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		<title>The VA Hospital Scandal and Double Standards &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2014 04:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Obama's outrage ignites -- and when it doesn't.]]></description>
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<p>The Gang gathered to discuss<em> &#8220;<em>The VA Hospital Scandal, Illegals and Double Standards,</em>&#8221; </em>analyzing when Obama&#8217;s outrage ignites &#8212; and when it doesn&#8217;t. <strong> (starting at 11:45 minute mark)<em>.<br />
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		<title>UK Sandwich Shop Owner Arrested for Mandela Joke</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2013 15:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 'My PC takes so long to shut down I’ve decided to call it Nelson Mandela.']]></description>
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<p><a href="http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2013/12/uk-shopkeeper-arrested-for-making-jokes.html">Who says there are no</a> more blasphemy laws anymore? Make a joke about a secular saint and you&#8217;ll be getting DNA samples taken faster than you can say &#8220;<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2520662/Neil-Phillips-quizzed-8-HOURS-police-Nelson-Mandela-Twitter-jokes.html">Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela</a>&#8220;.</p>
<blockquote><p>A sandwich shop owner endured eight hours of questioning by police and had his computer seized for three weeks – after making tasteless Nelson Mandela jokes on the internet.</p>
<p>Neil Phillips, who runs Crumbs in Rugeley, Staffordshire, says he was also finger-printed and DNA-swabbed after officers received complaints about what he insists were harmless gags.</p>
<p>In one online post, the 44-year-old wrote: &#8216;My PC takes so long to shut down I’ve decided to call it Nelson Mandela.&#8217;</p>
<p>&#8216;When they took my computer, I thought, &#8220;what the hell are they looking for?&#8221; To be questioned would have been over the top, never mind arrested.&#8217;</p>
<p>You can question the taste, but they’re not hateful. I told the police they got plenty of &#8220;likes&#8221;. What happened to freedom of speech?</p></blockquote>
<p>What did happen to freedom of speech? The left happened to it. And it did to freedom of speech what it does to everything else.</p>
<blockquote><p>Liberal Democrat Councillor Tim Jones was so incensed by the one-liners, aired at a time when Mandela was critically ill, that he made an official complaint.</p>
<p>He commented under one tasteless joke: &#8216;Attacking a 94-year-old man who is probably dying. Does the far right have an ounce of human decency?&#8217;</p>
<p>He said: &#8216;They are vile and deeply offensive, anti-Muslim, anti-disabled.&#8217;</p>
<p>Staffordshire Police declined to go into detail about the nature of their interview with Mr Phillips. But a spokesman said: &#8216;We can confirm a man was arrested in Rugeley on September 10.</p>
<p>&#8216;He was bailed pending further enquiries.</p>
<p>&#8216;When he answered bail on September 30, he was informed that there would be no further action based on CPS decision of there being insufficient evidence to support a prosecution.&#8217;</p></blockquote>
<p>Freedom of speech 1. Lib dems 0.</p>
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		<title>The Dumb Police State</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 04:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A government that won't suspect anyone in particular makes everyone a suspect. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/security_thumb-300x255.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-192779" alt="security_thumb-300x255" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/security_thumb-300x255.jpg" width="300" height="255" /></a>Investigative work is built on selective mistrust. The difference between a state in which there are police and a police state is the scope of that mistrust. A state in which there are police will pursue criminals by using investigative techniques to profile suspects while a police state criminalizes everyone by treating the entire population of the country like suspects.</p>
<p>Some police states are smart, calculated power grabs. Others are dumb defaults.  A smart police state suspects everyone because it’s a tyranny. A dumb police state is run by people who can’t or won’t narrow down the suspect list so that they are forced to suspect everyone.</p>
<p>The United States has been on the road to becoming a dumb police state for a while now. It’s not dumb because its law enforcement officers and military commanders are stupid. They are actually some of the best in the world. It’s a dumb police state because fear of bigotry makes selective mistrust impossible.</p>
<p>The problem hit home for most people when the TSA began strip searching small children and amputees who were a long way from the typical profile of a Saudi male in his twenties or thirties likely to hijack a plane and fly it into a skyscraper.</p>
<p>This didn’t happen because the TSA was run by idiots. That might still be the case, but the TSA was only doing exactly what all American law enforcement had been doing ever since the seventies. It was choosing universal mistrust over selective mistrust. It suspected everyone to avoid singling anyone out. Unfortunately the entire job of airline security depends on intelligently singling out likely suspects, rather than randomly terrorizing passengers in the name of protecting them from terrorists.</p>
<p>Pandering to Islam is just the latest phase in the dumbing down of law enforcement that began when civil liberties activists made it nearly impossible for police to do their jobs. After decades of lawsuits and judicial activism, law enforcement and a new generation of urban mayors reclaimed troubled areas with ruthless policing that terrorized people across the board.</p>
