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June 11, 2009

Museum shooter a Christian-hating socialist

It's true. Though not that you'd think so from the media generated narrative about James Wenneker Von Brunn being "right-wing" and "conservative."

Lefty media types have been quick to put Von Brunn into a box labelled "right-wing conservative" and then use this as ammunition against conservatives. No doubt one of them has already found a way of blaming George Bush for the shooting at Washington's Holocaust Museum.

Pity they didn't bother to take the time to read what he had written himself about his beliefs. (For one thing, they'd have discovered that he's a 9/11 Truther who thinks Bush was behind it all.)

And as an ex-journalism major, he wrote quite a lot. Things like:

"One [capitalism] is past history; the other, WESTERN SOCIALISM, represents the future of the West, and the end of JEWRY on Western soil."

The Federal Reserve (ie the US's central bank) was "designed by bankers for bankers."

As Ben Johnson writing in frontpagemag.com observes, Von Brunn "despised the freedom and potential decadence capitalism affords, insisting Jews were “exacerbating natural disputes between the Western States and influencing the results in favor of Liberalism as opposed to Authority; that is, materialism, free trade and usury [the charging of interest on borrowed money], as opposed to Western Socialism; Internationalism as opposed to Western unity. MONEY was their sword and buckler. Hate and revenge their motif.”"

Now, I suspect that "western" socialism is another way of saying national socialism, ie NAZI, but we forget that nazism and fascism were genuineley radical working class movements.

They didn't just appropriate the term socialist to piss off the "genuine" socialists.

Franco, who was probably a conservative monarchist at heart was prepared to use the radical fascists, with their anti-capitalist rhetoric, so long as it suited him. Then he shafted them.

These points are taken from the “Platform for the Aryan National State” of Aryan Nations:

  • Promote and preserve the industry and livelihood of the citizens.
  • [E]liminate the current practice of damaging and poisoning life and environment.
  • Provide honest aid to farmers and other business people, and shall restore to all citizens rightful land ownership.
  • Make the necessary provisions for the aged, who have been impoverished by fraud (inflation).
  • Confiscate all unearned wealth, stolen by fraud or usury and that which is gain from war.
  • Nationalize all monopolies and multi-national interest[s].
  • Immediately bring about land reform….

    • I'd reckon most anti-globalisation protesters at a meeting of the G20 would be quite happy to sign up to these.

    He has this to say about Christianity:
    These dangerous, imbecilic, concepts, tenets, and teachings, often treasonous, DESTROYED the Roman Empire and drenched the soil of Europe with Aryan blood for almost 2000 years!

    The Big Lie technique, employed by Paul to create the CHRISTIAN RELIGION, also was used to create the HOLOCAUST RELIGION ... CHRISTIANITY AND THE HOLOCAUST are HOAXES.
    He worked for a time at a white supremacist bookshop that had at least in the past stocked books by Noam Chomsky, who is something of a hero amongst Jew haters.

    Again, this should surprise nobody. The extreme Right and the extreme Left are not the polar opposites that people imagine. They end up strangely resembling each other in quite a lot of ways.

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    June 5, 2009

    Yeah, Bush would never have done such a thing

    Except of course he did. Repeatedly. It was a point he laboured again and again and again - that the vast majority of Muslims could not be besmirched because of the actions of a few.
    I ...... applaud his efforts at reaching out to Muslims. GWB would never have done such a thing; he was content to broadly categorize every Muslim as a terrorist and call it a day.
    Lisa Kern
    10/17/2006:
    The end of the Muslim month of fasting is ‘a good time to reflect on the values we hold in common,’ US President George W Bush said Monday night while hosting an Eid al-Fitr dinner at the White House.
     
    The Muslim guests of the president and First Lady Laura Bush included police officers and medics who worked at the scene of the September 11 attacks five years ago in New York City, US diplomats, a military doctor, a Navy chaplain and other military veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
     
    Bush welcomed the dinner guests with a greeting of ‘Ramadan Karim.’ Monday was the sixth White House observation of the event during his presidency.
     
    ‘On this special evening, we celebrate the millions of Muslims that we are proud to call American citizens. We honour the many Islamic nations that America is proud to call friends,’ Bush said.
     
    ‘And we renew the ties of friendship that should bind all who trace their faith back to God’s call on Abraham.’
     
    The White House served a Middle Eastern-influenced menu including spiced carrot soup, mint pesto-crusted halibut and chocolate macaroons. Eid al-Fitr is a celebratory meal to mark the end of Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting.
     
