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Posted: 30 Jan 2009 01:51 PM PST

Here we are headed down the dark tunnel of the Obama regime.
Poorly disguised as a "Stimulus Plan", the Democrats' Congress of
Corruption passed a huge spending plan filled to the brim with

waste and pork, and of course support for their own leftist

alliances that helped them take power, including ACORN.

And in a remarkable victory for Principles over Pork, not a
single Republican voted for the plan. Not long after Obama

had warned Republicans that they ought to listen to him
since "he won", rather than to Rush Limbaugh, they listened to

Rush Limbaugh, and won a victory of principles. Even now

support for the Stimulus plan is nearly half and half,

which shows just how unpopular the plan is, when you
compare it to the approval ratings for Obama.

The early start that the Democratic Junta is making on

embarrassing itself with its own smog of corruption is

truly impressive. Not only have Blagojevich and Patterson
created two giant embarrassments for the party, but from

Pelosi's clueless ramblings to the Congress of Corruption

passing a plan that's supposed to fix the economy but will do
nothing of the kind, the mud is pouring down. And the

media can only keep blatantly spinning the facts for so long

before the Reign of Obama, becomes the Reign of Chicago

Prince of Crime.

Meanwhile under Erdogan, Turkey continues sliding further

into the Islamofascist camp. The old secular Turkey that prevented

Islamic rule is all but vanishing away, as the Islamists have
gorged the Turkish public on hatred of America and Jews to disguise

Islamism as Turkish nationalism. With Erdogan openly calling on
Obama to legitimize Hamas and Hizbullah, Turkey is now

functioning as a pro-terrorist regime.

Erdogan's hypocrisy at Davos was all the more despicable considering what

Turkey has regularly done to its ethnic minorities, the Armenians, the

Kurds, not to mention the ethnically Turkic but religiously varying

Alevi. If Turkey wants to wail about genocide, it can look within its

own borders. If Erdogan wants to condemn conquest, he and his fellow

barbarians can leave the borders of the country they conquered,

despoiled and turned into an Islamic pigpen of poverty stricken warrens,
drug dens and mosques. While Turkey can't seem to provide a decent
living for its own citizens, sending them forth to infest Europe, it continues

to build up its military while occupying Cyprus.

Meanwhile Mitchell heads to Israel as part of the Obama
diplomatic assault on Israel. Samantha Power, despite calling for the

invasion of Israel, will now serve as the senior director
for multilateral affairs at the National Security Council.

This will put her in a prime position to push Hillary aside and
implement her own policies, traveling with Hillary Clinton,

and doing an end run around her to her friend Barack
afterward.

Of course any Jewish stupid enough to believe the lies
put out by liberal apologists for the Obama campaign that Samantha

Power is not an issue, now get their comeuppance. The apologists

of course won't retract or admit that they passed along a

lie in order to promote a blatantly anti-semitic candidate.

Meanwhile I wasn't going to post on the topic, but since
some bloggers such as Allahpundit at HotAir have blasted the Chief

Rabbinate for ending relations with the Vatican, over its
embrace of the Society of Saint Pius X. The issue here is not
simply Bishop Williamson's Holocaust denial. The SSPX's views can be
summed up as believing that Jews are the ultimate evil
and everything wrong with the world, including Capitalism,
Communist, The Renaissance, Protestantism and the French

Revolution comes from the Jews.

A few
choice selections from one essay on the SSPX website
follow,

...In the world as it is, there can be only two
truly basic modes, two poles of attraction: the
Christian and the Jewish.

Only two religions: Christian and Jewish. All that is
not of Christ and for Christ is done in favor of
Judaism.

...Christendom and Jewry are destined inevitably to meet
everywhere without reconciliation or mixing. It represents
in history the eternal struggle of Lucifer against God,
of darkness against the Light, of the flesh against the spirit.

...God gave two enemies to the nations that flourished under
the Church’s guidance in the Middle Ages: an internal one,
the spirit of rebellion against the spiritual in order
that worldly greatness be achieved; and an external one,
the Jewish people, who live among the Christians to be a goad and a
spur.

...At the end of the Middle Ages, the Gentile people
committed great sins, especially the clergy. Thus weakened, this
people succumbed to the brain and hand of Judaization
—through the Renaissance, the French Revolution, and
Communism. Judaism would give mental ammunition to the
rebels, e.g., Renaissance skeptics and 18th-century
libertines. Werner Sombart, the authoritative historian
of Capitalism who is neither Catholic nor antisemite,
shows in his book Les juifs et la vie économique how
some Protestant sects, especially the Puritans, are Judaic.

Close relations formed between Judaism and some of the
Reformation sects and a great keenness for Hebrew studies
swept Europe.

To sum up, everything the Society of Saint Pius X
dislikes about the world, including non-Catholic versions of

Christianity, is the fault of the Jews who are their eternal enemy.

