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term="schools"/><category term="social justice"/><category term="totalitarianism"/><category term="victimhood"/><category term="welfare state"/><category term="white privilege"/><title type="text">Sultan Knish </title><subtitle type="html">News and Analysis from the US to Israel to Around the World</subtitle><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/feeds/posts/default" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default?redirect=false" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/><link href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" rel="hub"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default?start-index=26&max-results=25&redirect=false" rel="next" type="application/atom+xml"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><generator uri="http://www.blogger.com" version="7.00">Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>4494</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><xhtml:meta content="noindex" name="robots" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"/><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-1162083400968335385</id><published>2024-05-10T02:36:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2024-05-10T02:36:49.023-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="history"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recent"/><title type="text">The Left’s Plot Against George Washington</title><content type="html"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKrj5uFVOM2DTMtQK7zI8UDFWYMSy-UpMVmVDfT3IkBeAoPL8hwApzb2q3_V0xSVmBzmeiLCTHtaFi5sfdl_kXUjKmqSQlH146WeSCVqAH8SQvdfJ-zCpq_5l1FTqTdMUbZgvaYWl2wfeQ3mRm3Lb6KMhygtyvcOhj9HXIzRz9gGus43YfsWJqEg/s750/washington-thinking.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="507" data-original-width="750" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKrj5uFVOM2DTMtQK7zI8UDFWYMSy-UpMVmVDfT3IkBeAoPL8hwApzb2q3_V0xSVmBzmeiLCTHtaFi5sfdl_kXUjKmqSQlH146WeSCVqAH8SQvdfJ-zCpq_5l1FTqTdMUbZgvaYWl2wfeQ3mRm3Lb6KMhygtyvcOhj9HXIzRz9gGus43YfsWJqEg/w640-h432/washington-thinking.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div>In Portland, the BLM mob toppled a statue of George Washington. Four years later, local leftist activists and officials have continued sabotaging efforts to restore it again. In New York City and Chicago, officials have discussed removing statues of Washington. And the Father of our Country isn’t even safe at the University of Washington where calls to remove him continue.</div><br />But the War on Washington isn’t just a recent phenomenon.<br /><br />The Left didn’t want until George Washington was a statue to topple him. Newspapers like The National Gazette, The Philadelphia Aurora and The New York Time Piece, which were the vanguard of the emerging Democratic-Republican party, depicted him being led to the guillotine.<br /><br />Democrats today claim that they oppose George Washington because he was a slave owner, but why did Democrats who were not only slave owners then but defended slavery (unlike Washington who favored liberating slaves and whose Washington Benevolent Societies were the organizing network for black conservative voters in the 1800s ) oppose him then?<br /><br />Long before their relatively recent interest in organizing black people, American leftists were great enthusiasts of the French Revolution and favored bringing it to this country. My book, ‘<a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left">Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers’ Fight Against The Left’</a>, reveals how the Democrats got their start as the “French Party” built around “Democratic Societies” modeled on French radical Jacobin clubs and set up with the aid of foreign emissaries of the French Revolution.<br /><br />George Washington’s great crime in the eyes of the leftists of his day was his refusal to turn over America to the forces of the French Revolution which was the USSR of its day.<br /><br />“Ten thousand People in the Streets of Philadelphia, day after day, threatened to drag Washington out of his House, and effect a Revolution in the Government, or compell it to declare War in favour of the French Revolution,” John Adams would later remember.<br /><br />French Foreign Minister Charles Delacroix had urged Citizen Pierre-Auguste Adet, the French ambassador, to “use all means in his power to bring about a successful revolution, and Washington’s replacement.”<br /><br />Washington, always a fighter, would not take the leftist campaign against him lying down.<br /><br />In his address to Congress, President George Washington had warned of the threat of “certain self-created societies.” By those he meant the Democratic Societies. In a private letter he even more explicitly described how “these societies were instituted by the artful &amp; designing members (many of their body I have no doubt mean well, but know little of the real plan),” by an agent of the French government “under popular and fascinating guises, the most diabolical attempts to destroy the best fabric of human government.” The Democratic Societies, he warned, were created to “sow Sedition; to poison the minds of the people of this country.”<br /><br />First Lady Abigail Adams later wrote at the height of the crisis that, “France has setled her plan of subjugating America” through “Agents and Emissaries, whom with truth &amp; reason she bosts of having thickly scatterd through our Country, saving her Principles, her depravity of Manners, her Atheism in every part of the united States” so that “she will seduce the mind &amp; sap the foundation of our strongest pillars, Religion &amp; Government.”<br /><br />“And if there be a Nation on Earth capable of going the necessary lengths, and making the proper Sacrifices to stop its course,—it must be one that is already possesed of substantial Liberty, that knows how to appreciate it, &amp; how to distinguish between it, and that Sort of Liberty which France is trying to propogate throughout the World.”<br /><br />That “sort of liberty” with its depravity, as opposed to American liberty, was the Left.<br /><br />And in ‘<a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left">Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers’ Fight Against The Left’</a>, I describe the rise of the American Left and its violent and treasonous plots against Washington and America.<br /><br />Despite the threats and attacks, George Washington not only refused to give in to the Left, but five years away from death and suffering from arthritis and hearing loss, he became the first and last president to lead troops in the field when he rode out to confront the Whiskey Rebellion.<br /><br />“We are ready for a state of revolution and the guillotine of France,” the leader of the Mingo Creek Democratic Society had declared. But the guillotine proved no match for George.<br /><br />Washington rode out with the troops because he feared that America was on the verge of falling to “mob or Club government” under which “there can be no security for life—liberty—or<br /><br />Property”. While Washington won the battle, he earned the undying enmity of the Democrats.<br /><br />In his Farewell Address on leaving office, George Washington warned about the “mischiefs of the spirit of party” which “opens the door to foreign influence and corruption”.<br /><br />Both the French and their leftist allies in America were furious at Washington’s message.<br /><br />“If ever there was a period for rejoicing, this is the moment,” the Philadelphia Aurora responded. “This man who is the source of all the misfortunes of our country is this day reduced to a level with his fellow citizens.”<br /><br />Adet, the French ambassador, sent a copy of the Farewell Address to his government while raging against “the lies it contains, the tone of insolence”. Adet and the French regime launched a campaign of naval terror “to arouse the attention of the public at the moment of choosing the electors who must choose the President.” The campaign was treasonously coordinated “with our friends in Congress” who, according to Adet, “only saw me last winter in secret.”<br /><br />But attempting to terrorize Americans backfired badly. Adams responded to French attacks on American ships with the Quasi-War and Jefferson refused to end America’s neutrality.<br /><br />Nonetheless the Democratic Societies influenced the new Democratic-Republican Party and American leftists continued to dream of bringing the French Revolution to these shores.<br /><br />A toast at the Democratic Society of Philadelphia envisioned France’s revolutionary movement spreading until it will “have the whole earth for its area, and the arch of heaven for its dome.”<br /><br />That mission outlived George Washington and the French Revolution. It continued on through European revolutions, the Communist takeover of the Soviet Union and it still continues today.<br /><br />That is why leftists really want Washington to fall.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="http://www.domestic-enemies.com" target="_blank">'Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against The Left' </a></i>is now out.&nbsp;</div><div><br /></div></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href=" http://www.domestic-enemies.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1500" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtGXBpNQddGJO0E4twlloXaa2gtAqHpfaobX0x8E9hQHe8-uW2ennu5OnTYIIOrbxSxkfFswNpTYTlCBH8Pqgj_36-z_qENZn1d6Vh1OF_ZgRiQip735o9VZ6SH2nK76vvLOXQvauEC1-dIDVR9WHbLk5IYQU3IlCXP4d7i0yZwg4oYowLGQxw8Q/w640-h214/site%20footer1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></span></div></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a>&nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. 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<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_La3Rdyekyelv2-tJ87WjLo6Kj7lSb2fGoVfD4Uo5pEITZIbmvxUbTzxnJMtBzfGs_2hqXlQrk9jr_H-xroJd-b3yRHiz-i8_fEcL_ekNzGz8Syy-C6gg7BO4MBlPTq1XZHjQzoJ3abhiNYUvJ9ci6zcE_8HY7XIrkYGqy9_1_uu7p6SQMGxG1A/s973/image_2024-05-08_220319383.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="973" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_La3Rdyekyelv2-tJ87WjLo6Kj7lSb2fGoVfD4Uo5pEITZIbmvxUbTzxnJMtBzfGs_2hqXlQrk9jr_H-xroJd-b3yRHiz-i8_fEcL_ekNzGz8Syy-C6gg7BO4MBlPTq1XZHjQzoJ3abhiNYUvJ9ci6zcE_8HY7XIrkYGqy9_1_uu7p6SQMGxG1A/w640-h412/image_2024-05-08_220319383.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>The Biden administration and the Saudis are reportedly cooking up a deal.<br /><br />Under the terms of the agreement, the Saudis will get nuclear capability, defense guarantees and a terrorist state inside Israel. And what will the United States get? Temporarily lower prices.<br /><br />The Saudis are not offering to boost oil production to bring down prices as a favor to America, but to Biden. And it’s an election quid-pro-quo that may cost millions of Americans their lives.<br /><br />After draining the strategic petroleum reserve ahead of the midterms, Biden has been unable to refill it because his environmentalist allies and the Saudis have kept prices high. The Saudis had rejected requests to lower oil prices for anything short of assistance in building their own nuclear program. Shortly before the Hamas attacks of Oct 7, the Saudis had offered to temporarily boost production if it would make it easier to sell Congress on a defense agreement.<br /><br />Back then the Saudi deal had been portrayed as an extension of the ‘Abraham Accords’ and offered ‘normalization’ of diplomatic ties with Israel. Whether the Saudis were ever serious about normalization is debatable but since Oct 7, any such agreement has been conditioned on an internationally recognized.Islamic terrorist ‘Palestinian’ state affiliated with Saudi Arabia.<br /><br />The current expectation is that a deal between Biden and the Saudis will drop the Israeli component and focus on a defense agreement and nuclear power in exchange for cheap oil.<br /><br />Whether Israel is or isn’t on board, a Saudi nuclear agreement is a bad deal for America.<br /><br />The United States is more than capable of producing its own oil. The only obstacle in the way of American energy independence is Joe Biden and his party who are determined to push ‘green energy’ that only makes us equally dependent on Muslim terror states and Communist China.<br /><br />Nuclear energy could help solve our energy problems, but the Saudis, who are the world’s largest oil producers, certainly don’t need to go nuclear to fix any energy shortfalls. Nor do they care about the environment. A civilian nuclear energy program makes about as much sense for Saudi Arabia as it does for Iran. And the only reasonable argument for enabling the Saudis to go nuclear would be to counter Iran’s nuclear weapons program, but rather than averting a nuclear attack, that could double the risk and the possible vectors for nuclear armageddon.<br /><br />The trouble with letting either Iran or the Saudis go nuclear is not just the direct nuclear threat, but the indirect one that will come from Islamic terrorists getting their hands on either nuclear weapons or materials. Saudi Arabia has made some progress under the MBS monarchy, including allowing women greater rights and backing away from some of the terrorist groups and movements that the kingdom has traditionally supported, and even purged some of the old guard who oversaw the Jihadi war against America (this led to Jamal Khashoggi’s death).<br /><br />But the Saudis have always played multiple angles and there’s still plenty of money going to Islamist groups and terrorist organizations from the kingdom’s wealthy elites. Even if the Saudis were to truly clean up their act (an unlikely scenario since financing terrorism remains one of the most reliable power plays in the region), it will only take MBS being overthrown to change that.<br /><br />Had the coup advanced by Jamal Khashoggi, Qatar and other regional players succeeded, the same political figures who financed Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups would once again be in control. A nuclear deal cannot be based on reforms implemented by one man and opposed by significant elements in the Saudi power structure. What happens if that one man goes?<br /><br />Nuclear capability is a threat for generations. It should not be an agreement made lightly.<br /><br />Biden is proposing to swap nuclear capabilities in exchange for the Saudis providing cheap oil for his election. The Saudis have made it clear that they can’t offer long term price guarantees which means they’d be doing little more than providing a temporary market fix long enough to get a presidential candidate his second term in in office.<br /><br />After all the talk of impeachable quid-pro-quos, here’s one that could get millions killed.<br /><br />Nuclear materials in the hands of Islamic terrorists is the ultimate nightmare and Biden is risking mass death, the destruction of entire American cities, in exchange for an election day bribe.<br /><br />By emptying the strategic petroleum reserve to bribe midterm voters, Biden already dangerously endangered our economy and our national security. The cost of his illegal student loan debt bribes is already approaching an estimated $1 trillion and that may just be the beginning.<br /><br />But there’s a big difference between stealing money to bribe voters and making a deal with an enemy nation that can cost the lives of millions. One is corruption while the other is treason.<br /><br />The safety and security of the United States of America depends on keeping nuclear materials as far away from terrorists as possible. Biden’s proposed quid-pro-quo deal with Saudi Arabia risks putting nuclear materials in the hands of Islamic terrorists for his own political benefit.<br /><br />That’s not a deal Congress should approve, it’s a deal that Congress could impeach him over.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href=" http://www.domestic-enemies.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1500" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtGXBpNQddGJO0E4twlloXaa2gtAqHpfaobX0x8E9hQHe8-uW2ennu5OnTYIIOrbxSxkfFswNpTYTlCBH8Pqgj_36-z_qENZn1d6Vh1OF_ZgRiQip735o9VZ6SH2nK76vvLOXQvauEC1-dIDVR9WHbLk5IYQU3IlCXP4d7i0yZwg4oYowLGQxw8Q/w640-h214/site%20footer1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></span></div></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a>&nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. 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They're Taking Them to the Polls</title><content type="html"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw65lTH_5fD4JDc2-SpJedyLLAPpiJULT7mKE0-9nbmuxSR4V6i5Oo2bjIWqZcwtfwx6pwLWsIyqgJPfB8N5wo392jyZMPQJ_W3ys33dxlgFXkNVbk54ykYCMRoGlHRG5SpXgEpOqfQ_LDXwicyFT-kTu_Q4KQKkcqekrRGnTrJOK3Rv3Qt_oZkg/s969/image_2024-05-07_225318696.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="969" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw65lTH_5fD4JDc2-SpJedyLLAPpiJULT7mKE0-9nbmuxSR4V6i5Oo2bjIWqZcwtfwx6pwLWsIyqgJPfB8N5wo392jyZMPQJ_W3ys33dxlgFXkNVbk54ykYCMRoGlHRG5SpXgEpOqfQ_LDXwicyFT-kTu_Q4KQKkcqekrRGnTrJOK3Rv3Qt_oZkg/w640-h394/image_2024-05-07_225318696.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div>What would a city be like if the teachers’ unions didn’t just run the educational system, but the entire place top to bottom? To find out just pay a visit to the streets of Chicago. If you dare.</div><br />When Mayor Brandon Johnson ran for office, the Chicago Teachers Union had made its pitch for its former “legislative coordinator” after putting millions into his campaign by promising that “if a teacher became mayor, we could build the city we all deserve.”<br /><br />It’s only May and 800 people have already been shot. The violence is so ubiquitous that the Cinco de Mayo parade had to be canceled due to gang violence along its route.<br /><br />But CTU members are <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/05/05/us-news/chicago-teachers-contract-demands-include-abortions-2k-per-migrant/">building the city</a> that they think they deserve with a demand for a $50 billion contract, the total tax receipts for the entire state, calls for average teacher salaries of $144,620, free abortions and thousands in funding for every illegal alien.<br /><br />With <a href="https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-teachers-union-demands-include-45-days-off-9-new-ways-to-take-off/">45 days off </a>the parts of the year they actually work, 9 forms of leave added to the 15 they already have, and an annual maximum of <a href="https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-teachers-union-demands-include-45-days-off-9-new-ways-to-take-off/">244 sick days</a>, the plan is to allow CTU’s teachers to work for less than half the year. And that’s assuming you can even call what they do “work”.<br /><br />But the truly explosive part of the CTU’s demands though isn’t demanding six figure salaries for its union hacks while barely 1 in 5 of their teenage students can properly read, it’s a ploy to turn schools into voter recruitment centers.<br /><br />Chicago schools are already among the most politicized in the country, but CTU wants to go beyond ideological indoctrination and directly into community organizing and voter outreach.<br /><br />Illinois Policy<a href="https://www.illinoispolicy.org/ctu-demands-partisan-rallies-so-it-can-electioneer-students/"> reported that</a> “CTU’s 142-page list of demands includes that schools ‘shall designate a day of civic action to assist students who are of age to register to vote and cast votes.’”<br /><br />CTU, which is already a massive taxpayer-subsidized voter turnout and electoral operation for Democrats, leftists and its own people, like Mayor Johnson, now wants to exploit the students who are the captive audiences in its classrooms to rig elections.<br /><br />High school students may not seem like especially fertile territory for voter outreach, but Illinois already allows 17-year-olds to vote in primaries and 16-year-olds can pre-register to vote.<br /><br />During Mayor Johnson’s push for a tax hike referendum, teachers took students out of class and marched them off to vote. Not only wasn’t<a href="https://www.illinoispolicy.org/6-illinois-metro-areas-await-pandemic-recovery-just-6-add-jobs-in-january/"> this done in secret</a>, but CTU’s vice president <a href="https://heartlanddailynews.com/2024/04/voting-age-students-led-to-polls-by-chicago-teachers/">announced </a>a “Parade to the Polls, where students will march to an early voting site” and urged teachers to “organize a group of voting age students.”<br /><br />While the tax hike referendum backed by CTU failed, the union still wants to keep on organizing students and in the process it reveals how teachers’ unions really see the children under their care.<br /><br />The Chicago Teachers Union, like most teachers’ unions, is a political organization, not an educational body, and does not see students as anything except means to political power.<br /><br />CTU has used children to take control of Chicago and now it’s trying to exploit them to further expand its political sway by using them directly, not just indirectly, in elections. The union believes that it’s a sad waste for students to be sitting in classrooms when teachers could be parading them down the street chanting political slogans and then having them cast votes.<br /><br />By any educational metric, Chicago public schools are a sad failure, but by the political standards of CTU, they’re a huge success. Chicago students may struggle to read, but Chicago teachers are making many times the average salary and one of their own is running things.<br /><br />And that is the real purpose of unions.<br /><br />Unions don’t exist to provide services but to prevent anyone else from providing them. That is why teachers’ unions furiously battle to suppress private schools and charter schools.<br /><br />It’s a myth that unions derive their power from doing their jobs. It’s just the opposite.<br /><br />The power of unions rests solely in their ability to not do their jobs. The weakest unions are private sector unions whose workers actually work, while the strongest unions are municipal unions which don’t work. The less a union works, the stronger its members become.<br /><br />Teachers’ unions, including CTU, which led the way in refusing to work during the pandemic, emerged from the lockdowns stronger than ever after having inflicted catastrophic damage on a generation of students. And now as CTU prepares to play hardball in a new set of negotiations, there are two things that are certain: the union will win and students as well as parents will lose.<br /><br />But CTU is also unsatisfied with just making money. The already obscene salary demands are being bolstered by more calls for political control. Unions are political organizations. They offer members money only in order to pretend to be representing their interests. But teachers’ unions are political organizations and their actual mission is to take power to impose a leftist agenda.<br /><br />And after consolidating control over teachers, why not then make the kids into CTU voters too?<br /><br />Cook County Democrats have been known to vote in the name of the senile and the dead, why not children too? Teachers’ unions pushing kids to vote for their agendas is on the same level as hospitals and nursing homes getting people who barely know where they are to the polls.<br /><br />Why go to all that trouble? Consider CTU’s own mayor.<br /><br />Mayor Brandon Johnson has an approval rating of only 21%. How is he going to win another election when everyone in Chicago hates him even worse than they did Lori Lightfoot?<br /><br />CTU is going to need a bunch of money and a bunch of voters. Its demands will provide both.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href=" http://www.domestic-enemies.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1500" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtGXBpNQddGJO0E4twlloXaa2gtAqHpfaobX0x8E9hQHe8-uW2ennu5OnTYIIOrbxSxkfFswNpTYTlCBH8Pqgj_36-z_qENZn1d6Vh1OF_ZgRiQip735o9VZ6SH2nK76vvLOXQvauEC1-dIDVR9WHbLk5IYQU3IlCXP4d7i0yZwg4oYowLGQxw8Q/w640-h214/site%20footer1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></span></div></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a>&nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. 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They're Taking Them to the Polls" type="text/html"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw65lTH_5fD4JDc2-SpJedyLLAPpiJULT7mKE0-9nbmuxSR4V6i5Oo2bjIWqZcwtfwx6pwLWsIyqgJPfB8N5wo392jyZMPQJ_W3ys33dxlgFXkNVbk54ykYCMRoGlHRG5SpXgEpOqfQ_LDXwicyFT-kTu_Q4KQKkcqekrRGnTrJOK3Rv3Qt_oZkg/s72-w640-h394-c/image_2024-05-07_225318696.png" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-3106624888965654690</id><published>2024-05-06T13:49:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2024-05-06T13:50:07.588-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Biden"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="corruption"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Qatar"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recent"/><title type="text">Smuggled Gold Bars, Bloody Foreign Money and the Selling of Joe Biden</title><content type="html"><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The strange, true story of Biden family corruption that no one will discuss.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibDzM2X9AHFYYFbFtr7ZHKpqT5z1tcN6uE5om31iJMwDSqyO2E4GM-IscAf6yGF5iYcEFAZ6v8jtt9B5QGVKVmMmIO2GeHxxXF8y8o7LY7gT_mgXCNTS26wr5fq7gAhCxrPW3GaVLogeyAxCY2nmEgcViMvkHQmlnYcUsdllk5KRQatAH9kfe4GA/s1190/image_2024-05-06_104855910.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="711" data-original-width="1190" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibDzM2X9AHFYYFbFtr7ZHKpqT5z1tcN6uE5om31iJMwDSqyO2E4GM-IscAf6yGF5iYcEFAZ6v8jtt9B5QGVKVmMmIO2GeHxxXF8y8o7LY7gT_mgXCNTS26wr5fq7gAhCxrPW3GaVLogeyAxCY2nmEgcViMvkHQmlnYcUsdllk5KRQatAH9kfe4GA/w640-h382/image_2024-05-06_104855910.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">On March 1, 2018, Joe Biden got a $200,000 check. The story of where that check came from involves everything from “bloodstained currency” to smuggled gold bars to ‘The Exorcist’.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />But above all else it involves an enemy Muslim tyranny with ties to 9/11 and Hamas.<br /><br />When I first<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/bidens-got-hospital-business-and-people-died-daniel-greenfield/"> broke the story a week before Election Day</a>, it was about how hospital patients in smaller poorer hospitals, including one that had inspired ‘The Exorcist’, had suffered because of the corrupt greed of the Biden family. But even then there was a strange element which led to one of the key figures in the case receiving “blood-stained currency from a Middle Eastern country” and a “torture ticket” after suing James Biden: Joe’s brother.<br /><br />Four years later, in the midst of the Hamas war, the identity of the “Middle Eastern country” behind the Biden business takes on new importance because it is a state sponsor of Hamas.<br /><br />And congressional investigators and investigative journalists have also traced a trail from Qatar, through James’ health care business to that $200,000 check he sent to Joe Biden.<br /><br />The health care business that brought together the Biden family and an Islamic terror state had targeted stricken rural hospitals in Kentucky, Missouri and Pennsylvania.<br /><br />Americore’s CEO was introduced by James Biden to Joe at a fundraiser for the Beau Biden Foundation: co-chaired by Hunter Biden whose infamous laptop bore the foundation’s sticker.<br /><br />James Biden allegedly promised that Joe would get behind the company, <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/02/19/us-news/james-biden-said-joe-was-on-call-with-now-bankrupt-hospital-firm-report/">join its board</a> and that the company’s work would even “help his brother get elected.”<br /><br />“There’s not a single door in the country that we can’t open,” James promised the company.<br /><br />But the money wasn’t coming in and James Biden was taking out major personal loans from the company that was supposed to be managing struggling hospitals. And with Joe out of the White House, there wasn’t going to be any government bailout of Americore any time soon.<br /><br />James Biden didn’t set out to open doors in this country, but <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/28/jim-biden-qatar-testimony-00154704">in an enemy of </a>the United States.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbTPLtAISWS45FaOwYTaaLMOpSSDJOszF5pkfUG82wqBZRvBh9ShtGWiaXngsS9U4fBWmzos38N-R_uXvvqv9i3h9AUWLTT-a9ES87cXxKr3iIdrumfseadHlq2qXJUXBS3PRCcHMHnhCddnET2Y1QlKlU2itGpzd7vIsz9S_kg2BvcLORigO2mA/s318/jimbiden.