James K. Polk And Our Just War Against Mexico

James K. Polk And Our Just War Against Mexico

By Patrick J. Buchanan

As America debates whether to send tens of thousands more troops to Afghanistan, in the ninth year of a war for ends we cannot discern, a riveting new history recalls times when Americans fought for vital national interests.

A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent is Robert Merry‘s brilliant biography and history of that time. Merry goes far toward righting the injustice done by historians who have denied this great man his place in the pantheon of presidents, because they believe “Jimmy Polk’s War” to have been a war of aggression against a Third World people.

As Merry relates, the problem is not with “Young Hickory,” the protégé of Andrew Jackson, but with historians who ever allow political correctness to blind them to true greatness.

The Mexican War was as just a war as we have ever fought.

In 1836 at San Jacinto, Sam Houston had won the independence of Texas with his defeat of Santa Anna, butcher of the Alamo and Goliad. In eight years, Mexico had not tried to recapture Texas. For eight years, Houston and Texas had sought admission to the Union.

In 1844, Polk, twice defeated for governor of Tennessee, was seeking the Democratic vice presidential nomination on a ticket with ex-President Martin Van Buren, Jackson’s vice president.

But when the issue of annexation of Texas caught fire in the country, Van Buren opposed it, losing his patron Jackson. Polk rode the Texas issue to victory in Baltimore as the “dark horse” in the most dramatic convention in history. His opponent that November, the Whig Henry Clay, running a third time, was also fatally wrong on Texas.

Lame-duck president John Tyler, however, stole a march on Polk by annexing Texas by joint resolution of Congress.

But where was the southern border of Texas?

Santa Anna had signed Texas away to the Rio Grande. Mexico said the border was the Nueces River, far to the north. In dispute were thousands of square miles. To enforce America’s claim, Polk sent Gen. Zachary Taylor to the Rio Grande.

A Mexican army arrived on the south bank, and an American patrol, north of the Rio Grande, was ambushed and cut to pieces by Mexican troops. When word reached Washington, Polk sent Congress a message: “The cup of forbearance” has “been exhausted.”

Congress voted a near-unanimous declaration of war.

And as ever in wartime, bold men rise to immortality.

Col. Stephen Kearny set out from Kansas with 1,500 troops, marched to Santa Fe, claimed New Mexico for the Union and, with 300 dragoons, rode on to Los Angeles, into a clash with Capt. John C. Fremont, son-in-law of Polk’s mighty Senate ally, Thomas Hart Benton.

Zachary Taylor, “Old Rough and Ready,” routed Santa Anna at Buena Vista in a victory that would make this Whig general Polk’s successor as president. Bayoneted to death at Buena Vista had been the young hero Henry Clay Jr. His father had bitterly opposed the war.

To Gen. Winfield Scott, Polk gave command of an army that was to land at Veracruz and take the path of Cortez to the capital to dictate terms if Mexican diehards rejected a negotiated peace.

Leading an invasion force half the size of the defending army, Scott never lost a battle on his six-month march to Mexico City. The Duke of Wellington called Scott the world’s “greatest living soldier” and said his campaign “was unsurpassed in military annals.”

Riding with Scott’s army was Polk’s agent, Nicholas Trist, who would bring home a triumph rivaled only by the Louisiana Purchase. Trist was the chief clerk of the State Department under that devious secretary of state and future president James Buchanan, who ever had his eyes on the prize.

Given specific instructions by Polk on what he could offer Mexico, the cantankerous Trist ran afoul first of Scott, then of Polk, who ordered him recalled.

But Trist rode on to Mexico City, reconciled with Scott, seized the opportunity of a peace party in power, negotiated the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, came home and was sacked.

But under Trist’s treaty, Mexico had agreed to the Rio Grande as the Texas border, ceded all of New Mexico, which included half a dozen future American states, and signed away California, for $15 million and forgiveness of Mexico’s debts.

The renegade envoy had come home with half of Mexico. They ought to rename the State Department for this great American.

Some urged Polk to break his pledge and run again. He refused. He had done what he came to do: annex all of Texas, acquire California and settle the Oregon Territory dispute with Great Britain on terms favorable to the United States.

Polk went home to Tennessee and, in 100 days, was dead.

He lacked the character of Washington, the brilliance of Jefferson, the charisma of Jackson, but James K. Polk belongs with the immortals. None gave more or did more for America.

Bob Merry has made a major contribution to historical truth and written one splendid book.

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Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers; his book State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, can be ordered from Amazon.com. His latest book is Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War”: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World, reviewed here by Paul Craig Roberts.

Myths of Our Time

Myths of Our Time

morality vs. material interests

By Paul Craig Roberts

It is conventional wisdom that it was the draft that ended the Vietnam war.  According to this explanation, cowardly college students subject to the draft and their unpatriotic families, forced an end to the war.  This is Karl Marx’s explanation.  Material interests, not empty morality, are said to have brought the war to an end.

That fact that in those days the US still had an independent media of sorts that sometimes framed the war in moral terms is ignored.  Are we sure, for example, that the film of the naked little girl running in terror down the road burning with napalm was ineffectual in arousing moral opposition to the war?  Are we certain that it wasn’t an aroused moral conscience that brought about the end of the war but was  college students’ fears for their lives and limbs?

If we ascribe ending the war to material interests, it makes ending the war look as unworthy as the war itself.

Yet, virtually every conservative columnist, commentator, newsperson and politician, as well as today’s antiwar protesters and apparently the Pentagon, believes that a military draft would reduce Americans’ toleration for wars because of body bags coming home to middle and upper class parents. Apparently, the lower class doesn’t mind its kids coming back in body bags.

Those in thrall to this explanation, which derives from Marx’s materialist explanation of history, do not notice that Vietnam was our longest war.  It apparently took almost forever for the material interest of students and their parents to realize itself and stop the war.

Why are we afraid to say that the war stopped because American troops and the American population got tired, offended even, from killing women, children and noncombatants?  Vietnam had not attacked the US. The US had interjected itself into a civil war in a far off place, as it has done in Afghanistan.

By invading Iraq the US started a civil war between Sunni and Shi’ite.  In Pakistan the US has started a civil war between the religious tribal population and the secular US puppet state.  In Palestine the US started a civil war between Fatah and Hamas.

One continuously reads from those Americans opposed to America’s wars of aggression that the wars are possible because they don’t affect Americans, just those few who sign up for the voluntary military.  Thus, there are insufficient material interests at stake to stop the war.  This is a common explanation for the weakness of the antiwar movement.

One could argue instead that it is the triumph of Karl Marx’s materialist thinking that has made moral protests impotent.  What is morality?  You can’t weigh it, define it, measure it.  It can be dismissed as the whining of material interests.  In contrast, material interests, such as lives, limbs, and bank accounts are real.

For whatever the reason, morality has shown itself to be an impotent force in 21st century America.  Americans show no remorse at over one million dead Iraqis and four million displaced Iraqis due entirely to an American invasion based on lies and deception.  The lies and deception are now well proven.  Yet, there has been no apology for the horrors that Americans inflicted on Iraq.

Afghanistan is another example.  Intentional lies conflated the Taliban with al Qaeda and “terrorists.” The diverse peoples in Afghanistan who were first ravaged by Soviet bombs are now ravaged by American bombs.  Weddings, funerals, children’s soccer games, people waiting for fuel or food, people asleep in their homes, people attending Mosques have all been murdered and are murdered routinely by US and its NATO puppets.

Each time civilians are murdered, the US denies it, only to be contradicted every time by the evidence.

Why is the president of the United States contemplating sending yet tens of thousands more US troops to kill people in Afghanistan?

The answer is that the United States is an immoral country, with an immoral people and an immoral government.  Americans no longer have a moral conscience.  They have gone over to the Dark Side.

Humanity has endeavored for millennia to control evil with morality.  In the American “superpower,” this effort has collapsed and failed.

The United States needs to be censured for its immoral behavior, not have that behavior rationalized as being in its material interests.

Paul Craig Roberts [email him] was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during President Reagan’s first term.  He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal.  He has held numerous academic appointments, including the William E. Simon Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, and Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He was awarded the Legion of Honor by French President Francois Mitterrand. He is the author of Supply-Side Revolution : An Insider’s Account of Policymaking in Washington;  Alienation and the Soviet Economy and Meltdown: Inside the Soviet Economy, and is the co-author with Lawrence M. Stratton of The Tyranny of Good Intentions : How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice. Click here for Peter Brimelow’s Forbes Magazine interview with Roberts about the recent epidemic of prosecutorial misconduct.

Liberals Proclaim “End of White Flight” – How do we know? Why, the mighty Wall Street Journal says so! And we all know that the Wall Street Journal (owned by neocon media mogul Rupert Murdoch) would never lie, now would they?

Liberals Proclaim “End of White Flight”

 

Looks like we’ve finally achieved the wonderful integrated world of Bill Cosby. How do we know? Why, the mighty Wall Street Journal says so! And we all know that the Wall Street Journal (owned by neocon media mogul Rupert Murdoch) would never lie, now would they?

The Journal informs us breathlessly: “Decades of white flight transformed America’s cities. That era is drawing to a close. In Washington, a historically black church is trying to attract white members to survive. Atlanta’s next mayoral race is expected to feature the first competitive white candidate since the 1980s. San Francisco has lost so many African-Americans that Mayor Gavin Newsom created an African-American Out-Migration Task Force and Advisory Committee to help retain black residents.

“For much of the 20th century, the proportion of whites shrank in most U.S. cities. In recent years the decline has slowed considerably — and in some significant cases has reversed. Between 2000 and 2006, eight of the 50 largest cities, including Boston, Seattle and San Francisco, saw the proportion of whites increase, according to Census figures. The previous decade, only three cities saw increases.”

“The changing racial mix is stirring up quarrels over class and culture. Beloved institutions in traditionally black communities — minority-owned restaurants, book stores — are losing the customers who supported them for decades. As neighborhoods grow more multicultural, conflicts over home prices, taxes and education are opening a new chapter in American race relations.”

Aha! So what we’re talking about here is what is known as “gentrification.”

Rich white yuppies and faggots are getting tired of the long commutes (not to mention the stratospheric gas prices.) They are using their still massive amounts of disposable income to buy up inner-city fixer-uppers, get them into shape and fortify them with heavy steel doors, security alarms, and private goon squads, and slowly push the indigenous non-white tribes out.

Rather like the original colonization of America, only instead of exterminating these indigenes, the yuppies are simply pushing them out into the suburbs where they will victimize the less affluent whites. You know, normal people who got stuck about forty miles out from downtown when gas hit $5.00 per gallon, and then Obama got in and all of a sudden they had no more jobs and it didn’t matter they couldn’t get to work.

Since we’re playing with racial demographics, let’s think about this. Statistically speaking, what else started in the 1990s? The massive influx of illegal immigrants, mostly of the brown rather than the black variety, with a corresponding drop in the statistical percentage of negroes.

The Journal sez, “Demographic readjustments can take decades to play out. But if current trends continue, Washington and Atlanta (both with black majorities) will in the next decade see African-Americans fall below 50% for the first time in about a half-century.”

Maybe. But they will not be replaced by nice white two-income yuppie couples with one pretty little child each and two $100,000 jobs between them. Those are a dying breed. In a few more years of the Obama Depression, both Mommy and Daddy are going to be wrestling with Juan Mendez in front of the local Burger King for a chance to flip burgers at $6.00 an hour, and losing the fight.

No, they are being replaced by masses of spics who will eventually overrun both black and white, while the cubicle jobs will be taken by illegal immigrant “engineers” and “professionals” from Asia and the Indian subcontinent called macacas, or else they’ll simply outsourced directly to Taiwan or Indonesia.

Do not be fooled by the slow creation of what amount to fortified areas protecting the last of the white upper classes. This is the last gasp of a dying world order as the world slowly turns the color of sludge.

Always remember: there’s no white in the rainbow.

 

Ayers, Dohrn Accuse Hillary of ‘White Supremacy’

Ayers, Dohrn Accuse Hillary of ‘White Supremacy’

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Aaron Klein, WorldNetDaily, November 12, 2009

Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign for the Democrat nomination deliberately appealed to white supremacy, fear and anxiety, charged longtime Barack Obama colleague and Weatherman terrorist William Ayers and wife, Bernardine Dohrn.

In a co-authored article in the socialist Monthly Review magazine, the two radicals argued last year’s national elections had “racist” undertones and that President Obama’s ascent to power can be used to “build a new society.”

“[Hillary] Clinton flagrantly appealed to white voters’ identity as ‘workers’ or ‘women’—offering white people any reason to vote against Obama without saying he’s black—and followed the ancient and dismal road of racial discourse that appeals to white supremacy, fear and anxiety,” wrote Ayers and Dohrn.

The two referenced a New York Times opinion piece by feminist activist Gloria Steinem, “Women are Never Front-Runners,” written on the eve of the New Hampshire primary. Steinem argued the gender barrier had not yet been broken and asked, “Why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?”

Ayers and Dohrn charged Steinem had asserted a “superior victim status on the part of white, powerful women.”

The duo went on to claim the 2008 presidential elections had racist undertones.

“The invisible race talk was about ‘blue collar’ or ‘working class’ or ‘mainstream’ or ‘small town’ or ‘hockey mom’ or ‘Joe the plumber,’ but we were meant to think ‘white,’” they wrote.

Continued Ayers and Dohrn: “All the talk of Senator Barack Obama’s exotic background, all the references to him as ‘unknown, ‘untested,’ a ‘stranger,’ or a ‘symbolic candidate,’ or ‘alien,’ a ‘wildcard,“‘or an ‘elitist.’ . . . The discourse was all about race, us and them, understood by everyone in the United States even when the words African American, black or white are not spoken.”

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[Editor’s Note: “What Race Has to Do With It,” by Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, can be read here.]

Original article

(Posted on November 13, 2009)

 

Worst movie in the history of humanity, 2012, yep that’s right!

Update 2/25/2011

Worst movie in the history of humanity, 2012, yep that’s right!

