CONSERVATISM VS. LEFTIST INTERVENTIONISM

           "We Americans have no commission from God to police the world. Let those who would die for the flag on foreign battlefields give a better proof of their patriotism and give greater glory to their country by promoting brotherhood and justice."---President Benjamin Harrison, 1888. 

         Thanks largely to our dysfunctional public school system, few Americans know much about our 23rd President. But Benjamin Harrison is significant because he was the first Conservative---in the modern sense of the term---to be elected president. In the late 19th Century, there was a political movement called Progressivism. The Progressives believed in a larger, more proactive government. Inspired by some European politicians and discouraged by the recent US Civil War; they felt that the Constitutional emphasis on individual rights and economic free-enterprise had become antiquated. They desired us to become more like the corporatist and imperialist European systems; much as modern Progressives wish us to follow European socialism and cultural imperialism.

        The Progressives' political opponents back then had a slogan about 'conserving' the principles of our Founding Fathers. The media began referring to them as Conservatives and the name has been around ever since. 

         For our purposes, with the Administration considering another illegal and ill-thought out attack on Syria, it should be noted that this type of intervention is not a Conservative position---the number of RINOs supporting it to the contrary. When Benjamin Harrison made the speech quoted above; he was referring to the very principles laid down by George Washington. (Harrison, BTW, was inaugurated on the 100th Anniversary of Washington's Inauguration). 

           The Founders and the earlier political leaders restricted our military to our own hemisphere and to the Pacific Islands. The reason for this was to encourage foreign trade without the intrigues and entanglements of foreign power-politics. The warnings coming from Russia about a Syrian Intervention should not be ignored, as too many do. 

          Global conflicts have started because it's completely unpredictable where one power is going to choose to draw a line and react. Some pundits snort that Russia won't go to WW3 over Syria. But how do they know this? Obama came within a hair's-breadth of a world war in 2016 because he didn't think that China would fight for the Nansha Islands. 

         In WW2,  Hitler didn't believe that Britain and France would fight for Poland. Stalin didn't believe that the Nazis would invade Russia. Roosevelt didn't believe that the Japanese would dare attack US territory. WW1 started from a whole chain of miscalculations like these. 

          Ever since the Soviet Union fell in 1991, Russia has been double-crossed by series of US Presidents promising a 'Reset in Russian Relations' and then cynically betraying Russian trust. Russia very well may react over a Syrian attack with the ferocity of people who feel they've been pushed and goaded once too often. And Russia's allies China, Iran, and India may not sit idly by either.

          The question Trump needs to consider is not whether Russia will go to war over Syria; but whether the US thinks that Syria is worth risking the start of a world war. 

 

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DON'T DO IT, MR. PRESIDENT

    Once again the situation is heating up in the Middle East. Despite evidence proving that the Syrian Government was not behind an alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma last week, RINO Nikki Haley and the Pax Americana crowd began pushing for military 'retaliation.' 

     French President Macron has also been gulled by the Soros-funded White Helmets and the Al-Qaeda funded Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Macron seems to be leaning on Trump for moral support and egging him on to attack at the same time. Macron, it should be noted, has an ulterior motive here. During his presidential campaign, he brought back a Bushism: "I am not a wimp." Then, with ISIS nearing collapse he safely promised to attack Syria if chemical weapons were used. Now Macron---an inexperienced leader---thinks that he has to save face by doing something.

      The problem though is twofold. First, Syria didn't deploy chemical weapons and Syria is allied with Russia, China, and Iran who would be especially displeased with France. And France is economically tied to all three countries. 

        The second problem is that military experts are questioning whether or not France actually has the military capability anymore to launch an operation like that unilaterally. The French Military isn't what it used to be in the days of Beau Geste. In other words, Macron needs Trump for cover. Even if he pulls this off, it won't succeed for him politically in France because everybody will see that France is a paper tiger. And it won't help Trump politically either; because he would essentially be doing what his political opponents favor him doing. 

         Don't do it, Mr. President. Who really wants 'regime change' in Syria? The crooks at the DNC; EU bureaucrats; shady contractors who'd profit from rebuilding the country; ISIS and Al-Qaeda; George Soros; international drug traffickers and white-slavers; and the Corporate Media. Are these the people whom Trump and Macron want in their teams?

         As Russian UN Ambassador Vasily Nebenzia said: "If you have made a decision to carry out an illegal military endeavor, we hope that you will come to your senses. You will bear the responsibility of it yourselves."

