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Obama’s National Police

Posted by Deo Vindice in July 16th 2008  

Barack Hussein Obama made a call for a National Police force. To do what? There are cops at the Federal, State and local levels for everything. For what crime is there no cop? No law, or prosecuting attorney, jury and judge?

Pity that the MSM - from the journalists traveling with Obama to the nightly anchors to the roundtable talkers - lost their curiosity. Or, maybe it was just their integrity. And, whatever intellectual honesty they had. The MSM should be asking these kinds of questions:

Where in the Constitution is a National Police Force within the power of Federal government?

What would the National Police Force do? Be specific.

Name their jurisdiction. Their powers? Deadly force? Their organization, training, equipment, leadership,doctrine and budget? Retirement and health care plans?

Has some federal agency failed to do their duty? Name them.

How would it not be a jobs program like TSA at the airports?

This is a very serious proposal. A huge shift in American government. Or, it would be serious if the proposal came from a serious candidate. Someone qualified to be President of the United States of America. Someone with something on their resume besides community organizer (read city hall hustler in Chicago) and politician with no legislative achievements.

A National Police Force would be dissected in detail - no stone unturned - if the proposal came from a Republican or a serious Democrat - not an inflatable political figure.

In the same vein of national employment with make-work programs, Barack Hussein Obama wants to double (or was it triple) the Teacher Corps greatly expand the Americorps programs. Socialism isn’t dead yet.

Cong. Rob Wittman (1 CD-VA) voted for $6.2 billion for these old New Deal/Great Society/Clintonian socialist spending. He voted against the President and the Republican Party to waste this money for more made up stuff - not supported by our Constitution. If Barack Hussein Obama is elected and increases the spending so much - as promised - will Rob vote for it again with a National Police Force?

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Not Southern History Month

Posted by Deo Vindice in July 16th 2008  

It’s not Southern History Month, but I ran across something fun reading “Imperial Grunts” by Robert D. Kaplan - a good Massachusetts man.

He is writing about a National Guard Special Forces unit in Afghanistan:

“In fact they constituted something closely related (to the ultimate patriots):the great southern military tradition that produced the gleaming officer corps of the Confederacy, without which the nation would not have been able to fight its later wars quite as well as it had.”

and the South’s “un-policed frontier bred a violent mix of romance and individualism, with its “ultimate incarnation” the Confederate soldier, who became every southern schoolboy’s “hero-ideal.”

So, another person writes about the difference culture makes. Culture commands. And, Southron culture is unique.

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What the Koran Really Says

Posted by Deo Vindice in July 15th 2008  

“What the Koran Really Says” by Ibn Warraq is a scholarly analysis of the Koran. Its the same kind of scrutiny that the Bible and the Torah have had. It’s a tedious read, but a tremendous opportunity to learn about the origins of the Koran.

I’ve read the Koran and the Hadditha, as well as a lot of history. But, this book illuminated in great detail things I wouldn’t know, because I don’t read Arabic.

One version of the Koran was written in the last eight years of Mohammed’s life. That Koran and all copies for the next 150 years were lost or destroyed. Apparently, there are two significant edits that put together the Koran that is the ‘classic’ version.

One of the editors was probably a Syriac-dialect speaker. Otherwise, too many passages are gibberish. Like the one that promises martyrs in jihad the “doe-eyed virgins” doesn’t make any sense - unless you use the Syriac translation which gives martyrs “white raisins, clear like crystal.” That’s funny. All the young boys who die for Allah get raisins, not girls.

Furthermore, the last editing borrowed significantly from the 7th Century Jews and the Nestorian and Monophysite Christians. There are still plenty of ideas from the culture of the pagan Arab tribes - that go back to Baal, Asheroth, and the Moon God of Ur.

Borrowing from Judeo-Christian thought doesn’t make Islam and Muslims like the Jews and Christians. The milieu “in which much of the Koran took shape was strongly Christian,” but that doesn’t make the Koran, or Islam, the same inheritance. Any truth that was borrowed was mixed with falsehoods for very different ends on earth. Islam is the bloody religion of man, not God. Like its pagan ancestors.

The Koran was put together from scraps of paper with writing on both sides to produce oddities in continuity and errors. It was the first full Arabic book. There was absolutely no literary tradition before it. None. It was dictated - Mohammed was illiterate - to give a complete structure to other illiterate Arab tribesmen. It had to be fixed up to serve greater audiences after the first century of Muslim conquests.

The modest military gains of Mohammed multiplied greatly beyond the imagination or the power of the ideas propelling the tribes. Sustaining the conquered, as well as the conqueror, with a complete order to rule of the realm - spiritual, legal, economic, military - all aspects of government and religion was needed to provide a common Muslim identity and rule.

Read the Koran and the Hadditha. You will wonder why anyone ever takes Muslims seriously - except for their penchant for violence. Islam can’t compete in the marketplace of ideas. It must suppress study and criticism to survive. Which is precisely why the exercise of 1st Amendment freedom of religious speech must be worked frequently and well in the coming decades - or centuries - of conflict.

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Silly Season Is Over

Posted by Deo Vindice in July 14th 2008  

The General Assembly has gone home. The follies are done until January 2009.

Now, the silly season needs to be replaced by the serious, yet joyful, task of electing Jim Gilmore Governor of Virginia. The other races will play themselves out. Gilmore’s is an uphill climb. But worth the effort.

The transportation special session brought ‘No Car Tax’ back to many MSM writers. Their view is uninformed by any understanding of economics, so their words are as full of bile as they are ignorance.

The Liberals/MSM/Democrats talk about bursting the budget with the reduction in personal property taxes. They don’t get it.

