Dreams of Conquest, Glory, and the Ideology of the Jew'd World Order

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Dreams of Conquest, Glory, and the Ideology of the New World Order
NWO - a Global Police State run by the Intelligence and Financial Elites of the G-8 nations

SOURCES
New World Order quotes  below
This means Global Corporatism, not Communism. Although Totalitarian Corporatism might resemble Stalinism in many ways.

Michael Ledeen, PNAC, AEI (below)



Leo Strauss the Godfather of the Neocons (below)
http://www.takeoverworld.info/straussians.html

IMPORTANT  CRITIQUE: EXECUTIVE ORDER 13286

ONLY 3 MINUTES MUST SEE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T74VA3xU0EA
North American Union exposed
CNBC  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hiPrsc9g98
Economist says: Investors must focus on Amero, not Dollar.
   
America's Undeclared Arms Race
Transforming the Military to support Globalization - by Pentagon Official
The Red/Blue Map vs. Conspiracy Theories by Gary North
(amusing view of Elections by a Christian Reconstructionist and John Birch Society member) popup-->(warning)
For the first two decades, red marked the Democrats and blue marked the Republicans. Then, in 1992, the colors were reversed.

The August Review  - Global Elite Research Center -
Our Mission: Exposing the Truth About Globalism

warning: John Birch-related, but some good info
The Globalization Strategy: America and Europe in the Crucible -- NEW!
Globalization: The Final Demise of National Security
The World Bank
The International Monetary Fund
The Bank for International Settlements

substantiation from The Pentagon
American troops fight for Globalization, take orders from NYC capital firms

Gordon Brown New World Order Speech youtube
Gordon Brown announcing he is moving us slowly but surely into the New World Order.
http://breakfornews.com/forum/viewtopic ... 1820#21820
Ponder this: SHIFT HAPPENS
my comment:  The NWO is not some occult bullshit. It's merely globalization, i.e. corporatism, i.e. international fascism.
Period.
OK, there's certainly some more ragged edges, but that's obviously the gist of it.
What is YOUR value as a human being? Depends how you measure it.
If you measure it by means of capitalism, the value of a human being approaches zero as time moves towards 2049. Global trade does part of that. Computers do the rest.  You're FUNGIBLE.
This is actually a call FOR SOCIALISM or for some form of HUMANISM -- but obviously a grassroots variety, not some Stalinistic parasitic variety. We need a vision that preserves the value of human beings AS human beings, NOT as mere worthless and expendable economic corporate cogs.

(according to Time, "... founders of the Chowder and Marching Society, formed in 1949 by 15 fractious young Republicans of the House [Nixon and Ford among them] to oppose monthly bonuses for war veterans, ...") (see Bonus Marchers shot by Army)

READ THESE PLANS BY THESE MACHIAVELLIAN SICKOS

"All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order."
 -- David Rockefeller, speaking  at the United Nations
(The RIGHT crisis?  A GOOD crisis?  What a groovy crisis we are having.  All Americans on the same page, thinking in lockstep about them damn terrorists, except "traitors" like me and you.)

"It is the sacred principles enshrined in the United Nations charter to which the American people will henceforth pledge their allegiance."
President George Bush addressing the General Assembly of the U.N. February 1, 1992

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."
-- William Casey, CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

"In order to bring a nation to support the burdens of maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to war psychology. There must be the portrayal of an external menace. This involves the development to a high degree of the nation-hero, nation-villain ideology and the arousing of the population to a sense of sacrifice. Once these exist, we have gone a long way on the path to war."
- John Foster Dulles - "this is how ya do it"

Dulles and his brother Allen backed Hitler in World War 2.  Then Dulles became Secy of State.  His brother founded the CIA with help from a Nazi SS officer named Gehlen who was placed back in charge of German/European intelligence.
Killed Kennedy.  Destroyed Latin America, overthrew leaders, set up death squads and camps.
Helped Bush Sr. get political power.
This echoes some of the Brzezinski quotes on http://www.Takeoverworld.info/brzezinski_quotes.html
This tells a lot about the depth of their hatred for humanity.

George Bush Sr. The New World Order Parrot

"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans."
President Bill Clinton, U.S.A. Today, 11 March 1993

The slogan "emancipation of women" was invented by Jewish intellectuals. - Hitler
 
"Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader—a dictator—willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures, which few know how, or are willing, to employ.' - Michael Ledeen

"Peace is ABNORMAL. ... Peace increases our peril by making discipline less urgent, encouraging some of our worst instincts, in depriving us of some of our best leaders.' Peace . . . is a dream . . . and would undermine the power of the state." - Michael Ledeen


The strength and genius of the individual person are, in line with the absurd nature of democracy, being set aside in favour of majority rule, which amounts to nothing more than weakness and stupidity.  And rather than recognize and affirm the necessity of struggle, people are preaching theories of pacifism, reconciliation among nations and eternal peace. -- Hitler

Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators.  -- Hitler

Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (1925):  The masses find it difficult to understand politics, their intelligence is small. Therefore all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points. The masses will only remember only the simplest ideas repeated a thousand times over. If I approach the masses with reasoned arguments, they will not understand me. In the mass meeting, their reasoning power is paralyzed. What I say is like an order given under hypnosis.


