Learn the lessons of history or be doomed to repeat the mistakes

Last night, Monday – Mar. 8^th, I could not get to sleep so I decided to watch an old movie on TCM. The movie was called “Confessions of a Nazi Spy”. As the story unfolded, I could not believe how it matched up to what is happening in the world today. All one had to do was substitute the word’ Islam’ for every reference to ‘Nazi’ or ‘Germany’, and it became a present day narrative. The similarity to today was unbelievably close. I would encourage everyone to take a look at this flick if you have the time. You will find it eerily familiar for a movie made in 1939.

In the movie, the ‘enemy within’ (the American Nazi leader in New York) preaches that no German in America should put the American constitution above their loyalty to the fatherland. And that the American democracy must be destroyed so that loyal German-American citizens can save Americans from themselves.

Also note that the review below says that this was the first movie of its kind. After this one was so successful, other Hollywood studios began work on similar productions of their own. Edward G. Robinson received death threats (so said the gentleman who introduced the movie) as did many other of the workers involved in the film.

Isn’t it sad that there are no courageous movie makers in this generation who will produce a movie that exposes the truth of the threat we face today. It would be so easy with so much evidence presenting itself every day. But the Politically correct climate is almost in total control of the mainstream media as well as the popular culture.

Please, if you get a chance, take a look at this movie.

Confessions of a Nazi Spy (Warner Archive) (1939) Starring:   Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, George Sanders, Paul Lukas, Henry O’Neill, Dorothy Tree, Lya Lys, Grace Stafford, James Stephenson, Hedwiga Reicher, Joe Sawyer, Sig Ruman, Lionel Royce, Henry Victor Director:   Anatole Litvak Genre:   Drama, Mystery/Thriller, Spy Drama, Spies Year:   1939 Studio:   Warner Home Video Length:   89 minutes Released:   October 20, 2009 Rating:   NR Format:   DVD Misc:   NTSC, Full Screen, Black & White Language:   English(Original Language)

SYNOPSIS: In the wake of a trial that convicted four Nazi agents of spying against the U.S., Warner Bros. became the first Hollywood studio to fire a salvo at Hitler’s Germany. Months before World War II erupted it released this thriller based on revelations that emerged from the trial and other real-life sources.The story is a brisk connect-the-dots tale that ties German-American Bund operatives (Francis Lederer, George Sanders and Paul Lukas among others) to Berlin. Chief among those connecting the dots: FBI Agent Edward Renard (Edward G. Robinson). The drama wasn’t limited to the screen. Production personnel received threats and violence erupted at some screenings.

A Soldier Speaks Out on Iraq, from Iraq

Written by: Diana West
Monday, January 25, 2010 7:16 AM 

Today, I am posting an extraordinary letter from a soldier currently stationed in Iraq, a sometime penpal of mine to whom I sent my three-part series on the aftermath of the surge to elicit his opinion. Knowing how thoughtful he is, I expected a substantive response. Given his time constraints alone, I did not expect an essay of this scope and I decided, with his permission, to present it here. It is unlike any commentary I have read from Iraq; it is both coolly reasoned and deeply passionate, and certain to challenge and disturb readers across the political spectrum: PC-believing liberals, Iraq-as-success-believing conservatives, Islam-as-a-religion-of-peaceniks of both Left and Right.

So be it.

He writes:

I apologize for the delay in my response. I have been putting in long days … lately and I hadn’t had the time to put the thought and effort into writing this until now.
 
Your three-part column series wonderfully analyzes Iraq and reaches the correct strategic assessment that no one in power wants to acknowledge.
 
I have many things that I want to say but I do not wish to waste your time and I therefore put an executive summary at the beginning of this e-mail so you can skip the expanded version if you wish.
 
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You correctly assessed that we have not gained anything positive from our efforts in Iraq and that the nation is not our ally. (The same is true for Afghanistan.) I will go as far as saying that the Iraqis are our enemies—enemies better equipped to wage jihad against us than they have ever been. We will regret what we have done. We will regret that we created this officially Islamic nation. And we will regret that we created an officially Islamic Afghanistan. We will regret that we have placed ourselves in the service of Islam, waging jihad worldwide as we advance the Religion of Peace and eliminate Christians in the process. (So much for the accusation that the U.S. is on a “Crusade.”) It is a shame that so many people refuse to recognize how horrible Islam is, and that the U.S. made a fatal mistake when it refused to declare war against Afghanistan and Islam—when it refused victory by binding the greatest military force of all time.
 
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The Full Analysis:
 
Parts 1 and 2 of “The ‘Surge’ and ‘Success’” correctly identify that we have gained nothing positive for our efforts in Iraq while the Iraqis have betrayed us. I do not trust any Iraqi or Middle Easterner. I do not care if anyone calls me a “racist” or “bigot” anymore. Those words have lost their meaning. Do I think that every single Iraqi or Middle Easterner is bad? No. But I think it is difficult to tell. An Iraqi or Middle Easterner will smile to your face or be your best friend one moment, and cut your head off in the next. It is odd that so many people cannot comprehend this. It is even weirder that those who pride themselves on being “culturally aware” cannot grasp that Middle Eastern culture and thought, and Islamic behavior and thought are completely different than ours (than ours on the Right, at least). Perhaps this ignorance partially explains why the U.S. had no reaction when Maliki declared victory over the U.S. when we moved out of the major Iraqi cities. But even if it is a partial explanation it still is no excuse.
 
