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Why I Fight, Why I Write

The second attack plane approaches.

On the morning of September 11th, 2001, I was in the front
office of a Newport News, Virginia, insurance broker, where I was employed,
when a woman from another firm rushed in through the front door and asked,
breathlessly, “Do you have a TV or a radio? There’s something big going on!”
One of my coworkers had a radio but there was nothing “big” being reported on
it. There was, however, a TV in the conference room. We turned it on to be
greeted by shocking footage of one of the World Trade Center towers wrapped in
smoke. A plane had crashed into it. As we watched a second plan ploughed into
the second tower. The newscaster announced, almost as though the words were
escaping his mouth against his will, “It seems we’re under attack!”

Now, at the time I had just signed a book contract for the Sparrowhawk historical series, which
dramatizes why the American Revolution happened.  It was not yet finished. The rest of the
series had yet to be written. I had invested twelve years of my life in
researching and writing it, and would invest three more, all the time without
much hope of finding a publisher. But I’d found one. I knew instinctively that
this event would change things in this country and around the world. As the
details poured into the news, I just assumed that the book project would be
cancelled, just when I’d succeeded in accomplishing the impossible. That day, I
could no longer work. I went outside, sat on the parking lot curb, and cried. I
left the office and drove home, to Yorktown, sobbing as I drove. When I got
home, the landlord’s TV was full of more details, showing the collapse of the
first tower, and later, the collapse of the second. Horrendous casualties were
reported, thousands of people perished.  Cameras caught people jumping to their deaths
from eighty floors rather than be burnt or roasted alive by the fierce heat. The
various newscasters began to repeat the appraisal that this was worse than was
the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941


The complete collapse of the World Trade Center

.





When I trusted myself to speak without breaking down again,
I went to my apartment next door and called the publisher in San Francisco. I
asked if, in lieu of this calamitous event, the Sparrowhawk series would still be published. Without missing a beat
the publisher calmly and emphatically answered, “Yes!” and that it would debut
on schedule. And indeed, Book One: Jack
Frake of the series appeared in 2002. I finished the series, and by 2007
the whole series had been published, and to better reviews than I had expected. 




I thought then – and I still think so – that Americans would
need the series more than ever given what was now being accepted as a
deliberate attack on this country. They would need to know where this country
came from and where it could go from here. The 9/11 attack on this country was
a personal attack on me, on my values, on my life. I will never change that
appraisal.  The attack was a statement that
could not be misunderstood  – except by those
whose first reaction was to blame America and to treat Islam as a wronged “victim,”
– and that statement was: We hate you,
and will conquer or destroy you!  We hate you, we envy you, and our souls are
nothing but bile. You love life, we love death!

Since then I have written many
more novels, and a political column, Rule
of Reason ,and my own my blog site,
which mirrors Rule of Reason .  I have
devoted nearly two million words to discussing the depredations of Islam and
the peril Islam poses to Western civilization, in addition to the retreat of
our government and most Western governments  as they cravenly retreat from the necessity of
answering Islam’s declaration of war with retaliation. For indeed Islam has
declared war on the West, and this had been going on for decades before 9/11
(remember horrific incidents such as the plane
hijackings of the 1970s and the Munich
massacre?)


Sparrowhawk Endures


For as long as I live, I will
never forgive Islam – how does one “forgive” a totalitarian philosophy that
worships death?—and I can only repeat here what Pamela Geller said at a recent anti-Islamization
conference: It’s not the fanaticism of the jihadis that concerns and worries
me, but the unwillingness of our “defenders” to identify the enemy and take the
proper measures to combat and eradicate it.

A Gallery of Gaffes

   "Man,
once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the
most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder,

 is the sport of every wind. With such
persons, gullibility, which they

call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason and the mind becomes

 a wreck." ---Thomas Jefferson, to
James Smith, December 8, 1822




You ask yourself: Why do the "gullible" make it so easy to mock and ridicule
them? But, then, one could spend a career wondering about the cerebral workings
of our politicians and other notables. Why is a stone so quiet, and inanimate? Because
that’s just the way it behaves, or doesn’t behave.  Here is a selection of memorable gaffes (or lies
masquerading as innocent gaffes or lapses in synaptic activity).




We start with our reality-challenged, addled Secretary of State, John
Kerry, who recently uttered something in Bangladesh that wins some kind of
award for upper class twitism. According to CNS new and other sources, he
opined:



Some men are immune to reason.







Secretary of
State John Kerry said Monday
during an appearance in Bangladesh that the media could “do us all a service”
if they didn’t cover terrorism “quite as much.”




What would he prefer the MSM to cover,
instead of the continued spate of Islamic terrorism? It isn’t as though it
regularly reported the rapes by Muslims in Germany and Sweden, or the numerous
honor killings in Muslim countries, or the number of gays thrown off of roofs
in ISIS territory.    Perhaps
the annual pie-eating contest in Indianapolis? The annual Iditarod race in
Alaska? How about the horrendous murder rates in “gun-controlled” Chicago? Nix
the latter. It would be too much like reporting on Syria.




No country is immune from terrorism,”
Kerry said at a press conference in Dhaka, Bangladesh. “It’s easy to terrorize.
Government and law enforcement have to be correct 24 hours a day, 7 days a
week, 365 days a year. But if you decide one day you’re going to be a terrorist
and you’re willing to kill yourself, you can go out and kill some people. You
can make some noise. Perhaps the media would do us all a service if they didn’t
cover it quite as much. People wouldn’t know what’s going on.”




And that’s okay with Kerry. “Ignorance is
Strength,” don’t you know? What the people don’t know won’t hurt them, until
the next terrorist attack hurts them by the score. This piece of mental gibberish
is in line with the German-Swedish policy of suppressing any news that would
tend to make native Europeans less enthralled with how consistently and ubiquitously
savage their new “refugee” neighbors” are. As the National Review’s Jim
Geragehty noted on August 30th,




You can’t write satire about this
administration anymore; it’s become too inherently contradictory and absurd.









John Kerry’s alter ego and early mentor


Not even Saturday Night Live could
make up this kind of statement for laughs. It’s too bad Edgar Bergen, the ventriloquist,
isn’t around to create a John Kerry dummy.




And then there’s former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The FBI has
released
the guts of its interview with her about all those emails she recklessly
sent and received on her private, rubber-band-and-chewing gum server sitting
atop a commode in the gardener’s restroom, next to the tool shed at her Chappaqua
home. She confessed or claimed, among other whoppers, that she didn’t know
that the “c” appended to secret information and paragraphs stood for “classified.”
Trey Sanchez of The
Truth Revolt reported:




Documents
reveal that Clinton, who as secretary of State bypassed her State Department
email and installed a private email server at her home in Chappaqua, New York,
was not aware of the challenges, questions and problems that could result from
a high level U.S. official sidestepping security and archival guidelines.




