“South Park” is hilarious, right?
The veiled threats against the Comedy Central show’s creators should be taken very seriously. Islamists seek to replace the rule of law with that of commanding right and forbidding wrong.
By Ayaan Hirsi Ali
‘South Park” is hilarious, right? Not any more.
Last week, Zachary Adam Chesser—a 20-year-old Muslim convert who now goes by the name Abu Talhah Al-Amrikee—posted a warning on the Web site RevolutionMuslim.com following the 200th episode of the show on Comedy Central. The episode, which trotted out many celebrities the show has previously satirized, also “featured” the Prophet Muhammad: He was heard once from within a U-Haul truck and a second time from inside a bear costume.
For this apparent blasphemy, Mr. Amrikee warned that co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone “will probably end up” like Theo van Gogh. Van Gogh, readers will remember, was the Dutch filmmaker who was brutally murdered in 2004 on the streets of Amsterdam. He was killed for producing “Submission,” a film that criticized the subordinate role of women in Islam, with me.
There has been some debate about whether Mr. Stone and Mr. Parker should view the Web posting as a direct threat. Here’s Mr. Amrikee’s perspective: “It’s not a threat, but it really is a likely outcome,” he told Foxnews.com. “They’re going to be basically on a list in the back of the minds of a large number of Muslims. It’s just the reality.” He’s also published the home and office addresses of Messrs. Stone and Parker, as well as images of Van Gogh’s body.
According to First Amendment experts, technically speaking this posting does not constitute a threat. And general opinion seems to be that even if this posting was intended as a threat, Mr. Amrikee and his ilk are merely fringe extremists who are disgruntled with U.S. foreign policy; their “outrage” merits little attention.
This raises the question: How much harm can an Islamist fringe group do in a free society? The answer is a lot.
Mohammed Bouyeri, a Dutch-Moroccan Muslim first thought to have been a minor character in radical circles, killed Theo van Gogh. Only during the investigation did it emerge that he was the ringleader of the Hofstad Group, a terrorist organization that was being monitored by the Dutch Secret Service.
The story was very similar in the case of the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The cartoons, drawn by Kurt Westergaard, were published in September 2005 to little notice but exploded five months later into an international drama complete with riots and flag-burnings. The man behind this campaign of outrage was an Egyptian-born radical imam named Ahmed Abu-Laban.
Prior to this conflagration, Mr. Abu-Laban was seen as a marginal figure. Yet his campaign ended up costing Denmark businesses an estimated $170 million in the spring of 2006. And this doesn’t include the cost of rebuilding destroyed property and protecting the cartoonists.
So how worried should the creators of “South Park” be about the “marginal figures” who now threaten them? Very. In essence, Mr. Amrikee’s posting is an informal fatwa. Here’s how it works:
There is a basic principle in Islamic scripture—unknown to most not-so-observant Muslims and most non-Muslims—called “commanding right and forbidding wrong.” It obligates Muslim males to police behavior seen to be wrong and personally deal out the appropriate punishment as stated in scripture. In its mildest form, devout people give friendly advice to abstain from wrongdoing. Less mild is the practice whereby Afghan men feel empowered to beat women who are not veiled.
By publicizing the supposed sins of Messrs. Stone and Parker, Mr. Amrikee undoubtedly believes he is fulfilling his duty to command right and forbid wrong. His message is not just an opinion. It will appeal to like-minded individuals who, even though they are a minority, are a large and random enough group to carry out the divine punishment. The best illustration of this was demonstrated by the Somali man who broke into Mr. Westergaard’s home in January carrying an axe and a knife.
Any Muslim, male or female, who knows about the “offense” may decide to perform the duty of killing those who insult the prophet. So what can be done to help Mr. Parker and Mr. Stone?
The first step is for them to consult with experts on how to stay safe. Even though living with protection, as I do now in Washington, D.C., curtails some of your freedom, it is better than risking the worst.
Much depends on how far the U.S. government is prepared to contribute to their protection. According to the Danish government, protecting Mr. Westergaard costs the taxpayers $3.9 million, excluding technical operating equipment. That’s a tall order at a time of intense fiscal pressure.
One way of reducing the cost is to organize a solidarity campaign. The entertainment business, especially Hollywood, is one of the wealthiest and most powerful industries in the world. Following the example of Jon Stewart, who used the first segment of his April 22 show to defend “South Park,” producers, actors, writers, musicians and other entertainers could lead such an effort.
