NOTHING MAKES POSTMODERN STATISTS HAPPIER THAN FINDING WAYS TO DIMINISH THE VALUE OF THE INDIVIDUAL.
THIS ACADEMIC STUDY IS A CASE IN POINT: THE SELF IS AN ILLUSION.
VIA INSTAPUNDIT WHO SAW NO SUBTEXT AT ALL - (AS IF ACADEMICS HAD NO POLITICAL AGENDA).
"ALL CAPS IN DEFENSE OF LIBERTY IS NO VICE."
Saturday, June 16, 2012
BROOKLYN JEWISH NEIGHBORHOOD DESECRATED WITH NAZI SYMBOLS
A very abominable thing has taken place in Brooklyn:
The Borough Park Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn was defaced with Nazi swastikas in a half-dozen different spots, including on a synagogue, on Friday.There's no telling just who it was who committed the crime just yet, whether it was Islamofascists in the US, or even people hanging out with the Occupy movement. And who knows if we ever will learn just who it was?
The New York Daily News reported that three of the symbols were discovered painted along 16th Avenue: on a synagogue, Stolin Bais Medrash, on the Fishmans Grocery security gate and at 16th Avenue Glatt Takeout.
Another swastika was spotted on the side of a van parked on 42nd St. between 15th and 16th Avenues, police said, according to the report. The fifth was found on a building on 18th Ave, and a sixth swastika was also discovered on the outside of Junior High School 223, The Flatbush Scoop reported.
Police are looking for whoever is responsible and the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating.
“What kind of sick person does this in a neighborhood of Holocaust survivors?” Assemblyman Dov Hikind, a Democrat who represents Borough Park, was quoted by the New York Daily News as having said.
“There will be no tolerance for hatred here and our community will address this from top to bottom,” Hikind, whose parents also survived the Holocaust, added. “We’ll show that we’re serious about prosecuting criminals who would hurt us with their vile actions.”
The report said that City Councilman David Greenfield — who represents Midwood, Boro Park and Bensonhurst — has put up a $1,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction.
“Once again, we find ourselves under attack from individuals who think nothing of spreading hate and fear throughout the community,” he said in a statement.
Friday, June 15, 2012
ANALYSIS: OBAMA ANNOUNCED HIS PREEMPTIVE AMNESTY IN ANTICIPATION OF NEXT WEEKS ANTI-OBAMACARE DECISION FROM THE SCOTUS
BETCHYA I AM RIGHT.
I THINK KAGAN TIPPED HIM OFF AND HE'S TRYING TO GAIN A POLITICAL EDGE WITH HIS BASE BEFORE HIS SIGNATURE "ACHIEVEMENT" IS TOSSED.
(AND ALSO TO DISTRACT FROM THE FACT THAT HIS OHIO SPEECH WAS A TOTAL BOMB.)
STAY TUNED...
I THINK KAGAN TIPPED HIM OFF AND HE'S TRYING TO GAIN A POLITICAL EDGE WITH HIS BASE BEFORE HIS SIGNATURE "ACHIEVEMENT" IS TOSSED.
(AND ALSO TO DISTRACT FROM THE FACT THAT HIS OHIO SPEECH WAS A TOTAL BOMB.)
STAY TUNED...
UNREAL: OBAMA VIOLATES HIS OATH OF OFFICE TO PANDER TO A KEY VOTING BLOC
OBAMA AND HOLDER SHOULD BE IMPEACHED FOR THIS - IT VIOLATES THE LAW AND IT MEANS THEY HAVE VIOLATED THE OATH THEY SWORE:
NYTIMES:
NYTIMES:
U.S. to Stop Deporting Some Immigrants
Bypassing Congress on Issue Affecting Key Voting Bloc
Hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to the United States illegally as children will be able to obtain work permits and will no longer have to fear deportation under a new policy announced by the Obama administration.DISGUSTING.
OBAMA: "a falsehood wrapped in a fallacy"
Milbank called Obama's awful Ohio speech "a falsehood wrapped in a fallacy".
I think this sums up the entire Obama presidency.
I think this sums up the entire Obama presidency.
Thursday, June 14, 2012
2 PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE "SWAMP" IN WHICH ISLAMO-TERRORISM GROWS
LIBERALS LIKE TO SAY THAT ISLAMO-TERROR IS THE RESULT OF POVERTY AND IGNORANCE; THAT THEY ARE THE "SWAMP" IN WHICH TERROR GROWS.
BULLSHIT.
MORE ON ASHOURA HERE.
SECOND: RITUAL ISLAMO-MISOGYNY:
MORE ON ISLAMO-MISOGYNY HERE.
AND HERE'S PROOF THAT WHAT GLOBAL JIHAD IS ALL ABOUT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH JEWS OR ISRAEL, OR NEOCONS, OR CAPITALISM, OR THE WEST:
MORE ON THE BUDDHAS OF BAMIYAN HERE.
IF WE REALLY WANT TO END GLOBAL JIHAD, THEN WE NEED TO END ISLAMO-CHILD ABUSE AND ISLAMO-MISOGYNY.
MUSLIMS WHO WANT TO END ISLAMO-TERROR - AND WHO WANT THE ISLAMO-TERRORISTS TO STOP BESMIRCHING AND DEMEANING THEIR RELIGION - SHOULD JOIN THIS EFFORT.
BULLSHIT.
HERE ARE TWO PHOTOGRAPHS THAT DEPICT THE REAL "SWAMP" IN WHICH ISLAMO-TERROR GROWS - FOR TERRORISTS ARE NOT BORN; THEY ARE TRAINED, AND THEY ARE NOT MERELY TRAINED IN TERROR-CAMPS, OR IN MADRASSAS. THEY ARE FIRST TRAINED IN THE HOME:FIRST: RITUAL CHILD ABUSE:
MORE ON ASHOURA HERE.
SECOND: RITUAL ISLAMO-MISOGYNY:
AND HERE'S PROOF THAT WHAT GLOBAL JIHAD IS ALL ABOUT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH JEWS OR ISRAEL, OR NEOCONS, OR CAPITALISM, OR THE WEST:
IF WE REALLY WANT TO END GLOBAL JIHAD, THEN WE NEED TO END ISLAMO-CHILD ABUSE AND ISLAMO-MISOGYNY.
MUSLIMS WHO WANT TO END ISLAMO-TERROR - AND WHO WANT THE ISLAMO-TERRORISTS TO STOP BESMIRCHING AND DEMEANING THEIR RELIGION - SHOULD JOIN THIS EFFORT.
THERE'S ONE WAY OBAMA CAN INCREASE THE RATINGS OF HIS SPEECHES
OBAMA'S SPEECHES CONTINUE TO GET SMALLER AND SMALLER AUDIENCES.
THERE'S A SIMPLE WAY HE CAN GET HUGE RATINGS ON HIS NEXT SPEECH.
