Back to Basics

Berkeley, California (10/18/11)  In the story, “Is Wall Street Occupation A Communist Rally?” which can be seen on this website, the anti-America protesters were urged to think about what it is they are supporting, which is a totalitarian Socialist system which would make prisoners of us all.  Spotlighted in that story were three U.C.Berkeley students who had been arrested while hiking near the border of Iran and held in prison, accused of unlawfully entering that country.

Charged as spies,they were put in prison. One, Sarah Shourd, 33, was released after several months on “compassionate cause,” due to an illness, even though it cost a half million dollars for that “compassion.”

Her two companions, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal remained in prison for two more years and finally released for another half million dollars, called ‘bail’ but actually a ransom demand given to Iran.

It was harsh in that prison. Ironically, that trio had taken part in anti-America protests based on a pro-Iranian cause. So the anti-American country they supported slapped them into prison on what might be trumped up charges.

Several very prominent Americans jumped in to try to use their influence to secure their release. And over a million dollars was raised to ‘bail them out.’ Where did that money come from?

In the aforementioned story, the question was asked if they would be that quick to join anti-American protests when they got back home? The answer to that, which came quickly, was startling to say the least.

Unbelievably, yesterday, as soon as they got back (thanks to help from America), they immediately joined the “Occupiers” in Oakland to again protest against America.

This Wall Street Occupation anti-America rant, sponsored by Communist Party U.S.A. (CPUSA) and Communist members of Congress and the Senate along with the unions and Hollywood stars, is part of the effort to turn America into a Marxist country, with Islam as the One World Religion which will keep people insecure and easier to control.

THIS IS INSANE and proves that even with a university education one can still be downright stupid. It is stupid to declare war on your own country, to go hiking in a country engaged in an active war, and then, after being imprisoned by the very country they were supporting, to come back to America and immediately engage in the same kind of anti-American activity boosting those systems that would destroy the American way of life.

And this band of misfits in the Wall Street Occupation look past the fact that if they succeed, they themselves will come under an iron fist of brutality, slavery, and poverty, while the ‘gays’ will be executed publicly by Sharia Law.

As The Pennsylvania Dutch Saying goes, “Too soon oldt…und too late schmardt.”

A “Take Back the American Dream” three-day conference in Washington begins on Monday that features Van Jones, the disgraced former Obama Administration “Green Jobs Czar,” a Russian TV star, and a veteran of the Venceremos Brigades to Cuba who works for the AFL-CIO. Such is the nature of the modern progressive movement.

“I think everybody should hold onto your seats,” said Jones on Thursday’s MSNBC program “The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell.”

“October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back,” he went on. “We are a part of something called the American Dream Movement. We`re having a huge summit on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Come—you can go to rebuildthedream.com and find out more about it. We are going to build a progressive counterbalance to the Tea Party.”

Once a top figure in a Marxist group called Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), Jones predicts “an American fall, an American autumn, just like we saw the Arab spring. You can see it right now with these young people on Wall Street. Hold onto your hats. We`re going to have an October offensive to take back the American Dream and to rescue America`s middle class.”

The Campaign for America’s Future, sponsor of the conference, depicts the conservative Tea Party as a puppet of corporate interests and protests Wall Street but remains silent about the millions of dollars that Van Jones and other progressive activists have received from hedge fund operator George Soros. Number seven on the Forbes list of the richest people in America, with $22 billion, Soros runs an “alternative investment vehicle” available only to the super-rich which is based off-shore and taps into mysterious sources of cash beyond the supervision of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Indeed, a sister organization of the Campaign for America’s Future, the Institute for America’s Future, has itself received $1.3 million from Soros’s Open Society Institute over the last several years.

Two of the conference organizers, Robert Borosage and Katrina vanden Heuvel, have just written a call to arms in The Nation magazine saying that liberals must exert more pressure on the Obama Administration and they cite the work of the Communist Party USA and other groups in forcing Franklin Roosevelt to the left and expanding federal involvement in the economy in the 1930s.

“The Socialist and Communist parties and Huey Long’s Share Our Wealth movement grew threatening enough to goad Franklin Roosevelt into the second New Deal, including Social Security; the Wagner Act, recognizing the right of workers to organize; and much more,” they say. However, they complain that progressives have spent so much of their time over the last three years helping to pass “the Obama reform agenda” that their message has been “muted.”  The conference will be followed on October 5 by a rally on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol.

That the progressive movement has embraced Jones, despite his embarrassing exit from the administration, is evidence of how far to the left and how desperate modern “liberal” organizations are.

Jones today serves as the president of the Rebuild the Dream coalition of liberal organizations.

Yesterday’s article was fun. A little lighter than usual. Anytime that I can do that sort of back-and-forth with readers it’s bound to be lively. We have a lot of respect for our readers… they’re a pretty savvy and well-informed group.

Writing yesterday about this nation in peril had me chewing on that subject on and off all day. Thinking about the dangers this country faces is not an easy task. You have to peel everything back and examine it in a new light… and you have to drop however much of your denial system is still intact.

It didn’t matter whether I looked near or far… here at home or around the globe. We are faced with huge challenges. The more scenarios I ran through my mind, the more frightening it became. You see, I know how very little it would take for a world-wide conflagration to break out if any number of these came together.

