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The Truth of Mexicos Civil War with Drug Cartels
El Blog Del Narco ^ | 13 August 2010 | Candor7

Posted on 08/13/2010 12:58:50 AM PDT by Candor7

Relatively few people in the United States know of the horrible tragedies that are now being visited upon the people of Mexico by a war between drug cartels, and the government of Mexico.The US media does not report the full story, and the Government of Mexico has a press black out on much of what is happening in Mexico concerning the war between the Mexican Government, and the drug cartels who war among themselves.

To complicate matters the drug gangs often wear federal uniforms while performing assaults on their victims.

One anonymous web site operates a blog which receives posts, photographs, and videos of some of the horrors being comitted.

The person operating the site has literally blown the lid off of the press black out in Mexico, and the press non coverage in America.He is a computer security expert who exercises all of his skill to stay anonymous.It is an heroic effort. He works at the risk of his own life to get the news out to the world.

Americans should no longer remain ignorant of what is happening in Mexico, which in some areas is in the throes of a civil war.It is not much wonder that Texas Governor Rick Perry and Arizona Gvernor Jan Brewer have asked for federal support to secure the Southern border. The violence you see on this site spills over into the United States. The US federal government follows the policy that it is"business as usual", when in fact it is far from it.

Why?

The US public would become further resistant to all questions of illegal alien amnesty, once this knowledge is disseminated about what is being imported into our nation along with those who come to the US illegally from Mexico. They bring with them the cycle of violence , revenge and death, as well as gang members who fight each other incessantly.

So I draw the attention of Free Republic Members to this site, and caution that it is not for the weak of heart or those with weak stomachs.The site graphicaly portrays raw, unedited photos and videos of gun battle results, torture and execution.The site serves as a record of what is actually happening in Mexico.

If one wishes, the url page references can be entered into whatever web based translator one wishes, to have each page's text rendered into English.

May this site be of benefit to those who wish to do research into the terrible things that happen South of our border, and may the US public learn the truth.

In this way this knowledge may aid us so we may eventually secure our Southern border, and then perhaps we as a nation can be of assistance to bring this tragedy in Mexico to an end.Such violence must not be allowed to be imported into the United States.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Arizona; US: California; US: New Mexico; US: Texas
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To: zeugma
Legalize how? Pass a law. you go to Mexico, and tell them you are going to legalize it, they laugh at you,and shoot you.Same in Afghanistan.

So it will take a war far more destructive than contolling illegal drugs than to legalize it. Think this out a bit!They do not want it legal! And they are winning the war in both places. So you still have to destroy them before you legalize it.And how is that better? Can you convince Obama , for example, to destroy the traffikers and their crops.Hell, he can't even order rules of engagement that work.

There is no magic wand.

61 posted on 08/13/2010 12:21:44 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_thela_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7

Great post. In addition to everything you said, there’s also the problem of serious car accidents caused by people driving while mentally impaired by drugs.


62 posted on 08/13/2010 12:23:24 PM PDT by socialism_stinX (He didn't invent fresh brewed coffee, but he perfected the art of sipping it during tennis warm-up.)
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To: Candor7

Brigitte Gabriel has said there is a Congressional Report that says govt knows terrorists are coming over the border. Allowing this to continue increases Zero’s chances of having a big crisis that won’t go to waste.


63 posted on 08/13/2010 12:24:13 PM PDT by tutstar
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To: socialism_stinX

I agree, and add a few cell phones while driving into the mix! LOL!


64 posted on 08/13/2010 12:24:57 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_thela_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: tutstar

I’m not sure Zero is trying to create a crisis. Instead he’s not ordering the Border Patrol and National Guard to make a truly serious effort to secure the border, and that’s because he wants to trade a secure border for citizenship for a large number of illegal immigrants. It’s a negotiation with the GOP and the few centrist democrats to trade border security for more hispanic citizens who would vote overwhelmingly for democrat candidates, because democrats give more government benefits to low-income people.


65 posted on 08/13/2010 12:30:01 PM PDT by socialism_stinX (He didn't invent fresh brewed coffee, but he perfected the art of sipping it during tennis warm-up.)
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To: Candor7
Its amazing how this baraarism has been covered up until now! We just get a glosss of it.

Investigative hard journalism is dead. Think of how quickly it became un-PC to show any pics of 9-11. The press claims to be protecting our delicate sensibilities from images and stories that would traumatize us. In an age when movies and television content has become more graphic than reality.

