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06:48 am
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Honduras Wins!
For months now, America and the world have been trying to force the small nation of Honduras to violate her own Constitution and accept back into office former President Manuel ("Mel") Zelaya, who tried to repeal term limits as part of a bid to make himself a Chavez-style President-For-Life. Zelaya not only sought foreign aid to help reverse the decison of the Honduran legislature, judiciary and military, and encouraged foreign nations to embargo Honduras; he also deliberately triggered violent riots which cost Honduran lives and property, with the clear threat being to start a Honduran civil war. In all this he clearly demonstrated that he valued his own political career above the well-being of his own people.
America, under the feckless Barack Obama, betrayed her Honduran ally. (So did the Organization of American States, but then nobody expected very muich of them). Not only did America suspend aid programs and partially support the embargo, but America turned a blind eye to outright acts of war by Venezuela, Nicaragua and Brazil against a country she was under formal treaty of alliance obligated to defend. These acts of war have included the provision of arms and other materials to the violent Zelayistas by air transport, and (in the case of Brazil) allowing Zelaya to whip up his thugs from within the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa (the Honduran capital).
However the Hondurans, who have repeatedly experienced dictatorship, valued their new democracy too much to give in. Despite human and economioc losses large on the scale of this small nation (with a population of 7.5 million, each casualty is the equivalent to them of 41 casualties in America), the Hondurans refused to submit to the whims of a megalomaniac and foreign leaders.
Now, their courage has borne fruit.
( Find out What has Happened )
If all it takes for evil for triumph is for good men to do nothing, sometimes all it takes for good tor triumph is for a few good men to do something. I salute Micheletti, Vasquez -- and DeMint, who in a dark time for Honduras and America proved that there were still men of honor willing to make the effort to save democracy.
Current Mood:  hopeful
Tags: america, barack obama, diplomacy, honduras, jim demint, micheletti. vasquez, nicaragua, political, venezuela, zelaya
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11:04 am
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Four Presidential Assassinations
Introduction
In the 222 year long history of the American Presidency, we have had 43 Presidents (Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms). Of those Presidents, 4 have been assassinated in office -- a bit over 9 percent KIA, which makes the American Presidency a job at one is at a good risk of death through violence (it's also killed at least 2 Presidents, William Henry Harrison and Woodrow Wilson, through stress, bringing the on-the-job death toll to 6 and rate to 14 percent, not adjusted for terms).
Of these 4 known murders, only one has resulted in significant long-lasting paranoia and overarching conspiracy theories. Oddly enough, it is not the one which was verifiably committed by an enemy agent as part of a widespread conspiracy.
That one, of course, was the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
( WHAT Conspiracy? )
Conclusion
There seems to be very little correlation between the degree of conspiracy likely involved in a Presidential assassination and the speculation thus generated. Abraham Lincoln was certainly slain by a conspiracy, yet only moderate speculation resulted as to that conspiracy's roots. Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy were probably all slain by lone nuts, yet there is an immense industry of speculation about the Kennedy assassination. Despite Guiteau's spoken claim to have shot Garfield at the behest of the Stalwarts, little interest exists in following this up (to be true, Guiteau almost certainly did act alone and for private motives); likewise, there is little interest today in the Anarchist assassination campaign which spanned at least three continents, and to whom McKinley fell as at least a peripheral victim.
It is possible, of course, that I am being fooled here by Time. Many still live who personally remember Kennedy's assassination: none live who remember Lincoln's, probably none who remember Garfield's, and very few who remember McKinley's. The Kennedy assassination may bulk disproportionately owing to this reason.
There's also the issue of the changing importance of the Presidency. Lincoln was a crucial man because he led us in our darkest hour; compared to him most 19th-century Presidents between Monroe and McKinley were rather shadowy figures. Garfield was denied his chance at a famous Administration by Guiteau; and McKinley's reputation, though great in his day, was eclipsed by that of his flamboyant successor, Teddy Roosevelt.
JFK, on the other hand, was President at a time when the Presidency had already assumed more imperial proportions, courtesy of Wilson and FDR. His death -- though it historically changed little -- could be seen as changing more. And he benefitted from being the idol of a large generation of teenagers, of both political parties, while Oswald's bizarre political journey offered the maximum fuel for paranoia.
So it is to some extent chance, rather than inherent importance, that determines how well we remember assassinations -- and what fantasies we spin around the assassins.
END.
