Murder, St. Louis Style

This article was removed from this site some months ago at the request of a friend who has economic interests in the St. Louis area.  This article was originally conceived, produced and posted primarily due to the lack of accurite media coverage of this incident.  Now, after the lack of media response to the murder of Autumn Pasquale by two Black teens in New Jersey.  .  . 

Around 6:00PM last evening, gunfire erupted on the 4200 block of Shaw in St. Louis a few yards from Sasha’s Wine Bar.  Two members of America’s oppressed Black population were settling an adolescent dispute.  Immediately following the first compression I looked up from the patio filled with trendy White clients sipping imported wine and basking in the illusion of urban neighborhood renovation.

I had become causally involved in a tableside conversation some college graduates were having about the recent abortion/contraception debate in the news.  After most of the girls had pondered pregnancy as a predicament, they asked me what I thought.  I answered, “Do you mean: would I rather you killed your baby in the womb, or raise another liberal?” just before the shots rang out. 

When I turned back to look at the patio, the lambs were wide-eyed and trout-faced, sitting in their seats wondering who had set off the firecrackers.  A few moments later when they realized it was not a pre-Fourth of July celebration, they scattered like white mice.

There was no mention of the incident on the local news that evening.  Nathan Clark, who owns and rebuilt the building containing Sasha’s informed me with a bit of hyperbole that there is “no reporting of crime in the City of St. Louis.”  After twenty-four hours, a web search revealed that there is only an amateur video without audio posted on a local news website above a three sentence article.

Thirty minutes later, on St. Louis news talk radio, Sean Hannity was interviewing our nation’s latest disenfranchised Blacks – Juan Williams and Herman Cain.  They were

A local Shaw Neighborhood youth on his cell phone. Note: These kids are so poor, they can’t afford belts. I’ve even seen FOUR of them sharing ONE cigarette!

discussing the “new” evidence in the Trevon Martin killing.  Juan displayed his talent for self-ventriloquism as he spoke out of both sides of his mouth claiming at one moment that it did not appear that the gunman, Zimmerman, had any reason to shoot, but just moments later Juan described “the ‘Hood” as a dangerous place where “you can find all kinds of crazy people”.  Later, Juan added:  “In the Hood, they make jailhouse dress a fashion.  So why do they get upset when somebody says they look like a hoodlum?”

Today, the “tweets” of the latest oppressed Black sensation were revealed.  A local talk radio host said he could not read Treyvon’s “handle” on the air as it contained the “N” word.  I hear the word “nigger” or “nigga” working out here on the patio every day YELLED down the block:  “HEY, MY NIGGA!!!”  I mean, who listens to this guy on the radio that would be offended?  White people?  No, they are not offended.  They are paranoid, intimidated and lacking in fortitude.  In short, they are not candidates for the New Nation.

The host of this show was interviewing a Miami journalist assigned to cover the Little shooting.  He informed the listeners that the “tweets” likewise could not be read on the air, but suffice it to say that the dead Black was “preoccupied” with sex and marijuana.  He also mentioned that throughout the last few weeks, Wiki, Google and Twitter had posted and removed this kind of information about Trevon several times as it appears that his Mamma is trying to copyright and cash in on her dead son.  Typical teenager?  Momma’s precious little boy?  Yeah, I know.  We have a few here in St. Louis, too . . . and fewer everyday.

I had been working on the landscaping at Sasha’s for a week chronicling the local male porch monkeys and street dealers.  I call it “Policing the Area”: noting hair style, distinguishing walk, which hand they use to hold their pants up, and do they have a hand in a pocket or exhibit other obvious bulges where they ought not be.  Most of these kids had barely started school when I completed this historic restoration project with Nathan ten years ago.  Now they have dropped out or been kicked out of school and graduated to Gansta:  slingin’ dope and livin’ off Uncle Sammy!

Now it’s springtime, and, as the Last Earl of Shaw used to say, that’s when the “natives start to get restless.”

I knew that what I heard from the patio that night was not a “string” of firecrackers.  Why?  The consistency of the compressions, the inconsistent frequency of the reports, and the fact that I saw the shooter squeeze off rounds two through six. 

Blood on the sidewalk – all that is left of another victim of Black on Black crime.

He was standing on the sidewalk at first, and then, retreating for the final three rounds, he fired at random behind him as he fled.  Three teen girls, one on the left side and two on the right, ran up the street laughing – or screaming? – looking like a galloping Goober and a pair of hysterical, wobbling Raisonets. 

At the same time, hopping on one foot down the sidewalk toward me and holding onto to his other bloody leg, was a tall, skinny Black teen who eventually ducked between two parked cars.  (I apologize!  I honestly cannot think of one similarity between this hopping, bleeding Black youth and a duck.  I have seen turkeys behave somewhat like that hopping Hope of St. Louis, but never a duck.)

Black on Black murder and other violent crimes committed by Blacks expends thousands of rounds of ammunition each year. Sometimes the victims are trees. Perhaps this picture explains why Henry Shaw built his garden wall.

  

Shaw Avenue – home to Sasha’s Wine Bar – is named after Henry Shaw’s World famous Shaw’s Garder, a.k.a. The Missouri Botanical Garden.  Just 2 blocks away from the attempted Black 0n Black murder, Shaw’s Garden has been meticulously maintained since 1859.  It is also largely surrounded by a fifteen foot high three foot thick stone wall.  In portions where there is no stone wall, there is an iron spear-tipped fence – to keep the flowers and trees in, right?

A proud and appropriate display, typical of houses on The Hill – called shotgun flats. (Sounds like a place not to drive your stagecoach in Texas, doesn’t it?) Mostly built between the World Wars, the neighborhood looks much the same as it always has.

Two more blocks to the west is another world famous neighborhood – Dago Hill, as it is known in St. Louis, or simply, The Hill.  The Hill is home to some of the finest Italian restaurants in the US and has produced some of America’s best chefs including your humble author.  The Hill also enjoys the distinction of being the only neighborhood in the City of St. Louis that looks much as it did eightyears ago.

When I moved back to St. Louis in the late 1980’s, I wanted to live on The Hill for two reasons.  I was a chef who wanted to walk to work, and, not surprisingly, The Hill is likely the safest neighborhood in the State of Missouri – if you are White.  The expression, “The Hill takes care of their own,” refers not only to their strong ethnic bond, but also to the fact that they “take care” of their own problems, meaning crime.  So, that which might occur is rarely reported but always resolved.

However, one does not simply drive around the neighborhood seeking “For Rent” signs because there are none.  One does not simply look in the newspaper for apartments for rent on The Hill because there are no such listings.  If I wanted to live on The Hill, tall blonde lad that I was, I was told to “Go see the Ladies of St. Ambrose” and be prepared to “make a contribution” to the Church.  I phoned St. Ambrose Parish and was given an appointment for later that week.  I took my checkbook and my mother.

A week or so later, I received a phone call from Aloysius DeLeberto, a retired Maytag repair man who owned the largest house on The Hill.  He had an upstairs to rent and said he would like to meet me. 

The Hill: Shaw Avenue just six blocks from the scene of the Black on Black (attempted, at this point) murder.

In this way, The Hill has remained the one neighborhood in St. Louis which has never needed to be “revitalized”.  How this has occurred is no accident and no mystery.  The Hill, for generations, consisted of a homogenous population:  Italian Catholics who were predominantly from Sicily.  Many of these immigrants had local sponsors and all were welcomed into St. Ambrose Parish and School – which still teaches Italian language classes for all eight grades!  All the children wear typical Catholic School uniforms, they are taught by Italian Catholic nuns, and most are dropped off and picked up everyday by their second or third generation parents who now live out in West County.  There are no school busses shuttling these children around the City.

 In the radio interview mentioned above, Herman Cain reminded us that there were 41 Black on Black murders in the President’s hometown of South Chicago last weekend, but Obama chose to insert himself into the Trevon shooting in Florida.  If he had gone to Chicago instead, Black on Black murder would have been “the story”, and not the Presidential insertion.  Black on Black murder in Chicago, St. Louis and every other large city in America is kept out of the news so as not to tarnish the illusion of safety in the minds of suburban Whites. 

There are indeed many historical artifacts and other forms of entertainment offered in US cities where Whites still like to go and spend their money.  Many, for example, go to ball games where they can watch mostly Black athletes compete.  Down here in the Shaw Neighborhood, you can actually come and see them murder each other – at no extra charge.

Alex Kurtagić and the Masters of the Universe: A Synopsis

Introduction:  I had the good fortune to enjoy a morning stroll to the Reagan Convention Center with two other attendees at last fall’s National Policy Institute (NPI) Conference in Washington, D.C.  The previous afternoon, NPI had hosted a news conference at the National Press Club on the future of conservative politics in America and its perilous neglect of its largest voting bloc: White Christians.  No one was in attendance outside of conference attendees.

As we walked, we talked about ourselves by way of introduction and added a few anecdotes from our past trips to Washington.  As we passed the hallowed halls of Federal Employees, I alone noticed a shadow streak down a retaining wall just behind us and across the sidewalk to disappear beneath a curbside public waste receptacle.

“Did you see that?” I asked nonchalantly and got no response.  Not wishing to be an alarmist, I allowed my companions to continue their walk and conversation unaware of entropy galloping toward us, just around the bend: built of tents, marble or steel, every empire falls.

This conference was to ask us to no longer merely cogitate on our future and suggest that it is too late for such luxury.  It is past time for action, and some have long been preparing for the inevitable.  Now, are we to (1) prepare for the fall by hoarding survival essentials; (2) consider such preparation to be a folly and live for ourselves; or (3) prepare for a new future by beginning today to build a new world?

A hundred years ago, the communist intellectual cabal was awaiting a great social upheaval to ignite a consequent Nation-less working class revolution.  WWI ushered in the chaos, but to the Social Marxist’s chagrin, each European Nation’s citizenry trundled off to line up for battle in their national uniforms each beneath a singularly shaped and colored banner.  Today, some in our movement wallow in fruitless expectation of calamity spawning a new beginning.  Nature is replete with examples – forests rejuvenate after fire or a reef after a storm – but there is no such event in human history.  The fantasies of those awaiting a new world contribute nothing to the builders who are underway, not willing to wait an Ice Age before seeing their world begin anew.

Alex Kurtagić is an artist who exhibits the martial mind of an intrepid Montenegrin.  An author of novels, reviews, essays and blogs in several languages, he is also an accomplished visual artist, musician and commentator.   I find agreement and inspiration in most of what he has to say excepting some of his musical tastes, but I acknowledge that we need artists and others of our warrior class to traverse the darker halls and unlit alleyways – places the rest of us need not inhabit.  Author of the post-modern dystopian Mister (Iron Sky, 2009), the speech delivered by Alex was one of the highlights of the NPI Conference.

The title was “Masters of the Universe”.  Although the film/comic book reference belies his age, Kurtagić’s topic was no less than a how-to guide on transforming the power structure of a society.  Here, I report, faithfully I hope, on some aspects of his politics – and mine where we agree and disagree…

The Challenge:   It is a common fallacy to consider ideals as universally applying to people in past times or in a different place.  Indeed, it is shocking for some people today to consider when the French revolutionaries cried, “Liberté, égalité, fraternité!” in 1789; they were referring to themselves, The French – not to all mankind.  The historical perspective of the average Frenchman was 12 miles geographically, and about 30 years in duration.  He had white skin, dark eyes and hair (perhaps curly), spoke French, his parents and grandparents were French, he read French (if literate), he ate French food, drank French wine, and probably liked snails.  And when he thought in terms of equality, he thought “un François” or people from France.

