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		<title>The Cuban Archipelago</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reflection on the suffering of the Cuban people under a vicious communist tyranny.]]></description>
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<p><em>Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any enemy that falls in my hands! My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood. With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl.</em></p>
<p>—Che Guevara, <em>Motorcycle Diaries</em></p>
<p>President Obama’s <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/obamas-bailout-for-communist-dictators/" target="_blank">recent move</a> to cozy up to Communist Cuba is a crucially  important moment not just diplomatically, but as a moral one in regards to human rights, dignity and justice. As we witness a Radical-in-Chief throwing <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/obamas-bailout-for-communist-dictators/">an economic lifeline</a> to a barbaric tyranny, it is our duty and obligation to shine a light on the dark tragedy of the Cuban Gulag &#8212; and to reflect on the unspeakable suffering that Cubans have endured under Castro&#8217;s fascistic regime.</p>
<p>Until July 26, 2008, Fidel Castro had ruled Cuba with an iron grip for nearly five decades. On that July date in 2008, he stood to the side because of health problems and made his brother, Raul, de facto ruler. Raul officially replaced his brother as dictator on February 24, 2008; the regime has remained just as totalitarian as before and can, for obvious reasons, continue to be regarded and labelled as “Fidel Castro’s” regime.</p>
<p>Having seized power on January 1, 1959, Fidel Castro followed the tradition of Vladimir Lenin and immediately turned his country into a slave camp. Ever since, Cuba has distinguished itself as one of the most monstrous human-rights abusers in the world.</p>
<p>Half a million human beings have passed through Cuba’s Gulag. Since Cuba’s total population is only around eleven million, that gives Castro’s despotism the highest political incarceration rate per capita on earth. There have been more than fifteen thousand executions by firing squad. Torture has been institutionalized; myriad human-rights organizations have documented the regime’s use of electric shock, dark coffin-sized isolation cells, and beatings to punish “anti-socialist elements.” The Castro regime’s barbarity is best epitomized by the Camilo Cienfuegos plan, the program of horrors followed in the forced-labor camp on the Isle of Pines. Forced to work almost naked, prisoners were made to cut grass with their teeth and to sit in latrine trenches for long periods of time. Torture is routine.[i]</p>
<p>The horrifying experience of Armando Valladares, a Cuban poet who endured twenty-two years of torture and imprisonment for merely raising the issue of freedom, is a testament to the regime’s barbarity. Valladares’s memoir, <em>Against All Hope</em>, serves as Cuba’s version of Solzhenitsyn’s <em>Gulag Archipelago. </em>Valladares recounts how prisoners were beaten with bayonets, electric cables, and truncheons. He tells how he and other prisoners were forced to take “baths” in human feces and urine.[ii]</p>
<p>Typical of the horror in Castro’s Gulag was the experience of Roberto López Chávez, one of Valladares’s prison friends. When López went on a hunger strike to protest the abuses in the prison, the guards withheld water from him until he became delirious, twisting on the floor and begging for something to drink. The guards then urinated in his mouth. He died the next day.[iii]</p>
<p>Since Castro’s death cult, like other leftist ideologies, believes that human blood purifies the earth—and since manifestations of grief affirm the reality of <em>the individual</em>, and thus are anathema to the totality—mourning for the departed became taboo. Thus, just like Mao’s China and Pol Pot’s Cambodia,[iv] so too Castro’s Cuba warned family members of murdered dissidents not to cry at their funerals.[v]</p>
<p>The Castro regime also has a long, grotesque record of torturing and murdering Americans. During the Vietnam War, Castro sent some of his henchmen to run the “Cuban Program” at the Cu Loc POW camp in Hanoi, which became known as “the Zoo.” Its primary objective was to determine how much physical and psychological agony a human being could withstand. The Cubans selected American POWs as their guinea pigs. A Cuban nicknamed “Fidel,” the main torturer at the Zoo, initiated his own personal reign of terror.[vi]</p>
<p>The ordeal of Lt. Col. Earl Cobeil, an F-105 pilot, illustrates the Nazi-like nature of the experiment. Among Fidel’s torture techniques were beatings and whippings over every part of his victim’s body, without remission.[vii] Former POW John Hubbell describes the scene as Fidel forced Cobeil into the cell of fellow POW Col. Jack Bomar:</p>
<blockquote><p> The man [Cobeil] could barely walk; he shuffled slowly, painfully. His clothes were torn to shreds. He was bleeding everywhere, terribly swollen, and a dirty, yellowish black and purple from head to toe. The man’s head was down; he made no attempt to look at anyone. . . . He stood unmoving, his head down. Fidel smashed a fist into the man’s face, driving him against the wall. Then he was brought to the center of the room and made to get down onto his knees. Screaming in rage, Fidel took a length of black rubber hose from a guard and lashed it as hard as he could into the man’s face. The prisoner did not react; he did not cry out or even blink an eye. His failure to react seemed to fuel Fidel’s rage and again he whipped the rubber hose across the man’s face. . . . Again and again and again, a dozen times, Fidel smashed the man’s face with the hose. Not once did the fearsome abuse elicit the slightest response from the prisoner. . . . His body was ripped and torn everywhere; hell cuffs appeared almost to have severed the wrists, strap marks still wound around the arms all the way to the shoulders, slivers of bamboo were embedded in the bloodied shins and there were what appeared to be tread marks from the hose across the chest, back, and legs.[viii]</p></blockquote>
<p>Earl Cobeil died as a result of Fidel’s torture.</p>
<p>Maj. James Kasler was another of Fidel’s victims, although he survived the treatment:</p>
<blockquote><p> He [Fidel] deprived Kasler of water, wired his thumbs together, and flogged him until his “buttocks, lower back, and legs hung in shreds.” During one barbaric stretch he turned Cedric [another torturer] loose for three days with a rubber whip. . . . the PW [POW] was in a semi-coma and bleeding profusely with a ruptured eardrum, fractured rib, his face swollen and teeth broken so that he could not open his mouth, and his leg re-injured from attackers repeatedly kicking it.[ix]</p></blockquote>
<p>The reign of terror against American POWs in Vietnam was just a reflection of Castro’s treatment of his own people. In addition to physical hardships even for those who don’t wind up in prison or labor camp, Cuba&#8217;s police state has denied Cubans any freedom at all. Cubans do not have the right to travel out of their country. They do not have the right of free association or the right to form political parties, independent unions, or religious or cultural organizations. The regime has outlawed free expression; it has consistently censored publications, radio, television, and film. There is a Committee for the Defense of the Cuban Revolution (CDR) for every single city block and every agricultural production unit. The CDR’s purpose is to monitor the affairs of every family and to report anything suspicious. A Cuban’s entire life is spent under the surveillance of his CDR, which controls everything from his food rations to his employment to his use of free time. A vicious racism against blacks accompanies this repression. In pre-Castro Cuba, blacks enjoyed upward social mobility and served in many government positions. In Castro’s Cuba, the jail population is 80 percent black, while the government hierarchy is 100 percent white.[x]</p>
<p>Cuban Communism follows Lenin’s and Stalin’s idea of “equality,” wherein members of the <em>nomenklatura</em> live like millionaires while ordinary Cubans live in utter poverty. The shelves in the stores are empty, and food is tightly rationed for the average citizen. Teachers and doctors drive taxis or work as waiters to support their families. Under the system of tourist apartheid, ordinary Cubans are not allowed inside the hotels designated for tourists and party functionaries. There are, of course, police inside every such hotel to arrest any unauthorized Cuban citizen who dares to enter.</p>
<p>The $5-billion-a-year Soviet subsidy that just barely kept the Cuban economy afloat during the Cold War is long gone. And notwithstanding the $110 billion that the Soviets pumped in over the decades, Cuba has become one of the poorest nations in the world. Its sugar, tobacco, and cattle industries were all major sources of exports in the pre-Castro era. Castro destroyed them all.[xi] Because of his belief in “socialism or death,” Cuba is now a beggar nation. Even Haitian refugees avoid Cuba.</p>
<p>Denied the right to vote under Castro, Cubans have voted with their feet. Pre-Castro Cuba had the highest per-capita immigration rate in the Western hemisphere. Under Castro, approximately two million Cuban citizens (out of eleven million) have escaped their country. Many have done so by floating on rafts or inner tubes in shark-infested waters. An estimated fifty thousand to eighty-seven thousand have lost their lives.[xii]</p>
<p>Not content to trust the sharks, Castro has sent helicopters to drop sandbags onto the rafts of would-be escapees, or just to gun them all down. Epitomizing this barbarity was the Tugboat Massacre of July 13, 1994, in which Castro ordered Cuban patrol boats to kill forty-one unarmed Cuban civilians—ten of them children—who were using an old wooden tugboat in their attempt to flee Cuba.[xiii]</p>
<p>These are the heart-breaking stories, and only a few among many, of the Cuban people who have suffered excruciating pain and agony under an evil tyranny that now, as it stands on its last legs, is having <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/obamas-bailout-for-communist-dictators/">its life extended</a> by an American president.</p>
<p>It is food for thought.</p>
<p><strong>Notes:</strong></p>
<p>[i] For one of the best accounts of the brutality of the Castro regime, see Pascal Fontaine, “Cuba: Interminable Totalitarianism in the Tropics,” in Courtois et al., <em>The Black Book of Communism</em>, pp. 647–665.</p>
<p>[ii] Armando Valladares, <em>Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro’s Gulag</em>, trans. Andrew Hurley (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2001), p. 137.</p>
<p>[iii] Ibid., p. 379.</p>
<p>[iv] For China’s case, see chapter 7 of my book, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/United-Hate-Romance-Tyranny-Terror/dp/product-description/1935071602">United in Hate: The Left’s Romance With Tyranny and Terror</a></em>; for Cambodia’s, see John Perazzo, “Left-Wing Monster: Pol Pot,” <em>FrontPageMag.com</em>, August 8, 2005.</p>
<p>[v] Valladares, <em>Against All Hope</em>, p. 378.</p>
<p>[vi] Stuart I. Rochester and Frederick Kiley, chapter 19, “The Zoo, 1967–1969: The Cuban Program and Other Atrocities,” in <em>Honor Bound: American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia 1961–1973</em> (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1999).</p>
<p>[vii] Humberto Fontova, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fidel-Hollywoods-Favorite-Humberto-Fontova/dp/0895260433/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1419483023&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=humberto+fontova+fidel"><em>Fidel: Hollywood’s Favorite Tyrant</em></a>, (Regnery, 2005). pp. 141–142.</p>
<p>[viii] Rochester and Kiley, <em>Honor Bound</em>, p. 400.</p>
<p>[ix] Ibid., p. 404.</p>
<p>[x] Fontova, <em>Fidel</em>, p. 88.</p>
<p>[xi] Ibid., pp. 14–15 and 49.</p>
<p>[xii] Ibid., pp. 8 and 56–57.</p>
<p>[xiii] Ibid., pp. 157–163.</p>
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<p><strong>To get the whole story on why leftists venerate Castro&#8217;s tyranny, order Jamie Glazov&#8217;s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/United-Hate-Romance-Tyranny-Terror/dp/product-description/1935071602">United in Hate: The Left&#8217;s Romance With Tyranny and Terror</a>:</strong></p>
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		<title>Bill Whittle: Tie-Dyed Tyranny</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Back in the Bad Old Days, tyrants bent others to their will with machine guns and death camps. But what fig leaf can modern, touchy-feely, petty tyrants use to make sure other people remain &#8220;in compliance?&#8221; How about Saving the Planet?</strong></p>
<p><strong>In his latest FIREWALL, Bill Whittle examines the Tie-Dyed Tyranny that has taken root under the guise of environmentalism in Washington State. See the video and transcript below. </strong></p>
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<p style="color: #000000;">TIE-DYED TYRANNY</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Hi everybody. I’m Bill Whittle and this is the Firewall.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">The first half of the Twentieth Century was a time of truly unbelievable oppression and murder. In Germany and Russia, secret police forces such as the Gestapo or the NKVD used terror – murder and random arrests – to make millions obey the will of the handful of those pulling the levers of power.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Now of course, in the early Twenty-First Century, packing people into cattle cars or shooting them in the back of the head in the basement of the Lubyanka Building, is considered bad form. So how does one of those petty bourgeois tyrants – those genetic defectives who simply are not happy unless you bend a knee to their will – get their way in this touchy-feely, politically-correct era? What fig leaf is there for these naked power and money grabs, now that the Worker’s Paradise or the Aryan Superman shams have been exposed?</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Well, how about if we save the planet? You like the planet, don’t you? You don’t want your children frying to a crisp or drinking insecticide, do you? Of course not. Give us all your freedom. That’ll be $40,000.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">That may sound a little hyperbolic, but that’s what’s a happening – all across the country but especially in the Northwest.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">I was in Washington State recently on a speaking engagement, and on the two-hour drive from Seattle airport to Bellingham, Washington, I got a chance to hear tales of our new Tie-Dyed Tyranny, the Dictatorship of the D-Student, the Empire of the Eco-Weenies, as related to me by Glen Morgan, Property Rights Director of the Freedom Foundation.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">What kind of Patchouli-scented Police State is there in Washington, and coming for the rest of us? Well, this kind:</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Let’s say you and your children are hiking in beautiful Olympic National Park.  Oh, look! Moose antlers! If you or your child – who didn’t shoot the moose I hasten to add; you simply found the molted antlers lying on the trail – pick up the antlers – again, not leave the park with them but simply pick them up – well, that is a five thousand dollar fine and up to six months in jail, according to  Federal Law 36 CFR 2.1(a)(1)(i). That fine, of course, will go to the US Treasury to help pay for the billboards that we have posted in Mexico saying that deported illegals are welcome to come back to the United States. The main thing is to keep our priorities straight.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">After fifty years of trying to eradicate the incredibly destructive pocket gopher, a small but exploding population of these pests lives and breeds in the innumerable shell holes and ground fractures caused by the Ft. Lewis artillery range. A subset of these gophers &#8212; of which we have no shortage – have been given endangered species protection by the US Fish and Wildlife Agency. Why give endangered status to a species that is in fact so out of control that it can only be called a pest? Well, because the males in this small sub-population apparently have larger-than-average reproductive organs. That’s not proven, by the way – merely asserted – but it was enough for the anti-growth, anti-human eco-weenie zealots in Thurston County to put draconian restrictions on what people can do own their own property in the name of protecting these fragile, delicate, large-membered gophers that were bred on an active artillery range. Since these are obviously conservative gophers the irony becomes almost unbearable.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Here’s an act of eco-terrorism that must not go unpunished. This outdoor sculpture, located on the private property of the 40 year old Lambiel Museum, was put up 19 years ago. But a permit was not filed 19 years ago, and so the artists who created this modest statue, on private property, two decades ago, are being fined $1000 per week, because…</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">And while we could do this all day, let’s just close with the story of Joe Remenar, a former Department of Justice special agent who had performed drug interdiction missions in places as far away as Afghanistan. This domestic terrorist – in the eyes of Whatcom County, Washington State, at least – decided to put a pond on his own property. In order to process mercury tailings from his Gold mine? In order to bury radioactive waste from his nuclear reactor?</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">No, in order to build a wetlands habitat for migrating birds.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Joe was very careful when he built his pond. He did not apply for grants and spent not a dime of public money. He did not interrupt the flow of an existing stream. State fish and wildlife biologists reported that his pond was a clear and obvious wildlife enhancement project, which he built at his own expense on his own property.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">But, as Glen Morgan reported, for this crime against bureaucracy he was going to be punished.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Whatcom Counties lead central planner – Lyn Morgan-Hill – determined that Joe Remenar must destroy his wildlife habitat in order to save his wildlife habitat. She ordered that the pond be filled back in, and that Mr. Remenar would have to pay one of the country-approved “preferred consultants” to have it done.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Then, with the clear understanding of whose property that really is, Joe could beg forgiveness, ask and pay for the hefty fees necessary to get the permit, and then would be allowed to construct the exact same pond in the exact same place on the exact same piece of so-called “private property.” Heck, they probably would give him a government grant to do it.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Once he takes a knee to his bureaucratic masters.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Washington State now employs high-tech drones to photograph everyone’s private property several times a year, and high-tech software allows our aristocracy to determine if a peasant has had brush cleared, or a tree removed, deep in what used to be called that person’s “private property.” If any of these things have been done without a permit, large fines will be levied. You might think that this is simply because they want the permit money – well, they do, but that’s not the real reason.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">The real reason is because you will take a knee to your insect overlords and you will be in compliance with their lunatic regulations. It’s not about the environment. It’s about money and mostly it’s about power. And while it may still sound funny, or trivial, or both – it’s neither. Glenn calls the phenomenon Gang Green and the Government Staff Infection. It’s the bludgeon of control and extortion under the fig leaf of ecology, and it is – as Glen so cleverly puts it – an infection. It’s a disease.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">It’s a Tie-Dyed Tyranny, and it’s not just coming – it’s here.</p>
