Friday, August 10, 2012

Zambia - Longing for the Good Ol' Days of Colonialism

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/davidblair/100175001/zambian-miners-crush-a-chinese-manager-to-death-remember-that-when-beijing-boasts-about-its-win-win-african-parternships/

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-age-of-the-dragon-china-s-conquest-of-africa-a-484603.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/world/africa/21zambia.html?pagewanted=all


Could it be that our Leftist professors in American and Western European Universities got it that wrong?

Out of all the evils that make up Western Civilization, Colonialism trumps racism as the favored target for those who pull the strings in the halls of Academia. The Western world was greedy, violent, and skimmed off the resources of undeveloped  nations and then skipped town after WWII. If the Colonizers had never provided modern weapons to people of these regions, they would be living in harmony with each other as we speak. There was not one single good thing that resulted from this system. If the people of these regions had been left to their own devices, and maybe were kindly offered a bit of free advice and a smidgen of material help to prime the pump, they would have had the chance to use these resources to develop their own economies and put them at least on a par with those of the Western World.

-That's the way the story goes. That is why Western nations have to accept crushing amounts of immigrants - they have to pay for the sins of their fathers.

It turns out that the Western powers may not have been so bad after all, relatively speaking. China has been heavily involved in mining operations in Africa for some time. They have a very businesslike approach, they agree to build roads and other infrastructure projects, and employ citizens of African nations in resource extraction. The Chinese in turn get to send the mined products, such as zinc copper, uranium, gold nickel and tin, etc., back to China to be processed and used to make finished products. As expected, the guys who can make the resource extraction happen make more money on the deal than those who cannot.

Oh, the horror.

In all fairness, if nations like Zambia felt that they could effectively remove the ore and sell it themselves, they would never have made deal with China. This is a business transaction, it did not have to happen. China needs raw materials, and they brokered a deal with certain countries in order to obtain them.

But, being fair, we must also look at the other side of the coin.

Working conditions in many of these mines make American coal mines look like a paid day off at a wellness spa. They are unnecessarily dangerous, accidents that have resulted in deaths have been covered up, and the Chinese supervisors are definitely no better than the old Western Colonizers. Africans have expressed resentment that they are not being employed in skilled jobs in building the roads and other projects that were part of the deal. Textile mills have been closed, and cotton is shipped out once the seeds have been separated from the fiber.*(At bottom)

Recently, the anger got a little out of hand-

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/davidblair/100175001/zambian-miners-crush-a-chinese-manager-to-death-remember-that-when-beijing-boasts-about-its-win-win-african-parternships/


"Suppose a manager of a British mining company picked up a gun and opened fire on his African workforce? What if the company concerned paid its Zambian miners less than the legal minimum wage? Suppose relations on the shop floor became so poisonous that furious workers chose to crush a manager to death?

If a British-based mining house like Anglo American or Rio Tinto had experienced any of this, I strongly suspect that popular protest would have overwhelmed the company concerned, sending its share price into free-fall and casting its very future into doubt."

Yet all of the above has happened at a Chinese-owned mine in Zambia. When workers at Collum coal mine protested about poor wages and working conditions in 2010, their Chinese managers responded by opening fire with live rounds. In fairness, they were not shooting to kill: no one actually died, but 11 of the miners suffered bullet wounds.

"The Chinese argued they were acting in self defence, and Beijing made clear that should charges be pressed against them, bilateral relations would suffer. Zambia, unable to stand up to its biggest foreign investor, duly caved in: no criminal case was ever brought against the managers.

This year, protests at Collum have continued, spurred by the fact that its Chinese owners pay their employees less than the national minimum wage for shopworkers. On Saturday, the miners crushed a 50-year-old Chinese manager to death with a trolley.
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But this has three consequences. First, the minerals that China extracts are always worth more than the infrastructure it builds. Put bluntly, Beijing always takes out more than it puts in (that is the whole point of the exercise). Second, the workforce that actually builds the roads, railways etc is often Chinese, so the number of jobs created is relatively small. Third, the skills needed to maintain this infrastructure are not always passed on, meaning that much of it will probably fall to bits a decade or two hence.

Finally – and most seriously of all in the case of Zambia – the Chinese are not always exemplary managers of the mines and oilfields they are handed control over. The reasons for this are interesting. The separation between workers and management that is always evident tends to be particularly wide in these cases. That’s for a simple reason: the Chinese managers and their African workers generally have no language in common. Meanwhile, the Africans cannot help noticing that no Chinese ever has an African boss. There is clearly a glass ceiling above which local employees will not rise. That’s before we comes to matters like health and safety, working conditions and wages.

I would hazard a guess that, in general, many Africans would prefer to work for established Western mining companies. That is certainly the view of Michael Sata, the Zambian president who won power largely because of widespread unease over the consequences of Chinese investment."

Sata had made such a remark back in 2007:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-age-of-the-dragon-china-s-conquest-of-africa-a-484603.html

"If there is one issue which Sata uses to mobilize the masses, it is the Chinese. He has warned voters that they plan to export their dictatorship to Africa, colonize the continent and introduce large-scale exploitation. Unlike Western investors, says Sata, the Chinese have little interest in the Africans' well-being.
The politician quickly talks himself into a rage. Chinese have little interest in human rights, he says. They are only interested in exploiting Africa's natural resources, which they have carted off using their own workers and equipment, and without having paid a single kwacha in taxes. Sata sums up his position as follows: "We want the Chinese to leave and the old colonial rulers to return. They exploited our natural resources too, but at least they took care of us. They built schools, taught us their language and brought us the British civilization."


That must be enough to make a Leftist professor squirm.

-On the safety issues in the mines:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-age-of-the-dragon-china-s-conquest-of-africa-a-484603.html

"Thomas Mumba died on April 20, 2005 when an explosives depot blew up in the Chambeshi copper mine. He had just turned 23 and had been working in the mine for two years. To this day, no one knows how many people died that day, because the mine's Chinese owners attempted to cover up what they knew about the accident. Besides, they had kept no records of who was working near the explosion site on the day of the accident.

According to the memorial plaque, there were 46 victims, but it could just as easily have been 50 or 60. Only fragments of the remains of most of the dead were recovered. Mukuka Chilufya, the engineer who managed the rescue team, says that his men filled 49 sacks with body parts that day. The Chinese have deflected all inquiries about the explosion."




"It said miners had to work 12-hour shifts often in fume-filled tunnels. Sometimes shifts were 18 hours long.

Zambian law limits shifts to eight hours.
Continue reading the main story

"They just consider production, not safety. If someone dies, he can be replaced tomorrow. And if you report the problem, you'll lose your job.”Zambian copper miner

The report said that despite improvements in recent years, safety and labour conditions at Chinese mines were worse than at other foreign-owned mines.

The state-owned China Non-Ferrous Metals Mining Corporation (CNM) runs four copper mines in Zambia.

In its response to the report, CNM said "language and cultural differences" could have resulted in "misunderstandings".

"China's significant investment in Zambia's copper mining industry can benefit both Chinese and Zambians," said Daniel Bekele, the Africa director at Human Rights Watch.

"But the miners in Chinese-run companies have been subject to abusive health, safety and labour conditions and longtime [Zambian] government indifference."

Many of the poor safety practices in Zambia's Chinese-run mines were strikingly similar to abuses at mines in China, he added."



For all the bad press that the Western World has and continues to receive about Colonialism, we can at least submit with confidence that, if Western corporations had been operating these mines today, they would not dare run the mines as poorly as have the Chinese. The attacks on Western Colonialism are leveled at a 19th century society, not the Western world of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.The problem is that the faults, themselves being debatable as far as the severity goes, of that older society that is long gone has for too long been applied to ours. 

Chinese society is an Eastern culture. The Han in particular have a strong sense of superiority. There is little to no concern for the good of the consumer or the people of a foreign nation. Non-Chinese are not the only ones who have been victimized by poisoned gypsum building material, killer pet food or milk for people,  lead-based paint in toys, or other neat corner-cutting. Even Chinese people have been sickened by illegal additives in food products. 

When the Malaysian government complained to China about poisonous food additives, the Chinese responded back with the message that they desired to meet over this and that they had a proposal that would work for both parties. The Malaysians were overjoyed at this rapid and apparently gracious response and immediately scheduled a meeting with their Chinese counterparts. At  the meeting, the Chinese official presented his proposal.

-That Malaysia relax its standards.

A Westerner would lose his mind at such an insult to his intelligence and the of waste his time. "Let me get this straight, I contact you about a problem, you tell me that we can meet and straighten this out. When we finally meet, you suggest that we make it easier for you to sicken our people. Get the Hell out of my office!"

The Chinese representative would probably wonder why the Westerner got so upset.

