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A Long List of ACL Study Materials, scroll down right hand column.
What They Say
What We Say
What Others Say
How Anticommunitarianism Evolved
The New World Order Conspiracy
Exposing a Few Communitarian Secrets
Raise the Hammer.org response

What they say:

"Global governance has been criticized for many reasons, some of which are more compelling than others. For instance, it is said that such governance violates old-fashioned notions of national sovereignty,9 which Professor Dinh defines well. However, the notion of national sovereignty is neither God-given nor part of human nature. Instead, as Professor Dinh correctly points out, global governance was something concocted in the seventeenth century to stop religious wars, which entailed the intervention of one ruler in the internal affairs of other communities." by Amitai Etzioni, pdf file at GWU, On the Need For More Transnational Capacity.

"Healthy communities are built upon two pillars of equal strength and necessity: a respect for the freedoms of individuals and a commitment to the common good. In order for our society to continue and to flourish, all of its members must work toward this balance between rights and responsibility-including children." Amitai Etzioni blog March 2005, Educating for Freedom and Responsibility.

"Officials recognize that these vaccines will harm a small percentage of (genetically susceptible) individuals, but it is for the common good. The communitarian code posits that it is morally acceptable, if necessary, to sacrifice a few for the good of the many. Or as one observer more bluntly puts it, "Individual sheep can be sheared and slaughtered if it is for the welfare of their flock." This information is provided by Mercola.com a natural health website.

"We establish for the moment a new world order. 11 September 2001 everything changed."
Amitai Etzioni on July 26, 2003 in an interview with Afghan Mania in Germany.



"The world needs a new global architecture, additional layers of governance, to deal with issues that neither nations nor traditional forms of intergovernmental organizations can cope with."
Amitai Etzioni at September 7th, 2004 conference at the Hague titled, "Europe, A Beautiful Idea"

"I am speaking of a new engagement in the lives of others, a new activism, hands-on and involved, that gets the job done. We must bring in the generations, harnessing the unused talent of the elderly and the unfocused energy of the young.... I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good." The Inagural Address of President George Bush 1989. Yale Avalon Law Project.

"Bush's inaugural address," said George Washington University professor Amitai Etzioni, a communitarian thinker, "was a communitarian text, full of words like 'civility,' 'responsibility' and 'community.' That's no accident. Bush's advisers consulted on the speech with Putnam." Washington Post Staff Writer Dana Milbank, February 01, 2001 "Needed: Catchword for Bush Ideology, 'Communitarianism' Finds Favor"

"The President of the United States of America [Clinton] awards this National Humanities Medal to Robert N. Bellah for his efforts to illuminate the importance of community in American society. A distinguished sociologist and educator, he has raised our awareness of the values that are at the core of our democratic institutions and of the dangers of individualism unchecked by social responsibility." [emphasis added] A Biography of Robert Bellah.

"The First Amendment's disestablishment clause is not a foreign policy tool, but a peculiarly American conception. Just because the American government is banned from promoting religion within the United States does not mean that the State Department and the Pentagon cannot promote religion overseas in societies that are undergoing profound societal changes. This last point is crucial: Overseas we are participating as a key architect and builder of new institutions; we are in what social scientists call "the design business." This is quite distinct from what we do at home: shoring up a solid social structure designed two centuries ago, careful not to rock the foundations or undermine the pillars on which it stands. In Iraq, Afghanistan, and many other Third World countries, we participate in the ground-breaking, foundation-laying stage, one in which elements we can take for granted at home - such as a thriving religious life within civil society - must be provided." [emphasis added] Amitai Etzioni quoted on Publicradio.org.

"What then is the answer? If the question is how can we run a sustainable and just consumer-capitalist society, the point is that there isn't any answer. We cannot achieve a sustainable and just society unless we face up to huge and radical transition to what some identify as The Simpler Way, that is to a society based on non-affluent but adequate living standards, high levels of self-sufficiency, in small scale localised economies with little trade and no growth, to basically co-operative and participatory communities, to an economy that's not driven by market forces and profit, and most difficult of all, a society that's not motivated by competition, individualism, and acquisitiveness. Many have argued that this general vision is the only way out of the mess we're in." What is our biggest problem? by Ted Trainer. Extract from Ockham's Razor, ABC Radio National, 27 Nov 2005. (The Simpler Way is another new term for the communitarian's U.N. Local Agenda 21 Programme and the "mistaken for communists" international communitarian Vision 2020.) Editor of Raise the Hammer.org raised objections to this citation. His email and our response posted at bottom of this page

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Communitarian Quotes
List of founding endorsers of the Communitarian Platform
Comprehensive Communitarian Bibliography
What we say:

"Communitarianism is the biggest fraud in the history of western philosophy."
Niki Raapana and Nordica Friedrich (Anti-Communitarian League)
The ACL is a grassroots, opposition research project started by Niki and Nordica in March 1999.

A brief introduction to our argument:

The Hegelian/Marxist formula for "changing the world" is (A) v. (B) = (Z)
(A) Capitalism versus (B) communism equals (Z) communitarianism.

