Freedom Beginning To Founder Worldwide

Dutch politician Geert Wilders has been charged with a crime intended to curb free expression. As you may know, Mr. Wilders made the short film Fitna (which may be seen at the bottom of this page) in response to the brutal murder of his friend Theo van Gogh by a Muslim. The attacker shot van Gogh eight times and then stabbed him in the chest after nearly decapitating him. The knife held a manifesto that threatened the life of another Dutch politician, Hirsi Ayaan Ali and others. (h/t to Michelle Malkin)

The film Fitna shows Qur’anic verses coupled with Muslims committing violent acts. As a result the Dutch government has filed charges against Mr. Wilders for his insult to Islam. While the Netherlands may be a western country, it has increasingly become more Islamic in attitude primarily because of its nearly 1 million Muslim citizens compared to its 15 million non-Muslim citizens. Presumably, the Dutch are bending over backwards to make the Muslim feel welcome in their country while they ignore their other citizens.

Additionally, the freedom of speech is also being curtailed in the United Kingdom. Two police officers entered a Pub off duty with their wives in tow and noticed the posting of newspaper articles on the wall. The articles were from a mainstream paper, presumably everyone who wanted to read the paper were aware of their contents, and had the opportunity to purchase the paper. However, since the barman chose to display only the clippings of Muslim violence he was charged with a crime. All the barman had done was to purchase his local paper, clip the articles he was interested in, and post them for others to see and that is a crime in England.

In Australia, two members of the Christian clergy were arrested and heavily fined for their criticism of Islam. Additionally, the Aussie government wants to tighten free speech rules in order to more effectively prosecute views that differ from its own. All with the intent of preserving public order, no doubt. I don’t know about you, but I have been informed that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

Here in the U.S. we have a Constitutional amendment that preserves our freedom of speech, but is our own right under assault? The left has sought to institute global warming denier laws that would jail dissidents based upon holocaust denier laws in Europe. Also, the left seeks the introduction of legislation that would bring back the Fairness Doctrine in radio in order to silence the voices of conservatism. Essentially, the Fairness Doctrine would provide an avenue of attack for leftists to demand free air time in order to respond to whatever they objected about. Under this doctrine previously, the AM band was restricted to music and religious programming. When the FM band came into prominence, the AM was nearly dead and those in radio thought that AM would go away forever.

Rush Limbaugh’s voice changed all of that and the AM band is now vibrant again. To return to the Fairness Doctrine would spell the end of talk radio and the AM band today. Unfortunately, the burning desire to restrict free speech is reflected throughout the Federal Government. Even President Obama has no use for outside opinions. In a meeting with Republicans President Obama intoned, “You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.” What the President was implying was that if the Republicans insisted on maintaining conservative values they would be ignored and left behind. When Eric Cantor (R. VA.) objected to the President’s plan to disburse hefty payments to those who did not earn enough to pay taxes the President replied, “I won, I will trump you on that.” The message is clear, don’t offer a differing opinion.

This was the reason that the 1st amendment was created. So that opposing opinions in government would be heard. This principle has two effects, it presents another way and it acts as a relief valve for opposition. This is why it is the ballot box that changes American government and not the muzzle of a rifle. When the freedom of speech is limited, it is as if the relief valve of a boiler is stuck closed. So long as the boiler’s pressure remains within specifications, everything is fine. However, if the boiler begins to exceed its designed pressure and the relief valve is permanently shut off, then you get a rather impressive explosion. The boiler analogy is a nearly perfect one to the behavior of human beings. Our founding fathers did not want war with England, but when England refused to listen to their voices the seeds of warfare were planted.

Hesitation and doubt are beginning to be felt within the conservative community across the world. Rights as a free people are beginning to be lost in the nations of the West as governments charge citizens with crimes for expressing an opinion. The public’s fascination with the left will not last and one day they may regret the error of their ways.

In Defense of Freedom

Freedom is a tenuous thing. It demands sacrifice, diligence, and discipline from those who bear the torch of liberty in order to maintain it or it will be extinguished by apathy. Even so, there is hope that the torch can be relit, but the price of that ignition is a good deal of blood. Such was the belief of Jefferson and I certainly agree. Man is a greedy and treacherous being and that is why one must never trust his government. This was the founding principal upon which the United States was built and that is why our founders sought to protect individual liberties within our Constitution.

