Tuesday, April 30, 2019

OUR DISRESPECTED BORDERS: A FAILURE OF MORAL WILL


Our disrespected borders: A failure of moral will
Alan Keyes targets 'the false guise of global citizenship'
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By Alan Keyes
April 29, 2019

The spectacle of Mexican armed forces disarming American soldiers on U.S. soildemonstrates the folly of forgetting the Constitution's imperative decree affecting the purpose of the Armed Forces of the United States:
    The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect them against invasion;...
Since World War II, our role in world events has induced many Americans, including many of our politicians and military leaders, to think of our military primarily in terms of foreign expeditions. 
These purblind worldlings harrumphed mightily when the president dared to deploy National Guard personnel to reinforce security along our borders. 
Apparently, they think even the forces organized, pursuant to the Second Amendment, to assure the security of our freedom as a self-governing people should now be used mainly for foreign interventions.

For much of my lifetime, our post-WWII economic and military preeminence allowed these Americans the luxury of indulging this stupid notion. 
The 9/11 terrorist attacks should have roused them from that stupor. The perpetrators of those attacks chose targets that represented all the components of our wherewithal as a free people, including the building that is the operative symbol of our self-government. 
Those attacks were the beginning of a sustained assault on our national existence, an assault that has kept us in a perpetual state of war, whether we admit it or not.
As we ponder this fact, we need to keep in mind that the state of war is not simply, or even necessarily, a matter of armed conflict. 
As the English thinker

Thomas Hobbes wrote:
    ...war consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting, but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known: and therefore the notion of time is to be considered in the nature of war, as it is in the nature of weather. For as the nature of foul weather lieth not in a shower or two of rain, but in an inclination thereto of many days together: so the nature of war consisteth not in actual fighting, but in the known disposition thereto during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. (Leviathan, Part I, ch. XIII)
In the world at present, we have good reason to know that a plethora of nations, groups, and individuals are disposed to fight against the existence and sovereignty of the people of the United States. 
These adversaries include nations who envy our economic success or resent the proof we offer that lasting government – 
of, by, and for the people – 
opens reservoirs of human potential untapped before in human history. They include individuals, at home and abroad, who deeply reject the premises of God-endowed right, including liberty. 
Those premises have been the basis for our commitment, as a people, to do justice 
(even though it required breaking down highly resistant institutions of injustice and inhuman bigotry) 
for God's sake, and despite the contrary inclinations of our own deep-seated passions and selfish interests.

For decades in the mid to late 20th century, our reputation for power helped to counteract the disposition to war against us. 
But in the meanwhile, that disposition armed itself with resources rooted in new technologies on which we ourselves have become dependent. 
It devised and pursued stratagems that exploited existing resentments, while at the same time seeding oncoming generations of America's with doubt and hatred against their nation.

To lure young Americans away from their true identity – 
rooted in respect for God-endowed humanity – 
the orchestrators of war against America deployed the shibboleth of "global citizenship" – 
profanely rooted in the ignis fatuus of transhuman self-apotheosis. They appealed to the innate decency 
(encoded in us by God's design) 
that longs to save and improve upon the world. 
But the project of destructive self-idolization wars against the intrinsic understanding of individual self-government and self-restraint that acknowledges and embraces the responsible vocation of human personality. T
his interferes with the goodwill that calls upon us to wield our share of God's creative power in the world, with due respect for the bonds and limitations that allow for its existence and our own.

Here we see a hint of the reason orchestrators of war against the United States seek strenuously to discourage young people from reading the Bible. 
For the root of their indoctrination in "global citizenship" repeats the Serpent's superfluous prediction to Eve, in the Garden of Eden, that if she transgressed the instruction of God, then 
"you shall be as God, knowing good and evil." 
Given the knowledge God has subsequently shared with us about ourselves, it takes but a little thought to realize what Eve should have responded, 
"But we are already made in the image and likeness of God – evil is no good to us."

But Eve did not know. 
And in our day, neither do the young Americans who have fallen prey to the gospel of evil preached by those who posit the self-sufficiency of human knowledge. 
Alas, they do so despite the fact that the one thing our understanding cannot know on its own is the being beyond existence that informs all things (including us), seeing them as they will be before they come into existence.

This informative being is the substance of all existence, apart from which it neither is, nor does it contain, anything at all. 
Transcend the existence it implies for us and we step into that void, surrendering what we are in exchange for...

As Gertrude Stein observed, "There is no 'there' there." 
We should ponder this as we consider the slogan in the mouths of those who make war against our borders – 
the actual and symbolic lines that define our existence as a nation – 
"No borders; no wall; no USA at all." 
We should think of it as they demand we topple the monuments they call evil, but which include the preeminent founders of our country, whose thoughtful provisions for our polity shaped the institutions that, by God's Providence, preserved our decent sense of right and rights, including liberty.

