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  1. Evangelical Christians in the American South are the greatest friends Israel and Jews have in this world. This despite the fact that most American Jews seem to despise Southern evangelicals.

    Anti-Semitism is real on the Left. Some day American Jews will figure out who their real friends are. In the mean time (or even if they never do), we’ll keep loving them and working to protect Israel.

  2. congressman kevin mccarthy has called out wealthy jews soros, styer and bloomberg. saying they are using their wealth to harm the country. the pot calling the kettle black.

  3. stan brown southern fundamentalists believe all jews will be killed who don’t except jesus and you probably know this.

  4. The gun grabbers will be out in force, as usual. There have been many studies on guns, violence and criminality over the years. Here are three of the major studies that you should read to become knowledgeable on the subject.
    Drs James Wright and Peter Rossi, “Under the Gun, Crime and Violence in America” (1983) National Institute of Justice
    Professor Gary Kleck, “Point Blank, Guns and Violence in America” (1991).
    Dr. Charles Wellford; et al, “Firearms and Violence: a Critical review” (2004) National Academy of Sciences.
    These were big studies and they all find there is no evidence that demonstrates the availability of guns has any measurable effect on rates of homicide, suicide, robbery, assault, rape or burglary.
    Professor Wright later wrote an article , second thoughts on gun control, and he admitted that he thought it would be easy to show that more guns caused more crime and violence. It was patently obvious. He was surprised it didn’t turn out that way.

  5. stan Brown; wammo:

    Most American Jews do not despise Southern evangelicals. That’s a common misconception, however. I wrote about the subject at some length here. Please read it.

  6. The Atlantic Publishes Piece Calling For Societal Exile Of Trump-Supporting Jews
    https://dailycaller.com/2018/10/29/atlantic-trump-supporting-jews-exile/

    The Atlantic published an article on Saturday that said Trump-supporting Jewish people should no longer be welcome at synagogues following the shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue.

    Franklin Foer, a Jewish staff writer for The Atlantic, suggested in the article that Jewish Americans who support Trump are complicit in anti-Semitic acts. The article was published the same day 11 people were killed by a shooter at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

    “I felt pride that so much of the organized Jewish community resisted the impulse to elevate its own problems above those of the more vulnerable,” Foer writes in the piece. “Of course, this was not every corner of the Jewish community. After the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, Gary Cohn couldn’t bring himself to resign from his job. After Squirrel Hill, Jared Kushner and Sheldon Adelson will likely stand their ground.”

    sad thing is that since the Magyar Struggle this has always been a left trope as there is no way to have a united single world all similar and under one umbrella if there is one or more people who will not adapt whatever it is that is being thrusted…

    Foer admitted in the penultimate paragraph that he believes Trump-supporting Jewish people should essentially be exiled from society, writing that people should refuse their money and make them unwelcome at synagogues.

    “Any strategy for enhancing the security of American Jewry should involve shunning Trump’s Jewish enablers. Their money should be refused, their presence in synagogues not welcome. They have placed their community in danger,” Foer asserted.

    Does he know the history of germany and russia in terms of pogroms and all that…
    how many left russia to immigre to other places because of that history?

    so are we talking Bundism?
    Jewish Bolshevism?

    here is Michael Ezra, and he tries to get rid of the myth that marx was not an antisemite… (he was, so was engels, it was fashionable at the time, and no where was the opposite appealing… from engels magyuar struggle, to marx jewish question. to hitlers my struggle, and his final answer to the jewish question)

    David Hirsh has argued that it is a “standard misreading” of Marx to say that “Marx was an antisemite.” With this, he concurs with Robert Fine, who attempted to “explode the myth” of Marx’s antisemitism. As far as Professor Fine is concerned, those who believe this “myth” have an “inability” to read Marx or comprehend Marx’s “ironic style” of writing.

    regardless if this moron was a real nazi, or a neo nazi (they are far from being the same one is a joke version of the other), he would have gotten ALL his anti semitism from only a few sources in our modern era… Engels, Marx, The Russian disenformation campaign of the priori of zion and other elders of zion papers (that even captured Fords mind sadly)…

    What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.…. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man – and turns them into commodities…. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange…. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general. – Marx “The jewish question”

    Larry Ray explains, “Marx’s position is essentially an assimilationist one in which there is no room within emancipated humanity for Jews as a separate ethnic or cultural identity.”

    which is what puts them into the sites to be removed a la magyar struggle predictions… their inability to assimilate (and the inability of another group NOW under attack that they are a subset of) makes them unable to enter the future as the left sees it

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    Dennis Fischman puts it, “Jews, Marx seems to be saying, can only become free when, as Jews, they no longer exist.”

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    Gertrude Himmelfarb argued that it cannot be denied that in his essay On the Jewish Question, Marx expressed views that “were part of the classic repertoire of anti-Semitism.”

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    Robert Wistrich, declared, (Soviet Jewish Affairs, 4:1, 1974) “the net result of Marx’s essay [On The Jewish Question] is to reinforce a traditional anti-Jewish stereotype – the identification of the Jews with money-making – in the sharpest possible manner.”

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    Dennis Fischman comments that in the second section of his essay, “Marx seems fairly to bristle with anti-Jewish sentiments.”

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    By anti-Semitism I mean the denial of the right of the Jew to autonomous existence, i.e., to freely determine his/her own being as Jew. Anti-Semitism therefore entails an attitude of hostility to the Jew as Jew. This is an act of violence, addressed to an essential property of humanity: the assertion of an identity, which may be understood as a socially shared structuring of subjectivity. To attack the free assumption of identity is to undermine the social foundation of the self. Judged by these criteria, OJQ [On the Jewish Question] is without any question an anti-Semitic tract – significantly, only in its second part, “Die Fähigkeit.” No attempt to read these pages as a play on words can conceal the hostility which infuses them, and is precisely directed against the identity of the Jew.

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    last part..

    Despite the opinions of numerous commentators, for Professor Fine, Marx’s stated views are not anti-Semitic but “witty” and “ironic.” In On the Jewish Question, Marx discusses the “practical domination of Judaism over the Christian world.” I am not sure whether this is “witty” or “ironic.” Perhaps Professor Fine would like to explain. Marx’s essay also contains accusations against the Jewish religion which Marx says has “Contempt for theory, art, history, and for man as an end in himself.” Witty? Ironic? I think not.

    well, as long as we erase the russian contribution from marx, and the other stuff
    what is there for the public to know and to be upset about?
    yeah, the germans did what to anne franke?
    but the russians were nicer… there were not russian anne franks (ruta U.)!!!

    so. right now you have this huge stream of anti semitic stuff that is deemd by the academics to not be antisemetic…

    and what loner fruitbats read this, feel oppressed by the jewish?
    heck. you may not like feminists, but henry makow is hard to read cause with his anti feminism and anti sovietism. is also heavy doses of anti semitism

    so while young leftists read that paper and are told what to think
    wack jobs like this nutter read it and think they are going to save the world, thats what hitler thought… hitler thoguht he was the magyar engels predicted and that he would save the world and more it FORWARDS into the future by removing the hide bound

    want to bet what this man has been reading?
    because outside of THAT CRAP, waht else in modern times foments antisemitism?
    even the palestine arguments go back to bibilical times to gain some form of validity

    so, if the white CIS man is bad, you want to bet who is worse?
    just wait… they are now going to go after their writings, and so on

    how do i know?
    i know history that is constantly erased this past 50 years!!!
    and still is erased… it has no traction, so no one pays attention!!!
    but if it did, you could see this coming a mile away — because the toxic stuff of marx, engels, the prior, and all that had not abated, but in fact , seriousl increased since the Obama years made it normal to think of conspiracies of rich… now you only have to think of conspiracies of rich what

    the modern changers are ignorants who got slaped upside their heads
    the older changers are peopple who really made choices of moral and ethical kind
    would they stay ok, and safe and all that with family, or do whats right and….

    you can GUARANTEE that this mans education as to jewish people comes from the antisemitism that marx and engels made so normal that academics and others dont even see it as antisemetic, but as ironic and witty

    maybe thats why i always thought the desire here for short and wit was bad
    i dont give a whit about wit, cause that is how nasty it is
    it can make the worst things said of jews over a hundred years not bad, but clever
    really?
    then why would i want to be witty?

