Road Sassy

No matter where you look into Obama’s past, one consistent thread in the tapestry of his life is his never ending retinue of America-hating, Caucasian-loathing Christophobic friends.
The foul and very rancid figure of Dr. Khalid al Mansour emerges as one of them. Here is a quote from one of his speeches.

“White people don’t feel bad, whatever you do to them, they deserve it, God wants you to do it and that’s when you cut out the nose, cut out the ears, take flesh out of their body, don’t worry because God wants you to do it.”(Source)

I would say he sits in the same pew as “Reverend” Wright, wouldn’t you?

Civil rights activist Percy Sutton said he was solicited by a man named Dr. Khalid al Mansour to send a letter of recommendation on behalf of Barack Obama to help him gain acceptance to Harvard many years ago. (This video and transcript is at the bottom of the post),

But who is Khalid al Mansour and how did he know Barack Obama? A cursory search on Youtube turns up several controversial clips, in the vein of Obama’s longtime friend and former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright. One of these videos is more than an hour long, but I am going to post here before I watch/transcribe everything in the interest in getting this into the hands of other bloggers who may know who this guy is. Here’s what I found….
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Percy Sutton:”I was introduced to him by a friend who was raising money for him and the friends name was Dr. Khalid al Mansour from Texas. He is the principle adviser to one of the world’s richest men. He told me about Obama. He wrote to me about him and his introduction was ‘there is a young man that has applied to Harvard and I know that you have a few friends left there because you used to go up there to speak, would you please write a letter in support of him?’…I wrote a letter in support of him to my friends at Harvard saying to them I thought there was a genius that was going to be available and I sure hoped they would treat him kindly.”

Continue reading….Are Khalid al Mansour and Obama Friends?

I didn’t have to search long when I found this piece on Khalid Mansour. You have to wonder what a man who loathes the white race and Christianity found to recommend in Barack Obama. Well, I don’t wonder. They are on the same page in the same liberation theology book.

The Islamic Propagation Centre International is renowned for its ceaseless and well-funded attacks on Christianity. IPCI founder, Ahmed Deedat, has produced such scandalous booklets as “50 000 Errors in the Bible”, “Resurrection or Resuscitation”, “Crucifixion or ‘Cruci-Fic tion”, and “The God That Never Was”.

However, while the IPCI is no stranger to blasphemy, slander, half-truths and outright lies, even they must have been embarrassed by their much-acclaimed international guest speaker — Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour.
A MUSLIM SUPREMIST

As I attended their Wednesday, 24 October, rally in the Good Hope Centre, Cape Town, I was surprised by the extremism of Dr Al-Mansour. Seldom has it been my misfortune to endure such a loud illogical stream of venom from a public speaker. Al-Mansour must have been an embarrassment to all sane Muslims. Not that Christians don’t have some similar fanatics disgracing our podiums with hysteria and unsubstantiated drivel. But this American Muslim (described as a Californian lawyer, banker, businessman and activist) went beyond all extremes in his outrageous statements.

Al-Mansour claimed that Muslims were heirs to the greatest civilizations and achievements in history. Muslims had reached America before Columbus was born! The Zimbabwe Ruins had been built by Muslims, as had the Pyramids in Egypt. That the greatest strength of Black culture in Africa was literature. “Reading is our tradition. The slaves from Africa read, read, read.” That before the Whites came to Africa “To steal the land”, Blacks had built “great civilizations that had blast furnaces able to heat up to 1 000°C — making copper and knives and spears. We must rebuild our civilizations!” The first human beings in the world were Africans, he claimed.
Continue reading…Jihad Against Christianity

The convention of Mad Marxists proceeds apace and the reknown photographer Zombie is keeping multiple audiences abreast of all of the antics of all the little beasties gathered in Denver. Michelle Obama, I hear, gave a dull and treacly speech, so one imagines that they must have her on a tight leash.

Equally noxious Kennedy idolatry ran rampant while outside the convention walls, on streets braided tightly with police, Michelle Malkin was accosted by frothing-at-the-mouth moonbat Alex Jones, who was screaming, among other absurdities, “Kill Michelle Malkin”. Perhaps he can apply for a job leading Obama’s future Brown Shirts, a role he seems most eminently qualified for.

Perhaps this Alex Jones is a harbinger of what we can expect to be given license from an Obama administration. Barack Obama has clearly signaled that he is not, nor will he be, a friend of free speech.

His “Most Precious” is stamping his feet and demanding the curtailment of the now familiar Ayers ad that suggests that America best give heed to warnings about Obama’s Marxist political roots and ideology.

I’d say Obama is a bit panicked, wouldn’t you? What’cha hiding Barry sweetie?

Ponder this as the dying Democrat Party emerges with their new Marxist face in Denver.

Sen. Barack Obama has launched an all-out effort to block a Republican billionaire’s efforts to tie him to domestic and foreign terrorists in a wave of negative television ads.

Obama’s campaign has written the Department of Justice demanding a criminal investigation of the “American Issues Project,” the vehicle through which Dallas investor Harold Simmons is financing the advertisements. The Obama campaign — and tens of thousands of supporters — also is pressuring television networks and affiliates to reject the ads. The effort has met with some success: CNN and Fox News are not airing the attacks.
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“This is a sad ploy to circumvent the First Amendment by a campaign who has no arguments with the merits of our ad. It’s the classic maneuver: If you can’t win on the merits, file a lawsuit,” said a spokesman for the American Issues Project, Christian Pinkston, who said his group’s non-profit status allowed it to participate in elections as long as it does a majority of policy work, which it plans to do.
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The Obama campaign plans to punish the stations that air the ad financially, an Obama aide said, organizing his supporters to target the stations that air it and their advertisers.

But the ad continues to air widely. Evan Tracey, who tracks campaign advertising at TNS Media Intelligence, said it has been broadcast 150 times in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Michigan. Federal Election Commission reports indicate that Simmons has spent more than $2.8 million buying ads.
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Obama Attacks Freedom of Speech

From Michelle Malkin….

The Obama campaign is giving a glimpse of the future for conservative free speech. They’re trying to sic the Justice Department on TV stations, many of them Sinclair Broadcasting stations, that are airing the independent ad on Obama and Bill Ayers.