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="188" data-original-width="318" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbTPLtAISWS45FaOwYTaaLMOpSSDJOszF5pkfUG82wqBZRvBh9ShtGWiaXngsS9U4fBWmzos38N-R_uXvvqv9i3h9AUWLTT-a9ES87cXxKr3iIdrumfseadHlq2qXJUXBS3PRCcHMHnhCddnET2Y1QlKlU2itGpzd7vIsz9S_kg2BvcLORigO2mA/s1600/jimbiden.png" width="318" /></a></div>The Americore pitch sought $30 million to buy up hospitals and named Jim as the “Brother and Campaign Finance Chair of former Vice President Joe Biden.” Internal documents <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/28/jim-biden-qatar-testimony-00154704">showed that this</a> resulted in a meeting with a Qatari “minister”. While the Qataris had plenty of money to burn, getting it to America involved conspiracies more often associated with drug dealers.<br /><br />A “former executive recalled discussion at one point of trying to move money across a Middle Eastern border in the form of gold bars”.<br /><br />Qatar’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood (the parent organization of Hamas) and Iran had led to an embargo by its neighbors. And Qatar’s ties to terrorists, including to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11, who hid out there until he was allegedly tipped off by a member of the Islamic tyranny’s royal family that America was coming to get him, may have complicated the proposed investment funding mechanisms.<br /><br />The next stage of the plan involved James Biden becoming the “chief global banking emissary” for Billerfy which processed payments for a cryptocurrency exchange known as Quadriga that traded money for crypto. Later that year, Billerfy’s <a href="https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/uncategorized/the-260-million-quadrigacx-mystery/">accounts were frozen</a> and millions were found in a personal account. Six days later, Quadriga’s 30-year-old CEO suddenly died in India, locking up $70 million in cash and $191 million in crypto. Another co-founder, Michael Patry, whose real name turned out to be Omar was raided and authorities discovered gold bars in a vault. The whole operation was then exposed as a massive ponzi scheme.<br /><br />But by then James Biden <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/biden-got-200k-payment-from-family-business-tied-to-islamic-terror-hamas/">had already benefited</a> from $600,000 in “personal loans” from the health care company. On March 1, 2018, Americore wired $200,000 to James and he wrote a $200,000 check to Joe. But the loans, according to bankruptcy court documents <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-releases-evidence-of-direct-payment-to-joe-biden/">were conditioned based </a>on “representations that his last name, ‘Biden,’ could ‘open doors’ and<a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-releases-evidence-of-direct-payment-to-joe-biden/"> that he could</a> “obtain a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections.”<br /><br />Desperate for cash, James Biden traveled to Qatar with the aim of personally presenting to Qatari Finance Minister Ali Sharif Al Emadi who was later arrested and charged with bribery and laundering over $5 billion and sentenced to 20 years in prison. While little is known about the details behind the internal power struggle in the corrupt terror state, Al Emadi had been accused of “channeling Qatari support to various Islamist groups over the years” as well as subverting American and European institutions with <a href="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/middle-east/1700763578-human-rights-watch-under-fire-for-allegedly-accepting-millions-in-qatar-funds">sizable infusions </a>of Qatari money.<br /><br />As the American end of the deal fell apart in recriminations and lawsuits, one of the litigants received “blood-stained currency” and a “torture ticket” after suing James Biden and his partners. The blood money came from a Middle Eastern country known to be associated with terrorists. But the FBI refused to name the country and insisted the media also<a href="https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/crime/2019/12/04/joe-biden-brother-jim-biden-fraud-case-fbi-probing-terroristic-threat-tennessee/4349068002/"> hide its identity</a>.<br /><br />Qatar is one of the few countries with that degree of political influence in Washington D.C.<br /><br />But the single most shocking document from James Biden’s relationship with Qatar may be a letter that he <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12623627/Joe-Bidens-brother-Jim-tied-fraud-scheme-allegedly-used-125-000-business-loans-personal-expenses-including-Philadelphia-Eagles-season-tickets.html">allegedly wrote to</a> the Qatari leadership on “behalf of the Biden family.”<br /><br />“We are not particularly close to this administration and have a different vision,” Biden’s brother wrote, accusing the Trump administration of being “fractured” and “beleaguered by major issues that are not soon to be resolved.” However he promised that the Biden “family could provide a wealth of introductions and business opportunities at the highest levels that I believe would be worthy of the interest of His Excellency.”<br /><br />“If this is in keeping with the vision of His Excellency, on behalf of the Biden family, I welcome your interest here,” he concluded.<br /><br />Even while undermining the sitting administration, Biden’s brother was offering the services of his family to an enemy nation. This has wider implications beyond Qatar’s role backing Hamas.<br /><br />Qatar was also the central intermediary in the Taliban “deal” and had formed an alliance with Iran. It is difficult to know whether the “Biden family” relationship with Qatar played any role in the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and in the sanctions relief offered to Iran.<br /><br />We do know there was a relationship between the Biden family and a state sponsor of Hamas, which Joe Biden profited from, and that has disturbing implications for our national security.<br /><br />“We’ve got people all around the world who want to invest in Joe Biden,” James Biden once bragged. One of those investors had ties to Iran, Al Qaeda, Iran and Hamas.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href=" http://www.domestic-enemies.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1500" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtGXBpNQddGJO0E4twlloXaa2gtAqHpfaobX0x8E9hQHe8-uW2ennu5OnTYIIOrbxSxkfFswNpTYTlCBH8Pqgj_36-z_qENZn1d6Vh1OF_ZgRiQip735o9VZ6SH2nK76vvLOXQvauEC1-dIDVR9WHbLk5IYQU3IlCXP4d7i0yZwg4oYowLGQxw8Q/w640-h214/site%20footer1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></span></div></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a>&nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. 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Under California law, doxxing can be punished by <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=PEN&amp;sectionNum=653.2">up to a</a> year in prison. Bonta has been considering running for governor and might be amenable to doing what it took to win Islamist support.<br /><br />Shortly afterward, CAIR’s Massachusetts chapter met with Attorney General Andrea Campbell and urged her to create an “anti-doxxing task force” to target pro-Israel and Jewish groups. CAIR MA’s legal director claimed that it had met with Campbell to “flesh out what current laws might apply and what possibly new ones might help in these situations.” The attorney general’s office expressed concern about “harassment”, but fell short of promising to lock up journalists.<br /><br />There’s no word on whether that task force was ever created, but the obvious target would have been the Jewish activists, organizations and journalists investigating antisemitism at Harvard.<br /><br />CAIR was worried about anyone exposing its support for terrorism and it had good reason to be.<br /><br />Next month, CAIR founder and executive director Nihad Awad, who had previously expressed support for Hamas, appeared at the American Muslims For Palestine (AMP) convention, and <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/cair-boss-cheers-hamas-oct-7-attack/">cheered the Oct 7 </a>attacks, claiming that the Gazans would be “victorious” because they did not fear death, “if they would like to die, they will go to another heaven.”<br /><br />No one would have known about this Jihadist propaganda if MEMRI, one of the research organizations collecting materials, had not seen it and <a href="https://www.memri.org/reports/cair-executive-director-nihad-awad-american-muslims-palestine-amp-convention-i-was-happy-see">then ‘doxxed’ CAIR’s boss </a>by posting it.<br /><br />And if CAIR were to succeed in criminalizing such investigations, the truth about its support for Islamic terrorism and the murder of Jews might have never seen the light of day.<br /><br />When the video went public, the Biden administration was forced to temporarily break with CAIR and jettison the Islamist hate group from its previously published antisemitism strategy.<br /><br />But CAIR was already looking for allies in the government looking to criminalize journalism.<br /><br />California’s ‘doxxing’ laws, created to prevent cyberstalking against women by ex-boyfriends, penalized emails and pictures distributed “with intent to place another person in reasonable fear for his or her safety” leading to “unwanted physical contact, injury, or harassment.”<br /><br />These laws were never meant to silence investigative reporting or cover for terror supporters.<br /><br />CAIR’s ‘Guide to Doxxing’ however listed pro-Israel “websites such as the Canary Mission and the Jew Hate Database” as examples of “doxxing websites”. The cover of the ‘doxxing’ guide features a censored version of a billboard truck that Accuracy in Media (AIM) used in Harvard which had listed the student leaders who were behind the infamous Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) letter that had blamed Israel and not Hamas for Oct 7.<br /><br />What CAIR was really looking to do was shut down and even criminalize sites like MEMRI and <a href="https://canarymission.org/">Canary Mission</a>, and organizations like the David Horowitz Freedom Center, which had compiled numerous examples of Islamic leaders and activists who had endorsed the Oct 7 attacks and called for further attacks on Jews.<br /><br />On October 13, Front Page Magazine published my article listing the<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/students-for-justice-in-palestine-cheers-hamas-crimes-at-colleges-across-u-s/"> open support for the atrocities</a> by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapters and key figures on campuses across the country. While we exposed them, CAIR was trying to criminalize such investigative journalism as “doxxing” and meeting with attorney generals to convince them to lock us up.<br /><br />Contrary to CAIR’s claims, no personal contact information was being posted and no one was being doxxed. While Islamists and their allies have slurred Canary Mission as a “doxxing website”, it does not post the personal contact information of terror supporters, but does expose the activities of campus leaders and it republishes their public comments about killing Jews.<br /><br />This isn’t “doxxing”: it’s journalism.<br /><br />Efforts to make Canary Mission seem threatening reached their height in a hit piece at The Nation which claimed that “Canary Mission agents have also been involved in physical intimidation” when “two powerful men in yellow canary outfits” showed up at a George Washington University BDS vote and “then engaged in a strange and frightening dance”. An anti-Israel activist told the pro-terrorist leftist magazine that she found “these two fully grown, muscular men in these bird costumes, strutting… pretty unbelievably terrifying.”<br /><br />No one is actually terrified of dancing canaries, but some CAIR figures and their Islamist allies hate being quoted and love adopting victimhood to cover up their attacks and abuses.<br /><br />Whether it’s anti-Israel activists who claim to be terrified of the “strange and frightening dance” of the canaries or CAIR’s claim that quoting Islamists is the same as doxxing them, the pro-terrorist movement is once again claiming victimhood to be able to silence critics.<br /><br />CAIR’s quiet campaign to criminalize journalism went mainstream with the release of its report “FATAL: THE RESURGENCE OF ANTI-MUSLIM HATE”. Despite the title, it could only point to one single supposed killing. Instead, the majority of its report was dedicated to complaining about the consequences of supporting Hamas.<br /><br />CNN and other media outlets rushed to report on FATAL and promoted CAIR’s “doxxing” claims, but the Islamist group had bigger ambitions than just media profiles.<br /><br />CAIR’s FATAL urged that “Congress must enhance anti-doxxing laws.” What would such laws look like? The report cited 18 U.S. Code § 119 which imposes sentences of 5 years in prison for anyone revealing information about the witnesses and jurors in a federal court case.<br /><br />Having started with a year in prison in California, CAIR had worked its way up to five years.<br /><br />Neither CNN nor any other media outlet seemed interested in considering the consequences of such a law on their own profession which is all about exposing what people say and do. If reporting the public statements of Hamas supporters is to be a crime, where does it end?<br /><br />CAIR, like Hamas, excels at playing the victim even as it’s staging horrifying attacks.<br /><br />Hamas supporters had rebranded Arab Muslims in Gaza, the majority of whom support Hamas, as victims of genocide. CAIR is now working to rebrand supporters of Hamas in America as victims of doxxing. And the only thing standing in the way of CAIR’s plans is the Constitution.<br /><br />CAIR claims to be a civil rights group when it’s actually waging a war on civil rights.<br /><br />For now, even in California, we can still safely quote CAIR boss<a href="https://www.memri.org/reports/cair-executive-director-nihad-awad-american-muslims-palestine-amp-convention-i-was-happy-see"> Nihad Awad’s statement </a>that, “the people of Gaza only decided to break the siege, the walls of the concentration camp, on October 7. And yes, I was happy to see people breaking the siege.” But for how long?<br /><br />California’s Democratic Party establishment, from Gov. Newsom on down, bowed to CAIR, and demanded that Israel cease its attacks on Hamas. How long until they agree that anyone who commits the crime of quoting CAIR and other Hamas supporters should be locked up in prison?<br /><br />“The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam,” Obama once preached and went on to lock up a man for making a YouTube video about Mohammed.<br /><br />How long until states start locking up those who tell the truth about Islamic terrorism?</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href=" https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1500" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtGXBpNQddGJO0E4twlloXaa2gtAqHpfaobX0x8E9hQHe8-uW2ennu5OnTYIIOrbxSxkfFswNpTYTlCBH8Pqgj_36-z_qENZn1d6Vh1OF_ZgRiQip735o9VZ6SH2nK76vvLOXQvauEC1-dIDVR9WHbLk5IYQU3IlCXP4d7i0yZwg4oYowLGQxw8Q/w640-h214/site%20footer1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></span></div></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a>&nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. 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Schumer’s infamous speech attacking Israel can overlook the fact that Alex Soros, the son of the<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/jewashing-george-soros-daniel-greenfield/"> elderly former Nazi collaborator </a>who has defended Hamas, has met at least nine times with Sen. Schumer and <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/progressive-money-man-alex-soros-huddles-dem-candidates-2024-campaign-heats-up">called him </a>“his good friend”. The younger Soros has continued meeting with Senate Dem candidates on whose victory Schumer’s Senate Majority Leader role depends.<br /><br />The outside game of pressure campaigns, street blockades and violent attacks in the streets may get more attention, but is subsidiary to the inside game mastered by the Soros family.<br /><br />$60 million has been pumped from the Soros network into its own Democracy PAC to help Democrats win. Millions from that PAC have gone to the Democratic Party’s Senate Majority PAC and House Majority PAC. And so when the Soros clan speaks, top House and Senate Democrats like Sen. Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries listen closely and then take action.<br /><br />George Soros was always known as a savvy investor, but his son Alex has been even savvier as a political investor, building a spectrum of political funds that are not only vital to the election prospects of the Democrats, but that also cover an array of anti-Israel groups with different brands and tactics.<br /><br />The Soros fortune extends to funding Linda Sarsour’s Arab American Association which took part in a rally celebrating the Oct 7 attacks where the <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/defund-the-soros-hamas-insurrection/">pro-Hamas mob attacked police officers</a>, <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/defund-the-soros-hamas-insurrection/">Jewish Voice for Peace</a>, a fake Jewish group which has blocked traffic to stop Israel from attacking the terrorists, J Street, which falsely claims to be “Pro-Israel” and “Pro-Peace”, but has actually lobbied against Israel’s fight against terrorists, and Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, a vanity group co-founded by Alex Soros, which tries to provide Jewish cover for members of the antisemitic ‘Squad’ while accusing their Jewish critics of “weaponizing antisemitism”.<br /><br />Meanwhile, in Israel, Al-Haq, a<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/soros-funded-group-complains-israel-summarily-executed-oct-7-hamas-terrorists-killing-israelis/"> Soros funded Muslim group</a> tied to terrorists, had described Oct 7 as a case of “Palestinian armed groups engaged in an operation in response to escalating Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people” while the International Crisis Group has become <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/leaked-iranian-gov-docs-show-soros-group-acted-as-foreign-agent/">so entangled with Iran </a>that its members have been described as agents of the regime.<br /><br />Viewed separately, JVP, J Street, Al-Haq, the Arab American Association, the Crisis Group and many others appear to represent different views, but actually represent different fronts in the war on Jews. While the groups may appear different, they follow the usual Soros tactic of networking smaller groups together into larger ones to create not just organizations, but a movement.<br /><br />Soros money funds Muslims, leftists and people of Jewish ancestry who support killing Jews under a variety of banners and names, but they share the traditional hateful Soros agenda.<br /><br />What Sen. Schumer or J Street believe about Hamas, may be less relevant than what George Soros thinks about Hamas. And what does<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/soros-war-against-jews-daniel-greenfield/"> Soros think about the Islamic terrorist group</a>?<br /><br />“America and Israel must open the door to Hamas,” Soros had once urged in an editorial. “Neither Hamas nor Hezbollah can be treated merely as targets in the war on terror because both have deep roots in their societies,” he argued in yet another editorial. “AIPAC must bear its share of responsibility for aiding and abetting policies such as Israel’s heavy-handed response to Hezbollah last summer and its insistence on treating Hamas only as a terrorist organization.”<br /><br />Following the money is always a good idea and the profound shift made by many Democrats and liberal organizations from supporting Israel after Oct 7 to opposing it can be seen as a reflection of the agenda of their funder. Soros-funded groups quickly rallied after Oct 7 to undermine support for the Jewish State using everything from street violence to fake claims of Islamophobia and atrocities. But the invisible inside game is no less real even if it leaves behind no fingerprints. There is no way to know what happened behind the scenes at some organizations where the reversals were fast enough to make heads spin.<br /><br />On Oct 9, J Street had<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/j-street-lobbies-against-israeli-war-on-hamas/"> issued a statement </a>denouncing the attacks and stating that “we stand in solidarity with the Israeli people and with the Israeli armed forces that have been battling desperately to protect them. Two days later, J Street was back on track, condemning the “occupation of Palestinian Territory” and ten days later was labeling Israel’s campaign to stop Hamas as an “escalation.” What happened behind the scenes at the leftist group?<br /><br />What we do know is that Alex Soros has continued his father’s tradition of elemental hostility toward the Jewish State.<br /><br />On August 7th, months before the Hamas attacks, Alex Soros co-signed a letter falsely accusing the “current Israeli government” of a “campaign is so severe and so consequential that it merits a proportionate reaction by Israel’s chief ally, the United States of America” such as voting against Israel at the UN and other ways of undermining the Jewish State.<br /><br />Despite the attacks of Oct 7, all 7 of the demands for actions against Israel were either enacted, moved forward or otherwise entered consideration by the Biden administration.<br /><br />While the pro-Hamas mobs may condemn the Biden administration, both ‘Genocide Joe’ and the Hamas supporters share a common anti-Israel agenda and a common funding source.<br /><br />The difference between the inside and the outside game, lies in the facades. What’s the real difference between Biden and Hamas supporters? Appearance. The combination of internal and external pressures, mob violence and massive checks, is a campaign of total warfare against Israel that is designed to appear as if it were coming from many diverse voices.<br /><br />But behind many of the facades lies one agenda.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href=" https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1500" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtGXBpNQddGJO0E4twlloXaa2gtAqHpfaobX0x8E9hQHe8-uW2ennu5OnTYIIOrbxSxkfFswNpTYTlCBH8Pqgj_36-z_qENZn1d6Vh1OF_ZgRiQip735o9VZ6SH2nK76vvLOXQvauEC1-dIDVR9WHbLk5IYQU3IlCXP4d7i0yZwg4oYowLGQxw8Q/w640-h214/site%20footer1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></span></div></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a>&nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. 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Finnegan “flew single-engine planes, reconnaissance flights over New Guinea. He had volunteered because someone couldn’t make it. He got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals in New Guinea at the time.”<br /><br />Amazingly, even for a Joe Biden tall tale, almost no part of that story is true. Ambrose, a 2nd lieutenant, was a passenger on an administrative flight when the plane’s engines failed and it went down in the water. He wasn’t a heroic volunteer, he was a passenger, and he wasn’t shot down, but died in an accident, and he wasn’t eaten by anybody except maybe a shark.<br /><br />While Biden has made up a lot of family tragedies and war stories, this is the first one to offend an entire nation and alienate it just in time for the People’s Republic of China to swoop in.<br /><br />“President Biden’s remarks may have been a slip of the tongue; however, my country does not deserve to be labeled as such,” Prime Minister James Marape <a href="https://time.com/6969618/joe-biden-uncle-cannibals-papua-new-guinea-backlash/">objected</a>.<br /><br />There was cannibalism, Michael Kabuni, a lecturer in political science at the University of Papua New Guinea, admitted, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/19/joe-biden-uncle-bosie-cannibals-eaten-papua-new-guinea">but</a> “taking it out of context, and implying that your [uncle] jumps out of the plane and somehow we think it’s a good meal is unacceptable.”<br /><br />“They wouldn’t just eat any white men that fell from the sky.”<br /><br />First, Biden claims that Papuans ate his uncle and a Papuan political science professor responds by implying that Joe’s uncle wasn’t worth eating. Cannibalism in the area was a rare ritual because a diet heavy in Biden family members would be hard to come by and unhealthy.<br /><br />Eating people is one of the least healthy diets around which is why even few animals outside of the government prey on us full time. Cannibal tribes would eat great leaders or the mentally ill (or both) which might qualify Joe Biden to be eaten by cannibals, but not his uncle ‘Bosey’.<br /><br />But what’s really eating Joe is a stolen valor problem. And a Kennedy problem.<br /><br />Joe Biden repeatedly and falsely claims that his son Beau Biden died in Iraq when he actually died of cancer in America. The ‘Uncle Bosey’ story is part of a pattern of fake war stories.<br /><br />“The superhighway of terror between Pakistan and Afghanistan where my helicopter was forced down. John McCain wants to know where bin Laden and the gates of Hell are? I can tell him where. That’s where Al Qaida is. That’s where bin Laden is,” Biden<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/bidens-long-history-betrayals-afghanistan-daniel-greenfield/"> claimed in the</a> 2008 campaign.<br /><br />The chopper carrying Sen. Biden, Sen. John Kerry and Sen. Chuck Hagel landed in safe territory during a snowstorm. It remained there under heavy military protection before the Arizona National Guard’s 1st Battalion who traveled through the “bitter winds, freezing rain and snow for more than 15 hours” to escort him to Bagram Air Base. Which he would later abandon.<br /><br />During the 2020 election bid, Biden once again falsely claimed that he risked his life traveling to Afghanistan. “I’ve been in and out of Iraq and Afghanistan 30 times. I’ve pinned medals, Silver Stars, on soldiers up in the Upper Konar Valley, in the middle of a firestorm.”<br /><br />“They’re behind, it’s called a FOB, a forward operating base, behind these great big barriers on top of a mountain in a little cove in a godforsaken country,” Biden claimed. “A four-star general asked me, would I go up into the FOB. Everybody got concerned. A vice president going up in the middle of this. But we can lose a vice president. We can’t lose many more of these kids. Not a joke.”<br /><br />Biden’s story of heroically traveling to pin a medal into a firestorm to pit a medal on a soldier was also false.<br /><br />The actual story comes from the same trip at the helicopter “forced down” in the “superhighway of terror“ when Biden, along with Kerry and Hagel, visited a base and watched a medal ceremony for an actual hero. No general asked Biden to risk his life to pin a medal on a wounded soldier. Nor did Biden pin the medal on him. The base, known as Naray or Bostick, did not come under fire when Biden was there. Nor was traveling there in 2008 a serious risk.<br /><br />In February 2008, when Biden visited Afghanistan, only one American soldier had been killed that entire month.<br /><br />Biden visited Afghanistan at a time when he knew it was safe and used the trip to invent war stories for the election.<br /><br />And then there was “Uncle Frank”.<br /><br />According to Joe Biden at yet another event, this one at the Major Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III National Guard/Reserve Center, celebrating the military service of his son as a JAG in Iraq for 7 months, claimed that his father told him that “Uncle Frank fought in the Battle of the Bulge” and “won the Purple Heart”, but “never received it”. So Joe Biden came over with his dad to bring Uncle Frank a Purple Heart. Not only did the story never happen, because Frank was dead by then, but there had never been any record of a Purple Heart awarded to a Frank Biden.<br /><br />Nor was there a Purple Heart awarded Ambrose Finnegan because he wasn’t shot down or captured, he was not on a combat flight, but traveling on an administrative flight.<br /><br />When Joe Biden falsely claimed that he awarded a Purple Heart to his Uncle Frank, it reflected a real grudge that the military hadn’t provided him with some war heroes in the family.<br /><br />Joe Biden makes up all sorts of stories, but there is a pattern to a lot of those stories.<br /><br />Like a lot of Democrats with presidential aspirations, he wanted to be JFK. To do that, he built up claims of being Irish (the late Uncle Bosey was not only used to prop up the Bidens as war heroes but as Irish), of being a talented lawyer, a football player and a man who from an early age had met with world leaders. That’s not Joe Biden’s biography, but it is JFK’s biography.