Enemies of the People
President Obama, in his perpetual quest for public approval, has embarked on a peace initiative. It will now be easier for Cuban Americans to send more money out of the USA back to their relatives to stimulate the moribund Cuban economy, and President Unpronounceable of Iran will not have to cut back on his nuclear weapons program if he wishes to have direct talks with the United States.
I do not object to an improvement in US-Cuban relations—though I wish it were more Realpolitik and less an expression of solidarity with a Communist dictatorship—and, after all the mischief stirred up by George Bush's incredibly stupid "axis of evil" speech, we may be compelled, for the moment at least, to pretend the Iranian political class is anything but what it is: the vilest and most duplicitous set of thieves and scoundrels ever to hold power in a Muslim country. As a Turk or an Arab, if you won't take my word for it.
Perhaps you are thinking that, after gunning down those Somali pirates all by himself, President Barry feels in a generous mood. That would be a serious mistake. He has never had any problem in cozying up to the enemies of our country. He has seen the enemy and it is us, the American people who enslaved his ancestors. All right, his father was actually a Kenyan but it is the same thing. He is so loyal to his Kenyan ancestry that he appears to have returned a bust of Churchill to the British—Churchill cracked down on the Mau Mau terrorists. Could anyone have ever dreamed that we would have a Mau Mau fellow traveler as a president? If we needed any further evidence for Obama's contempt for ordinary Americans, consider a special warning issued to police departments by the head of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano.
Right-wing extremists are plotting to capitalize on Obama's unpopularity with bigots, wars Napolitano—a snapping turtle in need of a facelift. These extremists include the usual suspects—gun nuts and racists—but also people who oppose abortion, know what the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution says, or criticize the President. (I would post links to a more trustworthy source than Fox or to the document, but right wing paranoia has virtually shut down entire websites.)
I have a suggestion for the first right wing extremist to be arrested: Texas Governor Rick Perry, who only today signed onto a resolution complaining against the federal government's illegal intrusions into Texas and reaffirming the 10th Amendment.
There you have in a nutshell the Obama administration's view of the world: Cuba sì, Texas no!
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"metrosexuality"
Recently I drafted a letter of admonition to some friends in which I employed this dreadful neoligism, with the parenthetical aside, "Oh, St. Joseph most chaste, how I loathe that word and how descriptive it is!"
@50, Etienne Gervaise: here is a piece of trivia that I am only relating because of your puff for OHMSS. In the 1960s I was serving in the USN at a Communit in the southeast. Several times a year, British frigates cruised in for a few days of tropical splendor. Of course, we became their channel of communications. They always presented their messages to be transmitted in envelopes marked on the outside by the printed words: "On Her Majesty's Service". Well, I kept several of the empty envelopes for myself as souveniers and one serves as a bookmark for my copy of Ian Fleming's OHMSS to this day.
All,
Just a question. All commentators from say, oh about October, 2008, singing praises to Barry Hussein Obama (the Mau Mau Messiah-God, I love that!), the antiwar candidate who assured his sycophant dreamy-eyed hoards of a swift withdrawal of imperial troops from yonder Iraqistan, where y'all now?
The light of the age has managed to nationalise the major money houses and the U.S. auto industry in less than 90 days, but not reduce our troop strength by a single troop. Where are the Obama anti-war harpies so damn prevalent on this site before 11/03/2008. Spare me the Bush was a neocon toadie crap (we all knew that). Well?
@54: an excellent question. Last December when I made an off-color remark about BHO to a certain close family member (I'll not do him the dishonor of being more precise), he asked me if I was going to keep dissing the candidate he voted for. I half-jocularly said that if what he was telling me was the truth, I no longer wished to speak to him, because voting for Obama was an open show of contempt for the patrie and a vote for its final destruction. He qualified that, okay he hated half of what Obama was going to do, but that the other half was "awesome."
As if any president followed through on the "good" things he promised. I love being proven right.
Anyone get that sick feeling that five days into the establishment of an Islamic Republican embassy in DC, the US declares war on Iran and the whole world thanks BHO for the ensuing closure of the Strait of Hormuz? How quickly we forget that we voted for Mr. Wilson because he "kept us out of the war!"
Nowadays, whenever I hear anyone extolling the virtues of democratic/republican values or "tolerance" (to say nothing of shilling for "human rights"), neither of which could have any relevance in ten years if they had not been preached by the Godless lumières, I pity the poor soul. Indeed, there has always been much to pity of he who has invested his life in the lie: "Woe to him!" our Lord so eloquently says, but for our human eyes to witness him continue even as the day of reckoning so manifestly unfolds is a LITTERALLY awesome and humbling experience.
Thanks for reminding me of "On Her Majesty's Secret Service". It has been twenty-five years since I've read the novel or watched the film. The novel was one of Fleming's best and the film is underrated.
