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Ameritopia Explodes Into 2012 Campaign

By on 1.17.12 @ 6:08AM

Mark Levin’s literary dynamite detonates in midst of GOP primaries.

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If you want to understand what’s really at work with the mentality that has produced everything from Obamacare to the EPA, campaign finance reform, Roe v. Wade, gay marriage, the controversy over Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital, the New Deal, the Great Society and Fannie Mae — to name a small handful of historical political programs and controversies — Ameritopia is the “must read” of 2012. And beyond.

Plato as American political player in the 2012 campaign? While Levin notes that the famous Greek philosopher wasn’t, even way back in 380 BC, the first to enthuse about a utopian society, he is surely among the most prominent. Plato’s Republic was all about the construction of what Plato called an “ideal city” filled with “Guardians” — Guardians, Levin notes, who will decide who gets what.

Stop right here.

Remember this line from the 2008 campaign?

Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth. This was the moment—this was the time—when we came together to remake this great nation…

In short, this is Obama as Plato. This vision is not the vision of the Founding Fathers. This is utopianism. Or, in its Americanized version, exactly what Levin calls it in his title: Ameritopia.

What Barack Obama is describing is a fantasy. A world where there is no imperfection. A world in which he personally — assuming the modern-day role of Plato’s Guardian — will see to it that every last one of a population of over 300 million has care when sick and always a good job. Like King Canute, Obama will be able to command the oceans when not busy healing the planet.

How will he do it? That’s right. Obamacare. The stimulus. The EPA. Withdrawing from Iraq and Afghanistan, cutting the military budget. And on… and on and on.

These are the modern signposts of utopia. If they are but done, Obamaites and statists insist, there will be utopia in America.

A concept Levin finds as laughable as it is dangerous, summing up the reality in Ameritopia’s subtitle: “The Unmaking of America.”

All of which makes the book Ameritopia not just a political player in 2012 but a very, very dangerous political player to Obama and his fellow statists.

Why?

Ameritopia rips the veil off of statism. In a precise, detailed, just-the-historical-facts ma’am fashion, Levin demonstrates that the Obama worldview — indeed the entire worldview of the American left — is now and has ever been nothing more than an ancient historical shell game. A sham from start to finish. Or, in the words of Plato, a “noble lie.” Except, of course, as Levin documents repeatedly, there’s nothing noble about the lie.

FROM PLATO, LEVIN MOVES on to Sir Thomas More’s famous novel from 1516. That’s right — 1516, some 496 years ago. What was the title of More’s novel? Right again. It was More’s novel Utopia that gave title to the concept of a world where, as Levin notes, a society exists “in which every need is answered and every want is either met or made results in near-perfect existence.”

Chillingly, More anticipated Obamacare by almost 500 years. In Thomas More’s Utopia there is — wait for it — free health care. Writes More:

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About the Author

Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (210) |

Jack in Wi.| 1.17.12 @ 6:35AM

Levin is just another big government chicken hawk warmonger. He can go to hell and take Limbaugh, Hannity, and O'Blarney with him. Wars and warmongers are the enemy of liberty.

Mike Hawk| 1.17.12 @ 6:43AM

Jack, you are a true flaming A-hole statist acolyte. You just hate Mark Levin because he exposes that fraud you think should be POTUS and because he really does understand the Constitution far better than Rube Paul or any Paulbot. Paulbot and Liberals alike hate Levin.

VonMisesJr| 1.17.12 @ 7:28AM

Mike, You can not reason with greed. Jack wants you to pay for his children's food and education, while he and his Dear Leader feel good about themselves spending other people's money. They are going to save the world on your back. VMjr

Mike Hawk| 1.17.12 @ 5:48PM

I agree, we know that, but every once in awhile he needs to be reminded we haven't forgotten him.

Doctor Right| 1.17.12 @ 8:12AM

Actually, Jack hates Levin because Levin is a Jew.

Dick Nome| 1.17.12 @ 10:37AM

In Jack's parlance it is 'neo-con'.

SpiralArchitect| 1.17.12 @ 4:31PM

Nice to see you again, Jack. It was a meaningless weekend with out you. xxoo

__________

Vote Totalitarian

Obama '12

Quartermaster| 1.17.12 @ 6:13PM

Newt is a Neocon, as is Perry, and Santorum. Levin does have Neoconish predilections, however. He's also pretty much of a blowhard on the radio. I don't find him at all entertaining. Rush and Liddy are both pretty good as entertainers, OTOH.

William R| 1.17.12 @ 6:38PM

Hawk, you're dumber than a load of bricks.

http://www.tomwoods.com/blog/m.....his-place/

David| 1.17.12 @ 10:31PM

Neocon Jeff Loyd raves about neocon Mark Levin, so what's the surprise?

Mark Levin loves the police state, loves war, loves wall street, loves the State and all it's predatory machinations. This man has absolutely nothing in common with Liberty or a free society. What a sad farce of an alleged man. I'm sure he's never been in a fist fight, shot a gun or ever led in any manner in his sad pathetic and hateful life. Like all the other effeminate sofa samurai neocons, he is more than happy to send your kid to go die in a meat grinder in the mid east for the banksters. A sad little man who is merely a mouthpiece for the elite. Don't buy his left vs. right, Obama vs. Republican garbage. It's The State vs. You.

Jacobite| 1.19.12 @ 2:20PM

I keep waiting for these folks to mention that More's "Utopia" (literally 'nowhere') was a satire, holding fantasy societies up to ridicule. Plato aside, modern utopias really are the product of the Enlightenment and the metaphor of the Social Contract. The reaon utopias resulted from the Enlightenment was that human beings do not live by reason and logic. Humans are not born as tablua rasa -- much human behavior is instinctive, inherited, hard-wired. There is most 100% definitely a Human Nature. More understood this, which is why he derided the utopian delusions of his contemporaries. Communism is as much a utopia as Libertarianism. Both ignore the fact that humans are social animals -- from birth. Societies are governed by innate structures of mutual duties and rights among members. Non-members? There have been many responses to non-members over history -- witches, heretics, spies, criminals, etc. RonPaul likes to refer to the Founders, but the Founders had no problem with the common-law (it's in the Constitution) crimes of blasphemy and sodomy, with potential death penalties. Those were part of their society's structure and necessary for its maintenance. The Constitution was not the foundation of America's legal system, it was the keystone. State courts and the Common Law were the foundation. Powers not delegated to the Federal Government were reserved to the States, and the people -- not the individual. Human beings do not live as individuals -- they live as members of societies.

Doctor Right| 1.17.12 @ 8:17AM

"Wars and warmongers are the enemy of liberty."

So are ignorant, sheep-like followers who march in lock-step with their "Dear Leader."

USSAlabama| 1.17.12 @ 9:59AM

"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see ...the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people........ if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in."

L. Ross| 1.17.12 @ 12:52PM

Nice. I miss Doug Adams.

aj| 1.17.12 @ 8:33AM

Our problem isn't BHO. Our problem is that there are millions of "Jacks". All those "Jacks" will always find a BHO. It never fails to end horrifically.

Perhaps the Lord will be merciful to us and send a Jonah that can turn our hearts like He did for Nineveh. But even then it was only for a couple more generations.

Alan Brooks| 1.17.12 @ 9:39AM

"Perhaps the Lord will be merciful to us and send a Jonah"

Jonah Goldberg is a smart guy, but he only cares for money- his well-known mom was that way as well.

megapotamus| 1.17.12 @ 10:02AM

Well, they are Jews, those Goldbergs, so what do you expect? Truly a pathetic little burp, Mr Brooks. You unmask yourself.

Timothy L. Pennell| 1.17.12 @ 10:56AM

No. He UNTIES himself. Takes the Ball Gag out of his mouth, and heads for the closet, where he keeps his Hand Lotion.

Get it Right.

Drunken Sailor| 1.17.12 @ 12:01PM

You forgot the gimp suit.

Con Chef (NB) | 1.17.12 @ 12:58PM

"Zed. Yeah, Spider caught a fly."

SpiralArchitect| 1.17.12 @ 4:33PM

We were already talking about the tyranny of man...

Occam's Tool| 1.17.12 @ 1:00PM

TLP, DS, are you starting to crowd me on the perversion analogies? :-)

TLP---he unties himself with GREAT effort, so that he is covered with sweat, THEN takes the ball gag out of his mouth. These details are SO important.

Drunken Sailor| 1.17.12 @ 1:54PM

O.T.
We just point out their proclivities. We leave their motivations up to you and the other experts.

Alan Brooks| 1.17.12 @ 5:40PM

I met Goldberg, I know what he is like; similar to Dinesh DSouza- whom I also met (and DSouza is no Jew, as you know).
They were both v. smart and money-mad.

Quartermaster| 1.17.12 @ 6:15PM

Goldberg isn't all that smart. I watched as the paleos tore him limb from limb and he could hardly say a thing in his defense. The man was in so far over his head it hurt to watch.

Alan Brooks| 1.17.12 @ 9:49PM

His positions aren't smart- but he is.

bbg| 1.21.12 @ 4:54PM

Even God's chosen people plead to have a king anointed to take care of them. At least during the middle ages we had a class of nobility that could rule over the commoners, today we are all commoners and we expect a few to take care of us better than we can take care of ourselves?

Melvin| 1.17.12 @ 8:39AM

Well good morning to you Jack. A bit testy this morning are we? Don't forget under Obama Care there is medication for that rage that resides within you.

