Sun 13 May 2007
Has America Jumped the Shark?
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| The Great Unpatriotic War
After Pearl Harbor, the entire country got behind the war effort, and the time is heralded as one of the most unifying periods in our history. But for the Left, support for the war had nothing to do whatever with support for the United States. The American Left got behind the war effort solely because they correctly saw Hitler’s Germany as a clear and present danger to the Soviet Union specifically and the world communist movement in general. Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union was a “call to arms” for communists everywhere. Radical Muslim paramilitary compound flourishes in upper New York state Islamberg is not as benign as a Buddhist monastery or a Carmelite convent. Nearly every weekend, neighbors hear sounds of gunfire. Some, including a combat veteran of the Vietnam War, have heard the bang of small explosives. None of the neighbors wished to be identified for fear of “retaliation.” “We don’t even dare to slow down when we drive by,” one resident said. “They own the mountain and they know it and there is nothing we can do about it but move, and we can’t even do that. Who wants to buy a property near that?” The killing machine that is Marxism In total, Marxist regimes murdered nearly 110 million people from 1917 to 1987. For perspective on this incredible toll, note that all domestic and foreign wars during the 20th century killed around 35 million. That is, when Marxists control states, Marxism is more deadly then all the wars of the 20th century, including World Wars I and II, and the Korean and Vietnam Wars. And what did Marxism, this greatest of human social experiments, achieve for its poor citizens, at this most bloody cost in lives? Nothing positive. It left in its wake an economic, environmental, social and cultural disaster. Students Are Terrorized. But It’s Not “Terrorism”? There is more to Taheri-azar than just his words to police. His actions in court, and the images of him in the media, suggest that he views himself as a hero in the Muslim world. A smug smile as he walked out of the courthouse and an exuberant wave to the TV cameras indicated that he thinks someone in the Middle East, or maybe in the United States, will look upon him as a leader and follow his example. He reportedly told detectives that “people all over the world are being killed in war and now it is the people in the United States[’] turn to be killed.” If this comment doesn’t lead people to conclude that this was an act of terrorism, it is difficult to see what could. Terrorist attacks reported as “isolated incidents” Lately there has been a trend in the “mainstream” news media to cover up acts of terrorism, calling them “isolated incidents”. Some examples of this are shown below, but I’m sure there have been other similar cases. It’s not difficult to connect the dots when dots are so plentiful.
Store Clerk Helps Feds Bust 6 in Alleged ‘Jihad’ Plot to Kill U.S. Soldiers at Fort Dix A group of men had brought him a video showing them firing assault weapons and chanting, “God is Great!” in Arabic. They wanted him to transfer the footage onto a DVD. So he said something, calling the Mount Laurel Police Department, who in turn contacted the FBI. And thus began the downfall of one of the most thoroughly infiltrated and documented group of terrorism suspects in recent history — six men from Yugoslavia and the Middle East who were charged Tuesday with plotting to slaughter scores of American soldiers at Fort Dix and perhaps other military installations in the Northeast. Click here to read the complaint (FindLaw pdf)
Ronald Reagan on Guantanamo Buy the 5 CD collection on Amazon US Man Arrested for Plotting ‘Violent Jihad’ Federal agents in the Midwestern state of Illinois have arrested a 22-year-old man for plotting what they describe as “violent jihad.” Authorities say the alleged plot involved the use of hand grenades at a local shopping mall. VOA’s Greg Flakus has more from our Houston bureau. Saudi pleads guilty to killing Jewish friend After apparently undergoing a religious awakening, a Saudi Arabian student in Houston killed his Jewish friend by slashing his throat. Mohammed Ali Alayed, 23, pleaded guilty to the Aug. 6 attack on Ariel Sellouk, also 23, who almost was decapitated with a knife, the Houston Chronicle reported. WAR ISN’T THIS CENTURY’S BIGGEST KILLER Our century is noted for its absolute and bloody wars. World War I saw nine-million people killed in battle, an incredible record that was far surpassed within a few decades by the 15 million battle deaths of World War II. Even the number killed in twentieth century revolutions and civil wars have set historical records. In total, this century’s battle killed in all its international and domestic wars, revolutions, and violent conflicts is so far about 35,654,000. Yet, even more unbelievable than these vast numbers killed in war during the lifetime of some still living, and largely unknown, is this shocking fact. This century’s total killed by absolutist governments already far exceeds that for all wars, domestic and international. Indeed, this number already approximates the number that might be killed in a nuclear war.
