We need to stop using the word neocon and replace it with imperialist. Neoconservatives come in two flavors.
On Jun 7, 9:00 am, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > Desperate Neocons Dig Up the Rotted, Smelly Corpse of Lincoln . . .Posted > byThomas DiLorenzoon June 7, 2013 07:54 AM > . . . yet again in an amateurish rehash of nineteenth-century Republican > Party propaganda (a.k.a., "Straussianism") in the form of aNational Neocon > Reviewcover story titled "Defending Lincoln." The way to become politically > relevant and win over America's youth, says Rich Lowry (who apparently will > always look like he just started shaving last week) is to continue to libel > and smear Ron Paul and "the fever swamp of LewRockwell.com" while composing > boring, poorly-written, long-winded apologies for the abolition of civil > liberties, crackdowns on free speech, the imprisoning of dissenters, > pervasive spying by the state, the deportation of political opponents, > massive taxation and debt to pay for it all, centralized, monopolistic > government, crony capitalism, and above all, never-ending aggressive wars > all around the world in the name of "making all men free." > This of course is all in keeping with the ideology ofNational Neocon > Review'sfounder, "former" CIA employee William F. Buckley, Jr., who wrote in > the January 25, 1952 issue ofThe Commonwealmagazine that what America needed > was "the extensive and productive tax laws that are needed to support a > vigorous anti-communist foreign policy . . . . we have got to accept Big > Government for the duration -- for neither an offensive nor a defensive war > can be waged . . . except through the instrumentality of a totalitarian > bureaucracy within our shores . . . . [including] large armies and air > forces, atomic energy, central intelligence, war production boards, and the > attendant centralization of power in Washington." (See Murray Rothbard, > "Buckley Revealed" at: http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard6.html). > This is what it meant to be a "National Review Conservative" (a.k.a., > fascist) in Buckley's time as now. The legitimacy of the > Welfare/Warfare/Police state does not rest upon the Constitution but upon the > myths and legends of Abraham Lincoln perpetrated by Republican Party hacks > and propagandists like Rich Lowry. -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