The Iranian War in Iraq is a travesty and has been since it started under Bush. I still cannot believe that a nation can war against us and murder Servicemen, and not pay the price of oblivion for it. Our nation sits back and apologizes, and defends itself constantly from accusations of an “illegal” and “unjust” war yet Iranians, other foreign terrorists, and even Iraqis go about murdering American troops without any consequence whatsoever. We should war back against them. But we won’t.
 
I remember when people said that we had brought on the September 11 attacks because “we created Bin Laden.” I never understood that. In fact, that we had helped the Afghanis defeat the Soviet Union should have been even more reason for us to kill Bin Laden and destroy Afghanistan. We had saved their lives and they repaid us for it by murdering us on our own soil. Yet our government refused its God-given duty to its people to mete out punishment and justice. History repeats with Iraq. The Iraqis lived under oppression for decades and when we liberated their nation they repaid our unimaginable mercy and sacrifice with betrayal. It is sickening.
 
Part 3 (“Victory” in Iraq? Really?) perfectly summarized where the U.S. is now in our “war” in Iraq. Once we made Iraq an officially Islamic country I knew that it would become among our worst enemies. (The same is true for Afghanistan.) I said years ago that the end result of our efforts will be that Iraq will be a rebuilt nation better prepared than ever to wage jihad against us. You cannot create an officially Islamic nation and expect anything less. Regrettably, our leaders and our nation cannot identify Islam for what it is: evil. And so we continue our suicidal practice. The Iraqi betrayal of the U.S. started sooner than I expected it but I expected it nonetheless. This is outrageous. Yet the situation is even more unjust than this.
 
Muslims have waged jihad against the West since their insane, pedophiliac founder started their cult; they have waged jihad against the U.S. since our inception. But what is worse about our policy of establishing officially Islamic nations and pouring money, technology, weapons, and training into them is that we have been labeled as “occupiers” being on a “Christian crusade to wipe out Islam.” Think about that. We have been demonized as “occupying Christian crusaders” (if only!) even as we have waged jihad in the service of Islam, helped Muslims spread Islam and wipe out Christians, and died for ungrateful Iraqis even as terrorists from all over the war invaded and occupied Iraq, and slaughtered and oppressed Iraqis. (And don’t even get me started on the fact that we—the United States of America—are truly being invaded and occupied by illegal aliens warring on us!)
 
I am woefully understating the situation when I say that the U.S. has no clue how to fight wars any longer. We have allowed our enemies to control this war and make it one of media and information—information warfare / information operations . We have chosen not to win by refusing to reject the enemies’ preferred warfare; we have chosen not to wage a kinetic warfare where we could easily defeat our enemies in months if not weeks with our superior technology, tactics, and Servicemen. And through it all we seem not the least bit embarrassed that a “coalition” of dozens of nations cannot beat a primitive bunch of troglodytes. I no longer can express my outrage about this or any of the myriad horrors which plague our once great land. Every day there is something new which is more perverse and inequitable than the last day’s wickedness. I sit here in Iraq and do all I can do to stomach the disastrous excuse that passes for “strategy” in this war—a strategy where our leaders openly say that the lives of our Islamic enemies are worth more than ours; a “strategy” where the Army Chief of Staff openly states that the “death of diversity” would be a larger tragedy than the slaughter of Soldiers (and get away with it with but a whisper of outcry from the American people). I pray that I get out of here alive so I can complete my Army contract and get away from this nonsense and betrayal.
 
Two final things.
 
First, I wonder how many people have considered how successful the September 11, 2001 Islamic attacks were. Think about what they accomplished. They thrust Islam to the center of the world; they undoubtedly caused more people to learn about Islam than would have prior to their attacks. And the attacks combined with the near non-response of the U.S. doubtlessly gained them converts. Furthermore, what response the United States did produce resulted in the establishment, enrichment, and training of the officially Islamic nations of Iraq and Afghanistan, and the enrichment and training of countless other Muslim nations around the globe. Islam now stands better suited than ever to wage jihad across the world. The September 11 attacks also resulted in Muslims being portrayed as victims around the world (thanks to their leftist allies) and helped them (again, with an assist from their leftist allies) advance their jihad even as Muslims and leftists further vilified Christianity, America, and Western values. And finally the crowning achievement of the September 11 Islamic attacks: eight years after them the United States places as its leader a person whom can at best be described as an anti-American, racist, Islamic sympathizer (and who has the same name as an infamous Islamic dictator). This is stunning. It is bizarre. It is incomprehensible. Yet it is our nightmarish reality. The Islamic attacks on September 11, 2001 achieved success beyond the wildest dreams of the Religion of Peace cultists.
 
Finally, I would like you to know that I am willing to comment on other posts and articles that you publish, including some of your other posts that mention the debate that your three-part column on the Surge started. I am willing to comment for two reasons.
 
The first reason is that everyone on the Right needs to fight back against the Islamic War on the West and stop the jihad. And one of the ways to fight back is to speak out against it. The second reason is that I want to establish for posterity that I am firmly against this evil and every other evil. I will explain why this matters.
 
