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The Singapore constitution changed …to allow 18 Nominated M Ps. A clever ploy ! NMPs are not real bullets ..NMPs are blanks…just noise.

The constitution was changed again yesterday….. to allow up to 18
nominated MPs.

These are MPs nominated by PAP….to serve as sparing partners in
parliament. As they are NOT elected,… they don’t represent the voters,
they don’t speak for the voters,…. they are totally useless.

In the previous elections, unhappy Singaporeans wanted more opposition
MPs in parliament …to serve as checks and balance against the abuse of
power by PAP.
If more oppositions were to be elected, PAP feared that  it could lead
to a stronger opposition party which eventually could be the
alternative government.  PAP could never allow this to happen.

PAP designed a  scheme, called NMP…. telling Singaporean voters that
NMPs  are their  voices in parliament…(against the abuse of power by
PAP.) This is NOT true…it is nothing but a clever ploy

Even if the number of NMPs were to increase to 100…it would not stop
the abuse of power by PAP..

AS NMPs  are not elected , they have no voting power in parliament.
They are NOT real bullets…but blanks.

This is another example of PAP’s insincerity … taking Singaporean as
idiots.

Singaporeans can stop all these abuses…all the insincerity…in the
coming election.

http://www.asianewsnet.net/home/news.php?id=11598&sec=1

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NEW START OVERLOOKS CRUCIAL WEAPONS

New START overlooks crucial weapons

Besides sea-launched cruise missiles, treaty ignores
many other WMDs, writes Vladimir Yevseyev

Op-Ed
The Pioneer
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

The new START bilateral nuclear arms reduction agreement between
Russia and the United States was signed by Presidents Dmitry Medvedev
and Barack Obama on April 8, in Prague, the Czech Republic.

The well-balanced document highlights the commitment of Moscow and
Washington to continue resetting bilateral relations. The agreement
also heeds Russian national interests.

At the same time, the treaty does not cover high-precision sea-
launched cruise missiles, which can acquire strategic capabilities in
certain conditions.

What did the parties gain from the treaty, and what did it overlook?

First of all, Moscow can deploy ground-based intercontinental
ballistic missile systems with multiple independently targeted
reentry vehicle warheads.

The deployment of RS-24 Yars (SS-X-29) ICBM systems will make it
possible to compensate for the gradual reduction in the number of
previously manufactured RS-20 Voyevoda (SS-18 Satan) heavy-class and
RS-18 (SS-19 Stiletto) medium-class missiles.

The treaty places no curbs on the development of ground-based ICBMs
and allows Russia to deploy new heavy-class and medium-class ICBMs.

Second, US inspectors will finally leave Votkinsk Plant State
Production Association, an engineering and ballistic missile
production company based in Votkinsk, which manufactures up-to-date
strategic and theater-level missiles and implements R&D projects
under the RSM-56 Bulava (SS-NX-30) submarine-launched ballistic
missile programme.

Any foreign presence in Votkinsk is undesirable because the city is
the mainstay of the national missile potential.

Third, both parties will exchange telemetric information on a
voluntary and mutual basis. The relevant exchange mechanism is still
unclear because the US has stopped manufacturing new ground-based
ICBMs long ago and conducts few ballistic-missile tests.

Although it is possible to exchange telemetric information of
prototype Russian offensive systems and US defensive systems,
Washington is not prepared for such transparency levels yet.

Fourth, Russia would have had to reduce the number of strategic
delivery vehicles, no matter what, because it is unable to extend
their service life all the time. The situation was aggravated by
insufficient missile procurement volumes and by several abortive
Bulava-30 test launches. For a long time the Russian Defence Ministry
annually bought 6-7 RT-2UTTKh Topol-M (SS-27 Sickle B) single-warhead
ICBMs.

Under the new rules, Moscow has only 608 deployed strategic delivery
vehicles with 1,915 nuclear warheads. Consequently, Russia already
meets the treaty’s launch vehicle ceilings and can easily reduce the
number of warheads down to required levels. At the same time, Moscow
can retain numerous operationally inactive stockpiled nuclear
warheads that will give it an edge over such nuclear powers as
France, the United Kingdom or China.

