REPORTING FOR DUTY
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Jun
18
Mr. President, Whose Side Are You On?
June 18, 2010 | 1 Comment
Given what we already know about the involvement of the Progressive-Democrat movement in the organizing of the Hamas Flotilla incident, we can only conclude that Representative Mike Pence (R-Illinois) is posing his question rhetorically:
It’s only 1:14 so watch the whole thing, but if you don’t have that much time, just watch the last 14 seconds. But watch the whole thing.
Jun
18
The Ghost Of Obamacare Future
June 18, 2010 | 1 Comment
The chickens of socialized medicine are coming home to roost in Great Britain:
Mistakes on the operating table may be twice as high as official figures show.
A survey of surgeons has found that 3.22 per cent of all procedures either end up with an adverse event, where a patient is harmed; or a ‘near miss’, where harm is only narrowly avoided.
This is far higher than the 1.64 per cent figure reported by the National Patient Safety Agency.
Many of the surgeons questioned blamed government targets and tight budgets for the mistakes. They said they were increasingly being asked to operate on patients they had not seen before, to ensure hospitals did not breach 18-week waiting time targets.
Taking the competitive profit motive out of medicine leads to fewer doctors. The socialist system then has no choice but to demand more and more productivity from a shrinking medical community, while providing them with fewer and fewer resources to meet the ever expanding demands.
Eventually, the socialist system dictates medical care targets based on purely political considerations.
How do our benevolent Progressive masters plan to avoid this fate?
Jun
17
J-Post: “US Congressmen express ire toward Turkey”
June 17, 2010 | 2 Comments
It is a good thing to see any politician of any party condemn those responsible for the Hamas Gaza Flotilla:
“Turkey is responsible for the nine deaths aboard that ship. It is not Israel that’s responsible,” declared Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-Nevada), who pointed to Turkish funding and support for the expedition.
“If Israel is at fault in any way, it’s by falling into the trap that was set for them by Turkey.”
She continued: “The Turks have extraordinary nerve to lecture the State of Israel when they are occupiers of the island of Cyprus, where they systematically discriminate against the ecumenical patriarch, and they refuse to recognize the Armenian genocide.” [LINK]
Bravo Representative Berkley! Your anger and reaction are 100% appropriate. Turkey enabled the flotilla and they are behaving like bigoted hypocrites.
We especially commend Representative Berkley for her bravery in standing up to the Turkish partners of her American Marxist co-workers in the Progressive Democrat party.
After all, one of the supporting organizations of this pro-Hamas campaign is a group called the Progressive Democrats of America.
The PDA includes the following elected officials:
Rep. John Conyers, Jr
Rep. Donna Edwards
Rep. Raul Grijalva
Rep. Barbara Lee
Rep. Lynn Woolsey
All of these elected officials are also leadership members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which was launched by the Democratic Socialists of America.
Representative Berkley is taking a bold stand against the well financed American Progressive movement, and she deserves our praise and support for doing so.
Peter King (R-NY), Adam Schiff (D-California), and Gary Ackerman (D-New York) also voiced their complaint toward the Turkish side of the Marxist-Jihad axis. Will they also stand up to the American Progressive component of this movement?
How about a couple of hearings on the working relationship between Global Exchange’s CodePink, and Hamas? Or do these elected officials only blame the Turks, and not their Progressive American partners?
Jun
16
Does This Mean We Are Officially Playboys, Or Just A Bunch Of Boobs? (UPDATED)
June 16, 2010 | 9 Comments
We were very recently notified that Founding Bloggers was mentioned in the latest feature article in Playboy!
The article is titled “Rogues of K Street – Confessions of a Tea Party Consultant,” and the author is anonymous. Given the way the writer describes him or herself and his or her surroundings, we suspect that we have spent time around this author, but we have no idea who it is. That’s kinda cool.
Anyway, the article is one of the best we have ever read regarding the soul of the tea party movement, accurately capturing what motivates some of its most devoted participants.
