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You are a target in the worldwide jihad’s total war. They make no distinction between uniforms and blue jeans; between Outback Steakhouse and Combat Outpost Margah, attacked today, September 2, 2010 as you and I sit comfortably at home or work. This post is about who comprise “they.” Who are the enemy?
This post is not about Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda, or the Taliban. This post is not about the Iranian government. or the Muslim Brotherhood. They are obvious bitter enemies of all things western, and America in particular. Nor is it about the less readily identified enemy, radicalized, individual terrorists inspired by the greater global jihad’s speakers. This post explores why Americans undermine their own country, lending moral support to an enemy sworn to their destruction.
This post is about Paragraph One of a military Operations Order for the defense of the United States of America against the worldwide Islamic conquest now successfully underway. Paragraph One (1.A.) is the Enemy Situation. The Enemy Situation is defined first, even before the mission. There is a reason for that.
We had better comprehend the “incomprehensible.” If we do not identify and understand our enemy, then we have lost. Unless you comprehend the enemy situation, how can you mount the missions specifically crafted to meet that enemy on the field of battle and kill him? As Sun Tzu put it, “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you must fear the result of every battle.” That is why I ask this title question.
Why is the Left Hostile to America?
I chose the title of this blog to parody, parry, and counter-punch against the dangerous–even traitorous–nonsense found in the McClatchy Newspapers article by Margaret Talev, already reviewed here. In that article, Talev expresses a worldview so anti-American that its appearance as mainstream news opinion should shock the American reader. How could any American so easily adopt and promote the propaganda of our determined enemy? Her PSYOP on jihad’s behalf, landing in my newspaper box, caused me to accuse her of being a jihad agent-of-influence. I do not believe this to be hyperbole. Whether on the payroll or not, Margaret Talev, liberal, American, member of the mainstream media, carried the water for AQ.
Heed the words of Osama bin Laden, broadcast over Aljazeera March 2003: “The interests of Muslims and the interests of socialists coincide in the war against the Crusaders.”
What? How? What would western, secular socialists and Middle Eastern jihadists find in common? What could possibly bind them to a common cause?
There is a reason Bin Laden said this, and we had better comprehend what he already understands and uses. If we Americans on a mission to preserve limited self-government of, by, and for the people, do not understand the congruence between the socialist western Left and Islam’s combat vanguard, then we have failed to identify the enemy.
“Why Is the Left Hostile to America?”
This is no academic question. Nor is it personal against that writer; she is one of numerous. Here is what patriotic Americans–who want their country to survive–must come to grips with. Call the parable I use to illustrate our danger “Animal Fortress.” This is no short post, but I hope you will read further. Read the rest of this entry »
As the culture breaks down, half of the country desperately begs government to intervene with more law: legislation, regulation, litigation, or taxation. Government is only too happy to expand its authority.
Overlooked is this dangerous fact: every law creates one more point of enforcement contact between with government’s enforcers, whether that law is criminal, civil, or administrative.
Now, even a 911 medical emergency call may open your doors to the over-policed state. Paramedics arrived to help this man, and police arrived close behind. I am not writing to side with the citizen, or to judge the officers. The operative facts here are:
- The man committed no crime that summoned the police;
- The police had neither warrant nor reasonable suspicion that he had committed a crime, which are the constitutional precedent requirements for entering the home without permission, and for arrest;
- Without reasonable suspicion of him having committed a crime, the man was free to revoke any consent to enter the home;
- Most salient to we gun-owners, the presence of a gun, the verbalized hint of a presence of a gun, or loose “gun-talk” may justify the police in dispatching armed officers to search your home, to take you into custody and to tase you if you do not want to go.
Prosecutorial discretion and liberty work well where citizens are normally, generally, well-behaved on their own–a self-regulated culture. In the Idiocracy, government gives little grace, even as it envelopes more of daily life, like The Blob, consuming and growing as it consumes.
Conclusion: Far too many behaviors are criminalized; there are far too many malum prohibitum crimes. Malum prohibitum crimes are behaviors made criminal because a legislated public policy prohibits the behavior, not because the behavior is immoral (malum in se). Murder is evil; it is malum in se, but gun bans are malum prohibitum crimes. Of course, in the Idiocracy, some clamor that merely possessing a gun is a deranged act, justifying making it criminal–malum in se–bad in and of itself.
It is disturbing that these officers lacked a warrant, lacked reasonable suspicion, but presumed authority to enter the home, demand the man accompany them (That is an arrest.) and tased him not for fighting them, but for refusing to go.
News breaking now from Silver Springs, Maryland, the Discovery Channel building. Hostage-taker with weapon and what he exhibits to be explosives. James Lee. Lee recently published a manifesto stating his complaints against the Discovery Channel. These include the Channel immediately stop its programs to “encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants.”
These men returning (one way) to the Middle East were living here legally. Should we be suspicious? Don’t you travel with a cell phone taped to a bottle of liquid all the time? Don’t you like to amuse the TSA agents with various possible electronic triggers taped to after shave bottles?
