OUR LITTLE HERO

Barak Hussain Obama's declaration of victory over Bin Laddin and the "forces of terror" reminds me of the Emperor Caligula's proclamation as victor over Neptune.  The sheer imposture of which puts us into the position of the old Senators who dared not laugh for fear of beheading.  We don't have that fear, but we are cautioned not to laugh at our President for fear of appearing to doubt his fitness and sincerity as our first African President.

Our  President undermined the triumphal spirit of his signing yet another pact with the mountebank who claims to run Afghanistan on the anniversary of Bin Laddin's killing, by sneaking into the country we are liberating in the dead of night.  Photo-ops and speeches delivered in empty garages in a country you must flee before the sun comes up just don't have the required heroic spirit.

Obama the heroic war leader is also undermined by his own less than heroic life and his tendency to become small when the situation is big.  This is illustrated by the photo above.  The president is seen to almost hide, looking small and a bit afraid beside the soldier at the head of the table.  The Soldier and Defense Secretary Gates have the look of adult men tending to business.  The President's collection of left-political and academic pigmies have the look of people who would really rather be watching another movie.  Hillary Clinton hides her face concealing who knows what?

Can you imagine Truman or JFK sitting anywhere but at the head of the table?  Whether the operation had gone well or badly, real commanders sit where they can be observed and held responsible.  They don't sit hunkered down, one among a group, like a devious affirmative action law student looking for  an out.

Strictly Lady Sumo | Dutch Courage | Channel 4

BACK

I am back from a exhausting trip to deepest equatorial North Carolina; normally a most pleasant and interesting place, but in this instance purgatory with pine trees and pollen.  Some majestic sights on the way back but on the whole, excruciating.

The Mountain pictured is called Pilot Mountain although the locals call it Titty Mountain.  I wonder why?

Sorry, I can't figure out how to right this image.

BEHIND THE ZIMMER AFFAIR

This is the umpteenth day of pandering coverage of the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin affair.  We have seen the "Million Hoodie March," We are seeing constant repetition of coverage of a story sans new facts, and we have seen our black President signaling his preference to the prejudice of the liberty of a citizen.  We have also seen the mainstream conservative press accede to the demands of black political pressure.

For the benefit of my overseas readers, we Americans have been emerging from the chrysalis of our 18th Century constitution for about fifty years, and that process is almost complete.  We are becoming a plebiscitary mass democracy where mobs of one sort or another decide the course of events without reference to law or tradition.  Our decadent elites and the predatory underclass are united in their hatred of the largely white middle classes.   The issue at hand with the shooting in Florida is that the middle citizens of Florida grew tired of the lawlessness of the resident underclass both black and hispanic.  They began to liberalize their restrictive firearms laws and crime levels dropped.  This troubled two groups of people, liberals who fear and loath traditional Americans and their culture of personal responsibility, and minorities who's loved-ones tend to get shot when citizens defend themselves.

But there is another wrinkle to this situation.  Blacks are keenly aware that they are in a loosing struggle with all the hispanics that their liberal friends are importing to do the work they are no longer willing to do.  And to be blunt, hispanics who are forced to share neighborhoods with blacks are not nearly so willing to move away from black criminality.  They stay and fight.  They have a history of using deadly force against blacks because they have never been indoctrinated in the cult of racial shame that most American whites have.   Many of them have a culture of working and saving and playing the game of life with their own money.  They aren't willing to shrug off constant thievery and intimidation.  It is precisely because Mr. Zimmerman is hispanic that the real leaders of this protest want him to be put away even before a trail.  For Blacks living in places like Florida and Southern California, diversity is coming to mean displacement and push-back.  That is one reason why there is more than a little hysterical language among black leaders.

Another possibility is looming.  Information regarding Zimmerman is emerging that puts him in a good light.  There is word of an eyewitness who confirms Zimmerman's version of events.  However misguided Zimmerman probably was, he he seems to have defended himself.  What happens if Zimmerman is found innocent?  Will the media's pandering to black rage result in an convulsion of black violence.  We've seen this before in the Rodney King riots.  Things may be coming to a violent pass and the elites who make common cause with the black underclass will have brought much of it about.  I personally hope that is they who bear the consequences of the violence they have unleashed.