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		<title>The Language of Despotism</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Understanding the Left's weapon of choice. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #000000;"><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/war-is-peace.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235326" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/war-is-peace-450x337.jpg" alt="war-is-peace" width="279" height="209" /></a>Originally published by <a href="http://www.hoover.org/research/language-despotism">Defining Ideas</a>. </em></p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Long before <em>1984</em> gave us the adjective “Orwellian” to describe the political corruption of language and thought, Thucydides observed how factional struggles for power make words their first victims. Describing the horrors of civil war on the island of Corcyra during the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides wrote, “Words had to change their ordinary meaning and to take that which was now given them.” Orwell explains the reason for such degradation of language in his essay “Politics and the English Language”: “Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Tyrannical power and its abuses comprise the “indefensible” that must be verbally disguised. The gulags, engineered famines, show trials, and mass murder of the Soviet Union required that it be a “regime of lies,” as the disillusioned admirer of Soviet communism Pierre Pascal put it in 1927.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Our own political and social discourse must torture language in order to disguise the failures and abuses of policies designed to advance the power and interests of the “soft despotism,” as Tocqueville called it, of the modern Leviathan state and its political caretakers. Meanwhile, in foreign policy the transformation of meaning serves misguided policies that endanger our security and interests.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">One example from domestic policy recently cropped up in Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor’s dissent in the <em>Schuette </em>decision, which upheld the Michigan referendum banning racial preferences. In her dissent, Sotomayor called for replacing the term  “affirmative action” with “race-sensitive admissions.” But “affirmative action” was itself a euphemism for the racial quotas in use in college admissions until they were struck down in the 1978 <em>Bakke</em> decision. To salvage racial discrimination, which any process that gives race an advantage necessarily requires, <em>Bakke</em> legitimized yet another euphemism, “diversity,” as a compelling state interest that justified taking race into account in university admissions.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Thus the most important form of “diversity” for the university became the easily quantifiable one of race. Not even socio-economic status can trump it, as the counsel for the University of Texas admitted during oral arguments in <em>Fisher vs. University of Texas</em> last year, when he implied that a minority applicant from a privileged background would add more diversity to the university than a less privileged white applicant. All these verbal evasions are necessary for camouflaging the fact that any process that discriminates on the basis of race violates the Civil Rights Act ban on such discrimination. Promoting an identity politics predicated on historical victimization and the equality of result is more important than the principle of equality before the law, and this illiberal ideology must be hidden behind distortions of language and vague phrases like “race-sensitive” and “diversity.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Another example can be found in the recently released report from the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault. The report is the basis for the government’s numerous policy and procedural suggestions to universities and colleges in order to help them “live up to their obligation to protect students from sexual violence.” Genuine sexual violence, of course, needs to be investigated, adjudicated, and punished to the full extent of the law by the police and the judicial system. But the “sexual assault” and “sexual violence” the Obama administration is talking about is something different.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">At the heart of the White House report is the oft-repeated 2007 statistic that 20 percent of female college students have been victims of “sexual assault,” which most people will understand to mean rape or sexual battery. Yet as many critics of the study have pointed out, that preposterous number––crime-ridden Detroit’s rape rate is 0.05 percent––was achieved by redefining “sexual assault” to include even consensual sexual contact when the woman was drunk, and behaviors like “forced kissing” and “rubbing up against [the woman] in a sexual way, even if it is over [her] clothes.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">The vagueness and subjectivity of such a definition is an invitation to women to abandon personal responsibility and agency by redefining clumsy or boorish behavior as “sexual assault,” a phrase suggesting physical violence against the unwilling. As one analyst of the flawed study has reported, “three-quarters of the female students who were classified as victims of sexual assault by incapacitation did not believe they had been raped; even when only incidents involving penetration were counted, nearly two-thirds did not call it rape.” As many have pointed out, if genuine sexual assault were happening, colleges would be calling in the police, not trying the accused in campus tribunals made up of legal amateurs and lacking constitutional protections such as the right to confront and cross-examine one’s accuser.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">What matters more than protecting college women against a phantom epidemic of rape, then, is the need to expand government power into the social lives of college students, empowering the federal bureaucrats, university administrators, and ideological programs like women’s studies that all stand to benefit by this sort of coercive intrusion. This enshrining of racial and sexual ideology into law through the abuse of language has had damaging consequences, whether for the minority college students mismatched with the universities to which they are admitted, thus often ensuring their failure and disillusion; or for the young women encouraged to abandon their autonomy and surrender it to government and education bureaucrats who know better than they how to make sense of their experiences and decisions.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">In foreign policy, however, the abuse of language is positively dangerous. Since 9/11, our failure to identity the true nature of the Islamist threat and its grounding in traditional Islamic theology has led to misguided aims and tactics. Under both the Bush and Obama administrations, for example, the traditional Islamic doctrine of jihad––which means to fight against the enemies of Islam, which predominantly means infidels––has been redefined to serve the dubious tactic of flattering Islam in order to prevent Muslim terrorism.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Thus in 2008 the National Terrorism Center instructed its employees, “Never use the term <em>jihadist </em>or<em>mujahideen </em>in conversation to describe terrorists,” since “In Arabic, jihad means ‘striving in the path of God’ and is used in many contexts beyond warfare.” Similarly, CIA chief John Brennan has asserted that jihad “is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one’s community,” despite the fourteen centuries of evidence from the Koran, hadiths, and bloody history that jihad is in fact predominantly an obligatory armed struggle against the enemies of Islam. The reluctance to put Muslim violence in its religious context reflects not historical truth, but a public relations tactic serving the delusional strategy of appeasing Muslims into liking us.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">That’s why, to this day, the 2009 murders of 13 military personnel at Fort Hood by Muslim Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan are still classified as “workplace violence” rather than an act of terror. This despite the fact that Hasan––whose business cards had the initials “SoA,” “Soldier of Allah,” on them––shouted the traditional Islamic battle cry “Allahu Akbar” during his rampage. Or that in a presentation at Walter Reed Hospital, Hasan had put up a slide with the great commission to practice jihad that Mohammed delivered in his farewell address: “I was ordered to fight all men until they say ‘There is no god but Allah.’” This command to wage jihad was echoed in 1979 by the Ayatollah Khomeini, revered as a “Grand Sign of God” for his theological acumen, and by Osama bin Laden in 2001. Those ignoring this venerable jihadist tradition must use verbal evasions like “workplace violence” and “striving in the path of God” to hide the indefensible––and failed––tactic of appeasement that prevents us from accurately understanding the religious motives of Muslim terrorists, and the extent of the Muslim world’s support for them.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">No foreign policy crisis, however, is more illustrative of the “regime of lies” and abuse of language to serve “indefensible” aims than the conflict between Israel and the Arabs. The Arabs’ aim, of course, is to destroy Israel as a nation, a policy they have consistently pursued since 1948. Since military attacks have failed ignominiously, an international public relations campaign coupled to terrorist violence has been employed to weaken Israel’s morale and separate Israel from her Western allies. An Orwellian assault on language has been key to this tactic.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Examples are legion, but one is particularly insidious, here seen in a <em>New York Times</em> headline from 2011: “Obama Sees ’67 Borders as Starting Point for Peace Deal.” The common reference to “borders” in regard to what is in fact the armistice line from the 1948 Arab war against Israel is ubiquitous. Yet there has never been recognized in international law a formal “border” between Israel and what the world, in another Orwellian phrase, calls the “West Bank,” because that territory has never been part of a modern nation. Its only international legal status was as part of the British Mandate for Palestine, which was confirmed by the League of Nations in 1922, and which was intended as the national homeland for the Jewish people. The Arabs’ rejection of the U.N. partition plan and their invasion of Israel in 1948 put the territory’s status in limbo once Jordan annexed Judea and Samaria, which the international community with a few exceptions refused to recognize. In 1967 Israel took it back in another defensive war against Arab aggression. Since then, its final disposition has awaited a peace treaty that will determine the international border.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">This may sound like quibbling over careless language, but the dishonest use of “border” reinforces and encodes in peoples’ minds the big lie of the conflict––that a Palestinian “nation” is being deprived of its “homeland” by Israel, a canard that didn’t become current among Arabs and the rest of the world until after the 1967 Six Day War. And this lie in turns validates the common use of “occupation”––which implies an illegal invasion into and control of another nation, as the Germans did to France in 1940––to describe Israel’s defensive possession of territories that have long served as launch pads for aggression against Israel. Until a peace treaty, the territory known as the “West Bank”––more accurately Judea and Samaria, the heartland of historical Israel for centuries––is <em>disputed</em>, not “occupied.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">To paraphrase Thucydides, words like “borders” and “occupation” have had their ordinary meanings changed, and been forced to take meanings that serve tyranny and aggression. And we who accept those new meanings are complicit in the resulting injustice that follows.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[America's elected tyranny. ]]></description>
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<p>Long live the executive dictatorship.</p>
<p>There is almost nothing the president of the United States cannot do. This week, we found out President Barack Obama&#8217;s IRS not only targeted conservative nonprofit applicants with impunity but then destroyed the emails that could have illuminated the process behind such targeting. Meanwhile, the attorney general — the executive officer charged with fighting government criminality — continues to stonewall an independent prosecutor, maintaining along with his boss that there is not a &#8220;smidgen of corruption&#8221; in the IRS.</p>
<p>On the southern border, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been converted from a policing agency to a humanitarian-aid agency, as the Obama administration encourages thousands of unaccompanied minors to flood Texas and Arizona. Those illegal immigrants are being shuttled around the southwest and released into the general population, and told by activists that they are just months away from amnesty.</p>
<p>Across the seas, Obama is unilaterally destroying America&#8217;s anti-terror infrastructure. Iraq has become the preserve of the al-Qaida offshoot ISIS and the Iranian-connected Shiite government — the specific outcome the United States originally wanted to avoid in the country. Afghanistan will soon devolve back into a Taliban-led cesspool for terror. And the Obama administration continues to fund a Palestinian government that includes terrorist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and that has now kidnapped an American citizen, along with two other Israeli boys.</p>
<p>Nobody in the executive branch has been punished for Benghazi, Libya, Fast and Furious, serious national security leaks to major news outlets, violations of civil rights by the National Security Agency or any other major scandal.</p>
<p>The Obama administration has seized authority to regulate health care, carbon emissions and labor relations in unforeseen ways.</p>
<p>And no one will stop the executive branch. Impeachment will not solve the problem of a 3 million-strong regulatory branch in which accountability is a fantasy. The legislature has no interest in stopping the growth of the executive, given that legislators seek re-election by avoiding responsibility, and granting more power to the executive avoids such responsibility. And the judiciary seems unwilling to hem in the executive branch at all, given its decisions on the Environmental Protection Agency and Obamacare.</p>
<p>So what&#8217;s left? An elected tyranny in which the whims of the president and all of his men decide the fate of millions. The founders would have fought such a government with every fiber of their being — and, in fact, they did fight such a government. The question now is whether state governments, elected officials and the people themselves will be willing to take the measures necessary to do the same.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[When impeachment is no longer an option. ]]></description>
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<p>President Barack Obama believes he is above the law.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s because he is.</p>
<p>This week alone, Obama announced that he would unilaterally change student loan rules, allowing borrowers to avoid paying off more of their debt; he signaled that he would continue his non-enforcement of immigration law, even as thousands of children cross the border; he defended his non-disclosure of a terrorist swap to Congress.</p>
<p>And, he said, more such actions were in the offing. &#8220;I will keep doing whatever I can without Congress,&#8221; Obama explained.</p>
<p>This is not just executive overreach. In many cases, Obama&#8217;s exercise of authoritarian power is criminal. His executive branch is responsible for violations of the Arms Export Control Act in shipping weapons to Syria, the Espionage Act in Libya, and IRS law with regard to the targeting of conservative groups. His executive branch is guilty of involuntary manslaughter in Benghazi and in the Fast and Furious scandal, and bribery in its allocation of waivers in Obamacare and tax dollars in its stimulus spending. His administration is guilty of obstruction of justice and witness tampering.</p>