Leftists always rewrite history so as to demonize what is Right and so as to cover their real nature. They abhor the truth as much as the vilest of Muslims. And as a way to enable their rewriting of history they use political correctness to silence opponents; to vilify them so that they have no place in society. We have allowed leftists to use political correctness to emasculate us. In fact, political correctness is the leftist weapon of choice in paralyzing the Right and aiding their Islamic allies who also advance an anti-Christian, anti-Foundational America agenda. Political correctness is what prevents us from fighting back against the left, and what prevents us from fully fighting back against the jihad and ending the Islamic threat. Political correctness makes us acquiesce to the left so as to be “moderate” and “bipartisan.” Our capitulation to the left will doom us physically by allowing the Muslims and left to eliminate the last vestiges of the West and it will doom us historically as our enslaved descendants will look back and ask how we could have allowed the twin insanities of Islam and the left to control and destroy us when we easily could have defeated them both. Our descendants will condemn us for remaining idle in the face of evil . . . and the leftists of the future will use our submission and our descendants’ condemnation to manipulate history and blame us as the originators of the horrific agenda that they instituted. The future left will use our sinful surrender to pave the way for them to control and destroy civilization once more (all in the name of “progressivism” of course).
 
I do not want leftists to be able to do this. I do not want them to easily rewrite history in the future. I want to be a loud voice (wherever I may be) that opposes everything Islam and the left want. I want there to be no doubt that I, a Right-wing Christian, utterly reject them and their core beliefs. I want to make it all but impossible for future leftists to say that, “It was the Christian Right who enabled and supported the worldwide jihad (not to mention the global warming hoax, the sexual perverts, and the freedom hating communists)! It was the Christian Right who wanted them to take over and destroy the world!” I want to make it all but impossible for future leftists to say that atheists, humanists, and secularists (like Bruce Bawer, Christopher Hitchens, Tammy Bruce, and a few others) tried to oppose the Islamic War on the West but “could not convince the mentally inferior but numerically superior Right-wing Christians to join them!” I want to counteract the in-name-only Christians and conservatives who have bought into the “Religion of Peace” and leftist nonsense, and who will do untold additional amounts of damage to civilization and our good name with their cravenness and rejection of Truth. And that is why I am willing to comment on more of your posts.
 
I know I am in the minority with my beliefs but I do not care. I want to be like the 300—not just the ones who fought at Thermopylae—but the 300 who fought with Gideon against the Midianites. I want to stand for the Truth.

Keep up the good work.

Sincerely,

A US soldier in Iraq

1) National Security 2) Republican naivete’ 3) WMD Terror Threats

By DAVID STRINGER, Associated Press Writer David Stringer, Associated Press Writer – Thu Feb 11, 6:31 pm ET

LONDON – Intelligence ties between London and Washington have been jeopardized by a British court’s disclosure that a terrorism suspect was beaten and shackled in U.S. custody, diplomats and security officials said Wednesday.

Fears in the United States that Britain can no longer be trusted with secrets is prompting an urgent assessment of relations between the allies and — according to some sources — has already slowed the flow of sensitive information from the U.S.

Britain’s Court of Appeal on Wednesday authorized the release of a previously secret summary of CIA documents detailing the treatment of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed. Mohamed was arrested in Pakistan in 2002 and, according to the British court, subjected to “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment by the United States authorities.”

Foreign Secretary David Miliband fought for two years to block publication of the seven-paragraph summary, insisting that would violate a long-standing rule that nations don’t disclose intelligence shared by their allies.

For the rest of the story click here.

This first got my attention because national and international security is such a big issue right now in this dangerous times. My thought is “Why should the UK leftists take security seriously when the nation that supposedly leads the free world is currently in the hands of leftist who don’t take it seriously at all. And they have illustrated this by renaming the “War on Terror” (incorrectly named in the first place), to “Overseas Contingency Operations”; and referring to terrorist attacks as “Man-caused Disasters”. This is dangerous foolishness in very dangerous world.

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By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writer Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press Writer – Thu Feb 11, 7:17 pm ET

WASHINGTON – After all the talk, some glimmers of real bipartisanship. Senate Democrats and Republicans are looking for a few dry patches of common ground, showing mixed results on a jobs bill and new hope for legislation aimed at avoiding another financial meltdown.

On Thursday, a Wall Street bill that seemed headed for the same partisan heap as health care got help from a junior GOP senator who stepped in to negotiate a deal with Democrats after talks with more senior Republicans broke off.

Sen. Christopher Dodd, the Banking Committee chairman, said he and Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., will work on writing the massive overhaul of bank regulations, still a priority of President Barack Obama as the nation emerges from a jobs-killing recession blamed on lax government oversight of the financial industry.

Click here to read more.

This article doesn’t concern me on is face this partnership bears watching. Senator Corker needs to be aware that an attempt most likely will be made to use him to provide cover for the Dodd, the dems and the pres.  Too often, well meaning but idiotic Republicans (can you say McCain and Lindsey Graham) enter into this things and then find themselves simply used as pawns to pass more pieces of the leftists agenda. I am not saying I agree with Senator Shelby’s reasons for holding things up (I don’t understand it well enough to comment on that) but the Republicans constantly behave like Rodney King (can’t we all just get along) and then get embarrassed to the detriment of our liberty and the pursuit of happiness).

