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Thread ID: 4051 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2002-12-17
2002-12-17 01:24 | User Profile
I think the important thing to notice about this attack is while Horowitz usually claims he is seeking redemption from his racist past, he is using his past work with the Civil Rights Movement to make himself seem morally superior to others. _____ Trent Lott Must Go By David Horowitz FrontPageMagazine.com | December 16, 2002
It doesn't matter whether Lott's apology is sincere or not; it doesn't matter whether his statement was racist or not. At the very best, he is tone deaf to the most important domestic issue of our time. His continued presence as majority leader will severely damage the prospects of his party, and seriously damage the President's ability to wage the war on terror. For these reasons Trent Lott must step down as the Majority Leader of the Republican Senate.
It is reported that Lott has threatened to leave the Senate if he is forced to step down. This would be disloyalty of a high order and one hopes the Senator would eschew it. If he does, since Mississippi has a Democratic governor, Republicans would be left with a fifty-fifty tie to be settled by Vice President Cheney. If Senator Chafee switches parties as has been rumored, the Democrats will gain control of the Senate. Bad as this would be from the point of view of America's national security, Lott's continued presence as Majority Leader would be worse. The Democratic Party, as we have pointed out in these pages, is unfit to lead the nation in time of war. The Middle East Crisis, the North Korean nuclear threat, the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction menace and the failures of our intelligence agencies to provide adequate protection are all legacies of the Clinton presidency and the Democrats long march to the political left.
Those of us who fought the struggle for equal rights for all people regardless of skin color in the early 60's have come to realize that the party of race, the party of racism, is the modern liberal party (the Democratic Party) that glorifies skin color (and gender and social class) over all things including freedom, right and wrong, and equal protection under the law. These modern liberals, (these Democrats) mock the truth when they label conservatives and Republicans who decry reparations, quotas, and the racism of "lower expectations" as "racists" rather than "liberators."
But if Lott remains the leading spokesperson of the Republican Party in the U.S. Senate, the liberal attack will be true in the public mind and therefore an electoral reality. The domestic mission of conservatives and the Republican party must be to liberate all individuals from the oppression of "the vision of the anointed" -- the vision that elite liberals wish to impose on all people especially minorities and the poor. Senator Lott will do his party and his country a service if he steps down. If he does not, the Party must remove him.
David Horowitz is the author of numerous books including an autobiography, Radical Son, which has been described as ââ¬Åthe first great autobiography of his generation,ââ¬Â and which chronicles his odyssey from radical activism to the current positions he holds. Among his other books are The Politics of Bad Faith and The Art of Political War. The Art of Political War was described by White House political strategist Karl Rove as ââ¬Åthe perfect guide to winning on the political battlefield.ââ¬Â Horowitzââ¬â¢s latest book, Uncivil Wars, was published in January this year, and chronicles his crusade against intolerance and racial McCarthyism on college campuses last spring. Click here to read more about David
2002-12-17 01:53 | User Profile
Thanks, oldright.
I agree with your analysis of the important thing to notice about this piece, and would put it this way. When he calls "The vision of the annointed" the vision that "elite liberals wish to impose on all people especially minorities and the poor....", and declares it is "the domestic mission* of conservatives and the Republican party to liberate" all individuals from the obsession" of these liberals,
and he was a Jew Civil rights worker in the south ....
the important thing is to, first, liberate America of all individuals like him. Then help the rest of humanity. They can't see they are pathological liars and psychotic killers.
(*missions isn't a Jew term or concept.)
If you show any compassion toward a pathological liar and psychotic killer they take it as a sign of weakness.
2002-12-17 04:25 | User Profile
David Horowitz must go.
-Jay
2002-12-18 04:53 | User Profile
Yes!
David Horowitz must go.
2002-12-21 08:13 | User Profile
Originally posted by oldrightlibertarian@Dec 17 2002, 01:24 I think the important thing to notice about this attack is while Horowitz usually claims he is seeking redemption from his racist past, he is using his past work with the Civil Rights Movement to make himself seem morally superior to others.
I assume you meant radical past. I do note like you how interesting it is, that David in this particularly revealing piece ties his New Left/Trotskyite-Stalinist past and his present as a neo-conservative by his continuous opposition to "race and racism" and his political role as a "liberator".