Tuesday, July 21, 2009

The State of Things Now and What Could Come

Random Selections from Facing facts
at Pajamas Media, Belmont Club
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/07/20/facing-facts

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by Richard Fernandez:

HONDURAS
. . . The situation in the Honduras is another one of those cases where it’s important to tread carefully. One is naturally suspicious of Third World military action against a civilian President. So why not yell "Free Zelaya"? Because there’s some reason to think that President Zelaya himself might be part of the problem. The Wall Street Journal writes, "why would Hugo Chavez expect Obama to help him" restore Zelaya? And Slashdot reports that Honduran authorities have found 45 computers with pre-tallied results for an election that never happened. "Authorities have seized 45 computers containing certified election results for a constitutional election that never happened. The election had been scheduled for June 28, but on that day the president, Manuel Zelaya, was ousted. The ‘certified’ and detailed electronic records of the non-existent election show Zelaya’s side having won overwhelmingly." So its important to look closer precisely because we may not know everything.


COMMENTS

HONDURAS
6. Tio Joaquin:
Let us heed well events in Honduras. Think back on our last presidential election, with all its still unexplained questions about the eventual winner, including the millions in unaccounted for and possibly illegal campaign donations, ACORN. I think it is quite possible that in the aborted Honduran election and Hugo Chavez’s grab for power in Venezuela we can see the template for the next presidential election in the USA. FDR’s multiple presidencies were limited only by his death. Why not President For Life Obama? It would only requre control of Congress, the MSM, the SCOTUS, the election through ACORN, martial law to pass a constitutional amendment a la Zelaya. Seems to me we may be well down that road already.

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
10. NullificationNow:
One favorite reality that is up in smoke, affirmative action in education. BHO and the wise Latina do not exactly offer exceptional intellect to the pool of scholars. Can you imagine the cadre of affirmative action doctors coming into the National Service of Government sponsored health care, yes we can.

HONDURAS
1. starling:
"And Slashdot reports that Honduran authorities have found 45 computers with pre-tallied results for an election that never happened. "

The anti-Castro blog "Babalu" has been on the case too– perhaps the first to report this story.
The post title is "A page out of the Chavez (leftist, in other words) Playbook"
http://babalublog.com/2009/07/a-page-out-of-the-chavez-leftist-in-other-words-playbook/

And you have to love the title of the blog itself–"an island on the net without a bearded dictator"
 
REALITY, THE USSR, AND THE U.S.
15. anton:
The USSR tried telling themselves that everything was always OK. They also tried killing the millions that saw that it really wasn’t. Controlling the narrative only goes so far, people will notice the Naked Emperor sooner or later.

Reality won, it always wins, the real questions is how much destruction happens before people see it for what it is. In USSR’s case it was six decades of economic ruin and tens of millions of senseless deaths.

What we need to ask ourselves is how much ruin and collapse will accompany the “Yes We Can” and “We Won” mindset before the correction sets in.

19. Mark:
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An ongoing question over the past seven months, and even during the election cycle, has been why Obama continues to be effective/credible in spite of espousing policies that are not in the interest of individuals and families. Even non-tax payers, one supposes, would like the economy to provide jobs and not merely crumbs from the government table.

Recently I re-read David Ehrenstein L.A. Times article “Obama the ‘Magic Negro.’”
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19,0,5335087.story

White guilt is a powerful, subtle phenomenon. While fewer and fewer people are going to accept the outrageous redistributionist projects of the President, they will be very careful in how they distance themselves from him.

How can the media ignore the allegation that Zelaya pre-arranged the outcome of the Honduran referendum? Even if it’s not true, how can days go by without any MSM story? The answer seems to be for the MSM nothing is true, facts are not facts, if they might not fit into what the MSM thinks is the narrative of Obama’s presidency. Obama does not have to create a Ministry of Truth. The Ministry has created itself and currently operates with the fine-tuning of a school of fish.

Facts are stubborn things, as John Adams said. But here we are, looking at the facts about national debt. etc., as in the prior post, and Americans are unaware of their significance. Maybe Americans are victims of their own basic good will and traditional confidence. They probably can not imagine that voting machinations of the Chavezian, Khomenist, Putinist, kind could happen here, even though they saw ACORN implementing a version of the strategy in this country. (At least the Huffington Post has bucked the trend in one instance and kept reporting on Iranians’ misery, but posters don’t criticize Obama.)

If Obama had been willing to cook the body-politic frog a little more slowly, I think he might have achieved remarkable successs, measured in usual historical terms. But Obama has wanted socialist transformation and redemption and . . . lots of stuff of the “stick it to the conservative/white man/gun-totin’ first and second amendment crackers” kind . . . and has over-reached. The frog might still leap out.
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17. Peter Boston:
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Reality has all the time in the world is way too close to in the long run we’re all dead to provide any comfort.

My recent favorite is Newsweek’s Why Fears Of A Muslim Takeover Are All Wrong. Your history, way of life, culture, and expectations for the future of your children get flushed down the multicultural toilet and it’s OK?

14. jerryofva:
Fantasy can triumph over reality in the political arena almost forever in system where elections are infrequent events. Lincoln was wrong when he said “you can fool some of the people all of the time; and all of the people some of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” You only need to fool a majority of the people on election day to be successful.

CRIME RATES AND THE DENIAL OF ETHNIC GROUP CONNECTION TO THEM
18. mac:
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. . . Here’s one example: we’ve tolerated and effectively denied the origin of high crime rates for years because certain favored ethnic groups were the ones responsible for a vastly disproportionate amount of the crime.

When I was asked about this once by a Singaporean engineer, I told him that America put up with a lot of self-destructive behavior because we could afford to absorb the losses. His response was to say that Singapore would never be that rich, and consequently would never be so lenient to any group.

We’re now effectively bankrupt as a nation, have a government that approximately 50% or more of us absolutely despise, and have drastic and extraordinarily difficult change bearing down on us like a bullet train.I suspect there is going to be a lot of tightening up of standards in the next few years, and a lot less tolerance for the crap we’ve been enduring since the 1960’s. We just can’t afford it anymore.

The alternative is civil war, and with every day that things get worse, that alternative grows closer.
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From http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/07/20/facing-facts
This "Facing Facts" piece deals with reality, anti-knowledge and such:
Richard Fernandez writes:
. . . "reality always won" in the face of a determined disinformation campaign. . . . . because the spin doctor’s tools have become so great (think for example of Photoshop) it is easy to believe that an imposture can be maintained indefinitely. However, I recently became aware that certain managers internally monitored their error rates for signs that things were going too perfectly; the idea being that the absence of mistakes constituted a worrying indicator that — maybe — they were losing touch with reality. etc., etc., etc.

Monday, July 20, 2009

DUMB AND DUMBER--BUT HOW DUMB CAN HE GET?

. . . before more and more of our troops pay the ultimate price for his stupidity . . . or what can be called treason.

Andrew Bostom writes in his Dumb and Dangerous:

Alan Caruba and Andrew McCarthy make it eminently clear why our Manchild President (for whom Islam IS Third Worldism) is both fencepost dumb, and just plain dangerous.