Another idea is to do stories of Muhammad where his image is shown as much as possible. These stories do not have to be negative or insulting, they just need to spread the risk. The aim is to confront hypersensitive Muslims with more targets than they can possibly contend with.
Another important advantage of such a campaign is to accustom Muslims to the kind of treatment that the followers of other religions have long been used to. After the “South Park” episode in question there was no threatening response from Buddhists, Christians and Jews—to say nothing of Tom Cruise and Barbra Streisand fans—all of whom had far more reason to be offended than Muslims.
Islamists seek to replace the rule of law with that of commanding right and forbidding wrong. With over a billion and a half people calling Muhammad their moral guide, it is imperative that we examine the consequences of his guidance, starting with the notion that those who depict his image or criticize his teachings should be punished.
In “South Park,” this tyrannical rule is cleverly needled when Tom Cruise asks the question: How come Muhammad is the only celebrity protected from ridicule? Now we know why.
change back
Shariah and Islam
rights of terrorists
Beth Shelly reports today,
PAGE 2A – WEST ELBERT COUNTY SUN – THURSDAY FEBRUARY 11.2010
“Early this morning on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” there was a discussion about our freedoms and who they are set aside for, particularly the 14th Amendment, which defines citizenship and keeps our civil and political rights from being abridged or denied.The Nation’s Chris Hayes . was speaking on the rights of suspected terrorists, particularly the issues of indefinite detention and whether should they be “Mirandized” or not. He stressed the point that the U.S. Constitution’s protection of legal rights not only applies to legal citizens, but, unpopular as that is today, it also applies to terrorist suspects, much as it does to illegal immigrants who are arrested on American soils.
But in the Bush administration, in the name of public safety, those legal rights were curtailed for certain terrorist suspects. A Feb. 9 editorial in the Wall Street Journal titled “Cheney’s Revenge” asserts that despite efforts little has been done by the Obama administration to move away ` from that stance. The editorial cites the President’s desired closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention facilities and his administration’s backing down of trying 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other enemy combatants in civilian court.
In response, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough said, “I know Bush did it, but that doesn’t make it right,” adding it is something we are still “muddling through.” Meanwhile, Mort Zukerman of U.S. New & World Report counters, saying the Supreme Court allows for different rules to apply than what exist for U.S. citizens.
Forty years ago it was civil rights. Today it is the rights of terrorist suspects.An ongoing process, to be sure, on how to apply our legal protections. But it began more than 230 years ago with our first president and changed significantly with , the election of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War.
Understanding the “muddling” and shifting public opinion that occurs over time, it is the basic concept of democracy and freedom that we celebrate with Presidents’ Day. Hope you all get a chance to sit back and reflect on it this weekend.”
Well , it won’t take a weekend to reflect on this. First, the 14th Amendment, “Citizenship Rights.”
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Was the Christmas day bomber born or naturalized in the U.S.? Was KSM? No. They’re not citizens of the U.S. Where do the Nation’s Chris Hayes and reporter Beth Shelly come up with the notion that 14th Am. protections were intended to apply to non-citizens? Certainly not in the text of the Constitution so amended.
The government’s legal authority to deal with non-citizen terrorists comes in the body of the Constitution under Article 1, Section 8, “Powers of Congress.”
“The Congress shall have Power ….
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;
To declare War … and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To …. repel Invasions;
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.”
Article 1, Section 9, “Limits on Congress” also applies.
“The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.”
Fruit of Kaboom and KSM are invading members of a multi-state Islamic religious sect who have declared war on the United States. The 14th Amendment body of law protects individual citizen rights against the government. It doesn’t protect members of invading armies who are in a fight to destroy the government. Yet the left would have us buy into this absurdity in order to create a public political forum for attacking conservative politicians. They would subvert the Constitution–that protects them too–to score political points in the modern media-charged democratic process.
Enjoy your weekend.
perspectives
Of course, it is not fair to compare our current American democratic leaders with the Bolsheviks.Yes, they both use the same slogans in their speeches.
Yes, they both stir up envy and class warfare to distract from their failures.
Yes, both political movements sought control of the banks as the foundation for their new egalitarian vision.
