THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume VII, Issue # 151, July 15, 2005
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
AN EPIC STRUGGLE ON TWO FRONTS
By Christopher G. Adamo
ISLAMISM & LEFTWING LIBERALISM -- THE COMMON GROUND THAT THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIC JIHAD & AMERICA'S
DOMESTIC POLITICAL & CULTURAL LEFT SHARE: THEIR DETERMINATION TO FORCIBLY CONVERT THEIR RESPECTIVE
PHILOSOPHICAL OPPONENTS & COERCE ENTIRE SOCIETIES INTO CONFORMITY WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES
-- IT IS CRITICAL THAT BOTH OF THESE DARK FORCES BE STEADFASTLY OPPOSED & THAT NO ATTEMPTS AT COMPROMISE
WITH EITHER OR BOTH OF THEM BE MADE
FULL STORY:
The recent U.S. Supreme Court vacancy resulting from Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s retirement, when considered
in conjunction with the ongoing terror war, highlights the pivotal times in which Western civilization finds itself.
On the one hand, the slaughter of innocent civilians is the chosen weapon that Islamists ruthlessly employ to subjugate their
enemies. Among Liberals, it is by the iron-fisted use of judicial power that they intend to further their cause.
While nobody is suggesting that Liberals engage in terrorist bombings, beheadings or the torture of their political enemies, the
Liberal Leftists regularly make just such accusations against the United States military, Conservatives, and much of
mainstream America.
Yet, it is inarguable that both of these dark forces -- the Islamists worldwide and America's domestic political and cultural Left --
presume to have at their disposal the ability to coerce the rest of society into conformity with their ideologies. And though their
views of particular social vices differ greatly, such disparities are vastly outweighed by the common ground they share, insofar as
they intend to forcibly convert their philosophical opponents through any available means.
Thus, the only workable response of those who reject their brutish ways is to emphatically oppose them. With the Islamists, this
involves the use of military power to neutralize their ability to wage a terrorist war, and to otherwise remove them from regions
where they can reestablish their influence and reconstitute their ranks.
When dealing with Leftists, it is every bit as critical that they be steadfastly opposed, that no attempts at finding “common
ground” be made, and that they are decisively prevented from employing their venomous tactics to subvert the political process,
the law, and ultimately, the U.S. Constitution.
If such rhetoric sounds overly inflammatory, consider the stated intentions of Liberals to maintain their hegemony among U.S.
Supreme Court justices, especially in light of the Supreme Court’s outrageous decisions of recent weeks. Americans who remained
indifferent to the horrendous usurpations of power exercised in the Court's past abortion and sodomy decisions are just now
realizing how the Kelo v. New London “eminent domain” ruling threatens their very ability to own property.
Cleary, as U.S. Senate Democrats increase the ferocity of their opposition to the President’s effort to replace Justice O’Connor,
they prove that they support such abominable decisions, and have no intention of protecting the rights of any American citizen.
Despite continued assertions of being advocates of “the little guy,” the Liberal Democrats' ultimate goal is to increasingly
empower the federal judiciary to bestow and revoke “rights,” doing so through edicts from which no recourse exists.
Furthermore, the very manner in which Democratic Party Liberal politicians intend to wage this judicial battle demonstrates that,
while they give “lip service” to the concepts of self-government and a nation “of the people,” their goals are much less noble, and
much more sinister. Consider the words of Senate Minority Leader (Democratic Party Floor Leader) Harry Reid (D.-NV), who
asserted that the President should nominate someone who would “unite” America.
In context, his words exposed an ominous undercurrent of the recent political strategy of Liberal Democrats. Reid is essentially
saying that Liberals will continue to foment hostility, division and strife, not only in the U.S. Senate, but all across America,
unless they are empowered to dictate the makeup of the Supreme Court. Thus, Reid reveals the sinister similarities between the
tactics of the Left and those of militant Islamists.
Abominable though such a mindset may be, it is nothing new. Liberal behavior and rhetoric in the aftermath of the 2000 elections,
and throughout last year’s election cycle, consistently highlighted such sordid thinking. And their hysterical outbursts, whenever
called on these matters, prove that their actual purpose is never to elevate debate, but rather to squash it.
Unfortunately, Senator Arlen Specter, the Republican Party’s “Alger Hiss” from Pennsylvania, is diligently working to enable
Democrats to succeed. His latest ruse is to suggest appointing Justice O’Connor as Chief Justice, if she will remain on the
Supreme Court, his obvious goal being to prevent her departure until a subsequent president can nominate a more reasonable
(read: Liberal) replacement.
President Bush exhibited a profound clarity of vision when assessing the threats of militant Islam. Unfortunately, he does not
appear to notice the grim parallels among his political enemies in both parties. Amid such underhanded tactics, he had better
recognize the abject futility of seeking less confrontational responses.
Attempted negotiation and conciliation (such as his unprecedented concession to discuss potential judicial nominees with the
Senate), is no more likely to yield a congenial solution than would a bargaining session with al-Qa'ida. And it is no less perilous
to America’s future.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, & Other Leftists
Appointment of U.S. Federal Judges
Legal Issues, Lawyers, & America's Judiciary
U.S. Constitutional Law & Political Philosophy
Liberalism Versus Conservatism in American Politics
The Threat of Radical Islam
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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