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No Fascists, No Apology

World | Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:46:43 pm PDT

Note to Pamela and to Fjordman: I will not be “apologizing” for refusing to join forces with European white nationalist groups: Atlas Shrugs: ATLAS EXCLUSIVE: FJORDMAN ON FREEDOM FIGHTING ‘FASCISTS’.

Enjoy your new allies, folks.

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1 WrathofG-d  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:47:56pm

Link didn't work for me.

2 Thanos  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:48:23pm

Not found

3 Irish Rose  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:48:45pm

Good on you, Charles.

You know you're right on this issue.
Stay the course.

4 Noam Sayin'  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:48:54pm

Wait for it...

5 opnion  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:49:07pm

Let's talk about something while we wait

6 abolitionist  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:49:15pm

Linky no worky.

7 Charles  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:49:15pm

Works now.

8 Thanos  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:49:58pm

I went direct, the page is there, might be blocking referrals from here Charles.

[Link: atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com...]

9 Noam Sayin'  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:50:07pm
10 opnion  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:51:09pm

Later, I am off to watch the White Sox try to make the playoffs.
Mama Winger , if your here , let's do a Crosstown!

11 Noam Sayin'  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:51:28pm
What follows is an essay by Fjordman on what I consider to be the dangerous, almost lethal hypocrisy...

Pack a lunch. It's going to be a long f*cking post.

12 Son Of The Godfather  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:51:59pm

The appeal of joining forces with one enemy to destroy another is strong.

In this case, it is also very, very wrong.

Jeeebus, I don't know why Pam and Fjordman don't see this.

13 sarah  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:52:23pm

Read thru the first couple of paragraphs and almost lost it. I'll keep my opinion to myself in fear of being tracked down and hunted.

14 Charles  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:52:56pm

Thanks to Pastorius for your comments there, by the way. It's a lost cause.

15 Gordon Marock  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:53:12pm

Charles, you have my complete support in this. These guys are total a$$holes.

16 mama winger  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:54:10pm

re: #10 opnion

Later, I am off to watch the White Sox try to make the playoffs.
Mama Winger , if your here , let's do a Crosstown!

Sounds like a plan!

17 livefreeor die  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:54:15pm

I love how it's "either-or" with that group, like if you're against radical Islamists, then you're great, no matter what else you're doing. Yo, Fjordman and Atlas, this is a little more complicated than choose "A" or "B".

18 shug  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:54:22pm

re: #11 Noam Sayin'

Pack a lunch. It's going to be a long f*cking post.

I never saw a post by Fjordman that I read past the first paragraph.

turns out, it was nothing but fascist bile so I'm glad I saved myself the effort.

19 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:54:27pm

Go ahead pamela, fjordman and others- make excuses for the neo-nazis. They are not above using you to get the power they want. They are exploiting the situation, and you are falling for the trap.

That the situation is dire is still no excuse to make alliances with nazis. That the situation in europe is dire is exactly how fascists come to power. Learn from history or be doomed to repeat it, vb lovers.

20 Lizard by the Bay  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:54:34pm

I just posted this on the previous thread, not realizing it's imminent status as "dead thread". Here are my musings again, for everyone's amusement and/or derision:

Well, it looks like it's going to come down to just 3 states in the northeast that will determine our next President. Specifically the heart of the Rust Belt: Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan. Every projection and poll I've seen shows every other state firlmy in one camp or the other for most of this election season, giving 245 solid votes to McCain and 235 solid votes to Obama.

What this means is that the race will come down to whoever gets 2 of the 3 states mentioned* (Florida is just not in play, despite what Dems may think of their chances there). Ohio seems likes it's leaning towards McCain, while Michigan looks pretty good for Obama. I believe Pennsylvania will be the true battleground, like Ohio and Florida before.

*There is the slightest possibility that McCain could lose two states and still win anyway, but only if he can wrest Colorado and New Mexico away from Obama; but McCain is slightly vulnerable in Nevada and West Virginia, potentially cancelling that out. No, I don't expext too much shake-up in the western states or West Virginia. It's Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. Once those three contests have been decided, the night is over.

21 Basho  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:54:45pm

re: #11 Noam Sayin'

Pack a lunch. It's going to be a long f*cking post.

I'm just skipping to his LGF rant...

22 Gordon Marock  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:54:46pm

re: #12 Son Of The Godfather

The appeal of joining forces with one enemy to destroy another is strong.

In this case, it is also very, very wrong.

Jeeebus, I don't know why Pam and Fjordman don't see this.

They see it.

23 mama winger  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:55:11pm

re: #19 Sharmuta

Go ahead pamela, fjordman and others- make excuses for the neo-nazis. They are not above using you to get the power they want. They are exploiting the situation, and you are falling for the trap.

That the situation is dire is still no excuse to make alliances with nazis. That the situation in europe is dire is exactly how fascists come to power. Learn from history or be doomed to repeat it, vb lovers.

Well said.

24 karmic_inquisitor  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:55:32pm

I think EMC or some other large data storage vendor needs to "join forces" with these guys if they expect to let Fjordman to keep writing those long ass posts.

25 WrathofG-d  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:55:35pm

The line here is thin it seems.

But like most things, both sides hate Jews.

26 livefreeor die  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:56:25pm

I posted the other night that here in the Philly suburbs, there are a lot more McCain signs this time than there were Bush signs four years ago.

Of course, I haven't heard how the registration of dead voters is going in Philly.

27 Irish Rose  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:57:01pm

OK, I read it.

Pamela finally comes out of seclusion to show us that after all this time, she's still an idiot.

28 Son Of The Godfather  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:57:07pm

re: #22 Gordon Marock

They see it.

That makes it exponentially dubious.
(I hate Illinois Nazis)

29 wong fei hung  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:57:12pm

"One of the reasons why hardcore anti-Semites (David Duke would be a case in point) are unreliable allies is that they hate Jews so much that it shuts down the rational parts of their brain and they end up making common cause with Muslims, based on mutual hatred."

Ah, so they aren't irrational because of their jew-hatred, it's that they use the rational parts of their brain on hating jews.

Put on some more pancake makeup, clown. Your true colors are shining through.

-WFH

30 Charles  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:57:47pm

re: #25 WrathofG-d

The line here is thin it seems.

But like most things, both sides hate Jews.

No white nationalists allowed. That's not a thin line.

31 The Other Les  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:57:49pm

I really wish she would stop using that title for her blog.

Ayn Rand would have absolutely nothing to do with that kind of trash.

32 ornery elephant  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:58:04pm

The poor, poor islamists in Europe are caught in this sandwich between Fascist forces and the Communist marxists. I think I have this right...the Fascists want the islamists out, the Communists want the Fascists out so if the Communists win, the Islamists win, don't they? And if the Fascists win, the islamists are out but at what price?

Makes me wonder if there isn't anyone in Europe that wants the islamists out yet doesn't fall under the "fascist" label. Is everyone in Europe that wants an end to islamofascism there to be considered a fascist? I fear that my views about islamists in America would certainly be labeled as "fascist" by the multicultural marxists of Europe.

33 livefreeor die  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:58:05pm

re: #27 Irish Rose

OK, I read it.

Pamela finally comes out of seclusion to show us that after all this time, she's still an idiot.

She and Naomi Wolf should go out to lunch together.

34 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:58:22pm

May Fjordman go down in history as the first to achieve a heretofore impossible anatomical maneuver of (*rimshot*) self-penetration.

35 Mich-again  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:58:25pm

Hey if you want to see the new face of Fascism, David Duke and his Euro buddies are having a conference in Memphis Tennessee early November. To protest whoever it is that wins the election. They hate em both. You can buy your tickets here (If you don't mind giving up your credit card info to Dr Duke.) International Euro Conference And this below is Duke pimping the event on $tormfront. no link.

by David Duke

Just a few short days after the political and media bosses install a new President of the United States; we will meet in Memphis, Tennessee to issue a clarion call for a Movement across the United States, and indeed across the European-American world, to defend our heritage and freedom!

We will assemble to say clearly that neither Black Radical, Barrack Obama, nor Mr. Amnesty, John McCain truly represent the will of the American people. This Conference will be the first powerful voice of our people in reaction and protest to the election and the lack of any real choice and any real Democracy in America. In this history-making time, we shall chart our course and forge a plan for the survival and freedom of the heritage that built and sustains America, Europe, and the other nations around the world of European descent.

As organizer of this EURO Conference, I welcome Willis Carto of American Free Press/Barnes Review, Don Black of Stormfront, Dr. Edward Fields and James Edwards of the Political Cesspool Radio Program as co-hosts for the event.

Memphis is one of the most centrally-located cities in the USA and is a major airline hub. It is convenient as a destination from almost anywhere, and easy to get to for our overseas participants as well.

It will be held in a first class, premier hotel in a beautiful and secure country setting that is still just a short ride from the Memphis region airport. This fine hotel has agreed to a reduction of almost 40 percent off their normal rates. [I wonder who in Memphis is giving the big discount to Nazis?-ed]

There will be a number of well-known, exciting speakers from overseas, as well as many major American and Canadian speakers including, Willis Carto, Don Black, Paul Fromm, Sam Dickson, James Edwards, Lady Michele Renouf of the UK, Dr. Tom Sunic of Croatia and a number of other famous individuals who will be announced at the meeting itself. Some speakers will be announced at the conference due to the fact that the Federal Government has sought to prevent entry to leaders of European Rights organizations and political movements.

36 looking closely  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:58:53pm
The LGF-crowd thinks that Europeans must prove that we are 100% "ideologically pure" before we should be granted the right to fight for our continued existence.


Not at all.
But the USA isn't Europe.
Maybe these things fly in Belgium, but any connection to Naziism is political poison in this country.
The FASTEST way to discredit this site, and everything Charles (and others) have worked for over years, is to connect with neo-Nazis or their European fascist pals.
This isn't "ideologic purity" its pragmatic reality.

37 Gordon Marock  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:59:08pm

These are the kind of people who go to parties, and, out of politeness, refuse to tell racists to go f*&ck themselves.

38 acwgusa  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:59:10pm

Anyone willing to ally themselves with VB should not be shocked from the knife in the back after deflecting the knife from the front from Islam.

39 arethusa  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:59:49pm

re: #20 Lizard by the Bay

It's Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. Once those three contests have been decided, the night is over.

Well, at least that means I won't have to stay up till the wee hours of the morning, like in 2000.

Speaking of PA...let's go, Phillies!

40 Charles  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:59:49pm

David Duke stayed at a Vlaams Belang council member's house when he visited Belgium, remember:

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

41 Slumbering Behemoth  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:59:59pm
Here is Fjordman's essay:

TLDR, except the last bit:

At some point, the rapidly shrinking number of people in the northern hemisphere who haven't been banned from the site yet will be forced to ask themselves whether the website and its owner have simply switched teams and joined the Dark Side.

What a hoot! This is comedy, right? [rhetorical]

42 Lizard by the Bay  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:02:36pm

re: #39 arethusa

Well, at least that means I won't have to stay up till the wee hours of the morning, like in 2000.

Speaking of PA...let's go, Phillies!

I never said the vote counts in these states wouldn't go on into the wee hours of the morning. That's always a posibillity.

43 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:03:52pm

Fascist come to power when the government fails to take care of the needs of the people. That is what we're seeing in europe now. The weak kneed governments are failing their citizens, and the citizens are turning to the only groups they see willing to do anything about it.

This is what happened in post WWI europe, it is happening again. Europe will go fascist again- they did not learn. And people like pamela, fjordman and others (I know who you are) will be cheering.

Will you be cheering, pamela, when they round up the Jews after they're done with the muslims? Will others be cheering when tactics used by the islamists are put to use by the europeans, or will they turn a blind eye?

Shame on those who disregard Liberty and toss it under the bus. SHAME ON YOU!

44 TalkinKamel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:04:03pm

What really gets me is that Pamela blames Charles, and LGF, for encouraging the attacks on those who attended the Cologne conference. (Oh yeah, like the European Left really cares about what what they consider Facist, right-wing American blogs and looks to them for their marching orders, ayup, ayup!)

This is as demented as anything coming from Naomi Wolfe.

45 looking closely  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:04:24pm
The thinking seems to be that if you scratch any random European there is usually a Nazi lurking underneath, just waiting to get out. There are only two possible versions of Europeans: the surrender-monkeys and the Nazis.


Again, no.
But when something walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, what are you to assume?
Its up to you to build something that prevents encroachment of Islamism without being tied to neo-Nazism.
Until and unless you can do that, you wont get support from mainsteam America.

46 Thanos  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:04:46pm

Such scenery chewing hysteria all so Eurofascist pols can win more votes in their districts. What bileous spume.

I mean you invite LePen what the fuck do you expect? The fact that it's all so easy to shut this crap down ought to give Geller a glimpse at how extreme her new Euro social circle is.

Is she going to be pimping books for Pat next?

47 Irish Rose  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:05:13pm
The LGF-crowd thinks that Europeans must prove that we are 100% "ideologically pure" before we should be granted the right to fight for our continued existence.

We're all fighting for our continue existence, idiot. The enemy wants us all to be either dead or dhimmified. The jihadis make no distinction between Americans and Europeans.

The difference between us, is that you choose to align yourself with (what you perceive to be) a lesser evil, in order to fight (what you perceive to be) a greater evil.

What you fail to realize, is that it's the SAME evil.

48 TalkinKamel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:05:51pm

The Nazis came to power back in the 1930's by claiming that they were the only ones who could save the world from Russian Marxism (and the Jews, of course).

We all know how well their war against the Bolsheviks went. (Can you say "Hitler/Stalin Pact, boys and girls? I knew you could!)

49 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:08:19pm
50 quickjustice  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:08:29pm

As Spence has pointed out before, racial purity is not a credible or effective basis upon which to build opposition to Muslim extremism. For that reason alone, apart from their distasteful appeal to race, the white supremicists are losers.

51 The Other Les  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:08:40pm

re: #48 TalkinKamel

The National Socialists and the Soviet communists were basically two gangs competing for real estate, slave laborers, and other resources. The Nazi-Soviet War of 1941-1945 could be characterized as a drive by shooting carried out on an industrial scale.

52 mama winger  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:09:25pm

re: #43 Sharmuta

Fascist come to power when the government fails to take care of the needs of the people

I would say, rather, that fascists come to power when government takes away the power of people to take care of themselves.

Europe has been living as a nanny state, effectively neutering the strength and abilities of its population. It has taken away their guns, it has taken away their right to free speech and made it a hate crime to speak out against those who would seek to harm society. It has made people dependent on government welfare and effectively crippled ingenuity, creativity and production. Their sense of self-determination has been stolen from them by the government via the European Union.

People in Europe don't need more government to take care of them, they need government to give rights back to the people so that they may take care of themselves.

53 Thanos  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:09:26pm

Charles, thanks for pointing this out btw. I've got most of that circle on /ignore and never would have noticed this. She'll probably get more hits tonight than she's had in months.

54 karmic_inquisitor  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:10:16pm

Because Fjordman's ego is so big, he will check these comments.

So here is a little feedback, FM.

That post is so stuffed with strawmen that it is a fire hazard.

I will do you the favor and focus on one of them.

What is this 100% ideological purity test bullshit? There is a broad spectrum of political viewpoints within the west that you claim to defend from Islam. So where is this definition of ideological purity to which one must adhere 100%?

Reply where ever you like - I will find it.

The point repeatedly made here is that embracing fascists, even while holding your nose, doesn't cut it. Fascists simply will destroy what we hope to defend, they will simply do it in a different way than the Islamists.

55 quickjustice  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:10:29pm

re: #49 buzzsawmonkey

I admire Pamela's ardor, but on this issue, she's seriously mistaken.

56 arethusa  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:11:09pm

re: #42 Lizard by the Bay

re: #39 arethusa

Well, at least that means I won't have to stay up till the wee hours of the morning, like in 2000.

Speaking of PA...let's go, Phillies!

re: #42 Lizard by the Bay

I never said the vote counts in these states wouldn't go on into the wee hours of the morning. That's always a posibillity.

True. But hopefully it will beat 2004, when I stayed up all night...thanks to being in Europe at the time and watching on CNN World (ick).

57 hebrewtoyou  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:11:35pm

I can't believe Fjordman expects an apology. That guy needs to lay off the fermented twinkies...

58 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:13:03pm

re: #52 mama winger

No- fascists come to power by exploiting the weakness of the government to do their job for the people.

When the farmers of the Po Valley needed help, the government did nothing, so they turned to the Blackshirts, and this paved the was for fascists in Italy.

When the farmers in France needed help, the government helped them. The Blueshirts had no influence and fascism in France never became a force to be reckoned with.

59 mama winger  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:15:09pm

re: #58 Sharmuta

I guess my ideological bent is a little different. I believe that the solution to most problems is less government, not more. The most dreaded words to me are

"I'm from the government and I'm here to help you."

60 karmic_inquisitor  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:15:16pm

re: #49 buzzsawmonkey

I tend to look more at her megalomania. The constant restating of her Jewish identity is simply a dimension of the megalomania. Just look at that post -- not one link except to herself in the introduction. And the graphics emphasizing her physique are supposed to support her arguments? I know they are intended as humor, but only in the most self flattering way.

