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"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E“How many more times are we going to watch this on the news? How many times are we going to read about it and say, ‘Oh we can’t do nothing to stop it?’” House Minority Leader Todd Rutherford demanded three years ago while pushing for gun control. \"It’s time that we do all that we can to protect our children, to protect the lives of other people’s children, to protect the lives of people that simply want to go to Wal-Mart and go back-to-school shopping.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhgCbTgLYDYkHhy-D6-1hQlD-qZ9vA0PPmkLB-tri96SSLgVzUURWnHRVFUkzO-lirVo8PGc90iEO5UnyjTLk2X8koSBoa2m145ryD07S4SfRMGJ1JTzIN44RVgaKBcUoLqU_kZ4T8W8eXp9iZmkHRXCr_4RL2YHnQ_K-H0hAJox6U9jn1dnp0\/s649\/image_2022-04-24_131557312.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"468\" data-original-width=\"649\" height=\"231\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhgCbTgLYDYkHhy-D6-1hQlD-qZ9vA0PPmkLB-tri96SSLgVzUURWnHRVFUkzO-lirVo8PGc90iEO5UnyjTLk2X8koSBoa2m145ryD07S4SfRMGJ1JTzIN44RVgaKBcUoLqU_kZ4T8W8eXp9iZmkHRXCr_4RL2YHnQ_K-H0hAJox6U9jn1dnp0\/s320\/image_2022-04-24_131557312.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ENow, acting as the lawyer for Jewayne Price, the suspect in the Columbiana Centre mall shooting in which 14 people, as young as 15 and as old as 73, were injured, the South Carolina Democrat watched as his client was released with an ankle monitor so he can go back to work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll that we can do to protect our children involves banning guns while freeing criminals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“We’ve got to take common-sense approaches towards controlling gun ownership to make sure bad people don’t get guns,” Rutherford has insisted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EExcept when those bad people are his clients.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I need the students of South Carolina to know that we are paying attention and that ‘never again’ actually means something in South Carolina,” Rutherford had argued during a previous gun control proposal. I’m sure that the 15-year-old injured in this attack is happy to hear that.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs are the children he wanted to condemn to death when he led a walkout to protest the fetal heartbeat bill, putting the abortion lobby ahead of the lives of babies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENever again, to Rutherford, means banning AR-15s and freeing criminals from prison.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERutherford’s involvement hammers home the paradox of Democrat politicians who believe that guns need to be controlled and criminals don’t. Their efforts have unleashed an unprecedented wave of shootings in major cities even while they clamor for more gun bans that don’t work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstead of criminalizing guns, we need to criminalize criminals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMurder are up 51% in South Carolina in the last 5 years.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy might that be? The disastrous Omnibus Crime Reduction and Sentencing Reform Act of 2010, backed by Democrats and far too many Republicans, led to the closure of six prisons and cut the prison population by thousands of criminals. The prison population has declined from 24,000 a decade ago to less than 19,000. The projected population, accounting for demographics, should have been close to 30,000. That’s a difference of around 10,000.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat happens when a third of the prison population is roaming around South Carolina?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMurder rates are the highest they've been since 1993. In the 90s, growing crime rates were rolled back by locking up criminals with a clear turnaround kicking in by the end of the decade so that despite significant population growth in the new century, murders fell sharply and so did most other crimes. The same prison system that Rutherford decries and that pro-crime South Carolina politicians helped dismantle had done its job. Now that job has been undone.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Rutherford really cares about protecting children, he would fight to lock up criminals. Instead, not just as a lawyer, but as a legislator, he has battled to keep criminals out of prison. And he has blamed anything and everything for shootings except the criminals carrying them out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERutherford, who had previously \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/article\/state-reps-have-heated-debate-over-libraries-drag-queens-first-amendment\/26479380\"\u003Eopposed\u003C\/a\u003E attempts to keep Drag Queen Story Hour out of children's libraries, also \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2015\/06\/18\/sc_state_rep_todd_rutherford_charleston_shooter_did_this_because_he_watches_things_like_fox_news.html\"\u003Eblamed\u003C\/a\u003E FOX News for shootings, claiming, \"these networks that broadcast what they call news, but it's not. It's really hate speech and coded language.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFOX News doesn’t kill people. Neither do inanimate objects. Criminals kill people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERutherford previously \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/amp.thestate.com\/article224972585.html\"\u003Eblamed the NRA\u003C\/a\u003E and gun owners for making it too difficult to pass gun control legislation, but the latest mass shooting isn’t a call for gun control, but criminal control.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EControlling criminals is a much more just solution than gun control which means controlling everyone. And yet given a choice between controlling criminals and everyone, Democrats like Rutherford invariably choose to restrict everyone’s rights instead of restricting criminals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut if they can’t even control criminals, how do they hope to control everyone?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe politician and lawyer has addressed anti-police rallies and represented the family of a teen shot by police while advocating for \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KdTMd_zssEw\"\u003Epolice defunding\u003C\/a\u003E.He pushed a bill to ban law enforcement from using automatic \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/scnow.com\/observer\/news\/columbia-representative-s-bill-would-ban-johnsonville-s-use-of-license-plate-readers\/article_3eee84c8-5aa1-11e2-888f-0019bb30f31a.html\"\u003Elicense plate readers\u003C\/a\u003E, but proposes “controlling gun ownership”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERep. Rutherford's House Bill 3322 would, in its original form, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wmbfnews.com\/2019\/04\/11\/wmbf-news-investigates-sc-bill-that-could-let-criminals-out-prison-sooner\/\"\u003Ehave released \u003C\/a\u003Ekidnappers, robbers, and killers while wiping out mandatory minimums. