From: davidson@mercury.sfsu.edu (Daniel Davidson)
Date: 9 Oct 1994 05:18:56 GMT
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: RUSH THE TRAITOR

[ Article crossposted from alt.fan.rush-limbaugh ]
[ Author was anonymous@extropia.wimsey.com ]
[ Posted on Fri, 7 Oct 1994 23:07:21 -0700 ]

 * Originally By: Michael Shirley
 * Originally To: Joe Hunt
 * Originally Re: RUSH THE TRAITOR
 * Original Area: RTKBA

JH>        "For tyranny to triumph, good men need do nothing," is certainly
  >        true of Rush Limbaugh.

JH>        Limbaugh receives thousands of faxes, letters and communiques
  >        DAILY, many detailing, with supporting EVIDENCE, the horrible
  >        crimes and abridgments endemic in the federal government, and
  >        FROM PEOPLE **IN** THE GOVERNMENT WHO ARE UNIMPEACHABLE SOURCES.
  >        He *ignores* them.

JH>        To be AWARE of government tyranny, abuse, drug-running, black
  >        squads, sovereignty-surrender and even dedicated *murders* of
  >        citizen-dissidents and fail to decry such evil from his 'bully
  >        pulpit,' constitutes not only criminal negligence, IMO, but
  >        outright TREASON against the interest of the people whose
  >        airwaves he freely uses as his own "mega" profit pyramid scheme.

JH>        Rush would banish the questions of YOUR freedoms, national
  >        sovereignty and government death-squads to remote "250-watt
  >        stations."

        Joe, what you point out is true. It's also contrary to his
political agenda.

        Think back to the 101st Congress. Do you remember a bill which
was introduced by Newt Gingerich and Phil Gramm called HR-4079, The
National Drug Crime Emergency Act? Let me tell you a little about that
bill.

        While it was introduced by Gingerich and Gramm, it was written
by Bill Bennett's staff.

        The bill contained the prototype for the semiauto ban and
magazine restriction that we are currently afflicted with. That's right,
Diane Feinstein didn't originate that bill, it came from Bennett and his
henchmen back when he was Drug Czar. The AW ban was originally a piece
of REPUBLICAN legislation.

        The bill also contained a Congressional Finding of a State of
National Emergency, which if it'd passed would have become a
Presidential Finding of a State of National Emergency. Guess what
happens when this comes about? FEMA gets to invoke the emergency powers
that were drafted by General William Giufreda and Ollie North.

        The bill would have eliminated 8th Ammendment class action
suits, established tent cities, (read concentration camps) which would
have housed a sudden influx of prisoners, suspended Habeus Corpus,
extended the scope of RICO forefiture, established a national program of
paid snitches, and put the prison system into private hands with
prisoners, whether they'd been charged, or even convicted or not, being
required to work for the private concerns in order to defray the costs
of their incarceration. (I.E. the reinstitution of slave labor.)

        There's more, but I think that you can get the point here. What
Bennett was trying to do was to get Congress to establish a police state
with Bill Bennett as co-dictator.

        Bennett tried to scare Congress by using an unusual propaganda
ploy. Given that Reagan had championed and gotten passed a change to the
Posse Comitatus Act which permitted the use of military assets in drug
operations, Bennett had the Army patrolling Washington, D.C. with Apache
gunships. (AH-64) Now a helicopter gunship hasn't any legitimate law
enforcement use, but they are great for scaring old ladies.

        What killed HR-4079 was that gun owners got wind of it via those
dinky 250 watt stations and the resultant political pressure in an
election year was embarassing enough for Gramm and Gingerich to withdraw
the bill.

        Now, Rush Limbaugh is ideologically aligned with Mr. Bennett.
You'll notice that much of Limbaugh's program is little more than a
pre-campaign political commercial for Bennett. If Limbaugh were to start
airing out what's really happening, he'd not only be damaging the
authoritarian collectivist, Clinton, but he'd also be damaging the
authoritarian collectivist, Bennett. Limbaugh ain't gonna do that. No
way.

        The thing that you've got to remember is that just because
somebody bills themselves a "conservative", doesn't mean that they have
any particular love for the Bill of Rights. Catch all terms like
"conservative" or "liberal" really do a lot of violence to the truth.

        For example, I'm in the polling business right now and there is
something that I've observed that you should be aware of. There is no
such thing as a "Conservative". We shouldn't be basing our political
decisions on a label which is really a myth. Instead, we can split the
"Conservatives" into two broad classifications, Constitutionalists and
"Economic Republicans".

        Constitutionalists don't require much description. They are
people who believe that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are
fixed legal constructs which supercede any other law and which must be
obeyed by government AS WRITTEN.

        The "Economic Republicans" are a different breed of cat
entirely. They want low taxes and minimal government regulation of their
particular businesses (as long as the subsidies and protectionist
legislation keeps coming), but they do see government as a solution and
feel that the Constitution is superceded by the rule of expediency. They
are for a variety of social programs that we'd nominally call "Liberal".

        Essentially, the closest of the classic political ideologies
that these people come to is Facism. For example, this kind of person
predominates in Orange County, CA. They are for protectionism, police
state law enforcement and gun control, but they want their taxes kept
down. The best that you can say for them is that they don't seem to
understand the second and third order implications of what they want.

        Mr. Feulner of the Heritage Foundation, Bill Bennett, George
Bush and given his behavior, Rush Limbaugh all fit that particular model
quite neatly. In Bennett's case in particular, one is reminded of that
old but nonetheless revealing assertion of Robespierre that; "The
principle of the republican government is virtue and the means required
to establish virtue is terror." If you think that this is a bit much,
write the National Archives and get a copy of HR-4079 and read it-- then
tell me what Bennett and his henchmen were proposing if not the
substitution of state terror for Constitutional law.

        The fact of the matter is that Presidential candidate Bennett
has succumbed to the notion that the United States is in a period of
decline due to a lapse of civic virtue and like Robespierre he's decided
that if people are unwilling to assume the virtues that he supports,
that these must then be imposed at gunpoint. He's not unlike Clinton in
this regard and both of them have the potential for becoming the
American equivalent of the Chin Emperor of China-- the man who inflicted
one of the most Orwellian police states in history. (He used the
Legalist philosopher Mo Shu's system of mutual espionage wherein
everyone was held responsible for reporting on their neighbors and
family members-- or else!)

        Bennett is supported in this notion by Limbaugh, who even back
during the 101st Congress was also ignoring everyone who tried to bring
up HR-4079, so I wouldn't expect any change in behavior anytime soon.
The only humourous thing about this is that Clinton, Bennett and
Limbaugh are so close on this sort of issue that it rather reminds one
of the intolerant adherents of the same religion calling each other
"HERETIC"!

        In the meantime, it pays to remember that we don't merely have
to narrowcast around the socialist collectivist media, but around the
facist collectivist media as well. Just because somebody calls himself a
"Conservative" by no means indicates that he's any friendlier to a
Constitutionalist viewpoint than say, Clinton and his henchmen are. We
must guard our guns and our rights from the depredations of both.

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