But they
also show Clinton’s lack of understanding or acknowledgement of basic standards
that govern government officials, especially those with top security
clearances. For instance, she was unaware of what a “c,” short for classified,
meant next to some paragraphs in notes and memos.









Hillary in one of her more lucid moments.


So, what did she think the “c” stood for? Casserole? Chatty Cathy? Caligula?
Constellation? The aging cow must also suffer from sleep apnea, during which a person
stops breathing, depriving the brain of oxygen. That would help to explain her
foreign policy “triumphs,” repeated deceptions, lies, crimes, and not
remembering what the “c” stood for on classified documents – among her other
observable ailments and black hole size lapses in credibility.






Out of the closet: And I'll get your piddly 401K, too! 

You can keep the stupid mutt!





Jobs for Syrians, but not for blacks! Gratuitous
cackling.








Finally, there is not-so-well-known Gabby
Aossey, a blogger for the Huffington Post. On May 10th she wrote from her
bubble world called “All Things Bright and Beautiful” that:




Contrary to American popular belief, Islam
has a culture and history of women empowerment. In the Qur’an, which is
believed to be God’s word told to Prophet Muhammad, women and men are described
as equals in everyday actions and responsibilities. When it comes to family,
charity, children, sex, and much more, a man and a woman have the same duties
and that is to continue on the straight path.




Early Islamic women kept this idea alive. The
first Muslim woman was Khadija, Mohammed’s first wife. Without her influence,
Islam might not have emerged as successfully as it did. Khadija was a business
woman and a land owner in the lands of Arabia. When Mohammed was given
revelations, it was Khadija that ensured him that he was not going insane, but
that he was a chosen one. It was Khadija that pushed Mohammed to listen to God
and the angels that were trying to communicate with him and to not run in fear.
It was Khadija that gave Muhammad the support and confidence in his development
as becoming God’s last prophet. Khadija, a woman, was the strength that allowed
Islam to fully bloom. Just this one example gives us a view on how true Muslim
women are; outspoken, driven, certain and courageous, the epitome of a
feminist.




The title of her article is “Muslims Are the True Feminists.” I did not
make that up. The article is accompanied by a photograph, doubtless approved or
supplied by CAIR, of a pair of smiling young Muslim women in hijabs, probably gossiping
about how their husbands did not beat them yesterday, and also fated to become
brood mares at their husband’s whims. Without thinking, Aossey credits Khadija
with inspiring Mohammed’s brilliant career as a murderer, practitioner of
genocide, rapist, pedophile, and beheader of infidels and apostates. She was
the “power” behind the throne.  Aossey
goes twirly over Big Mo’s first wife, this “epitome of a feminist,” as though
she was the equal of Elizabeth I or Catherine the Great.




She also attacks “lookism”:




So it’s no surprise to see Muslim woman today
modeling themselves after these prominent female figures. Muslim girls look
towards these instances of strength for guidance in this scary, patriarchal
society. These modern women are not afraid to go against the grain in the name
of their belief like wearing the hijab to covey their religious devotion. Hijab
is the headscarf that is worn by Muslim woman and no; it is not supposed to be
forced on them by their fathers and husbands. Wearing or not wearing the Hijab
reflects a Muslim woman’s own a personal choice.



For me, this idea especially showcases feminism in America. With all of the
pressures in our American society to have a certain physical allure; to have
long, luscious hair, a skinny yet curvy body, flawless facial beauty, woman go
through hell. With this, we succumb to the pressures that we generally think we
are free of; we oppress our natural womanhood with constant worry about how we
look to others around us. We do not have the courage to stand up to this
societal critique and say ‘my body is not to be ogled at’.












What an endorsement for selflessness! Muslim women are “freer” because you
can’t ogle their long, luscious hair, their skinny yet curvy bodies, and
flawless facial beauty, because you really don’t know what lurks beneath the
hijab, chador, or burka, and those assets are too likely not being covered at
all because they don’t exist. Unlike Western women, they’re not “obsessed” with
esthetics but rather with their “free” natural womanhood. Not that someone like
Clark Gable would ever want to “go there.”




I thought it would be justice of some kind to remind Aossey of the
reality of Muslim "feminism" in the Ummah, such as the dramatization
of an actual stoning of a woman in Iran in 1986, “The Stoning of Soraya M.”
There
were countless photographs of actual Muslim women being stoned to death,
but
they were too gory to show here. And, apparently, Muslim men are
themselves
"obsessed" with feminine beauty of the Western, non-Muslim kind, not
the Muslim kind, which is why European women  who have luscious hair,
curvy bodies, and flawless facial beauty are the targets of rape,
beatings, and
disfigurement all over Europe. Soraya was framed for adultery by her
husband whose roving eye
and libido became smitten with a 14-year-old village girl. Soraya was
not "empowered"; she was murdered by the mob. Try that on for size, Miss
Aossey.




Jefferson was right, as can be shown above. These three surrendered
their reason, and the resulting whims and winds of political correctness have allowed
them to ignore reality and wreck their minds.



Jefferson was right, as can be shown above. These three surrendered
their reason, and the whims and winds of political correctness have allowed
them to ignore reality and wreck their minds. Is it "gullibility" or is it guilt?

The Rule of Reason: A Last Great Hope

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The “Mental Illness” of Islamic PC

Daniel Greenfield comments on how the authorities
(East, West, South, and North) engage in tongue-twisting, mental gymnastics to
avoid “offending” the Islamic Ummah by ascribing the latest stabbing, rape, or
murder by a member of the Muslim flock to “mental illness” or lack of
employment opportunities, and other external drivers. The Press complies with
the explanations also for fear of raising the lice-ridden hackles of Muslims. The
latest episode occurred in Australia.



A model of madness







The
media is describing the Muslim terrorist as a French man. Because if it's
anything the French are known for, it's shouting "Allahu Akbar". and
stabbing random non-Muslims.

A
French national allegedly shouted “Allahu akbar” during and after a stabbing
attack that left a British woman dead and another Briton fighting for his life
at a backpackers hostel outside of Townsville last night.

Possible
extremist motivations for the attack are now being investigated by Queensland
Police and the Australian Federal Police, with the man yet to be questioned by
investigators.

Queensland
Police Service Deputy Commissioner Steve Gollschewski said the 29 -year-old
French man shouted the phrase following the attack at the hostel at Home Hill,
south of Townsville, but police had not determined whether the incident was
terror related.

Who
knows? Maybe the "French" stabber was expressing his Francophonic
distaste of Brits by shouting Allahu Akbar. 

