The Monarchist 1.0
Defending the British Crown Commonwealth and the English-Speaking Peoples
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[+] HONOURING OUR QUEEN, ELIZABETH THE SECOND, ON THE 80TH YEAR OF HER BIRTH (1926 - 2006)
[+] HONOURING OUR KING, SAINT EDWARD THE CONFESSOR, ON THE 1000TH YEAR OF HIS BIRTH (1005 - 2005)
[+] HONOURING OUR HERO, LORD NELSON, ON THE BICENTENNIAL OF THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR (1805 - 2005)
[+] HONOURING OUR SONS, THE QUEEN'S COMMONWEALTH SOLDIERS KILLED IN THE 'WAR ON TERROR'
Chief Warrant Officer Robert Girouard, 46, Royal Canadian Regiment, Nov 27, 2006 (Afstan)
Staff Sergeant Sharron Elliott, 34, Intelligence Corps, Nov 12, 2006 (Iraq)
Private Jacob B. Kovco, 25, Royal Australian Regiment, April 21, 2006
[+] HONOURING OUR VETS ON THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VICTORIA CROSS (1856 - 2006)
Sunday, September 17, 2006
The Euston Manifesto
Well it's not The Radical Tory Manifesto, but it is honourable all the same. The British Euston Manifesto, inspired by liberal democrats and progressives, is a call to arms to all principled, sane and decent people on the Left to support the war against radical Islam and seek a new political alignment with others of "unambiguous democratic commitment" (that would be the Right, apparently). Just this week the manifesto went from being British to being Anglo-American, and is now catching on across the United States.
James Lewis in the American Thinker has a few thoughts on this:
There has never been any doubt about the “unambiguous democratic commitment” of Anglosphere conservatives, which goes back to Edmund Burke, John Locke and the American Founders. The Euston Manifesto is an opening by liberals to conservatives on the critical survival question of the day. It may be a ray of sunshine in a dark season...
This could be the start of something like the centrist alignment that kept the West going against Soviet and Chinese expansionism for half a century.
Or maybe not. A great deal depends upon the ability of sane people on the Left to push away the nut fringe. So far the Mad Left has controlled the ballgame, both here and in the UK. As a result, the British Left is now in some disgusting company, like “Red Ken” Livingstone, the anti-Semitic demagogue Mayor of London, and Oily George Galloway, the MP who just asked for money on Syrian TV with the aim of buying up British newspapers to peddle his brand of Islamist-Socialist hatred. These creatures of the Brit-Left might as well be British fascists of a previous age; they are much more dangerous than the toothless outer fringes of the Right. For one thing, they have the BBC and the UK Guardian on their side.
The American Left has also been dominated by today’s foaming-at-the-mouth Stalinoids; except that Stalin wielded a pretty mean whip and kept his CPUSA troops in line. Their successors today only compete to show who is wilder in denouncing the scapegoat of the moment—President Bush, who also happens to be our strongest leader against Al Qaeda and the Khomeini cult. But like the Stalin Left, today’s radicals purge dissenters and practice constant intimidation against their own side. Which is why Congressional Democrats are running scared.
Somehow, the word “neocon” has been smeared so much by now that the original meaning has been lost. The first neocons were leftwingers who were mugged by reality during the Cold War, and became conservatives, pretty much in the long Anglo-American tradition. Today’s conservatives represent the tradition of evolving democracy in the Anglosphere much more accurately than the “liberals,” who are intellectual descendants of a totalitarian philosophical tradition in Germany and France. But the most important thing today is survival: Not of some political alliance, but of the Free World.
Those who recognize the threat can make common cause. In the healthiest outcome, conservatives and liberals will continue to argue and sometimes fight. But we may agree on matters of survival. That would be a vital step forward.
POSTED BY: Beaverbrook AT 12:25 a.m. | LINKS |
Well it's not The Radical Tory Manifesto, but it is honourable all the same. The British Euston Manifesto, inspired by liberal democrats and progressives, is a call to arms to all principled, sane and decent people on the Left to support the war against radical Islam and seek a new political alignment with others of "unambiguous democratic commitment" (that would be the Right, apparently). Just this week the manifesto went from being British to being Anglo-American, and is now catching on across the United States.James Lewis in the American Thinker has a few thoughts on this:
There has never been any doubt about the “unambiguous democratic commitment” of Anglosphere conservatives, which goes back to Edmund Burke, John Locke and the American Founders. The Euston Manifesto is an opening by liberals to conservatives on the critical survival question of the day. It may be a ray of sunshine in a dark season...
This could be the start of something like the centrist alignment that kept the West going against Soviet and Chinese expansionism for half a century.
Or maybe not. A great deal depends upon the ability of sane people on the Left to push away the nut fringe. So far the Mad Left has controlled the ballgame, both here and in the UK. As a result, the British Left is now in some disgusting company, like “Red Ken” Livingstone, the anti-Semitic demagogue Mayor of London, and Oily George Galloway, the MP who just asked for money on Syrian TV with the aim of buying up British newspapers to peddle his brand of Islamist-Socialist hatred. These creatures of the Brit-Left might as well be British fascists of a previous age; they are much more dangerous than the toothless outer fringes of the Right. For one thing, they have the BBC and the UK Guardian on their side.
The American Left has also been dominated by today’s foaming-at-the-mouth Stalinoids; except that Stalin wielded a pretty mean whip and kept his CPUSA troops in line. Their successors today only compete to show who is wilder in denouncing the scapegoat of the moment—President Bush, who also happens to be our strongest leader against Al Qaeda and the Khomeini cult. But like the Stalin Left, today’s radicals purge dissenters and practice constant intimidation against their own side. Which is why Congressional Democrats are running scared.
Somehow, the word “neocon” has been smeared so much by now that the original meaning has been lost. The first neocons were leftwingers who were mugged by reality during the Cold War, and became conservatives, pretty much in the long Anglo-American tradition. Today’s conservatives represent the tradition of evolving democracy in the Anglosphere much more accurately than the “liberals,” who are intellectual descendants of a totalitarian philosophical tradition in Germany and France. But the most important thing today is survival: Not of some political alliance, but of the Free World.
Those who recognize the threat can make common cause. In the healthiest outcome, conservatives and liberals will continue to argue and sometimes fight. But we may agree on matters of survival. That would be a vital step forward.
POSTED BY: Beaverbrook AT 12:25 a.m. | LINKS |
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