Right-wing radicals are already pinning presidential ambitions on a
mother-of-five from Minnesota who calls herself a 'fool for Christ' and
condemns Obama as a socialist at the head of a gangster regime
She is a striking brunette with a decidedly outspoken attitude. She
lambasts President Barack Obama as a socialist and has become the
darling of America's right-wing activists who flock to her appearances.
She is hated by liberals and loved by conservatives.
Sarah Palin? Not quite. Meet Michele Bachmann, a Republican
congresswoman from Minnesota who is being hailed as a new and
increasingly powerful voice in American politics.
Bachmann, at 53, is a darling of the so-called Tea Party movement, which
has campaigned vociferously against healthcare reform, the economic
stimulus package and legislation to combat climate change. Her followers
have been behind mass rallies in Washington and smaller ones all over
the country. She has emerged as one of the most visible politicians in
America, frequently appearing on the conservative Fox News channel,
whose hosts often champion her causes.
She is part of an increasingly visible "female brand" of conservatism
that is rising in America in the wake of the election of Obama. They
include notable syndicated commentators such as Michelle Malkin and Ann
Coulter, whose dislike for liberals has grown ever more shrill in recent
months. And, of course, Palin herself. She is still a giant of the
political and media landscape and next week embarks on a book tour to
sell her autobiography. It has already sparked a media frenzy, with a
heavily hyped appearance on Oprah Winfrey's show, and become a huge
bestseller on pre-orders alone.
All these women express a mood of conservative discontent that is
becoming increasingly vocal and, some experts warn, extreme. The
Republicans have been kicked out of power in the White House and
Congress. The party is becoming more white and southern at the same time
as national demographic changes give power to other regions and
minorities. Many Americans are also suffering in the recession. That is
a grim picture but one that also makes many voters vulnerable to a
talented rabble-rouser. "They are tapping into grassroots frustration...
they are charging up an already highly charged group of people," said
Shaun Bowler, a political scientist at the University of California at
Riverside.
The politics espoused by Bachmann, Palin and others on the far right of
the conservative movement warn darkly of Obama's intentions. They paint
a picture of an America that is under threat from its own president.
Bachmann has spoken of the possibility of the White House setting up
"re-education camps" for America's youth. Palin once accused Obama of
"palling around" with terrorists. To the many critics of this new breed
of conservatism, people such as Bachmann and Palin are putting an
attractive female face to a very ugly brand of politics.
The crowd gathered in Washington DC on 5 November had answered
Bachmann's call. Using Fox News and her own press announcements,
Bachmann had demanded that conservative activists descend on the
nation's capital to invade the corridors of Congress and demand that
politicians stop healthcare reform. Thousands of people did just that,
showing up for a mass rally. They chanted: "We want Michele!"
Many liberals criticised the protest as a failure. But from Bachmann's
point of view that was hard to see. The move catapulted her to the front
of the Republican party as politician after politician showed up to
address the crowd. She was a fixture on cable news all day. In the short
space of a couple of years Bachmann had gone from obscure congresswoman
to national media figure.
But out in the crowd the ugly face of some modern conservatives was not
hard to find. There were 12 arrests. One protester wore a mask of House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi with handfuls of bloody foetuses. Another protester
held up a picture of piles of Jewish corpses from Dachau concentration
camp. "National Socialist Healthcare", the sign read.
Bachmann later condemned those who had made Holocaust references at the
rally. But even a cursory glance at her career reveals that this rising
star has long trafficked in some extreme positions. In October last year
Bachmann called some of her fellow congressmen anti-American. She has
said Obama holds socialist views. She has attacked global warming by
saying that carbon dioxide emissions are a natural part of the
atmosphere. "Carbon dioxide is not a harmful gas, it is a harmless gas,"
she said. She has fed into fears of a violent backlash against Obama by
saying that "having a revolution every now and then is a good thing".
She has spoken of "gangster government" in a speech viewed more than two
million times on the internet. She has dubbed Obama's plans to increase
AmeriCorps � a government volunteer service group � as a plan to
forcibly indoctrinate young people. "I believe there is a very strong
chance that we will see young people put into mandatory service...
there are provisions for what I would call re-education camps for young
people," she told an interviewer. Her language in opposing healthcare
reform has been bloodcurdling. At a recent event in Colorado she told
her audience: "What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our
wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do
whatever it takes to make sure this doesn't pass." She is also extremely
socially conservative, strongly opposing abortion and gay marriage, and
deeply religious. She has described herself as a "fool for Christ".
Such extreme statements and beliefs have made Bachmann a figure of both
fun and fear among liberal Americans, especially in her home state of
Minnesota. "It is hard to think that people take her seriously. But on a
national level it is happening. It scares me," said Aaron Landry, a
senior correspondent at MNpublius.com, a Minnesota-based politics blog.
But what makes liberal Americans laugh or cry has got the conservative
wing of the Republican party extremely excited. In an article that sent
shockwaves through America's political classes, top conservative
newspaper columnist George Will recently wrote a piece anointing
Bachmann as a new star of the movement. "Some of her supposed excesses
are... not merely defensible, they are admirable," Will wrote. It is
easy to see why Bachmann is being so enthusiastically embraced by
conservatives. The high profile of Palin showed the impact a
charismatic, young conservative woman could have on the right wing of
the Republican party.
"Politics on the right used to be a parlour game played by old, white
men," said Bowler. Palin changed that and Bachmann has followed. They
have replaced the dulcet tones of grey-haired Washington senators with
Midwestern vowels and Alaskan twangs. They have risen swiftly through
careers forged a long way from Washington, wearing their outsider label
as a badge of pride. They have given conservatism the look of a
middle-American suburban soccer mom with first-hand experience of
raising a family in tough times.
That is certainly much of Bachmann's appeal. She was born in Iowa and
then moved to Minnesota. When her parents divorced, her mother was left
to fend for herself. Bachmann has known what it means to scrimp and save
to get by. But she made a success of herself. She and her husband now
run a small business in mental health and she is the mother of five
children. She has also given foster care to a staggering 23 kids.
Political legend has it that her career began when she spoke out at a
local Republican party meeting after her state senator had shifted his
politics in a liberal direction. When asked by others in the crowd if
she herself should try to unseat the incumbent, she gave a speech that
so excited those assembled that she was plunged into the race, which she
went on to win. It was the unlikely start of a career that has now come
to national prominence.
But Bachmann � and Palin too � are more than just individual
politicians. They have come to represent a mass social movement that
stretches far beyond just turning up on election day. It is no
coincidence that both Palin and Bachmann have inspired lines of
T-shirts, coffee mugs and action figures for their fans to snap up. That
movement first made its appearance during John McCain's rallies after he
picked Palin for his running mate in the 2008 election. The choice
electrified what had been a fairly moribund campaign. Suddenly crowds of
thousands were turning out to Republican rallies, as well as Democratic
ones. They were there to see Palin, not McCain.