When you take money (formerly $900k) out of the pockets of local cities and counties, the money stays with Virginia’s families. The money makes money. It creates jobs. It gives more opportunities for personal choices - because folks have a bit more money to make their decisions.

The cities and counties get reimbursed by the General Fund from the Treasury in Richmond.

The state government spends less (starting with $900k) - except in the years revenue was rising, the state government still spend more. When you had a down turn in 00-01, tightening the belt on growth - to very little - isn’t a catastrophe, tragedy, end of the world, etc. Raising taxes, as they did in 04, isn’t the answer. It just produced a surplus. The General Assembly spent it.

Gilmore should be our U.S. Senator, for no other reason - even though there are plenty, than his basic understanding of economics and the power of tax cuts. For the People.

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Tony Snow, RIP

Posted by Deo Vindice in July 13th 2008  

Another commentator I felt I knew from how his personhood came through the pictures and the microphone. Like Tim Russert.

A man of some magnificent qualities. Great opportunities and significant accomplishments. A man I never met.

It will be easy to compare the postmortems for Russert, Snow and Senator Jesse Helms since they follow each other so closely.

De mortuis nil nisi bonum.

The Liberals can’t follow this wisdom. I’m sure if someone odious and evil enough, like Fidel Castro, died, I wouldn’t be wise and gracious either. Unfortunately, too many Liberals find almost all Conservatives, even mushy Moderates, so odious and evil that they almost always fail to show any class, let alone grace.

Still we might consider for a second the relative loss the Nation of a leader of the Conservative movement and in the Senate, the moderator of a very important political talk show, and the former press secretary to the President of the United States and former moderator of a political talk show - and radio personality, etc. Which counts more for America? Which will get more ink and air time? Which will suffer no slings and arrows in death? Why?

It’s time to grieve with family and friends of Tony Snow - who knew him, loved him and will really miss him. Tony Snow gave it a good fight.

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The Road Taken

Posted by Deo Vindice in July 12th 2008  

Home from first week on new job with same old Mother Corporation. Pretty jazzed about the new work. It will fully use my education and experience on subjects that are very interesting to me in National Defense.

While in NoVa I got to see someone’s notion of the shadow cabinets of both Presidential candidates. Interesting to see a few names on each list I know or have met.

Makes me think about the road taken. Robert Frost pondered the roads in the fork of life before committing to one or the other. I look over to my higher and lower ground from 40 years since I stepped off the side of the world at West Point. It’s interesting to see what choices and chances made the differences in paths. It’s just as interesting to see, how after enough time passes, there is no walking over to the other paths - even though you can see them.

I think I could stay with this new work for quite some time - if it goes like it suggests it will. I might be less anxious to retire as soon as I can and write, write, write, read, write. We’ll see.

At home I read the local Daily Press (our hometown Stalinist organ) fuss about the Virginia General Assembly’s special session on transportation - the road taken by our Virginia politicians. The MSM ask what are the effects of doing nothing. They fail to ask what the effects of doing something WRONG are. Since 1998 they have failed to calculate the price of doing something wrong.

The Republican Party gets to calculate the cost in elections. I’m grateful the House stripped out the taxes. But, I don’t see a victory here in HB 6055. I suspect the voters won’t either. Yet, they’ll be less upset than if the Republicans had raised taxes again.

Tomorrow is another fork in the road. For each of us. For our families. For our communities, Commonwealth and Nation.

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HB 6055 Dies, Thank You Democrats

Posted by Deo Vindice in July 10th 2008  

Looks like - I haven’t seen the roll call yet - the Democrats killed HB 6055. Thanks, guys.

The new, stripped down HB 6055 that passed the House didn’t fix the plan for HR/Tidewater and it left the MPO in charge of what —- $120m a year?

Del. Bob Marshall’s amendments were great. But, they weren’t enough to fix Frankenstein Jr. The Democrats did all Virginians a favor by killing that bad bill.

It’s just unfortunate that no member of the General Assembly had the leadership to propose - and pass - a bill that funded the top 2 or 3 priorities for HR/Tidewater with existing funds, tolls, and bonds.

Look forward to going home tomorrow and reading all about the happy end of the special transportation session.

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Few Words

Posted by Deo Vindice in July 9th 2008  

I’m on travel to NoVa and I’m tired.

Here are a few words that describe some basic concepts about how the world goes round.

Demographics are destiny.

Culture commands.

Individual human beings matter and use free will to make changes.

Ideas motivate human beings.

Talk among yourselves.

Best.

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Party Leadership

Posted by Deo Vindice in July 8th 2008  

Tom Foley, my turtle as Chairman 1 CD, wrote a letter for the 1 CD to our Republican Caucus. It encourages the elected Republicans to vote against tax increases, solve transportation problems and kill HB 6055.

Hooah. Good job, Thomas.

It is a time of choosing. For Republicans who are elected public officials and party officials.

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Virginia Republican Transportation Tax Stra-teg-ery

Posted by Deo Vindice in July 7th 2008  

The stra-teg-ery for HB 6055 is stunning. ]

The Republicans are going to swap out the HRTA as the hated unelected, unaccountable, unseparated powers, UN-CONSTITUTIONAL Regional Government - and insert the MPO. That will fool the voters. Uh-huh. Check out this old list to see who is on what. “Hey, Rube, Follow the shells closely as I move them around. If you find the pea, then you win - new taxes, higher taxes. Billions of dollars for these folks to hand out (some good guys on this list, but they will be in the minority) in contracts for major projects - civil engineering management - they have NEVER done!”