Feel the chill in the air?
Obama threatens TV stations airing Ayers ad

The “progressives” have long had a problem with speech that displeases them. Recall also a similar stunt by the Clintons over the release of the movie “Path to 911″ . In looking for a link to reference that , I run into a more recent account and I was surprised to learn that the 40 million dollar production was never released as a DVD. Now there is a new documentary out that gives insight into the mechanics of the censorship involved.

Remember the controversy over the ABC miniseries “The Path to 9/11″? For some mysterious reason, it has yet to appear on DVD. Why might that be? Now the story is told in a documentary by John Ziegler that is to be screened tonight at the Skirball Center in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Times reports:

["Blocking The Path to 9/11"] makes the case that former President Bill Clinton and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton have pressured television and studio executives into quashing the DVD release of ABC’s 2006 miniseries “The Path to 9/11.” The privately financed documentary argues that the Clintons, who decried the original miniseries as a right-wing hatchet job, are out to salvage their political influence and legacy at the expense of free expression.

We are informed by Andrew Breitbart that John Ziegler “is a really good guy” who understands the power of media bias. Andrew comments:

Countless movies are being made to affect the culture, the election. One was made that tried to play it straight, and because the Clintons pulled a stunt claiming it was a GOP hit job (what if it was?!), the producers were left holding the bag. A movie that was seen by tens of millions, cost $40 million to make and was stunningly photographed and entertaining, cannot make its way to the public via DVD. It’s pathetic and should outrage everyone.
(Source)

Barack Hussein Obama… said America’s greatest failure is that “We still don’t abide by that basic concept in Matthew that ‘Whatever you do for the least of my brothers, you do for me.’
(Source)

Barack Obama’s Brother:

Obama's Brother

“I live like a recluse, no one knows I exist. I live on less than a dollar a month. If anyone says something about my surname, I say we are not related. I am ashamed.” (Source)

Barack Obama’s brother George lives on less than a dollar a month? I realize the price of arugula is going up, but couldn’t our prospective “wealth re-distributor in-chief” throw his baby brother a couple of bucks? For the price of one of his Hyde Park lattes Obama could quadruple what his brother scrapes by on now.

Think of the contrast in lifestyle. Obama shops at Whole Foods. George burrows for food in alleys. Obama lives in a million dollar mansion. George lives in a 3×3 shanty made of wood scraps and corrugated metal. Obama has a gate to protect his family. George has scars from fights in his Kenyan neighborhood where people are routinely hacked to death with machetes.
(Source)

Obama, D-Ill., the presumptive Democratic Party nominee for president, mentions George briefly in one of his books, describing him as a beautiful 5-year-old boy, The Independent reports. Obama’s father, who met his mother when they were studying in Hawaii, returned to Kenya when the future senator was 2.

George, two decades younger than the U.S. senator, said he met him a second time in Kenya in 2006.

“It was very brief, we spoke for just a few minutes,” he said. “It was like meeting a complete stranger.”
(Source)

‘I don’t even tell people that I am related to Barack Obama, I don’t want people here to be harassing me because they think I have money or influence,’ George Obama told Britain’s Daily Telegraph.

All lies, all the time

The Obama camp were yet to comment on the story. (Source)

With Obama’s “hate John McCain because he’s rich” ad, he’s insinuating that owning a number of houses - in realty, the McCains own a variety of investment properties, which accounts for John McCain’s not being able to give precise number - is somehow a character flaw. I couldn’t disagree more. I would argue this is a character flaw: allowing your brother to whither away in a hut in Nairobi, Kenya, while you’re living the good life in America.

Contrast that with John and Cindy McCain who, fifteen years ago, with a cleft palate from Sister Teresa’s orphanage in Bangladesh.adopted a 5 week old baby girl(Source)

Confiscatory Tax Rate Dreams from my Father

Lisa Schiffren

This is a must read piece from Investors Business Daily. Barack Obama seems to have spent a lifetime pining for the father who abandoned him at age 2. His first autobiography (and what 47 year old doesn’t need two?) was dedicated to the man. Now he has issued the essential blueprint for the Obama Tax Code, and we find that it too is part of dad’s legacy. Naturally, candidate Obama Jr. wishes to raise taxes on the productive and the married, (especially two-income professional families — which will chase educated women from the work force, as the NY Sun discussed brilliantly, here) And, naturally, he wishes to redistribute money to those who work less, or don’t work at all — in the form of tax “credits” — which will put money in your pocket whether you have paid any taxes or not. That is a trick devised long ago, (Nixon era, sigh), and enshrined in the (GOP-supported) Earned Income Tax Credit — which has always been a welfare program for the working poor. (Peter Ferrara explains clearly how Obama taxes = welfare, here.)

Under Obama, everyone who isn’t “rich” — a number he won’t specify, (but let’s say — $250,000 per year) deserves support. And everyone who isn’t “poor” gets to pay for it. The upper middle class, whose income ususually come in the form of salaries, gets to support the rest of the country. As for the truly rich — well, a truly rich man I met recently told me about the process for obtaining a second passport and dual citizenship in a tax haven — which he had been investigating. Applications are up. In our very mobile times, the truly rich, and the financial industries which make them that way, generally can find a way around onerous taxes.
Continue reading….
Confiscatory Tax Rate Dreams from my Father

After 9.11, everyone was all about connecting the dots. Oh, if we only had connected those damn dots, we would have seen those planes coming. Well, try these dots. We posted on how Pelosi’s obstruction of an energy vote looks pretty damn bad in light of her investment in T. Boone Pickens’ wind power scam.

Well, Sweetness & Light connects another dot in her comment on Soros’s $811 million investment in Brazil’s Petroleo Brasileiro Oil.

I quote:

So now we understand the Democrats’ no-drill policies.

They can’t undercut their sugar daddy.

From her article quoted from Bloomberg…

Billionaire investor George Soros bought an $811 million stake in Petroleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) in the second quarter, making the Brazilian state-controlled oil company his investment fund’s largest holding.