That is what the Zambians and other Africans have brought upon themselves.

* On the closure of textile factories.






Thursday, August 9, 2012

Lolo Jones Attacked For Who She Is - and What We Were

In our era, one in which far too many of us seem to be mired in a state of moral decay, there will inevitably be people who cannot stand themselves.

In our culture of blaming others for our own problems, we seek to demean others who stand for something bigger than we are.

Under the dark shadow of soft Totalitarianism, anyone who does not conform with the party line and strives to be virtuous is condemned, mocked, and accused of having ulterior motives.

These create a deadly combination when you are a star athlete that has decided to refrain from sexual activity until marriage.

Instead of reflecting on their lives and noting that they may well have been better off had they lived like Lolo Jones, people resort to mocking her. When your own life is a hot mess, it's far easier to deride the commitment of others than to admit to oneself that what she does in inherently good. The Leftist Media, being desirous of wrecking the entire place and, knowing fully well that moral virtue and the traditional family is an obstacle that must be removed, needs to paint an ugly picture of anyone who exemplifies virtue.

She is the model of what we once were as a people and what we should strive to restore among ourselves.

First, Lolo Jones was treated in the most awful manner my the New York Slimes. While Olympic athletes are encouraged to tell their life stories and make statements about things they value, this is verboten if one of the things that you address has to do with your moral character. When you are clearly intelligent, and not easily swayed by our culture that almost mandates immoral behavior, you are done for.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/olympian-lolo-jones-scolds-ny-times-for-ripping-her-to-shreds-in-tearful-tv-interview-i-fought-hard-for-my-country/

"…Jones has received far greater publicity than any other American track and field athlete competing in the London Games. This was based not on achievement but on her exotic beauty and on a sad and cynical marketing campaign. Essentially, Jones has decided she will be whatever anyone wants her to be — vixen, virgin, victim — to draw attention to herself and the many products she endorses.

Women have struggled for decades to be appreciated as athletes. For the first time at these Games, every competing nation has sent a female participant. But Jones is not assured enough with her hurdling or her compelling story of perseverance. So she has played into the persistent, demeaning notion that women are worthy as athletes only if they have sex appeal. And, too often, the news media have played right along with her."



The Slimes affects to hold that Jones is the first breathtakingly beautiful female athlete that does not hide her looks. They also pretend that taking a perfectly fair advantage of her notoriety is "sad and cynical". Note that it is fine for other athletes to do so, as long as they don't make a point about real values. Endorsing products is such an innocent practice, but the Slimes portrays the poor woman as greedy and uninterested in actual accomplishment. The Slimes then makes her out to be an individual who has sent women athletes back to the days in which their accomplishments were not appreciated. Of course they have no reason to believe such a thing - they just declare it to be so.

Of course this is not enough for the sex-crazed, the vacuous-eyed young Socialists, people who never attempted to excel in sports, school, or business, or any other person in our nationwide coalition of losers. Her fourth-place finish, which must have been crushing to her, was cause for the mob to start in on her:


"After Jones came in fourth place during the finals of the 100-meter hurdles on Tuesday, many Twitter users started talking about her sex life. Using the loss as an opportunity to lambaste the athlete, they seemed to allege that, had she been sexually active, perhaps she would have performed better at the Olympics."

Numerous Twitter quotes that are sickeningly vulgar can be read on the The Blaze link above. I will not quote them directly. They are too hurtful, mean, and beneath the dignity of Jones and those of us that admire her.

All who strive to perform as teenage or adult athletes outside of their States or Provinces risk years of their life chasing a dream. That dream is an honorable one, but striving to realize it entails putting off earning salaries ands sometimes education, spending and raising money for training and living expenses, and chancing career-ending injuries - not to mention the emotional pain of being beaten after years of work. The athletes feel that it is their fault for letting down trainers, their fans/nation, family, and themselves.

My call is that fourth place is something of which she should be proud. I am impressed. The Olympics is a very big pond, and in  that pond are a lot of big fish.

I hope that she continues to be able to compete in international competitions.

In closing I hope that, for his sake, any guy that Lolo marries treats her very well. Although she does not appear to need help, I will add this - If as many men as I think admire her as much as I do, there will be a whole bunch of guys showing up to give him sound thrashing if he does not. 





Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Military Being Briefed on Suppressing US Citizens


Hat tip to New Jersey Patriot. http://newjerseypatriotblog.newjerseypatriot.us/?p=1283

http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/full-spectrum-operations-in-the-homeland-a-%E2%80%9Cvision%E2%80%9D-of-the-future

There is a lot to digest in the above-linked article. It was brought to my attention by the post at the top of the page.

Firstly, in order to establish credibility for this, the source of the article/paper must be addressed. Below are two links that direct the reader to information on the authors. One is a Retired US Army Colonel and the other is a Professor at Princeton. Kevin Benson, the retired officer, teaches at the University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. A statement taken from the UFMCS is taken from the University's page (Quoted below) and can be accessed at the link found between those of the two authors.

http://smallwarsjournal.com/author/kevin-benson

University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/UFMCS/
"The University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies (UFMCS) at Fort Leavenworth is an Army-directed education, research, and training initiative for Army organizations, joint organizations, and other government agencies."
http://smallwarsjournal.com/author/jennifer-weber

To be blunt, this looks like the real deal.

The paper concerns the methods that the authors propose be followed and the considerations that must be taken into account in the event that American citizens take action in order to reestablish Constitutional Law and restore our Freedoms and Liberties. The paper itself, though, does not approach the subject from the angle as I described it. The authors clearly do not sympathize with the concerns of Americans who have run  out of options in their quest to address and rectify the "long train of abuses" (My quote from Locke) that we have experienced for too long and for which we see no obvious end in sight. They start with the assumption   that any such movement of Americans to reform the nation, or at least parts of the Republic in the event that certain states/regions be determined to be solidly in the camp of the Left, must be considered to be inherently illegal and necessitating the employment of the US Military to assert rule from Washington.

The authors begin by briefly providing a scenario in which numerous American citizens, dissatisfied with the state of the economy (Placed in 2016 - which, although a "change of control of the White House and Congress are mentioned, is eerie enough as it seems to imply that we could be looking at the end of Obama's second term). They go on to ensure that any such movement be viewed as having a motivation based on racism and xenophobia. The instigators of the movement are described as being of the radicals influenced by the Tea Party who are supported by the KKK, the Minutemen of Arizona, etc. (It's pretty sad that today's Minutemen are derided so terribly). The hypothetical actions of those invloved are of course all bad, the arbitary stopping, searching, and detaining of suspected illegals (And vehicles of Citizens), the exacting of "taxes" from citizens, and the detention of any who refuse to cooperate.

"The Great Recession of the early twenty-first century lasts far longer than anyone anticipated. After a change in control of the White House and Congress in 2012, the governing party cuts off all funding that had been dedicated to boosting the economy or toward relief. The United States economy has flatlined, much like Japan’s in the 1990s, for the better part of a decade. By 2016, the economy shows signs of reawakening, but the middle and lower-middle classes have yet to experience much in the way of job growth or pay raises. Unemployment continues to hover perilously close to double digits, small businesses cannot meet bankers’ terms to borrow money, and taxes on the middle class remain relatively high. A high-profile and vocal minority has directed the public’s fear and frustration at nonwhites and immigrants. After almost ten years of race-baiting and immigrant-bashing by right-wing demagogues, nearly one in five Americans reports being vehemently opposed to immigration, legal or illegal, and even U.S.-born nonwhites have become occasional targets for mobs of angry whites.

In May 2016 an extremist militia motivated by the goals of the “tea party” movement takes over the government of Darlington, South Carolina, occupying City Hall, disbanding the city council, and placing the mayor under house arrest. Activists remove the chief of police and either disarm local police and county sheriff departments or discourage them from interfering. In truth, this is hardly necessary. Many law enforcement officials already are sympathetic to the tea party’s agenda, know many of the people involved, and have made clear they will not challenge the takeover. The militia members are organized and have a relatively well thought-out plan of action.

With Darlington under their control, militia members quickly move beyond the city limits to establish “check points” – in reality, something more like choke points -- on major transportation lines. Traffic on I-95, the East Coast’s main north-south artery; I-20; and commercial and passenger rail lines are stopped and searched, allegedly for “illegal aliens.” Citizens who complain are immediately detained. Activists also collect “tolls” from drivers, ostensibly to maintain public schools and various city and county programs, but evidence suggests the money is actually going toward quickly increasing stores of heavy weapons and ammunition. They also take over the town web site and use social media sites to get their message out unrestricted.