During the Progressive Era, the conventional understanding of the liberal democratic principle Equality has morphed into the childish (Buddhist?) notion that every (living) thing is equal.  This fluidity of definition has ramifications on the popular notions of rights, citizenship, voting, and all that jazz.  A Youtube comment posted yesterday asked, “What has someone’s skin color got to do with being British?”  Reason cannot be used to communicate the illogic contained in this young person’s question.  It takes years of training to produce such a mentality.  Kurtagić proposes that he can only be reached on a visceral level.

The bottom line is that we are living amongst a population of our own race that is so educationally challenged as to be hostile toward any form of respect for the true history of our ancestors.  This in turn makes life increasingly difficult for the rest of us (i.e., affirmative action, open immigration).  Motivated by guilt for the accident of their birth in the West and spewing venom for those who came before them, they act as global political zealots spending an inheritance they did not earn.  The gifts of their nations – freedom, rights, land and money – they are happy to dole out to any mongrel on the planet, not for the advantage of the poor wretch, but because the liberal democratic principles of our Western constitutions are supreme.  While hating forefathers who provided their privileges, these bored zealots elevate intangible ideals above reason and, given their lack of real world experience, beyond any real human consideration.  They have supplanted gratitude and respect for the creator with an idolatry of the created.  Sound familiar?

Alex asked:  ” So the question arises, given what is happening to us, and given that the end product of the progressive egalitarian project (open mass-immigration) is the end of us, what can we do to turn the tide? What must we do to alter the course of our society?”

Left Mysticism:  Among the winners and losers of wars are political ideologies.  Those which gain popularity with the victors are legitimized by the powers that be, but they are not necessarily “good”.  For example, both democratic capitalism as well as communism flourished after the last world war.  The consequences of each may be evaluated by the reader.  Other ideas like Nationalism, while in reality much more popular, “lost” the war and, therefore, legitimacy .  In the West, those at the helm of the ascending wave held the power, and their guiding lights of that Progressive Era were the institutionally entrenched “equality zealots” (Kurtagić’s term).

Equality zealots begin very young.  In grade school, they are often seen butting in line, or it starts with the request, “Mmmm.  Lemme have a bite,” or “Can I have a sip?”  They don’t want it all, they just want a little bit.  In fact, they don’t really want any of your stuff at all, they just don’t want you to have it.  They are setting you up.  You see, in the future, they don’t want you entertaining any infectious ideas of independence or individuality, and certainly not the uncivilized notion of personal property.  Ultimately, they want to be in control of the distribution of whatever you’ve got – and get!  Some go on to careers in government service earning a living making up regulations governing how we live our lives and dictating what we can and cannot do with our stuff – equality zealots.

These Regulators in our society are the objects of Kurtagić’s premise of transforming the power structure of our society.  They are who he has in mind to replace as the current masters of our universe.  He proceeds by admitting that the Progressive victors of the last war wrote its history, and they do indeed determine how we view the past:  “They were able to use all of the institutional resources of the state to reconfigure how we see the world, how we learn about the world, and even how we think about the world.

They also re-developed the status system in our society, so that their ideas were elevated and enthroned, and those of their enemies scorned and reviled; so that their chums were promoted and praised to the skies, and their enemies demoted and ostracised as enemies of civilised society.  Through their control of institutions and the status system, they were able to encode their values and ideals.”

Alex reasons that the values and ideas of the equality zealots evolved into a system of symbols which evoke emotive responses that require no reasoning to process a decisive action.  The word”Racism” for example, no more has a definitive meaning, but is a powerful symbol representing “white hate” –  real or imagined.  A concept such as Equality no longer is constrained by its specific cultural/historical origins; it has become a “universal concept” applying to all (human?) beings.  After all, it does not feel good to think hard or to apply such a wonderful thing selectively as it was designed; it feels good to share, and to do so feeds an addiction.

To people who do think hard – loving logic and reason – this makes no sense at all, and the addictive nature is frightful.  It is frightful because where anti-intellectualism reigns, seduction and inspiration are easily achieved.  We realize how easily people lacking the tools of critical thinking are mastered and manipulated.  Stuck in a swamp of things, they lack the (development of their spiritual and intellectual) wings to set themselves free.  It is frightful because we see what matters to us most trammeled upon, mocked and too often just ignored by our children — oblivious to the fact that they are what matters to us most . . .

Alex continued:  “And when we tell him that he’s wrong, that humans are not equal, and he protests, it’s not because he’s done any research—in fact he doesn’t want to look at the research—not unless it’s convenient; it’s because he feels it’s morally wrong, or because he fears social sanction, disapproval, shame.  Thus the Left has mystified its values, and through this mystification, the Left has made its system impervious to Reason.  In doing so, its proponents effectively became the Masters of our Universe.  They set its boundaries, determined its laws, defined its appearance, and fixed its cosmological constants.”   (Emphasis added.)

Is Pluto a planet or isn’t it?

The Messenger:  So, we must channel our efforts and accept that conversion to our cause, The New Enlightenment, does not and cannot occur via reasoned argument.  As with the true believer, it grows out of disappointment, frustration and/or intellectual curiosity.  Alex notes that “the facts and the arguments don’t go to the individual.  The individual comes to the facts and the arguments.  The reason is that humans are rarely persuaded by facts and arguments . . . they are impressed by their source.”   From our spokespersons to our recruiters to the very tone of our written words, we should exhibit similar traits if we are aimed at the same ends.  Uniformity of action propels the movement of an idea whose time has come.

Alex made the following observation concerning the origins of a movement’s galvanizing force:  “Man is the symbolising animal; he operates in symbols, structured sounds and images.”  This is how he defines himself, and then looks for others like himself.  “That’s why a person’s authority is instantly obvious.  It’s in the way he looks.  The way he sounds.  The way he carries himself.  Often, he becomes a symbol of authority.”  Like flowers straining for the setting sun, the masses will align with the brightest star – however momentary.  

           “So, to become Masters of our Universe once again, to rise as new masters as the old ones fall, a New Nationalism needs to look like it deserves the scepter of power.  It needs to symbolise a new beginning, and it needs to symbolise it now and always, and not wait for the collapse to clean the slate.”

The Messenger is the Message.  People are more impressed with courage than cogitation; more attracted to calm confidence than concise arguments and more inspired by aggression toward threats than invitations to share.  Leadership conducts power:  it attracts the powerful, is a conduit for dispensing influence, and directs the actions of recipients.

Kurtagić continued:  “This is why it’s said that in a society the bulk of individuals follow whoever is in charge, even when those in charge are hostile.  They are awed by their Masters not because they are reasonable, but because they are powerful and masterful, because they control their universe, because they control access to status and resources, because they are dangerous, or else because they represent an idea that is seductive, that somehow inspires them.

They are not likely to oppose their Masters because deep down they want to be like them, they want to be among them, they want to have what they have, or they want to be part of that idea, they want to be with the winning team. 

The only time they oppose their Masters or discard the idea is when they cease to seem masterful, when there’s no longer a mystique around them, when they start looking weak and pathetic and all too human, when they look like they can be replaced—when something more seductive is on offer.”  In our words and actions, being seductive will be more important than the mountains of evidence we have amassed proving our position.

Alex argued that Western culture exhibits a fascination with abstract ideas as a consequence of a “highly developed moral sense.”  A concomitant individualistic nature has led Western man away from the ethnocentrism, tribalism and racialism yet embraced by other peoples of the world.  Westerners have come un-rooted from the earth (before they have evolved into the quasi-spiritual meta-human beings some seem to think they are…).  The assumption of global acceptance and application of their unique moral universality has led to America’s British-like sanctimonious Imperialism.  In the end, it is consequent of Western man’s tending “to become enamoured of abstract universal principles—liberty, equality, brotherhood, democracy, and so on.”

Thus western man is more likely than other people of the world to extend his principles, values, rights or privileges to someone outside his tribe, nation or race.  Western man is more likely than other people to suppress his racial instincts of preservation of his family, his nation and his people in favor of anyone from another tribe, nation or race.  Alex uses the term White ethno-masochist to describe those “who do not see their actions as being against their racial or even their group interests; they see them as being moral, as being high-minded.”  Not only do they understand that open immigration is white genocide, they pine for it.

Facts Don’t Persuade:  Our people are frustrated over the trickle of conversions to our cause in the face of a hundred years of research and mountains of facts and evidence.  The obstacle is like trying to teach a pubescent adolescent – anything!  Facts don’t persuade an emotive people.  “The result is that most choose the data that flatter their vanity, that make them feel good about themselves, that make them feel part of their chosen community, and they reject data that seem inconvenient or embarrassing, or that come from a source with which they cannot personally identify. . . .  Most want to be confirmed in their beliefs . . . Humans will sooner keep on dreaming than wake up—after all, their dreams are nice and feel good, while reality is ugly and feels bad.”

Alex proposes the following syllogism for the most difficult task to undertake in a society:  If we seek a fundamental change in our social power structure, and if that power structure has successfully mis-educated our fellow citizens, then we must begin by understanding that our fellow citizens are not going to be persuaded by reason; they must be seduced and inspired.

How is this to be accomplished?  “Humans tend to be impressed by the masterful.  They come to an idea because the messenger is somehow seductive: they want to be like him, or with people like him.  They want to belong and to feel good about themselves.”

Alex concludes succinctly that “if we are not being more successful selling our message, it’s because we are offering none of the above.”  An organization whose camaraderie is steeped in racial slurs and the exchange of interracial crime stories only serves to reinforce the pessimism of its membership (and recruits!) and the general negativity characteristic of its meetings.  The only hope too commonly expressed among them is that the collapse will cure all.

Kurtagić retorts:  “That is not the attitude of the masterful, of the powerful, of people who shape events.  That is the attitude of people shaped by events. . .  We have to project an image of success . . . speaking not in terms of what we’ve lost, but in terms of what we’re going to gain; in terms of what kind of society we want to build, in terms of what happens next, not what happened before.  A winner learns from the past, but he’s always looking to the future.  He’s always facing the sun.  And we are solar people.  We have brought light into this world.  We must not forget who we are.  We must not become slaves of the darkness.  A winner’s image is an indispensable part of a winning formula.”

Again, his formula is simple.  Like evangelicals ushering the herds to heaven, we must believe we are already there.  Alex foretells of an optimistic New Nationalism in our future “operating like an alternative society” with a “parallel universe” both physical – our own homeland – and metaphysical – that is, we live, work and communicate among people who share our distinct cultural values, mores, all the live long day.  The New Nationalism is a New Nation in waiting, and “rather than looking like conservatives fighting the tide of progress, we have to be the tide—the tide that sweeps away the old and decrepit Left, that sweeps them out of power, sweeps them into the landfill of history, never to rise again.”

We Can Win:  Kurtagić’s methodology of transforming an entire society reveals his martial nature, and his simple tactics can easily be co-opted by artists and others wishing to convert or recruit for a New Nation, each being a daunting task, but not insurmountable.

Alex derives his tactics from his examination of history.  “The process begins . . . in the hands of a Creative Minority . . . (and) because they are impatient with the world around them . . . they fantasise about something new.”  Artists, philosophers, and writers create, in time, bodies of works.  As they meet others of their kind, they collaborate, have gatherings, form organizations and conduct meetings.  Their current grows into a counter-culture and eventually rivals the existing establishment.

And then it becomes political, in the final stage.  Here, the movement transforms into “a struggle between two opposing forces, two colliding cosmologies, two conceptions of the universe:  One representing the past, another representing the future.  Only one of them becomes master of the universe.”

Power is not gained through politics, politics is gained through power.  We don’t need to be dominant in a political party.  We don’t need representatives in congress or the state houses or any elected offices.  Revolutions ride on the momentum of a swell of believers.  We will have strength in our numbers at all levels of society.

