The Sleeping Giant Awakens (Obama, radicals and racial violence)

American Thinker ^ | August 10, 2011 | Robin of Berkeley

[2ndDivisionVet]

One of my closest friends, "Gail," lives in a pristine suburb in northern New Jersey. It's one of those leafy bedroom communities where residents drive their Lexus SUVs to the railroad station each morning to catch the train to Manhattan.

After 9/11, Gail told me that eerily, several vehicles were left abandoned in the parking lot for weeks. Their drivers never returned home that day to retrieve them.

But, in general, not much goes on in her sleepy, idyllic town. The residents rave about shopping sprees to Loehmanns and sprints to Whole Foods for organic strawberries. There is no crime to speak of; the local paper blares news about a recent traffic accident or the opening of a Trader Joe's. So when Gail told me what happened to her son, I was absolutely dumbfounded.

As for Gail, like my former self, she's a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party.....

[Tainan]

No offense intended.
Just remember that FR is world-wide in its members and viewing.
(like the expression goes - "Its always 5 o'clock somewhere")
I agree thats its good thread and deserves as many 'eyes' as possible.

[ETL]

Malik Zulu Shabazz, chairman of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (NBPP):
"We believe in a Black first philosophy and a Black Liberation Theology."

http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_1858.shtml
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“Although it [The New Black Panther Party] says it sees capitalism as the fundamental problem with the world and “revolution” as the solution, the new party does not draw its influences from Marxism or Maoism as the original party did. Instead, in a carefully-worded, roundabout form of ethnic nationalism,[8] they say that Marx based his ideology and teachings on indigenous African cultures, and that the NBPP therefore need not look to Marxism or Maoism as a basis for their program, but can look to ideologies that stem directly from those African origins.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Black_Panther_Party#Philosophy.2C_ideology.2C_and_criticism
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"The Justice Department originally brought the case against four armed men who witnesses say derided voters with catcalls of "white devil" and "cracker" and told voters they should prepare to be "ruled by the black man." ..."

“One poll watcher called police after he reportedly saw one of the men brandishing a nightstick to threaten voters.

“As I walked up, they closed ranks, next to each other,” the witness told Fox News at the time. “So I walked directly in between them, went inside and found the poll watchers. They said they’d been here for about an hour. And they told us not to come outside because a black man is going to win this election no matter what.”

He said the man with a nightstick told him, “’We’re tired of white supremacy,’ and he starts tapping the nightstick in his hand. At which point I said, ‘OK, we’re not going to get in a fistfight right here,’ and I called the police.”...”

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/userletter/?id=48778&letter_id=5485433306

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_110408/content/01125111.guest.html
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"Security" patrols stationed at polling places in Philly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neGbKHyGuHU
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Also see:

Black Panthers intimidate voters in Philadelphia with night stick:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzBVxP5wzCY

[Explorer89]

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It is possible that I made up my usage, I do that sometimes. I don’t think It was incorrect, however. I think that discordant would have been a better choice.

To the topic at hand, Holder’s droppage (I did make that word up) of the Panther charges gave a signal that misbehavior (mild, I know) would be tolerated. Obama chose to speak out against a perceived racial injustice against his friend, Gates (the police acting stupidly) yet remains strangely silent on the topic of the feral youth. They don’t fit his narrative unless he can find someone else to blame.

[CitizenUSA]

There are some on the left who understand the true stakes of the cultural war they wage, but many naive liberals, like Gail, do not. They live insular lives, separated by their wealth from the destruction they wreak on the less fortunate. They enjoy the benefits of polite society without ever realizing the sacrifice, hard work, and God-fearing morality of prior generations that was required to create it.

[CitizenUSA]

You can’t blame this all on Obama. I mean, you can, but I don’t think he deserves all the blame. He’s just a symptom, not the cause.

[cranked]

Good article to read. Informative.

[CitizenUSA]

nathanbedford: “We do know that Barak Obama has already encouraged a cult of personality whose implications are truly frightening and fundamentally un-American.”

I always enjoy your posts. Thanks!

Without a doubt, no “Christian” would ever, EVER permit the deification and idolization that Obama received. As you wrote, a moral person would have acted immediately and decisively to stomp it out. Obama did not. In fact, it's quite obvious that he relished it. That, by itself, tells me all I really need to know about the man and his so-called Christianity.

[Quiller]

Might have meant, “discordant”.

[CitizenUSA]

BTW, it does literally frighten me that so many Americans were so totally blind. How could they possibly risk so much on so little??? Years after the election, it still boggles my mind.

[Quiller]

>. . . [0] has not uttered a word of condemnation, (unlike Mayor Nutter in Philly) but I cannot view this a some sort of assault orchestrated by Obama.

0's 'civil' comments:

If they bring a knife, we bring a gun.

Get in their faces.

Get in the streets and get busy.

The Philadelphia police behaved 'stupidly'.

The man is one continuous drone of aggressive 'street-thug' posturing from a pampered poseur.