ZIMMERMAN UNDER THE BUS

So William F. Buckley's inheritors at National Review have taken the machiavellian route and are throwing George Zimmerman under the proverbial bus while trying to save the Florida Castle Doctrine law.  On a cold blooded pragmatic level this may be understandable  individuals who may suffer the delusion that the "Conservative" establishment will take their part when found harming the black endangered species.  As John Derbyshire pointed out, establishment conservatives may feign solidarity with normal Americans but at heart they are effete New Yorkers with all the social prejudices and postures that entails.  Behold the National Review's stance towards Zimmerman and despair that they would ever stand up to a left/minority lynch mob.  

Rich Lowry "Al Sharpton is right......Zimmer should be charged.
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NRO"s Robert Ver Bruggen, writes, "It is still not clear whether Florida “neighborhood watch” vigilante George Zimmerman broke the law when he chased down and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. And that’s a problem, because Zimmerman acted inappropriately in the moments leading up to the shooting, and Martin would still be alive if Zimmerman had behaved as he should have. Supporters of pro-self-defense policies should roundly condemn Zimmerman’s actions, and Florida should change its laws to prevent this incident from repeating itself."
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and Rihan Salam writes "I get the tentative sense that this conversation hasn't gotten crazily polarized."

THE TOULOUSE SHOOTER

I've been following this story as it unfolded for 48+ hours on France24 TV. The desire to use this tragedy to cripple the LePen candidacy is palpable.  All the commentators are now crestfallen that the murderer has been exposed as a Muslim.

Not to be thwarted by facts, they now imply that anti-immigration rhetoric by the right may be responsible for setting the poor guy off.  LePen MUST be responsible somehow!

Another aspect of this is the shocking intelligence that the shooter and hundreds of other young Muslims are known to have been to AFPAC for training but are allowed to reside in France.  It seems that the UK and Germany all have AFPAC trained terrorists living among the public.  Of course these human land mines are adjudged Frenchmen, Brits', and Germans due to our stupid multi-cultural, self defeating orthodoxy.

If these countries insist on being "Propositional Nations,"  would it be too much to ask that terrorist training overseas would count as a No to the proposition and thus cause to revoke citizenship?

*this is a comment I wrote on Isteve.blog

ZIMMERMAN

Clark Stooksbury over at The American Conservative is piling on to the establishment impulse to destroy a rather hot headed Florida man named Zimmerman who got into a confrontation with a black seventeen year old.  It looks like Zimmerman, (who is actually Hispanic) is a self proclaimed neighborhood watchman in his gated community.  He went after the kid and things degenerating into a fistfight and from there to a mortal chest wound to the kid.  Well, the kid was black and his parents, the national media and the Rev. (sic) Al Charlatan demand the blood of the white bwana.  We've been here before and the Obama Administration will intervene to make sure that Zimmerman is ruined no matter what the local grand jury finds.

Zimmerman may have brought all this on himself but it's instructive to see how a case such as this exposes the self destructive nature of what passes for conservative journalism.  Both Stooksbury, and Rod Dreher fell over themselves to make it plain that they could cry for the hapless Zimmermans blood at least as fast as The Nation and The New York Times.  Stooksbury is really a libertarian with a penchant for skewering conservatives.  I suspect that he writes for TAC because it is own by Ron Unz, another libertarian who doesn't mind running a "Conservative" magazine that is less and less conservative all the time.  Dreher is a proponent of the religion of nice.  When not writing about his family and recipes, he advances moderately old fashioned observations to the army of leftists, deviates and religious blue stockings that followed him from one blog address to another.  He is the father of the now defunct "Crunchy Con" tendency.  Perhaps cringing con would be better.  He may be a masochist.

Clearly I don't find the guilt or innocence of Zimmerman as interesting as the degree to which we have degenerated into a country where blacks are considered an endangered species, and like an endangered species, harming them is objectionable far beyond any harm they may do to the rest of us.  If Zimmerman can be destroyed by establishment/media consensus, then we are all living beyond the rule of law.

Another aspect of this case is the degree to which the left press such as The Nation openly manipulates their reportage to make a case against our Second Amendment rights.  They are almost more against the Florida right to carry law as they are at Zimmerman.  One wonders how long they waited for a Zimmerman situation to crop up.  No one will mention in the national media that Florida law favors the right of citizens to exercise discretion in defending themselves due to the failure of the old liberal laws.  Democracy it seems only applies when it disarms the citizens, not when it empowers them to defend themselves.

There will always be Zimmerman cases.  All Rights can be abused, but if we lose a right every time a black kid gets killed, we will soon have none.