It's bull! They censor content because they know people would demand action and the action we would demand goes against the lib/Progressive agenda.

66 posted on 08/13/2010 12:30:27 PM PDT by TigersEye (Greenhouse Theory is false. Totally debunked. "GH gases" is a non-sequitur.)
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To: tutstar

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/looming_threat_from_illegals_terror_fxLo773X6OkZJXUCLXVIXJ

Looming threat from illegals: terror
By BRIGITTE GABRIEL

Last Updated: 10:01 AM, July 30, 2010

Posted: 12:01 AM, July 30, 2010

Arizonans will be grateful for some extra help from the National Guard, starting Sunday, in protecting the border and fighting drug violence — especially now that a federal judge has blocked key parts of their recent illegal-immigration law. But there’s a more pressing border issue that goes beyond Arizona: the alliance between drug cartels and groups that aim to smuggle terrorists into our country through the Mexican border.

Last week’s detonation along the Texas-Mexico border of an Improvised Explosive Device similar to those used in Iraq and Afghanistan strongly suggests that Hezbollah is working with the drug cartels — and that America is unsafe. Law-enforcement officials and intelligence analysts believe that terrorist groups like al Qaeda have been working with such gangs as the ruthless MS-13 to smuggle terrorists into America.

Intel briefings and other sources suggest that al Qaeda spends as much as $50,000 to smuggle in a single terrorist, while Hezbollah, funded by Iran, pays as much as $10,000.

Indeed, some analysts estimate that thousands of terrorists have already been smuggled into the United States through the Mexican border since 9/11. Last year, a worker at the Mexican embassy in Beirut was caught selling visas to enter Mexico for $3,000 apiece. Hezbollah terrorists know that once they get to Mexico they can make their way here through our southern border.

A congressional report on homeland security acknowledges this threat. The report, “A Line in the Sand: Confronting the Threat at the Southwest Border,” addresses the alarming rate at which the number of aliens referred to as “other than Mexican,” or OTMs, are crossing the border. Many OTMs are nationals and terrorists from countries such as Iran, Syria, Pakistan, Chechnya, Afghanistan and Iraq.

Our biggest threat is that a nuclear, dirty or biological bomb could be smuggled by OTMs into America soon.

Hezbollah, the most sophisticated terrorist organization today, trains al Qaeda members in centers in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley before they leave for terror destinations via Syria, my sources there report. The organization manufactures IEDs in Lebanon and has perfected their use since the 1980s.

An alliance between the drug cartels and Hezbollah is a symbiotic, win-win situation for both parties. Hezbollah can share its expertise in tunnel-engineering and bomb-making with the drug cartels. The cartels can then smuggle dealers and drugs through these tunnels, several of which have been discovered in recent years, while Hezbollah smuggles terrorists and munitions to be used in terror missions in America.

Hezbollah is Iran’s proxy army and is trained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. As Iran and America head into a confrontation over Iran’s nuclear program, Iran must ensure it has sufficient operatives in America to retaliate when the time comes, and this alliance provides the means to get them here. That time is coming faster than we think.

Intelligence analysts think Hezbollah has at least 11 cells in America, including one in New York City. If provoked, perhaps via an Israeli strike, it is likely Iran will retaliate not only against Israel but against its strongest ally.

Our border-security crisis extends beyond illegal workers and employers looking for cheap labor. A suitcase bomb or biological bomb detonated in any major city in America would kill untold numbers of civilians and wreak havoc on our economy. Health care, prison housing and other costs for illegal immigrants would ultimately pale in comparison to such devastation.

Terrorists now have operational centers all over South America. They’re learning Spanish and obtaining fake Spanish papers in case they’re caught crossing over the Mexican border. The Tri-Border region of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay in South America has become a haven for international Islamic extremists. A State Department report notes that Hezbollah and other terrorist groups were using bases in Latin America to “raise millions of dollars annually via criminal enterprises.”

Americans must put politics aside and act now to secure the Mexican border. Arizona families are in need of protection from the drug violence, but we must protect the millions of Americans living in major cities who are threatened by a suitcase bomb or the like smuggled through the Mexican border.

The time for bickering is over.

Terrorism analyst Brigitte Gabriel, author of “Because They Hate,” is president of ACTforAmerica.org.


