tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post115523860010913466..comments2024-03-28T22:32:50.562+00:00Comments on Liberal England: John Reid: The cloven hoof pops outJonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-1155591437792768062006-08-14T22:37:00.000+01:002006-08-14T22:37:00.000+01:00You were going nicely until the last line (a disgr...You were going nicely until the last line (a disgruntled libertarian socialist writes). <B>Leninists</B> hate freedom, that I'll grant you - and Reid is one of many demonstrations of how alarmingly easy it is to keep the Leninist style while abandoning the radical goals. You could see Leninism as a subset of managerialism, which is seldom liberal and never democratic.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07009879034507926661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-1155375234705591042006-08-12T10:33:00.000+01:002006-08-12T10:33:00.000+01:00Humanity has been here before...'Beware the leader...Humanity has been here before...<BR/>'Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. <BR/>And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. <BR/><BR/>How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar.'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-1155341975943235732006-08-12T01:19:00.000+01:002006-08-12T01:19:00.000+01:00Funny how Reid made this speech, saying we face th...Funny how Reid made this speech, saying we face the most sustained threat since world war II, knowing that he'd be "proved right" the next day.<BR/><BR/>All in the cause of drumming up support for new anti-terror legislation, no doubt.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-1155313106429734942006-08-11T17:18:00.000+01:002006-08-11T17:18:00.000+01:00It's based on Bertie Wooster on aunts:"It is no us...It's based on Bertie Wooster on aunts:<BR/><BR/>"It is no use telling me that there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof."Jonathan Calderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-1155311810555987252006-08-11T16:56:00.000+01:002006-08-11T16:56:00.000+01:00Superb post.Though I'm still not quite sure if the...Superb post.<BR/><BR/>Though I'm still not quite sure if the title is riffing on Dennis Wheatley, or on Will Hay.Alex Wilcockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03364653159038708678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-1155286332025969242006-08-11T09:52:00.000+01:002006-08-11T09:52:00.000+01:00"Socialists hate freedom"They believe that institu..."Socialists hate freedom"<BR/><BR/>They believe that institutions take preference over individuals.Gavin Whenmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08736061379111438493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-1155241631537844342006-08-10T21:27:00.000+01:002006-08-10T21:27:00.000+01:00The former communists may have left all their econ...The former communists may have left all their <I>economic</I> ideological baggage behind, but otherwise they haven't changed a bit.agentmancusohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08628920170081948276noreply@blogger.com