What's Their Problem With Romney?

 

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• Ann Coulter

Feb 22, 2012

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As governor of one of the most liberal states in the union, Mitt Romney did something even Ronald Reagan didn't do as governor of California: He balanced the budget without raising taxes.

Romney became deeply pro-life as governor of the aforementioned liberal state and vetoed an embryonic stem cell bill. (Meanwhile, Newt Gingrich lobbied President George W. Bush to allow embryonic stem cell research.)

Romney's approach to illegal immigration in Massachusetts resembled what Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona is doing today, making her a right-wing heroine.

Romney pushed the conservative alternative to national health care that, had it been adopted in the 49 other states, would have killed Obama care in the crib by solving the health insurance problem at the state level.

Unlike actual Establishment candidates, Romney has never worked in Washington, much less spent his entire life as a professional politician. He's had a Midas touch with every enterprise he has ever run, including Bain Capital, the Olympics and Massachusetts.

The chestnut about Mitt Romney being pushed on unsuspecting conservatives by "the Establishment" is the exact opposite of the truth. The Establishment, by any sensible definition, is virulently opposed to Romney -- and for completely contradictory reasons.

The entire NFM (non-Fox media) hate Romney because he is the only candidate who stands a chance of beating Obama.

Meanwhile, many of the pillars of the conservative establishment also implacably oppose Romney. Fox News is neutral, but its second-highest-rated host, Sean Hannity, is unenthusiastic about Romney, as is prominent Fox News contributor Sarah Palin, who has told Fox viewers she'd vote for Gingrich -- who has also offered herself up as a possible presidential nominee at a contested convention. (Wouldn't a former candidate for vice president on a major party's ticket be part of the Establishment?)

The No. 1 conservative talk-radio host in America, Rush Limbaugh, is critical of Romney, and another top conservative talk-radio host, Mark Levin, is adamantly against Romney -- though both Limbaugh and Levin supported Romney as the conservative alternative to John McCain in 2008, and Romney has only gotten better since then.

Purely to hurt Romney, the Iowa Republican Party fiddled with the vote tally to take Romney's victory away from him and give it to Rick Santorum -- even though the "official count" was missing eight precincts. Isn't the party apparatus of a state considered part of the Establishment?

I'm not sure what part of the Establishment supports Romney. Is it Romney supporter Christine O'Donnell, erstwhile tea party candidate for the U.S. Senate from Delaware? Am I the face of the Establishment? (If so, the country is going to be just fine.)

I would think that the pristine example of the Republican Establishment is Weekly Standard editor and Fox News contributor Bill Kristol. But he wants anybody but Romney, even proposing that we choose someone not running by means of a contested convention.

Who are we trying to get nominated in a contested convention, anyway?

Without having seen this mystery candidate in action, how do we know he won't be another Rick Perry? You'll recall that Perry was the dream candidate until we saw him talk.

In 2008, Romney was enthusiastically supported not only by Limbaugh and Levin, but also by Sean Hannity, Rick Santorum, Herman Cain, Laura Ingraham, Michael Savage and many others who now seem to view Romney as a closet liberal. This is especially baffling because there is no liberal candidate in the Republican primary this year.

Just four years ago, one Republican candidate for president was avowedly pro-abortion (Rudy Giuliani). One had opposed Clinton's impeachment and tort reform (Fred Thompson). One supported amnesty for illegals, restrictions on core First Amendment speech, federal laws to combat nonexistent global warming, and opposed Guantanamo and the Bush tax cuts ("tax cuts for the rich!") and called waterboarding "torture."

That last one was our nominee: John McCain.

This year, every Republican candidate for president opposes abortion, promises to repeal Obamacare, opposes raising taxes, and on and on. Only one candidate is strong on illegal immigration, which is second only to repealing Obamacare as the most important issue facing the nation.

That's the alleged liberal, Mitt Romney.

Conservatives scratch their heads wondering how the NFM can convince millions of unemployed and underemployed Americans paying $3.57 for a gallon of gas that the economy is improving simply by repeatedly saying so.

But then a large minority of those same conservatives are completely convinced that Romney is an Establishment candidate simply because they have heard that repeated so often.

As we say to dunderhead liberals: What we're looking for here is facts, not chants or epithets.

