Big Brotha' is Watching over You!

Dear, tragically misguided, Progressive,

Hellooo, Progressives?  Anyone there?  These are not ad hominem attacks (mostly)!

Hey, I’m hoping we could have some substantive discussions – how about if I narrow down the field of topics for you?

1. Obanomics – Obama is currently holding a “Jobs Summit” where he has invited every union boss under the sun, but no small businesses (or anyone who doesn’t lap up his socialist policies).  I would be rolling on the floor in laughter were this charade not so tragic.  Do you remember the Broken Window Fallacy we once went over?  If you could wave the Presidential scepter, what are the top five things you would do to “create” net jobs (which create real wealth and promise to eventually raise our standard of living)?
2. War Against ______ – Please fill in the blank.  Are we at WAR with anyone (except citizens who actually create wealth)?  What would be your five-pronged solution to resolving our military challenges, and ensuring the safety of American citizens?  Against whom?
3. Hope and Change – When, do you believe, that the great campaign promises of “Transparent”, “Above the Fray”, “Post-partisan”, “Post racial” kum-bay-yah Moderate politics from the Obama Administration going to begin to kick in?  Please give five real-life examples demonstrating your position.
4. Iran – Who exactly is going to stop them from developing The Bomb.  When Israel finally pulls the trigger next year, how exactly do you think Obama will react?  I predict he will vote “Present”, and summarily throw the Jews under the bus publically (while giving logistic military support to them behind the scenes).
5. Show Trial – How many foreign enemy combatants have ever been captured and then brought to the U.S. to be tried in our civilian courts?  Obama was quoted the other day, in reaction to public outrage, that Americans would be happy when KSM was found guilty in NY and subsequently exterminated!  Uh, if the chief law enforcement officer of this land can guarantee the outcome of this demonstration trial for the world, how could it ever be “fair” when denying KSM’s presumption of innocence from the outset?  What dream-team defense lawyer would not jump on this colossal blunder alone in his quest for acquittal – while denouncing our rigged judicial system on a world stage?
6. Civil Rights – When KSM is acquitted of his “crimes”, would you further support his right to walk from the courthouse to the nearest gun shop in order to exercise his new rights to load up on firearms and ammo?  By what authority, exactly, does Obama obtain the power to grant my Constitutional Rights to ANYONE by the wave of his hand?
7. Islam – Have you ever studied Islam and its Shariah Law utopia?  Do you actually believe it represents a “Religion of Peace” – or, is it perhaps something else, like, a death cult?  Do you actually believe the mainstream propaganda that the Ft. Hood Shooter was a secular “lone wolf” whack-job who suddenly “snapped”?  Or, was Hasan a most devout Islamist hell-bent on going out in a blaze of Jihadi glory by taking out as many Kafir’s as possible on his way to meet Allah, and receive his allotment of virgins?  Give me your multi-point backup of facts which support your position.  Do you actually believe there is no current threat from the advancement of a worldwide Islamic caliphate (i.e. permanent Jihad)?

Write a short essay of your research and thoughts on quintessential American Values (e.g. unique and/or foundational ideals, beliefs, rights of American civilization)

One way to indentify them, and to draw antithetical comparisons to PC perversions, is to consider some philosophical dichotomies, such as:

1) Individual vs. Group (tribes, races, classes, factions, orgs., etc.)

2) Peace vs. Coercion

3) Liberty vs. Government

4) Truth vs. Fantasy

5) Utopia vs. Reality

6) Freedom vs. Dependence

7) Self-defense vs. Submission

Sovereignty vs. Slavery

9) Rule of Law vs. Lawlessness (anarchy)

10) Private Property vs. Entitlement (grand larceny)

Some examples of American Values which come to mind:

i) Individual Sovereignty – No man is subject to a (earthly) King except himself.

ii) Government gains/maintains its legitimacy and authority by the Consent of the Governed.

iii) Government’s first priority is to ensure Security for its Citizens by vigorously protecting their Rights, and by providing them Protection from Harm.

iv) All men are created Equal (by their Creator).

v) Natural Law is recognized and codified into Law.

vi) Natural Rights which flow from natural law are inalienable by men.

vii) Republicanism is the best form of government (yet conceived) with the rule of law, democratic processes, and the separation of powers at its core.

viii) Human Life is sacred.

ix) No human life shall be enslaved/coerced to serve another.

x) Private Property rights shall be inviolable, since the fruits of one’s labor represent an extension of one’s Life, by the free exercise of one’s sovereign resources.

xi) Freedom of Speech, especially of criticizing one’s own government without recrimination, is essential and inviolable.

xii) All Sovereignty lies with, and is inherent in, the People. Governments may be formed, or reformed, by the People delegating certain enumerated and limited authority to act as their agent. E.g. The U.S. Constitution.

