Are You a Target of the Susnuts?

Or are you one of their mindless bots who believes you are somehow special?

At Liberty's Torch, Weetabix asked me a question whose answer is too long to put into a small comment.

Pascal - I must admit up front that a surfeit of current projects has undermined my normal willingness to research - have you any links to further explain the "Malthusian Sustainability nuts?" 

The answer is even too long for a single post, but I need try at least this once.

For my recent thoughts, the Sustainability label at my blog will provide you many examples of news that spurred me to note the connection.

Our host, Fran, beginning in 2004, ran an exhaustive series called "The Death Cults."  The participation of mainstream elected leaders were much less brazen then. But they did permit non-profit status to be bestowed upon a load of Malthusian extremists. The same IRS that blocked TEA Party groups from (c4) status lets those guys thrive under (c3).

I've a not too complex theory that has withstood my tests over time. It is time to let others take some shots at it. If it only needs some adaptations and it can be refined, maybe there is hope that can be snatched from the knowledge. Know thy enemy and know thyself, and you will win every war said Sun Tsu.

Thomas Malthus' theories arose about 50 years after Pascal's death. The Age of Reason was beginning to undermine the Ancien Régimes. Many rulers saw and welcomed the benefits of liberty. But two kinds, both powerful, hated it. Those who hate the common man, and those who love concentrated power. Sometimes they're the same, and sometimes not. Malthus provided a "moral" cloak to hide both the explicit and implicit hatred of humanity -- even from themselves. By being able to convince even themselves that their vision is righteous, they can remain calm and seemingly benign as they convince large numbers

"Leave it to us boys. We know what needs be done. Really."

(The ancient Sophists understood power and how to get and keep it. One of their chief ways of keeping it was through fostering ideas that attract casuists -- men who sought the moral path based on studying cases of conduct -- and let them do the heavy lifting, often with little expense or risk to the Sophists' masters, spurred by a few demagogues, and fueled considerably by the zeal of the useful idiots. Eric Hoffer, by popularizing the more easily understood term of "true believer,"  did us a disservice by disconnecting the Greek designation for them, and thus their historically implied connection to the power seeking schemers. The humanity haters may believe they now have sufficient armies of those who are enthralled by the indirect means  to achieving a new (old) religion (see below). It is one that will provide them moral authority to achieve their goals. The real powers only have to support the activists when things get tough. Mostly they have historically chosen to be silent partners. Today -- not so silent.) 

A tactical note. What I'd like to make popular is the term Susnuts (or something like it), for the worshipers of Sustainability. (It really does fit the open ones. What I'd like is for the term to affect those who remain hidden. Some, who retain some of their humanity, will feel tainted by it). They believe their goal is righteous: to save us all from the one thing (they believe) that the planet has too much of -- human beings. They know that targets will not appreciate it, so they can't easily announce it. But they could not help leaving mountains of evidence as they progress.

It has all the earmarks of a religion. Ancient pagan ones. The ones that flung live babies into holocausts and virgins to the wolves. Its "priests" are instigating wars with the competition; that is, with  all people who still adhere to the Judeo-Christian ethos whether or not they are religious.

For instance, you are seeing today with the witch hunts to rid the military of people who dare stand by their religion. Any religion that has in its books the promise "God will provide" -- the contrary idea to their conviction that we will run out of sustainable items -- is anathema to them. The phrase linked to Hitler "the Jewish disease" expresses the major cultural foundational obstacle to the earliest Susnuts (eugenics embracing Progressives such as H.G. Wells and Margaret Sanger) long before Hitler was born.

One more thing. The old labels do not apply here. Even those who call themselves religious or conservative will say "but there are too many people." They might be reachable. If even 50% reading this blog don't say that, then that would be wonderful news. But, if Armageddon really is imminent, forget about large numbers. Then, as Revelation predicts, the majority are already deluded. What can I say? The ones who seek to save their souls will be reached.

I say that as an agnostic. I literally do not know. But the evidence is hard to deny. Believing the world is overpopulated has to be deluded, because it leads inevitably to world-wide wipe-outs. This goes back to "Progressive" thought of the late 1800s. Those who most want children cannot be tolerated by the Progs lest they over-populate with all "the wrong" types. HG Wells' eugenic euphemism of "people of the abyss" is what they do not want as survivors.

If we are stoked into a civil war, it will be between peoples who have been set upon each other by these schemers seeking to obliterate the current population of the planet. I used the term 1/13 as a guess for their target number, because it fits their vision so well. A normal deck of 52 playing cards has only 4 aces; 4/52 = 1/13. Only Aces will be permitted to survive. Ace rocket scientists down to ace housekeepers and gardeners I guess.  Don't ask me how they plan on living well if they do manage somehow to survive their man-made cataclysm. They're the whiz-kids. Ask them.

I look at this pessimistic thought process of the Susnuts, their craven misanthropic backers and their foolish followers and I see a clear demarcation between them and people who I'd say are filled with common human decency. That is a charitable streak which shows itself most nobly in times of crisis often in stark contrast to the less than noble behaviors that occur then too. In short its captured by the phrase "we are all in the same boat; let's make the best of it."

The Susnut creed, with its religious like belief in the inevitability of Malthusian catastrophes, and which has created a moral imperative derived from the specious Precautionary Principle, has to hide its intentions from its victims.

• The boat we call Earth has limited resources, so we enlightened geniuses must decide who stays and what useless souls must be thrown overboard. 
• We love humanity so much we must cull it properly in order to save it. 
• Our morality (live and let die) trumps yours (live and let live) so much that we can't even speak of it openly because the majority are benighted souls who simply do not understand us.

Are you with them or are you against them?

And if you agree with them, then "are you useful?"
Enough?

For how long?

Well?  Are you a target of the Susnuts?

What Is the Best Answer?

During a brief verbal spat between myself and young woman, she proudly blurted out "I'm a socialist" as if that were proof of her moral superiority and greater intellect. Several retorts crossed my brain at once. I really did not take advantage of the moment to turn the incident more to the light side with a witticism.

So I've been playing with various quips that could be used for a whole slew of instances where some fool blurts "I'm a [blank]." Here are a few I like.

• What have your personal problems got to do with this?
•  I'm sorry. What's your Doctor's prognosis?
• Is that a play for sympathy?
• Oh, you're the one.

The one that crossed my mind, but I feared might be misconstrued given how ill-informed most young lefties are, was "Given that so many good socialists died in Stalin's Gulag, you should know that such an honest declaration won't save you from your own comrades."

Perhaps some of you can think of a few quips that are not too biting. Please add them to the comment stream.

Difficult Decisions

This photo accompanied the headline at The Guardian which reads "Decision to withdraw unflattering photo of François Hollande is criticised."

What I want to know is if this is considered bad, how do they ever run a picture of Nancy Pelosi?

It's Gonna Be Hard to Blame Bummer...

for the continuing crises in America, foreign and domestic, as his highness has now shown himself to be the wimp the grassroots conservative has known him to be.

What with Bummer now a laughing stock over his bungling his redline ultimatum to Assad, the real losers are those who have been cowering from the Bummer's media hyped invincibility -- John Boehner being the most craven of the Republicans. But what about the other members of the GOP who keep letting Boehner continuously cower to Bummer and his SSM?

The only ones fooled by the inactions to defund Obamacare, defang the IRS and EPA, and reign in all other departments caught in scandals, are those who prefer to appear foolish rather than complicit.

The revolt need not be bloody if enough people start taking advantage of the veil's having been penetrated. There are tactical openings here. I pray decent men rush in to fill the vacuum. I say pray, because all power seekers I've met or are familar with have hardly been trustworthy. The openings are there and getting wider. How much longer before the penny drops?

Help Instill Fresh Thinking at Breitbart.com

Once again I am disturbed by our side bashfully counter-attacking members of Establishment media.

This time it is this story: LA Times Claims 'Democrats Led Passage' of 1964 Civil Rights Act.

There is nothing wrong with this headline. It's the opening line that I find lame (emphasis added).

In a stunning historical error, Los Angeles Times reporters Kathleen Hennessey, Richard Simon, Alexei Koseff reported that "Democrats led the passage of civil rights legislation that marchers pushed for in 1963."

Here is the comment I left.

Never presume that such nonsense is an error. Declare it the brazen act of a media that models itself on the USSR's Pravda and Izvestia. It is a media that has used, and will increasingly use, the techniques of Joseph Goebbels.

