Palestinians have the highest birth rate in the world. Liberals describe it as "natural population growth," as opposed to "immigration," and the rate is 4.4 percent annually. In the year 2000, Gaza Strip Palestinian women averaged over 7 child births each. Other Palestinian women averaged almost 6 (5.9). Israeli women on the other hand averaged on three. Arab women within Israel averaged 4.8, and Jewish women 2.7.
Obviously, the idea is to outnumber Israel. It is a mindless animal approach to life. The quality of life is unimportant, the goal is simply to have more Arabic people in Palestine than Jews. When nothing else works, use sex as the weapon. Without intellect, without unity, without strength, you can always depend on sex. It always works. In a short time, you will outnumber your enemy, and you can out-vote him. (This same approach is used here in America by Negroes and Mexicans, with increasing success.)
Haifa University professor Arnon Sofer predicts a collapse of Israel in less than 20 years. It will happen through sheer numbers. Arabs greatly outnumber Israelis within the country of Israel itself. The Palestinian State projected by Sharon et al. ought to include at least a provision that all Arabs in Israel must move to the new Palestinian state. And this, after Israel has allowed so many Arabs to remain in Israel all these years.
Pat Buchanan's Death of the West (2002) attributes population decline in societies where material values and the quality of life are valued in a way that, in order to have them, one must not create large families. He quoted my article "What's Up With White Women?" (originally published on FrontPageMagazine.com), but only as more evidence of the discontent the white race feels over the giddy heights of being the greatest culture in the world. Buchanan actually evades the issue of responsible reproduction altogether when it comes to the mindless third world, as if they are just a natural evolution, without will, without management.
Buchanan also quotes Steve Sailer (VDARE.com columnist), for which cause Mr. Sailer responded quite candidly. Saler points out that Mexican-American women have a higher birth rate than Mexican women in Mexico. In the '80's it was 3.27, and that's 74% higher than non-Hispanic American women. It has increased greately since then. Sailer is of course very much against current American immigration policies. Yet, Sailer doesn't address the moral responsibility of reproduction either.
Fidel Castro, probably one of the most consistent and significant liars of the 20th Century, equalled only by the Clintons, said to the United Nations in a 1979 speech that underdevelopment was what caused overpopulation, and underdevelopment (of third world countries) was caused by the industrial nations, among which the United States was principle. It isn't the fault of the poor people that they have nothing to do but make babies. It's the fault of those people who are busy working, and who are wise enough not to have so many children.
Israel will have to make some major decisions about population in the near future. The Communist revolt against achievement degrades humanity to the level of sexual function as political weapon. The Arabs have fallen into the trap. The religion or race doesn't really matter. Danial Pipes certainly sees a similarity between Islam and Communism, despite their efforts to distinguish themselves. But Communism subsumes all revolts against achievement. Communism just uses people as chattel, no matter what their race or religion. People are merely animals, to be stampeded against the personal self-control which has brought prosperity to the West.
Having a child is a moral decision in the minds of thinking Western Christians. For Arab Muslims it's made a moral obligation. For Communists it is a political necessity. No wonder children of the latter two are so willing to die for a cause. They are born unwanted as persons, needed only as bodies.
The Muslim woman in Florida is now suing the state over its denial of her driver's license. She refuses to take off her veil for the license photo, and the state revoked her license. "This is about religious freedom," says Howard Marks, ACLU attorney.
Is it? Sultanna Freeman, (formerly Sandra Kellar) a white, 35-year-old American-born convert to Islam, from Decatur, Illinois, married to a Negro convert, Abdul-Maalik Freeman, and the full background of either is not yet public information. Looking at the last photo in the Yahoo News slide show with this story, Kellar appears to be very much of Eastern European lineage, in fact so far east, she might even be Middle Eastern. Being "born in America" doesn't mean American at all, any more. And as the Black Muslim traitor-soldier Asan Akbar demonstrated, wearing the American military uniform doesn't mean you're American either. The word "American" has become a cover for America's enemies, giving them the most advantageous position to destroy.
This is about taking advantage of our legal system, perverting American values, and trying to change America into something it isn't, nor was ever meant to be.
It really doesn't matter what the religion is, Hindu, Vodoo, or Islam, it is an opportunity to assert, in your face, foreign values, demanding that they be considered "equal." This is the formal position of the ACLU in the case. So it isn't about religious freedom. It's about changing America. It is anti-Christian, and anti-Western culture.
Arabs are having a hey-day asserting themselves, their culture, their religion, all right here in America. They make excellent "victims." It is big business for attorneys, of course, and as usual.
No, I think this is about subversion. This is about calculated racial/religious activism, designed to agitate, insult, and degrade America and American values. This is orchestrated, and will continue to become more widespread. This is a "doctrine" of diversity, a program of perversity, with incendiary intent. There are professionals behind it.
Interesting how the legal system seems to invite this, even to tempt it. The defense tradition is always to blame some one else, even the devil. The Muslim women is the perfect victim. The system thrives on her kind. So, why don't we blame the legal system, and particularly those in it who promote perversity in the name of freedom? It's not the Communists' fault, not the Arab Muslims' fault. It's the attorneys' fault. It would be great to have a way to make that stick, but without real judges, attorneys have a field day every day. So then it's actually the judges' fault.