TR:  Presidential Leadership is Imminent – This is No Joke!

Breaking News – This Just In!

Obama “very close” to Afghan troop decision: TV report

At Your Service, my Lord!

BEIJING (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama said in an interview with CNN on Wednesday he is “very close” to a decision on boosting troop levels in Afghanistan and would make an announcement “in the next several weeks.”

In a transcript of the interview seen by Reuters, Obama said he did not want his successor as president to inherit the Afghan conflict, adding that a “multi-year occupation” would not serve the interests of the United States.

ThoughtRogue:  Has the left gone insane?  (or were they already there?)  Granting Jihadist terrorist combatants MY civil rights under our U.S. Constitution is verging on insane.  And then, trying them in American civilian courts, with all the rules of discovery and evidence, and so on, takes the cake, doesn’t it?

A few Questions which “Progressives” must answer satisfactorily in this case before trying KSM and his band of cohorts in New York City:

• When did OBL and fellow Islamo-fascist terrorists sign on to the Geneva Convention?
• What’s wrong exactly with Military Tribunals for these Jihadi wraiths, which have been used successfully since our Revolutionary War?  (and have recently been successfully vetted by the Supreme Court and Congress)
• Why exactly can’t Leftists understand the simple difference between Militant acts of War, and Civil Crimes?
• Were the horrific attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. really just one great mugging by poor Islamists?
• In selecting his trial’s jury, who exactly will be KSM’s “Peers”?  Can you say, OJ?
• Do we really want the standard of Justice for those who commit Acts of War against us, to gladly let 9 out of 10 Jihadists go free, lest one of them be imperfectly condemned?
• Isn’t this simply a Show Trial by the Obamunists, which will drag-on magically until just before the 2012 election, really their strategy to finally put Bush & Company on trial for their alleged plethora of “crimes” against Jihadists?

The Truth About Gitmo

ThoughtRogue:  Come on, watching the Snooze Media contort their ”reporting” in order to avoid the truth here is sickening, isn’t it?  Observe how Political Correctness prevents the State-run Media from uttering “Islamo-fascism”, or anything like it in connection with the Fort Hood Killer.  They keep calling it a “tragedy” as if a tree just fell upon someone out of the blue.  Folks, this ‘tragedy’ was a clear case of mass murder – a massacre.  Furthermore, it’s an obvious case of Sudden Jihadi Syndrome (SJS) if there ever was one - a Jihadi Massacre, and a U.S. Military inside job!  And the PC U.S. Command let it happen.   Update: The MSM’s meme now is that the unfortunate murderous Jihadist, Hasan, was “harrassed” and “taunted” because..  [wait for it!] ..he is a Muslim!

Fort Hood’s 9/11

Islamist terror strikes US again

By Ralph Peters

America, Submits to SJS!

On Thursday afternoon, a radicalized Muslim US Army officer shouting “Allahu Akbar!” committed the worst act of terror on American soil since 9/11. And no one wants to call it an act of terror or associate it with Islam.

What cowards we are. Political correctness killed those patriotic Americans at Ft. Hood as surely as the Islamist gunman did. And the media treat it like a case of non-denominational shoplifting.

This was a terrorist act. When an extremist plans and executes a murderous plot against our unarmed soldiers to protest our efforts to counter Islamist fanatics, it’s an act of terror. Period.

When the terrorist posts anti-American hate-speech on the Web; apparently praises suicide bombers and uses his own name; loudly criticizes US policies; argues (as a psychiatrist, no less) with his military patients over the worth of their sacrifices; refuses, in the name of Islam, to be photographed with female colleagues; lists his nationality as “Palestinian” in a Muslim spouse-matching program, and parades around central Texas in a fundamentalist playsuit — well, it only seems fair to call this terrorist an “Islamist terrorist.”

But the president won’t. Despite his promise to get to all the facts. Because there’s no such thing as “Islamist terrorism” in ObamaWorld.

And the Army won’t. Because its senior leaders are so sick with political correctness that pandering to America-haters is safer than calling terrorism “terrorism.”

And the media won’t. Because they have more interest in the shooter than in our troops — despite their crocodile tears.

Maj. Nadal Malik Hasan planned this terrorist attack and executed it in cold blood. The resulting massacre was the first tragedy. The second was that he wasn’t killed on the spot.