As of June 30, the stake in Petrobras, as the Rio de Janeiro-based oil producer is known, made up 22 per cent of the $3.68 billion of stocks and American depositary receipts held by Soros Fund Management, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Petrobras has since slumped 28 per cent…

In November, Petrobras announced the discovery of Tupi, a field with as much as 8 billion barrels of reserves, making it the largest find in the Americas since 1976.
Continue reading…Soros Invests $811 Million In Brazilian Oil

Now, connect the energy dots to the food chain dots. Soros does, as we noted in Soros, Famine, Energy, and the End of Sovereign Nations. Here is another dot to add to the collection…

Farmland is enjoying its biggest revival in 30 years as investors including George Soros and TIAA-Cref bet that crop prices, chiefly grains, will be supported by shortfalls in production as demand mounts. In parts of the Midwestern U.S., land prices have risen as much as threefold, while broker Knight Frank LLP estimates U.K. values rose 38 percent on average in the first half alone.

“Some of the opportunities internationally are outstanding,” Bridgeman said in an interview at his office in London. He favors farms in Australia, Brazil, Canada and Romania, where he expects higher returns than in the U.S, or his native U.K.
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Billionaire investor George Soros owns a stake in Adecoagro SA, the owner of 225,000 hectares (556,000 acres) of farmland in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. TIAA-Cref, the largest manager of retirement funds in the U.S., said it bought $340 million of farmland in seven states in the U.S. at the end of last year.

Bridgeman said investors in the Schroder fund will gain a diversified range of investments spread across Europe, South America and Australia, while the units listed in London will be traded on a daily basis.
Schroders Plans to Raise $480 Million for Global Farmland Fund

The elites have got to really be rolling in belly laughs watching the stupid Americans scrambling about with all of their goofy Green campaigns, their idiot hybrids, their curly light bulbs and now, their tire gauges. As the grown-up countries in the world scramble to get their share of the earth’s resources - and re-arrange a few borders while they are at it - the dimwitted denizens of this once proud nation shed tears over Polar Bears and mother earth.

Soros, Heinz, Pelosi, Bush, Clinton, Obama, McCain, their masters and their multitudinous retinue of lackeys and international troops of minions are re-shaping the world in front of our eyes while, like obsessive compulsive psychopaths, we engage in feverish discussions about who should and who should not be permitted to say nigger during the most critical presidential election in this nation’s history. We ain’t going to be calling each other nothing but losers if we keep acting like the world is the la la land Obama and crew want us to believe.

If a future generation of Americans somehow survive the debacle we now bring upon them, they will curse us from the depth of their souls. As they should, as they damn well should…

Silencing You

Islam and the left together combine to form a sinuous weave, strands of fascist control intertwining in an ever tightening cord of censorship and pure thuggery. Here are two of the most recent examples.

….the oh-so-tolerant leftists have launched a campaign to send “WARNING” letters to potential GOP donors in a thuggish attempt to depress Republican fund-raising. A reader sent me a copy of the actual letter from “Accountable America”–the brainchild of the same MoveOn miscreants who spearheaded the General Betray Us smear
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Ironies and hypocrisies abound. Let us count the ways.

You’ve got the nutroots brigade digging up the addresses of GOP donors to chill their political free speech while these same left-wing operatives and their followers label it “stalking” to publish public e-mail contact information for anti-war shills, or to Google Democrat donors, or to vet Democrat health care sob stories by actually reporting on their financial status.
Continue reading….The “Accountable America” warning letter targeting GOP donors

and…

Muslims hate freedom

Starting in 2002, Spokane, Wash., journalist Sherry Jones toiled weekends on a racy historical novel about Aisha, the young wife of the prophet Muhammad. Ms. Jones learned Arabic, studied scholarly works about Aisha’s life, and came to admire her protagonist as a woman of courage. When Random House bought her novel last year in a $100,000, two-book deal, she was ecstatic.

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It’s not going to happen: In May, Random House abruptly called off publication of the book. The series of events that torpedoed this novel are a window into how quickly fear stunts intelligent discourse about the Muslim world.
Continue reading….You Still Can’t Write
About Muhammad

Be it threats of violence, intimidation, blackmail or legal maneuvering, over the last several years the weaving continues across this country, around the globe. Here are a few example among thousands.

Do you not yet feel the noose around your neck tightening?

• Foreign Courts Take Aim at Our Free Speech
  
• Canadian moderate Muslim leader quits, fearing for his life
  
• View from Iran: Could it be? Blogging punishable by death?
  
• Finnish Court Serves Seppo Lehto Two Year Jail Sentence For Insensitivity Against Islam
• Canada: Sharia by stealth
  
• Turkey: Piglet And Pooh Are Banned By Islamists
  
• Free speech under attack
  
• Police advise Christian preachers to leave Muslim area of Birmingham
• “Condemning the central value (freedom of expression) of civilized society” by Alamgir Hussain
• Jailed in Democratic Germany
  
• The pushback against Democrats’ attempts to limit online communication continues
• This Broadcaster Wants Freedom
• Google censors China criticism in U.S.
  
• Attacking the Freedom of Speech
  
• ‘Gays’ shut down discussion of faith
  
• First Amendment Doesn’t Apply to Christians: Pastor Arrested for Attempting to Preach in Public
• Canada’s Human Rights Kangaroo Court
  
• The Racial and Religious Hatred Bill: A Milestone on Britain’s Road to Dhimmitude
• Special Report: The Plan To Silence Conservatives
  
• The Soros-MSM Connection: Leftie Propaganda 24/7?
  
• Condemning the Central Value of Civilized Society
• BC Teacher persecuted for opposition to homosexual agenda refuses to be marginalized as 2nd class citizen
• What Part of the Meaning of Free Speech Do They Not Understand?
• McCain, Pence will support bills to stop the Fairness Doctrine yet again
• Offend a homosexual … Go to prison for 5 years
• Transgender lobby to intimidate petitioners
• Judge orders ‘gay’ agenda taught to Christian children
  
• ‘Gays’ shut down discussion of faith
  
• Now it’s EX-’gays’ getting pummeled

I’m restless and I don’t want to be here and yet I am too agitated not to be here. Writing used to be an exercise of meandering, careless discovery, sifting through words, tinkering with sentences. But now, all my words are shackled to the political times we live in and I am so damnably tired of the noisome Obama and his Reprogressive posse of Ameri-phobic, Christo-phobic, hetero-phobic freak show - many of whom continue to end up under his very big bus.