  7. they HAVE To make nazism about race
    because they HAVE to save marxism

    which is why you dont get educated in the magyar struggle as the first step leading up to My struggle…

    and why there is tons of writing, even from many jews, that the SERIES of jewish question letters of marx, ended up with the last one by hitler..

    even here is the fight against accepting that under marxism, the jewish person HAS to be exterminated, or lose their identity… as there is not going to be a place for whites, or blacks, or jews or christians, or americans of slavs…

    where would you put them? if hitler was to hold the whole world with stalin, what world remains for them to place the groups that once time passes would fight back?

    the whole left american thing of hating white cis men
    has nothing to do with white cis men
    it has to do with the SUB set of jewish white cis men
    get rid of the SET and the SUBSET goes with it

    but this way, you can convince the subset they are not the target
    and they will sit and somehow think that if you get rid of the set of X the subset of X would still remain… how? not good set theory and all marxism is is an odd cache of set theory put into philosophical terms and leaving no room for people who are not leggos

    ie. if everyone is the same then central planning can use people like leggos
    all the blocks are the same, they are all equally dumb, effective etc
    you dont have to care about their likes dislikes whims, goals etc
    they are just pieces…..

    the solution for mankind is just as childlike stupid as get all guns in a tech free state

    if we as leftists cant plan a society because everyone is different
    then when we make them the same, we can plan a society

    so all women must be feminist, or not real women
    they must be the same, or we cant plan society

    we want diversity, diversity is our strength
    then why, when you mix diversity in a paint store in equal amounts all over
    you get homogeniety? the opposte!

    but i told you long agao to learn to speak and play the opposites game w them
    greater diversity to homogenety

    progressive
    PROmote reGRESSIVE Policies
    ah, so progressive is really going backwards to despotism

    you can learn to hear what they hear
    once you give up on the idea that they are not speaking forked tongues

    take for instance the man who says for jews to shun other jews
    thats divide and conquer isnt it?
    its set jew gainst jew
    llike man against woman
    black against white
    american against immigrant
    rich against poor
    educated against not

    the problem is you dont want to put it all toegtehr into a cogent whole
    you like the security in never having to conclude that the thing your feeling is an elephant…
    you can be happy as an expert on elephants toes without ever knowing its an elephant as long as each part is discussed in isolation of the other

    which is why they teach that…
    hard to get the big picture if you onoly are allowed to look at smaller ones

    so guys
    where does THIS fit into the big picture

    as china jsut started telling its people to prepare for the war i said 10 years ago
    which is just after russia started teling its people to prepare for war

    which is interesting given that our people are full of people from other states we dont konw… that we are also mentally, physica, and morally unfit to protect ourselves

    but the BEST part for these people is a conflict with women will make sure that below replacments extermination of the target populations will accelerate!!!

    what else would that do? of course if you want to hear what immigration wont do, you can read ted kennedys spech.. where all the things that happened, he said would not happen if we passed the law (yes, that pattern has been ignored since then)

    you know, like the feminists telling women its going to be great
    how great is itnow woman? bad, they are more unhappy than than then!!

    hey, what did they tell venezulans? same thing

    well… watch out for that message..
    it just weaponizes false trust, frenemies, and bad advice as nuclear tool that gets rid of the people but not the buildings… a slower more thorough neutron bomb..

    take a step back!

  8. Very good links, Neo. Thanks.

    . . .

    Off-Topic:

    UPDATE TO A COMMENT I MADE ABOUT DISQUS:

    Somewhere here recently I said that Disqus only saves comments for three months. That has indeed been my experience over several years; but I’ve been looking around today, and I’ve found places where there are comments from as long ago as 2016, at least.

    So, please consider the statement as withdrawn.

    My apologies,

    Julie

  9. This is high time to overturn idiotic laws preventing government from locking up crazies in mental institutions where they belong. Almost every shooter in USA turns out to be a well known psycho who never would be allowed to be at large in every well-policed state.

  10. wammo: According to Wikipedia, Tom Steyer is Episcopalian and has been active in that church. His father was Jewish and his mother was Episcopalian. According to Jewish law, therefore, he is not Jewish, since his mother was not.

  11. I was surprised to learn that this synagogue didn’t have security for shabbat services. Most do. It is a horrible thing that this is necessary, but it is. Roger L. Simon is seeing the light. He was, he says, intellectually pro-second amendment, but now he’s going to have to take steps to get training and get a gun.

  12. Sergey:

    Laws like that are very dangerous and can be easily misused.

    As you know from the history of the Soviets.

    We have a history of liberty here, and you don’t just lock people up because they’re eccentric or odd. This guy was both, and he certainly spouted hate, but only in speech until he killed people (as far as we know, anyway, he limited it to speech before this). There was no reason to lock him up prior to this. I haven’t seen anything that said he had a bona fide mental illness, either.

  13. Esther, if you attend Jewish services (guessing from your name), make sure there is armed security for Saturday services and high holy days. In New York, that’s probably your only defense, since the state will not permit self-defense. Sad.

  14. I was pleased to see the President not afraid to fight back about this.

    We will never be rid of insanity. Sergei wants them put away but as Neo notes, those laws are easily abused.

    But Trump had nothing to do with this. Shootings have happened on Clinton’s, Bush’s and Obama’s watch. And they had just as little to do with them. I’d love to blame Obama as I detest the man. But he didn’t cause any shooting and neither did Trump.

    But the press works hard every day, 24/7 to gin up fear and hatred. If any one entity deserves blame, outside of the perpetrator, a case could be made for the MSM sharing culpability.

  15. Soviet Union or Russia are poor examples of the danger of laws on involuntary hospitalization, here everything can and most surely will be abused by its authoritarian regime. But many Western nations, including UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand have such laws and use them. They have built-in checks against abuse of such procedures, and the danger of a paranoid schizophrenic in a country with an easy access to firearms becoming a shooter seems more of concern.

  16. What Neo Said above, October 29, 2018 at 5:20 pm .

    ABSOLUTELY.

    Sergey’s subsequent remark notwithstanding.

    Most states (I think most) do have laws permitting involuntary incarceration in certain circumstances that we can only hope are well-defined.

    There are also laws about the rights of the incarcerated.

    I have read jof at least 1 instance where as an experiment a sane guy got himself admitted, then had a heckuva time getting discharged….

  17. Sergey:

    You are dangerously naive about the possibility of abuse of such laws in Western nations.

