Abby and Dagny on school trip to St Augustine:

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It can and is happening now and here:

It Really CAN Happen Here

By: John Alexander Esq.

Years ago, I took a summer school class in Constitutional Law. It was fascinating and headed me toward law school. The instructor was named Ulf Goebel. He lectured like a machine gun and really knew the U.S. Constitution. But, the most important thing I learned from Professor Goebel was not in the text books.

We had gotten to the section of the Constitution about executive power, Article II, and the President. He told us about elections and powers and checks and balances and all the rest. Then, something really, REALLY strange happened: He stopped.

Dead silence. He just stared straight ahead and did not move. Then he said, “Let me tell you a story.”

He had grown up in Germany, a little boy in the 1930’s when Germany had been the cultural, scientific, intellectual center of the western world. He was a happy little boy, a member of something like the Boy Scouts called the Hitler Youth. He told us about how a small side-line party called the Nazi Party told people what they wanted to hear, had rallies, defied the local laws, tore down statutes of German scholars and heroes, burned flags and books, preached about a better, more just, more fair, more equitable, Germany under the Nazi Party’s leadership.

Everything was blamed on one thing: “The Jews.” “The Jews” were the source of all of Germany’s poverty and destruction. Even Germany’s history was rewritten. “The Jews” were never real Germans after all. They were a plague and had polluted all of German life.

People loved it.

Professor Goebel remembered his father coming home all smiles and laughing because he had killed his first Jew.

The Gestapo and Hitler’s dreaded S.S. thugs took over the cities, confiscated the guns, burned, looted and tore down and destroyed everything that offended the Nazis, that weren’t “pure” enough and had to be eliminated, purged, banished and destroyed, all in the name of a more “equitable” and “pure” German society.

Opposition? They rounded up those who opposed them and shipped them off to death camps or labor camps. People didn’t want to be the next victim so no one objected.

Professor Goebel remembered all of it. If you spoke out against the Nazis you were shunned and arrested for being “Un-German.” It was all done in the name of making Germany more equitable, better, safer, freer, fairer and racially and morally pure.

How the crowds loved the promises and parades! They believed the anti-Jew propaganda that came to them day after day after day after day from all sources: radio, movies, newspapers, posters, parades, flags, and rallies day after day after day.

Professor Goebel had marched with his little Hitler Youth buddies in Nazi parades and festivals. He was there. He saw it all and, like any other kid, soaked it all up.

The German people smiled and cheered as they drank the poison.

He told us that he had seen a beautiful nation turned into a socialist nightmare. And, then, Professor Goebel stopped in the middle of a sentence and stared straight ahead, thinking hard.

Then he said (and I can never forget) these exact words: “Don’t think it can’t happen here.”

Well, guess what.

Instead of “The Jews” being the source of national ills it’s “Racism”, “White Entitlement”, and “White Supremacy.” The values on which America is based must be rewritten. We must ban books from our schools and libraries.

Social institutions that have held us together must be weakened or eliminated. Good-bye to the traditional family. So long to faith in a higher power. Free speech must be confined. Those who disagree must be shouted down. Just like Germany’s Jews contrary ideas must be eliminated.

Instead of the Gestapo and the S.S. thugs it’s Antifa and Black Lives Matter burning, looting, screaming, tearing down and blowing up. Statutes of our national heroes have come down. Christian and Jewish churches spray painted and attacked. If you dare disagree you are publicly branded a racist, a hater.

The left-leaning networks keep the propaganda machine well oiled. Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter shut you up and close you down.

The people who protect us have been shot, precinct houses set on fire, and are made to be the bad guys. Left-wing mayors have looked on, ignoring their own citizens being burned out of a business. Federal courthouses attacked. Seattle burned. Small businesses trashed. Dreams destroyed. Life savings lost. People killed in the riots. It’s all done in the name of “purifying America.” Sound familiar?

The Nazi party in Professor Goebel’s Germany is today’s Democrat Party which has now turned socialist, radical, extreme and trying to take over our U.S. government. Radicalism is taught from pre-K through PhD programs.

