Origanalist
05-02-2013, 06:37 AM
Links at article; http://lsrebellion.blogspot.com/2013/04/fear-and-loathing-from-establishment.html
es·tab·lish·ment (noun) the existing power structure in society; the dominant groups in society and their customs or institutions; institutional authority (usually preceded by the)
The various organizations behind the DC Empire have different objectives, or rather, different perspectives on how to realize their ultimate objective, which is to expand and consolidate the power they enjoy as card-carrying members of the ruling elite.
They appear to hold different, even conflicting, values and objectives, but that's part of their success. The faux left corrals mainstream liberals with certain slogans, and the same goes for the faux right. Thanks to the faux left institutions, liberal voters will cheer on a supposedly liberal president who expands an unpopular war, and conservative voters will support a supposedly conservative president who favors amnesty for illegal aliens. Without realizing it, mainstream voters are gulled into abandoning their own interests in favor of their handlers.
One thing these groups share is their advocacy of centralized power. That's what unites them.
Little wonder, then, that both supposedly "left" and "right" institutions should denounce Ron and Rand Paul's recent efforts to restore constitutional constraints on the federal government and its military.
For example, Dorothy Rabinowitz of the War, I mean, Wall Street Journal recently scourged Rand Paul for his fillibuster against domestic spy drones. She threw in a dig against Southerners (see the embedded video), and went on to denounce Paul for arguing the Boston bombers should have the right to a trial. Paul, claimed Rabinowitz, was “making the U.S. more vulnerable” by insisting the Bill of Rights still applied here in the 21st century. Doesn't he know there's a permanent War against Terror going on?
Faux conservative Andrew Sullivan could only comment "Ugh" to the news that Ron Paul had launched his "Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity" to promote "a peaceful foreign policy and the protection of civil liberties at home.” In his brief post, Sullivan linked to James Kirchik's Daily Beast hit piece entitled, "The Ron Paul Institute: Be Afraid, Very Afraid." Kirchik, by the way, is a fellow at the Neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracies. So OF COURSE he's an objective voice when it comes to understanding activists for peace and smaller government.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has made a bundle demonizing anyone who opposes expanded government, so naturally they had to put in their 2 cents' worth. Their anti-Paul blog post quotes Kirchik's piece, adding that Ron Paul associates with "neo-Confederates" and scholars who have argued the South was justified in asserting its right to self-determination. Oh, the horror.
All of which proves just how other-worldly and detached from reality our rulers are. We're supposed to believe that people who defend constitutionally limited government are threats, while warmongers and unelected bureaucrats who want to nullify the right to a trial are the good guys.
I'd say the Establishment is getting a little nervous.
posted by Old Rebel @ Tuesday, April 30, 2013
es·tab·lish·ment (noun) the existing power structure in society; the dominant groups in society and their customs or institutions; institutional authority (usually preceded by the)
The various organizations behind the DC Empire have different objectives, or rather, different perspectives on how to realize their ultimate objective, which is to expand and consolidate the power they enjoy as card-carrying members of the ruling elite.
They appear to hold different, even conflicting, values and objectives, but that's part of their success. The faux left corrals mainstream liberals with certain slogans, and the same goes for the faux right. Thanks to the faux left institutions, liberal voters will cheer on a supposedly liberal president who expands an unpopular war, and conservative voters will support a supposedly conservative president who favors amnesty for illegal aliens. Without realizing it, mainstream voters are gulled into abandoning their own interests in favor of their handlers.
One thing these groups share is their advocacy of centralized power. That's what unites them.
Little wonder, then, that both supposedly "left" and "right" institutions should denounce Ron and Rand Paul's recent efforts to restore constitutional constraints on the federal government and its military.
For example, Dorothy Rabinowitz of the War, I mean, Wall Street Journal recently scourged Rand Paul for his fillibuster against domestic spy drones. She threw in a dig against Southerners (see the embedded video), and went on to denounce Paul for arguing the Boston bombers should have the right to a trial. Paul, claimed Rabinowitz, was “making the U.S. more vulnerable” by insisting the Bill of Rights still applied here in the 21st century. Doesn't he know there's a permanent War against Terror going on?
Faux conservative Andrew Sullivan could only comment "Ugh" to the news that Ron Paul had launched his "Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity" to promote "a peaceful foreign policy and the protection of civil liberties at home.” In his brief post, Sullivan linked to James Kirchik's Daily Beast hit piece entitled, "The Ron Paul Institute: Be Afraid, Very Afraid." Kirchik, by the way, is a fellow at the Neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracies. So OF COURSE he's an objective voice when it comes to understanding activists for peace and smaller government.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has made a bundle demonizing anyone who opposes expanded government, so naturally they had to put in their 2 cents' worth. Their anti-Paul blog post quotes Kirchik's piece, adding that Ron Paul associates with "neo-Confederates" and scholars who have argued the South was justified in asserting its right to self-determination. Oh, the horror.
All of which proves just how other-worldly and detached from reality our rulers are. We're supposed to believe that people who defend constitutionally limited government are threats, while warmongers and unelected bureaucrats who want to nullify the right to a trial are the good guys.
I'd say the Establishment is getting a little nervous.
posted by Old Rebel @ Tuesday, April 30, 2013