Finally, we could say it is the peoples' fault, for tolerating it. We the people have the constitutional authority to bring indictments, through grand jury process, on any official who has failed their sworn statutory duty. We have wings, and we can fly. No one ever has, and therefore we don't realize we have wings, nor that we can fly.
The New York Times couldn't let the story end with the dismissal of Jason Blair, the young black "writer," imposter, liar, and general fake. True to liberal form, the NYT decided to make another story out of a white male writer, Rick Bragg, and suspend him for something, anything, to show managerial balance and fairness. Why, there's no racism at the Times. None whatsoever. None of any kind.
It's international news now, in world languages! Well, it's all "news." It's all good.
In the monkey see-monkey do society in which we live, more papers will come up with storied of race and fraud in their own ranks. All sorts of things will be discovered, investigated, researched, etc. It's all "news." Scandal within the scandal mongers. Best news of all. Look at the Jessica Lynch story. Completely scandalized, and all due to reporters, story writers, editors, and newspaper sales.
The New York Times ought to be boycotted, seriously. The NYT has been demonstrably and historically fraudulent before. But, the scandal itself is big news, and sells. Economics trumps ethics, and racial victimhood sells. No paper can afford to take it off the market.
Here is a list of Blair's contaminated articles. At least we can isolate the virus.
He definitely took advantage of his own racial identity. Of course he wants to exonerate his own guilt by blaming the NYT for their own mistake. How can he be held responsible for their mistake?
Jason Blair appears to be an emotionally disturbed, imbalanced individual, with a history of drug problems. This is being kept out of mainstream print, but it was on TV. White women commentators discussed Blair, with great sympathy. His landlady reported what a likable guy Blair was. Just a tragedy, poor guy. Just too bad.
Suckers.
My profoundest regrets for having not formally noted Memorial Day on BadEagle.com. I could plead the confusing, perplexing circumstances of my personal life, the fact that Memorial Day is supposed to be May 30, but it was observed Monday the 26th, to extend the previous weekend. I almost missed the Red Earth Dance Festival because I thought it was the same weekend. I was wrong in both cases, because both were the same "weekend."
Most of our "holidays" have been shifted to Monday or Friday, to extend weekends. It doesn't really matter what the holiday is, or why it's celebrated. It's just part of a long "time off."
Holidays are special time. Marked time. We have 364-5 days a year to work with, to mark, to celebrate. Every day is some special day, somewhere, it seems. It is a great fad, to celebrate everyone else's holidays, to commemorate all the holidays in the world.
What's behind a holiday? I know a friend who once worked on a masters thesis suggesting that the old Hebrew Sabbath was the archetype of special time. All other holidays (i.e., holy days) were spawned from this source. An interesting application of Jungian psychology it was. (Of course, this would be the literal interpretation of Genesis, which, by the way, does not note the existence of Hebrews until some 2500 years after creation. So, the sabbath really isn't "Jewish," according to the Jewish scriptures.)
Time is invisible. There are changes in the seasons, in the positions of the heavenly bodies, etc., but these are all visible. The marking off of the sabbath (Gen. 2:1-3) represents a most peculiar concept. "Kadosh," (Hebrew for "holy") is first used not in reference to the Creator, but to the sabbath, or holy time. It was to be different time from all other time. How could this be? Time is utterly untouchable. The Creator said the seventh day was "holy," but how so? Nature demonstrates no acknowledgement, as all things continue.
It all comes down to man's behavior. This is the only thing man has any say over. He can alter his own behavior. He can do or not do. In as much as the sabbath is declared a time when the Creator ceased from creating, man is to imitate Him in whose image he was created by ceasing from labor.
Thus, the idea that we don't work on holidays. We celebrate something. We acknowledge the significance of something.
Maybe sabbath is the archetype of the Collective Unconscience, the experience common to all humanity away back there in the dim memories of the race. Maybe sabbath is why people everywhere always have holidays, even in tribal circumstances. There's something about marking time to remember important things.
An interesting concept. My friend's name was Doug Vivian. I don't know exactly where he is, or what he is doing now, or if he is alive. His thesis was worked on at Andrews University, in Berien Springs, Mich. This was many years ago. I don't know what became of it, but I remember him telling me about it.
It might seem difficult to believe, but there is still a problem with mad cow disease, BSE (the bovine form of Transmittable Spongiform Encephalopathy). This is the prion-related "slow virus," the brain degenerative disease transmitted through cannibalism.
Today's report on the Canadian testing is not encouraging to me at all. As most reports, it does not address the real issue: who is continually creating cannibal feed? We know grinding up animals into food used to feed other animals is precisely the way this disease is transmitted, and we know that humans can get the disease from eating meat of infected animals.
Therefore, whatever company(s) creating the feed must be charged with criminal manslaughter, if not murder. The cattle business is big. In the US, over the past 12 years, some $30 billion dollars has been generated in profits. Over 139 million head of cattle, sheep, and hogs are slaughtered annually. But millions of these animals, nonetheless, die of accident and disease, and the disposal of their carcasses presents a serious problem. How "economical" to simply grind up their remains and use it for feed. What a convenient solution. The financial pressures are too tempting.
I come from a state, Oklahoma, whose history was very much ramrodded by cattlemen. My own tribe, the Comanche, was quite affected by the deals the government-appointed "chief," Quannah Parker, made with cattle ranchers to use Indian land for grazing. Huge herds of cattle make their ranchers behave like ramrodders because cattle move, cattle graze, and need huge portions of land. Cattle can't wait. Neither can their owners.