As soon as 0 was elected, relations between the races took a nose dive -- African-Americans across the U.S. took his election as a sign that it was time for them to, "get theirs."

He has done NOTHING to try to lead toward a united country -- he has only used divisive language.

Yes, 0 is definitely behind the outbreaks in violence.

The only thing truly unknown is whether his inciting of it is by design or through incompetence.

[kearnyirish2]

These “groups” are just silly posturing, probably by off-duty gubmint workers with a camera.

They can’t even deal with the Hispanics, who are displacing them in the workforce, the cities, even prison. When some Hispanics killed those kids in a schoolyard in Newark a few years back, where were these black toughs? The Hispanics would have taken them apart.

Many cities have seen their last black mayor, and the first of several Hispanic ones.

[The Working Man]

the feeling I am getting these days? It’s actually very similar to the weird loopiness I was feeling the week after the big earthquake last March. Everything looks the same, but somehow everything feels less substantial. The ground seems to be moving all the time, even when it isn’t.

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I’m familiar with that feeling.I too feel it. You have a good description of it.

All I can offer at this point is to mentally prepare yourself. It has the potential to get really wild.

[Bluebird Singing]

Ahhhhh, you think the communist community organizer occupying the White House doesn’t have minions assisting this stuff on social networks?

[Dick Vomer]

Screw Gail and her little mamas boy. Where I grew up, San Antonio west side, if a group of black guys would have shown up and punched out anybody Gail’s cousins and nephews would have tracked the punks down and if they were lucky only beat the puncher to a pulp. If not lucky , burned his house down and shot everybody that ran out.

Don’t even bother calling the police, cause they wouldn’t even bother writing down the tag number you gave them. Hahahahaha. And God
forbid if the kid or his relatives belonged to La Eme or LKs , cause then you would have raised the body count by dozens.

I can tell you how Gail is going to react. She’s going to blame “society” for not giving those punks a chance and vote to increase funding for midnight basketball, find an outreach program so that each race can “get to know” each other as kindred spirits on mother earth. Maybe even “ forgive” the punks so they can see how nice she is and just maybe they will see she’s not one of those “mean conservative” whites that only wants to punish people. Hahahahaha. Pathetic really. Her son just might figure out that if a group of black guys ever approaches you, it’s time to either get in your car and 1. Drive away 2. Pull your weapon of choice out or 3. Call for some friends to come have some fun with baseball bats

[Alberta's Child]

Back then, she didn't understand what I was saying; she simply couldn't.

She is starting to understand now.

I hate to break this to you, Robin, but I can assure you that your friend Gail is going to go out there in November 2012 and cast a vote for Barack Hussein Obama again.

I know those affluent New Jersey suburbs well, and one of the remarkable aspects of them is that the affluence of their residents really masks their mediocrity when it comes to intelligence, wisdom and normal thought patterns. You'd be hard-pressed to find as many stupid people with a lot of money anywhere else in this country.

I suspect a lot of this relates to the fact that suburbia has a way of cultivating stunted people who have neither the down-to-earth practical knowledge that comes with rural living nor the scrappy toughness and "people skills" that urban living tends to require.

[Conservative Vet]

You’re right. When you walk around in San Francisco and see the young black thugs, they most likely came from Oakland on BART. While there are black populations in Bayview Hunters Point and a few other areas, the crime in the city is often caused by these “commuters” from Oakland. Some are dope peddlers who ply their wares in the Tenderloin since the SFPD lets them as a “containment zone” and some are looking for victims to rob.

Last week, my Filipina sister-in-law and her Filipino-Australian husband were visiting (San Jose) from Papua New Guinea, where they live and work. They were taking a San Francisco tour and were going to walk around and take the Caltrain back here. I had a discussion with the husband about the serious dangers young black males pose and told him some precautions to take. Personally, I’ve walked all over San Francisco and never had a problem, but I always carry a Kershaw knife and often a tactical flashlight with a “strike bezel”. I also keep my head on a swivel, checking out potential threats and making myself a less desirable target as a victim as the predators know I’m aware of them and they won’t have the element of surprise with me.

I told him it saddened me to have paint a group with a broad brush like that, especially since I had good relations with blacks when I was in the military. However, the fine young men and women of color who serve in the military are very different from the feral vermin that inhabit the inner cities and we ignore the threat at our peril. (I’m hispanic myself, but I also go on alert when I see Latinos with green prison tattoos, or sporting the gang colors of red or blue.) I see quite a few at my neighborhood bar but I’ve never had a problem as the rumor there is that I’m an undercover cop. (I’m not, but I still sport a military haircut and that may have something to do with it.)

[Alberta's Child]

Excellent point, Jonty. See my Post #55 for an extension of that. I’d make the case that Gail is as much a “perpetual two year-old” as the permanent underclass you describe.

[Steel Wolf]

My problem is that I am seeking after that which I cannot find. I want to find an explanation in logic for a phenomenon of emotion. It is easy for middle-class conservatives to overlook the power of emotion even though history provides plenty of examples even within our own culture in America.

