July 6, 2017 Pseudonyms Luke Ford No sacred cows.

Pseudonyms

Posted on July 6, 2017 by Luke Ford

David Frum tweets: “My view: if you have something to say online, you should sign your name. If you won’t sign your name, you shouldn’t say it.”

Steve Sailer writes:

When I started writing professionally a little over a quarter of a century ago, I seriously considered using a pseudonym like Eric Blair / George Orwell. But I couldn’t figure out how to cash checks made out to a pseudonym, so I eventually junked the idea. But I generally wish I had gone with a pen name, for reasons that are obvious at this point to me, but I won’t mention them because they are so obvious.

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* Goy: And then they tell us to watch what we say on Facebook and elsewhere because of possible adverse consequences.

In short: Get your mind right or shut up.

* The goys at MPC throw shade at you (from the Right), but they can be pure at “our thing” because they write under pseudonyms.

* A name, by itself, doesn’t amount to much. The problem is once you have the legal name of a person it is possible to locate their physical address. David Frum might not be so enthusiastic if, e.g., he were in Florida and got a minor traffic violation. Here the county clerk would post that fact at the county clerk website and it would reveal Frum’s home address, drivers license number and even his phone number. As a political polemicist Frum might not be too happy about that as stalkers, fanatics and people who just want to have a word with him might come by. Frum would not know their identities so his idea would leave him at a great disadvantage should some undesirable event happen.

* In 1980s communist Hungary, if you criticized the regime, you could be hounded out of your job, harassed or beaten up by the police, and occasionally even arrested. Some people committed suicide. Very rarely some people were sentenced to relatively short prison terms, but their lives could be destroyed without having to resort to that. By the 1980s, nobody was executed any longer.

The soft totalitarianism is getting harder. I mean, there’s still more liberty than in 1980s Hungary (it’s probably much easier to fly under the radar, and even some prominent badthinkers can easily survive the regime), but whereas 1980s Hungary was usually moving in the direction of more freedom and less oppression, we now seem to be constantly moving towards less freedom and more oppression. The communist regime in Hungary was also getting more and more coy about oppression, our elites now are getting more and more open with their threats and demands to curtail freedom of expression.

* Typically to be professionally pseudononymous I think you get a trusted lawyer to act as your agent and the checks go to him. But I’m not sure how well that would work in today’s environment where the lawyer would be subject to the same consequences even for associating with your badthink.

I can’t fully express how annoyed it makes me to read comments like Frum’s from people who never think let alone say anything controversial. I wish they had enough self awareness or humanity to feel embarrassed by the ridiculousness of what they are saying but they don’t.

* Here is an interesting possibility: one day soon even anonymous commenters (like me) will risk being doxed by big data software that will suck up huge volumes of commentary and use idiosyncrasies in your writing style, along with other hints (e.g., characteristic arguments, or anecdotes you’ve used more than once), to link anything you’ve ever written under one name to anything you’ve ever written under any other. Anyone who has ever used their real name on the Internet will be at risk!

* Justine Sacco wishes she’d used a pseudonym.

* Well, in 2017 America, here’s what can (and likely will) happen if you publicly challenge the Cult of Equality theocracy (see if notice any similarities.):

1. Hounded out of your job. Check
2. Harassed. Check.
3. Beaten up by the police. Hey, look at that, we have a winner. No, the police will not beat you up, though you could get punched in the face by an overzealous SJW.

Here are a few more things that could happen to you:

4. Lose your friends and be ostracized by your community
5. Lose your wife and kids due to losing your job and friends
6. Lose your home and savings due to points 1 and 5

So, let’s see, if you speak out, there’s a reasonable chance that you can end up a jobless, bankrupt, divorced, broken man who rarely gets to see his children. Who needs police thugs and gulags? That is plenty to prevent all but the rare person from speaking out.

Steve and the Derb are marvels, but they found a writing niche that can’t be exploited by large numbers of people. The rest of us wouldn’t make it.

No, this silliness will hold its grip for a long time to come and will only fall when the disorder creeps into the homes and neighborhoods of upper middle class whites, which is still a long way off.

* Which survey of employee attitudes is likelier to get accurate responses: one in which the responding employees must use their real names, or one in which the responding employees can remain anonymous?

* I’ve encountered the attitude enough that it’s clearly some odd point of pride to use their real name. But is a luxury point of view.

David Frum makes his living from his thoughts, which are conveniently very “safe” and fashionable, even if it doesn’t feel that way at times. We who have bad thoughts, no trust funds, and non writing occupations know that the obvious risks of real names are not worth it.

