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Ever"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"California legalized pot 5 years ago, but you couldn’t tell that from the scale of the drug war.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEvery few months brings another massive bust. A 40-acre illegal pot farm in an obscure part of Death Valley, the \"most elaborate illegal marijuana\" setup in Mendota with\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/50000-marijuana-plants-found-at-illegal-grow-near-mendota\/10673498\/\"\u003E 50,000 pot plants\u003C\/a\u003E that was so big that police could smell it from 1,100 feet in the air, “vast groves” worth \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/2020\/08\/massive-illegal-pot-farms-discovered-in-california-wilderness\"\u003E$169 million\u003C\/a\u003E in the eastern Sierras, and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsnow.com\/content\/news\/Siskiyou-County-has-almost-tripled-illegal-cannabis-plant-seizures-in-2020-572329961.html\"\u003E$285 million\u003C\/a\u003E in the old Shasta region of the gold rush.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2019, California seized almost 1 million pot plants. One busted operation not far from San Francisco was processing\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/27\/us\/marijuana-california-legalization.html\"\u003E 500 pounds\u003C\/a\u003E of marijuana a day.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--3PW5NUK6RU\/YOVVLgQrb_I\/AAAAAAAATVo\/w5E8tDhMyyIItAbu1QV3vsyJBTWGAFy0gCNcBGAsYHQ\/s762\/image_2021-07-07_001804.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"492\" data-original-width=\"762\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--3PW5NUK6RU\/YOVVLgQrb_I\/AAAAAAAATVo\/w5E8tDhMyyIItAbu1QV3vsyJBTWGAFy0gCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-07-07_001804.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EGovernor Newsom had kicked things off with an address announcing that he was pulling the California National Guard from fighting what he described as President Trump’s “manufactured crisis” on the border to “refocus on the real threats facing our state”, like “illegal cannabis farms”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENext year, 7 Laotians were brutally murdered at an illegal marijuana operation in Riverside by Mexican cartel members over Labor Day. With helicopters piloted by the Air National Guard and black SUVs full of DEA agents showing up in small towns, it’s like the drug war never ended.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESomehow the drug war in California is worse than ever.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPro-pot advocates promised that legalizing drugs would bring in the money. And it did. Billions of dollars have been spent on “legal drugs”, but far more is being spent on illegal drugs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe old drug war was fought by Republicans who believed that drugs were bad, but the new drug war is being fought by Democrats who love pot, but love drug money even more.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe issue isn’t morality: it’s money.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAn ounce of pot is estimated to cost as much as $100 more bought legally than on the street. The profit margins are great and decriminalization expanded the illegal market even more than the legal one. Buyers no longer fear being busted, sellers have little to worry about, and even the growers who take much of the risk don’t have to worry about the stigma. Illegal growing has become an environmental and financial violation. The only real thing to fear are the cartels.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMexican cartels now control much of the wilderness that California’s militant environmentalists had insisted on protecting from development. But while developers might fear the Sierra Club and its government allies, the cartels and the immigrant growers under their control don’t. What they’re afraid of is having their throats cut in the middle of the night. And as massive marijuana growing operations take off in wilderness areas, it turns out that the environmentalists were saving all that land so that drug lords from south of the border could grow millions in pot.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile California’s legal agriculture industries are dying: its illegal pot industries are prospering. If you want to grow avocados, good luck getting the water. Instead, Californians are buying Mexican avocados, from which the cartels take their cut, while the water goes to illegal operations that aren’t worried about permits or environmentalist pressure groups in Sacramento.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia's rice production will fall by 20% and its avocado production fell by nearly half in 2019 from 338 million pounds to 175 million pounds, while its illegal pot production vastly increased.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe old drug warriors wore suits and ties. The new drug warriors are the “entrepreneurs” who spent fortunes lobbying politicians in the hopes of cornering the market only to be stuck with a small slice of it aimed at upscale buyers willing to pay premium prices at boutique pot shops.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe environmentalists who once got high to commune with nature are among the most vocal special interests urging an aggressive war against this new form of agriculture which can’t be regulated. Behind them are identity politics groups and unions which want their cut of the cash.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA glance at the members of the Cannabis Advisory Committee shows some of the special interests involved from the pot workers branch of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union to the head of the California NAACP to environmentalists. Legal drugs means money for unions and community groups, which really means money for Democrats.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMexican drug cartels don’t pay consulting fees or offer donations to environmentalists, they don’t provide a cut to the black caucus, or hire unionized workers. It’s not the beheadings or rapes that bother California Democrats who shrug at such things from their gated communities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the illegal drug business is cutting into the profits from their legal progressive drug cartel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s why Governor Newsom claimed that massive invasions of the country by illegal aliens are a “manufactured crisis”, but illegal pot farms that don’t pay his party are a serious threat. Illegal aliens build the power and wealth of the Democrats, but illegal pot farms steal from it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKarl Marx observed that history repeats itself as farce. California’s Marxists are doing everything possible to live up to their leader’s teachings. After spending two generations fighting against the old drug war in the name of civil rights, they’re fighting a new drug war for civil rights.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECivil rights being anything that increases the power and wealth of California Democrats.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s why California’s Democrat majority passed a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/06\/california-spend-100-million-helping-pot-growers-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E$100 million bailout\u003C\/a\u003E for the “legal” pot industry. The widely reported bailout is really for the Democrats because it pays cities to hire experts to work with the industry on environmental compliance. What’s really going on is that the Democrat machine is paying its own environmental consultant class nine figures to navigate the roadblocks that same consultant class created in order to profit from the pot business.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s part of why an ounce of pot is $100 cheaper from the street than from a store.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESocial justice is just a bunch of Marxist rhetoric behind which the same political mafia is moving money into its own pockets while laundering them through whatever ‘ism’ it’s fighting this week.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhether it’s the environment or systemic racism, it’s another way for Democrats to get paid.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe old drug war was justified as a battle against a serious social ill, while the new drug war is just corrupt rent-seeking. The new drug warriors ridiculed the idea that locking up people for the harm caused by drugs was morally justified, but insist that locking up people because they haven’t paid the Sacramento mafia its share of the vigorish is completely morally justified.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia Democrats legalized drugs, further wrecking working class families, trashing what’s left of local agriculture and water supplies while feeding organized crime, to score $1.8 billion in tax revenues. But the illegal market is estimated at $8.7 billion. The new drug war is about the Democrats getting their hands on those extra billions by going back to the old drug war.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy did California Democrats legalize drugs? It wasn’t to end the war on drugs, nor to make marijuana accessible to users with medical problems, or any of the other lies and excuses.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was to make billions of dollars.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia’s new drug war pits socialists against drug lords over control of the drug market. It’s a familiar dynamic in South America that, like so much else, has crossed over the border.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrats cloak their new social justice drug war in racial justice, offering “reparations” from their drug money to black people, in environmentalism, decrying the impact of illegal grows, in unionization, and in the whole colorful spectrum of leftist virtue signaling. But virtue signaling is no match for the ruthless determination of the cartels and their state sponsors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the battle between the legal drug cartels of the Democrats and the illegal drug cartels of South America, the illegals are winning as they have won everything else in California.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\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\/p\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\/3778564347651845217\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/07\/the-new-social-justice-war-on-drugs-is.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3778564347651845217"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3778564347651845217"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/07\/the-new-social-justice-war-on-drugs-is.html","title":"The New Social Justice War on Drugs is Bigger Than Ever"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--3PW5NUK6RU\/YOVVLgQrb_I\/AAAAAAAATVo\/w5E8tDhMyyIItAbu1QV3vsyJBTWGAFy0gCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-07-07_001804.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-714372039229578819"},"published":{"$t":"2021-07-05T19:13:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-07-05T19:13:45.868-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"big government"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"How Civil Rights Made America a Critical Race Theocracy"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"When Obama wanted to defend his ties to Jeremiah Wright, he began his speech by denouncing America's \"original sin of slavery\". The phrase is widely and unthinkingly used. And its consequences are the 1619 Project and critical race theory. If slavery is America’s original sin, then the purpose of America and her people becomes striving to atone for that primal sin.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESuburban Democrat housewives reading Robin DiAngelo and corporate struggle sessions forcing members to affiliate by race are just striving to atone for America’s “original sin”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd if they resemble a cult, it’s because civil rights moved from the legal to the spiritual.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-EEIdibpZzdM\/YOOSEm-hTPI\/AAAAAAAATVc\/YkSKSe8GuQo4lC0qwsaspDj30HEbz_z3wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s597\/image_2021-07-05_161319.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"440\" data-original-width=\"597\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-EEIdibpZzdM\/YOOSEm-hTPI\/AAAAAAAATVc\/YkSKSe8GuQo4lC0qwsaspDj30HEbz_z3wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-07-05_161319.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EDismantling the legal infrastructure of segregation took on religious and psychological overtones. The legitimacy of ending school segregation was tainted by psychosocial nonsense like the ‘Doll Study’ which found that children preferred white dolls to black dolls. Even then the original sin of civil rights was that its more academic proponents could not properly define rights, and sought affirmative remedies that transformed how we thought rather than what we did.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat we do can be in the legitimate purview of government, what we think is not. And yet over the years civil rights became obsessed with the origins of discrimination in the human mind.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECountless tests were devised, many absurd, (“What color is a gorilla’s skin underneath the fur?” one particularly awkward racist test for racism asked) that were meant to measure our thoughts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe less racist our society became in function, the more civil rights fixated on a gestalt of psychosocial racism which explained racial disparities by blaming hidden thoughts leading to assumptions that perpetrated systemic racism even as its white perpetrators remained unaware.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe truly dangerous part of this conclusion was that the focus of discrimination had moved from actions to thoughts. Critical race theory is being imposed on everyone from schoolchildren to soldiers because civil rights violations had been redefined from the physical to the mental. Civil rights was no longer fighting separate drinking fountains, but unconscious and implicit biases.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe National Guard wasn’t being sent to open up schools, but to open up the human mind.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the government tells you what to do, it risks becoming a tyranny, but when it starts telling you what to think, it becomes a theocracy. Critical race theory, like most of America’s experiments in secular theocracy, came out of academia whose experts have failed miserably when it comes to tangible policy results, but excel at telling people what to think.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe original sin of academia is constructing grand theories. The social sciences found the root causes for its grand theories in the interface between society and psychology. Their solutions begin with having the government change how people live and then when that doesn’t work, changing how they think.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe sociologists who wrecked the black industrial communities of the north with welfare refused to accept responsibility for the disaster they helped cause and instead began blaming racial disparities on the hidden workings of society and the human mind.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile academic civil rights was psychoanalyzing America, the civil rights movement had soured from Martin Luther King Jr’s Christian emphasis on national redemption across racial lines to the Islamic tribalism of Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam in whose mythology black people were chosen and white people were a tainted race created through eugenic breeding. America was an evil empire doomed to be destroyed by the arrival of UFOs protecting the master race.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe next generation of activist clergy was outwardly Christian, but had come either directly, like Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s mentor, or indirectly like James Hal Cone, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2020\/11\/georgia-dem-senate-candidates-mentor-there-will-be-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003EWarnock’s mentor\u003C\/a\u003E, through the racist ideology of the Nation of Islam. When Jeremiah Wright shrieked, \"God Damn America! That’s in the Bible,\" he meant it literally with America as Babylon and Rome. To the Black Hebrew Israelites, whose movement has been linked to a number of recent terrorist attacks, America is Edom. The common theme is that America is a mythic evil to be destroyed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe set of ideas that people associate with critical race theory fuses the two corrupt successors of the civil rights movement, academic racial psychoanalysis and racial nationalism, through the writings of second generation black nationalists who had come through academia, like Ibram X. Kendi, and journalism, like Ta-Nehisi Coates and the 1619 Project’s Nikole Hannah-Jones.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe modern proponents of critical race theory fuse academic beliefs in subconscious systemic racism and black nationalist convictions that America and white people are inherently evil.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s where critical race theory becomes critical race theocracy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis brand of ‘wokeness’ is legitimately theological because its origins lie as much in black religious identitarian movements as in the academic jargon in which it cloaks its racism. The synthesis of the two very different literary genres results in strange poetry, personal confessionals wrapped in bad sociology and worse history, mythic appeals and nonsense jargon, that runs through everything from the 1619 Project to ‘Between the World and Me’.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECritical race theory’s defenders insist that it’s an academic movement, that its proponents are experts, and that it just wants to discuss its ideas, but it operates like a theocracy, silencing and suppressing opponents, critics, and even insufficiently radical supporters. Its entire rationale is built on denying that anyone can legitimately disagree with it or that debate is even possible. A movement that dismisses reason and objectivity as forms of oppressive whiteness has no interest in dialogue, only in terrorizing its way to power as racial nationalists seek to do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Nazis decreed theories and creative works off limits because they believed that ideas could not be separated from the race of their creators. Critical race activists agree that theories and works carry the race of their creators in their intellectual DNA. The Nazis banned some works over ‘Jewishness’ while critical race theory activists seek to ban them over their ‘whiteness’.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe most brutal theocracies are those which are the most pessimistic about human nature. The Nazis believed that people were animals who could never transcend their biology, Islamists believe that people must be ruthlessly conquered and ruled to bring peace, and leftists believe that power relations doom humanity to cycles of exploitation without an enlightened tyranny.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECritical race theory is infused with the academic pessimism of the Left, the identitarian racial pessimism of black nationalists, and the spiritual pessimism of black nationalist theology. It exists in a perpetual state of struggle and its exceptionalism is rooted in its victimhood. It needs white people as an ultimate enemy whose existence gives it its negative meaning.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhiteness abstracts white people as a perpetual enemy for a racial and a spiritual struggle.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica’s fall into the grip of this racist theocracy obsessed with a struggle against whiteness, driven by racial paranoia and moral despair, is a direct legacy of the intellectual and moral failings of the aftermath of the civil rights era. These failings were as much white as they were black. While the black family disintegrated in the grip of the welfare state, white elites lost their religion and built an alternative culture whose meaning came from politics and pop culture.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWokeness is just the horrid synthesis of white secularism and black nationalism, of a society where music is worship, politics is religion, self-medicating is meditation, and activism is faith. The endless narcissistic refractions only produced a victimhood culture whose great crusade is enforcing conformity through the only means possible in a fragmented society that has lost its moral and intellectual underpinnings: online bullying and political terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKingian civil rights is inaccessible to a secular society with no concept of forgiveness or humility. It’s also inaccessible to people whose warped version of religion teaches them to hate others.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo paraphrase John Adams, \"Civil rights was made only for a moral and religious people, it is wholly inadequate for any other.\" Critical race theory is the inadequacy of a political society trying to come to grips with moral and religious questions, but with no other tools than power and the abstractions of a scientism that is suited to studying distant galaxies, but not people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Founding Fathers, now the enemies of critical race theory whose statues are being torn down, were humble enough to limit the ambit of government to the realm of government. And they made it clear that it was not their role to tell people what to think or to believe.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica held together through conflicts that should have torn the country apart because we fought over the nature of government, not over the nature of man. The Confederate statues that have occasioned so much ire were the legacy of a country that was able to knit together its wounds as former enemies forgave and honored each other in the aftermath of its worst war.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven when we were a moral and religious people, we did not go to war over what was in our souls. The leftist theocracy terrorizing millions of Americans is particularly unfit to judge souls, but the intellectual failures of academia and the moral failures of elite culture and leftist clergy has localized the failures of the black community in the psychosocial gestalt of systemic racism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only way to save black people then becomes controlling how everyone thinks.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELiberal theology had made the civil rights movement into the epochal moral event of America as their ancestors had made the civil war the defining event that transformed the soul of the nation. This was exactly the brand of moral narcissism that Lincoln found so frustrating about the abolitionists long before their distant descendants put on black and began toppling his statues.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECivil rights became a force that gave white liberals meaning. And that was another way of saying that civil rights became a religion. The devolution of civil rights legislation from inhibiting state discrimination based on race to enforcing state discrimination based on race was the trajectory of a theocracy based on the same sort of realpolitik that corrupts religions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Founding Fathers removed government restraint while the new theology of civil rights imposes government restraint, first over actions, then over ideas, and finally over thoughts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEquality has made way for equity and the human mind is the new lunch counter. The only way to achieve civil rights is, as in the Soviet Union, Communist China, Cuba, and every leftist tyranny, by removing civil rights from all and distributing them to the most deserving. The hypocritical corruption of the system demands not just tyranny, but theocracy, not just control over bodies, but over the minds whose owners might question this self-serving arrangement.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat was once a supremely achievable goal, the end of government restraint, has made way for the usual unachievable utopian goal of an ideal society of the supremely enlightened.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe paradoxes of critical race theory come from its paradoxical intellectual origins through the social science academics who believe that everyone can be reeducated and the black nationalists who believe that white people are inescapably evil. They compromise by believing that white people are inescapably evil and must be constantly reeducated anyway.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s a compromise that allows white leftists to pursue meaning through civil rights and black nationalists to pursue racial identitarianism while leaving out non-misanthropes of all races.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEnding this nightmare will require confronting the corruption of civil rights. Positive rights lead to tyranny and negative rights to freedom. When we define rights as things the government does for us, rather than things the government stops doing to us, we all end up as slaves. Civil rights cannot and should not be used to achieve equity by chasing racial disparities. That sociological and theological rabbit hole inevitably takes us into the realms of psychology and sin.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThose are places where the government does not belong and should not be allowed to venture.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECritical race theory is less a theory than a theocracy, but both a theory and a theocracy can be torn down by attacking its fundamental assumptions. The failure to challenge theories leads to theocracies. If we want to defeat this theocracy, we need to start with its fundamental assumptions about white evil and black victimhood, and about an original sin that passes not only from fathers to sons, but from plantation owners to recent immigrants.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica and Europe did not invent slavery, but they were the first to comprehensively destroy it. The presumption of guilt that traces every Third World blight or domestic inadequacy to some combination of colonialism, imperialism, and other nonsensical ‘ism’ is false and wrong. We do not need to constantly redeem ourselves for doing what no other civilization managed to do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe already have.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere is no room for a racial theocracy in America, not in our colleges, our institutions, or our military. Its existence is a declaration of war on not only our past, but our present and our future.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDestroying a village won’t save it and destroying civil rights in the name of civil rights is a farce.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen civil rights isn’t regulating how you treat others, but how you think about them, and how you think about the theories that explain why they’re the victims, that’s an uncivil theocracy.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\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\/p\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\/714372039229578819\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/07\/how-civil-rights-made-america-critical.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/714372039229578819"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/714372039229578819"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/07\/how-civil-rights-made-america-critical.html","title":"How Civil Rights Made America a Critical Race Theocracy"}],"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:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-EEIdibpZzdM\/YOOSEm-hTPI\/AAAAAAAATVc\/YkSKSe8GuQo4lC0qwsaspDj30HEbz_z3wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-07-05_161319.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-285843953193049014"},"published":{"$t":"2021-07-04T16:24:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-07-04T16:24:38.168-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"America"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Co-Dependence Day"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003EJoe Biden is celebrating July 4th by proposing a massive expansion of the IRS. How better to celebrate the colonists who chased British tax collectors out than by replacing them with Biden's tax collectors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut every progressive person knows that Independence Day is for extremists. The dream of the new post-national nation is Co-Dependence Day in which we all live happily together in a planned economy.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-kKWR5WAGXWs\/YOIY-igAjeI\/AAAAAAAATVU\/KGcbRJKn5TklNHd_sNUZCC4Z1ZhyZJYsgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s640\/the-march-to-valley-forge-efe4d9-640.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"497\" data-original-width=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-kKWR5WAGXWs\/YOIY-igAjeI\/AAAAAAAATVU\/KGcbRJKn5TklNHd_sNUZCC4Z1ZhyZJYsgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/the-march-to-valley-forge-efe4d9-640.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe old British entity that Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, and a bunch of other dead white men fought to be free of, has been recreated. The new London is in Washington D.C. whose bureaucrats throw fits if they're asked to leave the imperial city. The new social welfare empire is built on redistribution.\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA few centuries ago, some young white men had refused to have their property and their political autonomy redistributed to an elite thousands of miles away.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe very idea of having a revolution over such a thing seems entirely absurd to today's wokies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOr as another Englishman once again, \"Imagine there's no countries\". It's easy if you live in the EU.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAll that the Crown really wanted was for the colonists to pay their “fair share”, a share that was determined thousands of miles away. All that the colonists wanted was the rights of Englishmen that they believed they were entitled to. After a great deal of bloodshed, the colonists won the right to be Americans instead—an odd series of consonants and vowels having to do with an Italian explorer but meaning personal freedom and limited government. Now we have free things, unlimited government, and our freedom shrinks in proportion to the growth of our free things and of the government that hands them out.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo the denizens of public housing watching the fireworks burn briefly in the sky,\u0026nbsp; who get a free ride on everything from food to housing by taking away everyone else's freedom and future, the fireworks are just one more free thing in the sea of free things that they swim in.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo the Democrat voters of the welfare state, this is Fireworks Day. Every country has its fireworks days and this is the day that this one chooses to light up the night sky. The day means nothing to them because though they are surrounded by free things, they aren’t free. The difference between freedom and free things has been progressively erased so that many think that the American Revolution was fought because the British were racists or weren’t providing free transgender surgery to the colonies.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf only they knew about the NHS, they would vote to undo the American Revolution in a flash.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere is a big difference between a free country and a country of free things. You can have one or the other, but you can’t have both. A free country isn’t obsessed with free riders, only a country of free things obsesses with making everyone pay their fair share for the benefit of the people who want the free things. Rugged individualism has given way to stifling crowds, co-dependent on each other, lined shoulder to shoulder, clutching at each other’s wallets, crying, “Take from him and give to me.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe are a nation overflowing with the right to things paid for with other people’s money.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe fireworks that shoot up in a wonderland of blue and red, silver and gold, are a faint echo of the real thing, the gunpowder that blasted back and forth between the lines of government troops, their Hessian mercenaries and the rebel colonists who chose to ride free, rather than bend their necks to the plans of an expanding empire. The faint smell of gunpowder and the dark shapes of the barges only mime the war that was fought here. A play of light and shadow whose meaning reaches fewer and fewer people each year.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe expected speeches will celebrate some notion of independence, but did so many men risk their lives just to end up with a system that made the one they escaped seem positively libertarian by comparison? If they had known that they were going to end up with some version of the NHS, along with death panels, in a co-dependent system where everyone is looted for the greater good of the looters—they might have stayed home on their farms, sadly watching the fighting from a distance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJFK’s famous line, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” was always a hollow lie. Half the country is expected to ask what their country can do for them, while the other half is expected to ask what they can do for their country. This simmering civil war is often pegged as a class war, but it isn’t about class. There are billionaires and paupers on both sides, and the divide cuts across the Middle Class, dividing those who derive their income from private business from those who receive it from government and government-subsidized employment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Fourth of July is Independence Day, but every other day is Co-Dependence Day, the days we celebrate our integration, our volunteerism and our compliance with a vast system which makes everyone dependent on the government and which makes the government dependent on everyone who still works for someone other than the government.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Empires function by draining every drop from their possessions to cover their costs. The British Crown tried to drain America to pay down its debt, resulting in growing protests from the population and eventually a revolution. Now the Empire of Co-Dependency is draining its independent subjects for the benefit of its dependent subjects and the dependency infrastructure that employs its numberless bureaucrats who govern it all.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA new crisis is always here to justify higher taxes and bigger government.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe American Revolution was not a struggle for another nation, one of many, but for a free nation. It was not split off to accommodate the national strivings of an ethnic group or their historical destiny. Its guiding idea, like its national holiday, was independence, but independence means very little unless it reaches the individual.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA nation where everyone is part of one great co-dependent community, a centrally planned marketplace that can only be balanced if everyone is forced to buy what they are told to buy, is not a free nation. It will not even be independent for long. The logic of co-dependence is to expand that dependency beyond the borders and make the region and then every part the world dependent on one another to balance out the numbers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECo-dependence required an end to states rights. It will eventually require an end to the rights of nations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELike all pyramid schemes, the burden of dependency is passed on to greater and greater systems until its weight is more than that of the entire world. That burden of co-dependency is like a rock rolling downhill; it gathers more and more mass to itself, increasing its momentum, until it crashes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe system attempts to stay ahead of the inevitable crash by making sure that every productive person pays his “fair share”. It hunts for individuals and nations who still aren’t rolling downhill, tips them over and pushes them off the mountain. All in the name of the greater good.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;The new Crown is not a person, it is an idea. The throne at whose foot a formerly free people kneel is the golden seat of the welfare state. While the fireworks light up the sky, a counterrevolution undid the revolution. There is a new king and his face is on every magazine cover in the land. His bounty is a jagged bear trap that turns everyone into a ward of the state at their own expense.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs the last wave of fireworks die out, the shooting stars sinking to earth and vanishing into the darkness, the light of Independence Day fades and the crowds slowly trudge away from the brief spectacle, past the lines of police barricades, through narrow streets, past government buildings, back to their co-dependent lives in a co-dependent nation where the will of the people and the rights of the individual matter less than the latest proposal to solve the problems of their independence by making the country a more dependent place.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA few hundred years ago in these streets, men and women celebrated the end of tyranny, and in its darkest hour, lines of grim men marched along the waterfront up to the highest point on the island to mount a final defense. Sometimes the older buildings still wear their shadows on their brick walls and by the golden light of the fireworks you can almost see them, shadows moving in the darkness, their footsteps taking them north, a faint song on their lips, muskets in their hands, their lives lost and gained in defense of their freedom.\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/285843953193049014\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/07\/co-dependence-day.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/285843953193049014"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/285843953193049014"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/07\/co-dependence-day.html","title":"Co-Dependence Day"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-kKWR5WAGXWs\/YOIY-igAjeI\/AAAAAAAATVU\/KGcbRJKn5TklNHd_sNUZCC4Z1ZhyZJYsgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/the-march-to-valley-forge-efe4d9-640.