I don't even need to go into the SSPX's history with Nazism

and Fascism.

My point is that one can disagree with the Rabbinate's
decision, but there is a good deal more context to it, than Bishop

Williamson's comments about the Holocaust, something that
bloggers who write about the subject should mention.

Embracing the SSPX looks a good deal like embracing the same

kinds of beliefs that caused so much persecution of the

Jews in the first place. And the Chief Rabbinate has the right
to opt out.

The Vatican meanwhile has to decide who its real
enemies are, and as a hint they're the ones

gathering en masse in front of their Cathedrals, and

taking over formerly Catholic cities. Instead the

Vatican chooses to empower the Islamists by criticizing

American and Israeli military operations against terrorists, at
a time when even the Dalai Lama seems to show some signs of

understanding that peace will not stop terrorists.

Europe is the new Israel. The Arab workers who came to
Israel drawn by work under the British Mandate, quickly

began acting like owners. Today their great-grandchildren

will insist that they are "Palestinians" and that they have been

living here for thousands of years. Europe is a generation or two

away from being in the same boat.

The European Intifada is already under way. Islamic law is coming

to Europe will the full assent of its governments. And as in

Iran and Egypt, when the leftists have had their moment, the
Night of the Mosque and the Burqa will come down. Resisting

that should be the first priority of what's left of Europe's
religions.

On that topic, the Infidel Bloggers Alliance has a
call to defend Geert Wilders, writing,

Let’s remember that both Winston Churchill and Adolf
Hitler had the same opinion about Islam: It is a totalitarian
and violent religion. Churchill denounced and warned about that
ideology while Hitler admired it. Today Winston Churchill, the
most stalwart anti-Nazi, would be arrested in Holland for
incitement to hate and racism whereas Hitler would be free to
promote Islam and recruit Muslims into his Nazi party unmolested.

HERE'S WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT:

Doing something real and effective to support Geert
Wilders — and freedom of expression
above all — is very simple with the
Amnesty International-SITA method: a letter in a stamped
envelope, sent by snail-mail.

Amnesty International has a strong record of success
with this method.

For the letter itself, it is even simpler: A basic-rate stamp
allows sending at least two sheets of paper. Here are some
possible things you could include:

1. Print out the first two pages of this article (one sheet front and back).
Dutch people commonly read English in addition to Dutch.
(Note than another article supporting Geert Wilders is available too).

So that's one page. For the second page...

The whole thing is worth reading for a useful alternative to silence,
which by its very nature implies assent.

Right Side News has Jeffrey Imm's article
WE ARE ALL GEERT WILDERS NOW

In the case of Geert Wilders, a court was repulsed
by his comments comparing Islamic

supremacism's beliefs to those expressed in
Hitler's Mein Kampf. That court was not repulsed by the
daily calls for killing Jews by Islamic supremacists. That
court was not repulsed by the antisemitic hate that is regularly
channeled in the Islamic supremacist media. That court was not
repulsed by the regular calls for the destruction of Israel by
Islamic supremacists. That court was not repulsed by the references to
the antisemitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion promoted in
Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf within the very charter of the Islamic
supremacist Hamas organization, a group defended by
protestors in the Netherlands over the past few weeks. That
court was not repulsed by other Netherlands politicians
defending calls for an intifada against Israel, while Amsterdam
crowds called for "Jews to the gas."

Closing its eyes and plugging its ears to the reality around it, the
Netherlands court extended an accusation against Geert
Wilders of inciting hate for defying an Islamic
supremacist ideology that is itself based on hate. Like
those who charged Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with inciting hate for
defying white supremacism, no doubt they believe that if they just
silence this one man - they will set an example to others causing
"friction and unrest." No doubt they hope to persuade
those who would defy supremacism that they need to find
a more "realistic approach" and accept "forbearance" of
the supremacist cause. We have seen such tactics to silence
defiance to supremacism before. We have seen them in 1963
in Alabama. We have seen them in the decades of covenants
of security by nations that have harbored and tolerated
Islamic supremacism around the world. We have seen them
in the United Nations where Islamic supremacist groups
seek to silence dissent and free speech against such
supremacism.

We have seen them in the halls of Congress in the United
States in our present day, by those lobbying for "engagement"
and "reconciliation" with Islamic supremacist
organizations and leaders. Now we see them in the nation
of the Netherlands by a court that seeks to turn a
blind eye to the incitement of hatred throughout its nation by
Islamic supremacists and instead focuses its blame on
Geert Wilders, a leader of freedom who would dare defy
such supremacism.

Xanthippa’s Chamberpot points out that

such suppressions follow a particular pattern

Let’s go back to basic human psychology…

Whom does a bully pick on first???