* Yes, David. In a country where posting a photo of yourself in a MAGA hat on Facebook could very easily ruin your career, what you say makes a great deal of sense.

Maybe if I had his Jewish privilege I would feel safe too. But as a white male, I am the hunted, not the hunter.

* But the SPLC and ADL have heard of his writings, and they pay people to keep tabs on and cause trouble for those who write things the SPLC and ADL do not like.

The WASP Elites active in politics also know Sailer’s name, and they too dislike what he says. Most of them – see the Bush family history, for example) have histories of using wealth and connections to buy out those who voice what they oppose, and failing that to ruin them financially and socially.

* There was a website started a couple of years ago to publicize people who had made racist Facebook or Twitter comments and put pressure on their employers to fire them. These were mostly low level service workers and most them had been fired. The internet makes it much easier to go after people no matter how insignificant they are and destroy their livelihood.

* Does that apply to 1940s resistance press, David (((Frum)))? Or anti-slavery pamphlets? Or pre-1960s invective against Christianity and tradition?

Is there going to be a re-evaluation of the (until very recently) countless jewish free speech proponents?

* On the bright side, no pseudonym = no threat of CNN style blackmail doxxing, or the “Seek & Destroy this Mad Brute!” campaign the Scottish Daily Record launched against Youtube blogger Millennial Woes.

* I think it’s pretty awesome that you use your real name, I hope there haven’t been overly bad consequences for you, other than being unpersoned and frozen out of the MSM.

The commentariat says probably more than you’d want to say anyway.

Even being rich is no great protection. Look at Donald Sterling. He’s even Jewish, for god’s sake. If an uber-rich geriatric Jew can’t say what he thinks, what hope have the rest of us got? This is why we crawl under the rocks in the first place, Frum, you a**hole.

* The obvious reasons are the nontrivial chance that some member of the Coalition of the Fringes will act on the SPLC’s designation of Sailer as a one-man hate-group and carry out some vigilante anti-racist action on his person, property or family.

I don’t know how much ostracism Sailer has faced in his meatspace life because of what he’s written.

* What do you suppose Frum thinks of the secret ballot?

It was devised to protect the privacy and anonymity of the voter’s choice, so that it might not be influenced by social pressures or the fear of retaliation. In other words, a desire for secrecy in voting is motivated by the same concerns as are anonymous or pseudonymous expressions of opinion.

The labor unions’ promotion of “card check” over secret balloting in workplace organization elections under the last administration is a recent example of the left’s hostility to anonymous expression of opinion. The unions want card check because they know it is much more difficult for an employee to refuse to sign the card, aware that union organizers and his fellow workers will know he did so, than for him to vote against unionization by secret ballot.

Following Frum’s logic, one’s opinion as expressed by his vote during an election should be as much a matter of public record as his writings.

* Years ago the blogger Half Sigma (formerly known as Calico Cat, now known as Lion of the Blogosphere) created a fake blogging persona as “Libertarian Girl” and immediately racked up a pretty big audience.

* Also, if you DO sign your name and your thoughts fall outside of a narrow window of acceptable opinions, you will be personally ruined and will never be able to support your family again. And to reiterate, you have absolute freedom to speak your mind in this country.

* This is from the man who presumed to write paleo-cons out of the list of conservatives, becuase of their rejection of a bogus war which he helped to cook up.

* Gavin McInnes doesn’t get that he’s chosen to make a living being a controversialist who pulls edgy pranks and says naughty things. He’s carved out a well-worn niche for himself that even the dullest normie can understand. They get that some people say some “crazy stuff” and they’re allowed to do so because they’re journalists or comedians or celebrities of some kind. The same dull-witted normie would not, on the other hand, understand it if Gavin McInnes were a local bank manager, swimming pool salesman or assistant prof and said online 1/20th of what McInnes does. They’d have their ass handed to them by HR.

Matriarchal managerialsim and late stage consumer capitalism does not get free speech, except in approved spaces and cases. McInnes is one of those cases.

* An alternative explanation is that Frum isn’t concerned about threats of physical violence or career ruin from the Left because he’s part of the controlled opposition, which helps the Left consolidate their gains after a half-hearted and engineered-to-fail resistance. He’s determined to be seen as one of the few “respectable” Republicans, where the Republicans’ political enemies control the grant of respectability. He augments his respectability by enforcing the Left’s rules and declaring the Republican base and Right wing dissidents un-persons.