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENone of this is a “common sense” approach to crime.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERutherford has fought for mask mandates in schools, denouncing Gov. McMaster for proposing to protect people \"without forcing them to do things that they do not want to do.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe House Dem leader supports governments forcing people to do things when it comes to COVID or gun ownership, but not when it comes to murder, robbery, and drugs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPeople not wearing masks are not a threat. A firearm is not a threat. A criminal however is.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Columbiana Centre mall shooting shows how crime has begun to affect the state’s capital.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPolice Chief Skip Holbrook has been \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wistv.com\/2021\/11\/10\/sled-report-shows-alarming-statewide-increase-violent-crime-murders-2020\/\"\u003Ereported \u003C\/a\u003Eas saying that around four percent of the population are committing 80 percent of the violent crimes in the city. That’s as true of Columbia, as it is of most major cities. A small population of career criminals and gang members is committing most of the crimes. When that population is locked up and closely monitored, public safety dramatically improves, and when they’re set free, they rob, stab, shoot, and kill at will.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“When you have a country in which you have more firearms on our streets than you actually have people, we got a problem,” Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin whined. \"We need more help from the State Legislature, we need more help from the national government, the federal government, and we need more help from each and every one of our citizens doing our share.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBenjamin, like Rutherford, is wrong. The number of guns isn’t the problem, the number of criminals is. When Democrats free criminals and lock up guns, everyone lives in terror.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Columbiana Centre mall shooting is just the latest reminder of that simple reality.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe way back begins with reversing South Carolina’s disastrous pro-crime measures which were enacted with “guidance” from left-wing and libertarian pro-crime groups that cut prison populations while growing the size of the criminal population roaming the streets.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPoliticians boasted of saving hundreds of millions of dollars by closing prisons. Now as crime rates soar, the money gained has been lost ten times over.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd we can't even begin to put a price on the loss of human life.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHouse Minority Leader Todd Rutherford is right. \"It’s time that we do all that we can to protect our children, to protect the lives of other people’s children, to protect the lives of people that simply want to go to Wal-Mart and go back-to-school shopping.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMall shooters shouldn’t be roaming the streets. We can protect our children from them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll we have to do is lock them up.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/263272944800474577\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/how-many-more-times-are-we-going-to.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/263272944800474577"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/263272944800474577"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/how-many-more-times-are-we-going-to.html","title":"“How Many More Times Are We Going to Watch This on the News? 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Gov Who Backed Police Defunding Busted for Bribery"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003ESen. Brian Benjamin wanted to defund the NYPD, but he should have fought to defund the FBI because it was the feds that busted the “progressive politician” on bribery charges.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Last year we made historic strides towards ending mass incarceration with major reforms,\" Sen. Benjamin had boasted when he was in the legislature. “But there is still more work to do.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjruZupiP4VeN0qusSdwak1fw86b2GU84HaY0Cz21tkDD-3hSgDv5KK2k9O7FUwmi6KyKKn1u9SrMyIK6vPVWlMA9rvyl68h9OkGT1w5_NQfzNQpi_xDl5qDpUy50qcNTXM1xyeSPzfaPeKfNWLxzIKM8fzOxGldpPSoJUNJre5q6OVIMkix1k\/s624\/image_2022-04-19_204258048.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"496\" data-original-width=\"624\" height=\"254\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjruZupiP4VeN0qusSdwak1fw86b2GU84HaY0Cz21tkDD-3hSgDv5KK2k9O7FUwmi6KyKKn1u9SrMyIK6vPVWlMA9rvyl68h9OkGT1w5_NQfzNQpi_xDl5qDpUy50qcNTXM1xyeSPzfaPeKfNWLxzIKM8fzOxGldpPSoJUNJre5q6OVIMkix1k\/s320\/image_2022-04-19_204258048.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EBenjamin’s current work will be avoiding incarceration on five bribery charges.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe busted radical had fought to end bail, turning arrests into a revolving door, close down the Rikers Island prison, limit police enforcement options, and protect parole violators.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the leftist crook has claimed that there is a school-to-prison pipeline, the real pipeline is the politics-to-prison pipeline in Albany. Governor Spitzer was forced out in a prostitution scandal, his Lt. Governor, David Paterson, was pushed to the door in a sex scandal, and his successor, Andrew Cuomo, well you may have heard that story.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo sooner did Cuomo’s Lt. Gov, Kathy Hochul step into his shoes, then she decided to pick Benjamin, a prog with impeccable police-hating credentials to stay on the right side of the Left.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow, Hochul, who courted the pro-crime vote, is stuck with a criminal on her ticket.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I'm going to name someone that I believe the state will be familiar with and very proud of,\" Hochul had said, announcing Benjamin as her pick for her old job after Cuomo stepped down.