Occam's Tool| 1.17.12 @ 1:04PM

Melvin: I'm afraid Jack was over-exposed to Gamma rays---it burnt out his brain so that he is incoherent as well as full of rage and constantly exploding his trousers.

Alan Brooks| 1.17.12 @ 8:49AM

Jack in Wi. has been shown to be prescient: a decade after 9/11 we are going nowhere. I wont vote for Paul- but nothing much wrong with him save for conspiracy susceptibility.
Gingrich, on the other hand, is a 'conservative' future-ass who was had his day in the '90s; Newt has no more chance than Paul of becoming president.

Americans would never elect a Newt for president, any more than they would any other reptile or amphibian.

Tina B| 1.17.12 @ 1:06PM

Are you kidding? They elected a snake, didn't they?

Alan Brooks| 1.17.12 @ 5:42PM

"Are you kidding? They elected a snake, didn't they?"

Spiro Agnew? he resigned in '73.

megapotamus| 1.17.12 @ 10:20AM

The early bird is a worm.

Occam's Tool| 1.17.12 @ 1:22PM

Well, we know Jack supports Bacha Bazi, 'cause the raping of small boys by his "noble peoples" is a great thing to him.

mike daniels| 1.17.12 @ 2:22PM

Hey Jack the Packers lost! Feeling suicidal yet???

1ConservativeUSA| 1.17.12 @ 4:04PM

Hey, look everyone, another angry liberal!!

1ConservativeUSA| 1.17.12 @ 4:05PM

Hey, look everyobe, another angry liberal!

What's wrong Jack? Can't find utopia? Have you checked up Obama's ass?

Lawrence D. Cannon| 1.17.12 @ 11:06PM

You just hate him because he's a Jew.

Brian Mc| 1.17.12 @ 6:38AM

What an excellent incite into a "Watch what you wish for..." must-read, Mr. Lord. You have masterfully brought to us what I fear most for my country and from my government. And in so doing, have given me pause and hope in the new day and it is refreshing to say the least.

Appleby| 1.17.12 @ 8:26AM

insight.

Brian Mc| 1.17.12 @ 3:46PM

Good catch!

Alan Brooks| 1.17.12 @ 8:54AM

Gingrich is a 'conservative' future-assed who had his day 15 years ago. He is popular probably because he is a cute Irish leprechaun w/ white hair.
One can imagine Newt dancing on a pile of Lucky Charms cereal, singing:
"it's magically delicious!"

Boar Hunter| 1.17.12 @ 12:59PM

Of all the things you could say, Gingrich is a "conservative" demonstrates your ignorance in the most clear and concise of manners. Gingrich is a politician; a whore like you, who will do or say whatever is politically expedient to achieve his own needs without regard to morality, ethics or societies greater good.

With that said, Gingrich is intelligent and you are merely a petulant child screaming "but I want it!" That's why you like Obama. Obama promises to take the toys away from the other kids who saved their allowance and bought things with it. Since you and the rest of the liberals illegitimate offspring are are now screaming foul from the sandbox, Obama has promised, not to give you one of what they have, but to take theirs away...and you like that. You fleas and locusts in the vermin class will never be happy till everyone else is as miserable as you are.

Guess what? You will never be happy because you cannot know what I know. You cannot be happy because you cannot possess what I have. You can never be happy because you cannot understand and accept the gift that occupies my heart. I have been both poor and have had money to suit my needs. It has never mattered to me what others have, I do not envy them as you do and I recognize that my happiness is dependent on no one but me. You simply spread your own misery to all who will allow it.

But beyond that, you think Gingrich is cute? I think this random, out of context statement by you, defines you and I will remind you of it frequently from now on.

I'm curious...does this portly elf figure prominently into one of your homoerotic fantasies? It must be profound psychologically that, like a six year old playing make-believe, you go so far as to identify what statements you desire him to make.

But more importantly, how much would you pay? Since we all know what a fantasy world you liberal whores live in, maybe if you let people know, Clint or Jack might play dress up and make believe with you and you could all take your fantasy world to a whole new level.

To all the normal people who accidentally read this post, my sincere apologies for the last part. But seriously, tell me someone who thinks Gingrich is cute and choses this forum to describe him dancing around as the Lucky Charms (Freud) leprechaun is not evidence of his unhinged detachment from reality.

Tina B| 1.17.12 @ 1:13PM

Boar Hunter, you may have something there.

Christ tells us they have wool over their eyes, at best. If they are truly blinded by their father, the Devil, their case is hopeless.

I reacted to the leprechaun on a cereal box remark as you did. WTF? is he sick? is this a stereotype or a fantasy? You said it well, and sometimes crudeness is appropriate.

Alan Brooks| 1.17.12 @ 5:47PM

"Obama promises to take the toys away from the other kids who saved their allowance and bought things with it."

Now you call the taxpayer a child who has his toys redistributed! Think more carefully before you write, boar brain!
Or should one write "bore brain"?

Alan Brooks| 1.17.12 @ 5:50PM

"Christ tells us they have wool over their eyes, at best. If they are truly blinded by their father, the Devil, their case is hopeless."

@Tina,
you are a Christian fanatic; and there is no connection between Jesus Christ and Newt Gingrich-- the latter is a megalomaniac, not the former.

Conservative Bob| 1.17.12 @ 6:53PM

I read her post several times... she makes no link between Christ and Gingrich.

Speaking of megalomaniacal narcissists did you see what the pres had to say today? There is someone who thinks they are Jesus Christ….

Boar Hunter| 1.17.12 @ 7:47PM

LOL, Did you stop your foot when you were writing that Alan?

Thanks for proving once again you are devoid of any intelligence.

Firstly, calling Tina a Christian fanatic is actually a compliment, not the insult you intended.

Secondly, of all the things I directed toward you, you decide to feign insult with my playground analogy? Your such a deep thinker! However shall I rebut.

Oh and by the way Clint has already used up all the good Boar humor and yours was really pretty boring (get it I changed Boar to bore).

Incidentally, since you do not understand politics, try and absorb this information. It does not insult me when you try and attribute some slight to my character by comparing me to the animal I hunt.

By using the Nom De Plume, "Boar Hunter" I am conveying to you that I have held a spear in my hands and stood my ground against wild Russian Boar. I consider it a point of honor that being charged by a five hundred pound Russian boar is terrifying beyond your comprehension.

My name is used to alert other men (you don't count) that the content of my character is such that I would stand up to the charge of a wild boar on their behalf. I would "take a bullet for them" so to speak and I admire and respect them because I know many would do the same for me.

By the way, I attribute no value to your existence. In fact, I believe your continued ability to do so disparages the nature of all good men. You are no help in the hunt and I cannot trust you back in the camp.

You fail to understand or appreciate that without those who care for you and protect your right to constantly whine about everything, you would, lacking the ability to feed or protect yourself, cease to exist.

Alan Brooks| 1.17.12 @ 9:51PM

You'll be dead soon- an accident.

Mike Hawk| 1.17.12 @ 6:46AM

Great analysis Jeffery. I have all his books this will br his best. America is hungry for this knowledge. I also suggest Men in Black and Liberty and Tyranny to complete the trilogy.

McCandles| 1.17.12 @ 1:37PM

Mark Levin is a great conservative thinker. I read L and T, have not read Ameritopia. If the book is primarily about liberals trying to create a utopia, it will not resonate with ordinary Americans. Most folks who do not follow politics closely believe that liberals, with good intentions, try to help the poor, even the playing field, create social programs to help people, etc. Generally try to help society out. I really don't think this is accurate. I think most liberal politicians have a much less admirable goal in mind: obtaining and maintaining power. They aren't trying to create a utopia, they are trying to buy votes and obtain power. They have a natural distaste for hard work, success, and traditional American values. They are either sick or they are evil. That theory might work better with average Americans who already think liberals are trying to help people.

darcy| 1.18.12 @ 3:37AM

So, what you're saying McCandles is that statism prevails when the utopians have sufficiently brainwashed the masses into believing that their intentions are benign, at worst, and beneficial, at best?

Then the remedy is to utterly and decisively discredit utopians with a healthy dose of facts -- in short supply, what with the thoroughly entrenched liberal ethos permeating our culture as it does: academia, media, government -- all the usual suspects ;-)). If we are waiting for the masses to wake up to the facts of their ever-increasing servitude, it will be too late for the rest of us -- and for them, too.

One of two things is going to happen: either the voting masses will individually, in their person, suffer mightily the infringement of their liberties and their rapidly declining material expectations for themselves and their children, or somehow someone of integrity and a leadership mindset will emerge to speak the truth, whatever the consequences. As it is, we are fast on the road to misery multiplied as Winston Churchill explained: Socialism is the equal sharing of misery (paraphrase, if not exact). As the masses ruminate in their misery, they'll be fed lies by CNN and MSNBC (and our current POTUS himself) as to the cause of their misery. This cannot end well for our country, except for the fact that many people will awaken as from a deep sleep and search for truth. Mark Levin especially, and others (David C. Thompson, What in the World Is Going On, Northwestern Publishing House) will quench their thirst.

Be ready for a bumpy ride.

Robert Bové| 1.17.12 @ 7:18AM

St. Thomas More, of course, was not an advocate of Utopian thinking but an astute critic of it.

Alan Brooks| 1.17.12 @ 9:42AM

Marge doesn't like More because he gave his life for the Roman Church.

Tina B| 1.17.12 @ 1:13PM

go away, trollmeister.

Alan Brooks| 1.17.12 @ 5:52PM

Go away, Tina B., the Christian fanatic.
Go commit sodomy with your Bible.