One of the other bright lights of the controlled opposition is Nicole Wallace. During the general election Presidential Campaign she criticized Trump’s appeal, stating (paraphrased) “would you even want to win with only white votes?” Recall that this woman (along with Frum) was in the Whitehouse of Bush the Lesser, and a linchpin of the McCain/Palin Campaign, the latter of which was a sort of engineered failure in search of virtue points for midwifing the first black President into existence. The campaign, advised by the likes of Wallace, advised against using Mr. Obama’s past racial hucksterism and radical associations while helping the opposing campaign to malign any real opposition to Mr. Obama as a pack of inveterate racists. In sum, we all got to go through a kabuki exercise in order that Wallace and others like her could receive pats on the back from their peers for running an “honorable (and doomed to fail) campaign.”

* A person’s name is the sweetest sound to them. Don’t know about pseudonyms. When Mark Stein makes reference to “Steve Sailer” while guest-hosting for Limbaugh, the most listened to radio program in the U.S., it would be such a rush to hear your name on the radio as you are driving your 15-year old Honda shitcan along the 101, no?

* One of the other aspects of the anonymity of platforms, especially twitter, is that it is a rare opportunity to interact with the ruling class where people like Frum can’t employ their credentials to dismiss challenges to their ideas and attitudes. Someone like Chris Cuomo really thinks he’s achieved his current station in life by virtue of his merit, rather than the networking power of a long-standing political dynasty. So when Cuomo tweets something that demonstrates the depth and scope of his stupidity and ignorance, he immediately gets backtalk setting him straight and embarrassing him – all from an egg avatar with 120 followers, most of which are porn bots.

This is the sort of thing that leads to a crisis of status – viz, how can it be that there are people out there seemingly without my credentials and achievements who know more than me? How can they disregard the authority of my station? If they exist, is my place secure?

* In (slight) defence of David Frum he actually is willing to stand by his opinions even when they aren’t popular. Now he is mostly an effective social climber to be sure but consider his opinions on immigration. As Steve has long pointed out he is one of the few neoconservatives who has been on the right side of that debate. He doesn’t mention the cultural/racial stuff but he does get into the economics and the crime aspect of it as well. Not sure why he isn’t criticised for it given how verboten it is but it is certainly not a popular position.

Likewise he did get kicked out of the Conservative Movement to some extent by giving into healthcare reform in 2009. Granted, it was a position that endeared him to liberals and his unorthodoxies tend to find him squarely in the centrist spectrum. By the same token he still defends the Iraq war, a lost position today, on the other hand that endears him to neocons who are still reeling.

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Jews, Opium and the Kimono: Story of the Jews in the Far East (2003)

Posted on July 4, 2017 by Luke Ford

From page 72:

[In 1932, Jewish] refugees were amazed to encounter the prosperous local community and to realise that Shanghai remained the only city open in the world, where visas were not required.

Page 79:

[White] Russian officers taught the Japanese to distinguish between Russians and Jews. They supplied them with copies of the notorious ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’, explaining the book’s contents… The stories about the strange, homeless people wandering across continents for thousands of years aroused Japanese curiosity and wonder… As a homogeneous state, Japan had no history of minority populations… Anti-Semitism aroused in the Japanese a mixture of admiration and curiosity, together with cautious concern.

From Wikipedia:

Memorandums written in 1930s Imperial Japan proposed settling Jewish refugees escaping Nazi-occupied Europe in Japanese-controlled territory. As interpreted by Marvin Tokayer and Swartz (who used the term “Fugu Plan”, “河豚計画”, that was used by the Japanese to describe this plan), they proposed that large numbers of Jewish refugees should be encouraged to settle in Manchukuo or Japan-occupied Shanghai,[1] thus gaining the benefit of the supposed economic prowess of the Jews and also convincing the United States, and specifically American Jewry, to grant political favor and economic investment into Japan. The idea was partly based on the acceptance of the The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as being a genuine document by at least part of the Japanese leadership.[2]
The detailed scheme included how the settlement would be organized and how Jewish support, both in terms of investment and actual settlers, would be garnered. In June and July 1939, the memorandums “Concrete Measures to be Employed to Turn Friendly to Japan the Public Opinion Far East Diplomatic Policy Close Circle of President of USA by Manipulating Influential Jews in China,” and “The Study and Analysis of Introducing Jewish Capital” came to be reviewed and approved by the top Japanese officials in China.
Methods of attracting both Jewish and American favor were to include the sending of a delegation to the United States, to introduce American rabbis to the similarities between Judaism and Shinto, and the bringing of rabbis back to Japan in order to introduce them and their religion to the Japanese. Methods were also suggested for gaining the favor of American journalism and Hollywood.
The majority of the documents were devoted to the settlements, allowing for the settlement populations to range in size from 18,000, up to 600,000. Details included the land size of the settlement, infrastructural arrangements, schools, hospitals etc. for each level of population. Jews in these settlements were to be given complete freedom of religion, along with cultural and educational autonomy. While the authors were wary of affording too much political autonomy, it was felt that some freedom would be necessary to attract settlers, as well as economic investment.
The Japanese officials asked to approve the plan insisted that while the settlements could appear autonomous, controls needed to be placed to keep the Jews under surveillance. It was feared that the Jews might somehow penetrate into the mainstream Japanese government and economy, influencing or taking command of it in the same way that they, according to the forged Protocols of the Elders of Zion, had done in many other countries. The world Jewish community was to fund the settlements and supply the settlers…
Originally the idea of a small group of Japanese government and military officials who saw a need for a population to be established in Manchukuo (otherwise known as Manchuria) and help build Japan’s industry and infrastructure there, the primary members of this group included Captain Koreshige Inuzuka and Captain Norihiro Yasue, who became known as “Jewish experts”, the industrialist Yoshisuke Aikawa and a number of officials in the Kwantung Army, known as the “Manchurian Faction”.
Their decision to attract Jews to Manchukuo came from a belief that the Jewish people were wealthy and had considerable political influence. Jacob Schiff, a Jewish-American banker who, thirty years earlier, offered sizable loans to the Japanese government which helped it win the Russo-Japanese War, was well known. In addition, a Japanese translation of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion led some Japanese authorities to grossly overestimate the economic and political powers of the Jewish people, and their interconnectedness across the world due to the Jewish diaspora. It was assumed that by rescuing European Jews from the Nazis, Japan would gain unwavering and eternal favor from American Jewry.
In 1922, Yasue and Inuzuka had returned from the Japanese Siberian Intervention, aiding the White Russians against the Red Army where they first learned of the Protocols and came to be fascinated by the alleged powers of the Jewish people. Over the course of the 1920s, they wrote many reports on the Jews, and traveled to the British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel) to research the subject and speak with Jewish leaders such as Chaim Weizmann and David Ben-Gurion. Yasue translated the Protocols into Japanese. The pair managed to get the Foreign Ministry of Japan interested in the project. Every Japanese embassy and consulate was requested to keep the ministry informed of the actions and movements of Jewish communities in their countries. Many reports were received but none proved the existence of a global conspiracy.

From page 90:

A certain Captain Inotsuke wrote an interesting article on the subject, explaining it in the context of Japanese folklore. The fugu fish, much relished by the Japanese, has a lethally poisonous gland; when the gland is removed, the fish becomes tasty and nourishing. Inotsuke explained that the Japanese had the ability to remove the Jews’ capacity for destruction and leave only their usefulness.

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Former EDL leader Tommy Robinson holds secret meeting with Manchester Jews

Posted on July 4, 2017 by Luke Ford

From the Jewish Chronicle in London:

Members of Manchester’s Jewish community held a secret meeting with Tommy Robinson, the former leader of the far-right English Defence League.

The controversial meeting, which took place in Prestwich last week, was billed as a charity fundraiser, but also saw Mr Robinson deliver a speech outlining his extreme views on Islam…

Jeremy Newmark, Jewish Labour Movement chairman, confirmed local activists from his organisation had been left “outraged” after learning of the event.

Mr Newmark told the JC: “No ifs, no buts, Tommy Robinson is an enemy of our community. He is part of the same political tradition as the National Front and the BNP.”

Mr Robinson has long attempted to court British Jews and has travelled to Israel, proclaiming himself to be a “Zionist”.

In a statement, the Board of Deputies condemned last week’s meeting saying: “Tommy Robinson’s record of anti-Muslim provocation means that he could never be a partner of a respectable or mainstream Jewish organisation.”

…A spokesman for the left-wing Jewish Voice group said: “Tommy Robinson has been attempting to co-opt the Jewish community, trying to play on antisemitism among the Muslim community to cause tension between the two communities.”

Mr Robinson confirmed on Twitter that the meeting took place.

“This was from the talk I gave to Manchester Jewish community. Thank you guys for the donations,” he wrote.

In a further post today, Mr Robinson added: “People actually think I’m a Jew. I’ve gone full 360 over last 8 yrs. From people thinking I hate Jews to people thinking I am a Jew.”

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Chabad’s Messianic Doctrine Has Become Acceptable

Posted on July 4, 2017 by Luke Ford

In his first lecture on R. Yaakov Moshe Harlap Feb. 28, 2017, Marc B. Shapiro says: “A few years ago, I wrote on the Sephorim blog that the messianic doctrine of Chabad is now acceptable doctrine in Orthodoxy. I’m speaking sociologically, not religiously. Everyone attacked me.

