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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49322)	10/24/2005 9:15:47 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

I am a Conservative My political belief is that I am conservative in action but liberal in thought as all good conservatives. A paleoconservative sometimes tempted to the neocons but as I mature I retain the sense of calculated caution that has stayed with me all my life. To explain it is that I hesitate to change but I think from all angles of the issue and there are no sacred cows for me. I can read Steve Sailor and ponder on difficult race-related issues whilst glimpse over at Mark Steyn or Andrew Sullivan; I seek all soughts of conflicting knowledge to shape and enhance my viewpoint. It is when it comes to change I would only change and depart from tradition, impose on others, when it is absolutely necessary to do so. Here my instincts tend towards libertarianism but I am fully aware of the need for the regulatory powers of government. I detest change for the sake of change; the alternative must be bettter for us to embark on that path. I am not a utilitarian in the broadest of sense that the policies that benefit the most amount of people maximally are the ones worth pursuing; that argument degenerates into which time frame is best do we live for our children or for the day and those decisions I cede to a democratic society. I am a devout localist; people are the best of their judge of their lives and society, power should only be ceded to the higher level to adjudge between cooperative and competitive units of government. However much I may sympathise for policies as developing the middle class, building a strong national framework of happy suburban families; my heart and mind revolts at the prospect. For like all good conservatives who love tradition I detest the routine and look to higher elite culture to liberate my instincts and be secure in my civilised state. Like all good conservatives I admire enlightened religion, detest raw fanaticism and though my relationship with God is strictly on my own rather cool terms I'd rather ally with the church than the skeptic in a heartbeat. I have infinite contempt but infinite love for our politicians. I detest their chattering and their cute soundbites but I am thankful that the Founding Fathers designed a system that would be as inefficient as it was efficient and that is the price we pay for liberty. Every law passed is debated vigorously in our political system and so little is done that it is essentially conservative; conserving the best we have always but allowing time and rhetoric to erode our more foolish traits. I am a conservative who loves the source of liberalism and believe in the destiny of humanity. I do believe though there are a few nations fated to lead humanity on this grand destiny though I find much redeemable in a primitive tribe of the Amazon. I detest diversity and multiculturalism because it leaves us with no authenticism and divides us; I admire integrity, cultural uniqueness and mutual understanding. As a citizen of Dar-ul-Islam but enlightened by a humanistic young faith I see most Western values as part of our universal and fundamental creed that defines our own humanity. I am not an utiliatrian because I do not believe that merely happiness is the purpose of our grand journey through existence; it is perhaps to understand that purpose that we exist. Zachary Latif 15:08