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Misgendering Allah

AnnieJones, as Allah

P.T. Barnum freak, 1865-1892


This column is devoted to the evil of Islam, and also to mock that “religion.” This is about the bearded lady of carnival fame. Perhaps “it” belongs to the LGBQetc. “community.”

  

The title of this column was inspired by this horrific story from the UK., “ Catholic journalist to be questioned by police after misgendering a trans woman ”. Misgendering is a neologism the product of politically correct speech.  




A devout Catholic journalist and commentator has claimed Surrey Police intends to investigate her after she called a young, transgender woman by the wrong pronouns….




Caroline Farrow, who has taken part in broadcasts such as Question Time and BBC News in the past, appeared on ITV’s Good Morning Britain back in September 2018 to talk about whether Girl Guides’ leaders should be able to tell parents whether any members identify as transgender. The broadcast aired in the wake of two leaders, who challenged the code, being expelled….

               

After their joint appearance on the show, Green claims that Farrow sent her trans daughter “very deliberately malicious and nasty messages,” which led her to report her to the police – not the fact that Farrow ‘simply’ misgendered her child. Farrow took to Twitter on 20 March to detail how Surrey Police recently contacted her saying it wants her to take part in a taped interview. …




“I can’t sleep I am so furious,” she wrote on social media. “I don’t even remember said tweets. I probably said ‘he’ or ‘son’ or something. All I have been told is that following an appearance on Good Morning Britain I made some tweets misgendering Susie Green’s child.”




You see, there are only a few passages in the Koran that refer to Allah as a man, or as  a man-like entity, that refer to “Him,” or say “His.” Aside from his prophet, Mohammad, being rape happy.   There are no purported images, and no descriptions of Allah. Descriptions are likely forbidden. For example,




5:33: “This is the recompense of those who fight against Allah and His Messenger, and hasten about the earth, to do corruption there: they shall be slaughtered, or crucified, or their hands and feet shall alternately be struck off; or they shall be banished from the land. That is a degradation for them in this world; and in the world to come awaits them a mighty chastisement.”




And:




9:111: “Allah has bought from the believers their selves and their possessions against the gift of Paradise; they fight in the way of Allah; they kill, and are killed; that is a promise binding upon Allah in the Torah, and the Gospel, and the Koran; and who fulfils his covenant truer than Allah? So rejoice in the bargain you have made with Him; that is the mighty triumph.”




From my standpoint, you can’t take seriously the notion of Allah (aka God and Yahweh) without having a chuckle or two, especially when  Islam is shilled as a “religion of peace,” (see Robert Spencer’s The History of Jihad )   given its blood-drenched history of 1,400 years and counting. Allah is usually depicted in the Koran and the Hadith as being “merciful.” Or forgiving. Or compassionate.




9:5: “Then, when the sacred months are drawn away, slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them, and confine them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they repent, and perform the prayer, and pay the alms, then let them go their way; Allah is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.”




That passage is without doubt an endorsement of “tolerance.”




That Allah is of an ambiguous gender is this passage from the Koran, which seems to be an endorsement of a bisexual Playboy Club:




They are to cohabit with demure virgins...as beauteous as corals and rubies...full-breasted maidens for playmates...in the gardens of delight.... They're to lie face to face on jewelled couches, and be serviced by immortal youths...young boys, their personal property, as comely as virgin pearls.... We created the houris [dancing girls] and made them virgins, carnal playmates for those on the right hand.... We are going to wed them to dark-eyed houris. [55:56; 55:58; 78:33; 56:12; 52:16-17, 24; 56:35-38; 52:20]




 “Serviced” by “Young boys…as comely as virgin pearls”?  




In point of fact, the killing of any non-Muslims by Muslims is neither acknowledged, nor celebrated or protested. The Ummah remains mute. The Koran permits and encourages such killing. The better to reduce the numbers of infidels to fight and to make way for the Islamic “master race,” Nazi style.




I reproduce there my former column, “Islam is Evil.”




The Koran says:




Qur’an 9:5 Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war.




Doubtless a so-called “civil rights” organization like CAIR (The Council on America n-Islamic Relations) would shed crocodile tears on the murders (the probable rape and beheadings of two Scandinavian hikers in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco), and continue on its campaign of “eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”  So says the Explanatory Memorandum. But CAIR and its useful, parroting idiots will say “This is not Islam.” CAIR or the MSN or the ICN or ISN would file a lawsuit asserting that “to oppose the construction of a mosque in your neighborhood, because a mosque would create traffic and congestion, is to oppose Islam” and claim “freedom of religion.”




One can imagine the head honchos of CAIR chomping on popcorn as they watched the video of the Scandinavian girls being raped and beheaded.




Why were these two women so vulnerable to the bestiality of these Muslims? Had they aninkling that they had been stalked? That they had been marked for torment and death? No.  Did they have a can of Mace or pepper spray ready? We don’t know yet. See the beheading video on Pamela Geller’s report here.




Danes and Norwegians, like other Scandinavians, are taught to be tolerant of Islam and to never question or doubt its "peacefulness." They're subjected to that brand of lobotomy from grade school and are consequently disarmed, so have no objective measure of Islam and what its adherents believe or are capable of. The rape statistics in Sweden are horrendous and the government there suppresses them so that people do not become anti-immigrant or anti-Islam. This is also the case in Germany and the U.K., where laws are in effect to punish citizens for speaking out against Islam, even though the rapes (e.g., Rotherham, etc) are committed largely by Muslims. It's common knowledge, even to the police, who are not permitted by the state to think badly of Muslims, and who are more likely to arrest a non-Muslim for speaking ill publically or privately on the Internet about Islam.




The political and educational environment these women were raised in had sabotaged and scuttled their rationality and sense of self-preservation in hostile countries and even in their own countries. They' were taught to ignore the reality of Islam, even though the bestiality of the religion is almost daily reported in crime news. Islamophobia is the new thoughtcrime. The term, Islamophobia, was popularized by the Iranians and Muslim theorists. It is a form of George Orwell’s doublethink. “"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them." ( Nineteen Eighty-Four ” Book 2, Chapter 3) That is, you must both fear Islam and Allah, and also not think of them as perilous or inimical but as your huggy-bear and glad-hander and source of spiritual consolation (They’re not dangerous! proclaimed the signs of Europeans welcoming boatloads of immigrants into their countries ).




(Parenthetically, Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch searched for the origin of the term Islamophobia; “My conclusion was that it had originated in Britain and had almost certainly been coined not by a Muslim but a pitifully dhimmified Jew, the “anti-racism” campaigner Richard Stone. He was one of the authors of a letter to the Guardian in 1994, which was the first recorded use I could find of the term.)




Quran (4:24) - "And all married women (are forbidden unto you) save those (captives) whom your right hands possess." Allah even permitted Muhammad and his men to have sex with married slaves, such as those captured in battle.




It continues: And also forbidden to you are all married women (muhsanat) except those women whom your right hands have come to possess (as a result of war). This is Allah's decree and it is binding upon you. But it is lawful for you to seek out all women except these, offering them your wealth and the protection of wedlock rather than using them for the unfettered satisfaction of lust. And in exchange of what you enjoy by marrying them pay their bridal-due as an obligation. But there is no blame on you if you mutually agree to alter the settlement after it has been made. Surely Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.