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The Jihadist CBRN Threat

By Scott Stewart | February 10, 2010

In an interview aired Feb. 7 on CNN, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she considers weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the hands of an international terrorist group to be the largest threat faced by the United States today, even bigger than the threat posed by a nuclear-armed Iran. “The biggest nightmare that many of us have is that one of these terrorist member organizations within this syndicate of terror will get their hands on a weapon of mass destruction,” Clinton said. In referring to the al Qaeda network, Clinton noted that it is “unfortunately a very committed, clever, diabolical group of terrorists who are always looking for weaknesses and openings.”

Clinton’s comments came on the heels of a presentation by U.S. Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. In his Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community on Feb. 2, Blair noted that, although counterterrorism actions have dealt a significant blow to al Qaeda’s near-term efforts to develop a sophisticated chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) attack capability, the U.S. intelligence community judges that the group is still intent on acquiring the capability. Blair also stated the obvious when he said that if al Qaeda were able to develop CBRN weapons and had the operatives to use them it would do so. Read more » at Stratfor.com.

This just concerns me because the folks incharge of national security in the US seem to be so inept. Blars colleague Brennen said the Al Qaeda Is not 100ft tall and need not be feared so much.

Stay tuned on this one.

NEWS FROM THE ISLAMIC WORLD

CRACKS IN THE ISLAMIC CURTAIN

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is None Darwish, the co-founder of FormerMuslimsUnited.com and the author of Cruel and Usual Punishment.

FP: Nonie Darwish, welcome to Frontpage Interview.

I would like to talk to you today a bit about the Muslim voices for change that are increasing through the Islamic world. There is an unprecedented defiance taking place behind the Islamic Curtain.

FP: Can you tell us what is transpiring?

Darwish: As you know, Jamie, I lived for 30 years in the cocoon of the Muslim world and I can see a huge change going on inside the Muslim world. More and more people are challenging the status quo.

After 9/11 and with constant recurring explosive Islamic terrorism, it has become harder for the Muslim establishment to keep the lid on Muslims questioning their system, religion and holy wars. Criticism of Islam is coming at them from every direction, putting Muslim clerics in a quagmire unable to honestly answer questions. Muslim scholars were never trained to answer questions critical of Islam or engage in hostile debate. But now, suddenly, they are challenged to the core like never before, not by Western critics, but by brave hosts of Arabic language shows from unidentified locations in the West and hosted by former Muslims and/or Egyptian Christian Copts.

For the whole article, click here.

Examples of Shariah Law include the following: (from the authoritative source Reliance of the Traveller, The Sacred Manual of Islamic Law) 

• Requirement of women  to obtain permission from husbands for daily freedoms;
• Beating of disobedient woman and girls;
• Execution of homosexuals;
• Engagement of polygamy and forced child marriages;
• Requirement of the testimony of four male witnesses to prove rape;
• Stoning of adulteresses;
• Lashing of adulterers; 
• Amputation of body for criminal offenses;
• Female genital mutilation;
• Capital punishment for those who slander or insult Islam;
• Execution of apostates, or those that leave the religion of Islam
• Inferior status for all non-Muslims, known as Dhimmitude.
• Concept of Taquiyya: A Muslim may lie or deceive others to advance the cause of Islam.

From the website http://www.stopshariahnow.org/

The world ignores the persecution of Christians in the Muslim world

 WSJONline: In Egypt, seven Coptic Christians were murdered yesterday by a Muslim gunman as they filed out of a midnight mass in the southern town of Nag Hamadi. In Pakistan, more than 100 Christian homes were ransacked by a Muslim mob last July in the village of Bahmaniwala. In Iraq that same month, seven Christian churches were bombed in Baghdad and Mosul in the space of three days.

Such atrocities—and there are scores of other examples—are grim reminders that when it comes to persecution, few groups have suffered as grievously as Christians in Muslim lands. Fewer still have suffered with such little attention paid. Now a new report from the non-profit ministry, Open Doors USA, shines a light on the scale of oppression.

To read the whole article click here. 

Understanding the Democrats’ Scheme

By John F. Gaski

 Poor Bill and Brit, and many others, indeed. It is time to think the unthinkable and speak the ineffable. Apart from the troubling question of intent, or whether Obama-Pelosi-Reid just have a novel view of the public interest, the national Democrats are unnaturally and mysteriously sanguine despite growing backlash by the American people. Why? One reason:  The Dems don’t believe they will ever have to face a real election again. Is their plan not becoming obvious? It is very straightforward: 

 

(1) Grant amnesty to the illegal aliens (the correct term for lawbreaking invaders, regardless of their natural and rational motives) which will create up to 30 million reliably Democrat voters — especially after being registered at least once each by ACORN. That is cushion enough to carry any national election. Why else could Dems be so fixated on this agenda item? 

 

(2)  Speaking of which, between ACORN and the SEIU, the Democrats will be stealing all the elections they really need anyway, starting next November. (The New Jersey and Virginia governorships aren’t quite as big a prize as control of the U.S. Congress, are they? And one wonders what the real margin of Republican victory in New Jersey was, absent ACORN’s intervention.) 