When the leaders of the group hold a press conference to announce their goals, they invoke the Declaration of Independence and argue that the current form of the federal government is not deriving its “just powers from the consent of the governed” but is actually “destructive to these ends.” Therefore, they say, the people can alter or abolish the existing government and replace it with another that, in the words of the Declaration, “shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.” While mainstream politicians and citizens react with alarm, the “tea party” insurrectionists in South Carolina enjoy a groundswell of support from other tea party groups, militias, racist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan, anti-immigrant associations such as the Minutemen, and other right-wing groups. "

I will leave as many of the rest of the details as possible to avoid being a spoiler. Again the link which is second from the top will take you to the actual paper. The only quote that I will add comes from the situation portion of the paper. 

Note that it specifically targets a movement that has the support or sympathy of the Governor of the State, that he would refuse to call out his National Guard, and that local Law Enforcement is either complicit with the Militia members or are also sympathetic enough to refuse to put a stop to their actions.

"In this paper, we posit a scenario in which a group of political reactionaries take over a strategically positioned town and have the tacit support of not only local law enforcement but also state government officials, right up to the governor. Under present law, which initially stemmed from bad feelings about Reconstruction, the military’s domestic role is highly circumscribed. In the situation we lay out below, even though the governor refuses to seek federal help to quell the uprising (the usual channel for military assistance), the Constitution allows the president broad leeway in times of insurrection. Citing the precedents of Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and Dwight D. Eisenhower sending troops to Little Rock in 1957, the president mobilizes the military and the Department of Homeland Security, to regain control of the city. This scenario requires us to consider how domestic intelligence is gathered and shared, the role of local law enforcement (to the extent that it supports the operation), the scope and limits of the Insurrection Act--for example maintaining a military chain of command but in support of the Attorney General as the Department of Justice is the Lead Federal Agency (LFA) under the conditions of the Act--and the roles of the local, national, and international media."

Aside from the fact that the paper is not that well written (For example it has an extra comma between "Homeland Security" and "to regain control"), the assumptions of the writers are quite frightening. Any possible actions that may be taken by American citizens in order to reestablish our Rights and Liberties and restore the manner of Government that was bequeathed to us are presented in as poorly a light as possible. 

Two other points from the above are noteworthy as they tie any modern-day movement with previous illegal moves by others States. The differences between these and today are clear:

The secession of the Southern States was an act that cannot be defended as these States voted to secede before they had an arguable case to support Secession (Lincoln has promised not to move to outlaw slavery in slave states and he was only President-Elect at the time, and thus unable to make any moves). The Confederacy was created by States that could not articulate (As we clearly can now) any list spelling out a "Long train of abuses", nor could they provide much in the way of a list of what they had done to try to fix things.

The Little Rock incident was a response to a clear violation of Law, both of the United States and that of the Natural Law. No body of citizens can legally be prohibited from receiving equal treatment under the law.

The paper includes, unsurprisingly, the need to consider how to prevent the exchange of information between military members and their families/acquaintances. 


"Soldiers and Marines involved in this operation, and especially their families will be subject to electronic mail, Facebook messages, Twitters, and all manner of information and source of pressure. Given that Soldiers and Marines stationed at Forts Bragg and Stewart as well as Camp Lejuene live relatively nearby and that many come from this region, chances are they will know someone who lives in or near Darlington. Countering Al Qaeda web-based propaganda is one thing, countering domestic information bombardments is another effort entirely."

Another example of poor writing- "Lejeune" is misspelled.

This is far and way the most ominous portion of the paper - the need to keep the rank-and-file members of our military in the dark, unaware of what other Americans (Many of whom would not yet be involved) may be saying about the event. The Soldiers and Marines ordered to engage in operations against American citizens will be force-fed the story that the Establishment wants them to hear. They will be prohibited from making phone calls, sending or receiving emails or letter, and Internet access will be blocked. 

I have noted on previous posts that the Commissioned Officers of our Military, particularly those of Field Grade (Majors, Lt. Colonels, and Colonels) ranks, will be key players in such a crisis. They are the individuals who will be either issuing or refusing to issue marching orders to the actual ground units in any military operation. In my opinion, Generals will tend to gravitate towards protecting their careers. 

Company-Grade officers such as Captains and Lieutenants may be of the right state of mind, but they will need to know that higher-ranking Officers have not forgotten their oaths to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. I maintain my faith in the integrity and patriotism of most of these individuals. 

The Non-Commissioned Officers, (All Sergeant/Petty Officer Ranks), if they know that they have the support of their leaders, will be a source of stability in trying times. NonComs have always been the backbone of our military. The respect that they command, and the trust that they have earned from their subordinates, will provide a sense of assurance to the Soldiers and Marines that the very act of refusing to follow illegal orders may be the greatest act of soldiery virtue.

States that see few options other than Secession must also prepare. For example, they will need to take steps to guarantee some measure of financial security to their respective National Guard members in the event that these soldiers have to refuse orders to be Federalized. I offer the example of 50% of whatever their pensions would be had they consented to be Federalized. They would also need to be granted immunity from prosecution and extradition as long as they do not leave any seceding States. Local and State Law Enforcement Officers will need to be reminded ahead of time that their oaths included both supporting and defending the Constitution of the United States (Itself being ignored by The White House and the Supreme Court as we speak) and the Constitutions of their respective States. Residents of these States must also be prepared and informed about the any moves that may be deemed necessary. These may be called upon to engage in support roles.

I hope that any member of the Military that undergoes training in or becomes aware of the positions contained in this this paper takes the time to consider the facts; the table is being set for a Totalitarian era for the United States in which any aggrieved body will be quickly suppressed.














Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Good Police Work Leads to Child Porn Ring Arrests

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/08/04/stuffed-toy-bunny-helps-uncover-alleged-international-child-porn-network/?intcmp=trending

It all started with a photo sent by a 43 year-old American to an individual he believed was a fellow criminal.

The recipient of the photo was an undercover Federal Law Enforcement official.

The photo depicted a one and a half year-old boy who was wearing an orange sweater and was holding a toy stuffed rabbit. The photo was sent to Interpol, and that's when the good cop work began.

The ring stretched across the pond to Europe and back here.

Note that this is what we want when we talk about aggressive Law Enforcement at both National and International levels.

Bolding is added.

"The case began to unfold when Robert Diduca, a Sheraton hotel manager from Massachusetts, sent the photo of the Dutch boy to an undercover federal agent in Boston. Diduca, a married father of three who used the screen name "Babytodd," thought he was sending the picture to another man with a sexual interest in babies and toddlers.

Agents forwarded the photo to Interpol, the international police organization, and to several other countries.

An investigator for the Dutch police recognized the stuffed bunny as Miffy, a familiar character in a series of Dutch children's books. She also traced the boy's orange sweater to a small Amsterdam store that had sold only 20 others like it.

The boy's photo was broadcast on a national TV program similar to "America's Most Wanted." Within minutes, friends and relatives called the child's mother.

Robert Mikelsons, a 27-year-old day care worker who baby-sat the boy, was arrested. On his computer were thousands and thousands of images of children being molested and raped, including the boy holding the stuffed bunny."

Then, the floodgates opened-

"Photos and online chats found on computers owned by Diduca and Mikelsons led to more than three dozen other suspects in seven countries, including Canada, Britain, Germany, Sweden and Mexico. The oldest victim in the Netherlands was 4, the youngest just 19 days old.

Diduca pleaded guilty to child porn and sexual exploitation charges and was sentenced to 18 years in prison. 

Mikelsons also received an 18-year sentence, followed by indefinite psychiatric commitment, after confessing to sexually abusing more than 80 children. [18 years for 80 kids]

The horror did not let up after the Mikelsons case.

In May, authorities arrested Michael Arnett of Kansas after finding pornographic photos he allegedly produced. Agents discovered the pictures when they searched the computer of a Wisconsin man who had been chatting online with Mikelsons."

Warning- If you thought that the above was horrific enough, you'd better think twice before reading on....


"What they found on Arnett's computer was unlike anything some of the investigators had ever come across: long, graphic, online chats about his desire to abduct, kill and eat children. They said he had also made photos of a naked 2-year-old boy in a roasting pan inside his oven. The child and two other boys Arnett allegedly abused and photographed were later identified and found alive.

In July, authorities arrested four men they say had online discussions with Arnett about kidnapping and eating children. Those arrested included Ronald Brown, a children's puppeteer from Florida."

My head literally spins when reading this part. As eating children on any old day was not special enough for them, the criminals mentioned the day of Easter, the day that marks the Resurrection of the Christian Savior and the consequent breaking of Satan's hold on humanity, as the perfect occasion for such an event.

"In excerpts of an online chat between Arnett and Brown from 2011, the two men appear to be discussing their desire to cook a child for Easter.

