Tuesday, July 24, 2012

ABC News' reporting on the Aurora shooting is even worse than we thought | The Daily Caller #aurora #tcot

What would be the response if a conservative suggested that the Police should go on strike,to demand laws outlawing rap songs glorifying the killing of ”pigs”? #tcot #secondamendment #tlot

RRD:What would be the response if a conservative suggested that Police Officers should go on strike,to demand laws outlawing rap songs that glorify the killing of ”pigs”?
Answer:the dawn of fascism in America.
I wonder if people like Bloomberg understand that many police support the death penalty for cop killers?Do they understand that many police would support doing away with the Internal Affairs Division (the so-called ”rat squad”).Do they understand that many police are really not very sympathetic to the "victims of society" whom these "bleeding hearts" unleash onto the streets?They use the term "No humans involved".And besides I thought Liberals thought of the police as racist bloodthirsty killers?The police are props to liberals.


Bloomberg: Police Should Strike Until I Get What I Want « Commentary Magazine


http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/07/24/bloomberg-police-should-strike-until-gun-control-legislation/

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Mission Network News Behnam Irani, a 41-year-old Iranian pastor serving prison time,severely ill #humanrights #iranelections #xcot

Obama: Zbigniew Brzezinski is "one of our most outstanding thinkers" #tcot #jcot #teaparty

Obama advisor raises concerns - Israel News, Ynetnews September 16,2007


http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3449954,00.html


”Last week, Obama introduced Zbigniew Brzezinski as "one of our most outstanding thinkers" during a policy speech on the Iraq war”


”[President George W. Bush] has a vision which can be described with two other words: Manichaean paranoia ... the notion that he is leading the forces of good against the empire of evil, that in that setting, the fact that we are morally superior justifies us committing immoral acts. And that is a very dangerous posture for the country that is the number one global power. ... The fact is he squandered our credibility, our legitimacy, and even respect for our power."
– The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, March 14, 2007.


Brzezinski: U.S. must deny Israel airspace | JTA - Jewish & Israel News September 21,2009


http://www.jta.org/news/article/2009/09/21/1008006/brzezinski-us-must-deny-israel-airspace-to-attack-iran


...."We are not exactly impotent little babies," said Brzezinski, national security adviser during the Carter administration, in an interview with The Daily Beast Web site when asked how aggressive President Obama can be in telling Israel that a military strike in Iran is not in America's interest. "They have to fly over our airspace in Iraq. Are we just going to sit there and watch ?

"We have to be serious about denying them that right," ..."That means a denial where you aren't just saying it. If they fly over, you go up and confront them. They have the choice of turning back or not. No one wishes for this but it could be a Liberty in reverse."...


Dr. Z. Brzezinski talks Afghanistan and Iraq on Morning Joe - YouTube


..”Is Taliban a terrorism organization, or is it an ugly, medieval-type throwback of a purely local character?...Now, the Taliban does terrible things. I was talking to someone about this last night at dinner. And this person said 'yeah, but what about the horrible things they do to women,' and so forth. That's the painful part – but the same things happen in some other parts of the world. Are we going to go everywhere
and tell them how to structure their social questions ?" -On MSNBC's Morning Joe


Zbigniew Brzezinski: Terrorized by ‘War on Terror’ - Truthdig

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070327_terrorized_by_war_on_terror/

...”The entertainment industry has also jumped into the act. Hence the TV serials and films in which the evil characters have recognizable Arab features, sometimes highlighted by religious gestures, that exploit public anxiety and stimulate Islamophobia. Arab facial stereotypes, particularly in newspaper cartoons, have at times been rendered in a manner sadly reminiscent of the Nazi anti-Semitic campaigns. Lately, even some college student organizations have become involved in such propagation, apparently oblivious to the menacing connection between the stimulation of racial and religious hatreds and the unleashing of the unprecedented crimes of the Holocaust.

The atmosphere generated by the “war on terror” has encouraged legal and political harassment of Arab-Americans (generally loyal Americans) for conduct that has not been unique to them. A case in point is the reported harassment of the Council on American -Islamic Relations (CAIR) for its attempts to emulate, not very successfully, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Some House Republicans recently described CAIR members as “terrorist apologists” who should not be allowed to use a Capitol meeting room for a panel discussion.”...


RRD:Unlike AIPAC,CAIR was a unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land case.And as to the "stimulation of racial and religious hatreds",is he referring to the Anti-semites whom he praised:Mearsheimer and Walt?Or the daily anti-semitic propaganda in the Muslim World.


Obama advisor raises concerns - Israel News, Ynetnews

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3449954,00.html


”Brzezinki's appointment immediately came under fire from Harvard law professor Alan Dershowiz, who was quoted by the Politico website as saying: "It is a tremendous mistake for Barack Obama to select as a foreign policy adviser the one person in public life who has chosen to support a bigoted book."

One of the most troubling aspects of Brzezinski's appointment for allies of Israel is his defense of the book, 'The Israel Lobby,' by American academics Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer. In it, the academics attack what they say is an overly powerful Jewish lobby which is damaging America's interests. Their case has been accused of echoing traditional anti-Semitic thought and critics say it is based on faulty scholarship. But Brzezinski has described critics of Walt and Mearsheimer as "McCarthyists."

In an article in the Foreign Policy publication, Brzezinki wrote: "Given that the Middle East is currently the central challenge facing America, Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt have rendered a public service by initiating a much needed public debate on the role of the 'Israel lobby' in the shaping of US foreign policy." Walt and Mearsheimer responded by thanking Brzezinksi. For his part, Obama has distanced himself from the book.”...

