It seems strange that, as 2016 is drawing to a close, we find a political landscape where Communists, Anarchists, and Nazis are all back in vogue; and seeking out new ways to overthrow Democracy. The same groups were running wild in 1941 and then---as now---many Americans were content not to see the threat such extremists posed. There are times when we need a reminder of what America is; and what it is not.
Five days before Pearl Harbor was attacked---December 2nd, 1941---our recommended weekend feature, All Through the Night was released and was scoring box-office successes which soared after America entered WW2. The film was produced by Warner Brothers and featured a rich cast of current and future Hollywood stars. Humphrey Bogart and Kaaren Verne played the lead roles.
All Through the Night is one of those types of films that portray America before it had to be made great again. The story is set in a community in Brooklyn---heavily populated with first and second generation Americans. Bogart plays 'Gloves' Donahue; a man-about-town and professional gambler who's devoted to his mother, who still lives in the 'Old Neighborhood.' Donahue specially orders his favorite cheesecake for breakfast at the local diner every morning from a German baker who's his mother's neighbor. The delivery is missed one day; Donahue and his men investigate and find the baker has been murdered.
The police try to blame Donahue for the murder, but he escapes to look for the real killer. His only lead is a German girl named Leda (played by Kaaren Verne) who sings at a local nightclub run by the sinister Pepe (played by Peter Lorre). Donahue falls in love with Leda and discovers that she and the deceased baker were being blackmailed by the Gestapo to assist in their crimes. And so the fun starts with Donahue and his gang taking on the Nazi spies and saboteurs who are planning a major attack on a Naval Base.
The evident message of this film is just as relevant today as it was on the eve of WW2. It is a warning against complacency in a free society and a reminder that Americanism is an ideology independent of one's race or gender. The Americans are portrayed in this film as light-hearted and fun-loving contrasted with the ruthless determination of the Nazis. It is of interest to note that all four actors who played Donahue's gang later went on to star in television comedies (William Demerest, Jackie Gleason, Frank McHugh, and Phil Silvers). The Nazis were portrayed by German-American actors later mostly noted for playing in WW2 dramas (Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre, Martin Kosleck, and Hans Schumm). In one of the memorable scenes from All Through the Night, Donahue enlists a reluctant rival gang for a battle with the Nazis, saying:
"Listen all of you, I got a firsthand report on what it's like on the other side, from that Lena babe. I'm telling you, we've all got to watch our steps. That gang is strictly no good from way down deep. They're no bunch of petty racketeers trying to muscle in on some small turf---they want to move in wholesale, take over the whole country...and they aren't going to stay out of your way. They'll tell you what time you get out of bed in the morning and when to go to sleep at night. They'll tell you what to eat, what kind of clothes you can wear, and what to drink. They'll even tell you what morning newspaper you can read."
Which sums things up nicely. However flawed our system may be, there are those no good from way down deep who crave power more than they love liberty. There are fanatics of many political and religious stripes who prefer death in the cause of enslaving others than life under freedom. All Through the Night actually has some very modern elements depicting this point; including terrorist cells and an attempted suicide bombing.
Complacency is a huge part of the reason we have seen so much extremism in our modern culture. Fanatics thrive in societies where there is no popular resistance and the Elites are generally corrupt. The secondary message of All Through the Night; that the ideal is what unites us, is a strong preventative against the fanatic, who is all to eager to substitute race, gender, religion, or political ideology for the ideal.
All Through the Night is currently available for free viewing on Youtube and also on DVD. As an interesting side note, Peter Lorre, who played a Gestapo operative, and Kaaren Verne, who played the immigrant heroine, met and later married through their shared work on this film.
Red Pill Cult guru and White Supremacist Matt Forney has finally gotten his wish and has been banned from Twitter today. After months of provoking Twitter management (including previous suspensions), Twitter finally dropped the ban on this obnoxious troll. Forney is apparently such a nuisance on Twitter that, after Tuesday's ban on multiple extremists, Twitter users were actually online begging for Forney to be banned next. And so he was.