"he would make a fine Easter feast," Arnett says.

"yes, his thighs and butt cheeks would be fantastic for Easter," Brown responds."

More examples of cops wading through gut-wrenching photos to nail the criminals-

"To find the young victims, investigators carefully studied thousands of photos, read hours of Internet chats and worked with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. They also employed some forensic wizardry.

After finding a video on Diduca's computer of a bound, 2-year-old boy being raped, investigators enhanced the images of furniture and carpet and determined the attack took place in a motel room in Bakersfield, California.

Then they pinpointed the date by way of a TV that was playing in the background in the video, figuring out exactly when a particular episode of "Family Matters" aired along with a certain Pepperidge Farms commercial.

A man from Colorado was arrested and is awaiting trial.

Similarly, in the Arnett case, investigators discovered that a water bottle in one of the photographs carried the name of a swim and scuba center in Kansas. With the help of teachers at an elementary school, they identified three children shown in the photographs, including the toddler posed in the roasting pan.

The mother of one of the boys said she initially did not believe the allegations against Arnett, a family friend for about 15 years. She said her son, now 7, and several nephews often spent weekends at Arnett's home four or five years ago.

"Well, when we first got the phone call, we thought there's no way. You guys got the wrong guy," she said. The Associated Press does not identify victims of sexual abuse or their families.

But then investigators showed her photos Arnett had allegedly taken of her son with a shirt and no pants."

Possible photos of dead kids-

"Last week, they arrested another Massachusetts man after finding child pornography and photos of what appeared to be dead children on his computer. He allegedly had online chats with Arnett and Brown.

More arrests are expected.

The lack of empathy of these criminals for the feelings of victims in simply unbelievable

In the years prior to my retirement from Law Enforcement, I would often get comments from non-cops about having to deal with criminals such as "I don't know how you do it, I wouldn't be able to be around those guys without killing them." Other similar statements were quite commonplace.

My response was to hold my tongue and refrain from the obvious "No, you wouldn't". Most of these guys had never even fired a gun let alone owned one, and one who has never contemplated having to shoot someone is extremely unlikely to go after a criminal with a knife or a blunt object. People from hunting and herding cultures are far more likely to attack one of these individuals than are average Americans who have been told that being manly is all about bedding as many girls as possible and standing up for every "social issue" except those which concern their beliefs and culture.

These cops who swallowed the anguish that they undoubtedly felt while viewing and contemplating the photos, and then searched the photos for necessary details, are some of the most hardened men and women I can imagine. If society ever were to collapse, it is they who will continue to go about eliminating the most vicious of our criminals from the community.

I firmly believe that one of the greatest drawbacks to our society of Law and Order (Note that I truly appreciate our society) is the lack of fear that criminals have of retribution being exacted upon them by concerned members of the community, especially those who are close to the victims. Criminals like these have always existed, and yes, the Internet has made it easier for them to find each other and encourage others to engage in crimes, but I assert that far fewer of those who may feel inclined to commit such crimes would do so if they feared the reactions of family members and other concerned citizens.

If 18-year prison sentences for scores of victims continue, it is probable that people will seek to make others fearful of such retribution.



Monday, August 6, 2012

Remove Michelle Bachmann and All Will Be Well

As noted in yesterdays post, the fallback play for the Left is to blame socioeconomic conditions and a lack of understanding of immigrant culture when a Muslim goes on a rampage.

In the US, our Left has a more simple target on which blame may be placed-

It's all Michelle Bachmann's fault.

While the media reports that the murderer was an Army Veteran who was discharged under General* as opposed to Honorable conditions, and that he was involved with White Supremacist groups, including music/songwriting about the same for many years, Bachmann still gets the blame.

With this logic, Fredrick Douglass would have been blamed for John Brown's raid. Brown too had a long history of violence. In this case, although they actually knew each other (Unlike Bachmann and Page), Douglass noted that he did not approve of Brown's plans.

*In the US military, a General Discharge is not that unusual. Honorable Discharges are not that hard to obtain even for military members whose service was less than exemplary. Those who do receive Honorable Discharges but did not have records of which to be proud will often be given Reenlistment codes that indicate the member is not a prime candidate for another period of enlistment. Reasons for a reenlistment code of less that RE-1A may be weight issues, other documented counseling sessions in which behavior needed correction, or a Article 15 (Non-Judicial) punishment(s) that occurred at Company or Battalion level. Bad Conduct and Dishonorable Discharges are ordered as a result of Court Martial proceedings, which are actual trials. (Note that I left out the Summary Court Martial, which is a trial for offenses that cannot be handled at Unit level but do not necessarily demand a Special or General Court Martial.)

Anyway, Page's history of being unwilling to behave properly goes back long before Michelle Bachmann showed up on stage.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wade-michael-page-identified-wisconsin-temple-shooter/story?id=16937739#.UCBhAfaPWWY
"Page was described by authorities today as an Army veteran who left the service with a general discharge following a "pattern of misconduct," including being AWOL [Unauthorized Absence]  and drunk while on duty. The terms of his discharge would not allow him to reenlist."

Let's go to to list of accusations leveled at Representative Bachmann:



 
So, to sum this up - Michelle Bachmann and others bravely and correctly raised concerns about possible influence of the Muslim Brotherhood (Itself a subject for a very long post) at high levels of our national government, and that means they are Islamophobes. Aside from that fact that Islamophobia is a fictional term, the accusers are so ignorant as to be unaware that Sikhs are not Muslims.

Of course it is possible that Page too did not know the difference, but that makes the him as ignorant (Albeit much more violent) as they are.

One of the most employed tools of the soft Totalitarianism of the Left is Political Correct speech. With this tool, one can be, with the verbal version of the stroke of a pen, be labeled a racist, Islamophobe, Homophobe, fascist, or any combination of the above.

The idea is to intimidate people into silence. When a crime occurs, the Leftists run around with their hands in the air pretending to be under the impression that anyone who recently spoke up had something to do with the violence.

Michelle Bachmann is too strong and too aware that she is correct to be silenced. We need to follow her example.











Sunday, August 5, 2012

Multicultural Destruction of Sweden in Malmo

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-malmo-experiment.html

Malmo, Sweden is the microcosm of all that is wrong, and indeed sinister, with Multiculturalism. The Left needed to create a new electorate in Western nations to, at some point, have a solid base of voters in order to bring about a Socialist order. The people who made up the populations of these nations were too attached to, God forbid, their culture and wanted things to remain mostly as they were.

As that would just not do, massive amounts of (In Sweden - this can be applied to any Western nation) non-Swedes were imported. Swedes were told that these people were needed to be employed at lowed-paying jobs so that the bulk of the people could continue to enjoy the benefits of a cradle-to-grave system.

What actually resulted was a new class of non-Swedes who had no intention of becoming Swedes. Instead of supporting the system with revenue this class become a sinkhole for the nation's wealth. Violent crime is rampant; shootings, gang-rapes, and arsons have become commonplace in a country known for its law-abiding citizenry. Welfare spending has gone through the roof.

Malmo is the paradigm for this system that seems to have been purposely designed to fail. I say purposefully as I feel that allowing that the Left really thought that this would work would require the assumption that they are more stupid  than is humanly possible. No, they knew fully well that things would go poorly with this program. They like chaos - it leads to calls for ever-growing governmental control and a sheep-like willingness of an indigenous population to surrender their way of life to the State. The city of Malmo, if immigration and birth rates of the same do not drastically change, is set to become a city in which people of non-Swedish descent outnumber indigenous Swedes within ten to twenty years.

The Left continues to put their spin on the situation. As they do with with all human events, the violence is blamed on socioeconomic conditions. None of this can be attributed to cultural factors, such as respect for law and order or the understanding that an immigrant has the responsibility to integrate with the culture of the host nation. While the place is literally being wrecked, the Left, like the ROTC character in fraternity-spoofing  movie Animal House, instructs us to "Remain calm, all is well'.

Multiculturalism is the polar opposite of traditional immigration to Western countries. In a Multicultural society, the new-joins are expected and encourage to remain as separate as possible. The idea is to turn a homogeneous society or one relatively so, into a patchwork in which different groups can be played off against each other as Caesar did with the Gauls or the US did with Native Americans. Along with that is a strategy of indoctrinating the youth of Sweden (Again substitute any Western nation) with Leftist dogma, a disdain for their culture and ethic/cultural identity, and a vicious hatred for anyone who utters a peep in protest of the liquidation of the people of Sweden. Groups such as Anti-Fascist Action League routinely employ thugs to attack, often enough violently, individuals who dare speak out.

Excerpts from the link at top follow:

Bolding is added.