This is the last time Hollywood liberal elites fool me into watching another one of their pieces of shit.  This movie has got to be the most disrespectful anti-white, kill whitey, pro-communism, pro-black supremacy movie of all time, black panthers would be proud.  They lured me in with the whole destruction of California, great to see them stick it to the libs and moronic termaweenie governor, and good to see yellow stone erupt and wipe out what’s left of the west, but I knew something was up when one of the main characters was a black doctorate geologist, who becomes the messiah of morality and good character towards the end of the movie as he saves mankind, even though no such thing exists within the real world, I guess that’s why they call Hollywood the city of dreams.  The anti-religion aspects were present when a religious icon in brazil collapsed on the poor Brazilians asking for redemption below, while the Vatican dome turns into a giant bowling ball first killing the pope, then it cruises down the plaza crushing the poor Catholics in prayer beneath it.  Not to mention The Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo, yes folks, a crack formed straight down the middle between God and Adam, one more spit in the face of organized pro-western religion.  I swear semen was dripping from the screen, the liberals in Hollywood could not help themselves, they were literally in an orgasmic fever when they wrote this script, they had to humiliate western religion, I’m not a religious person, but for once can they keep it in their pants, for gods sake give it a break!  When one religion is targeted for on screen destruction, while Buddhism is allowed to live on through the lone surviving monk, and Islam is no where to be seen but in a moment of prayer, something’s up, god forbid we offend Islam with the destruction of the black jigsaw puzzle they worship in the Sand Kingdom, of course the anti-American dictatorial terrorist supporting Saudi royal family lives on with first class tickets on the American ark.  What the hell!!!  If this was not enough, communism was celebrated throughout this movie, china built the arks!!! NO I’m not joking, the arks, had a made in china stamp on the bottom, but surprise they did not fall apart like all the other shit china makes.  The swarms of Chinese ants worked feverishly building the arks that would save civilized man, they were organized in their movement of animals to the arks, organized in kicking the Tibetan people from their land to build the arks, just like good little communist in Hollywood, nothing wrong with china.

This is not the worst part, I have saved the best ( I mean worst part of the movie) for last.  When the world is destroyed, the liberal assholes made sure the liberal higher then holly globalists pieces of shit in Europe survived, but the European people, just a passing moment of total destruction, the only Americans allowed on the ark were those who paid a billion euros a ticket, that’s right EUROS!!  So only the liberal elites in America, warren buffet, bill gates and the likes were allowed to live, the rest of us cows left out to the slaughter.  Wait there’s more.  I’m working my way to the end of the movie, when they finally find land, guess what, of all the places on earth, the one land mass to survive un scathed, while the rest of the planets land masses are totally destroyed, completely submerged under the waves, every aspect of the Untied States, gone, Western Europe, gone, Asia gone, the rest of the Americas gone, gone, gone, all  gone!! But nope they could not leave it at that, they had to jab the blade in one more time.  The first of the surviving satellites came online and reveal, the worst of humanity has survived, if you call them human.  Africa, yes that’s right Africa, not a single strip of land was damaged, matter of fact, its greener then before, and to top it off, the does not exist in real life black male scientist/geologist states with affirmation and joy, that the waves that washed over the Himalayas, and sure as hell washed the crackers out of house and home in the west, did not touch Africa!!!!! Can you believe this shit, all the n***ers survived!!! The simians, Nigerians, Kenyans, all survived, only greed westerners, to much religion loving Latinos, too capitalistic Indians (people from India), were totally wiped out.  Even some of the communist Chinese workers were allowed to live, but Africa, the one place that did not assist in building the arks, no contribution other then the black scientist, and his future empresses (former black presidents “Obama‘s” daughter, who also happens to be a doctor of who knows whats what, is not married, no kids, and is not on drugs, or stuffing her face with chicken) they live on in Africa.  Only good parts of the movie, California gets its ass handed to it, the “Obama” character, gets crushed by an American Aircraft carrier, and his bitch wife died before all hell breaks loose, so no appearances from the queen.
After the movie ended I could barely contain my rage, what a rip off.  I can’t wait for the revolution, these libs have it coming to them, I thought nothing could be worse then “the day after tomorrow,” in which not only did they have Americans fleeing across the southern border like a bunch of illegal aliens, but after destroying the western civilization, just to make sure they got every cracker, the libs sent a tsunami to wipe out that last out post of semi-commonsense Australia.  This movie tops the charts, Worst movie of all time.  If you don’t like what I have to say, kiss my ass monkoid, I’ll see you on the battlefield!!!

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Black History Month Heroes: Adrian Helmsley from “2012″

In 2012 the earth was saved thanks to a Black geologist

When looking at the work of Roland Emmerich, what is most striking about his film resume is the intense devotion to Black Fictional Heroes. Will Smith as Captain Stephen Hiller in Independence Day flying a F/A-18 Hornet, when less than 2 percent of military aviators are Black was one thing; the most politically incorrect scene in film history was also included in that film when a half-naked African emerged from the bush clutching a spear and celebrating the downing of a 15-mile wide alien spacecraft as if he actually had something to do with disabling to the ship, is another.

That particular scene accompanies the montage at the end of film, showcasing the downed alien ships throughout the world. How on earth an African was able to chuck a spear miles into the atmosphere and bring down an interstellar spacecraft is a hilarious question that Emmerich seemingly leaves unanswered in Independence Day.

Recovering from this racial faux pas, Emmerich would cast Danny Glover in yet another “Black POTUS during the end of the civilized world ” that has become the predominate theme in film. 2012 was a visually stunning cinematic experience showcasing implausible action and an over-reliance on destroying popular landmarks that Emmerich’s movies have become gratuitously famous for in the process.

2012 is the anti-Knowing and I am Number Four, a film that exists in a parallel universe where Black people fill virtually every important vocational role instead of our reality where Black people enjoy an onus on barbershops and government employment.  This is the beauty of Black Fictional Heroes, as popular culture through the medium of film, television and even pop singers and other entertainers are manufactured and carefully placed in a colorful form of Black product placement to let the viewer know that yes, Black people can be anything they put their mind.

Real-life employment and labor statistics might showcase a paucity of Black people in positions that movies and television routinely casts them in (think computer programmer, scientist, geneticist, inventor, dentist, vet), but this is why behavioral modification techniques and propaganda are so vital to propping up Black Run America (BRA). All Black people come from families as loving as that wonderful Cosby family was in The Cosby Show. Right?

2012 can be boiled down to, what OneSTDV called Hollywood Liberalism Personified:

The picture’s main premise is global warming on steroids, as large solar flares are found to be heating the Earth’s crust to an unstable level. An Indian physicist, working in conjunction with America’s chief geologist Adrian Helmsley, a black guy, makes the discovery. The black American scientist relays this information to his dubious boss, a white man who subsequently represents the moral failings of pragmatic government frugality, and then the black President. A global consortium of nations resolves to save humanity by appropriating funds from rich donors who are offered seats in exchange for their donations. Of course, thisprivate fundraising effort is later criticized by Adrian, the moral compass of the movie, for unfairly limiting occupants to the rich…

After establishing John Cusack, his ex-wife, and their children, the dismantling of Earth’s crust begins. I generally love disaster films, but that usually doesn’t imply watching billions of people die. This extreme seismic activity that eventually destroys almost all of Earth’s landmass is an allusion to the Mayan’s 2012 calendar prediction popular amongst the “woo” sect. In a nod to the noble savage meme, several characters mention the foresight of the Mayans and, in doing so, belittle Western technology as practically equivalent to antiquated superstition.

The movie continues in China, where the Chinese have been building ships to save humanity. Cusack is joined by a Russian billionaire who later dies in a horrifically violent manner, justified due to these reprehensible character traits: having a hot young blond as his trophy girlfriend and being a rich capitalist. In between, we get Mr. Miyagi Eastern mystic wisdom while the Vatican disintegrates, killing a bunch of Catholics. (Coincidentally, no Muslim monuments were eviscerated in the film.)

While in China boarding the arks, the black American scientist delivers a “We are the World” speech that inspires all of humanity. At the end of the film, with the natural disasters having extirpated almost all of civilization, one continent stands alone as the new birthplace of humanity: Africa. Yes, the only continent to survive a worldwide flood was Africa (South Africa to be specific!). So with the entirety of civilization destroyed, humanity can now progress into a new dawn free of the restrictions imposed by all those pesky conservative institutions.

Wait a second, a Black geologist? Everything else sounds entirely plausible, but a Black geologist? Here is a list of the 10 vocations with the lowest Black participation:

1. Artists and related workers—0.8%
2. Environmental scientists and geoscientists—1.0%
3. Cost estimators—1.1%
4. Farmers and ranchers—1.4%
4.   Dentists—1.4%
4.   Surveying and mapping technicians—1.4%
7.   Farm, ranch, and other agricultural managers—1.5%
8.   News analysts, reporters and correspondents—1.8%
9.   Millwrights—2.1%
9.   Miscellaneous physical scientists—2.1%

So what are the positions with the highest Black participation? Find out here.

Black geologists are rare in the field of geoscience; yet like the wine industry, the study of rocks and the ground we walk upon continues unabated.  But a crisis exists, of course:

African American earth scientists ponder strategies to attract more students of color to a field with growing opportunities

Reston, Va. — Their work is essential to the production and preservation of things we take for granted every day — resources like water, natural gas, and petroleum. Yet, if you asked the average person what geoscientists do, most would be stumped.
And if you asked the average geoscientist why so few among them are African American, the reaction wouldn’t be much different.

Last month, a group of roughly fifty African American geologists, geophysicists, students, and corporate recruiters convened here on the campus of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to discuss the future of their profession and strategies for expanding their numbers. The theme of the seventeenth annual conference of the National Association of Black Geologists and Geophysicists (NABGG) was “Diversity in Geoscience.”

“Within five years, approximately 25 percent of our current staff will be eligible for retirement,” said Cynthia L. Quarterman, director of the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Minerals Management Service, a major federal employer of geoscientists.
“MMS has a five-point strategic plan for diversity,” Quarterman adds.

Noting that five different world records for offshore resource production were set on the outer continental shelf in the Gulf of Mexico in the past year, she said that resource production is expected to double there in coming years.

A Black geologist can save the world in 2012, but in reality, a Black student interested in becoming a geologist can scarcely be found. So yes, Black students studying geology are between a rock and hard place (only 373 Black students were studying geology at American universities in 1996 and you can bet that every company that hires geologist for mineral inspection and oil exploration were interested in landing their prized Black employee from this lot) though the National Association of Black Geologists and Geophysicists does have exceptional corporate backing.

The desire to rectify the lack of Black participation in geology (and virtually every hard science) has been an Sisyphean task, though Sisyphus at least got the boulder up the hill before it came crashing down again. This article from 1994 showcases that Black participation in geology shows no signs of ever improving:

Bernard Hubbard, a graduate student in the Department of Geology at the University at Buffalo and one of the relatively few African Americans in the U.S. who is studying geology, has strong advice for inner-city kids.

“Don’t fear the professional fields,” he advises. “There are more of us going into these fields than you’d ever know. You’d be surprised at the number of people who come from the ghetto who really make it to the top, but you never hear about it. Your people are there!”

While the under-representation of minorities in all the sciences has received much attention lately, many studies and programs focus on biology and chemistry, and other more “popular” sciences. But African Americans are especially under-represented in geology.

The American Geological Institute estimates that out of 26,522 students studying geology at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the U.S., only 362 are black.

The National Association for Black Geologists and Geophysicists estimates that of the 80,000 working geoscientists in the U.S., just 0.4 percent are black.

Thank God for Black History Month Heroes, or else we’d only have Black people playing roles like in Mad Men that more align with the profession that they are found in real life. Here’s to you Adrian Helmsley, a Black geologist that we can all be proud of, and who saved the day in 2012.

What’s increasingly melancholy though is that the continued usage of the Black Fictional Hero in film doesn’t translate to an increased Black participation in that particular vocation in real life.

And thank God for Emmerich, as the mulligan he was offered for the horrid shot of Africans, holding spears and admonishing a downed alien spacecraft as if they had something to do with its defeat was completely forgotten with the ode to Black people that was 2012.

The Sociopathic Epidemic

The Sociopathic Epidemic

By Robin of Berkeley

I’m amazed by the soothsayers: Ayn Rand, for instance, who warned us fifty years ago of the risk of dictatorship or civil war if collectivism persisted. Or economist Friedrich Hayek, who wrote in the 1940s that we’ll become serfs if we move toward big government.

 

However, what feels most prophetic lately is an obscure movie from the l970s called Little Murders. The writer, Pulitzer-Prize-winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer, predicted that the ’60s would unleash a feral, primitive society.

The movie has a checkered history. It started out as a play on Broadway in the mid-’60s that was such a bomb, it closed after seven performances.

Audiences were shocked and horrified by the apocalyptic world presented. At the time, New York’s elite were celebrating the sexual revolution and the loosening of social mores. In contrast, Feiffer envisioned an eventual train wreck — a nihilistic world of little and big murders of the soul.

The failed play was relocated to England, where it became a big hit. It was produced for the big screen in 1971, starring some fledgling actors such as Elliot Gould, Donald Sutherland, and Alan Arkin.

A dark comedy, Little Murders depicts a society gone mad, replete with frequent homicides and crushing insults to the spirit.

The film’s moral compass is Patsy, a young woman who still bubbles over with optimism and love amidst the madness.

(Warning: I’m going to spoil the ending.)

By the end of the film, when Patsy is killed, her family finally cracks. They, like so many others, degenerate into a violent, ape-like state.

I’ve been thinking about the movie this week and the nightmare-world Feiffer forecast after learning of a horrendous crime near me in Richmond, CA.

There’s so much crime out here that most of the time, the residents are numb. We have waves of takeover restaurant robberies and you barely hear a peep.

And when a teacher was beaten and stoned a few months ago during her class at Portola Middle School in El Cerrito (minutes from Berkeley) a small article was buried in the local paper. Many in the leftist community defended the youths as victims of white privilege, and some even blamed the teacher.

But then, last weekend, there was a crime so evil that no one could brush it off.

At a homecoming dance at Richmond High School (in the same district as the middle school stoning), a fifteen-year-old girl was beaten and gang-raped for over two hours while a crowd from the dance watched, laughed, and photographed the scene. No one called the cops.

The girl was left unconscious, dumped under a bench. She had to be airlifted to a specialty hospital.

The so-called experts fault the usual suspects: absentee parents, indigence, drug-infested schools, and herd behavior. One teacher indicts the media’s sexual exploitation of women.  A parent of one of the arrested youths blames racism.

But there was hardship, alcoholism, bad parents, sexism, and teenagers fifty years ago without such mayhem.

And many other countries have worse poverty, but lower crime rates. Crime is scant in India because for one, most Indians are Hindus or Sikhs and believe in reincarnation. Also, as an Indian friend told me, once you’re jailed in India, you make sure you never go back.

It’s easier to blame society than face the deep, dark truth: we’ve created a nation filled to the brim with sociopaths (also known as antisocial personalities).

I recently read a book called The Narcissism Epidemic. It reports the high number of narcissists among the young and contends that their condition is aided and abetted by self-esteem training.

True, but the theory feels a bit dated. The biggest danger now is a sociopathic epidemic.

While narcissists are selfish, annoying people, their humanity is still in place. They possess a conscience and can feel guilt and shame. Most people in power have some degree of narcissism.