I hate citing ABC as a source, but refer you there for the article.
Main point: Why did we admit them to our country? Was it the acute Detroit area labor shortage that compelled ICE to permit them in? This is suicidal–on our part. If the United States “just says no,” we will not face this constant barrage of enemy agents openly, freely using our liberty and hospitality to develop the optimum means of killing us.
I’ll never forget the night we were awakened by beating on the door and repeated doorbell rings. While I retrieved the Glock, the cell phone, and the Surefire, my wife ran to the door and flung it open!
Thank God, a police officer stood there. (He’d caught the guy who burglarized our car, within minutes of the robbery.) My first question was, “How did you catch him so fast?” My second questions were directed to my wife. We had to do some serious home defense tactics debriefing.
But there are more heartbreaking ways for your loved ones to introduce deadly danger into your home. Yes, the very people you would die for sometimes bring you to just that ultimate sacrifice through their foolishness.
Last week, the boyfriend of the daughter returned to the birthday party and started killing. Details are scant and gleaned from several news stories, but the daughter’s father was killed shielding the bodies of his children from bullets.
Fathers and mothers, is this sounding close to home for you? I am sure that many of you have disapproved of the company your daughter keeps. Some of you are heartbroken. Her “It’s my life!” complaint is correct only insofar as it goes, and dead wrong otherwise: bumping up against scum out there endangers the entire family. I’ve written about this before.
Lesson: You may live a clean life and stay out of trouble. You don’t know what meth looks like and you don’t even know where you would buy Oxy except at Walgreen’s. But, your precious children may be exposing you to the underworld.
Lesson: As we tried so hard to tell City Council here during the “guns in parks” debate, you simply cannot predict when or where evil people will strike. They just don’t obey boundaries of parks, propriety, or anything else other than prison walls and caskets.
Lesson: Shielding your children from bullets is valiant; shooting the attacker is more effective. But, he didn’t have a gun.
How would you like to be the only gun store in San Francisco? Of course, it just HAD to draw protest. But, oh, yes, they are not against guns. I bet they would tell you–like certain politicians–they are “strong supporters of the Second Amendment.” But, here is their excuse for opposing the store:
Officially, the organizations [opposing the store] are not opposed to people owning guns, Alliance member Jaime Ross told me [Reporter Phil Bronstein]. They’d just “rather have something the neighborhood could enjoy – a laundry or wine and cheese shop.
The best man for the job might be a woman: Michelle Bachman. MJM is in love. Well, I’m pretty excited about her emergence as a political force, anyway, and these days, that’s even better!
This pretty much sums it up. Further comparison and contrast captions from the audience are invited. I’ll start:
Former KGB Organizer v Former Community Organizer
Their Guy
 Former head of KGB continues training
Our guy
 Wondering why they don't respect us?
That is the big, bold title to the Sunday newspaper article I am looking at right now, by Margaret Talev for McClatchy Newspapers. The sheer stupidity of the title’s question caught my attention.
Margaret, are you some sort of al-Qaeda agent-of-influence? Your question is bizarre, explicable only if you are either on the payroll of AQ or so blindly anti-American that you must reinterpret the obvious into the oblivious.
I will comment on your article for this reason: You serve as a study in how the rest of us cannot count on so many anti-American Americans, even to fight to defend our country. At the end, I will address the dilemma our Muslim citizens and visitors now live under, created by these terrorists.
- Margaret is condescending: “Most Americans reflexively oppose an Islamic cultural center near ground zero….”
We oppose the victory monument mosque because we just can’t actually reason. Anyone opposing the victory mosque reacts by reflex, like a flatworm in a biology lab experiment, flinching from a drop of water too high in acid. We have the brains of worms.
- Margaret then refers to an “expert” to prove we are dolts. Noting how little Americans in general know of Islam, and how few of us know Muslims, she quotes a touchy-feely SUNY political psychologist to surmise: “It’s natural for people who don’t know Muslims to draw strong stereotypes from Sept. 11 and feel them reinforced by recent scares such as the Times Square bomb plot.”
We do know that a large number of Muslim people hate our guts, burn our flag, cut off American heads when they can, and stay up late at night enjoying our hospitality but plotting new ways to kill us. Not completely ignorant of how Muslims govern their own countries, we are suspicious that they are busily planting the seeds of authoritarian theocracy here, with the PR water being carried by the likes of Margaret.
- Margaret cannot ignore the 1972 Olympic Games, 1988’s Flight 103 Lockerbie bombing, and 9-11 (She omits many other attacks by Muslims.) but she moans that these have created a public relations problem. She is concerned about Islam’s PR problem, not the mass murder.
- Margaret mocks us, picking on a lady from Muskogee, Oklahoma carrying a protest sign. Margaret selects her photograph to serve as the poster-example of the redneck Muslim-hater.
I do appreciate the little joke. At least Margaret knows of Merle Haggard. But, Margaret, some of us would indeed be proud to identify with the Okies from Muskogee. But, I guess you chose to caricature that woman to mock all of us. We are all just “Okies from Muskogee” and too dumb not to be proud of it.