Forney responded to the ban in typical Manosphere fashion: playing the victim card. In a short video reply, Forney made obscene gestures at the camera and questioned Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's sexual proclivities. These self-appointed Manly Alpha Leaders are not known for their masculine stoicism under duress: especially not when put in a position of submission by the likes of Jack Dorsey.
Also just as predictably, Forney claims that he is the target of political persecution; and claims that his suspension was "a revenge move for helping get Donald Trump elected." What's most probable, though, given the reaction of normal Twitter users that Forney's ban had more to do with spamming, doxxing, or violations of Twitter policy. It's not as though Forney has no history of such things. He hoped to once to dox the alleged victim of Brock Turner and during the campaign organized 'flash mobs' at Trump rallies.
Forney is actually so repugnant that many men's issues bloggers can't stand him. And that is really what's behind these recent Twitter bans. If we are to have any kind of freedom in a free society, then it us up to mainstream and 'real Americans' (so to speak) to police ourselves and criticize those who abuse---and would gladly take away---our rights. In venues like Twitter, this is accomplished by corporate policy. No one says that people who use Twitter have an obligation to be spammed and harassed by attention-seeking trolls like Forney.
Jack Dorsey is doing the right thing; and the only criticism he's getting from Twitter users is that he didn't act sooner. The fringe-groups belong on the fringe; and it's up to public vigilance to keep them away from the mainstream.
As Allied Forces continue their offensive against the Terrorists in the Middle East, some horrible news has come out of Syria. We have known now for some time that ISIS and Al-Qaeda have been trafficking narcotics, weapons, and Black Market commodities through organized crime syndicates operating with a wink and a nod by the regimes in Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and some of their confederates. We also learned from Wiki Leaks during the Election Cycle that the Obama Administration and the Democratic Party Leadership was well aware of these governments' complicity in these crimes; yet took bribes from them and continued to support them. And, as we've seen from the woefully underreported Fat Leonard Scandal that the Pentagon may be actively aiding and abetting these activities.
Throughout this sordid five-year crime spree, we have often raised a question about the fate of thousands of missing women and children, kidnapped by the Terrorists. Our theory here all along has been that they were likely trafficked for sexual purposes to degenerate Western countries, but we've never found anything but slight circumstantial evidence of this. Unfortunately, our theory has apparently been wrong.
We say 'unfortunately' because it has been confirmed that these inhuman Wahhabi devils concocted an even worse fate for their victims. Dr. Hussein Noufel, of Syria's State Coroners Office stated to the press that "We have accurate information that over 25,000 surgical operations have been conducted among refugees in the neighboring countries (i.e., Turkey, Jordan, and Iraq) and in the terrorist-controlled areas of Syria since 2011; to remove the body organs of 15,000 Syrian citizens and sell them on the international Black Market."
As if this weren't hideous enough, the organ-trafficking trade is believed to be under the control of Wahhabi religious leaders. The leading Ayatollahs of the Shiites issued a fatwah against these heretics in early 2016.
Dr. Noufel stated that the organ-harvesting is done at captured hospitals in Mosul, Iraq and Raqqa today, though others in now-liberated areas were previously used. An earlier Iraqi report stated that twelve doctors in Mosul were executed by ISIS for refusing to comply with ISIS' crimes. That is very similar to reports from Deir Ezzur, Syria of executed doctors: Deir Ezzur held a major medical complex which was liberated by Allied forces last December.
Suspicions that the Terrorists have been engaging in organ-trafficking began surfacing throughout the last several months after the Iraqi Army began its impressive series of battles against ISIS. Mass-graves were uncovered and Iraqi forensic specialists discovered many women and children with evidence of recent surgery and missing organs. Iraq's UN Ambassador brought these findings to the attention of the UN last year---but was ignored by the US government and Corporate Media.
Iranian Intelligence sources spoke to Fars News---an Iranian news outlet strongly linked to Iran's military and security services---stating that Iran has long suspected Mosul to be the epicenter of organ-trafficking, although they were unaware until now of the size and scope of the trafficking. Iran believes that organs were harvested in Mosul via Raqqa and sold on the Black Market in Turkey---at about $15,000 per corpse.
