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Essential VDH – Celebrating the 4th

by Iron Fist ( 47 Comments › )
Filed under History, Politics at June 30th, 2011 - 2:00 pm

Go thou and read thereof. He takes on the Left’s attacks on the notion of American Exceptionalism, and does so with devistating accuracy. We are an exceptional country, or have been. The destruction of that exceptionalism, and the degeneration of America into a Third World fifedom, is what the Left’s agenda is really all about.

Geert Wilders and American Exceptionalism

by 1389AD ( 51 Comments › )
Filed under Christianity, Free Speech, Hate Speech, Islam, Islamic Supremacism, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Multiculturalism, Orthodox Christianity, Political Correctness at May 25th, 2011 - 8:30 am

Gates of Vienna: The Farce Continues

Reprinted with permission.

Geert Wilders as Galileo

Geert Wilders took a bit of a vacation earlier this month, visiting Canada and Tennessee. Now everything has returned to normal, and he’s back in the dock in the Netherlands.

The Amsterdam court that is trying Mr. Wilders is engaged in a surgical operation for political purposes under the mandate of the Dutch ruling class. Its task is to excise the PVV leader from the Dutch body politic and restore the multicultural state to its previous dominance.

If there were ever any doubt that this is a kangaroo court, and that the verdict was determined well in advance, the following brief article would lay it to rest. Many thanks to our Dutch correspondent H. Numan for this translation from De Telegraaf:

Court: Wilders trial continues

AMSTERDAM – the court of Amsterdam decided on Monday the trial against PVV leader Geert Wilders will continue. At the beginning of this month, Wilders’ lawyer Bram Moszkowicz stated his client isn’t getting a fair trial and the case must be declared inadmissible by the prosecution.

The unfair trial was caused by amongst others Tom Schalken, councillor of the court, and in that position responsible for issuing the order for the prosecution to continue the trial against Wilders. The politician is on trial for sowing hatred and discrimination and insulting a group.

The order to continue the trial is according to Moszkowicz a conviction. Also, Schalken had tried to influence the expert-witness Hans Jansen, Arabist. Other influential magistrates had influenced the trial, by publicly voicing their own personal opinions.

The court rejected the arguments of the lawyer.


Comments at GoV: Does any nation deserve admiration?

The comments on this article are well worth reading. One in particular, from Sagunto in Amsterdam, caught my attention:

Sagunto said…

John in Cheshire –

wrote:

"I used to think the Dutch were a nation to be admired. Not any more."

Why admire any nation at all, one would think. One might – as an outsider – take a shot at understanding a foreign nation, but anyway..

Considering your judgement of nations is obviously based on the behaviour of its political and cultural elites, is there any nation left in the West today, that is worthy of your admiration?

😉

Kind regs from Amsterdam,

Sag.

My take on American Exceptionalism

I comment fairly often at GoV, and attempted to post a reply to Sagunto’s comment. Unfortunately, Google Blogger seems to be having technical issues with their comment function again, so my comment could not be posted at that time. Here is what I would have liked to say:

As an Orthodox Christian, I believe and understand that we live in a fallen world, and that no country and no government deserves uncritical admiration. A quick glance at any newspaper, newscast, or news website, anywhere in the world, suffices to confirm that. The refusal to accept this as a basic principle is at the root of the errors of modern-day liberals.

It is up to each of us to rein in evil and to mitigate suffering and injustice wherever we can. We can never rely on governments to rein in evil and do justice on our behalf unless we hold their feet to the fire at every turn. Geert Wilders was free to speak his mind in Tennessee, and his audience, both in person and on the Internet, has the freedom to watch and listen. The question is, how long will we preserve our First Amendment rights for freedom of speech, assembly, and the press in an age of “political correctness”?

Whenever I hear the phrase “American exceptionalism,” I remind people that American exceptionalism is all about our Judaeo-Christian heritage and adherence to the US Constitution. Lose those, and it’s all over.


Happy 100th Birthday President Reagan!

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 80 Comments › )
Filed under Cold War, History, Patriotism, Politics, Republican Party at February 6th, 2011 - 4:30 pm

As most of you know, today is President Reagan’s 100th birthday. He is, in my opinion, the third greatest President ever. Only Presidents Washington and Lincoln, for obvious reasons, are above him. FDR? No way! Yeah he was good during World War Two, but his handling of the economy during the depression of the 1930’s was atrocious.

Yet the libs who regal him seem to think his leadership was magnificent. What a crock of crap! The fact of the matter is FDR’s “New Deal” economic policies not only did not help the economy recover, they made the depression last longer by years, as many honest economists have written.

It was WW2 starting in 1939 when Hitler and Nazi Germany invaded Poland that finally ended the depression, by all the jobs that were needed for wartime production, even before we entered the war, and building up the military. At the time Pearl Harbor was attacked, the U.S. unemployment rate was still around 10%.