67 posted on 08/13/2010 12:32:21 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_thela_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7

I think maybe we need to go back to colonial times and punish people who send text messages while driving by putting them in the “stocks” for a day in a public place. Then anyone walking by can pelt them with a bean bag and yell out “stop texting while driving!” That would solve the problem real fast...lol.


68 posted on 08/13/2010 12:32:29 PM PDT by socialism_stinX (He didn't invent fresh brewed coffee, but he perfected the art of sipping it during tennis warm-up.)
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To: socialism_stinX

Well, I suppose it would work, if we said its a $5,000 fine, or you stand in the stocks for 8 hours!

Second offence, 10 grand or tar and feather!

LOL


69 posted on 08/13/2010 12:36:29 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_thela_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7

Isn’t it illegal for isp to censor like that?


70 posted on 08/13/2010 12:37:28 PM PDT by tutstar
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To: webheart
Obviously sarcasm, since the consumers of drugs in America are not the illegal aliens.

You would be astonished at how many illegals are incarcerated in this country on drug charges. Don't believe the media mantra that all illegals come here to work, that is BS. Many come to hang out and be criminals- and many are drug users/abusers.

Do you advocate making all drugs legal? Just curious about that because the cartels move every drug out there from prescription drugs to meth and black tar heroin. Just legalizing marijuana would simply change the product, not solve any problems.

The cartels are huge criminal enterprises and if you did legalize drugs they would concentrate on other illegal activities- they do not keep all their eggs in one basket by any means. At one time years ago legalizing marijuana might have been enough to break up the cartels but they are so powerful now and involved in so many illegal activities you would have to legalize things like murder, kidnapping,rape, human trafficing/sex slavery, etc.

71 posted on 08/13/2010 12:37:52 PM PDT by Tammy8 (~Secure the border and deport all illegals- do it now! ~ Support our Troops!~)
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To: tutstar

It depends on your service contract. Some reserve the right ti censor without any notice. Others do it anyway ebvn if its ot there. But it surely is a 1st amendment issue in a lot of cases.


72 posted on 08/13/2010 12:40:44 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_thela_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7
Impliment it, how? You got guns?

You mean, drug legalization?

It's simple. You legalize the production and consumption of mood-altering drugs with the US.

I'd use the same model that was used for repeal of Prohibition. Let the states decide how they want to participate: some may want to stick with outright prohibition, while others may want only partial legalization.

In my state, there are still "dry" counties and municipalities in which alcoholic beverages cannot be sold, and others in which it is limited to beer and wine. However, possession is legal throughout the state.

I would expect harsh penalties for selling them to minors -- just like we have for alcohol. I would also expect that current laws prohibiting public intoxication, drunk driving, etc. would be expanded to cover everything else that might cause impairment. If anything, I'd like to see those laws strengthened: if you hurt someone or cause damage while under the influence of a substance you took voluntarily, you'll be treated as if you did it intentionally.

I would also like to see laws that prohibit public assistance (welfare, medical, etc.) for people whose problems can be traced to substance abuse of any kind. I'll make an exception for assisting with treatment to beat a habit. But, if you destroy your liver or whatever, you have to live with the consequences and pay for it yourself, or find someone in the private sector that is willing to help you.

Insurance companies already treat smokers as increased risks. People that abuse mood altering drugs should be treated the same way.

Outside the US, I wouldn't do a thing. Once a stable supply is developed within the US, the problem outside the US will take care of itself: the prices will drop and the minimal profits won't be worth the risk. That's exactly what happened when Prohibition was repealed.

73 posted on 08/13/2010 12:46:35 PM PDT by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
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To: Weird Tolkienish Figure
It is beginning to be our problem, you really need to educate yourself on the border issues. Why do you think Phoenix, Arizona is ranked second in kidnapping in the world? Do you know there are already areas of the U.S. under cartel control- border areas where shipment comes through as well as parts of key distribution cities in the U.S. It is Mexico's problem today, tommorow it will be ours. As we ignore it, the cartels are getting stronger and bolder every day, in the United States.

I don't advocate us trying to solve Mexico's problem- we would have to take over the entire country and start over. We do desperately need to secure our borders and respond effectively to every cartel action in the United States and we better start ASAP or the U.S. will become like Mexico.