Sociopaths are a different breed entirely. Here are some common features: callous disregard for others, superficial charm, pathological self-centeredness, lying and manipulation,  irritability and aggression, lack of remorse or guilt, cruelty, ingratitude, and antisocial behavior.

O.J. Simpson and Bernie Madoff are obvious sociopaths.  But the callous and the cruel may also have antisocial tendencies, such as Mike Malloy, a liberal Talk Radio host who said on air that he hopes Glenn Beck will commit suicide like Beck’s mom; or actress Sandra Bernhardt, who wished a gang rape on Sarah Palin.

What’s the difference between a sociopath and a narcissist? It goes to intent. John Edwards wanted to indulge his sensual pleasures, and he made his own needs front and center. That’s selfishness, narcissism. If he were purposely trying to destroy his wife, that’s sociopathy.

How far up the ladder in DC does sociopathy go? It’s anyone’s guess since the Teleprompter controls how much we know about Obama.

But have you noticed the surge in antisocial behavior since Obama came on the scene, like the wilding of Hillary and Sarah and the emboldening of thugs, from SEIU to the New Black Panthers?

We do know that Obama had a closer relationship with two sociopaths — Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn — than he let on. The demented duo never recanted their actions in the ’60s: bombing and maiming, telling white kids to go home and kill their parents, admiring Charles Manson. Ayers dedicated a book to Sirhan Sirhan, killer of Bobby Kennedy.

Then there’s Obama mentor Frank Marshall Davis, who proudly detailed his sexual conquest of a young girl in a fictionalized memoir called Sex Rebel: Black. While pedophiles have protected status under the new hate crimes legislation, they’re still sociopaths in my book.

I’m not saying that Obama has an antisocial personality. At this point, no one really knows.

However, there’s reason for concern. I don’t know about you, but none of my friends revered Charles Manson or bombed buildings. Given Obama’s choice of compatriots, let’s hope that birds of a feather don’t flock together.

How did this happen, the metastasizing of an antisocial tumor?

Feiffer’s Little Murders offered some clues over forty years ago, such as self-worshiping, moral relativism, and rejecting God and religion.

The movie also sounded an alarm about the resurgence of the Left. The film’s most prescient moment is when Patsy’s husband, played by Elliot Gould, recalls being a college radical who has a change of heart.

In a darkened room, he gravely says to Patsy, ”You shouldn’t destroy institutions until you know what will take their place. You might find that you will miss them when they’re gone.” Seconds later, Patsy is shot.

The progressives have destroyed the structures uniting this country since its founding. Now, the rules of morality that kept people’s base impulses in check have gone AWOL. Cruelty is the new normal, while the sacred is mocked.

What has the Left unleashed? A quasi-autocracy where dissidents are silenced and the Constitution is trashed. A government that loves animals, the earth, and endangered birds, but not humans.

Everywhere we look, from the ghettos to the corporations to the pristine halls of the government, we can see people whose hearts and souls are empty.

Their antisocial behavior is enabled by a codependent society that gives aggrieved groups the green light to pillage and plunder.

The H1N1 virus will hopefully fade away soon. But sociopathy will not wane unless we create a nation of grown-ups. A country where people are expected to take responsibility for their actions. No exceptions.

As long as sociopaths have carte blanche, the U.S. will no longer be a beacon of hope to the world. We won’t regain our standing until our lawmakers start following the law and our teachers can teach without being pummeled…

…and a fifteen-year-old girl can attend her big homecoming dance and not have her life destroyed in the process.

A frequent AT contributor, Robin is a psychotherapist and a recovering liberal in Berkeley.

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What’s Wrong With Socialism? Obama’s Post-American World, Losing Our Republic

What’s Wrong With Socialism?

By Joe Herring

I recall a conversation I had with a young coworker in the latter weeks of Obama’s campaign for president. Joe the plumber had just exposed the redistributionist bent of the candidate, and I expressed my assessment of Mr. Obama as a not-so-closeted socialist. My coworker then quite earnestly asked, “What’s so wrong with socialism?”

I initially assumed he must be joking, although his face gave no indication. I stared at him dumbfounded, only later realizing I must have looked like a palsied old man — my mouth working wordlessly, the incomprehension as evident on my face as the sincerity on his. It eventually dawned on me that he really didn’t know what was wrong with socialism. I began reciting the litany of horrors: the crimes of the Holocaust, the purges of the Soviets, the thuggery and inhuman brutality of the statist regimes of the last century. The Nazis, for crissake! How could he not know about the evil of the Nazis? He listened to all of this, nodding his understanding as he recognized some of the events I described, but I could still see a question behind his eyes. While he had been taught of the existence of these atrocities, he had not been clued into the one commonality they shared. They were all perpetrated by the adherents of various forms of socialism. Indeed, such crimes were the only outcome possible.

In the late 1930s, the noted economist Friedrich Von Hayek wrote his landmark pamphlet “Road to Serfdom,” laying bare the diseased skeleton of socialist/utopian thought that had permeated academia and the salons of his day. With an economy of words that showcased the significance of his conclusion, he pointed out the Achilles heel of collectivist dogma: for a planned economy to succeed, there must be central planners, who by necessity will insist on universal commitment to their plan.

How do you attain total commitment to a goal from a free people? Well, you don’t. Some percentage will always disagree, even if only for the sake of being contrary or out of a desire to be left alone. When considering a program as comprehensive as a government-planned economy, there are undoubtedly countless points of contention, such as how we will choose the planners, how we will order our priorities when assigning them importance within the plan, how we will allocate resources when competing interests have legitimate claims, who will make these decisions, and perhaps more pertinent to our discussion, how those decisions will be enforced. A rift forming on even one of these issues is enough to bring the gears of this progressive endeavor grinding to a halt. This fatal flaw in the collectivist design cannot be reengineered. It is an error so critical that the entire ideology must be scrapped.

Von Hayek accurately foretold the fate that would befall dissenters from the plan. They simply could not be allowed to get in the way. Opposition would soon be treated as subversion, with debate shriveling to non-existence under the glare of the state. Those who refused compliance would first be marginalized, then dehumanized, and finally (failing re-education) eliminated. Collectivism and individualism cannot long share the same bed. They are political oil and water, and neither can compromise its position without eventually succumbing to the other. The history of the twentieth century is littered with the remains of those who became “enemies of the state” for merely drawing attention to this flaw. As Von Hayek predicted, the socialist vision would not be achieved without bloodshed.

So this is the challenge we face. My young coworker had no frame of reference by which to judge the events unfolding around him. He had been presented with only the intentions of socialism, not the inevitable results. He had been given the whitewashed fantasy of the Left, who never saw a failure that couldn’t be rationalized — or better yet, blamed on others. Our job, then, is to teach the lessons of history to those who fail to see the danger. We have to provide that all-important perspective to a generation that has been denied it. We have to do this one at a time, conversation by conversation. Tell your friends the truth; don’t assume they know it. Become the person your friends and family consult when the subject turns to politics.

I successfully informed my coworker of the irreparable crack in the foundation of socialist thinking, and he is now aware of the need to burrow beneath the surface of politics to find the roots from which the tree springs. We can’t wait until the tree bears fruit to determine its worth. Fruit bears seeds, and seeds scatter. Better to tear it out as a single sapling now than to hew down an entire forest of diseased wood after it has poisoned the ground.

The Left will not willingly lay claim to the true legacy of socialism, so we will have to hang it around their necks. They have grown accustomed to shedding responsibility for the damage they have done, and are adept at shifting the blame. Traditional means of holding them to account are failing. Fellow travelers in the academy and media will not challenge even their most egregious lies, so howling about bias will gain us nothing.

If you doubt the effectiveness of the Left’s methods, ask any ten people under the age of forty whether Hitler and the Nazis were a product of left-wing or right-wing ideology. The obstacle we face will become painfully clear. It is not enough that you know the truth. You alone are not likely to singlehandedly shape the outcome of an election. Everyone has to know the truth. We have to reclaim our younger generations from the wolf in sheep’s clothing, or it won’t be long before the wolf no longer needs the disguise.

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Obama’s Post-American World

By Monte Kuligowski

When thinking about what defines the Obama doctrine, we might be tempted to say it encompasses blaming America first or apologizing to the world for an unjust America. It would be accurate to observe that Mr. Obama has done both, but those events merely undergird Obama’s larger ideological goal.

 

“Mr. Obama is systematically diminishing the United States, effecting its transformation from what was once called ‘the world’s only superpower’ to a nation subordinated to the demands of international consensus, organizations, ‘peer competitors’ and even rogue states.” So writes Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. in his piece “The Obama doctrine.”

Gaffney is correct in concluding that President Obama’s foreign policy doctrine is essentially the weakening of America in order to strengthen global governance. Of course, the left wouldn’t word it quite that way. Those on the left say that they wish to bring all nations to equal standing, which means lifting others up, not tearing America down.

But in practice, it doesn’t work out that way. “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen,” says Obama. It’s clear that the rest of the world will not be brought up to U.S. standards; on the contrary, the standards of the U.S. must diminish.

We must recognize that Obama’s domestic policies overlap with his global ideology. In Obama’s world, the pie is not growing, and everyone should have the same-sized slice. Spreading the wealth around via excessive taxation, unfortunately for those hoping in hope, will lead to a lack of production and prosperity. It will not create equal slices, but instead shrink the American pie.

Mr. Obama needs a weak America to facilitate his view of global multiculturalism. No country is better than any other. So-called evil regimes are really dispossessed nations that need to be understood and brought to the table. Once at the table, we will see that our mutual interests make self-interests innocuous. Old views of American exceptionalism are simply worn out.

The President is a creature of postmodern, post-Christian thinking. He is a new kind of leftist. Barack Hussein Obama is essentially a global Marxist. On a global scale, the proletariat consists of the poor nations of the world that have been oppressed by powerful, greedy, self-interested countries. The United States is the prime example of the global bourgeoisie. The evil, capitalistic country, still high on religious opium, represents all that is wrong with the world.

That’s why Obama wouldn’t wear a U.S. flag pin on his lapel until forced to do so by political pressure. If disdaining your own country makes you a patriot, then Obama is one of the greatest patriots in American history.

That great postmodern patriot has arrived to usher in a new era of smart policy. Forget about all the tradition that made America the greatest experiment in human liberty and prosperity the world has ever seen.

Mr. Obama was photographed during the 2008 campaign carrying the book, “The Post-American World” by Fareed Zakaria. A guy running to be president of the country that saved Europe and the world from Nazism and communism and provided stability ever since was reading about a post-American world.

In a recent Newsweek article, “Obama’s Big Gamble,” Fareed Zakaria analyzes Obama’s debut speech at the recent United Nations meeting.

Before answering his rhetorical question in the affirmative as to whether it’s worth it to take the United Nations seriously, Zakaria apparently wonders whether conservatives should be taken seriously. Zakaria notes:

“[F]or Rush Limbaugh, Obama’s [U.N.] speech was ‘basically a coup against America.’ At the National Review’s Web site, a debate broke out — an entirely serious debate among serious people — as to whether the speech proved that Obama actually wanted the world’s tyrants to win. … This is the discourse of American conservatism: Obama is bad because he loves death panels and Hitler.”

Apparently, the discourse of American liberalism is the oversimplifying of conservative positions.

In his Newsweek piece, Zakaria praises Obama’s call for nonproliferation — which makes one wonder whether either man should be taken seriously at any level. Talk about a worn out policy position of the past. The tired doctrine of nuclear nonproliferation was relevant during the Cold War, when only a few countries had access to nuclear weaponry.

If ever a naïve, simplistic, and downright dangerous foreign policy position existed in the 21st century, here it is. Let’s non-proliferate and forget about missile defense and trust Russia, China, and an assortment of rogue nations like North Korea and Iran to “do the right thing.”

The timing could turn out perfectly for, say, China. Maybe when the People’s Republic calls the U.S. on its debt, the U.S. will be completely helpless (economically and militarily) because of Obama’s “smart policy.”

Since Obama is fond of slogans like “change you can believe in,” he might use this slogan for the Obama doctrine: “Leading my post-Christian, postmodern country into the new era of the post-American world.”

MonteKuligowski@gmail.com

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Losing Our Republic

By Matt Patterson

At a November 4th presentation by GOP congressional leadership on their alternative health care plan, Eric Cantor & Co. seemed energized and upbeat, both about their own plan and about the other side’s chances — more than one said flatly that the Dems “don’t have the votes” to pass their bill. That confidence seemed justified as late as Friday afternoon, with the Wall Street Journal reporting that “Democrats estimated they were 10 to 15 votes short of getting to a majority of 218.”

 

On Saturday night, November 7, the Democratic bill passed 220-215. One Republican, Anh “Joseph” Cao of Louisiana, voted “yes.”

The political sands had obviously shifted a lot in the days and hours leading up to the vote. Who knows what Pelosi and Obama promised those wavering Democrats should their “yes” vote cost them reelection in 2010? Lucrative post-congressional jobs like ambassadorships?  Threats, arm-twisting, bribes…all part of the legislative sausage-making process, I know. Unfortunately, what emerged from the House on Saturday night was no sausage, but instead a malignant, Republic-killing tumor.

It left me wondering about the tea party movement and how much effect it has really had in this whole affair. There was much chest-thumping in conservative circles after the August town hall uprisings, much talk that the demonstrations had put the fear of God into congressional Democrats. Maybe. And yet since then, liberal health care bills and plans have continued to coalesce on Capitol Hill. Now one has passed the House. The momentum, it seems, is with the President and his party.

This is so for two reasons, I think. One: as I was going to work in downtown Washington, D.C. on Thursday morning — the day of the “House call” protests — I emerged from my train into Union Station and beheld the protesters, who were then gathering and preparing for their march on Capitol Hill just a few blocks a away.

I spoke to a number of them.  They were uniformly middle-class, middle-American folks, whole families, whole neighborhoods of them. They looked and acted so nice. These are the kind of people who would bake you a tray of brownies if you weren’t feeling very well…in other words, not intimidating in the slightest.

I tried to imagine myself as a Democratic congressman with this group outside my office. I would listen to their complaints, of course, but in the end, nothing more. Why? I would conclude (correctly) that I had more to fear from my own Left than from these nice folks.

So that is one reason health care “reform” continues its unholy march toward the President’s desk. The other? Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) put it best in a phone interview last Thursday. The Dems, he says, have “the courage of their convictions” in regard to health care. They are true believers. They are going to push this forward, regardless of the electoral consequences. My own suspicion is the same: that Pelosi and the Democratic leadership are perfectly willing to march their party off a cliff if it means achieving the long-held liberal dream of government health care.

Having spoken to a number of GOP players on the Hill this last week, I can assure my readers of two things. One: Congressional Republicans, their staff, and their allies are focused and determined. They are fully aware of the dangers of ObamaCare and are working 24/7 to secure its defeat. And two: there just aren’t enough of them.

