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Sunday, June 6, 2010

Why Did Israel Attack Civilians in the Mediterranean?


Why Did Israel Attack Civilians in the Mediterranean?


June 2, 2010
by Thierry Meyssan 
Original Source:
  http://www.voltairenet.org/article165593.html
ISRAEL WEIGHED IN ADVANCE THE CONSEQUENCES of its attack against a humanitarian convoy of ships carrying aid to the Gaza Strip.  What were its objectives in triggering a world diplomatic crisis, and why did it defy its Turkish ally as well as its U.S. protector?

President Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, an Israeli citizen, met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on May 26, 2010, five days before Israel's massacre of civilians - in international waters.   Israel's use of lethal force on the Gaza flotilla was evidently preplanned.
Extracts from "Why did Israel attack civilians in the Mediterranean?"

An "Act of War" Against a NATO Member State

Under international law, the decision to accost a civilian vessel in international waters is an "act of war". Legally speaking, Israel’s acts constitute the appropriation of the vessels and their cargo, the kidnapping of the passengers, murder or possibly even assassination, if one accepts the reports relayed by Turkish television according to which the commandos were in possession of a list of people that had to be eliminated...

By boarding a Turkish ship and killing passengers, Tel Aviv opted for a military response to the diplomatic crisis that has pitted it against Ankara since January 2009. Israel expects this decision will provoke a crisis within the Turkish Army command as well as between the latter and the Turkish government. However, it could also lead to a complete break in military ties between the two countries, even though Turkey has been Israel’s closest regional ally for over half a century. Turkish-Israeli joint exercises have already been canceled indefinitely. Moreover, this crisis could also affect trade relations between the two countries, despite the fact that Turkey is a vital partner for the Israeli economy...

In the afternoon, as a member of NATO, Turkey addressed the Atlantic Council. If Ankara fails to receive the appropriate response from the Israeli government, it could decide to qualify the attack as an act of war and seek military aid from member states of the Alliance under Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty...

The Israeli decision to attack civilian vessels in international waters came after the assassination in the Emirates a Palestinian leader by a Mossad cell, the discovery of a vast network of falsified copies of passports to the embarrassment of Western states; and after Israel’s refusal to attend the international follow-up conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. This set of facts can either be interpreted as a succession of exploits on the part of a state which is confident of its impunity - in this case, it could amount to just one more exploit or one too many -, or as an escalation following a brief public friction with the U.S. administration - signifying that Israel is asserting itself as the leader of the Zionist movement by showing that Tel Aviv decides and Washington complies....

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, stated that the Israeli operation had absolutely no legal justification. The U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Richard Falk, made it a point to emphasize that beyond the violation of the freedom of movement at sea, the blockade remains the fundamental issue. "Unless prompt and decisive actions are taken to challenge Israel’s attitude vis-à-vis Gaza, we will all be complicit in a criminal policy that threatens the survival of a beleaguered community," he said.

Thierry Meyssan is a French political analyst and founder of theVoltaire Network and the Axis for Peace conference.  Author of 9/11 the Big Lie and Pentagate, Meyssan's articles on international relations are published in newspapers and magazines in Arabic, Spanish, and Russian.


Christopher Bollyn spoke about the evidence of thermite in the destruction of the Twin Towers at the first Axis for Peace conference in Brussels in 2005.

Do Primordial Magnetic Fields Roam the Universe?


June 02, 2010

Do Primordial Magnetic Fields Roam the Universe?

P0521NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope may have uncovered a new high energy mystery: galaxies and even large-scale galaxy clusters have magnetic fields shrouding them much like Earth. 
While examining distant extra-galactic sources, a team of astronomers at the University of Geneva’s Center for Astrophysics found something startling; distant sources such as blazars and highly energetic galactic nuclei seemed sapped of their predicted strength. This effect is the same without variation in all directions, which suggest that free floating magnetic fields range the cosmos, perhaps predating the modern day galactic fields. 
These intervening fields are a predicted cause of the observed drop in gamma-ray energy from these distant sources. Could the universe itself have an overall polarized field? Or is there another effect that has yet to be accounted for, such as intervening dark matter or dark energy?  Further analysis by Fermi and other scopes soon to come online may prove to be key to unraveling this mysterious effect.
Another international team of researchers have stared down the barrel of one of the most violently energetic objects in the universe - and they didn't blink.  Instead, they've figured out the physics behind one of the most impressive astrophysical events in existence.
BL Lacertae is a blazar, a supermassive galactic-core black hole emitting vast and variable beams of energy.  Please understand that giving this thing a name like "blazar" is like calling a speeding sixteen wheeler truck full of professional wrestlers, grizzly bears and dynamite a "gentle prodder." The English language simply lacks the ability to get across the staggering scale of these events - because it doesn't have a case above upper or letters bigger than capital.
The most famous property of black holes is the event horizon, the "point of no return" beyond which you cannot escape.  But even before this final barrier you're still close to a gigantic gravitational well built out of most of an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) - if not a point of no return, it's still a "point of incredibly difficult to escape from".  We observe vast, super-energetic near-light speed particle streams from the poles of some such systems - what gives them the power?
That was the question Professor Alan Marscher and an international team set out to answer, confirming their theories with observations of the inner workings of the BL Lac blazar particle stream.  Big questions need big tools (especially when they're over nine hundred million miles away), so they enlisted the help of a global network of satellites including the Very Large Baseline Array (VLBA), a continental set of dishes with resolution equivalent to a dish larger than the USA.
These mega-scale observations tracked particles as they were hurled from the throat of the blazar, emitting radiation as they go, and confirmed the team's theories that the power source is massively compressed and twisted magnetic fields.  
As material is sucked into the black hole, it spirals in along a large accretion disk.  As it gets closer to being consumed, the material is crushed smaller and smaller by increasing gravitational forces - and the magnetic field lines coming along with it are crushed together as well, creating hugely intense fields oriented around the spinning black hole.  These gigantic fields can drive particles away from the hole, causing them to corkscrew along a narrowly confined path while emitting precise bursts of radiation - bursts the astronomers observed exactly.
Understanding these universe-grade events is a great step forward in astrophysics - for one thing, The BL Lacertae blazar is a particle accelerator that makes the LHC look like an asthmatic child throwing pebbles.
Casey Kazan with Luke McKinney.

http://astroguyz.com/2010/06/01/01-06-10-do-primordial-magnetic-fields-roam-the-cosmos/