You do not fight back by making excuses for your enemy. You demonstrate the pattern every chance they give you; build a mountain of evidence; and then convict them in the court of public opinion with the Preponderance of Evidence.

The LA Times is a major outlet of what people still call the mainstream media (MSM). It really is a major leader in getting us accustomed to a Soviet-Style Media (SSM). Our freedoms depend upon us calling them SSM each time they pass out mis- and dis-information.

Is Breitbart.com really the living testament to its founder? Then BE Breitbart. Be careful as you can, but DO NOT soften the charges.

As of this writing, it has garnered 2 votes. Please go there and add to it. Help me build some backbones there (if it is not already too late at that institution. So many of our institutions get co-opted quickly nowadays, it should not surprise anybody if it has gone over.)

Updated to note that a commenter there named Molly posted a similar idea 20 minutes after I did. I noticed because she was one of the thumbs up. She now has 6 thumbs up to my 3. I don't care really who gets the votes, just so long as more editors at Breitbart.com begin to approve more stories that sound like Andrew Breitbart and not Michael Medved.

The Soviet/Fascist Way Build-up

Setting up to apply Alinsky Rule Number 12 into a slick Orwellian Two Minute Hate during every hurricane, the Left-wing  "geniuses" at ClimateNameChange dot org are threatening all those who speak the truth: "fall in line with us fraudsters or suffer this."



Never forget that a favorite quote by more than one Prog organ is the infamous “Fascism will come to America in the name of anti-fascism” of the Depression Era demagogue, Huey Long.

I haven't tried to discover who is funding these apparatchiks, but I doubt I'll be surprised. I also bet they had no problem getting a 501 (c) 3 designation from the Obama IRS either.

Pass it on so that more people become familiar with the tactic. Hat tip to JWF.

STOP Funding the Enemy

I received yet another email request for funds from the Tea Party "Patriots" Citizens Fund.

Here is the maddening segment of Jenny Beth Martin's reasons for her request for funds.

2) We need to bombard targeted Senators with ads. The constituents of every single wishy-washy “Republican” need to understand what is at stake. We just don’t yet have the funding we need to buy these ads. 

Someone this stupid has no business being in the business of fighting the Establishment. As far as I am concerned, she is essentially an antidisestablishmentarian. 

Hey, maybe I'm overly sensitive, but am I wrong is this? Speaking as a reluctant blogger, one who would rather be gardening and visiting his children among other things, my primary reason for blogging has been to provide counter-arguments, meager as they are, to the relentless propaganda issuing from the Soviet-style media (SSM).

I cannot see any gain in providing funds to run ads that will only provide those same rotten institutions material to editorialize against. But worse, if it is true that their ad revenue IS falling, why oh why would we help sustain them in any way? It's one thing not to storm their offices on a daily basis in protest, but it is another diametrically opposite thing to give them money. Sheesh -- this is NOT rocket science.

Ok. Tell me how to get through to this person allegedly on our side. If she is permitted to go on without the millions she is emailing hearing this perspective, that is potentially tens of millions of dollars she personally will funnel to our enemy for an ad campaign we already know our politicians will ignore because they listen to the people who actually give the pols money, not the SSM.

Rewritten:

If she is permitted to go on -- and the millions she reaches do not hear of this perspective I am warning about -- and then succeeds, that is potentially tens of millions of dollars she personally will funnel to our enemy. All for an ad campaign that we already know from bitter experience that politicians will ignore because they listen to the people who fund them far more than we do. And that is even assuming that those same politicians are not adhering to an anti-conservative, anti-constitutional agenda already.
It is worse than pissing our money away down a hole. It is giving our money to arguably our worst enemy, the SSM.

Parent's Job Is Never Over

Number 1 offspring is an advancing professional, mid 30s, who also engages is some very exuberant sports and recreation. This is someone who has been quite brilliant from the start, and tends to take good fortune for granted.

That "for granted" part always sits uneasy with me. So being told of the latest rather extreme hobby, I offered the following observation.

Papa: What with you having survived a near miss only last month, and now with you informing me of even riskier exploits, I guess you are still my acorn.

Eldest: ....

Papa: If you manage to survive your ever more elaborate challenges of death, I have no doubt you'll grow into a magnificent oak. But until then, you are just another nut.

McCain, Graham, et al: Radical Leftwing Republicans

No, don't rub your eyes.  This post's title exemplifies the kind of language you need to begin using in order to break the stranglehold the Left has on discussion -- and yes, even on your thoughts.

Be a good iconoclast and break that barrier that you did not construct but has been hamstringing you from really gaining the upper hand in the one political party that is allegedly pro-constitution.

I was spurred to action by an email I received this morning from the "Tea Party Patriots" (yes, those are scorn quotes until proven otherwise) as written by Sean Hannity.

It began (all emphasis in the original):

**A Special Message from Sean Hannity**

Dear Patriot,

Tea Party Patriots is going toe-to-toe with John McCain, Lindsey Graham and the rest of the moderate Republicans who don’t want to stop Obamacare.

These inside-the-beltway compromisers let Barack Obama exempt big business from Obamacare. Then, they exempted themselves. But they refuse to exempt you and me!

That’s why I’ve made it my personal mission to help Jenny Beth Martin and Tea Party Patriots raise the money they need to win this battle to Exempt America from Obamacare!

Sean Hannity, let me edit that for you:
Tea Party Patriots is going toe-to-toe with John McCain, Lindsey Graham and the rest of the moderate radical Progressive Republicans who don’t want to stop Obamacare.  To "not want to stop Obamacare" is not moderate sir, it is a radical position, just as were the congressional ploys used to pass it in the first place.

You can help forge a big change in the discussion and direction of the GOP.

Sean Hannity and all the rest of the "conservative" talkers need to be led, as usual, by their brighter listeners. I only wish I was bright enough earlier to have learned how to make the case clearer to more loyal Americans.

Well, it is not too late to do your part.

• Each time you call -- and refer to these GOP "Progressives" -- use terms that have no inkling of moderate in them. 
• If you know of others who call, convince them that this is true. 

These GOP pols have been and continue to be radicals in their aiding the Democrats' agenda and in slurring conservatives every chance they get.  They call you racist, xenophobic, homophobic, crazy every chance they get. That is moderate? Since when?

So label them appropriately. They have thoroughly earned the radical label and our enmity.

Back to Fundamentals

Protect hearth and kin.

Form your wider blocs of the trusted.

As KG put it, If not now, when?

There are quite a variety of good comments at that link. So good that it inspired me to comment as follows. 

“Where are the fucking defenders of freedom in the US today? ” — Redbaiter

“What will be the Lexington Moment when we finally open fire on the Redcoats of DHS and start the Second U.S. Civil War/Revolution?” — Ronbo

Why does it take so long? The Left is cunning and understands its enemy better: that the Right most of all wants to be left alone. This is what RB is pissed about, and I don’t blame him. But hear me out so you can learn to do what was not done earlier.

See, as usual the Left has twisted normality. This time wisdom. They took Clausewitz’ maxim and came up with “Politics is War by other means.” And it worked spectacularly because, like Sun Tsu advised, they knew their enemy and their enemy (us) didn’t even know itself.

And because conservatives first and foremost want to be left alone, they turned for their defenses to professional politicians. But being professional means “he who pays the piper [the most] calls the tune.” Another way of saying they are members of the oldest profession.

So we are left having to defend our liberties ourselves. But you will have the odds against you doing that yourself. You must dare to ally with others. You need blocs.

But forming blocs, as should be so obvious by now, is contrary to our nature.

I’d like to provide a lesson, by way of example, that pointed up the need for blocs 20 years ago. This comment is already too long, so I’m providing a link instead.

That link is an html anchor to an anecdote in the middle of a longer essay. It demonstrates how the Left succeeded where they should not have. Our side would have prevailed had logic, backed by numbers, been in attendance.

Only logic was attendant, and it got bullied into silence because it did not anticipate the planning of community organizers, their agitprop, and their time-tested ways of getting masses to go along with them.

Follow the lead of KG, Redbaiter, and Ronbo, and work at convincing your trusted friends that war has indeed been declared. Convince them of the real maxim “War is the continuation of Politik by other means.” And that that war was declared by the Left. They have shed their anti-fascist cloak and revealed their own love of fascism. Their war is being waged against us now in the form of noose tightening.

Pray to God that it is not too late to form blocs of the righteous, because you all know the history of attempting to use logic on fascists.

Godspeed.

Scratch Overt; BRAZEN Fascism

Well past covert fascism; hasn't been overt fascism for long; now it's openly brazen.

