Saturday, September 10, 2011

Pearl Harbor's New ‘Vision’ (Hang on!)


Good Lord, if this ain't the absolutely height of political correctness insanity, then I don't know what would be, though the last paragraph may give us insight into what might be coming. My favorite Uncle Charlie was there.

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The new Multicultural, Non-Judgmental, Politically Correct, Whitewashed, Egalitarian, No-One-is-to-Blame, Kum Ba Yah, Revisionist Pearl Harbor Memorial Museum, Gift Shop, and Espresso Bar is now open to the public. Now at long last everyone on earth, including Japanese citizens, can visit the site without fear of guilt or remorse or truth getting in the way.

I waited too long. I have wanted to see and pay my respects to the Pearl Harbor memorial in Hawaii all my life and now it's too late. It's not that the memorial is not there, it's that it has undergone some, um, "improvements." The original memorial site was built over the battleship USS Arizonia which was sunk by the Japanese attack on December 7th, 1941. The new center, which opened last December 7, 2010, is on the same site but has expanded to cover several times the original area. And the story has changed somewhat as well.

Visitors will view photos depicting kimono-clad women in department stores and boarding street cars and other scenes of Japanese life during the thirties. The museum shows clips from Japanese theater newsreels, including festive scenes of Babe Ruth playing baseball during a tour. It's all about explaining what brought the Pearl Harbor bombings about. An attempt to show what drove the Japanese to attack the United States and what life was like in Japan at the time. You see, now we are telling both sides of the story, not just the American side.

Planning for the exhibits began five years ago when the park service brought in "top historians" to brainstorm what the displays should contain. The themes that emerged fit inside two halls, "Road to War" and "Attack." There's also a special courtyard dedicated to Hawaiian history. And just what does Hawaiian history have to do with the Japanese attack on American ships? Don't ask; just be happy that the Hawaiians aren't being left out.

The spokes-folks for the "new improved" memorial claim that the end result is a broader, more in-depth view of the Sunday morning attack nearly 70 years ago. The passage of time helped achieve the new vision they say. So did the efforts of Japanese pilots and American survivors to reach out to each other and overcome deeply ingrained bitterness, they also say.

Gee, I can't imagine why those grumpy American GIs would have any "bitterness" over the surprise attack. They need to just get over it, right? And excuse me, but what the hell do the Japanese pilots have to be bitter about - that they didn't hit ALL their targets?

Daniel Martinez, the park service's chief Pearl Harbor historian, said it wouldn't have been possible to include the Japanese viewpoint in any official examination of the attack when he first started working at the visitor center in the 1980s. "It was just too recent, and the wounds were still open," Martinez said. "The idea of exploration of history would have been found unsavory by some of the Pearl Harbor survivors who were still dealing with the wounds of that war."

Oh, in other words, let's wait for most of the people who were actually alive and experienced the attack to die off before we go in and "explore history" a little more. What a crock! The original memorial was a shrine to the memory of those who were killed in that bombing raid. Now with the $56 million renovation, the thing has become a rewriting of history.

Martinez said some survivors have understandably wanted to keep the exhibits as more of a shrine or memorial, as opposed to an interpretation of history. Yeah, no kidding. But he said it's important for people to grasp a more complex story. Hey Martinez, it's not important for me to try and "understand" the socio-political ramifications behind why the Japanese bombed us. The story is actually not complex at all. The Japanese deliberately conducted a sneak attack on America which killed 2,403 American lives. That's almost as many Americans as the Islamists killed with their attack on September 11, 2001.

But Martinez goes on to say, "We have to understand it. . . . and allow for those different perspectives to come in there so a broader understanding can take place." See? Non-judgmental. No right, no wrong. Just a "different perspective."

We have Jewish Holocaust museums and memorials in practically every major city in the country. When will the "top historians" decide to include the Nazi perspective? Shouldn't we try to have "a broader understanding" of what drove the Germans to do what they did? And when the 9-11 memorial is finally finished at ground zero at what used to be the Twin Towers, I wonder if the Jihadist perspective will be included. By all means, we must be fair, after all even if it means standing history on its head and playing fast and loose with the truth.

NC? FBI Releases Image of Man Wanted For 911 Threats

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This is believed to be one of the men counter terrorism chiefs say are plotting a terrorist attack in America on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11.

An image of American-born 22-year-old Jude Kenan Mohammad has been posted on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list.

He has been linked to what officials have called a credible but unconfirmed al-Qaeda threat to set off a car bomb on bridges or tunnels in New York City or Washington.

Mohammad is among three al-Qaeda leaders that investigators believe pose a particular threat because they have lived in the U.S.

Should that mission prove impossible, the attackers have been told to simply cause as much destruction as they can.

Mohammad, who was born in Florida, dropped out of North Carolina’s Fuquay-Varina High School in 2006 and left the U.S. two years later to visit Pakistan, his father’s homeland.

A federal grand jury in North Carolina indicted him and seven other men in 2009 on charges that they conspired to carry out terrorist activities around the world. Two of the men have pleaded guilty, and the trial of four others is set for September 19 in New Bern.