Yes Mearsheimer is a anti-semite. #tcot #jcot #antisemitism - fightingstatism


http://fightingstatism.posterous.com/yes-mearsheimer-is-a-anti-semite-tcot-jcot-an

Dershowitz: Why Are John Mearsheimer And Richard Falk Endorsing A Blatantly Anti-Semitic Book? RRD:They're anti-semites - fightingstatism

http://fightingstatism.posterous.com/dershowitz-why-are-john-mearsheimer-and-richa


For a brief sampler of Arab anti-semitism see here:


The full text of the U.S. Ambassador to Belgium's anti-semitic speech is now available.I rebut it. - fightingstatism


http://fightingstatism.posterous.com/the-full-text-of-the-us-ambassador-to-belgium


The Dilemma of the Last Sovereign - Zbigniew Brzezinski - The American Interest Magazine

http://www.the-american-interest.com/article.cfm?piece=56

”Terrorism is a destructive and extreme symptom of a widespread new reality of resentment, but terrorism as such --whether Islamist or otherwise --does not define the essence of international affairs in our time. It is undeniably a tactical threat to national security, and in the future a potential strategic one. According to official World Health Organization and Department of State statistics, global deaths per year due to physical violence amounted to 1,600,000 (2002), traffic accidents 1,200,000 (2004), and terrorism 625 (2003). But to make terrorism the daily preoccupation of millions of anxious Americans would be as if American domestic politics in the late 1960s and early 1970s had focused mainly on reactions to the threat posed by the Black Panthers rather than on the need to redress the denial of full civil rights to African Americans. In today's world the elevation of terrorism to an almost apocalyptic threat can similarly result in an under-reaction to the wider global context that favors the rise of extremist violence. The majority of states existing today no longer rule relatively pliant populations, and many are vulnerable to being swamped by populist demands that transcend their capacity to respond effectively.”

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Monday, July 23, 2012

#Tehran apologist Trita Parsi claims Israeli gov essentially wanted its citizens murdered in Bulgaria #jcot

RRD:When last I checked the Israeli government was not stealing elections and slaughtering their own civilians in the street.And in order for a attack to be "tit for tat" would it not have to target Israeli nuclear scientists(or soldiers or officials etc)


‘Tit for Tat’ | Washington Free Beacon


http://freebeacon.com/tit-for-tat/

”The day before the White House meeting, NIAC’s president, Trita Parsi, who does not hold American citizenship, published an article in the Daily Beast alleging that Israeli leaders viewed the murder of their civilians in the Bulgaria bombing with satisfaction. ”US officials have privately expressed concern that one of the purposes of Israeli attacks in Iran has been to generate an Iranian response that could serve as a casus belli for Israel,” Parsi wrote. “That way, Israel could target Iran’s nuclear facilities without paying the heavy political cost of starting a preventive war.”

While Parsi speculated that the murder of tourists marked the achievement of an Israeli policy goal, a ”senior American official” quoted in the New York Times said the attack “was tit for tat”—retaliation for Israel’s alleged assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists.

Commentators took issue with the official’s characterization of a terror attack on tourists and the assassination of scientists working on an illicit nuclear program as equivalents.”

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Olympics held moments of silence before,but not for Israeli atheletes murdered at Munich #tcot #xcot #jcot

Jewish Blood Is Cheap
The real reason the Olympic Committee refuses to commemorate the Israeli athletes murdered in Munich
By Deborah E. Lipstadt


http://www.jidaily.com/25ccc


”Why the IOC refusal? The Olympic Committee’s official explanation is that the games are apolitical. The
families were repeatedly told by long-time IOC President Juan Samaranch that the Olympic movement avoided political issues. He seemed to have forgotten that at the 1996 opening ceremony he spoke about the Bosnian war. Politics were also present at the 2002 games, which opened with a minute of silence,for the victims of 9/11.
The families have also been told that a commemoration of this sort was inappropriate at the opening of
such a celebratory event. However, the IOC has memorialized other athletes who died “in the line of
duty.” At the 2010 winter games, for example, there was a moment of silence to commemorate an
athlete who died in a training accident.”

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Sunday, July 22, 2012

Don't Let It Go #objectivist podcast ( #aynrand ) Obama's speech vs Romney's & "The Dark Knight Rises" #teaparty #tcot #tlot

Obama vs. Romney on Building a Business; “The Dark Knight Rises” today at 5 p.m. PDT (8 p.m. EDT) | Don't Let It Go


http://dontletitgo.com/2012/07/22/obama-vs-romney-on-building-a-business-the-dark-knight-rises-today-at-5-p-m-pdt-8-p-m-edt/


”PLANNED TOPICS: Does looking at the "context" of Obama's "you didn't build that" remark help or hurt him? We'll look at the arguments which make up that context and let you decide. Also, is Romney effectively answering Obama on this issue?Then, we'll take a detailed look at The Dark Knight Rises (spoiler alert will be provided for those who haven't seen it yet -- but go see it ASAP).”

RRD:
Disclaimer:As always reposting does not imply endorsement.