So,  Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, of Denmark, and Maren Ueland, of Norway, were “taken in war” against the infidels. They were likely gang-raped (there were at least three Muslims who attacked them) before having their throats cut, while one of them was beheaded. “Allah wills it,”  one of the men said on the video. “In the video, the perpetrators can be heard saying the murders were revenge for air strikes carried out by Western bombing missions in war-torn  Syria .  “This is for Syria, here are the heads of your Gods,' a man can be heard saying, as well as 'this is in revenge for our brothers in Hajin.“




Horrific images showing one of the murdered Scandinavian tourists being beheaded in Morocco have been sent to a victim's mother, it has emerged. 




ISIS fanatics gloated about the killing of Dane Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, and Norwegian Maren Ueland, 28, by spreading the gruesome footage on social media.




The clip, in which a suspected ISIS terrorist shouts “Allah's will,” was also sent to friends of Ms Jespersen via 'private messenger', it has been claimed.




Here is a selection of Koranic verses that should give you a taste of Allah’s “mercy.” Allah makes Negan, the super villain of The Walking Dead, look like a wussified amateur or a kindly parish priest.




4:89: “They wish that you should disbelieve as they disbelieve, and then you would be equal; therefore take not to yourselves friends of them, until




5:33: “This is the recompense of those who fight against Allah and His Messenger, and hasten about the earth, to do corruption there: they shall be slaughtered, or crucified, or their hands and feet shall alternately be struck off; or they shall be banished from the land. That is a degradation for them in this world; and in the world to come awaits them a mighty chastisement.”




5:38: “And the thief, male and female: cut off the hands of both, as a recompense for what they have earned, and a punishment exemplary from Allah; Allah is All-mighty, All-wise.”




8:12: “When thy Lord was revealing to the angels, ‘I am with you; so confirm the believers. I shall cast into the unbelievers’ hearts terror; so smite above the necks, and smite every finger of them!'”




8:39: “Fight them, till there is no persecution and the religion is Allah’s entirely; then if they give over, surely Allah sees the things they do.”




8:60: “Make ready for them whatever force and strings of horses you can, to terrify thereby the enemy of Allah and your enemy, and others besides them that you know not; Allah knows them. And whatsoever you expend in the way of Allah shall be repaid you in full; you will not be wronged.”




 9:5: “Then, when the sacred months are drawn away, slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them, and confine them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they repent, and perform the prayer, and pay the alms, then let them go their way; Allah is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.”




No critique of Islam would be complete without mentioning its quest to impose Sharia on all people, regardless of or in opposition to one’s religion, FMG (female genital mutilation), honor killing, and misogyny. Islam seeks to make life as miserable as possible by force or by deception.





A hairless Allah in his (her) Halloween mode.


Beware of the dog. The illiterate, psychopathic Mohammad is quite verbose, as most super villains are.



 Above is Annie Jones, a circus sideshow freak. P.T. Barnum was her “prophet. But you can also imagine Allah as Casper the Friendly Ghost in his (or her) Halloween

The Red Thread

There is more blatant corruption, sniveling conspiracy,  and underhanded intrigue revealed in Diana West’s new book, The Red Thread , than in the Kevin Spacey version of The House of Cards, which ran on Netflix from 2013 to 2018. The actors behind the attempted coup against Donald Trump, however, are bland, nondescript nonentities and mediocrities  -- James Comey, John Brennan, Christopher Steele, Nellie and Bruce Ohr, Reinhold Niebuhr (Who!?!!), the Kramer brothers, Bill Browder and his family, and a passel of others, none of them engaging actors, able to credibly project the immorality and  villainy of their characters.



None of them is a Frank or Claire Underwood, though their insatiable hunger for power and control is not fictional and their appetite for power nearly cost this country the 2016 election. And the one character in the series I detested the most in House of Cards was Doug Stamper, Frank's loyal assistant, "researcher," gofer, arranger, blackmailer, and Mafia-like enforcer.  




They don’t exude or broadcast evil or show any tell-tale signs of duplicity, malice, or a drooling unquenchable appetite for power or a penchant for lying and deceit. They’re about as average-looking as anyone you’d have to wait in line behind at a Wal-Mart check-out. We’re not dealing here with Jack-and-the Beanstock monsters, nor with Leviathans or Behemoths. But rather with a swarm of human termites.




The full title of West’s book is The Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy.  Red Threads could be said to be an overture to West’s other knock-em-flat title, American Betrayal (reviewed by me twice (https://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/2013/06/our-enemy-inside-gates.html

https://edwardcline.blogspot.com/2017/04/our-enemy-inside-gates-revisited.html),  is a much longer work that details the rise of Communist influence in the U.S. in the 1930s and during the FDR years.









 “Disinganno,” by Francesco Quierolo, 

marble, Naples, 1754




West found the “drivers” of these conspirators. It took hard work and meticulous and truth-respecting research. On the other hand, given the globalist color of the “investigation” of Donald Trump, the drivers weren’t hard to find.  The information was there but not so hard to grasp. The principal driver was Communism and/or a concomitant hatred and malice for Trump as a threat  to the conspirators’ desire for the status quo. Diana West can be said to be our Francesco Queirolo, the Genoese creator of the 18th century marble sculpture, Release from Deception, which shows a man being freed from an entangling fisherman's net.





In December 2017, Fox News’ James Rosen broke a pair of stories about a most intriguing married couple, Nellie and Bruce Ohr.




Nellie, we learned, worked as a Russian expert for Fusion GPS, a private research firm that was a nexus of covert pro-Hillary/anti-Trump operations. The firm’s most famous [or notorious] product (brackets mine)  is the set of 16 memos known as the Steele dossier, named for its purported author, retired British intelligence officer, Christopher Steele…[t]his Steele dossier was secretly funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, which had funneled payments to Fusion GPS via the law firm Perkins Cole. (p. 3)


 



Nellie’s father, Richard L. Hauke, was a botany professor. His listed works are mainly scientific, but his biographical notes highlight more political interests in creationism, bioethics, and, circa 1983-1985, “nuclear winter.”

 

Nellie’s husband, Bruce Ohr, was a top official at the Justice Department, which was also, as we learned, a nexus of covert Hillary\Trump operations. In his story, Rosen reported that Bruce had been demoted prior to the stoy’s publication for his failure to disclose his wife’s employment with Fusion GPS and his contacts with Steele both before and after the 2016 action...





It is tempting to skip over much of Ohr’s academic history, but much of what West learned is pertinent to understanding the threads she reveals., especially in relation to the Steele dossier.  This is also true about the other principal subjects; Comey, Brennan, et al.




Nellie graduated from Harvard-Radcliffe with a B.A. in Russian history and literature in 1983. While at Harvard, she met Bruce Ohr, her future husband, who would go on to graduate from Harvard Law School in 1987. While her professor father was mulling “nuclear winter,” Harvard Professor Richard Pipes, a well-known scholar of Survival Not Enough: Soviet Realities and America’s Future. In the book…he thanks his assistant, Nellie Hauke for her “dedicated work.”  Not only was Pipes a prominent anti-communist on Harvard’s senior faculty, he had just completed a stint on Ronald Reagan’s National Secuirity Council as Director of East European and Soviet Affairs. Was young Nellie breaking with her family’s political traditions?