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-1661651304725260368"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-30T14:04:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-30T14:04:38.482-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"White Men are Terrible, Insists Author Abandoned by Her Black Father"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003EI\u003C\/span\u003Ejeoma Oluo spends a lot of time complaining about her single white mother who took care of her when her black father returned to Nigeria and never came back.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-dZeEVrZbC3E\/YNyyK5mJSKI\/AAAAAAAATVI\/h8d66qmZQBgm2LjCwVVbwhE0EdslnDDZwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s568\/image_2021-06-30_110426.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"476\" data-original-width=\"568\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-dZeEVrZbC3E\/YNyyK5mJSKI\/AAAAAAAATVI\/h8d66qmZQBgm2LjCwVVbwhE0EdslnDDZwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-06-30_110426.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ELike Obama and Kamala, Ijeoma built a marketable identity by identifying with a father who abandoned her. But the author of such racist texts as\u003Ci\u003E So You Want to Talk About Race\u003C\/i\u003E and \u003Ci\u003EMediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America\u003C\/i\u003E takes it even further by identifying as Nigerian-American. The Nigerian part is very hypothetical as she was born and raised in America, and her Nigerian father left when she was a year old and broke his promise to return.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhite people are absolutely terrible, Ijeoma, who is half-white, insists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I have never been able to escape the fact that I am a black woman in a white supremacist country,\" Oluo declaimed at the beginning of \u003Ci\u003ESo You Want to Talk About Race\u003C\/i\u003E. The ugly racialist book never broke through the way that Robin DiAngelo or Ibram X. Kendi did, but it was a modest success and is regularly featured at corporate critical race indoctrination sessions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike other pop critical race theory texts, Oluo began the book by berating the leftist white women who were its target audience. It’s a topic she had practiced with her mother.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe woman who raised her and her brother, when they were abandoned by their black father, is a favorite topic for both siblings. But where Ahamefule Oluo, a jazz player and comedian, has done shows honoring his mother while emphasizing the subjective nature of race as he found that people in Nigeria saw him as white, Ijeoma Oluo has taken the opposite approach.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIjeoma’s mother is a popular topic and punching bag. In essays and books, she decries her mother’s ‘whiteness’. “Our mom never thought that our blackness would hold us back in life—she thought we could rule the world. But that optimism and starry-eyed love was, in fact, born from her whiteness,” she complains in \u003Ci\u003ESo You Want to Talk About Race\u003C\/i\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen her mother asks, “How come you never identify as white, too? I mean, you’re half white”, she retorts that \"I did not feel that whiteness was something that any person with brown skin and kinky hair could inherit\". Lots of white people have kinky hair. Certainly plenty of half-white people, like Ijeoma, do. And Ijeoma is obsessed with white supremacy’s threat to her hair.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETouching her hair, she rants, \"is a continuation of the lack of respect for the basic humanity and bodily autonomy of black Americans that is endemic throughout White Supremacy.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYour average white supremacist probably doesn’t want to touch non-white people’s hair.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut for all the attention that Ijeoma lavishes on complaining about her mother’s insufficiently woke views on race, she never mentions her father in \u003Ci\u003ESo You Want to Talk About Race\u003C\/i\u003E. At one point she rants, “If our mothers were raped by white men and we were born with lighter skin, we could almost be seen as attractive.” But her mother was white and married an African student.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIjeoma’s father was 53, but apparently told her mother he was 30 years old. After abandoning the mother of his children with a toddler and a one-month old baby, the African chief and doctoral student went back to his own country and promptly impregnated a woman there.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHer brother describes \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/seattle\/my-father-is-an-african-immigrant-and-my-mother-is-a-white-girl-from-kansas-and-i-am-not-the-president-of-the-united-states\/Content?oid=8932130\"\u003Ehim\u003C\/a\u003E as a “selfish and contemptible man”. Ijeoma instead wrote her second book, \u003Ci\u003EMediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America\u003C\/i\u003E. Her first book is full of shots at her present mother while her second book attacks an imaginary white father.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMediocre was released by a Hachette imprint, alongside such critical race theory rants as Vicky Osterweil's \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/09\/rich-white-leftists-are-encouraging-black-people-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003EIn Defense of Looting\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/i\u003E(The French publishing giant also suppressed Julie Burchill's \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/12\/publisher-cancels-book-decrying-cancel-culture-robert-spencer\/\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EWelcome to the Woke Trials \u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003Eand \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/02\/new-york-times-publishers-banning-conservatives-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Efired Kate Hartson\u003C\/a\u003E who had published pro-Trump books.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAn imprint named after a 19th century upstart French leftist publisher, Louis Hachette, a white man, released a mediocre book claiming that there was a crisis of white male mediocrity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe incredible mediocrity of Moses, Hippocrates, Leonardo da Vinci, Christopher Columbus, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Edison, and Albert Einstein might give some people pause, but Ijeoma explains that, “when I talk about mediocrity, I talk about success that is measured only by how much better white men are faring than people who aren’t white men”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESuccess becomes mediocrity, and mediocrity becomes success.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESadly for Ijeoma, Mediocre was mediocre and failed to match the success of So You Want to Talk About Race. Ijeoma had gambled that there was an audience of white leftist women who wanted to hear that white men were awful without enduring attacks on themselves.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIjeoma had underestimated the masochistic tendencies of the average white leftist woman.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMediocre’s author imagines that she’s an “exceptional talent”, writing that, “most women and people of color have to claw their way to any chance at success or power, have to work twice as hard as white men and prove themselves to be exceptional talents before we begin to entertain discussions of truly equal representation in our workplaces or government.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat exceptional talents has Ijeoma shown beyond bashing white people on the internet?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMediocre is a random mess of intersectional clichés and historical sketches from periods that she clearly doesn’t understand as tries to roll them into her argument. “Stalin ended up being another white man who would distort entire movements to serve his purposes,” she insists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s almost coherent compared to chapters where Ijeoma leaps from attacks on cowboys to complaining about Bernie Sanders supporters on Facebook. None of this has much to do with the book’s supposed theme of white male mediocrity. The only common thread is that white men are terrible because they’re white and they’re men.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhite male conservatives are evil, but so are white male leftists who only join causes to maintain their power. White men are locked “into cycles of fear and violence” and the “white male glorification of violence has saturated our action films”. It’s a curious claim for a woman whose African father wrote his thesis on the Biafra-Nigerian Civil War and whose country, which she identifies with, has been in the middle of one kind of civil war or another for generations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWomen have to “divorce ourselves from the lure of proximity to white male power” even “when those white men are our friends, our husbands, our fathers, or our sons,” Ijeoma Oluo argues.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd yet Ijeoma followed her father, the “Honorable Chief Dr. Sam Oluo”, into political science. While her brother courted her father’s disapproval by playing music, she tried to imitate her absent father. And has spent her life making excuses for him and his culture.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen as a teenager she contacted Nigerians on the internet and they began to scam her, she processed it as the \"legacy of colonialism\" so that \"every white person scammed out of their life savings felt, in a way, like a bit of retribution for the ravages of colonization and slavery.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EExcept that the Nigerian scam artists were just as happy to scam her as they were anyone else.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“My Nigerian father was Catholic for the same reason why he spoke with a British accent,”  Ijeoma snapped on Twitter. “Because his oppressors forced him to.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy did he abandon her? Probably because of those white oppressors. Like her mother.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s a story there about racial identity and hatred, gratitude and ingratitude, and the primal way that children can identify with a father who isn’t there while hating the mother who is.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut it’s not a story that Hachette would publish or Ijeoma Olou would be likely to write.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELast year, Ijeoma \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CBs-drKpGEE\/?hl=en\"\u003Eposted\u003C\/a\u003E a tribute to the white grandfather who had not abandoned her when her black father had. \"My father returned to Nigeria when I was two and was more of a story than an actual person in my life. But my grandfather, my Bob Bob, loved me so completely that I never felt lacking.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe photo that came with it showed an older white man holding a young black girl in his arms.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELater that year, she published \u003Ci\u003EMediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America\u003C\/i\u003E.\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\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\/p\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"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/1661651304725260368\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/white-men-are-terrible-insists-author.html#comment-form","title":"15 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/1661651304725260368"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/1661651304725260368"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/white-men-are-terrible-insists-author.html","title":"White Men are Terrible, Insists Author Abandoned by Her Black Father"}],"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:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-dZeEVrZbC3E\/YNyyK5mJSKI\/AAAAAAAATVI\/h8d66qmZQBgm2LjCwVVbwhE0EdslnDDZwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-06-30_110426.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"15"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6792509647216090333"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-28T23:03:00.000-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-28T23:03:00.088-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"America"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Obama"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Obama and the Broken Nation He Made Come Of Age"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Barack Obama turns 60 over the summer. The AARP cover with Barry posing next to a basketball and a shelf of bestselling non-fiction books he hasn’t read can’t be too far away.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--7lUFPdjObk\/YNqNWmMPFoI\/AAAAAAAATUw\/5dhQRZfbfncJ1Wua0tehO_EO2cT0rWqLACNcBGAsYHQ\/s706\/image_2021-06-28_200249.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"454\" data-original-width=\"706\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--7lUFPdjObk\/YNqNWmMPFoI\/AAAAAAAATUw\/5dhQRZfbfncJ1Wua0tehO_EO2cT0rWqLACNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-06-28_200249.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EOnce the symbol of youthful hipness, the former boss of Hope and Change now lectures “young people” on what they should be doing. His legacy is being carried forward by 78-year-old Biden and the 81-year-old Pelosi. That’s above the average age of 80 of the House Dem leadership.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe average age of the Biden cabinet is two years older than President Trump’s cabinet.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe gerontocratic technocracy uses AOC as its younger foil, but she’s been a stalking horse for Bernie Sanders who will hit the big 80 in the fall. The big donors behind the American Left are even older with George Soros due to hit 90 the same month Obama gets to 60. The even bigger reservoirs of cash flowing into the leftist machine are coming from the foundations of men who were born in the 19th century like Henry Ford, John D. MacArthur, and John D. Rockefeller.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s about right for a 19th century ideology whose followers keep trying to make it look young.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYouthful leftism is anarchic. It’s CHAZ, BLM, and Antifa. It’s open air heroin markets, smashed store windows, and political assassinations. Turning that anarchy into collectivism requires hysterical propaganda and rallies that appear anarchic, but are actually tightly controlled, ideas that seem edgy, but are actually the work of men who were born during the age of the steam.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf you think Bernie’s old, Karl Marx celebrated his 203rd birthday in May.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama’s policies have aged as badly as Marx, Biden, or their front man. But instead of moderating as they grow older, they only grow more radical. Obama equivocated on gay marriage, while Biden entirely erases the existence of women by calling them “birthing people”. Obama covertly weaponized the government against conservatives, while Biden is doing it openly. Everything from election rigging through H.R.1 to indoctrinating every government employee with critical race theory is happening more openly and blatantly under Biden.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYouthful leftist revolutions break the system while leftist gerentocrats impose the tyranny.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMaking tyranny look like freedom requires hefty doses of chaos and outrage that make it appear that the system is being broken when it’s actually being built up. Or as George Orwell wrote in 1984, “One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” The revolution is the thing it’s revolting against.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe end of history keeps arriving only to vanish like a mirage when the youth reach for it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal,\" Obama told his followers. Two years later, he privately snapped, \"What does he think I'm supposed to do? Put on my f------ Aquaman gear and swim down there myself with a wrench?\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThirteen years have passed and if the planet has begun to heal, Democrats won’t admit it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe moment of epochal change can never be allowed to arrive because it would interrupt the permanent crisis. Salvation is always here and also always out of reach. But there’s always a new generation available to be fooled again because they know the past doesn’t matter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHistory is radically revised every generation not just for what it teaches, but for what it doesn’t.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA revisionist history work like the 1619 Project doesn’t just impose a radical new racist history, it displaces the past. Another revisionist history will come along to displace the 1619 Project because manufacturing history churn is vital to destroying any continuity with the past. All the academic lenses being swapped one for the other like a mad ophthalmologist leaves a new generation with a lot of theories, but no clue that they’re being indoctrinated into a lost cause.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Left has no new ideas. Like Hollywood, it makes old ideas seem new by rebooting them, by making them appear hip and trendy, and by destroying a meaningful connection with the past. And that way audiences don’t realize they’re just seeing the same movie remade over again. What might be creative bankruptcy in a movie theater is a more seriously sisyphean problem described by Churchill as, “Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut how does a new generation learn from a past that isn’t allowed to exist on its own terms?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemonizing the past is a convenient way of obscuring it. The only thing students are taught about the past is that it was a horrible time, its people backward, its customs savage, its learning wicked, its institutions racist, and its ideas horrifying. In postmodern history, the past exists only as a cautionary tale gleaned for historical struggles that fit into the new narrative.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHistory is an incomplete present whose revolutions were never fully fulfilled. It’s a revolutionary story of a world ruled by villains until they were overthrown by the forces of good. And this revolution against history must continue until all of the past is negated by the present.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe destruction of statues and burning of books forces ‘presentism’ for the past to conform to the dogmas of the moment. The biggest problem with the past isn’t that it’s politically incorrect, but that it’s repeating itself. The Black Lives Matter movement transparently harkens back to the 70s. So do most of the radical social impulses in which the Left cloaks its real power agenda.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe revolutionary chaos is doomed to fail again, but each oscillation breaks the country more.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe social activism is window dressing. A proper Marxist regime has little use for militant minorities, feminism, gay rights, police defunding, transgender bathrooms, pipeline protests, abortion, or any of the other issues the radicals have been using to waste our time. If you doubt that, go look at how many of any of the above you can find in China, Cuba, or North Korea.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Russian Futurists vowed to throw the art and literature of the past overboard from the “steamship of modernity”. But the Bolsheviks were not looking for disruptive art and when the revolution arrived, modern art was tossed overboard and the former revolutionaries settled down to producing socialist realism and recreating the art of the past for the Soviet Union.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter a brief permissive period, the Soviet Union criminalized homosexuality and insisted on traditional marriages and roles for women. Those feminists who resisted were soon shown their place with one of the more notorious free love figures being forcibly married off by Lenin.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe dictatorship had eclipsed the revolution and the past was quickly rewritten all over again.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs Obama approaches his sixtieth birthday, the age at which Khrushchev struggled for control of the USSR and Mao launched his Great Leap Forward, two events that would require a good deal of historical editing, our American past is already being rewritten. Only those who are at least in their thirties will remember that there wasn’t a racial crisis before Barack Obama.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd there hadn’t been such a crisis for a generation before he took power.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOur racial crisis is not a legacy of 1619, but of 2008. Obama’s victory was not a revolution against a crisis, but the revolution that created the crisis. To a new generation, the racial crisis is a permanent feature of life. They have always lived under the crisis and expect to always live under it. That is why critical race theory and white privilege rants have become so pervasive.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWithout a generation coming of age in a world shaped by the toxic idea that all white people are evil and all minorities are victims, no one outside academic circles would have willingly accepted them. And if that generation seems all too easy to radicalize into supporting the most insane policies, that’s because it grew up in a world defined by the hysteria of manufactured crises.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe world as they know it is doomed by melting ice caps, the rich getting richer, and the genocide of black people at the hands of the police. Every radical program is backed by a sense of urgent crisis which is killing people and destroying the future. They can’t imagine a present without the crisis and don’t remember ever living in a world not defined by crisis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs Obama gets closer to his AARP cover, a generation lives in the world that he made.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike Obama, his radical political movement speaks endlessly about the past, but has no actual past. Its past is always being reinvented and retold through new narratives, but with no facts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Obama revolution has come and gone. We have skipped past it to the Soviet Union of Chernenko and Andropov, of gerontocrats building the tyranny with the beams of revolution. The decline is everywhere as the theories fail, the factories close, and the stores stand empty.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe youth are being rallied to cheer for the revolutionary tyranny of Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer who are promising a new era in history no one believes in anymore. Since the election their cause is no longer free college, it’s federalizing elections through H.R.1.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFederalizing elections, eliminating the filibuster, and packing the Supreme Court are compelling issues in Washington D.C., but the regime plotting new coups has little to say to the ordinary people facing high prices for gas and bread. Land, Bread, and Peace has given way to a race for total power over the country as the revolution of Hope, Crisis and Change comes of age.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s no change without crisis, and without hope, there’s only hate.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\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\/p\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\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6792509647216090333\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/obama-and-broken-nation-he-made-come-of.html#comment-form","title":"7 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6792509647216090333"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6792509647216090333"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/obama-and-broken-nation-he-made-come-of.html","title":"Obama and the Broken Nation He Made Come Of Age"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--7lUFPdjObk\/YNqNWmMPFoI\/AAAAAAAATUw\/5dhQRZfbfncJ1Wua0tehO_EO2cT0rWqLACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-06-28_200249.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"7"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6441229114177587878"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-27T16:05:00.000-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-27T16:05:01.030-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Big Tech"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Did Amazon’s Critical Race Theory Push Lead to a Racist Assault on a Customer?"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Ever since Amazon created its own delivery service, the blue vests of its drivers and the dark blue trucks with the monopolistic giant’s arrow have become as ubiquitous as UPS brown or FedEx purple and orange on every street and highway in America. And with good reason.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazon’s package volume is expected to surpass UPS and FedEx as a host of men and women in blue rush to deliver orders from Chinese third party sellers and drop shippers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut on the first Friday of June, a delivery in California instead ended in a violent assault.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vPP5_pjj8uU\/YNjZ400gL8I\/AAAAAAAATUo\/BWx6jcP6Z_UM_lvMl5hxvxPmp2N2b9KvQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s491\/amazon%2Bassault.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"334\" data-original-width=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vPP5_pjj8uU\/YNjZ400gL8I\/AAAAAAAATUo\/BWx6jcP6Z_UM_lvMl5hxvxPmp2N2b9KvQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/amazon%2Bassault.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EUsually Amazon rips off customers, companies, and entire countries, but it doesn’t beat them. This time there was an exception as Itzel Ramirez, an Amazon driver in her twenties, was \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/06\/critical-race-theory-violence-woke-amazon-driver-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ecaught on video\u003C\/a\u003E violently \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/amazon-delivery-driver-arrested-for-assault-says-she-punched-67-year-old-in-self-defense\"\u003Eassaulting\u003C\/a\u003E a 67-year-old woman who had asked about her package.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Ramirez claimed self-defense, the video shows her assaulting the elderly woman from behind, punching her in the back of the head, and seemingly using a key ring in the assault. The beating caused the victim to collide with the door and reportedly left her with a broken nose.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was not the first assault by an Amazon driver on an elderly person caught on video. An Amazon driver had previously assaulted a 73-year-old man in Miami Beach. But this time the Amazon delivery person had used a politically correct slur thereby turning it into a hate crime.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERamirez had accused her victim of “white privilege”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite that slur, she has not been charged with a hate crime. In a state where critical race theory is being forced into schools and on employees of major corporations, it’s not likely that a violent racist echoing an official dogma that demonizes white people would be held accountable.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazon claimed that the violent assault on one of its customers “does not reflect the high standards we have for drivers\" and assured everyone that \"this individual is no longer delivering Amazon packages.” But it may be worth examining what Amazon’s standards really are.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike every Silicon Valley company, Amazon has gone all in on critical race theory.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Amazon assault happened the same year that Jeff Bezos, the company's founder and CEO, announced that he was stepping down. Bezos was ruthless, cruel, and amoral, but beyond using the Washington Post to become a D.C. power broker had less interest in conventional corporate virtue signaling.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAndy Jassy, his right-hand man who will replace him as CEO after being in charge of Amazon's cloud platform, is a more traditional Big Tech wokester.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJassy falsely \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/06\/whiteness-woke-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eaccused\u003C\/a\u003E police departments of \"murdering black people\", supported illegal aliens, and made the decision to shut down Parler. His wife is a Bernie Sanders donor.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe incoming Big Tech CEO has vowed to focus the company on “diversity and more inclusion.” If its employees weren't feeling abused enough by having to pee into cups, Amazon mandated that all employees complete a 90-minute \"Strengthening Our Culture of Inclusion\" program.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazon had already banned non-inclusive language like \"blacklists\" (which didn't stop it from blacklisting all sorts of people), but now it was going further with identity politics affinity groups and its Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) events featuring extremists and racists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECORE events packed thousands of Amazon employees into massive meetings to be accused of racism by a series of racist and extreme leftist speakers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Big Tech monopoly’s first CORE event had already featured Robin DiAngelo, whose famous idea is that white people are all racist and evil, as well as Carmen Perez, the Farrakhan supporter who served as one of the leaders of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/news\/articles\/womens-march-organizer-and-farrakhan-fan-tamika-mallory-attacks-the-anti-defamation-league\"\u003Ethe Women's March\u003C\/a\u003E before being forced out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazon also invited Ijeoma Oluo, a self-described “internet yeller” who had written a book arguing that “white male mediocrity” is a theme throughout history. That’s exactly the message that a company of white male engineers needed to hear. Oluo had berated her own mother, who raised her after being abandoned by her Nigerian academic father, over her “white privilege”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlso at Amazon’s first CORE was Michael Welp whose White Men As Full Diversity Partners stirred \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/lockheed-martins-woke-industrial-complex\"\u003Ea backlash\u003C\/a\u003E when its training at Lockheed described white men as racists and privileged.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWelp was also present at the second CORE event while stigmatizing white people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlicia Garza, a co-founder of the racist black nationalist hate group Black Lives Matter, appeared on a CORE panel together with DiAngelo and Perez.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlso there was Latasha Gillespie, the head of global diversity and inclusion at Amazon Studios, who has claimed that police murder black people while ranting about \"white privilege\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe second CORE event also included rabid hatred for America with Edgar Villanueva showing a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sultanknish\/status\/1405648637342801921\"\u003Eslide\u003C\/a\u003E that described America as being based on colonization and genocide.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat impact did all of these racist and hateful ideas have on Amazon employees?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazon, like many other major corporations, has submerged its employees in the dogma of critical race theory. And while this is meant to lead to the discrimination and mistreatment of white employees in the name of equity, could it also lead to violence against white people?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Big Tech monopoly has relied on independent contractors to build its delivery network. However Amazon also exercises a great deal of control over these drivers. And as its statement after the “white privilege” assault in California shows, it ultimately controls their employment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazon has embedded equity into its Delivery Service Partner push and encouraged existing employees to become DSPs. Did any of its existing racist CORE programming have an influence on the cultural ecosystem of the DSP that employed Itzel Ramirez?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat is unfortunately a question that no one in the media appears to be asking.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe rise of the DSP system paralleled the rise of critical race theory at Amazon. Even while Amazon was finding new ways to virtue signal, it was also finding new ways to exploit workers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazon’s DSP program evades accountability for delivery drivers like Ramirez who wear its blue vests and drive its vans, but who are actually working for small contractors, many of them minorities, who are being deliberately kept small so they can never compete for a better deal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Big Tech giant will insist that it had no responsibility for the assault on one of its customers by a racist driver who had absorbed the critical race theory slur of “white privilege” that Amazon had endorsed by featuring racist figures and rhetoric at its CORE inclusion events.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazon’s white leadership encourages racism against white people while remaining insulated from minority workers who might want to lash out at the nearest white person they can find.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen BLM and Antifa created CHAZ in their Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone, the epicenter was about a dozen blocks away from Andy Jassy's 1906 mansion on the outskirts of Capitol Hill. But there's a world of differences between the local small businesses that were terrorized by black nationalists and anarchists in CHAZ and the sedate tree-lined street of multi-million dollar Victorian homes where Jassy and his pro-Sanders designer wife comfortably reside.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe incoming Amazon CEO may rant about the police and his home may boast the ubiquitous \"Black Lives Matter\" \"No Human is Illegal\", and \"Science is Real\" lawn sign prefered by wealthy woke suburbanites, but his estate is protected by a spiked gate and high walls disguised by massive hedges. Defunding the police is an experience to be lived out by other, poorer people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome people may be beaten by Amazon’s critical race theory drivers over their white privilege, but Amazon executives have spiked gates to make certain they’re not the ones being beaten.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\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\/p\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\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6441229114177587878\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/did-amazons-critical-race-theory-push.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6441229114177587878"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6441229114177587878"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/did-amazons-critical-race-theory-push.html","title":"Did Amazon’s Critical Race Theory Push Lead to a Racist Assault on a Customer?"}],"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:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vPP5_pjj8uU\/YNjZ400gL8I\/AAAAAAAATUo\/BWx6jcP6Z_UM_lvMl5hxvxPmp2N2b9KvQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/amazon%2Bassault.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2103451590083741219"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-24T03:38:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-24T03:38:14.360-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Black Lives Matter"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"A BLM Supporter Tried to Kill a Police Officer: That's the Terrorist Threat We're Not Discussing"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Briana Sykes spent over a year broadcasting the racist hate of the Black Lives Matter movement. Last year, she reposted a message from Senator Bernie Sanders, promoted by BLM activist Shaun King, stirring up anger over false claims about Breonna Taylor, who was killed when her drug dealer boyfriend opened fire on police.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-VfYtE22nSn0\/YNQ2W0VmGJI\/AAAAAAAATUg\/BAU6WFS4U2cJr1AKIJ5b6__bkJ-QuiwrwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s736\/shooting%2Bframe.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"484\" data-original-width=\"736\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-VfYtE22nSn0\/YNQ2W0VmGJI\/AAAAAAAATUg\/BAU6WFS4U2cJr1AKIJ5b6__bkJ-QuiwrwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/shooting%2Bframe.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E“Our criminal justice system is racist,” the Sanders smear of the police falsely claimed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShortly afterward she posted an anti-police cartoon distributed by the Black Berner Coalition.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBriana promoted a Black Lives Matter \"economic boycott\" and the claim that BLM rioters were \"compelled to burn s___ down\" because they're an \"oppressed group\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOver the summer, the same account linked to Briana Sykes spread disinformation that the Trump administration had \"literally killed hundreds of protesters in front of the White House\". The #DCBlackout hoax was spread by pro-BLM accounts. It was not clear who was behind a seeming attempt at inciting violence, but researchers suspect it was an enemy government.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd then after over a year of hate and Bernie Sanders memes, Briana Sykes tried to murder a police officer at a Juneteenth parade in Flint, Michigan.