Paramount Theatre
If We Allow Open Expression, Freedom Will Be Close to Extinction
RECEIVED Tue., June 6, 2006
Dear Editor,
So Louis Black is filing suit against AT&T for assisting in the NSA Islamist terrorist surveillance effort [“Point Austin,” News, June 2]. One can only be amazed at this latest example of neo-leftist intellectual and moral bankruptcy. But no doubt Mr. Black will have many fellow travelers saluting his so-called courage for standing up against the big tyrannical America.
Is Mr. Black's action protecting America from the Islamist terrorists as the NSA is? It is obviously not. After all, good neo-leftists don't even believe we are in a real war with the sycophant followers of Islamist fascism. To them, September 11, 2001 was a grotesque one-time anomaly. Regardless of their delusion, we are embroiled in a millennial war being waged against us by Islamist zealots who will impose worldwide despotic Islamist theocracy if allowed. One would think that a neo-leftist like Mr. Black, who is, I am certain, deathly afraid of a Christian theocracy, would at least be equally alarmed about Islamist zealotry.
But no; Mr. Black and his brethren have inoculated themselves from this truth. Moral relativism, the core tenet of neo-leftism, enables them to look away from true evil like Islamist fascism. Simultaneously, their equivocation allows them to project their subconscious voice of conscience, which recognizes the presence of the Islamist evil, onto a benign entity, e.g., America. Consequently there is no price to pay for their so-called courage except abject hypocrisy – which of course they ignore.
Neo-leftism is a cultural psychosis. Its advocates can never be allowed to wield political power. The Democratic party of Louis Back, Michael Moore, Howard Dean, and Ted Kennedy, et al. is the primary neo-leftist political arm. If the likes of these people ever bear responsibility for national security, freedom will be at the tipping point of extinction.
So Louis Black is filing suit against AT&T for assisting in the NSA Islamist terrorist surveillance effort [“Point Austin,” News, June 2]. One can only be amazed at this latest example of neo-leftist intellectual and moral bankruptcy. But no doubt Mr. Black will have many fellow travelers saluting his so-called courage for standing up against the big tyrannical America.
Is Mr. Black's action protecting America from the Islamist terrorists as the NSA is? It is obviously not. After all, good neo-leftists don't even believe we are in a real war with the sycophant followers of Islamist fascism. To them, September 11, 2001 was a grotesque one-time anomaly. Regardless of their delusion, we are embroiled in a millennial war being waged against us by Islamist zealots who will impose worldwide despotic Islamist theocracy if allowed. One would think that a neo-leftist like Mr. Black, who is, I am certain, deathly afraid of a Christian theocracy, would at least be equally alarmed about Islamist zealotry.
But no; Mr. Black and his brethren have inoculated themselves from this truth. Moral relativism, the core tenet of neo-leftism, enables them to look away from true evil like Islamist fascism. Simultaneously, their equivocation allows them to project their subconscious voice of conscience, which recognizes the presence of the Islamist evil, onto a benign entity, e.g., America. Consequently there is no price to pay for their so-called courage except abject hypocrisy – which of course they ignore.
Neo-leftism is a cultural psychosis. Its advocates can never be allowed to wield political power. The Democratic party of Louis Back, Michael Moore, Howard Dean, and Ted Kennedy, et al. is the primary neo-leftist political arm. If the likes of these people ever bear responsibility for national security, freedom will be at the tipping point of extinction.
Vance McDonald
[Louis Black responds: What's so great about McDonald's encompassing vision is that I don't even have to bother stating my opinion, he knows what it is. If I claimed to differ with his statement of my opinion, for example the quite extraordinary notion "Mr. Black, who is, I am certain, deathly afraid of a Christian theocracy," I imagine I would be accused of lying.]