Our Republic is passing from history. It’s now up to the Senate to preserve it — or else administer last rites.

Matt Patterson is a National Review Institute Washington Fellow and the author of “Union of Hearts: The Abraham Lincoln & Ann Rutledge Story.”  His email is mpatterson.column@gmail.com.

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Does Islam Breed Violence?

Does Islam Breed Violence?

By Amil Imani

There is a division of the house. On one side are the politically correct in government, the leftist mainstream media, and a raft of Islamist apologists. One and all are tripping over each other in reassuring us the mass murderers such as Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and suicide-bombers who detonate their explosive vests in crowded marketplaces and even mosques are individual anomalies and Islam is not responsible for what they do.

 

On the other side are those fed up with the innumerable daily horrific acts throughout the world that are clearly committed under the banner of Islam. In all fairness, there needs to be a distinction. Numerous criminal acts are also committed on a daily basis by non-Muslims. The critical difference is that non-Muslim criminals do not hoist a religious banner to justify their misdeeds, while the Muslims proudly claim that they commit their heinous acts in obedience to the dictates of their religious faith.

Would someone please explain what motivated Nidal Hasan, who at taxpayers’ expense was educated from college all the way through medical school and post medical-school training, to turn his deadly weapons against the nation that gave him everything he had?

If Islam had nothing to do with what Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan did, then why:

* did he repeatedly preach the ascendancy of Islam over the U.S. Constitution?

* did he publicly support Islamic suicide-bombing?

* did he proclaim his highest loyalty to Islam?

* was he in contact with violent anti-U.S. Islamists and a virulent Yemeni Imam?

* did he distribute copies of the Quran to people the morning of his bloody attack?

* did he keep screaming “Allahu akbar” as he heartlessly sprayed over a hundred bullets, killing thirteen and injuring some thirty innocent men and women?

Here is the truth, as bitter as it may be: Islam is the culprit. Islam is anything but a religion of peace. Violence is at the very core of Islam. Violence is institutionalized in the Muslims’ holy book, the Quran, in many suras:

Quran 9:5 “Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war.”

9:112 “The Believers fight in Allah’s cause; they slay and are slain, kill and are killed.”

8:39 “So fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief [non-Muslims]) and all submit to the religion of Allah alone (in the whole world).”

8:65 “O Prophet, urge the faithful to fight. If there are twenty among you with determination they will vanquish two hundred; if there are a hundred then they will slaughter a thousand unbelievers, for the infidels are a people devoid of understanding.”

9:38 “Believers, what is the matter with you, that when you are asked to go forth and fight in Allah’s Cause you cling to the earth? Do you prefer the life of this world to the Hereafter? Unless you go forth, He will afflict and punish you with a painful doom, and put others in your place.”

47:4 “When you clash with the unbelieving Infidels in battle (fighting Jihad in Allah’s Cause), smite their necks until you overpower them, killing and wounding many of them. At length, when you have thoroughly subdued them, bind them firmly, making (them) captives. Thereafter either generosity or ransom (them based upon what benefits Islam) until the war lays down its burdens. Thus are you commanded by Allah to continue carrying out Jihad against the unbelieving infidels until they submit to Islam.”

And the Quran is considered by Muslims to be the word-for-word literal edicts of their god, Allah.

Right from the start, violence served as the engine of Islam under the command and supervision of Muhammad himself. For one, the Prophet’s son-in-law cousin, Ali, was titled the Commander of the Faithful for his unsurpassed feats of butchery. With the assistance of one or two of his thugs, Ali beheaded some seven hundred captives, most of them Jews, in only one day. This man, highly esteemed by the prophet of Allah, carried a sword that had its own name — Zolfaghar. Ali’s portrait, holding the menacing sword, adorns the homes and shops throughout Shiite lands. And Ali is revered by the Shiites at the same level as Muhammad.

On the Sunni side, Muhammad’s co-revered is Umar, another unabashed killer of untold numbers. And of course, the choice weapon of these champions of the religion of peace was the sword. To this day, a sword adorns the flag of Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of the religion of peace.

And Islam, by the very nature of its doctrine, appeals to man’s base nature. It promotes intolerance, hatred, discrimination, and much more:

Quran 61:2 “O Muslims, why say one thing and do another? Grievously odious and hateful is it in the sight of Allah that you say that which you do not. Truly Allah loves those who fight in His Cause in a battle array, as if they were a solid cemented structure.”

In reality, Islam is like a deadly, contagious disease. Once it invades the mind of its victim, it is capable of transforming him to a helpless pawn that has no choice but to execute what he is directed to do.

Of the reported 1.3 billion Muslims in the world, millions are already trapped in the terminal stages of this affliction, while millions of others are rapidly joining them. The people enslaved with the extreme cases of Islamic mental disease are highly infectious. They actively work to transmit the disease to others, while they themselves engage in horrific acts of mayhem and violence to demonstrate their unconditional obedience to the dictates of the Islamic cult.

The savagery and variety of the actions of these Islamic captives are seen daily around the globe. Many of these acts, committed under the banner of Islam, have become so commonplace that the world has come to view them as part and parcel of a troubled humanity. And, from time to time, the world is shocked into a passing and momentary realization of the evil deeds these Islamist robots commit. However, people quickly get over it, and they do nothing to seriously address this affliction.

The recent and dastardly mass murder at Fort Hood, committed by Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, will be forgotten by the public before long. Life will continue on its deadly course, pushed along in a variety of ways by Islamists, the agents of death. Only the families who lost their loved ones and those who survived the bullets have to live the rest of their lives with incapacitating injuries. They likely won’t be able to put the episode behind them.

The mass-murderer Hasan did not riddle people with bullets under the pressure of momentary insanity. The insanity — ironic in a man who was trained to help people with sanity — was introduced in him from the moment of birth and from the very early years when he prostrated himself five times daily toward Mecca in expression of total submission to the dogma of hate called Islam.

A true Muslim does not and cannot believe in freedom of choice. In the religion of Islam — “submission” — everything is up to Allah, as clearly and repeatedly stipulated in the Quran. The raison d’être for the Muslim is unconditional submission to the will and dictates of Allah. Everything that a “good” Muslim does is contingent upon the will and decree of Allah, in which the Muslim is indoctrinated to believe.

Humanity is facing a deeply troubling dilemma. On the one hand is the desire of enlightened people to forge a diverse world into one society ruled by peace and justice, while on the other hand, Islamists are hellbent on imposing their stone-age system on everyone. Tellingly, the Muslims themselves are at one another’s throats regarding which of dozens of Islamic sects’ dogma should rule.

For now, Islam is busy with what it did from the time of its birth: fighting the non-Muslims, and infighting.

Truth be told, violence is the animating force of Islam. Islam is a religion born through violence, raised by violence, which thrives on violence, and which dies without violence.

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Lou Dobbs Calls it Quits

Lou Dobbs Calls it Quits

James Simpson

CNN newsman Lou Dobbs, an increasingly strident voice against illegal immigration had his last show on CNN last night. Although this has apparently been in the works for a while, he tendered his resignation suddenly, only telling his staff this afternoon. Watch his resignation announcement here.

MSNBC, quoted Jonathan Klein, the president of CNN/U.S. as saying “Lou has now decided to carry the banner of advocacy journalism elsewhere.” That’s funny. CNN never heard of “advocacy journalism” before? What is it that they do?

Dobbs added that he wanted:

to contribute positively to the understanding of the great issues of our day … in the most honest and direct language possible.

Dobbs listed all the issues he thought critical to our time, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the economy, illegal immigration, and so forth. But more importantly:

…each of those issues is in my opinion informed by our capacity to demonstrate strong resilience of our now weakened capitalist economy and demonstrate the political will to overcome the lack of true representation in Washington DC. I believe these to be profoundly critically important issues…And as for the important work of restoring inspiration to our great free society and our market economy, I will strive as well to be a leader in that national conversation…

So Lou recognizes the broader picture that our entire country, our government, our very way of life, is threatened. As go those bedrock issues, so goes everything else. With the exception of the radio talk show hosts we know and love, practically no one in this country, certainly few among the political class, are doing much of anything to defend the concepts of freedom and free market which were the foundation of our greatness and our wealth.

According to the AP Dobbs said some leaders in media, politics and business “have been urging me to go beyond my role here at CNN and to engage in constructive problem-solving.” Does he mean running for office?

Not surprisingly, at Dobbs’ announcement, all the illegal immigration advocates were out in force declaring victory. The home page of one particular site, Bastadobbs.com, shouted: “We did it!” Go to their “Who We Are” page to see all the radical affiliated sites. The only ones I didn’t see up there were National Council of La Raza (NCLR), MALDEF and MEChA.

But that doesn’t mean they weren’t active in opposing Dobbs. On their website NCLR proudly proclaims participation in a boycott against Dobbs‘ CNN advertizers.

The National Council of La Raza is one of the most radical illegal immigration proponents out there. In a fashion very similar to the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), they disguise underhanded Alinsky tactics with slick PR, which has managed to co-opt some gullible — or maybe just self-serving — GOP Senators (like Lindsay Graham and John McCain) into supporting their agenda.

They ardently claim for example, to only be interested in legal immigration. But they were a very big partner with George Soros, ACORN, MALDEF and MEChA in the Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, who together lobbied hard for the Amnesty bill that fortunately went down in flames two years ago.

A 2007 article in Truth & Consequences exposed the radical nature of this organization. For example, regarding California’s Proposition 187 barring illegal immigration, former NLCR President  Raul Yzaguirre called supporters “bigots and xenophobes.” He dismissed Republican efforts to court the Hispanic vote by saying “a knife in the back is deadly even if it’s delivered with a smile.” This despite the fact that NCLR gets annual appropriations from the federal government to assist them in their activities and enjoys bi-partisan support. So much for moderation and honesty, or gratitude for that matter.

NCLR can further be considered a player in the Crisis Strategy promoted by ACORN, Soros, and our wonderful President. This aspect of the group was described in a 2007 article that appeared in American Thinker.

MALDEF, The Mexican American Legal Defense Fund, has a whole page of videos and articles attacking Dobbs and challenging his assertions. MALDEF also supported the horrendous Hate Crimes Legislation, that unfortunately was just signed into law, in addition to being at the forefront of defending illegal immigrants.

Dobbs is unlikely to disappear from the public stage. Stay tuned for more from him, just not on CNN.

Locust:  I smell a fox news star coming!  about damn time, lou dobbs is one of the best we have, we need his voice on fox.

 

The Long, Slow Rot Into Reeking Goo

The Long, Slow Rot Into Reeking Goo

 

I was talking with a social worker this week. She was at a gigantic yard sale some locals were holding in preparation for moving out of the state, like so many of the remaining non-liberal whites.

I was watching some buck who was trying to make time with a cute white girl that obviously found him repulsive. I grumbled something about castrating him, and this worker overheard me. But instead of giving me the expected liberal rant on the joys of diversity and inbreeding, she said,”Amen!”

I was floored. We got to talking about the mud problem; all breeds. It was then that she shocked me again. She told me that she had just been given a case by her supervisor that she didn’t want, and that she had tried desperately to have it given to someone else. But her boss refused, so she was stuck with a worthless black buck who was trying to get on welfare because he couldn’t support himself (nothing new there.) Seems that every penny he made was grabbed up by the state to help pay for unpaid child support. You see, this nigger…and I use the term very deliberately…had 40 kids by 22 women, most of them white!

If ever there was a coon that needed his balls cut off, it’s this walking dog turd. In my father’s day in the South, they still caught bucks that were trying to screw their women and castrated them right in the middle of the street, in front of all the other oversexed niggers as a lesson to them to stay the hell away from our women. Then civil rights was made law, and sixty million niggers got an instant erection.

Oh sure..they talk about rights and voting, and all that happy horse shit, but the truth is that all they wanted that law for was the legal right to chase our women. If I could get my hands on that piece of crap, I’d make him pray to me tearfully…for death.

Think I’m kidding? I’m not. When I think of all the kid’s lives this evil ape destroyed by making them half monkey, I want to scream to the moon. Killing is actually far too lenient. I watched the local news this morning. Here is a smattering of last night’s events, and mind you, most of the black crimes are censored out, to keep the public from knowing the full degree of the white genocide going on in this state and country:

*Four niggers robbed a gas station for dope money and shot both clerks as they left. One is dead, the other in critical condition. Three of the murderous monkoids were caught, which is extremely rare.

*A wetback broke into a house, robbed it, and stabbed to death a white mother and her retarded son. He’s still at large.

*A drunk mestizo slammed into a cop car, critically injuring a cop and one bystander. He was uninjured.

*A coon raped and murdered a young (blonde of course) college girl by walking right into her dorm, then into her room. Cameras got a look at him, but he’s still running loose. Oogabooga.

*Another mestizo snatched a four-year-old white girl. Neither one has been seen since. These are just a few of the daily fare here in my area of the state alone. There were many others. The apes are running amok all over the country. With a black president in office and liberals in control, the blacks feel empowered and protected, and are showing their asses. Because in fact they’re right; they are empowered and protected.

As an example just look at the all-nigger organization ACORN. The biggest corruption scandal in a decade broke about that bunch, and yet the entire affair was quickly and quietly swept under the rug, where if a Republican or white had done the same thing, the media circus and special prosecutors would still be making speeches about evil old whitey.

New hate-crime laws are being passed, and Obama is just about to begin forming his all nigger civilian army, which he plans on using to subjugate and terrify all the whites in America, taking his lead from the same tactics that were used in both Zimbabwe and South Africa. Niggers everywhere are ecstatic.

My recent encounter with a ghetto ho, and her subsequent threats toward me with hate-crime laws is a good example of the new arrogance niggers everywhere are now displaying. It’s enraging to put it mildly.

Even the number of day-to-day run-ins with blacks has greatly increased for all whites, and I’ve lost count of the scenes I’ve seen being played out all over town between some poor unsuspecting white and some aggressive coon that got in his face, trying to either get money or just harass him, which is also a favorite pastime of monkoids in America.

A few weeks ago, a local grocery store was robbed. So they installed bars, cameras, and motion detectors. A week after they installed all this expensive gear they here hit again, and succeeded in making off with over a thousand dollars worth of cigarettes(menthol of course), booze, and junk food. They were too stupid to run the register, so they took the whole thing. They had removed the swamp cooler on the roof and dropped in from the ceiling like Mission Impossible agents! I kid you not.

Trying to control the theft rate in this state is a hopeless task. The liquor lounge a block away from the store was robbed at gunpoint by 4 young niggers in broad daylight the other day. And yes, they got away with it, just like they did the last 3 times they robbed it.