But we should not think that the US is voluntarily reducing the
number of its launch vehicles. This reduction is largely made
possible by their adaption to conventional warheads. Notably, four
refitted Ohio class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines
already carry Tomahawk conventional SLCMs. Strategic bombers are also
being refitted in a similar manner. This makes it possible to expand
the tremendous US non-nuclear high-precision weapons potential.

This process will continue under the new treaty because the 14 US
ballistic missile submarines carry 336 SLBMs. Moreover, the US has
450 Minuteman-3 (LGM-30G) ICBMs and at least 60 nuclear-capable
strategic bombers. Previously, 200 bombers were listed in this
category. This makes up for 846 strategic delivery vehicles,
exceeding maximum delivery vehicle ceilings.

It should be noted that America’s conventional high-precision weapons
have a serious destabilising potential. For instance, conventional
Tomahawk SLCMs have a maximum range of 1,300 km, whereas nuclear-
tipped Tomahawks have a maximum range of 2,500 km. They can therefore
be classed among medium-range missiles in terms of this parameter.
Four Ohio class submarines, as well as Los Angeles nuclear-powered
fast attack submarines, Seawolf class and Virginia class attack
submarines, Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyers and
Ticonderoga class missile cruisers are equipped with such cruise
missiles.

Although they can carry about 6,600 cruise missiles, US Navy warships
have between 2,800 and 3,600 Tomahawk cruise missiles of various
modified versions. Tomahawk launchers are also used to fire anti-ship
and surface-to-air missiles.

The writer is Scientific Secretary of the Russian Academy of
Sciences’ Coordinating Council for Prognostication.

http://dailypioneer.com/251871/New-START-overlooks-crucial-weapons.html

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Om Shanti

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OBAMA HAS IT ALL WRONG

Obama has it all wrong

By Daniel Pipes
Op-Ed
The Pioneer
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Picking a fight with Israel will not produce negotiations

Things are not always as simple as they seem; the current crisis in
US-Israel relations has a silver lining. Four observations, all
derived from historical patterns, prompt this conclusion:

First, the ‘peace process’ is in actuality a ‘war process’.
Diplomatic negotiations through the 1990s led to a parade of Israeli
retreats that had the perverse effect of turning the middling-bad
situation of 1993 into the awful one of 2000. Painful Israeli
concessions, we now know, stimulate not reciprocal Palestinian
goodwill but rather irredentism, ambition, fury, and violence.

Second, Israeli concessions to the Arabs are effectively forever
while relations with Washington fluctuate. Once the Israelis left
south Lebanon and Gaza, they did so for good, as would be the case
with the Golan Heights or eastern Jerusalem. Undoing these steps
would be prohibitively costly. In contrast, US-Israel tensions depend
on personalities and circumstances, so they go up and down and the
stakes are relatively lower. Each President or Prime Minister can
refute his predecessor’s views and tone. Problems can be repaired
quickly.

More broadly, the US-Israel bond has strengths that go far beyond
politicians and issues of the moment. Nothing on earth resembles this
bilateral, "the most special" of special relationships and "the
family relationship of international politics." Like any family tie,
it has high points (Israel ranks second, behind only the US, in
number of companies listed on NASDAQ) and low ones (the Jonathan
Pollard espionage affair continues to rankle a quarter century after
it broke). The tie has a unique intensity when it comes to strategic
cooperation, economic connections, intellectual ties, shared values,
United Nations voting records, religious commonalities, and even
mutual interference in each other’s internal affairs.

From Israel’s perspective, then, political relations with the Arabs
are freighted but those with Washington have a lightness and
flexibility.

Third, when Israeli leaders enjoy strong, trusting relations with
Washington, they give more to the Arabs. Golda Meir made concessions
to Richard Nixon, Menachem Begin to Mr Jimmy Carter, Yitzhak Rabin,
Mr Benjamin Netanyahu, and Mr Ehud Barak to Mr Bill Clinton, and Mr
Ariel Sharon to Mr George W Bush.

Conversely, mistrust of Washington tightens Israelis and closes the
willingness to take chances. That was the case with Mr George HW Bush
and is even more so with Mr Barack Obama. The current unease began
even before Mr Obama reached the Oval Office, given his public
association with prominent Israel-haters (eg, Ali Abunimah, Mr Rashid
Khalidi, Mr Edward Said, Mr Jeremiah Wright). Relations degenerated
in March, when his administration simulated outrage on the 9th over
an announcement of routine construction work in Jerusalem, followed
by a brutal telephone call from the Secretary of State on the 12th
and a tense White House summit meeting on the 23rd.

