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protect freedom impeach bush now Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-03 03:58 PM
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Buhs/Rove Advisor's plans for neutralizing ' Liberals'
Edited on Thu Oct-09-03 08:56 AM by Skinner
ROVE/BUSH ADVISOR'S PLANS FOR NEUTRALIZING "LIBERALS"

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/2001/12/121001_Republican_Manifesto.html


read this about the fascist tactics that the Bush administration chief advisors has for "destroying" liberal opinions.


Sounds exactly like Hitler's brownshirts of Germany's 1930s



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BUZZFLASH CHILLING ALERT ABOUT A KARL ROVE/BUSH ADVISOR'S PLANS FOR NEUTRALIZING "LIBERALS"


Contributed by a BuzzFlash Reader

December 10, 2001

Pasted below are excerpts from the Free Congress Foundation's lengthy strategic statement for the Traditional Conservative Movement (the URL is provided if you want to read the whole thing). It lays out the expedient, propagandistic, dishonest, morally relativistic strategy supported by some on the far right. Recall that the Free Congress Foundation is headed by prominent and influential conservative activist Paul Weyrich (who also founded the Heritage Foundation). To really understand just how scary this strategy is, just remember how cozy the Bush administration is with Weyrich and people of his ilk. This quote from a Time magazine article is apropos:

"Each Wednesday Rove dispatches a top administration official to attend the regular conservative-coalition lunches held at Paul Weyrich's Free Congress Foundation. When activists call his office with a problem, Rove doesn't pass them off to an aide. He often responds himself. When Weyrich heard a few weeks ago that Bush's budget slashed funding for a favorite project called the Police Corps, which gives scholarships and training to police cadets, he complained to the White House. To Weyrich's surprise, Rove called back. "We've taken care of it," Rove said. "The problem is solved." Weyrich, who says his memos to the Reagan and Bush Sr. White Houses were rarely read, was impressed. "That," he gushes, "is what it means to have friends in the White House.""

Sunday, Apr. 22, 2001
The Busiest Man in the White House
BY JAMES CARNEY AND JOHN F. DICKERSON
http://www.time.com/time/nation/printout/0,8816,107219,00.html

Here are the excerpts from the strategy piece....not very Christian I would argue.

The Integration of Theory and Practice: A Program for the New Traditionalist Movement

http://www.freecongress.org/centers/conservatism/traditionalist.htm

by Eric Heubeck



This essay is based on the belief that the truth of an idea is not the primary reason for its acceptance. Far more important is the energy and dedication of the idea's promoters--in other words, the individuals composing a social or political movement...

We must, as Mr. Weyrich has suggested, develop a network of parallel cultural institutions existing side-by-side with the dominant leftist cultural institutions. The building and promotion of these institutions will require the development of a movement that will not merely reform the existing post-war conservative movement, but will in fact be forced to supersede it--if it is to succeed at all--because it will pursue a very different strategy and be premised on a very
different view of its role in society....

There will be three main stages in the unfolding of this movement. The first stage will be devoted to the development of a highly motivated elite able to coordinate future activities. The second stage will be devoted to the development of institutions designed to make an impact on the wider elite and a relatively small minority of the masses. The third stage will involve changing the overall character of American popular culture....

Our movement will be entirely destructive, and entirely constructive. We will not try to reform the existing institutions. We only intend to weaken them, and eventually destroy them. We will endeavor to knock our opponents off-balance and unsettle them at every opportunity. All of our constructive energies will be dedicated to the creation of our own institutions....

We will maintain a constant barrage of criticism against the Left. We will attack the very legitimacy of the Left. We will not give them a moment's rest. We will endeavor to prove that the Left does not deserve to hold sway over the heart and mind of a single American. We will offer constant reminders that there is an alternative, there is a better way. When people have had enough of the sickness and decay of today's American culture, they will be embraced by and welcomed into the New Traditionalist movement. The rejection of the existing society by the people will thus be accomplished by pushing them and pulling them simultaneously.

We will use guerrilla tactics to undermine the legitimacy of the dominant regime...

EDITED BY ADMIN: COPYRIGHT

BuzzFlash Note: These are only excerpts. To read the full article, please visit the link below.

http://www.freecongress.org/centers/conservatism/traditionalist.htm

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on edit
LINK -

http://www.freecongress.org/centers/cc/new_tradiitionalist.asp

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Hawkeye-X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-03 04:01 PM
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1. Sorry..
before the Quackery/Fascists can implement this plan, they'll be a-marchin' off to the Hague to answer for every crime against humanity in the United States and Iraq.

Hawkeye-X
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Lars39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-03 04:11 PM
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5. Some of this is already in place; remember Lynn Cheney's
group to crack down on liberal colleges, professors?
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lovedems Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-03 04:07 PM
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2. OMG! It is a word for word description of the current misadministration
and their policies. This article sent a chill down my spine. Didn't we learn anything from Hitler? Scary, scary, scary.
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-03 04:29 PM
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15. And what the RIGHT learned from hitler was how to control the masses....
with ultra conservative rhetoric.
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-03 04:36 PM
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17. Oh, the Busheviks learned from Hitler, all right
And we'll see just how much they learned as time goes by and the transformation of Imperial Amerika becomes more complete and some more elemnets of the Old Republic are swept away.