<br /><br />Like the Kennedy family, Biden framed his family as a tragic clan. Beau became his Joe Patrick Jr, the promising golden child who could have changed the world had he not died in a war, whose death inspired him to run for office. Meanwhile, Joe Biden supplemented the narrative with other family war stories that never happened.to live out his fantasy of being JFK. How infuriating it must be for a man who believes he is JFK to be challenged by an actual Kennedy.<br /><br />What’s eating Joe aren’t the cannibals of New Guinea, but that he isn’t a Kennedy.<br /><br />“The Kennedys were, as a group, the people he patterned his life after,” Ted Kaufman, Biden’s former chief of staff, said. “Not just his political life, but his life.”<br /><br />In Biden’s stories, he’s not an old man with a failing mind, he is JFK, flying into danger, inspired to change the country by the death of a loved one, burdened by tragedy, but rising to the occasion to inspire a nation. In New Guinea, they might not eat just any white men that fell from the sky. They might not eat a Biden, but even cannibals would have the taste to eat a Kennedy.<br /><br />Joe Biden isn’t living his life, he’s cannibalizing the already eaten up Kennedy family legacy.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href=" https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1500" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtGXBpNQddGJO0E4twlloXaa2gtAqHpfaobX0x8E9hQHe8-uW2ennu5OnTYIIOrbxSxkfFswNpTYTlCBH8Pqgj_36-z_qENZn1d6Vh1OF_ZgRiQip735o9VZ6SH2nK76vvLOXQvauEC1-dIDVR9WHbLk5IYQU3IlCXP4d7i0yZwg4oYowLGQxw8Q/w640-h214/site%20footer1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></span></div></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a>&nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. 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The majority of those deaths were fentanyl related.<br /><br />Biden claimed after the meeting with Xi that China is “taking steps to shut down companies dealing in illicit trade and precursor chemicals.”<br /><br />But officially what China did was send out warning letters to the firms shipping precursor chemicals to the cartels. Rather than warning Chinese companies that they faced action from their own government, the letters cautioned them that they faced legal action from America.<br /><br />The companies making the poison killing Americans then had every reason to laugh it off.<br /><br />Chinese firms were told to be “cautious about orders from the United States and Mexico and be wary of the exported items being used to manufacture drugs.”<br /><br />Telling companies to be cautious and wary, is a long way from a crackdown.<br /><br />In sharp contrast to the warning letters, earlier that same year Chinese authorities had raided the offices of American companies auditing local firms on behalf of U.S. investors.<br /><br />Televised footage all over Chinese media showed blue uniformed thugs breaking into offices, carrying away boxes of files and manhandling employees. The regime was sending a message and it did so in the usual unsubtle way that Communist governments always operate.<br /><br />The People’s Republic of China was far more interested in cracking down on American firms detecting fraud in China’s Potemkin village economy than on the drug rings and firms that bribe local officials to be able to continue murdering hundreds of thousands of American citizens.<br /><br />China has spent far more time cracking down on tech firms than it has on drug precursor dealers. And, like the crackdown on auditors, it has done so publicly and prominently.<br /><br />By contrast, China’s response to the fentanyl crisis has been to sweep it under the table.<br /><br />In 2019, Chinese officials claimed that all the issues had been “resolved” after a handful of members of one smuggling network were convicted. Fentanyl was finally treated as a controlled substance. Some of the most blatant online pitches for drug sales were toned down. And hundreds of thousands of Americans still went on to die of fentanyl because none of this substantively stopped the manufacture and traffic in precursor chemicals out of China.<br /><br />Now once again, Chinese authorities are sending out warning letters to companies and telling them that the government is keeping an eye on them. But smaller companies, which exist only on paper, just swap out old names for new ones and keep right on killing Americans.<br /><br />Beijing had pulled this same scam in 2019 only for the fentanyl crisis to grow worse.<br /><br />Even as Biden administration officials claim that the Chinese crackdown is working, it’s easy to find Chinese manufacturers<a href="https://www.economist.com/briefing/2024/02/29/americas-ten-year-old-fentanyl-epidemic-is-still-getting-worse"> still pushing </a>precursor chemicals through Whatsapp messages.<br /><br />Biden administration officials keep claiming that every meeting with Chinese officials moves things forward, but the Chinese officials tend to have a different story. In February,<br /><br />Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas met with Public Security Minister Wang Xiaohong in Vienna. Biden officials claimed that progress had been made on battling fentanyl while Chinese media <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/us-sees-china-taking-concrete-steps-to-counter-drug-trade/7496025.html">claimed that the </a>focus was on letting Chinese students enter America.<br /><br />Fentanyl is profitable for Communist China both economically and politically. The mass deaths of Americans provide Beijing with leverage on everything from tariffs to visas to Taiwan.<br /><br />Lenin had once reportedly bragged that the capitalists would sell him the rope with which he would hang them. Americans are buying the fentanyl rope with which China is hanging us. Every shipment puts more money into China’s pockets while undermining America. And when American leaders ask China for help, they offer some limited cooperation, hold meetings at which they issue their own demands and then the regime which runs slave labor camps and conducted forced abortions claims that there are legal obstacles in the way of a crackdown.<br /><br />The official line is that the marketplace is just too complicated for China to crack down on. The same regime which relentlessly monitors every aspect of life, especially economic activity and contact with foreigners, claims to be helpless to stop a major form of international trade.<br /><br />Chinese authorities are aware of which precursor chemicals can be used for the drug trade, where they are manufactured and then shipped. And if these were being used to kill their own citizens, the crackdown would have been immediate, ruthless and thoroughly comprehensive.<br /><br />But the Biden administration has been more than happy to accept the myth of Chinese helplessness. Rather than seriously taking on China, Biden’s 2022 National Drug Control Strategy focused on <a href="https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10890">working together</a> with the Communist regime “on shared drug priorities”.<br /><br />But Beijing has very different drug priorities than we do.<br /><br />The Biden administration keeps holding out for empty promises. A White House adviser claimed that her boss believes the China deal has “the potential to make a real difference in the lives of Americans”. The potential is there but only if Biden really gets serious about pressuring China.<br /><br />And he isn’t.<br /><br />Beijing understands that American politicians have short attention spans and want some sort of photo op that allows them to claim that they’re handling the problem. And the Communist regime is occasionally willing to play the game and go through the ritual of meetings and form letters even while the underlying problem not only continues, but gets even worse.<br /><br />In response to past pressure, China rerouted the fentanyl pipeline away from direct sales and toward cartel middlemen. The deals cut profits for Chinese dealers but maintained the core priority of harming Americans. The regime will similarly allow domestic manufacturers to play musical chairs with chemicals as they and their partners develop new even deadlier drugs.<br /><br />Plausible deniability allows Xi and Biden to pretend that they’re tackling the fentanyl crisis, but both men have more to gain than to lose from the epidemic. The drug trade is lucrative for China and the suffering from the fentanyl epidemic feeds the welfare state that serves as a core organizing and campaign mechanism for the Democratic Party. It’s a win-win situation.<br /><br />And a lose-lose situation for millions of Americans.<br /><br />42% of American adults<a href="https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/02/21/massachusetts-brookline-rand-study-grief-opioid-overdose-crisis"> in one survey</a> said that they knew someone who had died of a drug overdose. Our communities are filling up with the casualties of a drug war that China is winning.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href=" https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1500" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtGXBpNQddGJO0E4twlloXaa2gtAqHpfaobX0x8E9hQHe8-uW2ennu5OnTYIIOrbxSxkfFswNpTYTlCBH8Pqgj_36-z_qENZn1d6Vh1OF_ZgRiQip735o9VZ6SH2nK76vvLOXQvauEC1-dIDVR9WHbLk5IYQU3IlCXP4d7i0yZwg4oYowLGQxw8Q/w640-h214/site%20footer1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></span></div></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a>&nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. 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A hundred years ago, Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler was laboring to keep Jewish students out while celebrating Mussolini’s fascism. Butler’s admiration for fascism was common among university presidents, leaders of society and even in the FDR administration.<br /><br />Not just remastered football cheers, but eugenics, another obsession of Ivy League elites, made its way over to Germany where it was implemented in a far deadlier fashion, not only against Jews, but against German disabled and others deemed to be “life unworthy of life” in keeping with the ideology whose adherents included Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger.<br /><br />Peeling back the layers of the dominant ideologies that Ivy Leaguers hold today leads to National Socialist or Communist ideologies. The Ivy League elites who were environmentalists, socialists, globalists and population control advocates a century ago were strongly influenced by these totalitarian ideologies that called for tyranny and mass murder.<br /><br />They weren’t liberals then and they’re not liberals now.<br /><br />A century ago they believed that human beings were defined by race and they still believe it now. A century ago they were convinced that mankind would go extinct unless strong leaders clamped down on independent thinking and undertook emergency measures to impose order. And they still believe it now. A century ago they believed that the only way forward was a planned economy, expert rule and the necessary deaths of certain people and groups.<br /><br />Do they still believe it now?<br /><br />The complete support for Hamas at Columbia, Yale and other Ivy League schools took some by surprise, but the idea that elite academic institutions ever had their politics defined by reason, liberalism and a respect for the rights of man has no basis in reality. While these universities and many others had some brilliant professors and students, and provided a rich environment of methodical learning at one time, university politics were always shot through with radicalism.<br /><br />Even early in the twentieth century, the poison Ivy Leagues were filled with loathing for Americans, democracy and free enterprise while being attracted by any radical ideology. The question was only whether the Marxists or the National Socialists would triumph on campus.<br /><br />After National Socialism died a mostly unlamented death, Marxism and then, a late entry, Islamism began a battle for the hearts and minds of America’s elites. What does Hamas offer the Ivy League? Much like Nazism and Communism, it believes that America, individualism and free enterprise are worthless, and that only a revolutionary ideology implemented by force can turn around our society. Few of the Yale or Columbia non-Muslim students cheering for Hamas believe in the message of the Koran, but they find it more believable than the American one.<br /><br />Radicalizing Ivy League students is a lot like tripping the blind. Between the wealthy Third World activists who claim to be victims of racism and the radical rich brats whose hobby is revolution, they need little convincing to support any cause, no matter how horrible and evil, as long as it’s directed against America and is a good fit for their addiction to virtue signaling.<br /><br />Generations of Muslim Brotherhood activists and their leftist allies did for Hamas and the Jihad what “Putzy” did for the Nazis. They made them respectable by rebranding them, giving them some new chants, logos, and an agenda that is less religious and more anti-American.<br /><br />The Jew-hatred of “Putzy” or <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/islamic-hate-goes-school-daniel-greenfield/">Hatem ‘Hate’em’ Bazian</a>, the professor behind the campus Jihad, made them more popular on campuses where many students, especially those most likely to join leftist movements, quietly resented the competition from the sizable number of Jewish students. Turning on those students by supporting Hitler or Hamas was all too easy.<br /><br />The multicultural Nazis of today may be more racially diverse than their forebears in the thirties, but, much as then, their intellectual diversity runs the gamut from one totalitarian movement to another. Back then the Ivy League was torn between Fascism and Marxism, now it’s Marxism and Islamism, which have signed their own sort of Hitler-Stalin pact, enabling them to team up against America, Christians, Jews and the entire fabric of Western civilization.<br /><br />The one thing that the Ivy League can agree on is that the world should be run by the right sorts of people and that they are just the right sort of people to run it. Behind the hysterical rallies and the feigned victimhood is a deep contempt and even hatred for much of humanity.<br /><br />Right now the campus Hamas Nazis may be cheering for the death of Jews, but tomorrow they will be cheering once again for race riots burning down cities or for some new evil wave of terror. The real question is not just whom they hate, but whom they don’t hate.<br /><br />That hatred is why the Ivy League has always been so easy to radicalize with a steady drip feed of students eager to be taught that everything they grew up with is a sham, that nothing can be trusted and that the only way to save the world is to put them in charge of managing it.<br /><br />Generations of Ivy Leaguers have been told at ponderous graduation ceremonies that they are the hope of tomorrow, and that history has tasked them with solving the troubles of the nation and the world by implementing the dogma of the moment. No king was more blatantly endowed with the right to rule without the fitness for it than these puffed up and well-connected children.<br /><br />Each ruling class is more vicious, hollow and inept than the last. From cheering Nazis to cheering Hamas, the only thing the Ivy League elites have learned is an appetite for destruction.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href=" https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1500" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtGXBpNQddGJO0E4twlloXaa2gtAqHpfaobX0x8E9hQHe8-uW2ennu5OnTYIIOrbxSxkfFswNpTYTlCBH8Pqgj_36-z_qENZn1d6Vh1OF_ZgRiQip735o9VZ6SH2nK76vvLOXQvauEC1-dIDVR9WHbLk5IYQU3IlCXP4d7i0yZwg4oYowLGQxw8Q/w640-h214/site%20footer1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a>&nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. 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That radical document is why America remains the only place on the planet where freedom of speech is absolute.<br /><br />Other nations have their constitutions and human rights charters which run longer than an old-fashioned telephone directory, but their rights are granted by the government and then taken away by the government. Under the guise of buzzwords like ‘stakeholders’ and ‘evolving social contracts’ your rights are constantly reevaluated by committees according to leftist doctrine.<br /><br />Unlike the absolute rights of the Bill of Rights, the reevaluation of rights follows a Marxist paradigm in which the existing state of rights is an imperfect system imposed by the privileged on the underprivileged, and must be constantly shaken up to liberate the new oppressed.<br /><br />Your rights are not absolute, they are relative to how oppressed the committee thinks you are. And if you’re only as free as your oppression, then you have to be oppressed to have rights.<br /><br />These rights are not a gift from the Creator, but from systemic racism, that you have rights is not something to be proud of or grateful for, but a mark of shame that indicts you for having benefited from whiteness, being adjacent to whiteness, the patriarchy, heteropatriarchy or cisheteropatriarchy, and the only way to atone is to cede your rights to the next group.<br /><br />The clash between traditional feminism and the transgender movement clearly shows the difference between absolute and relative rights. In the absolute rights model, equality for women would have been a permanent victory, but in the relative rights model, by winning equal rights, women stopped being the oppressed and instead became the oppressors of transgender men.<br /><br />Feminists have responded to the transgender movement with both absolute and relative arguments. The absolute argument is that womanhood is a fundamental biological reality and not a relative state of mind that can be redistributed to anyone who comes asking for it. The relative one is, like nearly all relative rights arguments, an assertion of unique victimhood.<br /><br />The Marxist paradigm easily defeats past claims of victimhood. By the sixties, the old class warfare model had evolved to adopt and dispose of such past claims like an efficient factory, beginning with the original class of victims, the white working class, once the vanguard of the revolution, but quickly banished to the ranks of reactionaries and oppressors of the oppressed.<br /><br />From the lofty progressive vantage point of the current year, every domestic group on whose behalf the leftists of a century ago had advocated, coal miners, factory workers, women, Italian and Jewish immigrants, the rural poor, have now become the contemptible enemies of mankind.<br /><br />At the rapid pace of radicalization, everyone from white gay men to black men to lesbians, are being prepped for the social abattoir. By 2035, the only true victims may be groups so bizarre and warped as to be barely conceivable today. Before they too are exposed as the oppressors.<br /><br />Under intersectionality, each right is also a wrong, and each liberation conceals another oppression. The process of liberation is a constant search for new wrongs, new minorities to liberate and then denounce in a constant upheaval of society that masks the oppressive transfer of power from the citizenry to a revolutionary vanguard that also doubles as the true ruling class.<br /><br />The true oppression is a liberation movement that frees no one, only pits people against one another, giving each grievance its hour in the sun, before turning the aggrieved into the aggressors, so that only the revolutionaries can ever wield any meaningful power by arbitrating who the oppressors and the oppressed are at given moment.<br /><br />And that is what relative rights look like.<br /><br />When rights are dependent on defining who the oppressed and the oppressors are, then those rights are not truly inalienable rights given by the Creator or by a foundational document, but by the constantly shifting paradigms of academia and the accompanying leftist politics.<br /><br />Who the oppressed and the oppressors are can change overnight, as feminists found out. Yesterday, women were the oppressed, today any man who puts on a dress is oppressed.<br /><br />The difference between your rights being determined day to day by King George III or the editorial department of the New York Times is a preference for one tyranny over another.<br /><br />Absolute rights, like those in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, build one achievement on top of another. And that is the rights that most Americans, even most liberals, thought that they were getting, but instead the oppressed groups of yesterday wonder why the revolutionary moment seems to have passed them by leaving them with less than they had.<br /><br />What happened to the revolution, they wonder? What happened is that it’s a revolution.<br /><br />A revolution is a state of instability. Freedom doesn’t come from revolutions, but from the order that emerges afterward. That’s why Americans commemorate July 4th, 1776 as Independence Day. July 4th was neither the first nor the final shot fired for independence. Like the French, we could have made an original violent confrontation, the Boston Massacre, into our Bastille Day. Or we could have made Evacuation Day, a mostly forgotten holiday marking the British departure from New York City and the end of British rule, into the date of our independence.<br /><br />But instead we chose to commemorate the aspirational vision of the Declaration of Independence. Revolutions and battles come and go, but we wanted to build our independence around a new order of liberty, not around the perpetual revolution championed by some radicals.<br /><br />In my book, <a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left">Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers’ Fight Against The Left</a>, I described the radical American leftists who wanted to perpetuate the revolution and saw France as a model.<br /><br />“Eternal providence called on you, you alone, since the world began, to reestablish on earth the empire of justice and liberty,” Robespierre had rhapsodized. During the Reign of Terror, the French leftist had assured fellow radicals that it would all be worth it for, “by sealing our work with our blood, we may witness at least the dawn of universal happiness.”<br /><br />Some American leftists plotted to topple George Washington and the Constitution to pursue a French style perpetual revolution that would, after enough bloodshed, offer universal happiness.<br /><br />Today the “dawn of universal happiness” has been replaced by the “right side of history”, but both are revolutionary movements of relative rights that are always incomplete and seeking perfection. But human affairs are by definition imperfect. The American experiment offered the security of absolute rights while the leftist approach is to rob of everyone of their rights over and over in search of the perfect state, the empire of justice and liberty, and the right side of history.<br /><br />The real struggle is still between the absolute rights guaranteed nearly 250 years ago by the Declaration of Independence, and the relative rights promised by the leftist revolutions which are still going on today. And it is this clash of rights that will determine the future of our rights.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href=" https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1500" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtGXBpNQddGJO0E4twlloXaa2gtAqHpfaobX0x8E9hQHe8-uW2ennu5OnTYIIOrbxSxkfFswNpTYTlCBH8Pqgj_36-z_qENZn1d6Vh1OF_ZgRiQip735o9VZ6SH2nK76vvLOXQvauEC1-dIDVR9WHbLk5IYQU3IlCXP4d7i0yZwg4oYowLGQxw8Q/w640-h214/site%20footer1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a>&nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8av312G7qwcA8PSR4D9W5v-9uVh84bHXtMlvI1PTTFanCxUrs254Bm6yTldGRRNPUDOiwtMiUBtFiFEh-1kU5rfmScrr4M1JdNxZegmIpyEPwW1YpLy1MDxMWeilYjN2fQ4G0wV1uTAWWn9eXgSX3FDD44N96gSXnhBMuyq53fZ5gyM920sPT0Q/s945/image_2024-04-26_003706925.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="644" data-original-width="945" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8av312G7qwcA8PSR4D9W5v-9uVh84bHXtMlvI1PTTFanCxUrs254Bm6yTldGRRNPUDOiwtMiUBtFiFEh-1kU5rfmScrr4M1JdNxZegmIpyEPwW1YpLy1MDxMWeilYjN2fQ4G0wV1uTAWWn9eXgSX3FDD44N96gSXnhBMuyq53fZ5gyM920sPT0Q/w640-h436/image_2024-04-26_003706925.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">A moronic liberal president opens up the borders to mass migration in order to change the nation’s demographics and win an election, but instead touches off a civil war when the governor of a conservative state refuses federal orders to let any more refugees inside.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">It’s not just the state of the Biden administration, but&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Second Civil War</em>, an HBO political satire from the era of the Clinton administration, that does what&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Civil War</em>, a 2024 movie, won’t.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Civil War</em>, currently number one at the box office, has a lot in common with its 1997 predecessor, both are civil war movies whose posters feature a battered Statue of Liberty and show the country being torn apart through the eyes of the media, but the difference between them is that&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Second Civil War</em>&nbsp;brought up issues while<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">&nbsp;Civil War</em>&nbsp;carefully avoids them.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">In 1997 it was still possible for a prestige production to discuss issues like immigration from both sides, to take shots not only at the conservatives, caricatured predictably as hypocritical xenophobic buffoons, but also at an equally mindless liberal elite using immigration for political gain, while being blind to the economic and social damage that it’s inflicting on the country.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">Such a position is inconceivable in 2024. That is why<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">&nbsp;Civil War&nbsp;</em>imagines California and Texas teaming up to topple an abusive president, but not the issues that would drive a civil war. The Western Forces militiamen are culturally coded as right-wing and xenophobic, and the reporters as liberals, but otherwise cannot touch on what would make Americans kill each other.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">In&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Second Civil War’</em>s black comedy, the administration is importing millions of migrants “the lumps at the bottom of the melting pot” with the specific purposes of winning swing states. Faced with pushback from The Nation of Islam, representing black Muslims, who are fighting the Reconquista Latinos of California, the president plans to import millions of Koreans.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">What was satire in 1997 is just politics in 2024. The nation’s foreign policy is being determined by a sizable Muslim minority in Dearborn, Michigan, which supports Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas. The implausible demographic transformation in 1997 is a reality now as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/election-jihad-islamic-groups-are-hijacking-our-elections/" style="background-color: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008285; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Muslims make up 10%</a>&nbsp;of the Georgia State Senate delegation. Everything is diverse and in a state of perpetual war.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">The&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Second Civil War’</em>s Republicans don’t actually oppose immigration, they just posture for political reasons but have no intention of actually closing the border. Neither side in this bleak farce believes in anything, but is just falling into a civil war to gain a political advantage. The only truly implausible thing in the movie is that it depicts media people fighting each other over political issues. The media of 2024 is far too much of a political monoculture to ever dissent.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">And so is the entertainment industry.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">Hollywood today operates under codes stricter than anything in the Hays era. Everything from the number of minorities to the depiction of other cultures, religions and countries (especially China) is closely governed and passes through multiple layers of censorship. Much like in China, the only acceptable position is advocacy and the lack of it is its own sort of protest.