-Caveat Lector-
what I find amazing is that somehow "conservatives" are lovers of the
constitution, so by implication "liberals' or "progressives" are not.
people keep spouting this bilge - I guess often enough that everyone just
nods their heads as if it were true.
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Free your mind and your ass will follow.
St George
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> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 00:49:33 -0500
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> Subject: [CTRL] While "Conservatives" Sleep
>
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> While "Conservatives" Sleep
> Are We Suicidal?
>
> By: Todd Brendan Fahey
>
> Let it be stipulated that what passes for 'conservatism' today has very little
> to do with the genius vision of the Founders of this nation - those brave
> patriots who sacrificed life and property toward the establishment of a
> Republic based upon the doctrine of limited governmental interference into the
> lives of its citizenry. As a chronic peruser of and contributor to various
> 'conservative' news forae, I am struck daily with the acquiescence of modern
> Republicans, especially, in the face of a dismembering of the Bill of Rights -
> the first ten amendments which are so central to the American Success Story.
> From the FBI's Carnivore and Magic Lantern cyber-snooping technology, to the
> traffic light cameras implanted to record the faces of every automobile driver
> and passenger, to Echelon, a multinational privacy infringement project, the
> 4th amendment guarantee against "unreasonable searches and seizures" is
> effectively dead, and with nary a whimper from the 'conservative' voting popul
> ace. As well, our President and Attorney General are preparing to charge
> "American Taliban" adherent John Walker Lindh with "sedition," instead of the
> appropriate crime of "treason," and the decision to do so will not be a simple
> faux pas: Sedition connotes "unlawful speech" against the Government, whereas
> "Treason" is warranted by ones actions--the aiding and abetting of an enemy of
> the State.
>
> There is no doubt, following open confessions on news media channels, that Mr.
> Walker deliberately and cognizantly entered into acts which constitute
> 'treason;' but a 'sedition' charge will serve the Government more effectively.
> Plainly stated: by prohibiting certain 'speech,' a chilling effect bodes
> heavily on the 1st amendment, imperiling any who might dare to speak out
> against those in power. Our current Government has, via Carnivore, Magic
> Lantern, and Echelon [and in making mandatory global positional system [GPS]
> technology in every newly-made cellular phone,] implanted mechanisms by which
> to capture said 'prohibited speech,' and to monitor, isolate and capture
> so-called 'dissenters.'
>
> My criticism of conservatives is launched herein for good reason - chiefly,
> there are but a handful remaining of honorable or semi-honorable Old Left or
> Left-libertarian activists and pundits [if there were ever more than but a
> handful:] Nat Hentoff, Christopher Hitchens and Camille Paglia springing
> immediately to mind. But the Right, as students of the Constitution, should
> know better.
>
> The Founders of this nation recognized the inherent evil that is, by nature,
> every government; anyone who has read the collected Federalist Papers knows
> this [and those who have not read it, Congresspersons especially, should; in
> fact, the reading of the Federalist Papers and the complete diaries and
> political writings of our Founders should be a stringent requirement for
> public office.] Our nation was built on the notion than humans band together
> to create Government, and only to protect the rights of those whose rights are
> infringed upon by others; unlike the former USSR, Red China or the Articles of
> the United Nations, our Government grants no rights - it merely safeguards the
> inalienable rights granted us by our Creator. George Washington, a fairly
> strong supporter of central government, wrote that, "Government is not reason;
> it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a
> fearful master." Jefferson went much further, exorting ominously, "the tree o
> f Liberty must, from time to time, be refreshed by the blood of patriots and
> tyrants." Patrick Henry, a philospher/activist dearest to mine own heart,
> conceded nothing as he laid down the gauntlet to King George III and future
> tyrants, crying, "...give me liberty or give me death." Compared to these
> fearless men, today's conservatives--the vast bulk of them--are neuters,
> eunuchs, piddling running-dogs at the scraps-table of American history.
