Archive for March 2010

Tom Tancredo

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As Democrats, after a Sunday rally on the Capitol grounds, marched to the House hand-in-hand to vote health care reform, Tea Partiers reportedly shouted the “n-word” at John Lewis and another black congressman. A third was allegedly spat upon. And Barney Frank was called a nasty name.

Tea Partiers deny it all. And neither audio nor video of this alleged incident has been produced, though TV cameras and voice recorders were everywhere on the Hill.

Other Democrats say their offices were vandalized and they’ve been threatened. A few received, and eagerly played for cable TV, obscene phone calls they got.

If true, this is crude and inexcusable behavior. And any threat should be investigated. But Democrats are also exploiting these real, imaginary or hoked-up slurs to portray themselves as political martyrs and to smear opponents as racists and bigots.

This is the politics of desperation.
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Boycott the Glenn Beck Boycott here.

Join Boycott the Glenn Beck Boycott on Facebook here.

“More than 200 companies have joined a boycott of (Glenn) Beck’s program,” reports the Washington Post. “A handful of advertisers, such as (IPhone owner) Apple, have abandoned Fox altogether.”

We can only assume this Apple “boycott” was prompted by what CBS’s Katie Couric (quoting the Fox commentator’s critics) describes as Beck’s “inflammatory, unfair, despicable, hateful rhetoric.”

This same hyper-sensitive-to-hate-speech Apple, by the way, has just launched an IPhone application featuring Che Guevara’s quotes.  Yes!  “Now you can carry around Che Guevara’s quotes on your IPhone!”

Alas, many of us, though not customers of this unquestionably hip product, suspect that most of Che Guevara’s hippest quotes are missing from this hippest of IPhone apps. Among those we fear were overlooked by the hyper-sensitive-to-hate-speech, Apple are:

The Negro is indolent and spends his money on frivolities and booze, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent.

My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood… Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any surrendered enemy that falls in my hands! With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!

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While reporting on a story regarding the militia arrests in Michigan, reporter Lou Hillman at Fox 11 News in Green Bay, Wisconsin talked to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Those of you not familiar with them can search on this site as well as TheNewAmerican.com for previous articles written about them. Being on the hard left, they and JBS have never quite seen eye-to-eye. Some in the Constitutional movement see it as a badge of honor to be on one of their watch lists. They see racists, anti-Semites and skinheads under every rock, and they have tried very hard to smear the Society with very loose connections to the aforementioned low-lifes.

Anyway, we got a call today from Mr. Hillman who asked for our response to some of the SPLC’s caustic rhetoric. Kudos go to him for asking about what most reporters take from the SPLC for granted. It’s refreshing to see a reporter check with both sides, rather than leave one side with no opportunity to refute.

We haven’t seen the story yet, so we aren’t certain how JBS is portrayed. According to Mr. Hillman, the claim made about JBS by the SPLC is that “The John Birch Society is probably the number one organization that provides the conspiracy theories that fuel the anti-government world.”

JBS CEO Arthur Thompson was given the opportunity to discuss this during a taped segment that occurred in our Appleton offices this afternoon. In a nutshell, Mr. Thompson responded that JBS has provided lots of educational materials over the years that identify threats to our Constitutional Republic. The literature also recommends avenues for responsible and respectful action that mostly entail educating local leaders and elected officials within each person’s sphere of influence. Members and supporters have repeatedly been reminded that violence an appropriat action for civic minded citizens and that they should even avoid public demonstrations, protests and events that may place them into harm’s way.

The JBS reports on those individuals and groups that continue to work against the best interests of this country. Since we believe this to be the case with the SPLC, you will continue to see them covered here and in The New American.
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A man walks through a field of crosses erected near Pretoria, South Africa, to honour mostly white farmers who have died in farm attacks over past decade.

THE gunmen walked silently through the orchard. Skirting a row of burnt-out tyres, set ablaze months earlier to keep the budding fruit from freezing, they drew their old .38 revolvers.

Inside his farmhouse Pieter Cillier, 57, slept with his 14-year-old daughter Nikki at his side. His 12-year-old son JD was having a sleepover with two teenagers in an adjoining room.

As the intruders broke in, the farmer woke. He rushed to stop them, only to be shot twice in the chest.

In his death throes he would have seen his killers and then his children standing over him, screaming and crying.

The attackers, who were drug addicts, simply disappeared into the night. Cillier’s murder, at Christmas, was barely reported in the local press. It was, after all, everyday news.