The inner core of Tea Party consultants I work with don’t like to see their names in the news, but we do enjoy a good dark bar. Nearly all are based far from the Beltway. Imagine the rooftop deck of a D.C. steakhouse with about 40 Tea Party celebrities. It’s not the stuffy crowd that usually congregates at Morton’s. Picture Breitbart holding court with donors in one corner and fake ACORN hooker Hannah Giles in another (too young to drink legally at the time), talking with the even younger doe-eyed, homeschooled daughter of a prominent activist. Though it had been a month since Washington’s last snowfall, the rooftop deck still had piles of snow, allowing Maura Flynn to start the first-ever snowball fight inside Morton’s bar. Welcome to my Tea Party party. [LINK]
Below are the mentions we received [emphasis added in bold], and we must say we are in the extremely good company of legends of libertarian/conservative blogging. It is an honor to appear in our nations’ boobie magazine of choice for generations, especially with the others mentioned in the piece. Read the whole article here.
Here’s a good example of why some Tea Party members aren’t as stupid as you may think: They know the birther argument is a loser. (That’s the theory that President Barack Obama’s missing birth certificate is the key to unlocking a vast conspiracy.) It’s no secret people think my friends are crazy; they are hypersensitive about being considered conspiracy theorists.
Truthers are equally unwelcome. (Truthers believe 9/11 was an inside job.) Before the Texas primary earlier this year Glenn Beck asked Tea Party activist and gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina whether the government had a role in bringing down the World Trade Center. Her reply was “I think some very good questions have been raised in that regard….The American people have not seen all the evidence.” The next day she told a local TV station, “The 9/11 Commission Report, you know, great sections of that are redacted, and they’re top secret. That makes us all wonder, Well, what’s happening back there? The same is true with the birth certificate thing. I think it’s healthy that people are asking questions.”
Rejecting conspiracy theories is particularly challenging for my Tea Party friends because we share a distrust of the government’s monopoly on truth. So I was especially impressed by the Tea Party’s response to Medina. Within four minutes of the radio clip being posted on HotAir.com, an e-mail circulated to members of the Ensuring Liberty board and to top bloggers Mike Flynn, Dana Loesch, Andrew Marcus and others. Here is one blogger’s response: “There needs to be a loud and resounding rejection of the truthers from the Tea Party movement. On the other hand, every time I have seen a truther show up at a Tea Party event, they have been rejected. So it’s not so much a purging as it is an official eff you. I hope most Tea Partyers get that.” [LINK]
Some of us are even pro gay-marriage, insofar as we don’t see why the state should have any say in the private lives of consenting adults, be they gay, straight, or multiple-partnered. Heterosexual sex and marriage are not going to be threatened by getting the state out of the personal-relationship-sanctioning business. Or do people honestly think the fate of heterosexual sex and marriage rests on a powerful nanny state with the power to deem what is and what is not an acceptable relationship?
Some of us are also anti-drug war, because it turns gangs into wealthy black market corporations whose drug profits fuel expansion and violence across our nation. It also empowers a militant mindset between American law enforcement and whole communities of Americans. The money spent on the war also provides a profit motive for the law enforcement industry, the rehabilitation industry, the prison industry, and the community organization industry.
But that doesn’t fit the racist-bigot-homophobe narrative the media has written for the Tea Party.
Sure, there are religious conservatives in the Tea Party who would disagree with these positions, but we are far less at odds with each other than we are are with Marxists and Socialists.
Anyway, we digress. Here is the second mention:
Tea Party members are into less sexy things than a missing birth certificate, such as the national debt and privacy. They watch Fox News and read blogs. They’re conservatives, but don’t call them Republicans. They are intense followers of bloggers such as Jim Hoft (Gateway Pundit), Andrew Marcus (Founding Bloggers), Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) and Mike Flynn (Big Government.com). BigGovernment.com was created last fall as part of Andrew Breitbart’s growing media empire. [LINK]
Hopefully when you hold the pages of the article where we are mentioned up to the light, our names will appear superimposed on breasts, or the like.
Tremendous thanks to whoever wrote this article!
UPDATE: We want to be sure to convey our respect and express our congratulations to James O’Keefe, whose manhood was the subject of flattery in the pages of Playboy!
O’Keefe doesn’t have much to say. What he lacks in social skills he makes up for in creative genius and enormous balls. [LINK]
Almost every Kennedy that ever lived, and Bill Clinton, eat your hearts out!
Jun
16
Do You Fully Support Assault? The Bob Etheridge Story
June 16, 2010 | 9 Comments
Democrat Representative Bob Etheridge was recently asked if he fully supports the Obama agenda, provoking an angry and violent response from the Congressman.