Therein is, has been and will be our power.  In fact, given our history, politics may be irrelevant by that time —  Oh, yeah!  Kurtagić proposes a transformation our current society.  I forgot . . .

Conclusion:  Alex Kurtagić projects clarity of vision.  He has stood upon the bridge that his generation of natural-born Europeans built over the gap between the history the equality zealots wrote and the versions written by more recent “revisionist” historians who courageously question the dominant paradigm.  He sees through our contemporary dilemma hurling to his vision of the final political stage like a cannon ball in flight:

“Politics reflects the culture.

Politics is the art of the possible.

So, our politics will not be possible until we control the culture.  And because we don’t control the culture we are in the period before politics.  The Left is approaching the period after politics, because their ideas have been dominant for a long time, and by now they have failed on every level.  They are running on autopilot.  And now they are increasingly worried and desperate, because they can sense their own weakness, they can sense the boredom and the discontent seething underneath, the potential for a revolution.         

They have failed aesthetically, criminologically, culturally, demographically, economically, politically, socially.  They have failed on every front.  And by now they are vulnerable on all fronts.

This is why our project is a war on all fronts, and why it needs multiple angles of attack.  There is room for individuals of every inclination, man and woman, young and old, with different talents and abilities, which means that anybody can wage the war in some way or another.  Some will do it as writers, others as artists, others as business people, others as protesters, others as patrons.”

Alex’s notion of a radical tradionalist rings of Yevgeny Zamyatin and the perpetual revolutionary.  Kurtagić encourages us to embrace our radical nature in order to contribute anew to our tradition, generation after generation.  That is, we are traditional in our adherence and respect of our past, but radical in our creativity in how we express it and perpetuate it, as indeed we must in the building of our new world.  Each can participate and contribute in some way.  And they will do so if encouraged:

“Being traditional also gives us an advantage that the Left doesn’t have because they are anti-Tradition: the advantage of belonging, of being part of a community of people with whom we feel at home; of having a home and a family to which one can always return; of having a past and a future; of life with meaning, because we are part of something greater than ourselves, that is timeless and transcendental.  With the Left a person is always homeless, always a stranger, always a meaningless atom in a sea of Formica, PVC, neon, polyester, and reinforced concrete.”

Don’t be a meaningless atom.  Embrace the New Enlightenment, the New Nationalism, and the building of the New Nation.

Alex closed with the following advice for us all:

1.)        Think Irrationally.  Humans have the capacity for reason, but they use reason in irrational ways.  They often have irrational motivations, which they rationalize after the fact.  But they are irrational.  To reach our fellow citizens we have to understand their motivations, and not be irritated by them when they differ from ours.  We have to anticipate their needs so that we can meet them, anticipate their fears so that we can dispel them, anticipate their desires so that we can fulfill them.  Particularly if they are irrational.

2.)        Impress to Inform, don’t inform to impress.  Often a person who sits through a speech doesn’t pay attention to half of what is said, he remembers only one or two phrases, one or two concepts, and not for very long.  But when there is an able speaker the listener is nearly always impressed by the delivery, he likes the energy, he likes the emotions roused in him.  Therefore he listens.  We often comment on the speaker, less on what he said.  So, aim to be impression oriented, to be effect oriented.

Marketing and information campaigns are not about information.  They are about eliciting a reaction, inducing and maintaining a state of mind, opening the mind to an idea—among people who are overloaded with information, who don’t want to be disturbed, who are wrapped up in their own lives.  That’s why marketing and information campaigns aim to be iconic.  That’s why they reduce everything to a sound bite, a slogan, an image, or a jingle that is infectious.  Facts are important, but at this stage they are subsidiary, because a mind remains closed so long as the spirit remains unmoved.

3.)        Think in Pictures. Help people visualise what you are offering.  A picture speaks a thousand words, and it’s a lot easier to remember.  A picture is much more difficult to argue against because images resonate at an emotional and spiritual level.

4.)        Be Positive.  No one wants to be around a person who complains all of the time, who is always negative, who is always doom and gloom.  Humans respond to optimism, because they want to feel good.  And our people in the West are crying out for a Renaissance.  So, be positive, and focus on the future.  It’s about where we came from and where we are going, not about where we are.

5.)        Enjoy the Struggle.  You will be more creative, and you’ll have more energy, and you’ll get more people interested in you, if you enjoy what you’re doing.  Because if you enjoy what you’re doing and you’re good at it, you feel confident.  And everyone likes that.

So think irrationally, impress to inform, think in pictures, be positive, and enjoy the struggle.

Keep up the Rataplan! How the Left Smears the Right

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The cover article for the 28NOV11 edition of NW (Newsweek) was titled, “My life as a(n) (undercover) white supremacist”.  But the events in the article occurred between 1991 and 1993?  Yes.  And the cover photograph of a burning cross silhouetting a bald head – has nothing to do with either the article nor anyone mentioned in it?  Yes.

But the Left has got to keep the guilt-by-association-right-wing-extremist drumbeat going because (1) the Democrat in the White House isn’t polling well, (2) there hasn’t been any “right-wing-extremist” activity to smear the Right with lately, and (3) there will be some act perpetrated by someone in the near future, and Liberals will be able to point their finger of recent memory and say, “See, I told ya so.”

The featured FBI mole, John Matthews, spent all of 2 ½ years “palling around” with a man named Tom Posey and other “gun-toting” white men.  Posey was ultimately convicted of – brace yourself – buying and selling night vision goggles!  Eight pages of a feature story promoted by a concocted cover photo and no less than 22 uses of terms like “extremists”, “racist”, and “white separatist”, and all they report was a goggles bust!

Oh well!  Throw in a few mentions of Timothy McVeigh and that other well known, well connected, long-time Right Wing Extremist, Jared Loughner.  Although Loughner was a high school pot head who had no knowledge of or affiliation with any political organ, Left or Right, he is pictured prominently in the article beside the mug shot of McVeigh.  Loughner, you see,  “shared a distrust of the government” with McVeigh.

Conclusion:  Lefties love government; anyone who “distrusts” government must be mentally unstable, a right wing extremist.  Does this include the 88% of Americans who currently find disfavor with Congress?

Among the extremist, anti-government acts Matthews perpetrated with Posey were to (1) travel around the country with Posey in a pick-up truck, (2) attend dance parties “with the KKK”, (3) sell weapons at truck stops, and (4) “sit in church pews with would-be abortion clinic bombers”.

Conclusion:  Churches are full of would-be abortion clinic bombers, and, if you really wanna be a right wing extremist, boy, you better be at that dance party tonight, or else!  We gotta do our Yankee-doodle duty and keep those white-separatist women happy, by gawd!

NW grasps for authority and legitimacy by referencing the Black Separatist poverty-pimp smear mongers, the SPLC, which makes its living through distortion, guilt by association and hyperbole (see Sheriff Richard Mack v. SPLC).  Their claim that anti-government extremist groups have increased 7 fold since Obama took office is supported by referencing the 88 year old (white) man who shot at the Holocaust Memorial, a (white) “Christian” group who was arrested for “plotting”, four (white) retirees arrested in Georgia for “allegedly plotting”, and of course, that “Army reject” Jared Loughner.

Conclusion:  Loughner is a right wing extremist because he tried to join the Army.  Oh, yeah, and he’s white.

Keeping us all safe from these bad white people, of course, is not only the FBI, but another Magic Negro!  The NW article explains that Matthews’ sugar daddy, Agent Donald Jarrett, was not just an “African-American”, no.  Jarrett is described in the article as a “well-built” black “who wore nice suits” and “kept his hair closely cropped”.  Get that Ladies?  Well dressed, tall, dark and handsome!  Da black man to da rescue, and we have yet another Magic Negro brought to you by NW!

Is there "half white"?

Conclusion: Without blacks at the SPLC keeping us informed, and without blacks in the FBI to watch over us and keep us safe, why, hell, we’d just shoot each other and blow ourselves up!  Damn, how’d we ever get this far by keeping the black man down?  Beats me, but “gun-toting” white men are not afraid of mythical right wing extremists, urban white women who read NW are.  “Gun-toting” white men are not impressed with the likes of Agent Jarrett, urban white women and girls are.  Why did this story run, anyway?

NW weaves a tangled web attempting to condemn what it calls “anti-government” sentiment.  Ironically, even the mole, Matthews is described as disheartened upon his return from Vietnam to an ungrateful country.  He watched some of his friends suffer the effects of Agent Orange and now, supposedly, he does as well.  He had anti-government sentiments and was first attracted to a private militia involved in the Nicaraguan conflict in 1985.  After the war ended the politics changed, and the Federal support, the National Security Council and the CIA, were nowhere to be found when the indictments started to fly.  But to have anti-government sentiments is unreasonable?

Jesse Trentadue, a Salt Lake City attorney, tried for 15 years to prove his brother was “killed in a botched FBI interrogation” in Oklahoma City shortly after McVeigh’s bombing.  (Matthews met Trentadue after an internet search led him to FBI documents Trentadue had posted online mentioning Matthews’ name.)  Eventually, Trentadue and his family were awarded $1 million after DOJ found that the FBI and the Bureau of Prisons “had lied in court and ignored and misplaced evidence”.  Fifteen years.  So, why do these people “hate” the government?

And finally, Ruby Ridge is dredged up again.  The FBI Special Operations Group with a sharpshooter, shot and killed one of Randy Weaver’s sons, one of his dogs, and his wife through the head as she stood in the doorway of their home holding her baby daughter.  Weaver and a family friend were also wounded in the siege.  The NW article describes the day thusly:  “The disastrous standoff between federal agents and right wing extremists” ended “when an FBI sniper killed the wife of Randy Weaver as she held her baby daughter”.

Actually, the siege end over a week later after negotiations lead by Bo Gritz.  The Weaver’s lived by themselves, on a hill, in a cabin with no electricity or running water.  They had to die.

Randy Weaver (AP)

The FBI agents were there to do a job.  These are men who spend 90% of their time in training.  A sniper has been trained all his adult life to kill people.  A sniper doesn’t have a lot of moral hang-ups.  Randy Weaver had been approached by undercover agent Kenneth Fadeley who asked if he could find a sawed-off shotgun for him.  For $300, Weaver later sold the undercover agent two shotguns which the agent may or may not have shortened himself.  The FBI agents did not care that Randy Weaver’s family was white.  They did not care that they were Christians.  They did not care if the innocent family members were Americans.

Neither does the Left.  They just want more government.  In the end, they don’t fear us because we express anti-government sentiments; they fear us because we are white.

They need to keep up the drumbeat overlaid with obscure association (Loughner = McVeigh because he tried to join the Army and he shot some people – and he’s white); hyperbole (Posey is a dangerous extremist who got busted selling . . . goggles); and repetition (a November, 2011, article about 20 year old incidents).  The shapers of public opinion know very well that irrational fear is maintained by repetition and darkness.  What could threaten their illusion of power more than to know that their enemy is white?

Obama’s New Nationalism is Old Prgressivism: What is Nationalism?

A few notes on Nationalism as presented in Welf Herfurth’s A life in the Political Wilderness.

Photo by Hildr Jorgensen. Finis Mundi Press

I would no more let Barack Obama define Nationalism for me than I would consent to his defining of America.

Two popular commentators promptly chided President Obama on his “New Nationalism” speech in Osawatomie, Kansas.  One talk show host expressed his fear that Obama is channeling the worst socialist instincts of President Roosevelt the First who (among others) railroaded Americans into accepting the Federal Reserve.  The other Siren of the Right retorted by defining a “free society” as “a collection of individuals pursuing their own self interest”.  He later amended his definition by adding that individuals “act according to what is best” in their view “for the ‘community’”. . .  and they should be free to do so . . . in a “free society” . . . (paraphrasing Adam Smith . . .)  Neither attempted to define Nationalism.

