Paramount Theatre
Almost Always Wrong but Never in Doubt
RECEIVED Sun., Dec. 10, 2006
Dear Editor,
Louis Black’s Dec. 8 “Page Two” offers a rare glimmer of hope to the survival of a free humanity. This delicate whisper comes from Mr. Black’s conscious recognition that he finds “the Constitution’s ideas about government, given the reality of humans, about as brilliant as seems possible.” Exactly, but his realization is relevant only if the American people comprehend and accept the moral responsibility of this historical fact.
But here’s the existential rub. Fifty years of irrational moral complacency has led a great number of Americans into a neo-leftist utopian box canyon of abject ideological denial of “the reality of humans.” Soft material existence has falsely shielded us from the certainty that tyranny always lurks and that freedom can’t long exist without constant vigilance. History is replete with this truth. The supreme irony is that the founders’ original brilliance – designing the exceptional American democratic republic based on individual freedom restrained by moral rectitude – was through a direct understanding of "the reality of humans.” Sadly, we have lost this historical insight. But if we don’t wake up, we are doomed to repeat history ending in tyranny and enslavement.
Today’s mortal threat is Islamist fascism – simply recall Sept. 11, 2001. Its leaders and their millions of servile devotees strive to commit genocide, annihilate Western civilization, and enslave all in 10th century Sharia Islam. And only America stands in their way. This reality requires us to clearly understand our global responsibility to consciously and overtly assist in this great cause to save American constitutional liberty. Neo-conservative or neo-leftist, this is now our fight. For if we are defeated, ideology will simply not matter. As previous Americans defeated German Nazism, Japanese imperialism, and Soviet communism, we must likewise defeat Islamist fascist tyranny. Otherwise humanity will soon be condemned to genocide and bondage.
Louis Black’s Dec. 8 “Page Two” offers a rare glimmer of hope to the survival of a free humanity. This delicate whisper comes from Mr. Black’s conscious recognition that he finds “the Constitution’s ideas about government, given the reality of humans, about as brilliant as seems possible.” Exactly, but his realization is relevant only if the American people comprehend and accept the moral responsibility of this historical fact.
But here’s the existential rub. Fifty years of irrational moral complacency has led a great number of Americans into a neo-leftist utopian box canyon of abject ideological denial of “the reality of humans.” Soft material existence has falsely shielded us from the certainty that tyranny always lurks and that freedom can’t long exist without constant vigilance. History is replete with this truth. The supreme irony is that the founders’ original brilliance – designing the exceptional American democratic republic based on individual freedom restrained by moral rectitude – was through a direct understanding of "the reality of humans.” Sadly, we have lost this historical insight. But if we don’t wake up, we are doomed to repeat history ending in tyranny and enslavement.
Today’s mortal threat is Islamist fascism – simply recall Sept. 11, 2001. Its leaders and their millions of servile devotees strive to commit genocide, annihilate Western civilization, and enslave all in 10th century Sharia Islam. And only America stands in their way. This reality requires us to clearly understand our global responsibility to consciously and overtly assist in this great cause to save American constitutional liberty. Neo-conservative or neo-leftist, this is now our fight. For if we are defeated, ideology will simply not matter. As previous Americans defeated German Nazism, Japanese imperialism, and Soviet communism, we must likewise defeat Islamist fascist tyranny. Otherwise humanity will soon be condemned to genocide and bondage.
Vance McDonald