Israel’s Many, Many Rights

The Gaza Flotilla and Israel’s Many, Many Rights

Posted by Charles Glass on June 03, 2010
Anybody can support Israel when times are good and The Timeses in London and New York write about Israeli entrepreneurs in Herzliya, Nobel prizes for physicians, and the blooming desert. That’s easy. How about now, though, when Israeli forces have blasted a humanitarian convoy at sea and killed nine people bringing food, medicine, baby clothes, and building supplies? When the going gets tough, only a few get going. God bless Les Gelb, Alan Dershowitz and the other singular champions of Israelism for standing up now, when nine Turkish citizens lie dead and Israel’s reputation is once again, for a moment, in tatters. Gelb bravely asserted on The Daily Beast, “Israel had every right under international law to stop and board ships bound for the Gaza war zone late Sunday.”
Even if no international law, and certainly no Law of the Sea, actually permits armed soldiers to board unarmed merchant ships in international waters, it is good that Gelb had the guts to say there’s one. Israel can rely as well on Dershowitz, the Harvard Law professor who years ago proposed that Israel destroy Palestinian villages in retaliation for suicide bombings—his own “Lidice” solution for which the Nazis who destroyed the Czech village of Lidice in retaliation for the murder of Rheinhard Heydrich were hanged. His counsel on the Huffington Post will soon have the Israeli army storming Gaza, devastating Lebanon, nuking Iran, and sinking cruise liners. When push came to the shove of ethnically cleansing the entire West Bank of its Arab population, Les and Al would be there to tell us all that it was right and, of course, legal. That’s what lawyers, I mean real friends, are for.
I now list the rights that Israel is entitled to exercise now and forever with the full support of its true friends, mainly in America, but wherever else they may be found. Perhaps not, at the moment, in Turkey.
Israel has the right to kill anyone, anytime, for any reason it chooses. This includes those it designates as terrorists or terrorist supporters in Israel itself, in the occupied territories, in Dubai, on airplanes, in cars and on ships. No other state is entitled to this right for reasons that I now forget, but which I am sure Al and Les can remind us about.
Israel is entitled to at least $5 billion a year from the American taxpayer, however hard-pressed he or she may be, during the good times as well as in the midst of financial crises. Israel’s government may spend the money as it sees fit, without oversight or audit by the US Treasury, the Government Accounting Office or the Congress. If a few million bucks go astray or pay for allegedly illegal activities, like displacing Palestinians from their homes and building Israeli settlements on them, that is nobody’s business. If Congress doesn’t like it, it can go to the White House and ask for more.
Israel may use the weapons the United States gives it in any way it chooses, whenever it chooses, and wherever it chooses. US-Israeli treaties limiting their use to defense and prohibiting the deployment of cluster bombs on civilians may be ignored as having no legal force. I defer to the experts at the Harvard School of Law for an exact exegesis of this proposition, but it should be self-evident to all who truly support Israel and not just the whining ninnies who only support it when it is not breaking the law—which, as I said, it is never really breaking anyway.
Israel has the right to spy on and attack American institutions and military installations. The precedents for this obvious assertion are many—Israel’s bombing of American cultural centers in Egypt in the 1950s, its attack on the American naval ship Liberty in 1967 with thirty-two American sailors killed and another 17 wounded, and the many instances when agents like Jonathan Pollard steal American defense secrets and Israeli intelligence passes the information onto America’s enemies. (Read my old colleague James Bamford’s Body of Secrets for the details. You’ll need Les and Al to help you finish the book without having a certain patriotic fury at some of Israel’s breaches of American security.) Bombing American cinemas in Egypt and an American communications ship may seem illegal (and certainly hostile) to the people Les Gelb courageously calls “knee-jerk left-wingers and the usual legion of poseurs around the world.” To the rest of us, the illegal is obviously legal when done by Israel.

“Stand by Israel now. Stand by the real Israel and not those cry babies who defame the state from within. If you don’t, you lousy left-wing, knee-jerk poseur, you’re nothing but an anti-Semite.”

United Nations resolutions do not apply to Israel. The UN should pass a resolution immediately to make this clear. Israel has been in contravention, at least on paper, of more UN resolutions than any other member state. It has consistently refused to adhere to Security Council and General Assembly resolutions on the refugees who fled or were expelled by its forces in 1948 and 1967, on its occupation of territories seized in 1967, on its seizure of land in those territories, on its transfer of its own civilians into occupied territories, on the construction of settlements in the same territories and on its treatment of indigenous civilians in those territories. Let’s get this straight. The UN can say whatever it likes, but it cannot expect its resolutions to apply to Israel—except, of course, the one that recognized Israel as a state in 1948. Non-compliance with UN resolutions may be used as a justification for invading Iraq, but they cannot possibly justify criticism of Israel in the knee-jerk, left-wing press or among the blogs of the Legion of Poseurs. (Perhaps there really is an organization called the Legion of Poseurs. If there is, I am sure Les will let us know about it.)
Israel can bomb and invade Lebanon whenever it wants, but we all know that.
Israel can discriminate between its Jewish citizens and non-Jewish citizens, as well as between its settlers and those stateless souls in the occupied lands. Jews can own land in Israel, and (except for about eight per cent of it) Arabs may not. Israel can make the distinction between Jewish and non-Jewish people without knee-jerk left-wingers and legionary poseurs calling it apartheid. Apartheid was what the South African whites did, which was to discriminate between white and non-white people. There is a big difference between dividing society into whites and non-whites as opposed to dividing it between Jews and non-Jews. I am sure Harvard Law has published many papers to clarify the distinction.
Israel can put Gaza under siege whenever it likes. If the Palestinians in Gaza don’t like it, they can go home. Well, actually, the ninety per cent of them who are refugees can’t go home, because Israel won’t let them. And that too is Israel’s right. Do not forget it is always legal for Israel to prevent shipments of food, medicine, children’s toys, light bulbs and anything else it likes from entering Gaza, even though international law says that collective punishment and deprivation of life’s necessities are illegal.
Israel may stop any ship bound for Gaza (or anywhere else) whenever it wants. Les Gelb found a precedent for this: the Allied blockade of Germany. Germany was at war with the British, and German U-boats were as effective at besieging the British as the Royal Navy was at blockading Germany. Israel cannot be in a legal state of war with territory it occupies. If it were, it would be obliged to treat Palestinian anti-occupation fighters in its custody as prisoners of war with rights under the Geneva Conventions. And we all know how likely that is and what Israel thinks of the Geneva Conventions. You guessed it, right up there with treaties and UN resolutions. The German-British siege is about as good a precedent for the siege of Gaza Les is likely to give us, even if he is free to reject its other implications. Thus, on the high seas, Israel can ram aid ships like it did last year or drop armed commandos on them as it did last week. And those bloody Turkish civilians have no right to take away the Israeli soldiers’ pistols. That is pure aggression. Les concedes that, while Israel can board ships in international or, presumably, Gazan waters, it cannot do the same in the territorial waters of another state. He writes, “Thus, for example, if the Israelis stopped the ships in Egyptian waters, that would have been a violation.” Frankly, Les, that’s trimming. Of course, it can stop ships in Egyptian or Lebanese (which it does all the time) or American waters. And I’ll bet ten to one that, whenever it does stop a ship in Egyptian waters, you’ll change your mind.
Israel can demand that Hamas and every other Palestinian group recognize Israel and its “right to exist” (even though, in any other context, the concept “right to exist” has no existence in law), while Israel refuses to recognize the state of Palestine within the 1947 borders set by the United Nations or the 1949 ceasefire lines that became the first, albeit temporary, borders of Israel. Not only does Israel not have to recognize such a state, it may physically prevent it from coming into being (as it has done since 1967). Let me repeat: Israel has the right to recognition without giving recognition in return. No other two states in the world have relations on that basis, but those states are not Israel. Professor Dershowitz can no doubt have one of his students (at least one who wants a job when he graduates) prepare a thesis giving the rationale behind what knee-jerk left wingers and poseurs contend is an extremely odd state of affairs.
There you have it. Stand by Israel now. Stand by the real Israel and not those cry babies who defame the state from within. If you don’t, you lousy left-wing, knee-jerk poseur, you’re nothing but an anti-Semite. Al and Les can explain why anyone and everyone, even Jews, critical of any Israeli action should be called anti-Semitic. I used to know why, but I’ve forgotten.
Article URL: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_gaza_flotilla_and_israels_many_many_rights/