    In the US at present, people can be committed to an institution, but only in relatively rare cases and only for a fairly short period with periodic reviews. That makes such laws hard to abuse. But if it is made easier to commit someone, and to do it for a long long time, then it is much easier to abuse such a law as well. And people will be tempted to do just that.

  18. ALICE training can help people be better preparedfor an active shooter situation. The police department at Point Park University in Pittsburgh put together this video for students, faculty and staff:

    https://www.pointpark.edu/About/AdminDepts/PublicSafety/EmergencyProcedures/ActiveShooter

    One of the many heartbreaking stories that emerged after the Tree of Life attack concerned 88-year-old Melvin Waxman, one of the victims. When the shooting started, the rabbi pushed three people, including Waxman, into a dark supply closet. When the shooting stopped (sadly, only temporarily) Waxman emerged from the closet, thinking it was over, only to be spotted and shot by the gunman. The others, who stayed hidden, were spared when the shooter moved on:

    http://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2018/10/29/tree-of-life-witness-barry-werber-shooting-pittsburgh/stories/201810290101

  19. I was slightly surprised that this synagogue had had a shooting before and apparently opted against an armed presence of any sort. I was more surprised to see a number of Jews speaking on TV after the atrocity, all of the ones I saw, figuratively pounding their fists that they will not change their ways and arm their places of worship.

    It also seems that many were probably saved by security training that involved exit awareness and making sure the exits were unlocked. Doors should be locked to ingress and unlocked to egress.
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    To those that claim that arming oneself doesn’t help, there was a shooting at a McDonalds two nights ago in Birmingham with a masked gunman firing 8 or 9 shots. Result: One dead gunman. Because he wasn’t expecting his victim to pull a handgun out of his waistband.

    I’ve read dozens and dozens of these accounts over the last few years, and only two ended with a surviving perp and a dead defender. Could be selective journalism, but I doubt it.
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    Neo’s links on preparedness are great, but I think Mr. Sanders overstates his case when he says,

    “… if you have a gun, shoot the attacker. — remember… you cannot miss.”

    The general rule is that you must know what is downrange of your target, and protect any people there.

    Everyone misses at times. Or your bullet could go through your target. Cops in general have something like a 50% hit rate or worse. In NYC it’s something like a 38% hit rate because they are required to have an excessively stiff trigger to prevent the raft of negligent discharges that they used to have.

  20. TommyJay:

    He didn’t mean it’s impossible to miss, he meant you shouldn’t shoot unless you absolutely know what you’re doing. I read some other pieces of his that made that pretty clear.

    Also, I’m sure it’s not difficult at all to find Jews who say they won’t change their ways, just as I’m sure there are plenty of Jews in favor of armed guards. They certainly are in favor of them in Israel and Europe.

  21. TommyJay:

    That Birmingham story probably won’t get much traction, for the obvious reasons.

  22. CV:

    I hadn’t read the details till I saw your link.

    Very sad, very enraging—because again it occurs to me that he had plenty of time, went from room to room stalking people, and if someone had been armed I believe he would have been stopped much sooner.

  23. SERGEY SAYS: But many Western nations, including UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand have such laws and use them.

    Before you read the rest, just remember the country that was the bastion of freedom, and all that, is much more socialist communist than it was ever before…. so whatever you think you will put in place that will limit things, for some reason, i dont think will limit ANYTHING once full MATERIALISM takes hold… you know that doctrine, its the point behind camps, gulags, re-education, and more…

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    Beginning in 1909 and continuing for 70 years, California led the country in the number of sterilization procedures performed on men and women, often without their full knowledge and consent. Approximately 20,000 sterilizations took place in state institutions, comprising one-third of the total number performed in the 32 states where such action was legal.

    and before some of the more recent changes, family members could convince other family members of committing someone, and who then would control assets? so you better not be successful in such a world..
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    “There is today one state,” wrote Hitler, “in which at least weak beginnings toward a better conception [of citizenship] are noticeable. Of course, it is not our model German Republic, but the United States.” (from The L.A. Times)
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    While California’s eugenics programs were driven in part by anti-Asian and anti-Mexican prejudice, Southern states also employed sterilization as a means of controlling African American populations. “Mississippi appendectomies” was another name for unnecessary hysterectomies performed at teaching hospitals in the South on women of color as practice for medical students.
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    [sadly they cut the queen of this stuff out, Margaret Sanger! but thats like not being able to save socialism because you cant delete the jewish question and the magyar struggle, among things true believers get to read that more casual readers never get to]
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    Willis Lynch, who was sterilized at the age of 14 while living in a North Carolina juvenile detention facility
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=1_vWZlgQOz0
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    yes sergey, lets just go over some interesting cases..
    Madrigal v. Quilligan?? where tLA county med center sterilized mexican women?
    or the more famous
    Buck v. Bell?

    Carrie’s mother had been involuntarily institutionalized for being “feebleminded” and “promiscuous.” Carrie was assumed to have inherited these traits, and was sterilized after giving birth. This Supreme Court case led to the sterilization of 65,000 Americans with mental illness or developmental disabilities from the 1920s to the ’70s.

    Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote in reference to Carrie: “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.”

    Relf v. Weinberger? In 1974, the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Relf sisters, revealing that 100,000 to 150,000 poor people were being sterilized each year under federally-funded programs.

    —————you mentioned other countries———-
    you have to love this! (2015) the nice UK
    Mother-of-six with learning difficulties can be put through forced sterilisation, rules judge // Permission for authorities to force entry into her home has also been granted
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mother-of-six-who-has-learning-difficulties-can-be-put-through-forced-sterilisation-rules-judge-10023496.html

    next to:
    Shocking photos show how Britain and America used to sterilise ‘undesirable’ people // Before the horrors of the Holocaust there were supporters of ‘cutting out’ certain traits across the world

    I guess one news department dont talk to the other news department in the same paper to point out, hey, its the UK, we still doing that to people!!!

    if you really want to discuss this, let me point out that stephen hawking would be worm food in that world.. so would Frida Kahlo… and where would stevie wonder be? how about blind willy mctell?

    want to get really freaky? i can tell you really bad people who turned out to do really good things later… like General Butt Naked (of liberia)!!! did you know Ted bundy worked on suicide prevention hot lines?

  24. The Court of Protection in London has heard that DE does not want to become a father again.

    But he could not be relied upon to use condoms or other birth control methods effectively to prevent pregnancy, the court was told.

    In her ruling, Mrs Justice King said DE lived with his parents but had a long-standing, loving relationship with his girlfriend PQ, who also has learning disabilities, but of a less severe nature.

    The birth of the couple’s first child had had a “profound” effect on both families, and measures were taken to ensure there was no further pregnancy, including keeping the couple apart and supervising any contact between them.

    The judge said the couple’s relationship “nearly broke under the strain, but remarkably weathered the storm”.

    DE’s social worker, who specialises in looking after disabled adults, had told the court “how very unusual it is to see such an enduring relationship between two significantly disabled people”, adding it was “remarkable and very precious and should be valued and protected in their interests”.

    Mrs Justice King said DE had suffered considerable distress during the separation with his girlfriend and had his confidence shaken by the loss of his independence.

    She concluded that another pregnancy would cause “further and probably more serious psychological distress and consequences for DE”.

    Consequently, she said it was now “lawful and in DE’s best interests” that he should undergo a vasectomy and all “reasonable and proportionate steps” should be taken to enable the operation to go ahead.