MIND CONTROL: "In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities effectively exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason." — Zbignew Brzezinski

as the most well-known advocate of the 'functional approach to world order', Richard Gardner, wrote:
the hope for the foreseeable future lies not in building up a few ambitious central institutions of universal membership and general jurisdiction as was envisaged at the end of the last war, but rather in the much more decentralized, disorderly and pragmatic process of inventing or adapting institutions of limited jurisdiction and selected membership to deal with specific problems on a case by case basis, as the necessity for cooperation is perceived by the relevant nations...In short the "house of world order" will have to built from bottom up, rather than from top down...an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault.

For most New World Order researchers, however, this might seem like an arcane, academic distinction, maybe even the product of a profound intellectual failure to search for the 'hidden agenda' behind the dogma and doctrine emanating from the seats of power. Or even some skilful propaganda designed to deceive rather than inform with its contrasting explanations of world order. But in truth it should be seen for what it is: an admission to diversity of opinion within the Establishment, even though the accepted spectrum of opinion was quite narrow. These divisions had been already explicitly acknowledged by Jimmy Carter during the 1976 presidential campaign, with his declaration that 'the time had come' to replace 'balance of power politics with world order politics.'

Yet even this two-fold division is misleading. For one, the boundaries between the two groups are sometimes blurred; indeed, irrespective of what think-tank, political party or social club they belong to, or which corporate entity they either own or represent, the positions taken by leading Establishment figures at times defies such simplistic characterisations. The other reason is that Nye's neat labels exclude a third group, usually known as the 'neo-conservatives', whose vision of world order is based on the exclusive and overt global hegemony of the United States. And it is the emergence of this so-called 'neo-conservative' faction, which is credited with formulating much of George W. Bush's post-9/11 foreign policy, that is the subject of Part Two of this study.

DO they want everyone on a global slave plantation?
"The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values (of Liberty). Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."

--- Zbigniew Brzezinski

MORE quotes below

on the topic of a lawsuit to suppress the book "Expendable Elite" and Al Martin, fmr Iran-Contra operative threatening to "go rogue" :
"There is no constituency for the truth," Jeb Bush reportedly told the would-be whistleblower.  "Maybe try short-wave radio. Or people pushing gold & freeze-dried food."
Telling the truth is not an easy job. It doesn't get you booked on Hardball. Or even Pacifica Radio, or Art Bell's Coast to Coast.


aside: Wm Casey affidavit about CIA and COCAINE  CIA = Cocaine Import Agency
Escaping the Matrix by Richard K. Moore  Are you ready for the red pill?
Chapter 1 : THE MATRIX  - Longer essay.

Americans make the mistake of assuming that Fascism is BAD!
Not according to Michael Ledeen,  (Ledeen is one of the more vocal and blunt of the Neo-cons.)

Ledeen is probably the biggest influence behind Bush admin policies.
Ledeen is considered "Karl Rove's brain", he's one of the main philosophers (if you want to call it that) of the Bush administration strategy.  He's a colleague of Richard Perle (nickname, seriously: Prince of Darkness), and of Paul Wolfowitz one of the key architects and promoter of the Iraq War (Wolfowitz now ascended to Ruler of the Universe as head of the World Bank).

Ledeen is a member of the (javascript popups) American Enterprise Institute and is friends with all the people over at PNAC. (AEI is sister group to Heritage Foundation, and shares the same building.  In the 1980s, Heritage sponsored or housed in it's offices THREE lobby groups for violent Afghan-Saudi mujahideen fighters -- who later became called "Al-Qaeda".)
A product of the Bradley Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) led the neo-con charge, but the real push for war came from the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) another organization helped by the Bradley Foundation.

        "Ledeen's ideas are repeated daily by such figures as Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz. . . (and on talk radio).  He basically believes that violence in the service of the spread of democracy is America's manifest destiny.  Consequently, he has become the philosophical legitimator of the American occupation of Iraq."

        In fact, Ledeen's influence goes even further.  The BBC, the Washington Post and Jim Lobe writing for the Asia Times.  report that Michael Ledeen is the only full-time international affairs analyst consulted by Karl Rove (President G.W. Bush's "brain").  Ledeen has regular conversations with Rove.
The Washington Post said, "More than once, Ledeen has seen his ideas faxed to Rove, become official policy or rhetoric."

