Subject: AUT: editorial
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 13:31:53 -0500


>the following comes from the chicago  sun times
>(www.suntimes.com). it's an editorial column, horrific
>right wing racist trash, but mildly interesting for
>the (factually incorrect) reference to marxists
>towards the end. n8
>
>
>Wake-up call to the Western world
>
>
>February 9, 2002
>
>BY THOMAS ROESER
>
>In his latest book, The Death of the West, Patrick J.
>Buchanan has accomplished far more than his successive
>runs for the presidency. Now as one who has eschewed
>future campaigns, he has turned scholar, philosopher
>and conscience-goad to produce a volume that will
>either serve the United States as wake-up call or
>epitaph.
>
>His book comes in two parts--on population decline and
>culture critic--both unassailable. Declining birth
>rates in Europe and the United States are contrasted
>with birth rate explosions in Africa, Asia and Latin
>America. An aging Western population beckons an
>Islamic-Arab-African invasion that will dramatically
>change the face of Western civilization. Normally I
>would have more faith than Pat in our nation's ability
>to assimilate the new immigration. But we appear to be
>a melting pot no longer. Since we have surrendered our
>old verities, we are no longer host but capitulator to
>a new culture. Alien ideologies, masked as
>''diversity,'' are taking over here.
>
>This is tied to the culture war that we
>traditionalists of the West are fast losing. Once we
>were a country rooted in a Judeo-Christian
>underpinning. Now the Supreme Court has banned prayer
>in public school. In place of our early beliefs comes
>a secular religion imbued with the credo of
>''reproductive freedom,'' Earth Day in place of
>religious holidays, ''Winter Break'' instead of
>Christmas, and scant if any recognition of the high
>Jewish holy days. ''Our new faith is tolerant only
>about what it considers inconsequential,'' Buchanan
>writes. ''Sex, pornography, filthy language, boorish
>manners, slovenly dress and obscene art. It has no
>tolerance for those who defy its secularist dogmas.''
>
>With what did we supplant the old faith that linked
>patriotism with belief in God? With four tenets:
>first, refusal to recognize the highest moral
>authority. Second, denial that there are absolute
>truths in the universe: ''In the moral realm the first
>command is 'all lifestyles are equal.' . . . Thou
>shalt not be judgmental is the second commandment.''
>To enforce its values, the new morality is harshly
>intolerant. ''The old Christian moral code that
>condemned sex outside of marriage and held
>homosexuality to be unnatural and immoral was rooted
>in prejudice, biblical bigotry, religious dogma and
>barbaric tradition. That repressive and cruel
>Christian code was an impediment to human fulfillment
>and happiness and responsible for the ruin of
>countless lives.''
>
>Third, the West perpetrated history's greatest
>horrors: colonization, which relegated Columbus and
>the Indian-fighters of the plains to derision and U.S.
>history to disrepute. Fourth, a relativistic scale of
>morality. The murder of gay Matthew Shepherd is
>condemned by vast media outpourings, but the murder of
>13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising by homosexual thugs was
>hardly mentioned except by Fox News and the
>condemnatory article of New Republic writer Andrew
>Sullivan, himself a professed gay.
>
>Four men radically changed America and brought forth a
>countercultural state that swiftly threatens to become
>the dominant culture. They were George Lukas, Max
>Horkheimer, Antonio Gramaci and Herbert Marcuse,
>members of the German Communist Party and professors
>at the University of Frankfurt. The rise of Hitler
>drove them to the United States, where the ''Frankfurt
>School'' was adopted by Columbia University. There the
>four devised the ''Critical Theory''--the concept that
>the West is (in Buchanan's words) ''guilty of
>genocidal crimes against every civilization and
>culture.'' They used it as a bludgeon against
>Christianity, capitalism, the family, patriarchy,
>morality, sexual restraint, patriotism, convention and
>nationalism.
>
>It is intriguing that in every interview Buchanan has,
>he is not contradicted on the facts. How to recover
>the culture? The train has already left the station,
>says the pessimistic Buchanan. Yet, horrific as it
>was, Sept. 11 has sent a speedy sense of recovery. I
>hope it will not take more disastrous challenges to
>restore our balance. They may impel us to race ahead
>down the track to pull a switch and send this nation
>back in its old direction. Whether you agree with him
>or not, by all means read Buchanan's The Death of the
>West. It may start you praying. A lot.

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