    The application to allow a vasectomy had been made by the man’s local NHS trust, with the support of his parents, GP and the local authority involved in his care. None of them must be identified, by court order.
    [but he is at the beginning of the article]

    then contrast that with

    Couple with Down syndrome fights for parenting dream

    A young couple with Down syndrome say they are ready for babies and marriage, despite the pleas from their concerned parents, who doubt their children are emotionally and physically ready.

    The parents have raised their children to believe they can achieve their dreams, but now they worry they have fostered unrealistic expectations.

    “I don’t see parenthood being something that they’re going to achieve, or really they probably should achieve,” Michael’s father Simon Cox said.

    “It would be very difficult being a child whose parents both had Down syndrome and couldn’t have a job and couldn’t drive a car and couldn’t understand maths homework and those sorts of things.”

    Michael and Taylor have agreed to delay their wedding, but remain determined to eventually have children.
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    “People … like Michael and Taylor are certainly entitled to the freedom to do with their bodies as they wish and that includes reproduction,” she said.

    “They have the same rights as everybody else. The fact that they have a disability doesn’t diminish that.”

    Ms O’Flynn said rather than stand in the couple’s way, it would be better to direct energy and resources into helping them fulfil their goal.

    “We don’t ask other parents in the community: ‘are you good enough to raise your child?’, and this shouldn’t be prejudging how a person with an intellectual impairment parents their children,” she said.

    so queensland australia is a bit more grown up than the UK

    and in the US?
    Why Born This Way is the Most Important Reality Show on TV
    Seeking to change the way people think about those with developmental and intellectual disabilities, Sean and several of his friends with Down syndrome are the focus of the critically acclaimed television series, Born This Way from the A&E Network.

    then….
    Dr. Karen Gaffney: First living person with Down syndrome to receive honorary doctorate
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHhWdp2qskc

    WARNING!!! below will make most people cry… 🙂

    and for THOSE that dont get it
    TEAM HOYT (which i am once again bringing up cause they deserve it!!!)
    Team Hoyt is father and son Richard Eugene “Dick” Hoyt and Richard Eugene “Rick” Hoyt Jr., from Holland, Massachusetts, who have competed together in various athletic endeavors, including marathons and Ironman Triathlons
    Team Hoyt – I Can Only Imagine
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnhDyc7AZ5U

    TThe Story of Team Hoyt @ ESPY’s 2013 – Jimmy V Perseverance Award (Standing Ovation)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaSnJBbieuk

  25. I’ve long wondered, what you guys thought of this:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vST61W4bGm8

    To my mind, this was blatantly anti-Semitic. But anti-Semitism is like anti-black racism in the US. It’s fraught with dogwhistles, and thus has a large degree of subjectivity.

    I forwarded this ad, when it first appeared, to some Israeli Jews I worked with…all right wing and only one of whom was secular…and who were on the fence about Trump at the time.

    They universally thought it was blatant too.

  26. Manju:

    The “establishment” is now code for anti-Semitism? Oh, thanks for the education in advance dog whistle detection. And of course you are a truth teller, speaking truth to power and all that. And surely President Trump to blame, may I call you Shirley? You are reaching a new low.

  27. Manju,

    If you think that was “blatantly anti-semitic”, you are deluded.

    “It’s fraught with dogwhistles, and thus has a large degree of subjectivity.”

    In other words, as the Instapundit says, “if you hear dog whistles, you’re the dog”. And its so subjective, why anyone can read anything they want into it, even if it isn’t there.

    “Give me liberty of give me death”- “Blatabtly anti-semitic.” Manju

    “Four score and seven years ago…”- “Blatantly anti-semitic.”
    Manju

    “Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country.”- “Blatantly anti-semitic.”
    Manju

    See, Manju? Anyone can play this “blatantly anti-semitic” game.

  28. C’mon, Manju your trolling is usually stronger than this. There is nothing in that ad that could even be vaguely considered anti-semitic.

  29. I’ve stated many times over the years here that, despite not being Jewish myself and (to my knowledge) having no Jewish relatives or ancestors, by a winding road the attitude of the left toward Judaism and toward Israel was one of two moral issues that made it impossible for me to be on the left (the other being their passive acceptance of the legitimacy of communism).

    I’m not the kind of person – probably owing to an intellectual tendency to murk things up – who sees many moral issues as being obviously black and white, but Israel and communism were the two that first leapt out to me as such back in my formative years. Dershowitz, in fact, was a big influence on me, leading me to study in depth the wars of Israel, the circumstances of its founding, the so-called “peace process,” and several other more intricate historical matters.

    I say all of this to preface the statement that, as other here have suggested, it is clear as the noonday sun that if we’re going to speak of a home for anti-semitism today, that home is on the left – even among many Jews on the left.

    This is difficult to see, at the same time, because the left is good at rhetorically masking its hostility behind pleasant-sounding, world-historical theoretical constructions – the gift of Marxism that keeps on giving. A right-wing antisemite will simply say, “I hate Jews,” or “All Jews must die,” and consequently will stick out like a sore thumb. By the same token, this makes them easy to identify and so to condemn. As a result, it’s easier for the right to keep its chaff from becoming its wheat, simply because plain-speaking and saying what you mean is a value to them.

    So, to be sure, anti-semitism has no intrinsic home in the partisan world. Nonetheless, distinctions are important. One distinction that has helped me cut through a lot of nonsense comes from a book I once read by the great French political philosopher Raymond Aron. In the preface to his case for the West, “In Defense of Decadent Europe,” he addresses the “everyone is corrupt and commits crimes” argument, which in the old days was used to excuse the crimes of communists. After admitting the platitude that every side has criminals, he writes:

    “Crimes do remain crimes – whether committed in Indonesia or in Russia – but it is in Russia, and only in Russia, that crimes are transfigured by ideology and, thereby, become an integral part in the building of socialism.”

    A more general way of putting this is that there is a difference in kind between a group that has bad seeds – as every group does – and a group that erases the concept of a bad seed for itself, thereby giving evil-doing a constant co-signer in the heavens. One group commits crimes; the other has crime as a systematic principle.

    Despite all of the left’s constant insistence on conservative dog-whistles, this is so much projection coming from the masters of unarticulated signaling. They’re obsessed with the notion, in fact, to the extent that they’ve now decided to base all of social science and political psychology upon it (unconscious bias, rooted in personality, rooted in biology, rooted in evolution).

    Dog whistles! Are you kidding me? The *entire* thrust of the leftist establishment in academia, solidified around the social sciences, is to use the so-called scientific method to prove that their political opponents are inherently evil. The logic of this moves ineluctably toward obvious conclusions: you don’t argue with devils. You don’t form societies with chimps. You don’t treat lizard brains like cognitive equals.

    Simply put, the left is currently engaging, enthusiastically, in a more sophisticated (less honest) form of the race science that once characterized Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, while maintaining publicly, with a straight face, that it is their *opponents* who are doing this. Wrap your heads around that. They’ve used race science to determine that whites and conservatives are inherently determined to think and act like race scientists, and since race science is evil, so is the white conservative devil. Since this is their stance, the only way to avoid condemning themselves is to lie about what they’re doing.

    And according to this lie, we are supposed to believe that conservatives who just want to read and teach Homer, Aristotle, Shakespeare, and the Federalist are therefore bigoted cavemen, while leftists whose sole aim is to scientifically validate bigotry toward conservatives are tolerant, open-minded lovers of learning and liberty.