Obama Bus

And rightly so in my mind. When you examine the carnage under those wheels, you find a cast of miscreants that never should have been in an American presidential candidate’s bus to begin with. But it’s expeditious for Obama to rid himself of their stink, for now. What he won’t answer is why their stink didn’t dissuade him from ever keeping their company in the first place…unless of course you realize that it is the air he is used to breathing and that their fragrance is a sweet scent in his nostrils.

The latest to have a tire track striping his ass is Muslim Brotherhood and terrorist sympathizer,Mazen Asbahi. Will someone please tell me why the hell we need a freaking muslim coordinator. Who the hell are muslims anyway? Are they not Americans? Are their interests so special, their needs so peculiar, that they have to insert themselves into every cultural and political nook and cranny demanding recognition and consideration? But I digress…
Here are some bloggers who are handling this latest Obama sacrifice. And before I turn you over to more capable hands, here is another observation most have made. Obama’s bus buddies all take their exile so willingly. Because they understand. They know it’s just old Obama being all political. After November they shall be redeemed.

Riehl World

Obama’s Mazen Asbahi Linked Directly To Wahhabi Lobby

“What with Obama’s already known ties to an un-reconstructed domestic terrorist and now this, doesn’t he have anyone he can tap for his campaign that doesn’t have an agenda some might characterize as anti-American?”

Irshad Manji

Wanted: Reformist Muslims in Obama’s campaign

Because Obama’s campaign trumpets “Change We Can Believe In,” he needs reform-minded Muslims. I mean Muslims who recognize that the Quran has been left in a 7th-century tribal time warp. Its interpretations can and must be updated for the pluralistic context of the 21st century.

Debbie Schlussel

Aleikum Salaam, Dude: Barack Obama’s Extremist Muslim Advisor Resigns Over Extremist Ally

In the past, Asbahi, a Chicago lawyer, has defended the dastardly way Islam treats women and told the rest of us, it’s not for us to judge. So, defense of honor-killings, polygamy, and the denial of most rights to women did not bother the Obama campaign.

Obama and Kwame

And then we have Obama’s, now “tethered”, super delegate, Detroit Mayor Kwam Kilpatrick, ( they both have graced the cover of “Reverend” Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ magazine, The Trumpet) swimming in the muck of his less than admirable term in office, but, last time I checked, Obama was trying to still figure out the trajectory of Kirkpatrick’s ejection off the bus .

Presidential candidate Barack Obama’s Michigan campaign organization released a statement on the issue — a statement newsworthy mostly for the fact that Obama had yet to directly address the issue.

And while Obama and staff run helter skelter cleaning up the messes left by Obama’s friends and supporters, the Hildebeast stirs.

RedState

Obama’s Troubles Continue, and They Just Got a HELLary of a Lot Worse

When there is the 800 pound elephant in the room. By that, I mean Hellary Clinton, no disrespect to 800 pound elephants. She, like herpes, will just not go away. I can imagine her saying to insiders “Obama is blowing this like Monica blew Bill, but without the satisfaction at the end.”

Liberty Weeps

Richard Falknor at Blue Ridge Forum speaks of Bush’s legacy. Personally, I will remember (and curse) him for his betrayal of America. But in his many egregious perfidies, he is only one in a succession of leaders who have brought this country to it’s present angle of descent. It matters little if that descent is rapid (Obama) or slow (McCain). The forces working against America are legion and the momentum they have achieved, the powers that they have harnessed, are being met with no comparable opposing force.

Blue Ridge Forum will be tracking the fiscal and human costs to America of president Bush’s “legacy” efforts - - - in security as well as domestic matters.

The unstated assumption of these legacy initiatives must be - - - that most Americans in the future will share (at the very least) a center-left vision of the world as well as a soft multiculturalist perspective; that future writers will be kind to the Bush record after this president leaves office when partisan passions have cooled; and that America’s official chroniclers will then appreciate the president’s many legacies from his second term. Or so the reasoning of the White House would seem to go.

It is almost as if Bush is punting this country for Obama’s team to take it all the way over the edge.
PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), Bush’s bloated legislation that will bleed Americans in excess of 50 billion dollars, is a small part of his legacy, and his treachery.

“The Administration notes that the bill would authorize $50 billion for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria over five years—an amount significantly above the Administration’s $30 billion proposal.”

Most are aware of Bush’s obsession with squandering good treasure on AIDS in Africa. Few know about the blight of refugees pouring into this country under the aegis Bush’s beneficence, nor the incredible and mounting burdens those refugees have already, and will continue imposing on America.

Refugee resettlement in America is little mentioned in the press, per their usual self-imposed PC proscriptions. Thousands and thousands of African, primarily muslim, refugees have been pouring into America and now, due to the efforts of militant homosexual activists, we will now be importing refugees diagnosed as HIV positive. And you will be paying for their treatment.

Now comes a group called “Immigration Equality” that describes itself as follows:

Immigration Equality is a national organization fighting for equality under U.S. immigration law for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and HIV-positive individuals. Founded in 1994 as the Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force, we have grown to a membership of 10,000 people in cities all over the country. ….

Immigration Equality helps Gays and Lesbians seek asylum in the US…. I guess their work must be stepped up in recent times as the internet is full of photos of gay men being hanged in Islamic countries like Iran.

Anyway here is what they are telling their members what the next step is to make sure the ban removal is fully implemented.
Update on Law lifting ban to allow HIV-positive immigrants to enter US

To hell with drilling, infrastructure, missile defense and bolstering our economy. Let’s just cure the whole freaking planet of AIDS.

S.2731 goes to the Senate floor on Monday and is expected to be signed into law by September because it is supported by the Bush Administration …

Here is the kicker (if $50 billion of our tax dollars wasn’t already) from the Congressional Budget Office:

….enacting S. 2731 would ……allow immigrants with HIV/AIDS to enter the United States. CBO estimates that providing certain benefits to those immigrants and their children would increase direct spending by less than $500,000 in 2010 and by $83 million over the 2010-2018 period.

