As Rudy dropped out, hoping to head the OVRA in McCain’s social nationalist regime, he referred to McBomber as best qualified to be “commander in chief of the United States.” This is a totalitarian concept, as Ron Paul points out, unless one sees the American people as conscripted members of the president’s army. There was only one light moment yesterday, as noted by Matt Taibbi on Imus this morning: when Giuliani gave McCain a “Brian’s Song man-hug,” McCain “physically recoiled.”
Notice that McCain, a “true American hero” for bombing civilians in a previous US war of aggression, continues to diss the private sector as merely “profit-driven” as versus the morally superior coercive sector, which is driven by “patriotism.” We should never forget that McCain has been a government employee his entire life, like his father and grandfather before him. Thus he is personally as well as ideologically a bitter enemy of the market and all that is voluntary.
Patriotism, the natural love of our home city or region, was immediately seized for propagandistic purposes, and transformed into love for the government. But since government is the enemy of towns, cities, regions, and all of society, “patriotism” today is an illegitimate concept. When you hear it used as McCain uses it, hold on to your wallet, assume you’re bugged, and don’t register for the draft.
8:29 am on January 31, 2008 Email Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