“Just go to India and you will see that it is an accepted doctrine. Just go to the Chabad house in Delhi. Everyone eats there. Go to Florence. The Chabad house in Florence, the frum (Orthodox) eat there. They don’t want to eat at the regular kosher restaurant because Chabad is stricter. In the big window of the Chabad house in Florence, there’s a big picture of the rebbe [proclaiming him the Messiah]. In the big restaurant in Venice, everyone eats there, is messianic shul and the restaurant is run by a messianic rabbi. The Litvishe daven in these places, the Hasidim daven there.”

“I don’t understand how adults can believe this stuff, how actual live adult Jews can believe this nonsense but they do, but we’re all sitting there and enjoying the hospitality and we’re all singing and the two Chabad rabbis and the children sing this nonsense [that the Rebbe is moshiach].”

“Dovid Lichtenstein used to live in Lakewood. He now lives in Monsey. He’s a billionaire. He did well in finance. Last Saturday night, David Berger was on the show and they got testy. I disagree with David Berger. I even debated him once publicly. Dovid Lichtenstein did not have a clue what David Berger was saying… Berger repeated himself five times and Lichtenstein couldn’t grasp what David Berger was saying and Lichtenstein started giving Berger mussar that he was like the Nazis…and it became a shouting match.”

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The World’s Ten Happiest Countries Are White

Posted on July 4, 2017 by Luke Ford

Chile and Costa Rica make the top twenty and they are two of the most European countries in Latin America.

As the United States becomes less white, it becomes less happy though it has become more happy since the election of Donald Trump.

REPORT: “The U.S. has seen its happiness slide happiness over the last decade. In 2007, it ranked No. 3 among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries. Last year, it was 19th, down from 13th the year before. “The predominant political discourse in the United States is aimed at raising economic growth, with the goal of restoring the American Dream and the happiness that is supposed to accompany it. But the data show conclusively that this is the wrong approach,” the report concluded.”

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Australia: The Madness Continues

Posted on July 4, 2017 by Luke Ford

From the Gatestone Institute:

“While terrorism’s origins have many factors, Islamic terrorists, as heinous as their acts are, they are often merely doing what the scriptures are telling them.” — Tanveer Ahmed, Muslim psychiatrist.

In Australia, according to judges, women and children must accept sexual assaults because it is part of the “Islamic culture” of their attackers. It would seem that in parts of Australia, this “Islamic culture” has replaced the rule of law. None of the above, however, seems to be enough to appease Muslim sentiments. In March, Anne Aly, Australia’s first female Muslim MP, said that racial-discrimination laws should be expanded to cover insults based on religion as well.

In March, a teacher at Punchbowl Primary School quit her job after she and her family received death threats from the children in the school, with some of them saying they would behead her. The teacher’s complaints to the New South Wales Department of Education were dismissed.

During the month of Ramadan alone, the world witnessed 160 Islamic attacks in 29 countries, in which 1627 people were murdered and 1824 injured. Nevertheless, the dual efforts to deny any links between Islamic terrorism and Islam on the one hand, and the efforts to accommodate Islam to the greatest extent possible on the other, seem to continue unaffected by the realities of Islamic terrorism — in Australia, as well, which is experiencing its own share of sharia and jihad.

At the end of May, the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) called on the Australian Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade to:

“…include a recommendation in its report that disavows the notion that there is any inherent link between Islam and terrorism… The Committee should condemn any politician who refers divisively (expressly or implied) to any religious or ethnic group for the purpose of political gain.”

PHAA Chief Executive Michael Moore said that there is no inherent link between any religion and acts of terror:

“When you look at terrorism and the IRA, I don’t think many people blamed Christianity for terrorism when clearly there was an overlay. In fact there’s nothing inherent in Christianity that links to terrorism”.

Since when are public health officials qualified to make authoritative statements on the theology of Islam or its linkage to Islamic terrorism?

Muslim psychiatrist Tanveer Ahmed, would disagree. Speaking in June about the Australian media’s disproportionate focus on “Islamophobia” he said:

“While terrorism’s origins have many factors, Islamic terrorists, as heinous as their acts are, they are often merely doing what the scriptures are telling them.”

While Australian officials rush to declare that Islamic terrorism has nothing to do with Islam, revealingly they have referred to Islam or Islamic culture to exonerate Muslims on several occasions. In April, despite pleading guilty to sexually assaulting eight women and girls on a beach in Queensland, a young Afghan man was acquitted. The reason for the acquittal: “Cultural differences”. According to the judge, “seeing girls in bikinis is different to the environment in which he grew up”. The teen received two years’ probation without being convicted of anything.

