The Mission of The G-Gnome
My name is Martin Kelly, and I am a native and resident of Glasgow, Scotland.
As a young man, I took up the study of law. The study of law is a fascinating pastime, not in any way to be confused with the practice of law, an activity in which I engaged for seven years before retiring from the heat and dust of the arena to pursue other, gentler pastimes, like crocodile wrestling.
Although some time was spent stumbling from job to job like the very model of a downwardly mobile conservative, at age 32 I discovered, entirely by chance, that I could write 1,000 semi-literate and relatively topical words in just under an hour, and since September 8 2002 have been privileged to be a contributor to The Washington Dispatch, edited by Mr. Shane Cory of Virginia. It still staggers me occasionally how warmly the opinions of a Scot in Scotland are received by Americans, which says more for their country than for mine. Earlier this year, Shane also asked me to participate in his 'Page 2 Politics' weblog on TWD.
I have also contributed to journals as diverse as The American Thinker and Antiwar, and am possibly the only person breathing who's been favourably linked at various times to all of AriannaOnline, Free Republic, Liberty Post and Stormfront; although being linked to Stormfront was out of my control and something I'd rather not repeat.
I write from a conservative perspective; nothing to do with the false gospel of naked self-interest spread by the undisciplined and unprincipled losers of the British Parliamentary Conservative Party. I used to call myself a neoconservative, and have been getting over it for some time, since the sheer ugliness of their philosophy became apparent in the aftermath of the Abu Ghraib scandal; the straw which broke this camel's back.
By the same token, I would not call myself a 'paleoconservative'; although there is much to admire in that system, it's sometimes unclear where the policy ends and the race-baiting begins.
Instead, my vision of conservatism, in a country without anything that could be remotely be described as a conservative movement, is of a philosophy, not an ideology, that compliments Judaeo-Christian values and does not seek to supplant them; which holds that the life of the individual is sacred wherever it is found, whether it be in the womb , in the hospice or in the illegal immigrant; that holds it is possible to debate the negative aspects of immigration without resorting to race hatred masked as 'eugenics' or 'human biodiversity'; that holds that the possession of private capital is essential to the health of a society, and that the more people possess capital the better as opposed to its being hoarded by governments, ultra-wealthy individuals or legal entities like corporations; that holds that tradition and history should be taught correctly and not abused; that holds that the word 'trade' implies a two-way traffic, which must be of some benefit to both parties; that holds that the citizens of nations are entitled to make their own laws, which are always the best laws by which they could be governed; that holds that governments are only delegates of the people and not their rulers; and which holds that it is possible to recognise the dangers posed by beliefs already coursing the culture without the need to make war against shadow enemies.
As a young man, I took up the study of law. The study of law is a fascinating pastime, not in any way to be confused with the practice of law, an activity in which I engaged for seven years before retiring from the heat and dust of the arena to pursue other, gentler pastimes, like crocodile wrestling.
Although some time was spent stumbling from job to job like the very model of a downwardly mobile conservative, at age 32 I discovered, entirely by chance, that I could write 1,000 semi-literate and relatively topical words in just under an hour, and since September 8 2002 have been privileged to be a contributor to The Washington Dispatch, edited by Mr. Shane Cory of Virginia. It still staggers me occasionally how warmly the opinions of a Scot in Scotland are received by Americans, which says more for their country than for mine. Earlier this year, Shane also asked me to participate in his 'Page 2 Politics' weblog on TWD.
I have also contributed to journals as diverse as The American Thinker and Antiwar, and am possibly the only person breathing who's been favourably linked at various times to all of AriannaOnline, Free Republic, Liberty Post and Stormfront; although being linked to Stormfront was out of my control and something I'd rather not repeat.
I write from a conservative perspective; nothing to do with the false gospel of naked self-interest spread by the undisciplined and unprincipled losers of the British Parliamentary Conservative Party. I used to call myself a neoconservative, and have been getting over it for some time, since the sheer ugliness of their philosophy became apparent in the aftermath of the Abu Ghraib scandal; the straw which broke this camel's back.
By the same token, I would not call myself a 'paleoconservative'; although there is much to admire in that system, it's sometimes unclear where the policy ends and the race-baiting begins.
Instead, my vision of conservatism, in a country without anything that could be remotely be described as a conservative movement, is of a philosophy, not an ideology, that compliments Judaeo-Christian values and does not seek to supplant them; which holds that the life of the individual is sacred wherever it is found, whether it be in the womb , in the hospice or in the illegal immigrant; that holds it is possible to debate the negative aspects of immigration without resorting to race hatred masked as 'eugenics' or 'human biodiversity'; that holds that the possession of private capital is essential to the health of a society, and that the more people possess capital the better as opposed to its being hoarded by governments, ultra-wealthy individuals or legal entities like corporations; that holds that tradition and history should be taught correctly and not abused; that holds that the word 'trade' implies a two-way traffic, which must be of some benefit to both parties; that holds that the citizens of nations are entitled to make their own laws, which are always the best laws by which they could be governed; that holds that governments are only delegates of the people and not their rulers; and which holds that it is possible to recognise the dangers posed by beliefs already coursing the culture without the need to make war against shadow enemies.
posted by Martin at 9:02 PM
1 Comments:
It is quite extraordinary to encounter such uncompromisingly robust conservatism from a Glaswegian. This surprise is compounded by the fact that, unless your surname is ethnically misleading,you hail from that city's Irish-descended section of the populace,which is unremitting in its detestation of such opinions(Liam Fox's achievements notwithstanding).
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