http://www.metafilter.com/tags/neoconservativism Posts tagged with 'neoconservativism' at MetaFilter. Sat, 05 Jul 2003 14:58:42 -0800 Sat, 05 Jul 2003 14:58:42 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/26814/Embarrassing%2DCorreligionists <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/06_30_03/feature.html">Oh, I So Wish So-And-So Were On The Other Side!</a> Just move over, <a href="http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/frontpage6.asp">dude</a>! For conservatives, it's often the case that our allies are a damn sight worse than our worst so-called enemies. Here's a prime example, <strong>extremely rare</strong> in its totality: an embarrassing piece by an embarrassing neo-con, <strong>John Laughland</strong>, about an even more embarrassing neo-con, <strong>Michael Ledeen</strong>, in a totally embarrassing magazine, <a href="http://www.amconmag.com">American Conservative</a>. Do liberals and lefties have it any easier? Who are the Center's and the Left's most difficult-to-explain <em>compagnons de route</em> dudes? Quite honestly - and although they're certainly not immune to the exquisite unease of political companionship - I enviously fear that they do. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.26814 Sat, 05 Jul 2003 14:58:42 -0800 fascism liberal neocon neoconservativism op-ed political politics MiguelCardoso http://www.metafilter.com/23519/NeoConservatism%2Din%2Da%2DNutshell <a href="http://www.eurolegal.org/usneocon.htm">NeoConservatism in a Nutshell!</a> Lately I've been researching the NeoConservative movement and stumbled upon this European website which is by far the best overview I have encountered. Be sure to read the end called The Dangers for Europe. Here is a little tidbit - "What ought to be of concern to Europeans is the fact that Americans are being indoctinated into beliefs which many Europeans (particularly those who are old enough to remember the 1920's and 1930's) would characterise as extremely dangerous.... A country considers itself at war against an ill-defined foreign enemy who threaten its way of life. To protect itself against this enemy, civil liberties are abrogated, arrest and detention without trial are introduced and the state creates a secret police which can spy on citizens and foreigners alike. The state allies itself with big business to protect its way of life and promote national security. Public opinion is manipulated so that dissent from the "national purpose" becomes socially unacceptable. Those are the conditions which Europeans will recognise as the precursors of fascism. " tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.23519 Wed, 12 Feb 2003 23:48:50 -0800 brokenlink europe neocon neoconservativism politics thedailygrowl