And yes, they are both opposed to free speech, as was made clear by the reaction of American leftists to the recent Supreme Court decision.
But you would never find a Czar anywhere in the Soviet government.
By SVETLANA KUNIN
Saul Bellow
Op-Ed: Papuans and Zulus by Saul Bellow
Despots do not accept the autonomy of the literary imagination. Freedom of the imagination, dangerous to them, is related to the independence of the soul. This independence is not peculiar to artists, it is common to all human beings.
….In the U.S., we were protected in the past by a sense of humor. In the days of Mark Twain, of Mr. Dooley and H. L. Mencken, we were still able to kid ourselves. Mencken’s wicked jokes on Boobus Americanus — his term for the average man — had a salutary influence on the discussion of public questions and on public behavior. Sometimes crude, openly prejudiced but often very funny, he banged away at the professors, the politicians and the Jim Crow South. But fanatics and demagogues had far less influence in those pre-sensitive days. Child gangsters did not then kill the kids who “dissed” them.
Righteousness and rage threaten the independence of our souls.
Rage is now brilliantly prestigious. Rage, the reverse of bourgeois prudence, is a luxury. Rage is distinguished, it is a patrician passion. The rage of rappers and rioters takes as its premise the majority’s admission of guilt for past and present injustices, and counts on the admiration of the repressed for the emotional power of the uninhibited and “justly” angry. Rage can also be manipulative; it can be an instrument of censorship and despotism.
As a onetime anthropologist, I know a taboo when I see one. Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo.
We can’t open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists.
As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated.
Saul Bellow, professor of literature at Boston University, won the Nobel Prize in 1976.
the matrix
David Kupelian, The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell us Corruption Disguised as Freedom, Nashville, 2005. p. 183.
hidden in plain view
Back on September 25th, a few thousand Muslims gathered on Capitol Hill, a number well short of the 50,000 the event planners were shooting for and hoping for.
An ACT! for America team, led by two of our Florida chapter leaders, was on hand for the event, and was able to interview a number of the Muslims who attended.
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what Harvard did not teach Obama
Just as national socialism gradually evolved through good intentions and the nurturing of a socialist constituency, so our own brand of U.S. federal socialism grows. Obama and the leftists in congress track closely with the German national socialists of the 1930s. Every one of these movements in history came to a very bad end. What hubris to think our governments and courts could take over industry and banking, rewrite finance and contract law, redistribute wealth between the top half and the bottom half of the population, and ration medicine, while creating no negative consequences. We cannot know the future, but on this well-traveled road, we know, for many, it will be deadly and horrible.
Excerpts from “Hitler’s Beneficiaries: plunder, racial war, and the Nazi welfare state” by Gotz Aly, 2005.
ANY INVESTIGATION into Hitler’s ascent must thus examine the give-and-take relationship between the populace and the Nazi leadership. It is a matter of historical record that the party hierarchy was, from its earliest days, extremely unstable. The mystery is how it managed to stabilize itself, if only temporarily, so that the regime could survive for twelve spectacularly destructive years. Solving this mystery requires a more precise rephrasing of the general question “How could Nazi Germany have happened?” Namely, how did National Socialism, an obviously deceitful, megalomaniacal, and criminal undertaking, succeed in persuading the great majority of the German people that it was working in their interest? [Read more…]
czarism
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OBAMA’S CZARS |
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CZAR |
Czar Position |
Summary |
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Richard Holbrooke |
Afghanistan Czar |
Ultra liberal anti gun former Gov. of New Mexico. Pro Abortion and legal drug use. Dissolve the 2nd Amendment |
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Ed Montgomery |
Auto recovery Czar |
Black radical anti business activist. Affirmative Action and Job Preference for blacks. Univ of Maryland Business School Dean teaches US business has caused world poverty. ACORN board member. Communist DuBois Club member. |
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Jeffrey Crowley |
AIDS Czar |
Radical Homosexual.. A Gay Rights activist. Believes in Gay Marriage and especially, a Special Status for homosexuals only, including complete free health care for gays. |
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Alan Bersin |
Border Czar |
The former failed superintendent of San Diego . Ultra Liberal friend of Hilary Clinton. Served as Border Czar under Janet Reno – to keep borders open to illegal’s without interference from US |
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David J. Hayes |
California Water Czar |