ANNOUNCE IT WILL BE HIS FAREWELL SPEECH.
HE'LL GET A LOT OF APPLAUSE, TOO.
THERE'S A SIMPLE WAY HE CAN GET HUGE RATINGS ON HIS NEXT SPEECH.
ANNOUNCE IT WILL BE HIS FAREWELL SPEECH.
HE'LL GET A LOT OF APPLAUSE, TOO.
MITT'S SPEECH TODAY IN OHIO: 100% TRUTH - AND DELIVERED WITHOUT A TELEPROMPTER!
MITT'S SPEECH TODAY IN OHIO: 16 MINUTES & 100% TRUTH - AND DELIVERED WITHOUT A TELEPROMPTER!
OBAMA'S WAS NEARLY ONE FREAKIN' HOUR, 100% BS - AND EVERY WORD WAS ON HIS TELEPROMPTER.
AND ACCORDING TO JONATHAN ALTER IT WAS A BORING BOMB.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY.
VOTE ROMNEY.
OBAMA'S WAS NEARLY ONE FREAKIN' HOUR, 100% BS - AND EVERY WORD WAS ON HIS TELEPROMPTER.
AND ACCORDING TO JONATHAN ALTER IT WAS A BORING BOMB.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY.
VOTE ROMNEY.
SARAH JESSICA PARKER AND ANNA WINTOUR: UGLY AND UGLIER
ONLY SASQUATCH MICHELLE OBAMA IS MORE OVERRATED FOR HER LOOKS AND STYLE-SENSE THAN THESE TWO CHIC DEGENRATI DOGS:
THESE TWO WOMEN HAVE AS MUCH TO DO WITH WHAT MOST AMERICAN WOMEN THINK AND FEEL AS MARIE ANTOINETTE.
DITTO OBAMA HIMSELF.
THESE TWO WOMEN HAVE AS MUCH TO DO WITH WHAT MOST AMERICAN WOMEN THINK AND FEEL AS MARIE ANTOINETTE.
DITTO OBAMA HIMSELF.
WHAT KRISTOF WOULD HAVE REPORTED IN 1938
Imagine that Nick Kristof had been reporting from Germany instead of Iran, and in 1938, instead of 2012. This is what he would have said:
The government of the Reich gave me a very rare journalist visa, along with permission to drive unescorted across the country on a government-approved route from Breslau in the east to Wiesbaden in the west, and back to Berlin. I interviewed people at random along the way, and as far as I could tell I was not tailed....
... To me, the German Reich feels like other authoritarian countries I covered before they toppled. My guess is that the demise of the system is a matter of time — unless there’s a war between Germany and the West, perhaps ignited by French strikes on German military sites in the demilitarized Rhineland. That, I sense, would provoke a nationalist backlash and rescue the Fuehrer and his gauleiters.
IRAN GAVE KRISTOF A RARE VISA, AND IN RETURN HE PENNED A COLUMN THAT COMES OUT AGAINST ATTACKING THEM
KRISTOF'S COLUMN DESERVES A DURANTY AWARD. COLUMN TITLED: "HUGS FROM IRAN"
EXCERPT:
IRAN KNEW THIS ABOUT KRISTOF. THAT'S WHY IRAN GAVE HIM THE VISA IN THE FIRST PLACE.
JUST ANOTHER USEFUL IDIOT.
EXCERPT:
The Iranian government gave me a very rare journalist visa, along with permission to drive unescorted across the country on a government-approved route from Mashhad in the east to Tabriz in the west, and back to Tehran. I interviewed people at random along the way, and as far as I could tell I was not tailed....
... To me, Iran feels like other authoritarian countries I covered before they toppled. My guess is that the demise of the system is a matter of time — unless there’s a war between Iran and the West, perhaps ignited by Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear sites. That, I sense, would provoke a nationalist backlash and rescue the ayatollahs.WHAT A LOAD OF SHIT FROM A PIECE OF LIBERAL, TYRANNY APPEASING CRAP.
IRAN KNEW THIS ABOUT KRISTOF. THAT'S WHY IRAN GAVE HIM THE VISA IN THE FIRST PLACE.
JUST ANOTHER USEFUL IDIOT.
TO GET RE-ELECTED, OBAMA'S NEEDS A MULLIGAN ON HIS FIRST TERM: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS THE RNC BY 9 MONTHS
VIA WZ A GREAT RNC TV AD:
WE SAID THIS 9 MONTHS AGO:
AS THE RNC SAYS: TOO BAD FOR OBAMA, PRESIDENTS DON'T GET MULLIGANS!
BREAKING - Egypt's Military Seizes Control Of Country, Invalidates Parliamentary Elections
HIGH COURT RULES 1/3 OF PARLIAMENT WERE ELECTED UNCONSTITUTIONALLY
THIS POST WILL BE UPDATED AS MORE INFORMATION COMES IN
This is probably good news. From the information I have, most positions of power in the Egyptian military are filled with Mubarak supporters and Christians.
As is often the case in the Muslim world, the hardcore Muslims leave all the real work those who are not part of the Ummah. The true followers of the prophet are above real work.
The military often acts as a bulwark against absolute chaos. Think Pakistan, as an example.
ANOTHER THOUGHT - This is yet another repudiation of Obama's policy. The "Arab Spring" was untenable from the get go. It was not a Democracy movement, but a Fascist movement which pretended to use Democracy to get elected only to institute it's dictatorial, violent, and insane policies.
Obama has been on quite a losing streak the past few weeks, and now, perhaps, the biggest "jewel" in his foreign policy crown is beginning to crumble.
In a way, the Arab Spring has been the Obama equivalent of Reagan's "tear down this wall", or Nixon's opening up of China.
This is a major repudiation of Obama's vision.
Yet another Obama initiative is falling apart.
From the Washington Post:
THIS POST WILL BE UPDATED AS MORE INFORMATION COMES IN
This is probably good news. From the information I have, most positions of power in the Egyptian military are filled with Mubarak supporters and Christians.
As is often the case in the Muslim world, the hardcore Muslims leave all the real work those who are not part of the Ummah. The true followers of the prophet are above real work.
The military often acts as a bulwark against absolute chaos. Think Pakistan, as an example.
ANOTHER THOUGHT - This is yet another repudiation of Obama's policy. The "Arab Spring" was untenable from the get go. It was not a Democracy movement, but a Fascist movement which pretended to use Democracy to get elected only to institute it's dictatorial, violent, and insane policies.
Obama has been on quite a losing streak the past few weeks, and now, perhaps, the biggest "jewel" in his foreign policy crown is beginning to crumble.
In a way, the Arab Spring has been the Obama equivalent of Reagan's "tear down this wall", or Nixon's opening up of China.
This is a major repudiation of Obama's vision.
Yet another Obama initiative is falling apart.