We had no idea that this was such a provocative question – and we wanted to find out why it’s such a dangerous line of inquiry. So at great risk to our own personal safety, we took our cameras to the underground walkways of Chicago, the epicenter of Obamamania, to see if the question was just as dangerous to ask here as it is in D.C. What we discovered will shock you. Viewer discretion is advised.
Jun
15
The Progressive Jihad Against Israel
June 15, 2010 | 5 Comments
The Gaza Flotilla incident, which would really be more aptly called the Hamas Flotilla incident, needs to be viewed from a wider perspective to be more fully understood and appreciated for what it represents – A Marxist-Progressive Jihad on Israel, and by proxy, the United States, wherein the American Progressive Left is engaged in an open and working relationship with Islamist radicals.
The Hamas Flotilla action was not an isolated event. It was but the latest in a carefully programmed series of actions that have been taking place since Hamas took over the Gaza Strip in a violent coup in 2007, designed by community organizations that have been operating in the region since at least the mid-1990s.
The umbrella organization of this recent series of actions is called the Free Gaza Movement, and represents several international organizations, as well as many prominent American Progressive organizations.
The international organizations include George Galloway’s Viva Palestina, IHH, and the International Solidarity Movement (ISM).
The American Progressive community is organized against Israel under the banner of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.
The US Campaign to end the Israeli Occupation is a co-production of Global Exchange/CodePink/United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) (All founded by Medea Benjamin), and a group called the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR).
The Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) has been organizing on the ground in Palestinian territories since 1996.
One of the mainstream Progressive organizations that has pledged its support to this anti-Israel movement is the Progressive Democrats of America, a group organized by Rep. Maxine Waters, Rep. Lynn Woolsey, Rep. Barbara Lee, Rep. John Conyers, Rep. Donna Edwards, Tom Hayden (founder of SDS), and Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans of Global Exchange/CodePink.
The Progressive Democrats of America are but one in a slew of mainstream American Progressive groups taking part in these actions against Israel on behalf of Hamas.
Another Progressive organization whose board members are helping Hamas with this program of actions is the Movement for a Democratic Society, or (MDS). Their members include a who’s who of 1960s domestic radicalism.
The full list of the November 2006 MDS board members is available here, but some names jump right off the page:
Bernardine Dohrn – Domestic Terrorist, Northwestern University Professor.
Rashid Khalidi – Very close friend of President Obama, (details at the link). Sits on the Advisory Board of the US Campaign To End The Israeli Occupation.
Carl Davidson – Former SDS. Co-organized the anti-war protest where Barack Obama came out against the Bush Administration.
Tom Hayden – Former leader of SDS, member of Progressive Democrats of America.
Alan Haber – First President of SDS
Below is a diagram of major Progressive groups responsible for the Free Gaza marches and flotillas (Click to view full size image):
These groups have attracted a great deal of public support from some very interesting people and organizations.
One very notable celebrity supporter and on-the-ground participant in these actions is Author Alice Walker (Color Purple). She’s so notable, in fact, that President Obama continues to prominently stream from his Presidential YouTube channel her impassioned and detailed 2008 presidential campaign endorsement-commercial. If you are a fan of irony, you will really love the 2:58 minute mark of the Alice Walker video below:
When America elected President Barack Obama, more than anything else, they were getting a community organizer. Given that he marketed himself on this particular credential, this is not at all a racist slander (as some have suggested of any criticism of his Presidency), but merely an empirical observation.
Until Barack Obama ran for the Presidency, most people didn’t have the faintest clue as to what a community organizer was, let alone the name of one of their groups. That made it very difficult for most people to understand the choice they were making when they pulled the lever for Barack Obama. It didn’t help that the mainstream media in this country had neither the will nor the skill to educate the American public about community organizing beyond an altruistic and sterilized fairytale of selfless volunteerism.
These are the days of Google, however, and with a little bit of time and curiosity (something absent in alleged news organizations like Tribune), anyone can answer for themselves such questions as: who organized the Gaza-Hamas flotilla? Or, who organized the bank protests? Or, who organized the violent protests during the 2008 Republican National Convention? Or, who organized the violent protests in Seattle during the 1999 meeting of the World Trade Organization? Or, who organized all those Jihad photo-ops of children throwing rocks at tanks?
In each and every single case mentioned above, the answers to those questions lead to the same core group of people in the American social organizing community. They are easy to identify and their motives are clear because they frequently write openly about what they are doing.