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">If&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Civil War</em>, like<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">&nbsp;The Second Civil War</em>, were to address immigration in the current cultural climate, it would be impossible for the movie to do anything except take a militant open borders position and to spend its entire running time denouncing and demonizing anything else. And the same would be true for any other political issue or position. The only safe way to tell a story about a civil war that isn’t just going to be non-stop political scolding is to suppress the politics.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">And that negative space may be more revealing than anything that actually is in the movie.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">Liberal critics are not wrong when they point out that Alex Garland,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Civil War’</em>s director, has done little more than transplant a conventional civil war narrative that could have just as easily been set in the former Yugoslavia to America, and that it offers little substance beyond the obligatory celebration of the heroism and horror of war journalism and the shock at a nation tearing itself apart, but what they miss is that they are the reason for the civil war.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">And for the obligatory silence.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">Nations tear themselves apart when they can no longer talk to each other or about the issues at issue. Cautionary warnings about a civil war do no good when the political atmosphere is so totalitarian and stifling that we can’t even discuss why we might end up fighting one another.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">Talk isn’t a remedy for everything. The North and the South understood each other pretty well and there was plenty of vigorous discourse before the onset of hostilities. And sometimes differences are indeed irresolvable. Or unlikely to be resolved. But there were actual efforts to find a compromise, like the redemption of the slaves, or a third option such as expanding America into Canada or Mexico, but there are no longer any efforts at a middle ground now.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">The Left refuses to accept limits on anything. Borders must be fully open and every migrant must be allowed to come and live here. The most graphic kinds of pornography must be forced on children in public schools. Men must be allowed to pretend to be women. Terrorists must be allowed to kill without resistance. Money must be spent by the government without limit. DEI racial quotas must be imposed everywhere. All reliable energy sources must be banned.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">There is no middle ground to any of this. Every institution in our cultural, intellectual&nbsp; and political life has been ideologically compromised and broadcasts the same absolutist position while insisting that any dissent is a “threat to democracy” that must be urgently suppressed.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">How does that trajectory end in anything other than a civil war?</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">There are already two Americas separated by culture into mutually exclusive echo chambers. In the nineties, there were still debates, but by the late oughts, an iron curtain had fallen over the culture. Conservatives exist in the liberal echo chamber only as broadly stereotyped caricatures, racist idiots in red hats carrying guns, with no awareness of what they actually believe.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">In that blind spot,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Civil War</em>&nbsp;can only conceive of a civil war, but not what might bring it about.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">Garland suggests that the absence of clear motives provides a space in which people can draw their own conclusions, rather than being told what to think about the war. There’s something praiseworthy about a movie asking the audience to make up its own mind, but it’s also a calculated evasion. Ambiguity is the cultural dissent most present in totalitarian systems.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">It’s one thing to let people make up their minds, another to be afraid of saying what you think.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">Say what you will about&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Second Civil War,</em>&nbsp;a lopsided and fumbling political satire that crammed in everyone from James Earl Jones, a badly miscast Phil Hartman (coming off his Saturday Night Live portray of Bill Clinton) as a moronic president, and Dennis Leary, from the director of&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Gremlins&nbsp;</em>and<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">&nbsp;Looney Tunes: Back in Action</em>, but it wasn’t afraid to offend anyone.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">(Can you imagine any contemporary movie showing an LA mayor laying claim to the city in Spanish before being shot and killed by the Nation of Islam without everyone getting canceled?)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">And that was as typical of 90s culture as the total political monoculture is of the current age.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Civil War</em>&nbsp;is a movie about a civil war that is careful not to offend anyone. And in doing so it already offended the same leftists who complained that&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Don’t Look Up</em>&nbsp;was only metaphorically, not literally, about global warming, and every show isn’t sufficiently committed to the cause.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">Silence and ambiguity are evasive and ineffectual responses to such a totalitarian movement.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">What’s driving us toward a civil war are not vague concepts like “divisiveness” and “polarization”, it’s that we have no hope of resolving conflicts that we can’t even talk about. One of the few relics of the vigorous debates of the 90s is Bill Maher’s&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Politically Incorrect</em>. And even it has been ghettoized as “right wing” because its liberal host sometimes dissents from the Left.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">That’s why the civil war we’re in is mostly silent. At least to the Left which is incapable of even seeing the other side and is convinced that with enough pressure and open borders, it will disappear. The numbers, whether Biden’s poll numbers or national polls, show otherwise.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">Faced with pushback, the Left embraces state repression and political violence, whether it’s the Trump trials or the rioting mobs in the street who alternate between terrorizing cities for BLM, abortion or Hamas, rigs elections and centralizes its authority all to “save democracy”.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">But what is it saving democracy from except the other half of the country? Or democracy itself.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">A generation later,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Second Civil War,&nbsp;</em>can appear prescient about what is actually happening and more importantly about how we stopped being able to talk to each other. Its sendup of the follies of the media is in stark contrast to the humorless journalists of&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Civil War&nbsp;</em>who are willing to die to report on what is going on for no other purpose than to bear witness.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Second Civil War&nbsp;</em>allowed us to laugh at each other which is about the best possible counter to a civil war. In the era of&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Civil War</em>, satire like the rest of comedy is dead because it’s been replaced by partisan mockery aimed squarely at the other side. When there are no other perspectives, all that remains is a sanctimonious seriousness with no vision or imagination.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Civil War</em>’s journalist protagonists travel the country to Washington D.C. to report back that war is violent. This kind of reductive narrative is what happens when we don’t talk about what’s actually going on and out of that silence, a civil war that will tear us apart really can come.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href=" https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1500" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtGXBpNQddGJO0E4twlloXaa2gtAqHpfaobX0x8E9hQHe8-uW2ennu5OnTYIIOrbxSxkfFswNpTYTlCBH8Pqgj_36-z_qENZn1d6Vh1OF_ZgRiQip735o9VZ6SH2nK76vvLOXQvauEC1-dIDVR9WHbLk5IYQU3IlCXP4d7i0yZwg4oYowLGQxw8Q/w640-h214/site%20footer1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a>&nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. 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Since then we have become slaves again, lived under the rule of iron-fisted tyrants and forgotten what the very idea of freedom means. And that will likely happen again and again until the age of oppression ends. What is this freedom that we gained with the fall of a Pharaoh, his drowning armies, and the last sight of his pyramids?<br /><br />Freedom, like slavery, is as much a state of mind as a state of being. It is possible to be legally free, yet to have no freedom of action whatsoever. And it is possible to be legally a slave and yet to be free in defiance of those restrictions. External coercion alone does not make a man free or slave. <br /><br />Slavery, as all our ancestors learned at one time or another, is a state of mind.<br /><br />What is a slave? A slave is complicit in his own oppression. His slavery has become his natural state and he looks to his master, not to free him, but to command him. He does not want to be free and he resents the very idea of freedom. The Jews in Egypt were not merely restrained by chains and guards. If they had been, then the task of their liberation would have been much simpler. But just as an addictive drug crosses the barrier from physical to psychological dependency, they were enslaved not just with external, but internal chains. They moaned not at the fact of slavery, but at the extremity of it. When their taskmasters complained to Pharaoh, it was not about being enslaved, but of not being given the straw with which to build the bricks that had become their duty.<br /><br />The worst slavery is of the most insidious kind. It leaves the slave able to think and act, but not as a free man. It leaves him with cunning, but not courage. He is able to use force, but only to bring other slaves into line. And most hideously, this state of affairs seems moral and natural to him. This is his freedom.<br /><br />The true slave has come to love big brother, to worship at the foot of the system that oppresses him. It is this twisted love that must be torn out of him. It is this idolatry of the whip before which he kneels, this panting to know who his superiors and who his inferiors are, this love of a vast order that allows him to be lost in its wonders, to gaze in awe at the empire of tomorrow which builds its own tombs today, that must be broken. These are his gods and he must kill them within himself to be free.<br /><br />The Exodus is not the story of the emergence of free men who were enslaved, but the slow painful process by which slaves became a nation of free men, a long troubled journey which has not yet ended. That is why we celebrate Passover, not as an event of the past, but as of a road that we still travel on our long journey from slavery to freedom. Not just the journey of the Jews, but of humanity.<br /><br />Having escaped from Pharaoh, the Jews built a glittering calf, and having left the desert behind, they sought out a king. Every idol and tyrant was another token of slavery, a desire to put one's ear up against the doorpost and become slaves for life. The idols have changed, but their meaning has not. There is still the pursuit of the master, the master of international law, of a global state, the expert gods of the superstate who rule over the present and the future and dispose of the lives of men.<br /><br />There are far too many synagogues that worship the Democratic Party, rather than G-d, that bow to the ghost of FDR, and whose scriptures are to be found in the smeared ink of the New York Times. And in Jerusalem far too many eyes look longingly to Washington and to Brussels, to the cities on the hill which offer order, truth and peace.<br /><br />It is easy to slip into this kind of slavery. The pyramids are grand, the slogans are clever and the future seems assured. It is only when the dusty messenger comes along to whisper that "He has remembered". that those who have not forgotten gather and some among those who have forgotten, remember that they are slaves.<br /><br />In Egypt the system of the state had to be smashed, not just smashed, but discredited. The war between slavery and freedom could not end until the system of slavery had become ridiculous, until Pharaoh appeared a buffoon and his power no more than organized madness. And yet even so for a generation liberated from slavery, this majestic system, the only one they had ever known, remained their template, and in times of crisis, their immediate instinct was to retreat back to the only civilization they had known.<br /><br />The slavery of the present is a more subtle thing. It grips the mind more tightly than the body. It still remembers that men enslave themselves best. It knows also that true power comes from making all complicit in its crimes so that they are also complicit in their own degradation. The system only asks that each man enslave himself and kill his own children. And once he has done that, he will only feel it right to demand that everyone else do likewise.<br /><br />Do it for the environment, for social justice, for the Pharaoh of every age and his ideology. Enslave your mind. Kill your children.<br /><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div>This is the slavery of the system. It requires few whips and many words. It nudges men to be their own taskmasters and to reach out their hands to the new Pharaoh in the hope that he will save them. It is this slavery which is so pervasive, which Passover wakes us from, if it has not already been perverted into the Passover of the slave, into civil rights seders and eco-matzas with donations to Planned Parenthood which will do what the midwives did not.<br /><br />"Once we were slaves," the ancient words call on us to remember that we have been freed. That it is no longer Pharaoh who enslaves us, but we who enslave ourselves. "Now we are free men." But what is freedom really? Is it the freedom to worship G-d or to worship the system? The system proclaims that it is god. And that is the great lie which ends in the death of the system and its slaves.<br /><br />Like the slaves of ancient Egypt, we are shaken, dragged out of our everyday routine and commanded to be free. But how do you command men and women to be free? You can lead them through the habits of free men and women who think of themselves as kings and queens, who drink wine while reclining, who sing loudly in defiance of all oppressors, who boldly proclaim "Next year in Jerusalem" while the pharaohs and czars of D.C. and the EU bare their teeth at the Jews living in Jerusalem.<br /><br />You can unroll the scroll of history and show them how they were taken out, but all this routine is useless unless they understand and are sensible that they are free. Free not in their habits, but in their minds. Ritual is the gateway to a state of mind. A ritual of freedom only succeeds when it invokes a state of mental freedom. Otherwise it is a rite, a practice, a habit whose codes may help some future generation unlock its meaning, but which means little today.<br /><br />Passover is the beginning and the end. It is the start of the journey and the end of it and we are always in the middle, on the long road out of Egypt, discovering that there are more chains in our minds than we realized a year earlier or a hundred or a thousand years ago. Each step we take toward freedom also reminds us of how far we still have to go.<br /><br />It is the ritual that reminds us that we are still on the journey, that though we have been lulled by the routine of the system, the trap of the present that like the soothing warmth of an ice storm or the peaceful feeling of a drowning swimmer, embraces us in the forgetfulness of the dying moment, concealing from us the truth that the journey is not over. The desert still lies before us.<br /><br />This journey is the human journey. It is the recreation of what mankind lost when it defied G-d, when it turned with weapons on each other, when it built towers, created systems and tried to climb to heaven on the backs of slaves and pyramids. It is a transformative road that requires us to not only endure, but to learn.<br /><br />Surrounded by willing slaves who preach the creed of slavery, we must speak for freedom. Though few seem to remember the journey or the chains, it is our duty to remind ourselves. The message of Passover fully begins only when the holiday ends and its habits carry over into our daily lives.<br /><br />Once we were slaves, now we are free</div></content><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/feeds/4245870694644128115/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2024/04/passover-from-slavery-to-freedom.html#comment-form" rel="replies" title="7 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/4245870694644128115" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/4245870694644128115" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2024/04/passover-from-slavery-to-freedom.html" rel="alternate" title="Passover - From Slavery to Freedom" type="text/html"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy2la5MXAQywypxC2Yz7iK_EyK1NKlQLmWW147DoH8KSF8ve-BWw1pVSvYYLWEJxQhOsDz0cWmXONBdo1RoEZ_5KPTvjpWNH_m8OiUADYcL__p0bXAs0iCgMHnPRv1E-lIb0YjLnIJwIvA_pg9S7Ztnu36db7Gp0bAn98eITeuT_Tz0g9pTYUN4g/s72-w640-h320-c/image_2024-04-24_234348359.png" width="72"/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2497308675176040324</id><published>2024-04-21T21:56:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2024-04-21T21:56:30.303-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Islamic terrorism"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Islamization"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recent"/><title type="text">The New Jihadists Are Our Kids</title><content type="html"><div><span style="font-size: medium;">“I will use my knives and machete to slit their throats and kill them."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_1ANr_e-pCpudJ5jigSMmwgsgJyywyqxz9HzOa9Dx8sWhwl2oayIEcH58tvKM8-xn3BJg2crsI1c6vePY3pAvp-uzaqEs_mnE_QZWNy84cqHQl3gszaCZlGXbUaptQpAIpnvg2ajA5v45D8hp356NMdkWybn1u4alwVLlsuGI74pj9qib2BSP3g/s1600/alexander.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_1ANr_e-pCpudJ5jigSMmwgsgJyywyqxz9HzOa9Dx8sWhwl2oayIEcH58tvKM8-xn3BJg2crsI1c6vePY3pAvp-uzaqEs_mnE_QZWNy84cqHQl3gszaCZlGXbUaptQpAIpnvg2ajA5v45D8hp356NMdkWybn1u4alwVLlsuGI74pj9qib2BSP3g/w640-h360/alexander.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><br /> Coeur d’Alene, an Idaho city with a population of over 50,000, had too many churches. Alexander Scott Mercurio, a new teen convert to Islam, had a plan to “fix that real soon.”<br /><br />Ramadan was almost over and Mercurio was unhappy because he believed that he was a bad Muslim who hadn’t even assaulted, let alone killed any Christians, and would go to hell.<br /><br />“I am a hypocrite who has not even spat in the face of a kafir (non-Muslim),” he complained in online chats. “Let alone spilled their blood and induced terror into their hearts and minds.”<br /><br />Mercurio wasn’t sure if he could be considered a good Muslim without killing Christians.<br /><br />“I really don’t want to miss out on the opportunity for jihad in Ramadan,” he worried.<br /><br />While the bloody Islamic holiday of Ramadan is often used as a pretext to warn America, Israel and other countries to stop fighting Islamic terrorists lest it offend Muslims, it’s actually a time of redoubled terrorism. And Mercurio wanted to get in on that murderous spiritual opportunity.<br /><br />“I’ve been thinking about Jihad. Well, I always am, but I mean it’s Ramadan,” Mercurio agonized. “I have motivation for nothing but fighting, like some kind of insatiable bloodlust for the life juice of these idolaters, a craving for mayhem and murder to terrorize those around me… primarily against churches.”<br /><br />There are “three or five churches within walking distance of me” who would be objects of his “insatiable bloodlust: for the blood of non-Muslims.<br /><br />Mercurio decided that he would strike on “the last few days of Ramadan, probably on Sunday, their special day.”<br /><br />The special day was April 7th also known as the Octave Day of Easter or the Sunday of Divine Mercy and would have been well known to the Muslim convert who was raised as a Christian by his parents. But Islam has no mercy, certainly not divine and not human either, and neither did Mercurio who fantasized about massacring Christians on “their special day” of mercy.<br /><br />Alexander Scott Mercurio had started out as a white supremacist before converting to Islam at the age of seventeen. He took on a user name meaning ‘total submission’ in Russian (because of his Russian immigrant mother) and whined about North Idaho and his “very Christian and conservative parents” who “want me to stop being Muslim” while he fantasized about building weapons that would allow him to “heap massacres upon the kuffar (non-Muslims) daily”.<br /><br />The Muslim convert had been allegedly working on sending cryptocurrency donations to ISIS while taking part in an online group that attacked the Taliban for not being murderous enough.<br /><br />Mercurio had allegedly begun chatting with a Muslim terrorist in Gaza who was moving money to ISIS, but then his pal, whom the FBI only says was “believed to have died”, presumably in fighting with Israel, went offline and an informant took over the account and became the receptacle for the convert’s fantasies about killing all the Christians.<br /><br />“Walk to the nearest Church. Stop close by the church, equip the weapon(s) and storm the temple, kill as many as possible…. then burn the temple to the ground, flee the scene, then move onto the next church, rinse and repeat for all 21+ churches in the town until killed.”<br /><br />Later the Muslim convert elaborated that he would “walk into a church and then start beating people with the ‘baton’; hit them first on the kneecaps and elbows… I will beat them only to incapacitate them, I will use my knives and machete to slit their throats and kill them.”<br /><br />Then he would set the church on fire.<br /><br />While Mercurio searched for knives and axes, he really needed something more powerful. After exploring the possibility of building some sort of flamethrower, he decided to get his dad’s guns. Initially he thought about killing or beating his father over the head with a pipe to get the key to the gun safe, and then decided he could just break in and grab the guns while his dad was out.<br /><br />Mercurio got his ISIS flag, developed his plans and finalized a script for his ‘martyrdom’ video which included responding to the call of the Islamic State by “killing Jews and Christians” and “his message to the disbelievers to go to hell”.<br /><br />But his plan to massacre churchgoers with guns, knives and fire ended when he was busted.<br /><br />What had worried Mercurio most of all was not being caught, but having his act of Islamic terror misrepresented by the media. He was concerned that they would “slander me in the media and call me a mentally ill psycho who did this out of desperation and not as an act of religiously motivated terrorism.”<br /><br />It will be easy for the media to dismiss Alexander Scott Mercurio as a teen who fantasized about killing people, and if he hadn’t done it for Islam, would have done it as a Neo-Nazi or just a random school shooter. And yet the documents released show that he agonized about trying to be a good Muslim. Failing at other traditional Islamic practices and prone to lapsing into pornography, he found the traditional Islamic loophole to get into ‘paradise’ through murder.<br /><br />Mercurio is one of a<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/while-we-were-watching-airports-islamic-terrorists-won-our-children/"> growing number of American teens</a> who convert to Islam, often in out-of-the-way places and then get involved in Islamic terrorism. Recent cases include Trevor Bickford, 19, of Maine, who tried to attack NYPD officers in Times Square with a Machete, Xavier Pelkey, 18, also of Maine, who tried to recruit two teens for a terrorist attack in Chicago, Cole James Bridges from Akron, Ohio, Mateo Ventura, a high school student in Wakefield, Massachusetts, and <a href="https://www.danielgreenfield.org/2020/09/the-doj-forced-new-jersey-town-to.html">Jonathan Xie</a>, a 20-year-old from a New Jersey suburb.<br /><br />There is a pattern of teenage boys, resentful of their parents and society, with nothing to aspire to and nothing to believe in, drifting into fantasies of violently terrorizing everyone around them.<br /><br />Islam, like Neo-Nazism, gave Alexander Scott Mercurio something to believe in and kill for.<br /><br />“I will not live to see the day that the flag of Tawheed (Islam) flutters over every land, nor the day that the entire Earth is governed by the Sharia of Allah,” he wrote. “I will gladly spill my blood again and again to make that a reality.”<br /><br />Both Islam and Neo-Nazism offered and offer young men the opportunity to kill and then die for a glorious cause, destroying everything around them so that a new dark order will rule the earth.<br /><br />This primal evil impulse at the heart of Nazism, Communism, Islam and so many other evils is a perversion of the good impulse to build, uphold and to protect that America once used to offer.<br /><br />Troubled young men seeking direction used to join the military, but now they find only wokeness there. The culture banishes young men, telling them they suffer from toxic masculinity and<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/masculinity-and-the-future-of-the-west/"> they drift into movements</a> like those run by Muslim convert and alleged sex trafficker Andrew Tate or into Islam itself which preaches they can find meaning by killing Christians.<br /><br />America needs to do more than spy on these young men, it needs to give them something to fight for. Because if it does not, Islam will. And they will become agents of our ancient enemy to kill, burn and bring down America, Europe and the entire civilized world under the flag of Islam.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="312" data-original-width="820" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0v2TR0DVnPQnnhqbsCinLmGjYyh9utrBMYXTEFMH1gSAEKtGzOOsmSpkUydR9-dRDQJ908mnLol7pp4lZZ5NHafelqwBnLC1TucNPLVlcWkRKFUTP1D9NxVBf3R4P7Eu0m-b_1OB28Q3wNH5s7mXA9mWSrsCzZGbm37-b-3rjqrDawh5cZdVpcA/w640-h245/domestic%20enemies%20facebook%20banner.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><i>[The full story of the Democratic plot to rig the 1864 election is told in the final chapter of my book,&nbsp;<a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" target="_blank">‘Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers’ Fight Against the Left’.</a>]</i></p></div></content><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/feeds/2497308675176040324/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2024/04/the-new-jihadists-are-our-kids.html#comment-form" rel="replies" title="4 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/2497308675176040324" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/2497308675176040324" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2024/04/the-new-jihadists-are-our-kids.html" rel="alternate" title="The New Jihadists Are Our Kids" type="text/html"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_1ANr_e-pCpudJ5jigSMmwgsgJyywyqxz9HzOa9Dx8sWhwl2oayIEcH58tvKM8-xn3BJg2crsI1c6vePY3pAvp-uzaqEs_mnE_QZWNy84cqHQl3gszaCZlGXbUaptQpAIpnvg2ajA5v45D8hp356NMdkWybn1u4alwVLlsuGI74pj9qib2BSP3g/s72-w640-h360-c/alexander.