“While
this information will be factored into the investigation, we are not ruling out
any motivations at this stage, whether they be political or criminal,” he told
reporters in Brisbane.

“Investigators
will also consider whether mental health or drug misuse factors are involved in
this incident.”




Many
stones will not be overturned in the
search for a motive, particularly those marked with the telltale symbol of “Islam.”
We don’t want to offend Muslims by blaming Islam for horrendous crimes randomly
committed by a “radicalized” Muslim. “Allahu Akbar” just might be his misspoken
utterance of “I’m a little teapot!” and the fellow had a speech impediment that
aggravated his emotional outbreak!




So, heads are being scratched in Australia – call
it a kind of infectious, epistemological psoriasis – in France, Britain,
Germany, and in the U.S. because, you see, anyone shouting “Allahu Akbar” as he
stabs away at a “random non-Muslim” cannot be said to be a jihadi or an
“immigrant” or a “refugee.” That would be a defamation of the man’s character,
and would come automatically under the rubric of “hate speech” and/or
“Islamophobia,” which is by PC definition a “crime.” But if the evidence is
overwhelming concerning his “motivation” and individuals refuse to grant it any
role in the crime, who is the actual mentally ill person? Or is he a kind of
mental doppelganger of the criminal?








The mental illness being reported has two classes
of the afflicted: Muslims, who are by definition mentally ill (who else but
someone not in his right mind would exalt a killer, rapist, bandit, all in the
name of AllahWall – Wallah for short – as a moral ideal, and expect everyone
else to acknowledge and defer to the sanity of the insanity, or else), and the
Mainstream Media (MSM) or the Massagers of the Seven Mongoloids.

                                                                                                                

Let us examine mental illness.




A Wikipedia article
begins:




A mental disorder
(also called a mental illness,[1]
or psychiatric disorder) is a diagnosis,
most often by a psychiatrist, of a behavioral or mental pattern that
may cause suffering
or a poor ability to function in life. Such
features may be persistent, relapsing and remitting, or occur as a single
episode. Many disorders have been described, with signs and symptoms that vary
widely between specific disorders….

   

Patterns of belief,
language use and perception of reality can become disordered (e.g., delusions, thought
disorder, hallucinations). Psychotic disorders in this domain include schizophrenia,
and delusional disorder. Schizoaffective disorder is a category
used for individuals showing aspects of both schizophrenia and affective
disorders. Schizotypy
is a category used for individuals showing some of the characteristics
associated with schizophrenia but without meeting cutoff criteria.




Common mental disorders
include depression, which affects about 400
million, dementia
which affects about 35 million, and schizophrenia,
which affects about 21 million people globally. Stigma
and discrimination can add to the suffering
and disability
associated with mental disorders, leading to various social
movements attempting to increase understanding and challenge social
exclusion.




Let’s just say that Islam incubates all the
categories of these “mental disorders,” especially if the “pattern of belief,”
a certain language, and a skewed “perception of reality” figure largely in a
Muslim’s daily thoughts and routines and infect everything he does or feels. From
day one of his existence he is a product of the Islamic hatchery, taught to
hove rigidly and unquestioningly in preparation to emerge as a devout Muslim
(when he reaches biological adulthood or post-adolescence) and non-entity in
the eyes of his imaginary deity. One could say that reaching maturity in an
Islamic environment has steadily undercut and sabotaged his cognitive faculties
and powers of reason, and that he is as much of “victim” of Islam as are the
many thousands of non-Muslims killed by Muslims. Let us say that he sees the
world, others, and himself with borrowed eyes, eyes as evil as Rasputin’s – or
Mohammad’s.




But few of us have ever encountered a Muslim who was
uncomfortable with the status of being a permanent mental cripple, and
who would  never risk breaking from a
lifetime habit of not thinking, of not fearing thought itself, and of  not feeling a seething hate of those who don’t
hesitate to question and think. Your average jihadi down deep to the
core of his soul (or of his mind) fears and hates reality more than he does the
infidel. In the midst of raping, knifing, bombing, or torturing his victims, aside
from shouting “Allahu Akbar!” his inner voice is screaming, “You did not
conform to my reality! This is your punishment! You cannot be allowed to
remain in existence! Wallah orders me to wipe you out! He does not really favor
the compassionate! Die! Die and suffer! Be shamed! You are conquered!”




The average Muslim is as much a prisoner of Islamic
Political Correctness as Westerners are prisoners of secular,
mind-shackling political correctness. But while Western PC allows one some
“elbow room” to negotiate reality, Islam locks Muslims in a mental
straightjacket, one which disables whatever minimal link to reality they might
have, and turns them into self-destructive Golems, or walking-talking,
half-human automatons, many passive, others who do not feel “real” until they work
themselves into a frenzy of malice. Every criminal action committed by a jihadi
is meant to be a strike against reality, and destruction is perceived to be a
corrective remedy, destruction for destruction’s sake, of the good for being
the good. Wallah wills it! So it must be done! Else Wallah will frown at the
candidate jihadi if he fails to act and deny him that perfect state of
non-existence, Paradise.






Muslims might have an excuse for their mental
illness. There can be none for Westerners such as Commissioner Gollschewski and
his colleagues in Australia (and elsewhere around the globe). His job
necessarily requires the grasping of criminal evidence, and if he refuses to
grant evidence any role in his investigation, then he is of no use to anyone,
he is guilty of a miscarriage of justice, and may as well be abetting the
commission of more Islam-inspired crime. The same can be said about any
cravenly PC dhimmi in law enforcement anywhere.



Complicit in abetting Islamic crime is the MSM,
whose shoulders are heavily flaked with years of dandruff from its own
congenital head scratching about Islam. The MSM is as delusional about Islam as
are Muslims.

The Howlers of Our Moon Bats

Moon bat has replaced mooncalf as a colloquial term for a fool, halfwit, dunce, moron,
etc. One could just as well say it is synonymous with Muslim and Progressive. 




Howling at the moon is an idiom meaning making an utterly
ludicrous, transparently insane remark stated as a truism. It designates a statement
that contradicts obvious or demonstrable evidence, and is contrary to what is
clearly true, or that is irrelevant to the facts. It isn’t certain yet why
wolves howl at the moon, but we are certain that Progressivism and Islam cause
human moon bats to howl at reality. Here are a few instances:






Reuters
editors and the filterers of other news sources must have snickered when on
August 17th they reported Chancellor Angela Merkel stating bald-faced that
Germany’s violence is not caused by the “immigrants” or the barbaric
“refugees.” They somehow didn’t bring rape, murder, and terrorism to Germany
(or to Sweden, France, and other European nations). It’s those nasty jihadists
who wish to terrorize Germany into submission. But they’ve already done that.
They don’t practice the same Islam as the non-entities who can be seen on
German streets pushing their welfare state paid prams of future “Germans.”