>
> You may expect that I will follow next with an 'anti-War' polemic, as is
> currently fashionable amongst the Right/libertarian axis, but you would be
> wrong. The al-Qaeda should be exterminated, followed swiftly by those who lend
> to them aid and comfort - wherever it may lead. I have no quarrel with the
> President on this count, and there are more pressing concerns, anyway; to wit:
>
> Consider, for instance, the last time you witnessed vigorous opposition to the
> following by the Republican National Committee or on the pages of Front Page
> Magazine, Enter Stage Right, NewsMax, National Review or at Lucianne.com and
> FreeRepublic.com:
>
> 1. The United Nations: Founded and organized domestically at the Bretton Woods
> and Dumbarton Oakes conferences by known Soviet agents Alger Hiss, Harry
> Dexter White, Harry Hopkins and Lauchlin Currie - all known to the State
> Department as Communists, but who, nonetheless, continued to operate on U.S.
> taxpayers' dime at the highest of political levels and with the most sensitive
> of security clearances [similar to the manner in which Rep. Gary Condit
> continues to hold his seats on four [4] Intelligence oversight committees
> today.]
>
> 2. Social Security Administration: An egregious Marxist redistribution scheme,
> originally enacted as a 1% 'temporary and voluntary contribution,' and whose
> total rate of thievery [employers' 'contributions' included] now results in a
> whopping 15% tax burden on every working soul in America. Robbery, by any
> other name.
>
> 3. The 16th amendment [or, 'progressive' income tax:] Simply, the harder one
> works and the more one earns, the more heavily one is penalized by Government.
> A 'progressive' tax on income is, unsurprisingly, the 2nd plank of
> Marx/Engels' Communist Manifesto.
>
> 4. The Federal Reserve System: A wholly private banking cartel, supervised
> very nominally by Government and unaccountable to the voting citizenry. A
> Central Bank, opposed by every U.S. President - and vehemently by Democrat
> Andrew Jackson and Republican Abraham Lincoln - was finally forced down the
> throats of Congress by socialist Woodrow Wilson and his 'shadow President,'
> Edward Mandell House, founder of the Council on Foreign Relations [CFR.] Since
> the formation of 'the Fed' [an intentional misnomer, in that it is no more
> Federal than it is Constitutional,] money is backed neither by silver [Nixon
> saw to that in '71] nor gold [a Roosevelt abomination,] but on the 'full faith
> and credit' of our own gullibility. Were the average American to operate his
> household's budget in the manner that does 'the Fed,' he would be in prison.
> [And if you don't trust me, just try printing your own bills at home.]
>
> 5. The 10th amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the
> Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States
> respectively, or to the people." Simply put: If it ain't expressly in the
> Constitution, it ain't Federal. This stands as the single-most bastardized
> amendment in the Bill of Rights. Most Government agencies [those claiming
> Federal status in Washington D.C.] are most assuredly not.
>
> These - and our ruinous open-borders policy, which led directly to the
> September 11th massacre - are the central issues so critical to the continued
> existence of the United States of America, as a sovereign Constitutional
> Republic, and which fail to register more than a blip on the 'conservative'
> agendae. We The People are being bled dry by unresponsive 'Representatives,'
> who appear more and more like a permanent ruling class, and are being set up
> for Global Governance under the rubric of the U.N., whose bills We The People
> pay at the rate of 23% of that body's total budget, while its administration -
> unelected by and unresponsive to the American people and openly hostile to its
> Constitutional foundation - craft an agenda for an Orwellian super-state.
>
> All of which begs the question: Are we suicidal?; or merely so complacent or
> cowed and timid that we cannot recognize Jefferson's other major dictum, which
> is, "When the people fear the government, there is Tyranny; when the
> government fears the people, there is Liberty."
>
> It will be a bloody, awful tragedy, were the 2nd amendment -- those fabled
> "eight million deer rifles" -- to stand as our very last recourse.
> -end article-
>
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> -O'Brien to Winston, George Orwell's "1984", 1949
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