Name HRMPO HRPDC HRTA Position Affiliation
Burgess,Jr. Charles MPO* HRPDC* City Manager Poquoson
Blevins, Harry HRTA Senator GA
Bridges, Jerry A. MPO Ex Director Va. Port Authority
Burdette, Randall P. MPO Director Va. Dept Aviation
Clark, Stan MPO* HRPDC* HRTA* Chair, BOS, Isle of Wight County
Collins, Nancy K. MPO * (Sec) HRPDC* HRTA Interim Ex Dir/Secretary HRPDC
Cuffee-Glenn, Selina MPO* HRPDC* City Manager Suffolk
Fraim, Paul MPO * (Chair) HRPDC * (Chair) HRTA * (Chair) Mayor Norfolk
Frank, Joe MPO* HRDC* HRTA * (V/Chair) Mayor Newport News
Franklin, Tyrone W. MPO* HRPDC* Administrator Surrey County
Gilland, Randall MPO* HRPDC* Vice Mayor Hampton
Goodson, Bruce MPO* (V/Chair) HRPDC* (V/Chair) HRTA Chair, BOS,James City County
Hayes, Jr., Clifton MPO* HRDC HRTA City Council Chesapeake
Helsel, Jr., Gordon HRTA* Mayor Poquoson
Heuer, Dennis MPO* HRTA Administrator VDOT, HR District
Hill, Corey HRTA Chief Va. Dept Rail/Pub Trans
Holley, III, James HRTA Mayor Portsmouth
Johnson, Linda HRTA* Mayor Suffolk
Johnson, Michael W HRDC* Administrator Southampton County
Jones, Louis MPO* HRDC* HRTA (Sec/Treas) Vice Mayor Virginia Beach
Jones, Chris HRTA Delegate GA
Kearney, II, Ross A. , HRDC HRTA* Mayor Hampton
Martinez, Roberto Fonseca MPO Div. Administrator Fed Hwy Admin, US DOT
McReynolds, James MPO* HRDC * (Sec/Treas) Administrator York County
Page, Terry MPO Manager Fed Aviation Admin
Ramsey, Lane MPO* HRDC Interim Administrator Glouster County
Richards, Mark MPO* Ex. Director Wsbg. Area Transport
Sapp, Charles HRTA City Council Hampton
Shepperd, Jr., Thomas HRTA* Chair, Bd of Sup York County
Smith, Douglas MPO* HRDC* City Council Portsmouth
Taylor, Rowland L. HRDC City Manager Franklin
Thompson, Letitia A. MPO Transit Administrator Fed Transit Administion
Townes, Michael MPO* Pres/CEO Trans Dist Comm HR
Tuttle, II, Jackson MPO HRDC* City Manager Williamsburg
Zeidler, Jeanne HRTA* Mayor Williamsburg

I can’t vote for a single person on this MPO list. None of them run for an office with a ballot for “MPO Grand Pooh Bah of Transportation”. None.

Guess how many seats this will cost the Republicans in Hampton Roads/Tidewater? Two were lost from the House of Delegates in 2007.

A fellow at the 7-11, when informed of this latest scheme, said, “I hope they vote out all the Republicans who vote for this.” Then, he started to ask for names of who was for and against it.

Message to the GOP Caucus: HB 6055 may be more hazardous to your health than HB 3202. Heads up.

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Happy Glorious 4th

Posted by Deo Vindice in July 4th 2008  

Quiet home day as my wife continues to recover from surgery. Here the pop of fireworks day and night round about. Not like the crunching sound mortars and artillery make. Kind and generous friends of my wife’s brought plenty of too good things to eat. Thanks so much. Her sister went back to Georgia after helping my daughter and babies out for a week. Thanks so much.

I’ve read the excellent posts of so many Virginia Conservatives. Interesting how many point back to the original Declaration of Independence to encourage folks to read the words - and understand. I can’t contribute anything to the wisdom of the words that established who we are as America and why. I offer some context to consider for what the words might mean for as long as we draw breath. And for our children. And their children and on.

We, Americans, weren’t the first people to establish the Rule of Law, and The People, as Sovereign of the State. The United Kingdom of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland established the Rule of Law with Parliament as the Sovereign. The king became the sovereign in parliament. Three rulers who thought they were absolute sovereigns were deposed in the 17th Century - one king was executed. Regicide is serious business. The English Civil War is bloody testimony to it all.

If you don’t know about the English Civil War, then you don’t understand what our American Revolution was about. You really don’t comprehend the issues.

The American Revolution isn’t called ‘Another English Civil War’, which it was, because the revolt succeeded. It wasn’t about taxes. It was about who had the right to tax. The rights of Englishmen.
The hard won rights of Englishmen won in the previous century.

Our Declaration of Independence went a step further and established the United States of America as
a Nation were the Individual is the Sovereign. Not parliament or any government. The Individual.

The two constitutions that followed are the framework of government. GOTUS. The second and current Constitution included a specific enumeration of individual rights and state rights the federal government could not diminish.

Sadly, though the current Constitution is badly damaged with abuse. It’s still the best framework for government for the U.S.A. It’s still a genius work for governing America - if only it were fully in force as the Founders wrote it and as amended.

The American Civil War was our second civil war. It was about the rights of states, not the issues where states conflicted. Since the South lost, it’s called a civil war instead of a revolution.

Now, we are engaged in a political, not shooting, civil war. It is the Great U.S. Culture War. It opened in the early 60s in earnest and is approaching 50 years of KulturKampf. This civil war is about which culture shall be the consensus culture for our civilization, our nation, and our government. The winner defines who we are. Much as the English Civil War defined the biggest issues - the ones worth fighting about - in 1776 America.

The contenders are the Liberals, representing Human Secularism, and the Conservatives, Judeo-Christianity. You are in the front lines in your daily life.

I look forward to the Conservative victory in this ACW III. I don’ t know when it will be. But, I’m confident we will win.