If the people of the United States are to understand the presidency of Barack Obama and today’s Progressive-controlled Democrat party, they can only do so by knowing and trying to understand the American/global community organizing industry. There are several community organizing mega-corporations in America, and they each have their key players.
This article will attempt, in very basic terms, to offer a foundational knowledge of these groups, their leaders, and their actions. Hopefully this information will aid people’s understanding of incidents like the Gaza Flotilla, as well as the actions and programs that have come before it – and that will surely follow.
GROUP: Global Exchange
CAMPAIGNS/ORGS: CodePink, United For Peace and Justice, US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, Global Citizen Center
BACKGROUND: Founded by Medea Benjamin and her husband Kevin Danaher, Global Exchange has launched several entities over the years, including CodePink, but more notably, United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ).
UFPJ was the umbrella organization for almost ALL of the large scale “anti-war” marches that unfolded in America. They are also responsible for the protests that took place in Denver and St. Paul during the Democrat and Republican conventions.
Among the members of the UFPJ steering committee is Marilyn Katz, former SDS head of “security” during the ‘68 Chicago riots. Katz is also a big money bundler for President Barack Obama, and a member of his National Finance Committee. Katz, along with former SDS Carl Davidson, organized the 2002 anti-Iraq war rally in Chicago where Barack Obama came out publicly against the War.
The US Campaign to End Israeli Occupation is the Grand Central Station of US Marxist Progressive community organizing directed against Israel. We shall return to that in a moment.
Through the US Campaign To End Israeli Occupation, Global Exchange and CodePink staged the Gaza Freedom March and the Flotilla. Many notable people and groups either supported or took part in this action. Among them, the Progressive Democrats of America, Author Alice Walker (Color Purple), Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn.
Medea Benjamin sits on the Advisory board of Progressive Democrats of America.
It is also worthwhile to mention that Van Jones, former Obama Green Jobs Czar, sits on the board of Global Citizen Center, Global Exchange’s environmental organization.
Global Exchange also has significant ties to Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela. Read their detailed and gushing blog post describing their interactions with Hugo.
So let us take a moment to acquaint ourselves with the motive power behind these various entities. Here is a video of Medea Benjamin at a Gaza border check point. Be sure to catch the part at the front where she openly talks about her working relationship with the Hamas terrorist government of Gaza.
GROUP: Alliance of Community Trainers (ACT) & Root Activist Network Trainers (RANT)
CAMPAIGNS/ORGS: US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, 1999 Seattle WTO Protests, 2004 Republican Convention Protests in NYC, 2008 DNC/RNC Convention protests
BACKGROUND: Founded by Lisa Fithian, Starhawk, and Juniper.
Their specialty appears to be ‘direct action’ protests designed to cause significant confrontation. Together with UFPJ and the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World), they organized the Anarchy movement and made it a key component of their street confrontations with police in Seattle, St. Paul, and elsewhere.
RANT has been a member of the UFPJ Steering Committee since its inception.
Co-founder Starhawk took part in CodePink’s Gaza actions in 2009/2010
Co-founder Starhawk is a board member of the radical Movement for a Democratic Society.
GROUP: International Solidarity Movement (ISM)
CAMPAIGNS/ORGS: UFPJ (Steering Committee), US Campaign To End Israeli Occupation.
BACKGROUND: Founded in 2001 by Huwaida Arraf and her husband Adam Shapiro as an international component to US Campaign To End Israeli Occupation, among ISM’s chief tasks is to organize Americans and other Westerners to go serve as human shields in places like Iraq and Israel.
Regarding Jihad terrorism, Arraf and Shapiro have written:
“Palestinian resistance must take on a variety of characteristics, both violent and nonviolent. But most importantly, it must develop a strategy involving both aspects. Nonviolent resistance is no less noble than carrying out a suicide operation.”
For a disturbing look inside the US recruiting program of the ISM, read the article at FrontPage Mag entitled Solidarity With Terror.
ISM gained notoriety back in 2003 when one of its organizers, Rachel Corrie, was killed by an Israeli bulldozer. According to Israel, she was accidentally killed while they were destroying smuggling tunnels leading from Egypt into Gaza. According to the Organizing Industry, the Israeli Bulldozer ran her over on purpose. Either way, Rachel Corrie is dead and now the ISM names their boats after her.
