04.14.09
We’ve really tried to avoid the term “Stalinist,” given how over-the-top its application usually is
This is scary. This is obscene. This is insidous and sinister.
The Department of Homeland Security, which was set up to be our first bulwark against dire threats to our cherished nation, has been turned into a Stasi-like tool of the hardcore Stalinist regime of TCM and the Freedom-Haters.
A new DHS document spells out its new focus on “right-wing extremists,” a societal sector that, it is clear from a reading of it, is being concocted from the imaginations of those who will not tolerate dissent from TCM’s vision.
It’s time to spell out very clearly where I stand as an American citizen and where BN stands as a voice of conservatism.
We will exhaust every possibility of conducting this fight against totalitarianism with the power of ideas and votes. That is how ordered liberty will be maintained, and that the key condition for America’s return to what it has been for 230 years.
America is neither arrogant nor dismissive. America is exceptional among the world’s nation-states. Its exceptionalism derives not only from being the most militarily and economically powerful, and most culturally influential, nation, but, more importantly, from its – at least until this year – unwavering regard for human freedom as the first and highest among its principles.
Government at any level has no right to one penny more of a citizen’s money than what it needs to carry out the functions specifically enumerated in its constitution or charter.
This country’s customs, mores, most deeply held values and the basis for its legal code are overwhelmingly Judeo-Christian, and it is good to celebrate that as often as possible.
The right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed.
Our enemies will fear us.
There is no economic alternative to the free market.
There is no such thing as anthropocentric climate change.
There is no need for any societal institution to have a racial identity or race-based policies in modern America.
For the last forty years, the Democratic party in America has been the main repository for the deep and visceral hatred of basic human freedom against which we’re fighting.
Hey, DHS, take a gander at this post. Is this what you mean by “right-wing extremism?”
We are truly on our own.
Well, that’s not entirely true. We have God.
Mr. Dings said,
April 14, 2009 at 2:39 pm
You got that right about being economically powerful. Our suits have managed to bring down the entire world, at least since last year.
Bentnotesmanhisself said,
April 14, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Yeah, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd have some nice threads, don’t they?
Mr. Dings said,
April 14, 2009 at 3:02 pm
And yes, we have God, through Whom “all things work together for good,” though it’s not often clear in the diurnal struggles. And even when it becomes clear, it might only be for a season, or only just a portion of a day. At least that’s the way it looks today.
Mr. Dings said,
April 14, 2009 at 3:13 pm
You mean our society has no need for the Israel lobby?
Bentnotesmanhisself said,
April 14, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Re: God’s working through all things not often clear, you might enjoy The Anchoress’s post on how maybe a greater purpose is at work in the TCM-at-Notre-Dame dust-up than is first clear to those of us so upset about it.
http://theanchoressonline.com/2009/04/05/notre-dame-in-the-arena/
Re: society’s need for the Israel lobby: not sure how you inferred that we didn’t need it.
Mr. Dings said,
April 14, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Re: the linked blogpost, yep, not our call at all. Re: Israel lobby, wondering how you can claim “there is no need for any societal institution to have a racial identity or race-based policies in modern America.”
Bentnotesmanhisself said,
April 14, 2009 at 6:09 pm
The Jews aren’t a race. Judaism is the way to follow God outlined in the Old testament.
Mr. Dings said,
April 14, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Guess we can’t argue that point, when you throw that book at us. When is their messiah coming? Is it us?
Mr. Dings said,
April 14, 2009 at 10:10 pm
The ND prexy said as much as the Anchoress. You gotta understand that there are many factions within the American Catholic church. We are Americans, though, and our Chief Executive deserves respect because of the (freely) elected office he holds. I know, I know, one dropped trou and got caught at it, which doesn’t help matters. And we can go on and on, but, it does seem the right is testing O as severely as any foreign foe. But, it’s OK, go for it.
“We are not ignoring the critical issue of the protection of life. On the contrary, we invited him because we care so much about those issues, and we hope … for this to be the basis of an engagement with him,” Jenkins said. “You cannot change the world if you shun the people you want to persuade, and if you cannot persuade them … show respect for them and listen to them,” he said.
See also, http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2009/04/notre-dame-students-staff-show-support.html
A steady stream of Notre Dame students and employees lined up at lunchtime at South Dining Hall to sign the petition saying they favor Obama’s planned May 17 visit to campus….While a whole 26 people showed up to protest his appearance.
Bentnotesmanhisself said,
April 14, 2009 at 10:26 pm
You have me pegged right on this one. I regard TCM the way I do our foreign foes.
Mr. Dings said,
April 14, 2009 at 11:38 pm
It’s OK, TR set me straight. Go for it.
“The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that … there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.”
Theodore Roosevelt