Current Mood:  contemplative
Tags: abraham lincoln, america, assassinations, conspiracies, conspiracy theories, crackpots, crime, james a. garfield, john f. kennedy, political, presidency, william mckinley
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09:19 am
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The Traitor Hasan's Previous Outbursts
More evidence that the US Army's adherence to political correctness enabled the traitor Hasan's terrorist strike on Fort Hood.
From "Fort Hood gunman had told U.S. military colleagues that infidels should have their throats cut," Nick Allen, in the Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6526030/Fort-Hood-gunman-had-told-US-military-colleagues-that-infidels-should-have-their-throats-cut.html):
( What did he SAY? )
But General George Casey, the Army's Chief of Staff, said it was "speculation" that military authorities failed to pick up on warning signs. "I don't want to say that we missed it," he said.
Well, of course he doesn't want to say that. He's the epitome of the REMF, and all he's interested in is covering his own ass.
Not the asses of whoever is unfortunate enough to be serving with the next Hasan.
Current Mood:  angry
Tags: america, islam, islamofascism, major hasan, military, political, political correctness, terrorism
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08:09 am
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Obama Offends Germany
The Obamessiah has decided not to deign to grace Germany with his presence on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Administration is claiming that it's a matter of other important business:
For its part, the administration is citing a scheduling conflict. The White House says the president simply does not have the time to go, with the trip to Asia starting Wednesday.
"Obviously we have a lot to work on here and we have commitments for an upcoming Asia trip," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday, noting that a "very senior delegation" of U.S. officials would attend.
("Obama Draws Criticism for Sitting Out Berlin Wall Anniversary," in Fox News, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/08/obama-draws-criticism-sitting-berlin-wall-anniversary/)
This might be plausible were it not for the fact that the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall was an event known and planned well in advance. Obama's staff should have avoided a time conflict like that when they were planning the Asia trip, whose schedule was more flexible.
He can't plead ignorance:
Obama acknowledged the anniversary of the fall of the wall last week during his meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
"We are now moving towards the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down and Germany being reunified after so many painful years," Obama said. "And this is a special moment for Chancellor Merkel, as somebody who grew up in East Germany, who understands what it's like to be under the shadow of a dictatorial regime, and to see how freedom has bloomed in Germany, how it has become the centerpiece for a extraordinarily strong European Union."
He said the U.S.-Germany alliance is an "extraordinary pillar of the transatlantic relationship."
Indeed it is. Germany is a Regional Power who will become a Great Power the moment they decide to build nuclear weapons, which they could probably do so in a matter of weeks after making the decision. The German army and economy are among the strongest in Europe. Germany was once a major center of culture and diplomacy, and might be again someday. Germany is not a country we should be treating as unimportant.
The explanations are, roughly, as follows:
( How COULD He? )
Conclusion
Once again, Obama has annoyed an American ally for unknown and probably-inadequate reasons. Once again, he's shown himself an incompetent diplomat.
And American influence in the world slips yet another bit.
Aren't you glad that Dubya isn't in office any more?
Current Mood: annoyed
Tags: america, diplomacy, germany, obama
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01:49 pm
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The Treason of Major Hasan
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
(article III, section 3, paragraph 1, Constitution of the United States of America).
On November 5th, 2009, US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a psychiatrist, committed treason against the United States of America, in the full sense of the Constitutional definition. Major Hasan -- who had openly stated before that he considered America the aggressor in Afghanistan and Iraq, and that he felt that his religious conscience precluded him from participating in a war against Iraqis who were only "trying to defend themselves" (despite the reality that Iraq has been self-governing since 2005, and that it is in fact the guerillas who are attacking Iraq) -- brought two pistols to Fort Hood, for some reason daring to defy the regulations against carrying weapons on base (Seriously! He could have gotten in real trouble for that!).
( What Happened Next )
This is a wake-up call. We need to get serious about our own security, we need to begin profiling, and if Arabs and Muslims don't like it, maybe they can do something to clean out the scum from their own communities, because it's the Terrorists who are giving them the PR problem.
We -- Americans -- need to look out for our own security primarily, and worry about hurt Muslim pride as a very distinctly secondary consideration.