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Saturday, July 21, 2012

Grave Concerns for Health of Iranian Pastor Benham Irani #iranelections #humanrights

Would new UN treaty make us "recognize economic,social & cultural entitlements as rights"? #tcot #tlot.#teaparty

Steven_Groves_Testimony.pdf Download this file

RRD:Frankly this is the first I've heard of the ”U.N. Convention on the Rights of People With Disabilities”,but when it comes to treaties my view is "distrust until verified".The attached pdf is of the prepared remarks of a Heritage Foundation Scholar Steven Groves,who opposes the treaty and argues
that it affirms the so-called "positive rights" such as the "right" to welfare,the "right" to government funded health care etc.He also warns that as it stands it lacks a "non-self-executing” declaration,which he says is standard in treaties of this kind ,and which are included to prohibit the UN from making rules that are binding on the US government.
With such a declaration the treaty is still binding but the U.S. legislature & courts would decide how to interpret & apply the treaty.
He also notes that in past cases these UN committees have gone far beyond their scope to demanding everything from:voting rights for felons,to ”hate speech” censorship laws,to government funded legal council on CIVIL matters to ”undocumented immigrants”,& to prohibiting PRIVATE companies from ”discriminating” against.”undocumented immigrants”.


Sen. DeMint taps brakes on UN treaty as home-school opposition grows - The Hill's Global Affairs


http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/un-treaties/239095-demint-holds-up-un-disabilities-treaty-as-home-school-opposition-grows


..."The Senate Foreign Relations Committee was scheduled to take up the U.N. Convention on the Rights of People With Disabilities on Thursday, with the goal of getting it passed in time for the 22nd anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) on July 26. Instead, Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.) announced that he will hold the markup next Thursday, July 26.

A spokesman for DeMint said several Republicans on the committee joined him in asking for the delay.

"Part of this treaty deals with abortion and the rights of children, issues that should be addressed by states, local governments and American parents, not international bureaucrats,"[said] DeMint spokesman Wesley Denton "Sen. DeMint strongly opposes this treaty, as the United States is already the world leader in addressing the needs of the disabled and it’s foolish to think Americans need to sign away our sovereignty to exert our influence around the world."


RRD:The treaty has ”broad bi-partisan support”,including such worthies as Mccain & Barrasso,who
say that it will ”just” establish the ADA in treaty form.
Given that the ADA should be repealed,that is reason enough to oppose it.

The Home School Legal Defense Association said that the treaty:


“surrenders U.S. sovereignty to unelected U.N. bureaucrats and will threaten parental control over children with disabilities.”

“If the Senate ratifies this treaty,'” ... “it would be the first time ever that the U.S. has ratified a treaty that obligates us to recognize economic, social and cultural entitlements as rights under domestic law. Please take the time to examine this treaty carefully.”

Barrasso's spokesperson:


“The convention offers the United States a forum to utilize our wealth of knowledge and practical experiences to influence other nations in recognizing the rights for people with disabilities,” .... “It can help in advancing policies so Americans with disabilities can receive the same protections while working, studying and traveling abroad, including, very importantly, our veterans.”...

RRD:Oh,& the great G.H.W.Bush also supports it.Which is unsuprising since he is the fool who signed the ADA.

Other links:

How the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities would Threaten the Family


http://www.hslda.org/docs/news/2012/201207030.asp


The UN CRPD: A Danger to Homeschool Families


http://www.hslda.org/docs/news/2012/201205250.asp


Footnotes:


fn1

The Inequities of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination


http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2008/08/the-inequities-of-the-un-committee-on-the-elimination-of-racial-discrimination

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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Anti-semite engages in a Stavroginesque schtick to frighten us with her evilness #antisemitism #jcot (corrected)

The Most Disgraceful Piece of Anti-Semitism Published in Years « Commentary Magazine

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/07/17/the-most-disgraceful-piece-of-anti-semitism-published-in-years-breaking-bad-anna-breslaw/


RRD:In Dostoevsky's The Possessed(aka The Devils,aka The Demons) Stavrogin--the villian-- delivers a confession to a Father Tikhon.

The confession reveals that Stavrogin has molested a ten year old girl.


To this Father Tikhon responds by critiquing the style of the writing.


This is shocking to the reader at first,until Tikhon continues:He correctly exposes Stavrogin's confession as essentially being a document designed by Stavrogin to shock us with Stavrogin's evilness,rather than as a genuine expression of contrition.

In effect Stavrogin is saying:”You think you've seen evil!Well wait until you hear of my evil!My evil is unique & daring & bold!It's the most evil,evil you've ever seen”,with the implication that Stavrogin is dark,satanic ,& powerful,& above all frightening.
In reality Stavrogin is like a psychopathic version of the adolescent who scrawls obscenities on a church, for the shock value of it.


His kind of villian thinks that by frightening others with their depravity,they then gain some kind of power over others.


I should add,as a aside,that this is my own reading of that chapter of the novel:the Priest Tikhon is more generous,in that he believes Stavrogin to be sincere.However if that was Dostoevsky's intention it was overly generous.

Now in the Tablet,a ostensibly Jewish periodical,we have a pathetic little psychopath doing her best to frighten us with her daring & bold evilness.I refer you to the Commentary post above.I see no point in responding at length to her depravity other than to point out that this little wretch wants us to respond to her scribblings,with shock and horror,when the most appropriate response is to shine a light on the ”frightening monster” so that she will be revealed as the toothless rat she is.

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Anti-semite engages in a Stavroginesque schtick to frighten us with her evilness #antisemitism #jcot

The Most Disgraceful Piece of Anti-Semitism Published in Years « Commentary Magazine

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/07/17/the-most-disgraceful-piece-of-anti-semitism-published-in-years-breaking-bad-anna-breslaw/


RRD:In Dostoevsky's The Possessed(aka The Devils,aka The Demons) Stavrogin--the villian-- delivers a confession to a Father Tihkon.

