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"Arkansas Hick and his merry band of '60s dipsticks..."
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Mon Oct 18 15:37:28 1999
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<The DNA of Kenniwick man turns out to be asian or polynesian, but
that's neither here nor there...>
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Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 14:27:15 -0400
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Subject: IP: The Left's war against America
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http://www.newaus.com.au/USReport.html
The Left's war against America
By James Henry
No. 137, 11 - 17 October 1999
Few people appreciate the power of ideas. When they experience the
social and economic effects of intellectually inspired long-term
trends, many tend to ascribe the process to a conspiracy of some
kind. (If only that were so). More than 160 years ago J. S. Mill
wrote of how the ideas of a few writers can eventually influence the
thinking of a nation's intellectuals. Keynes made a similar point
when he wrote: "Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are
distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years
back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly
exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas. Not,
indeed, immediately, but after a certain interval. . . . But, sooner
or later, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for
good or evil."
The strength of the Left has, in my opinion, always lain in its
understanding of the power of ideas. With few exceptions the
so-called right has tended to treat ideas with disdain, preferring to
concentrate on traditional values, as if these were independent of
ideas. This gross error by conservative forces allowed Leftist ideas
to capture the media, universities, much of the school system and the
entertainment industry, especially Hollywood. In a sense, its
greatest triumph was in giving America the most corrupt
administration in the nation's history.
Once a nation's so-called elites begin to think alike, regardless of
the content of their ideas, they will tend to direct the nation along
a path that accords with their view of the world. Once we understand
this fact, even the most incredibly stupid statements will make
sense. Let take as an example Deputy Secretary of State Strobe
Talbott's publicly expressed view that the United States might not
exist in its current form in the 21st Century because he believes
that nationhood will have become obsolete. (A view not shared by the
Russian, Polish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean governments, just to
name a few).
Ordinarily, anyone with Talbott's views would not have found a
position in a responsible and intellectually sound administration.
But this is the sensitive '90s and Bill 'I-feel-your-pain' Clinton
lounges about in the Oval Office. It took a Chinese columnist, Peter
Zhang, to cleverly sum up the situation with the observation that
America is being run by the "Arkansas Hick and his merry band of '60s
dipsticks with their fairyfloss intellects and LSD-coloured view of
the world [who] continue to pursue policies that puts the United
States mainland at considerable risk."
And the '60s is the key. The likes of Talbott and the Clintons have
their intellectual roots in the left-wing ideas that swept through
American universities in the '60s. The malevolent fruits of that
intellectual plague captured the humanity faculties and after 30
years of relentless Leftist indoctrination succeeded in thoroughly
polluting the nation's intellectual environment. The products of this
intellectual pestilence now dominate the media and much of the legal
profession, including the judiciary; our schools have been
contaminated to an extraordinary degree as has the entertainment
industry. Even corporate boardrooms have succumbed to this poisonous
brew.
The basis of this ideology is a pathological hatred of America.
Understanding this fact makes us realise that Talbott, a former
journalist and college roommate of Clinton, is not really calling for
the a world government but the destruction of the USA, an oppressive,
exploitative and racist society. These were the ideas they absorbed
during their college days and they have never renounced them. This is
the principle reason why Talbott and the rest of Clinton's "merry
band of '60s dipsticks with their fairyfloss intellects" are so light
on China1. It's really all America's fault, meaning "white America".
This lot are so riddled with shame and guilt they are prepared to
sacrifice America's interests in order to atone for her alleged sins
while exculpating their own.
Talbott is an interesting example of the political decay and
hypocrisy of America's self-anointed political elites. He shared the
radicals' enthusiasm for the 'peace movement' and their doctrine of
'moral equivalence' that not only equated America's faults with the
totalitarian Soviet Union's atrocities but which also accused Reagan
of being provocative but never the Soviets. Talbott's ridiculous
assertion in Time that the collapse of communism proved the peace
movement had been all along served to demonstrate that this
ideological moron is congenitally incapable of learning the lessons
of history. The trillions of dollars the US had spent on holding
Soviet barbarism at bay were, according to Talbott, a complete waste
of resources. That Reagan's defence push finally precipitated the
Soviet collapse does not even register with Talbott. No wonder State
Department veterans treat Talbott and the rest of Clinton's Leftist
trendoids with contempt.
The Washington-based Institute of Policies studies has been at the
brain center of the Left's war against America. Established in 1963
by Richard Barnet and Marcus Raskin (both former government
bureaucrats) and funded by the Rubin Foundation (Rubin was a thief, a
Soviet agent and a member of Stalin's Comintern). The IPS is a phony
educational organisation, registered with the IRS as a 501 (c)(3)
organisation, that has waged a relentless war against this country,
supporting its enemies abroad, including Hanoi, the Sandinistas,
Castro, the defunct Soviet Empire, etc, and giving aid to its enemies
at home. According Raskin the US deliberately started the Cold War as
part of its plan to "reach for the brass ring: world hegemony."
The insidious and destructive influence of the IPS pervades the media
and now reaches into the Oval Office, with Clinton giving
appointments to IPS luminaries like Derek Shearer, Anthony Lake and
Morton Halperin, a former Kissinger aid and a character witness for
Philip Agee, traitor and KGB agent. Incidentally, Agee was strongly
connected to the IPS. These people are not even the tip of the IPS
iceberg, hundreds of people with IPS links are now operating — or
should I say maggoting away — through government agencies and
departments. To these ideologues America is the real enemy.
Harvard's W.E.B. DuBois Institute provides a graphic example of the
degree to which the Left has corrupted our universities, turning them
from centers of learning to centers for hating. The Institute
encouraged Noel Ignatiev to launch "whiteness studies," the absurd
basis of which is that "whiteness" is a "social construct that is
oppressive and must be abolished." Far from being amusing, disciples
of this racist left-wing cult produce a magazine called Race Traitor.
To this crowd to be white is a social cancer that has to be removed
by violence. If you think there is not much to choose between these
left-wing fanatics and Nazi's, you'd be right.
That these ideological thugs are preaching race hate and inciting
racial violence seems to meet with the approval of the Harvard
faculty and other universities, the mainstream media and most of
America's publishing houses. Why? Because they too are infected with
the self-hating leftist ideology of the '60s. It should be patently
clear that their ultimate aim is the destruction of America. It is
their ideology that drove prayer from our schools and devastated
educational standards; it is the same ideology that foisted
multiculturalism on us and damns its critics as racists; this is the
ideology that is subverting our cultural heritage by indoctrinating
our children with a hostile view of their history and culture.
The Left's malicious nihilism is impacting on every aspect of the
nation's culture. The almost farcical response of Clinton to the
discovery of Kennewick Man is a sickening example of the
pervasiveness of the Left's ideology and its contempt for scientific
truth. Kennewick Man is thought not only to be more than 9.000 years
old but of Caucasian origin. If this is true, then a momentous
scientific and cultural discovery has been made. But such a discovery
does not fit the Left's ideological view of the US. In keeping with
this view, Clinton ordered the site destroyed and the bones
vandalised in the hope of destroying any possibility of determining
the remains racial origins. This is a calculated Orwellian attempt by
the Left, through Clinton, to try and control the present, and hence
the future, by destroying historical evidence. There is no clearer
evidence of the Left's power, influence and malice, especially in the
media.
The Left's campaign is not a culture war but a war against a culture
by creatures who have nothing to offer but hate and loathing. These
ideologues and their media allies are the real enemy. These are ones
who have to be confronted and defeated.
1Clinton's venality and moral turpitude should not blind anyone to
his Leftist beliefs.
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"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