Caruba’s enumeration of Obama’s burgeoning litany of idiotic decisions is almost humorous . . . McCarthy’s apposite summation of how Obama’s ideology was nurtured, and by whom, is chilling, and now, irrefragable, with his freeing of the jihadist, American-killing Irbil Five:

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. . . [The] neo-Communist well from which Obama drew holds that the world order is a maze of injustice, racism, and repression. Its unified theory for navigating the maze is: “United States = culprit.” Its default position is that tyrants are preferable as long as they are anti-American, and that while terrorist methods may be regrettable, their root cause is always American provocation — that is, the terrorists have a point…

There are a few things you need to know about President Obama’s shameful release on Thursday of the “Irbil Five” — Quds Force commanders from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) who were coordinating terrorist attacks in Iraq that have killed hundreds — yes, hundreds — of American soldiers and Marines.

First, of the 4,322 Americans killed in combat in Iraq since 2003, 10 percent of them (i.e., more than 400) have been murdered by a single type of weapon alone, a weapon that is supplied by Iran for the singular purpose of murdering Americans. As Steve Schippert explains at NRO’s military blog, the Tank, the weapon is “the EFP (Explosively Formed Penetrator), designed by Iran’s IRGC specifically to penetrate the armor of the M1 Abrams main battle tank and, consequently, everything else deployed in the field.” Understand: This does not mean Iran has killed only 400 Americans in Iraq. The number killed and wounded at the mullahs’ direction is far higher than that — likely multiples of that — when factoring in the IRGC’s other tactics, such as the mustering of Hezbollah-style Shiite terror cells.

Second, President Bush and our armed forces steadfastly refused demands by Iran and Iraq’s Maliki government for the release of the Irbil Five because Iran was continuing to coordinate terrorist operations against American forces in Iraq (and to aid Taliban operations against American forces in Afghanistan). Freeing the Quds operatives obviously would return the most effective, dedicated terrorist trainers to their grisly business.

Third, Obama’s decision to release the five terror-masters comes while the Iranian regime (a) is still conducting operations against Americans in Iraq, even as we are in the process of withdrawing, and (b) is clearly working to replicate its Lebanon model in Iraq: establishing a Shiite terror network, loyal to Iran, as added pressure on the pliant Maliki to understand who is boss once the Americans leave. As the New York Times reports, Gen. Ray Odierno, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, put it this way less than two weeks ago:

Iran is still supporting, funding, training surrogates who operate inside of Iraq — flat out. . . . They have not stopped. And I don’t think they will stop. I think they will continue to do that because they are also concerned, in my opinion, [about] where Iraq is headed. They want to try to gain influence here, and they will continue to do that. I think many of the attacks in Baghdad are from individuals that have been, in fact, funded or trained by the Iranians.

Fourth, President Obama’s release of the Quds terrorists is a natural continuation of his administration’s stunningly irresponsible policy of bartering terrorist prisoners for hostages. As I detailed
here on June 24, Obama has already released a leader of the Iran-backed Asaib al-Haq terror network in Iraq, a jihadist who is among those responsible for the 2007 murders of five American troops in Karbala. While the release was ludicrously portrayed as an effort to further “Iraqi reconciliation” (as if that would be a valid reason to spring a terrorist who had killed Americans), it was in actuality a naïve attempt to secure the reciprocal release of five British hostages — and a predictably disastrous one: The terror network released only the corpses of two of the hostages, threatening to kill the remaining three (and who knows whether they still are alive?) unless other terror leaders were released.

Michael Ledeen has reported that the release of the Irbil Five is part of the price Iran has demanded for its release in May of the freelance journalist Roxana Saberi. Again, that’s only part of the price: Iran also has demanded the release of hundreds of its other terror facilitators in our custody. Expect to see Obama accommodate this demand, too, in the weeks ahead.
Finally, when it comes to Iran, it has become increasingly apparent that President Obama wants the mullahs to win. What you need to know is that Barack Obama is a wolf in “pragmatist” clothing: Beneath the easy smile and above-it-all manner — the “neutral” doing his best to weigh competing claims — is a radical leftist wedded to a Manichean vision that depicts American imperialism as the primary evil in the world.

Read Caruba and McCarthy in their entirety.

Andrew Bostom

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Thursday, July 16, 2009

Is It Racist to be White?

By Stalfos Conner
http://atcoalition.com/
http://www.atcoalition.com/news/viewarticle.php?id=12

Referred to this article by http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PIM_FORTUYN_WE_FOLLOW_YOU/

Leftists and the modern black civil rights movement (which is also leftist) are waging a major campaign against what they perceive to be "racism" being committed by whites. White leftists constitute a major part of this campaign.

In schools, in the USA, as well as, in Western Europe, children are bombarded with stories on slavery and the government and institutional racism that followed, even though racist government and institutional policies were outlawed in the 1960s. Today, in the USA, civil rights activist Martin Luther King's birthday is a national holiday (and rightfully so), there is a black history month in February, among other celebrations and/or remembrances. Strangely, no president's birthday – not even George Washington's, nor even Presidents' Day (which marks the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln) – receives as much attention as these holidays.

Black people have had equal rights throughout the Western world for at least forty years. The current (and previous) generations of white people have absolutely nothing to do with not only slavery in the Western World (which ended in the 1800s), but also with the oppression of black people in general (with only a few exceptions). Louis Farrakhan and an army of fellow black supremacists (along with even some of the mainstream of the modern black civil rights movement) like to claim that due to the fact that blacks were enslaved until 1865 and did not receive equal rights until the late 1960s, white people are in a "privileged" position today and thus, black people continue to suffer as a result of that.

Perhaps Michelle Obama, the wife of USA president Barack Hussein Obama II, echoed this sentiment in a speech she gave to a Milwaukee crowd when her husband was president, stating that "for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country". Yes, America's First Lady, despite the fact that she grew up in a privileged middle class family; and despite the fact that she became rich, thanks only to the great opportunities that the USA has to offer to its citizens, she was not proud of the USA up until her husband became a presidential candidate with good chances of becoming a president. Needless to say, leftists didn't see any problem with that. However, it does sum up what black supremacists want. Some, like Louis Farrakhan, aren't shy about it. They have repeatedly and clearly voiced – what leftists call, in their case, an "opinion" – that the only way whites can repay blacks is by giving them their entire country.

Interestingly, the number of Muslims among black "civil rights" activists is amazingly high. That's quite ironic since Arab Muslims have been practicing slavery since the 7th century – as instructed by Islam (and was instructed by Muhammad). By the 8th century, Islam had spread well into Africa and Muslims began to enslave huge numbers of blacks. In fact, they enslaved so many blacks that "abd", the Arabic word for "slave", also began to be used as a derogatory term for a black person (in other words, the Arabic version of the n-word). Eventually, the Europeans decided to follow the Muslims in using blacks as slaves, often buying blacks directly from Muslims, though for purely for economic reasons. And so began the Atlantic Slave Trade.

About 12 million African slaves were shipped to the Americas, of which only 5.4% were shipped to the USA, between the 16th to the 19th centuries. Most of the slaves where shipped to Brazil. Some blacks captured and sold other blacks (in some cases, even from their own tribes) to the Europeans. Speaking of which, some people claim that those blacks did not know that they were selling their people into slavery. Right, they were so dumb that they didn't realize for whole centuries that they were trading their own people out to slavery?