These two Megaphones have earned the respect and admiration of millions.  They are popular and they accept a priori the tenents and values set forth in the founding documents of Liberal democracies.  They accept that the system is flawed, but that the flaws are “of man” not due to a faulty system or to their adherence to it.  Thus they will ultimately act in such a way as to preserve the system over their own best interest.  They will act in the name of Liberalism and freedom and not because they sought to improve the lives of their fellow member of their community, their Nation.

They buy into the System.  They participate in regular elections, but they know votes can be manipulated and that voter fraud is rampant.  They elect politicians to administer their government knowing that politicians are the least trustworthy people in the country.  They obey jury duty knowing that Justice in America is for sale: if you’re rich, you can get away with murder, and if you’re poor, you’re screwed.

They believe in the “Constitution”.  They believe that if they can preserve this the best possible constitution, then all will be well in the Land.  Such Literalists also too readily conclude that all of the consequences of the Written Word must be good, too.  They are compelled, then, to populate, conduct, and prosecute to the letter of the Law, all the Liberal institutions and Departments that are on the books – fund them and populate the bureaucracy – and all the new ones that are to come down the pike now that we Conservatives and “Liberals” alike agree that the purpose of Government is, well, people must be taken care of, don’t you know?!  It’s only humane!  Then, there won’t be any workers but those working for the government.

Today, the dedicated, truly studious Tea Partiers are beginning to realize that it’s OK to question the underlying assumptions of our Nation.  “What is the nature of a Nation?”, and “Is it OK for someone to act completely in their self-interest if we think it does harm to our “way of life” in the end, that is, harm to “our Nation”?  The majority make the rules in a Liberal democracy, after all.  Right?

Only the rare second tier or occasional third tier commentator will admit the existence of the White Elephant in America: that a Nation is defined by language, borders and culture, and not by a multicultural mix of aliens who have simply filled out an application and stated an oath.  What America and so many Western democracies have evolved into is not an “organic community” which has sprung up naturally as described by National Anarchist Welf Herfurth (see below): “a community in which members feel a sense of belonging; a community which does not contain elements that are radically different from it”.  This post-modern concept of citizen is globalist in nature and points to the most common tenant uniting Nationalist worldwide:  Anti-globalism.

Herfurth is likewise wary of the Populist view of political parties and trade unions as benefiting open debate in democracy; or that diffuse, separation of powers is a good structural component in government; or the sanctity of the secret ballot, popularly known as the “right to vote”, first because there is no such “right” and secondly because political parties who only use their offices and their campaigns to fractionalize our Nation should be merged or banned, and third because diffuse power is diffuse responsibility.  Politicians would have us bickering amongst ourselves over power, money and food while our defining institutions are under assault and the People of our Nation are daily threatened with genocide.  This is not the time to trust commissars and diplomats with Our future.

A Nation is a homogenous racial group of genetically linked people who speak the same language and live in the same place in such a way as to preserve their culture and its institutions.  American Nationalism is defined by its European (racial and cultural) heritage.  Such definitions and distinctions, while actual are considered extreme and might frighten the lukewarm devotee of Logic and Reason.  Nationalism is certainly not politically progressive and the popularizing of its common goal threatens the central tenant of globalism, Diversity.

Today, most cultural commentators freely assign the term “citizen” in the West to any living, breathing adult with a green card, student visa or PDF facsimile of a birth certificate.  Is that what makes a citizen of a Nation?  Does a British passport make an Indian man British?  Australians today are defined by a piece of paper that states that they are and not by ethnicity, culture or race.  To simply be born within the U.S. borders makes one entitled to the same status as someone whose ancestors fought in the Revolution or the War of Secession?  If so, and if we are a Nation, exactly what are we a Nation of?

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Nationalism:

Nationalism is a powerful force, and it is a ripe pomegranate for the co-opting.  It has been successfully saddled up and ridden into battles as long as there have been battle cries.  Nationalism can produce succor for the victors with a pinch sacrificing only a portion of the juicy cells within, or, if consumed in a flash, quench the revolutionary’s vacuum.  Nationalism is a powerful force, and it is ripe for the co-opting.

Welf (pronounced “Velf”) Herfurth (A Life in the Political Wilderness, 2011, Finis Mundi Press.) does a very good job of expressing what he thinks.  German by decent and currently living and working in Australia, Herfurth, described as a Nationalist and activist, combines a passion for precision of expression in his writing and an efficient use of resources in his political thinking.  His life has been one of a wanderer, though he calls it traveling, and it is demonstrated in his writing, but once comfortable with his style, it becomes evident that Herfurth has been pondering these ideas for a long time.

Culture is the root of Nationalism.  It is culture that transforms the soil, a place and a time, into the unique expression of the people who work the land and make it come to life.  Race is inextricably linked to specific cultures, and though they may be equal in the eyes of Justice, races are not the same.  The diversity of humanity exhibited by our race and demonstrated by our cultures is a thing worthy of celebration, and efforts to preserve it should be encouraged.  Nationalism is the political expression of these differences.

Herfurth defines Nationalism in one sense by describing what our movement is trying to achieve: “an overcoming of the alienation the members of the white race, the peoples of the West, feel towards one another, brought about by the neo-liberal ideology, which substitutes the satisfactions of consumerism for racial and national belonging.”  Life in a liberal democracy smothers racial identity and its consequent cohesiveness.  Free to pursue unlimited material acquisitions, we do.  Consequently, we have become attached to and motivated by the immediate acquisition of wealth at the cost of abandoning not only our racial conscience but any responsibilities we once had toward the well being of our racial Brothers and Sisters.

One way to understand nationalism is to state what it is not.  Firstly, it is not Liberalism.  Liberalism asserts that all men are equal purely by virtue of their being adult persons.  “An ideology which gives an unskilled, illiterate Mexican immigrant to the United States the same value as a literate, skilled American proletarian or bourgeois is the antithesis of nationalism,” Herfurth notes.  He distinguishes democracy – one man 0ne vote – from Liberal democracy.  While democracy would allow all citizens to vote (Jews in Israel, for example), a liberal democracy would allow all adults to vote (Palestinians as well as non-Jewish Arabs).  As such, democracy is compatible with Nationalism, but Liberalism is not.

Another way to understand Nationalism is by observing what passes for nationalism of the day.  These are mostly self-proclaimed nationalists who focus, perhaps obsessively, on race, ethnic and cultural, or “heritage”, issues while ignoring, and generally not being very adept at, politics:  The modern “Nazi” movement, the KKK, Stormfront and some intellectuals.  Herfurth uses the expression “Nutzi” to describe “skin-heads” who dress up as WWII Germans but are neither German nor do they have more than a fleeting understanding of the NSDAP or German history outside of the Third Reich.  They are mostly politically ignorant, historically ignorant and accomplish little more than portray a negative image to and provide a willing face for critics of German heritage and history.  They are too often the face of Nationalism, but they are only one dimensionally so.  (See below.)

Secondly, Herfurth identifies contemporary Nationalist ideological objectors who “don’t like the way things are going” but capitulate to the constitutional order.  They are the “far Right Populists” who “have faith in liberal constitutions and electoral procedures”.  These are the same Liberal democratic institutions which, generations ago, traditional Americans extended to immigrants who did not look like them or share their cultural heritage.  These are the same Liberal democratic rights and privileges now demanded by the indignant as entitlements.

What good does it do you when someone from outside of your Nation can come into your Nation and be granted rights, be able to vote, to run for office and administer your government, teach your children and work in the police department – what good does it do you and your Nation-hood to extend equality to a non-equal?  Is “equality” universal beyond the homogeneity of my Nation?  Is individually valid beyond the confines of my culture, i.e., my race?  To trust such an alien to an equal vote and equal voice and equal power to my own in my own Nation is to ask a lot.  It fact, it should not be my right to extend this power.

Why are white American conservatives zealous about preserving the Liberal institutions of citizenship and voting “rights” for people who want to exterminate them?  Why would they allow the candidacy of people who have a separatist group’s interests as a stated priority?  What good is the separation of powers if you relinquish that power to a body that works to undermine your business and compromise your family and property?

One can also characterize Nationalism by identifying common traits.  For example, most nationalists feel that the “liberal media in the West is not so liberal”.  There are some topics which are criminal to discuss such as the numbers of deaths in German prison camps during WWII and the causes of death.  In some countries, Nationalist organizations are outlawed.

Another trait shared by most nationalists is their goal of creating a homogenous, separatist Nation State.  This would presumably be modeled after others throughout history.  The Japanese, for example, are a people who love their culture the way that it is.  They show this respect by preserving citizenship for Japanese people only.

Citizenship and nationality are not merely racial.  The State of Israel is a Nation based upon being Jewish and consists of people from various racial backgrounds.  If not Jewish, like Palestinians in the Occupied Territory, then citizenship and its privileges are not extended.  Citizenship in Muslim countries is defined first by being a good, practicing Muslim.

“Having one’s own country” is a common tenant of Nationalism.  The Nationalist’s goal of establishing a New Nation State begs Herfurth to move from defining who Nationalists are to looking at what they want to do.  Thus, he asks, “What is a State and how will the Nationalist actualize its roles?”

With references to de Benoist and Carl Schmitt, The State is succinctly defined as requiring (1) the People, (2) the State (political decision makers), and (3) the Law (bureaucrats responsible for day to day running of the state).  The one dimensional nature of Nutzi (or KKK or some Populist intellectual) Nationalism is their exclusive focus on “das Volk”, or the folk.  Marginalized by their overt behavior, this type of Nationalist will never know a mass-based movement and will never know political power in a Liberal democracy.  No longer trusting traditional institutions, most of the membership and leadership lead sequestered lives ignoring an all-powerful media.  They are consequently poor political tacticians, are consistently negatively portrayed and falsely maligned.

Which sounds a bit like the average American who is more concerned about the interests of his “friends” (professional sports fans, followers of a particular music scene or television show) than he is worried about the latest political campaign or the growth in regulations and power of a government bureaucracy, or the growth of the bureaucracy itself – Wait – who’s being accused of the crime of pursuit of self-interest?

A Siren of the Right recently defined American-style “free society” as indelibly influenced by the Wealth of Nations.  Still fearing to use his ethnic wings for the journey, he too remains a one dimensional Nationalist idealizing a place dominated by a “collection of individuals” . . . . “pursuing their own self-interest: Everybody looking out for themselves!”

The Populist commentator just cannot take the next obvious step and admit that such an ideal form can (and does!) exist, but only if the occupants of the State (politicians) as well as the career bureaucrats in the Law each exhibit what Herfurth calls a “’nation bearing’ quality”.  This is demonstrated by thinking and acting for your Nation first.  In a culturally homogenous group, this is the pinnacle of democracy where in-group interests are identical with the pursuit of self-interest, and “votes” are not needed, other than an occasional plebiscite.  Homogeneity negates a need for campaigns because political decisions are based on what’s best for your people-community-Nation and not what’s best for your next campaign.  The separation of powers becomes superfluous at best and a smokescreen at worst as diffuse power leads to no one taking responsibility.  There is no need for separation of powers when there are no competing interests in government.  Given a Nation of homogenous People who have found leaders with a nation-bearing quality, the interests of the People, the State and the Law are the same.

