Iraqi Gives Thanks At Pro-Troop Rally (Ok, this was a pro-troop rally but was later interrupted by anti-war "activists" crashing the Party).
Iraqi's Give Thanks At Pro-Troop Rally Part 2: The "Peace" Movement Strikes Back
Pro-Troopers Sound Off
Friday, February 22, 2008
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Comrades and the Peace Movement: The Vietnam Redux
If any of you have seen any of the videos I have posted that deal with the peace rallies in DC, some may say I am going overboard or painting everything with a broad pink brush. I wish that were true, but the fact of the matter is the vast majority of groups represented at these anti-war rallies are not what they claim to be. They claim they are for "peace", yet support tyranical regimes. They claim they are against war, but are silent about wars, which have been fought in the name of utopian societies as we see in communist or socialist regimes e.g. China, Cuba and Venezuela. They are all too quick to condemn the USA for pouring water over terrorist masterminds' faces, but turned a blind eye to Saddam's past transgressions or Iran's murdering of gays, political detractors or their strapping of cords around teenagers and old women's necks to to be hoisted up slowly by crane in a public square for all to see. I have seen these things; it is truly heart-wrenching, and yet I don't see the streets of Washington DC filled with angry activists condemning such actions.
This brings me to Vietnam and the propaganda machine they had going. Vietnam, I admit, is very similar to what is going on in Iraq. First, however, let's get the differences out of the way; Vietnam was never a threat to us, nor did they have 16 UN resolution slapped upon them, nor was there intelligence indicating they may give bio or chemical weapons to proxy agents, nor did they bribe the UN and other not so United Nations i.e. France, Russia, Germany etc., nor did the Vietcong plan to reconstitute a nuclear program after sanctions were lifted due to the bribing of said countries. What is very similar, aside from the fact that the USA lost not a single military battle in either theater, is that we lost and are losing the information war. They say the pen is mightier than the sword, and in that vein, perception and the not-so-invisible hand of public opinion is mightier than the A-Bomb.
The Vietcong reveled at the site of dead Vietnamese civilians for its propaganda value, whether caused by the USA or not, much like al-Qaeda gloats when it can cause as much havoc as possible. The formula is simple, the more chaos created that will be pinned on the Superpower the better; the side with the big guns, regardless of the fact that the US military practically jumps through its own rear end to avoid civilian casualties, will always look like the bully. A lot of these peace protesters, hard as it is to imagine, want the US to lose. Yes, I will say it again: A lot of peace protesters want the US to lose. This is the same attitude the prevailed during the Vietnam era, and it worked. What is more chilling, is the fact that the same communist utopian ideological groups whose agenda it was to see the US raise the white flag, bowing to Soviet interests, are of the same cloth as those funding anti-war rallies today, see below. Just think about this: If the same media we have today were embedded with US troops during World War II, we probably would be living in very different, German speaking if you will, world. Scary isn't it?
One can debate the merits for why the US intervened in the later wars. That is another topic for another day, but the fact remains that when the media starts playing politics and foreign media picks up our news and broadcasts thousands of people pontificating in the streets of DC calling Bush a war criminal and the US government filthy liars, it does nothing but embolden those who wish to do us harm. And as far as I am concerned, I would rather keep my moral compass away from those who are trying to kill me.
Here are some Wikipedia.org blurbs dealing with the main groups funding today's "peace" rallies:
Other groups affiliated, albeit more clandestinely, with communist agendas:
http://www.answercoalition.org/
International Action Center
Not In Our Name
All People's Congress
And here some more blurbs from Wikipedia.org:
This brings me to Vietnam and the propaganda machine they had going. Vietnam, I admit, is very similar to what is going on in Iraq. First, however, let's get the differences out of the way; Vietnam was never a threat to us, nor did they have 16 UN resolution slapped upon them, nor was there intelligence indicating they may give bio or chemical weapons to proxy agents, nor did they bribe the UN and other not so United Nations i.e. France, Russia, Germany etc., nor did the Vietcong plan to reconstitute a nuclear program after sanctions were lifted due to the bribing of said countries. What is very similar, aside from the fact that the USA lost not a single military battle in either theater, is that we lost and are losing the information war. They say the pen is mightier than the sword, and in that vein, perception and the not-so-invisible hand of public opinion is mightier than the A-Bomb.