Federal authorities have never arrested Mohammad in the case, saying that they believe he has been in Pakistan since the indictment was issued.

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“I still have my Che Guevara poster. Che Guevara was a freedom fighter."

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A History Lesson for the Racist Bob Beckel

“I still have my Che Guevara poster. Che Guevara was a freedom fighter.” (Bob Beckel on FoxNews’ “The Five” Sept. 5th)

If Bob Beckel’s “freedom-fighter” had been allowed his fondest bit of “freedom-fighting” Bob Beckel’s incinerated remains would fit in a gin bottle today. “America is the great enemy of mankind! Against those hyenas there is no option but extermination!...If the missiles had remained, we would have fired them against the very heart of the U.S., including New York City.”

For the record: Ernesto “Che” Guevara was second in command, chief executioner, and chief KGB liaison for a regime that jailed more political prisoners per capita than did Stalin’s during the Great Terror and murdered more people (out of a population of 6.4 million) in its first three years in power than Hitler’s murdered (out of a population of 70 million) in its first six. Many, perhaps most, of those murdered and jailed by the regime Che Guevara co-founded were Batista opponents.

The Stalinist regime Che Guevara imposed on Cuba also stole the savings and property of 6.4 million citizens, made refugees of 20 percent of the population from a nation formerly deluged with immigrants and whose citizens had achieved a higher standard of living than those residing in half of Europe. Many opponents of the regime Che Guevara co-founded qualify as the longest-suffering political prisoners in modern history, having suffered prison camps, forced labor and torture chambers for a period three times as long in Che Guevara’s Gulag as Alexander Solzhenitsyn suffered in Stalin’s Gulag. Most of these had been Batista opponents.

“Don't put him in a list of fascists. The fascists (Batista) were the ones he was trying to get rid of.” (Bob Beckel on FoxNews’ “The Five” Sept. 5th)

For the record: According to the Cuba Archive Project, the Castro regime – with firing squads, forced-labor camps, torture and drownings at sea – has caused an estimated 102,000 Cuban deaths. According to the Harper Collins Atlas of the Second World War, Nazi repression caused 172,260 French civilian deaths during the occupation. France was nation of 42 million in 1940. Cuba was a nation of 6.5 million in 1960. My calculator reveals that Beckel’s freedom-fighter caused an enormously higher percentage of deaths among the people he “freed” than the Nazis caused among the French they enslaved and tortured with the SS and Gestapo.

D.C. 9/11/2001 picture

Brock:

This is what I saw out of my office window in DC 10 years ago tomorrow on 9/11.

Cousin John

Hero performed by Michael Israel

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Four years old, but I'd never seen it.

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For 10 years, we've lied to ourselves to avoid asking the one real question

Smoke spews from a tower of the World Trade Center

By their books, ye shall know them.

I'm talking about the volumes, the libraries – nay, the very halls of literature – which the international crimes against humanity of 11 September 2001 have spawned. Many are spavined with pseudo-patriotism and self-regard, others rotten with the hopeless mythology of CIA/Mossad culprits, a few (from the Muslim world, alas) even referring to the killers as "boys", almost all avoiding the one thing which any cop looks for after a street crime: the motive.

Why so, I ask myself, after 10 years of war, hundreds of thousands of innocent deaths, lies and hypocrisy and betrayal and sadistic torture by the Americans – our MI5 chaps just heard, understood, maybe looked, of course no touchy-touchy nonsense – and the Taliban? Have we managed to silence ourselves as well as the world with our own fears? Are we still not able to say those three sentences: The 19 murderers of 9/11 claimed they were Muslims. They came from a place called the Middle East. Is there a problem out there?

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D.O.O.J. = Department of Obstructing Justice

Via Sipsey Street Irregulars

Mr. Honesty himself

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Isn’t it obstruction of justice to withhold information about a crime?

Wouldn’t you or I go to jail if we withheld information from investigators?

Why isn’t Eric Holder in jail?

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Gunwalker Explodes: FBI Hid Weapon, Tax Dollars Subsidized Murder

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National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Recap 09-09-11



