Thought Police
Islamic Blackmail Wins Again
Remember the date of August 7, 2008.
It is when America had another major loss in the war on terrorism and continued this country’s long slide into becoming subjugated by Muslims and radical Islams. Perhaps I am being overly dramatic, yet I really don’t think so. But let me tell you what happened and you can decide for yourself.
A journalist, Sherry Jones had written her first novel, “The Jewel of Medina” which followed the life of one of Mohammed’s wives. In a Reuter’s interview Sherry is quoted as saying “I have deliberately and consciously written respectfully about Islam and Mohammed…. I envisioned that my book would be a bridge-builder.”
Random House picked up the novel with a publishing date of August 12 and then an eight-city publicity tour. However, on August 7th Random House decided it was not going to publish this book and the Reuter’s article continued:
Random House deputy publisher Thomas Perry said in a statement the company received “cautionary advice not only that the publication of this book might be offensive to some in the Muslim community, but also that it could incite acts of violence by a small, radical segment.”
“In this instance we decided, after much deliberation, to postpone publication for the safety of the author, employees of Random House, booksellers and anyone else who would be involved in distribution and sale of the novel,” Perry said.
If it weren’t so scary I would find it to be incredibly ironic. One of our most sacred freedoms is that of the free press. How often has the media berated conservatives for wanting to take out books they deemed offensive? How many times has the ACLU defended schools that stocked books that most of the parents find inappropriate for children?
Yet when a major publishing company backs down on publishing a book there isn’t a single outcry. No one at ACLU is standing up for Sherry Jones’s. There isn’t even a whisper on how Random House was blackmailed by “the Muslim community” except by bloggers. There are a lot of heated exchanges on the internet but it still all goes back to a writer’s freedom to write whatever she likes, even if it might offend some Muslims. Boo hoo. Could you imagine the outcry if that best seller the Da Vinci Code treated Mohammed the same way it treated Jesus? Or the uproar by the biased media if it had been a Christian group that threatened violence if Random House published an anti Christian book? It would be laughable if it weren’t so serious.
It almost makes me say why bother? The press is crucifying anyone who supports the war in Iraq and the war on terror. But why should our soldiers give their lives to protect freedoms that the press is willing to roll over on when there is the first hint of violence? It is simply unbelievable that a major company such as Random House is terrified of upsetting the Muslims and actual gave in to their blackmail. And yet it did happen.
I use to think the conservative talk radio and TV shows were getting pretty extreme at times. I don’t any more. And to go back to the start of this article, do you think I was exaggerating about the importance of what just happened? No, I don’t think so, either. Not sure what we can do other than keep a watch for other instances of how this country is bowing down to the radical Islams. If the liberal press won’t do their job then we must do it for them. And if you agree then please feel free to start emailing this article and any others like it to your friends and even to conservative radio and TV shows. We need to let the Muslims and the liberals know that
once again it is the conservatives, the true patriots who will save the far left from their own cowardice and will protect all of America’s freedoms, including the freedom of the press.
Treating Flood Victims Equally
Last week all up and down the Mississippi entire towns were immersed under water as levees were breached or destroyed. Throughout the sporadic news coverage you couldn’t help but noticed the unacknowledged elephant in the room. Although none of the reporters mentioned it, the public whispered among themselves what the politically correct news organizations were afraid to discuss. Of course I speak of New Orleans.
I was going to say that it was impossible to watch the horrible results of the century breaking floods without comparing it to the floods in New Orleans except that the mainstream media did just that – ignored any comparison to Katrina. The sad truth is that if someone did do the comparison they would risk being called racist because any comparison of Katrina vs. today’s flood victims would not be favorable to the residents of New Orleans, who just happen to be African American. And God help the journalist who gives a nonfavorable report about blacks, even though it is true.
During the floods tens of thousands of people in the Midwest were homeless as their houses were literally washed away or engulfed to the roof tops in water. And yet there was no outrage at being jammed into relief areas, nor was there any talk of gunshots or rapes or even looting as there was with Katrina. There was some concern about FEMA but there were also a lot of discussions about simply helping out their neighbors and themselves. These displaced citizens talked about rebuilding their towns and communities whereas after Katrina it seemed as if the cry to rebuild primarily came from outsiders, actors, musicians and the like, and not from the residents. Multiple fundraising events were held for the New Orleans residents but you haven’t heard of too many celebrities coming to the aid of Iowans. Nor have you heard of these Midwesterns looking for cash handouts such as initially occurred after Katrina.
Yes, some of the difference is due to local politics, with New Orleans government being known as corrupt and inefficient. I honestly don’t know much about the local politics of the affected towns last week but I doubt if they are as scandal ridden as New Orleans and Louisiana. But the major difference is the people themselves. And that is what no one dares to mention because you would immediately be labeled as racist. Next thing you know you have to apologize to everyone, take diversity training and be reprogrammed to be politically correct in the future.
