-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.zolatimes.com/v2.34/Blair.html Tony Blair's Neo-Fascist Third Way by Wolf De Voon British prime minister Tony Blair likes government, and positively heaves with enthusiasm for the future of democracy. Well he should. Tony Blair is the best thing that happened to British socialism since the invention of income tax. I suppose I should be grateful to have a worthy opponent. Blair's recently-published political manifesto, The Third Way: New Politics for the New Century, digs fresh ground and convincingly defends the indefensible. It is an outstanding achievement in rhetoric. He makes the welfare state seem reasonable and sane, positively essential to modern society. Coming from me, that's high praise. Blair gets top marks for historical creativity and truly breathtaking contradictions. "The Third Way," he explains, "is founded on the values which have guided progressive politics for more than a century -- democracy, liberty, justice, mutual obligation and internationalism... The Third Way is not an attempt to split the difference between Right and Left. It is about traditional values in a changed world... [Margaret Thatcher] asserted the primacy of individual liberty in the market economy; [Karl Marx] promoted social justice with the state as its main agent. There is no necessary conflict between the two, accepting as we do that state power is one means to achieve our goals, but not the only one and emphatically not an end in itself." ...Wow! Blair's values are bulletproof: "The new constitution of the Labour Party commits us to seek the widest possible spread of wealth, power and opportunity... The rights we enjoy reflect the duties we owe; rights and opportunity without responsibility are engines of selfishness and greed." It could be an ordinary share-the-wealth scam. But here comes the Blair sledgehammer, with universal obedience and obligation at the base of his Third Way: "We need to shape modern institutions of work, and the institutions in which children are brought up, on the basis of enduring values -- justice for all, responsibility from all." Every business decision will be scrutinized by government; parents will be 'policed' by state inspectors, to determine if they are raising their children properly. Agriculture and industry are verboten in the Blair Economy. "Services, knowledge, skills and small enterprises are its cornerstones," he cautions. "Most of its output cannot be weighed, touched or measured." (This is a politically-specific warning shot, fired at the wallets of trade unionists and three million metal bashers who voted for New Labour and are no longer economically or demographically important to the New Labour regime. Workers of the world, prepare for retirement!) If Blair's view of the economy sounds a little screwloose, here's the party line on wealth-creation: "We all depend on collective goods for our independence, and all our lives are enriched or impoverished by the communities to which we belong... [F]reedom for the many requires strong government... Government intervention is necessary to protect the weak..." Blair's Third Way agenda has the raw growl of fascism: state control of everyone and everything. "Strong communities depend on shared values and a recognition of the rights and duties of citizenship -- not just the duty to pay taxes and obey the law, but the obligation to bring up children as competent, responsible citizens, and to support those -- such as teachers -- who are employed by the state in the task. In the past we have tended to take such duties for granted. But where they are neglected, we should not hestitate to encourage and even enforce them... In all areas, monitoring and inspection are playing a key role, as an incentive to higher standards and as a means of determining appropriate levels of intervention... The Government will have powers to intervene where performance indicators or inspectors' reports show that there is a serious or persistent failure in the delivery of services." Ostensibly, this is being done to make the trains run on time and to salvage the byzantine superstructure of Britain's government health care monopoly, the NHS, Europe's largest employer. To her everlasting shame, Mrs Thatcher lacked the courage to dismantle this medical monstrosity, doubling her NHS budget instead of calling a socialist sewer a sewer. Immune from competition and tort law, the NHS continues to neglect and butcher helpless patients, driving competent doctors and nurses from practice, widening the deeply-entrenched English "brain drain" that Tony Blair proposes to slam shut by adding another layer of inept supervisors, regulators, inspectors and informers. It is irrelevant that government officials and the Royal Family are treated by an elite cadre of private physicians in private hospitals. Hypocrisy is the least of his problems. At its core, Blair's Third Way is a prescription for totalitarian poison. "Money is not the only problem!" Blair shouted to the assembled Labour Party. "There are too few good state schools, too much tolerance of mediocrity, too little pursuit of excellence... We are spending more but getting less, failing to help those who need it and sometimes helping those who don't -- billions wasted every year through fraud and abuse. We have a system of unemployment benefit that asks first not how to get people into work but how to get them onto benefit." The Third Way? Controls, police, penalities and obedience to government. Blair sounds like a transcript of Hitler at times: "Success in life never comes without a struggle. This is our challenge. To hold firm; to show the same resolution in changing the country as we did in changing the Labour Party... The challenge we face has to be met by us together: one nation, one community... The crude individualism of the 80s is the mood no longer. The spirit of the times is community." And the first thing that Blair's community intends to do is censor the Internet and rub out free speech. They have already proposed that every email message and every web visit in Europe should be logged by every ISP and reported to the police, to allegedly track down pornographers and drug dealers. To an American reader, that probably sounds outrageous and incredible. To a European, it's par for the socialist course. Marlboros are $6 