State of the Union

As the American Authorities frantically seek to suggest a white supremacist link to yesterday's attempted car bombing in Times Square based on the fact that a middle aged white man was apparently seen taking off an over-shirt in the street on a humid April day in New York City, certain events are occurring on that side of the Atlantic which suggest that the greatest threat to civilisation as we know it may not come from any form of terrorist threat.

Readers should click here to view a piece of film taken last week during a visit by President Obama to the city of Quincy, Illinois. What occurred was a clear attempt to intimidate peaceful protesters in a manner one would expect to see in a totalitarian state or a third world dictatorship. It is really quite scary, and I wonder when it was that our society became so perverted that it started to perceive middle aged couples and schoolchildren singing patriotic songs as enemies of the state.

I also wonder how large a step it is from Quincy to Tiananmen Square?

The people singing "God Bless America" were members of the Tea Party, named after the events in Boston which led to the American war of independence.

The Tea Party movement is the most significant grass roots phenomenon to appear on the American scene in decades. Tea part supporters may not be enemies of the state however, the state is petrified of them. The Tea Party movement has the support and the passion to bring Obama down, and it remains to be seen what he and his supporters will do about it.

It would be a fool who underestimates the pure ruthlessness of this administration,

Suggestions that Obama will declare some form of state of emergency, on some pretext, within the next two years are no longer confined to the usual suspect conspiracy theorists. Some even suggest that it is not beyond the realms of possibility that the 2012 US Presidential election will not even take place.

That may not be as fanciful as it first sounds, as more and more states are amending their election requirements so that a presidential candidate will have to produce documented evidence that he or she is eligible to stand in accordance with the terms of the Constitution, there is a distinct possibility that the standing president of America may seek a second term whilst not standing for election in all of the 50 states.

However, that is another issue and two and a half years away, whereas something needs to be done about the Tea Party now, before November, when its effect on the Mid term elections could render Obama a lame duck Messiah half way through his second term.

This is why we must look at anything which happens with cynicism, yesterday's events in Times Square may be genuine, in fact they might even be the work of a white nut, but other events will happen which will not be what they seem.

However, the first weapon they will use is the one they always use, it may not be as effective as it once was, but it is still formidable. It is the modern west's equivalent of cold war vintage Pravda or the fanatically joyful newsreaders of North Korea's one television channel. It is in America, as in Britain, the controlled media, the likes of CNN, CBS, MSNBC, the New York Times, and even Fox News, which has also begun to sell its soul. The craven organs which claim to provide news but in reality serve only as PR for their masters.

The same media which still repeats the long disproven lie that Tea Party supporters shouted racial slurs at black congressmen on their way to vote for the Health Care Bill, will continue to claim there are swastika wearing Nazis, child molesters, and tattooed, shaven headed, Supremacists amongst the flag waving Middle Americans of the Tea Party. With their methods, they may find some, whether they exist or not.

To get an idea what the media will do to the Tea Party, we need only look at what they did to the last person to pose a real threat to Obama.

In the last few days I have read a lot of news items regarding the growing environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, following the huge and fatal fire on an Oil rig. What struck me was how often a particular name kept appearing in the reader comments under the news stories. That name was Sarah Palin. As you may recall Sarah Palin who repeated the Slogan coined by (African American) RNC Chairman Michael Steele “Drill Baby Drill” during the 2008 Vice Presidential debate. A number or readers seemed to have extrapolated from this that Sarah Palin, who in fact supported (wrongly in my view) opening up parts of the Alaskan wildlife reserve to drilling, was somehow responsible for the fact that drilling was going on in the Gulf of Mexico.

This of course demonstrated how dumb so much of the public is and how little was reported of the backroom deals made by the Obama administration, which were the real reason why drilling was allowed in the Gulf, but it also demonstrated how complete the demonisation of Sara Palin has become.

The attacks on Palin started because, in 2008, the media judged that after the defeat of Hilary Clinton she was the only person could prevent the ascendency of Barack the beatified to the Whitehouse. The attacks continue because rightly or wrongly she is still perceived as a threat.

Please do not write in and tell me that Palin is a “Jewish plant”, or an “establishment stooge”, the point of this posting is not whether Mrs. Palin is, or is not, the right leader for Conservative America, it is about what was done to her so as to protect Obama, and what was done was devastating.

Sarah Palin is not the President of America, she is not in congress, she is not in the Senate, we was until recently the Governor of Alaska, which is the other end of the country, so there are quite a few people who are a tad more responsible for what has happened in the Gulf than she is, yet brainwashed commentators on news blogs blame her before they blame the people who are in power.

Of course if the press can find a way of blaming her they will do so, however ludicrous it may be. That is unless they can hang it on Senator Michele Bachmann, often called "the second most hated woman in America" right after Palin. Michelle just happens to be another attractive right wing female politician who opposes Obama and who is also pilloried in the press, what a coincidence, anyone notice a pattern here?

Palin may be loved by the Tea Party movement, however, elsewhere in America, and in the wider world, she is viewed as a joke, or worse, a monster.

How did Palin become so hated? What are her great sins? She opposes abortion, well so do I and given that 95% of abortions in America rather fall into the "culling for convenience" category, maybe we have a point. She hunts, big deal, she is a creationist, so are more than half the Christians on the planet. She made a couple of gaffes on the campaign trail, Obama said he'd visited 57 states and that he was a Muslim, but as the world's media were in the process of carrying him cheering over the finish line, that didn't matter.

Palin was asked about her experience with foreign affairs so she pointed out that as Mayor of Alaska she had to work closely with Russia part of which was visible from Alaska, which some over paid and not particularly funny comedienne translated to "I can see Russia from my house" and which 90% of the morons Frank mentioned who comment on news stories believe to this day Palin said herself.

I can think of many many thousands of politicians more deserving of derision and scorn than Sarah Palin, who's real crime was that she had enough personal charisma to take votes away from the chosen one, or at least she could have done unless the "independent" media could destroy her first, which, of course, they did

The media will seek to do to the Tea party what they did to Sarah Palin. If you don't think they can do it to a popular and benign political force, just look across the Atlantic to see what was done to the BNP. You do not yet know what you face, but you soon will do.

Very similar forces are at work in both Britain and America, the same evil is abroad, and it will do what it needs to do to destroy us. Whether they succeed depends upon whether we are prepared to fight

Images from Quincy Illinois

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UPDATE: Man of Pakistani origin arrested in relation to Times Square bomb plot
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Hat Tip: Dr D