The local police never seem able to catch them. Showing up at the scene of the crime as much as 45 minutes later probably doesn’t help things either. But being the known cowards and bullies they are, they’re not about to risk their asses trying to sweep the Mojave with a whisk broom. There’s just too many niggers to sift through, and none of them are talking.

Besides, there’s still a few whites left to harass and milk for money by trumping up violations on them, which is now the number one industry of state and local cops.

With the number of whites dropping daily, the blacks are becoming more aggressive toward the remaining ones. There have even been times recently when I parked somewhere that not one, but three different mooch niggers came running, making a beeline for me from three different directions.

It’s getting downright alarming. These niggers are career moochers, supporting their crack habits by harassing and in many instances, intimidating whites out of money, especially the old ladies. This section of the white population never go unescorted anymore because of this.

To have some poor old woman set foot outside of her car is like ringing the dinner bell to these niggers. Predators to the core. And when we call the cops on them they never show, but instead harass the caller for bothering them! One day last week I pulled into a gas station to fill up. Here came a mooch nigger with gas can and sob story in hand.

This type comes up to you and says his car is out of gas, and he needs a few dollars to make it home. One look at this nigger and you know he’s never owned a car…couldn’t afford one, and that any money you give him is going straight to the crack dealer around the corner. I looked at him like a turd on a stick and said, “Get yer crack money from some other fool boy.” He grinned evilly at me and said, “Ha! You aint’ so stupid, iz you white boy? Hayuck! Hayuck!” And he walked off grinning.

Three hours later and he’ll still be there, mooching money. The newest gimmick is to cruise up into your driveway “by accident”. The driver knocks on your door, asking for some fictitious person while the niggers in the back of his car are making detailed mental notes of what kind of car’s in the drive, how well kept the yard is, how many people live there, and how you’re dressed. If you fit all their criteria, they’ll be back later at night..to rob your house. And if you happen to be there well..tough luck. The cops will find a couple of stiffs in a few days when you get to stinking too loudly.

Blacks in this state aren’t the blacks the liberals portray on TV. Those fantasy blacks all have “meaningful relationships”, deep thoughts, moral dilemmas, and they’re all either law students, scientists, police captains, or brain surgeons. In the real world the average buck has the IQ of a federally institutionalized retard, the morals of a cane toad, and the compassion of a crocodile.

They have absolutely no interest in education, a job, or bettering themselves, and I can guarantee you that almost none of them has ever even read a book. Not even one. They’re predators and parasites by choice, because they like it. These are your so-called “equals” that this liberal government literally has to threaten us with prison to force us to tolerate in our society.

The truth is, we don’t have any blacks or Negroes, or African Americans in this country, they are niggers.There’s no other word for them whether they, or the Jews and their liberal ass lickers like it or not. And as long as they’re niggers, I’ll continue to call them niggers..even to their faces. Hell, I’ll do it in front of a federal judge. The truth is the truth, and damn those that try to bury it. We are at war in this country against evil in high places. And although the actual shooting hasn’t started yet, it’s coming just as sure as rain in April.

Speaking our mind helps to embolden and empower us! It helps to put our people in the proper mindset for revolt, and begins teaching our dark skinned enemies a little of the fear and respect they’ll all soon have for all whites..as it should be. We are the Masters of the world, the Master Race. And it’s high time we put all these dogs back in their cages. Be open and above board in your contempt for blacks and their allies, and your pride for your race. Be a warrior they will be forced to respect, now and forever.

-The Lone Haranguer

More News from Amern.com Really great Stuff- read and open your damn eyes people!

November 11, 2009

What’s Behind America’s Politically Correct ‘Love’ of Islam?, WorldNetDaily; 0 comments
WorldNetDaily is beginning to grasp what the real problem may be.

Did the Army Ignore Red Flags Because of Hasan’s Religion?, Time; 0 comments
Officers “afraid of getting an equal-opportunity complaint that can end careers.”

Kent 9/11 Memorial on Hold Over Inscription and Intent, News-Times (Danbury, Connecticut); 0 comments
Memorial must not say that the 9/11 killers were “Muslim extremists.”

Justice Dept. Asked for News Site’s Visitor Lists, CBS News; 0 comments
We don’t like government harassment of lefties either.

Arkansas Anchorwoman’s Face Shattered ‘Like an Egg’ During Attack, FoxNews; 0 comments
Murder defendant says he just “lose control.”

Gang Rape Witnesses Kept Silent So They Wouldn’t Be Called Snitches, ABC News; 0 comments
Witness says he must “walk down the streets now in fear of my life.”

Ole Miss Song Banned, Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal; 0 comments
Songs we’re not allowed to sing.

Order Bars Retiring Nickname Until After Hearing, Grand Forks Herald (North Dakota); 0 comments
Spirit Lake Sioux tribe likes the North Dakota “Fighting Sioux.”

The Africans Who Fought in WWII, BBC News; 0 comments
“We were brainwashed into being little brown Britishers.”

Apology Sought After U of T Students Cause Uproar With Blackface for Halloween, Globe and Mail (Toronto); 0 comments
Bad enough that they wore blackface; they actually won a prize.

PC Brigade Ban Police From Saying ‘Gang Rape’ As It Is ‘Too Emotive’, Daily Mail (London); 0 comments
The phrase “gang rape” has “racist connotations.”

Exeter Is a Lovely Place for the BNP, Says Actress Emma Thompson, London Telegraph; 0 comments
Too many white people in Exeter, England.

November 10, 2009

Alabama County Celebrates Official Obama Holiday, Google News; 13 comments
Five days of festivities capped by paid day off in mostly black county.

Chia Obama’s Hairy Question: Is It Racist Scorn or Sincere Tribute?, Los Angeles Times; 9 comments
You never know what is going to be “racist” next.

Michael Steele: White Republicans ‘Scared of Me’, Newsmax; 23 comments
Says successful Republicans run campaigns that appeal to black voters.

Race Law Lacks Traction, News & Observer (Raleigh); 8 comments
Race issues complicate death penalty cases in North Carolina.

N.Y. Hate Crimes on Rise, Washington Times; 16 comments
Hispanics supposedly live in “a pervasive climate of fear.”

Districts Try to Spread out Poor Students, USA Today; 11 comments
Busing now being used to promote “economic diversity.”

Prof Busted in Columbia Gal ‘Punch’, New York Post; 45 comments
Black prof punches white woman in disagreement over “white privilege.”

Ethnic Insights Form Foundations of McDonald’s Marketing, Ad Age; 18 comments
40% of McDonald’s business comes from non-whites.

No Blacks Allowed? NBA Sanctions Discrimination, rollingout.com; 14 comments
LA Clippers owner accused of being “racist.”

Importing Teachers in the District of Columbia, Washington Examiner; 6 comments
Teacher unions are willing to sacrifice American members if imported teachers join the union.

Institutional Racism Keeps Black Teachers out of Top Posts—Report Finds, Guardian (Manchester); 10 comments
That is, non-white teachers say that racial discrimination kept them out.

China’s Race Problem, Forbes; 43 comments
If China doesn’t bring in non-white immigrants, there will be no “Chinese Century.”

November 9, 2009

Hasan Tied to Mosque of 9/11 Hijackers, AOL News; 34 comments
Was Fort Hood attacker a terrorist?

Shooter Advised Obama Transition, WorldNetDaily; 9 comments
Only the best and brightest.

Army Chief Concerned for Muslim Troops, New York Times; 69 comments
Diversity must not be a casualty of the Fort Hood shootings.

Sources: USNA Subbed Mids to Look More Diverse, Navy Times; 11 comments
Too many white men in the color guard at the World Series.

NY Village Gets New Voting Rules to Aid Hispanics, Google News; 15 comments
Federal judge orders cumulative voting: Voters can cast six votes for one candidate

Adopted From Korea and in Search of Identity, New York Times; 22 comments
Most Korean children adopted by whites think of themselves as white.

Utah Girl’s Pierced Nose: US-Indian Culture Clash, Comcast News; 16 comments
Sikh culture incompatible with school dress code.

Racial Concerns at Conn. Child Welfare Agency, Nashua Telegraph (New Hampshire); 12 comments
Race hustlers upset because welfare commissioner is white.

Feud Made to Go, New York Post; 52 comments
Restaurants accused of racism because they won’t deliver to Harlem.

African-Americans Slam Obama in White House Protest, AFP; 18 comments
Black protesters: Obama is “white power in black face.”

Is the Chief Rabbi Worried About Muslim Immigrants?, London Telegraph; 17 comments
Yet another word whites must never use.

Sweden to Pay More Asylum Seekers to Leave, The Local (Stockholm); 18 comments
We should to do the same.

November 6, 2009

Russia at the Crossroads, Special to AR News; 39 comments
Russians march for their homeland.

Fort Hood Shooting: Nidal Malik Hasan ‘Said Muslims Should Rise Up’, London Telegraph; 89 comments
He said: “Maybe people should strap bombs on themselves and go to Times Square.”

Obama, House Dems Press for Health Care Votes, Google News; 8 comments
Hispanic Caucus: Illegals had better be able to take part or they vote “no.”

Citizenship Question Will Not Be Added to 2010 Census, Arizona Republic (Phoenix); 4 comments
Critics: Plan would discourage immigrants from responding to Census.

I’m Not Your ‘Bud.’ You Can Call Me Mr. Fountain., Chicago Sun-Times; 71 comments
Another word whites aren’t allowed to use?

Northwestern Students in Blackface Spark Outrage, Huffington Pos; 14 comments
Blackface? Not even on Halloween.

‘Precious’ Little of Value in Ghetto Lit, Wall Street Journal; 24 comments
Black best sellers are “poorly written, poorly edited and celebrate the worst of black life.”

Dental Plaque Buildup May Raise Heart Risk in Black Men, HealthDay News; 2 comments
Black men respond to plaque differently from whites.

Miss England Relinquishes Crown, BBC News; 42 comments
Punched another woman in a fight over a guy.

‘Chocolate on Your Face’ Girl, 6, Branded a Racist, Daily Mail (London); 20 comments
“Racism” begins early in England.

The Racial Ideology of Empire, AR Classic Article; 17 comments
The roots of our crisis go deep into the past.

November 5, 2009

Tedesco’s Easy Victory Puts Change on Track, Raleigh News & Observer; 8 comments
Busing and diversity programs to go on the chopping block.

Whites Become Minority on NYC Council for 1st Time, NBC New York; 35 comments
“It’s good for everybody.”

Anti-Anglo Racist Tripe, WorldNetDaily; 32 comments
A Chicano fantasy of murdering white people.

Twilight of the Godless, Taki’s Magazine; 37 comments
Is religion necessary for sustaining white birth rates?

New Business-Group Ad Has Racial Undertones, Union Alleges, Huffington Post; 7 comments
Would the ad have been better if the black guy had been fired?

Del. Holmes Norton: Republicans to Blame for High D.C. AIDS Rate, The Hill; 17 comments
Says GOP made it hard for DC to finance its needle-exchange programs.

LA Doctor Allegedly Faked Exams for Immigrants, KNBC-TV (Los Angeles); 7 comments
His specialty was the “visual exam” for AIDS.

DC Sniper Calls Himself ‘This Innocent Black Man’, San Francisco Chronicle; 19 comments
Wants to avoid the death penalty.

Man Calls 911, Doesn’t Know His Address, WJXT-TV (Jacksonville, Florida); 5 comments
Said robbers had made off with $800 and a bag of his marijuana.

Sterilise Underclass to Stop Child Abuse, Dominion Post (Wellington); 29 comments
New Zealand solution to a tough problem.

Swiss Referendum Stirs a Debate About Islam, Wall Street Journal; 18 comments
Swiss to vote on banning minarets. Swatch says it would hurt their sales to Muslims.

Chinese Challenge to ‘Out of Africa’ Theory, New Scientist; 9 comments
Modern humans may not be of uniquely African origin.

November 4, 2009

More Welfare Going to Parents Here Illegally, Las Vegas Sun; 9 comments
How to make money from “anchor babies.”

Half of U.S. Kids Eventually Must Use Food Stamps, Arizona Republic (Phoenix); 22 comments
90 percent of black children are on food stamps at some point in their lives.

Elementary Epidemic: 11 Uncovered Videos Show School Children Performing Praises to Obama, Big Hollywood; 17 comments
Cult of personality taking root.

In 2000 Suit, Linda Thompson Claims Gas Station Spill Led to Fear of Filling Up, Patriot-News (Harrisburg); 9 comments
Black candidate for mayor filed nutty lawsuit.

Racial Lines Define Results, Atlanta Journal-Constitution; 8 comments
White candidate sweeps white precincts.

What Even Roland Emmerich Won’t Destroy: An Islamic Landmark, Sci Fi Wire; 9 comments
Destroy the Kaaba in a movie and get a fatwa on your head.

Black American Indians Reach for Untold Story, Lake County News-Sun; 23 comments
Black/Indian hybrid says races have been intermarrying for 3,000 years.

Congo Hands Land to South African Farmers, London Telegraph; 18 comments
White farmers to the rescue.

Sellafield Turns Away BNP Leader, BBC; 10 comments
As usual, the excuse is security.

European Court: No Crucifixes in Italian Schools, Comcast News; 29 comments
The crucifix could distrub non-Christians and atheists.

11-Year-Old Gives Birth to Baby Girl . . . After Going Into Labor at Her Wedding, New York Daily News; 11 comments
Gypsy grandma thinks girl was too young.

November 3, 2009

Racial Disparity: All Active Ethics Probes Focus on Black Lawmakers, Politico; 13 comments
Blacks say they are targeted because they have less money.

Dellums Fails to Pay at Least $239,000 in Taxes, East Bay Express (Oakland); 5 comments
Oakland’s black mayor may have to go back to being a lobbyist.

Little “Obama Effect” on Views About Race Relations, Gallup; 15 comments
Heard the word “transformational” lately?

Controversial New Video of Obama’s Pastor, Accuracy in Media; 15 comments
Obama’s pastor praises socialism, calls US “land of the greed and home of the slave.”

An NAACP Chapter of a Different Hue, Washington Post; 9 comments
NAACP president: “Colored people come in all colors,” even white.

A Tale of Two Wheels, Taki’s Magazine; 27 comments
What works in Montana doesn’t work in Paris. We wonder why.

Euro-Slavery, sevenload; 34 comments
A remarkable video about Turkish slave raids deep into Europe.

Asylum Seekers’ Success Rate Plunges Under Tory Government, Globe and Mail (Toronto); 10 comments
Canada’s new system weeds out bogus claims.

Revealed: Hidden Misery of Children Trafficked to Britain, Independent (London); 6 comments
Britain only now getting around to outlawing modern slavery.

Black in Brazil, BBC; 22 comments
Only Nigeria has more blacks than Brazil.

South Koreans Struggle With Race, New York Times; 64 comments
They don’t like foreigners dating their women.