61 rightymouse  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:17:05pm

What's next for Pamela? Support for David Duke and American white supremists because they 'share' a common goal?

62 ornery elephant  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:17:38pm

re: #50 quickjustice

As Spence has pointed out before, racial purity is not a credible or effective basis upon which to build opposition to Muslim extremism. For that reason alone, apart from their distasteful appeal to race, the white supremicists are losers.

Let me ask a question. If I am a white Swede who is adamantly against the islamafication of my homeland, can you explain how I will NOT be labeled as a "white supremacist" by the marxists in Europe? Surely you aren't saying that the 5,000 (or whatever ridiculously low number) Vlaams Belang members in Belgium represent 100% of the causcasian opposition to the islamists in Europe? Is it not possible that 75% of the white Swedes opposed to islamofascism in Sweden are NOT members of the Swedish Democrats? Is it possible that the Swedes opposed to the islamists that are defenders of Israel and NOT stricken with the racial purity angle, simply refuse to organize themselves because of the eventual label of "supremacist" , "neo-nazi" or "fascist"?

Sorry, but it appears to me that the "fascist" or "white supremacist" paint brush used on the Europeans is about as wide as France and as long as Norway.

63 Son Of The Godfather  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:18:05pm

Like many here, I oppose an Obama presidency for a multitude of policy reasons.

White supremacists oppose an Obama presidency because he is black.

I would sooner taste the sweet, gunpowdery release of my Thompson .45 than join with fascists for a common political goal.

When you suspend your core beliefs for an end result, you jeopardize those very beliefs you claim to hold true. A simple, undeniable fact that seems lost to those who would side with a repugnant ideology for the sake of political expediency.

64 Lizard by the Bay  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:18:58pm

Let me see if I understand Fjordman's "logic". He starts hanging out with Neo-Nazis. Then he starts tying the fascist Neo-Nazi movement to anti-Jihad, welcoming them with open arms to the cause. Then he starts getting called a Nazi and fascist. And so he blames us (as in LGF) for tying him to Neo-Nazi fascists when all we did was turn our backs on him by refusing to go down his path.

Do I have the basic gist of what the psycho little turd is saying?

65 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:19:36pm
Whereas the liberal state rested on a compact among its citizens to protect individual rights and freedoms, the fascist state embodied the national destiny, in service to which all the members of the national group found their highest fulfillment.

-Robert Paxton, Anatomy of Fascism

You cannot fight fascism with fascism. Shame on those who toss Liberty aside so lightly.

66 Salamantis  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:19:53pm

What amuses me is the blatant self-contradiction of Fjordmann criticizing others for 'ideological purity', when those others are merely refusing to buy into what Fjordmann favors: linking arms with racial purists in order to oppose religious purists.

67 Querent  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:20:04pm

#64
pretty much.
swim in the duck pond, show the requisite plumage, and quack, and your mother may still call you a swan, but to me, Fjordman, you sure look like a duck...

68 Twilight  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:22:06pm

To ally yourself with fascists, be they white black or yellow for all I care, against Islamofacists is like drinking one brand of beer instead of another. Fascists are fascists without any regard to brand - all want the same goals in the end: [insert specific fascist ideology here] will rule the world order and no Jews. Replacing one with another won't solve the problem. We must oppose all fascists if we are to make it as citizens of free countries and as a race in general. Our fathers and grandfathers fought the white (Nazis) and red (Communists) fascists alike and we should follow their example.

I'm with Charles on this one.

No fascists allowed.

69 Querent  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:22:20pm

aw darnit, did i kill the thread again?

70 shiplord kirel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:23:05pm

re: #61 rightymouse

What's next for Pamela? Support for David Duke and American white supremists because they 'share' a common goal?

Nah, but only because the Duke-heads are on the other side; they support Islamofascism through their opposition to the war and their mutual hatred of Jews. Duke himself has made some highly lucrative speaking engagements in various middle eastern fascist hellholes, where he is treated as an honored guest and a legitimate American leader.

71 Ringo the Gringo  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:23:06pm

I can't help but think that there really is no hope for Europe.

It's a truly sad state of affairs and I expect it to get worse as the years go by.

72 Salamantis  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:23:38pm

"Enjoy your new allies, folks."
- Charles

Umm, don't you mean enjoy your new AXIS?

73 Querent  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:24:30pm

salamantis, i regret that i have but one upding to give for that very clever bit of wit!

74 Outrider  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:24:52pm

Stuff like this happening in Europe really concern me. Is there no middle ground at all? Is there any group in Europe that fights this Islamification that is not connected to the White Supremacists?

...A line of anti-riot police agents was only two meters behind them. I can not find a better image of the creeping Eurabian fascism: The police not only do not confront them, they cover their backs....

...Thomas Steg, spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel, stated that Berlin favored "inter-cultural dialogue." The German Interior Ministry, too, criticized the rally, stating that "Such a gathering of populists and extremists harms the co-existence that the city and Muslim citizens have striven for..."

...Cologne Mayor Fritz Schramma, from the same "conservative" Christian Democratic Party (CDU) as Chancellor Merkel, said on public radio that "We don't want their conference and along with a great majority of Cologne people we'll be obstructing them..."

75 Lynn B.  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:26:20pm

re: #26 livefreeor die

I posted the other night that here in the Philly suburbs, there are a lot more McCain signs this time than there were Bush signs four years ago.

Of course, I haven't heard how the registration of dead voters is going in Philly.

Out in this (western) Philly suburb there aren't even any McCain lawn signs available yet at local HQ but I've seen a lot popping up anyway. Will try HQ again tomorrow. OTOH, I think there may be more Obama signs up than there were Kerry signs by this time four years ago. It's early yet. I expect to see a lot more of both soon.

76 LotharBot  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:26:21pm

I'm glad the neo-nazis are fighting against the Islamic fascists. But I'm not going to accept an "alliance" with them, or overlook their faults because of it.

The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.

77 Slumbering Behemoth  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:26:31pm

re: #68 Twilight


Fascists are fascists without any regard to brand - all want the same goals in the end: [insert specific fascist ideology here] will rule the world order and no Jews.

Fascism, at it's core, is not about getting rid of the Jews, but it does seem to be the icing on the turd for many brands of fascist scum.

78 rightymouse  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:26:38pm

re: #70 shiplord kirel

Nah, but only because the Duke-heads are on the other side; they support Islamofascism through their opposition to the war and their mutual hatred of Jews. Duke himself has made some highly lucrative speaking engagements in various middle eastern fascist hellholes, where he is treated as an honored guest and a legitimate American leader.

The European supremists are more clever, it seems. Methinks they are hiding their ultimate agenda which I fear won't stop at Muslims if they ever gain political power on the backs of non-suspecting Jews.

79 Ojoe  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:27:32pm

Charles thanks for keeping the real work here untainted, we will need it kept untainted or the work will not work.

80 Mich-again  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:27:39pm

Fjordman was a big proponent of mass deportations from his homeland of people who "don't belong" there. All those 10,000 word essays he writes can be summed up in that one central goal.

81 CyanSnowHawk  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:28:05pm

ATLAS EXCLUSIVE: FJORDMAN ON FREEDOM FIGHTING "FASCISTS" I STILL KEEP MISSING THE POINT.

Fixed that for ya'.

82 Lynn B.  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:28:19pm

re: #33 livefreeor die

She and Naomi Wolf should go out to lunch together.

But who would be lunch?

/

83 Ojoe  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:29:01pm

Ultimately the two forces islamic and fascist may destroy each other, & it is better to stand back from that.

84 Thanos  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:29:05pm

Ornery the answer to that question is not that hard.

You argue against the ideology of the Takfirists, not the symbols (scarves, mosques) because that's ultimately stupid and ineffective. (It's also driven by these far right group's own ideologies of blood and soil, but another time for that.)

You use facts, data, reason, not rhetoric and hysteria.

You fight to enforce all of your laws equally, for that is where the line of resistance is truly drawn.

You demonstrate against specific hate clerics and use their own words against them and you persist until those individuals are driven out. They cannot survive in the light. The truth is a powerful weapon.

What you don't do:

Ally with LePen and like outfits, you are defeated from the start, no questions asked, none needed. Nobody needs to take you seriously.

85 Slumbering Behemoth  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:29:23pm

re: #72 Salamantis

Zing! Not only did I laugh, but now I have an urge to dust of that old Milton Bradley box.

86 nyc redneck  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:29:28pm

what i remember reading abt. nazis in ww2, is that they hated the jews , the gypsies, the polish, the catholics, the gays and many other people a lot more than they hated the moslems.
the nazis are a bad ally for anyone but other nazis.

87 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:29:30pm

re: #78 rightymouse

The European supremists are more clever, it seems. Methinks they are hiding their ultimate agenda which I fear won't stop at Muslims if they ever gain political power on the backs of non-suspecting Jews.

Of course it's not going to stop with the muslims. It will continue on to any group that the fascists believe don't belong in the state.

88 Irish Rose  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:29:31pm

Things seem to be going a bit pear-shaped over at Jihadwatch, as well.

89 ContraJihadi  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:29:39pm

Methinks the Baron and Pamela, more emphatically Fjordman, must be a little unsure of themselves. Otherwise they wouldn't obsess so much over what Charles thinks of them--but they do obsess*. I am not saying that they are not sincere in their resistance to jihad, but they just don't want to admit that their efforts are tainted by their association with or acquiescence toward the blood-and-soil cadres. Pamela especially should know better, but she has made a choice that will only allow resentment to cloud her otherwise keen observations on the tactics of the jihadis and her support for true patriots like John Bolton and Carolyn Glick.

They rail against Charles when he criticizes them; they rail against Charles when he ignores them. Indeed, they suffer from obsession.

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*The Baron has a little graphic on GoV that reads, "I have been banned at LGF, have you?"

90 ornery elephant  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:30:06pm

re: #74 Outrider

Well, I think all of us in America can relate to how the MSM treats conservatives in American in their "reporting" , so it stands to reason that the marxist controlled news media of Europe would treat any counter-jihad group in the same way , in other words:

Sarah Palin courtesy of American MSM = Evil Neo-Con Reactionary

Counter-jihadists in Europe courtesy of European marxist media = White Supremacist Neo-Fascist Nazis

91 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:30:27pm
92 rightymouse  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:30:43pm

re: #87 Sharmuta

Of course it's not going to stop with the muslims. It will continue on to any group that the fascists believe don't belong in the state.

Exactly.

93 Moe Katz  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:31:08pm

Is Pamela Geller any relation to Uri Geller? Maybe she could just make the Islamists disappear?

94 Noam Sayin'  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:31:14pm

Damn, Fjordman's posts are always so long. I always seem to lose interest in them before I finish. One can get away with that - if you're Bill Whittle. You know, take me on a little journey with you.

I've seldom posted on these white nationalist-themed threads because I'm mostly just reading learning. Thank you lizards for breaking it all down for the rest of us.

Thanks, Charles.

95 livefreeor die  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:31:39pm

re: #87 Sharmuta

Of course it's not going to stop with the muslims. It will continue on to any group that the fascists believe don't belong in the state.

They can check with our MSM about how to go after babies with Down's syndrome.

96 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:32:46pm

re: #90 ornery elephant

Well, I think all of us in America can relate to how the MSM treats conservatives in American in their "reporting" , so it stands to reason that the marxist controlled news media of Europe would treat any counter-jihad group in the same way , in other words:

Sarah Palin courtesy of American MSM = Evil Neo-Con Reactionary

Counter-jihadists in Europe courtesy of European marxist media = White Supremacist Neo-Fascist Nazis

Well- we certainly can't argue that the counter-jihad in europe is being treated unfairly when they welcome the nazis with open arms. Gee- maybe it's part of the problem, huh?

97 wiffersnapper  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:32:46pm

Because the only way to be anti-jihad is to be a nationalist!

/sarc

98 Thanos  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:34:03pm

re: #75 Lynn B.

Out in this (western) Philly suburb there aren't even any McCain lawn signs available yet at local HQ but I've seen a lot popping up anyway. Will try HQ again tomorrow. OTOH, I think there may be more Obama signs up than there were Kerry signs by this time four years ago. It's early yet. I expect to see a lot more of both soon.

I think they are backlogged, and I bet they are filling the orders in battleground states first, I haven't got my signs yet though I ordered two weeks ago. I'm seeing a few Obama signs here, but not many McCain. Of course in Kansas Obama's certainly got no chance.

I don't mind waiting a bit longer to make sure as many McCain / Palin signs as possible go up in the tossup states.

99 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:34:42pm

re: #95 livefreeor die

They can check with our MSM about how to go after babies with Down's syndrome.

They have their own history books for that.

100 Tom on the Rez  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:35:10pm

I have to agree with Ornery Elephant (#62). Being frustrated with your government and opposing the importation of Islam doesn't make you a Nazi, fascist, or white supremacist. But hanging with David Duke makes it likely.

Let's not be so quick to reject possible allies in a long war. If they're a problem later, we kick their asses, too. Pamela seems like a good sort. I didn't read much of the Fjordman thing; life's too short.

101 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:35:29pm

re: #94 Noam Sayin'

I put a book in the spinoffs that is invaluable to learning more about the roots of european fascism, if you'd like to read more up on the subject.

102 ContraJihadi  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:35:49pm

re: #96 Sharmuta

Well- we certainly can't argue that the counter-jihad in europe is being treated unfairly when they welcome the nazis with open arms. Gee- maybe it's part of the problem, huh?

The tragedy is that, because the counter-jihadis have associated themselves with the blood-and-soil cadres, savages like the Antifa are spared the scrutiny they merit.

103 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:36:16pm

re: #100 Tom on the Rez

You can hang with the nazis- I'll pass.

104 Mich-again  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:36:20pm

re: #87 Sharmuta

Of course it's not going to stop with the muslims. It will continue on to any group that the fascists believe don't belong in the state.

Agreed. They know the way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time. There is no reason to think they would stop purifying their homeland once the Muslims were gone.

105 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:37:11pm
106 Twilight  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:37:28pm

re: #77 Slumbering Behemoth

Thanks for correcting me. Fascism by itself is not antisemitic but is always based on class/race divisions. Most brands have antisemitism/racism on their agenda or get to it in later stages one way or the other.
But you got my point anyway I hope.

107 Thanos  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:38:07pm

re: #93 Moe Katz

Is Pamela Geller any relation to Uri Geller? Maybe she could just make the Islamists disappear?

If not she could bend their spoons?

108 Moe Katz  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:38:48pm

re: #107 Thanos

If not she could bend their spoons?

A dastardly idea!

109 ornery elephant  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:39:15pm

re: #96 Sharmuta

Once again, are you saying that 100% of the counter-jihad in Europe is represented by Vlaams Belang?

I mean seriously...you said:

the counter-jihad in europe is being treated unfairly when they welcome the nazis with open arms.

Does that mean that if Robert Spencer embraced The Aryan Nation in America here, that the lizards of LGF would be "welcoming the nazis with open arms" ?

Is Vlaams Belang 50,000,000 strong or am I missing something?

110 ContraJihadi  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:40:00pm

re: #106 Twilight

Thanks for correcting me. Fascism by itself is not antisemitic but is always based on class/race divisions. Most brands have antisemitism/racism on their agenda or get to it in later stages one way or the other.
But you got my point anyway I hope.

Yes, that is why I say "blood-and-soil cadres," because not all those in Europe (or here in America) who reject the pluralism of the classical liberal are specifically (neo)Nazi.

111 ryukyu  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:40:24pm

I guess this makes Pam a "useful idiot." Too bad, I used to like her blog. I guess she doesn't know that fascist always look for the next culprit to their woes.

112 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:40:36pm

re: #77 Slumbering Behemoth

Fascism, at it's core, is not about getting rid of the Jews, but it does seem to be the icing on the turd for many brands of fascist scum.

That's true- the fascists in Italy had no problem with the Jews until they started their alliance with the Nazis.

113 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:41:16pm

re: #109 ornery elephant

I'm not so sure Robert Spencer is one to be help up in this conversation.

114 LotharBot  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:41:39pm

re: #100 Tom on the Rez

Let's not be so quick to reject possible allies in a long war.

Let's not be so quick to treat people fighting against a common enemy as "allies".

I'm glad the white fascists are fighting against the Islamic fascists, and I think the Islamic fascists are currently more dangerous, but that doesn't mean I want the white fascists to win. I'll gladly accept one group of my enemies weakening another group of my enemies. But I won't accept them as "allies" or "friends", only as less powerful enemies.

115 Slumbering Behemoth  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:41:55pm

Flip it on it's head:

If a violent, pro-aryan supremacy, fascist movement was gaining wealth, power, territory and influence, who would find it acceptable to join forces with islamo-fascists to oppose them?

Not I.

116 rightymouse  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:41:59pm

re: #100 Tom on the Rez

Hanging out with David Duke is not ok (which we all agree with), but hanging out with self-admitted European white supremacists is just hunky-dory?