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-7967692798193329628</id><published>2024-04-19T00:01:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2024-04-19T00:03:27.825-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Big Tech"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Culture"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recent"/><title type="text">The Unreal Politics of Unreal Men</title><content type="html"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSmXkBCLutKXGE69Fe6HieUPvdVCzIv0u0G0mBrJnfcR-hNpIIfzFAqYaMiABxvSgYIBs6A1Zl_v_hRvG0liQubjSacL01_TZBF7fYL8xeNdyFTB2xDjZFeVpoxXeYmG27Zxtke8_xmdQRONC81b5nmYdjYnHJda9WJBpFFcjlqqrJH1cK3tp25Q/s865/unreal%20dle2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="865" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSmXkBCLutKXGE69Fe6HieUPvdVCzIv0u0G0mBrJnfcR-hNpIIfzFAqYaMiABxvSgYIBs6A1Zl_v_hRvG0liQubjSacL01_TZBF7fYL8xeNdyFTB2xDjZFeVpoxXeYmG27Zxtke8_xmdQRONC81b5nmYdjYnHJda9WJBpFFcjlqqrJH1cK3tp25Q/w640-h486/unreal%20dle2.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;">“Social media isn’t real life.” It’s a phrase we hear a lot. But is that really true?<br /><br />When Congress threatened to block China from controlling TikTok, the company riled up a mob of tweens to threaten Congress. If the Senate gives in, the outcome will be real enough.<br /><br />TikTok certainly is real life. If you doubt it, look at the rate of teenage girls who have themselves mutilated because of trans trends on the app, even younger girls who killed themselves over material in the app’s algorithm or the spread of verbal or motor ‘tics’ to teens over the platform.<br /><br />Social media isn’t real in the same way as the wind and the rain, or the laws of physics or economics, it’s an alternate reality spread through the internal realities of our minds.<br /><br />Before social media, there was just media, the concentration of mass media, radio, film and newspapers that wrecked much of the twentieth century and killed millions of people. It is no coincidence that some of the most destructive social and political movements arose in line with the growth of the media. It’s impossible to imagine Nazism or Communism without the media.<br /><br />What made people think that the Third Reich or the Communist revolution were viable? The Communists and Nazis were savvy propagandists who took full advantage of newspapers, film and all the elements of modern spectacle to concoct an alternate reality for millions of people. The crowds at Hitler rallies or Communist marches were living in their own version of the real world. And it was not until Hitler shot himself in his bunker or the Berlin Wall fell that they woke up to find that everything they believed had been as delusional.as anything on TikTok.<br /><br />Social media is more unreal than media because, like Hitler rallies, it’s a mutual fantasy. TikTok denizens take that to the next level through triumphs over reality by claiming, for example, that Helen Keller never existed. Like a magical world, social media is a place where people can create their reality and then use intimidation and peer pressure to enforce it on others.<br /><br />In this state of affairs, millions will believe that men can become women. And vice versa.<br /><br />What was a consensual mutual fantasy within a like minded group became a non consensual fantasy once it was being imposed on women in locker rooms and swimming matches. The process by which the fantasy of a small group became a sexual assault on a larger society parallels how the unreal realities of narrow groups, whether it’s Communists fantasizing about the abolition of private property or master race fetishists, becomes a form of violence when a private fantasy is tethered to political power and imposed on the unwilling millions.<br /><br />The unreal is sustained first by the delusions of those who wish to believe, then by persuadable useful idiots, then by mass propaganda and finally by force, social, political and finally violence as the failure of the unreal makes its devotees desperate to uphold it by any means necessary.<br /><br />The power of the unreal lies in the magic of its unreality. Whether it entails transforming economics, gender or our understanding of the universe, revolutionary movements promise to reveal what is hidden and to accomplish the impossible if people just believe. But to believe, people must leave the realm of the real and enter into the alternate universe of the unreal.<br /><br />Unreal politics depend on an unreal life. In times past, mass ignorance of the larger world made it possible for entire peoples to believe that their destinies depended on constellations or conversations with trees. There was no larger reality and so much of life took place in the unreal. But the citizens of modern civilization had to be immersed in the unreal. And only the advent of the mass media made it possible to immerse millions in unreal alternate realities.<br /><br />The more people inhabit an alternate reality, the more they can be convinced to believe in anything. The phenomenon that began with the dawn of the media is reaching its apotheosis.<br /><br />People could be skeptical of what they read in one newspaper, but the age of mass media introduced a barrage of newspapers, and then supplemented them with immediate messaging from radio broadcasts and then cinematic newsreels. The sheer concentration of park speakers, newspaper editorials, magazines, and headlines marching across the silver screen proved much harder to resist because it created an enveloping effect seemingly from everywhere.<br /><br />Beyond politics, mass media made life unreal. People began taking fashion cues, life advice and moral guidance from the media. When celebrities divorced, it became more normalized, when they committed suicide, a rash of suicides followed. Millions of people stopped using their own judgment and took to repeating whatever they heard as if media culture was their society.<br /><br />Reality fractured. Nations went to war or went bankrupt. The family fell apart. And throughout it all, the population climbed deeper and farther into the alternate reality of the media.<br /><br />The internet fragmented that alternate reality and it made way for more immersive and less relatable echo chambers. The old media ceased to be able to speak to anyone outside its echo chamber, but the new media was even more unreal and less tethered to external reality. And the old media came to chase the fantasies of the new media no matter what dead ends they led to.<br /><br />The old media, Hollywood, cable news and the rest of what’s left of the old mass media apparatus struggle to compete with the truly immersive swipe, stream and social media culture that not only surround smartphone users, but climb inside their heads and invite them to enter another world. And waiting in the wings is an augmented reality metaverse populated by AI bots that will make the worst of the current social media seem like the early days of the internet.<br /><br />A preview of it can be founded on ‘child-friendly’ metaverses like Roblox or Minecraft where eight-year-olds are groomed by sexual predators, ordered to carve names in blood, like the recently exposed<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39698406"> ‘764’ international network</a>, and where reality becomes malleable long before children have reached an age where they have any sense of a clear and definite truth.<br /><br />That is the same reason why the transgender movement is targeting increasingly younger kids.<br /><br />Mass indoctrination programs always work best with the young. Children are the easiest to introduce to an imaginary world. And they will have the hardest time breaking away from it.<br /><br />Children have always lived in imaginary worlds, but as mass media turned to colonizing those words, seizing control over them and imposing rules that crippled childhood imaginations, it also groomed each generation to buy its commercial products and then its ideological products.<br /><br />What began with a for-profit colonization of childhood became a non-profit colonization in the same way that most of the old infrastructure of capitalism became political enterprises. ‘Woke’ and ‘broke’ are true, but also miss the point. The goal of the ESG system is for corporations to produce primarily political outcomes. Rather than achieving profits through competition, ESG secures wealth by consolidating political control over entire nations. That begins with children.<br /><br />Woke corporations care very little what anyone over forty thinks about them. That is why the vast majority of advertising is aimed at younger audiences. Despite their assurances to their shareholders, they are not thinking about the next quarter, but about the right side of history.<br /><br />The collective labor to create a utopia with an ideal outcome for everyone is a fantasy that has overtaken entire societies. The only reason anyone believes in it is that life has become unreal.<br /><br />The degrees of unreality began with the rise of an upper class and then a middle class that had been sheltered from the realities of life and had a poor understanding of basic external realities. Newspapers, novels, theater, radio, film, television, the internet, social media and smartphones each came with a jump in radical politics as life became ever more mediated and unreal.<br /><br />America’s early settlers struggled, but had a fairly tight grip on common sense, but by the mid-19th century, middle class families, with little understanding of settlement, headed West because they had been enraptured by popular accounts and worthless guide books, with no understanding of what it would take to make the trip, suffered and in some cases died.<br /><br />They were already living in an alternate reality created by an early form of media.<br /><br />Today, a population insulated by multiple media layers believes in seven impossible things before breakfast. Politicians, with no idea of how to accomplish anything, make worthless promises based on whatever trends on social media, run up trillions in debt and believe that they are making the world a better place without ever knowing the world as it truly is.<br /><br />The concentrations of power, whether in D.C. or Silicon Valley, are more unreal than ever, mad courts where the echo chambers of power allow the elites to flirt with insane fantasies.<br /><br />Anything seemed possible in Woodstock. Anything seems possible when playing with $6 trillion budgets. And anything can seem to be true in a modern university critical studies course.<br /><br />Unreality has become our religion. Traditional faiths are falling away in favor of this unreality.<br /><br />Our elites believe that we can all inhabit their unreal utopia if only we believe, make the appropriate sacrifices and stamp out all skepticism. And then the magic will be unleashed.<br /><br />All of this seems more plausible to the laptop class who already live in a magical world where any food they want arrives in a few swipes, their screens hold endless entertainment and the world seems to exist to service them. In this unreal world, everything seems possible.<br /><br />Living in it, reality seems like a distant fantasy. Fully automated luxury Communism, gender transformation, a global order and plastic bags summoning the wrath of Mother Earth are real.<br /><br />The ancient pharaohs had no trouble believing that they were gods, because for a limited time they were. And for a much more limited time, our elites, either ancient and powerful, or young and wielding dot com enabled jobs, appear to be because they are detached from reality.<br /><br />Living unreal lives, they adopt unreal beliefs until the unreal bubble of their lives bursts.<br /><br />But where the pharaohs and ancient monarchs lived unreal lives on account of their power, the unreal inhabitants have been wrapped in unreality by media. Their power is an illusion. They are not god-kings, they have little real power, only a power fantasy fed to them by those with actual power. Whether it’s corporate media or radical politics, the true power lies with those who control the tap, not to those who get drunk on the unreal fantasies they provide.<br /><br />The more the West loses itself in an unreal world, the worse the real world becomes.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href=" https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1500" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtGXBpNQddGJO0E4twlloXaa2gtAqHpfaobX0x8E9hQHe8-uW2ennu5OnTYIIOrbxSxkfFswNpTYTlCBH8Pqgj_36-z_qENZn1d6Vh1OF_ZgRiQip735o9VZ6SH2nK76vvLOXQvauEC1-dIDVR9WHbLk5IYQU3IlCXP4d7i0yZwg4oYowLGQxw8Q/w640-h214/site%20footer1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></span></div></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a>&nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. 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None effectively sympathize with Israel. Previously <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1494648/One-in-four-Muslims-sympathises-with-motives-of-terrorists.html">1 in 4 Muslims</a> had sympathized with the 7/7 suicide bombers in London.<br /><br />52% of Muslims supported a ‘blasphemy’ ban on Mohammed cartoons. This Sharia ‘blasphemy code’ had already been used to justify violence and Islamic terrorist attacks against artists and magazines. Including the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris by heavily armed Muslim terrorists.<br /><br />A <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/11433776/Quarter-of-British-Muslims-sympathise-with-Charlie-Hebdo-terrorists.html">previous poll</a> reported on by The Telegraph in 2015 showed that 1 in 4 Muslims supported the Hebdo attacks.<br /><br />Among younger Muslim settlers, 59% supported a blasphemy ban, with only 20% opposed.<br /><br />57% of Muslim settlers in the UK were willing to call for the “compulsory use of Halal food in all schools and hospitals”. Among younger settlers, 67% were in favor of mandatory Halal.<br /><br />Setting up conflicts with feminists and LGBTQ activists, 1 in 5 Muslims wanted to legalize polygamy and 1 in 4 wanted to ban homosexuality. While a majority of Muslim colonists would not commit to the move, both measures had similar levels of opposition and support.<br /><br />Imposing Sharia law would be a ban on most of the social and lifestyle choices of the Left. That is a point that the British Left, like its Western counterparts, has not come to terms with, but may have to as Muslims in the UK move beyond supporting non-Muslim parties to forming their own.<br /><br />39% of UK Muslims supported the formation of a Muslim political party potentially of the kind that had been set up by Muslim Brotherhood movements in middle eastern countries.<br /><br />Only 16% were opposed.<br /><br />Among younger Muslim colonists, 46% favored a Muslim political party to contend for power in Britain. Such a party could then be used to impose Islamic law on the rest of the country.<br /><br />On most issues, with the exception of polygamy, the younger Muslims are more willing to support the imposition of Islam on the United Kingdom than their elders. The truly relevant poll numbers are not those that cover the entire population, but the next generation.<br /><br />While most polls group together Muslims, this survey broke down different groups of Muslims showing significant differences among white Muslim converts, Arab Muslims, Pakistani Muslims and African Muslims. White converts have been depicted as the most “extreme” due to their “misunderstanding” of Islam and indeed have been involved in terrorism, but the survey shows that they are actually less likely to support the imposition of Islamic law through blasphemy bans on pictures of Mohammed, Halal, homosexuality, polygamy and other Sharia measures.<br /><br />41% of Pakistani Muslim colonists in the UK want Sharia law and 37% want Islam to become the national religion. Pakistani settlers are the largest single Muslim group surveyed. 61% of Pakistan Muslim settlers supported compulsory Halal and 49% wanted an Islamic political party.<br /><br />While Muslims women in the UK were distinctly unenthusiastic about bringing back polygamy (15% in favor, 38% against), and an abortion ban (19% for and 28% against) they were even more totalitarian about some elements of Islamic theocracy than the men including compulsory Halal (65% for and 7%) against, and even more likely to sympathize with Hamas than the men.<br /><br />While the poll commissioned by the <a href="https://henryjacksonsociety.org/">Henry Jackson Society</a> and conducted by <a href="https://jlpartners.com/polling-results">J.L. Partners </a>which was published by <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/06/one-in-four-british-muslims-believe-hamas-israel/">The Telegraph</a> found widespread support for Hamas, it also showed that the backing for the brutal Islamic terror theocracy in Israel also translated into some support for establishing a similar system to the one Hamas is working toward in the UK.<br /><br />A growing number of British Muslims not only want to see an end to Israel, but also to the UK with Islam as the national religion, the imposition of Islamic law and an Islamic political party.<br /><br />The current poll does not show that the Muslim settler perspective in the UK is growing worse rather it shows that Muslims remained fairly consistent while the British have been in denial.<br /><br />Similar polls expressing high levels of support for sharia law have circulated as far back as 2006 when 40% of Muslims in the UK wanted Islamic law. 18 years later, 36% support Islamic law.<br /><br />Across nearly twenty years, Muslims in the UK want what they wanted in their home countries, theocratic supremacy and an end to equal rights for non-Muslims. The support for Hamas is an expression of a larger supremacist tendency that killed thousands in Israel, but millions around the world from India to Afghanistan to the Middle East and to London, Paris and New York City.<br /><br />A majority of young Muslims in the UK want sharia Islamic law and a political party to impose it.<br /><br />If the current immigration rates and demographic transformation rates continue, the question is not if it will fall to Islamic rule, but, when Britain will fall.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href=" https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1500" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtGXBpNQddGJO0E4twlloXaa2gtAqHpfaobX0x8E9hQHe8-uW2ennu5OnTYIIOrbxSxkfFswNpTYTlCBH8Pqgj_36-z_qENZn1d6Vh1OF_ZgRiQip735o9VZ6SH2nK76vvLOXQvauEC1-dIDVR9WHbLk5IYQU3IlCXP4d7i0yZwg4oYowLGQxw8Q/w640-h214/site%20footer1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></span></div></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a>&nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. 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While the British and the French took out some drones, U.S. forces accounted for about half the total of drones and some of the ballistic missiles, leaving the rest for the Israelis to deal with. By the time it was over, 99% of the attack had been intercepted.<br /><br />The only serious injury in the “Messenger of Allah” bombardment was to a 7-year-old Muslim Bedouin girl.<br /><br />But why was Iran able to launch so many missiles at all, how did everyone know when the attack would happen, and why is Biden warning Israel not to respond to the Iranian attack?<br /><br />Last month, the Biden administration provided a $10 billion sanctions waiver for Iran. The administration warned Iran that it would impose sanctions on its missile program if it sent them to Russia. There was no mention of the real focus of those sanctions which was concern that Iran would provide those weapons to proxy terror groups like Hezbollah, Iraqi Shiite militias and the Houthis, now using those weapons to attack civilian container ships and US Navy vessels.<br /><br />Iran should never have had that weapons technology in the first place. In 2006, the Bush administration had convinced the UN Security Council to sanction Iran’s missile program “to prevent the supply, sale or transfer …of all items, materials, equipment, goods and technology which could contribute to Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs.”<br /><br />Part of Obama’s Iran Deal allowed those sanctions to expire on October 18, 2023. Two weeks after the Oct 7 attacks on Israel which killed over 1,000 people, the Biden administration let the UN sanctions lapse, making it easier for Iran to buy, export and boost its development of weapons technology. The administration tried to substitute a limited sanctions program of its own for the original sanctions while continuing to allow Iran to access billions in sanctions relief.<br /><br />Where the Trump administration had snapped back sanctions for Iran’s violations, Biden lifted them a month after taking office. Sen. Ted Cruz has estimated that the Biden administration allowed around $100 billion to flow to Iran since 2021. That $10 billion was just the latest of it.<br /><br />Despite the open violations of the Iran Deal, Biden allowed Iran to benefit from an agreement it was actively violating every single day even as it was attacking American soldiers and Israel.<br /><br />When Biden allowed Iran that latest $10 billion in sanctions relief, not only were US Navy personnel actively in combat with Iran’s Houthi terrorists, but two Navy SEALS had died in an operation to intercept Iranian weapons being smuggled from Somalia to the Houthis in Yemen. In Jordan, an attack by Iran’s Shiite militias operating out of Iraq had killed three American servicemembers. While Biden appeared willing to let Iran get away with it, Israel was not.<br /><br />As General Mohammad Zahedi and other figures from Iran’s IRGC international terror network were meeting in a building near Iran’s terror facility in Damascus, they were taken out. After his death, Iranian sources named Zahedi as<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/israel-takes-out-iranian-mastermind-of-oct-7/"> the mastermind of the Oct 7 </a>attacks.<br /><br />What followed were a series of back-channel communications between the Biden administration and Iran through various third parties. The goal of these negotiations was to persuade Iran not to “escalate” the conflict by <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/before-and-after-iran-communicated-attack-to-biden-admin/">limiting its attack</a> to what a Reuters report described as “within certain limits.” The timing of the attack was so widely known that media reports correctly repeated warnings that Iran would strike within 36 hours. Hours before the attack began, not only Iran’s allies, but also other countries in the region, were already prepared for it to begin.<br /><br />Instead of making clear to Iran that an attack was unacceptable, the Biden administration was pre-arranging the terms of the attack on one of its allies while warning it not to respond.<br /><br />When Iran launched the attack, it had been coordinated with Biden officials. Had it really wanted to launch a damaging assault, it would have changed the timing of the attack. Instead it not only launched the attack on time, but it did so while communicating with D.C. through backchannels before and after the attack. A Biden administration official <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/before-and-after-iran-communicated-attack-to-biden-admin/">stated that</a> there were “direct communications through the Swiss channel” including to tell the Biden administration when the attack was winding down.<br /><br />That is not how attacks normally work, but this was not a normal attack, nor is it the actual one.<br /><br />Iran launched the attack to demonstrate its capabilities. For the first time it showed that it could coordinate missile and drone launches from all of its clients across the region. The launches took place not only from Iran, but from the Houthis in Yemen, Iraq and Hezbollah in Lebanon.<br /><br />The attacks allowed Iran to test a coordinated assault across four countries, to test how Israeli and American air defenses would respond to being swarmed, and to score a propaganda victory with images of its drones over Jerusalem and that part of the Temple Mount where Muslim invaders had built their Al Aqsa mosque. What it was not meant to do was be devastating.<br /><br />Iran would have rejoiced if it had hammered Israeli air bases and cities, but barring critical errors by Israel and America, it wasn’t expecting more than an expensive light show and a little rubble.<br /><br />Compare the Iranian attack on Israel with the finely coordinated attack on Tower 22, the U.S. base on the Jordanian-Iranian border, where the Iraqi Shiite terror proxies <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/did-iran-agent-serving-as-pentagon-chief-of-staff-cause-death-of-3-soldiers/">had perfectly timed the attack</a> to coincide with a moment of confusion caused by the return of a U.S. drone, or the Oct 7 attack which set out to analyze and dismantle Israel’s border defense network, timing drone attacks to disable automated defenses, with this straightforward telegraphed attack.<br /><br />If Iran remains true to form, the actual attack will come from its proxies, will exploit vulnerabilities in Israeli defenses and will allow the regime to maintain plausible deniability as it did on Oct 7.<br /><br />What happened on Saturday night was not the actual attack, but a feint with the added purpose of convincing the Biden administration that its diplomatic approach can work. Beginning with the Iran Deal, the Islamic terror state has played a complicated game, welcoming diplomacy and then abruptly rejecting it, holding out hope and then taking it away, but only doing it long enough to keep up the chase. This time around, Tehran convinced Biden that its Islamic leadership, despite their cries of, “Death to America” are rational actors who want to manage the conflict.<br /><br />In the two years before Oct 7, Hamas convinced the Biden administration and the Israelis that it could be dealt with before launching a devastating assault, so too Iran, like other Islamic terrorist entities, specializes in luring America into a state of complacency before an attack.<br /><br />And so the Biden administration is warning Israel not to respond. After all these years it believes that Iran can be dealt with and that it successfully negotiated an end to the crisis. It allowed Iran to launch its attack on Israel, helped intercept it and foolishly believes that Tehran is now satisfied because all its leaders ever wanted, like Biden, was a show, not the real thing.<br /><br />Biden thinks that when Iran’s elites chant, “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”, it’s as empty a slogan as all of his campaign promises. But, unlike Biden, Iran’s leaders keep their promises. The slogans are serious. They intend to destroy America and they intend to destroy Israel.<br /><br />American soldiers<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/after-iran-killed-3-u-s-soldiers-biden-gives-it-10b-sanctions-waiver/"> continue dying </a>at the hands of Iran and its terror proxies while D.C. diplomats conduct empty negotiations and <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/chief-of-staff-of-pentagon-counterterrorism-office-served-iranian-gov/">Iran’s agents p</a>enetrate their way into our government.<br /><br />After September 11, Biden suggested, “this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran.” Since then billions of dollars have made their way to Iran. The Islamic terror state has killed and kidnapped Americans, it is encircling America’s allies in the region, including Israel and Saudi Arabia, and still the ‘no strings’ checks keep coming from D.C.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href=" https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1500" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtGXBpNQddGJO0E4twlloXaa2gtAqHpfaobX0x8E9hQHe8-uW2ennu5OnTYIIOrbxSxkfFswNpTYTlCBH8Pqgj_36-z_qENZn1d6Vh1OF_ZgRiQip735o9VZ6SH2nK76vvLOXQvauEC1-dIDVR9WHbLk5IYQU3IlCXP4d7i0yZwg4oYowLGQxw8Q/w640-h214/site%20footer1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></span></div></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a>&nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. 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Here a Tesla Cybertruck, looking like a ramp some sportier vehicle will jump, passes Bentleys, canary yellow Lamborghinis and ice blue McLarens.</div><br />In the posher parts of California, from Beverly Hills to the Bay Area, the green revolution has come. The ubiquitous EVs charging in the driveways of seven figure mansions are shadowed by solar panels on the roof and sit side by side with signs declaring, “Hate has no home here.”<br /><br />Neither does affordability.<br /><br />The vast majority of electric cars, approaching 1 million, can be found in California. Compare that to the paltry 5,000 EVs in Arkansas or even the <a href="https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/amount-of-electric-vehicle-owners-by-state">under 50,000</a> in a sizable wealthy blue state like Massachusetts. The entire industry of sleek shiny cars that run on batteries only exists because California<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/electric-cars-are-bankrupting-the-auto-industry/"> taxed other car </a>buyers to subsidize Tesla and its emerging counterparts.