But instead of popping Champagne corks over our final triumph over Rockefeller Republicanism, some conservatives are still fighting old wars, rather like an old cold warrior prattling about the Soviet Union after the rest of us have moved onto the war on terrorism.

This strange new version of right-wing populism comes down to reveling in the feeling that you are being dissed, hoodwinked or manipulated by the Establishment (most of which happens to oppose Romney) the same way liberals want to believe that "the rich," the "right-wing media" and Wall Street Republicans (there are three) are victimizing them.

It's as if scoring points in intra-Republican squabbles is more important than beating Obama. Instead of talking about the candidates' positions -- which would be confusing inasmuch as Romney is the most conservative of the four remaining candidates -- the only issue seems to be whether "They" are showing respect for "Us."

Striking a pose as the only true fighter for real Americans may be fun, but this is no way to win elections. This is Sharron Angle on a national level.

The obsession with sticking it to the Establishment (which includes Christine O'Donnell, but excludes Bill Kristol) by voting for a loose cannon demagogue or a crusading Catholic who can't seem to move the conversation past contraception is as pie-in-the-sky delusional as anything dished by Democrats carrying on about "green jobs."

If saving the environment is the best way to create new jobs, then it could be true that being a hard-core environmentalist nutcase is the best way to appeal to the mass of independent voters.

Similarly, if reducing contraception use, lobbying for Freddie Mac and promoting huge government programs such as moon colonies and No Child Left Behind are the best ways to create jobs, then it could be true that Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are our strongest candidates in a general election.

Of course, it might also be true that dousing yourself in fairy dust does not guarantee that you will find the perfect mate and get the perfect job.

We're being asked to hand Obama another four years in the White House in order to "send a message." To whom? And what message? That we're morons? Message received!

Meanwhile, Romney cheerfully campaigns on, the biggest outsider and most conservative candidate we've run for president since Reagan, while being denounced by the Establishment as "too Establishment."

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GOOD BYE AND GOOD LUCK

Former State Senator and Republican Cook County Board President candidate
Roger Keats and his wife Tina are leaving Illinois to live in Texas . They
bid farewell to their Illinois friends in a Wilmette Beacon article and with
this letter this weekend, saying they're "voting with their feet and their
wallets":
GOOD BYE AND GOOD LUCK
As we leave Illinois for good, I wanted to say goodbye to my friends and
wish all of you well. I am a lifelong son of the heartland and proud of it.
After 60 years, I leave Illinois with a heavy heart. BUT enough is enough!
The leaders of Illinois refuse to see we can't continue going in the
direction we are and expect people who have options to stay here. I
remember when Illinois had 25 congressmen. In 2012 we will have 18.
Compared to the rest of the country we have lost 1/4th of our population.
Don't blame the weather, because I love 4 seasons.
Illinois just sold still more bonds and our credit rating is so bad we pay
higher interest rates than junk bonds! Junk Bonds! Illinois is ranked 50th
for fiscal policy; 47th in job creation; 1st in unfunded pension
liabilities; 2nd largest budget deficit; 1st in failing schools; 1st in
bonded indebtedness; highest sales tax in the nation; most judges indicted
(Operations Greylord and Gambat); and 5 of our last 9 elected governors have
been indicted. That is more than the other 49 states added together! Then
add 32 Chicago Aldermen and (according to the Chicago Tribune) over 1000
state and municipal employees indicted. The corruption tax is a real cost
of doing business. We are the butt of jokes for stand up comics.
We live in the most corrupt big city, in the most corrupt big county in the
most corrupt state in America .. I am sick and tired of subsidizing crooks.
A day rarely passes without an article about the corruption and
incompetence. Chicago even got caught rigging the tests to hire police and
fire! Our Crook County CORPORATE property tax system is intentionally
corrupt. The Democrat State Chairman who is also the Speaker of the
Illinois House (Spkr. Mike Madigan) and the most senior alderman in Chicago
each make well over a million dollars a year putting the fix in for their
clients tax assessments.
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up 67%. Texas sales tax is ½ of ours, which is the highest in the nation.
Southern states are supportive of job producers, tax payers and folks who
offer opportunities to their residents. Illinois shakes them down for every
penny that can be extorted from them.
In The Hill Country of Texas (near Austin and San Antonio ) we bought a
gracious home on almost 2 acres with a swimming pool. It is new, will cost
us around 40% of what our home in Wilmette just sold for and the property
taxes are 1/3rd of what they are here. Cook County ' s property tax system
is a disaster: Wilmette homes near ours sell for 50% more and their property
taxes are ½ of ours. Our assessed home value was 50% higher than the sales
price. The system is unfair and incompetent.
Our home value is down 40%, our property taxes are up 20% and our local
schools have still another referendum on the ballot to increase taxes over
20% in one year. I could go on, but enough is enough. I feel as if we are
standing on the deck of the Titanic and I can see the icebergs right in
front of us. I will miss our friends a great deal. I have called Illinois
home for essentially my entire life. But it is time to go where there is
honest, competent and cost effective government. We have chosen to vote
with our feet and our wallets. My best to all of you and Good luck!