117 Noam Sayin'  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:42:12pm

re: #101 Sharmuta

I put a book in the spinoffs that is invaluable to learning more about the roots of european fascism, if you'd like to read more up on the subject.

I'm four books behind as it is.

Damn innernets.

118 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:43:08pm
119 right_on_target  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:43:37pm

re: #62 ornery elephant

Sorry, but it appears to me that the "fascist" or "white supremacist" paint brush used on the Europeans is about as wide as France and as long as Norway.


-----------------------------
You have a point there. Any right wing group AUTOMATICALLY gets painted with a "fascist" label in Europe. That's why everyone there seems to be left or squarely in the center. There is an unhealthy self-loathing for nationalism [love of country] in Europe.

Being "right" in Europe quite often means joining a far right group because of the false security it brings in a political gang. It's sort of like her in the US when Republicans [the right] don't advertise their political beliefs for fear of retribution [cars getting keyed, etc.]

If only there could be "right-wing" parties in Europe without the fascist crap.

120 TalkinKamel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:43:38pm

re: #109 ornery elephant

How is rejecting Vlaams Belang, etc., rejecting the European counter-jihad? Are you saying they're the only ones in Europe that oppose the Caliphate? (If you do, I flat out can't believe it.)

121 Noam Sayin'  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:44:40pm

re: #117 Noam Sayin'

However, that one looks important.

122 TalkinKamel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:44:56pm

re: #119 right_on_target

I'd settle for just plain ol' conservative, free-market, classic liberal, capitalism supporting parties.

123 Quilly Mammoth  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:45:00pm

Uhmmm, Charles, who exactly made me an Ally of the fascist thugs? Substituting one thug for another is no answer and it saddens me that people like Pamela are so short sighted as to miss that.

124 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:46:05pm

re: #109 ornery elephant

Once again, are you saying that 100% of the counter-jihad in Europe is represented by Vlaams Belang?

You know damn good and well that's not what I'm saying. What I am saying is that the nazis are tainting the movement and you whine that the movement is being called tainted by the msm. It's not the msm's fault. You want to be pissed that the msm calls the movement tainted- look to the tainters. Thank vb, pamela and fjordy.

125 winston06  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:46:26pm

Someone tell me whats wrong with Atlas Shrugs. I thought she was one of the good guys. What happened to her?

126 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:47:15pm

Oh well- they're going to call me a fascist anyways so I might as well prove them right.

How is cutting off your nose to spite your face a winning strategy, OE?

127 Slumbering Behemoth  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:47:22pm

re: #106 Twilight

I got your point, and gave you an up-ding. I wasn't trying to correct you, just trying to point out that fascism is not about racial divisions. Though it does help the instigators to have a scapegoat of some sort, and racial/religious divisions seem to be the easiest to exploit.

128 ContraJihadi  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:47:23pm

re: #122 TalkinKamel

I'd settle for just plain ol' conservative, free-market, classic liberal, capitalism supporting parties.

I would too, but except for one tiny party in Germany (I think they are called the Free Democrats), there is no such party in Western Europe, as far as I know.

I'd be happy to receive informed corrections.

129 rightymouse  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:47:50pm

re: #125 winston06

Someone tell me whats wrong with Atlas Shrugs. I thought she was one of the good guys. What happened to her?


Fear.

130 Salamantis  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:49:08pm

The only viable opposition to the theocratic totalitarianism of the global jihadist ummah is not a resurgence of genocidal blood and soil fascism; it is a rededication to spreading the equal civil and human rights, the guaranteed personal freedoms, the permission to politically participate in deciding the future course of one's own nation, the racial, religious, and gender egalitarianism, and the unfettered and unhindered, equality-of-opportunity-based chances for fairly earned prosperity for oneself and one's family that are at the core of the concept of constitutional democracy, to all people who truly desire them - in other words, to all people with an authentic desire to live out their lives in peace, freedom, and prosperity. That will be a majority of uncoerced people in most cultures. Genuine constitutional democracies do not typically war with each other, nor do they typically support terrorist groups that attack each other.

131 Irish Rose  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:49:16pm

Charles, I think we have a lot of new folks here who don't understand the history of this conflict.

Do you have a link, or a short version?

132 ContraJihadi  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:50:00pm

re: #125 winston06

Someone tell me whats wrong with Atlas Shrugs. I thought she was one of the good guys. What happened to her?

Pamela loves Bat Ye'or, treats her like her bubbie. Bat Ye'or has been very strong and brave against jihad, but for some reason she has aligned herself with a number of the blood-and-soil cadres.

133 CyanSnowHawk  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:50:02pm

re: #90 ornery elephant

Well, I think all of us in America can relate to how the MSM treats conservatives in American in their "reporting" , so it stands to reason that the marxist controlled news media of Europe would treat any counter-jihad group in the same way , in other words:

Sarah Palin courtesy of American MSM = Evil Neo-Con Reactionary

Counter-jihadists in Europe courtesy of European marxist media = White Supremacist Neo-Fascist Nazis

The problem of course, is that the Counter-jihadists seem to have allied with the White Supremacist Neo-Fascist Nazis, even to the point of welcoming them with open arms.

Just like Charles warned them last year, this will keep many people away from the counter-jihad movement. That assertion seems to be borne out by the protest numbers, 1,500 counter-jihadists v. 40,000 anti-fascists.

134 MeTooThen  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:50:32pm

Charles,

I believe that many here, understand, and to a point sympathize with Pamela Geller's view, i.e. the existential threat that is Islam, or to some radical Islam, is so great, and so imminent, that any measure is justifiable in order to stem its advance.

Whether or not Ms. Geller is frum (observant in her Judaism) is beside the point.

What I take from her writings (or rants) is that she is willing for the sake of expedience to align herself with those who may be otherwise objectionable to preserve Judaism/Israel, both she believes are being immediately threatened with annihilation.

I get that.

With all due respect Charles, you are what the Jews call a "Righteous Gentile," it may be the highest compliment imaginable.

I understand and fully appreciate your objections to VB and others of their ilk.

I get that, too.

My own belief is that Europe, or what was once known as Europe (including the Kingdom of Great Britain) is doomed, or already lost.

If not, it will be, ironically, the Nazi's who save Europe and ultimately, the Jews.

Let me clear, I am NOT an advocate for the ethic nationalism that is represented by the so-called White brigades. I abhor them and their policies.

Yet, in the end, I think that's the way things are going to work out.

You are one of a kind, Charles.

Really.

Keep up the great work.

Just sayin'.

135 Kreuzueber Halbmond  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:50:39pm

People are viewing this from the standpoint of anti-jihadists accepting fascists as allies. I believe the opposite to be true. Fascist Europe is recruiting good citizens into their ranks by using fear of Islam. It's what fascists do to gain power. Sure, a possible benefit would be the removal of Islam, but who in their right mind would want to live under fascist rule?

136 Slumbering Behemoth  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:51:58pm

re: #118 buzzsawmonkey

Not even for the groovy rugs? You are hard to please.

Heh! I've already got enough knots on my head from my reckless, "testosterone poisoned" youth. I don't need any more.

137 TalkinKamel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:52:00pm

re: #100 Tom on the Rez

re: #114 LotharBot

Again, remember the Hitler/Stalin pact?

The Russians were well aware of the Nazis' racial views, and that these views considered Slavs only slightly less loathsome than Jews---but, why reject a possible ally, da? Surely, the Germans would support them in their mutual war against the corrupt, Western capitalists, and not betray them, right?

When the Nazis did stab them on the back, the Russians did have the option of allying themselves with the very Western allies it had hoped to destroy; who are we going to ally ourselves with, when our Euro-Facist "allies" turn on us? "Kicking their asses later" isn't always an option, and it's wishful thinking to make dangerous alliances trusting that we can always take care of them later, if they turn on us. Maybe---maybe not.

138 TalkinKamel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:52:36pm

re: #128 ContraJihadi

I know. And that's Europe's problem at the moment.

139 ornery elephant  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:52:40pm

re: #124 Sharmuta

You know damn good and well that's not what I'm saying. What I am saying is that the nazis are tainting the movement and you whine that the movement is being called tainted by the msm. It's not the msm's fault. You want to be pissed that the msm calls the movement tainted- look to the tainters. Thank vb, pamela and fjordy.

Can you give me one example of a counter-jihad group in Europe that you HAVE supported? Are you saying that every counter-jihad group in Europe that has organized you have not accused of being neo-nazi or white supremacist?

140 Twilight  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:54:41pm

re: #110 ContraJihadi

Yes, that is why I say "blood-and-soil cadres," because not all those in Europe (or here in America) who reject the pluralism of the classical liberal are specifically (neo)Nazi.

I maybe old fashioned, but I honestly believe that opposition to evil should be based on the democratic values as expressed by the American Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Human Rights in general. Any ideology that would reject or infringe on what is said in those two documents (all brands of fascism - white, red, Islamic - fall in this category) is evil because it goes against the common scene of freedom that allows us to be all that we want to be without any regard to race, gender, social status or whatever. I will never ally myself to such evil, no matter what the cause is, and I will always fight fascism in all its ugly forms, just like my father and grandfather before me.

141 godfrey  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:55:01pm

If the Nazis are defending "Europe," what Europe exactly are they defending?

Not a Europe worth defending, in my opinion.

They can take their racist ideas and shove them.

142 TalkinKamel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:56:10pm

re: #135 Kreuzueber Halbmond

A lot of people probably won't, which will bring us to another problem; Facism, if it's successful (again) in Europe, is going to prove as destabalizing and violent as Islam, as many attempt to flee its influence, and the totalitarian governments attempt to clamp down on everyone, and everything, and start wars with those who are not ethnically/ideologically pure enough for them. It's not going to be much of an improvement over an Islamic Europe.

143 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:56:39pm

re: #139 ornery elephant

Are you saying that every counter-jihad group in Europe that has organized you have not accused of being neo-nazi or white supremacist?

You are working overtime to distort my words and allow yourself an opening to excuse ethnic nationalists.

144 winston06  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:56:43pm

re: #132 ContraJihadi

Weird. I am sorry to hear these stuff

145 right_on_target  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:57:11pm

There is a "silent majority" in Europe. But fear, whether real or imaginary, keeps them quiet.
It happened in 1933. History repeats.

146 winston06  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:57:34pm

re: #131 Irish Rose

Yeah. I am not new here (sorta) LOL... But until now I thought Atlas was with us. What happened?

147 J.S.  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:57:52pm

There is something very bizarre with Fjordman's "arguments." (It reoccurs periodically). He seems to believe (this is my interpretation of his arguments) that all he need do is allege this -- that Group X is "a victim" -- et Voila! -- Case closed...thus he instantly becomes on the side of the righteous, the right side of justice, and the one above reproach. Then the "aggressors" against the "victim" also instantly become labeled as the demonic ones (ok, the "fascists," "nazis" etc.). It's ridiculous. I could go through one of Fjordman's "essays" and do a substitution -- just reverse all the names...and et Voila! you get a reversal of the "persecuted"/"victim" vs "perp". One would think that if matters were indeed this simple, so obvious, and so elemental -- why would there be trials? why would there be disputes? It would all be so cut and dry -- just look for "the victim" and Voila! you get "Innocent!" (I think this is pretty much crazy for adult-level thinking -- might expect such exclamations from children, but adults?) (btw, if you actually "buy" into this kind of thinking -- it's actually dangerous -- consider, for example, victors in war -- are we really supposed to assess the degree of righteousness for a "cause" based solely on who can produce the greatest number of "victims?" put them on a metaphoric weigh scale? that's how "justice" or rightness of a cause is to be determined? good g-d! Fjordman needs to go and take a look at how moral arguments are constructed, how to develop one's evidence, how to put forward one's case, develop the ideas -- and reach beyond "casualty counts."

148 rightymouse  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:58:00pm

#134 MeTooThen

If not, it will be, ironically, the Nazi's who save Europe and ultimately, the Jews.

Let me clear, I am NOT an advocate for the ethic nationalism that is represented by the so-called White brigades. I abhor them and their policies.

Yet, in the end, I think that's the way things are going to work out.

So you're just willing to invite them in to do your dirty work and turn a blind eye to their underlying ideology? Aren't you being rather naive?

149 TalkinKamel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:58:04pm

re: #139 ornery elephant

Can you give us an example of a European counter-jihad group that is not somehow linked with some sort of white nationalist movement, such as Vlaams Belang, BNP, etc.? Something, maybe, like the free market/classic liberal party I wish for, in an earlier post?

150 nyc redneck  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:58:21pm

re: #125 winston06

Someone tell me whats wrong with Atlas Shrugs. I thought she was one of the good guys. What happened to her?



she has lost her rational mind because she is star struck w/ her own acclaim. thinks she is more important that the issues she is fighting.
she is in a fog. she thinks it's a party, now.

151 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:58:36pm

re: #140 Twilight

I maybe old fashioned, but I honestly believe that opposition to evil should be based on the democratic values as expressed by the American Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Human Rights in general. Any ideology that would reject or infringe on what is said in those two documents (all brands of fascism - white, red, Islamic - fall in this category) is evil because it goes against the common scene of freedom that allows us to be all that we want to be without any regard to race, gender, social status or whatever. I will never ally myself to such evil, no matter what the cause is, and I will always fight fascism in all its ugly forms, just like my father and grandfather before me.

Indeed- it's quite simple. We either defend our various compacts that guarantee individual rights or we do not.

152 CyanSnowHawk  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:59:16pm

re: #109 ornery elephant

Seems to me that you are the one pushing the straw man there OE.

153 ContraJihadi  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:59:20pm

re: #134 MeTooThen

....

What I take from her writings (or rants) is that she is willing for the sake of expedience to align herself with those who may be otherwise objectionable to preserve Judaism/Israel, both she believes are being immediately threatened with annihilation.

I get that.

...

Israel is under tremendous pressure; and, like America, it has a sizable left wing that, for the sake of a Kantian universalist utopianism, is letting Hamas, et al., get away with murder. Reaction is inevitable, even if, carried to extremes, it poses its own dangers. Pamela, who is a person led primarily by her emotions, has let herself be carried away.

154 winston06  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:59:23pm

re: #149 TalkinKamel

I have been to the Netherlands many time and the Liberal church going people there are countering the Jihadists very successfully. My Green voting Church going Dutch friends don't like the radical Muslims and they are fighting them as best as they can. But they have no room/apetite for the Fascists, AFAIK.

155 LotharBot  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:59:40pm

re: #125 winston06

Someone tell me whats wrong with Atlas Shrugs. I thought she was one of the good guys. What happened to her?

I don't know the specifics of Atlas, but in general:

Many bloggers have decided to ignore or downplay others' white supremacist leanings, statements, symbolism, etc. They've accepted white supremacists as outright "allies" in the war against Islamofascism. Charles has criticized this heavily, saying that the neo-nazis are also enemies and should be treated that way. This has gone back and forth, with Fjordman and others defending groups like Vlams Belang, and Charles calling them out for it.

I think Charles is at least 95% right in this case (though I haven't followed it carefully enough to know if his criticisms have been 100% fair.) The neo-nazis are our enemies, and we should treat them that way. We need to fight against all forms of fascism, not just the islamo- variety, and that means we need to reject the neo-nazis rather than seeking them out as "allies". Those who refuse to do are fools (though not necessarily neo-nazis themselves.)

156 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:00:02pm

re: #146 winston06

Yeah. I am not new here (sorta) LOL... But until now I thought Atlas was with us. What happened?

Here is the tag search to start reading the sorted history. The first tag would be the last on this list:

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

157 winston06  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:00:03pm

re: #150 nyc redneck

Thanks for the clarification. Yep, that sort of mentality is bad.

158 cyclosarin  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:00:10pm
I would too, but except for one tiny party in Germany (I think they are called the Free Democrats), there is no such party in Western Europe, as far as I know.

Indeed. Germany is the only party which has elected the Greens to power.

That says it all.

159 winston06  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:00:19pm

re: #156 Sharmuta

thnx

160 TalkinKamel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:00:59pm

re: #116 rightymouse

I know, I know. . . and David Duke hangs out with the European white-supremecists.

This is not hunky-dory.

161 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:01:12pm

re: #159 winston06

YAVW.

162 winston06  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:01:48pm

re: #160 TalkinKamel

Pat Buchanan does that too

163 Charles  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:01:59pm

re: #131 Irish Rose

Charles, I think we have a lot of new folks here who don't understand the history of this conflict.

Do you have a link, or a short version?

As a matter of fact, the tag viewer is handy for that:

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

164 TalkinKamel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:02:04pm

re: #154 winston06

Good to hear that. Any other input on more European non-Facist groups opposing Islam?

165 wong fei hung  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:03:00pm

There is no sane alliance with people who would weigh the costs of associating with others who are ideological and actual racists.

What the f*** is so hard to understand about such a concept?

It's silly to declare that the entire European anti-Jihad movement is racist. But there are those who proclaim themselves to be under that aegis, who CLEARLY are racist. The only tenet of a global anti-jihad movement should be promoting the awareness of, and actively campaigning against, Islamic Fascism.

Seeking to promote ones race with such causes is underhanded, counter-productive and frankly, not something I want a part of, cause...