Mad Cow disease is a case of ramrodding the public with the economic pressures of the meat industry. This is why cattle companies drive their herds into the world market, regardless. They can't afford to be quarantined. They deny infection, deny contamination, and deny any connection. Reports aren't reliable either, because they will not address the real issue.
That issue is, again, the ramrodding of feed manufacturers. They buy the ground up animal remains, knowingly or conveniently unknowlingly. They sell it. Cattlemen who sold the carcasses end up buying it, and feeding it to their livestock. We the people end up eating that.
Maybe we should be vegatarians. Then we only have to worry about chemicals sprayed on the plants, and raw human sewage used as fertilizer, like it's used in Mexico, and in other third world countries. What a fine economic advantage that is.
Maybe we should just fast.
The United States Postal Service, which is not a government agency, but a government subsidized business, has been trying to promote a stamp commemorating a Muslim holiday, EID. It was first issued September 1, 2001. Of course, after the 9-11 Arab Muslim celebration of the death of Americans, the stamp was pulled. In a little while, the stamp was re-issued.
Certainly boycotts were called for, and boycotts were assessed by the "fair-minded." The boycotts were only a natural reaction.
But those who disdain the boycotts offer only the most hackneyed views of feigned objectivity and political righteousness. "We must not group all Muslims together," they way. "We mustn't stereotype." Never mind that, according to Gestalt psychology, stereotyping is one of the most natural responses of the human mind. It is in fact the basis of defense. We must be careful about risks.
Arab Muslims are a risk.
Furthermore, I don't see stamps written in Polish, Italian, Russian, or Chinese. Why a Muslim stamp? Why a Muslim holiday? There are over 5 million people in the United States claiming the Muslim faith. There are 10 million Polish-Americans, 15 million Italian-Americans, and even 4 million Russian-Americans. There are at least 2.4 million Chinese-Americans. Where are their stamps? Where are their alphabets and letters on commemorative stamps?
Also, these groups represent real races and cultures, not religions. The five million people claiming Islam in America aren't just Arabs. There are also American Negroes, Southeast Asians, and some Iranians (though their practice of Islam is quite unobstrusive). This Eid stamp is strictly an Islamic religious stamp. And it is a religions completely foreign to America and American values.
Ah, but America is like a show and tell fair. American culture is the Broadway of the world. If you can make it here, you've "arrived" in the world. Get a stamp made, get a magazine, get a food chain. Ethnicity and religion are marketable goods. It can actually be quite fascinating, to have all the world right here, at your fingertips.
However, as I reminded an American black muslim female student at Pennsylvania State when I was there, "America is not a Muslim country." Islam is not part of the foundation of America, in any stretch of the imagination. There are a few remote liberal scholars trying to lay the claim, though, trying to say Arabic Islam was in on the foundations of America. This would be their most precious coup. This would be the ultimate validation. Everyone wants a part of the greatness. Everyone wants to feel included.
Fine. I just hope that White Anglo-Saxon Protestants remember their role.
I think Arab Muslim terrorists have gone too far now. With the bombing murders in Casa Blanca, they have shown no limits to their targets. The bombing murders in Riyadh might be written up as Arab family feuds, but, reaching out to murder other Arabs is a sure sign of unlimited vice. If one did not believe in Satan, one could take a metaphorical, pathological approach, and say "radical" Islam is an autolysis, a cancer, or a contagious disease.
Since 9-11, I have recommended not only deporting Arab Muslims from America, but also creating a travel ban. At least temorarily, no nation should allow Arab Muslims to travel. Arab Muslims should be confined to their own countries. And since terrorist can fake being Christian, it's going to have to be all Arabs banned from travel.
Sound outrageous? I think mass murder is outrageous., too. I'm so outrageous that I would prefer to protect myself, rather than worry about being called outrageous.
I feel no hatred toward Arab Muslims. I feel no vengeance anymore. I feel the simple need to follow protective measures. Of course we could never depend on the U.N. to make any sort of statement that would benefit the world, but they theoretically ought to call for a containment of Arab Muslims. Until the murderers among them are sorted out, there has to be a quaratine. This is the way we have to deal with contagion, like SARS. Why the sudden breach of protocol? The Arabs are "carriers." Innocense is not the issue. Disease containment is. We don't have an innoculation yet.
Otherwise, we can surely look forward to more outbreaks, more frequently. Only the individual ego of the murderer keeps him from murdering us in our private homes. He wants more glory than that. He wants to kill as many people as possible. One on one won't do it for him. He's a showman at heart. He wants a big audience. He wants a big stage. He wants everyone to see his show.
Truly, this is humanity at its sickest, most "Satanic" low, suffering from it's most self-destructive disease. Well, Islam is all about unity. Man is one. You have to kill big hunks of Man to feel Islamic about your murders.
Now Iraqi prisoners claim the U. S. and British troops tortured them. Beautiful. It was only a matter of time until they figured out how effective such claims might be. After all, most Arabs regimes are notorious for torturing prisoners, and preeminently the most recent Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein. It is only logical that some psychotics over there would finally make such a claim of torture against the West. After all, they know torture happens among them all the time. If the West thinks torture is so terrible, then let's accuse them of it! Yeah, that'll work. I'm sure that's the "advise" they were given.