Refugees are already coming here with HIV (and TB for that matter) despite the ban on foreigners with the disease from traveling or immigrating to the US. This bill would allow all immigrants to enter the US with HIV and be treated at taxpayer expense. I don’t think it takes a genius to see how this opens the door wide to more immigrants (including illegal immigrants) who will rush the gates and become dependent on our already overburdened health care system. (Source)

It’s a damn shame that we are no longer as vigilant as we were when admitting immigrants on Ellis Island.

While admission decisions were made by the Immigration Service (IS), the law required medical inspection of immigrants by the United States Public Health Service (PHS). When a PHS medical officer formally diagnosed an immigrant with a disease or defect, throwing his or her admissibility into question, that individual was considered “medically certified.” The law required the PHS to issue a medical certificate to those who suffered from a “loathsome or a dangerous contagious disease” [1]. Exclusion of those diagnosed with infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, venereal disease, trachoma, and favus was mandatory [2].

The PHS defined its mission rather narrowly—preventing the entrance of disease to the nation—but PHS officers interpreted their job more broadly. In their eyes, the goal was to prevent the entrance of undesirable people—those “who would not make good citizens” [3]. In the context of industrial-era America, immigrants who would wear out prematurely, requiring care and maintenance rather than supplying manpower, would not make “good” citizens. By 1903 the PHS had elaborated two major categories: “Class A” loathsome or dangerous contagious diseases and “Class B” diseases and conditions that would render an immigrant “likely to become a public charge.” A subset of Class A conditions included mental conditions such as insanity and epilepsy. (Source)

Today’s “progressive” would find such mandates “inhumane” and exclusionary. I say it is far more damning to destroy America’s fortunes and to plunge future generations into the desperately morose lives that comes from a world bereft of freedom, innovation, invention and vigor - all of which will be sacrificed on the bloody altar of the “greater good”.

Bush indeed has punted America to the other team. And he doesn’t much give a damn about how the game will end. Obama will run with Bush’s paltry 50 billion and, faux “messiah” that he is, he will multiply our debt and our taxes like Jesus multiplied the fish and bread. We will be awash in poverty. Our children’s burdens and deprivations shall runneth over.
And there will still be AIDS, and there will still be poverty. Only there will be no more a bright and shining city on a hill to serve as beacon for, not Obama hope, but the real hope that America once ineluctably embodied.

I got this email from Redstate.org. Make the Dims go back to work. Post on it. Mail it. And call President Bush.

Republican members of Congress are on the floor of the House of Representatives with no lights on and no cameras on as I write this because the Speaker of the House literally turned off the power on them and skipped town. The Republicans are on the floor of the House fighting to reduce the price of gasoline at the pump. They are fighting for American families. Democrats have turned their backs on the American people and fled Capitol Hill so they do not have to vote to expand domestic oil production.

Pursuant to Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States of America, the President can compel the House of Representatives and Senate to convene in special session.

The President can force the Democrats to either vote on energy legislation or not.

Normally the American people are better served when Congress is not in session. At this time, however, the President should call the Democrats’ bluff. Call the President at 202-456-1111 and tell him to recall the Congress to Washington to vote on expanding domestic oil production.

Related:
House Dems turn out the lights but GOP keeps talking

Media Near-Secret: Exxon’s Taxes Almost 3x As Much As Profits

Obama: Inflate Your Damned Tires and Everything Will Be Fine

The Cohen resolution does not mention reparations. It does commit the House to rectifying “the lingering consequences of the misdeeds committed against African-Americans under slavery and Jim Crow.”

Where's the Pride?

The Cohen resolution referred to is Steven Cohen’s pandering piece of nauseous legislation that presumes to render an apology for slavery from all Americans. (Not getting one from me) There is no need to specifically refer to reparations,it is inferred - “…rectifying “the lingering consequences…” - and it is expected. Doesn’t matter anyway, Obama and his incoming passel of marxists have it handled.

Obama speaks to minority journalists
As president, would Obama issue a formal government apology to the Native Americans?

“We’ve got some very sad and difficult things to account for in our nation’s history, Obama said, describing some of the issues plaguing the Native American community.

But Obama took the issue a step further to include the plight of Black Americans and slavery.

Obama said he’d want to “not only offer words, but deeds” in dealing with reparations for Black people. The Harvard graduate said he supports reparations in the form of improved inner-city schools and an increase in jobs in the Black community.

A poised and calm Obama said he would support plans and initiatives that work toward “lifting people out of the legacy of slavery.”

reparations

And so will the victim pimps and race panderers waiting eagerly in the wings, rubbing their hands in anticipatory and greedy glee.

Now I wonder who gets our tax dollars first. As Obama’s destructive policies roll out, will the paycheck you busted your ass to earn be buying 40 mules and land for those oh-so aggrieved “african” americans, or will your pay check be distributing “social justice” to the millions of global whiners who will supposedly benefit from Obama’s Global Poverty Tax.

Or you could vote for McCain. Face it, McCain is hard to swallow, but swallowing Obama is asking for a prolonged and pernicious death.

After these links and below the fold I’ve reproduced the Resolution Regarding Reparations For Slavery, submitted in 2000, by none other than Trinity United Church of Christ and University Church. In it’s preface it states that these institutions - “have held church school classes and study groups on reparations.” I suppose we are expected to believe that Obama - the passionate “community activist”, the law “professor” who hammered his students about “social justice” - was sleeping through those classes and that he had no input into the writing of the resolution. Yeah, right, and he loves America too.

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• Markedmanner Blog: Obama: “It Would Cost Billions To Deal With Legacy Of Discrimination”
• Retribution for Slavery - President Obama Will See To It!
  
• Clyburn (SC06) - Statement - Black Land Loss Must be Addressed
• NBU: Obama and the Drive for Slavery Reparations
  
• Should the Democratic Party Apologize for Supporting Slavery?
• The GOP’s Next (Black) Idea?

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The House on Tuesday issued an unprecedented apology to black Americans for the wrongs committed against them and their ancestors who suffered under slavery and Jim Crow segregation laws.

The resolution, passed by voice vote, was the work of Tennessee Democrat Steve Cohen, the only white lawmaker to represent a majority black district. Cohen faces a formidable black challenger in a primary face-off next week.
(Source)

This has me incensed beyond any ability to respond coherently. Anymore, I have to remind myself that there are sane, hard working, patriotic black Americans who do not hyphenate their nationality and do not seek redress from their fellow Americans and who do not view their world through the distorting lens of race.