Reality for Radicals

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Reality for Radicals

Created 2010-06-06 09:59

These days, one who would write about the unfolding meeting of the West with the Wall of Reality must choose every day whether to write on that day or take some action to protect his family from what he’d be writing about.
Financially, escape is no longer possible, for the crumple zone of the careening vehicle has already been smashed. Insane governments have turned a crisis of imprudent banking into a crisis of imprudent sovereign debt. To cure a disease of debt they have issued more debt. To address a fundamental crisis of insolvency, they are pumping the stock Keynesian emetic as though this were a crisis of liquidity. Like Michael Crichton’s environmentalists (1), destroying Nature they arrogantly wanted to manage, pedigreed economists at the helm of the West’s fiscal and monetary destiny have engaged in ignorant, incompetent, and disastrously intrusive intervention that will be followed by attempts to repair the intervention, followed by attempts to repair the damage caused by the repair.
One after another, fiat currencies are catching fire, as all paper promises by lying governments must. Flight into the perceived safety of U.S. Treasury bonds buys the debt paper of the biggest Greece of them all. Stocks have crashed. If money printing brings them up again it won’t last, for consumer demand itself has cratered. Flight into gold leads into a blind alley foreclosed by the evil vampire squids either through naked shorts that suppress the price as a favor to Leviathan or through fictional fractional business that allows them to sell 100 bars of paper gold against each one they own.
Naked shorting, i.e. selling commodities you neither own nor borrowed is simply a con job akin to selling the Brooklyn Bridge or Eiffel Tower. That such an institutionalized swindle is allowed attests to the fundamental disconnect from Reality and moral bankruptcy not merely of the greedy Crooks but of the governments that have abandoned their few needed and legitimate functions, salient among which is being the honest cop in the bustling marketplace.
Instead, governments are busy pulling off their own mega-swindles, such as promising too many costly entitlements to too many people and misspending enormous funds on social engineering at home and stupid pet causes abroad. Those funds are raised through confiscation from legitimate citizens via onerous taxation, borrowing in international Ponzi schemes, and diluting the currency through “quantitative easing.” The latter forfeits the government’s second needed function: to preserve the value of the currency it issues.
Throughout the West, Karl Marx is smiling even as gangster financial manipulators loot the world with impunity. It’s from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
In the U.S., the government has coerced banks to grant mortgages to millions of favored minorities, irrespective of prospects of repayment. When, inevitably, the mortgages went sour and the banks crashed, the government transferred all that fictional finance onto its own books underwritten by the taxpayers’ money. In Europe, the Northern people who work, produce and save have been forced out of their sound currencies to enable their Body Snatcher (2) elites to subsidize via the common euro the Southern people who play, consume and borrow. When the inevitable happened, the Eurocrats are transferring further trillions from the Northerners, to bail out the Southerners.
As each level of fiction collapses before the onslaught of offended Reality, many more levels of lies remain. The massive foundation of social, economic, cultural, biological, political and geopolitical illusions on which the modern Western state perches as though on a layer of sweet and airy meringue is already so pitted and fissured that all but diehard Snatchers perceive it. Alas, frank public debate of the underlying phantom crossbars is proscribed by Snatcher laws and speech codes. Moreover, the majority of the population is hostile to such debate, for it’s guy-wired by Pod mental chipsets implanted by the state’s compulsory education and remotely controlled by all other major social institutions nonstop for the last 45 years.
Unlike in the financial area, social and martial crashes are still avoidable in theory, but will not be avoided because the ruling elites refuse to discern their true causes and the majorities that vote them in are too far-gone to change that. In the decohered Inverse Reality foisted on the West by its ruling class, nothing can make sense or is ever predictable. It’s all a series of random events while we, free of the burden of facts and their patterns, can proceed gloriously toward a vision of ever more perfect Justice, Equality and Peace.
When a Pakistani U.S. citizen whom it was sheer lunacy to let into the country and naturalize in the first place is caught after trying to pulverize the Saturday night crowd at Times Square, AP’s syndicated headline reads, “NY car bomb suspect cooperates, but motive mystery.” After all, Faisal Shahzad was just another Man in a Grey Flannel Suit Connecticut commuter, was he not?
Before Shahzad was apprehended, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, speculated that the terrorist was a right-wing (read “White”) person with rancor toward the Obama regime. After he was apprehended, Bloomberg’s main expressed concern was not for the string of attacks by American Muslims on the country that adopted them (3), but was stated as, “We will not tolerate any bias or backlash against Pakistani or Muslim New Yorkers."
The collective insanity is too big to grasp in its totality, but Mayor Bloomberg is a compact case study. At a net worth of $18 billion, Bloomberg is the 8th richest person in the United States. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering and an MBA from Harvard. No idiot can amass such a fortune and such degrees. So why would Bloomberg rant about the recent Arizona law aimed at controlling illegal immigration? That law (here and here), is after all consistent with federal laws that are already on the books, except the federal government refuses to enforce them.
'We are committing national suicide,” Bloomberg said, "People are developing new drugs in India, rather than here. They're going to win the next Nobel Prize in China or in Europe not here. If we want to have a future,we need to have more immigrants here." 
There is one tiny flaw with His Honor’s empathic assertion. 80% of the 12 – 20 million illegal immigrants who have flooded Arizona and most of America are Western hemisphere nonwhites semi literate not just in English but in Spanish. Their mean IQ is 82 -83 (4). An IQ of 100 is the necessary minimum to absorb the curriculum of a real high school teaching real subjects like math, chemistry, Cervantes in Spanish and Shakespeare in English rather than Chicano pride, Afro-American studies, safe sex and basketball. And that 100 IQ, which happens to be the White mean, would still be short at least three Standard Deviations (i.e. 45 IQ points) from the level at which Nobel-quality science work is possible.
Only 0.135% of Whites have an IQ at that level, and the relevant percentage among the vast majority of (non-East Asian) immigrants is much smaller. But Bloomberg’s mental chip is plugged into a lie so fixed and guarded by dragon words like ‘racism’ and ‘discrimination’ that he could not possibly assimilate the foregoing without having to erase his internal Operating System. It’s like seeing the sun rise in the East and set in the West, and then being told that the Earth revolves around the sun. “Burn the heretic!”
Consider Lenin’s advice applied by the Snatchers faithfully to sell their multiculti falsehoods: “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” After 45 years of an accelerated Long March through every Western institution, society is now not only controlled and manipulated at will by Gnostic Loons fired up by fanatical religious zeal, but largely populated by pitiable Pod creatures “snatched” by the Loons in a multi-generational campaign. All gyre in some Inverse Reality vortex that bears no resemblance to actual life on Earth.
Indeed, observing Western society in its throes is like looking at a poor little ant, its head torn off, the body staggering, trying to make sense of Reality without the organ it needs for perceiving it. Consider NATO soldiers running around Kandahar looking for terrorists and vying for the “courageous restraint” award that can be won by not firing their weapons even when their lives are at risk. And that’s after their commanders have doubled that risk by forcing the soldiers to patrol enemy territory with unloaded weapons. Meanwhile, Western governments import the cousins of the terrorists at whom NATO soldiers may not fire, so that they can blow up the soldiers’ wives and cousins back home.
Once here, even the law-abiding, peaceful majority of imported Muslims becomes a conduit and apologist for terrorism. Melanie Phillips has named Great Britain’s National Association of Muslim Police “The thin blue line of jihad.”  In a similar pattern, White Pod populations consistently vote in nonwhite “minorities” into high political office in order to be repeatedly disfranchised by such office holders who simultaneously advance their ethnic tribes by illegitimate means. A small sample might include Rotterdam Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, Black U.S. Congressmen, and the entire B.H. Obama presidency in a salient pattern that thick books will be written about, alas, too late.
How much smarter the West’s Muslim enemies are. They have their Koran that specifies their military mission in exact terms not fuzzed by lying idiocies like calling Islam “religion of peace” or granting awards for not smiting the infidels. They have their empirical traditions encapsulated in proverbs and parables that any goatherd can understand. How about, “Better a thousand enemies outside the house than one inside.”
To discuss Reality, one does not have to deploy polysyllabic words with Greek and Latin endings. A PhD dissertation written in German is not needed. Reality is what is. We have known for a hundred thousand years what is.
Repeat empirical evidence of Reality is programmed into our genes; for instance the “flight or fight” response. Your body will rarely make the error of trying to wrestle down a grizzly bear, yet your postmodern nation is committed to spawning horrific grizzly bears forever and forcing you at the point of the government’s gun to wrestle them every day of your life.
Reality is also encoded in our cultural legacy. Consider Genesis 3:15, God’s curse on the serpent: “I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in vain for her heel.” I call it time-tested advice for survival, if needing some caveats for various garter and black (e.g. Coluber constrictor) snakes. But modern-day Loons would call it prejudice, racial profiling and hate speech. And Gnostic Loons who hold the levers of power will deliberately force you to venture barefoot among the vipers, to cure you of your prejudices.
Reality does not need a battery of sociologists to tabulate and ameliorate it. Hear the Welsh priest George Herbert, who counseled in his 1651 Jacula Prudentium, "He that lies with the dogs riseth with fleas." How do the liaisons of your country with the rogue nations of the Third World look in light of this apothegm? Or consider what Benjamin Franklin wrote in Poor Richard's Almanack sometime in the 1740s: "Nine men in ten are suicides." How does the theory and practice of the neo-socialist “social justice” redistributive state look in light of this six-word crystallization of Reality?
Here is Aesop, writing 2600 years ago on the Muslim jihad-from-within enabled by the Loons, and the rise of the Chinese Frankenstein enabled by the Crooks in the Reality-averse contemporary West:

“A Man came into a Wood one day with an axe in his hand, and
begged all the Trees to give him a small branch which he wanted
for a particular purpose.
The Trees were good-natured and gave him one of their branches.
What did the Man do but fix it into the axe head, and soon set to work
cutting down tree after tree.
Then the Trees saw how foolish they had been in giving their enemy
the means of destroying themselves.”

The Masters of the West have little interest in such eternal verities. They have their apothegms and sages’ advice too, but those are not about discerning and respecting Reality but about how to foist on their subjects the Parallel Universe version. They particularly revere this Stalin gem: “Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”
Lenin and Stalin and Alinsky have been alive and well and tunneling diligently in every Western government, city, school and media outlet since 1965, and more leisurely so in the prior decades. Reality is systematically displaced by lies, implanted at childhood, cultivated assiduously through 12 years of public education, reinforced at every step in the covert premises behind all products of the entertainment and news industry, codified and enforced at law and preached ceaselessly by political leaders and emulated celebrities. About those celebrities, Time Magazine will be happy to tell you that Taylor Swift  is the ninth most influential person in the world.
The Major Lies are like faces on Mount Rushmore that cannot be dislodged except if the mountain itself crumble. The chief lie and the cause of practically all of the Loons’ crimes and depredations is the lie of Equality. The Loons’ subsidiary lies are the noisily imputed White “Racism” and its Parallel Universe myth of the noble and congenitally nonracist Person of Color, from which are synthesized the overriding commandments of “Diversity,” “Tolerance, “Social Justice” and Nondiscrimination. The Crooks have their major Lies too: the undeclared pox of the “global economy” and the fraudulent manipulations of fiat money, fractional banking, imprudent leverage, financial capitalism and Keynesian economics.
These lies have been destroying the West at a logarithmic progression. The only mechanism that still works truthfully, except when rigged by the hedge boys and other Crooks -- is the stock market. And so, on 6 May 2010 -- the day when it transpired that California high school students wearing American flag T-shirts had been sent home because it was the Mexican holiday of Cinco de Mayo and a high school in Texas celebrated said holiday by putting up a Mexican flag and then suspending a student for removing itand the Hispanic fifth column launched a boycott of Arizona  over its “anti-immigrant” law, and it transpired that a black US Congressman, Andre Carson, said that “Tea Party [read “White”] protesters are one of the largest threats to our Internal Security”  a few days after a Pakistani immigrant almost blew up Times Square, and the greasy black race hustler Al Sharpton – the toast of America’s ruling elite - said that there won’t be true Social Justice until everything is equal in everybody’s house, and it transpired that Comedy Central is developing a cartoon showmaking fun of Jesus Christ  while tiptoeing around Muhammad pbuh, and Faisal Shahzad had been on Homeland Security’s list since 1999 , and Jenny Watson, a left-wing gender merit promotion and Great Britain’s Chairman of the Electoral Commission presided over a Third World chaos election that favored the Looters (who have their days) over the Looted (who work and can’t vote until the evening), and the Snatcher subprime mortgage “Home-ownership Justice” lunatic black hole known as Freddie Mac requested an additional 10.6 billion dollar bailout  after a prior $50 billion bailout, and the riots in Greece intensified and it became clear to experts that the Greek Crook Conflagration was uncontainable either in Greece or in the world at large -- a notion that “From Meccania to Atlantis” voiced two months earlier as “We are all pigs now” -- on that day, the stock market experienced “one of the most dramatic selloffs in market history”, dropping 9.2% before ending the day with a “mere” 3.2% loss.