Under the Islamic slave trade, on the other hand, blacks were not the only people that were enslaved. Many whites, especially of Slavic origin (from Eastern Europe), as well as those from other Mediterranean countries, along with even Middle Easterners, such as Persians, Turks, Georgians, Armenians, Asians and Berbers, were also enslaved. Needless to say, this is barely (if at all) taught in schools and colleges in the West or anywhere else for that matter. In fact, the English word "slave" originates from the word "Slav", which is, of course, the name for a person of Slavic origin.

Slavery, abuse, terrorism and/or racism by Muslims against non-Muslims is deeply rooted in the history of many nations.

Serbia, for example, which is the homeland of a Slavic people (they are white), has always had friendly and excellent relationships with African countries. Like black people, Serbs were targeted (and are still targeted) by Islamic terrorists. Although they have always fought back against slavery, they couldn't always defend themselves against Islamic terrorism. Furthermore, Muslims use their women primarily for their own sexual pleasures and for producing and raising children – almost as much as they can. Thus, under Islam, Muslim women are themselves, slaves.

The Ottoman Empire, which can be seen as the Turkish and Islamic equivalent of the Nazi regime, terrorized both Serbs and blacks for hundreds of years.

In 1809 in Čegar Hill, Serbian insurrectionists suffered their greatest defeat in the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman terrorists. The insurrectionists were stopped in Niš when the Ottoman terrorist forces launched a devastating attack against them. After the defeat, Ottoman terrorist commander Hrsid Pasha ordered that the heads of the killed Serbs were to be mounted on a tower to serve as a warning to any other would-be revolutionaries. In total, 952 skills were included. The scalps from the skulls were stuffed with cotton and sent to Constantinople (which had been stolen by the Ottoman terrorists from the Byzantine Empire centuries earlier) as a gift for Sultan Mahmud II.

The tower stood in the open air until the liberation of Niš in 1878. By that time, much of the tower had deteriorated from weather conditions or from the removal of skulls for burial by relatives of the killed rebels. In 1892, with donations gathered from all over Serbia, a graceful chapel designed by the Belgrade architect Dimitrije T. Leko was built to enclose what was left of the tower. Today, only 58 skulls remain, including Sinđelić's one. It's called the "Skull Tower" ("Ćele Kula" in Serbian).

"If you meet them in battle, inflict on them such a defeat as would be a lesson for those who come after them, that they may be warned", Quran 8:57.

The very same Ottoman Empire played a key role in both the enslavement and slave trade of blacks. Many more examples could be given. For any black individual to blame "whites" for what their ancestors suffered or for what they are presently suffering as a consequence thereof – especially Muslim blacks – is utterly disgusting. Not all whites have engaged in slavery. Not all blacks were victims of slavery. There are unfortunately both white and black racists. There were whites who fought slavery and blacks who have engaged in slavery.

In fact, whites have outlawed slavery and pressed Islamic countries to do the same.

Nevertheless, after the illegal declaration of independence from Serbia by Albanian Muslims in the Serbian province of Kosovo, as planned by fascist leaders Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, some African countries decided to recognize the terrorist state, despite Serbian (and Russian) protests, most notably Liberia (more on Liberia later on) and the Islamic states of Senegal and Burkina Faso.

About ten to eleven centuries after Muslims began to terrorize and enslave Africans, the slave trade from east Africa began to increase. Ibn Khaldun, an Arab Muslim sociologist, wrote "the [black] nations are, as a rule, submissive to slavery because they have little that is essentially human and possess attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals".

The Quran, at 8:1, states "they question you about (windfalls taken as) spoils of war. Say: ‘Booty is at the disposal of Allah and the Messenger; they belong to Us and are for Our benefit. So fear Allah, and adjust your way of thinking in this matter. Obey Allah and His Messenger'".

Indeed, Muslims have squatted, invaded and terrorized northern Africa, and slaughtered, enslaved and exterminated nearly all blacks in northern Africa.

"Allah wished to confirm the truth by His words: ‘Wipe the infidels out to the last.'", Quran 8:7. "So, fight [non-Muslims] till all opposition ends and the only religion is Islam", Quran 8:39. There's more in the Quran where that came from.

Of course, this is also something that is not being taught in Western schools and universities.

In the 18th century, slavery began to get – very fortunately – abolished in countries throughout the West. In turn, and with the help of whites, slavery was outlawed in many parts of Africa because of that. In fact, as stated before, whites have pressed the Islamic world as a whole to outlaw slavery as well.

Unfortunately, slavery has never been fully outlawed throughout Africa. Slavery continues to exist there today.

Moreover, blacks enslaved fellow blacks even before Muslims did so. Slavery (blacks, Arabs or Muslims enslaving blacks) has existed for thousands of years in Africa. No continent has a longer history of slavery than Africa.

Due to the amazingly long history of black enslavement by the Muslims, the majority of black slaves were converted to Islam (in some cases, they did so voluntarily, in order to attempt to escape slavery), thus becoming Muslims themselves. As a result, a sizeable portion of the blacks that were shipped to the USA, were Muslims.

In fact, Islam's founder, Muhammad, and many of his companions bought, sold and owned slaves.

However, there was little tolerance for Islam in the USA and rightfully so. Islam is what caused blacks to end up as slaves of whites in the first place. Slaves were often forced to convert to Christianity. The majority of blacks became Christians after many generations.

Once blacks began to gain civil rights, Islam began to find its way back to the black community in the USA. Organizations and cults in support of returning the black community to Islam came about, such as the Moorish Science Temple of America (which has absolutely nothing to do with science) in 1913 and the Nation of Islam in 1930.

Elijah Muhammad, the former leader of the Nation of Islam cult, taught that blacks were the original people on the Earth and had been tricked out of their power, conquered and oppressed by whites via a global (conspiracy) system of white supremacy. He taught that the white race was produced through a series of genetic breeding experiments conducted by a person called Yakub.

According to the official platform, as stated by Elijah Muhammad, the Nation of Islam demands, "a full and complete freedom, equal justice under the law applied equally to all, regardless of race or class or color and equal membership in the society with the best in civilized society". The alternative, "justifies our demand for complete separation in a state or territory of our own".

According to the Nation of Islam, Yakub is the scientist who created the white race (including Jews) by using black genes from the original black population of the world. According to Malcolm X, a black Muslim minister, all races except the black race were by-products of Yakub's work. Although the reasons for Yakub's actions are never explained, white people, alongside Jews, are considered the race of devils, by the doctrine of Yakub.

The doctrine of Yakub was invented by Wallace Fard Muhammad, the founder of Nation of Islam, and developed further by successor Elijah Muhammad.

Despite the fact that all races are considered to be the race of devils, except of course the black race, the Nation of Islam follows the cult of Islam, a cult created by an Arab called "Muhammad" who was not black.

Another major flaw in the doctrine of Yakub is, of course, that thousands and thousands of years ago science was not even progressed to the point of automobiles, leave alone the development of intelligent creatures – which is not possible even today.

In fact, the Nation of Islam violates the teachings of Islam constantly. In Islam, Allah is the creator of mankind. It is an insult to Allah to credit someone else for his alleged work, according to Islam.

Allah doesn't have a problem with whites. Allah's racism is directed against desert Arabs, as the Quran states at 9:97: "the Arabs of the desert are the worst in unbelief and hypocrisy, and most fitted to be in ignorance of the command which Allah hath sent down to His Messenger".

