Month: June 2009

What a Real President Says About Oppressors

Mark Noonan

From a glorious American moment:

…I want emphatically to state tonight that if the outrages in Poland do not cease, we cannot and will not conduct “business as usual” with the perpetrators and those who aid and abet them. Make no mistake, their crime will cost them dearly in their future dealings with America and free peoples everywhere. I do not make this statement lightly or without serious reflection.

We have been measured and deliberate in our reaction to the tragic events in Poland. We have not acted in haste, and the steps I will outline tonight and others we may take in the days ahead are firm, just, and reasonable…

…When 19th century Polish patriots rose against foreign oppressors, their rallying cry was, “For our freedom and yours.” Well, that motto still rings true in our time. There is a spirit of solidarity abroad in the world tonight that no physical force can crush. It crosses national boundaries and enters into the hearts of men and women everywhere. In factories, farms, and schools, in cities and towns around the globe, we the people of the Free World stand as one with our Polish brothers and sisters. Their cause is ours, and our prayers and hopes go out to them this Christmas.

Yesterday, I met in this very room with Romuald Spasowski, the distinguished former Polish Ambassador who has sought asylum in our country in protest of the suppression of his native land. He told me that one of the ways the Polish people have demonstrated their solidarity in the face of martial law is by placing lighted candles in their windows to show that the light of liberty still glows in their hearts.

Ambassador Spasowski requested that on Christmas Eve a lighted candle will burn in the White House window as a small but certain beacon of our solidarity with the Polish people. I urge all of you to do the same tomorrow night, on Christmas Eve, as a personal statement of your commitment to the steps we’re taking to support the brave people of Poland in their time of troubles.

Once, earlier in this century, an evil influence threatened that the lights were going out all over the world. Let the light of millions of candles in American homes give notice that the light of freedom is not going to be extinguished. We are blessed with a freedom and abundance denied to so many. Let those candles remind us that these blessings bring with them a solid obligation, an obligation to the God who guides us, an obligation to the heritage of liberty and dignity handed down to us by our forefathers and an obligation to the children of the world, whose future will be shaped by the way we live our lives today… Ronald Reagan, December 23, 1981

We can speak out, we can be clear; we can do this without making promises we can’t keep and without inflaming the situation further…the backdrop to Reagan’s speech was the diligent, covert support to the Polish freedom fighters, letting them know that while we couldn’t come to their aid in arms, we would not forget them, nor abandon them to their fate. Their are plenty of Poles who will to this day say that Reagan’s forthright condemnation of oppression kept their spirits up and even in the darkest time – when some of them were imprisoned in the darkest dungeons – steeled them to fight on, because America was always there.

Obama is haltingly coming along towards a little courage on Iran, but even when he notes what is happening, he temporizes and still makes gutless statements about not “meddling” in Iranian affairs. We need clear, bold leadership – not timid bleats of a man unsure of himself and ignorant of the true greatness of the nation he leads.

Why Liberals Want to Shut Down the New Media

Mark Noonan

Because no one is watching the Old Media, and the left wants to have a lock on propaganda:

TVNewser has learned the CBS Evening News has once again set an all-time low last week with 4.89 million Total Viewers and 1.42 million A25-54 viewers. But it was also the lowest (since records began in the 1991-’92 season) for ABC’s World News with Charles Gibson. The Gibson program drew 6.42 million Total Viewers and 1.77 million A25-54 viewers.

Liberals, like all fascists, realize that you have to have a merciless drumbeat of endlessly repeated Big Lies in order to retain long term control of the political debate…the MSM is doing the Big Lie thing for all its worth, but no one is paying attention…thus the desire to shut down talk radio and curb internet advocacy. As the MSM craters further, look for government bail outs to be proposed and much stronger efforts to curb alternative media.

Phrase of the Day

Mark Noonan

What should be our rallying cry:

You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, sea, and air. War with all our might and with all the strength God has given us, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. – Winston Churchill

ACORN Becomes COI

Mark Noonan

Why? Probably for the same reason the NKVD eventually changed its name to the KGB – fascist groups who get a bad rep figure that if they shove their name down the memory hole, people won’t make the connection:

Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) leaders are using the threat of a law suit to silence and intimidate critics, according to current and former members of the liberal activist group. In a letter dated June 11 an attorney for ACORN advised top whistleblowers that their unauthorized use of the organization’s name could make them liable for monetary damages and injunctive relief.