If ever there was a time that not only the U.S., but the world, needed a great man and leader like President Reagan in the White House, it’s now. Instead, we’re stuck with an incompetent socialist boob with an incompetent administration masquerading as a President for two more years.

Happy Birthday, Mr. President!

Here’s President Reagan’s brilliant speech commemorating the 40th anniversary of D-Day on 6 June 1984…

And his address to the American people on the Challenger disaster on 28 January 1986…

And here is a six part video called “Remembering Ronald Reagan, A Tribute”

Lt. Col. Allan West’s great victory speech, and a special message to Charles Johnson

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 203 Comments › )
Filed under Academia, Barack Obama, Blogwars, Democratic Party, Education, Elections 2010, Elections 2012, History, LGF, Military, Patriotism, Political Correctness, Politics, Progressives, Republican Party, Socialism at November 5th, 2010 - 6:30 pm

Before you watch this great video, I have to say something that has been needed to be said for months.

Charles Johnson, you worthless and condescending piece of liberal shit, we all know you’ll read this or one of your dimwitted minions will tell you about it, so enjoy…

I, for one, and all of us here, are sick and tired of your claims that the Tea Party is made up of nothing but racists. F(*)ck you, asshole. What or who the hell gives you the right to be the arbiter to decide who are the racists?

I seem to recall one of your worthless moronic psycho-phants posting a racist diatribe at another blog, one Killgore Trout, by using the “N” word numerous times, while claiming he was doing it to prove a point.

And the only point the racist asshole proved was that the blog was not monitored 24/7.

Well, he sure did prove a point. And that point was that you had no objection to what he did. Again, who’s the racist?

If someone here had done that, they would have been banned immediately, and unlike at your worthless and irrelevant cesspool, we don’t ban thousands of people just because we disagree with what they say. If you cross a certain line, you’re gone. But we’ve banned maybe 3 people in over two years.

You are obviously too damn stupid to know what a racist is, because if you’re a liberal, which you obviously are, you’re a racist. You want to know what a racist is, you stupid liberal prick?

A racist is someone who thinks that blacks (or any other minority group) are too stupid and cannot succeed in life without handouts from you compassionate libs or live the American dream without the help of ignorant liberal assholes like yourself.

You think they need handouts from the government to help them succeed in life via affirmative action or welfare.

Hmmm. Last time I checked almost every college in America was run by you compassionate liberals.

Since that is the God’s honest truth, why do you compassionate diversity-loving liberals need the government to tell you that you have to set aside so many spots for the minorities you all seem to care so much about? Why don’t you do it on your own, rather than the government having to tell you to if you want federal (taxpayer dollars) funds?

I’ll tell you why. Because you’re all full of shit!

You don’t give a damn about blacks or any other minority group. All you care about is how other liberals perceive you. You just want to fit in with all the other liberal racists who think blacks cannot succeed without your “generosity” or “largess”. Piss on that, and piss on you!

They don’t need you, and as a matter of fact, they’d be much better off without you liberal losers. What they need is to be taught that they have more opportunity to succeed in America than in any other country now or in the history of the world.

But all you liberals are interested in is promoting your victimhood bullshit to young blacks. And yeah, I call them blacks.

They’re no more African-Americans than I am a European-American. Most blacks were born here, as was I. But more and most importantly, we’re ALL Americans. African-American is yet another pathetic liberal phrase meant to separate Americans into racial groups, rather than us all just being proud Americans.

Now, watch this victory speech by a great American, Lt. Col. Allen West, a war hero, and a black conservative Republican, and hopefully some day our President.

But not like your pathetic President, but rather a President who loves America for all its greatness.

A man who sees all the great things America has done for the world, and who will not feel the need to go around the globe apologizing for our mistakes, and yes we made a few, but rather to point out that Americans have saved numerous countries and over a billion people’s lives, with over a million young American lives and/or their blood being spilled to achieve this, so that freedom and democracy are still what the vast majority of human beings who did not have it but now do are grateful for, or for those who do not have it, and crave for it.

Notice all the white “racists” cheering for this great American? I’m certain they noticed he is black.

But they don’t care because we don’t care about the color of a person’s skin, unlike liberals, who are obsessed by it.

He’s a great American. That’s all that matters to us. And before any of you lib racists say that he’s only one man, there are many more like him, but so many are afraid because the racist liberal democrats, both black and white, will call them “Uncle Tom’s”, or whatever, if they dare to claim that blacks do not need and would be much better off if they didn’t depend upon racist white liberals to “take care of them” from cradle to grave.

Sorry I went on so long, but this crap has been bothering me for years. Here’s Col. West’s victory speech. BTW, notice he did NOT need a TelePrompTer!