- Margaret, having mocked Oklahoma, fails to see that she is the one getting provincial: “Republicans and those without college educations tend to be less favorable toward Islam.
Sniff, it’s a long way to look down that nose.
- Margaret puzzles, “What shaped modern American impressions of Muslims?”
Duh.
- Margaret thinks our surprise at Iran’s 1979 embassy takeover was our fault: “Death to America” was all about the CIA and 1953, justifying it all. If only we understood….
What every American other than Jimmy Carter understood was that taking over our embassy and holding our people hostage was an act of war.
- Then she gets nastier. She finds an associate professor of Islamic studies at the University of Kentucky who says “[C]onservative Christians long have been a source of anti-Islamic rhetoric….”
Is that it, Margaret? Is this all about your hating Christians? In this smear, you reveal so much.
- Margaret then lapses into stating the obvious but needing a poll: “Muslims are the most negatively viewed faith community in the country.”
Can’t imagine why.
What nonsense! It’s pointless to talk with someone so blinded, so the rest of this post is addressed to Muslim people who live here, and who want to travel and live here, and you are many.
American Muslims, here is the problem you have to figure out how you are going to deal with, and it’s not just a PR problem. We all know that by far most Muslims are not terrorists, do not hate America, and are just ordinary people trying to make a living and have their kids turn out uncorrupted by MTV.
Here is the problem, and what Margaret is incapable of getting: We non-Muslim Americans cannot tell who from among Muslim visitors and citizens is here to enjoy the blessing of liberty, and who is here to plot new ways to blow us up. How can we know? Even you cannot always tell which young man is getting strange, saying strange things, becoming radicalized and about to assemble a truck bomb? Which soft-spoken airport shuttle driver spends his off hours trolling the aisles looking for hydrogen peroxide? Which neighbor who helped you jump-start your car is saving his money to attend a terrorist training camp? How are we supposed to know you came here in peace? We thought the 19 came just to visit, and look what they did?
Our experience began with warnings far away, approximately with the 1972 Olympic Games and the murder of poor American Leon Klinghoffer, on a Mediterranean holiday cruise. Now, Muslims who hate America sneak in among the far greater number who do not; Those deceive us on their visa applications and in their neighborhoods. They take jobs, blend in, and plot jihad. And, they look and sound like you. This is the complicated reality of being Muslim in America. I sympathize with you, but we are, in fact, under attack by Muslims because they are Muslims and we are not. In your case, they view you as apostate and you are lumped in with the rest of the degenerate West! You don’t want bombings, terrorism, and jihad, but mixed in among you are plenty who do. No one here can tell whether you answered the call to a life of liberty in America, or the call to Jihad echoing from your minarets.
We wonder if more widespread hatred for the Jews so colors your alliances that you blame us for bringing Jihad upon ourselves. If it weren’t for America’s support for Israel….
Margaret, you are a fool. America is wary of Islam, as America should be. I have no hope that you will figure out why.
Brady’s Paul Helmke revealed the new gun control strategy in a post-McDonald v Chicago interview with a local talk show host. Not overtly. Not intentionally, but the strategy is easily inferred from the group’s new position. This post does what Helmke would not: it states that strategy.
First, the Marxists have long fought gun control on the field of conventional battle. The Gun Control Act of 1968 marked the highest success of their invasion and occupation. Since then, using similar authoritarian state legislation, they deprived the citizen of the right to keep and bear arms using a wicked little war chest of tricks, such as “open carry only” laws. States and cities were essentially unfettered by federal law to harass citizens with their own flavor of gun control.
But, something began to change. About forty years ago now, states began passing handgun carry liberty legislation. The fortress walls of gun control at state level had appeared solid and unassailable. Instead, they were rotten and they began falling.
It has taken decades and hard political work. Consider that the five-justice majority in Heller and McDonald owe their appointments to Presidents Reagan and the two Presidents Bush. President Clinton, often touted as “moderate” or “centrist” gave us Supreme Court justices of Marxist philosophy who see no limit to the government’s power to disarm the citizenry. Thanks to the many conservative Americans who applied noise and pressure, and to the three Republican presidents who responded and guarded the Supreme Court from creeping Marxism, the Left was finally, finally confronted by Mr. Heller and Mr. McDonald. Their court battles were dramatic, decisive, and conventional in that the plaintiffs used existing judicial doctrine and the language of the 2nd and 14th Amendments to declare local gun ban laws unconstitutional.
Having lost the epic conventional battles of Heller and McDonald, the Marxist Committee to Disarm Free Americans (my name for gun controllers collectively) are in retreat, hard pressed and outflanked by the host of other suits by gun owners, exemplified here and here. Swiftly growing numbers of grassroots gun owners have demoralized their forces, turned their bastion of activist federal law against them, and left them being mopped up on fronts all across the country.
So, what does a dedicated Marxist gun control maniac do?
The Comrade goes underground, that’s what. See what I mean by clicking on “Read the rest….” Read the rest of this entry »
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