Notice that Amnesty International has yet to contront the U.S. or Britain. It is more effective for their purposes to publish the accusation. Accusations are free. Never mind "thou shalt not bear false witness." False witnessing is big, big business in theis world. The legal profession could not survive without it. The news media would be dead without it. Big profit, at no cost. Who can resist?
And too, Amnesty International must keep up its rep for total objectivity and international Big Brotherhood. It has a thing for hurling accusations against any and all, any time, any place. Don't we all envy such a lofty perspective?
Amnesty International is still chaffing under the frustrations from pre-Iraqi Freedom days, when the U.S. ignored all its reports of torture going on in Iraq. Why, the U.S. just decided to use those reports when the U.S. government was making a case for invasion, says Amnesty International's Irene Kahn.
So, we need Iraqis to accuse the U.S. of torture. That evens things up. That's justice.
War and prisons are terrible realities of life amongst humans. Indeed, they are the worst social developments we know.
Yet, it just seems like Amnesty International just doesn't want the U.S. to look so good, so noble, so right, as to go into Iraq and try and straighten things out. It's as if AI is saying, "We want you (the US) to look into this Iraqi torture right now." The US carefully calculated a move, which took several years, actually, then went in and ended it. But it wasn't quick enough to suit AI. And now AI is condeming the US for ending it, and sulking. AI is so nasty about it, they want to turn around and accuse the US of torture! They're miffed. Their authority wasn't respected sufficiently.
These globalist folk are dangerous. They don't even try to appear honest. No means, no methods are barred from their efforts. It looks like they'll stop at nothing, and have absolutely no shame about it. And why have shame when you can do no wrong?
China is about to start executing people who intentionally spread SARS. Well, that means that the Chinese government is trying to enforce the quarantines necessary to contain the disease.
China could also try deportation (as if they haven't already). I suggest they send SARS patients to San Francisco. Here the patients will be treated with equality, and their right to share their views (and diseases) will be protected by law.
Ask any AIDS patient. The most deadly disease of all is given the royal treatment in San Francisco.
And the homosexuals of America are determined that as they suffer, everyone else must suffer with them. Why, they don't even believe anyone should know they have the disease! Now, that's real protection. And they don't want anyone even thinking they look sick, either. Yet, that's costing them some sympathy, so they're ambivolent about that.
But non-homosexual health officials have to deal with certain psychological facts. Those who are suffering with AIDS often want others to suffer with them, and carelessly spread the disease. They become rebellious and angry about the fact that they're dying, and they willfully infect others. They often blame society and the government for their illness, and seek to punish society by spreading the disease. Works for syphilis, too.
Clearly, the place to go if you're sick is San Francisco. Free lodging and toilets included. I should say, camp sites, rather than lodging, to be more accurate.
And you can get through Toronto now, if you need to. We don't want any city to suffer economically because of some highly commnicable disease. Keep those infections coming! We want them in America. We want all the poor, the miserable, and the diseased on our shores.
Even the Arabs have more sense than this. Funny how the third world countries can get tough, but in the Land of Tolerance, we must embrace the curse. We must love Death, and all in the name of Communist "equality." All in the name of "justice," and "rights."
Iranian leaders are worried about America's presence which now seems to surround them. I would be worried too. The leaders know that Iranian people will soon show that they can be better Americans than Americans! No people is more capable of a fresh start in a Republican form of Democracy than the Iranians of today.
I told them as much when I was there in 1999. The last speech I gave at the end of my two-week tour was for the Language Department of the University of Tehran. I said to the students, "You don't have to make the same mistakes America as made. I expect better from you. I expect that you will bring about an even better form of Democracy."
What on earth was my basis for such a remark? Persian tradition. I should say, the Persian knack for taking hold of some foreign thing, and then turning it into a bigger, better thing. It is Persian magic. They've done it many, many times in history.
As the renowned professor and author Seyyed Hossein Nasr has says, "Persia from time immemorial has played this role of imposing unity upon the multiplicity of ideas, forms, and motifs that have entered its borders from East and West, thereby bringing into being a new creation fresh and profoundly Persian." See, "Essay," in Roloff Beny, Persia:Bridge of Turquoise (Toronto: MacClelland and Stewart, 1975), p. 34.
The key word here is "Persian." Iranian Islamic leaders (many of whom are Arabic) have tried desperately to deny the Iranian people their glorious Persian history. This history gives the Iranian people a potential that is beyond anything in the East.
So bring it on! Let the new Persia try its own version of Republican Democracy. Not the Communist form of coerced equality with tyrannical leaders, but the real, original American style of a Republican form of democracy. I'm sure that Iranian people will indeed make some major improvements. American is not faultless. Persians stand at the threshold of historical opportunity. They can create a new America, right in the center of the Middle East.
I have finally finished my manuscript, The State of the Dead. I am having my agent in New York look at it. There is interest for publication. The paper is an academic approach to the subject, but only because it is a historically based look at death.
How has death been regarded in the past, especially by the ancients? My premise is that the ancients, who lived closer to the origins of things, must have had a better idea of how things began. Sounds anti-scientific, but it is certainly not an illogical approach.
I consider pre-historic evidence of funerary behavior, then Egyptian, Zoroastrian, and Hebrew thanatology. Along the way, I consider mummies, vampires, and spirits, angels, and philosophy, as well as evolution and creation cosmologies.
