Posted on 02/20/2011 6:56:17 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Just over a month ago, President Obama took to a stage in Arizona to decry what he perceived as the caustic nature of political discourse in our country. On this issue, and very few others, we agree. But Mr. Obama was delinquent in pointing out the individuals and organizations – the factions – responsible for stoking the fires of discontent and, dare I say, hatred. The unspoken reason for this omission is because most – if not all – of the caustic rhetoric – the unbridled hatred – comes from the Progressive Left and there are myriad examples to prove the point beyond argument.
Truth be told, the Progressive-Left in the United States, as they exist today, are not unlike the arrogant, defiant, naïve teenager; so full of self-righteousness yet so incredibly oblivious to the fact that there are consequences to each and every action. And just like that rebellious teenager, when it comes time to reap the pains of what their actions sowed, they become bitter, angry and sometimes violent in their defiance. The troubles created by their lack of vision and their selfishness, however, remain for others to rectify. And just like the defiant teenager, those of the Progressive-Left would rather blame everyone else for the problems they face; the problems society faces because of the obstinacy and narcissism.
The mainstreaming of the Progress-Left's insolence has manifested in the evolution of malcontents who once bombed government buildings and killed law enforcement officers, who rioted in the streets of Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, into many who have now achieved elected office, including the status of US Representatives, Senators and, yes, even the Presidency of the United States. The difference between yesterday and today is that today the consequences of their actions – the cost for their lack of vision and their arrogance – is much higher.
So, what happens when those of today's Progressive-Left are thwarted in their quest for self-serving achievement; what happens when the generation of artificial self-esteem doesn't get their way? What happens when their employment of the Alinsky rules doesn't bear fruit? Well, they hate...and they hate with a viciousness that should give everyone in the world – not just the United States, but the world – a fright.
Hate of the Person
Recently, amid the chaos and violence of the Egyptian upheaval, CBS News' Lara Logan, a seasoned war correspondent, was brutally beaten and sexually assault for a period of time. It wasn't until a group of Muslim women and approximately 20 Egyptian soldiers came to Ms. Logan's aid that the assault was stopped. Ms. Logan was hospitalized for her injuries and evacuated to the United States where she was hospitalized further.
In the face of this unacceptable attack on a woman who was trying to report to the world the events taking place in a land in turmoil, Nir Rosen, an alleged journalist who has been published by Time Magazine, The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine – liberal and Progressive publications, one and all, submitted the following "Tweets" upon hearing the news of Ms. Logan's assault:
"Jesus Christ, at a moment when she is going to become a martyr and glorified we should at least remember her role as a major war monger."
"Look, she was probably groped like thousands of other women."
Mr. Rosen, who was forced to immediately surrender his title of Fellow at New York University's Center on Law and Security for his hatred, later offered the "Sorry, I was insensitive" defense.
The fact remains, that was the initial response by Mr. Rosen and, thus, we all must understand that his "Tweeted" sentiments are, in fact, his true sentiments. The hate – the misogynistic hate – he spewed toward a woman who was sexually assaulted and beaten at the hands of a vicious mob cannot be erased and must be recognized for what it is: It is who Mr. Rosen is, period. He is a hater...and he is a Progressive.
Recently, at a rally to protest the Koch Brothers – two people who spend a considerable amount of money to champion Conservative causes, but nowhere near what George Soros spends to advance the cause of Progressive globalism – occasional New Media Journal contributor Christian Hartsock asked people in the crowd how they felt about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Their answers demonstrated a hatred for Justice Thomas that rivaled the hatred of those who celebrated the Ku Klux Klan:
"Put him back in the field...He's a scumbag, he's a dumb-sh*t scumbag. Throw him back in the field."
"We cut off his toes, one by one, and feed them to him."
"I don't know, I'm all about peace, but I say torture."
"What do we do with him? String him up! And his wife too, let's get rid of Ginny...[Then we can] start all over...Scalia...who are the other a**holes? String him up...Thomas...his wife...Scalia...Roberts, oh my god..."
"Hang him."
While these people were protesting two American citizens, natural born American citizens, who observe their right and obligation to engage the governmental process – incredible, in and of itself – they called for the lynching, torture and maiming of a United States Supreme Court Justice, his wife and his fellow Conservative Justices simply because they held a different political opinion than they did. The racial hatred speaks for itself.