700 Million Worldwide Desire to Migrate Permanently, Gallup; 18 comments
165 million of them want to come here.

November 2, 2009

Convicted Ringleader in Torture Slayings Sentenced to Death, Knoxville News Sentinel; 45 comments
Lamaricus Davidson’s “troubled childhood” wasn’t enough to get him off.

Richmond Rape Victim’s Family: ‘Please Do Not Let This Happen Again’, Mercury News (San Jose); 69 comments
Only white parents would make this statement.

Claim Targets Dress Code at Broad Ripple Nightclub, Indianapolis Star; 20 comments
Dress code alleged to have targeted blacks.

Frederick County Sheriff Worried About Montco Gangs, Washington Examiner; 4 comments
Maryland county’s immigrant-crime policies make problems for neighbors.

White Candidate Scrambles Vote, Attitudes in Atlanta Race, Washington Times; 9 comments
Blacks worried about losing power.

One Year On, Obamamania Cools to Luke Warm Support, AFP; 8 comments
Market for Obama trinkets slow; Michael Jackson outselling the President.

Before Dreams, There Was Roots, American Thinker; 31 comments
Is Dreams From My Father as fraudulent as Roots?

Lynnwood Beating Death Called ‘Honor Killing’, Seattle Times; 9 comments
A different kind of “honor killing.”

Top Civil Rights Attorney Promises Increased Enforcement of Discrimination Laws, Los Angeles Times; 5 comments
Will hire 100 new staff to enforce “civil rights” laws.

Ex-Con Charged in 4 Fatal Shootings in ‘Mayberry’, Comcast News; 13 comments
What is a Hispanic kidnapper/sex offender doing in “Mayberry,” anyway?

Dads Are Key to Making Us Human, LiveScience; 17 comments
Are blacks and Hispanics listening?

French Ideal of Bicycle-Sharing Meets Reality, New York Times; 28 comments
Times tiptoes around the truth.

Somali Man, 112, Marries 17-Year-Old Girl, London Telegraph; 25 comments
Her first; his sixth.

Is The Day Of Great Leaders Past?

Is The Day Of Great Leaders Past?

By Chuck Baldwin

A recent column co-authored by John Eidsmoe and Ben DuPré struck me. They titled their column, “What makes a ‘great’ president?“

The basic thrust of the column was to examine the qualities that make one a “great” President. They start by examining the Presidency of our 11th President, James K. Polk. They note that Polk is commonly regarded as being one of America’s top 12 greatest Presidents. To use their words, “between eighth and 12th among our greatest presidents.”

Eidsmoe and Dupré note that Polk was undoubtedly a man of outstanding Christian character and faith. They say that Polk was “the only president who kept and fulfilled every one of his campaign promises.” They observe him to be a man “with a Puritan work ethic, [who] literally worked himself to death as president, retired from office in broken health and died 103 days later.”

But Polk also greatly expanded the power of the Presidency. “In 1846, President Polk sent American troops into disputed territory where they were almost certain to become embroiled in hostilities, and then demanded that Congress recognize that a state of war already existed. Increasingly with Polk’s presidency and thereafter, the president set national policy and the Congress rubber-stamped the president’s decisions.”

Eidsmoe and Dupré note that the people who are charged with rating our Presidents are commonly academicians, “and as such they tend to be left of center. They believe in centralized power, and they therefore admire presidents who increased federal power and concentrated it in the presidency.”

In this regard, Eidsmoe and Dupré are 100% correct. Look at the heroes of liberal historians and who do you find? Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin Roosevelt. Not by accident, these same historians will extol the virtues of Hammurabi, Alexander, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne, and Napoleon. All these men have one thing in common: they were responsible for expanding (either by force or fraud) a centralized government.

Eidsmoe and Dupré correctly challenge the standard by which greatness is determined and offer alternatives to the avant-garde, politically correct formula. They proffer that “the truly great men of history are those who have defended and preserved individual liberty by resisting the increase and centralization of government power.”

To that I say a hearty “AMEN.”

Eidsmoe and Dupré then offer their own list of great men, which includes Judas Maccabeus, Cato and Cicero, Hermann the Liberator, Archbishop Stephen Langton of Canterbury, William Wallace and Robert the Bruce, and George Washington and Patrick Henry.

This brought to mind the fact that, several months ago, I had asked my friend, Howard Phillips, to rate his favorite US Presidents. This was his response:

1)      George Washington: for the standard he established during his Presidency.

2)      Thomas Jefferson: for his commitment to religious liberty and for recognizing the role of the states as he spelled out in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions.

3)      Andrew Jackson: for his opposition to the second bank of the United States.

4)      John Tyler: for his role in the admission of Texas to the Union.

5)      James Polk: for advancing America’s “manifest destiny.”

6)      Grover Cleveland: for his fidelity for the Constitution of the United States.

7)      Calvin Coolidge: for his commitment to low taxes and limits on Federal spending as well as for his good character.

As for my personal list of greatest Presidents, it would largely mirror Howard’s list, with one deviation. I would suggest:

1)      George Washington: America’s greatest President, without whom this republic would not exist. His “Farewell Address” is the greatest political speech ever delivered on American soil and should be regarded as “must-reading” for every American citizen.

2)      Thomas Jefferson: America’s greatest defender of individual liberty and states’ rights.

3)      James Monroe: for his leadership in establishing America’s strategically important “Monroe Doctrine.”

4)      Andrew Jackson: for standing up against the bankers.

5)      John Tyler: for defying his own party (Whigs) and twice vetoing the incorporation of the US Bank. And also for supporting the Southern cause for secession.

6)      Grover Cleveland: for his honesty and devotion to the US Constitution.

7)      Calvin Coolidge: for his dogged determination to limit taxes and federal spending.

As for my suggested list of personal heroes, those are already chronicled on my Wikipedia page. See it here.

Interestingly enough, Dupré and Eidsmoe’s hero candidates, William Wallace and Patrick Henry, also grace my list of heroes as posted on my Wikipedia page.

One will notice that there are hardly any modern-day heroes mentioned on my list. I also observed that there were no modern-day heroes mentioned by John Eidsmoe and Ben Dupré in their column. Indeed. Where are the real heroes in national public office today?

Our national leaders (from both parties) seem to be shortsighted opportunists, possessing little regard for their oaths to the US Constitution, the principles of decency, or even plain, old-fashioned common sense. Both major parties in Washington, D.C., offer the American people varying degrees of socialism. Neither party demonstrates even tacit devotion to constitutional government. Federalism and limited government have all but disappeared under the oversight of both Republican and Democratic leaders. These disastrous Presidents (from Johnson, Nixon, and Carter to Clinton and Bush I & II) calmly leave office with no regret or remorse for the devastation, death, and deception that they inflicted upon the country. They live in the lap of luxury and comfort without the slightest tinge of conscience as to the massive destruction done to our Constitution, not to mention our economy, security, and way of life. Beyond that, our congressmen and senators are mostly miscreants in the similitude of Nancy Pelosi and Lindsey Graham.

It’s hard to imagine there was a time when giants once lived among us. It’s hard to recall a day when the word “hero” really meant something. Today, everyone is called a hero. Well, as one Marine Corps veteran recently said, “If everyone is a hero, no one is a hero.” Amen!

Perhaps more than anything, America needs great leaders once again. Men who are not enamored with power and wealth. Men who are more concerned with honoring their word and preserving the Constitution than they are being reelected and receiving a government pension. Men who really do respect the people that elected them. Men who are willing to be unpopular, if that is the cost of honesty and integrity. Men who know the difference between the eternal and the temporal. And, yes, men who know the meaning of the word AMERICAN.

Is the day of great leaders past? With few exceptions, it would appear so. And that–more than anything else–is why we are in the mess we are in today.

So, while you are saying your prayers tonight, don’t forget to ask God to give us some men like Washington and Jefferson. We could sure use them about now.

P.S. It’s not too late to cast your vote for me (or someone else) as Ron Paul’s running mate in 2012 here.

P.P.S. THE FREEDOM DOCUMENTS will be ready to ship in a few days. To get ahead of the Christmas rush, go here.

Dr. Chuck Baldwin is the pastor of Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida. He hosts a weekly radio show. His website is here.

More from Generationaldynamics.com- Europe celebrates the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989 and Theological split in Iran widens as opposition protests continue

Europe celebrates the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989

If East and West Germany were reunited, then why not North and South Korea?

On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, all of Europe was celebrating. The following short video, Domino Effect:The Berlin Wall Falls Down Again, shows some of the more spectacular events in the celebration:

 

I was as shocked and surprised as anyone when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. I never dreamed that I would see it fall in my lifetime.

When World War II ended in 1945, much of the world was furious at the Germans. They blamed Nazi Germany for World War II, and they incorrectly also blamed Germany for World War I.

The WW II victors decided to partition Germany, to make sure that they wouldn’t start WW III. According to the 1945 Potsdam Agreement, Germany was partitioned into four regions, one to be administered and occupied by each of four countries — the Soviet Union, the UK, France, and the U.S. The last three of these regions were quickly merged into West Germany, while the Soviets retained control of what became East Germany.

The Soviets didn’t stop there. They took control of all of Eastern Europe — East Germany, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Albania. These became known as “Iron Curtain countries” after Winston Churchill’s famous 1946 Iron Curtain speech:

 

“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in some cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow. Athens alone — Greece with its immortal glories — is free to decide its future at an election under British, American and French observation. The Russian-dominated Polish Government has been encouraged to make enormous and wrongful inroads upon Germany, and mass expulsions of millions of Germans on a scale grievous and undreamed-of are now taking place. The Communist parties, which were very small in all these Eastern States of Europe, have been raised to pre-eminence and power far beyond their numbers and are seeking everywhere to obtain totalitarian control. Police governments are prevailing in nearly every case, and so far, except in Czechoslovakia, there is no true democracy.”

Soviet authorities built border fences separating east and west Europe, and border guards shot and killed anyone who tried to escape to the west.

But there was one gaping hole in the Iron Curtain — the city of Berlin. Berlin was physically located inside of East Germany, but according to the Potsdam Agreement, Berlin itself was partitioned, with East Berlin controlled by the Soviets, and West Berlin still part of West Germany. This was never a comfortable situation, as the Soviets in 1948 tried to blockade West Berlin, and prevent supplies from reaching the city. President Harry Truman ordered the Berlin Airlift to supply tons of food and other supplies.

Throughout the 1950s, the vast differences between east and west became apparent to the world. People living in western European countries, such as UK, France and West Germany, enjoyed democracy and thriving economies. But people in Iron Curtain countries were oppressed and tortured for political crimes, and they lived in poverty. News stories coming out of eastern Europe told of the indignities and hardship of daily life, such as having to wait in a queue for hours just to buy a roll of toilet paper.

Millions of people who were trapped in the east would escape by making their way to East Berlin and crossing over to West Berlin and to freedom. Finally, the Soviets could stand it no more. On August 12, 1961, the East German army began tearing up streets that connected East and West Berlin, and installed a barbed wire barrier encircling all of West Berlin, guarded by troops ordered to shoot to kill anyone who tried to defect. Thus, the border was closed within 24 hours. After that, the East Germans replaced the barbed wired with 12 foot high concrete barriers, guarded by watch towers.

The Berlin Wall split friends, families and lovers for decades. People who were trapped in the East could no longer travel to the West, and people in the West didn’t want to go East, for fear of being trapped there. Thousands of East Germans tried to escape by climbing over the wall, and hundreds were killed by East German border guards.

By the 1980s, the Berlin Wall was becoming intolerable to the Germans themselves. Germany entered a generational Unraveling era and, as indicated by the name, all the austere measures that were imposed after WW II to prevent a new war began to unravel. A triggering event may have been President Ronald Reagan’s 1987 speech in Berlin, in which he said, “Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

During the next few years, an incredible domino effect occurred. First, Hungary opened its border with Austria, permitting East Europeans to escape to the West via that route. Mass demonstrations began in East Germany, and continued for weeks. On November 9, a televised news program mistakenly reported that the Berlin borders would be opened immediately. Huge crowds of East Germaners mobbed the border gates, and border guards were faced with the choice of shooting into the crowd or opening the gates. Fortunately, they chose the latter.

Germany was reunited within a few months after the fall of the Berlin Wall. There was still fear among WW II survivors over the reunification of Germany — fear that a reunited Germany would once again become a military threat to Europe. I recall seeing Henry Kissinger on television saying something like, “I will have no trouble dying happily if Germany is never reunited in my lifetime.”

Recent news reports indicate that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and French President Francois Mitterand feared that a united Germany would a “unstoppable force” in an unbalanced Europe.

Very quickly, Communism collapsed in other East European countries, and within a couple of years, the Soviet Union collapsed. Johnny Carson joked that America was the only country that still had a Communist Party.

That was a great joke, but of course there are still two Communist countries remaining — North Korea and Cuba. Why can’t North and South Korea be reunited as Germany was, and why can’t Communism in Cuba end, as it did in East Germany?

Generational Dynamics provides some answers.

Generational Dynamics views civil wars very differently from external wars. A civil war pits neighbor against neighbor, brother against brother, husband against wife. If a country fights an external war then, win or lose, the country can celebrate or mourn and then move on. But a country can never celebrate a civil war, and may need a century or more to really move on.

East Germany became partitioned from West Germany by a political decision, not by a civil war. By the time the generational Unraveling era had arrived, there had been two generations of young people who had no personal memory of WW II and didn’t fear a reunited Germany, so the political decision was reversed.

But the partitioning of Korea was no simple political decision. It was a bitter civil war between two groups of Koreans. It’s not a surprise that reunification is difficult or impossible — without another war.

Cuba is a different story. Cuba also had a civil war — Fidel Castro’s Cuban Revolution that climaxed in 1959. Cuba today is in the middle of a generational Unraveling era, and when Fidel Castro stepped down, replaced by his brother Raoul, there were some signs that the Communist economy was beginning to unravel.

The fall of the Berlin Wall ended the story of East Germany, but the stories of North Korea and Cuba are still being told.

Update: I left China out of this discussion because I didn’t want to lengthen the article, but a web site reader said I should have included it. Briefly, China also had a major civil war, Mao Zedong’s Communist Revolution, climaxing in 1949. However, China is different from the others. It’s nominally a Communist country today, having a repressive government that jails, tortures and executes political dissidents. But China has given up control of many parts of the economy, so China today would more accurately be called a Fascist country, rather than a Communist country. (Paragraphs added, Nov 11)

(Comments: For reader comments, questions and discussion, see the Europe thread of the Generational Dynamics forum.) (11-Nov-2009) Permanent Link

Theological split in Iran widens as opposition protests continue

The Islamic Republic of Iran versus the Persian Republic of Iran.

