Media Blackout: State Dept. Knew 48 Hours Before Riots

September 14, 2012 4 Comments

Mitt Romney said that we need American leadership internationally. He’s of course absolutely right. Unfortunately we aren’t getting that from President Obama right now. The President is to busy fundraising and campaigning on top 40 radio stations to really come out hard against the rioters tearing apart our Embassy’s and killing our ambassadors. So far we haven’t seen any concrete plan or response from Obama. He hasn’t spoken to the nation whether in prime time or during the day. What is our response going to be in Egypt and Libya? We have no idea. But we do know that the media and Obama didn’t like Romney’s response to all of this. Obama’s idea of leadership is to do nothing and attack his opponent.

More details are coming out about the riots. In the UK it’s being reported that our State Department was given credible information about these riots a full 48 hours before they happened. Keep in mind the Embassy in Libya had no Marine or other military protection and in Egypt the Marines had no bullets. This information screams two things to me. First, the notion that these Muslims were rioting over some silly anti-Islam film made in the US is nonsense. These were planned. Second, why isn’t the media in the US reporting any of this? Could it be that to report this sort of information might hurt Obama’s chances for re-election?

Let’s face it, the American press isn’t reporting that the State Department knew about these coordinated riots 48 hours before they happened for the same reason they’re attacking Mitt Romney for daring to comment. They’re in the bag for Barack Obama and will do anything to protect him and attack his opponents. What’s amazing about this is that the media doesn’t seem to get that we can all get online and read stories about this coming out of foreign news rooms. Nevertheless, their desire to hide this story is disturbing. Hopefully they’ll be pressured to start reporting this news because it is vitally important. Especially so in light of the fact that Obama routinely skips his national security intelligence meetings and missed all of them during the week prior to these riots. It sure does paint a picture of incompetence doesn’t it?

Romney has a real opportunity here. What he needs to do is lay out what his plan would be for the middle east if he were President. He should call for an immediate suspension of all foreign aid to countries with rioters threatening our Embassy’s. Make it clear that under a Romney administration unless Egypt (or name your country) can protect our Embassy they will get no money. We will not tolerate this sort of nonsense and if it continues we’ll cut off diplomatic relations. Most of these countries want no part of cutting off American money, they don’t want to cut off diplomatic relations. This plan of action is entirely reasonable and will go over well with Americans, most of whom don’t particularly like foreign aid. It will also show people that Romney isn’t a return of George W. Bush.

We need to resign ourselves to the fact that we have a very weak President who believes in appeasement and weak American power. His reaction to this week’s event make that loud and clear. His policy concerning Arab Spring have failed. Worse, we have a media that is completely in the bag for Obama to the point that they aren’t reporting news, particularly his missteps. Meanwhile they’re attacking Mitt Romney for daring to voice a viewpoint. If Mitt Romney wants a shot to win this election he needs to make a clear and forceful statement about these riots. He remains a long shot to beat Obama so making a strong statement isn’t a huge risk. If the President won’t make a strong statement, then maybe his opponent should.

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Radical Leftists Seek American Autumn Revolution

October 3, 2011 Leave a comment

Radical leftists have demonstrated on the streets of various cities throughout the United States over the past few weeks. These so-called “Days of Rage” protests are aimed at Wall Street, just like Stephen Lerner of SEIU said they would be back in March. These people supported the Arab Spring and want to create an American Autumn.

They are led by the usual assortment of extremist liberals such as Van Jones, a Communist, who has declared there will be an “October offensive to take back the American dream.” Also involved os Francis Fox Piven, a radical leftist professor who declared the other day that “I think we desperately need a popular uprising in America.” Unions are involved in these protests as well as an assortment of radical leftist organizations funded by George Soros. Around 700 were arrested at the Brooklyn Bridge over the weekend while dozens were arrested in Boston. There were small gatherings in Chicago and elsewhere of these radical leftists.

It’s important to note the connections between these folks and the uprisings in the Arab world, particularly in Egypt. We talked about the connections between American leftists and the Muslim Brotherhood and the uprisings here on this blog, how it was odd that American leftists would be interested in the particulars of Egyptian politics.