Margie| 1.18.12 @ 12:56PM

You and the Con Artist Chef ought to get a room.
This is the language permitted here against Bible believing Christians, and when I say permitted I'm talking about not a peep is uttered by the so called men here against it.

Con Chef (NB) | 1.18.12 @ 4:46PM

Nope. I only bash YOU, idiot.

Margie| 1.18.12 @ 9:28PM

FOOL~ I am thankful to Jesus that He is going to throw liars into the Lake of Fire.

Get ready, punk.
Rev. 21:8.

plm| 1.17.12 @ 11:40AM

Thank for this clarification, whatever the other merits of the book by Mr. Levin may be, it is troubling, if it is true as this review suggests, that he misunderstands the nature and intent of St. Thomas More's work.

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 1.17.12 @ 7:19AM

My next purchase.

Appleby| 1.17.12 @ 7:27AM

I bet my Canadian bookstore will not have it.

And I also bet that the vast majority of Occupiers will not be able to read this book, because they don't have any idea who the people are that are discussed in it, or what they represent.

WRTolkas| 1.17.12 @ 8:25AM

Dear Appleby,

And the majority of the Occupiers will not read Mr. Levin's book because there are no pop-out pages or pictures to color with crayons.

I wonder if Justin got lucky with Ketchup?

Alan Brooks| 1.17.12 @ 9:47AM

"And I also bet that the vast majority of Occupiers will not be able to read this book, because they don't have any idea who the people are that are discussed in it, or what they represent."

GOP rednecks think Sir Thomas is the Englishman on a cigarette box.
"You know, the guy who went to Roanoke.."

Tina B| 1.17.12 @ 1:15PM

"And you, who do you say that I am?"

Alan Brooks| 1.17.12 @ 5:58PM

I say that Tina B. is the Whore of Babylon, drunk with the blood of saints. Someday the multitudes will exclaim"Babylon, Babylon the Great is fallen!"
And the smoke of Tinas burning will be visible to all.
"No more will her wares be purchased; no more will they buy her cargoes of dates and figs. of grapes and pears. No more will they buy her precious metals and jewels."

"For Tina the Great is fallen, and all the King's horses and all the King's men, couldn't put Tina together again. "

Derek Leaberry| 1.17.12 @ 7:39AM

One shouldn't be too confident about the success of Levin's attack on modern liberalism. Modern liberalism is a combination of radical egalitarianism, radical social libertarianism, social dysfunction, and anti-religion that cares not a whit for the historic American nation or Western Civilization. Levin's arguments, however correct, are lost on modern liberals. They don't penetrate the liberal mind.

The combination of the liberal therapeutic state and rapid Third World immigration has built political liberalism into a phalanx of about 45% of the American electorate. Barack Obama could go on television tomorrow wearing just his boxers, a naked blond on each arm, and chain saw a baby in half and still he will get 45 % of the vote in November. Terms like virtue and honor are meaningless to modern liberals.

Mike 3/505| 1.17.12 @ 7:43AM

"Barack Obama could go on television tomorrow wearing just his boxers, a naked blond on each arm, and chain saw a baby in half and still he will get 45 % of the vote in November."

Unfortunately, true.

Alan Brooks| 1.17.12 @ 6:04PM

"Barack Obama could go on television tomorrow wearing just his boxers, a naked blond on each arm, and chain saw a baby in half and still he will get 45 % of the vote in November."

Because of the Blondes! even naked brunettes would buy the votes.

Appleby| 1.17.12 @ 7:45AM

Change the name "Obama" to "Ron Paul" and the statement is still true...for the same reason.

Derek Leaberry| 1.17.12 @ 8:11AM

Except that Paul would win about 0.45 % of the vote.

Alan Brooks| 1.17.12 @ 9:50AM

"Terms like virtue and honor are meaningless to modern liberals."

At least modern liberals are not the utter liars a Gingrich is.

Tina B| 1.17.12 @ 1:17PM

What? Not Liars you say? Obama is not a liar? Hillary not a liar? Nancy Pelosi not a liar?

Oh, Alan, you are blinder than blind.

Alan Brooks| 1.17.12 @ 6:00PM

"Obama is not a liar? Hillary not a liar? Nancy Pelosi not a liar?"

If they are 99 percent liars, Gingrich is 100 percent a liar.

Chalkdust| 1.17.12 @ 2:23PM

"At least modern liberals are not utter liars". Gadzoos man...drop the cool-aid jug and come up for air. Liberals would not get a single politician elected to public office if they actual told the voters the full truth about their belief system.

SpiralArchitect| 1.17.12 @ 4:41PM

You must be called out on that one, Chalkdust.

There are many Marxist, Socialist & Communists in nation.

Derek Leaberry| 1.17.12 @ 5:26PM

And many who want handouts without having the intelligence to understand ideologies. Tens of millions of them. From Bedford-Sty to West Philadelphia, from the Mississippi Delta to the southern West Virginia hollows, from the condos of Broward County to the Indian Reservations of the West, from the Los Angeles barrios to the Rio Grande Valley.

Mimi| 1.17.12 @ 7:45AM

Will the NEW theme of the 2012 election be : Not what can we DO for you...but WHAT can we teach and encourage you to DO for yourselve!!!
Nice preview Jeffrey...can't wait to get my hands on it!

Mimi| 1.17.12 @ 7:45AM

YOURSELF ! OOPS

VonMisesJr| 1.17.12 @ 7:46AM

In Plato's Republic, Spartan men lived in a military barrack enslaving neighboring people's. If a boy was born and not deemed to turn intoa good soldier, he was tossed from the cliffs (ObamaCare). All men were called "father" and all women "mother." In Obamaville, the schools take charge of your children, feed them and educate them in "social justice" (communism).

Tocqueville wrote about how the industrial revolution exploded serfdom. Once the French peasants saw a crack in the door of freedom, they "kicked it wide open." Rousseau wrote "The Social Contract" in 1762 that got him kicked out of two countries, Geneva (his home) and France (his homeland). The central theme is that if one does not bend to the "General Will," he must be forced to be free! I guess this is why the left is not upset about the rapes at OWS? The guys all wanted it, and who is the dirty little girl to resist the "General Will?"

Rousseau had this warped idea that the "Noble Savage" was in a perfect state of nature and corrupted by society. Never mind that early humans raided neighboring villages and killed the men and boys to minimize retaliation. The women and girls became slaves and concubines. There we go again. I think I know what they want?

Locke's "Second Treatise of Government" defined the proper role of government: to protect life and property (and the women). Simply put, if a government became abusive and confiscated property, it was deemed null and void in nature.

Other good books to read with the same theme are by Dr. Thomas Sowell titled "A conflict of Visions," "The Vision of the Anointed," and "In Quest of Cosmic Justice" to name a few.

Thank you Mark Levin for making two-and-a-half thousand years struggle readable under one cover.

Alan Brooks| 1.17.12 @ 10:06AM

"Never mind that early humans raided neighboring villages and killed the men and boys to minimize retaliation."

So much for libertarianism.

VonMisesJr| 1.17.12 @ 10:26AM

Brooksie, if you knew your Marxism, you would know that "material productive forces" goes from capitalism to communism to socialism (or anarchy, you jackhole). The idea of Marx's progression is that once dumb fools like you realize how good collectivism is, you will do it with a happy face and you won't need any more Stalin/Mao/Casto/KimJungDead/Chavez/Obama.
Libertarians like Locke (I am sure you read "Two Treatise" you illiterate) did not reject government like your boy Gracho Marx, but limited government.

I don't expect you to understand this or look it up (try Von Mises "socialism"), but the good readers of this blog might be interested in the truth.

Pete| 1.17.12 @ 1:23PM

But I think Levin has Plato wrong. Plato was an idealist and spoke through Socrates. From him we have "Know Thyself" and "The unexamined life is not worth living." Idealism of this sort happens to individuals, not collectives. The collectivists were Materialists, more like the early Atomists. Even Aristotle saw man's nature as evolving from ooze (matter). Levin confuses the Philosopher King of Plato with some idea that he is presenting a recommendation for government and society. Plato certainly was not. His mission was instead the minds of thinkers.

SpiralArchitect| 1.17.12 @ 4:45PM

VonMisesJr

Marxism is the ideology that uses the tool of Socialism to achieve the end game result of Communism.

Otherwise, keep on truckin'

c. j. acworth| 1.17.12 @ 7:47AM

I'm just a dumb mechanic. I never read Plato, or Thomas More, though I have read de Tocqueville. All I know is that anyone with eyes should be able to see that Obama is an existential threat like none we've ever faced, at least not in my lifetime. I can only hope that the Stupid Party can get its act together enough to educate the country to the danger we face if we continue down this road. Assuming, of course, that the leaders of said party have internalised the message themselves, which is an open question. How about sending a copy of Levin's book to them?

Alan Brooks| 1.17.12 @ 9:55AM

John McCain was the existential threat: a septuagenarian war vet whose claim to fame was being tortured in 'Nam.

Pete| 1.17.12 @ 1:14PM

And yours is trolling web sites and sounding like an idiot.

Tina B| 1.17.12 @ 1:22PM

He is Alan Trollmeister.

VonMisesJr| 1.17.12 @ 10:54AM

c.j.,
Orwell quote "some ideas are so foolish that only an intellectual could believe them."