Life underwater
The Loons have destroyed the social capital of the West, and the Crooks have misallocated, misappropriated or simply incinerated the financial capital reserves of the West. Much of its industrial base too, particularly in the United States. It’s a little more complicated, because the Loons have incinerated much of that financial capital themselves through corrupt or idiotic government initiatives, and the Crooks have a big hand in the Loons’ lunacy. It’s perhaps because the symbiosis between the Loons and Crooks works partly by interpollination, in contrast to the Body Snatcher manner of reproduction of 100% Loons, which is by asexual parthogenesis.
Consider, for instance, that George Soros is the moneybags of the Loon Party, Ted Turner has given a $1 billion donation to the branch of Hamas known as United Nations, Richard Branson finances an ultra-liberal international socialist cabal named The Elders, Bill Gates created a $1-billion scholarship fund restricted to nonwhites, and Goldman Sachs gave to “minority-owned” small businesses half a billion of its $13 billion bailout received from the 50% of Americans, overwhelmingly White, who pay taxes. Although that move was probably a tactic of a clever squid that, when caught in a trap by a clever Loon – in this case B. Hussein Obama – sacrifices one of its many arms to “social justice” in order to be able to push on.
The interpollination works in other ways too. The Crooks, for instance, worship at the altar of “Growth.” Growth is predicated on foisting the most useless stuff on the most stupid segments of the population, particularly the 9 -24 years old: from Nintendo to Facebook, from Rap to Horror films, from Cocoa Puffs to 500 TV channels bubbling with imbecilic crap.
That works wonderfully for the Loons, because the stupider and more decadent the populace gets, the more oblivious it is to its hijacking by the Peace and Justice crowd and its Crook allies. This has now grown to such dimensions that Undocumented Democrats in Arizona march with demands for free healthcare, jobs, housing, food and no taxes, while all that occupies the New York Times  and its clucking Brahmin faithful is the “nativist apoplexy” of the "bigoted," "hysterical," "vicious," "snarling" racists who enacted Arizona’s lifeline law, and all those other racists in the Tea Party. What’s worse, “conservative” pundits spend much of their time protesting that the Tea Party is not racist.Reality, however, is racist, if only in statistical approximations. It is here and it’s everywhere, except it’s taboo.
The world in which we live now is a National Geographic documentary showing in HD colors a giant vampire squid interlaced with a host of stinging jellyfish to trap a family of sea mammals on a bed of piercing coral. The squid and its gelatinous allies treat their hostages with deep-gouging bites and swipes while fanning the waters to attract migratory parasites and aid their adhesion in the trapped creatures’ bodies. Escape if foreclosed partly by the punishing coral spears of the metastized legal code of every Western country, enacted by raving Snatcher solons in chunks of 2000 unread pages full of disastrous intended and unintended consequences and interpreted solely by Loon judges and law professors. It’s all a vivid combination of tactics to weaken, burden and deplete the large prey so that the Looters Coalition be able to close in for the final feast.
Above this idyllic scene hovers the large-beyond-measure Leviathan, ostensibly protecting all in its shade but in reality having long ago entered into a pact with the squid and the jellyfish to block the hostages’ escape routes. In fact, since the 2009 assumption of U.S. presidency by B. Hussein Obama and the ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon, Leviathan is the overt capo di tutti capi of this particular ecosystem.
But here things get more interesting. While it’s the giant vampire squid that’s the trapped creatures’ most damaging foe, and Leviathan the most dangerous, it’s the stinging jellyfish that are the most effective disablers. They do so by emitting sweet gurgling subsonic sounds that seem to enchant and pacify the large but passive manatees on the coral floor. The captives are so enthralled by the peace and social justice cooing that they are paying no attention to their growing wounds from the coral below and the stings from above. Moreover, they seem confused and incoherent relative to the alarming number of barnacles growing on their flukes and slowly disabling them, aided by the depleting sucking of nutrients by the endoparasites within.
The tighter the grip of the Club of Crooks and Loons, the more disastrous the fate of the people. “California's Suicide,” headlined an IDB editorial, commenting but on 5% of the political and fiscal madness that turned America’s paradise into the archetypical Loon Land. “Welcome to the once-Golden State, where legislators seem to take delight in tearing down all the things that once made it the greatest place to live in America — and possibly the world.”
The grip is tightening by the day. “We know who you are” , announces a recent ad campaign of the government of Pennsylvania, the cradle of America’s liberty. Problem is, the last time I heard that line it was uttered by Robert De Niro as the gangster Jimmy Conway in “Goodfellas.”

