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		<title>By: Marie Claude</title>
		<link>http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/10/26/alone/#comment-77496</link>
		<dc:creator>Marie Claude</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>148 Robooooooooooooooooootech

of course there are manylinks abour your nic
but they do not deal with what perspires from your writings !</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>148 Robooooooooooooooooootech</p>
<p>of course there are manylinks abour your nic<br />
but they do not deal with what perspires from your writings !</p>
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		<title>By: billm99uk</title>
		<link>http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/10/26/alone/#comment-77493</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;“What I Learned About America From Watching It on TV”

8. Based on the drug commercials, the two most rampant medical problems in America are not enough sex (see #1) and not enough sleep.&lt;/i&gt;

And don&#039;t forget the hemorrhoids. All Americans have hemorrhoids...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>“What I Learned About America From Watching It on TV”</p>
<p>8. Based on the drug commercials, the two most rampant medical problems in America are not enough sex (see #1) and not enough sleep.</i></p>
<p>And don&#8217;t forget the hemorrhoids. All Americans have hemorrhoids&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Hic Est Corpum Meum &#124; Junior Ganymede</title>
		<link>http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/10/26/alone/#comment-77466</link>
		<dc:creator>Hic Est Corpum Meum &#124; Junior Ganymede</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Wretchard writes Perhaps the greatest service that religion once rendered to Western civilization was providing the individual with a real or imagined hotline to God. Whether this was simply a conceit or not let us set aside for the moment. For as long as man imagined himself to be sacred and accountable to the Creator he stood at the center of polity. The state was there to serve him and not the reverse. Today he has lost that central place and is no more or less than a collection of curiously animated chemical substances with a market value of less then fifty dollars which the state has deigned to keep alive until some bureaucratic panel decides it is too expensive to do so. Just as Global Warming can be understood at one level as an attempt to bring nature into the purview of politics, it is impossible to understand the Left’s fixation with abortion except as a sacramental affirmation of the state’s power over man. The strident insistence on abortion on demand goes way beyond any conceivable need to prevent backroom abortions, or even an affirmation of a woman’s right to choose. It is really an absolute display of the power of politics over life. Abortion’s principal utility is as a stake driven through the heart of the notion of human sacredness, which once performed, ought to prevent its revival entirely. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Wretchard writes Perhaps the greatest service that religion once rendered to Western civilization was providing the individual with a real or imagined hotline to God. Whether this was simply a conceit or not let us set aside for the moment. For as long as man imagined himself to be sacred and accountable to the Creator he stood at the center of polity. The state was there to serve him and not the reverse. Today he has lost that central place and is no more or less than a collection of curiously animated chemical substances with a market value of less then fifty dollars which the state has deigned to keep alive until some bureaucratic panel decides it is too expensive to do so. Just as Global Warming can be understood at one level as an attempt to bring nature into the purview of politics, it is impossible to understand the Left’s fixation with abortion except as a sacramental affirmation of the state’s power over man. The strident insistence on abortion on demand goes way beyond any conceivable need to prevent backroom abortions, or even an affirmation of a woman’s right to choose. It is really an absolute display of the power of politics over life. Abortion’s principal utility is as a stake driven through the heart of the notion of human sacredness, which once performed, ought to prevent its revival entirely. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: robotech master</title>
		<link>http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/10/26/alone/#comment-77458</link>
		<dc:creator>robotech master</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To 136. Auguste

I did my best to keep it down on your level so you&#039;d understand.

To 141. Marie Claude

First would you stop calling me robot... robo, robotech, robotech master.... but not robot... I know english isn&#039;t your first lang so I&#039;m telling you your doing it wrong. As for drawing... I&#039;m sure you can easily find my name sake with a simple search.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To 136. Auguste</p>
<p>I did my best to keep it down on your level so you&#8217;d understand.</p>
<p>To 141. Marie Claude</p>
<p>First would you stop calling me robot&#8230; robo, robotech, robotech master&#8230;. but not robot&#8230; I know english isn&#8217;t your first lang so I&#8217;m telling you your doing it wrong. As for drawing&#8230; I&#8217;m sure you can easily find my name sake with a simple search.</p>
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		<title>By: Jonk</title>
		<link>http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/10/26/alone/#comment-77456</link>
		<dc:creator>Jonk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Richard,
I&#039;ve been a fan of your work for a long time, and this is, hands down, one of the finest, most thought-provoking pieces I&#039;ve ever read.  Well done, sir.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Richard,<br />
I&#8217;ve been a fan of your work for a long time, and this is, hands down, one of the finest, most thought-provoking pieces I&#8217;ve ever read.  Well done, sir.</p>
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		<title>By: MALTHUS</title>
		<link>http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/10/26/alone/#comment-77454</link>
		<dc:creator>MALTHUS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>(#31) [T]he man is a veritable Martin Luther within the “academic”(read: hoplessly ((sic)) lost in romantic marxism)...--Hugh

This is factually incorrect.