From the Washington Post:
CAIRO — Egypt’s Islamist-dominated parliament is likely to be suspended after a high court ruling Thursday that one-third of its lawmakers were elected unconstitutionally, officials said.
Local newspapers and Arabic television channels reported that Egypt’s military rulers were going to take over legislative power in the country and planned to announce the dissolution of the lower house of parliament later Thursday.
The court also ruled that Mubarak ally Ahmed Shafiq is allowed to run for president in elections that begin on Saturday, invalidating a law that bars members of the ousted dictator’s party from participating in political life.From the New York Times:
Incensed revolutionaries called the two decisions the death of Egypt’s revolution, and declared the dissolution of parliament and Shafiq’s participation in the landmark presidential vote the final steps in a military coup.
Protesters clashed with security forces outside the courthouse minutes after the decisions were announced.
“This ruling means that the next president will work without institutions, he will face huge criticism and rage,” said Sobhi Saleh, a leading lawmaker from the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice party.
Among Egypt’s old guard, Saleh claimed, “there was outrage over the Islamic majority of the parliament. And there was a plan to destroy it.”
The court said that political parties unlawfully fielded candidates for the one-third of seats in the lower house of parliament that were supposed to be set aside for independent candidates.
As a result, lawmakers elected to those seats likely will lose their posts. Maher Sami, a spokesman for the constitutional court, told reporters that the ruling effectively calls for the dissolution of the entire lower house of parliament.
“Both decisions empower the Mubarak status-quo, which is no surprise, as the judges of the court were appointed by the latter, and represent a part of the so-called ‘deep-state,’ ” Omar Ashour, an Egypt expert at Exeter University, said in an e-mail.
Shafiq will compete for the presidency against Mohamed Morsi, a Muslim Brotherhood candidate. Morsi and his allies say Shafiq wants to return Egypt’s government to the repressive tactics Mubarak favored. Shafiq, in turn, says a Morsi victory would transform Egypt into an ultra-conservative Islamic state.
The judges on the top court are Mubarak appointees and seen as sympathetic to the old order. That perception could fuel confrontations between protesters and security forces, who were recently given vast powers to detain civilians.
The lower house, known as the “people’s assembly,” is the most powerful part of the parliament. The Muslim Brotherhood, which controls just under half the seats in the lower house, stands to lose the most from the decision.
The question of Shafiq’s eligibility to run for office centered on whether Shafiq ought to be subject to a recently passed law that bars senior members Mubarak’s disbanded National Democratic Party from political life for 10 years.
The court ruled the law was unconstitutional.
Amr Darrag, another leading member of the Freedom and Justice Party, said his party would respect the judicial decision regarding Shafiq’s fitness to run for office and would continue to strive to beat him at the ballot box.
“Our position was to do our best to legally isolate Ahmed Shafiq from the post of president,” Darrag said. “If we can’t do that then the people will isolate him with the vote.”
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court on Thursday ruled that the Islamist-led Parliament must be immediately dissolved, while also blessing the right of Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister to run for president, escalating a battle for power between the remnants of the toppled order and rising Islamists.The high court, packed with sympathizers of the ousted president, appears to be engaged in a frontal legal assault on the Muslim Brotherhood, the once outlawed organization whose members swept to power in Parliament this spring and whose candidate was the front-runner for the presidency as well. The presidential election runoff is scheduled to go ahead Saturday and Sunday.The ruling — which critics said amounted to a back-door coup — means that whoever emerges as the winner of the runoff scheduled for this weekend will take power without the check of a sitting Parliament and could even exercise some influence over the election of a future Parliament. It vastly compounds the stakes in the presidential race, raises questions about the ruling military council’s commitment to democracy, and makes uncertain the future of a constitutional assembly recently formed by the Parliament as well.
AN ERITREAN COLLABORATED WITH TERRORISTS
Here's another reason why illegal immigrants or those with no common sense can't be allowed into the country:
The police's National Unit for International Investigations has arrested an Eritrean citizen, Kabri Gabrius, who lives in Tel Aviv, on suspicion of assisting a terror group.Very disturbing indeed. Anyone who's going to come to Israel for that kind of evil intent does not belong, and should be kept in prison before being rocketed back to their original country immediately afterwards.
Gabrius, 22, is suspected of involvement in a terror group that operates in the Sinai Desert. He is believed to have been raising funds and collecting intelligence information for it.
The list of offenses he is suspected of includes transferring money to a terror group, carrying out a property transaction for terror purposes, conspiracy to commit a crime and money laundering.
He was brought Tuesday before a judge in Rishon LeTzion, where his remand was extended by five days. According to Maariv, he was arrested near Hevron, and a large amount of money was found in his car. he claimed the money was intended for buying land.
The two other suspects arrested with Gabrius are an Arab with Israeli citizenship and an Arab from the Palestinian Authority.
SCIENTIFIC PROOF THAT SOCIALISM ALWAYS FAILS AND MUST ALWAYS FAIL
The scientific method proves that socialism sucks.
Many scientific experiments in reorganizing societies and economies using socialism have been done over the last century.
They're scientific because there's a control.
And every one of these scientific experiments shows socialism always fails.
These examples prove that no rational human can seriously advocate socialist policies as a means of improving the human condition.
Socialism ALWAYS makes people less free and less prosperous. ALWAYS.
No surprise: prosperity is a by-product of liberty.
NEED MORE PROOF? Look no further than Europe today: the nations whose economies are collapsing are the more socialist ones; the more welfare giveaways a nation has - and the bigger burden it places on the productive and industrious people - the poorer it becomes until the sovereign debt demolishes it. Greece. Spain. Italy. THE EU ITSELF.
The EU never had the "Bush Tax Cuts For The Rich" or two "unfunded wars".
But they've been run the way the USSR was and California and Illinois are still run today - not the way Germany was or Indiana or Texas or South Korea or Hong Kong are run.
It's not that Germans are better genetically than Greeks anymore than South Koreans are genetically better than North Koreans.
It's the socialism, stupid!
END. OF. STORY.
Politicians who continue to advocate socialist policies ought to be tarred and feathered and run out of CIVILIZATION on a pole.
Vote accordingly. Vote Romney.
PS: i THINK THAT THE REASON THE LEFT ARE CALLED "REDS" IS THAT THEIR POLICIES ALWAYS PUT ECONOMIES INTO THE RED!
Many scientific experiments in reorganizing societies and economies using socialism have been done over the last century.
They're scientific because there's a control.
And every one of these scientific experiments shows socialism always fails.
- Compare the USSR (1917-1989) to post-Soviet Russia: same people: same resources - but different results; one causes poverty, the other causes prosperity.
- Compare North Korea to South Korea: same people; similar resources - though perhaps the North had more before the armistice), but again: very different results. South Korean has become RICH.
