Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Alien Left

Out of this world


Thought Police
New York Post Wednesday, August 06, 2008
AFTER a lecture to the Marine Memorial Association last week, a reporter thrust a mike toward me and asked if I thought I should be tried for war crimes for my columns in The Post supporting our military.

The reporter - who avoided revealing what outlet he was with - thought he was being wonderfully clever, but what fascinated me about the silly encounter (it was in San Francisco, after all) was how unintentionally revealing it was about the shameless hypocrisy of the left.

Think about it: For expressing my views to readers like you on these pages, hardcore leftists believe I should be put on trial as a war criminal.

It tells you all you need to know about the extreme left's view of the First Amendment: Free speech is great, as long as it's their free speech (or extreme pornography). But dissenting views must be censored. The more effective the opponent, the more important it is to shut him down.

The extreme left loves to pretend it stands for freedom. It never has and never will. From the Reign of Terror in Paris onward, its core agenda has been the tyranny of egomaniacal intellectuals. The hard left hates an open debate - especially these days, when it's out of new ideas.

The left pretends that campuses should enjoy freedom of speech, yet activist students shout down, harass and even attack speakers whose views they dislike. That's brownshirt behavior, folks - as surely as show trials are Stalinist.

Hardcore leftists never welcome a freewheeling debate - they'd rather force their beliefs on the rest of us. It's an article of faith for the left that folks like you and me are too stupid to know what's good for us (we're so dumb, some of us even believe in God).

For many years, the left's tactic was to pretend to care about average citizens. In the last century, the motto was the "dictatorship of the proletariat" (still a dictatorship, of course). Then, when American workers showed no interest in the Sovietization of Michigan, outraged leftists retreated into the Dictatorship of the Intellectuals.

Now we have the would-be dictatorship of the pseudo-intellectuals.

The stunning hypocrisy of the march-in-step left was brought home to me again on Sunday while I waited in a green room for a C-Span spot.

The show preceding mine featured a young woman, Mahvish Rukhsana Khan, who's published a book about the poor, innocent, kitten-loving prisoners at Guantanamo. Her interview climaxed with the claim that Guantanamo is the equivalent of the Holocaust.

I guarantee you that no one from MoveOn or DailyKos questioned that outrageous comparison. (Nor did the patsy interviewer challenge it.)

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=21095135-AABC-46F2-B6E6-E902BFD58E51

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The far-left and Islamist alliance on campus
By: Reut R. Cohen
August 6, 2008

It is a seemingly absurd alliance: why would the far-left make common cause with Islamists who are diametrically opposed to the values the leftists purport to hold dear? Since the far-left lives by the standard that America is immoral and anything or anyone opposed to it must therefore be good, this union evidently works and is obvious at public demonstrations and college campuses where Islamists make common cause with groups like the Workers Student Alliance and the International Socialist Organization.

Far-left groups will happily work with and create alliances with radical, pro-terror and homophobic student groups like the Muslim Student Association on college campuses throughout the United States and Canada.
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The Muslim Student Association and other Islamic organizations in the United States have found allies in the radical leftist movement of the United States. Far-left groups have the tendency to speak more optimistically about people who coordinate events that condone terrorism against them and their own country, a country that affords more freedom and opportunity than anywhere else in the world. Although Islamists repress women, gays and minorities, it is clear that the far-left, which claims these kinds of behaviors are distasteful, will overlook this since their hatred for America must take precedence. And since Islamists and the far-left are opposed to the security of America and western nations, perhaps for different reasons, their intent is to weaken western democracies and their war on Islamic terrorism.
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Australia apologises to Helen Clark over 'lefty' briefing
August 20, 2008 04:57pm

AUSTRALIA has apologised to New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark after an unflattering briefing paper was handed to journalists.
The internal briefing paper was given to Australian journalists in New Zealand covering Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's official visit to the country and portrayed Ms Clark as controlling and left-wing.
The document said Miss Clark was "renowned for her managerial skill, the discipline she demands from those around her and her tight control of all things Labour undertakes under her leadership''.
"She holds generally left-wing beliefs, with foreign policy perspectives forged during the Vietnam War. She does not trust those outside a small circle in Labour and her Chief of Staff, Heather Simpson, is known as the second most powerful person in NZ (known as H2),'' the notes say.
Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) this afternoon said officials had apologised to Miss Clark.
"The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade very much regrets the circulation of the biography by the Australian High Commission in Wellington, of an outdated internal draft which was a mistake,'' DFAT said in a statement.
"Commissioner John Dauth has apologised to Ms Clark, who has accepted the apology.
"Ms Clark has said publicly she regarded the incident as a pretty minor thing and she had had a bit of a laugh.''

Read the rest:
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24212832-661,00.html

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