The footnotes are sometimes exotic, if not fantastic, in the imaginary sense. I note at one point the matter of Near Death Experience. Then I consider euthanasia in juxtaposition with abortion, and in a mere footnote, I suggest that one day soon we will have a volume of testimonies of "Near Life Experiences." Based on genetics and environmental social statistics, I predict that scientists will project lives of those who were not allowed to live, or, the aborted. Lives that might have been will be considered as though they were lived.
Moralists often suggest that we are held responsible for the good we've neglected to do, etc. The implication is that someone is responsible for all that might have been done through a life not allowed to live, for better or for worse.
I've never articulated a position on abortion, but "Near Life Experiences" is an inevitable implication of the computer age. It's only a matter of time when a total life can be projected through statistical sciences. Free will then comes to be seen as a very subjective, limited thing, almost like an illusion.
Of course, the Judeo-Christian believer can still say that that little illusion of freedom is what unlocks the door to eternity. The wrong use of it keeps the unbeliever out.
There was a day when the new Arab religion was grand. It swept over the world like a wildfire. From Mohammad's conquest of Arabia beginning in 622 AD. through 1258, Islam ruled just about everything outside of central Europe. The Umayyad and Abbasid dynasties were followed by the Ottoman Turks. It was a global civilization, and it actually disseminated much knowledge of medicine, astronomy, architecture, mathematics, as well as of history, poetry, literature, and religious studies. It was no mean effort.
As late as 1683, the Turkish Muslims laid seige against Vienna. Much of Eastern Europe, as well as the western, Irberian peninsula, retains Muslim influences even to this day.
But I suppose we have to recognize that most of what Islam "conquered" was the third world nations of the Medieval world. It never conquered really strong nations, like those of central Europe. It only seemed like a step up for nations without focus or development, like Arabia, Egypt, and even Iran at the time.
Islamic Fundamentalism, sometimes known as Wahhabism (after the reformer Muhammad ibn abd al-Wahhab, of the mid-18th century) is an austere form of Sunni Islam, and is really an attempt to restore the political position of Islam in the world. It rose up against the European "invasions" into Egypt, Arabia, and other homeland areas of Islam. (Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798.)
The problem is, in today's world, Islam is a step backward, not forward. Political Islamic fundamentalism is stifling, and brings retardation to industrial, economic progress.
But the old spirit still burns, of course. The Shi'ites can contribute to the same ideology of regression. Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the new voice in southern Iraq, is calling Britain and the U.S. evil invaders who must be repelled, for they are criminals and villains. He has issued an official religious decree (a fatwa) that the U.S. and Britain must be expelled from Iraq. Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer al-Hakim, the Iraqi leader exiled in Iran for two decades has returned, and is equally urgent in wanting to establish Islam politically. The progress of the West is considered evil.
Herein is the problem obvious: socio-economic development is not the goal of Islamic leaders, but only their individual political power. Case in point: Iran. When I was there in 1999, I noticed that more than half of the great lakes of the country had turned to salt. A country known for its fresh springs and endless supply of fresh water, now experiences the corruption of its natural resources.
One of my guides and companions in eastern Iran, a retired professor of engineering, told me this salt problem was nothing more than the result of poor management. The mullahs (Islamic religious leaders) knew nothing of practical reality. Their lust for political power was vice-gripping, and they were utterly unqualified to manage anything but religious thought. The country languishes due to the incapacities of its leaders.
Of course, not a single person in Iran, leader or commoner, ever once mentioned the U.S. trade sanctions against Iran. I was curious about this. Apparently, they don't see this as a problem.
The folk are just so genteel, they don't want to come out and condemn their own leaders as the failures which they really are. Iranians are gentlemen. The Crown Prince of Iran Reza Pahlavi knows it, too. He understands. They don't like guns, and they don't want to embarrass their fatherly mullahs (although they would like very much to see the Arabic mullah-ism out of the country).
Yet, the case is obvious. Iran is potentially the most powerful country of the East. The people are talented and brilliant. Islam has choked them. It is Medieval Arab culture and has crippled their country. Iranians realize this. They are ready for change. I don't expect them to through away religion at all. They will simply manage it better, the way the old Persian emperors did. "Submission" isn't the Persian political way, but management!
There's really no end to it. Racially based objections to cultural realities is a inexhaustible source of contention and profit for those disposed to discontent. Georgia's state flag is still a hot subject for the agitators.
Gov. Sonny Perdue, first Republican governor of Georgia since the 19th century, hasn't solved the problem yet, though he's trying. He wants another new flag, compromising the Old South tradition with the new Negro objections. There's a problem between white folks who want the historical flag, the red "X" with stars, and the "black" population who protest it as a relic of slavery days.
Most news articles on this issue seem to inevitably describe anyone who wants the historical flag as a racist. "Institutionalized racial hatred" is a pat phrase to debunk any semblence of anything in Southern history that happened to exist at the same time slavery existed.
I think they'll have to burn down all the plantation homes, and burn all the cotton fields. After all African slaves onced work in them and on them. You can't ride horses any more in the South, because slaves ones took care of horses. There's no end to the offense.
It's all part of the Communist, racially-based "turn American upside down" program. Minorities generally don't see themselves playing this part, but, they are, nonetheless. They are just too wrapped up in the personal, emotional experience to perceive the larger political picture in which they are players.