Obama: I Didn't Just Suspend the Law of the United States on My Own Authority; I Suspended the Law in Consultation With "Businesses" (aka "My Donors")

Thanks to Ace, who adds:

There was one question on this, from Ed Henry, and no follow-ups from anyone else. 

The media, the alleged "Watchdogs of Democracy," apparently believes it is a fairly unobjectionable statement that the president may suspend the law on his own authority as he may see politically fit, so long as he has the blessing of what I'm going to call The Corporate Congress.

 
Do any of my readers recall my image of how the Progressives Incrementalists have advanced their agenda over more than a century? This is from November of 2009:

Altruistic ==►

Casuistic ==►

Craven ==►

Shameless ==►

Brazen ==► [TBD]

The Left's Successful Disguises

Aside from the often ignored coincidence that left and sinister share a common meaning, the very fact that the Left, particularly the moderate sounding Leftists, has long disguised its intentions with pleasant sounding labels... well that should automatically send our inborn instincts on edge that there has been something sinister going on over there.

So let us always be ready to review their history. The Left has a pattern that it consistently follows.

• They call themselves progressive; but their lust for power makes them regressive. Concentrated power comes at the expense of individual rights. There is no exception.
• They call themselves liberal; but more intolerance of others' opinion you will not find in any other group.
• They call themselves anti-fascists; but they really seek fascism with "the right people" in charge. Them.

Due to the lack of a unified opposition party and consequent unguarded deterioration of America's foundational "checks and balances" institutions, the Progs have nearly completely succeeded in seating America's first open dictator.

So my point is we all should remember those words of Huey Long -- "Fascism will come to America in the name of anti-fascism." -- because we now know them to have been providing the Progs their vision in their long march through our institutions. Arguably, their antifascist cloak has been their most successful disguise of all.

***** UPDATE*****

Welcome Free Republic lurkers!

Two comments posted there so far merit duplication here.
posted by SMARTY

“Liberalism is nothing more than the ideological disguise of the will-to-power of SOME people, who could NOT themselves be less Liberal” -- Albert Camus

Posted by GBA

Marxism-Leninism is particularly effective on the semantic level where it exhibits a devastating duality. It lulls its adversaries to sleep, while at the same time it mobilizes its followers to revolutionary action. The Communist International's Seventh Congress concluded that open use of revolutionary terminology does not promote the Marxist-Leninist drive for world domination.
Therefore, "revolution" has been changed into "liberation," "world conquest by the proletariat" has been changed into "peace and socialism," "armed seizure of power and liquidation of the bourgeoisie" has been rephrased to read "peaceful and gradual transition to socialism.'' 

Even the word "Communism," which every revolutionary is so proud of, has been changed into "progressive, "anti-Fascist" or "liberal." Further, to confuse their adversaries, the Marxist-Leninists have devised a new language which uses old words in the basic vocabulary. When they say "imperialism arouses the wrath of the people and digs its own grave," they mean "through our manipulation of the local Communist parties, and with a vast auxiliary corps of dupes ; and sympathizers, we so arrange matters that the free enterprise system and democracy are destroyed from within. -- From "Where is your America?" by Libor Brom, IMPRIMIS; Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan, 49242 Vol 11, No. 8., August 1982

Overt Fascism, Explicit Projection

I purposely left out commentary about the last line of the link that prompted yesterday's post, Overt Fascism, the Projection.

I figured the agitproping bastard, should he follow the link back, didn't need to know easily that I understood why he ended his braggadocio with the following:

Louisiana Senator Huey Long, a mesmerizing agitator, once said, "Fascism will come to America in the name of anti-fascism."  

This quote is what prompted the "explicit projection" of today's title. Let me explain.

Every Progressive, Left or Right, always accuses conservatives of fascism. The implication is that they are anti-fascist.  -- "Fascism will come to America in the name of anti-fascism."

Their claim is that they form the vanguard that protects America from all those people they call fascist. This is their propaganda. Fascist. The media has long been in cahoots with that line of thinking. Fascist. The Progressive Republicans have always been the ones saving the party from being overrun by the far right wing. Fascist Big Lie.

Who is not aware that Bummer is in bed with many large companies and their CEOs? Jeffrey Immelt of General Electric was the most noted and involved of them, but need I list them all? Fascist.

The campaigns of attempting to make TEA Party look dangerous and all white? Do you recall that Arizona TEA party with the photo of the attendee with the scary looking assault rifle? But the photo had been trimmed to hide the fact that a black man was attending the gathering with a rifle and nobody there bitched. That instance was altered to fit the "anti-fascist" narrative. It just so happens to  match the very same formula Mr. Schechter used in his screed:  "The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial ethnic or religious minorities."

It just so happens, that in the real world, our Soviet-Style Media is doing exactly that, but the hatred and fear is directed at the white, European, Judeo-Christian minority. I say minority, because they really are excluded more and more from government (see Gresham's Law.) The model the Statists (masquerading as antifascists) are using is Lenin's where the minority Bolsheviks outmaneuvered the larger population Mensheviks.

And another thing here. I've many times in these pages pointed out the primary difference behind what drove the collectivist mentalities of the 20th Century, all of which had "Progressive" roots with its Malthusian and Eugenic ideas.

The Primary difference between the "socialist" ideology of Soviet Union and the Axis powers was this. That the former sought to enslave all the globes people and then pick and choose who should survive. The Axis powers were called national socialist, and they wanted to have their master races rule and survive.

You all know the bloody history of both. You should be shuddering to think of what Mr. Schechtor was bragging about. His International Social Progressives have accomplished what Huey Long said they would do if they pretended to be anti-fascists. They would achieve the power of fascists but still have the same megalomaniacal goals of the world government that the Soviet Union sought.

Will Khruschev's words come true "we will bury you?"  Mr. Schechtor was bragging like it had been accomplished in 2011 even before Bummer was reelected.

By the way, Mr. S is not the only Lefty telling his readers that "Fascism will come to America in the name of anti-fascism." That is, with "the right people" in control this time.  Do a web search and see for yourself.

One more thing for Mr. S and his comrades. It is long past time for you to read the consequences for yourself in this world for putting your faith in "the right people" instead of your Maker. Go read Gulag Archipelago while you still have some options.

Anyway, for the normal reader, the bottom line is this. By claiming the label "anti-fascist," the Progs have maneuvered themselves into nearly achieving the fascist control of America, with Bummer as their first dictator. With the official opposition to their dictator represented by two weak images -- the crying Speaker John Boehner and the compromised Chief Justice John Roberts -- you can see the need for a really cohesive TEA party movement. The next order of business it for you to seek out locally fresh and honest leaders.

Overt Fascism, the Projection

Recent events got me to thinking has anyone used the phrase "overt fascism" to describe the nature of the crony-capitalism which Bummer has exploited to further his Marxist take-down of America on behalf of his clients?

Well, I did a web search for the phrase. I find it mind boggling that there is a dearth of Right writers recognizing the fascism in Bummer's alliance with major business players and not calling him and them out for it. The foremost I found was this feverish projection by a Leftist rag's wag, published in 2011:  Is Fascism Lurking? by Danny Schechter of the Prog site Commondreams.org.  I recommend reading it. I think it fisks itself.

Here are some excerpts with my short fisks thoughts enclosed in brackets.

The Tea Party is not just after Democrats; it has started a campaign against the liberal Methodist Church. [Holy cow: the TEA Party has taken aim at the Progs of the GOP. But it's the Methodists he singles out.]

Already militias are forming because of fears of immigration [invasion is not immigration]... Gun sales went up after the recent violent incidents in Arizona.[What fascist regime permits private gun ownership? Oh, that's right. YOUR side is active in the gun confiscation efforts. See what I mean Schechter?]

The erosion of economic stability with the rise of foreclosures and the shredding of social services is already turning a financial crisis into a social one. [Your Bum actively did nothing for economic well-being while he spent his first years hobbling jobs with regulation and the Obamacare buildup.]

We already have sharp partisan divide and inflation of hateful rhetoric with vicious putdowns of the President and condemnations by members of Congress calling him corrupt, even a traitor.
According to set of the characteristics of fascist nations, there is "a disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights - Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc. [Uh, huh. Declaring our veterans likely terrorists whilst denying al Qaeda is growing and infiltrating. And the surveillance increases plus Drone snooping and striking that your man is deep into. No fascism there buddy?]