Sometimes called a "progressive dialectic procedure," the left v. right debate is between Engels/Marx (communism) and Adam Smith (capitalism). We argue that Smith and Engels/Marx represented the same ultimate goal. Their final synthesis is world government. Almost every player in the world today calls for a strong global authority. Communitarianism is the philosophical foundation for global governance. We oppose the foundation for the international court. We oppose the foundation for international laws. We oppose the foundation for phony federal laws that supercede state law. We oppose the formation of "sides" that promote further dialectical conflicts. The left and right appear to have different ideas as to how global justice should be accomplished, but they never really disagree with the purpose or the ultimate goal, only with the methods and who should rule. Communitarian Law is the final system in the phony pre-arranged social evolution of mankind. The whole world already lives partially under their vague new system. It includes a mixture of philosophy, religion, theosophy, facilitated meetings, party politics, legal and social reforms, mysticism, propaganda, alchemy, and, most importantly, SOCIO-ECONOMICS. It's all about manipulating false conflicts, protecting free trade and controlling global markets for the new age, communitarian imperialists.

Think you know what free trade and protected markets means? Think again.
Adam Smith in 1776 and Frederick Engels of the London Communist League in 1847 were British economists. Smith defined a false version of American political economy (the imperialist self-interested Hidden Hand capitalist free trade thesis). Marx re-defined an ancient religious communism into a global political ideology exporting violence for the common good (the antithesis). It is our unoriginal thesis that their revolutionary economic theories established the right v. left dialectical conflict of ideologies. Like the Jacobin slogans that sabotaged the Rights of Man in the French Revolution, economic slogans destroyed the development and spreading popularity of the colonial idea for a national economic system. The original American system was quietly removed from the history books. Today it's as if it never existed, and the communist and socialist viewpoints sound more like the original American system. It's a brilliantly executed, long-range scam, and it's enormously successful. After 150 years of contrived false conflicts and synthesizing between two theories, communitarianism was introduced as the ultimate economic and social synthesis that transcends all modern classifications. Gee, why would anyone want to protect American, French or Australian industry?

We know what union stands for in Union of Free States. The USA is a trade union.
U.S. constitutional law was established to protect individual workers and their property from thieves, murderers and kidnappers. The federal government was established to protect and promote trade between the union member states. The American colonials wanted self-sufficency and a healthy, united balance between cottage industry and agriculture that would hold up against the reigning imperial colonial system. Our union in liberty is between free and independent states who represent each individual citizen. As Alaska State Residents we hold a written and binding contract with our hirelings at every level of legitimate U.S. government. We are citizens of a free republic. We totally support our legal, constitutional based system. We support the rights of all individuals residing in the U.S. and its territories. It's also called self-government. The purpose of government in our free country is only to protect and maintain individual rights to ownership. We own this country, and from our highest government official on down, they all must swear to uphold constitutional law. Communitarians are global merchants who import and export a system of communitarianized democracy and take slaves along the way. The original U.S. political and economic system was designed to protect Union members (citizens) from colonial servitude to inbred monarchists and their armies, financiers, merchants, and gurus. Most officials we've met have no idea their primary job is to protect us and redress our individual grievances. The modern U.S. "democratic regime" represents the inbreds. Since our thesis has remained undisputed for two years, we just plain discount all dialectical arguments and conflicts that lead to phony federal and international communitarian solutions. We say Communitarianism must be resisted at every level of life; it eliminates the Rule of Law declared by any free people.

What others say:

"It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of love, and that the noble enthusiasm of liberty is apt to be infected with a spirit of narrow and illiberal distrust. On the other hand, it will be equally forgotten that the vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty; that, in the contemplation of a sound and well-informed judgment, their interest can never be separated; and that a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government. History will teach us that the former has been found a much more certain road to the introduction of despotism than the latter, and that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants." The Federalist-General Introduction For the Independent Journal by ALEXANDER HAMILTON.

"Rothbard committed a three-fold career gaffe: (1) adopting Mises' epistemology (deductivist) in an era dominated by empiricism (inductivist); (2) adopting Mises' free market economics; (3) adopting a conspiracy view of history. Conspiracy views of history are acceptable by the historical guild only if you are a Marxist. Marx followed the money. "Cash nexus" was one of his more popular phrases. So, it is academically acceptable to indict capitalism as a Marxist, but not as a defender of free markets. To attack modern capitalism from a free market perspective implies that modern capitalism's weaknesses and evils are mainly the fault of the State, not open competition. It implies that society can overcome capitalism's weaknesses and evils by extending the realm of open competition. No proletarian revolution is needed. No government regulations are needed. Therefore, this kind of conspiracy theory is unacceptable in academia." The Red/Blue Map vs. Conspiracy Theories by Gary North.

"NEOCOMMUNITARIANISM: a trend of political thought which has been promoted in the USA since the '70s. It opposes that Liberalism which over-stresses human individuality and which proposes a falsely universalistic human society. It high-lights the constant interaction between civil society and political society and it considers inalienable the pre-eminence of civic virtues (government of men rather than of laws, as in the liberal tradition)." VOICES

Pandemic Influenza Is A Global Strategic Plan by Bobby Garner on November 9, 2005 pretty much sums it all up: "The "global threat" appears to be a moving target but consistently coming under the heading of terrorism, Usama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, Saddam Hussein and Weapons of Mass Destruction, now Avian Influenza. On the global scale since 9/11, How many of us have actually been affected by any of these things? When you add them all up, the number pales in comparison to the number of deaths produced in the phony wars waged against them."

Christian? Author Warns Believers Against New 'Communitarian' Bible Curriculum By Jim Brown, November 9, 2005, AgapePress. Human? World-Speak: The Making of the Communitarian Creature by Nancy Levant.