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording to authorities, Briana drove up to a police officer and opened fire on him. The officer shot back, wounding the 19-year-old woman. While the officer wasn’t hit, according to a black eyewitness, he “fell to the ground crying because… he didn’t want to do whatever he had to do.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA fellow officer, black, is seen assisting him on the video.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECell phone video appears to show that the unnamed white officer was still trying to give her a chance to surrender, shouting, “Show me your hands!”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERisking his life to avoid another police shooting didn’t pay off. It happened anyway.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe local BLM chapter’s social media responded to the shooting with hate and incitement.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“We have been inculcated to accept Native Black people being MURDERED at the hands of “PROTECT AND SERVE”!“ one poster shrieked. “WE ARE NOT IGNORANT! We also call for  first degree murder charges and that this killer cop’s pension be forfeited!”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBriana Sykes died at the hospital and now authorities are trying to figure out her motive.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the motive is all over her social media which is littered with BLM anti-police hate. Some of that hate intersects with Bernie Sanders material. The two vectors of radicalization are clear and outside the new domestic terrorism guidelines drawn up by the Biden Administration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESenate Democrats, led by \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/12\/cory-booker-protected-terrorists-behind-jersey-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003ESenator Cory Booker\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/10\/kamala-harris-denied-black-supremacists-existed-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003EKamala Harris\u003C\/a\u003E, had already pressured the FBI to stop monitoring black nationalist hate groups.“So, you no longer use the term Black Identity Extremism,” Booker had grilled FBI Director Christopher Wray. “That's great news.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was terrible news for local police and the Jewish community in Jersey City which came under attack by two black nationalist terrorists. But the new Biden domestic terrorism guidelines compound the problem that may have led to the mass shooting at a Jewish supermarket by separating out white nationalists while classifying black nationalists as “anti-government”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/06\/bidens-terror-strategy-defines-republicans-new-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003EBiden terrorism guidelines\u003C\/a\u003E describe Micah X. Johnson, the black nationalist activist who murdered 5 white Dallas police officers, as an anti-government extremist. Johnson was one of a number of BLM supporters who killed or tried to kill police officers. Briana Sykes is just the latest. And while Democrat House members have celebrated Capitol Police personnel, they’ve shown no interest in the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/06\/405-law-enforcement-officers-were-injured-black-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ehundreds of police officers\u003C\/a\u003E wounded in their BLM race riots.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s because the Democrat establishment is deeply entangled with the racist hate group.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Flint, the scene of the latest BLM terrorist attack, Mayor Sheldon Neeley had created a Black Lives Matter Advisory Council for the local police and had joined the hate group's local rallies. Chief Phil Hart had forced Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation training on the police.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPandering to the black nationalist pro-crime hate group backfired in Flint, as it did everywhere else, with a 32% increase in murders while non-fatal shootings \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/flint\/2021\/05\/flint-homicides-up-more-than-30-percent-this-year-as-city-asks-residents-for-help-to-curb-violence.html\"\u003Edoubled\u003C\/a\u003E. By the time the Juneteenth parade arrived there wasn’t much to celebrate in Flint. Just more killing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat role did the promotion of Black Lives Matter by Flint Democrats play in the radicalization of Briana Sykes? And what impact did the Bernie Sanders fanbase, who have become notorious for promoting disinformation and extremist material, have on her state of mind?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2017, James Hodgkinson, a Bernie Sanders supporter, opened fire on Republicans at a charity baseball game in D.C. The FBI covered up the terrorist attack by falsely claiming that Hodgkinson had been trying to commit suicide and had not been targeting anyone despite his possession of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/killing-republicans-save-health-care-and-planet-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ea target list\u003C\/a\u003E and a conversation in which he specifically sought out Republicans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHodgkinson, like Briana Sykes, had spent a lot of time spreading hate on Facebook. He had even belonged to a group named, “Terminate the Republican Party”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s likely that this latest shooting by a radicalized Bernie Sanders supporter will be treated the same way. But even while the Biden administration defines Trump supporters as terrorists, the Bernie Sanders base and Black Lives Matter remind us who the real terrorists are.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat made Briana Sykes open fire on a police officer? The answer is right in front of us.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrats and their media are inciting violence against the police. It can’t come as a surprise when someone takes their big lie that police officers are racist killers and acts on it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBriana Sykes was an ordinary product of her environment. She spent her time online listening to music celebrating violence and imbibing political propaganda demonizing the police. We don’t know exactly what went through her mind, but after being told for years that police officers plot to kill black people, she might have decided that any officer she saw was coming to kill her.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the media has demanded that Facebook and other social media platforms censor conservatives, it has shown no interest in shutting down the kind of leftist disinformation that may have radicalized Hodgkinson and Sykes. That’s because it’s their disinformation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBriana’s death will only feed the cycle of extremism as BLM supporters use her death to transform her into a martyr to their racist cause. Like any terrorist organization, the death of its own people fuels the BLM momentum. Every black person killed in a confrontation with a police officer incites more violence and more payouts. The ugly reality of Briana’s death is that she died trying to murder a police officer so that the Democrats who ruined her city and state can rig more elections, and so that BLM leaders can buy more mansions.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\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\/p\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\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/2103451590083741219\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/a-blm-supporter-tried-to-kill-police.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2103451590083741219"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2103451590083741219"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/a-blm-supporter-tried-to-kill-police.html","title":"A BLM Supporter Tried to Kill a Police Officer: That's the Terrorist Threat We're Not Discussing"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-VfYtE22nSn0\/YNQ2W0VmGJI\/AAAAAAAATUg\/BAU6WFS4U2cJr1AKIJ5b6__bkJ-QuiwrwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/shooting%2Bframe.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-5449508535824947045"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-22T16:43:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-22T16:43:17.366-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"America"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Small Secessions of the New Civil War"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"That a battle over Atlanta would play nearly as pivotal a role in the country’s second civil war as it did in the first might have surprised few historians. What might have surprised them is that the battle would involve civic meetings rather than bullets. There are plenty of bullets in Buckhead, a part of Atlanta coping with runaway crime under the pro-crime rule of Mayor Keisha Bottoms, and those bullets have inspired local residents to secede and form their own police force.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-fqeKlziURH4\/YNJLW4_u1II\/AAAAAAAATUU\/F3QvwsHZ9Q07aMJ0qxwVXOog8j2sk4_eACNcBGAsYHQ\/s653\/image_2021-06-22_134306.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"453\" data-original-width=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-fqeKlziURH4\/YNJLW4_u1II\/AAAAAAAATUU\/F3QvwsHZ9Q07aMJ0qxwVXOog8j2sk4_eACNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-06-22_134306.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EBuckhead is not the first part of Atlanta to try and secede. Sandy Springs had already successfully seceded from Atlanta and a number of cities in Fulton County, which includes Atlanta, have tried to break away to form Milton County. These efforts to escape the blight and corruption of Atlanta aren’t new, but Buckhead’s fight to escape Atlanta’s pro-crime government has captured the imagination of millions of Americans from one coast of the country to the other.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe cold civil war is being shaped not by national, but local secessions like the one in Buckhead as neighborhoods try to secede from cities, cities from counties, and counties from states in a powerful struggle by conservative and centrist communities to define their own way of life.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMost Americans might associate Roswell with UFOs, but a proposed bill by Senator Cliff Pirtle of Roswell would have allowed it and other counties located near Texas to secede with the possible intention of joining the Lone Star State. In Oregon, 7 counties voted to secede and join Idaho, Weld County is considering seceding from Colorado to join Wyoming, and western Minnesota has seen proposals for its counties to leave and unite with South Dakota.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESecession talk isn’t new. Northern Californians have kept the dream of a breakaway state named Jefferson alive for generations. The Democrat machine illegally suppressed a ballot measure that proposed to split California in three. The secession proposals that succeed are more modest and limited in scope. Breaking up states may be a moonshot, seceding from states might be an uphill battle, but the rate of local secessions is growing rapidly.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe most popular form of secession is also the smallest and involves school districts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAn average of 5 school districts secede every year. And while such secessions may get less publicity than plans to split up entire states, they’re commonplace and effective. They also represent the same trend of communities escaping the social and political wreckage of urban rule. Even as Democrats go to war against the suburbs, the suburbs are fighting back.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe political geography of the new civil war is a tug of war between Democrats seeking to concentrate authority in as few places as possible and an opposition seeking independence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Democrats and their media complain about the electoral college and the composition of the Senate, the nation and its states are largely ruled by a handful of metropolitan areas. The wealth that buys and sells elections nationwide mostly flows out of New York and California, and, more specifically, out of New York City and Silicon Valley. Geographic regions of less than 1,000 square miles in total rule a nation of 3.8 million square miles with an economic fist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe meltdown of the urban areas drove suburbanization. And the spreading blight of urban areas into suburban communities due to the concentration of statewide political power in the cities has led to a secondary exodus from suburban bedroom communities to other states.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia not only went blue, but it ‘blued’ Colorado, Wyoming, and a range of other states. The final casualty of California’s blue wave may even end up being Texas. New York has had a similar effect, not only regionally, but even to the south, driving an exodus to Atlanta. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe tide of blue state invasions has the potential to transform the state of states and the nation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENeighborhoods and school districts seceding from failed urban centers are trying to halt the problem at its source. Rural counties, especially in western states, are pushing back against larger demographic invasions that have transformed smaller states into miniature Californias. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPolls show that most people prefer to live in communities with people that share their values. As politics becomes more tribal, the number of neighborhoods with an even share of lawn signs for both parties is decreasing. In a political system that forces cake makers to bake cakes,  indoctrinates elementary school students with radical views on race and sexuality, and cancels anyone who doesn’t go along, coexistence with a radical leftist system is no longer an option.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESecession is. The new civil war is being fought locally. It’s not a regional movement, but a communal one. What brings together rural areas and suburban communities is a desire to control their own way of life and escape the destructive centralization of urban regimes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe new civil war isn’t being fought between the North and the South, but between the cities and the rest of the country. It’s an economic and social war whose objective is independence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s why the smallest scale secessions have paradoxically been the most successful.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhether it’s the Buckhead movement or the Texas Senate passing a bill allowing Lake Austin residents to secede from Austin only to see it die in the House, the secessions are gathering strength. But so is the Left's battle to stop them through lies, racism smears, and judicial fiat.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust because the public votes to create a separate school district or a city doesn't mean that it won't be blocked by Democrat activist judges who decide to override the will of the people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe attempt by Gardendale to secede from the failed Jefferson County Public School system in Alabama was illegally blocked by federal judges. The Left is struggling to block the creation of the city of St. George in Louisiana with equally illegal lawsuits. But the pace of secession proposals is only growing as more communities struggle to escape abusive governments.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd as Democrats seek to illegally rig elections across the country with H.R.1, to transform the government city of Washington D.C. into a state, and to exercise total control over every local decision through its massive urban bureaucracy, the rate of secessions is only increasing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome only seek to restore control over local schools and police forces to communities, while others strive to reconfigure the borders of states to enable rural representation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThough the term ‘secession’ and the idea of dividing a land summons to mind civil war, the more apt analogy may be the original secession of the United States from British rule.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,\" Thomas Jefferson wrote in the  Declaration of Independence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica’s revolutionaries wanted self-government on their own terms. Their modern descendants are breaking away from New York and San Francisco, from Big Tech and Wall Street, the way that their ancestors sought to escape from London and its mercantile interests. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe fundamental issue at stake in the secessions is whether communities will be governed centrally or locally. Democrats and their media have worked to cloud the issue with false accusations of racism, but it’s not only white neighborhoods that are talking secession. A generation ago, black Boston residents proposed to create the breakaway city of Mandela. That movement has recently come in for a reexamination. It’s time to reexamine all of them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe new generation of secessionism is driven by the unbearable pressure imposed on communities by the expansive ideological programs of radical leftist technocrats which leave little room for either individuality or human needs. Rather than learning from the profound failures of urban areas during the pandemic, all they learned is a need for greater control.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESecession is the natural human response to the control freak madness of cities which control entire states. Communities are confronting radical power grabs by taking back the power.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe cold civil war is being fought in civic meetings. The battles are local and the battle maps cover streets rather than continents, but it is a conflict driven by the impetus of revolutions and civil wars in which one people, as Jefferson wrote, seeks to part ways with another, not to rule over them, but to be free of their thievery, their abuses, and their tyrannical rule.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\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\/p\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\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/5449508535824947045\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/the-small-secessions-of-new-civil-war.html#comment-form","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5449508535824947045"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5449508535824947045"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/the-small-secessions-of-new-civil-war.html","title":"The Small Secessions of the New Civil War"}],"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:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-fqeKlziURH4\/YNJLW4_u1II\/AAAAAAAATUU\/F3QvwsHZ9Q07aMJ0qxwVXOog8j2sk4_eACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-06-22_134306.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-932289680180534744"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-21T12:06:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-21T12:06:43.534-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Terrorism"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biden’s Terror Strategy Defines Republicans as the New Terrorists"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"As the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks approaches, Joe Biden has made it clear that he doesn’t intend to fight Al Qaeda. Instead he’s going to fight other Americans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-JA2lBZhA__8\/YNC494gYG9I\/AAAAAAAATUM\/apqcya6Ki0wIuVqgQb4fFqbuTJfT3ZSFgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s735\/biden%2Ballah2.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"349\" data-original-width=\"735\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-JA2lBZhA__8\/YNC494gYG9I\/AAAAAAAATUM\/apqcya6Ki0wIuVqgQb4fFqbuTJfT3ZSFgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/biden%2Ballah2.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe Biden administration’s newly released National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism mentions Al Qaeda only once in its 30 pages. Even though the FBI continues to break up Islamic terrorist plots against America, the document only defines Muslims as victims.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust last month a Seattle Muslim convert was arrested. The convert had discussed driving a \"semi-truck\" through \"the gay pride parade in downtown Seattle\". Even though the arrest came shortly before the anniversary of the ISIS massacre at the Pulse nightclub, both Biden and the media ignored the potential plot and the fact that the Pulse shooting was Islamic terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I wish to see the kuffar (non-Muslims) as I kill them, I want to strike terror in them and make Allah pleased for doing so,” the Seattle convert \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/06\/seattle-hipster-converted-islam-joined-isis-behead-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ehad\u003C\/a\u003E boasted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat same month another Muslim convert pled guilty to plotting to attack an Ohio synagogue and murder a rabbi. A third Muslim convert in Brooklyn was also sentenced that month for promoting terrorist plots against Americans. American converts to Islam are a major source of recruits for domestic terrorist plots. Despite that, Biden’s strategy ignores their existence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn a flashback to the Clinton era, the National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism claims that the only serious terrorist threats come from the militia movement and racists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the only racists whose existence the Biden administration will admit to are white racists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMicah X. Johnson, a black supremacist who murdered 5 police officers in Dallas, is described as an “anti–authority violent extremist”. Racist and supremacist terrorism can only be practiced by members of the majority against “minority populations”. It can’t work the other way around.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAntifa is also rolled together into “anti-government”, a category that encompasses the militia movement, black supremacists, white anarchists, and everyone who isn’t a white racist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIslamic terrorists, like the three in May, don’t even make the list.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe two categories, anti-government and racists, tell us little about the actual domestic terrorist threat, but a great deal about the Biden administration’s agenda for exploiting terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEither you’re with the Biden administration or the “anti-government extremists”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism redefines the terrorist threat as coming first and foremost from political opponents of the Biden administration. And it defines that threat as a primarily political and ideological battle rather than a violent threat.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe new strategy doesn’t come up with any new ideas for fighting terrorism. Its ideas fall into the murky territory of preventing terror through everything from internet censorship to critical race theory. Biden is rebooting Obama’s CVE or Countering Violent Extremism program to target Americans in a battle of ideas against “misinformation” and “racism”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis also defines the administration’s two approaches: indoctrination and suppression.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism redefines domestic terrorism as a domestic ideological struggle against people who disagree with Biden and his partisan party.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe strategy’s concluding sentence speaks of “finding ways to counter the influence and impact of dangerous conspiracy theories that can provide a gateway to terrorist violence.” It warns of “an information environment that challenges healthy democratic discourse” and cautions that, “today’s digital age requires an American population that can utilize essential aspects of Internet–based communications platforms while avoiding vulnerability to... harmful content deliberately disseminated by malicious actors online.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe binary model is a choice between people who believe everything the media tells them or terrorists. Fighting terrorism requires a national security system that indoctrinates its citizens.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe strategy blithely notes that “the Department of Homeland Security and others are either currently funding and implementing or planning... digital programming, including enhancing media literacy and critical thinking skills, as a mechanism for strengthening user resilience to disinformation and misinformation online for domestic audiences.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA one-word term for this is ‘propaganda’.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe “broader priority” is “enhancing faith in government and addressing the extreme polarization, fueled by a crisis of disinformation and misinformation” on the internet.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EElected officials don’t address “polarization”, they’re a product of it. They enhance faith in government by keeping their promises instead of indoctrinating and censoring the people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGovernments that suppress “misinformation” to fight “polarization” are totalitarian states.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrats and their media had previously blamed President Trump’s election on “misinformation”. The new strategy blames “misinformation” for domestic terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the best way to fight “misinformation” is with suppression and indoctrination.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe strategy document suggests that the Biden administration will be engaging in more “robust” efforts to “assist online platforms with their own initiatives to enforce their own terms of service”. It defines “private–sector online platforms” as the front line in this new suppression campaign.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut censorship is very 2016. The 2021 terrorism strategy is much more ambitious than that.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration will only acknowledge two terrorist threats. The first threat comes from “anti-government extremists” which justifies a crackdown on any kind of political opposition and a suppression of “conspiracy theories”. The second threat comes from racists which creates an urgent need to tackle “the threat posed by domestic terrorism” with “substantial efforts to confront the racism that feeds into aspects of that threat”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat “means tackling racism in America” with a civics education that covers “when racism and bigotry have meant that the country fell short of living up to its founding principles”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s code for embedding critical race theory in schools to teach students that America is evil.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s hard to think of anything more likely to encourage new recruits to ISIS and other terrorist causes than divisive racist materials that devalue our country and our common heritage.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the strategy is also much more ambitious than that, “prioritizing efforts to ensure that every component of the government has a role to play in rooting out racism and advancing equity.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s easy to miss the significance of what the Biden terrorism strategy is doing here.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism has defined domestic terrorism as being caused by conspiracy theories, misinformation, racism, and hostility to the government. Fighting domestic terrorism means recreating the government bureaucracy and its policies around “equity” and the agendas of “critical race theory” while rooting out their opponents.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust as Biden’s purge of the military \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/06\/bishop-garrison-bidens-racist-tool-military-purge-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Edefined military readiness\u003C\/a\u003E and national security around a willingness to embrace critical race theory, identity politics, and hatred of America, this new counterterrorism strategy makes it the basis for national security across the government.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEvery arm of the government is not only being tasked with imposing the racial discriminatory and wealth redistribution elements of “equity”, but with viewing any opposition as terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr a gateway to terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Obama administration abused national security to target its Republican political opponents by falsely accusing them of treason and acting as foreign agents of Russia. With Biden appeasing Putin, the Russian smear is no longer viable, but the domestic terrorist smear is.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe new strategy document will serve as a basis for using national security to target Republicans as domestic terrorists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden doctrine creates a phantom terrorist movement of conspiracy theories and misinformation that is as vaporous as the Russia smear and seeks to tie any violence to political opponents who engage in “misinformation” and “conspiracy theories”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince the Democrats and their media have defined virtually any disagreement as “misinformation” and “conspiracy theories”, most conservatives can be accused of terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat that will do is make it much easier to surveil and monitor political opponents by manufacturing networks that are based around “misinformation” and “conspiracy theories”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe strategy document begins by redefining terrorism from an organized, even in the loosest sense, movement to “lone actors” who “mobilize to violence with little or no clear organizational structure or direction.” The document skips over the vital question of whether they are part of any movement calling for terrorism, instead it claims that their “fluid” ideologies “connect and intersect with conspiracy theories and other forms of disinformation and misinformation”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration has turned away from dealing with domestic Islamic terrorists with a clear connection to a terrorist movement like ISIS to defining ideas as dangerous without regard as to whether those ideas, theories, or movements are actually calling for violence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy discarding the existence of any actual terrorist movement or infrastructure, the Biden administration has set a very low bar for defining terrorism and an even lower bar for complicity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere doesn’t have to be any linkage between the perpetrator of a violent attack and the conservatives who will be blamed for acting as a “gateway” with their “conspiracy theories”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis will mean censorship and deplatforming, but also surveillance and worse things.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism defines political opponents and anyone resistant to critical race theory or who questions the government as either a gateway to terrorism or possibly even inciting terrorism. This strategy will be used to target conservative non-profits through the IRS, to remove conservative speech from the internet, and to surveil hundreds of thousands of conservatives on the pretext of fighting domestic terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Islamic terrorists continue to plot actual attacks, Biden is plotting to terrorize Americans.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\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\/p\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\/932289680180534744\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/bidens-terror-strategy-defines.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/932289680180534744"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/932289680180534744"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/bidens-terror-strategy-defines.html","title":"Biden’s Terror Strategy Defines Republicans as the New Terrorists"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-JA2lBZhA__8\/YNC494gYG9I\/AAAAAAAATUM\/apqcya6Ki0wIuVqgQb4fFqbuTJfT3ZSFgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/biden%2Ballah2.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-1457880351148443029"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-20T04:19:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-20T04:19:24.696-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Hollywood"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"How HBO Max Went Woke and Broke on BLM"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"After a former Hollywood Foreign Press Association president \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/04\/eight-time-president-hollywood-foreign-press-mark-tapson\/\"\u003Eshared my\u003C\/a\u003E Front Page Magazine article about the\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/04\/blm-goes-hollywood-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E BLM Hollywood connection\u003C\/a\u003E, WarnerMedia executives sent a boycott letter to the foreign press organization behind the Golden Globes. Their outrage was understandable.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-eyRtleWNE7U\/YM76A5dm9LI\/AAAAAAAATUE\/bdhjyAgHT3Q9h2y23w7TO9OVYqXiMyGGACNcBGAsYHQ\/s587\/image_2021-06-20_011915.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"370\" data-original-width=\"587\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-eyRtleWNE7U\/YM76A5dm9LI\/AAAAAAAATUE\/bdhjyAgHT3Q9h2y23w7TO9OVYqXiMyGGACNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-06-20_011915.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EMy article had cast a light on the ties between Warner and Black Lives Matter. No one had crawled harder and deeper into bed with the racist black nationalist hate group than the company that shared little more than a name with one of Hollywood’s signature studios whose name to most people still brings to mind everything from Bugs Bunny to Casablanca.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Warner brothers were conservatives while a typical billboard for HBO Max, Warner’s streaming effort to compete with Netflix, urges audiences to subscribe and tune in to an adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates's racist black nationalist tract “Between the World and Me”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Between the World and Me” featured Coates \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/ta-nehisi-coates-americas-next-top-victim-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Edescribing \u003C\/a\u003Ethe firefighters and police who risked their lives to rescue people on September 11 as “not human to me” and “menaces”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Their new name has no real meaning divorced from the machinery of criminal power. the new people were something else before they were white--Catholic, Corsican, Welsh, Mennonite, Jewish,\" Coates writes in “Between the World and Me”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile HBO Max pulled and then restored “Gone With the Wind” over its \"racial prejudices\" complete with a disclaimer lecture, and Turner Classic Movies, owned by Warner Bros, launched a series condemning classic movies like “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (Mickey Rooney's buck teeth), \"My Fair Lady\" (misogyny), and \"Psycho\" (transphobia),  it promotes the worst possible hatred of white people with million dollar contracts and massive billboards.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWarner Bros rewarded Coates’ racism further by having him write the script for a black Superman. Possible directors include Shaka King, the director of the Black Panthers propaganda flick, “Judas and the Black Messiah”, who \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/sight-and-sound\/features\/power-people-shaka-king-judas-black-messiah-daniel-kaluuya-lakeith-stanfield-fred-hampton\"\u003Ehad declared\u003C\/a\u003E, “I haven’t needed white people to care about what I do in years now” and “a centrist is, in many ways, more dangerous than a white nationalist, because they’re really silently propping up the system”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHBO Max’s’ Between the World and Me includes Alicia Garza, a co-founder of BLM. Garza is one of two BLM co-founders who is at home at Warner Bros. The Warner Brothers Television Group had signed a production deal with Patrisse Cullors: a self-described Marxist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe BLM deal happened the same month that Channing Dungey became the Warner TV chair.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs ABC Entertainment boss, Channing Dungey had made the decision to fire Roseanne from her namesake show for comments critical of Obama crony Valerie Jarrett. Dungey jumped to Netflix, bringing along Scandal’s Shonda Rhimes who went on to create “Bridgerton” for Netflix, and worked with Barack Obama’s Higher Ground agitprop production company.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDungey was one of the signers of the boycott letter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, all those deaths coming in quick succession — I think it’s opened up an entirely different conversation that particularly in Hollywood, coming in the wake of #MeToo, I think everyone is realizing that the business has been built on some systemic wrongs that need to be righted,” Dungey told Variety.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe nature of the systemic wrongs in an industry that took Dungey from a production assistant to the destroyer of genuinely talented people like Roseanne may be harder to define. But she’s a symptom of a larger problem at Warner Bros which has gone all in on black nationalism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlong with Dungey and Rimes, Warner Brothers lured away black nationalist director Ava DuVernay with a $100 million deal. DuVernay’s “13th” series for Netflix had falsely accused America of slavery due to the high number of black people convicted of crimes in prison.