There are connections though. These leftists want a worldwide socialist revolution, Egypt is part of their strategy and so is the United States. They want to create conditions of chaos, once chaos rules they’re already prepared to take control and offer a solution to stop the chaos. Never mind that they created the chaos in the first place. The Islamic socialists in the Arab world and the radical leftists here in the US have things in common. They hate capitalism, Israel and the United States. They use vague ideas of democracy and freedom, twisting the meaning of freedom so that it stands for servitude to the state.

Van Jones wants to challenge the Tea Party with the leftist mob. You’ll note that the Tea Party never produced any arrests, much less dozens or hundreds at single events. The Tea Party caught on throughout the country. So far these leftists have only staged protests in major cities, with New York and Boston providing the only protests over a few dozen people. That isn’t going to stop Van Jones or George Soros, who is the man funding all of this behind the scenes. These people want to bring chaos to the country before the 2012 election.

Van Jones, Frances Fox Piven and other radical leftists want a revolution and they aren’t using the term as hyperbole. They’re deadly serious. Rosanne Barr, who was part of the leftist protests in New York, declared that she wanted bankers beheaded if they refused to give up all wealth over $100 million. She even suggested using the guillotine. To be fair to Mrs. Barr, she did suggest sending the rich to “re-education” camps before their beheading. She’s quite serious and no one associated with these protests have distanced themselves from her or criticized her statements. Likely because they agree.

What Van Jones and company want to do is not just create an American version of the Arab spring. They want to create an American version of the French revolution, one of the most evil times in French history. Mobs ruled, anyone who questioned anything was sent to the guillotine. What resulted from the French revolution was modern French socialism. Jones and company want to take it further than that, they likely want to bring about a Communist revolution. What they desire first though is chaos in the style of the French revolution.

These people will not succeed. Van Jones pretends that because 80% of the country dislikes Wall Street that this equals 80% support for his movement. The American people are not quite as stupid as Jones believes. Americans aren’t going to hop on board any movement en masse without first taking a serious look at what that movement stands for. Only 20% of the country identifies themselves as liberal. People identify themselves as conservative or moderate at 40% a piece. This has been consistent for decades. We have a center right country and when people recognize what Jones and his group of moronic student protesters actually believe they’ll oppose them. It’s why this movement of the left won’t have traction in the short term or long term among middle class Americans.

It is important for us to pay attention to these people though. Jones, Piven, Trumka, Soros and other radical leftists want to bring about a revolution in the United States. They want to throw our way of life and the Constitution aside in favor of global socialism. They’re working with radical Islamic socialists in the middle east and they desire an overthrow of the American government. Is this something you want to associate yourself?

 

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SEIU’s Stephen Lerner Wants To Break Laws, Create A Crisis

September 20, 2011 1 Comment

SEIU Union leader Stephen Lerner is back in the news again. You’ll recall that just a few months ago Lerner was advocating taking over banks and Wall Street. Having failed at that last week, he’s now encouraging radical leftists and union members to break laws and create a crisis for the wealthy. Lerner also wants folks to ‘occupy’ abandoned houses. Apparently the union movement doesn’t just want its members to break laws and create a crisis, it also desires members to become squatters.

Lerner cannot be taken lightly despite the failure of last weekend’s Wall Street takeover which could only attract 5,000 upper middle class white college students. SEIU is associated with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, they have mutual short term goals. Those goals include destroying capitalism and Israel and creating a socialist state. SEIU is inspired by what happened in Cairo last spring, just like the radical Wisconsin unions were inspired. Lerner desires to have a similar revolution here in America.

It may be easy to laugh at Lerner’s desire to bring about a revolution here in the United States. Surely the US isn’t as unstable as Egypt was. That would be a grave error on the part of those of us who love freedom. One year ago today most Egyptians would have thought it impossible that, barring death, Hosni Mubarak would be out of power. We sit in our living rooms and assume that the United State could never be overthrown. While it remains unlikely, it’s not impossible. We have a substantial economic problem and a sharply divided nation.