<br /><br />California’s heavy subsidies and mild weather, its wealthy cities and conspicuously virtue signaling elites, made EVs possible, and made it impossible for them to evolve outside its warm leftist ecosystem. The vast majority of Californians (like most Americans) can’t afford, can’t use and won’t drive electric cars, but like so much else, the Newsom elites don’t tend to notice.<br /><br />Electric car owners in California<a href="https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/03/california-electric-cars-demographics/"> live in</a> “communities with mostly white and Asian, college-educated and high-income residents” who are mostly “concentrated in Silicon Valley cities and affluent coastal areas of Los Angeles and Orange counties.” That’s why most electric cars are luxury SUVs marketed to very exclusive groups in very exclusive areas.<br /><br />Outside of these enclaves, there isn’t much of an EV industry and there never will be one. Electric cars are not an emerging product, but a niche one as subsidized toys for the rich.<br /><br />That’s a problem because the Biden administration, like a lot of Democrat states, is moving to <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/car-bans-could-be-a-deciding-factor-in-2024/">ban cars by 2035</a>. It’s one thing for California’s elites to once again disregard over 90% of the state on the assumption that a one-party system and aggressive ballot harvesting can overcome most obstacles, but the car bans have also extended to Maryland (46,060 EVs with 0.91%), Massachusetts (49,440 EVs and 0.91%), Connecticut (22,030 EVs and 0.75%), Oregon (46,980 EVs and 1.24%) and New York (84,670 EVs and 0.75%) among other blue states.<br /><br />How do you get from those numbers to total adoption in a little over a decade? You don’t.<br /><br />The assumption that most car owners would drink the Electric Vehicle Kool Aid and jump on board ignored the basic realities of energy, engineering and economics. There isn’t enough power, materials or money to make 2035 anything other than a political four-car pileup.<br /><br />GM and Ford have lost billions trying to push electric cars. GM promised to <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/all-the-people-who-care-about-the-planet-already-bought-electric-cars/">sell 1 million EVs</a> by 2025. In the first quarter of 20244, it sold 16,425 EVs. A year from now, it will need to have sold 250,000 of them. How is GM planning to get from 16,425 to 250,000 EVs sold? GM is bragging about the Cadillac LYRIQ. Last December, GM shut down production of the Chevy Bolt which ran to $26,000 and, unlike the LYRIQ, was too affordable and therefore not actually profitable.<br /><br />GM is hoping that the Cadillac LYRIQ will tap into the same luxury EV market that Tesla, Mercedes and every EV SUV is already aimed at, but as usual it may be too late to the party Even liberal millionaires who care so much about the planet that they fly private jets to Tahiti to reconnect with nature at their second or third homes only need so many green cars.<br /><br />Or as Edmunds’ Director of Insights Ivan Drury put it, most of those concerned about internal-combustion engines’ impact on the planet already bought electric vehicles.<br /><br />The latest <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/643334/ownership-ticks-fewer-nonowners-buy-one.aspx">Gallup poll shows</a> that the number of electric car owners slowly grew, but that those people are wealthy and most already have their cars. 7% of Americans now own an EV, only 9% would consider buying and 48% or half the country would not buy.<br /><br />Who are these electric refusniks who won’t drink the electric kool-aid? The working class.<br /><br />14% of EV owners are upper income while only 2% are working class. 61% of working class Americans won’t buy an electric car.<br /><br />Lefties who can see income inequality and disproportionate impact everywhere carefully refuse to see it in their policies which would bar the <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/biden-bans-53-of-americans-from-buying-cars/">majority of the country</a> and most minorities from car ownership. A <a href="https://inspireadvancedtransportation.com/industry/who-owns-evs-today-ev-ownership-trends-and-changes-2021-ev-consumer-behavior-report-rundown/">2020 survey</a> found that 87% of EV owners are white. In a 2023 survey, black people were the most likely of any group to say that they <a href="https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/cars/news-blog/survey-breaks-down-ev-preferences-by-politics-and-ethnicity-44503708">would not</a> get an EV.<br /><br />After decades of lecturing everyone about systemic racism, capitalism and the evils of white men, a group of rich white people have decided to make it impossible for minorities and the poor to buy new cars. But what’s a little systemic racism when it means enriching China to save the planet from the threat of cars whose components can actually be made in America?<br /><br />While Secretary of Transportation in Absentia Pete Buttigieg scolds the “racist highways”, his administration is pulling off the single great example of disproportionate impact in generations. The average price of an EV is $53,469 and the average black household income is $41,500 while the average white household income is $68,000. You can still get a perfectly good family car for only $20,000, but good luck finding an EV that isn’t actively on fire in that price range.<br /><br />A policy of no cars for the working class or minorities may be a little bit awkward, but in the electric kool-aid world, much like the Mercedes EQS and the Chevy Bolt, not all people or cars are created equal, and not all people should be allowed to own cars. Most actually shouldn’t.<br /><br />Environmentalism ushers in a neo-feudalism in which things have to be taken away from us to save the planet. And the people most likely to feel the loss are those at the bottom.<br /><br />Hike the price of cars by $15,000 and the ones most likely to notice are those for whom that isn’t a monthly paycheck, but much of their annual income. Raise the price of airline tickets to compensate for carbon footprints and it’s the poor who won’t be able to visit grandma. Nickel and dime everything from supermarket bags to soda bottles and it’s a regressive green tax.<br /><br />Much of the green nickel and diming is invisible. Prices just go up a little bit on everything. But lefties have put the working class on a collision course with mobility, employment and independence. A car ban is not like a lightbulb ban or even a gas stove ban.<br /><br />Americans used to love cars because they were freedom on wheels. Decades of regulations and cheap imports from Asia have turned the driving experience for most Americans into a series of warning beeps, government tracking devices, and warnings not to do this and that, while slowly inching along in one of several semi-identical white, black or dark black boxes.<br /><br />And now even that is on the verge of disappearing.<br /><br />A car ban means most Americans will not be able to own, they will lease. American car ownership, like free speech and every other form of freedom, will become a distant memory.<br /><br />Unless the drivers of America outrun the EV banners of the Biden administration leaving them behind like Sheriff Buford T. Justice or Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane eating their non-green dust.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href=" https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1500" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtGXBpNQddGJO0E4twlloXaa2gtAqHpfaobX0x8E9hQHe8-uW2ennu5OnTYIIOrbxSxkfFswNpTYTlCBH8Pqgj_36-z_qENZn1d6Vh1OF_ZgRiQip735o9VZ6SH2nK76vvLOXQvauEC1-dIDVR9WHbLk5IYQU3IlCXP4d7i0yZwg4oYowLGQxw8Q/w640-h214/site%20footer1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></span></div></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a>&nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. 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How are we to determine which is the intended meaning?”<br /><br />Marshall Steinbaum, an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah and a Senior Fellow at the Jain Family Institute, whined that, “I wish we lived in a world where spray-painting a swastika on a synagogue still meant Nazis”.<br /><br />In the UK, where the London Met Police had<a href="https://www.newsflare.com/video/599288/met-police-warn-two-londoners-holding-england-flag-that-they-may-face-arrest-during-pro-palestine-protest"> previously arrested </a>and<a href="https://twitter.com/Startinglifeag1/status/1775041638764601466"> threatened anti-Jihad protesters</a> for flying the St. George’s flag, an officer explained to a Jewish woman complaining about swastikas at a pro-Hamas hate rally that the swastikas <a href="https://www.gbnews.com/news/st-georges-flag-more-likely-arrest-swastika-flag-ben-habib">needed to be</a> viewed in context.<br /><br />In certain contexts, such as Neo-Nazi rallies, swastikas might be bad, but when leftists and their Islamist allies aim swastikas at Jews, these Neo-Neo-Nazis were actually progressive.<br /><br />While the debate about whether vandalizing synagogues with swastikas and waving swastikas at Jews was antisemitic, the progressive swastika was making its way around the world.<br /><br />A swastika, along with “Free Gaza” was painted<a href="https://www.jns.org/gaza-free-swastika-spray-painted-on-home-of-holocaust-survivors-in-belgium/"> over the home </a>of Holocaust survivors in Belgium while outside Temple Beth Israel in Philly, two women scrawled a swastika and the “from the river to the sea” call for destroying Israel and exterminating the Jews. A Swastika alongside a Star of David was drawn on the University of Michigan Hillel building where Jewish students attend events. Instagram comments on the student paper from many students defended the vandalism as a statement against Israel and in support of the terrorists.<br /><br />Islamist and leftist movements who defend Hamas and its mass murder of Jews on Oct 7 could hardly object to the swastika which is a mere symbol. What’s worse, burning entire families alive, raping women and holding them hostage, or drawing a few lines on a wall?<br /><br />Once the Left had accepted the legitimacy of Hamas atrocities as “resistance”, all that was left was redefining the swastika as a righteous repudiation of Jews and Israel.<br /><br />The “reversal” of the National Socialist swastika from a symbol of the worst kind of evil to a progressive symbol is itself a symbol of the mainstreaming of antisemitism on the Left.<br /><br />This was not something that happened overnight or in the aftermath of Oct 7.<br /><br />Anyone who has been paying attention to the state of the American Left had seen it coming.<br /><br />After the Hamas kidnapping and murder of 3 Israeli teens in 2014 that foreshadowed Oct 7, Steven Salaita, a Muslim professor whose “academic work” tried to connect American Indians to the ‘Palestinians’, tweeted support for the murder of the teens and other Jews.<br /><br />“If it’s ‘antisemitic’ to deplore colonisation, land theft, and child murder, then what choice does any person of conscience have?” Salaita tweeted. “Zionists: transforming ‘anti-semitism’ from something horrible into something honorable since 1948.”<br /><br />When the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign withdrew its job offer to him, academic associations <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/i-would-have-killed-all-jews-world-sjps-holocaust-daniel-greenfield/">and the media</a> rallied to Salaita’s defense. The American Association of University Professors, the Modern Language Association and the Middle East Studies Association celebrated a man who had tweeted that antisemitism was becoming “something honorable”.<br /><br />The Chicago Tribune provided Salaita with a platform to claim that he wasn’t really defending antisemitism. Salaita received a six figure settlement, the chancellor who fired him was ousted and the violent bigot’s latest book about the incident is due from Fordham University Press.<br /><br />Flying a progressive swastika is the climax of making antisemitism into “something honorable”.<br /><br />The path to the progressive swastika and the “honorable antisemitism” had plenty of stops that all involved mainstreaming antisemitism while swearing up and down that it was only anti-Zionism. The media mainstreamed hate sites like Mondoweiss where editors and contributors admitted<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/jews-and-jewish-anti-semites-collide-california-daniel-greenfield/"> that</a>, “I do not consider myself an anti-Semite, but I can understand why some are” and “<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/anti-semitic-islamophobia-hoax-daniel-greenfield/">Liberals like to</a> deceive themselves about Jewish power.”<br /><br />The DSA, which has led the campaign for Hamas, had invited a representative of <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/democratic-socialists-america-have-anti-semitism-daniel-greenfield/">Melenchon’s Communist allied</a> party from France, who claimed that when a “man of the left” is “called an anti-Semite, it means he’s not far from power.” That same party became the only one to refuse to condemn Oct 7 and political figures from the party accused Israel of killing its own children.<br /><br />In 2014, academia and the media were justifying antisemitism. By 2024, they’re rehabilitating the swastika as a progressive symbol. And this change is about more than the Jews.<br /><br />Jews tend to be the canaries in the coal mine. Fanatics and totalitarian movements may start with the Jews, but they never end there. The Jews are just a convenient inciting incident.<br /><br />Both the Nazis and Communists understood that the persecution of Jews would legitimize the worse crimes they intended to commit. When the Nazis began rounding up and killing Jews with no protest, it became easier to justify the killing of the German disabled and mentally ill, and later the larger eugenics program that would have wiped out the Slavs and many other peoples. And when the Communists began shutting down synagogues and executing rabbis, it became easier to justify the takeover of the church and to build a cult of personality around Stalin.<br /><br />While there are single-issue antisemites out there, major movements that start waving fascist or progressive swastikas don’t intend to limit their plans to just killing Jews. The Jews are a symbol of the power they want, as Melenchon put it, and the justification for it, as Islamists contend.<br /><br />Hamas, an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, originally<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-nazi-roots-of-hamas/"> financed by the Nazis</a>, claims that it just wants to destroy Israel. But other arms of the Brotherhood tried to seize control of the entire Middle East during the Arab Spring, have been integrated into Al Qaeda, and operate in America and Europe to aid Islamic terrorists around the world. When they brandish the swastika, it’s not cautionary, it’s aspirational. And the same is true of their leftist allies.<br /><br />By defining the Jews as the new Nazis, leftist movements like the DSA justify the mass murder of the Jews, and the violent tactics they use to seize power to fight the Jews. But the DSA’s vision of totalitarian socialism, National Socialism one might say, will not end with the Jews.<br /><br />The swastika, whether used as a banner or a symbol of reversal, mainstreams antisemitism, not just to call for the murder of Jews, but for the killing of all those who stand in their way.<br /><br />The progressive swastika is a symbol of death for Jews and for everyone else.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href=" https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1500" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtGXBpNQddGJO0E4twlloXaa2gtAqHpfaobX0x8E9hQHe8-uW2ennu5OnTYIIOrbxSxkfFswNpTYTlCBH8Pqgj_36-z_qENZn1d6Vh1OF_ZgRiQip735o9VZ6SH2nK76vvLOXQvauEC1-dIDVR9WHbLk5IYQU3IlCXP4d7i0yZwg4oYowLGQxw8Q/w640-h214/site%20footer1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></span></div></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a>&nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. 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Could Chicago Democrats hope to win Illinois? The Democrats had bet big on Chicago by bringing the Democratic National Convention to town.</p><p>The Democratic convention adopted a platform claiming that “after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war”, it was time to negotiate a settlement. But the convention was also to be the opening round of what became known as the “Chicago Conspiracy” in which Democrats plotted treason, a coup and a unique way to win an election.</p><p>Even by the standards of a time when urban Democrat political machines would bring in prisoners and lunatics to vote, often more than once, and even waylay passerby, get them drunk and force them to vote Democrat (a practice known as ‘cooping’ that some historians claim led to Edgar Allen Poe’s mysterious death), Walsh’s plan was ambitious.</p><p>Previously, the Chicago Tribune had reported that, “the mayor of Chicago… released nearly all the inmates of the bridewell on condition that they would vote for him today.” But the Bridewell prison held mere hundreds of inmates and what it would take was the world’s greatest jailbreak.</p><p>Chicago needed some good Democrats and the Cook County Democrat bigwig knew where to get them. At Camp Douglas on the South Side of Chicago, tens of thousands of Confederate prisoners of war housed in poor conditions and suffering from a high death toll, like most large camps on both sides, had become a popular cause for Chicago’s Democrat ‘Copperheads’.</p><p>While previous efforts had been made to help some Confederate prisoners escape, the Chicago Conspiracy had a much better idea. Why not break them loose and have them vote Democrat?</p><p>The story of the Chicago Conspiracy is part of the lost history retold in my book, ‘Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers’ Fight Against the Left’ which reveals the corrupt and violent origins of the American Left and the Democrats and what we can learn from that today.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2pU5aBGocFrQQhrrX_XE9lHgK8CYFwldGk2-PpYN_A1B2Y9KMIATrT46seKEGQcIwBVXfHdC2WFTJFjK1MS1d1ZB_JGpnOd7bMHm-9DqNtqJqPJrNTjah0OG1mwR9_GDA7YsVzfSXE2B404QCAh979xXTerycNy19h6N57aLUQBWddmB7NSYFxQ/s512/unnamed.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="303" data-original-width="512" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2pU5aBGocFrQQhrrX_XE9lHgK8CYFwldGk2-PpYN_A1B2Y9KMIATrT46seKEGQcIwBVXfHdC2WFTJFjK1MS1d1ZB_JGpnOd7bMHm-9DqNtqJqPJrNTjah0OG1mwR9_GDA7YsVzfSXE2B404QCAh979xXTerycNy19h6N57aLUQBWddmB7NSYFxQ/s320/unnamed.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Walsh’s plan may seem wild, but it was actually part of a nationwide Democrat conspiracy against the election featuring terrorism, race riots and simultaneous coups in major Northern cities that is retold in detail in ‘Domestic Enemies . In New York, local Democrats and Confederate agents had staged the Draft Riots, attacking black people and Republicans to seize power and then when that failed a campaign of domestic terrorism by attempting to set fire to Broadway hotels and theaters with thousands of people trapped inside.<p></p><p>But Chicago Democrats like Walsh were more practical. He stockpiled weapons, which his daughter would later claim were meant to be used “to protect Democrats at the polls.” These Democrat election defense weapons included “200 stands of arms, with all the necessary ammunition and two cart-loads of large revolvers, loaded and capped ready for use.”</p><p>The Democratic National Convention would provide a pretext for a large number of visitors to come to Chicago all at once. And Chicago’s proximity to Canada, where the real conspiracies were being hatched under British supervision by radicals too extreme for the Confederacy, like John Wilkes Booth, would make it a convenient jumping off point for changing history.</p><p>(The combination came together in Walsh’s fellow conspirator, Col. George St. Leger Grenfell, a British mercenary who lived with his own harem in a Muslim country before coming to America, being arrested and sentenced to death, having his sentence commuted through the intervention of the British government, and then managing to escape by boat and becoming a pirate.)</p><p>With enemy agents, likely from the Knights of the Golden Circle, the predecessors of the KKK, blending in with the arrivals to the Democratic National Convention, they would have plenty of time to coordinate with Walsh’s Democrat thugs “ready to shed blood”. Then they would liberate the tens of thousands of Confederates in Camp Douglas. And take them out to vote.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpif2Q_2W-71jgF4un06_y_Z_CJaaqgM1VLVdDG9_JYO3-dcQr28RF6Ve6eLmNLbM95ByGmWE2R5TIJ9SEa8klWQrQA0Ih3jE9fb-yTCkYtyQ6K8GrAX1J5-z1zxkEDxzKD0pnhaHiH5GwWVnJmtnfOf0gbwxzCykazXWeiknZc319ubeSFMvv2Q/s962/campdouglas.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="523" data-original-width="962" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpif2Q_2W-71jgF4un06_y_Z_CJaaqgM1VLVdDG9_JYO3-dcQr28RF6Ve6eLmNLbM95ByGmWE2R5TIJ9SEa8klWQrQA0Ih3jE9fb-yTCkYtyQ6K8GrAX1J5-z1zxkEDxzKD0pnhaHiH5GwWVnJmtnfOf0gbwxzCykazXWeiknZc319ubeSFMvv2Q/s320/campdouglas.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>The plan was that “the rebels were to march into the city” and “take possession of the polls, voting in each precinct, and preventing the deposition in the ballot-box of any other than the McClellan ticket.” Such gangland voting tactics were not unusual in Tammany Hall and other Democrat urban political machines. Indeed one reason that was given for not allowing women to vote was that it was too violent due to Democrat gangs terrorizing anyone who voted differently.<p></p><p>But Chicago Democrats were thinking even bigger with the world’s greatest jailbreak by bringing in tens of thousands of heavily armed Confederate Democrats who would, in Walsh’s words “vote early and often, and they will fight.”</p><p>In typical Chicago fashion, Walsh linked fighting and voting together.</p><p>Then, in even more typical Chicago fashion, the Chicago and Confederate Democrats, after voting, would loot all the banks.</p><p>Unlike the Draft Riots, which at least succeeded in driving enough Republicans and black voters out of New York City so that the Tammany Hall machine was able to secure Democrat control of local elections, the Chicago Conspiracy, like the entire Northwest Conspiracy, failed badly.</p><p>The Democrat plan to either rig the 1864 election or, failing that, seize control of major cities and secede from the United States, fell apart. These conspiracies owed less to the South, where the Confederate leadership was less likely to entertain such madness, than to local Democrat political machines, like those of Tammany Hall and Cook County, and British agents who publicly opposed slavery, but covertly were thrilled to see America tearing itself apart.</p><p>(The unresolved hostilities from the British covert backing for the South would play out in the form of the Fenian raids into Canada and the threat of a potential third war with America that continued to linger long after the North and the South had bandaged the wounds of their war. And there was a good deal of irony in Canada harboring some of the Democrat radicals who had originally been among the most vocal proponents of invading and annexing Canada.)</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN3DGDBDZjJRzIMbmwgDsPd5avUzth-l0bhym7MbgFrqvVjea4AcgowOrmGyP8nv_FkEImffmohryqOWTx4zyb3xh6u5-n_o1EsvXPz8RVlypmGTM9jgjyBU57eCI3UYdcuxbOg5gfWLwlBw9gQFusphMGWNHhyphenhyphenh0LEsxod3WEDDwvO2IBe-R1Zw/s1920/espi.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1313" data-original-width="1920" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN3DGDBDZjJRzIMbmwgDsPd5avUzth-l0bhym7MbgFrqvVjea4AcgowOrmGyP8nv_FkEImffmohryqOWTx4zyb3xh6u5-n_o1EsvXPz8RVlypmGTM9jgjyBU57eCI3UYdcuxbOg5gfWLwlBw9gQFusphMGWNHhyphenhyphenh0LEsxod3WEDDwvO2IBe-R1Zw/s320/espi.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>While Democrats like Walsh appeared to be making a dangerous gamble in an era when men could still be shot for treason, they were only mildly inconvenienced by their conspiracies, unlike Southerners, many of whom suffered greatly during the war even when they opposed slavery.<p></p><p>Even right after Lincoln’s assassination, Walsh was only sentenced to five years in prison and was released much sooner so that he was out by 1865. Other prominent conspirators walked away entirely including a former Chicago mayor. So did the majority of the party thugs who proved the Democrats protected their own whether in the streets or in a court of law.</p><p>While the Chicago Conspiracy failed, it’s hard not to see it as a trial run for the modern party.</p><p>The original plan to “seize the polls” and “stuff the boxes sufficiently to secure the city, county and State” and then “to utterly sack the city, burning and destroying every description of property, except what they could appropriate for their own use” seems like just the basic strategy of what Democrats have done to Chicago, Illinois and the United States.</p><p>“God be praised. Chicago has redeemed herself,” the Chicago Tribune had celebrated the Republican victory in 1862 even though the Democrats had “flooded the wards with illegal voters and counterfeit tickets.” But it’s been a long time since Chicago has been redeemed.</p><p>The illegal voters are everywhere and Democrats have ushered in illegal invaders from all the nations of the world to march across the Southern border and stuff ballot boxes and loot cities.</p><p>What was once a Democrat conspiracy is now just Democrat policy.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="312" data-original-width="820" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0v2TR0DVnPQnnhqbsCinLmGjYyh9utrBMYXTEFMH1gSAEKtGzOOsmSpkUydR9-dRDQJ908mnLol7pp4lZZ5NHafelqwBnLC1TucNPLVlcWkRKFUTP1D9NxVBf3R4P7Eu0m-b_1OB28Q3wNH5s7mXA9mWSrsCzZGbm37-b-3rjqrDawh5cZdVpcA/w640-h245/domestic%20enemies%20facebook%20banner.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><i>[The full story of the Democratic plot to rig the 1864 election is told in the final chapter of my book, <a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" target="_blank">‘Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers’ Fight Against the Left’.</a>]</i></p></content><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/feeds/3833113194046922109/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2024/04/chicago-dems-plotted-worlds-greatest.html#comment-form" rel="replies" title="2 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/3833113194046922109" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/3833113194046922109" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2024/04/chicago-dems-plotted-worlds-greatest.html" rel="alternate" title="Chicago Dems Plotted the World’s Greatest Jailbreak to Steal a Presidential Election" type="text/html"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw0M_uuRCUGdzVyi9JK_syi2Rje7jzloF5dOKgJmglNAVgwTsm2Si_agUNnaITSnoU3BsGkjy5QYY_N084qf_UE_Wa4Eg4S1MXqUAyQyZKal4HEVX69ncDl_L33hqWZSmcgqQsOKr8Q3pzPfiiLyDy67teNETPQDtpKFVbVeWhdSJwN5ENoO7hXA/s72-w640-h398-c/Torchlight-procession-George-B-McClellan-campaign-1864b.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6240586729263465244</id><published>2024-04-10T15:09:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2024-04-10T15:31:06.827-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Israel"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recent"/><title type="text">The Untold Story of Israel After October 7th</title><content type="html"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhex_WKQHUv2bn1Z957SPlVPD6_pgdzr_A35JMu4fbtU6WO4JqKnLl0_2AVtBVjGwtp4q4Wm4oR18bwioivizFLn9xUa_sLJAv2mI3bC1NwIdPgqQfbloEL1fs8mX-PBJXyPqNG-MndW99bIcPyqYSyb4oGJatvJRCAbHXQHP18E3q8XCmEkHc4vw/s742/image_2024-04-10_123056446.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="433" data-original-width="742" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhex_WKQHUv2bn1Z957SPlVPD6_pgdzr_A35JMu4fbtU6WO4JqKnLl0_2AVtBVjGwtp4q4Wm4oR18bwioivizFLn9xUa_sLJAv2mI3bC1NwIdPgqQfbloEL1fs8mX-PBJXyPqNG-MndW99bIcPyqYSyb4oGJatvJRCAbHXQHP18E3q8XCmEkHc4vw/w640-h374/image_2024-04-10_123056446.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div>The story of what happened after Oct 7 has played out in the international media as a montage of bombs and rubble. And while Israel’s campaign against the Hamas perpetrators of the horrific massacres, rapes and kidnappings is an important part of the story, it is not the only one.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtC6uebyDwD2Td9iR7_tqz9pC7zS7vTBIC6gPzRS1eAHtvBJNl8HqwZejZX8-PL36o42cRW_DypKdgCH24j9d-YKNc95F-O1gxBLajeetQCcgtYBWWEoJn8DhPLzBfTaZoNZhygy4pDmHTmPaGEOcyqRpn5ILJh-HMqxQPiBGX-Z-8-2wjWR82tA/s741/image_2024-04-10_122637935.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="741" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtC6uebyDwD2Td9iR7_tqz9pC7zS7vTBIC6gPzRS1eAHtvBJNl8HqwZejZX8-PL36o42cRW_DypKdgCH24j9d-YKNc95F-O1gxBLajeetQCcgtYBWWEoJn8DhPLzBfTaZoNZhygy4pDmHTmPaGEOcyqRpn5ILJh-HMqxQPiBGX-Z-8-2wjWR82tA/s320/image_2024-04-10_122637935.png" width="320" /></a></div>From the men who grabbed their guns and drove south in the hours after the attack began to the warehouses quickly set up to provide food and clothing for the hundreds of thousands of Israelis who were forced to leave their homes after the attacks from Gaza, inside Israel, the real story has been defined by a country coming together not only to fight, but to support each other.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_V_vKZxflRQLF7wstGsvKVC0aCWW7ZxQprs4ocUQIHYaJJ3Y6e1n85V4sfGTQ36icXzMRqkx-uERoBjuEVCLTmvzHlC6a6IN2UhtV6NB0AS1vsf8IMlFVPIGI7LEXqbCpUsD8iwqniQHqMR4xXPwZrEFb0CoXgI6B7ITAdhvFL4vxIApxzWHPZg/s831/image_2024-04-10_122600023.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="565" data-original-width="831" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_V_vKZxflRQLF7wstGsvKVC0aCWW7ZxQprs4ocUQIHYaJJ3Y6e1n85V4sfGTQ36icXzMRqkx-uERoBjuEVCLTmvzHlC6a6IN2UhtV6NB0AS1vsf8IMlFVPIGI7LEXqbCpUsD8iwqniQHqMR4xXPwZrEFb0CoXgI6B7ITAdhvFL4vxIApxzWHPZg/s320/image_2024-04-10_122600023.png" width="320" /></a></div>In the month after the attacks, one survey estimated that the majority of Israeli Jews were volunteering in one form or another at everything from baking cookies for soldiers to standing guard at potential terrorist targets. With hundreds of thousands of soldiers mobilized and hundreds of thousands of people stranded, even the most ordinary things became a problem.<br /><br />Like laundry.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdNWQJwm-jZzbHKMZlXPtlmLvvZxCzzGJy_9GCX1AWxGFQ61OR5fKMmxKQ4ywhLSdtlYIOANbZZvKHORGVEM4hY-3mED_eKRvqL2hUo05OWPuT-THk8onnpACwPVXEAfTQ2OBd82QBBXwvHJxjFGagB4CEHcwVKfvg_zGL4HH9_BOEPBylXKc8dA/s448/image_2024-04-10_121916521.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="436" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdNWQJwm-jZzbHKMZlXPtlmLvvZxCzzGJy_9GCX1AWxGFQ61OR5fKMmxKQ4ywhLSdtlYIOANbZZvKHORGVEM4hY-3mED_eKRvqL2hUo05OWPuT-THk8onnpACwPVXEAfTQ2OBd82QBBXwvHJxjFGagB4CEHcwVKfvg_zGL4HH9_BOEPBylXKc8dA/s320/image_2024-04-10_121916521.png" width="311" /></a></div>A Chassidic rabbi <a href="https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/filling-requests-as-quickly-as-he-gets-them-rabbi-shai-graucher-looks-to-help-anywhere-he-can/">loaded up </a>washing machines and dryers on trucks and headed with them to an army base. Laundry from displaced families<a href="https://mishpacha.com/operation-home-front/"> was crowdsourced </a>through social media groups with messages like, “there are at least 2000 people from Sderot who need help with their laundry. If you can help with doing one or two loads please reach out.”<br /><br />Both religious and secular groups assembled massive warehouses filled with clothing and supplies for displaced people. Restaurants have set up meals and volunteers have deployed mobile kitchens in parking lots. And tens of thousands volunteer to cook in their own homes.<br /><br />