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s a lot to be proud of. Benjamin has set a new state record of being on the job for only 8 months before having to resign to, in his own words, \"focus his energies on explaining in court why his actions were laudable-- not criminal.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlso, like Cuomo, Spitzer and Weiner, Benjamin \"looks forward to when this case is finished so he can rededicate himself to public service.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt the rate New York Dems are going, his replacement will have also been indicted by then freeing up a spot for Benjamin to just go right back to his old job of helping criminals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAsked by reporters now about Benjamin's arrest, Hochul piously scolded, “Let’s focus on the fact that there are people in a hospital right now fighting for their lives.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd some of those people were even shot because of her opposition to bringing back bail.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou can understand why Hochul and the Dem Albany establishment oppose bringing back bail for criminals or enforcing the law. The only people who support criminals… are criminals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe New York Dem campaign slogan might as well be, \"Vote for Us, Until We're Indicted.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECuomo began his career as Attorney General of New York. His predecessor was Eliot Spitzer, his successor, Eric Schneiderman was \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/03\/last-3-dem-governors-new-york-sexually-harassed-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eforced to resign\u003C\/a\u003E after multiple women accused him of choking and assaulting them. And that’s without delving into the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/dirty-attorney-general-going-after-trump-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Econflicts of interest\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd now Hochul will be forced to run for the top spot with Benjamin’s name right after hers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I have utmost confidence in my lieutenant governor,” Gov. Hochul told reporters on Thursday.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn Tuesday, her confidence may have waned after Benjamin turned himself in to face justice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy did Hochul pick Benjamin? Let’s look at his credentials. In his failed bid for State Comptroller, the Harlem politician ran on a platform of defunding the police.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I support the movement to defund the police,\" he had \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianbenjaminny\/status\/1351313996071235587?lang=en\"\u003Edeclared\u003C\/a\u003E. After a wave of shootings, the indicted pol falsely claimed that, “more police don’t lead to more community safety”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBenjamin's anti-police crusade was backed by former Women's March leader Tamika Mallory who claimed \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/amsterdamnews.com\/news\/2021\/03\/04\/brian-benjamin-unveils-plans-fight-crime-reform-po\/\"\u003Ethat\u003C\/a\u003E, “Brian has already been an important leader in the Black Lives Matter movement.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe politician in turn presented an \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrianBenjaminNY\/status\/943656078214094848\"\u003Eofficial state proclamation\u003C\/a\u003E honoring the Farrakhan supporter while hailing Mallory as a “freedom fighter like the ones we read about in the history books”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Benjamin helped to bring a Black Lives Matter mural to Harlem, Al Sharpton was there. He was endorsed by Calvin Butts and the rest of the race-baiting royalty at the heart of city politics. By embracing him, Hochul hoped to get the support of Sharpton and the gang.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut it’s not as if the charges could have possibly come as a surprise to anyone with a pulse.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere have been lawsuits, ethics charges, and allegations around him ever since Benjamin won a 4% turnout election that took him to the State Senate and then an appointment as Lt. Gov, a position he was as qualified to hold as Hochul, his former boss, or a small ball of earwax.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMany of those scandals involved Benjamin's relationship with Harlem real estate developers and finance people whom he berated in press releases, but cozied up to and profited from.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I want to thank the entire village of Harlem who helped create this young man who’s going to help us lead the state into better days and prosperity,” Hochul said when picking Benjamin.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHarlem hasn’t been a village since the 17th century.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the last Harlem politician to become Lt. Governor was David Paterson who had boasted, \"The only way I'm not going to be governor next year is at the ballot box and the only way I'll be leaving office before is in a box\" before he had to leave office anyway. Unboxed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow Benjamin has made everyone proud by, among other things, accepting a $250 campaign donation from a 2-year-old. It may take a village to raise a child, but it takes a child to write a $250 check to the progressive enabler of criminals who is now allegedly a criminal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the pro-crime movement once again loses one of its own to crime on the perpetrating end.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s nothing new for New York politicians who couldn’t be left alone in a room with a locked safe or a baby with a lollipop without making off with the safe’s contents and the lollipop.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut as New Yorkers wrestle with an unprecedented crime wave brought on by the dismantling of the criminal justice system by police defunders like Benjamin who worked to eliminate bail, shut down prisons, and set criminals loose, this case is a reminder of why they love criminals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Black Lives Matter movement and the Left are thick as thieves because they are thieves.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFighting for the rights of criminals was never really about race, it was about the entitlement of the sorts of people who lie, steal, and kill their way to the top and then want to help their own.