Posted on 08/08/2019 7:53:47 PM PDT by Perseverando
Scandals in politics have been motivated by personal gain, greed, love of power, lust, or simply a conviction that one's political agenda is so good it justifies bending the law.
This ungodly behavior was observed by Machiavelli in The Prince (1513), who recorded the evil tactics of Cesare Borgia: "the ends justifies the means."
In 1798, Yale President Timothy Dwight described how the Jacobins acted this way during the French Revolution:
"Adultery, assassination, poisoning, and other crimes of the like infernal nature, were taught as lawful ... provided the end was good."
Saul Alinsky advocated this in his nefarious Rules for Radicals (1971):
"The end justifies almost any means."
In 250 BC, India's Mauryan Empire became the largest empire in the world, under King Chandragupta Maurya.
The King followed the advice of his prime minister Chanakya, also called “Kautilya,” who is described as India’s Machiavelli.
Chanakya wrote Arthashastra , which gives shrewd, brutal instructions on deceit, assassination, and statecraft to accumulate power.
Chanakya counseled the King to use spies to create crises of rivalry, where subjects would fight among themselves, allowing him an excuse to consolidate control.
Max Weber wrote in Politics as a Vocation (1919), that “compared to Chanakya’s Arthashastra, Machiavelli’s The Prince is harmless.”
Roger Boesche, who wrote "Kautilya’s Arthashastra on War and Diplomacy in Ancient India” (The Journal of Military History, 2003), described its harsh political pragmatism:
"Is there any other book that talks so openly about when using violence is justified? When assassinating an enemy is useful? When killing domestic opponents is wise?
How one uses secret agents? When one needs to sacrifice one’s own secret agent? How the king can use women and children as spies and even assassins?
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I think the lesson in this article will soon be reflected in real life.
And justice will reign.
BOTH parties cooperated to put an ineligible usurper in office in direct violation of the Constitution.
Obama is not a natural born citizen.
The U.S. democRATs and the French Jacobins seem quite similar in their unethical means.
Saul Alinsky was mentored by Frank Nitti.
Truth is stranger - and more evil - than fiction.
For that reason, anyone who thinks that conspiracies are not commonplace in the halls of power is naive about human nature.
Niccolo Machiavelli was not anti-religious and never wrote “the ends justify the means”. What he wrote was that the ends SOMETIMES justify the means but only in emergencies, and in all other circumstances conventional religious morality should be relied on by political leaders. Thus, if faced with war, a leader of a nation may have to drop A-bombs if their existence is threatened, just as President Truman did.
Moreover, Machiavelli was given full Catholic, religious rites upon his death although he opposed the corrupt Medici Pope, wrote a Christian sermon “On Penitence”, and wrote that religious leaders were the most important in any society.
Way after Chanakya Later on there’s this guy by the name of Mohamed who asserts that his version of God in a creed that professes and promotes uses of deception and deceit in its Sharia code.
Excellent point!
Islam is a religion of violence, war and conquest. War is deceit/deception according to Sun Tzu and Mohammad.
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