Post by Splatter on Oct 18, 2005 11:06:58 GMT -5
Now, you can put faces with the names of the worst traitors in American history:
Briefly Tracing the Origin of the New Evil to an Older Evil: The Neo-Cons' Treasonous Rise to Power in the Republican Party and the United States
Claiming to be Evangelist Christians with traditional conservative Ideals, Neo-Cons have proven to be opportunistic War Hawks, embracing both Christianity and Machiavellian "evil" as the means to gain control of the Republican Party with the goal of a war with Iraq foremost on their agenda, with their next conquest reinterpreting the US Constitution to provide a “Christian” view of the establishment of the United States, beginning with the removal of the "separation of Church and State" aspect of the First Amendment.
Meet the major players:
Leo Strauss, the Father of Neo-Conservatism, has also been called the godfather of Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America.” He inspired conservatism to rise from its atrophied condition and its natural dislike of change and to embrace an unbounded new political ideology that rides on the back of a revolutionary steed, hailing even radical change; hence the name Neo-Conservativism,
based largely on principles devised by
Machiavelli, an Italian statesman and political philosopher who recommended policies that would discourage mass political activism, and channel subjects' energies into private pursuits. Machiavelli wanted to persuade monarchs that they could best preserve their power by the judicious use of violence, by respecting private property
and the traditions of the subjects, and by promoting material prosperity. Machiavelli held that political life cannot be governed by a single set of moral or religious absolutes, and that a monarch may sometimes be excused for performing acts of violence and deception that would be ethically indefensible in private life...“In order to achieve the most noble accomplishments, the leader may have to ‘enter into evil.’"
Abram Shulsky
Michael Ledeen
and Dr. Harry V. Jaffa, whose reasoning will influence how the Constitution should be reinterpreted by conservatives to provide a “Christian” view of the establishment of the United States that excludes the secular social contract view. Shusky, Ledeen and Jaffa were scholars of Strauss.
Pat Robertson (founder of 700 Club), author of The Secret Kingdom , became a fan of Strauss' ideas, as well as a huge devotee of Machiavellian ideals, which is what brought him to meet Michael Ledeen, who together with Oliver North, devised the scheme to circumvent the law for the Iran/Contra Scandal. Ledeen frequently was a guest on the 700 Club. Ledeen is the principal architect of the current War in Iraq and is the only person who sees
Karl Rove,
George Bush's top advisor, on a regular basis. Ledeen authored Machiavelli on Modern Leadership: Why Machiavelli’s Iron Rules Are as Timely and Important Today as Five Centuries Ago. Ledeen routinely advised
Dick Cheney,
Donald Rumsfeld,
and Paul Wolfowitz, who in turn, passed on his neo-con legacy to
Richard Perle,
Dr. Stephen Bryan,
Douglas Feith, who all worked together at various periods of time at the Dept. of Defense under Reagan and both Bushes.
Justice Clarence Thomas and
Justice Antonin Scalia, were both devotees of Dr. Henry Jaffa. Justice Scalia plans to use a biblical philosophy to expand the use of capital punishment as means to punish those who violate god's law (heretics, blasphemers, adulterers and homosexuals).
Under Investigation:
Doug Feith's office has been investigated in 2005 for treason, spying for Israel, when a member of his staff stole classified documents and passed them on to Israeli agents. He was accused of spying on two other separate occasions (under Reagan, Oliver North and William Poindexter brought him up on charges which didn't stick) and was dismissed from the elder Bush's Dept. of Defense when his name surfaced yet again in some missing files which wound up in Israel's possession.
Karl Rove has been testifying before a grand jury for the investigation into the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity. He could be indicted soon and is the main figure in the center of the investigation. Also subpoenaed by the grand jury for the same investigation, Vice President Dick Cheney and his top secretary,
Scooter Libby, may also receive indictments soon.
Robert Bork, Irving Kristol, William Kristol, Alan Keyes, William J. Bennett, J. Danforth Quayle, Allan Bloom, John Podhoertz, John T. Agresto, John Ashcroft, Newt Gingrich, Gary Bauer are the other noteworthy neo-cons.
Surprisingly, George Bush isn't considered a neo-con, presumably because he can't grasp the concepts:
The Neo-Con Six Pointed Star
I: Strauss believed that a leader had to perpetually deceive the citizens he ruled.
II: Those who lead must understand there is no morality, there is only the right of the superior to rule the inferior.
III: According to Drury, Religion “is the glue that holds society together.”[40] It is a handle by which the ruler can manipulate the masses. Any religion will do. Strauss is indifferent to them all.