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Interesting ... This is a darn good read and great advice in my oh so humble opinion, Thanks


Background

First, my info. I worked in the street of one of America's most violent, dangerous cities for 15 years. I usually worked in the worst part of that city. I spent 15 years in patrol. I liked patrol. It was wild. Most of the time I worked in areas covered in ghetto. By that I mean large housing projects combined with run down slum housing. I have worked all shifts. Later I became an investigator including a robbery investigator. I have spent countless hours in interrogation rooms talking to hold up men. I know them. I am still an investigator but have quit playing the Robbery game because my family was starting to forget what I looked like.

The Enemy

Some may object to me calling hold up men "the enemy". You can call them whatever you like. I can assure you however they are as deadly an enemy as you will find anywhere but the battlefield. Even many soldiers probably lack the viciousness and utter disregard for life most hold up men possess.

No one wakes up in the morning one day and decides to become an armed robber. It is a gradual process that requires some experience and desensitizing. Before a man will pick up a gun and threaten to kill people who have done him no harm in order to get their usually meager possessions he has to get comfortable with some things.

He has to get used to seeing others as objects for him to exploit. He has to accept he may be killed while robbing. He has to accept the felony conviction for Robbery will haunt him all his life. He has to accept he may need to kill a completely innocent person to get away with his crime.

This is a process that starts with stealing candy at the corner store as a child. It progresses through bigger property crimes that may also involve violence. But one day G gets tired of selling his stolen property for nothing and decides it would be better to steal cash. Cut out all that tiresome sales stuff.


Keep in mind many petty thieves, auto burglars, residential and commercial burglars, paper thieves, and hustlers will get to that point and decide not to become armed robbers. Most will. It is a special group of outliers who decide threatening to kill people for a few dollars is the way to go.

Once a man starts armed robbing he has crossed a line most won't. Don't forget that when you are looking these bastards in the eye. Their decision to kill you is already made. Your life means nothing to him. Only his does. His sole motivation for not killing you is he doesn't want a murder case. He has already accepted he may pick one up though.

We hunt hold up men around the clock once they are identified. We send teams of fire breathing fence jumper/door kickers to find them. We will bring their mother to the office and convince her she is going to jail if we don't have Junior in our office in an hour. We have her call her son crying hysterically for him to turn himself in before she is arrested and held without bond as a material witness and her home seized for harboring him. Most of the time they won't. Fuck their own momma.

We will hit all Juniors friends and family's houses. We make it so no one will harbor him. He is so hot no one will let him in their house or even talk on the phone with him. We put money on him so he knows he is right to be betrayed and set up. We do this because of one thing.

That thing is they WILL kill someone if they keep robbing. That is why the city is willing to pay all the overtime. They don't want the murders. Think about that when you see Junior coming. The more robberies he does the closer he is to killing someone. Maybe you.

The guys who hit you on the street are gang members. They are Gangster Disciples, Vice Lords, Crips, Sureonos, many others. They do not see themselves as part of society. The street is all they know. They don't expect to live long or stay out of prison. They take a delight in your fear and suffering. They are warped individuals for the most part. They can be extremely dangerous.

One time we were locking up a hold up man and having a conversation about how they target their victims. I was saying they pick easy ones, another guy was saying they preferred easy ones but would take anybody.