AOC recently said, “It’s time to radicalize.” And, they’re off and running: packing the Supreme Court, eliminating the electoral college, admitting two new Democrat states, opening the borders and the beat goes on.

Today’s Gestapo are the rioters organized and paid for by the left- wing radicals and big corporations. Antifa and Black Lives Matter are getting pretty good at causing mayhem, burning and looting, and attacking cops, all in the name of ending “racism, white supremacy and entitlement.”

Today’s propaganda machines are Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, ABC, CBS, NPR and other left-wing networks, the New York times, L.A. Times, Washington Post, USA Today and other newspapers, chat rooms, on and on and on and on until people actually believe that the socialist radicals can make us all happy.

Just smile and drink the poison.

America must be recreated into a Socialist Wonderland.

Hitler and Stalin and Castro and Mao are smiling.

Here is the worst part: Ulf Goebel was right.

Look around.

It IS happening here.

Unless we all (you included) wake up in time to stop it.

John Alexander is an Attorney, admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court

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If you do not take an interest

in the affairs of your government,

then you are doomed to live under

the rule of fools.

Plato

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Let's hear it for the radical progressives and their whacky ideas. You would almost think they are in cahoots with the mortuary people.

A dozen US cities set annual murder records with three weeks left in 2021

By Jesse O’Neill

Philadelphia, the nation's sixth largest city, recorded 523 murders since December 7. AP / Matt Rourke

At least 12 major US cities have already set historical murder records in 2021, even as three weeks remain in the year.

Philadelphia, the nation’s sixth largest city, recorded 523 murders as of Dec. 7, surpassing its formal grim milestone of 500 murders, which was set in 1990, police data showed.

The City of Brotherly Love had recorded significantly more murders in 2021 than New York City’s 443, despite having approximately six times fewer residents.

“It’s terrible to every morning get up and have to go look at the numbers and then look at the news and see the stories. It’s just crazy. It’s just crazy and this needs to stop,” Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, a Democrat, reportedly said after his city broke its own infamous benchmark.

Columbus, Ohio; Indianapolis, Indiana; Louisville, Kentucky; St Paul, Minnesota; Portland, Oregon; Tucson, Arizona; Toledo, Ohio; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Austin, Texas; Rochester, New York and Albuquerque, New Mexico also had their deadliest years on record, according to ABC News.

Five of those cities topped notorious benchmarks that were set in 2020, the article said. All of them were led by Democratic mayors, as are the vast majority of US cities.

Nationally, homicides rose by about 30% in 2020 compared to the previous year, according to FBI data. It was the largest one-year jump since the bureau began keeping records. Guns were used in more than three-quarters of the murders, statistics showed.

Although violent crime had gone up in New York City during the pandemic, the boroughs were far safer than in 1990, the city’s deadliest year, when 2,626 murders were recorded, according to the NYPD.

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Experts have said the recent rise in national crime in smaller cities, suburban and rural areas, came even as the country’s biggest cities had become much safer since the crack cocaine epidemic several decades ago.

“In the ’90s, New York and Los Angeles accounted for 13.5% of all murders nationally. Last year, it was under 4%,” data consultant Jeff Asher told NPR in September. “So it’s a lot more diffuse than it was in the ’90s.”

The US city with the most homicides was Chicago, the nation’s third largest. Chicago’s 753 murders so far to date this year were still well behind its 1970 record of 954 killings, according to ABC.

Some criminologists have blamed the soaring murder rate on pandemic-related stress, criminals having too much free time, political and racial conflicts exacerbated by the police murder of George Floyd, and the subsequent retirement of police officers en masse.

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The University and College Trojan Horses:

Overwhelming Number of Diversity Officers at US Colleges Hold Anti-Israel Views, Study Says

By Adam Kredo (Washington Free Beacon)

By An overwhelming number of diversity, equity, and inclusion officers at American universities, who are ostensibly hired to create a welcoming space on campus, use social media to bash Israel and Jews, according to a study.