"The phenomenon of Islamist terrorism, of IS, is not a phenomenon
that came to us with the refugees," Merkel said at an election campaign
event for her Christian Democrats in the eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
ahead of a regional vote on Sept. 4.

The influx of migrants, many of whom are Muslim, has boosted support for
the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD), which is expected to perform
well in elections in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Berlin.

"We have said clearly that an Islam that works and lives on the
basis of the constitution ... belongs to Germany," Merkel said.

She added that a type of Islam that did not stick to the constitution or
accept equal rights for women had no place in the country.



Clueless or
lying on her reelection stump, it does not occur to Merkel that Islam will not “stick to the constitution” of
Germany, as Islam regards man-made law as an abomination to AllahWalla. Under
Sharia law, there are no “equal rights” for women, nor for non-Muslim infidels,
nor for homosexuals, nor for anyone else but Muslim males.




Which see: 




So, set you (O Muhammad [sal-Allâhu ‘alayhi wa
sallam]) your face towards the religion (of pure Islâmic Monotheism) Hanîf
(worship none but Allâh Alone). Allâh’s Fitrah (i.e. Allâh’s Islâmic
Monotheism) with which He has created mankind. No change let there be in
Khalq-illâh (i.e. the religion of Allâh – Islâmic Monotheism), that is the
straight religion, but most of men know not. (Tafsir At-Tabarî)} ( Ar¬-Rûm:30)

And, apparently, Angela Merkel knows not of what she speaks. But,
what she worry?  Islam belongs to and in
Germany. "Former president Wulff said Islam belongs to Germany.
That is true. I also hold this opinion," Merkel
said at a news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who
also took part with other world leaders in the Paris march on Sunday.” [January
12, 2015] 




Rather, Germany now belongs to
Islam, thanks to Wulff and Merkel, who opened the gates and borders to the
migrant invasion. This would be a truer statement.






Let’s now turn to another moon
bat, Tim Kaine, former governor of Virginia who helped to turn the cradle of
the American Republic into a “blue state” vassal of Progressivism. On August
17th, Daniel Greenfield on FrontPage
wrote of him, 




Hillary Clinton and her entourage have had everything undeservedly handed
to them on a silver platter. And yet they never stop hating America.

Tim Kaine, Hillary's ridiculous buffoon of a VP, who is running as
number two to a female presidential candidate, decided to take his ridiculous
hatred of America to a new level by claiming that America is worse
for women than Afghanistan.

Greenfield asks, “Does Kaine really believe that women have
more political opportunities in Afghanistan than they do in America? Is he that
stupid or does he hate his country that much?” I would answer both: He is that stupid and he hates America. But he keeps his thickness and malice in the
background. 




Next up for a baying is our Community Organizer in Chief,
Barack Obama, who, among his many other lies and gaffs, has claimed that
“climate change” is more a threat to national security than is ISIS or hundreds
of thousands of Syrian “refugees” of the Islamic persuasion who are being
invited to emulate Angela Merkel’s invasion-by-invitation of this country. As
the Free
Beacon reported on December 1st, 2015, 




            A new
SuperCut video contrasts doomsday rhetoric from the Obama administration about
climate change with news clips of terrorist attacks, plane bombings and
beheadings by the Islamic State.

            President
Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and Secretary of State John Kerry offer the
following words in the video about climate change.

            “Today,
there is no greater threat to our planet than climate change.”

            “No
challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.”

            “It
is indeed one of the biggest threats facing our planet today.”

            “Climate
change is the threat multiplier.”

Far be it from Obama to realize that
he is his own “threat multiplier.” But I think he knows it. Everything he has
done over the last eight years has been to weaken the U.S. and to make it
vulnerable to Islamic terror. He has been our first, blatantly, conscious “Evil
Executive” in pursuit of unlimited and unopposed executive power. 








Of course, the Father of Hockey
Sticks, Al Gore, worried that he will be forgotten, uttered his own inanity. Truth
Revolt reported on August 23rd, 




After the floods had
hit Baton Rouge, Louisiana, last week, former vice president and
self-proclaimed global warming guru Al Gore coined the natural disaster as “one
of the manifestations of climate change.”                                                    

As The
Washington Times notes, news articles followed with the same line. The
New York Times wrote, “Flooding in the South looks a lot like climate
change.” The Green Party of Louisiana declared a “climate state of emergency.”
And at least one meteorologist said “we’ve reached a new meteorological era”
because of global warming, or climate change… or whatever they call it now.

So, that’s settled, right? Not according to most experts. Some see no
evidence that links this flood to climate change, unlike global warming
alarmists….



But then again, maybe Al Gore is just excited. It is the 25th anniversary
of the World Wide Web, after all, and since he invented it, he’s probably just
celebrating with something else he invented: global warming hype.

Not to be left out of the howling, is Secretary of State John
Kerry, who competes with Vice President Joe Biden to utter the best and most
memorable inanities. In November 2015 Breitbart
put together a file of them:




BOSTON – Secretary of State John Forbes Kerry is a dunce, and
has a record of making preposterously stupid and offensive statements dating
back to 1971.

In fact, if you go onto Google and type in “John Kerry gaffe,” you will
get 350,000 hits.

At the U.S. embassy in Paris Tuesday, he did it again, with perhaps his
most obnoxious, tone-deaf public pronouncement yet. Speaking to State
Department staffers, he compared the two Muslim terrorist massacres in France
this year – shooting up the magazine offices of Charlie Hebdo and
then last Friday’s celebration of diversity, which left 129 dead.

“There’s something different about
what happened (Friday) from Hedbo,” the 71-year-old Yale graduate said, “and I
think everybody would feel that. There was a sort of particularized focus and
perhaps even a legitimacy in terms of – not legitimacy – but a rationale that
you could attach yourself to somehow and okay they’re really angry because of
this or that.”

Yes, he backed off, immediately and
then again yesterday. But however you parse it, he rationalized slaughtering people
for exercising free speech. This is the guy the Democrats promoted for
president in 2004 as being “smarter” than his fellow Yale grad, George W. Bush,
despite the fact that Kerry’s GPA was slightly lower.






Doubtless President Obama refers to Kerry, the “marry up to
riches” parasite and the guy who claims to have “swift-boated” his Army rewards
out the window, as one of his two prize dumb-ass honkies, the other being Joe
Biden.




And the MSM pack loves to hear them howl, and often joins in
the serenade with its own brand of inanity. But then the MSM is populated with its
own species of moon bats, and they’re fanged and carry rabies.



The foregoing quotations are all "howlers," but they're not funny. 