The successful bully will first pick on the strongest opponent
who does not have allies ready to come to his/her defense!

This is a very basic psychological principle, taught to us both
in school (if one were inclined to study psychology or
anthropology/sociology or even history or business
skills) and also in fiction - good fiction (including ’science fiction’
and ‘historical novels’, ‘where’ most good ‘fiction’
writer are). From Waltari to Card, from Čapek to Asimov.
The lesson is clear. One would expect that most intelligent people
would have learned it by now…

It is precisely because Geert Wilders is not likable, it is precisely
because he is on the fringes of society, that he is one
of the ‘first lines of victims’ of this new form of
totalitarianism which hides its ugly face beneath a pretense of
‘multiculturalism’ and ‘accommodation’. Not aware of his
new totalitarianism? Please, look around!

Totalitarian governments are always bullies - it’s part of the
definition. That is why they follow classical bully-psychology:
beat up the biggest guy nobody will come and help because
he’s a jerk. When they want to establish - set a precedent -
that they have the power to control something,
totalitarian governments will pick on their strongest
opponent who is least likable. Once the precedent
is set, they can then pick on their other opponents,
one at a time. Please, notice the pattern!

While I don't agree with this assessment of Wilders,
the pattern does stand. Swap out Wilders for Limbaugh,

and you see Obama and his allies pulling the same stunt in
America. Swap out countries for individuals and

you can see the motives behind the targeting of America and
Israel.

Target, isolate and destroy the strong, and then you can
pick off the weak one by one.

On that note, Atlas
Shrugs writes that the Academic Boycott movement

has moved to the United States.

There is something strangely perverse in this idea -
schools of learning boycotting the finest minds on the planet.
But when ou think of it, it's organiic and logical, if
the barbarians have seized the helm
of education and culture.

25 years ago such an idea would have seemed outside the
realm of conceivable thought. It would have been cast
along aside the relics of Nazi past.

Atlas is shocked but I'm not. This was always the plan.
US Academia is still radicalized, it's only less radicalized

than its European counterpart. But any such movement was

bound to move here sooner or later. And it will naturally find

legitimization. Part of its goal will be along Soviet lines, to

intimidate Jewish and non-Jewish academics into remaining

silent in defense of Israel.

That is how it worked in the USSR. That is the goal here
now.

Atlas also has video on a New York Post photographer

openly being intimidated at a pro-Hamas rally.

Now having been at many rallies, I can tell you that normally the NYPD

quickly and decisively steps in to end any confrontations, or even

potential confrontations, at protest rallies.

Those are their orders. For the NYPD to refrain from doing so,

suggests that they have orders from the top,

which likely means that you should be directing your

complaints to Mayor Bloomberg's office. The man
is running for reelection, which is about the

only circumstance that can cause him to do the right
thing.

At Petunika Politik, a solidly worded denunciation of

Barack Hussein Obama.

The nation has now elected a man who seems to
effortlessly allow himself to admit his Muslim heritage, which was

denied, debunked, decried all throughout the primaries
and general election. For anyone to dare to "accuse" the
man of lying about his roots has been tantamount to
heresy. Yet in the tape of his interview, ears do not deceive.
Would this be a cause celeb if it were not for his
denial of such? Simply, no. I am reminded of the man's grandiose
speech as he created his own pulpit in Berlin while still a candidate.
The pomposity of the man astounds. What stood out for me as he read
his teleprompter was the manner in which he APOLOGIZED for America.
America holds itself to a high moral ground, and principles that no other
nation adheres to, and yet this invisible man with years missing from
his calendar is sorry for who we are and what "we've done"

Via Islamic Danger to Americans, the message Obama
should

have delivered to Muslims.

Art Freedom and Happiness has more on

Stephanopoulos'
inside media consultations with Emanuel.

This is of course the consequence of a media wholly dedicated

to ending any division between government

and the press, thus terminating the very notion of a free press.

Lemon Lime Moon writes, "It's All About the Pork" and

Doom and Gloom Gubbermint

"NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR
PROFITS"...Brainiac Obama.

Oh really Brain boy? So then don't
moan about businesses closing ,

How stupid is this man??

How is business to stay IN business and pay employees if

they can't make profits! No wonder business is escaping the

US and going bankrupt, Obama doesn't want them to make any profits.

Mr. Obama says people are losing jobs. His comments are all doom
and gloom . According to him we are in the orst shape in all history ,
in all the universe and we have absolutely no hope of relief during his
term in office. He admits it is just beyond him to help. So much for
hope boys and girls.

Of course it's all lies and smoke and mirrors. And let me tell you
that Doom and Gloom trash talk by the administration can make
people HOPELESS. Yet his pork fund is not making jobs it is taking
money out of your pocket and making the taxpayer an employer.
His pork plan is taking jobs away! He will raise your taxes and take
them away too.