- Compare Hong Kong to pre-Deng Xiao Peng Red China: same people, but Hong Kong had LESS resources; yet Hong Kong became RICH.
- Compare West Germany to East Germany and you get the same answer.
Compare California to Texas and you get the same answer AGAIN!
These examples prove that no rational human can seriously advocate socialist policies as a means of improving the human condition.
Socialism ALWAYS makes people less free and less prosperous. ALWAYS.
No surprise: prosperity is a by-product of liberty.
NEED MORE PROOF? Look no further than Europe today: the nations whose economies are collapsing are the more socialist ones; the more welfare giveaways a nation has - and the bigger burden it places on the productive and industrious people - the poorer it becomes until the sovereign debt demolishes it. Greece. Spain. Italy. THE EU ITSELF.
The EU never had the "Bush Tax Cuts For The Rich" or two "unfunded wars".
But they've been run the way the USSR was and California and Illinois are still run today - not the way Germany was or Indiana or Texas or South Korea or Hong Kong are run.
It's not that Germans are better genetically than Greeks anymore than South Koreans are genetically better than North Koreans.
It's the socialism, stupid!
END. OF. STORY.
Politicians who continue to advocate socialist policies ought to be tarred and feathered and run out of CIVILIZATION on a pole.
Vote accordingly. Vote Romney.
PS: i THINK THAT THE REASON THE LEFT ARE CALLED "REDS" IS THAT THEIR POLICIES ALWAYS PUT ECONOMIES INTO THE RED!
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
FARAGE: 'THE EURO-TITANIC HAS HIT THE ICEBERG AND THERE ARE SIMPLY NOT ENOUGH LIFEBOATS"
FARAGE: THE SPAIN BAILOUT REQUIRES ITALY TO LEND MONEY TO SPAIN AT 3% THAT IT HAS TO BORROW IN THE MARKETS AT 7%."
IT CAN'T LAST. IT WON'T.
I THINK NOW IS THE REASONABLE TIME TO PANIC.
WATCH THE BRILLIANT AND PRESCIENT FARAGE - WHO HAS BEEN WARNING EUROPE THAT THIS WOULD HAPPEN FOR TEN YEARS:
IT CAN'T LAST. IT WON'T.
I THINK NOW IS THE REASONABLE TIME TO PANIC.
WATCH THE BRILLIANT AND PRESCIENT FARAGE - WHO HAS BEEN WARNING EUROPE THAT THIS WOULD HAPPEN FOR TEN YEARS:
BREAKING - BOMBSHELL: LEAKED TRADE DOC' PROVES OBAMA LIED
BOMBSHELL: OBAMA AND COMRADES CAUGHT LYING AGAIN IN A LEAKED TRADE DOCUMENT:
VOTE ACCORDINGLY. VOTE ROMNEY.
The newly leaked document is one of the most controversial of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact. It addresses a broad sweep of regulations governing international investment and reveals the Obama administration's advocacy for policies that environmental activists, financial reform advocates and labor unions have long rejected for eroding key protections currently in domestic laws.
Under the agreement currently being advocated by the Obama administration, American corporations would continue to be subject to domestic laws and regulations on the environment, banking and other issues. But foreign corporations operating within the U.S. would be permitted to appeal key American legal or regulatory rulings to an international tribunal. That international tribunal would be granted the power to overrule American law and impose trade sanctions on the United States for failing to abide by its rulings.
The terms run contrary to campaign promises issued by Obama and the Democratic Party during the 2008 campaign.
"We will not negotiate bilateral trade agreements that stop the government from protecting the environment, food safety, or the health of its citizens; give greater rights to foreign investors than to U.S. investors; require the privatization of our vital public services; or prevent developing country governments from adopting humanitarian licensing policies to improve access to life-saving medications," reads the campaign document.
Yet nearly all of those vows are violated by the leaked Trans-Pacific document.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY. VOTE ROMNEY.
BIZARRE TATTOO DIVERSITY IN GREEN LANTERN
In DC's latest upcoming publicity stunt for diversity's sake, they're coming up with a GL member who may or may not be a Muslim (and still no Armenian characters anywhere in sight), with a tattoo of the Arabic word for courage on his right arm and is carrying a handgun:
In any case, they're right about what the Religion of Peace decrees: as told in Bukhari Vol.3 #299 in the Hadith, tattoos are forbidden, and it can include even temporary ones like what singer Erykah Badu got herself (H/T: Jihad Watch). That could explain why even if the tattoo on the new GL were a sci-fi application, it's still causing controversy nevertheless.
But even if this new character doesn't adhere to Islam, the sad part is, there's no chance DC would ever allow any negative critiques of it. And the pistol is simply ludicrous.
While the introduction of an Arab character might be welcomed as bringing more diversity, the portrayal of the new Green Lantern on the cover of Green Lantern #0 is generating quite a bit of controversy. If the character is an Arab, many fans are pointing out that permanent tattoos are forbidden in the Islam religion. However, others have also pointed out that the tattoo could be non-permanent, and thus permitted. It’s also possible the new Green Lantern could be an Arab but not Muslim.Well if he's not a Muslim like that Nightrunner character in Batman Inc, and is just simply of Arabic descent, then there's really no worries there. But that handgun? Just what is that supposed to be for?
In any case, they're right about what the Religion of Peace decrees: as told in Bukhari Vol.3 #299 in the Hadith, tattoos are forbidden, and it can include even temporary ones like what singer Erykah Badu got herself (H/T: Jihad Watch). That could explain why even if the tattoo on the new GL were a sci-fi application, it's still causing controversy nevertheless.
But even if this new character doesn't adhere to Islam, the sad part is, there's no chance DC would ever allow any negative critiques of it. And the pistol is simply ludicrous.
VIDEO: "THE DANGERS OF GOVERNMENT DEPENDENCY"
Hat tip to Conservative Hideout 2.0:
Why isn't this kind of material being shown in our education system?
FROM OSLO, MORE PROOF EUROPE IS BECOMING MORE HOSTILE TO JEWS
THE PERPS OF VIOLENT ANTISEMITIC ATTACKS IN EUROPE ARE NOT JUST MUSLIMS:
WHY DO ATHEISTS PANDER TO AND IMITATE THE MOST VIOLENT AND BACKWARD RELIGION ON EARTH?
IT'S THE LEFTISM, STUPID!
LEFTISM, LIKE ISLAMISM, DENIES THE SANCTITY OF INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY AND LOVES UTOPIANIST TYRANNY.
A 16-year-old Jewish student was branded with a red-hot coin at a school barbecue on Monday in Oslo, Norway, the Simon Wiesenthal Center reported on Wednesday.
According to Jewish-Danish website Israwhat.com, the perpetrator of the attack, an ethnic Norwegian student, pressed the hot coin into the back of the victim’s neck, resulting in visible burning. School officials did not contact the family after the incident.