The Faces of Evil

Imagine for a moment you are in a U.S. post office, and while
standing in line to buy stamps, you take a look at the latest “Wanted” poster
featuring the mug shots of the “Most Wanted” killers, thieves, bandits,
rapists, and corrupt political leaders who, have after the 2016 election, been
booted out of power and sent to prison or banished from public life, never to
threaten any person’s life and livelihood ever again, either with ill-gotten
money or a submission-or-else ideology.   




They
were all sent scurrying for cover in their fortress-like enclaves, pursued by
the authorities and grand jury indictments. They are the paragons of evil unleashed
upon civilized, unarmed citizens in America and in Europe. Now they have
been neutralized and brought up on pages of criminal charges. Some have eluded capture;
others have been cornered in their caves or “safe” houses, or lured into traps
by the Texas Rangers and local authorities working with a reconstituted FBI,
much as Bonnie and Clyde were exterminated on a back road of Louisiana. (former
FBI Director James Comey, who once detailed Clinton’s treachery and lies but
refused to recommend an indictment, was demoted to the Bureau’s mail room as a
second-assistant mail sorter and pusher of mail carts). 










George Soros, who once boasted that helping the Nazis rob condemned
Jews of their property was the “happiest” time of his life, was a billionaire
who funded many of the Progressive/left wing groups that worked to bring down America
to the level of a political stew-pot of no specific identity as long as Americans
were reduced to poverty and submission to Islam. All societies, to him, were
pliant, fungible, and open to retransformation into ones in which he was
comfortable. Once compared himself to Machiavelli.












Former President Barack Obama’s
chief goal was to destroy America and her people, to turn it into an ossuary
and the people into skeletons of their former selves. “My many minions
throughout the country are 'shovel-ready'! I asked them here from Mexico and
Syria. It ain’t gonna be a knife fight, and I’m gonna laugh my head off
watching you honkies run! You shoot back, you get shot!”







As the Patron Saint of Lies, Hillary Clinton here
attempts to combine the insouciance of George Soros and the Mussolini-like
jutting jaw pose of Obama. The picture was taken shortly after she said during
a “Ready for Hillary” rally, “You Americans will tolerate Somali rapists and
Syrian beheaders and like it, or I'll reopen Gitmo, just for you! Then you’ll
see what a difference it makes!”













Heikki Saukkomaa/REX  2001



Saint Angela Merkel,
former Chancellor of Germany, photographed praying that no Muslims come after
her. Advisors close to her, however, assured her that she was in no danger of
gang rape, being too plump and homely, as well. Many of her hapless citizens
were attacked with her leave. Her philosophy to Germans: “Like it and lump it.
You’re being culturally enriched. To resist rape, or any kind of assault, or blaspheme Islam by
complaining about it, is treason! Just kiss your criminal and make up!” Rather, her closest advisors said that Muslims would come after her with a sharpened ax
– but that was before the Germans got to her first in a retribution that was
long overdue.






After a bath, a visit to the barber shop for a trim,
and the return of his garb from the dry cleaners, Islamic gang-leader Mohammed posed for a quick study and
liked the image so much he forgave the defamer, but forgot to autograph it. Fled
from the scene as he was dressing in a transgender bathroom in a Target store. He
was an undocumented illegal alien and a pedophile and cradle-robber supreme. Outstanding
warrants in 50 states, the UK, Australia, Sweden, and Germany. Whereabouts unknown.
Muslims claim to have never seen him, not knowing what he really looked like.

 

“…A long train of abuses and usurpations….”

Thomas Jefferson wrote in the
Declaration of Independence, in detailing the numerous charges against King
George III, that “…mankind are disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,
than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing the same Object
evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it
is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for
their future security.”



Jefferson, the Judge







Does this not describe the
administration of Barack Obama? His eight-year tenure in the White House has
been nothing less than a “train of abuses and usurpations,” abuses of the
office of president and usurpations of Congressional authority. His “Object”
has always been to reduce Americans under absolute Despotism. 




In 1920, H.L. Mencken made some
observations that have proven to be prescient and not altogether irrelevant to
the character of today’s Social Justice Warriors, aspiring collectivists, and
nation transformers:




“No doubt my distaste for
democracy as a political theory is…a defect that is a good deal less in the
theory than in myself.  In this case it
is very probably my incapacity for envy….The fact that John D. Rockefeller had
more money than I have is as uninteresting to me as the fact that he believed
in total immersion and wore detachable cuffs.




“Thus I am never envious, and
so it is impossible for me to feel any sympathy for men who are. Per corollary, it is impossible for me
to get any glow out of such hallucinations as democracy and Puritanism, for if
you pump envy out of them you empty them of their life blood: they are all
immovably grounded upon the inferior man’s hatred of the man who is having a better
time. There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and the
impulse is to punish the man  with a
superior capacity for happiness – to bring him down  to the miserable level of the ‘good’ men,
i.e., of stupid, cowardly and chronically unhappy men. And there is only one
sound argument for democracy, that it is a crime for any man to hold himself
out as better than other men…and the most heinous offense for him is to prove
it.








“…Such an attitude is
palpably impossible to a democrat. His distinguishing mark is the fact that he
always attacks his opponents, not just with open arms, but also with snorts and
objurations – that he is always filled with moral indignation – that he is
incapable of imagining honor in an antagonist, and hence incapable of it
himself….”*




 One hundred and forty years separate
Jefferson’s words and Mencken’s (his article “A Blind Spot”). The Founders
abhorred democracy, which they regarded as mob rule as an overture to tyranny
by the mob leader (Shall we call him a mobster?
Or her?). Mencken more than Jefferson
tagged democrats and Puritans as moved by envy and malice. Everywhere we look
today in the news, we see envy and malice at work. The MSM is rotten with
snorts against Donald Trump, “Islamophobes,” and anyone who “didn’t build that”
or is dripping with “White privilege”; fork-tongued “moderate” Muslims inveigh
with CAIR against American dress codes and work standards and drag hapless
employers to court, where they have a fifty-fifty chance of having their codes
and standards excoriated, in the name of “civil rights,” by an ignorant, pliant
justice who knows little about Islam or about leading a productive life in
truly gainful employment. Islam, after all, is not only an ideology that
nurtures crime (it’s in Mohammad’s theological and political DNA, there’s no
altering that fact), but promotes among its flocks cowardice and acquiescence among
most adult Muslims, and in young Muslims the mobster
mentality. 




Envy and malice are the
leitmotif of Obama’s whole time in the White House. Let us draw up and itemize
his “rap sheet.”




