tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post2173159766606479599..comments2024-03-28T16:22:14.888-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Flying Death Robots viewed with unwarranted concern by citizenryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-34407285451156492082013-03-13T22:03:27.995-07:002013-03-13T22:03:27.995-07:00H.L. Mencken:
"Politics under democracy cons...H.L. Mencken:<br /><br />"Politics under democracy consists almost wholly of the discovery, chase and scotching <b>[now droning]</b> of bugaboos. The statesman becomes, in the last analysis, a mere witch-hunter, a glorified smeller and snooper, eternally chanting 'Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum!' It has been so in the United States since the earliest days. The whole history of the country has been a history of melodramatic pursuits of horrendous monsters, most of them imaginary: the red-coats, the Hessians, the monocrats, again the red-coats, the Bank, the Catholics, Simon Legree, the Slave Power, Jeff Davis, Mormonism, Wall Street, the rum demon, John Bull, the hell hounds of plutocracy, the trusts, General Weyler, Pancho Villa, German spies, hyphenates, the Kaiser, Bolshevism." <b>[And we might add: domestic terrorists and Muslems under every bed.</b><br /><br />Quick, all loyal patriots! Shred the Constitution - this is serious!Davidhttp://david-passingparade2.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52594172292841199922013-03-13T14:50:59.067-07:002013-03-13T14:50:59.067-07:00The point is, there is always a bogeyman available...The point is, there is always a bogeyman available to scare and entertain the public, to justify whatever crap the people at the top already want to do and to help sell newspapers. Sometimes, it's a genuine threat (there really were Soviet agents in a lot of important places in the US, though a lot of the people screwed over in the witchhunts weren't guilty of anything but being easy targets). Other times, the threat is massively overblown, as with the threat from Muslim terrorists, rapidly inflated into a threat to our very existence as a nation after they managed to hijack some planes and crash them into stuff.<br /><br />There's a famous quote about the Spanish Prisoners con--for this scam to work, it is not necessary for there to really be any prisoners, or even for there to be any such place as Spain. Something very similar is true here. <br /><br />For awhile there, an important bogeyman in the US was people engaging in large scale ritual Satanic abuse of children, sometimes including human sacrifice. Now, the only problem with this was that the stories about it were absolutely and unfixably bugfuck nuts. Not only did they not happen, they could not possibly have happened. This did not prevent the panic from selling newspapers and books and building up political careers, nor did it prevent prosecutors sending people to prison forever for these imaginary crimes. <br /><br />I assume every country is susceptible to this, but the only one I know well enough to comment on is the US. We love scary stories about supervillains more than we love super-sized Big Mac meals. The combination of cartoon villains and morality with very little actual danger is a huge win here. NOTAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78389399638652963792013-03-12T20:48:20.236-07:002013-03-12T20:48:20.236-07:00It's uncanny how close that sounds to the last...<i>It's uncanny how close that sounds to the last few years, with Muslim terrorists taking the place of facists.</i><br /><br />Muslims taking the place of fascists? <br /><br />How about Muslims taking the place of Stalin's Red spies and infiltrators with friends in high places at the Royal Court of Washington?David Davenporthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03315090179595817174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-61727832299509110522013-03-12T20:11:15.150-07:002013-03-12T20:11:15.150-07:00That was pretty much the thesis of the Frankfurt S...<i>That was pretty much the thesis of the Frankfurt School's highly influential "The Authoritarian Personality."</i><br /><br />That thesis was half-right. It described the right-wing authoritarians very well - but didn't dare tackle their counterparts on the left.<br /><br />Mary Whitehouse and Mildred Brady - two faces on the same coin, that of death and anti-life.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91014785153891793302013-03-12T08:07:56.493-07:002013-03-12T08:07:56.493-07:00"Anonymous said...