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the wake of escalating violent attacks due to Democrat pro-crime policies, like eliminating bail, Hochul and Benjamin co-wrote an op-ed titled, \"Don’t Blame Bail Reform; Do Improve It\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince Benjamin’s arrest, there has been no word on bail for the police defunder.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Governor Hochul’s turn comes, maybe she’ll be luckier.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/3063726538848300513\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/nys-blm-lt-gov-who-backed-police.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3063726538848300513"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3063726538848300513"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/nys-blm-lt-gov-who-backed-police.html","title":"NY’s BLM Lt. 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A day before the eve of Passover, the administration’s second virtual seder served no function except to give Emhoff something to do. Perhaps knowing that, Emhoff claimed, with a mostly straight face, that he had traveled the country hearing from people “how much last year’s virtual seder had meant to them”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEmhoff made no mention of the over a dozen Israelis recently killed in terror attacks. Neither, seemingly, did so many of the speakers who rambled on about the importance of “empathy”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEmpathy applies to everyone except the Israeli Jews mourning their dead.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPassover, to Emhoff, proved to be about Ukraine, about the pandemic, and “protecting democracy”. Maybe Emhoff can tell me which democratic process elected Moses. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThen a particularly haggard Biden, looking awkwardly at things off camera, boasted that this was the “first time in three years that families sit around the seder table.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat might be true in Washington D.C., but it certainly isn’t true in America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden then declared that during Passover, his hearts were “with the people of Ukraine”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe camera cut to the White House's bewildered Jewish liaison.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPassover, so far, was about Ukraine. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe previous seder, featuring \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/04\/kamalas-husband-hosts-virtual-passover-hell-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ean anti-Israel activist\u003C\/a\u003E, was apparently so popular that Emhoff decided to recycle his shtick about “gelatinous gefilte fish” from last year. Then he declared that “ever since I was a kid, I have been inspired by the story of Exodus.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndeed, who could forget the time Moses went back to Egypt, married Pharaoh’s sister, and settled down to the business of assisting in the genocide of the Jews. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEmhoff’s presentation was followed by a long list of speakers eager to delve into Passover as a metaphor and uninterested in it as a substantial reality. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere was Andrew Rehfeld, the first \"non-rabbinic\" head of the Reform Movement's Hebrew Union College seminary, who had \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/andrew.rehfeld\/posts\/10101606531280262\"\u003Edefended\u003C\/a\u003E BDS supporters against claims of antisemitism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Some students have been attracted to the BDS movement because of their love of Israel, and their repugnance of what they see as its unjust treatment of Palestinians,\" Rehfeld had argued. \"BDS is not the answer.  But that does not mean that their concerns are without merit.\"  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERehfeld appeared with a large placard behind him declaring, \"Another Jew for LGBTQ Equality\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe non-rabbinic head of a movement that denies the existence of the G-d of the Torah made no mention of the Creator of the Universe, but spoke about “bullying” and “civil society”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat was followed by J Street’s Deborah Lipstadt, who talked about Ukraine, and Jeopardy host Mayim Bialik who… also talked about Ukraine. An ignorant viewer might have concluded that in the Bible, the Jews had left Ukraine, rather than Egypt. After a brief interjection by an Orthodox Rabbi who actually had a seder plate on display, next up was Afroculinaria's Michael W. Twitty, a black gay social justice chef who had previously accused Israel of racism.and who explained that in his seder molasses \"represented the transatlantic slave trade.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDayenu!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe People’s Seder was dedicated to philosophical abstractions that erased Jews and negated the fundamental truths of the Passover story. Attaching the \"People's\" to something is a negation. That's why the various democratic people's republics were anything but and why the People's Seder isn't a seder, or at least not a Jewish one, but a People’s Republic of Seder.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELess than two minutes into his virtual farce, Emhoff had declared that \"even though the Exodus tells the story of a particular people, its message is universal.\" Everything about Judaism to secularists is universal, and nothing is particular or relevant to the actual Jews.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt would be dangerous to focus on the particular people currently being killed once again in their own country because Emhoff’s wife’s boss chooses to stand with Islamic terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter the People’s Seder was done, Ambassador Tom Nides, who had been caught \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2022\/03\/bidens-israel-ambassador-tells-bds-group-he-wants-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Epraising a BDS group \u003C\/a\u003Eand boasting of trying to keep Jews out of Jerusalem, issued a press release in English, Arabic, and Hebrew (in that order) which urged “Jews, Muslims and Christians” (also in that order) to avoid \"actions that further escalate tensions\" during \"this sacred holiday period\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat would include concluding the seder with the traditional call, “Next Year in Jerusalem”, signifying a return to a city that Biden and Nides deny is Jewish and want to keep Jews out of.