To make matters worse, the Obama Administration figure most
identified with maintaining good US-Israel relations, Mr Dennis Ross,
was anonymously accused by a colleague on March 28 of being "far more
sensitive to Netanyahu’s coalition politics than to US interests." A
prominent foreign policy analyst used this to raise questions about
Mr Ross having a "dual loyalty" to Israel, impugning Mr Ross’ policy
advice.

These ugly and virtually unprecedented tensions have had a
predictable effect on the Israeli public, making it mistrustful of Mr
Obama, resistant to US pressure, while inspiring usually squabbling
politicians to work together to resist his policies.

Fourth, US-Israel tensions increase Palestinian intransigence and
demands. Israel in bad standing empowers their leaders; and if the
tensions arise from US pressure for concessions to the Palestinians,
the latter sit back and enjoy the show. This happened in mid-2009,
when Mr Mahmoud Abbas instructed Americans what to extract from
Jerusalem. Conversely, when US-Israel relations flourish, Palestinian
leaders feel pressure to meet Israelis, pretend to negotiate, and
sign documents.

Combining these four presumptions results in a counterintuitive
conclusion: Strong US-Israel ties induce irreversible Israeli
mistakes. Poor US-Israel ties abort this process. Mr Obama may expect
that picking a fight with Israel will produce negotiations but it
will have the opposite effect. He may think he is approaching a
diplomatic breakthrough but, in fact, he is rendering that less
likely. Those who fear more "war process" can thus take some solace
in the administration’s blunders.

The complexity of US-Israel relations leaves much room for paradox
and inadvertency. A look beyond a worrisome turn of events suggests
that good may come of it.

The writer is director of the Middle East Forum and Taube
distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford
University.

http://dailypioneer.com/251883/Obama-has-it-all-wrong.html

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JEWS HAVE TOO MUCH BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS, THEY ASK FOR FORGIVENESS AND START ALL OVER AGAIN

JEWS HAVE TOO MUCH BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS, THEY ASK FOR FORGIVENESS
AND
START ALL OVER AGAIN.

Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast, soc.culture.canada,
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From: Topaz <mars1…@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:39:13 -0500
Local: Sun, Apr 25 2010 11:39 am
Subject: Re: Muslimes have slaughtered more people of different
faiths
than any and all other faiths put together.

Article Winston Churchill wrote in 1920:
"This movement amongst the Jews (the Russian Revolution) is not new.
From the days of Spartacus Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down
to Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kuhn (Hungary), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany)
and Emma Goldman (United States), this world wide conspiracy for the
overthrow of civilization and the reconstruction of society on the
basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible
equality, has been steadily growing. It played, as a modern writer,
Mrs. Nesta Webster, has so ably shown, a definitely recognizable part
in the tragedy of the French Revolution. It has been the mainspring
of
every subversive movement during the Nineteenth Century; and now at
last this band of extraordinary personalities has gripped the Russian
people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the
undisputed masters of that enormous empire. There is no need to
exaggerate the part played in the creation of Bolshevism and in the
actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution by these
international
and for the most part atheistic Jews. Moreover, the principal
inspiration and driving power comes from Jewish leaders." (ibid)

Lev Trotzky wrote a book called "Stalin: An Appraisal of the Man and
His Influence", Harper Bros., New York and London, 1941, translated
by
Charles Malamuth.
In this book he told who the principle members of the October Central
Committee were. This group was the leadership of the Bolshevik Party
during the October Revolution. This is what he wrote:
"In view of the Party’s semi-legality the names of persons elected by
secret ballot were not announced at the Congress, with the exception
of the four who had received the largest number of votes. Lenin–133
out of a possible 134,  Zinoviev–132,  Kamenev–131,  Trotzky–131."

Of these four top leaders of the Bolshevik Party the last three were
known Jews. Lenin was thought to be a gentile married to a Jewess. It
was later proven that he was one quarter Jewish, London Jewish
Chronicle April 21, 1995, Lenin: Life and Legacy.

