-Caveat Lector- An Open Letter to WorldNetDaily by Jimmy Cantrell http://www.patriotist.com/cantrell.htm
Controlling the access of ideas is essential if you desire to prevent the rise of opposition. If people remain ignorant, they will accept quietly almost anything heaped on them, but if they know, they will begin asking questions and perhaps making demands. That is the reason that Leftists finding their Long March Through the Academic Institutions successful immediately slammed shut the doors in the faces of non-Leftists so that no one could enter to refute them. They now have full say, unquestioned say, because they make certain that no one who disagrees fundamentally [as opposed to someone who agrees with basic Leftism but disagrees over matters of strategy or emphasis] is allowed to secure a position from which to oppose them. They then, if forced to acknowledge the existence of ideas contrary to received Leftist wisdom, assert that there is no need to address concerns of someone like me, because if I were intellectually competent I would hold a university teaching position or w rite for some well-respected publication: as all really smart people who are not evil - the Leftist is certain - think in sympathy with, if not necessarily exactly like, the Modern Language Association and the Rainbow Coalition and the African National Congress, the fact that I do not so think proves that I am either unintelligent or evil. Because I am Southern, it proves to the preponderance of Left-thinkers [who are never guilty of prejudiced thinking, unless such is warranted] that I am probably both. To the deconstructive postmodernist and other Leftists, only a mindlessly violent racist, sexist, homophobe would reject such beautiful logic, and, obviously, no decent person will bother understanding the views of white men deemed untouchable by enlightened Leftists, particularly those who meet at least one Affirmative Action quota and/or deny Christ in the name of the Talmud. Neoconservatives reveal their Leftist foundation in many ways, and refusing, even as they present themselves as paragons of Free Speech, to allow any real debate once they come to control an institution, is a key one. Neocons [who are American Anglophilic Imperial Conservatives,] the pure WASP George Will-types as much as the Jewish newcomers still reeking of Marxism and passion to utterly secularize any Christian culture, hate and/or fear the South and Southern culture as much as do Leftists. In fact, it seems rather obvious to me that Neocons are on average far more willing to engage in non-rancorous debate and compromise with Leftists than with Southern Paleoconservatives; we they either dismiss as being too anachronistic, too atavistic to consider seriously or assert are fit, in this age of Enlightened Tolerance of Diversity, only for the genocidal ministrations of archetypal Yankee WASP Imperial Conservative General W. T. [the only good Indian is a dead Indian] Sherman. It should be obvious why Leftists hate and fear the South: as the South is, and has been since at least the Revolutionary War era, the most politically and culturally conservative part of these United States, any movement to reject Leftism will be centered in the South and tied inextricably to Southern values. If the Left can kill Southern culture and Southern identity, it can rid itself of the greatest threat to its goals. Without Southerners who are culturally Southern, American non-Leftism can never amount to much more than mild pleas for Leftists to slow down a little as they careen toward the multicultural socialist Paradise of Millennial Peace that they have faith will replace Western Christian Civilization. The difficulty for most people [including conservative Southerners] is to understand why Neocons often hate Southern culture and identity and invariably dismiss the former as at best backwardly in need of being forced to 'modernize' and the latter as ranging from primitively quaint to treasonous. The key is to focus on Neocons not as largely Jewish, which they are at least in contemporary leadership and emphasis, but as Yankee Imperial Conservatives. Neocons, like their arch-hero Abe Lincoln, believe in an American Empire with an imperial presidency and 'provinces' that serve the favored regions of the Empire. Just as the British Empire could not operate effectively around the globe, conquering and administering multitudes, if Ireland were recognized as having the right to secede or if a Scottish Parliament held States' Rights and could check the Westminster Parliament, an American Empire cannot tolerate States' Rights or any 'regional' cultural identity that could lead to ca lls f or independence from an imperial government that runs roughshod over that region's traditional cultural values. Neocons love the fact that Southerners are naturally opposed to Leftist economic claims. They also love the 'patriotism' of Southerners as it expresses itself in military service [ditto for English Imperial Conservatives regarding the Scots and Welsh and Irish Protestants.] But Neocons are fierce to whip Southerners away from recognizing that their Southern cultural affinities and needs are rarely served, and often warred against, by the Imperial USA [ditto for English Imperial Conservatives regarding Scotland, Wales, and even Protestant Northern Ireland, which is nothing but a creation of Empire for Empire.] Southerners, for example, rather naturally gravitate toward desiring small, limited government