"Though he appears on conservative outlets like the Fox television network, Ledeen has not been singled out for much media attention by the Bush administration, despite his extensive influence in Washington. His views may be perceived as too extreme for most Americans, who prefer to think of the United States as pursuing violence only when attacked and manifesting primarily altruistic goals toward other nations."

far from merely reporting on Billy Carter's meetings in Libya, Ledeen collaborated with Italian intelligence sources to use Billy Carter's ill-conceived trip to Libya to create an "influence peddling scandle."

Ledeen used his connections with the newly elected Reagan administration to promote author Claire Sterling's claims of a vast Soviet-controlled terror network.

Ledeen's daughter is Simone Ledeen, who went to work for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq in October 2004 and ended up in a position of considerable responsibility.

    * Ledeen is an "adjunct scholar" at the American Enterprise Institute.
    * Ledeen was involved in Bush's "October Surprise Committee", making arms deals with Iran while they held back the hostages for Bush, Reagan. (Robert Parry covered that pretty well, online, and based on book by Gary Sick.)
    * Ledeen is either a direct advisor to the Pentagon via the Defense Policy Board (which has access to classified info that ordinary Americans cannot see) or is indirectly an advisor via close relations to other DPB members. He's part of the crew with Richard Perle and PNAC.
    * Ledeen is top advisor to Bush, Cheney, and Poppy Bush.  He's not some "nobody".
    * Ledeen is featured as a "terrorism expert" on Fox and CNN, etc, and is a regular columnist on Pajamas Media and other websites.
    * Ledeen wrote a harangue demanding that the US attack Iraq, dated Sept 11, 2001, named Code Alpha.  Later he stated that he never thought that invading Iraq was a good idea, but he thinks that bombing Iran is a great idea. Switcheroo.


Ledeen literally wrote the book on Fascism.
Universal Fascism: The Theory and Practice of the Fascist International, 1928-1936, published in 1972. (out of print and I haven't read it yet, just quotes)
Ledeen attempted to differentiate between an ideal, revolutionary "fascist movement," which he views in a positive light, and the failed, under-reaching "fascist regime."
(that would be "revolutionary" as in "destroying democracy globally" in the name of "democracy", he advocates violence and brutality as a legitimate and ideal method of shaping the world to suit American hegemonic interests)
Ledeen admired the dictatorial methods of Benito Mussolini.
Ledeen criticizes Mussolini precisely for not being revolutionary enough.
Ledeen's books also include Gabrielle D'Annunzio, a glowing biography of the eccentric Italian fascist.
"...fascism nevertheless constituted a political revolution in Italy. For the first time, there was an attempt to mobilize the masses and to involve them in the political life of the country. (except for the lively socialist movement which Mussolini led, then quit and returned later with corporate backing to crush it)
American Enterprise Institute (Bush's "outsourced brain") -- AEI policy proposals is what Ledeen has aptly described as:
'universal fascism': a revival, in principle, of the goals of the Nazi Waffen-SS.
Ledeen published a book on Machiavelli too -- basically, to rule the stupid peasants and to conquer others, the ends justify the means.
This is not the language of a statesman but a tyrant.

Flirting with Fascism  By John Laughland
Copyright © 2003 The American Conservative June 30, 2003 issue
http://www.amconmag.com/06_30_03/feature.html
Neocon theorist Michael Ledeen draws more from Italian fascism than from the American Right.

On the antiwar Right, it has been customary to attack the warmongering neoconservative clique for its Trotskyite origins. Certainly, the founding father of neoconservatism, Irving Kristol, wrote in 1983 that he was "proud" to have been a member of the Fourth International in 1940.
[...]
But there is at least one neoconservative commentator whose personal political odyssey began with a fascination not with Trotskyism, but instead with another famous political movement that grew up in the early decades of the 20th century: fascism. I refer to Michael Ledeen, leading neocon theoretician, expert on Machiavelli, holder of the Freedom Chair at the American Enterprise Institute, regular columnist for National Review—and the principal cheerleader today for an extension of the war on terror to include regime change in Iran.

Karl Rove's foreign-policy advisor, Michael Ledeen, proclaimed "the rightness of the fascist cause" in 1972. Rove told him, "Anytime you have a good idea, tell me."

If Bush is not a fascist, why are actual fascists his top advisors?

To the degree that Ledeen and his gang runs America --- and they do have significant influence --- and to the degree we can ascertain how fascist Ledeen is by what he says --- straight from the horse's mouth --- we should then be able to ascertain how fascist America is right now. (If you asked Ledeen, he'd say "Not Fascist enough".)  We can also ascertain how fascist America is becoming, where we are headed.

Ledeen 'hoped' that America would get "lucky" and suffer a major bloodbath like Pearl Harbor.
Was Pearl Harbor a "lucky" day for us?  Didn't lots of people die?
We got "lucky" on Sept 11, 2001 -- didn't we?