"In place of human rights enemies are turned into scapegoats as a Unifying Cause - The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial [whites] ethnic [Euro] or religious [non-muslim] minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists [anti-]." This process is already far along in the USA. [Yep as I noted: Your projection is a long-standing Prog devise.]

Among the classical characteristics of fascism is a shutting down of debate and a focus on the state--which in our country is controlled by lobbyists and private interests. [Holy cow. The Educational system allows diverse opinions if they even suspect of being on the right? And what conservatives are allowed in ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, PBS? Fox is hardly even conservative judging by Rupert's known Left leanings on numbers of issues from CAGW to Open borders] Wall Street and the military-industrial complex have far more clout than elected officials.[As the military gets trimmed drastically, all haters of America would still say that -- no doubt.]

As the depressing news of last week continued into this week, I was hoping I'd find someone who'd try to awaken America to the real threats from the combined efforts of our two parties (no opposition in view). The best I could find was this mirror image of what is really going on. Sigh.

**Update**

1. Overt Fascism, the Projection became first in a series.
2. Overt Fascism, Explicit Projection
3. The Left's Successful Disguises
4. Scratch Overt; BRAZEN Fascism

M³ At the Core of It All

I must admit that saying M³ (Megalomaniacal Malthusian Misanthropes) is at the core of it all reads like one hell of an assertion. It is simpler to say that the hatred of all human life is at the core of it all, but that would not be sufficient to expose the alliance of the monster types involved as is done in the above link.

Well, the assertion is actually my soft-science theory. Its hypothesis was far less difficult to engender than was Einstein's Universal Field Theory which eluded him. Furthermore, as an explanation for the politics of the post-modern world, it still has not been proven wrong. Sad to say, it is a fact that too much of all three qualities can be found in the wannabe rulers of today.

Plus, the evidence in favor of the theory -- Let's call it Anti-humanism -- continues to mount.


Whenever anyone reads stories like the one Redbaiter posted at TrueblueNZ like Singapore- trend to gender equality drives need for immigrants, that contains evidence like this:

“The choice to take a hostile stance to immigrants is something that Singapore cannot afford to make. Like it or not, unless we have more babies, we need to accept immigrants,” concluded former Singapore PM Lee Kuan Yew.

What Lee is really saying is that the progressive social trend towards “gender equality” has stuffed Singapore’s traditional culture and its economy. Bet you can’t guess where else the same trend is having the same outcomes.

the thought ought to cross any sane man’s mind “Where did the idiotic notions come from that brought us to this crisis?”

And for those who really don’t know, I would point them to TrueblueNZ's sidebar where they will find this:

Critical Theory

The stuff we’ve been hearing about, – the radical feminism, the women’s studies departments, the gay studies departments, the black studies departments – all these things are branches of Critical Theory.

What the Frankfurt School essentially does is draw on both Marx and Freud in the 1930s to create this theory called Critical Theory. The term is ingenious because you’re tempted to ask, “What is the theory?” The theory is to criticize.

What Critical Theory is about is simply criticizing. It calls for the most destructive criticism possible, in every possible way, designed to bring the current order down.

And, of course, when we hear from the feminists that the whole of society is just out to get women and so on, that kind of criticism is a derivative of Critical Theory. It is all coming from the 1930s, not the 1960s.

Bill Lind

And what was criticized in this case? The role of Mother and the notion that it had any real value to society.

And the reduction of Motherhood to less than subhuman stature is in concert with the (Leftist) homosexual chide of heterosexuals as “breeders.”

Redbaiter, in response to my comment, added:

"Notice how no one talks about or acknowledges 'Critical Theory' Pascal?

That is the first pointer to what is behind the whole Prog movement."

Which brings us to the ultimate source of why these programs are driven by Progs. It’s all about Sustainability and its pagan moral code. The hatred of all human life is at the core of it all.

"Death Panels" Now Bipartisan Words

Some news today helps sustain my comments of yesterday. I wrote about why I shifted from being a Sarah Palin supporter to being skeptical.

I loved her looks; her dynamic personality; her origins; and the things she said. And if you hit my Palin label, you will see I may have been the first to understand PDS and to rail against it.

However, after learning of some of the things she had done while she was governor of Alaska (naming only two awful things: AGW policies and endorsing the UN Law of the Sea Treaty) I became disillusioned in her. 

And when she campaigned, in the CA GOP primaries, for two female SKUNCs (Carly Fiorina to oppose Boxer and Meg Whitman to oppose Brown) against real conservatives in the primaries, plus helping the despicable McCain retain his senate seat, I can only say that I hope the type of character that Palin represents is NOT disqualified as you [commenter Paul] suggest with "I doubt we see her equal again." Because I yearn to live to see the real thing.

Our enemies know what we like, and are clever enough to provide us facsimiles of the real thing. You will notice that Palin and family are today richer than they ever could have legitimately become serving in public office. A large part of her money came from people like me who wanted to help her fight the two-minute hate machine, which in the least would be the chivalrous thing for us to do. 

Never forget that Orwell made it clear in 1984 that the opposition to Big Brother was an institution taken over and run by the inner party.

So when Palin became the first to call out Obamacare's Independent Payment Advisory Board as death panels, I was perplexed. My readers know I was aware of these things long before she called them out. And I would have been delighted if any other national personality had called attention to them.  But Sarah Palin, having long been serving as our Soviet-Style Media's two minute hate object, pretty much made her the worst, counter-productive choice for sounding such an alarm.

So when the news comes out that Howard Dean, of all people, acknowledges that Palin was correct, Howard Dean admits Sarah Palin was right on ‘death panels,’ I hope you understand what I meant by "Our enemies know what we like, and are clever enough to provide us facsimiles of the real thing." 

It's been a liberal trick that was noticeable since Archy Bunker was created by the radical Leftist Norman Lear.  Bunker was given lines that spoke little truths now and then, but always in all the wrong ways. The character was created specifically to discredit anything he said because he said it. Thus Bunker provided liberal wags ways to avoid answering all conservative arguments by turning them into personal attacks "why, you sound like Archy Bunker."

Same thing here. "Death Panels? You sound like Sarah Palin, Haw haw." And no further discussion ensued. Until today.

And so what? Obamacare has been passed in part because the most antihuman part of it was laughed out of the discussion. It was there, but dismissed. The means of dismissing it was diabolical. And it worked.

So now you know how this was done disreputably, do we still have a chance to stop it? Yes, but it is a long shot.

The House of Representatives can, on its own, derail the ACA implementation by refusing to fund it. But whether House Speaker John Boehner is just another SKUNC or merely a weakling, it matters little. It will take some very loud voices to force him to comply with your wishes. If there were many more like my readers, the derailment might actually happen. But I just don't see it right now short of Divine intervention.

Still, do whatever you can. So many people you know who are still unaware are facing a very grim and unnecessary death.

Ace Is Almost There

The primary problem with the so-called elites is that they are not elite, and they are neither wise, nor intelligent, nor educated, nor enlightened, nor superior in any fashion save two, accident of circumstance and elevated self-regard.

They do not have any conception of what they're doing, of the history of this country, or of the disasters their stupidity visits upon the ruled every day of the year.

And they will be the death of us all. -- Ace of Spades, Obama: I Didn't Bother Asking a Lawyer If I Could Unilaterally Suspend the Law; All I've Done Is Merely Seize Plenary Power on Behalf of the People

Ace is almost where I have been for over 2 decades. Yet Ace does not see the errant connection between his second paragraph and his third. "They do not have any conception ... that they will be the death of us all."

Au contraire mon ami. Many of the "elites" do have the conception of what they do. It's just that the progressive/sustainability vision is so God-awful that they dare not speak it except in obscure journals published by radical nut-job institutions for which they provide tax preferences and to which they funnel taxpayer money.

This is the problem I have with all the top Dextrosphere bloggers. Because the Left, the phony Right Statists, and the enemies of humanity (but I repeat myself) will not say they are its enemies, the top bloggers fear being laughed at. That fear is not new. It lies at the heart of Hans Christian Anderson's tale The Emperor's New Clothes. Only the fool, yours truly, will speak of it nearly every day. The others are quite apt to go to their deaths muttering something like "if Stalin only knew."

Across the board. We. Need. New. Leaders.

Find them amongst those who are unafraid to call out the enemies of all mankind: the Prog megalomaniacs.

Fundamentally Change ... the Land of Opportunity

The truth of Obama's promise -- to "fundamentally change America" -- may not have been what many believed it was, but who can deny it was the truth?