However, the U.S. Constitution is under constant assault by the left. They seek to subvert it via judicial legislation enabled by the appointments of activist justices who pervert our way of life while they publish their collectivist agenda. An agenda that seeks to erode individualism, culture, and liberty until the left can manage to hold a second constitutional convention that will spell the end to personal freedom. James Madison was right to worry about the subversion of the Federal system, but he never saw the judiciary as the means to do it because he never imagined the total lack of integrity of the judiciary.

But let us call the left what they truly are: fascists. This is why they seek to suppress opposing opinions, to create suspicion within the public, to subvert the minds of youth, and to direct public outrage against their political enemies in an effort to destroy them both personally and politically. I will even go one step further and call them the new Nazis. Their fascistic tendencies aside, the one thing that has kept that label from applying is politically directed hatred toward a specific segment of society. But the reality is that, just like Hitler, the left has a hated scapegoat and it is conservatism. The unreasoning hatred of conservatism drives the left to dehumanize and to minimize those who are conservative in their political views. This is why the left continues its assault on Sarah Palin. It was not enough to defeat her in an election because she and her family must be utterly destroyed. While the Clintons bemoaned the politics of personal destruction, it was they and the left who were its biggest supporters and practitioners. This goal of personal destruction is also what was behind the contemplation to enact legislation that would jail global warming deniers based on the holocaust denier laws in Europe. Essentially, the left believes in scorched earth politics.

Some suggest that conservatives withdraw from the field of debate and adopt a “wait and see” approach, but I strongly disagree. I believe that the time to stand and fight is now. If we fail to voice our concerns and to work against those who would deprive us of our freedoms then we open the path to bloodshed. We owe it to ourselves and our fellow citizens to do everything in our power to prevent that from happening. Otherwise, Jefferson’s prediction of refreshing the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots will take on a very real and personal meaning. I realize that the tone of this paragraph sounds harsh, but when a man is stripped of his liberty and backed against the wall of submission he will either revolt or fold. It is precisely at that point that bloodshed will become a very real possibility. I believe that the left cannot see this potential outcome. They believe that they can use the law and public humiliation to silence and eliminate conservatism, but in truth all they are doing is setting the stage for insurgency and revolt. That is why I fight, to prevent that possibility from ever occurring. If I were to do any less then I believe that I would be doing a disservice to my fellow citizens and my country. The U.S. has already fought one civil war and I would greatly prefer not to repeat that experience. Especially given the fact that we are living in dangerous times and the barbarians are nearly at the gates. Aside from the policies and practices of the left, one of the greatest threats that freedom now faces is Islam. The Muslin terrorist is a foe that Israel has fought for decades.

Many bemoan the actions of Israel regarding its military operations in Gaza as too harsh and disproportionate. I suggest that those who say this are out of their minds. If you believe that Israel is too harsh then what do you call the actions of Islam? Hamas has fired over 5,000 rockets into Israel over seven years killing innocent men, women, and children. Hamas calls for the destruction of Israel and the extermination of its citizens. Hamas uses its own children and innocent civilians as canon fodder and promotes the carnage they create with propaganda designed to draw away public support for Israel. Hamas is a terrorist organization that was voted into power by the Palestinian people. I say screw the UN and the Red Cross, Gaza is getting exactly what it deserves.

Islam has never been a religion of peace. It is a religion of conquest and oppression. It only plays well with others when it is in the minority, but when its power grows Islam always moves to exterminate its rivals. It destroys other religions unless they pay the jizya tax and even then it will only allow the dhimmi to exist as a second class citizen with all Muslims coming first. The message of Islam is not one of tolerance and love, but of oppression and hatred for everything outside of itself. It seeks to turn women into chattel who suffer beatings and maltreatment from their husbands and family. That is moderate Islam and it is our enemy. Unless and until Islam is fundamentally changed, it remains a continuing threat to freedom.

Here in the United States Islam seeks to use our own laws and customs against us in order to destroy American society from within as they have been doing in Europe. If Islam emerges on top in the U.S. then freedom will fail. You may submit to Islam and become a Muslim, but you will not be allowed to keep your liberty because Islam has no love of freedom. It is a theocratic system that seeks to oppress the liberty of the individual in order to rigidly enforce the will of the religious hierarchy. The next underpinning of America to falter would be separation of church and state because Islam sees no difference between religion and the government. Finally, the freedom of expression and religion would be lost because dissent and other religions are not tolerated by Islam. Why then does the fascistic left choose to steadfastly support Islam?