The weakest of the novels were "The Spy Who Loved Me"(Fleming writing from a woman's point-of-view was not very convincing), "Moonraker"(plot more preposterous than the usual Bond plot), "The Man With the Golden Gun"(published posthumously without Fleming being able to edit it), and the short story collection of "For Your Eyes Only"(necessarily less plot- in "Quantum of Solace" Fleming seems to be reveling in his own experience of being cuckolded at the time by Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskill.
I hereby grant permission to plug this store offering bargains on DVD's. Opera DVDs are virtually the only films we generally buy, because they are worth watching so many times. By the way, I have owned a redone CD set of Eugene Onegin and never listened to it until a few days ago, when I put it on almost as background music. The singing was so good, especially the tenor and the soprano that I got the pamphlet out to discover that this unknown talent I had just discovered was Galina Vishnevskaya!
Derek @ #3:
As per George Orwell, the best way to understand the Left is to study the ugliness of its women. There is a rage there against all of creation.
Orwell had contempt for vegetarians as well. This comes out clearly in "Coming Up for Air", an underrated novel. Although Orwell was a man of the Left, his sympathies were with the miners of Yorkshire and not with the trendy Left. Today, Labour is no longer a workingman's party but very much a party of the Trendy Left.
@23. Mr. Cooney, states' rights probably has a chance only if the USA falls much further into disaster -- I mean much, much further. A more likely scenario is that the states' rights movement will be manipulated by the Republicans to help them gain back power in 2010 and 2012, then the GOP will betray the movement.
But you never know.
61. Mr. Seiler, you are only too, too right about the likely scenario. We must first or simultaneously destroy the Republican party as the prerequisite for any true reform.
@23 & @60. Some further thoughts. Whatever one may think of the system imposed on America by force from 1861-65, it has been highly adaptive and successful. It has gone through, and usually been strengthened by, depressions, world wars, the 1960s cultural revolution, race riots, and other calamities. All its global rivals were defeated or fell apart. Even now, just a couple of changes that are inevitable -- more stable money, leaving Iraq and Afghanistan, less federal spending -- would (and will) restore the system within a few years, with prosperity making everyone happy again. The only real global rival to the U.S. is China -- in 30 years.
I can't stand the Republican Party, but you know what's coming next. There are no more Bob Dole-style "root canal" Republicans who favor tax increases. They all favor tax cuts. Even Bush figured that one out after seeing what happened when his father increased taxes. Ron Paul's Gold Standard message is getting through. Obama will get blamed for whatever happens in Iraq and Afghanistan, like Nixon was for Nam. So the GOP will come back in 2010 and 12 on promises of tax cuts and stability. They'll make some minor changes and start intervening in some new quagmire, starting the whole process over again, even as immigrants keep coming here, voting 70% Democratic.
But people will be happy just have jobs and to play with their electronic toys stamped Made in China.
"A more likely scenario is that the states’ rights movement will be manipulated by the Republicans to help them gain back power in 2010 and 2012, then the GOP will betray the movement."
Yes, the themes might change to protect the circus but the elephants will remain the same. Heck, I keep thinking National Review will turn state's rights, isolationist and anti-immigration any time now with an appeal for conservatives to leave the big tent and come home --- right after they finish planting democracy in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and North Korea !!!
@61. I just saw your comment, Dr. Wilson, after posting my comment @62.
Yes, the Republican Party must be destroyed, and they're doing a pretty good job of it themselves out here in California. After the 2010 U.S. Census, the GOP will be a permanent minority of less than 1/3 of the voters on election day in California, after winning the state for Bush Uno as recently as 1988. Arnold's election in 2003 was a fluke from the recall of Democratic Gov. Gray Davis.
My comments in @62 were for the near future of the country, 2010 and 2012. After that, though, the GOP will continue to decline nationally year by year. Inevitably, America will be Californiaized, with the GOP becoming a permanent minority, occasionally winning a fluke election.
And let's not forget that Obama will rig the 2010 U.S. Census against the GOP. That's because the GOP, when it controlled Congress in the late 1990s, was too stupid to remove non-citizen aliens (legal and illegal) from the count for the 2000 Census. It actually was discussed at the time by some GOP congressmen. But The GOP didn't want to fight President Clinton on it, or to be called racists. Now they're doomed. The changes to congressional districts and the Electoral College from the Census may mean that, contra what I said earlier @62, they won't even be able to win in 2012.
Pace to my old friend Sam Francis, but the Republicans are not stupid--they are greedy traitors.
The establishment GOP is one and the same with the establishment of the Dems, both dominated by Northeastern elitist pigs. THE GOP must be eliminated from the body politic, and somehow an old right or a new right movement must be established to fill the vacuum.
