Posted on 11/25/2007 5:10:39 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Naomi Wolf, Second Amendment Sister?
Naomi Wolf has an article in today’s Washington Post tied to her new book, The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot. The essay is actually a lot less leftist than the book. She deplores the civic illiteracy among young people that leaves them feeling ”depressed, cynical and powerless.” And she blames influences on both left and right: the Bush administration’s portrayal of “freedom and checks and balances as threats to national security,” of course, and also the No Child Left Behind Act’s emphasis on math and reading rather than civics and history. But also, she notes, “When New Left activists of the 1960s started the antiwar and free speech student movements, they didn’t get their intellectual framework from Montesquieu or Thomas Paine: They looked to Marx, Lenin and Mao.”
Perhaps her most interesting claim is this:
Teenagers and young adults often have no clue why the United States is different from, say, Egypt or Russia; they have little idea what liberty is.
Few young Americans understand that the Second Amendment keeps their homes safe from the kind of government intrusion that other citizens suffer around the world; few realize that “due process” means that they can’t be locked up in a dungeon by the state and left to languish indefinitely.
I rather suspect that this lefty writer who has written a whole book and launched an organization to “protect and defend the Constitution from assault by any President” meant to cite the Fourth Amendment, not the Second Amendment.
But maybe I’m being cynical. Maybe Naomi Wolf knows full well that it is the Second Amendment that ”keeps [our] homes safe from the kind of government intrusion that other citizens suffer around the world.” The Fourth Amendment may promise “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.” But without the Second Amendment, and the well-armed citizenry it protects, how secure would our rights be? Certainly there’s no Second Amendment in Egypt or Russia, the countries she notes in contrast. The Soviet Constitution guaranteed its citizens freedom from search and seizure. But it did not guarantee the right to keep and bear arms.
So welcome, Naomi Wolf. And as the effort moves forward to protect our Fourth Amendment rights and to get Congress to remember its Article I powers, remember that there’s also an effort currently underway in the Supreme Court to protect our Second Amendment rights.
She-Wolf needs to preach this to her nanny-state socialist acolytes that fill the ranks of the left and the Democrat Party. Sunday's WaPo is a good start...maybe she could take this to the New York Times, CNN, CBS, NBC, KPBS and every college campus and high school faculty lounge around the country.
From Sunday’s WaPo...
“Hey, Young Americans, Here’s a Text for You”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/23/AR2007112301302_pf.html
Anything written by Wolf that has any truth or significance to it happened purely by chance or accident.
She was on Bill O’Reilly’s show last wednesday (John Kasisch was geust hosting). Kasich is a fair and decent man and even he told Wolf that she was off a cliff on her blah blah comparison of Bush to Stalin.
Yes...I too watched that segment last week with John Kasich.
That’s partially why her column in today’s WaPo surprises me.
Maybe She-Wolf’s secret fantasy is for gun owners to rise up and overthrow the Bush Administration?
I read Naomi "Earth Tones" Wolf's article today and threw it down in disgust.
Cool images!
And Naomi Wolf will never convince me that she’s pro second amendment. I just don’t think she has it in her.
"..The release of The Beauty Myth coincided with Camille Paglia's release of Sexual Personae, which made a defense of beauty as a natural and enduring dimension of sexuality. Paglia engaged in a spirited critique of Wolf, which included these comments in her MIT lecture:
"If you want to see what's wrong with Ivy League education, look at The Beauty Myth, that book by Naomi Wolf. This is a woman who graduated from Yale magna cum laude, is a Rhodes scholar, and cannot write a coherent paragraph. This is a woman who cannot do historical analysis, and she is a Rhodes scholar? If you want to see the damage done to intelligent women today in the Ivy League, look at that book. It's a scandal..."
Camille leaves a mark!
I saw this b!tch on O’Gasbag recently. The condescention (sp?) was fairly oozing off of her.
Also have seen at least 2 matchups w/ Melanie Morgan.
Naomi Wolf is no Patriot nor a Second Amendment Sister.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjwUEeVFPtg
She is so annoying. As vapid as Camille Paglia had noted. I don't think she could give a yes or no answer if a gun was held to her head.
Those posters are not courtesy of the Second Amendment Sisters. They were created by a Tennessee photographer named Oleg Volk.
“She deplores the civic illiteracy among young people that leaves them feeling ”depressed, cynical and powerless.”
Thanks to the touchy-feely UN inspired dross that is taught in schools now. Didn’t both Clintoon and Bush sign off on a bunch of this crap being taught in our schools?
ping!
For the record, Naomi Wolf is NOT a member of Second Amendment Sisters—never has been.
By the way—that poster is copyrighted and Second Amendment Sisters holds the copyright.
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