The Persecution of the Palestinians [barf alert]
'Comrade Wolf' and the mullahs, Patrick Buchanan
Buchanan defends foreign aid – for Hamas, Patrick Buchanan
Buchanan defends foreign aid [For Hamas-he's wrong],Joseph Farah
And to think I was once a fan of Buchanan. I can barely stand to listen to him anymore.
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Paleos.
Just as with the left, the paleo right believes it does not need the luxury of outlining concrete positions apart from a vague wish that the followers of Pat Buchanan can join with those of Ralph Nader to effect a united coalition. But one can deduce what paleos believe by reading its magazine, The American Conservative. The latest issue (July 31) starts off cheering the Supreme Court for ruling against the Bush administration to try Guantanamo detainees (as does the left)…It then supports the fact that Hamas now wants “a two-state solution,” mourning that “millions of Palestinians have no electricity, no services, no government,” ignoring all the excesses of Hamas that have blocked negotiations in the past (as does the left)…Then it is depressed by the defeat of immigration hard-liner John Jacobs in the Utah Republican primary to Congressman Chris Cannon, ignoring the statement by Jacobs that Satan is involved with Jacobs’ opposition…
…A column by Buchanan recommends we get out of Korea now (“The way to Guam and home lies open”) which is also supported by the left…Economist Paul Craig Roberts, a paleo new recruit, worries about the looming deficit but was caught blind-sided after publication with the announcement that the deficit has dropped from $423 billion to $296 billion, largely due to the Bush tax cuts which Roberts in his former incarnation used to celebrate. No mention of the tax cuts in his pessimistic piece which apes the left…It minimizes any information turned up by the NSA that has been data-mining telephone, fax and e-mail transactions (as does the left)…It pronounces the Afghanistan effort as “a model only for disaster” (as does the left)…It defends The New York Times in publishing the facts of the Terrorist Finance Tracking program, saying that “today’s conservatives are eager to trade freedom for security” warning that the Bush administration cannot be trusted to defend our freedoms (as does the left).
…It publishes approvingly an article by liberal Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) attacking Wal-Mart’s low prices that have come from free trade, warning that these prices come at “a high economic cost” and declaring that “corporate greed is selling out America” in small towns where Mom and Pop stores cannot compete with the giant and hence are closing, the recommendation being that Wal-Mart must be stopped and prices hiked…
…The same issue of the magazine reviews a book Where Did the Party Go? . It’s a book that bashes Hubert Humphrey for being too anti-Communist. The reviewer, Bill Kaufman, says Humphrey “hated pacifists, isolationist and radical American dissenters and purged them with the fervor of Tailgunner Joe.” As one who knows something about Humphrey and knew him, I would say that’s correct-and not a derogation, although Kaufman insists it is. He says Humphrey persecuted drove harmless populist Farmer-Laborites out of his Democratic party and what a shame that was. The only ones who say this now are the few radical leftists still alive in Minnesota who rue the day the followers of pro-Communist governor Elmer Benson were shown the gate by Humphrey. As I knew who they were and Kaufman doesn’t, I can congratulate him on buying the old Commie jargon that Humphrey was a conservative in sheep’s clothing. You will find that same estimate in the favorite organ of the left, The Nation…
…Finally, as a final piece, a snide put-down of conservative scholar and intellectual Paul Johnson for his book The Creators. So in one issue just about the entire panoply of issues favored by the left is glowingly presented (one exception: it is pro-life). The attack on Humphrey particularly appalls me: “Humphrey never was found on the populist side of an issue.” As one who covered him, particularly on the farm issue, I was so mis-led I didn’t recognize it? “He red-baited ferociously in the late `40s and sponsored legislation to outlaw the Communist party USA.” That’s a criticism now in Pat Buchanan’s magazine as it most assuredly would be in any leftist publication. “He opposed the traditional Farmer-Labor party in the mid-`40s.” That group was supporting Henry A. Wallace against Harry Truman. [He opposed] “the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party in the mid-1960s, the New Left and counter-culture in the late 1960s…” Guilty as charged. Then the reviewer projects a hope for realignment between the paleos and the Green Party on the left. There would be trouble fusing it together because of social policy, he says, but then brightly recommends the fusion anyhow. “Let San Francisco be San Francisco and let Utah be Utah. Mind your own damn place.”
Wonderful. Elect the paleos and the Greens and let `er rip. To those who occasionally write here in defense of paleo-conservatism (and you’re welcome) what do you have to say about that? All that’s missing is an article by Kevin Phillips denouncing our theocracy-but he was in last month’s issue.
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Great article! Thank you very much for posting this, I found it very informative.
I took the liberty of going to the original FrontPage Magazine article and emailing a link to it to a local talk show host who purports to be conservative, but is overly fond of Pat Buchanan and Lew Rockwell for my taste.
It's particularly troubling because not only is Brooklyn Heights' city councilman, Dave Yassky, Jewish - but he's currently dealing with anti-Semitic and anti-white taunts and insults from fellow Democrats in his primary race.
Here's Jerry Pournelle [!]
comparing the Middle East
to Los Angeles:
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Thursday, July 20, 2006
Suppose a coalition of Crips and Bloods kidnaps two Beverly Hills policemen, claims credit, and carries them off to South Los Angeles, to the politically independent city of, say, Bell Gardens.
Beverly Hills then bombs the freeways to cut off all imports of weapons and cut off the chance of transporting their hostages to Mexico. The Los Angeles Police Department and the Hawthorne Police Department send in patrol cares to evacuate LA and Hawthorne citizens. Beverly Hills bombards the community center and bus stations. A hundred people are killed. When the citizens protest they are told that since 40% of their people are gang bangers, it's time to do something about it to protect Beverly Hills. Crips and Bloods from Los Angeles throw firebombs at homes in Beverly Hills, but they don't do a lot of damage. In retaliation, BHPD patrol cars drive through Bell Gardens firing at public housing projects they are pretty certain are centers of Crip and Blood and other anti-BeverlyHillistic citizens.
Defenders of Beverly Hills Police Department point out that no one has been able to control the Crips and the Bloods and the Columbian gangs, and BHPD has no choice but to end this nonsense once and for all. There will be collateral damage, and we're all sorry. Meanwhile, BHPD is asking for Federal Funds to buy F-15's to complete the job, because they need to cut all the roads and other ways in and out of Bell Gardens to prevent Columbian gangs from reinforcing the Crips and Bloods. And anyone driving in a car is subject to attack by BHPD helicopters.
We firebombed Japan. We need national determination to end the reign of terror of the Crips and Bloods. Do what is necessary.
I'm incredulous that Rockwell is publishing Cindy Sheehan stuff.
From his public comments, I believe Pat Buchanan is an anti-Jewish bigot. I can't go into detail as it was a long time ago and I don't want to get sued, but I also have personal information from a trusted friend who knew him that greatly supports this view.
I wondered if I was the only one who thought this. There is a deep undercurrent of Anti-Americanism about them lately.
In the case of Pat I think he has held a grudge from being rejected as a GOP presidential nominee. Also he seems to be more enamored of the Plato model of government with a philosopher king (with himself as king of course) then of a government of for and by the people.
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Buchanan ran many otherwise conservative leaning Jews out of the GOP with his 1992 convention speech; I know some. It may take a couple of generations to get their families to return.