printThe following is excerpted from my latest column, “The Adventures Of America’s Alinskyites in Egypt.”:
“The Egyptian Justice Ministry, under the authority of the military council, has detained and indicted 19 American democracy activists. To listen to the malfunctioning media stateside, however, the Egyptians are being petty, picking a fight with their American benefactors for “operating in Egypt without a license.”
Or, if you want ‘expert’ opinion, courtesy of Politico.com, the Egyptian plan to prosecute these ‘Americans and two dozen others’ ‘is more over the future of U.S. aid to Egypt and who controls it.’
Among the Americans detained in Egypt is Sam LaHood—son of Ray LaHood, the Obama administration’s secretary of transportation and a former Republican congressman from Illinois.
Try as it did to obfuscate Egypt’s allegations against LaHood, the New York Times was forced to mention the military-led government’s suspicion that LaHood’s organization had been funneling funds through Washington ‘to stir unrest in the streets’ of Cairo. The Gray Lady nevertheless attributed this preposterous figment of the Arab imagination to an ‘escalating drumbeat of anti-American statements’ in Egypt.
LaHood fell under suspicion in his capacity as head of the International Republican Institute (IRI). And, wouldn’t you know it, he was working alongside the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and Freedom House—described by the Times as ‘a Washington-based group that promotes democracy and open elections.’ Also arraigned were the director of the NDI and one ‘Patrick Butler, vice president of programs at the DC-based International Center for Journalists.’
The IRI and the NDI are excrescences of the Republican and Democratic parties respectively.
Yes, on the foreign-policy front, not much distinguishes America’s duopoly. Republicans and Democrats work in tandem, Saul-Alinsky style, to bring about volcanic transformation in societies that desperately need stability. …
Dr. Ron Paul excepted, conjuring up new missions abroad is a project shared by the incumbent president and his Republican rivals.
To cap it all, the troublesome meddling is paid for by the unsuspecting, overburdened American taxpayer. …
The hypocrisy in all this is that we Americans do not live under the Athenian democracy seemingly promoted abroad. On the contrary, we the people labor under a highly evolved technocratic, militarized Managerial State, which is far more efficient in encroaching on its citizens than are the tin-pot dictators, who’ve been built-up into mega-monsters in infantile, Disneyfied minds.
… Were Americans to run riot, as the spirited Egyptians have done pursuant to the Port Said stampede, they’d probably come face-to-face with the Military. In contravention of The Posse Comitatus Act—and in furtherance of freedom, of course—the 2006 version of The National Defense Authorization Act allowed the Armed Forces to ‘restore public order’ during “major public emergencies.”
Read the complete column, “The Adventures Of America’s Alinskyites in Egypt.”
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Tom Lehrer in his song “Send the Marines” said “…all their rights respected until somebody WE LIKE can be elected”
http://www.lyricsbay.com/send_the_marines_lyrics-tom_lehrer.html
and leftist Phil Ochs in “We are the Cops of the World” said: “we own half the world oh say can you see and the name for our profits is DEMOCRACY”
http://www.metrolyrics.com/cops-of-the-world-lyrics-ochs-phil.html
A non-interventionist “nutcase” like Ron Paul would say stuff like:
– – Imagine if the Chinese sent millions of dollars to SuperPacs in favor of Ron Paul, how would Americans feel about that??
— Imagine if Hugo Chavez sent millions to Tea Party rallies or Occupy Wall Street, how would Americans feel about that??
But American politicians, who blatantly disregard our own Constitution, have the unmitigated chutzpah to not only lecture every other country but, even worse, actively interfere using bribery and/or military threats on governments. And, in the case of these “Third World” countries, basic respect for Lockean negative rights (life, liberty, and property) and a stable rule of law is a million times more important than “one man one vote”, “ethnic self-determination” and other idiotic Wilsonian blather.
Wilson – the “democracy spreader” who helped replace Emporer Franz Josef with Adolf Hilter!
Egypt’s Military, under Mubarak, recieved BIG BUCKS from the U.S.
I have already written to other outlets that I think this situation could be a “Reverse Run” of Jimmy Carter’s situation.
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h2021.html
Don’t be surprised if LaHood et al are released just before the election.
What a tangled web we weave when first we try to deceive (hope that’s correct)!
Oops! I before E except after C ………. RECEIVED