Islam Is No Religion of Peace - Updated

Liveleak has reversed itself and is now running Geert Wilders film, Fitna. However, I agree with Michelle Malkin in her assessment that it is now pointless to do so secondary to the number of other sites now hosting it. I am disappointed at the international community’s rejection of the film, but there was also a groundswell of support for Adolf Hitler as well when he first arrived on the world stage.

This is the truth about Islam and the sooner it is faced the better. These people have been at war with the West for thirty years, they have raised their children in hatred, and they seek blood for cartoons or for allowing a child to name a Teddy bear after himself. They are zealots and will not stop until they get their way. This is the reason that the United States is at war with them today. What nobody seems to realize is that there is a fifth column within the civilian population that seeks to subvert our laws and our will to their cause. This is how Lebanon was destroyed and it is how we will be lost if we continue to sleep through their machinations.

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The documentary film, “Fitna,” a film critical of radical Islam, was removed from Liveleak. Geert Wilders’ film was taken off of their servers after receiving threats to the lives of their staff. Although Liveleak apologized and acknowledged that freedom of speech was damaged, they couldn’t risk the lives of their employees. I am sure that the Islamic apologists on the left are thrilled, but Fitna will be seen. I have embedded it at the bottom of the page so that you can see for yourself what radical Islam wants silenced. Watch it and see what Islam is truly all about. It has never and will never be a religion of peace. It is a religion of conquest. It spreads by the edge of a sword held to your throat and these zealots will not stop until you are either dead, paying the jizya, or a convert. Worse, they plant the seeds of hatred into their children when they are very young and encourage it to grow until their sons and daughters are willing to strap on a vest impregnated with semtex and nails and then detonate themselves in a shopping center or other public place.

Not all who practice the religion of Islam is our enemy, but they are afraid to speak out. They are afraid to speak out because they fear for their family’s safety and their own lives. When the Taliban took over Afghanistan several thousand were slaughtered. Many for speaking out against the bloodshed and the barbarism carried out by the religious extremists. The Islamofascists who inherited the Nazi ideal from Hitler have added a religious zeal to an already deadly paradigm. For myself, I agree with Geert Wilders. It is time to eradicate radical Islam once and for all.

Time For a Change

“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.”

Thomas Paine

US patriot & political philosopher (1737 - 1809)

Never have truer words been spoken. Paine recognizes easily that something given has no value. If I were to give you the Olympic Gold Medal for the 100 meter dash, would you be proud to possess it? I doubt it, because you did not put forth any effort to earn that honor. You did not wake every morning at 4:00 a.m. so that you could train. You did not sacrifice your private time in order to compete, and you did not compete against the best athletes on Earth in order to earn that medal. In short, it is just a hunk of metal on a ribbon. To an athlete who has spent years proving himself worthy to earn that medal, it is priceless.

The difference between the gift of the medal and having earned the medal is responsibility. The athlete took responsibility upon himself and trained and competed until he was worthy of possessing the honor. In the case of the gift, you were simply there. We pass out citizenship in much the same manner. You emerged out of your mother’s vagina on U.S. soil, regardless of where you were conceived or by whom, and suddenly you are an American citizen: you can vote, run for every public office to include the President of the United States of America. Did you earn it? No.

You see, we used to be a bit more specific about who we franchised in the past. As time wore on we began granting everyone citizenship simply as a matter of birth. All you have to do is survive to the ripe old age of 18 and you can exercise your rights as a citizen. However, as we began expanding the numbers of citizens we noticed that there was a decline of those who participated in the political process. We have tried to correct this by making it far easier to vote by enacting motor voter laws and using idiot proof voting machines, but the numbers of registered voters continue to dwindle. There have even been past Election Days that we have seen voter turnout of around 10 percent of the electorate.

Worse, many voters are totally ignorant of political issues and either elect to go the “yellow dog” route (i.e. If their preferred political party ran a yellow dog, the person would vote for it) or ask to be told who should receive their vote. Character, personal integrity, judgment, and political positions are not considered. Getting elected is no longer about such things. It is about image, sound bites, and glitz. If you are thinking that I am implying that today’s politicians are whores, you are correct. Actually, I do a disservice to whores when I classify politicians as such, but I cannot think of another word to describe them.