With our borders erased, our monuments toppled, and our vision as a people focused on horizons bereft of God-endowed humanity, the war against our nation will have achieved its aim. 
Sadly, no one will remain who wonders why we let it go without taking a stand, persisting in our neglect even when it became clear that the threat we face targets our very existence as a people. 
But since what we stand for is the endowment of humanity in God's goodwill, the target is really humanity itself – 
along with the understanding of the universe that especially allows for human existence.

Under the false guise of "global citizenship" those who envisage our destruction now encourage us to forget our nation's inherent identification with humanity, this despite the fact that it accounts for all the most brilliant victories of our history. 
So long as we remembered that identity, we never lacked the courage and moral will to defend the world against the greatest evils in human history. 
Now that we are forgetting it, we are forgetting even to defend ourselves. 
This moral failure is presently our greatest vulnerability.

For without the hunger and thirst for justice that nourishes truly moral will, even the readiest, best-armed forces in the world are liable to fall idly by – 
succumbing to assaults that whistle past them, as the things of the Spirit often do, like the wind. 
This is not a failure of arms. 
It is a failure to remember the purposes of God and act confidently in the ways they authorize us to pursue.
To see more articles by Dr. Keyes, visit his blog at LoyalToLiberty.com and his commentary at WND.com and BarbWire.com.
© Alan Keyes

EXPLOSION OF ANTI-SEMITISM ON THE LEFT

The left and its comrades in the mainstream media have taken the Jewish vote for granted for years. Jews are one of the most reliable constituencies of the Democratic Party. A CNN poll last fall found that nearly 80 percent of Jews voted Democratic in the midterm elections. Only 17 percent voted Republican. Yet anti-Semitism on the left in the U.S. has increased recently, including in the media.
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The reality is, the left has a problem with pointing a finger at the right over the very things it's doing itself.

HARRIS WANTS TO BAN 'RIGHT TO WORK' LAWS

Decides that giving workers options is no good
Published: 2 hours ago
(Reason) Kamala Harris wants to make absolutely sure that we know she’s an authoritarian. Fresh off announcing that as president she would override Congress to get her way on gun policy, the Democratic senator from California and 2020 presidential hopeful said she would use executive power to push for bans on state laws she opposes, too.
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(Reason) Kamala Harris wants to make absolutely sure that we know she’s an authoritarian. Fresh off announcing that as president she would override Congress to get her way on gun policy, the Democratic senator from California and 2020 presidential hopeful said she would use executive power to push...

BILL MAHER: 'NOTHING IS FREE...NEITHER IS COLLEGE'

Leftist comedian challenges his party's conventional support
Published: 48 mins ago
(CAMPUSREFORM) — Leftist comedian Bill Maher challenged liberals over the weekend on his HBO show “Real Time with Bill Maher” on a key 2020 issue: free college.
Unlike many in his party, though, Maher challenged the conventional thinking of “free college,” pointing out that it would only hurt the poor.
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(CAMPUSREFORM) — Leftist comedian Bill Maher challenged liberals over the weekend on his HBO show “Real Time with Bill Maher” on a key 2020 issue: free college. Unlike many in his party, though, Maher challenged the conventional thinking of “free college,” pointing out that it would only h...

FACEBOOK'S 1400 PAGES OF BANNED SPEECH

Over the past 10 years, Facebook’s guidelines on what content should be banned has grown from one page to 1,400, which is more pages than many Bibles
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In 10 years, Facebook's guidelines on what content should be banned has grown from one page to 1,400, which is more pages than the Bible.

NO! THE SYNAGOGUE SHOOTER WAS NOT A CHRISTIAN

Michael Brown says alleged California killer 'brings mockery to the name of Jesus'
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I don’t care what this demented young man claims. I don’t care how much Scripture he can quote or how much Christianese he uses. The man is not a Christian. And I can say that on the authority of the New Testament. Jesus Himself deplores such heinous, murderous, cowardly acts. How can I be so .....

NEW YORK TIMES RIPPED FOR CARTOON

The New York Times has apologized for publishing an anti-Semitic cartoon in its international edition, but many Jews and non-Jews alike are saying “too little too late.”
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The New York Times has apologized for publishing an anti-Semitic cartoon, but many Jews and non-Jews alike are saying "too little too late."

RASHIDA TLAIB: 9/11 MADE ME FEAR AMERICANS

An Islamic member of Congress who made herself instantly famous with a foul-mouthed tirade against President Trump said the Islamic terror attacks of 9/11, in which Muslims killed nearly 3,000 people, made her fear Americans.
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A new member of Congress who made herself instantly famous with a foul-mouthed tirade against President Trump when she was election previously made a statement that the Islamic terror attacks of 9/11, in which Muslims killed about 3,000 innocent Americans, made her fear … Americans.