Irony or not, the opening phrase of JWF's sarcastic sounding headline,  Another Obama Victory! 4 in 5 in U.S. Near Poverty, Can’t Find Work gets it literally correct once you understand the horrific prog/sustainability agenda: "Ending once and for all this land of opportunity and its God-anchored moral guidance."

Now we know what party under which the Obomber ran. We also know that the opposition party sure did not do all it could to prevent his elevation to power (No! He's a nice man." -John McCain). Furthermore, we know it has done worse than nothing to derail his agenda (Crying leader Boehner "fearing" government shutdown, and Deer-in-the-Headlights leader McConnell "fearing" not appearing senatorial), and has been actively targeting the honestly anti-Statist TEA party movement that began because the GOP was not doing its job.

As the fears continue to pile up (extorted into admitting to phony fears in order to not have real sins exposed), is there any longer any doubt that Gresham's Law has taken hold in all important national institutions? Like a real opposition party. Like a real independent media. Like once God-fearing religious organizations that have morphed into ones that only fear losing income enhancing tax exemptions should they oppose (or even expose; or even not endorse) governmental evils.

How many of the people have also succumbed? Maybe not entirely on their own, but because they fail to recognize and follow honest leaders.

What about you? What do you suppose your Maker will tell you?

**Updated with related news: The Environmental Lobby's Great Forest Con

Rid Yourself of Bush Defensive Syndrome

This is a written as a public service for a nation of conservatives who've had enough of being led around by the nose by elitist members of the GOP. 

On one hand they play up to you when they need your votes. But then, when the rubber meets the road, they mercilessly spurn you (and worse) when you expect them to represent you and, even more importantly, expect them to defend the Constitution and this nation from all enemies, foreign and domestic.

JWF posted this heart-warming story tonight: Bush 41 shaves head in support of 2-year-old cancer patient.

Now, this is a warm gesture coming from any President. Especially now that such warmth is totally foreign to the creature some grudgingly refer to as the pResident. In a world like this, such a story comes as almost a relief; a reminder of gentler times.

There is little question the Bushes* know how to show a humane side in addition to their elitism ("if you are for border protection you must be a racist" being one of their major, blindly bigoted flaws.)

However, without casting any aspersions, let me remind you that Stalin famously observed

“a single death is a tragedy; a million merely a statistic.”

And let me also remind you of Slick Willie’s slogan of

“once you can fake sincerity, the rest is easy”

was not invented by Slick.

As for those who would dare charge me with Bush Derangement Syndrome — your Bush Defensive Syndrome is far more irrational and untrustworthy.

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*All of them, right Jeb? Isn't it nice that Daddy would do what ever it takes to make it up to you for 2016 that you were passed over in 2000? Why, he even shaved his head. Being willing to take one for the team like that runs in the genes, doesn't it son? 

The Whole > Sum of All Corruptions

 

Heaven: We have a problem. The corruption is feeding itself.

Let us look at three relatively small items making news today alone, providing us evidence of much much more going on than is good for a healthy republic.

Item 1:
At the Politico column with the name “Behind the Curtain” no less,we have The New Power Triangle from which we find the following money quote.

“We have been looking literally for years for someone we can cut deals with, and finally someone has stepped up,” a White House official said. West Wing aides say they now talk with McCain roughly every other day.

This is nearly admitting to the American equivalent of the 1st Triumvirate of ancient Rome. Well, at least Crassus, Pompey and Caesar appeared on the same stage as equals. Here is our version:

I know that after this photo, there can hardly be anything worse from McCain. However, I see worse yet in this item from the Politico.

It has the audacity to label it The "NEW" power triangle? New? How about McCraven and Bummer talking since the summer of 2008, where, in the alleged heat of the campaign for the most powerful position in the world, the former declared the latter "a nice man?"

Item 2:
Selwyn Duke in Total Recall: Why Recall Elections are a Must, sees the solution to the unresponsiveness of our pols as one where if only those serving us were subject to recall elections. He concludes his analysis with:

"If politicians knew that breaking an election promise or stabbing good Americans in the back would result in an immediate recall effort, they’d be more likely to mind their p’s and q’s. "

Among other things I left in my comment (including a sample proof of his wrong assessment of our current electoral process) -- to which he has not replied -- is that his solution might have worked in another day when the voting rolls had not been compromised and the numbers who get their funds for existence from gub handouts had not been super-expanded by the community organizer.

Item 3:
From Reason: Cop Fired for Speaking Out Against Ticket and Arrest Quotas.

After the arrival of a new police chief in 2010, the department entered an era of ticket quotas and worse.

“When I first heard about the quotas I was appalled,” says former Auburn police officer Justin Hanners, who claims he and other cops were given directives to hassle, ticket, or arrest specific numbers of residents per shift. “I got into law enforcement to serve and protect, not be a bully.”

Hanners blew the whistle on the department’s tactics and was eventually fired for refusing to comply and keep quiet.

Maybe you think we should wait for the locals to run the police chief out of town on a rail. However, we learn that he retired (claiming medical reasons). So who hired this man? And who looked the other way as the scheme -- undoubtedly seen as a "revenue enhancer" rather than as a public safety measure -- was rammed through? Indeed, in case you think I'm alone in my conclusions below, we have this quote.

“You have a policy that encourages police to create petty crimes and ignore serious crimes, and that’s clearly the opposite of what we want our police to be doing,” [emphasis added]

I added emphasis so as to pin-point the sovietization of small town America. It's the end result of the ends justifies the means mentality of cynical pols: "Everyone is guilty of something, so what's the diff?" That attitude is precisely on the road to what Solzhenitsyn told us of the operations of the Soviet system: They were not interested in the truth. They simply want to arrest us and then not let go.

Conclusion:
When you see little things like this come to the surface, you are pretty damn sure you are witnessing merely the tips of the iceberg. So you know the sum of what you do see is surely far less than the whole. Furthermore, Item 3 provides yet another example of why Gresham's Law Applies to American Institutions. The bad elements fired the good. And on it goes unless we speak up.

I urge you dear readers to discuss these developments locally. Take note on your own of the various tips of the icebergs that you see. Not just for your own sake, but for what this Nation was meant to represent and the opportunities it was meant to provide.

Help preserve what's left.

Help restore what's lost.

He will ask you what you did not try to do. I don't know about you, but I keep looking for whatever I may have overlooked.

Worthless Blog Fodder

I imagine many of my readers have had a similar reaction at some point in the last 4+ years to the following sort of headline posted today at JWF.

Scandal-Plagued Obama Plummets to 41% Approval in New Poll

Who here believes he gives a damn he's unloved? Let's see a show of hands.

I suspect that before I asked the question (the nature of which suppresses the total) that there were far too many hands. The proof is provided by how many times this sort of headline is published and talked about. Yet, it is worthless blog fodder.

Here is  Tocqueville on the subject:

a despot easily forgives his subjects for not loving him, provided they do not love each other.

And Bummer and his DOJ are doing their damnedest to provide those divisions.

I don't want to hear how low the bum's approval rating is, I want to know when the country is going to stop allowing itself to be divided. Our divisions provide opportunities for him to escalate his despotic behavior. Our loss is his gain. Grow up Americans.

If you like this sentiment, then consider blowing off some steam of your own at the link to JWF above. Maybe suggest that it's time we take heed of Tocqueville conclusion and think hard on countermeasures.

Revealed: Eric Holder's Playbook

The Obama White House forced the State of Florida to arrest and prosecute Zimmerman. But then Zimmerman was found not guilty in the most kangaroo of courts in living memory.

And now they are not finished with him despite constitutional protections forbidding double jeopardy.

But there is precedence for this you know.

"The MGB* wasn't interested in the truth and had no intention of letting anyone out of its grip once he was arrested." -- footnote 1, chapter 4, Gulag Archipelago [emphasis added]

*after 1954 known as KGB

Now we know whose playbook Eric Holder’s DOJ is using with George Zimmerman. Who will be next?

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This is a shorter, and hopefully more memorable version of yesterday's post. It presented an important comparison. Free peoples need to take heed of this warning from the past given the current political climate with its accelerated hits on their individual freedom.
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**Update**

If you approve of disseminating this sort of knowledge and insight to a wider audience, please consider giving a thumbs up (and encourage others too) to two very similar comments that I left at Breitbart. Here are the links.

1. ACLU Reverses Championing Pursuit of Zimmerman
2. Obama Delivers the Zimmerman Coda

Thank you.