Islam specifically states that its founder, Muhammad, is the last prophet: "Muhammad is not the father of any of your men, but (he is) the Messenger of Allah, and the Seal of the Prophets: and Allah has full knowledge of all things.", Quran 33:40. It's, again, a violation to Islam's teachings to teach otherwise in the name of Islam. It's an even bigger insult to Islam to regard any human to be Allah. Yet, that is exactly what the Nation of Islam does.

But if one Muslim kills a "Muslim" from the Nation of Islam, Islam has a solution: "Never should a believer kill a believer; but (If it so happens) by mistake, (Compensation is due): If one (so) kills a believer, it is ordained that he should free a believing slave, and pay compensation to the deceased's family, unless they remit it freely. If the deceased belonged to a people at war with you, and he was a believer, the freeing of a believing slave (Is enough). If he belonged to a people with whom ye have treaty of Mutual alliance, compensation should be paid to his family, and a believing slave be freed. For those who find this beyond their means, (is prescribed) a fast for two months running: by way of repentance to Allah: for Allah hath all knowledge and all wisdom.", Quran 4:92.

Elijah Muhammad or Wallace Fard Muhammad founded a new cult, with its own teachings added to Islam. Elijah Muhammad went even as far as to claim that Wallace Fard Muhammad was the Mahdi (the prophesied redeemer of Islam who will rid the world of error and "tyranny" (never minding that Islam is theocratic fascist tyranny itself)) and yes, even Allah himself. Wallace Fard Muhammad's birthday is also celebrated by the Nation of Islam as "Savior's Day".

African nations have been around longer than the USA and European nations combined – Africans had a major head start! It is not the fault of either Americans or Europeans that Africa is the most impoverished continent in the world. On the other hand, white dominant continents North America, Australia and Europe are the most successful continents in the world.

How exactly are Africa's problems the fault of whites?

In the 1960s and 1970s, another black supremacist organization was founded, the Black Panther Party, which can be seen as the black and communist equivalent of the Ku Klux Klan. It was founded by communists and black supremacists Bobby Seale and Huey Percy Newton. The latter is also a convicted murderer (of a white police man).

The Black Panthers saw whites as oppressors that could only be overcome by a willingness to take up armed "self-defense". The party philosophy was one that espoused the political views of Malcolm X and principles of Marxism-Leninism that called for an end of the exploitation of the black masses by capitalists, and a redistribution of wealth. The party leaders relied on the works of Karl Marx, Lenin, and Mao to inform how they organized as a revolutionary cadre. In consciously working toward a revolution, they considered themselves the vanguard party, "committed to organizing support for a socialist revolution."

Among radical leftist organizations, the Panthers' reputation for violence was unrivaled by basically anyone. From the beginning, the Black Panther Party used violence to further their goals. The Black Panthers were particularly against police officers, which they equated with "pigs". From the fall of 1967 through the end of 1969, nine police officers were killed and 56 were wounded in confrontations with the Panthers. The confrontations were believed to have resulted in ten Panther deaths and an unknown number of injuries. In 1969 alone, 348 Panthers were arrested for a variety of crimes.

Fortunately, the organization disbanded due to rising legal costs and internal disputes.

Interestingly, despite black supremacy, the Black Panthers adopted leftist ideologies that were invented by whites and other non-blacks. They in particular were inspired by the white founder of communism, Karl Heinrich Marx, and the Chinese military and political leader Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong is responsible for the murder of about 100 million people, much more than Hitler and his fellow Nazis, who are responsible for killing about 30 million people.

In 1989, a group calling themselves the New Black Panther Party was formed. They claim to uphold the legacy of the original Black Panthers. In fact, in order to justify the original Black Panthers' use of the white-made ideology of communism, the New Black Panthers claimed that Karl Marx based his ideology and teachings on indigenous African cultures – an obvious twisting and bending of history. However, the New Black Panthers claim to not need to look to Marxism or Maoism as a basis for their programs, but can look to ideologies that stem directly from those African origins.

The New Black Panther Party goes even further. Since they no longer see communism as being invented by Karl Marx, a (self hating) Jew, the New Black Panthers can hate Jews now too. Indeed, Nation of Islam minister and former national chairman of the New Black Panthers, Khalid Abdul Muhammad, blamed slavery and even the Holocaust on the "hooked-nose, bagel-eating, lox-eating, perpetrating-a-fraud, so called Jew" (in his own words).

They also blame Jews for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, DC.

Apparently, the New Black Panthers haven't had an education in history, as evident by their many ridiculous claims. Jews were enslaved by Africans before Americans enslaved blacks. In fact, the history of Jews under Egyptian slavery is a crucial part of their religion.

During the 2008 election, poll watchers found a pair of New Black Panther Militia members outside of a polling place in Philadelphia. One of the two was a poll watcher, while the other was a Black Panther member who had brought a nightstick. Chris Hill, a Republican poll watcher, stated that voters had been complaining about intimidation, while the DA's office stated that they had not been contacted by voters. The Black Panther member with the nightstick was escorted away by the police. According to Fox News, the remaining member denied all reports to reporters, and even when shown the video tape of the whole ordeal, he said, "I don't know what ya crackas talking about."

What were they trying to achieve? But of course, to scare people away from voting for the rival of their favorite "black" candidate, Barack Hussein Obama.

Unfortunately, the New Black Panther Party continues to exist.

Imagine if North Korean or Chinese communists would invade the USA, terrorize its citizens, commit genocides, enslave white Americans and impose a communist ideology on them, such as Marxism, Stalinism, Leninism or Juche. Americans are then forced to change their names to "communist" names. For some reason, many white American slaves decide to convert to communism and some of them even go as far as trading out their own people to the communists for the purpose of slavery.

Then, blacks from whatever African country come to the USA to profit from communist slavery. They ship thousands and thousands of slaves to Africa, but the slaves aren't allowed to adhere to communism. Instead, they have to convert to, for example, Judaism. They also have to change their names to Jewish names.

Finally, slavery in Africa gets abolished alongside any racism against whites and whites get equal rights. However, that isn't enough for some whites. Nope, they turn white nationalism into socialism, change their names back to their communist names and preach for the destruction of Africa in favor of a white run communist African state!

As convoluted as all of this sounds, THIS IS THE EXACT STORY OF BLACK AMERICANS! Theocratic fascists (Muslims) invaded Africa, committed genocides against blacks, enslaved blacks, converted them to Islam and sold many of them to other slave owners. A tiny percentage of those black slaves ended up being sold into slavery in the USA. Fortunately, slavery got abolished alongside racism. However, that wasn't enough for some blacks. Instead, they turned to black nationalism and socialism (creating a black supremacist ideology rooted in both black nationalism and socialism), changed their names back to their theocratic fascist slave names and now preach for the destruction of the USA, in favor of a theocratic fascist black run state!

Interestingly, there is already a black American (established) state and it is located in Africa. Blacks saw (and some still see) Africa as the "promised land". Whites feared that due to cultural differences, racism and societal differences, they and blacks would not live together in peace and harmony, despite abolition of slavery.

As a result, the ACS (Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America (also known as the American Colonization Society)) was founded in 1816. Eight years later, the ACS established the colony of Liberia on the west coast of Africa. By 1867, more than 13,000 blacks were sent to Liberia.