The sad thing is that the way the politically correct ran to aid New Orleans is the racist action, whereas comparing them to those in the Midwest is an act of equality. Comparing the two groups is saying that both are equal to each other regardless of color. You are granting each the same respect as the other and treating them as equals. Shouldn’t we make a judgment based on character and the actions of a person or group of people with no regard to race? And isn’t that the goal – to treat everyone equally?
On the other hand, those who pleaded and sobbed and lectured the country to assist the residents of New Orleans did a major disservice to them. Yes they needed assistance but these politically correct activists treated the New Orleans citizens as helpless victims who needed to be taken care of. That kind of “help” strips away self esteem and any initiative to help themselves. Think about it. Apparently the politically correct assume that the flood victims in Iowa and elsewhere can take care of themselves but those affected by Katrina couldn’t. How insulting and racist is that?
Will Internet Escape Regulation and Remain “Free?”
Half Say Regulate Internet - 73% Want Criminal Penalties for Harrassment
An unasked question is whether or not the so-called Fairness Doctrine should apply to the internet.
Forty-Nine percents believe that the federal government should regulate the Internet the same way it does radio and television, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national survey. Thirty-five percent (35%) disagree, and 16% are undecided.
Americans also believe overwhelmingly — 73% yes to 13% no — that it should be a crime to harass someone on the Internet. The findings come as a Missouri woman faces an unprecedented federal prosecution for allegedly setting up an account for a fictitious 16-year-old on an online social networking site to harass the 13-year-old daughter of a neighbor who committed suicide after being rejected by the fictitious boy. Seventy-one percent (71%) have some awareness of that case, with only 25% saying they know nothing about it at all. Women (79%) more than men (67%) think Internet harassment should be a crime.
Women also feel much more strongly about federal regulation of the Internet, with 55% in favor, 25% opposed and 20% undecided. Men reject federal regulation by a small margin - 46% to 42% — with 12% unsure.
One out of four Americans (26%) say they have a social networking account with a site such as MySpace and Facebook, but 69% say they do not. Not surprisingly younger people are more likely to have such an account: 65% of men and 45% of women under 40 say they network socially this way, as opposed to only 24% of men and 15% of women who are 40 and older.
Nearly one out of two adults (48%) say they use the Internet every day or almost every day, but 25% say they rarely, if ever, use it. Income is clearly a factor, with the likelihood of Internet usage rising with the level of the respondent’s annual earnings.
Race also is a factor, with 53% of whites saying they use the Internet every day or nearly every day, as opposed to only 28% of blacks. Twenty-one percent (21%) of whites and 39% of blacks say they rarely or never use the Internet.
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
You can call this a “post-dated” Round-up. I am very likely preoccupied and taking advantage of my conjugal rights, as SSG Dizzy has very likely arrived from Iraq, for RnR, by now. I decided to post today’s Ten Post Round-Up anyway, so you wouldn’t come a-knockin (wink-wink):
1: Retraining our brains and our bellies no thanks to our parents dietary mismanagement in our formative years….
2: Consider it studying for the live-action version…
10 Books You Should Read Before Seeing The Movie–The Best Article Every Day
3: How sad is it that a communist country is pushing this ideal and the so-called “greatest country in the world” seeks to stifle it?…
Cuban Government Backs Calls to Combat Homophobia–CommonDreams.org
4: And the Republicans are considering pushing this guy as VP?…
Mike Huckabee thought McCain’s ‘bomb, bomb, bomb Iran’ song was funny.–Crooks and Liars
5: Old-school racism making a comeback?…
Curious George And The Men In The Pointy White Hats–Firedoglake
“Denim Day” And Mussolini’s Granddaughter
Today is “Denim Day” and folks wore jeans as part of a public education effort on sexual assault crimes believe it or not because of Benito Mussolini’s granddaughter. Back in February 1999, Italy’s Court of Cessation, which is that country’s highest appellate court, overturned a conviction in a rape case, ruling it was impossible for the woman in the case to have been raped because she was wearing jeans.
The ruling outraged people all over the world. Female members of the Italian Parliament, including Alessandra Mussolini, granddaughter of the infamous World War II Facist dictator, wore jeans to work to protest the ruling.
The idea caught on, with Denim Day being held each April (which is “Sexual Assault Awareness Month”) to draw attention to the fact that rape and sexual assault are serious matters.
Fascism was a 20th century invention. Benito Mussolini fancied himself a latter-day Caesar and named his governing style of centralized authority under an absolute dictator Fascism. The term refers to the Roman Empire’s symbol of strength and authority the fasces a bundle of rods bound around an axe. Fascism now refers to any government where the individual is wholly subordinate to the state.
Elton John, Misogyny and More
Recently, Elton John in a performance in support of his favorite presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, a woman currently losing a battle against a man, albeit a man with a black father, brushed all of those who do not support Hillary as having a “misogynystic attitude”.