74 posted on 08/13/2010 1:00:07 PM PDT by Tammy8 (~Secure the border and deport all illegals- do it now! ~ Support our Troops!~)
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To: justa-hairyape
"There is absolutely no logical explanation for why we have troops stuck in Afghanistan for over 8 years, while this is going on right on our border and no US troops are even being utilized. This can only be described as the suicide of our nation..."
It is all by design, my FRiend. I would, instead of calling it suicide by our hand, label it murder by those who would seek to reduce America to the level of Mexico: Unstable, and brimming with violence and corruption.

That is what the elites seek for us. All the easier to reduce us to serfdom.

75 posted on 08/13/2010 1:04:27 PM PDT by I Buried My Guns (Novare Res!)
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To: wendy1946

“...end the “War on Drugs(TM)”. There should be no money in such business.”

Legalizing drugs will not succeed in stopping the violence and definitely not stop the flow of money.

Our government will heavily regulate the newly legalized substances and the Mexican cartels, with their personnel and smuggling infrastructure already in place, will thumb their noses at the U.S. authorities and continue to do business on a black market.

U.S. stoners are the ones driving this situation. Without customers the Cartels would have no reason to send heroin, meth, and marijuana north. Hell, Mexican Cartels have marijuana farms set up in some National Forests, essentially making them no-go areas for the people who pay for those parks. The solution? Cut-off the demand. Make it so inconvenient, so painful for people who use, and a capital crime for those who deal, and watch most of the problem evaporate.

Legalizing drugs, the route Mexico took, is not the answer, as it leads to a more convoluted situation. The Mexicans have found that out the hard way.


76 posted on 08/13/2010 1:16:19 PM PDT by SatinDoll (No Foreign Nationals as our President!)
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To: socialism_stinX
Of course he is trying to create a crisis. Why do you think that America does not know the specifics of what is being imported with illegal aliens. They bring the activities so horribly revealed by El Blog del Narco with them.DID YOU VIEW THE VIDEOS THERE?

Thats a fascist Trojan Horse, and yes, a crisis.Rick Perry and Jan Brewer already know its a crisis, why not you?

After all the plan of what Obama is doing is no secret, but it would seem that there is a kind of blindness, ( It can't happen here , we are too great mentality. WELL IT IS HAPPENING HERE ...RIGHT NOW!)

The Plan:( Now scrubbed from the Free Thinker archives, so I have to post it, it was too true and revealing so they took it down due to leftists complaints)

May 12, 2009 Barack Obama, the Quintessential Liberal Fascist

By Kyle-Anne Shiver

“They fear that the development and building of People’s (community) Organizations is the building of a vast power group which may fall prey to a fascistic demagogue who will seize leadership and control and turn an organization into a Frankenstein’s monster against democracy.” - Saul Alinsky responding to his critics, Reveille for Radicals; p. 199

When Saul Alinsky began building his community-organization movement in 1930s Chicago, observers were watching Alinsky with one eye, while with the other eye observing the building of communist and fascist movements in Europe. It wasn’t hard then to see in Alinsky’s programs at home, elements of the people’s revolution from Russia, as well as some of the same “in your face” tactics being employed by Hitler’s Brownshirts.

What Alinsky’s critics saw was the burgeoning of a national movement, the carefully manipulated construction of people’s organizations, which all had two elements in common: (1) a collectivist creed, which denied the existence of personal responsibility; and (2) an amoral dogma, in which all means were justified by an imaginary utopian end.

While most modern Americans remember well Hitler’s Holocaust and the Cold War waged by a solid U.S.S.R., many of these same Americans have swallowed some false history regarding the movements that spawned such widespread, horrendous results. In what may be regarded as the most triumphant propaganda victory of our time, fascism has been scrubbed of all its Marxist roots, while communism has been scrubbed of its millions of callous murders.

This post-WWII propaganda coup undeniably set the stage for the early Alinsky critics’ most feared eventuality, that the massive organizations could be shrewdly adopted by a fascist demagogue, someone who could “seize leadership and control” and turn them into a “Frankenstein’s monster against democracy.”

But perhaps the most cunning propaganda feat in history has been undertaken for the past 8 years. As Jonah Goldberg expertly expounds in his book, Liberal Fascism, American left-wing ideologues have managed to dissociate themselves from all the horrors of fascism with a “brilliant rhetorical maneuver.” They’ve done it by “claiming that their opponents are the fascists.”