The confession reveals that Stavrogin has molested a ten year old girl.


To this Father Tihkon responds by critiquing the style of the writing.


This is shocking to the reader at first,until Tihkon continues:He correctly exposes Stavrogin's confession as essentially being a document designed by Stavrogin to shock us with Stavrogin's evilness,rather than as a genuine expression of contrition.

In effect Stavrogin is saying:”You think you've seen evil!Well wait until you hear of my evil!My evil is unique & daring & bold!It's the most evil,evil you've ever seen”,with the implication that Stavrogin is dark,satanic ,& powerful,& above all frightening.
In reality Stavrogin is like a psychopathic version of the adolescent who scrawls obscenities on a church, for the shock value of it.


His kind of villian thinks that by frightening others with their depravity,they then gain some kind of power over others.


I should add,as a aside,that this is my own reading of that chapter of the novel:the Priest Tikhon is more generous,in that he believes Stavrogin to be sincere.However if that was Dostoevsky's intention it was overly generous.

Now in the Tablet,a ostensibly Jewish periodical,we have a pathetic little psychopath doing her best to frighten us with her daring & bold evilness.I refer you to the Commentary post above.I see no point in responding at length to her depravity other than to point out that this little wretch wants us to respond to her scribblings,with shock and horror,when the most appropriate response is to shine a light on the ”frightening monster” so that she will be revealed as the toothless rat she is.

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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Note to critics of the Levy report:you can't make peace with those who want war #jcot #xcot

Does the Levy Report Doom Israel? « Commentary Magazine


http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/07/17/does-the-levy-report-doom-israel/

I do not regard the West Bank & Gaza as being part of Israel proper,but it is absurd to suggest that peace will be prevented by the Levy report,it has been,and will be prevented by the unwillingness of a sizable portion of the Palestinian population to co-exist with any Israeli state whether its capital were Jerusalem,Tel Aviv or a portable tent(quite possibly a majority of Palestinians oppose peace,despite their statements to pollsters to the contrary,certainly their choice of Hamas to lead them destroyed any prospect for peace in the foreseeable future).


As a addendum to my statement about the West Bank above, however,I should add that it is notewothy that we rarely if ever hear of a Sinai independence movement,or of the outrageousness of a "Occupied Sinai",or that Israel was obligated to return the Sinai to its ”rightful owners” Egypt.


And what has Israel gained from giving up the Sinai?

The new president of Egypt has said that he intends to make Jerusalem the capital of the Caliphate; and Hillary Clinton is standing with Morsi right there--a "feminist" Secretary of State to the ”first feminist President” demanding that the Egyptian Military hand over power to Morsi,indifferent to both the well-being of the Israelis and Egyptian Women and Girls.


Clinton's hopes for head of Egypt's military to work with Muslim Brotherhood fall flat | Lubbock Online Mobile Edition

http://m.lubbockonline.com/filed-online/2012-07-15/clintons-hopes-head-egypts-military-work-muslim-brotherhood-fall-flat


Egypt Attaches Strings to Peace with Israel | Washington Free Beacon


http://freebeacon.com/egypt-attaches-strings-to-peace-with-israel/

..."Clinton also affirmed the Obama administration’s commitment “to relieve up to one billion dollars in Egypt’s debt,” as well as to provide “$250 million in loan guarantees to Egyptian small-and -medium -sized businesses.”...


The Gateway Pundit » Blog Archive » Breaking: Muslim Brotherhood Candidate Wins Egyptian Election! (Video) …Update: Morsi Says “Our Capital Shall Be Jerusalem!”


http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/06/breaking-muslim-brotherhood-candidate-wins-egyptian-election/


RRD:So the majority of Egyptians have elected a Islamist maniac,and we are giving aid to this country?Isn't it enough that we have built up Egypt's Military with F-16s and M1 Abrams Tanks,as part of this "peace" deal which was tossed out the window by "Democracy",while the supposedly "pro-Israel" Neo-Conservatives were cheering this as "striking a blow for freedom"(Charles Krauthammer excepted).

See:


Stand for Freedom | The Weekly Standard


http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/stand-freedom_541404.html

Glenn Beck Blasts NYT's Brooks for Mocking His Muslim Prediction After Egypt Was 'Liberated' Last Year | NewsBusters.org

http://m.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/06/24/glenn-beck-blasts-david-brooks-mocking-his-egypt-prediction-after-mub

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Monday, July 16, 2012

DISCLOSE act modified in response to #GOP complaints Dems say,No,union pressure #GOP 's say,still flawed either way says ACLU #tcot #tlot #teaparty

Not-So-Full Disclosure | Washington Free Beacon


http://freebeacon.com/not-so-full-disclosure/

”The DISCLOSE Act of 2012, first introduced in March, had two major provisions: requiring politically active super PACs, unions, and corporations to disclose the identity of donors who contribute $10,000 or more; and requiring electioneering ads to disclose who is funding them.

But the latter so -called “stand by your ad” provision is absent from the version of the bill on which the Senate will vote. A spokesman for Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.), who introduced the bill, said the provision was nixed in response to GOP complaints.

“The ‘stand by your ad’ provision was dropped in response to objections we’ve heard from folks on the other side of the aisle,” the spokesman said. “It’s now targeted specifically at requiring disclosure.”

However, a senior Republican aide told the Free Beacon the provision was dropped due to union pressure.