         

APPOMATTOX ANNIVERSARY

      153 years ago today was the first day of a new era in American History. A conspiracy to break up the Union and the bloodiest war we've seen either before or since had ended the day before. Thousands of broken men were liberated from death-camps like Andersonville. The slavery issue, too, was settled once and for all. The Southern Aristocracy gave way to the Democracy which we all now have.

       Sadly, Americans' jubilation was short-lived; for five days later, President Lincoln was gunned down in cold blood by one of the partisans of the Southern Aristocracy. 

       Today it's become somewhat fashionable to support the so-called 'Confederacy' and deride the memory of Lincoln. But people forget that the U.S. Civil War was the decisive battle between democracy and despotism on our own shores. For the first 90 years of our independence, the Southeastern states were more closely modeled on European feudalism than the republican ideals of the Constitution.

        After our victory in the American Revolution, there were those who wanted to establish a monarchy in this country. Washington was offered the crown and refused it. He began the precedent of presidents serving only two terms. When George III tried to reconquer us in 1812; the Southern politicians obstructed our war efforts fearing that annexation of Canada would bring in more anti-slavery and anti-aristocratic sentiments. 

        In 1832, South Carolina threatened to secede over a tariff on cotton. President Jackson backed them down with his forceful leadership. A similar threat happened in 1850 when an attempt to secede was put down by President Taylor. Between then and 1861, the anti-government conspiracy went into overdrive. Southern politicians like Jefferson Davis used their positions to set up the South and weaken the North. Davis was Defense Secretary under President Pierce. He loaded West Point with Southerners and moved arsenals South. By 1860, the Southern Aristocracy had made it clear what would happen if the Election of 1860 didn't go as they wanted. They were the first 'not my president' crowd. 

         And they were also every bit as vicious and tyrannical as the current anti-government gangs. One of the first acts of the Confederate Government was to confiscate the property of anybody who opposed secession. Thousands of people were literally driven out of their homes and reduced to abject poverty. Union soldiers later found many living in hovels and caves; barely alive. 

            After the war started, the Confederate Army rejected every principle of civilized warfare. They massacred Negro soldiers in cold blood and hanged their officers. They built death-camps for the express purpose of killing and maiming Union troops. The same fiends who devised those camps also ran a secret police force to maintain order. 

            Regardless of what revisionists say, we should be thankful that we had a President Lincoln and 2 million soldiers who fought for the Union. Over 360,000 of these men never came back. 1,522 soldiers won the Congressional Medal of Honor: the most in any American war. And not only were there heroic men; but women like Red Cross founder Clara Barton organized medical and humanitarian relief which continued long after the war. In many ways, the Lincoln Administration contrasted some of our darkest hours against some of our most heroic and self-sacrificing moments as a people.

            

FALSE FLAG SEASON IN SYRIA

      President Trump announced earlier this week a plan to withdraw US forces from Syria. Earlier he grounded our Air Force and suspended funding for terrorist forces masquerading as 'freedom fighters.' Clearly, the President's position has evolved considerably from last April when---with Rainbow Rex Tillerson perched like a crow on his shoulder---he launched cruise missiles against the legitimate Syrian Government.

      Now, for the third or fourth time since the Syrian Civil War began, we have a highly conveniently timed 'incident'. The Syrian Army allegedly deployed chemical weapons just as the US was about to end completely its illegal intervention in that country. This attack supposedly occurred in Douma: a terrorist-held redoubt in rural Damascus Province. The militants in Douma have refused to surrender despite being completely surrounded and besieged. Their situation is hopeless; but they are fanatics and have committed numerous war-crimes and atrocities against the civilian population. That includes using civilians as human shields.

      The Syrian Army and it's allies have been making slow but steady progress in the Battle of Douma. So why would they deploy chemical weapons? They are winning with conventional weapons and a chemical attack would injure the very civilians whom they hope to liberate. And the source of this story were the Soros-funded 'White Helmets' who too are nothing but Western proxies. 

      In other words, it's one of those false-flags; contrived either by Western interests or by the terrorists themselves with captured weapons. Little matter which: ISIS/Al-Qaeda and the DNC/RINO Deep-Statists have identical goals in Syria. 

       Tomorrow (Monday) the United Nations is convening a meeting over the alleged incident. Russian diplomats hope to stave off any over-reaction from Trump and French President Macron. Trump and Macron both denounced the attack, but wrongly blamed it on Syria. Hopefully, cooler heads will prevail as Russia presents evidence as to the truth.