When the Conservatives win, the world will win. Because Western Civilization will be saved. Even if all goes dark under Muslim rule in Europe, Western Civilization will be saved in American Civilization. And Americans will ultimately win the long, long, long World War Against Islamists.

There are many more Glorious 4ths to come.

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Part of the Answer for Transportation

Posted by Deo Vindice in July 4th 2008  

Delegate Bob Marshall provides some information about good bills the Republicans could pass AND NOT RAISE TAXES. These are from an email he sent:

“HJR 6007: Lock up the Transportation Trust Fund so transportation dollars are
not diverted for other means. Over the last18 years, more than $1.2 billion
have been diverted to non-transportation uses. This must stop.

HB 6030: Fund major transportation projects using bonds paid by tolls or rider
fares; i.e., Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel expansion, I-81 truck improvements
(trucks pay tolls), the Tri-County (Prince William-Fairfax-Loudoun) Connector,
expansion of commuter rail in Northern Virginia to Haymarket, buying more Metro
subway rail cars, etc.

HB 6049: Allow naming rights for corporations and individuals willing to pay for
building roads and other transportation projects, as is done for stadiums and
school buildings.

Implement the 2002 Wilder Commission efficiency recommendations that were
projected to currently save $1.1 billion annually without reducing services.

HB 6031: Require all tractor-trailers (including those from out of state) to pay
a per-mile road maintenance and damage charge now being passed on to other
Virginia drivers.

HB 6032: Set up a permanent state oversight commission, similar to the federal
cost-cutting BRAC Commission, to evaluate whether state holdings should be sold,
to identify duplicate programs, and to cut unnecessary overhead while
maintaining the same level of services.

HJR 6011: Stop burning food! Request a waiver from the federal ethanol mandate.
Ethanol results in less mpg and increases food prices by diverting food to fuel.

HJR 6008: Assess methane resources now being wasted in Virginia that could be
converted to fuel for cars/trucks.

Sadly, these and similar measures have been sent by Speaker Bill Howell to his
Rules Committee, where he is simply sitting on them. The result will be
Democrat or Republican tax increases. Let your elected officials hear from you.

To find out how to contact your state delegate and senator (or learn who they
are) go to:
http://conview.state.va.us/whosmy.nsf/main?openform

See http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?083+com+H20N01 for all bills
referred to the House Rules committee for the special transportation session. “

Thanks, Bob Marshall.

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A View From Europe on Islamic Conquest

Posted by Deo Vindice in July 4th 2008  

From the Gates of Vienna website:
Future Scenarios for Europe
by The Observer

A scenario that has been widely debated over the last decades is a possible Muslim takeover of Europe within the next 30-40 years. It has become somewhat of an academic puzzle for the politically correct elites, a question that must be discussed, but not taken too literally. After all, according to this elite, the Muslims will eventually integrate into our societies, provided we treat them properly and give them enough time. They are simply Europeans with another color and cultural background. Nothing to really worry about.

For others with a more highly developed sense of survival instinct, this scenario is the cause of grave concern. It’s simply a problem that has to be dealt with, whether we like it or not, and the fact that we’re starting to shed light on it, is a sign that we’re willing to do so. The first step of solving a problem is to admit that we actually have one.

But there’s one scenario that hasn’t been debated to nearly the same extent, and that is how this eventual transformation from a Christian to an Islamic continent will manifest itself.

Will it be a violent clash between the two cultures that will leave the continent in ruins?

Will western Europe resemble war torn Chechnya after the final battles have been fought?

Or will it be a peaceful takeover, where the Europeans simply concede defeat and succumb to the stronger and much more aggressive tactics of the newcomers?

Or will the Europeans rise up to this challenge and resist the onslaught from the invading Muslims, and eventually win this fight?

I believe there are six possible outcomes to this crisis:
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1. The Muslims will win by sticking to democratic principles. Peaceful victory.
2. The Muslims will win by undemocratic principles. Terror campaigns and intimidation.
3. The native populations of Europe will revolt and defeat the Muslims. A revolt.
4. Major terrorist attacks will cause the governments in Europe to reconsider their position on Muslim immigration, and start the deportations of Muslims on a grand scale.
5. A coexistence between the two cultures, where both groups are given an equal status. Not a very likely scenario.
6. An uneasy status quo, where immigration is curbed, and the Muslims will forever be a minority.

At the present time alternative #1 looks to be the most likely outcome, but of course things could change in a heartbeat. If there’s one thing that history has taught us, it is that rapid change is the norm rather than the exception.

There’s no question that the liberal laws of the present European governments work in the Muslims’ favor. All they have to do is sit back, act in accordance with the democratic principles in the societies they reside in, and high birthrates and the open border policies of the West will make them a majority within the next couple of generations.

All they need to do is blend in and seize control when they’re strong enough to do so.

But of course, there are several factors that need to be brought into the equation. Political views that are considered the norm today can easily be discarded for more radical and pragmatic ideas in the future. We’ve witnessed liberal European governments introduce very tough immigration and asylum laws, and others could follow suit.

So let’s assume that things stay the way they are for the next thirty years. Let’s assume that the European governments decide to introduce tougher anti-discrimination laws, and clamp down on what they view as anti-Muslim sentiments. Let’s also assume that they start persecuting people with opposing views on this issue. The immigration would then continue, and quite possibly accelerate, making it next to impossible to prevent Muslims from becoming a majority in Europe.

If this scenario were to take place, the question one would have to ask is: what kind of society would rise up from the ashes? Would we get a moderate form of Euro-Islam, like the proponents of the multicultural society hope for, where a relatively moderate Muslim population would accept and tolerate other religions and values? Or would they, with or without democratic means, decide to introduce an Islamic caliphate, where Sharia law takes superiority over existing criminal laws?

Like many other people, I see the term Euro-Islam simply as a smokescreen that the elites use as a means to try to pacify the native populations of Europe.

