re: "Every Thing Old is New Again"

Emperor Misha at The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler ("HQ of the Rottweiler Empire. An Affiliate of the VWRC.") ponders something akin to lawfare.

Money quote(s):

"Our point is the use of the word “islamophobia”, since that doesn’t merely imply, that establishes a diagnosis of mental illness in those who, apparently, find it troublesome that there are cultures that would celebrate jabbing a knife into the heart of a three-year-old seven times or slitting the throat of an infant sleeping with her loving father, fearing no ill. Because we’ve seen it all before. When liberal fascists can’t find any other way to silence individuals with common sense, they label them “insane.” The Soviets were really good at that, their “asylums” were overflowing with sane people needing “treatment” for their “irrational” thoughts.

And their liberal fascist, national socialist heirs in the west never skipped a beat adopting that approach.

You either agree with them or you get locked up. For your own good, of course."

To old Cold Warriors (yes, from back when dinosaurs ruled the Earth), this tactic will be instantly recognizable. And contemptible.

re: "Criminal ideologies"

Col. B. Bunny at Eternity Road ("Freedom Commandos -- and there is no finer species") discussed some of America's existential threats.

Money quote(s):

"We didn’t ban the Communist party, but we should have. Freedom of Religion is absolute, but it does exist on the assumption that the religion in question is not a criminal ideology dedicated to the destruction of the United States. And that is exactly what Islam, like Nazism or Communism is.

Freedom of Religion was meant to protect religious freedom, not protect religious terrorism."

"The solicitude of the Soviet Union for greater voter registration and equality of educational opportunity here apparently motivated it to expend large sums of money inside our borders. To downplay their altruism, those crazy guys used Armand “the Bag Man” Hammer to transfer those sums secretly to the Communist Party of the US.A. (Note that this is a fact one mentioned publicly at great personal peril when Mr. Hammer was still alive.) Too, that they were a bunch of murderous thugs hostile to all that America stands for was something that they thought Americans in their parochial view of things would not appreciate."

"The idea that domestic communists weren’t committed to the overthrow of the U.S. is ridiculous now and was then. To call yourself a communist at any time is to associate yourself with an ideology of dictatorship, subjugation, summary execution, and judicial murder—the reality of every communist regime that ever was. No amount of naivete or willful blindness can excuse that association. To pretend that communism was something benign and “progressive” was an exercise in protective coloration."

&

"Think death for apostasy, shariah supplanting the Constitution, rule by ignorant priests, male supremacy, subjugation of women, implacable hostility to rational thought, war against and subjugation of infidels everywhere, destruction of Christian churches and the Christian religion itself, and execution of infidels unwilling to live as dhimmis in their own land, just to name a few things off the top of my head.

So, yes. Criminal ideologies.

Best obliterated, expelled, or quarantined."