Current Mood: angry
Tags: arabs, major hasan, military, muslim, terrorism, treason, war
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05:53 am
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Republicans win BIG in Electoral Races
The Republicans won 2 out of 3 of the major races this year, including a 60-40 win for Bob McDonnell in Virginia and a closer win for Christie in New Jersey, two states which voted for Obama in 2008. The only major loss for the Republicans was in New York State, where Owens beat Hoffman in a race marked by the defection of the original Republican candidate, Dede Scozzafava, to the Democrat cause. The Republicans also did well in a number of smaller races.
( What does JORDAN Think? )
The important things for the Republicans to remember:
(1) Don't get cocky. The Democrats still have the Presidency and the Congress, and they can do a lot of damage before 2011 and 2013. Furthermore, you haven't won until you win the Presidency Election Night 2012; if you treat "likely to win" as meaning "already won," you'll lose, and
(2) Don't abandon your base. If the Republican politicians run as "Democrats Lite," or (worse still) defect to the other side because those Conservatives are just so cruel and nasty (as happened in the New York race) then the Democrats are going to win. Popular or unpopular, you can't beat someone who knows what they stand for if you don't know what you stand for.
All in all, though, this is very good news for Republicans -- and for any Americans who love liberty. Even some Democrats.
Which was kind of the reason for the results.
Current Mood: cheerful
Tags: 2009 election, 2010 election, 2012 election, america, barack obama, political
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08:03 am
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The Significance of Prayers for the Assassin
As ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) zerorevenge recently pointed out (http://zerorevenge.livejournal.com/999161.html), back in 2006, Robert Ferrigno published a novel entitled Prayers for the Assassin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayers_for_the_Assassin), which was a political thriller set in a dystopic future America in which radical Islam had (through immigration, subversion, terrorism and fraud) taken over most of the country. Shari'a was now the law of the land, and civil rights were now no more extant than they are in, say, modern Iran or Saudi Arabia.
This is, of course, an improbable future. America, unlike Europe or even more Russia, does not have a severe birth dearth amont her native population. And most of our immigrant population comes from Latin America, not the Mideast. The American Armed Forces would be unlikely to tolerate a Muslim regime that proceeded to dismantle the US Constitution, and the American people would themselves be too well-armed, ornery and aware of their rights to submit to any such tyranny.
Nevertheless, I am very glad that Robert Ferrigno wrote this book.
( Why, Jordan, Since You Just Demolished the Premise? )
This book strips away the veils, and leaves the face of this hypocrisy indecently exposed. Which is why I'm glad it was written.
Current Mood: contemplative
Tags: islam, islamofascism, political, review, robert ferrigno, science fiction
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11:51 pm
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Hilarious Racefailiness
Check these mooks out ...
http://shemale.livejournal.com/158602.html
I'm not sure who is funnier. shemale for its repulsive name and icons and all-caps shouting, or doombinis for the earnest lecture about how all white people need to feel guilty for "strucutral racism."
I'm betting they're going to go ballistic after my comment which read, in part
I'm white, and I don't feel the least little bit guilty about that. And I think that white people who do feel guilty about being white or the existence of racism are suckers. Fools. Contemptible.
I welcome my friends to join the party :)
Current Mood: amused
Tags: meta, political correctness, racism
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06:55 am
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British Labour Party deliberately let in hordes of Muslim immigrants for political, social purposes
If I were British I would be white-hot furious at the British Labour Party for this.
From "Labor wanted mass immigration to make UK more multicultural, says former adviser," by Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor, the Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/6418456/Labour-wanted-mass-immigration-to-make-UK-more-multicultural-says-former-adviser.html):
The huge increases in migrants over the last decade were partly due to a politically motivated attempt by ministers to radically change the country and "rub the Right's nose in diversity", according to Andrew Neather, a former adviser to Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett.
So, as swelling mobs of Muslims engage in violent riots to suppress freedom of speech, you know who is to blame. The British Labour Party.
( What did they DO? )
He defended the policy, saying mass immigration has "enriched" Britain, and made London a more attractive and cosmopolitan place.
ROFLMAO!!!
It's funny, because I don't have to live in London.
Too bad about those of you who do. Especially those of you who voted Labour.
But fear not! When the crime rate caused by violent Muslim immigrants gets too bad, your fearless Labour Party leaders will be able to go to country houses and be perfectly safe! So you don't need to worry about them.
Feeling stupid yet?