    These are true blue dog whistles, as sinister as those of any old-time Stalinist giving the imprimatur of scientific truth to his urges to liquidate and consolidate.

    In such an environment, atop a mountain of bullsh*t sprayed with ideological perfume and held to be ambrosial, how is the left supposed to detect its own crimes? How is the left supposed to see the aid and comfort it gives to the most committed group of anti-semites in the world, Islamists, when their “science” tells them that it is a mandate of world-history to ally with them against the white Christian devils?

    Post-colonial theory is “scientific;” so Israel has to be a colonial outpost. Religious Judaism is as retrograde as evangelical Christianity; this is by nature, so there’s no choice but to eradicate it. Above all, the wisdom of the purveyors of this dangerous tripe is Established By Studies, the equivalent of a special revelation, and thus is beyond question. Question the word of God, why don’t you!

    There’s not even a need to get into specifics here. No way an objective observer could conclude that Trump has been anything but friendly and supportive to Jews and to Israel, regardless of how one judges the wisdom or prudence of his specific policies. Which is why all you see on social media and elsewhere is – what else? – “dog whistles.”

    I’ll tell you what is a dog whistle. “Dog whistle” is the new rhetorical dress for the old Marxist idea of false consciousness, and every time it’s used it’s a dog whistle signaling allegiance to the politics of the Bearded One. “Dog whistle” is a dog whistle for the new leftist race science. “Dog whistle” is the watchword for people who think in terms of totalitarian systems of command and control, of programmers and robots, or humans and animals, of masters and slaves. It broadcasts a mindset that hasn’t changed in 200 years.

  30. Manju — what in the world is anti-Semitic about that? True, there are shots of Soros and of Janet Yellin.

    And of both the Clintons. And of the former occupant of the Oval Office. None of them particularly well-known for their Jewishness. (Or their Judeophilia, noisy expressions of support for Israel notwithstanding.)

    Mr. Trump (not yet President) indicts the Political Establishment (the Democrats); the Global Power Structure (without naming or implying that anyone from a particular ethnic or religious group is in this); and the immigration policies as they were at the time.

    I’m a little sensitive about anti-Semitism myself, as my Honey’s family are Jewish; his grandfather was a rabbi in fact. And I’m an atheist for almost half a century, though I was reared Christian.

    But I think every a person would have to be hyper-hyper-hypersensitive to find anything anti-Semitic in that stump speech.

  31. No, Manju, that wasn’t even remotely anti-semitic.

    Leftists for the past two years have been behaving like the John Birch Society, finding Russian threats and conspiracies everywhere, mostly invented out of thin air. They’ve also been seeing “racism” and all the other “isms” in everything anyone says, and those are mostly invented out of thin air, too.

  32. Just a few general observations brought on by this: anti Semitism as a problem in America has been greatly marginalized by the left over the part 20 years. This is the direct result of the need for the Democrats to achieve at least 91% of African American votes in general elections. Therefore, they must refrain from criticizing Farrakhan, so Jew hatred is no longer a big deal. Since the purveyors of our culture (entertainment, media, and so on) are appendages of the Democratic party, this position is constantly reinforced. When anti Semitism is commented on by our betters, it is only when it can be used to hurt Trump (for ex., the attacks on Ben Shapiro by the “alt-right,” and the telephone bomb threats which turned out to be bogus). It is entirely possible that this increasing numbness towards hostility against Jews was at least partially responsible for the actions of the gunman in Pittsburgh. Would he have done it anyway? We’ll never know unless he tells us. Responsibility? Look no further than the Democratic party; a blind eye towards anti Semitism is a deliberate policy on their part.

  33. kolnai:

    In addition to what you said, dog whistles are a Humpty Dumptyism, in which the leftist version of Humpty says this:

    “When [you] use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.”

  34. Neo,
    No, I didn’t mean to imply that there weren’t Jews in favor of arming themselves or places of worship. It just happened to be what I saw the day after on the tube, perhaps a response to Trump’s suggestion that they should arm. A little odd, but hardly representative.

    About the instruction, “you can’t miss.” I haven’t read his other stuff, but it is a definitive statement, and it is sort of the wrong instruction. What is near and beyond your line of fire? All of that is in danger whether you miss or not. If you fire and perfectly strike the center of mass, you can still kill someone behind the target.

    You can be a relatively lousy shot and still safely and effectively defend yourself, if you pay attention to what’s downrange. And if you are so worried about not missing that you fail to fire, that can get you killed. It is a common misperception that you really need to be some kind of gun wizard to safely defend yourself or others.

  35. Of the youtube, I don’t know how to say it, my 100% Jewish ears hear something odd, but I t doesn’t feel anti Semitic to me.

    It’s summoning the spooky cabal controlling the world, bankers and capitalists conspiracy theory style narrative once ascribed to Jews, but here is detached from Jews and is used literally— there are international bankers, organizations, media and assorted billionaires, etc etc pulling strings globally— aren’t there?

  36. My son tells me that in his church there are one or people who are armed just in case. The members know who they are.

  37. I’m from Pittsburgh. It’s so strange because I do have a connection to two of the victims, once removed. My best friend from law school married a Jewish man who grew up in Squirrel Hill. One of the elderly women who was killed was a neighbor of his and a close family friend—so she and I were both guests at my friend’s wedding. One of the non-elderly wounded is also very close to my friend’s in-laws. Just so odd and so terrible.

  38. “Dog whistle” is the new rhetorical dress for the old Marxist idea of false consciousness,. . . ” [Kolnai @ 8:49 pm]

    This should be writ in stone.

    On a completely different issue, events like the Pittsburgh massacre tend to bring out two types of responses: One is the gun grabbers with their newest version of “See, we told you so,” and the other is an announcement by people that they are now going to get a gun (see Roger Simon’s latest essay at PJmedia,com).

    As to that second group let me make a brutally frank suggestion. “I’m getting a gun” is an easy thing to say and carrying it is an easy thing to do, but whether it comes to concealed carry or just keeping a firearm in the house, you should feel obliged to ask yourself two primally important questions. Those questions need to be asked now, in cool-headed intellectual daylight; now when you life, or, God forbid, your children’s lives are in no immediate danger; now, before you even own that gun.

    The questions are: Can I actually see myself killing another human being if my own life is in danger? Am I willing to be trained to do so?

    We are so inured to the peace of western civilization that such confrontation is not a natural act for us, thus, we all need training; even the young men sent to Europe and the Pacific in the 1940s needed to be trained to kill an enemy to protect their own lives. So if the answer is “not sure” (which is, in truth what most of us answer) then get some training first. Attendance at a concealed carry self-defense course and a gun safety course will help lead you to your answer.

    If that answer is “No” then you might consider passing on gun ownership. The worst time to find out you can’t follow through is when your life is in danger and you’re pointing a firearm at your attacker’s face, because then your gun ownership has done nothing more than provided your assailant with more firepower and endangered you even more. Owning a firearm will not save your life only using it when you must will do that and the time to know if you can do so is long before you ever need to.

  39. I have NEVER understood anti-Semitism. Why are the Jews hated by so many? I just don’t get it.

  40. “You can’t miss” = “You must not miss” [because (a) you may well hit an innocent and (b) you may well not get a second shot] = “You have to be sure you can carry through, & will not miss.”

    .

    T: Very wise words indeed. Somebody like me would have to rehearse over and over, and perhaps even with professional help, because my first natural response to threat is either to holler or to freeze. Nevertheless, I’m a very, very convinced supporter of RKBA.