"Assistant Secretary..."Anonymous said...<br /><br />"Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle ’ brought Chambers’ information directly to Roosevelt, but the president refused to believe it. FDR’s response to Chambers’ information typified his administration’s lax attitude about the threat of communist subversion.""<br /><br />Having a lot of communist subversives and sympathizers in his administration made that more likely.Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-10329691065257314762013-03-12T07:55:00.975-07:002013-03-12T07:55:00.975-07:00wsonnuaThat's an obviously Lefty, phoney organ...wsonnua<i>That's an obviously Lefty, phoney organization.</i><br /><br />Do you really think that lefties care about non-leftist white people being interned?<br /><br /><i>I mean, all Christians of European descent, at least of Northern European descent, are closet Nazis, aren't they?</i><br /><br />That was pretty much the thesis of the Frankfurt School's highly influential "The Authoritarian Personality." <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-54923214634620392902013-03-12T07:46:08.922-07:002013-03-12T07:46:08.922-07:00Martin Dies and the House Committee on Un-American...<i>Martin Dies and the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) were very active in denying any Nazi-sympathetic organization the ability to operate freely during World War II.</i><br /><br />The FBI was far more important in that role than HCUA: <br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/Edgar-Hoover-Anti-interventionists-Political-Surveillance/dp/0814291406<br /><br /><br />The "Brown Scare" fell between the two Red Scares:<br /><br />http://www.amconmag.com/articles/terror-begins-at-home/<br />(...)<br /><i>Long before Sept. 11, 2001, America experienced repeated outbreaks of concern over terrorism. In terms of shaping liberal perceptions, the most important was that of the FDR years, when anti-government sentiment spawned a number of extremist organizations. Some were “shirt” groups, modeled on European fascists—America, too, had its Black Shirts and Silver Shirts—while the German-American Bund attracted Hitler devotees. Isolationism and anti-Semitism drew some urban Irish-Americans into the Christian Front, while the Klan experienced one of its sporadic revivals. Beyond doubt, far-Right extremism did exist, and these movements had their violent side, to the point of organizing paramilitary training. A few plotted real terrorist acts.<br /><br /><br />But the public response was utterly out of proportion to any danger these groups posed. From 1938 through 1941, the media regularly presented stories suggesting that the U.S. was about to be overwhelmed by ultra-Right fifth columnists, millions strong, intimately allied with the Axis powers. (Actual numbers of serious militants were in the low thousands at most.) Reportedly, the militant Right was armed to the teeth and plotting countless domestic terror attacks—bombings in New York and Washington, assassinations and pogroms, the wrecking of trains and munitions plants. Plotters were rumored to have high-placed allies in the military, raising the specter of a putsch. The ensuing panic was orchestrated by newspapers and radio and reinforced by films, newsreels, and comic books. Historians characterize these years as the Brown Scare.<br /><br />If the more bizarre accusations sound like the common currency of the show trials in Stalin’s Russia in these very years, that is no coincidence. The main exposés of fascist conspiracy emanated from Communist Party journalists like Albert Kahn and John Spivak. (Spivak himself was an operative for the Soviet NKVD.) Charges circulated through Kahn’s newssheet The Hour before being picked up in the liberal press. The Red agenda was straightforward in that the Brown Scare allowed the Left to discredit any opponent of radical New Deal policies. Scratch the surface of any enemy of the Left, they claimed, and you would find a fascist spy, a lyncher, a storm trooper.</i><br />(...)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-58632752415406915772013-03-11T21:04:22.391-07:002013-03-11T21:04:22.391-07:00The German American Internee Coalition ("GAIC...<i>The German American Internee Coalition ("GAIC") was formed in 2005 by and for German American and Latin American citizens</i><br /><br />That's an obviously Lefty, phoney organization. A miniscule number of German- or Italian-Americans were detained or otherwise interfered with.<br /><br />I thought you wee going to bring up the German American Bund, all 300-500 or so of them.<br /><br />A lot of Japanese-Americans were interned, as they called it.