I’ve written several times about the belief of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the Mahdaviat — the Shia Muslim belief that the Mahdi (or “the 13′th Imam” or “the Hidden Imam”) is coming to save mankind. See, for example, “Iran and Ahmadinejad are waiting for the Mahdi” This belief is roughly equivalent to the Christian belief in the second coming of Christ. (There’s also a Buddhist belief in the Maitreya — that a new Buddha is to appear on earth, and will achieve complete enlightenment.)

In that article, I quoted a couple of paragraphs from his speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 17, 2005:

 

“From the beginning of time, humanity has longed for the day when justice, peace, equality and compassion envelop the world. All of us can contribute to the establishment of such a world. When that day comes, the ultimate promise of all Divine religions will be fulfilled with the emergence of a perfect human being who is heir to all prophets and pious men. He will lead the world to justice and absolute peace.O mighty Lord, I pray to you to hasten the emergence of your last repository, the promised one, that perfect and pure human being, the one that will fill this world with justice and peace.”

Now, a new BBC documentary by Edward Stourton sheds new light on the depth of this belief, and the way that it’s affecting Iranian foreign policy.

According to Stourton, Ahmadinejad, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and top level government officials are members of a narrow Shia Muslim sect called the “Hasteners” — people who believe that the return of the Imam is imminent, and that it is the duty of the faithful to take whatever steps they can to hasten the return.

It’s as if President Obama, or some other Christian political leader, belonged to a sect that advocated starting a nuclear war in order to hasten the second coming of Christ.

Thus, Shia Islam has two conflicting doctrines that guide the faithful in their lives. One doctrine, known as Intizar (patient waiting) maintains that the best that believers can do is to be patient and wait until the Imam decides to return. That doctrine is opposed by another known as Ta’ajil (to hasten). The Ta’ajilis (hasteners) insist that believers should seek to unite the entire Islamic community and lead it into battle against the “Infidel” with the view of provoking a final showdown for global domination, to hasten the return of the Mahdi.

Thus, Ahmadinejad is quoted as saying, “Do you know why we wish to have chaos at any price? Because after the chaos, we shall see the greatness of Allah.”

And so we have Ahmadinejad doing things like talking about pushing Israel into the sea or pursuing policies that would allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons. The implication is that Ahmadinejad is pursuing these policies in order to provoke world chaos (presumably, chaos in the form of war) in order to hasten the return of the Mahdi.

Stourton quotes Mehdi Khalaji, a Shia theologian who studied in Qom and a senior fellow of the Washington Institute:

 

“We call apocalyptics people who believe in the imminent return of Hidden Imam and people who believe that worshippers have some duties more than prayer in order to prepare the ground for the return of Hidden Imam. Apocalyptics, they’ve been always in margin of the religious community and also political structure of the country. But with Ahmadinejad, this is the first time that they take over the political power. … [this apocalyptic trend] is frightening, and it is not only frightening for the international community….”

Of course, not everyone agrees with that explanation of Ahmadinejad’s policies. Stourton quotes Professor Ali Ansari, director of the Institute for Iranian Studies at the University of St Andrews:

 

“Ahmadinejad and the others, yes, they do believe that the hidden imam will arrive when the world has reached the most disastrous situation. Whether they feel they have to help that along is a different matter. I think that’s where you’ve got to be a little bit careful. I haven’t seen anything which suggests that. I mean he hasn’t said anything specific. That’s not to say that he might not at some stage. It’s perhaps a question of semantics and a question of being quite pedantic about it but it’s important because people do then extrapolate from things that he has not said yet – whole policy decisions, which I think are unhelpful.”

And so the question is whether the religious beliefs of Ahmadinejad, Khamenei, and other senior leaders of Iran’s government are pursuing a policy of provoking war BECAUSE OF their religious beliefs.

Religion doesn’t cause war; war causes religion

From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, the view that Ahmadinejad decided at one point, perhaps in his childhood, to join a sect called the “Hasteners,” and then later was guided by those religious beliefs to become a politician with the job of provoking world war — that view makes no sense all. What makes much more sense is the view that Ahmadinejad and Khamenei have adopted a certain set of policies designed to keep themselves in power, and that they’ve adopted a version of the “Hastener” religious doctrine to justify those policies.

I discussed the role of religion in Generational Dynamics at length in 2007 in “Book review review: Christopher Hitchens: ‘God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.’”

In the past few years, Christopher Hitchens has made a career of claiming that religion is the cause of all wars, with the bizarre implication that if we could only get rid of all religions, then we could get rid of all wars.

From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, the opposite is true. Wars have a political component as well as a military component, and the political component requires the political leaders to justify the moral superiority that’s required to kill other people. There are many possible ways to do that, but the easiest vehicle is religion. Thus, Osama bin Laden may be attacking Western interests because he hates his father, but he justifies his terrorism by talking about infidels and 72 virgins.

What we’re seeing in Iran right now appears to be an archetypical example of how war causes religion.

I’ve written many articles on this web site describing how Iran’s strategy evolved, and it has nothing to do with religion. The Islamic Revolution of 1979 was a massive civil war that brought into power a new group of politicians who justified their victory in religious terms. They achieved this victory by blaming all their problems on outsiders — America, Britain, Israel, and later Iraq. They took over the American embassy in Tehran, and held 52 American hostages for 444 days.

They described Iran as an innocent victim of outside exploiters and invaders, and in doing so, they unified the entire country behind their Revolution.

Now, they’re trying to repeat that strategy, by attempting to blame America, Britain and Israel as interfering, or threatening to attack, the same innocent victim, Iran. But that strategy worked in 1979 because Iran was in a generational Crisis era; today, Iran is in a generational Awakening era, when that kind of strategy cannot possibly succeed.

(For information about generational eras, see “Basics of Generational Dynamics.” For information about America’s Awakening era in the 1960s, see “Boomers commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love.” For an extensive analysis of Iran’s strategy, see “China ‘betrays’ Iran, as internal problems in both countries mount.”)

When the big street protests began in Tehran after the June 12 presidential elections, every mainstream analyst that I’m aware of, including the BBC and Stratfor, predicted that the government would crush the protests and that they would end quickly, as happened in the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in China. I wrote that, from the point of view of Generational Dynamics, Tiananmen Square is the wrong historical analogy; the best analogy is America’s Summer of Love in 1967, which led to almost a decade of political conflict, and failed presidencies of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.

In fact, the street protests are continuing and growing, especially since colleges opened in the fall.

Last week, Iran celebrated the 30th anniversary of the takeover of the American embassy in Tehran, on November 4, 1979. The government scheduled large pro-government demonstrations, but they were met with large anti-government counter-demonstrations.

What is becoming increasingly clear is that the student protests are gaining in strength and are presenting a fundamental threat to the Ahmadinejad / Khamenei government, just as America’s 1960s protests threatened the Johnson and Nixon administrations.

If Ahmadinejad and Khamenei succeed in politically surviving the protestors, then the “Hastener” sect will be given a huge boost. From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, that would be a typical example of how a new religious sect gains traction. On the other hand, if they fail, and they’re forced to step down, then the “Hastener” sect will also suffer a major setback, and that would be an example of how a religious sect can fizzle.

An Islamic Republic or a Persian Republic?

Iran is going through a generational Awakening era, and really it’s quite typical of such eras. There is massive political chaos, with occasional violence that fizzles fairly quickly. We’ve seen this in Iran, Iraq and Lebanon, three Awakening era countries that I’ve written a lot about on this web site, all having had crisis wars in the 1980s. The political chaos always reflects the themes of the preceding crisis war, and always pits the generations of war survivors, who attempt to impose austere measures to prevent a new war, against the younger generation, born after the war, rebelling against those austere measures.

Today, there are three major political factions in Iran:

 

• The current government, led by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. These are the group of crisis war survivors that have held political power since the 1979 revolution. With regard to the question of the return of the Mahdi, they tend to be “Hasteners.”

 

• The “Opposition”: Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mohammad Khatami, and Mehdi Karroubi. These were the candidates that opposed Ahmadinejad in the June 12 presidential election. They lead a group of reformers that want to leave the Islamic Republic in place, under the leadership of Ayatollah Khamenei, but they want to replace Ahmadinejad with someone more moderate. With regard to the question of the return of the Mahdi, they tend to be “Patient Awaiters.”

 

• The “Kids”: the younger generation, the 70% of the population born after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The Opposition and the Kids were allies during and after the June 12 election, but they have entirely different goals. Unlike the Opposition, the Kids are pro-Western and pro-American, and want to dismantle the religious Islamic Republic, and change it to a secular Persian Republic. The two groups are allied for now, but at some time in the future they may be enemies.

One thing that should be clear from the above description is that even if Ahmadinejad steps down and is replaced by someone from the Opposition, the riots and demonstrations won’t stop.

It’s also pretty clear that as the older generations die off, and the size of the younger generations grows from 70% to 80% to 90%, the Kids are going to win. The only question is how long it will take, and how chaotic the transition will be, over the next 10-15 years.

The growing theological dispute

At the beginning of this report, I referenced a new BBC documentary by Edward Stourton. That documentary was triggered when Stourton submitted some questions to Grand Ayatollah Hoseyn Ali Montazeri via his web site. Montazeri is one of Shia Islam’s most respected theologians, and much to Stourton’s surprise, Montazeri answered the questions with detailed replies.

Here are some excerpts:

 

“Q: What is your view of claims that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in contact with the Hidden Imam and that his government is working for the return of the Mahdi? …Montazeri: During his occultation or disappearance it is possible to establish contact with His Holiness the Hidden Imam (may God speed his return). But anyone who made such contact would never dream of announcing it publicly because making use of such claims for propaganda and political purposes would be contrary to the qualities required for such contact. The best way to prepare for the re-appearance of the Hidden Imam would be to act in accordance with Islamic teachings in order to establish justice and Islamic values in society.

Q: How far has the current regime fallen – in your view – from the ideal of the Islamic Republic?

Montazeri: Although some sincere and faithful people have made great efforts and endeavours now and in the past to implement the goals of the revolution, unfortunately, due to the short-sightedness, ineptitude and lack of wisdom, as well as arrogance and neglect of the demands of the majority of the people by a small inefficient minority, many of the initial ideals of the revolution have not been fulfilled. In view of this, our people are very dissatisfied and they protest against the deviations from the goals of the revolution. …

Q: What (if anything) should Iranian clerics do to bring about change in Iran?

Montazeri: The important action that the esteemed Iranian clerics can and must take in order to initiate reforms, to change the present situation and the current policies, must be in step with the people – with intellectuals and experts, with the members of the elite and with committed political activists. The clerics should tell the people of their rights. They must also remain faithful the values of the revolution and to the goals of the reforms. Otherwise, their social standing among the people will become weaker and shakier.”

The fact that a high level Iranian cleric would be openly critical of the government with the press shows how deeply the Islamic government is under attack.

Effect of Iran’s conflict on Islam

If you look at the 20th century from the point of view of Islam, there have been two major earth-shaking events.

The first was the destruction of the Ottoman empire after World War I. Centered in Istanbul, Turkey, the Caliphate had been the office of the supreme spiritual leader for Sunni Muslims worldwide, and it was abolished, leaving Sunni Muslims around the world rudderless. After several decades passed, this rudderlessness turned into al-Qaeda and international terrorism.

The second was Iran’s Islamic Revolution of 1979. For the first time since the 1920s, there was an Islamic state, and a revolutionary method for achieving it. Unfortunately for the Sunnis, Iran is a Shia Muslim state, so it didn’t help them. But it did reveal a path by which a Sunni Muslim state might appear again.

Just as Iran’s leaders have been trying to recapture their own revolutionary unity by provoking a confrontation or even an attack by Western powers, Islamist Sunnis have been trying to provoke a war in various countries, in the hope of creating a Sunni Muslim state.

They’ve tried this in Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan, and it is still the main goal of al-Qaeda. The inspiration provided by Iran’s Islamic Revolution of 1979 has been a guiding light to Islamist Sunnis around the world for 30 years.

The interesting question then arises: What will Islamist Sunnis around the world conclude about Iran’s Islamic Revolution, now that the Revolution appears to be unraveling? Will they still try to follow the same path, or will they change tactics in some way, trying to learn from Iran’s experience? Only time will tell, and this is something to be watched.

In fact, Sunni clerics in other countries are beginning to point to a possibly fatal flaw in Iran’s system of government: the core belief that supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei should have the final say on all Iranian foreign and domestic policies.

What is happening in Iran at present, is “an explosion as a result of a deep existing contradiction in the political system in Iran, which has a religious base, and at the same time seeks to pass on authority through democratic means,” according to Sunni scholar Khaled al Dakheel, a professor at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Basically, the question is how you can have a democracy of the people, when a single religious leader has the final say on everything? At its core, this is a political struggle over the question of separation of Mosque and State, a conflict that occurs, in one way or another, in almost every country.

From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, the major trends have not changed. As I’ve said many times, it’s my expectation that Iran will be the ally, not the enemy, of America, Israel and the West, in the Clash of Civilizations World War. In Asia, Iran will be allied with India, Russia and America against China and Sunni Muslim countries, including Pakistan, Uzbekistan, and the Arabs.

The theological debate and political chaos in Iran are part of the scenario that will take us in that direction.

(Comments: For reader comments, questions and discussion, see the Iran thread of the Generational Dynamics forum.) (9-Nov-2009) Permanent Link

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas says he’ll step down following Hillary Clinton’s statement on settlements

Is it a tactical manoeuver or the end of an era?

Mahmoud Abbas was born in 1935 in what is now northern Israel. His family were among hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who fled or were driven from their homes in the genocidal 1948 war between Palestinians and Jews that followed the partitioning of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel.

So as a young teenager, Abbas and all his friends were fully exposed to the horrors of war all around them. This is the kind of “generational child abuse” that Generational Dynamics talks about. Kids who live through this kind of experience, like America’s Silent Generation, grow up never wanting their own kids or grandkids to experience something so awful.

So when Abbas was elected President of the Palestinian Authority in January, 2005, it appeared to the world that the “Mideast problem” would finally be solved. Abbas was considered more “moderate” than his predecessor, Yasser Arafat, and Abbas was committed to implementing the Mideast Roadmap to Peace that had been put forth by the Bush Administration in May, 2003. With Arafat gone, and Abbas in place as President, the Roadmap would finally be implemented, leading to two states, Israel and a Palestinian state, existing side by side in the Mideast, in eternal peace and happiness.

Actually, the euphoria surrounding Abbas’s election was ridiculous, as were the unrealistically high expectations that Abbas had raised during the campaign. As I wrote at the time, one day he would speak in Arabic and promise the Palestinians the “right of return” to the lands occupied by the “Zionist enemy.” The next day, he would speak in English, and promise to rid Palestine of the terrorists.