 West remarked, "Highly doubtful..."(p. 6)






James Comey is as much a  crooked piece of work as is Robert Mueller., the “special counsel” investigating Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia to secure the 2016 election.  His “moral compass” is a theologian, Reinhold Niebuhr, basically unknown to us today. Wikipedia has this information on him and the description of him fits West’s thread:




Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) was an American Reformed theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor at Union Theological Seminary for more than 30 years…. A public theologian, he wrote and spoke frequently about the intersection of religion, politics, and public policy, with his most influential books including Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man …. Starting as a minister with working-class sympathies in the 1920s and sharing with many other ministers a commitment to pacifism and socialism, his thinking evolved during the 1930s to neo-orthodox realist theology as he developed the philosophical perspective known as Christian realism…. Niebuhr's contributions to political philosophy include utilizing the resources of theology to argue for political realism. His work has also significantly influenced international relations theory, leading many scholars to move away from idealism and embrace realism.[25] A large number of scholars, including political scientists, political historians, and theologians, have noted his influence on their thinking. Aside from academics, numerous politicians, and activists such as former US Presidents Barack Obama[26] and Jimmy Carter;[27] Myles Horton, Martin Luther King Jr., Hillary Clinton, Hubert Humphrey, Dean Acheson, James Comey, Madeleine Albright, and John McCain have also cited his influence on their thought.[… Recent years have seen a renewed interest in Niebuhr's work, in part because of Obama's stated admiration for Niebuhr.




Comey the “Christian” realist, after investigating Hillary Clinton’s basement server, and finding that it violated national security, hoving on or  near treason, decided that the most “realist” thing to do was  to not  indict her. She was extremely “careless,” averred  Comey, but not “criminal.”








West writes:




The key to Comey seems to be the constant in his intellectual life: Reinhold Niebuhr.  Whether as a college Communist studying Niebuhr in the Reagan years, a top Republican appointee to the Bush Justice Department, , or a post-Republican, an ex-FBI Director fired by Trump, James Comey has consistently attested to Niebuhr’s deep influence on his thinking….




Niebuhr was a prominent, militant member of the Socialist Party (1930-1940), publicly well-known of his Marxist “ideas and approaches”…including “social ownership” of property, the use of violence to bring about political change, and his membership in over one dozen Communist organizations, including in leadership positions, which advanced the Kremlin line. …(p. 41)




In 1941, Niebuhr, with 16 co-authors, signed on to “A Declaration of World Democracy” in The City of Man, a slim volume pointing to the Constitution’s repeal. Certainly, the Bill of Rights had to go – or be tied, the authors write, to a “Bill of Duties” and supplemented by a Bill of Economic Rights.” To wit: “But the Bill of Rights pledging that no private property shall be ‘taken for public use without just compensation ‘ must be supplemented with a Bill of Duties stating that no private property can be tolerated outside the framework of just social use.” (p. 44)




West makes it obvious, in discussing Comey’s moral roots, that one of his principal drivers was the activism of a Leftist theologian.



Finally, on Comey, the dillitante and practitioner of Niehuhrian Pragmatism, West quotes from Comey's college thesis, to underscore his conviviality with the conspirators:




However, it is wrong for the Christian [Niebuhr writes] “to regard every political decision as simply derived from our faith. This is a wrong answer because political issues deal with complex problem of justice, every solution for which contains  morally ambiguous  elements. All political positions are morally ambiguous because in the realm of politics  and economics, self-interest and power must be harnessed and beguiled rather than eliminated. In other words, forces that are dangerous  must be used despite their peril….{Emphasis added}




No, writes West, “in other words, “the ends justify the means. Pre-exonerating Hillary Clinton in the FBI investigation of her unsecured server – and failing to conduct the required damage assessment of the security breach – is really nothing on the Niebuhr-Comey spectrum of amoral possibility. …It is the duty of a Christian in politics to have no specific “Christian politics." (p. 47)




Nor is it anything which Comey, Niebuhr, and the anti-Trump conspirators ever much chewed their nails over.








While West provides us with a cornucopia of  clues to the moral “back story” of each these creatures, I couldn’t pass up this gem, which I’d read in unconfirmed reports of before, but West confirms it: Former CIA director John Brennan converted to Islam.








In the post Labor-Day-stretch of the 2016 campaign, …Brennan began to unravel his own red thread. It went back four decades to the Ford-Carter presidential contest in 1976, when, as a 21yeear old Fordham University political science major, John Brennan decided to vote for Communist Party USA boss Gus Hall. Lenin School graduate, U.S. convicted revolutionary and, by 1976, a Soviet puppet for nearly five decades…




Brennan was CIA director then he exploded this CP bombshell during a September 16, 2016, panel discussion of “diversity  in the intelligence community.” Given that the CIA was organized to help stop Communist expansion abroad, what better defines “diversity” in its ranks than hiring a 1976 supporter of expanding communism in this country ? Not much – except perhaps elevating John Brennan to direct the flagship agency in an era of resurgent jihad . accordingly to  fomer FBI special agent and Islam subject-matter expert John Guandolo and former CIA chief of station Brad Johnson. Brennan was the target of a successful Saudi intelligence operation to convert him to Islam during Brennan’s stint, circa 1996, as CIA station chief  in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. As Guandolo has stated: “The facts of the matter are confirmed by U.S. government officials  who were in Saudi Arabia the same time.




This is the same Brennan who protested Donald Trump cancelling Brennan’s security clearance.








Diana West concludes her mesmerizing expose’  with:




While still a work in progress, I hope this study recalibrates our focus on events. The anti-Trump conspiracy is not about Democrats and Republicans. It is not about the ebb and flow of political power, lawfully and peacefully transferred. It is about globalists and nationalists, just as the president says. They are locked in the old and continuous Communist/anti-Communist struggle, and fighting to the end, whether  We, the anti-Communists, recognize it or not.




I pray we recognize it.


As she intimated here: More to come. Stay tuned.

Codifying Islamophobia

Islam is what I say it is! It
says so right here!





A law code or legal code, is a type of legislation that purports to exhaustively cover a complete system of laws or a particular area of law as it existed at the time the code was enacted, by a process of codification. Though the process and motivations for codification are similar in different common law and civil law systems, their usage is different.

In a civil law country, a code of law typically exhaustively covers the complete system of law, such as civil law or criminal law.




 Britain is fatally infected by Islam. Bill Warner, founder of the Center for the Study of Political Islam, tells how.




The subject is the 72-page All-Party Parliamentary Group’s  Islamophobia Defined.; Warner stresses that in it Islamophobia is not defined. The legal beagles of Britain in every district have been ordered to weigh in on the meaning and ramifications of “Islamophobia” with the aim of not only banning it at the behest of resident Muslims, but recommending punishments for its expression . Warner also stresses that no definition of Islamophobia has been settled or what the term means by definition, nor what Islam is.




Warner says, “It is whatever the Muslims say it is.”