<p>And yet nothing is done.</p>
<p>Impeachment, which has been suggested as a solution by many, is a non-starter. In the entire history of the republic, the House has impeached just 19 officials, and just eight were actually removed from office after Senate trial. Impeachment is a political solution to a criminal problem — and politicians are far too fearful of blowback to use it as a tool in upholding law.</p>
<p>Thanks to presidential immunity and executive control of the Justice Department, there are no consequences to executive branch lawbreaking. And when it comes to presidential lawbreaking, the sitting president could literally strangle someone to death on national television and meet with no consequences.</p>
<p>As Professor Akhil Reed Amar of Yale Law School has written, &#8220;a sitting President is constitutionally immune from ordinary criminal prosecution — state or federal.&#8221;<br />
So what can we do? We can tell Congress to delegate its power to check the executive branch. The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act creates a broad capacity for prosecution of criminal conspiracies; it also provides for civil lawsuits against such conspiracies, turning American citizens into, as the Supreme Court puts it, &#8220;&#8216;private attorneys general&#8217; on a serious national problem for which public prosecutorial resources are deemed inadequate.&#8221; Minor changes to the law should allow citizens to sue federal officials within the executive branch under RICO, unmasking criminal enterprises within the Obama administration and future administrations.</p>
<p>The checks and balances of the Constitution have failed. The result has been, for a century, the nearly unchecked growth of the power of the executive branch. That growth has created an executive tyranny, unanswerable and inescapable under law. Our legislators have proved themselves too cowardly to fight back using the tools at their disposal. They are obviously happy delegating their power to the executive branch. Now it&#8217;s time for them to delegate their power to the people.</p>
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		<title>The Longest Romance: The Mainstream Media and Fidel Castro</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 04:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humberto Fontova's new book exposes the leftist enablers of a vicious tyranny. ]]></description>
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<p>Frontpage Interview’s guest today is <b>Humberto Fontova</b>, the author of three critically-acclaimed and internationally-published books on the Cuban Revolution. He was born in Havana, Cuba in 1954 and escaped from Castro’s communist regime in 1961 with his family.  His father remained briefly in Cuba as a political prisoner while Humberto and his family were accepted as political refugees in the USA.  He holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of New Orleans and a Masters Degree in Latin American Studies from Tulane University. Humberto has become FoxNews’ “go-to-guy” on Cuban matters and has been a regular Frontpage Magazine contributor for almost a decade. He is the author of the new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro-ebook/dp/B00DY0KTAO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1400490401&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=humberto+fontova">The Longest Romance: The Mainstream Media and Fidel Castro</a>.</p>
<p><b>FP:</b> Welcome, amigo.</p>
<p><strong>Fontova:</strong> Great to be here, Jamie. Thanks for the invite.</p>
<p><b>FP: </b>Let’s begin with what inspired you to write this book.</p>
<p><b>Fontova: </b>I’m gritting my teeth as I write this, because<b> </b>I normally detest the term &#8220;consciousness-raising,&#8221; —but I simply can’t avoid it here. That’s precisely what I’m attempting with this book, as I have with my previous ones on the so-called Cuban Revolution. Few events in modern history are as misunderstood. Few have been as effectively propagandized. Among historical figures, Fidel Castro wins, hands down, as the most persistently effective liar of modern times. Castro’s colorful cachet as worldwide icon of anti-Americanism and as pioneering beatnik allows his record as a warmonger, racist/Stalinist and the godfather of modern terrorism to be forgiven, ignored and falsified. <em>The Longest Romance</em> exposes this record, the abettors and the falsifiers.</p>
<p><b>FP: </b>So what story does <i>The Longest Romance</i> tell and how is it different from other books on the subject?</p>
<p><b>Fontova:  </b>Well, to begin with, there <i>are</i> no other books <i>precisely</i> on this subject. Yes, biographies on Fidel Castro and Che Guevara abound, but most have been written – to some extent or the other — in collaboration with the regime or using<i> leftist</i> or communist renegade critics of the regime as primary sources. As if the only acceptable histories of the Russian Revolution and Bolshevism should be written by Trotskyites or Mensheviks.  Of course these sources have important material to contribute — but they also have much to hide, namely their own responsibility for the disaster.</p>
<p>In my books, I make it point to include the accounts of people who had Castro and Che’s number <i>from day one.</i> Amazingly, these invaluable sources are habitually shunned. For instance, I wonder how many people realize that the CIA, in collaboration with some of Cuba’s aristocracy, had a major role in helping Castro and Che into power?</p>
<p><b> FP:</b> Expand for us on the evil of Castro and his regime.</p>
<p><b>Fontova: </b>Castro jailed political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin during the Great Terror, murdered more Cubans in his first three years in power than Hitler murdered Germans during his first six and came closest of anyone in history to starting a worldwide nuclear war.</p>
<p>In the above process the Castro brothers and Che Guevara converted a nation with a higher per-capita income than half of Europe and a huge influx of immigrants into one that repels Haitians and boasts the highest suicide rate in the hemisphere. Who would guess any of this from reading the mainstream media? Instead we read almost exclusively about how Castro  freed Cuba from the greedy clutches of U.S. robber barons and bestowed his formerly downtrodden countrymen with free healthcare and education.</p>
<p>In fact, as recently as 2011, Newsweek magazine ranked Cuba among “The Best Countries in the World” for its “exceptional quality of life.”</p>
<p>Most Americans would never know this from the major media but an official “state-sponsor-of terror” ( as Cuba is designated by our State department) sits 90 miles from U.S. shores essentially under the same leadership as in 1962 when it craved &#8211; and came within a whisker &#8211; of igniting a worldwide nuclear war.</p>
<p>“What!” Khrushchev gasped on Oct. 28th 1962, as recalled by his son Sergei. “Is he (Fidel Castro) proposing that we start a nuclear war? That we launch missiles from Cuba?&#8230;But that is insane!&#8230;<i>Remove them</i> (our missiles) <i>as soon as possible!</i> Before it’s too late. Before something terrible happens!” commanded the Soviet premier.</p>
<p>It’s really saying something that the man appalled by Castro’s bloodthirstiness was Nikita Khrushchev, who performed faithfully as Stalin’s butcher and enforcer in the Ukraine during the  famine and Great Terror.</p>
<p>“My dream is to drop three Atomic Bombs on New York City (<i>Raul</i> –not Fidel—Castro, Nov. 1960.)</p>
<p>While imprisoned for terrorism in 1955 Fidel wrote to a communist colleague:  “Propaganda is the heart of our struggle. We must never abandon propaganda.”</p>
<p>In his famous diaries published in 1959, Che Guevara revealed: “Much more valuable than recruits for our guerrilla force were American media recruits to export our propaganda.”</p>
<p>Most Cuba-watchers notice that Castro and Che’s propaganda is still being very effectively exported worldwide. Decades before the terms “spin” and “damage-control” entered the political lexicon, Fidel Castro was a virtuoso of both.</p>
<p><b>FP:</b> How do you explain the complicity of major U.S. media players in spreading Castro’s propaganda? Can you name some of the major accomplices?</p>
<p><strong>Fontova:</strong> There’s a “coolness” and “hipster” cachet that hovers around the leaders of the Cuban Revolution that simply will not dissipate, despite a half century of Stalinist crimes.</p>
<p><b> </b>“They saw in him (Castro) the hipster who in the era of the Organization Man had joyfully defied the system,” wrote President Kennedy’s adviser Arthur Schlesinger Jr back in 1961.</p>
<p>In fact, the brain-shackled robot the Castro brothers and Che Guevara tried to create with their firing squads, forced labor camps and Stalinist indoctrination makes the Eisenhower era’s Organization Man look like a combination of Jimmy Hendrix and Jack Kerouac.</p>
<p>The notion of Castro’s Cuba as stiflingly Stalinist nation never quite caught on among the “enlightened.”  The regime was founded by “beatniks,” after all. In 1960 Jean Paul Sartre hailed Cuba’s Stalinist rulers as “<em>les Enfants au Pouvoir</em>” (the children in power). A few months earlier Fidel Castro spoke at Harvard the same bill as beat poet Allen Ginsberg. And ever since then, long-haired Che Guevara has reigned worldwide as top icon of youthful rebellion.  The reality, as documented in my book, differs grotesquely:</p>
<p>“Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates!” raved Che Guevara in a famous speech in 1961. “The very spirit of rebellion is reprehensible,” commanded this icon of Flower Children. “Instead the young must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service<b>.”</b></p>
<p>For close to a decade, over half of what Americans have read about Cuba in the mainstream media has been doctored by Castro-regime “agents-of-influence” working in concert with the Castro regime’s Intelligence service.  To wit: among the mainstreams media’s favorite sources on Cuban matters are The Council on Foreign Relations’ Julia Sweig, and the Cuban Research Center’s Phil Peters.</p>
<p>Well, in my book the Defense Intelligence Agency’s top Cuba spycatcher Lieut. Col. Chris Simmons identifies Ms Sweig as a Cuban “agent of influence.”  In the very acknowledgements to her book, Ms Sweig thanks the “warm friendship” and “support” of six different Cuban spies and terrorists&#8211;three of whom were expelled from the U.S. for terrorism and/or espionage.</p>
<p>My book also includes a court discovery document showing how Phil Peters long received under-the-table payments from one of Castro’s biggest Canadian business partners.</p>
<p>A rising star as “Cuba expert” among the major media is Denver University scholar Arturo Lopez-Levy. In fact my book discloses that his real name is Arturo Lopez-<i>Callejas,</i> a former Cuban intelligence analyst, who is also Raul Castro’s nephew–in-law.</p>
<p>Nobody would guess any of the above from reading the bios or intros to these Cuba “experts “as run by the New York Times of NPR.</p>
<p><b>FP: </b>What do you hope this book will achieve?</p>
<p><b>Fontova:  </b>At least alleviate this grotesque disconnect between the “hipster/health-care” image of the Cuban Revolution and the horrors of a Stalinist police state.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Humberto Fontova, thank you for joining Frontpage Interview. It was an honor to speak with you and thank you for dedicating yourself to telling the truth about communist monsters and those who worship them. We wish you the best.</p>
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		<title>Forgetting Freedom at Passover</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2014 04:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/passover.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-223280" alt="passover" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/passover-450x300.jpg" width="315" height="210" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Column-one-Forgetting-freedom-at-Passover-348232">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p>Passover, which begins on Monday night, is the festival of freedom.</p>
<p>The holiday reminds us of the brutal enslavement of the Jews by Pharaoh and the Egyptians. We recall their midnight flight from Egypt, pursued by the mighty Egyptian army, and God’s miraculous rescue of the Jews at the shores of the Red Sea. We remember how Moses led them for 40 years in the desert, and taught them what it means to be a nation, and what it means to be free.</p>
<p>We repeat the story of enslavement, flight, redemption and freedom each year at Passover, because our sages wanted to ensure that we never forget the value of freedom, and remain vigilant in our fight for it. In Israel, where our freedom is physically threatened, most Jews understand and live by the lessons of Passover.</p>
<p>But something is happening to the Jews in America.</p>
<p>More and more, every day we see American Jews embracing intellectual bondage. We see American Jewish leaders embracing the intolerant, who seek to constrain freedom, and shunning those who fight for freedom and the rights of Jews and other threatened peoples and groups.</p>
<p>To a large degree, this rejection of the lessons of the Exodus among the American Jewish community reflects the growing intolerance and tyranny of the political Left, to which most American Jews pledge their allegiance.</p>
<p>With increasing frequency, leftist groups and leaders in the US are openly acting to deny freedom of expression to their political and ideological foes, and to destroy the lives of people who oppose their dogma.</p>
<p>For instance, last week we saw the growing tyranny of gay activists. Under assault from homosexual thought police, the Mozilla Corporation of Firefox browser fame fired its CEO Brendan Eich because he once contributed $1,000 to a campaign to block the legalization of homosexual marriage in California.</p>
<p>Eich’s firing was only the latest assault by gay rights bullies on private citizens who oppose their goals.</p>
<p>The aim of these assaults is to silence all opposition to their agenda using the tools of social ostracism and intellectual terror.</p>
<p>Young Americans now embrace intellectual and social tyranny in the name of “liberal” values. In an op-ed in The Harvard Crimson, undergraduate Sandra Korn celebrated the eclipse of academic freedom in favor of what she called “justice.” Korn called for censoring conservative voices for their “offensive” views.</p>
<p>She also embraced the anti-Jewish hate movement popularly known as BDS (boycotts, divestments and sanctions of the Jewish state) as a good way to promote “justice” at the expense of freedom.</p>
<p>In Korn’s conflation of conservative voices with Zionist voices and insistence on delegitimizing and silencing both due to the “offense” they cause to “right thinking” thought enforcers like herself we see the central role that Jew hatred and the denial of Jewish freedom plays in the new wave of mass rejection of reason in favor of passions and hatred.</p>
<p>Sadly, many parts of the organized American Jewish community have embraced leftist tyranny and discrimination.</p>
<p>In 2008, the New York UJA-Federation teamed up with the Jewish Council on Public Affairs and forced the Council of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations to disinvite then-US vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin from addressing a rally opposing then Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while he addressed the UN General Assembly.</p>
<p>To ensure that Palin would be denied the right to speak, the New York UJA-Federation and the JCPA threatened that her appearance would jeopardize the tax exempt status of the Conference of Presidents and other major Jewish organizations.</p>
<p>It may very well be that this threat was the first instance of leftists threatening prejudicial IRS investigations against their political foes as a means of ensuring obedience to their agenda.</p>
<p>The Palin affair was a rarity in the community. This isn’t because voices of staunch Zionists are usually accepted. Rather it is because such voices are ignored and shunned as a general practice by the major American Jewish organizations, in New York and elsewhere.</p>
<p>Palin’s invitation was an oversight.</p>
<p>While fervent Zionists are silenced, post-Zionists and anti-Zionists are legitimized and staunchly defended.</p>
<p>Six years after Palin was brutally disinvited, in the name of cultivating a “wide tent,” the same New York UJA-Federation and JCPA invited anti-Israel organizations that support the boycott of Jewish Israeli businesses to take part in the annual pro-Israel parade.</p>
<p>Three such organizations, Partners for a Progressive Israel, the New Israel Fund and B’Tselem all call for a boycott of Jewish businesses operating beyond the 1949 armistice lines. All three groups have played roles in mainstreaming the BDS movement.</p>
<p>In Israel, the public understands that boycotts are about mainstreaming hatred and bigotry just as much as they are about economic strangulation. That is why in 2011 the Knesset passed the anti-boycott law which allows all Israeli entities to sue groups calling for boycotts against them for civil damages, and bars such groups from participating in state tenders.</p>
<p>But in the American Jewish community, these groups are defended and legitimized.</p>
<p>Disgusted at their community leadership’s double standard of tolerance and support for foes of Israel and intolerance for supporters of Israel, a consortium of organizations and synagogues organized a protest against the inclusion of anti-Israel organizations in the Israel Day Parade.</p>
<p>After weeks of protests in the press and on social media sites, on Tuesday some 200 people demonstrated outside the UJA-Federation building in New York and demanded that the boycott supporters and abettors be shunned.</p>
<p>It was an important act of defiance.</p>
<p>The group includes such stalwart organizations as Americans for a Safe Israel, Americans for Peace and Tolerance, the Endowment for Middle East Truth, JCC Watch, the National Conference on Jewish Affairs, and the National Council of Young Israel.</p>