Let’s face it, Muslims believe in the writings of the Holy Koran, and not in any utopian illusions that some non-believing bureaucrats in Europe may hold. It is my opinion that the Muslims would use our undying belief in democracy against us if it came down to it, and simply point out the obvious, which would be, that they won the referendum fair and square and they’re going to introduce the Islamic caliphate whether we like it or not. And technically this would be within the boundaries of accepted democratic rules. What the majority decides, goes. The native Europeans would then have to decide whether to accept this new regime or not.

Alternative #2 is also a likely outcome. We’ve seen the emergence of radical Muslim elements in our societies that are advocating such a solution. We’ve had several devastating terrorist attacks within the last few years that has have made us reconsider our beliefs that we live in free and open democratic societies.

These attacks along with other forms of intimidation have already eroded some of our freedoms. We think twice about criticizing Islam in public, and we refrain from publishing any drawings that could be deemed offensive to the Muslim community. There is no question in my mind that the results of the scare tactics are viewed as small victories among radical Muslims, and only make them more determined to push forward with their plans for overthrowing our democratic societies.

It doesn’t take that much effort to subjugate the masses. And a small group of highly dedicated and trained individuals could easily wreak havoc in our societies if they so choose. If ordinary people feel that they’re putting their lives on the line just by venturing down to the local supermarket or by simply hopping on the tube to go to work, we’ve entered a very critical phase.

If we end up with a spiral of violence in Europe on a similar magnitude of, let’s say, South Africa, where crime is a very real part of everyday life, we’ve passed a point of no return. How long could we survive in such a violent environment? The next natural progression would be a situation similar to the one we have in parts of Iraq, a total breakdown of law and order. If the governments should prove unsuccessful in weeding out the insurgents in such an environment, which is the most likely scenario? Would it be that unheard of for them to try an negotiate a truce? European politicians have been keen advocates of “land for peace” deals in other parts of the world. Would they consider such an option in Europe if the result would be a cessation of hostilities?

The third possible scenario would be the creation of armed European resistance groups. This is very plausible option. We’ve seen such groups operate in Europe before, both during and after the Second World War. If people feel they’re being pushed too far, they’ll eventually start to push back. In the novel Hvitvasking (Money laundry) by Tom Kristiensen (Norwegian author), a clandestine group of Norwegian patriots plans to rid Norway of third-world immigrants. The methods they rely upon are similar to those the terrorists use in present-day Iraq, a war of intimidation and scare tactics. They try to create an environment so hostile and dangerous that the immigrants themselves choose to leave the country.

I believe this would be the tactic of choice adopted by such resistance groups. It has proven highly successful in other parts of the world, such as Iraq and Sudan, just to mention a few. It is very hard to fight such unconventional guerrilla groups, mostly because they can hide amongst the civilian population after they’ve carried out their attacks. It would also be very easy for them to identify members of the Muslim population, but equally difficult for the Muslims and the authorities to identify members of these resistance groups, simply because the members of these groups share the same ethnicity as the majority population in Europe. I am of the opinion that everyone sooner or later will succumb to these scare tactics. Just as the native European population are intimidated by radical Muslims at the present time, Muslims would be equally intimidated by Europeans if they were targeted in a similar way. It would be a totally new experience for them.

The fourth possible scenario is one where terrorist attacks just become too frequent and the loss of lives too hard to tolerate, or that the elite themselves are being targeted by the terrorists. If we get frequent terrorist attacks on the same scale as 9/11 or even bigger, say the partial or total destruction of some of our major cities, it would next to impossible for European governments not to introduce radical measures to rid themselves of this threat. If the number of terrorist attack victims reach into the tens of thousands, or possibly even hundreds of thousands, they would have to act. It is not unthinkable that mass deportation of Muslims then would take place, and that the creation of detention camps like the one at Guantanamo Bay would go ahead.

If, on the other hand, after incidents like these, some politicians still wouldn’t act, something that’s very unlikely, it would still create an ambiance where more radical and pragmatic politicians would win landslide elections, and the execution of these plans would go ahead. I think ordinary people’s survival instinct would override any other human instincts, including any utopian reference to human rights and religious freedom.

A fifth scenario is a peaceful or hostile coexistence between the two cultures. Where both are granted equal status, and where segregation, both cultural and demographic, only increases. It would be a continuation of today’s status quo. This is not a very plausible scenario, because both cultures have shown their unwillingness to live under such unnatural conditions. Sooner or later one of the cultures would resort to undemocratic methods to exert their will over the other.

The sixth scenario is one where the governments of Europe finally see the dangers of the influx of immigrants, and ban immigration from third world countries altogether, but allow the ones that are already here to stay. This could be the outcome if the people in Europe elect radical right-wing politicians to office. As described above, they introduce tough new measures to stop the rapid growth of immigrants in Europe. Maybe they would go as far as introducing a one-child policy for all third-world immigrants, or resort to other economic sanctions to achieve this goal. They could possibly even ban Islam altogether in Europe, or at least ban the radical approach to the religion that the Islamists follow.

This would then lead to a situation where Europe forever would have an ethnic minority within its borders, a continuation of the present day situation. The Muslims living in Europe could then of course choose to either sever all ties to their native countries and perhaps reform their religion, or still choose to cling on to their old culture and strive to change the system to their advantage.

No matter what happens to this continent, whether a full scale war breaks out or not, it’s going to get very nasty. I believe that a rapid deterioration will first occur in one nation, and then others will follow in its track, or chose to introduce countermeasures to prevent a similar fate. It is naïve to expect that an atmosphere of tranquil coexistence is going to last forever here in Europe.

War and hostilities have been the norm here, and not the exception. That’s probably also how it’s going to be in the future.