Where the Gestapo Was Not As Bad As What's Coming

The irony here must not be missed. Solzhenitsyn compared the KGB to the Gestapo, and the Gestapo was preferable. Who in their right mind would accuse the great author of The Gulag Archipelago of violating Godwin's Law? Why, it is more than likely to come from a kneejerk "conservative" talk-show host like Hugh Hewitt. Of course, I'm sure he'd deny it. Does it matter not that I've heard him indiscriminately invoke Godwin more than once? Of course it matters. So I want my readers to remember this passage so that the next knee-jerk Godwin charger is met with this upside his head.

They understood that the cases were fabricated, yet they kept on working year after year. How could they? Either they forced themselves not to think (and this is in itself means the ruin of a human being), and simply accepted that this was the way it had to be and that the person who gave them their orders was always right . . .

But didn't the Nazis, too, it comes to mind, argue the same way?¹

1. There is no way of sidestepping this comparison: both the years and the methods coincide too closely. And the comparison occurred even more naturally to those who had passed through the hands of both the Gestapo and the MGB. One of these was Yevgeny Ivanovich Divnich, am emigre and preacher of Orthodox Christianity. The Gestapo accused him of Communist activities among Russian workers in Germany, and the MGB charged him with having ties to the international bourgeoisie. Divnich's verdict was unfavorable to the MGB. He was tortured by both, but the Gestapo was nonetheless trying to get at the truth, and when the accusation did not hold up, Divnich was released. The MGB wasn't interested in the truth and had no intention of letting anyone out of its grip once he was arrested.

Here in Chapter 4 of Gulag, Solzhenitsyn is telling us about the Soviet interrogation bureaucracy. And in his comparison, the Nazis were more humane than the Soviets. Yet, today, we have fellow Americans who still refuse to recognize imminent threat. The man in the White House has associated with Marxists and Islamists throughout his early, formative years, and they refuse to call him a Marxist even as he pushes policies that herald major damage to private (non-crony) enterprises everywhere in this nation.

Were Hewitt or Medved, or any of the rotters, to accuse Solzhenitsyn of violating Godwin's Law, I could hear the old man laughing at their buffoonery: "Yes, you morons. The Soviets were worse. And so would be the man whom you refuse to categorize properly as a fascist/communist/Statist puppet."

Let me make this crystal clear.

"The MGB wasn't interested in the truth and had no intention of letting anyone out of its grip once he was arrested."

Much like Eric Holder with George Zimmerman.  

At the risk of being too Jeremiad, maybe this post ought to be subtitled. "Or George Zimmerman, the first victim of the New Gulag Archipelago."  

Minor Leftists: Beware

George Orwell took great care to make it clear that apparatchiks (party members not part of the inner circle) are invariably tortured for sport by those for whom they helped obtain and keep power.

Help restore the United State of America and save yourselves whist there are still others with whom you may ally (if they'll have you). In light of all that transpired during the 20th Century under totalitarian regimes, do not take Martin Niemöller's warning lightly (short version).

First they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.

Is this worth posting?

About the hopelessness of my siblings.

It is possible my late Dad sent me a juxtaposition while I slept. "It is not liberal guilt; it is holier than thou attitudes you're seeing."

They are invested in the idea that a large number of Americans are racist, and they are therefor better. Trying to get them to see that it's their political heroes who are the racists requires them to look at it from a different perspective.

When we were kids, I could get their attention long enough for them to laugh at how a hand-drawn staircase demonstrates shifting perceptions.

One moment the drawing looks like it goes from upper left to lower right towards you as viewed from above. But after you look at it long enough you see it shift before your eyes. Then the stairs are seen descending upper left to lower right going away from you as if you were viewing it from below.

Today, however, there is no way I can get them to look or listen long enough to anything which would reveal that the racists are the race hustlers who go about disguised as liberals.

Sure there are run of the mill racists. But not to the percentage in the whites of the nation as are in those whites who hold office or appear on TV.

Know what I mean?

If you have had better success, please share in comments.

Appeasement Never Works -- WWEL?

Will we ever learn that appeasement never works?

Implicit in the title The Election of a Black President Has Meant Nothing is that America expected that racial tensions would be healed by the election and reelection Barrack Hussein Obama if only America gave a black man a chance to sit in the oval office.

Throughout the text of his elegy for hopes dashed, Dennis Prager demonstrates the fanciful notions long-peddled by the entrenched Republican hierarchy ("he's a nice man" said John McCain at the beginning of his campaign to defeat Obama)

The greatest hope most Americans -- including Republicans -- had when Barack Obama was elected president was that the election of a black person as the country's president would reduce, if not come close to eliminating, the racial tensions that have plagued America for generations. 

Not stated by Mr. Prager, but seeping from the words in his essay, is that those expectations arose from a sense of a need to appease the angry charges, and prove them wrong, that America is racist today because she was racist in the past.

We know from countless events in history, but most tragically by the rise of the German Third Reich before WW II, that appeasement does not work. Indeed, we know that appeasement contributed mightily to Hitler escalating his demands due to the timidity he saw in the then leaders of other nations. So bad were their early dalliances that they came very close to providing him the time and resources to defeat them all. (Oh, by the way, be prepared to snicker at those who want to charge me with violation of Godwin's Law for the buffoons they are. I'm of the generation that was schooled to notice how Hitler (and Lenin and Mao) rose to power. Those buffoons are either useful idiots or fellow travelers, and you should add their names to your list.)

What is more alarming to me is that we have had similar dalliances going on within our country. Those who love the notion of a large omnipotent government -- what I  mean when I repeatedly refer to Statism -- are now in the highest seats of power and influence now that many of the structural mechanisms, meant to check the centralization of unlimited power, have been defeated.

Throughout my life, and for decades before it, the Statist goals of the Progressives were incrementally advanced. Slowly. They mastered the art of the aggressive compromise so that their movement prevailed with "two steps forward, one step back" successes.

In my mind, their methodology of incrementally undermining all societal institutions that had been designed to keep governments small and in check has been about the only thing progressive about Progressives. Progressive rot.

I ask the questions:

How best for those in power and wishing for more to put a final nail in the Constitution that was intended by its ratifiers to be the obstacle to dictatorial rule?

Before I answer, let me point to a recent Daniel Greenfield essay, Looking for Racism in America.
The author repeatedly makes good use of the phrase "grievance theater," a term whose earliest use so far points to Debra Burlingame in 2006. The headliners in that theater engage in victimoguery, a term created to distinguish it from common demagoguery.

"Grievance theater" is the latest form of older Leftist tools. It combines what was known as street theater and agitprop. An example was staged in my Congressional district back in 1994. Were I as experienced then as now, I would have come prepared with allies for employing relatively easy countermeasures. As always, it is my hope that my mistakes might help prepare you or your kids and save you from repeating them.

As is the case with all demagoguery, the aim of victimoguery is personal gain at the expense of however many victims are necessary. It is happy to get volunteers to play the part of victims, it is thrilled when that generates in even more copycats, and it could care less (and possibly even delighted) that the groups it claims to be protecting become even greater victims as a consequence of their machinations. As Mr. Greenfield puts it:

Grievance Theater isn’t about race, it’s not about slavery, police brutality or separate lunch counters. It’s about power and money. 

When victimogues win, the world is worsened.

My answer to the question above is very unpleasant. The final nail would come from unrest provoked by the very people in power who have sworn to uphold the laws of the land and defend the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Although the declaration of marshal law and suspension of habeas corpus has happened here before, such a paradox where the very officials in charge of maintaining order overtly or covertly provoke unrest, that is where they've crossed the Rubicon. It signals their complete contempt for the constitution and the limits it imposes upon them.

Under cover of the victimogues demands for "social justice," (trumped up as white versus black, especially since George Zimmerman is himself part black in addition to being a member of another minority that the victimogues love to pretend they love) any mayhem, not even on a large scale (given the media's skill to make and influence in making every thing small big and everything big small) could provide DC with their Reichstag Fire.

Finally, given that the Senate GOP caved to the threats of Harry Reid abolishing the filibuster while I was composing this essay, it may appear that the title of this post would be particularly apt in its timing. However, given we know which members of the GOP senate (and their history) were most eager to accept Reid's aggressive compromise, an offer that bears all the earmarks of extortion ("Give us 5 of the 7 nominees or accept all 7"), then it would appear that they are merely spineless, or stupid or both. Enough of us thinking like that, it is no wonder they continue to betray our hopes. We are accepting excuses for weakness where something more sinister can easily be afoot. How many times can they be allowed such discretion?

I'm of the school that warns

"once is happenstance; twice is coincidence; thrice is incoming action." 