Regardless, I believe that the time has come to reform American Citizenship. Personally, I believe that Heinlein’s model for citizenship is perfect. Under the Heinlein model citizenship is never given, it must be earned. The reasoning for this is simple and two-fold. First, something given has no value. Second, you do not seek to earn something unless you desire to possess it. In the case of citizenship, that desire is to assume responsibility for your fellow citizens. In essence, that is the heart of citizenship. Government forges policy that touches the lives of its entire people. Wouldn’t you rather have public officials and an electorate who has earned that privilege rather than simply have it given to them as a birthday present?

About now, you are probably thinking that my proposal is all well and fine, but what about those who don’t wish to pursue citizenship, what will happen to them? Those who do not wish to earn citizenship will abdicate the right to vote and run for office. That is the only change that the non-citizen would have to face. Otherwise, he will enjoy all of the same rights and privileges of the citizen. Those who wish to be citizens and earn their citizenship shall have no additional rights or privileges that the non-citizen does not possess. So what is the benefit of becoming a citizen? Only that you are shouldering the responsibility to care for your fellows. The citizen will still give ear to the non-citizen, but he will have no obligation to him. He must answer to those who have earned this right, just as he did. The citizen/politician’s only aim is to operate the government fairly and equitably for all. While it is true that there is no special recognition for his achievement, the citizen knows that the importance of his work cannot be overstated.

How will citizenship be earned and who can earn it? Anybody who is mentally capable of making the decision to become a citizen must be allowed to attempt to earn the privilege. For many, that will mean military service. For others, it will mean Federal service wherever the government needs you. For still others, service may have to be specially constructed to meet the physical requirements of the applicant. If you happen to be a blind, quadriplegic you can still become a citizen. Regardless of how a person is to be tested, the test will be difficult, dangerous, and unpleasant. People will die trying to earn their citizenship. This is necessary to test the resolve of those attempting to become citizens. Quitting, however, is easy. Sign your forms and out you go at any time. The only caveat to quitting is this: you only have one chance to earn your citizenship. If you wash out or quit you are done. No second chances.

Many of today’s common problems with the political process will be eliminated by such a system. Corruption of government officials will be nearly impossible because the money needed for campaigns will virtually evaporate compared with today’s standards due to a greatly reduced electorate. Additionally, when a politician speaks to the general public you can believe what he says. He literally has nothing to gain by misleading you. Lastly, pork will be eliminated because the politician has no need to justify his existence to a disinterested public.

We have to earn everything that is of value to a man. Why do we allow citizenship, which gives a man a voice in making policy decisions that affect his neighbors, to be given as a gift for being born? Is there anything more valuable or important than citizenship? Shouldn’t citizenship, of all things, be earned precisely because of its importance? I believe that a person should have to earn his citizenship. We make a person earn a driver’s license and take a competency test before we allow them to drive, how much more important is voting for issues that will have an impact on everybody living within our borders? More importantly, why should an uninformed and disinterested person be given a voice in matters that concern government?

All too often, those with an agenda will recruit unsuspecting individuals to use as puppets at the polls. The puppets are told who or what to vote for and then bussed out to the polls and back again with a box lunch if they are lucky. In fact, they have no idea about how they themselves are being prostituted for political gain by those who only care about them during election years. Personally, I don’t like the idea of political puppets making law or policy for me. If they actually had some idea about what they were voting for and why, it would be different. Only those who orchestrate of these events know the ultimate effect of the vote and they don’t particularly care if the puppet agrees with it or not, so long as he pulls the voting lever as he is told.

Finally, voter apathy has proven that this system no longer functions as it should. Far too many have a voice without giving any thought to the implications of their voting agenda on their fellow citizens or simply vote for a candidate for public office based on a single issue regardless of the candidate’s platform and the potential impact on society. This is harmful to our nation and our communities, but we can correct it if we have the will to do it.

I believe that it is time for a change.