The student has reportedly been the target of repeated anti-Semitic bullying and violence because his father is Israeli. He said he planned to hide his Jewish identity when he transfers to a new school and would not associate with ethnic Norwegians or Muslims, the main sources of the bullying.THE MORE LEFTIST AND ATHEISTIC A NATION IN EUROPE IS, THE MORE LIKELY IT IS TO FOSTER ANTISEMITISM AND ANTI-ZIONISM AND PANDER TO ISLAMISM.
WHY DO ATHEISTS PANDER TO AND IMITATE THE MOST VIOLENT AND BACKWARD RELIGION ON EARTH?
IT'S THE LEFTISM, STUPID!
LEFTISM, LIKE ISLAMISM, DENIES THE SANCTITY OF INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY AND LOVES UTOPIANIST TYRANNY.
MORE PROOF THAT OBAMA HAS MADE US LESS SAFE
VIA HYSCIENCE:
REMEMBER: THE TIMES SQUARE BOMBER AND THE UNDERWEAR BOMBER WERE NOT STOPPED - WE HAD NO FREAKIN' IDEA THEY WERE GOING TO ATTACK - NOT WHO, NOT HOW, NOT WHERE.
WE WERE SIMPLY LUCKY THEY FAILED DURING THE ACT.
OUR NATIONAL SECURITY SHOULD NOT DEPEND ON LUCK.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY. VOTE ROMNEY.
The Obama administration has taken the CIA "out of the business" of interrogating high-value terrorists and the lack of data is endangering the U.S. security, according to former CIA counterterrorism chief Jose A. Rodriguez.
If U.S. intelligence or military personnel capture a senior terror leader today, no system is in place or facilities set up where he could be questioned, said the 31-year agency veteran who was awarded several medals for his intelligence work before retiring in 2007.
"We are out of the business of doing that," he said of terrorist leader interrogations in an interview with the Free Beacon. "We don't have anywhere to take them. If you capture a high-value target outside the war zone, where [are] you going to take them? They are not taking prisoners in Guantanamo, [and] the black sites have been closed."THE NEXT MEGA-ATTACK HERE WILL BE THE DIRECT RESULT OF OBAMA'S UNILATERAL POLICIES.
REMEMBER: THE TIMES SQUARE BOMBER AND THE UNDERWEAR BOMBER WERE NOT STOPPED - WE HAD NO FREAKIN' IDEA THEY WERE GOING TO ATTACK - NOT WHO, NOT HOW, NOT WHERE.
WE WERE SIMPLY LUCKY THEY FAILED DURING THE ACT.
OUR NATIONAL SECURITY SHOULD NOT DEPEND ON LUCK.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY. VOTE ROMNEY.
SUPREME COURT FINALLY ISSUES ORDER TO DESTROY ILLEGALLY BUILT ARAB HOUSES
For once, the Israeli supreme court has done something right:
The Civil Administration handed demolition orders on Tuesday to 52 buildings and tents in the Palestinian Authority Arab outpost of Susya, which lies between Kiryat Arba-Hevron and Arad, according to a report in Haaretz. [...]They deserve a lot of credit for getting this ruling passed through. If law enforcement would do its job properly, there wouldn't be much of a fuss over the demand to wreck those 5 buildings in Ulpana, and people wouldn't feel so resentful. If the authorities do start to do their job, then everyone will be much more satisfied.
The demolition orders were issued by the Supreme Court following a petition filed by Regavim, an NGO watchdog group for Jewish national property rights, against the massive illegal Arab construction taking place in Susya.
The judges, headed by President Asher Grunis, along with Justice Hanan Meltzer and newly appointed Justice Daphna Barak Erez, recently held an urgent hearing over the petition, after Ovad Arad, director of the Judea and Samaria section of the Regavim, documented the Arabs continuing to build illegally.
The judges expressed their anger and Justice Meltzer opined against the continued illegal construction by Arabs on state-owned lands, even after the filing of the petition. The judges then issued a temporary injunction, prohibiting the Arabs to continue to build in the area.
Regavim’s attorney, Amir Fisher, recently wondered in a conversation with Arutz Sheva why is it that the Civil Administration knows how to enforce the law when it comes to Jews but does not do the same when it comes to Arabs.
“Palestinians everywhere are building freely without obtaining building permits and yet the Civil Administration ignores this,” said Fisher. “They built near an Arab outpost near Susya, on state land. Not only did the Civil Administration not remove them, they ordered local Jewish farmers to leave the area so as to prevent friction.”
Founded in 2006, Regavim seeks to "prevent foreign elements from taking over the Jewish People’s territorial resources," but its permit is under development.
Aiming to see equal enforcement of Israeli law in Judea and Samaria, Regavim serves as a counter-weight to the numerous left-wing and Arab organizations seeking the destruction of Jewish communities.
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
RADICAL LEFTISTS AT DOJ ARE NOT JUST ATTACKING FLORIDA; THEY ARE ATTACKING OUR DEMOCRACY
WE KNOW WHY THE LEFT OPPOSES VOTER ID LAWS: FRAUD IS ONE OF THEIR BEST TOOLS FOR TAKING POWER.
HERE'S HOW:
HERE'S HOW:
... the radical anti-election integrity agenda of the Left is now burrowed into the Voting Section at the Justice Department ...HERE'S WHO:
... meet Jenigh Garrett, the radical DOJ Voting Section lawyer who filed the lawsuit today to stop Florida from removing non-citizens from the voter rolls. She is a long-time opponent of state election integrity laws, as are so many of the recent hires exposed by the PJ Media Every Single One series.
From the report:
Jenigh Garrett: Ms. Garrett worked for approximately five years as an assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF), where she worked on voting-related litigation. She co-drafted the NAACP LDF’s amicus brief in Crawford v. Marion County Board of Elections, claiming that voter ID laws are unconstitutional (a position the Supreme Court rejected in an opinion by Justice John Paul Stevens).FULL DETAILS HERE.
LEFTISTS LIST THE SIX STATES THEY INTEND TO WIN BY USING RAMPANT VOTER FRAUD
I KID YOU NOT: THE LEFT HAS ANNOUNCED THEY INTEND TO USE FRAUD IN THESE 6 STATES: Florida, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin
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When exactly did unions go from representing workers to shilling for every left-wing cause under the sun?
Via The Hill:
The nation’s largest labor federation plans to mount an aggressive campaign against voter identification laws in a half-dozen battleground states that will be key in the presidential election.
AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker told reporters on Tuesday that the labor federation will have boots on the ground registering and helping voters in Florida, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in coordination with the group’s political program.
Labor is pushing back against voter ID laws, which they say suppress voting by minorities, the elderly, the poor and students. Supporters of the measures say showing identification to vote is needed to crack down on fraud and protect the integrity of elections.THEY'RE BASICALLY ADMITTING THAT THEY KNOW THAT THE ONLY WAY OBAMA CAN WIN THE ELECTION IS IF HE STEALS IT.