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENides, Emhoff, and other administration enablers of Jewish descent, erase Jews from Passover and Jerusalem, and replace the real people and their history with social justice abstractions. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPart of the problem is that Emhoff, like your average leftist of Jewish ancestry knows as much about Judaism as I do about dating Kamala. And cares just as little. Stripping Judaism of its particularism appears liberating to someone like Emhoff because it also frees him of what he and his family see as a limitation on their identities and their potential social aspirations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe People’s Seder is not a Jewish people’s seder because that’s the last thing Emhoff wants.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELiberation to lefties of Jewish descent means the ability to be less Jewish. That is at odds with the message of Passover and of Judaism which is that liberation comes from being more Jewish. The Jews who had tried to fit into Pharaoh’s tyranny had become slaves, while the slaves who defied an empire by conducting a seder that mocked Egyptian beliefs were set free.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUniversalism is enslaving while particularism is liberating.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Passover seder’s message, with its careful recreation of the particular experiences, sensory, emotional, and intellectual, of Egyptian slavery and liberation, is a painstaking excercise in particularism. The People’s Seder, like virtually all lefty religious practices, is an equally painstaking exercise in rejecting the particular for the universal by turning the events into metaphors that can be glibly made to mean anything as long as it’s unrelated to the Jews. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s all very well to turn the story of Passover into a metaphor, but Moses didn’t arrive to talk to Pharaoh about abstractions like empathy and emotional growth, but with a simple message.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Let My People Go.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe People’s Seder claims to be about liberation, but actually enslaves. It rejects “the four languages of liberation” whose four steps \"I will take you out\", \"I will save you\", \"I will redeem you\" and \"I will take you\" develop it as relationship between G-d and the Jewish people, to universalize it into hollow self-help empowerment in which there is no relationship with G-d.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstead there is a relationship with the leftist deity of government all too familiar to Pharaoh.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWorshipping government isn’t liberation, it’s slavery.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/8797522244073251115\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/the-biden-administrations-seder-makes.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8797522244073251115"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8797522244073251115"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/the-biden-administrations-seder-makes.html","title":"The Biden Administration’s Seder Makes a Mockery of Passover and the Jews"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi8pRkeFs1NSVi4WkkaGckEkKUusLcYErnkC-9Egyh30H1joveGJOgWHZrGd26ymggresOcjvNnG4Xd9C05Rm_zUJrAgzjGgE4CP7qsCeC1Ws2AgKBDZKMhXPNBzsZ9fWx1OBQwdlwLMCpNJiHqbiv_pUN6PDElSqDJhWt5LG3d_GKo9qyosos\/s72-c\/image_2022-04-19_203845343.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-414574219163485908"},"published":{"$t":"2022-04-19T00:03:00.003-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-04-19T00:03:38.090-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Ukraine"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biden's 'Integrated Deterrence' Military Strategy Failed in Ukraine"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003ELast year, Secretary of Defense Austin claimed that a new strategy called \"integrated deterrence\" would be at the heart of Biden's new defense strategy. Last month, he was talking up a new National Defense Strategy driven by integrated deterrence while claiming that it would prove effective against Russia in the war in Ukraine. Instead the war showed “ID” doesn’t work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg1Zcg3hqjBxWIOx6FAI00G7GhBIObroEFu4JFLTjL0qvSwgmm9m_EKffgWRGdxiurao1p2VB6oUerUKI331UNoKrMzm-mCNkbSBSVCd69gg1tSo7h5F3aXD6H6hyeYSbbgHaIniS2271ld9ZarJMTHweT4DIIagrHr3EyEfOY3n_JB6Gopf-Q\/s652\/biden%20car%20frame.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"484\" data-original-width=\"652\" height=\"238\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg1Zcg3hqjBxWIOx6FAI00G7GhBIObroEFu4JFLTjL0qvSwgmm9m_EKffgWRGdxiurao1p2VB6oUerUKI331UNoKrMzm-mCNkbSBSVCd69gg1tSo7h5F3aXD6H6hyeYSbbgHaIniS2271ld9ZarJMTHweT4DIIagrHr3EyEfOY3n_JB6Gopf-Q\/s320\/biden%20car%20frame.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EWhat is \"integrated deterrence\"? It sounds better than leading from behind, which was Obama's version of it, but it’s not too different from the failed approach of the Obama administration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike a lot of organizational jargon, \"integrated deterrence\" is a collection of meaningless buzzwords that no one understands concealing the same old thing that dresses up failure as  success because under the exciting new approach, no one was even trying to succeed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIntegrated deterrence, if you listen to Austin, is everything and therefore nothing. ID is going to perfectly integrate together all military capabilities without regard for service rivalries, combined with all elements of the federal government, and be ready to go anywhere at home or across the globe without any friction or limitations, while also seamlessly integrating with our allies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr, as Austin put it during a visit to Poland, integrated deterrence uses “the capability and capacity that's resident in our partners and allies.\" Or, you know, leading from behind.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EID means being \"integrated across our allies and partners, which are the real asymmetric advantage that the United States has over any other competitor or potential adversary,\" Colin Kalh, Biden's undersecretary of policy, had claimed. “Our adversaries know that they're not just taking on the United States, they're taking on a coalition of countries who are committed to upholding a rules-based international order.