SANA also quoted an Iraqi medical specialist, Dr. Sirwan al-Mosuli, who had escaped from Mosul as stating that the ISIS operations in Mosul and Raqqa employ foreign surgeons and that a German national heads the surgical team inside of Mosul.
Well, well. If that's true, do we wonder now why Obama, Stoltenberg, and Erdogan seem so desperate to participate in the Aleppo, Raqqa, and Mosul military campaigns? To destroy evidence, maybe? And we know from Wiki Leaks that the Podesta Group and the Gephardt Group are involved in facilitating Turkish foreign trade.
Like the Fat Leonard Scandal, the Syrian Civil War is looking more and more like the tip of an iceberg that's going to sink the Clinton Machine permanently. When the Trump Administration starts unraveling the cords in the Middle East, Obama, Clinton, Kerry, Carter, Clapper, Brennan, Gephardt, Podesta, and General Votel are going to be in some serious trouble.
And it's about time.
One of the extremists mentioned in our last post, Kevin Allred, has apparently suffered further consequences of his online extremism. The Rutgers faculty member, who was proscribed by Twitter for suggesting that White people should be randomly shot, was arrested on orders of his own university on Tuesday.
A statement from New York City Police spokeswoman Kellyann Ort said, "Rutgers Police contacted the 94th Precinct and requested that a wellness check be conducted on the professor based on comments he made in the classroom and on Twitter about killing White people. Based on these comments, he was transported to Bellevue Hospital for psychiatric evaluation."
Allred wasn't banned from Twitter, although his violent posts were taken down. No sooner had he been released from the Psych Ward than he was at it again: "This is ****, and proof positive that Trump's crackdown on free speech has already begun!"
Sad that a professor at New Jersey's largest university doesn't know that Obama is still the president until January, or that the NYPD and Rutgers University aren't part of the Federal Government, anyway. But it's about typical of effete American universities these days.
Meanwhile, over on the Far Right, Manosphere Red-Pill Cult blogs Vox Populi and Chateau Heartiste ran articles displaying a suspiciously similar pair of alleged Twitter posts---which were supposed 'proof' that Twitter tolerates so-called 'Hate Speech' against Whites, but not against minorities.
Assuming that the alleged posts were real and not---as is likely---photo-shopped by some Game Cult fanatic, they prove nothing about Twitter political bias. Twitter appears to be directing its efforts against spamming offensive speech rather than blocking it. This hasn't stopped the Alpha Bully-Boys from playing the Victim Card, though.
Heartiste had a total meltdown, which probably should earn him a trip to Bellevue as well. "White Americans won't put up with this ********* much longer!" he screeches, "The anti-White Left knows this and they won't relent...They will simply crow victoriously behind an impenetrable mass of brown and black shock troops! If the Left looses their precious open borders and mass non-White repopulation, they are staring down the business-end of a noose!"
Vox Day penned off a series of racially-charged articles, inexplicably between some posts written in foreign tongues (the anti-immigrant, English-only Vox apparently has double-standards of his own with multiculturalism). Vox declared that the Racial Détente was over and that believers in his Cult shouldn't care what others think of them. That position is, of course, making a virtue of necessity for most of the Red Pills.
It really is beginning to appear that the Trump victory is pushing extremism out of the mainstream---again against the conventional wisdom. Twitter's moves seem to be an indication that general social trends are moving against the extremes.
Free speech and censorship issues hit both North America and Europe yesterday. In Norway, one of the few real advocates for Men's Rights left in the Manosphere---blogger Eivind Berge---was awarded damages for violations of his free speech rights by a Norwegian Court. The Gulating District Court of Appeals ruled against the Norwegian Government, citing its wrongful arrest and imprisonment of Berge and awarded the blogger the equivalent of about $4,500 in compensation.
As Berge describes them in his article (linked above), the speech laws in Norway are very similar to those in the United States. There has to be a direct causal connection between speech and illegal activity before speech becomes illegal. Historically in the US, such cases actually more commonly fell under Criminal Conspiracy statutes than those pertaining to actual illegal speech. The Norwegian Supreme Court, in overturning Berge's original case, ruled that what is published on a blog are private and personal thoughts of the writer; and as such there was no compelling interest in Norway to suppress that kind of speech.