With this in mind, Herfurth’s analysis of Socialism bears note.  Historically, socialism drove its way into practical politics by offering laborer’s a piece of the pie by breaking down the barriers between labor and capitalists.  Unfortunately, the ideal goal of equality is as fanciful and corrupt under Socialism as it is under Communism and Democracy.  Today, the globalists’ blending in of multiculturalism (open immigration) only exacerbates the corruption and inequality required to enforce “equality”, redistribution of wealth, etc.  In the end, and hopefully it will come, Herfurth concludes that, given the systems we are aware of, Socialism in our new nations will be far superior to either Communism or Democracy: a Socialist state where the efforts of the state are the same as the efforts and goals of the People: from Whites, to Whites, for Whites.

Thus some Nationalists question adherence to Liberal democracy and suggest that this is poison and not the path to political self-actualization.  In Liberal Western democracies, political parties act in and are controlled by narrow self-interests, not National interests.  Likewise, trade unions, business groups and social organizations cater to narrow economic and class interests.  Individuals who pull themselves up by their own bootstraps are glorified more than people cooperating in groups to benefit their communities.  Thus, a Liberal democratic institution that enshrines individualism is anti-Nationalist, claims Herfurth.

The secret ballot Herfurth characterizes as “a method of fractionalizing the nation” into “competing selfish individuals through anonymous polling for parties which represent selfish economic and class interests”.  The secret ballot forces one to think as an individual and not as a member of a community.  If citizenship is defined by some separatist Nation State before you sign up, then why do you need a secret ballot after you join?  They may rightly ask, “What is it that you need to keep from us now that you are a part of us?”

Herfurth finally characterizes Nationalism by examining methods employed by successful nationalist groups.  During the last century, the fascists in South America and the Germans and Italians of WWII enlisted large militaries in the proliferation and enforcement of their ideology.  Today, Hamas and Hezbollah lack the strategy of military take-over, but engage in many of the same tactics of a mass-based organization.  Their actions at first were extra-parliamentary.

They began by “building a following in the community” by working through community based organizations and engaging in community activism and electioneering.  They become a political voice for people who feel disenfranchised by the System.  They establish visible, charitable organizations creating an economic self-interest in the community.  They work within communities to solve problems first hand.  Eventually, they “consume parliament with a mass-based democratic movement”.

Welf Herfurth has a practical knowledge of what works and what does not in the pursuit of Nationalists interests.  He has reached out to seemingly disparate political groups and demonstrated that they have more in common than they thought because he lives and thinks at a basic, theoretical level.  His clear vision of a healthy, safe future cuts through parochial rhetoric of narrow group interests.  On his path he has refined and defined himself and his political laws.  If your principles are not sound, then you can only build a house of cards or a straw man.  Herfurth has contributed a sound dissertation on the New Nationalist Man, and his future is on solid footing.

Penn State Pedophilia Conspiracy: Just the Tip of the Upside Down Ice Cream Cone

"The Sandusky Blitz" featured two scoops of banana flavored ice cream with the pointy end of a cone sticking up. Available on campus in the Food Science Building creamery, Penn State University for the past 15 years, “everybody” on campus knew about it and thought it was OK to abuse kids.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From FBI statistics: 

• 50% of all rapes in the U.S. involve girls under 18. 
• 15% of all rapes in the U.S. involve boys under the age of 15. 
• 8% of rapes in the U.S. are committed by “teachers”.

Revelations of new victims of predatory homosexual priests emanate from Catholic Dioceses around the world weekly, and now Syracuse and College Basketball…

You think you know about the pedophile conspiracy at Penn State.  You think you know about institutional child molestation at The Citadel.  You think you know about predatory homosexual Preachers and Catholic Priests.  I’m asking you to ask yourself why you know about these events.  That is, why does pedophilia seem to be increasingly pervasive, and why do you accept minimizing cases of sex with children as just another “sex abuse” scandal and not an atrocity for which the perpetrators should be castrated and sequestered for life.

Who Elected Me Spokesperson?

I want to tell you something you don’t know.  I want to tell you about Michael Powel.  (See Michael Powel v. The Archdiocese of St. Louis).  Michael Powel had to digitally evacuate himself since he was 12 years old.  Do you know what that means?  That means that his anal sphincter did not work anymore, and he had to dig his feces out with his finger every day. 

Michael and I attended the same high school, Chaminade College Preparatory for Young Men, in St. Louis.  When I saw on the news one night in 2002 a report about his case, I was compelled to call S.N.A.P. because one of the perpetrators mentioned in the Powel case, Brother John Wolfe, had molested me as well those many years ago.  I had not spoken with anyone about my abuse since it occurred some 28 years prior to that date.  I have now been a member of the Survivors Network for those Abused by Priests.

I was not subjected to the kind of abuse Michael suffered, but I will tell you this about sexual predators.  My abuser was a single male, a “Brother” of Mary (The Society of Mary, as in the Virgin Mary, known as “The Marianists”), like a monk, but not a priest.  He was a counselor at a private boy’s school.  He was a coach of a boy’s sports team.  He lived in a room at the end of a hall of a dormitory for high school boys.  He was a counselor at a Summer Camp for grade school aged boys which used the same dormitory in the summer.  He was so close to my family that when I finally told my father of my abuse, guess who Dad suggested I go talk to about this?  That’s right, Bro. John Wolfe, S.M.

Michael’s case was primarily one of conspiracy.  His case was filed against the Diocese because of repeated stonewalling and their failure to extradite his main perpetrator, Father William Christenson, S.M.  Fr. Bill had been “called” to do mission work in India in the 1970’s, and he was still living there when the Vatican defrocked him this past year because of his continued sexual abuse in his Seminary and with the poor orphan children he was “working” with. 

The conspiracy widens.  We who were there, in the dorms during those years, we know of other sexual abuses.  We took the matters to Fr. Robert Osborne, the school President.  He was instrumental in removing Bro. John Wolfe from dorm duties and ultimately from campus.  It was to Osborne that Ed Felker and Tim Nolan took the case of the serial rape of X. X. by fellow classmate Roland Sosa.  It was Osborne who oversaw the granting of Holy Orders and the sending of Fr. Bill Christenson to India.  It is Osborne who still denies all of the above and publically disparages Michael Powel, even after Powel has posthumously been vindicated by the recent actions of the Vatican.  This is what I’m getting at by calling these pedophilia rings “conspiracies”. 

I was still living and working in St. Louis at the time, and I was subject to the scorn and derision of the “Friends of Father Bill” who had been supporting his “mission” work for 25+ years.  One “Friend”, Charlie Maas, was actually a classmate of Michael Powel who had become an attorney and was working with Fr. Bill up until the time he was defrocked.  I cannot comment of Charlie’s status at this time.  Other “Friends of Father Bill” remained in denial and regularly attacked me in their posted and written comments about public statements I made pleading with Church and Marianist leaders to simply tell the truth.  I have not heard from any of these gentlemen since Fr. Bill was defrocked, and I do not know if they are still in denial.

One priest with whom I have sought counseling summed up The Catholic Church’s catastrophic mishandling of this matter by stating that The Catholic Church has failed to deal with its own shame, and that’s the business they are supposed to be in.

No Shame Where Tolerance of Deviancy is Strictly Enforced

The cases of institutional predatory pedophilia are being more openly discussed today, which is a safe way to admit that we cannot comment on an increase in the frequency of the acts with any degree of verisimilitude.  Such data does not exist.  Things that “are not talked about” cannot be statistically surveyed or spoken about with any accuracy.  Charlatans abound who attempt to do so and will try to sell their latest theory, book or need to be tenured.  They can be found abundantly in law, social work, psychology and social pseudo-science departments globally.  They can be found in the Citadels of Political Correctness, University Campus’, where tolerance for homosexuality is enforced with zealous efficiency.

In an environment where tolerance for deviancy is strictly enforced, where infractions like reporting a crime could cost you your ability to make a living (See The Shadow University by A. C. Kors and Harvey Silvergate), institutional pedophilia can flourish.  And it did.  As it did, apparently, at Syracuse, and at the Citadel, and in the Catholic Church, and likely in many other institutions where, in the cases of institutional homosexual pedophilia, men were in positions of seemingly ultimate authority and a steady stream of young boys were “part of the job.”  The Catholic Church offers Priests who many Catholic children view as the embodiment of God.  Worldwide, adults and kids obsess with collegiate and professional sports, and the perception of “Coach” is held in similar esteem as that of “Priest”.

I want to examine here the nature of institutional conspiracy.  The histories of various “scandals” are evident if incomplete.  The profile of the predatory homosexual pedophile has been documented as has been the profile of the candidate for abuse and the signs and symptoms of the victims of sexual abuse.  Common traits of institutional abuse are only beginning to emerge.

Gay:  From Happy to Queer

Since the selling of the conspiracy of the Federal Reserve to the American people, alliances between private interests and Government Officials have used the distraction of a Third Party Authority by utilizing academics.  The burgeoning “science” of economics was elevated to “expert” status during the twenty years surrounding the turn of the last century.  In the early 1900’s there were no Economics Departments at Universities, but the events, articles, editorials, other propaganda and the ultimate founding of The Fed enabled the rise of the economics advisor to a veritable Cabinet level position in U.S. and world politics.  (See Origins of The Federal Reserve by Murray Rothbard, available at mises.org)

Today it is commonplace to assign authority figure status to an appropriately credentialed or degreed person for support or representation for a stance or assertion.  Often the editor’s or producer’s implication is that this person represents an entire body of professional or expert thought thereby legitimizing or making more palatable the assertion.

After the Supreme Court decided to hear what came to be known as Roe v. Wade in 1972, The American Medical Association (AMA) released an official statement questioning life beginning at conception and voiced its support of legalized abortion.  This release was trumpeted on television and in print media and referred to repeatedly for the following 18 months of heated national debate.  It was not widely reported that the seven members of the AMA Board had acted alone.  It was not part of every mention of the report that the membership of the AMA (mostly Christian) had not been consulted on the matter and that the Board (mostly non-Christian) did not speak for the overwhelming majority of American Physicians who later formed one of the first pro-life organizations, Physicians for Life.

At the same time, another U.S. institution was under attack from the “outside”.  The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is the organization that determines for the professional community (among other things) what is normal and what is abnormal. Their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is a handbook widely used by clinicians to assist in diagnosing and classifying mental, emotional, and sexual disorders. The first edition of the DSM, published in 1952, listed homosexuality as a mental disorder, a severe form of psychopathology and “maladjustment”.

By 1968, the gay community had a few organizations in place in the U.S., and one of their first targets was the APA. Over the next few years, protestors interrupted APA conferences, shouting at the speakers and taking control of meetings.  After three years of disrupted conventions, the APA agreed to let gay activists be involved in the decision-making process, even though the activists were not professionals in psychiatry or psychology.  (For more on the pertinent background of integral gay activists, see:

http://gaylife.about.com/od/stonewall/a/stonewallhistory_4.htm)

Finally in 1973, the APA Board of Trustees agreed to redefine mental illness in a way that accommodated homosexuality.  Previously, disorders had been determined by deviations from an objective norm, but this redefinition said that the norm should be more subjective, that people should not be considered disordered if they “do not experience distress over their condition” and if they “show no major impairment in social functioning”.  With this redefinition, homosexuality was removed as a disorder from the DSM-III.

[I am not an artist, but insert cartoon here:  Two very similar panels of an adult man buggering a partially disrobed small boy with a shocked and confused look on his face.  The first panel, titled “before APA’s decision”, depicts a worried look on the face of the molester with the caption, “Oh no!  I’m a maladjusted sociopath!”  The second panel, titled “after APA’s decision”, he is smiling, and with his eyes closed he is saying to his victim:  “Yes, boy, this is normal!  Maybe now I can get a job at Penn State!”  Get the picture?]