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica has plenty of asymmetric advantages. Being tied to the Germans and the French, not to mention the awesome might of a variety of small countries that have marginal militaries and no desire to fight is not making China, Russia, or anyone else tremble in their leather boots.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA rules-based international order has not stopped a single war or deterred any aggressor.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnnouncing that our true asymmetric advantage is that we have allies is just an excuse for dumping the problem on them and then leading from behind. That’s what Biden keeps doing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd it isn’t working.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden’s Pentagon flacks and hacks keep talking up the “integrated” part, but haven’t actually integrated anything and they certainly haven’t deterred anyone.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe “rules-based international order” has not stopped China’s incursions into Taiwan’s airspace (not to mention its violation of its agreement over Hong Kong’s civil liberties), the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, or Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Had they been unable to defend themselves, they would now be just another conquered province. That is the real lesson here.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s the lesson every country, predator or prey, around the world is taking to heart.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIntegrated deterrence saw its first real field test in the Ukraine war. And it failed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInternational outrage, condemnation, and even the most punishing sanctions failed to stop Putin. Much as Obama’s previous sanctions had done nothing to stop Putin from claiming Crimea, and as sanctions had likewise failed to do anything but annoy everyone from Saddam Hussein to the Kim crime family to the otherwise bankrupt socialist regime in Venezuela.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"You're seeing us lead with diplomacy. You've seen us work very, very carefully with our allies and partners to share information,\" Austin claimed in Poland.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELeading with diplomacy is appeasement and it works almost as well as sanctions. But, equally important, information sharing has been nearly as disastrous, not only among allies who were blindsided, as with the Poland plane deal, but even within the White House. Much as Obama and Kerry blindsided each other over Syria’s chemical weapons, Biden, his cabinet members, and White House comms people keep contradicting each other about Ukraine and Russia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf the Biden administration can’t even integrate its own responses to a crisis at the White House level, what hope is there for the fantasy of a federal and multinational team “all woven together and networked” across all levels and theaters that lies at the heart of the ID fantasy?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration hasn't even figured out how to crawl and in typical prog fashion unveiled a plan to not only fly, but encompass all space and time with a single thought.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIntegrated deterrence provides a familiar set of excuses for not doing things.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESecretary of Defense Austin and other Pentagon brass are using ID to shift the burden away from building up a military that is ready to fight and win wars over to the State Department and other parts of the government. The deterrence part already signals retreat while the integrated part assigns the responsibility to everyone else including foreign governments and militaries.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile America’s partners aren’t where they need to be, the massive amounts of money we spend on the military are meant to buy us real offensive and defensive capabilities, not excuses.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Integrated deterrence deemphasizes the role of the military while focusing on alternatives to it as the solution to conflicts. This isn’t a new idea for Democrats and the Left, it’s also notoriously ineffective. The military can’t and shouldn’t be the default solution to everything, but neither should we pretend, as Biden is doing in Ukraine, that there are a variety of effective non-military solutions to military problems. We can choose to engage or not engage in conflicts, but when we get involved in a war by throwing out useless non-military solutions, we show weakness.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that makes it more likely that we will end up having to fight a real war.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIntegrated deterrence asks top defense officials and military leaders to act as if non-military solutions are military ones. But just as it’s not the job of diplomats to fight wars, diplomacy is not the work of generals. Yet under Obama and Biden, the military has been dragged into doing the work of diplomats in Libya and Afghanistan even as our military capabilities have declined.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnsatisfied with emphasizing appeasement over actions within the White House, the Biden administration’s integrated deterrence is emphasizing appeasement within the military.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe want generals to win wars, not negotiate with enemies. That absurdity is how Chief of Staff Gen. Milley ended up assuring his Chinese opposite number that he would warn him of any attack. It’s bad enough when diplomats act like this, it’s much worse when generals do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd yet turning generals into diplomats is what integrated deterrence is built on. Not only don’t we get good diplomats out of the deal, we also get useless generals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBeyond integrated deterrence, Biden defense officials increasingly champion “holistic” solutions which efface specific capabilities. They insist that America’s military isn’t being weakened, it’s becoming more “flexible” and “responsive”, even as they eliminate metrics for everything from individual soldiers to classes of aircraft. When everything is “flexible” and “integrated”, then nothing actually works because everything is a giant buzzword that never means anything.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt doesn’t matter how well the F-35s work or whether the new fitness standards for recruits amount to anything because what really matters is the unsolvable puzzle, not the pieces.