I pointed out a uniform Officer there was an NFL size guy to that hold up man. Frankly the dude was a monster. I asked hold up man if he would rob him. He said "If I needed the money".

You

Chances are good you are a law abiding person except for maybe a little light weed smoking and maybe driving a little drunk every once in a while. Most of your life you have been taught to be nice and don't point guns at people. You are the exact opposite of your enemy who was taught just the opposite. Remember a lot of street life is like prison life. Who's the man is everything. Violence is the currency of the street.

You do not possess total disregard for the lives of others and do not want to kill anyone. You are concerned about the ramifications of shooting someone. Your family, your possessions and finances on the line. Your enemy has none of these concerns.

The laws that keep you from carrying your gun in bars or where ever mean nothing to your enemy. Your reluctance to shoot someone works to is advantage. His greater experience in street violence and the element of surprise is on his side.

Everyone should call their local FBI office and get a copy of Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted. When it first came out it was ground breaking because it demonstrated to academics and other elites what street police knew all along. What did it show in interviews with cop killers? Nice guys finish dead. That's right. Most of those offenders commented that the Officer they killed set himself up to be killed because of reluctance to use force early in the encounter.

You can probably find it on line now. A lot of the victim Officers were a lot like a lot of other people, normal people. They were the opposite of their enemy.

Am I advocating becoming the enemy? No. I am saying the person who is robbing you has certain traits, attitudes, and background. That is all.

Dynamics of Encounters

Hold up men target victims on the street in an impulsive, opportunistic manner. They see someone and make a quick judgment call on whether to rob them. The time between when you are targeted and they are on you isn't long. Therefore, situational awareness is everything.

If you see G coming you are in good shape. If you don't you will be the victim who says "He came out of nowhere". No he didn't. There are many tricks to watching out but simply watching your back is the main thing. Watch your back. If you do it enough it becomes second nature and you won't even realize you are doing it.

Watching out is great but unfortunately many self defense courses stop there. You have parked you car in a well lit area, are aware of your surroundings, and looky here, here comes three guys across the parking lot and they start to kind of fan out.

When you lock eyes with G the very first thing you need to do it indicate you have a weapon. It doesn't matter if you do or not. If you are a woman put your gun hand in your purse and keep it there. If you are a man fan your shirt or coat tail with your gun hand. Make it clear to dude you are mentally prepared to draw and making sure your gun is clear. This will many times result in an about face by dude. It is the single best robbery avoidance tactic IMHO. ---- ( in my humble opinion ).

Not long ago I was walking down the sidewalk in my town to go get my car. I was holding a folding chair in my gun hand. A car slow rolled past me with 4 heads in it. The guys in the back seat turned around as they went by looking at me. They went a little farther and U turned in the street.

Here they come back. As they started to slow down I looked at them with as contemptuous a look as I could muster and switched the chair to my left hand and flicked my shirt tail with my right hand. They just drove on mad dogging me.

In another case I was at a Christmas party and walked a girl to her car about 3 am. As we said our good-byes two guys were walking across the parking lot. One went behind a dumpster. I though he was peeing. He came out from behind the dumpster with a bottle.

As they got closer I stepped clear of that girl and unzipped my jacket at those two guys. When I did the guy threw down the bottle and they walked by cussing at me. If someone challenges you after you indicate you are armed say "I don't have a gun". Then they will know you do.

Here is an opposite story. A girl my brother knows was walking her dog when a guy approached her. She was polite. Mistake. He talked to her about the dog and said she had pretty hair and reached out and touched her hair. She did not slap his hand down or aggressively object. Mistake. He asked her if her dog bit and she said "No". At that time he slapped the shit out of her, drug her into a wooded area, and raped her.

The answer in the street is always "No". Can I ask you something? No. Do you have a cigarette? No. Can you tell me what time it is? No. The answer is always "No". Don't be nice. Stop the encounter as soon as it starts.

When to draw

Despite warnings I often see on the Net I have yet to encounter an instance in which a hold up man called the police to report his intended victim threatened to shoot him. Thugs do not want to come into contact with the police. They may already be wanted or realize chances are good they have been identified in a recent robbery. Or what ever. They are not going to call the police if you draw on them.