Some of the most ignorant people I ever met proclaim to be geniuses. Look at our elitist leaders? The only people more stupid them them (look at the economy and unemployment) are fools like Brooksie who look to them to save them.
VMjr

Tina B| 1.17.12 @ 1:21PM

You are no dumb anything if you've read de Tocqueville. And you are articulate. No cut and paste with platitudes. You Go c.j.acworth!!!

c. j. acworth| 1.17.12 @ 4:03PM

Thank you for the kind words, Tina. And to VonMises Jr., I've also read Orwell, a long time ago, and more recently I had the pleasure of reading another of your recommendations, Conflict of Visions by Sowell. Anything by Sowell is worth the effort!

Dave Williams| 1.17.12 @ 2:53PM

For seeing what 46% of the country can't or won't see, sir, you are not dumb AT ALL. I hope there are enough of us left to eject the THING from the White House and save what's left of this formerly great country.

Should Have Impeached| 1.17.12 @ 10:16PM

Hear! Hear!

mitch poremba| 1.17.12 @ 7:55AM

Mark is great when it comes to our Constitution, our Founding Fathers and History, but when he gets on politics, his ego and hatred comes thru where he will give some republicans a pass if he likes them, but if not, he let's lose with the hatred. When that hatred comes up, he tends to forget some of what he teaches us about history and common sense thinking, he does believe that policing the world is fine and to keep the big spending going, here's some common sense approach that he is forgetting..
President Reagan built our military up which help cause the collapse of Russia, but since then we have kept building the military to where we are 6 times bigger than anyone else in the world combined, yet we keep building. What President Reagan did to Russia, we are doing to ourselves now, making the military bigger (along with social programs) and breaking the bank.
History teaches us in the 1770’s when England was in our country telling us to live by their rules and taxes, we fought them for that overreaching power, there was the Cuban Missile crisis, we didn’t like a country putting missiles close to our back yard. If we got ticked off, doesn’t one think other countries and people would get ticked off with us being in every country, now granted, the way we did it is different, we probably asked some countries if we could have our military there and some countries may have asked us in return for aid (taxpayers money), then we have Presidents forgiving debts to countries. We have a slower, more peaceful way of spreading our democracy, we have Kentucky Fried Chicken and McDonalds restaurants there in China.

We have politicians taking us on a path of policing the world. Killing our people over it is wrong, but so is invading other countries, saying we want to spread democracy or paying dictators.

After one of the debates in 2008, I heard a politician say that we needed to be in the different countries for our military to get different types of training, we really do have politicians that don’t think. We have in this great country, plenty of types of terrain for our military, the Southeast, the Rockies, Alaska, the lakes and woods on our northern border, the deserts in the Southwest, for jungles we can go to South America. Can you imagine what would happen on our southern border with a bunch of M1 tanks doing war games, but most important, our men and women of the military would be closer to their families.

Another fact I saw on a National Geographic, aircraft carriers, their research stated that even though the aircraft carrier was powered by nuclear, that the US military uses 70% of the oil that is imported in this country. If we bought home some troops from different countries and not build so many ships, imagine how much oil we would save and help our economy, if we got the military down to 40%-50% of oil imported, the BILLIONS saved would also start us on the path of not getting so much oil from overseas.
We need to wake up, WE’RE BROKE!

jothepro| 1.17.12 @ 8:15AM

Mitch, you are a rambling man..

Skip| 1.17.12 @ 9:14AM

What you miss Mitch, is that Reagan ended the Cold War with active interventionism, "rolling back" instead of "containing" communism and communism influence.

He didn't get it through the namby-pamby "I'm okay, you're okay" foreign policy that some propose.

mitch poremba| 1.17.12 @ 9:46AM

yes I do ramble, just trying to bring up points that no one seems to touch, like how much oil is used and how big our military is, that we can have bases in other countries yet in almost every country when we are broke? We all have opinions and beliefs, I don't call people names, except one and that is what Mark calls Obama, a Marxists. We are in a Police State and becoming a nanny state, people thinking the TSa is all right to feel your crotch if it keeps us safe. We are broke and need to cut everywhere..
I didn't miss about Reagan, I was all for what he did and how it was done, just saying afterwards, we have kept building to the point were our military is too big to cut because we would be laying off people, tough situation, in the 1990's bases were closed here and moved overseas, plus your right, since Reagan our Presidents has gotten us into wars and done it namby-pamby. We have the best men and women in our military, yet when they are used, they have restrictions put on them on how to engage, it saddens me to see our men and women killed or hurt in these countries. Either do the job right like Reagan or don't go in, which maybe we shouldn't at times, seems like we didn't learn anything when Russia was in Afghan and couldn't win..
Bottom line, I like Mark Levin, I listen to him, I've learned from him, I'm a conservative, but lets take care of our country and people.

Timothy L. Pennell| 1.17.12 @ 11:04AM

Really?

We had a 600 Ship Navy, under Ronald Reagan. Up. from less than 300, under Carter.

We now have less than 300 Ships, under the Muslim.

I don't see any "Building Up" as you put it.

DRed| 1.17.12 @ 1:07PM

The navy has more ships now than when Obama took office. Not many, but there you go. I'm always happy to correct you.

SpiralArchitect| 1.17.12 @ 4:50PM

Yes, all praise the Enlightened President Zero the Masterful.

DRed| 1.17.12 @ 5:22PM

Or, like Tim, you could make up a bunch of stuff to complain about. The Navy had 533 active ships in 1979 (which is more than less than 300). Under Reagan it rose to almost 600 by 1987, and then precipitiously declined after the collapse of the Soviet Union until reaching a low of a 278 in 2007. I'm not sure how any of that demonstrates how Obama weakened the Navy, and since Tim is tired of losing arguments to me, we'll probably never know.

http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/org9-4.htm

Drunken Sailor| 1.18.12 @ 9:02AM

Ummm, you do know that was because they were already in the pipeline and being built when he took office don't you? Building a naval ship takes time. They don't come in a vending machine.

Let's not even mention the Navy quite retiring many of them under Obama and have extended their life span to make up for the cuts in building instituted under Obama. Nothing like going to war with 60 year old ships.

Fred| 1.19.12 @ 12:48PM

No, Reagan was not an interventionist -- with the minor exceptions of Lebanon (a disaster he later called a mistake) and Grenada (a walk on the beach). Neoconservatives in his administration wanted him to invade Nicaragua, and he refused.

No W, McCain, or Santorum, he.

Alan Brooks| 1.17.12 @ 10:00AM

"What you miss Mitch, is that Reagan ended the Cold War"

So the Cold War ended? one Southern boy told me it is ongoing because Russia is trying to undermine us still.

KennesawJack| 1.17.12 @ 11:22AM

Alan, if you want a real opinion on whether the cold war ended, I suggest you take a little trip to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Byelorussia, Hungary, Romania, Bosnia-Hersegovena, Armenia, Georgia, Kasakhstan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan and talk to folks who live in those countries. They may have a decidedly different view from yours. And by the way, the folks in Hungary just unveiled a larger-than-life statue of Ronald Reagan in Budapest. I understand a statue of Obama is being readied in Pyongyang.

darcy| 1.18.12 @ 3:59AM

Give Brooks an airline ticket to Budapest along with a ticket to the Terror Museum at Andrassy utca 60 (that's utca with a soft 'c'). Until he's been there and returned, give him no quarter here. He's merely an annoyance as it is now and consumes far too much SPACE. Lots and lots of space -- vast expanses of nothingness, so empty are the heads of those who REFUSE TO SEE and COMPREHEND.

scotchieguy| 1.17.12 @ 12:37PM

Mitch, the military spending today is less than 20% of the budget, under JFK, it was 50%. The military spending, althought alot of it is wasted, is not our problem. It is the entitlement spending that will kill us.

mitch poremba| 1.17.12 @ 1:01PM

All good points, first, military spending and your right, entitlements are going to kill us, but with military spending, your not comparing apples to apples. we are spending about $700 billion a year when we have a national budget of over $3.7 Trillion and what Mark Levin has exposed is that Obama's almost $1 Trillion stimilus in 2009 is included in the budget base line every year, so if you took the military spending in say 2004 against 2004 budget, the percentage would be higher, but this Marxist in the WH has increased spending so much, that with the current military spending, it is a lower percentage.. As far as buildup, yes we have less ships then under Reagan, I believe what Reagan did was build more ships, but he started us on the path of supersizing our equipment, which has increased, lesser ships with more missles, more aircraft carriers with a lot more planes, less subs but more missles on them, the B2 that takes off from this country, goes over and drops bombs then comes back and equipment like the M1 tank. We may have less but we have a lot more striking power then any other time. The buildup is the military budget, with closing bases here in the 1990's and building more bases overseas, maintaining them, then that big compound built in Iraq with millions of taxpayers money when we knew we be getting out. The buildup is the budget which is used for nation building. Reagan built our military up, the rest of the Presidents have done nation building "helping" us go broke. I'm sure we can all agree, there is stuff in the military budget we don't even know about, maybe paying millions to dictators, this nation building and paying off dictators was never done under Reagan, I believe.

Occam's Tool| 1.17.12 @ 1:11PM

I don't believe in Nation Building scum; I believe in Nation intimidating and, if necessary, destroying in that case.

The prerequsite to developing democracies in a Dictatorship regime, as all Islamic countries are, is to first beat them to a pulp. They must not believe that, as Germany did in WWI, they can rebuild or that they weren't "truly beaten."

So, in Iraq, we should have pulped their Mosques and military bases, and offered aid contingent upon their submission and deference. And Iraq should NOT have been our first target---it should have been Iran.

KennesawJack| 1.17.12 @ 1:24PM

All in due time, Occam (and due time is not far off).