Eivind Berge: Defender of Free Speech
One would logically assume that American Manosphere writers would be celebrating the Berge verdict, but not so. Instead, they are calling 'censorship' Twitter's decision yesterday to ban several obnoxious Nazi/MRA trolls. Unfortunately, in the US the views of the Nazis and the American Men's Rights Movement are becoming practically indistinguishable. Twitter is a private company with its own Terms of Use policies; and although Twitter doesn't comment on its decision to ban users for privacy reasons, many industry insiders believe that the ban was related less to the political views expressed than to the relentless spamming, doxxing, and other harassment that the guilty parties were engaging in.
Nazi Richard Spencer was the biggest target of the Twitter ban, along with all his affiliated front-groups. Spencer had prominent Red Pills Steve Sailer and the homosexual activist Jack Donovan among his regular writers. Notorious White Nationalist trolls---and self-confessed Red Pills John Rivers and Ricky Vaughn were banished. Pax Dickinson; who is a regular follower of Red Pills Vox Day and Roosh Valizdeh was also banned. Dickinson was formerly CTO of Business Insider who was fired in 2013 for using Twitter to say things like:
"In 'Passion of Christ II, Jesus was raped by a pack of niggers. It's his own fault for dressing like a whore though." and "Who has more dedication, ambition and drive? Kobe only raped one girl, LeBron raped an entire city. +1 for LeBron!"
Pax Dickinson: Wall Street Abuser of Free Speech
Spencer and Dickinson were outraged by the ban; apparently American Red Pills haven't figured out that censorship only applies to government and government-funded entities. Spencer went so far as to claim "Corporate Stalinism" although he regularly violated Twitter's policies. Manosphere bloggers and Twitter trolls Mike Cernovich and Matt Forney---evidently jealous that Twitter didn't consider them important enough for a ban---wrote of coming purges, etc.
The Far Left didn't fare any better today. Matt Harrigan, CEO of Packetsled was forced to resign after making some rather detailed assassination threats against President-Elect Trump online. Dickinson and Harrigan are perfect examples of why Corporate America needs a swamp-draining as badly as the government does. Also Twitter cracked down on Rutgers faculty member Kevin Allred. Allred, an Adjunct Lecturer in Rutgers' Department of Women's and Gender Studies claimed today that randomly shooting Whites would help get the 2nd Amendment repealed.
In case Allred hadn't noticed, white police officers have been getting randomly shot all over the country this year. And it does violate Twitter's policies to threaten public officials like Harrigan and Allred did.
Kevin Allred: Defender of Left-Wing Campus Speech Codes
Allred was in the news about a year ago for offering a class called 'Politicizing Beyounce'. Tuition at Rutgers starts at about $11,000 a year and taxpayers cough up $1 billion a year for the privilege of receiving an 'education' under the likes of Kevin Allred.
Berge's case showed that the Government has no authority restricting freedom of speech; what the Twitter cases showed is that defending Free Speech involves public self-policing. It is up to us as free citizens to expose and condemn extremist rhetoric; it's not up to the government to define what constitutes extremist speech and use the power of the State to enforce it.
Angry Leftists---always eager to find new venues to impose their will on others---are taking out their frustrations on the Electoral College System. Keep in mind that all of the popular vote hasn't been counted yet; but nonetheless the Left believes that Clinton won it: according to them, therefore, Clinton deserves to be president.
There's even a petition online to get Electors to certify the election to change their votes to Clinton---which has no chance whatsoever of happening.
Senator Barbara Boxer of California furiously scribbled off a Senate Bill this week to abolish the Electoral College System---apparently unaware that this would require a Constitutional Amendment. That means that the proposal would have to be ratified by at least 34 states. Senator Boxer's proposal has about as much chance of success as the online petition has.