Isn't it a conflict of interest to WANT America to suffer a gruesome bloodbath, and at the same time claim to be against terrorism?  Why has this guy not yet been arrested and tortured to see what he knows?

Code Alpha  was published by Ledeen on Sept 11, 2001 (that very day!)
"They should ask Laurie Mylroie (of Benador Associates), author of The Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein's Unfinished War Against America, who for years has been collecting the evidence showing Saddam's involvement in the first bombing of the World Trade Center, all overlooked by the spooks (he's cooler than the CIA).
[...]
Machiavelli famously said that it's impossible to get good leaders in peacetime. We will now find out if we have leaders capable of waging war."


Ledeen says, the CIA cannot hold a candle to Laurie Mylroie, who works for Benador Associates.  Laurie is called "the neo-cons favorite conspiracy theorist".
Info on Benador from RightWeb.
Writes journalist Jim Lobe of Benador's work: "When historians look back on the United States war in Iraq, they will almost certainly be struck by how a small group of mainly neo-conservative analysts and activists outside the administration were able to shape the US media debate in ways that made the drive to war so much easier  . . .

Ledeen was investigated by the FBI in the past decades for treason for his dealings with Israel, and lost his security clearance as the result. (The fact that National Vanguard links to the same James Petras story is immaterial, except that Ledeen's actions fuel anti-Semitic sentiment.)

Ledeen was also a lynchpin in the treasonous Iran-Contra conspiracy.  (Douglas Valentine, Vietnam vet, is the author of The Phoenix Program, the only comprehensive account of the CIA's torture and assassination operation in Vietnam, as well as TDY a chilling novel about the CIA and the drug trade.)

Ledeen was the one who passed on the "yellowcake uranium from Niger story" about Iraq to Rove and Cheney.)

In the current debate over "regime change" in Iran, Ledeen is a major voice for an aggressive US policy to overthrow the mullahs, which he sees as but one small part of his vision of an American-led "global democratic revolution."

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"One can only hope that we turn the region into a cauldron, and faster, please." - 2002 National Review

Man of the World - Michael Ledeen's adventures in history Boston Globe local mht
 
Ledeen:   "In their brave new world, corporations are more suited to governance than are the unpredictable rabble called citizens.  Corporations should control politics, control the commons, control health care, control our airwaves, control the 'free' market, and even control our schools."

The Ledeen enigma -- extolling democracy while calling for iron political discipline -- can be traced back to what he has called "the usual Machiavellian paradox: Compulsion -- or necessity, as he terms it -- makes men noble, and enables them to remain free, while abundant choice is dangerous, leads to chaos, and leaves men at the mercy of their enemies.

Everything You Need to Know About Michael Ledeen  local copy
Leo Strauss believed that religion was the means to inculcate the desired ideas into the minds of the masses. He didn't care what religion—just as long as it was a religion that could link itself to the political order.

YOU ARE TOO STUPID TO DECIDE HOW TO RUN YOUR LIFE or YOUR COUNTRY.
YOU MUST BE MOLDED AND MANIPULATED towards STRICT OBEDIENCE, but only during a "time of war" which is scheduled to last "the rest of our lifetimes".

SEPT 11 = LUCKY EVENT ... for Dictators

Cong. Ron Paul (R-TX):  Ledeen writes of a fortuitous event (1999):
"...of course, we can always get lucky. Stunning events from outside can providentially awaken the enterprise from its growing torpor, and demonstrate the need for reversal, as the devastating Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 so effectively aroused the U.S. from its soothing dreams of permanent neutrality."

(translation: an attack on America would be GREAT, MIRACULOUS, and NECESSARY!)

Amazingly, Ledeen calls Pearl Harbor a "lucky" event.
Not in past tense, in the context of hoping for a possible future disaster.
In his viewpoint, Sept 11 was a stroke of good luck!!
DO YOU CONSIDER NINE-ELEVEN "LUCKY" FOR AMERICA?
Why did Bush pick him for a national security consultant?

 Do you know anyone else who considers Pearl Harbor or Sept 11 "lucky"?
Have you turned them in to Homeland Security?
Or should they just be be executed? (rhetoric)
Anyone other than America's ruling class that is?
(other leaders and pundits said it was necessary, and they want a new attack, but only Ledeen said "lucky")
PRO-TERRORISM

NOTE:  Ledeen and PNAC and Brzezinski who referred to Pearl Harbor, could not have actually called Sept 11 "lucky" ... because it was a fantasy at that point, unless you think like me that their "wishful thinking" was a bit more than that.  Given their positions in the heart of the beast, well ... .