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Warner Bros also had no problem scraping the very bottom of the black nationalist barrel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter signing Cullors, it cut a deal with Kimberly Latrice Jones, a BLM activist who made a viral video in \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.rev.com\/blog\/transcripts\/kimberly-latrice-jones-blm-video-speech-transcript\"\u003Esupport of looting\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"There’s a social contract that we all have, that if you steal, or if I steal, then the person who is the authority comes in and they fix the situation. But the person who fixes the situation is killing us. So the social contract is broken. And if the social contract is broken, why the f*** do I give a shit about burning the f***ing Football Hall of Fame, about burning a f***ing Target?\" the activist ranted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Far as I’m concerned, they could burn this bitch to the ground, and it still wouldn’t be enough.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe unhinged racist rant helped get her a book deal, a movie deal, and a deal with Warner which under AT\u0026amp;T has been happily burning the company and its brand down to the ground.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWarner also signed a multi-year deal with Phillip Atiba Goff whose thesis adviser was Cornel West and is the author of \"Saying 'No' to Whiteness\", to produce social justice content. Dungey described Goff as “a leading voice of moral clarity on critical issues facing our society”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the rush to elevate anyone shouting about the evils of white people, HBO Max is littered with basement garbage that looks like the work of college students laboring on public access TV.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou can find “Random Acts of Flyness”, a typical episode of which is titled, \"They Got Some S___ That'll Blow Out Your Back\". The Terence Nance variety show features a \"family mourning a high-profile case of police violence\" and asks \"does the Second Amendment apply to black people\". One mock commercial features Mad Men’s Jon Hamm touting “White Be Gone” which promises to help those who are suffering “from white thoughts”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn a sign of just how far Warner had toppled its intellectual properties into the gutter of black nationalism, it tried to turn over the Looney Tunes franchise to Nance to direct “Space Jam” with Ryan Coogler, of the anti-police agitprop “Fruitvale Station”, acting as producer. Coogler, who went on to direct Marvel’s black nationalist Black Panther fantasy, also produced “Judas and the Black Messiah” for Warner celebrating Black Panthers leader Fred Hampton.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut you can also find HBO pushing “Beah: A Black Woman Speaks” about Communist activist Beah Richards who played a major role in the We Charge Genocide smear to divert attention from Soviet crimes by falsely accusing America of genocide.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd if you thought John Oliver or Stephen Colbert weren’t political enough, Wyatt Cenac's “Problem Areas” is a string of diatribes about racism and social justice. Cenac is a Daily Show veteran who jettisons much of the format and instead lectures audiences about racism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHBO Max is struggling to catch up to Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Disney+, but the actual numbers show that it's far behind. While the service claims 44 million subscribers and touts ambitious plans to reach 150 million people by 2025, these numbers are suspect.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEarlier this year, activations stood at\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/2021\/02\/17\/take-hbo-max-subscriber-count-with-a-grain-of-salt\/\"\u003E only 17 million\u003C\/a\u003E. HBO Max no longer reports activations making its numbers meaningless. By the spring, AT\u0026amp;T had disposed of HBO Max and the rest of its Warner package by merging the whole mess with Discovery’s programming.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe deal also dumps CNN into Discovery under its CEO, Democrat donor David Zaslav.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile AT\u0026amp;T put the best possible face on this move, the $4 billion dollar bet had not paid off. And Warner’s massive investment in black nationalist programming had thoroughly failed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHBO Max’s biggest bump came from its decision to dump “Wonder Woman 1984” on the platform at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. The movie, starring Gal Gadot, a pro-Israel actress under fire by critical race theory activists, was the antithesis of the new intersectionality. The second biggest came from the Friends reunion: a show under fire for its lack of diversity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite HBO Max’s massive investment in black nationalism, its successes were all too white.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile all of its big streaming platforms rivals, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Disney+, and Paramount+ invested in black nationalist narratives to varying degrees, none did so as belatedly, futilely, and relentlessly as HBO Max which threw away its brand and its future.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWarnerMedia may have boycotted the Golden Globes, but subscribers boycotted its service.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWarner bought into Black Lives Matter and built its content brand around militant black nationalism and anti-white racism. While AT\u0026amp;T’s CNN was touting the looters, AT\u0026amp;T’s HBO Max was being looted. Like so many other companies, after the woke comes the broke.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\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\/p\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\/1457880351148443029\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/how-hbo-max-went-woke-and-broke-on-blm.html#comment-form","title":"9 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/1457880351148443029"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/1457880351148443029"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/how-hbo-max-went-woke-and-broke-on-blm.html","title":"How HBO Max Went Woke and Broke on BLM"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-eyRtleWNE7U\/YM76A5dm9LI\/AAAAAAAATUE\/bdhjyAgHT3Q9h2y23w7TO9OVYqXiMyGGACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-06-20_011915.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"9"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-1176742657441154296"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-16T15:59:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-16T15:59:12.742-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Left"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Whiteness of Woke"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"“If You're Not Outraged, You're Not Paying Attention” the bumper stickers on a thousand SUVs in the upscale bedroom communities of dysfunctional cities read. “Deutschland Erwache,” the National Socialists used to shout in the streets of Munich. Woke compresses it all to one word.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWokeness means believing that politics is all there is to life. And nothing is whiter than that.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hTGcWyhPBJo\/YMpX-nkdsoI\/AAAAAAAATTw\/e7o1xuXES7YHJMdaiaVJRbh_IXtXeoYDgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1280\/cnn%2Bhands%2Bup.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"720\" data-original-width=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hTGcWyhPBJo\/YMpX-nkdsoI\/AAAAAAAATTw\/e7o1xuXES7YHJMdaiaVJRbh_IXtXeoYDgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/cnn%2Bhands%2Bup.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThose minorities who form the backbone of the activists and voting blocs of identity politics don’t care about politics. Identity politics is politics to white wokes and identitarianism to minorities. Critical race theory is only a theory to white people. To everyone else, it’s tribal hatred.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPolitical theories are abstractions. Tribal identity is very real. Wokeness is concerned with getting white people to buy into tribal identity as a political abstraction rather than a real force.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhite wokes turned race into the abstraction that is whiteness. What is whiteness? It’s unconscious cultural habits and ways of thinking. The notion that race is a set of ideas rather than a tangible reality would be vocally denied by both white and black racial identitarians.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe consequence of race as an abstraction is the transracial idea that minorities can become infected with internalized whiteness and the spread of multiracial whiteness. If minorities can become white, it follows that white wokes can become minorities by shedding their whiteness.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhiteness is a racial consciousness, but based on Marxist power relations, not blood and soil, or genetics, let alone the crude resentment of the ‘other’ that lurks at the heart of raw tribalism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECritical race theory hijacks racism and racial identity to replace it with Marxist theories.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhite wokes use critical race theory the way that elites always used Marxist theories to compete with more successful people of their own upper class. Class warfare was never about the rise of the oppressed: Lenin was a member of the nobility, Mao’s father was a landlord and a money lender, and Castro was a wealthy law student whose father owned a plantation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECritical race theory is designed to thin out the overproduction of elites. It’s a weapon against meritocracy by the same mediocre cliques looking for a shortcut in the competition. Executives force critical race theory into workplaces to shut down ambitious younger rivals. Suburban soccer moms of dumber kids go woke and push it into schools to even the playing field.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat's whiteness? As the Smithsonian Museum of African-American Culture's chart of \"white culture\" put it, whiteness covers everything from a serious work ethic to self-reliance, rational thinking, delayed gratification, achieving goals, being on time, and, finally, \"competition\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGet rid of academic standards, intellectual seriousness, punish success, and the mediocre woke white elites who first created quota systems a century ago have much more of a shot at the top.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe inherent assumption of class warfare was that the proles were too backward to be a competitive threat. The racist assumption behind critical race theory is that black people can’t compete. If the wokes thought otherwise, they would be denouncing black people as racist the way that Asian-Americans and Jews are repeatedly accused of racism and privilege.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBeing accused of group privilege isn’t an insult: it’s a backhanded compliment. Wokes pander to those groups they think of as inferior and attack those groups they see as competition.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhite wokes embrace anti-white racism the way that wealthy white lefties championed class warfare. It’s not self-hatred, but hatred of more successful members of their group by enlisting those below them whom they don’t see as competitors to bring down more successful rivals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the identitarian racism they’re cultivating among minorities is not theoretical or hypothetical. And neither is the response among working class whites whom they once courted and abandoned. Racial consciousness may only be a theory to woke elites, but it’s not theoretical to the people they’re pitting against each other. Identity politics is only politics to elites, it’s identity to everyone else, and in a country losing the commonalities of religion and patriotism, it’s lethal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBuilding a Marxist flavor of racism makes elites Marxists and everyone else racist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECritical race theory is meant to force white people to see themselves as an ‘other’ and to legitimize the idea of minorities viewing white people that way. Whiteness studies as an academic discipline exists to ‘other’ white people and minorities who can be accused of suffering from multiracial whiteness on account of their success or resistance to dogma.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOtherness undermines empathy and ethics. It licenses everything from hatred to violence to genocide. The more we view people as less than human, the more likely we are to do everything from cut them off in traffic to steal from them and even kill them. National media narratives demand sympathy for George Floyd or Breonna Taylor while refusing to cover the victims of crime because critical race theory denies that they deserve sympathy or humanity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIdeas have horrifying consequences and leftists have a long history of failing to understand the murderous implications of their self-serving abstract intellectualizations. Only when millions of bodies start piling up do they occasionally begin to wrestle with some sort of moral reckoning. And even then, the reckoning is quickly shelved before it ever really comes into being.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome Communists turned on the Soviet Union after the Hitler-Stalin pact and the revelations of Stalin’s crimes. Fewer have accepted any kind of moral reckoning for the millions killed by Mao, or the Cambodian genocide, not to mention generations of massacres in Latin America. Nearer to our own time, you won’t find a proponent of Obama’s foreign policy who has even dared to suggest that the Arab Spring was a catastrophic disaster that may have killed a million people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe body count for Black Lives Matter is estimated as at least 4,000 when you account for the massive increase in murder and crime rates. Most of those would likely be of black people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBeing recruited into a war of liberation by white wokes comes with a high body count. And the blood price isn’t being paid by corporations who sent out emails about George Floyd or sorority sisters holding up ACAB signs. Just as they’re not the ones who paid the price for the collapse of the family or the social structure of both black and white working class communities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in The Great Gatsby, \"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness.\" But there are fewer places to retreat to in a completely polarized society.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EElites retreat into abstractions. They buy a copy of Robin DiAngelo’s book and Zoom into the latest call of the white allies caucus at their workplace knowing that they may not be good at much, but they are good at undermining those who are actually good at something. But the rising tide of tribalism is not an abstraction for those for whom identity becomes humanity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWoke is very white, but its vastness is illusory. The woke elites control corporations and institutions, but what woke is feeding isn’t abstract discrimination, but violent racism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn California, an Amazon driver beat an older lady who asked her about a package. The minority driver had \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/06\/critical-race-theory-violence-woke-amazon-driver-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eaccused her victim\u003C\/a\u003E of possessing \"white privilege\" before attacking her from behind. This is what critical race theory actually looks like outside the suburban bubble of social justice dinners and struggle sessions which, grueling as they are, are at least non-violent.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELast year, Amazon forced every employee to take diversity and inclusion training. Even as the Big Tech monopoly is looting the American economy by selling it out to China, it's doubled down on virtue signaling, promising to go 'green' by 2025 and building an HR infrastructure of 'equity'.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazon's new CEO Andy Jassy is a militant leftist who had previously \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ajassy\/status\/1309176233117257728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1309176233117257728%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_\u0026amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fnew-amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-on-immigration-black-lives-matter-2021-2\"\u003Eranted that\u003C\/a\u003E, \"If you don't hold police depts accountable for murdering black people, we will never have justice and change.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe monopolistic tech giant subjects workers to Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) when it isn’t forcing them to urinate into cups. The speakers at a Big Tech CORE hatefest \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/amazons-inaugural-coreconversations-race-ethnicity-events-maxine-gray\/\"\u003Eincluded \u003C\/a\u003EBLM co-founder Alicia Garza, Farrakhan fan \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/person\/carmen-perez\/\"\u003ECarmen Perez\u003C\/a\u003E, and Robin DiAngelo.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut critical race theory looks very different in the conference room of a monopoly trying to launder its destruction of the country’s economy so that its former CEO can go off into space by bringing in a few racism profiteers to berate managers about their white privilege than on the street where abstractions of whiteness give way to vicious beatings of elderly white women.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBeyond academic wokeness is the gritty racial identitarian reality of tribal violence and murder.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Amazon and other Big Tech monopolies compete with each other on woke virtue signaling, and Robin DiAngelo adds another million to her bank account, people are being beaten and murdered in the streets of American cities. While Jeff Bezos and other woke elites go off to space, woke translates into tribal hatred and violence down here on earth.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\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\/p\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\/1176742657441154296\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/the-whiteness-of-woke.html#comment-form","title":"10 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/1176742657441154296"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/1176742657441154296"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/the-whiteness-of-woke.html","title":"The Whiteness of Woke"}],"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:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hTGcWyhPBJo\/YMpX-nkdsoI\/AAAAAAAATTw\/e7o1xuXES7YHJMdaiaVJRbh_IXtXeoYDgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/cnn%2Bhands%2Bup.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"10"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2701061287430025944"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-14T00:33:00.003-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-14T00:33:42.985-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immigration"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Kamala Harris"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"South America"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Kamala Went to Guatemala for Regime Change, Not Illegal Migration"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"In March, Joe Biden announced that Kamala Harris was going \"to lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle\" to stem illegal \"migration to our southern border\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording to Biden, \"she’s the most qualified person to do it.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-5E1oflOG2ng\/YMbb9jQPFXI\/AAAAAAAATTQ\/2Wf9r60ArVwZvDcus8-1_fH4QelsRMoWQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s667\/protest%2Bframe.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"477\" data-original-width=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-5E1oflOG2ng\/YMbb9jQPFXI\/AAAAAAAATTQ\/2Wf9r60ArVwZvDcus8-1_fH4QelsRMoWQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/protest%2Bframe.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThis confused everyone including the White House, Kamala Harris, and even the media which spent the next few months clarifying exactly what her job was and how she was going to do it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnonymous officials told CNN that afterward, \"Harris' aides appeared to 'panic'\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt their joint press conference, Kamala Harris dubiously claimed that \"we can chew gum and walk at the same time\". While Texas officials demanded that she visit the border, Kamala instead vowed to focus on diplomacy with the countries the migrants were coming from.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnlike President Trump, Biden was not going to secure the border. The border would be wide open and illegal aliens would be dispersed across the country. An agreement to keep the migrants in Mexico, Trump’s biggest immigration win, was shredded. The only plan to deal with the huge border surge was addressing the “root causes” of migration. But the only real root cause is that America is richer than Mexico and other countries south of the border.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the Biden administration got to work making America as poor as possible, Kamala was dispatched to impose Marxist regime change on Latin America in the name of the illegal aliens.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe trip didn’t go well from the start.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAir Force Two took off and then had to come back due to a landing gear problem.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust like in the primaries, Kamala has always had trouble sticking the landing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We all said a little prayer, but we’re good,” Kamala told reporters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKamala claims to be a black Baptist, is married to a secular Jewish man, grew up attending Hindu temples, and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/02\/kamala-harris-political-blackface-routine-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Easked an\u003C\/a\u003E aunt before an election, \"Please pray for me, break coconuts at the temple.\" It’s hard to imagine what she was praying to. Probably the only one thing she believed in that has come through for her: Willie Brown.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media told us that Kamala Harris was a member of Amos Brown's leftist Third Baptist Church. That's fine, except that the church is in San Francisco, and Kamala has lived in a Brentwood mansion, and the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/spectator.us\/life\/kamala-harris-really-believe-baptist\/+\u0026amp;cd=6\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;ct=clnk\u0026amp;gl=us\"\u003Echurch is in decline\u003C\/a\u003E due to the lack of black people in the area.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut if you can believe that Kamala is “the most qualified person” to engage in diplomacy with countries she can’t find on a map and solve their social problems, believing that she’s a devout parishioner of a church 350 miles away should be a breeze for any devout Democrat.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn the second Air Force Two, Kamala finally landed in Guatemala to jeers from an angry mob.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We are not on the same side of the coin. It is obvious,\" Guatemala's President Giammattei had earlier told CBS.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter President Trump left office, Giammattei complained that, \"The message changed to, 'we are going to reunite families and we are going to reunite children'\" and \"the very next day the coyotes here were organizing groups of children to take them to the United States.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe urged the Biden administration \"to send more of a clear message to prevent more people from leaving.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPresident Giammattei is a staunch law and order conservative, and if he appeared to be undermining Kamala, it was because she had spent months undermining him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn May, Kamala met with a number of leftist opponents of Giammattei, including former Attorney General Thelma Aldana, who had targeted conservative politicians with corruption charges, before herself being charged with corruption. Instead of returning home to face those charges, she received political asylum in the United States. Her social media is full of praise for Kamala Harris’ trip to Guatemala, and her promises to end \"corruption\" in Guatemala.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBehind the mutual charges of corruption is a struggle between the Left and Right, with socialists and narcoterrorists on one side and military officers and free marketers on the other.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKamala and the Biden administration are choosing to stand with the Left.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s not exactly surprising. Neither were the angry protesters that greeted Kamala at the airport waving banners and signs reading \"Kamala, Mind Your Own Business\", \"Kamala, Go Home\", \"Kamala Trump Won\", and “Kamala Stop Funding Criminals\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThose signs might have been confusing to Americans who get their news from the media bubble which left them completely unprepared to understand what was really going on.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGuatemalans saw her as prepping a leftist coup by backing leftist organizations and activists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd they were fighting back.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKamala Harris blamed the migrant crisis on \"corruption, violence and poverty, the lack of economic opportunity, the lack of climate adaptation and climate resilience, the lack of good governance.\" Two of those are very obvious code words for regime change.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA few days ago it was announced that Kamala’s trip would be about “anti-corruption” efforts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAside from some leftist prosecutors, Guatemalans are not coming here over government corruption. But did anyone really think that Biden wanted to reduce illegal migration?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Left is adept at killing two birds with one stone.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn this case, it’s using a border crisis to impose leftist regimes on Latin America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBehind the anti-corruption push is a movie to restart the UN’s International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) backed by Soros activists. Most Guatemalans would prefer to be ruled by their own elected officials, not by the United Nations, Soros, or Kamala Harris.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKamala Harris quickly announced that the DOJ will create an anti-corruption task force that will provide \"case-based mentoring to the Guatemalan Public Ministry, including the Special Prosecutor Against Impunity (FECI)\" and \"a rapid response capability to deploy U.S. prosecutors and law enforcement experts to provide mentorship to develop corruption cases.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis amounts to deploying DOJ assets to help local lefties take down conservative politicians.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s why Biden described Kamala as “the most qualified person to do it.\" Unlike much of the administration, she has a background as a prosecutor. And that’s her real job in Guatemala.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“One essential ingredient of our priorities must be to fight corruption,” Kamala Harris declared, while standing next to President Giammattei . “That has been one of our highest priorities.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEveryone who’s seen the leaked Hunter Biden material knows how committed Willie Brown’s girlfriend is to fighting corruption. It’s been a while since there was a dirtier administration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut fighting corruption in Latin America doesn’t have anything to do with corruption. In a thoroughly corrupt system where everyone steals and takes bribes, it means regime change.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKamala isn’t in Guatemala to stem the flow of illegal aliens, but to impose a leftist regime. And that regime will create the crisis conditions that will lead even more migrants to come here.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s a win-win scenario for the Left. And a lose-lose crisis for America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERepublicans need to understand what the Guatemalan protesters jeering Kamala’s visit were telling us. The Biden administration isn’t fighting to stop illegal migration: it’s plotting to make it worse while turning over much of Latin America to Marxist narco-terrorists and Iranian allies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Biden and Kamala succeed, then a dozen Venezuelans will rise south of the border. And millions of illegal aliens will cross an unprotected border to overrun the United States.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\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\/p\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\/2701061287430025944\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/kamala-went-to-guatemala-for-regime.html#comment-form","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2701061287430025944"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2701061287430025944"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/kamala-went-to-guatemala-for-regime.html","title":"Kamala Went to Guatemala for Regime Change, Not Illegal Migration"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-5E1oflOG2ng\/YMbb9jQPFXI\/AAAAAAAATTQ\/2Wf9r60ArVwZvDcus8-1_fH4QelsRMoWQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/protest%2Bframe.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6655305758174091270"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-13T03:16:00.000-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-13T03:16:02.124-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Israel"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biden’s War on Jerusalem"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"A decade ago, Vice President Biden paid a visit to Jerusalem.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-xYFNQB1GqEQ\/YMEZ_5OxmzI\/AAAAAAAATS8\/MrWNUAPA44Mimy-FXrfV6JMJ5--EFjFqwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s489\/biden%2Babbas%2Bframe1.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"340\" data-original-width=\"489\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-xYFNQB1GqEQ\/YMEZ_5OxmzI\/AAAAAAAATS8\/MrWNUAPA44Mimy-FXrfV6JMJ5--EFjFqwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/biden%2Babbas%2Bframe1.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ELike any trip by an emissary of the Obama administration, it wasn’t a goodwill tour, but a combination of a provocation and a shakedown. While Biden was in Israel, two construction projects received partial approval in a multi-stage process from the City of Jerusalem.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden responded by staying up in his hotel room and refusing to come down for an hour.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen he did come down, he hugged Netanyahu and assured him, “Just remember that I am your best f____ friend here.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden’s definition of friendship is the backstabbing kind because after that he and the entire Obama administration began attacking Israel over a decision made by a local urban agency.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"It was not only an insult to Biden, but an insult to the United States,\" Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ranted. Then she spent two hours yelling at Netanyahu over the phone.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I was often the ‘designated yeller,’” Hillary would \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/muslim-terrorists-and-jewish-anti-semites-against-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Elater brag\u003C\/a\u003E about her relationship with Israel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"There was an affront, it was an insult,\" David Axelrod, Obama's senior adviser falsely claimed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media launched a disinformation campaign falsely claiming that Prime Minister Netanyahu had deliberately caused a Jerusalem urban planning committee to reach a decision on housing in two areas that until then no one had even been paying much attention to.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne of those housing projects was going up in the Shimon HaTzadik (Simon the Righteous) neighborhood named after the last true high priest who had dissuaded Alexander the Great from putting up an idol in the Temple.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Jewish neighborhood had been built in the 19th century. In 1936, Muslim rioters drove out the community while shouting, \"Allahu Akbar\" and \"Ibtach Al Yahood\" or \"Kill the Jews\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis was the first modern Muslim attempted genocide of the indigenous Jewish population of Israel. A British truck driver \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2010\/03\/barack-hussein-obama-vs-israel.html\"\u003Erecollected a massacre\u003C\/a\u003E in Tiberias in which \"the bodies of children, apparently set alight with gasoline in a nursery, were still smoldering\" and \"the naked bodies of the women exposed the evidence that the knives had been used in the most ghastly fashion.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1947, the Muslims came for the Jews of the neighborhood again and they fought back with the few weapons they had. Then British forces came along and disarmed the Jews to \"keep the peace\". The Jewish population fled again. Jordan's Arab Legion, under British officers, seized half of Jerusalem, and ethnically cleansed its Jewish population  Some of the homes in Shimon HaTzadik (referred to by Muslims as Sheikh Jarrah after one of Saladin's colonizing invaders) were \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/05\/how-un-stole-jewish-homes-in-occupied.html\"\u003Eused by the\u003C\/a\u003E UNRWA to settle Muslims in violation of international law.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe other housing project in Jerusalem in Ramat Shlomo was set to be built \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2010\/03\/barack-hussein-obama-vs-israel.html\"\u003Eon uninhabited land\u003C\/a\u003E that not even the PLO was claiming as its own.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis was what Biden, Hillary, the Obama administration and the media were howling about.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama used fake outrage over Jews living in Jerusalem to engineer the beginning of the Democrat Party’s break with Israel. Biden played a key role in staging an international incident to manufacture a narrative in which Israel was somehow provoking a conflict with Obama.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E11 years later, Biden is so short of ideas that he went right back to the same neighborhood.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Muslim squatters \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/05\/how-un-stole-jewish-homes-in-occupied.html\"\u003Eplanted by UNRWA\u003C\/a\u003E in Jewish homes have refused to pay rent to their owners or leave. After two generations of court cases, Israel’s Supreme Court was moving to issue a final decision. The Islamic terrorists of the PLO and Hamas used this as a pretext for a murderous campaign against Israel. And everyone from Biden on down has warned Israel against actually following the law and allowing the Jewish owners to reclaim the property.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden funded Iran, backed the terrorists inside Israel, and then warned the Jewish State against “provoking” them by allowing Jews to take part in a parade or allowing courts to follow the law.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn May 10th, well before the fighting began, Biden's people \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/05\/biden-demanded-israel-cancel-jerusalem-day-parade-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eordered\u003C\/a\u003E Israel not to evict any of the Muslim squatters and to cancel the annual Jerusalem Day celebrations. Netanyahu tried to appease Biden by rerouting the parade and asked the Supreme Court to postpone a decision.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite these efforts at appeasement, the Islamic violence escalated anyway. But that hasn’t stopped the Biden administration and its media allies from blaming Israel anyway.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s how this game of diplomatic Catch 22 with Israel always works.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Supreme Court, which is independent and doesn’t answer to either Biden or Netanyahu,  refused to halt the eviction case. That hasn’t stopped the Biden administration from continuing to make illegal demands that another nation’s supreme court should refuse to follow the law.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Biden is also moving to open a consulate for the ‘Palestinians’ in Jerusalem to counteract the embassy that President Trump moved to Jerusalem. The consulate would violate Israeli sovereignty and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/26\/bidens-plan-for-diplomatic-mission-to-the-palestinians-violates-us-law\/\"\u003Ewould be illegal\u003C\/a\u003E under United States law. Neither bothers Biden.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s also no reason to set up a consulate to the terrorists in Jerusalem except to violate Israeli sovereignty over the city and stake a claim to the Jewish city for Hamas and the PLO.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Palestinian Authority operates out of Ramallah. The Russians and Chinese have their diplomatic missions in Ramallah. That’s not out of sensitivity to Israel, just common sense.