Objectivist Infiltration Complete.....
With Ayan gone, Greenspan the Fed Wizard of Oz and Ayn Rand Institute's executive director, Dr. Yaron Brook, calling for "the United States (to) end all talk about a Palestinian state and "peace agreements" and instead assist Israel in destroying Palestinian terrorist groups"....it looks like Ayan's vision for freedom of the individual has been hijacked.
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A Call to Destroy All Palestinian Terrorists
The United States must end all talk about a Palestinian state and "peace agreements" and instead assist Israel in destroying Palestinian terrorist groups, said the Ayn Rand Institute's executive director, Dr. Yaron Brook. "President Bush has issued repeated pleas for an end to the terrorist attacks by Palestinians," said Dr. Brook. "But today's mass murder of innocent school children proves again that words are useless against brutes who have demonstrated time after time that their only language is murder. The United States must assist Israel with whatever military might is necessary to wipe out Palestinian terrorism once and for all."
"Such assistance is necessary for Israel's future-and ours," said Dr. Brook. "American eagerness to 'negotiate' with murderers has broadcast to the world that we are moral cowards, that we are unwilling fully to support the good. If the killers attacking Israel have no reason to believe that the United States has broken with its paper-tiger past, we will be their next target."
"In addition to being morally in the right," said Dr. Brook, "Israel is our first line of defense against terrorism. If we want to prevent the next September 11, we must send a new message to the Arafats, bin Ladens and Husseins of the world-by showing explicit, uncompromising moral and military support for Israel's right to freedom and self-defense."
Reported by M DC | Posted on Saturday, June 22, 2002
"Playing God" is Good
Congressional infighting has temporarily prevented a ban on human cloning—but to protect this life-saving technology permanently, we must recognize that it is moral, said Alex Epstein, a writer for the Ayn Rand Institute. "Human cloning is a highly pro-life technology," said Epstein, "but the opponents of cloning perversely condemn it as anti-life." Senator Sam Brownback, the ban's sponsor, says cloning is "creating human life to destroy." President George Bush calls it "growing human beings for spare body parts." Congresswoman Sue Myrick smears it as the "most dangerous and ghoulish enterprise in human history."
The opponents of cloning know the life-saving potential of cloning, Epstein explained, but are unmoved "because their real objection is not that cloning is anti-life, but that it entails 'playing God'—i.e., man remaking nature to serve human purposes." But such a desire, Epstein insisted, "is not immoral—it is a mark of virtue. Using technology to alter nature is a requirement of human life. It is what brought man from the cave to civilization. Every advance in human history is produced by those who hold the premise that suffering and disease are a curse, not to be humbly accepted as 'God's will,' but to be fought proudly with all the power of man's rational mind."
"The individuals now developing human cloning technology," said Epstein, "do not deserve to be condemned and shackled by their government. Instead, they should be celebrated as the heroes they are."
Reported by M DC | Posted on Saturday, June 22, 2002
Ted Turner's "Morality"
Ayn Rand Institute staff philosopher Dr. Onkar Ghate asked the people in his office to come up with one question they'd like to ask Ted Turner, given Turner's statement yesterday equating Israeli self-defense with Palestinian terrorism. Herewith, a few of their questions:
- Do you see any distinction between the initiation of force and self-defense?
- If a cop shoots a homicidal maniac while he's killing kids on a bus, is the cop a murderer?
- Did the U.S. Army and al Qaeda "terrorize each other" in Afghanistan; i.e., are they both terrorist organizations?
- How do you define self-defense? How do you define terrorism? Are they morally equal?
"These questions," said Dr. Ghate, "and others I've seen all over the internet suggest that the average person has a much better grasp of morality than Mr. Turner. This is borne out by another statement Turner issued today withdrawing yesterday's remarks. Note part of the wording of his withdrawal: 'I believe the Israeli government has used excessive force to defend itself, but that is not the same as intentionally targeting and killing civilians with suicide bombers.' Mr. Turner can't grasp the radical difference between initiating force and using it in self-defense.
"Unfortunately, this view that Israel and those attacking it are moral equals has infected the West. Even our own government refuses to support our strongest ally in the war on terrorism, Israel."
Reported by M DC | Posted on Saturday, June 22, 2002
Dr. Yaron Brook will be a guest on The McCuistion Program.
The topic of this program, which will air in Dallas on June 23, is on possible solutions to the Arab-Israeli conflict. (The McCuistion Program is syndicated to PBS stations nationwide; this program may be broadcast in your area, so check your local listings.)
Reported by M DC | Posted on Saturday, June 22, 2002
Reported by M DC | Posted on Saturday, June 22, 2002
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