The Vietcong reveled at the site of dead Vietnamese civilians for its propaganda value, whether caused by the USA or not, much like al-Qaeda gloats when it can cause as much havoc as possible. The formula is simple, the more chaos created that will be pinned on the Superpower the better; the side with the big guns, regardless of the fact that the US military practically jumps through its own rear end to avoid civilian casualties, will always look like the bully. A lot of these peace protesters, hard as it is to imagine, want the US to lose. Yes, I will say it again: A lot of peace protesters want the US to lose. This is the same attitude the prevailed during the Vietnam era, and it worked. What is more chilling, is the fact that the same communist utopian ideological groups whose agenda it was to see the US raise the white flag, bowing to Soviet interests, are of the same cloth as those funding anti-war rallies today, see below. Just think about this: If the same media we have today were embedded with US troops during World War II, we probably would be living in very different, German speaking if you will, world. Scary isn't it?
One can debate the merits for why the US intervened in the later wars. That is another topic for another day, but the fact remains that when the media starts playing politics and foreign media picks up our news and broadcasts thousands of people pontificating in the streets of DC calling Bush a war criminal and the US government filthy liars, it does nothing but embolden those who wish to do us harm. And as far as I am concerned, I would rather keep my moral compass away from those who are trying to kill me.
Here are some Wikipedia.org blurbs dealing with the main groups funding today's "peace" rallies:
Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (RCP, USA), known originally as the
Revolutionary Union, is a Maoist-oriented communist party formed in 1975 in the
United States.
United for Peace and Justice
Ms. Cagan was a founder of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, a spin-off group of the Communist Party in America.
Workers World Party (WWP) is a communist party in the United States founded in 1959 by Sam Marcy. During the Civil Rights Movement the WWP had a youth movement, "Youth Against War and Fascism", which opposed the Vietnam War. Workers World and YAWF were also notable for their consistent defense of the Black Panthers and the Weather Underground along with Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
Other groups affiliated, albeit more clandestinely, with communist agendas:
http://www.answercoalition.org/
International Action Center
Not In Our Name
All People's Congress
And here some more blurbs from Wikipedia.org:
Both ANSWER and the International Action Center are closely allied with a small
but energetic Marxist-Leninist organization known as the Workers World Party,
which in its turbulent history has supported the Soviet interventions in Hungary
and Czechoslovakia, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the Chinese
government's crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Today, the WWP devotes much of its energy to supporting the regimes in Iraq and North Korea.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Racism and Misogynism From the Left?
To be honest, I think most people should just loosen up and stop playing gotcha politics. I very recently was reading a blog that insinuated Conservatives were fascists and that if they didn't want to be deemed as such then they shouldn't make fascist comments. In that vein,"Fascism" gets thrown around a lot these days, without anybody really knowing the true meaning of the word. Fascism is often considered the antithesis of Communism. This however is not really the case; they are both totalitarian, consisting of a one party system, whose goal is to make everybody fall under nationalistic lockstep and collectivism, whether they want it or not. The Nazis were a socialist system of government; their name comes from Nationalsozialisten (Nation Socialists). Communism differs slightly in that it claims to support the common worker, albeit exploitative, over the State. Left leaning groups today illogically denounce conservative opponents as fascists when in reality fascism and communism are cut from the same cloth. One of the most commonly used tactics is to characterize the other side as being racist, whereas in the past it was more common to deem the "Main Adversary" as imperialists.
Wikipedia:
As we can see from the above. Conservatism and its roots in limited government and unabashed support for individual freedom, through its strong libertarian base, is hardly in line with fascism. The following are some quotes or musings by liberals that could be construed as racist or misogynist. Personally, I don't believe the people writing them are any more so than conservatives who bash Hillary Clinton, Jesse Jackson or whomever else for that matter. The difference is, conservatives would NEVER get a way with it, and it's racial undertones. I find this strange considering that the GOP was the Northern, pro-business, anti-slavery party, where the Democrats were, at the time mind you, the pro slavery party.
