In solidarity with conservatives

A conservative I am not. (The reasons are complex, but for starters, I am utterly missing the third leg said to be vital to supporting the conservative “stool.”) So I typically call myself a small-l libertarian, or libertarian conservative, but even those terms have their limitations, as I just don’t fit any mold entirely.  I can tell people what I think about any issue, but I cannot come up with a label for my politics that will not result in my being criticized for a lack of purity.

That does not mean that I am unsympathetic to conservatives. Far from it. One of the things that pushes my sympathy button is when I see conservatives unfairly being attacked.

Over the years I have become quite accustomed to reading relentless and vicious criticisms of conservatives and conservatism, but a post I saw today at Daily Kos (blaming conservatives for the awful carnage in Norway) takes the cake:

Anders Behring Breivik is a conservative. He sees himself as a nationalist and patriot. He looked upon the degredation of his society and wept. His enemies were progress and multiculturalism. He sees the present, progressive government of Norway as tearing down the country his Nortic ancestors built. He sees the Islam in Norway as an infection to be cured, and Islam’s “enablers” as enemies.

Anders Behring Breivik is no loon. He is not crazy, deranged, or insane. He is simply Conservative. A conservative who saw the enemy of his vision for (proper) Norway, and acted to neutralize that enemy. Children on that island, being the next generation of the Enemy, were fair game in his right wing mind. And those people he killed trying to get the Prime Minister, his enemy? Collateral Damage.

So…. mass murder is now simply conservative? And all these years I thought Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot were solidly on the left!

Pausing to compare Breivik to Timothy McVeigh (who was anything but an anti-jihadist politically), he continues with his rampage against conservatism:

Work such as this is not the work of an inherently defective or damaged mind. This is the work of a mind corruped by conservative politics. The cycle of Conservative violence, from Bismark to Hitler to Diem to Hussein to Bin Laden, never ceases. Violence such as this is the natural end state of conservatism. There is no reason, no remorse, just logic and politics to them. The polluted Conservative mind works differently than ours. What is grossly unacceptible to us is perfectly permissible to them.

This should illustrate to all of us the dangers we face at home from the Republican Party. The Progress Party, the party that Anders Behring Breivik once belonged to the Youth wing of, looks positively liberal compared to “mainstream” Republicans, much less the filth that comes from the Tea Party. It is also worth noting that the Other party, where the next domestic terrorist (yes, it is CONSERVATIVE RIGHT WING TERRORISM, dispite what the mainstream media would have us believe) will undoubtedly come from.

This incident highlights how vigilant we must be. All these threats are not just empty, they are real. This has proven, again, that the Conservative mind is capible of even greater evil then most of us can imagine. Those isolated statements have the capibility to turn into real action. Report EVERYTHING you see. Report to the Police, FBI, Secret Service, everyone. Make sure that right winger making threats is arrested before anyone dies. And remember, it can be anyone.

As to why Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk, and William F. Buckley aren’t listed along with Bismarck, Hitler, and bin Laden, who knows?

The point is that there are a number of people on the left who think that if a right-wing crackpot anywhere in the world commits an awful crime, it means everyone not on the left is to blame. This is based on the illogical notion that the ideas of others are to blame for the evil deeds of evil people.

I’ll say this right now. If conservatives and conservatism are responsible for what happened in Norway, then I am too.

If only the above nonsense were limited to a lone post, I wouldn’t have bothered addressing it with this one. But the awful attacks in Norway have generated a frenzy of blaming by the left. Naturally, the Tea Party is responsible, and there are “links” that prove it!

Anders Behring Breivik posted links to the Atlas Shrugs website of the Tea Party’s Pamela Geller. Here you can see him under the name of Anders Behring (his middle name) posting links to Geller’s “Atlas Shrugs” site. That cache page is bing translated from Norwegian.

Here is a video of Pamela Geller addressing the Tennessee Tea Party convention.

So he allegedly linked Geller, and later Geller addressed a Tea Party event. I guess if you’re hallucinating, that means “BINGO!”

And let’s suppose the same sicko had linked Classical Values at some point. This blog has been around for over eight years, and in that time I have missed a huge number of comments, and I only stumble onto links to this blog by accident, so I have no idea whether he ever linked or commented here, but under what theory would that implicate me?