<iframe allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="314" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?height=314&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshinuahevrati%2Fvideos%2F1287932225238477%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=560&amp;t=0" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" width="560"></iframe>&nbsp;</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Weddings and bar mitzvahs have gone forward for refugee families welcomed by communities. Teenagers have volunteered to babysit and to perform household chores for military families.<br /><br />At farms, including in the communities targeted by the Islamic terrorist invaders, tens of thousands headed to help. In one kibbutz, a “motley dozen-strong crew ranging from housewives to engineers and stockbrokers” could be found “tending to around 600 dairy cows”.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVSak1MpOc2asNzGGayXgJsUWNHF-NaiN_xFzcz3fxZk72yNj289Lj53lekFxhYrXr97ar0zn4A34U9fIUMt_BcIHZXC2V_2qtAR4cEWlFZkTl8qbWsEE76cV8KjCz2t7K-Q0BX-nglmnzNHoUObdGCy5zHVd9YlRQYErA5TBIeXmMcl0hjcqaXQ/s954/agricultural%20volunteer.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="693" data-original-width="954" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVSak1MpOc2asNzGGayXgJsUWNHF-NaiN_xFzcz3fxZk72yNj289Lj53lekFxhYrXr97ar0zn4A34U9fIUMt_BcIHZXC2V_2qtAR4cEWlFZkTl8qbWsEE76cV8KjCz2t7K-Q0BX-nglmnzNHoUObdGCy5zHVd9YlRQYErA5TBIeXmMcl0hjcqaXQ/s320/agricultural%20volunteer.png" width="320" /></a></div>Polly Levine, the daughter of longtime David Horowitz Freedom Center supporter Tammy Steinsapir, recently<a href="https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/368105/diary-of-determination-ensuring-israels-food-security-and-future/"> wrote about her</a> experiences doing everything from preparing food boxes to planting broccoli. “I was surprised to see hundreds of volunteers from all over the world: Australia, Great Britain, South Africa, France, Mexico and beyond,” she wrote.<br /><br />And in grimmer work, in the days after the attacks, <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/palestine-israel/2023/10/11/jerusalem-cemetery-israel-war-dead/">volunteers</a> arrived<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-israel-buries-its-dead-volunteers-honor-them-by-digging-their-graves/"> to dig graves</a> to bury the over 1,000 dead. “Google docs were sent out on community WhatsApp groups and it wasn’t unusual for empty 2 a.m. slots to be filled within minutes in the race to honorably bury the dead.”<br /><br />“We had 50 people yesterday,” a police officer said. “Now the invitation to volunteers has gone viral, and we’re worried 5,000 could turn up.”<br /><br />And there are the armed volunteers putting their lives on the line.<br /><br />After the attacks, hospitals asked anyone with a gun license to volunteer as a guard. Other volunteer guards rallied to protect kindergartens in Jerusalem after the soldiers who usually defend them were summoned to war. While normal kindergartens don’t require soldiers or guards, Islamic terrorists have repeatedly targeted Israeli children. In one notorious incident in 2011, Hamas even<a href="https://embassies.gov.il/MFA/FOREIGNPOLICY/Issues/Pages/Behind-the-Headlines-Hamas-Attack-on-an-Israeli-School-Bus-10-Apr-2011.aspx"> fired an anti-tank missile</a> at a school bus. Fortunately it hit only after most of the children had disembarked and only one teenage boy was wounded in the terrorist attack.<br /><br />600 civilian security squads were established after the attacks and armed with thousands of rifles. These squads help patrol and secure communities likely to be targeted by terrorists. Volunteer forces had played a crucial role in countering the Hamas invasion at a time when the Israeli military had been caught by surprise and was outnumbered by the attacking terrorists.<br /><br />The volunteerism is only the outward expression of a country at war. At a Shabbat table, I heard the story of a woman who calmly stated, “my husband is in the army, my father is in the army and my son is in the army”. After the Oct 7 attacks, reporting rates in some reserve units passed 100% with personnel showing up who had not even been called up. One <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jewishbreakingnews/reel/C3o7cb8O106/">viral video</a> shows a 73-year-old “soldier” visiting his 101-year-old mother and then standing watch in the rain.<br /><br />And that solidarity is really the untold story of what happened after Oct 7.<br /><br />Turn on CNN and you’ll see the same montage of crying old women in hijabs and wrecked buildings that seems to have been running as a constant feed in the region since the rise of cable news, but in Israel, the story is not just the war, it’s also the peace. Before Oct 7, Israel had been tearing itself apart along political and religious lines. The underlying tensions haven’t gone away and every Hamas hostage offer calculatedly plays on those same divisions.<br /><br />But Israel has also come together to a remarkable extent. That’s not a story which interests the media, but it ought to interest us because our hope for the future also lies in solidarity. In the years since 9/11, 7/7 or the other numberless Islamic terror atrocities that should have marked an awakening, we have learned all too well that superior weapons are not enough to win a war.<br /><br />Wars are not just won or lost with firepower, but with the spirit of a people. The food baskets, clothing warehouses, volunteer guards, cooks and even gravediggers represent something as important, and perhaps even more important, than a military force: a national spirit.<br /><br />“I see mothers of soldiers on the front lines volunteering in supermarkets. I see rabbis leaving their communities, traveling 48 hours across multiple countries to return home and fight for their country.” an email circulating after Oct 7 read. “I see police officers feeding bottles to babies who no longer have parents. I see teenage girls with flags at 2:30 in the morning dancing for soldiers who have returned to fight who simply cannot believe their eyes.”<br /><br />The war against Islamic terrorism is not only a physical war, it is a spiritual war. Fighting it with weapons, but without conviction, with drones but without a national revival, has failed and will go on failing. Islamic terrorists do not just attack our bodies, they seek to destroy our spirit. They divide us in order to conquer us, they terrorize us and then play the victims, and they make every effort to convince us of the futility and wrongness of our cause so that they may defeat us.<br /><br />Israel has long been the canary in the coal mine of Islamic terrorism. It has shown us how to physically fight terrorism. Perhaps it will now show us how to awaken our nations to the war.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href=" https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1500" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtGXBpNQddGJO0E4twlloXaa2gtAqHpfaobX0x8E9hQHe8-uW2ennu5OnTYIIOrbxSxkfFswNpTYTlCBH8Pqgj_36-z_qENZn1d6Vh1OF_ZgRiQip735o9VZ6SH2nK76vvLOXQvauEC1-dIDVR9WHbLk5IYQU3IlCXP4d7i0yZwg4oYowLGQxw8Q/w640-h214/site%20footer1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></span></div></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a>&nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. 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Thus far it’s found systemic racism everywhere from the highway system to the military, but the one place it hasn’t looked is among the ranks of the teachers unions who provide much of its cash and its election foot soldiers.<br /><br />But <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/upshot/pandemic-school-closures-data.html">new data</a> reported by the New York Times shows that the pandemic school closures demanded by teachers unions were the single greatest act of systemic racism in 50 years.<br /><br />During the pandemic, members of the corrupt teachers union machine demanded school closures to “save lives”. Unwilling to do their jobs, they instead marched around brandishing coffins at political protests while warning that if they had to go and teach, everyone would die.<br /><br />Education was replaced with the Orwellian misnomer of “remote learning” which parents, students and honest teachers admitted was not actually teaching any of the students anything.<br /><br />And the newest data backs that up, showing that “in districts where students spent most of the 2020-21 school year learning remotely, they fell more than half a grade behind in math.”<br /><br />The numbers were even worse for the poorer students who fell behind three fifths of a grade.<br /><br />The decline in math scores was the <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/teachers-union-lockdowns-caused-worst-drop-in-student-scores-in-50-years/">worst in 50 years</a> making it a historic setback and while all students suffered during the pandemic, the learning experiences in districts where schools shut were far worse for poorer students, often minorities, than for wealthy or middle class students.<br /><br />And while the DEI complex and the media have spent years talking about disproportionate impact, it was the Left which was responsible for the worst disproportionate impact in 50 years.<br /><br />And therefore for the “systemic racism” that they had selfishly brought into being.<br /><br />Previous figures showed a “larger score gap between white and black students nationally—from 25 points in 2020 to 33 points in 2022.” Fourth grade math scores fell twice as much for black and Hispanic students as for white students. While we already knew that minority students fell back further during the pandemic, the new numbers compare the schools that stayed open and those that closed in order to pander to teachers union members who refused to come to work.<br /><br />“More time spent in remote or hybrid instruction in the 2020-21 school year was associated with larger drops in test scores,” the Times analysis showed. “Students that were offered a hybrid schedule (a few hours or days a week in person, with the rest online) did better, on average, than those in places where school was fully remote, but worse than those in places that had school fully in person.”<br /><br />The media had accused Georgia, Florida and other states that opened up of conducting experiments in “human sacrifice”. The actual human sacrifice was carried out by Democrats and their educational establishment which brought up children as human sacrifices to the unions.<br /><br />Teachers unions waged a relentless and ruthless war to close schools and keep them closed.<br /><br />American Federation of Teachers (AFT) boss Randi Weingarten called reopening schools “reckless, callous, cruel”. Union members protested, threatened, sued and even physically blocked schools from reopening. The teachers unions won while students and parents lost.<br /><br />Rep. Aaron Bean <a href="https://readlion.com/extended-school-closures-pushed-by-teachers-unions-created-generational-learning-loss-say-house-panel-witnesses/">noted that </a>“school districts with lengthier collective bargaining agreements were less likely to start the fall 2020 semester with in-person instruction.” Surveys<a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-union-map-of-school-closings"> found that</a> the more powerful the teachers unions were, the more likely schools were to stay closed.<br /><br />And therefore, the more powerful the teachers union, the less the children learned.<br /><br />Teachers unions chose not to work and they leveraged school reopenings to extract personal and political benefits without paying any price for it. That is true of the lockdown advocates nearly across the board, but the teachers unions emerged politically stronger than ever from the educational disaster they had helped to cause. Strikes, slowdowns and elections made them wealthier and more powerful. And they continue to grow more powerful every year.<br /><br />As late as 2022, 73% of the members of the Chicago Teachers Union voted not to come to work while claiming that COVID-19 was still too dangerous. A year later, CTU organizer Brandon Johnson was elected as the 57th mayor of Chicago.<br /><br />What happened during the pandemic was not a unique event, it just accelerated the current state of affairs in which teachers unions have wielded their political power to demand more money for less work while dismantling all the basic standards of the educational system.<br /><br />According to teachers unions, the ideal educational system has no test scores and no expectations but that students be taught to parrot the politics of their teachers.<br /><br />The price for the dismantling of the educational system by the educators, during the pandemic or the rest of the time, is being paid by students. Especially poor and minority students.<br /><br />Teachers unions claim that they advocate for students and that when they wield power, they do so to improve educational outcomes. The data, not only during the pandemic, proves otherwise.<br /><br />In 1960, the American Federation of Teachers had a mere 60,000 members. Today it’s 1.7 million. And students are<a href="https://www.howtolearn.com/2016/04/silent-reading-levels-lower-than-1960/"> less capable </a>of reading, study less and know less than their peers in 1960, but receive much higher grades than they did 60 years ago.<br /><br />What has improved in schools since 1960 are the teacher salaries, by “45 percent in real terms”, so that teachers union members, like other government workers, are outperforming the taxpayers who pay their salaries.<br /><br />The growth of the teachers unions has been great for teachers, but terrible for students.<br /><br />The pandemic brought home the consequences to many parents and the years since convinced many that the public school system, fatally corrupted by teachers unions, is incapable of reform. That’s why movements such as homeschooling and school choice continue to grow, not just for the stereotypical conservatives, but for a spectrum of parents, many of them minorities.<br /><br />Restoring public education will require many reforms, but the most fundamental of these will be ending the death grip that the teachers unions have over the nation’s students.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href=" https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1500" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtGXBpNQddGJO0E4twlloXaa2gtAqHpfaobX0x8E9hQHe8-uW2ennu5OnTYIIOrbxSxkfFswNpTYTlCBH8Pqgj_36-z_qENZn1d6Vh1OF_ZgRiQip735o9VZ6SH2nK76vvLOXQvauEC1-dIDVR9WHbLk5IYQU3IlCXP4d7i0yZwg4oYowLGQxw8Q/w640-h214/site%20footer1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></span></div></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a>&nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's&nbsp;<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" target="_blank">Front Page Magazine</a>.</span></i></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Click&nbsp;<a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" target="_blank">here to subscribe</a>&nbsp;to my articles. 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The Wokes Did!</title><content type="html"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfQ4zmNAcGcJr-sjPG7SQtqSaspK-zwps80cSp1Aem-iufJ8Lh9ZKI4YUUuKQVq4CdfZvmvgwtrsNmVDar5pCp5O7it8LxDpuI4niQIBuePisDxlEBDr4Zgdk3__4i-ex594gLBFlkZ4zNZ6ziUXdIQW0FnVZVTf9L4LcoxmYEqHgzpBIUbyM0nw/s1857/and%20then%20there%20were%20frame.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1169" data-original-width="1857" height="402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfQ4zmNAcGcJr-sjPG7SQtqSaspK-zwps80cSp1Aem-iufJ8Lh9ZKI4YUUuKQVq4CdfZvmvgwtrsNmVDar5pCp5O7it8LxDpuI4niQIBuePisDxlEBDr4Zgdk3__4i-ex594gLBFlkZ4zNZ6ziUXdIQW0FnVZVTf9L4LcoxmYEqHgzpBIUbyM0nw/w640-h402/and%20then%20there%20were%20frame.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">Agatha Christie, an elderly lady from Devon, had plenty of blood on her hands, all of it fictional. But none of the killers in her many books and short stories are nearly as monstrous or obsessed as the censorious wokes who have been coming after the deceased author for decades.</span></div></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />The latest episode in the long-running saga takes place not on a luxurious train speeding through Yugoslavia or on the Nile, but at the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA) which had performed Christie’s play, “And Then There Were None.”<br /><br />“And Then There Were None” is a natural fit for a high school setting. With lots of different balanced roles and one-note characters who reveal a hidden side, it’s a training wheels production for students learning the basics of performing a character and acting on stage.<br /><br />It’s also fun. Ten people. One island. And a killer.<br /><br />There’s a reason why “And Then There Were None” has remained popular and Hollywood keeps ripping it off for movies like 2022’s ‘The Menu’ which added food to the premise.<br /><br />Over February, a mutlti-racial cast of Philly teens had<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFXGNZzm74U&amp;list=PLG_hp1b8FuGKfztBbRprwzmMFTA07_I1I&amp;index=17"> taken on the roles </a>of murderers and murder victims on an island off Christie’s native Devon, England, with the enthusiasm and polish to be expected of teenage actors, and <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@kennykillaa/video/7330775436022074655">had fun with it</a>, smoking cigars, rocking in rocking chairs, dressing up and trying to deliver lines in shocked voices, until they were told it was all wrong.<br /><br />And the play, based on one of the best-selling novels ever written, was really a hate crime.<br /><br />While there’s nothing objectionable about the play (unless you object to people being murdered, which wokes do not), it’s based on a Christie novel whose title once had the “N-word” in it after a minstrel song. It was then charged to “Ten Little Soldiers” or “Ten Little Indians” in various versions and eventually became known as “And Then There Were None.” The novel never appeared under its original offensive name in America and it’s been that way since 1940.<br /><br />As a British author, Christie didn’t understand the offensiveness of the “N-word” and American culture the way that the Yanks did. By the end of the forties, Christie had cleaned up her own books long before the modern woke publishers began rewriting them for offensive content.<br /><br />There’s nothing actually racist about “And Then There Were None.” None of the characters are black, but one of the white characters is actually punished for his abuses toward African people.<br /><br />Philip Lombard, one of the more clearly evil characters, describes stealing the food of his African mercenaries. “Natives don’t mind dying, you know. They don’t feel about it as Europeans do,” he villainously claims. That original crime is the reason why he deserves to die.<br /><br />But still the staff at the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts are fielding outrage because the school allowed “And Then There Were None” to be performed despite the fact that over eighty years ago, before anyone involved was born, it used to have a racist title.<br /><br />And, worse still, the performance had happened during Black History Month.<br /><br />Some wokes figured it out and became professionally outraged, claiming that the play contained “racist, xenophobic, and violent content”. Violent content in a murder mystery? Well, I never!<br /><br />Outraged leftists claimed that the play about ten bad people being killed off by an unknown murderer “lacked historical context and did not provide any cautionary preface or follow-up discussion”. Wokes love nothing more than adding mandatory trigger warnings to everything..<br /><br />The mother of a student <a href="https://whyy.org/articles/philadelphia-capa-agatha-christie-play-racism-criticism/">complained</a>, “there was a scene in the play where a noose swings out on stage and a white student is holding the noose.The whole crowd gasped. We were not sure if somebody was going to get lynched or what would happen next. I was kind of aghast and shocked.”<br /><br />Spoiler alert: no one got ‘lynched’ on an island off the English coast in the 1930s. The noose serves to enable the climactic suicide. It has nothing whatsoever to do with lynching. That didn’t stop an NPR affiliate from writing multiple paragraphs describing the history of lynching in America, which has as much to do with the play as Commodore Perry’s expedition to Japan.<br /><br />Molefi Asante, an African American studies prof, insisted the school should have lectured on “the history of racism in Britain and America” and “why this play is significant now. The director of the play missed an opportunity to really educate the students about the meaning of the play.”<br /><br />The meaning of the play is that it’s entertaining. That is a concept wokes are incapable of understanding. It is not about the history of racism. It has no significance “now” or ever. It is refreshingly free of George Floyd, Trans Visibility or any of the things wokes insist plays must be about. It’s fun and there’s nothing that wokes hate more than fun. Except maybe white people.<br /><br />Since the squeaky wokes get the grease, CAPA’s principal has already apologized “for the offense that this has caused” and vowed that while she “cannot undo the harm caused, please know that as a school community we are taking active and intentional steps to prevent similar incidents in the future.” That means all future plays will be about transgenders and lynching.<br /><br />CAPA is holding a ‘Town Hall’ at which outraged wokes will scream about their pain until there are none left to listen. No amount of apologies will sate their bloodlust, only embolden them.<br /><br />Throughout all of the subsequent outrage, none of them has managed to coherently explain what’s wrong with the play aside from the novel’s original title. Multiple people interviewed by the local NPR arm still could not explain what they were offended by except the original title.<br /><br />And until they were told about the title, they had no idea that anything was wrong.<br /><br />That’s because there was nothing wrong. And had someone not checked Wikipedia, it would have stayed that way. Wokes are not genuinely offended, they’re seeking to take offense. The more offended they are, the more power they get. And the more power they get, the more offended they are. The vicious cycle of violence is what “And There Were None” is About.<br /><br />Whodunit? 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The Wokes Did!" type="text/html"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfQ4zmNAcGcJr-sjPG7SQtqSaspK-zwps80cSp1Aem-iufJ8Lh9ZKI4YUUuKQVq4CdfZvmvgwtrsNmVDar5pCp5O7it8LxDpuI4niQIBuePisDxlEBDr4Zgdk3__4i-ex594gLBFlkZ4zNZ6ziUXdIQW0FnVZVTf9L4LcoxmYEqHgzpBIUbyM0nw/s72-w640-h402-c/and%20then%20there%20were%20frame.png" width="72"/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-8770648053038989268</id><published>2024-04-07T14:05:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2024-04-08T14:32:12.131-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recent"/><title type="text">Introducing the Envia Discord 2025</title><content type="html"><p>&nbsp;PRESS RELEASE</p><br />These days every car company claims that their latest model is environmentally friendly no matter how much it pollutes the planet and makes Indians standing by the side of a road cry bitter tears.<br /><br />But what does environmentally friendly really mean? At Envia Motors, we set out to make a car without concessions to speed, performance or handling because we put the environment first.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSnIw7wCcCIAgw6Iu4gScqvyr50U_WK3aPoob1V2wM6zGvaLJ64ZnsbobcHehrLZlHMApQVmC1R8KflxCyWyjLLlgXif5vpUjvdO4kKau5TK2DhT62A-L_v9hed2aA10yWuFAlWqIrtnlyKbQl5QkJvfEcQTDRBrVlvxJ5ZFYaUmJFxHvlGcGXCA/s908/envia4.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="787" data-original-width="908" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSnIw7wCcCIAgw6Iu4gScqvyr50U_WK3aPoob1V2wM6zGvaLJ64ZnsbobcHehrLZlHMApQVmC1R8KflxCyWyjLLlgXif5vpUjvdO4kKau5TK2DhT62A-L_v9hed2aA10yWuFAlWqIrtnlyKbQl5QkJvfEcQTDRBrVlvxJ5ZFYaUmJFxHvlGcGXCA/s320/envia4.png" width="320" /></a></div>Fueled by a dream and two billion dollars in government grant money, we challenged ourselves to see whether four community organizers with no technical knowledge or skill could create a car that would become a compulsory driving experience.<br /><br />And with the Envia Discord 2025, we succeeded beyond your wildest mandated imagination.<br /><br />The Discord isn't just a car. It's a political experience. It speaks to our yearnings and aspirations. And it has plastic skis permanently attached to the roof so it looks like you're always heading to a ski weekend even when you're going off to pretend to work at a non-profit to help inner city children.<br /><br />Envia is all about choice. That's why the Discord 2025&nbsp;comes in every color from Avocado Green to Plantain Green so that you can have your Green Car... just the way you like it.