Ø 
We learn that as part of Obama’s grand design to “transform”
America that aside from sanctioning the importation (not “immigration”) of
thousands of ideologically hostile Syrian “refugees” into the country (most of
whom will be just Muslim ballast while raising future anti-American jihadists),
that he has released some 86,000
criminal aliens to rob, rape, and pray on the general population.

Ø 
He has Okayed the invasion of thousands of Muslims into a
wide range of American towns and cities.




More than 600,000
immigrants with official refugee status have been resettled
in the U.S. since 2008.  (That’s just the designated “refugees,” and
does not include other legal immigrants and illegal migrants.  The U.S.
has admitted a total of over 6.3 million
immigrants for legal permanent residence since 2008, of which the refugees
represent roughly 10%.)

There are some out-of-the-way
communities that have a relatively long history of accepting refugees for
resettlement, at a rate significantly disproportionate to their
populations.  Twin
Falls, Idaho is one; another is Manchester,
New Hampshire.




Donald Trump claimed, not
without some truth in the accusation, that Obama and Hillary Clinton were the
“cofounders” of ISIS. Reuters
and many liberal newspapers immediately jumped on the statement saying it was
an irresponsible utterance. But was it? Daniel Greenfield’s August 11th FrontPage
article parses the facts:




Donald Trump has said of Obama, "he’s the founder of
ISIS". He stated that Hillary is a co-founder of ISIS. The remarks have
touched off anger from certain media outlets, but is it true or not?




The organization we currently know as ISIS had earlier
incarnations, but it adopted its current name in response to its growing
successes in the Arab Spring which was heavily backed and championed by Obama
and Hillary. The expansion of ISIS in the Arab Spring functionally turned it
into a very different organization. It not only temporarily succeeded in
creating its Caliphate, but it went from a marginal terror group to a microstate
controlling cities, large populations and winning the allegiance of Islamic
terror groups around the world. And it was able to carry out terror attacks in
America….

There
is also no denying the fact that Obama and Hillary's backing for the Arab Spring,
along with that of the media, proved crucial in overturning friendly regimes
and bringing Islamists to power across the region leading to chaos and
terror. 

We
might quibble over what the term "founder" exactly means, but there
is no denying that ISIS, as we know it today, rose as a direct consequence of
Obama and Hillary's support for Islamists.

ISIS
is the consequence of their pro-Islamic policies brought to life. And that too
cannot be denied. From Benghazi to Baghdad, the wages of the left's support for
Islamic theocracy has been terror and death.




In short,
writes Greenfield, ISIS is a direct result of Obama/Clinton policies, with a
lot of help from the pro-Islam MSM.




In another arena, it has been
revealed that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in its hurry to
micromanage and regulate every possible human activity, took a leaf from Nazi
Germany and experimented on human beings to determine whether or not
particulate matter (P.M.) was harmful to health. It was not. John Dunn and
Steve Milloy wrote in “EPA
Whitewashes Illegal Human Experiments,” 




Though the
EPA got away with issuing the rules, it knew they were vulnerable to challenge
because the underlying studies – all dubious statistical correlation studies –
didn't actually show that P.M. killed anyone.  Neither did animal
toxicology studies, no matter how much P.M. the laboratory animals inhaled.
 So the EPA decided to back up its statistical claims by testing extremely
high doses of P.M. on real, live people.




Over the
next 15 years, the EPA began quietly experimenting on elderly subjects (up to
age 80), asthmatics, people with heart disease or metabolic syndrome, and
combinations of the aforesaid by placing them in a sealed chamber and making
them inhale high levels of P.M. as well as diesel exhaust, smog, and even
chlorine gas. [There’s no guarantee better of ensuring the “right” conclusion than
marking the cards or rigging jury selection.]




Doubtless if the EPA had used
Zyklon
B instead of using doses of diesel fumes and chlorine, they’d have gotten
more favorable results. The
Nazis did, millions of times.  




Finally, on a less dramatic
but no less important note, the federal government refuses to mark Muslim Halal
food as such, so that non-Muslims can’t tell if they’re complying with Sharia
or not. Remember that in American supermarkets there are “Asian” aisles, and
“Hispanic” aisles, but no “Muslim aisles.”  Pamela Geller raises the
issue of how Americans are being hoodwinked and made to submit to Islam, “The Meat You Eat is HALAL but USDA
Won’t Label It.”




 A great deal
of meat sold in this country is halal but is not labeled is such. It’s a
scandal — but an established practice: meat packers generally do not
separate halal meat from non-halal meat, and do not label halal meat as such.
We attempted to right that wrong. But the U.S. Department of Agriculture has
for four years now ignored, shelved, or just plain refused to rule on our
petition….




Just
as those who buy meat and poultry products labeled halal or kosher should have
a reasonable expectation that the meat they’re buying was actually produced in
that manner, so also those of us who don’t want to eat halal meat for whatever
reason should also have a reasonable assurance that meat not labeled halal was
not actually slaughtered in accordance with Sharia rules. As halal slaughter
increases in the US, the likelihood of unknowingly buying meat sacrificed under
the present system also increases.




This
is a matter of simple justice and common sense. So why is the USDA stonewalling
on our petition?




Basically because
labeling meat Halal would somehow discriminate against Muslims and against the
brutal, inhumane way livestock and poultry are slaughtered, by letting them
bleed to death instead of killing them the swiftest and most economical way. But
pain and suffering are the Islamic way.



Slit their throats while they are still conscious.







There is, of
course, Obama’s ram-rodding ObamaCare through the legislative grinder, packing
the Supreme Court with Progressive ideologues, his ongoing destruction of the U.S.
military, his kneejerk denigration and humiliation of the American people, sympathizing with the thugs of Black Lives
Matter, and exacerbating race relations in the country, and just generally
following the Alinsky playbook together with that of the Muslim Brotherhood. He
adheres to his mentor’s   Rules
for Radicals as well as Islam’s “Rules for Conquering America” per the 1991
Memorandum. 

Neither Jefferson nor Mencken could have imagined the scale of evil that
Obama represents, far, far greater than that threatened by George III. Hopefully,
the train of abuses and usurpations will come to an end in November.




*pp. 76-77.  The
Vintage Mencken , gathered by Alistair Cooke. New York: Knopf/Random
House.  1955. 240 pp.

Review: Western Values Defended

Olivia Pierson’s Western
Values Defended: A Primer , is just what its title says it is, a primer
for those unread in what those values are that need to be upheld and defended.
It is a short book, just a general survey of the Western values that are rooted
in ancient Greece but which came to fruition in the Age of Reason and the
Enlightenment. It is only 71 pages long, but it is loaded with ideas which most
people are not familiar with. 