I'm a "minority". And when they're done with the Islamonazis...

I'M NEXT.

At which point the racial purists and fascists will have a major problem on their hands :)

-WFH

166 winston06  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:03:15pm

re: #164 TalkinKamel

It's not politically organized but as a matter of fact I know that Churches there are doing what they can. The problem with our western civilization is that due to separation of church and government, govts can not help the churches fight the Jihadi vermins and that Churches are cash strapped.

167 Salamantis  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:03:18pm

re: #146 winston06

Yeah. I am not new here (sorta) LOL... But until now I thought Atlas was with us. What happened?

She has apparently decided to ally herself with the ideological descendents of those who almost exterminated her people a few decades ago, now that they've pinky-promised not to try again for the time being, and furthermore pledged to oppose those who are presently pledging to exterminate her people. It's like a rabbit riding on the back of a mountain lion to escape a wolf. The mountain lion just considers it to be portable lunch.

168 Twilight  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:03:25pm

re: #127 Slumbering Behemoth

Fascism is not about racial divisions. Though it does help the instigators to have a scapegoat of some sort, and racial/religious divisions seem to be the easiest to exploit.

You are correct, fascism is not about racial divisions.
Fascism is more about conscripting the entire society for the "higher cause" at the the expense of individual rights and freedoms while putting the society above the individual need. To accomplish that (since it is against the hedonistic self-centered human nature) the fascist ideology must have the "arch nemesis". The easiest way is to pick someone obviously different from the public the fascist is trying to appeal to - racially, culturally or religiously.

169 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:03:54pm

And I know TalkinKamel will remember our dear, dear friends in the nazi parties of europe beating up on feminist groups.

How are they different from the islamists we're trying to fight if they hate "others" and feminists?

170 winston06  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:03:57pm

re: #167 Salamantis

thats very unfortunate

171 MeTooThen  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:03:59pm

re: #148 rightymouse

No.

My point was to say that I understand to some degree why ms. Geller has taken and advocated for her positions.

They are NOT my positions.

Look, European Jewry was almost annihilated and those who weren't liquidated have, most recently, emigrated because it is becoming increasingly dangerous for Jews to stay.

That the Nazi's and the Islamists will do battle for control of Europe is one of many possible scenarios.

My view is that Europe is already lost, the effects of which haven't yet been felt.

I do NOT support what may be the Ethno-Religious war that may some day (soon) arrive.

It is a tragedy.

Still, I have some sympathy for why Ms. Geller has adopted her positions, NOT sympathy with her positions.

172 TalkinKamel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:04:05pm

re: #148 rightymouse

Nazis are not about to save Jews.

They consider Jews the ultimate enemy. And---helloooo---they're not to crazy about us decadent Americans, either.

173 Joel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:04:12pm

Pamela is an emotional and volatile person and emotional and volatile people tend to do emotional and volatile things.

174 mean Gene  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:04:19pm

Somebody who can post there needs to tell "Denice" that it is a real article.
[Link: www.frontpagemag.com...]
She comments in detail about a rape Bill Ayer's planned for her.

175 yah  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:04:49pm

re: #125 winston06

Winston06, I'm as lost as you on this.

176 Quilly Mammoth  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:04:58pm

re: #125 winston06

Someone tell me whats wrong with Atlas Shrugs. I thought she was one of the good guys. What happened to her?

This quote which she ignores.

One of the reasons why hardcore anti-Semites (David Duke would be a case in point) are unreliable allies is that they hate Jews so much that it shuts down the rational parts of their brain and they end up making common cause with Muslims, based on mutual hatred.

She's an unreliable ally because she's tied into pepole that hate because of race/religion. It's hard core Radical Islamic Fundamentalists that are teh problem, when you tar everyone with the same brush not only are you unjust but push peole to the other side.

177 LotharBot  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:05:08pm

re: #137 TalkinKamel

re: #114 LotharBot
.... why reject a possible ally, da?

.... who are we going to ally ourselves with, when our Euro-Facist "allies" turn on us?

Exactly. The euro-fascists are not "allies". They're enemies who happen to also be enemies of the islamofascists. I wish Fjordman and Pam would treat them that way, instead of acting as apologists for them.

178 ContraJihadi  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:05:37pm

re: #140 Twilight

I maybe old fashioned, but I honestly believe that opposition to evil should be based on the democratic values as expressed by the American Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Human Rights in general. Any ideology that would reject or infringe on what is said in those two documents (all brands of fascism - white, red, Islamic - fall in this category) is evil because it goes against the common scene of freedom that allows us to be all that we want to be without any regard to race, gender, social status or whatever. I will never ally myself to such evil, no matter what the cause is, and I will always fight fascism in all its ugly forms, just like my father and grandfather before me.

Generally I agree, but I must point out that in fighting fascism during WWII, our government chose to ally strategically with Stalin. In the course of history, sometimes questionable alliances will force themselves even upon the good. I believe that even some commenting here at LGF could accept a situation, should the battle become so hot, that for the moment, a tactical alliance with fascistic anti-jihadis might become necessary--but always keeping in mind that the partners were fascists indeed and that we did not accept their ideologies.

179 winston06  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:06:23pm

re: #175 yah

I think I am now getting a clearer picture of this

180 Nancy  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:06:24pm

Even in the U.S.A. several years ago already, the white supremists and like went on a "clean up their image" program. To become, act, look and talk more mainstream. To present themselves as less radical and make themselves over to appear less "threatening" to get more accepted.

Strangely enough, they also linked up with many of the "new age" group. Or at least adopted that "new age" type lifestyle and rhetoric. But they also seem to be playing to the "end times" and prophecy-conspiracy theory crowd.

181 Thanos  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:07:02pm

re: #135 Kreuzueber Halbmond

Exactly right KZ, they are stealing a noble cause and diminishing it with their stupidity. They will adapt any cause to stage their theater. What's most disturbing about VB is their international outreach to other tribal nationalist groups. They ally with some of the violent Central and South American groups as well as the Euro ones, and there are definite ties to David Duke and the Stormfront crowd, as Charles has pointed out in several articles here. They also support the Quebecois separatists even though they hate the French in Belgium simply because they are also tribal purists. The list goes on and on.

182 rightymouse  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:07:48pm

re: #160 TalkinKamel

I know, I know. . . and David Duke hangs out with the European white-supremecists.

This is not hunky-dory.

Somehow, Pamela et al haven't quite figured that out yet. Europe has a mess on their hands, but it won't be solved by inviting people into a 'common cause' only to find out later that they were going to be part of the final solution too. Then it's too late.

183 Tom on the rez  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:08:17pm

I think Charles could help some of us out with a primer of the Euro fascists and white nationalists. I know it might be a lot of work, but he probably has the info close at hand. Is there a "Right" (libertarian, or at least free market) in Europe? Maybe it could be available permanently as a link on the main page?

We know all about white supremacists here where I live. We had to leave our church, 'cause a couple of deacons testified for the Klan, then forced out our pastor and those of us who didn't like it (this isn't ancient history, it's been less than two years). Fascist terror, and "minor" things like segregated services (White vs. Black & Red) are all within living memory. White folks spanked my wife's language out of her when she was a small child in boarding school. My own children's schools had separate, segregated proms. I DO NOT take white supremacists lightly. I just find it hard to believe there's no organized parties in Europe that pass our stringent ideological purity test.

I guess I need to be edumacated. Is there a Cliff's Notes, are Eurofascists for Dummies?

184 Joel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:08:43pm

re: #49 buzzsawmonkey

I used to enjoy some of Pamela's rants--though not the fact that her slow-loading site made them hard to read.


Yeah b/c of all the graphics her site can be excruciatingly slow to read and I have a ton of memory in my computer.

185 Twilight  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:10:23pm

re: #178 ContraJihadi

The alliance with Stalin got us 45 years of a Cold War that was several times quite close to heat up and claimed many many victims. Was it worth it? Do we want to repeat it? I don't think so (on both questions).

I always thought history existed so we could learn from mistakes of the past, not repeat them.

186 rightymouse  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:12:28pm

#171 MeTooThen

Still, I have some sympathy for why Ms. Geller has adopted her positions, NOT sympathy with her positions.

Get me some Tylenol.

187 Quilly Mammoth  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:13:09pm

re: #183 Tom on the rez

Search LGF for "Fjordman" and (iirc) Gates of Vienna.

188 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:13:18pm

re: #183 Tom on the rez

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

189 rightymouse  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:13:41pm

re: #172 TalkinKamel

Nazis are not about to save Jews.

They consider Jews the ultimate enemy. And---helloooo---they're not to crazy about us decadent Americans, either.

You got that straight.

190 TalkinKamel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:14:41pm

re: #166 winston06

Well, quite honestly, a Western church really hasn't had an army of its own to command in the international field since Napoleon disbanded the Order of Knights Hospitalers. *And, to be perfectly honest, I really don't want to see any of the current western governments start a warrior/military religious order; they'd surely bungle the job. I think we're better off with a citizen army, of no one particular religion, and defending the religious freedoms of those like the European churches you mention.

Western governments, traditionally, have always some kind of separation of church and state. Even in the time of the Crusades, the role of the church, and the role of the king, were two very different things. No Christian king was ever considered head of both the church AND his kingdom, the way the Islamic Caliph was both the secular, and religious head of the ummah---no, not even the kings of Jerusalem.

I'm glad to hear the European churches are doing such good work.

*A crusade is a voluntary thing; the Pope could call on knights and great lords to defend the Holy Land, and promise them remittance of their sins if they did so, but he couldn't command them to go there, and he didn't ride at the head of their armies, or come up with military tactics.

191 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:14:55pm
192 Karridine  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:16:14pm

Back about 2 years ago, I recorded several of Fjordman's essays, as they were NOT THEN openly racist...

I have since taken them off the internet and off the market.

I support the Oneness of Humankind, the equality of men and women and the Independent Investigation of Reality, and Fjordman has demonstrated that, at least for now, he is allying with racists.

The end cannot justify the means. Ever.

193 ContraJihadi  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:16:43pm

re: #185 Twilight

The alliance with Stalin got us 45 years of a Cold War that was several times quite close to heat up and claimed many many victims. Was it worth it? Do we want to repeat it? I don't think so (on both questions).

I always thought history existed so we could learn from mistakes of the past, not repeat them.

I won't dispute what you say. I merely point out that such an alliance was made. Could the U.S. and Britain have prevailed against Hitler and the rest of the Axis without such an alliance? I must confess that I do not know.

I would suggest that in fighting the jihad, one of the questions that needs to be asked is, Can we succeed without some kind of alliance with the "softer" blood-and-soil cadres, even if we never ally with the "harder" fascists? Again, I do not know.

I will say that I trust McCain more than I trust Obama to make the more realistic decision.

194 Catttt  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:16:50pm
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Matthew 16:26


...weigh the good that they do with the hurt that cometh of them, and yet shall find it much better to lack both than have both.

From Thomas More's Reflections on Complicity with Evil in the History of King Richard III.

195 right_on_target  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:18:06pm

The best way to stop the Islamization of Europe is to STOP further moslem immigration, period. Assimilate the current immigrant population.

Harsh, but it doesn't involve any fascist tactics.

There are many countries in the world that prohibit immigration, except to a select few or class.

196 TalkinKamel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:18:11pm

re: #185 Twilight

Myself, I have serious doubts as to whether or not it was really worth it, or, even if it was necessary to ally ourselves with Stalin at the height of the fighting, it was wise to keep the alliance going as long as we did; maybe we should have followed Churchill's advice, and declared war on Russia after Berlin and Japan surrendered. . .

And, of course, Russia's alliance with Germany didn't work out very well for Russia. . .

197 Thanos  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:18:12pm

re: #183 Tom on the rez

I've got some background on Vlaams Belang here and here.

198 irish rose  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:18:29pm

Hard to believe that this is coming from someone that Charles once mentored:

Posted by: Pamela Geller | Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 08:39 PM

What is your obsession with meeting Charles Johnson's degenerate standards? He is a con-man.

199 TalkinKamel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:20:14pm

re: #189 rightymouse

{Righty!}

:>)

200 ContraJihadi  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:20:41pm

re: #198 irish rose

Hard to believe that this is coming from someone that Charles once mentored:

Does indicate a person who is submerged in resentful emotion, no?

201 Twilight  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:20:46pm

re: #193 ContraJihadi


I will say that I trust McCain more than I trust Obama to make the more realistic decision.

I agree with you on this one except I don't trust Obama at all. Not even with a toy gun.

203 TalkinKamel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:21:11pm

In my post #196 above, I should have said "it wasn't wise" to keep the alliance going as long as we did.

Apologies!

204 rightymouse  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:22:10pm

re: #199 TalkinKamel

{Righty!}

:>)


:)~

205 MeTooThen  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:22:21pm

re: #186 rightymouse

You have a headache?

Why?

Can you not understand how or why someone makes a deal with the Devil?

Desperate times? Desperate Measures?

I don't know Pamela Geller from Eve. And to be clear, the issue is not about her.

The question is: "How should Jews (or Gentiles) respond to the existential threat that is Radical Islam?"

For the White brigades, VB, et al, it is not an existential threat, per se, but a threat to their own fantasies of domination (and extermination.)

That Ms. Geller is willing to put aside, for the moment her objections to the Nazis for the sake of her wish to defeat the Islamists, is understandable for some. Not correct, nor right, nor advisable.

But understandable.

I think Charles has been fair with her, and appropriately harsh with Fjordman. What is so aggravating about that?

206 Karridine  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:22:53pm

re: #200 ContraJihadi

Does indicate a person who is submerged in resentful emotion, no?

Self-PITY, Contra!
Self-Pity is THE most addictive substance known to humankind! Free, readily available and instant-acting, it is pernicious and destructive, but ooooh, it feels SO GOOD to wallow in it!


Gotta gota werk... bbiaw

207 Twilight  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:23:34pm

re: #196 TalkinKamel

And, of course, Russia's alliance with Germany didn't work out very well for Russia. . .

Fascists of different brands are like rabid dogs - with nothing left in close proximity to attack they turn on each other. The reds and the whites in this case. It was all about who lands the first strike and the whites won the race.

208 Quilly Mammoth  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:24:11pm

re: #193 ContraJihadi

Actually, we could have. We spent as assload supporting the commies. No support would not have stopped the Soviets from fighting the Nazi. It would have prolonged it. Which would have made teh borders of post WWII europe quite different. But much of the reason that we supported Stalin was because of Duranty and others.

209 ContraJihadi  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:24:11pm

re: #201 Twilight

I agree with you on this one except I don't trust Obama at all. Not even with a toy gun.

I "trust" him to bully Congress into outlawing toy bullets and toy guns. The man is a Manchurian candidate--a proxy for Soros, Wright, and Ayres--nothing else.

210 TalkinKamel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:25:22pm

re: #207 Twilight

Exactly!

211 galvani  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:25:44pm

The phrase 'selling my soul to save my ass' comes to mind from the comments and linked article. On the race front, did none of these people have parents that bought them the Seuss book 'the
Star Bellied Sneeches'? I guess not, because they sound as infantile as the characters in that book.

212 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:26:15pm

re: #205 MeTooThen

My problem is tossing aside reason for the sake of expediency. The problem is- you've already tossed aside reason. Reason is lost- you no longer have it on your side because you have forsaken it. And for what? To green-light nazis.

There is no excuse. None.

213 rightymouse  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:26:43pm

re: #205 MeTooThen

You have a headache?

Why?

Can you not understand how or why someone makes a deal with the Devil?

Desperate times? Desperate Measures?

I don't know Pamela Geller from Eve. And to be clear, the issue is not about her.

The question is: "How should Jews (or Gentiles) respond to the existential threat that is Radical Islam?"

For the White brigades, VB, et al, it is not an existential threat, per se, but a threat to their own fantasies of domination (and extermination.)

That Ms. Geller is willing to put aside, for the moment her objections to the Nazis for the sake of her wish to defeat the Islamists, is understandable for some. Not correct, nor right, nor advisable.

But understandable.

I think Charles has been fair with her, and appropriately harsh with Fjordman. What is so aggravating about that?


I would never, ever make a deal with the Devil for the sake of expediency. The idea that someone actually thinks that's an ok idea gives me a headache.

Pass me the Tylenol.

You ever read C.S. Lewis?

214 yah  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:27:10pm

Well they sure have a good line of propaganda.

215 J.S.  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:27:20pm

re: #193 ContraJihadi

Your analogy is flawed. Stalin at the time of WWII was not known as an "evil dictator." (The New York Times hushed up Stalin's atrocities -- the famine in the Ukraine, according to the NY Times did not occur -- the peasants were fat and happy, etc.) And at the end of the war, Russia (and Stalin -- that's "Uncle Joe") were celebrated as heroes -- parades in their honor -- again, celebrated. It was Winston Churchill who didn't like Stalin and made his warnings known to Truman...(then the Cold War began, etc.)

216 TalkinKamel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:27:43pm

re: #208 Quilly Mammoth

Not to mention the fact that our "allies" the Communists let us do the heavy fighting in the Pacific, keeping Japan (which had fought with Russia before) from giving them too much trouble.

