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![]() "Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message ink.net... "Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message ... Even those that try to cram the Fifteen (bonk..crash...) the Ten Commandments down our throats, or that try to force teaching Creationism as equal with Evolution? Since conservative philosophy precludes judicial activism there can be no "conservative activist judges". Ah....yeah, okie dokie. |
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Tom Sixkiller wrote:
Since conservative philosophy precludes judicial activism there can be no "conservative activist judges". Ah....yeah, okie dokie. No, he's not being his usual self here. He's right. The problem is with the label. Those calling themselves conservative today often fail any reasonable test. The current US administration is a perfect example, with a history of actions that (for example) violate free market (steel tariffs) and states' rights (education) principles. I'm not sure what they should be called, but "conservative" is not applicable. Unfortunately. - Andrew |
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Andrew Gideon ) wrote:
: Tom Sixkiller wrote: : : Since conservative philosophy precludes judicial activism there can : be no "conservative activist judges". : : Ah....yeah, okie dokie. : : No, he's not being his usual self here. He's right. : : The problem is with the label. Those calling themselves conservative : today often fail any reasonable test. The current US administration is : a perfect example, with a history of actions that (for example) violate : free market (steel tariffs) and states' rights (education) principles. : : I'm not sure what they should be called, but "conservative" is not : applicable. : : Unfortunately. : The conservative* who supported gays in the military ("You don't have to be straight to shoot straight") would probably be classified a liberal today. A better term for neoconservatives is neo-Jacobins: http://www.vdare.com/roberts/ryn.htm VDARE.com: 10/21/03 - New Book Blasts America's Neo-Jacobins "New Book Blasts America's Neo-Jacobins By Paul Craig Roberts Do you want to know why President George W. Bush's focus on the war against terror was redirected to war against Iraq and the Muslim Middle East? Read Professor Claes G. Ryn's new book, America the Virtuous: Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire. Professor Ryn is a learned, insightful, and courageous scholar who ably explains the ideas that are destroying our country. These ideas are the property of neo-Jacobins. Professor Ryn calls the ideas "a recipe for conflict and perpetual war." Neo-Jacobins are known to Americans as neoconservatives, a clever euphemism behind which hides a gang of radicals who stand outside of, and opposed to, the American tradition. The US has been subverted from within as these counterfeit conservatives hold the reins of power in the Bush administration. Professor Ryn shows that Jacobins have not a drop of conservative blood in their veins. For example, the Jacobins' concept of morality is abstract and ahistorical. It is a morality that is divorced from the character of individuals and the traditions of a people. Jacobins are seduced by power. The foundation of their abstract morality is their fantastic claim to a monopoly on virtue. Secure in their belief in their monopoly on virtue, Jacobins are prepared to use force to impose virtue on other societies and to reconstruct other societies in the Jacobin image. Jacobin society is a centralized one that subordinates individuals and their liberties to abstract virtues. In short, it is an ideological society imbued with assurance of moral superiority that justifies its dominance over others, including its own citizens. Virtue gives Jacobins a mandate to rule the world in order to improve it. Opposed to the American Republic that is based in traditional morality and limits on power, the Jacobin agenda is to remake America into an empire capable of imposing virtue on the world..." The Bush administration's foreign policy is run by a group of men from the Project for a New American Century: http://www.newamericancentury.org/st...principles.htm Statement of Principles "June 3, 1997 American foreign and defense policy is adrift. Conservatives have criticized the incoherent policies of the Clinton Administration. They have also resisted isolationist impulses from within their own ranks. But conservatives have not confidently advanced a strategic vision of America's role in the world. They have not set forth guiding principles for American foreign policy. They have allowed differences over tactics to obscure potential agreement on strategic objectives. And they have not fought for a defense budget that would maintain American security and advance American interests in the new century. We aim to change this. We aim to make the case and rally support for American global leadership [snip] Such a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity may not be fashionable today. But it is necessary if the United States is to build on the successes of this past century and to ensure our security and our greatness in the next. Elliott Abrams Gary Bauer William J. Bennett Jeb Bush Dick Cheney Eliot A. Cohen Midge Decter Paula Dobriansky Steve Forbes Aaron Friedberg Francis Fukuyama Frank Gaffney Fred C. Ikle Donald Kagan Zalmay Khalilzad I. Lewis Libby Norman Podhoretz Dan Quayle Peter W. Rodman Stephen P. Rosen Henry S. Rowen Donald Rumsfeld Vin Weber George Weigel Paul Wolfowitz" --Jerry Leslie Note: is invalid for email * Barry Goldwater |
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