THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume IX, Issue # 200, October 25, 2007
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
THREE CITIES THAT BODE ILL FOR AMERICA
By Christopher G. Adamo
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, THOUGHT CONTROL, SUBVERSION, & AMERICA'S INTERNAL ENEMIES: HOW LIBERALISM,
OPEN BORDERS POLICY, SECULARISM, MORAL RELATIVISM, & ABORTION & GAY RIGHTS THREATEN THE FUTURE OF
AMERICA & ITS NATIONAL CULTURE -- THE PERNICIOUS AGENDA OF THE MODERN COUNTERCULTURE MOVEMENT IN THE
U.S.A. -- THE AGING HIPPIES & THEIR CONTINUING IMPACT UPON AMERICAN SOCIETY, GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, & PUBLIC
POLICY
FULL STORY:
America’s future is increasingly in doubt, as indicated by three shocking events of the past several days. The fact that
none of them likely come immediately to mind is, in itself, further indication of the dire straits in which the nation finds
itself. Had similar events transpired only a few decades back, every one of them would have made national headline news.
On October 20, 2007, Kansas City, Missouri, was, in a very real sense, attacked by a seditious and hostile foreign entity
whose sinister designs towards America differ only in degree from the threats of militant Islam.
The pro-Mexican insurgency known as “La Raza” (which translates as “The Race”) announced a reversal of its decision
of Kansas City as the sight of its annual convention, since Mayor Mark Funkhouser had appointed Frances Semler as a
member of the City Park Board. Semler belongs to the citizens border security advocacy group known as the “Minutemen.”
Had any traditionally American group attempted to similarly intimidate and protest against a city government on the basis
that one of its members ascribed to a contrasting set of beliefs, that group would have been loudly and universally
castigated as an example of “hate and intolerance.” Yet hardly a word of criticism against La Raza has been uttered across
the land.
If anything, the general response seems to be one of defensiveness, presuming the malignant organization to be well
within legal bounds, but also exhibiting commensurate disgust with the Kansas City government and its ostensibly
wayward member. Thus has an entity representing the objectives of a foreign interest exerted its hostile influence on the
character and actions of a domestic governing body that was originally instituted to be of, by, and for the American
people.
Furthermore, the comparative passivity of the City Council of Kansas City is itself a very telling sign of just how cowed and
morally ambiguous many in this nation have become in the face of such assaults. In another time, when Americans had no
doubts as to which country’s flag would be waved in their public parades of patriotism and national solidarity, the City
Council’s reaction to the likes of La Raza and its menacing agenda would never have been in doubt.
Some version of “Take your racist and seditious conference somewhere else, you are not welcome here!” would have been
its speedy and predictable reply to the organization. But that was back before an organization such as the “Minutemen” was
even necessary, since the government was upholding its responsibility to secure the border.
Now, U.S. President George W. Bush derides the Minutemen as “vigilantes,” while La Raza was given an official role in
crafting last Summer’s despicable amnesty bill. So, in modern “politically correct” America, Kansas City plays a mild defense,
if it plays at all.
Of course, a city and its leaders simply cannot engage in such overt hostility towards a private group based on that group’s
belief system. Or can it?
Consider Philadelphia, where the city government has essentially fined the Boy Scouts $200,000 for holding to “politically
incorrect,” albeit traditionally American views on morality, and, in particular, for not succumbing to the homosexual agenda.
Having previously been allowed to rent a city facility for one dollar, the Boy Scouts have been summarily told to get out,
unless they can pay the new “fee” which was levied against them, not on the basis of the real costs involved, but as a
statement against them.
To what depths has the nation sunk, when an organization of the merit and virtue of the Boy Scouts is openly attacked and
derided by public institutions for having the audacity to adhere to the concepts of right and wrong that were once in the
“mainstream,” and on which our society was founded?
Every decent citizen of this country who has been horrified by nightly news accounts of school shootings or who has ever
been dismayed when observing the bands of aimless young derelicts wandering through the local mall, ought to remember
the “lesson” Philadelphia is attempting to teach these most upright members of the next generation.
No doubt, cities like Philadelphia would defend themselves on the basis that they cannot support one belief system over
another, but must give equal credence to all. This was, for a time, the excuse offered by the counterculture, as it sought, in
a warped and perverted interpretation of the First Amendment, to establish moral and philosophical “equality” for the
relevance and worth of all creeds and ideas, no matter how creditable or twisted they may be.
Yet, the events in Bloomington Indiana, unfolding concurrently with these previous episodes, belie such a notion, and,
instead, demonstrate the intention of the anti-Christian (and by definition, anti-American) forces that increasingly assert
dominance in the American culture.
The Bloomington City Council is only too happy to engage in government promoted religion, as long as it is compatible
with the Buddhist beliefs of the Dalai Lama, who is soon to visit that city. The city government was just fine with glowing
depictions of Buddha on public property, the “spiritual” significance of which was in no way minimized.
However, Bloomington officials were quick to react when a group of Christians attempted to include a sculpture of the Ten
Commandments in the display. This, they were informed, is a violation of the First Amendment. The Ten Commandments
sculpture was immediately removed.
The entire episode has, not surprisingly, descended into the typical tangle of arguments of what public exhibitions
constitute “art” and what is representative of “religion.” Even more predictably, the Bloomington government revealed its
end game, which will be to define the boundaries in whatever manner necessary as to allow for Buddhist religious imagery
while prohibiting anything Christian.
How much further can the forces of the modern counterculture be expected push their dark agenda, while still wrapping
themselves in a bogus mantle of constitutionality? The answer is as it always has been. They will press forward, trampling
real rights and freedoms under the repugnant auspices of “political correctness,” (which, in truth, is merely their
anti-religious canon) until real America fights back.
The War on Terror is real, and no option exists for America except to seize the realm of the terrorists, decisively fight the
war, and win it. Yet, with each passing day, it becomes increasingly obvious that the insurgency of militant Islamists is
only one battlefront of the war against America.
Only when real America stops attempting to live according to the rules dictated to it by the Liberal establishment, reasserts
its constitutional rights and responsibilities as they truly are, and acts on them with resolve and determination can the
enemy’s “fifth column” here on the home front be identified and driven back. Until then, the country’s future is no more
secure than it would be, if the Islamists were given free reign in our midst.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
The American Nation & Its Common National Culture:
Political Culture, Patriotism, & American National Identity:
The Basic Values, Beliefs, & Traditions Characteristic
of American Society & Its Civic Culture
United States Immigration, Assimilation, & National Security Policy:
Immigration into the U.S.A., Legal & Illegal Aliens,
& U.S. Border Control
Morality, Decency, & Traditional American Family Values
God, Humanity, & Human Society: Religion, Secularism, & America
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, & Other Leftists
Political Correctness, Censorship, Thought Control:
Supression of Unacceptable Views & Opinions
The Fifth Column -- America's Internal Enemies:
Disloyalty, Subversion, Sedition, & Treason
Liberalism Versus Conservatism in American Politics
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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY & POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES:
COMPETING SYSTEMS OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Conservatism
Traditional Conservatism: Questions & Answers
Conservatism: Attitudes, Types, & Present Status
Constitutional Conservatism: American & British
Liberalism
Classical Liberalism: Intellectual Foundations
Classical Liberalism: Conservative Liberalism
Manchester Liberalism & Social Darwinism
Modern Social "Liberalism": Statist "Liberalism"
Radical & Totalitarian Ideologies
Radicalism, Utopianism, & Totalitarianism
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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