Baron Bodissey

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Why the UK Deserves to Die

Posted by Deo Vindice in July 3rd 2008  

A few years ago I wrote an Op-Ed “Why Europe Deserves to Die”. http://americancivilization.net/articles/2005/Why_Europe_Deserves_
To_Die.pdf

Some Liberal web sites went nuts about what I wrote. Now see what is happening in the UK:

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From the UK’s Daily Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1031611/Sharia-law-SHOULD-used-Britain-says
-UKs-judge.html)

Sharia law SHOULD be used in Britain, says UK’s top judge

By Steve Doughty

The most senior judge in England yesterday gave his blessing to the use of sharia law to resolve disputes among Muslims.

Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips said that Islamic legal principles could be employed to deal with family and marital arguments and to regulate finance.

He declared: ‘Those entering into a contractual agreement can agree that the agreement shall be governed by a law other than English law.’

In his speech at an East London mosque, Lord Phillips signalled approval of sharia principles as long as punishments - and divorce rulings - complied with the law of the land.

But his remarks, which back the informal sharia courts operated by numerous mosques, provoked a barrage of criticism.

Lawyers warned that family and marital disputes settled by sharia could disadvantage women or the vulnerable.

Tories said that legal equality must be respected and that rulings incompatible with English law should never be enforceable.

Lord Phillips spoke five months after Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams suggested Islamic law could govern marital law, financial transactions and arbitration in disputes.

The Lord Chief Justice said yesterday of the Archbishop’s views: ‘It was not very radical to advocate embracing sharia law in the context of family disputes’.

He added there is ‘widespread misunderstanding as to the nature of sharia law’.

Lord Phillips said: ‘Those who are in dispute are free to subject it to mediation or to agree that it shall be resolved by a chosen arbitrator. There is no reason why principles of sharia law or any other religious code should not be the basis for mediation or other forms of dispute resolution.’

Lord Phillips said that any sanctions must be ‘drawn from the laws of England and Wales’. Severe physical punishment - he mentioned stoning, flogging or amputating hands - is ‘out of the question’ in Britain, he added.

Lord Phillips’ speech brought protests from lawyers who fear women could be disadvantaged in supposedly voluntary sharia deals.

Barrister and human rights specialist John Cooper said: ‘There should be one law by which everyone is held to account.

‘Well-crafted laws in this country, drawn up to protect both parties including the weak and vulnerable party in matrimonial break-ups, could be compromised.’

Resolution, the organisation of family law solicitors, said people should govern their lives in accordance with religious principles ‘provided that those beliefs and traditions do not contradict the fundamental principle of equality on which Britain’s laws are based.’

Spokesman Teresa Richardson said religious law ‘must be used to find solutions which are consistent with the basic principles of family law in this country and people must always have redress to the civil courts where they so choose.’

Robert Whelan, of the Civitas think tank, said: ‘Everybody is governed by English law and it is not possible to sign away your legal rights. That is why guarantees on consumer products always have to tell customers their statutory rights are not affected.

‘There is not much doubt that in traditional Islamic communities women do not enjoy the freedoms that they have had for 100 years or more in Britain.

‘It is very easy to put pressure on young women in a male-dominated household. The English law stands to protect people from intimidation in such circumstances.’

Shadow Home Secretary Dominic Grieve said: ‘Mediation verdicts which are incompatible with our own legal principles should never be enforceable. One of the key aspects of our free society is equality. This should be understood and respected by all.’

The Ministry of Justice said: ‘English law takes precedence over any other legal system. The Government has no intention of changing this position. Alongside this, it is possible to resolve civil law dispute by other systems.’ “
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Seriously, if the UK goes this way, they deserve for their culture and country to die. Maybe that is why about 200,000 European Britons emigrate every year - to get out while they can. This Century is going to be as awful as the last one for terrible wars - unless the Europeans come back to Christ - and soon. Even then, there may be terrible conflicts with the Muslims.

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Regional Government Isn’t Needed When a Commission Will Do

Posted by Deo Vindice in July 3rd 2008  

Why do some Republican politicians insist on creating Regional Governments for transportation when none is needed?

Consider what needs to be done in Hampton Roads/Tidewater. The Regional Government that special interests pushed since 1997 gives the legislative powers to make up rules and tax, the executive powers to administer projects, and judicial powers to adjudicate disputes to an appointed body. That kind of taxation without representation is why the Virginia Supreme Court ruled HB 3202. And, such a scheme for Regional Government isn’t even needed.

The tasks being hustled in last year’s HB 3202 and this year’s HB 6055 are major building projects – that actually INCREASE congestion. Except, of course, the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel (HRBT) was added to HB 6055, but not as the priority. Major construction projects don’t require a new level of government. Virginia has built roads, railroads, canals, ports, airports, bridges, tunnels, and subways for 400 years without an extra level of government .

In the last decade additional lanes were added to the marvelous Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel (CBBT). A Commission, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel Commission (CBBTC), managed the successful construction. The CBBTC manages the profitable operation and maintenance of the CBBT.
Why can’t the CBBTC or a new Commission build all of the proposed crossings of the James and Elizabeth Rivers? Likewise, commission-like transportation corridors can be established for the inland major works .

Commissions provide an executive function only. They build the projects. They can’t tax. Their funding is established by the General Assembly – including their ability to sell bonds. They have accountability and oversight. They can’t adjudicate their own disputes without any review.

The appointees to a commission may make poor or wrong choices. All people are fallible. That is why we have checks and balances in government – except in the bad Republican bills for Regional Government. Commissions can’t be as corrupt, or take as much money from taxpayers, as an unelected, unaccountable, unseparated powers Regional Government.

So, why do some Republicans keep pushing a new layer of government with new, higher taxes for transportation problems?