Alinsky himself employed this method, quite deviously. Alinsky biographer, Sanford D. Horwitt provides an anecdote using precisely this diabolical tactic to deceive the people. From Horwitt’s Let Them Call Me Rebel:

“...in the spring of 1972, at Tulane University...students asked Alinsky to help plan a protest of a scheduled speech by George H. W. Bush, then U.S. representative to the United Nations - a speech likely to include a defense of the Nixon administration’s Vietnam War policies. The students told Alinsky they were thinking about picketing or disrupting Bush’s address. That’s the wrong approach, he rejoined, not very creative - and besides causing a disruption might get them thrown out of school. He told them, instead, to go to hear the speech dressed as members of the Ku Klux Klan, and whenever Bush said something in defense of the Vietnam War, they should cheer and wave placards reading, ‘The KKK supports Bush.’ And that is what they did, with very successful, attention-getting results.”

In what may eventually prove to be a devious rhetorical feat of monstrous proportions, while the left has been indulging and fostering the “Bush Is Hitler” meme, they may have just put a genuine ideological fascist heir in the White House.

There is inherent danger in making scurrilous comparisons (as were perpetrated unceasingly against George W. Bush), but there seem to be some very worrisome signs in the rise of Barack Obama that we Americans would be foolish to ignore.

Obama, the Closer

As I put forth last year in “Obama, the Closer”, Barack Obama, did not start his movement; Alinsky did.

Nor did Obama amass the organizations that propelled him. As detailed by Heidi J. Swarts, in her book, Organizing Urban America, the movement begun by Saul Alinsky in the 1930s has morphed into thousands of secular and faith-based leftist political organizations. ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) has perhaps the highest public profile, is most reputed for radicalism, and is the organization with which Barack Obama was first aligned. But ACORN is the mere tip of a veritable iceberg of Alinsky-styled community organizations that sweep across the entire United States and make up the backbone of faith-based progressive movements as well.

These euphemistically called “community” organizations have next to nothing to do with improving the communities and everything to do with politics, primarily strong-arming government money to advance their political aims. Prior to Reagan’s election, these groups worked independently for the most part, each seeking to effect local change towards leftist ends.

But with Reagan’s victory, ACORN founding member Wade Rathke sent out a memo (published by Swarts; Organizing Urban America; p. 29) that would reverberate all the way to Barack Obama’s moment. ACORN had been behaving as a sort of “Lone Ranger of the Left” for too long, wrote Rathke. Ronald Reagan had formed a coalition among the middle-class that threatened to bring greater prosperity without left-wing Statists calling the shots. Rathke put out the call to the ACORN troops to stop antagonizing those who would be allies, especially unions and church organizations, once shunned by ACORN as too placid for the real fight for power. For the next 25 years, the community organization network built, proliferated and formed a solid, nation-wide base of political strength, purely according to Alinsky’s original vision, and all just waiting for the right candidate to tap into it and lead it.

When folks from all corners of America proclaimed, seemingly with one voice, Barack is the “One we’ve been waiting for,” they were speaking out of the vast Alinsky-originated network.

Neither did Barack Obama invent the political “ideology of change,” nor design its carefully crafted propaganda. While media folks talked of the tingles up their legs and the brilliant rhetoric of Barack Obama, they were heralding the speaker only, not the creator of the movement and its slogans. That would have been Saul Alinsky, the man who took fascism and cunningly made it appear to casual observers every bit as American as apple pie.

Barack Obama is merely the movement’s closer, the quintessential liberal fascist with a teleprompter.

Alinsky’s Ideology of Change: The Third Way

Goldberg fastidiously notes the comparison between Alinsky’s “in your face” rules for radicals, studied and perfected by Barack Obama, and shows them to have profoundly fascist roots:

“...there’s no disputing that vast swaths of his (Alinsky’s) writings are indistinguishable from the fascist rhetoric of the 1920s and 1930s...His worldview is distinctly fascistic. Life is defined by war, contests of power, the imposition of will. Moreover, Alinsky shares with the fascists and pragmatists of yore a bedrock hostility to dogma. All he believes in are the desired ends of the movement, which he regards as the source of life’s meaning...But what comes through most is his unbridled love of power. Power is a good in its own right for Alinsky. Ours ‘is a world not of angels but of angles,’ he proclaims in Rules for Radicals, ‘where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles.”

