Saul Alinsky’s rule 4 was, “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.” We can add the Constitution and conservatives to the sniveling contempt Alinsky had for Christianity and Christians.

They want to present a straw man view of what they are trying to destroy, and then use the straw man against their enemies (in this case people who take the Constitution seriously). But in reality, the Constitution was never a suicide pact. We have had military tribunals since the Revolutionary War. Abraham Lincoln used them (and for AMERICAN BORN enemy fighters), as did FDR and Harry Truman.

Demanding that we give “constitutional rights” to terrorists captured on a Pakistani battlefield is a fool’s argument; unfortunately, there are a great many fools who will try to make it.

Your liberal is just another nihilist nutjob who would just as soon use the Constitution as toilet paper.

Good Lord.

Someone might tell me, “You’re going too far. It’s not THAT bad.”

It’s bad. It’s really bad. And we need to stick the facts in the liberals’ face and force them to respond to them.

What these monsters did was not a “crime,” but a “war crime,” an “act of war,” and a “crime against humanity.” This should not be prosecuted by the same system that deals with U.S. citizens or even American criminals.

You’re right, HL – and that National Review article I came across and cite at the end of my own gives your “Alinsky tactic” remark an awful lot of credence.

This disaster was planned, and it is just one more “crisis” that Obama, Rahm Emanuel, and Eric Holder are trying to turn to their most despicable agenda.

I hope other Americans are as mad about this as we are.

Really good article, very thorough.

I feel sorry for you, Johnny. You’re talking about a bad teacher? sounds to me like you’ve never had a single good teacher in your entire life.

“Well, you’ll really have to blame that on capitalism, because while you can have money or morals, you just can’t have both.”

That’s a perfectly valid thing to say – if you are a Marxist who has never understood how the real world works. Otherwise it is utterly ridiculous. Oh, no, there cannot even be a theoretical possibility for your ilk that a person can have an honest business that makes a lot of money providing a good product at a good price. Somehow they must be exploitative and evil.

I hope you don’t plan to go to work ANYWHERE in the private sector – or for that matter anywhere in the US where even the GOVERNMENT is funded by the private sector – because otherwise you’ll be just another hypocrite working for a greedy system. You really should go to happy, prosperous North Korea where your ideas will fit right in, but of course you won’t.

You clearly had a terrible education with all KINDS of bad teachers to make absurd statements like that.

Your statement,

“I thought that Ayn Rand was taught as an addendum, a cautionary tale for Reagan enthusiasts to keep their inner genocidal maniac on a leash”

demonstrates what a narrow-minded and ignorant ideologue your “education” with those lousy teachers has made you. Some people who have a clue would admit that Reagan brought down the most evil and oppressive government in the world – one which crushed the human spirit and dignity of its own people and exported its dehumanization globally. But not you. Nope, “Mr. Student,” you don’t have the first clue. If you had any common sense, you would contemplate the 100 million body count of communism, and denounce that instead of Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy – who BOTH worked to defeat the most evil system in history.

If you’re going to be fool enough to denounce Reagan as a “genocidal maniac,” you might as well denounce the president whom nearly all Democrats say was the greatest president in the last sixty years. And all you have to do is ignore the 100 million human beings the REAL genocidal maniacs murdered.

And I have to simply MOCK you for calling Reagan a “genocidal maniac,” given that you defacto support Saddam Hussein staying as president for life of Iraq. US AID has discovered the remains of 400,000 of Saddam’s own citizens buried in mass graves. And there are a bunch of other graves that they’ll never find. He waged a war against Iran that claimed the lives of Allah-knows how many people. He brutally invaded and raped Kuwait. He created the largest ecological disaster in human history by deliberately setting the oil fields on fire. And you’re just sorry he’s gone.

The anti-Reagan junk aside, you should be aware that very few conservatives are followers of Ayn Rand. Rand was an atheist who denounced Ronald Reagan over abortion. I most definitely am not a follower of Ayn Rand. Most of her philosophy is repulsive to me, just as it is repulsive to anybody who derives their moral/ethical system from God and from religious foundations.

Let me put it this way: you despise Ayn Rand for her laissez-faire attitudes supporting free market capitalism; I hope that you are consistent and despise her for her celebration of personal freedom and individuality at the expense of government power that homosexuals enthusiastically endorsed.

I simply reject as absurd your throwing Ayn Rand at me, Reagan, conservatives, or anybody else, and then ignoring the stuff she put out that you very likely support. That is just plain intellectually dishonest.

Hate to burst your bubble, but Iraq is a drop in the bucket compared to the debts that Obama Democrats are racking up now. It’s $694 billion – still behind the cost of the Vietnam War that Democrats got us into and a Republican got us out of. Quite a lot of dough, but nowhere close to the $3.27 stimulus porker (according the the CBO’s estimate of the real cost of the stimulus) that hasn’t created any jobs, trillions which Obama racked up within what, 3 weeks of taking office? Can’t blame Republicans – 236 out of a total of 238 Republicans OPPOSED it.

Republicans are terrible spenders who are irresponsible to run the country. That is, unless you compare them to Democrats.
And that of course isn’t counting the health care fiasco that he’s trying to foist on us.
Obama is racking up debts in just one year that rival Bush’s entire 8 years of deficits COMBINED.

It’s funny that your still whining about the Patriot Act. The funny thing is that now that Democrats are in total control, we STILL have it, still have wiretapping, still have rendition, still have virtually everything that you demonized Bush for. It’s amazing to me that you can’t stop yourself from blaming Bush. If liberals were opposed to these things, they would have ended them. Hell, we even still have Gitmo.

But the funniest thing of all is that for all your hatred and hostility toward Anne Wortham, you haven’t even TRIED to as much as DENT anything she said in her article. No, you’ve just focused on irrational tirading that has nothing to do with anything she said, instead.

Fwiw, Obama has expanded government more than any president since FDR. And (and it’s too bad you never had a good teacher or you’d know this) government is force. If you don’t do something the government says you have to do, pretty soon someone with a gun and a badge shows up and hauls your butt away.

And fwiw, Nancy Pelosi’s version of Obamacare has more than 3,400 occurrences of the word “shall,” which means that YOU shall do whatever government says, and government just gave itself a host of new roles.

So, yeah, Obama is busy taking away our freedoms.

Well, I hate to sell you the bitter pill, but to criticize Obama for whittling away your “freedom” after 8 years of Bush actually taking big chunks of it is sort of silly- what has he taken away your freedom to do? Be free from wiretapping? Oh, that was the PATRIOT Act. Your freedom from excessive debt? No, the Iraq war will keep us on the Chinese doll for some time to come. How about our collective ability to remain both in a position of economic power and political leadership? Well, you’ll really have to blame that on capitalism, because while you can have money or morals, you just can’t have both.

I was actually turned onto this blog by a fellow student in this teacher’s class- if my understanding of her silly teaching methods is correct, she probably won’t last through the year of student reviews.

May God bless our troops and keep them safe (from the policies of their CiC as well as from our enemies abroad).

Today should be a time of remembering – and said remembering should serve to remind us that we don’t successfully appease evil; we only successfully defeat it.