The “stand by your ad” provision would have required the CEO or equivalent position of an organization buying electioneering ads—AFL -CIO President Richard Trumka, for example—to endorse them, similar to the endorsements required at the end of ads purchased by political campaigns.

“The Trumkas of the world aren’t exactly the warm, fuzzy personalities you want appearing at the end of your ad,” the aide said.”


RRD:I'm glad they pulled that provision irrespective of why they did it,but the bill needs a complete redo or they should scrap it and replace it with something that does not trample on free speech rights.
The ACLU's comment is in the original.

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The China( ZTE )-Iran Connection Washington Free Beacon #humanrights #iranelections

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Hang on to dreams Dear O/BO wants states to implement his unconstitutional #obamacare #tcot

White House to states: Time to get on board with healthcare reform - The Hill's Healthwatch


http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/237935-white-house-to-states-time-to-get-onboard-with-health-reform

RRD:But ,"It's constitutional bitches",well then so was Citizens United,why then did Obama object to that ruling?After all wasn't that also "constitutional bitches"?


Any Republican who in any way shape or form collaborates with this gang in D.C. goes down at the ballot box.

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Don't let it go unheard #objectivist ( #aynrand ) podcast #Obamacare ruling aftermath,Romney & Obama #teaparty #tcot #tlot

We’re Back After Our Hiatus! Join Us Today at 5 p.m. PDT (8 p.m. EDT) | Don't Let It Go

http://dontletitgo.com/2012/07/15/were-back-afte-our-hiatus-join-us-today-at-5-p-m-pdt-8-p-m-edt/

”PLANNED TOPICS: We’re back after our hiatus! We’ll discuss some OCON highlights, and then: Obamacare was upheld by the Supreme Court. What now ? Then, in case you needed more motivation to go to the polls, hold your nose, and vote Romney, we’ll look at Obama’s latest monstrous speech. We’ll finish off with a couple of pieces of good news. I hope you can join us!”

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Saturday, July 14, 2012

Ex- IRG general claims Iran's nuclear program not peaceful #irannuclear #jcot

Would the Germans be outraged that the Nazis were accused of being Gay? #xcot #jcot #no2sharia

RRD:Previously I linked to a story by Raymond Ibrahim concerning a video in which a Sheik claimed that anything was permissible if it advanced the Jihad.
Here is my post.

Sheik anything is permissible if it advances the jihad #no2sharia #gwot - fightingstatism

http://fightingstatism.posterous.com/sheik-anything-is-permissible-if-it-advances


Today in a follow up post ,Mr.Ibrahim revealed that he has been accused by Electronic Intifada of promoting a "Islamophobic Hoax".As I note EI's outrage over this is quite amusing.Normally people object when they are accused of being more depraved than they are.There was a actual hoax (which I unintentionally helped to circulate and then corrected) that Hamas was staging child marriages.
Given that there are verifiable cases of Islamists promoting child marriage, & pointing to Muhammad's marriage to Aisha,(when she was 9) as a justification for this practice,I found the story horrifying but credible.(fn1)

It wasn't credible.
I corrected the story for the sake of fidelity to the truth, not concern that I was "slandering" that murderous gang.
But this takes the cake.
It is one thing for Murderers to object at being characterized as being pedophiles.
It is quite another to be outraged that suicide bombers are being accused of having consensual homosexual sex.
See Ibrahim's story.

Islamic Sodomy or 'Islamophobic Hoax'? :: Raymond Ibrahim

http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11992/islam-sodomy-hoax

RRD:I am reminded of a Mao apologist who was outraged that Mao was accused of murdering 20 million people ,when he ”only” murdered 13 million (or some such rubbish),or the revisionists who explain that the Spanish Inquisition killed X number instead of y number....

Let us assume for the sake of argument that the story is a complete fabrication,then it would merit a correction,not outrage that "Islamophobia" is being promoted.Does Electronic Intifada have any idea how many Muslims believe in the blood libel against the Jews?Is Electronic Intifada as incensed over that?If this were a hoax its target would be SUICIDE BOMBERS and the "injustice" would be accusing them of having consensual sex with other consenting adults.It is as if a German claimed that it was a slander on the german people to suggest that the Nazis practiced homosexuality.

Footnotes:


Oh,and yes I do oppose child marriages in the west,and yes I know of the ”Delaware rationalization”,& Medieval child marriages,and that the age of consent was twelve in the Victorian era,& of the pedophile brothels of Japan blah blah blah.Two wrongs equal two wrongs,evil in one hemisphere cannot justify evil in another hemisphere.Sorry about that pedophiles,you see I know that child molesters promote that garbage e.g."why in Japan there were four year olds in brothels”....”age of consent is a western construct”....”age is just a number”...,& had their hearts set on molesting children & breaking down our ”repressed” culture.
And our ”cultural norms”.
I guess I'm just a ”cultural imperialist”.

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GTH G.H.W.Bush/George H.W. Bush: 'Who the hell is Grover Norquist anyway?' The Hill's

George H.W. Bush: 'Who the hell is Grover Norquist anyway?' - The Hill's On The Money

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/domestic-taxes/237771-george-hw-bush-qwho-the-hell-is-grover-norquist-anywayq

RRD:The man who betrayed Reagan's legacy,supported gun control,broke innumerable promises,gave us Souter,demanded that Israel not respond to SCUD missile attacks so as to appease anti-semitic savages,betrayed Israel at Madrid,crawled into bed with the Saudis,dismissed the Fatwa against Rushdie as something Rushdie was milking as a publicity stunt
,spat in the face of the Ukranians with his ”Chicken Kiev” speech,called Saddam Hussein "worse than Hitler",& then called for the Iraqis to rise up, and then gave permission to the man he called "worse than Hitler" to exterminate them,this wretch has now urged the GOP to do Obama's bidding & raise taxes.Let me explain this to this disgrace of a man:Obama's goal is to raise spending and then declare it is "irresponsible" not to raise taxes,spending will then be raised again with more "responsible" tax increases to follow,and on and on until everyone in this country is beggared while Obama's successors live like the feudal royalty whom they secretly long to become.(Why do you think Democrats are so enamored with the idea of ”Camelot”).Norquist is buddy-buddy with Islamists and deserves to be damned for that ,but on this he is correct.

