Thursday, February 03, 2005

George W. Bush: U.S. to Illuminate the Globe by William Norman Grigg

After the French Revolution degenerated into murderous chaos, and gave rise to Bonapartism, an illuminist scattering took place, leading to the creation of radical secret societies across Europe and Latin America, according to Billington. Those groups eventually coalesced to form the Communist movement, which — like the neoconservative Bush administration — defined “democracy” as a synonym for “freedom.” The American Founders, by way of contrast, understood that democracy (unrestrained majority rule, rather than the rule of law) was incompatible with ordered liberty and individual rights, and a forerunner to mobocracy followed by tyranny.

Mr. Bush’s second inaugural address was composed with input from a group of neoconservative — or, better stated, neo-Trotskyite — academics and pundits, who almost certainly understood the context of the cryptic reference to “fire in the minds of men.”

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