Posted on 01/31/2014 6:35:54 AM PST by rktman
The Indian American immigrant vs. the radical white son of a one percenter capitalist was quite a spectacle. The Dinesh D'Souza and Bill Ayers debate on Thursday night at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and sponsored by Young America's Foundation, hands down showed D'Souza has a broad view of history and a love of America as a "wealth creator." In contrast, Ayers has a narrow progressive view where "we [the people] are the sovereign, collective authority."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
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Yup. Some of my upstate NY ancestors fought in every major battle for the north.
So Ayers thinks we should “disarm”. Since the vast majority in America rejects his radical agenda, it must only be “reactionaries” whom he wants to disarm.
Well, Comrade Bill, hit the bricks, start banging on doors, and announce “I’m a pro-violence sixties revolutionary, and I’m here to take away your guns. Hand ‘em over! NOW!!!”
I missed the streamed debate ...and after reading this article am glad I skipped it. coming in the heels of the My State Of My Union Address it might have proved to have been a bit too much.
Thank you for the followup.
That would have been the “mistake of the union” thingy from this past Tuesday?
Did you also notice how much of Ayers time speaking was done while looking down at his podium at his notes, while D’Souza rarely looked at his?
Ayers once participated in a liberal cabal meeting where they openly and calmly discussed the murder/execution of dozens of millions of Americans who they thought could not be re-educated in the brainwashing camps they wanted to set up after they succeeded in taking over America.
Just in case you’ve never seen it, here’s a link to the weather undergrounds little book from back then. Praire Fire:
http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Prairie-fire.pdf
No. He needs to be placed against a wall and shot.
Love the saying:
Mutton dressed like lamb.
I hope that is not what D'Souza said.
Over 2 million men served in the Union Army during the Civil War and well over 300,000 died during the course of that war. Of those deaths, approx 2/3 of them were from various "camp diseases" while the other 1/3 were killed in action on the battlefield or died as a result of wounds in battle. Another 200,000+ were wounded in action but survived.
Taken together, there were over 500,000 Union casualties during the war, or approx. 25% of the 2+ million man army.
Well they must have died only because they hated blacks and wanted to have them all sent back to Africa. :>}
I hope Dinesh is wise enough to refuse any dinner invitations from Ayers.
ha! That’s great...I’ve never heard the saying but it is perfect! I must remember this.
". . . showed D'Souza has a broad view of history and a love of America as a "wealth creator."
On the other hand, Ayers and current political leaders among so-called "progressives" display no such "broad view of history."
Poet Robert Frost once described such characters, but will Americans of 2014 recognize them?
Now would be a good time for conservatives to read, or re-read, Dr. Russell Kirk's "The Conservative Mind, which can be read online, by the way.
In Kirk's last chapter he reviews the works of poets and writers, quoting lines which now seem to bear a strikinig resemblance to the players on the stage in American politics today.
For instance, in Robert Frost's "A Case for Jefferson," Frost writes of the character Harrison:
"Harrison loves my country too
But wants it all made over new.
. . . .
He dotes on Saturday pork and beans.
But his mind is hardly out of his teens.
With him the love of country means
Blowing it all to smithereens
And having it made over new."
The pseudointellectuals who occupy the White House, the media, and much of Congress fancy themselves "intellectuals."
By their words and actions, however, they display a provinciality reminiscent of that Dr. Kirk recalls from an essay by T.S. Eliot on Virgil:
"In our time, when men seem more than ever to confuse wisdom with knowledge and knowledge with information and to try to solve the problems of life in terms of engineering, there is coming into existence a new kind of provincialism which perhaps deserves a new name. It is a provincialism not of space but of time--one for which history is merely a chronicle of human devices which have served their turn and have been scrapped, one for which the world is the property solely of the living, a property in which the dead hold no share."(Bold added for emphasis)
In today's case, the "provinciality" seems to be limited to the "progressives'" dabbling in and discussing the ideas of Mao, Marx, and other theoreticians and believing they can impose those ideas on a once-free people.