BIDEN PLAYS THE RACE CARD

Joe Biden


ELECTION 2020

BIDEN PLAYS THE RACE CARD

Pat Buchanan: Strategy is to beat Trump by stuffing him in a box with white supremacists

As he debated with himself whether to enter the race for the 2020 Democratic nomination, Joe Biden knew he had a problem.
As a senator from Delaware in the ’70s, he had bashed busing to achieve racial balance in public schools as stupid and racist.
As chairman of Senate Judiciary in the hearings on the nomination of Clarence Thomas in 1991, Biden had been dismissive of the charges by Anita Hill that the future justice had sexually harassed her.
In 1994, Biden had steered to passage a tough anti-crime bill that led to a dramatic increase in the prison population.
Crime went down as U.S. prisons filled up, but Biden’s bill came to be seen by many African Americans as discriminatory.
What to do? 
Acting on the adage that your best defense is a good offense, Biden decided to tear into President Donald Trump – 
for giving aid and comfort to white racists.
His announcement video began with footage of the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, highlighting Trump’s remark, after the brawl that left a female protester dead, that there were 
“very fine people on both sides.”
“With those words,” said Biden, “the president of the United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it. 
And in that moment, I realized that the threat to this nation was unlike any I had seen in my lifetime.”
Cut it out, Joe. 
This is just not credible.
Even he cannot believe Trump had in mind the neo-Nazis and Klansman chanting, “Jews will not replace us!” when Trump said there were “fine people” on both sides.
If this were truly a road-to-Damascus moment for Biden, calling forth a new resolve to remove so morally obtuse a resident of the Oval Office, why did he have to agonize so long before getting in the race?
And was Charlottesville, a riot involving Klansmen, neo-Nazis and radicals, really a 
“threat to this nation” 
unlike any Biden had seen in a lifetime that covers the Cuban missile crisis, Vietnam, the riots in 100 cities after Martin Luther King’s assassination and Sept. 11?
Even the anti-Trump media seemed skeptical. 
Their first interviews after Biden’s announcement were not about Charlottesville but why it took so long to call Anita Hill to apologize.
Yet there is an unstated message in the Biden video. 
It is this:
With the economy firing on all eight cylinders, and the drive for impeachment losing steam, a new strategy is emerging – 
to take Trump down by stuffing him in a box with white supremacists.
The strategy is not original. 
It was tried, but backfired on Hillary Clinton when she called Trump supporters 
“deplorables … racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic … bigots.”
This didn’t sit well with some white folks in Wisconsin, Michigan and Middle Pennsylvania.
Yet the never-Trumpers seem to think it could work this time.
After Saturday’s attack on the Passover service in Poway, California, which took a woman’s life, Trump denounced the atrocity, expressed his condolences, called Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, who had been wounded, and consoled him for 15 minutes.
“Nevertheless,” wrote the Washington Post Monday in a front-page headline, 
“President’s words push race to fore of campaign.”
“The rise of white nationalist violence during Trump’s tenure is emerging as an issue,” 
said the Post, because Trump “previously played down the threat posed by white nationalism (and) … also has a long history of anti-Muslim remarks.”
The article should be taken seriously. 
For the Post is not only an enemy of Trump but a powerful institutional ally of the left. 
And during presidential campaigns, it doubles as an oppo research and attack arm of the Democratic Party.
“Violence, Hate Crimes Emerge as 2020 Issues” declared the inside headline on the Post story. 
The Post is not talking about customary crimes of violence in America or D.C. – 
robbery, rape, assault, battery, murder – 
a disproportionate share of which are committed by minorities of color.
The crimes that interest the Post are those committed by white males against minorities, which can be used to flesh out the picture of America that preexists in the mind of the left, if not in the real world.
Yet it does appear that issues of race, tribe and identity are becoming an obsession in our politics. 
This weekend, the New York Times faced charges of anti-Semitism for a cartoon of a blind Trump in a skullcap being led by a seeing-eye dog with the face of “Bibi” Netanyahu, who had a Star of David on his collar.
Recoiling under fire, the Times pulled the cartoon and apologized.
On Monday, Rev. Al Sharpton met with “Mayor Pete” Buttigieg. 
Subject of discussion: 
Reparations for slavery, which ended more than a century before the mayor was born.
“All is race,” wrote Disraeli in his novel “Tancred.” 
“There is no other truth.”

Read more at https://www.wnd.com/2019/04/biden-plays-the-race-card/#bXKWeXJRsJL5ZG5J.99