{"id":7649,"date":"2014-10-10T12:09:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T12:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/10\/10\/jason-matteras-ambush-tactics\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T12:09:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T12:09:21","slug":"jason-matteras-ambush-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/10\/10\/jason-matteras-ambush-tactics\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Mattera’s Ambush Tactics Defended"},"content":{"rendered":"

This just over the transom from a reader:<\/span><\/p>\n

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You wrote<\/a>:  ". . . one must turn their own Alinsky tactics against them . . . .  Conservatives should not allow themselves to be hobbled by their own civility and high standards."<\/span><\/div>\n
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I completely agree which is why I support the ambush tactics of Jason Mattera (most recently of Lois Lerner fame).  In my opinion the tactics are sleazy, but they are necessary as you note above.  Mattera delivers to the left a taste of their own medicine.  Moreover, in being slammed to a wall by Harry Reid's armed guard, Mattera does more to reveal the thuggish nature of the left than any polemic, no matter how well delivered.<\/span><\/div>\n
As for all the criticism that Mattera has elicited, well, when one is getting flack one knows one is over the target.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
In this video<\/a>, Mattera responds to critics of his ambush of Lois Lerner, IRS chief.  It is too bad that these ambush tactics are necessary, but when we are dealing with corrupt leftists who use the awesome power of the State to silence dissent, and who refuse to take responsibility for their actions or admit their wrongdoing, then tactics far more adversarial than those of the mild-mannered Mattera are justified.<\/span><\/div>\n
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We need less civility and more confrontation.  The courageous Mattera is doing the job that journalists are supposed to do as members of the Fourth Estate, namely, monitor politicians and government functionaries such as Lerner  in order to ensure that they don't violate their oaths of office or otherwise abuse the democratic process. <\/span><\/div>\n
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I speak as a conservative when I say that we need less civility and more confrontation.  But of course there are leftists who say the same thing.  <\/span><\/div>\n
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I think most of us will agree that confrontation and contention are not good and that peace is better than war.  But how reduce the level of political strife?<\/span><\/div>\n
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There is a conceptually easy answer, but it won't happen.  The Left has to back off.  But the Left, being totalitarian, cannot consistently with it own nature back off or limit itself.  Like Nietzsche's Will to Power it does not seek merely to preserve itself but always to expand and extend itself.  (Here is a clue as to why leftists love Nietzsche; it is not because of his reactionary views.)  <\/span><\/div>\n
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What we need is more federalism, less integration, and more voluntary segregation.  I don't mean any of this  racially.  It is relatively easy to get along with one's ideological opponents if one limits contact with them.  But this presupposes that they are willing to back off.  If they don't, then war is inevitable.<\/span><\/div>\n
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This line of thought is explored in greater detail in A Case for Voluntary Segregation<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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This just over the transom from a reader: You wrote:  ". . . one must turn their own Alinsky tactics against them . . . .  Conservatives should not allow themselves to be hobbled by their own civility and high standards."   I completely agree which is why I support the ambush tactics of Jason Mattera (most … Continue reading “Jason Mattera’s Ambush Tactics Defended”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,56,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civility","category-politics","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}