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		<title>McGovern&#8217;s Legacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 04:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/arnold-ahlert/mcgoverns-legacy/mcgovern11/" rel="attachment wp-att-159964"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-159964" title="mcgovern11" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/mcgovern11.gif" alt="" width="315" height="238" /></a>On Sunday, Democratic icon George McGovern, who served the state of South Dakota for more than twenty years in the House and Senate, passed away at the age of 90. Despite an accomplished <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/21/us/george-mcgovern-dead/index.html">record of service</a> during WWll that included 35 combat missions as a B-24 bomber pilot in Europe earning him the Distinguished Flying Cross, McGovern was best known for his anti-war stance with regard to Vietnam, and his overwhelming defeat in the 1972 presidential election. Since his passing, McGovern has been rightly eulogized for his personal affability and agreeableness, but what must not be airbrushed over is the true nature of his influence on the political landscape. As unfortunate as it is, McGovern helped lead the transformation of the Democratic Party into a coalition of leftists distinct from the previous generation of liberals in the Kennedy mold. As a result, the country has never been the same.</p>
<p>It was McGovern himself who <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/22/us/politics/george-mcgovern-a-democratic-presidential-nominee-and-liberal-stalwart-dies-at-90.html?pagewanted=all">planted the seeds</a> of that divisiveness. As the <em>New York Times</em> notes in its obituary, McGovern &#8220;became the chairman of a Democratic Party commission on delegate selection, created after the fractious 1968 national convention to give the rank and file more say in picking a presidential nominee.&#8221; As a result, the McGovern-Fraser Commission &#8220;rewrote party rules to ensure that more women, young people and members of minorities were included in delegations. The influence of party leaders was curtailed. More states began choosing delegates on the basis of primary elections. And the party’s center of gravity shifted decidedly leftward.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Leftward&#8221; is somewhat inaccurate. Democrats established a de facto quota system informed by identity politics, where people were encouraged to first think of themselves as members of sub-groups identified by race, class, ethnicity and sexual orientation. Nothing has changed to this day, as California&#8217;s 2012 <a href="http://www.cadem.org/admin/miscdocs/files/Final-2012-Delegate-Selection-Plan-11.3.11.pdf">Delegate Selection Plan</a>, for example, reveals. Goals for representation at the Charlotte convention included dividing Californians into six subgroups with the &#8220;proper&#8221; percentages relative to the general population&#8211;as in 16 percent African-American, 29 percent Latino, 1 percent Native American, 10 percent Asian/Pacific Islanders, 12 percent LGBT, 10 percent Disabled Persons, and 18 percent Youth-Under 30.</p>
<p>In 1972, the Democrat convention in Miami turned into a circus. When party activists <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/daniel-flynn/how-mcgovern%E2%80%99s-radical-party-polarized-america/2/">offered</a> up selections such as migrant-worker organizer Cesar Chavez, Yippee Jerry Rubin, anti-corporate crusader Ralph Nader, Communist dictator Mao Zedong, and sitcom character Archie Bunker for Vice President, all the shenanigans did was push McGovern&#8217;s acceptance speech well into the next morning. Furthermore, the party platform with which Democrats emerged was anathema to middle America. Aside from the staunch anti-war position, they advocated amnesty for war resisters, the abolition of the draft, deep cuts to the military, a $1,000 grant to every American, a guaranteed family income well above the poverty line, prisoners’ rights, federal funding for local food cooperatives, the adoption of an Ethnic Studies curriculum bill, and a host of other leftist initiatives.</p>
<p>Yet it was McGovern&#8217;s opposition to Vietnam that <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/21/us/george-mcgovern-dead/index.html">resonated</a> the most with his supporters. &#8220;Let us resolve that never again will we send the precious young blood of this country to die trying to prop up a corrupt military dictatorship abroad,&#8221; he said at the convention.</p>
<p>The convention turned out to be the high point of McGovern&#8217;s campaign. Soon after, it was revealed that McGovern&#8217;s running mate, Senator Thomas F. Eagleton (D-MO), had been hospitalized for nervous exhaustion and undergone electroshock therapy. Despite McGovern&#8217;s promise to back Eagleton &#8220;1000 percent,&#8221; he was replaced by Kennedy in-law R. Sargent Shriver. The election was a rout. McGovern carried Massachusetts and the District of Columbia, earning 17 electoral votes, while Nixon carried 49 states and won 520 electoral votes.</p>
<p>McGovern reflected on that defeat as recently as a month before he died in a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-mcgovern-on-his-1972-presidential-defeat/2012/09/28/dded48fc-f78c-11e1-8398-0327ab83ab91_story.html">piece</a> for the <em>Washington Post.</em> &#8220;The loss is there, an old wound never fully healed,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;My disappointment was certainly personal, made deeper by the awareness that many thousands of young Americans, and far more Vietnamese and other Asian citizens, were going to and did lose their lives with the Nixon administration’s continuation of the war.&#8221;</p>