Who are the first suspects in an unsolved murder?  A close relative or friend.  If a person is discovered to have made positive suggestions about this murder, if detectives find an incriminating paper trail, they will immediately consider that person a prime suspect.  Everybody knows that.  It's obvious. We've all watched many cop shows.  We have common sense.  That fact that NOBODY in the media or FBI or 9-11 Commission or anyone has made this simple, obvious observation, this is a strong clue that the media is purposely avoiding this.
"Lt. Colombo" would be all over this suspect.

The irony is that the Bush admin and various pundits have regularly accused "liberals" of "hating America", of being "glad" for Sept 11, of "aiding and abetting the terrorists".
Yet THEY are the ones who CHEERED and SAID it was great!  Did they meet after to have a toast??

I've repeatedly heard "conservative" Bush bots openly calling for a new wave of terrorist attacks, to "teach us a lesson" that their racism, paranoia, and militarism is the correct attitude.

One can hardly blame the Bushbots ... Sept 11 was a GREAT op, pulled off very well, no one could believe our own officials did it.
Sure there are a lot of holes in the story, many of them flagged by the Mainstream Media --- lightly and forgotten --- but it was still very well done.  Great pyrotechnics.  News media chiming in, right timing.
Sept 11 was preceded by many years of pounding home nasty "messages" about "liberals" and "rage" and "enemies", creating a pre-disposed attitude.

Here is a NEOCON LEADER who calls Pearl Harbor/Sept 11 "LUCKY" because it cut loose the shackles holding them back from a bloody war, yet we're supposed to be turning to them for SAFETY and SECURITY?!!!

"All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order."
 -- David Rockefeller, Tri-Lateral founder
The "New World Order" has spooky connotations of Biblical Armageddon, but it's really just Totalitarian Corporate Globalization.
Corporate Globalization means a world based on Greed as the highest moral value.
A corporation is a company which contracts with the government for protection and to focus exclusively on capital accumulation, with no other competing values.
A greed-based world is arguably "Satanic", yet even in a non-Biblical sense.
For many people now, it's already hell-on-Earth.
Starvation. Perpetual slave labor.
Constant threat of "Security" forces, ie death squads.

Now, they aren't going to come right out and admit they orchestated it, but they DO agree it was just a stroke of luck that their ex-CIA asset Osama bin Laden just happened to be around to pull this off at just the perfect moment in history when they were hoping to find a pretext to invade the Middle East and exert Total Dominance over the whole world.
I don't mean just this clique.  I'm talking about the very top of the Political - Military - Industrial - Financial - Intelligence - Security - Media complex, and any other hyphens I forgot.

Osama bin Laden said in an apparently live (not fabricated) interview that "Islamic Law forbids killing innocent non-combatants", that HE had nothing whatsoever to do with 9-11, and that it was a hidden arm within the US foreign policy establishment that pulled it off.
I cannot say if this was the real Osama or a fake icon, a CIA asset, or a TV hologram like when Forrest Gump shook hands with JFK.

The Project for a New American Century, as recently as September 2000, likewise foresaw the need for "a Pearl Harbor event" (Rebuilding America's Defenses, p.56) that would galvanize the American people to support their ambitious plans to ensure political and economic domination of the world, while strangling any potential "rival."
How fortunate we were!
It's just a tiny baby step from seeing them call 9-11 "fortunate" and "necessary" to saying "we did it" ...  but there's plenty of other evidence besides their own words.  A knowledge of the bloody history of CIA covert ops and Mossad covert ops makes it a common sense assertion that CIA and Mossad partnered up on this.

After 9-11, Rumsfeld and others argued for an immediate attack on Iraq, even though it was not implicated in the attacks.
LOOK:  Republicans brainstorm a new terrorist attack might help or hurt Party.
Rumsfeld said that too in 2006:    The correction for that (political disaffection with the Iraq War), I suppose, is an attack (on America).

MORE LEDEEN QUOTES
"Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader—a dictator—willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures, which few know how, or are willing, to employ.'    (right, Michael, "Slavery is Freedom" and "Ignorance is Strength" too, just like Orwell said.)

"We should not be outraged by Machiavelli's call for a temporary dictatorship as an effective means to either revivify or restore freedom."

"Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business." Michael Ledeen, American Enterprise Institute

Ledeen specifically praises:
Creative destruction is our middle name, both within our own society and abroad. We tear down the old order every day, from business to science, literature, art, architecture, and cinema to politics and the law. Our enemies have always hated this whirlwind of energy and creativity, which menaces their traditions (whatever they may be) and shames them for their inability to keep pace. Seeing America undo traditional societies, they fear us, for they do not wish to be undone. They cannot feel secure so long as we are there, for our very existence—our existence, not our politics—threatens their legitimacy. They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission.

"Without fear of God, no state can last long, for the dread of eternal damnation keeps men in line, causes them to honor their promises, and inspires them to risk their lives for the common good....Without fear of punishment, men will not obey laws that force them to act contrary to their passions. Without fear of arms, the state cannot enforce the laws to this end, Machiavelli wants leaders to make the state spectacular."