<p>These groups have joined together in the past to protest against UJA-Federation funding of institutions such as the 92nd Street Y and the New York JCC, which have provided platforms for Jew-haters and BDS supporters.</p>
<p>Their protest was vital. It would be a tragedy if the thuggish behavior of the Jewish community leaders went unopposed. But it is hard to see how the protesters can change the situation.</p>
<p>The rot runs deep.</p>
<p>Consider Brandeis University’s craven and intolerant administration.</p>
<p>Brandeis was founded as a traditionally Jewish university in 1948, the year that Israel was established.</p>
<p>But whereas Israel has remained faithful to its sovereign duty to cultivate and defend Jewish freedom and engender a liberal democracy, over the years, Brandeis has largely abandoned its mission of standing up to intolerance, and protecting Jewish rights and those of other threatened groups.</p>
<p>Case in point is its obscene treatment of Ayaan Hirsi Ali.</p>
<p>Hirsi Ali is a former Muslim who suffered genital mutilation as a child in Somalia and at age 21 fled to Holland to avoid a forced marriage.</p>
<p>After liberating herself, Hirsi Ali could have settled into a quiet European life. Instead, she dedicated her life to championing the rights of women and girls in Islamic societies.</p>
<p>For the past decade, Hirsi Ali has lived under an Islamic death sentence for her work. She can go nowhere without bodyguards.</p>
<p>In 2006, despite her membership in the Dutch parliament, Hirsi Ali was forced to flee to the US, when the Dutch government refused to continue to protect her.</p>
<p>In the US, as in Holland, she continues to campaign for the rights of women and girls in Islamic society.</p>
<p>Most recently, she was the executive producer of a new documentary film called Honor Diaries, which describes the plight of Muslim women and girls living in societies where they risk murder at the hands of their family members if they refuse to live in abject humiliation and submission to the misogyny of Islamic law.</p>
<p>Several months ago, Brandeis offered to confer an honorary doctorate on Hirsi Ali for her work on behalf of women and girls.</p>
<p>When the leftist and Muslim thought police in the Brandeis student body and faculty got wind of the university’s plan to honor her, they joined forces with the Council on American-Islamic Relations to force the administration to cancel the honorary degree.</p>
<p>CAIR claims to be a Muslim civil rights group. And yet, the group that purports to care about the civil rights of Muslims is waging a nationwide campaign to bar screenings of Honor Diaries, at universities around the country.</p>
<p>When Fox News’s intrepid host Megyn Kelly asked CAIR leaders this week how they can object to a film that seeks to help Muslims, they said they don’t have a problem with its content. They object to the fact that it was produced by Jews (also known as “Islamophobes”).</p>
<p>Far from being a civil rights group, CAIR is a pro- Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood organization. It was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Hamas financing trial against the Holyland Foundation.</p>
<p>And yet, on Wednesday, Brandeis sided with CAIR and the thought police, against Hirsi Ali. Brandeis canceled its plan to confer its honorary doctorate on her.</p>
<p>And just as is the case with the New York UJA-Federation and the JCPA, Brandeis has no problem with double standard. As Daniel Mael, a Brandeis senior, noted in an interview with Andrew Breitbart, in 2006 Brandeis conferred an honorary degree on playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner, the outspoken foe of Israel. Kushner has claimed that Israel’s establishment was a “mistake,” and that “it would have been better if Israel never happened.” His work, particularly the film Munich, is replete with demonization of Israel and of the notion of Jewish power.</p>
<p>Mael noted that at the time, then-Brandeis president Jehuda Reinhartz defended his decision to honor Kushner by arguing, “Mr. Kushner is not being honored because he is a Jew, and he is not being honored for his political opinions. Brandeis is honoring him for his extraordinary achievements as one of this generation’s foremost playwrights, whose work is recognized in the arts and also addresses Brandeis’s commitment to social justice.”</p>
<p>In other words, Brandeis’s commitment to “social justice” involves shunning defenders of Muslim women and girls and celebrating foes of the Jewish state, which ensures Jewish freedom.</p>
<p>The work of activists like Mael, and of the trenchant demonstrators in New York is extremely important. But it is hard to be optimistic about the future freedom of America in general or of the Jewish community. Aside from the National Council of Young Israel, no major American Jewish organization agreed to sponsor the protesters’ call for pro-BDS groups to be disinvited from the Israel Parade.</p>
<p>When the leaders of the Jewish American community – like their fellow leftists – side with forces of intolerance and discrimination and against Israel’s stalwart defenders and opponents of the oppression endemic in Islamic societies, it does not bode well for the future.</p>
<p>It is my holiday prayer that on Monday night, they will remember that Passover is not about eating matza. It is about the price of freedom, and why that price is worth paying.</p>
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		<title>Governed by Rules, Not Men</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2014 04:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Walter Williams]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/law_hammar_xlarge.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-220998" alt="law_hammar_xlarge" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/law_hammar_xlarge.jpg" width="315" height="222" /></a>What kind of rules should govern our lives? I&#8217;d argue that the best rules are those that we&#8217;d be satisfied with if our very worst enemy were in charge of decision-making. The foundation for such rules was laid out by my mother. Let&#8217;s look at it.</p>
<p>My mother worked as a domestic servant. That meant that my younger sister and I often lunched at home by ourselves during our preteen years. Being bigger and stronger than my sister, I seldom divided the food evenly, especially the desserts. After a tiring day at work, Mom would be greeted by sob stories from my sister about my lunchtime injustices. Mom finally became fed up with the sibling hassles. She didn&#8217;t admonish me to be more caring, fair, sensitive and considerate. She just made a rule: Whoever cuts the cake (pie, bread, meat, etc.) allows the other the first selection. With that new rule in place, you can bet that when either my sister or I divided food, it was divided equally.</p>
<p>You say, &#8220;That&#8217;s a nice story, Williams, but what&#8217;s the point?&#8221; The point is that the principle underlying Mom&#8217;s rule is precisely the kind that is necessary for rules to promote fairness. In general, the rules that we should want are those that promote fairness, whether it&#8217;s our best friend or it&#8217;s our worst enemy who&#8217;s the decision-maker. In the case of Mom&#8217;s rule, it didn&#8217;t make any difference whether I hated my sister&#8217;s guts that day or she hated mine or whether my sister was doing the cutting or I was; there was a just division of the food.</p>
<p>Think for a moment about rules in sports, say basketball. One team loses, and the other wins, but they and their fans leave the stadium peacefully and most often as friends. Why? The game&#8217;s outcome is seen as fair because there are fixed, known, neutral rules evenly applied by the referees.</p>
<p>The referees&#8217; job is to apply the rules — not determine the game&#8217;s outcome. Imagine the chaos and animosity among players and fans if one team paid referees to help it win or the referees were trying to promote some kind of equality among teams.</p>
<p>Billions of dollars and billions of hours are spent campaigning for this or that candidate in our national elections. You can bet that people are not making those expenditures so that politicians will uphold and defend the Constitution; they&#8217;re looking for favors. The Constitution&#8217;s framers gave us reasonably fair and neutral rules of the game. If our government acted, as the framers intended, as a referee or night watchman, how much difference would it make to any of us who occupies the White House or Congress? It would make little difference, if any. It would be just like our basketball game example. Any government official who knew and enforced the rules would do. But increasingly, who&#8217;s in office is making a difference, because government has abandoned its referee and night watchman function and gotten into the business of determining winners and losers. Unfortunately, for our nation, that&#8217;s what most Americans want.</p>
<p>Thomas Paine said, &#8220;Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil.&#8221; Our Bill of Rights is an explicit recognition of the Founding Fathers&#8217; distrust of Congress. Just look at its language, with phrases such as &#8220;Congress shall not abridge,&#8221; &#8220;shall not infringe,&#8221; &#8220;shall not deny,&#8221; &#8220;disparage&#8221; and &#8220;violate.&#8221; If the framers did not believe that Congress would abuse our God-given, or natural, rights, they would not have used such language. If, after we die, we see anything like the Bill of Rights at our next destination, we&#8217;ll know that we&#8217;re in hell. To demand such protections in heaven would be the same as saying we can&#8217;t trust God.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2014-01-03T181130Z_1_CBREA021EJJ00_RTROPTP_3_USA-OBAMA-NEWSCONFERENCE.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-217821" alt="2014-01-03T181130Z_1_CBREA021EJJ00_RTROPTP_3_USA-OBAMA-NEWSCONFERENCE" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2014-01-03T181130Z_1_CBREA021EJJ00_RTROPTP_3_USA-OBAMA-NEWSCONFERENCE.jpg" width="314" height="238" /></a>Barack Obama is threatening to bypass Congress and use executive orders to achieve the policy changes he can’t get through legislation. “We are not just going to be waiting for legislation in order to make sure that we’re providing Americans the kind of help that they need,” he said during the State of the Union address. “I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone.” Here seemingly is one more item in the indictment of Barack Obama’s arrogant dismissal of the Constitutional order, and his contempt for mixed government.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But once again, the problem isn’t the ideology or personality flaws of Obama, as dangerous and extensive as those are. Obama is just a more extreme version of Progressive ideas permeating our politics for more than a century. The problem runs deep in our political order, and will require much more than just changing a few political personalities in order to restore the limited government and citizen self-government intended by the Founders.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The “imperial presidency” Obama that himself decried when George W. Bush was in power is a corollary of the expanded federal government that Progressives claimed was necessary to address the new economic and social circumstances brought about by an industrialized economy and social change. Only a big federal government could achieve the collectivist goals and utopian programs Progressives wanted to pursue, for as Progressive theorist Herbert Croly wrote in 1919,  “Only by faith in an efficient national organization, and by an exclusive and aggressive devotion to the national welfare, can the American democratic ideal be made good,” and “under existing conditions and simply as a matter of expediency, the national advance of the American democracy does demand an increasing amount of centralized action and responsibility.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Such a centralized enlarged government requires a chief executive much stronger than the President designed by the Constitution. He must be a “leader of men,” as Woodrow Wilson put it, and not just a political leader, but a transformer and creator of national opinion. Wilson’s further remarks suggest an attitude towards leadership closer to the Italian fascism of Benito Mussolini than to the Constitution, and looks ahead to the messianic aura and rhetoric that has characterized Democrats like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and worst of all, Barack Obama. “Whoever would effect a change in a modern constitutional government,” Wilson wrote in 1887, “must first educate his fellow-citizens to </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">want</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> some change. That done, he must persuade them to want the particular change he wants. He must first make public opinion willing to listen and then see to it that it listen to the right things. He must stir it up to search for an opinion, and then manage to put the right opinion in its way.” Rather than policy rising from the various interests of the people and communicated through their representatives, now it will be imposed from above by a wiser “leader of men” who better knows than the people do what “right things” are good for them.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This is a vision of Presidential leadership far different from the Constitution’s chief executive, who ceded the law-making power to Congress, and who acted as a check and balance on the excesses of that branch of government. Wilson believed such a limited executive was unsuitable for the new challenges the country was facing.  It now needed a president more powerful than the Constitution’s chief executive, who was limited to being “only the legal executive, the presiding and guiding authority in the application of law and the execution of policy . . . He was empowered [by the veto] to prevent bad laws, but he was not to be given an opportunity to make good ones.” Now the responsibility of the president to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed,” as the Constitution put it, must be revised and expanded to </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">making</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the laws, according not to the people but to the powerful executive’s notion of what defines good laws. Sounds pretty much like what Obama has been doing and threatens to keep on doing.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Equally foreign to the Constitution is Wilson’s notion that government “is a living, organic thing, and must, like every other government, work out the close synthesis of active parts, which exist only when leadership is lodged in some one man or group of men.” Further contradicting the Constitution’s structure based on mixed government and on balancing and checking clashing passions and interests, Wilson writes, “You cannot compound a successful government out of antagonisms.” Thus we must “look to the President as the unifying force in our complex system, the leader both of his party and of the nation.” The Constitution recognized the various conflicting interests of the people, and sought only to keep one faction from dominating over another and limiting individual freedom by seizing control over the coercive power of the federal government. The Progressives, in contrast, want to aggrandize more and more central power in order to unify the national interests as they define it, and smooth out those messy, inefficient factional rivalries in order to achieve the improvement that “some one man or group of men” have decided is best for the country.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">These un-Constitutional attitudes toward a powerful executive have been constant among Democrats and even occasionally some Republicans. What Obama has been doing during his presidency with his “pen and phone” is novel only in its brazen scope, nakedly political motivations, and blatant disregard for Congressional prerogative. But in spirit it is consistent with the Progressive movement’s impatience and disdain for the Constitution, its belief that a giant federal government armed with coercive regulatory power requires a stronger, if not messianic, President, and its assumption that technocrats of superior wisdom and virtue are better placed to determine the people’s best interests than are citizens and their representatives. Most Democrats today share the same assumptions, particularly Hillary “It takes a village” Clinton.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This history, moreover, reminds us just how far gone all of us are in accepting uncritically these assumptions. The </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Weekly Standard</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">’s Jay Cost, for example, recently offered advice for those seeking “an equality agenda.” He says all the right things about the dysfunctions of a federal government held hostage to special interests and bureaucratic corruption. His solution is to “focus on empowering individuals directly, rather than via bureaucrats or interest groups. Block grants to state and local governments (where the citizenry can exercise greater control), vouchers, and easily accessible tax credits are all ways to level the economic playing field as well as the political one, for they all can empower individuals to make their own life choices.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">All these ideas are infinitely better than anything Obama has proposed for solving income inequality. But why even concede that “income inequality” is a problem at all, or that an “equality agenda” is a legitimate concern of the federal government? After all, to paraphrase Ronald Reagan, the federal government doesn’t “empower individuals,” people, families, and civil society do. The federal government just needs to get out of the way, and leave people the freedom to rise to whatever level their talents, hard work, virtue, and luck can take them. And it is naïve to think that the feds will give states and people a dime without attaching their own conditions and rules. Jay Cost is one of the smartest political commentators around, but he cedes too much to the anti-Constitutional agenda to “solve problems” by amassing power at the expense of individual freedom.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Obama is just the extreme version of a widespread belief among many in both parties that an enormous, intrusive federal regulatory and redistributionist regime is necessary for “solving problems” that in fact are best left to individuals and state and local government. The only argument between the parties these days is over the amount and pace of expansion––spending, for example, $800 billion on food stamps over the next decade rather than $808 billion. This belief in problem-solving big government is more insidious and thus in the long run more dangerous than Obama’s “pen and phone.”</span></p>