Former Principal Investigator for the U.S. Department of Justice, Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Judith Reisman, has written extensively on the links between exposure to deviant sex and subsequent crimes involving deviant sexuality.   “Deviant” I will carefully define as that which is outside the realm of private, heterosexual experiences between consenting adults, and “exposure” would include audio, visual, video or interpersonal sexual experiences of a deviant nature.  If the “defining” here “offends” you, then you are likely on my snip list.  Sexual deviancy may be common, it may be pervasive, it may be Politically Incorrect to condemn it, but it is not normal.

The decision by the APA board was not based on data and clinical reasoning nor did it represent the professional opinions of the practitioners the APA represents.  Surveys show that a majority of mental health professionals believes that homosexuality is not normal.  In 1977, for example, a poll was sent to psychiatrists in the U.S.  69% of those responding said they considered homosexuality to be the result of psychological maladaption.  Were they simply parroting what they had been taught?  Are we to discredit their views as being a product of suppressed homophobia?

Pandora was released and society changed.  Sexual mores in the Catholic Church changed; sexual mores in the Seminary’s changed.  Sexual mores changed in Federal Government hiring as more overt homosexuals entered Government Service.  Sexual mores in the private workplace changed as more overt homosexuals joined elementary and secondary teaching staffs, the profession with the highest percentage of abusers (8%, FBI crime statistics).  Depiction of sexual mores changed with increasing numbers of positive role model appearances by overt homosexuals on television shows and in movies. 

At first this intruder into our standards of normal sexual conduct was just a funny character on a sitcom, but they were acceptable.  Then they become more serious partners in the workplace, and they were tolerated.  Then they started taking their clothes off and marching in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade, and making out?! – Hell, they were copulating in public, wearing Gay Pride T-shirts and shouting, “We’re here!  We’re queer, and we’re in your face!” or singing, “If you’re happy and you know it, shake your tush!”

The Press, Broadway and Hollywood kicked their promotion of the gay lifestyle into high gear particularly by hiring homosexual writers.

Penn State Ice Cream, Anyone?

Q:        How has Penn State had such suck-cess at producing great Linebackers? 

A:        They start by lathering young boys up in the shower and fondling their genitals!           The best defense is to be offensive!

We all know the great Joe Paterno.  Yes, indeed!  JoPa! – Head Football Coach, a big man! – was informed nearly ten years ago (2002) of Sandusky’s pedophilia in Penn State facilities.  He may well have known of Sandusky’s activity before, but since this was an “official” claim, he “reported this to his boss”, Tim Curley.  But everyone East of the Mississippi knows that there is no one in the State of Pennsylvania above JoPa.  Except  perhaps the Governor and former Attorney General, Tom Corbett.

Republican Attorney General Tom Corbett headed up the investigation and grand jury beginning in 2009.  Distinct from every other case involving pedophilia, Corbett let Sandusky remain a predator for three years despite two eyewitnesses and a mother of a victim to whom Sandusky admitted molesting her child.  But, then, this was JoPa’s football team, and Corbett was running for Governor in 2009…  Penn State trustees donated over $200,000 to his campaign.  No time for a full blitz on the Sandusky case.  And then came the approval for a 3 million dollar State grant to Sandusky’s foundation, Second Mile…

Kathleen Kane is now running for Attorney General of Pennsylvania.  She has specialized in cases of sexual abuse for 12 years.  She asserts that “in any case where authorities know of an alleged sexual predator believed to have committed a crime, the first obligation is to make an arrest.”  (Emphasis added.  From investigative reporter Buss Bissinger, Newsweek, 28NOV11.)

They did nothing more to interfere with the Penn State pedophilia ring.  Instead, they promoted the whistle blower, Mike McQueary, to Assistant Coach, and he also did nothing more for the next ten years to prevent Sandusky from having sex with more and more children.  Would they have done more than “report to their boss” if Sandusky had been killing the children?  Would they have done more if the pedophile had been beating the children?  What is it going to take for this type of crime to rise above the level of failing to stop at a stop sign?  For Paterno, McQueary, and likely hundreds if not thousands of other Penn State Alumni, affiliates and employees over the past 15 years, it appears that whatever Sandusky (and others?) were doing at Penn State did not rise to the level of a crime as it apparently does in the minds and memories of the victims.

Graham Spanier – School President (lifelong academic – background is sociology and family counseling – sociology and family counseling – where they rationalize deviancy and teach tolerance and understanding of homosexual lifestyles.)

Gerald “Jerry” Sandusky – former Defensive Coordinator continues to earn his 50K annual pension, thank you good taxpayers of Pennsylvania!  Picture this man, Good ‘0le Jerry!  Look at his picture – Look at it!  And imagine him performing oral sex on your 13 year old son – on over 20 occasions – when he was 60 years old.  This is the case that lead Attorney General Corbett to commence an investigation – But not an arrest!  Not good ‘ole Jer!  Heck, he was a “volunteer” coach at the local Clinton County high school where he seduced that young victim.  On another occasion, Sandusky was caught in the weight room with the young boy.  One of the High School Coaches found him lying on the floor with the boy, fondling him.  Good ‘ole Jer-buddy!  He promptly jumped up, seemed surprised, and announced that they were practicing “wrestling moves”.  But none of this warranted an arrest?

I invite you to imagine again:  Imagine what this boy’s intimate life is going to be like.  Every time he touches a woman, he will know that it was a man who kissed him first.  Every time he touches a woman intimately, he will think of the man who touched him as his first sexual experience.  Every time he makes love to a woman – what?  You think he’ll just forget?  This is what we mean when we say rape is a scar for life.  And, in case you did not know, “sodomy” is not limited to penetration.

Tim Curley – Athletic Director  – saw no crime in Sandusky’s abuse, but he loves Butternut Pecan ice cream!

Gary Schultz – Vice President  of Penn State and Senior VP for Finance and Business which gave him oversight of university police (Whisper this:  that means he threatened them with losing their jobs – or worse – if they took this matter any further) is charged with perjury and failing to report adults sodomizing young children.  Two campus Police Officers were present when, in 1998, that victim’s mother confronted Sandusky and he admitted to fondling the boy’s genitals.  The two officers remained silent.

Mike McQueary – Receivers Coach –  when a graduate assistant to Coach Paterno in 2002, told Head Coach Paterno of an incident he personally witnessed of Sandusky buggering a young boy in Penn State locker room shower.  Did he do anything at the time to stop the buggering, or did he just walk away from Sandusky and the lathered lad?  Did he do anything for the victim Sandusky was having sex with right in front of him?  No.  What would he have done if he had seen his son in the shower with Sandusky?

Through Peter Alexander of NBC Nightly News, McQueary (Queer – y?) sent and email to former teammates:  “I did the right thing…you guys know me…the truth is not out there fully…I didn’t just turn and run…I made sure it stopped…I had to make quick tough decisions…”

            Quick decisions?  Tough decisions?  I guess so.  Quick decisions – kinda like an NCAA receiver?  Maybe a little jig to the right, then go far left…  Quick decisions …  After his formal hiring, after being promoted to an Assistant Coach’s position and salary (likely in excess of 50K annually), and after nearly ten years of earning that salary, AFTER TEN YEARS, this big courageous man “made sure it stopped”.  What do you supposed lead McQueary to finally “do the right thing” – after he got the job, after he got promoted and after ten years of earning that salary at the expense of the people of the State of Pennsylvania, now we hear about in 2011…  Quick, tough decisions for big, tough guy.

And then there’s Jim Calhoun, Penn State Janitor, who in 2000 witnessed Sandusky having sex with a young boy in a campus locker room shower.  Sound familiar?  Are we seeing a pattern?  Guess who he “reported” the incident to?

Picture credits:  The Sandusky Blitz – no credit, from rushlimbaugh.com; Sandusky – AP; Curley – Pat Smith/Getty Images; Schultz – ibid; Spanier – AP/Puskar; McQueary – Chris Gardner/Getty Images;

Institutional cover-ups and obfuscation at The Citadel and the Catholic Church, as well as some of my references:

http://www.zimbio.com/Joe+Paterno/articles/6lHaGLj6Esf/Happy+Valley+Knew+Sandusky

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoSXoL0wXjc

http://www.npr.org/2011/11/08/142111804/penn-state-abuse-scandal-a-guide-and-timeline

http://deadspin.com/5857440/alleged-victims-mother-jerry-sandusky-admitted-it-to-my-face-13-years-ago

http://www.zimbio.com/Joe+Paterno/articles/6lHaGLj6Esf/Happy+Valley+Knew+Sandusky

From SNAP regarding the Bishop Finn case in KC: Statement by Peter Isely of Milwaukee, national board member of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (414-429-7259, peterisely@yahoo.com)

So the problem in KC is a pervasive and on-going cultural and structural problem of secrecy and self-preservation being valued over openness and kids’ safety. It’s not one ‘bad apple.’ It’s a dangerous, corrupt barrel. That was the case and remains the case.

We’re also disappointed because Finn has now done here what bishops have almost always done – make any promises, payment or plea deal to avoid having to face tough questions in open court about their disgraceful and irresponsible deception

Catholics, citizens and children need and deserve the truth. The truth surfaces in court. That’s what bishops work overtime to avoid. And that’s what Finn has achieved here – he’s taken the cheap, easy, convenient way out, avoiding real scrutiny and concealing damaging misdeeds.

We hope Jackson County officials don’t wimp out. We hope they understand that jail time, or the threat of it, is the best way to deter well-educated white collar criminals who have hidden crimes for years or decades.

Historically, bishops have always been given special treatment in situations like these and are treated with kid gloves are far as punishment is concerned. Historically, these bishops have gone on to put more children at risk after “successfully” completing “diversion.” So we’re disappointed that a chance to send a strong message about kids safety and expose wrong doing and deter cover ups is being squandered.

From Barb Dorris (SNAP Director, concerning recent case in KC):  While this could be considered by some to be a good start, we’re disappointed. We believe others on the church payroll also concealed crimes, misled parishioners and endangered kids. They too should face consequences.

No one should get complacent now. It’s still important for every single person who knows anything about clergy sex crimes and cover ups in Kansas City to call police and prosecutors, especially in Jackson County.

We are grateful to every person who shared information with the grand jury. At the same time, however, we believe there are still dozens of other current and former church employees who could and should step forward with their information about clergy sex crimes and cover ups.