If the GOP wants to commit suicide then it should raise taxes,if it wishes to go the way of the Whigs(which it replaced) it should remain tied to the Bush royal family,if it wishes to survive it needs to embrace the Teaparty and what it stands for(at its best ,not its worst):That is, Limited Government and spending restraint.

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Chinese telecom firm ZTE probed for alleged sale of U.S. surveillance equipment to Iran - The Washington Post #humanrights #iranelections

Justice probe nets Iran nuclear procurement ring - The Washington Post #irannuclear #jcot #freeiran

Justice probe nets Iran nuclear procurement ring - The Washington Post


http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-probe-nets-iran-nuclear-procurement-ring/2012/07/13/gJQAybiniW_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines

.....”While U.S. officials have prosecuted similar cases in recent years, the new indictment is considered unusual because the suspects’ shopping list involved so many highly specialized metals and parts known to be sought by Iran for its nuclear program. Among them was maraging steel, a type of high -strength metal used to make advanced gas centrifuges for uranium enrichment.

“This case confirms Iran’s persistence in seeking high -tech goods for its centrifuge program in Europe and the United States,” said David Albright, a former U.N. nuclear inspector who has studied Iran’s nuclear procurement efforts for more than a decade. “Iran remains dependent on foreign supply for many vital goods for its centrifuge program.”

The indictment, returned on Thursday by a grand jury in Washington, names as co -conspirators Paviz Khaki, an Iranian citizen, and Zhongcheng Yi, a Chinese man described as a director of a Chinese company that allegedly facilitated clandestine efforts by Iran to acquire technology and parts. Khaki was arrested in May by authorities in the Philippines following a joint investigation, and Yi is still being sought, court documents said. Two other alleged participants in the scheme were indicted but not named .”....

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Thursday, July 12, 2012

HRW seeks halt to #Iranexecution orders - UPI.com #iranelections #freeiran

Sheik anything is permissible if it advances the jihad #no2sharia #gwot

Sodomy "For the Sake of Islam" :: Raymond Ibrahim

http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11985/sodomy-for-the-sake-of-islam


”However, jihad comes first, for it is the pinnacle of Islam, and if the pinnacle of Islam can only be achieved through sodomy, then there is no wrong in it. For the overarching rule of [Islamic] jurisprudence asserts that 'necessity makes permissible the prohibited.' And if obligatory matters can only be achieved by performing the prohibited, then it becomes obligatory to perform the prohibited, and there is no greater duty than jihad. After he sodomize s you, you must ask Allah for forgiveness and praise him all the more. And know that Allah will reward the jihadis on the Day of Resurrection, according to their intentions—and your intention, Allah willing, is for the victory of Islam, and we ask that Allah accept it of you.”...

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40,000 Iran agents in Western Hemisphere Reza Kahlili #iranelections #freeiran #jcot

Iran is Arming Washington Free Beacon #irannuclear

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Pastor Nadarkhani may face new charges in September #humanrights #iranelections

The One's track record of prophecies is very poor,so was George Wallace's #teaparty #tcot

Obama: Health law ‘here to stay’ - The Hill's Video

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/236305-obama-healthcare-law-is-here-to-
stay

RRD:So were prohibition & slavery & segregation,until they weren't.


”Robert are you comparing....

Yes in that they are both depraved(depravity:that without any redeeming characteristic whatsoever).

I will do whatever is necessary to wipe this obscenity out of existence along with this creatures political career,the Democratic party & (in all likelihood if it continues on its course) the GOP.You have politically raped the wrong people,thug.

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Another #RINO #Obamacare apologist comes out of the woodwork @Amspec #tcot #tlot #teaparty

RRD:And yes they run articles against it.

Repealing Healthcare Is a Losing Hand William Tucker


http://m.spectator.org/169477/show/1e515d9d20c8651538b1cee9abf5cbb5/?

..."But now that Obama has won, people are saying, "Wow, he gotten done this thing that Presidents since Truman have been trying to do. He must be pretty competent. And it sounds like I might be getting something out of it as well."....

RRD:Why are these lies being published in the American Spectator?Don't they have the Washington Post for this garbage?
Actually no,William the media have been shilling for Obama since BEFORE OBAMACARE WAS PASSED.And no,(as you know William),”people” aren't saying that Obama has got something done,liberals are saying that,Independents oppose this.

As to the argument that the "undecided" voters,(some of whom never decide even at the ballot box),who have allegedly decided to support Obamacare
will decide this election,if Romney believes this,let him say so.After all the base will support him whether he repeals it or not.So he can reach out to these voters Tucker invented & let them go door to door for him.


....”So the attitude, to paraphrase Nancy Pelosi, will be, "Let's not repeal this thing before we find out what's in it. Let's wait and see what happens”....


RRD:Actually no again,though perhaps Tucker thinks that if he can
BS us enough we'll forget that.


