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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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 Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 4:48 am Post subject: Redrawing the lines between Left and Right |
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This resonates with a lot of the (tedious) liberal/conservative debate that goes on here:
The Euston Manifesto
From an introduction to the manifesto:
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We value the traditions and institutions of the liberal, pluralist democracies, and we decline to make excuses for, to indulgently �understand�, reactionary regimes and movements for which democracy is a hated enemy. We hold the fundamental human rights codified in the Universal Declaration to be precisely universal. Equally, violations of these rights are to be condemned whoever is responsible for them and regardless of cultural context. The manifesto speaks of our attachment to egalitarianism in all domains.
We reject the anti-Americanism which is infecting so much left-liberal thinking. We support the right of both the Israeli and the Palestinian peoples to self-determination within the framework of a two-state solution. There are paragraphs opposing racism and identifying the resurgence of anti-Semitism; on terrorism and against the excuses made for it; on humanitarian intervention when states violate the common life of their peoples in appalling ways.
We argue that the time is long overdue to break with the tradition of left apologetics for anti-democratic forces and regimes; that there is a duty of respect for the historical truth; and that it is more than ever necessary to affirm that, within the usual constraints against incitement, people must be at liberty to criticise beliefs - including religious be liefs - that others cherish. |
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
Joined: 25 May 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 6:31 am Post subject: |
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| Paul Wolfowitz and John McCain would accept it before Alexander Cokburn or Justin Raimondo would. |
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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| Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 6:48 am Post subject: |
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| Is Justin Raimondo as well known and important as John McCain? Does he post on Dave's? I thought he was relatively unknown. Just curious why you are helping to make him famous. |
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
Joined: 25 May 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 6:58 am Post subject: |
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| I wanted to show who would be more willing to compromise. |
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