&nbsp;<br /><br />But the Discord isn't just environmentally friendly. Its commitment to social justice begins with steering wheels at every seat so everyone can drive. Studies show that even in multiracial families, white males are most likely to be the drivers and the Discord uses engineered disruption to sabotage the patriarchy.<br /><br />Like the progressive movement, the Discord has no brakes. Because once we're moving Forward, there's never a reason to stop.<br /><br />The Envia Discord 2025&nbsp;also has no seat belts or airbags because... check your privilege. Most people of color around the world lack these things and it's only your sense of entitlement that leads you to expect that a car company should value your life more than that of a person of color.<br /><br />Some might say that the Discord is missing something, but we prefer to think of it as the meaningful absence that the Discord brings into your life. We didn't just leave out things that every other car has to save money. With a sticker price of $395,000, that obviously was never an issue. Instead we did it as part of our mutual commitment to changing how we envision what a car is.<br /><br />Car companies have encouraged consumers to see their vehicles as property to protect against the economically challenged. Envia Motors disrupts the capitalist system of property and theft by taking all the locks off the doors, the trunk and the ignition.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi50VlWiEx2iIOAwpMZhEtbRMe2dH7bqwINdQwCWSKOBAJcAvOdeU7vFMjiT4vsvHAD2MJNiNqH_qOX6DpCjDFtYx0Nl0Sv_r44_1UTmeUNtc2U1gV8cuRWUcRmf7JRNZElnCixxenuncDPQCo2YlI_-Gcv44XP_jKBmjdkfxjfsJHovMPAfwsPEg/s893/envia2.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="737" data-original-width="893" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi50VlWiEx2iIOAwpMZhEtbRMe2dH7bqwINdQwCWSKOBAJcAvOdeU7vFMjiT4vsvHAD2MJNiNqH_qOX6DpCjDFtYx0Nl0Sv_r44_1UTmeUNtc2U1gV8cuRWUcRmf7JRNZElnCixxenuncDPQCo2YlI_-Gcv44XP_jKBmjdkfxjfsJHovMPAfwsPEg/s320/envia2.png" width="320" /></a></div>Anyone can enter and drive a Discord once they undergo a privilege check that connects the driver by remote satellite link to an organic public intellectual with a PhD in Social Justice. And to make it even easier, the Discord automatically advertises its location on Craigslist at every stop and encourages the oppressed urban workers and peasants to make off with it.<br /><br />Despite Envia's best efforts no member of an oppressed group has chosen to redistribute a Discord, that is why we are committed to spending more money on outreach to traditionally oppressed groups.<br /><br />While the Envia Discord 2025&nbsp;may not have brakes, seat belts, airbags, locks or a windshield (check your privilege), the money that could have gone to those entitled safety features was instead spent on turning its bumper into a 4K screen that automatically pulls the latest social justice hashtags from Twitter and displays them as bumper stickers.<br /><br />The Discord 2025&nbsp;is inclusive. Its seat cushions, woven out of fair trade whole grain fibers by Yamadu Indians in Bolivia, accommodate a variety of sizes and shapes. Its cup holder can blend wheatgrain smoothies and can perform emergency sex change operations for those who want to give up their cisgender privilege.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj1Jm6nTvP-F46T8yMnzHz2lwmqeHbj-1QoInPIrbKe3N3FjS9i9ax32soI7aUYGyWU7yso-HMvvLDoi4MK_VmHTd7pA_OcCXZYTtIND80buBKsjghrIBK8_CsGFUE9zXZs6GFyNYh63nxJ5vof2yJmiKnUMa_PNGmNdKVC23q5QgNZ047PlXz3A/s930/envia1.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="760" data-original-width="930" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj1Jm6nTvP-F46T8yMnzHz2lwmqeHbj-1QoInPIrbKe3N3FjS9i9ax32soI7aUYGyWU7yso-HMvvLDoi4MK_VmHTd7pA_OcCXZYTtIND80buBKsjghrIBK8_CsGFUE9zXZs6GFyNYh63nxJ5vof2yJmiKnUMa_PNGmNdKVC23q5QgNZ047PlXz3A/s320/envia1.png" width="320" /></a></div>Envia Motors has also reached out to the Muslim community by programming the Discord 2025&nbsp;to explode when it hears the words, "Jihad", "Allahu Akbar" or "Shiite." It will also explode when its internal CPU, which is always monitoring your conversations, hears anything racist, homophobic, transphobic, cisgender, heteronormative or any other thoughtcrimes from a list that is constantly being updated through the cloud.<br /><br />Sometimes the Discord 2025&nbsp;will just explode for no reason. Check your privilege.<br /><br />Unlike consumer cars, the Discord has no manual. Instead it has a six year graduate course that takes you through the intricacies of Western capitalism and invites you to understand your complicity in the oppression of others.<br /><br />If you refuse to educate yourself, it's your own fault.<br /><br />There is also no help line. The expectation that white people should have unlimited access to the time of trans bisexual people of color is an insidious form of privilege. And our help line, which doesn't take calls, is entirely manned by trans bisexual people of color.<br /><br />Check your privilege.<br /><br />Everyone knows electric cars have a higher carbon footprint than ordinary petrol death machines. That's why the Discord isn't an electric car. You can put in any number of sustainable environmentally correct fuels into its tank from seaweed smoothies to Iranian Uranium... but it still won't run.<br /><br />That's because the Discord is powered by people power. Literally.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4m8t_3ZnxYiaO-vaGnomyk2MTJMyUrd14_EYgmIUIwOEkv-uGKDOEuF1x1i6mX_OaQCSTzy83OiTAY2aenAAJOAkTtZm0LXwhjzI3m8EWo-bJM2JXoANTytoeC_RyUrnbWBfZdRwYPjkXR1muX8FKsq6hIqabBivhMdLEE_FaFlhfnQL1yDXeRA/s919/envia5.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="756" data-original-width="919" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4m8t_3ZnxYiaO-vaGnomyk2MTJMyUrd14_EYgmIUIwOEkv-uGKDOEuF1x1i6mX_OaQCSTzy83OiTAY2aenAAJOAkTtZm0LXwhjzI3m8EWo-bJM2JXoANTytoeC_RyUrnbWBfZdRwYPjkXR1muX8FKsq6hIqabBivhMdLEE_FaFlhfnQL1yDXeRA/s320/envia5.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />To make the Discord move forward, just rope a dozen members of the bourgeois middle class to its fair trade tenterhooks. Then crack a sustainable fair trade whip over their heads until they begin moving forward at a brisk trot taking you to a conference on income inequality or to your executive offices at the Department of Health and Human Service... just in time for your four hour lunch break.<div><br />We won't lie to you. People have died in the making of the Discord 2025. And they will go on dying as Discords driven by multiple drivers with no brakes careen through urban environments leaving a trail of death in their wake. But people have always died fighting for social justice.<br /><br />The Discord isn't just another car, it's a vehicle for social justice, and the blood on its grill, dashboard and tires demonstrates Envia's commitment to a better world at any cost.<br /><br />At any cost.<br /><br />The deaths of your loved ones at the hands of the Envia Discord 2025&nbsp;invite you to check your privilege. Automobile accidents are a First World problem. In most of the world, no one can even afford to be hit by a car. The life expectancy of a child in Africa is less than 5 minutes. The gasoline that fuels ordinary petrol death machines is made out of the congealed blood of Iraqi children.<br /><br />Before you join that heteronormative transphobic class action lawsuit against Envia Motors, check your privilege and ask yourself, "How much am I willing to sacrifice for social justice?"<br /><br />The Discord 2025. Coming soon to California and parts of Rhode Island.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href=" https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1500" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtGXBpNQddGJO0E4twlloXaa2gtAqHpfaobX0x8E9hQHe8-uW2ennu5OnTYIIOrbxSxkfFswNpTYTlCBH8Pqgj_36-z_qENZn1d6Vh1OF_ZgRiQip735o9VZ6SH2nK76vvLOXQvauEC1-dIDVR9WHbLk5IYQU3IlCXP4d7i0yZwg4oYowLGQxw8Q/w640-h214/site%20footer1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></content><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/feeds/8770648053038989268/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2024/04/introducing-envia-discord-2025.html#comment-form" rel="replies" title="8 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/8770648053038989268" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/8770648053038989268" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2024/04/introducing-envia-discord-2025.html" rel="alternate" title="Introducing the Envia Discord 2025" type="text/html"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSnIw7wCcCIAgw6Iu4gScqvyr50U_WK3aPoob1V2wM6zGvaLJ64ZnsbobcHehrLZlHMApQVmC1R8KflxCyWyjLLlgXif5vpUjvdO4kKau5TK2DhT62A-L_v9hed2aA10yWuFAlWqIrtnlyKbQl5QkJvfEcQTDRBrVlvxJ5ZFYaUmJFxHvlGcGXCA/s72-c/envia4.png" width="72"/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2489921621907433095</id><published>2024-04-05T03:09:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2024-04-05T03:09:11.366-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Biden"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Big Tech"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="China"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recent"/><title type="text">Could China Use TikTok to Elect Biden?</title><content type="html"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4H88F66PngQXeTrTT9VTij7V_njerytAmYeqbMGHffJTGJkhlEPEh6uSVsXCn4-QefX6fZ2x_xCVzBBmc95-9pCUi83eILJNVA9mOQFM7vBtD9mDcBsuOA8BD5XQWEACsejfSrdozRchB1wzTU_V5GCg11fuHHAnGr-dIpDBK8kr7nzPwYcSIjA/s1028/image_2024-04-05_000821847.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="806" data-original-width="1028" height="502" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4H88F66PngQXeTrTT9VTij7V_njerytAmYeqbMGHffJTGJkhlEPEh6uSVsXCn4-QefX6fZ2x_xCVzBBmc95-9pCUi83eILJNVA9mOQFM7vBtD9mDcBsuOA8BD5XQWEACsejfSrdozRchB1wzTU_V5GCg11fuHHAnGr-dIpDBK8kr7nzPwYcSIjA/w640-h502/image_2024-04-05_000821847.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;">In 2020, 3% of Americans got their news from TikTok. It’s<a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/11/15/more-americans-are-getting-news-on-tiktok-bucking-the-trend-seen-on-most-other-social-media-sites/"> now 14%</a> or 1 in 7 people.<br /><br />Among 18-29 year olds, 1 in 3 Americans get their news from TikTok. That’s up from less than 1 in 10 in 2020. Some of this is due to the app’s growth rate, but it’s also a strategy. It’s not just that TikTok is growing quickly, but today half of TikTok users say they get their news through it. That’s up from 1 in 5 in 2020. TikTok isn’t just growing, it’s growing its political influence.<br /><br />When the House passed a bill forcing an end to Chinese Communist control over TikTok, the platform rallied its users, many of them underage, to pressure and even threaten Congress.<br /><br />With 170 million active users in the United States, TikTok is one of the largest news platforms in the country and it’s under the control of Communist China. By 2021, most mainstream media organizations had jumped on to a platform that used to be known for short dance clips.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFlMMXDDL-uD7B1Gssa6VcmzNFyEyHOTvKnBm8Jf_BU6S2ugtGZt4XM4A8HWacprTTebP2VUSkzaShxMSlhDFNkiaDz8qToQq4fErGPT0Vquxk-_Qv2EPjOg0gvWfkbtnP-ChBc_f-M2dGQizvVFlqe2LAMyxorAXPxcwP4tXmWNKyTddjjjFvng/s941/tiktok%20ad%20frame2.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="941" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFlMMXDDL-uD7B1Gssa6VcmzNFyEyHOTvKnBm8Jf_BU6S2ugtGZt4XM4A8HWacprTTebP2VUSkzaShxMSlhDFNkiaDz8qToQq4fErGPT0Vquxk-_Qv2EPjOg0gvWfkbtnP-ChBc_f-M2dGQizvVFlqe2LAMyxorAXPxcwP4tXmWNKyTddjjjFvng/s320/tiktok%20ad%20frame2.png" width="320" /></a></div>The Office of the Director of National Intelligence revealed that China had influenced the 2022 midterm elections using TikTok and warned that the Communist regime may “attempt to influence the U.S. elections in 2024”. Some have speculated that China used TikTok to help swing the 2022 elections, but its influence over the 2024 election will be much more powerful.<br /><br />If TikTok’s influence continues to grow at its current rates, by 2026 no one in D.C. will touch it.<br /><br />An effort to end China’s control over TikTok fell apart ahead of the 2022 midterms and now a similar effort is being attacked from all sides because China’s influence cuts across parties. There are Democrats and Republicans who have taken Chinese money and some members of both parties who oppose China are also considered potential threats by the ChiCom regime.<br /><br />During the 2022 midterms, China used TikTok to target some elected officials from both parties.<br /><br />While China has its own agenda, so do some of the top ESG firms who bought into its ByteDance partner, including BlackRock and Sequoia Capital, which have <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/10/30/larry-fink-shakes-big-bucks-from-lefty-joe-bidens-esg/">profited massively</a> from Biden’s destructive ESG agenda that is feeding inflation and bankrupting America.<br /><br />But those agendas are also interwoven with China’s growing influence on American business.<br /><br />Sequoia has been under <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-19/sequoia-targeted-by-us-committee-s-china-tech-investment-probe">congressional </a>scrutiny for its Chinese investments that may have helped the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/sequoia-made-a-fortune-investing-in-the-u-s-and-china-then-it-had-to-pick-one-f13e7b91">Chinese military</a>, and the firm’s Michael Moritz <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-21/soros-sequoia-capital-s-moritz-give-millions-to-anti-gop-group">directed millions </a>into a Dem PAC alongside George Soros. The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party had warned that BlackRock <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/01/investing/china-congress-blackrock-msci/index.html">had invested</a> $429 million into Chinese companies that “act directly against the interests of the United States.” BlackRock vets fill the ranks of the Biden government.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHLmNJT57vwYaWTE1G19BAHvOOtczqTeEo2ydCwNkEoEvFVprWOqa0X2AuWdZAR1AaZc1uhrl65OC5HsB5hPOW3BcKv9Ur3GWg6DKYJ1OXhZtdD0Jda229RDaL2f9rLw3nwkWg1iQGyqhPHJfO9Px0dURDqp9ESokqCsRrYHA3mV7gAjWHbauqrw/s492/biden%20tiktok%20frame.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="492" data-original-width="408" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHLmNJT57vwYaWTE1G19BAHvOOtczqTeEo2ydCwNkEoEvFVprWOqa0X2AuWdZAR1AaZc1uhrl65OC5HsB5hPOW3BcKv9Ur3GWg6DKYJ1OXhZtdD0Jda229RDaL2f9rLw3nwkWg1iQGyqhPHJfO9Px0dURDqp9ESokqCsRrYHA3mV7gAjWHbauqrw/s320/biden%20tiktok%20frame.png" width="265" /></a></div>All of this is likely to come to a head in the 2024 election in which vast amounts of power and money will be at stake. And with the sharp growth in TikTok’s active users and their news consumption, China may finally be in a position to swing an American presidential election.<br /><br />It had been estimated that Google’s biased algorithms may have <a href="https://foxbaltimore.com/news/nation-world/google-might-have-moved-millions-of-people-to-vote-democrat-psychologist-suggests">moved millions of votes</a> in the 2020 election, but the biases in TikTok’s algorithms could move millions more votes, especially among the younger voters who use it heavily, under the direction of an enemy nation.<br /><br />And with 170 million users, half of whom get their news from TikTok, those videos help shape the worldviews of 85 million Americans.<br /><br />TikTok’s finely turned algorithm reportedly uses all the data that the app collects about users, from where they are to which phones they use, learning which videos they watch and which they ignore, and how much of them they watch, to zero in on their worldviews and build a rapid profile, and begin recommending videos within 15 minutes that will get inside their heads.<br /><br />Given that information, it becomes all too easy for the algorithm to manipulate users.<br /><br />This manipulation can be gross, like pushing left-learning or pro-Biden content to independent and swing voters, but it can also be subtle, like interfering in primaries by promoting content in favor of or against one politician, or pushing ‘doomer’ content that discourages one side, like conservatives, from voting. Such methods have already been experimented with on other platforms, but TikTok’s secretive foreign operation makes it particularly impermeable.<br /><br />If China were to interfere in the 2024 election, how would it do it?<br /><br />Chinese Communist election<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/china-helped-canadas-trudeau-win/"> interference on behalf of Trudeau </a>and against the political candidates whom the regime opposed provides us with a partial real world blueprint. Leaks from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/canadas-trudeau-will-investigate-whether-china-tried-to-elect-him/">revealed how the</a> CCP and its agents used straw campaign donors, hired Chinese volunteers and rallied local groups to rig elections.<br /><br />But it’s in Taiwan’s election where China used everything from fake polls to crypto bribes to deepfake videos that <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/china-bombards-taiwan-with-fake-news-ahead-of-election/">we can see </a>the real danger. TikTok was<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/pro-china-tiktok-sock-puppets-wreak-chaos-in-taiwan-election"> flooded with</a> videos smearing the anti-Communist frontrunner, while promoting pro-PRC candidates. One Chinese Communist influence operation used fake personas to accuse the pro- independence party of causing “an egg shortage and the alleged poisoning of kindergarten students.”<br /><br />China, which is trying to catch up to America in AI, also used AI <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/23/taiwan-election-china-disinformation-influence-interference/">to produce a</a> 300-page book and then made that into the basis for AI generated videos targeting Taiwan’s former president. The PRC is already deploying AI campaigns in America and TikTok provides it with the perfect platform. But TikTok’s algorithm also ensures that China won’t have to rely too heavily on AI as human influencers will rush to produce content that is rewarded by the algorithm.<br /><br />TikTok provides China with a direct pipeline into half the country with no limitations.<br /><br />What will the Communist regime do with that power? Much as in Canada, where Xi decided to back the leftist candidate, the CCP will likely choose to throw its covert support to Biden. And the best way to tell whom China supports may be to follow the TikTok trends.<br /><br />Communist China has the ability to use TikTok to elect Biden. The only question is will it?<br /><br />As long as TikTok remains under China’s control, our elections can never be safe.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="500" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1_keQ0_yU7H0_WMk_BDp7bl0Hkb-VNwIrmbYScRiXPu4yvMjSJzNw6fwn1WmPicuXUfil4uvKWre_HN4tJE-6l22CWZrlbyCMqW2yp28Lb3Wqbd8mk05nS_o6bQ5p6g_Ejh_GgcIBus9FT_VOGWM5-0hVrtCPYwtyncpCVh26RfnwxGp1Hb5q4g/w640-h230/%E2%80%9CA%20marvelously%20original%20and%20enlightening%20look%20at%20American%20history,%20with%20a%20host%20of%20insights%20for%20our%20own%20age.%E2%80%9D%20%E2%80%94Robert%20Spencer,%20Author%20of%20The%20Sumter%20Gambit%20How%20the%20Left%20Is%20Trying%20to%20Foment%20A%20Civil%20W.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><br style="font-size: medium;" /></div><div><br /></div></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a>&nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. 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To fool what few families were at home, they wore the uniforms of Israeli soldiers as they entered their houses.<br /><br />At the Shefi family home, Jacob Shefi, a policeman, was in the synagogue and his wife Shiri was in the bedroom playing with their three children, 5-year-old Danielle, 4-year-old Uriel and 2-year-old Eliad, when.one the terrorists burst into the bedroom.<br /><br />Danielle had wanted to go to the synagogue, but her mother insisted on doing her hair first.<br /><br />Shiri told the children to hide under the bed and covered them with her body as the terrorist opened fire. Wounded, she still managed to force the door closed as the terrorists continued their rampage across the village. Uriel and Eliad were wounded, but Danielle, hiding under the bed, was dead.<br /><br />Jacob Shefi, running home at the sound of gunshots, thought the terrorists were soldiers and asked them what was happening. They shot at him and he ran to a house nearby to find a gun. When he saw his wife again, she told him, “they murdered our daughter.”<br /><br />Danielle Shefi was one of 4 people murdered in the Adora attack, including <a href="https://laad.btl.gov.il/Web/He/TerrorVictims/Page/Default.aspx?ID=33103">Katia Greenberg</a>, a Russian immigrant and mother of 3 who worked with the disabled, <a href="https://laad.btl.gov.il/Web/He/TerrorVictims/Page/Default.aspx?ID=39443">Yaakov Katz</a>, a Soviet dissident physicist, who left the USSR with Reagan’s help and was working on laser technology, and First Sergeant <a href="https://honorisraelsfallen.com/fallen/becker-eric/">Arik Becker</a>, a 22-year-old reservist who <a href="https://laad.btl.gov.il/Web/He/TerrorVictims/Page/Default.aspx?ID=39468">was killed</a> trying to stop the attack.<br /><br />It was the spring of 2002 and such Islamic terror atrocities still had the power to shock the world. Or those parts of it that were not the media which headlined the story as, “Palestinian Gunmen Kill 4 Israeli Settlers in West Bank.” And Danielle Shefi became just another “Israeli settler”.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVyyymjE-Ygu4cdpOY-vJdrcpHd902-ewoC_QIjrkY1xYSrKaLn38J4bOLDf-JV0qXzAt7aaTA54hPjK8mZBNqfk8QdYNvLcEzYiPBwa2IkFnwgcfY6gbE2idlwejXQX82_2MD6szlFGdwESPSwjwxGGeMndAslFKS34467UluPERMEJUmqdYadg/s257/shefi%20nypost%20cove.rjpg.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="257" data-original-width="196" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVyyymjE-Ygu4cdpOY-vJdrcpHd902-ewoC_QIjrkY1xYSrKaLn38J4bOLDf-JV0qXzAt7aaTA54hPjK8mZBNqfk8QdYNvLcEzYiPBwa2IkFnwgcfY6gbE2idlwejXQX82_2MD6szlFGdwESPSwjwxGGeMndAslFKS34467UluPERMEJUmqdYadg/s1600/shefi%20nypost%20cove.rjpg.jpg" width="196" /></a></div>“Anyone capable of looking a 4-year-old boy and a 5-year-old girl in the face and then shooting them is not human,” Jacob Shefi <a href="https://nypost.com/2002/04/28/killed-in-her-cradle-tot-among-four-slain-as-dads-prayed/">told the press</a>. “Danielle, who never hurt anyone and who was taught to love and respect all human beings, Jew or Arab, was murdered in her parents’ bedroom – which for her should have been the safest place.”<br /><br />When her kindergarten classmates were told that the little girl had gone to heaven, they asked, “What is Danielle doing up there near the birds and planes?”<br /><br />“Please remember Danielle Shefi, a little girl in Israel. Danielle was five. When the murderers came, she hid under her bed. Palestinian gunmen found and killed her anyway,” Elie Wiesel, the great writer of the Holocaust, urged President Bush. “Please remember that while Israelis mourned alongside us for our nation’s tragedy on September 11th, Yasir Arafat was busy suppressing footage of his constituents dancing in the streets.”<br /><br />But few remembered and the world moved on. One of the terrorists from the Adora attack was released as part of the disastrous Shalit hostage exchange deal in 2011.<br /><br />Fadi Mohammed Salaam Dewik, that terrorist, rose through the ranks and became a senior figure in Hamas. After Israel had finished its previous raid on the Al-Shifa hospital, the Qatari base used by Hamas, Dewik along with many other terrorists returned to the hospital.<br /><br />They assumed that Israel would not come back without offering plenty of warning the way that it had during the previous raid on Al-Shifa under pressure from the Biden administration.<br /><br />But this time the terrorists had made a fatal mistake.<br /><br />After a campaign by <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-truth-about-the-jihad-in-dearborn/">Islamic terrorist supporters in Dearborn</a>, Michigan, and their leftist allies, the Biden administration had turned on Israel to salvage his chances in the swing state.<br /><br />Senator Schumer was chosen by the administration to denounce <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/schumer-warns-israel-to-spare-hamas-or-face-sanctions/">Israel a</a>nd warn it not to endanger civilians by attacking Hamas. The weekend after Schumer’s shameful speech, Israel came back to Al-Shifa and this time there were no more warnings to tip off the terrorists.<br /><br />Over the holiday of Purim, Israeli soldiers took out over 200 terrorists and <a href="https://www.jns.org/idf-600-terrorists-detained-over-140-killed-at-gazas-shifa-hospital/">captured over </a>650 terrorists. There were more terrorists at the hospital than its official number of 700 patient beds.<br /><br />The terrorists included the top leadership of Islamic Jihad and senior Hamas officials. While most of the terrorists surrendered, expecting to be traded in a deal for the hostages, some of the most hardened holed up in the hospital’s maternity ward and wouldn’t come out.<br /><br />Among them was Dewik.<br /><br />Cartoons had often depicted Hamas hiding behind babies, and the terrorists made those cartoons come to life as they opened fire from the ER, threw grenades from the burn ward and when the maternity ward was finally liberated, IDF soldiers<a href="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/artc-gaza-idf-uncovers-a-cache-of-weapons-at-shifa-hospital-s-maternity-ward"> found sniper rifles</a>, handguns and mortars hidden everywhere from beds to drop ceilings.<br /><br />Dewik died alongside Zakariya Najeeb, a top terrorist who had coordinated operations for Hamas, in the maternity ward where mothers are supposed to bring life into the world.<br /><br />The terrorist who had taken part in the murder of a 5-year-old girl died in a place of children.<br /><br />Justice had been delayed for 22 years before finally catching up with Fadi Mohammed Dewik.<br /><br />“When I heard my daughter was murdered, my first reaction was: there is no God,” Jacob Shefi said <a href="https://www.haaretz.co.il/misc/2002-04-28/ty-article/0000017f-edcc-d4cd-af7f-edfce5930000">at the time</a>. “Then I came to my senses. I thought to myself, here, my two sons and my wife were left alive, even though terrorists shot at them from point blank range. They also shot at me and didn’t hit me, there is a higher power watching over us.”<br /><br />“She loved to pray, go to synagogue. If only she had gone out with me in the morning, maybe she would be alive,” he said.<br /><br />Today, Jacob is one of the “Blue Riders” motorcyclists in Israeli law enforcement and posts inspirational religious messages in the wake of the Islamic terrorist attacks of Oct 7.<br /><br />When Danielle was asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, she said that she wanted to be a righteous woman. Today she would have been a young woman, perhaps married with children of her own. Islamic terrorists denied her the opportunity as they had so many innocent victims, from the dead in Adora to those murdered on 9/11, 7/7 in London and Oct 7 in Israel.<br /><br />Justice under these conditions seems elusive and at times even impossible. And those who are left behind may even wonder if there is a God who sees and makes right a broken world.<br /><br />Danielle’s full name was Danielle Bat-El Shefi. Bat-El means “Daughter of G-d”.<br /><br />Murdered on a Sabbath, Danielle was avenged on Purim which commemorates the day when Haman had plotted to kill the Jews, “from the young to the old, little children and women”.<br /><br />The Biden administration and the world had abandoned Israel, but that higher power had not.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="500" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1_keQ0_yU7H0_WMk_BDp7bl0Hkb-VNwIrmbYScRiXPu4yvMjSJzNw6fwn1WmPicuXUfil4uvKWre_HN4tJE-6l22CWZrlbyCMqW2yp28Lb3Wqbd8mk05nS_o6bQ5p6g_Ejh_GgcIBus9FT_VOGWM5-0hVrtCPYwtyncpCVh26RfnwxGp1Hb5q4g/w640-h230/%E2%80%9CA%20marvelously%20original%20and%20enlightening%20look%20at%20American%20history,%20with%20a%20host%20of%20insights%20for%20our%20own%20age.%E2%80%9D%20%E2%80%94Robert%20Spencer,%20Author%20of%20The%20Sumter%20Gambit%20How%20the%20Left%20Is%20Trying%20to%20Foment%20A%20Civil%20W.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a>&nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. 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