John Sexton has a piece today at Hot Air, the gist of which is a look at a New Yorker piece that gushes over Gonzales's delivery of her remarks at last weekend d's rally in Washington. The New Yorker piece goes into great detail about Gonzales's breath and eyelids and such, and sums up with a comparison to Joan of Arc. Seriously.
Two pieces at NRO today, one by Rich Lowry and one by Joe Bissonette, look at Hogg. Between then, they examine his foul mouth, his sanctimony, and his demonization of the NRA.
An unsettling possibility is arising as the aftermath of the Parkland shooting morphs into something else (and it is, as evidenced by the increasing injection of identity politics). These high-school students may be on the verge of being credentialed in a way one used to have to earn a degree or toil in some capacity for some kind of organization to be thusly recognized.
This comes about at a time when, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, only 12 percent of post-America's high-school students are proficient in history.
Parallels are being drawn to the 1960s, in particular the student protests over matters related to civil rights and the Vietnam War, which ranged from earnest concern about bigotry and the draft to highly organized efforts by Soviet-bloc front groups to foment polarization in US society. Across the spectrum, however, the moral preening and self-congratulation we're seeing with pussy-hat marches and gun-control rallies was a major factor.
The difference was that, fifty years ago, the nation still had a reserve of stability and wisdom gleaned from the experience of history to which it could turn for a standard. There were institutions with authority that insisted on the primacy of order.
We prized actual wisdom.
Whether the brittleness being exacerbated by the likes of Gonzales and Hogg is such that the country is now utterly lacking in a sufficiently absorptive quality for them to be put into some kind of sane perspective is in real question.
The irony of Billy Graham passing just before Hogg and Gonzales took center stage should not go unnoticed.
Post-America, behold your new moral leaders.
Our student leaders were largely privileged Jewish kids rebelling against their parents who were first to join the establishment to keep building on their parental fortunes and now you tell us they were commie agents?
ReplyDeleteDidn't take a commie for me to figure out conscription into that feckless conflict the French abandoned was not for me. And I didn't have to have Walter Cronkite's analysis to sway me over videos from the jungle delivered on the nightly news.
ReplyDeleteYou better believe the "antiwar" movement was the instrument of Soviet propagandists.
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Russian GRU defector Stanislav Lunev said in his autobiography that “the GRU and the KGB helped to fund just about every antiwar movement and organization in America and abroad,” and that during the Vietnam War the USSR gave $1 billion to American anti-war movements, more than it gave to the VietCong,although he does not identify any organisation by name. Lunev described this as a “hugely successful campaign and well worth the cost”.
On page 78 of Stanislav Lunev’s and Ira Winkler’s book titled “Through the Eyes of the Enemy”, is one of the most revealing bits of information concerning the duping of American peace activists. Should note that Stanislav Lunev was Russia’s highest ranking Soviet Military defector. Since this book is rarely found in brick and mortar bookstores, and as far as I can see, its passages are nowhere on the Internet, I present page 78 in hopes it will reach a new, fresh set of eyes:
“Only in our second year did we learn about our operational target’s military. In my case, it was the Chinese People’s Liberation Army and Special Services. This was while the United States was pulling out of Vietnam. We spent a great deal of time studying the Vietnam War, which was considered a Vietnamese victory over American imperialism. While the GRU instructors would not state it directly, they strongly implied that the GRU was responsible for the Vietnamese success. The GRU had a massive presence in both North and South Vietnam; their operatives worked under cover of the North Vietnamese Special Services.
Our instructors also told us about how the GRU influenced the American public. The GRU and the KGB helped to fund just about every antiwar movement and organization in America and abroad. Funding was provided via undercover operatives or front organizations. These would fund another group that in turn would fund student organizations. The GRU also helped Vietnam fund its propaganda campaign as a whole.
What will be a great surprise to the American people is that the GRU and KGB had a larger budget for antiwar propaganda in the United States that it did for economic and military support of the Vietnamese. The antiwar propaganda cost the GRU more than $1 billion, but as history shows, it was a hugely successful campaign and well worth the cost. The antiwar sentiment created an incredible momentum that greatly weakened the U.S. military.”
Oleg Kalugin was a KGB General. As such he was the head of operations in the U.S. He testified saying that he created “all sorts of congresses, peace congresses, youth congresses, festivals, womens movements, trade union movements and campaigns against U.S. Missiles in Europe, campaigns against neutron weapons and much more”
This all goes nowhere if not translated into the voting booth. Then you'll call it Infiltration. They told us to work within the system and when we met with successes it was called near demonic infiltration.
ReplyDeleteMakes sense. Follow the money. Like good Jewish student rebellion leaders. I never listened to them anyway. They were rude and beyond disrespectful. So OK, maybe that war was just alright to Jesus too.
ReplyDeleteNixon nominee John Paul Stevens (ret) has just come out and said the 2nd Amendment is aa relic and should be repealed. Did the Commies get to him too?
ReplyDeleteGlad to know that someone with such an utter lack of understanding of what a God-given right is is no longer anywhere near the levers of judicial power.
ReplyDeleteGod given? Kinda like that Manifest Destiny? I think it deserves a debate. Nothing wrong with a democratic debate is there, so long as nobody skips school or work. Did God give us lobbiests and make the world whirl on money and mere human power?
ReplyDeleteStevens said it would weaken the NRA's ability to block gun control legislation. With what they control it with now--money and power. Too much is controlled by that.
ReplyDeleteGod bless the NRA. On the front lines of the twilight struggle for human freedom.
ReplyDeleteSo, does Devine endorsement extend to limited-yield tactical nuclear weapons? Please. Tell me where God stands... ;o)
ReplyDeleteWhatever it takes to defend your right to life.
ReplyDeletePraise the Lord and pass the ammunition. A hit before me body was born but I ain't seen it work in my lifetime yet.
ReplyDeleteWe always prayed for peace.
ReplyDeleteGod bless the assault weapons that the NRA succeeded in its efforts to let the 10 year ban expire. Why? Ask God I guess.
ReplyDeleteIn a PBS News Hour interview in 1991, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger (another Nixon appointee) referred to the NRA Second Amendment myth as “one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American people by any special interest group that I have ever seen in my lifetime.”
ReplyDeleteBut of course you'll reply you're glad to know that someone with such an utter lack of understanding of what a God-given right is no longer anywhere near the levers of judicial power. You know what's evil? Humans who think and act like they understand the mind of God.
ReplyDeleteI hope these "ignorant adolescents" someday ring your bell bad at the ballot box
ReplyDeleteWatching your classmates dead, bloodied and dying evoke powerful feelings which when converted into action might confuse and frighten the safely situated. Ahh, but it's so convenient to dismiss it as a product of commie organizing. We wouldn't want you to lose the great and vast freedom to purchase assault weponry and jump stocks now would we?
ReplyDeleteThere is no firm definition of an "assault weapon." The term is used get the public skittish about semiautomatic rifles. The AR-15 is the most commonly used rifle for marksmanship competitions as well as self-defense training.
ReplyDeleteOnly about 10 percent of the attendees of the March for Our Lives were under 18.
Schools are safer now than they were in the 1990s.
https://news.northeastern.edu/2018/02/26/schools-are-still-one-of-the-safest-places-for-children-researcher-says/
Re: Understanding the mind of God. It's the whole point of reading the Bible. It's the whole point of the field of theology.
Re: God-given rights: They are the ones enumerated in America's founding documents.
That's all part of the debate. I'm sure you will work, pray and love to win and have it your way. May God be with you.
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