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Leftist Leader Makes Her Move . . . Tucker Carlson Says “No Thanks”

April 29, 2023 Frontpage No Comments

By CHRISTOPHER MANION

Last Sunday morning, April 23, Cong. Ocasio-Cortes (D., N.Y.) insisted on MSNBC that the government must shut down Fox News.
The next day Fox News fired Tucker Carlson.
It’s begun.
AOC, as she is known, on that Sunday:
“I believe that when it comes to broadcast television, like Fox News, these are subject to federal law, federal regulation in terms of what’s allowed on air and what isn’t, and when you look at what Tucker Carlson and some of these other folks on Fox do, it is very, very clearly incitement of violence.”
Bear in mind that this is the voice of the future Democrat Party speaking, once the Octogenarian Caucus retires.
AOC’s radical colleagues are stoking anger and violence among every Democrat sector — pro-abortionists attacking over 100 Churches, racists threatening “mostly nonviolent” agitation, Antifa thugs trying out for jobs with the Stasi. All the while, the FBI, the ATF, the IRS, and every Deep State organ and bureau has been repurposed to go after Christians, Catholics, “MAGA Republicans,” and anyone else who stands in their way.
They’re dying to put a couple of hundred million Americans in lockdown again. And this time, it’ll be for good.
Why does the Left long for violence?
Because history shows that most growth of government power comes not in times of peace but in war.
Woodrow Wilson promised peace in 1916, but was maneuvered into putting the United States into World War One not six months later. Wilson then censored — or worse — thousands of his critics and his political enemies. George Creel, Wilson’s demonic misinformation guru, used his notorious “mailed fist” approach to shut down critics.
That included “silencing a certain insolent foreign element in the nation,” according to The New York Times (referring to German and Irish Catholic immigrants who wanted nothing to do with Europe’s wars).
Yes, war does have its advantages.
Wilson modeled his repression of opposition media on Abraham Lincoln’s seizure of newspapers and jailing of editors. Some of those tyrannical powers that began with the war were never suspended or removed after the Treaty of Versailles, although the Sedition Act of 1918 was repealed by a Republican Congress in 1920, echoing the public outrage over the wartime repression.
We should mention, at least, that Wilson’s War also provided a useful occasion for the foundation of today’s USCCB, as well as the Democrat Party’s century long alliance with the Catholic Bishops of the United States. That relationship blossomed under FDR, who censored his most effective Catholic critic, Fr. Coughlin, who was at odds not only with Roosevelt’s road to war but also with Msgr. John Ryan, the bishops conference’s representative to the Roosevelt Administration. Ryan was so immersed in the New Deal that Time Magazine called him “the Right Reverend New Dealer.”
The last nail in the coffin was hammered home twenty years ago by Dick Cheney’s secret and pervasive warrantless spying powers over American citizens in the name of “fighting terrorism.” That’s right, the massive powers of today’s Deep State were perfected by Dick Cheney. Obama and Biden merely inherited them and, with increasingly brazen arrogance, made them central not only to their administrations, but to their successful destruction of the presidency of Donald Trump.

How Late Is It, Anyway?

Today we realize how thoroughly controlled even the “free” communication on social media has been in fact contrived and controlled by members of the Deep State and its billionaire allies and beneficiaries, regardless of the party in so-called power.
AOC threatened on Sunday. The next morning, Rupert Murdoch, who owns Fox News, blinked.
If a door slams shut on freedom, does anybody hear it?
And we recall that other revolutions and other terrors — in France, Russia, Germany, China, and in our own hemisphere in Cuba and Venezuela in this century, all began during a period when no one believed — not even the most devoted revolutionary — that it could actually happen, no matter how ardently the most devoted revolutionary might have wished for it. It was simply beyond belief.
Again, it’s not the first time. Listen to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s lament in the Gulag Archipelago — a lament that came too late:
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive?
“The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, not withstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If . . . If. . . .
“We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more — we had no awareness of the real situation. . . . We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

Good Versus Evil?
Who The Hell Said That??!!
Shut Him Up!

Friday night, Tucker Carlson spoke at the fiftieth anniversary of the Heritage Foundation in Washington. His talk was historic. Excerpts:
“You look around, and you see so many people break under the strain . . . of whatever this is that we’re going through.
“And you look with disdain and sadness as you see people you know become quislings, you see them revealed as cowards, you see them going along with a new, new thing, which is clearly a poisonous thing, a silly thing, saying things they don’t believe because they want to keep their jobs.
“And you’re so disappointed in people. You are. And you realize that the herd instinct is maybe the strongest instinct. . . . The instinct, which again, is inherent to be like everybody else and not to be cast out of the group, not to be shunned.
“And you see people going along with this, and you lose respect for them. And that’s certainly happened to me at scale over the past three years.
“No, I’m not doing that. Sorry. I don’t want to fight, but I’m not doing that. It’s a betrayal of what I think is true. It’s a betrayal of my conscience, of my faith, of my sense of myself, of my dignity as a human being, of my autonomy. I am not a slave. I am a free citizen, and I’m not doing that. And there’s nothing you can do to me to make me do it. . . .
“There is no incentive whatsoever for you to tell the truth about anything. You just go into the little reeducation meetings and you’re like, ‘Yeah, diversity is our strength. That’s exactly right. We need equity in the capital markets. OK. All right.’
“So, if you’re the one guy who refuses to say that, you are a hero, in my opinion.
“If you have people who are saying, ‘I have an idea. Let’s castrate the next generation. Let’s sexually mutilate children.’ I’m sorry, that’s not a political debate. What? That’s nothing to do with politics. What’s the outcome we’re desiring here? An androgynous population? Are we arguing for that? I don’t think anyone could defend that as a positive outcome, but the weight of the government and a lot of corporate interests are behind that.
But when the Treasury secretary stands up and says, “You know what you can do to help the economy? Get an abortion.” Well, that’s like an Aztec principle, actually. There’s not a society in history that didn’t practice human sacrifice. Not one. I checked. Even the Scandinavians, I’m ashamed to say. It wasn’t just the Meso-Americans, it was everybody.
“I’ll put it in nonpolitical or rather non-specific theological terms, and just say, if you want to know what’s evil and what’s good, what are the characteristics of those?
“Well, I mean, good is characterized by order, calmness, tranquility, peace, whatever you want to call it, lack of conflict, cleanliness. Cleanliness is next to godliness. It’s true. It is.
“And evil is characterized by their opposites. Violence, hate, disorder, division, disorganization, and filth. So, if you are all in on the things that produce the latter basket of outcomes, what you’re really advocating for is evil. That’s just true. I’m not calling for religious war. Far from it. I’m merely calling for an acknowledgment of what we’re watching. . . .
“They don’t want a debate. Those ideas won’t produce outcomes that any rational person would want under any circumstances. Those are manifestations of some larger force acting upon us. It’s just so obvious. It’s completely obvious.”
Thus far Mr. Carlson. He was fired three days later.

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