While the US may not be ripe for revolution, people like Stephen Lerner want to make us ripe for revolution. He’s encouraging people to break the law. He wants to manufacture a crisis for the wealthy. This is the basic progressive, leftist playbook. The very playbook that President Obama learned when he was a ‘community organizer’. Obama is doing his part, making Americans more dependant on the government. Welfare rolls are rising, the number of Americans on food stamps is at an all time high. Poverty rates in America are skyrocketing under Obama. And yet the President has no solution to the problem. Perhaps because he doesn’t view it as nearly the problem that those of us on the right or in the middle view it. The more people dependant on the state, the better as far as Obama is concerned.

Obama is doing his part and rabble rousers like Stephen Lerner are doing their part. Lerner is trying to rile up college students and union thugs. Where Lerner and the progressive left is off is that the American people aren’t behind them. The public has soured on Obama and they’ve soured on unions. Americans don’t view unions nearly as favorably as they did a generation ago. Obama’s poor poll numbers are well documented. Lerner’s movement is even having trouble gaining traction on college campuses because students have figured out that Obama’s policies aren’t creating jobs for them after they graduate. Rabble rousing may be fun times in college but there isn’t much demand out there for rabble rousers.

Lerner’s calls to break laws and create a crisis are dangerous if they are followed by a substantial number of people. They don’t have the numbers yet, fortunately. What Lerner and SEIU’s position does do for us is expose the radical nature of these unions for everyone to see. Unions are not the friend of the working class or of Americans. They’re out to gain power for themselves. They talk in populist language but who do you suppose will be in charge when they win their revolution? Do you really think Stephen Lerner is looking out for you? Hardly. We should hope Lerner and his gang of radicals keeps talking. The more we know about them, the more Americans will oppose their radical policies.

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Al Gore’s American Spring Call Signals Leftist Protests in 2013

August 5, 2011 Leave a comment

The media and much of the country is focused on the stock market drop yesterday. Over the last two weeks the Dow has dropped 10% and it appears more is on the way today. But tucked hidden away is a story that is far more disturbing than a moderate correction on Wall Street. Former Vice President Al Gore is calling for an “American Spring.” By that he means he wants an overthrown of the American government, much like the overthrown or attempted overthrow of governments throughout the Arab world last spring.

A quick review of what the Arab Spring was. It was a push by the Muslim Brotherhood, funded and aided by western leftists like George Soros, to overthrow governments throughout the Arab world and replace them with Islamic socialist governments. The Brotherhood succeeded in overthrowing the governments in Egypt and Tunisia and continue to fight in Libya and elsewhere.

The key to these Arab revolutions is that they were both Islamic and socialist. Their goal is to replace governments with an Islamic caliphate. Their broader goals, which are shared by western leftists, include the destruction of capitalism, Israel and the United States. This is what makes Al Gore’s comments so disturbing. When he calls for an American Spring, what he’s calling for is the overthrow of the United States as we know it. He wants capitalism destroyed, he wants our country destroyed.

In typical leftist fashion, Gore projects how the left operates on the right. He accuses the Tea Party of being inauthentic and funded by “right-wing billionaires.” Both charges are untrue, but that doesn’t matter. What was inauthentic were the Arab Spring revolutions. They were funded by left-wing billionaire George Soros. They were staged by the Muslim Brotherhood, who had planned the revolutions beginning in 2009. While the media portrayed the Arab Spring revolutions as spontaneous, they were anything but.

So what is Al Gore up to here? Surely Gore doesn’t want to overthrow the Obama administration. What I believe Gore is doing is setting up 2013 for the left. What he’s doing is calling on the left to begin organizing an “American Spring” for the spring of 2013, when a Republican will be President of the United States. What Gore wants to do is create the illusion of a spontaneous reaction to a conservative President, even though the plans were set up long before that President even won the GOP nomination.

