In an article by the Gatestone Institute published on Internet, the Institute reported on a month long emphasis in Britain upon the topics of multiculturalism and Islam. A quote from their article says: “This area is home to a large Muslim community. Please have respect for us and our children and limit the presence of dogs in the public sphere…those who live in the UK must learn to understand and respect the legacy and lifestyles of Muslims who live alongside them.”
Can we say the same for the Muslims, namely, that having migrated to UK from a foreign country and having accepted the hospitality of the people of Great Britain, that it is necessary for the Muslims to learn to understand, and respect the legacy and lifestyles of English people into whose country they have moved? After all, multiculturalism is a two way street of interaction and interchange between groups with equal rights and equal status. But this seems to not be acceptable to the so called Muslim community. Instead, they tell others to respect, consider and understand, while they continue to be closed minded.
This writer does not know if the Muslims of Great Britain were invited to move in or they just moved in! Nonetheless, the Muslims are immigrant visitors to Great Britain and if they were born and raised there, it seems they have not accepted the nation, its people or its culture. But they have accepted the safety, security and freedom affirming policies of a parliamentary, historically Christian society. Instead of integrating into the society of Great Britain, the Muslim community has banned together voluntarily as a religious ghetto exclusive to itself and demanding of exceptions from others.
The problems with Muslims that Great Britain is facing are the same problems that could flare up in USA. The Republican nominee for President, Donald Trump, is not a bigot, a religious zealot or a racist. He is merely reflecting the strong opinion that in USA, America and Americans have priority. It is a strong political position because Mr. Trump is reflecting the consensus of popular public opinion when he says that only people who love America, love the American political system, and love the American people, should be let into the USA.
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Trump Does Not Hate Hilary
Many of those who oppose Trump also oppose the people who voted for Trump in the primaries. They are against regular, hard working American citizens who got out and went to the polls and voted for Donald Trump. These antagonists to Trump say that the people who voted for Trump are ignorant, or misinformed, or low information voters, or just bigots, racists, or whites who have been left behind, or Uncle Tom Blacks. The anti Trump people, who are both Democrat and Republican, are themselves arrogant snobs, and elitists, who look down on so called “working class” or so called “blue collar” people. They are the problem and not the solution. They are the cause and not the remedy. They are the disease and not the cure. They are repugnant and must be rejected.
The Trump revolution is real. It includes a host of real people who have real lives, and real jobs, and real families and do not live on Park Avenue, New York, or the various haunts of the rich and powerful. And it is their realness that is swelling in power as it rises up to overwhelm and utterly reject the arrogant pride of the anti Trump forces. It is a rising tide of power that will drown the prideful voices of the privileged and smother them under an overwhelming vote of popular affirmation for Donald J. Trump and his intentional preference for the regular and the ordinary and the citizens of America.
This is a real revolution. As of now, it is a political revolution. It is the last desperate gasp of hope by a long suppressed silent majority. It is their last desperate faith in a system that has been corrupted and rigged against them. And they are the ones, the so called clueless taxpayers, who are arrogantly expected to pay for it,-they are the ones who are still hope filled by one man, Donald J. Trump–a billionaire, who like a champion, has entered the arena and volunteered to fight for their cause.
If you, my friend, are reading this, I ask you to vote for Mr. Trump. If you are indeed a friend, and I acknowledge that assertion to be a bold one, nonetheless, if you are a friend, I ask you to share the hope filled and faith filled and reality filled message of Donald Trump. American is supposed to be great. I really believe that is our destiny. Not as a matter of undue pride, but as a humble acceptance of the burden of greatness.
Friends, this writer is a Christian. I am not afraid nor am I ashamed of it. However, I accept and acknowledge that there are Jews, and Hindus, and witch-ans and Confucians, and Shinto-ans, and many other good people of God’s Spirit who are anxious about our America. Trump has no exclusive claim on them nor they on him. But please allow me to assert, that he, Donald J. Trump, and he alone, is standing forward and bravely accepting the derision of those who mock and laugh and deride our faiths, and mock us as they say that we “cling to our guns and our Bibles”.