An Amazon review best describes
Pierson’s opus: “Olivia Pierson is the author of To Love Wisdom - Gateway to
the Heroic for the Young – is an introduction to philosophy for young
people aged 10-13 and Western Values
Defended: A Primer – a  punchy and
relevant overview of the greatest gems of Western civilization, and how they
came to define the daily character of individual liberty in the West. She
writes about politics, history and culture on her website oliviapierson.org.  A reader wrote, “An exceptionally
well-written defense of Western liberal philosophy and culture! At a time when
Western values are overwhelmingly menaced, Ms. Pierson systematically explains
just what Western values are, and why they're so overwhelmingly important. The
West today is massively under assault from the forces of socialism and
religion, and Ms. Pierson persuasively and passionately explains how we all can
-- and must! -- fight back against the horrifically threatening darkness.”




For any well-read adult who is
conversant in the issues covered by Pierson, her book is “old news.” What they
must remember is that it is an introduction
to those issues. It would make an incomparable text book in elementary and
high school as an antidote to the government-mandated multicultural pap being
taught in schools today (at least in the U.S.). She introduces the issues in an
elegant, compelling style, one which “old hands” on the subjects will find
attractive and informative (I learned a few things about some of the issues I’d
not encountered elsewhere). It was difficult for me to choose my favorite
chapters in Western Values Defended: “Religious
Tolerance” (which includes a moving and much-earned tribute to Hypatia of
Alexandria, horridly martyred by early Christians because of her mind), “The
Emancipation of Women and Sexual Freedom,” “Freedom of Speech and the Press,” “A
Commitment to Scientific Inquiry,” or “Capitalism and Innovation.”




 Pierson
lays out quite clearly to what Western civilization owes its origin and continued
existence: his mind, or his rational faculty. Man is the only animal that can
change and better the conditions of his existence, by changing his environment,
and he can do that successfully by thinking, by using his mind. She quotes Francis
Bacon, the 17th century English philosopher, statesman, and essayist: “Nature,
to be commanded, must be obeyed.” Another quotation of his that came to mind at
the same time was, “Seek first the virtues of the mind; and other things either
will come, or will not be wanted.” Pierson demonstrates that when man employs
his mind in the furtherance of his life and values, he naturally exploits its
potential virtues, and the results are so multifaceted that one could make a
nearly endless list of the things that benefit and extend one’s life. 




Capitalism has been the greatest life
extender in history. Pierson writes: “What people do not seem to understand is
that a socio-economic system is itself a moral issue.” (60). It is the only
socio-economic system that has a rational basis, ergo a moral foundation. There are other such systems,
and every one of them has imposed and perpetuated misery, ill-health, poverty, subsistence
starvation, and shorter life spans: theocracies, communism, and socialism, all
of which are illusionary and fundamentally anti-mind and anti-freedom and all
of which, regardless of their “benign” inauguration in any country, must become
tyrannies and dictatorships (if things don’t work as “planned,” it must be the
fault of the producers!), not of the proletariat, but of a self-appointed
political elite, jealously kept in power with force and the secret police. (See
now the state of the “proletariat” in Venezuela,
reduced standing in line for hours for toilet paper and batteries and other
necessities, the distribution of which the government took over “in the name of
the people” and created scarcities. It’s socialism at “work.”Venezuela was once
a mildly prosperous nation, thanks to its oil reserves, which the government nationalized
and expropriated years ago.)



Venezuela was one of the original founders of OPEC).
Any government that assumes the role of wealth distribution has abandoned
reality for wishful thinking. Socialists, Social Justice Warriors, and other
collectivists wish to command nature by ignoring it, or without obeying it or
even acknowledging that it exists (e.g., the American Environmental Protection Agency).










One of Pierson’s most illuminating
chapters is the one on Freedom of Speech, and she inevitably touches on the
continuing conflict with Islam, which calls for censorship of any speech that
is in the least critical of Islam (and by extension of Muslims) and the fatal
punishment of anyone (Muslim or infidel) who dares voice a position on Islam,
serious, scholarly or satirical. She writes that freedom of speech, “happens to
stop the vast majority of ideological
conflicts from spilling over into physical violence.” (p. 44) Muslims can
demonstrate and chant “Freedom of Speech Go to Hell” in Britain without being
attacked by skinheads but any Briton who tweaks
the noses of Muslims in a private email can be charged by the UK government
with blasphemy or racism or “incitement” to violence. The British and other
Western governments uphold a double standard, favoring Muslims in law but “lawfully”
punishing others for saying what is on their minds about Islam.




To prohibit by force or with threats of
it from speaking one’s mind is a form of mind-control, and Islam is very good
at that, or at least effective. But the freedom of speech to insult the West
and call for its destruction has not stopped Muslims from attacking those “guilty”
of “offensive” speech. The French publication Charlie
Hebdo is not out of the fire yet.




Nor has it stopped our own governments from
proposing blanket censorship of all communications that denigrate or “offend” Muslims,
even when they are found guilty of the most horrendous crimes. In many cases, Muslims
don’t need to resort to violence to shut people up. Western governments,
using the power of the state, will act as their proxies by suppressing speech.




Pierson writes, “When any culture
provides a robust arena for the fierce competition of ideas to be expressed without
hurt feelings derailing the issue, the men and women of such a civilization can
only improve, and not devolve.”  What many
fail to grasp, however, is that Islam fears such an arena, because it knows it
would come out the sorriest, and so it works incessantly to either suppress
free speech or get Western governments to do the dirty work for it. For all the
violence Islam is responsible for, for the thousands of deaths and
indescribable misery it has caused over its 1,400-year existence, Islam is basically an ideology of cowards. 





It fears the sunlight of freedom and
unfettered speech. So it skulks in the darkness and strikes you behind your
back, or while you’re sleeping or soaking in the rays on a beach. Olivia Pierson’s
Western Values Defended will help
more people, and especially the young, understand that. It will open new worlds to them, such as
the treasure trove of Western values, and the cancerous spread of statism and Islam.

 

Integration vs. Assimilation

Clarion recently sent this to  readers:





Does integration prevent
radicalization?

We want your views




My
comment, edited for typos, went as follows and it may or not be published in Clarion:





If
we are speaking of Muslims, I would say no. Muslims would need to repudiate
Islam or leave it as apostates. Because Islam is a totalitarian ideology melded
to the “religion” of Islam, such an action would require intellectual honesty,
a fealty to reality, and a dollop of courage in the face of death threats
prescribed in the Koran or leave it as apostates. Because Islam is a
totalitarian ideology melded to the “religion” of Islam, such an action would
require intellectual honesty, a fealty to reality, and a dollop of courage in
the face of death threats prescribed in the Koran for leavers of the
“faith.” I also base my conclusion on the record of crimes by jihadists who are
first- or second-generation Muslims, a record compiled and documented by
Clarion and numerous other sites that report on the rapes, murders, knifings,
and suicide-bombings committed by Muslims who have resided in the West for any
measurable time. The more barbarous the origins of these Muslims (Somalia comes
to mind, and there is also a racist element in Somalian crimes against
Westerners), repeatedly commit the most heinous crimes and plead ignorance of
Western mores and standards of behavior. The authorities and the MSM jump on a
“mental illness” explanation before a victim is taken away in an ambulance. 