    Although the Defense-of-Self-Defense (especially of personal firearms, a.k.a. guns) people say that mostly, mere brandishing scares off would-be attackers. If this is true, it seems to me that if you know you probably couldn’t actually shoot someone, you might still up the odds in your own favor by keeping a gun in the house, well-supplied with 0 (NO) ammo. And get some trusting friend to regularly play Bad Guy and “attack” you.

    (Makes me think of Insp. Clouseau and “Cato” …. LOL)

    . . .

    Here, in the academic interest of correcting a prominent untruth:

    In the face of threat there are three alternative reactions, not two:

    Flight, Fight, or Freeze.™

  41. Francesca, re antisemitism, lots of ink has been spilled trying to figure it out. Short answer, it’s not standard issue hate, prejudice, racism or xenophobia, it’s a conspiracy theory.

  42. Not only Marx and Engels, but ALL spiritual guru of modern Progressivism, including French Enlightenment leaders like Rousseau, socialists and anarchists of different stripes and even humanists like Giordano Bruno and Erasmus were virulent anti-Semites. This trend encompasses all reformers and utopians, since religious Jews turned out to be the most conservative group of people on Earth who out-of-hand rejected all ideologies incompatible with their faith, that is, all of them.

  43. “Franklin Foer, a Jewish staff writer for The Atlantic, suggested in the article that Jewish Americans who support Trump are complicit in anti-Semitic acts.”

    Moreover, they “should no longer be welcome at synagogues”….

    So is this what has become of the Jewish liberal ethic?

    Has Abraham’s “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do justice?” (Genesis 18:25) become Franklin Foer’s “Excommunicate and shun and shame them all!!”?

    After constantly and relentlessly demonizing half the country for NOT supporting the party they should obviously have supported—for NOT having chosen the candidate that should have been elected—it appears that the next natural, logical step for “the righteous” is to target one’s own for “straying off the reservation”, for “wandering outside the—ideological—ghetto”.

    (Ah, but those Trump-supporting, Bibi-supporting, quondum “Jews” are, it appears, no longer “one’s own”….)

    Well, so be it. Freedom of choice is one of the cornerstones of Jewish theology and ethics.

    And one makes one’s choice. (Though there are those who would adamantly—religiously—prefer that they choose only what they OUGHT to choose. That is, what WE tell them they may choose….)

    And it appears, alas, that for all too many Jews, the lessons—and consequences, and ramifications, and results—of enthusiastic and uncritical support for a religio-political movement “dedicated” to the “perfection of society”, to the “betterment of humankind”, to creating a “heaven on earth”, to the “fundamental transformation” of the state—these lessons, so costly in blood, misery and destruction, have, alas, been so quickly and so easily forgotten.

    Forgotten. In favor of “demonize, demonize, demonize” one’s ideological enemies. The dissenters in one’s midst. The impure and deluded and misbegotten.

    And then demonize some more.

    But there is hope. In the spirit of “Pirkeh Avot” (“Ethics of the Fathers”) Chapter 4, Verse 1 (https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/pirkei-avot-ethics-of-the-fathers-chapter-4/):

    “The president of the United States is always welcome”
    https://www.newsweek.com/rabbi-synagogue-during-shooting-says-trump-certainly-welcome-after-jewish-1191747

  44. Orthodox Jews are not only the most conservative group of people, but also the most revolutionary in that. This paradox is explained in a brilliant essay by Spengler here: pjmedia.com/spengler/the-revolutionary-conservatism-of-the-jews.

  45. We live in the times of a revolutionary change. This is not the end of the world, but the end of epoch of widespread insanity which began with the French Revolution and subsequent rise of different militant heresies which are known as ideologies. All ideologies must die, and the rise of the militant Normals and pragmatists like Trump ushers the beginning of a new epoch – the world without ideologies. I hope that Jews once again will be the agents and spiritual leaders of this revolutionary change.

  46. I am quite surprised that no one here appears to be aware that railing against international bankers (especially Goldman Sachs), the Fed, the “global power structure”, “global special interests” and “those who control the levers of power in Washington” are major anti Semitic tropes…which is not to say you can’t talk about these issues without being anti semitic.

    Three Jewish bankers are featured here: George Soros, Janet Yellen, and Lloyd Bankfein of Goldman Sachs.

    Right after the narrator says: “those who control the levers of power in Washington”, Soros’ face appears. Jewish banker. Controlling Washington. Get it?

    Janet Yellen’s face appears as the narrator says ““global special interests”, even thought the Fed handles domestic monetary policy. Jewish banker more loyal to an international cabal. Get it?

    They pick Goldman Sachs’ CEO to represent “global special interests”. Goldman…a firm created because Jews couldn’t work at Morgan.

    With that, the narrator tells us these bankers, along with Clinton and other non-jews, “bled our country die.” Bled. Do I have to explain that?

  47. Soros indeed has a lot of leverage in Washington being by far the most important donor for Democrats and various NGO pushing agenda of Democrats both on federal and states level. It hardly news for anybody that the biggest banks worldwide are pushing globalist agenda and that almost half of these CEO are of Jewish origin. These are simple facts. One can, of course, hear anti-Semitic tropes in asserting these indisputable facts, but, as famously said, if you hear dog-whistle, you must be a dog.

  48. So is it “three Jewish bankers”?

    Or three bankers who happen to be Jewish?

    As for Soros, is it at all possible to criticize him—or any Jew—without being anti-Semitic? E.g.:
    https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/2017/07/what-does-israel-have-against-george-soros-quite-a-lot-actually/

    And for all those who seems to see Jews everywhere (or at least when it’s convenient to do so): gosh, who knew…
    …that James Comey was Jewish? (0:05)?
    …Or Hillary Clinton (0:05, 0:26, 0:41…)?
    …Or William Jefferson Clinton (0:35 + ….)?
    …Or Barack Obama (0:37)
    …Or all those people in the group portrait (0:23)? Or the slo-mo street scene (0:33) Or the elite photo-op (1:00)?
    …Or all those Congress-Critters (1:16)?

    Yes, Janet Yellin is Jewish. (She also happened to be the Chairperson of the Fed. under Obama. Coincidentally.)

    Might as well mention Jack Lew here, too (why not?)—a Jewish fella who just happened to be Obama’s Secretary of the Treasury; though I’m not sure that Trump “featured” him in this clip—gosh! what a missed opportunity!!—And what about all those other Jews that could have been included!!??…. I mean, couldn’t Trump at least have included the Israeli Knesset (Parliament)?

    Speaking of Jack Lew, my favorite Jack Lew story is when he was sent by his boss to reassure(!!) the Israelis regarding Obama’s Middle East policies, specifically with regard to Iran…. (Jack Lew’s “Don’t worry, be happy” moment, no doubt!) And he behaved to perfection: his master’s voice, as it were. But wait, why was he even sent?—Secretary of the Treasury?—on a purely diplomatic gig?…. Could it have been because?…

    Whatever we do, though, we must absolutely ignore—or, better, dimiss!—the fact that Trump has a Jewish daughter and a Jewish son-in-law. And several Jewish grandchildren (who, had they been in a certain synagoguge in Pittsburgh on a certain day….).

    Yes, I know. Not terribly convenient.

    So let’s all agree to say, “So what?!!”

    As we focus with laser-like intensity on “three Jewish bankers”….