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Injustice Everywhere

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  • Clarksburg WV cop was fired & indicted for battery & neglect of an incapacitated adult over an on-duty videotaped altercation shown above. [0] http://bit.ly/qgTzMt
  • Aransas Pass TX police are accused of beating & tasing a man in an apparent case of mistaken ID then planting drugs in order to cover for it, this according to sworn statements by several witnesses to the incident. [5] bit.ly/p2jJb4
  • Evergreen AL cop suspended pending possible firing for allegedly tasering woman after she was strapped into a restraint chair then laughing about it with other officers [0] bit.ly/r2LFAN
  • Chicago IL cops are being sued by a man who lost everything after he was tasered & peppersprayed during his arrest that resulted in him being jailed for 8mo before he was finally acquitted [3] bit.ly/rquynD
  • Detroit MI cop accused of beating & pistol whipping a man so badly while off duty at a teen girl’s party that an environmental cleanup crew had to be called to clean up all the blood. [3] bit.ly/qpAROm
  • Philadelphia PA cop says he’ll keep being aggressive despite being the subject of 9 complaints, 2 suits & 3 brutality findings in 4yrs [0] bit.ly/o29dBF
  • Washington Twp NJ cop arrested for hit & run accident that left seriously injured man laying in a parking lot [0] bit.ly/nCdXKc
  • Miami-Dade FL cop shoots family’s dog to death in their own backyard after he was warned not to go there by a neighbor while the officer was responding to a false burglar alarm [0] bit.ly/nF0ygV
  • Santa Fe NM sheriff sentenced to 3mo jail for stealing $75k worth of equipment from dept & selling it on eBay [0] bit.ly/o4b8Gv
  • Eureka CA cop sentenced to probation in plea deal for felony heroin possession, vandalism & DMV record disclosures [0] bit.ly/qXevab
  • Palisades Park NJ cop fired over alleged on-duty affair w/borough employee & violent dispute with his wife [0] bit.ly/qxu8BV
  • Portland OR police sgt who used to head the police union is fired over 2 separate road rage incidents involving same woman [0] bit.ly/q3JJad
  • Poughkeepsie NY cop pleads guilty to 3 felony charges for compromising drug investigations in exchange for cocaine [0] bit.ly/rdYiH3
  • Chicago IL cop who was arrested for DUI allegedly told his arresting officers “some day you could be real police officers like me” [0] bit.ly/q9a5aK
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Cop In Transgender Shooting Had Record Of Alcohol Abuse, Violence

How does a cop with multiple incidents of alcohol fueled misconduct stay on the job for 20+ years? It’s a good question, and one that many people are asking in the wake of a recent late-night incidence of extreme violence, wherein veteran Washington D.C. Police Officer Kenneth Furr wound up standing on the hood of his Cadillac firing his service weapon into a car full of transgender women he’d just rammed into, screaming “I’m gonna kill all of you!” 3 people were injured, and one suffered multiple severe gunshot wounds in the attack. Furr blew a .15 BAC a full 5 hours after the incident, and was arrested on suspicion of DWI. He has since been ordered to stand trial for assault, though not the more serious but obviously appropriate charge of attempted murder. The good news is, he is being held without bond, so he will stay in jail until his next court appearance, due to the judge’s decision that based upon his record and the circumstances of the case, he presents a clear and present danger to society at large.

As I’m sure you’ve probably already guessed, Officer Furr has not yet been fired from his job, he’s on “on administrative leave while the case was reviewed by internal affairs,” and will likely be represented by counsel provided at the police union’s expense.

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THE CITY OF LEXINGTON (FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE SHRINE OF THE SOUTH) HOLDS SOME OF THE MOST PRIZED CIVIL WAR SITES AND COLLECTIONS IN THE NATION. IT IS THE BURIAL PLACE OF GREAT MEN LIKE ROBERT E. LEE, STONEWALL JACKSON, AND OTHERS. ITS MUSEUMS HOLD PRICELESS ARTIFACTS OF THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES. HOWEVER, THE CITY GOVERNMENT HAS SHOWN ITSELF TO BE MOST UNFRIENDLY TO THE CITY'S HISTORY AND HERITAGE. PEOPLE SHOULD CONTINUE TO COME AND VISIT THE GRAVES OF HEROES AND MUSEUMS, BUT THOSE WHO LOVE HISTORY SHOULD NOT SPEND A SINGLE DIME WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS TO SUPPORT BUSINESSES WHO HAVE SUPPORTED THE FLAG BAN. FRANKLY, VISITORS SHOULD BOYCOTT THE CITY COMPLETELY BECAUSE ANY MONEY SPENT ENDS UP PARTIALLY GOING TO CITY TAXES, BUT IN THE INTERESTS OF MAINTAINING THE TREASURES LEXINGTON HAS TO OFFER AND TO KEEP FLAG FRIENDLY BUSINESSES AFLOAT, A SELECTIVE BOYCOTT IS THE BEST SOLUTION.

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Jack Asses

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"Pitiful bunch. Couldn't get out of a shower of rain!"

Hate Speech: The Stench of Civility

The Stench of Civility

In January when a smirking schizoid goony loon who claimed no political affiliation sprayed hot lead on an Arizona crowd—killing six and injuring fourteen—the barking dogs of leftist punditry pounced like starving hyenas on the carnage, making raw political hamburger out of it. After two years of falsely depicting the Tea Party as a short-fused bomb waiting to explode into a blood-stained cum shot of racist violence, the left’s paid puppets rushed to the crime scene like the blind men of Hindu legend jostling to squeeze the elephant’s testicles until they burst. There was the predictably vomit-inducing pecksniffery about scary rhetoric, angry mobs, and how hateful speech has consequences. They saw no conflicts of interest in the fact that their own crowd had openly cheered for violence against people such as Sarah Palin and George W. Bush for years. When it became evident that shooter Jared Loughner was politically unclassifiable, there was a screaming silence when it came to apologies and retractions.

His nostrils flaring in pious indignation, Barack Obama flew to Arizona and exhorted Americans to “make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds” and to practice “more civility in our public discourse.” This is the same man who, while campaigning for president, told a crowd: “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.”

The Saddest Day: 30 April 1975