"The Electoral College is an outdated, undemocratic system that does not reflect our modern society and it needs to change immediately!" Senator Boxer fumed to a sympathetic press. It's very typical of the American Left to support the US Constitution up to the point that it obstructs their political goals. The Electoral College System is neither undemocratic, nor outdated. Soros and Podesta-backed protestors are spinning the 2016 Election as though Trump took advantage of some legal technicality to win; just as they did in the 2000 Election.
Under our Constitution, individuals, sovereign states, and the Federal Government are guaranteed and assigned certain jurisdictional rights and responsibilities. This issue was addressed by our Founding Fathers long ago. Some populous states favored direct democracy both in representation and in national elections. Some smaller states favored each state to be represented equally. The Founders created a two-tiered compromise. This is why we have a bicameral Legislative Branch today: where the House is directly democratic and the Senate representative equally of each State. Up until 1914, when the 17th Amendment was passed, Senators were not even directly elected by the people but appointed by State governments. The purpose of the bicameral legislature is to have one house representing the interests of the people-at-large; the other to represent the interests of the States-at-large.
The Electoral College System is based on the same principle. Without it, a few heavily-populated urban centers could or would dominate national politics. Our Founders feared this kind of loss of local control. The Left is always complaining about diversity; but there is no other way to represent the diverse cultures and economies that comprise our Republic unless it be apportioned by State. Systems like the Electoral College and the US Senate actually do work.
We don't need to change the Constitution because a few sore losers didn't get their way. It's bad enough already that the Left continually tries to (and sometimes succeeds at) using the Judicial Branch to impose their agendas when legislative means don't go their way. Hopefully that will be a reform that the new Administration will attempt to resolve. But for now, the Electoral College System works fine.
After nearly a week of post-election follies, outraged citizens of the Prozac Nation are now displaying their dissatisfaction with democracy by wearing diaper-pins. "In the wave of reactions to Donald Trump's election as the 45th President of the US, safety-pins have taken on a whole new meaning in this country." announced PBS, a nonprofit US media network. "Some Americans are wearing safety-pins as a symbol of solidarity with victims of racism, 'homophobia', and religious discrimination. People have spoken out on Twitter to say that they are an ally of marginalized groups."
The general idea behind this rather odd fashion accessory is to signal to other panic-stricken Leftists that they have a personal safe space around someone else wearing the device. There is some irony in the fact that those who've reviled Trump throughout the whole campaign as a Nazi, should choose to wear an emblem segregating themselves as political dissidents on their own accord. But no one ever said that the Left is logical.
The trend began shortly before the weekend, when Twitter users began posting photographs of themselves wearing diaper-pins and boasting things like "until people I know and love can feel safe again."
Most of the diaper-pin wearers could not explain to the Corporate Media exactly why they or their acquaintances felt unsafe, except it that their fears have some vague relationship to Donald Trump. The fact that Obama brought us to the brink of WW3 with China; nearly let 90 atomic missiles fall into the hands of Jihadists; caused urban riots and mass violence along with economic recession doesn't seem to have caused them the same insecurity.
Predictably, too, not all Left-Wing extremists are happy about the diaper-pin statement. The Huffington Post from some Code Pink activist loudly complaining that White heterosexuals share a collective guilt in electing Trump; hence none of that demographic has a right to wear a diaper-pin. Some Black Militants claimed online that they were offended at the notion of seeking solidarity with non-Blacks. And so on.
Nonetheless, several celebrities appeared in public sporting diaper-pins, and the ACLU and much of the Corporate Media is officially promoting their use. New York Magazine, owned by the family of late Wall Street billionaire robber baron Bruce Wasserstein, stated:
"As stories of post-election violence and hate speech circulate online, some people have begun wearing safety-pins to identify themselves as allies in the fight against intolerance, and to show solidarity with women, LGBT people, immigrants, and people of color feeling frightened by Trump's presidency and the vitriol some of his followers display."
Strange that New York Magazine didn't take the same interest in James O'Keefe's expose showing that the DNC was deliberately inciting violence at Trump rallies.
The Cultural Marxists unleashed several 'color revolutions' on innocent countries; it's probably fitting that a 'Diaper Revolution' would appear in this one. There's no better symbol for the effete Left than a box of Pampers.