"A true system of law which guarantees both that the certain rules are invariably enforced and that the authority to enforce these cannot use it for any other purpose, for its task of enforcing the common law the SUPERNATIONAL AUTHORITY MUST BE VERY POWERFUL." Author David J. Peterson, in Revoking the Moral Order - The Ideology of Positivism and the Vienna Circle, a critique of Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom as quoted in American Babylon-Rise and Fall-Part 5: The Triumph of the Merchants by Peter Goodgame.

"Behind the Communitarian shift of power to the state is a certain distorted preference about what a "community" is: Communitarians distrust and dislike voluntary communities. Robert Bellah especially believes that the only true community is one created and controlled by democratic political power, which also happens to mean that of the largest political unit possible. To him, small units, whether voluntary associations or smaller units of government, do not represent enough of "the People" to properly represent the General Will (as Rousseau would have said) of the Community. This is an amazingly credulous, dangerous, and naive view of the benevolence of democracy and of large government. What it reveals is that Communitarians are not basically advocates of real community, but they are statists and collectivists who confuse their own benevolent intentions, if they were in power, with what such a government would be like operating under the incentives for corruption that are created in the sort of unrestrained and absolutist, indeed totalitarian, government that they desire." Rights, Responsibilities, and Communitarianism by Dr. Kelly Ross.

"Moral theologians urge more government guidance of the economy, but many insist on the accountability of the state to civil society. Aware of the historic weakness of Latin American governments, Comblin argues for building a lean but strong social-welfare state and a joint public-private industrial strategy.(n64) This, however, is the long-term goal. At the same time, Comblin and others recognize Latin America's impotence vis-a-vis the rich nations of the North. Miguel Manzanera of Bolivia writes that "The present international political structure ... contradicts the ethical principles of the universal destiny of goods and of democracy itself."(n65) Emilio Albistur of Argentina recalls how recent papal documents and CELAM's Medellin Conference treated growing asymmetrical relations among nations and that Pope John XXIII, recognizing the insufficiency of nation-states to ensure the universal common good, called for a "general public authority" as a moral necessity.(n66) Without such authority, regional cooperation is stunted and local governments cannot ensure the common good." MORAL THEOLOGY IN LATIN AMERICA By: Brackley, Dean, Schubeck, Thomas L., Theological Studies, 00405639, Mar2002, Vol. 63, Issue 1 Database: Academic Search Elite


How anti-communitarianism evolved:

It was very confusing when Seattle officials started taking invasive actions against owners and renters residing in our University neighborhood. Their plan was to abate properties with high-yield development potential. It targeted owners who rented (slumlords), and all their renters (transients with a significant negative impact on the neighborhood). We were renters in a targeted area. Even though we had made many lovely improvements to our rental home and yard, sustainable developers, COPS and concerned citizens called "transient" renters trash and pigs.

The communitarian plan to "clean up" our community was never fully disclosed to Seattle voters. Not one public servant would tell us what increasing community livability and quality of life represents, and the City thought it odd that we asked. When the City adopted 39 Neighborhood Plans in July 1999, we'd been studying their ongoing 4th Amendment violations against us for four months, and we still knew nothing about the whole plan. We found it bizarre that our public servants appeared to know nothing, and so did all our friends and family. We kept asking when the plan was to be implemented, and exactly HOW the increasing livability program would be introduced to our neighborhood. City officials refused to respond and many people thought we were imagining it. (We dedicated our first book draft to skeptics and called it, What Plan?) Then, in late September 1999, the new COPS used our neighborhood as a pilot test. It was a training exercise showing ALL City agencies how to serve public health warrants on renters for "suspicion of harboring rats and bugs." Thirteen rental tenants were detained under armed guard for over two hours while police searched their private rooms for drugs, weapons and activist materials. (It was also a WTO training exercise for using the GIS-COMPASS program to pre-identify protestors, but besides the Death Squad tactics, Public Health Warrants are normally served on owners. See Dawson v. Seattle). We found it even more bizarre when we caught our new friendly community COPS lying (and hiding documents) about the new GIS database with which they were testing potential ways to gather and use our individual information. (See Privacy Act 1974 and U.S. Code 552a)

etzioni It took a lot of difficult and mostly tediously boring reading, but we found their "new" definitions ourselves in March 2000. We spent the next few years looking for their authority to access our assets and plan a vision for our future. Once we identified our plan as communitarian, we studied the Communitarian Platform. We decided, after we read their published documents of the plans, attended their meetings, and filed for their planning notes, that we don't like any of it. Since nobody else seemed to know what it was either, and one of Nordica's friends is a generous web hostess, we began sharing our findings online in 2003.

No matter what you've been told about American's "obsession" with conspiracy theory, the NWO (aka global governance) isn't an incomprehensible take-over by unidentified persons for unknown reasons. It's a well-documented (and easily verified), current plan. We don't need to concentrate all our studies on the obscure past. There are too many "expert" modern writers. Dr. Etzioni publishes (a lot).

What makes it so easy to study globalism via Etzioni is he's not only a theorist who builds new systems to justify world policing. He also writes all about his legal theories that grant authority to global-community organizations. His Fabian, Kabbalist advice to Presidents is the order portion of the New World Order, and he thinks he's some kind of guru. Dr. Amitai Etzioni is not our guru, and we don't celebrate his theory. His ideology revolts us.

According to the communitarians, Angelina Jolie is a healthy role model for the world's children and anti-communitarian thinking does not exist. While we initially sought legal redress, today, much like the celebrated honorees at the UN-USA, our goal is to share the global governance agenda with an unaware public. Unlike prosperous NGOs, international lawyers and movie stars, we're not eligible for titles, awards, research grants or homeland security taxpayer funding. There's nowhere to apply for graduate degrees; we're much too common in our "thinking." If Marx were alive he'd probably describe us as "Yankee apes." For the most part we don't exist anywhere in the world, because there is no deep background research or scholarly or journalistic scrutiny of the communitarian platform allowed.