Similarly, in 2014 , a registered sex-offender and pedophile, Ali Jaffari, was accused of attempted child-abduction. However, Australian police dropped all charges against him, after a magistrate told prosecutors that he would have difficulties finding Jaffari guilty. According to news reports:

Magistrate Ron Saines said if he was hearing the matter, he would have reasonable doubt, citing “cultural differences” as one factor, which would result in the charges being dismissed.

A recent taxpayer-funded study about domestic violence is an example of the trend, in certain parts of Australia, towards replacing Australian values with Islamic ones. According to the study, while refugees are grateful for, “peace, freedom, healthcare and education”, the “major point of contention” is the issue of women’s and children’s rights:

The three-year study, funded by the Australian Research Council, concludes: “Many refugees see some human rights, in particular those relating to women and children’s rights, as detrimental to their successful settlement in Australia.”

It says some refugees argue “women’s and child’s rights contravene the cultural values, norms and mores” of their ethnic groups.

The study called for “cultural sensitivity and understanding of the impact on male refugees and… feelings of alienation and disappointment”.

Domestic violence in Muslim households is already a hot topic in Australia. Keysar Trad, a former President of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, told Sky News in February that an angry husband can beat his wife as “a last resort”. In April, the women’s branch of Islamic group Hizb Ut-Tahrir posted a video from an all-women’s event in Sydney to Facebook, in which two women demonstrated wife beating and called it “a beautiful blessing”.

Accommodating Islam in Australia takes other forms as well. For Ramadan this year, Muslim inmates of two maximum-security prisons in the State of Victoria were given taxpayer-funded microwave ovens in their cells for the month, so they could heat their food up after sunset, when they can break their fast. The issue apparently caused unrest among the non-Muslims in the jails.

In Auburn, female Muslim swimming pool users were given a separate curtained pool, so that they could swim without male pool users seeing them. Belgravia Leisure, which operates the facility, said, “the curtain was installed to overcome cultural barriers and encourage Muslim women to use the pool”. The company’s general manager, Anthony McIntosh, said it was “a move to make the pool accessible for all cultural groups”.

None of the above, however, seems to be enough to appease Muslim sentiments. In March, Anne Aly, Australia’s first female Muslim Member of Parliament, said that racial-discrimination laws should be expanded to cover insults based on religion as well. The Grand Mufti of Australia, Ibrahim Abu Mohammed, has voiced similar opinions.

In June, the Islamic Council of Victoria made a submission to a Parliamentary inquiry, requesting from the government:

“To create safe spaces urgently needed by Muslim youth to meet and talk about a range of issues in emotional terms, where they can be frank and even use words, which in a public space would sound inflammatory”.

In other words, Muslims should have a taxpayer-funded “safe space” where they can incite unhindered against Australians?

Some Muslims have decided to create a “safe space” on their own, segregated from the rest of Australian society. In Brisbane, the Australian International Islamic College is planning an exclusively Muslim enclave, including a mosque covering 1,970 square meters; a three-storey elder-care and residential building, 3,000 square meters of retail space and 120 residential apartments, in addition to new classrooms and a childcare center for 2,000 students. The existing site is already home to the college, which caters to students from kindergarten to 12th grade. So much for “multiculturalism”.

Clearly, the appeasement is not working. It never has. Appeasement, in fact, usually seems to have the opposite effect. Here are a few recent examples of how Australian policies have been working out lately:

In April, a Christian man in Sydney wearing a cross was attacked by a Muslim gang of youths, who, while screaming “Allah’, and “f**k Jesus”, threw his cross to the ground and violently assaulting him. According to Baptist Pastor George Capsis, this was the fourth such attack on a Christian in Sydney in the past six months.

In Sydney’s Punchbowl Boys High School — one of 19 schools in New South Wales identified as at risk of radicalizing Muslim students — students were “pressured to attend daily prayer meetings, lectures on the Koran and even cut their hair by peers badgering them to conform to Islam”.

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NJ.com: ‘3 more Lakewood houses raided in multi-million dollar welfare fraud investigation’

Posted on July 3, 2017 by Luke Ford

I had a Jewish girlfriend who was warned by cops in Los Angeles to keep her dog on a leash. When she thought they were gone, she let her dog off the leash. The police came back and wrote her a ticket and she went off on them until I persuaded her to shut up.

