Posted on 05/07/2010 2:13:19 PM PDT by Noumenon
“There are some who are born evil. I’ve met them and seen
an emptiness in their souls that puts a fear into me for I
realized that the only way to combat them is to eliminate them
which would make me as evil as they are.”
My answer would be that Mosaic (and by extension, Christian and English Common Law) to the above would be that the Commandment said “Do not murder”. It specifically did not say “Do not kill”.
The Texan “Some folks just need killing” is correct and justifiable depending on the situation.
YMMV.
Now that's just silly.
The lover and the rapist are NOT equivalent. Failure to recognize that fact evinces profound lack of judgement.
"Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves."
George Orwell -- 1984
The abyss beckons.
We know that down through the annals of history small groups of men have existed who have conspired to bring the reins of power into their hands. History books are full of their schemes. Even Life magazine believes in conspiracies like the Cosa Nostra where men conspire to make money through crime. You may recall that Life did a series of articles on the testimony of Joseph Valachi before the McClellan Committee several years ago. There are some aspects of those revelations which are worth noting.Most of us did not know the organization was called Cosa Nostra. Until Valachi "sang" we all thought it was named the Mafia. That is how little we knew about this group, despite the fact that it was a century old and had been operating in many countries with a self-perpetuating clique of leaders. We didn't even know it by its proper name. It is not possible a political conspiracy might exist, waiting for a Joseph Valachi to testify? Is Dr. Carroll Quigley the Joseph Valachi of political conspiracies?
We see that everybody, even Life magazine, believes in some sort of conspiracy. The question is: Which is the more lethal form of conspiracy criminal or political? And what is the difference between a member of the Cosa Nostra and a Communist, or more properly, an insider conspirator? Men like Lucky Luciano who have scratched and clawed to the top of the heap in organized crime must, of necessity, be diabolically brilliant, cunning and absolutely ruthless. But, almost without exception, the men in the hierarchy of organized crime have had no formal education. They were born into poverty and learned their trade in the back alleys of Naples, New York or Chicago.
Now suppose someone with this same amoral grasping personality were born into a patrician family of great wealth and was educated at the best prep schools, then Harvard, Yale or Princeton, followed by graduate work possibly at Oxford. In these institutions he would become totally familiar with history, economics, psychology, sociology and political science. After having graduated from such illustrious establishments of higher learning, are we likely to find him out on the streets peddling fifty cent tickets to a numbers game? Would you find him pushing marijuana to high schoolers or running a string of houses of prostitution? Would he be getting involved in gang-land killings? Not at all. For with that sort of education, this person would realize that if one wants power, real power, the lessons of history say, "Get into the government business." Become a politician and work for political power or, better yet, get some politicians to front for you. That is where the real power — and the real money — is.
Conspiracy to seize the power of government is as old as government itself. We can study the — conspiracies surrounding Alcibiades in Greece or Julius Caesar in ancient, Rome, but we are not supposed to think that men today scheme to achieve political power.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2860231/posts?page=338#338
Placemark to read hopefully tomorrow.
An eve of May Day bump...
Sheesh, I never read it. Thanks for the reminder.
Timely bump for Summer 2012.
Bttt
Bttt
Masterful, Noumenon.
Horribly accurate, and masterful.
Just wait until the book comes out. Progress has been slow but sure. The hardest part? The introduction. Must have written and re-written that piece of it at lest a dozen times.
Chapter titles are as follows:
1. Introduction
2. Like Gramsci’s Ghost…
3. Ideas Matter
4. The Will to Power
5. The Transvaluation of All Values
6. The Incredible Truth vs The Big Lie
7. The Flight From Truth
8. The Camp of the Saints
9. High Trust, Low Trust, No Trust
10. The Tyranny of the Weak
11. Only the Free…
I’ve re-ordered these chapters more than once, looking for better flow and coherence. But it’s coming together.
RE Book:
When it’s done, I’m in. Want to read it.
Thank you for your efforts to educate people, brother...it isn’t easy.
But it is worthwhile.
If you need any help editing, please let me know.
Will do, my friend. The manuscript will go out to you and a few others whose judgement I value. Stil lahve a lot of work to do, but the path of the arc I’m tracing is growing more distinct.
BFL
Will read later.
Amazing essay. Thanks!
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