Etzioni's Communitarian system is more moral because his theory has the biggest guns. The communitarians are the new law in town.

Ours is an occupied communitarian country. etzioni Community Police (and merging the military with the police under federal leadership) is their invention. Regional and community U.N. governance are their replacements for Municipal, County and State governments. Revised land management plans are validated by a few stakeholders and used to sneak "new" laws past unsuspecting neighbors. Neighborhood Watch groups are trained to monitor individuals and to ticket/abate unwanted neighbors for noise and junk storage. ABCD developers gather information for the COPS and Community Development Corporations. Everyone's skills are entered in the COMPASS database because mandatory-voluntary citizen participation is their motto. They created Faith-Based Public-Private Partnerships, and their morals uphold Character Education. The National ID is yet another Etzioni project.

etzioni We call Etzioni Big Mother. The Canadian Communitarian Network calls us "angry opposition." We're not angry, we're outraged. We understand (like many Chinese already do) that communitarianism changes our law, destroys our nation, and renders the globe helpless before the biggest, most inefficient bureaucracy the world has ever seen. Iraq and the U.S. are both under attack from the communitarian rebuilders. Once all nations bow before their power to reinvent government there will be no organized, legal resistance anywhere. At least here in the U.S. we're not classified as insurgents... yet. So far, the Constitution still technically exists, but they operate on every level of government and many openly call it "outdated."

It's our thesis that communitarianism was creatively designed to replace the national system of political economy, and controlling/destroying national banks, industry and agriculture is at the core of their imperialist, global ideology. While Americans bicker and fight over all the meaningless sides in the dialectic, the communitarian system is supplanting every government agency in the country. How do we explain our position? We support legitimate constitutional law and constitutional systems. This means (by principled default?) we also support every other nation of individual's rights to self-determination. We are against endless communitarian war plans that promise disaster and defeat, not our national defense or our nation's soldiers. We wish our country knew what we're really fighting for. Ho.

etzioni While Americans are spoon-fed a daily dose of sugar-coated elitist propaganda, legitimate U.S. policy is quietly replaced with a vast, vague, communitarian system. Their methods are called "a slow march through the institutions," and their efficiency after Katrina shows their motto extends into everything they do. After almost a century of quiet, seditious implementation, they've nearly subdued our independent nation and achieved an American region of sustainable communities. They plan to subordinate every state and nation. Etzioni calls it "supra-national." This website covers many issues connected to the plans, but we suggest you become familiar with U.N. Local Agenda 21 first.

Does our Anticommunitarian Manifesto fulfill any requirements for a Ph.D. thesis? We can defend it orally. Should we be allowed to pursue it? Here's our application appeal. We'll settle for an accredited Bachelor's program that includes anticommunitarian views in their communitarian studies. We'll go anywhere in the world if that's what it takes. Please help us locate a professor/advisor who knows more about anticommunitarianism than we do. Besides GWU, many American universities host communitarian studies and legal programs. To this day there's not one accredited anticommunitarian studies program in the world. As students of the whole story behind communitarianism, we have nowhere to apply for admissions. Even communitarian police have their own American academy. (Also, Americans are regularly fined, jailed and lose their property under communitarian law, but there are no American law schools teaching lawyers to defend us against it.)


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The Communitarian Network Book List includes: Clinton and the Promise of Communitarianism (1991) by William Galston.



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Addressing Social Class and Classism in Vocational Theory and Practice Extending the Emancipatory Communitarian Approach

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Why isn't there an
American Institute for Anticommunitarian Research?


American law schools teach Communitarian Law

Are there....?

Anticommunitarian Law Schools?
No.


Anti-Communitarian lawyers?
No.

Communitarian law students?
Yes, many thousands.

American Communitarian Lawyers?
Yes, all members of the ABA.

Lawyers against communitarian law?
Yes, a few. See our links page.


The New World Order Conspiracy



New World Order (conspiracy) at answers.com explains the dominant stumbling block to anticommunitarian research:

Other perspectives on this matter relate to globalization and various intellectual movements evolved from Marxist "internationalist" ideology, such as Social Democracy and Socialism, aiming to homogenize cultures and values by political normalization, as pointed out in the European Union's gradual "communitarian construction" scheme of a common economic and legal framework for all countries. Some political groups, such as the Club of Rome and the Socialist International (to which the French, British and German parliamentary Left-wing parties belong), openly advocate these goals. [emphasis added ~ed.]

11/23/2005-- The term keeps expanding; now it's also called "neo-communitarianism." And, as usual, only certain places in the world are allowed to use all the relative terminolgy, openly, in an academic arena. We're emailing Avner and requesting a copy of his lecture which we'll post here for your viewing pleasure:

"Lecture: The Implications of Neo-Communitarianism for a New World Order
December 13, 2005, 6:15pm
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus Campus
For more information contact Avner De-Shalit at msads@mscc.huji.ac.il"
11/24/2005-- Dear Avner De-Shalit, I am the co-founder of the Anti-Communitarian League. I found the announcement for your lecture on Amitai Etzioni's commlaw elist. Do you have a detailed synopsis of the specific implications included in your lecture? Will there be published papers of this event? I appreciate your study into this very important arena and would be grateful for permission to access and reprint your published works. I regret not being able to attend the lecture personally, I'm sure it will be very interesting and contribute greatly to our understanding of the communitarian system. Sincerely, Niki Raapana http://nord.twu.net/acl