Many laymen still don’t understand how the ACORN scam works. To them, ACORN’s excuse that they are merely committing voter registration fraud, not vote fraud, seems plausible. Here’s the deal: Register 100,000 phony voters such as Mickey Mouse and the Seven Dwarves, thus expanding the nominal voter rolls, and the Democrat vote counters then have the latitude to create 100,000 extra votes out of thin air on election night. This is what “community organizer” really means, and Barack Obama is forever stained by his ACORN background. Not that it matters to him. 

America should brace for the biggest vote fraud and election theft caper of all time on election night 2010 — and in the months following. We now know as well that the Dems are guaranteed to win any statewide recount where there is a Democrat Secretary of State. And who, we must ask, is there to enforce the election laws now? 

 

What of Florida 2000? It is easy to correct the prevailing misconception. One can usually tell what offenses against the commonweal the liberal Democrats are committing by what accusations they make against others (into which they project their own tendencies). In November 2000, Democrats did everything they could to try to steal a national election for the second time in forty years, right before a nation’s very eyes, with local partisan functionaries inventing Gore votes out of those dimpled chads. Still, the Democrats have claimed since Y2000 that George W. Bush stole that year’s election, even though every Florida recount, including those sponsored by the media, demonstrated that Bush 43 really won under the law. Republicans have been so ineffective in publicizing these true results in answer to the Democrat mantra that the propaganda has largely taken hold in the public consciousness. 

 

(3) As if they need it, the Dems will be secretly encouraging (maybe even hiring) third-party candidates wherever they need them, because they know that is the way to split the opposition vote. It almost always happens that way to the Democrats’ benefit. If people such as Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck don’t realize this soon, instead of talking up the third-party route, they will only help to ensure a permanent Democrat stranglehold on Congress and the presidency — although any one of this litany of methods would probably be sufficient for that. So the Dems are actually conservative in the sense of wanting some built-in redundancy! 

 

(4) What do we suppose the extra trillion dollars of “stimulus” money to be spent from 2010 to 2012 is really for? Just a coincidence, or a ready-made election slush fund? How much has already been committed to ACORN and SEIU? 

 

(5) Then there is the “universal voter registration” plan that the Wall Street Journal’s John Fund has spotlighted, granting automatic voting privilege to anyone who has ever registered for practically anything, anywhere, anytime. The Democrats and their henchmen could work with that, couldn’t they? Or why are they so eager to enact it? Their entire history has been to oppose laws that prevent vote fraud, after all. (What could be their motive for that particular laxity?) 

 

These five strategies should be enough to ensure permanent Democrat control of our federal government — a virtual dictatorship. For them, it is a royal flush. But another part of the scheme may be the most pernicious of all. The worst is yet to come. 

 

(6) When you become dependent on the decision of a Democrat bureaucrat for crucial medical treatment — after the health care takeover — how much power does that give the Democrats over you? Elderly voters tend to vote more conservative than younger voters, so letting the elderly dies because care is “too expensive” can reshape the political profile of the electorate. But can we reasonably foresee that party registration or political contributions might enter the bureaucrat’s calculus? Might it occur to the intense partisans of the Obama administration to grant lifesaving treatment to those they regard as “their people,” but not to others? What a neat way to eliminate the opposition! Party registration is already public information. And if they can overturn the secret ballot for union elections via “card check,” how long before they try to impose the same more generally, so they will always know how you have voted? Do not trust the judiciary to save us, either, after President Obama packs the courts with more ultra-leftists. 

 

Chilling, isn’t it? But not extreme: Obama himself has notoriously displayed his disregard for human life by the stated willingness to sacrifice “grandma” to a pain pill and his coarse support for unrestricted abortion — even opposition to the Infant Born Alive Act, which he has tried to subvert. 

 

When the Democrats achieve literal death-grip power over the lives of all our citizens, that’s when they also achieve their long-cherished dream of absolute power in a virtual one-party state. Now is it becoming transparent (so to speak) what the real scheme behind their mania for “health-care reform” is? Now does it all make sense? This is not your father’s Democrat party. 

 

This issue is not about health care, ultimately. It is about raw political power and the long-promised radical takeover of the United States. For anyone who hasn’t thought of all this before, I guarantee that Obama and his party’s other leaders have. 

 

Dictatorship in a one-party state indeed seems to loom for us. As one prominent commentator has pointed out, the normal order of the human condition is tyranny, subjugation, and dictatorship, with only a couple of respite periods throughout history, including our time in the West over the past two centuries or so. It just took that long for the totalitarian types to gain near-total power in our country, which they are now consolidating over the coming year. What are the betting odds that they will ever let it go voluntarily? 

 

No wonder the national Democrats aren’t concerned about having to face the electorate again.  Pity the naïve, hapless Republicans who actually imagine they have a fair chance later this year and in ’12!  

 

The long-time president of my university, Fr. Theodore Hesburgh, used to say, “At our school, we ask all the questions, even the tough ones.” How’d I do, Father? 

 

The most troubling aspect of my analysis is that it represents the logical extension of irrefutable, objective facts. At least five of the six premises are no more and no less than observable Democrat behavior, and the other is a mild extrapolation at most. This is not good. 