Supposed two guys are approaching you in a parking lot and do the classic fan out maneuver. You indicate you have a weapon by clearing your gun hand and fanning your jacket at them. They are not discouraged. DRAW!

I am not saying you should pull your gun out, assume a Weaver stance, and scream "That's close enough motherfuckers!" What I am saying is draw your gun and hold it beside your leg as you start to move to cover. I am very fond of telephone poles. Anything will do though. They will see this. They will remember they have to be somewhere else. They will not call the police.

Then you can just put your gun back in the holster and go back to whatever you were doing like nothing happened. Why? Because nothing did happen. A happening is when shots are fired.

Do not hesitate to draw. If you are somewhere you are supposed to be and someone appears who is not supposed to be there like a closed business show him the end of your gun. Could it be Mother Teresa looking for her lost cat behind your closed business? No it is some motherfucker up to no good. He won't call the police to report he was prowling a location when a guy ran him off.

When to shoot

The time to shoot is immediately upon seeing his weapon. You are not a police man who has to try to arrest the guy. No need to scream at him. No exposure while you yell for him to drop the gun.

In deer hunting the experienced hunter takes the first good shot. May not be the perfect shot but it never is. Novices pass up a doable shot waiting for a better shot and then the deer is gone. Take the first good shot you are offered. Hopefully your alertness and hostile cues will prevent you ever having to fire. But once you see his weapon, shoot.

If a guy is coming at you with a gun in his hand shoot him. Shoot him right then. If you don't shoot first you may not shoot at all. I have known more than one person who was shot and received life changing injuries and also shot their attacker. Their only regret was not shooting sooner. Like Bill Jordan said "Nothing disturbs your enemy's aim like a slug delivered to the belt buckle area".

Guns and weapons

The handgun is the best weapon you can carry easily. I understand it is not always possible to have one due to laws, restrictions, whatever. I am not telling anyone to disregard laws about carrying weapons. Each person has to decide for themselves what they are comfortable with. I will say there is no substitute for a pistol when you need one.


Also if you can not be trusted with a pistol after a few drinks you can't be trusted with a pistol period. Booze is liquid bad judgment no doubt but it shouldn't make you into a damn moron. If you are a moron sober I don't know what to tell you.

Types of guns and ammo are always debated and probably always will be. I have seen people shot with all common calibers. My conclusion is if you hit someone between the collar bone and the tip of their ribs three times with anything, they are handled. Bigger is better but something is better than nothing. Get your front sight on his shirt and stay on him as long as he is standing with whatever gun you have.

Just have a gun with sure fire ammo. Draw early and fire immediately upon seeing his weapon. That course of action is about all you can do to up your odds of ending things favorably. Guns like the Ruger LC9, SIG 239, Glock 26/27 are examples of guns small enough to carry but with enough power and capacity to be useful. Do not be afraid to use a French Lebelle if that is the only gun you have. A gun is a gun. I like a Glock 19.

Training

We all want the best training. It can be expensive if you are having to pay for it and it can be hard to find the time to do it. There is a whole lot of BS out there. What can you do? First, pistol handling is not rocket surgery. If you will learn the basics and practice on your own you can be fine. Smooth draw, quick pairs, reload. If you know those things well you can be OK.

I know a young man who shot down two hold up men in 2010 at very close range while he and his GF were walking home from the store. He in Wyatt Earp like fashion ignored the fire coming from the gunman and killed him and wounded his accomplice. He nor his GF were injured. He like many was willing to give them the money until he picked up on nonverbal cues that because of his GF they were not quite satisfied with the money. He had a Glock 27.

He had only the most basic of training in gun handling but did do some draws and some dry fire a couple times a week and live fired maybe once a month. That basic skill combined with knowing what to do was enough. He shot at the first possible moment despite having let the guys get the drop on them. When the gunman turned his head because a car drove by that was the opening. A split second is a long time sometimes.

Work on some one hand shooting at close range. That is a skill not as popular as it once was and you want to use two hands when you can. Often you can find yourself doing something with your off hand though so be able to shoot with one hand out to 5 yards or so.

After

If it comes to pass you are forced to shoot someone do not feel bad. When the police come just tell them a guy threatened you with deadly force and you were forced to fire. I know there are bad police out there in some parts of the country who don't support self defense. I can't help you with that.