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		<title>End of an Era for the Muslim Brotherhood?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2013 04:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wael Nawara]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Death-toll-up-to-14-in-massive-Egypt-protests-Morsi-given-deadline.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-201744 alignleft" alt="Death-toll-up-to-14-in-massive-Egypt-protests-Morsi-given-deadline" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Death-toll-up-to-14-in-massive-Egypt-protests-Morsi-given-deadline-450x345.jpg" width="315" height="241" /></a>Reprinted from <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/contents/authors/wael-nawara.html">Al-Monitor</a>.</strong></p>
<p>The interim Egyptian government is threatening to <a href="http://www.dw.de/cairo-threatens-to-ban-muslim-brotherhood/a-17028491">ban the Muslim Brotherhood</a> and place it on the terrorist organization list in Egypt. Blaming a defiant Brotherhood for the deadly confrontations, attacks on churches, police stations and government buildings, Egyptian Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi proposed dissolving the group. The Brotherhood’s assets may be confiscated, operations prohibited and membership criminalized. This move could usher in <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.542076">mass arrests</a> of members countrywide. If considered a terrorist organization, the Brotherhood will be excluded from the political process. How did we get to this point and what does this mean to hopes of returning to calm and an end to violence in Egypt.</p>
<p>Few people know that the Muslim Brotherhood organization had always been banned in Egypt since 1948. After several assassinations and bombings which took the lives of several prime ministers, judges and even <a href="http://bit.ly/19HuVZD">disavowed members</a> of the Brotherhood itself. The long list included Ahmed Maher, al-Nokrashy, al-Khazendar and Fayez Halawa. In 1954, the Brotherhood made an attempt on Gamal Abdel Nasser, then Egypt’s prime minister. Following that, many of theBrotherhood leaders were arrested and received long prison and even death sentences. In the 1970s, Sadat allowed the Brotherhood and Islamists to regroup in an effort to use them against Nasserists and socialists as the group had been used in the 1940s, against communism. It was ironic for Sadat to be killed at the hands of Islamists in 1981. Most Islamist terrorist organizations that  exist in the world today are spin-offs of the Brotherhood which was never legally resurrected since the 1950s. In Egypt, the Brotherhood started again to operate as a clandestine organization owning businesses, manipulating unions and syndicates, operating charities often linked to mosques and also having its own militias. Money poured from local and overseas operations which the Brotherhood had in 80 countries. Despite having no legal political party, the Brotherhoodwas allowed by the Mubarak regime to field candidates in parliamentary elections since 1983. In 2005, it managed to get around 20% of the seats.</p>
<p>After the January 2011 revolution, the Muslim Brotherhood was allowed to form a political party, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), without being asked to review the legal, or rather illegal, status of its clandestine cancerous operations. Combining a legal party with a secret international organization, meant that the Brotherhood could have the best of both worlds and enjoy tremendous financial and organizational advantages over its political competitors. Utilizing the Brotherhood’s strong organizational capabilities and vast financial resources, FJP managed to get 46% of the parliament’s seats and their presidential candidate, Mohammed Morsi, earned 25% of the votes in the first round and 52% in the run off. Here is where things get a little weird.</p>
<p>Even after the Brotherhood reached power, it made no effort to legalize its operations, or even separate the FJP from the Brotherhood. The spiritual leader of the Brotherhood, which had no legal standing as a political party, or any legal entity for that matter, continued to set the political directions of the country, meet with foreign leaders, direct the parliament and tellMorsi what to do. Gradually, Egyptians realized that the illegal Muslim Brotherhood organization was the real ruler of Egypt while Morsi was no more than a façade, a mere representative of that organization in the presidency. Protests would often chant for the downfall of the “Morshed”, Mohamed Badei, the supreme guide of the Brothers, now in custody under investigation for his alleged role in ordering the killing of protesters, and not Morsi, whom as they came to discover was a puppet figure at best. In March 2013, after tremendous public pressure, the Brothers filed to register a charity under the name “The Muslim Brotherhood.” But on the books, none of the businesses owned by the Brotherhood appeared on record, since it is illegal in Egypt for political parties or NGOs to own businesses.</p>
<p>Can the government dissolve the Brotherhood? In practical terms, the government cannot dissolve the Brotherhood’s real organization, as opposed to the façade FJP or the newly-formed dummy NGO, because the real organization has no legal status, books or registration of any kind. All of its assets are owned and/or registered in someone else’s name, usually that of a trusted member. Like mafia organizations, it is usually difficult to track what a secret underground organization does or holds. All the government can do is investigate these businesses and associations and review their books. The government can, however, dissolve FJPif evidence suggested it engaged in violence or illegal activities.</p>
<p>Does the government wish to dissolve the Brotherhood? A month ago, that decision was probably still under review, pending the Muslim Brotherhood clarifying its “strategic intent.” Did it aim to improve its leverage and bargaining position in the political process, or is the Brotherhood set on regaining control of the country at all costs and using all possible weapons and scenarios, including destroying the Egyptian State? As the Brotherhood annexed kilometer after kilometer, expanding Rabia’s sit-in until it controlled an area of a big town, the National Defense Council convened and realized that these actions on the ground all added up to one dangerous conclusion. The government kept asking the question “what is the Brotherhood strategic intent?” to everyone who went and met with the brothers, including EU and US intermediaries. Andthey came back invariably with the same answer, the Brotherhood insisted on the return of Morsi and even restoring theShura Council. The uncompromising rhetoric of defiance broadcasted live from Rabia and Nahda stages suggested that the Brotherhood was set on an Armageddon-style confrontation. But the government still waited.</p>
<p>The Brotherhood’s PR strategy seemed to rely on maximizing the death toll as to enforce its position as the victim and win the public’s sympathy thus warranting international intervention. US and EU criticism of the Egyptian government may have been interpreted by the Brotherhood as “stand your ground and give us more corpses and we&#8217;ll send the troops, Libya-style.” That was the wrong bet. By early afternoon on Aug. 14, it seemed that the government was losing. Egypt was losing. The death toll was rising and a few thousand more protesters were pushing in trying to merge with the sit-in. ElBaradei resigned. Egypt was to be held by the throat. The government allegedly used “excessive force,” but still could not break the sit-in. Even after the sit-in was cleared, the high number of fatalities with news of fresh demonstrations announced for the following Friday suggested that the interim government had lost it. The Turkish prime minister was in a frenzy making calls demanding a Security Council emergency session to see what should be done to control the situation in Egypt. The international Brotherhood organization and its allies in Turkey and Qatar started to call for international intervention in Egypt. EU foreign ministers were to meet where news of potential suspension of EU aid to Egypt was leaked. TheBrotherhood plan was to maximize the chaos and death toll as to warrant international intervention in Egypt. These actions, when put together, again pointed to one thing: the Brotherhood strategic intent was not to be a part of the political dialog, the Brothers seemed set on destroying the State of Egypt.</p>
<p>And while news came of a wave of attacks on Egypt’s churches and Christian community, the Muslim Brotherhood’s spokespersons in Western media started to play the “Good Terrorist, Bad Terrorist” argument, suggesting that it was better to accept the Brotherhood with their low level of violence so as not to risk radicalizing more Islamists and ending up with really violent factions. But it was difficult to sustain a victim PR strategy for long while the Brotherhood and their supporters were torching churches and massacring police officers. On Aug. 17, the world started to see a different reality from the al-Fathmosque standoff. The famous picture of an army soldier trying to push the angry crowd aside as to provide Muslim Brothers with safe passage out of the Ramses-square-located mosque said it all. It confirmed what many Egyptians have been trying to tell the world for weeks, but they were ignored by Western analysts and media. Throughout previous weeks, Western media made the limited protests of the Brotherhood look much bigger and influential. It portrayed a poetic picture of peaceful democrats who protested to ask “what happened to my vote?” The media wanted to believe that these protesters represented the sentiments of the majority of Egyptian people rising against the evil generals of the army who had plotted a coup against an elected president. But now the truth was emerging. The reality on the ground showed that Muslim Brothers, throughout the past few months, were increasingly unable to face Egyptians, let alone rule them.</p>
<p>During the past two weeks, the Brotherhood rhetoric materialized into bloody <a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/08/egypt-scorched-earth-strategy-nawara.html">scorched-earth tactics</a>. With a “rule it or ruin it” attitude, the Brotherhood and their allies waged the most threatening assault that the Egyptian state has faced in its recent history. The Brotherhood and their supporters attacked many police stations, in some cases slaughtering every policeman on site and mutilating their bodies. Over 50 churches were attacked in a campaign which also targeted missionary schools, shops and even the homes of Christians. Government buildings, military installations, police and army personnel were also attacked. On Aug. 19., 25 police conscripts were captured in Sinai, their hands were tied and they were made to lie on the ground face down where they were machine-gunned down.</p>
<p>Revealing this malicious strategic intent may have sealed the fate of the Muslim Brotherhood organization in Egypt. During the past few days, most of the leaders of the Brotherhood organization have been arrested on charges of killing protesters. We should not be surprised if these charges were amended to include treason or conspiring to carry out activities that threatened the country’s national security.</p>
<p>It is inconceivable that the Brotherhood will take any part in Egyptian politics in the near future. But how will Egypt accommodate the two or three hundreds of thousands of members of the organization in Egypt? And how about their supporters, another two to three million? The Salafists seem to eye that void with interest but can they fill it? Can Islamist youth regroup while new parties emerge with ideologies which can co-exist with the Egyptian state? What does this mean for violence in Egypt in the coming days, weeks and months? These are all questions which are very much related. Unless these supporters are offered alternative channels adequately representing them, the country can never find peace. Lower ranks of the Brotherhood must also be offered the opportunity to make “revisions” and granted a way out or they will become a destructive force in society.</p>
<p>Such a subtle and intangible thing, intent. But in the Muslim Brotherhood’s case, it was its strategic intent which had sealed the group’s fate. As Egyptians watched the horrific scenes which confirmed the group’s intent to destroy Egypt since they could no longer rule it, they shock their heads in utter disapproval and turned the Muslim Brotherhood’s page, signaling the end of an era.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/contents/authors/wael-nawara.html"><i>Wael Nawara</i></a><i> is an Egyptian writer and activist. He is also the co-founder of Al Dostor Party, the National Association for Change and El Ghad Party. Formerly president of  the Arab Alliance for Freedom and Democracy, he was a visiting fellow at the Institute of Politics, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.</i></p>
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		<title>The Politics of Resentment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2013 04:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir Tismaneanu]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/che.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-198064" alt="che" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/che.jpg" width="259" height="194" /></a>Under the guidance of general director Irina Bokova, a Bulgarian socialist politician and daughter of the adamant communist ideologue Georgi Bokov, editor-in-chief of &#8220;Rabotnichesko Delo,&#8221; the party daily newspaper during Todor Zhivkov&#8217;s dictatorship, <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/23/reprehensible-unesco-adds-works-che-guevara-world-/">UNESCO recently decided</a> to add hundreds of manuscripts by Ernesto &#8220;Che&#8221; Guevara to the Memory of the World Register. In so doing, Mme Bokova and the organization she runs pay tribute to an ideological adventurer directly involved in the establishment of the Cuban totalitarian state and its secret police. &#8220;Che&#8221; Guevara hated the US, liberal values and whatever an open society means. He lionized guerrilla fighters as &#8220;killing machines&#8221; and was himself a killing machine. How would the world respond to a similar decision regarding the manuscripts of a Nazi leader, say Alfred Rosenberg? The answer is in the question. Double standards regarding the mass crimes of the two totalitarian experiments (fascism and communism) remain a shockingly disgraceful  feature of our times.</p>
<p>There are topics that, whether we like it or not, remain disturbingly timely. Among these is the phenomenon of the problematic, often adversarial, relationship between the contemporary Left and democratic capitalism, the U.S., Israel and the universality of human rights. Political thinker Jean-Francois Revel wrote about the anti-American obsession rampant among French leftist intellectuals. Historian Robert Wistrich and philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy have identified a mounting and frequently vicious anti-Semitism within the Left. A fierce and courageous book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/United-Hate-Romance-Tyranny-Terror/dp/1935071602?tag=vglnk-c277-20">United in Hate,</a> by Dr. Jamie Glazov, Frontpagemag.com editor, political commentator and historian, is a call for clear-mindedness in our dangerous times. It is a successful effort to demystify some people&#8217;s enduring attraction to dictators, pseudo-redeemers, myth-makers, and political mountebanks. Published a few years ago, <em>United in Hate</em>, a scathing encyclopedia of foolishness, is as timely and compelling as ever.</p>
<p>Glazov revisits some of the most notorious and tragic chapters in the history of Western gullibility, including the case of Walter Duranty, the &#8220;New York Times&#8221; Moscow correspondent during the Great Famine and the purges of 1936-1939 — about which Duranty knew everything but chose to lie. He denied that millions were starved to death by Stalin&#8217;s police state, and he endorsed (as did the U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, Joseph E. Davies), the Stalinist show trials. Unlike William E. Dodd, the U.S .ambassador to Nazi Germany, who despised and lambasted Hitler&#8217;s criminal regime, Davies accepted and even endorsed Stalin&#8217;s propaganda and regarded the victims of the Great Purge as genuine saboteurs and spies. In his memoir, &#8220;Mission to Moscow,&#8221; made into a Hollywood hit during the war, Davies glamorized Stalin&#8217;s tyranny as a popular regime. Mass terror was glossed over and the Davieses maintained cordial relations with Stalin&#8217;s clique.</p>
<p>At the Hillwood Collection in Washington one can see a superb Russian vase received as a gift by the Ambassador&#8217;s then wife, millionaire Marjorie Merriweather Post, from Madame Molotov, Polina Zhemchuzhina. An uninformed visitor would have no idea that the object was most likely the result of Bolshevik plundering of Russian old fortunes and that Mme Molotov was herself arrested in the late 1940s, tried and deported to the Gulag as a Zionist agent. The Molotovs&#8217; grandson, political commentator Vyacheslav Nikonov, is, incidentally, one of Vladimir Putin&#8217;s chief propagandists.</p>
<p>People such as Duranty indulged in lying to themselves and to others; these lies enabled political corruption of an untold scale to go not only unchecked but protected.  The story of intellectual treachery, as disquietingly told by Glazov, continued during and after World War II. Cassandras such as George Orwell and Arthur Koestler were dismissed as &#8220;war-mongers.&#8221; The philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre proclaimed: &#8220;L&#8217;anticommuniste est un chien&#8221; (&#8220;The anticommunist is a dog&#8221;). Great minds such as Albert Camus and Raymond Aron were disparaged.</p>