And these GOP members have done it so many times most of you call them RINOs. OMG already! For the sake of your nation and in honor of all the men who fought and died so that your life is so much better than your grandparents', come to agree that those senators live up to the label GuyS invented for them: SKUNCs. Statists Knowingly Undermining the Nation's Constitution.

In the case of the SKUNCs, they in complicity with Harry Reid, made it appear like appeasement since the SKUNCs are masters at what forms of extortion they can convince their base to swallow. And just like with appeasement, the next demands for more appeasement cannot be far away. At least the appearance of it.

Appeasement or stagecraft, it does not matter. Accepting either does not work. Is it not time we learn that is a fact of life and decide to deal with it?

Thus it behooves those who understand what I've laid out in this post to force the removal of all the SKUNCs one way or the other. Find and reveal their likely crookedness in other affairs and force their resignations. Demand that elections be held to recall them from their office perhaps. But they must be removed before Obama and/or Reid provide them another "aggressive compromise" for them to act like they simply cannot refuse the offer.

Politically Incorrecting Neighborhood Watch

A late post-Zimmerman verdict comment at Sultan Knish's was left by something like the 40th Anonymous troll. It bears all the earmarks of a Leftist racialist who has a problem even with neighborhood watches. That, like CCW, is apparently under attack by the Statist's avante-garde, shock troops, smarmy Leftist -- whatever label I give you is too polite in my opinion.

I responded to the troll on two things he touched on, mostly because they were so typical of all of the Left. I reproduce a post-worthy version of it below, edited of typos and expanded for clarity. However, I want to add one thing first.

One of the things I didn't remark upon was that Sultan Knish had been making the case in his starter thread that the elitists have a class hatred for all Zimmermans in this world. And this troll simply ignored all that and simply went back to the narrative. 

"Wow, many you guys a..." -- Anonymous (number 40 something).

You write like a Leftist white guy who is paid to troll lies so that soft-headed liberals are confused and conservatives waste their time with liars. Baiting for sure in both cases.

Two things:

Fact: While Zimmerman was looking for the address, Martin went home initially. (opinion: Nothing further would have happened. But consistent racialist goading from thugs from your side are responsible for Martin's thinking no "crazy-ass cracker" is gonna make me afraid. )

Fact: So Martin then left home, looked for Zimmerman, and confronted him.

Undisputed facts between the prosecution and the defense.

But racial mayhem instigating Left guys ignore it and then have the gall to project the consequences of your side's constantly keeping open old wounds, so that individuals who naturally react to unknown faces who are skulking are portrayed as doing it only for racial reasons. For God's sake, Zimmerman himself is part black (but your media friends refuse to mention it because they want racial war.) Zimmerman did call 911, nobody looking for trouble does that. The trouble makers in this story are your kind who poisoned Trayvon's mind into finding reason to escalate where there was no need.

Second thing: "black people family values." There you go again. Why are black people family values any different than any other family's you creep? The real liberals worked hard to integrate our society. But it didn't take the radicals long to go out of their way to make sure differences between white and black were made ever more segregated so that confrontations such as this one could easily be instigated by poisoning the minds of especially the young.

The Left hates all people, and are quite content on stirring up racial hatreds with bloody outcomes as their goal. Seeing the words "family value" used by the likes of you makes me sick.

**Update** Og has captured some of the Leftist ploys I'm talking about with Everyone out there knows.

This first excerpt is about the attack on the ability of the working class to defend itself by the elites. (as Sultan Knish made painfully clear.) The Statist elites ("Progressives" is their preferred label) rely on a coalition of like-minded radicals, involving tactical deployments of the media, the agit-propping Leftists, and the bilge rats who've gained control of the legal system after years of it being subject to Greshom's Law.

"The left in this country has been utterly unsuccessful in removing our guns, but it has used racism to make sure we’re all terrified to use them."

and

"if you single out this incident and ignore all the rest of the brown people being killed, you could not be any more racist than that"

Such as consistently ignoring that Zimmerman is in fact half Hispanic (not white) and part black (not white). This circus all began when media elements heard his name and thought him a white Jew. That was too juicy to pass up. By definition, the media, like the NY Times with its newly coined "white Hispanic" headline, is racist. Or, the word I prefer for trouble-makers, racialist.

and

"Trayvon died because he thought he was a big dog thug. Being black had nothing to do with it, unless you contend that blacks have the right to act that way. Which also makes you a racist." 

This is an example of what I meant when I said the Leftists have been poisoning the mind of especially the young.

God Bless the Six George Zimmerman Jurers

God knows they'll need it.

They didn't cow to the political pressure, and that is really something to be proud of and admire.

And they will be subjected to ostracism by a large number of their own community at best. Some because they don't like them, and others because they'll be afraid to be seen near them.

I hope that is there is a larger number who will speak up in their defense instead.

And I pray that nothing worse comes.

Gresham's Law Applied to American Institutions

Gresham's Law stated in its simplest form is: "Bad money drives out good".

Although this is a maxim from economics, there is overwhelming evidence that Gresham's Law has far wider application. It its simplest form "Bad actors drive out good."

Bad elements springing up in or inserted into anything – society, governments, neighborhoods, student bodies, families –  drive out the good. And that can only be attributable to the individuals who pursue deviations that lead to the decadence. For Gresham's Law applies also to the way attributes of the individual may change as he goes through life, affecting character, integrity, perseverance, courage – really an endless list where there can be chinks in his armor.

Wherever man forms groupings, even where strictures have been put in place to prevent decadence, it appears that debasement only can be forestalled.  Some groups will succumb sooner than later. And if any one of those earlier groups already has, or can garner just the right kind of power, they will – in keeping with Gresham's Law – accelerate the collapse of other groupings. It is done it by seeing to it that both criminal and civil law, and merely the threat of great expense, are used to compel the removal of restrictions that protected the longer-lasting institutions.

You name the once prestigious and honorable institution staffed by man, and you don't need to be a cynic to see how far it has wandered or been torn away from its stated goal.

And there, my friends, is how America got to where she is today.

Trial By Ordeal

Just when you thought the prosecution in the George Zimmerman case could not be any more anti-American, they decided to try and tack on an additional charge -- one for murder in the 3rd degree -- after the case arguments were rested by both Prosecution and Defense. Judge Nelson says she 'will rule on the proposal later.'** Hell, if there is any justice in her I'd think she'd come back with a contempt of court citation on the prosecutor.
I will let you read the analysis at Ace of Spades and at his link. My point is this.

YOU are being subjected to trial by ordeal. YOU are witnessing what is in store for you should you attempt to defend yourself and the President of the United States decides you'd make a good target to accomplish gun control by other means. The ordeal is to your mind and any considerations you have to your natural right to self defense. You do what is right in the eyes of our self-appointed god and you may be granted mercy, else suffer the consequences.

The idea behind trial by ordeal in medieval times was that God would protect the truly innocent. Good luck with god.

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** Update: Judge denied the motion to add a late extra charge; but did not charge prosecutor with contempt of court.

Medved: For the Record

Readers here know that I castigated Michael Savage and David Horowitz for their part in fueling the racial issue divide in the George Zimmerman trial. What you may not know is that in comments at Liberty's Torch I stated the following: "I expect that Michael Medved (and the rest of that Judas goat's suspect Salem Broadcasting stable) cannot be far behind."

Well, he didn't go that far, but can it still be said he is, indeed, not far behind.  I ask your honest opinion and why.

The first hour of the Michael Medved show today (July 10) was devoted to taking calls on the GZ trial. I want to state for the record that Medved did not go so far as the other two.

I wish I had a transcript to review what I heard him say on his own and in reaction to callers. But since I do not, and won't pay for a podcast to get one, I ask you to rely on my own memory (that comes and goes since I tend to become distracted with my own thoughts in reaction to what I hear.) Still, my memory is often pretty accurate even when not precise.

Yes, Medved 'deplored those who raise racial tensions as have been on display here.'

Furthermore, I would bet big money that his call screener did not permit callers on to add to the hour the important news released only a few hours ago by Judicial Watch that reveals that the Obama DOJ has been actively fomenting racial tensions since Zimmerman shot Martin.  It would undermine what I believe to be his real intentions but for which he would never admit (unless this was his turn to be the radical.)

So in typical "Progressive" fashion, he let the DOJ and other two talkers carry the heavy load while he made appeals for the rest of us to play it cool and not rise to the bait.

