Posted by
Charles Lewis on Saturday, April 14, 2007 11:05:55 AM
Enough of this NeoCON job
by Charles Lewis
Pop Quiz:
Can something be a red wagon without being a wagon?
Can I be a political commentator without being a commentator?
Can an administration be "new conservative" without being conservative?
Definition: Neocon: new (as in neo) conservative (as in conservative).
If we call someone whom we know to not be conservative a "neocon" (neoconservative), we ourselves are attempting to con (read "lying"), are we not? Not to mention using the same epithet the ungodly left loves to use. Not to mention in effect ascribing all the evils we aim to ascribe to these folks to real conservatives.
That's right. When we call somebody (and many of us love to use this term in reference to the Bush Administration) "neocon," we are implicitly saying we accept that these folks are indeed conservative. In my view, that is giving them infinitely too much credit (and slurring ourselves in the process, not to mention giving at least our tacit seal to the propaganda of our mortal enemies on the left who use the same descriptive language).
Oh yes, I essentially agree with Joseph Farah, who bristles at the term, "conservative." To be sure, conservatives over time have emitted a lot of hot air and gotten little done beyond holding back the dike temporarily.
Words or phrases like "traditionalist," "Constitutionalist," "originalist," "American patriot," or even "rightist" probably say it better, though none, in my view, is ideal. Until Farah or somebody else can come up with a catchier monicker, I'll grudgingly identify myself as a conservative - someone who believes in constitutionally limited government, God-granted unalienable individual liberties, strong defense, gun rights, freedom of speech, moral absolutes, property rights, the right to life, and so on.
Can somebody tell me what is even distantly conservative about an administration that has:
promoted - via the "New Freedom Initiative" - a plan to test every American for mental illness (and medicate those - like fundamentalist Christians? - who "pass")?
federalized education - with a civics component that trashes the Constitution and Bill of Rights and aims to replace it in youngsters' minds with the UN's empty Declaration of Human Rights and world citizenship - via Teddy Kennedy's No Child Left Behind?
moved forward with the UN's property-rights-destroying Agenda 21?
attempted nothing to limit the Supreme Court's eminent domain decision tyranny (with the new "conservative" court refusing recently even to hear a particularly egregious case on the subject)?
pushed for the UN's Law of the Seas Treaty (certain to be ratified by the current Marxist Senate) that for the first time will allow that body to tax us?
argued in court in favor of preserving Clinton's draconian national monuments executive order (after campaigning against it)?
argued in court for loopholes that have allowed our university system to continue its race based policies unabated?
stonewalled attempts to expose the Clinton Administration's coverups (to the extreme detriment of conservatives) of middle eastern involvement in the Oklahoma City bombing and the terrorist connection to the Flight 800 downing?
lifted the ban on the sale of supercomputers to Red China?
done everything in its power to ensure that our borders are nothing but sieves for invaders and terrorists?
reserved its only "get tough" immigration policy for the Cubans who risk everything to escape their communist island prison and who, once naturalized, are the only Hispanic demographic group to vote consistently conservative (with the other such groups - the ones being rolled out the red carpet - voting overwhelmingly Democratic)?
bowed to the left in refusing to allow ethnic profiling in terror sensitive locales?
spent a huge share of its political capital on confirming Judge Bill Pryor, who had voted to kill Terri Schiavo and relentlessly worked to fire Chief Justice Roy Moore?
did nothing when a Florida judge blatantly ignored Congress's emergency legislation and proceeded to order Terri Schiavo's brutal execution?
aggressively prosecuted and later refused to pardon agents Compeán and Ramos for doing their jobs in pursuing an illegal alien drug smuggler?
dismissed Chaplain Klingenschmidt from the Navy (costing him his pension and leaving his family homeless) for praying in Jesus' Name - even after Congress passed a law prohibiting his firing?
destroyed the First Amendment with its signing of the McCain-Feingold Act, which, among other things, prohibits traditional media revelation of the voting record of congressmen within 30 days of a primary and 60 days of a general election?
created the greatest wealth redistribution program in our history with the negative income tax-yielding Earned Income Credit?
increased the size and scope of government far beyond the furthest reaches of even the Clintonistas?
If anyone can reconcile calling the Bushites "new conservatives" with a record where the above references are a mere sample of relevant internationalist and socialist policies of these false conservatives - these pseudocons - let him speak now or forever hold his peace. These are not conservatives - not new conservatives, not old conservatives, not pre-owned, pre-pubescent, menopausal, adolescent, or any other kind of conservatives.
They are closet liberals. And (either by open opposition or taint by association) they eat anything resembling real conservatives - like Curt Weldon, John Hotstetler, Vernon Robinson, JC Hayworth, Randy Graf, Ken Blackwell, Charles Taylor, and others among the litany of recent election casualties. And they ban and/or rebuff the likes of Walter Jones, Virgil Goode, Dana Rohrbacher, and Tom Tancredo.
The term neocon is altogether too good for them, altogether too analogous to how the world sees us, altogether too in harmony with the way the left and its media juggernaut depict both them and us. They are not out to conquer the world for America, spread the American way abroad, or do anything whatsoever in the interests of this nation.
And they are most decidedly not an independently driven movement with its own aims and objectives.
They are nothing more than an arm of the left - created to deceive us into thinking they represent real, meaningful opposition to the international federalist socialists across the aisle (so that a truly conservative - third - party never gets traction), to carry forth the left's agenda "under the radar," and to conveniently self destruct on cue in order to usher in an overtly leftist majority, with a "mandate."
Oh, and confuse us to the extent we start using the same terminology and uttering the same arguments as the leftest of the leftists.
Have thee no communion with the workers of iniquity.
By their fruits ye shall know them.
Charles Lewis is a former charter school director and author of nine published textbooks in mathematics and phonics. He has been a frequent contributor to such websites as EdWatch.org and
freedomfoundation.us, and is currently National Outreach Director for Christian Exodus.
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