As for "Their fury is genuine" -- they don't know the meaning of the word.
Posted on 05/11/2005 5:01:17 PM PDT by CHARLITE
In British legend, mysterious lights said to lead travelers from well-trodden paths into treacherous marshes are called the "Will o' the Wisp." The title also describes malevolent spirits who lure their prey into disaster with false promises. They erect symbolic lighthouses which instead of guiding vessels to safety, lead the unwary into destruction on the rocks and shoals.
In his book "The End of Time," David Horowitz writes, "The desire for more than is possible is the cause of greater human misery than any other," which is another way of warning of the dangers of pursuing the political incarnation of the Will o' the Wisp.
Throughout human history the minds of secularists who see life exclusively in worldly terms, to the exclusion of any thought of the existence of a hereafter, have been occupied with pursuing the most elusive of all the Wills o' the Wisp: Utopia, the promised heaven on earth that in all its incarnations has led instead to perdition. Blinded by an almost religious fervor, today's Utopians blithely ignore the lessons of history that prove their quest for a perfect society to be an impossible - and often lethal - dream, and forge ahead in their determination to impose their version of worldly perfection on the American people and ultimately upon the rest of the world.
Imprisoned by their blind faith, they view anyone and anything that stands athwart their road to paradise to be an enemy of what they believe to be inevitable progress - they are progressives and they react to obstacles to what they deem to be progress with an unmatched fury. And to them progress means the triumph of Marxism - of the all-powerful state against the blessing of individual liberty.
We saw it triumph in the Soviet Union, enslaving hundreds of millions and slaughtering tens of millions. We saw it triumph in Nazi Germany under its brand of national socialism, and today we see it in Cuba and increasingly in Venezuela. In each case, for the liberty-loving individual paradise turned out to be hell.
We are witnessing this battle against individual liberty today. Frustrated by the ascendancy of those who value liberty above the empty promises of Marxist safety and cradle-to-grave security, the Marxist left is lashing out with unrestrained rage against the party and its members who they consider to be in the vanguard of the forces standing in the way of the liberation of mankind from the strictures of a senseless morality imposed by an outmoded religious faith.
It is important to follow the biblical injunction to "know thine enemy," and to understand that what we are seeing in this furious and ongoing Democrat assault on the Republican Party and its allies in what they call the religious right is not mere demagoguery arising out of their frustration over their inability to control the levers of power they once held.
Their fury is genuine - they really do believe that the conservative Republican majority and their conservative Christian and Judaic allies are the agents of an evil conspiracy, determined to prevent the American people and all mankind from achieving their rightful destiny.
That rightful destiny is life in a socialist state in a socialist world governed by a Marxist United Nations, and everything they do and everything they say is driven by that impossible - and nightmarish - dream.
Because they are utterly convinced of the rightness of their unholy cause, they enthusiastically embrace the belief that the ends justify the means. Nothing is forbidden them in this cosmic battle between the forces of good, as defined by Karl Marx, and the forces of evil, as personified by conservative Republicans and their allies in what they call the religious right.
They can lie, they can engage in the worst kind of slander against their enemies, they can use the media to spread their distortions of the issues and the characters of their foes, they can ally themselves with the butchers of the unborn, the defenders of sodomy, the promoters of pornography and unrestrained sexual license, convicted criminals whose right to vote they espouse. In their world everything goes as long as it advances their cause, no matter how deeply it is immersed in sleaze and dishonesty.
When they attack conservative Republicans for seeking to rein in an out-of-control judiciary legislating from the bench and usurping the prerogatives of the federal and state legislatures, they are in reality recognizing that their inability to achieve their secularist and Marxist schemes through legislative enactment requires the help of non-elected jurists to implement them by judicial fiat.
When, aided by a compliant mainstream media, they mount an all-out assault on Rep. Tom DeLay, they are not merely attacking a powerful Republican leader they fear but instead are seeking to remove from the scene a man whose grit, talent and determination threaten to undo much of the secular and socialist damage they inflicted on the nation in the years when they dominated Capitol Hill. He is a serious obstacle to their version of progress and he must be driven from power.
When they seek to prevent John Bolton from being confirmed as U.S. ambassador to the corrupt and Marxist-dominated United Nations, they don't oppose him because he is allegedly mean to some of his subordinates or colleagues, but because he represents a threat to the future of an organization dedicated to the same Marxist dreams that motivate them. The president has chosen a Marine to battle for U.N. reform - they want to send a Girl Scout.