SNAP: The parallels between recent sex abuse cases are disturbing   Statement by Barbara Dorris, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAPdorris@gmail.com, 314-503-0003) The parallels that can be drawn between the scandal at the Citadel and the situation at Penn State are disturbing.At both institutions, a man in a position of authority and influence used his status to approach, groom, and ultimately molest young boys. At both institutions, reports were made to the predator’s superiors that something wrong was happening. And at both institutions, these superiors failed to act. Through their efforts to protect the name and reputations of their respective institutions, officials at PSU and the Citadel allowed more children to be victimized. What is most disturbing about these scandals, however, is that they are not new or unheard of. Rather, these are a recent reiteration of the same type of cover-up that has plagued other organizations that held their reputations above the safety of children; institutions like the Boy Scouts of America, the Church of Latter Day Saints, and to a much greater extent, the Catholic Church. What is different about PSU and the Citadel, however, is that the outside reaction – from parents, alumni, community members, and the media – has been visceral. These people have rightly been outraged, and heads have rolled because of their public outcry. Yet we see no such outcry with the church. On the contrary, people have jumped to defend the priests that have been accused of molesting young boys and girls, and moved quickly to attempt to discredit those who came forward, citing misnomers as “this abuse occurred so long ago, get over it,” “you’re in it for the money, “and “if you were actually abused, what took you so long to come forward?” The issue with this type of reaction is not only that it is mean-spirited, but it deters others who may have seen or suspected clergy abuse from coming forward, and it deters the type of public outrage that have shamed PSU and the Citadel, and therefore, the repercussions that come with it. So we applaud the reaction from community members and share in their outrage at the officials at the Citadel. Through their inaction, they allowed this predator to change hunting grounds – moving from the university to a local high school – and avoid responsibility, in the same way that the Catholic church has done for so long. We hope that a full investigation is launched in order to determine who knew what, and when exactly they knew it, and we urge that this investigation be undertaken by outside authorities. We also call on Citadel President John Rosa to do real outreach, and do everything within his power to beg others who may have been victimized or seen these crimes occur to come forward, get help, start healing, and tell their story. (SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, is the world’s oldest and largest support group for clergy abuse victims. Founded in 1988, we now have more than 10,000 members. Despite the word “priest” in our title, we have members who were molested by religious figures of all denominations, including nuns, rabbis, bishops, and Protestant ministers. Our website is SNAPnetwork.org)    Contact David Clohessy (314-566-9790 cell, SNAPclohessy@aol.com), Barbara Blaine (312-399-4747, SNAPblaine@gmail.com), Barbara Dorris (314-862-7688 home, 314-503-0003 cell, SNAPdorris@gmail.com)

Another SNAP press release detailing Catholic obfuscation:

SNAP is upset at the Clay County prosecutor for what it calls his “naïve, sweetheart” deal with KC Bishop Robert Finn, which was announced yesterday. The arrangement holds none of the other “complicit church officials responsible,” relies on Finn’s voluntarily sharing of information, and does little to deter future deceit and wrongdoing by the diocese, SNAP says.

The group will urge Jackson County prosecutor Jean Peters Baker to insist on a trial or a jail sentence for Finn. This is the best way, SNAP says, to expose the diocesan cover up and deter future cover ups.

According to the new civil lawsuit, in May, the girl’s mom and dad repeatedly saw Fr. Ratigan using his cell phone under the dinner table and assumed he was texting. They did not realize “that Fr. Ratigan was taking pornographic pictures of their daughter.” Like other KC Catholics, this family had been deceived by church officials, having only been told that Fr. Ratigan was sick.

These alleged crimes took place years after diocesan staff got their first warning about Fr. Ratigan in 2006, the suit says. They also happened five months after church officials knew of hundreds of inappropriate and sexually suggesting photos of young girls on Fr. Ratigan’s computer, after Fr. Ratigan’s suicide note (in which he apologized for the harm he had done to girls and their families), and after Bishop Robert Finn sent Father Ratigan to stay at a priests’ home in Independence, where he still had access to kids, computers and his ‘smart phone’ with internet capability. (Finn has claimed he told the two other clerics living about Ratigan’s sexual problems. Those two clerics, however, deny this.)

Ratigan was ordained in 2004 and worked at two KC parishes (St. Thomas More & St. Patrick’s), one St. Joseph (St. Mary’s) and one in Easton (St. Joseph’s). He also spent time at several schools (including St. Thomas More School, Bishop LeBlond High School, and St. Patrick’s School and Early Childhood Center) and took kids on mission trips to Guatemala.

The suit is being filed today in Clay County. The girl and her family are represented by KC attorney Rebecca Randles. The defendants are Fr. Ratigan, Bishop Finn, and the KC-St. Joseph diocese.

Later in same post:  While this could be considered by some to be a good start, we’re disappointed. We believe others on the church payroll also concealed crimes, misled parishioners and endangered kids. They too should face consequences.

No one should get complacent now. It’s still important for every single person who knows anything about clergy sex crimes and cover ups in Kansas City to call police and prosecutors, especiall in Jackson County.

We are grateful to every person who shared information with the grand jury. At the same time, however, we believe there are still dozens of other current and former church employees who could and should step forward with their information about clergy sex crimes and cover ups.

http://gaylife.about.com/od/stonewall/a/stonewallhistory_4.htm

After the Stonewall riots in 1969, many LGBT people—even those that did not witness the rebellion—were inspired to contribute to the cause. Gay rights had entered the national spotlight. LGBT people began organizing, protesting and mobilizing. On July 4, 1969, a year after the Stonewall riots, the Mattachine Society along with Frank Kameny, Craig Rodwell, Randy Wicker, Barbara Gittings, Kay Lahusen and many others, picketed in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia in what was called the Annual Reminder. The protest was quiet and organized to the dismay of Craig Rodwell who felt Frank Kameny and Mattachine’s methods of calm protest were not enough.

Rodwell returned to New York City and organized Christopher Street Liberation Day. The march, held on June 28, 1970, was the first gay pride march in the U.S., covering 51 blocks from Christopher Street to Central Park. Today, LGBT pride parades are held annually in multiple cities and countries throughout the world. The month of June is widely co

And about the New Age:  http://www.evergreeninternational.org/Normalization-Homosexuality-background.htm

City vs. Country Living: You Think Health Care Costs Are High Now? . . . – or – What’s So Big About Michelle Obama?

Having reached well beyond middle age, I have occasionally experienced the battle of the bulge.  Although inconsistency may be my epitaph, I have nonetheless gained some insight into the state of being overweight.  It is therefore obvious to me that obesity affects my mental as well as my physical abilities.  As a consequence, the burden of fat on an individual and the burden of fat people on society is much the same. 

            Current health trends, Federal Government initiatives, Michelle Obama butting her way into my buffet line notwithstanding, the threats posed by obesity to our national well being is well established in the medical community.  20 to 30% of our adult population is reportedly obese, and obesity is increasing rapidly among U.S. children.  The medical community also reports a coincidental increase in the rates of diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidemia (poor metabolism of dietary fats).

            The effects of these diseases on a person’s mobility and energy level are only compounded by being overweight.  Lower energy level contributes to a suppression of a body’s defense mechanisms.  This is why fat people cannot do as much work as healthy people and why fat people are sick more often than healthy people.

            It can only be an opinion that obesity is not a disease, for in fact it is.  Disease is defined as any harmful, depraved, or morbid condition, as of the mind or society.  The medical community further reports that obesity significantly contributes to greater missed work days, greater loss in productivity and increased medical expenses.  Considering that we are talking about 30% of our population, this is no crumb in the cookie jar.

            The Center for Disease Control (CDC) summarized Finkelstein’s work (see below) on the economic consequences of obesity.  These include indirect costs relating to ill health and mortality.  More specifically, they define the cost of obesity as the value of income lost from:

• Decreased productivity
• Restricted activity (at their jobs, not just bending over to pick up a doughnut)
• As well as something called “bed days”

            A bed day is one during which “a person stayed in bed for more than half the day because of illness or injury”.  Now, I have occasionally spent the greater part of a day in bed, but I was neither ill, alone, nor experiencing a decreased productivity or restricted activity.

            So, no pathogen contributes to obesity, and being overweight is not a cancer.  Except in the metaphysical sense in which obesity is a cancer on our Nation.

            In America, we often hear the claim that we have the best trained, best equipt military the world has ever known.  The military produces soldiers and marines who kill people and destroy things ostensibly to protect our citizens, their property and economic interests.  We’ve been doing this quite well for over two centuries, but at what cost are they protecting fat people?  How many soldiers in elite fighting battalions are fat?  20 to 30%?  Try less than 1.0%.

            Now, some facts are distasteful to some people, but the facts above bring into question the value to our Nation of carrying the burden of fat people.  Without the awesome physical specimens who make up the elite fighting forces to protect them, fat people would be incapable of defending themselves let alone our Nation.  And speaking of fat, this leads me to a larger premise.

            You see, it is the steady progress of what we call civilization that has brought an ever greater percentage of human populations to live an urban lifestyle.  In the U.S. today while 73 percent of counties are classified as non-metropolitan, they are home to only 20 percent of the population.  The lifestyle of rural folk verses city folk begs the question of how we are to measure well-being.  Urban dwellers are more likely to measure “well-being” in terms of income, life expectancy and literacy.  Country folk are more likely to measure well-being in terms of attachment to the land, family and community.  It can be measured in terms of cultural retention (i.e., the patriotism of rural folk and country music fans verses urban rappers).  And it can be measured in terms of happiness.

            I would expect some urban ethnic groups to object and claim the family and community parameters as well.  However, country folk don’t produce bastards, do drugs, or kill each other or their babies as frequently as some urban demographic groups who claim to be “family” oriented.

            Without the modern, artificial life-support mechanisms readily accessible in urban areas and their dependence on technology, the survivability of urban dwellers would be paltry.  Certainly, country living in the U.S. today is not life without the comforts provided by largely urban produced technology.  That said, without such comforts, we would have fewer fat people – urban and rural.  It is only due to large cities and a powerful military of lean mean men that fat people are able to survive.  They simply could not survive the work required to exist without their “civilized” comforts.  Fat people are the luxury of urban living.

            Of course, the same can be said for most modern urban women and homosexuals.  (In fact, it was urbane women and fags which drove me to this conclusion decades ago.  I thank Michelle Obama for inspiring me to finally write this down.  So much for a first draft.)

References are below.  I also came across this little gem whilst researching this article.

 

Nude photos of Barack Obama’s wife Michelle’s butt

From “The Spoof”

 Chicago, IL – Nude photos of Barack Obama’s wife Michelle’s ass surfaced on
e Bay and have caused a near panic in the Obama camp.

Billed as the ‘Largest Ass Photos in the World, bidding has reached record heights. The top bid is presently $1.50 and is expected to fetch a lot more.

Taken from the Hubble Telescope far out in space, the photo clearly shows Obama’s ass covering Illinois, Missouri, and parts of Iowa.   In recent weeks the State of South Carolina sued Michelle for allowing her more than ample posterior to shade 90% of the state resulting in severe crop damages.

Governors in the affected states have proclaimed a ‘sunshine emergency’ and have asked the Federal government for assistance.  FEMA has rushed massive portable grow lamps that were confiscated in California during last year’s marijuana growing crack-down to help with the sunshine shortage.

Bidding on the nude photos is expected to last through the week.

Another article was titled:

Michelle Obama’s Butt: How Mrs. Obama’s Booty is Symbolizing “A Brand-New Beauty Norm” in Modern American Culture

Brand new beauty norm?  Yes, yes.  And then, as President Obama and his better two-thirds fade into anonymity, the Oprahfied double-wide Empress’ awaken to realize, “Oh my, I have a fat ass!”

Referenced articles: 

1.         Patrick W. Sullivan, et. al.,  Epidemiology, 2008.  http://www.nature.com/oby/journal/v16/n9/full/oby2008325a.html

2.         E. A. Finkelstein, et al., Health Affairs 2009.  See CDC report:  http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/causes/economics.html

3.         and on rural v. urban health:  http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus01cht.pdf

4.         article on the size of Michelle Obama’s butt:  http://jezebel.com/5091824/writer-extolls-the-virtues-of-michelle-obamas-butt

My first take on Shariah Law, or sharia, or Sha’rhia, or whatever…

            Have you ever been visited by a Mormon missionary?  Have those cheerful, white, youthful bicyclists who look like young Republicans ever come to your home?  Well, imagine if they were carrying AK-47’s instead of Bibles, and, if you didn’t convert or give them money, they shoot you!  Or imagine bands of Jehovah’s Witness’ knocking on doors in your neighborhood, and instead of handing out issues of The Watchtower, they were doling out death to all who failed to convert on the spot, lickity-split!!

            Can you imagine further that this were sanctioned by official Government policy and enforced by an army of religious zealots?  Well, wake up! from your daydream because this is reality in America today.  Official government policy in tandem with corporate America and academia from professional schools down to the elementary level not only tolerates, but is enabling the relinquishing of our National sovereignty, our Constitution, and our individual liberties in the name of a New Diversity cloaked as religion under the turbans and behind the burqas of Islam.