The author of this article has been involved in political and social revolution before. These have failed. Why? Because good people, people who said that they were on our side, failed to follow through. Your author is afraid of the same result, but I am asking you not to accept the same result–failure. My heart and soul cry out to you to rise up and to go out and to vote for a successful political revolution. Vote for Trump. Your vote is important. If you vote, it will change America for the better. It will change America forever.
Just Stop the Bombs
Recently I saw a photo on the Internet showing ISIS terrorists in a parade of US military vehicles including tanks, armored personnel carriers, trucks, HumVees, and the like. The terrorists were dressed in the green US army camo uniform. Many carried US made Tow missile carriers, and other sophisticated US weapons. With the photos was a video of the parade of the terrorists through the town they had captured from the Syrian government. Please note that we were able to photograph and videotape the parade. It was at least a mile long and was manned by hundreds of terrorist drivers, militants and criminals. If we wanted to do something about ISIS this was our chance but the parade continued on its way with no terrorist ever in danger.
On the same day I saw a photo of a USA bombing raid on Damascus the civilian city and capital of Syria. It was reported that hundreds of civilians in the capital were killed or injured. It looked like the bombing was extensive and brutal. So, we bomb the capital city of the sovereign nation of Syria while we videotape the terrorist ISIS militants. Innocent people in the Capital die from our bombs but the bloody terrorist criminals are celebrating.
I think that B. Assad is a dictator, as was his father. I believe that his government, however, is recognized by 105 nations and had a seat in the United Nations General Assembly. I think an international business that wanted a contract for Syrian oil would get Assad’s signature and the contract would be considered legally binding and could be defended before the world court in Geneva.
So what gives us the right to bomb Assad? It is because the USA says he is a dictator and as our President said, “Must Go.” I guess, therefore, if we were fair, then if Assad said Obama is a terrorist who bombs innocent civilians in Damascus and therefore, “Must Go.” it would be okay for him to bomb Washington so as to get at B. Obama!? I guess there is no crime for either them or us. It’s just the business of Superpowers and nation states.
However, I do not remember reading that Assad or his government declared war on the USA. I do not remember Assad or his government attacking US military personnel at any time. I do not remember Assad arranging for bombs to go off in Washington. He does not bomb the USA embassy in Damascus. I think it would be fair to say that Syria and the Assad regime are not in any way a threat to the USA or USA international interests. So why are we bombing Assad? Why are USA bombs killing innocent Syrian civilians in the capital city?
The USA has not moved to remove the Assad government from the United Nations. It has not moved to have the 105 nations deny diplomatic recognition to the Assad government. The USA has not declared war on Syria. And the last time I looked, I think that the definition of criminal aggression is when one nation (USA) attacks a sovereign nation without provocation. Criminal aggression is a International war crime.
One more thing, there are many in the USA including venerable Charles Krauthamer of Fox News, who promote the idea of sending armaments and sophisticated weapons to the so called “Syrian Free army” in order thereby to topple the Assad government. The so called “Syrian Free Army” has been shown to have morphed from a groups of Syrian rebels with leadership in Paris, France, into a front group for Al Qaeda in Syria. It has also been shown that massive amounts, the guesstimate is 600,000 lbs of arms have been shipped to the “Syrian Free Army” but these were sold or given by them to ISIS. ISIS, in turn, uses these to invade Iraq, capture many Syrian cities, kill Christians and behead people, put people in cages and burn them to death and the like.
This writer says stop the bombs. Stop the massive arms shipments to ISIS. Stop the illegal criminal aggression against the Assad regime. Offer help to the hundreds of thousands of Christians displaced, persecuted, tortured and murdered by ISIS.
We toppled Hussein, what happened? ten thousand American dead and wounded and it is now a haven for ISIS. We toppled Mubarak. What happened? Eqypt was handed over to a leader of the Muslim brotherhood, a terrorist group and was becoming a haven for terrorists. But Egypt has a powerful national military and the Muslim brotherhood was toppled by Egyptians and is now ruled democratically by a religiously responsible activist Muslim leader. We toppled Qaddafi. What happened ? Chaos and Benghazi- an American Ambassador murdered as President Obama, and Hilary Clinton watched it on TV in the White House.