From Opinion's Journal about cartoon appearing in New York Times:
"One of Mr. Danziger's recent illustrations features National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice as a semi-literate mammy. Ms. Rice--a Russia scholar, former provost of Stanford University and concert pianist--is drawn barefoot and wearing a housedress. Mr. Danziger forgot to put a handkerchief on her head, but the size of her lips has been exaggerated sufficiently to make up for that oversight. She's sitting in a rocking chair and nursing an aluminum tube as though it were an infant. The caption reads: 'I KNOWS ALL ABOUT ALUMINUM TUBES! (Correction) I DON'T KNOW NUTHIN' ABOUT ALUMINUM TUBES . . .'
Comment by Andrew M. Alexander:
- But Rall saved his vilest slurs for National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. In a panel titled, "Sent to inner-city racial re-education camp," Rall depicts Condoleezza Rice confronting a black man wearing a t-shirt that reads, "You're not white, stupid." The man says, "Now hand over your hair straightener." Ms. Rice protests, "I was Bush's beard! His house nigga!"
From the Independent Woman's Forum:
-Consider America's greatest political cartoonists. Hands down, my favorite is Aaron McGruder and the cutting political satire reflected in his cartoon strip, The Boondocks. That being said, I must admit that I do enjoy the barbed satire of Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury. Recently, Trudeau's political observations ran a red light in referring to the nation's National Security Advisor, Dr. Condoleezza Rice, a black woman, as "brown sugar." Frankly, the political satire in the April 7, 2004 Doonesbury escapes me and most women I know, black or white, liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican. It draws on centuries of deep-rooted, wicked and indefensible portrayals of black women. In doing so, it is decidedly unfunny. The only purpose served by this cartoon strip is that it proved one sad fact: despite the contentions of many, in 21st century America, race and gender still matter.
- “I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease.... He is an absolutely reprehensible person.” -- USA Today columnist and Pacifica Radio talk show host Julianne Malveaux on Justice Clarence Thomas, Nov. 4, 1994, on PBS’s “To the Contrary.”
From the Smoking Gun:
- OCTOBER 27--A Florida man has been charged with attempting to run over controversial Republican congresswoman Katherine Harris with his Cadillac. According to the below Sarasota Police Department report, Barry Seltzer, 46, told cops that he was simply exercising his "political expression" when he drove his car at Harris and several supporters, who were campaigning last night at a Sarasota intersection. Seltzer--pictured at right in a booking photo--allegedly drove up on a sidewalk and headed directly for Harris before swerving "at the last minute." Harris told officers that "she was afraid for her life and could not move as the vehicle approached her," according to the report. For his part, Seltzer--who's a registered Democrat--told cops, "I intimidated them with the car. They were standing in the street."
Comments made afterPhilip Edgar Smith and William Zachary Wolf threw pies at Anne Coulter:
"The skank can shift ass on a dime" Vanity Fair writer James Wolcott
"It would take a lot more than one cream pie to sweeten that sourpuss up! We hear she kills rats with her teeth and eats broken bottles for breakfast"
Here are some liberal cartoons in question:
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1113079/posts
http://mhking.mu.nu/archives/049887.php
http://www.cagle.com/working/041116/cagle00.gif
http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/kni/lowres/knin153l.jpg
http://www.rightwingnews.com/graphics/racistcondi.jpg
http://planetsean.blogspot.com/condi.jpg
http://www.amptoons.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/oliphant_rice.gif
http://cagle.msnbc.com/news/MrFish/images/CondiSealion.gif
Wikipedia:
Fascism is typified by totalitarian attempts to impose state control over all aspects of life: political, social, cultural, and economic, by way of a strong, single-party government for enacting laws and a strong, sometimes brutal militia or police force for enforcing them. Fascism exalts the nation, state, or group of people as superior to the individuals composing it. Fascism uses explicit populist rhetoric; calls for a heroic mass effort to restore past greatness; and demands loyalty to a single leader, leading to a cult of personality and unquestioned obedience to orders (Führerprinzip). Fascism is also considered to be a form of collectivism.
Conservatism in the United States comprises a constellation of political ideologies including fiscal conservatism, free market or economic liberalism, social conservatism, libertarianism, bioconservatism and religious conservatism,[2]
as well as support for a strong military, small government, and states' rights.