It is precisely because Islam has no regard for individual liberty that the left supports it over Christianity and Judaism. The left seeks to suppress or eliminate the rights of the individual in order to impose its own worldview upon the citizens. This is because the left actually believes that the government knows what is best for you and society. That is why the policies of the left continually drives toward collectivism and seeks to eradicate the individual. The left mistakenly believes that it can control Islam because they have a common political mindset with regard to fascism. What the left fails to see and understand is that it will be destroyed should Islam come to power in the United States. Just as their former Soviet comrades would have executed them if they had defeated the U.S., so to would Islam destroy them once it had completed its ascension.

Similar to Hitler, the left is blind to the true nature of its supposed ally. While it is true that Hitler used the Muslim to promulgate his final option, Islam was already primed for this operation because of its burning hatred of Judaism. Worse, Islam has continued down this path ever since the fall of the Third Reich and continues to seek the implementation of Hitler’s final option regardless of the price it must pay in blood in order to achieve that objective. For the Muslim, martyrdom means paradise and the eternal recognition of the faithful still among the living. Even here in the U.S., suicide bombers are praised as heroes by Muslims and their support organizations while the government goes out of its way to support Muslims and jihad. Here in the Commonwealth of Virginia, Governor Tim Kaine appointed a Muslim that supported jihad to his Immigration Commission. Unfortunately for the Governor, a video was released that demonstrated his appointee’s radical views regarding jihad and Israel. This forced Governor Kaine to question his appointees Islamist ideology and Dr. Esam Omeish resigned in order to prevent further embarrassment to the Kaine administration. Questions regarding Kaine’s vetting process still remain, but the resignation rendered those questions moot.

Looking into the immediate future, there is another possible domestic threat to liberty on the horizon. On January 20th Barrack Hussein Obama will be sworn in as the President of the United States of America. Obama’s call for mandatory civilian service and his expressed support for a new security force have caused great concern amongst conservatives. Obama’s exact words regarding the civilian security force was:

"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

If Obama can be taken at his word, the civilian national security force will be armed with automatic and heavy weapons, armed aircraft, armored internal security vehicles, and a multi-billion dollar budget in the hundreds of billions. What role law enforcement would play in relation to this force is unknown, but I suspect that it would be a subservient role. Can anyone say Schutzstaffel? I don’t know about you, but re-creating the SS should not be an option in America. Obama also never mentioned that such an armed force would fall outside of the Posse Comitatus Act and could therefore act routinely against the American citizen as a secret police. Had a Republican proposed this measure, the left would have been howling, but since Obama made the proposition it’s alright.

This is because power in the hands of a Republican is an evil, but power in the hands of a Democrat is acceptable. The core of their belief system is that so long as power rests in their hands, the government is kind and benevolent. If however power resides in the hands of a Republican, the government is out to get you. You see, the left believes that it is intentions that make the difference in these two cases. Since the left presumably only has good intentions then power can safely reside in their hands. I don’t know which is worse, that the leftist politicians honestly believe that this is true or that the rank and file voters believe that this is true. Either way it is insanity. Irrespective of political beliefs, power resides in the hands of human beings and that is why the government cannot be trusted. Man is fallible and this is the reason for the checks on power in the Federal system. For the record, everybody thought that Mussolini and Hitler had good intentions as well and we all know how that turned out.

Our way of life and our personal freedoms are facing a clear and present danger from numerous threats both domestically and abroad. This is no time to retreat or regroup. Conservatives must go on the offensive in order to preserve our American values because the ground we lose today may never be regained and those losses may have dire consequences for the rest of the world.

Permaneo Spes

The Ground Assault Begins

“Thousands of Israeli troops backed by columns of tanks and helicopter gunships launched a ground offensive in Gaza on Saturday night, with officials saying they expected a lengthy fight in the densely populated territory after eight days of punishing airstrikes failed to halt militant rocket attacks on Israel.

Israeli defense officials told FOX News that an estimated 30 Hamas militants had been killed in the incursion so far, though precise numbers are hard to pin down.

Israeli leaders said the operation, known as Cast Lead, was meant to quell militant rocket and mortar fire on southern Israel.” FOX News

Pray for the safety of the IDF forces and the Israeli civilians in harms way. They have a tough row to hoe, but they are fighting an action that must be fought. I cannot imagine what it is like to live surrounded by people that hate you and want you dead, but the Israelis do so and they bear no hatred for their enemy. They still treat enemy combatants with mercy while they do everything in their power to minimize injury to civilian non-combatants. They treat the Palestinian refugees with kindness and compassion. The people of Israel are a noble people and are worthy of admiration and respect. I pray that their military achieves all of its objectives quickly and with minimal Israeli casualties.