Political Thuggery

I doubt this fellow Kimberlin is a ‘deranged lunatic’ or that the number of those whose lunacies have a political expression is all that variable over time. He seems more like a sociopath who has conned quite a succession of people over the last 25 years, some of whom were easy marks due to their general world view (Garry Trudeau, for example). The problem here is that the Tides Foundation (i.e. Soros) and Democratic publicists seem to think nothing of associating with someone whose gross crimes are readily discoverable.

I know our friend McClarey says vituperation is normal. For my own part, I cannot shake the impression that portside politics is in our time less and less a matter of advancing a particular set of programs and more and more a matter of taking advantage of opportunities for socially-sanctioned aggression against subcultural enemies. Nat Hentoff and George McGovern are really old; Dan Savage and Bradford deLong are not.

Off topic, but I’ve lost the keys to my own blog. Would be much obliged for some prayerful assistance from the communion of saints. Another round of screening visits to physicians in our household today.

For Art Deco and the keys to his blog:

Av? Mar?a, gr?ti? pl?na,
Dominus t?cum.
Benedicta t? in mulieribus,
et benedictus fr?ctus ventris tu?, I?sus.
S?ncta Mar?a, M?ter De?,
?r? pr? n?b?s pecc?t?ribus,
nunc et in h?r? mortis nostrae.
?m?n.

Lots of Rosaries, Mary DV, and lots of Chaplets of Divine Mercy, too.

Something’s lost and can’t be found.
Please, St. Anthony, look around.

This sort of thing, though, is a grave threat – I blog, myself, and once upon a time even gained a small amount of public notice…and had my computer hacked, my car vandalized and was stalked at my place of employment. Kindly liberals suggested over the blogosphere that I was a fit subject to be hanged from a meat hook while a liberal radio host hoped that someone would beat me up. And it makes you think when you write – it telling the absolute truth about this, no holding back, worth the wave of venom and, perhaps, threats to personal safety it will bring? And this, remember, is just the reflection of a small-time blogger.

But the story of the conservative blogger who was threatened with prosecution over his views (well, strictly speaking, it was over a false allegation of assault…but we all know it was simply because he said something a leftist didn’t like) shows where the solution is: if we want to get rid of these creeps, the sure-fire way is to cut off their funding. Sure, this will mean that some conservative non-profit groups may lose their tax free status, but conservatives won’t worry too much about that. And the payoff would be enormous – quite honestly, when you really look at it, the left took hold in this nation just as soon as it started to become taxpayer-funded in the 30s (the massive growth of government under FDR allowed, for the first time, a host of leftists to enter government…where, over the years, the made sure that non-government leftist groups got funding, either directly from government or by the setting up of liberal non-profits as a tax dodge for rich liberals). No one really supports these people – they can bring out, from time to time, a rent-a-mob but they can’t ever win in the battle of ideas: the fact that they had to hide who they were (and who Obama was) so carefully in 2008 was just the 10,000th bit of proof of this. Without government support (direct or indirect) they would simply dry up and blow away…become what they were in the 20′s: a collection of half-educated cranks who write books no one reads while congratulating themselves on their superiority over average Americans.

Cut them off – end the funding, end the left. Victory beckons, if we will just have the guts to endure the shrieks for 6 months it’ll all be over…the shrieks will die down as the money runs out.