"David" wrote

http://www.worldcantwait.pee/
Power to the people!

[snip]

The World Can't Wait! campaign appears to be the brainchild of one Charles
Clark Kissinger, a former SDS ( Maoist ) leader who today serves as a
high-level organizer in the Revolutionary Communist Party. Kissinger
created
the anti-war coalition Not in Our Name, which is working closely with the
World Can't Wait! campaign.

[snip]

Anything that stalls ''progress'' is OK by me.


Cheering Terror

On the surface, the support offered to Islamist fanatics by Western
intellectuals appears baffling: Those privileged to speak out in safety are
cheering on men who would gladly cut their throats.

The reason goes back to the maxim that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."

Flanking the international insurgency of Muslim extremists is a global
insurgency of frustrated intellectuals. Western civilization's rise to power
shamed the failed cultures of the Middle East, while America's exposure of
communism and socialism as deadly, incompetent systems robbed the
intelligentsia of its dearest fantasy.

Global intellectuals and Islamist terrorists share common enemies - the
United States, Israel and the West in general. They're unified by a disdain
for freedom, capitalism and democracy - especially the latter. Religious
extremists and the international intelligentsia alike distrust the will of
the people at the ballot box.

Islamist fanatics are willing to kill millions to fortify and purify their
religion - just as intellectuals excused Stalin's purges and Mao's mass
slaughters in the name of building communist utopias.

Whether the standards are taken from the Koran or the Politburo, there's
always someone with an impure faith who needs killing.

Eventually, of course, the secret policemen or the terrorists come for the
intellectuals, too. But the key to understanding intellectuals - defined as
those who elevate theory over reality - is that they're unified only by
causes, not by loyalty to each other. They'll rationalize away every name
they betray to the state's murderers or their terrorist captors. And their
egos are so enormous that they'll go into their death-cells believing it's
all a mistake soon to be rectified.

The classic example of a post-modern intellectual is the anti-American
Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier. He's never visited the United States and
claims he doesn't want to. Von Trier doesn't really make films about
America. He films his sickly fantasies of America. Reality doesn't interest
him. It's America as the symbol of all evil that quickens his shrunken
European soul.

Of course, other intellectuals adore his films.

After destroying their communist-socialist dream-world, perhaps the cruelest
thing Americans have done to intellectuals is to ignore them when things get
serious. Oh, America's latest Belgian critic may get a nice review in the
New York Review of Books, but the average American refuses to get down on
his or her knees to worship anyone who insists they're too brilliant for the
rest of us to understand.

If they want our respect, people have to produce. And production means work.
And that's the last thing you'll ever get from an intellectual. They may
drone on about the workers of the world, but they sure don't want to become
one.

Islamist terrorists at least have the courage of their convictions. They'll
sacrifice their lives for their perverted faith. Anti-American intellectuals
wouldn't sacrifice a tall latte to save a continent from genocide.

Yet, in its perverse way, the global insurgency of anti-American
intellectuals may be more pernicious even than al Qaeda. We can fight the
terrorists. But the international intelligentsia spreads its poison without
fear of penalty. Thanks to us.

The tacit and active support our "thinkers" provide to religious thugs who
practice blood sacrifice evokes the single word "irresponsible." It should
be branded into their foreheads - backward, so they can read it in the
mirror.

Let countless others die, if only the theory holds. Excuse genocide, if it
frustrates Washington. Paint faith-maddened murderers as freedom fighters,
if it somehow embarrasses America. Deny that the wretched of the earth might
desire human rights and freedom. Betray the weak. And vilify anyone who
takes America's side.

The problem with intellectuals is that they don't really think.

From the 1920s right through the 1980s, Communist regimes could count on
smitten fellow-travelers for support. Few of Moscow's, Beijing's or Hanoi's
defenders actually went there, of course, and fewer still stayed to help
build the workers' paradise. Physical evidence, no matter how grim, was a
distraction to be avoided. Theories were always better than flesh and blood.

Now the lethal terrorists confronting civilization have managed to recruit
their own legions of fellow travelers - without even trying. Bin Laden,
Zawahiri, Zarqawi & Co. must be astonished by the support provided by
Western intellectuals. Whether or not any god's on their side, The New York
Times certainly is - just as it idealized Stalin's regime while millions of
Ukrainians starved in a man-made famine.

We'll prevail against the terrorists. And after we've triumphed again, our
domestic intellectuals and their foreign brethren will find new monsters to
worship.