The sea vessel Rachel Corrie was last seen attempting to run Israel’s blockade of Hamastan, in the ISM-orchestrated Free Gaza Flotilla. The Flotilla was merely the latest in a series of Actions run under the Free Gaza program.
ISM Founder Huwaida Arraf Chairs the Free Gaza Movement.
ISM Founder Huwaida Arraf currently sits on the advisory board, and has served on the Steering Committee of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.
ISM Founder Huwaida Arraf is a member of Global Exchange’s Speakers bureau.
ISM also organized people on the ground at the Democrat and Republican party conventions in 2008.
GROUP: Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO)
CAMPAIGNS/ORGS: Organizing trips to Cuba, US Campaign To End Israeli Occupation
BACKGROUND: Founded in 1967, they have been dedicated to busting the US blockade/sanctions against Cuba. Their contemporary claim to fame is coordinating congressional visits to Cuba. From their website:
2000: Reps. Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Barbara Lee (D-CA) traveled to Cuba in a February delegation organized by IFCO. They cut the ribbon at the opening of the first-ever US-Cuba Medical Trade Fair. They dedicated the trade fair to Elián González and all the Cuban children who were deprived of medicines because of the US economic blockade.
The second official delegation of the Congressional Black Caucus, organized by IFCO, visited Cuba in May-June 2000.
Most recently, IFCO has coordinated funds for the American arm of Viva Palestina, the George Galloway component of the Free Gaza Movement.
GROUP: Center for Economic and Social Rights
CAMPAIGNS/ORGS: Research/Education (Propaganda) related to the Palestinian Territories. US Campaign To End Israeli Occupation.
BACKGROUND: Founded in 1993 by Roger Normand, Sarah Zaidi and Chris Jochnick, this group works with the Jihadis to produce research that they then use for propaganda educational tours in America and elsewhere. They also handle fundraising for the umbrella group US Campaign To End Israeli Occupation.
Since 2001, together with Global Exchange and their other partners under the US Campaign To End Israeli Occupation, they have organized many direct action campaigns against Israel, the latest being the Free Gaza Movement in all of its incarnations.
GROUP: USAction
CAMPAIGNS/ORGS: Health Care For America Now (HCAN), TrueMajority.org, Showdown in America
BACKGROUND: Founded by former 60s radicals Heather and Paul Booth as Illinois Public Action Council, it eventually grew into a national network called Citizen Action. The national organization folded after numerous scandals including Teamstergate, and a multi-million dollar embezzlement conviction against Obama campaign organizer Bob Creamer, then Citizen Action treasurer. Most of the locals renamed and reorganized under the new national banner of USAction.
In 2005 the president of USAction, William McNary, delivered a rousing keynote address to the CPUSA (Communist Party of the United States) that had the crowd roaring. President Obama worked for William McNary organizing a Get Out The Vote campaign, ostensibly for Sen. Carol Moseley Braun.
During the Clinton administration, Heather Booth was hired to coordinate organizing for the DNC.
President Obama’s now deceased Doctor Quentin Young (regarded as the godfather of Obamacare) was an important member of Illinois Citizen Action.
In 2008-2010, USAction used HCAN (Healthcare for America Now) to stage rallies to spearhead the successful effort to push the health care bill through congress.
Their most recent work includes co-organizing the Showdown in America protest actions, including the ones that terrorized a teenager alone in his home, and stormed into Federally-regulated bank buildings.
GROUP: Movement for a Democratic Society
CAMPAIGNS/ORGS: New SDS
BACKGROUND: Founded by former members of the original 1960s Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and their spin-off terrorist group, Weather Underground. Some of the more prominent ones are Bernardine Dohrn, Rashid Khalidi, Carl Davidson, Tom Hayden, Alan Haber, Bill Fletcher, Jr., Noam Chomsky, Mark Rudd, Jeff Jones, Bert Garskof, and Starhawk.
Bernadine Dohrn and her husband Bill Ayers have taken part in Free Gaza Movement Actions, and were members of the Weather Underground terrorist organization.
Tom Hayden is on the board of Progressive Democrats of America, and was a member of the Weather Underground terrorist organization.
Rashid Khalidi is on the Advisory Board of the US Campaign To End The Israeli Occupation.
Bill Fletcher is on the Advisory Board of the US Campaign To End The Israeli Occupation.
Noam Chomsky is on the board of advisers for the Free Gaza Movement, a sub-group of the US Campaign To End The Israeli Occupation.
Marc Rudd was a member of the Weather Underground terrorist organization.