Pizza in Loon Land
Take a happiness–giving item like pizza. What could possibly be controversial about pizza. Yet, in Snatcher State -- the land of inverted reality -- pizza becomes an instrument of mass murder. Hardly a week goes by in the United States when a pizza delivery person is not robbed, shot and murdered. Just a quick sample of recent cases would comprise thisthisthisthisthisthisthisthis , this and thisThis pizza delivery man escaped death by shooting his assailant first.
The race of the persons involved in this syndrome is unmentionable in Snatcher society. For the sake of clarity, with few exceptions the murderers are Afro-Americans and the delivery men are equally poor Whites and Asians. The difference is that the Afro-Americans relieve their poverty by robbery and murder, and the Whites and Asians, by hard work.
It is legally risky for pizza shops to refuse delivery to high crime areas -- what’s known as redlining -- because those are invariably Black areas. Again, the “disparate impact” legal doctrine from hell that we have visited before.
Pizza shops that desire to save their employees’ lives by refusing to deliver to risky areas are set upon through Snatcher “racial discrimination” lawfare. They must stop “discriminating” and continue to subject their employees to probable slaughter, face ruinous lawsuits by Leviathan’s prosecutors, or just close down outright. As a result, pizza delivery ranks as the fifth most dangerous job in the United States.
The murderous lawfare engages the enormous edifice of federal, state and local governments’ “Civil Rights” laws and prosecutorial mechanism. Snatcher Journals thrive with titles like “SERVICE REDLINING: The New Jim Crow?”, and Snatcher cities like San Francisco pass ordinances making it illegal to "single out” parts of service areas. In other words, better for many innocent people to die than for Reality to be acknowledged.
This is not simply “liberal ideology.” It’s institutionalized, 2nd degree mass murder. And all Western institutions operate based on the same principle.
“Our diversity, not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength,” said General George Casey, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, when diversity in the shape of Major Nidal Malik Hasan murdered 13 U.S. soldiers and wounded 30 inside a U.S. Army base in Texas. “And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse.”
Exactly like with the pizza. Better to sacrifice some soldier grunts to Moloch every few weeks than to cause offense to protected minorities or pieties whether domestic or foreign. Except that, with the Western rulers’ determination to protect actual and potential jihadis and to treat their own Whites as the enemy to suppress, and with Pakistan’s, Iran’s and North Korea’s excellent nuclear adventure proceeding apace, Moloch’s impliedhecatomb grows by the day.

Reality Renaissance
The title of this Part, “Reality for Radicals,” is a play on the title of the book Rules for Radicals – the clever manifesto by Saul Alinsky at whose virtual feet sat the leaders of the ruling elite, starting with the Community Organizer in Chief, B. H. Obama, America’s Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and probably the entire nomenklatura of Socialist International.
Nevertheless, this opinion channel, this writer and these readers are no Radicals. They are Regulars. On the major issues of life and society they stand roughly in the same zone where stood the Greatest Generation -- their Nazi-smashing grandparents. It’s just that the Snatchers have snatched the goal posts too, and moved them to the far left corner of the field.

The Regulars are radical only in the sense that George Orwell prophesied when he wrote in 1984: “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” The true radicals are the 60’s bomb-throwers who now run media empires, universities, legislatures, courts and whole nations. A socialist black chauvinist disciple of Franz Fanon and friend of the Weather Underground is now the adored Most Powerful Man in the World. A demented lefto-fool paedophile like Daniel Cohn-Bendit is a respected German politician and a prominent force in the European Parliament. The erstwhile treasurer of the Soviet-financed useful idiot organization Britain’s Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is now the European Union’s foreign minister going by the title Baroness Ashton of Upholland. A moveable feast it is, a Snatcher cotillion.
A year ago in this space, I wrote:
“The steering wheel is in the unprisable grip of crash-test dummies. A large majority of the passengers are altered Pods, happy to be on a ride toward a democratic, "progressive" future--peaceful, diverse, integrated, free of discrimination, racism, sexism, homophobia, inequality and all things nasty. [Snip] The way to exit the Pod vehicle is to separate from the Body Snatchers and their clients as completely as the law of the land and human ingenuity allow, now. Walking out, retreating from the Pod domain is the only way to bring Reality to bear on its deniers. Persuasion, rhetoric, political propaganda, electoral politics cannot do it. A chip that has been molded to oscillate only at one frequency cannot be made to vibrate to another.”

I identified a tactic of withdrawal, retreat and physical separation from the Pods that I called Exodus, or “General Kutuzov, meet John Galt,” but left a caveat for the subsequent consideration of Leviathan’s part in all this. That having been completed, two additional features need to be incorporated in Exodus. The first one, that we borrowed from the Left’s playbook and called in Part 15 “reverse Cloward–Piven” is warranted by the accelerating campaign of sabotage and destruction of the Western peoples by their Snatcher elites. The second one is Community.

“How long can a people remain a People when its leaders side with its foes?” asked Andrew McCarthy in a recent article. McCarthy refers to the recent appearance before the U.S. Congress of Felipe Calderón, the president of the corrupt Mexican narco-state, in order to blast the State of Arizona for trying to protect itself from drowning under a tide of illegal Mexican immigrants. Calderón’s hostile tongue-lashing of the semi-sovereign people of Arizona received a standing ovation from two-thirds of U.S. Congress and from the assembled officials of the Obama administration.
“For the first time in our history,” wrote McCarthy, “we have a president who would be much more comfortable sitting in a room with Bill Ayers than sitting in a room with me. We have a governing class that is too often comfortable with anti-American radicals, with rogue and dysfunctional governments that blame America for their problems, and with Muslim Brotherhood ideologues who abhor individual liberty, capitalism, freedom of conscience, and, in general, Western enlightenment. To this president and his government, I am the problem. Americans who champion life, liberty, and limited government are not just the loyal opposition; they are deemed potential terrorists, and are derided with considerably more intensity than the actual terrorists. Arizona — for criminalizing criminal activity, for defending its sovereignty and protecting its citizens’ lives and property — is slandered as a human-rights violator.”
The strategic goal of Exodus is, quite simply, to save from destruction Western Civilization and those parts of its original carrier peoples that feel allegiance to that civilization. One might call it Conservatism, in the true meaning of the world. But to go beyond mere survival, beyond the reactive work of conservation, one must aim to regenerate Western Civilization. To do so, it is necessary not only to beat back the Pod Invaders from Outer Space who have captured and derailed it, but also to consider where that civilization has taken wrong turns unbidden by its enemies, and to avoid repeating those errors. For a Renaissance to occur, Conservatives had better abandon the futile hope of recrossing the river back to the right bank in the spot where the West once crossed it to the left one. After all, a founding father of this civilization, Heraclitus, stated that you can’t step into the same river twice.
To withstand the crushing power of Leviathan and of the brain-altered majority of its population, and to do the building work of Renaissance, it is mandatory to engage in community organizing. But before one checks out Alinsky from the library or calls the charismatic Alinsky-method star trainer B.H. Obama for guidance, one must realize that we don’t have a community. There is nothing to organize.
The Left has communities. Alinsky and Obama were not organizing a countrywide socialist party. They were organizing the South Side of Chicago, where the preacher Jeremiah Wright also was organizing the 8500 members of his congregation along his particular hate-whitey memes. The New York Jewish Left pulling much of America’s intellectual wagon concentrates in Manhattan’s West side. Europe’s toxic imams preside over toxic congregations, not merely seditionist websites.
Every Western city worthy of that appellation has at least one major quarter where every other building shelters either a socialist organization or a social venue for socialists. Street signs are peppered with code words like Alliance, Coalition, Foundation, Project and Community -- for the word “community” itself has become a fighting word of the Left. In that part of town, the bookstores have a particularly rich inventory of Loon publications, the coffee houses sell Fair-Trade coffee, and the organic co-ops post on community bulletin boards notices of upcoming meetings evolving around Peace, Justice, Change, Diversity, Community Building, Equity, Racism, White Privilege, Heteronormativity and so on. Che Guevara T-shirts, dreadlocks, tattoos, body piercings, skinny young men and massive butch lesbians abound, and any Black visible is surrounded by an adoring coterie of Whites. That’s community.
Except at the lowest socio-economic and culturally arid end, Western men and women who still retain their own minds free of Snatcher programming, who abhor living in the Snatchers’ Parallel Universe headed for meltdown, have nothing of the sort. For community is a place where people live and create who feel kinship with each other based on shared values, loyalties and ideas, shared economic and political interests, shared common culture and shared love of the place. Community has physical, not virtual, networks. Its members bump into each other on the street and at the grocer’s, its children go to the same schools, its dads volunteer at the same fire patrol, and its moms drop by each other’s house for mutual support.
The West’s first Renaissance had its Venice, Genoa and Milan, Bruges, Antwerp and Amsterdam, Bremen, Mainz and Danzig, Paris and London. For a second Renaissance to occur, it must have a purchase in some identifiable communities too.