Sr. Fellow of radical environmentalist group, “Progress Policy”. No training or experience in water management whatsoever. |
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Ron Bloom |
Car Czar |
Auto Union worker. Anti business & anti nuclear. Has worked hard to force US auto makers out of business. Sits on the Board of Chrysler which is now Auto Union owned. How did this happen? |
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Dennis Ross |
Central Region Czar |
Believes US policy has caused Mid East wars. Obama apologist to the world. Anti gun and completely pro abortion. |
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Lynn Rosenthal |
Domestic Violence Czar |
Director of the National Network to End Domestic Violence. Vicious anti male feminist. Supported male castration. Imagine? |
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Gil Kerlikowske |
Drug Czar |
devoted lobbyist for every restrictive gun law proposal, Former Chief of Police in Liberal Seattle. Believes no American should own a firearm. Supports legalization of all drugs |
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Paul Volcker |
E conomic Czar |
Head of Fed Reserve under Jimmy Carter when US economy nearly failed. Obama appointed head of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board which engineered the Obama economic disaster to US economy.. Member of anti business “Progressive Policy” organization |
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Carol Brower |
Energy and Environment Czar |
Political Radical Former head of EPA – known for anti-business activism. Strong anti-gun ownership. |
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Joshua DuBois |
Faith Based Czar |
Political Black activist-Degree in Black Nationalism. Anti gun ownership lobbyist. |
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Cameron Davis |
Great Lakes Czar |
Chicago radical anti business environmentalist. Blames George Bush for “Poisoning the water that minorities have to drink.” No experience or training in water management. Former ACORN Board member (what does that tell us?) |
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Van Jones |
Green Jobs Czar |
(since resigned).. Black activist Member of American communist Party and San Francisco Communist Party who said Geo Bush caused the 911 attack and wanted Bush investigated by the World Court for war crimes. Black activist with strong anti-white views. |
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Daniel Fried |
Guantanamo Closure Czar |
Human Rights activist for Foreign Terrorists. Believes America has caused the war on terrorism. Believes terrorists have rights above and beyond Americans. |
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Nancy-Ann DeParle. |
Health Czar |
Former head of Medicare / Medicaid.. Strong Health Care Rationing proponent. She is married to a reporter for The New York Times. |
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Vivek Kundra |
Information Czar |
Born in New Delhi, India. Controls all public information, including labels and news releases. Monitors all private Internet emails. (hello?) |
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Todd Stern |
International Climate Czar |
Anti business former White House chief of Staff- Strong supportrer of the Kyoto Accord. Pushing hard for Cap and Trade. Blames US business for Global warming. Anti- US business prosperity. |
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Dennis Blair |
Intelligence Czar |
Ret Navy. Stopped US guided missile program as “provocative”. Chair of ultra liberal “Council on Foreign Relations” which blames American organizations for regional wars. |
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George Mitchell |
Mideast Peace Czar |
Fmr. Sen from Maine Left wing radical. Has said Israel should be split up into “2 or 3 “ smaller more manageable plots”. (God forbid) A true Anti-nuclear anti-gun & pro homosexual “special rights” advocate |
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Kenneth Feinberg |
Pay Czar |
Chief of Staff to TED KENNEDY. Lawyer who got rich off the 911 victims payoffs. (horribly true) |
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Cass Sunstein |
Regulatory Czar |
Liberal activist judge believes free speech needs to be limited for the “common good”. Essentially against 1st amendment. Rules against personal freedoms many times –like private gun ownership and right to free speech. |
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John Holdren |
Science Czar |
Fierce ideological environmentalist, Sierra Club, Anti business activist. Claims US business has caused world poverty. No Science training. |
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Earl Devaney |
Stimulus Accountability Czar |
Spent career trying to take guns away from American citizens. Believes in Open Borders to Mexico . Author of statement blaming US gun stores for drug war in Mexico . |
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J. Scott Gration |
Sudan Czar |
Native of Democratic Republic of Congo. Believes US does little to help Third World countries. Council of foreign relations, asking for higher US taxes to support United Nations |
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Herb Allison |
TARP Czar |
Fannie May CEO responsible for the US recession by using real estate mortgages to back up the US stock market. Caused millions of people to lose their life savings. |