Current Mood: cynical
Tags: britain, immigration, labour party, muslim, political
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05:24 pm
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Historical Cycles and the Mystery of 1930's Passivity
Until around 2008, I had always wondered why the Western Allies were so fatally passive in the 1930's. They watched a madman come to power in Germany, the very country that they most feared from recent historical experience; watched as he broke the treaty that ended the previous war to rearm; and watched as he began gobbling-up his Minor Power neighbors. Yet they did not act until it was almost too late. Why? And how could they have missed the obvious?
( What Exactly Happened? )
History really does have cycles; sometimes one must wait for the aggressors to unmistakably act.
And the price will be paid by the people who will die in Iranian nuclear fireballs, and even more so by the Iranians themselves when grim vengeance comes sleeting down on their cities from the stratosphere.
History won't be cheated of its cycles. :(
Current Mood:  sad
Tags: america, britain, cyclicism, diplomacy, france, germany, history, iran, iraq, political
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02:36 pm
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A Wicked Father and an Incompetent Judge - Rifqa Bary ordered back to Ohio
Fathima Rifqa Bary, the 17-year-old girl who fled an incredibly abusive Muslim family in which her brother had blinded her in one eye, and her father later beat her and threatened her with death for her conversion to Christianity, has been ordered by Orange County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Dawson, a fetid excrescence in vaguely-human form who dishonors the very concept of a "judge," to return to Ohio. Even that vile wretch Daniel Dawson was not able to justify actually sending her back to her family, so she will be in the custody of the Ohio authorities. Of course, the Ohio authorities may subsequently choose to toss her back to her hell-spawned father, a human sacrifice to appease the gods of Political Correctness.
( How Could This Happen? )
Ah well, she's just a Little Brown Girl. Not as if this is happening to somebody important -- like a white girl.
I love non-racist liberals!
Current Mood: angry
Tags: honor killings, islam, rifqa barry
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08:14 am
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Averting Soft Tyranny - Why the 2010 and 2012 Elections are Vital to America
A cry of warning sounded by Joseph Ashby:
From "When tyranny calls," (American Thinker, http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/when_tyranny_calls.html)
History is calling with the warning that tyranny is at our doorstep.
The tyranny that threatens us is not the same brand as the violent police states of the 20th century. Tyranny in America will look more like the misguided utopianism that has taken England from being the greatest, freest nation on earth to the frail remains of a world power it is today.
History called on England in the aftermath of World War II. During the war, the Axis Powers threatened England's very existence. In such dire circumstances it became necessary for the entire country to work under central direction to achieve its military objectives. However, after the Allied Forces retook Europe, England believed that wartime-style government planning should continue. The government proceeded to dismantle what, in many ways, was once the freest economy in world history.
Now, over 60 years later, we see the results. England -- the leader of the industrial revolution, the empire over which the sun never set, the parent of so many of the great modern republics -- has descended into doldrums of mediocrity.
The 2010 and 2012 elections are crucial for the history of our Republic. Obama and the Democrats want to institute what would amount to socialism in America, with all that this implies in terms of a long-term American cultural and economic decline. If the Democrats win in 2010, they may be able to win the 2012 election through fraud -- and even though the political results of that would not be permanent (neither Obama nor his coalition are immortal), Obama would have at least four more years to ram through policies which would embed socialism too securely in our political culture to ever again be removed. Which is, of course, his intent.
( Why does Jordan BELIEVE these things? )
Exactly. If the Democrats win the 2010 election, they will probably win the 2012 election, and if they win both, Obamacare will by 2017 be the law of the land, and politically untouchable.
We need to defeat Obamacare now by sending those who supported it back to private life. Even if passed, Obamacare won't really have kicked in by 2011, it won't have become part of the popular poltical culture. There will still be time to reverse it.
But give it half a decade, and it will be as entrenched as is Social Security.
And then America will face the choice of either decline -- or empire. The Republic will be doomed.
Current Mood: worried
Tags: america, barack obama, britain, diplomacy, health care, political, socialism
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06:07 am
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The Goldstone Report - The Seed of Wars
The UN Human Rights Commission has authored a report which could be the seed of wars to come -- and of harsher and more brutal ones, at that.
From Robert M. Goldberg in "The Goldstone Report's Cold Logic," The American Spectator (http://spectator.org/archives/2009/10/23/the-goldstone-reports-cold-log)
Those who claim the Goldstone Report was written simply to blacken Israel's name are missing the point. That is and can be done almost daily by directly feeding the media half truths and propaganda to use in articles that reinforce the narrative of Palestinian suffering at the hands of the occupying Israelis.