Palin's brand of homespun wisdom, rooted in uber-patriotism and killer
heels, was a breath of fresh air that conservatives had been looking
for. So were unashamedly conservative views and a willingness to state
bluntly what she thought about Democrats. Palin's subsequent
self-destruction in a series of media interviews only served to make her
more popular.
Indeed, to examine the impact of both Palin and Bachmann is to see an
America split firmly into two different worlds. The first is a liberal
one where such politicians make outlandish comments that become the butt
of jokes on the Daily Show or Saturday Night Live. The other is one
where Palin and Bachmann are the victims of a liberal media that hates
its own country. "For their supporters, attacking Palin and Bachmann
actually gives them the proof that they are the victims that they
already believe themselves to be," said Bowler. To the conservative
mind-set, these women are truth-tellers who are viciously attacked
precisely because of the validity of the message that they are carrying.
That side of the great American divide is about to get a prolonged
period in the sun. This week Palin begins her book tour, touting her
autobiography. It is already a massive hit and leaks have hit the
internet, generating stories and gossip. Palin is set to talk about her
feelings about her daughter's pregnancy, dish dirt on McCain and his
aides and slam the very same media that once slammed her. Her tour is
like a mini political campaign. She and her family are set to travel by
bus across America as she shuttles from stop to stop. She is also
shunning large cities such as New York and instead going to small towns
and out-of-the-way states.
It is a stunning reversal of the situation after the McCain-Palin ticket
lost, when McCain's staff tried to distance themselves from Palin and
blame her for the defeat. But now McCain, hated by many conservatives,
has retreated quietly to the Senate, while Palin powers from strength to
strength.
But the political future is not likely to belong to Palin. The trouncing
that she received in the media during the presidential election campaign
and the fact she currently holds no office have rendered her political
power symbolic. Though it is not impossible, it is hard to imagine Palin
launching a credible run in 2012. But what she has done is pave the way
for an extremist conservative candidate to emerge as the Republican
nominee. The excitement coursing through the conservative movement, and
the power wielded by its media stars such as Rush Limbaugh and Glenn
Beck, has made selecting any sort of moderate very difficult.
Palin's legacy could be to place the 2012 nomination in the hands of the
people who supported her. Could that recipient be Bachmann? It is an
outside bet. But Bachmann has spoken of it, couching the question in
religious terms that are deeply familiar and beloved of her followers.
"If I felt that's what the Lord was calling me to do, I would do it,"
she told one conservative website of her potential presidential
ambitions. Such comments have filled liberals with scorn and fear. "Most
people don't think she can have presidential ambitions. She's too
crazy," said Landry. "But a lot of people in Alaska thought that about
Sarah Palin."
--
Nancy Pelosi, Democrat criminal, accessory before and after the fact to
Rangel's tax evasion.
..and I *suppose* we should all be " very afraid" LOL. What a bunch
of whiney cowards and chickenhawks desperately searching for a new
leader for their " I want MY America back " teabagger rallies
sponsored by the GOP and their good friends the multi-national
corporate aristocrats who received billion dollar bailouts and do not
give a hoot that 47+ million Americans are without healthcare access
or insurance. So what, they say. They get bailed out the the rest can
go croak.
> What a bunch of whiney cowards...
> ....and do not give a hoot that 47+ million Americans are without
> healthcare access or insurance. So what, they say. They get bailed
> out the the rest can go croak.
Talk about whiney!
Snicker
The teabaggers and their sorry excuse for leaders, such as bachmann,
are little more than willing tools of powerful corporate interests who
have robbed America of it's wealth and destroyed he remnants of what
was once known as the middle class. Without jobs, housing and medical
care, they are non--persons and the situation is not improving. For
America to rebuild itself, we must have jobs which pay a living wage,
affordable housing and healthcare. To oppose this hurts millions of
decent hardworking Americans with families, many of whom are homeless
and by invoking God into her logic, she thinks she is righteous and
leading a crusade against those "socialists " as she calls them, who
take issue with her decision to harm her fellow human beings for
corporate earnings.
Remember when Cheney referred to the evangicals as the " crazies in
the basement.." . Even he knew that they were easily
manipulated.Waging war against other people by denying them healthcare
is a godless thing to do.
>All these women express a mood of conservative discontent that is
>becoming increasingly vocal and, some experts warn, extreme. The
>Republicans have been kicked out of power in the White House and
>Congress. The party is becoming more white and southern
Minnesota is in the South?
When the fuck did they move it?
Gunner
"Aren't cats Libertarian? They just want to be left alone.
I think our dog is a Democrat, as he is always looking for a handout"
Unknown Usnet Poster
Heh, heh, I'm pretty sure my dog is a liberal - he has no balls.
Keyton
I see Palin and other Conservatives are starting to scare the shit out
of Leftards like Sour Sue.
Good!
We wanna see you sweat before the crowds grab you and hang you by the
neck from the nearest horizontal surface.
Spandau Ballet...Ill be Sour Sues parents didnt think she could do the
Spandau Ballet.
> I see Palin and other Conservatives are starting to scare the shit out
> of Leftards like Sour Sue.
> Good!
Better start purgin' them moderates like Charlie Crist or Palin won't
be able to get rightardopia to break out.
> We wanna see you sweat before the crowds grab you and hang you by the
> neck from the nearest horizontal surface.
Try not to spree, but if you do spree, try to do the suicide thingy
first.
Bret Cahill
Both of these books should help that British author.
These should help
http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Know-Much-About-Geography/dp/0380713799/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258595582&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Maps-Mark-Monmonier/dp/0226534219/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258595451&sr=1-1
> On Nov 18, 2:18�pm, Harold Burton <hal.i.bur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > In article
> > <4e0b4b36-4d6c-4484-9a76-84f167f57...@c3g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
> > �Sweet Sue <sueag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > What a bunch of whiney cowards...
> The teabaggers and their sorry excuse for leaders, such as bachmann,
> are little more than willing tools of powerful corporate interests who
> have robbed America of it's wealth and destroyed he (sic) remnants of
> what was once known as the middle class. Without jobs, housing and
> medical care, they are non--persons and the situation is not improving.
Talk about whiney!
Snicker.
These are some examples of why the Republitard party is dead!
>> >..and I *suppose* we should all be " very afraid" � LOL. �What a bunch
>> >of whiney cowards and chickenhawks desperately searching for a new
>> >leader for their " I want MY America back " teabagger rallies
>> >sponsored by the GOP and their good friends the multi-national
>> >corporate aristocrats who received billion dollar bailouts �and do not
>> >give a hoot that 47+ million Americans are without healthcare access
>> >or insurance. So what, they say. They get bailed out the the rest can
>> >go croak.
>
>> I see Palin and other Conservatives are starting to scare the shit out
>> of Leftards like Sour Sue.
>
>> Good!
>
>Better start purgin' them moderates like Charlie Crist or Palin won't
>be able to get rightardopia to break out.