We are beset with enemies from within as well as from without. It doesn’t much matter which way you look, either. Let’s pretend for a second that we’re only dealing with one set of baddies, instead of a dozen or more. How can we fight an enemy we haven’t identified? One of the real and present dangers faced by this country is just that. Our stubborn refusal to come to grips with what things really are and identify them by name… and not by some politically convenient, half-truth catchphrase.

We’ve watched creeping political correctness gradually changing the language. It’s long past time to put a stop to it. Conservatives have to sound off when they see and hear the left pushing its message of lies and deceit. Call them on it first time… and every time.

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

© Skip MacLure 2011

Hating the ACLU is a cottage industry among conservatives. But why not? After all, the ACLU hates America, hates Americans and hates conservatives, so it is only fair.

Perhaps the greatest current example of the ACLU’s hatred for America is their war against Guantanamo and the war on Islamic terrorist groups. As soon as America began holding prisoners, the ACLU jumped into action. They began to file Habeas Corpus actions to get the captured terrorists released. When the Bush administration announced captured terrorists would be tried by military tribunals, the ACLU went ballistic and tried to have the terrorists tried in civilian courts.

Never in American history have captured combatants been tried in American civilian courts simply because they were captured. Some were tried for crimes they committed after they were captured.

The military tribunals were a good choice. Most of the rules that civilian courts use would be followed in the tribunals. However, there would be a couple of exceptions. These dealt with keeping classified information classified and preventing the disclosure of the identity of CIA and military personnel.

The ACLU hated this idea because they wanted as much classified material released so it could aid the terrorists. They also wanted to help the terrorists identify undercover CIA operatives. As a part of their so called “John Adams Project,” the ACLU along with the National Association of Criminal Defense lawyers, tried to locate, stalk and photograph CIA covert operatives. They showed their photos to terrorists being held in GITMO.

The latest ACLU attack on GITMO involves the death of one Awal Gul. Gul was an enemy combatant, held at GITMO for the last eight years. Gul died last week. According to the military, he was working out on an elliptical trainer, finished, went into the shower, collapsed and died. An initial investigation indicates it was probably a heart attack or pulmonary embolism that killed him.

Gul was an admitted Taliban recruiter who operated an Al-Qaeda “guest house” and who met with Osama Bin Laden on several occasions and “provided him with operational assistance on several occasions.”

The ACLU immediately screamed that an independent investigation was needed. Hina Shamsi, the Director of the ACLU’s National Security Project, said “Mr. Gul’s death makes clear that the longer we continue to hold men at Guantanamo without any accountability or adequate legal process, the more independent scrutiny of their well-being is required,”

What the ACLU really wants is to have an anti-American group, such as the ACLU, conduct an “independent” investigation that would say how horrible the conditions are at Guantanamo and how the military prison needs to be closed. They also want to have more weapons to use in their war on America and it’s defense against Islamic terror.

The ACLU likes to portray itself as an organization that exists to “preserve and defend individual rights.” Nothing could be further from the truth. This is an organization run by far leftists who hate America and who want to see America transformed into a socialist hellhole.

Like a Rorschach test which tells you more about the patient, than about the image on the card, Wikileaks reveals more about the left than it does about America. And what it reveals is that the left’s antipathy toward America is not policy based at all. If Wikileaks’ heavily edited helicopter video at least allowed the left to pretend that it was opposing American war crimes, the leaked diplomatic cables are based on nothing more than opposing American diplomacy. Not even the capital D diplomacy, but the small letter diplomacy. The minor observations, petty notes and random scribbles of a bored diplomatic corps observing well known situations.

The diplomatic cable leaks were not broadcast to protest against the war, or to undermine a right wing government– they were broadcast because Anti-Americanism is a compulsive need. While American liberals fancy that the right man in D.C. can make the world love us, their own comrades internationally need an America to hate. If an America didn’t exist, they would have to invent it. A more confident pro-American leader like Bush may stir up more venom and outrage, but America was not beloved under Clinton. And it’s not adored under Obama. If Che were dug up, pumped full of zombie juice and stuck in the oval office– the red che t-shirt wearing crowd would be burning American flags anyway.

During the Bush era, the chattering classes liked to believe that America’s PR problem was fixable. But America’s PR problem exists because it is a global superpower. The problem isn’t the War on Terror or McDonalds or Hollywood or the dollar. Or any of it apart. It’s all of it together. There’s no fix for it, except to dethrone America. Turn it into a has-been, a former empire feeding off the good graces of others and opening its historical institutions to tourism. That won’t fix the problem. The UK is not exactly all that beloved either. But it will dial down the obsessive hatred to a dull roar.

As the first fully Anti-American leader to sit at the helm of the country, Barack Hussein Obama is self-aware enough to understand that it is not any single element, but the perception of America as a global power in every arena that feeds that hatred. And it is why he’s done everything to weaken American power and independence across every spectrum, from its economy to its military to its space program and its culture. But even a wholly anti-American leader wasn’t enough to fix the PR problem.

The willingness of the American left to cheer Assange on shows that not only couldn’t America Lite (TM) win over Europe’s leftists, but it couldn’t even win over their slower and pudgier American counterparts. But what’s the basis of their opposition? Do they really believe that diplomats shouldn’t be able to privately report their assessment of what is going on in another country? And would they be willing to apply the same standard to journalists or NGO officials? Obviously not.