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden wants to set up a consulate to the PA miles away from the terror state regime that he wants to have close diplomatic relations with. State Department personnel told the media that during the war they thought they were “flying blind” without a consulate. But a consulate in Jerusalem puts them no closer to Abbas and the Palestinian Authority’s government than the embassy they already have in Jerusalem does. If Biden wants a consulate close to Abbas, he could erect one in Ramallah. Otherwise the consulate could operate out of the embassy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESecretary of State Blinken claims that Biden wants a consulate in Jerusalem \"to be able to more effectively engage not just the Palestinian Authority, but Palestinians from different walks of life, the NGO community, the business community, and others.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECountries don’t have diplomatic relations with NGOs and businesses, but with countries. France doesn’t operate a consulate to Coca Cola or the Sierra Club.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut if Biden and Blinken want to “engage” the non-profit NGOs that are funded by the State Department, the European Union, George Soros, and other anti-Israel billionaires to wage a campaign against Israel, they can just open a consulate in D.C., Brussels, or the Open Society Foundations in Berlin. And the Muslim “business community” of the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/2014\/07\/28\/gazas-millionaires-and-billionaires-how-hamass-leaders-got-rich-quick\/\"\u003E600 Hamas millionaires\u003C\/a\u003E in Gaza, (falsely depicted as an “open air prison” in the media’s disinformation campaign) would be best engaged by opening a consulate in Gaza City right next to the AP’s offices.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s no legal or rational reason for Biden to open a “Palestinian” consulate in Jerusalem.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden wants a terrorist consulate in Jerusalem for the same reason that every Democrat White House insisted on keeping the US embassy in Tel Aviv 40 miles from the actual location of the Israeli government in Jerusalem. The State Department didn’t complain it was “flying blind” through multiple wars by refusing to have close access to the Israeli government.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was more important to make a point by refusing to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Soviet Union and European media made a point of referring to Tel Aviv as shorthand for Israel’s government the way that we would refer to London as shorthand for the British government which was like insisting that the White House is really in Boston.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDeutsche Welle, Germany’s state-owned broadcaster, falsely \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HonestReporting\/posts\/10159598788234954\"\u003Ecaptioned \u003C\/a\u003Ea recent photo of Blinken and Netanyahu meeting in Jerusalem as “Blinken met with Netanyahu in Tel-Aviv”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s not just Iran that refers to Israel as “the regime in Tel Aviv”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s the denialist mindset behind Biden’s push to open a terror consulate in Jerusalem. Biden’s people, especially his \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/04\/bidens-anti-israel-point-man-behind-plan-fund-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Epro-terrorist point man Hady Amr\u003C\/a\u003E are, as the State Department often accused Israel of doing, “creating facts on the ground” for the PLO and Hamas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd no politician has been more hypocritical and dishonest about Jerusalem than Biden.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1990, Biden \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2010\/03\/full-measure-of-joe-bidens-hypocrisy-on.html\"\u003Eco-sponsored\u003C\/a\u003E Senate Concurrent Resolution 106 which condemned \"ambiguous statements by the Government of the United States concerning the right of Jews to live in all parts of Jerusalem\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwo decades later, Biden became a key figure in attacking the right of Jews to \"live in all parts of Jerusalem\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1992, Biden \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2010\/03\/full-measure-of-joe-bidens-hypocrisy-on.html\"\u003Eco-sponsored\u003C\/a\u003E Senate Consecutive Resolution 113 stating that \"Jerusalem must remain an undivided city\" and in 1995 co-sponsored the Jerusalem Embassy Act declaring that \"Jerusalem should remain an undivided city\" and \"be recognized as the capital of the State of Israel\". All the way back in 1984, Biden was \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/views-on-israel-of-u-s-presidential-candidates-2020-joe-biden\"\u003Esaying\u003C\/a\u003E, “I happen to support this move”, but “I think it is the wrong fight to make it this time.” And it always went on being the wrong time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen President Trump called Biden’s bluff by moving the embassy to Jerusalem, Biden conceded that “I wouldn’t reverse it. I wouldn’t have done it in the first place.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden promised to open a consulate to the “Palestinians” in Jerusalem and he’s on it. The proposed consulate has no legitimate government function because it’s not in Ramallah.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only purpose of the consulate is to undermine President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter years of enthusiastic speeches at AIPAC, Biden offered a sonorous video in 2020 warning of a \"humanitarian crisis\" in Gaza and telling Israel that it needed to stop Jewish \"settlements\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden threatened Israel that if it didn't keep Jews from living on land claimed by the terrorists, it would \"choke off any hope for peace\" and undermine support from Democrats.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDuring his campaign, Biden promised, “I will reopen the U.S. consulate in East Jerusalem”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe’s not reopening it to “engage Palestinians”, but to counter Israel’s claim to Jerusalem. After decades of pretending that he supported recognizing a united Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel, Biden is doing everything he can to undermine Israel’s presence in Jerusalem.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2013, Biden told AIPAC that he was jealous because Obama \"gets to be the one to say ‘This year in Jerusalem'\".  In 2021, he’s promising, “This year in Jerusalem” to the terrorists.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\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\/p\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\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6655305758174091270\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/bidens-war-on-jerusalem.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6655305758174091270"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6655305758174091270"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/bidens-war-on-jerusalem.html","title":"Biden’s War on Jerusalem"}],"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:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-xYFNQB1GqEQ\/YMEZ_5OxmzI\/AAAAAAAATS8\/MrWNUAPA44Mimy-FXrfV6JMJ5--EFjFqwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/biden%2Babbas%2Bframe1.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4139209464903752851"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-09T15:45:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-09T15:45:56.237-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Pro-Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"How Democrats Created a Carjacking Outbreak"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Carjacking is booming like no form of crime in Biden’s America. Homicides are up, especially in those cities that defunded their police, pharmacies are going out of business in San Francisco and other cities where shoplifting was legalized, but stealing cars is where it’s really at now.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-JlsmNxh-0q0\/YMEaZTEl9OI\/AAAAAAAATTE\/IXT0MReuX38WhqNbvH2bB8qpBQYShu2EgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s719\/image_2021-06-09_124541.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"464\" data-original-width=\"719\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-JlsmNxh-0q0\/YMEaZTEl9OI\/AAAAAAAATTE\/IXT0MReuX38WhqNbvH2bB8qpBQYShu2EgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-06-09_124541.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ECarjackings more than doubled in Chicago, and increased 537% in Minneapolis, the capital of police defunding, and\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wusa9.com\/article\/news\/crime\/dc-kids-arrested-for-carjackings-as-vehicle-crimes-surge\/65-76d89fca-b770-4c58-a5bc-a33d6a8d4791\"\u003E around\u003C\/a\u003E 500% in Washington D.C.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Atlanta, mayoral candidate Antonio Brown, who had advocated defunding the police, was leaving a ribbon-cutting ceremony when he was carjacked and dragged for a block.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“These kids were in my opinion somewhere between 7- and 11-years-old,\" Councilman Brown said, after calling the police.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey probably weren’t 7, but 11 is all too plausible because the carjackers are getting younger.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe nation was briefly shocked when four children, including an 11-year-old and a 12-year-old, were busted for armed robberies and carjackings in California. A 12-year-old was arrested for \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/boy-12-arrested-series-armed-carjackings-hour-police\/story?id=76305918\"\u003Efour armed carjackings\u003C\/a\u003E in an hour in Washington D.C. In Pittsburgh, a carjacking crash ended in the deaths of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/pittsburgh.cbslocal.com\/2021\/05\/14\/riverside-ohio-deadly-carjacking\/\"\u003Ethree teen carjackers\u003C\/a\u003E: the youngest of whom was a 14-year-old.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn one of the worst teen carjackings, two teenage girls, a 13-year-old and a 15-year-old, carjacked and killed a Pakistani Uber driver.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(One reason Ubers have become harder to find is that drivers are afraid of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/chicago.cbslocal.com\/2021\/05\/04\/we-want-to-go-out-chicago-rideshare-drivers-are-in-demand-as-customers-pay-more-for-dwindling-supply\/\"\u003Ebeing carjacked.\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Philly, a Lyft driver avoided a similar fate by pulling out his gun and shooting a 14-year-old carjacker.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media, which assured the country that defunding the police, freeing all the criminals, and ending bail would reform public safety, claims to be baffled by the rise in carjackings.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome are blaming the increase in teen carjackings on the teachers’ union shutdown of schools.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s certainly a factor, but the teens turning to carjacking would otherwise be moving drugs. The pandemic lockdowns however made stealing cars more profitable than running drugs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe lockdown’s destruction of the economy has made new homes unaffordable, and also increased the price of cars. Fewer people and businesses could afford to make big new purchases during the shutdown, and instead held on to their existing cars.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe price of new cars is sharply up, but used car prices have shot up by as much as a quarter and inventory is low. That’s where the carjackers come in. Supply is meeting demand.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s not just the consumer market. There are severe rental car shortages and Uber shortages.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven after the economic devastation of the Democrat lockdowns, Biden’s signature program is pushing subsidized electric cars. Car manufacturers are waiting to see what sort of mandates and rewards they’ll be dealing with under Biden’s infrastructure program. And with the supply of chips low and prices rising, they’re in no hurry to roll out cars they may not be allowed to sell.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnder Obama’s disastrous Cash for Clunkers environmentalist program, used car prices shot up 10% and used SUVs \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/madison.com\/ct\/business\/biz_beat\/biz-beat-used-car-prices-soar-some-blame-cash-for-clunkers\/article_f6a6a472-bb7c-11df-b4e9-001cc4c03286.html\"\u003Erose 30%\u003C\/a\u003E. Inventory dropped and people were no longer able to afford used cars. Biden is helping bring back Obama’s economic woes in a bigger way.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the luxury housing and car markets are thriving, the lower end has locked millions of Americans out of buying a home or a car. Car manufacturers are happy to push luxury electric SUVs to buyers who can afford to pay whatever the asking price may be. Working class and middle class car buyers and businesses that depend on fleets of vehicles are out of luck.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUrban organized crime is meeting the demand for used cars with underage carjackers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrat municipalities dismantled law enforcement, destroyed police morale, and shut down much of the justice system in response to the Black Lives Matter riots over the overdose death of George Floyd. The arrest and prosecution of teens, already unpopular, went by the wayside.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe same drug rings exploiting children to run drugs began using them to steal cars.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOrganized gangs employed young recruits to shoplift from stores when it became clear that even the most brazen daylight robberies would not be prosecuted in major urban areas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEspecially if the perpetrators were teens. And the younger the teens, the better.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGangs that had used children to run drugs because they were unlikely to face serious charges moved them into robbery and then, as cars became a hot commodity, into carjacking.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe criminal justice reform movement has fought against prosecuting teenagers, even those who commit murder, as adults. And, indeed, the two teen girls who killed an Uber driver in D.C. reportedly reached a plea deal. Teen carjackers know that even if they kill their victim, the worst thing that will happen is they’ll be in the custody of the state until they become legal adults.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETeen carjackers assault drivers while fearlessly brandishing guns like it’s hunting season because they know the police won’t shoot them and district attorneys won’t lock them up.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile criminal justice reformers claimed that trying teens as adults ‘criminalized’ children, it dissuaded teens and, more importantly, the organized gangs using them as pawns. The decriminalization of teenage crimes led to a boom in teens being recruited by organized crime.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe more Democrats refuse to prosecute teens, the more teens become criminals. And their crimes escalate until they destroy someone else’s lives or just their own.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese kinds of unintended consequences are typical of criminal justice reform.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe carjacking boom is the outgrowth of the two worst Democrat policies from 2020. The lockdowns wrecked the economy and created a booming black market for criminals. The BLM movement and its race riots helped spur a decriminalization that led to a massive crime wave.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Biden’s electric car push implodes, the auto market may begin to stabilize and recover. But the carjackings will just give way to other lucrative criminal enterprises. Decriminalizing drugs and prostitution won’t decrease crime or make society safer. The most basic level of crime is still theft. Legalizing immoral social ills will just shift criminal resources over to various forms of theft.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrats have become socialists and their obsession with controlling markets is leading to artificial shortages that criminals are happy to meet by redistributing some wealth. Like cars.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESocialism, whether in the USA or the USSR, feeds a black market as consumers try to get hold of whatever is no longer available in the controlled legal marketplace. And since those socialists criminalized legal sales of many products, while decriminalizing crime, the criminals are filling niches by stealing from those who have a product in order to sell it to someone who doesn’t.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen capitalism becomes a crime, then criminals become capitalists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe nightmare of 11-year-olds stealing cars at gunpoint in Washington D.C., Chicago, Philly, and other major cities, was born from the pandemic lockdowns and the Black Lives Matter riots.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEverything that Biden and the Democrats are doing will only make the new crime wave worse.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Biden’s America, carjacking is how used car sales work. And 11-year-olds hijacking cars at gunpoint are the new used car procurers of a broken economy that prints worthless money.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrats are happy to write everyone a check. But pieces of paper with Biden’s signature on them are only worth what they can buy. Biden’s checks can’t buy you a car or a home. But they’ll buy a car stolen by an 11-year-old boy being run by Biden’s base of urban criminals. If he gets caught, he’ll be out the next day. And you’ll still be out of a car. You may not be able to find a new or used car you can afford to replace it with on the lot, but the carjackers will find one.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s the Biden economy.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\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\/p\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\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/4139209464903752851\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/how-democrats-created-carjacking.html#comment-form","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4139209464903752851"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4139209464903752851"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/how-democrats-created-carjacking.html","title":"How Democrats Created a Carjacking Outbreak"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-JlsmNxh-0q0\/YMEaZTEl9OI\/AAAAAAAATTE\/IXT0MReuX38WhqNbvH2bB8qpBQYShu2EgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-06-09_124541.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-7378100128632921970"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-03T23:29:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-03T23:29:33.597-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Big Tech"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Corporate America"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Big Tech's 'No Free Speech' Amendment"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"A few years ago the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) was demanding government regulations that would force internet providers to carry the content of members like Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Twitter. Now it's suing Florida to fight regulations that would force some of those same members to carry the content of ordinary Americans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENet Neutrality, or forcing cable and DSL companies to carry all content without picking and choosing, \"helps preserve free speech, access to information — and democracy,\" former CCIA boss Ed Black argued two years ago.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-v3yFqdLWdmQ\/YLmeE6omonI\/AAAAAAAATSI\/iJPD7u2MghUZ5JZ7q1KpFH3tRbKhC53sgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s685\/google%2Bevil.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"355\" data-original-width=\"685\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-v3yFqdLWdmQ\/YLmeE6omonI\/AAAAAAAATSI\/iJPD7u2MghUZ5JZ7q1KpFH3tRbKhC53sgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/google%2Bevil.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EBut when Governor Ron DeSantis signed a law barring Big Tech monopolies from deplatforming candidates for public office and journalists, and forcing Big Tech to adopt clear and consistent standards for how they treat users, including deplatforming, as is the norm in every other industry, the CCIA went to war against free speech, access to information -- and democracy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGovernor DeSantis says that Big Tech is suppressing free speech. Big Tech argues that DeSantis is taking away its free speech which it defines as censoring people’s speech.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“We are bringing this suit to safeguard the industry’s free speech,\" current CCIA boss Matt Schruers claimed. “A digital service that declines to host harmful content is exercising its own First Amendment rights.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDoes Facebook have free speech? And can speech consist of denying service to conservatives? Should Mark Zuckerberg’s speech nullify the speech of millions of Americans?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1948, the first program ran on a computer. It was also the year that George Orwell finished 1984 with its infamous slogan, “Freedom is Slavery” and “Slavery is Freedom.” Big Tech’s version of it is, “Free Speech is Censorship” and “Censorship is Free Speech.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Big Tech censors millions of Americans, it’s engaging in free speech. And when those Americans rise up and fight back against their illegal monopolies, that’s censorship.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Big Tech already dismantled all the arguments it’s putting forward with Net Neutrality.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf a digital service picking and choosing its content is a First Amendment right, then why don’t cable companies have the same right to bar access to the harmful content on Twitter?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA trade association whose members include Twitter and Facebook insists they have a right to ban the President of the United States and any conservatives because that’s free speech, but that AT\u0026amp;T or Comcast don’t have the right to ban access to Twitter because of free speech.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf censorship is also free speech then that cuts both ways. Otherwise it’s free speech for me, but not for thee, which is exactly the argument that Big Tech’s lobbies and front groups are making.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazon, Google, Facebook, and Twitter want to force internet service providers to have no choice about carrying them, but they want to pick and choose whose speech they carry. And yet Google, Amazon, and Facebook have much broader monopolistic powers than internet service providers. The cable provider market has too little choice, but it’s incredibly diverse compared to an e-ecosystem with Google, whose search engine controls 80% of the market, Facebook, which controls 80% of the social media market, and Amazon’s massive ebook dominance.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf any aspect of the ‘net’ needs more neutrality, it’s the platforms, not the providers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Comcast’s control of 40% of the broadband market gives it so much power that it can’t be allowed to pick and choose what content it carries, what about Facebook’s 80% control?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd if Comcast potentially deciding not to carry Twitter is an assault on “free speech, access to information — and democracy”, then why isn’t Twitter’s decision not to carry President Trump and other conservatives an assault on “free speech, access to information — and democracy”?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwitter, Facebook, and the rest of the Big Tech crew want to argue that denying access to platforms is an attack on free speech, but that platforms denying access to users isn’t.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBig Tech’s position is that only its monopolies have free speech and they should use that speech to deny everyone else free speech. That’s a surreal mockery of the First Amendment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBig Tech’s trade group is relying on the same compelled speech argument that Christian bakers have used to avoid baking a cake for a gay wedding. But there’s a multitude of bakeries, most of whom will be happy to bake a cake for anything if you pay them enough.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow many Facebooks and Googles are there?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChristian bakers and photographers argued that they’re artists and taking part in a gay wedding would compel their speech. Are Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey artists? Are Facebook and Twitter their artistic creations that would be spoiled by allowing conservative speech?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd yet the same media that ridiculed the idea that a Christian baker should be allowed to pick and choose which cakes he bakes is insisting that telling a social media monopoly not to censor candidates for public office is a violation of Zuckerberg and Dorsey’s free speech rights.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut if the speech on Facebook and Twitter is the speech of these billionaires, then they can be held accountable for it. If it’s not their speech, then free speech isn’t an issue. The CCIA is in the absurd position of arguing that speech on platforms is and isn’t really theirs speech. And that platforms express their speech by taking away the ability of others to speak.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECall it the No Free Speech version of the First Amendment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Big Tech speaks by eliminating the speech of others, then maybe we would be better off without this novel black hole theory of speech on whose basis it’s going to war against Florida.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe CCIA was advocating for the so-called “Save the Internet Act” to impose Net Neutrality. But the internet appears to be in no particular danger from the lack of Net Neutrality. Despite all the alarmism about the end of the internet and even death threats (one activist was sentenced for threatening to kill the family of Trump’s FCC Chairman Ajit Pai), little has actually changed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s not the case with Big Tech censorship which silenced millions of people from POTUS on down, influenced the outcome of a national election, and defined the national debate. Net Neutrality advocates could not point to any measurable harm caused to them, but opponents of Big Tech censorship can easily point to the harm being done to them and to the United States.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFlorida is bringing real Net Neutrality to the table. Unlike Net Neutrality, which was an effort by platforms to enlist the government and dumber lefty internet users into their war against broadband providers, real Net Neutrality begins with monopolistic platforms not providers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“The internet has been historically neutral. After decades of legal battles by those who want to either make money from discrimination or look the other way, we are glad to see legislation to protect consumers’ and businesses’ access to the open internet,\" the CCIA argued a mere two years ago in defense of Net Neutrality and the “Save the Internet Act”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnfortunately the internet hasn’t been neutral. It’s dominated by a speech cartel which deploys the rhetoric of an open internet and free speech when it serves its business interests, but is fighting tooth and nail when Governor DeSantis and Florida asked Big Tech to be neutral.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EConservatives looked the other way while Big Tech consolidated its control over the internet. They’ve gotten tired of looking the other way, but Big Tech is just as eager to gaslight them, to hire Republican lobbyists to argue that speech is censorship and censorship is speech.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe need a real Net Neutrality and a real Save the Internet Act.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe CCIA has unintentionally made some great points over the years. Americans paid for the internet, from the earliest networks down to Google. We put our economy and our political system on the internet. Now Big Tech monopolies are consuming our wealth and our freedom.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmericans deserve an open and neutral internet. Consumers and businesses need access to an open internet, but so do elected officials, journalists, and anyone who cares about the way that our country is run and has an opinion about government, culture, and education.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBig Tech engaged in blatant election rigging and voter suppression in the 2020 election. And it’s marginalizing and suppressing the views of half the country from the marketplace of ideas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIts front group laughably claims that it’s suppressing half the country in the name of free speech.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA true net neutrality applied to the CCIA’s Big Tech bosses would \"preserve free speech, access to information — and democracy.\" Florida’s move is a good first step in the war to take back free speech on the internet and force platforms to host political speech in an open and neutral way.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBig Tech claims that it loves free speech. Governor DeSantis and Florida are showing what real free speech looks like.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\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\/p\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\/7378100128632921970\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/big-techs-no-free-speech-amendment.html#comment-form","title":"7 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7378100128632921970"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7378100128632921970"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/big-techs-no-free-speech-amendment.html","title":"Big Tech's 'No Free Speech' Amendment"}],"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:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-v3yFqdLWdmQ\/YLmeE6omonI\/AAAAAAAATSI\/iJPD7u2MghUZ5JZ7q1KpFH3tRbKhC53sgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/google%2Bevil.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"7"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-828505754247253172"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-02T16:18:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-02T16:18:00.442-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"California"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homeless"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Los Angeles"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Richest Homeless in the World"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Last year, Davon Brown, a former fashion model turned homeless activist, conned his way into an LA Ritz-Carlton luxury suite alongside Jed Parriot, the son of a producer on Grey's Anatomy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-aFhGtrUJBdM\/YLaXw7bLAHI\/AAAAAAAATR4\/uyK_PWTlN3wXJSKOKu2l2AqMh2-CLJ8SgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s690\/image_2021-06-01_132538.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"426\" data-original-width=\"690\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-aFhGtrUJBdM\/YLaXw7bLAHI\/AAAAAAAATR4\/uyK_PWTlN3wXJSKOKu2l2AqMh2-CLJ8SgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-06-01_132538.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EIt was May Day, Brown was wearing a blazer and sunglasses. The former fashion model and son of a wealthy producer \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/why-lady-gagas-ex-model-seized-a-luxury-hotel-suite-in-los-angeles+\u0026amp;cd=6\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;ct=clnk\u0026amp;gl=us\"\u003Ewere there\u003C\/a\u003E to ‘occupy’ a luxury suite for the homeless. And demand that the city take over hotel rooms and hand them out to the population of junkie vagrants.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELos Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti held a press conference and assured Brown that he would get him a room. When the son of the Grey's Anatomy producer was asked how to spell his name, he sneered, \"“Parriott, like Marriott—which has 900 empty rooms.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJed, a Democratic Socialists of America activist, appears to live in a $1.3 million home in Silver Lake owned by a trust controlled by his parents: a prolific TV producer and a TV actress.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe trust also appears to own at least one other home, with 4 bedrooms, in the city.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELater that year, Davon Brown, still handsome, neatly groomed, and with the sleek physique of a gym rat,\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lamag.com\/mag-features\/echo-park-lake-encampment\/\"\u003E was at the center \u003C\/a\u003Eof the Echo Park homeless encampment. LA had just renovated the park in a hip neighborhood when it was taken over by the homeless and hopelessly befouled.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBrianna Moore, a talented 18-year-old concert violinist with offers from MIT, decided to get involved in the summer of protests. After a series of Black Lives Matter marches, she joined the homeless cause, and died in an Echo Park tent after taking cocaine laced with fentanyl.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe death of the sweet-faced white teenage honor student accomplished what months of complaints by local residents did not. But as LA authorities prepared to remove the encampment, Davon and Jed were once again at the center of things.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDavon’s publicist was hyping him in Hype Magazine as a champion for the homeless while promoting his new single. Jed showed up in a BMW X5 and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lamag.com\/mag-features\/echo-park-lake-encampment\/\"\u003Esneered at \u003C\/a\u003Elocal homeowners, “We need to be really telling these property owners, ‘Sorry, you’re going to have to tough this out.’”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEcho Park was finally evacuated this year, but Davon’s Instagram is filled with shirtless photos and glamor shots, many of which appear to come from Echo Park. And DSA-LA is touting Davon as “our unhoused comrade”. Meanwhile LA keeps trying to solve its “homeless crisis”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe latest solution is a tent encampment filled with $2,600 tents.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the homeless crisis first took off, LA voters had approved a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/homeless-hole-ate-los-angeles-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E$4.6 billion\u003C\/a\u003E package of homeless tax hikes. The taxes were not on the homeless, but on the people who still had homes. The people who were taxed out didn’t become homeless, they just left California.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the Homeless-Industrial Complex quickly got to work finding homes for junkie vagrants in the way that only Los Angeles and its corrupt social justice welfare state can manage to do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe first apartments cost \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/homeless-hole-ate-los-angeles-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ean average\u003C\/a\u003E of $479,000 a unit. Some went as high as $650,000 a unit. But that wasn't good enough. Two years later, the cost of an average unit \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2020\/09\/la-apartments-homeless-cost-746000-each-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ehit $531,000\u003C\/a\u003E, with some apartments going up to $746,000. Building an apartment in Los Angeles for a crackhead was costing more than the price of a mansion in some parts of the country.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite all those high prices, only 228 apartments were actually built in four years.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECity Controller Ron Galperin performed \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2020\/09\/la-apartments-homeless-cost-746000-each-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ean audit\u003C\/a\u003E on the $1.2 billion allocated for the homeless in 2016, and blamed the lack of progress on \"red tape\" and \"a lot of consultants\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnable to build apartments for less than the cost of a mansion, Los Angeles launched a pilot program to build \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2020\/12\/la-spending-130000-each-8x8-homeless-shed-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E8x8 aluminum sheds\u003C\/a\u003E for the homeless for only $130,000 each. The average cost of a home in LA is $500 per square foot. The aluminum sheds with 64 square feet of space managed to completely blow that away. But the no-bid contract probably helped.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince apartments were too expensive and even tiny homes cost too much, LA turned to tents.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe homeless had been setting up their own tent encampments for free. So the city launched a pilot program to have the government set up tents for the homeless for only \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/05\/25\/999969718\/high-cost-of-los-angeles-homeless-camp-raises-eyebrows-and-questions\"\u003E$2,600 per tent\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s $2,600 a month.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEach tent in a parking lot near the 101 freeway in East Hollywood costs twice as much as the rent on a local apartment. It actually costs more than the average month’s rent in LA. You can find two-bedroom apartments in Beverly Hills that cost less than a government homeless tent.