Stop the bombs. Stop the millions in funding to the so called Syria Free Army. Stop international military arms shipment to ISIS. Let’s see if these people, left to their own cannot solve their problems without interference from USA.
Rand Paul is a Brave Senator who Defends Persecuted Christians
Senator Rand Paul is courageous to stand up and stand out attempting to stop persecution of Christians. Senator Paul is a man of conviction and a man of courage who is bold in his defense of people, like the Christian minories in Moslem countries, who are being murdered, displaced and forced to flee for their lives. -Sadly, the ELCA, the Wisconsin Synod Lutheran Church and the Missouri Synod are silent. Maybe America based Lutherans don’t care about the welfare or fate of other Christians. The silence of the Churches further weakens their moral authority in an age where it is almost non existent anyway. However, Senator Rand Paul, who is only tolerated by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Marc Levin, is a brave, honest and outstanding political leader who is not beholding to the talk show pundits. Seems, Rush, Sean and Marc prefer Ted Cruz to anyone else. Yet, it has been Rand Paul who had led the fight for fairness in government. Senator Rand Paul should be recognized by the major conservative radio hosts as the best candidate for President there is. Senator Paul however is viewed by them with suspicion because he refuses to mouth the same words they do. I guess, Senator Rand Paul does not EXACTLY fit their definition of Republican or Conservative. And that is to their discredit because they define too narrowly the people with whom they are willing to work.
Stop Funding Syrian Opposition Groups
http://news.yahoo.com/key-syria-opposition-group-refuses-geneva-peace-talks-103554209.html
Time for the French, English and Americans to stop funding this rebel group. They do not want peace, they want victory and it is not our responsibility to fund their success.
Assad Government is the Internationally Recognized Government of Syria
Again we see media bias with all of the photos in this article being of rebel groups. It seem the media insists that regular army navy and air force personel of Syria are not citizens of syria, not legitimate regular armed forces of the legal syrian government and are to be lumped together with the so called dictator. The rebels, under US law would be conisdered terorists and sabatuers worthy of hanging. Under international law they are parisans, irregulars and terorists. During the US civil war both sides had uniforms, insignia, and identifiable flags which were the requirement for the forces of both sides to be considered legitimate and not criminal. It seems that when it suits the usa, we can declare anybody a dictator and criminal. However, the assad government IS the legal government of Syria. It has legal ambassadors in 101 country and is the recognized legal representative of the Syrian people in the UN. Only the Assad government can sign legally binding contracts or threaties for the Syrian nation. The so call rebels have absolutely no legal standing anywhere for anything. Perhaps that is why nobody even thinks of asking the rebels to account for their chemical weapons or their use of chemical weapons because there is no legitimate group to answer.
USA Needs to Stay out of Syria
http://news.yahoo.com/afghan-civilians-killed-nato-airstrike-114608612.html
This article is a prime and potent example of why we should not attack Syria. A missile, bomb or drone does not know the difference between the innocent and the guilty. The bomb does not stop halfway to the target because it senses that there are innocent children there. It just keeps on dropping until it blows up the target including the innocents who happen to be there. The USA cannot lower itself to the level of the terrorists.
Congress must not support the Obama administration and an over zealous navy. Sure, the Navy had a very small role in Afghanistan but they do not need to prove their value by attacking Syria from their ships. Americans value their Navy and no amount of brazen aggression by the USA administration is needed to make us value them more.
To Mc Cain, Linsey Graham, Nancy Pelosi and congressman Ted Cruz: Please stop your inane and insane posturing and calls for the USA military to participate in the wholesale killing , (can we say murder) of Syrians. I heard our congressional representatives saying that they know for sure that the government of Syria used Chemical weapons. Based on what? They based it upon the CIA intel presented to them by the Obama administration. This same administration came out today and said that it is an absolutely logical conclusion to assume that the government of Syria is responsible. So? Are we to bomb and kill Syrians based on assumptions and logical conclusions. Friends, we are talking about killing people!