(not to mention some of the people born and raised under the Old Republic pass away and take their memories with them)
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kainah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-03 04:10 PM
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3. interestingly, the link no longer works
and rather than getting the normal error page, this error page actually cites the possibility that the page has been removed from the server. I bet that is exactly what happened. They realized that their strategy was being read by their "enemies" and they took it down.

These excerpts are chilling, mostly because they say out loud what we've all known for a long time: these people have no principles except obtaining and maintaining power. And forcing those who disagree to "think twice before opening mouths."
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protect freedom impeach bush now Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-03 04:12 PM
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6. maybe Buzzflash saved it (Yup they did) LINK
Edited on Wed Oct-08-03 04:40 PM by protect freedom impe
dont know, but buzzflash may have saved it somewhere



on edit,

here's the link -

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/2001/12/121001_Republican_Manifesto.html
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ibegurpard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-03 04:26 PM
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14. And yet you want to give Arnold a chance?
:shrug:
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-03 04:39 PM
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18. Here
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-03 04:54 PM
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21. Here's Why I Don't Worry so Much
We must place a high value on art, because the most important thing any movement can do is capture the imagination of the people. One must give them dreams and ideals that have been put in terms they can understand, and that touch their hearts, as opposed to their rational minds. If we cannot capture the imaginations of our members, then we cannot expect our members to make great sacrifices for us. There must be a common repository of books and movies that everyone in our movement is familiar with and inspired by, so anyone can quote a line that will be recognized by everyone else. Young people already do this, only with the wrong movies, songs, and other products of popular culture.

Problem is, you can't control art, not real art. Politically driven art = propaganda and it's always found out in the end. Look at the Lincoln landing and how everyone and their grandma saw right through it.
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-03 04:50 PM
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20. In the link, spell traditionalist as tradiitionalist
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kwolf68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-03 04:11 PM
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4. This is a parody?

This type of stuff-though not surprising-is the most incredible thing I could have ever imagined.
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protect freedom impeach bush now Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-03 04:14 PM
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7. ? No parody here. Thats What they actually believe
Whats scarier is that is sure sounds EXACTLY like what is
now happening in Bush's Amerika.
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hedda_foil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-03 04:16 PM
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8. Could you post the Buzzflash link please?
This is truly chilling.
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protect freedom impeach bush now Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-03 04:22 PM
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11. Buzzflash LINK
Edited on Wed Oct-08-03 04:39 PM by protect freedom impe
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Ripley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-03 04:20 PM
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9. Very frightening. But when I tried to go to Eric's site
Edited on Wed Oct-08-03 04:22 PM by Ripley
newtraditionalism.org it took me to a prescription drug website. Huh? I clicked on it from his article at freecongress.

They are no different than Nazis.
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AntiCoup2K4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-03 04:20 PM
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10. Where did this fucking nazi ever get the idea that
multinational corporations are "leftist" ? :crazy:
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Must_B_Free Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-03 04:23 PM
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12. Readers - also note the similarity to American Facism
as described by a democratic candidate Wallace in 1944

http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/082103F.shtml

"The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information."

"The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. They use every opportunity to impugn democracy. They use isolationism as a slogan to conceal their own selfish imperialism. They cultivate hate and distrust of both Britain and Russia. They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."

"Fascism in the postwar inevitably will push steadily for Anglo-Saxon imperialism and eventually for war with Russia. Already American fascists are talking and writing about this conflict and using it as an excuse for their internal hatreds and intolerances toward certain races, creeds and classes." (note this was 1944 when written)

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lovedems Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-03 04:25 PM
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13. somebody should forward this to every stinkin' newspaper in the country
Oops, I forgot, they are owned by the right.
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Redleg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-03 04:31 PM
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16. This makes me feel like I just got kicked in the chones...
How can we possibly beat those sorry bastards when we believe in playing by the rules and they don't give a crap for the rules ("We will be results-oriented rather than good intentions-oriented. Making a good-faith effort and being ideologically sound will be less important than advancing the goals of the movement...").

I am just sick to death about this right-wing movement to destroy the Democratic party and wipe liberalism off the face of the earth.
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-03 04:40 PM
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19. More upset that they are about to wipe the American Experiment
off the face of the Earth.

Nice try, Founding Dads, but you could have never iomagined Goebbels v1.0, let alone Goebbels v2.0 with which we must contend.

But we do appreciate the magnificence of your Constitution and Bill f Rights, whose brilliance even as they themselves are ground under the Imperial Boot is giving us these last few years where we can at least pretend that we are still free.

Thanks, guys...that may well have been the best try to secure the Blessings of Liberty for Posterity EVER in human history.

But it just wasn't enough, and by 2100 that will be painfully clear.
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-03 05:30 PM
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22. New Link
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-03 05:37 PM
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23. Oaf Of Office posted this back in December of 2001.
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notadmblnd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-03 05:51 PM
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24. This is already taking place
Edited on Wed Oct-08-03 05:52 PM by notadmblnd
And this organization is one of the leaders of the pack.
http://www.nhf.org/


This is what the republican manifesto says.

"The new movement will inevitably be geared toward children and young adults, especially their education. We will accomplish the goal of retaking our country only when large numbers of young people are educated outside of the indoctrinating environment of many public and private schools, universities, and of course, the popular culture."

http://www.freecongress.org/centers/cc/new_tradiitionalist.asp

Theres a school down the street from me. Many people have put their children there and many have taken them right back out. But theres never an empty slot.
http://www.edcschools.com/academies/MI_walton.htm




This truly is scary stuff
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