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- From: davidson@mercury.sfsu.edu (Daniel Davidson)
- Date: 9 Oct 1994 05:18:56 GMT
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs
- Subject: RUSH THE TRAITOR
-
- [ Article crossposted from alt.fan.rush-limbaugh ]
- [ Author was anonymous@extropia.wimsey.com ]
- [ Posted on Fri, 7 Oct 1994 23:07:21 -0700 ]
-
- * Originally By: Michael Shirley
- * Originally To: Joe Hunt
- * Originally Re: RUSH THE TRAITOR
- * Original Area: RTKBA
-
- JH> "For tyranny to triumph, good men need do nothing," is certainly
- > true of Rush Limbaugh.
-
- JH> Limbaugh receives thousands of faxes, letters and communiques
- > DAILY, many detailing, with supporting EVIDENCE, the horrible
- > crimes and abridgments endemic in the federal government, and
- > FROM PEOPLE **IN** THE GOVERNMENT WHO ARE UNIMPEACHABLE SOURCES.
- > He *ignores* them.
-
- JH> To be AWARE of government tyranny, abuse, drug-running, black
- > squads, sovereignty-surrender and even dedicated *murders* of
- > citizen-dissidents and fail to decry such evil from his 'bully
- > pulpit,' constitutes not only criminal negligence, IMO, but
- > outright TREASON against the interest of the people whose
- > airwaves he freely uses as his own "mega" profit pyramid scheme.
-
- JH> Rush would banish the questions of YOUR freedoms, national
- > sovereignty and government death-squads to remote "250-watt
- > stations."
-
- Joe, what you point out is true. It's also contrary to his
- political agenda.
-
- Think back to the 101st Congress. Do you remember a bill which
- was introduced by Newt Gingerich and Phil Gramm called HR-4079, The
- National Drug Crime Emergency Act? Let me tell you a little about that
- bill.
-
- While it was introduced by Gingerich and Gramm, it was written
- by Bill Bennett's staff.
-
- The bill contained the prototype for the semiauto ban and
- magazine restriction that we are currently afflicted with. That's right,
- Diane Feinstein didn't originate that bill, it came from Bennett and his
- henchmen back when he was Drug Czar. The AW ban was originally a piece
- of REPUBLICAN legislation.
-
- The bill also contained a Congressional Finding of a State of
- National Emergency, which if it'd passed would have become a
- Presidential Finding of a State of National Emergency. Guess what
- happens when this comes about? FEMA gets to invoke the emergency powers
- that were drafted by General William Giufreda and Ollie North.
-
- The bill would have eliminated 8th Ammendment class action
- suits, established tent cities, (read concentration camps) which would
- have housed a sudden influx of prisoners, suspended Habeus Corpus,
- extended the scope of RICO forefiture, established a national program of
- paid snitches, and put the prison system into private hands with
- prisoners, whether they'd been charged, or even convicted or not, being
- required to work for the private concerns in order to defray the costs
- of their incarceration. (I.E. the reinstitution of slave labor.)
-
- There's more, but I think that you can get the point here. What
- Bennett was trying to do was to get Congress to establish a police state
- with Bill Bennett as co-dictator.
-
- Bennett tried to scare Congress by using an unusual propaganda
- ploy. Given that Reagan had championed and gotten passed a change to the
- Posse Comitatus Act which permitted the use of military assets in drug
- operations, Bennett had the Army patrolling Washington, D.C. with Apache
- gunships. (AH-64) Now a helicopter gunship hasn't any legitimate law
- enforcement use, but they are great for scaring old ladies.
-
- What killed HR-4079 was that gun owners got wind of it via those
- dinky 250 watt stations and the resultant political pressure in an
- election year was embarassing enough for Gramm and Gingerich to withdraw
- the bill.
-
- Now, Rush Limbaugh is ideologically aligned with Mr. Bennett.