The purpose of the Group is:




To combat Islamophobia by investigating the forms, manifestations and extent of prejudice, discrimination and hatred against Muslims in the UK, while reviewing legislation and policy, the recording and prosecution of hate crimes, the role of the media, and the use of social media platforms as a means for spreading hatred.




Nor does the Koran, the Hadith, or the Sunna occur in the document.  Experts, activists, and Islamophobia “victims are all cited in the paper, except for Allah and Mohammad. Neither does it distinguish between Islam and Muslims.




“Muslims are people, Islam is a doctrine.”




Warner notes that 94% of British Muslims say that Islam is compatible with the British way of life. How can that be? he asks.  But wife beating is against British law, whereas Islam condones it in the Koran, the Hadith, and the Sunna.  It is a key element of the Shania.




Islamophobia causes harm, if it offends Muslims.




An Islamic “expert” states that Islamophobia is racist, it is bigoted, it causes Muslims harm, suffering, or hurt feelings. Warner makes the same point as I’ve made elsewhere, that Islamophobia has no metaphysical power to physically harm anyone. It has the potency of the term “jerk” or “doofus.”




The Group paper does not argue against freedom of speech. It upholds freedom of speech, as long as the speech or written word not against Islam or Muslims, or critical of it.




“This is all about Muslimology, a social study.  It’s all about opinion, not fact. They see it as a pure social construct….Islamophobia is rooted in racism that targets Muslimness or perceived Muslimness.  I didn’t know that Muslimness was a word.  But it is now.”




Justice to the Muslims means bringing punishment to the Islamophobes.




The document even states that all the U.K. is Islamophobic….that the entire society is Islamophobic. They say that arguments over freedom of speech is “subtle racism.” They also add that to say that Islam it not a race, is a racist argument.




“This document is purely subjective, instead of being objective. The term Muslim is used in virtually every paragraph, but Islam rarely. This whole paper is about victimology.”




“Everything that’s right wing is negative, and not one leftist organization is bad. All suffering and shortfalls in the U.K. caused by Islamophobia. Nothing that Muslims do is bad. This is an elitists document that attempt to limit free speech while saying that we don’t want to limit free speech. This is all globalist, elitist talk. It’s all about feelings, Muslims’ feelings.”




The Group document cites “one ‘expert’ after another, but not Allah or Mohammad. Not one fact about Islam is cited.”




“Everyone gets free speech, but Muslims can’t be offended. This is some kind of pseudo science that depends on surveys. Islam is said to be purely religious and without fault. There is some mention of the ‘Other,’ but never mentionsthe Kaffir.”




Warner says that this is a strategic totalitarian plan. They want to make Islamophobia a crime, and wants to make it a crime to say anything that offends Muslims’ feelings. Facts are irrelevant, and blasphemy laws are enforced by the State. Everyone in Britain becomes a dhimmi. This whole  document is a vast lie.




“Out of the 21 members of Parliament listed in this document, 14 are Muslim, 2/3rds of them. If you want Islam to be a jihadist document, you ask a jihadi Muslim. If you want it to be peaceful, you ask a peaceful Muslim.  In short, Islam will be whatever the 14 members want it to be.”







Jihad Watch reported on December 4th that U.K. Muslims

“demand criminalization of “Islamophobic” “racism” that targets their “Muslimness.”




Muslims in the UK are demanding full legal protection from “Islamophobia,” and the definition of “Islamophobia” has finally been articulated:




Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness.




There are already hate crime laws in the UK:

A hate crime can include verbal abuse, intimidation, threats, harassment, assault and bullying, as well as damage to property




What exactly are the Muslim Council of Britain and other Muslim groups seeking that is not already covered by British law?




Another site, reports on Islamophobia being regulated on or banned from the Internet. Jonahtan Turley , on October 5th reported, “Britain Moves to criminalize  extremist material on the Internet.”

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For years, civil libertarians have warned that Great Britain has been in a free fall from the criminalization of speech to the expansion of the surveillance state.  Now the government is pursuing a law that would make the repeated viewing of extremist Internet sites a crime punishable to up to 15 years in prison.  It appears that the government is not satiated by their ever-expanding criminalization of speech. They now want to criminalize even viewing sites on the Internet.  As always, officials are basically telling the public to “trust us, we’re the government.”  UK home secretary Amber Rudd is pushing the criminalization of reading as part of her anti-radicalization campaign . . . which turns out to be an anti-civil liberties campaign….




Prime Minister Theresa May has previously called for greater government control of the Internet.  Now, the government not only would make reading material on the Internet a crime, but would not necessarily tell you what sites will be deemed the ultimate click bait.  Rudd told a Conservative Party conference that she wants to crackdown on people “who view despicable terrorist content online”….




But,  whose government? Pakistan’s?

Nazism vs. Islam?

Hitler as Mohammad

On one of my blogs for Bizarro World a reader asked: Which is worse? Nazism or Islam?  It was a silly question. I answered:




To a victim, it wouldn't matter which was worse: Nazism or Islam. The question would be as irrelevant as asking a victim which side of his brain would he would want forcibly amputated?




You're asking someone to put a quantifier or a measure or degree of horror on evil. It's a straw man. Islam has murdered millions over 14 centuries, the Nazis and the Soviets far fewer millions in far less time, but whatever quantity of victims one arrives at is arbitrary. They're both ideologies whose premises command and require that they kill. It's obedience or death, with no alternatives.




Remember what happened to rebellious Randall  McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest? In the end he was lobotomized by the mental hospital. That's what Nazism and Islam want to do to unbelievers: lobotomize them so that they no longer are self-motivated individuals moving and acting for their own reasons and ends, are no longer aware of  but to serve the state or the caliphate as a selfless, soulless automatons, or die. It’s an issue of conquering the mind, of derogating one’s values, of voluntarily dismissing one’s values in favor of being allowed to live and paying for the “benevolence” of one’s oppressors (paying jizya).




Islam demands that men abandon their values for the Allah-prescribed value of conformity, and to regard him (it?) as the end-all and be-all of everything that matters. Islam demands of believers unqualified, unquestioning adoration and deference.




Neither Nazism nor Islam seeks agreement with its tenets, but requires mindless obedience. They do not demand thought, but submission.  Which is what Islam means.




From my “Inculcates” column I noted:




I think that one of the most spectacular dramatic demonstrations of tribalism is the film version of The Godfather (Parts I and II). Except for the concretes, fundamentally there is not much difference between the tribal code of the Corleones and their gangs and that of the Islamic Ummah.




Muslims worship Allah without reservation or question, and sanctify its “prophet,”  Mohammed, in defiance of his reputation as a criminal and a butcher. One must learn the hard way that to emphasize Mohammed’s record or “rap sheet” to a Muslim is a futile enterprise in persuasion; the minds of most Muslims mind are anti-conceptual and proof against any argumentation or evidence. To dwell on Mohammed’s record of criminality, its revelation,  is regarded as blasphemy and as an insult. The average non-violent Muslim is a tribalist and anti-conceptual mentality to the core. There is no such thing as an individualist Muslim. There are only countless reifications of zeroes, or vessels or clones of non-thought.