Drunken Sailor| 1.17.12 @ 1:59PM

The General Sherman method has many advantages.

KennesawJack| 1.17.12 @ 2:09PM

Oh, it does. It truly does.

darcy| 1.18.12 @ 4:03AM

I'm with you guys. Nation building sucks; all we do is build up a nation that returns the favor by biting us in the butt -- which is what they always wanted to do but couldn't until we helped them. American foreign policy is stuck on stupid.

Say Baptist| 1.17.12 @ 7:57AM

Gee I thought that great liberal OTTO Von Bismark first implemented social security. Father Freud also pointed out the batle between Eros and Thanatos (he called it the death wish) if all needs are met you're dead-simple. It's the stassis in homostassis.

Alan Brooks| 1.17.12 @ 10:02AM

"It's the stassis in homostassis."

You mean homeostasis? or homo-stasis, as in Michael Jackson?

PineKnot| 1.17.12 @ 8:00AM

I have to buy this, and send it to my sons and grandsons as well.

W| 1.17.12 @ 8:28AM

Levin's book sounds a lot like Ann Coulter's "Demonic," Jonah Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism," and Thomas Sowell's "Vision of the Annointed," and Angelo Cordevilla's "The Ruling Class." They all analyze the mindset where the liberal big government types know what is best for you whether you like it or not. The nanny state.
Looking forward to Levin's book, his "Liberty and Tyrrany" and "Men in Black" about the supreme court were good.

David Delio| 1.17.12 @ 9:13AM

This article is a joke right? As if Mark Levin is the first person bring these names to light? Haven't read the book, but if it is anything like Lord's description, I will be saddened. Are there "left-winger's" throughout history? Serious anachronism. I hope that Levin actually doesn't simply reduce great works of political philosophy to political talking points, as Lord intimates - as if, for example, the Republic were simply the Democratic platform. Inquire as to why Socrates was killed, Plato's reaction, and his desire to think through what might be more just than a tyranny of the majority. If the Republic isn't a search for Truth and Justice but rather simply govern't by the "elites" then I feel sorry for both Lord - who must never have read it - and Levin who opportunistically uses historical examples give conservatives a new "manifesto".

Anthony| 1.17.12 @ 10:21AM

Well of course you haven't read the book since it's not out yet, regardless, it's clear you have not read "Men in Black" or "Liberty and Tyranny" either. If you listened to Levin's show, you'd probably get a migrane.
Perhaps if you come to this conversation actually knowing what you're talking about, instead of talking out your ass, you might have something to offer.
However, being just another ignorant lefty troll is more suited to your intellect, I suspect. The joke is on you Delio.

Mimi| 1.17.12 @ 10:50AM

The TROLLS got on this article like flies on honey!
We always know what annoys, and destroys them watching where they flock....Levin is a superior change artist...beware libs your perch is about to be BOMBED !!

David Delio| 1.17.12 @ 11:07AM

Actually, I have been reading snippets of the book posted on Amazon. I do listen to Levin when I have the chance, and I agree with his premise - about the Left's desire for ruling elites and a progressive utopia. I just don't think that his choice of historical examples dovetail so nicely with the current Dem platform. Further, as you can see with the posts below, Levin does not truly get More's Utopia. Finally, have you actually read the Republic?

Anthony| 1.17.12 @ 11:45AM

Oh please who the hell are you trying to impress? Once again, another one attempting to be the smartest person in the room, who ends up being too clever by half.
When you get past the snippets and read the books, then we'll talk. Did you read snippets of More and Plato as well, or just the Cliff Notes?

Seek| 1.17.12 @ 11:43AM

Religious extremists have their own version of State-run despotism. We're just not suposed to notice as they "protect" families from certain video games, movies and magazines. The problem with the Mark Levins of this world is that they focus on one form of despotism -- from the Left. He utterly ignores an equally pernicious kind coming from the Right.

Skip| 1.17.12 @ 9:18AM

So, Jack in Wisconsin, when did you serve? What is YOUR MOS? NEC?

Like the typical Stormfronter, you're all bluster.

Occam's Tool| 1.17.12 @ 1:12PM

Skip,

Jack has stated before that he's a "proud cowardly 4-F." (I'm paraphrasing but accurate--coward has been used by himself to describe himself, as has 4-F.")

1-2 Punch| 1.17.12 @ 9:26AM

Wow! In before Jack in Wi. removes Clint's gagball for the day.

fake but accurate| 1.17.12 @ 9:28AM

" Like King Canute, Obama will be able to command the oceans when not busy healing the planet." Just the opposite - Canute was demonstrating to his nobles his powerlessness over the incoming tide.

megapotamus| 1.17.12 @ 10:15AM

Like Moore, Canute goes over some heads. I wonder how much absurdity in history is misunderstood didactic sarcasm? Hopefully a lot.

John786| 1.17.12 @ 10:19AM

I feel sorry for king cannute. He was demonstrating the limits of human power. But instead he's remmembered by the ignorant for being an arrogant so & so. Oh dear.

John786| 1.17.12 @ 10:52AM

I've not read mr levin's book. But from the extracts he's an utter lightweight. If utopia is your thing;You can't go far wrong with " straw dogs" by John gray aka King utopia.

Rob Seabrook| 1.17.12 @ 9:45AM

yet he is unwilling to support Ron Paul. guess the military industrial complex plays no part in this race to utopia. Disingenuous at best. Still, most thinking people will see it as a huge advert for the good doctors prescriptions.

Rob Seabrook| 1.17.12 @ 9:45AM

yet he is unwilling to support Ron Paul. guess the military industrial complex plays no part in this race to utopia. Disingenuous at best. Still, most thinking people will see it as a huge advert for the good doctors prescriptions.

David T| 1.17.12 @ 10:07AM

Ron Paul is a utopian in his own way. He thinks if we play nice with others, they'll respond in kind.

9thID| 1.17.12 @ 11:00AM

Ron Paul's "uptopia" comes in the flip side of Libertinism, namely Anarchy...

Rivenburg| 1.19.12 @ 9:27PM

9thid.
In present day America, you are correct, Libertarianism as a political movement has been highjacked by anarchists who think they are Libertarians.
CLASSIC Libertarians believe nothing like the anarchists, this all drugs legal & open borders crap IS anarchy.
Ron Paul isn't a Utopian, hes a hard core constitutionalist with a serious practical side.
His take on Medicare? "it's unconstitutional, but doing away with it now would disrupt America too much and I wont do it."
This stance doesn't match ANYTHING said about him from the left or the right.
I believe RP will get FAR more votes as a write-in then Romney will get period, face it Romney is as palatable as Dole or McCain. And the GOP know it & don't care. They have sold out to the statests on the left. They are plugged into the gravy train.
Something everyone needs to get a grip on, the people at the top of the left aren't commies or socialists, this is all cover, they are simply pirates, nothing more. Their middle management are commies & true believers, Stalin's "useful idiots". But at the top, only pirates, stuffing their pockets.

Occam's Tool| 1.17.12 @ 1:14PM

Yes. He think that if we say "nice doggie" to a hound infected with rabies, that the hound will respond. In place of "rabies," substitute "Islam."

Chris| 1.17.12 @ 9:55AM

Of course, Thomas More was writing a satire.

megapotamus| 1.17.12 @ 10:13AM

Yes, I was confused about the straight treatment of Moore. I hope Levin hasn't made that error in his book. If so it will be a mighty disqualifying issue and an object of much hilarity.

KennesawJack| 1.17.12 @ 11:27AM

Obviously, I haven't read the book yet but I find it difficult to believe Levin would make that mistake.

Skip| 1.17.12 @ 9:56AM

Ron Paul has his own version of kool-aid ridden "utopia".

Chalkdust| 1.17.12 @ 9:59AM

Excellent review Mr. Lord. Mark Levin is indeed an American born, 21st century thinkers. Too bad we can't hold a gun on America's youth long enough to get them to read his (any) book. But the unionized thugs that shepherd our children through our federalized, public school systems will have none of it as they gleefully turn our children into electronic crazed, pretzel nuggets filled with Utopian ooze.

Indy| 1.17.12 @ 10:01AM

My pre-order copy has shipped, I look forward to reading it. Liberty and Tyranny and Men in Black were excellent, I'm sure this new book will also be a keeper. There will be a new crop of high school grads who will be voting for the first time, consider making Ameritopia a graduation gift.

megapotamus| 1.17.12 @ 10:11AM

Wow, a real clinker from Lord there near the end. "There you go again," was indeed a Reagan rejoinder and one alleged conservatives like to regurgitate but its meaning was just about the polar OPPOSITE of the usual presumption which seems to be the one on display here. "There you go again" Lloyd Bentsen or Jimmy Carter, accusing me of wanting to dismantle or even curtail the crown jewels of the New Deal and Great Society. Perish the thought! In Brentwood Rick Santorum made the greatest contribution he seems able to make by rubbishing the idea of Reagan as some entitlement reformere. Sure, there was welfare reform and Newt played a part in that (as did Clinton) but Reagan's "solution" to impending SS insolvency was what? TO RAISE TAXES! Yes, Social Security was Too Big To Fail even in Reagan's estimation. Just as Carter or Mondale would have Reagan kicked the can down the road. It was a mighty kick, that we may admit, but here we are, again at the can. Check Santorum at Brentwood the day after Iowa. I would link it but despite sock salesmen being able to span their way onto AmSpec, it seems CSPAN links are verbotten. Viva Rick!