"When an experiment or a medical trial is injurious and damaging its subjects and patients, one usually stops it — unless we are talking about trials involving animals. If the experiment continues, those responsible will likely face investigation and later prosecution. In Sweden, multiculturalism is a failing experiment, in which the Swedes and their country are constantly injured test objects. The Swedes have essentially become the test animals. Those responsible for this crime do further not face any official investigation, and they most definitely do not face prosecution. To illustrate this, Malmö provides a good example. Those who still hold a positive view of Sweden deserve to know what is happening to this great country.

The small city of Malmö, located on Sweden’s southernmost tip, has a rich history shared by both Swedes and Danes. In 1900 the city had around 60,000 inhabitants. The population was predominantly composed of Swedes, but also smaller groups of other Scandinavians as well as various European professionals. Centuries ago it belonged to Denmark, and it has always held a historical and emotional importance to the Danes, too. For Sweden, the city was an important location for shipping and commerce, but also a nexus of cultural life. A place where European shippers and Swedish workers met in various contexts. A city which saw the development of decent working class areas, but also hotels and theatres. It was a city your grandparents, or even your parents, could describe as ‘decent’, ‘nice’ or ‘so lovely’.

To say that the situation has ‘changed a little’ is quite an understatement. It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when the aforementioned city ceased to exist. Its dissolution had already begun sometime in the 1970s, but it has been completely transformed into something unrecognisable in the last ten or fifteen years, when non-European immigration numbers exploded. When the United States, for example, admitted a few hundred Iraqis refugees in 2007, Sweden took in an estimated 30,000.

To understand what happened, one must look at Sweden’s historical political development. During the 1960s, several suburbs where built in Malmö and other cities. These were all part of the so called ‘Million Programme’, which served as a political solution to the accommodation crisis (i.e. planned immigration). The thought behind the programme was to build one million ‘accommodation units’, in order to cope for the future demands for places to live. In reality, low-quality accommodations, packed in small suburbs, were built to host future immigration almost as in designated areas. The building of these was part of a larger multicultural agenda, which took form during the 1960s, and consequently opened up the country to mass immigration throughout the subsequent decades. Malmö was a city which saw the expansion of multiple instances of such suburbs. Coupled with slack rules, unemployment and high immigration numbers, this proved to be a bad recipe for the city’s future.

The population of Malmö today is 300,000. Out of those, about 40% are ‘non-Swedish’, counting immigrants and those who have two parents born outside the country. With a concentrated immigration from Middle East and North Africa, estimates point toward a number of 25%-30% of the city’s population being Muslim. Where Malmö used to a place where ordinary people could stroll and let their children play in the streets, it is now a place where people are scared of the streets. Some of which streets unofficially ‘belong’ to criminal gangs.

According to a recent report by the Association for Crime Prevention (BRÃ…), every fourth individual in Malmö was a victim of at least one criminal act last year. Glen Sjögren of the city’s police estimated that about 200 people are robbed on a monthly basis. Further, every fourth senior citizen does not leave his or her home, due to the fear of becoming victim of such crime. In other words, the light and warm picture of a peaceful city of commerce, has been replaced by a city currently bearing more of a resemblance to Batman’s Gotham.

Today, Malmö is undoubtedly the ‘most multicultural’ city of Sweden. Since almost the entire political establishment propagates aggressive multiculturalism, it also needs to pretend that it loves Malmö — regardless of the city’s murders, rapes and riots. This is exactly the reason why the Prince of the Swedish royal family went there on the National Day to celebrate the ‘New Swedes’ instead of his own people. On the National Day, the Prince of Sweden specifically visited Malmö’s Opera, where he held a conference celebrating the so-called ‘New Swedes’. Literally ten days later, the Swede Göran Nilsson, 60 years old, was killed just outside the same Opera. He happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time (could Malmö ever be the right place?). He lost his life when a criminal ‘new Swede’ of Arab descent, suspected of being intoxicated at the time, killed Göran in a car chase when escaping from the police.

The message here is clear: We have been completely abandoned by our establishment who do not care about our people’s fall. On the contrary, they celebrate it.

Due to occurrences such as frequent gun killings, Malmö was recently given the title ‘Chicago of the North’ by the Norwegian media. For American readers, Malmö may not seem an extreme example. But one has to understand that Sweden and Scandinavia were generally untouched by non-European immigration and many immigration-related issues up to the 1970s. Sweden had faced murders before like any country in Europe, but gang-related
The first half of this year, has, if anything, been even worse. 


Roses, Riots and Dying Institutions

Parallel to the killings, a steady stream of riots have taken place in Malmö the last few years. They amount to such a high number that it is pointless to start counting them here. Malmö has several ‘worse areas’, of which RosengÃ¥rd (Rose Garden) is the perhaps most famous — and for very tragic reasons. In RosengÃ¥rd, about 111 different ethnic groups are represented, and Swedes make up a rapidly disappearing group. According to Malmö’s own website, ‘the same number of people who constantly move into the area constantly move out’. This area has seen riots which are not much less dramatic than the ones seen in Paris in 2005 or in London more recently. A frequent reality for the Malmö police (in addition to assassinations), is burning cars, burning schools, rocks thrown at police officers and at innocent people. In other words it is a warlike, hostile situation, caused by young people in some specific suburbs. The police force is scared to death of RosengÃ¥rd. They know very well that the youths there more or less have declared open war against Swedish society.

The establishment has invested a lot of funds into the schools of RosengÃ¥rd. They view them as the ‘School of the Future’. Three teachers who did not share the establishment’s vision for these schools had to quit their jobs. They told of an environment of constant harassment and fire alarms. The truth is that the schools in RosengÃ¥rd are infamous for their bad results. They are also constantly looking for new teachers, as those who work there are forced to quit due to fear and harassment by the pupils. The kids in RosengÃ¥rd obviously do not like the schools offered to them by Swedish society. This has also become evident in several riots in RosengÃ¥rd which took place in 2009 and 2010, where, amongst other buildings, schools were set on fire.

The local fire department has changed its policies due to the changing reality in Malmö. In the past its staff would head directly to an emergency. This had to change, as fire-fighters now are attacked by youths who throw stones at them and their vehicles. If the fire-fighters need to head to some of the ‘worse’ areas of Malmö, they now have to co-organise with the police during an emergency to ensure they have a secure police escort. Last month several vehicles and a house were set on fire during another riot in RosengÃ¥rd. The police sent ten police patrols to the area. When they arrived and were trying to help the fire-fighters, they were welcomed with a rain of stone blocks thrown at them by the city’s youths.

A relatively basic institution of any society is a working system for handling the mail. In Malmö the post offices are now changing their policies . In the suburb of Seved, several post workers were earlier harassed and threatened by individuals in the area. Different gangs in Seved have ‘claimed’ certain streets, and do not peacefully accept the entrance of anyone from outside. So, instead of dealing with the sensitive issue we all know about, Malmö’s post office decided to dismantle its postal service in that suburb. Now its population has to handle and deliver their own mail. I am sure this is great for the 75-year-old lady who has difficulties walking long distances (and who, according to the statistics, faces a high risk of being robbed). The same thing is likely about to happen in RosengÃ¥rd. Recently, a gang there assaulted a postal worker for more than thirty minutes. They chased him and threw stones at him, some of them hitting his head.

Another institution which is deteriorating is the transport services to and from Malmö. Over 100 ‘serious incidents’ have occurred so far this year on transports such as trains. It has become increasingly dangerous to just take the train to Malmö, or a bus in Malmö. During the recent midsummer, the personnel on a train were threatened and people were throwing large rocks at the train. To solve this, the government has decided to stop collecting tickets and payments by passengers during evenings — It is too dangerous. Also, if the train conductors are alone on their evening shifts, they no longer have to collect tickets. So, by simply transporting these individuals and avoiding contact, we apparently avoid threats and violence — but do we really solve any problem? We do not. The pattern here is repeating itself over and over again: We withdraw and stick our heads in the sand.

Run, Run

100 years ago Swedes were moving to Malmö to create a new life, engage in commerce and establish their families. Now, they are fleeing the city, which is home to a steadily decreasing amount of Swedes. Areas like RosengÃ¥rd have been almost entirely deserted by Swedes, as it is simply too dangerous to live there. One of increasingly few Swedish families in RosengÃ¥rd recently decided to move last March. They were, surprisingly, interviewed by a regional newspaper,Sydsvenskan, and remained anonymous for obvious reasons (likely a mixture of death threats from the local population and accusations of ‘racism’ from any member connected to the establishment). The family, who had lived in RosengÃ¥rd for several years, had to flee from the area as if they were persecuted strangers in their own country. The family had been harassed the entire period because of their being Swedish.