    ‘America is a land of many faiths, and we welcome and honour the Muslim faith in our nation,’ Bush said.
     
    ‘Our society is enriched by our Muslim citizens. Your commitment to your faith reminds us all of the precious gift of religious freedom in our country. America is a more hopeful nation because of the talents and generosity and compassion of our Muslim citizens.’
     
    But the progressive Left, hostile to matters of religion, just never got it. They'd put Bush into a box marked "Christian loony extremist" and were never prepared to look, let alone think, outside of that box.
     
    I well remember reading an article from an American newspaper in which the journalist's bewilderment at the opinions of school girls in Damascus was painfully apparent.
     
    They were, despite being Muslims and not agreeing with many of Bush's policies, very positive about him because of his faith.
     

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    May 8, 2009

    Bush raises $100 million for his presidential library

    tonight’s KisP fun facts
    George W. Bush may have left office with just 22 percent approval rating, but the former president certainly still has his fans: According to Time, Mr. Bush’s backers have raised more than $100 million for his planned presidential library at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
     
    That’s an impressive pace: Time notes that Bill Clinton did not raise $100 million for his presidential library until the second year of his post-presidential life.
     

    From Knowledge is Power

     

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    May 4, 2009

    'Happy Cuatro de Cinco!' ;)

    Another example of words mangled by the greatest orator of this or any other time, and yet another clear example of the double standard applied by the press to George Bush.
     
    Just imagine the media meltdown if Bush had said "Cuatro de Cinco" instead of "Cuatro de Mayo."
     
    Doesn't prove anything. Mr Obama isn't the first person, (and wont be the last), to stumble when making a joke in another language. It doesn't make him an idiot.
     
    Whereas the press would have been full of "Bush is an idiot" memed stories had he said it.
     
    Though of course Bush never would have made such a mistake because, unlike Mr Obama, he does speak another language. Spanish as it happens.
    Monday, May 04, 2009
    Our Genius President: 'Happy Cuatro de Cinco!'
    I like to note these little incidents when they happen, not because I think it makes Obama an idiot because he occasionally stumbles over his words, but because his somewhat overblown reputation as the most cerebral, eloquent, utterly erudite president of all time could really use a pricking every now and then.
     
    Also, because if Bush had made such a blunder, it would have been the basis of a four-part MSNBC investigative series on the malapropism's deleterious effects on the Republican Party's attempts to woo Hispanic voters, Mexican-American relations, and our "place in the world."
     
    So, Obama, I will not turn your tendency to mispeak (and, then reprimand your Teleprompter) into an international incident, but I will note it with some glee:
    On the eve of the Mexican holiday, Obama on Monday had an event in the East Room of the White House with Mexico's Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan (sahr-oo-KHAN').
     
    Obama joked that it was "Cinco de Cuatro," botching a play on the Spanish word for "four" when he meant to say "Cuatro de Mayo," or the Fourth of May. He tried again, but he still did not get it right.
    This from a unilingual man who's embarrassed that more of us can't speak French. If only he were as conversant in Spanish as he is in noted non-language "Austrian," this wouldn't have happened.
     

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    May 1, 2009

    The Dalai Lama on George Bush

    May 1, 2009

    Dalai Lama Hearts George W. Bush

    I love this piece from Jay Nordlinger, on how the Dalai Lama stunned Cambridge, Massacusetts with the news that George W. Bush is a good man, and one he loves:

    Audience member: “Can you give us an example of a leader we should look up to as a positive influence?”
     
    Dalai Lama (after thinking for a few seconds): “President Bush. I met him personally and liked him very much. He was honest and straightforward, and that is very important. I may not have agreed with all his policies, but I thought he was very honest and a very good leader.”

    Nordlinger has more and you’ll want to read it all, particularly Jay’s closing remarks.

    http://www.firstthings.com/theanchoress/2009/05/01/dalai-lama-hearts-george-w-bush/

    Perhaps now that he is no longer president, and the effects of Bush Derangement Syndrome begin to fade, we can also have an honest assessment of him, warts and all (and not just the warts as has so often been the case).

    The Dalai Lama of course joins Bono and Bob Geldof in being prepared to give credit to Bush where it is due, in their case when Bush committed $15 billion to Africa.

    Though, in a typical example of how such things get spun in the media, an Irish newspaper's headline credited Bono and Geldof with boosting US aid to Africa, not Bush, and referred to Bush being "forced" by them to do so!

     

     

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