John Navratil| 1.17.12 @ 11:50AM

megapotamus,

You forgot to mention the promise of the spending cuts which never materialized. Reagan called it a great mistake on his part.

megapotamus| 1.17.12 @ 1:04PM

Yes he did. I also did not mention the bump of the retirement age to 67, the statutory prescription for that has not yet kicked in, but Santorum is catholic in his treatment. Frankly I don't think the presumed betrayal by ONeill's Democrats absolves Reagan the man and in any case we have no room for such "compromise" now. A new Reagan is NOT what is needed today, rather a Super-Reagan or a Real Reagan that lives up, somewhat, to the hype. The point being veneration of Reagan is as wrong and misleading as veneration of anyone. We shouldn't be in the venerating business.

Anthony| 1.17.12 @ 10:13AM

Thank you Mr. Lord for you excellent review of Mark's book. Despite beinging another One Million+ best seller, the MSM will once again ignore this book, as they did with "Liberty & Tyranny". But some lefty who sells 100 books will get fawning reviews from the NYT.
The left are hell bent on destroying this country.
Now get off the computer you big dope!!!

Ted| 1.17.12 @ 10:31AM

Um, not so fast on throwing St. Thomas More and Plato in with the likes of Marx and Obama. More was righting a satire and Plato's Republic was aimed at the Greek city-states which were of a particular time and place.

Katievs| 1.17.12 @ 10:34AM

To set the record straight, in case anyone is confused, Thomas More was NOT an enthusiast for euthanasia. His "Utopia" was in fact a dystopia. He was a prophet.

bill| 1.17.12 @ 10:44AM

Mark Levine is my mentor.

nathan| 1.17.12 @ 10:49AM

My wife and I listen to Mark Levin in short bursts because he's the Bruce Springsteen of talk radio. Like Bruce who doesn't sing, he screams through his songs, Mark seldom talks, he shouts for three hours. He's hard to listen to.

That aside Mark is typical of the neocons of today. He uniformly dismisses the "good intentions" and the actions that come from them like Obamacare on the left. But he willing excuses all manner of excesses from right. You all can correct me here since I admittedly don't listen to him much but how critical of Bush/Cheney was Mark? While that administration was shredding the Constitution in the name "saving the country" he, like most of what passes for the "conservative right" (does that phrase have any meaning any more?) said not a word. Indefinite detention of American (Padilla) on American soil in direct violation of the Fifth Amendment? Mark and the other giants of talk radio said not a word. Signing statements by Bush saying he was going going to ignore the bills he was signing into law instead of vetoing them? Who rose up in outrage? Not Mark right? Read the book "Takeover" sometimes folks. And yet Mark who Lord would have us believe was a pillar of conservative strength in troubled times, "THE GREAT ONE" as Sean likes to call him, said not a word as Bush and Cheney shredded the Constitution they were sworn to uphold and defend. In the end they weren't any better than the guys who replaced them but for the "right" they're hero's.

And all this proves is that shredding the Constitution is fine, ignoring and violating international agreements like the Geneva accords (go back and read the prosecution brief for Captain Medina's trial and and see how horribly out of sync the Bush people were with THAT document) if you do for the RIGHT reasons (pun intended).

Principles what principles? Standards what standards. When you have three Americans in Yemen executed while not on the battlefield and people like Mark and Sean and the rest say not a word, well that tells you all you need to know right? When McCain puts into the NDAA an amendment that destroys the Fifth Amendment and Mark and the rest yawns, the "conservative" Washington Times says "no problem" then again it tells you that it's okay to shred the Constitution if YOUR motives are pure, wrong if you are a liberal socialist.

No folks, and Mark and rest get this wrong all the time, the Constitution applies to everyone, even the Bush/Cheney people, even the next republican president even Newt though it's clear he doesn't think so. That no matter your intentions, you can't go around violating it any more than Obama can, that the principles apply to the right as well as the left.

Which is why Mark is interesting but not very enlightening.

Dick Nome| 1.17.12 @ 11:42AM

You sound like a typical Paulbot.

1-2 Punch| 1.17.12 @ 12:06PM

Levin's shows are free. Listen to 1-16-12 (yesterdays). Coincidentally mentions Bush admin., seperation of powers violation. How F'ing stupid can you be to comment on Levin at the same time admit you do not listen. People that listen to Levin and the read some of the comments on here about him (especially "big-gov" and never taking repubs to task) are doing a serious WTF. Absolutely bizarre claims if you listen to him and have an ounce of comprehension.

tonypal| 1.17.12 @ 1:02PM

I'll second what 1-2 Punch said. You go off on a long screed, yet admit you don't really listen to the guy. If you spent one consecutive hour listening to him on almost any day of the week, you would know of his utter disdain for George W. Bush's big government conservatism.

Here's a friendly suggestion. Tune into Mark and stay tuned in for a few shows. Then come back here and write a rebuttal to your own post. It would be refreshing for someone to admit their wrong. Maybe you'll be the first.

Occam's Tool| 1.17.12 @ 1:15PM

The three American Islamic terrorists, you mean?

THKrupp| 1.17.12 @ 10:59AM

Isnt every political thought process or institution someones idea of utopia? This is pretty obvious. No one sets out to create a distopia...although in other minds it may be.

9thID| 1.17.12 @ 11:03AM

Ron Paul is the exception to your rule...

THKrupp| 1.17.12 @ 11:43AM

LOL well I would hope that at least he believes that his ideas if implemented would create his version of utopia...of course I could be wrong.

Todd S| 1.17.12 @ 4:33PM

Ron Paul is just as bad as Obama because he believes in the Utopian vision of libertarianism that would be as disastrous and unworkable as the Marxist vision of society. And he echoes the far left with his blame of America for all the troubles around the world and has partnered with such odious groups as Code Pink not to mention calling that traitor Bradley Manning a hero.

Darcy| 1.17.12 @ 11:02AM

Funny, my wife & I just saw a Capra movie called "State of the Union." At one point the heroic presidential candidate (Spencer Tracy) delivers himself of a glowing stemwinder meant to Answer All Questions and Thrill All Audiences. His vision? Universal healthcare and one world currency. No kidding! In 1948! Not much has changed for the utopians. Another interesting thing was that this guy was having an affair. Fast forward to Bill Clinton, hero of the left.

cicero| 1.17.12 @ 11:28AM

Utopia was the Greek word for "Nowhere". Up until the middle of the 19th Century, everybody understood that. It took Marx and his desciples, who mostly came later, to actually adopt the program as anything other than satire. The Progressives saw it as a way to get control of the wealth of the world. They would asssume control of the wealth of the nations and distribute it as they, and only they, would know was good and just. Oh, and by the way, they would have to be paid handsomely because they were so smart, just, compassionate, worthy, and just better than everybody else. All they had to do was demonize the producers, and promise freebies to the majority.
Social Security, as originally envisioned, was not so bad of an idea. You paid into it for 40 or 50 years, and were paid enough to keep the wolves away for about 10 years. The fact that our progressive friends changed the rules didn't make the original idea bad. Tfhe fact that they added all kinds of freebies to folks who didn't pay into it for 40 or 50 years; borrowed all of the money in return for wsorthless notes; and used the borrowed notes to buy votes from the majority by giving them freebies, wrecked the system. Now the only way to make sense out of it is to change the formula radically for those who haven't had to pay into it for the past 40 to 50 years, and give them a chance to build their own safety fund.

ohiojb| 1.17.12 @ 11:34AM

Levin for Supreme Court Justice.

Citizen Jerry| 1.17.12 @ 12:51PM

As always, a great article from Jeffrey -- although he tends to write verbose.

Obama as Plato's Guardian? It's more malevolent than that. He tried to pass himself off as God Almighty, and he buffaloed thousands of dullards int believing him.

We can survive the Prince of Fools. I'm more concerned about the clueless multitude who elected him their prince.

But some of us are waiting, in the words of the late Larry Norman, for the band to play six-sixty-six.

Who Knows?| 1.17.12 @ 1:05PM

Why don't people like Levin run for President?

1ConservativeUSA| 1.17.12 @ 4:01PM

It would be a restrictive waste of his talents.

G. Pedigrew| 1.17.12 @ 1:12PM

Haven't read the book, but from the summary the points sound wholly unconvincing. A modern-day Leftie need only say, "It sounds like you argue against all advancement of humanity by throwing the Utopia word around. Should we stop looking for cures for diseases, better flying machines, improved education, more efficient government, better mousetraps,...?"

I hope Levin has some way of distinguishing between stupid Utopianism and striving to improve our lot in genuinely good ways.

Who Knows?| 1.17.12 @ 1:49PM

My lord, Jeffrey, are you on “happy” pills?

Your whole case for Levin’s new book sounds so---

UTOPIAN.

I’m afraid mere books, even those read by a whopping 1.3 million people, won’t be enough to stop the rising tide of history---the dumbing down of Americans continues apace, and is even accelerating.

At the hardest core of the apparent imperfection of humans is Narcissus. Given the initial split into a self verses non-selves, or self-other, inside-outside, me-you, et al, what else can be expected except strife---and fear. Only Enlightened Beings are immune, since they have lost their ego.

It’s like that joke about offering to pay a woman $1,000 for having sex. After she agrees, you say, “How about for $10?”, and she cries, “What do you take me for, a whore?” Well---duh? YES!

The world is what it is. Anyone doubt THAT?

Reality IS reality.

Meanwhile, in the mean time, the meaner-than-an-Obama-dog time, the Bell curve mean time, a “group think” conventional “wisdom” must arise. Beliefs, assumptions, common practices, manners, etc abound---order in the court of human opinion is demanded, OR ELSE!