Jeff Jones was a member of the Weather Underground terrorist organization.
Bert Garskof was a member of the Weather Underground terrorist organization.
GROUP: The New Party / Working Families Party
CAMPAIGNS/ORGS: Running 3rd party and fusion candidates in targeted races.
BACKGROUND: The Progressive movement – not unlike the Libertarian movement – felt locked out of a one party system masquerading as a 2 party system. They set out to take control of the Democrat party where they couldn’t defeat it outright.
The New Party collapsed in the 1990s when they lost a Supreme Court case involving the backbone of their strategy, fusion voting. They re-organized as the Working Families Party, and boast such prominent members as Hillary Clinton, Elliot Spitzer, and John Edwards.
An excellent background resource for the New Party can be found here, but for the purposes of this article, the pertinent point is that President Barack Obama was an important member of the New Party, and still is a member of the Working Families Party.
If you look at the list of New Party members, you will see that a large number of them are involved in the Gaza actions against Israel, as outlined above.
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From storming banks and personal property, to rioting in Seattle and St. Paul, to Palestinian children throwing stones at tanks in Israel, the groups listed above (among others) are the community organizers responsible for most of it.
Don’t like health care being pushed through? Too bad, that’s what community organizing looks like.
Don’t like protesters storming bank lobbies and private residential property? Too bad, that’s what community organizing looks like.
Don’t like anarchists rioting in Seattle or St. Paul? Too bad, that’s what community organizing looks like.
Don’t like CodePink organizing marches and flotillas in support of Hamas? Too bad, that’s what community organizing looks like.
These groups and their leaders are openly Marxist and virulently opposed to Capitalism.
Consistent with their worldview that all means are justified by their ends, they have intentionally organized Anarchists into their movements.
Consistent with their worldview that Capitalist America is the evil empire and Israel is her colony built on land stolen from indigenous peoples, they have organized the Jihadis. They hide behind the language of human rights and justice, but their bias is betrayed by the complete lack of honesty when it comes to representing the narrative of that region. Absent from their movement is any mention of the word Hamas. Search their English websites and you will be hard pressed to find a single mention of the Iran-supported terrorist government of Gaza, Hamastan. It is as if Hamas has gone missing. Come to think of it, there isn’t much mention of Jihad either. Or Sharia, Or Dhimmitude.
Their thin cloak of human rights legitimacy is torn to shreds when their tactics include weapon wielding ‘peace activists’ invoking ‘death to the Jews’:
The Marxists explain that the only reason the terrorist groups gain traction is because outside Western empire powers stole that land for the Jews, who have turned it into a militarized apartheid state. They fail to mention that within the concepts of Sharia and Dhimmitude, Jewish self-determination has been a non-starter for the Arabs since day one. Also, no mention of the repeated and relentless stream of Jihad terrorist attacks against innocent men, women, and children, guilty of nothing more than being Jews, and who were hoping only for the dignity of self-determination on one tiny shred of their ancestral homeland, among a sea of Sharia states demanding dhimmitude for ‘peace’. Also, no mention of the Palestinian involvement in the Holocaust. Nope. Just racist-evil-maniacal Israel – colony of America.
The Marxists and their Islamist clients like to say that it is all about the occupation. This has nothing to do with occupation. This decades-long Jihad against the Jews began long before the occupation. Long before the Holocaust.
The Jews, who by chronological logic were there first, are the tiniest minority in an ocean of Muslim countries. All they want is to have one small piece of their birthplace and to be safe there, but the bigotry of dhimmitude will not allow it. Never has, never will.
And the Marxists have fooled the world into thinking the Israelis are maniacal aggressors beating up on innocent defenseless Muslims.
Some of the President’s closest friends and financial supporters are admittedly working with and supporting Jihad terrorists in an effort to defeat the Little Satan – Israel. Are we supposed to assume that they will stop there? Or will they work together to also defeat the Great Satan?
Is it okay to question their patriotism yet?
Jun
15
YouTube Comment Of The Day
June 15, 2010 | 4 Comments
We just received the following comment on our YouTube video from the Chicago Tax Day Tea Party in April of 2009, produced just over a year ago.
It is priceless!
jiggamcgee has made a comment on Chicago Tax Day Tea Party:
you faggy fuckin teabaggers are just immature uninformed hateful racist dickshitters!! We all know you bitches just wanna say nigger… you people are fucking gross and dumb.. Jesus Christ would be ashamed of you!!!!!!!!!