Do not talk to them until you have your attorney present. Now most young guys don't have an attorney on retainer and you may have no idea who to call. That is OK. You will figure it out but in the mean time don't talk about what happened other than to say you were forced to fire. You don't have to be an asshole just remember wait for your attorney.

Hopefully you will not give a statement for a couple days. Remember if you are put in jail that doesn't mean you are charged. Most places can hold you 48 or 72 hours on a felony before charging you or letting you go. Breath deep and get an attorney.

Expect to never get your gun back. You may get it back one day but maybe not. Do not buy expensive guns for the street. Buy yourself a nice sporting gun if you want a nice gun. Keep your street guns basic. The factory Model 10 Smith and the GI 45 have done a lot of work over the years and aren't fancy.

Worlds

We all live in different worlds. My world is filled with felons and gang members. Violence is common place. No one would be surprised if one of their friends called and said they shot a hold up man at a place of business or parking lot. In the past when I made calls the fact that the guy who is beating his GF is also on parole for 2nd degree murder flavored my world.

You may live in a smaller, less violent place where shootings seldom occur and it would be a rare to shoot a hold up man. I envy you and will be moving to a place like your town as soon as I can.

But be advised no matter where you are a hold man is going to be about the same. Whether he is a home boy or a guy who just exited the interstate into your town and needs some quick money. He is going to have a vicious streak and no regard for your life. Treat him like he treats you.

Giving them the money, doing what they say, all that may work but there is no guarantee. If you have never read Jeff Cooper's book The Principles of Personal Defense I suggest you order a copy immediately. It is a short book but summarizes a lot of important things.

Last year we had a trial here regarding an armed robbery that occurred. Three or four guys took a young couple from a parking garage near a college out by some railroad tracks where they raped, shot, and beat them. Their lives will never be the same.

The lesser thugs all turned on the trigger man at trial. The trigger man's statement in the paper was after all that had happened he felt like he was a victim. Think about that. That is the mindset you are up against.

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SILENCING the VOICE of FREEDOM