However, the Real is the indeterminate. Investing it with this or that character, determining it as “this” or “not this”, is making the Real one-sided, partial and ---UNREAL. This is unconsciously to negate the real, for all determination is negation.

Waking up, correctly understood, is not annihilation, but the negation of negation---it is the conscious correction of an initial unconscious falsification of the Real. This is known as Nirvana.

What is changed is our outlook, not Reality. The function of Absolute Intuition is not to transform the Real, but only to create a change in our attitude towards it. The change is epistemic (subjective), not ontological (objective). The Real is as it has always been.

Here’s the all time hooter---

“The moment a man attains Enlightenment, he is swallowed up in the Absolute. There is no stage when he can declare that he is freed; he cannot leave any kind of record. Logically, he cannot even know he is free; as long as he is in bondage, if would be false if he took himself to be free. And when he is free, he is no longer there to know that he is free, as he is immediately merged in the Absolute.” “The Central Philosophy of Buddhism”, by T.R.V. Murti, page 279, 1955

Who knows?

Margie| 1.17.12 @ 2:07PM

I love you, Mark Levin!!

Con Chef (NB) | 1.17.12 @ 2:28PM

I'm sure if he knew what you thought about Jews & Catholics, he sure as shit wouldn't love you.

Look! Up in the sky! Its a bird, its a plane...

NO! Its Margie the Super Shikse! Here to condemn to Hell all those who dare to believe in the Holy Trinity because its a "Papist invention." Yes, that includes you misguided Protestants as well. Oh, & for all you Jews, you're "unbelievers" & "anti Christs" (sounds very Hezbo like, doesn't it).

Yes, folks, the Sons of Torquemada are here to scoop all us "unbelievers" off the street & put the hot irons to us, rack us, & draw & quarter us. After all, Margie DID tell me that "the days of Torquemada are NOT over." Gee, I always wondered where I got that long burn scar across my back. The evil "Papists" must've done that to me when I was young & they rounded up my family to convert them from Judaism to Catholicism (kinda like Margie does, without the whole "Papist" aspect).

Boar Hunter| 1.17.12 @ 4:14PM

Someone is laughing. Do you know who?

Perhaps the two of you could take a step back and reassess the value of your now weeks(?) long personal battle.

You are both causing pain and hurt to more than yourselves.

Please remember that there are people here who read and value what both of you write with careful consideration.

Neither of you are blameless and your emotions are causing both of you to act in contradiction to your beliefs.

I do not fault either of you for your considerable passions, you might have noticed that I myself am a passionate man.

I have personally enjoyed many thoughts and ideas expressed by you both and it pains me to see you use your considerable talents in such a misguided way.

Love ya both, I'm thinking that as it pertains to each other, "If you can't say something nice?"

Con Chef (NB) | 1.17.12 @ 7:00PM

Dualy noted. I'll just ignore the woman, hard though that may be.

Boar Hunter| 1.17.12 @ 7:49PM

Thank you sir, for even considering my humble advice.

Margie| 1.18.12 @ 1:12PM

Nice attempt at equivocation there, Boar Hunter, but you fail miserably.
Why?
Because either you're blind or just playing blind in order to look good in the eyes of men.

If you truly haven't taken notice of the Con Artist Chef's vile, filthy lying disgusting mouth, (as in the above) then you best do a search and see that he began his filthy attack on me for no reason what so ever, and I called him what he is for it~ a vile little hypocrite and PUNK.

Oh, and "love ya?" You sure have a funny way of showing it.

All the while you said not a peep when he hurled his filthy mouth my way.

Now you want to "make peace".

I call total BS.

And furthermore, I'm not "acting in contradiction to my beliefs". Since when is speaking the truth to a VILE, man, a LIAR and a PUNK doing same??

It isn't.

And in fact, he owes me an apology, but of course I won't get it because this is who the man is.

He's a slandering little twit. He began viciously attacking me and hasn't ceased. I've been a conservative and Christian for more years than this little twerp has been alive.

He doesn't get to walk away from his vile lying by me. No one else cares, what a bunch of cowards you guys are!

W| 1.18.12 @ 7:58PM

Boar Hunter,
You said you enjoyed the thoughts and ideas of Margie? All she posts is her anti catholic drivel and bigotry. Surely you do not mean you enjoy that. See how she replied to your offer.

W| 1.18.12 @ 8:00PM

P.S. Margie, you, not the Chef, are the bigot, liar. And you are the welfare queen.

Margie| 1.18.12 @ 9:30PM

As I said to the disgusting filthy liar Con Artist Chef above: I am thankful to Jesus that He is going to throw liars into the Lake of Fire.

Better get ready, punk.
Rev. 21:8.

Margie| 1.17.12 @ 4:29PM

"He who has the Son has life; he who has not the Son of God has not life." 1 Jn. 5:12.

Todd S| 1.17.12 @ 4:38PM

Well I guess it would be incorrect to say Margie hates Jews as Mark Levin is a Jew. Question for Margie though, is Mark Levin damned if he does not convert to Christianity in this life? Does all the good works he performs as a Jew count for nothing in his favor on Judgement Day?

Con Chef (NB) | 1.17.12 @ 6:58PM

She's told ME as much, so I'll bet you my next 5 paychecks she'll answer your question affirmatively.

Todd S| 1.18.12 @ 10:31AM

Not surprised she did not answer, can't really come out and say that you love Mark Levin but he is going to hell because he does not believe her false interpretation of the Bible.

Margie| 1.18.12 @ 1:20PM

Interpret this, Trolls:

"For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.

For God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

He who believes in Him is not condemned; he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the Name of the only Son of God.

And this is the Judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than Light, because their deeds were evil.

For every one who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

But he who does what is true comes to the Light, that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been wrought in God." Jn. 3:16-21.

Brian Richard Allen | 1.19.12 @ 5:54PM

Interpret this, Trolls:

"For God so loved .... that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been wrought in God." Jn. 3:16-21.

REPLY TO THIS

OK:

Matthew 6

1Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

2Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

3But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:

4That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.

5And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

6But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly ....

That do the trick?

mrp| 1.17.12 @ 2:27PM

Lord writes: "In other words, Thomas More as an early enthusiast of what Sarah Palin called the "death panels" of ObamaCare."

Anyone who knows anything about Thomas More, Catholicism, and suicide understands that Lord's statement is the polar opposite of More's opinion on euthanasia. His Utopia is a satire. I would suggest that Lord and Levin read Eamon Duffy's book "The Stripping Of The Altars", chapter 9 "Last Things" to comprehend how shocking and repellant More's readers would have found a state program that murdered the weakest members of society.

1ConservativeUSA| 1.17.12 @ 4:00PM

Mark Levin is the unquestioned leader of American conservatives.

Osamas Pajamas| 1.17.12 @ 4:55PM

SPARKS FROM WYATT'S TORCH

What this country needs is a truly LIBERAL president and congress and judiciary!

And I forgive the reader for suspecting that this must be some kind of bad joke!

But the Democrats believe in "statism" --- not "liberalism."

Strip them naked of their fake "liberal" label and expose their ugliness for all the world to see.

They benefit from the imprecise American political terminology ---- we say "the government" here in the USA ---- rather than "the state." And that's a dangerous problem. Famous brands of statism in recent centuries have been Nazism, socialism, fascism, communism, and welfare statism ---- this last is sort of a mix of fascism and socialism.

Liberalism, on the other hand, is a political philosophy of small, cheap government ---- it is a constabulary ---- and the job of a liberal government is to enforce human rights within its own jurisdiction. I speak of the unalienable and perfectly-natural and universally-valid human rights of life, liberty, private property, and the pursuit of personal happiness.

The first article of private property is "the self" and all other rights are derivatives of and flow from these cardinal rights. These rights ---- The Rights of Man ---- are the gift of nature or of nature's god ---- and they belong to all human beings, everywhere.

Show me a Democrat who subscribes to all of the above, without qualifications or weasel words. The words "liberal" and "liberalism" were hijacked by the Democrats and socialists and fascists long ago ---- and it was the mistake of conservatives and libertarians to let them get away with it.

It is long past time that liberalism be reclaimed, defined, and explained by its rightful owners ---- by the champions of freedom, i.e.: not by Democrats.

Well, how about "progressivism?" Whuzzat?! “Cancer” is “progressive,” too. Isn't “progressivism” just another statist cancer? It chews you up, piece by piece, in the name of Da Peepul? Eat Da Rich? Moral cannibalism, anyone?

Friends of freedom! Friends of peace-through-strength! And friends of prosperity! Declare yourselves to be "liberals," then ---- and kick over the bloody coffee tables --- and overthrow and trounce the Democrats in 2012!

Osamas Pajamas| 1.17.12 @ 4:57PM

THE AGE OF OHBUMMER

OhBummer is a fool for attacking the American Tea Partiers. Heck, he thought that he had all of us hoodwinked, hornswoggled, and bamboozled. He’s annoyed that the Tea Partiers are not grateful to him for hijacking the American healthcare system --- the greatest act of vandalism perpetrated upon the American people since a gang of jihadi frootloops and loonytoons hijacked some planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center towers --- and the Pentagon, and made a failed attempt to crash into the White House --- and instead drilled a hole in a Pennsylvania farm thanks to some very courageous American passengers.

And --- now widely seen for what he is --- the president presents a problem for the Democrat-captured media. They pump out his propaganda for him --- and, like the opinion monitors in Ayn Rand’s novel, “Atlas Shrugged” --- they are dodging brickbats and rotten vegetables.

