Orson Scott Card versus the Neocons?

As satisfying as it was to see the grass roots war supporters reject McCain for his pro-amnesty stance, this latest opinion piece by author and commentator Orson Scott Card trumps even that delicious moment of I-told-you-so. Card is mad as hell at the triumph of the "gay" agenda -- so mad, he even preaches what would once be called sedition by his fellow war supporters:

Here's the irony: There is no branch of government with the authority to redefine marriage. Marriage is older than government. Its meaning is universal: It is the permanent or semipermanent bond between a man and a woman, establishing responsibilities between the couple and any children that ensue.

Hey, Orson, here's a bigger irony -- who argued that the Federal government could assume the power to re-define any American citizen as an "enemy combatant" with no rights, or to bypass the Fourth Amendment's prohibition of warrantless searches? Who accused those of us objecting to those assaults on our traditional freedoms as misguided souls who "wrap themselves in the flag and pretend that they are protecting the American way of life"? Maybe this will nudge your memory.

We've been arguing for some time that the Neocon agenda is nothing but the re-packaging of big-government, leftist ideology in conservative packaging. While the war supporters thumped their chests over W the Great's splendid little war, we continued to warn that the government was using its newly acquired powers to push through a globalist program of "creative destruction" aimed at destroying America's traditional culture.

And behold, Card now sees the same happening -- and more jaw-dropping is his conclusion about what has to be done in response:

If property rights were utterly abolished, and you could own nothing, you would leave that society as quickly as possible -- or create a new society that agreed to respect each other's property rights and protected them from outsiders who would attempt to take away your property.

Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage, and help me raise my children in a society where they will expect to marry in their turn.

It's also significant that Card justifies his stance with the principles of the Declaration of Independence -- and I mean the real Declaration, which proclaims the right of secession, not the Reconstructed version that sanctions government-enforced equality. Here, he chimes in with basic paleoconservative principles. Our rights, as a natural component of the historic culture that guides and sustains us, precede government. When government subverts its purpose of defending our God-given way of life, the people have the right to alter or replace that government.

And make no mistake -- the Neocons have been working arm-in-arm with all of the leftist enemies of traditional America, including the "gay" rights lobby and the Open Borders traitors. Meanwhile, well-meaning, patriotic Americans who submitted to a government demanding greater power have unwittingly advanced the Neocons' alien, hostile agenda.

Orson Scott Card, we can only hope you've woken up in time.