I have to continue to remind myself that the disease of victimhood is not native to blacks, but has infected this entire country as evidenced by the popularity of Barack Obama’s constant clarion calls for Americans to see themselves as either in need of, or obligated to, dispense “social justice”. It is evident in this mortgage bail out that benefits greedy consumers who bit off more debt than they can chew and now want their fellow Americans to pay for their bloated ignorance. I’m betting the majority of those getting the bail outs are not black.

Hell, I have always thought talk show hosts like Phil Donahue and Oprah Winfrey and now Tyra Banks make their millions by exploiting the victim mentality. How many countless times have you tuned into one of these witless, exploitative shows and witnessed weeping men and women licking their wounded psyches because of some freaking trauma or perceived injustice. Being wounded has been elevated to some kind of holy sanctified state. In the name of victimhood child rapists and murderers are exonerated because they were victims once too.

And in the name of victimhood, the proud history of this nation and the gains made during the civil rights era are being flushed down the toilet.

Tennessee Democrat Steve Cohen and all who signed on to this bill have collectively insulted true Americans. Just as Obama insults America when he announces to an international audience that we Americans have a lot of making up to do. Not on my watch. Not from me. Not from my family.

When I read about some ass like this self-serving political whore , Steven Cohen, I have to hope that he has probably pissed off as many black Americans as he has white.

I have to keep remind myself that it is the ideology that I loathe, not the race. But there is damn likely to be a lot of Americans who will cease making that distinction. And that is exactly what Marxists like Obama want. A divided America that is so torn up over race that the real threats to this nation are swept into the wings.

Following are some excerpts on slavery from some sane, patriotic Americans, some of whom happen to be black.

All they see is blackness. The only America they are interested in is black America. Like Michelle Obama, the only America that means anything to them is the America that will seat them in the White House, or put them up front in the fame and fortune game. “What can this country do for me?” is their theme. “You owe me!” is their approach to life….]

It’s that slavery theme that gives the Negroes supreme moral advantage, and a position which they continually develop, protect, and market. Nothing else will do. With very little knowledge or understanding of economics and labor forces of the 18th and 19th century American culture, with even less knowledge of actual “slave” conditions, the modern black is wildly devoted to decrying their own blackness–which they disguised as a grand moral accusation of America, the grand indictment of slavery. (Never mind the Irish and Scottish indentured servants, and their superior squalor; they were white, so their suffering doesn’t count.)
Rene Marie’s Negro Anthem: Another Janet Jackson Exposure

The very idea of apologizing for what somebody else did is meaningless, however fashionable it has become. A scholar once said that the great economist David Ricardo “was above the unctuous phrases that cost so little and yield such ample returns.” Apparently many others are not.
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Does anyone seriously suggest that blacks in America today would be better off if they were in Africa? If not, then what is the compensation for? Sometimes it is claimed that slavery made a great contribution to the development of the American economy, from which other Americans benefited, so that reparations would be like back pay. Although slave owners benefited from slavery, it is by no means obvious that there were net benefits to the economy as a whole, especially when you subtract the staggering costs of the Civil War.
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Slavery itself was not unique to Africans. The very word “slave” derives from the name of a European people–the Slavs, who were enslaved for centuries before the first African was brought to the Western Hemisphere. The tragic fact is that slavery existed all over the world, for thousands of years. Unfortunately, irresponsible demagogues have also existed for thousands of years.
Reparations and Irresponsible Demagogues

During this country’s period of slavery, many freed blacks worked for years to purchase the freedom of family members. But a great many freemen became slave masters themselves, and for the same reason as whites–to make use of slave labor for the sake of profits. Larry Koger writes, “By and large, Negro slaveowners were darker copies of their white counterparts.” Following are excerpts from Chapter 6 of his book, Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860 [University of South Carolina Press].
Black Slaveowners

The most painful of all truths is that slavery existed all over this planet, among people of every race and color, for thousands of years. Nobody wanted to be a slave, but that is completely different from saying that they opposed slavery for others. Slavery was as accepted in Africa as it was in Europe or Asia, or among the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere.

Incredibly late in human history, a mass moral revulsion finally set in against slavery–first in 18th century England and then, during the 19th century, throughout Western civilization. But only in Western civilization.

Africans, Arabs, and Asians continued to resist giving up their slaves. Only because Western power was at its peak in the 19th century was Western imperialism able to impose the abolition of slavery around the world–as it imposed the rest of its beliefs and agendas, for good or evil.

Now that Africa has its independence again, there is no great interest in stamping out the slavery that did not get stamped out during the age of European imperialism. People around the world who crusaded for years against the evils of apartheid in South Africa have no interest in the fate of this little girl in Ghana or vast numbers of others like her elsewhere in Africa today.
Only Western Civilization Put an End to Slavery

Finally, I suggest that Steven Cohen, hyphenated Americans and those blithering idiots suffering from white guilt take a few history lessons. Here are some links to get you started. You want apologies, I suggest you start with Africans, Arabs and Muslims.

• Rights group condemns Saudi ’slave’ treatment of migrant women

• Islamic Slavery

• Slavery’s new Mecca

• Dhimmi Watch: Fitzgerald: Black Africa and the Arab Muslim slave trade

• Journal Weblog: June 2006 Archives

• Arabs and Slave Trade

• THE ORIGINS OF MUSLIM SLAVE SYSTEM

• An African Asks Some Disturbing Questions of Islam

• Islam, Slavery and Rape

• Arab royals accused of holding slaves | The Australian

• Threatened Author Says She Won’t Stop Exposing Sudan’s Evils — 11/15/2002

• Slavery Terrorism and Islam

Well, this certainly is something that would appeal to the Obama camp. Apparently an energy outfit is recruiting your kid to be a little nazi, a brown shirt for the green regime. I am sure their training will help prepare them for membership in Obama’s soon to be introduced Hitler’s youth.

Can I be the only one more than a little disturbed by the latest campaign to be fronted by energy company npower?