SILENCING the VOICE of FREEDOM and Common Sense!!
Paul Craig Roberts
Infowars.com
Monday, February 20, 2012
In 2010 the FBI invaded the homes of peace activists in several states and
seized personal possessions in what the FBI–the lead orchestrator of fake
“terrorist plots”–called an investigation of “activities concerning
the material support of terrorism.”
Subpoenas were issued to compel antiwar protestors to testify before grand
juries as prosecutors set about building their case that opposing
Washington’s wars of aggression constitutes giving aid and comfort to
terrorists. The purpose of the raids and grand jury subpoenas was to chill
the anti-war movement into inaction.
Last week in one fell swoop the last two remaining critics of Washington/Tel
Aviv imperialism were removed from the mainstream media. Judge Napolitano’s
popular program, Freedom Watch, was cancelled by Fox TV, and Pat Buchanan was
fired by MSNBC. Both pundits had wide followings and were appreciated for
speaking frankly.
Many suspect that the Israel Lobby used its clout with TV advertisers to
silence critics of the Israeli government’s efforts to lead Washington to
war with Iran. Regardless, the point before us is that the voice of the
mainstream media is now uniform. Americans hear one voice, one message, and
the message is propaganda. Dissent is tolerated only on such issues as to
whether employer-paid health benefits should pay for contraceptive devices.
Constitutional rights have been replaced with rights to free condoms.
The western media demonizes those at whom Washington points a finger. The
lies pour forth to justify Washington’s naked aggression: the Taliban are
conflated with al Qaeda, Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction,
Gaddafi is a terrorist and, even worse, fortified his troops with Viagra in
order to commit mass rape against Libyan women.
President Obama and members of Congress along with Tel Aviv continue to
assert that Iran is making a nuclear weapon despite public contradiction by
the US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and the CIA’s National
Intelligence Estimate. According to news reports, Pentagon chief Leon Panetta
told members of the House of Representatives on February 16 that “Tehran
has not made a decision to proceed with developing a nuclear weapon.”
http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci... [1] However, in Washington facts
don’t count. Only the material interests of powerful interest groups
matter.
At the moment the American Ministry of Truth is splitting its time between
lying about Iran and lying about Syria. Recently, there were some explosions
in far away Thailand, and the explosions were blamed on Iran. Last October
the FBI announced that the bureau had uncovered an Iranian plot to pay a used
car salesman to hire a Mexican drug gang to kill the Saudi Ambassador to the
US. The White House idiot professed to believe the unbelievable plot and
declared that he had “strong evidence,” but no evidence was ever
released. The purpose for announcing the non-existent plot was to justify
Obama’s sanctions, which amount to an embargo–an act of war–against
Iran for developing nuclear energy.
A d v e r t i s e m e n t
As a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty, Iran has the right to develop
nuclear energy. IAEA inspectors are permanently in Iran and report no
diversion of nuclear material to a weapons program.
In other words, according to the reports of the International Atomic Energy
Agency, the US National Intelligence Estimate, and the current Secretary of
Defense, there is no evidence that Iran has nukes or is making nukes. Yet,
Obama has placed illegal sanctions on Iran and continues to threaten Iran
with military attack on the basis of an accusation that is contradicted by
all known evidence.
How can such a thing happen? It can happen because there is no Helen Thomas,
who also was eliminated by the Israel Lobby, to question, as a member of the
White House press, President Obama why he placed war-like sanctions on Iran
when his own CIA and his own Secretary of Defense, along with the IAEA,
report that there is no basis for the sanctions.
The idea that the US is a democracy when it most definitely does not have a
free watchdog press is laughable. But the media is not laughing. It is lying.
Just like the government, every time the US mainstream media opens its mouth
or writes one word, it is lying. Indeed, its corporate masters pay its
employees to tell lies. That is their job. Tell the truth, and you are
history like Buchanan and Napolitano and Helen Thomas.
What the Ministry of Truth calls “peaceful protesters brutalized by
Assad’s military” are in fact rebels armed and financed by Washington.
Washington has fomented a civil war. Washington claims its intention is to
rescue the oppressed and abused Syrian people from Assad, just as Washington
rescued the oppressed and abused Libyan people from Gaddafi. Today
“liberated” Libya is a shell of its former self terrorized by clashing
militias. Thanks to Obama, another country has been destroyed.
Reports of atrocities committed against Syrian civilians by the military
could be true, but the reports come from the rebels who desire Western
intervention to put them into power. Moreover, how would these civilian
casualties differ from the ones inflicted on Bahraini civilians by the US
supported Bahraini government, the military of which was fortified by Saudi
Arabian troops? There is no outcry in the western press about Washington’s
blind eye to civilian atrocities committed by its puppet states.
How do the Syrian atrocities, if they are real, differ from Washington’s
atrocities in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Abu Ghraib,
Guantanamo prison, and secret CIA prison sites? Why is the American Ministry
of Truth silent about these massive, unprecedented, violations of human
rights?
Remember also the reports of Serbian atrocities in Kosovo that Washington and
Germany used to justify NATO and US bombing of Serbian civilians, including
the Chinese consulate, dismissed as another collateral damage. Now 13 years
later, a prominent German TV program has revealed that the photographs that
ignited the atrocity campaign were grossly misrepresented and were not
