Why Liberals Are Hysterical About NSA Wire-tapping

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By Thomas E. Brewton
MichNews.com
Feb 1, 2006


The issue is not national security, but security for socialism. Liberal-Progressive-socialists claim unrestrained license to destroy Judeo-Christian morality, while demanding immunity from scrutiny of their secular atheism, even when it weakens national security.

The following thoughts abstracted from and engendered by "Freedom, Virtue, and the First Amendment," by Walter Berns lay out the jurisprudential architecture of liberalism that leads liberal- Progressives to fight against Judge Alito's confirmation to the Supreme Court and against NSA wire-tapping to prevent repetitions of 9/11.



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[Rhino]

Very cerebral.

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It's cultural war--an we've got to win it or here we go into the dark ages.

The big question is what kind of political society engenders and supports the highest qualities of human nature and creates the strongest and most enduring society.
Western civilization, arising from the Judeo-Christian and Greek philosophical tradition, says that the best society is one that crafts laws and customs that support religion and its standards of morality. This tradition distinguishes between true happiness and momentary sensual gratification.
True happiness arises from pursuit of moral virtue in all of life's dealings with other humans. Sensual gratification leaves the individual dependent upon external stimulants and focusing upon it makes people less productive.
The founding traditions of the United States were aimed at true happiness, at making the New World colonies shining beacons of righteousness to a corrupted Old World.
The essence of liberal-progressivism, in contrast, is the atheistic belief that only the material externalities of income and power are real, that the true aim of political society is to reduce all people to a homogenized mass having nearly equal income and equal access to all of society's goods and services.
Believing, as they do, in only material factors, liberal-progressives are altogether in favor of hedonistic license for sensual gratification, which they call liberty. In order to remove the impediment of western civilization's religious morality, they employ their version of free speech (that is, for liberal-progressives only) to denigrate Judeo-Christianity. Public policies aimed at multi-cultural education and avoidance of all values ultimately, however, can have only one result, disintegration of society. The loss of a commonly-accepted sense of morality and community standards of behavior is the explanation for much of the ill that besets the United States today. Blind adherence to liberal theories of social welfarism and value-free expressions of free speech can only make matters worse.

[Naturalized-Texan]

It's actually quite simple: Liberals oppose fighting terrorism for the same reason that they opposed fighting Communism: They see no enemies on the left.

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It's actually quite simple: Liberals oppose fighting terrorism for the same reason that they opposed fighting Communism: They see no enemies on the left.And any effort that threatens to destroy the America our fathers handed us is a good thing in their eyes... In truth they wish in the deepest corners of their hearts that America could be erased and a new Leftist utopia could be planted in North America...

They envision a world without the United States - and in that vision they find common cause with murderers...