Ledeen's version of Machiavellianism: "Dying for one's country doesn't come naturally. Modern armies, raised from the populace, must be inspired, motivated, indoctrinated. Religion is central to the military enterprise, for men are more likely to risk their lives if they believe they will be rewarded forever after for serving their country." Ron Paul was right to rebut this nonsense with the following.  This is an admonition that might just as well have been given by Osama bin Laden, in rallying his troops to sacrifice their lives to kill the invading infidels, as by our intellectuals at the AEI, who greatly influence our foreign policy.

(This inclusion of relgion was central to Bush strategy/image of "moral clarity" in foreign policy -- good vs. evil.  See Strauss below: what type of religion does not matter, so long as it inspires fervent beliefs.)

Ron Paul: This is an admonition that might just as well have been given by Osama bin Laden, in rallying his troops to sacrifice their lives to kill the invading infidels, as by our intellectuals at the AEI, who greatly influence our foreign policy.
10-Jul-2003: Speech: NEO-conned! Neo-Conned video excerpt re Ledeen  Neo-Conned vid complete

"The Real War. Faster Please!"

"The Mad World of Michael Ledeen. National Security, Iran and Iraq," CounterPunch, September 25, 2002.

"A prince must have no other objectives or other thoughts or take anything for his craft, except war."

What did the Founding Fathers say?

"Of all the enemies to public liberty, WAR is the most to be dreaded
because it comprises and develops the germ of every other enemy.
War is the parent of armies; from these proceed DEBTS and TAXES ...
known instruments for bringing the MANY under  the DOMINATION of the FEW. . .
NO nation could preserve its FREEDOM in the midst  of CONTINUAL WARFARE."
- James Madison, Political Observations, 1795
paraphrased:  War makes America weaker as a whole, and leads to domestic Tyranny.  DUH!


from Sourcewatch:
'Change -- above all violent change -- is the essence of human history,' he proclaims in his book, Machiavelli on Modern Leadership: Why Machiavelli's Iron Rules Are as Timely and Important Today as Five Centuries Ago.

In an influential essay in the National Review Online he asserts, 'Creative destruction is our middle name. We do it automatically ... it is time once again to export the democratic revolution.'
Ledeen has excoriated both the State Department and the United Nations for their preference for diplomatic solutions to conflict; and the CIA for equivocating on evidence that would condemn 'America's enemies' and justify militant action.

"One can only hope that we turn the region into a cauldron, and faster, please." - 2002 National Review

"There is every reason to believe we will succeed in revolutionizing the Middle East, for we have always excelled at destroying tyrannies.... We wage total war, because we fight in the name of an idea -- freedom -- and ideas either triumph or fail."

"To be an effective leader, the most prudent method is to ensure that your people are afraid of you," Ledeen wrote in "Machiavelli on Modern Leadership. "To instill that fear, you must demonstrate that those who attack you will not survive."

"New leaders with an iron will are required to root out the corruption and either reestablish a virtuous state, or to institute a new one. . .  If we bask in false security and drop our guard, the rot spreads, corrupting the entire society. Once that happens, only violent and extremely unpleasant methods can bring us back to virtue."

"All the great scholars who have studied American character have come to the conclusion that we are a warlike people and that we love war. . . What we hate is not casualties but losing."

"This... is the problem of many successful republics, whose simple virtues make them strong enough, at one point, to conquer other people and assume imperial responsibilities. How can men, who are dedicated to liberty and the defense of their own independence, efficiently dominate subject peoples, without damning their own soul?.[...]  And there, in two lovely sentences, is the conundrum the United States must solve if we are to have a second successive American Century ."

he once accused US senator and Vietnam combat veteran Chuck Hagel of "appeasement", said that the "Franco-German" opposition to the Iraq war identified those countries as America's "strategic enemies"

MUST READ revolting Ledeen quote on Katrina,
sexualizing and glorifying DEATH.

"In order to achieve the most noble accomplishments, the leader may have to 'enter into evil.'  This is the chilling insight that has made Machiavelli so feared, admired, and challenging.  It is why we are drawn to him still..."

"Just as the quest for peace at any price invites war and, worse than war, defeat and domination, so good acts sometimes advance the triumph of evil, as there are circumstances when only doing evil ensures the victory of a good cause."
(So Ledeen instructs:  "George, you MUST ENTER INTO EVIL to achieve Nobility".  That explains a lot.)

"Americans believe that peace is normal, but that's not true. Life isn't like that. Peace is abnormal"

"Peace increases our peril by making discipline less urgent, encouraging some of our worst instincts, in depriving us of some of our best leaders.' Peace . . . is a dream . . . and would undermine the power of the state."

