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Mob violence recently took place in L.A. and hundreds of other cities over Donald Trump’s efforts to obey the Constitution and “faithfully execute” the duties of the president, and carry out the laws by deporting illegal aliens. At the same time, Israel began a massive attack on Iran’s weapons and leaders in order to prevent that regime from acquiring nuclear weapons––which Iran now has a “zero- breakout-time” for achieving–– and fulfill the jihadists’ genocidal oath to “wipe Israel off the map,” as Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in 2003.
What links these events is the “big lie” of “stolen land,” indulged by the leftist Democrats in L.A., and Israel’s enemies everywhere. Leftists and jihadists both adhere to the precept “any means necessary,” which validates violence. But as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has said, the “big lie” is codependent with violence, “since it can conceal itself with nothing except the lie, and the lie has nothing to uphold it save violence.” Marxism is famous for both.
From the beginning, Karl Marx boasted of Marxists’ embrace of violence. In 1843 he threatened the Prussian government, “We are ruthless and ask no quarter from you. When our turn comes, we shall not disguise our terrorism.” The next year he publicized his “plan of action,” and stated, “Far from opposing the so-called excesses, those examples of popular vengeance against hated individuals and buildings which have acquired hateful memories, we must not only condone these examples but lend them a helping hand.” This, of course, foreshadows today’s leftist Dem politicians who support violent protests and riots, and those governors and congressmen who encourage and support the rioters.
True to Solzhenitsyn’s observation, Marxists have employed propaganda and “big lies” to legitimize their violence. This affinity for lying, which George Orwell’s phrase from 1984, “2+2= 5,” epitomized, was endemic among the Bolsheviks and their propaganda that penetrated every dimension of society and politics. Pierre Pascal, an apostate from Soviet communism, in 1924 wrote in his journal, No regime has ever been a regime of lies to this extent.”
Another repentant true believer, Boris Souvarine––anticipating Orwell––wrote of the Bolshevik’s public discourse, “Not one fact, not one quotation, not one idea, not one argument: only impudent affirmations with a half-dozen interchangeable words come from the ‘heights.’” We who have witnessed during the last decade the regime media repeating endlessly the same preposterous talking points, often word for word, know what Souvarine is talking about.
As for the jihadists, of course, violence against the enemies of Islam like Jews, Christians, and other “infidels,” is integral to the faith, as recorded in the Koran and hadith, and documented in 14 centuries of history. So too with the “big lie,” which is sanctioned by “taqiyya,” the legitimate practice of lying and deceiving, or even blaspheming against Allah, if the purpose is to defeat infidels and advance Islam’s empire. As Mohammed said, “war is deception,” and negotiating in bad faith is an important tactic of jihad––as Iran’s serial violations of the terms of the “Iran deal” illustrate.
But delusional Westerners, including many American self-proclaimed conservatives, reject these facts as the slanders of Islamophobes and, incoherently, “racists.” Even Hamas’ filming and publicizing the heinous slaughter of Jews on 10/7/23, replete with rape and torture inflicted on civilians and children, is not enough to deter privileged, badly educated American students and activists-for-hire, from carrying genocidal banners, waving the flag of Hamas, and indulging genocidal chants during their “mostly peaceful” protests.
The key lie featured in the Palestinian Arabs’ war against Israel is the “stolen land” canard, which also appeared in the universities’ Chicano movement in the Sixties. This identity politics myth-history claims that the whole Southwest was once Aztlán, the original homeland of La Raza, the “bronze” race, which was lost to the “brutal ‘gringo’ invasion.” The goal of the Chicano movement is a “reconquest” of their lost homeland. The racist drift of all this is obvious in the motto of MEChA, the Chicano student movement: “For the Race everything, outside the Race, nothing” –– a creepy reprise of Mussolini’s ethnonationalist and fascistic creed, “Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”
The master mendacious narrative behind this and other “stolen land” fantasies, of course, is demonized Western imperialism and colonialism. Marxism has deformed those two historical phenomena into crimes specific to Western Civilization. As Pascal Bruckner has written, “We Europeans have been raised to detest ourselves, certain that within our world, there is a certain essential evil that must be relentlessly atoned for. This evil is known by two terms––colonialism and imperialism.”
The self-loathing West has accepted this Marxist historical lie, and the deformation of those words into what the historian of Soviet terrorism and mass murder, Robert Conquest, called “mind-blockers and thought extinguishers,” which serve “mainly to confuse, and of course to replace, the complex and needed process of understanding with the unneeded process of inflammation.” Of course, Marxists pass over the fact that when the Bolsheviks overthrew the Czar’s empire, they kept his central Asian possessions. And don’t forget the Eastern European states Stalin added to the Soviet empire after the Potsdam Conference.
