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Thread ID: 6519 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2003-05-06
2003-05-06 18:35 | User Profile
Heritage Foundation's Edwin Feulner: Counterfeit Conservative
by G. Richard Arnold May 6, 2003
Edwin Feulner is president of the Heritage Foundation that, to a large extent, controls America's Conservatives and puts them to work on the conspiracy's projects. Edwin Feulner was a RICHARD WEAVER FELLOW who did his postgraduate at the Fabian London School of Economics. You need to know a bit about Richard Weaver to understand where Feulner is coming from.
Weaver was born in 1907, graduated from Harvard, and was an instructor at the New School of Social Sciences--which maintains a mural of Lenin, Stalin, marching Soviet soldiers. Weaver, like Ronald Reagan, was a member of the Fabian Socialist Americans for Democratic Action, as well as a director of the NAACP. Therefore, it should be no surprise he belonged to the subversive, Communist National Negro Congress and was scheduled as a speaker at their third national meeting...
Richard Weaver signed a letter supporting the communists in Spain, circulated by the Negro People's Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy, a Communist front. Additionally, Weaver was a member of the WASHINGTON BOOK SHOP, also a Communist front.
So one can see why Ed Feulner, the recipient, might be a little "weak" when it comes to facing down the Reds foreign and abroad. Richard Weaver was personally appointed by Brotherhood of Death initiate Averell Harriman to a high post in New York City. We see why the great Heritage Foundation studies has not ever issued a report about the "Skull & Bones" boys...
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2003-05-06 21:41 | User Profile
This honestly has to be one of the stupidest pieces I ever read.
The LSE, while home to many Fabian Socialists, was not a Fabian Socialist school. Free Market economists like FA Hayek and Lionel Robbins taught as well (though seeing as the author thinks that the Mt. Perelin Society is socialist as well, I guess that doesn't matter). It is one of the most prestigious schools in the world, so people who want to succeed may go there. There are plenty of socialists at nearly every school in the country, so by this logic anyone who graduated college is socialist. Furthermore, presuming that Fuelner did go there on a Richard Weaver Fellowship (which began in the mid 1960s), then it would be well after the Fabians succeeded and disbanded, so saying he went there to learn Fabianism becomes even more absurd.
As for this Richard Weaver Fellowship at LSE, it doesn't exist. It was granted by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, which for all its flaws in recent years, had been one of the most consistent organizations. I get grants from that group, but I suppose that means I'm a communist sympathizer as well.
Weaver for one was born in 1910 not 1907 and never attended harvard. While he was a socialist as an undergrad, pretty much all of his serious work came after he fell under the influence of the Souther Agrarians at Vanderbilt.
Weaver was already very conservative by the time ADA came into existence and as an opponent of the Civil Rights movement, I find it hard to believe he belonged to the NAACP or black power organization.
The author shows his own stupidity, when he begins talking about Robert Weaver instead of Richard. Robert Weaver, who was a Black sociologist and LBJ's HUD chief probably did all those terrible things that Richard Weaver did, but it shows a tremendous level of stupidity to get one of the greatest conservative thinkers mixed up with some black bureaucrat.
There are plenty of things wrong about Fuelner. One could think of his role in stopping Mel Bradford from being appointed to NEH Chair, and how he has generally turned Heritage towards neoconservatism, but I suppose the fact that they don't do exposes on the Skull and Bonesclub (which Bob Taft was a member) should be our main concern.
2003-05-06 21:48 | User Profile
"Feulner?" What sort of a name is dat? Sounds sort of....uhh...Tel Aviv-ish, if'n ya ask me...
Pass the bagels, please....[mmmmmm....good bagel!]
2003-05-06 22:46 | User Profile
oldrightlibertarian:
If there are gross factual errors in the article, such will be duly noted when I consider publishing more of said writer's works.
The article caught my eye, as the Heritage Foundation has taken a neocon turn in a hard way in recent years--going so far as to champion the new (and very Red) South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, calling his so-called 10-point Plan (election promises): "bold and visionary."
The Heritage Foundation did not lift a finger to support Lee Hoi-chang of the anti-Pyongyang Grand National Party (were there a concerted effort, say, in the scheme of Carville and Stephanopolous ushering in Ehud Barak in Israel) in Lee Hoi-chang's campaign, the conservatives (and by that I mean, hard-Rightists--anti-collectivists) would have control now of the South Korean Presidency (the conservatives already have total control of the Parliament).
So I fault the Heritage Foundation on this score. I don't see them doing much to support Taiwan over Red China. And having been granted United Nations "non-governmental-organization"-status (NGO), I feel as if the Heritage Foundation has sold its soul.
Can you counter me on these charges?