Islam does not prepare average
Muslims for any degree of intellectual enquiry on any subject, especially when
it comes to the multitude of contradictions and fallacies inherent  in the “faith”
which would leave Socrates or Aristotle massaging their heads. Islam is
anti-mind to the core, and does not much tolerate Muslims who “want to know.”
Islam is a mortal enemy of free minds. This will help to explain why Muslim
populations in Western countries represent a “silent majority” reluctant to or will
not condemn jihadist outrages, and this silence is to my mind tacit approval of
the crimes, even
when Muslims are collateral victims of terrorist attacks (as there were on
9/11, e.g.). This tacit sanctioning may be based on fear of reprisals or on an
inbred indifference to the death and suffering caused by terrorism. Islam is,
among other charges one may level against it, profoundly anti-life and
anti-individual, and so I shall always remain “Islamophobic.”



Is it envy or is it hatred of the good for being the good?







Clarion
prefaced its article with:




We recently reported the FBI has an
ISIS “kill list”. Many on the list belong to non-Muslim groups trying to help
young Muslims integrate culturally into American society. Pro-jihadi websites are urging
American Muslims to undertake "personal jihad" against those who are
helping Muslims study or settle in the United States. They know that one more integrated US
Muslim is one less Jihadi fighter.




Integration and education will help
combat the influence of radicalist ideology.




Do
YOU think that integration of young Muslims into American society will prevent
their radicalization?




Please
email your comments to info@clarionproject.org.
Information we gather will be used to help our research and your comments may be
published on our website unless otherwise stated.




I
have always had a major problem with the employment of the terms
“radicalization” and “extremism” when critics of Islam attempt to pigeonhole
Islam into separate compartments,  thus divorcing the actions from the thoughts
that inspired them. Islam is nothing if not “radical” (in the political sense,
and even in the ethical sense) and practicing the ideology in any degree is
inherently “extremist.” Just as an average, due-paying member of the Nazi Party
couldn’t be more “radicalized” than he already is (whether or not  he joined the Party under duress or
voluntarily), radicalized Nazis had their share of crimes and atrocities of the
type committed as policy by the SS or the Gestapo. One could say the same thing
about being “radicalized” by Communism; if your sympathies lie with the
ideology then you’re in the club, whether or not you participate in firing
squads or smash the windows of Jewish shops in Berlin or in manning gas
chambers. 




The
term used by Clarion, “integration,” is likely used by it as a synonym for “assimilation.”
I fail to understand the purpose of the substitution when the term assimilation has been used more often than
integration when describing the
purported adoption by “refugees” and “migrants” of the culture and mores of a
Western country. To assimilate the
new culture and mores is a voluntary
action, while to integrate “refugees”
and “migrants” connotes government action, a policy very similar to the American
practice of “bussing” school children to far away schools to achieve “racial
parity.”




However,
given the resort to force employed by especially Germany it boils down to the government
adopting a policy of integrating the indigenous population to Islamic and Sharia
culture and mores. This is being accomplished by censoring social media and by penalizing
indigenous Germans (and Swedes) who speak out against the government-fostered
invasion of the country by hordes of “migrants” openly hostile to and contemptuous
of Western values and for objecting to being forced to subsidize the invaders’ “resettlement”
with welfare benefits, expropriated property to feed, clothe, and house them,
and so on, only to see the coddled beneficiaries turn on indigenous Germans and
Swedes in daily commissions of harassment, sexual crime, robbery, vandalism, and
even murder. 



The smiles soon vanished after the first episodes of rape and murder.









The
terms employed by Clarion have another cause, which may or may not be acknowledged
by the parties who want to hear what readers have to say: the unchallenged role
of altruism in the Continent’s push
for “integration.” Indigenous populations are being asked to sacrifice their
lives and identities for the sake of those who possess neither, Islam placing
no value on life, or on Muslims having no identity except as commutable, anonymous
ciphers of an anti-life philosophy/religion. After all, we have seen repeatedly
in news reports a complete absence of gratitude by the “migrants,” and instead regular
assaults on their  involuntary
benefactors not only by the “refugees,” but by the governments, as well.

What Donald Trump Should Be to Americans

John Paul Jones, American Naval Hero

Instead of an essay, I offer an image of John Paul Jones by N.C. Wyeth
(1928). It is what Trump should be on issues on the table during this
election year. He should be hammering Hillary Clinton and her statist
clique without mercy, hesitation, or apology. He should never strike the
American colors. He should call Obama and Clinton the destructive,
power-lusting creatures they are and have proven to be for years. This
image is what Americans hope he will be all the way to the White House.
He should ask for no quarter, nor offer any. He should crush Clinton
into the pathetic pond scum she is and always has been. Smashing Clinton
without reservation or regret is what this battle calls for. Clinton
and the news media should not be permitted to set the terms of the
fight. Remember, Jones not only defended American shores, but took the
battle to the British Isles and raided the towns there. Trump should be
badgering Clinton without surcease, until she has another "concussion"
and goes full wacky as she has shown the country she can be and probably
has been for a long time. In the meantime, here is an image of true
immigrants who really did "build that" country we call America.  Excuse
my hubris, but here is a passage from the Epilogue of Hugh Kenrick, Book
Two of Sparrowhawk that I think should accompany the Thompson
illustration:



"The Immigrants" by Ellen B. Thompson (1899)











Hugh came back to
life only when Iverson came by his berth to inform him that the mainland had
been sighted. Hugh smiled for the first time in weeks. He found his long-glass
and went up to the quarterdeck and, for the rest of the morning, surveyed the
shores of the alien continent. Only three other merchantmen remained from the
convoy. The others, including the warships and the transports, had already gone
their separate ways.

                A day later, the Sparrowhawk
rounded Cape May, entered Delaware
Bay, and sailed placidly up its river. Hugh paced excitedly up and
down the deck, unable to believe the immensity of the place, and believing it
at the same time. From the deck he could see tobacco fields, and fields of corn
and wheat, and great houses, and sleepy river towns, and rivers that meandered
west to vanish into unending carpets of forests. A mountain range far in that
direction ran from one invisible point north to another south. The earth seemed
larger here. He felt equal to the challenge of all its possibilities.

                John Ramshaw watched his special
passenger, and was glad.