Ayn Rand wrote about tribalism:




Tribalism (which is the best name to give to all the group manifestations of the anti-conceptual mentality) is a dominant element in Europe, as a reciprocally reinforcing cause and result of Europe’s long history of caste systems, of national and local (provincial) chauvinism, of rule by brute force and endless, bloody wars. As an example, observe the Balkan nations, which are perennially bent upon exterminating one another over minuscule differences of tradition or language. Tribalism had no place in the United States—until recent decades. It could not take root here, its imported seedlings were withering away and turning to slag in the melting pot whose fire was fed by two inexhaustible sources of energy: individual rights and objective law; these two were the only protection man needed.




… What are the nature and the causes of modern tribalism? Philosophically, tribalism is the product of irrationalism and collectivism. It is a logical consequence of modern philosophy. If men accept the notion that reason is not valid, what is to guide them and how are they to live?

Obviously, they will seek to join some group—any group—which claims the ability to lead them and to provide some sort of knowledge acquired by some sort of unspecified means. If men accept the notion that the individual is helpless, intellectually and morally, that he has no mind and no rights, that he is nothing, but the group is all, and his only moral significance lies in selfless service to the group—they will be pulled obediently to join a group. But which group? Well, if you believe that you have no mind and no moral value, you cannot have the confidence to make choices—so the only thing for you to do is to join an unchosen group, the group into which you were born, the group to which you were predestined to belong by the sovereign, omnipotent, omniscient power of your body chemistry.




This, of course, is racism. But if your group is small enough, it will not be called “racism”: it will be called “ethnicity.”









Mein Kampt is a Mideast best-seller

James Lewis on American Thinker made this salient observation about children’s irrational behavior:




….Social scientists have taken a serious look at emotional “regression,” as it’s called, because it shows grownups falling back into infantile rage and “splitting.”  Mature coping includes problem-solving in the real world, and also rationalizing one’s emotions and working out personal issues through the arts and work.  Nobody was ever killed by rationalization, or by the arts and music.




…Regressive people live in a kind of nightmare, like infants in the Terrible Twos, switching between fits of rage and demanding love and worship.  Normal parents start to wonder what they did wrong, but it’s not they; it’s the kid going through a phase.

The Harvard psychiatrist Georges Vaillant ran in-depth studies of the emotional defenses.




Humans can grow up to become balanced and reality-based adults, or they can become infantile and primitive. 




The Democrats and the MSM have chosen the latter course, as is apparent in their actions and statements taken against Donald Trump. They go into fits of rage against his actions and policies, and at the same time expect that the electorate “love” them.  Muslims, as a rule, submit from childhood through adulthood to a primitive ideology (an ideology that requires no proof of anything and does not tax their cognitive capacities, or ability or willingness to think) and the pronouncements of a recidivist rogue and career killer.




See my  2016 articles, “Islam Inculcates Criminality” and “The Collectivist Mentality of Muslims.”

Bizarro World

The Legion of Doom - or Congress, Bizarro World

I thought it would be amusing, or at least instructive, to portray – and detail – the absurdities prevalent in today’s information environment and how they are rooted of the Bizarro World. The absurdities occur in Islam and in the actions of the Democratic Party.




Bizarro World was for a short time a hit comic book series published by DC Comics, in which everything was backward and the world was not a globe but a cube.




In the Bizarro world of "Htrae", society is ruled by the Bizarro Code which states "Us do opposite of all Earthly things!  Us hate beauty!  Us love ugliness! Is big crime to make anything perfect on Bizarro World!" In one episode, for example, a salesman is doing a brisk trade selling Bizarro bonds: "Guaranteed to lose money for you".  Later, the mayor appoints Bizarro No. 1 to investigate a crime, "Because you are stupider than the entire Bizarro police force put together". This is meant and taken as a great compliment.  




Bizarro World was intended to be a joke or a parody. Language and meaning were in effect reversed in meaning. Up meant down, while Go!, Come Back! etc. mean the opposite.




The salesman is profiting somehow from selling bonds that lose money? Wouldn’t he instead lose money by Bizarro World’s standards? Wouldn’t that be a mark of virtue? Everything that is done and said in Bizarro World depends on the rational epistemology of the reader.




But then you look at Islam, which to pretend “journalists,” continues to be a “Religion of Peace,” even though its massacres, murders, rapes, and crimes are innumerable over the course of 1,400 years. 




The House of Representatives has become its own Bizarro World, with the majority in it having said they will endorse  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “New Green Deal.”




Socialist wonderkind Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest female Congressional rep in history, says "The world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change."




A minimally “optimistic” forecast about the success of the New Green Deal in Congress by Business in Insider indicates that:




Ocasio-Cortez has succeeded in generating enthusiasm for a Green New Deal, with 92% of Democrats and 64% of Republicans supporting such a plan, according to one survey. But it's unlikely the resolution will pass in the House, let alone in the Republican-controlled Senate.




Nancy Pelosi said to Joy Reid of MSNBC about Tlaib’s foul language concerning Donald Trump:




“I probably have a generational reaction to it…But in any event.  I’m not in the censorship business.”




Pelosi added that she wouldn’t have used that language but that it was “nothing worse than the president has said.”




This was in reponse to Rep.  Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) regarding impeaching President Trump.




“Baby, they don’t,” Tlaib said she told her son, before adding, “because we’re gonna go in there, we’re gonna impeach the mother  f***er.”




Pelosi said her reaction to Tlaib’s statement was “generational,” implying that she was “old fashioned,” excusing herself by citing an irrelevancy.




Tlaib is an unapologetic anti-Semite who is opposed to Israel and its existence. She was appointed to the House Foreign Affairs Committee by Pelosi, who will not remove her. The Committee regularly discusses aid for Israel.  Pelosi knows the nature of Tlaib, Cortez, and IIlhan Omar




 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s statement on world ending in 12 years, and other bizarre statements.






The Speaker of the Bizarro House

A minimally “optimistic” forecast about the success of the New Green Deal in Congress by Business in Insider indicates that:




Ocasio-Cortez has succeeded in generating enthusiasm for a Green New Deal, with 92% of Democrats and 64% of Republicans supporting such a plan, according to one survey. But it's unlikely the resolution will pass in the House, let alone in the Republican-controlled Senate.




In the meantime, not allowing Tlaib and  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez  to steal the thunder, hijab-happy Omar, uttered her own controversial statement about Jews and Israel, and was appointed by Pelosi to the House Foreign Affairs Committee:




Last month, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) promoted Omar to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, despite controversy about Omar’s past antisemitic rhetoric and her radical anti-Israel foreign policy views.




House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said last week he would “take action” to discipline the two, although it’s unclear what he could do to them.




Trying to sound “hip,” In response, Omar tweeted: “It’s all about the Benjamins baby” — slang for large sums of our currency. [Referring to the $100 dollar bill, with its picture of Benjamin Franklin)




Then, in response to another Twitter posting questioning who Omar “thinks is paying American politicians to be pro-Israel,” the congresswoman answered “AIPAC!” — the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a powerful lobby that organizes conferences and congressional trips. (As the New York Times notes, AIPAC does not contribute to political campaigns.)