<br /><br />Let me repeat a point: given millions of Americans of German descent and a good many Britons of Deutsch heritage, how many Nazi spies were operating in Britain or USA during WWII? <br /><br />I mean, all Christians of European descent, at least of Northern European descent, are closet Nazis, aren't they?<br /><br /><i>German American Bund<br />From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<br /><br /><br />German American Bund parade on East 86th St., New York City, October 30, 1939<br /><br /><br />The German American Bund or German American Federation (German: Amerikadeutscher Bund, also Amerikadeutscher Volksbund) was an American Nazi organization established in the 1930s. Its main goal was to promote a favorable view of Nazi Germany.<br /><br />...<br /><br />Zenith<br /><br />German American Bund Rally Poster at Madison Square Garden, February 20, 1939<br /><br /><br />Flag of the German American Bund<br /><br />Arguably, the zenith of the Bund's history occurred on President's Day, February 20, 1939 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Some 20,000 people attended and heard Kuhn criticize President Roosevelt by repeatedly referring to him as “Frank D. Rosenfeld”, calling his New Deal the "Jew Deal", and stating his belief of Bolshevik-Jewish American leadership. Most shocking to American sensibilities was the outbreak of violence between protesters and Bund storm troopers.<br /><br />The Bund was one of several German-American heritage groups; however, it was one of the few to express National Socialist ideals. As a result, many considered the group anti-American. In the last week of December 1942, led by journalist Dorothy Thompson, fifty leading German-Americans including Babe Ruth signed a "Christmas Declaration by men and women of German ancestry" condemning Nazism, which appeared in ten major American daily newspapers. In 1939, a New York tax investigation determined Kuhn had embezzled money from the Bund. The Bund operated on the theory that the leader's powers were absolute, and therefore did not seek prosecution. However, in an attempt to cripple the Bund, the New York district attorney prosecuted Kuhn. New Bund leaders would replace Kuhn, most notably Gerhard Kunze, but these were only brief stints. Martin Dies and <b>the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) were very active in denying any Nazi-sympathetic organization the ability to operate freely during World War II.</b></i><br /><br />Something you didn't know about the HUAC.David Davenporthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03315090179595817174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-27775398811871521472013-03-11T16:23:37.883-07:002013-03-11T16:23:37.883-07:00You have nothing to fear if you're doing nothi...<i>You have nothing to fear if you're doing nothing wrong.<br /><br />Every discussion of security must include that stupid comment.</i><br /><br />Right, because even those who aren't doing anything wrong have to fear miscarriages of justice.Ex Submarine Officernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-57344479634072940192013-03-11T15:54:40.963-07:002013-03-11T15:54:40.963-07:00Joe DiMaggio's dad, a San Francisco shrimp fis...Joe DiMaggio's dad, a San Francisco shrimp fisherman, was kept ashore for much of the war to prevent him from rendezvousing with Mussolini's invasion fleet hiding in the fog beyond the Golden Gate. Or something. <br /><br />During big wars, governments do stuff that seems kind of dumb afterwards.Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-67270840304425953662013-03-11T15:47:27.576-07:002013-03-11T15:47:27.576-07:00What German or Italian Americans were detained dur...<i>What German or Italian Americans were detained during WWII? Please name some.</i><br /><br />My grandfather, for one, for a while. Then they cleared him and put him to work as a mechanic.ben tillmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-38790745476108698722013-03-11T15:40:28.481-07:002013-03-11T15:40:28.481-07:00You have nothing to fear if you're doing nothi...You have nothing to fear if you're doing nothing wrong.<br /><br />Every discussion of security must include that stupid comment.Davidhttp://david-passingparade2.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-26677236914502447962013-03-11T14:20:25.028-07:002013-03-11T14:20:25.028-07:00What German or Italian Americans were detained dur...<i>What German or Italian Americans were detained during WWII? Please name some. Were did you hear about Germans or Italians being detained? Is that from some college textbook of recent years?