Capitol Ideas: The Hum of Hate
Bethell, Tom
CAP TOL I DEAS by Tom Bethell The Hum of Hate The progressive Hive has a new queen. R eaders who go way back may recall an earlier column (Capitol Ideas, February 1981) in which the bee hive was...
...Now it is in full cry once more, alive and joyously stinging, with a heroic leader to defend: the President of the United States...
...But that, of course, was a deception...
...Clinton took office...
...Conference on Population in Cairo...
...A few months ago, the workers themselves signaled unmistakably that they were still supporting the same cause when they issued their familiar attack cry, their tora tora tora: "McCarthyism...
...The culture war went international...
...They communicate...
...and above all, the dismemberment of traditional, or orthodox, religion...
...It's full-employment heaven for ethicists and other such promoters of cultural quicksand...
...It is heard on behalf of the new queen, who lives in a surprising place: the White House...
...Foreseeing "the shipwreck of humanity," the Pope mobilized diplomatic delegations around the world, even courting Libya and Iran...
...No more nationalization...
...In fact, it was intended to rally the attack bees...
...The next great heresy is going to be simply an attack on morality, and especially on sexual morality!' He added: "The madness of tomorrow is not in Moscow, much more in Manhattan...
...In the Cold War, it had sent the signal that those unsympathetic to Communism must be attacked...
...His new book, The Noblest Triumph, was recently published by St...
...It has been left to the very latest modernists to proclaim an erotic religion which at once exalts lust and forbids fertility," he wrote in 192.6...
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...The great error of the Moscow Hive was that it actually brought into being a society without private property, and so became impoverished...
...Taxed and regulated, private wealth is tolerated...
...T he Hive, old and new, is the communion of apostasy, the home for heretics, the base-community for all spiritual renegades...
...Instinctively, without stating it or even seeing it as the conscious goal, the socialist phenomenon seeks the death of the human race...
...They began to look for a new leader...
...They surround her and pack themselves in close until she suffocates...
...It's a virtual mausoleum in cyberspace, thanatos-linked, hemlock-webbed, death-netted, cryonomically correct, Kevorkian-devoted...
...The new Hive is in much better shape...
...They share the same goals, even if they perform different tasks...
...Impeachment was a gift that "could end this bloody conflict peacefully" — with a victory for the forces of cultural dissolution...
...Now, it seemed, the Pope had won...
...In 199+ the Pope made extraordinary efforts to derail the U.N...
...A bit behind the times, there, George...
...Impoverished Moscow never had it so good...
...Not long after the Gorbachev surrender he foresaw an "apocalyptic combat" with "the culture of death...
...It was a struggle with the "works of darkness...
...Today, the cry of "sexual McCarthyism" signals that those unsympathetic to what may be called sexual Communism ("All orifices are created equal...
...Some of the old familiars are dead or in retirement by now—Bella Abzug, Tom Wicker, and Walter Cronkite come to mind— but there are new recruits, some very adept, such as New York Times columnist Frank Rich...
...The workers kill the queen...
...Long live the Queen...
...R eaders who go way back may recall an earlier column (Capitol Ideas, February 1981) in which the bee hive was used as a metaphor for the world socialist enterprise —the community of progressives...
...Many of those whose drone was heard in the old Hive remain active in the new...
...It seemed to be a cry for help...
...The queen died, and that Hive expired...
...Their claims and arguments fall into a consistent pattern...
...What goes on in their "minds" we do not know and do not need to know...
...He wrote from the belly of the beast, or close to it, for he held a position at Moscow University...
...A mong the first to see it coming was the Catholic writer G.K...
...This phrase, echoing Shafarevich, was first used at the Denver youth rally in 1993...
...Then, less than a decade ago, unexpectedly and swiftly, the Kremlin-centered Hive expired...
...They don't know that it's a whole new war out there...
...We are being attacked for our innocent beliefs...
...They serve the queen...
...It wars incessantly against the normal...
...But the hum is again heard in the air, the hum of hate...
...Today, that struggle has become increasingly direct," the Pope added...
...I see an alliance forming between the Catholic Church and the Muslim world against the West...
...Alger Hiss began his career in that period...
...When Pat Buchanan noticed, eight years ago, that we were in a culture war, he was promptly accused of declaring it...
...Some old workers have died and been replaced by novices...
...The old war, the Cold War, was lost...
...Martin's Press...
...John Paul II might almost have read that...
...His book, The Socialist Phenomenon, published here in 198o, argued that socialism had endured throughout history, usually in the form of one or another Christian heresy...
...The culture of death is the rotten fruit of the sexual revolution...
...Real bees work in that fashion...
...This time, of course, it was "sexual McCarthyism...
...A new Hive is a-swarming...
...But by the 1950's open communication had become possible...
...But a careful study of their signaling patterns allowed researchers to decode them...
...A modest success wasachieved...
...It also seems to be forming its own hive, and is potentially a threat both to the remnants of Western orthodoxy and to the progressive Hive...
...Now they tell us that it's been going on for thirty years...
...They signal openly...
...rooms, join the worldwide cemetery watch...
...This sapped the Hive's power...
...The Berlin Wall fell and, in December 1989, Mikhail Gorbachev paid his courtesy call on the Vatican...
...The workers wanted something more up-to-date, something they could be proud of...
...The best analysis of the old, Moscow Hive was made in the 1970's by a Soviet mathematician, Igor Shafarevich, a friend of Solzhenitsyn's...