<p>For McGovern, like so many liberals, the war in Vietnam remains a one-sided telling of history to this day. It was another liberal icon, JFK, who <a href="http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/kennedy_vietnam.htm">escalated</a> America&#8217;s presence in Vietnam, because he believed in the Domino Theory: if Vietnam fell to Communism, the entire Southeast Asian Peninsula would follow. In fact, that&#8217;s exactly what happened, and 2-3 million Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotians were slaughtered in the ensuing bloodbath. It was a bloodbath caused not only by our troop withdrawal, but the <a href="http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/vietnamwar/a/VietnamEnd.htm">passage</a> of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1974 by a Democratically controlled Congress, cutting off all aid to Saigon. One year later, Communists gained control of the entire country. That leftists calculatingly omit these details when trumpeting the success of the anti-war movement is nothing short of appalling.</p>
<p>That 1974 vote arguably marked the point where the New Left effectively took control of the Democrat Party. The classical centrist Democrat liberals who had vigorously opposed Communist totalitarianism would thereafter become rarer and rarer within the party. Add the emergence of identity politics to the mix, and the resultant party was no longer &#8220;liberal,&#8221; but leftist.</p>
<p>It is a leftism that has polarized America. That polarization is best explained by the <em>Wall Street Journal&#8217;s</em> James Taranto. While conceding the prevailing meme promoted by leftist obituaries that McGovern was above all else a &#8220;decent man,&#8221; he challenges New Republic writer Rick Perlstein, who <a href="http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/108938/george-mcgovern-decent-and-doomed-liberal-icon">laments</a> that McGovern&#8217;s death reminds us of  &#8220;this space between the longing for unapologetic good-government liberalism and its decimation in a fallen political world&#8211;in which the decent and honorable simply get crushed.&#8221; Taranto contends that leftists labor under the delusion &#8220;that left-wing politics and decency are one and the same thing.&#8221; &#8220;This moral vanity leads the left to excuse, or even not to notice, indecent behavior on the part of their own. It is the reason Obama&#8217;s re-election campaign has been less McGovernite than McCarthyite (and we don&#8217;t mean Gene),&#8221; Taranto concludes.</p>
<p>That vanity also explains the evolution of Democrats since 1972, and why that evolution is so detrimental to bipartisanship: there is a great deal of difference between challenging conservative ideology on the basis of political or intellectual differences, and completely dismissing it as fundamentally indecent&#8211;as well as unworthy of serious rebuttal. It is telling that a substantial portion of leftist rebuttal can be reduced to single words like &#8220;racist,&#8221; &#8220;misogynistic,&#8221; &#8220;nativist,&#8221; and &#8220;homophobic&#8221; or simple catch-alls, such as &#8220;cruel&#8221; and &#8220;uncaring.&#8221;</p>
<p>All of this plays into president Obama&#8217;s current campaign, where the focus has been far more on demonizing his opponent than laying out a vision for America. Yet even when Obama lays out a vision, it is marinated in a stew of &#8220;us against them&#8221; grievances that can be traced back to the radicalism that has been mainstreamed into the Democratic Party of today.</p>
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		<title>Olympic Committee On Munich Moment of Silence Refusal: &#8216;Muslims Tied Our Hands&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 04:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Dunetz]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;"><strong><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Picture-3.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-137741" title="Picture-3" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Picture-3.gif" alt="" width="375" height="265" /></a>Originally published at <a href="http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2012/07/olympic-comittee-on-moment-of-silence.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=83a7c15c8b-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN">YidWithLid</a>.</strong></p>
<p>Ankie Spitzer whose husband was murdered by Palestinian terrorists during the 1972 Munich Olympics has been fighting to have a minute of silence at the London Games to remember the eleven murdered victims.</p>
<p>Her efforts have been supported by the governments of much of the western world, but they <a href="http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2012/07/40-years-after-munich-massacrethe-ioc.html">have been rejected by the International Olympic Committee.</a></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.ejpress.org/article/60269">The organisation </a>and its president Jacques Rogge have been subject to intense criticism from across the international community for its continued refusal to honour the 11 Israel Olympians murdered at the 1972 Munich Games with a minute’s silence to mark the 40th anniversary of the killings, in what has been presented as a “humanitarian” gesture.</p>
<p>Munich widow Ankie Spitzer spearheaded the campaign by launching an online protest, which has since garnered support from across political spectrums in several countries including Israel, Canada, the UK, Australia, the US, Belgium and Germany.</p>
<p>In the latest development, some 140 Italian parliamentarians signed a letter to Rogge this week, calling for minute’s silence to be instituted.</p></blockquote>
<p>Ankie wrote a letter to Olympic officials requesting and an official silence to mark the 40th anniversary of the Munich Massacres, which said in part:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Silence is a fitting tribute for athletes who lost their lives on the Olympic stage. Silence contains no statements, assumptions or beliefs and requires no understanding of language to interpret.”</p>