Palin is nothing more than a potential leader. <G> And if the People
pick her..nothing Charlie Crist can say is gonna stop em.
>
>> We wanna see you sweat before the crowds grab �you and hang you by the
>> neck from the nearest horizontal surface.
>
>Try not to spree, but if you do spree, try to do the suicide thingy
>first.
Well shucks Bret, but you will likely be doing the Spandau Ballet your
own self..so dont worry about the rest of of the People. Just about
trying to get air into your lungs as the noose tightens and your throat
closes down.
>
>
>Bret Cahill
Indeed...he certainly needs em both.
Sure its not an example of why the Democratic party will soon have dead
members?
> In article
> <da19c09d-df18-4b97...@i12g2000prg.googlegroups.com>,
> Bret Cahill <BretC...@aol.com> wrote:
>
>>> >In article <dl89g5t7v5dn55497...@4ax.com>, Gunner Asch
>>> ><gun...@NOSPAMlightspeed.net> wrote:
>>> >..and I *suppose* we should all be " very afraid" LOL. What a
>>> >bunch of whiney cowards and chickenhawks desperately searching for a
>>> >new leader for their " I want MY America back " teabagger rallies
>>> >sponsored by the GOP and their good friends the multi-national
>>> >corporate aristocrats who received billion dollar bailouts and do
>>> >not give a hoot that 47+ million Americans are without healthcare
>>> >access or insurance. So what, they say. They get bailed out the the
>>> >rest can go croak.
>>
>>> I see Palin and other Conservatives are starting to scare the shit out
>>> of Leftards like Sour Sue.
>>
>>> Good!
>>
>>Better start purgin' them moderates like Charlie Crist or Palin won't be
>>able to get rightardopia to break out.
>
> Lucky for him his Republican masters aren't dumb enough to allow Palin
> to gain the nomination, they know it would result in a bigger Democratic
> landslide than the LBJ/Goldwater race in '64.
Who do the Republicans have to run in 2012?
Bobby Jindal
Mark Sanford
Sarah Palin
Mitt Romney
Mike Huckabee
John Ensign
Newt Gringich
Rudy Gulliani
Glen Beck
Rush Limbaugh
Tom Coburn
Jeb Bush
Mitch McConnell
Michael Steele
John Boehner
Joe Liebermann
David Duke
Randall Terry
Liz Cheney
Condoleeza Rice
Would you vote any of them into the White House?
Republicans: "The Party of Neanderthals and proud of it!"
--
Regards, Curly
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2012 Run, Rudy, Run! 2012
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>In article
><da19c09d-df18-4b97...@i12g2000prg.googlegroups.com>, Bret
>Cahill <BretC...@aol.com> wrote:
>
>>> >In article <dl89g5t7v5dn55497...@4ax.com>, Gunner Asch
>>> ><gun...@NOSPAMlightspeed.net> wrote:
>>> >..and I *suppose* we should all be " very afraid" � LOL. �What a bunch
>>> >of whiney cowards and chickenhawks desperately searching for a new
>>> >leader for their " I want MY America back " teabagger rallies
>>> >sponsored by the GOP and their good friends the multi-national
>>> >corporate aristocrats who received billion dollar bailouts �and do not
>>> >give a hoot that 47+ million Americans are without healthcare access
>>> >or insurance. So what, they say. They get bailed out the the rest can
>>> >go croak.
>>
>>> I see Palin and other Conservatives are starting to scare the shit out
>>> of Leftards like Sour Sue.
>>
>>> Good!
>>
>>Better start purgin' them moderates like Charlie Crist or Palin won't
>>be able to get rightardopia to break out.
>
>Lucky for him his Republican masters aren't dumb enough to allow Palin to
>gain the nomination, they know it would result in a bigger Democratic
>landslide than the LBJ/Goldwater race in '64.
If you are wrong..will you be slicing your wrists or swallowing poison?
We know what you leftards thing bout guns..so shooting yourself is out.
Laugh laugh laugh
Or will you perish during the Great Cull?
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/15/michele-bachmann-president-sa
>rah-palin
>
>Right-wing radicals are already pinning presidential ambitions on a
>mother-of-five from Minnesota who calls herself a 'fool for Christ' and
>condemns Obama as a socialist at the head of a gangster regime
BWWWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gahdam! You people are a fucking hoot !
The big picture.
She has 20% approval rating.
Thats worse than even the Smirk.
LOL.
Can't wait to see her lifting babies in front of the Afghan people.
From the Left.
Care to provide cites for her approval ratings from everyone else?
Or should I simply say that the Obamassiah has an approval rating of 2%
and you will believe it?
>
>Thats worse than even the Smirk.
>
>LOL.
Ill be waiting for valid cites on her approval ratings.
Leave the Huffy Post out of it..its simply a leftwing blog.
No matter.
The ratings will always be the same no matter when or who.
The media will crush her in the end. Its the American way.
Coffee in Alaskastan
So you are unable to back up your claim?
No problem
The Obamassiah has a 2% approval rating
Read it and weep
<G>
The media is her friend now...
... but the media will be her UN-DOING when it comes to doing any REAL
"thinking" and matters of REAL global-politics.
Coffee in The media
Which "media" are you refering to? Leftwing or Rightwing?
Chuckle....
Gunner
>
>Coffee in The media
Both.
Her yap will do herself in. lol.
> Chuckle....
Indeed.
Coffee in *THE* media
As Obama's is doing himself in.
Chuckle indeed.
>
>> Chuckle....
>
>Indeed.
>
>Coffee in *THE* media
"Aren't cats Libertarian? They just want to be left alone.
the republicon party truly is the party of the rich white chubsters
and their flunkies.
... as seen ONLY on the 20% Rightwing media.
Sarah shields herself onstage dangling babies in front of cameras. tsk
tsk.
The clear MAJORITY of THINKERS and Independent swing voters who deal
with the REAL issues and political solutions... won't be reading her
selfish baby-dangling drivel.
> Chuckle indeed.
> >
> >> Chuckle....
> >
> >Indeed.
Chuckles indeed.
Coffee, without sugar
Must be a Republitard if he has no nads.
That's a nice long list of total losers!
Speaking of dogs, have you strangled another one yet?
If American puts another Republican in the White House it truly is the
end of the world as we know it.
--
Regards, Curly
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2012 Run, Sarah, Run! 2012
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The Demonrat party truly is the party of the rich white Marxists and
their enslaved flunkies.
Odd...you reading the Huffington Post as some sort of data point?
If so..they have it wrong. 20% of the nation is Leftists, 70% of the
country is conservative.
And there will be a great shortage of Leftists in less than 3 yrs.
>
>Sarah shields herself onstage dangling babies in front of cameras. tsk
>tsk.
>
>The clear MAJORITY of THINKERS and Independent swing voters who deal
>with the REAL issues and political solutions... won't be reading her
>selfish baby-dangling drivel.
Chuckle. So where will you be moving, or will you stay to be killed?