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John Brennan |
Terrorism Czar |
Anti CIA activist. No training in diplomatic or gov. affairs. Believes Open Borders to Mexico and a dialog with terrorists and has suggested Obama disband US military |
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Aneesh Chopra |
Technology Czar |
No Technology training. Worked for the Advisory Board Company, a health care think tank for hospitals. Anti doctor activist. Supports Obama Health care Rationing and salaried doctors working exclusively for the Gov. health care plan |
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Adolfo Carrion Jr.. |
Urban Affairs Czar |
Puerto Rican born Anti American activist and leftist group member in Latin America . Millionaire “slum lord” of the Bronx , NY. Owns many lavish homes and condos which he got from “sweetheart” deals with labor unions. Wants higher taxes on middle class to pay for minority housing and health care |
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Ashton Carter |
Weapons Czar |
Leftist. Wants all private weapons in US destroyed. Supports UN ban on firearms ownership in America .. No Other “policy” |
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Gary Samore |
WMD Policy Czar |
Former US Communist. Wants US to destroy all WMD unilaterally as a show of good faith. Has no other “policy”. |
political marketing
The Script: (for causing legal and cultural changes to occur without benefit of reasonable fact-based analysis)
Desensitize by changing the terminology. Examples: homosexual–>gay, abortion–>choice, socialized medicine–>affordable health care. Do this until the issue becomes thoroughly tiresome and the new terms merit no more than a shrug of the shoulders.
Jam and silence the opposition with widespread intimidation and misrepresentation of their motives. Example: Matthew Shepard was robbed, beaten and later died. Subsequent investigation showed that he was targeted for his money, not his homosexuality. Nevertheless, Christian Coalition, Family Research Council and Focus on the Family were all widely accused of fomenting an anti-homosexual climate and were associated with Shepard’s murderers.
Conversion of the negative into the positive. Hate is love, lies are truth. Positive elements are magnified, negative elements are completely suppressed. Classic propaganda techniques here.
Rewrite history. Revisionism including fabricating new historical figures, giving new motives and new behaviors to existing historical figures, and creating historical outcomes that never existed. For example, many of the early Nazis were homosexual, however, anyone daring to criticize homosexuality today is labeled a Nazi.
This is from David Kupelian’s, The Marketing of Evil. It illustrates the brain washing techniques issuing from the Obama administration with each new day. No matter the issue, the subjects are interchangeable, and the script remains the same.
If the thousands of pages of new federal legislation Obama has inspired don’t succeed in killing off the last remnants of America’s constructive capacity, surely the tedium of the left’s non-stop propaganda war against America will bore the country to death.
Obama and Islam
YouTube: Obama and Islam
This compilation video drives the sensitivity police insane–a hop skip and jump, to be sure, from their normal mental state.
a cult of personality
THE DAILY BLADE: Never Mind Marxism. Will An Obama Administration Be Totalitarian?: Part II
Examining President Barack Hussein Obama’s ubiquity – when your favorite TV show has not been pre-empted yet again by one of his prime time speeches or press conferences, you can still watch his Public Service Announcement (video link) about national service that gets heavy rotation, even on FOX – an unabashedly worshipful article by Jennifer Senior in New York magazine noted: “Since occupying the White House, Barack Obama has hosted fifteen town-hall meetings; appeared in more than 800 images on the White House Flickr photo-stream; and held four prime-time press conferences, the same number held by George W. Bush in his entire presidency.” [Read more…]
the change we got
county term limits
We will receive our ballots for the November election in the mail soon. The election is not in November, it is virtually upon us. NOTE, the absence of discussion in the local fishwraps about the removal of county term limits is no accident. To get it passed, our local liberal editors know they must pretend the issue doesn’t exist–a stealth promotion of their political position through omission–because totalitarian initiatives don’t stand up very well under much scrutiny.
You didn’t expect them to play fair now did you?
Beware the Stalin in progressive hearts
By: Mark Tapscott, editorial page editor of The Washington Examiner and proprietor of Tapscott’s Copy Desk blog on washingtonexaminer.com.
September 24, 2009
If nothing else, the Obama eruption in American politics is steadily revealing the stark reality behind the progressive movement – the totalitarian temptation is always there and, for more than a few, possessing the official power to compel sooner or later becomes irresistible.
Not everybody on the left, of course. Some of the folks I most admire in this town are liberals whose work on behalf of values like transparency in government and protecting civil liberties is remarkable and essential.
