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We start fighting back by educating ourselves at places like Rantburg. We learn to identify journalistic spin, fallacious reletavismbe it moral or culturaland a host of other illegitimate argumentive techniques that must be derided and exposed for the frauds they are whenever they're thrust upon you.
Thank you Rantburg, for giving me the tools to fight even harder for our nation.
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I like the French approach: "France's minister of immigration and national identity, a new ministry created by President Nicolas Sarkozy, has ruled out legalizing undocumented immigrants en masse."
I was spanked, [Boston] City Councilor Sam Yoon announced at a recent meeting of the council at City Hall.
Dont worry. The City Council was not reaching new lows sharing lascivious S&M fantasies on the floor. Instead, councilors were discussing a resolution filed by City Councilor Felix Arroyo that would ban corporal punishment in the city of Boston - essentially making it illegal for parents to spank naughty children.
During the May 9th hearing of the City Council, Arroyo filed the resolution as part of a way to reduce violence by refraining from corporal punishment for children. Of course, Arroyo admitted that he, himself, had spanked some of my children. I did feel guilty after I did it, Arroyo said.
Arroyo explained the move by pointing at literature written by so-called child experts that states: Children who are hit or spanked are more prone to violence.
I dont know about most Herald readers, but I for one had more than a few wooden spoons busted off my butt as a child. And while my bosses might complain of my temper (such as threatening to stab an overzealous copy editor in the eye with a pen), they have yet to see me engage in actual bloodletting.
The corporal punishment inflicted on me as a kid, or even just threatened with six scary words that put the fear of God in me every time - Wait until your father gets home - never prompted me to bring a fully loaded .9 mm into my elementary school classroom. An 11-year-old boy in Boston was busted with that very weapon in March.
And while at age 15, I might have been on my way to being a handful for my poor parents, I never fired off a fusillade of bullets and then pointed a gun at the cops chasing me after the shots sounded, which is exactly what one teenage boy allegedly did last week in Dorchester.
Look what happened on Friday afternoon: a 14-year-old, thats right, 14, was arrested in Roxbury after he allegedly jabbed a 10-inch knife blade at his neighbor who had the audacity to ask him and his pals to move off the stairs in front of their home. Im going to kill you, the 14-year-old boy reportedly told the neighbor. Then he was cuffed by the BPD and charged with assault.
When I was 14, I wouldnt dare talk back even to an adult - for fear that my father would find out - never mind threaten them at knifepoint.
Sometimes a kid needs a good swift kick in the pants, City Councilor Steve Murphy said after opposing Arroyos resolution - the only councilor to do so from the floor during the hearing. Yoon, Chuck Turner and Charles Yancey signed on. The Boston City Council should not be telling parents their kid doesnt deserve a good kick in the pants, Murphy said.
Murphys right.
The City Council has no business trying to regulate parenting. The body has had enough trouble coming up with solutions to the overwhelming litter problem on Hub streets. Our time is better spent talking about issues more germane to city business, said City Councilor Michael Ross, who then added: I got my share of spankings.
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Yeah, this is about their speed. They're also pretty good at tax evasion, voting themselves pay raises, and goofy anti Bush foreign policy statements.
When teamed with America's first retarded mayor, my prediction a Detroit like future for the Cradle of Liberty looks better every day...
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A good friend of mine is a child psychiatrist. He says a good swat on the butt with the hand is an excellent discipline tactic, if not overdone. Having raised one abused child and now raising another, I know what happens when such "discipline" is abused, but he's right. A good swat at the right time to the seat of logic does wonders.
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Arroyo explained the move by pointing at literature written by so-called child experts that states: Children who are hit or spanked are more prone to violence.
It would seem that just the opposite is true. Schools and neighborhood are beset with more violence than ever before. These violence prone kids have grown up in a culture where there are no limits or consequences for any behavior.
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It staggers me that we do not prosecute people for treason. We may as well take that law off the books if it is never going to be enforced even when the evidence is blatantly available to the public.
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As FrontPage contributor Alyssa Lappen reported, Al-Ahram routinely features anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial, likens Israeli leaders to Nazis, and praises suicide bombings. Many Al-Ahram articles also liken the United States to Nazi Germany; portray American officials as war criminals; charge that the 9/11 attacks were in fact staged by the U.S. government; accuse the CIA and the Mossad (Israels intelligence agency) of having introduced the AIDS virus to Africa; claim that Jews had foreknowledge of the 9/11 plot and thus none of them were there [at the World Trade Center] on the day of the incident; and suggest that what happened to the Jews of Germany, Poland, and Russia, was justified because they [Jews] kindle the peoples hatred and hostility and, as a result, people turn against them.