<p>Whoever thinks that the collapse of the Soviet empire during the revolutionary upheaval of 1989-1991 ended this infatuation with abuse in the service of a fantasy Utopia was mistaken. Anti-Westernism, and Anti-Americanism, possibly out of frustration that the West falls short of &#8220;perfection,&#8221; remains a galvanizing force for all those who resent the rule of law, democratic procedures, humanistic values, and critical thinking.</p>
<p>The European Left, echoed by many in the US, sees the global terrorist threat as a paranoid delusion meant to justify US world supremacy. Free elections in Iraq were dismissed as a mere electoral window-dressing. Distinguished university professors accepted to serve on Qaddafi&#8217;s son&#8217;s (and then heir apparent) doctoral dissertation committee at the London School of Economics. The very idea that human rights are universal is often decried as a lack of sensitivity regarding &#8220;local traditions&#8221; in China and other police states.</p>
<p>Anti-Americanism has become an ideological cement uniting groups and movements of various persuasions. It blends with traditional Judeophobic myths in a conglomerate of resentment. Glazov explores the mind of individuals such as Noam Chomsky for whom Israel is the great villain of our time, allegedly an &#8220;imperialist puppet,&#8221; whereas Hamas and other terrorist groups belong to the progressive wave of the future. Glazov&#8217;s encyclopedia of lethal misguidedness shows how Stalinists and Fascists closed ranks as ideological brothers in their inextinguishable hostility to freedom. The social scientist Albert Hirschman once wrote that shared hatreds make for strange bed fellowships. Glazov&#8217;s analysis of the Stalino-Fascist Baroque once again illustrates the truth of this view.</p>
<p>Glazov offers a perceptive anatomy of the leftist radical mythology. As Ambassador R. James Woolsey writes in his Foreword, Glazov&#8217;s approach deals with the radical Left&#8211; not with the decent, rational Left . The old democratic Left, the Left of Francois Mitterrand, Paul-Henri Spaak, Tony Blair, and Mario Soares was anti-totalitarian, anti-dictatorial, anti-Soviet, and pro-Israel. The radicals, increasingly influential in Europe, favor authoritarian anti-American regimes (e.g. Hugo Chavez&#8217;s &#8220;Bolivarian socialism&#8221; in Venezuela) and resent Israel. Political scientist Alvaro Vargas Llosa accurately distinguishes between a vegetarian Left (Lula in Brazil) and the carnivorous one (the Castro brothers, the Ortega brothers, Evo Morales, Chavez and his heir, Nicolas Maduro, reportedly a puppet of Raul Castro&#8217;s secret service).</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the illusions of the radical leftists continue to misinform much of the public discourse in the West, including efforts to blame the U.S. for war and every misfortune from AIDS to global warming. Instead of seeing Islamism as an heir to the totalitarian movements of the last century, many leftists prefer to find justifications for the anti-Western anger they dispense.</p>
<p>Glazov highlights in an unsparing, well- documented way the endless hypocrisy, double standards, and sheer irresponsibility of the latter-day Leninists. They are ready to walk in the steps of the  Marxist poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht&#8217;s and acclaim any crime, merely because they execrate diversity, market forces, separation of powers, accountability, equal justice under law, free expression and other Western values. For the leftists analyzed by Glazov, these values are nothing but an ideological camouflage for capitalist (plutocratic) domination. Former Red Brigades theorists like philosophy professor Antonio Negri receive paeans for their anti-&#8221;Empire&#8221; diatribes.</p>
<p>For these revolutionary oracles, radical Islam and Palestinian terrorism are purifying forces, catalysts of the &#8220;Great Refusal&#8221; (a term dear to Herbert Marcuse, once the guru of the counter-culture), whereas liberal capitalism is rotten, worthy only of being smashed. Unfortunately, such ideas are infectious and seem to have poisoned the minds of many young people in post-communist countries. Attacking capitalism as soulless, inhuman, mercantile, and philistine has become, once again, a favorite enterprise of the intelligentsia.</p>
<p>Glazov was born to a Russian dissident family who, after years of harassment, left the Soviet Union for the West. In 1968, his father, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/jamie-glazov/remembering-a-dissident-3-1-1/">Yuri Glazov</a>, a distinguished scholar, had signed &#8220;The Letter of the 12&#8243; to protest the Soviet regime&#8217;s abysmal human rights abuses. For the Glazovs, as for other members of the beleaguered dissident communities in East-Central Europe (the USSR included), the term &#8220;Free World&#8221; had a very concrete meaning. So did the concept of totalitarianism &#8211;repudiated by many Western social scientists convinced that communist regimes could reform and reconcile with pluralism. Communism is intrinsically monopolistic, inimical to the free expression of values, opinions, political choices. In fact, communism cannot be really reformed in terms of political institutions. As East Europeans dissidents used to say: &#8220;There is no communism with a human face, but only totalitarianism with broken teeth.&#8221; This is the  meaning of human rights activist, political thinker, and poet Liu Xiaobo&#8217;s &#8220;Charter 2008,&#8221; a manifesto for political and intellectual freedom the Chinese leaders hated intensely and led to Liu&#8217;s arrest and imprisonment.</p>
<p>Glazov&#8217;s book identifies the current dangers and calls for moral clarity and political alertness. In the tradition of  Eric Hoffer&#8217;s &#8220;The True Believer,&#8221; he offers an important analysis of nihilistic revolutionary passions rooted in frustration, resentment, rage, desperation, and ideological frenzy. He shows how utopian fanaticism remains a main feature of our times and how it mobilizes anti-Western ideologies and movements. His book should be read by all those who hold dear the value of liberty.</p>
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<p><em>Vladimir Tismaneanu is professor of politics at the University of Maryland (College Park) and author most recently of &#8220;<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/jamie-glazov/the-devil-in-history/">The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century</a>&#8221; (University of California Press, 2012). Special thanks to Nina Rosenwald for her excellent editorial suggestions.</em></p>
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		<title>Free Morsi: Obama&#8217;s Fight for a Bloody Tyrant</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unmasking the White House's campaign for the Muslim Brotherhood. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/AFP_Getty-511947813.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-197054" alt="Egypt's new president-elect, Muslim Brot" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/AFP_Getty-511947813-450x325.jpg" width="270" height="195" /></a>On the day that President Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood’s brutal tyrant who had presided over the torture and mass rape of protesters, was overthrown by popular protests, a statement was issued by the White House.</p>
<p>The statement said, “The United States does not support particular individuals or political parties” and then went on to urge that the voices of “those who have supported President Morsy” must also be heard.</p>
<p>Obama was once again contradicting himself. Either the United States was not in the business of telling Egypt whose voices should be heard or it was. Obama wanted to insist that it was and that it wasn’t at the same time. He wanted to have his bloody tyrant on the throne and his myth of democracy too.</p>
<p>On the same day, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki, a former Obama spokeswoman, said, “We haven&#8217;t taken sides and don&#8217;t plan to take sides here.”</p>
<p>Psaki also vigorously denied that Secretary of State John Kerry was hanging out on his yacht, despite a CBS producer photographing him aboard the boat, saying, “Any report or tweet that he was on a boat is completely inaccurate.”</p>
<p>Two days later, Psaki admitted that Kerry had been on the boat. A week later, Psaki implicitly admitted that her bosses were taking sides by warning that further arrests of Muslim Brotherhood members would endanger US foreign aid to Egypt.</p>
<p>Psaki was actually following up on an earlier warning by Obama to Egypt’s government “to avoid any arbitrary arrests of President Morsy and his supporters.” Obama had not issued any such warnings after the overthrow of Mubarak. Nor had he said anything about Morsi’s arrest and torture of protesters.</p>
<p>Muslim Brotherhood leaders had set off a storm of violence as their followers rampaged through Christian neighborhoods murdering and maiming. Churches and cathedrals were targeted and a priest was shot to death.</p>
<p>The Associated Press headlined the story describing Muslim atrocities against Christians as a “backlash” for their protests against Morsi. It would be difficult to imagine the wire service headlining a story about the KKK bombing a black church after Obama’s victory as a “backlash,” but the Muslim Brotherhood, like so many Islamist hate groups, has the media on its side. The Muslim KKK can count on the AP and DC.</p>
<p>Violence against Christians and even other Muslims followed in the wake of fiery speeches by Muslim Brotherhood leaders urging their followers to martyrdom. “They treated us like infidels. They were chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ as they were shooting us,” one Egyptian eyewitness said.</p>
<p>These atrocities were not just an outraged response to Morsi’s fall. The Muslim Brotherhood resorted to violence when in power and when out of power.</p>
<p>Obama’s people never threatened Morsi with the loss of foreign aid for arresting activists from other parties, but arresting Muslim Brotherhood members clearly crosses whatever passes for a red line in the White House.</p>
<p>Obama had not told Morsi what to do even while the Muslim Brotherhood regime was using torture to extract confessions from protesters while videotaping the results; a practice that one would think the Nobel Peace Prize winner would be opposed to after all his self-righteous speeches about Gitmo.</p>
<p>However White House press secretary Jay Carney continued to warn against the arrests of Muslim Brotherhood leaders and members. “If you’re arresting individuals from one group or one party, you’re working against yourself if your effort is to be inclusive as you make this transition back to a civilian, democratically elected government.”</p>
<p>Morsi’s government had abandoned all pretense of inclusiveness early on. The coalition that brought him down is far more inclusive, including even a rival Salafist party. The only major group missing is the Muslim Brotherhood. And so at the White House and State Department “inclusive” has become code for mandatory Muslim Brotherhood participation.</p>
<p>Mere days before Morsi’s fall, Obama said, &#8220;Our position has always been, it&#8217;s not our job to choose who Egypt&#8217;s leaders are.&#8221; By “always” he must have meant two years because that was how long ago he had told Mubarak to step down.</p>
<p>Forgetting all that business about not taking sides or picking leaders, Jen Psaki admitted, &#8220;We have been in touch with members of the Muslim Brotherhood. We want them to be a part of the process moving forward.”</p>
<p>Morsi’s power grab last November in which he claimed near absolute power led to no condemnations from the White House. There were no calls urging the new government to include Mubarak supporters.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/07/us-ambassador-threatens-egypt-on-behalf-of-brotherhood.html">A report from Egypt </a>said that Anne Patterson, Obama’s ambassador to Egypt, called Egyptian General Abdul Fatah al-Sisi and ordered him to release all the arrested members of the Muslim Brotherhood, warning him that the alternative would be a civil war resembling the one in Syria.</p>
<p>Considering that Obama has chosen to arm and support the Muslim Brotherhood rebels in Syria, such a warning carries with it some rather ominous overtones.</p>
<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/raymond-ibrahim/u-s-asks-egypts-christians-not-to-oppose-morsi/">Patterson had previously told</a> Coptic Christians, the community with the most to lose under the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood, not to protest against Morsi. Shortly after Patterson’s demand<a href="http://www.voanews.com/content/us-calls-for-morsi-release/1700906.html">, Jen Psaki echoed her</a> with a call to free Morsi and suggested again that foreign aid hinged on Morsi’s freedom and the Muslim Brotherhood’s participation in Egyptian politics.</p>
<p>Despite Psaki’s earlier denials, a side had clearly been taken. And it was the side of the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p>While Obama and the State Department are still hiding behind words like “democracy” and “inclusiveness,” they have marshaled their rhetoric only in defense of the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p>There were no threats to cut off foreign aid to Morsi during the period of his worst abuses. There were no demands of inclusivity from Morsi. Even when American lives were at risk in Egypt, there were no threats to cut off foreign aid. Instead Kerry tied himself in knots explaining why we could not cut aid to Egypt, despite admitting Morsi’s abandonment of democratic principles.</p>
<p>Obama had two radically different approaches to three Egyptian governments. The non-Brotherhood governments were threatened and criticized. The Muslim Brotherhood government was neither threatened nor criticized. Non-Brotherhood governments were told that they would have to make room for the Brotherhood or face a loss of American support, but when the Muslim Brotherhood began to wield absolute power, there were no threats from Hillary Clinton or Obama.</p>
<p>While Obama works to free Morsi, Morsi’s supporters continue torturing and killing, perpetuating the bloody legacy of a bloody tyrant.</p>
<p>Under Morsi, Amir Ayad, an activist protesting Muslim Brotherhood rule, was dragged into a mosque, beaten and tortured. When the Muslim Brotherhood members assaulting him realized he was a Copt, they called him a “Christian Dog” and left him half-dead by the side of the road.</p>
<p>This is the reign of terror that millions of Egyptians risked their lives to break free of. This is the horror that caused Egyptian women to risk the Muslim Brotherhood’s rape gangs to denounce in Tahrir Square. This is what Obama wants to impose on Egypt again.</p>
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		<title>The Red Fascism of Colonel Chavez</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 04:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir Tismaneanu]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the Venezuelan comandante was the real successor of Stalin and Hitler.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Ahmadinejad_chavez.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-191263" alt="Venezuela's President Chavez speaks next to Iran's President Ahmadinejad during an agreement-signing ceremony in Tehran" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Ahmadinejad_chavez-450x330.jpg" width="315" height="231" /></a>What are the legacies of chavismo? Shameless demagogy, rampant poverty, duplicitous kleptocracy, strident chauvinism, ubiquitous propaganda, demonization of political opponents, a delusional police state pretending, like Castro&#8217;s Cuba, to embody the behests of History. Hugo Chavez (1954-2013) was the most strident voice of the new anti-western and anti-democratic front. By the end of his life (he passed away on March 5, precisely sixty years after Stalin’s demise), the Venezuelan comandante, compromised in his own country, was increasingly prone to engage in external adventures.</p>
<p>Not unlike Che Guevara&#8211;Che’s daughter Aleida is the author of a hagiography about Chavez&#8211;the Venezuelan leader dreamed of himself as the reincarnation of Bolivar, Jose Marti, Lenin, and even Evita Peron (a few years ago, Chavez proclaimed: “Evita died on July 26,1952. Only two days later, on July 28, 1954 I was born. Imagine!”) As the ridicule does not kill, Chavez launched a campaign to unearth Bolivar’s bones in order to demonstrate that El Libertador was poisoned bya reactionary conspiracy. In 2008, voicing his hostility to Colombia’s democratic regime, Chavez called  the neighbouring country “Latin America’s Israel.”</p>
<p>In this crusade, the narco-terrorism of the FARC guerillas, colluded with Chavez’ delirious petro-populism. Combining grotesque bufoonery, political farce, and the most obscene demagogy, Chavez symbolized leftist opportunism in its most aggressive form. We deal with red Fascism, because Chavez’s methods and aspirations did not differ essentially from those of Mussolini; statism, cult of personality, tribalist collectivism, indigenista messianism, the annihilation of political rivals, and the persecution of any source of civic autonomy. As in Eastern Europe before the revolutions of 1989, civil society has become the main enemy of the dictatorship.  Like Eastern Europe’s Leninist dinosaurs, Chavez indulged in endless, systematic lying.</p>
<p>The ally of the Castro brothers started his career as a demagogue of Peronista orientation. His affinities linked him to the far right; irrationalism, exacerbated nationalism, fascination with occultism, militarism, and political shamanism. Gradually, he absorbed the obsessions of the far left and discovered in the anti-imperialist rhetoric a self-aggrandizing platform able to catapult him as a prophet of the new tercermundismo.</p>
<p>Years ago, noted Venezuelan political thinker Carlos Rangel (1929-1988) wrote an illuminating book about Latin America’s revolutionary myths (&#8220;Del Buen Salvaje al buen Revolucionario,” translated into English as &#8220;The Latin Americans. The Love-Hate Relationship with the US.”) Rangel diagnosed the resentful grammar underlying the utopian Castro-Guevarist project. If we think of the youth years of Lenin, Trotsky or Stalin, it is hard not to notice precisely this contempt for the rule of law (&#8220;Rechtstaat”). The same can be said about the declassé young Hitler in a multi-ethnic Vienna, a city open to bourgeois modernity. These revolutionaries were in fact viscerally anti-conservative: they loathed pluralist values, procedural parliamentarism, and religion appeared to them as a form of mental enslavement. There is a whole literature about the socialist roots of Fascism.</p>