<p>The tactics worked and liberals learned to love the police state because it kept them safe and because it did not discriminate. As long as anyone was liable to be randomly shot, without regard for their personal details, then the police state was fine with them. Once they had been mugged enough times, they realized that they didn’t oppose aggressive policing. What they opposed was selectively aggressive policing. Random terror against random terror was fine with them.</p>
<p>This strange compromise between liberals and law enforcement led to a perverse police state in which any form of discrimination based on likelihood of criminality was worse than the actual crime or than treating everyone like a criminal.</p>
<p>Terrorism upgraded these same tactics on a larger scale. The TSA gave the entire country a taste of the tactics that reclaimed inner cities. Behind the scenes, national versions of urban law enforcement tactics were being deployed. Meanwhile the real threat was getting a taste of traditional community policing with FBI agents and Federal prosecutors waiting in line at every mosque entrance to talk about how the government can help Muslims prevent terrorism by treating it like a social problem.</p>
<p>Terrorism investigations were not crippled by a unique set of protests, but by the same civil liberties tactics that hamstrung law enforcement back in the day. The only difference is that unlike fighting crime, there was hardly even a transition from a time when law enforcement had broad discretion for dealing with terrorists. The War on Terror was doomed to be a grimy combination of international peacekeeping and community policing in Benghazi and Kabul from the very beginning.</p>
<p>Whether it’s crime or terrorism, liberal politicians have learned that they can’t simply offer nothing. The Dukakis strategy no longer gets you elected. And so instead they offer tepid support for policies that spread the pain and deprive everyone of their civil rights as long as no one is singled out. Random stops and searches are legitimate, so long as they aren’t limited to certain dangerous neighborhoods. The phone calls of every American are fair game, but surveillance of mosques isn’t.</p>
<p>Police state tactics work in the same way that nuclear bombs work. Rather than taking aim at a target, they blow everyone away at the same time. That’s messy and dumb. Smart police states spread terror universally to terrorize their opposition. Dumb police states only go broad spectrum because they can’t or won’t target. Terrorizing everyone is all that they can do.</p>
<p>A dumb police state is occasionally effective, but it’s as much by random chance as anything else. Smash a sledgehammer around the room often enough and you may occasionally hit a fly. Round up all the suspects to the gruesome murder of Colonel Windham III in the drawing room of his mansion and gun them all down and you may end up taking down the killer too.</p>
<p>America and Europe are stuck with dumb police states in the War on Terror because anything else would undermine the illusion on which multiculturalism depends. It is why FBI training materials had to be purged of references to Islamic terrorism and why after the Woolwich attack, the London police prioritized arresting Brits who said offensive things on Twitter. Any idea that undermines multiculturalism is more dangerous than the actual terror that takes lives.</p>
<p>Bad policies require calculated ignorance. They require that governments and law enforcement deliberately not know certain dangerous things, like the profile of a likely terrorist. For decades, Americans have accepted that bargain, trading personal freedoms for collective security under a sensitive police state that might take away freedoms, but would never offend anyone.</p>
<p>The dumb police state can illogically mistrust everyone, but it can’t logically mistrust anyone, unless he’s a white male who is representative of the majority population. And so it’s stuck in a state of universal paranoia. It mistrusts everyone, rather than mistrust anyone. It randomly harasses people for no reason to avoid harassing those people who deserve it with good reason.</p>
<p>In the age of terror, the compromises of the dumb police state are wearing down everyone and endangering entire countries. And there are signs that people are preparing to opt out of the collective bargain that made the dumb police state possible.</p>
<p>Supporters of the dumb police state insist that there are only two choices; terror or the dumb police state. But there is a third choice. The third choice is the selective mistrust of likely terrorists, rather than the total mistrust of all Americans.</p>
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		<title>Why and How We Must Confront Michael Moore &#8211; by David Swindle</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just as the New Left was anti-anti-Communist, the Moore Left is anti-anti-Sharia.]]></description>
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<p>Does everyone remember what happened when we withdrew from Vietnam?</p>
<p>David Horowitz has <a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/horowitz100101.asp">a good summary</a> and notes that the surrender of South Vietnam to <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=115&amp;type=issue">communism</a>,</p>
<blockquote><p>… resulted in the imposition of a monstrous police state, the murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent South Vietnamese, the incarceration in reeducation camps of hundreds of thousands more and a quarter of a century of abject poverty imposed by crackpot Marxist economic plans, which continue to this day. This, too, is the responsibility of the so-called antiwar movement of the 1960s.</p></blockquote>
<p>But who’s going to expect the Left to properly understand history?</p>
<p>No, in <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=899">neo-communist filmmaker</a> <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=899">Michael Moore’s</a> new <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-moore/an-open-letter-to-preside_b_373457.html">open letter</a> to <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1511">President Barack Obama</a> (published at, where else, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7129">Huffington Post</a>) he urges a withdrawal of US troops in Afghanistan, completely blind to the consequences:</p>