<G>
Gunner
>
>> Chuckle indeed.
>> >
>> >> Chuckle....
>> >
>> >Indeed.
>
>Chuckles indeed.
>
>Coffee, without sugar
"Aren't cats Libertarian? They just want to be left alone.
So Leftard...my address is 326 Olive Ave, Taft, California, 93268
Come visit and find out which one of us has nads. Put your id in your
sock so the next of kin can be notified of your passing.
<G>
When can I expect you?
Hummmm?
When will you be showing up?
Lets see how big a loser you really are.
<G>
Ill be waiting
>>So Leftard...my address is 326 Olive Ave, Taft, California, 93268
Is that the ranch Gummer so often speaks of? The one where he was most
recently going down to work on the "South 40"?
Or is the one where he hid after promising to visit Deucalion and beat
him up?
> On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:46:38 +0000 (UTC), Curly Surmudgeon
> <CurlySu...@live.com> wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:19:06 -0500, Deucalion <som...@nowhere.net>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>>So Leftard...my address is 326 Olive Ave, Taft, California, 93268
>>
>>Is that the ranch Gummer so often speaks of? The one where he was most
>>recently going down to work on the "South 40"?
>>
>>Or is the one where he hid after promising to visit Deucalion and beat
>>him up?
>
> Google Earth provides a very nice street view of it. I keep trying to
> find a path between all those mobile homes/tract houses for his 1000
> yard firing range he claims to have from the back deck that he hangs his
> dogs from.
To be fair I think it was his front porch where the dog was hung to death
with a choker collar.
> Doesn't California have a law against discharging a firearm within 100
> ft. of an occupied dwelling?
Not to my knowledge.
> Wouldn't his neighbors who belong to gangs start shooting back?
Hopefully.
> I think he not be telling the truth. I know that when he makes a "name
> the time and location" challenge to meet someone and show them what a
> man he is that he is bluffing. I proved it to him, so he ran and hid
> like the little girl that he is.
That* is the pivotal definition of a usenet wanker. A definition shared
by Bob Milby, AKA "Patriot Games" who hid when his death threat was
challenged.
Typical of the far-right to want to "kill" me.
They always want to "kick OTHER peoples asses" instead of their own,
which they can never find without a good book.
> >> Chuckle indeed.
> >> >
> >> >> Chuckle....
> >> >
> >> >Indeed.
> >
> >Chuckles indeed.
Chuckles bigtime.
>>
>> Chuckle. So where will you be moving, or will you stay to be killed?
>
>Typical of the far-right to want to "kill" me.
>
>They always want to "kick OTHER peoples asses" instead of their own,
>which they can never find without a good book.
Frankly..I dont want to kill anyone. And Im rather against it in fact.
But others will be killing off the Leftwing in less than 3 yrs.
And Ill be sitting on the front porch, playing riffs on the banjo while
listening to the body counts mount.
Shrug..make up your mind if you wish to leave the nation, or simply die.
Shrug again...makes no difference to me
Gunner Asch
> On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:57:47 GMT, Coffee in Madrid <gde...@eastlink.ca>
> wrote:
>
> >>
> >> Chuckle. So where will you be moving, or will you stay to be killed?
> >
> >Typical of the far-right to want to "kill" me.
> >
> >They always want to "kick OTHER peoples asses" instead of their own,
> >which they can never find without a good book.
>
> Frankly..I dont want to kill anyone. And Im rather against it in fact.
Thank goodness SOMEONE in here makes some sense.
> But others will be killing off the Leftwing in less than 3 yrs.
Ypu must be referring to the militant extremist right-wingers? You will
always have a left-wing... no matter how hard "they" try.
Remember the Reformation?
> Shrug..make up your mind if you wish to leave the nation, or simply die.
I care too much for the US to let it happen.
As for "dying"... at least not yet. I still got 20 or 30 years. Want to
see how close the ocean gets to my house' foundation.
Coffee in Mazatlan
>In article <bisdg5lq0jkjq2b7e...@4ax.com>,
> Gunner Asch <gun...@NOSPAMlightspeed.net> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:57:47 GMT, Coffee in Madrid <gde...@eastlink.ca>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >>
>> >> Chuckle. So where will you be moving, or will you stay to be killed?
>> >
>> >Typical of the far-right to want to "kill" me.
>> >
>> >They always want to "kick OTHER peoples asses" instead of their own,
>> >which they can never find without a good book.
>>
>> Frankly..I dont want to kill anyone. And Im rather against it in fact.
>
>Thank goodness SOMEONE in here makes some sense.
Ive killed or have been responsible for the deaths of ..hummm..about
400-500 people..and sometimes the 4am nightmares tend to break up a
peaceful sleep. Even after 25 yrs.
>
>> But others will be killing off the Leftwing in less than 3 yrs.
>
>Ypu must be referring to the militant extremist right-wingers? You will
>always have a left-wing... no matter how hard "they" try.
Actually...no..Im not. The American Revolutionary war was fought by
aprox 10% of the "colonials"..and the majority of those were hardly
"extremist rightwingers". In fact..I figure that a significant amount
of those will be close to center Democrats AND Republicans, who have
been disposessed from their homes and are living in their cars, camp
grounds and so forth.
The Leftwing Extremists make hay about all the people (conservatives)
who are bailing out of the Republican party..but they try desperately to
avoid talking about all the Democrats (conservatives) who are also
bailing out of their now controlled by Marxists party.
Democrats who had voted for Hopey and Changy..and were
disappointed..disgusted by what they found out to have voted for.
I know quite a few Dems in my area alone, that are reloading ammo,
sharpening their knives and collecting rope, tools needed to wipe out
the far leftwing extremist fringe kooks that now control the DNC.
Shrug...its gonna suck to be a Leftwinger soon..very soon.
>
>Remember the Reformation?
No..Im not that old..but..Ive read up on it.
>
>> Shrug..make up your mind if you wish to leave the nation, or simply die.
>
>I care too much for the US to let it happen.
Shrug..then grab a gun and terminate a leftwing extremist when the
balloon goes up.
>
>As for "dying"... at least not yet. I still got 20 or 30 years. Want to
>see how close the ocean gets to my house' foundation.
>
>Coffee in Mazatlan
Shrug...I hope you have taken steps. Frankly..if you are anything like
the usual run of Liberal puke...you will suddenly realize that calling
the cops really wont stop them from dragging you out and hanging you by
the neck until dead.
But hey...everyone loves to watch suprise on retarded childrens faces!
Gunner
It's laughable that anyone thinks Sarah Palin is presidential. The
only White House position she is worthy of is bringing Barack his
morning coffee!
Violence! That is always the Republitards answer to everything! I'm
too mature and clear-thinking to stoop to that level of STUPIDITY!
You just showed yourself to be a loser by posting a threat on the
world wide web. Mighty macho of you!
I see you have an itchy trigger finger waiting to go.
Are you preparing for a NeoCivil American war 2.0?
