Mark R. Levin's Liberty And Tyranny, A Conservative Manifesto (isbn 978 1 4165 6285 6) has been the top selling book on the New York Times best seller list for its first three weeks. I have read a number of conservative books that have come out over the past few years, and generally they are good but not necessarily profound. This book is different. Whereas Jonah Golberg emphasized the political philosophy of fascism, Levin looks at the individual, the Statist who has an ...insatiable appetite for control. His sights are set on the next meal even before he has digested his last.
This is descriptive of what has happened in President Obama's first 100 days. To the Statist ...liberty is not a blessing but the enemy. It is not possible to achieve Utopia if individuals are free to go their own way...through persuasion, deception and coercion, the individual must be subordinated to the state....he must abandon his own ambitions for the ambitions of the state. Quoting Barack Obama Our salvation depends on collective salvation. Academics, Hollywood and the media are tools of the Statist. He quotes C. S. Lewis, Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. The Founders were highly educated, well informed men who excelled at reason and science but worshipped neither.
On the other hand, the Statist acknowledges only that law which he himself sets in place, and which is subject to change or arbitrary application on his say-so. Bloody revolutions, such as in France and Russia were always under the flag of democratic populism. Franklin Roosevelt's appointee as Chief Justice wrote no tax, in any amount, large or small can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions...the First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. Chief Justice William Rehnquist disagreed The (First Amendment's) Establishment Clause did not require government neutrality between religion and irreligion nor did it prohibit the Federal Government from providing nondiscriminatory aid to religion. There is simply no historical foundation for the proposition that the Founders intended to build a "wall of separation' that was constitutionalized in Everson (Black).
On the trend towards a "living Constitution," Contracts are interpreted, and the intentions of the parties discerned in the context of their original making...the Conservative is an originalist. The concept of an individual's "Right" to a job, money, a home, medical care etc, comes from FDR's Second Bill of Rights as the Constitution's Bill Of Rights were not enough. Levin describes that which we have experienced, of the plot to transform the civil society through the judiciary-without the consent of the people and without regard to the Constitution. And they are well positioned to do so. On economics, The Marxist class-struggle formulation, which pits the proletariat (working class) against the Bourgeoisie (wealthy merchant class), still serves as the principle theoretical and rhetorical justification for the Statist's assualt on the free market.
Let's hear from Saul Alinsky, Hillary Clinton's hero, who she wrote her thesis There Is Only One Fight: An Analysis Of The Alinsky Model, the contents of which have been kept secret, Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America's white middle class. That is where the power is....our rebels have contemptuously rejected the values and way of life of the middle class. they have stigmatized it as materialistic, decadent, bourgeois, degenerate, imperialistic, war mongering, brutalized and corrupt....we must begin from where we are if we are to build power for change. The Statist blames the free market and industry when things go wrong but subsidizes it when necessary in order to extend his own reach, whereas, The Conservative is not a corporatist...not a pleader for oil companies and other corporations. Rather, He defends the free markets...against the tyranny that threatens them. Edmund Burke, the Father of Conservatism, is quoted What is the use of discussing a man's abstract right of food or medicine...I shall always advise to call in the aid of the farmer and the physician rather than the professor of metaphysics.
The Enviro-Statist continues to revere Pittsburgher Rachel Carson whose work helped ban DDT around the world. Her work has been discredited, malaria flourished and millions of the children she claimed to want to help, died. This book contains a fair amount of statistics on various areas such as auto safety, bailouts, immigration, taxation and global warming. Levin correctly states that Skepticism is essential to science; consensus is foreign. Yet in the hysteria over global warming the Statist attempted to silience opposing scientists and not only claimed consensus as evidence but was dramatically incorrect in such a claim.
President Obama appointed Carol M. Browner as his "global warming czar"yet the media thought it unimportant that she was recently one of the fourteen leaders of the Socialist International's Commission for a Sustainable World Society. On illegal immigration The Statist,, of course, looks over the horizon and sees opportunity. The demographic changes he is importing and protecting, empower him. The Conservative believes that Immigration can contribute to the well-being of society, but it can also contribute to its demise. On Self Preservation, George Washington said To be prepared for war is one of the effectual means of preserving peace. From Levin; The Conservative believes that unalienable rights attach to all human beings, but it is not necessarily the responsibility of the United States to enforce those rights...However, he also believes that there are times when evil perpetrated by a regime is so horrific that to ignore it tears at the moral core of American civil society. Agreeing with Goldberg, the Statist must denigrate those who obstruct him, And once in power, his threshold for actual civil liberties violations is often lowered. This, Goldberg would say, is an extreme understatement. The book is only 205 pages long and would be a good prerequisite to seriously entering the political arena.