There's a precise reason to argue for war over peace according to Ledeen, for "...peace increases our peril by making discipline less urgent, encouraging some of our worst instincts, in depriving us of some of our best leaders."
Peace, he claims, is a dream and not even a pleasant one, for it would cause indolence and would undermine the power of the state.
---- Ron Paul (R-TX) on Michael Ledeen

"Preserving the state is their goal, even if the personal liberty of all individuals has to be suspended or canceled."   Republican Congressman Ron Paul, July 2003

Sure, Michael.  What we need is an intrusive, totalitarian State, even worser than what we already have, not a weak, small conservative+social libertarian government, conservative on intrustion, safeguarding liberty for humans.

"I have always thought of myself as a `liberal democrat' in the sense that Walter Lippmann used the word"

Mussolini trumpeted this ideal of fascism:
"Everything for the state, nothing outside the state, nothing above the state."
LATER: See Nazi-History of the USA on this site.

Leo Strauss on Wikipedia and elsewhere
link: Straussians & Neo-Conservatives vs. Conservatives
full version

Leo Strauss Grandfather Of Both The Neocons And The Age Of Tyranny. Leo Strauss, was a philosophy instructor at the University of Chicago. He rejected this view of natural rights in favor of Plato's "philosopher-king" model of government. The students of Leo Strauss left the University in search of political power; these took root in the Republican Party, formed neo-conservatism and became known as Neocons. These see themselves as "philosopher kings". Straussians assign dignity to the few.

The superiority of the "ruling philosophers" is an intellectual superiority and not a moral one.
Straussian teaching holds that those who are fit to rule realize there is neither morality nor any God.
There is only one Natural Right – the right of the superior to rule over the inferior.

Human beings are born neither free nor equal. The natural human condition is not one of freedom, but of subordination.
 
Worshipping is a characteristic of the Age of Tyranny. Leo Strauss taught that the Elite Few are to "ennoble" the Vulgar Many.
Straussians must exercise their right to rule: "philosopher kings" are to extinguish rabble fire, ennoble the Vulgar Many, and to fight unending war to protect the homeland
If the Few were to give the Many, such things as freedom, happiness, and prosperity, in Strauss's estimation, this would turn them into animals. The goal of the wise is to ennoble the vulgar.
But what could possibly ennoble us vulgar ones?
Enforced self-sacrifice, via permanent war.
Only weeping, worshipping, and sacrificing ennobles the many.


Leo Strauss taught that an elite, wise ruling class must rule the unsophisticated masses by telling them noble lies for their own good.
Leaders must use religion to control the masses.   Plato on steroids.

"Because mankind is intrinsically wicked, he has to be governed," Strauss wrote. "Such governance can only be established, however, when men are united - and they can only be united against other people." Leaders must always provide an enemy.

"We need a common enemy to unite us"
- Condoleezza Rice, March 2000

Neocon papers are thick with delusional paranoia like the following from Richard Perle, National Security Council and Defense Policy Board:
"No stages, this is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about first we are going to do Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq . . . this is entirely the wrong way to go about it. If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war . . . our children will sing great songs about us years from now."

Michael Ledeen, American Enterprise Institute Fellow, former NSC, State, and Defense Department consultant and influential White House advisor writes,
"We can lead by the force of high moral example ... [but] fear is much more reliable, and lasts longer. Once we show that we are capable of dealing out terrible punishment to our enemies, our power will be far greater.  We are a warlike people and we love war."

The belief in a single voice that governs the public should cause all Americans to understand: these men want to convert this nation to a permanent dictatorship. Their inspirer was Leo Strauss, a professor who taught Machiavellian methods to many of them at the University of Chicago. In fact, Paul Wolfovitz earned his doctorate under Strauss and many of the neo-cons in the White House studied under him. Strauss believed every society needs a "single public orthodoxy." As Drury put it, "a set of ideas that defines what is true and false, right and wrong, noble and base."  Strauss believed that the role of religion was indispensable to the political success of a nation. For a political society had to hold together and act as a unit in lock step with the leader. Strauss believed that religion was the means to inculcate the desired ideas into the minds of the masses. He didn't care what religion—just as long as it was a religion that could link itself to the political order.



"The Strong Must Rule the Weak"  by Jim Lobe.


CONTINUED:  Straussians & Neo-Conservatives vs. Conservatives
You should click here.  This is some heavy shit.


Just for fun, read how Ledeen feels about New Orleans:
The Doomed Cities
The heart of New Orleans.
 The combination of a rich culture of death with the looming threat of catastrophe is an intoxicating mélange for the spirit.
 Doomed cities with an intimate relationship with the dead are special places, incubators of exceptional qualities of spirit and thus of extraordinary inventiveness.
And rotting carcasses of loved ones, I might add.


DISHONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY

"All's fair in war . . .  and in love.  Practicing deceit to fulfill your heart's desire might be not only legitimate, but delicious!"
(Oh, how delicious is evil and deceit.  Especially towards American sheep. No wonder our Christian President picked you.)