Thomas Muentzer, who the GDR communist party rehabilitated as a protocommunist, was unequivocally denounced by Luther. Moreover, to refer to a 17th century theologian an being amenable to the economic theories of a 19th century radical is an historical anachronism.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(#31) [T]he man is a veritable Martin Luther within the “academic”(read: hoplessly ((sic)) lost in romantic marxism)&#8230;&#8211;Hugh</p>
<p>This is factually incorrect.</p>
<p>Thomas Muentzer, who the GDR communist party rehabilitated as a protocommunist, was unequivocally denounced by Luther. Moreover, to refer to a 17th century theologian an being amenable to the economic theories of a 19th century radical is an historical anachronism.</p>
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		<title>By: Storm-Rider</title>
		<link>http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/10/26/alone/#comment-77452</link>
		<dc:creator>Storm-Rider</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Classical liberalism does not advocate the government favoring anyone. Classical liberalism is about government respecting the natural rights of people as individuals, not as groups to be played off one against the other.&quot;

No European nation has ever actually established classically liberal society where the sacred rights of the individual (life, liberty, private property honestly earned - pursuit of happiness) were secured by just government power. While John Locke&#039;s political thinking pointed in this direction, it was Thomas Jefferson and our other Founding Fathers who actually pulled it off - and now it is being unraveled by the so-called &quot;Liberals&quot; - they are really Marxists &amp;/or Fascists.

&quot;“To understand &quot;social justice,&quot; we must contrast it with the earlier view of justice against which it was conceived -- one that arose as a revolt against political absolutism. With a government (e.g., a monarchy) that is granted absolute power, it is impossible to speak of any injustice on its part. If it can do anything, it can&#039;t do anything &quot;wrong.&quot; Justice as a political/legal term can begin only when limitations are placed upon the sovereign, i.e., when men define what is unjust for government to do. The historical realization traces from the Roman senate to Magna Carta to the U.S. Constitution to the 19th century. It was now a matter of &quot;justice&quot; that government not arrest citizens arbitrarily, sanction their bondage by others, persecute them for their religion or speech, seize their property, or prevent their travel. This culmination of centuries of ideas and struggles became known as liberalism. And it was precisely in opposition to this liberalism -- not feudalism or theocracy or the ancien régime, much less 20th century fascism -- that Karl Marx formed and detailed the popular concept of &quot;social justice,&quot;

“&quot;The history of all existing society,&quot; he and Engels declared, &quot;is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebian, lord and serf ... oppressor and oppressed, stood in sharp opposition to each other.&quot; They were quite right to note the political castes and resulting clashes of the pre-liberal era. The expositors of liberalism (Spencer, Maine) saw their ethic, by establishing the political equality of all (e.g., the abolition of slavery, serfdom, and inequality of rights), as moving mankind from a &quot;society of status&quot; to a &quot;society of contract.&quot; Alas, Marx the Prophet could not accept that the classless millenium had arrived before he did. Thus, he revealed to a benighted humanity that liberalism was in fact merely another stage of History&#039;s class struggle -- &quot;capitalism&quot; -- with its own combatants: the &quot;proletariat&quot; and the &quot;bourgeoisie.&quot; The former were manual laborers, the latter professionals and business owners. Marx&#039;s &quot;classes&quot; were not political castes but occupations.”

