A hint of truth on the 100th Day

The 100th day of the Chosen One’s new reign in America was celebrated in various sections of the UK Press yesterday, in the “right on” London Metro even the daily 118 118 cartoon strip advert got in on the act. This was not a surprise, as readers of the Metro, may have noticed, the 118 118 strip invariably signals its state approved devotion to diversity by ensuring that any group or crowd it depicts includes the requisite quota of ethnic minority figures, so we can guess where the artist's loyalties lie.

In yesterdays cartoon strip, one character mentioned Obama’s 100 day anniversary, to which another responded “He’s achieved a lot in that time”. She did not go on to list any of the “achievements” she had in mind, but the reader was obviously expected to accept without question that there had been a series of them.

It is on the basis of such unquestioning belief that popular wisdom so often trumps a closer analysis of the facts. However, popular wisdom is seldom factually accurate.

This is not to say that there have not been actions during the 100 day Honeymoon, many of them deliberately crowd pleasing, but an act takes more than adoring headlines to count as an achievement, however much the spin doctors might like to pretend it does.

Obama's supporters would doubtless point to the announced closure of the Guantánamo Bay detention centre on Cuba, the banning of so called water boarding as an interrogation technique, and the proposed withdrawal of troops from Iraq as achievements, whereas they are, in fact, actions, crowd pleasing gestures designed to delight both his liberal fan base and closest ideological supporters.

It could be argued that these acts have won America some international friends, however, it is an open question as to how many of those friends were not already anxious to be friends with an Obama lead America, and how many of the others are paying lip service to friendship whilst continuing to plot behind the scenes.

We will have to wait and see whether these gestures have achieved anything, or whether they have actually made America, and, by extension the West considerably more dangerous. It is significant that these were amongst the first acts which Obama took, what does it say about a President that his first priority is to please the likes of Bill Ayres, Michael Moore, George Galloway and the Stop the War coalition?

What is certain is that irrespective of the PR aspects, these acts have done little to address the very real problems facing America. In that respect the Obama administration produced the stimulus package, where, as in Britain, eye watering sums of money were given to banks and businesses out of tax-payers money, leaving the American people hugely in debt and with no guarantee that they will ever get their money back. Other funds have been earmarked for re-generation, but with so many politically correct “non-white, one legged, transgender only” clauses that they are likely to have about as much effect as taking a sherbet hose to a bushfire.

On the plus side, America is now fully on-board with the rest of the world in its efforts to tackle climate change, which, if you are convinced by the science, is certainly a step in the right direction. However, in this the Obama administration benefits from the pig-headed, head in the sand attitude of its predecessor, without who’s intransigent and ill conceived policy, the One would no now be winning plaudits by reversing it. (I take the view, that the potential consequences of the scientists being right are so terrible that they far outweigh those if they are wrong, and as such, we can not afford to take the risk. In any event, the downsides associated with burning both coal and oil are so significant that efforts to find alternatives can only be beneficial, with or without climate change.)

There is little point in saving the world for our children if we destroy the environment they are expected to live in, therefore, I personally support this more, and hence I am prepared add a positive point to Obama’s score card in this respect, whilst appreciating that many of my readers will be less generous.

(NB: I do not plan to respond to comments about climate change, none of us, including scientists on both sides, know enough to be sure who is right)

On Obama’s 100th day the true nature of what he represents and what we will have to face from this administration gave us a glimpse of its ugly face as the House of Representatives passed the latest hate crimes bill. (As if they needed another one). The new hate crimes legislation, as with almost everything else Obama has done exposes the truth of the claim to offer “change” which was repeated ad-nauseam throughout the election campaign. It is now clear that this “change” means to be a bit different to Bush in some respects, but absolutely no different from the madness which has infested US Society for the last couple of decades.

Do not get me wrong, the murder of Matthew Shepherd, after whom this legislation has been named, was a terrible and deeply evil crime, the scum who beat him to a pulp and left him to die, deserve every miserable day they rot in prison for what they did. Anyone who seeks to minimise or justify what was done to Matthew on the grounds of either his sexuality of their religion, do not believe in the same God which I do, and I have no wish to know their God. I differ from many in the Nationalist community in that I do not have an issue with gay people, I believe their lifestyle is their nature and not a choice, they have been part of the human condition throughout history, and are entitled to fully equal treatment within society.

However, the key word here is equality, and it the fundamental lack of equality which makes this bill so objectionable and so unconstitutional (perhaps unsurprising coming from Kenya's favourite son). It is extremely symbolic of the hypocrisy within liberal American society that America's first African American president, has, within his first 100 days presided over legislation which further enshrines discrimination into US law.

This bill and those which went before it only offer protection to selected groups plucked from the liberal lexicon of preferred victims, and as was to be expected, heterosexual white people are not amongst those groups. This is despite the fact that the most powerful man in America is black, whereas, in numerical terms, the largest single group living in poverty and deprivation, and therefore amongst the most vulnerable, are white.

I am not sure that many people in America are aware that a gang of black men could beat and torture a white man to death, as they so frequently do, and there is no way the act could constitute a hate crime under this legislation, even if they shouted “We hate you Honkey” whilst doing so. Whereas, were a white man to call a black man a “black idiot”, the white man could potentially be charged with a hate crime, and almost certainly would he were he to slap the black man's face while saying it.

We in the Nationalist community are frequently accused of hate, however, it is uncomfortable to contemplate the level of hate which must have gone into drafting such inequitable legislation.

The legislation is also inequitable because it applies different values to different victims. How can it be fair to punish someone more severely for hitting a thirty year old man because he is black or gay than for hitting a sixty year old one because they want his pension book? Surely both crimes should be treated equally, and subject to equal degrees of deterrence.

However, this bill has nothing to do with fairness or justice, it's purpose is to bolster a liberal fantasy and to perpetuate the myth that hate crimes are a predominantly white against black / gay phenomenon.

This agenda driven and discriminatory piece of legislation is typical of what we can expect from this administration, which, due to a combination of white guilt and black racism, has transferred the mindset of the humanities department at a second rate university to the White house.

Despite what the 118 118 cartoon strip sought to imply, the Kenyan Messiah's achievements in his first 100 days were more modest than they like to suggest. However, what he did achieve was to show anyone ready to look who he really is, where is is going, and what we can expect from him.