 

It’s over, America. We are now living under a proto-dictatorship in the United States. In less than a year, the full reification of it will be apparent to all. Have a nice day. R.I.P., U.S.A. 

 John F. Gaski, Ph.D. is Associate Professor, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame, and is author of the recently-published Frugal Cool:  How to Get Rich-Without Making Very Much Money (Corby Books). He is also a specialist in social and political power and a long-time registered Democrat. 

‘The Life and Religion of Mohammed’ by Rev. J.L. Menezes

IS ISLAM A “RELIGION?” – OR A “CULT OF DEATH?”

Gordon Bishop On the Issues

You won’t find it in bookstores. Even Amazon.com doesn’t keep it in inventory. And if it were up to certain “moderate” Muslim American leaders, you wouldn’t be able to read it at all.

This book is about the self –annointed prophet, Mohammed, who wrote the Koran (Qur’an) because Allah (his God) told him to create this new ideology or religion in the 7th Century. Since then, the Muslim world has been trapped in a time warp of the dark, medieval ages that has long been out of sync with the modern, civilized world.

Simply put, this book dares to tell the truth about the so-called “moderate” Muslims who don’t want you to know the truth about the founder of this anti-life, Islamic movement, which is more about the death to all Jews, Christians and “infidels” than a genuine religion of faith and life.

The book, The Life and Religion of Mohammed – The Prophet of Arabia, was not written to insult Muslims. Hardly. The author, Reverend J.L. Menezes, was a Roman Catholic priest who lived and administered among Muslims, and who strove to speak “the truth in charity” to the souls in his care.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), considered by many to be a “moderate” Muslim group (three of whose former associates have been indicted on terrorism-related charges) was so angry about this Mohammed book that, when a well-known conservative magazine dared to offer it for sale on their website, CAIR threatened to organize a boycott of one of the magazine’s major advertisers. The magazine caved and took the book off their website – even though every claim in the book with which CAIR took issue can be readily established from Islamic sources.

Here’s a quick guide into the dark mind of Mohammed:

– How worldly ambition gradually blinded Mohammed’s mind and overwhelmed his early searches for the true God.
– How Mohammed ordered the assassinations of several of his chief opponents.
– How Mohammed again and again justified his plunder and licentiousness with new “divine revelations.”
– Why Mohammed grew so bitter against both Jews and Christians, after initally courting their favor.
– How even Mohammed’s replies to his critics in the Koran are insufficient to refute the charge that he fabricated revelations.
– Islamic “tolerance: Mohammed let Jews and Christians live in his domains – if they paid tribute and accepted second-class status.
– The early history of Islam: Just as bloody as the life of its founder.
– The crisis caused in Islam by the death of Mohammed’s only son – which continues to this day.
– How the Koran doesn’t limit Muslims to four wives, as is widely believed, but actually sets no real limit.
– Why the new religion Mohammed taught became so commonly identified with war and politics.
– Muslim Sunnis, Shiites, Sufis, Motazalites and more: the differences between the various Muslim sects, which is now playing out in the Iraqi War: Muslims killing Muslims.

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The paragraph below comes form a web article that references the book mentioned above but has another take in its review. It sheds new light on the ‘Unholy Alliance” between te left and Islam.

 The ideal Muslim state is one ruled by Muslim religious leaders and is paradise on Earth. All people are treated with respect, both the faithful and the infidel. The poor and infirm are cared for and peaceful, law abiding folks are the norm. In effect, the perfect Muslim society appears pretty much what liberal Democrats promise if they were in complete control. I do not intend this as sarcasm. The best I can determine from this site projects the same world order the Democrats demand with the added benefit of strict morality maintained by an enforcement arm of the government to see everyone walks the straight and narrow. Of course, most good people will find such enforcement no burden as they will be able to live free of the fear of crime and assault. Even random dishonesty will be weeded out. Those who object will be bad people and no one will mind if bad people are harshly dealt with. A good and moral paradise without crime or fear where everyone, the faithful and the infidel live in brotherly love and mutual respect.

For the full article – click here.

A Cautionary Tale…..

By Mark M. Haney, A Concerned American 

This is a message to all concerned citizens who long for the ‘America’ our Founders fought so hard to give us. 

The left has spent 40 years tearing at the fabric of what has made this country so enduring – our uniquely American culture. Liberals and the destructive left have consumed the Democratic Party, gutting it from within, so that all that remains is a hulking, rotting husk emanating the accompanying stench. This they are attempting to do to the United States of America, unfortunately with too much success. 

They have infiltrated the media; education; the academy; the military; the popular culture – mainly Hollywood and the music industry; and finally – they have infected federal, state and local bureaucracies – most critical to the security of the country – their presence has permeated the State department, the CIA and the FBI, making them so politically correct as to be virtually useless in the war against Islamofascism (read “Shadow Warriors” by Kenneth R. Timmerman). Despite their infiltration of the upper levels of the military, with far too many Generals and Colonels in the mold of Wesley (Weasely) Clark, the vast majority of the NCOs and enlisted core are still the heart of the services and are performing heroically in all theatres. 

In the education arena, the objective has been to “dumb down” the younger generations so as to preclude them from thinking critically. The music industry did a great job in that effort in the 70’s and 80’s promoting feelings as the basis for decisions rather than thoughtful consideration. How many of you remember the Neil Diamond hit, “Don’t Think, Feel” – that says it all. 

