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'They' Hate Our Freedoms (The
Neocons, That Is)
Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Lew
Rockwell.com
Friday September 7, 2007
Perhaps
the most ridiculous statement to have emerged from the neoconservative
regime that runs the Republican Party is that bin Laden and his
gang of terrorists murdered thousands of innocent Americans because
"they hate our freedoms." If you are a Fox News Channel
viewer or a Rush Limbaugh/Sean Hannity/Michael Savage/Michael
Medved radio show listener you have probably heard this refrain
at least 10,000 times.
But Americans were much freer decades ago, before the governmental
Leviathan became as gargantuan as it is now. Why didn’t
Muslim terrorists attack us then, if they hate our freedom so
much? Whey did they wait until 2001? The obvious answer, which
is discussed in the U.S. government’s own 9/11 Commission
Report, is that in their minds the terrorists were retaliating
for U.S. government interventions in "their" region,
the Middle East. It had nothing to do with the freedoms of American
citizens but with the desire of the American government to use
its military muscle to dominate the entire world, especially the
Middle East. Unfortunately for us, murderous thugs like bin Laden
apparently believe all the tripe about democracy being "the
will of the people," and so they equate us with the government.
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In reality, as opposed to neocon propaganda, it is the neoconservatives
who hate American freedom and have waged political war on it since
the moment they gained power. Indeed, after 9/11 they immediately
used the attack as an excuse to do what they had been planning
on doing for a long time, and move the country further in the
direction of what the original neocon, William F. Buckley, Jr.,
called "a totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores."
Buckley believed that such a bureaucracy, with a gigantic military/industrial/CIA/FBI/domestic
spying network, was necessary to fight the Cold War. Neocons,
who were all very, very depressed when the Cold War ended, have
spent their time since then trying to instigate what Newt Gingrich
and Norman Podhoretz, among other neoconmen, call "World
War IV" (The Cold War was their "World War III").
Consider just a short list of the neocon attacks on the liberties
of the American people. There’s the law passed by the Republican
Congress that would give a moron like George W. Bush the ability
to declare martial law. Bush himself claims to have the power
of "the unitary executive," a term the founding fathers
were certainly unfamiliar with, that supposedly gives him the
right to essentially act as a dictator and ignore the Constitution
because of the "war on terra," which he says will last
forever.
The so-called PATRIOT Act allows the government to declare that
almost anyone who protests government actions is an "enemy
combatant" and deprive them of all constitutional rights.
The neocons also desire to suspend habeas corpus whenever they
want to, a constitutional right that former Attorney General Alberto
Gonzalez claimed in a statement to a congressional committee is
not even a constitutional right.
Warrantless wiretapping is par for the Bush administration course
– not that wiretapping with a "warrant" is much
better from a civil liberties perspective. The Republican Congress
claimed that Bush is exempted from the Geneva Convention and is
essentially above the law. He obviously believes that he is.
The war in Iraq was started without a formal declaration of war
by Congress, as required by the Constitution, and the U.S. military
has been committing war crimes left and right, the most infamous
of which occurred in Saddam Hussein’s torture chambers where
the torturers were American soldiers instead of Saddam’s
henchmen.
The PATRIOT Act allows the government to order individuals and
institutions to turn over to it private financial information,
travel itineraries, email and phone records, and more, and imposes
a gag order that prohibits anyone from revealing that they have
been treated in such a way. The Act also abolishes the traditional
lawyer-client privilege for anyone declared an "enemy combatant."
The neocons are calling for a Hitlerian national ID card, which
might as well be branded onto everyone’s inner arm once
the legislation is passed. Neocon pundit Michelle Malkin has written
an entire book urging that Muslim-Americans be rounded up and
thrown into concentration camps, just as FDR did with Japanese
Americans during World War II. Like all neocons, she cites the
abolition of all civil liberties in the Northern states by the
Lincoln regime as "justification" for such acts of tyranny.
The odious Ken Masugi of the Claremont Institute, who recently
took a leave of absence to write speeches for the even more odious
and disgraced former attorney general Alberto Gonzalez, has supported
Malkin’s recommendations by approving of the illegal imprisonment
of his own people – Japanese Americans – by FDR. (Apparently,
Masugi’s insertion of Lincolnite clichés into Gonzalez’
speeches did little to save him).
Bush is an even bigger domestic spender than LBJ was; taxes and
government spending have skyrocketed; and he has yet to veto a
single spending program in a way that would reduce spending and
governmental power. (He did veto one bill because it did not propose
spending enough on one of his pet programs).
This is a very brief list of just a few of the attacks on the
liberties of the American people that the neocons have gleefully
administered in the past six years. All of the neocon pundits,
from Limbaugh to Hannity to Liddy, Savage, Medved, and dozens
of others, have devoted their careers to spewing propaganda on
behalf of the neocon effort to deprive Americans of their constitutional
liberties by cementing in place Buckley’s totalitarian bureaucracy
within our shores. They hate the free society and always have.
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