The final decision to move, however, was taken after the family’s son was beaten unconscious by ten youngsters directly outside their home. This young man’s sister is deaf in one ear. Apparently, a group of youth decided to have some fun and throw firecrackers towards her head. She had to endure comments like ‘f*** your mother’ and ‘Swedish whore’ for several years. When commenting on this Swedish family, the popular, ‘Swedish’ top criminologist, Jerzy Sarnecki commented: ‘It probably happened because they had a dog. I have many friends from Middle East, and I know that they are afraid of dogs and do not like them’. Try to explain it in another way, and you are a ‘racist’.

…But They Tell Us

To learn about what is going on in Malmö, Swedes have to turn to the alternative, ‘racist, fascist’ media.

Whilst an increasing amount of Swedes start to reach through the politically correct censorship, many of them are still fed the Establishment’s view on what is going on. Through newspapers and TV programmes we learn that Malmö’s problems are not rooted in immigration — not at all.

State-funded Swedish Television (SVT), recently aired the start of a new documentary series about Malmö and its police force. The purpose was to ‘show the reality and the problems’ the police and the city’s population are facing. In its first episode it focused on an, apparently, critical issue in Malmö — Racism.

It did not mention or examine the executions or riots in Malmö (which take place frequently). Instead, it looked at a (rare) demonstration by the Sweden Democrats’ Youth Organisation. The programme followed and interviewed opposing demonstrators of the Antifa. We could learn about their views of why they demonstrated and what was wrong with the racist Sweden Democrats. The allocated time for the Sweden Democrats to voice their opinion, however, was of course brief in comparison.

The streets we are talking about here are out of control. There are gangs operating on them, selling drugs openly, and threatening everyone from the outside. In another the documentary from 2011, Malmö’s top politician, the Social Democrat Ilmar Reepalu, was interviewed in these very streets. During the interview, he was disturbed and verbally attacked by youths who declared that the streets belonged to them, and not him or anyone else.

The media know that many Swedes are ‘asleep’, and that most people have not actually realised what is happening to their country. However, thanks to alternative media outlets, it is just a matter of time before more people come to their senses. Actual murders, riots and malfunctioning institutions are impossible to cover up.

Again, one of Sweden’s ‘top criminologists’, Jerzy Samecki, finds explanations which does not touch the big elephant in the room. Thus he is often invited to news programmes and various debates. According to Samecki, the problems in Malmö are rooted in socio-economic issues. Analysing Malmö, he insisted that ‘those who have something to lose do not commit crime, whilst those who do not become criminals.’ So when immigrants come to Sweden and are pushed into socio-economic hardship, they have to riot and murder. If this were true, Sweden would have faced social upheaval, riots and murder waves (throw in gang rape) before the great immigrant waves, when people also faced recession and poverty. It did not, of course.

Kristian Lundberg of the regional paper Sydsvenskan, offers us an ‘insightful’ (quite typical), class-based analysis. He says that immigrants in Malmö act the way they do because they make up a victimised working class. I wonder how he approaches the high number of immigrants (about 30%) who are not working — Are they a proletariat?. Or the increasing number of Somalis, of whom, according to a 2009 report by the think tank Timbro, only 20% are estimated to be employed. He further tells us that those who look at cultural or ethnic backgrounds for analysis have a racist perspective.

In the SVT 1 TV debate about the murdered 15-year-old mentioned earlier, we were also offered more exciting explanations. Apparently the problems can be explained by acknowledging that Malmö’s immigrant population are oppressedstructurally by Swedish society. Furthermore, the population is allegedly not provided with enough libraries, which causes frustration, which then leads to violence. Of course!
The Swedish politician Anders Törnblad, of the Environmental Party, argues that the situation cannot be explained by cultural differences. The explanation of Malmö’s issues, he says, is that individuals do not get a chance to realise themselves, partly because of a prevailing ‘macho culture’. He maintains that there needs to be a gender-focus in the schools and kindergartens, where everyone has a chance to experience different gender roles. [That means boys wearing dresses - it has already happened in schools] It would be interesting to see for how long parents from Middle-East would allow their children go to such a school. I suspect those ‘non-important’ cultural differences would hit back at Törnblad quite quickly.

A Social Democrat in Malmö, Nima Gholam Ali Pour, says that the people in Malmö act as they do because of the society surrounding them. Once again, it is the fault of Swedish society. This society, we are told, does not provide ‘social investments’ in Malmö aimed at its youth. Similarly, the organiser of the Social Democratic Youth in Malmö, Sara Marknäs, tells us that the problem is not with immigration. Violence in Malmö has a deeper explanation, rooted in the fact that many are forced into segregation and uncertainty, she argued. She maintains that it is because Swedish society discriminates and leave people outside society. Ironically, it is her party which has exactly driven these policies.

Are we going down?

It is my belief that Malmö is going to collapse eventually. Yes, it might take one or two decades before it is totally ruined. The scary thing here is that normal people will not realise what has been happening to their country until it is already too late.

At best, Malmö will serve as a good example of the destruction a certain type of policies can inflict upon a country, its institutions and, most importantly, its native population. The main reason for my belief is not because of how immigrants act in Malmö. That situation is indeed unacceptable, and it is segregation and ‘outsideness’ in its highest form. However, the problem is that the government, at all levels, continues to propagate and expand this multicultural project. Speeding away from all the chaos and all victims they do see in their rear-view mirror, they just keep going. Swedish politicians, despite this, deny any issues with immigration and do not have the guts to address issues related to their ‘imported voters’. They thus stick their heads in the sand and let left-wing journalists try to come up with various, ‘alternative’ explanations. It is here the main problem lies, not with the immigrants themselves — If anything, they are just natural products of this experiment. An experiment which is not going to work.

What we are seeing in Malmö is hostile, occupational behaviour, tearing down the city and hurting Swedes whose families have lived there for centuries. The sad thing is the response. This response, as shown in the case of Malmö, is essentially capitulation and retreat. Schools, post offices, fire departments and the police are not backed up by the government — They are told to back down. Persons who criticise this are told to back down, or they risk being called names. If we keep voting in anti-indigenous parties who stick their heads in the sand and tell their population to back down when witnessing a hostile occupation, what do you think will happen? I can definitely take a guess, and it would begin with genocide.

The question is whether people will wake up and use their democratic rights to stop the madness before it is too late. I am unfortunately not entirely sure of the answer to that.

The politicians have essentially taken a once-great city and its original people away from us, and replaced it with chaos and murder of those people. Are we going to let them do the same thing with the entire country?

One thing I am sure of, is that this will happen if we do not put our foot down."







Saturday, August 4, 2012

Copts Attacked - a Burned Shirt Brings the Mob

http://www.aina.org/news/20120802201306.htm

-More fun in the sun brought to us by the Arab Spring.

Even the Assyrian News (Article is linked at top) must be feeling tremendous pressure to use neutral language to avoid further inflaming the anger of Muslims, especially since Syria is catching up with Iraq and Egypt as a place in which Christians cannot live without experiencing the horror of Islamic tolerance. They used the phase "sectarian crisis" when reporting on this event.

As has become the norm in the Middle and Near East, this pogrom started out with an event that, in non-Islamic nations, would have garnered no notice whatsoever. A Coptic launderer is said to have burned the shirt of a Muslim customer. The report indicates that both parties agreed to meet later to get the whole thing settled.

In a Khaffir nation such as those of Western Europe, Israel, or any other non-Muslim place on the earth, the business owner would either agree to pay for the damaged article or, in the event that the owner claimed that the shirt had been damaged prior to its submission to be cleaned, be sued in small claims court for the damage with both parties being able to state their cases before a judge.

Since the Copt lives in a nation in which, not only are the courts routinely hostile to Christians, but is currently about as safe for his coreligionists as a Turkish prison, it is safe to assume that the man was prudent enough to fork over the money for the shirt and be done with the matter.

This being insufficient cause for satisfaction for the oppressed Muslim gentleman (That shirt must have had tremendous sentimental value), he returned to exact vengeance for the burned shirt. Not only did he return looking for a fight; 3,000 people surrounded the Copt's house, some of them armed with Molotov cocktails. 3,000 people for a burned shirt - I couldn't get three people who wouldn't be bored to death listening to my story had I been that customer.

The Copt, in all probability feeling that the lives of those inside the house were terribly threatened, launched a Molotov cocktail of his own from his house. A 25 year-old man who, according to the report, was just passing by (Yea, I always just pass by angry mobs of thousands of people), suffered severe burns and later died in a hospital.

That's when all Islamic hell broke loose:

Bolding is added.

"The sectarian crisis in the village of Dahshur escalated on August 1 after the burial of the Muslim man who died yesterday in hospital. Hundreds of Muslims torched and looted Coptic businesses and homes despite hundreds of security forces being deployed in the village. Eyewitnesses reported that security forces did not protect most Coptic property -- only the small church of St. George was protected, in addition to some Coptic houses in its neighborhood.

