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| The Great American Terror |
| 2012-05-26 |
| By Chris Covert Rantburg.com I have better things to write about. I really do. Every day I write about just how awful things are in Mexico and the Drug War: the bloodletting, the shootings and the terror. But this isn't about Mexico, though it is about terror. It is about an ideology couched safely by our abjectly ignorant press as social justice, the only justice of which is the left's blinded view of justice: vengeance. The astroturf Occupy Wall Street movement is about social justice, but it is really about vengeance. It is about the sense of vengeance of their paymasters, but expressed in terms like social justice. They got kiddies from college, heads full of mush and inexperience, and they got them to buy into it. Like good little parrots they repeat the lines about Social Justice perfectly. I have said on many times that liberalism and socialism, both brands practiced by our leftist political opponents, cannot exist, indeed cannot even be expressed in a free society. It requires self deception on the part of the speaker as well as the listener. It requires a listener who is willing to accept the contradictions inherent in leftist ideology, and it requires a willing press, either willfuly ignorant, or just plan dumb. Capitalism can thrive in any political environment, but socialism/liberalism can only thrive in an oppressive environment. You can't even talk about how unfair things are in a society whose very basis of interaction and exchange is free markets, idealogical and material as well, unless you yourself create a kind of personal oppression, a self-deception, maybe even using a problem your paymasters themselves have created. With the help of a wilfully ignorant (or just plain dumb) cadre of writers and journalists, if you use the phrase social justice, just about any idea that subsequently comes out of your mouth is taken down in writing like it is the Holy Writ. It is how activists such as Brett Kimberlin managed to gain hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants from charitable institutions over the years for his execrable ideas. He's got the old windsong down pat, and he plays charities like the cheap harp they allow themselves to be. So, it seems the entire basis of Kimberlin's existence for the past 20 years has been ignorance. He expresses ignorant ideas, charitable institutions play dumb to him and his past, and the press gives him a pass on his past by ignoring it. Ignorance is how he got his means of living. I am pretty certain that the multiple foundations, once they are caught in the realization that they have funded a social terror scheme, will immediately move to have their name removed from association. Or maybe they'll just play dumb. Kimberlin's social justice mantra has worked to mask a dark past. I have not closely followed the reporting concerning Kimberlin, but I have included in this article a link to the website of Robert Stacy McCain who has laid out much of the problem represented by Kimberlin and his great American Terror Campaign. The reaction, is it said, to those who have dared to repeat claims that exist in open record, is to harass critics. You should go to McCain's site and focus on Patterico, AKA Patrick Frey, and the heartbreaking... sh*t, to call it what it is Mr Frey and his bride have been subjected to. It is heartbreaking that such a thing has been allowed to happen. But now just after a year of this treatment, four more individuals have found themselves at the end of a high tech terror campaign at the hands of individuals who have zero sense of propriety and basic decency. But just like everything else the left lays its hands on, others pay their freight. Charities pay for their stone dead ideas and their opponents pay their price for the mere act of laying those ideas bare for all to see. A free society doesn't allow behavior that wrecks lives and that destroys the gentle threads that bind society, each individual to another. Our society is supposed to be premised on the vigorous, free exchange of ideas. But the basic premise of liberalism that destroys what is not theirs, and then complains that the result isn't their doing, is on display. But the mandarins at the top of our government and legal institutions which permit this behavior, and their allies which refuse to report on it, are as derelict as the ideas expoused by Kimberlin and his enablers. There is literally so much more to say about this. I cannot sufficiently express how bad the situation has been and will probably get. It reminds me of the rumors I heard about how the Obama campaign operated during the 2008 primaries, using veiled threats and intimidation to gain an advantage. Just a rumor, though. And maybe this is just a taste of what is coming down the pike by this November: Rumor, innuendo and the Great American Terror. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 -- This situation has been in the works for over 20 years, and worsening year by year. -- Doris Lessing's 1983 novel "The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire" was a fun read that outlines this whole situation. Paraphrased/edited from Wikipedia: The novel is a social satire written in the tradition of Jonathan Swift and George Orwell, and focuses on the debasement of language in rhetoric. In Lessing's fictional universe nothing but propaganda keeps a threatened empire afloat. When the language used becomes too distorted, some members of society develop a species of insanity. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2012-05-26 10:07 |
| #1 The latest baloon rising from the media is that the "Occupy Movement" has been..."highjacked" by anarchists. Something akin to the 9:30 arriving B&O from Louisville being "highjacked" by the tracks. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-05-26 07:53 |