<blockquote><p>Don’t be deceived into thinking that sending a few more troops into Afghanistan will make a difference, or earn you the respect of the haters. They will not stop until this country is torn asunder and every last dollar is extracted from the poor and soon-to-be poor. You could send a million troops over there and the crazy Right still wouldn’t be happy. You would still be the victim of their incessant venom on hate radio and television because no matter what you do, you can’t change the one thing about yourself that sends them over the edge.</p>
<p>The haters were not the ones who elected you, and they can’t be won over by abandoning the rest of us.</p>
<p>President Obama, it’s time to come home. Ask your neighbors in Chicago and the parents of the young men and women doing the fighting and dying if they want more billions and more troops sent to Afghanistan. Do you think they will say, “No, we don’t need health care, we don’t need jobs, we don’t need homes. You go on ahead, Mr. President, and send our wealth and our sons and daughters overseas, ’cause we don’t need them, either.”</p></blockquote>
<p>We can abandon Afghanistan and it can revert to being an <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catId=50&amp;type=ind">Islamist</a> police state run by the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/New%20Taliban%20Military%20Commander%20Mansour.html">Taliban</a>. It can return to being a safe haven for those who want to destroy America, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=145&amp;type=issue">exterminate the Jewish race</a>, and create a world in which <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=36336">marrying children</a> and <a href="../2009/11/25/a-survivor%E2%80%99s-battle-against-female-genital-mutilation-by-jamie-glazov/">mutilating women’s genitals</a> are the norm.</p>
<p>War is indeed hell — not that I’m in any way qualified to make that judgment. (<a href="http://newsrealblog.com/2009/12/01/open-letter-to-reporter/">Read Karen Northon to get a more informed view</a>. Patriotic heroes like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Hell-Journey-Leo-Thorsness/dp/159403236X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1259685124&amp;sr=8-1">Leo Thorsness </a>also have a thing or two to say on the matter.) But which is worse: war or a totalitarian police state? Which was worse in the ’60s and ’70s: the Vietnam war or the Communist police state which followed? Which is worse today: the Afghanistan War or an Islamist police state?</p>
<p>Here’s the confrontation that needs to be had. Moore and other so-called “progressives” consider conservatives to be “greedy.” The Left thinks we should withdraw our troops from Afghanistan and Iraq and then spend that money on <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=180&amp;type=issue">universal healthcare</a> and federal jobs programs. To do otherwise is to be “greedy.”</p>
<p>The practical result of this would be Islamists being empowered. More women would be shoved into forced marriages, <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2009/11/23/under-the-islamic-veil-faces-disfigured-by-acid/">their faces mutilated with acid</a>, and <a href="http://newsrealblog.com/2009/09/02/no-naomi-wolf-you-apologize/">their lives spent hidden in burqas</a>. <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=28325">More gays would be executed for being gay</a>. An ideology bent on world domination would be further empowered. And why would this happen? Because “progressives” want government to give them money and make their lives easier.</p>
<p>And conservatives are the “greedy” ones? How does that work?</p>
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<p>Because I’m an ex-leftist I know what some of the responses are going to be to the above argument. So let’s just preempt a few of them them right now:</p>
<p>1. The Marionette argument: “Dave, we can’t be Team America World Police. We can’t afford to send troops everywhere to stop every dictator.” Well duh. And no conservative is saying that we should. But we can recognize that the Islamist ideology is a threat that we cannot allow to grow stronger by retreating in Afghanistan. Are the US and Afghanistan better off with us continuing to fight? Or is it better for both countries that we surrender and head home so that ? There is an obvious answer here.</p>
<p>2. The Chickenhawk argument: “Oh yeah? You think we should fight in Afghanistan? Then you go over there and fight.” This is, of course, <a href="http://newsrealblog.com/2009/09/20/salon-screeches-intellectual-ad-hominems-in-smear-of-beck-horowitz-and-conservatism/">an ad hominem logical fallacy</a>, but as I’ve demonstrated before true believers of all ideologies fail to grasp the difference between this and legitimate intellectual discussion. Upon encountering the Chickenhawk argument you should immediately realize that you’re dealing with someone who is unable to think rationally.</p>
<p>3. The Oversimplification argument: “Come on Dave, you’re oversimplifying when you talk about the Left. It’s not one monolithic entity and not all progressives think one way.” This is correct, but beside the point. There are plenty of dissenting views on the Left. (See this <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/michaeltomasky/2009/nov/30/michael-moore-obama-afghanistan">Michael Tomasky piece</a> in which he goes after Moore for his open letter.)</p>
<p>And when I’m critiquing leftist activists and polemicists I’m not generally attacking citizens who merely identify with the Left, watch <a href="http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&amp;site=newsrealblog.wordpress.com&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.discoverthenetworks.org%2FindividualProfile.asp%3Findid%3D1690">Keith Olbermann</a>, and occasionally donate to <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6201">MoveOn.Org</a>. The <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catId=46&amp;type=ind">radical core</a> is significantly different than the by-and-large apolitical masses. This is a subject I hope to address at greater length at some point in the future.</p>
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