Souther Flags are like Indian mascots, in a way. They represent history. And the old rebel flag does not represent racial hatred. Southern whites did not "hate" their slaves. That's a modern, emotional reading of history, designed to create endless racial agitation.
Indian mascots came into being as talismen, as magic power holders, to help focus the team's energy to win. And indian mascot has nothing to do with racial hatred or denigration. Again, that's a modern reading of the phenomenon, written by anti-American subversives.
Indians can and do actually come to feel offended by the mascots. Since the '70's, the "university tribe" sees real psychological harm done by the mascots. No one said anything before. For 70 years no one said anything. Why? Indians weren't educated to say anything before.
Discontent is a matter of proper information, proper education. Unless you are told how and why you are offended, you might miss it altogether.
Ideology trumps morality in American politics. Today, ideology is morality. Whatever used to be a matter of right and wrong is now subsumed by the political scheme of Left vs Right, not "wrong" vs. right.
And right or wrong, some people go nude for a living. Artists have always justified the use of nudity, as have their dealers and buyers. Today we distinguish between nudity and obscenity. We have too. There are too many professional exibitionists among us. And to think, even Plato (4429-347 BC) condemned the public display of nudity (The Republic, BK lll) as something that would encourage indulgence, vice, and loss of self-control.
Today, we go beyond nudity. Never mind the morality or immorality of it. It's a job. As such, it nuders deserve the finest our culture offers in the way of protection, security, health, and best working conditions. Why, we're defined by our jobs. They must therefore have all the dignity the law can muster.
Nude models at Moore College of Art and Design (Philadelphia) are rising up to be recognized in this grand American labor tradition. They may have a union soon. And listen to the District 47 response of Gar Kapanowski: "The labor movement needs to reach out to constituencies beyond the normal groups." How compassionate. How feeling. How touching. How intimate, indeed. But he'll have to amend that last nomenclature, though. "Normal groups?" Aren't exhibitionists normal? After all, we're operating on the Communist idea of equality here. Better change that to "beyond the present groups," or "established" groups. We don't want anyone thinking there's possibly anything wrong with nude modeling. They can't be abnormal, or paranormal.
Well, lots of people have done it. University of Oklahoma's David Boren is said to have posed as a nude model, as an undergraduate at Yale. I heard that myself when I was there at Yale. Hard to prove, of course. Even his nemesis Michael Wright hasn't included that one on record, though Wright has "exposed" some strange homosexual issues around Boren. But, as undergrads, students do weird things to get by sometimes. Sometimes, students just to do weird things.
Alas, we don't want our nude models feeling oppressed, abused, and neglected. The deserve the full coverage, so to speak, of the law. The robe of Communist righteousness must cover them as well.
So they think they've found the central village of Powhatan, the great Indian chief and father of Pocahontas. Okay. What does this imply? What does this reveal?
American Indians today do not have authority over our own artifacts. We don't own our own bones. We try, but, it was too long ago, and the land is controlled by another, conquering race.
I wonder if everyone is aware of how many Indian artifacts there are in Europe. Why, there's even an American Indian museum in Poland. Muzeum Indian Amerykanskich, in Walbrzych. Robert Legan is the director (www.kondor.hm.pl, or www.republika.pl/icatowba/)
Why can't there be American Indian Museusms for each American Indian tribe or linguistic group, own and operated by American Indians, on their own lands, and why can't such museums have possession of all known Indian artifacts? Why are these artifacts elsewhere?
This is all about race, relics, and possession. Why is the American Indian so precious to the rest of the human race? Why are our arrowheads so "psychic," as if they possesses the power of ghosts? Why is every piece of leather, every string of gut, every original bead so terribly valuable?
Those professional Indian protesters out there yelling about mascots have really missed the mark entirely! I think if they don't want to be honored, they should crash every museum that has American Indian artifacts in it.
But this isn't about honor. It is about power. It is about possession of a talisman--the American Indian image. It looks like people just want the power.
As an Indian, I have to see that as flattering, if not honoring. But, in fact, it's a little weird, isn't it? I mean, what is so sacred about an old Indian moccasin? Why is it so valuable?
I think the answers to these questions are very much a part of the reason there are mascots all over the country. I think Indians who want them removed (at white liberal instigation) are doing Indians a great disservice, because they are playing with power they don't understand. They are diffusing something whose power is greater than them.
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft says that organized criminals are responsible for the looting of the Iraqi National Museum. There is no way that street thugs could know what to do with the treasures if they took them. They wouldn't have the connections.
It does make you wonder what will become of the artifacts. They are valuable only to those who know what they are. But, then, to whom might the stolen treasures be shown? The black market for this sort of thing has been operating for more than a century in modern times. Yet, if an item is stolen, obviously to sell, and someone buys it to possess it, it must be kept completely secret, which defeats the whole purpose for owning it in the first place.
France, England, and Germany have been duking it out in archeology for a hundred and fifty years or more, each wanting to possess the treasures of the Middle East in their own country's museums and in the castles of the rich.
In 1884, Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy and his wife (Jane) excavated at Susa, the fabled palace city of the ancient Achaemenid (Persian) emperors (late 6th century BC). In southwest Persia (modern Iran), Susa was considered a unique find. It was to the French a revival of romaticism.