"As 120 families had already fled the village the day before after being terrorized, the businesses and homes were an easy game for the mob to make a complete clean-up of everything that could be looted," said Coptic activist Wagih Jacob. "The security forces were at the scene of the crime while it was taking place and did nothing at all."

After the violence, the family of the deceased Moaz Hasab-Allah said that destroying Coptic property is not enough and that Coptic
[Copts or Copt?] have to "pay for their son's death" with lives. They did not yet accept condolences for his death, which is a sign that a vendetta is intended. In certain parts of Egypt, when the family of a deceased intends to take revenge, they accept no condolences before the persons responsible are killed.
After his death in hospital, Muslim brotherhood clerics and his family vowed to exact revenge, causing 120 terrorized Christian families to flee the village, with only one Christian family remaining behind according to the village priest Takla Abdel-Sayed."

As far as I know, the Left and many Muslims have not backed off their position that Romney was wrong in stating that cultural differences play a part in the prosperity of a society.

We in the West, except for some Evangelicals and the occasional statement by the Vatican, still do little to nothing while our coreligionists live their lives as if a newly-arrived Muslim army is going about sacking the town after winning battle. Homes, businesses, and churches are destroyed. Men are murdered. Women and girls are kidnapped and gang-raped, or are forced to marry Muslims and convert to Islam. 

If we continue to let this go on, all Christians from this region who were not killed or kidnapped 
will soon be in refugee camps. Excepting Israel, there will be no Christians in the regions in which Christianity first took root.









Friday, August 3, 2012

Culture, Prosperity, and Islam


http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/07/30/romney-angers-palestinians-with-pro-israel-comment/

-Oh, the vitriol that can ensue in our day when anyone notes the truth.

"That came on Monday when Romney addressed the stark economic differences between Israel — a high-tech powerhouse with the per capita income of a developed nation — and the poorer Palestinians. Romney told an audience of affluent Jewish donors — including gambling magnate Sheldon Adelson, who is pumping millions into a crusade to defeat President Barack Obama — that some economic historians have theorized that "culture makes all the difference."

"You notice a stark difference in economic vitality" between Israel and the Palestinians, Romney said, proceeding to badly flub the economic output numbers on both sides. "And as I come here and I look out over this city and consider the accomplishments of the people of this nation, I recognize the power of at least culture and a few other things," he said, citing an innovative business climate and the Jewish history of thriving in difficult circumstances."

Mitt Romney, possibly unwittingly so, waded hip-deep into the waters of a modern Kulturkampf.

Palestinians played the race card, insisting that his remarks were racist. This ignores several points:

-Romney was clearly referring to cultural, and not ethnic, differences, and the contrast was obviously between Islamic and Jewish culture.

-Islam is not a race, so even the most anti-Islamic remark cannot be racist.

-Palestinian and pro-Palestinian members of Academia have claimed (Terribly wrongly) that Jews are really just Arabs*, so if we apply their own logic, we would simply be contrasting one Arab group against another.

*http://thehotgates480bc.blogspot.com/2012/03/israel-one-staters-tell-them-to-be.html

The Left too quickly joined in on the protests against Romney for daring to suggest that culture plays an appreciable part in the economic prosperity of a nation. Leftist thought requires that all cultural attributes be dismissed out-of-hand from any discussion about economic conditions. To a Leftist, all accomplishments are simply the product of a people having been privileged to be in the right (Or wrong depending on who's talking) place at the right time. Those who were fortunate enough to gets their hands on resources and know how to use them prospered, those who never got the chance were subsequently oppressed and missed out on the bonanza.

The attitude that environmental factors were, not appreciable, but essentially the only reasons that some societies developed and prospered while others did not, made great headway due to the influence of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel. Diamond's book is a prime example of how Liberal thought has been employed to rewrite history in a manner that excises all cultural factors of peoples that likely contributed to economic development.

Suffice to say for now, factors that were not, or barely considered, in Diamond's work are at least as important as what he included. Many regions of the world had animals and plants that could be domesticated, mineral resources, and soil/climates conducive to agriculture. Some of these developed complex societies, but generally did not experiment with metallurgy, writing, and creative thought in a manner that compared to Western, pre-Islamic Middle and Near Eastern, and Far Eastern Societies. The introduction of iron-working into non-Eurasian regions, in some cases many centuries before the era of Colonialism, did little to change the mindset of the affected peoples. Precious few  non-Eurasian regions were unaffected by warfare or migrating peoples, factors which are often cited as the main catalysts for development of military strength. Many societies, even after being exposed to modern ways, reverted back to tribalism and mass-oppression of the have-nots the moment that the evil colonialists left town.

Romney's comments, especially as they concern a society established and maintained by Islam, are particularly noteworthy. The Middle east is literally swimming in a sea of petrodollars, yet Islamic societies there have changed little since since the days in which the treasury of the rulers of Arabia (The Sauds were not always in power) was kept in or under a mattress. The colossal wasting of money on palaces that would have made Versailles look like a dilapidated trailer park in the Southeastern US, cars with exteriors of silver (Metal, not color), and other insane expenditures that do nothing to prepare the region for the day when the oil is gone or no longer needed baffles Westerners. While people in much of the Islamic world, including that of the Middle East, wallow in extreme poverty, the elite spend in ways that our rich people would never even contemplate.

A brief look at the countries and regions of Europe illustrates what Romney noted; Spain, Portugal, Greece and the rest of the Balkans, and Sicily, all ruled for centuries by Islamic dynasties, have never recovered fully or caught up with their brethren in more Northerly regions. Regions that suffered from short-lived Islamic rule or from centuries of continual Islamic slave and booty raiding, such as coastal areas of Southern to Central Italy also have lagged far behind their neighbors to the North, who only had to deal with wars between States of similar cultures.The Northern African coastline, once a home to a strong Catholic culture and strong agricultural and trading communities, was repeatedly ravaged by the successive waves of Islamic invaders (At times sent against other Muslims) and is now quite backwards.

Without a constant influx of new wealth, such as that obtained by conquest and consequent liquidation of a new territory's wealth, or a free source of revenue like petroleum, Islamic societies stagnate even more than they do now. In the centuries/decades during/following the decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire, population growth in Islamic nations of the Middle and Near East was close to zero. I believe that this necessity to constantly conquer new nations to simply maintain, or arrest the decline, of an Islamic nation's current prosperity was the prime factor in the three attempts by the Ottomans to subjugate Austria. Note that the final, and almost successful, attack on Vienna occurred in 1683, exactly and only one hundred years prior to the recognition by the British government of the sovereignty of the American Republic. Jan Sobieski and the rest of the (Mostly German) allies arrived at that city with their armies in the nick of time.

As I am dog-tired, I will only briefly note that Jewish culture has been a major factor in the prosperity of the Jewish people. Their adherence to limited government, a business-friendly outlook, an insistence on properly educating their youth (Both in religious and professional education), and their sense of identity as a people,  have all come together to create what we see today in Israel and in Western nations with sizable Jewish populations.

A big hat tip to a guest contributor Samuel (From the Biblical one) for the following link and quoted excerpts:

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/daniel-greenfield/islams-universal-economic-failure/

"Saudi Arabia has no Israeli checkpoints, no Israeli soldiers or planes flying overhead. It has wealth literally pouring out of the ground with a fifth of the world’s petroleum reserves. And yet the IMF puts it 13 places behind Israel and the World Bank puts it 8 places behind Israel. The only Muslim countries with a better GDP Per Capita than Israel are small monarchies drowning in oil.

The non-oil Muslim countries who are closest to Israel are Malaysia and Lebanon, 32 and 33 places behind Israel. Both countries also have sizable non-Muslim populations. Muslims make up only 50 percent of Lebanon and only 60 percent of Malaysia. No Muslim country without oil has a better GDP Per Capita than a Muslim country with sizable Christian or Buddhist minorities.

What Romney didn’t mention, but should have, is that the Palestinian Authority dealt yet another blow to its economy when it drove out the Christian population. Christians in the territories have traditionally made the best businessmen and the capital of the Palestinian Authority was actually started by Jordanian Christian refugees escaping Muslim persecution.

Israel has 1.2 Muslims inside the Green Line who account for 52 percent of its social benefits. Israel’s national unemployment rate is 5.6 percent. The Arab unemployment rate is 27 percent. Only 59 percent of Muslim men and only 19 percent of Muslim women are officially part of the workforce. That’s compared to 56 percent of Jewish women and 52 percent of Christian women.