  49. The other question about that campaign ad is whether the potential Trump voters at whom it was aimed would realize that some of those faces were Jewish faces. The faces I saw most prominently were the Clintons and Obama, against whose policies Trump was running. Yes, George Soros is Jewish by ancestry. I’m not aware that he is observantly Jewish. As David Goldman writes, large numbers of Jews who are “Orthodox” to some degree (i.e., make some attempt to follow kosher and other laws) tend towards free-market economics and conservative social mores.

    Barry Meislin, above, makes this clear: “And it appears, alas, that for all too many Jews, the lessons—and consequences, and ramifications, and results—of enthusiastic and uncritical support for a religio-political movement “dedicated” to the “perfection of society”, to the “betterment of humankind”, to creating a “heaven on earth”, to the “fundamental transformation” of the state—these lessons, so costly in blood, misery and destruction, have, alas, been so quickly and so easily forgotten.”

    Nor is this an exclusively Jewish problem. Many Christian groups have succumbed to the siren call of making heaven on earth through progressive policies, substituting this for the essential and ancient teachings of their faith.

  50. Manju is still whistling that same old song and is surprised that people who can hear and see don’t respond like Pavlov’s dog.

  51. kolnai on October 29, 2018 at 8:49 pm at 8:49 pm said: [a whole lot of stuff that i been trying to get accross now for 10 years… ]

    Brilliantly

  52. “Manju”? “Man Jew”? I think his name is anti-semitic. So, there.

    For the humor-impaired, including presumably Manju… this is sarcasm.

  53. Manju (aka NPC), how does your super secret decoder ring dog whistle skill explain the BDS movement (not bondage, dominance, sadism) and antisemitism? We’ve already heard the Zionism is Hitler2 and Israel is the fourth Reich, so don’t go there.

  54. Barry Meislin do you also read “Hillel the Elder” (???)

    i do…
    and its such a shame that he is on the menorah in israel
    and yet they forget what he said… conveniently…
    so they can do what they shouldnt…

    but hey, i am not even jewish…
    (but i did stay at a holiday inn once)

    I am a shabbas goy, who went to yeshiva summer school
    [thanks Mr and Mrs Bernstein]

    Shalome

    but i get to see the bigotry where i work…
    that made sure my wife and i could never have children…

    that is the type of people like in all groups that give their groups a bad name and for some reason, most do not care to police them as long as their actions are percieved to be against others…

    this is why similar stories to Anne Franke are not put up or discussed…
    otherwise Saint Franke would not longer be saintly
    the pain of that would no longer just belong to them
    it would be a shared experience giving them a chance for commiseration
    they ALWAYS turn it down
    leaving their assailants with no punishment for their actions…

    The children of god have not learned how to treat others!!!
    where they are exemplary is where they gain, where they are not, they are not

    its almost a rule.. cut out the other 6 million
    forget the people you left behind at Yalta who had no hope of rescue!!
    erase their history so that what happend belongs alone to who?

    here is an example…
    the jews were rescued from Auswitz, and buchenwald, and that is heralded

    but the forest people started in the baltics before WWI, so the story of forest people with daniel craig, leaves that out

    so here was the horrors…
    here were the camps..

    we did NOT destroy them..
    we signed them over to Stalin and yalta
    and any one who was prisoner there, remained AFTER WWII was over
    there were parades…

    but no jewish person made an appeal to save the people they left behind

    which i guess is ok… but its an embarassment if you study Hillel!!!!!!!

    here a bit of background about Tallinen..

    Back in 1820, Russian Tzar Nicholas I built a massive prison on the Baltic coast just outside of Tallinn, which was so good at making prisoners cower remorsefully before the might of the hegemon that it remained in operation right up until 2004

    the camps, the tortures, the slow deaths… they DID NOT STOP WITH THE END OF WWII, we let them continue… the victims let it continue… no one did anything..

    27 January 1945… liberation from auswitz “work will set you free”
    April 11, 1945… Buchenwald “you get what you deserve” and Ohrdruf

    Tallinen – Patarei prison 2004

    59 years of hell… [and thats just one of thousands accross the states signed away!]

    Patarei Prison (“the battery,” in English) was left abandoned
    excellent video for imagry
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBRJFGWAgl4

    PATAREI COMES TO LIFE
    This video is produced in connection with the project “Preserving memories about and of victims of Soviet and Nazi crimes imprisoned in Patarei Merekindlus (old maritime fortification and prison complex in Tallinn). Project holder: Estonian War Museum. Funded with support of the European Union under the program “Europe for Citizens”. See description of the project events below (under the photos). The Baltic Initiative and Network has participated in the project.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsHr84D8mqM

    take some time, see the conditions..
    http://coldwarsites.net/country/estonia/patarei-prison-tallinn/

    see, The hanging room., The execution room in which the KGB agents shoot the
    condemned prisoners in the back of the head, when they knelt on the floor with the head against the wall.

    and lastly
    the history of Paterei
    https://redterrormuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/History-of-Patarei.pdf
    page 4 – The First Year of Soviet Occupation: 1940–1941
    tells about the Era of Silence
    page 10 – Patarei during the German Occupation: 1941–1944
    page 15 – The NKVD Started Up Patarei Prison Again

    so what does that have to do with Hillel?

    What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow: this is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn – Hillel

    I guess camps for people are not hateful enough
    its an embarrasment after you read Hillel and realize that they celebrate the image of him but not his words…

    if being in camps against your will was not hateful enough then what?
    i guess you can ignore it, supress it, dont share it, and erase the embarrasment

    at some point maybe camps under the state will become hateful enough when applied to people who they dont care about…

    but then again…
    This also runs afowl of the idea of Mitzvah, and some of the 613 mitzvot…

    but i am not a rabbi, so i guess they may explain it better to me and make it ok for everyone i guess… isnt that what evryone does?

    Maybe Shammai has the answer?
    because that quote from Hillel was in answer to the GENTILE WHO ASKED THAT THE TORAH BE EXPLAINED TO HIM WHILE HE STOOD ON ONE FOOT.

    Shammai DISMISSED HIM…
    while Hillel answered him above…

    who had respect?
    who followed the mitzvoh?

    hey, but who am i, a nothing gentile, shabbas goy?
    obviously
    nothing…
    Let a man be always humble and patient like Hillel, and not passionate like Shammai”

    note that it does not say let a jewish man.. ‘
    and i find the lesson of the wager also telling…
    if your not jewish and want to search do not change wager to bet, as bet has different meaning.

    ah well… whith what i know, hard to find a decent conversation
    anyone want to hit the hindu vedas, the sagas, or wallow in zoroastrianism?
    🙂

  55. Adam Schiff, Julia Ioffe, and a host of others cast aspersions and allegations with a kind of gleeful abandon as if they were mere pennies tossed into a wishing well! It is irresponsible, offensive, grotesque, and deeply disturbing that some (and so many) seek to pin partisan blame for the shooting in Pittsburgh as if Trump were in any way, shape, form culpable.

  56. the punchline first so it doesnt get cut off the bottom!

    Many concentration camps in Germany were turned into prisoner-of-war camps by the Soviets after Germany’s 1945 defeat (Public domain) January 16, 2007 (RFE/RL) — A museum in Berlin has just opened a public display of the names of 43,000 people who died in prison camps operated by the Soviet Union in Germany after World War II.

    the west rescued the jews, and signed the camps over and they continued to be used!!!