Or how about a gov't coup with pitchforks.
People will be too busy surviving when the shit hits the fan. Might be
good for community-building in the long run. Might have to resort to
intelligence and cooperation.
Coffee in Saskatoon
I see your reading comprehension issues are yet to be resolved. Or are
you simply criminally stupid? What part of Sitting on my porch etc etc
did you fail to underdstand?
>
>Are you preparing for a NeoCivil American war 2.0?
Actually..yes, I am.
>
>Or how about a gov't coup with pitchforks.
Coup? No.
>
>People will be too busy surviving when the shit hits the fan. Might be
>good for community-building in the long run. Might have to resort to
>intelligence and cooperation.
>
>Coffee in Saskatoon
Indeed. Well..the Leftards will be scrambling hard to find a place to
hide. Too bad the voting records are easy to acess as are Usenet posts
and what have you.
Im sure some regular asshole Liberals will also be terminated, when they
are turned on by their victims..but...its hard to tell an asshole
Lieberal from a Leftwinger anyways..so...shrug...
You keep posting your opinions. Is there some reason you think anyone
cares what it is?
That means in less than 3 yrs..you will be a dead man.
Good.
Which threat was that? Specifics if you would be so kind.
<VBG>
I will be waiting, pussieboi
Laugh laugh laugh
Indeed.
With all these paranoid rightards everywhere... it might be better for
you just to shoot them all just to make sure.
Watch out though, some may be disguised as Americans.
Have fun planning your Arms-aggheddon.
I'm going towards the healthy alternative.
All whom? Since the Leftwinger dont believe in guns..they wont have any
so the shooters will be anyone to the right of Far Leftwing Extremist
Fringe Kooks. You know..DNC party heads, lawyers, teachers..the usual
bunch of fanatics. I know Democrats who are planning on shooting those
Lefties, if the balloon goes up. Shrug..Not all Democrats are evil
Socialist/progressive/marxists. Just a significant number of them.
>
>Watch out though, some may be disguised as Americans.
Indeed. But since they are Leftwing Extremist Fringe Kooks..ie
Socialist/progressive/marxists..thats all they are..disguised as
Americans.
>
>Have fun planning your Arms-aggheddon.
Mine? You really ARE stupid. Ive told you repeatedly Ill be sitting on
my porch, banjo in hand, listening to the mounting body counts on the
radio. Fascinating. You are either drunk or retarded. Which is it?
>
>I'm going towards the healthy alternative.
Cuba or Canada?
did you know the rightwing wackos are calling for the overthrow of the
government? Billboards are appearing in various states:
www.thinkprogress.org
> >> >Are you preparing for a NeoCivil American war 2.0?
> >>
> >> Actually..yes, I am.
> >With all these paranoid rightards everywhere... it might be better for
> >you just to shoot them all just to make sure.
>
> All whom? Since the Leftwinger dont believe in guns..
Then what are you afraid of... words?
If they don't have guns... why be so paranoid of a few little leftists
scattered around your yard.
> >Have fun planning your Arms-aggheddon.
>
> Mine?
You said it yourself:
> >> >Are you preparing for a NeoCivil American war 2.0?
> >>
> >> Actually..yes, I am.
I'm starting to think it is yourself that is the "extremist".
> >I'm going towards the healthy alternative.
>
> Cuba or Canada?
Healthy is a state of being. Its not "owned" by any nation or political
party. It just is.
Trick is to root-out the sickness so you can see people for their
similarities and not their differences.
I know... its hard for some to just drop ones bias's and be able to move
on - change towards a healthier state of being.
Sad thing is... you'll probably snap-back with your usual "leftsist
extremist" response, with not much in the way of actual
thought-progression or solution-building dialogue.
Enjoy curling up on your porch with your lefty-ghosts.
Make sure you banjo is in tune.
Happy Arm-aggheddon.
He only gave his business address, anyway, knowing the other employees
would protect him if anyone showed up. It's called Coyote Engineering
and googling his stupid name brings it up, so he's not giving out any
info that isn't already known.
His home address is easy enough to find, though. But who would give
enough of a shit about him to bother going to a horse-assed town like
Taft just to kick his fat nazi ass? I'm guessing nobody.
It's the engineering firm where he works, Chickenshit won't give out
his home address, naturally, but it's easy to find. For somebody
addicted to making limp-dicked threats, he sure doesn't cover his
tracks well. He already knows his business addy is out there, since I
told him I had easily found it, so he's pretending to be brave by
giving out info that's already available.
What a dullwit.
Milby and Asch are like twins. It's hard to decide who is the dumbest.
Pathetic lie. You only kill helpless dogs, coward. Don't even try to
claim a classic Section 8 like you was ever in combat.
>and sometimes the 4am nightmares tend to break up a
> peaceful sleep. Even after 25 yrs.
Or it would, if it were true and if you had a conscience.
Milby and Asch are dumb and mean. If you limit the criteria to dumb then
you'd have to put RONSERESURPLUS at the top of the list.
Everyone will LOVE this one....
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tCAffMSWSzY#t=28
>In article <qt4fg5ddhoqcb7lm7...@4ax.com>,
> Gunner Asch <gun...@NOSPAMlightspeed.net> wrote:
>
>> >> >Are you preparing for a NeoCivil American war 2.0?
>> >>
>> >> Actually..yes, I am.
>
>> >With all these paranoid rightards everywhere... it might be better for
>> >you just to shoot them all just to make sure.
>>
>> All whom? Since the Leftwinger dont believe in guns..
>
>Then what are you afraid of... words?
>If they don't have guns... why be so paranoid of a few little leftists
>scattered around your yard.
No..they control the government..and thats what Everyone is afraid of.
Marxists controlling and changing a democratic republic. Unless you are
a marxist..that should scare the shit out of you.
>
>> >Have fun planning your Arms-aggheddon.
>>
>> Mine?
>
>You said it yourself:
I said I was going to be sitting on the porch, banjo in hand, listening
to the growing body counts.
You really ARE a stup, arncha. Pity.
>
>> >> >Are you preparing for a NeoCivil American war 2.0?
>> >>
>> >> Actually..yes, I am.
>
>I'm starting to think it is yourself that is the "extremist".
I already understand that you are the Extremist Far Leftwing Fringe
Kook.
Shrug.
>
>> >I'm going towards the healthy alternative.
>>
>> Cuba or Canada?
>
>Healthy is a state of being. Its not "owned" by any nation or political
>party. It just is.
Really? Then whats Obama fucking around with it for?
>
>Trick is to root-out the sickness so you can see people for their
>similarities and not their differences.
And thats why the Great Cull will happen..and soon.
Because those to be culled are dangerous to the People and the Nation.
>
>I know... its hard for some to just drop ones bias's and be able to move
>on - change towards a healthier state of being.
We have tried that since FDR..so..its into the mass graves with you.
>
>Sad thing is... you'll probably snap-back with your usual "leftsist
>extremist" response, with not much in the way of actual
>thought-progression or solution-building dialogue.