Currently manifesting myself as a white male who approaches the buddha of perfection in all such socio-political considerations (ahm), I would pick Obama over Clinton because he is so smart, fresh and well spoken and except for some old books and an activist minister and a short enough political career to have accumulated only a few edgy cohorts along the way, and fewer than average earmarks and exceptions for businesses in his district to get exemptions to national import taxes and the like, thus he has less historical baggage for our media industrial complex to waste our time conducting autopsies on, and she is, well, a carrier of so much Clinton baggage, deserved or not, it is time to move on. Same reason I would support McCain against any one named or related to the name Bush were that in play, thank goodness it isn’t. Were Gore or McCain or Bradley the President during 9/11 I think our circumstances would be better than they are now, although still confused as the world is in flux, not all of our doing and most of which is no longer in our control, if it ever was.
I say, enough of the Bush and Clinton eras, they have each spawned too many “creations” real or partisanly imagined, that would continue our gridlock and prevent our coming together as a nation. And, yes a little nationalism would be good, not the extreme kinds that have caused millions of deaths in the past century, but a little rationalism that would strengthen us and maybe even other nations who already mostly practice some form of nationalism today.
Some might say Elton’s remarks were racist, sexist and some may even say they evoked Misandry a term near and dear to my shuddering heart, being an innocent as previously indicated.
According to the Wiki, there are some who think that “dead white males” are the source of all evil. Reviewing this reminds me of a defunct effort some years ago began by someone who thought that the predominate theme in early internet jokes delivered by email was decidedly biased against men so he began an effort which unfortunately was an early victim of flaming and worse. Completely intimidated and fearful for his life, he had a sex change in Trinidad, Colorado, stole someone else’s identity and moved to another country. A travesty, for if only his thoughtful movement had been given a chance to be heard and rationally debated, no doubt the continuing acrimonious debate and tensions between still waring parties could only have been at least a step ahead of where they are today. A posthumous honor to his “International Movement Against Negative Commentary On Men Everywhere”.
Stop guessing. But it was not Bill Mayer.
The Obama Affect
I read an interesting article highlighted in the Drudge Report. It was from an article in The Australian about Obama. The journalist, Geoff Elliott compared the reaction Obama is getting to how people reacted to Mandela. In other words, people are looking up to Obama as more than just a new leader, but as a cult figure even something “akin to a messiah”. Wow.
Iran Unrest Requires Monitors, Most Recent NIE Wrong?
Iran is worried over rising political and ethnic unrest. Of course senior officials accuse the United States of helping foment protests by labor unions and students. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has recruited 12.5 million people to “monitor” the behavior and opinions of other Iranians. Not since the darkest days of Stalinism and Maoism has any regime mobilized so many citizens against fellow citizens; neighbor against neighbor, children against parents. Accused are watched; usually interrogated; often threatened, sometimes roughed up, and often arrested and imprisoned or worse. Some are reported to have disappeared.
Olberman dislikes fist fights on his shows
So instead of having conservatives on his show to balance out liberals, he has chosen to only bring on like minded politicos. Sort of the One Handed Fist Fight he feels is the best he can do to being truth to his show.
Makes sense to me. Same thing worked for Stalin, Hussein, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, maybe modern Russia. No nasty fist fights that offends Olberman, and a more uniform Truth that many give homage to a civilized uniformity.
South Carolin Broke the Laws of Illegal Discriminations
And Barack broke the curse of all candidates of not winning a majority, proceeding to resoundingly trounce Hillary 2 to 1 with some 18% going to the Native Son Edwards who is very encouraged at the results of his taking the high road, positioning himself as the adult who will stay in the national campaign and is on good financial footing. Have you noticed that in unequal ways, candidates in pursuit of voters and even voters themselves have a legal advantage which if attempted can get employers and murders in BIG trouble? What’s with that?
Suspenseful Cuban Vote Today
Cuba is a one party political system. It punishes dissent or diversity.
There are 614 candidates on the ballot and are unopposed.
Black armbands can result in losing housing or jobs.
When will they get the relief they deserve?
Why is there no media coverage of this “democracy”?
Christian Bashing
“Christian bashing, the last acceptable form of bigotry in America, is alive and well and growing more intense and hysterical by the day” contends CHRISTIAN BASHING a book by Dr. Gary L. Cass, President of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission. Cass says, “The time for letting Christian bashing go unchallenged has come to an end!” Cass, with degrees from Westminster Theological School, is militant contending in a related newsletter article, “it has become routine for the media and elites to openly mock and trivialize Christians because they choose to express their faith.” Read this Review Submitted to Amazon.com about Lee Strobel’s book pictured to the left.
“Expelled” The Movie
In what some describe as “one of the most important movies to come out in 100 years” because it discusses “Where did we come from? How did we get here?”
Observer and commentator Ben Stein contributes his style to focus on answers and describe academic persecution of those who dare think about and speak about creationism and intelligent design. He warns those with a stake in the ivory tower not to watch this movie lest they be discovered and attacked by secularist who would ruin their careers. It opens in February. See his web site and complete movie preview including additional clips Here.
See a provocative Super Clip Click Here.
To Join The Expelled, Click Here.