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Sun, December 26, 2004

Blame Hippies
Sixties counterculture eroded moral foundations of society.

By Paul Jackson -- Calgary Sun

My scholarly friend Herb Meyer contends the American Revolutionary War was the greatest intellectual event in western civilization, not simply because the British were beaten, but rather it determined God's power flowed to the people and not to the kings.

With that, insists Meyer, the rule of law and the concept of individual rights were born.

I think Herb quietly winked at me when he mentioned the word "British' in that opening statement.

Meyer insists it was no coincidence that, when thousands of freedom-loving students demonstrated in Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989 they built a huge replica of the State of Liberty as their emblem.The Statue of Liberty is a beacon symbolizing freedom and human rights for everyone in the world.

In the column "Under siege" (Dec. 12) I mentioned Meyer was a top intelligence analyst under U.S. President Ronald Reagan, and whose new DVD The Siege of Western Civilization (www.stormkingpress.com), is currently the big talking point amongst conservatives across this continent.

Meyer, who talks throughout the DVD in a chatty fashion that holds you to the screen, notes western civilization is under attack both from outside and within our borders.

There are three thrusts: Radical Islamic terrorism, the alarming decline in our birth rates, and our moral collapse.

Western civilization has been under attack from within before, he notes, namely by the "murderous, horrible ideologies" of Nazism and Fascism. It took immense determination and sacrifice to defeat the anti-God and nihilist movements.

Today, he sees the internal threat to our moral foundations stemming from the 'hippie' counterculture of the 1960s.

The hippie movement spurned all that centuries of western civilization had spent building and safeguarding. Hippies rejected material success, and military strength. They loathed the consumer society, and the moral values of the day.

It really was sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll with no thought to the consequences of where their actions would take them.

The historic Fourth of July holiday was abandoned in place of "Earth Day" or some other such nonsense.

There was no God.

Power didn't rest with the individual, but with the state. The group was more important than the individual. The rule of law meant whatever you wanted it to mean at any given time.

Not content with just behaving themselves as they wanted to behave, the hippie movement and its adherents started electing their own kind to political office at local, state or provincial levels, and the federal level.

"We have to start electing people who know what they are talking about. Instead, we elect far too many people who pose, preen, say they feel our pain, say they are sympathetic to us, but they never solve any problems."

What they do, says Meyer, is subvert the foundations of our free society.

We are now in the second American civil war, against those who want to put the American Revolution in reverse.

Today, in the U.S., Canada and other democratic nations, we see the results.

There are no absolute rights or wrongs.

Whatever makes you feel good is just OK.

Entertainment and sports celebrities are acquitted, even when the evidence shows them to be guilty.

Former U.S. president Bill Clinton is impeached and guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice, but gets off since his polling numbers are high. He does, though, voluntarily hand in his licence to practise law, but only to avoid being officially disbarred.

In Canada, disgraced socialist MP Svend Robinson steals a valuable diamond-encrusted ring for his boyfriend, and gets barely a tap of the knuckles from a judge.

Indeed, Robinson is viewed as a victim rather than a perpetrator of a crime.

The values in our society are rapidly being eroded.

To Meyer, western civilization has been living off its accumulated capital, and now it's being spent recklessly, with the end result being our own annihilation.

That's why Meyer believes time is quickly running out for us unless we quickly tackle both the enemy outside our borders and the enemy within.

The Siege is an unsettling, harrowing video that will make you pause and think hard about where we are going to end up.

That's unless we wake up now to the relentless undermining of our way of life.


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Jackson, associate editor of the Sun, can be reached at paul.jackson@calgarysun.com.
Letters to the editor should be sent to: callet@calgarysun.com
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[scotty61]

While all this is true, the media as usual is focused on the baby boomers. There is a unreported story of a new couter-revolution of the generation following the boomers.

While the boomers are into learning about being grandpa and grandma, The new generation of parents are turning to more traditional values. At least in my area, every deveopment is accompanied by a equal number of churches. Fellowship halls and church day cares are major sources of work for those of us in the building trades.

At least that is how it is for us in red states and red counties of blue states.
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[GM Strong]

Just remember that a lot of us who are boomers never got into the hippie gig. Especially veterans. It's really tough dealing with some of those kooks while trying to uphold what you think is right. I am pleased that so many of our next generation have found the core that so many of my own generation lost or gave up. It gives me a sense of relief.
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[Knighthawk]

I blame the Hippies for everything
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Brian

Beware of the lollipop of mediocrity! Lick it once and you'll suck forever.

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