that is as local as possible. The Imperial Conservative requires centralized government that cannot be checked or resisted and requires perennial tax increases and growing legions of bureaucrats. Southerners are naturally wary of outsiders, naturally certain that peoples with different cultural values will attempt, if given the opportunity, to remake 'your' culture to please and profit them [Yankee schoolmarms and carpetbaggers and Social Gospel ministers, for example.] Imperial Conservatives, however xenophobic they might be at heart, must inevitably embrace multi-racialism and multi-culturalism and faith in the relative worth of all religions or else have exterminated the vast majority of peoples they have conquered. To fail to take one of those roads with all the power of the Imperial Government is to guarantee continuing rebellions against the Empire [also, it must be observed that taking the road of significant extermination/removal of a conquered population while attempting cultural genocide is not always effective; the English took that road in Ireland, and still the Irish rose and rose for national freedom - which explains more than anything else the pathologi cal h atred that many, or even most, English continue to hold for the Irish.] Thus, Neocons, who are first and foremost not about cultural values or historic ties but about Empire, must oppose most that which could derail the Empire; they do not focus significantly on those things [such as moral and cultural decay; Neocons routinely deride Pat Buchanan for talking about Culture War] that will harm the core population from which the Empire was able to grow. Southern culture could harm the Empire, just as Irish culture and identity, and once again Scottish culture and identity, continue to throw monkey wrenches into the small-scale English Empire that is the United Kingdom. Mass immigration, especially when the immigrants are given special status and privileges [such as Affirmative Action,] not only will not harm the Empire; it could help its existence both by keeping the conquered masses worldwide from rising for national freedom and by diluting the percentage of the homeland population that culturally is inclined to favor decentralized, limited governm ent, without which it is impossible to have a Republic. The Empire, the Government, could be helped as many of its core citizens are harmed economically, politically, and, - most importantly, I assert - culturally. Therefore, it is as logical for a Neocon, an Anglophilic Imperial Conservative, to hate, or at least fear and want to weaken, Southern culture and identity as it is for a Leftist. Both the Neocon and the Leftist covet centralized government with ever-growing power to do good as they see it; both desire to weaken permanently any cultural identity that could oppose them in their overlapping quests to create bigger government to promote bigger good for more people who will then owe their allegiance to the centralized government. Both have made the culturally and politically conservative South a whipping boy for the postmodern sins of racism and sexism while making sacrosanct the plagiarizing, philandering, Marxist-consorting, silver-spoon-born socialist Martin Luther King. Birds of a multiculturalist Big Government feather eventually flock together. II The preceding paragraphs serve as detailed introduction to my comments on having yet another Letter to the Editor of WorldNetDaily rejected for publication. Joseph Farah clearly is a man who desires most of the right things for America, including something that at least approximates States' Rights, but he apparently is driven by the false theology [heretical, in my estimation] of pre-millennialism right into demanding American Empire to enrich and protect Israel and possibly spur the world into Armageddon. Quite simply, it is impossible to have the Republic [small, limited government] and also to have the Empire enforcing 'peace' and 'democracy' and 'women's equality' and 'religious tolerance' at gunpoint around the world. Joseph Farah, like far too may Americans, demands to have his cake and eat it too. That is expected in an America filled with overgrown spoiled adolescents screaming that they want their MTV and they want it now, but when you realize that most 'conservative' Christian leaders are in that camp, either because of ignorance and illogic or political pandering so as to offend as few voters/potential church members as possible, you know the depth and breadth of the problems facing us. And that is not the extent of the matter. It is impossible to have the Republic and simultaneously have a strong central government that enforces, at gunpoint and/or with the power to destroy dissenters economically, local loyalty to the central government or 'civil rights' or 'women's equality' or 'economic justice' or 'equally funded schools so no child is left behind' or any other Leftist flight of fancy. Because he posts columns by Pat Buchanan [who is routinely denounced for 'racism' and 'xenophobia' and 'anti-Semitism' by Neocons like Jamie Glazov as stridently as any Leftist has ever denounced him for the same 'sins,'] Joseph Farah is far from the self-righteous Neocon who has slammed the door on Paleoconservative views while lauding himself for exposing Leftists for refusing to allow others to be heard. Thus, there is hope for Farah and his WorldNetDaily. That is the reason that I have visited the site regularly and written letters to the editor regarding