Riiiiiight, no Holocaust occurred but what happened to the Jews of Germany, Poland, and Russia, was justified.
Al-Ahram is also a platform for Said disciple and Columbia University colleague Joseph Massad, an associate professor of modern Arab politics. In addition to his teaching duties, Massad is a contributing writer for Al-Ahram, where he recently condemned Americas alleged inherent misogyn[y] and violent racism, its predatory imperial ventures, and its unyielding sadism against those who have the misfortune of living under its occupation. According to Professor Massad, American fighter-bomber pilots have been known to spend hours watching [pr0n] films to get themselves in the right mood for the massive bombing they were about to carry out. Massad accuses U.S. soldiers of deriving perverse sexual pleasure from killing: Iraqis are posited by American super-masculine fighter-bomber pilots as women and feminized men to be penetrated by the missiles and bombs ejected from American warplanes.
Freud would have a field day with the obvious repression that literally oozes out of this guy's writing. Muslims have some really serious deep-seated issues that they enjoy taking out on helpless victims.
We need to expell those who intentionally distort facts and fabricate lies out of whole cloth. This sort of anti-Americanism is simply intolerable. If we cannot imprison such traitors they need to have their citizenship revoked.
Its not entirely my big idea, but Im willing to hang some tinsel on it and take credit for it.
First, a brief set-up, and then (and I will make an announcement in BOLD CAPS) comes the Big Idea.
Okay, the set-up:
Ive written a dozen or so major essays since I hung my shingle over this little corner of cyberspace, and received wonderful e-mails about all of them. But two the last two have generated a very specific response: more passionate; desperate, even.
The first was Tribes, which basically posited that there were people who relied on themselves and people who relied on the State. The second was Seeing the Unseen, which took a look at conspiracy theories and the mental illness required to believe in chemtrails and the 9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB pathology.
Those both generated reams and reams of heartfelt sentiment, and that sentiment was the much the same time and time again.
I thought I was all alone, people said. And I see this sense of despair and resignation spreading all across the web; from individuals in comment sections, or in lonely posts on obscure blogs.
Now heres whats interesting: this response is the same, again and again, although the stimulus is different. It might be increasing public irrationality and paranoia, or falling educational standards, or unchecked illegal immigration, or activist judges. Maybe its tolerance of crime, or endless lawsuits, or general mean-spiritedness. Perhaps its rampant defeatism, cynicism, a lack of common decency, and the sense that courage and honor are dying qualities that time is passing by.
And maybe its the dawning realization that our elites in politics, academia and entertainment (which controls our mythology) are leading the charge not to salvation but to the cliffs that seem so obvious to so many common people.
Something seems to be failing, something essential, as if all the nails and glue that hold a house together were dissolving all at once. And many people perhaps you are one of them watch all this happening and feel powerless to stop it.
Well, you are not alone.
So many stimuli, and always the same response: has the world gone mad?
It is apparent that almost all leftist propaganda is oriented toward undermining the logical strategy suggested in Bill's analysis: "cycle of violence" "fighting back only creates more terrorists" etc. At the same time, leftist cultural strategies are almost entirely directed toward minimizing their own accountability: "Amendment Zero" (the concept that leftists have a right to be immune to criticism and disagreement), historical revisionism, politically correct language codes, and so on.
I have maintained for some time that the current conflict is a surge point in human evolution, with all the evil and destructive forces in the
world seeming to coalesce on the same side.
The reason for this is that these forces embody traits that were acceptable or at least tolerable at some point in human history, but which have become threats to long term survival in the super-industrial age.
It was therefore inevitable that the incomparably powerful natural forces of evolutionary strategy would dictate that they be eliminated.
Come join the Gathering of Eagles, you will definitely not be alone!
DanNY
New York Coordinator
Gathering of Eagles
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I first read this in a Scientific American article years ago. Whittle's spot on in his analysis of the trajectory of destruction. I'm equally sure of his high level solution, but the implementation left me a bit disappointed: He's essentially positing a clone of Second Life, and the cost of the infrastructure needed to support the number of people on-line is going to be staggering. I've done some nosing around, and the infrastructure for Second Life is creaking at 10000 online.
But don't let me discourage you from reading the article. Its a thought provoker.