And over the past four decades or so, Hollywood has produced countless works meant to subtly (and sometimes not so subtly) undermine America at every turn. Most recently, in this decade, they have taken fresh aim at the military with such current war movies as, “In The Valley of Elah”, “Rendition”, “Redacted” and most recently, “Brothers”. All these movies were designed to present the American Military in a negative light. Fortunately for the country, the bulk of the American citizenry understand this and those movies failed miserably at the box office. 

Meanwhile, in the past few years Hollywood, both Television and the Silver Screen, has been taking a new tack – mainstreaming what once was thought of as evil. I am referring to the plethora of Vampire related themes emanating from TV and Movies. In my opinion, television shows such as ‘Angel’, ‘True Blood’, ‘Vampire Diaries’, ‘Moonlight’, ‘Twilight’, and ‘Blood Ties’ continue blurring the lines between good and evil. After decades of being inundated with this drivel, a large percentage of  younger American generations are so morally weak that they have a diminished capacity to differentiate between right and wrong. They have been taught (indoctrinated) that all cultures are equally valid and that it is ‘wrong’ to make judgments to the contrary. Even our president, sadly, has promoted the idea that America is not a Christian nation. 

Now, after years of elevating evil, Hollywood now appears to be making an effort to diminish the perception of ‘good’. There is a new movie coming, supposedly opening on January 22^nd, called “Legion”. The following is the description from Yahoo Movies: “An out-of-the-way diner becomes the unlikely battleground for the survival of the human race. When God loses faith in Mankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity’s only hope lies in a group of strangers trapped in a desert diner and the Archangel Michael.” 

I watched the trailer and it does the trick, the angels are indeed the ‘bad guys’, with Gabriel as one of their leaders. We, as parents and grandparents, must caution and educate our children, and their children, against this destructive propaganda, and lead them back to the values of American exceptionalism that made this country great. (By the way, Islam is chomping at the bit to fill the void left by the secularization of the country – witness Europe and the UK).

The Three SEALs Deserve Our Gratitude, Not a Court Martial

by  Rep. Mike Rogers  12/14/2009 

They are the best of the best in the entire world.  They comprise the top 1 percent of Americans in physical ability, mental aptitude and sheer bravery.

They can push themselves to the physical limits of the human body.  Most have advanced degrees from America’s best universities and many speak multiple languages fluently.

They are America’s Navy SEALs, and they put their lives on the line every day in defense of our nation, all of them willing to die to protect America’s way of life.

Why then would the nation they serve take three SEALs off the battle field and consider putting them through courts-martial proceedings based on their capture of one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq? Ahmed Hashim Abed is believed to have planned the 2004 Fallujah ambush that resulted in the savage murder of four Americans.

On March 31, 2004, four men working as security guards — Scott Helvenston, Wesley Batalona, Jerry Zovko and Michael Teague — were ambushed by insurgents in Fallujah. They were killed, their bodies burned and mutilated, and two were strung up on a bridge over the Euphrates. The insurgents made their own video of the attack, broadcasting the images around the world.

That is the atrocity Ahmed Hashim Abed is accused of plotting and executing. Yet, charges are pending against the three Navy SEALs who captured this terrorist, a man whose goal in life is the death of America and American citizens.

It is well-known that one of al Queda’s key training techniques for operatives includes the directive that if captured they should allege abuse at every opportunity. Charging these American heroes based on the flimsy claims of a top terrorist gives al Queda a strategic advantage and sends the wrong message to the next group of Americans sent out into the shadows to capture one of the bad guys.  Media reports have stated Abed had a fat lip.

That is why every Republican on the House Intelligence Committee has written to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, stating that while we would never endorse the abuse of any detainee, we are deeply concerned that the investigation and potential prosecution of our Navy SEALs in this case adds nothing to the important debate on detainee treatment. In fact, it may seriously undermine our capability to locate, detain, and interrogate high value targets who despise our values and seek to destroy our way of life.

In part, our comments to Secretary Gates included:

“If, after a thorough and impartial hearing on the alleged violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), these military personnel are sent to Special Courts-Martial, other problems will certainly arise. Any competent trial team will request that Ahmed Hashim Abed testify in court or at least be made available for a deposition. Official guidance governing special operations and terrorist detentions may also become public. We should be very concerned about the disclosure of operational details surrounding special warfare and providing a public forum for terrorists such as Abed to pollute our media with his hatred of American values.        

“The strategic ramifications of this issue are staggering. This case effectively will place all Special Operations Forces (SOF) personnel on trial. Beyond the specific consequences of a courts-martial, any potential prosecution will also tend to demoralize other Special Operations Forces. These quiet professionals who operate all over the world and work tirelessly to gain the trust of local populations in order to help improve their way of life will have their reputations irreparably damaged. This damage will negatively impact and impede future operational efforts and intelligence gathering.

“We have great respect for the military justice system, but believe that the events concerning these SEALs may damage future special operations. Having spent countless hours with SOF personnel, we know their professionalism and their integrity. Their role in today’s struggle against violent extremism is well-known. We respectfully ask you to review this matter and take this information into account.”

