Davids Medienkritik: Goebbels Would Have Loved This

Trans-Int: The Locusts

Trans-Int: Locust Round-Up

Nonetheless, “only” symptomatic.

Still, the convergence of the noted three “anti’s,” anti-American, anti-Semitic and anti-capitalist themes, reflect deep-seated Leftist interests, orthodoxies and assumptions more generally. If there is any hesitation in associating the complex matrix of anti-Semitism with the Left, recall that fascism itself grew out of Benito Mussolini’s lengthy and deeply committed relationship with orthodox Marxism, not out of any conservatism per se. In point of fact, Mussolini, in taking the reins of power (circa ’22), deposed a royalist, historically the most traditional form of governing authority associated with “the right.”

“Franz Mé¼ntefering, the chairman of Mr Schré¶der’s Social Democratic Party (SPD), has managed to combine the three big As in a single campaign for the forthcoming state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s largest state. He compared foreign financial investors to ‘locusts’ – the kind of language that the Nazis used to describe Jews. This was no slip of the tongue. He repeated it. Even worse, he drew up a list, the ‘locust list’, of financiers of mostly Jewish—American origin, whom he accused of making exorbitant profits by asset-stripping German companies. Publishing lists of Jewish names was a hallmark of Nazism.”

All this, sadly, reminds me of this in Jay Nordlinger’s column in yesterday’s NRO (http://www.nationalreview.com/impromptus/impromptus.asp):

“Readers may remember something I quoted David Pryce-Jones as saying: that, in the 1930s, the cry in Europe was, ‘Jews to Palestine!’ Now the cry there is (in effect), ‘Jews out of Palestine!’ I commented, ‘You can’t win with these people: You just have to beat them, or survive despite them.’

I received an interesting note from Jeff Jacoby, the invaluable columnist for the Boston Globe. He wrote,
‘I was in Israel with my family over Passover, and went to see the new Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem. There is a display of anti-Jewish signs that materialized throughout Germany during the early Nazi years – towns would put these up to publicize their anti-Semitism. One in particular struck me. It said (in German, of course), ‘Attention Jews! The road to Palestine doesn’t pass through this town.’ Another one showed a replica of a railway ticket. It said, ‘Free ticket to Jerusalem – valid from every German station. No return. Fourth Class.’ When I saw them, I said to my father exactly the same thing you heard David Pryce-Jones say . . .’”

on Europe’s economic decline. As one reads it, please keep in mind the need, and the Democratic party’s failure, to address the growth of entitlements, which if unchecked will get us to the same position — with fewer bucks available for defense. The Europeans allowed their “generous” state programs to develop courtesy of the U.S. defense umbrella.

The article, in its way is a compelling argument in favor of partial privatization of Social Security — with the privately owned portion being just that “privately-owned” and not part of the federal budget.