</i><br /><br />http://www.gaic.info/<br /><br /><b>The German American Internee Coalition ("GAIC") was formed in 2005 by and for German American and Latin American citizens and legal residents who were interned by the United States during World War II. We are former internees, or their families and friends. We come from all walks of life and from countries around the world. We would like you to know our story </b><br /><br /><i>How many spies for Stalin's regime operated in the the U.S. State Dept. and in Project Manhattan during and after WWII? </i><br /><br />FDR didn't care:<br /><br />http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/archives_roll/2001_07-09/sempa_chambers/sempa_chambers.html<br />(...)<br /><i>Chambers attempted to warn the Roosevelt Administration about communist infiltration of the government (the same information that he revealed to HUAC in 1948). Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle ’ brought Chambers’ information directly to Roosevelt, but the president refused to believe it. FDR’s response to Chambers’ information typified his administration’s lax attitude about the threat of communist subversion.</i><br />(...)<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42482112662176225822013-03-11T07:37:48.262-07:002013-03-11T07:37:48.262-07:00The critical questiin isn't about drones. It&#...The critical questiin isn't about drones. It's about the limits of presidential power. <br /><br />Can the president have anyone in the US arrested, detained, or killed, on his say-so alone? Or is the president constrained to go through some formal legal process before locking people up or killing them? <br /><br />Drones are a red herrring--nobody is going to use drone fires missiles inside the US. But they may very well use death squads, or simply snatch US citizens off US soil and disappear them for years at a time, as already happened with Jose Padilla. The NDAA seems to give the president the authority to have anyone he wants disappeared. The administration also claims the authority to kill anyone it wants, though Eric Holder wrote a letter saying that the president couldn't use a drone fired missile on a citizen in the US unless he was engaged in operatins against the US. (Yes, with all those qualifiers.)<br /><br />It is insane that we are even debating this. Should we have a president who can order anyone killed or disappeared with no oversight or consequences? And yet answering "yes" to this question is bipartisan consensus policy, supported by our allegedly liberal MSM and our allegedly conservative MSM. <br /><br />I would very much like to understand why this has become consensus. The visible threat doesn't remotely justify it--it's like amputating someone's leg because he has a broken toe. Did the whole ruling class spend too much time watching _Triumph of the Will_ at an impressionable age? Are the major powers all being blackmailed with evidence of their gay affairs, pedophilia, Swiss bank accounts full of bribes, or murdered annoying ex-rivals? NOTAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-604941766565746382013-03-11T03:12:16.541-07:002013-03-11T03:12:16.541-07:00If conservatives were serious about conservatism, ...If conservatives were serious about conservatism, they would give Islam a good second look.<br /><br />The biggest Islam-haters are so-called "Christians" who happen to be gutless cowards, self-hating "moral" hypocrites, heartless plastic robots who ram so-called Western values down everyone's throats, usurers, tax-lovers, pimps, Israel-puppets, Big Pharma puppets, bleeding hearts towards criminals who DESERVE to be cut to pieces, gun-grabbers, alcoholics and tobacco addicts who use their anti-drug hysteria as a mask, prescription drug addicts, commies and other materialists (c'mon think - who utterly destroyed the Godless Soviet tyranny?), misandrists, closeted homosexuals and that includes metrosexuals too, pussywhipped perverts, darwinists and social darwinists, egalitarians, work-shy union thugs who call honest work "slavery"...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47937064989290520432013-03-10T22:49:57.947-07:002013-03-10T22:49:57.947-07:00What German or Italian Americans were detained dur...<i>What German or Italian Americans were detained during WWII?</i><br /><br />IIRC Germans in Britain were detained.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-84961715805706502112013-03-10T21:17:38.226-07:002013-03-10T21:17:38.226-07:00I'd actually be interested in understanding wh...<i>I'd actually be interested in understanding what you mean by "language war" and what your views are on it.