You're asking the right question, but looking in the wrong place. Obama is something outside of our collective experience. We laugh at the terms liberals apply to him, 'a sort of god', 'a worker in light', and so on. What they mean is that he represents Absolute Moral Authority. The evolved state of man. One that doesn't need the mere construct of civilization, because he represents a new order, one based off of better ideals. One that will have Total Moral Legitimacy.

By holding to the old ideas of Constitutional law, the vestiges of the old Republic, we're blocking the evolution of mankind, past the flawed trappings of civilization and into a pan-tribal state of global harmony. One where there is no rich or poor, hunger or want, greed or racism or war or sin because we can choose to move past it all.

It's a nice thought. Anyone can see the appeal. Life sucks. Wouldn't it be nice if we could just dump all the BS that comes with civilization and just be cool with each other instead?

The inherent danger of civilization is that you eventually get so comfortable, you wind up forgetting why you built it in the first place. The problem is one we can't wish ourselves out of, even with the best of intentions.

Civilization exists because even the best intentioned of men slip easily into organized savagery. Especially when trying to serve a higher cause. Everyone reading this imagines themselves a different species of mammal than the Aztec priests who carved hearts out of living captives as sacrifice or the crowds that demanded it. We like to think that, but we're never more than a few steps away. It's the limits imposed by civilization that separate us from organized monsters. When men that refuse to acknowledge limits, they invariably hit the abyss, never the heavens.

Conservatives at least recognize the eternal danger of human nature. The need for limits. Liberals do not. They genuinely think that with a right thinking organization controlling what you see, hear and think, human nature is malleable enough to be evolved. It needs to be shepherded, of course, and the shepherds themselves must spare no mercy to ensure the flock is tended properly.

This is a fundamental difference. One side of America believes in the individual finding fulfillment through himself, and/or through a personal God. Another side of America believes in society finding fulfillment in itself, as expressed via a living conduit, the State.

Just as America was once half free and half slave, we've become a contradiction that seeks to destroy itself. We smile at each other and behave in public, but the internal strain is becoming too much to bear. Its easier for those of us that believe in freedom to disagree. It's part of our creed. It's harder for those who believe that freedom is a vehicle for unfairness and disharmony.

For a number of reasons, liberals are reaching the breaking point before us. They're hitting the ancient thing in the human heart, the blind, clenched teeth fury that wants to grab a rock and smash its enemies over and over and over. The old threats to human happiness. Greed. Envy. Fear. Anger. Pride. Their desire to push on to Utopia is maddening them. The old evil makes them want to crush dissent and force obedience. They believe in their hearts that they are right, but belief is not enough. They need everyone to believe along with them.

Here's why that's more dangerous than it sounds. Bear with me for a second. Everyone always laughs Superman's creed. Truth, justice, and the American way. It's so simple. Even as a kid I thought it was hokey. Who would subordinate themselves to serve others if they were all powerful? Every now and then, they play up an equally cartoonish 'evil Superman'. An easy villain to imagine and rally against.

Still, the worst possible villain, the one they can't show because the truth of it is too awful, is the liberal Superman. The one that acts without hesitation or remorse, because he believes in his own the ultimate moral authority. Whatever path strikes him as the most moral becomes mandatory. He can send dissenters to their deaths in labor camps, force professors into the fields to be reeducated at hard labor, tell villagers to build steel mills instead of harvesting crops. When they die of famine, he is not blamed and he feels no regret.

In the end, the amoral Superman who robs banks and escapes to the tropics to live a life of unearned comfort is a bad person, but just isn't that scary. The real nightmare villain is the omnipotent moral busybody, the one who destroys whatever he does not agree with, kills everyone who disobeys and demands they be remembered as criminals.

Obama's permanent look of frustration is the look of a moral busybody whose reach exceeds his grasp. You'll find the same look in the eyes of his supporters. It relaxes some when they scream 'The Tea Partiers are terrorists!'. It's incendiary talk, but soothing to their ears. Their eyes get more tranquil. More certain. It has nothing to do with budgetary mathematics and everything to do with the call of sharpening spears in their hearts.

They rush to blame us for every act of violence, because they themselves want us to provoke them. Push them. Dare them. Force them. They need a confrontation that doesn't end in words. Their minds don't understand it, not in so many words, but their blood does. They want a war, and they will not know peace until they get it.

[ken5050]

As we near the anniversary of 9/11, the first paragraphs evoked a poignant memory for me. I lived in Chappaqua back then..the commuter rail lines into Manhattan were shut for a week. As people slowly made their way home from Manhattan, and went to the station to pick iup their car, one of the ways they idientified those who died in the Towers were by the cars that were left in the station. IIRC, 6 people from Chappaqua died on 9/11. That weekend, most of the town walked through the station parking lot...the six cars were still left there....covered with flowers that people had left....

[Mycroft Holmes]

Nice piece. You are one of the couple handful of freepers that I regularly read. I do disagree with your penultimate paragraph though. We do now know about Obama and he is an evil communist who hates Western Civilization and wants to “tear it all down, man.”