Launched today with large colour ads in the Sundays, it appeals directly to children, urging them to enlist as “climate cops”, to root out “climate crimes”, and thus “save the planet”.
In a luridly-designed website, mimicking the style of “yoof” cartoons, it offers a bundle of downloads, including a pack of “climate crime cards”, urging its recruits to spy on families, friends and relatives, inviting each of them to build up a “climate crime case file” in order to help them ensure their putative criminals do not “commit those crimes again (or else)!”

Quite what the “or else!” should be is not specified, but since the “climate cops” are being encouraged to keep detailed written records (for those who can read and write), there is nothing to stop these being submitted to the “Climate Cops HQ” for further sanctions, the repeat offenders being sent to re-education camps. And for those “climate cops” that successfully perform the “missions” set (or turn in their own parents), there is the reward of “training” in the “Climate Cop Academy”.
Continue reading…. Climate Nazis On the Move in a Neighborhood Near You!

While Americans continue to be suckered into AL Gore’s monstrous lies, the rest of the world is diligently pursung drilling, coal and nuclear power. Aren’t you tired of being suckered America?

The rest of the world knows that green sources of energy are inadequate to keep their people out of poverty. That is why around the world, from Europe to South America to Asia, countries are building coal and nuclear power plants at a dizzying pace while also drilling for oil wherever they can find it. Meanwhile, the United States, crippled by an out-of-control environmental movement, is refusing to develop needed energy sources.
Continue reading… The World Is Powering Up While America Powers Down

Obama Changed His Mind

Obama’s skin may be black (sort of) but Mr. “Hope and Change” has the political skin of a chameleon, something his jilted Marxist supporters are learning. They needn’t worry. He’ll “change” again.

In 1988 Davidson founded Networking for Democracy (NFD), an initiative that teaches computer skills and radical politics to Chicago-area teenagers. The NFD program encourages students to engage in “mass action” aimed at “tearing down the old structures of race and class privilege” in the U.S. “and around the world.”
In 1992 Davidson became a leader of the newly formed Committees of Correspondence, a Marxist coalition of former Maoists, Trotskyists, and Communist Party USA members. The organization has since changed its name to the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, where Davidson remains a prominent figure.
In the mid-1990s Davidson was a major player in the Chicago branch of the New Party, a Marxist political coalition whose objective was to endorse and elect leftist public officials. Most New Party members hailed from the Committees of Correspondence (the Marxist coalition cited in the preceding paragraph), the Democratic Socialists of America, and the militant leftist organization ACORN. Davidson first met Barack Obama through the New Party, which endorsed the latter in his run for the Illinois state senate in 1996. Obama had actively sought this endorsement, and he used a number of New Party volunteers as campaign workers.

Davidson quickly became one of Obama’s most ardent political supporters. He helped organize a large 2002 rally where Obama first established himself as an eloquent anti-war spokesman.
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By 2007, Davidson had become somewhat disillusioned by what he perceived as a diminution in Barack Obama’s anti-war fervor. Early that year, for example, Davidson wrote the following:
“I’m from Chicago … and [I've] known Obama from the time he came to the New Party to get our endorsement for his first race ever…. He said all the right things to the ACORN and New Party folks, and we endorsed him [in 1996], but I noticed too, that he seemed to measure every answer to questions put to him several times before coming out with it….

“After he visited Iraq when the war was on, he turned. Now we had to set aside whether it was right or wrong to invade, now we had to find the ’smart’ path to victory, not Bush’s ‘dumb’ path. Also, in dealing with Iran, we had to leave on the table bombing their nuclear sites. For this, a lot of the local antiwar activists started calling him ‘Barack ‘Obomb ‘em’…. Our peace groups here are sending a bunch of us to visit him soon, and get on his case. Perhaps he’s still a work in progress, as Jesse Jackson says, but he still has a way to go to get back in my good graces …”
Davidson is the author of several books, including CyberRadicalism: A New Left for a Global Age (co-authored with Jerry Harris), and Stopping War, Seeking Justice (co-authored with Marilyn Katz).
(Source)

H/T: American Daughter

Also see, Barack Obama and the “New Party”, Acorn, and Other Various Leftist Vermin

Americans need to understand that a vote for Barack Hussein Obama is a vote for George Soros. You don’t actually believe that Obama comes by any of his so-called “convictions” honestly. His strings are

Soros feeds on America

pulled and his mouth stuffed with words by the handlers who brought him to this point. Without being propelled into national politics he would have remained what he actually is; an activist with a law degree. Gee, those are rare aren’t they?

If Soros manages to get Obama into office, do you think he will just walk away? No. Barack Obama owes Soros. For a black (1/16th) man who pretends to carry the bloody weight of “his people’s” history, he certainly doesn’t mind selling his soul to a white man. And this particular white man will extract what his due him. And Americans will suffer.

Here is another pet project Soros has his money behind. You can be damn sure Barack Obama will facilitate it’s ultimate goals. After all, that’s why Soros chose him.

There’s an interesting move in Pennsylvania to try to remove power from the people to elect judges. I’d never heard of the Merit Selection movement before a friend brought it to my attention this morning, but googling around, it turns out some 20 states already use it. In essence, rather than electing judges, “Merit Selection” puts the power to select judges in the hands of a judicial selection commission, which forwards slates of names from which a governor may choose.
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Whats interesting and creepy is the money for this movement is coming from George Soros, whos giving grants to all kinds of organizations pushing merit selection. Groups such as Justice At Stake and Judgesonmerit.org ….

Someone needs to do a psychological profile of George Soros and get him help. How can a holocaust survivor be so deeply anti-liberty? In the meantime, beware talk of “good judges” and “judicial reform.” It may not mean what you want it to mean.
Continue reading…. Judged on Merit

Actually, I am not certain that socialism is any more the proper term for what the good folk have in mind for us, at least not socialism in the classic text book sense.
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We will get what we need, and they will tell us what it is that we need. And also what we should want to watch on NPR, i.e. The Vagina Monologues and The Color Purple and not NASCAR or football - unless its the good European football. So really, these people are not so much socialists as they are social engineers. In my field guide, socialists are the opponent, but social engineers are the enemy… Now American social engineers want to have another go at building the new socialist man.

Have you ever watched a man in a strait jacket? You immediately start feeling claustrophobic, a sense of confinement, a tightening of the chest. Or, recall the familiar vexation felt when watching a horror flick’s usual fool walking straight into the maw of a monster.