a pack. A 40W light bulb costs $1 and lasts half as long. Employment taxes are higher than the amount paid to workers. Local property tax on a single-family home averages $6,000 a year. A new pair of shoes cost $100. Wages across the board in Britain are about half of what Americans earn. People wait an average of six months for hospital treatment after diagnosis. To rectify this problem, admirers of the Third Way can chant the party wish list: "We ask that the government undertake the obligation of providing citizens with adequate opportunity for employment... We demand profit-sharing in big business. We demand a broad extension of care for the aged... the greatest possible consideration of small business in the purchases of the national, state, and municipal governments... an all-around enlargement of our entire system of public education... education at government expense of gifted children of poor parents... the improvement of public health..." (Policy Platform of the National Socialist Workers (Nazi) Party, adopted in Munich, 1920) Like Hitler before him, Mr Blair insists that nothing is predictable in the conduct of his government: "A large measure of pragmatism is essential. As I say continually, what matters is what works to give effect to our values... There are even claims that it is unprincipled... Our approach is 'permanent revisionism,' a continual search for better means to meet our goals, based on a clear view of the changes taking place in advanced industrialized societies." So, there you have it, comrade. The global economic crisis will prompt a series of improvizations by a man who sees himself annointed by history. Forget the misty-eyed care and concern, his carefully staged informality and scripted sound bites. Evil never announces itself as evil, threatening to destroy your happiness. It humbly defends you, and prays to God for guidance -- right, Tony? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Watch out for the 'Third Way' by Bill Still WorldNetDaily 10/21/98 Why are some high-level Republicans soft on President Clinton's removal from office? Besides the obvious partisan political advantage to keeping a wounded Clinton around, there is another reason. It's called the Third Way. The Third Way concept is shared by not only top Republicans and Democrats, but such new-left luminaries as the UK's Tony Blair and Germany's new Chancellor-elect, Gerhard Schroeder. So what's the common thread there? Something many Third Way-ers may not even realize. After you strip away all the rhetoric about a melding of socialist/communist state economies and the right-wing "capitalist" economies in the new millennium, we find a powerful central core -- that nationalism is the cause of war, and war is the major problem of humankind. This is what's at the heart of the Third Way "progressive agenda." Think back to your "Star Trek" days. You remember: Mr. Spock and Captain Kirk? The very basis of that show was that nationalism must end before humans can explore the final frontier. In the Vietnam era this sounded good? War is hell. Ask anyone who's been there. More recently, ask Tom Hanks. This belief in the inevitable demise of nationalism is the muddled thinking that binds these leaders. So what's wrong with this Third Way picture? Ask the Founders. They'll tell you. The Founding Fathers were very concerned about tyrants and tyranny. Their solution was to spread power out to an unprecedented degree in the American experiment. Lots of people share power in America, making for a very slow, very expensive, but very safe system. This is the foundation of our Constitution and, as we all know, is called the separation of powers concept. Why share power? Lord Acton's maxim: "Absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely." As long as imperfect sinners rule this world, it's just good ole human nature: the more power you have, the more corrupt you tend to become. Therefore, spreading power out to the maximum extent practical is essential for freedom to exist. But what is the separation of powers concept on the international level? What keeps us free in the global system? It can only be the nation state and -- sad to say but true -- their individual ability to make war. Bob Dylan forgive me. What a dilemma! Talk about being between a rock and a hard place! This is a tough question and it must be understood to effectively combat the soon-to-be-rolled out Third Way gambit (watch George Bush, Jr.). And please, let's not fall for the "conspiracy" trap! You don't have to be dark, evil conspirators to buy into the Third Way. You may truly believe that it's just "progressive" to think that mankind's greatest problem is warfare, and if we can only root out the primary cause of warfare -- nationalism -- then we can all go on to live in a happy "Star Trek" world of the future. Yes, the Third Way might bring peace -- for a time. But at what price? Clinton forever? Is this why President Clinton so arrogantly abuses the American Constitution? For him, the Third Way is now. Is this what has been behind the unprecedented attacks on critics of the Clinton Administration? How long can we call ourselves free once we lose the ability to safely criticize our government? So where do you draw the line? Does that mean no international cooperation, any time? Not at all! Some things must be international in scope just as some things (a very few things) are best done by our federal government. But take care liberty lovers! Power should never flow down from the top. That's the very definition of tyranny. Power must flow up from the bottom. The American concept is that power is given by God to the people and they loan it to governments. On the federal level, power resides in the states and is loaned to the federal government (that's the theory, anyway). And so it must be on the world stage. International power must remain in nation states and only given to an international authority in a limited, revocable, retrievable way. The day the Third Way-ers can convince us that that power belongs to the UN, IMF and World Court is the day of our doom. If the Founders were scared of consolidation of power in a backward nation clinging to the eastern shore of a largely unknown continent two centuries ago, we should really be worried about it today. 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