UN'S GREEN ECONOMY GROUP ASKS FOR A LICENSE TO STEAL
THE ANTI-CARBON SCHEMERS AT THE UN WANT TO DO EXACTLY THE SAME THING OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES DID: LITERALLY USE CLIMATE CHANGE HYSTERIA AS A LICENSE TO STEAL.
WHAT IF OBAMA HAD BEEN THE CAPTAIN OF THE TITANIC?
VIA HOT AIR:
The president also said that Republicans, not Democrats, caused the current budget crisis.
“I love listening to these guys give us lectures about debt and deficits. I inherited a trillion dollar deficit!” he said.
Obama compared Republicans to a person who orders a steak dinner and martini and then, “just as you’re sitting down, they leave, and accuse you of running up the tab.”It wasn't the GOP or conservatives who ordered the steak and then split before the check came. It was liberals and their socialistic polices that ran up the bill.
Europe is not about to go bust because of "two unfunded wars" or "the Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich" or too much aid for Israel. What caused the sovereign debt crisis in Europe was too dang much socialism. Ditto here. Fannie Mae. Freddie Mac. The EPA. The Dept of Ed. The Dept of Energy. And so on.
The solution is NOT more socialism. The answer is cutting taxes, cutting pending and cutting red taspe and reducing regulations. The solution is repealing Obamacare and Dodd-Frank and all the so-called "green taxes" and so-called "green" regulations. Because if we make it easier for people to prosper then the whole economy will prosper. And, it will benefit poor people the most.
Of course, the single greatest thing we can do to make the economy better and the Free World safer is get rid of Obama and elect Romney.
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Guaranteed not halal: Estonian Carmen Kass
A FEW YEARS AGO, ESTONIA SUFFERED A RECESSION AND A FISCAL CRISIS. THEIR RESPONSE - AUSTERITY. THE RESULT: ASTOUNDING GROWTH OF NEARLY 18%.
LEFTISTS LIKE KRUGMAN POO-POOH ESTONIA BECAUSE IT FLIES IN THE FACE OF THEIR KEYNESIAN WET DREAMS AND OUR CLOWARD-PIVEN NIGHTMARES.
THE LEFT IS NOT JUST GUILTY OF RUINING ECONOMIES VIA INSANE DEFICIT SPENDING.
THEY HAVE ALSO RUINED VAST SWATHS OF THE WEST BY FACILITATING MASS IMMIGRATION COUPLED WITH MULTICULTURALISM.
THEY HAVE THUS WEAKENED THE WEST ECONOMICALLY AND CULTURALLY.
AND HAVE MADE THE WEST LESS ABLE TO PROTECT ITS INTERESTS AT HOME AND OVERSEAS.
ESTONIA SHOWS US ALL THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO SURRENDER OUR GOVERNMENT BUDGETS OR OUR ECONOMIES TO THE LEFT.
AND - WITH THE RENEWED PROSPERITY AND VIGOR AND ECONOMIC STRENGTH THAT COMES ABOUT AS A RESULT OF ENACTING CONSERVATIVE TAX AND ECONOMIC POLICIES -
THE WEST CAN CONTINUE AND STRENGTHEN OUR EFFORTS TO DEFEND OUR CULTURE - AND LIBERTY ITSELF.
AND WITH OUR GOD-GIVEN LIBERTY INTACT,
WOMEN LIKE ESTONIAN CARMEN KASS
WON'T EVER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT
BEING FORCED TO WEAR A BURQA,
FORCED MARRIAGE, HONOR-KILLINGS -
OR HAVING ACID THROWN IN HER FACE.
SHE WONT EVER BE HALAL.
THANK GOD.
THAT'S GOOD FOR HERE, HER SISTERS,
AND EVERYONE WHO ADMIRES FEMALE PULCHRITUDE.
ANTI-ZIONIST GRAFFITI AT YAD VASHEM
A most shameful incident's taken place at the Yad Vashem complex, and it's suspected that so-called Hasidics were behind it:
Based on these notes, shouldn't there be some kind of educational inspection carried out to see if and where anti-Zionist sentiment that borders on anti-semitic and even condones nazism takes place, and work on combatting it? Zuroff is quite right to issue a wake up call, because this kind of demonic thinking is dangerous to have around.
Update: Holocaust survivor Matityahu Droblas is also outraged by the vandalism.
The declarations and content of the slogans spray-painted at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial have led the police to believe that ultra- Orthodox extremists are behind the vandalism perpetrated Sunday night.Now it is possible that Islamofascists committed the crime and were trying to divert suspicion. But sadly, it is also possible that some so-called Hasidics may have pulled the horrific vandalism too, and that any of this kind of sentiment could be prevalent anywhere in the community is cause for concern.
Below one of the slogans spray-painted at the site, the vandals signed off in the name of “World Haredi Jewry.”
The content of the graffiti, including conspiracy theories about Zionist collaboration with the Nazis, is also consistent with the beliefs of some radical anti-Zionist elements within the haredi community.
Shmuel Pappenheim, a former spokesman for the anti- Zionist Eda Haredit organization and a follower of the Toldos Aharon hassidic dynasty, criticized the incident but said that it was impossible to know who was behind the vandalism, adding that only someone mentally ill would carry out such vandalism.
Pappenheim, a moderate within the community, acknowledged however that there is a significant number of people within haredi society who agree with the kind of sentiment sprayed on the Yad Vashem campus, that early Zionist leaders ignored the plight of Jews in Eastern Europe during the Holocaust for political purposes.
The sentiment behind other incidents of this nature that have occurred of late, is in keeping with ideas held by the extreme anti-Zionist Natorei Karta sect and similar groups.
In April, a monument in the Jordan Valley to fallen Israeli soldiers was spray-painted with the words “killed because of the sin of rebelling against the nations.”
Natorei Karta believe that a passage in the Talmud forbids Jews from “rebelling against the nations of the world” and from going to the Land of Israel en masse (without divine sanction).
Dr. Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Israel, was extremely hesitant to apportion blame for Sunday night’s incident and pointed out that the possibility exists that it was carried out by anti-haredi provocateurs.
He said however that the slogans do reflect the ideological sentiment of sectors within the haredi world diametrically opposed to Zionism, and constituted “classic anti-Zionist haredi rhetoric.”
Zuroff added that accusations of Zionist collaboration with the Nazis was particularly pronounced within Natorei Karta, but that these ideas had also been disseminated in mainstream haredi yeshivot.
“These are ideas which have been talked about in the haredi community for years,” Zuroff said, adding that “they have no basis in fact."