11/25/2005 -- [Avner promptly responds to my email] "I gues you approached me by mistake. It is Amitai Etzioni who will be here and will talk about this issue. best wishes, Avner"

What are the implications of neo-communitarianism for a New World Order?
Etzioni, Bush, Blair and many others can call the emerging supra-national global government The New World Order, yet the NWO is not a legitimate field of study? No one is allowed to do any deep background research on what Etzioni means by a new world order or a supra-national global authority? NWO research includes many factions and theorists (some of whom I haven't encountered yet, particularly the "illuminus") but none of it is ever given any "legitimate" credence. The well-researched works are just as dismissed as the bizarre personal accounts. Americans are only allowed to believe in Arab and militia conspiracies to blow up buildings. Crazed Islamic fundamentalists did it on 9-11, and there's nuke harborage in the Middle East if any western govt. agency says there is, even if the west invades and finds no evidence.

etzioni (For the best overview of all the possible players and angles in the Zionism dialectic see Israpundit.com, an exit link from etzioni's blog.)

Americans are not allowed to consider any evident assaults on our free country unless it implicates Muslims or Christians or an anarchist "lone" gunman. Psst. The question over the "right" to Israel's nukes is kind of a touchy subject and discussing accused Israeli spies in the U.S. Pentagon or looking for "Mega" is anti-Semitism. Controversy is limited to studying if/why Jews are genetically smarter. Also, historical studies are censored now. The Jewish Holocaust was cannonized by the British, Israelis, the UN and American community policing services. Studying it, writing about it, or publishing academic books or scholarly papers that counter the official Jewish version of German or Nazi Socialist history is a crime under International Law. We are to disregard all contradictory, available, factual evidence about the world and rely on heavily edited, ancient religious history fortified with claims to represent God's "chosen" people. We must further discount whatever current facts we can verify for ourselves in our own neighborhoods, towns, cities, counties and states. Peace is defined by warmongers as silencing objectors, and Communitarian plans to rebuild the world are set in stone.

Communitarianism is the political theory that supports LA-21 redevelopment.

etzioniThe ideology that requires us to rebuild the world into ONE giant, global community is communitarianism. Dialectical "thinking" is the foundation for our new global LAWS. Dr. Amitai Etzioni, the Communitarian Network founder, is the "guru" of globalization. Etzioni advises state governments and he is a prominent player in many Global legal sessions (sharing his more moral advice). He's been an adviser to several US Presidents and he is the most influential Israeli working in the White House today. Etzioni's recent attendence at the very exclusive World Political Forum in Turin (March 2005) shows his powerful role in planning for an international government. This "former" terrorist also co-founded the whole new "science" of SOCIO-ECONOMICS with "former" communist Mikhail Gorbachev.

We're not ever supposed to think about the glaring fact that extremely complicated changes are occuring rapidly within our formerly simple system, across the entire country. Consolidating all U.S. agencies under an appointed U.S. official with genetic (or other) ties to Israel or GB is not open for debate. Opposition to complex schemes for a "supra-national" global order is a crackpot ideology, even though there is nothing unsubstantiated in anything written against the communitarians. It's almost too easy to prove communitarianism is real, but so what? If you're against communitarianism, even though it's the philosophy of the UN, the EU and the US, you must also believe in UFOs.

The communitarian's dialectical based balancing of individual freedom against the common good and/or terrorism is the only acceptable ideology.

"WASHINGTON - After years of criticizing Israel's human rights record, America now finds itself tapping the Jewish state's experience in balancing the need to protect individual freedoms and the need to fight terrorism. And Jerusalem seems happy to help, as the issues of torture and the general treatment of detainees are garnering national attention in the United States." Americans Look to Israel as Role Model in Fight Against Terrorism By Ori Nir The Forward, November 11, 2005.

Communitarian principles allow for all kinds of illogical presumptions about changing the world. A supra-national global government exporting violent democracy and calling colonial slavery "freedom" is not a theory. Remember, "truth is stranger than fiction."

"Earlier this month, speaking before the National Endowment for Democracy, President Bush outlined the five principles on which our nation's strategy in the War on Terror is based. First, he said, "we're determined to prevent the attacks of terrorist networks before they occur." Second, "we're determined to deny weapons of mass destruction to outlaw regimes, and to their terrorist allies who would use them without hesitation." Third, "we're determined to deny radical groups the support and sanctuary of outlaw regimes." Fourth, the President stated that "we're determined to deny the militants control of any nation, which they would use as a home base and a launching pad for terror."

There is little disagreement that America will be more secure if we continue successfully to fulfill these four principles. It is important to note that Israel will also benefit from our achievement of these aims.

The President's fifth principle, however, has drawn criticism from some circles. The President declared that "we're determined to deny the militants future recruits by replacing hatred and resentment with democracy and hope across the broader Middle East." Some deride this "freedom agenda" as idealistic and na ve. Some argue that although well-intentioned, the short-term costs exceed any potential long-term benefits from democratization in the Middle East. The President respectfully disagrees. He believes the freedom agenda is critical for both the United States and Israel. So, this afternoon I would like to discuss why the effort to spread freedom throughout the Muslim world will leave both the United States, and Israel, safer and more secure." Remarks by Stephen Hadley to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee National Summit 2005 White House Press Release, October 31, 2005

So why not just openly merge the U.S. Armed Forces with Israel? What does the "freedom agenda" have to hide?

