Posted on 01/20/2013 6:42:42 PM PST by neverdem
If a left wing extremist wants to brand me as a right wing extremist, I can live with that and respond in kind. They will never silence the truth.
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It’s hard to believe this came from West Point. This Arie Perliger needs to be removed from West Point as I didn’t know they employed communists. I hope our West Point cadets reject this man and his “report”.
Royalists, Dictators, Communists, Fascists, Socialists and liberals (progressives) are all left wing. This is on of the fundamental myths the left pushes; that left wing competitors are actually right wing. The left sees chaos and tries to dictate order. The right sees complexity and embraces freedom. Libertarians are actually the farthest right. That is because the right embraces freedom and not anarchy. Conservatives are in the middle of the right wing. The Tea party is in the middle of the right wing. The so called moderates are defined by their willingness to give up some level of freedom for some perceived good. The problem with that is: the perceived good never occurs, often backfires and the freedom is gone. Conservatives have the wisdom to know this and defend their freedoms.
The implications here were stunning to me when I heard this, but I'm sure not an eyebrow is raised by 99% of these folks. Among them this view is de rigueur: That government exists to serve government, that this is the greatest good, and that any opposed to that end are the enemy.
Much as how cancer views the body of the host as an enemy, so too does this government view the body of the nation that hosts it. That's just how it is inside the Beltway.
Pitcavage was right in there with the "Southern Poverty Law Center", the "Anti-Defamation League", and similar groups.
As I have said many, many, many times none of this applies to American politics since, as it turns out, we don't have a CENTER ~ we even have a different political history than France.
If you want to discuss the Founders you need to discuss our Founders, not their Founders, nor modern concepts.
George Washington formally rejected being a monarch ~ and that's all it takes to NOT be a monarchist or royalist. He also rebelled against a King ~ guy was called George III of the then ruling regime in most of North America.
Obama is a far bigger threat IMO than anything Al-Qaeda could do to this country.
Really depends on your point of view and level of sanity in my book...; )
He rejected being a monarch himself. He rebelled against a King.
In his day the French perceived they'd come up with some sort of left/right dichotomy balanced on a center. George wasn't part of that. He was an American of a very special revolutionary class. If you hadn't noticed, he wasn't French either.
To be a Conservative in America you must first reject the notion that left/right dichotomies have any relevance for us. You are with us, or you are against us ~ there is no center!
Government agents who dwell extensively on the left/right thesis and try to apply it to Americans are the enemy and must be rejected out of hand.
Anti-federalists? You mean the current people in power. Yes. They set acting like the enemy. I bet if we asked our founding fathers who the terrorists were he would point to the current CIC and his regime.
a photo of the author. Now tell me you are surprised...lol:
Didn’t work. Maybe this will:
The article is written by a liberal Jew and is completely subjective and based on his own personal views and is not fact. Once again intellectualism is used to create dissension because we all know that if you continuously use 3 - 5 syllable words in your biased article because you hate federalists yet call them ant-federalists to put a target on their backs that it means you are smarter than your audience and know what’s best for them...sheesh
Our terrorists have seized thereigns and are calling us the enemy. Hopefully the troops will be intelligent enough to know ego the real terrorists are if they are dispatched to deal with them.
He did not mention the American holocaust that he fears
Perliger's article at West Point is just another so called "study," in the continuous drum beat to gin up hate against Americans who believe in the Constitution. These and other articles in the state controlled media will be used to influence public opinion to disarm law abiding Americans.
Since this "study," is directed at the officer corp, 0bama will more than likely have most of the military follow his orders when the time comes. Oh, make no mistake about it, the time will come.
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This is not the first time elements of the federal government have tried to smear conservatives with sloppy work and a broadbrush analysis.
In 2009, liberals in the Department of Homeland Security prepared a report defining “rightwing extremism in the United States” as including not just hate groups, but also groups that reject federal authority in favor of federalism or local control. “It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single-issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration,” a footnote in the report warned.
This started with Hillary's 'vast right wing conspiracy' an idea that collapsed as soon as the light of day was shown on it's idiocy. It became a joke. But the people who started that totalitarian lie - the Southern Poverty Lawlessness Center - just slunk underground.
Considering the MSM is owned by the democrats - if there was ANY current information about violent right wingers it would be covered in every effing suck up newspaper in the country. They carry water for dems - and if dems had proof we would hear about it... non stop.
That comment tugs at my inner American. I've long held the consideration that our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution supersede, and rise far above, mere partisan politics (and they do).
When having the rare civil conversation about politics with my liberal kin, I've attempted to convey to them that I care less for political labels and the interminable wars of red vs blue, and more for the timeless concepts of freedom and liberty contained in our founding documents.
For a long time, I've thought that simply calling myself a conservative patriot should make that stance plain to anyone, but unfortunately, we conservatives are easily sucked into partisan politics, and allow ourselves to be defined and firmly positioned within the Republican party by the enemies of the republic.
In this way, we set ourselves up to engage in battles that the enemy has great potential to win. They've been mostly winning this game since Woodrow Wilson's day, and we still haven't learned.
With the emergence of the Tea Party, I believed that we patriots had finally coalesced into a nationwide movement that forwarded the higher concepts of our founding, yet with applied political muscle. I still believe the Tea Party is capable of this, though it's going to take determination and persistence to achieve the results we seek.
When I look at what it is we're attempting to preserve and restore in this great country, I see our sacred founding principles and fundamentals of government organization. That's what the founding generation fought, sacrificed, and died for. Not partisan politics.
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