Hasan survived. Now the rest of us will have to foot his massive medical bills. Activist lawyers will get involved, claiming “harassment” drove him temporarily insane. There’ll be no end of trial delays. At best, taxpayer dollars will fund his prison lifestyle for decades to come, since our politically correct Army leadership wouldn’t dare pursue or carry out the death penalty.

Maj. Hasan will be a hero to Islamist terrorists abroad and their sympathizers here. While US Muslim organizations decry his acts publicly, Hasan will be praised privately. And he’ll have the last laugh.

But Hasan isn’t the sole guilty party. The US Army’s unforgivable political correctness is also to blame for the casualties at Ft. Hood.

Given the myriad warning signs, it’s appalling that no action was taken against a man apparently known to praise suicide bombers and openly damn US policy. But no officer in his chain of command, either at Walter Reed Army Medical Center or at Ft. Hood, had the guts to take meaningful action against a dysfunctional soldier and an incompetent doctor.

Had Hasan been a Lutheran or a Methodist, he would’ve been gone with the simoon. But officers fear charges of discrimination when faced with misconduct among protected minorities.

Now 12 soldiers and a security guard lie dead. 31 soldiers were wounded, 28 of them seriously. If heads don’t roll in this maggot’s chain of command, the Army will have shamed itself beyond moral redemption.

There’s another important issue, too. How could the Army allow an obviously incompetent and dysfunctional psychiatrist to treat our troubled soldiers returning from war? An Islamist whacko is counseled for arguing with veterans who’ve been assigned to his care? And he’s not removed from duty? What planet does the Army live on?

For the first time since I joined the Army in 1976, I’m ashamed of its dereliction of duty. The chain of command protected a budding terrorist who was waving one red flag after another. Because it was safer for careers than doing something about him.

Get ready for the apologias. We’ve already heard from the terrorist’s family that “he’s a good American.” In their world, maybe he is.

But when do we, the American public, knock off the PC nonsense?

A disgruntled Muslim soldier murdered his officers way back in 2003, in Kuwait, on the eve of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Recently? An American mullah shoots it out with the feds in Detroit. A Muslim fanatic attacks an Arkansas recruiting station. A Muslim media owner, after playing the peace card, beheads his wife. A Muslim father runs over his daughter because she’s becoming too Westernized.

Muslim terrorist wannabes are busted again and again. And we’re assured that “Islam’s a religion of peace.”

I guarantee you that the Obama administration’s non-response to the Ft. Hood attack will mock the memory of our dead.

ThoughtRogue- Well, these videos certainly are igniting the fire within me.  How broken and out-of-control can our “government” get?  Apparently, the elite have forgotten (or more likely, have never known) about the meaning of the First Amendment to our Constitution, where it clearly states:

“Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech… or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Hellloooo??!  Watch, and get fired up.  If you have not contacted your Congress-persons for a while, NOW IS THE TIME for them TO HEAR YOUR VOICE in Washington, DC.  If this socialized medicine [excrement sandwich] is, in the end, crammed down the Peoples’ throat, have no regrets that you exercised your Constitutional Rights to stop this abomination!

** Breaking Fumes **

This Just In! - No Compromise Media Exclusive

The White House War Room

Washington, DC-  After unending months of dith careful study of the man-made military contingency situation in Afghanistan, as U.S. troops continue to be pinned down, and blown to bits while tactically positioned as sitting ducks, Obama administration officials are reportedly now poised to announce that help is on the way.

White House spokeswoman, and amateur Maoist, Anita Dunn has publicly announced that her Commander-in-Chief’s new decision on a new military strategy for the “Necessary War” against Jihadi Islamo-fascism will be announced very shortly – in the year 2013 – right after this fantastic President, Barack Hussein Obama, is re-elected!  Coincidentally, this is the same time frame that his much famed Obamacare (socialized medicine) will hopefully go into effect, along with a plethora of additional important policy changes resulting from the President’s incredible first term serving the American People.

In other news, the Commander-in-Chief’s frenetic schedule has allowed for more rounds of elite Executive Golf outings in nine months, than his predecessor G.W. Bush accomplished in nearly three years strolling the links.  Even more stunning is the complete blackout of this curious story in the state-run nearly-obsolete News Media.  No Compromise Media will continue to dig into this story and bring you the latest as we learn more about the nation’s increasingly miraculous leader occupying our White House..