I am embarrassed to refer my readers to the interview by V. Putin of Russia. He called for conclusive proof that 1. The government of Syria ordered the gas attack. 2. That the regular army of Syria actually released the chemicals. That is to me more democratic and reasonable. Can it be that a former communist and KGB official is more democratic than the President of the USA.
President Obama. Sir: you said “no “to your cabinet officials who counseled immediate and devastating attacks on Syria. You said “no” to those who advised you to go to war without Congressional approval. Now, Sir, please say “no” to the assumption that the government of Syria is responsible and stand down the navy. Withdraw our ships and stop CIA money payments and USA arms shipments to the Islamic rebels. And at the same time, put the full diplomatic weight of the USA behind an effort to convince our friends in Russia and China that we are believable and willing to cooperate and collaborate with them to end the violence in Syria without demanding the ouster of the President of that sovereign nation.
Russia is A Major World Power Equal to USA
http://news.yahoo.com/russia-urges-nato-not-intervene-syria-interfax-094236818.html
The decision of President Obama to dismiss Vladimir Putin as a bored child is wrong. The leader of Russia and the Union of Socialist States is not a neophyte on the world political scene.
Some US citizens would say that Obama had to show Putin that Obama was as tough as Putin. Well, such wrong thinking is for those who think that the game of international relations is a personal contest between the Obama and Putin regarding their “stuff”
A more reasoned approach would be to look at the recently ended cold war. That era cost the USA hundreds of billions of dollars on troops and armaments while accomplishing nothing but the extension of fear and distrust garnered by the Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower administrations. Fortunately, Khrushchev and Nixon started the end of the cold war with détente and the Salt accords. They were followed by Gorbachev and Reagan, and GHW Bush who ended the cold war in 1989 at Malta.
The end of the cold war was followed by freedom for the satellite states of East Central Europe. GW Bush enhanced our relationship with the former USSR by boldly cultivating a strong cooperative spirit with Putin.
It is very significant to note the political preference of the USA leaders who ended the cold war, gave a chance for freedom in East Central Europe, lowered the change of Nuclear war, opened the door to China and generally ensured world peace they were all Republicans and conservative. However, they were also realists, pragmatists and they pursued the “realpolitik” of our greatest foreign policy genius President Richard Nixon. Namely, they were tough on the principles of freedom and democracy. They fully supported capitalism versus socialism. But they were not rigid ideologues and took every opportunity for the advancement of peace and co-existence.
It is obvious that the Obama administration is following a different path. Our foreign policy has been confrontive. Beginning with President Obama’s speech in the Middle East, which started his administration, the USA has fomented revolution in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and now Syria. These were called revolutions. However, it is our own intelligence agencies and our secret money payments to the Arab brotherhood and affiliates that has enabled them to subvert the dominant governments and to overthrow them by force.
A big part of this subversive campaign is premised upon the idea that these governments are illegal. But they were also our long time allies – Tunisia and Egypt and Syria, (Yes they were considered friends and allies and even used by the USA for the notoriously wrong rendition programs). The result of USA policy under Obama has been to force the downfall of the Tunisian government, the murder of the Libyan President by US backed rebels, the arrest and imprisonment of the Egyptian `Hosni Mubarak and now the prolonged foreign backed insurrection against the Syrian Bashar Assad.
Surprising, It is V. Putin who has and continues to promote peace in the region while Obama promotes war. It is Putin who is using the Veto in the UN to prevent foreign aggression against a UN member State. And it is Putin who recently moved his war ships into the mediterranean in order to remind the USA Obama that attacking is criminal aggression. All the while, it s the nobel peace prize winner, Obama, who is trying to rally the USA and the International community to kill Syrian soldiers, sailors, airmen government officials and politicians in retaliation for a supposed use of Chemical weapons. And it is John Mc Cain, Lindsey Graham, John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi who are supportive of killing innocent Syrians by three days of missile attacks. Please remember that rockets, bombs and missiles kill people, innocent people, because a missile does not know a good guy from a bad one. People will be murdered by USA bombs in the name of Justice. Please shout NO, NO, NO. This is not an option for the USA.
