RETURN OF THE MEME WARS

    So, as of this writing, the suspect in yesterday's mass-shooting in Maine is still eluding the valiant first responders who've been combing the vastness of Aroostook County by sea, land, and air. The residents of that area have been ordered to shelter in place (i.e., placed under martial law). Law enforcement, during one of their near-hourly press conferences has asked the residents to call immediately if they see any sign of the suspect: though how they're supposed to see anything cowering in their hovels isn't explained. 

    Imagine the fun these people are going to have when World War III starts. Authorities are going to have a field-day issuing orders, mandates, lockdowns, and it will be just like 2020 all over again with everyone afraid of their own shadows and eagerly following instructions to stay at home and smoke pot on their sofas, watching the drama on big-screen TV. We never actually had these Police-State style community lockdowns in the US until relatively recently. They didn't happen during Pearl Harbor or the Kennedy Assassination. Today, modern totalitarians have discovered it's more cost-effective to get people to throw themselves into prison camps voluntarily than it is to round them all up.

   The political faction which poses as Conservative in the US, criticized these kinds of lockdowns (despite doing nothing to oppose them), but of course they can't want for the war to start and themselves to have the power to impose them. Senator Mitch McConnell, the Grand Poobah of the Republican Party---less than 24 hours after we more or less predicted it---came out with an Axis of Evil speech. North Korea and Iran made the list for the second time, and, like the first list under President Bush, nobody listed there had any more to do with the Palestinian Revolt than they had to do with the WTC Attacks. 

   Bush's bungling led to the Global War on Terror getting tarnished in the public mind; so the PR firms on the political Right are circulating a new meme: the West's War for Existence. They even have a logo that looks suspiciously like a Professional Wrestling banner.

    The developer of this meme is Edward Weinhaus, a pundit from the Jerusalem-based Globe Banner and lecturer at Yeshiva University; so there's little doubt as to the degree of his objectivity in Middle Eastern affairs. He also rather tellingly nicknamed himself Coach, which speaks volumes about his journalistic approach. Weinhaus has written an article promoting the new slogan, which is otherwise unremarkable except that he addresses for the first (and only) time that I know of where a 'Conservative' mentioned that there's a faction on our side who doesn't religiously follow what Pat Buchanan accurately described as "Israel and its Amen Corner." 

  "The 'Right' in America, such that it still exists, wants the mentions {sic} of the world to go away. That ship has sailed based on the events of the last week," he comments. Hopefully readers aren't expecting a profound, in-depth, critique of Weinhaus' opponents on the Right, because here it is, in todo:

  "America has suffered 24 casualties thus far! Our citizens are held hostage! A majority want our marines to go get them! Iran being nuclear also seems like a very dangerous world! They are supporters of death squads!" You're either with us or with the enemy, in other words---and there's no need for argument because the rationale for American involvement in another Middle East bloodbath is clearly self-evident. Act first, and think later. 

   It's really not quite as self-evident as Weinhaus and other Neocons willing to fight to the last drop of other people's blood might imagine. That Americans get killed or taken prisoner when they venture into war-torn regions or commit crimes in other countries isn't wholly unheard-of; although there seems to be a belief among many on the Right that Diplomatic Immunity is a birthright bestowed on all American nationals abroad. Iran obtaining atomic weapons is seen as a great danger, though nobody seems interested in forcing Israel to give up its nuclear arsenal. 

   After screeching in his first few sentences about the supposed pro-Palestinian leanings of America's youth, Weinhaus' hopes of the Marines rushing in to save everybody comes across as a bit ironic. I suppose if their feminist commanders can get enough personnel out of jail, off drugs, and fit enough to serve in actual combat, the Few, the Out and Proud might make a showing. Given that Tel Aviv is considered an international 'gay hot-spot'  no doubt many Marines are very familiar with Israel. But, considering Weinhaus' fears about the sympathies of young---combined with the Pentagon's fears that the majority of the same age group are unfit for military service---casts some doubt that our brave xhes in uniform are going to equal the martial prowess of previous generations. Our recent military showings in the Middle East have been less than stellar, to put it mildly. 

   

      All of that is just a marketing angle, of course. As a specimen, though, of what the New Right is selling, Weinhaus holds up as role model of Conservative leadership WEF Young Global Leader and general tyrant, French President Emmanuel Macron. 

    "Macron called for an international coalition to eradicate the evil American youth seem to support. Macron’s was not a call to arms. It is a commitment to civilized values. It is congruent with the French resolve to take back their streets and enforce their laws."

   No, you moron: Macron is using terrorism as a pretext to expand his tyranny---just like he did during the Scamdemic and just like both political parties want to do in the United States. Weinhaus goes on to praise Macron: "France, whose leader unequivocally understands that illegal protests need to be stopped and the enemy called what it is, a threat to the West’s Existence. Then beaten." 

   First of all, protests are not illegal in Constitutional Republics, they are a legal Right. Secondly, suppressing protests is not a Conservative value. Weinhaus conveniently overlooks that pro-Palestinian demonstrations aren't the first that Macron has suppressed. Others have included suppressing protests against Scamdemic lockdowns; protests by farmers over land confiscation under the pretext of fighting 'Climate Change;' protests by unions to sell pension plans to Corporate Cartels; protests against instituting the Vaxx Passport (which incidentally was designed by an Israeli company); and suppression of the Yellow Vest tax protests. 

   That's the level to which the American Conservative Movement has sunk. Mitch McConnell and Emmanuel Macron are heroes and First Principles reduced to advertising slogans. We have to fight another needless war because it gives us a political advantage and be even more repressive than the Democrats to divert attention from our own failures to solve problems. 

   This isn't leadership: this is simply another conspiracy to seize power and to re-appropriate and redistribute it among a different faction of the same Deep State interests.