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(1) Michael Crichton, State of Fear, Avon Books, 2004, p. 534.
(2) Body Snatcher, Pod, Snatcher State, all relate to the central metaphor of this series. The basic analogy reverts to Part 1, where we cited the film Invasion of the Body Snatchers. In the film, alien “Body Snatchers” produce giant legume Pods in hothouses and other hatcheries. The Pods grow into new Body Snatchers who replace living people while appearing to be identical to them. The new Body Snatchers then grow new Pods from which new Body Snatchers develop – until the whole population has been “snatched.”
(3) Michelle Malkin listed some here and Robert Spencer, here.

(4) Dr. Jason Richwine, a scholar with the AEI, calculated the average IQ of American immigrant groups in his unpublished Harvard doctoral dissertation. The summary of this data was posted in Steve Sailer’s blog as follows:

With the comparison base being the American Whites’ mean IQ of 100 and a standard deviation of 15, new legal immigrant groups’ mean IQs are:
  • European: 99
  • India: 112
  • Northeast Asia: 106
  • Southeast Asia: 104
  • Sub-Saharan Africa: 89
  • Mexico: 82
  • Central America/Caribbean: 83
  • South America: 86


(5) TBTF = Too Big to Fail



The irrational fear of immigration restriction


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June 04, 2010

Why Won’t Anti-Sharia Campaigners Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Frank Gaffney Oppose Muslim Immigration?

By Brenda Walker
Even otherwise brave and sensible people can be afflicted with the irrational fear of immigration restriction—as I just observed with regret first-hand.
I had the opportunity to ask The Question of two well-known figures who fight against the worsening incursion of Islam and totalitarian sharia law in the West. Both flunked.
It is a no-brainer to exclude potential enemies from the immigrant multitudes when there are plenty of people from cultures friendly to our values. Europe has learned the hard way that more Muslim immigration means jihadist mass murder and social balkanization.
But both Ayaan Hirsi Ali (a former member of the Dutch parliament by way of Somalia) and Frank Gaffney (founder of the Center for Security Policy) rejected the idea of stopping Muslim immigration.
First, here's Ayaan Hirsi Ali on National Public Radio, with audio available at the link, responding to an email from me:
"NEIL CONAN: Here's an email from Brenda in Berkeley: "Don't you think that persons from traditional Muslim societies are not a good cultural fit for the West, particularly America, and should not be admitted as immigrants? Not all diversity is desirable." And she gives us examples of FGM, which by—I assume she means female genital mutilation, and polygamy.
Ms. ALI: You know, I don't—I really don't think that we—by excluding people or by kicking people out of the country, that that is where we should look for solutions. The United States is a highly moral country.Most Americans go out of their way to help people who are underprivileged, whether it's in the United States or outside of the U.S.
And I know there's a lot of criticism on American foreign policy, but I just see this great moral activity, and the only—my message is to share, first and foremost, the values that have made Americans successful and resilient with the newcomers.
And I think it's justified for those people who truly understand what the American Constitution is about and what democracy and liberalism are about and who reject it and who want Sharia to say it's common sense to tell them take illegal U-turn. Go back to where these Sharia. I think that's justified.
But for a lot of people who don't know of these ideas and who are here, I think the first step would be to educate them on these, you know, on freedom and the institutions and Constitution of freedom.