Based on these notes, shouldn't there be some kind of educational inspection carried out to see if and where anti-Zionist sentiment that borders on anti-semitic and even condones nazism takes place, and work on combatting it? Zuroff is quite right to issue a wake up call, because this kind of demonic thinking is dangerous to have around.
Update: Holocaust survivor Matityahu Droblas is also outraged by the vandalism.
Monday, June 11, 2012
TONY PERKINS ON LGBT MONTH, ALCOHOLISM AND ADULTERY
... it’s not a matter of whether or not someone can do what they want to do with their lives, God gave Adam and Eve a choice, but that’s not what we’re talking about here.
We’re talking about redefining the rest of culture and making others both embrace, celebrate and subsidize. ... whether it’s adultery, whether it’s any type of sexual immorality [OR DRUNKENNESS] it’s a problem, but we’re not celebrating those other forms as a society, we’re not promoting it and teaching it as normal in our schools.RTWT.
I AGREE. WE CAN ACCEPT LIBERTINAGE WITHOUT ENDORSING IT.
LIBERTY WITHOUT NATURAL LAW DEVOLVES INTO LIBERTINAGE.
WHY?
BECAUSE WHEN THE LAW OF THE LAND IS "DO WHAT THOU WILT IS THE WHOLE OF THE LAW" THEN THERE IS NO LAW AND PEOPLE WILL DO WHAT IS RIGHT IN THEIR OWN EYES AND LAWLESSNESS AND MAYHEM WILL ENSUE.
THAT'S THE DIRECTION THE POSTMODERN LEFT HAS US HEADED IN.
WE NEED TO CHANGE COURSE.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY. VOTE ROMNEY.
HOW DO YOU SAY, "EURO'S DEMISE IS ACCELERATING" IN SPANISH? AND IN GREEK????
MARKET'S NEGATIVE RESPONSE TO THE SPAIN BAILOUT PROVES EURO'S DEMISE IS ACCELERATING, NOT SLOWING.
IT MAY COLLAPSE THE DAY AFTER GREECE'S NEXT ELECTION - ON 6/17.
IT MAY COLLAPSE THE DAY AFTER GREECE'S NEXT ELECTION - ON 6/17.
Prediction: Necrophiliac and Sexually Violent Penguins Will Help Set Liberal Agenda For Years To Come
Hey kid, do you like Gladiator Movies?
Necrophilia is Somehwat Common in Penguins - Will Libs Say It Is Just Natural?
Yes, they will.
Liberals and Gramsicans will use the existence of necrophilia and sexual coercion (violence) in the Penguin community (culture?) to make the case that such behavior is normal.
Just you watch.
From Yahoo News:
During their journey, Levick observed and recorded details on the lives of the Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) colony on Cape Adare. He even recorded the very first penguin at the colony — the world's largest of this species — on Oct. 13, 1911.
"Some of the things he noticed profoundly shocked him," Russell said. For instance, Levick noted the penguins' autoerotic tendencies, and the seemingly aberrant behavior of young unpaired males and females, including necrophilia, sexual coercion, sexual and physical abuse of chicks, non-procreative sex and homosexual behaviors.
At the time, Levick was so shocked by what he saw he recorded the events in Greek to disguise the information, at one point writing, "There seems to be no crime too low for these penguins."
For instance, on Nov. 10, 1911, Levick wrote in Greek (translated here): "This afternoon I saw a most extraordinary site [sic]. A Penguin was actually engaged in sodomy upon the body of a dead white throated bird of its own species. The act occurred a full minute, the position taken up by the cock differing in no respect from that of ordinary copulation, and the whole act was gone through down to the final depression of the cloaca."
In another entry, this one written in English on Dec. 6 of that year, he wrote: "I saw another act of astonishing depravity today. A hen which had been in some way badly injured in the hindquarters was crawling painfully along on her belly. I was just wondering whether I ought to kill her or not, when a cock noticed her in passing, and went up to her. After a short inspection he deliberately raped her, she being quite unable to resist him."Hmm. She was terribly wounded, and perhaps dying, and the male penguin used it as an opportunity to rape her.
We already see this behavior manifested in the agenda of the Left. That's pretty much the same way Obama is treating the American citizens with regard to Unemployment and the Economy in general.
GUARANTEED NOT HALAL - AND GUARANTEED HAWAIIAN: JARAH MARIANO
UNLIKE OBAMA - WHO WAS PROBABLY BORN THERE - JARAH IS UNDOUBTEDLY HAWAIIAN THROUGH AND THROUGH.
IF SHE HAD BEEN BORN IN KENYA - LIKE BARACK OBAMA SENOR, THEN SHE'D PROBABLY BE A TARGET OF JIHAD.
THANK GOD SHE WAS BORN IN THE LAND OF THE FREE:
MANY LIBERALS WILL BE AS SUPPORTIVE OF OBAMA AS HE WAS OF BARRETT
UNBELIEVABLE VIDEO: OBAMA ACTUALLY SAYS HE WAS JUST "TOO BUSY" TO HELP BARRETT IN WISCONSIN.
TOO BUSY!?!? WITH WHAT, GOLF AND FUNDRAISERS?!?!?
SHEESH.
MANY LIBERALS WILL BE JUST AS SUPPORTIVE OF OBAMA AS HE WAS OF BARRETT - AND THEY WILL STAY HOME.
:D
MORE HERE.
UPDATE:
TOO BUSY!?!? WITH WHAT, GOLF AND FUNDRAISERS?!?!?
SHEESH.
MANY LIBERALS WILL BE JUST AS SUPPORTIVE OF OBAMA AS HE WAS OF BARRETT - AND THEY WILL STAY HOME.
:D
MORE HERE.
UPDATE:
Sounds like a great excuse for his handling of the economy as well…"The golf balls aren't going to just play by themselves".
AUINSC on June 11, 2012 at 8:17 PM
BLS: 1/2009 = 145,000,000 AMERICANS WERE EMPLOYED; 5/2012 = 139,000,000 ARE EMPLOYED
JANUARY 2009 NUMBERS HERE.
MAY 2012 NUMBERS ARE HERE.
OBAMA'S POLICIES ARE STRANGLING THE PRIVATE SECTOR.
MORE HERE.
MAY 2012 NUMBERS ARE HERE.
- THIS MEANS THAT THERE ARE 6 MILLION FEWER AMERICANS WHO HAVE JOBS NOW THAN WHEN OBAMA WAS SWORN IN.
- HE HASN'T HELPED CREATE A SINGLE SOLITARY EFFIN' JOB IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR.
OBAMA'S POLICIES ARE STRANGLING THE PRIVATE SECTOR.
MORE HERE.
HMMM: IS OBAMA GONNA ATTACK SYRIA TO GET SOME TRACTION IN THE POLLS?
MAYBE.
IT'S A TWOFER FOR OBAMA:
HE GETS TO LOOK LIKE A COMMANDER IN CHIEF, AND HE GETS TO HELP THE SUNNI ISLAMISTS TRYING TO OVERTHROW THE IRAN/SHIA BACKED ALAWITE ASSAD.