Death has stalked South Africa’s white farmers for years. The number murdered since the end of apartheid in 1994 has passed 3,000.

In neighbouring Zimbabwe, a campaign of intimidation that began in 2000 has driven more than 4,000 commercial farmers off their land, but has left fewer than two dozen dead.

The vulnerability felt by South Africa’s 40,000 remaining white farmers intensified earlier this month when Julius Malema, head of the African National Congress’s (ANC’s) youth league, opened a public rally by singing Dubula Ibhunu, or Shoot the Boer, an apartheid-era anthem, that was banned by the high court last week.
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Lord Carey called on the government to end its “discrimination”

In a letter to the Sunday Telegraph, they claim traditional Christian beliefs are being sidelined.

They highlight the case of an NHS nurse who was moved from front-line duties after refusing to remove her cross.

The government said it was committed to valuing the contribution Christians made within British society.

‘Deeply concerned’

Signatories of the letter include the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, and the Bishops of Winchester and Blackburn.

They accuse nurse Shirley Chaplin’s employers of treating her beliefs with disrespect, while happily allowing symbols of other religions to be worn.

Crucifixes are an important symbol and the government should end its “discrimination”, they argued.
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Pat Sajak

Frank Rich spent many years as the theater critic for the New York Times, where, at worst, his venom could cause a Broadway production or two to close down.

Now, however, Mr. Rich opines on political and social issues for the Times, and, while the results are usually mildly amusing (even if unintentionally so), his reach has grown a bit, so the damage he causes can travel beyond the footlights. I’m not sure why anyone turns to Rich for political analysis—heck, you might as well read the rantings of a TV game show host—but the Gray Lady continues to pay him for his weekly column, and, at the rate she’s bleeding money, that’s no small sacrifice.

Anyway, Mr. Rich has apparently been able to get to the bottom of the vocal opposition to the “healthcare reform” bill that was recently gently shepherded through Congress.

It turns out, according to his well-crafted analysis, that it’s not the bill that’s got people in an uproar; rather, what we’re facing is the death rattle of a dwindling cadre of white, racist, sexist, homophobic males terrified by the ascent of people of color, women and gays.

As the ever-tolerant Rich reasons: “The conjunction of a black President and a female speaker of the House — topped off by a wise Latina on the Supreme Court and a powerful gay congressional committee chairman — would sow fears of disenfranchisement among a dwindling and threatened minority in the country no matter what policies were in play.”
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A border watchdog group called The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps announced it is dissolving its corporation today, concerned that Americans have grown so angry over illegal immigration and border drug wars that violence may soon erupt – with American citizens pulling the trigger.

The organization explained it cannot risk the liability and its cause, should someone stray from the MCDC’s law-abiding methods and open fire on the border – an event the group foresees, given the current direction in Washington, D.C.

An email alert sent out by MCDC President Carmen Mercer explains: “I’m afraid that for many citizens, the passing of health care against the will of the people and now indications that Obama will try to pass amnesty may be the straw that will break the spirit, or may be the straw that ignites frustration that we, as an organization, may not be able to manage or contain.”

She continues, “This organization has grown too big for its own good; or rather, the problem has grown too big and serious for us to manage. I predict soon the violence will spill over the border (it already is) and I predict Americans, on their own, will lock, load and do what the feckless cowards in Washington refuse to do.”
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Both state and federal political leaders plan to almost double the population in the coming decades despite calls from a growing number of academics and activists who question whether the pace can be maintained.

Australian Bureau of Statistics figures released yesterday show the nation’s population has passed the 22 million mark, and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is advocating smashing the 35 million barrier by 2050.

Premier Mike Rann spent much of the recent election campaign boasting South Australia had been transformed from a “rust bucket state” into one that attracts new residents in large numbers.

He has plans to swell the population of greater Adelaide by 560,000 before 2040 as a key measure to underpin long-term economic growth. This has won backing from the Opposition and the state’s business lobby.

But Sustainable Population Australia president Sandra Kanck yesterday said the nation had failed to come to grips with the full implications of a reform agenda she said would push natural resources to breaking point.

“It is crazy to be welcoming these sorts of numbers when we have no plan of how to deal with them,” she told The Advertiser.

“We are the driest state in the driest continent and that is something that should make our decision-makers pause and reflect.

“We are living with that as the starting point, knowing with climate change it’s only going to get worse.”
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