          The Syrian Foreign Minister summed it well on Sunday. "These allegations of using chemical weapons have become an unconvincing script, except for some countries trafficking in the blood of civilians and which support terrorism in Syria...the pretense of using chemicals in the Eastern Ghouta Region was pre-planned and there is documented and confirmed evidence about this; and against which the Syrian State has previously warned."

         Trump has an opportunity here to bring the US back into "the community of nations" for real. He can renounce Deep-State policies once and for all after this evidence is presented.

STEPHEN COLBERT'S EASTER MESSAGE OF HATE

      Stephen Colbert, one of the most vile (and consequently the most idolized by Liberals) characters in the Corporate Media is in the middle of controversy again. Colbert televised some Easter Special where he lampooned President Trump and Vice-President Pence laughing over Christians and the Easter Holiday while secretly being recorded. 

       There are two types of genuinely sick people out there. One is Colbert and the media scum who produce this trash; the other are the audiences who think it actually humorous or socially redeeming. Because the dialogue in this skit was really nothing more than a slough of gutter-level blasphemies and insults. We're not even going to bother repeating them here, though interested readers can read about it in more graphic detail at Breitbart News.

        To give an example of what kind of person Colbert is, consider the story about his sister's unsuccessful campaign for public office. Despite being a widely-admired celebrity on the Left with a net worth of around $50 million, Colbert wouldn't even visit campaign rallies for his own sister until the DNC agreed to pay his speaking fees and travel costs including lodging and meals. 

        But Stephen Colbert is pretty much a lost cause anyway. The man should have had psychiatric help years ago. What's really interesting about this story is the way that Leftists typically react to holidays. 

        Holidays serve an important social purpose. The basic root of holidays is a time for all to come together and reflect on a common good. Some like Christmas and Easter are religiously themed. Others like Thanksgiving and New Years are to take stock of where we are and where we're going. Some like Independence Day and Columbus Day are commemorating historically significant events. Some informal ones like St. Valentine's Day and Mother's day are to appreciate special people in our lives. 

         But the Left seems to harbor an intense dislike for these kinds of days. The reason for this is that, despite their babble about 'inclusion', Leftist philosophies are in general very narcissistic and egocentric. And there's also a large dose of envy thrown into the mix. Leftists are chronically miserable malcontents, so naturally they resent seeing others celebrating. And thus they try to disrupt these events by every means possible: from trying to force St. Patrick's Day parades to accept perverts to tearing down public Nativity Scenes at Christmas. If one person (or interest group) is displeased or 'offended' then everyone else should be too, according to illogical Leftist reasoning.

          As Conservatives, we need to take back our holidays. We can elect officials who won't cave in to interest groups. The President has already set the example at the federal level. The other thing that we can do is ignore the Media. A generation ago, 'comedians' like Colbert would have (at best) maybe become carnival barkers or masters of ceremonies at cheap strip clubs. We need to see the holiday-disrupters for what they are; and ignore them accordingly.

  

TRUMP DEPLOYS TROOPS TO BORDER

     It's another refreshing change; that is to have a President who realizes that the first word in the term 'Defense Department' actually means defending the actual United States. Today, Trump ordered the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to begin deploying National Guard units to the Southern Border. Hopefully, the Northern Border will be next. 

      The Whacko Left wing and their parrots in the Corporate Media have gone completely ballistic over this move. But it's long overdue. The US Border Patrol and ICE are riddled with corruption and inefficiency. The Military should have been doing this job all along. About a decade ago, the Bush Administration briefly experimented with such a program. In just one month, the Military stopped an estimated 175,000 people from illegally entering the country. They also rescued over 100 people who were victims of kidnapping and human trafficking; and seized more than 150 tons of narcotics. Pressure from the Democrats and RINOs caused Bush to abandon the program.

       The Bush Administration accomplished that with only 6,000 troops: about the size of a combat brigade. The cost to taxpayers was far less than it costs to maintain the massive ICE bureaucracy.

       But the Trump Administration isn't going to replace the bureaucracy; at least not yet. According to The Military Times, the troops are going in a support role. In the Bush deployment, soldiers conducted aerial surveillance and helped coordinate response times. In Texas, the National Guard has been deployed since 2014. Arizona and New Mexico also welcomed the decision. But California could be a problem.

        California Governor Jerry Brown hasn't issued an official position, but is under tremendous pressure not to cooperate with the other states. Kevin DeLeon, author of the California Sanctuary Bill and candidate for US Senate, huffed to the Press: "Despite Mr. Trump's rantings there is no evidence of an imminent influx of asylum seekers here in California or elsewhere. In fact, border crossings have plummeted to the lowest level since 1971!" And Arizona Congressman Raoul Grijalva frothed that this is "the latest chapter in Trump's Reign of Terror meant to wreak havoc on immigrants and members of border communities!"