<p>We notice the emergence of a new International (exalting &#8220;el nuevo socialismo del siglo 21”) opposed not only to the United States (no matter who is the president, George W. Bush or Barack Obama), but hostile to the free market and to the economic, political, and cultural project based on the recognition of human rights.</p>
<p>We hear passionately humanitarian denunciations of the treatment of Islamicist prisoners in Guantanamo, but very little about the fact that on the same island, in Cuba, whoever dares to oppose the police dictatorship suffers ruthless persecutions. With his phantasmagorical ideas about “Bolivarian Socialism”, colonel Chavez epitomized the effort to regroup and resuscitate the leftist attempt to delegitimize and abolish pluralism.</p>
<p>In another book written by Rangel about Third World mythologies (with a foreword, as for the previous one by the late French political thinker Jean-François Revel) we find a seminal analysis of socialism as a doctrine intimately related to Fascism in terms of rejecting capitalism as “plutocratic,” “soulless,” and “mercantile”. Both politcal religions –Communism and Fascism- promised to accomplish <i>hic ad nunc</i> the perfect community. In the words of political philosopher Eric Voegelin, they tried to immanentize the Eschaton. This meant to condemn human beings to State-dictated happiness. As Rangel put it: “It was not at all an accident that Joseph Goebbels oscillated for a while between Communism and Nazism: he realized that both ideologies were equally compatible with his own inclination for a nationalist and authoritarian government that would save the country from what he saw as the decadent liberalism of the Weimar Republic.”</p>
<p>Colonel Chavez’ red Fascism was welcomed by the most diverse circles: from Iranian Islamiscist theocrat Ahmadinejad to the unreconstructed Sandinista Marxist Daniel Ortega. The frantic search for the New Man, anti-Occidentalism, anti-Semitism, and the utopian-revolutionary hubris made Hugo Chavez the real successor of Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Guevara, and Fidel Castro.</p>
<p><strong>Vladimir Tismaneanu is professor of politics at the University of Maryland and the author of numerous books including &#8220;<em>Reinventing Politics: Eastern Europe from Stalin to Havel</em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>Fantasies of Salvation: Democracy, Nationalism, and Myth in Post-Communist Europe,&#8221;</em> and &#8220;<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/jamie-glazov/the-devil-in-history/"><em>The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century</em></a>.” The views presented in his articles are his and do not represent any institution.</strong></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/jamie-glazov/muslims-against-hamas/ham-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-172172"><img class=" wp-image-172172 alignleft" title="ham" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/ham-450x297.jpg" alt="" width="315" height="208" /></a>Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Hisham, the founder of <a href="http://www.facebook.com/muslimsagainstterror?ref=ts&amp;fref=ts">Muslims Against Hamas</a>. He is a Palestinian born in Jabaliya, in the Gaza Strip. He is protecting his full name for obvious reasons. Visit his “Muslims Against Hamas” page on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/muslimsagainstterror?ref=ts&amp;fref=ts">Facebook here</a>.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Hello Hisham, thank you for joining Frontpage Interview.</p>
<p>I would like to talk to you today about your new organization <em>Muslims Against Hamas</em>.</p>
<p>Let’s begin by you telling us a bit about your childhood and then about your teenage years when, it appears, things began to change for you.</p>
<p><strong>Hisham: </strong>The mechanism by which Hamas terrorizes the citizens of Gaza is relatively simple. It is based on the creation of external and internal enemies rarely real and most often fictitious. Repression of opponents, executions, torture are the most used means by the militants to keep the population under pressure.</p>
<p>In fact, the presence of a dangerous enemy keeps alive the fear of people who accept Hamas as a necessary evil and they do not rebel. However, many of the people of Gaza do not know that Hamas uses their fear with cynicism. Interrogations and trials of the enemies are very often false and designed for the intended purposes.<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>How did you manage to escape? Why did you decide to escape?</p>
<p><strong>Hisham: </strong>I must say that I was lucky in my case. A relative of mine worked in the smuggling tunnels between Gaza and Egypt. I started working with him and when I decided to escape he helped me a lot. I had made arrangements with an Egyptian family friend who helped me to enter into Egypt. Then it was all quite easy.</p>
<p>I decided to escape to study and go to college with peace of mind. At first I wasn&#8217;t even thinking about starting my battle against Hamas, but when you see things from another point of view, everything changes.<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Did you put your family at risk at all? Do you miss your family?</p>
<p><strong>Hisham: </strong>The biggest problem was leaving my family. I was afraid to put them in danger, and also I did not want to leave the most important people in my life. But they were the ones who supported and encouraged me to get my way. I cannot even explain how much I miss them. If they were with me, my life would be perfect.<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Why did you decide to denounce Hamas?</p>
<p><strong>Hisham: </strong>I decided to denounce Hamas recently. I was surfing the internet when I came across a video of Mosab Yousef. Mosab is the son of one of the founders of Hamas, Hassan Yousef, who had the courage to rebel and to denounce the crimes of the organization. I was impressed by him so I became interested in his cause. I recommend everyone to read his book &#8220;Son of Hamas.&#8221; Thanks to him, I realized that I, in my small way, could do something to try to change the disastrous situation in Gaza.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>What is your goal?</p>
<p><strong>Hisham: </strong>Since I live out of the reality of Gaza, I began to perceive a great misinformation and a lack of a deep understanding of the events regarding the Palestinian problem. The media are only interested in the conflict between Israel and Palestine; they ignore issues such as Hamas and Palestinian internal struggles. So, my main goal is to bring to light the problem of &#8220;Hamas&#8221; to stimulate the interest of the public.</p>
<p><strong>FP:  </strong>Are you a Muslim? How do you view Hamas in an Islamic context and Islamic Law in general?</p>
<p><strong>Hisham: </strong>Lately, my relationship with Islam is very confrontational, nevertheless I am certainly a Muslim. The main problem for us young Muslims in Gaza is to have lived the religion according to the dictates of Hamas. We all know that there are different approaches to Islamic tradition. I&#8217;m talking about Shi&#8217;ism, Sunnism, Wahhabism. The difference lies in the various interpretations of the Koran. Starting from these facts, we can understand how it is possible that an organization like Hamas could justify his crimes through the religion. They can do this by simply applying their interpretation of the ancient texts.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>If you had the power to replace Hamas with a style of government you supported, what kind of government would you choose for the Palestinians to live under?</p>
<p><strong>Hisham:</strong> I wish there was a democratic government, of course. I wish there was a state capable of guaranteeing equal rights to citizens and able to protect them. A government that knows how to be a guide for the population and that can make the right choices. Certainly, not the one that tortures civilians and exploits its power for mad purposes. I hope with all my heart that I could see such a miracle before Hamas leads all the inhabitants of Gaza to martyrdom at the outbreak of the next war.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Why do you think the mainstream media and international community ignores the crimes and viciousness of Hamas?</p>
<p><strong>Hisham: </strong>Honestly, I have no idea. And this is what scares me the most. I do not want to think that there are persecutors more important and more terrible than others. Maybe some people think that being silent in front of Hamas crimes may help the Palestinians to gain independence. There is nothing more wrong than this. Independence will begin only with the collapse of Hamas.</p>
<p><strong>FP:  </strong>When you say you wish for a “democratic government,” do you therefore oppose an Islamic state/Shariah law for Palestinians? Or do you think that democracy and Shariah are compatible and that HAMAS has just implemented it in a bad way?<strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>Hisham: </strong>I&#8217;m not a naive person. Sharia and democracy are two opposite concepts. Sharia law should not be the law of the state, simply because it is not democratic and it does not guarantee equality to citizens. There are many reasons why no one should be forced to follow Islamic law. One of these is that, as I said before, there are various interpretations of the ancient texts. Therefore, there can be no Islamic law that fits with all the different traditions. A democratic law would ensure respect for the opinions and peaceful coexistence.<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Do you support a Palestinian state that also accepts Israel’s right to exist and that does not engage in terror against it for the goal of exterminating it?</p>
<p><strong>Hisham: </strong>At this point we all should have realized that there can be only one solution: peace. I cannot deny the merit of Israel that guarantees the rights of the Arabs inside the country. This shows that coexistence is possible.</p>
<p>Nevertheless this is a futuristic topic. My idea is that the internal Palestinian issues must be resolved as a matter of urgency as they are the direct cause of all the others.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Thank you<strong> </strong>Hisham, for joining Frontpage Interview.</p>
<p>To those readers who are interested in <em>Muslims Against Hamas</em>, check out <a href="http://www.facebook.com/muslimsagainstterror?ref=ts&amp;fref=ts">Hisham&#8217;s Facebook page here</a>.</p>
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		<title>The Ghosts of Hungarian Communism Haunt U.S.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 04:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Spyridon Mitsotakis]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reflections on a homage to tyranny. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/spyridon-mitsotakis/the-ghosts-of-hungarian-communism-haunt-u-s/hungary1956/" rel="attachment wp-att-149199"><img class=" wp-image-149199 alignleft" title="Hungary1956" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Hungary1956.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="213" /></a>Thomas Peterffy, who in 1965 fled Communist Hungary, recently put out <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/10/12/private_citizen_buys_airtime_to_do_job_mainstream_media_refuses_to_do">an ad</a> stating:</p>
<blockquote><p>I grew up in a socialist country, and I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom, no pride in achievement. The nation became poorer and poorer, and that&#8217;s what I see happening here. As a young boy I was fantasizing about one day going to America, making a success of myself, the American dream. America&#8217;s wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with bad-mouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy. Yes, in socialism the rich will be poorer, but the poor will also be poorer. People lose interest in really working hard and creating jobs. I think this is a very slippery slope. It seems like people don&#8217;t learn from the past. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m voting Republican and putting this ad on television.</p></blockquote>
<p>Peterffy is more on the mark than he knows. This year just happens to be the 100<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the birth of Janos Kadar, the Communist dictator whose regime Mr. Peterffy had escaped from decades ago. To mark the occasion, the Central Committee of the Hungarian Communist Workers’ Party (formally knows as Hungarian Socialist Workers&#8217; Party, the Party Kadar, which ruled Hungary with an iron fist) has issued <a href=" http://munkaspart.hu/english/754.html">a statement</a> celebrating “the heritage of Janos Kadar.” At one point this homage to tyranny proclaims:</p>
<blockquote><p>The Kadar-era, the decades of socialism were the most successful period of Hungary in the 20th century. Everybody could work. All people had acceptable standard of living and one had to work for it only 8 hours a day. Nobody could become a billionaire but the majority of the people had acceptable life, secure present and calculable future.</p></blockquote>
<p>This statement is an almost perfect reflection of the ideals of our Democratic Party. No greater confirmation of Mr. Peterffy’s warning could have been as stark as the words of Hungarian Communism’s shadow.</p>
<p>It is rare to find such a concrete example of how the same subject (in this case a time period) is seen both through the eyes of a man who truly values freedom and in the appeals of the siren song of those who love tyranny.</p>
<p><em>Spyridon Mitsotakis is a history student at New York University studying the Cold War and a research assistant to Professor Paul Kengor. Professor Kengor dedicated his latest bestselling book, </em>The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis, The Untold Story of Barack Obamas Mentor<em>, to Spyridon in appreciation of the invaluable assistance he provided that made the book possible.</em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[When will the television series portray a Muslim “honor” killing and the Islamic theology behind it?]]></description>
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<p><strong>Visit <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/">Pajamas Media</a></strong></p>
<p>Almost every time I tune in to the show <em>Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit (SVU)</em>, there is some kind of grotesque and pathetically cheap leftist message being perpetuated. Recently, as most of us know, the show <a href="http://www.freedomslighthouse.com/2009/12/glenn-beck-responds-to-attack-by-law.html"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">had a character</span></a> verbalize a connection between a psychotic murder and the fans of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Bill O’Reilly. The connection, naturally, is that these three individuals are “a cancer spreading ignorance and hate.”</p>
<p>The other day another episode I watched launched a ferocious attack on a religion and, surprise, surprise, it wasn’t Islam. The producers didn’t take the road less traveled. You know, the one on which you confront the real dangers facing us but risk attracting lawsuits and death threats and, well, you know, putting your job and life at stake and stuff like that. Why bother doing all that when you can just dip into the trendy liberal moral sewer and attack the Catholic Church — with no consequences to your own career and personal well-being? The Catholic Church is so evil, you see, that absolutely nothing will happen to you after you attack it.</p>
<p>In this particular episode, a Catholic priest molests boys and the Church covers it all up. The script offers a politically correct delicacy in which the seal of confession is portrayed as a vile rule created by horrid men for the purpose of institutionalizing abuse and tyranny. There are no complexities, nothing to be said about the sacredness and importance of a priest having the obligation of keeping a confessed sin a secret. It’s all just so simple and, of course, <em>evil</em>.</p>
<p>Suffice it to say that the subject of this show is a reality in terms of the abuse of young boys by certain Catholic priests and its subsequent cover-up. These crimes have been investigated, exposed, and punished. And they should continue to be investigated, exposed, and punished. So as the topic for a show on television, it’s clearly warranted and legitimate.</p>
<p><strong>To continue reading this article, <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/law-order-and-double-standards/">click here.</a></strong></p>
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		<title>The impudent tyranny of Harry Reid &#8211; Washington Examiner</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada is proving once again the maxim that darkness hates the light. Buried in his massive amendment to the Senate version of Obamacare is Reid&#8217;s anti-democratic poison pill designed to prevent any future Congress from repealing the central feature of this monstrous legislation. Beginning on page 1,000 of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada is proving once again the maxim that darkness hates the light.</p>
<p>Buried in his massive amendment to the Senate version of Obamacare is Reid&#8217;s anti-democratic poison pill designed to prevent any future Congress from repealing the central feature of this monstrous legislation.</p>
<p>Beginning on page 1,000 of the measure, Section 3403 reads in part: &#8220;&#8230; it shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider any bill, resolution, amendment or conference report that would repeal or otherwise change this subsection.&#8221;</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/The-impudent-tyranny-of-Harry-Reid-8665439-79935422.html">The impudent tyranny of Harry Reid | Washington Examiner</a>.</p>