He’s pompous, pampered, and pretentious --- a pseudo-intellectual fop. He’s a glorified, smooth-lyin’ dandy, and slicker than Sick Willie Clinton. He’s a dictator-on-the-make, a bloodsxcking, predatory humanitarian thug, and a low-down skunk.

He’s a fraud and a swindler. He lies when he inhales and he lies when he exhales; his oxygen is the falsification of reality. He lies, placidly and laconically, as if deception were a soporific drug.

He’s a friend of the poor and the downtrodden --- indeed, you can hear the milk of human kindness sloshing around inside of him when he walks.

He declares himself the post-racial leader --- “Let me be clear!” he intones --- and he hides behind his race, daring his critics to put their reputation for fairness at risk.

He pauses to ponder the portent of his propaganda --- and it is fakery; he smiles and his mendacity comes shining through. Shake hands with Barak Hushpuppy OhBummer --- “The Mistake of ‘08” --- the illegal alien squatter in the White House until his “papers” have been lab-tested for age and chemicals, etc --- the community organizer of the Fleabagger Party --- the King of The Republic of Lies --- and America’s first and last Arab president. Now count your fingers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch_p.....SWSzY#t=28

Paul | 1.17.12 @ 5:17PM

The early bird is a worm!

POST American| 1.17.12 @ 5:35PM

---------------------FINAL WORD-----------------------

"Globalism ,'Free Trade', unaccountable
INTER-national USURY, TREASON and
EUGENICS are always intertwined.
---------ALWAYS."

That's right -----------ALWAYS.

---AS the police state unfolds in this,,
the undeniable 11th hour of
the 4 decades on Globalist RED China
sellout and TREASON OP ------NO ONE
DARES MAKE --'THE'-- PEEP.

bluecollarbytes| 1.17.12 @ 7:58PM

Mark Levin is a genius.

A utopian's work is never finished. Give them everything they want today and they would have a whole new list of 'needs' and demands tomorrow morning.

The current govt/citizen relationship is out of whack. Staying on this track will soon have everyone working primarily to sustain govt., which in turn will grant favors to its subjects, depending on who is naughty or nice.

Tony in Central PA| 1.17.12 @ 9:27PM

" Abolish the Church and the state becomes the church ".
G.K. Chesterton

Mike M| 1.17.12 @ 10:04PM

The only problem...And, YES, there is a problem here - is all the young schmucks who should be reading this book can't.
They haven't been taught to.
Therein lies perhaps the greatest legacy of the left.

Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel | 1.18.12 @ 12:11AM

Levin is part of the problem for a "post Constitutional" America.

Levin talks big about the constitution, but says and does nothing about the unconstitutional (non natural born citizen) status of bogus "president" Obama. Until Levin can learn some basic Constitutional ABC'S, I see no reason to read his books......

Margie| 1.18.12 @ 1:23PM

That's funny, troll. I've been listening to Mark Levin for years, and he is one of the MOST outspoken radio personalities concerning the matter.

You wouldn't see a reason to read his books anyway, because you're probably a Paul-bot.

Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel | 1.19.12 @ 1:00AM

Margie| Re: Your 1.18.12 @ 1:23 PM

You assume too much. Ron Paul is the least desirable in my opinion.

As to your comment reply, you must have misunderstood my comment or attempted to re-frame my opinion. Nice try - but, not good enough. On the basis of that, should I call you a "lib extremist?" That, is what they often do......

Johnba| 1.18.12 @ 3:01PM

Well, IF the classical works he cites were still taught in our schools and universities, then this book would not be necessary.

Tina B| 1.20.12 @ 10:26AM

Yes, Johnba, but the Classics haven't been taught for over a hundred years, so this book is very necessary, and thank God for Mark Levin, and Mark Steyn, for that matter.

Old-time reader| 1.18.12 @ 3:42PM

I really don't want to be rude, but as someone who subscribed to the American Spectator 30 years ago and still checks in now and then online, I'm appalled that a magazine once so intelligent, witty and literate would publish something as poorly done as this purported review. It reads as though it was written by a rather dim teenager. We read of Plato, "the famous Greek philosopher" and of Thomas More's "Utopia," published in -- "That's right -- 1516, some 496 years ago." It's all so flat-footed and vacuous. Editors, please try to live up to your reputation.

Tina B| 1.20.12 @ 10:28AM

flat-footed, vacuous?

The reference to "Utopia" notwithstanding, I thought it was a quality reiew. Editors, take note.

Tina B| 1.20.12 @ 10:29AM

OOpsie, make that review, not reiew.

Ormond Otvos| 1.19.12 @ 3:02PM

Nowhere does Obama fail to note our imperfections, and lo and behold! they generally express themselves in conservative hidebound pseudo-religious fantasies.

The fault is not in hoping for a better world, but in making strawmen instead of bricks.

High Plains Drifter| 1.19.12 @ 3:39PM

I agree with "Old-time Reader". I'm not sure if Levin's book is as awful as Lord makes it seem, but this is indeed an awful review. The informal tone is not charming at all.

Sweet-1| 1.19.12 @ 5:04PM

Saint Thomas Moore was not a utopian. He was a critic of utopia. The book was a satire. I'm sure the author is too high-brow intellectual to stoop to reading internet comments but could someone get a copy to the man, please? Utopia is a temptation, it is Satan's perverted answer to the Kingdom of God.

Brian Richard Allen | 1.19.12 @ 5:39PM

Every trolling, Leftard, asinine-activist "Democrat" but I repeat myself, goes straight (an oxymoron I know but none of them goes "right," either) to the ad hominem. Instantly affirming the absolute veracity of Mr Lord's -- and Mr Levin's -- every thought, every idea and every word.

I paused at page two to buy more signed and numbered copies from Premier Collectables.

vanillachica| 1.19.12 @ 11:49PM

This was the most mellodramatic 6 pages I've read since Romeo and frickin Juliet.

Tina B| 1.20.12 @ 10:33AM

Wow, we sure must see things from a different worldview. That would account for the opposing views of Mr. Lord's comments as well as Mr. Levin's book.

Nothing new there. TAS has something for everyone.

Resist We Much! | 1.20.12 @ 12:52PM

“Sometimes this is a difficult road being in politics. Sometimes you can become fearful, sometimes you can become vain, sometimes you can seek power just for power’s sake instead of because you want to do service to God. I just want all of you to pray that I can be an instrument of God in the same way that Pastor Ron and all of you are instruments of God.

We’re going to keep on praising together.

I AM CONFIDENT THAT WE CAN CREATE A KINGDOM RIGHT HERE ON EARTH."

- Senator Barack Obama, 8 October 2007


Whenever men set out to create "Heaven on Earth" or a "Kingdom on Earth," they invariably end up creating hell instead.

Tina B| 1.21.12 @ 2:27PM

Yes, and it was Christ Himself who told us His "Kingdom is not of this world." Heaven on Earth is a lie, be it Communists, Socialists, Statists, or Utopians telling their particular fantasy as if it was truth.

The trouble is, so many people want to hear the Lie more than they want to know the Truth. And some pols, eager to please and stay in their cushy lifestyles, sell themselves like cheap whores.

They key is to know that if someone is selling us "heaven on earth," then they are a liar and will steal our freedoms right out from under our noses.

POST American| 1.23.12 @ 11:42PM

AS we do the inventory of those down
and gone from bizarre terminal conditions
---sourced,largely in weaponized vaccines
and taints of food, water, air ----we wonder?
has LEVIN ever dared take up the issue
of USURY ----Rockefeller EUGENICS---
and full spectrum cultural takedown and
capstone TREASON?

Has he ever called it out? ----EVER???

William Wanko| 1.27.12 @ 10:09PM

Phenominal review. I feel like I read Mark's book.

David| 4.8.12 @ 1:01AM

I haven't read Levin's book, but if the excerpts here are any indication, it is full of half truths and lies.

First, from the article/book we have: "Inside the home, the federal government regulates washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, . . . [and the list goes on]. The question is, how is this any different than what the government has always done? Obama didn't invent this, we've always had regulation, for a very long time, much of it good, and meant to keep us safe. Heck, if you follow the logic of this article, than seat belts (required by federal law) or rules meant to keep us from eating tainted beef, or food labeling which allows to make informed decisions about what we put in our bodies, are all communist conspiracies.

In another place the book quotes Thomas More's book 'Utopia' where it talks about a society where people suffering from incurable diseases are encouraged to commit suicide to ease their pain. The book/article then makes a strange leap of ill-logic, comparing this to Obama's fictitious death panels. (A myth made famous by Ms. 'I can see my panty line from here' Palin). The fact is there never were any death panels. The Obama administration did issue directives for new Medicare regulations about "voluntary advance care planning." And gee, the issue is? What? That patients can voluntarily discuss advanced directives or end of life decisions with their doctor? Now there's a socialist plot waiting to hatch!

And finally, this article or the book makes a stab at a line from Obama's campaign which says: "Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless . . . ." What's interesting here is if this had been a Republican candidate making this speak (sans the global warming stuff), Lord/Levin would probably have been praising it as a full of hope in a time of national crisis, etc. etc. but because it comes from Obama it is tainted with evil utopian-style government speak, meant to enslave us.

Based on this, I'd say this book has about as much truth as the Obama birth certificate conspiracies or the belief that Jews were responsible for the slave trade or that the Bush administration caused the 9/11 attacks. (Though he certainly hood-winked us into the Iraq war and raised the deficit by trillions of dollars, but hey, let's blame that on Obama too.)

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