In 1895, the Dieulafoys got the French ambassador at Tehran to persuade Shah Nasir al-Din to grant France the monopoly for archaeological excavation in Iran. By 1897, France created the Delegation Scientifique Francaise en Perse. Yes, it was a matter of money, but the point is, Europe competed for excavation rights and treasures. Middle Eastern potentates (obviously less than politically potent) sold more and more to the Europeans.
[A little known fact is that the book of Esther, of the Old Testament, was the only guide to the palace at Susa. High minded academics, including many Jewish authorities, scoffed at the idea that Esther was a historically accurate piece of literature, but, low and behold, it was accurate in reference to the palace.]
The two-day (Monday and Tuesday) conference at which Ashcroft spoke was, of course, held in southeastern France. I wonder about that. I suppose the U.S. is trying to give France every opportunity to act descent and caring, even though everyone knows the French government is not an ally of the United States, nor is Germany, and certainly not Russia.
And speaking of artifacts, I heard through the biblical research grape vine that the original Greek manuscripts of the New Testament are held somewhere in Russia. I've never researched the reality of this rumor, but, I'm thinking it is quite possible, logically. Atheism can be every bit as materialistic as Catholicism, or even capitalist Protestantism. Relics, artifacts, manuscripts, are all precious items, and change hand only through great amounts of money, or by theft.
Biblical Archaeology Review (May/June 2003, p.6) has now announced a Create-a-Fake contest, with a $10,000 prize, for the best artifically created forgery. It is a science project, really, but it reflects some basic economic philosophy. Whenever there's something valuable, hands will be stretched out to grab it.
People will sell it, steal it, or fake it. That's the law of the jungle.
I wonder what the "indigenous" folk of Iraq will end up saying about their long lost treasures. If communist-trained, they should say, "All Iraqi treasures belong to the Iraq people. Never mind who sold them to whom, who stole them, or who possesses them now. They rightfully belong to the Iraqi people. We demand they all be returned to our country, or to at least whomever is occupying the Euphrates river valley."
They should consult professional (non-traditional), communist-trained American Indian leaders. I'm sure they would get great advice. Only in this case, the "indigenous" folk may have a better argument. The Pharaohs of London are a lot farther away from home than the medicine bag of Red Cloud. That's stored in the Yale Peabody Museum.
So, scientists are getting back into the sewer to find the direct link to the SARS contagion. I say it's time the world reconsidered those ol' Jewish kosher laws again! I've posted on this subject before, but it bears repeating. The people of China are getting quite fearful these days.
Ancient Hebrew law could not, of course, have known of bacteriology, virology, or germ warfare. Yet, the laws, even in their superstitious, neurotic appearance in ancient literature, the Hebrew laws clearly demonstrate some comprehension of the science. The laws are like a gesture of true knowledge, true science, in a prophetic form.
The concept is presented as a differentiation: first, holy and unholy (Lev. 10:10), then clean and unclean (Lev. 11:47). Leviticus chs. 12-15 are all about various contagions, all basically through physical contact. Precise, specific instructions are given for diagnosis of a "plague," as well as preventative, containment measures.
Certainly, the rabbis expanded on these, not really knowing microbiology per se. There is an collection of rabbinical writings called the Tractate Berakoth (trans. English by A. Lukyn Williams, 1921), which was compiled before the end of the 2nd Century C.E. (A.D.) In it there are ennumerable debates between the School of Hillel and the School of Shammai on table manners. For instance, after you've wiped your hands on a napkin, it is definitely unclean. But, when you put it down on the table cloth, is the table cloth now also unclean? Shammai says basically it is unclean, Hillel says clean.
I side with Shammai on this one. If there was an infectious germ on your hands, you bet that table cloth is likely unclean. You cough on it, with TB, then you wipe your hands with it, then place it where another human being will likely have contact with it.
The Mishnah (complied by ca.200 A.D.) contains a massive amount of refined, linguistic perfections regarding debates over the invisible, both microbilogical and "spiritual," or, psychological. [Jacob Neusner's translation is the newest, a perhaps the most accessible, Yale, 1988]. One see's the Jewish mind debating the holy time of the Sabbath, and the scientific understanding of human behavior transpiring therein, in order to judge whether that behavior is "work" or not. Work must not be performed on the holy Sabbath.
Rabbinical literature is remarkbly scientific. In fact, Talmudic scholar Aiden Steinsaltz asserts that rabbinical literature in fact constitutes the origin of the modern scientific method. (He lectured on this at Yale in 1979.)
My point is simple: the neurotic aversions found in ancient Jewish culture have proven to be the prophetic gestures of modern medicine and hygien. Their obsessions with "clean and unclean" issues was based on facts of which they were unaware. It is if their Unconscious mind proved to be our Conscious knowledge.
So, the measure of civilization is not its statuary (idols), but its sewers, or, its management of human waste, its understanding of clean and unclean. I say, America is lucky for its Judeo-Christian background, and even luckier that more of the Judeo- part became manifest in our modern culture.
A former Afghan Taliban leader has come up with The Perfect Lie. "The Taliban will continue their struggle for peace," said mullah Mohammad Hasad Rehmani, today. Yes, he couched it in other prophecies: the Taliban will continute its jihad, brutally enforce Islamic law, and fight against American troops in Afghanistan. Yet, the business about struggling for peace, that says it all, all about the lie.
