More symptoms of insanity on the American right

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In yesterday's American Thinker, a man with the Italian name of Bonelli wrote the following, extremely offensive statement:

The United States is different from most other countries in many ways. One unique aspect of our country is that our elected officials, officers of the court, and the military, all pledge their allegiance to the Constitution and not to an office, individual or party. This assures continuity of the ideals set forth by the founders.

As an Italian citizen, I have personally sworn to defend the Constitution of my country when I served in the Italian army. The presumption involved in this ignorant display of insular arrogance is an insult to every constitutional government in the world.

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[marielapin.livejournal.com]

How?

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Jail, expulsion, and leaving those who live peacefully alone.

[marielapin.livejournal.com]

And what if those who live peacefully are able to reach such a number as to have a ruling hand in government?

[fpb.livejournal.com]

That is the be-afraid-be-very-afraid version of history. It's not going to happen, for a number of reasons, of which the most important is that the capacity of the system to resist is much larger than that of any minority to assault it. We have broken the back of Communism. Unreformed Islam is not going to be more dangerous.

[marielapin.livejournal.com]

I pray it is not.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

We have to avoid both excesses. You are not in danger of the one that underrates the enemy - that fails to realize its radical alienness to Christian civilization, or, for that matter, the centrality of Christianity to our civilization. On the other hand, we must not surrender to imaginings of doom. Remember, George Orwell concluded 1984 with the statement that the future was "a boot stomping on a human face - for ever". It was not. Orwell had a just appreciation of the evil of Communism, but not of its weakness, and for that reason, though he fought it, he could not imagine it going down. It did.

[marielapin.livejournal.com]

I believe in being vigilant, not in scaremongering. I do however believe the best way to preserve our culture and faith is by having children (and not ten per woman :P - only the most able bodied can handle that). Raising them well is also vitally important.

I do however think Huxley is getting pretty close in some of his predictions in "Brave New World". Luckily, Ford is out of the picture. Sanger has stepped up now to replace him.