Rather, the purpose for producing the Goldstone Report was to provide a "rationale" for domestic courts around the world that are sympathetic to militant Islam to arrest Israelis -- whether they be political leaders, military officials or ordinary soldiers -- and prosecute them for war crimes under so-called " universal jurisdiction" laws.
In other words, the Goldstone Report could embolden other countries to seize Israeli citizens and hold them hostage for years at a time, under the color of UN authorization. This would be, of course, an act of war, and one quite likely to provoke Israeli retaliation. Such retaliation would be fairly easy, as there would be plenty of prominent citizens belonging to the aggressor states available for seizure and transport to Israel by Israeli covert action teams. If, OTOH, Israel accepted these aggressions unchallenged, Israel would have essentially been punished for exercising her right of self-defense.
If Israel faced such attacks simply for having accidentally killed some Palestinians in the Gaza while defending herself, then no Power which went to war for any reason or fought its war in any but the most unattainably-perfect manner would be safe from such aggressive behavior on the part of other countries. This would increase the frequency of international conflict, if any countries were stupid enough to commit such provocations and imagine that it was not committing acts of war. Furthermore, since no level of humanity in war would be enough to avoid the sort of events which are being labeled "war crimes" in regards to Operation Cast Lead, there would be absolutely no incentive for any Power to exercise any level of humanity in war at all.
The UN has almost completed its descent from the high ideals of its founding. From an organization designed to discourage war, it has become an organization designed to encourage it.
All we need now is an explicit endorsement of genocide to render the UN's corruption complete.
Current Mood:  nauseated
Tags: diplomacy, human rights, israel, palestine, un, war
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10:05 pm
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The Dunwich Horror (2009 Movie)
I just saw the most hilariously-bad adaptation of a really-good Lovecraft story imaginable. I mean it's almost up there with Manos, the Hands of Fate for sheer idiocy.
Basically, imagine The Dunwich Horror set in modern Louisiana. Now imagine that the whole point of the story is given away in the first five minutes of the movie. Now imagine that three investigators, named after but acting nothing like Amitage, Morgan and Rice from the original story, wander around aimlessly at the dictates of the plot looking for the page of the Necronomicon needed to send the Horror back to whence it came (See? I know how to avoid Spoilers, though I suspect everyone's read the original by now!)
I felt a spectral presence -- as of one man and two small robots, sitting beside me and watching the movie alongside me. I felt like crying "We've got Movie Sign!" every time a commercial ended. And I MSTed in tongues. Well, mostly English. Give me time.
( How Bad WAS IT? - Warning - SPOILERS )
This is a textbook case of how to use all kinds of elements from a really interesting science fantasy world while draining it of everything that made it good. Compared to Mr. Scriptwriter, August Derleth was freaking Clark Ashton Smith, Jack Vance and Poul Anderson all combined into one super-writing package.
A good horror writer creates verisimilitude by first delineating a believable "normal" world -- whether our own or some other -- and then the horrific elements, building them up slowly and logically so that we share in their discovery, and thus believe in them. This is true whether the horror story is set in Arkham, or Derry, or New York City, or for that matter on Rigel X or the Dying Earth.
The way you do this with an obviously fantastic world, incidentally, is to first develop the most "normal" part of the world and then the more fantastic and horrific parts. We learn all about the Shire before we see Rivendell or Mordor. We see the crew of the Nostromo and their mundane grimy space freighter before we see the ruined alien derelict and meet its terrible survivor.
You don't introduce a horror story by giving away all its secrets in the prologue. You don't have the audience meet the inbred insane family of cultists before they meet the sane rational investigators. Notably, in the original version of "The Dunwich Horror," Lovecraft shows us what can be seen of the Whateleys from the point of view of the NORMAL rural New Englanders before we learn their terrible true story.
Why? Because part of the thrill of fantasy or horror is discovery. The protagonists attempt to fathom the fantastic or horrible mysteries they have encountered, and we learn the truth as they learn the truth. This makes the truth more believable.
Ah well. Maybe someday someone will do a good film adaptation of a Lovecraft story. I've heard good things about the recent At the Mountains of Madness, but haven't gotten to see it yet.
