All political views. Tonight it is as always of pleasure for me to introduce my longtime friend jack cashill. We have known each other almost since he was in short pants in new jersey where he was born a little bit after a graduated from Siena College and got his ph. D. At perdue and american studies. The only dissertation that actually defended the notion of american capitalism in American Fiction because there is no american capitalism in American Fiction. Jack and i Something Like 35 years ago founded something jack named the Boosters Club which was a Political Discussion Club in which jack ran for a number of years when i escaped from the city briefly and he has always been provocative which i admire about him. We agree about lot of things, we disagree about some. Last time i introduced jack, in his book about president obamas writing, he tried to prove bill ayers, the radical had actually written the autobiography, only written part of it clearly. Some of the things he has been writing lately i occasionally have my disagreements. Jack has written forcefully about religious freedom lately and whether or not people should be required to serve everybody if they have for instance baking a cake if they have religious objections. I dont completely agree because i notice there is a selectivity to this that adjust wagering kansas is about when issue, homosexual already and in pauls letters to the corinthians i read for instance that he condemns swindlers and slanderers and drunkards and it seems to me theres a trifecta for donald trump and i dont notice anybody refusing to serve donald trump right now so i would feel better if we were refusing all the adulterers which were would eliminate half the republican candidates for president so i dont always agree with jack. But jack is writing today, has written his book Scarlet Letters the everincreasing intolerance of the cult of liberalism about the neo puritanism in america and in this subject i am in complete agreement with him. I noted jon stewart of all people said we were treating Caitlin Jenner poorly by criticizing Caitlin Jenner and removing her dignity. This has got to be first time in history the jon stewart has taken a member of the kardashian cast and worried about their dignity. Sa have to save from the librarys point of view we have all voices coming to the library. Is interesting to me that in the years i have been doing this the only criticisms we get regularly when we bring somebody in is we bring somebody in from the right, we bring people from the left, chris hedges, tom frank wrote what is the matter with kansas, jack wrote what is the matter with california. We present them both. The only criticisms we got when we presented jack, when we presented on frank, i leave that out for you as i turn this over to jack, Public Library, we should be defending the First Amendment and the First Amendment means all voices should be heard, all ideas should be heard and that is what we believe in the Public Library and that is one of the reasons it is a great pleasure to me to introduce my friend jack cashill. [applause] just to correct the record no one in north new jersey worked for a pan. If you leave that in that neighborhood. Thank you for coming out tonight, thanks to cspan for being here, this is my ninth cspan presentation and i have friends on line, thank you for bearing with me all this time. Things to kansas city Public Library, the librarian the country that does do both sides of issues at so refreshing, it is almost unheard of. [applause] the book is called Scarlet Letters the everincreasing intolerance of the cult of liberalism and as you might suspect it derived its title from the hawthorne novel of 1850, a classic novel called Scarlet Letter. Just to refresh your memory the heroine of that novel is a woman who concedes that bears the child while her husband in boston is in england so she is pretty obviously committed adultery and in seventeenth century boston, the civil and religious authorities punish you, to meet out the punishment, her punishment was to stand on a scaffold in towns where Boston Holding her baby for three hours and from there ever after to where embroidered on her chest. Hawthorne described his seventeenth century forebears as the most intolerant. That ever lived. But his puritans were the picture of moderation compared to the progress of neo puritans who have dictated our morality for the last few decades. To be sure they do not call themselves knee of puritans but in the meaning of law and morality and eager less to make see in a crime, and the approach in isnt kind of fits and if you talk to one and we all talk to them, we are all we needed to them, you disagree with one you are not just wrong, not those unenlightened, your immoral, your sinful and you are deserving of punishment in the here and now, not afterlife or any of that but here and now. I got the inspiration for the religious theme in an ironic way, i was watching a documentary, the former governor of new jersey, my home states, if you remember him, in 2004 he was involved in a scandal, hired an israeli national, an american citizen, Homeland Security adviser despite the fact he knew nothing but Homeland Security and given coming from israel and he was going to sue for harassment and he said i am a gay american, at the time, he abandoned his wife and child in the process, decided to become an episcopalian seminarian. He was a catholic but the Catholic Church through the episcopalian subsets, we see him mentoring at church, this is literally true, i had to buy the video to verify word for word what i saw when i saw him and on the bus on board at the entry of the church in says jesus liberates us from our since. In