"Lying is central to the survival of nations ..." -- Neoconservative leader Michael Ledeen
Lying is central to the survival of nations and to the success of great enterprises, because if our enemies can count on the reliability of everything you say, your vulnerability is enormously increased....Look at the map of the world: national boundaries have not been drawn by peaceful men leading lives of spiritual contemplation. National boundaries have been established by war, and national character has been shaped by struggle, most often bloody struggle.?
--Michael Ledeen  (Lying to whom?  Which enemies?  Machiavelli includes "domestic enemies", i.e. "citizens".)

Privatizing the Truth; Bush's war on information  --by Mike Whitney
A great deal of print has been wasted on President Bush's inability to tell the truth.
In fact, it really makes little difference whether Bush is a pathological liar or not.
Bush's lying is not a matter of human frailty or corruption, but a statement of administration policy.

...  deception is the primary tool for the maintenance of the State. Transparency and candor are now seen as direct threats to the preservation of the status quo. This suggests that Bush's lying is not simply a matter of human frailty or corruption, but a clear statement of administration policy.

Good points but .... suggests ...  Mike Whitney is a great writer, but charitably turns to conjecture about Bush, failing to go all the way and explain that the people behind the President openly state that lying is their policy.


''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality".
 --- Bush aide to Ron Suskind, NYTimes Magazine 10-17-04


ROBERT KAPLAN using weasel-words for a vision of Bush:
Well, first of all, realism has a specific definition in foreign affairs. Here are a few parts of the definition. Realism in foreign affairs assumes that domestic politics operates within the confines of law. Foreign policy, though, operates in a lawless realm. The kind of morality we apply overseas in dealing with our adversaries is a more limited, sadder morality than we apply at home. Realism also means that all moral questions of human rights, democracy, etc. are ultimately questions of power. Realism assumes that sometimes you have to perpetrate a certain amount of evil in order to do a greater amount of good.

These are all aspects of realism in foreign affairs. I think the United States, right now, under President Bush, is what I would call a classically realist foreign policy.

again:"Peace increases our peril by making discipline less urgent, encouraging some of our worst instincts, in depriving us of some of our best leaders.' Peace . . . is a dream . . . and would undermine the power of the state."

A little fun: http://www.mises.org/story/1920
The Attempted Militarization of the Jetsons

MORE MODERN MACHIAVELLIAN TALK ... if you can really stomach more .. at Liberals Like Christ website

Here is a summarization of Ledeen's flowery prose:
Powerful dictatorships that make their leaders powerful need to stage wars to get ordinary people to march in lockstep like obedient fascists. That is the road to Greatness.

So that's why we bombed and invaded Afghanistan and Iraq with zero evidence and zero investigation of who actually attacked America.
NOT FOR ANY OF THE REASONS TOLD US, but for GLORY, NOBILITY, and social control, on the basis that PEACE is an abnormal and rotten state of being.

This was also literally the philosophy of Hitler and Himmler and Goebbels, that peace makes men weak and soft, so leaders must launch wars of aggression to toughen up a society of men, to push society in the direction of jingoistic patriotic war fever, which leads people to accept sacrifice and deprivation and ignore any issues of class and poverty.

To sum up, neocons: (1) want the US to be the world's unchallenged superpower; (2) share slavish and unwavering support for Israel and have close ties with the Likud Party; (3) support Likud's agenda to retain Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel; (4) support American unilateral action; (5) support preemptive strikes to remove perceived threats to US security; (6) promote the development of an American empire; (7) equate American power with the potential for world peace; ( seek to democratize the Arab world; (9) push regime change in states deemed threats to the US or its allies; (10) want the US to fight Israel's proxy war to make the region safer for Israel.

Neocons also agree with Trotsky on permanent revolution - violent as well as intellectual. They venerate Leo Strauss. They are for redrawing the map of the Middle East and are willing to use force to do so. They accept the notion that the ends justify the means. They express no opposition to the welfare state (for the wealthy). They believe lying is necessary for the state to survive. They believe pertinent facts about how a society should be run, i.e., by the elite (who would whisper into the ears of the ruler). They endorse attacks on civil liberties, such as those found in the Patriot Act, as being necessary.  They believe neutrality in foreign affairs is ill-advised.

Final Words:
Neocons are the most powerful, the most organized, and the best-funded ideologues in the western world. They also run the most sought-after reactionary think tanks and foundations. That is why they have been able to occupy important positions since the Reagan days and continue to play a significant role within the Bush (Jr.) Administration and the Republican Party.  (And they are backed by the CIA.  Origins of the Overclass.)

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule."

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and hence clamorous to be led to safety - and menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

~~ H.L. Mencken

http://www.takeoverworld.info/conquest.html#strauss