IV: “Secular society…is the worst possible thing,” because it leads to individualism, liberalism, and relativism, all of which encourage dissent and rebellion. As Drury sums it up:
“You want a crowd that you can manipulate like putty.”[41]
V: “Strauss thinks that a political order can be stable only if it is united by an external threat; and following Machiavelli, he maintains that if no external threat exists, then one has to be manufactured.”
VI: “In Strauss’s view, the trouble with liberal society is that it dispenses with noble lies and pious frauds. It tries to found society on secular rational foundations.”[/quote]
More complete list:
Ziad Abdelnour
Elliott Abrams
Carol Adelman
Kenneth Adelman
Harold Agnew
Edward "Pete" Aldridge
Richard V. Allen
Morris J. Amitay
Martin Anderson
John Ashcroft
Norman Augustine
Kathleen Bailey
William P. Barr
Gary L. Bauer
Gary S. Becker
Jeffrey Bell
Eleana Benador
William J. Bennett
Jeffrey Bergner
Conrad Black
John Bolton
Max Boot
Ellen Bork
Robert Bork
L. Paul Bremer
Linton Brooks
Mark Broxmeyer
Shoshana Bryen
Stephen Bryen
Jeb Bush
Stephen Cambone
Frank Carlucci
Ahmed Chalabi
Elaine Chao
Linda Chavez
Lynne Cheney
Richard Bruce Cheney
Michael Chertoff
Eliot Cohen
Henry Cooper
Christopher Cox
Seth Cropsey
Devon Gaffney Cross
J.D. Crouch
Midge Decter
James T. DeGraffenreid
Christopher DeMuth
Thomas Dine
Paula Dobriansky
Thomas Donahue
Thomas Donnelly
Nicholas Eberstadt
Stanley Ebner
Eric S. Edelman
Gordon England
Howell M. Estes
Mark Falcoff
Douglas Feith
Edwin J. Feulner
Julie Finley
Ronald R. Fogleman
Steve Forbes
Theodore J. Forstmann
John S. Foster
Hillel Fradkin
Aaron Friedberg
David Frum
Francis Fukuyama
Frank Gaffney
Jay Garner
Jeffrey Gedmin
Reuel Marc Gerecht
Carl Gershman
Mark Gerson
Newt Gingrich
David C. Gompert
Daniel Gouré
William R. Graham
Stephen J. Hadley
Norman Hascoe
Charles Hill
Gertrude Himmelfarb
Amoretta Hoeber
Charles Horner
Rachelle Horowitz
Fred C. Iklé
James M. Inhofe
Bruce P. Jackson
David E. Jeremiah
Robert Joseph
Michael S. Joyce
Lawrence Kadish
Donald Kagan
Frederick Kagan
Robert Kagan
Phyllis Kaminsky
Max M. Kampelman
Emmanuel Kampouris
Walter Kansteiner
Leon Kass
Penn Kemble
Jack Kemp
George A. (Jay) Keyworth II
Zalmay Khalilzad
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
Charles Krauthammer
Irving Kristol
William Kristol
Charles Kupperman
Jon Kyl
Mark Lagon
Michael Ledeen
John F. Lehman
Lewis E. Lehrman
I. Lewis Libby
Robert Livingston
William J. Luti
Will Marshall
Clifford May
Daniel McKivergan
Jules McNeff
Edwin Meese
Philip Merrill
Thomas S. Moorman
Joshua Muravchik
Laurent Murawiec
Rupert Murdoch
Marilyn Musgrave
John D. Negroponte
Richard John Neuhaus
Roger Noriega
Gale Norton
Michael Novak
Theodore Olson
Keith Payne
Stevan E. Pearce
Richard Perle
Daniel Pipes
Richard Pipes
Danielle Pletka
John Podhoretz
Norman Podhoretz
Dan Quayle
Otto Reich
Condoleezza Rice
James Roche
Peter W. Rodman
Stephen P. Rosen
Karl Rove
Henry S. Rowen
Michael Rubin
Donald Rumsfeld
Richard Mellon Scaife
Randy Scheunemann
James R. Schlesinger
Gary Schmitt
William Schneider
William Schneider, Jr.
Natan Sharansky
Nina Shea
Jack Sheehan
Abram Shulsky
George P. Shultz
Bob Smith
Henry Sokolski
David Steinmann
John Tanton
Peter B. Teets
Loren B. Thompson
Tommy Thompson
John Tkacik
Henry D. Train
William R. Van Cleave
Arthur Waldron
Malcolm Wallop
John P. Walters
Ben Wattenberg
Vin Weber
Ruth Wedgwood
George Weigel
Paul Weyrich
Thomas E. White
Leon Wieseltier
Chris Williams
Heather Wilson
Pete Wilson
Paul Wolfowitz
James Woolsey
David Wurmser
Meyrav Wurmser
Dov S. Zakheim
Robert Zoellick
Briefly Tracing the Origin of the New Evil to an Older Evil: The Neo-Cons' Treasonous Rise to Power in the Republican Party and the United States
Claiming to be Evangelist Christians with traditional conservative Ideals, Neo-Cons have proven to be opportunistic War Hawks, embracing both Christianity and Machiavellian "evil" as the means to gain control of the Republican Party with the goal of a war with Iraq foremost on their agenda, with their next conquest reinterpreting the US Constitution to provide a “Christian” view of the establishment of the United States, beginning with the removal of the "separation of Church and State" aspect of the First Amendment.
