GenrXr
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 Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 5:28 am Post subject: David Horowitz at his finest |
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David Horowitz at his finest.
| Quote: | In the end, the issue really is patriotism. Love of country. Concern for the safety of the people who inhabit it. Recognition that the rights and privileges and general bounties of this country were created by its culture, and that this culture was built on the faith and dedication and sacrifice of Americans who went before us -- that we owe them a debt in addition to the debt we owe the living members of our own generations..
Today, millions of Americans on the left, think this country and the rights and privileges it has bestowed on them are the result of accidents that have no relation to its culture or worse – that it is predator nation rather than liberating nation, that its history is a narrative to be embarrassed over, its legacy something to be discarded. The traitors in our midst commit their treason out of a delusional loyalty to “humanity,” a loyalty that is allegedly “higher” and therefore superior to patriotic loyalty.
Loyalty to humanity is in fact a concept so abstract and malleable that it means literally nothing. It is not a loyalty to anyone or any value. It is an excuse to betray one’s country. In my book, Unholy Alliance, I have called people who invoke this particular form of bad faith – Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Cindy Sheehan come to mind – “secessionists” in that that they have abandoned America for what they think is membership in an imaginary “world” community.
The truth about the world is encapsulated in its only institutionalize form (much favored by this crowd) the United Nations. In the real world, the UN is a collection of tyrannies, kleptocracies and slavocracies, and feckless democracies like Germany and France who are appeasers and abettors of the same. The UN is a moral cesspool that has honored terrorists like Arafat and once gave a standing ovation to a cannibal named Idi Amin. The UN only yesterday colluded in the genocide of the Rwandans, colludes today in the enslavement and slaughter of black Africans in the Sudan and embezzled billions from the criminal coffers of Saddam Hussein. This is humanity as it has evolved without the great foundational covenants that guide this country and that created in these territories a government of, by and for the people, dedicated to the belief that all men are created equal and that they endowed by their Creator with the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The first duty of a citizen of America is to defend this -- these institutions and this people that created America’s democratic culture and has sustained it. The idea that suicide bombing terrorists in the Middle East who strap bombs to their own children and tell them to blow up other children and they will go to heaven – the idea that savages like this will create anything in the Middle East but a second Holocaust is a delusion. But it is a delusion that unites the factions of the political left in America and leads them to betray their own country and their own people.
Destruction on a massive scale is the only thing America’s enemies have shown themselves capable of. To denounce America and its elected president in the midst of the terrorist war being waged against it – to denounce America as “the greatest terrorist state” and to proclaim its terrorist enemies “freedom fighters” in the manner of Cindy Sheehan, who is the symbol and mouthpiece these days of the political left, is to declare oneself an enemy of one’s own country and its people, and to proclaim oneself a waiting and willing accomplice to those who want to destroy it.
To be a patriotic critic of the war is not hard. It means to consider that your country and its citizens have been unjustly marked for death by an inhuman foe – a foe that crystallizes the very meaning of evil -- and to frame your criticism accordingly, taking those realities into consideration. Lack of patriotism is manifest when you make your own people your enemy, as Sheehan and her supporters clearly have. And that morally speaking is treason. |
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"An activist is the person who cleans up the water, not the one claiming its dirty."
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to stand by and do nothing." Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Founder of Conservative Philosophy |
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