Gore wants a left-wing Tea Party to react to a Republican President. Because the left has never been particularly good at spontaneous protests since the 60′s, Gore is calling for the organization of spontaneous protests two years in advance. This is why Gore is attacking the Tea Party, he doesn’t understand how it can be that  protests cannot be organized. The Tea Party was never funded in any serious way by the Koch Brothers or any other billionaire.

Gore and many on the left can’t figure out how that could be possible because the left is incapable of protesting without massive organization. The left has massive unions that are capable of organizing Astroturf protests and they have the George Soros funded Open Society organizations that are capable of organizing massive protests. Organization takes time and Gore and the left cannot figure out how the Tea Party was able to spontaneously arise without organization. As a result, the left assumes there was organization and projects its organization and its inability to be spontaneous on the right.

Everyone is ignoring Al Gore’s statement. We should not. We must be prepared for an American Spring in 2013 where legions of Astroturf liberals descend on the streets of Washington protesting the next Republican President. The plans are in the works. If Al Gore is calling for it, you can bet that Soros and the unions are going to heed his call, if they haven’t decided to organize such protests already. When these protests happen in the spring of 2013, we will know that Gore called for them in 2011 and they will have been organized for the last two years. They will be about as spontaneous as a 100 year old building.

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Arab Spring Erupts: Israel Under Attack On All Fronts

May 16, 2011 Leave a comment

The fruition of the grand Arab Spring has begun. With all its grand talk of democracy, the revolutions held in Egypt and the attempted revolutions elsewhere in the middle east haven’t given the people freedom, a better life or for that matter democracy. The goal of the revolutions was never democracy or freedom, the goal was to get rid of current regimes and install Islamic Socialist states with strong ties to Iran. Iran’s goal of course is to rid the world of Israel and create an Islamic caliphate if not throughout the world than at least throughout the middle east.

Over the weekend Israel came under attack by protesters seeking to illegally enter the country through Lebanon, Syria and Gaza. This has been the goal of the democracy protest organizers all along. Egypt is preparing to elect a leader from the Muslim Brotherhood, which of course has strong times to Hamas. Hamas wants Israel wiped off the face of the Earth. Keep in mind, Hamas is one of the bigger groups representing the Palestinians, a group that is apparently going to have a vote in the UN over whether to recognize Palestine as a state in September.

Israel is under attack on all fronts and there is no telling what Obama is going to do about it. The media is trumping up Obama’s foreign policy after the Osama killing but when it comes to actual foreign policy, the media has largely ignored his errors. Israel is facing attacks at their borders today, Hamas has been launching rockets into Israel for years. Now Israel is facing serious political attack at the UN. If the UN votes to give the Palestinians statehood, Hamas and other radical groups will be able to conduct full scale war against Israel and will be able to secure official backing by other Muslim states.

The big question is whether Obama will use America’s veto power at the UN. All indications seem to point towards him not  using the veto. This is a vote that is coming up in September, so there’s still time for Obama to do the right thing. But assuming he does not, Israel will be stuck responding to the UN’s creation of a Palestinian state. It likely will not be supportive of the UN’s actions, which of course the Muslims want. That will give Egypt and other Muslim states the excuse to in the very least break their peace agreements with Israel and at worse go to war with Israel.

The grand Arab spring that Obama and other leftists so joyfully welcomed is turning out to be little more than a preparation for war with Israel. The people in Egypt are no better off than they were under Mubarak, in fact polls indicate that they may be worse off. They’re essentially exchanging one tyrant for another. All of these protests and revolutions were little more than fronts for Iran backed groups like the Muslim Brotherhood. It’s been amazing to watch American leftists get in bed with these people, all because of their mutual love of socialism and their hatred for Israel and the United States.

This summer is going to be very difficult on the foreign policy front. Israel is going to face increasing attacks and increasing political pressure to accept a Palestinian state. Hopefully they will resist because a Palestinian state will not be a peaceful state. The left-wing media will no doubt treat Israel like they’re the bad guy when in fact they are seeking to protect their citizens from war. We must recognize what’s going on here and reject the media and the left’s support for totalitarian Islamic socialist dictatorships masquerading as democracies. We must support the one free country in the middle east: Israel.

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