I don't know that any Islamic fundamentalist leader has so perfected his delusion, at least in the public expression of it. Lying is an acknowledged tool in Islamic leadership. And hardly any one in the world expects the perfect truth from any politician. But, in Islam, there seems to be a studied acceptance of the tool (despite open denunciations of it). Islamic lying operates in such obvious ways, one gets the distinct impression that the Muslim is under no moral obligation to tell the truth to an unbeliever.
The Iraqi Minister of Information, Mohammad Saeed al-Sahaf is a classic case. He lied perpetually, in the face of obvious truth, and everyone knew he was lying. He knew everyone knew he was lying, yet he lied just the same, as if it were a mechanical duty. It actually became humorous.
But isn't this a bit dangerous for the mental health of everyone? Lying doesn't affect just the liar, it effects all who have to listen, especially those who know they're hearing a lie.
For a parent to tell a child, "What a beautiful picture!" when the child has handed a scribbled drawing of a flower, is not the same as saying, "The Iraqi forces are in complete control of the Hussein Airport." I doesn't seem like the same thing. Maybe, philosophically, in some sense, it is the same.
But, practically, it isn't. The child is being encouraged. There is nurturing relationship between the parent and child. Positive influence brings positive behavior and development. Al-Sahaf's words were delusional. There was no future for Hussein's regime, and there was no point in trying to encourage anyone to think there was. His lies no doubt cost the lives of many Iraqi soldiers. His lies mislead certain people into false security and courage. His lies were harmful, and deadly.
Perhaps we all lie, a lot. But, intentional lies, that knowingly harm, are the kind of lies that we all hate. In the case of Iraq, and in the case of much of Islamic fundamentalism, this is the kind of lying that happens.
A terrorist is a liar, basically. Yet, even Osama bin Laden has never claimed he struggles for peace.
The Turks have the idea. When nature dumps on you, blame your government.
And Communists think they have Americans trained to protest!
A terrible earthquake hit Bingol, Turkey, yesterday, killing over 100 people with the death count rising. Well, in 1999 18,000 were killed in another quake on the Anatolia Fault. The children remember. (That of course makes it more significant.)
But the Turks didn't have their act together just yet. Only today, when they gathered in the streets to blame the government for the deaths caused by the earthquake, can we see the true spirit of protest. An act of nature destroys their town, but they blame the government for the deaths. Never mind that power was out, communication was difficult. Never mind that poverty is such that people live in openly condemned shacks and dilapidated buildings. A stiff wind could blow them away.
But they find solace, or revenge, against Nature, by blaming the closest human element, their government. They attacked the local police station, and terrorized the officials, then the police came out and fired shots in the air to quell the riotous, rock-throwing crowd.
Now that was a reaction of "human" nature, but it cost the local police chief his job. Amazing grace. What's an official to do? You can't win for losing.
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan in turn blamed "provocateurs" for the unruly rioters. Why, the people were innocent. They'd been taken advantage of by opportunist agitators.
Certainly, building codes should be a first priority in Turkey, where earthquakes are so frequent. Perhaps the government really is responsible on that score. In remote, smaller towns, were poverty is greatest, the likelihood of government regulations and provisions to fill them is however less likely.
Perhaps the Turks should look into the matter of "Allah" again, more closely. Maybe they should blame Allah. Natural disaster is a great terror, indeed. Response time and government intervension or emergency service is truly critical in saving lives. But I think the lesson from Turkey is, Don't depend on your government. Depend on yourself. Depend as least as necessary on government. Nature has its own way. The government can't stop a storm, or an earthquake. But people can prepare for the worst. Isn't that the most people can do?
Blaming the government, in this case, seems terribly naive and immature. It does sound like Communists are still alive and well in Turkey, too. Whenever there is a chance to unite people in social earthquakes, we can know that either Communists or their "children" are at work. You don't have to be a card carrier. You don't even have to know the word "Communism." Just get into the spirit of blaming, and taking to the street, and throwing rocks at your local officals.
If you're not a Communist, don't worry. They'll find you.
The message of yesterday's blog bears re-emphasizing. Communism is coming out strong, in Iraq, as a form of democracy. CNN's Arron Brown aired a segment on the various political parties in Iraq now vying for power and position. The Iraqi interviewed said, "Communism will bring us a democratic form of government," or some similar statement. (Transcript not yet available for April 30 pm.) It was quite clear that Communism was considered the equivalent of democracy.
And it certainly looks like Communism is alive and well in all of Europe, too. Yet, CNN continually refers to "the fall of Communism," as if there's no such thing as Communism anymore. This simply isn't true. This shows a dangerous agenda on the part of CNN.
Human beings constantly vie with each other for power. Communism is just a means to that end. What Communism is now doing, newly disguising itself, only shows how weak it would be if left to its own tyrannical doctrine and historical record of blood baths. Now it presents itself, formally, openly, unabashedly, as democracy. This is its final political usurpation. It usurped "equality," "justice," and "rights," but that was all leading to this final usurpation: communism is "democracy."
We will then learn, or re-learn the truth: communism is absolute tyranny. But, as long as it mixes in through all its usurpations, it will vie dangerously with all the precious principles of American democracy.
What protects America from communist democracy is really out Republicanism, our Republican "form" of democracy. Capitalism functions within that. Otherwise, the real Communism lies in the wings, waiting to take over.