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2006-09-18 19:52:50 UTC
John McAdams and his sidekick, Mr. Courage, aka "Grizzlie Antagonist,"
have their hearts set on perpetuating many myths, mostly about the
Kennedy case. But perhaps one of the most amusing, because it's so
self-flattering, is their myth that it is only liberals who are
skeptical of J. Edgar Hoover's solution to the Kennedy case, and they
are the same liberals who were disappointed at the collapse of the
USSR.
Mr. Courage use when they suggest that leftists really wanted a
Soviet-style imperium to triumph, one that operated in secrecy, like
the USA now does; one that practiced disinformation, like the USA now
does; one that abandoned one of the longest standing guarantees of
individual rights, habeas corpus, like the USA now does; one that used
gulags, torture, death domestic spying, extraordinary renditions and
unprovoked wars, like both the USSR did and the USA now does.
Unlike what the neocons say, it is precisely those vile features of the
USSR that were anathema to paleoconservatives and classic liberals
alike, and why they take such a principled stand against the current
wave of neo-Big Brotherism.
It's the neocons who applaud Bush's embrace of the very practices that
paleocons and classic libs found so objectionable when practiced first
by the Nazis, then the commies, and now the Bushistas.
The hopes of real liberals, from paleoconservatives to classic
liberals, was to limit the power of the Police State, not enhance it,
such as has happened of late; to limit the deficits, not increase
them, such as we've experienced under "conservative" rule; and to
constrain the militarists from their vile tendency to break the bank,
shred civil liberties and void the Geneva Conventions whilst we go
stomping about the world in search of (often fictitious) monsters to
destroy.
The notion that paleoconservatives and classic liberals cheered the
USSR is an oft repeated, false slur, just as it wa a false slur to once
suggest one was either with Joe McCarthy or with the communists and
just as it is absurd to argue that one is either with Bush or with the
terrorists.
But since what currently passes for conservatives - blokes like John
McAdams and Mr. Courage, aka, Grizzlie Antagonist - are, from all
appearances, actually Big Brother statists, what can anyone expect but
that they will trade in standard, Big Brother Statecraft -
disinformation and dissimulation?
Why else would McAdams and Mr. Courage harbor such profound respect for
one of the greatest disinformationalists and dissimulators, and one of
the best-known practitioners of Big Brother Statecraft of all time, J.
Edgar Hoover?
For just as Hoover destroyed reputations of his "enemies" with false
smears, so, too, did McAdams fling false charges of pedophilia and
illicit drug use at his disputants on newsgroups. After having been
outed in his local newspaper,* McAdams 12-stepped his way toward
respectability and now is a "moderator," ironically filtering precisely
the sort of smears he used to put out all the time.
When he's not censoring unacceptable posts, McA cuddles with a comrade,
"Mr. Courage," who doesn't fear being shamed for posting exactly the
kinds of smears that got McA in such hot water because he posts, as an
abject coward, under an assumed name, "Grizzlie Antagonist."
Is is by accident that these sterling fellows swear by their model's,
J. Edgar Hoover's "true" solution to the Kennedy mystery?
Gary
* See: Tom Vanden Brrook, "On-line Insults Put Conduct @ Issue."
Milwaukee Journal Sentinal, 3/24/96, copies available by faxed request
to: 415-776-7456.
have their hearts set on perpetuating many myths, mostly about the
Kennedy case. But perhaps one of the most amusing, because it's so
self-flattering, is their myth that it is only liberals who are
skeptical of J. Edgar Hoover's solution to the Kennedy case, and they
are the same liberals who were disappointed at the collapse of the
USSR.
The Cold War, Gary.
Your side lost.
My side (and Grizzlie's) won.
It's tradmark, neoconservative, right-wing disinformation that McA andYour side lost.
My side (and Grizzlie's) won.
Mr. Courage use when they suggest that leftists really wanted a
Soviet-style imperium to triumph, one that operated in secrecy, like
the USA now does; one that practiced disinformation, like the USA now
does; one that abandoned one of the longest standing guarantees of
individual rights, habeas corpus, like the USA now does; one that used
gulags, torture, death domestic spying, extraordinary renditions and
unprovoked wars, like both the USSR did and the USA now does.
Unlike what the neocons say, it is precisely those vile features of the
USSR that were anathema to paleoconservatives and classic liberals
alike, and why they take such a principled stand against the current
wave of neo-Big Brotherism.
It's the neocons who applaud Bush's embrace of the very practices that
paleocons and classic libs found so objectionable when practiced first
by the Nazis, then the commies, and now the Bushistas.
The hopes of real liberals, from paleoconservatives to classic
liberals, was to limit the power of the Police State, not enhance it,
such as has happened of late; to limit the deficits, not increase
them, such as we've experienced under "conservative" rule; and to
constrain the militarists from their vile tendency to break the bank,
shred civil liberties and void the Geneva Conventions whilst we go
stomping about the world in search of (often fictitious) monsters to
destroy.
The notion that paleoconservatives and classic liberals cheered the
USSR is an oft repeated, false slur, just as it wa a false slur to once
suggest one was either with Joe McCarthy or with the communists and
just as it is absurd to argue that one is either with Bush or with the
terrorists.
But since what currently passes for conservatives - blokes like John
McAdams and Mr. Courage, aka, Grizzlie Antagonist - are, from all
appearances, actually Big Brother statists, what can anyone expect but
that they will trade in standard, Big Brother Statecraft -
disinformation and dissimulation?
Why else would McAdams and Mr. Courage harbor such profound respect for
one of the greatest disinformationalists and dissimulators, and one of
the best-known practitioners of Big Brother Statecraft of all time, J.
Edgar Hoover?
For just as Hoover destroyed reputations of his "enemies" with false
smears, so, too, did McAdams fling false charges of pedophilia and
illicit drug use at his disputants on newsgroups. After having been
outed in his local newspaper,* McAdams 12-stepped his way toward
respectability and now is a "moderator," ironically filtering precisely
the sort of smears he used to put out all the time.
When he's not censoring unacceptable posts, McA cuddles with a comrade,
"Mr. Courage," who doesn't fear being shamed for posting exactly the
kinds of smears that got McA in such hot water because he posts, as an
abject coward, under an assumed name, "Grizzlie Antagonist."
Is is by accident that these sterling fellows swear by their model's,
J. Edgar Hoover's "true" solution to the Kennedy mystery?
Gary
* See: Tom Vanden Brrook, "On-line Insults Put Conduct @ Issue."
Milwaukee Journal Sentinal, 3/24/96, copies available by faxed request
to: 415-776-7456.