The Dunwich Horror -- a good adaptation, it is not. At least I don't think it was supposed to leave me dissolving in hysterical laughter. I don't believe that was my reaction the first time I read the original story, anyway :)
Current Mood: disappointed
Tags: lovecraft, movies, mythos, review
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10:52 am
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The Decline and Fall of the British Police Forces
Introduction
In 1753, Henry Fielding established the first organized professional law enforcement constabulary in Britain, perhaps in any major city in the Western World. (Previous constabularies in other lands had been primarily secret-political, or riot-control, with actually stopping, let alone solving, crimes as a very secondary function). In 1829, Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel established the first official and professional police force in the modern sense of the term, the Metropolitan Police (aka "Scotland Yard") whose official jurisdiction was London (but who were frequently called in by local constabularies all over Great Britain to assist with particularly difficult law enforcement operations). By 1857, all cities in the United Kingdom were obliged to form their own professional police forces.
Great Britain, in short -- the mother of English, the mother of Parliaments, the mother of constitutional government -- was also the mother of the professional police force. The first modern police forces were born in Britain.
And now they are dying.
( What do you MEAN by that? )
This has implications for the question of whether or not Britain will be able to defeat the Muslim attempt at conquest through subversion by simply enforcing its laws equally on all residents in Britain, thus avoiding an "extraconstitutional excursion" (coup, civil war or revolution, leading to illiberal measures directed against Muslims such as massacre or forcible expulsion in violation of their civil rights).
I've been optimistic that, if the British moved to the right, a right-wing British government could simply resume the enforcement of British law on the Muslims, call out the riot police as needed when this enforcment was met with mob resistance, and eventually render the radical imams irrelevant as they would be arrested and incarcerated when they incited to riot or helped carry out honor crimes. Then, the superior attractiveness of liberal democratic society would corrode the old theocratic ways, with young Muslim men and women, no longer restrained by fear for their lives, simply moving out into the general culture and founding more modern families.
But all this assumes a professional police force. A police force filled with brutal, cowardly and incompetent officers, and indoctrinated in the superiority of shari'a to British law, can't facilitate such a change. Indeed, such a police force would try to prevent such a change -- they would surreptitiously aid the enforcement of MUSLIM law against "apostates" or "runaway" women, by means ranging from leaking the locations of fugitives from shari'a to the local imams, to outright rendering them over to the custody of the militia enforcers.
The "cowardly" part is also important. In recent riots, the British police have more than once turned tail and fled from Muslim mobs. If the British police have declined to the extent that they don't even dare face physical violence, then they will be useless in riot control work.
That means that, when the Muslims riot, the British will increasingly forced to call out the Army, which is neither trained or equipped to be efficient or gentle at police work. This also means that, because calling out the Army is such a serious step, the Parliament and other British legislative and judicial bodies may yield to the threat of rioting rather than standing firm.
In short, the decline of the British police forces makes a descent into coup, revolution or civil war all the more likely.
I don't know what more to say. Thoughts? Especially from Brits?
Current Mood: sad
Tags: britain, crime, islam, muslim, police, political, riots, terror
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10:53 am
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For Love of Mao or Hitler
Suppose that the President of the United States chose as a close personal aide someone who proudly admitted to admiring Adolf Hitler. Suppose that this aide said in public and on camera that he considered Hitler one of the world's greatest philosophers and one of those to whom he looked for personal guidance when facing difficult decisions.
How would America react to this?
Wonder no more.
Anita Dunn, who is currently Obama's White House Communication Director, has done essentially this. There's only one point of difference in the actual situation. The monster whom Ms. Dunn has chosen to admire and set forth as an examplar of wisdom is not Adolph Hitler, but rather Mao Tse-Tung.
( Learn the Details )
I would love to hear someone attempt to defend the fact that Obama did not sack this woman upon learning of her fondness for an insane mass murderering tyrant, in some manner that does not involve Obama either despising Chinese lives or worshipping Mao himself.
(*waiting*)
Current Mood: shocked
Tags: anita dunn, barack obama, china, mao tse-tung
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01:35 am
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Looking for Anita Devi Sahni Glidewell
For over a decade I've been looking to reconnect with an old friend: Anita Glidewell nee Sahni. She's around 44-45 years old, and is the widow of Harry W. Glidewell, who died on May 1st 2001. She has three siblings, a twin Rita, and two younger twins, Krishen Kumar Sahni, and Kirin.
Anita and her family were raised in Dobbs Ferry NY, but Anita and Harry moved to Virginia. Among the places they lived in Virginia were Midlothian and Chester. She may have also lived for a time or may be living in New York, NY, or in the state of New Jersey. I've tried a lot of online search engines but been unable to find her. I really can't afford the paid search engines.