In all of these instances their anger is not feigned. They see the ascendancy of the conservative Republicans and what they contemptuously call the "religious far right" as the most serious threat to their impossible dream ever to emerge. Their anger burns red hot and will not die until they have been deprived by the American electorate of any semblance of political influence.
Until that blessed day arrives, hopefully in 2006, they will continue to dream their impossible dream and inflict its misery upon the American people.
* * * * * * Phil Brennan is a veteran journalist who writes for NewsMax.com. He is editor & publisher of Wednesday on the Web (http://www.pvbr.com) and was Washington columnist for National Review magazine in the 1960s. He also served as a staff aide for the House Republican Policy Committee and helped handle the Washington public relations operation for the Alaska Statehood Committee which won statehood for Alaska. He is also a trustee of the Lincoln Heritage Institute and a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers.
He can be reached at phil@newsmax.com
All you have to do is listen to Err-or America and you know damn well leftist's want to elimnate a whole class of people. Christians first, neocons and captialists second.
Uh huh. I should have also said I don't watch much teevee either ;^)
It would be *hugely* damaging to their cause.
Well, considering the ones most likely watching it would be cheering for the other side, I dunno. If you consider who teevee programming and advertising is geared toward, it will give you an idea of just who's watching. Or at least who presumably goes out and buys the soap.
FGS
Thank God I'm a Country Boy(musical interlude)
FGS
Yep, you won't want to live within a tank of gas range of a big city when they explode.
They'll have to win CW2 first to do so.
If they ever gained total power, I have no doubt they would begin pogroms.
Me three.
Here in the lala land of Oz and Sandernistas (Bernie Sanders's "Progressives") they have taken the removal of our rights to an extreme.
Now, as of last month, here in Burlington, VT, I can no longer go to the local VFW and visit with my Nam Vet buds, have a cold one and light up.
Yep, that's right. The Politburo (aka City Council) here has decreed that not only restaurants and bars are to be "smoke-free," but also private clubs such as VFW's, American Legions, etc.
Now, when our National Guard (brothers and sisters) come home from Afghanistan and Iraq, if they want to stop in our VFW and visit, they will be told that (as Sen. Snake Kerry is so fond of saying) "putting it all on the line," means squat as far as maintaining [all of] our freedoms.
Worst yet, the State Legislature is about to pass similar legislation making this effective throughout the state and our RINO gov. (Douglas) has agreed to sign this bill.
Read my tag: 14 days and a wakeup!
Odd, since from most accounts it was a major flop. Then again, lefties are an emotional bunch.
FGS
I thought the story was compelling, but poorly executed. It was about how people were coping with the country ten years after the invasion, so there wasn't much action at all. The Soviets were finalizing the dismantling of our government, but the story mainly followed a set of characters leading very different lives. One wound up in a concentration camp, one was a Party member who had access to banned material and got to see how conformity was being forced upon everyone, one was trying to put together a fledgling rebellion, etc. The story was 90% vignette character development, and a lot of people found it boring.
I just went over the IMDb comments and one thing someone pointed out was that the invasion took place in the first place through political corruption. Basically the Soviets backed certain political candidates in the US and eventually gained enough of a critical mass that their guys over here effectively signed the country over to them (since the story takes place ten years later, it's vague on it but apparently there are outtakes that explain more). In light of the mess with Clinton and ChiCom funding I can certainly see why (ahem) certain people on the left might not want people reminded of that tactic and what a "successful outcome" can entail.
The series was also very clear that the UN was totally complicit in the whole thing and essentially put their stamp of approval on it to make it seem legitimate. Would never happen today with us running the show, but a good cautionary tale if you can get past the boredom (and the fact that it's *really* depressing).
I have no desire to buy a copy from the sites online as I've already seen it, and taking a second look at them makes me suspicious of their legality.
Which seems to be the tactics they are currently using to try to conquer America.
Remember Logans' run?
As for "Their fury is genuine" -- they don't know the meaning of the word.
Ans: All of them.
Yeah. You got that right.
I believe that an *old* independent video rental store in my area has a copy (three VHS tapes, IIRC). I wasn't aware that it had become the miniseries equivalent of "Song of the South" - though I'm not really surprised about that. What I find most interesting of all is that there's enough demand to justify "unauthorized" copies, complete with DVD cover art.
That's a lot of work, unless, as in the case of "Song of the South", it was released elsewhere (anywhere but here). Hmmm.
"In time, the liberal fascist marriage of ignorance and arrogance will, in time, beget the idiot bastard children of ruin and slaughter".
Fear is the parent of cruelty. And the insane fear of the radical left will make any second American civil war make the French Revolution look like a summer vacation.
Keep your powder dry, good sir,
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