<p>Rogge’s succinct response declared that &#8220;within the Olympic family, the memory of the victims of the terrible massacre in Munich in 1972 will never fade away.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>According to Spitzer, earlier this year when the two met in person <strong>Rogge protested his inability to act saying his hands were tied by admission of 46 Arab and Muslim members to the IOC. “No,” Spitzer she responded, “my husband’s hands were tied, not yours.” </strong></p>
<p>In 1972 when the massacre took place, the IOC refused to delay or cancel the games to recognize the murder of the eleven Israeli athletes. Forty years later,  the International Olympic Committee has reconfirmed its message to the world. <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18640141">Jewish blood doesn&#8217;t matter </a>&#8211;we will not do what&#8217;s right because we are afraid of upsetting anti-Semites in the Muslim world.</p>
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		<title>No Moment of Silence for Slain Israeli Olympians</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 04:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Giulio Meotti]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forty years later, the Olympic games will again be stained with disgrace. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/1972MunichOlympicMassacre.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-137244" title="1972MunichOlympicMassacre" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/1972MunichOlympicMassacre.gif" alt="" width="375" height="233" /></a>The International Olympic Committee will not hold an official minute of silence at the London Games for the 11 Israeli athletes butchered by the Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics.</p>
<p>It was the worst terrorist attack in sports history, but the Olympic cupola capitulated to the Arabs&#8217; terroristic ransom and has forsaken Israel, again.</p>
<p>The brave widows of two of the Israeli victims have campaigned to hold a commemoration, either through a moment of silence or a short mention in the Committee president’s opening remarks. Along with 89,000 other people, I signed their petition, but it was ineffective.</p>
<p>The widows and the people of Israel deserved a minute of silence, if only to ease the emotional pain. But the Committee choose infamy, disgrace and capitulation to jihadism.</p>
<p>“We want the Olympic Committee, with all 10,000 young athletes in front of them, to say, ‘Let us not forget what happened in Munich’”, said Ankie Spitzer, whose husband, Andre, was one of the Israeli athletes who had come in peace, to participate in the 20th Olympiad, not just to any country, but to Munich, the city that spawned Adolf Hitler, a mere 20 miles south of Dachau. When they left Germany, 11 were dead, 17 remained out of 28 &#8211; just about the same 40 percent.</p>
<p>There’s nothing like the Olympic Games to bring out collective feelings of peace and fair competition, and the memory of the Israelis had a chance of becoming a reality in London.</p>
<p>The massacre of the Israeli team is not just a tragedy for the Jewish State or even for the Olympics, but for the entire world. The building that housed the Israeli athletes was located less than 10 miles from the Dachau concentration camp. They were the first Jews killed in Germany for being Jewish since 1945. The Games lost their meaning that day, and by refusing to hold a memorial for the Israelis, the committee killed the games (and the memory of the eleven Israelis) for the second time. Since then, their murders have vanished from international memory.</p>
<p>If one is to identify a beginning of the slaughtering of Israeli civilians, one must return to 31 Connollystrasse in the Olympic Village of Munich. The apartment building today bears little resemblance to a place forever linked with the darkest hours in European post-Holocaust history.</p>
<p>The political objectives of the Games of 1972 were to bury the memory of the infamous 1936 Nazi Olympics, and to celebrate “the new Germany” as a member of the family of nations. The objective was evident in the color of the Games. Red and black, the colors of  Communist and Nazi totalitarianism, were nowhere to be seen at Munich. In their place, the colors used were of “a may morning in Bavaria.” Friendly colors: grass green, sky blue, cloudlike silver and touches of &#8220;flowery orange.”</p>
<p>&#8220;Harbiya! Terroristen! Haverim, lehu maher!&#8221; The cry rang out in Hebrew at 4:30 a.m., Sept. 5, 1972, as Yossef Gutfreund, the Israeli wrestling coach, slammed against the door of Apartment 1, 31 Connollystrasse. &#8216;&#8221;Arabs! Terrorists! Comrades, get out fast!&#8221; For twenty seconds Gutfreund struggled, trying to buy time, one man against eight Arabs. Later the police would find the hinges twisted on the door.</p>
<p>Some Israelis slipped through a back door, but nine were seized and tied to furniture. The terrorists demanded 200 Palestinians jailed in Israel be freed.</p>
<p>The response of the Olympic organizers to the sullying of their games with violence was a series of shameful capitulations to terrorism.</p>
<p>On the day of the attack, the games at first continued, despite the knowledge that two Israelis were dead and nine remained hostage.</p>
<p>When the full tragedy became known, the games were halted for only part of one day. The German government, together with the Committee, rallied under the slogan “the Games must go on.” The shameful decision not to bring everything to a halt was morally bankrupt, and gave a green light for future massacres of innocent Jews.</p>
<p>What could have been more repugnant than the massacre of innocent athletes carried out at the Olympic Games? But the attack became a great media event that stressed the “occupation” of Palestine, and not a terrorist attack against the Jewish people on German soil after the Holocaust. The cowboy hats and the kefiyyehs of the Arab kidnappers, along with their long hair similar to libertarian university students, diverted attention from a simple reality: a band of Islamic terrorists slaughtered, one by one, eleven Jews.</p>
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