What a bizarre statement from a woman who needs round-the-clock bodyguards against Muslims trying to kill her because she renounced Islam and pledged her allegiance instead to Enlightenment values!
Ali had to leave the Netherlands (Muslim population 6 percent) for the relative safety of the United States. But she still wants more of them here!
Does she really believe that America should perform missionary work to teach Muslims the wisdom of the Constitution? There's no reason Muslims cannot self-educate on that subject at a distance.
Ali may be looking for "solutions" to the cultural clash of more than a millennium—good luck with that!—but my concern is U.S. national security.
Frank Gaffney was not a lot better. I asked a similar question at his April 28 talk, "Sharia Law—A Threat to America?", at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, which was the first one chosen during Q&A. You can listen to an audio file here. Following is my transcription:
“The first question asks, "Should America end Muslim immigration for the duration of Islam's war against the West?"
"GAFFNEY: Well, interesting you ask, isn't it given that this city has just decided to boycott Arizona for trying to implement federal immigration law. Federal immigration law!
“There are those who believe that Muslims should be collectively punished for the sorts of things I've just described. I hope you've taken what I said at the outset and repeated at the end as my personal view which is that I think we should not be encouraging the admission to this country of people who adhere to and are therefore obliged to promote sharia. I think most of you Muslims who have come to this country, at least until the State Department started bringing in large numbers of sharia-adherent Muslims as refugees, most Muslims came to this country trying to get away from sharia. We have different numbers been given, perhaps 2 million, maybe more, most of whom are professionals, most of whom practice their faith, if they do at all, practice it in a peaceable tolerant way that is consistent with, and I think, intended to be fully compatible withour Constitution. I personally have no objection to having them in this country at all and think they are part of the solution.
“I would like to see them more visible; I would like to see them more vocal. There's one I know of who's both visible and vocal, a marvelous man by the name of Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, who hails from that state you all are boycotting at the moment, Arizona. He is one of the few who has had unbelievable courage to stand up and say pretty much what I've just said. He's been ostracized for it. He has his life threatened, because after all that is apostasy, according to the sharia adherents, but I personally think you don't want to leave those people out of the solution.
“But I think there's a lot to be said for saying, as we did at the time, we don't want communists immigrating to this country. We don't want sharia-adherent totalitarians here either."
Huh? So which is it?
Gaffney had just spoken for 30 minutes warning that hostile Islam is a major threat to the survival of all we hold dear in the West—yet he can't simply say “Yes! Stop immigration!” He has to wiggle and apologize.
How does he think sharia is getting here?
Plus he could name only one admirable Muslim—and that man is "ostracized" for speaking about Islam's retro nature.
How should we sort out the "good" Muslims from the sharia-adherent ones, assuming that's what Gaffney has in mind? Lying to promote Islam (aka taqiyya) is believed by sharia adherents to be moral behavior. So it's not like a State Department official could question a prospective newbie and expect an honest response.
And what is this "punishment" Gaffney mentions? Immigration to America—or any country—is a privilege, not a right.
Can I, a Presbyterian-American woman immigrate to Pakistan, or China? Certainly not—yet they expect to be admitted here in the millions. But we cultural realists are castigated for drawing a line against insane diversity.
To top it off, Gaffney praised Geert Wilders only a month previous in his column for recognizing the demographic danger to the Netherlands:
“Wilders also seeks an end to mass immigration from Islamic countries, expulsion of criminal immigrants and a halt to further construction of mosques. Clearly, in some quarters, these are seen as controversial proposals. But they reflect a harsh demographic reality: Failure to take such steps inevitably will condemn free societies such as the Netherlands to submission at the hands of swelling numbers of Sharia-adherent Muslims.”
As if the same rules don't apply to the United States!
Yes, yes, we know that not every Muslim immigrant is an active enemy of America. But some are. And public safety should be more important than any possible slight to the sensitive Sons of Mohammed.
Any imagined advantage of a "universal nation" as preached by diversity-enthralled globalist Ben Wattenberg is certainly obliterated by the national security threat. What vague cultural improvement of diversity can compensate for a major terror attack like 9/11?
On May 29, the Washington Post floated a story [Options studied for a possible Pakistan strikeBy Greg Miller, May 29, 2010] suggesting that if Pakistan-based jihadists executed "catastrophic attack" on America, then a military reprisal might be launched by the U.S..
Here's an idea that apparently hasn’t occurred to anyone in the nation’s capital: end immigration from Pakistan—the home of the immigrant Faisal Shahad who tried to blow up Times Square.
The plain facts, ducked by Ali and Gaffney, are these: Today's caliphate revolutionaries have put away the Islamic swords of the last 1400 years and taken up numerical invasion by immigration and having lots of babies.
This immigration is war. Any lack of pushback is taken as weakness. Indeed, the silly Muslim outreach effort pursued by President Obama may have contributed to the increased terror attacks against this country, which a recent DHS report described as having reached an all-time high.
The jihadist internet reaches around the world, and appeals to young Muslim men in the West focus on Islamic identity. Their parents may have immigrated simply for a better life and opportunities available via modernity, but the younger generation may not feel entirely a part of western society. So the Islamists, both on the internet and at the mosque, tailor their message to feelings of alienation, which many young adults experience to some degree anyway. The ideology is easily available and effective.
Young Muslim fellows from abroad may appear well adjusted to American ways—but then respond to the call of jihad like an internal alarm clock has gone off.
One example: Shirwa Ahmed, the Somali refugee in Minneapolis who returned home and killed 28 and injured dozens of others in Mogadishu in a suicide bombing: The making of a Minnesota suicide bomberMinneapolis Star Tribune, May 3, 2009
Nobody knows for sure why Ahmed left Minnesota in late 2007, or how he wound up obliterated in a bomb crater in Somalia a year later. Did the once passive teenager who came of age at Roosevelt High School shooting hoops, wearing hip-hop fashions and hanging out at the Mall of America volunteer for Al-Shabaab, an affiliate of Al-Qaida? Did his self-described transformation into a "God man" lead him to return to fight in his homeland's civil war, or become a recruit for jihad?
Most frightening, was he or any other Somali ever a candidate to return home and strike within the United States?
Some two dozen other Somalis left Minnesota to pursue jihad in their homeland.
In 2007, Pew polled Muslims residing in the United States and found that, among younger Muslims, 26 percent thought that suicide bombings against civilians in order to protect Islam were acceptable: that's a pool of 100,000 jihad-friendly residents available to be urged to the next level.
A recent Wall Street Journal a article about an undercover officer in New York City noted how quickly Muslim residents can flip, particularly when excited by psy-ops such as videos of American soldiers being killed:
"…a young Bangladeshi immigrant working undercover found himself among a dozen men at an Islamic bookstore in Brooklyn one day in 2004 to watch videos of U.S. soldiers being slain.
“‘That made these guys pumped up and happy," the officer said. ‘It's like a party at a club. They were hitting the walls with excitement. One guy even broke a chair…
‘The officer said he fit the profile of the young men he sought to meet: middle-class, first- or second-generation Americans in their late teens or early 20s. He said he watched the radicalization process of dozens.
‘At times, it was so rapid that a year or two could separate clubbing in Miami from prayer five times a day. "Infiltrating Jihadis' World, By Joel Stonington, WSJ, May 6, 2010
Diversity enthusiasts have long claimed that America does immigrant assimilation better than the European nations. And maybe it does, in terms of economic inclusion. But the cultural divide is another thing entirely, as shown by honor killingsslaverypolygamy and FGM—all deeply objectionable practices imported by Muslims who have immigrated here.
Not all critics of Islam are PC squishes like Ali and Gaffney.
Robert Spencer, the author of many books and director of the essential website JihadWatch.org, is a stand-up scholar and more recently became a leader of the activist group Stop the Islamification of America. His 2008 book Stealth Jihad.
And when Geert Wilders, the embattled member of the Dutch parliament, finally showed his documentary Fitna to the House of Lords, his remarks contained a reasonable to-do list to preserve our liberty.
"First, we will have to defend freedom of speech. It is the most important of our liberties. In Europe and certainly in the Netherlands, we need something like the American First Amendment.
“Second, we will have to end and get rid of cultural relativism. To the cultural relativists, the sharia socialists, I proudly say: Our Western culture is far superior to the Islamic culture. Don't be afraid to say it. You are not a racist when you say that our own culture is better.
“Third, we will have to stop mass immigration from Islamic countries. Because more Islam means less freedom.
“Fourth, we will have to expel criminal immigrants and, following denaturalization, we will have to expel criminals with a dual nationality. And there are many of them in my country.
“Fifth, we will have to forbid the construction of new mosques. There is enough Islam in Europe. Especially since Christians in Turkey, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Indonesia are mistreated, there should be a mosque building-stop in the West. "
See how easy that was to say? It's common sense about cultural survival—for the U.S. as well as Europe.
Brenda Walker (email her) lives in Northern California and publishes two websites, LimitsToGrowth.org (recently remodeled and bloggified!) and ImmigrationsHumanCost.org. As a long-time environmentalist, she believes the appropriate number of immigrants from anywhere to America, now home to 309 million people, is ZERO.