STAY TUNED.
IT'S A TWOFER FOR OBAMA:
HE GETS TO LOOK LIKE A COMMANDER IN CHIEF, AND HE GETS TO HELP THE SUNNI ISLAMISTS TRYING TO OVERTHROW THE IRAN/SHIA BACKED ALAWITE ASSAD.
STAY TUNED.
COMMENT OF THE DAY
COMMENT OF THE DAY:
My father was a staunch conservative and voted straight line Republican until the day he died, now he votes Democrat.
HERE'S WHY OBAMA IS GONNA GET SCHMEARED IN NOVEMBER: HE DOESN'T EFFIN' LISTEN!
"... he doesn’t listen.
When the voters of Massachusetts elected Scott Brown – as pure a referendum on Obamacare as one could imagine – the president pressed ahead with the Affordable Care Act anyway.
The very name – Affordable Care Act – seemed almost an affront.
When the voters in 2010 said “enough” to new spending, Obama ignored the message and derailed the subsequent budget negotiations with Congress.
When the voters of North Carolina said “no” to same-sex marriage, the very next day the president endorsed same-sex marriage."MORE HERE.
AUSCHWITZ AND RACISM RAMPANT AT SOCCER TOURNAMENTS
Melanie Phillips relays her experience at a visit to Auschwitz in Poland, and the dismay she found in how it was being turned into a sensationalized circus:
And just as disturbing is the racist quagmire the soccer world in Europe's become:
Even Britain themselves have some blame to shoulder here, that they don't take responsibility for their silent partner role in the Holocaust, by barring entry of Jews to Israel when they occupied this country. And to some extent, Israel's politicians are at fault for not making it clear to those European countries with skeletons in their closets that they have to admit what roles they had in nazi collaboration and take responsibility where it's due. Our diplomatic relations are not as important as seeking justice by getting European countries to start clearly acknowledging what sins they have to their record.
With Islamofascism running rampant in Europe today, one can wonder if they'll survive it. But with the kind of racist mentality plaguing some Europeans themselves, it's enough to wonder if they even deserve to.
It was an unsettling and disturbing experience, beyond being brought up against the horrors that had taken place there. For I found myself surrounded by coach parties of Japanese and other tourists eagerly photographing the camp sights — and even posing for snaps in front of the exhibits.She's got a point, there is something troubling about how it's become some kind of a lighthearted tourist exhibition, which is a most inappropriate way to teach about a horrifying subject.
I thought about this queasy-making ‘Holocaust tourism’ when I read about last week’s visit to Auschwitz by seven members of the England football squad, ahead of their first match today in the Euro 2012 football championships being held jointly in Poland and Ukraine.
Of course, the fact that Poland was the epicentre of the industrialised Nazi killing machine, and had virtually its entire population of three million Polish Jews exterminated — not to mention the bestial part played by the Ukrainians in the Nazi genocide — is impossible to forget. [...]
When the Dutch, German and Italian teams similarly piled into the Auschwitz trip, it seemed to be turning into a competition to show who was most caring and empathetic.
This is not to belittle the undoubted revulsion of the players, who reacted as any decent person would when confronted with the evidence of such unique evil.
Indeed, there were fears the trip might rebound, with the players unable to shake off their shock and horror at the images now imprinted on their minds.
Nevertheless, it is distasteful to turn Auschwitz of all places into this kind of media circus.
And just as disturbing is the racist quagmire the soccer world in Europe's become:
What makes it even worse is that this trip, with its symbolic message that never again will Europeans descend to such barbaric racism, occurred in the same week that black players in the Holland squad were being subjected to monkey chants during a training session in Krakow, while the black Czech defender, Theodor Gebre Selassie, was abused during his side’s opening game with Russia in Wroclaw.There was once a time when soccer tournaments were a great place to visit and just relax while watching the action on the field. Thanks to the astounding failure of politicians in eastern Europe to write up a sensible education system, for example, it's now become this anti-semitic and racist horrorfest that's clearly a most unpleasant place to see even on television.
In eastern Europe today, such racism is a fact of life. Anti-Jewish chanting is not uncommon at matches in Poland. Neo-Nazi salutes and stylised swastikas are used by Polish and Ukrainian gangs.
Supporters of the Polish team Hutnik Warszawa have placed stickers in public places showing fans dressed in Ku Klux Klan outfits holding the club flag and standing around a tree with an image of a black man hanging on it.
Ukraine, in whose second city Donetsk England today play France, is even more thuggish. A BBC1 Panorama programme recently showed Ukrainian supporters in Kharkiv beating up Asian fans and giving Nazi salutes.
Even the Foreign Office website now warns British football fans of Asian or Afro-Caribbean descent, or members of religious minorities, to take extra care if they attend the Euro 2012 matches.
Yet the football authorities have taken no effective action to end these abuses.
On the contrary, after Manchester City’s Italy striker, Mario Balotelli, said that if he is racially abused he will walk off the pitch, Michel Platini, the man in charge of Uefa, replied that any player would be punished if he did so.
Threatening to punish the victims of racial abuse while taking no steps to end it is nothing short of disgraceful.
And this egregious failure by the football authorities to protect black players from racist abuse makes it beyond ironic that these squads are visiting Auschwitz.
Such continuing racism at the geographical heart of the Holocaust, I’m afraid, also exposes the fact that, for all the exhibitions and memorials Europe has erected to the memory of the Nazis’ victims, it has still not properly come to terms with what took place.Sometimes I can't help but wonder if even Israel has some responsibility to shoulder for not demanding - specifically - that European countries plagued with this kind of abominable mentality do something to improve their education system.
Poland, indeed, has rewritten history by casting itself as a principal victim of the Nazis along with the Jews, and denies any complicity in their extermination.
Yet, although it is a fact that Poland was invaded by the Nazis, who imprisoned and killed many of its citizens, other Poles savagely assisted in atrocities against the Jews — and continued massacring them even after the end of the war.
More broadly, I would argue that Holocaust education has signally failed to prevent widespread anti-semitism in Europe — not least because of several countries’ continuing state of denial about their past complicity in such crimes.
Even Britain themselves have some blame to shoulder here, that they don't take responsibility for their silent partner role in the Holocaust, by barring entry of Jews to Israel when they occupied this country. And to some extent, Israel's politicians are at fault for not making it clear to those European countries with skeletons in their closets that they have to admit what roles they had in nazi collaboration and take responsibility where it's due. Our diplomatic relations are not as important as seeking justice by getting European countries to start clearly acknowledging what sins they have to their record.
With Islamofascism running rampant in Europe today, one can wonder if they'll survive it. But with the kind of racist mentality plaguing some Europeans themselves, it's enough to wonder if they even deserve to.
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