ACORN executives have also changed their organization’s name, which was tarnished by investigations in at least 14 states of allegations of voter registration fraud during the 2008 presidential campaign, and charges by current and former members of financial mismanagement and misrepresentation.

The new name will let ACORN leaders continue their operations without worrying about prior bad publicity, according to Marcel Reid of ACORN 8, a group of present and former members.

“We’ve known for many months now that the name ACORN is going to be retired,” Reid said. “The name has been so damaged to the point where the leadership knows it simply can’t go on as it has with the ACORN label out front and center, especially after all of the reporting.” In fact, the process has already begun, she noted. Wade Rathke, who founded the organization, announced on his blog that ACORN International has officially changed its name to “Community Organizations International.”

Same criminals will run the show; we can expect the same corrupt, anti-American and anti-democratic tactics from this grab bag of fascists. And this is the proud backers of “community organizing” and Barack Obama, you liberals – proud of yourselves. Look yourselves in the mirror and feel good about being associated with such people?

American People Waking up to the Reality of Obamunism

Mark Noonan

From Rasmussen:

While most U.S. voters still blame the Bush Administration for the nation’s economic problems, a growing number are inclined to blame President Barack Obama.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 39% of voters now say the country’s economic problems are caused more by the policies Obama has put in place. That’s a 12-point jump from a month ago.

Just wait until unemployment is at 15%…

Question for Liberals

Mark Noonan

Since you guys have been saying for 26 years that SDI wouldn’t work and your own guy, Obama, campaign against SDI…why is Obama deploying SDI around Hawaii under threat of a NK missile launch? Shouldn’t he just say “there’s nothing we can do to stop it because – as I stated in my campaign – SDI doesn’t work…but, don’t worry, if NK does nuke Hawaii, we’ll nuke them to heck and gone because the way to ensure nuclear peace is via mutual assured destruction”?

Come now, liberals, what have you to say?

Stand Aside on Iran? (Bumped)

Mark Noonan

If you can watch this video (warning, graphic) and say we should still engage the mullahs and not take sides…then you are lacking all sense of love for your fellow human beings.

UPDATE: Could it be that Obama is going soft on the mullahs because he doesn’t want to risk nuclear negotiations? Probably – so, in order to secure a nuclear deal the mullahs won’t honor, we are going to throw our honor into the sewer and leave the Iranian people to their fate. Makes me sick.

UPDATE II: Gay Patriot notes that we can – and should – be unified on this issue:

On Friday night in synagogue, I approached a left-of-center friend of mine, like me, wearing a green shirt. I asked if she were wearing that color “for the right reason.” Indeed, she was, replying that this was one issue, like Darfur, where conservatives and liberals were in agreement.

While I would dare say there are few more such issues, I was delighted that she and I agreed on this one. She is a good person who actually listens to me when I explain my positions on various social and political issues. I can only hope that I have shown as much respect for her views as she has for mine.

UPDATE III: As events unfold in Iran, I have to ask – does President Obama consider, even for a moment, what he’d do if it were his older daughter shot down by inhuman thugs? I know, that’s harsh – but we have to be. We can no longer afford the niceties, nor can we pretend we don’t understand what is really at stake. A society which cannot protect young, innocent girls is not a society worthy of survival. The question to ask ourselves is not, “what if we end up making it worse?” but, instead, “is there anything actually worse than a fine, young lady being butchered on the street?”. There’s nothing we can do regarding Iran which will make a situation worse than what there already is and anything we do may very well make it much better. So, let’s do it. Let’s roll, in the words of an American hero.

There is much we can do without taking a direct hand – we can blow up Iran’s sole oil refinery, thus cutting off Iran’s government from the gasoline necessary to move their gangs of thugs around the country; we can intercept, on the quiet, Iranian oil shipments, thus cutting off the money Iran’s government needs to pay the gangs of thugs; we can hamper at a thousand points Iran’s ability to oppress its own people…and anyone out there who says that American action will cause the Iranian people to rally to their inhuman regime are just being absurd “oh, ok, since Americans are willing to help me, I’m going to join up with those who murdered my daughter in cold blood”…that is what you have to believe the Iranian people will do, if you really think that American action will give support to Iran’s government.

Fight and fight and then fight some more – we must become, in a large sense, knights who will do battle with injustice and evil regardless of the risk to ourselves.