The average Israeli family has double the monthly income of the average Arab family. Half the Arab sector officially lives in poverty. The Israeli Jewish GDP is nearly three times higher than the Arab-Israeli GDP.

This could be blamed on the usual scapegoat of racism, but the Israeli Arab GDP of $6,750 is actually better than the $5,900 GDP in neighboring Jordan, the $6,540 GDP in Egypt and the $5,041 GDP in Syria. This is the same range in which most non-oil Arab Muslim states are grouped and it is clear that there is no escaping it without a big petroleum reserve. Or like Lebanon with its $15,523 GDP, a whole lot of Christians to actually work for a living.

Again culture is the determinant. Israel within the Green Line only has about 150,000 Christians and about as many Druze, and both groups perform better economically. Christian Arabs have a higher employment rate and a better rate of higher education than Muslims.

Apart from that official 1.2 million, Israel is also responsible for the 4 million in the Palestinian Authority (some of whom overlap with that 1.2 million and some of whom are imaginary and exist only to collect benefits from international agencies) who are still Israel’s responsibility, according to them and to the world, even though they also continue insisting that they want their own state.

The reason why the GDP in Palestinian areas is so terrible is because its inhabitants live in a giant welfare state. Palestinian Arabs were already receiving 725 dollars in per capita assistance. They don’t need an economy because the United States and the European Union are their economy. They don’t need a state because the UNRWA is their state.

It’s easy to admire Israel for what it has accomplished, but it stands out so much because of the region it’s in. Singapore and Hong Kong are less remarkable because they are in a region where countries don’t just give up and wait around for foreigners to come and find oil on their land. In Asia, countries make things happen for themselves. In the Middle East, if you’re not Jewish or Christian and you don’t have oil, then you have economic problems.

But let’s leave the Middle East and head over to Asia. India and Pakistan are divided by a GDP Per Capita difference of almost a thousand dollars. India is naturally in the lead. Within India, Muslims are at the bottom of the economic ladder. Their per capita GDP is lower, their literacy rate is lower and they perform worse than Hindus. And yet the average Indian Muslim annual income at 513 dollars is still higher than the average annual income in Pakistan at 420 dollars. This remains consistent with the higher Arab-Israeli income and lower Jordanian Arab income model meaning that Muslims in non-Muslim countries will earn less than the majority, but more than they would in a majority Muslim country.

In Africa, Muslim Somalia sits next door to Ethiopia and Kenya and its GDP is so small it can’t even be registered compared to $1,093 and $1,746 for them. You might try to blame Somalia’s civil war, but Rwanda, which experienced a genocide, has a $1,341 GDP. Niger with an 80 percent Muslim population and a $771 GDP sits next door to Chad with only a 53 percent Muslim population and a $1,865 GDP. Next door Cameroon has a 70 percent Christian majority and a $2,257 GDP.

In Britain the myth of the hardworking Bangladeshi or Pakistani storekeeper is practically sacred. In reality 70 percent of Bangladeshis and Pakistanis live in low income households, compared to 50 percent of Africans, 30 percent of Indians and 20 percent of the natives. Bangladeshis and Pakistanis not only have dramatically higher unemployment rates than natives, but they have higher unemployment rates than Africans.

If the issue were racism, then their unemployment rates would be in line with far lower Indian unemployment rates. Instead Muslims have the worst economic record in the UK. Pakistani Muslims in the UK are three times more likely to be unemployed than Hindus. Indian Muslims are twice as likely to be unemployed as Indian Hindus.

Again this fits the same model of Muslims from non-Muslim countries being less economically inept than Muslims from majority Muslim countries. The crucial difference between minority Muslims and majority Muslims is culture. Minority Muslims do have their own culture, but no minority group can entirely escape the values of the majority culture. Arab Israelis and Indian Muslims absorb enough of the values of the majority culture to perform better than their neighbors in Jordan or Pakistan. And they even carry on these absorbed values when they move to another country.

We can see the direct consequences of those values in action. In the UK, Muslims have the highest dropout rate and lack of qualifications of any religion. They have the highest male and female unemployment rates. This isn’t racism, this is Islamism.

Muslims have the highest unemployment rate in Ireland. In Belgium, Moroccans and Turks have a five times higher unemployment rate of the native population. In Australia, Muslims have twice the unemployment rate of non-Muslims and forty percent of their children live below the poverty line. Muslims also have the highest unemployment rate in Canada, 14.4 percent to a national rate of 7.2 percent.

Responsibility is the missing element. It’s the character value without which there can be no economic success. The same lack of responsibility that manifests itself after a Muslim terrorist attack, when Muslims rush to position themselves as the victims, rather than dealing with the violence in their midst, also manifests itself in the economic arena and in every aspect of life. This lack of responsibility is a failure of values that cannot be escaped or ascribed to racism, the occupation or the boogeyman."


Thursday, August 2, 2012

Obama Directed CIA to Support Syrian Rebels

http://video.foxnews.com/v/1767366057001/

Unless the Assad regime gets some help, Christians are done for in Syria. True to form, the US has provided support to rebel groups that are, or will soon, dominated by Islamists. Christians have been run out of their towns and murdered, but we are continually assured that everything will be great once the rebels topple Assad. Yea, just great.... like it has turned out for Christians in Iraq and Egypt.

If someone can provide an argument that the US is not facilitating the restoration of the Islamic Caliphate, or at least knowingly helping to create an environment in which it can be restored, I would be happy to listen to it or read it.

I promise to quote, in its entirety, without my comment,  and anonymously if desired, any submitted argument to that effect on this blog.







Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Kirk Cameron Met With Gay Protesters When Speaking About Marriage

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/homophobic-hurtful-gay-activists-protest-kirk-camerons-pro-marriage-speech-in-nj/

The good news is that Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day was an immeasurable success. There were numerous reports of lines in which people waited for an hour and a half to purchase their products. Being gluten-intolerant , I could not indulge, but I seriously entertained cheating and putting up with feeling lousy for a couple of days.

The Left of course howled at this show of support:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/choke-to-death-on-that-lgbt-hating-chicken-see-how-the-left-is-reacting-to-support-chick-fil-a-day/

Tweets from tolerant Liberals included wishes that people would choke to death on the food and die of heart disease and/or diabetes.

All of this because the President of the company made a comment when being interviewed for a Baptist periodical. The Left doesn't want you to to "do unto others", they want you to be intimidated into silence.

OK, now for the bad news.

Like the President of Chick-Fil-A, actor Kirk Cameron spoke about his support of marriage (The real one - not the pretend type).  Protesters came out to accuse Cameron of hate and of suffering from the fictitious condition of Homophobia. They also told him that speaking truthfully about marriage was hurtful to them.

The soft Totalitarianism of the modern Left strikes again. Keep your mouth shut and don't you dare utter a peep against anything that is a part of our agenda.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/homophobic-hurtful-gay-activists-protest-kirk-camerons-pro-marriage-speech-in-nj/

"According to The Christian Post, Cameron was speaking at the Great Auditorium when about 100 protesters showed up to march silently in front of the venue. The participants, part of a self-described civil rights group called Ocean Grove United, held signs that read, “Kirk! Your Words Hurt Us!” Another sign read,” Hey Kirk, Will God Judge Me For Loving Or Judge You For Hating?”

Here’s how the group described the event on its web site:

Thank you to all the people who made the Ocean Grove United weekend events so successful. On Friday evening we came together as a unified community outside the doors of the Great Auditorium to protest the homophobic and hurtful words of Kirk Cameron who was presenting a program inside. LGBT and straight, old and young, various religions, and an array of racial and ethnic backgrounds – what we share is a love of Ocean Grove and the diversity and acceptance that makes it such a special place."


Expect more of this and other related scenarios as people grow weary of being afraid to speak their peace in a nation that guarantees the right of free speech and supposedly assumes that individuals will be allowed to do so without being tarred and feathered. I think that many are fed up with having to keep their own opinions to themselves when others flaunt theirs.






White House - OK, We Did Return Churchill Bust

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/white-house-we-dont-have-that-churchill-bust-after-all/

A few days ago, The Blaze reported that White House staff were pretending that Obama never returned the bust of Winston Churchill to the UK*. They even presented a photo of Obama bending over at the waist to peer at a bust of the British Statesman. The trouble was, the bust in the photo was completely different one.

See, the White House had two busts prior to the return of the one in question and Obama's staff tried to get us to believe that there had always been only one.

Now, after referring to the story of the returned bust as a rumor and mocking those who knew about it, White House staff came clean about the whole ruse.

The story can be read at the link at top.

*This is my post on the return of the bust. I think that it says a lot about Obama's character, or lack thereof.
http://thehotgates480bc.blogspot.com/2011/11/obama-and-return-of-winston-churchill.html