David Francis, the American Ambassador to Russia at the time of the

Revolution, wrote:

"The Bolshevic leaders here, most of whom are Jews and 90 percent of
whom are returned exiles, care little for Russia or any other country
but are internationalists and they are trying to start a world-wide
revolution."

The Director of British Intelligence to the U.S. Secretary of State
wrote this:
"There is now definite evidence that Bolshevism is an international
movement controlled by Jews."

In 1945 the FBI arrested six individuals for stealing 1700 highly
confidential documents from State Department files. This was the
Amerasia case they were:
Philip Jaffe, a Russian Jew who came to the U.S. in 1905. He was at
one time the editor of the communist paper "Labor Defense" and the
ringleader of the group arrested.
Andrew Roth, a Jew.
Mark Gayn, a Jew, changed his name from Julius Ginsberg.
John Service, a gentile.
Emmanuel Larsen, nationality unknown
Kate Mitchel, nationality unknown.

In 1949 the Jewess Judith Coplin was caught passing classified
documents from Justice Department files to a Russian agent.

The highest ranking communist brought to trial in the U.S. was
Gerhart
Eisler. He was a Jew. He was the secret boss of the Communist Party
in the U.S. and commuted regularly between the U.S. and Russia.

In 1950 there was the "Hollywood Ten" case. Ten leading film writers
of the Hollywood Film Colony were convicted for contempt of Congress
and sentenced to prison. Nine of the ten were Jews. Six of the ten
were communist party members and the other four were flagrantly
pro-communist.

One of the top new stories of 1949 was the trial of Eugene Dennis and
the Convicted Eleven. This group comprised the National Secretariat
of
the American Communist Party. Six were Jews, two gentiles, three
nationality unknown.

Also in 1949 the German-born atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs was
convicted for passing atomic secrets to the Russians. Acting on
information obtained from Fuchs the FBI arrested nine other members
of
the ring. All of them were convicted. Eight of the nine were Jews.
Here are some quotes from a very pro-Jewish book that was first
published in 1925. The book is "Stranger than Fiction" by Lewis
Browne.

"But save for such exceptions, the Jews who led or participated in
the
heroic efforts to remold the world of the last century, were neither
Reform or Orthodox. Indeed, they were often not professing Jews at
all.
"For instance, there was Heinrich Heine and Ludwig Borne, both
unfaltering champions of freedom. And even more conspicuously, there
was Karl Marx, one of the great prophetic geniuses of modern times.

"Jewish historians rarely mention the name of this man, Karl Marx,
though in his life and spirit he was far truer to the mission of
Israel than most of those who were forever talking of it. He was born
in Germany in 1818, and belonged to an old rabbinic family. He was
not
himself reared as a Jew, however, but while still a child was
baptized
a Christian by his father. Yet the rebel soul of the Jew flamed in
him
throughout his days, for he was always a ‘troubler’ in Europe."
"Then, of course, there are Ludwig Borne and Heinrich Heine, two  men
who by their merciless wit and sarcasm became leaders among the
revolutionary writers. Karl Marx, Ferdinand Lassalle, Johann Jacoby,
Gabriel Riesser, Adolphe Cremieux, Signora Nathan- all these of
Jewish
lineage played important roles in the struggle that went throughout
Europe in this period. Wherever the war for human liberty was being
waged, whether in France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, or Italy, there
the Jew was to be found. It was little wonder that the enemies of
social progress, the monarchists and the Churchmen, came to speak of
the whole liberal movement as nothing but a Jewish plot."

The book "Soviet Russia and the Jews" by Gregor Aronson and published
by the American Jewish League Against Communism, quotes Stalin in an
interview in 1931 with the Jewish Telegraph Agency. Stalin said:
"…Communists cannot be anything but outspoken enemies of
Anti-Semitism. We fight anti-Semites by the strongest methods in the
Soviet Union. Active anti-Semites are punished by death under the
law."

The following quotes are taken directly from documents available from
the
U.S. Archives:
State Department document 861.00/1757 sent May 2, 1918 by U.S. consul
general in Moscow, Summers: "Jews prominent in local Soviet
government, anti-Jewish feeling growing among population…."

State Department document 861.00/2205 was sent from Vladivostok on
July 5, 1918 by U.S. consul Caldwell: "Fifty percent of Soviet
government in each town consists of Jews of the worst type."