If I may, politically speaking, how could the Republican party ever be neutralized? I was listening to Limbaugh yesterday, a man who I think is representative of many in this country, and he explicitly rejected the idea of a third party or anything of the like. Instead, he wanted some sort of "takeover" of the Republican party by "real conservatives." He then went on to say that the only thing third parties do is elect the opposing party into office, and, honestly, I think there is a modicum of sense within this observation. The Republicans, at least for now, have captured the right to carry the conservative banner, whatever that happens to actually mean. Because of Reagan and the conservative movement, the Republican party is seen as naturally conservative, meaning that all of its liberalism is external and superfluous rather than intrinsic to the history of the party itself. Its a lie, of course, but it has served its purpose and it seems as if it will continue to well into the future. It is a convenient story that refuses to die. In fact, with men like Obama in office, its survival is ensured.
Machiavelli said that a prince has two concerns;domestic rivals and foreign enemies.The GOP and their Democrat accomplices will be tamed by foreign forces,not domestic ones.External power will increasingly constrain our tyrants.It is beginning to do so even as we speak. The EU looks increasingly attractive,despite its obvious shortcomings.As a subordinate of Europe,decent Americans will fare much better than under their fellow Americanos.To use a Greek term,true conservatives must turn to "medizing" if they hope to even survive,much less thrive.
I'm a "medizer,"are you?
Just as expected, as mentioned back at entry 54, the Obamites would cower and fail to respond to my inquiry. Why has your anti-war savior failed to deliver?
@70
Eh, what's up Charlie? Folks around here didn't think much of their choices. You talk like you had the winner. Who was it? No cowards around these parts, just not interested in debating the merits of expanding the wing span of that "same bird of prey" disguised as a republican eagle or his alias, the democratic vulture.
When JS Mill derided the Tories as the Stupid Party, they should have taken it as a compliment. Being clever, as libertarians and Marxists are clever, is terribly destructive. But, as Prof. Wilson points out, the Republicans are not stupid in the sense of blindly clinging to tradition. Like the Tories, they will destroy any tradition so long as they think they will reap some short-term advantage from it. It was such cynical politicking on the part of Disraeli--a truly nauseating prototype for neoconservatism--that led to an outburst from Trollope to the effect that the Tories were willing to destroy any vital tradition of the British people.
@64 John
Inevitably, America will be Californiaized ...
I think the current verb used by the punk rock crowd is "Californicated."
@59 Derek "Labour is no longer a workingman’s party but very much a party of the Trendy Left."
Who would have thought that Labour's top men would be Eton and Cambridge-educated, while the Tories' Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher would both be middle-class grocers?
Robbie @ 71,
No argument on your avian assessment. I found both excuses inexcusable. I was just somewhat curious why the numerous contributors to my favorite site -whom promised a brave new world of non-intervention by our first metrosexual exec a sure thing- have vanished. I have no desire to revisit that horrible election. I'm still main-lining Maalox!
Sir Charles,
I meant to add humor to your good question not insult. You are exact;y correct. I believe that all true understanding is grounded in reality - what is. The truth is that I prefer the socialist in socialist clothing to the socialist in sheep's clothing. They have always believed in killing, stealing and lying while traditionalists believe in life, property and truth. I still prefer Obama to McCain because we never expected him to be truthful, to honor life, respect property or any man, woman or child who opposes their ideaology. McCain is probably somewhat honorable as a man, but the politics he represents is far worse because it panders to truth and virtue with no intention of ever practicing it or conforming ones will in accordance with it. Calling a spade a spade is a good beginning for any future hope of recovery from any type of addiction --- in the soul or in politics too.
Rob,
No insult perceived. Good enough. You voted for Barry and you got the advertised product and more. I fully understand your reasoning. But, truth be known he will neither be truthful, honor life, or respect any creature whom opposes his ideology. This we know already. My question remains, what about troop withdrawal? Were you mistaken in your assessment? Are the Obamites just as imperialistic as the McCainster neos? What's to be done?
Charlemagne,
Oh no I did not vote for him. I didn't vote as I recall except in some of the local races. I have given up on Federal elections. My friends in the military tell me that the enemy in Afghanistan is a much better fighter than the Iraqis and that the situation is worse there than in Iraq. More seasoned fighters, more patience, and the uncontrolable Pakistan borders are that way for a reason. As soon as we leave Iraq they expect the fighting between the tribes to renew itself. Iraq was a debacle, we destroyed the oldest Christian communities in the world, we destroyed some of the oldest artifacts of known civilzations, we wrecked their country, emboldened its people against us for the next two lifetimes, imposed a radical Moslem government more sympathetic towards Iran than the US. We accomplished nothing except getting 90% privileges on developing oil fields that will be difficult to develop when the strong man returns as he always does in that part of the world. I have no solution because I don't believe there is a solution to the proposed problems given the choices we are always given in national politics.
The only end in sight for the two debacles is humiliating defeat and withdrawal. That will be the death nell of U.S. imperial power and perhaps even of the 'republic'.
@78 Allen
I believe the correct policy is to declare victory and retreat. Then the mob will have to protect their heroin without sacrificing our young men.
Absolutely correct, Etienne!