Chalcedon Blog

"Although many conservatives refuse to accept the reality, George W. Bush is a ONE-WORLD NEO-LIBERAL who drove budget and trade deficits to record heights while embracing faith-based economic policies that perversely require only blind allegiance to free markets and free trade, without regard for consequence." ~ Lou Dobbs

Thank you, Mr. Dobbs. And, you're quite correct, conservatives--especially Christian conservatives--cannot embrace the reality that their ostensibly Protestant president is committed to a globalist agenda that will ultimately destroy the sovereignty of the United States of America. Tyranny, war, and massive government expansion have all developed under his direct oversight, and his recklessness is wreaking havoc on our economy, energy prices, and the value of the dollar. In true Hegelian fashion, he said it best when he uttered this Freudian slip from the deserted streets of New Orleans after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina:

"When the federal government fails to meet such an obligation, I, as President, am responsible for the problem, and for the solution."

It's the oldest trick in the Machiavellian book: government exploits--or even creates--the problem; the people clamor for solutions; and government steps in and provides it. The people are forced to then grant greater authority and more taxing power to a government that initially failed them. That's why 9/11 resulted in greater police powers for the state; the intelligence failure in Iraq led to wider war powers; and Katrina granted even wider jurisdiction to the military to play a greater role in domestic disasters. Bush clearly ties natural disasters such as hurricanes to terrorist acts in need of greater government and military action. These are the steps to becoming a militarized police state. This was clearly the goal, as Bush stated from the very same New Orleans speech:

"In a time of terror threats and weapons of mass destruction, the danger to our citizens reaches much wider than a fault line or a flood plain. I consider detailed emergency planning to be a national security priority, and therefore, I've ordered the Department of Homeland Security to undertake an immediate review, in cooperation with local counterparts, of emergency plans in every major city in America... It is now clear that a challenge on this scale requires greater federal authority and a broader role for the armed forces -- the institution of our government most capable of massive logistical operations on a moment's notice."

There you have it. In plain view, and in plain speech, every crisis in America is slowly being categorized under "National Security." This is not the doctrine of America's founders, but rather the philosophy of Plato's philosopher kings and the telling of the "noble lie." It is the construct of despotic elites such as Leo Strauss and his twisted offspring, the neoconservatives, who believe a nation can only be strong if it abides in a perpetual state of emergency. It is Hegel's dialectic, extracted from his idealist system of "thesis-antithesis-synthesis," and transposed into a manipulative tool in the hands of the scientific planners as "crisis-reaction-solution;" or "pressure from above, pressure from below." By exploiting, creating, and/or manipulating crises, governments can control and steer the will of the people. If the citizenry is frightened, they will clamor for protection. If the protection requires the surrendering of their rights, liberties, or privacy, they will gladly relinquish them for the lure of a government solution. However, they will never receive such protection. They will be ruled over in unimaginable ways.