...In analogous fashion, that may be what happened with the progressive Hive...
...Shafarevich concluded that a "striving for self-destruction," for nothingness, for the "death of mankind," was the true goal of socialism...
...The Muslim world, not yet having undergone either Reformation or Enlightenment, is beyond the Hive's zone of influence...
...It has, too...
...There are millions more whose names we do not know...
...Sometimes, for no apparent TOM BETHELL is TAS 's Washington correspondent...
...The Hive image, first proposed by the writer Joseph Sobran, illustrated the key point that liberals and Communists, seemingly distinct, belong to the same Hive...
...Its Program of Action sought worldwide "health services" and "reproductive rights"—euphemisms for the ready availability of birth control pills, condoms, and abortion everywhere...
...are perceived as vulnerable and must be attacked...
...her enemies swiftly stung...
...With Clinton & Clinton in charge, Hive goals were now uppermost at the U.N...
...The old fatwa...
...That's the way Hive floor manager Frank Rich sees it...
...In January, he urged Senate Democrats to go for a "protracted trial with tons of witnesses," dragging on until the next election...
...And as Chesterton foresaw, America now provides the worldwide leadership of this diabolical enterprise...
...The workers didn't particularly like the Moscow queen...
...In the courses on death education for children, the demons are right out in the open...
...The old Queen is dead...
...The metaphor allows us to speak of their activities as coordinated without having to invoke a conspiracy...
...Although the new, American-led Hive has the same goals, its methods and emphasis are different...
...Chesterton...
...This might "help resolve the unfinished 30-year-old culture war that has raged out of control since Mr...
...Also, wealth itself is spiritually debilitating (as the Unmentionable One had warned in the Gospels), and a rich society will more readily abandon the old morality than a poor one...
...Maybe the new Hive does have the American people on its side in a way that it never did with the old-fashioned (economic) Communism...
...It retains the old animus against private property, which makes people dangerously independent of the state...
...Interesting...
...In effect, the Soviet leader had surrendered...
...It has denatured the American family...
...His steely and revered predecessor, Stalin, had asked, "How many divisions has the Pope...
...In isolated pockets, grizzled old capos like Castro and the man in North Korea still soldier on, loyal to old banners and slogans...
...In earlier periods, when of course the socialist label was not used, it could be identified by its insistent, unvarying emphasis on certain goals: the destruction of private property and of the traditional or "nuclear" family...
...Wells foresaw something like this in his 1928 book The Open Conspiracy...
...There are counter currents, rival formations, divided loyalties, great battles ahead...
...She was too weak, in a way, too unfashionable, too impoverished, too undemocratic...
...In a later encyclical, Evangelium Vitae, the Pope named abortion, contraception, euthanasia, and capital punishment as the prime components of this Culture of Death...
...The Culture of Death is nowhere more ghoulishly on display than on the worldwide web...
...But property's role in wealth creation is now grudgingly recognized...
...How could such a leader, armed only with rusting nukes, inspire a world revolution...
...She had far too many faults...
...And there's this: The birth rate drops off tremendously when countries move toward capitalism...
...These are only the better known communication bees in the Hive, which is an entity immeasurably larger than such a list suggests...
...It gives expression to the gnostic urge to rebel—the rebellion of the educated against the constraints imposed by Creation and by God...
...There was a period (up to and including the 1930's) when Communists did indeed have to conspire—that is, communicate secretly...
...Hive tycoon George Soros is funding a project on death, intended to "transform the culture and experience of death in America...
...Read how the body decomposes, enter SuicideChat...
...In the same way, liberals and socialists and Communists communicate openly...
...Here indeed the newly invigorated Hive under American leadership was making progress at last...
...The queen bee was the Kremlin, and the worker bees toiled in coordinated fashion to serve the queen without ever taking orders...
...All the more reason, then, for a death-seeking Hive to accord markets a little belated respect...
...He has the full 20 March 1999 • The American Spectator resources of the federal government at his disposal, with abortion on demand, foreign aid to dispense (if population-control programs are allowed), mega-bushels of condoms to distribute, "health services" for the Third World...
...Its occupant must be protected to the death...
...It seems now that they have found one...
...Otherwise, he warned, "our culture war might exceed Vietnam duration...
...Throughout history, the phenomenon has been obsessed with material equality, and with the eradication of individual and gender distinctions...
...It is not fully in place yet, and its fate is uncertain...
...same people, same formation, new leadership: Gloria Steinem, Anthony Lewis, Garry Wills, Al Hunt, Arthur Miller, Barney Frank, John Conyers, Arthur Schlesinger, Jesse Jackson, Roger Wilkins, Betty Friedan, Jonathan Alter, Alan Dershowitz, Peter Jennings, Sidney Blumenthal, Lars-Erik Nelson, Robert Scheer...
...Since the crowds were hot and tired (it was said), his prepared remarks about America's role in this struggle were omitted, although they had been released to the press...
...Some abortion language was changed...
...The old Hive was finished, but the workers were still alive and well...
...But the new war, the Culture War, can be won...
...reason, this happens with real hives, too...
...Watching Clinton's approval ratings soar, a veteran of the Cold War, who had been looking forward to a quiet retirement, ruefully commented: "We were worried about the Bomb, when we should have been worried about the Pill...
...It could really change an awful lot," said New York's Cardinal O'Connor (as reported by Carl Bernstein and Marco Politi...
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