Russia really needed us a lot more than we needed them, I think.

217 Salamantis  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:27:53pm

Didn't Charles refuse to condemn the Sweden Democrats of collusion with fascists, saying that the evidence he'd seen for such a collusion was inconclusive? Or has anything else been discovered about them since then?

218 TalkinKamel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:28:58pm

re: #205 MeTooThen

Oh, I can understand how someone can make a deal with the devil.

I just think it's a bad idea. Such deals usually work out better for the Devil, than they do for the poor sucker who signs away his soul.

219 Twilight  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:29:09pm

re: #209 ContraJihadi

I "trust" him to bully Congress into outlawing toy bullets and toy guns. The man is a Manchurian candidate--a proxy for Soros, Wright, and Ayres--nothing else.

But he is more. You forget who paid for his Harvard education - those people will want him to pay his dues once his in office - create a drastic increase in American dependence on OPEQ oil, God forbid.

220 Joel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:29:50pm

Barack Obama is the least qualified major party nominee for the Presidency in at least 100 years. I agree with Christopher Hitchens' assessment that Obama is actually scared that he might win the Presidency! Sort of reminds me of the Robert Redford 1972 movie "The Candidate" where his character, newly elected Senator McKay, says to his campaign manager (Peter Boyle) at the very end after winning the election "What do we do now?"

221 TalkinKamel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:30:19pm

And, unfortunately, all the understanding in the world won't make a stupid/dangerous/evil decision a right one. That's just how it is.

222 Dan G.  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:30:25pm

re: #31 The Other Les

I was just thinking the same thing.

223 ContraJihadi  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:30:29pm

re: #208 Quilly Mammoth

Actually, we could have. We spent as assload supporting the commies. No support would not have stopped the Soviets from fighting the Nazi. It would have prolonged it. Which would have made teh borders of post WWII europe quite different. But much of the reason that we supported Stalin was because of Duranty and others.

You probably know more than I do. I am just trying to generalize from that fact that the alliance was made and to ponder the fact that throughout history many such alliances have been made. I suppose a war effort under a President Wilkie(sp?) would not have included an alliance with Stalin, but for there to have been a President Wilkie, the majority of voters would have had to have repudiated the concept of the New Deal. ...

Wheels within wheels, and my knowledge is paltry.

224 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:30:33pm

re: #217 Salamantis

IIRC, the Swedish Democrats have made moves at actually removing their nazis from within. However- there was a story later about a nazi presence still in the party.

225 de La Valette  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:30:38pm

re: #190 TalkinKamel

I have a different opinion there; I believe the Western Church needs a new militant order. Staffed by men of long service in military and law enforcement who come to orders late in life.

The new militant order should be unarmed; but advise on security and safety measures. This is an old mission, back to the original charter of the Hospitalers, but so many evils and injustices can be solved without violence by resolute men who understand violence.

===

BTW I dropped in on Pamela's site and reiterated my tired, well-worn plea for a Eurpoean WFB to step up.

226 looking closely  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:30:47pm

Of course ideologically, Naziism and Islamism are intrinsically similar (hence the well-used term "Islamofascism"). That alone explains why no group that is truly ideologically against Islamism can ally itself with Neo-nazis or other fascists.

The reality *ought* to be that anti-Islamist movements are based on a core of resistance to militant expansion of Islam and violence, coupled with a strong respect for individual rights like freedoms of speech, religion, etc.

But from a distance, pretty much *any* anti-Jihad movement is going to look like a racist or anti-religious one, by its very nature. That's certainly how every anti-Islamist website (including this one) is painted.

So for reasons that should be incredibly obvious, no anti-Islamist movement can afford to associate with actual racists and fascists. That sort of association simply undermines any ideological legitimacy of the movement.

227 Thanos  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:31:54pm

re: #202 Sharmuta

Vlaams Belang
British National Party
National Alliance
National Front
Danish People's Party
National Socialist Front
Freedom Party of Austria

Karel Dillen
Maurice Bardeche
Jean Marie LePen

Note that Jihad Watch gets a reference link on the page, right underneath the english translation of "Nuremberg the Promised Land" on the Karel Dillen page.

228 Joel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:33:21pm

re: #216 TalkinKamel

Not to mention the fact that our "allies" the Communists let us do the heavy fighting in the Pacific, keeping Japan (which had fought with Russia before) from giving them too much trouble.

Russia really needed us a lot more than we needed them, I think.

The USSR had her hands full fighting Nazi Germany. 75 - 80% of the German armed forces were concentrated against the USSR. Funny how before the Nazi invasion of the USSR on 6/22/41 (when the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was still in effect) the communists in the West and their fellow travelers all were denouncing Britain's ''plutocratic, imperialist war'', then all of a sudden they were demanding "Second Front now'!

229 CyanSnowHawk  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:33:26pm

re: #209 ContraJihadi

I "trust" him to bully Congress into outlawing toy bullets and toy guns. The man is a Manchurian candidate--a proxy for Soros, Wright, and Ayres--nothing else.

I would say strictly for Soros, the others were used as stepping stones to his current position, but are just liabilities now.

230 J.S.  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:33:38pm

re: #216 TalkinKamel

Most historians allege that the turning point in WWII came with the Battle of Stalingrad -- it's when Russian forces surrounded and defeated Hitler's army...(incredible losses were incurred on both sides...but the losses were far more crippling for the nazis...up until that time an Allied victory was iffy at best... )

231 right_on_target  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:36:20pm

re: #216 TalkinKamel

Not to mention the fact that our "allies" the Communists let us do the heavy fighting in the Pacific, keeping Japan (which had fought with Russia before) from giving them too much trouble.

Russia really needed us a lot more than we needed them, I think.


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Russia couldn't fight on two fronts, that's why they kept peace with Japan.

Germany fought on two fronts, with the eastern front by far the larger front with the most casualties. Had Germany not invaded Russia the entire war I think would have turned out differently.
The US didn't enter until late '41.

232 Joel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:36:43pm

re: #230 J.S.

Most historians allege that the turning point in WWII came with the Battle of Stalingrad -- it's when Russian forces surrounded and defeated Hitler's army...(incredible losses were incurred on both sides...but the losses were far more crippling for the nazis...up until that time an Allied victory was iffy at best... )

I agree although one can even make a case that the turning point was the failure of the Germans in the Battle of Moscow (Oct 1941 - January 1942). Even after Stal;ing rad the Wehrmacht had incredibly striking power until they frittered away their armored reserves in the massive and unbelievably bloody summer battles around Kursk and the Dnieper River.

233 Joel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:37:41pm

re: #231 right_on_target

You are right. Only the USA was able because of our superior industrial might - fight a two ocean war.

234 ContraJihadi  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:37:49pm

re: #215 J.S.

Your analogy is flawed. Stalin at the time of WWII was not known as an "evil dictator." (The New York Times hushed up Stalin's atrocities -- the famine in the Ukraine, according to the NY Times did not occur -- the peasants were fat and happy, etc.) And at the end of the war, Russia (and Stalin -- that's "Uncle Joe") were celebrated as heroes -- parades in their honor -- again, celebrated. It was Winston Churchill who didn't like Stalin and made his warnings known to Truman...(then the Cold War began, etc.)

Are you sure? Some people certainly knew it. The Norman-Thomas pluralistic socialists knew it. The Trotskyites, Hitch's "ancestors," knew it, as did George Orwell and his brand of democratic socialists. Did Roosevelt know it, or if he knew, did he care? Or if he cared, did he nevertheless calculate that it did not matter? That I do not know.

235 J.S.  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:38:45pm

re: #232 Joel

Yes, the Battle of Kursk (the tank battle...) has also been claimed as the turning point...

236 J.S.  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:40:52pm

re: #234 ContraJihadi

There's a very famous telegram of Roosevelt's (you can find it on the internet) filled with gushing praises for Stalin...Roosevelt was heralding Stalin as a great man who'll go down in history as a tremendous hero, never to be forgotten, etc.

237 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:41:29pm

re: #227 Thanos

Karel Dillen
Maurice Bardeche
Jean Marie LePen

Note that Jihad Watch gets a reference link on the page, right underneath the english translation of "Nuremberg the Promised Land" on the Karel Dillen page.

Jörg Haider

And why am I not surprised by the Dillen link?

238 rightymouse  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:42:55pm

re: #236 J.S.

There's a very famous telegram of Roosevelt's (you can find it on the internet) filled with gushing praises for Stalin...Roosevelt was heralding Stalin as a great man who'll go down in history as a tremendous hero, never to be forgotten, etc.


Roosevelt called him "Uncle Joe", IIRC.

Churchill had his number, though.

239 irish rose  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:43:53pm

Posted by: de La Valette | Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 09:14 PM

In my opinion as I have said before I believe Mr Johnson to be mentally ill. As a guess I would say he is probably bipolar with a touch of schizo affective disorder. That so many are drawn to his site frightens me.

Wow.

240 J.S.  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:44:48pm

re: #238 rightymouse

I believe you're correct...(and Churchill was able to convince Truman of Stalin's nastiness...)

241 Joel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:47:43pm

When (God forbid) Obama gets into the White House along with a veto proof congress, watch for him to show his fascist tendencies by trying to regulate and/or effectively shut down talk radio, Fox News, the blogosphere - with shit like the "Fairness Doctrine". The MSM which is uniformly neo-Socialist and almost completely in the tank for Obama will not raise a peep of protest. Remember when they were comparing Attorney General Ashcroft to Heinrich Himmler? Barry-O will also look to get as many Ramsey Clark types as judges. Those dumb ass Republican ideologues and so called "Conservatives" can stick their 'purity" up their sphincters. The country's future is at stake and there will not be a replay of 1980 or 1994 after the inevitable Obama disaster. I have my issues with McCain but the man is far and away a better man then The One and far more qualified to be President. Those of you (hopefully this includes all of us) who make more than $42,000 a year, watch the Federal government take more of your paycheck away for bull shit "social spending" and "income redistribution". There is not a single Democratic Senator who does not know in his/her heart of hearts that Obama has not the slightest clue on how to be President and who thinks that he can learn on the fly. I was going to vote for McCain but never made a contribution in my life but my next paycheck is going to be $100 poorer as I will be sending a "C" note to the McCain-Palin camp.

242 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:47:49pm

re: #225 de La Valette

In my opinion as I have said before I believe Mr Johnson to be mentally ill. As a guess I would say he is probably bipolar with a touch of schizo affective disorder. That so many are drawn to his site frightens me.

Is this what you posted as atlas'?!

243 right_on_target  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:48:00pm

re: #232 Joel

I agree although one can even make a case that the turning point was the failure of the Germans in the Battle of Moscow (Oct 1941 - January 1942). Even after Stal;ing rad the Wehrmacht had incredibly striking power until they frittered away their armored reserves in the massive and unbelievably bloody summer battles around Kursk and the Dnieper River.


---------------------------
I agree there. That's where my father's unit got decimated [Tenth Panzer Division]. They were sent back to France to regroup. Before he left for reassignment he had leave. While on leave my mother asked him if he wanted her uncle's address in the USA, just in case. His reply was "NO, I'll be dead. The war is lost. Damn Nazis" He was shipped out to Africa to join the Afrika Korps [10PD Aufklärungs-Abteilung 90] where eventually the Korps surrendered.
Spent the rest of the war in Memphis POW camp.
After war, my great-uncle sponsored our family to immigrate to the USA.
We've been here since.

244 rightymouse  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:48:14pm

re: #240 J.S.

I believe you're correct...(and Churchill was able to convince Truman of Stalin's nastiness...)

I have a lot of admiration for Truman - he made some very difficult decisions when Roosevelt died in 1945. But they were the right ones and the war ended.

245 ContraJihadi  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:49:00pm

re: #236 J.S.

There's a very famous telegram of Roosevelt's (you can find it on the internet) filled with gushing praises for Stalin...Roosevelt was heralding Stalin as a great man who'll go down in history as a tremendous hero, never to be forgotten, etc.

Do you think Roosevelt was candid in his praise? Or just politic? I confess I do not accurately comprehend just how much Roosevelt actually admired Stalin and the kind of supreme control over the state Stalin possessed. It certainly seems that Roosevelt harbored some grandiose ambitions (e.g. Court packing and the command economy generally), but I have no insight at all into whether he believed his powers had any proper limits.

246 Joel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:49:09pm

re: #240 J.S.

I believe you're correct...(and Churchill was able to convince Truman of Stalin's nastiness...)

FDR was too naive. about Stalin. He thought of Stalin as another politician he could charm. He even coined the phrase "Uncle Joe" - talk about sickening sycophancy!

247 Nancy  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:49:34pm

Wow......I just read through the comments on that site.

The language in her replies does not even sound like the same Atlas Shrugged who used to post here a few years back.

248 Cap'n DOC  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:50:10pm

I've been down the road with their 'friends', and an outfit called 'mohammedans against sharia', although I will not pimp that little garbage dump by linking to it. Trust me, she's listed as a contributor. A fouler mouth I've never heard than the one that showed up elsewhere to pimp their site. They touted their affiliation with Pamela no less, as if that lent them some gravitas. Meanwhile, they couldn't defend their absurd beliefs, such as the fact that (according to them) allah could not have said what he did in the koran because that would be like, absurd. So, their response is to take a boxcutter to it and eliminate everything they think is out of line with a friendlier, softer version of the pig - without a sty to wallow in. Fruitcakes. They draw them like flies.

249 MeTooThen  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:50:11pm

re: #218 TalkinKamel

I agree, it's a bad deal. But understandable.

What is surprising is that more Jews, like Ms. Geller, haven't already joined forces with the Nazis.

For many (or most) Israelis, they are tired of being Jews. They just want to be Israelis, people, beach-goers, builders, artists, writers, mechanics, librarians, whatever. But they cannot escape their Jewishness, or for that, they are targeted, butchered, murdered in their homes, schools, shops, buses.

One solution is to surrender, ala Peres, Olmert, Livni, and hope for the best.

The other is to fight. Or, have someone fight on your behalf. It is this last choice that has heretofore, been unavailable. That some are willing to choose the White brigades, shows their desperation.

My comment was made to highlight Charles sound (and compassionate) judgment, not to advocate for Ms. Geller's choice.

250 Joel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:52:43pm

re: #243 right_on_target

What a coincidence. My father was a MP and guarded German POW's from the Afrika Korps throughout the South including Tennessee. I wonder if they met. Many Americans have no idea about the vastness of the battles of the Eastern Front - Kursk, Operation Bagration, The Rzhev meat grinder, Kahrkov, the numbers are staggering. The Allied losses on D-Day would have been considered a quiet day on the Eastern Front.

251 winston06  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:52:49pm

re: #190 TalkinKamel

This time, it is their fight

252 Cartman  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:52:54pm

re: #247 Nancy

I always felt her posts here were rather disjointed, myself. They didn't seem to reflect her writing style on her blog, at all.

253 kulhwch  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:53:09pm
At some point, the rapidly shrinking number of people in the northern hemisphere who haven't been banned from the site yet will be forced to ask themselves whether the website and its owner have simply switched teams and joined the Dark Side.

Hey, since when have you been a Sith Lord, Charles?  Is there an extra Zionist stipend in it?

Man, Fjordboy pulls his polemic more than his penis ...

I do admit to being a bit hurt by Pamela's reaction, why exactly is she upset over you or I or every other lizard here exerting our freedom to choose?  Does she want to control or eliminate our freedoms and force us to attend 'the right folk'?  It's all too Animal Farm-ish for me.

}:)     [Fjordboy doesn't surprize, though, he appears to be fascist to the soles of his feet.]

254 ContraJihadi  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:53:26pm

re: #241 Joel

When (God forbid) Obama gets into the White House along with a veto proof congress, watch for him to show his fascist tendencies by trying to regulate and/or effectively shut down talk radio, Fox News, the blogosphere - with shit like the "Fairness Doctrine". The MSM which is uniformly neo-Socialist and almost completely in the tank for Obama will not raise a peep of protest. Remember when they were comparing Attorney General Ashcroft to Heinrich Himmler? Barry-O will also look to get as many Ramsey Clark types as judges. ....

Obama, should he capture the White House certainly will so all he can to impose his progressive will on the Federal Communications Administration, and it is then that we shall be be thankful that Conservative activists convinced Bush to nominate Alito rather than Meiers.

255 rightymouse  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:54:15pm

re: #249 MeTooThen

You never answered my question as to whether you've read C.S. Lewis. Well?

256 Tom on the rez  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:55:42pm

Yakoke, Sharmuta, et al. I bookmarked the info so I can go back and learn when I have the time. I hate F'n Illinois nazis. But foreigners? I don't owe those folks a thing. Woodrow Wilson might have given Bill Clinton and W. Bush their foreign policy, but he was a racist asshole.

257 Irish Rose  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:56:09pm

re: #242 Sharmuta

re: #225 de La Valette

In my opinion as I have said before I believe Mr Johnson to be mentally ill. As a guess I would say he is probably bipolar with a touch of schizo affective disorder. That so many are drawn to his site frightens me.

Is this what you posted as atlas'?!

Yes, it is.
An explanation is in order, methinks.