    “I think also it must be more [than] 43,000 people who died in this concentration [camp],” she says. “My husband said it was 96,000 — 1945 to 1950. And why the Russians gave the German Red Cross now just 43,000 [names], this is a big question, I do not know. We will try to [find out].”

    the Red Cross, was allowed to conduct investigations into the fate of the thousands of people captured by the Soviets after their victory in the war.

    Often, liberated German concentration camps were converted to Soviet military prisons. Since 1990, excavations at these sites have turned up thousands of mass graves.

    wonderful celebrations, a new land free to call home, help from the world, and more
    and they left everyone else behind…

    and even made it appear to the americans and westerners that the job was done, and all that…
    but hillel would be upset that what happened to them was not hated enough to do what for shared fates?

    On the edge of Berlin is the site of what was the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

    It was there that 200,000 victims of the Nazis were imprisoned from 1936-45.

    A mass grave containing the remains of 12,500 people thought to be Soviet victims was unearthed in 1992. The Soviets ran the camp from 1945-50.

    Most victims died of starvation and exposure, according to forensic authorities.

    so for five more years those camps continued to work and starve people just like the NAZIS
    but since it was the soviets… and they switched sides and all that…
    no one cared… not even the liberated…

    which is why the rule is to bury this
    but by buring it, you allow Russia to get a free pass for continuing to use camps after germany
    a free pass for continuing to use the prisons till AFTER the year 2000!!!!!!!

    Sachsenhausen concentration camp
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachsenhausen_concentration_camp

    Some 30,000 inmates died in Sachsenhausen from exhaustion, disease, malnutrition, pneumonia, etc. due to the poor living conditions.

    Many were executed or died as the result of brutal medical experimentation.

    Sachsenhausen female guards included Ilse Koch, and later Hilde Schlusser. Anna Klein is also noted for her presence at the camp.

    Ilse Koch: The wife of Karl-Otto Koch commandant of the Nazi concentration camps Buchenwald (1937–1941) and Majdanek (1941–1943). In 1947, she became one of the first prominent Nazis tried by the U.S. military.

    Anna Friederike Mathilde Klein: was a German concentration camp guard who was chief warden at the Ravensbrück concentration camp

    this is what was left behind for the abandoned people…

    The concentration camp under the Soviets

    By 1948, Sachsenhausen, now renamed “Special Camp No. 1”, was the largest of three special camps in the Soviet Occupation Zone. The 60,000 people interned over five years included 6,000 German officers transferred from Western Allied camps.

    By the time the camp was closed in the spring of 1950, at least 12,000 had died of malnutrition and disease

    With the fall of the communist East Germany it was possible to do excavations in the former camps. At Sachsenhausen, the bodies of 12,500 victims were found; most were children, adolescents and elderly people.

    so we hate the Nazis
    we have no idea of the soviets…
    do we?

    1956 was also the year in which planning began to adapt the concentration camp site as a national memorial. This was inaugurated four years later on 23 April 1961

    you see… we cant tell these stories..
    they dont get press or discussion… you bring up an alternative, its buried
    everyone knows Franke, no one knows Ruta. U.
    Franke was victim of the Nazis
    Ruta was victim of the Soviets

    No, they were victims of BOTH!

    but only the victims of the nazis matter and only if jewish, the rest is an embarassment
    not those left to rot in the same camps AFTER the war was over…

    and this is why its happening again
    they pulled the nazi roots
    but gave the cuttings to the left socialists and soviets
    now you have antisemetism again riding high
    and what do you think will happen once we change over to the side that the west decided to give a free pass and forget..

    the shoa was something to be remembered
    but this shows that the hell that comes is going to be for selective memory
    hillel is spinning in his grave like a top

    [i have no beef, everyone related to this is all dead… so there is no anger or anything, just the frustration of erasing which then allows things to come back again… and this whole thread and otehrs are the fact that IT’S BACK!! well, maybe if we got rid of it all back then, and did NOT erase it so that people would dislike it, the students would not be wanting the same system that KEPT THE NAZI CAMPS GOING FOR ANOTHER HALF CENTURY and unlike the victims in camps in wwii, there was no war going on that would give them hope of repreive… it was MORE hopeless than the nazis]

  57. Seth Barron is associate editor of City Journal and project director of the NYC Initiative at the Manhattan Institute.

    These critics claim that Trump, along with Lou Dobbs and other conservative commentators, is more or less consciously referencing the 1903 forgery Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and similar propaganda that propounds worldwide, malevolent Jewish domination. According to this line of thought, critique of supranational institutions such as the EU, NAFTA, and the United Nations is rooted in a corrupted ideology of racial nationalism that in its most powerful incarnation produced the Holocaust.

    But the fact that Bowers and a handful of like-minded lunatics are hypnotized by a fantasy of malevolent Jewish domination of the world monetary system doesn’t mean that Trump’s critique of postnationalist thinking is necessarily wrong.

    The two phenomena have nothing to do with each other, aside from the fact that they both use the word “globalist.”

    Globalism in its contemporary usage didn’t exist around 1900, when modern anti-Semitism was formulated. Empires ruled distant lands from imperial capitals, but outside of the halls of the World Esperanto Congress, the novels of John Buchan, and the dreams of the Second Communist International, there was no recognized international system of governance that imposed itself upon nation-states such as we have today, represented by manifold and overlapping hierarchies of rule-making bodies, multilateral trade agreements, and mutual-defense pacts.

    Drawing a comparison between anti-Semitic slurs from tsarist Russia or Henry Ford’s fervid ruminations, and today’s analysis of the postwar world order is facile in the extreme.

    At the recent Jewish Leadership Conference, held in New York the day after the killings in Pittsburgh, Yoram Hazony, an Israeli philosopher whose recent book The Virtue of Nationalism defends vigorously the traditional nation-state, responded in an interview to the argument that criticism of “globalism” is anti-Semitic.

    “The word ‘globalism,'” explained Hazony, “has been used for the last generation both in academic settings to describe a technical worldview that has nothing to do with Jews, and also in the public sphere to describe a broad political and intellectual vision that likewise has nothing to with Jews.”

    Hazony continued: “There are always going to be bigots and haters who are twisting words and using them in all sorts of strange ways. . . . So many terms that have clear and normal meanings — and ‘nationalism’ and ‘globalism’ are just a few of them — are being interpreted as though their principal valence is about race and bigotry, that you cease to be able to have an intelligent conversation about the central ideas.”

    It is unsurprising that the left has sought to tie the murderous hatred of Robert Bowers — who said explicitly that he thinks of President Trump as a “globalist” stooge of Jewish puppet masters— to Trump’s agenda of promoting American interests above a nebulous vision of global progress, because the left is committed to pursuing that latter vision at all costs.

    Its hatred of Trump and his millions of deplorable supporters is so intense, and at this point so beyond reason, that it pounces on a savage act of hatred as an opportunity to score political points.

    http://www2.philly.com/philly/opinion/commentary/globalist-jewish-pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting-20181030.html

  58. Artfldgr, you say “but no jewish person made an appeal to save the people they left behind”

    That’s not true, it’s actually the opposite. There was a large scale, but clandestine, rescue effort called the Brichah, the Exodus. Supposedly it’s not secret anymore. The camps in the American zone were used as waystations. It’s more complicated of course,

    That’s how the 300,000 surviving Polish Jews vanished out of Poland a year after the war had ended for everyone else.

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