From the Headquarters of the American Expeditionary Forces, Siberia
on
March 1, 1919, comes this telegram from Omsk by Chief of Staff, Capt.
Montgomey Shuyler: "It is probably unwise to say this loudly in the
United States but the Bolshevik movement is and has been since it’s
beginning, guided and controlled by Russian Jews of the greasiest
type" type."

A second Schuyler telegram, dated June 9, 1919 from Vladivostok,
reports on the make-up of the presiding Soviet government: "…
(T)here
were 384 ‘commissars’ including 2 negroes, 13 Russians, 15 Chinamen,
22 Armenians, AND MORE THAN 300 JEWS. Of the latter number, 264 had
come to Russia from the United States since the downfall of the
Imperial Government.

The Netherlands’ ambassador in Russia, Oudendyke, confirmed this:
"Unless Bolshevism is nipped in the bud immediately, it is bound to
spread in one form or another over Europe and the whole world as it
is
organized and worked by Jews who have no nationality, and whose one
object is to destroy for their own ends the existing order of
things."

"The Bolshevik revolution in Russia was the work of Jewish brains, of
Jewish dissatisfaction, of Jewish planning, whose goal is to create a
new order in the world. What was performed in so excellent a way in
Russia, thanks to Jewish brains, and because of Jewish
dissatisfaction
and by Jewish planning, shall also, through the same Jewish mental an
physical forces, become a reality all over the world." (The American
Hebrew, September 10, 1920

"In the Bolshevik era, 52 percent of the membership of the Soviet
communist party was Jewish, though Jews comprised only 1.8 percent of
the total population." (Stuart Kahan, The Wolf of the Kremlin, p. 81)

Interestingly, one of the first acts by the Bolsheviks was to make
so-called "anti-Semitism" a capital crime. This is confirmed by
Stalin
himself:
"National and racial chauvinism is a vestige of the misanthropic
customs characteristic of the period of cannibalism. Anti-semitism,
as
an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige
of
cannibalism…under USSR law active anti-Semites are liable to the
death penalty." (Stalin, Collected Works, vol. 13, p. 30).

Here is a quote from Mein Kampf:
"Making an effort to overcome my natural reluctance, I tried to read
articles of this nature published in the Marxist Press; but in doing
so my aversion increased all the more. And then I set about learning
something of the people who wrote and published this mischievous
stuff.  From the publisher downwards, all of them were Jews. I
recalled to mind the names of the public leaders of Marxism, and then
I realized that most of them belonged to the Chosen Race- the Social
Democratic representatives in the Imperial Cabinet as well as the
secretaries if the

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Is Iran Really a Threat?

Coleen Rowley wrote:

Former CIA analyst (and my “Veteran Intelligence Professionals for
Sanity” colleague) Ray McGovern writes on the war-mongering that is
again heating up in DC

Is Iran Really a Threat?

http://america-hijacked.com/2010/04/26/is-iran-really-a-threat/

http://tinyurl.com/IsIranReallyaThreat

Mideast panel on Iran at UCLA yesterday in association with the Los
Angeles Times Festival of Books (see the ‘Q & A’ near the end):

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/293145-7

Additional via http://AMERICA-HIJACKED.COM

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>>> Separating "Atheist Zionism" and "Judaism" From One Another" <<<

Separating Atheist Zionism and Judaism From One Another
http://www.interfaithunion.com/article_y12.html

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Telstra considering job cut proposals

…please keep up the good work for low unemployment!

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/telstra-considering-job…

Telstra considering job cut proposals

KARLIS SALNA
April 27, 2010 – 7:24PM
AAP

Telstra says a final decision is yet to made on potential job cuts after
claims the telco is planning to shed up to 900 workers.

Employees were briefed by Telstra management on Tuesday about plans to make
cuts to its operations division over the next financial year.

It is understood up to 900 jobs could go with the Communications Electrical
and Plumbing Union (CEPU) saying the plan would see one in 16 workers
removed from providing service delivery to Telstra customers.

"They’ve decided on budget cuts and in order to try and fit the problems
they’ve got into the budget cuts, they’re having a review of operations,"
CEPU divisional president Len Cooper told AAP.

"They’re going to try and produce cuts of approximately 900 staff to fit the
budget."

It’s likely Telstra staff would be offered redundancies under the plan.