This bastardization of history is the mother of all “big lies,” providing both the left and the jihadists with a ready-made cliché that makes the West the biggest villain of history, and the prime mover of all the world’s dysfunctions and troubles. That’s why the daughter of a Congresswoman in L.A. yelled “death to the colonial empire!” as her fellow protestors threw chunks of concrete at police officers. Such juvenile rhetoric has turned politically selected minority clients, no matter how privileged, into “victims” deserving of special treatment and consideration. For the Dems, these “victims” have––until the last election––been a huge constituency of reliable voters.
The California version of the “stolen land” fantasy chanted in L.A., however, has never really gotten much traction among Mexican-Americans, nor did the label “Chicano,” which was about as popular as the silly neologism “Latinx” is today. And the displays of Mexican flags will very likely turn out to be a tin-eared, arrogant faux pas during the next election. Interestingly, here in Fresno, our “no kings” protest was bristling with U.S. flags. Could the Democrat grown-ups be waking up?
But the Palestinian Arab exploitation of that “stolen land” lie has been more consequential and bloodier, fueling the conflict with support from Westerners, especially Europeans and the UN, who have funded the jihadist terror of Hamas and other Iranian proxies, and used their offices and programs to demonize Israel and compromise its security by legitimizing the anti-colonialist “stolen land” narrative.
This distortion of history is patently specious. Colonialism had nothing to do with Israel’s creation. In fact, it was the Wilsonian principles of national self-determination and animus against colonialism, as codified in the Versailles Treaty, that determined the fate of the Ottoman Empire and the Muslims and Jews who lived in its lost territories. That was the price the Sultan paid for picking the wrong side in World War I.
In short, Israel was created by the same mandate protocols and policies developee by international laws and agreements that created the new nations of Jordan, Syria, Beirut, and Lebanon. The significant difference is that several Arab nations, some of them members of the UN, invaded Jewish mandate territory to settle the issue with force.
Finally, it’s shameless for a people whose ancestors created one of the greatest colonial empires in history, to rely on evil Western “colonialism” arguments to justify eradicating Israel. As Middle East historian Efraim Karsh writes in Islamic Imperialism, during Islam’s expansion, Muslims “acted in typical imperialist fashion from the start, subjugating indigenous populations, colonizing their lands and expropriating their wealth, resource, and labor.” And while Europeans eventually left their colonies to the indigenous peoples, today Muslims still occupy the land that their ancestors “stole” from Romans and Greeks, Jews and Christians–– the civilizational foundations of the West.
Fortunately, now we have an administration and foreign policy team that acknowledges realism based on human nature, the facts of history, and common sense, rather than feckless idealism, Orwellian history, and canards like “stolen land.” Israel’s effort to keep a tyrannical regime from possessing nuclear weapons will benefit not just themselves, but all those peoples, including Muslims, who do not want to live in the shadow of a nuclear holocaust.
The current country of Mexico has only existed since 1920. That’s long after California became a state in 1848 or whenever. The Californians seized that state from the Spaniard beaners in only ONE DAY. That was a supreme ass kicking.
FUCK MEXICO. If you pull one of those fagotty Mexican flags in front of me. I’ll shove it so far up your ass it will take a surgeon to remove it.
big whut? on the history, ohh god way too much to correct
What’s up, Jeremiad? How many dicks have you sucked today? Did they taste like sausage or ball sweat? I bet they weren’t Kosher.
I wouldn’t want to give you too many details knowing how you fantasize about things.
That’s actually funny.
Dems also like to say that America stole land from the Native Americans, yet they don’t seem to be in any hurry to donate their land back to the Native Americans
Or to hold the Indians accountable for the land they almost always stole from other Indians in the first place.
Considering that land is “sacred” to Indians and presumably it was to the offending party also, it was worse than our theft because they knew, understood the zeitgeist, the magnitude of displacing someone from who their land was considered sacred.
OKAY, maybe you’re not so bad. 🙂
ok you got me, ball sweat
So how many of these idiots believes that Idiotic campaign from Ben & Jerry?! Useful Idiots is what they are
A useful idiot is just an idiot soon to become a useless idiot
I’m working in London this week and there are Karl Marx Walking Tours posters on derelict buildings, the posters are tattered and torn which beautifully reflects what the world looks like in Marxist reality.
Yeah, Marx sponged of the London library while his family starved. What a “role model.”
And his books are contradictory nonsense.
A role model for those family men knocking up the live in maid.