The ACS encouraged slaveholders to offer freedom to slaves on the condition that those accepting it would move to Liberia at the ACS's expense.

In Liberia, the natives opposed the black immigrants from the USA and found themselves engaged in armed combat with them all the time. The immigrants identified themselves as "Americans".

Eventually, Liberia became a financial burden on the ACS. The ACS became bankrupt and in 1847 and lost control over Liberia. Fearful that the British colonial authorities might annex Liberia, the ACS directed the Liberians to proclaim their independence. In 1847, Liberia became an independent nation.

Historically, Liberia has enjoyed the support and unofficial cooperation of the United States government. Liberia's government, modeled after that of the United States, was democratic in structure, if not always in substance. Even its flag and almost everything else was modeled on that of the United States.

The result? Liberia has become one of the world's most impoverished nations. Nevertheless, as of 2006, Liberia has the highest population growth in the world.

Due to history of blacks in the USA, there are now several groups of blacks in the USA – all leftists – who preach for the destruction of white civilizations and the creation of either communist or Islamic states.

Unfortunately, the majority of blacks have been victimized by them (yet again they have been betrayed by their own people).

The problems innocent blacks claim to face are the result of generations and generations of brainwashing by the leftists (black socialists, black theocratic fascists and mainstream (white) leftists). It has nothing do with white racism or with the slavery that was very fortunately abolished over 150 years ago. They face the same problems other freedom loving people do: leftism.

Mainstream leftists (mainly liberals) are obsessed with equalizing everything and everyone. They only care about blacks in the sense that as fellow leftists (such as black socialists and theocratic fascists) they share the same ideological principles on equality.

The black community is (perceived as) a minority in the USA. For as long as that holds true, mainstream leftists will tolerate anything the black community does.

For mainstream leftists, it is not enough to give minorities equal rights. They want minorities to also be equal in population and political power to the majority. Therefore, for as long as a minority is not equal in every possible way to the majority, they can't possibly be racist, terrorist and so on. Even if an individual explicitly acknowledges his being racist, the majority of leftists will defend such racism as being only racism against "racism".

In fact, leftists have turned such discrimination into policies, known as "affirmative action" (also known as "positive discrimination"). Affirmative action is a form of collectivism, in which policies serve to discriminate against the majority, rich and/or intellectuals for the benefit of another group, in particular minorities (such as blacks), the sexually perverted and/or leftists, for the purpose of creating a classless society (in other words, implementing the leftist ideology of communism).

Affirmative action policies are already legalized and in effect in Canada, Germany, Norway, Brazil, China, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Macedonia and some other countries. In almost all cases, affirmative action policies directly benefit blacks and Muslims.

Islamic countries don't have affirmative action policies. They are much more progressed in leftism. They have theocratic fascist policies, which prohibit non-Muslims from nearly everything, including driving on certain highways. In fact, special taxes for non-Muslims living in Islamic states exist as well, among many other oppressive policies.

Although affirmative action policies are not directly legalized in the USA, the USA does allow black racism in almost all cases, while banning white racism in exactly the same cases.

There is a "United Negro College Fund" in the USA. Can you imagine a "United Caucasian College Fund" or "United White College Fund"? If such an organization would be founded and supported by the government of the USA, opposition from blacks and white leftists could even lead to a civil war.

Leftists will support anything, be it racism, sexual perversity or whatever else, for as long as – and if and only if – they can use it to push collectivism and socialist "equality" on everyone.

Black supremacists (in particular black theocratic fascists) want equality only among themselves. In other words, they want to eradicate everyone who is superior to them, including fellow blacks who disagree with them. Ideologically, they are most closely related to the Germanic supremacists who called themselves Nazis.

Racism exists almost everywhere, unfortunately. It is not limited to any race.

The fact is that racism against blacks is almost something of the past in the USA. Blacks must come to terms with that and not blame others for their own failures. The every day black individual has to realize that they have been brainwashed to believe that racism against them is as common as they think it is, and that, like any other group of people, they make mistakes.

There is not a single black country in the world that is not impoverished. There is also not a single black country in the world where human rights are not violated frequently. White countries have their fair share of impoverishment and human rights abuses but they also account for the most successful countries in the world, both in political and economic terms.

There is no single black country in the world that has ever elected a white president. On the other hand, the USA has elected in 2008 a black man to the presidency.

Blacks didn't have the American Constitution (or anything remotely similar to it) in Africa. Whites invented it, alongside democracy, capitalism and even communism and so forth. Blacks barely had any rights in Africa and they still barely have any rights in Africa. The freedoms and individual rights blacks are enjoying in white countries have been invented by whites and given to them by the whites. Yes, those very same rights black supremacists are using to fight white civilizations.

More examples could be given. The point is that black racism against whites won't hold, just as, white racism against blacks didn't hold either, because whites – very fortunately – came to their senses and realized it was wrong. Black supremacists should first take a very good look at themselves and their people before they even think about pointing fingers to others.

Do blacks really need anything like "affirmative action" or "positive discrimination"? Are they incapable of becoming successful in education or in various careers otherwise? Of course not! They can succeed, but they too need to fight leftism, which preaches for inequality (such as "affirmative action), genocides against people (whatever race they may be) and the creation of Islamic and/or communist states.

Furthermore, why do the majority of blacks refer to themselves as "African-American" anyways? Why not just "American"? Have they ever been to Africa? Do they want to return to Africa? White Americans identify themselves simply as "American", regardless where their ancestors come from. Why are the black Americans not doing the same? Do they want to be treated differently? Why do many in America often refer to some sort of "black America" (when discussing the black community in America), as if it is some sort of nation within America? Why not just "America" – one, unified and colorblind America?

During the 2008 presidential elections, leftists constantly accused anyone who didn't support Obama of racism. Are we supposed to vote for someone because of their skin color?

More blacks voted in the November 2008 presidential election than in any other election in the history of the United States! About 96%-97% of them voted for Barack Hussein Obama. In the aftermath of his victory in the election, the mainstream media, along with a majority of blacks and a majority of leftists claimed "we made history" by electing the first "African-American" president. In other words, a large number of people voted for a candidate just because he was black! It wasn't his political positions, his political connections, his overall record, or anything else that made him the favored candidate; it was simply the fact that he was black!

How exactly is it not racist to vote for someone because of his skin color? Is this what Martin Luther King wanted? Martin Luther King, whom the black community proudly (and rightfully) references all the time, said "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character".




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WHAT IN THE HELL IS GOING ON?
LET'S TRY AND UNDERSTAND IT.
You may be shocked, you may not like that its way past time to pull punches and to be "nice." Why is that? Why must we now call a spade a spade?
 
You may not like all the people on our side and be drawn to sympathize with those bent on our destruction. Who are the "we" here? Americans. Those who believe that the United States once was the greatest and best country on earth.

Who are destroying us?

You must read the following and you will know. You will know, but you will not yet know what to do about it

But in time you will. It will come to you--to us all.

So, without further ado, here goes.

From Titans To Lemmings: The Suicide Of The White Race
by Reconquista
Background
[excerpt]
In the first two essays in this series discussing the suicide of the white race, I have tried to present a reasoned and rational argument as to how Marxists/Liberals/Multiculturalists exploit a flaw with Christianity to pursue the goal of a Multicultural society. The flaw is an inversion of morality placing the weak and the wretched as virtuous and the strong and powerful as ignoble and immoral. Through this flaw, a number of "minority groups" - victims - have been created and it is through these groups that the Multicultural society is being created.