This is descriptive of what has happened in President Obama's first 100 days. To the Statist ...liberty is not a blessing but the enemy. It is not possible to achieve Utopia if individuals are free to go their own way...through persuasion, deception and coercion, the individual must be subordinated to the state....he must abandon his own ambitions for the ambitions of the state. Quoting Barack Obama Our salvation depends on collective salvation. Academics, Hollywood and the media are tools of the Statist. He quotes C. S. Lewis, Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. The Founders were highly educated, well informed men who excelled at reason and science but worshipped neither.
On the other hand, the Statist acknowledges only that law which he himself sets in place, and which is subject to change or arbitrary application on his say-so. Bloody revolutions, such as in France and Russia were always under the flag of democratic populism. Franklin Roosevelt's appointee as Chief Justice wrote no tax, in any amount, large or small can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions...the First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. Chief Justice William Rehnquist disagreed The (First Amendment's) Establishment Clause did not require government neutrality between religion and irreligion nor did it prohibit the Federal Government from providing nondiscriminatory aid to religion. There is simply no historical foundation for the proposition that the Founders intended to build a "wall of separation' that was constitutionalized in Everson (Black).
On the trend towards a "living Constitution," Contracts are interpreted, and the intentions of the parties discerned in the context of their original making...the Conservative is an originalist. The concept of an individual's "Right" to a job, money, a home, medical care etc, comes from FDR's Second Bill of Rights as the Constitution's Bill Of Rights were not enough. Levin describes that which we have experienced, of the plot to transform the civil society through the judiciary-without the consent of the people and without regard to the Constitution. And they are well positioned to do so. On economics, The Marxist class-struggle formulation, which pits the proletariat (working class) against the Bourgeoisie (wealthy merchant class), still serves as the principle theoretical and rhetorical justification for the Statist's assualt on the free market.
Let's hear from Saul Alinsky, Hillary Clinton's hero, who she wrote her thesis There Is Only One Fight: An Analysis Of The Alinsky Model, the contents of which have been kept secret, Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America's white middle class. That is where the power is....our rebels have contemptuously rejected the values and way of life of the middle class. they have stigmatized it as materialistic, decadent, bourgeois, degenerate, imperialistic, war mongering, brutalized and corrupt....we must begin from where we are if we are to build power for change. The Statist blames the free market and industry when things go wrong but subsidizes it when necessary in order to extend his own reach, whereas, The Conservative is not a corporatist...not a pleader for oil companies and other corporations. Rather, He defends the free markets...against the tyranny that threatens them. Edmund Burke, the Father of Conservatism, is quoted What is the use of discussing a man's abstract right of food or medicine...I shall always advise to call in the aid of the farmer and the physician rather than the professor of metaphysics.
The Enviro-Statist continues to revere Pittsburgher Rachel Carson whose work helped ban DDT around the world. Her work has been discredited, malaria flourished and millions of the children she claimed to want to help, died. This book contains a fair amount of statistics on various areas such as auto safety, bailouts, immigration, taxation and global warming. Levin correctly states that Skepticism is essential to science; consensus is foreign. Yet in the hysteria over global warming the Statist attempted to silience opposing scientists and not only claimed consensus as evidence but was dramatically incorrect in such a claim.
President Obama appointed Carol M. Browner as his "global warming czar"yet the media thought it unimportant that she was recently one of the fourteen leaders of the Socialist International's Commission for a Sustainable World Society. On illegal immigration The Statist,, of course, looks over the horizon and sees opportunity. The demographic changes he is importing and protecting, empower him. The Conservative believes that Immigration can contribute to the well-being of society, but it can also contribute to its demise. On Self Preservation, George Washington said To be prepared for war is one of the effectual means of preserving peace. From Levin; The Conservative believes that unalienable rights attach to all human beings, but it is not necessarily the responsibility of the United States to enforce those rights...However, he also believes that there are times when evil perpetrated by a regime is so horrific that to ignore it tears at the moral core of American civil society. Agreeing with Goldberg, the Statist must denigrate those who obstruct him, And once in power, his threshold for actual civil liberties violations is often lowered. This, Goldberg would say, is an extreme understatement. The book is only 205 pages long and would be a good prerequisite to seriously entering the political arena.