What would Make Someone Do That?

Toronto’s Aqsa Parvez and St. Louis’ Palestina Isa.

            We have long been aware of the impending collapse of Social Security Insurance, the effects of mass Third World immigration, and the ever growing Federal Government, its dependents and employees.  We have long been aware of these and other assaults on our culture.  America’s Wild West lore typically depicts two responses to external threats: survival by banding together, or survival by the actions of a few or one gunman.  In both cases, the smartest or fastest gun won the day.  Armed with some of the key points of Shariah Law and the organization behind its implementation we may better inform and recruit fellow travelers to our cause and avert a Wild West scenario through the use of superior knowledge.

 What is Shariah Law?

             Sharia or Shariah law is the  written law of the Religion of Peace, Islam.  It is the Peace that rules all things when the whole world is ruled by Islamic Law.  Shariah Law is a comprehensive and totalitarian system of laws governing the lives of all Muslims.  Derived from the Quran and other sacrosanct Islamic texts, Shariah regulates the economic, social, military, legal and political spheres of all citizens living in an Islamic State.  The ultimate goal of Muslims is to install Shariah in every nation by waging constant Jihad until an Islamic caliphate is established globally.  Peace be unto Allah!

            The Quran obligates all Muslims to work to install Shariah Law globally – less Allah be offended.  Shariah is firmly rooted in Islamic texts and is favored by influential Islamic commentators, Musliod institutions, academic centers and Shariah jurists.  Shariah is lavishly financed and propagated by Islamic regimes and organizations around the world.  It is only rarely denounced by self-proclaimed peace-loving “moderate” Muslims, after which they are ostracized or targeted for death, or both.  No sovereign authority is acceptable to the Muslim unless it guarantees the application of these laws in their entirety.

            Short, sharp, and ruthlessly enforced.  Still, critics will site peaceful verses in the Quran and attempt to marginalize violent jihadist by using words like “fundamentalist extremists”.  However, study of the tenants of Shariah Law reveals this as the deceit of the Civilization Jihadist.  Of particular relevance are the concepts of progressive revelation, Abrogation and Taqiyya, or lying for the sake of Islam.

            Mohamed never claimed to be God or to die for our sins.  Mohamed claimed to be a prophet and served his god by putting people to death for the sin of not praising Allah.  He claimed to be a prophet who received “progressive” revelations from the Angel Gabriel.  At first, his followers were few while in Mecca, and the Quran’s verses of this era tend to be “peaceful” and “moderate”.  Then, after the move to Medina, his followers grew in number, and we find the more aggressive, violent verses such as the famed “Verse of the Sword” (Quran chapter 9: verse 5, hereafter 9:5):

 “… then fight and slay the pagans wherever you find them in every stratagem of war…”

             The progressive nature of Mohamed’s revelation shows a distinct change in tone after the Hijra or the move to Medina.  Shariah scholars (Anwarul Haqq, others) invoke the concept of Abrogation (2:106) which dictates that later verses (revelations) such as the one above supersede earlier ones.  

            Civilization Jihadists further utilize Taqiyya, or lying for the sake of Islam, as a means of deceiving “infidels” into believing the “religion of peace” rhetoric.  3:28 states:

 “We smile in the face of some people although our hearts curse them”

 and 16:106 adds:

  “If you (Muslims) are under their (infidels’) authority, fearing for yourselves, behave loyally to them with your tongue, while harboring inner animosity for them…”

 So, for a Muslim living in a non-Muslim country, it is sanctioned by the Quran to lie by claiming that “violent jihadists” are “extreme fundamentalists” who do not represent “mainstream Islam”.  After lying about this in public, it is further sanctioned by the Quran to work in subversion to contribute to the support of terrorist (i.e., Jihadist) activity.  Operating in stage 3 of the “Phased Plan” of Civilization Jihad in American, this is a probable mechanism of how “stealth jihad” is now being waged.  Other Quran-based tenants of Shariah abhorrent to Westerners include man-boy love, underage and forced marriage, honor killing, female genital mutilation, polygamy, domestic abuse and marital rape. 

 How is “Civilization Jihad” to be accomplished? 

             The Muslim Brotherhood is the enforcement arm of “The Movement” characterized by sedition in furtherance of Shariah’s supremacist agenda.  Their organizational and logistical progress toward establishing global Islamic rule begin with a non-violent stage called Civilization Jihad.  Founded in 1928, the history of the MB is well chronicled in Shariah: The Threat to America published by the Center for Security Policy.  Although this source seems to be dominated by Neo-cons and Zionists, it is likewise fruitless to allow prejudice to blind one’s ability to discriminate. 

            The MB instructs Civilization Jihadist to infiltrate foreign lands, not to assimilate.  They establish professional and superficial social relationships and grow roots in new communities where they can then begin to exert influence.  They penetrate government at the executive and legislative levels; law enforcement and the intelligence community; the military and penal institutions; the media, think tanks and academia.  In Western, liberal democracies, they subvert respective nations by using claims of victimhood and demands for equality and tolerance to mask their real agenda and to marginalize or silence critics.

            Their “Phased Plan” is laid out in chilling detail in The Explanatory Memorandum written in 1991 by Mohamed Akram for the governing body of The Movement, the Shura Council of the Muslim Brotherhood.  Key points in this “stealth jihad” manual include:

• (The Civilization Jihadist is) to become a part of the homeland (the foreign country) … rooted in the spirits and minds of its people (the infidels).
• “The Movement” must plan and struggle to obtain “the keys” and the tools of this process (by infiltrating “key” institutions, co-opting “key” leaders, agencies and businesses)
• The process of settlement is a “Civilization-Jihadist Process”
• The Ikhwan (Muslim Brothers) must understand that their work in America is a kind of “grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions” . . . (emphasis added)
• It is a Muslim’s destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes…

             The methods of the Civilization Jihadist include buying land and expanding their presence with high birth rates and immigration without assimilation.  The Muslim Brotherhood enforces doctrine and compliance with Shariah at all levels.  Their tactics include controlling the language used by the media to describe things Muslim and ensuring that “the enemy” does not study Shariah.

            Their infiltration of infidel institutions involves co-opting key leadership positions and/or policies, subversion of religious institutions, fighting counterterrorism efforts and use of “Lawfare” (use of lawsuits and threats of lawsuits).  Generate claims of victimization and demand accommodations by exploiting the rights available in liberal Western democracies, and use females in “leadership” positions and as spokespersons in the West.  The “enforcement” arm of the MB is charged with maintenance of the façade: trimming the hair, applying just the right makeup, speaking with just the right accent, using the approved words, having the accepted affiliations and credentials — well vetted.  They are very good at what they do: stealth jihad.

             So what?  They’re all Wacko’s!

             September 4, 2011, Alan Colmes finds “beauty” in and features on his blog these quotes of Yale religion professor Eliyahu Stern:

 “The suggestion that Shariah threatens American security is disturbingly reminiscent of the accusation in 19^th century Europe that Jewish religious law was seditious.”

             I know I am grateful to religion professors who don’t practice religion for the fruitful and valuable products of their reminiscing.  In so doing, they often uncover truths by their misspeaking.  After all, no one but the most detestable cretin would assert that Jewish religious law was seditious; it was the Jewish people who were seditious, hiding behind religious garb in an egalitarian-drunk Western society that espoused religious freedoms.  The pattern has been successfully repeated across Europe and the Americas.

             Colmes continues quoting Stern:

 “America’s exceptionalism . . . thrived by promoting a Judeo-Christian ethic, respecting differences and accentuating commonalities . . .   Today, we need an Abrahamic ethic that welcomes Islam into the religious tapestry of American life.” 

             The tapestry of America . . .  Kinda like an “organic” Constitution.  Overwhelmingly, it is not Middle American white folk who are stating this desire to immigrate and breed their tapestry out of existence through mass immigration.  The great majority of those promoting and articulating this multicultural, genocidal melting pot world are not White Anarchists or euro-nationalists advocating for a New Homeland because they can’t arrange the immigration law to favor the preservation of their existence as a people.  The vast majority of spokespersons and advocates for the Politically Correct Diversity agenda are folks from a land where you have to get a DNA test to prove you’re already one of them BEFORE you even apply for citizenship.  I’m talking about Zionists, Israelis, Jews.  In short, when Israel recognizes Palestine and opens its doors to non-Jewish mass immigration, then – I still won’t care.  Let them ru(i)n their own country!  But if you want to co-exist with nations who practice the Western value of reciprocity, then you have the better part of a century’s worth of 40 acres and camel of your own to redistribute, Brother Abraham.

             It is poor official U.S. policy in the “War on Terrorism” to focus exclusively on the kinetic threats: militant insurgents, IED’s and suicide bombers.  If, at the same time, our leadership elites are failing to acknowledge domestic, non-violent stealth “Civilization Jihad”, and our media routinely demonizes anyone who criticizes the notion of Islam as anything other than as a “religion of peace”, and government officials often turn a blind eye to evidence against domestic Muslims presented by field agents, then I’d be suspect of a pattern indicating a policy of negligence.  The failure to accurately and publically define the enemy is to relinquish our ability to meet the enemy on their primary battlefield in the public arena and within the institutions that constitute our Culture.  It is hard to accept this as one big cock up.

           Often lauded Politically Correct official policies (such as the marginalizing of jihadists and legitimizing so called “main stream” or “moderate” Muslim Americans) are seen by the Muslim as the submission of America, and many Americans fail to understand that Muslims view this submission differently than we do in the West.  In the West, this kind of diplomatic concession is considered by the public in the West as meaningful as enduring a bad call by a referee duirng a sporting contest.  Too much of the public in the West lack political savy let alone foreign policy savy.  Too many in the West are still ignorant of the reality that in the Muslim world, a different race and an altogether different cultural heritage are ate work.  In Islam, they would view this kind of submission as more than merely losing an MMA bout.  The is an age-old name for this kind of behavior in Islam.  The Dhimmis are the non-Muslim, and, therefore, second-class citizens, living under Islamic rule in Muslim countries.  Their behavior and state of mind, fostered by Shariah sanctioned religious inferiority is called Dhimmitude.  They are forbidden to possess arms or to own land.  The Dhimmis may not criticize Shariah, nor may they defend themselves in a fight or in a court of law against a Muslim.  They are only to be submissive, pay Zakat (money to Muslims), or be put to death.

            This may more easily be tolerated with a shrug by a Middle America who today easily sloughs off their responsibility for defending their cultural heritage like pushing a raincoat off your shoulder to the ground when a shower’s ended.  Sanctioned marital rape and underage marriage are incursions and assaults on moral and ethical codes for anyone who believes in such things as a European homeland.  That such acts are an abomination does not occur to too many Middle Americans who believe that it should be OK for someone to do whatever they think is right in the privacy of their own home or Church – right next door to you.

            During the last century of Red Terror, our failure to acknowledge domestic Communist subversion only prolonged the Cold War.  Instead, the U.S. officially predominantly focused on “The Bomb” and propaganda demonizing the USSR and its population as sub-human automatons while American Communists infiltrated our government, academia, the film industry, the media, and other institutions. 

            We all know McCarthy was right, and today we are ignoring similar Clarion Calls.  True advocates of battling Shariah Law should boldly do so – in Islamic countries.  The greater point in our homeland is that immigration of all kinds should be halted immediately, and the Muslim has no business in the U.S. anyway, so they should all leave.  “The problem is not that Muslims are bad people, the problem is that they are good Muslims.”  Thank you.  Allah Akbar.  Remember 9/11.  We do!