....”It is all those people who had never heard of the Tea Party who are going to decide the election.”...

RRD:People have not heard of the Teaparty?Then why do media outlets conduct polls to see what people think of the Teaparty?This is absurd.

.... ”whether it is putting a 25-year-old child on the parents' health insurance or expanding Medicaid up into the middle class or whatever -- people are not going to vote for a candidate who is promising to take it away.”.....


RRD:And yet they are.


”That's why Mitt Romney's initial response -- "I will repeal Obamacare" -- is a loser, pure and simple.”


RRD:Actually abandoning his pledge would destroy his candidacy,& possibly destroy the GOP along with him,& lead to the creation of a third party.


”It won't be long before CNN and USA Today are running articles asking, "What is Obamacare going to do for YOU?" ”


RRD:In keeping with his theme of evading reality in the hope that we will forget it exists,we are supposed to pretend that the media has not been doing this since BEFORE OBAMACARE WAS PASSED to no avail.

...”Republicans can win this election by talking about how Obama has ruined the economy and vowing to put the nation back to work. They won't be able to win by promising to repeal Obamacare.”....


RRD:Ah yes,the Obamacare apologists' false alternative.
Either the GOP runs on the economy or on repealing Obamacare.
It must run on both or die politically.

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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription #tcot #tlot #teaparty

NARA | The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription


http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/print_friendly.html?page=declaration_transcript_content.html&title=NARA%20%7C%20The%20Declaration%20of%20Independence%3A%20A%20Transcription

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self -evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative pow ers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

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I'm off to spend time with my loved ones before Ob

I'm off to spend time with my loved ones before Obama/Roberts (and quite possibly the GOP )finishes them off.Have a happy independence day.May it not be our last.Back on the seventh.

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Does the #GOP suffer from Freud's Death Drive? "Roberts right not the court's role...

Unbelievable! NRCC Fundraises Off of Decision, Agrees It Wasn't the Court's Role to Defend the US Constitution - The Rush Limbaugh Show

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/06/29/unbelievable_nrcc_fundraises_off_of_decision_agrees_it_wasn_t_the_court_s_role_to_defend_the_us_constitution


http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/06/29/unbelievable_nrcc_fundraises_off_of_decision_agrees_it_wasn_t_the_court_s_role_to_defend_the_us_constitution

"Now, if in predicting what the court was going to do, we could have been permitted or allowed to conjure up any possibility like the law doesn't matter? Well, maybe somebody would have predicted this. So I've got this fundraising letter here from the NRCC (the National Republican Congressional Committee): "Friend, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote yesterday, 'It's not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.' He's right. You may disagree with his decision to uphold Obamacare, but his point still stands. It's up to us to get rid of Obamacare by defeating Obama and the House Democrats. So what are you going to do?"

And they ask for three bucks."

RRD:It would be unwise for the RNC to send someone to my home with this sneering message:"Now you've no choice to vote for Romney".


You see it tends to fuel these conspiracy theories that the GOP made a deal with Roberts to herd us like lemmings after Romney.That and the silly notion that the GOP is playing us for suckers.

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Does the #GOP suffer from Freud's Death Drive? "Roberts right not the court's role”...

Unbelievable! NRCC Fundraises Off of Decision, Agrees It Wasn't the Court's Role to Defend the US Constitution - The Rush Limbaugh Show

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/06/29/unbelievable_nrcc_fundraises_off_of_decision_agrees_it_wasn_t_the_court_s_role_to_defend_the_us_constitution


http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/06/29/unbelievable_nrcc_fundraises_off_of_decision_agrees_it_wasn_t_the_court_s_role_to_defend_the_us_constitution

"Now, if in predicting what the court was going to do, we could have been permitted or allowed to conjure up any possibility like the law doesn't matter? Well, maybe somebody would have predicted this. So I've got this fundraising letter here from the NRCC (the National Republican Congressional Committee): "Friend, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote yesterday, 'It's not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.' He's right. You may disagree with his decision to uphold Obamacare, but his point still stands. It's up to us to get rid of Obamacare by defeating Obama and the House Democrats. So what are you going to do?"

And they ask for three bucks."

RRD:No,quite believable.

It would be unwise for the RNC to send someone to my home with this sneering message:"Now you've no choice to vote for Romney".

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Mcbride Independence Day #fourthofjuly

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Birthday vigil held to remember shooting victim Ultimate Memorial #iranelections #freeiran

INTL Campaign for #HumanRights in #Iran Father of Facebook Page Contributor Arrested, Threatened to Execution #iranelections

Roberts had a soul? Or the Rule of Law vs the dictatorship of whims #obamacare #tcot #tlot #teaparty

Chief Justice Roberts Sold Out the Constitution for Less Than Wales | Cato @ Liberty


http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/chief-justice-roberts-sold-out-the-constitution-for-less-than-wales/

..."That’s why it’s so important that courts be independent and free from political pressure. Particularly with regard to major controversies that polarize the nation, courts — and especially the Supreme Court — need their reputation for dispassionate and independent legal reasoning so that their often unpopular opinions are followed and respected, rather than fomenting resistance and revolution."...


RRD:Shapiro makes a very good point lost on (or more likely evaded by) by legal "realists"(or more accurately Legal Fantasists).


If the court does not stand for the law,then it stands for nothing,it is nothing,has no role,and we need no more follow its rulings than the whims of the crips or the bloods.


Why?

Because those rulings are illegal.