The three SEALs are not being forgotten by their families or by Americans who hear of the outrageous charges against them. Matthew McCabe, Julio Huertas Jr., and Jonathan Keefe, all in their mid-20s, are being defended by family, friends and even strangers who believe it is wrong to prosecute them for doing their job.

Last Monday, a crowd of close to 100 people demonstrated outside the Norfolk, Virginia Naval Station where McCabe, Huertas and Keefe are being held. There were reports that the crowd included people from Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Delaware and Maryland.

The outrage Americans feel about the wrongful prosecution of these three Navy SEALs is blazing across the Internet on Facebook and other social networking sites, and national news outlets like HUMAN EVENTS are making sure these men are not forgotten.

These SEALs and all the men and women of our Special Operations Forces face the enemies of the United States and bring terrorists to justice for the good of the free world.  We owe them a debt of gratitude we can never repay, not a criminal proceeding.

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U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-MI, is a former U.S. Army officer, and FBI Special Agent who worked organized crime cases in Chicago. He serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and is the Ranking Member on the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Counterterrorism and Human Intelligence.

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A Classic Example of Irony in the Distribution of Classic Movies

I want to talk a bit about the irony of classic movies with terrific values and lessons for all of us, coming from a company owned by an icon of the antithesis of those very values.  I am speaking of Ted Turner’s company, Turner Classic Movies and the wonderful old movies filled with lesson of respect, kindness, love of America, standing firm in the face of evil, and many other traditional American values.

A few nights ago I watched a Mickey Rooney movie called “Love Finds Andy Hardy”, one of eleven Andy Hardy movies. The setting was in 1938 America. While Rooney’s acting was somewhat silly, certainly by today’s standards, the characters of Judge Hardy, Andy’s father and the ‘girl next door’ played by Judy Garland, were extremely well performed. Rooney and Garland were truly special talents for being so young. This movie was an excellent example of family values teaching respect and love.

And then there was “Three Godfathers” with John Wayne, Ward Bond (a great character actor) and Harey Carey Jr. This was also chock full of wonderful lessons about traditional American values such as honor, loyalty and preseverence.

But by far, the best movie I recently watched was “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” with Lee Marvin, Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne. What an excellent portrayal of loyalty, courage, character and a love for the American way of life given to us by God and the founding fathers. There is a school house scene in which Jimmy Stewart outlines for his students the American form of government. He specifically says that the people are in charge. This is a great lesson for our pariotic citizenry of today to remember, that we are indeed in charge.  The Teaparty movement and Act for America are two organizations that are fighting for our founding principles, from the grassroots. This whole tale is about standing firm, with courage and fortitude, in the face of thuggery and evil by the powerful. Lessons we need to incorporate for use today, because we are now in the midst of the most serious threat to liberty that this country  has faced since the founding.

I find it truly ironic that a company bearing the name of a man who has done so much to destroy this country and those very values, should deliver such excellent old movies filled with love of country – just the opposite of what he believes. But Ted Turner is such a man. After making his billions in the very capitalist system he despises, his white, liberal guilt causes him to set about destroying that system. In my opinion, he does so to assuage that guilt by advocating the legal theft of wealth from the hard-working middle class, and redistributing it to many who refuse to earn it themselves.

By the way, another source of the wonderful old classics is the www.AtlasShrugs.com  blog of the fabulous and vivacious freedom fighter, Pamela Geller. Though she fervently fights the good fight against the unholy alliance of radical liberalism and Islamofascism, she shows that she does have other interests, such as jazz and classic movies. Almost every Sunday she includes a link to one of these fabulous old productions. Last week she sent a wonderful old film called “She Done Him Wrong” with Mae West and Cary Grant. Miss. West was up to her best and bawdiest one-liners and Mr. Grant was just a young whippersnapper. The movie was truly a treasure. In the recent past she has linked us to “Horse Feathers”, the Marx Brothers classic and also to “The 39 Steps”, an Alfred Hitchcock thriller. Keep ‘em coming Pamela, and thanks.

Political Correctness is Weakening the US and its Citizens

Some of the group of soldiers from Fort Hood, that were the target of the terrorist attack, were recently deployed to Iraq. The remaining members of the medical unit, to which the murderous Nidal Malik Hasan was assigned, were with that deployment, absent the three soldiers that Hasan killed in his individual and treasonness act of war on the US. I believe Hasan’s action was only the beginning of this type of individual or small cell jihad. But his act did highlight the glaring elephant in the room with regard to Muslims in our society. The news came out that the US Military, up and down the chain of command, was frozen by political correctness into not taking seriously the multitude of ‘red flags’ that Hasan exhibited during his military service. His peers, superiors and various colleagues, suppressed and ignored the signs that indicated this man was indeed a jihadi. And they continue to gloss over the issue of Islamists working in the military, police and security forces and the department of homeland security, not to mention the staffs of our legislators and even the staff of the highest political office we have.

This simply has to stop. We must define Islam as what it is. The perpetrators of these acts of cowardice and war on our country and the whole of western civilization must be referred to as what they are. We simply must stop the political correct BS and call our enemy by name. If not, then we have no hope of defeating that enemy.

Here is a video of a retired General who gets it. Enjoy, take heart and fight on.

http://downloads.cbn.com/cbnnewsplayer/cbnPlayer.swf?aid=11991