One of the things I love about the Internet is that I get instant, online feedback on everything I write, from people in the United States to Australia and India. Quite frequently, this brings me to reassess what I have initially written, either by adding new perspectives and ideas that I hadnt thought of at first or by stating more clearly what I mean. This Great Conversation is why the most interesting debates are frequently found in the blogosphere today. I have received so many impulses through this process from so many different individuals that it is not just modesty if I say that many of my essays should be considered as group efforts, with me as editor rather than sole writer.
A Finnish academic from the University of Helsinki read my essay about 21st century Communism, and was rather critical of my ideas, which she labelled an incredible mixture of ideological, political and scientific ignorance and misunderstanding.
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"There are so many ideas about Multiculturalism, and the author [Fjordman] treats them all as if they were one, without even referring to one coherent set of such ideas." This is not a valid criticism of Fjordman's essay but a rhetorical attempt to change the subject and amounts to 'begging the question'. 'Multiculturalism' is not a coherent set of ideas, just a mishmash of recycled Marxism/nihilism/transnational b.s./etc. I semi-agree with Fjordman's Finnish academic critic: Multiculturalism is an incredible mixture of ideological, political and scientific ignorance and misunderstanding.
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If one believes, as I do, that some cultures are superior to others, one could argue that by settling in another country, you have indirectly admitted that this country has a superior culture and should thus be required to adjust yourself to this culture, i.e. to assimilate.
Dangerous thinking in this Multicultural era. How dare Fjordman show such blatant disregard for the primacy of moral relativism?
It is true that if you cannot define your enemy, your criticism is bound to be vague. But this is part of my point: I, and numerous others with at least average intelligence, have spent a considerable amount of time trying to analyze the doctrines of Multiculturalism. We have found this to be quite challenging, precisely because it is vague, incoherent and doesnt have any clear philosophical foundation. Multiculturalism seems to be a curious mix of older, Enlightenment ideas such as Rousseaus noble savage and later Marxist ideas, among other things. There are those who claim that it was never supposed to be logically consistent and that we shouldnt look for any cohesive, rational arguments behind it because there are none. What little can be discerned from its ideas is sometimes quite disturbing, with elements of anti-Western hatred, totalitarian impulses and Utopian ideas involving large-scale social engineering.
As with so many of the left's nebulous pet ideologies, they must be "felt" and cannot be subjected to the harsh rigors of critical analysis or mere reason.
Multiculturalism is primarily championed in Western nations. It is highly unlikely, to say the least, that a person from Finland, Canada or the Netherlands would want, much less be allowed to, move to Pakistan or Iran and expect to get state support for keeping their culture, but the reverse happens every single day. In the 21st century, many of the least economically successful cultures on earth are in the midst of the largest population boom in human history. If they should be allowed to continue to export, indefinitely, parts of their unsustainable population growth to other nations and those who move should be allowed to keep their culture, human rights de facto amount to the unilateral eradication of Western culture. And thats precisely why the anti-Western Left support it. They can permanently destroy the West, and they can claim to do this in the name of tolerance and diversity.
With a deft and fatal set of combination punches, Fjordman lays bare the incredible hypocrisy of Muslim majority nations and their Multiculturalist facilitators.
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The theory that all people should be allowed to live where they want means that all places are equally inhabitable. Bullshit point one !
Who the hell wants to live in the Sahara or in Nepal or Greenland ? In fact, all places are different and there is a best place to live and a worst place to live. We Americans believe the best place is somewhere in America, yet instead of defending entry into America with our lives, we embrace an assinine belief that we welcome the poor, the tired, the unwashed from the corners of the world. Bullshit point two !
Wake fucking up, America and take control of your borders, your language, and your culture. Drop the soccer and go buy a baseball bat. Then when some jerkoff complains about the manger scene in the town park, beat the crap outta him with that bat give him a taste of culture.
I really don't like the idea of beating anyone for being different, but this shit has gone far enough, and we need some kind of social binding.
As it stands, only a small part of our population have any idea about current affairs, and the majority think they can get the necessary information from the talking heads. Bullshit point three !
Talking heads have agendas; shit, the majority don't even know what an agenda is.
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"...they [academics and I take it liberals] tend to view cultures as equal and interchangeable, which means that they perceive it to be of little practical importance, with the very notable exception of Western culture, which is important to destroy.
I have always wondered why there is this self-loathing and desire for cultural suicide mostly in liberal circles in the West--primarily in free countries. I guess they would prefer an Islamic dictated country, or a socialistic or communistic country? Or is that they just think they are smarter than and superior to everyone else? Dictators at heart?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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