Now that was persuasive! Mr./Ms. McGee has convinced us. We no longer support limited government and expanded individual rights and liberties.
Since jiggamcgee is bringing it up, here is the video upon which s/he commented:
jiggamcgee must be a fan of CNN.
Jun
9
Busy In The Background – Pie In Code Pink’s Face
June 9, 2010 | 10 Comments
We have been very busy in the background recently, but thought this was worth sharing. CodePink’s Medea Benjamin (Who openly supports and works with Hamas) taking a pie in the face:
She has such a good sense of humor!
Jun
2
For Once, We Agree With Mayor Daley
June 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment
It doesn’t happen too frequently, but we must admit that on this particular issue, we agree with Mayor Daley:
Mayor Richard Daley says federal officials should concentrate on cleaning the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., and dealing with the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico rather than ordering the clean-up of the Chicago River.
The mayor was responding to an Environmental Protection Agency letter calling on the Chicago River to be made clean enough that it is safe for swimming.
How tone deaf is this administration? While we are in the midst of our nation’s worst ecological disaster, the Federal bureaucracy is concerning itself with the Chicago river.
The Mayor should have told those river rats at the EPA to jump into the lake.
Or is all of this a rouse to pump more Federal dollars into Chicago? If the Fed’s mandate the cleanup, would that open doors to grant money for the city/region?
Surely the river of dirty money in Chicago is much more worthy of attention than the river of smelly fish.
Jun
2
Media Matters Equates Israel With Old School Racist Democrats From The Segregated South
June 2, 2010 | 11 Comments
Media Matters is in full Hamas-Public-Relations mode:
The first thing you need to know about the Gaza flotilla disaster is that the intention of the activists on board the ships was to break the Israeli blockade. Delivering the embargoed goods was incidental.
In other words, the activists were like the civil rights demonstrators who sat down at segregated lunch counters throughout the South and refused to leave until they were served. Their goal was not really to get breakfast. It was to end segregation.
That fact is so obvious that it is hard to believe that the “pro-Israel” lobby is using it as an indictment.
Now that is classy! Comparing Israel to the Segregated Democrat South of yester-year.
Why does the American Progressive Democrat movement co-sponsor and support the end of the blockade of a terrorist organization? Because Hamas promises to play nicey-nice if the Israelis lift the blockade. Therefore, the continued blockade is illegal.
Hamas has repeatedly offered Israel an indefinite cease-fire in exchange for lifting the blockade. And, on a half dozen occasions, Israel accepted the deal but did not live up to its side of it. In fact, the 2009 war began after Israel ignored its commitments under the Gaza cease-fire agreement, continued the blockade, and then provoked the resumption of attacks on Sderot through a series of targeted assassinations of Palestinians (Israel claims that no cease-fire agreement curtails its right to kill any Palestinian it deems to be a terrorist).
Why does the Progressive movement believe there is any reason to grant Jihad terrorist organizations the benefit of the doubt on any subject? Or is Hamas not a Jiahd terrorist organization within the American Progressive paradigm? Gauging by the writing above, it would seem that this is the case.
Jun
2
President Obama – Divest From Code Pink!
June 2, 2010 | 3 Comments
Let’s connect some dots here, people.
Code Pink is tight with Iran and Turkey.
Code Pink and Turkey orchestrate the tactic of confronting the Israeli blockade.
The boats were populated with American Progressive Democrats….and Jihadis.
President Obama graciously accepted nearly $100,000 in campaign contributions from a Code Pink bundler:
“I know you Jody and Code Pink and I know that you want me to end this war and bring all the troops home and I’m going to do that.”
Barack Obama
Meeting Top Campaign Bundler and Code Pink Founder Jodie Evans
June 2008
The US government should condemn this collaboration with Jihadis against our ally by divesting from Code Pink, and the Obama Administration and the Democratic Party at large should donate the money raised by Code Pink to an Israel-friendly charity like Mogen David Adom.
President Obama and the Democrats must take a stand on one side or the other. Either they support the actions of Code Pink, or they condemn the actions of Code Pink. Silence on this matter equals consent.
We now have the closest political allies of the Democrat Party and the Obama Administration orchestrating Alinsky tactics against banks and private citizens on their private property. Add to that the closest political allies of the Democrat Party and the Obama Administration orchestrating Alinsky tactics against the state of Israel, with the help of Islamist Jihad terrorists.
