Posted on 03/30/2003 10:01:03 PM PST by Pyro7480
Actually, the change of government between Clinton and Bush was a dramatic test for our nation's rule of law. I find it most fascinating that people on the left now are claiming that the Bush administration has an invalid mandate. Those on the right mostly shared their ideas and raised money during the Clinton years. But now that Bush is in office, the left is talking revolution.
Those on the left who failed to acknowledge the victory for our democratic republic with the Supreme court ruling on vote counting and the invocation of the Electoral college in the 2000 election couldn't be more unamerican. It is those very institutions that could bring them back to power legitimately.
Upholding constitutional rule of law is non-partisan and anyone who wants to usurp those hallowed tenets without due process just because he disagrees with their outcome is a traitor, especially during wartime.
I wonder if African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and Asian-Americans who describe themselves as "patriotic" are also considered "white supremacists".
Remember, FOX is the #1 cable news network.
My wife believes, like David Horowitz, that the left is going to get more violent before the day is done.
You know... before this war started, I would have agreed with you.
But now Bush has drawn a line in the sand, and stood on one side of it - and the entire *world* has had to choose sides. Not only are the fence-sitters getting exposed, but the demonic moles like this wretched excuse for a "Professor" are getting smoked out of their holes.
Now, there's no middle ground left for them, no way for them to equivocate and sidestep... and they've bet the farm on our losing this war, on it "Turning Into Another Vietnam", on Saddam turning out to be a poor injured mistreated head of state. As events progress, the Left, and the Demoncrats, and the French, and the mainstream media, and all the rest of the morally bankrupt all continue to lose ground and lose credibility.
And for the first time in years, I find myself actually indulging in some optimism, about our chances for really turning this mess around - for our really being able to inflict a fatal "Dolchstoss" to the heart of the Left - all because Bush just... wouldn't... back... down.....
I shall NEVER forgive David Horowitz, for what he did , back then ; however, what he is doing NOW is priceless. He exposes the stinking COMMIES and their dupes, for what they are, explains how their minds work, and shows exactly what their words and actions mean. Yet, YOU have the gall to trash and bash im, heap calumny on him and those whom you calle neocons, as though that word was an explative.
What's " revealing ", is just how wrong, ill informed, and uneducated you are. Specious , ill conceived , illogical statements, such as the ones you post, are worthless, bandwasting drivel !
BTW, Ronald Reagan is a NEOCON !
Just which fringe party are you alligned with, dear ?
Rubbish. The original "neo-conservatives" (e.g. Peggy Noonan, Paul Wolfowitz, Elliot Abrams, Richard Pearle, Jean Kirkpatrick, Charles Krauthammer, Norm Podheretz, and many others) were driven out of the Democrat Party when the "New Left" rushed in the 60's and 70's. Many were liberals, but never leftists. Their hatred for the anti-American left is exactly what drove them to the right (and to the light).
This will be very handy later.
It is illegal to incite homicidal violence, though the left gets away with it all the time. It is legal to advocate changes in the law or the Constitution that would make this form of action legal, however unlikely that might be, just as it is legal for the Communist Party USA to advocate making "capitalist propaganda" a punishable offense, or for the Greens to seek Constitutional changes that would allow the forcible suppression of "pro-nuclear propaganda."
A socialist and longtime activist who, during the past thirty years, has mobilized millions of demonstrators in rallies denouncing our nation’s foreign policies; its military-related spending; and its purportedly virulent racism, sexism, and homophobia.
She is a die-hard, pro-Communist radical who proudly aligns her politics with those of Communist Cuba.
She was a national co-chair of NNOC in 1996.
In February 1996 at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, the National Network on Cuba (NNOC), of which Cagan was a national co-chair, sponsored a public forum that featured an address by Angela Sanbrano of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), which was affiliated with the Communist guerrilla movement in that country. Another guest speaker was the Cuban revolutionary José Luis Ponce, who appeared on stage with an admiring Cagan. Ponce extolled the enormous social gains that Castro’s revolution had brought to Cuba. As the socialist publication The Militant paraphrased it, Ponce lauded the revolution for its opposition to "the legacy of US domination - a legacy of unemployment, absence of health care for millions especially in the countryside, illiteracy, racism and the super-exploitation of women." He further predicted, quite happily, that "a fight for socialism" would re-emerge in Russia. To all these assertions, Cagan nodded with approval.