America's S.O.S to the IDF By Amir Oren, Haaretz.com, Last update - 15:41 12/11/2005

"Officially, Centcom (U.S. Central Command) is barred from talking directly to Israel - it is supposed to do so only through Eucom (European Command?) or Washington. The prohibition is usually maintained, but life-and-death issues override it. Centcom despaired of the bureaucracy, while soldiers are being killed every day, and three officers who are serving in Iraq came to Israel to learn from the IDF how to combat IEDs. There are also Israeli combatants in Iraq who were released from the IDF to enlist in the U.S. Army."

"To prove the Americans are learning from the best and most experienced sources, Conway noted that the British had encountered the problem of explosive devices in Northern Ireland and the Israelis have coped with suicide bombers in Israel and Lebanon. "We've tried to study what their experiences were and learn from that." Dutton, the British general, added another piece of information which explains why it is vital to draw on the knowledge the IDF gleaned coping with Hezbollah devices: the materials and the technology used in making IEDs are entering Iraq from the same source - Iran."

"A soldier who is not present is not hurt, and the original sin of the U.S. Army in Iraq, in its mission to protect the emerging regime in Baghdad, is its failure to develop "control without presence" - a swift action, sparing in manpower and focused, that achieves results without banking on large-scale presence that eventually becomes bankruptcy. The IDF learned how to do this, on an impressive albeit not absolute scale, in its activity against Palestinian terrorism in the West Bank. This is a decentralized combat doctrine, on which the copyright belongs, in part, to the former commander of the Israel Navy, Rear Admiral (res.) Yedidya Yaari, now the president of Rafael."


Rafael's SPYDER is already used in Iraq by the Australian Armed Forces


Why can't Americans recognise the Hegelian logic used to establish Bush's five principles? The U.S. President respectfully disagrees that exporting Marxist values and practices via invasions and regime changes is idealistic and naive. Wow. How do you replace hatred and resentment with democracy and hope using soldiers, bombs and guns? What's his definition of democracy or hope or the "broader" Middle East? How broad and hopeful are his internationalist behavior modification principles?
Communitarianism fails to sway free Americans!
That's why it's such a big "secret."


"As a scholar who dedicated the last 15 years to communitarian public philosophy, I have frequently argued that individual rights have been unduly expanded, often at the cost of the common good. I joined Harvard law professor Mary Glendon to point critically at the explosive growth of entitlements and the trivialization of rights. For example, some feminists claimed that they had a right to use the men's room even if there was no line at the women's room. And an employee of Macy's claimed that he has a right to play Santa Claus. I could not find such rights in the Constitution, or for that matter, any other place. In addition, I devoted a whole book to the limits of privacy, and I am among those who hold that Sept. 11, 2001, changed what constitutes a "reasonable" search.

However, when we move to reset the balance between individual rights and the common good, we inevitably step on the slippery slope that we face whenever we reset legal doctrines, religious Do's and Don'ts and moral taboos. We hence need to be careful that we not open the floodgates to gross violations of individual rights-that we not end up on our backside on the lowest end of the slope. Some civil libertarians are so concerned about this danger that they would rather not set foot on the slope at all, and prefer to remain frozen in whatever position they find themselves. However, adjustments are often needed. The secret is to set clear markers for the new place on the slope beyond which we will not slide, a new definition of what is reasonable, a specific new point of balance between rights and the common good." [emphasis added] Amitai Etzioni, Communitarian Newsletter #4, received on the COMMLAW@hermes.gwu.edu elist, October 17, 2005. (also in The National Law Journal Online on September 19, 2005.)

etzioni What does it mean to "reset legal doctrines?" Communitarian philosophers have been changing the meanings of words for over 200 years, which is why Etzioni uses the invalid slippery slope argument. Why do Americans need "a new definition of what is reasonable?" Doesn't the U.S. Constitution provide a clear, legal, and reasonable path for Etzioni's balancing and adjustments (called Amendments)? The only legal way to reset U.S. law is to go through the process. An Amendment that doesn't include a fully informed debate and 2/3 majority vote is treason.

Curious how you may have been tricked into voting for a communitarian candidate?
Communists and socialists understand their position in the Hegelian dialectic. They vote accordingly. Everyone else who voted for G.W. Bush or William Clinton or Al Gore unknowingly voted for a communitarian candidate. Many Greens and Libertarians also embrace communitarian values. Whether they play stupid and deny knowing what it is, or if they brag about it openly, they all share the same core principles (which allows for lying, murder, and anything else that furthers the end goal). We are always led into the synthesis by both "sides." The Republicans and the Democrats play a primary role in furthering the validation of international "justice" and "regime change" in Afghanistan, Iraq and the U.S. The communitarian campaign against the Bush Republicans (demands for impeachment, etc.) helps to further the end goal (Hilary 2008?).

The key to knowing which players support the ultimate goal (global government) is by reading their mission statements. Any player who uses only communitarian "values" terms to identify their position is a communitarian. The terms Human Rights and economic and social justice are often phony international communitarian values. Some politicians tell us we support their Radical Middle version. For example, the progressive Senator Barbara Boxer "supports the basic values that a majority of Americans share -- basic human rights, economic justice for all and social justice." It's not just the combination of the three, it's her telling us the majority of Americans share her progressive version of these seemingly benign, open-ended phrases. The Senator Bayh family from Indiana have been major players for the Third Way, and Bayh, like the Clintons, is financed by the DLC (Sir Evelyn de Rothschild's program). Bush, Bayh and the Clintons honor and quote Dr. Amitai Etzioni. Etzioni founded communitarianism. He calls himself a political guru. How many Americans who voted for his followers know anything about Etzioni, his background, or his politics?