“The imperative of economic equality also generates a striking opposition between &quot;social justice&quot; and its liberal rival. The equality of the latter, we&#039;ve noted, is the equality of all individuals in the eyes of the law -- the protection of the political rights of each man, irrespective of &quot;class&quot; (or any assigned collective identity, hence the blindfold of Justice personified). However, this political equality, also noted, spawns the difference in &quot;class&quot; between Smith and Jones. All this echoes Nobel laureate F.A. Hayek&#039;s observation that if &quot;we treat them equally [politically], the result must be inequality in their actual [i.e., economic] position.&quot; The irresistable conclusion is that &quot;the only way to place them in an equal [economic] position would be to treat them differently [politically]&quot; -- precisely the conclusion that the advocates of &quot;social justice&quot; themselves have always reached…. Hayek had continued, &quot;Equality before the law and material equality are, therefore, not only different, but in conflict with each other…&quot;

“The People&#039;s State of Marx ... will not content itself with administering and governing the masses politically, as all governments do today. It will also administer the masses economically, concentrating in the hands of the State the production and division of wealth, the cultivation of land, the establishment and development of factories, the organization and direction of commerce, and finally the application of capital to production by the only banker -- the State. All that will demand an immense knowledge and many heads &quot;overflowing with brains&quot; in this government. It will be the reign of scientific intelligence, the most aristocratic, despotic, arrogant, and elitist of all regimes. There will be a new class, a new hierarchy of real and counterfeit scientists and scholars, and the world will be divided into a minority ruling in the name of knowledge, and an immense ignorant majority. And then, woe unto the mass of ignorant ones!”

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guides/Z-Social%20Justice-Code%20for%20Communism.htm</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Classical liberalism does not advocate the government favoring anyone. Classical liberalism is about government respecting the natural rights of people as individuals, not as groups to be played off one against the other.&#8221;</p>
<p>No European nation has ever actually established classically liberal society where the sacred rights of the individual (life, liberty, private property honestly earned &#8211; pursuit of happiness) were secured by just government power. While John Locke&#8217;s political thinking pointed in this direction, it was Thomas Jefferson and our other Founding Fathers who actually pulled it off &#8211; and now it is being unraveled by the so-called &#8220;Liberals&#8221; &#8211; they are really Marxists &amp;/or Fascists.</p>
<p>&#8220;“To understand &#8220;social justice,&#8221; we must contrast it with the earlier view of justice against which it was conceived &#8212; one that arose as a revolt against political absolutism. With a government (e.g., a monarchy) that is granted absolute power, it is impossible to speak of any injustice on its part. If it can do anything, it can&#8217;t do anything &#8220;wrong.&#8221; Justice as a political/legal term can begin only when limitations are placed upon the sovereign, i.e., when men define what is unjust for government to do. The historical realization traces from the Roman senate to Magna Carta to the U.S. Constitution to the 19th century. It was now a matter of &#8220;justice&#8221; that government not arrest citizens arbitrarily, sanction their bondage by others, persecute them for their religion or speech, seize their property, or prevent their travel. This culmination of centuries of ideas and struggles became known as liberalism. And it was precisely in opposition to this liberalism &#8212; not feudalism or theocracy or the ancien régime, much less 20th century fascism &#8212; that Karl Marx formed and detailed the popular concept of &#8220;social justice,&#8221;</p>
<p>“&#8221;The history of all existing society,&#8221; he and Engels declared, &#8220;is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebian, lord and serf &#8230; oppressor and oppressed, stood in sharp opposition to each other.&#8221; They were quite right to note the political castes and resulting clashes of the pre-liberal era. The expositors of liberalism (Spencer, Maine) saw their ethic, by establishing the political equality of all (e.g., the abolition of slavery, serfdom, and inequality of rights), as moving mankind from a &#8220;society of status&#8221; to a &#8220;society of contract.&#8221; Alas, Marx the Prophet could not accept that the classless millenium had arrived before he did. Thus, he revealed to a benighted humanity that liberalism was in fact merely another stage of History&#8217;s class struggle &#8212; &#8220;capitalism&#8221; &#8212; with its own combatants: the &#8220;proletariat&#8221; and the &#8220;bourgeoisie.&#8221; The former were manual laborers, the latter professionals and business owners. Marx&#8217;s &#8220;classes&#8221; were not political castes but occupations.”</p>
<p>“The imperative of economic equality also generates a striking opposition between &#8220;social justice&#8221; and its liberal rival. The equality of the latter, we&#8217;ve noted, is the equality of all individuals in the eyes of the law &#8212; the protection of the political rights of each man, irrespective of &#8220;class&#8221; (or any assigned collective identity, hence the blindfold of Justice personified). However, this political equality, also noted, spawns the difference in &#8220;class&#8221; between Smith and Jones. All this echoes Nobel laureate F.A. Hayek&#8217;s observation that if &#8220;we treat them equally [politically], the result must be inequality in their actual [i.e., economic] position.&#8221; The irresistable conclusion is that &#8220;the only way to place them in an equal [economic] position would be to treat them differently [politically]&#8221; &#8212; precisely the conclusion that the advocates of &#8220;social justice&#8221; themselves have always reached…. Hayek had continued, &#8220;Equality before the law and material equality are, therefore, not only different, but in conflict with each other…&#8221;</p>
<p>“The People&#8217;s State of Marx &#8230; will not content itself with administering and governing the masses politically, as all governments do today. It will also administer the masses economically, concentrating in the hands of the State the production and division of wealth, the cultivation of land, the establishment and development of factories, the organization and direction of commerce, and finally the application of capital to production by the only banker &#8212; the State. All that will demand an immense knowledge and many heads &#8220;overflowing with brains&#8221; in this government. It will be the reign of scientific intelligence, the most aristocratic, despotic, arrogant, and elitist of all regimes. There will be a new class, a new hierarchy of real and counterfeit scientists and scholars, and the world will be divided into a minority ruling in the name of knowledge, and an immense ignorant majority. And then, woe unto the mass of ignorant ones!”</p>
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		<title>By: Steve</title>
		<link>http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/10/26/alone/#comment-77445</link>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;That socialists have conditioned people to think in terms of identity politics, so “Britain for the Britons” makes perfect sense and fewer and fewer people see any problem with that. Better than the most common alternative of “Britain for Everyone Else” but that’s, as a famous speechgiver once said, is a false choice.&lt;/i&gt;
 