As we can see from the above. Conservatism and its roots in limited government and unabashed support for individual freedom, through its strong libertarian base, is hardly in line with fascism. The following are some quotes or musings by liberals that could be construed as racist or misogynist. Personally, I don't believe the people writing them are any more so than conservatives who bash Hillary Clinton, Jesse Jackson or whomever else for that matter. The difference is, conservatives would NEVER get a way with it, and it's racial undertones. I find this strange considering that the GOP was the Northern, pro-business, anti-slavery party, where the Democrats were, at the time mind you, the pro slavery party.
From Opinion's Journal about cartoon appearing in New York Times:
"One of Mr. Danziger's recent illustrations features National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice as a semi-literate mammy. Ms. Rice--a Russia scholar, former provost of Stanford University and concert pianist--is drawn barefoot and wearing a housedress. Mr. Danziger forgot to put a handkerchief on her head, but the size of her lips has been exaggerated sufficiently to make up for that oversight. She's sitting in a rocking chair and nursing an aluminum tube as though it were an infant. The caption reads: 'I KNOWS ALL ABOUT ALUMINUM TUBES! (Correction) I DON'T KNOW NUTHIN' ABOUT ALUMINUM TUBES . . .'
Comment by Andrew M. Alexander:
- But Rall saved his vilest slurs for National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. In a panel titled, "Sent to inner-city racial re-education camp," Rall depicts Condoleezza Rice confronting a black man wearing a t-shirt that reads, "You're not white, stupid." The man says, "Now hand over your hair straightener." Ms. Rice protests, "I was Bush's beard! His house nigga!"
From the Independent Woman's Forum:
-Consider America's greatest political cartoonists. Hands down, my favorite is Aaron McGruder and the cutting political satire reflected in his cartoon strip, The Boondocks. That being said, I must admit that I do enjoy the barbed satire of Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury. Recently, Trudeau's political observations ran a red light in referring to the nation's National Security Advisor, Dr. Condoleezza Rice, a black woman, as "brown sugar." Frankly, the political satire in the April 7, 2004 Doonesbury escapes me and most women I know, black or white, liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican. It draws on centuries of deep-rooted, wicked and indefensible portrayals of black women. In doing so, it is decidedly unfunny. The only purpose served by this cartoon strip is that it proved one sad fact: despite the contentions of many, in 21st century America, race and gender still matter.
- “I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease.... He is an absolutely reprehensible person.” -- USA Today columnist and Pacifica Radio talk show host Julianne Malveaux on Justice Clarence Thomas, Nov. 4, 1994, on PBS’s “To the Contrary.”
From the Smoking Gun:
- OCTOBER 27--A Florida man has been charged with attempting to run over controversial Republican congresswoman Katherine Harris with his Cadillac. According to the below Sarasota Police Department report, Barry Seltzer, 46, told cops that he was simply exercising his "political expression" when he drove his car at Harris and several supporters, who were campaigning last night at a Sarasota intersection. Seltzer--pictured at right in a booking photo--allegedly drove up on a sidewalk and headed directly for Harris before swerving "at the last minute." Harris told officers that "she was afraid for her life and could not move as the vehicle approached her," according to the report. For his part, Seltzer--who's a registered Democrat--told cops, "I intimidated them with the car. They were standing in the street."
Comments made afterPhilip Edgar Smith and William Zachary Wolf threw pies at Anne Coulter:
"The skank can shift ass on a dime" Vanity Fair writer James Wolcott
"It would take a lot more than one cream pie to sweeten that sourpuss up! We hear she kills rats with her teeth and eats broken bottles for breakfast"
Here are some liberal cartoons in question:
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1113079/posts
http://mhking.mu.nu/archives/049887.php
http://www.cagle.com/working/041116/cagle00.gif
http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/kni/lowres/knin153l.jpg
http://www.rightwingnews.com/graphics/racistcondi.jpg
http://planetsean.blogspot.com/condi.jpg
http://www.amptoons.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/oliphant_rice.gif
http://cagle.msnbc.com/news/MrFish/images/CondiSealion.gif
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