Curious how you may have been tricked into committing a new communitarian crime?
Why do communitarians balance our individual rights against the Marxist "common good" ideology? One out of every 130 Americans has been arrested under the new DUI laws. Americans are sentenced by our courts to attend cult meetings (AA, NA, etc) and to pay out big bucks into insured, licensed spiritual "treatment." New Age-soothsayers use data to predict our "potential for crime" and prevent damages. How do communitarians "prevent" crime? Constitutional American criminal and civil law both require an actual crime against property and a preponderance of evidence that actual damages have occured. Think about that. How many new crimes are committed by Americans who don't know the communitarians came to the U.S. to "shore up" our personal behaviors? What input did Etzioni provide in establishing 100,000 new Community Police with their COMPASS-ID database and state National IDs, (or The Domestic Violence Act of 1995, Gun Control, Character Education, Volunteer America, the War on Terror, No Child Left Behind, and the Faith-Based Initiative)? Many newly revised noise ordinances and land management plans are communitarian balancing "acts."

Curious how you may have been tricked into paying for the transformation?
What is a community development tax? What plans are there for an international tax to finance U.N. policing? Where is all the money coming from to provide for all the new grants under Homeland Security? Why did so many people on the Puget Sound Transit Light Link Rail Board of Directors resign in 2001, and what happened to the $500 million? Why did Armen Yousoufian sue King County Executive Ron Simms? What is CAPR? Why are the daily fines so high for violations of new zoning laws? Why are there only corporate businesses in the future plans? How many new black hole markets and mafias are created and financed by new regulations and communitarian taxes?

Oh by the way... don't argue with your superiors. You're a communitarian if they say you're a communitarian.
"Janda has found that the average American voter is a communitarian." Ken Janda is an IdeaLog and PartyPolitics political science professor at Northwestern, and his position proves just how smart he really is. Try to look at his position rationally: Can American voters really be classified as communitarians when so few Americans have ever heard of it? Why not lift the cover on the box and really expand your mind? Ponder whether it's possible average American voters are tricked into voting communitarian.

Contrary to Professor Janda's findings, 90% of ACL visitors polled say NO!
Total votes 11/28/05: 731 (80% of ACL visitors come from the U.S.)


Editor at Raise the Hammer.org questions our assumptions about the Simpler Way

From : Ryan McGreal
Sent : Tuesday, November 29, 2005 3:27 PM
To : anticommunitarian@hotmail.com, norditron@hotmail.com
Subject : Quote on your Website

Dear Niki Raapana and Nordica Friedrich,

My name is Ryan McGreal, and I'm the editor of Raise the Hammer, a local web-magazine based in Hamilton, Ontario.

On your website [1], you quote from an essay by Ted Trainer that was published on Raise the Hammer [2], and follow the quote with the following parenthetical comment:

"The Simpler Way is another new term for the communitarian's U.N. Local Agenda 21 Programme and the 'mistaken for communists' international communitarian Vision 2020."

The term "Vision 2020" includes a hyperlink to the City of Hamilton's Vision 2020 long-term planning strategy [3].

I'm not sure what you mean when you characterize Hamilton's planning strategy as "the communitarian's U.N. Local Agenda 21 Programme" and claim that it is "'mistaken for communists' international communitarian vision".

Vision 2020 is a long-term planning strategy for Hamilton, Ontario that was developed locally through extensive public participation and represents the desire of most Hamiltonians to foster economic growth that supports healthy neighbourhoods, a diverse local economy, transportation choice, and protection of Hamilton's natural resources (including green space, clean air and water, and protection of valuable farmland).

It wasn't organized by the U.N., could not possibly be mistaken for communism, and is not even "communitarian", except insofar as it recognizes that individual liberty is enhanced by a healthy environment and a strong, diverse local economy. (In any case, Hamilton's city council, which is dominated by the residential homebuilding industry, generally disregards its own planning strategy in its decisions.)

Respectfully,

Ryan McGreal
Editor, Raise the Hammer
http://www.raisethehammer.org/
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References
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1. http://nord.twu.net/acl/index.html
2. http://www.raisethehammer.org/index.asp?id=178
3. http://www.vision2020.hamilton.ca/ MY REPLY:

Dear Ryan,

Thank you for taking the time to email us with your concerns. I will do my best to clarify our position.

First off, I borrowed the contested identifier "mistaken for communists" from you:

"We were going to call this our manifesto, but we're already mistaken for communists too much as it is. Something about "Soviet style pop-art"" from First Principles By Ryan McGreal, May. 16, 2005.

Secondly, Vision 2020 is not only a long term strategy for Hamilton. Vision 2020 originated at the U.N. and it is the exact same label used for U.N. LA-21 Plans and Programmes across the globe [1]. HUD named its GIS database program for building community capacity Community 2020 [2]. Right now Anchorage, Alaska (where I live) is writing a new plan for Anchorage called Anchorage 2020 [3]. The term "sustainable development" also originated at the U.N., with the official definition provided by the U.N. Bruntland Commission in 1987 [4]. I'm sure Hamilton's Vision 2020 was developed "locally" but the process for development was designed by global communitarians [5].