Researchers reviewed the Twitter feeds of 741 diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) officials at 65 different U.S. universities to determine their attitudes on Israel and, for purposes of comparison, China. They found that DEI staff “tweeted, retweeted, or liked almost three times as many tweets about Israel as tweets about China.” Of the tweets in question, 96 percent were critical of Israel, and 62 percent of the China-centered tweets were favorable. “The overwhelming pattern is that DEI staff at universities pay a disproportionately high amount of attention to Israel and nearly always attack Israel,” the study concludes.

The study, Inclusion Delusion: The Antisemitism of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Staff at Universities, was released this week by the Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based think tank, and provides one of the first evidence-based looks into the anti-Israel attitudes of campus diversity, equity, and inclusion officials. The average U.S. college employs 45 DEI officials, and that number is growing as schools seek to combat hatred on campus.

Jay Greene, one of the study’s authors, told the Washington Free Beacon that his findings indicate that DEI staff are acting as political activists, rather than combating bias and creating a safe space for all college students as their job dictates. “We have documented, established the fact, that DEI staff are overwhelmingly hostile to Israel in a way that clearly shows anti-Semitic motivations,” Greene said.

The findings come as anti-Semitic attacks on students have skyrocketed in recent years, putting the pro-Israel community on edge. There were at least 244 documented anti-Semitic incidents during the 2020-2021 school year, compared with 181 during the previous year.

After compiling the Twitter feeds of the 741 DEI officials, researchers found 605 tweets that bash Israel and just 28 that praise the Jewish state.

In one case, a Multicultural Student Center staffer wrote, “Condemn the Apartheid State of Israel for their Human Rights Violations against the Palestinian.” One tweet from an assistant director of an Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity said, “No apology for a pro apartheid Zionist organization holding a reception? I guess there’s no justice for Queer Palestinians here.”

The report withholds the identities of these individuals but quotes a litany of similar tweets that bash Israel and employ anti-Semitic language. Jews, in many cases, are accused of committing “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing” against the Palestinians. One DEI official working for Graduate School Diversity Programs liked a tweet that stated, “Y’all love to add the word liberal in front of the most evil things and it’s unhingedddd. Wtf is a liberal Zionist? What’s next? Liberal Nazi? Liberal colonizer? Liberal murderer? Liberal imperialist? Liberal fascist?”

Greene—who authored the report along with James D. Paul, research director at the Educational Freedom Institute—said the hostility toward Israel and Jews is a product of a radical liberal ideology in which all issues are viewed through the lens of “oppressor and oppressed.”

“That ideology is one that the world can be divided into oppressor and oppressed. Then, it’s a question of which groups belong in the ‘oppressor’ category and which belong in the ‘oppressed,'” Greene explained. “They believe the ‘oppressors’ deserve the harsh treatment they receive and the ‘oppressed’ deserve the assistance they can offer.” Jews, he added, “inevitably get put into the ‘oppressor’ group and once they’re put into that group it justifies the harsh treatment they receive.”

Greene and his coauthor recommend that American universities undertake a wholesale reevaluation of DEI staff given the data that indicate these school officials are not living up to their job requirements.

“Truly achieving diversity, especially ideological diversity, and helping all students feel included requires a dramatic change in how universities approach DEI. Existing staff need to be dramatically reduced, and the remaining DEI infrastructure needs to be reoriented toward serving the true purposes of diversity and inclusion,” the study concludes.
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No doubt Milley is warning Iran:

Defense Minister Benny Gantz said that he notified US officials during meetings in Washington that he had instructed the Israel Defense Forces to get ready for a strike against Iran.

'Losing patience' with Tehran »

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Middle East and Other Musings

Sunday, December 12, 2021

It is Happening Here. Murder Rate Rises In 12 Democrat Run Cities. College Trojan Horses. Will Milley Spill The " Chick Peas?"

A dozen US cities set annual murder records with three weeks left in 2021

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