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESay what you will about self-constructed homeless shacks, they don’t cost $2,600 a month.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot only is the government setting up homeless tent cities across Los Angeles, but taxpayers are now also on the hook for $2,600 for every tent.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EController Galperin explained that, \"doing nothing also costs a lot of money.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGovernment employees know that’s very true.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe government tent city was outsourced to Urban Alchemy, a social welfare non-profit that has raised eyebrows by scoring million dollar contracts in San Francisco and Los Angeles to offer cleaning services, showers for the homeless, and tent cities. Urban Alchemy gets these contracts under the name of its financial sponsor: Hunters Point Family.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUrban Alchemy CEO Lena Miller \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/news\/shows\/greater-la\/homelessness-armenia-edu\/east-hollywood-homeless-camp-urban-alchemy\"\u003Eexplained\u003C\/a\u003E that it all costs so much money because her organization employs \"long-term offenders\" and pays them $19 an hour.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnly California Democrats could pay criminals to service junkies in tent cities that cost more than most apartments. But only California Democrats could set up shacks that cost more per square foot than most houses and apartments for the homeless that cost more than luxury suites. Nothing is too good for the homeless and their publicists and consultants in California.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile a lot of money gets spent, nothing really gets done.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELA keeps trying to scale down its solutions, but ends up spending more the smaller the solution.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe city tried to set up portable toilets \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-homeless-bathroom-restroom-feces-skid-row-pit-stop-20190610-story.html\"\u003Ewhich cost\u003C\/a\u003E $339,000. Over a hundred thousand of that money goes to bathroom attendants. But over in Sacramento, the state’s capital, a homeless bathroom cost\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/04\/money-toilet-billion-dollar-cost-public-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E $1 million\u003C\/a\u003E. When the Guggenheim Museum unveiled a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/solid-gold-toilet-worth-1m-titled-america-stolen-palace-where-n1054476\"\u003Esolid gold toilet \u003C\/a\u003Eas one of its art exhibits, it was estimated to cost over $1 million. The homeless could have had a gold toilet for the cost of the free government toilets that they’re getting from the welfare state.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut they could have also had luxury condos with gyms and swimming pools for the cost of the apartments that are being built, but never actually get built, to house them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia’s homeless are the richest homeless in the world. And while they may never see any of the money that gets spent on them by the Democrat Homeless-Industrial Complex, the cash bleeds into the pockets of the professional bleeding hearts who are getting rich off the poor. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe homeless tent cities aren’t going anywhere. They’re making too much money.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere will still be junkies lying in their own filth in tents under the freeway, but where they once did so for free, taxpayers will now be paying $2,600 a month for them to lie in their own filth.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s why no one except the homeless can afford to live in Los Angeles.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\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\/p\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\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/828505754247253172\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/the-richest-homeless-in-world.html#comment-form","title":"9 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/828505754247253172"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/828505754247253172"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/the-richest-homeless-in-world.html","title":"The Richest Homeless in the World"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-aFhGtrUJBdM\/YLaXw7bLAHI\/AAAAAAAATR4\/uyK_PWTlN3wXJSKOKu2l2AqMh2-CLJ8SgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-06-01_132538.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"9"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-3780872597941527757"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-01T16:23:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-01T16:23:33.087-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Left"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Marxist Lives Matter"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The Left organizes around oppression. Oppression is a negative and the movement is defined around defining negative phenomena and organizing against them. It’s an outrage machine that depends on finding enough of those negatives to justify its own rise to political power.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut as it gains power, the amount of oppression ought to decrease. And accordingly the Left’s power also ought to decrease in proportion since it has no positive vision only a negative one. Instead, paradoxically, the more power the Left gains, the worse the oppression becomes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-aWyLz7unLHM\/YLaXPEToePI\/AAAAAAAATRw\/fMhM7IYuX4ED2PMB25CnUk-l52XXUBWrQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s747\/blm%2Bsports%2Bframe.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"520\" data-original-width=\"747\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-aWyLz7unLHM\/YLaXPEToePI\/AAAAAAAATRw\/fMhM7IYuX4ED2PMB25CnUk-l52XXUBWrQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/blm%2Bsports%2Bframe.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ENot only does the general state of things get worse, but every specific area where it claims to be making progress somehow becomes much worse than it was before. After Obama took office, race relations took a dive as the country somehow became more racist during a black president. Last year, every Democrat city was denounced as an outpost of systemic racism where black people were being hunted by the police for sport. That’s when women aren’t being hunted down on some of the most progressive and diverse college campuses and industries in the country.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe nation’s woke corporations are oppressing workers and destroying the planet. The woke governments are imposing systemic racism in between critical race theory struggle sessions. American foreign policy, under one of the most leftist administrations in history, is an imperialist war machine when it isn’t flying BLM flags and advertising for transgender Antifa recruits.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEverything is somehow worse than ever. Maybe the Left ought to give up and go home because it’s just making everything worse. But it must get worse because failure is the only option.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn an un-free society, oppression is easy to organize against. You don’t need books to understand oppression in China and North Korea. Black people and white people didn’t need to have the wrongs of slavery or segregation explained to them at corporate diversity sessions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReal oppression is tangible. No one needs 40 hours of programming to explain how gulags or gas chambers oppress people. If you need 40 hours of lectures and a 400 page book to explain oppression, you’re not oppressed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA theory of intangible oppression is exactly the thing that a system of actual oppression needs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Soviet Union and Nazi Germany terrorized their own populaces, killed millions of people, and invaded other countries based on conspiracy theories about intangible oppression. Both socialist terror states justified massive military build ups by falsely claiming that they were about to be invaded when they were the ones doing any preemptive invading. They backed up these conspiracy theories with purges and show trials. Stalin’s Great Terror purged rivals while forcing them to confess to doing the bidding of every foreign country around. Hitler’s Holocaust was based around a massive Jewish conspiracy with other countries around the world.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe best evidence of the growing political power of the American Left and the irrelevance of its political theories is the nationwide deployment of an anti-racism which claims that racism is invisible and yet is everywhere. Its books and curriculums lay out a conspiratorial theory of intangible racism that can only be approached through the lived experience of oppressed people, but which cannot be described meaningfully in any factual and objective fashion.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReal oppression, like slave chains, is tangible. Critical race theory depends on sensitizing everyone to claims of oppression that are either blatantly false, e.g. the police committing genocide against black people, or can’t be objectively defined, e.g. systemic racism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe more critical race theorists talk about ‘whiteness’, the less they’re able to define it except in the ways that religious people define a deity or the devil: as an intangible force pervading everything, only manifest to those who understand the hidden meanings of everyday events.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReligion, unlike critical race theory, is a private matter. And few religions are as racist as CRT which insists on the unalterable evil of white people and the helpless victimhood of minorities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut, like the USSR’s insistence that the old Bolsheviks were really working for the Brits, or the new Democrat insistence that all the Republicans work for Russia, state conspiracy theories shouldn’t be taken literally, but they should be taken seriously.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat does oppression look like in a country where the Democrats control the White House, the Senate, and the House, and every major corporation advocates for their agendas? What does it sound like when the educational system and the media are controlled by the Left, censoring and suppressing dissenting points of view? Oppression can no longer be about fighting power.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot when the power is in the hands of the oppressers who claim to be oppressed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica has reached the tipping point where all the power is in the hands of the Left, but we haven’t comprehensively lost our freedoms yet. In an un-free society, the oppressed are the people with no rights. But in a free society, the oppressed are most often the oppressors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOppression in an un-free society is characterized by a lack of rights, but in a free society, it’s defined by a lack of power. And power in a free society is a means of depriving others of rights.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECritical race theory, for all its posturing about the police, is concerned with power, not rights.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESystemic racism is not a construct of rights, but of power. It’s not challenged with the equalization of rights, but with the assumption of power. The whole premise of lived experience is that objective metrics of civil rights can’t appease the emotional suffering of the oppressed. The nature of their oppression is so incomprehensible to anyone outside their lived experience that only those who claim to be oppressed can remedy their oppression by taking power.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis isn’t civil rights: it’s an uncivil cultural coup.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe idea that only a select elite should be allowed to wield power because only they understand what must be done has been the central premise of every totalitarian theory and system.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn a free society, power is a tangible means shared through open elections for recognized goals, while in an un-free society, power is a mystical means employed by an elite toward a redemptive end. America is becoming an un-free society in which power is not the means by which taxpayers and citizens define how their money and their government is used to achieve their goals, but a redemptive force for escaping global environmental apocalypses and ushering in a progressive new utopia whose moral arc bends toward the right side of history.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis utopia, like all utopias, is short on details. It’s defined not by what it has, but by what it doesn’t. Leftism exists in a negative space and its brave new worlds are inversions of that negativity, offering not a positive vision, but the erasure of human individuality and free will. The people in these fictional utopias are happy not because of what they have, but what they don’t.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“You’ll own nothing. And you’ll be happy.” Unlike the Left’s actual utopias, everyone is happy in the fictional utopias to have lost their free agency. As in the conclusion of George Orwell’s 1984, joy in the dystopian utopia comes from a cultish surrender of the self to the system and the recognition that it is our flawed human natures that keep us from living in a socialist utopia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince few people are enthused about losing the freedom to live their own lives, totalitarian leftist systems invert the duality of oppressors and oppressed. They redefine their oppression as liberation, the oppressors as the oppressed, and the oppressed as the oppressors. The best way to convince people to give up their freedom is to convince them that they’re oppressors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECritical race theory racializes the familiar totalitarian paradigm behind the Soviet Union. But it’s no more about race than Communist regimes were about the working class. The markers are just temporary counters opportunistically established based on local circumstances. If the revolutionary candidate of Hope and Change hadn’t been half-black, and if the George Floyd video hadn’t gone viral, we would be living through a different cultural revolution right now.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut we would still be living through a cultural revolution.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Left is on the verge of taking power and we are about to lose our rights. Our rights are becoming intangible just as their power is becoming tangible. And so they have come up with a theory of intangible oppression to explain why our rights should give way to their power.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe tyranny is in the theory.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\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\/p\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\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/3780872597941527757\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/marxist-lives-matter.html#comment-form","title":"8 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3780872597941527757"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3780872597941527757"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/marxist-lives-matter.html","title":"Marxist Lives Matter"}],"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:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-aWyLz7unLHM\/YLaXPEToePI\/AAAAAAAATRw\/fMhM7IYuX4ED2PMB25CnUk-l52XXUBWrQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/blm%2Bsports%2Bframe.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"8"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-522593651018646356"},"published":{"$t":"2021-05-31T12:31:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-05-31T12:31:09.827-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Warrior's Tale"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003EThe warrior's tale is a simple enough thing. Strong as steel, but fragile as chance. It is the wind in his soul and the wall we build around ourselves to tell us who we are.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Kdf76RWKgsI\/YLUO-sFUBTI\/AAAAAAAATRo\/1dBFwvDnrZg7bezhehEdwPRN6gD6Hd1lACNcBGAsYHQ\/s736\/memorial%2Bday%2Bframe.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"432\" data-original-width=\"736\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Kdf76RWKgsI\/YLUO-sFUBTI\/AAAAAAAATRo\/1dBFwvDnrZg7bezhehEdwPRN6gD6Hd1lACNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/memorial%2Bday%2Bframe.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EBefore there were cities or nations, and railways and airports, computers and telephones-- the tale was told around campfires. Acted out in pantomime, dressed up in animal furs and cave paintings. But the tale was the same. The people were confronted with a threat and they called upon the best and strongest of their men to go out and fight it. These were their warriors. What they did in the face of that threat is the tale.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe tale has many variations. Sometimes there are many warriors, sometimes only a handful. They march into the village of the enemy in triumph, or they make a last stand on a rocky outcropping, spending the last of their heart's blood to buy time they will never know. There is the weak man who becomes strong, the strong man who becomes weak, the woman who mourns the man who will never return, and the man who goes off to battle with nothing to lose. These tales have been told countless times in the ages of men, and they will be told again for as long as men endure.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is not only the warriors who need the tale, or those left behind. Future generation learn who they are from this tale. \"We are the people who died for this land,\" is the unseen moral of each tale. \"We bled for it. We died for it. Now it is yours to bleed and die for.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe warrior's tale tells each generation that they stand on the wall against a hostile world. And that the wall is made not of stones, but of their virtues. Their courage, their integrity and their craft.\u0026nbsp; Theirs is the wall and they are the wall-- and if they should fail, then it will fail. And the land and the people will be swept away.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat happens to a people who forget the warrior's tale and stop telling it around their campfires? Worse , what of a people who are taught to despise the figure of the warrior and what he represents? They will not lose their courage, not all of it. But they will lose the direction of that courage. It will become a sudden unexplained virtue that rises to them out of the depths of danger. And their wall will fail.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is the warrior's tale that makes walls. That says this is the land that we have fought for, and we will go on fighting for it. It is sacrifice that makes mere possession sacrosanct. It is blood that turns right to duty. It is the seal that is above law, deeper still to heritage. Anyone can hold a thing, but it is sacrifice that elevates it beyond possessiveness. And it is that tale which elevates a people from possessors of a land, to the people of the land.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUniversalism discards the warrior's tale as abomination. A division in the family of man. Their tale is of an unselfish world where there are no more divisions or distinctions. Where everyone is the same in their own way. But this tale is a myth, a religious idea perverted into totalitarian politics. It is a promise that cannot be kept and a poison disguised with dollops of sugar. It lures the people into tearing down their wall and driving out their warriors.\u0026nbsp; And what follows is what always does when there is no wall. The invaders come, the women scream, the children are taken captive and the men sit with folded hands and drugged smiles dreaming of a better world.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe warrior's tale explains why we fight in terms of our own history. The Great Swamp Fight. The Shot Heard Round the World. The Battle of New Orleans. Gettysburg, San Juan Hill, Belleau Wood, Pearl Harbor, Heartbreak Ridge, the Tet Offensive, Kandahar, and Fallujah. Generations of sacrifices must be defended. And those who wage war on us must be made to pay.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUniversalism demands that war must answer to universal aims and objectives. That there is a universal law higher than war. But this is a children's story. The laws of men derive from their own interests. Those who can rule by force or coalition make their laws to serve their own ends. This is the way of the world.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThose who pretend to live by universalism will still fall to the law of steel. Rhetoric is no defense against fire and lead, and international codes have no defense against those who will break them. The talk may go on, but it is the warriors who will end it. It is still the warrior's tale to tell, even if all others have forgotten it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe warrior's tale is no happy thing. It is bitter as bile and dark as death. But it is also a grand and glorious thing. For even in its full naked truth, it is the story of perseverance in the face of every agony and betrayal. It is the tale of how we live and why we die.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven when all others forget their tale, the warriors remember. Even when they are called peacekeepers and turned into an army of clowns for the satisfaction of their political masters. The armies may decay, but warriors still remain in their cracks, on their edges-- men who are not wanted, but are needed because they are the only ones who can do the grim work and do it well. They may only be a hundredth of an army, or a thousandth. A fraction of a fraction. But without them there is no army, only empty uniforms.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the warrior's tale is forgotten, then they become shadows. Dangerous men despised and feared. Thought of as killers, dismissed as monsters and stared at like beasts in a cage. But the society cannot deny them. It cannot deny that part of them. When the warrior diminishes, the energy is directed elsewhere. Sport becomes an obsession and matches end in bloody violence. Crime increases. Prisons fill up. So do police forces.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs the external war fades, the internal one begins. Barbarians come from without. Buildings burn, mobs rage and there is a savagery in the air.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo law can protect a society that has forgotten the warrior's tale. It will turn outward, and adopt the warriors tales of outsiders. The samurai will replace the cowboy. The sports star will be an outsider. Its heroes will become foreigners. Men who will do understand the virtue of violence and will do what their own have been forbidden. Who have the vital energy that a society without a warrior's tale lacks.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen a people give up their own warrior's tale for that of others, they lose the ability to resist them. For each people's warrior's tale says that we are people, and they are enemies. We are warriors and they are murderers. When a people have no other warrior's tale but that of their enemies, they will come to believe that they are monsters. And that their enemies are brave warriors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe day will come when they are asked who they are, and they will not know. They will point to their possessions and the names of their streets and cities. They will speak of higher ideals and cringe for not living up to them. They will be asked why they fight, and they will say that they do not want to fight. That all they want is peace at any price.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven the most powerful of civilizations with the mightiest of cities becomes prey when it forgets the warrior's tale. It takes more than weapons to defend a city, it demands the knowledge of the rightness of their use. It is no use dressing men in uniforms and arming them, if they are not taught the warrior's tale. And it is nearly as little use, sending them off to watch and keep, if the men above them discard the warrior's tale as violent and primitive gibberish.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAn army of millions is worth little, without the warrior's tale. Strategy is technique, firepower is capacity, both begin and end with the human mind. \"Why do we fight,\" is the question that the warrior's tale answers far better than any politician could. \"We fight because this is ours. It is our honor, our duty and our war. We have been fighting for hundreds and thousands of years. This is what makes us who we are.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EWe are the people, says the warrior's tale. But we are every people, says the universalist's tale. All is one. There is no difference between us and them. And we will prove it by bringing them here. Then the walls fall and it falls to the warriors to make their last stand. To tell another warrior's tale with their lives.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is the quiet war between the philosopher merchants who want trade and empire, and the warriors who know that they will be called upon to secure the empire, and then die fighting the enemy at home. It is how the long tale that begins with campfires and ends with burning cities goes. The story that begins with cave paintings and ends with YouTube videos. Whose pen is iron, lead and steel. And whose ink is always blood.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe have been here before. Told and retold the old stories. The forest, the swamp, the hill and the valley. And behind them the lie, the maneuver and the betrayal. The war that becomes unreasoning and the people who forget why they fight. And one by one the warriors slip away. Some to the long sleep in the desert. Others to secluded green places. And still others into the forgetfulness of a people's memory. The hole in the heart of a people who forget themselves and become nothing."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/522593651018646356\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/05\/the-warriors-tale.html#comment-form","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/522593651018646356"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/522593651018646356"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/05\/the-warriors-tale.html","title":"The Warrior's Tale"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Kdf76RWKgsI\/YLUO-sFUBTI\/AAAAAAAATRo\/1dBFwvDnrZg7bezhehEdwPRN6gD6Hd1lACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/memorial%2Bday%2Bframe.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-8735470443782126922"},"published":{"$t":"2021-05-30T01:32:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-05-30T01:32:35.874-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Islamic terrorism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biden Frees Al Qaeda Ally Who Plotted to Smuggle Nukes Into US"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"With inflation rising almost as fast as gas prices and the cost of a home, Joe Biden ain’t doing much for most Americans. But if you’re an Al Qaeda terrorist, he’s got your back.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust ask three of Gitmo’s finest who are benefiting from Biden’s generosity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ytXWBwtLUnE\/YLMja4iAs3I\/AAAAAAAATRg\/cE7_uwWW0l4787gyY8m8wlnjaNXa4b6nACNcBGAsYHQ\/s300\/nuclear%2Bpublic%2Bdomain.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"225\" data-original-width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ytXWBwtLUnE\/YLMja4iAs3I\/AAAAAAAATRg\/cE7_uwWW0l4787gyY8m8wlnjaNXa4b6nACNcBGAsYHQ\/s0\/nuclear%2Bpublic%2Bdomain.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ESaifullah Paracha was a Pakistani businessman and New York travel agent with some big plans. The Gitmo inmate now being set loose by Biden wanted to “do something big against the US.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E9\/11 was in Al Qaeda's rearview mirror and its mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was plotting a sequel. The Gitmo dossier for Paracha first details a plan to use his “textile business to smuggle explosives into the US” and these \"ready-made explosives, specifically C4\" would go into shipping containers full of \"women and children's clothing\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShipping Al Qaeda’s C4 to America would be more lucrative than dumping sweatshop labor sweatpants because “if al-Qaida used detainee’s textile company for shipping explosives to the US, he would likely be paid additional money beyond the standard shipping fees”. No word on whether there would have been a bonus for every American blown up.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd then things escalated from there with testimony that Paracha allegedly claimed that he, “believed he could obtain unspecified chemicals from Chinese sources”. The fellow he was talking to about the unspecified chemicals, Ammar al-Baluchi, one of the few Gitmo Jihadis whom neither Obama nor Biden had managed to release yet, had helped out the 9\/11 hijackers with flight simulators, and manuals, and allegedly chatted with Mohammed Atta.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter 9\/11, Al-Baluchi was looking at all sorts of plans for crashing planes into things, like the American consulate in Karachi or London’s Heathrow airport, but there were other options on the table. The nature of the chemicals out of China was never specified, but the KSM lieutenant believed they were” chemical or biological agents” that could be used “as a weapon”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EParacha reportedly advised Al Qaeda that “one should look for a similar looking chemical and put it in between the good chemicals and it would be very easy to get [through] customs.” With his business experience, he could offer Al Qaeda tips on smuggling such as warning them about the “radiological sensors at ports or places of entry into the US” that would make it difficult to smuggle radioactive materials into the country”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Biden’s newest charity case wanted something bigger. The dossier describes the 9\/11 mastermind's associate and Paracha chatting about Al Qaeda getting some \"radiological or nuclear items several times\" because Paracha wanted \"to help al-Qaida 'do something big against the US.'”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EParacha \"also discussed nuclear attacks and attacks against nuclear power plants\" and had an idea for “al-Qaida to attack a nuclear power plant”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo you can see why Joe Biden is letting him go.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy settle for helping Iran nuke America, when you can also help Al Qaeda nuke America?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Pakistani graduate of the New York Institute of Technology “expressed strong anti-US sentiment” and allegedly “stated that nuclear weapons should be used against US troops, as thousands of the troops would be killed at once”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe pro-terror lobby has spent all these years claiming that Paracha was an innocent victim of American imperialism who was never charged with anything and was smeared with confessions obtained by acts of horrifying torture like Barney songs played on a non-stop loop.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECuriously the dossier mentions that Paracha's diary had  \"references to military chemical warfare agents, and their effects on humans\" including Sarin nerve gas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut what New York travel agent hasn't filled his diary with entries about the effects of nerve gas on humans along with the contact information for an alleged Al Qaeda anthrax operative?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou’d have to be an Islamophobe to find anything suspicious about that.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESadly, none of these plans worked out. Instead the agents of the Great Satan told Palacha that they wanted him to come to Thailand to discuss a deal with Kmart. When Palacha showed up to pitch Kmart reps on a blue light special that might or might not glow in the dark, they weren’t there to get a deal on some Pakistani underwear, but offering a place off Cuba with a view.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven Obama didn’t set Paracha loose, but Biden is determined to out-Obama him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media understandably doesn’t want to trouble Americans with any uncomfortable mentions of nuclear weapons and Chinese chemicals when explaining Biden’s latest gift to Al Qaeda.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe New York Times only mentions that Paracha is \"a former businessman and longtime legal resident of New York\" and that he has \"heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlso some years ago a spiritual leader with a Buddhist symbol made famous by an Austrian house painter carved into his forehead died of colon cancer while one of California's oldest inmates. It’s almost as awful as when that elderly former house painter commited suicide after a long struggle with syphillis along with his new bride in a bunker that Biden would have envied.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Hill plaintively whines that, “Paracha was the oldest and reportedly among the sickest detainees held at Guantánamo Bay. He suffered from heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure.” Since Paracha is still alive and the description is in the past tense, we can only assume that being freed by Biden is a cure for heart disease, diabetes, and blood pressure.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Biden really wants to cure cancer, he can drop all of that moonshot nonsense, all he needs to do is give all of Al Qaeda cancer, and then release them. If it doesn’t cure them, it’ll kill them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReleasing Paracha might also be a concern for the Brits as the dossier also states that he had discussed with Al-Baluchi “how to smuggle explosives and chemicals into England”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Paracha wasn't exploring the exciting possibilities of nuclear weapons, he met Osama bin Laden on a trip to Afghanistan and \"offered to let UBL and al-Qaida use his media broadcasting business to film and distribute propaganda and training films'' that would include \"depicting UBL quoting Koranic verses\". While a lot of Paracha's other plots were theoretical, the dossier indicates that Al Qaeda used Paracha's \"video broadcasting facility\" to make a movie featuring \"a senior Saudi al-Qaida facilitator associated with a cell targeting Americans in Saudi Arabia.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut no doubt after all that time having to listen to Barney sing, “I Love You, You Love Me” on repeat at Gitmo, with nothing to read except the Koran and Harry Potter novels, Paracha has come around and now loves America. And from now on will commit to only shipping women’s and children’s clothing to Kmart without C4, Chinese chemicals, or nukes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe other beneficiaries of Biden’s generosity are Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman, an alleged bodyguard for Osama bin Laden, and Abdul Rabbani, allegedly a member of an Al Qaeda cell plotting car bomb attacks against Americans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden intends to continue Obama’s work of freeing all the Islamic terrorists of Gitmo.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EParacha had apparently told American investigators that \"he did not think meeting with al-Qaida was a crime, just business\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden clearly doesn’t think aiding Islamic terrorists is a crime either. That’s why he’s doing it.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\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\/p\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\/8735470443782126922\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/05\/biden-frees-al-qaeda-ally-who-plotted.html#comment-form","title":"7 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8735470443782126922"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8735470443782126922"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/05\/biden-frees-al-qaeda-ally-who-plotted.html","title":"Biden Frees Al Qaeda Ally Who Plotted to Smuggle Nukes Into US"}],"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:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ytXWBwtLUnE\/YLMja4iAs3I\/AAAAAAAATRg\/cE7_uwWW0l4787gyY8m8wlnjaNXa4b6nACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/nuclear%2Bpublic%2Bdomain.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"7"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-7897989391031562961"},"published":{"$t":"2021-05-27T13:44:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-05-27T13:44:32.571-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Antisemitism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immigration"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Islamization"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The PLO Antisemitic Riots and Jihadization of American Cities are an Immigration Issue"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ciframe width=\"583\" height=\"605\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dEOKgIrkSt4\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EIn 2015, The Atlantic ran a cover story titled, \"Is It Time for the Jews to Leave Europe?\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2021, the question is whether it’s time for the Jews to leave New York and Los Angeles.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe magazine cover story mentioned Malmo. Most stories about antisemitism in Europe reference the Swedish city whose Jewish population dropped from 3,000 to barely 800. Current estimates are that Malmo will have no Jews left by the end of the decade as its population flees Muslim mob violence, firebombings, and random assaults: including 100 aimed at its sole rabbi.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I hear students shouting in the hallway about killing Jews,” a public school teacher described. Firebombs are routinely thrown at Jewish institutions. Mobs have torn down gates to try to smash their way inside. A Swedish journalist who conducted a hidden camera investigation of what happens to anyone visibly Jewish was harassed within moments of sitting down to eat.