I could go into every instance where the Progressive-Left smeared, defamed and lied about President George W. Bush over the years but there isn't enough space here to do justice to the injustice incurred by Mr. Bush and his family.
The ironic thing about the hatred of the Progressive-Left is that it is the Progressive-Left that not only professes the need for tolerance (no, that's not a laugh line) but they are the ones that insisted on advancing hate-speech legislation, yet the powers that be never inflict that non-freedom of speech on any of their transgressions.
Hate of the Process
Last week, in Wisconsin, labor union operatives organized teachers, jail guards and other unionized government workers to protest a move by Wisconsin's newly elected Republican governor, Scott Walker, and the new Republican majority in Wisconsin's legislature, to push back against over-reaching union benefits in the face of a state budget crisis. Walker and legislative Republicans wanted to strip most public employees of their collective-bargaining rights, while mandating that they pay more into their own pension funds.
But the vote was not to be. The entire Wisconsin Senate Democrat caucus abdicated their responsibility to their constituents by leaving the state so as to create a situation where there was no quorum, thus, keeping the Wisconsin State Senate from being able to execute its constitutional duties.
Not only did out-of-state labor union organizers descend on Wisconsin' capitol to gin-up the Progressive-Left, but Pres. Obama's own organization, Organizing for America, played an active role in derailing the business of the State of Wisconsin.
But, this isn't the first time that Progressive-Left activists, elected through the Democrat Party, have interfered with the execution of state business.
In 2003, Texas Senate Democrats, in the minority in the chamber – as is also the case with the Wisconsin mutiny, left the state in an effort to thwart the chamber's constitutional duty to examine the redistricting of districts as mandated by the US Census.
In Maryland, during a heated debate on the extension of in-state government benefit rights to illegal aliens, Baltimore City Senator Joan Carter Conway bellowed into the face of a fellow City Senator, Norman Stone, who was arguing for preserving rights for legal residents:
"I don't want to hear about the Constitution."
These three examples, when coupled with the dismal and wholly unconstitutional tactics employed by US House Speaker for the 111th Congress Nancy Pelosi (P-CA)and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to ram through health insurance reform legislation, i.e. the behind closed door sessions, the usurpation of House and Senate rules, the lockout of Republicans in crafting of legislative language, provide a stellar example of how Progressive-Leftists hate the process that is Constitutional Republicanism.
Hate of the Country
That the Progressive-Left hates the United States of America – and everything it stands for less their right to wreck havoc over the US Constitution – is more than evident. From President Obama's continuous apology to the world for perceived wrongs committed by our country, to the elitists in higher education who systematically brainwash as many students a possible against the opportunity presented by Capitalism and a free market system, to Progressive-Leftists like Code Pink, so devoid of reality that they believe radical Islamist violence is caused by US foreign policy (please explain the Islamist violence in Indonesia, Africa, China and Russia please), the Progressive-Left's hatred for our country leaves at least me asking: Why the hell do you want to live here if it is so horrible a place?
The truth of the matter, when it comes to hate, is this: The Progressive-Left is very good at screaming that Conservatives or the Tea Party or people who practice their faith are budding with repressed hatred; that they are intolerant, uninformed, mean-spirited, organized and hate-filled. But over the years I have come to understand one very important thing. If the Progressive-Left accuses you of something, it is out of guilt; it is because they, themselves, are guilty of the charges. If you don't believe me, just ask Lara Logan, Clarence Thomas, Sarah Palin or George W. Bush.
Maybe that's why they hate religion so much...it facilitates a conscience.
Another great piece to send straight to God’s ears!
What a great smackdown!
Deserves a second if not a third read!
An important article. Thanks for posting it.
I am heartened by the reaction to Nir Rosens’ “tweets”. Truly, these were the initial thoughts of this pitiful little skidmark. And while I’d expect such toilet commentary out of an arrogant spoiled teenager, this is an insight into the mind of a leftist so-called intellectual. And it’s only when there is consequence to him, directly, to his ego, to his perceived standing, when we get the retraction “oh that isn’t the real me”. I have no idea what Lara Logans’ politics are, I assume they are left leaning due to her employer. But I have no doubt she must have been terrified within an inch of her life in the hands of that mob. And maybe that’s *her* lesson out of this. But there’s nothing at all funny or hip or clever about it.