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		<title>Andrew Klavan: My Way Into and Out of the Left &#8211; by Jamie Glazov</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The critically-acclaimed novelist discusses his escape from the political faith.]]></description>
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<p>Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Andrew Klavan, the author of such internationally bestselling crime novels as <em>True Crime</em>, filmed by Clint Eastwood, and <em>Don’t Say A Word</em>, filmed starring Michael Douglas.  He has been nominated for the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Award five times and has won twice.  His last novel for adults, <em>Empire of Lies</em>, topped Amazon.com’s thriller list.  His new novel series for young adults continues in February with <em>The Long Way Home</em>.  Andrew is a contributing editor to <em>City Journal</em>, the magazine of the Manhattan Institute.  His essays on politics, religion, movies and literature have appeared in the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>, the <em>New York Times</em>, <em>The Washington Post</em>, the <em>LA Times</em>, and elsewhere.  As a screenwriter, he wrote the screenplays for 1990&#8242;s <em>A Shock to the System</em>, starring Michael Caine, and 2008&#8242;s <em>One Missed Call</em>. His <em>Klavan on the Culture</em> videos appear at PJTV.com. His website is <a href="http://www.andrewklavan.com/index.php">AndrewKlavan.com</a>.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Andrew Klavan, welcome to Frontpage Interview.</p>
<p>I’d like to talk to you today about your journey into and out of the Left.</p>
<p>How did you at first become a member of the political faith? Tell us about the beginnings of your intellectual journey.</p>
<p><strong>Klavan: </strong>Well, I was always a dissatisfied liberal. I just never knew there was anything else to be.  I was born Jewish to a mother who worshipped FDR and a father who thought that any Republican victory prefigured the return of Adolf Hitler.  That&#8217;s not an exaggeration:  he thought Republicans were all just Hitler in disguise.  So going from that family into the arts, where everyone mouths this elitist, pseudo-sophisticated left-wing bushwa without any real understanding of the underlying issues:  leftism was simply the water I swam in.  Conservatives were the bad guys.  Everyone knew that.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>So how did your second thoughts begin? Tell us about your journey out of the Left.</p>
<p><strong>Klavan: </strong>It was an experience that very much mirrored the pattern of the famous paradigm shift described in Thomas Kuhn&#8217;s &#8220;Structure of Scientific Revolutions.&#8221;  Anomalies started to occur, things that didn&#8217;t fit into what I thought of as a &#8220;liberal&#8221; world view.  The Bakke case, in which the Supreme Court supported affirmative action &#8211; that was a big one:  I thought it was a clear sign that the left &#8211; my side &#8211; had signed on to racism.  Feminism, political correctness, the disaster of welfare, the appeasement of the Soviet Union &#8211; I kept saying, &#8220;Well, that&#8217;s no good,&#8221; but I thought they were anomalies.  I still didn&#8217;t realize there was an alternative philosophy that described the world more accurately.  Then the Berlin Wall fell down &#8211; everything Reagan predicted &#8211; stupid Reagan, cowboy Reagan, dumb old movie actor Reagan &#8211; every single thing he said would happen, happened.  And it finally began to dawn on me, &#8220;Oh, I get it:  it&#8217;s not this and this and this that&#8217;s wrong.  It&#8217;s ALL wrong.&#8221;  And I started the long, difficult process of changing my mind.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>As you began changing your mind, what happened to your relationships? The leftist milieu does not allow dissent and will banish a heretic into “non-person” status. Did something of this nature begin happening to you? Tell us a bit about how your second thoughts affected your friendships and social life.</p>
<p><strong>Klavan: </strong>A lot of friends dropped away and a lot of business opportunities disappeared.  Working in Hollywood became much, much more difficult.  The worst time, I think, was during the Bush/Kerry election when passions were running so terribly high.  Liberals would say things to me, like, &#8220;I hope the war goes badly so Kerry wins.&#8221;  When I would point out that they were essentially wishing Americans dead so that their candidate would win, they felt I was being cruel and uncivil.  The left is fine with calling you racist, sexist, a pig, a Nazi &#8211; but if you point out the simple inarguable consequences of their words and actions, they feel you&#8217;ve just gone way too far!</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>A leftist is also part of the political faith very much because of his own vision of himself being a social redeemer and there is much self-satisfaction that comes with seeing oneself in this way.  Can you share a bit how you had to shed yourself of some ways you saw yourself and also what it meant to you to become someone who your dad had demonized?  This must have been very difficult.</p>
<p><strong>Klavan: </strong>It&#8217;s a lot like the Matrix, you know:  once you take the red pill, once you see that leftist virtue is an illusion created by an ideologically driven media and academy, once you see what leftist policies have <em>really </em>done to black people in this country, how they&#8217;ve appeased and encouraged tyranny, destroyed cities, ruined economies, blasted cultures it&#8217;s just impossible to re-submerge yourself in the left&#8217;s self-righteous illusion.  Was it difficult to have people I liked or even loved reel back in moral horror and disgust when they learned I was a conservative?  Sometimes, I guess.  But I&#8217;m a hard guy about stuff like that.  There&#8217;s so much true love in my life &#8211; the love of God, my wife, my kids, my friends &#8211; it&#8217;s an embarrassment of riches.  That hasn&#8217;t changed.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>What are your thoughts on the position the Left has taken in our conflict with radical Islam?</p>
<p><strong>Klavan: </strong>If I were still capable of being appalled by them, I&#8217;d be appalled, but as it is&#8230;  well, I don&#8217;t know how you shrug in print but picture me shrugging.  So desperate are they to display their tolerance, to claim virtue and open-mindedness for themselves, so secretly ashamed and guilt-ridden and self-hating are they, I guess, that they will give aid and comfort to a philosophy that turns everything they&#8217;re supposed to stand for on its head.  Anti-female, anti-gay, anti-religious liberty, anti-humanity, radical Islam is a cancer on the face of the earth.  Ignoring it, pretending it isn&#8217;t there, moral equivalence, relativism &#8211; all the various forms of false piety in which the left specializes &#8211; are as helpful with radical Islam as they are with other cancers.  It&#8217;s like having your doctor say, &#8220;Yes, there&#8217;s a spot on your x-ray, but let&#8217;s not do anything about it, in case we make it angry or seem biased!&#8221;  Academics, entertainers, wealthy elites like Michael Moore who think Islamists are going to like them, spare them and their limousines and their millions, because they&#8217;re such ever-so-good people&#8230;  well, they&#8217;re like the intellectuals who lined the streets of Vienna to welcome Hitler.  The next day, they were gone.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>What is it in your character that made it impossible for you to remain a leftist?</p>
<p><strong>Klavan: </strong>I think that question should be answered by whoever delivers my eulogy.  Personally, I&#8217;m hoping he uses phrases like &#8220;an undying love of truth,&#8221; and &#8220;an uncompromising commitment to authenticity.&#8221;  Then a little something about my sparkling smile, my lambent wit and my kindness to widows and orphans.  Some praise for my sexual prowess wouldn&#8217;t go amiss.  But perhaps I&#8217;ve gotten off the subject.<strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>You mentioned that leftists are<strong> “</strong>secretly ashamed and guilt-ridden and self-hating.” Can you expand a bit on this? What is it, in the end, that is at the core of the leftist mindset and belief system?<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>Klavan: </strong>Shame and guilt and self-hatred are universal.  Whether you chalk it up to original sin or to Oedipus or call it Jewish guilt or Catholic guilt or white guilt or black guilt, every single one of us knows he is not the person he was made to be.  There are honest ways to confront that.  You can kneel before God and pray for forgiveness and live in the joy of his love.  Or you can drink heavily and make sardonic remarks until you destroy everyone you care about and then keel over dead &#8211; that&#8217;s honest too.  But what a lot of people do is try to escape their sense of shame dishonestly by constructing elaborate moral frameworks that allow them to parade their virtue and their lavish repentance without any real inconvenience to themselves while simultaneously indulging in self-righteousness by condemning others for their impenitent evil.  That&#8217;s the bad version of religion &#8211; the sort of religion Jesus came to dismantle.  And that&#8217;s exactly the sort of religion leftism is:  an elaborate system for hiding shame behind a cheap mask of virtue.  That&#8217;s why they demonize any opposition.  To them, we&#8217;re not just disagreeing with them, we&#8217;re threatening to tear off the mask of their virtue and reveal them to themselves.  Which, without God or sufficient whiskey, would be unbearable.<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>You mentioned your love of God.<strong> </strong>Is your faith connected to, or influence, your view of the limitations of the leftist vision? How if so?<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>Klavan: </strong>I was an atheist and an agnostic for a long time.  Finding God, or perhaps accepting the God I always knew was there, was transformative in too many ways to describe.  But one of the most important things God did was make a realist of me.  There&#8217;s a great joke for you.  The atheists preen themselves on their realism and accuse the faithful of wishful thinking, but for me, God freed me to develop a full, honorable and tragic sense of life, to perceive both the nobility and the sinfulness of every individual, and to understand why no system will make us good or fair but that there are systems that can keep us free so that we can choose whether or not to be good or fair.  That understanding &#8211; plus a sense of peace in the face of the left&#8217;s slavering insults and hatred &#8211; were gifts of God to me and it turns out they&#8217;re very helpful in maintaining my conservatism.<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Radical Islam is gaining much strength on myriad realms and the Left has disabled us from even being able to name the enemy, let alone fight him properly. Are you optimistic or pessimistic that our civilization has the will and capacity to defend itself?</p>
<p><strong>Klavan: </strong>Radical Islam is sort of like an opportunistic virus, you know.  If it&#8217;s the final cause of the West&#8217;s death, it will only be because we weakened ourselves so badly that we gave it a chance to take hold.  And listen, death comes eventually to us all, right?  Countries die, civilizations die, nothing made by man&#8217;s hands lasts forever.  Conservatives are sort of like the doctors who are trying to keep America alive as long as we can and the question is:  how long?  My own feeling is that the country right now is in some danger from radical Islam, but that the real and present and terrible danger is to our republic, our system of individual liberty under limited government &#8211; and that danger comes from within.  Bread and circuses &#8211; or as we call them today, entitlements and the mainstream media &#8211; are being employed to poison our will and moral seriousness.  I foresee many years of American power yet to come, maybe more American power than ever before &#8211; but will it be republican power, the power of a free people over themselves, or will it be imperial power, the bloated strength of a slave state on the march?  We&#8217;ll see.<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> You mentioned Michael Moore. Who are some leftists that you think are especially pathetic sad cases?</p>
<p><strong>Klavan: </strong>Al Gore is quite hilarious.  Global warming!  I love that.  I seriously think the man had a nervous breakdown and decided to parlay it into an industry.  Why go nuts for free when you can make a fortune at it?  Going around in his fume-spewing jets preaching to us about our carbon footprints, he reminds me of some ancient Pope with mistresses and catamites and palaces condemning the sinfulness of the poor.  Then there&#8217;s that knucklehead Evan Thomas.  He&#8217;s the guy who practically lynched the Duke University Boys on the cover of Newsweek and then said, &#8220;Oh, we had the narrative right we just got the facts wrong.&#8221;  In my business &#8211; writing novels &#8211; you can get the narrative right and the facts wrong.  In his business, the facts <em>are</em> the narrative.  He&#8217;s lucky there&#8217;s a Keith Olbermann, or he&#8217;d be the poster boy for our corrupt idiot news media.<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Who do you admire in our political theater today in terms of warriors for freedom?</p>
<p><strong>Klavan: </strong>Rudy Giuliani is a great man in terms of his accomplishments but he may have played out his political string.  We have all the good writers and thinkers, every single one:  Horowitz, Krauthammer, Fouad Ajami, Jonah Goldberg, Mark Steyn, on and on - who has the left got to touch the hems of their garments?  Our entertainer-slash-commentators are great.  El Rush-bo is a radio genius.  Coulter, Beck, Hannity.  It makes me crazy the way right wingers are always nervously edging away from them, while the left embraces their John Stewarts and Michael Moores.  Andrew Breitbart is terrific; he&#8217;s building an empire of truth to defeat the msm&#8217;s empire of lies &#8211; and he&#8217;ll do it too.  And we&#8217;ve got some good pols, especially the babes:  Michelle Bachman, Sarah Palin, Liz Cheney.  What we&#8217;re missing is a towering figure to take the presidential helm but, you know, cometh the hour, cometh the man.  And the hour is sure enough cometh-ing.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Were you always a man of humor? Why humor to fight our enemies and fight for the truth? What is especially meaningful and powerful about humor? Interestingly enough, humor is not something that the Left and radical Islam particularly excel in, to say the least.</p>
<p><strong>Klavan: </strong>LOL, no, the funniest Muslim right now is Achmed the Dead Terrorist, that Jeff Dunham puppet who&#8217;s always screaming, &#8220;I&#8217;ll kill you!&#8221;  But you know, my Dad was a radio comedian so I guess I inherited a certain sense of hilarity.  But it&#8217;s not a weapon to me.  I mean, in comedians, humor is frequently an expression of anger or hostility.  In me, it&#8217;s something different.  I know this sounds silly when you say it flat-out, but the truth is:  I&#8217;m very fond of the human race.  Too fond of them, I sometimes think.  And when you see how small we are, how brief our lives are, what gifts of creation these fingersnaps of consciousness are in God&#8217;s great scheme&#8230;  and then you see what we do to one another:  the holocausts and the little cruelties, the elaborate lies and self-deceptions&#8230;  gassing a child to death because his name ends in <em>itz </em>instead of <em>er, </em>betraying and abusing the spouses who love us, hurting our own kids, all the ways we spend our little moment when we could be loving each other and making funny faces&#8230;.  well, it&#8217;s absurd, isn&#8217;t it?  And the absurdity either makes your heart explode with pity, or you have to laugh.  Or both.  For me, it&#8217;s both.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Andrew Klavan, thank you for joining us. It was an honor to speak with you.</p>
<p>We&#8217;d like to remind our readers that Andrew Klavan&#8217;s latest novel for adults is <em>Empire of Lies</em>.  <strong><a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Empire-Lies-Andrew-Klavan/dp/0151012237/ref=sr_1_1/183-1850762-1291168?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1260420806&amp;sr=8-1">Get it now</a></strong>!</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech Thursday is drawing praise from some unlikely quarters – conservative Republicans – who likened Obama’s defense of “just wars” to the worldview of his predecessor, Republican George W. Bush. It’s already being called the “Obama Doctrine” – a notion that foreign policy is a struggle of good and [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech Thursday is drawing praise from some unlikely quarters – conservative Republicans – who likened Obama’s defense of “just wars” to the worldview of his predecessor, Republican George W. Bush.</p>
<p>It’s already being called the “Obama Doctrine” – a notion that foreign policy is a struggle of good and evil, that American exceptionalism has blunted the force of tyranny in the world, and that U.S. military can be a force for good and even harnessed to humanitarian ends.</p>
<p>“There will be times,” Obama said, “when nations – acting individually or in concert – will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified.”</p>
<p>The remarks drew immediate praise from a host of conservatives, including former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.</p>
<p>“I liked what he said,&#8221; Palin told USA Today. &#8220;Of course, war is the last thing I believe any American wants to engage in, but it&#8217;s necessary. We have to stop these terrorists.&#8221;</p>
<p>Gingrich told The Takeaway, a national morning drive show from WNYC and Public Radio International, “He clearly understood that he had been given the prize prematurely, but he used it as an occasion to remind people, first of all, as he said: that there is evil in the world.&#8221;</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30448.html">Conservative praise for Nobel speech &#8211; - POLITICO.com</a>.</p>
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