Once again, as we have seen in the past, the use of force and the pursue of war is because we have failed diplomatically. Let’s not be a failure. Let the USA not attack Syria. Let Obama make up with Putin. Let Hollande and Cameron stop their bellicose attitudes and let Mc Cain, Boehner, Pelosi and Graham stop war mongering.
If all of us can be rational for a minute, then we need to thank Russia for world peace. The world peace prize needs to go to Vladimir Putin not Obama. It was the French and the British who tricked NATO and the UN into forcing the legal Libya government of Gaddafi to be overthrown. Not without a lot of help from Obama!! Why? Who really knows? But the oil of Libya is important to Britain and France. And YES, (capitals intended) we really do need to remember the very dark Imperialist past of France and Britain. It seems that their enslaving and mercantilist past is very much a present force in their politics.
The whole idea of the mid eastern Caliphate is a Muslim Brotherhood idea and is backed by the faction called Al Qaeda and maybe, in some convoluted way, by the Saudi Wahabi Islamic sect. It also seems to play well with France and Britain. But such a Caliphate is not in the best interests of Russia and the United States. On this issue the Obama administration is blinded by President Obama’s Muslim background and by the Liberal Eastern Academic establishment’s idea that such a Caliphate is a natural outcome of geopolitical reality. WRONG!!!
The overthrow of the legal governments of Libya and Egypt are directly related to the wrongly informed politics of Britain, France and the USA. ALLOW ME to be very clear. I sincerely and honestly believe in the self determination of the future of these nation States. However, it may be that the self-determination of these nation States will be decided by their very unique ethnic, religious and cultural demographics and not be decided by Western European and USA ideas about how and what and why!! What should such self determination reflect? Let the peoples of the Arab and non-Arab Middle Eastern (SW Asia) determine their own fate without any involvement of the former Imperialist France and Britain and without the ill informed interference of Obama.
If the Sunni can win on their own, so be it. If the Shiites can win on their own, so be it. If the Wahabi sect can win, or the Taliban, or the Al Qaeda, the Ala alawhits, so be it!!
The Western European powers of former Imperialist nations like Belgium, France and Britain need to stay out.
That is the message that Vladimir Putin is sending out, not only to the West but also to the rebels in every region. Namely, if you really have popular support and if you really represent the regional self interests of the people in your area, then we the Russians, ARE REAdY AND WILLING TO DEAL WITH YOUR SUCCESS. However, if you are merely the puppets of the French, British, Belgian, znd USA Imperialist powers of the New World Order, then we, the Russians, and joined by our Chinese counterparts, we stand against you’
Friends, the Russians and the Chinese are right. Stay out of these regional, cultural, Muslim conflicts. Align yourself with the unfettered winner and all will be well with the world.
Obama Administration’s Foolish About Benghazi
http://news.yahoo.com/libya-militia-linked-u-attack-returns-benghazi-141851547.html
The Obama administration is the reason for the continued terrorist success in Libya. Why? Because Obama backed the rebel insurgents and terrorist Islamists who fought against Gaddafi. Using the romantic notion that all the Islamic countries needed was a breath of fresh Spring air, Obama ignited and then supported what has become a nightmare of terror for Libya, Egypt, and Syria.
A glaring fault of the Obama administration’s worldview is directly attributable to the President. He seems to think that simply forcing an autocratic government out of power will automatically produce a grass-roots movement akin to the American Revolution of 1776. However, the governments of Libya and Syria are autocratic for a vast array of social, ideological and tribal reasons. The leadership of these regions, like that in Iraq and Iran is based on powerful clan and tribal allegiances. These forces produced the autocratic governments, perpetuated them in existence and reinforced their continuation into this era. The obvious breakdown of Libya and Iraq into competing tribal and clan factions, each at war with the other over land, influence and Islam, is evidence of the correctness of this analysis. Yet, the Obama administration, its State department and the CIA that serves him, followed an amateurish plan based on romantic notions of hope and change.