photographs of atrocities committed by Serbs, but of Albanian separatists
killed in a firefight between armed Albanians and Serbians. Serbian
casualties were not shown. http://www.freenations.freeuk.com/news-2... [2]
The problem that truth faces is that the western media continually lies. On
the rare instances when the lies are corrected, it is always long after the
event and, therefore, the crimes enabled by the media have been accomplished.
Washington set its puppet Arab League upon Syria in order to establish
Syria’s isolation among its own kind, the better to attack Syria. Assad
forestalled Washington’s set-up of Syria for destruction by calling a
nationwide referendum on February 26 to establish a new constitution that
would extend the prospect of rule beyond the Ba’athists (Assad’s party).
One might think that, if Washington and its Ministry of Truth really wanted
democracy in Syria, Washington would get behind this gesture of good will by
the ruling party and endorse the referendum. But Washington does not want a
democratic Syrian government. Washington wants a puppet state. Washington’s
response is that the dastardly Assad has outwitted Washington by taking steps
toward Syrian democracy before Washington can obliterate Syria and install a
puppet.
Here is Obama’s response to Assad’s move toward democracy: “It’s
actually quite laughable–it makes a mockery of the Syrian revolution,”
White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters aboard Air Force One.
Obama, the neoconservatives, and Tel Aviv are really pissed. If Washington
and Tel Aviv can figure out how to get around Russia and China and overthrow
Assad, Washington and Tel Aviv will put Assad on trial as a war criminal for
proposing a democratic referendum.
Assad was an eye doctor in England until his father died, and he was called
back to head the troubled government. Washington and Tel Aviv have demonized
Assad for refusing to be their puppet. Another sore point is the Russian
naval base at Tartus. Washington is desperate to evict the Russians from
their only Mediterranean base in order to make the Mediterranean an american
lake. Washington, inculcated with neocon visions of world empire, wants its
own mare nostrum.
If the Soviet Union were still extant, Washington’s designs on Tartus would
be suicidal. However, Russia is politically and militarily weaker than the
Soviet Union. Washington has infiltrated Russia with NGOs that work against
Russia’s interests and will disrupt the upcoming elections. Moreover,
Washington-funded “color revolutions” have turned former constituent
parts of the Soviet Union into Washington’s puppet states. Shorn of
communist ideology, Washington does not expect Russia to push the nuclear
button. Thus, Russia is there for the taking.
China is a more difficult problem. Washington’s plan is to cut China off
from independent sources of energy. China’s oil investment in eastern Libya
is the reason
Gaddafi was overthrown, and oil is one of the main reasons that Washington
has targeted Iran. China has large oil investments in Iran and gets 20% of
its oil from Iran. Closing down Iran, or converting it into Washington’s
puppet state, closes down 20% of the Chinese economy.
Russia and China are slow learners. However, when Washington and its NATO
puppets abused the “no-fly” UN resolution concerning Libya and violated
the UN resolution by turning it into armed military aggression against
Libya’s armed forces, which had every right to put down a CIA sponsored
rebellion, Russia and China finally got the message that Washington could not
be trusted.
This time Russia and China did not fall into Washington’s trap. They vetoed
the UN Security Council’s set-up of Syria for military attack. Now
Washington and Tel Aviv (it is not always clear which is the puppet and which
is the puppet master) have to decide whether to proceed in the face of
Russian and Chinese opposition.
The risks for Washington have multiplied. If Washington proceeds, the
information that is conveyed to Russia and China is that they are next in
line after Iran. Therefore, Russia and China, both being well-armed with
nuclear weapons, are likely to put their foot down more firmly at the line
drawn over Iran. If the crazed warmongers in Washington and Tel Aviv, with
veins running strong with hubris and arrogance, again override Russian and
Chinese opposition, the risk of a dangerous confrontation rises.
Why isn’t the american media raising questions about these risks? Is it
worth blowing up the world in order to stop Iran from having a nuclear energy
program or even a nuclear weapon? Does Washington think China is unaware that
Washington is taking aim at its energy supply? Does Washington think Russia
is unaware that it is being encircled by hostile military bases?
Whose interests are being served by Washington’s endless and multi-trillion
dollar wars? Certainly not the interests of the 50 million americans with no
access to health care, nor by the 1,500,000 american children who are
homeless, living in cars, rundown motel rooms, tent cities, and the storm
sewers under Las Vegas, while huge amounts of public funds are used to bail
out banks and squandered in wars of hegemony.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suJCvkazrTc [3]
The US has no independent print and TV media. It has presstitutes who are
paid for the lies that they tell. The US government in its pursuit of its
immoral aims has attained the status of the most corrupt government in human
history. Yet Obama speaks as if Washington is the font of human morality.
The US government does not represent americans. It represents a few special
interests and a foreign power. US citizens simply don’t count, and
certainly Afghans, Iraqis, Libyans, Somalians, Yemenis, and Pakistanis
don’t count. Washington regards truth, justice, and mercy as laughable
values. Money, power, hegemony are all that count for Washington, the city
upon the hill, the light unto nations, the example for the world.
This Paul Craig Roberts article first appeared at his website Institute For
Political Economy. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He is
the author of several books including The Tyranny of Good Intentions and How
the Economy Was Lost.
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