Why do some Republicans keep pushing a new layer of government with new, higher local taxes for infrastructure projects that profit special interests?

How does $120 million in the first year - with other people’s money to spend as politicians please – sound as an answer?

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An Immoral Republican Tax Increase

Posted by Deo Vindice in July 2nd 2008  

HB 6055 is an immoral Republican tax hike. Democrat tax hikes are punitive, stupid, and self-destructive. But, Democrats raise taxes as sheep bleat. It’s their nature, not a moral decision, to increase taxes. When Virginia Republicans raise taxes they cross many moral lines.

It’s wrong to covet the money of common people to make legislators’ special interest contributors rich.

It’s wrong to steal hard-earned money that has nothing to do with transportation and spend it on transportation scheme that doesn’t even work.

It’s wrong to lie to Republican supporters every time legislators solemnly mouth the Virginia Republican Creed’s lines about limited government and lower taxes.

It’s wrong to discriminate among taxpayers and punish some people – based on where they live.

It’s pathetic, although not immoral, to lack the leadership to prioritize projects and just pay for what we can afford without raising taxes. Taxes matter. They eat capital and kill jobs.

The average family of four in Virginia works for about $51k ($83k in NoVa). That means less than $200.00 a month in real discretionary money. If that family with two working parents fills two cars with gas just twice a month, then – this year – they have lost half their discretionary income. (12 gal. x extra $2@ gal x 4 times = $96 @ month). Higher energy costs will continue to ripple through the economy and drive up all costs for heating, cooling, food – everything else.

So, where does our family find the extra $20 in the month when they have to register a car? What do they have to give up – or increase debt?

Republicans will be remembered for many Novembers to come as the greedy politicians who squeezed the folks who live in NoVa and HR/Tidewater. HB 6055 carries the Republican label when it piles on the average family just getting by – and seniors, the poor, young people starting out, and single parents.

Shame on tax and spend Establishment Republicans.

Hooah for straight and stalwart Republican Conservatives who serve their constituents.

Republicans should know better – by understanding economics. Republicans should know better – by following their own creed.

Virginia’s voters will see which Republicans simply ooze sincerity when call themselves Conservatives – and which Republicans understand their moral obligation to The People.

Lower taxes and limited government are moral, not political, positions for Republicans because they exercise free will to refrain from stealing, coveting, lying and enhance individual freedom and opportunity.

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First Day of Beast Barracks 40 Years Ago

Posted by Deo Vindice in July 2nd 2008  

Today, 40 years ago I raised my right hand and swore an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States on the Plain at West Point. A couple of hours later I signed a paper for an indefinite period of service in the United States Army. I was 17.

I’d never seen West Point before I went there. The day before my parents and one sister drove me up from Arlington. I walked the mile from the Hotel Thayer to area of the barracks and the Plain and back before dark. The next morning I left as soon as I could to start the day early. First of many mistakes.

It was very hot that day. My classmates and I look miserable in our ID photos. It was a very, very long day. The first of many in the old Beast Barracks. I didn’t see my parents until CHRISTmas when I took my first plane ride to go home.

I wrote a very long piece about that summer and the Plebe System - as it was then - when VMI took in girls ten years ago. (Can’t find it). What happened then, as sanctioned discipline, would be a national scandal today. The usual 2% or so of any college class who have break downs or try to kill themselves happened at the United States Military Academy. They all happened for each class during their first year - usually during the Summer. On purpose. The measure of a good Beast then was how many guys were run out. Nowadays it is how many new cadets stay.

I was 166 pounds at 6 feet tall on day one. On Labor Day I was down to 130 pounds - and I didn’t have a tough Beast. Whatever we went through was acceptable as good training. Young men our age were dying at the rate of about 300 a week in Vietnam that year. The discipline was intended to make us better leaders of such young men in combat. The upperclassmen who screamed variations of that theme at us went to Vietnam. During my class’s four years enough of them came back to be memorialized as little brass plates on a big wooden board that the Academy had to start a new one. The war was called off during my winter Ranger class in January 1973.

So, my class spent 20 years building a Cold War Army from an armed mob - and for another 10-15 years deploying that Army in the hot spots and three major conflicts for the new global order. And, of course classmates started Life After Army, each to his own, after 5 years of service - until now just a few are still serving today as General Officers.

We’re the ‘Bottom of the Barrel’ class. There were 1244 slots for our class on July 1, 1968. Only 1244 young men were found fully qualified. No one was turned away. We are the only class in history to have this distinction. We graduated 822 out 1244 on June 7th, 1972.

There was something about stepping of the side of the earth on 1 July 1968 - and living in the isolation and total institution that was West Point then during such turbulent times. Something about choosing to do it. Staying with it as your High School friends turned on, dropped out, protested or served in Vietnam and came home shunned. The act of will, going against the tide of so many, choosing to stay with it - could be called hardcore. The underclasses directly below us may have other names for us. Whatever it was, it was certainly binding.

The last reunion - our 35th in 2007 - was exceptionally warm. And I laughed the whole weekend. The stories that amuse, amaze, repel and attract others tie us together. But, let me be frank.

I hated being there. One of the happiest days of my life was to graduate. I stayed for a couple of reasons. As an Army brat, I knew it would be better to serve as an officer than as a private - and I wanted to lead. And, I didn’t want to leave my classmates. For those reasons it was worth it. But, it doesn’t gloss over how much it really sucked.

Years later, I realized how much I grew up there. In at 17 and out at 21. Separated from all - everyone I know and everything normal - but my classmates, except for a couple of weeks in the Summer and CHRISTmas. So, these guys are my band of brothers.