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat is invariably how leftist projects, which are all about the vision, not the details, fall apart.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the real solutions don’t come from the mere deployment of force, but emerge out the syzygy of identity politics, inspirational talks about innovation, and emergent integration of everything that military leaders have become obsessed with then battlefield competence becomes a footnote in a progressive vision of tomorrow’s military that doesn’t work today.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd may never work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUkraine has shown that integrated deterrence is another in a series of Potemkin villages cloaking the same bad ideas in buzzwords and jargon. ID, in Obama’s familiar line, tries to make a weakness seem like a strength, but in reality it just makes everything into one big weakness.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/414574219163485908\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/bidens-integrated-deterrence-military.html#comment-form","title":"7 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/414574219163485908"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/414574219163485908"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/bidens-integrated-deterrence-military.html","title":"Biden's 'Integrated Deterrence' Military Strategy Failed in Ukraine"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg1Zcg3hqjBxWIOx6FAI00G7GhBIObroEFu4JFLTjL0qvSwgmm9m_EKffgWRGdxiurao1p2VB6oUerUKI331UNoKrMzm-mCNkbSBSVCd69gg1tSo7h5F3aXD6H6hyeYSbbgHaIniS2271ld9ZarJMTHweT4DIIagrHr3EyEfOY3n_JB6Gopf-Q\/s72-c\/biden%20car%20frame.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"7"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-8512490010596869444"},"published":{"$t":"2022-04-14T16:49:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-04-14T16:49:13.734-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Corporate America"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Hollywood"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Beating Woke Hollywood Means Taking Away Their Copyright Gated IP Empires"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EIn 1998, Congress passed the Mickey Mouse Protection Act. In a classic case of bipartisan corruption, the bill brought together Republicans, along with Barney Frank and John Conyers, to do a special favor for Disney and for other entertainment industry companies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhwuQskvq9iI2Wtblt3PE6BiMw8idCl5DroIWv2I0M8QGe5ik0gySr_WLpUjJSNu3UixUnuFu7Ef3MTYph3xAIvzlQ96uJurgKLJXVQPZitmjc-ED0uWdYHdCBUGNADxdF7xvU_u0AOtH0OJlnPRVGTJ6LzK-3OcCfeosMyba3NzzY2oKuQ3Kw\/s806\/emmys2.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"462\" data-original-width=\"806\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhwuQskvq9iI2Wtblt3PE6BiMw8idCl5DroIWv2I0M8QGe5ik0gySr_WLpUjJSNu3UixUnuFu7Ef3MTYph3xAIvzlQ96uJurgKLJXVQPZitmjc-ED0uWdYHdCBUGNADxdF7xvU_u0AOtH0OJlnPRVGTJ6LzK-3OcCfeosMyba3NzzY2oKuQ3Kw\/s320\/emmys2.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe Mickey Mouse Act (formally the Copyright Term Extension Act) was one of a series of measures that took the original copyright system, meant to protect an author's rights, and instead turned it into a permanent monopoly cash cow for Hollywood studios.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMickey Mouse, a character created in the 20s, will only become public domain in 2024.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat is if Republicans don’t once again decide to do a special favor for Disney, Warner Bros, and a number of other massively woke and wealthy entertainment industry monsters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn response to Disney's support for pushing sexual indoctrination on kindergarteners, Rep. Jim Banks has sent a letter warning that \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/exclusive-republicans-threaten-to-let-disneys-mickey-mouse-copyright-lapse-over-radical-political-activism\/\"\u003Ethe free ride was over\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“It’s hard to believe that anyone would have considered extending the already lengthy term, but there’s no way they will get the ear of any Republicans after their radical political activism. America’s strong copyright protections helped make America great — they gave our creators and distributors the right incentives to produce content that shows the world the importance of freedom. But Congress should not add to Disney’s 90+ years of federal copyright protection to incentivize its new far left agenda,” Rep. Jim Jordan said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDisney had spent around\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/priceonomics.com\/how-mickey-mouse-evades-the-public-domain\/#:~:text=By%20the%20mid%2D1990s%2C%20Disney,and%20Donald%20Duck%20in%202009.\"\u003E $150,000\u003C\/a\u003E on members of Congress considering the bill in the 90s. The company these days allegedly spends millions on various direct and indirect lobbying efforts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Congress does nothing, Mickey's copyright will expire in 2024, followed by Pluto in 2026, Goofy in 2028, and Donald Duck in 2029. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves will lapse in 2032, followed by classic Disney movies like Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi and Cinderella.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBeyond Disney, Superman’s copyright ends in 2033, Batman’s copyright in 2034, and Wonder Woman in 2036. In another blow to Warners, Bugs Bunny goes public domain in 2035.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the copyrights apply to specific works, like Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie or the first Superman comic, it would open up opportunities for independent creators and companies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIncluding conservatives and traditionalists who want to recreate American culture.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDisney and Warners, among others, would stand to lose billions in profits from these characters. They’ll fight for another copyright extension if they can, and if they can’t, will try to sneak in poison pills that will keep anyone else from being able to use them while bribing politicians left and right. Literally. Conservatives haven’t cared about this in the past. Now they should.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOpposing copyright extension is about more than just punishing Disney for wokeness.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECompanies like Disney and Warners have built massive war chests of intellectual property that their current management and even ownership had nothing to do with creating while robbing the original creators, on whose behalf copyright laws and extensions were passed, of the profits.