armed and undertrained society of gun owners, where criminals with superior weapons outnumber police.
I hope Heston steps down as president of the NRA. He'd like to stay through the remainder of his term. I would strongly urge him to drop the NRA and use whatever politically redeeming value he may have left to promote funding for more Alzheimer's research. I just hope he doesn't try to do both. Attacking Heston is not fun, especially after his diagnosis. But if he stays, he's fair game.
E-mail: docandrade@ushli.com
http://www.suntimes.com/output/andrade/cst-edt-juan16.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Comments
Andrade spends the whole article setting up the reader for what's in the last three paragraphs, and it's idiotic, because none of his previous conclusions about Mr. Heston logically lead one to believe he is either a crackpot or anything other than a well-reasoned man who has lived a good and successful American life. But Andrade can't see past that. He's made his mind up in the headline. This is very common among anti-gunners. They can take a step-by-step logical thread of thought all the way to the end -- and still jump to the wrong conclusion.
The NRA is 4 million grass roots Americans who support the "people's right" language in the Second Amendment. Nothing more, nothing less. Heston would not have been a great NRA leader for more than a split second if his American citizen followers had not followed, and agreed.
Perhaps Mr. Andrade's brain is broken. I can think of few worse brain diseases than Alzheimer's, but perhaps one of them is closed-mindedness. I'm the NRA, and I vote.
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"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Edited by - offeror on 08/17/2002 13:38:18
"He has nothing in common with any of them?"....I believe Heston was comparing his own "resolve" to that of Kennedy....I seem to remember Heston marched with Martin Luther King during the 1960's civil rights marches, both Heston and Reagan were presidents of the Screen Actors Guild and he did campaign for Reagan....looks like this fellow hasn't done his homework.
- Life NRA Member
"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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I admire both King for his Ghandi-like pacifism and Malcolm X for his conversion and rebirth in prison. Malcolm even dropped his racism after a belated trip to Mecca where he saw "blue-eyed Muslims." Malcolm X's biography written with Alex Haley is a very good book.
I also respect Malcolm's "by any means necessary" attitude. There is no question they were second class citizens of America in those days.
Had it not been for King Jr., we almost certainly would have had a completely different kind of Black freedom revolution, and after the dogs and firehoses, they'd have certainly armed themselves in far greater numbers. We have King to thank for showing them the way to a peaceful process of change. I have no doubt at all of that. You may miss the civil war we didn't have, but I don't. Having lived in L.A. for quite a long time, the riots were quite bad enough, thank you.
- Life NRA Member
"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
And the fact that he personifies Moses as a sheepish, non-violent, peacenik shows what a totally Orwellian world these Liberals live in where they change facts at will.
Anyone who went to church more than twice in their life knows that Moses was no Liberal peacenik. He was a rebellious hardass who wasnt afraid of anything. Anyone who had the balls to go up to the Pharaoh of Egypt and tell him God was going to destroy his country had much more courage than any of us'll ever have. And he fully supported God when the decision was made to allow the Angel of Death to kill the first born child in every Egyptian family. Doesnt sound like some apathetic Liberal loser to me.
NOTE: I almost forgot. All the above applies only (in the words of Indiana Jones) if you believe that religion stuff.
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- Life NRA Member
"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878