But a Telstra spokesman said no final decision had been made.

"We’re in the very early stages of annual business planning for the Telstra
operations team and these are just proposals that we are talking to our
employees about," he told AAP.

"It could mean changes over the coming year including potential job
reductions."

The telco rejected suggestions customer service would be affected.

"Any changes or job reductions would not compromise customer service," the
spokesman said.

"The fact is we’re improving our network and our ways of doing things and
there’s less work required to design, build and maintain our networks.

"Unfortunately, there’s never a good time for job reductions but new
technologies and new ways of working mean that we can serve our customers
with fewer jobs."

However, the CEPU said the plan would result in one in 16 workers being
removed from providing service delivery to Telstra customers, adding that
policies linked to staff cuts had already led to a deterioration in customer
service standards.

"Last October, the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman reported a 54 per
cent increase in complaints and between July and December 2009 Telstra
topped the grievance list with 58,597 complaints," Mr Cooper said.

© 2010 AAP

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Terrorist Pakistan planning nuclear Jihad attack on India and ISI sponsor Bombay survival bomber is being asked to return back to Pakistan to get Pak national award for killing innocent non Muslims: 9/11 attackers were trained by ISI of Pakistan

ISI knows where Bin Laden is hiding. Pakistan is planning Jihad
Islamic
nuke attack on India, Israel and the USA.

In Islam, the killing of non Muslim is holy act.

http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/wo…

NEW DELHI: A female diplomat working in the Indian embassy in
Islamabad has been arrested on charges of spying for Pakistan, police
and the foreign ministry said Tuesday.
“We have reason to believe that an official in the High Commission of
India in Islamabad had been passing information to the Pakistani
intelligence agencies,” foreign ministry spokesman Vishnu Prakash told
reporters.

http://in.news.yahoo.com/32/20100427/1053/tnl-handing-over-kasab-to-p…

“"This attitude of the Pakistan government is laughable and their
demands are unreasonable considering that our judicial procedure is in
progress," Patil told HT.
The court has already tried Kasab and will give its judgement on May
3, he added. Patil said there are 35 people who Kasab has named in his
confession.
Of these, 11 people are facing trials and 22 others have non-bailable
warrants against “them.

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Re: MediaMutters.org suggests that black voters are "just puppets."

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> The ‘Racist’ Smear: A Case Study
> MediaMutters.org suggests that black voters are "just puppets."
> By JAMES TARANTO

> Our lead item Monday, "Why the Left Needs Racism," seems to have
> struck a chord. One hostile response is especially interesting because
> it illustrates our point so effectively. It comes from
> MediaMutters.org, a formally independent group that produces
> propaganda for the Democratic Party:

> First and foremost, it’s remarkably insulting. The implication of
> Taranto’s theory is that African-Americans aren’t sophisticated or
> observant or intelligent enough to know real racism when they see it,
> and are thus continuously duped en masse into voting for Democrats. It
> couldn’t be the case that black voters actually care about issues and
> have real reasons for voting Democratic, they’re just puppets who are
> motivated by racial sentiments that Democrats prey upon. Taranto and
> his pals at Fox & Friends might think they’re attacking the Democrats,
> but they’re actually demeaning black voters.

> It is a commonplace that politicians frequently make appeals based on
> fear. It hardly seems controversial to assert that fear of racism is
> not uncommon among black Americans. It would be surprising if it were
> otherwise at a time when the regime of systematic subjugation known as
> Jim Crow is still a living memory. We argued that politicians appeal
> to a fear that is widespread among their constituents–which is to
> say, they behave in a way typical of politicians.

> MediaMutters’ suggestion that black voters are "just puppets" is
> racist and repugnant. In this day and age, one hesitates to dignify
> such a foul idea by rebutting it, but since MediaMutters raised it,
> here goes: Black voters are just like other voters. They make their
> decisions based on a combination of reason and emotion–and on
> elevated emotions as well as base ones. (The item MediaMutters is
> attacking attributed black support for President Obama in part to
> "pride in the first black president," which we called "a normal and
> wholesome attitude.")

> The smear artists of MediaMutters have put forward a racist idea and
> falsely imputed it to us in an effort to defame us as racist because
> we criticized Democratic politicians. This is one of the clearest
> examples we’ve seen of how the appeal to fear works.