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmericans who wondered how this could happen in Europe are now seeing it at home.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s nothing confusing about ‘how’ or ‘why’. Or as \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/anti-semitism-in-malm%C3%B6-reveals-flaws-in-swedish-immigration-system-1.3080484\"\u003Ea CBC article\u003C\/a\u003E about Malmo gingerly put it, “Anti-Semitism in Malmö reveals flaws in Swedish immigration system”. There are equally big flaws in our immigration system and too many Jewish groups have wasted time on outreach instead of working toward immigration reform to stop the ‘Malmoization’ of New York and LA.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEstimates of the size of the Muslim population in the United States doubled since 9\/11.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIslamists claim that there are over 750,000 Muslim settlers in New York City, making up around 9% of the population, and operating hundreds of mosques across the five boroughs. Those numbers may be overstated, but there’s no denying that there are far more Muslims now. And much of the growth has happened at the lower end leading to a large young male population.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe viral videos of antisemitic attacks by mobs of young Muslim men are the outcome.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike many European cities, New York City now has a large, angry population of young Muslim men who are looking to lash out. And Jews are an easy target. When Waseem Awawdeh was arrested over a vicious assault on a Jewish accountant, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WalterSobchak88\/status\/1396465597425270786\"\u003Ehe declared\u003C\/a\u003E, “If I could do it again, I would do it again,” and then received a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WalterSobchak88\/status\/1396465597425270786\"\u003Ehero's welcome\u003C\/a\u003E on his release.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENew York City now hosts the largest Muslim population in the country. Los Angeles, the scene of more antisemitic mob attacks, hosts another of the country’s largest Muslim populations. Before 9\/11, there were less than 100,000 Muslims in Los Angeles County. Even accounting for Islamist overestimates, the number has grown significantly.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike NYC, LA is becoming ‘Malmoized’.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere are still enough Jews in both cities that the Democrat politicians offer token condemnations and ask the local police to make a few arrests. As the demographics continue to shift away from Jews and toward Muslims, they’ll react the way that Ilmar Reepalu, Malmo's former mayor did, when he blamed Israel for the antisemitic attacks on Jews by Muslims.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe AOC crowd already echoes this type of rhetoric on social media. And George Soros, who funds much of the American Left, had made\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/12\/soros-war-against-jews-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E this exact argument\u003C\/a\u003E two decades ago. “Attitudes toward the Jewish community are influenced by the pro-Israel lobby’s success in suppressing divergent views,” the former Nazi collaborator had argued.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut that’s only to be expected of an antisemitic movement. American Jews however spent a generation watching\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/opposing-syrian-muslim-refugees-jewish-value-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E European Jews being driven out \u003C\/a\u003Eand did little with that time. After all these years of consuming articles about the fate of the Jews of Paris, Berlin, and Malmo, they went on supporting mass Muslim migration because they were told it was the right thing to do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen President Trump tried to implement a ban on travel from Muslim terror states, the ZOA became the only Jewish organization to file a Supreme Court brief in defense of the move.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe ADL signed on to every HIAS push against the move to protect Americans from Islamic terror, alongside anti-Israel groups like J Street, Soros' Bend the Arc, and T'ruah. HIAS, T’ruah, and Avodah, a feeder group for the anti-Israel movement \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/05\/how-spielberg-and-genesis-prize-funded-anti-israel-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Efunded by \u003C\/a\u003ESteven Spielberg, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/Y57XO\"\u003Eshowed up\u003C\/a\u003E to a Linda Sarsour protest. Rallying for Muslim migration mattered more than antisemitism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Orthodox Jews stayed out of the protests, not counting Uri L’Tzedek, a component of the heretical leftist \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/left-wing-movement-hijack-kosher-food-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003EYeshivat Chovevei Torah\u003C\/a\u003E crowd, the Orthodox Union’s Nathan Diament \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/point\/orthodox-jews-outraged-orthodox-union-backing-anti-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eput out a\u003C\/a\u003E shameful statement comparing Syrian migrants to Jews fleeing the Nazi Holocaust.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFortunately, the National Council of Young Israel took a stand, calling the obscene analogy “highly offensive to those Jews who survived Nazi persecution.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/point\/orthodox-jews-outraged-orthodox-union-backing-anti-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003EI wrote at the time\u003C\/a\u003E, “when one of Diament’s migrants attacks Jews, they will not be able to say, ‘Our hands did not shed this blood and our eyes did not see it.’” Now the blood is being shed and the OU is co-signing letters calling for an antisemitism monitor as if the problem lies in a lack of monitoring rather than the inevitable crisis of Islamist immigration and demographics.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerican Jews have followed the same failed strategy as European Jews.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"After two Muslim teenagers attempted to set fire to Malmo’s synagogue last March, HaCohen and Barakat telephoned their school principal, then visited the class the next day to discuss the incident. 'We did not point out the kids,' Barakat says, explaining they used the time to give a lesson about anti-Semitism, rather than punish them,” a Time Magazine article \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/longform\/anti-semitism-in-europe\/\"\u003Echeerfully \u003C\/a\u003Enotes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe suicidal hobby of handing out lessons about antisemitism to synagogue burners continues.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIntegrating the fight against antisemitism into broader leftist movements against bigotry has failed miserably because the central premise of intersectionality and anti-racism is that some people, privileged white people in general and Jews in particular, deserve to be hated.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe collapse of a liberal middle class into dueling Marxist and Fascist youth mobs is mainstreaming antisemitism in America the way that it already has in Europe. But the heavy lifting will still be done by young men whose parents came here from Iraq, Pakistan, or Gaza that we’ve seen assaulting random Jewish people in New York and Los Angeles.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe cries of “Kill Jews, Free Palestine” are not a horrid aberration: they’re the new normal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe one thing that could have stopped this and perhaps still might would be for American Jews to be willing to say the unspeakable: that some people belong in this country and others don’t.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe idea that immigration should be a mutual social contract instead of a suicide pact is profoundly alien to everything that millions of Americans, Jews and Christians, have absorbed over the years. Beyond the Christian churches and HIAS which lobby to resettle more Islamists in America, much of the country is wedded to the idea that we must take anyone who comes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut when we take anyone who comes, then we’re the ones who get taken for a ride.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile our streets are filled with the homeless and unemployed Americans are dying of drug overdoses at record rates, churches and temples lecture their parishioners on their moral duty to bring more Iraqis, Syrians, and Pakistanis to America. But 9\/11 and the occasional terror attack in a major city are just the appetizers of Islamist demographic colonization.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe next stage, mob violence by what the European press carefully calls “angry youths”, is now underway in New York and Los Angeles. It won’t stop there. The era of the “lone wolf” Jihadi hasn’t ended yet, but the future of Islamic terror in America will be group attacks, like those in Bataclan in Paris, and more routine riots and mass assaults abetted by their leftist allies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJews in New York City are the easiest targets, but as the Swedes or the French could tell you, or the Poles and the Czechs, it rarely ends there.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMuslim violence isn’t a response to oppression or persecution. It’s a supremacist theological mission to colonize and subjugate non-Muslims as numerous Jihadis have told us at their trials.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe chose not to take them at their word.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIsrael is not the issue. Just as Mohammed cartoons, a teddy bear with the wrong name, or false reports of a desecrated Koran were not the real issues at the heart of other Muslim rampages.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen thugs and terrorists want to beat and kill people, they can always find an excuse.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EListening to their excuses and taking them seriously is almost as dumb as visiting their countries or letting them inside your country long enough for them to kill you. If we want to survive, we’re going to have to stop being dumb. Otherwise we’ll learn to live and die like they do in Malmo.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt happened in Europe. Now it’s happening here.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf American Jews want to stop antisemitism, they need to stop importing it from the antisemitic capitals of the world. Really fighting antisemitism means fighting antisemitic immigration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr investing in bulletproof windows while educating synagogue burners about antisemitism.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\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\/p\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\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/7897989391031562961\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/05\/the-plo-antisemitic-riots-and.html#comment-form","title":"7 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7897989391031562961"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7897989391031562961"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/05\/the-plo-antisemitic-riots-and.html","title":"The PLO Antisemitic Riots and Jihadization of American Cities are an Immigration Issue"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/dEOKgIrkSt4\/default.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"7"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-429483903256152793"},"published":{"$t":"2021-05-25T01:51:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-05-25T01:51:02.784-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Islamization"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biden Brings in Islamic Activists to Investigate U.S. Military for 'Extremism'"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"A decade ago, Hina Shamsi was fighting on behalf of the Holy Land Foundation whose leaders had been convicted of\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/federal-judge-hands-downs-sentences-holy-land-foundation-case\"\u003E providing material suppor\u003C\/a\u003Et to Hamas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs the head of the ACLU’s National Security Project, Shamsi, a Pakistani citizen, had fought fiercely for the Islamic terrorists at Guantanamo Bay. “We all must pledge — not one person more in Guantanamo, not in our names,” she recently declared.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut now the Pakistani advocate for Islamic terrorists has a new job: going after our soldiers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-zV0JWVc47QI\/YKyPe28dFEI\/AAAAAAAATQE\/T4SgDgzqPq8c4ERxhplErZYXwVZKfehLACNcBGAsYHQ\/s462\/image_2021-05-24_224738.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"347\" data-original-width=\"462\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-zV0JWVc47QI\/YKyPe28dFEI\/AAAAAAAATQE\/T4SgDgzqPq8c4ERxhplErZYXwVZKfehLACNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-05-24_224738.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EShamsi is one of the terror lawyers who appears on\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/1395115836545945609\/photo\/1\"\u003E a list of partners \u003C\/a\u003Efor the Biden administration's crackdown on \"extremism\" in the military. The only kind of extremism that Shamsi appears to be an expert on is the Islamic kind and her expertise has been in denying it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFurthermore, at least as of 2017, Shamsi had \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/immigrants-rights\/flying-home-abroad-border-agent-stopped-and-questioned-me-about-my-work-aclu\"\u003Edescribed\u003C\/a\u003E herself as a Pakistan citizen with permanent legal residency in America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe’s not the only apparent Pakistani citizen tasked by Biden to go after our troops.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETake Faiza Patel, another Pakistani immigrant, who co-wrote an article \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/keywiki.org\/Faiza_Patel\"\u003Earguing against\u003C\/a\u003E designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization. The article claimed that \"the Muslim Brotherhood is a religious organization, a political party, and a social service provider\" and that it had \"disavowed violence decades ago.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat would come as news to Hamas and its other active Jihadist network members.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn another co-written article, Faiza Patel claimed that laws against Sharia were Islamophobic.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPatel has worked for international organizations in Europe, including the International Criminal Tribunal, and was a member of a UN Human Rights Council working group which \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/Issues\/Mercenaries\/WGMercenaries\/Pages\/Members.aspx\"\u003Elisted her\u003C\/a\u003E as a member from Pakistan, not the United States, raising questions about her citizenship.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd yet Shamsi and Patel aren’t the worst of the list of partners for the Biden administration’s Countering Extremism Working Group (CEWG) published by \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/1395115836545945609\/photo\/1\"\u003EOANN correspondent Jack Posobiec\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-V30G9wlUsJs\/YKyPxXyRkbI\/AAAAAAAATQM\/aXzptk8UsLUvXDK2V6745qgLIcO_BUoIQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s516\/image_2021-05-24_224852.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"399\" data-original-width=\"516\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-V30G9wlUsJs\/YKyPxXyRkbI\/AAAAAAAATQM\/aXzptk8UsLUvXDK2V6745qgLIcO_BUoIQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-05-24_224852.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EWhile Biden's Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin had announced the CEWG group to counter supposed \"extremism\" in the military, the list of CEWG partners contains a lot of Muslim lawyers and activists. In addition to Shamsi, there’s fellow Pakistani ACLU activist: Manar Waheed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe list includes Wael Alzayat in his role as the CEO of Emgage. The national co-chair and founding member of the Islamic group is Khurrum Wahid who has been described as one of the country’s\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/redbroward.com\/2019\/05\/13\/coral-springs-candidate-khurrum-wahid-claims-security-clearance-reason-for-terrorism-clients-fails-to-mention-role-as-cair-legal-advisor\/\"\u003E most prominent\u003C\/a\u003E terror lawyers and whose clients include\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/03\/terror-connected-lawyer-running-city-commission-joe-kaufman\/\"\u003E an Al Qaeda operative\u003C\/a\u003E who plotted to kill President George W. Bush and Sami al-Arian who was linked to Islamic Jihad.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWahid\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/issues\/debbies-date-with-radicalism\/\"\u003E had been\u003C\/a\u003E placed on a terrorist watch list and Emgage, as counterterrorism researcher Joe Kaufman \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/03\/terror-connected-lawyer-running-city-commission-joe-kaufman\/\"\u003Enoted\u003C\/a\u003E, \"holds events at terror-linked mosques”: including one founded by al-Arian.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEmgage's board includes Dhabah ‘Debbie’ Almontaser who was forced out of her old job \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2007\/08\/06\/city-principal-is-revolting\/\"\u003Eover t-shirts \u003C\/a\u003Ereading “Intifada NYC”. Nada al Hanooti, Emgage's Executive Director for Michigan, is \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/creepingsharia.tumblr.com\/post\/626822074536738816\/video-the-muslim-brotherhood-operatives-behind\"\u003Ethe daughter of \u003C\/a\u003EMuthanna al Hanooti, a former CAIR leader who was \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.investigativeproject.org\/626\/another-ex-cair-official-in-legal-trouble\"\u003Eaccused of working\u003C\/a\u003E for Saddam Hussein and Iraq's intelligence agency.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIs that the kind of extremism expertise that the Department of Defense really needs?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-HBBWVuW4Wk4\/YKyQLl1N0pI\/AAAAAAAATQU\/WhZ4U2PEMKQs8ErJi3buDL5OmPyt8eKoACNcBGAsYHQ\/s574\/wael.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"399\" data-original-width=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-HBBWVuW4Wk4\/YKyQLl1N0pI\/AAAAAAAATQU\/WhZ4U2PEMKQs8ErJi3buDL5OmPyt8eKoACNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/wael.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EAlso on the list of Biden's CEWG partners is\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.keywiki.org\/Iman_Boukadoum\"\u003E Iman Boukadou\u003C\/a\u003E:, the staff attorney for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe ADC has\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/api.discoverthenetworks.org\/organization\/american-arab-antidiscrimination-committee-adc\/\"\u003E a long history\u003C\/a\u003E of defending and excusing Islamic terrorism. \"I know many people in Hamas. They are very respectable,\" its former president Hamzi Moghrabi \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/api.discoverthenetworks.org\/organization\/american-arab-antidiscrimination-committee-adc\/\"\u003Ehad said\u003C\/a\u003E. Former ADC president Hussein Ibish called Hezbollah “a disciplined and responsible liberation force” whose members “conducted themselves in an exemplary manner.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBoukadoum was most recently hard at work fighting for Abdelhaleem Ashqar, who had been convicted of obstruction of justice in a case involving the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/archive\/opa\/pr\/2004\/August\/04_crm_571.htm\"\u003Eflow of money to Hamas\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAshqar ran for president of the Palestinian Authority while \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/News\/Middle-East\/2004\/Dec-04\/64372-palestinian-presidential-hopeful-under-house-arrest-in-us.ashx\"\u003Eawaiting trial \u003C\/a\u003Ein the United States. He had argued that the evidence against him had come from a time when “Hamas was not designated as a terrorist organisation” and boasted that, “they wanted me to testify against my people. I said I'd rather die than betray my commitment to freedom and justice for Palestine.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerican military personnel are being put at the mercy of advocates for their worst enemies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden’s DOD radicals have assembled a list of activists who have absolutely no credibility when it comes to extremism. Multiple “partners” for Biden’s Countering Extremism Working Group have appeared at events for CAIR, ICNA, and other terror-linked organizations. Some have appeared at events featuring advocates for Islamic terrorism, sharia, and violence against non-Muslims. They’re the extremists that Americans should be concerned about.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was not surprising that Biden's CEWG partner list would include multiple personnel from the discredited Southern Poverty Law Center including Heidi Beirich, formerly of the SPLC, currently running her own organization, the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, which barely has a website.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-B9BObXwMX-I\/YKyQPZ7EdRI\/AAAAAAAATQY\/rRRWxTrRx2ouVgA2opkp2PjVII53CcMOgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s573\/image_2021-05-24_225052.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"415\" data-original-width=\"573\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-B9BObXwMX-I\/YKyQPZ7EdRI\/AAAAAAAATQY\/rRRWxTrRx2ouVgA2opkp2PjVII53CcMOgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-05-24_225052.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EOr that the only conservative on the list is the First Liberty Institute. FLI's Michael Berry also appears to be the only person on Biden’s list who is qualified for this role as a Lt. Colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve who works as FLI's Director of Military Affairs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut to Biden, defending Al Qaeda and Hamas terrorists, is the only qualification needed for going after American soldiers. That tells us everything we need to know about Biden’s goals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden's Secretary of Defense Austin falsely claimed that, \"this is not about politics or political views.\" His list of partners makes it abundantly clear that this is entirely about politics.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe list consists almost entirely of organizations and individuals who supported Biden.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that makes this look even more like a political purge of the military by a radical administration that began its time in office by abusing the military for political purposes, and has made it clear that it intends to eliminate any opposition within the military to its political views.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut it’s striking that a third of Biden’s CEWG partners are Muslim. Especially since the Biden administration isn’t looking for another Nidal Hasan in the hopes of averting another Fort Hood Massacre, but is instead trying to rewrite history to pretend that the greatest threat to our national security comes from Biden’s political opponents rather than from his Islamist backers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Obama administration infamously dismantled our counterterrorism programs and replaced them with Countering Violent Extremism (CVE). Biden is dismantling CVE and siccing Islamist activists and their lawyers on the military to implement a ruthless purge of American soldiers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWitnessing Gitmo lawyers licking their lips at the prospect of bringing the Jihad into the heart of the military against soldiers who bravely served our country but have no defense against being betrayed by their own government is as disheartening to us as it must be to them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Did we lose a war?” the ordinary American confronted with this reversal of terror may wonder.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the answer is, “Yes, we did.”\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\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\/p\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\/429483903256152793\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/05\/biden-brings-in-islamic-activists-to.html#comment-form","title":"9 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/429483903256152793"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/429483903256152793"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/05\/biden-brings-in-islamic-activists-to.html","title":"Biden Brings in Islamic Activists to Investigate U.S. Military for 'Extremism'"}],"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:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-zV0JWVc47QI\/YKyPe28dFEI\/AAAAAAAATQE\/T4SgDgzqPq8c4ERxhplErZYXwVZKfehLACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-05-24_224738.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"9"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-3058092787278966778"},"published":{"$t":"2021-05-23T01:06:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-05-23T01:06:58.910-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Islam"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Israel"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UN"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"How the UN Stole Jewish Homes in Occupied Jerusalem and Set Off the Latest Conflict"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"In 1948, the armies of seven Arab nations invaded Israel. They failed to wipe out the newly reborn nation,  but Jordan occupied part of Jerusalem and ethnically cleansed its Jews.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-oPoNjv0HzWU\/YKni1FtxPKI\/AAAAAAAATP0\/-3Cd7I6bWt8D1z72hIa0TO4eRDgkmtsCQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s601\/Fleeing%2Bthrough%2BZion%2BGate.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"601\" data-original-width=\"594\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-oPoNjv0HzWU\/YKni1FtxPKI\/AAAAAAAATP0\/-3Cd7I6bWt8D1z72hIa0TO4eRDgkmtsCQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/Fleeing%2Bthrough%2BZion%2BGate.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EAmong the former Jewish neighborhoods was a small area named Shimon HaTzadik or Simon the Righteous after a high priest who became famous for talking Alexander the Great out of putting up an idol in the Temple. The Arab Muslim colonists who had occupied the area however called it Sheikh Jarrah after an associate of the Iraqi invader Saladin.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESaladin had invaded Israel some 1500 years after Shimon HaTzadik’s death. His associate settled in Jerusalem and died there. A mosque was built over the house of the invader, Jarrah, which later gave its name to the neighborhood when the Husseini family set up shop there in the 19th century. Hitler’s Mufti, Haj Amin al-Husseini, grew up in the first house in the neighborhood.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESeven years after he got a pledge from Hitler to invade and kill all the Jews, the Islamic leader tried to finish the job with the Army of the Sacred Jihad backed by thousands of Muslim Brotherhood Jihadis. Aside from blowing up the newspaper that would later be known as the Jerusalem Post, the Jihadis performed poorly in battle and fell apart when their commander, another Husseini, was killed trying to cut off Israeli supply convoys to the siege of Jerusalem.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Jordanians desecrated the synagogues of East Jerusalem, used Jewish tombstones to pave roads, and seized Jewish property through their Custodian of Enemy Property.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1956, UNRWA worked with the Jordanian occupiers to settle “Palestinian refugees” in this Jewish neighborhood. The UN agency had been entirely dedicated to caring for the Arab Muslim settlers who had failed in their invasion of Israel and was settling them in violation of international law in the homes of the Jewish residents who had fled the illegal occupation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnce the UNRWA had “resettled” its “refugees” in homes stolen from their Jewish owners through ethnic cleansing, it deemed them to no longer be refugees. The actual refugees however were the Jewish residents who had their homes stolen by the UNRWA.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only thing more disturbing than a UN agency collaborating in ethnic cleansing was that after Israel liberated and unified Jerusalem, the illegal Arab Muslim occupiers of the homes not only refused to leave, but their right to remain in homes stolen from their Jewish inhabitants was taken up by the UN and the international community. Not to mention a lot of lawyers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt took the original Jewish owners five years to even win legal rights to the homes in court. But they didn't actually get the property back. In an attempt to avoid just the kind of international incident going on now, the Israeli authorities brokered a deal in which the Muslim squatters would pay rent and accept the legal rights of the Jewish owners of the trusts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe rent on the homes was a fraction of what they would go for on the open market. But even that money was never actually paid. The next three decades were spent trying to evict the illegal Muslim settlers who wouldn't pay rent or leave.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe recent court decision on evictions, which was used by Hamas and the PLO as a pretext for the war that they had been planning on starting anyway, is the latest in a string of legal decisions over these homes going back 50 years.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese decisions came from independent courts, not the Netanyahu government, in a legal battle that began when he was a college student studying at MIT. There isn’t a single argument for why the Jewish trusts that owned the homes should have lost the right to them when Jordan invaded and seized those homes, or why the UNRWA’s decision to illegally collaborate in ethnic cleansing by settling members of an occupying nation in those homes was legal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll their arguments come down to shouting, “apartheid” and “ethnic cleansing” when the only time there was apartheid and ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem was under Arab Muslim occupation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEvery anti-Israel radical in public office from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez to Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator Bernie Sanders, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Rep. Ilhan Omar, and the rest of the gang have denounced evictions from ‘Sheikh Jarrah’.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem. Israeli forces are forcing families from their homes,\" Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez tweeted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"The evictions of Palestinian families must not go forward,” Bernie Sanders ranted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“The Administration should make clear to the Israeli government that these evictions are illegal and must stop immediately,” Senator Elizabeth Warren declared. Despite being a lawyer, she declined to identify how the Israeli court ruling was \"illegal\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration also got into the act.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“We are deeply concerned about the potential eviction of Palestinian families in the Silwan neighborhood and in Sheikh Jarrah, many of whom have lived in their homes for generations,\" State Department spokeswoman Jalina Porter, a former cheerleader who had\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/01\/blm-ex-cheerleader-state-dept-spokeswoman-said-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E falsely accused\u003C\/a\u003E America of genocide, claimed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only way to argue that the homes were “theirs” is by recognizing the legitimacy of occupation and ethnic cleansing, at least when it’s practiced by Muslim invading armies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe moral principle for which AOC, Sanders, Warren, and the State Department are fighting is that when Arab Muslims drive out the Jews and seize their homes, it’s their property now.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe entire legal basis for the court case by the squatters is their claim that the property had been given to them by Jordan’s Custodian of Enemy Property office. This claim has standing in Israeli courts which chose to wrongly recognize those seizures. And so the court cases have revolved around whether the squatters could ever prove that an illegal occupying power had transferred title to them during its ethnic cleansing campaign. The squatters couldn’t even meet this low bar because they were never given title to the homes, but the vicissitudes of local real estate law aside, there’s still the invasion, the illegal occupation and the ethnic cleansing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen AOC, Warren, Sanders, Tlaib, Omar, the UN, and the Biden administration treat the occupiers of Sheikh Jarrah as the rightful owners, they’re defending ethnic cleansing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd it should be called what it is.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-2G-w-oPV44Y\/YKni5jCfJJI\/AAAAAAAATP4\/L2ovCS9bBQIGj5E1uQEjqTTZQExlBUsegCNcBGAsYHQ\/s601\/After%2BEvacuation.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"601\" data-original-width=\"592\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-2G-w-oPV44Y\/YKni5jCfJJI\/AAAAAAAATP4\/L2ovCS9bBQIGj5E1uQEjqTTZQExlBUsegCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/After%2BEvacuation.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe fundamental issue at stake in Shimon HaTzadik and Sheikh Jarrah are crystal clear. Unlike some parts of Israel where territory changed hands in more complex ways, we know exactly what happened and why it happened. And those simple facts tell a story of the UNRWA’s complicity in the ethnic cleansing of Jews, not just today when it serves as a storehouse for Hamas missiles and an employment agency for Hamas propagandists, but back in the 50s.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJews were ethnically cleansed from Jerusalem after an invasion and occupation. The United Nations, through UNRWA, violated international law by taking part in population transfer by an occupying power which had expelled the indigenous population. This is the charge that the UN and the anti-Israel politicians and media have repeatedly lobbed at Israel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd they’re the ones guilty of it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETheir Sheikh Jarrah argument is that ethnic cleansing and occupation are moral and legal when Arab Muslim armies do it. It’s that Arab Muslim squatters who moved into Jewish homes in 1956 had gained an immutable moral right to live in them by 1967 that outweighed those of the Jewish trusts which had owned them since the 19th century.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s no better way to show the hypocritical double standards of an anti-Israel movement that cries about occupation, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid while practicing those very things.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAOC, Sanders, Warren, the UN, the Quarter, the EU, and the Biden administration are demanding that the Arab Muslim occupation of Jerusalem continue. They are ordering a free country to overturn the legal ruling of a court in case that goes back to the 1970s because they believe that Arab Muslim occupiers have a right to live in Jerusalem… and Jews don’t.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s what this was about in 1948. That’s still what it’s about in 2021.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe occupiers cry about the “occupation” and the ethnic cleansers cry about “ethnic cleansing” as they fight to bring back the state of apartheid that drove the Jews out of Jerusalem.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\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\/p\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\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/3058092787278966778\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/05\/how-un-stole-jewish-homes-in-occupied.html#comment-form","title":"12 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3058092787278966778"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3058092787278966778"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/05\/how-un-stole-jewish-homes-in-occupied.html","title":"How the UN Stole Jewish Homes in Occupied Jerusalem and Set Off the Latest Conflict"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-oPoNjv0HzWU\/YKni1FtxPKI\/AAAAAAAATP0\/-3Cd7I6bWt8D1z72hIa0TO4eRDgkmtsCQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/Fleeing%2Bthrough%2BZion%2BGate.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"12"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4319738872687454008"},"published":{"$t":"2021-05-20T14:53:00.003-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-05-20T14:53:40.707-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Democrats"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Hamas"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Israel"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"PLO"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Why Biden Wants a War in Israel"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Terrorists have only one thing to offer. It’s right there in the name.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe business model of terrorism is killing people and then demanding a payoff. The game always works the same way. The terrorists attack, their targets fight back, and a third party sends in the diplomats to negotiate on behalf of the terrorists before they get hit too hard.