- You'll notice that much of Limbaugh's program is little more than a
- pre-campaign political commercial for Bennett. If Limbaugh were to start
- airing out what's really happening, he'd not only be damaging the
- authoritarian collectivist, Clinton, but he'd also be damaging the
- authoritarian collectivist, Bennett. Limbaugh ain't gonna do that. No
- way.
-
- The thing that you've got to remember is that just because
- somebody bills themselves a "conservative", doesn't mean that they have
- any particular love for the Bill of Rights. Catch all terms like
- "conservative" or "liberal" really do a lot of violence to the truth.
-
- For example, I'm in the polling business right now and there is
- something that I've observed that you should be aware of. There is no
- such thing as a "Conservative". We shouldn't be basing our political
- decisions on a label which is really a myth. Instead, we can split the
- "Conservatives" into two broad classifications, Constitutionalists and
- "Economic Republicans".
-
- Constitutionalists don't require much description. They are
- people who believe that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are
- fixed legal constructs which supercede any other law and which must be
- obeyed by government AS WRITTEN.
-
- The "Economic Republicans" are a different breed of cat
- entirely. They want low taxes and minimal government regulation of their
- particular businesses (as long as the subsidies and protectionist
- legislation keeps coming), but they do see government as a solution and
- feel that the Constitution is superceded by the rule of expediency. They
- are for a variety of social programs that we'd nominally call "Liberal".
-
- Essentially, the closest of the classic political ideologies
- that these people come to is Facism. For example, this kind of person
- predominates in Orange County, CA. They are for protectionism, police
- state law enforcement and gun control, but they want their taxes kept
- down. The best that you can say for them is that they don't seem to
- understand the second and third order implications of what they want.
-
- Mr. Feulner of the Heritage Foundation, Bill Bennett, George
- Bush and given his behavior, Rush Limbaugh all fit that particular model
- quite neatly. In Bennett's case in particular, one is reminded of that
- old but nonetheless revealing assertion of Robespierre that; "The
- principle of the republican government is virtue and the means required
- to establish virtue is terror." If you think that this is a bit much,
- write the National Archives and get a copy of HR-4079 and read it-- then
- tell me what Bennett and his henchmen were proposing if not the
- substitution of state terror for Constitutional law.
-
- The fact of the matter is that Presidential candidate Bennett
- has succumbed to the notion that the United States is in a period of
- decline due to a lapse of civic virtue and like Robespierre he's decided
- that if people are unwilling to assume the virtues that he supports,
- that these must then be imposed at gunpoint. He's not unlike Clinton in
- this regard and both of them have the potential for becoming the
- American equivalent of the Chin Emperor of China-- the man who inflicted
- one of the most Orwellian police states in history. (He used the
- Legalist philosopher Mo Shu's system of mutual espionage wherein
- everyone was held responsible for reporting on their neighbors and
- family members-- or else!)
-
- Bennett is supported in this notion by Limbaugh, who even back
- during the 101st Congress was also ignoring everyone who tried to bring
- up HR-4079, so I wouldn't expect any change in behavior anytime soon.
- The only humourous thing about this is that Clinton, Bennett and
- Limbaugh are so close on this sort of issue that it rather reminds one
- of the intolerant adherents of the same religion calling each other
- "HERETIC"!
-
- In the meantime, it pays to remember that we don't merely have
- to narrowcast around the socialist collectivist media, but around the
- facist collectivist media as well. Just because somebody calls himself a
- "Conservative" by no means indicates that he's any friendlier to a
- Constitutionalist viewpoint than say, Clinton and his henchmen are. We
- must guard our guns and our rights from the depredations of both.
-
- ___
- X SLMR 2.1a X Mass Media: The Ministry of Truth by any other name...
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- --
- == Daniel Davidson ==
- San Francisco State University
- davidson@mercury.sfsu.edu
-
- It is considered appropriate to sustain conditions which
- are against the best interests of almost everyone.
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