Mahatma
Gandhi's civil disobedience was aimed at the unjust British, not his fellow
citizens. He was willing to pay the penalty. In the same way, the anti-war
crowd ought to have carried their grievances to the streets of Baghdad; to the
abuser, there to suffer Saddam's punishment for civil obedience. What made
those peace lovers so different and why did they see the fiend as the friend and
their redeemer as the enemy? For anyone to take an extreme anti-war stance,
they need to be a betrayer or an unstable psychotic. To be "anti-war"
is to be at "peace" with those in the business of advancing war
through conflict. It should be obvious that appeasers, rather than being the
moral equivalent of peacemakers, are instead the instruments of tyrants.
Because
it is far easier to screw a mind than unscrew it, this nation needs to take a
serious look at the recent story of Elizabeth Smart and her post-traumatic
stress experience. We need to grasp the principle behind the Stockholm syndrome
and how terrorists may succeed in using similar stress methods to demoralize
Americans into submission as they have done most of the world.
The
harm done by any domestic or political beast is almost impossible to cure.
Loyal friends, family and heroes become their enemies. Furthermore, any effort
to provide help tends to drive them deeper into the arms of their reassuring
corrupters, even though they may be dead phantoms or even just a memory of
some distant event.
Dictatorships
cannot survive without the programmed loyalties of the multitudes especially
those abused as children. Born into toxic environments and cultures, they can
hardly avoid falling under the compulsion to play one of two roles, the coward
or the bully, henceforth to recognize no allegiance other than to that of
their violators.
The
left has done its best to ensure this eventuality, to prepare our children for
such roles that might well serve a future dictatorship. Therefore, it is our
duty to recognize this possibility and sound the clarion call to the multitude
of abused Americans presently exploited by domestic and foreign
intellectuals.
~ End of Preview ~
______________________________________________