Posted on 11/01/2010 8:05:16 PM PDT by CanGyrene
Louis: So, Doug, about the Tea Party?
Doug: Consider what seems to be brewing in the Tea Party movement. Its just a straw in the wind, of no real significance itself, but a foreshadowing of something ominous. All the false hope this Tea Party movement is creating impresses me as similar to what was going on in France in the late 1780s
L: I think I can guess, but why do you say that? As much as you dislike the government, isnt it a good thing that so many people are finally fed up with it and at long last are showing signs of willingness to throw the bums out?
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Adversity employs great talents; prosperity renders them useless and carries the inept, the corrupted wealthy and the wicked to the top
May they bear in mind that virtue often contains the seeds of tyranny
May they bear in mind that it is neither gold nor even a multitude of arms that sustains a state but its morals
May each of them keep in his house, in a corner of this field, next to his workbench, next to his plow, his gun, his sword, and his bayonet
May they all be soldiers
May they bear in mind that in circumstances where deliberation is possible, the advice of old men is good but that in moments of crisis youth is generally better informed that its elders
Denis Diderot
Apostrophe to the Insurgents, 1782
Whooops!
That is Whiskey & Gunpowder
Sorry
Perfect riposte for Casey’s remarks about the 1780s! THAT is where his sophistry may come apart.
Hello Fossil!
How did you come up with that so quickly???? And just another added comment, The Divine Right if Kings has NOT morphed into the Divine Right of Wealth - but then that is what Diderot said in effect.
Our founders were deeply dissappointed in what their counterparts did in France. Same opportunity, but horrible results.
Difference?
Street Rabble vs Respectable landed citizens
Atheistic element in France vs men of faith in America.
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The French aristocracy were some of the worst offenders of abuse of power. Much worse than the English.
Monarchies suck, but not nearly as much as Marxists. It is time to totally destroy those who choose to destroy this nation. God bless the United States of America as we pray for devine providence to save our nation.
"Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God"
Thomas Jefferson & Ben Franklin
First Great Seal Committee July/August 1776
http://www.greatseal.com/committees/firstcomm/
Canned responses I have used for some time where appropriate. This is an issue I have put some thought to.
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To the lying foreign occupier in the White House;
We are tired of the Ivy League geniuses who game the system and have buried us under trillions of dollars of debt. Your social experiment on the sensible people of the nation is over. The hope and change is a coming... and not from you.
Is this just ahead of us?
Obama In Deep Trouble, Huge Scandals Brewing
http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2010/10/30/obama-in-deep-troub
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If so, bring it on. Whatever it takes.
Times of disintegration follow a non fatal blow such as America experienced on 9/11. After the futility of a foreign war out of which no cohesive conclusion could be drawn(I follow the Hellenic credo that one should never engage in war against an enemy one would not want to have as a citizen)- we tried to arrest the disintegration by resorting to a futurism (”Hope & Change!”) and next will be an archaism (a return to a simpler and more pure past). Of course, our Founders were men of the Frontier, hardened by experiences on a new continent. Quite unlike the desk bound slaves swimming in red ink we have become. If we discover we cannot arrest the disintegration we will collapse, but at least we will have found the answer we sought about our own worthiness to govern ourselves through a time of troubles at last.
It's also a misquotation. Stephen Decatur deserves better. And these two are ignoramuses. The Real Story.
Casey does much fault-finding but provides little in the way of positive alternative suggestion. He thinks the TP is deficient because it lacks a structured order but the need for leaderless resistance dictates the form of the TP. The problem then is a noxious elite that habitually targets any identifiable leader for genuine reform. Casey is either ignorant about the problem or is himself tied to the elite. The TP must neutralize the lethal power of the elite before it can come out with identifiable leadership and a comprehensive program.
Quote:
“L: Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. But why the Republicans in particular? Isnt the stupid party as bad as the evil party?
Doug: As you know, Ive always distinguished them this way: the Democrats definitely dont believe in economic freedom, but they say they believe in social freedom, while the Republicans definitely dont believe in social freedom, but they say they believe in economic freedom. Neither believes in both that would make them libertarians.”
What the jackass calls "social freedom" is anarchy. The jackass does not recognize conservatives on principle. One can always spot the Revolutionary Mind can´t he?
This guy uses the French Leftist Revolution to compare it to what is going on with the politics in your country.
The main point is he is defending the institution of a third, and a fourth parties, what would no doubt favor the communists democrats.
This is revolutionary tactics in it´s best form, divide to conquer. PS: The jackass has never heard of a man called Ronald Reagan, nor have never noticed the Founders of USA!
Tell that to Sarah Palin.
Cheers!
"Endowed by their CREATOR" doesn't work *without* a Creator.
Cheers!
This guy has never studied the French Revolution. I studied Alexis de Tocqueville's writings in college and he would be the first to say that what is happening right now is a distinct repeat of what happened in America in the 1770s.
Whom to believe? Doug Casey or Alexis de Tocqueville?
One more utopian libertarian telling the Tea Party how to think. Regardless of my tagline, don’t buy anything from Doug Casey.
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