258 ContraJihadi  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:56:54pm

re: #249 MeTooThen

I agree, it's a bad deal. But understandable.

What is surprising is that more Jews, like Ms. Geller, haven't already joined forces with the Nazis.

For many (or most) Israelis, they are tired of being Jews. They just want to be Israelis, people, beach-goers, builders, artists, writers, mechanics, librarians, whatever. But they cannot escape their Jewishness, or for that, they are targeted, butchered, murdered in their homes, schools, shops, buses.

One solution is to surrender, ala Peres, Olmert, Livni, and hope for the best.

The other is to fight. Or, have someone fight on your behalf. It is this last choice that has heretofore, been unavailable. That some are willing to choose the White brigades, shows their desperation.

My comment was made to highlight Charles sound (and compassionate) judgment, not to advocate for Ms. Geller's choice.

Pamela has made some unwise choices with respect to allies, but she is an ardent supporter of Israel who utterly despises the "surrender Jews" of the Left. She supports Bibi for Prime Minister, and she is a close friend of Carolyn Glick's.

259 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:56:55pm

re: #257 Irish Rose

Yes, it is.
An explanation is in order, methinks.

I agree. de La Valette- we're waiting.

260 justadot  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:56:59pm

re: #239 irish rose
re: #242 Sharmuta

That was posted by the commenter just below de la Valette:

Posted by: Azygos ¦ Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 09:34 PM

261 Wishing  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:57:39pm

Are ther so few freedom-lovers in Europe that they have to link up with fascists to have any numbers? Is it a money problem? Why do they prostitute their ideology...or maybe they have forgotten how to stand up for what they believe? Or maybe they are unsure of what they believe. The whole thing is weird. How does linking up with these fascists help them, long-term? It just doesnt. It is the kiss of death.

262 LotharBot  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:57:58pm

re: #255 rightymouse

You never answered my question as to whether you've read C.S. Lewis. Well?

Perhaps you should specify which C.S. Lewis book you're talking about; it's quite possible to have read a lot of C.S. Lewis without having read the specific passage you have in mind.

(Note that I've been arguing on the same side as you for this whole thread -- don't "ally" with evil. I just think you can make your point better.)

263 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:59:35pm

re: #260 justadot

Thank you. de La Valette- my apologies.

264 rightymouse  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:59:47pm

re: #262 LotharBot

Perhaps you should specify which C.S. Lewis book you're talking about; it's quite possible to have read a lot of C.S. Lewis without having read the specific passage you have in mind.

(Note that I've been arguing on the same side as you for this whole thread -- don't "ally" with evil. I just think you can make your point better.)


Oh, I'm sorry. I was talking to 'Me Too Then". Do you have two nics here?

265 Joel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:00:31pm

re: #235 J.S.

Yes, the Battle of Kursk (the tank battle...) has also been claimed as the turning point...

Actually Kursk was in many ways (thanks to opened Soviet archives) a tactical victory (at least in the Southern portion of the offensive where Manstein commanded) but a strategic defeat as Germany wasted away tank strengths that she could not afford. Germany would have been better off instead of launching offensives, to have gone over to a mobile defense which would include launching limited offensives when the Soviets were outstretching their supply lines. The Third Battle of Kharkov in Feb 1943 was a classic German victory (her last one on the Eastern front).

266 JHW  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:00:57pm

re: #243 right_on_target

Interesting, I have a copy of the unit history "Die Zehnte Panzer Division" by Albert Schick, 1993, it says the division was raised in Bohemia and Moravia, I assume that means they were Sudeten Germans. The book is pretty dry reading though, like a lot of those unit histories, although some are quite interesting. according to the history they were pretty well decimated at Moscow and were pulled out to rebuild and ended up in the Afrika Korps.

267 right_on_target  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:01:34pm

re: #250 Joel

What a coincidence. My father was a MP and guarded German POW's from the Afrika Korps throughout the South including Tennessee. I wonder if they met. Many Americans have no idea about the vastness of the battles of the Eastern Front - Kursk, Operation Bagration, The Rzhev meat grinder, Kahrkov, the numbers are staggering. The Allied losses on D-Day would have been considered a quiet day on the Eastern Front.

_______________
You know, a few years ago I went up to Memphis and asked some locals about the POW camps around there but couldn't find much information since it was a Sunday. I didn't have much time as I was only passing through. My father was also sent to the Ruston, Louisiana POW camp a few times. Since he was a mechanic he repaired quite a few tractors and farm machinery.

I still have one of my father's US Civic's classes booklets that were handed out in the Memphis POW camp. Instructor's name was E. Langenfeld. Name of the Booklet " Arbeitende Demokratie" [Working Democracy
Lagerschule PW Camp Memphis

268 Cap'n DOC  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:01:59pm

re: #262 LotharBot

The Screwtape Letters perhaps.

269 Joel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:02:53pm

Follow up
An example of how bloody the Eastern Front was - according to recent Soviet era archives long suppressed but now opened, the Soviet strategic victory at Kursk cost the Red Army 250,000 dead! The wounded and captured were probably 3 times that.

270 rightymouse  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:04:07pm

re: #268 Cap'n DOC

The Screwtape Letters perhaps.


That's the one, except Lotharbot was answering for Me Too Then.

Very confusing when they can't keep their nics straight.

271 MeTooThen  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:04:21pm

re: #255 rightymouse

No, I haven't. Not that it matters, but my sister read seemingly all of C.S. Lewis.

But I think you are missing my point, and conflating a comment of understanding why people make a deal with the Devil, with advocating for making that deal.

What I admire in Charles, and why I wrote those comments, was to highlight what I perceived was his willingness to be both critical of, and yet compassionate with (or, respectful to) Pamela Geller. There is little of that in the world where people disagree, and almost none of it in the blogosphere.

Again, the rise of radical Islam has been decades (and several generations) in the making. That it has taken root, and possibly will someday (soon) control Western Europe seems very real to me. It's the demography.

The only force that seems willing to take on radical Islam, at this time, is sadly the neo-Nazi's. That some are willing, for expedience sake, to align themselves with them, is also sad, but understandable.

272 Irish Rose  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:04:56pm

re: #260 justadot

re: #242 Sharmuta

That was posted by the commenter just below de la Valette:


Egads, I see it now... my mistake.
Sorry about that, de la Valette!

I've been working back-to-back shifts - my eyes are shot, and I'm dead on my feet. Posting when you're exhausted is almost as stupid as trying to post when you're drunk.

I'm off to bed, night all.

273 Cimbrian  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:05:13pm

re: #202 Sharmuta

Danish People's Party


They don't belong on that list.

They are the staunchest supporters of Israel in the Danish Parliament and root out members even on suspicion of ties to WN or fascist groups. They do not argue on racial grounds and are keen to distance themselves from those who do - very often leftists trying to score cheap points.

They are anti-Islamic, though. And uncompromisingly so.

274 J.S.  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:06:21pm

re: #245 ContraJihadi

I tend to think (suspect) that Roosevelt felt an admiration (genuine admiration) for Stalin...(but, of course, that's a debatable point)...(I don't think the admiration was entirely due to politicking...)

275 Cap'n DOC  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:06:31pm

re: #270 rightymouse

Mismatched Socks perhaps.

276 Joel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:06:32pm

re: #267 right_on_target

_______________
You know, a few years ago I went up to Memphis and asked some locals about the POW camps around there but couldn't find much information since it was a Sunday. I didn't have much time as I was only passing through. My father was also sent to the Ruston, Louisiana POW camp a few times. Since he was a mechanic he repaired quite a few tractors and farm machinery.

I still have one of my father's US Civic's classes booklets that were handed out in the Memphis POW camp. Instructor's name was E. Langenfeld. Name of the Booklet " Arbeitende Demokratie" [Working Democracy
Lagerschule PW Camp Memphis

My Dad (who was very blond and blue eyed) used to get asked by the German POWs if he was German. He told them in Yiddish-German that he was Jewish! They would blanch and look scared but after they realized that he was not going to shoot them they would talk like regular guys. His impression was

1. They were thankful not to have been sent to Russia
2. They were grateful they were in America and that the war was over for them.

277 Joel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:09:08pm

re: #271 MeTooThen

Actually many neo Nazis (think David Duke aka "the Little Boy Who Would be Hitler") want to make alliances with Islamofascists. Given a choice - they will always hate the Jews first. Many NAzis (Alois Brunner) fled to Muslim countries after World War II.

278 rightymouse  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:09:38pm

re: #271 MeTooThen


No, honey. You are missing the point. The end doesn't justify the means. So, no. I don't understand WHY people do that except out of ignorance and fear.

And you are being so carefully fork-tongued as to give me a double migraine.

279 LotharBot  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:09:51pm

re: #264 rightymouse

Oh, I'm sorry. I was talking to 'Me Too Then". Do you have two nics here?

No, I don't have two nics here. And yes, I realize you were talking to someone else. As I said in my parenthetical note, I just think you can make your point better. I don't know how the person you were talking to is supposed to make sense of your question if you don't specify which C.S. Lewis writing you think is relevant to your point about making a "deal with the devil". Are you meaning to draw a parallel to Edmund and the White Witch, something in Screwtape Letters, or what?

280 Cap'n DOC  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:09:51pm

re: #276 Joel

My Grandfather (Dad's side) was a guard at Ft. Lincoln, south of Bismarck, ND. Mostly Germans there as well. His first language was French (as was mine), so he didn't do much talking nor did they.

281 de La Valette  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:10:54pm

No.

282 rightymouse  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:11:03pm

re: #275 Cap'n DOC

Mismatched Socks perhaps.

Go figure.

283 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:11:27pm

re: #281 de La Valette

We see that now, and apologize.

284 right_on_target  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:11:32pm

re: #266 JHW

Interesting, I have a copy of the unit history "Die Zehnte Panzer Division" by Albert Schick, 1993, it says the division was raised in Bohemia and Moravia, I assume that means they were Sudeten Germans. The book is pretty dry reading though, like a lot of those unit histories, although some are quite interesting. according to the history they were pretty well decimated at Moscow and were pulled out to rebuild and ended up in the Afrika Korps.

re: #266 JHW
--------------------
That's the unit my father was in, specifically the Aufklärungs-Abteilung 90 which is the reconnaissance detachment They were not all Sudetens. My family is from Pomerania [hence my avatar], Stettin.
Wondering, is the book still in print?

285 Joel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:12:40pm

re: #280 Cap'n DOC

My Grandfather (Dad's side) was a guard at Ft. Lincoln, south of Bismarck, ND. Mostly Germans there as well. His first language was French (as was mine), so he didn't do much talking nor did they.

My Dad had a friend who was also an MP and was sent to Europe and took Eddie Slovik (the only American to be executed for desertion since the Civil War) into custody.

286 LotharBot  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:13:23pm

re: #270 rightymouse

That's the one, except Lotharbot was answering for Me Too Then.

Very confusing when they can't keep their nics straight.

Geez... I wasn't "answering for" anyone. I was simply suggesting that your question be appropriately specific, because (having read your previous post, as well as several of Lewis' books) I couldn't figure out which of C.S. Lewis' many books you may have been trying to refer to.

287 Joel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:13:42pm

re: #284 right_on_target

Did your Dad fight in the Battle of France?

288 de La Valette  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:14:53pm

No, your posts on a TypePad blog engine precede your identity. The material you reference was posted by: Azygos. Scared me there for a second. That id was all of ten minutes old.

For the record, my post:

If we can't agree on this subject with using reason and morality as guides; then lets use logic.

The anti-jihad movement will fail, utterly, if they do not lose this neo-nazi albatross.

Here in the US the right wing was slowly dying under our own albatrosses (The John Birch Society, Goldwater, and Buchanan), because of the efforts of men like WF Buckley socially conservative, economic liberalism, and American nationalism remain a force in American politics.

Someone in Europe needs to step up and draw the line. Deny the BNP and VB; and all of the other marginal groups a role in the fight against Islam. Demand intellectual accountability and force the media to acknowledge the difference. This needs to be someone with a media presence and intellectual credentials that suit "European" public opinion.

This battle against Islam is not Poiters, you don't need foot soldiers. It is an economic, demographic, and above all else a public relations war. Affording the neo-nazis and other fascist a spot in your lines is a weak point the muslims and the left will exploit.

Don't worry about the other part of the fight; with or without your armies, Islam will not prevail against the American military. The terrorists will strike against, it will hurt; but in the end they will die in caves. We can only lose to an festering, internal rot. An important fight is going on in the US right now, but in the long run Europe is at greater risk.

289 rightymouse  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:15:02pm

re: #279 LotharBot

No, I don't have two nics here. And yes, I realize you were talking to someone else. As I said in my parenthetical note, I just think you can make your point better. I don't know how the person you were talking to is supposed to make sense of your question if you don't specify which C.S. Lewis writing you think is relevant to your point about making a "deal with the devil". Are you meaning to draw a parallel to Edmund and the White Witch, something in Screwtape Letters, or what?

Why should you care what I was asking poster "Me Too Then"? You spoke as though we had been conversing on the thread, which we had not.

290 Thanos  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:15:51pm

re: #273 Cimbrian

They don't belong on that list.

They are the staunchest supporters of Israel in the Danish Parliament and root out members even on suspicion of ties to WN or fascist groups. They do not argue on racial grounds and are keen to distance themselves from those who do - very often leftists trying to score cheap points.

They are anti-Islamic, though. And uncompromisingly so.

From what little I know of DPP, I have to agree that they do not seem to belong on the list, although they ally with the others at some demonstrations in Europe. They are not actively racial or tribal purists. They also seem to be pretty firm US allies.

291 de La Valette  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:16:45pm

I should go back an edit the grammar in that post on both sites, but its late.

292 mph  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:16:48pm

The Pamela, Fjordman , Gorin, Fitzgerald, Bostom, Spencer axis...They are "steeped in the evil of the hegemony of Islam."

She went over the deep end on this post. Thanks for alerting us to it.

I don't think Pamela sees how inconsistent she really is though. On one hand she wants us to succeed in Iraq. On the other, she is so "steeped in the evil of the hegemony of Islam," it is common sense to her and the people she gives a forum to, that a nation of muslims will never be free and peaceful. At least Robert Spencer has the consistency to see Iraq as a lost cause so long as it America's intention to install a liberal democracy there.

293 rightymouse  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:16:52pm

re: #286 LotharBot

Geez... I wasn't "answering for" anyone. I was simply suggesting that your question be appropriately specific, because (having read your previous post, as well as several of Lewis' books) I couldn't figure out which of C.S. Lewis' many books you may have been trying to refer to.

**sigh**

Here we go again. Check yourself on #279.

294 sparrowlake  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:17:18pm

I think it is fair to say that the European democracies (except for Great Britain) do not have the same tradition of a resilient and vital democracy as America. Not even close. And in the case of Great Britain it appears that they have literally sold out their country and its democratic tradition to foreign "investors". France, nominally a longstanding democracy, has unfortunately not able to defend itself in recent history.
Unlike America, this European milieu has been and continues to be a fertile breeding ground for totalitarian political movements and regimes. Is it then surprising that the democracy-loving American Right has little or nothing in common with the anti-democratic European Right?

295 de La Valette  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:18:13pm

re: #290 Thanos

This little sub thread about the DPP is exactly why the European right needs a trusted gatekeeper. Most of us here don't have the time to follow the details of small European political parties.

296 JHW  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:18:47pm

re: #284 right_on_target

I don't know if it's still in print, a search on Abebooks might bring up a copy. It was printed in Cologne (Koln, I don't know how to do the umlaut) by J. Pohle, Volksgartenstrasse 8, 50677 Koln, in 1993, for the veterans of the division. No ISBN number. It's a pretty hefty book, 668 pages, some photos. I've occasionally seen some of these German unit histories like I say from Abebooks, German dealers, but they're all getting pretty scarce by now.

297 right_on_target  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:20:33pm

re: #276 Joel

I didn't speak English until grade school here in New Orleans. I made friends with some Jewish kids because they were the only ones I could understand at the time; they spoke Yiddish. The other kids in school hated me, always taunted me, called me the "N" word, got beat up a lot. That's history now.

298 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:20:58pm

re: #290 Thanos

From what little I know of DPP, I have to agree that they do not seem to belong on the list, although they ally with the others at some demonstrations in Europe. They are not actively racial or tribal purists. They also seem to be pretty firm US allies.

I seem to remember them making alliances too, though I'm not finding the story at the moment. This is exactly the problem with making alliances with other groups- they can tar you when you're not deserving of it, per se.

299 EIDE_Interface  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:21:39pm

re: #20 Lizard by the Bay

I just posted this on the previous thread, not realizing it's imminent status as "dead thread". Here are my musings again, for everyone's amusement and/or derision:

Well, it looks like it's going to come down to just 3 states in the northeast that will determine our next President. Specifically the heart of the Rust Belt: Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan. Every projection and poll I've seen shows every other state firlmy in one camp or the other for most of this election season, giving 245 solid votes to McCain and 235 solid votes to Obama.

