What a pathetic cry for attention.
Posted on 12/22/2007 9:18:21 AM PST by paltz
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/21/american-conservative-mag_n_77943.html
Nevertheless, dressing him as a nazi is a little too much. Putting him in drag is more than enough.
I don’t see this ‘garb’ taking over private industry for the good of the people. I don’t see this ‘garb’ separating people and redistributing land and resources based on race or ethnic heritage. I don’t see this garb dictating all workers what they produce and to whom they distribute it to. I don’t see this garb seizing all media.
Sorry, but the word fascist is thrown around so much, I think people forgot what fascism really is.
Giuliani’s tendency to conflate all terrorist groupsRight. What we need is a more NUANCED approach to terrorism.
Yeah...although the outfit fits when it comes to some of his domestic governance.
That aside, I’ve come to the conclusion that the “peace through bombing” crowd is just as much of a threat to liberty as the surrender monkey crowd.
Giuliani validates Cindy Sheehan on why we fight.
The artwork is in the iconic style of 1930s fascist propaganda art.
I agree. They may be impressing each other with how cute they are, but they will turn off the voting public.
“I had forgotten that while U.S. attorney in New York, Giuliani tried to close the PLO’s New York office. As mayor, he made headlines in 1995, when he had Arafat ejected from a concert at Lincoln Center. “
I have steadfastly opposed Rudy, but the above comment made me rethink.
I think only freepers who have been on the “front lines” of freeps will truly understand the despicable nature of this cover. The criticism could have been done differently without giving further ammo to those on the left we face every week at Walter Reed and across the nation.
Rudy is first and foremost a prosecutor who believes in a living document interpretation of ALL existing laws.
This was shown again and again in his tenure as mayor of NYC, from his obscene abuse of civil forfeiture laws on vehicles, abuse of zoning laws, abuse of arcane outdated cabaret laws, abuse of building inspector regulations to pressure targeted companies, and his attempt to abuse land use laws.
He has shown a consistent, long term, well stated, self affirmed, firmly held belief that 2nd, 4th, and 5th Amendment Rights are negotiable privileges owned by the state power that is controlled by him, and all means to the end of Guiliani accomplishing the goals of the state that Guiliani deems appropriate can and will be attempted.
There is a clear line of reasoning regarding Guiliani’s record of abusing zoning and land use, civil forfeiture law, his overall beliefs in state controlled urban land management, and his campaign spiel to label him a statist. Is he a fascist? I don’t think he cares about industry as long as the industry pays their taxes so he can push his agenda.
[cue Mike Myers as Linda Richman]
“The American Conservative Magazine is neither American nor conservative. Discuss.”
The point is that garb doesn’t make an ideology.
There are areas where Podhoretz is out of synch with the rest of the Giuliani team. One is his steadfast commitment to the Bush administration’s efforts to spread democracy in the Middle East, which he applies equally to American enemies like Iran and Syria and friends like Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Other Giuliani advisors are more restrained about democracy promotion.
What we need is a more NUANCED approach to terrorism.
1. The author has overlooked a very important point here with regard to Giuliani's track record.
2. Giuliani's campaign has basically been a wholesale whitewashing of his disgraceful track record of what actually was a very NUANCED approach to terrorism.
Just a few weeks before the infamous "tough on terror" incident in which Giuliani had Arafat expelled from Lincoln Center, Giuliani had actually honored former Irish Republican Army spokesman Gerry Adams at an official New York City dinner. Since Arafat and Adams both had the same legal/diplomatic standing in terms of their relationship with the U.S. at the time, one must logically conclude that Arafat's only crime was that -- in Giuliani's mind -- he simply wasn't "the right kind" of terrorist.
Giuliani's references to the 1972 massacre at the Munich Olympics are particularly silly and pathetic. Based on his own track record as mayor of New York City (particularly with regard to the one high-profile terrorist incident in New York City during his tenure in office -- i.e., the 1997 multiple shooting on the observatoin deck of the Empire State Building by a Palestinian terrorist), I would make the case that if such an incident had occurred right here in the United States, Giuliani himself wouldn't even have the b@lls or the moral clarity to call it an act of terrorism.
Those of his who know about that 1997 incident in the Empire State Building will remember that Giuliani never used the word "terrorism" or "terrorist" to describe that attack. Instead, he zeroed in on that incident as a gun problem, AND IMMEDIATELY ADOPTED IT AS PART OF HIS PATHOLOGICAL ANTI-GUN CRUSADE.
See #18.
Giuliani at least deserves a lot of credit for being consistent over the years.
He is consistently full of sh!t.
This guy is part of the “rabid” anti-war far-right apparently.
There’s another loon at San Diego State (IIRC)...
They are convinced that because *a small part* of neocon philosophy derived from Trotsky they are all commies.
They then combine this with the Bush is a Nazi swill in order to take an even more radical position.
They align themselves with antiwar.com and that jackass Justin Raimondo, Indymedia, along with nutters like Alex Jones.
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