Friday, July 8, 2016

This is the Enemy

A Few weeks ago the Lewiston Tribune carried an interesting article about a gentleman who collects wartime propaganda posters.  Several of these posters were displayed in the article, with one specifically catching my eye as I had seen it before.  (Long before I assure you!)

Obviously a World War 2 poster that was aimed at Nazi Germany, labeled “This is the Enemy”, it depicts a hand, emblazoned with a swastika, stabbing a bayonet through a bible.  While Nazi Germany is long gone, this poster (with minor changes), strikes me as being just as pertinent today as it was 70 plus years ago, for, despite the assurances of Mr. Obama and the rest of the loony left, America, our beliefs, and our distinct culture, is under a massive attack today, on all fronts.   

The threat from Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan are long gone, thanks to my Fathers generation.  The threat from Soviet Russia is gone as well (unless Mr. Putin manages to resurrect it), thanks to my generation and not a few folks from the following one.  So, rather than leave us in peace for a while, the world just has to bring on more problems and yet another quite serious threat.  And no, I’m not speaking of Mr. Obama and his bleeding heart liberal henchmen who are trying to destroy our country, but rather the worldwide threat of radical Islam and the terrorism it preaches.  Nor is it just America under attack, but the entire western world as well.

Be it as it may, before Mr. Obama took office there was little presence of Islam in America.  Now, all of the sudden, Islam is a required subject taught in many of our schools, while Christianity and the bible are banned in those same schools.  Now we must allow Islamic prayer in schools, airports and businesses, while a Christian football coach is fired from his job for praying before a high school game.  A traditional Christian prayer is suddenly banned from a high school graduation ceremony because it might offend a Moslem.

Suddenly we are inundated with law suits by Muslims who are offended by American culture, and now Muslims are suing employers and refusing to do their jobs if they personally deem it conflicts with Sharia Law.  Of course if I made a similar claim about conflicting with the old Irish Breahon Law I’d be laughed out of court!  (Feisty as they may have been, at least my Celtic ancestors didn’t figure that killing everybody in town was the answer to any disagreement.)  I rather think that if Muslims are all that offended by American culture, they should really go someplace else!  But no, instead, we now have the Attorney General of the United States vowing to prosecute anyone who engages in "anti-Muslim speech".  By order of the man with three Muslim names, Jihadists who engage in terrorism and openly admit they acted in the name of Islam and ISIS, are declared NOT to be Islamic by our leaders and their actions are determined NOT to be terrorism!  We are constantly reminded from on high that Islam is a religion of peace, yet…

The beltway snipers were Muslims… the Ft. Hood shooter was a Muslim…  the USS Cole bombers were Muslim…  the Boston marathon bombers were Muslim…  the Libyan Embassy attack was by Muslims…  the Iranian Embassy takeover was by Muslims…  The first World Trade Center bombing was by Muslims…  the Beirut marine barracks bombers were Muslim…  the 9/11 attackers were Muslims…  On and on, ad nauseium.   

Yet it becomes US government foreign policy that rabid Islamists and the Muslim Brotherhood dictators must replace other Middle East dictators that were reasonably friendly to the West.  Conveniently our troops are withdrawn from Iraq and the Middle East, giving rise to a murderous reign by the ISIS.  In the face of this open warfare against the United States, Mr. O conducts a purge of the military, getting rid of our proven combat commanders, the US Navy is diminished to pre-World War I levels. The US Army is at pre-1940 levels. The US Air Force is scrapping 500 airplanes.  Our nuclear stockpile is reduced to 1950 levels, all of which means we don’t have very much left to defend ourselves with.  Now he wants to eliminate yet another 40,000 soldiers!

It surely looks like Mr. O is keeping at least one of his campaign promises, that of reducing Americas armed strength to levels that Muslim countries are comfortable with.  In order to do that of course a nuclear arms deal with Iran must be made at any cost, leaving the gate wide open for the further development of Iranian nuclear weapons, and generously funded by a few hundred billion dollars we hand over to Iran for just that purpose.  Oddly enough there’s is no money for American defense, secure borders, our poor, our disabled veterans, jobless Americans, or hungry Americans, but there seems to be an endless supply of money for Obama's "Syrian refugee" resettlement programs.  You might also have noticed that those “refugees” are overwhelming military age males.  It appears that in “running for their lives”, they left the women and kids behind.  But that’s all right we’re told, because those refugees are carefully ‘vetted.  Humm… ‘Vetted?  By whom, the ISIS?  If you have a bowl containing ten thousand M&M candies, and a couple of dozen of them contain a deadly poison, how many M&M’s are YOU going to eat, or give to your kids?

Strangely enough the most important thing for Obama to do after a mass shooting by two Jihadists, is to demand the disarmament of American Citizens.  Apparently he hasn’t realized that a Muslim terrorist with an AK-47 has little to fear from a hundred or so unarmed Americans, and he’s going to pay little attention to a “Gun Free” sign on a nightclub door.  (If you feel you really need an all-up [fully automatic] AK-47, talk to your neighborhood drug smuggler, not to the NRA or the local gun shop, as that class of weapon is already illegal in this country, and has been since the 1930’s!)

A new (June 2016) Department of Homeland Security report urges rejecting the use of Islamic terms such as “jihad” and “sharia” in programs aimed at countering terrorist radicalization among American youth.  Government agencies should employ “American English instead of religious, legal and cultural terms like ‘jihad,’ ‘sharia,’ ‘takfir’ or ‘umma,’” states the report by the Council’s “Countering Violent Extremism” subcommittee.  The report calls for avoiding the use of an “us versus them” mentality by shunning those Islamic terms, despite a 1,700-year history of violent Islamic extremism that lives by exactly those words.

Suddenly I’m a bit sick to my stomach when considering just how much “progress” has been made in the Islamic destruction of America in these last 7 years, a very brief period of time when  considering our 240 year history as a free nation! 

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