        Generally, whenever we hear the Left using such language, that's an excellent bellwether to judge that Trump is doing something right. And despite their opposition to Trump's and Bush's deployments, they had nothing to say when Obama sent troops to the Border in 2010.

          And Arizona Governor Ducey probably came closest to the truth. "Anything we can do to enhance security and to go after the cartels who are smuggling drugs into the country and putting people at risk---we absolutely want to see that happen."

           That's something that the Democratic Party leadership seems never to want to see happen. They opposed Allied intervention against narcotic and human smuggling from ISIS. They opposed Chinese intervention against the same things in the South China Sea and in Southeast Asia. They oppose Trump crushing the MS-13 gang---which makes its living off smuggling. Now they oppose his efforts to stop it on the Southern Border. 

             I think that we can draw our own conclusions as to why they would oppose these things. Organized Crime and the Deep State aren't so radically different. 

          

PUBLIC SCHOOLS: THE NEXT SWAMP TO DRAIN

       Now that we've reached the Spring of 2018, many public-school mandates funded by Obama and his RINO-led Congress are about to expire. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos needs to make some sharp cuts and serious reforms urgently.

       A good example of why need reform desperately is the story of Charles McCormack of Muscle Shoals, Alabama. McCormack was sentenced to 10 years in prison today after being arrested by the FBI last Fall on multiple counts of Child Pornography violations. McCormack, incidentally was a Kindergarten teacher. 

       According to WAFF-48 TV, McCormack had been investigated at least three times since 2010 and it was proven by FBI agents that he'd engaged in such behavior at least since 1998. Most of his trafficking in pornography and paraphernalia involved girls around 4-7 years of age. 

       McCormack was employed by the Walker County (Georgia) Public Schools when the three complaints uncovered by WAFF occurred. In 2010, a parent complained that McCormack took pictures under their daughter's dress. In 2015, parents of another girl complained that McCormack had put his hands down their daughter's pants. In 2016, he was investigated again: it's unknown as to why but it involved the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. And according to Walker County Superintendent Damon Raines, McCormack retired (yes, as in with a pension) in 2016. He taught Kindergarten at Chattanooga Valley Elementary School.

         People like McCormack are bad enough, but administrators like Raines who take no action---in fact hire them and protect them---are even worse. 

         Raines is no stranger to controversy himself. He and his District lost a Federal lawsuit when judges ruled that he had violated a teacher's Right to Free Speech when Raines tried to put a gag-order on him for publicly criticizing a new grading-policy. The new 'progressive' grading-policy, incidentally, prohibited teachers from giving grades on homework and day-to-day assignments and only allowed grades to be given on test scores. 

         Raines also came under fire more recently for pressuring teachers to lobby and speak against school-choice initiatives. Which sounds like something that parents in his school district desperately need. Raines draws down a fat salary of nearly $140,000 annually; compared to the $38,000 median annual salary in Walker County.

         Walker County wasn't the only culpable school district here. WAFF reported that, in spite of McCormack's history and the fact that he was now under investigation by the FBI, the Muscle Shoals School District hired him as a substitute teacher for its elementary schools. 

         Their Superintendent, Brian Lindsey, said that his district doesn't keep records on substitutes and that he has no idea whether McCormack taught there or not. What Lindsey actually does do to justify his $136,000 salary is not known. But Lindsey must travel a lot, because his contract gives him an additional $6,000 'car allowance' annually. The median income in Muscle Shoals is a little less than $27,000 per year. Crime in Muscle Shoals is 34% higher than the rest of Alabama and almost double the national average.

         Lindsey is notable for the kinds of lowlifes who work under him. In 2015, he temporarily suspended a football coach after the coach was jailed for beating up his wife and breaking her nose. In 2016, their athletic department was sanctioned for trying to bribe athletes from other schools to transfer. Also in 2016, the school district was forced to repay the State of Alabama $118,000 after a 'computer error' awarded them tax dollars to which they were not entitled. 

           Lindsey also lobbied for a local property tax increase 'for the schools'; which drew much criticism since he lives outside of town and wouldn't have to pay the increase himself. 

            Academic Mandarins like Damon Raines and Brian Lindsey are what feeds the corrupt environment which attracts perverts like McCormack (and other criminals). They are examples of why our public schools need to be reformed from top-to-bottom. Or failing that, simply abolished and begun again from scratch.