Surprisingly, it is Vladimir Putin who is the voice of a seasoned and reasonable national policy regarding the Mid Eastern nations in general and Libya and Syria in particular. Putin was betrayed during the illegal aggression against Libya which was carried out by Obama, Cameron, and Sarkozy. In conjunction with the Belgians, these three leaders had gotten United Nations permission to protect rebels forces fighting against a member of the UN (Libya). But the UN resolution 1973 was then used by these leaders as a cover under which they engaged their nations in criminal aggression against the legal government of Gaddafi, a government, which until his murder by the rebels, was recognized by 103 nations as the legal government of Libya. The criminal aggression was carried out by bombing, and strafing the legal army of Libya by NATO forces. It was carried out by the use of 213 USA cruise missiles fired against the legal army and government of Libya by NATO. The illegal aggression was carried out by the use of USA Special Forces personnel on the ground in Libya who aided the rebels, guided the bombing raids, and spotted for the missile attacks. The entire affair enraged Putin because it was illegal under International law. But the powerful Belgians, French, English and Americans were never called accountable. Instead, the puppet press of the Obama administration depicted the Libyan aggression as a war of freedom against tyranny.
Evidence of confiscated weapons shipments by Russia to the Syrian government of Assad, seems to indicated that the Russians are doing legally what the USA did illegally. How so? The Syrian government, like the Libyan government of Gaddafi, has an internationally recognised right of self-defense against all enemies foreign and domestic. By the way, it is illegal, regarded as treason, and punishable by death, if a citizen or group of USA citizens attempts to overthrown the federal government by force. So, what’s the difference with Libya? Oh, I forgot! We declared Gaddafi a dictator and that made every illegal and criminal action that we took, well, it made our action right!!??
Strange, isn’t it, that a former Communist KGB agent, Vladimir Putin, should be more of defender of national sovereignty and I believe in Libya, of national self determination, then the Obama administration?
Gaddafi had moved very forcefully to attempt to atone for his terrorist actions in Lockerbie. He acknowledged the crime and paid the blood money. Which, although Westerners do not agree with the process, is nonetheless, regarded as an expiation for the crime. So, if the relatives of the victims accept the blood money, they are required to exonerate the perpetrator of the crime. (Hey, I don’t agree either. But if we are going to play the game and accept the money then we cannot secretly decide that we have other rules that we apply to the game that are unknown to the other participant.)
Gaddafi had stopped all Nuclear bomb development in acquiesce to American demands. He had stopped all International terrorism funding and activity in return for USA government recognition of his government. A fact attested by the visit of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Gaddafi.
However, President Obama did not honor the promises of the previous USA administration. President Obama reneged on government to government agreements. He decided to repudiate the promises of the USA made to Gaddafi, instead using our prestige at the United nations to get Resolution 1973 passed and then using it as a legal cover for illegal and criminal aggression against a sovereign Libya government, an action which was condemned by Nuremberg when it was done by the Nazi against Poland, etc.
The amateurish and cavalier approach of President Obama to foreign affairs in terribly illustrated by his handling of the Benghazi murder of four Americans, including Ambassador Stevens. It seems that President Obama thinks that he can engage in acts of war and then walk out of the oval office and go to bed, leaving the conduct of the war to others. But what is his plan? What is he intending to accomplish? What is his focus in terms of the macro and micro scenario of international politics? Where is his instruction manual for what he intends for his officials to achieve? Just saying to his staff, “handle it.” and then going to bed is not the basis for policy, anymore than just giving a speech on a USA issue is the same as the proposal of legislation to the Congress.
Speeches and statements to staff to “handle it” are evidence of a politician who is not engaged in governing. They are the cavalier statements of a person who has little regard for the mechanics of real life government. Maybe, Obama thinks that all he has to do is think and speak and everybody else has to work.
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