ThoughtRogue:  45 years ago, as Barry Goldwater’s presidential campaign was going down in flames, another man stepped forward, keeping the embers of liberty alive, later relighting the torch of freedom.  He told us that Americans have a “Rendezvous with Destiny.”  I think it’s Deja Vu Rendezvous-time!  Isn’t it high time to Re-Ignite the Flame?

Note the complete absence of a TelePrompter.

TR:  My good buddy Jefferson Paine weighs in with his ten-point plan to overhaul the “healthcare” system in a jiffy.  The reader will note that these solutions are free-market based and would be easy to implement assuming Congress-people had functioning brain cells, oh, and weren’t bought and sold by their special interests – leaving patients and doctors as the “odd men” out (pawns) here.  Note that the end result, if this plan were implemented, would result in higher quality service, for less cost, and truly cover more Citizens!  All of the things that Big Daddy is now saying you will receive through more coercion, more bureaucracy, all at higher costs!  Hellllooooo??

Jefferson Paine’s Easy HealthCare “Reform” Package

1. Deregulate Private Insurance companies allowing them to market innovative products to deal with portability, pre-existing conditions, young, uninsured, etc.
2. Ban Government from offering “insurance” which is actually Welfare.
3. Cap ridiculous “pain and suffering” awards and require the proof in major malpractice be proven scientifically beyond a higher standard than 50/50, and institute some form of “loser pays,” in civil suits.
4. Clean up all waste, fraud and abuse in MediCare / MedicAid, and plan to phase out these colossally corrupt Ponzi schemes over a few years.
5. Repeal corporate tax breaks for employer-provided medical insurance.
6. Ban all Illegal Aliens from receiving free healthcare services, and arrest and deport them when they reveal themselves at medical facilities.
7. Allow Private Insurance products to be bought and sold across State lines.
8. Ban Government issuing mandates, fines, etc. in Private Healthcare services or insurance, and ban all Government “coercion” forcing one Citizen to pay for another’s medical costs involuntarily.
9. Require Government officials and bureaucrats to buy from the exact same choices of private medical services and insurance products as available to the common peon.
10. Grant all active and retired military personnel at least the same quality of medical services as those enjoyed by Congress critters.

Any questions?

ThoughtRogue:  Apparently, some people, especially liberals in Canadian Parliament, cannot understand the incredibly vital distinction between the Right to Freedom of Speech, and how a person with that right chooses to exercise it.  The liberally concocted “Hate” obsession has fostered the self-delusion to extraordinary levels.  Government prosecution for “hate”, i.e. deciding to be offended by someone else’s speech, then pretending this has caused them great bodily harm, finally culminating in the reading of people’s minds and then condemning them, not only for the criminal use of Free Speech but also for preventing future crimes that certainly MAY occur (perhaps, maybe.. waaaahh!), does not apparently strike a leftist Canadian as loony – not to mention literally uncivilized and dangerous.

Perhaps, just as a fish will never admit that they are all wet, a liberal, leftist MP will never admit that their own use of “Free Speech” and their self-proclaimed ability and authority to adjudicate it is evermore dangerous than mere hate-speech itself.  These kangaroo commissions of goodness which Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn have recently tangled with is of the same strain of virulent liberal sickness which is now attempting to entrap Dr. Paul L. Williams within its blood-sucking tentacles.  What kind of society would attempt to criminalize opinion – by those who disagree with just that certain opinion, of course (the working definition of “hateful” speech!)?

I watched these vids last night and became somewhat mesmerized by Ezra and Mark’s incisive, cogent smackdown of Canada’s wussy kangaroo commissioners regarding the Canadian “Human Rights” Commission.  I suspect a couple of the parliamentarians on the committee panel understood what “freedom of speech” really means, but most of these loons were clearly blinded by their own wishy-washy political-correctness fantasies.  As an evil opinionated U.S. Citizen myself I must ask, Is it a requirement for a Canadian politician to come across at all times as completely wussified and obtuse while as downright BLAND as possible?  HATE!!  Arrest HIM!!  Call in the Free Speech Mounties!

Steyn and I testify before Parliament

By Ezra Levant

Today, Mark Steyn and I testified before Parliament’s Justice and Human Rights Committee, in support of their investigations into the Canadian Human Rights Commission and their discredited censorship powers.

Later this week I’ll share some of my views about how it went, including my assessment of the questions from the MPs. (In a word, I was quite encouraged.) In the meantime, here are YouTube videos of the whole hour, courtesy of SDA Matt. I’m curious how you thought it went: feel free to leave a comment not only about what Steyn and I said, but what the MPs said, too.

Click here to view the rest of the videos of Ezra and Mark’s testimony.