The end goal of Liberal-Multiculturalists is to completely dismantle Western societies and re-create them as multi-racial, multi-faith and multicultural societies where all people are equal regardless of race, creed or colour. This anti-nature utopia of peaceful and harmonious existence between distinctly different peoples will spell the end of Western nations because Liberal-Multicultural ideology asserts that it is these strong, advanced societies - and therefore, the indigenous people of these societies, the white race - that are responsible for all of the oppression, war and injustice in the world and who only became so powerful by looting from, and oppressing, weak and powerless others.

http://isupporttheresistance.blogspot.com/2009/07/from-titans-to-lemmings-suicide-of.html

White People Must Be Reduced To A Minority"
by johnofgwent
http://isupporttheresistance.blogspot.com/2009/07/white-people-must-be-reducedto-minority.html

at this post,

Green Arrow says:

Related article that I know you will find interesting.

Here's some of what you will find at that referred-to site:
http://principles-of-progressive-politics.blogspot.com/

For Peace And Justice To Be Realized, White People Must Be Reduced To A Minority

PRINCIPLE OF PROGRESSIVE POLITICS ---> Only whites are racist; people-of-color cannot be racist since they are oppressed

"The Revolution won't happen with guns, rather it will happen incrementally, year by year, generation by generation. We will gradually infiltrate their educational institutions and their political offices, transforming them slowly into Marxist entities as we move towards universal egalitarianism."
--MAX HORKHEIMER, Marxist Theoretician
http://principles-of-progressive-politics.blogspot.com/

and a reference to

OSI (Open Society Institute) and the Soros Foundations Network

The Open Society Institute works to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens. To achieve its mission, OSI seeks to shape public policies that assure greater fairness in political, legal, and economic systems and safeguard fundamental rights. On a local level, OSI implements a range of initiatives to advance justice, education, public health, and independent media. At the same time, OSI builds alliances across borders and continents on issues such as corruption and freedom of information. OSI places a high priority on protecting and improving the lives of people in marginalized communities.

Investor and philanthropist George Soros in 1993 created OSI as a private operating and grantmaking foundation to support his foundations in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Those foundations were established, starting in 1984, to help countries make the transition from communism. OSI has expanded the activities of the Soros foundations network to encompass the United States and more than 60 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Each Soros foundation relies on the expertise of boards composed of eminent citizens who determine individual agendas based on local priorities.
 
OSI Initiatives
The Open Society Institute’s initiatives address specific issue areas on a regional or network-wide basis around the world. Most of the initiatives are administered by OSI offices in New York, London, or Budapest and are implemented in cooperation with Soros foundations in various countries and regions.

OSI initiatives cover a range of activities aimed at building free and open societies, including grantmaking to strengthen civil society; economic reform; education at all levels; human rights; legal reform and public administration; media and communications; public health; and arts and culture.
View a list of OSI initiatives.

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Trouble in Afghanistan! Who's Winning?








David Guttenfelder / AP

Medics attached to the U.S. Marines from the 2nd MEB, 1st Battalion 5th Marines carry a Marine, who was overcome by heat exhaustion, to a medical evacuation helicopter in the Nawa district of Afghanistan's Helmand province on July 6.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31764129/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/

Obama declared that Afghanistan was to be his special target.

Of course, it wasn't to be all-out war but limited operations.

No one in the defense (war) establishment appears to remember Mao Zedong (Tse-tung):

"A guerrilla", according to Mao Tse-tung (1937), "can always sink back into the peaceful population which is the sea in which the guerrilla swims like a fish".

The guerrilla can afford to run when he cannot stand and fight with a good chance of winning, and to disappear and hide when it is not safe to move.

the enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue

and from the same source,

"Mao Tse-tung and General Vo Nguyen Giap On Guerrilla Warfare by Florian Waitl",

comes the following:

Mistakes during the Vietnam War, such as the relocation of entire villages, were conducted in the hope to gain the support of the population which would be like taking away the water from a fish (or taking away the support of the population from the guerrilla) but the exact opposite was the case. The enemy's and the population's culture has to be studied so that mistakes such as the one above will not be made. Once again, it is the ability to "know your enemy and yourself" (Sun Tzu) which will make warfare successful. Especially in guerrilla warfare, the West has to know themselves and understand that such a war will be long. Guerrilla Warfare is measured in years and decades which means that the support (West's center of gravity) of the own people will be lost over time. Throughout this paper we have learned a lot about the guerrilla enemy as well as ourselves and it is my believe that the West will never be able to win such a war, unless it uses atomic weapons to eliminate both the guerrilla as well as the supporting populace which would transform the war into a crime against humanity.
www.militaryhistoryonline.com/.../maotsetunggiap.aspx

And, from The Situation in Afghanistan

Thoughts on operations in southern Afghanistan
by Jim Molan

[excerpt]

With 4000 deployed troops from this 11,000-strong Marine force, relatively few small outposts can be established because each outpost must be big enough to protect itself against initial attack, and must be backed up by quick reaction forces held in reserve. So even if this operation goes perfectly it will merely establish small groups of Marines in a number of local areas. This is the right first step. It then requires the re-establishment of local governance, which will take years, and the replacement of the Marines with Afghan troops and police. . . .
Continued at http://howtostoptheislamicjihad.blogspot.com/?zx=2a8843e961a1985d

No Excuse: Marines Losing Legs in Now Zad
BY Herschel Smith
From http://www.captainsjournal.com/2009/07/07/no-excuse-marines-losing-legs-in-now-zad/

NOTE: You owe it to our valiant troops in Afghanistan and to yourself to read this ENTIRE article at The Captain's Journal

[Following are excerpts from the piece]

[quoting Herschel Smith at The Captain's Journal]

In What Now Zad Can Teach Us About Counterinsurgency The Captain’s Journal ridiculed the decision-making for the campaign in Helmand and found the idea incredulous that the U.S. Marines in Now Zad would be under-resourced. They need more troops, as we have pointed out, and major combat action continues against Taliban fighters. These Taliban, it must be understood, have given us the opportunity for which we pray. They have separated themselves from the population and given us unhindered access to kill them. But the population-centric counterinsurgency advocates (we consider this to be similar to a cult) lament the fact that there is no population to woe and win, and so the campaign in Now Zad sees the Marines without enough troops.

"Now Zad remains so dangerous that this is the only Marine unit in Afghanistan that brings along two trauma doctors, as well as two armored vehicles used as ambulances and supplies of fresh blood."

Apart from one small stretch of paved road, the Marines patrol only behind an engineer who sweeps the ground with a detector. The men who follow scratch out a path in the sand with their foot to ensure those trailing them do not stray off course. Each carries at least one tourniquet.

“It’s a hell of ride,” said Lance Cpl. Aenoi Luangxay, a 20-year-old engineer on his first deployment. “Every step you think this could be my last,” said Aenoi, who has found six bombs in the company’s four weeks in the town.

Just after midnight recently, the medics were wakened by a familiar report: A patrol had hit an IED in town. Within five minutes, they put on their flak jackets and helmets and were in their vehicles leaving the base.

