Posted on 10/08/2001 8:22:56 AM PDT by Pokey78
"For example, Michelle Malkin, a nationally syndicated columnist, writes ('Berkeley vs. America ... again,' Wash. Times, 9/25/01) "President Bush urged citizens last week to go back to work and try to restore normalcy to their everyday lives.
Accordingly, the Peoples Republic of Berkeley, CA, wasted no time in returning to its business as usual: stifling political dissent under the guise of 'tolerance,' stamping out every last ember of patriotism for the cause of 'peace,' and hating America while greedily feasting off the fruits of freedom so lovingly tended by their fellow countrymen."
"The home of the Free Speech Movement spent much of the week attempting to squelch the free speech of those who were outraged by the 9-11 terrorist attacks. According to KPIX-TV in San Francisco, firefighters in Berkeley were ordered to take American flags off their trucks in advance of an anti-war rally.
An assistant chief told the station that the safety of flag-waving firefighters 'could be compromised if protesters try to remove the flags and destroy them.' Only in Berkeley must firefighters fear retaliation from self-righteous 'pacifists.'"
Or, for that matter, a Barbara Streisand concert.
A healthy skepticism about the uses of power is always in order, but a smartass contempt for one's country and one's fellow citizens is something quite different. Most Democrats now get this; some students are learning. And one day, it may dawn on the chattering class.
The left hate the middle class; always have. The freedoms that allow 'regular' people to be educated and prosper but not necessarily adopt elistist 'values' and attitudes is unacceptable to these types, who would be right at home in some 18th century society consisting of nobility and peasants...and no middle class. It's always been a case of class warfare for the liberal elite, now it's become obvious.
Recent events are smoking them out and shining the light of day on these hate-America types, and our country will be better for their demise of their influence in the body politic.
Talk about unwinnable. Everyone knows dems don't have souls.
What we are seeing is the last thrashings of an intellectually bankrupt movement that has been superceded by events and does not even realize it. This is possible because of its academic havens, the very last to respond to changes in real-world events. They are now obsolete and will become funnier, and sadder, as time goes on.
This split exists on the left in other countries, and also on the right. National Review and the Weekly Standard think of the protestors and anti-Americans when they think of the enemy on the Left. Lew Rockwell and antiwar.com consider that Truman-Kennedy-Johnson interventionist statism to be itself the foe. Curiously, NR and TWS have been open to contributions from Democratic Cold Warriors and the Rockwellites link up with Chomskyites.
Every war means growth of state power. What the Rockwellites don't see is that sometimes such growth is necessary for self-defence. I don't fault Roosevelt or Truman for doing what they had to do to defend the country and it's interests. The problem is that a national mystique is created that can be used to suppress dissent or expand federal powers beyond what is justified by necessity.
Let's call them the chattering ass(es) instead. ;)
My favorite is the description of the leftist "elite" given by:
"..the noisy group of chattering asses who are elected by no one, and spend their time talking."
The reasoning given was as convoluted as anything I've seen so far. Its very difficult to show your patriotism these days.
I hope the wrath of God rains down on Brian Lamb. He deserves it - what a wimp and Kow-Tower to that class of so called Americans like Jane Fondle and the border hoppers to Canada during the Vietnam War.
Can someone explain the leftists' illogic?
Truman -- the man who stood by as Stalin took over Eastern Europe and Mao took over China, whose government allowed the Soviet Union to steal the secret to the atom bomb and build the H-bomb before us, who nearly lost Korea and fired MacArthur for rescuing it back.
Kennedy -- who let Cuban freedom fighters die on the beach, who proclaimed he was a doughnut at the building of the Berlin Wall, who assassinated President Diem in Vietnam and thereby gave that country to Communism, who campaigned against the 'missile gap' but actually let the Soviets catch up.
I hate to think what an 'unenergetic' defender of the national interests would be like, but Clinton must lurk nearby.
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