What this means is that the race will come down to whoever gets 2 of the 3 states mentioned* (Florida is just not in play, despite what Dems may think of their chances there). Ohio seems likes it's leaning towards McCain, while Michigan looks pretty good for Obama. I believe Pennsylvania will be the true battleground, like Ohio and Florida before.

*There is the slightest possibility that McCain could lose two states and still win anyway, but only if he can wrest Colorado and New Mexico away from Obama; but McCain is slightly vulnerable in Nevada and West Virginia, potentially cancelling that out. No, I don't expext too much shake-up in the western states or West Virginia. It's Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. Once those three contests have been decided, the night is over.

[Link: www.realclearpolitics.com...]

Obama has a +30 lead at the moment.

300 de La Valette  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:22:36pm

re: #266 JHW

I used to have a book, the Blond Knight of Germany about life of German pilots on the Eastern front. I highly recommended it, if you can find a copy.

Despite the title it's not an racist or aryan tract.

301 EIDE_Interface  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:22:42pm

re: #49 buzzsawmonkey

I used to enjoy some of Pamela's rants--though not the fact that her slow-loading site made them hard to read.

But something has always bothered me. She wears her "Jewishness" on her sleeve, but gives the distinct impression that she is not in any way a practicing, as opposed to merely "ethnic," Jew.

I regret to say that not only does not do it for me--I find it deeply disturbing. Chauvinism is, occasionally, justified--if one indulges in it with wariness and a great deal of self-examination along the way. But self-examination has clearly never been Pamela's forte. More to the point, being a "Jewish" chauvinist is in my view suspect (at best) if one is not willing to undertake the practice of the mitzvot which, until modern times, were inseparable from any other aspect of "Jewish identity."

In short, being a "Jewish chauvinist" without being a committed (even if flawed) practicing Jew makes one very little different from a "white nationalist" of the David Duke variety; in both cases, one is exalting what is in the end merely an accident of birth to something more without any basis or justification for doing so. The only difference is the identity label one is exalting.

That's thin ice buddy, be VERY careful about your next words.

302 right_on_target  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:23:28pm

re: #287 Joel

Did your Dad fight in the Battle of France?


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I think so, but not sure.
I lost a lot of photos and documents in a fire about 40 years ago.

303 ContraJihadi  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:24:13pm

re: #274 J.S.

I tend to think (suspect) that Roosevelt felt an admiration (genuine admiration) for Stalin...(but, of course, that's a debatable point)...(I don't think the admiration was entirely due to politicking...)

I agree, although I cannot point to any document to confirm my suspicion.

Let's just say that by the time FDR had spent 2 terms in office--after the Progressives, TR, Wilson; Holmes Jr. on the bench--the whole notion of a constitutional, common-law jurisprudence, a laissez faire economy, and a classically liberal, Jeffersonian small national government with large portions of sovereignty reserved to the individual states, had already gone into eclipse.

The centralizing tendency, begun during the Civil War, had reached a higher plateau. It was only natural that many "elites" admired the concepts if not the details of the implementations of (Italian) fascism and (Russian) central planning. Perhaps FDR thought of himself as an enlightened dictator, a modern Marcus Aurelius: but that would imply that already the republic had been sundered and negated.

304 JHW  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:24:48pm

re: #300 de La Valette

That's a fairly good book if I remember, I think I read it several years ago. IIRC the pilot in the book ended up as a high ranking commander in the postwar Bundewehr Luftwaffe.

305 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:25:38pm

re: #58 Sharmuta

Why did you ding me down on this, wong? What I said in this post is historically accurate.

306 MeTooThen  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:25:58pm

re: #278 rightymouse

I agree.

But perhaps you don't feel the desperation that people like Pamela feel.

My aunt was one block away from a suicide-bomber's blast in Jerusalem. My best friend was with his wife and kids when that guy drove a truck into a crowd. He could see the truck.

I had friends who worked in or around WTC, luckily they survived. They had friends who didn't.

it is not only out of ignorance and fear that people make decisions such as this. It is the belief that it is necessary to do so to stay alive. It is a terrible calculus, yes.

Again, perhaps you don't feel the desperation. I don't, but can understand those who do.

Never again, for some means just that. Never again.

My father's family that stayed in Lithuania was wiped out by the Nazis. His father left after his family endured the pogroms. My mother's family that stayed in the Ukraine and Belarus were also wiped out by both the Communists and the Nazis.

Many of my friend's families have Holocaust survivors in them, or theirs were the lucky ones to escape.

This is a complex and dangerous time to be a Jew. Those who are desperate don't have to ask themselves what it will it take for them to choose sides with the Devil? Don't be so smug in declaring you don't understand whay people make the choices they do, or that you're right and they're wrong. Have some compassion.

307 right_on_target  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:26:12pm

re: #304 JHW

That's a fairly good book if I remember, I think I read it several years ago. IIRC the pilot in the book ended up as a high ranking commander in the postwar Bundewehr Luftwaffe.


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Erich Hartmann

308 Athos  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:26:54pm

re: #288 de La Valette

Well said, particularly the part of how WF Buckley and other conservatives took and continue to take stands against the fascists of the right who look for acceptance from principled conservatives.

Up ding for ya!

309 Athos  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:27:08pm

re: #292 mph

Pamela went over the deep end last year when the light was shown on the Eurofascists and those who blindly accept 'the enemy of my enemy....' with consideration of whose 'bed' they are sharing. She was on my Gaze list for a long time. I think now, it's permanent. Her hatred is such that she will ally with anyone - and by doing so surrenders her moral standing and compass.

310 JHW  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:27:23pm

re: #307 right_on_target

Yes, you're right, I'd forgotten his name.

311 Joel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:28:49pm

re: #302 right_on_target

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I think so, but not sure.
I lost a lot of photos and documents in a fire about 40 years ago.

The 10th Panzer was in that battle. Shortly afterwards Hitler split the panzer divisions in order to create more panzer divisions. They went from 400 tanks per division to 200 tanks per division. Hitler always liked having more divisions on paper even if it meant weakening existing divisions in order to create more formations.

312 LotharBot  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:28:58pm

re: #289 rightymouse

Why should you care what I was asking poster "Me Too Then"? You spoke as though we had been conversing on the thread, which we had not.

Because I was interested. I wanted to see where you were intending to go with the discussion, and wanted to give you a bump in the direction of "asking a clear question" in order to help the discussion along. As I've said several times now, I think you could've made your point better.

(For future reference, instead of getting upset at me, accusing me of being a sock puppet, etc., you could've just specified "The Screwtape Letters" and saved us all from this sideshow.)

313 Athos  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:29:15pm

re: #300 de La Valette

I'll second the recommendation - story of Erich 'Bubi' Hartmann - 353 Air victories in combat primarily on the Eastern Front. Captured in 1945, was not released until 1955 by the Soviets. He did rise to be a leader in the postwar Luftwaffe.

314 EIDE_Interface  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:30:40pm

re: #60 karmic_inquisitor

I tend to look more at her megalomania. The constant restating of her Jewish identity is simply a dimension of the megalomania. Just look at that post -- not one link except to herself in the introduction. And the graphics emphasizing her physique are supposed to support her arguments? I know they are intended as humor, but only in the most self flattering way.

Well she is hawt.

315 J.S.  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:31:00pm

re: #303 ContraJihadi

Jonah Goldberg's text, "Liberal Fascism" addresses Roosevelt's affinity for dictatorships/fondness for fascism...or at least that argument is put forward by Goldberg...It's an interesting argument (although i do have some reservations about exaggerating the case...)

316 Joel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:32:19pm

re: #309 Athos

Pamela went over the deep end last year when the light was shown on the Eurofascists and those who blindly accept 'the enemy of my enemy....' with consideration of whose 'bed' they are sharing. She was on my Gaze list for a long time. I think now, it's permanent. Her hatred is such that she will ally with anyone - and by doing so surrenders her moral standing and compass.

Yeah even though her heart is essentially in the right place, she has become a fanatic who shrieks first and then asks questions later. When she was pushing Cheney to run for POTUS I knew she had lost her political reasoning. I like Cheney but he would be totally toxic as a candidate and I do not believe in what Dick Morris sarcastically referred to as "the purity of losing". Too bad b/c I agree with her on at least what a worthless piece of garbage Olmerde is.

317 Athos  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:32:26pm

re: #30 Charles

No white nationalists allowed. That's not a thin line.

Bravo Charles!

We can and will win this conflict without surrendering our values and principles.

318 TalkinKamel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:32:52pm

re: #249 MeTooThen

(Sigh) Really, I wish you'd read what I've actually written. All the understanding in the world doesn't make a wrong decision right. So, what I'm saying is that understanding really means nothing here: zip, zilch, nada, bupkes. Whether I empathize or not, my answer's always going to be the same: it's a bad, bad, BAD idea. You're going to keep coming back with "But I do understand"----as if that somehow changes everything. It doesn't We're going around in circles. There's something wrong in being so desperate that you're willing to get into bed with evil. In such a situation, what a person,. or a group, needs is not understanding, to be slapped upside the head and asked, "Whatsamatter wit' you?"

Considering the awful history of Facism and the Jews, I'd say it's surprising that any Jew, no matter how desperate, would ever think Nazis would be their champions. I confess, I don't understand Pamela at all on this one. (I think Jews are quite capable of being their own champions. If you're so desperate you can't believe this, get therapy, get help, get a counselor---but, for all our sakes, stop it!)

319 EIDE_Interface  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:32:59pm

re: #316 Joel

Yeah even though her heart is essentially in the right place, she has become a fanatic who shrieks first and then asks questions later. When she was pushing Cheney to run for POTUS I knew she had lost her political reasoning. I like Cheney but he would be totally toxic as a candidate and I do not believe in what Dick Morris sarcastically referred to as "the purity of losing". Too bad b/c I agree with her on at least what a worthless piece of garbage Olmerde is.

I'm still not clear which white nationalist groups she's making common cause with. Don't they all hate Jews?

320 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:34:35pm

re: #319 EIDE_Interface

If you'd read the thread, you'd find links to the back story.

321 ContraJihadi  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:35:34pm

re: #315 J.S.

Jonah Goldberg's text, "Liberal Fascism" addresses Roosevelt's affinity for dictatorships/fondness for fascism...or at least that argument is put forward by Goldberg...It's an interesting argument (although i do have some reservations about exaggerating the case...)

Thanks for the heads up. I enjoy Goldberg as a waggish commentator, but I have not yet been convinced to take him seriously as an author of a detailed monogram. Perhaps I'll run across Liberal Fascism in the library one of these days and peruse it there.

322 EIDE_Interface  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:36:09pm

So this is about Pamela Geller's support for Filip Dewinter?

323 pingjockey  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:36:49pm

IIRC, white, black, purple fascists, nazis of any stripe hate anyone not in their group.

324 Athos  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:36:56pm

re: #316 Joel

One could point to the fact that a broken clock is right twice a day - but the way that she turned on Charles, LGF, and many of the people here who aren't willing to accept her conditions and absolute viewpoint does point to someone who has just lost all rationale thought.

They way she ripped into one commentary on that post, which I thought was respectful to her and not too dissimilar from what I would say, was the last straw as far as I am concerned.

325 Basho  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:36:56pm

re: #100 Tom on the Rez

Let's not be so quick to reject possible allies in a long war. If they're a problem later, we kick their asses, too. Pamela seems like a good sort. I didn't read much of the Fjordman thing; life's too short.

I don't like it. But being in America, it's easy for me to reject this line of thinking. Many places in Europe have reached a tipping point and are left with few choices.

326 Joel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:37:02pm

re: #319 EIDE_Interface

I'm still not clear which white nationalist groups she's making common cause with. Don't they all hate Jews?

Most of them do. Funny how they do not consider Jews to be "white" but then again most natinonalists are not very bright. Nationalism is evil, patriotism is good. There is a world of difference between patriotism and nationalism. Nationalism is what brought on World War I.

327 EIDE_Interface  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:37:45pm

re: #326 Joel

Most of them do. Funny how they do not consider Jews to be "white" but then again most natinonalists are not very bright. Nationalism is evil, patriotism is good. There is a world of difference between patriotism and nationalism. Nationalism is what brought on World War I.

Honestly, it seems a distinction without a difference.

328 joelmichael  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:37:59pm

The linked blog name, regardless of its content, raises a question for me. Forgive me if this has been discussed before, but I'm new. What does LGF think about Ayn Rand and her philosophy of Objectivism?

My initial thought is that it would, at a minimum, be an allied concept with the general tenets I have seen thus far on LGF. For instance:

Ayn Rand believed religion and faith were evil concepts which required rejecting science and reason. This seems congruent with LGF's anti-creationism and anti-Islamism stances. I'm still not sure if LGF advocates any form of religion, or if it considers itself atheist.

Ayn Rand also argued that one of the greatest mistakes America and Britain made was allowing oil-bearing countries to nationalize their oil plants owned by Western businesses. She argued the West brought the technology and knowledge there and was operating in agreement with the local governments. This complies well with LGF's stance against the Islamic Republic of Iran, although I've never seen oil addressed specifically.

Ayn Rand did not support any sort of racist philosophy, as she thought the words and actions of men were the only thing they should be judged on, and it is unethical to guage people based on things they had no control over. This is consistent with Charles' rejection of white nationalism.

329 J.S.  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:38:29pm

re: #321 ContraJihadi

I agree with your assessment -- I think Goldberg, unlike academic historians, is too prone to "making his case" (that is, every single shred of evidence he finds which he figures can be mustered to "the cause" he enlists...and some of it becomes pretty dubious...it's mostly in what he leaves out...he just sort of avoids the disconfirming bits...)

330 Joel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:39:11pm

re: #324 Athos

One could point to the fact that a broken clock is right twice a day - but the way that she turned on Charles, LGF, and many of the people here who aren't willing to accept her conditions and absolute viewpoint does point to someone who has just lost all rationale thought.

They way she ripped into one commentary on that post, which I thought was respectful to her and not too dissimilar from what I would say, was the last straw as far as I am concerned.

Oh I agree. She started the war with Charles b/c Charles would not promote that conference she attended in Europe in 2007 with the European nationalists parties and she called him essentially a 'sellout'. I liked Pam but Charles is right most of the times as he was on that issue.

331 rightymouse  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:39:58pm

re: #306 MeTooThen

I only have pity for those who do not look to history and their own experiences as guides to decide on what is the morally right thing to do for themselves and others.

How much compassion today should I have for those who, for whatever misguided reason, like Pamela, willingly enable those who, in the long run, would do them harm?

People like Pamela are likely going to be complicit in hurting lots of other people if she's not careful. THEY, I have compassion for. Not her. She should know better and does not.

My maternal ancestors were Quakers. They suffered terrible abuse here and look at their descendents - a bunch of goofy pacifists who get in bed with terrorists who would just as soon see them dead.

332 Athos  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:40:20pm

re: #321 ContraJihadi

Liberal Fascism is an eye-opening book and well documented. I highly recommend it.

333 pingjockey  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:40:35pm

re: #328 joelmichael
Speaking for myself, I don't feel that we on this blog believe that religion and faith are evil! I do feel creationism masking itself as science is fraud.

334 EIDE_Interface  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:41:14pm

re: #328 joelmichael

Yeah honestly what problem could she have with anti-creationism when she claims to be an Ayn Rand fan? I wonder what her agenda is.

335 Athos  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:41:27pm

re: #319 EIDE_Interface

It is important to read the back story that Charles linked earlier in the thread.

336 Basho  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:41:53pm

re: #328 joelmichael

Ayn Rand believed religion and faith were evil concepts which required rejecting science and reason. This seems congruent with LGF's anti-creationism and anti-Islamism stances. I'm still not sure if LGF advocates any form of religion, or if it considers itself atheist.

Yeah, I don't think you have any clue what LGF is all about and should learn about it before forming an opinion.

And Ayn Rand was a crank... But that's my opinion...

337 ContraJihadi  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:42:02pm

re: #329 J.S.

I agree with your assessment -- I think Goldberg, unlike academic historians, is too prone to "making his case" (that is, every single shred of evidence he finds which he figures can be mustered to "the cause" he enlists...and some of it becomes pretty dubious...it's mostly in what he leaves out...he just sort of avoids the disconfirming bits...)

Sigh, I wish people on "our side" wouldn't do that, but I am a philosopher at heart, not a polemicist. But I do recognize that polemics have their place in the tussle bussle of the world.

338 Colonel Panik  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:42:13pm

re: #231 right_on_target

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Russia couldn't fight on two fronts, that's why they kept peace with Japan.

Germany fought on two fronts, with the eastern front by far the larger front with the most casualties. Had Germany not invaded Russia the entire war I think would have turned out differently.
The US didn't enter until late '41.

Soviet Russia defeated a Japanese invasion of Siberia from Japanese occupied Manchuria in 1939. The general who was in charge of the Red Army forces at the Battle of Khalkhin Gol was Georgii Zhukov, who would lead the Red Army to victory at Stalingrad using tactics similar to those he used against the Japanese at Khalkhin Gol.