</i><br /><br />Example: calling conservative US states "red states" in an effort to associate conservatives with Red radicals. David Davenporthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03315090179595817174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-65106135496937833312013-03-10T21:15:40.528-07:002013-03-10T21:15:40.528-07:00this was, of course, the thinking behind detaining...<i>this was, of course, the thinking behind detaining japanese, german, and italian people during world war 2.</i><br /><br />What German or Italian Americans were detained during WWII? Please name some. Were did you hear about Germans or Italians being detained? Is that from some college textbook of recent years?<br /><br />Next, how effective NAZI spies operated in the USA during WWII?<br /><br />Answer, none, nil, zero.<br /><br />How many spies for Stalin's regime operated in the the U.S. State Dept. and in Project Manhattan during and after WWII? <br /><br />Let's name a few ...David Davenporthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03315090179595817174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-38293102739212305302013-03-10T20:59:16.122-07:002013-03-10T20:59:16.122-07:00Faust:
Anyone who opposes the ruling class consen...Faust:<br /><br />Anyone who opposes the ruling class consensus is described in some kind of insulting terms by the MSM. That's much of what defines the MSM, I think--it's the part of the press which is part of the ruling class consensus and helps uphold and defend it. That's why the NYT, allegedly a liberal newspaper, held back on the story about the Bush administration's illegal wiretapping program until after the 2004 election, why all sorts of allegedly liberal newspapers and TV networks call exactly the same behavior "torture" when anyone else does it, and "harsh questioning" when we do it, why that same liberal set of MSM outlets was and is dismissive of antiwar and anti-banker bailout protests. It's why they went out of their way to make the Tea Party look like illiterate racists living in trailer parks, and the Occupy movement look like unemployable pot-smoking wannabe hippies. NOTAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-54342759539843512002013-03-10T19:57:02.721-07:002013-03-10T19:57:02.721-07:00this would be your meat:
http://www.youtube.com/w...this would be your meat:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2XAWcs7HbMPropagandistHackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032093796955347846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-56283752731426739082013-03-10T19:04:11.570-07:002013-03-10T19:04:11.570-07:00That backyard BBW doesn't meet the air quality...<i>That backyard BBW doesn't meet the air quality board…</i><br /><br />She's NOT fat. She's big boned, dammit!TontoBubbaGoldsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15084529465502345934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-16576817257514204162013-03-10T14:03:14.588-07:002013-03-10T14:03:14.588-07:00"Even worse, most conservatives seem to just ...<i>"Even worse, most conservatives seem to just accept it. Nobody ever challenges the left's control over nomenclature."<br /><br />i've posted several times about the language war.</i><br /><br />I'd actually be interested in understanding what you mean by "language war" and what your views are on it. Some of us are new readers here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-66222417922803885072013-03-10T13:18:13.954-07:002013-03-10T13:18:13.954-07:00"probably 1 in 1000 chinese immigrants is a s..."probably 1 in 1000 chinese immigrants is a spy. that means there are a heck of a lot of chinese spies in the US. they're caught and arrested regularly.<br /><br />this was, of course, the thinking behind detaining japanese, german, and italian people during world war 2."<br /><br /><br />-That was part of it. There were also incidents of actually aiding the enemy as well which heavily contributed to the decision to detain, but they tend to get lost down the memory hole of things that disagree with the Narrative:<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niihau_IncidentArtemisininnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-80850442163713966442013-03-10T12:16:39.293-07:002013-03-10T12:16:39.293-07:00NT = neurotypical?NT = neurotypical?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-21030143114109597342013-03-10T09:55:01.765-07:002013-03-10T09:55:01.765-07:00"What the hell is an "SJ" or an &qu..."What the hell is an "SJ" or an "SP"?"<br /><br />Welcome to the church my son.*<br /><br />http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp<br /><br />*BTW; you're an NT.Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.com