(The obvious comparison is with President Barack Obama, who made similarly extravagant and unrealistic campaign promises — cure global warming, provide universal health care, close Guantanamo, leave Iraq in peace, bring a two-state solution to Palestinians and Israelis, beat the Taliban in Afghanistan, restore the stock market bubble, and dismantle President Bush’s war against terror. Now we’re seeing that he appears to be failing at every one of these promises.)

Instead of bringing peace, Abbas’s presidency has only made things worse. There have been three “small” wars: Israelis vs Hizbollah in Lebanon in 2006, Palestinian Fatah vs Hamas in Gaza in 2008, and Israelis vs Hamas in Gaza in 2009. There’s no reduction in tension whatsoever, and it’s only a matter of time before one of these small wars triggers a larger war.

The latest crisis occurred because one of President Obama’s unrealistic promises intersected with one of President Abbas’s unrealistic promises. Since taking office, President Obama has demanded that the Israelis stop building settlements on land that would be part of the Palestinian nation under the Roadmap to Peace. As recently as June, in his speech in Cairo, directed to the Muslim world, President Obama said, “At the same time, Israelis must acknowledge that just as Israel’s right to exist cannot be denied, neither can Palestine’s. The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements. This construction violates previous agreements and undermines efforts to achieve peace. It is time for these settlements to stop.”

But the Obama administration appeared to change policy last week, when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised as “unprecedented” Israel’s compromise offer to slow down, but not stop, construction of settlements.

This change of position has infuriated may Arabs and Palestinians, and it triggered Abbas’s decision to step down as President. Abbas put it as diplomatically as possible when he said,

 

“We pledged, us and the Israelis, with the participation and sponsorship of the international community, to reach a two-state solution. But month after month, year after year, there was procrastination and the increase of Jewish settlement and Israeli settlement on our land, which compromises the credibility of negotiations. …The stated position of the United States in relation to settlements and the Judaisation and annexation of Jerusalem are well-known and appreciated by us. However, we were surprised by their favoring of the Israeli position. But the problem which requires a solution is … the ongoing Israeli settlement activities in all of the West Bank and especially in occupied East Jerusalem, which is facing an unprecedented change to its character.”

It’s impossible to know at this time if Abbas seriously plans to step down, or whether he’s using the threat of stepping down as a negotiating strategy.

If Abbas does stop down and is replaced by someone younger, it will be the end of an era. Someone younger will certainly be more demanding and confrontational than Abbas, and this will change the political climate in the Mideast.

As I’ve been saying since 2003, Generational Dynamics predicts that we’re headed for a major crisis war in the Mideast, re-fighting the genocidal 1940s war between Arabs and Jews. I speculated in 2003 that the death of Yasser Arafat would trigger such a war, but although things have gotten steadily worse since Arafat’s death, the major war is yet to come.

(Comments: For reader comments, questions and discussion, see the Mideast thread of the Generational Dynamics forum.) (7-Nov-2009) Permanent Link

Diversity Is Strength! It’s Also…Major Hasan And The Unravelling Of America

Diversity Is Strength! It’s Also…Major Hasan And The Unravelling Of America

By Patrick J. Buchanan

Nidal Malik Hasan was two men.

One was the proud Army major who wore battle fatigues to mosque; the other, the proud Arab who wore Muslim garb in civilian life.

What brought Hasan’s identities into fatal conflict was his belief that Iraq and Afghanistan were unjust wars, and his shock that he, a Muslim, was to be sent to serve in one of those wars, against fellow Muslims—a sin against Allah meriting damnation.

Hasan was conflicted by a dual loyalty—to the country he had sworn to protect, and to his perceived duty as a Muslim. When Hasan told his neighbor that morning, “I am going to do good work for God,” the call of jihad overrode his oath of loyalty as an American soldier.

Hasan proceeded to shoot, wound or kill 44 U.S. soldiers, and die on what he saw as the side of right, the side of Islam, against America. “Allahu Akbar!”—“God is great!”—Hasan shouted as he began firing.

An Internet posting by “Nidal Hasan” compared suicide bombers to Medal-Of-Honor winners who throw themselves on grenades to save fellow soldiers. Hasan had decided to become a suicider for Allah.

Though this was an act of treachery against his fellow soldiers, of treason in wartime, of terrorism and mass murder, Hasan must have seen himself as a hero and martyr.

Few ever commit atrocities like this. But conflicts in identities and loyalties are common in the cauldrons of war.

“Let none but Americans stand guard tonight,“ said Washington at Valley Forge. Irish Catholics deserted the Union army to fight beside Mexican Catholics in the San Patricio battalion against what they thought was American aggression. Honored today by Mexico, the San Patricios were hanged when captured by Winfield Scott‘s army.

In Scott’s march to Mexico City was Robert E. Lee. The hero of Buena Vista was Col. Jefferson Davis, who had married the daughter of his commanding officer, future President Zachary Taylor. Davis went on to serve in the Cabinet of Franklin Pierce and the U.S. Senate.

Yet, in 1861, Davis and Lee would depart the service of their country to wage war against the United States on behalf of their new nation and the kinfolk to whom they belonged and whom they believed had a right to be free of the Union. Were they traitors—or patriots?

This is not to compare the deeds of the San Patricios, Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee, all of whom declared themselves openly and fought heroically and honorably, with the crimes of Maj. Hasan.

But it is to raise the issue of conflicting loyalties in the hearts of men in a nation that has declared religious, racial and ethnic diversity to be not only a national good but a national goal.

Whence came this idea? No previous generation believed this.

In World War I, Wilson feared that if he went to war, German-Americans might march on Washington. FDR was so fearful that the blood ties of Japanese citizens and residents would trump their loyalty to the United States he ordered 110,000 transferred from California to detention camps for the duration of the war.

In Arkansas last year, a Muslim opposed to the U.S. wars shot two soldiers at a recruitment center, killing one. In Kuwait, before the invasion of Iraq, a Muslim soldier threw a grenade into the tent of his commanding officer, killing two and wounding 14.

This is not to suggest that all American Muslims or Arabs should be citizens under suspicion. Muslims have died fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, as German-Americans died fighting against Germany in two world wars. But it is to say this:

America is unraveling. No longer are we one nation and one people. Tens of millions have come and tens of millions are coming whose first loyalty is to the kinfolk and country they left behind, and to the faith they carry in their hearts. And if, in our long war against “Islamofascism,” we are seen as trampling on their nation, faith or kinsmen, they will see us, as Hasan came to see us, as the enemy of their sacred identity.

There is no American Melting Pot anymore. It was discarded by our elites as an instrument of cultural genocide. Now we celebrate America as the most multiracial, multiethnic, multicultural country on earth, the Universal Nation of Ben Wattenberg‘s warblings.

And, yet, we are surprised by ethnic espionage in our midst, the cursing of America from mosques in our cities, the news that Somali immigrants are going home to fight our Somali allies, and that illegal aliens march under Mexican flags to demand American citizenship.

Eisenhower’s America was a nation of 160 million with a Euro-Christian core and a culture all its own. We were a people then. And when we have become, in 2050, a stew of 435 millions, of every creed, culture, color and country of Earth, what holds us together then?

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Fort Hood Massacre, Unemployment, 700 Million Potential Immigrants—A Busy Week For Diversity

Fort Hood Massacre, Unemployment, 700 Million Potential Immigrants—A Busy Week For Diversity

By Steve Sailer

It was a busy week for Invite the World / Invade the World / In Hock to the World news:

• First, Gallup announced the results of polling 259,542 adults in 135 countries during 2007-2009:

700 Million Worldwide Desire to Migrate Permanently
U.S. tops desired destination countries

“… Gallup finds about 16% of the world’s adults would like to move to another country permanently if they had the chance. This translates to roughly 700 million worldwide — more than the entire adult population of North and South America combined.”

• Second, a U.S. Army major / Palestinian terrorist shot two score soldiers at Fort Hood. Texas.

President Barack Hussein Obama rushed to warn that there must be no rush to stereotype Major Nidal Malik Hasan. The New York Times played along, running a five-part red herring discussion on Combat Stress and the Fort Hood Gunman. Presumably, Major Hasan, who had never seen combat, was suffering from PTSD: Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

• Third, the government announced that the unemployment rate had exceeded 10 percent for the first time in 26 years.

But discussion of the role of immigration in boosting unemployment was simply nonexistent in the Main Stream Media.

When things go very wrong, as they have, the most likely causes are ones that nobody who is Anybody was expecting.

Their conceptual framework leaves them unable to cope with unthinkable reality.

In contrast, my alternative Invite / Invade / In Hock analysis of the Bush-Obama Era’s dominant approach helps point out linkages behind events that baffle those brainwashed by the conventional wisdom.

For example, if you stop and think about it, you’ll notice that Hasan, whose mother was born in Jerusalem, was following in the tradition of Palestinian terrorist Sirhan Sirhan, who shot Sen. Robert F. Kennedy on June 5, 1968.

Few conceive of Sirhan as a Palestinian terrorist because nobody in American thought much about Palestine or terrorism before George Habash masterminded the skyjacking of four jetliners in 1970. Hence, most Americans mentally lump Sirhan in with the 1960s domestic assassins Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray.

Yet, Sirhan certainly saw himself as a Palestinian terrorist. Sirhan murdered Bobby Kennedy on the first anniversary of Israel’s June 5, 1967 attack on its Arab neighbors because RFK promised to send 50 fighter jets to Israel.

That there’s an inevitable conflict between “Invade” and “Invite” in terms of domestic terrorism is something that the Kennedy brothers never figured out. Teddy Kennedy sponsored the 1965 immigration expansion act three years before his brother was assassinated by an immigrant. (Sirhan arrived in the United States in 1957 and had gone through the assimilation process, enrolling in the same junior high school and junior college that my father, now 92, attended a generation before. Fat lot of good assimilation did us.)

The Kennedys grew up in an era of restricted immigration, so it’s understandable that they didn’t grasp the inverse relationship between “Invite” and “Invade”.

But the current neocons have less excuse.

The Invite / Invade tradeoff is simple. If you want to run an ambitious foreign policy, such as Britain did in the 19th Century, then it’s prudent to keep out the foreigners you have aggrieved, as Victorian England sensibly did. In contrast, if you let in millions of immigrants, as 19th Century America did, it’s wisest to run an isolationist foreign policy, so that immigrants aren’t angry at you. America mostly did this in the century after George Washington advised it.

Or, most prudently of all, our country could refrain from pestering foreigners while not letting them pester us.

Of course, the one alternative out of four that’s self-evidently self-defeating—Invite / Invade— is considered the only respectable one. In the eyes of, say, the Washington Post or the Wall Street Journal, all the alternatives to Invite / Invade are simply unthinkable. Thus, our country’s grand strategies are, literally, thoughtless. We must bomb foreigners overseas until they start liking us more. Meanwhile, at home we aren’t allowed to notice that some of their co-religionists in the United States are liking us less. Discerning is discriminating. Discriminating is bad. Our thoughts must be utterly indiscriminate!

Similarly, the long-run implications of Invite the World are staggering, but nobody thinks about them.

Note that Gallup’s 700 million figure is just for adults. It doesn’t count their current or future children. Sixteen percent of the world’s total population is 1,073,000,000 people.

So, over a billion people would be immigrants if they could. That shouldn’t be surprising—I’ve been pointing out since 2005 that five billion people live in countries where the mean per capita income is lower than Mexico’s.

Gallup reports:

“The United States is the top desired destination country for the 700 million adults who would like to relocate permanently to another country. Nearly one-quarter (24%) of these respondents, which translates to more than 165 million adults worldwide, name the United States as their desired future residence.”

Gallup says that would boost America’s population by 60 percent—but that’s leaving out children. Therefore, for about a quarter of a billion adults and children, moving to America is their first choice (and the second choice of many millions more).

But nobody ever thinks about that. Gallup’s report was covered in the U.S. only by Fox News and a few trade press magazines, mostly aimed at the immigration industry, such as GlobalVisas.

What would we do with 250,000,000 newcomers, most of them with little education?

Well, we now have over 20 percent of the Mexican nation’s population here, so we’d no doubt do in the future what we did in this decade: put them to work doing the jobs Americans just won’t do: building the houses nobody can afford.

And how did that work out for us last time?

Shhhh—we’re not supposed to talk about it!

Following the mortgage meltdown in California, Arizona, Nevada, and Florida, the unemployment rate is 10.2 percent among job-seekers.Yet, a broader measure that includes those who are too discouraged to look for work and those underemployed in part-time jobs, the actual rate is 17.5 percent.

The government doesn’t track jobs by citizenship, so VDARE.COM’s Ed Rubenstein has long used ethnicity as a proxy. He blogs:

“From January 2001 through October 2009:

• Hispanic employment increased by 3,437,000 positions (+ 21.3 percent)
• Non-Hispanic employment fell by 2,938,000 positions (-2.4 percent)”

What can we do about unemployment?

Tom Friedman recently wrote a column in the New York Times arguing that the only lawyers (!) who aren’t in danger of losing their jobs are those “who have the ability to imagine new services, new opportunities and new ways to recruit work”.

Reasons Friedman: “So our schools have a doubly hard task now—not just improving reading, writing and arithmetic but entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity. Bottom line: We’re not going back to the good old days without fixing our schools…” [The New Untouchables, October 20, 2009]

Super.

On the other hand, feasible reforms that would actually lower the unemployment rate over, say, the next few years mostly involve immigration.

• Let’s have an immigration moratorium. Stop handing out Green Cards as long as the unemployment rate is over six percent.
• Do what many European and Asian democracies do: pay unemployed legal immigrants to leave. We could offer buyouts to people with Green Cards.
• We can pay the airfare home for illegal immigrants in return for their fingerprints and the assurance they’ll wind up in prison if they ever come back. .
• Get rid of the H-1B indentured servant visa program that has helped make computer programming the career of the past for American students.
• End Teddy Kennedy’s derisible diversity visa lottery. (Amusingly, Teddy invented it because his 1965 law wasn’t working the way he intended to bring in more Irish immigrants. His second try failed again.)

Teddy’s random drawing for foreigners is why Egyptian immigrant Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, who killed two Jews at the Israeli El Al Airline counter of Los Angeles International Airport on July 4, 2002, was in the U.S.

• Ban non-citizens from Stimulus jobs.

These policies would actually do American citizens some good.

And they could do Republican candidates some good—by giving them something to run on.

That’s probably why these ideas are unmentionable in the MSM.

But why are they also unmentionable among Republicans?

[Steve Sailer (email him) is movie critic for The American Conservative. His website www.iSteve.blogspot.com features his daily blog. His new book, AMERICA’S HALF-BLOOD PRINCE: BARACK OBAMA’S "STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE", is available here.]