Baseball and Politics

Politics has become less about governing and policy and more like baseball. Nobody speaks about the aspects of policy they simply bad mouth the opposing team while they root for their favorites. For example, those who support Hillary Clinton can find no wrong in her. Hell, she could murder Obama and then cook and eat him and her supporters would cheer. In fact, her supporters would also defend her right to murder him and then cook and eat him and explain how it was necessary and even caring for her to murder him. Of course the problem for this type of politicking is that far too many cunning bottom feeders end up in office.

Hillary said that she arrived in Bosnia under fire and that she had to dodge sniper bullets in order to get off of the tarmac. When she was caught in this lie, she then revised her statement and said that she was remembering something else. The same thing happened during the Whitewater scandal, the Norman Hsu fund raiser scandal, the Rose law firm shredding party, the $1,000 to $100,000 futures market coup, and the facts regarding the White House travel office fiasco. You know, the last time somebody had this much trouble with their memory, it was during a RICO trial and the defendant was John Gotti. But while Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Gotti have a troubled memory in common, Barrack Obama has his issues as well.

Barrack Obama lied to the American people when he said that he had no idea that Jeremiah Wright held beliefs considered to be racist and that he had no love for the United States. How is it that a man who has been a member of his church for twenty years cannot know the views of his pastor, particularly when there is passion in these views? Perhaps this is the source of Michelle Obama’s statement that she had never been proud of her homeland. Pastor Wright paints a dark and adversarial picture of the U.S.A. and it is hard to be proud of something like that. If this were all of the skeletons in Obama’s closet it would be bad enough, but when you factor in that he is friendly with a homegrown terrorist who has bombed numerous Federal buildings and expressed regret that he didn’t get to kill as many people as he had wished and that his faith looks favorably on the likes of Louis Farrakhan and that he wants to get chummy with America’s enemies, you begin to get an uneasy feeling in the pit of your stomach.

And Obama’s cheering section? Loudly proclaiming he is the savior of the United States and that the hate mongering right does not want to see a black man in the White House because they are racist. Further, they defend Wright while Obama says he is like a crazy uncle he cannot rid himself of and he simultaneously throws his grandmother under the racism bus. Now if Obama will torpedo her, a woman that clothed him, fed him, provided a roof and food to him, and raised and loved him, in order to save Wright, what does that tell you about the man? Who or what else is he willing to sacrifice in order to save his own skin or promote his political agenda?

Then there is William Jefferson from the great state of Louisiana. According the Federal Bureau of Investigation, he is the most corrupt politician in American history, after his bribe money was recovered from his freezer and his congressional office was raided, he won reelection to the House. Did I mention that he was a Democrat? Did I also mention that another Democrat, Sheriff Harry Lee, urged voters not to elect his opponent? Did I further mention that the demented electorate in his district actually took the Sheriff’s advice? Perhaps it is just me, but it seems that there is a stench wafting over from Denmark.

Do you want more examples? Political Action Committees reporting to Nancy Pelosi have violated the law for exceeding the legal limit for campaign donations and she let John Conyers off with a slap on the wrist for misusing Federal employees as personal servants. Teddy Kennedy once contacted the Soviet KGB and offered his services in undermining the President of the United States and subverting American foreign policy. Yet, the dyed in the wool Democrats all defend these idiots while they rail about conservatism. To tell the truth, I personally believe that if Adolf Hitler were a Democrat, there would be a national holiday in his honor and he would have his own cheering section blaring about how kind and caring he was to have committed the holocaust.

The Republicans have the same problem with McCain. Despite what anybody says about him, McCain is not a conservative. In fact, McCain has thumbed his nose at conservatives and their values with glee while he has steadfastly worked to accomplish a liberal agenda on everything, but the war. If McCain were simply being bipartisan I would not have such a problem with him, but he is the Republican version of Joe Lieberman and all of his supporters rant about how he is the conservative candidate. When you ignore the facts right in front of you and simply cover for your favorite player you are doing a disservice to your nation and your fellow citizens.

Play ball.

Why We Fight

I have heard it said that money is the root of all evil, it is not. Money is the root of greed. The true root of all evil is apathy. On a macroscopic scale, apathy has led to the greatest atrocities committed by man. Consider Nazi Germany, there was little opposition to the National Socialists when they began taking people and these people were never heard from again. Had the German people spoke out about these disappearances, things would have been different. Sadly, Germany bears the scars of those days still and will for many more decades. Pastor Martin Niemöller summed up the German malaise thusly:

"In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;

And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;

And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;

And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up."