So, here we are in Congress’s Bizarro World. In  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s world, the world would be a cube, not a globe, and the campaign to destroy the U.S. would be regarded as a positive. However, the whole concept of a world that works backward is an “unworkable” absurdity as it is a contradiction of everything that is. A “positive” can’t be achieved by accomplishing a “negative.”  In George Owell’s 1984 terms, this is “double think.” It is contradictory. But this contradiction is a living thing and wholly reflects the Marxist dialectic. And  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is definitely a Marxist. Omar and Tlaib are hateful anti-Semitics.




See my column “The Weird Sisters of Congress” from January 24, and “Everything Wrong with Congress,” from January 22.  

Pre-dawn Visits by Officer Friendly and Friends

RobertMueller is Bullwinkle

Or the predawn raid on Roger Stone.




It was straight out of a poorly shot, badly lighted B-grade espionage movie starring Tom Cruise, except that the “star” was Roger Stone.




29 heavily armed FBI agents, a hovering, armed helicopter, frogmen in an amphibious assault boat in the canal behind his house, an armored troop carrier, a battering ram, and police vehicles with flashing lights, appeared on January 31st at Roger Stone’s Fort Lauderdale, Florida, residence to arrest Roger Stone on orders from Robert Mueller,  via Christopher Wray, director of the FBI.




As I have remarked elsewhere on various reports of the raid, the FBI came loaded for bear, as though they were expecting a fierce counter attack by Sitting Bull or Geronimo with ten thousand Indians ready to put up a furious fight and descend en masse on the hapless agents with war clubs, tomahawks, and scalping knives.




Or, rather, instead, they were there to  arrest El Chapo’s twin brother, or another Mexican drug kingpin with massive firepower to resist arrest.




The manpower employed to arrest an unarmed 66-year-old man was ludicrous and would be comic if it weren’t a harbinger of the police state tactics employed by Mueller, tactics used to capture and kill Osama Bin Laden. Many commentators state that the force used by the FBI in the Stone raid is a “take no risks” standard when agents are assigned to arrest a particularly dangerous or pawn-rich person, such as Roger Stone.




After all, Stone is a closet Nazi, the MSM want to believe, and he and Trump daily practice John Cleese’s mockery of Nazis on Fawlty Towers.




But the FBI – and Mueller – must have known in advance Stone’s age and the fact that he owned no weapon of any kind.




Why was it important to “grand stand” Stone’s “capture” and arrest? Judge Andrew P. Napolitano explains why in his column in the Jewish World Review:




Stone has been both a paid formal adviser and an unpaid informal adviser to Trump for 40 years. He was fired from Trump's presidential campaign during the summer of 2015, but he continued to work on his own to help Trump defeat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. Some of that help — according to the government — involved the release of embarrassing Clinton emails that had probably been hacked by Russian agents.




Last Thursday, one of special counsel Robert Mueller's grand juries indicted Stone on five counts of lying to Congress, one count of witness intimidation and one count of obstruction of justice. His Gestapo-like arrest followed his indictment by just a few hours.




Stone was represented by counsel throughout the time of his testimony before Congress last year. He was the recipient of grand jury subpoenas for his text messages, his emails and other records — all of which, through his counsel, he surrendered. He claims that when asked by members of the House Intelligence Committee about certain aspects of these, he innocently forgot about them. Who could remember each of 1 million texts and emails?




In the real world — where the influence of politics into law enforcement is kept to a harmless minimum — defense counsel is generally known to prosecutors throughout their investigation of a target. According to Stone, federal prosecutors have known for a year who his lawyers are. Also in the real world, when a defendant has been indicted for a nonviolent crime, has no criminal record and is not a flight risk or an imminent danger to society, prosecutors inform defense counsel of the indictment, send the defense counsel a copy of it and request the peaceful and dignified surrender of the indicted person.




In the current, unreal world — where politics deeply infuse law enforcement — prosecutors use brute force to send a message of terror to innocent defendants. Like all defendants at the time of arrest, Stone is innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.




But what crime is he guilty or innocent of beyond a reasonable doubt?




What message does brute force send? It is a message of terror, and it has no place in American life. As if to add embarrassment to terror, the feds may have tipped off CNN, which carried all this live in real time.





And the message of terror in this instance is dictated by Robert Mueller, in connivance with Christopher Wray. The recording of the arrest is owned by CNN, who just happened to be at the arrest scene, because CNN’s “gut” told it that something was going to happen at Stone’s residence. The “gut” has a name: Mueller and the FBI, who wanted a visual record that the FBI was obeying orders to humiliate Stone and warn others that this is what in store for anyone who defies Robert Mueller.






As sly and calculating as Trump?

Stone said to Laura Ingraham on her show:





"The truth of the matter is, if you read my book, "Stone’s Rules," I believe when you're falsely accused of something, and you say nothing, you say no comment, or Roger Stone was unavailable, most Americans assume you are guilty."




"The whole purpose of this over-the-top raid on my house, in which they sent in more men than were used to protect our compound in Benghazi, was to paint a picture of me coming to poison a jury pool as public enemy number one," Stone said.




The point here, is that Stone likely set up Mueller, not vice versa. He waited for Mueller to trigger his razzle-dazzle mouse trap to “trap” him. And Mueller will get nothing, because Stone will not rat on Trump, nor invent cheese for Mueller to nibble on. And the special investigator will add another zero to his growing list of zeroes, except for all the indicted victims who had nothing to do with Russian collusion.

Islam in Congress

The three witches in the House: Omar, Tliab, and Alexandria Cortez

One grows jaded from reading  -- indeed, weary of – all the bad news one finds on the Internet or which cascades into one’s email. More knife attacks in the U.K., more rapes in Sweden and Germany, Islamic butchery in Morocco and Pakistan and Nigeria, of Islamic slaughters everywhere. And news of Western countries folding, ever so slightly, to the invasion and inroads of Islam.




Except for a few reality- centered souls – Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, Amil Imani, Katie Hopkins, and a scant paucity of other individuals – with access to the reading public , few other writers and thinkers and prominent persons will risk a blanket, public condemnation of Islam. This is especially true of members of Congress. To stand up and point fingers at Islam would invite charges of racism and attempts at suppressing freedom of speech, oppression of a "minority," even though Islam is gaining the status of a "protected" minority here (creeping Sharia), as it enjoys in the U.K. and on Continental Europe. I can't think of any politician with the moral or mental backbone to unapologetically cite Islam's totalitarian, fascist nature and its 14 centuries of bloodshed, conquest, and destruction.




Congress has been Islamisized. No one there dares stand up and say, “Islam is evil and is not ‘peaceful.”  Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, is friendly to the Muslimis, and has appointed them to powerful, influential committees,  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez  and Rashida Tlaib to the Financial Services Committee, and Omar to the Foreign Affairs Committee.




Voters (or illegal voters) elected them to office as representatives of their districts in the House of Representatives:  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14th district), Ilhan Omar (Minnesota-5th district), and Rashida Harbi Tlaib (Michigan – 13th district).  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez  is not a Muslim, but she is the newspaperman’s photogenic dream. She an agenda pal with Tliab and Omar. They all oppose, in varying degrees of vehemence, President Donald Trump, with the rest of the House.