He can soak in his own urine as far as I’m concerned.
The left are great haters. Always have been. Which may explain the affinity some them have for Islam.
They don’t just hate other people, but they hate themeslves. Look at how many drugg addled, diseased celeb out there shrieks about ‘not being judged’ all the time and scorns values that could have saved them? They hate who they were before htey damaged themselves, because they have deep regrets. They’re running from themselves, but can’t, so they embrace the damage rather than toughen up and get out of it.
LIBs are self-loathers. They can’t accept that they know they are losers so they project their hatred onto those who are successful and effective humans. If they accept their perpetual status as losers, they have only one choice to save them selves from that pain: self-elimination. LIBs = Losers
On a few website bulletin boards, I have used the term PEACE NAZI to describe the peace movement in general, and one person asked me for an explanation as to what the term means and why I say it. Here is my answer:
It is intentionally derogatory, and I use it because I believe it has to be said.
It has to do with the foundation of the PEACE movement in the US and abroad and their Communist foundation, and how the majority of the signs held and slogans chanted are not about peace or genuine concern for the people of two warring countries, it is about the anti-American attitudes and the violence-inducing signs and slogans calling for violence against American Troops and President Bush.
Carrying signs calling on troops to kill their officers, to bomb Texas, for Bush to choke on a pretzel and die, for troops to shoot their officers, signs that call for communist revolution, starting fights with people who disagree with you while carrying a peace sign, trying to steal my money in Boston while carrying a peace sign and then telling me because you were shamed into giving back the money that means you are ok after all...
Things like that.
I will NOT stop using it. It is intended to make the peace protestor think.
After all the horrors we found in Iraq, you should all be thankful we went in and invaded to remove that madman. Yet, the mantra has changed, it is now against occupation and most recently a call for early withdrawl without any victory!
Repeatedly, information comes out of Iraq proving the terrorist connections of Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda.
Still, not one PEACE NAZI has apologized and admitted we were right. All they did is complain that a people that were under slavery for 30 years were looting after Saddam was overthrown, and who do they blame? Why the US!! We did nothing to stop it! Maybe because we stayed out of the crowd because the PEACE NAZIS would have complained we didn’t let them vent their anger??
(As a side note, people who are now called PEACE NAZIS didn’t call on the LAPD or Federal Troops to stop the LA riots after the Rodney King riots, did they? They told us all to step back and let them vent their anger, yet all of a sudden, we were supposed to go in and use force to stop rioters in Iraq?)
And to top it off, we are flushing out the terrorists in places like Fallujah, the places where the Murderous Mullahs all take refuge, and the PEACE NAZIS have not ONCE held a rally to decry the beheadings of Americans or Iraqi CARE workers! Not one PEACE NAZI rally held to call for justice for the Killers of Daniel Pearl or any foreigner killed in Iraq!
We never intended to occupy a country like SYRIA had the last 20 years, and where were the PEACE NAZIS and their signs calling on SYRIA to leave Lebanon? They are non existent. The Syrians killed tens of thousands, chasing little children into bedrooms and shooting them point blank.
Did you know there was a Christian Community in Beirut before 1985? Now, they are almost either all killed or fled from the Syrian backed Junta, and not a peep from the PEACE NAZIS, only against American forces sent to Beirut to keep peace. Why aren’t the PEACE NAZIS arguing for the return of the Christian Community back to Beirut where they lived for 2 Millennium?
Where were the PEACE NAZIS when Israel was blockaded in 1967?
Where were the PEACE NAZIS when Israel was attacked on her Holy Day of Yom Kippur in 1973?
Where were the PEACE NAZIS when the PLO was shelling Katyusha rockets into Israel in 1982?
Oh, Yeah, I remember, they were telling Israel to stop defending themselves!
In fact, there is not a single country that we ever went to war with that we stayed as the governing power for more than 10 years! We always returned it to the people.
And that brings up another point: PEACE NAZIS are NOT against war, they are against wars that the US is engaged in to overthrow pro-Communist or PRO-radical Islamic regimes or PRO-Maoist/PRO-Stalinist regimes.