columns that Farah has posted that at least suggest an awareness of the perils inherent in government do-gooding, whether domestically or for Israel and/or American investors in foreign businesses. No letter I have written praising a Buchanan column has been posted; the only letter that has been posted is the first one I penned praising a column by Ilana Mercer. If you do not know Mercer's work, I encourage you to investigate it. In both her analyses and her refusal to pander to PC sensibilities, she is first rate. When I disagree with her, I do so with respect for her abilities and her openness to intellectual inquiry. On 12 February, WorldNetDaily posted a column by Mercer that is a must read for anyone who desires a return to the Republic or even the relative sanity of the pre-Civil Rights era American Empire [in case any Neocons read this, I remind them that the 'civil rights' movement was totally infiltrated with and supported by Marxists, socialists, atheists, and Wilhelm Reich/Alfred Kinsey sexual revolutionaries: such a culturally, morally, spiritually rotten foundation must necessarily produce a house unfit for habitation by civilized people and profitable primarily to the Robert Mugabes and Marion Barrys it produces in spades.] Taking America Back starts with taking Lincoln down is as uncompromising and ruthlessly correct as anything I might write. The title refers to Farah's recent book, and Mercer's point is that it is impossible to "take America back" if we do not dethrone Lincoln and all the Big Government that flows from him. Below is the letter that I sent to Farah that WorldNetDaily readers need to study: Ilana Mercer's article Taking America Back Starts with Taking Lincoln Down is as fine a short article expressing that necessary truth as I have read. If you love Big Government; if you love Empire; if you believe peoples should have only whatever 'rights' the Big Government crowd in the Imperial Capital allow them to have; if you, however reluctantly, are content to have Big Government use its military powers to compel states and their citizens to support centralization of power and enforce Big Government's vision of democracy; if you support Presidents who arrest journalists and editors and politicians who speak against their policies because those policies are 'for the good of justice and equality'; if you support political leaders who make alliance with those who represent all the social and cultural Leftist groups of the day most specifically to wage war [cultural and physical] on the most culturally and politically conservative part of the Union - then Lincoln is your ma n. Of course, the Left requires all that in order to remake society, while true Conservatives, certainly those who understand how ideas have consequences and that ends do not justify means, who thus understand that the best intentions often do pave the widest, most beguilingly pleasant, road into the gaping maw of Hell, will oppose all that. For true Conservative role models, I suggest Patrick Henry, George Mason, John Taylor of Caroline, John C. Calhoun, and Robert E. Lee. If you demand Lincoln and his legacy for national adoration, you will inevitably get Empire and all its centralized government horrors. If you wish to see a return to the Republic, you must embrace Southern culture to a significant degree for the whole of the Union and allow Southern culture to be fully itself in the South; you must study and emulate not merely the Southerners I listed in my letter but also Southerners such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, John Randolph, Roger Taney, Stonewall Jackson, and Jefferson Davis, to whom Pope Pius IX, perhaps the most knowledgeable opponent of Leftism in the world in the mid-19th century, sent a crown of thorns. The problem is that New England Puritans, the original Yankees who certainly provided the preponderance of cultural values and attitudes that came to define the American north, loathed Southerners and saw them as inherent inferiors when New Englanders were still shipping slaves across the Atlantic and praying as Calvinists, which means the hatred and the condescension have zilch to do with either slavery and the War Between the States or Yankee evolution from WASP Calvinism to WASP Social Gospel/Unitarian-Universalism. Protestant Yankees hated the Protestant South for the same cultural reason that the English hated the Protestant Scots and took every opportunity to enslave them to the Empire run from London. The first American version of that hatred was installed as Union policy and part of national popular culture with the War Between the States and Reconstruction. As Neocons are merely the contemporary manifestation of Yankee WASP Imperial Conservatism, Neocons are prone no t mer ely to hating the South and fearing Southern culture, but also to searching for allies among those who also hate the South. As Neocons love Empire [and thus are willing to embrace multiculturalism in order to play imperial games,] that is no problem for them. The great question is: Will the many Joseph Farahs of America [essentially decent, conservative values folk who instinctively know we need a return to the Republic] realize, first, that Empire, no matter the do-good justification, is an abomination and, second, that no matter how furiously Leftists, and many Neocons, call them 'racist,' they must defend and support Southern culture in order to 'Take America Back'? 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