I thoroughly recommend the Book by Paul Johnson, entitled ‘The Intellectuals’, which considers many of the well-known self-styled Intellectuals including Karl Marx.
These people were despicable, with no redeeming qualities at all. Without exception they were dissolute parasites, sponging off affluent patrons while spouting lefty ideology, treating all around them; family and friends alike; with disdain and outright antipathy.
I find it interesting that when the commies like you, they call you an intellectual, even if you spout incomprehensible rubbish.
Uh, I’m not exactly a commie.
If you have read Thomas Sowell, you will know his view of what he calls “public intellectuals”. It’s not great.
Good features of marx.
Sex Pest. He did harass his maid. He kept a side piece. A bit of a dog but it was likely closer to rape than consensual. The other guy wrote or stole most of the writings and marx gave the speeches? Another was he had open sores on his bum and legs for a long period.
and those were his GOOD points?
A Must See: THEREDNATION.ORG “Until Decolonization, Liberation, and Land Back”
NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNIST GROUP that started the anti-Columbus Day here at UNM/Albuquerque, with the help from A.N.S.W.E.R., NOW NATIONAL with Indigenous People’s Day and now going after Thanksgiving, the White Invaders with The Day of Mourning. They protest with BLM Communists, and now in Solidarity with Hamas! They team up with Mexicans/Aztlan who want their land back, the Southwest, BUT WOULDN’T THEY BE AGAINST EACH OTHER SINCE THE SOUTHWEST WAS FULL OF NATIVES? (Counter them: “The Mayans, Aztecs, Toltec, Olmecs, Mezcala, etc… want their land back too. OUT!”)
The Red Nation’s Mission Statement: “Revolutionary Socialism
Third General Assembly formally adopts revolutionary socialism and liberation as the primary political ideology of The Red Nation. While incomplete, the purpose of this proposal is to articulate the basic principles of revolutionary socialism and Marxism and its connection to Indigenous socialism and communism.” (They removed their very long statement off their page, but I found it on google so I posted one paragraph.)
This IS the group that is now national with their speakers at major protests, including D.C..
They want their SACRED LAND back… so they can build a casino on it!
Stolen land? I think it’s safe to say there are over a thousand idiots born every minute. If you’re living on “stolen land”, GIVE IT BACK – to the native tribe who stole it from a previous tribe that stole it… And then MOVE BACK to the land “ancestry.com” says you came from, who were people who stole it from some previous people… IAW, get over it! If you don’t have the power and wherewithal to hold onto your “National Land”, you deserve to lose it. The “borders” of Europe have flip-flopped back and forth so many times its uncountable. ALL land is “STOLEN”.
I always ask, “How far back do you want us to go?” Perhaps to the original cave dwellers? How do we decide who the “rightful” owners are? Shall I go knock on the door of the house I grew up in and demand to be given the keys to the house, since I lived there first? Who cares that I did not consent to selling the house to those people? I was 10 when my parents sold it to the people who sold it to the people who sold it to the ones who live there today? What weird logic.
Yes, history is filled with a lot of effed up things. Peoples being conquered. Peoples being moved. Populations exterminated. Populations expanding and contracting. And the world goes on. Everyone has an ancestor who was a slave and one who was a slaver. Time marches on.
I live in reality, as I am unable to change the past. Indeed, if I could change the past I would be thinner, richer, and more beautiful. And I wouldn’t have those pesky credit card bills. but here we are. This is really manipulation via the politics of resentment and envy. It’s a classic trope by marxists who like to stir up the poorly educated to do their dirty work.
Even as the videos of Oct 7 were being celebrated, the lie was maintained that nothing happened, and that the genocide was actually against the Gazans. Literally, the same people were talking out of both sides of their mouths.
Methinks the whole point of the big lie is not deception. It gives people an excuse to be cruel and violent against their betters. And that is the heart of Marx.
It is all delusional nonsense based upon the writings and bloviations of the angriest old white guy God ever created.
The number of people who think Marx actually knew the previously unknowable – that his scribbling could contain the answers for mankind shows how stupid mankind is determined to remain.
These same people laugh at those of us find meaning and direction in the Bible.
To each their own.
The Jewish people can’t “illegally occupy” the land makes up the State of Israel because all that land belongs to the Jewish people. The reason why this is so is because the Bible reveals, that God had given all this land that now composes the State of Israel, including all of the West Bank, to the Jewish people. This may be found in the Bible, as seen in, for example, Genesis 28:13-15. 35:10-12. Deuteronomy 32:48,49. Psalm 105:7-11.
In other words, the Jews have tall this land by Divine Right. Furthermore, the Jewish people should have this land by historic rights as shown in First Kings 4:20,21, 24,25. 8:55, 56.