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Another attack by Muslim, another ‘non-terrorist’ event Indeed, one would have to look long and hard even to discover the shooter was a Muslim. Those few newspapers who dared to mention that Sulejman Talovic was a Bosnian Muslim were careful to follow up by saying there was no reason to believe there was any connection to Islamic terror. The local television stations in Salt Lake City were downright sympathetic, saying that the gunman (whom they identified as a “teenager”) was a “Srebrenica survivor” as if that were sufficient justification for gunning down ordinary Americans as they went about the daily business. (While any connection with Islam was wholly unjustified.) US and Egypt split on fatal plane crash According to the New York Times, experts at the National Transportation Safety Board are more convinced than ever that a suicidal pilot caused the crash of EgyptAir 990 after it left New York last October. But the Egyptian government is pressing the theory that the plane, a Boeing 767, developed a mechanical fault in its tail. Jihad in Rockford, IL: What the MSM Won’t Tell You The arraignment Friday December 8 of a Muslim convert on charges of planning an act of “violent jihad” at the largest mall in Rockford, Illinois, has left many people asking how such a thing could happen in this “middle-sized town in the middle of the Middle West.” They shouldn’t be so surprised. For almost five years now, I’ve been writing about the presence of Islam here in the Heartland, most recently in the December issue of Chronicles. Yet even today, people want to believe that the Islamic threat is entirely external. After all, President Bush and supporters of the war in Iraq have told us that “We’re fighting them over there so that we don’t have to fight them over here.” Apparently, someone forgot to explain that to Derrick Shareef. This 22-year-old black man converted seven years ago to the Nation of Islam. Over 24 hours after the first news reports, his race and the black Muslim connection are still missing from national news reports, though I had reported them on Chronicles’ website by 3 P.M. Friday. According to the Chicago Daily Herald (which picked up this angle several hours later), Shareef’s father and several of his father’s relatives are also members of the Nation of Islam. Underreporting Muslim violence Like many news junkies, I’ve noticed that stories putting Muslims in a bad light tend to be sketchy and underreported. A minor example is the comment - “the greatest terrorists in the world occupy the White House”–by the head Muslim chaplain of New York City’s prisons. In Manhattan, remarks like that are nearly as conventional as talk about the weather, so the controversy was fairly small. It might have been larger if the media had shown any interest in other points the imam made. For instance that Muslim prisoners are being tortured in Manhattan, and that Muslims must be “hard against the kaffir” (i.e., nasty to infidels), which presumably city employees are not paid to recommend. (By the way, why are clergymen city employees at all?)
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Republicans for Black Empowerment For over 40 years black voters have staunchly aligned themselves with the Democratic Party on Election Day. However an increasing number have begun questioning the wisdom of supporting social policies rooted in low expectations and government dependency, economic policies that stifle job creation, personal savings and investments, and education policies that prevent parental choice in school placement. Republicans for Black Empowerment has the mission to raise awareness of the benefits offered by conservative solutions to the black community’s concerns. iPod gulags Do you know where your iPod was made? Do you know by whom? The London Sunday Mail wanted to find out. It sent reporters to “iPod City,” where most of the Apple music players are made. “iPod City” is not in the Silicon Valley, by the way. It’s not in the USA. It’s not in the United Kingdom. It’s in Longhua, China. That’s where some 200,000 Chinese laborers work to make those iPods. That’s more people than live in the city of Little Rock, Ark., for example. What are the conditions like? How about the pay? You might think a high-tech company like Apple might care about such matters. You might think the politically correct geeks who founded the company and run it would want to ensure foreign workers were not being exploited. Here’s what the Sunday Mail found:
What The Media Isn’t Telling You About The French Muslim Riots (Part 2) In fact, the Muslims in France and the rest of Europe, like the blacks in America and the Arabs in Israel, have never had it so good. France’s Muslims have been made citizens by left-wing French governments eager for their votes, so eager that France discriminates not against its Muslims but against its Christians, just as whites are discriminated against in favor of blacks in the United States, and just as Jews are discriminated against in favor of Arabs in Israel. America’s Bitter End in Vietnam Interestingly enough, CIA station chief Polgar did not agree. As he said in his August 1989 interview with Vietnam Magazine, he “considered the Paris Peace Treaty a reasonable and honorable compromise as written and signed….The problem was that as the North Vietnamese sensed and observed a weakening of American will and commitment to continue the support of South Vietnam, the Communists became increasingly contemptuous of the letter and spirit of the Paris Treaty. Had the provisions of the Paris Treaty been enforced as, for example, the provisions of the 1953 Korean Armistice Agreement were enforced, the continuity of an independent, if feeble, South Vietnam could have been assured over a period of many years.” Muslim Who Used SUV in Jihad Attack Just ‘Mentally Unstable’ When Omeed Aziz Popal used his SUV as a weapon of mass destruction against 18 innocent Bay Area victims on Tuesday, the liberal media immediately went into cover-up mode. In the San Francisco Examiner piece linked, the fact that Popal is Muslim is not even mentioned. Instead, Popal is described as a “pleasant” man who was recently married in Afghanistan, but who has had mental problems over the past six months. Cabbie Runs Down Students A local cab driver allegedly tried to run over two customers after a fight over religion became heated.The incident happened early Sunday morning on the Vanderbilt campus and left one man hospitalized and a cab driver arrested, said policeTwo students visiting from Ohio were coming from a bar downtown when they got into an argument with their driver over religion, said police. After they paid the driver he allegedly ran them down in a parking lot. “We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much” “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction” “Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.” “To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last — but eat you he will.” “Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.” - Ronald Reagan