This point was also made some time ago by Robert Tracinski,ironically enough during Roberts' confirmation hearings.

If the law is wrong it may be changed.


If it unclear reasonable people may disagree on its meaning.

But if the law is to be replaced by feelings(as that alleged law professor Obama wants it to be) then law is replaced by dictatorial whims.


But we must obey the law for fear of statutory punishment?


Must we?

It is a mistake to believe that people comply with laws for fear of punishment alone.

Any police officer can tell you that.

There are people who are of spotless character,who have the utmost respect for the law and for the police,who will lie their heads off,brillantly,flawlessly,without batting a eye to protect someone they love (like a child).

Do you actually believe that if a mother lies to protect her son, that she would not do so,if only you increased the penalty for lying?

Now if a mother would not care about being imprisoned,so long as she protected her child,why then do you expect people who regard a law as evil, to comply with it,if they believe that the case was not even decided based on law,but on the whim of a Judge?


One can respect the principle of the rule of law,but who feels the need to respect the rule of whims?

Have you heard of prohibition?


Have you heard of the Fugitive slave act?


Obamacare falls in between the two.

"But the court must not be concerned with what people think it,must be concerned with the law."


Exactly.

But then Roberts(alleged) rationale goes up in smoke.

If you believe that Obamacare is constitutional uphold it.

If it is unconstitutional strike it down.

But non-legal arguments have no place at a small claims court, much less the Supreme Court.

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#Obamacare shill Andy Griffith dead at 86 #tcot #tlot #teaparty

Actor Andy Griffith dead at 86

http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/03/showbiz/andy-griffith-dead/index.html


Andy Griffith Stars in Obamacare Propaganda Video | The Weekly Standard


http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/andy-griffith-stars-obamacare-propaganda-video

Compassion — Ayn Rand Lexicon

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/compassion.html


I regard compassion as proper only toward those who are innocent victims, but not toward those who are morally guilty. If one feels compassion for the victims of a concentration camp, one cannot feel it for the torturers. If one does feel compassion for the torturers, it is an act of moral treason toward the victims.

Playboy Interview: Ayn Rand Playboy , March, 1964

Moral Judgment — Ayn Rand Lexicon

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/moral_judgment.html


The precept: “Judge not, that ye be not judged” . . . is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange for a moral blank check one expects for oneself.

There is no escape from the fact that men have to make choices; so long as men have to make choices, there is no escape from moral values; so long as moral values are at stake, no moral neutrality is possible. To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.

The moral principle to adopt in this issue, is: “Judge, and be prepared to be judged.”

The opposite of moral neutrality is not a blind, arbitrary, self -righteous condemnation of any idea, action or person that does not fit one’s mood, one’s memorized slogans or one’s snap judgment of the moment. Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion. To declare that “everybody is white” or “everybody is black” or “everybody is neither white nor black, but gray,” is not a moral judgment, but an escape from the responsibility of moral judgment.

To judge means: to evaluate a given concrete by reference to an abstract principle or standard. It is not an easy task; it is not a task that can be performed automatically by one’s feelings, “instincts” or hunches. It is a task that requires the most precise, the most exacting, the most ruthlessly objective and rational process of thought. It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly when it involves the moral character of another person. When one pronounces moral judgment, whether in praise or in blame, one must be prepared to answer “Why ?” and to prove one’s case—to oneself and to any rational inquirer.

“How Does One Lead a Rational Life in an Irrational Society,” The Virtue of Selfishness, 72


Moral Judgment — Ayn Rand Lexicon

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/moral_judgment.html


Morality is the province of philosophical judgment, not of psychological diagnosis. Moral judgment must be objective, i.e., based on perceivable, demonstrable facts. A man’s moral character must be judged on the basis of his actions, his statements and his conscious convictions—not on the basis of inferences (usually, spurious) about his subconscious.

A man is not to be condemned or excused on the grounds of the state of his subconscious. His psychological problems are his private concern which is not to be paraded in public and not to be made a burden on innocent victims or a hunting ground for poaching psychologizers. Morality demands that one treat and judge men as responsible adults.

This means that one grants a man the respect of assuming that he is conscious of what he says and does, and one judges his statements and actions philosophically, i.e., as what they are—not psychologically, i.e., as leads or clues to some secret, hidden, unconscious meaning. One neither speaks nor listens to people in code.

“The Psychology of ‘Psychologizing’,” The Objectivist , March 1971, 5

Appeasement — Ayn Rand Lexicon

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/appeasement.html


Do not confuse appeasement with tactfulness or generosity. Appeasement is not consideration for the feelings of others, it is consideration for and compliance with the unjust, irrational and evil feelings of others. It is a policy of exempting the emotions of others from moral judgment, and of willingness to sacrifice innocent, virtuous victims to the evil malice of such emotions.

“The Age of Envy,” Return of the Primitive: The Anti -Industrial Revolution, 136

Pity — Ayn Rand Lexicon

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/pity.html


Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

“Bootleg Romanticism,” The Romantic Manifesto , 131

Justice — Ayn Rand Lexicon


http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/justice.html

Since men are born tabula rasa , both cognitively and morally, a rational man regards strangers as innocent until proved guilty, and grants them that initial good will in the name of their human potential. After that, he judges them according to the moral character they have actualized. If he finds them guilty of major evils, his good will is replaced by contempt and moral condemnation. (If one human life, one cannot value its destroyers.) If he finds them to be virtuous, he grants them personal, individual value and appreciation, in proportion to their virtues.

“The Ethics of Emergencies,”

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