Meet the major players:
Leo Strauss, the Father of Neo-Conservatism, has also been called the godfather of Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America.” He inspired conservatism to rise from its atrophied condition and its natural dislike of change and to embrace an unbounded new political ideology that rides on the back of a revolutionary steed, hailing even radical change; hence the name Neo-Conservativism,
based largely on principles devised by
Machiavelli, an Italian statesman and political philosopher who recommended policies that would discourage mass political activism, and channel subjects' energies into private pursuits. Machiavelli wanted to persuade monarchs that they could best preserve their power by the judicious use of violence, by respecting private property
and the traditions of the subjects, and by promoting material prosperity. Machiavelli held that political life cannot be governed by a single set of moral or religious absolutes, and that a monarch may sometimes be excused for performing acts of violence and deception that would be ethically indefensible in private life...“In order to achieve the most noble accomplishments, the leader may have to ‘enter into evil.’"
Abram Shulsky
Michael Ledeen
and Dr. Harry V. Jaffa, whose reasoning will influence how the Constitution should be reinterpreted by conservatives to provide a “Christian” view of the establishment of the United States that excludes the secular social contract view. Shusky, Ledeen and Jaffa were scholars of Strauss.
Pat Robertson (founder of 700 Club), author of The Secret Kingdom , became a fan of Strauss' ideas, as well as a huge devotee of Machiavellian ideals, which is what brought him to meet Michael Ledeen, who together with Oliver North, devised the scheme to circumvent the law for the Iran/Contra Scandal. Ledeen frequently was a guest on the 700 Club. Ledeen is the principal architect of the current War in Iraq and is the only person who sees
Karl Rove,
George Bush's top advisor, on a regular basis. Ledeen authored Machiavelli on Modern Leadership: Why Machiavelli’s Iron Rules Are as Timely and Important Today as Five Centuries Ago. Ledeen routinely advised
Dick Cheney,
Donald Rumsfeld,
and Paul Wolfowitz, who in turn, passed on his neo-con legacy to
Richard Perle,
Dr. Stephen Bryan,
Douglas Feith, who all worked together at various periods of time at the Dept. of Defense under Reagan and both Bushes.
Justice Clarence Thomas and
Justice Antonin Scalia, were both devotees of Dr. Henry Jaffa. Justice Scalia plans to use a biblical philosophy to expand the use of capital punishment as means to punish those who violate god's law (heretics, blasphemers, adulterers and homosexuals).
Under Investigation:
Doug Feith's office has been investigated in 2005 for treason, spying for Israel, when a member of his staff stole classified documents and passed them on to Israeli agents. He was accused of spying on two other separate occasions (under Reagan, Oliver North and William Poindexter brought him up on charges which didn't stick) and was dismissed from the elder Bush's Dept. of Defense when his name surfaced yet again in some missing files which wound up in Israel's possession.
Karl Rove has been testifying before a grand jury for the investigation into the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity. He could be indicted soon and is the main figure in the center of the investigation. Also subpoenaed by the grand jury for the same investigation, Vice President Dick Cheney and his top secretary,
Scooter Libby, may also receive indictments soon.
Robert Bork, Irving Kristol, William Kristol, Alan Keyes, William J. Bennett, J. Danforth Quayle, Allan Bloom, John Podhoertz, John T. Agresto, John Ashcroft, Newt Gingrich, Gary Bauer are the other noteworthy neo-cons.
Surprisingly, George Bush isn't considered a neo-con, presumably because he can't grasp the concepts:
The Neo-Con Six Pointed Star
I: Strauss believed that a leader had to perpetually deceive the citizens he ruled.
II: Those who lead must understand there is no morality, there is only the right of the superior to rule the inferior.
III: According to Drury, Religion “is the glue that holds society together.”[40] It is a handle by which the ruler can manipulate the masses. Any religion will do. Strauss is indifferent to them all.
IV: “Secular society…is the worst possible thing,” because it leads to individualism, liberalism, and relativism, all of which encourage dissent and rebellion. As Drury sums it up:
“You want a crowd that you can manipulate like putty.”[41]
V: “Strauss thinks that a political order can be stable only if it is united by an external threat; and following Machiavelli, he maintains that if no external threat exists, then one has to be manufactured.”