That is what I feel like as I witness America stumble.

At first, after 9.11, before I realized that liberals had become socialists, I was astounded that they didn’t “get it” on islam. As time went on, I became increasingly amazed that they were silent when artists, bloggers, writers across Europe and in Canada were silenced, or murdered, by muslims. And hate speech? To have reached a point where the NYT dares to suggest that there really ought to be restriction to free speech?!? The chill really started seeping into my marrow when I finally realized that the left certainly does “get it”, worse, they want it.

Which brings up another image from cinema.

You’ll remember the movie Independence Day? In one of the scenes a stripper, a friend of Will Smith’s girlfriend, is giddy with excitement at the prospect of aliens visiting earth. She apparently sees nothing ominous as huge crafts take positions hovering over cities across the globe. She just assumes they came with good will. When she gets off work she puts a crayoned sign together proclaiming an exuberant welcome and goes to the top of a skyscraper with hundreds of others to wave her sign in greeting. It isn’t until the last second that she realizes that the portal opening in the bottom of the spacecraft is delivering a devastating terminal force.

That’s what the ululations and mass hysteria surrounding Obama reminds me of. Americans now enthused over Obama are very much like that dim witted chick. Unknowingly, they  welcome the impending death of their country.

Socialism, the curtailment of basic freedoms, is like an alien entity hovering over our nation and Obama is most emphatically the model for “the new socialist man.”

The excerpts that follow are from a site I just discovered - Veteran-American Voices. Every post I have read there confirms that some dark times are coming if Americans do not finally get a clue. And like the cinematic fools walking to their death, America walks - no - marches, with spirited cadence to hers.

If you scoff at the idea of socialism in the US, I suggest you spend some time on the linked site. If you can’t recognize the threat represented in Obama and the so-called progressives, well, why don’t you just go and get some crayons and do up a sign for Obama. And don’t say you weren’t warned.

A free people do not readily give up their freedom and submit to government control. This must be achieved by stages and by manipulation, though strictly for the masses’ own good of course. One of Lenin’s mistakes was to rely too much on bayonets and raw decrees, and to neglect a strategic plan. Lenin and Stalin spoke of capturing the “commanding heights” of industrial production. Our new social engineers seek to capture the commanding heights of social organization. Many of the political controversies of recent years are of strictly secondary importance. Winning on such an issue as Social Security abortion, or minimum wage may consolidate a particular point of conflict, but will offer no leverage or great strategic advantage for future clashes. Three important areas are the war for mass transportation, for domination of education, and for public healthcare.

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We are told that the current fuel crisis is all about oil shortages. But that idea is debunked by the vast unutilized oil finds in the USA and elsewhere. We are told that we cannot touch that oil for fear of spoiling the natural beauty of the desert tundra in a small corner of ANWR or disturbing the breeding ground of the Alaskan mosquito. Nonsense. That oil has been left untouched because those making the decisions want a fuel scarcity and elevated prices in order to discourage private driving. Back in the 1990s, and even into the 1970s, those people spoke of a desire to see the price of oil raised and to see private driving curtailed. In addition to trying to raise the price of gasoline and make it less available through complicated programs mandating a wide variety of additives, they have also taken numerous other measures designed to handicap car drivers. Fuel tax revenues supposedly dedicated by law to road and bridge maintenance are regularly diverted to subsidize construction of urban rail projects and similar mass transit programs. Likewise the same for reluctance to build or widen existing roads. Special privileges and lanes are allocated for busses and other high occupancy vehicles. In some states, yearly emission checks for private cars are used for harassment. Speed traps and traffic light cameras serve not only to raise city revenues, but also to harass drivers. Ditto for random checkpoints for sobriety and seatbelt use. In some cities, they like to use extra wide, and extra long articulated busses which can cause safety problems for cars trying to use the same roads. While some of these measures can be defended on other grounds, together, they collude to present a clear message to drivers – take the bus or we’ll make your day impossible. Nor can this drive be justified by reference to pollution – ever noticed how much smelly pollution comes from your average city bus?
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But of course, from a different perspective, these disadvantages are actually great advantages. The planners can determine where you can go, and where you cannot. And when. Transportation is not for getting you where you want to be, but where you’re supposed to be. If you work for a significant corporation, factory or government office, there will be transportation available at the appointed times. If it’s a small office, you should be carpooling with three or more other workers. And its really not social for you to work alone.

Another benefit is that traveling in a group is good for your attitude. If you are all alone every day on a long commute, you may start to think by yourself and get ideas. That’s bad. Or you may listen to a radio station, and that could be even worse. But if you are with three or four casual acquaintances who are assigned to your carpool, you will each serve as an inhibition on the others, no telling of politically incorrect jokes or listening to heretical ideas on the AM band. What if you heard Imus say something terribly inappropriate, and one of your riders were to laugh inappropriately? Like Japanese schoolgirls on vacation or Soviet sailors on shore leave, it is much better for citizens to travel in groups, lest someone might say or do something unthinkable. This is a part of our new reality in which everyone should be organized and every activity part of an official league. Just as stickball must be eliminated in favor of Little League. Apart from the group is danger, only within the group shall be certainty and safety.
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Once travel, even for short distances becomes an expense and a major burden, people will need to move in and live closer to their place of work and where they shop. Gradually it will save the pristine countryside from the further spread of suburbanization. And it may even gradually roll back the suburbs. And that’s good. People can be kept under better control. If they can’t travel out to the countryside, groups like the Michigan Militia won’t be able to shoot or practice their militias, won’t be able to conspire their horrid resistance. People can live in closely packed little condos, and tightly-knit, carefully planned communities. No more wasteful and polluting barbecues. Integration and affirmative action will be able to proceed to their desired completion. True, it will mean visits to Disney World will be rare, but then Disney is tacky anyway. Citizens should use their free time for mandatory volunteer work for the community, giving something back as they say, and for consciousness raising sessions to remind them how good they have it, now that they no longer have to deal with road traffic and driving lessons, and such. See how much better life will be, how much warmer community will be once the social engineers have restored us to the immobility that nature intended.
Continue reading….The New Social Engineers - I

Also see The New Social Engineers - II