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELast year, Disney's Marvel filed five lawsuits to block the families of Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, and other creators of classic characters like Spiderman, Iron Man, Thor, and many others, from reclaiming copyright. This is the latest episode in a series of legal battles over comic rights (Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were originally paid $130 for the rights) and with the artists, creators, and animators who made the entire comic book industry possible.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEntertainment industry wokeness is built in large part on taking classic characters and “renewing” them by pushing them to be more politically radical, racially recasting them, or killing the characters off entirely and replacing them to prepare for the end of their copyrights.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHollywood, increasingly incapable of producing popular original stories, is farming properties that are almost a century old to wring the last shreds of profits from them. The industry and our culture would look very different if it didn’t consist of a few companies milking a few characters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFreeing classic characters into the public domain could enable the rise of an alternative more traditional entertainment industry. And one that might better reflect the values of their creators.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWalt Disney was a Republican. J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit’s copyright lapses in 2033) was a deeply religious conservative traditionalist. Steve Ditko, the co-creator of Spider-Man and Dr. Strange, was an Objectivist. Superman’s creators were Zionists. Many of them would be disgusted by the woke ways in which their work is being twisted by the companies that control them. Few of them would be employable by any of those companies today. Indeed even some living creators, like J.K. Rowling, are being canceled by the companies cashing in on their work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECopyright laws made it possible for creators to earn a living as full-time writers and artists, but the modern Grub Street exploited copyright by giving creators pennies and then using lobbyists to build copyright empires while making it all but impossible for new creators to get started.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Mickey Mouse Protection Act already extended copyright beyond any possible lifetime of a creator. Heirs have had to spend years or decades in court battling for any of the profits. There’s no possible moral argument for yet another copyright extension and compelling arguments for preventing Disney, Warners, and other woke corps from permanently exploiting copyright.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOur culture would be better off taking apart Hollywood copyright empires, built on the work of exploited and cheated writers and artists, and making it accessible to everyone. The results couldn’t be any worse than Disney execs boasting of “queering” content meant for children.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECulture is meant to be a common heritage, not a permanent corporate asset.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGone With the Wind’s copyright expires in 2031. That means people will finally be able to watch it without HBO Max forcing them to sit through a speech on how they’re a bunch of racists. They’ll however have to wait until 2039 for Song of the South to escape from Disney’s vault.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIs there an argument for keeping either one locked up for decades in the thrall of companies like Disney and Warners that despise them and have nothing but contempt for their audiences?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESetting Mickey Mouse free does more than just punish Disney or rebuke Hollywood’s corrupt business model which only exists because enough politicians in California and Washington D.C. have been bribed to make it possible, it frees people to engage with their culture. The entertainment industry is building a world of culture renters who don’t actually own the digital books, songs, comics, shows, games, and other items that they’ve bought online.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe best defense against copyright plantations is liberation. Once the creators and partners have passed on and a work is culturally significant, it should belong to the culture, not to a corporation. We don’t live in a world in which Beethoven’s Fifth is wholly owned by Amazon, all the rights to Shakespeare’s works by Netflix, or the Mona Lisa by Disney.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd it’s a good thing too.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBoth our society and the free market are best served by allowing those works to enrich new creations, instead of being locked up in the Disney vault to be perverted more and more.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd Disney, Warners, and other companies, no longer sitting on a monopolistic culture hoard, would actually have to create new things and engage with more than just their own woke set.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat would be good for them, for us, and for the culture.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERepublicans are waking up and warning that Disney won’t get any more free rides. Neither should the rest of the entertainment industry. Americans need a vital, diverse, and active culture market, not one in which a handful of woke titans force their political dogmas on the country.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBreaking up their copyright monopoly would free Mickey Mouse and free our culture.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/8512490010596869444\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/beating-woke-hollywood-means-taking.html#comment-form","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8512490010596869444"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8512490010596869444"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/beating-woke-hollywood-means-taking.html","title":"Beating Woke Hollywood Means Taking Away Their Copyright Gated IP Empires"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhwuQskvq9iI2Wtblt3PE6BiMw8idCl5DroIWv2I0M8QGe5ik0gySr_WLpUjJSNu3UixUnuFu7Ef3MTYph3xAIvzlQ96uJurgKLJXVQPZitmjc-ED0uWdYHdCBUGNADxdF7xvU_u0AOtH0OJlnPRVGTJ6LzK-3OcCfeosMyba3NzzY2oKuQ3Kw\/s72-c\/emmys2.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}}]}});