I’ve lived life for 40 years. Lost loved ones. Had tragedy at home. Known crushing failure and real fear. Always,always worked hard. Faced the giants of challenges from my perspective in life. Been pushed to physical and mental exhaustion. Had painful injuries. But, nothing was like the cauldron of that Summer and long year to follow.

Late the first night, we went to the sweet air-conditioning of Thayer Hall and were allowed to ‘fall out’ and sit normally without ‘bracing’. The First Captain talked to us about the Honor Code. The cadet chaplain, a civilian, the late James Ford (later chaplain of the U.S. Senate), spoke. His preaching was about “This, too, shall pass.” I can hear his voice. He spoke to us personally. He encouraged us from the Bible. This too shall pass.

I learned to live “This too shall pass.” It’s a comfort when the times are tough. It’s a reminder to laugh and love daily - in a moment if that is what is available. It’s a caution against fear.

40 years later I count is as my gain to be counted as one with my classmates in the body that is the Class of 1972, United States Military Academy. Proud and True, ‘72.

Hooah.

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My Life in 5 Easy Pieces

Posted by Deo Vindice in June 30th 2008  

Yes, a shameless play off a great Jack Nicholson movie. A movie of my youth that looks so blotchy and washed in old copy color now.

And, exceptionally boring to all, except those who can relate and, thus, gain from a few words illuminating the path of one lifetime.

Today, June 30th is the 40th anniversary of the day before the day I stepped off the edge of the earth. It was the last day of my upbringing, call it childhood, before I walked into the old gym at West Point.

My life is 17 plus years from birth to West Point, becoming a man at West Point, serving as a soldier, living Life After Army, and, someday, life in Heaven doing whatever is my joyful work there.

I could have divided life into before Christ and after, or before marriage and after, or before children and after, but all of those demarcations - as much as they are more important than I am - aren’t the pieces of my life that gave them their context, color, depth, and motion for me.

I remember the heat of my high school graduation (Yorktown 68, Arlington, Virginia). I remember so many things from that last month before my world changed totally and forever for me.

40 years is mind boggling old, irrelevant, antiquated and obsolete - meaningless - to so many younger folks. To me it is indeed odd - the size of the number - but it is 40 years fresh, vibrant, alive, awake - meaningful - to me. And, I’d guess my peers and seniors.

I’ll share more as I have time and inclination of 40 Years After.

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Virginia Republicans - Please Don’t Commit Suicide

Posted by Deo Vindice in June 30th 2008  

Check out Del. Bob Marshall and Del. Jeff Frederick (and Chairman RPV) proposals for this transportation session. Winners all.

It’s the common sense alternative to the political suicide of HB 6055.

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Show and Tell for Hampton Roads Regional Government

Posted by Deo Vindice in June 30th 2008  

Last year HB 3202 made the Hampton Roads Transit Authority (HRTA) a political sub-division of the Commonwealth. The Virginia Supreme Court ruled unanimously that this new Regional Government was un-constitutional. This year some Republicans want to make the Hampton Roads Metropolitan Planning Organization the new Regional Government.

HB 6055 provides a shell fund and the“Moneys in the Fund shall be used solely for new transportation construction projects in the Counties of Isle of Wight, James City, and York and the Cities of Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Poquoson, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Virginia Beach, and Williamsburg, as required by law; and then as determined by the Hampton Roads Metropolitan Planning Organization.” (Note: Some counties along the route of the 460 corridor are MISSING).

Let’s pretend that taxation without representation is no problem, so an HRTA or MPO Regional Government is the solution for transportation. Just pretend. Since almost all the same politicians and bureaucrats are appointed to the HR MPO, HRPDC and HRTA, it’s safe to assume that the planning for the big day to rule has been working since their first failed ballot initiative in 1998.

In the first year of operation (this year), the HRTA was supposed to get about $120 million in new and higher local taxes. Let’s see the Master Plan in a detailed schedule of what was to be done from Day One. Put it up on the web. Show The People the coordinating document – called a ‘horse blanket’ for Army projects. Put it up on the web.

Oh, the HRTA/MPO doesn’t have those details? Okay. How about the plan for just the first year? That would mean now – if they hadn’t been ruled un-Constitutional. Put that plan up on the web.

Let’s see the systems engineering ‘waterfall’ project schedule. Where is the complex work breakdown schedule?

What jobs are created? How much do they pay? What are the job specifications? What is the process to get hired? When is each job to be filled? Surely all of this is planned for the first year. Let’s see it up on the web.

Same for contracts. What contracts, for how much, to do what, when, with what consultants for the first year? Put it up on the web.

None of this above is a state secret. It’s a good show and tell for the good governance stewardship of public money. It’s establishing the public trust that the Regional Government isn’t the scam for power and money for local pols that it smells like.

I’ve worked on government contracts for almost 20 years. Whether the project is in the $10s of thousands or billions of dollars, contractors do a show and tell to account for every hour of labor and penny spent.

Why do we expect less from a Regional Government spending even more money? (2002 estimate was $18b, but it is more like $30-35b with the HRBT and inflation).

Why is okay for the politicians on the Regional Government to just make it all up as they go along? The challenge of building transportation projects is engineering and management – not representation or politicking.

The HRTA/MPO should show The People how much executive, management and engineering skill they possess – now. They’ve been planning since 1997. Aren’t they ready yet? Put it up on the web.

Show us how many trucks a day will go from the Port of Virginia to I-64 in the middle of Hampton. Please.

Show us how the MPO doesn’t cover the full 460 corridor to connect with I-95.

Show us the estimate, again, on how many MORE miles of congestion we have with all your projects.

Show us your plan for the HRBT (the biggest congestion problem) – since you never had one before – and where it is in the priority to build.

Some Republicans in the General Assembly are betting the future of their Party on your readiness for good governance. Show and tell now. Put it all up on the web.

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