The Bible informs its reader “For the Lord chosen for Himself, Israel for His special treasure.” Psalm 135:4. [N.K.J.V.]
“…the Bible reveals, that God had given all this land.….to the Jewish people.”
And it’s important for folks to try to learn and understand WHY God gave this land to the Jews, (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob).
Yes, what yo keyboarded is ,indeed, very true. In addition, the word “Palestine” is a fabricated term that was made up for the land by the Roman Emperor Hadrian as an insult to the Jews because the Jews and the Philistines, many times, fought each other. For a long time after that “renaming ‘of that land, Both Arabs and Jews living in that land were both referred to as “Palestinians.” Then in 1964, many Arabs started to refer only to themselves as ‘The Palestinians” hoping that would give them some kind of valid claim to that land in the eyes of the different nations of the world. In addition, Yasser Arafat in 1969 further spread the myth of a specific ethnic group or race of people called “the Palestinians.
No, it was only the remnant or returned Jewish population that was referred to as Palestinians, the arabs were called arabs.
I have often wondered why no one ever seems to ask how Muslims were justified in stealing all of the land that they now have.
Egypt is a key example. When Muslims invaded and took over Egypt in the early 600s, Egypt was 100% Christian. Through centuries of oppression and enslavement of the indigenous Egyptians, Muslims now make up about 90% of the population, and the indigenous Egyptians now make up about 10% of the population.
In Turkey, Muslims have a grand opportunity to show their good will to the indigenous Turkish population:
1) Give the Hagia Sophia back to the Christians, and let them use it as a church.
2) Make Istanbul a safe zone for Christians and other non-Muslims, a place where they can freely practice their religion and participate in life free from discrimination.
Bonus: Change the name of Istanbul back to Constantinople.
“If you don’t like your history, go out and make up some of your own.”The Marxists Democrats manifesto written by self hating hacks like Howard Zinn and taught to our nation’s children. No wonder we have generations filled with America hating degenerate narcissistic nihilists. In government, the culture, the news media and academia. .Can’t shut down the educational industrial complex soon enough. The intense curricula that educated some of our founders would be a good start.
We need penal colonies, work camps, to send all these traitors to. They must not be allowed to remain in our country to plot our demise. These are the domestic terrorists and enemies of the state.
A system of penal colonies can be established to house them, where they will have to actually work to survive. That system will not cost the citizens a penny.
They may never return to our country and must be stripped of their citizenship.
The enforcement of the Communist Control Act of 1954 is a great place to start Scam Blondi:
The act declared the Communist Party to be an instrumentality of a conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. government and denied it the rights and privileges afforded to legal political parties.
Prohibiting Communists in Representative Capacities:
It bars members of the Communist Party and “Communist-action” organizations from holding office, particularly in labor unions.
“Communist-Infiltrated” Organizations:
The act created a new category of “Communist-infiltrated” organizations and provided a way for members of labor unions within this category to seek relief from communist control, potentially retaining contractual rights.
If our country is to survive, we must deal seriously with these degenerate, perverse traitors who pose a mortal threat to our survival. Those who fight against our law enforcement and laws, those who fight to defend the right of illegal alien invading parasites to abuse our country, are radical traitors and enemies of the State.
This includes the radical Marxists in the judiciary who are undermining the fundamental foundations of our Constitution and Republic. They all should be tried before a military tribunal for obstruction of justice, conspiracy and treason.
Once convicted, these reprobate traitors will dispatched to penal colonies to never return.
This attack on our laws and law enforcement poses a mortal threat to the survival of the United States of America 🇺🇸
Bolshevism was so thoroughly built on a lie that even the term “Bolshevik” is one.
It means “majority”, but was self coined to describe the less than 20% minority group who walked out of the First Communist International because the majority didn’t want to embark on a campaign of assassination and terror against the existing order.
It’s not stolen land, it’s conquered land. It is ours until someone else conquers it.
Period!
Every culture of humans have done this. The fight for land will never end.
“Oh thus be it ever when free men shall stand between their loved homes and the war’s desolation. Blessed with victory and peace may the heaven-rescued land praise the Power that has made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, if out cause it is just, and this be our motto: In God is our trust. And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave, o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Stanza 4 of the national anthem – Frances Scott Key
1. What land was stolen?
2. Who stole it?
3. From whom did they steal it?
3. How did they steal it?
These are four essential questions the victim should ask if they want to report the crime to the police, or whatever law enforcement agency has the proper jurisdiction over the alleged land theft. And another useful detail would be a declared value of the stolen land if you need to make an insurance claim.