>
So blue isnt really blue..its chartruse polkadots?
>Enjoy curling up on your porch with your lefty-ghosts.
Lefty Ghosts? My dogs and cats are lefty ghosts????
>
>Make sure you banjo is in tune.
It usually is <G>
>
>Happy Arm-aggheddon.
<G>
So..have you decided to move to Cuba or simply stay and die?
Your opinions mean NUTHIN!
Of course they dont. Nor do yours.
On the other hand..I rather suspect far more people approve of my
opinion, than do yours.
Which of course means absolutely nothing.
On the other hand...a very very large portion of those People will be
hunting down and killing you and your ilk in less than 3 yrs.
Shrug...so while neither one of our opinions mean shit..you will be
dead, and I wont. Not for quite a number of years actually. Long long
after you have been reduced to bone and memory.
Works for me. Shrug
And there is nothing you can do about it. Well..Canada or Cuba might
take you.
Shrug again
> Marxists
Enough said. Anyone else?
> I said I was going to be sitting on the porch, banjo in hand, listening
> to the growing body counts.
Ya right. you'll be grabbing for your gun if the zombies running up your
lawn looking to their left, disguised as americans. lol
> >> >> Actually..yes, I am.
Theres the proof, folks.
> whats Obama fucking around with it for?
He's trying to get you morons out of the stone-age pharmcological empire
of greed where US is No. 39 in the world re: healthcare.
Instead, you guys would be up the ladder to No. 1 possibly.
> >Trick is to root-out the sickness so you can see people for their
> >similarities and not their differences.
>
> And thats why the Great Cull will happen..and soon.
You'd like that would you. Dream on.
> so..its into the mass graves with you.
Is that your Final Solution?
ROTFLMAO... what a nazi.
>In article <f2ogg515d1fbaetrp...@4ax.com>,
> Gunner Asch <gun...@NOSPAMlightspeed.net> wrote:
>
>> Marxists
>
>Enough said. Anyone else?
>
>> I said I was going to be sitting on the porch, banjo in hand, listening
>> to the growing body counts.
>
>Ya right. you'll be grabbing for your gun if the zombies running up your
>lawn looking to their left, disguised as americans. lol
Wouldnt you? Actually..those people running up your lawn will be there
to execute you. Count on it.
>
>> >> >> Actually..yes, I am.
>
>Theres the proof, folks.
>
>> whats Obama fucking around with it for?
>
>He's trying to get you morons out of the stone-age pharmcological empire
>of greed where US is No. 39 in the world re: healthcare.
>
>Instead, you guys would be up the ladder to No. 1 possibly.
>
>> >Trick is to root-out the sickness so you can see people for their
>> >similarities and not their differences.
>>
>> And thats why the Great Cull will happen..and soon.
>
>You'd like that would you. Dream on.
The clock is ticking. <VBG>
>
>> so..its into the mass graves with you.
>
>Is that your Final Solution?
>
>ROTFLMAO... what a nazi.
So Comrade..the Nazis murdered 8 million..the Communists murdered 175
million. Are you claiming you are superior because you murdered more?
Laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh
Pacifist: a person who has never won a fight and therefore thinks
that violence never solves anything.
Once again you Republitards always have to talk about violence and
make threats. You know that's a sure sign of weak ideas!
You can potentially win a fight without actually winning what it was
that you were fighting for. Kickin someones ass is no guarantee of
anything except maybe you'll end up in jail.
What threat did I make? Be specific.
And violence..well..thats a Leftwing thing. Our prisons are filled with
violent leftwingers..and in the last century..they killed 175,000,000
people
So we on the Right shouldnt mention your tendencies towards violence?
<VBG>
Have you decided if you are moving out of the Nation, or staying and
dying?
Shrug...blither all you want...there is a rope waiting for you
regardless.
And you really need to work on your lack of education.
Google the following words and report back to us
1. Threat
2. Observation
We will All be waiting
<VBG>
Shrug..true indeed. But in less than 3 yrs..there wont be enough jail
cells for everyone who wacks off a Leftard. And there wont be any will
to do so.
Nor enough police/military etc etc to make the arrests. Assuming those
that wack Leftards admit to doing it in the first place.
<VBG>
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What's it like to spend that Socialist Security check each month while
whining about socialism? A little disengenuos don't you think?
And you have to ignore me because I beat you're old wrinkled ass over
and over again. Damn you're a riot.
############################
Just thought Id pass it along to anyone interested in replying to
him....
> On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:01:39 GMT, Coffee in Madrid <gde...@eastlink.ca>
> wrote:
>
> >In article <f2ogg515d1fbaetrp...@4ax.com>,
> > Gunner Asch <gun...@NOSPAMlightspeed.net> wrote:
> Wouldnt you? Actually..those people running up your lawn will be there
> to execute you. Count on it.
I'm here with the other 144,000 to see an end to fake/false-propaganda
that has put fear where their heart should be. Not good when you start
beleiving your own bullshiite.
I'll see you in 7 years, at the end of Obama's term... and it will be
proven that you are incorrect about your upcoming murder spree.
> So Comrade..the Nazis murdered 8 million..the Communists murdered 175
> million. Are you claiming you are superior because you murdered more?
Looks like they missed one... aka Gunner Asch-hole.
snicker.
>In article <6mcjg5d26hauu287f...@4ax.com>,
> Gunner Asch <gun...@NOSPAMlightspeed.net> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:01:39 GMT, Coffee in Madrid <gde...@eastlink.ca>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >In article <f2ogg515d1fbaetrp...@4ax.com>,
>> > Gunner Asch <gun...@NOSPAMlightspeed.net> wrote:
>
>> Wouldnt you? Actually..those people running up your lawn will be there
>> to execute you. Count on it.
>
>I'm here with the other 144,000 to see an end to fake/false-propaganda
>that has put fear where their heart should be. Not good when you start
>beleiving your own bullshiite.
Shrug...you hope anyways that Im not right. Just because no one has
hunted you down and killed you yet..doesnt mean that it wont happen.
Can you tell me what the French Revolution was all about? And what
happened when the People finally had had enough....
"let them eat cake"
<VBG>
Came as a hell of a surprise to the royalty didnt it.....?
>
>I'll see you in 7 years, at the end of Obama's term... and it will be
>proven that you are incorrect about your upcoming murder spree.
Again you slander me and claim that Im going to be murdering people.
Is that simply the result of your long term retardation or is it
simply the mush the DNC has filled your brain cavity with?
>
>> So Comrade..the Nazis murdered 8 million..the Communists murdered 175
>> million. Are you claiming you are superior because you murdered more?
>
>Looks like they missed one... aka Gunner Asch-hole.
So you cant counter my statement of truth..so have to assault the
messenger eh?
Laugh laugh laugh...just shows that you are no different than the
usual run of the mill Fucktard...you just are a bit smoother..until
crossed. Then you turn into the usual fucktard Leftwinger.