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Islamic terrorist war against Israel has worked exactly this way for generations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-tA-OI-NEWwM\/YKawGLiAJWI\/AAAAAAAATPs\/0UotMpwJN7MWv41oJb3U7k8B8v0Pq7dywCNcBGAsYHQ\/s579\/biden%2Barafat%2Bframe.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"451\" data-original-width=\"579\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-tA-OI-NEWwM\/YKawGLiAJWI\/AAAAAAAATPs\/0UotMpwJN7MWv41oJb3U7k8B8v0Pq7dywCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/biden%2Barafat%2Bframe.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ELike a radio pop song that plays every time you go into a supermarket, you know the next verse and can feel the next beat before it even kicks in no matter how much you hate the music.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s the same way with the regular mini wars that begin with a manufactured political provocation that can be blamed on Israel, (this time a court ruling evicting illegal Muslim colonists occupying homes that were seized during the ‘48 ethnic cleansing of Jews from Jerusalem), followed by terrorist violence with the usual pattern of attack and escalation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHamas and a few of its allies shell Israeli towns and cities using the latest Iranian technology and some of their own cruder models. Israel responds by calculatedly taking out terrorist compounds which Hamas has, with equal calculation, filled with civilian human shields.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEspecially children.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPoliticians, the media, and social media (three distinctions without a difference) rush to attack Israel, vastly inflating the already inflated casualty figures put out by the terrorists, lying about the nature of the conflict, and doing their best to mainstream antisemitism a little more.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration makes a few public statements vaguely supporting Israel’s right to defend itself, an absurd point, and sends in mediators to negotiate the payoff for the terrorists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIsrael had a brief break from America acting as the paymaster and bagman for the terrorists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was a refreshing pause especially for all the children who didn’t get bombed, the homes that didn’t have rockets smash through their roofs, and the soldiers who didn’t get shot just so that State Department negotiators could tell Israel the current going rate for ending the attacks.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIslamic terrorists aren’t crazy or irrational. The average suicide bomber might be, but their leadership doesn’t do anything without a profit motive.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe profits for Islamic terrorism against Israel come in two ways.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFirst, the terrorists are backed by Iran, Qatar, Turkey, and the rest of the Islamist gang to carry out attacks on Israel. Second, the terrorists are rewarded by the United States, Europe, and Israel for ending the attacks. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis never leads to peace because if you keep rewarding terrorists for ending the violence, you’re also telling them that if they do it all over again, they’ll profit from the violence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPaying the terrorists not to attack you is really the same thing as paying them to attack you.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the essence of the peace game is obliviousness. That means believing that there are root causes that can resolve the underlying grievances. The root cause is the existence of Israel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe terrorists want to destroy Israel: Israel doesn’t want to be destroyed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the negotiators came up with a compromise which satisfies no one: a two state solution that will only destroy a part of Israel. The solution, which has solved nothing and will solve nothing, incrementally destroys parts of Israel by handing them over to the terrorists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe amount of Israel being destroyed through this process has kept on increasing ever since the original fake peace deal was celebrated by Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat, and Yitzchak Rabin at the White House. Every exchange of fire leads to a push for a new peace “compromise” that will destroy even more of Israel by handing more territory over to the terrorists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince this process provides the terrorists with zero incentive to stop the violence, it failed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Trump administration overturned conventional wisdom by recognizing that the terrorists, who had repeatedly rejected and sabotaged peace negotiations for two generations, not the Israelis, who had shown up for every bad faith attempt at negotiations, were the problem.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstead of taking away territory from Israel and giving it to the terrorists, President Trump began recognizing Israeli claims to parts of Israel, while cutting off money and political support from the terrorists. The terrorists didn’t turn pacifist, but they turned down the violence because they understood that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, unlike Kerry, wouldn’t be bailing them out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey just waited, while Kerry\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/arrest-kerry-collusion-islamic-terror-states-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E privately assured the terrorists\u003C\/a\u003E Trump would soon be gone.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration is going back to the same old policies of propping up the terrorists. And the first thing you need to do when propping up the terrorists is giving them some leverage.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe leverage of terrorists is terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERebooting the old negotiating process requires a war. And so the Biden administration turned on the money tap to the terrorists and their Iranian sponsors. It made it clear that Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and the anti-Iran coalition linked to the Abraham Accords were out of style in D.C.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden also\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/02\/bidens-new-asst-sec-state-worked-islamic-terror-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E appointed Hady Amr\u003C\/a\u003E, a veteran of Qatar’s Brookings operation, a state backer of Hamas, as his “point man” on the “Israeli-Palestinian conflict” which had been low on conflict.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt least the conflict had been low until Biden got started.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmr, a Lebanese anti-Israel activist, had made no secret of his raving hatred for Israel and support for the terrorists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I was inspired by the Palestinian intifada,” Hady Amr had declared during his time as an anti-Israel activist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I have news for every Israeli,\" Amr ranted in one column written after Sheikh Salah Shahada, the head of Hamas' Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, was taken out by an Israeli air strike.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EArabs \"now have televisions, and they will never, never forget what the Israeli people, the Israeli military and Israeli democracy have done to Palestinian children. And there will be thousands who will seek to avenge these brutal murders of innocents.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese days, Amr is the one doing the avenging for Israel’s attacks on Hamas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmr has repeatedly argued for a deal with Hamas. In 2019, he co-wrote an article arguing that Hamas should offer Israel a cease-fire with the PLO acting as a broker for the deal in exchange for Israel “offering a significant move on Israeli-Palestinian peace.” That’s diplo-mafia speak for appeasing the terrorists with more territory that they can use to launch attacks on Israel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut you can’t have a cease-fire until you first have a war. That’s the war now raging.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s the familiar model already embraced by terrorist organizations who pretend that their political and military wings are separate organizations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration policy is for the PLO to play the political wing to Hamas’ military wing. Hamas starts wars, and the PLO collects territory and concessions to stop the fighting, while disclaiming any responsibility for the violence. And the Biden administration oversees this terrorist shakedown by insisting that Israel make more concessions for ‘peace’. Diplomats and experts go around making the same false promises that Israeli appeasement of the PLO will discredit Hamas and make it possible for Israelis and the terrorists killing them to live in peace.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe purpose of this political strategy is to isolate Israel, creating a system that profits from terrorism while maintaining enough plausible deniability to keep a fake peace process going.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGenerations of this horror show have not been enough to discredit it. Not to the diplomats who keep pushing this big lie, and not to American Jews who when faced with a choice between blaming Israel and the politicians they support, always choose to blame Israel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden is rebooting the same old scam after stocking his administration with appointees like Amr who have made no secret of their hatred for the Jewish State.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden’s Senior Director for Intelligence on the National Security Council, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/01\/biden-puts-anti-israel-bds-activist-charge-nsc-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003EMaher Bitar\u003C\/a\u003E, was pictured dancing in a keffiyah in front of a banner reading, “Divest from Israel Apartheid”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReema Dodin, Biden's Deputy White House Legislative Director, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/reema-dodin-to-be-first-palestinian-american-white-house-staffer-650088\"\u003Ehad argued that\u003C\/a\u003E, “suicide bombers were the last resort of a desperate people.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/04\/biden-picks-soros-bds-activist-asst-secretary-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003ESarah Margon\u003C\/a\u003E, Biden's Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, had advocated for \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/04\/biden-picks-soros-bds-activist-asst-secretary-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eboycotts of Israel\u003C\/a\u003E and cheered a proposal to destroy the Jewish State.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Obama administration stocked its foreign policy team with Iran Firsters, while the Biden administration has gone even further with a roster of Hamas Firsters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration seeks to blame Israel for a conflict for which it provided a profit motive.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe fighting in Israel commenced after the Biden administration sent the signal that it was resuming its support for the terrorists. The violence is a prelude to the negotiations. And Biden’s people have already laid out their plans for getting Israel to pay off the terrorists. All the terrorists had to do was attack Israel and wait for Biden’s team to do their dirty work for them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration wanted a war in Israel. It needed to blame Israel for that war. And now it got everything it wanted. The next stage is the pressure campaign against Israel tying together domestic anti-Israel lobbies like J Street, and the radical Left like AOC and Warren, to pressure American Jewish organizations to drop their already weak support for the Jewish State. And then, having isolated Israel, they’ll move in for the kill with their big pitch for a terror state.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll of this is bad for Israel, but it’s also terrible for America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEverything that the Biden administration’s team of terrorist sympathizers is doing to Israel, they also intend to do to America. If you think gas prices are bad now, wait until Iran really starts throwing its weight around. And while Biden’s people are insisting that the only real terrorist threat is domestic while dismantling our counterterrorism system, the Jihad will come.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAl Qaeda built up its networks into a massive international killing machine on Clinton’s watch, and ISIS grew into a state power while Obama was building up the Arab Spring. We don’t know what terrorist nightmares Biden will breed, but they are likely to be worse than either one.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIsraelis are in bomb shelters now, but after a few years of Biden, Americans might be there too.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\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\/p\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\/4319738872687454008\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/05\/why-biden-wants-war-in-israel.html#comment-form","title":"8 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4319738872687454008"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4319738872687454008"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/05\/why-biden-wants-war-in-israel.html","title":"Why Biden Wants a War in Israel"}],"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:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-tA-OI-NEWwM\/YKawGLiAJWI\/AAAAAAAATPs\/0UotMpwJN7MWv41oJb3U7k8B8v0Pq7dywCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/biden%2Barafat%2Bframe.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"8"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6160036519756693464"},"published":{"$t":"2021-05-19T00:15:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-05-19T00:15:43.220-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"California"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"California Leaving"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"For the first time in its history, California lost a House seat. California Democrats are resorting to conspiracy theories about President Trump and the census, but these are the numbers they got after spending $187 million on outreach and after rigging the census to make sure illegal aliens would continue to participate. And those are far better numbers than California deserves.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-d4fvLZMw5xI\/YKSQ5CBzvZI\/AAAAAAAATLc\/Q6Q2DdH2pgM8oLiGO-8fUTWRnLdHc-PDgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s616\/newsom%2Bad.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"453\" data-original-width=\"616\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-d4fvLZMw5xI\/YKSQ5CBzvZI\/AAAAAAAATLc\/Q6Q2DdH2pgM8oLiGO-8fUTWRnLdHc-PDgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/newsom%2Bad.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe decline and fall is not a surprising development out here where moving trucks are a frequent sight and everyone knows a family that is moving.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI know three of them in under two years.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe population numbers only tell part of the story of a big state that is rapidly losing its future.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia’s fastest growing population is senior citizens. By 2030, every \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ppic.org\/press-release\/new-analysis-californias-aging-population\/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CIn%20total%20numbers%2C%20the%20population,surge%20in%20the%20older%20population.%E2%80%9D\"\u003E1 in 3 Californians\u003C\/a\u003E will be over the age of 50. The over 60 population will increase by 166 percent by 2060 going from 5.5 million to 13.5 million. Hotel California is rapidly becoming a retirement community.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy 2030, California will have a higher percentage elderly population than Florida.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1970, the median age of Californians was 27 years old. Jerry Brown became the state's youngest governor of the century. When he next ran for office, he became its oldest governor at the age of 72. California’s median age is now 38. And it’s only headed north from there.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy 2050, a third of LA will be over 65 and by 2060, the median age in LA will be 48.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia’s elderly population is increasing faster than any other age group. While the young population will remain flat, the middle aged population will only increase by a fifth, even as the elderly population more than doubles. These numbers paint a portrait of a state with no growth.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe state’s birth rate fell 10% just last year. A one month comparison actually\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/fox40.com\/news\/california-connection\/pandemic-baby-bust-california-sees-23-decline-in-births\/\"\u003E showed a\u003C\/a\u003E drop of 23%. While the pandemic suppressed birth rates, the numbers had been dropping in California long before anyone had ever heard of Wuhan. Two years ago it hit the lowest level in a century down to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/California-birthrate-plunges-to-lowest-level-in-a-12923521.php\"\u003Ehalf of the state’s\u003C\/a\u003E 1990 birth rate. In the last decade, California’s birth rate dropped twice as much as the national average defying its own demographic destiny.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe news is much worse than these numbers make it look.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStates with a large older population are often more conservative, but that’s less likely to happen to California. The fastest growth among its older population isn’t among white people, but the large Hispanic population that fundamentally altered the state’s demographics and politics.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA generation of cheap labor is coming of age. Its members are a lot less likely to leave the state than white seniors. As a Calmatters fellow \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2019\/05\/27\/californias-growing-senior-population-by-the-numbers\/\"\u003Enoted\u003C\/a\u003E, “older Californians are actually more likely to be immigrants than younger Californians”. They’re also more likely to be lower income.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese estimates are just projections of the future. They show trend lines rather than the escalating consequences of a state that is becoming increasingly unlivable.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia’s golden years were fueled by new industries and cheap land. The land isn’t cheap and the industries are pricing themselves out of the youth population they used to attract. Millennials have been moving out of New York and California in large numbers, and heading to Texas, Nevada, and Arizona. Industries will be forced to follow their potential workforce.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBig Tech monopolies will still maintain their Bay Area enclaves for now, but older and more traditional tech firms are heading to Texas. Sleeping six to a room in a decrepit building converted into a dorm may be part of the price of admission in start-up culture, but even much of the tech industry is opting out of the hellscape of the talent rat race.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis exodus probably won’t have good political consequences for either California or Texas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe middle class provides political and economic stability and it’s vanishing from the state at rapid rates. What’s replacing it is an itinerant hipster class drawn to Big Tech and the entertainment industry, driven by radical politics, but with no commitment to the state.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis same hipster class wrecked New York City, before abandoning it in droves, and is busy wrecking its hubs in Portland and Seattle. Not to mention any other cities where it got a foothold.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s why California’s birth rate has declined twice as fast as the rest of the country.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia swapped a settled and more conservative population for a more itinerant population of millennial hipsters and immigrant laborers. The state lost its future even as the gross population numbers still looked good because there were still people even if they were becoming less likely to have children, buy homes, or do any of the things that a settled population actually does.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe short term fix looked good on the census, it looked good economically, but it had no future, and the state is slowly coming off the high and coming face to face with a bleak future.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia’s doom loop of radicals wrecking its cities and the state, enabled by the cheap labor imported to cater to their whims, is just getting started. As conservatives and the middle class flee the state, it becomes even more of a playground for urban elites, trashing rural counties, enabling crime, social dysfunction, and economic ruin that they expect to be immune from either because they’re walled off, expect to move on, or not to be alive when the social bill comes due.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJerry Brown’s old California could outgrow and survive its worst follies, but the new California isn’t actually growing and is running out of the future it’s burning through at a rapid rate.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia Democrats are complaining that population growth has slowed because of President Trump’s immigration enforcement. But that hasn’t stopped immigrants from heading to other states. Their real problem is that younger immigrants and migrants are less interested in California because its economic potential and opportunities are running out like everything else.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe cost of living relative to the economic rewards are unappealing even to many illegal aliens. Those who do come are more likely to have plans for more profitable work in organized crime.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile, poll numbers show that California Latinos have been turning on Governor Newsom over the lockdowns. The state’s new working class is on a collision course with the Democrats, and the Democrats are getting nervous because without constant migrant churn, new immigrants supplementing and displacing the old, their political hegemony might come apart.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe coalition between cheap labor and radical Democrats worked as long as there was work to go around. As California’s social stability collapses, its economic growth will go with it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA reckoning is coming and a lost House seat is the least of it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA scam works as long as everyone involved thinks they have something to gain. It falls apart when they wake up and realize that the Nigerian prince will never write them that check.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia Democrats have been writing checks post dated to the future. But there’s no future and the demographic checks are starting to bounce.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"My own belief is that California has a unique place on the planet. It's been a place of dreams,” a younger Jerry Brown would rhapsodize. But it turns out that California is not such a unique place after all. It’s a land of dreams, and dreams are not a good basis for policy. When leftists turn their dreams into reality, they wake up to discover they’re living a nightmare.\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\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\/p\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"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6160036519756693464\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/05\/california-leaving.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6160036519756693464"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6160036519756693464"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/05\/california-leaving.html","title":"California Leaving"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-d4fvLZMw5xI\/YKSQ5CBzvZI\/AAAAAAAATLc\/Q6Q2DdH2pgM8oLiGO-8fUTWRnLdHc-PDgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/newsom%2Bad.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-5812603884381978882"},"published":{"$t":"2021-05-16T04:06:00.000-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-05-16T04:06:00.413-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Democrats"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"unions"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biden Put Past Life Healer in Charge of School Reopenings"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"In November, the American Federation of Teachers was touting Kelly Trautner's views on safe school reopenings. Earlier in the pandemic year, Trautner had promoted a webinar on a safe return to schools. By 2021, the AFT's Director of Healthcare, was offering \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/sharemylesson.com\/users\/kelly-trautner\"\u003Eher own lessons\u003C\/a\u003E on \"yoga and pranayama practices\" and \"meditation and mindfulness\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-MXclLqSLYYQ\/YJrUPoARrlI\/AAAAAAAATD0\/2sMJ1z2_S-422Re_ob-Mw0Frb6tAhqszgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s612\/trautner.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"476\" data-original-width=\"612\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-MXclLqSLYYQ\/YJrUPoARrlI\/AAAAAAAATD0\/2sMJ1z2_S-422Re_ob-Mw0Frb6tAhqszgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/trautner.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EAs a certified yoga teacher and \"Registered Karuna Reiki Master\" (meaning she had mastered Stage III of Holy Fire of the pseudoscience which includes \"healing past life issues\" and \"clearing cellular memories from the DNA\"), this was something Trautner was qualified to do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the AFT’s Director of Healthcare, occasional yoga teacher, executive coach, and master of the secret energy arts was telling the CDC under what conditions schools could be reopened.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd she was doing it with the backing of the Biden administration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden had run for office promising to “listen to the science” and “follow the science” especially when it came to reopening schools. While desperate parents clamored to reopen schools and save their children from depression and suicide, he promised them that he would only allow it if the science said he could.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I set an ambitious but achievable goal of opening most K-8 schools by the end of my first 100 days,” Biden declared. “It is also a goal we can meet if we follow the science.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThen he redefined reopening most schools as being ‘open’ for at least one day a week.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden hasn’t achieved his goal because he didn’t really try. The American Federation of Teachers, the greedy and powerful union, and its local affiliates, had fought school reopenings. When CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said that schools could reopen, the Biden administration quickly claimed that she had only spoken \"in her personal capacity\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden promised that there would be \"science-based judgment\" on reopening schools coming.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEmails obtained by Americans for Public Trust showed that the CDC’s “science-based judgement” was actually being shaped by the AFT and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/01\/teachers-union-collaborated-with-cdc-on-school-reopening-emails\/amp\/\"\u003Erevealed an email\u003C\/a\u003E from its Reiki Master slash lawyer slash meditation expert laying out obstacles to reopening schools.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot only wasn’t Biden following the science, but he was following a literal pseudoscience.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe AFT not only got access to the CDC's guidance but Trautner \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/01\/teachers-union-collaborated-with-cdc-on-school-reopening-emails\/amp\/\"\u003Esent an email\u003C\/a\u003E providing \"possible ways to strengthen the document\" by calling for exempting teachers who “who have documented high-risk conditions or who are at increased risk for … COVID-19”, or who have a household member at \"increased risk\", from having to go back to work teaching students.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBased on \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/need-extra-precautions\/people-with-medical-conditions.html\"\u003ECDC materials\u003C\/a\u003E, the category of increased risk could potentially cover teachers over 65 or even 45 years old, minorities, anyone with type 1 or type 2 diabetes, pregnant teachers, former smokers, alcoholics, or teachers who are overweight or obese.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA 5'2 teacher who weighed 136 pounds would qualify as overweight using the BMI index.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWith categories like these, it would be hard to find teachers who weren’t potentially exempt from doing their jobs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe CDC's guidelines told schools to offer \"remote work\" options to teachers with \"high-risk conditions that place them at increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19\". A possibly narrower group, but seemingly incorporating the core proposal from Trautner and the AFT.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe CDC also apparently added Trautner's line about revisiting the guidelines, “in the event of high community-transmission results from a new variant of SARS-CoV-2.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe email from Trautner to the CDC was forwarded by Carole Johnson.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJohnson is one of Biden's three pandemic response coordinators. Forwarding Trautner’s email to the CDC made it very clear that the Biden administration wanted the “science” to be governed by the demands of the AFT through its Director of Healthcare whose medical background was in “healing past life issues” and releasing “karma and deeply seated issues on the cellular level”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBefore becoming a Biden pandemic response coordinator, Johnson had been the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Human Services.Johnson's tenure in the scandal-plagued Murphy administration, which had forced nursing homes to accept infected coronavirus patients, and whose state-run veteran homes had \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/05\/3-out-5-deadliest-coronavirus-outbreaks-were-state-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ebecome death factories\u003C\/a\u003E, had \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/story\/news\/watchdog\/2020\/06\/15\/coronavirus-nj-health-officials-claim-flaws-nursing-home-review\/5342044002\/\"\u003Ebeen controversial\u003C\/a\u003E in her own right. Before that, Johnson had been a senior health policy advisor in the Obama White House, and had worked for assorted lefty non-profits and legislators. What were her scientific qualifications for any of this?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs a New Jersey briefing \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.state.nj.us\/humanservices\/cbvi\/publications\/srcar\/SRC020218.pdf\"\u003Enoted\u003C\/a\u003E, Carole Johnson \"has a Master's degree in government from the University of Virginia. She also has brought on board Andrea Katz, who is her Chief of Staff. Ms. Katz is an attorney by training, and has worked in various capacities for the democratic party.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKatz is currently the chief of staff of the New Jersey Department of Human Services.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWorking in various capacities for the Democrats seems to be all the science that’s needed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat and a law degree.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKelly Trautner, in addition to her energy healing skills, also has a BA in political science from Marshall University and a JD from Capital University. After graduating from law school, Trautner seemed to have become the deputy executive officer of the Ohio Nurses Association. When the union affiliated with the AFT, Trautner came along for the ride.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlong the way she ran the Center for Balanced Living, practiced executive coaching, was certified in yoga and energy healing, and rose to become the director of AFT Nurses and Health Professionals even though there's no sign in her bio of being a nurse or having any kind of medical degree in anything. This year, she made the leap to Senior Director on Health Issues.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESeveral years earlier, Trautner had been urging followers to “send Reiki” energy \"alone or in a group\" because \"the world needs our light.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s not clear what scientific or medical qualification Trautner has on health issues. It’s one thing to head up a union for medical workers, and another to give the CDC medical guidance.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe AFT could have found an actual doctor to serve as Director of Healthcare, and to negotiate with the CDC, the fact that it didn’t says everything about the legitimacy of its medical concerns.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe CDC and the Biden administration certainly knew whom it was dealing with and didn’t care.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen a Reiki master with a law degree is providing the CDC with school reopening guidance, that’s not science, it’s union politics.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA few years ago, Kelly Trautner was \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/columbusfoundation.org\/the-giving-store\/better-together\/healing-through-yoga\"\u003Erunning\u003C\/a\u003E a center using \"trauma-informed yoga programming\" to treat eating disorders. And then she was telling the CDC what to do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden claimed that he was going to listen to the scientists. And then he let an energy healer with a background in healing past life issues and clearing cellular memory have more influence over reopening schools than the actual parents desperately fighting for their children.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo much for the science.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe majority of white Democrats are no longer Christian. And lefties love mocking religion, claiming that they’re rationalists who believe in science, not superstition. And then, whether it’s \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/08\/marianne-williamson-reveals-democrats-are-cult-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003EHillary Clinton’s seance\u003C\/a\u003E or the Marianne Williamson presidential campaign, they prove to be willing to believe in anything and everything except God and the Bible.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E43% of liberals believe that astrology is scientific, 58% of Democrats believe in UFOs, and 69% believe in ghosts. Less than half of Democrats know that the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/08\/marianne-williamson-reveals-democrats-are-cult-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eearth revolves \u003C\/a\u003Earound the sun.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E70% of Republicans believe in God. Only 45% of Democrats do. 39% believe in some ‘other’ power or spiritual force.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen that’s the base of your party, why not turn to an ancient energy healing system from 1989 which planted World Peace Crystal Grids at the poles to send peace energy all over the world?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPeople are entitled to believe whatever they like. What they’re not entitled to do is falsely claim that they’re the party of science when what they really believe is they’re unhappy because in a past life they were Lizzie Borden whose ghost still haunts their downstairs bathroom and that the spaceship is coming to take those with the right colored auras back to their home planet.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd they can’t claim that they’re listening to the science when they’re obstructing school reopenings, when what they’re really doing is listening to energy healing union hacks.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“The science has been evolving,” AFT boss Randi Weingarten had argued. “It’s not a political calculation, it’s based on trying to make the science work.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEvolving the science to make it work for you is what you do when you don’t like the results.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd then you can regress your DNA’s cellular memory and explain that teachers shouldn’t be expected to actually teach children until they work out their past lives as long as the American Federation of Teachers keeps funding the political ambitions of the Democrat Party.\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\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\/p\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"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/5812603884381978882\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/05\/biden-put-past-life-healer-in-charge-of.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5812603884381978882"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5812603884381978882"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/05\/biden-put-past-life-healer-in-charge-of.html","title":"Biden Put Past Life Healer in Charge of School Reopenings"}],"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:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-MXclLqSLYYQ\/YJrUPoARrlI\/AAAAAAAATD0\/2sMJ1z2_S-422Re_ob-Mw0Frb6tAhqszgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/trautner.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}}]}});