My point here, is simple: These COMMIES are not for peace. If they were, they would have been screaming about Clinton killing innocents to keep his sexual scandals off the tv;
they would have been screaming for the Palestinian Liberation Organization to stop killing Jews;
they would have been screaming for Hamas and Islamic Jihad to stop killing Jews;
they would have been screaming for the Hutus and Tutsis to make peace;
they would have been screaming for that madman Saddam to stop killing Kurds or Iranians;
they would have been screaming for the Turks to stop killing Kurds or Greeks;
they would have been screaming for the Chinese to stop killing Vietnamese in 1982;
they would have been screaming for the Angolan Army to stop killing with the help of the Cuban Army in the 1980’s;
they would have been screaming for the Muslims to stop killing and beheading school age children and other Christians in Indonesia, Malaysia, and China and North Korea;
They would have been screaming for the Sudanese to stop the torture and slave trade which continues today in Darfur;
They would have been screaming when the Syrians invaded Lebanon in 1985 and have continued an occupation of Lebanon since the 1980’s;
They would have been screaming when Pol Pot started a genocide in 1975;
They would be screaming now about Mugabe killing all the white farmers in Africa in Zimbabwe;
They would have been screaming at the murders caused by the African National Congress and their necklacing of prisoners and at Winnie Mandela who was convicted of murder, yet the communists are silent;
They would have been screaming about Tiananmen Square, but they are silent;
They would have been screaming about the repression in Cuba and why so many people have chosen to flee in rickety little boats, but instead they lionize that dictator, Castro;
They would have been screaming about the invasion of South Vietnam in 1975 where the north started a genocide campaign in direct violation of the Paris Peace Accords of 1973 and caused over 2 million Vietnamese to flee in little boats that got picked up by ships like the one I was on in 1981;
They would be screaming at the Palestinians for their suicide bombings that intentionally target innocent school age children;
They would be screaming at the Palestinians for their suicide bombings that intentionally target innocent people on buses, or pizza parlors, or weddings, or wheel-chair bound invalids on cruise ships, or Olympic hotels;
They would have been screaming at the rioters in France, except Peace-Nazis do not scream when Muslims kill people or destroy things.
Except, the only time they scream is when the US is at war against a tyrant who is support by Russia or France.
In much of the world, the antics and policies of these PEACE NAZIS would result in jail – or worse. Cuba, China and many socialist countries routinely eliminate protests – and protesters – against the government and its leaders. It seems ironic that the ultimate goal of these protesters is to transform America into the kind of government that tolerates no dissent.
And since NAZI is one of the most vile insults you can give someone in our last two generations, I call them PEACE NAZIS, for they are not for peace, they are for war, they are for the overthrow of my country and into communism and anarchy, and they are a violent bunch who base their foundation on lies and the telling of lies and the repeating of lies.
I use the term “peacecreeps” which I read in a cheap Vietnam war novel years ago.
just as good. :)
Or they could take charge and make their own successful lives.
They ARE hateful... spoiled brats with power...
mark
The Left wants to make a comparison between Madison, Wisconsin and Cairo Egypt, as they indeed have, they want everyone to forget the gang rape of this country by the public employee unions and the gang rape of a CBS reporter by an Islamic mob in Cairo, Egypt last week.
Notice the drive-by media and Sodom Hussein Obama doesn’t want to talk about Lara Logan at all and their peaceful, loving Islamic Brotherhood...
For most of thyem that would be asking a bit much.
Why the hell do you want to live here if it is so horrible a place?
They have been telling us why for a century and a half by now: they want this beautiful country entirely for themselves. They love it, find it beautiful, and enjoy its prosperity --- why would you expect them to go elsewhere. It's not the lack of love for this country that moves them: it is our system of government that they do not like. They love the country --- without you and me in it.
It is also surprising to be losing virginity on the issue of of hate only now. Marx, Lenin, Stalin and Mao all advocated theories of hate. "Red terror" was the name of policy promulgated in the Soviet Union for a while. As individuals, those same people were even more hateful than their policies. So why are we discovering only now that leftists are haters?
In fact, one should also remember that Hitler was also a leftist --- a socialist that differed from the commies only in that he was a nationalists while the commies were ostensibly internationalists. Did we not notice the amount of hate that emerged from the National Socialist Workers Party and its policies?
It's beyond naive to be discovering that leftists' ideology is based on hate: they openly say so, scream at the top of their lungs, ever since mid-1800.
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