The bomb blew the legs off Cpl. Matthew Lembke as he walked to a building. Lembke, from Tualatin, Ore., was loaded onto the ambulance. On the trip to the helicopter landing zone, the medics tightened his tourniquets and gave him two units of blood along with antibiotics.
***
Lembke was in stable condition Monday at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.
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Each day, the Marines aggressively patrol to limit the Taliban’s freedom of movement. They keep a 24-hour watch on the battlefield using high-tech surveillance equipment and are able to fire mortar rounds at insurgents spotted planting bombs or gathering in numbers.

A recent daylong battle showed the massive difference in firepower between the two sides, as well as the tenacity of the Taliban. It took place close to “Pakistani Alley,” so named because of one-time reports that fighters from across the border were deployed along the road.
The insurgents opened fire from behind high-walled compounds with automatic weapons, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades against five armored vehicles; the Marines responded with machine gunfire and frequently called in airstrikes.

Mindful of the need to engage with what few locals remain in the area, every couple of days a small group of Marines and translators leave the base and walk a mile to a village south of Now Zad where some families who fled the town now stay.

They try to convince them that the Marines are there to help, remind them that Taliban militants plant bombs that kill innocents and discreetly try to gather intelligence. Many of the locals are suspicious and worried about Taliban retribution for talking with the visitors, who are besieged by children demanding candy and notebooks.

[end of quote]

Please, if you care about what happens to our troops in Afghanistan, read the entire piece at The Captain's Journal

Also, from The Captain's Journal:

Scenes From Operation Khanjar IV
Operation Khanjar: What do the people think?
Scenes From Operation Khanjar III
Afghan National Army in Operation Khanjar - Or Not
Calling on National Security Advisor James L. Jones to Resign
MRAPs, V-Hull and Saving Lives in the Battle Space
Scenes from Operation Khanjar II
Afghanistan: The WTF? War
Marines Feel the Love from Huffington Post
Scenes from Operation Khanjar
U.S. Marines Launch Large Scale Operation in Helmand Province
What Now Zad Can Teach Us About Counterinsurgency
Leaving Fallujah Better?
Concluding Thoughts on Afghanistan ROE Modifications

AND

be sure to READ . . .

Understanding Afghanistan and the Taliban
Pakistan, the ISI, and the Taliban

and

Fighting Wars to Lose . . .
or "Why Since World War II, the U.S. has lost every war it ever was drawn into."
http://inslamic-danger-redux.blogspot.com/2009/06/fighting-wars-to-lose.html


and

DON’T SHOOT BACK AT TALIBAN TERRORISTS!!!
Thanks to "Atlas Shrugs" for this link

and

Welcome to the modern Marine Corps under Military Hater-in-Chief Barack Hussein Obama:
TRAITOR-IN-CHIEF to the MARINES: “Don’t shoot back when the Taliban terrorists shoot at you!”

. . . while the "Commander-in-Chief" (laugh!) worries about "Global Warming"









Photo: Associated Press AP


and this:

Related? Most assuredly:

U.S. Muslim Groups Want Obama to Make Charitable Giving Easier
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END NOTE:
Afghanistan (pronounced /æfˈɡænɨstæn/),[4] officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan

Friday, July 3, 2009

July 4, 2009 . . . In this, the Thirtieth Year of Our War against the Enemies that Seek to Destroy Us:















Has Islam Really Been "Battered and Bruised?"

Is Mohammed's dream of forcing his sick vision--his ideology of pure evil--on the entire world, "Battered and bruised?"
 
This last phrase comes from FREEDOM vs. TOLERANCE by Leslie Sacks
at FaithFreedom.org, where "radical" Islam is still characterized as remaining a "ferocious opponent."

The entire quote goes, "Radical Islam, while battered and bruised, remains a ferocious opponent, the advocates of Shariah law a dangerous fifth column."

Leslie Sacks goes on to say:

In the Muslim world, Radical Islam is encroaching on a dysfunctional and nuclear-armed state in Pakistan. It is resurgent in Afghanistan, awaiting our precipitous withdrawal from Iraq, and posing as the harbingers of a new, Judenrein regional order by way of the theocrats in Iran.

Here in the West – the primary concern, unabashedly, of those of us gathered here tonight [at a Geert Wilders event] – the threat is just as real, if not as immediate. The reach of Shariah extends even further into both the de facto and de jure reaches of North America and Europe, welcomed with all-too-open arms by the multi-culturalists and relativists who dominate our intellectual classes — and even some Western governments.

As a result, beheadings, honor killings, draconian restrictions on women, even absurd aversions to pork — all are on the up-and-up. As for the victories of radical Islam in suppressing our precious freedoms of expression and of conscience, our civilization’s comparative advantage in inquiry and truth-telling…well, I will leave such things to the experts.

From where does this insidious commonality derive, between the extreme left and the fascist Jihadist movements like Hamas and Hezbollah? What are the origins of this red-green alliance?
Perhaps it is the fact that these coalescing extremes share one special ideological tenet – that of the certainty of their paths and their righteousness, and thus the obligation to impose these beliefs on society, removing choice – and ultimately the basis of freedom -- from the imperfect masses. From the rest of us.

Be that as it may. What about the "Battered and Bruised" Islam as it affects us immediately--here in the U.S.?

Well, we've got us a "President" with doubtful antecedents--to say the least! Born, only his deceased mother knew where, of a Moslem father--which makes him a Moslem under their law--professing to be a "Christian" now, but in a black Afrocentric church whose "Christianity" is reserved for African blacks, with a White-American-hating preacher at its head.
A "President of all the World" as he appears to want to be adored as, as much of the world's Moslems as that of Americans, this is the leader of the "Free world" today.
 
It Was Never "Easy!"

From the time the Declaration of Independence was adopted by Congress and sent to the printer on July 4, 1776 until the Revolutionary War of the American Colonies versus the British crown was over on September 3, 1783 with the signing of the peace treaty of Paris seven long years had passed. http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/revwartimeline.htm

And that was a war of the American, former British, colonies against their own mother country.

The Present War is a Longer War

We can set the date of its official launch by our enemies on the day the American embassy in Tehran was attacked and taken over by hostile Islamic militants in 1979. Thirty years have passed since then. But, we are fighting the entire world that is dominated by Islam. Only "Radical Islam," you say? How many Moslems in the world are violently opposed to seeing the non-Islamic world adopt Islam and Sharia?
 

















Let Any and All American Governments Remember:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm

[color emphasis mine. lw]

Thursday, June 18, 2009

What Connection Between Obama and the Muslim Brotherhood?

Why does this anti-jihad blog disapprove of Obama as president or for any position in the U.S. Government?

On November 4,1979 a renewed Moslem aggression against the non-Islamic world was launched with the occupation of the U.S. Embassy in Teheran, Iran.

Twenty-two years later, Islamic adherents on jihad killed some 3000 people in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania.

There is no doubt that the jihadists of the Moslem world are at war with the United States. That no Islamic countries have declared war is beside the point, as there is financial as well as implicit support among the Moslem elites, masses and governments of this aggression with the goal of Islamizing the West, including the United States.

When the supposed leader of the United States is sympathetic to the Islamic world's aim, he can neither be regarded as a defender of the Constitution of the United States nor of its people.