"Although this engagement is little-known in the West, it had profound implications on the conduct of World War II. It may be said to be the first decisive battle of World War II, because it determined that the two principal Axis Powers, Germany and Japan, would never geographically link up their areas of control through Russia. The defeat convinced the Imperial General Staff in Tokyo that the policy of the North Strike Group, favoured by the army, which wanted to seize Siberia as far as Lake Baikal for its resources, was untenable. Instead the South Strike Group, favored by the navy, which wanted to seize the resources of Southeast Asia, especially the petroleum and mineral-rich Dutch East Indies, gained the ascendancy, leading directly to the attack on Pearl Harbor two and a half years later in December 1941."

339 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:42:25pm

re: #328 joelmichael

I'm still not sure if LGF advocates any form of religion, or if it considers itself atheist.

LGF is blog. There are people on this blog who range all over the board on religion. We have Jews, atheists and Christians of different stripes. We have agnostics and pagans- even muslims. What binds us all together is anti-idiotarianism.

340 EIDE_Interface  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:42:33pm

re: #330 Joel

Oh I agree. She started the war with Charles b/c Charles would not promote that conference she attended in Europe in 2007 with the European nationalists parties and she called him essentially a 'sellout'. I liked Pam but Charles is right most of the times as he was on that issue.

Also Charles has been burned in the past by open racists on these threads, so he's right to police it stronger.

341 ContraJihadi  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:42:36pm

re: #332 Athos

Liberal Fascism is an eye-opening book and well documented. I highly recommend it.

On the "I will seek it" list when I go to the library.

342 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:42:50pm

re: #332 Athos

Liberal Fascism is an eye-opening book and well documented. I highly recommend it.

I'm with Athos on this, ContraJ.

343 Joel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:42:59pm

re: #327 EIDE_Interface

Honestly, it seems a distinction without a difference.

No. Nationalism is by its nature very aggressive and somewhat militaristic, while patriotism tends to be purer and to appeal to peoples better instincts. Just my opinion.

344 rightymouse  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:43:12pm

re: #312 LotharBot

Because I was interested. I wanted to see where you were intending to go with the discussion, and wanted to give you a bump in the direction of "asking a clear question" in order to help the discussion along. As I've said several times now, I think you could've made your point better.

(For future reference, instead of getting upset at me, accusing me of being a sock puppet, etc., you could've just specified "The Screwtape Letters" and saved us all from this sideshow.)

And I was never talking to you to begin with, so perhaps next time, you could mind your own business and not become your own sideshow.

345 pingjockey  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:43:31pm

re: #339 Sharmuta
You stated that better than my half assed attempt!

346 TalkinKamel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:43:40pm

re: #225 de La Valette

Uh, which church are you talking about? Catholic? Baptist? Quaker? (uh, scratch the Quakers); Episcopal? Christian Science? You are aware, aren't you, that in America, we have a whole lot of religious denominations? How are we going to get them to work together? Who would they swear allegiance to? Who would give them their orders? The pope? The Archbishop of Canterbury? The 700 Club?

And there are already quite a few Christians in our armed forces, who are already serving their country, and I don't think it would be a good idea to take them out and stick them in some military order; it would weaken our actual armed services.

The old military orders worked---for a while---because they came from a society where there was one established church, and, being men from the same sort of background (noble, European) they all agreed on pretty much the same things; but, even there, the Roman Catholic church, and the military orders, made a big mistake in not being able to find some way of getting along with Eastern Christians, which went a long way towards losing the Holy Land. I just don't think the old military model's going to work.

I think what we need isn't a military order, but some good Christian teachers and preachers, to spread the word (and, of course, more Christian soldiers serving in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, etc.)

347 mph  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:43:45pm

re: #309 Athos

Pamela went over the deep end last year when the light was shown on the Eurofascists and those who blindly accept 'the enemy of my enemy....' with consideration of whose 'bed' they are sharing. She was on my Gaze list for a long time. I think now, it's permanent. Her hatred is such that she will ally with anyone - and by doing so surrenders her moral standing and compass.

Agreed 100%.

I don't really know how much of this she fully understands -- but in the heat of her counter-jihad, she has saddled up with some very dangerous folks.

348 Basho  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:43:51pm

re: #345 pingjockey

I second that.

349 EIDE_Interface  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:44:19pm

re: #343 Joel

No. Nationalism is by its nature very aggressive and somewhat militaristic, while patriotism tends to be purer and to appeal to peoples better instincts. Just my opinion.

Well the left thinks there is no difference between the 2. It's almost become impossible to declare oneself an open patriot for fear of social ostracism.

350 pingjockey  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:45:17pm

re: #348 Basho
Heh!

351 MeTooThen  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:45:23pm

re: #318 TalkinKamel

I wish you read what I wrote.

I never said it was right. I think it is wrong. I have said so repeatedly.

In desperation, I can understand why someone would believe that a temporary pause in the onslaught that is radical Islam, may be wanted, or perceived to be beneficial, even if that meant, for expedience sake, joining forces with Neo-Nazis. And yes, it is surprising to come to such a conclusion, but for some (and I am not one) they feel as if they have no other choice.

As a systems analysis, you have several billion people against 13 million or so (at best) and if not for the threat of mutually assured destruction, the 6 million that inhabit Israel would be dead.

Now, that calculus has changed because of the Iranian bomb. There is no downside to the destruction of Israel, even if that means, millions of Arab and Persian dead? Can you not see or feel the desperation? This is not about getting a therapist or being one's own champion. The Iranian bomb and the willingness of Iran's leaders to use it is the ultimate trump card.

If the forces of radical Islam could be slowed in Europe or elsewhere (the thinking I suppose goes) then perhaps there may be some leverage or force to actually stop the Iranian bomb from being built and used. At this point, what hope is there that it won't be completed?

This is the terrible choice that Ms. Geller and others like her are willing to make. That you can't or won't understand it, even as it is a fool's choice, is perplexing. Admitting that you understand another's desperation is not equivalent to advocating for their position.

352 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:46:02pm

re: #345 pingjockey

re: #348 Basho

Thanks, guys.

353 J.S.  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:46:04pm

re: #337 ContraJihadi

Exactly. It's the same with Alan Dershowitz -- he's a polemicist -- but, dang it, he's well worth reading/considering/debating...I think Dershowitz (even if you don't agree with him) is a must read...he provokes (but in a good way -- arouses people from any stupor or getting complacent, etc.)

354 EIDE_Interface  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:46:05pm

re: #351 MeTooThen

She's just trying to take the easy path. The hard path is to be against all idiotarians and racists, no matter how inconvenient it seems in the moment. She's simply lost her way.

355 Joel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:47:07pm

re: #349 EIDE_Interface

Well the left thinks there is no difference between the 2. It's almost become impossible to declare oneself an open patriot for fear of social ostracism.

The Left (like the paleocon Right) is diseased. When I hear nationalism I think of Imperial Japan.

356 pingjockey  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:47:08pm

Goin' up thread.

357 ContraJihadi  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:47:52pm

re: #339 Sharmuta

LGF is blog. There are people on this blog who range all over the board on religion. We have Jews, atheists and Christians of different stripes. We have agnostics and pagans- even muslims. What binds us all together is anti-idiotarianism.

Yeah, Sharm, we even have--one, anyway--Hegelian. Who is not to be confused with either a theist, an atheist, an agnostic, or a pantheist.

/Zephyrs, my sweet (or is that "weet"?)

358 EIDE_Interface  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:47:58pm

re: #355 Joel

The Left (like the paleocon Right) is diseased. When I hear nationalism I think of Imperial Japan.

Are there any places in this country that you can be openly patriotic without fear?

359 MeTooThen  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:48:17pm

re: #331 rightymouse

I only have pity for those who do not look to history and their own experiences as guides to decide on what is the morally right thing to do for themselves and others.

How much compassion today should I have for those who, for whatever misguided reason, like Pamela, willingly enable those who, in the long run, would do them harm?

People like Pamela are likely going to be complicit in hurting lots of other people if she's not careful. THEY, I have compassion for. Not her. She should know better and does not.

My maternal ancestors were Quakers. They suffered terrible abuse here and look at their descendents - a bunch of goofy pacifists who get in bed with terrorists who would just as soon see them dead.

Fair enough. This is where we disagree. I have compassion for her and for those who may suffer at the hands of the neo-Nazis.

And I'm not saying I'm better for it. Just different from you. I can live with that.

360 Joel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:48:28pm

re: #353 J.S.

Exactly. It's the same with Alan Dershowitz -- he's a polemicist -- but, dang it, he's well worth reading/considering/debating...I think Dershowitz (even if you don't agree with him) is a must read...he provokes (but in a good way -- arouses people from any stupor or getting complacent, etc.)

Dershowitz can be infuriating with his Democratic/Liberal partisanship but he is spot on with Israel and the war against terrorists.

361 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:49:15pm

re: #358 EIDE_Interface

Are there any places in this country that you can be openly patriotic without fear?

That is a stupid question.

362 Thanos  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:49:19pm

re: #358 EIDE_Interface

Kansas

363 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:49:57pm

re: #357 ContraJihadi

Yeah, Sharm, we even have--one, anyway--Hegelian. Who is not to be confused with either a theist, an atheist, an agnostic, or a pantheist.

/Zephyrs, my sweet (or is that "weet"?)

Always good to see you, my friend. Your kindness always touches me- thank you.

364 J.S.  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:50:03pm

re: #360 Joel

Right again...(and remember Dershowitz's "torture warrant"? -- wow what an uproar -- as I laugh -- most everyone figured he was dead wrong -- but it has to be debated, argued over, etc.)

365 EIDE_Interface  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:50:05pm

re: #360 Joel

Dershowitz can be infuriating with his Democratic/Liberal partisanship but he is spot on with Israel and the war against terrorists.

One thing that infuriates me about people like Dershowitz is "selective anti-idiotarianism". But I think his social liberalism is probably due to historical Jewish experience in America.

366 EIDE_Interface  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:50:27pm

re: #361 Sharmuta

That is a stupid question.

It isn't. You can't do it in Seattle.

367 mph  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:50:35pm

re: #328 joelmichael

The linked blog name, regardless of its content, raises a question for me. Forgive me if this has been discussed before, but I'm new. What does LGF think about Ayn Rand and her philosophy of Objectivism?

I find it laughable that Pamela even tries to associate herself with the legacy of Ayn Rand. It does tell you a lot about the importance she tries to ascribe herself.

368 rightymouse  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:51:03pm

re: #358 EIDE_Interface

Are there any places in this country that you can be openly patriotic without fear?


Ohio.

369 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:51:11pm

re: #366 EIDE_Interface

It isn't. You can't do it in Seattle.

It is a stupid question. There is more to this country than the coasts, you know.

370 Joel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:51:23pm

re: #358 EIDE_Interface

Are there any places in this country that you can be openly patriotic without fear?

Certainly (and how I hate that term) in the Red States (which actually should be called "Blue States" b/c the Blue States i.e. Democratic States should be called Red States b/c they are socialist at heart - yeah that is confusing). Outside of university towns such as Chapel Hill which are loaded with transplanted liberal Northerners- I always found the Carolina's to be a very patriotic place as well as Wyoming, Montana, etc.

371 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:52:27pm

re: #366 EIDE_Interface

It isn't. You can't do it in Seattle.

And for crying out loud- grow a pair. Be a patriot if you want to, or cower to those who make you feel you can't love your country.

372 Basho  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:52:51pm

re: #354 EIDE_Interface

She's just trying to take the easy path. The hard path is to be against all idiotarians and racists, no matter how inconvenient it seems in the moment. She's simply lost her way.

I think many are seeing the hard path as the impossible path since their nations have gotten into such a democratic mess.


re: #355 Joel

The Left (like the paleocon Right) is diseased. When I hear nationalism I think of Imperial Japan.

I agree completely. Both sides have their open-borders nuts, for example.

373 EIDE_Interface  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:53:27pm

re: #369 Sharmuta

It is a stupid question. There is more to this country than the coasts, you know.

Well boohoo, I live in a blue state. BTW, WA state is very beautiful and it's your loss that you hate blue states because of the liberals.

374 Joel  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:54:00pm

re: #365 EIDE_Interface

One thing that infuriates me about people like Dershowitz is "selective anti-idiotarianism". But I think his social liberalism is probably due to historical Jewish experience in America.

Yeah I saw a young Dershowitz way back in 1970 on a PBS show called The Advocates take on the Arabists. Can't believe that it was 38 years ago. Still I cannot forget his being on O.J.'s defense team and he is a bit of a media whore.

375 Sharmuta  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:54:17pm

re: #373 EIDE_Interface

Don't make assumptions. I live in a blue state, moby.

376 EIDE_Interface  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:54:26pm

re: #372 Basho

I think many are seeing the hard path as the impossible path since their nations have gotten into such a democratic mess.

Are you implying that it is EVER ok to ally with white nationalists?

377 Basho  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:54:41pm

re: #366 EIDE_Interface

It isn't. You can't do it in Seattle.

They're gonna throw you in jail? Stand up for yourself while you still have the freedom!

378 EIDE_Interface  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:55:17pm

re: #375 Sharmuta

Don't make assumptions. I live in a blue state, moby.

Ah when all else fails, bring out the moby-card. You are so predictable.

379 Cimbrian  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:55:19pm

re: #298 Sharmuta

I seem to remember them making alliances too, though I'm not finding the story at the moment. This is exactly the problem with making alliances with other groups- they can tar you when you're not deserving of it, per se.

Their leader Pia Kjærsgaard has often distanced herself from Jean-Marie Le Pen in the past, while speaking warmly of Pim Fortuyn. They are not a party known for participating in demonstrations or seeking international alliances. They welcomed Geert Wilders and had informal talks with him on his recent trip to Denmark, but they dismissed the idea of cooperating with the PVV (Wilder's Party for Freedom).

They have similarities with Fremskrittspartiet in Norway and have stood up for Sverigedemokraterna and the treatment afforded to them in Sweden.

During the Mohammed Cartoon Crisis they didn't flinch, while other parties seemingly had trouble deciding if freedom of expression really is that important when the dairy export is in danger. They had Kurt Westergaard (of bomb-in-turban fame) to speak at their national convention this past weekend - though he later said he regretted doing so as it could be construed as a political statement on his part.

380 rightymouse  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:55:26pm

re: #359 MeTooThen

Fair enough. This is where we disagree. I have compassion for her and for those who may suffer at the hands of the neo-Nazis.

And I'm not saying I'm better for it. Just different from you. I can live with that.


Your choice. I'll reserve my compassion for those who may suffer as a result of her unholy alliance.

381 Ward Cleaver  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:55:26pm

Pamela taking up for Filip DeWinter? Very sad. I don't hate her; I see her as a wayward child, and still hope she'll come to her senses someday.

Wake up, Pamela - those people really don't like Jews, and if someday they defeat the islamists, then they'll turn on you.

382 EIDE_Interface  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:55:41pm

re: #377 Basho

They're gonna throw you in jail? Stand up for yourself while you still have the freedom!

Uh, I still prefer to work you know.

383 Egfrow  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:55:44pm

Didn't both Pamela and Fjordman get their start on LGF. Pamela used to pimp post her blog links every chance she had in LGF comments. These people have gotten so enthralled in the fight against Islam that they lost sight of the biggest reason to fight it. It's a threat against human freedom. Allying with Eurotrash fascists pretty much guarantees that their moral train has left the tracks. They have allied them selves with fucking Socialists.

384 rightymouse  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:55:56pm

re: #366 EIDE_Interface

It isn't. You can't do it in Seattle.

Move.

385 Me No Dhimmi  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:56:29pm

Didn't Churchill and FDR align with Stalin to defeat Hitler?
Didn't they know at that point what a complete monster he was?
Would the LGF community have sanctimoniously disapproved of that alliance in a naive quest for ideological purity?
Is it really true that parties like VB are anti-semitic and that they want to engage in mass murder or expulsion?
Do most Americans (I'm from Canada) really understand the unique challenges facing Europe or do they project an American view, much like the way they travel abroad.
Are Americans any less "nationalistic" in wanting to see their culture and political system prevail?

Don't misunderstand: I'm a hardcore conservative-libertarian and generally prefer Americans to Canadians; however, I am alarmed at the childish groupie naivety I see here on this topic. I see empty idealism and no constructive solutions that fit European reality. And I see no understanding of the extreme urgency of the counter-jihad in Europe.

386 EIDE_Interface  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:56:34pm

re: #381 Ward Cleaver

Pamela taking up for Filip DeWinter? Very sad. I don't hate her; I see her as a wayward child, and still hope she'll come to her senses someday.

Wake up, Pamela - those people really don't like Jews, and if someday they defeat the islamists, then they'll turn on you.

Even if he thinks there can be a temporary alliance with Jews against Muslims, does anyone honestly think his racist supporters would tolerate it for a second?

387 JHW  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:56:35pm

re: #366 EIDE_Interface

I live in Washington too. Get out of Seattle and look around, nobody's afraid to show patriotism any place I know. Try eastern Washington for example, or any of the Indian reservations, or the small towns in western Washington. Puget sound and Seattle are different worlds compared to the rest of the state. That goes for Oregon and California too, the cities are where the majority of the moonbat habitat is, not the rest of these states.

388 Basho  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:57:17pm