this order. Sexism, homophobia, racism and classism. Of the signboard had been bigger it would have had is llama phobia, as in a foamy and Climate Change denial isnt. Those of the seven deadly sins of our era of. Dog held the man or woman who violates one. There is one isnt that unifies all the others in san you know what that is . The sin of hatred. Hatred. You are hater of muslims, hater of women, hater of poor people, hater of black people, hater of hispanic people, hater of mother earth, you are a hater, no matter, disagree and you are a hater. Dont like the president you are a hater, dont like the would be president you are a hater with him so it goes on and on. This is the odd thing if you know the man see isnt they celebrate their own values than they do condemning those people who resist the celebration, they take joy in that. For that is almost like eating organic or occupying something. You will notice to be fair i am using a term progress of, ignore the subtitle, it you know anything about the publishing industry, they threw the word exposed at the end to get the x and the d on thus far love letter. Originally was the only rise of the of puritanism. I use the word progressive and liberal advisedly. Liberals have historically fixed positions. They believe in things historically and to some degree today. They believe in the rule of law. They believe in due process. They believe in constitutional protections for speech and religion and assembly, they believe in justice for all, equal justice, they believe the man is innocent until proven guilty. Progressive, we use these words interchangeably. Hard to find a distinction but progressives have no set fixed values today, they dont. At the risk progressives progress. If they believe in anything they believe in progress. They are like sharks, they have to keep swimming forward and if they stop they die and if they smell blood in the water and it is yours, you are in trouble so they are constantly finding new sins, new ways to offend. Mark stein, the writer who has dealt for human relations commission, you have no idea you are committing a hate crime, chances are you still are. He is right, you dont even know any more. By contrast, history knew she had committed a sin. Adultery has been on the books for 3,000 years, she knew she had committed a sin, she never protested her letter, she knew what she had done. The punishment may have seemed severe, she walked into unknowingly, she had a creepy little guy on this side, but that is another side. Compare that with the newest Scarlet Letter, you know what that is, the scarlet cape. It is not trans fat phobia the trans gender phobia. A couple months ago people were telling bruce jenner jokes routinely, comics were probably plead telling bruce jenner joy, now on national tv they dare not even say bruce jenner. What a group they have on culture. The esp and award show, espn and abc are both owned by disney. The rumor was espn denies this and make a lot of sense to me, jenners reps went to abc and said you wanted two our interview with diane sawyer . We want to win the arthur courage award. And he did. No public vote. And the young woman with concert the basketball season. And she came in second that year. There was no public vote, you know the look enthusiastic, dont want to be tweeted that all over america the next day. The former nfl quarterback brett farr didnt get the memo. The next day the National Media scolded him for not applauding enthusiastically and off. That is literally true. The soviet union, this is true also. When members of the politburo saw Joseph Stalin walk in they all stood up and started applauding and there is great fear. You know what the great fear was . To be the first one to stop. This literally happened. To change our pass our whenever, it goes on forever they risk sends to the gulag. It happened. Telling stalin jokes, it was that is how bad it was. This is a useful point to clarify. We are not in a totalitarian state, we are not a fascist state and never will be for reasons i will explain later but totalitarian impulse is surely within our near appearance and friends. I should clarify most progressives are clueless, just nice people just getting bad signals from various people but the front radical edge of this movement knows what they are doing and never doubt it. You doubt at your own risk. Although they dont have a set direction they do have a goal. The goal, this will sound harsh until i explain this all little bit, their goal is to destroy western civilization as we know it and remake it in their own image. Whitaker chambers defined this 60 years ago better than anyone ever said. Socialist progressive, more commitment to their face, he said they embrace mans the faith was the faith that same presented to adam and eve in the garden, you shall be as dogs and they believe that, they believe they, man or woman or Caitlin Jenner, can deliver a paradise on earth that god could and so they are superior that is why theyre so endued with righteousness and also explains how they could embrace islam because they do. They are more appalled by is llama foamy head and radical islam. So when the radical islamists shoot of a place in texas the anger directed at pam geller who organized the event, not the shooters. Im not exaggerating, i wish i were. Pam geller is up triad and a brave lady, these are serious people, we will talk about that in a minute. I would like to explain the tenets of this new faith, second oldest face, revival, Revival Movement going on. Some of the understandings, the Scarlet Letter is forever. Take the case of earl butts, the agriculture secretary under nixon and gerald ford. The most consequential since secretary of this