> Ho Hum, a White Supremacist Rally
> "A rally of about 40 white supremacists Saturday on the lawn of Los
> Angeles City Hall drew hundreds of counter-protesters, sparked brawls
> in which two people were severely beaten and ended with crowds of
> demonstrators hurling rocks and bottles at police and departing
> supremacists," the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday. The violence
> came from those who had come to counter the hate:

> A bare-chested middle-aged man with Nazi insignias tattooed on his
> chest and back walked into a crowd of hundreds of counter-protesters
> gathered near 1st and Spring streets.

> Surrounded, the man mockingly bobbed his head to the rhythm of
> demonstrators chanting "Nazi scum." About a dozen protesters suddenly
> began pelting the man with punches and kicks. He fell and was struck
> on the back with the wooden handle of a protester’s sign, which
> snapped in two. Police eventually reached the man and pulled him from
> the melee, as blood poured from the back of his neck.

> Another man was rushed by a mob on Spring Street. He was punched in
> the face and kicked for about 20 seconds before police made it to the
> scene. After that beating was broken up, the man began running south
> on Spring Street, only to be chased down by a protester and slugged in
> the face. He collapsed and his face slammed to the curb as protesters
> began pummeling him again.

> The bloodied man was then escorted away by police. Both victims were
> treated and released, police said.

> His sign, unclear in its intended meaning, read
> "Christianity=Paganism=Heathen$" with an arrow pointing at a swastika.

> "Gosh, I think he just didn’t have a clear message. I don’t even think
> he was a Nazi," said one man, looking at the broken pieces of the sign
> left behind.

> If you haven’t heard about this until now, you’re not alone. Blogger
> William Jacobson points out that the media hardly noticed:

> Outside of the local media and a handful of blogs, the event received
> scarce attention. None of the usual suspects bothered to cover or
> comment on it. Firedoglake and Huffington Post [sic] covered it, but
> we saw none of the hyperventilated commentary and lecturing that is
> directed at Tea Parties.

> How curious. Tea Party events which are not white supremacist events
> are met with derision and abuse, while a real white supremacist rally
> is met mostly with silence.

> There is a lesson here. The attacks on the Tea Parties have nothing to
> do with stamping out white supremacy and everything to do with shaping
> the political dialogue to stamp out legitimate opposition to Obama
> administration policies.

> It must be said that the L.A. rally got little play in the media
> because it was not, in fact, an important story. It was, rather, a
> civic routine, as we described in an article about a Ku Klux Klan
> rally in New York 11 years ago:

> The whole tale was a reassuringly familiar ritual of contemporary
> American democracy. Each of the players made his didactic point: The
> counterdemonstrators taught us that old-fashioned bigotry is beyond
> the pale; the ACLU, that the Constitution applies not only within the
> pale; the mayor, that free speech isn’t absolute; the courts, that
> rights and responsibilities can be balanced. And of course the
> Spartacists [counterdemonstrating communists] proved that America
> doesn’t discriminate in its toleration of crackpots.

> As for the Klansmen at the center of this civic circus, they taught us
> by their inferior numbers that they are not a serious force in 1999. A
> perfect foil for everyone else, they put on a preposterous show and
> subjected themselves to the city’s ridicule. How could anyone have
> persuaded them to endure such humiliation? Strangely enough, it was
> their own idea.

> The only major difference is that the New York police in 1999 did a
> better job of maintaining order than the Los Angeles police in 2010.
> But Saturday’s tumult is a timely reminder that in 2010, as in 1999–
> and, for that matter, in 1977, when the U.S. Supreme Court held that
> neo-Nazis had a right to march in Skokie, Ill.–white supremacy is a
> fringe ideology that appeals only to a minuscule number of weirdos.

> The people who claim to be alarmed by the "racism" of the tea-party
> movement know this as well as we do–which is why they respond to a
> display of actual racism as nonchalantly as we do. They desperately
> attack the tea-party movement for the same reason we cheer it: because
> it is made up of ordinary Americans anxious and unhappy about the ever-
> expanding power of government over their lives.

> A mass movement of Americans concerned about preserving their freedom
> is a threat to the political agenda of the left. A gathering of a few
> dozen actual white supremacists is a threat only to whatever shred of
> dignity the supremacists may retain.

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