It sure would be nice if the Washington Press Corpse had enough sack or integrity to get the Progressive-Democrat-controlled government on record regarding the actions of their political compatriots.
Change.
Jun
1
Media Matters: “Israel’s Kent State”
June 1, 2010 | 9 Comments
Regarding the recent Gaza flotilla incident…predictably, Progressive Democrats are blaming Israel. In a most intriguing case of egomaniacal projection, they are calling it “Israel’s Kent State!”
The unflappable pro-Gaza writer, MJ Rosenberg, even goes so far as to blame the current lack of knee-jerk condemnation from America toward Israel on the ‘Zionist controlled Congress.’
Meanwhile in Washington, the word is that Obama will ease the pressure on settlements and the strangulation of Gaza to keep pro-Israel donors to the Democratic party writing checks for the November election.
I certainly don’t know what will happen. However, given that nothing has changed since Bibi’s last visit, any demonstration of love from the administration will be proof that US policy is dictated by campaign contributions.
The usual suspects are already rushing to offer the usual double talk to defend what Israel did. Here is typical claptrap from the Israel-is-always-100%-right American Jewish Committee. AIPAC and its media acolytes are also out there to tell us that the Israelis are the victims, and if you don’t think so, you are an anti-Semite. Or a self-hating Jew.
But the massacre happened in international waters and the attack was launched by military commandos against civilians trying to relieve other civilians suffering under an illegal blockade.
There is only one spot in this country where the lobby will be able to sell the story that the humanitarian flotilla was the aggressor and that Israel is the victim here. That is the United States Congress.
Despite Rosenberg’s preemptive straw-man charges that he is an anti-Semite or a self-hating Jew, we will take him at his word that he is neither of those things. But in the case of the writing above, we might accuse him of having a small problem with bigotry.
Bigotry is sometimes like pornography: you know it when you see it. What Rosenberg has written above and in the past sure does walk and sure does quack like a bigoted duck. But let’s even go so far as to take Rosenberg at what would surely be his word on this issue, and assume that he is not penning bigotry. That only leaves one explanation for his, and his Progressive allies who reflexively blame Israel for every horrible incident in this decades-long Jihad against the Jewish state: ignorance.
Let’s review the details of the flotilla incident that have emerged thus far as an illustration of Progressive ignorance regarding Hamas-controlled Gaza and the existential threat they pose to Israel.
1) Gaza is controlled by Hamas.
2) Hamas is a Jihad terrorist organization.
3) Israel offered to guarantee the delivery of any truly humanitarian aid to the Jihad-terrorist-controlled Gaza Strip, if only they would submit to an inspection. The Islamists and their Progressive co-organizers refused.
4) Israel warned the Progressive Jihadis that they would be intercepted and explicitly warned that the Jihad flotilla would be boarded. The flotilla pressed on despite the warnings.
5) Some commandos landed on the flotilla with paintball guns!
6) The commandos were immediately attacked violently (something they should have expected from Jiahdis).
7) When the commandos feared for their lives, they opened fire with real weapons.
Yet, even with all of these details, it is still Israel’s fault, because according to Rosenberg and the Progressive establishment at Media Matters, the blockade of the terrorist Gaza Strip of Hamas is illegal, and as with all things Progressive, the ends justify the means.
Rosenberg and his friends on the Progressive Left have very few options to justify the kind of things they are writing in defense of Hamas-controlled Gaza. They either need to argue that Hamas is not a Jihad terrorist group, or that Gaza is not run by Hamas. That, or they need to argue that lifting the blockade of a Jihad terrorist state will lead to a safer Jewish state next door.
As to the argument that Hamas is not a terrorist organization, or that Gaza is not their base, the Progressive movement will have to take that up with the Clinton/Obama State Department:
Entering the Gaza Strip: The Department of State urges U.S. citizens to avoid all travel to the Gaza Strip, which is under the control of Hamas, a designated foreign terrorist organization. American citizens in Gaza are advised to depart immediately.
Short of any substance to their argument that the blockade is illegal, or what the alternative would look like, they are left open to accusations of antisemitism, self-loathing, bigotry, and/or ignorance.
Lastly, as to the initial analogy, the only thing this flotilla incident has in common with Kent State is the participation of the Progressive Left.