century, he was on a campaign in 1976, some of you remember it this or your parents told you about it more likely, your grandparents, h likely, your grandparents, he told a relatively innocuous racial jokes to pat boone, sitting next to him and it could have been told about red necks or whenever, told about coloreds, professionals and is sitting right behind the monoplane, recorded every word, rushed to Rolling Stone magazine known for its reporting. Within hours his career was over. He was fired or forced out immediately in disgrace. What you dont know is earl butts live for 32 more years and the New York Times, the ultimate arbiter of who gets the Scarlet Letter and who doesnt have landed obituary this way. Earl butts, secretary, felled by racial remark, dies at 98. Everything he had done otherwise in his life was irrelevant, what mattered he had told a racial jokes 32 years ago. That is how we might as well have had it tattooed on his head. He went through his whole life with that. Or todd taken in missouri, he makes it awkward stupid remark about rape and abortion, he is a wonderfully human being with six kids, three sense in the marines, one of the was in fallujah but that didnt matter because he made this awkward, and. By the end of that day, sunday, he was a national laughingstock, money of puritans had taken this and run with it because the second tenet of their faith, to profess the faith is more important than to practice it. The knee of puritans, they took him out because romney and mccain, they asked him to drop out of the race, they talk about that in a minute and they are so appalled by the republican war on women, who could blame them for being so except except the week or two later they show up to the Democratic National convention and listen to a rapist and known sexbitul predar keynote th ber convention. I am sorry, that is the reality, there istic o way around it. If you make an as awward commen, the difference is clinton professed the faith. And thomas aiken did not and so he is more easily victimized. A corollary to that which coincides with the puritan thinking on it is good works matter little. Take the case of one of the bravest and noblest women on the planet, dont know if you knew who she is that she was born in somalia, she didnt sign up, she was enlisted in force nasorativ, at escape somalia, enlor up in the netherlands, becomes a model citizen, teams up with a filmmaker to make a film called submission which highlights the in justices done to women throlauhout the muslim world including in the netherlands where the muslim populations weretic ot assimilating at all. For his efforts, van gogh is shot off his bicycle in downtown downtown amsterdam and shooter, a muslim takes a knife and spikes the five page letter into the chest and in that letter threatens the life, she expects support from the progressive knee of the origins of the netherlands and does not get it at all. Y. Provoke these people . Cant you get along . The rodney king line. She is forced to flee the United States. In the United States she writes this brilliant autobiography called infidel, sold millions of copies, brand bes univ. Invites her to speak in 2014 at her commencement and the knee of puritans rebel on the brandeis campus combined with the islamic knee of puritans and the president of brandeis, created post holocaust to prevent another holocaust falls like the cheap suits and they this invite her at the last minute. Good wo yors matter little. All her good wo yors mattered n at all when faced with that kind of aggressive uprising. Face triumphs over facts of. Another tenet of the faith midges you wanted go wi read if you havent done this Google Michael crichton Commonwealth Club 2003 environmentalism. I,ichael grinding is the successful he died nov. Fifth 2008 the same day barack obama was elected president. I dont know what that means but he is not around to defend himself. He produce er, wrote and produced and directed jurassic park, the lost world, who knows how many millions of dollars he made. Nonetheless he was pretty fearless and also 6 fect 7. Dont knoworif that matters. Was invited to the Commonwealth Club in san francisco, the home of the sierra club, it is not a conservative political club, just an open forum and is asked to give a talk on the most pressing issue of the day. That was the challenge given to the speakers in this series and for him, he comes in and says the most pressing issue of the day is the need to distinguish fact from fantasy, to distinguish truth from propaganda and the people, what is the talking about . And then he walked them through us feel logical construct of the Environmental Movement all of which are apocalyptic in th ber ayeesign. All of which begin with this state of nature that is unspoiled by man and takes them through step by step by step, walks through the scientific fraulor of the last 50 or 60 years starting with Rachel Carson and ddt, most legal i,istake made in the histor science. Paul ehrlich, a ridiculous theory even at the time. And nuclear wintelf taken on your heavyweights and making fun of them and keeps desmocibing them in religious terms and tells them this is not fact you are dealing witaul you have fah that transcends realialit. I dont think they ever invited him back but it is a brilliant speech but they dont want to hear that and he went from Global Cooling to t and hal wag and by the we c in this book i tried to find when the transition came from Global Warming to Climate Change and couldnt. I simply couldnt find it. It has alwe cs been out there. Another tenet of the faith neo puritanism means never having to se c you are sosory. 2b 6, durham, dnc. 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