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Neo Conservatism: Facism repackaged
 hat happens when you take the worst elements of the Democrat and Republican parties and melt them together? The result is a new facism called neo-conservatism which is neither neo (new) or conservative. A more accurate term might be faux conservatism but let's be honest, it's nothing more than facism repackaged.
The Bush administration is neo-conservative to the core. Before 9/11 and this un-Constitutional war on Iraq, Bush was seen as dangerously liberal in his policies and far too conciliatory toward radical leftists such as Ted Kennedy. While Bush campaigned on the rhetoric of the Republican party, his ideology was and is identical to the majority of our inside the beltway political ruling class, namely he is a socialist.
Socialists believe in big government obviously, the larger the government, the more control of the private sector and the economy of the private citizens. One redeeming quality of modern socialists (if there is one) might be that they do in fact believe in some civil rights and protections of the individual citizens against governmental abuse. Unfortunately neo-conservatives, while being basically socialist in their ideology, do not embrace civil rights, especially the civil rights of citizens who disagree with or oppose them.
Amazingly, Bush is embraced as a conservative by the unthinking masses and their mob leaders, talk show hosts such as Michael Savage, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingram and Sean Hannity to name but a few. While these former individuals rightly decried the abuses of the Clinton administration, they now wholeheartedly embrace and endorse nearly the same abuses and far worse when done by the Bush administration. Hypocrisy with an attitude.
Neo-conservatives rightly reject many of the utopian excesses of the far left but embrace the more excessive polices of governmental control and most especially that of amassing power at the highest levels of government. Coupled with this is a blatant disregard for the civil rights of all citizens, preferring in typical autocratic fashion to extend rights as mere privileges to those who are deserving, i.e. the neo-conservatives and their supporters.
One of the things about the Democratic party that made their utopian destruction of our Constitutional Republic somewhat palatable was that, while they did promote ruinous social policies and governmental abuse, at least there was the appearance of mercy towards the victims. Democrats promoted welfare and other social policies that, while ruinous of themselves at least displayed a hollow, if not meaningless form of compassion for those whose lives they would destroy. Neo-conservatives have no mercy on the wounded, take no prisoners and display the vicious tendencies of that child we all knew growing up who enjoyed pulling the wings off of flies and kicking puppy dogs.
Neo-conservatives, under the Bush administration have passed Patriot Act I and are poised to pass Patriot Act II, the most vicious and direct assaults on the Constitution ever imagined. Sadly, all that the Bush administration has to do to placate the ignorant masses is provide them with bread (minor tax rebates) and circuses (wars in which the neo-cons are notably absent from military service). Sadly, these bread and circuses seem to qualify the Bush administration as conservative in the minds of many, most especially the leaders of the howling mobs on talk radio, a formerly conservative venue.
Neo-conservatives have expanded government in the worst and most dangerous ways. While many decried the growth of the welfare state, it was not nearly as dangerous to liberty as the growth of the police state. Under Bush we now have massive agencies with sweeping powers of search, seizure and arrest that defy the very premises of Constitutional behavior and thought.
We live in perilous times and our Republic is threatened now more than ever before. Those who would argue that GW Bush and his administration will only use this power to fight terrorism need to look ahead and realize that these powers will be handed to the next administration. Need I remind you that Bush won by a slim majority and that, should the economy continue to falter or get worse, Bush may not win re-election. In either regard, at some point is is quite possible that someone such as Hillary Clinton or worse will assume the helm of this massive police state mechanism.
Can you imagine what such a person will do with these powers? Freedom as we have known it will cease to exist. We will return to an era of aristocracy (the true goal of all socialists) where only the politicians and their friends will enjoy true freedom and the rest of us will be subservient, second class citizens and tax slaves.
I will be speaking about these subjects at the upcoming June 14th annual meeting of the Constitution Party of Texas. We will be meeting at Washington on The Brazos at 10AM and I invite you to come. It is exciting to gather together with other like minded Constitutionalists, patriots and their families for it shows us that we are truly not alone in our struggle or belief that our Republic must be preserved.
Join us on June 14th.
In Freedom,
Al Lorentz
State Chairman, Constitution Party of Texas
20 May 2003
Al Lorentz is a Fundamentalist Christian and the State Chairman of the Constitution Party of Texas
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