In short, Leslie Cagan candidly sides with Castro’s Communist regime rather than with the United States, which she deems the world’s foremost terrorist nation. The Venceremos Brigades with which she proudly associated were in fact organized by Castro’s Cuban intelligence agency, which went so far as to train some "brigadistas" in guerrilla warfare techniques, including the use of arms and explosives.
Cagan’s pro-Castro rallies were supported by such socialist organizations as Casa de las Americas, the Communist Party, the Socialist Workers Party, the Venceremos Brigades, the Workers World Party, and the Young Socialists.
Cagan herself was an original founder of the Committees of Correspondence, a splinter group rooted in the Communist Party USA. Joining the chorus of her fellow leaders in the "peace" movement, she condemns what she calls America’s "daily assaults and attacks on poor and working people, on women, people of color, lesbians/gays and other sexual minorities, the disabled and so many others, [and] such foreign policy matters as . . . military actions and economic sanctions."
Not surprisingly, Leslie Cagan firmly opposes our government’s contemplated war against Iraq, which she characterizes as nothing more than a thinly veiled oil grab. "Oil is not worth war!" screams Cagan’s UFPJ Website. "How much is the Bush administration’s push for war with Iraq motivated by its desire to gain control of Iraq’s oil fields?"
On February 4 in Charlotte, North Carolina, UFPJ sponsored a "No War For Oil" protest held symbolically in front of a Texaco location. In attributing nefarious motives to US military ventures, Cagan continues a long Leftist tradition.
In the 1960s, for example, it was commonplace for the Left to assert that the US was sending troops to Southeast Asia merely to secure mineral rights in South Vietnam for American corporations. As Stokely Carmichael put it at the time, our 58,000 dead soldiers were sacrificed merely "to serve the economic interests of American businessmen who are in Vietnam solely to exploit the tungsten, tin, and oil."
Following President Bush’s recent State of the Union address, Cagan said, "George Bush again tried to make his case against Iraq and he failed." "Such a war [in Iraq]," she contends, "undoubtedly threatens to unleash an escalating and uncontrollable cycle of violence, death and destruction." Of course, she does not express the barest hint of concern that Saddam’s regime, which has blatantly defied the conditions of UN Resolution 1441, poses a threat to American security. In the eyes of Cagan and her ilk, the principal enemy of world peace is the United States.
She is the co-chair of United For Peace and Justice (UFPJ), which on Feb 15, 2003 organized many thousands of protesters to protest within sight of the United Nations building in New York to express their opposition to a war in Iraq. Their efforts will be duplicated in some 300 additional cities throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
In the summer of 2002 , signed the infamous "Not In Our Name" (NION) statement denouncing America’s declared war against terror, which began in Afghanistan. "Let it not be said," read the NION (Not In Our Name) document, "that people in the United States did nothing when their government declared a war without limit and instituted stark new measures of repression. The signers of this statement call on the people of the US to resist the policies and overall political direction that have emerged since September 11 and which pose grave dangers to the people of the world."
1969 - 1970 winter : (CUBA : VENCEREMOS BRIGADES : LEFTIES / BRIGADISTAS : CAGAN, BLACK PANTHERS) "In the winter of 1969-70," Leslie Cagan fondly recalls, "I spent over two months with the First Venceremos Brigade in Cuba. Just ten years into their revolution, the Cubans had taken control of their history. . . . While we were in Cuba, Fred Hampton and other Chicago Black Panthers were murdered. It was a shocking reminder of the brutality and power of the US government, and there we were in Cuba, a whole nation under attack from the US. As Brigadistas we were taking a risk traveling in defiance of Washington’s travel ban, but we knew the risk was small compared to what Cubans and so many others around the world faced every day."
Good observation.
The left's fundamental hostility to law based democracy is showing, and has spread to many 'Rats that would not normally consider themselves left-radicals.
As much as conservative Republicans came to hate Wm. Jefferson Clinton, as much as they were ashamed to have The Rapist as President, I could count on the fingers of one hand (and have fingers left over) the number of times I heard Republicans say of Clinton, "he's not my President." Conservatives understand that such a declaration is an implicit repudiation of the Republic's constitution, and of the core principles of representative government.
As to the number of Democrats who said of Bush, "he is not my President," I lost count within weeks of his election.
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