<G>
Good to see that. Everyone has been expecting it. Ill have to check
the pool and see who won. I bet that it would be 8 posts before you
showed your ass, but it looks like it was 14 posts.
>
>snicker.
Snicker indeed...laugh laugh laugh laugh
Gunner Asch
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:52:12 GMT, Coffee in Madrid
> <gde...@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>
> >In article <6mcjg5d26hauu287f...@4ax.com>,
> > Gunner Asch <gun...@NOSPAMlightspeed.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:01:39 GMT, Coffee in Madrid <gde...@eastlink.ca>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> >In article <f2ogg515d1fbaetrp...@4ax.com>,
> >> > Gunner Asch <gun...@NOSPAMlightspeed.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Wouldnt you? Actually..those people running up your lawn will be there
> >> to execute you. Count on it.
> >
> >I'm here with the other 144,000 to see an end to fake/false-propaganda
> >that has put fear where their heart should be. Not good when you start
> >beleiving your own bullshiite.
>
> Shrug...you hope anyways that Im not right.
Global warming will get-us back online... politics will be the LAST
thing on anyones mind, (if), the shit hits the fan.
We'll be too busy being in survival mode. At least somewhere on the
planet.
> hunted you down and killed you yet..doesnt mean that it wont happen.
I'll be sitting here waiting, playin' me guitar... bling bling blingg.
> >I'll see you in 7 years, at the end of Obama's term... and it will be
> >proven that you are incorrect about your upcoming murder spree.
>
> Again you slander me and claim that Im going to be murdering people.
I prefer thinking of it as a R-evolution. The NON-violent kind.
> Gunner Asch-hole.
What? don't like your new bumper sticker?
snicker Inddeed...
>
> So you cant counter my statement of truth..so have to assault the
> messenger eh?
>
> Laugh laugh laugh...just shows that you are no different than the
> usual run of the mill Fucktard...you just are a bit smoother..until
> crossed. Then you turn into the usual fucktard Leftwinger.
We're all on the dismal boat.
Some of us will row,
Others will plan mutiny.
(not that I'm pointing any fingers) lol.
"Curly Surmudgeon" <CurlySu...@live.com> wrote in message
news:he2j1h$s3t$5...@news.eternal-september.org...
> On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:14:52 -0600, denn...@dennism3.invalid (Dennis M)
> wrote:
>
>> In article
>> <da19c09d-df18-4b97...@i12g2000prg.googlegroups.com>,
>> Bret Cahill <BretC...@aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> >In article <dl89g5t7v5dn55497...@4ax.com>, Gunner Asch
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 2012 Run, Rudy, Run! 2012
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
No, but you left out Beck and Limpballs to complete the list of extremists.
I would vote for Rudy if he comes out again in his dress and with that blond
wig.
Hahahahahah, that was so sexy if you could hide his face...heheheheheheh.
It seems the country doesn't count with rightards. They already screwed it
up.
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By Jean Bricmont
Americans are constantly told that they have to defend themselves
against people who "hate them", but without understanding why they are
hated. Is the cause our secular democracy? Our appetite for oil? There
are lots of democracies in the world that are far more secular than
the United States (Sweden, France...) and lots of places that want to
buy oil at the best possible price (China) without arousing any
noticeable hatred in the Middle East.
Of course, it is true that, throughout the Third World, Americans and
Europeans are often considered arrogant and are not particularly
liked. But the level of hatred that leads a large number of people to
applaud an event like September 11 is peculiar to the Middle East.
Indeed, the main political significance of September 11 did not derive
from the number of people killed or even the spectacular achievement
of the attackers, but from the fact that the attack was popular in
large parts of the Middle East. That much was understood by Americans
leaders and infuriated them. Such a level of hatred calls for
explanation.
And there can be only one explanation: United States support for
Israel. It is indeed Israel that is the main object of hatred, for
reasons we shall describe, but since the United States uncritically
supports Israel on almost every issue, constantly praises it as "the
only democracy in the Middle East" and provides its main financial
backing, the result is a "transfer" of hatred.
Why is Israel so hated? The constant stalling of "peace plans" in
favor of more settlements and more war aggravates that hatred, but the
basic cause lies in the very principles on which that state is built.
There are basically two arguments that have justified establishing the
State of Israel in Palestine: one is that "God" gave that land to the
Jews, and the other is the Holocaust. The first one is deeply
insulting to people who are profoundly religious, like most Arabs, but
of another creed. And, for the second, it amounts to making people pay
for a crime that they did not commit.
Both arguments claim that it is right for Jews, and only Jews, to set
up a state in a land that would obviously be Arab, like Jordan or
Lebanon, if not for the slow Zionist invasion. This is illustrated by
the "law of return": any Jew, anywhere, having no connection with
Palestine whatsoever, and not suffering from the slightest
persecution, can, if he so wishes, emigrate to Israel and easily
become a citizen, while the inhabitants who fled in 1948, or their
children, cannot. Add to that the fact that a city claimed to be holy
by three religions has become the "eternal capital of the Jewish
people" (and only them) and one should start to understand the rage
that all this provokes throughout the Arab and Muslim world.
It is precisely this [Jewish supremacist] aspect that infuriates most
Arabs, even if they do not have any personal connection to Palestine.
This situation delegitimizes the Arab regimes that are impotent in the
face of the Zionist enemy and, after the defeat of the region's two
main secular leaders, Nasser and Saddam Hussein (the latter thanks to
the U.S.), leads to the rise of religious fundamentalism.
The conflict over Palestine goes beyond the second class status of
Israeli Arabs or even the treatment of the Occupied Territories. Even
if a Palestinian state were established on the latter, and even if
full equality were granted to Israeli Arabs, the wounds of 1948 would
not heal quickly. Arab leaders, even religious ones, can of course
sign peace agreements with Israel, but they are fragile so long as the
Arab population considers them unjust and does not accept them
wholeheartedly. Palestine is the Alsace-Lorraine or the Taiwan of the
Arab world and the fact that it is impossible to take it back does not
mean that it can be forgotten . (I am not arguing here in favor of
"wiping Israel off the map", or in favor of a "one state solution" but
simply underlining what seems to me to be the root and the depth of
the problem. In fact, I am not arguing for any solution partly because
none seems to me to be attainable in the short term, but, more
fundamentally, because I do not think that outsiders to the Middle
East should propose such solutions.)
