Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Our Newest Op Ed
Get Off My Honor: A Review
- By Rudy Takala
I recently finished reading Hans Zeiger's new book, Get Off My Honor: The Assault on the Boy Scouts of America. It attempted to demonstrate, as most political books have done as of late, that a certain institution is being victimized.
The way we attempt to frame political debates in modern times is an amusing phenomenon to observe. People aren't so interested in what's philosophically right or wrong as they are in what factions are being most oppressed by other factions in society. From David Limbaugh's Persecution to Ann Coulter's Slander to David Brock's The Republican Noise Machine, everyone wants to be a victim.
While the thesis of Get Off My Honor isn't exactly an exception, the cases backing it are a bit more credible than those frequently used to prove the persecution alleged in other books. In the past decade, liberal assaults on the Boy Scouts have been more organized, more numerous, and strangely more viperous than their assaults on other conservative institutions. The Boy Scouts embody everything liberals hate, and liberals seem to believe that the mood of the American people is such that they'll be more agreeable to regulating the Boy Scouts than other Christian institutions.........
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- By Rudy Takala
I recently finished reading Hans Zeiger's new book, Get Off My Honor: The Assault on the Boy Scouts of America. It attempted to demonstrate, as most political books have done as of late, that a certain institution is being victimized.
The way we attempt to frame political debates in modern times is an amusing phenomenon to observe. People aren't so interested in what's philosophically right or wrong as they are in what factions are being most oppressed by other factions in society. From David Limbaugh's Persecution to Ann Coulter's Slander to David Brock's The Republican Noise Machine, everyone wants to be a victim.
While the thesis of Get Off My Honor isn't exactly an exception, the cases backing it are a bit more credible than those frequently used to prove the persecution alleged in other books. In the past decade, liberal assaults on the Boy Scouts have been more organized, more numerous, and strangely more viperous than their assaults on other conservative institutions. The Boy Scouts embody everything liberals hate, and liberals seem to believe that the mood of the American people is such that they'll be more agreeable to regulating the Boy Scouts than other Christian institutions.........
Click HERE To Read On
# posted by Publius @ 8/17/2005 02:00:00 AM 
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