Her full birth name was Anita Devi Sahni, she's probably now Anita Devi Sahni Glidewell, unless she remarried.
If anyone knows anything about her, I would greatly appreciate the information.
Thank you.
Current Mood: contemplative
Tags: appeal, personal, search
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10:51 am
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Carter's Folly Exposed
This article was of course not pitched to achieve this end, coming as it does from the leftist and pro-Islamist BBC. The name of the piece of quasi-human filth whose continued existence desecrates this good green Earth is Ebrahim Asgharzadeh, now secretary-general of the Hambastegi (Unity) Party of Iran.
From "Remembering the Hostage Crisis," BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3978523.stm):
Pay attention:
We did not have an accurate and calculated plan for taking over the embassy. We did not have any plans to take any hostages, either.
We were just a group of students who wanted to stage a protest.
Note well: the original mob of students had no firm plan. What does this mean?
( What DOES This Mean? )
In recent years we tried to make the American people understand that our move was just a reaction against the US intervention in our country.
After every revolution there will be some extremist moves.
The Islamic Revolution has now reached stability and this sort of behaviour should not be repeated in the future.
Hopefully, the Islamic Revolution will soon reach morbidity. And, even more hopefully, America will put pressure on and the successor state to the Islamic Republic will respond to this pressure by turning over animated feces like Ebrahim Asgharzadeh to America, so that they may be snatched from their wealth and honors and deference, to finish their days in Federal prison where they belong, as the despised criminals their conduct has in fact made them.
Current Mood: angry
Tags: america, carter, hostage war, iran, iranian revolution
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07:34 am
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UN and US both conclude Honduran Countercoup justified but maintain sanctions
So, studies by both the UN and US have concluded that Micheletti's countercoup against Zelaya were justified.
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hondudiarioh.com%2Fl%2Fcontent%2Fdestituci%25C3%25B3n-de-zelaya-fue-constitucional-onu
Key point:
Un estudio del Departamento de Asuntos Políticos de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) sobre la causas que provocaron la crisis en Honduras, concluyó que la destitución del ex presidente Manuel Zelaya, "fue constitucional y de acuerdo las leyes del país", confirmaron fuentes oficiales de ese organismo.
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A study by the Department of Political Affairs of the United Nations Organization (UNO) on the causes of the crisis in Honduras, concluded that the removal of President Manuel Zelaya, "was constitutional under the laws of the country," confirmed officials of that agency.
And the US Library of Congress study also came to the same conclusion.
So what this means is that "mmm mmm, Barack Hussein Obama, mmm mmm" has betrayed an American ally, broken commercial treaties, helped to rupture the Organization of American States (it will be a long time before Honduras respects them again), and helped an Amerian enemy (Venezuela) -- and for what? To enforce norms of international law that don't even exist? To force the Honduran people to accept the rule of a megalomaniacal dictator?
What was the point of all this, Great Obamessiah? I know You move in mysterious ways, but can't you give us a sign?
Current Mood: cynical
Tags: america, barack obama, diplomacy, honduras, oas, political, un
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05:07 pm
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Netanyahu stands firm, refuses to let Israelis be subject to international "war crimes" trials
A welcome breath of courage and common sense from Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel today. According to Josef Federman, AP writer in "Netanyahu: No war crimes trials for Israelis," (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091012/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday vowed never to allow Israeli leaders or soldiers to stand trial on war crimes charges over their actions during last winter's military offensive in the Gaza Strip, furiously denouncing a U.N. report in a keynote address to parliament.
Indeed. Israel in fact conducted the offensive with scrupulous attention to the Laws of War, in sharp contrast to the behavior of Hamas. The only reason that there is any movement calling for the Israelis to suffer war crimes prosecutions is that there is a significant segment of international opinion that believes that Jews, because they are Jews, lack the right to self-defense possessed by other people.
"This distorted report, written by this distorted committee, undermines Israel's right to defend itself. This report encourages terrorism and threatens peace," Netanyahu said in his address at the opening of parliament's winter session. "Israel will not take risks for peace if it can't defend itself."
Precisely. Netanyahu grasps that the UN is anti-Semitic, and treats the organization with the contempt it deserves. Now, more than ever, it's welcome to hear someone willing to say this out loud.
What do you think?
Current Mood: pleased
Tags: diplomacy, gaza, hamas, israel, legal, netanyahu, palestinian, un, war
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