While the threat of Nazi Germany grew and war loomed ever nearer, Neville Chamberlain thought that he had created peace in our time when he returned from Germany elated that he had found a diplomatic solution to the German problem. All his diplomacy was for naught however, as the German war machine continued to steam roll over Europe. Giving peace a chance failed utterly. Indeed, it is man’s inaction that has always magnified these events making them far worse than necessary. Since the slaughter of nearly twelve million souls deemed undesirable by those of the National Socialist Party, millions more have been sacrificed on the alter of apathy.

Josef Stalin butchered 27 million in the Ukraine and Russia via starvation and cruelty, Mao murdered 80 million in Red China, the Khmer Rouge slaughtered 2 million in Cambodia, and 800 thousand were cut down in Rwanda in an episode eerily similar to the final solution of Hitler. Despite this bloody track record of the left, Barrack Obama has a Cuban flag emblazoned with the image of Che Guevara hanging on the wall of one of his campaign offices. For those of you who are unaware of Guevara’s history, he is a Marxist revolutionary who enjoyed killing so much that he sought to spread Marxism by force to other nations before he was killed himself. Apparently, the liberal left sees something in him that they would like to emulate in the Untied States or they are extraordinarily ignorant of world politics.

If one sees a human being as merely a collection of cells forming tissue and nothing else, it is easy to engage in wholesale slaughter. Truly, there really isn’t any argument against it. However, if one believes that a human life is endowed by it’s creator with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness then one must act to defend that life. Indeed, this is the reason that it is incumbent upon the strong to protect the weak from those who would harm them for base reasons or worse, for sport. In this sense, the United States of America is the last hope of the doomed. While we did not seek this distinction, we have emerged as the lone superpower on the Earth and with that power, comes a responsibility to those of the world who cannot defend themselves from a more powerful aggressor. This is the reason that the twin towers fell to a terror attack, it is the reason that the Pentagon was attacked, and the reason that the White House itself was targeted. Those who prey on the weak were telling us to mind our own business. Our response to their “warning” toppled two nations and ended the lives of more than 5,000 terrorists including many of their top commanders. I call that a good beginning, but there is much more yet to do. Unfortunately, those who bleat for peace at any price are sapping the will of the nation precisely when we are upon the cusp of victory.

Those who are descended from the love children and hippies of the sixties protest outside of recruiting centers, attack military personnel, deface the monuments to those who gave all in war, and attempt to make citizens of the enemy while they try to hamstring the war effort at every turn. I have said it before and I will say it again: It is a pity that the Soviets imploded before they could realize their investment in the American youth. Yet there is still hope, we are Americans and I am reminded of something that President Ronald Reagan once said long ago:

"How can we not believe in the greatness of America? How can we not do what is right and needed to preserve this last best hope of man on earth? After all our struggles to restore America, to revive confidence in our country, hope for our future, after all our hard-won victories earned through the patience and courage of every citizen, we cannot, must not, and will not turn back. We will finish our job. How could we do less? We're Americans."

It is clear from Reagan’s words that the responsibility for denying apathy and steadfastly standing as the protector of those who cannot fight for themselves is the heritage of every U.S. citizen. Our ancestors fought and died to secure the liberties that we enjoy today and more recently, they have fought and died to remove the boot of tyranny from the throat of our fellow humans around the globe. Yet we still have many enemies who seek our destruction so that they can prey on humanity without interference. Indeed, we even find our allies departing the field of battle, but this does not mean that standing by and allowing atrocities and wholesale slaughter to continue unopposed is right or just.

We have a duty to preserve the United States, our allies, and to fight the battles for those too weak to defend themselves from aggression and victimization. Today, terrorism is the most dangerous threat on the world stage. Terrorists have already used chemical and biological weapons in their attacks. They have been seeking a nuclear weapon for use in a terror operation for years, how long will it be before they finally obtain one? Terror must be opposed at every opportunity and each and every nation that supports terror is our enemy and deserving of a full measure of our wrath. The stakes are getting too high to continue to risk inaction.

This is why we fight.