I could be persuaded to agree Hamilton's residents all participated in creating the vision, if you will provide the publically available records of the public debates and the eventual voting records to substantiate your claim that Vision 2020 "represents the desire of most Hamiltonians to foster economic growth that supports healthy neighbourhoods, a diverse local economy, transportation choice, and protection of Hamilton's natural resources (including green space, clean air and water, and protection of valuable farmland)." I would assume that Hamiliton residents were provided with clear definitions for each of these descriptors; I would like to see and access the definitions used to persuade most Hamiltonians to adopt social engineering plans.

Vision 2020 includes the goal: "To build and develop the capacity of individuals, community organizations, the private and non-profit sectors to be self-reliant."

Building and developing individual capacity programs were designed by communitarians. Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) interviews are eleven pages long. Personally identifiable information is layered into GIS (2020) software programs that assist community developers to enhance the vision. John McNight, the co-designer of ABCD capacity interviews at Northwestern Univeristy, signed and endorsed the Communitarian Platform.

And then there's The Simpler Way, By Ted Trainer, Oct. 21, 2005. My comments are in brackets {}.

{begin quotes and commentary]

Before one can begin to discuss what a sustainable neighbourhood might look like, one must recognise how grossly unsustainable our present society is. Most people do not grasp the magnitude of the overshoot embodied in consumer-capitalist society. We should be trying to cut per capita and total resource use to something like 10 percent of their present levels.

{Ted uses the fact that "most people do not grasp the magnitude of the overshoot embodied in consumer-capitalist society" to justify why people "should be trying" to give up 90% of their lifestyles and embrace a mode of living that requires complete subserviance to laws of men. Most people also do not grasp the specious nature of communitarian terminology. Ted's argument and his solution sound very Hegelian to me. Where else does it say sustainable neighborhoods require cutting per capita and total resource use to 10% based on the conflict between a ideological based sustainable quality of life and its opposite theory, composed by the same theorists and reduced to what can be label and smugly dismissed as "capitalist-consumer overshooting"?}

This context sets very coercive principles for the design of desirable settlements. The Simpler Way must have frugal but sufficient living standards, high levels of self-sufficiency in households, neighbourhoods and nations, more cooperative and participatory ways, an economy that is not driven by market forces, profit or growth (although it could have many private firms and markets) - and it can't be driven by competition, individualism or acquisitiveness.

{Sustainable development is a coercive plan for reinventing government, for rebuilding the world into the same global vision. The Simpler Way exemplifies how communitarianism blends Rosseau, Marx and the London Fabians with the Vatican and the Talmud. The Simple Way, the Third Way and the Ultimate Third Way are all the same imperialist vision that's rebuilding the world's people into passive, communal subjects by the year 2020. And again we see the dialectical presumtion of a conflict between cooperative and participatory ways versus a market driven by competition, individualism or aquisitiveness.}

Much development, construction and maintenance would be carried out by voluntary working bees. Many goods and services would be "free" from the commons, and via the concerts and festivals. There would be a weekly market day enabling people to earn the small amounts of money they would need.

{Here Ted gets to the heart of the communitarian way of thinking about human beings who live in the redsigned community collectives. He calls local businesspeople and trades and craftsmen "voluntary worker bees" carrying out their assigned capacity positions. In a communitarian community it's the people with the most capacity who provide goods and services for "free" to the less fortunate or less able community members. Marxism is the theory of "each according to his ability, each according to his need." While Soviet and Chinese communism assigned "worker bees" to jobs as servants of the state, communitarians assign "worker bees" to their volunteer jobs for the community developers. Modern Communitarian terms for slave labor sound much nicer.}

Synergism would be evident; contributing would yield direct rewards which would multiply good will and contributions.

{Synergism is another very interesting term often offered up as part of a dialectical conflict with communitarianism. I love how the more you "contribute" the more "good will" multiplies.}

Most people could live well on about one or two days working for money per week, devoting the other five to arts and crafts, community building, learning and personal growth. Many people in eco-villages now enjoy these kinds of conditions.

{Again, the lovely vision promises a two day work week for our small monetary needs and determines the types of activities most people could devote their days off to doing. Because they're all happy "worker bees" they will be busy volunteering and building up their personal capacity levels and re-training themselves.}

It would only be possible in a radically new economy in which local resources could be put to meeting local needs for a high quality of life for all, in which there is strict social control over market forces, and in which there is no growth. However most firms could still be privately owned and there could be markets.

{A radically new economy is also the theme expressed by the International Communist Party, the International Socialist Party, The Communitarian Network, The United Nations, The Fabians, and countless international organizations. It's the socio-economics theme of Gorbachev and Etzioni and it's the far-out New Age Aquarian theosophy practiced and preached by the undefinable Radical Middle gurus.}

[end quotes and commentary]

Ryan, our research provides evidence to substantiate our hypothesis that political communitarianism is the synthesis in the Hegelian dialectic. We pose that the global plans and visions that endorse "strict social control and no growth" is designed by greedy globalist developers who plan to reduce the world's most prosperous nations into conditions resembling the Middle Ages. Until someone disputes our manifesto that communitarianism was designed to destroy the (popular with global colonials) blueprint for an independently run national political economy with verifiable references contrary to ours, we stand firm on our conclusion.

I hope I answered your questions at least somewhat to your satisfaction. If the Simpler Way and Vision 2020 is not communism, not socialism, not capitalism and not communitarianism, then what is it?

Sincerely,
Niki Raapana
Ant-Communitarian League
http://nord.twu.net/acl

References:

1. http://nord.twu.net/acl/civilsociety.html
2. http://nord.twu.net/acl/compass.html
3. http://www.muni.org/planning/prj_Anch2020.cfm
4. http://nord.twu.net/acl/agenda21.html


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