Saul Alinsky was the man who transformed politics in America into all-out war mode. Alinsky’s tenth rule of the ethics of means: “You do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments.” All’s fair in love and war, and politics, to Alinsky, was war.

“A People’s (community) Organization is not a philanthropic plaything or a social service’s ameliorative gesture. It is a deep, hard-driving force, striking and cutting at the very roots of all the evils which beset the people. It thinks and acts in terms of social surgery and not cosmetic cover-ups.

A People’s Organization is dedicated to an eternal war

. A war is not an intellectual debate, and in the war against social evils there are no rules of fair play.” Saul Alinsky; Reveille for Radicals; p. 133

Alinsky includes an entire section in Rules for Radicals on “The Ideology of Change.” The watchword of the Obama campaign was “change.” Just as Hitler mobilized the masses with a calculatingly undefined demand for “change,” so did Alinsky disciple, Barack Obama.

“Everything must be different!” or “Alles muss anders sein!,” Hitler’s own campaign slogan, morphed into “Unite for Change,” and the Obama transition team’s change.gov. Even the idea of a vast “movement” was borrowed from Hitler. As Goldberg states, Hitler used the phrase, “the Movement,” more than 200 times in Mein Kampf.

The word ‘movement’ itself is instructive. Movement, unlike progress, doesn’t imply a fixed destination. Rather, it takes it as a given that any change is better.

(Goldberg; Liberal Fascism; p. 176) Perhaps the most intoxicating allure to the fascist demagogue and his movement for undefined change is its misleadingly conciliatory flavor. Barack Obama continually, throughout his campaign and even now, portrays himself as the Third Way between the cantankerous factions that have polarized America for the past 80 years, since liberal fascism took root as the Progressive Movement.

Obama claimed that Bush was too much the ideologue, that his policies were driven by the Christian right, involved “false choices” between all-out war on the one hand and diplomacy on the other, between the welfare state and cold-hearted, do-nothing conservatism, between absolute sovereignty and cowardly submission to the global community, between doing all and doing nothing. And if any of this gibberish were a true reflection of our political disagreements, Obama would be somewhat correct. But as any sentient person knows, this radical presentation of Obama’s is absolutely false. That gets lost, though, in the leader’s conciliatory tone.

What must not get lost, however, is the very real fact that this Third Way movement for change is as fascist as anything we have ever seen in the USA. As Alinsky described his own “Ideology of Change,” the lure is in the claim that the leader has no ideology that would confine his outlook to hard choices between what is moral or immoral, that there are no boundaries set by either religion or politics, that everything can change and the only thing that matters is one’s end intention to do something good.

As Hitler, before Alinsky, proclaimed, “Our program is to govern,” not delve into theory and dogma. This is in itself very appealing, especially to an electorate sick of the contentiousness of the past decade. This undefined “ideology of change” for the sake of change, for some action that will break through the roadblocks of polarization, has tremendous allure.

But Goldberg bursts that bubble:

The ‘middle way’ sounds moderate and un-radical. Its appeal is that it sounds unideological and freethinking. But philosophically the Third Way is not mere difference splitting; it is utopian and authoritarian. Its utopian aspect becomes manifest in its antagonism to the idea that politics is about trade-offs. The Third Wayer says that there are no false choices -‘I refuse to accept that X should come at the expense of Y.’ The Third Way holds that we can have capitalism and socialism, individual liberty and absolute unity. Fascist movements are implicitly utopian because they - like communist and heretical Christian movements — assume that with just the right arrangement of policies, all contradictions can be rectified. (Goldberg; Liberal Fascism; p. 130)

Of course, thinking people — when they are indeed thinking — know this is an utterly false promise. Life will never be made perfect because all human beings are imperfect.

Unity, the Diabolical Lure

What of this longed-for unity then? Barack Obama proclaimed he was leading a movement of people “united for change.” What is the appeal of unity?

The modern liberal fascist seeks that state between mother and child which exists early on before the child seeks his own independence, before mother must set herself at odds with him. It is the perfectly secure state of childhood where all is lovely and peaceful and nurturing, but cannot continue indefinitely if the child is to be prepared to face a world of difficulty and hard choices. Nevertheless, the yearning continues. It is this primordial yearning which sets itself in the crosshairs of the fascist demagogue.

But in adult life, this type of unity is anything but desirable, anything but virtuous. As Goldberg states, however, “elevation of unity as the highest social value is a core tenet of fascism and all leftist ideologies.”