Another way to look at this is found in the typical Leftists tactic of the Moral Marshmallow. One or two make the crazy, then fade into the background so they can't be questioned. Those who remain out front argue that you didn't hear what you just heard, and besides, it would be wrong to react violently to violence. And like this news that the call screener never allowed on air, it's as if it never happened so he doesn't have to deal with it in a timely fashion.

In other words, this was not Medved's turn to be in your face to us commoners, it was his turn to downplay the danger us commoners feel because his compatriot "former" Leftists had said what he vehemently denies matched his intentions.

The betrayal by "conservative" talk radio continues. It is my most fervent wish that others start critically observing such inconsistencies and help me shed light on these fifth columnists.

**Update**
Velociman came up with a fine way to weigh DOJ's involvement:

"This is the most stunning abuse of the police power of the state I have ever witnessed. And John Mitchell is the disgraced Attorney General? This is the United States of America. Your top cop does not agitate mobs and foment bloodlust against a private citizen." [Emphasis in original]

Death Cult Elitism On View

It has only been a couple of days since I was pissed off enough to warn readers about two turncoat voices who have been fixtures in Right politics since at least the 1990s. Both Michael Savage and David Horowitz (Despicable "Former" Leftists) now consider themselves part of the elite. Savage never tires of telling us how great he is, and Horowitz had been raised to be part of the Left elites until he parted ways (allegedly) with his early gestators.

Today, Daniel Greenfield helped me understand WHY these two "former" Leftists chose the George Zimmerman murder case to reveal that their hearts remain with the Leftist elites. They now have blown their credibility with me because I understand something about elements of the Right that few others are willing to address.

All it takes to be an elite in today's world is to discount any human who you deem to be in a lower class than yourself. Nothing else better explains how easy it is for the Leftist elites of our society to be fostering self-destructive behavior among Leftist "favored" herds (blacks, latins, homosexuals, feminists).

And now thanks to Sultan Knish, with the condemnation of George Zimmerman by these two on the Right (joined today by Bob Beckel on Fox -- but is he really Right?), their behavior can be explained by dislike for those still in the lower middle class who only want to protect the little they still have from the marauders to whom the Left has incrementally been giving license to maraud even more.

I do not wish to appear too harsh in my judgment of these loud voices who claim to speak for the conservative view. But what else is left for real conservatives to do in the face of these Right elitist abandonment of weaker people which by law and conservative principles they are supposed to protect from gangs of thugs? We have to maintain our standards, and no matter what service these voices may have provided us before, they have revealed that their hearts really are not with our principles.

The Left has been promoting racial violence should justice not go their way has long been understood. Even now the headlines tell us that more than one Florida county is preparing for riots. The SSM and the Left have wanted it for decades (Charles Manson apparently caught wind of it even at far back as the 1960s). Now it seems that some on the Right do too. The good news to me in these instances is that the 3 voices so far "on the Right" who are saying things to promote the race riots are figures who it seems never really left the elitist thinking that is a hallmark of Leftism.

May God bless us and have mercy on the deluded souls who have let their hubris win out over the common sense that caused them previously to leave the Left (if they honestly did so -- and only He knows that.)

SSM Hides Graphic

Because our Soviet-Style Media's job is protecting the butt of (when not butt-kissing) Bummer, the message delivered by today's Egyptians will remain hidden as long as they possibly can.

Photo by way of Twitchy.

Despicable "Former" Leftists

To whom am I referring? Michael Savage and David Horowitz.

Savage sent out emails to listeners (in this case, former), that were almost as dishonest about the facts in the George Zimmerman trial as anything MSNBC published from the start. (Text is below the break.)

And the Headline from Breitbart David Horowitz: Conservatives Jumped the Gun on Zimmerman Innocence provides words of Horowitz' which will only foster race riots should Zimmerman be found guilty. Or even worse in the long run, terrify the jury into declaring Zimmerman guilty to save their own hides.

Listen up Horowitz. Most reputable conservatives did not claim Zimmerman was innocent. They were appalled

1. that all the Left had declared him guilty. 
2. that Prosecutor Cory had used extralegal means to indict him (and she has been indicted by a grand jury for it too)
3. and additionally, they were concerned, and rightly so, that all gun-rights eliminators from the President on down would use Zimmerman as another excuse to disarm Americans.

Has this "former" red-diaper baby has gone back to his bastardly ways? Looks like it.

Listen up Savage. I know your listener-ship is plummeting. Your lame attempt to promote your ratings with controversy has failed stupendously, and rightly so. You washed up talker and now senile old doper.

(**Update** After you read the evidence below the break, you may want to read my follow-up Death Cult Elitism On View.

and also read J.  Christian Adams' Newly Released Documents Detail the Department of Justice’s Role in Organizing Trayvon Martin Protests  providing evidence that the Obama DOJ has been deeply involved in setting up the fuel for race riots.)

Well, Imagine That

"The speech of the president last night, before the 48 hour deadline, did not achieve the goals of the people," the Army chief said. He said it prompted the militay [sic] to act  "based on its own national and patriotic duty."

 Source

***Update***

Ace wishes:

"One can only hope that America learns from Obama as Egypt learned from Obama's pet Mursi." 

However, Ace, Egypt is not saddled by a uniformatarianistic Soviet-Style Media; merely a recently formed and distrusted state run propaganda office.

Cowards?

Time and again we witness Western governments act as if only by cowering to Islamist demands can they keep the peace. Yet they will crack down on every group except those undermining native societal norms.

We who are appalled by their one-sided actions will invariably call them cowards. That is easy to do as we compare their behavior with that of courageous actions of past Western leaders.

Cowards they may indeed be. However.

Permitting themselves to be seen as cowards provides them the latitude to be complicit.

How precisely does a turncoat and fifth columnist act? In your face directly? Or more likely like Senator Palpatine — behaving meek and cowardly so that the young, foolish and indoctrinated strike the men who would save them from him?

When you’ve good reason to doubt, figure complicity -- and the rest is then a matter of resolve.

Wretchard Twists

Just too many to call out quotes of the day.

These are all extracted from Gambler's Ruin. 

1. Let me give you his last first.

God takes care of children and the United States of America.

You may not want to dwell too long wondering what became of the drunks or idiots.

2. You know how Americans loved Chinese goods when they were so much cheaper than American made? And then, surprisingly, all that subsequently mounted American debt held by the Chinese? (emphasis added):

The Chinese may have a new motto in Afrrica. “Call Me Bwana”. China seems to have a knack for benefiting from American policy in the Middle East. Recently the New York Times reported that “China Is Reaping Biggest Benefits of Iraq Oil Boom”, something America can’t do because it’s immoral to trade American blood for oil. But there is no objection as long as it benefits China. This fact is one of life’s mysteries though somewhere in the Encyclopedia of Political Correctness an explanation must exist.

Well, you may believe this is tortuous reasoning, but debtors do attempt to gain credits by offering 3rd party discounts. Nope. No blood for oil. No siree.

3. Setting up to address blame (emphasis added):

Well he’s still promising them [new beginnings in the Middle East]. Yesterday “President Barack Obama called on Egypt’s government and opposition on Saturday to engage each other in constructive dialogue and prevent violence spilling out across the region.” And as if to emphasize the irony Washington Post added the same day “US eyes security at embassy, consulates in Egypt as Cairo braces for weekend protests”.

Watch out for them videos.

But that's ancient history and couldn't happen again.

4. And then there is his use of unnamed sources to deliver cogent observations (see emphasis):

The man in the street is miserable and he needs someone to blame.  Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood ran on a program of Hope and Change and delivered exactly nothing — and that would be putting it kindly. “Morsi is so incompetent he seems almost malevolent,” my friend said.

Rest assured that Hanlon will track down that source before such speculation spreads to Morsi's allies.

5. Oops. Too late.

To some extent America is in the same boat as the Egyptians. There’s an awareness of deep trouble which nobody has figured a way to get out of. [Or wish to speak of openly anyway.]

The administration hoped to rely on the President’s genius. Somehow the belief was that the new administration would be “smart”. Things didn’t need to be explained to the public because the smart guys now in power would have things in hand. And now it is becoming evident there was at no time either plan or genius at work. Or if there was it was not in evidence.

There is a paper by economist Robert Higgs published in the mid 1990s by the Ludwig von Mises Institute: "The Myth of Failed Policies." The theme he demonstrated time and again was 'monopoly services that those on the receiving end view as abject failures, are almost always viewed by the providers as a spectacular success.'

Perspective matters? Whoa! Who thinks like that?