America's written Constitution deserves protectors whose minds are out of "their teens" in terms of their understanding of civilization's long struggle for liberty.
It certainly deserves protectors who do not consider it a "flawed" document because it does not permit the government it structures to run rough shod over the rights of its "KEEPERS, the People" (Justice Story).
Blasting it "all to smithereens" seems to be the goal of the current Administration and so-called "progressives" who control the Executive and one-half of the Legislative branch of government.
The Founders' Constitution's strict limits on coercive power by elected representatives are being ignored and disavowed; the free enterprise system which allowed individual citizens to achieve and excel in their chosen pursuits is being co-opted by elected and unelected bureaucrats; and the rights of conscience, speech, and religion are being trampled as we post here.
"The People" should be debating great ideas such as how to preserve liberty, or, in economic matters, the wisdom of the great moral philosopher, Adam Smith's "Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations." Instead, they are being hoodwinked by a president who believes they are ignorant or foolish enough to believe that deficit spending, debt, and government control will lead to prosperity.
When, in 1776, our ancestors felt the heavy hand of the British government "taking" their earnings, regulating their lives, interfering with their beliefs, and asserting coercive control over their actions, they did not waste their time on such trivia.
They wrote great treatises such as "Thoughts on Government" and "Common Sense." They educated their young on the merits of liberty, as opposed to slavery to government, and they did the groundwork which allowed for a written Constitution for self-government to be ratified in the states only eleven years later.
America is about to be bankrupt, both financially and philosophically, and those who have benefited from the Founders' ideas, who call themselves "conservators" (conservatives) of those ideas, should come together to place those ideas before millions of young people who must participate in voting in November on whether they desire liberty or slavery. Women, youth, men, so-called "seniors"--all need to have the choice presented clearly that this election pits the ideas of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and America's other Founders against the ideas of Marx, Lenin, and Keynes.
There are always "useful idiots." That's what every oppressive regime has relied upon. A "useful idiot" with a big megaphone is more dangerous to liberty than millions of ordinary ones, because of the ability to lull more people into a sense of complacency.
America, awaken! This decades-long battle for your liberty has been engaged. But, for decades, you have allowed the ideas of your liberty to be censored from your nation's textbooks and public discourse.
Our best weapon is contained in our Declaration of Independence and the Constitution which leaves all the power in "the People's" hands. Read them, amplify upon their principles and ideas by accessing the Founders' writings and speeches.
For a quick review of those principles and the nation's first 50 years under its Constitution, consult John Quincy Adams' "Jubilee" Address here, or a recent reprint of a 1987 Bicentennial collection of the Founders' principles, here.
James Madison stated: "Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant—they have been cheated; asleep—they have been surprised; divided—the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson? ... the people ought to be enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after establishing a government, they should watch over it ... It is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently free."
Along with his vile wife Bernadine Dohrn.
I assume your post was your extemperanous thoughts on the issue.
Masterful.
Indeed The Mistake Of The Union. Perhaps the biggest mistake the union has EVER made!
It was apparent from this debate that William Ayers has only a young teen’s superficial knowledge and understanding of history, has practically not grasp of cause and effect, of economics, or of human nature. That he chose to spend his life defecating on religion and morality he and his wife proved when then cast their lot with bombers and murderers.
His parents, many believe, got him and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn sprung from having to do prison time. The universities department personnel and higher administrators who have given this criminal couple and the other Weatherman university teaching positions just because they are notorious criminals must have their heads up their arses.
One shouldn’t judge someone by how they dress, but truly those earrings that he’s wears into his dotage prove as much as anything how unhappy he really is in his own skin. That unhappiness with himself also accounts for his fixation with homosexuality. He was and is still intellectually and emotionally a yet to mature teenager who read one idea a long time ago and convinced himself he’d discovered America.
In concert with his fixation on homosexuality is a fixation on the Black man as something he himself seems to have yearned to be. These connected strands have played out in his grooming and pushing Obama as his surrogate.
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