There is no sign that any of this is understood in Israel by more than
a few individuals; if Arabs hate them, this is just another instance
of the fact that everybody hates Jews and it only proves that they
have to "defend themselves" (i.e. attack others pre-emptively) by any
means necessary. That is bad enough, but why isn't this understood in
the United States either? There are traditionally two answers to that:
one is that the population is manipulated into supporting Israel by
the government, the arms merchants or the oil industry, because Israel
is a strategic U.S. ally; the other answer is that the United States
is manipulated by the Israel lobby. The idea that Israel is a
strategic ally, if by that one means a useful ally (useful to, say,
the oil interests, broadly understood), although widely accepted,
specially in the Left, does not survive a critical examination. That
may have been the case in 1967 or even during the Cold War period,
although one could argue that, even then, the Arab states were
attracted by the Soviet Union only because it might support them in
their struggle against Israel, albeit ineffectively. But both in 1991
and in 2003, the United States attacked Iraq without any help from
Israel, even begging Israel not to intervene in 1991, in order for its
Arab coalition not to collapse. Or consider the post-2003 occupation
of Iraq, and suppose that the goal of that occupation is control over
oil. In what sense does Israel help in that respect? Everything it
does (the currents attacks on Gaza and Lebanon for example) further
alienates the Arabs, and U.S. support for Israel makes the control of
oil harder, not easier. Even the Iraqi parliament, Malaki and Sistani,
who are the closest to allies that the United States can find there,
condemn Israel's actions.
Finally, just imagine that the United States would make a 180 [degree]
turn and suddenly side with the Palestinians, as they did with the
Kosovars against the Serbs. Such a change of policies is by no means
impossible: when Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975, the US
supported the invasion by providing most of Indonesia's weapons. Yet,
25 years later, the U.S. supported, or at least did not oppose, East
Timor's accession to independence.
What effect would that have? Can anyone doubt that such a change of
policy would facilitate U.S. access to oil fields and help it gain
strategic allies (if any were still needed) throughout the Muslim
world? In the Middle East, the main charge against the United States
is that it is pro-Israel, because it lets itself be "manipulated by
the Jews". Therefore, if Washington switched sides, there would be no
more basis for hostility to U.S. presence, including its control over
oil. Thus the notion of Israel as "strategic ally" makes no sense.
This leads us to the "Israel lobby" answer, which is closer to the
truth, but not the whole truth. To get a complete picture, one has to
understand why the lobby works as effectively as it does, and that
depends on factors lying outside the actions of the lobby itself.
After all, the militant Zionists constituting the lobby are a minority
among Jews, who themselves form a small minority of the American
population. The Israel lobby does not work like other lobbies, for
example, the arms and the oil industry lobbies (which is one of the
reasons why it is easy to dismiss it as irrelevant, as long as one
does not understand how it really exerts its influence).
Of course, like the latter, the Israel lobby does fund electoral
campaigns and its power derives in part from its ability to target
people in Congress who deviate from its "line". But if that were all,
it could be easily defeated -indeed. There are other sources of
electoral funding, the big industrial lobbies for example, and if the
pro-Israel candidates could be shown to be paid to serve the interests
of another state, their opponents could denounce the people who
receive money from the lobby as some sort of agents of a foreign
power. Just imagine a pro-French, pro-Chinese or pro-Japanese lobby
that would try to significantly influence the U.S. Congress.
Certainly, money alone cannot suffice.
What protects the Israel lobby is the fact that anyone who would
denounce an opponent funded by the Lobby as a quasi-agent of a foreign
power would immediately be accused of anti-Semitism. In fact, imagine
that big business is unhappy with the current U.S. policies (as it
well may be) and wants to change them-how could they do it? Any
criticism of lobby influence on U.S. policy would immediately trigger
the anti-Zionism-is-anti-Semitism accusation.
So the strength of the Israel lobby resides in part in this second
line of defense, which itself is linked to its influence on the media.
But even that could easily be defeated-not all the media are under the
lobby's influence, and, more importantly, the media are not
all-powerful: in Venezuela, they are anti-Chavez, but Chavez regularly
wins elections. In France, the media were overwhelmingly in favor of
the "yes" vote to the referendum on the European Constitution, yet the
"no" won. The problem-and this is why the Israel lobby is so
effective, is that it expresses a world view that is accepted too
easily by too many Americans. After all, nothing could be more
ridiculous than accusing someone of anti-Semitism because he wants or
claims to put America's interests above those of Israel. Yet, the
accusation is likely to be effective, but only because years of
ideological brainwashing have predisposed people to consider U.S. and
Israeli interests as identical-although instead of "interests" one
speaks of "values".
Associated with this identification comes a systematically hostile
view of the Arab and Muslim world, which both increases the lobby's
effectiveness and is in part the result of its propaganda. There is an
almost total lack of understanding of the Arab viewpoint on Palestine,
and, in particular, of the [Jewish supremacist] nature of the problem.
It is this triple layer of control (selective funding, the
anti-Semitism card, or rather canard, and interiorization) that gives
the lobby its peculiar strength. (And that is also why it is easy to
dismiss its strength by saying, for instance, that, obviously, Jews
don't control America. Sure, but direct control is not the way it
works.)
People who think that it is the arms or the oil industry that are
running the show in Washington as far as foreign policy is concerned
should at least answer the following question: how does it work? There
is no evidence whatsoever that the oil industry, for example, pushed
for the Iraq war, the threats against Iran, or the attack on Lebanon .
(There is a lot of evidence that the Israel lobby pushed for the Iraq
war; see Jeff Blankfort, A War for Israel). They are supposed to act
secretly, of course, but where is the evidence that they do? And if
there is no evidence, even no indirect evidence, how does one know?
Profits from the war, at least for major corporations, haven't
materialized yet, and there are many indications that the U.S. economy
will suffer a lot from war-related expenses and the associated
deficits. On the other hand, it is enough to open any mainstream U.S.
newspaper or TV and read or hear opinions expressed by Zionists
calling for more war. War needs war propaganda and a supporting
ideology, and the Zionists provide it, while none of this is offered
by big business in general or the oil industry in particular.
When people in the antiwar movement divert attention from Israel by
blaming big oil or big business for the wars (specially the one in
Lebanon, or the threats against Iran) one should demand that they
provide some evidence for their claims. Challenge all the apologists
or excuse makers for Israel or its lobby within progressive circles.
When politicians and journalists claim that Israel and the United
States have common interests, ask what services exactly has Israel
rendered to the United States recently. Of course one can always point
to some (minor) services; but, then, ask them what a cold-blooded
cost-benefits analysis would reveal and why such an analysis is
impossible to undertake publicly. If they speak of common values (the
fallback position), provide a list of discriminatory Israeli laws for
non-Jews.
It is true that a change in the U.S. policy with respect to the
Israel-Palestine conflict would change nothing about traditional
imperialism-the United States would still support traditional elites
everywhere, and press countries to provide a "favorable investment
climate". But the conflict in the Middle East, involving Iraq, Iran,
Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine, has all the aspects of a religious
war-with Islam on one side and Zionism as a secular "Western" religion
on the other. And wars of religion tend to be the most brutal and
uncontrollable of all wars. What is at stake in the de-Zionization of
the American mind is not only the fate of the unfortunate inhabitants
of Palestine but also unspeakable miseries for the people of that
region and maybe of the rest of the world. The ultimate irony in all
this is that the fate of much of the world depends on the American
people exercizing their right to self-determination, which, of course,
they should.
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