 

&quot;Briton for the Britons&quot; is the essence of the concept of the sovereign liberal nation state. It is a concept which precedes the development of socalist thought. It was socialist thought which first considered the ethnic state to be illegitimate and all of you prattling on about the evils of &quot;group identity&quot; are echoing the Marxist critique of the classical liberal order, little though you know it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>That socialists have conditioned people to think in terms of identity politics, so “Britain for the Britons” makes perfect sense and fewer and fewer people see any problem with that. Better than the most common alternative of “Britain for Everyone Else” but that’s, as a famous speechgiver once said, is a false choice.</i></p>
<p>&#8220;Briton for the Britons&#8221; is the essence of the concept of the sovereign liberal nation state. It is a concept which precedes the development of socalist thought. It was socialist thought which first considered the ethnic state to be illegitimate and all of you prattling on about the evils of &#8220;group identity&#8221; are echoing the Marxist critique of the classical liberal order, little though you know it.</p>
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		<title>By: Steve</title>
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		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;b&gt;Socialism is not Fascism.&lt;/b&gt;

&lt;i&gt;It was in Italy. And Italy to some extent protected their Jews. The French went out of their way to send them to Germany.&lt;/i&gt; 
 


What do the Jews have to do with any of this?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Socialism is not Fascism.</b></p>
<p><i>It was in Italy. And Italy to some extent protected their Jews. The French went out of their way to send them to Germany.</i> </p>
<p>What do the Jews have to do with any of this?</p>
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		<title>By: Steve</title>
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		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt; Classical liberalism does not advocate the government favoring anyone. Classical liberalism is about government respecting the natural rights of people as individuals, not as groups to be played off one against the other.&lt;/i&gt; 

  


Really? Perhaps you can cite some &quot;classical liberals&quot; to that effect. I already cited John Stuart Mill on this thread.

For over two hundred years the Big Idea of classical liberalism was the self-determination of peoples, the idea that &quot;a people&quot;, usually defined in terms of language, race, and religion, should have their own polity. It was never about &quot;individuals&quot;, a category which classical liberalism never even acknowledged. The breakng up of multi-ethnic authoritarian states, aka the great empires of the 18th and 19th centuries, was the biggest goal of the classical liberals. They would see the modern US and Europe as regressing,</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i> Classical liberalism does not advocate the government favoring anyone. Classical liberalism is about government respecting the natural rights of people as individuals, not as groups to be played off one against the other.</i> </p>
<p>Really? Perhaps you can cite some &#8220;classical liberals&#8221; to that effect. I already cited John Stuart Mill on this thread.</p>
<p>For over two hundred years the Big Idea of classical liberalism was the self-determination of peoples, the idea that &#8220;a people&#8221;, usually defined in terms of language, race, and religion, should have their own polity. It was never about &#8220;individuals&#8221;, a category which classical liberalism never even acknowledged. The breakng up of multi-ethnic authoritarian states, aka the great empires of the 18th and 19th centuries, was the biggest goal of the classical liberals. They would see the modern US and Europe as regressing,</p>
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