When the government warns you to stop abusing their welfare system and you keep doing it anyway, that’s chutzpah. Too many citizens of the United States feel no loyalty to this country and to its laws. Rather, America is just something for them to use and abuse.

As a Seventh-Day Adventist, I was raised that it was a shameful thing to take welfare, that you should treat law enforcement with respect, and that you should render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s and unto God that which is God’s.

Many of the best people I know are Orthodox Jews and they are appalled by stories like the following. Appalled, but not surprised.

From NJ.com June 28:

The statement said the latest residents arrested in the raids are accused of obtaining a combined $674,537 in illegal benefits from programs such as Medicaid, SNAP food assistance, HUD and Social Security, bringing the two-day total of alleged illegally obtained benefits to nearly $2 million.
“The nature of the criminal events investigated and basic charges allege that the defendants misrepresented their income, declaring amounts that were low enough to receive the program’s benefits, when in fact their income was too high to qualify,” the statement said. “The investigations revealed that the defendants’ received income from numerous sources that they failed to disclose on required program applications. As a result, they received benefits that they were not entitled to under these programs for themselves or family members.”
…In a statement issued after the Monday raids, Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph Coronato said his office gave “clear guidance” to the Lakewood community in 2015 on “what is considered financial abuse of these programs.”
“Financial assistance programs are designed to alleviate family hardships for those truly in need,” Coronato said in a statement issued on Monday. “Those who choose to ignore those warnings by seeking to illegally profit on the backs of taxpayers will pay the punitive price of their actions.”

How else can Torah Yidden afford to raise ten kids each and study Torah all day? They can get a job just like the rest of us. These people are parasites. They make all Jews look bad. They make Torah stink. This is what Torah study and observance leads to? Massive theft from the goyim. Great.

Feds say these 4 Lakewood millionaires defrauded welfare programs — here’s how
Two couples hid more than $1.5 million each while collecting tens of thousands of dollars in Medicaid and other benefits as part of an elaborate scheme in Lakewood, according to criminal complaints filed against them by the FBI.
Mordechai and Rachel Sorotzkin were arrested by agents on Monday along with Yocheved and Shimon Nussbaum on federal criminal complaints, since unsealed, that accuse them of stealing government funds from a variety of federal benefit programs, including Medicaid.
The Sorotzkins and Nussbaums were charged as a result of what investigators described as a wide-ranging probe of benefits fraud in the Ocean County community that also led county prosecutors to bring state charges against two other couples, including Rabbi Zalmen Sorotzkin — Mordechai’s brother — and his wife Tzipporah.

For thousands of people now, when they hear of “Lakewood”, the first thing they will think of is fraud.

Lakewood fraud arrests spark anti-Semitic sentiment
The social media comments on Facebook and other sites were raw, hateful.
The outpouring of invectives was sparked by the arrest last week of 14 Lakewood residents, including the rabbi of a congregation, on public assistance fraud charges. The early morning raids ignited a firestorm of anti-Semitism against a municipality of 100,000 that has a majority of Orthodox Jewish residents.
“The allegations and the charges levied against (the defendants) have nothing to do with their religion,” said Joshua Cohen, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, New Jersey Region. “That’s why we’re deeply concerned when we see comments online, whether it’s on newspaper websites or social media, that are anti-Semitic.”
The hate speech moved off the Internet and into the streets. Hate fliers spread around the township over the weekend, residents said, who provided the Asbury Park Press with photos. A white sheet hung over a Holocaust memorial at the Congregation Sons of Israel at Route 9 and 6th Street. Covering the stone memorial, the cloth banner used an anti-Semitic slur and promoted a website for a white supremacy group, authorities said…
The Orthodox subscribe to the idea that they are a separate society, said Samuel Heilman, a sociology professor at the City University of New York whose area of expertise is Orthodox Judaism.
The Orthodox members dress differently, act differently and separate themselves from American laws and societal norms, Heilman said. Orthodox identity is forged in a world where the outside community is seen as hostile, he said.
“It’s hard to persuade them that they’re no longer living in a world where they want all the Jews dead,” he said.
Heilman said 50 to 65 percent of the Orthodox in Lakewood live below the poverty level. In many ways, the Orthodox are impoverished by choice — many are not college educated, most marry early, have large families and don’t see public assistance as an embarrassment.
“It’s not a matter of political corruption,” Heilman said. “It’s a matter of moral blindness.”
The Orthodox are looked down on for their choices by people outside their community.
“Why don’t they get a job? Why don’t they have fewer children? Those are legitimate questions,” Heilman said. “The reason they would give is this is the way of life God has commanded them to pursue.”
Americans, with all their claims of multiculturalism, don’t like people who are different, Heilman said.
“They don’t like people who don’t speak English. They don’t like people who don’t fit in,” he said. “Many Orthodox Jews recognize this hostility.”
The “cliquishness” of the Orthodox and the fact that they speak Yiddish in America creates xenophobia and prejudice, Heilman said.
“It’s perceived as anti-Semitism by the Semites,” Heilman said. “By outsiders, it’s perceived as a legitimate gripe against people who they see as taking advantage of the system.”