VI: “In Strauss’s view, the trouble with liberal society is that it dispenses with noble lies and pious frauds. It tries to found society on secular rational foundations.”[/quote]
More complete list:
Ziad Abdelnour
Elliott Abrams
Carol Adelman
Kenneth Adelman
Harold Agnew
Edward "Pete" Aldridge
Richard V. Allen
Morris J. Amitay
Martin Anderson
John Ashcroft
Norman Augustine
Kathleen Bailey
William P. Barr
Gary L. Bauer
Gary S. Becker
Jeffrey Bell
Eleana Benador
William J. Bennett
Jeffrey Bergner
Conrad Black
John Bolton
Max Boot
Ellen Bork
Robert Bork
L. Paul Bremer
Linton Brooks
Mark Broxmeyer
Shoshana Bryen
Stephen Bryen
Jeb Bush
Stephen Cambone
Frank Carlucci
Ahmed Chalabi
Elaine Chao
Linda Chavez
Lynne Cheney
Richard Bruce Cheney
Michael Chertoff
Eliot Cohen
Henry Cooper
Christopher Cox
Seth Cropsey
Devon Gaffney Cross
J.D. Crouch
Midge Decter
James T. DeGraffenreid
Christopher DeMuth
Thomas Dine
Paula Dobriansky
Thomas Donahue
Thomas Donnelly
Nicholas Eberstadt
Stanley Ebner
Eric S. Edelman
Gordon England
Howell M. Estes
Mark Falcoff
Douglas Feith
Edwin J. Feulner
Julie Finley
Ronald R. Fogleman
Steve Forbes
Theodore J. Forstmann
John S. Foster
Hillel Fradkin
Aaron Friedberg
David Frum
Francis Fukuyama
Frank Gaffney
Jay Garner
Jeffrey Gedmin
Reuel Marc Gerecht
Carl Gershman
Mark Gerson
Newt Gingrich
David C. Gompert
Daniel Gouré
William R. Graham
Stephen J. Hadley
Norman Hascoe
Charles Hill
Gertrude Himmelfarb
Amoretta Hoeber
Charles Horner
Rachelle Horowitz
Fred C. Iklé
James M. Inhofe
Bruce P. Jackson
David E. Jeremiah
Robert Joseph
Michael S. Joyce
Lawrence Kadish
Donald Kagan
Frederick Kagan
Robert Kagan
Phyllis Kaminsky
Max M. Kampelman
Emmanuel Kampouris
Walter Kansteiner
Leon Kass
Penn Kemble
Jack Kemp
George A. (Jay) Keyworth II
Zalmay Khalilzad
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
Charles Krauthammer
Irving Kristol
William Kristol
Charles Kupperman
Jon Kyl
Mark Lagon
Michael Ledeen
John F. Lehman
Lewis E. Lehrman
I. Lewis Libby
Robert Livingston
William J. Luti
Will Marshall
Clifford May
Daniel McKivergan
Jules McNeff
Edwin Meese
Philip Merrill
Thomas S. Moorman
Joshua Muravchik
Laurent Murawiec
Rupert Murdoch
Marilyn Musgrave
John D. Negroponte
Richard John Neuhaus
Roger Noriega
Gale Norton
Michael Novak
Theodore Olson
Keith Payne
Stevan E. Pearce
Richard Perle
Daniel Pipes
Richard Pipes
Danielle Pletka
John Podhoretz
Norman Podhoretz
Dan Quayle
Otto Reich
Condoleezza Rice
James Roche
Peter W. Rodman
Stephen P. Rosen
Karl Rove
Henry S. Rowen
Michael Rubin
Donald Rumsfeld
Richard Mellon Scaife
Randy Scheunemann
James R. Schlesinger
Gary Schmitt
William Schneider
William Schneider, Jr.
Natan Sharansky
Nina Shea
Jack Sheehan
Abram Shulsky
George P. Shultz
Bob Smith
Henry Sokolski
David Steinmann
John Tanton
Peter B. Teets
Loren B. Thompson
Tommy Thompson
John Tkacik
Henry D. Train
William R. Van Cleave
Arthur Waldron
Malcolm Wallop
John P. Walters
Ben Wattenberg
Vin Weber
Ruth Wedgwood
George Weigel
Paul Weyrich
Thomas E. White
Leon Wieseltier
Chris Williams
Heather Wilson
Pete Wilson
Paul Wolfowitz
James Woolsey
David Wurmser
Meyrav Wurmser
Dov S. Zakheim
Robert Zoellick