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“MUST HAVE” PDFS Sociology and Classical Liberalism Still Losing the Race? Statistics about the Vietnam War Myth: Most American soldiers were addicted to drugs, guilt-ridden about their role in the war, and deliberately used cruel and inhumane tactics. The facts are: 91% of Vietnam Veterans say they are glad they served [Westmoreland] 74% said they would serve again even knowing the outcome [Westmoreland] There is no difference in drug usage between Vietnam Veterans and non veterans of the same age group (from a Veterans Administration study) [Westmoreland] Isolated atrocities committed by American soldiers produced torrents of outrage from antiwar critics and the news media while Communist atrocities were so common that they received hardly any attention at all. The United States sought to minimize and prevent attacks on civilians while North Vietnam made attacks on civilians a centerpiece of its strategy. Americans who deliberately killed civilians received prison sentences while Communists who did so received commendations. From 1957 to 1973, the National Liberation Front assassinated 36,725 South Vietnamese and abducted another 58,499. The death squads focused on leaders at the village level and on anyone who improved the lives of the peasants such as medical personnel, social workers, and schoolteachers. [Nixon] Atrocities - every war has atrocities. War is brutal and not fair. Innocent people get killed. Vietnam Veterans are less likely to be in prison - only 1/2 of one percent of Vietnam Veterans have been jailed for crimes. [Westmoreland] 97% were discharged under honorable conditions; the same percentage of honorable discharges as ten years prior to Vietnam [Westmoreland] 85% of Vietnam Veterans made a successful transition to civilian life. [McCaffrey] Vietnam veterans’ personal income exceeds that of our non-veteran age group by more than 18 percent. [McCaffrey] Vietnam veterans have a lower unemployment rate than our non-vet age group. [McCaffrey] 87% of the American people hold Vietnam Vets in high esteem. [McCaffrey] Myth: Most Vietnam veterans were drafted. 2/3 of the men who served in Vietnam were volunteers. 2/3 of the men who served in World War II were drafted. [Westmoreland] Approximately 70% of those killed were volunteers. [McCaffrey] Los Angeles airport shooting kills 3 Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn added: “It appears this was an isolated incident.” A Bush administration source concurred with that statement, adding that nothing suggested it was anything other than a criminal act. Israeli officials view the incident differently. “Though there is no clear-cut evidence that this gunman is related to a terror organization, it’s the most logical assumption that when someone opens fire on an El Al counter in an international airport, most likely this is a terror attack,” said Ephraim Sneh, Israeli transportation minister. Utah gunman, 18, was Muslim from Bosnia The 18-year-old gunman who killed five people in a crowded Utah shopping mall was a Bosnian Muslim refugee who was prepared to kill many more, say investigators. An off-duty police officer having an early Valentine’s Day dinner with his wife was credited today with cornering Sulejmen Talovic, exchanging fire with him until other officers arrived to shoot and kill the gunman. The trench-coated teenager wanted to “to kill a large number of people” and probably would have killed many more if not for the off-duty officer, Police Chief Chris Burbank said. “The man is on the Court. You know, I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. Well, that’s how I feel. He is an absolutely reprehensible person.” Ronald Reagan on Environmentalism Buy the 5 CD collection on Amazon Canada’s poster boy of Islamic Jihad (Vomit of Victimization) The children of Ahmad and Zaynab KHADR are perfect examples of why some species of animals eat their young. Zaynab KHADR, meanwhile, serves as an impeccable illustration of the current Islamic fundamentalist mindset in action in the West by demanding cheese with her ample supply of whine. And Canadian Playright Sharon Pollock, the syrup of ipecac behind the vomitus that some call a play known as Man Out of Joint, illustrates her total lack of comprehension of the objectives of our enemies. With regard to the latter, I don’t review movies or plays (I’ll leave that to the frustrated female counterpart of Roger Ebert, Debbie Schlussel), but I know garbage when I see it, and I don’t have to hit my hand with a hammer to know it will hurt. But let’s get back to the subject at hand. Ronald Reagan on Cuba Buy the 5 CD collection on Amazon Vietnam War The setback suffered by the United States in the Vietnam War was rooted in a failure of strategy. Indeed, perhaps no war in American history shows more clearly both the difficulties of making sound strategic judgments and the dire consequences of a lack of clear strategic vision. The Vietnam War thus provides a cautionary tale for American political and military decision-makers about the crucial importance of thinking clearly about strategy. By incorrectly relating military strategy to national policy and by improperly understanding the nature of the conflict, the United States exhausted itself against a secondary enemy in South Vietnam. The American failure in Vietnam also stemmed from trying to fight a traditional conventional war when the conflict’s nature demanded a counterinsurgency effort. Top military commanders, unable to fathom the problem, refused to implement such a strategy despite evidence of its effectiveness. In Praise of Routine Traffic Stops Today’s news includes this item:
Abdel Hadi is hardly the first actual or potential terrorist stopped due to a routine traffic infringement.
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