The allure of this mystical unity is so great that its demand to sacrifice reason and thought on the false altar of infantile security is seemingly lost to many. But as Goldberg also reminds us, “unity is, at best, morally neutral and often a source of irrationality and groupthink.”

Rampaging mobs are unified. The Mafia is unified. Marauding barbarians bent on rape and pillage are unified. Meanwhile, civilized people have disagreements, and small-d democrats have arguments. Classical liberalism is based on this fundamental insight, which is why fascism was always anti-liberal.

Liberalism rejected the idea that unity is more valuable than individuality. For fascists and other leftists, meaning and authenticity are found in collective enterprises - of class, nation, or race - and the state is there to enforce that meaning on everyone without the hindrance of debate. (Goldberg; Liberal Fascism; p. 172)

Just as the healthy relationship between parent and developing child demands friction, so does the healthy relationship between truly liberal citizens. Unity is the siren song of tyranny, not the call to genuine progress.

Fascism: The Two Birds with One Stone Approach

I think of Obama’s liberal fascism as a cancer that attempts to kill the two birds of American exceptionalism with one stone. It is a deviously appealing Third Way that in the end, if allowed to triumph completely, kills both individual liberty and Judeo/Christian religion with its single stone.

And, indeed this was the precise goal of Adolph Hitler. Unlike the outspoken hatred of private property and religion espoused by communists under Lenin and Stalin, Hitler preferred the more moderate-seeming incremental takeover of private enterprise in the interest of the “common good,” and the slow-death of Judeo/Christian religion by chipping away at it and replacing the people’s dependence upon God gradually with reliance on the state (Hitler).

[Note: Hitler’s Holocaust was based on the Progressive Eugenics principles set forth by Social Darwinist scientists and social engineers of the 1920s, widely accepted both in Europe and in the United States. Religion was not at the core of the Holocaust; race was. However, Hitler’s other chief aim was to destroy the Judeo/Christian religions, which he believed had ruined the Germanic race’s world predominance.]

Of course, as the German people were duped into giving Hitler totalitarian powers to work his magic “change,” he took off the kid gloves and accelerated the program.

In the end, however slow the process, however seemingly benign the growth of the state may seem, liberal fascism has the same result of all tyrannies before it: hell on earth for most and a self-indulgent feast for the Statists in power.

As Barack Obama speaks, thinking Americans ought to hear the echoes of past fascist demagogues and remember. Remember.

When Barack Obama promises “collective redemption” through his profligate spending programs and vast overtures to a new world order built on love for our fellow man, we ought to shudder not swoon.

We ought to remember that healthy global relationships are built upon respect, not all-encompassing love, and that redemption for one’s soul is a commodity the state is not empowered to offer.

As Pope Benedict XVI has so presciently warned:

Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes, not divine, but demonic.

Be not fooled, America. The movement, which appears most benign is instead the most malignant growth ever seen on our soil. It’s a cancer that will kill, and however slowly it grows or however nice it may look on the surface, doesn’t change a thing.

Kyle-Anne Shiver is a frequent contributor to American Thinker. She welcomes your comments at kyleanneshiver@gmail.com.

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77 posted on 08/13/2010 1:19:58 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_thela_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: wendy1946

“There should be no money in such business.”
The only way that’s going to happen is when there are no people in the business/s;)

Are the drugs produced in Mexico itself or are they being funneled through Mexico from South America? The US Army should be able to identify and destroy farms and production facilities, and if the Mexicans object, too bad. Where’s Gen. Pershing when you need him?;)


78 posted on 08/13/2010 1:20:42 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: SatinDoll
Legalizing drugs will not succeed in stopping the violence and definitely not stop the flow of money.

U.S. stoners are the ones driving this situation. Without customers the Cartels would have no reason to send heroin, meth, and marijuana north.

Either drug money supports the drug cartels or it doesn't. Two opposite premises cannot describe reality.

79 posted on 08/13/2010 1:31:38 PM PDT by TigersEye (Greenhouse Theory is false. Totally debunked. "GH gases" is a non-sequitur.)
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To: TigersEye

We are definitely going against the liberal/leftist agenda. Its had a huge effect on the pretenders approval rating! SUCCESS is SO sweet! LOL.


80 posted on 08/13/2010 1:34:48 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_thela_quintessentia_1.html)
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