If this fraud has nothing to do with their religion, how come you never hear about mainstream and evangelical Protestants living off welfare so they can practice their religion all day long, all week long? How come you never hear about Reform and Conservative Jews manipulating the welfare system so they can practice their religion without the inconvenience of holding a job?

If Jews are expelled from the United States of America, it will be in significant part due to the fraud committed by Orthodox Jews who have ten kids but won’t get a job.

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When Eichmann Met The Haganah

Posted on July 3, 2017 by Luke Ford

From episode five of the TV series Hitler’s Bodyguards:

TV: “The Haganah made contact with Himmler’s SS to facilitate further Jewish immigration to Palestine… They eventually met in Cairo on November 10, 1937. The Haganah agent attempted to enlist Adolf Eichmann’s help by hinting of one other Jewish conspiracy to kill Hitler. He offered to look further into this plot and to spy further for the Nazis in exchange for getting Jews out of Germany. These inducements had considerable success.”

Haganah agent Yitzhak Ben Ami: “He helped us. He gave us foreign exchange. He gave us permits to take people out of Monrovia, Slovakia, Vienna. As long as we could move people out, we had his support.”

Narrator: “Haganah’s twisted view was that the Zionists should cooperate with the Nazis because they built up the number of Jews in Palestine.”

In 1939, the British banned further Jewish immigration into Palestine.

The show says that Hitler admired and hated Stalin’s ruthlessness, he was anti-capitalist and ran Germany on socialist lines, but drew the line at German communists ready to submit to their masters in the Soviet Union. “The German nation was sacred to Hitler and he would never allow it to be undermined by foreign influences.”

Times of Israel:

Secret file reveals Haganah feared Eichmann infiltration post-WWII
A recently discovered document shows that a secret network of pre-state Jewish intelligence leaders were on alert for a possible Adolf Eichmann escape to British Mandate Palestine following World War II.
It would not have been Eichmann’s first time in the Holy Land. In 1937 he had toured Palestine before he was quickly expelled by the British, with the aim of discussing a large-scale Jewish immigration with Arab leaders.
On the taped-together yellowed document, dated October 20, 1947, it is written that because of Eichmann’s “vast experience” while working in the Nazis’ Jewish department, the Shay pre-state military intelligence division of the Haganah feared he would attempt to infiltrate Israel and pass himself off as a Jew.
Eichmann, who had headed the Nazi’s SD Scientific Museum of Jewish Affairs, was the Gestapo’s self-proclaimed “Jewish expert.” The document cites his knowledge of Hebrew and Yiddish, and his organizational skills as a high-level Nazi officer.

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The YU Experience

Posted on July 3, 2017 by Luke Ford

Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff says in this May 29, 2017 lecture: “The Rav said we have to have a real college… They had to get real professors to get accreditation… It has to be a real university experience. We have to prepare the youngsters to live in America… We had classes in English literature. There was one professor, every second sentence had a curse word. Academic freedom. There were classes in Darwin’s biology and Greek mythology. The kids would go crying to the Rav. ‘How can we study Greek mythology?’ The Rav would say, ‘You don’t want to understand the foundations of Western civilization?'”

“Biblical criticism did not enter the YU curriculum. Bible classes were very elementary. Biblical criticism is not part of Western culture. It is apikoros (heresy)… They could teach Talmudic criticism in Bernard Revel Graduate School.”

“What is J-E-P-D?”

“The greatest gift I got was studying Greek mythology.”

“Look at where we are today — the President of United States locker talk. Trump. It’s his third marriage.”

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When ‘obsessed’ is used as a put-down, I know the accuser doesn’t have honor and doesn’t have an argument

Posted on July 3, 2017 by Luke Ford

I notice that in online wars, one of the first put-downs used is “obsessed.” If somebody writes frequently about one topic, the person is “obsessed” if you don’t like what he writes, be it on Jews, blacks, WASPs, Chinese, Republicans, etc. You could just as easily note that the person is focused or diligent or consistent.

There are only two honorable forms of argument — to challenge facts or logic. Everything else is dirty.

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