Still, that this danger is real and growing becomes more obvious as public opposition grows to the president’s across-the-board campaign to turn Washington into the all-powerful, centralized behemoth that Woodrow Wilson and FDR could only dream about. [Read more…]
the best of intentions…
…are easy. “Have a nice day.” Costs nothing. Makes someone feel good. “I wish you well.” Who would look at that sentiment too closely? It’s simply wonderful. Surely anyone who says those words must be good. Likewise for all the good intentions espoused by the left such as, “Everyone should have health insurance, a college education, a job, a car, American citizenship, a home, unconditional respect from other people, a pure life in a pristine state of nature” and many other good things. Who could seriously question any of those good intentions?
So, how did the left succeed in owning the image that they are the only group in society who hold good intentions for other people? More importantly, how did they do so while maintaining allegiance to social, economic and political methods that fail so completely to actually bring about the intended results of their good intentions?
How does the left live with the dissonance between the intentions they continually express, and the poor results their systems actually produce? Doesn’t it keep them awake at night? Doesn’t it worry them that leftist methods have not produced a single successful society? Ever. In all of recorded history. Wouldn’t that give a reasonable person second thoughts?
And woe unto the heretics who mention the taboo of this inconvenient fact. The left heaps abuse onto them, doubles down on the chanting, and shouts down the dissenters.
Political and economic systems are always a choice between least-bad alternatives. So how does one get away with choosing the worst of the least-bad alternatives, and come away with people thinking they’ve chosen the best?
Is it just good marketing? They’ve got some ‘splainin’ to do.
The Roots Of American Order
Russell Kirk, “The Roots Of American Order,” pp. 187-189.
No question that the “enumeration of civil liberties in the Constitution” has “endangered” many civil rights belonging to many un-anticipated parties not specified in the Constitution. Hence the ever-accelerating expansion of civil rights litigation.
And no question that “political power decree of positive laws without reference to general consent has led to the evasion, defiance, and diminished respect” for statutory law resulting in the “substitution of force for justice,” –another trend in law and enforcement that continues to accelerate.
These trends do not lead to more or better justice, equity or fairness. They substitute the rule of men for the rule of law by shrinking the domain of liberty in human action, and eliminating opportunities for moral choices. While it’s all done in the name of the “public good,” ironically, people who act without making a moral choice cannot be good. Coercion and force nullify morality. Morality requires free choice. Without a moral choice, people cannot choose the good over the bad or evil. The best they can do is obey–the moral stature of a “good doggy.”
Perhaps the left tolerates Islamic submission so well because they’re both systems of obedience.
Each day the news is full of reports of what people liberated from their moral responsibility have done to other people, to the world and to themselves. People who do not experience morality are disconnected from justice or concern for mankind. All the totalitarian systems – Marxism, Islam, Fascism, Socialism, Communism, Progressivism, Gaia, and their numerous combinations and derivatives – take us toward amorality in the name of their concepts of the public good. All of them are self-defeating as they collaterally damage innocents and non-believers. All of them institutionalize corruption.
Freedom, voluntary choice, limited government, judicial equity, all of these traditions preserve moral choice and enforce moral responsibility. There will always be bad men and women. Inflexible totalitarian systems do not contain self-correction mechanisms. They insulate bad people and bad policies from their negative consequences.
Liberty is messy, but it’s still better than everything else because it allows us to evolve. The left only want evolution they can control. The right recognizes the fact that individuals know best how to direct their own evolution.
I pledge…
- to not drink the KoolAid, and
- to critically analyze every public policy, regardless of source and regardless of how magically it is marketed, and
- to only support public policies objectively proven to work, that cannot be done more effectively by private resources, that do not diminish American constitutional freedoms, that do not aggrandize politicians, and that do not expand federal or state governments, and
- to subscribe to Iowahawk.
I see no grounds for hope that these brainwashed tools will come to reason. When we do not submit to them, when we do not endorse their cult, they will get angry. They have power now and will resort to force. Innocent people will die at their hands. When that happens I will be one of those killed. This has happened many times throughout history and will happen again. We are not immune. Power has only increased the left’s lust for more power. The faiths of their economic, social and political myths must be satisfied. Outcomes don’t matter, only belief matters–that and salesmanship. Crushed skulls are merely inconvenient.