Trump did it! said the witches.




Together, they are the “Weird Sisters” I identify in my Rule of Reason column of January 24th. Omar and Tliab are especially vitriolic in their hatred of Israel and in their anti-Semitic  fervor. Tliab insisted on being sworn in using the Koran (Thomas Jefferson’ copy, as though that would indirectly enlist him in Tliab’s cause or prove that she is not really anti-American), not a bible (the tradition). She also supports Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) and in general anti-Semitism, and is against economic sanctions Venezuela.  Neither of the three witches has anything to say about Hamas-Palestinian terrorism. And nothing of substance to say about Islamic jihad in this country and around the world. Their silence is deafening.




As if to underscore her own antipathy against Israel,




Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) appointed Omar to the House Foreign Affairs Committee earlier this month, despite her history of anti-Semitic rhetoric, her support for sanctions against Israel, and her radical foreign policy views in general. Omar and Tlaib can be counted on to argue against any support for Israel in that committee. Tlaib will become more vociferous about “Palestine” and rant on about the economic and political plight of Palestinians. Other members of either committee are woozy at best in their support of Israel, and will be hard-pressed to counter any anti-Israel offered by Omar or Tlaib.




This is consistent with her own brand of TMS (the Trump Derangement Syndrome) she not only still does not accept Hillary Clinton’s defeat, but her malice over the loss governs her every action in the House. Her hate-based, incurable paranoia has stressed the fact that she represents, to the public,  the House and the Dems in their rhetoric and actions to destroy Trump at any cost.




Pelosi’s malice predates Trump’s election victory. She told Kara Swisher in May of 2016, during a podcast, that she guaranteed that Trump would not win the 2016 election. "Donald Trump is not going to be President of the United States," Pelosi, then the Minority Leader in the House, said on the latest episode of Recode Decode.  “Take it to the bank, I guarantee it. Here today, gone tomorrow."



Hecate, as Nancy Pelosi, goddess of her witches




But Trump is still here, and will be here tomorrow. Pelosi’s failed hubris must have been a humiliating instance of snarkiness and confidence in her political prowess. And that of the MSM, as well.  And you can bet that the three witches –  Cortez, Omar, and Tlaib – under the direction of Pelosi as their Hecate – will pump up the volume of their own malice to drown out what few dissenters are in the House.  




CNN (known in the past as the Clinton News Network when Obama was in office) took its turn to bash President G. W. Bush. The “news” network partially succeeded in scotching his chances to be reelected (Obama won) and lost his party’s support, having to hand the White House and reins of power to Obama. 
The House of Representatives will be "magically" transformed into the House of Islam. Hecate and the witches will employ: 



"Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wing…



And perhaps a Jew's blood, if Omar and Tlaib can manage it.

How to Lose a Culture War

 How to Lose a Culture War



A guest column by Tom McCaffrey






The owner of a gym in Troy, Missouri recently asked army vet Jake Talbot not to wear his “Trump 2016” shirt to her gym in the future. The owner did so in response to complaints from other customers that the shirt made them feel “uncomfortable.”


It is all too common nowadays for graduates of our finer colleges to accord moral significance to their feelings, regardless of whether those feelings are objectively reasonable. You’re uncomfortable? Then clearly someone needs to alter his behavior. Reports say that some customers found the shirt “offensive” or “racist.”



That such judgments are preposterous is irrelevant in our brave new world of political correctness.


The culture warriors at Ms. Drew’s gym have won a small victory over President Trump’s America


What about the discomfort of Mr. Talbot at having to alter his dress at the whim of anonymous complainers? Also irrelevant. As a white male, Mr. Talbot has no say in the matter. Gym owner Liz Drew texted that she just wants “to ensure that all my members feel safe and unthreatened.” Threatened? By a shirt with our president’s name on it? Ms. Drew is well schooled in the lingo of the Left.



Will Ms. Drew now ban all expressions of political opinion, Republican and Democratic alike, from her customer’s garb? Perhaps, but Republicans are not in the habit of objecting to such things. To complain that a T-shirt makes one feel unsafe or threatened is strictly a leftist ploy. It is guerilla theater, probably learned in college, likely at taxpayers’ expense.



In this case, it is a way of giving effect to one’s moral evaluation of Donald Trump, and of imposing that evaluation on the deplorable Mr. Talbot. And it advertises to all involved that any right-minded, appropriately sensitive person should likewise be offended by the name “Trump” on a T-shirt.



Will Ms. Drew now prohibit her customers from wearing a crucifix around their necks, should someone complain? Will she ban the display of the American flag because it causes sensitive leftists to suffer the vapors? How soon before all the symbols and expressions of our great culture disappear from view, to be replaced by those of the brave new Left.


Such craven groveling before the gods of political correctness is now the rule among the putative guardians of Western civilization


Which brings us to Notre Dame president Rev. John Jenkins, who has announced that murals long on display at the campus depicting the life of Christopher Columbus will, in effect, be relocated to a place where “the darker side” of the Columbus story can accompany the murals.  Such craven groveling before the gods of political correctness is now the rule among the putative guardians of Western civilization.



The culture warriors at Ms. Drew’s gym have won a small victory over President Trump’s America, the America of individual rights, limited government, and private property. They can now claim the gym as “liberated” territory, liberated from the forces of patriarchy and “heteronormativity” and “white supremacy.” Credit where credit is due: the Left know how to win a culture war, one little patch of ground at a time.



If we don’t start contesting their every assault, and with a whole lot more moral conviction than the Reverend Jenkins has been able to summon, we shall soon find ourselves like the British at Dunkirk, with no more ground to surrender. And there will be no boats coming to rescue us.




Tom’s article first appeared in Canada Free Press on January 26th

Tom McCaffrey is the author of Radicalby Nature: The Green Assault on Liberty, Property, and Prosperity.

The Weird Sisters of Congress

The second witch chants:




By the pricking of my thumbs,

Something wicked this way comes.  (Macbeth, Act One, Scene One)




Wikipedia writes:




The Three Witches, also known as the Weird Sisters …are characters in William Shakespeare's play Macbeth (c. 1603–1607). They hold a striking resemblance to the three Fates of classical mythology, and are, perhaps, intended as a twisted version of the white-robed incarnations of destiny. The witches eventually lead Macbeth to his demise.




Hecate, the Greek goddess of witch craft, is the sponsor or “role model” for the weird sisters. Nancy Pelosi is her 21st century embodiment.  What goes on the House of Representatives:




Fair is foul, and foul is fair;

Hover through the fog and filthy air. (Act One, Scene One.




Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. (Act One, Scene One)




Substitute cauldron with MSM.




The first weird sister, an unrepentant Muslim and “Palestinian”, is the most vociferous and foul-mouthed of the new representatives in the House:




Rashida Harbi Tlaib




Is the loudest dog whistler, together with IIlan Omar (D-Mich), and chief spokeswoman for anti-Semitism. She is rapidly anti-Israel. On Thursday vowed to take on President Trump hours after she was sworn in to office, saying before a crowd of supporters, “We’re going to go in and impeach the mothef---er.”