The author “explains”:

We are told that Behring Breivik acted alone. In truth he had ideological and communication links with organised far right networks every bit as solid as the comparable connections of Islamic terrorists.

So, linking a post is an “ideological and communication link”? I guess that means I am linked to countless people I never even knew existed, much less ever agreed with. Oh, I forgot. I am of Norwegian descent. Case closed?

Sorry, but this is pure, unadulterated lunacy.

But that won’t stop it, for the “proof” of “connections” can simply be based in the fact of the attacks themselves. Why, Sharron Angle is responsible!

“We now have proof that the Tea Party is helping the American Economy ….they have exported their nutt.iness to Norway!!  Sharron Angle and her “2nd Amendment Remedy” is now an international sensation !”

And you know, if Sharron Angle is responsible, it must follow that Sarah Palin is also responsible. (But of course she is!) And so are Glenn Beck and Daniel Pipes:

When filth like Pipes and Beck are given megaphones, people are always going to be murdered. The only surprise here is that it took so long.

Just as a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy, a conservative with a megaphone is a Tea Partier is a blogger is a Norwegian terrorist!

Makes a lot of sense, if you’re on the left.

After all, leftists never murdered anybody.

UPDATE: Glenn Reynolds notes that the Norway shooter hated libertarians.

Hmmm…

It seems Brievik was an economic populist who considered American Republicans to be libertarians and who hated British Tories. So it wouldn’t surprise me at all to learn that he hated conservatives too.

Not that such things would matter to the leftists who connect the dots…

 


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9 responses to “In solidarity with conservatives”

  1. Simon Avatar
    Simon

    The left only does organized mass murder. They leave the isolated incidents to the conservatives.

  2. John Henry Avatar
    John Henry

    Two comments, Eric:

    Why not just go with Hayek, Freidman and others including myself and call yourself a “liberal”. That is, someone who sees liberty as they primary political goal.

    Second, why does everyone, and you seem to be doing it too, include Hitler on the right side of the spectrum. It was National Socialism that he espoused. Not some right wing idea, socialism.

    Read about him and his philosophy and he was as socialist as Karl Marx. Perhaps even more so than Lenin, Mao, Stalin et al.

    Never let the left forget that they own this guy.

    John Henry

  3. jb Avatar

    Daily Kos is like WaPo or NYT or HuffPo.

    LGF, too. Any not bowing to their altar of progressivism is what is wrong with the world.

    Marxists have never tolerated dissent.

  4. Scott M Avatar
    Scott M

    Most conservatives aren’t 100% aligned with what the Left considers the conservative agenda. For each conservative there are issues he’s out of sync with others on, but those issues are small enough, arise seldom enough, etc. so that he’s stays.

    Surely you’ve seen big L libertarians mischaracterized over some “fringe” issue and then attributed to every last small L libertarian.

    I’m so uncertain about legalizing drugs that the issue isn’t important enough for me to break with Conservatives. I don’t deny the numerous problems from enforcing drug laws, but I know with metaphysical certainty legalizing drugs will simply trade current problems for future problems, and the last thing this country needs is more people dropping out of responsibility and riding in the wagon rather than pulling the wagon.

  5. Frank Avatar
    Frank

    The left has been hellbent trying to prove that the danger is from right wing crazies who want to blow up buildings and shoot people. They tried to hang it on Jerrold Loughner and it didn’t stick. Now they have their boy.
    Too convenient and too cleave by half. They keep quiet as much as possible when a Muslim Army Psychologist goes on a killing rampage. Never mind, nothing to see here because it doesn’t fit their preconceived ideas.

    If I were as paranoid as Jerry in Conspiracy Theory I would almost think the Norwegian is a brainwashed tool of the left. He’s just too perfect a fit.

  6. Simon Avatar
    Simon

    I know with metaphysical certainty illegalizing drugs will simply trade current problems for future problems.

    How do I know that? It has already happened. In 1914. And again in 1937.

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  8. Randy Avatar
    Randy

    Scott M-

    You might want to consider the fact that all those drug arrests, convictions, probations, paroles, incarcerations, etc. over the years makes it much more difficult for those folks ensnared in all that to “pull the wagon” than their personal drug use does in and of itself. Just sayin’.

    Not to mention that all those drug arrests, convictions, probations, paroles, incarcerations, etc. increase the costs of government, making the “wagon” you want “pulled” a whole lot heavier for us all to pull.

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