From FaithFreedom.org comes the following:

Obama’s Muslim Brotherhood Links Deserve Second Look
Op-Ed

“The Speech” [Cairo] delivered by Barack Obama may have been intended to strengthen ties with the Muslim community, but it also served to add another chapter to Obama’s troubling history with the world’s oldest international terrorist organization – the Muslim Brotherhood.

The Islamic revivalist movement Muslim Brotherhood (MB), founded in 1928 by the Egyptian schoolteacher Hassan Al-Banna, seeks to establish a global Islamic Caliphate ruled by Shari’ah law. MB has spawned such terrorist groups as Hamas – which is actually the Palestinian chapter of MB – Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Al Qaeda. Despite being officially outlawed in Egypt, MB politicians – who run as independents – account for 88 seats, or just over 20% of Egypt’s parliament. In addition, MB has either founded or is linked to most major U.S. Muslim organizations such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Muslim Students Association (MSA), the Muslim American Society, and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). The MB denounced violence back in the 1970’s and now claim that they stand for democratic reform, but they support suicide bombings and are tied to international terrorist attacks.

At least ten MB members – including Mohammed Saad el-Katatni, the head of MB’s parliamentary bloc – were invited to attend the speech at Cairo University. The Obama administration claims that invitations were sent out exclusively by Egypt’s Cairo and Al-Azhar Universities. However according to the Middle East Media Research Institute, the Egyptian daily Al-Masyroon reported that the invitations were “extended at the request of U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Margaret Scobey.”

Reporters questioned Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough whether or not MB members were invited by the administration, but McDonough would not give an answer.

“I can tell you that invitations have gone out to the full range of actors in Egyptian political society,” responded McDonough. Apparently to the Obama administration the “full range of actors” includes those who see suicide bombing as “the greatest of all sorts of Jihad in the Cause of Allah.”

More . . .

Read the whole thing at http://www.faithfreedom.org/2009/06/16/obamas-muslim-brotherhood-links-deserve-second-look/

Sunday, June 14, 2009

The Symbol of the United States . . .

The Stars and Stripes . . . and here we are at Flag Day 2009 - June 14


















The first flag-raising on the island of Iwo Jima occurred at 10AM on Feb. 23, 1945 . . .

. . . shortly after Marines had fought and the top of Mount Suribachi.

Easy Company had been fighting 4 days. They had 40% casualties.

Four of the Flag Raisers (Bradley, Hayes, Sousley & Strank) appear with their jubilant buddies. Strank, Sousley and many of these boys would soon be dead.

Click to see a large view.








Japan's Iwo Jima Strategy
The US Invasion
The Land Battle
Epilogue

http://www.iwojima.com/raising/raisingb.htm

The First Flag-Raising

Scott Tank sent us ["EyeWitness to History"] this eyewitness account of Cpl. Charles W. Lindberg, a friend and the last surviving member of the team that raised the first flag on the crest of Mt. Suribachi. Scott asked that we share Mr. Lindberg's story with you - we are honored to do so. Thank you Scott for sending us this account, and thank you Mr. Lindberg for the sacrifices you made during that bloody nightmare called Iwo Jima:

It was the job of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, to capture Mount Suribachi. They reached the base of the mountain on the afternoon of February 21, and by nightfall the next day the Marines had almost completely surrounded it.

As part of that Marine group, 24-year-old Corporal Charles Lindberg, a combat veteran of the Guadalcanal and the Bougainville campaign, watched the intense bombardment of Iwo Jima and realized that the landing at Red Beach One would be anything but easy. "The Japs had the whole beach zeroed in. Most of the fire was coming from Suribachi," he recalled. Surrounding Mount Suribachi were cliffs, tunnels, mines, booby traps, and ravines. The hostile terrain proved to be as tough an enemy as the Japanese who were firmly entrenched on the mountain.

At 8 a.m. on February 23, a patrol of 40 men from 3rd Platoon, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines, led by 1LT Lieutenant Harold G. Schrier, assembled at the base of Mount Suribachi. The platoon's mission was to take the crater of Suribachi's peak and raise the U.S. flag. As a member of the first combat patrol to scale Mount Suribachi, Cpl Lindberg took his 72-pound flamethrower and started the tortuous climb up the rough terrain to the top.

As they reached the top, the patrol members took positions around the crater watching for pockets of enemy resistance as other members of the patrol looked for something on which to raise the flag. Present at the crest were six Marines of a 40-man patrol. They were 1LT Lieutenant Schrier, Sergeant Thomas, Sergeant Hansen, Private First Class Charlo, Private First Class Michels, and Corporal Charles W. Lindberg.

At approximately 10:20 a.m., the flag was hoisted on a steel pipe above the island. The sight of the small American flag flying from atop Mount Suribachi thrilled men all over the island. And for the first time during WWII, an American flag was flying above what was considered traditional Japanese territory. This symbol of victory sent a wave of strength to the battle-weary fighting men below, and struck a further mental blow against the island's defenders.
Marine Corps photographer Sergeant Lou Lowery captured this first flag raising on film just as the enemy hurled a grenade in his direction. Dodging the grenade, Lowery hurled his body over the edge of the crater and tumbled 50 feet. His camera lens was shattered, but he and his film were safe.

As Cpl Lindberg would later remark, "Suribachi was easy to take; it was getting there that was so hard!" Of the 40-man patrol, thirty-six were killed or wounded in later fighting on Iwo Jima including Lindberg himself who would be shot through the stomach and arm a week later on 1 March, 1945. For his heroism Lindberg would receive the Purple Heart and Silver Star Medal with the citation reading in part:

"Repeatedly exposing himself to hostile grenades and machine-gun fire in order that he might reach and neutralize enemy pill-boxes at the base of Mount Suribachi, Corporal Lindberg courageously approached within ten or fifteen yards of the emplacements before discharging his weapon, thereby assuring the annihilation of the enemy and the successful completion of this platoon's mission. While engaged in an attack on hostile cave positions on March 1, he fearlessly exposed himself to accurate enemy fire and was subsequently wounded and evacuated."

References: Ross, Bill D., Iwo Jima: Legacy of Valor (1985); Wheller, Richard, Iwo (1980).

How To Cite This[not this post but the referenced] Article: "Raising the Flag Over Iwo Jima, http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/pfiwoflag.htm1945," EyeWitness to History, http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/ (2002).

Washington, D.C.--(ENEWSPF)--June 11, 2009. In the midst of a war for our Nation's independence, on June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress adopted a flag as a symbol of our fledgling Union. The Congress resolved that the flag be "thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." For generations to come, this pattern would serve as a compass bearing toward equality and justice for all.Our flag's journey has been long. It has seen our Nation through war and peace, triumph and tragedy. It flew above the walls of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, at the outset of the Civil War. It stood on Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima during World War II.
http://www.enewspf.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8139:presidential-proclamation-re-flag-day-and-national-flag-week-2009&catid=88888983:latest-national-news&Itemid=88889930
 
A holiday widely respected by veterans, Flag Day has been around for years, and some individuals say they believe it should be as valued as any other celebration.

Flag Day is the anniversary of the Flag Revolution of 1777. It was officially established by a proclamation of President Woodrow Wilson on May 30, 1916. However, on Aug. 3, 1949, President Harry Truman signed an Act of Congress making June 14 of each year the National Flag Day.
http://www.tallahassee.com/article/20090614/NEWS01/906140318/1010