The comments from Tlaib came hours after she was sworn in to Congress and on the same day she had an op-ed published in the Detroit Free Press calling for Trump's impeachment.










Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota)




The hijab-wearing Representative owns an unbridgled record of anti-Semitism.




Commentary remarked:








Freshman Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar trades in a primitive brand of anti-Semitism that’s almost unknown in this country, let alone in Congress. To recap, in 2012, she tweeted, “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.” Only last week, the Somali-born Omar defended her tweet during a CNN interview. That’s six years of remorseless bigotry.




But since that interview, someone must have convinced Omar that she needed to do some damage control. On Tuesday, she took to Twitter once again—this time, responding to the New York Times’ Bari Weiss, who wrote a column on Monday detailing Omar’s offense. Omar offered an apology of sorts for what she claimed was former ignorance.




“In all sincerity, it was after my CNN interview that I heard from Jewish orgs. that my use of the word ‘Hypnotize’ and the ugly sentiment it holds was offensive,” she wrote. “It’s now apparent to me that I spent lots of energy putting my 2012 tweet in context and little energy is disavowing the anti-Semitic trope I unknowingly used, which is unfortunate and offensive.”




She “unknowingly” offended Jews by saying that Israel hypnotized the world not to see its evil? Nonsense….”

 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez  (D-NY) allies herself with Omar and Tlaib, as another “Weird Sister.”Aside from her nuttiness and ill-thought-out pronouncements about what everyone “deserves,” she sounds like soft version of Joseph Stalin:






Sisters Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and IIhan Omar

Western Journal points out:




Far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ran on the same talking points championed by communist dictator Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union’s constitution.




Conservatives have long warned that the Democratic Party is slowly drifting too far left, and politicians like Ocasio-Cortez are living proof.




The 29-year-old representative from New York was elected in November despite her affiliation with the far-left Democratic Socialists of America, and one doesn’t even need to dig into her past to figure out that she’s a proponent of socialism.




The representative’s campaign website outlined her ridiculous talking points for the entire world to see: Government-guaranteed medical care, housing, education — even jobs.




It might sound like a liberal dream, but her platform takes on a disturbing reality when read side-by-side with the constitution of the Soviet Union.




The Soviet Union guaranteed the “right to health protection,” including “free, qualified medical care provided by state health institutions.”




Ocasio-Cortez’s platform supports “Medicare for all,” which includes “full vision, dental, and mental healthcare.”




The Soviet Union’s Constitution declared: “Citizens of the USSR have the rights to housing.”

 



As it turns out, Ocasio-Cortez also “believes that housing is a right,” according to her campaign website.




The Soviet Union declared the “right to education,” which was ensured by “free provision of all forms of education.”




One of Ocasio-Cortez’s biggest issues is a right to tuition-free higher education.




“It’s now time to expand our national education system to include tuition-free public college and trade school,” the website reads.




Daniel Greenfield on Front Page wrote about Omar’s dicey affiliations and out of the ballpark predictions:




After apologizing for claiming that Jews have hypnotized the world, she decided to jump on the Covington Catholic disaster with the worst possible hot take, by defending the black nationalist group involved in the confrontation.




Rep. Omar claimed that the students "were taunting 5 Black men". The actual video shows that the Black Israelite hate group, a racist and anti-Semitic movement, was doing the taunting.







Sisters  Kamala Harris and Rashida Harbi Tlaib





Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif. Stands with  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:




The Conservative Tribune and the Western Journal note that Harris:




…supports crippling environmental regulations, like the Paris climate deal, which would transfer huge amounts of money from the United States to countries like China and India while impacting our economy.







She’s …anti-border wall, having made comments hinting at dismantling Immigration and Customs Enforcement. On and on the list goes.




Nothing to see here. It’s all just Democratic Socialist pap.




All four Weird Sisters and Hecate are of the same raggedy cloth. But  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is 

going to be a movie star.  

Everything Wrong with Congress II

The Wicked Witch in 2010 and in 2019

As I posted in “Everything Wrong With Congress” on the 21st, the 16th Congress deserves its own critique. Here it goes.


Nancy Pelosi, in this fictive movie, “Collateral Damage,” would be shown enunciating everything that her radical left House endorses, or will work to condemn and eradicate: Produced by a special division from the U.S. Printing Office. Roll credits.




Toxic masculinity; White privilege; Russian collusion between Trump and Moscow, Trump’s obstructionism, that all Republicans are racists, that Socialism is beneficial, that taxation increases wealth, that the government creates wealth, that guns should be taken from all citizens, the legitimacy of LGBT and other gender ambiguous lifestyles, and that illegal aliens are natural American citizens and have the right to vote in American elections, even if they aren’t born here and got here by getting their shoes wet in the Rio Grande River.




The narrator of the video highlights  each of Pelosi’s points with visuals from the video with his own estimate, showing selections of Pelosi’s frenetic delivery with wildly waving hands; the narrator’s remarks are in parentheses:

…..toxic masculinity (responsible for all the rapes and murders of Americans committed by masculine illegal immigrants);

….White privilege (forces us to construe Shakespeare and the Constitution  and to master elementary mathematics and medicine, mathematics is deemed patriarchal);  

….Russian collusion (the ubiquitous bogyman hiding under the country’s bed, always there);

….Trump  obstruction (of every socialist program the Dems want legislated; Dems claim his obstructionism it is not “democratic”);

….Republicans are racist (you know a racist if he’s wearing a MAGA hat);

….Socialism is beneficial (it helps Venezuelans and Cubans appreciate doing with less, or with nothing); 




At the end of this clip Pelosi, after the applause has subsided, invites Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) to speak and awards her an unlimited time limit. She says, “I now urge the brilliant, future of our Party to give us a few words about what we need to do in this sacred chamber of the people.” (More applause as  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez makes her way to lectern.) She does not give us “a few words,” but rather a speech about as long as the first volume of Lenin’s collected works.





  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is shown addressing the House, and dwelling on these topics (narrator’s remarks in parentheses):




Taxation creates wealth (by taking from the fettered givers; taxing wealth at 70% will create a 125% increase of goods to redistribute to the needy);




Government shares wealth (by redistributing appropriated wealth to professional and career parasites);




LGBT (you can be whatever sex you feel like being, regardless of your genitalia and chromosomes; it’s a priority to establish this “new norm” aside from “getting” Trump);




Taking guns from citizens will stop criminals (not stopping them cold, which would be a violation of a criminal’s right to free movement and association; taking the citizen’s guns will leave citizens defenseless against criminals);




Illegal aliens help the economy (by boosting grape harvests and their government social benefits);




Global warming can be worsened or controlled by man (controlled by banning CO2 and aerosols and taxing cow flatulence, and by passing her “New Green Deal,” and worsened by ignoring a melting ice cap and making more cars and laughing off  her “New Green Deal”).






Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, witch, future head of the Dems

A member of the House interrupts Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and demands that she ask the Speaker about the value and extent of her Napa Valley estate.  Pelsosi  furiously hammers her extra large gavel (or mallet) and tells the member that he is out of order.  (The gavel, the narrator notes, was inscribed as a special “Welcome Home” gift to Pelosi from leading Dem House members.)




It was a short film but nonetheless very telling.