There is an assumption on the right that though our opponents on the opposite side of the aisle may believe in Marxist principles or adopt revolutionary leftist tactics and ideas that at the end of the day they are Americans first, as proud and patriotic as the rest of us. We call their support for socialist programs misguided; we call their obsession with disarming us fearful childlike naivety. We go through life assuming that the left/right divide in this country could be bridged through discussion and debate, that we can woo hardened revolutionaries to the cause of freedom, liberty and prosperity no matter how pointless and hopeless it seems. Thus for too long the future of our country, our families and our American republic has been jeopardized by the invisible hand of a visible enemy as we ignore, again and again, the words and deeds of the radical left, the so called progressives, who have openly told us for generations that their goal is the destruction of western civilization, and the implementation of an academist utopia wherein the new elite, composed of the unproductive and nihilistic post-modernists that parasitically live in the bowels of our higher education system will become an ever present oligarchy in total control of our lives.

It is time to wake up. It is a dangerous fantasy to write off the revolutionary fervor of the activist left as puerile grandstanding that will end when those people are faced with the responsibilities and realities of adulthood. The Baby Boomer generation has proven that what we think of as teen rebellion can last a lifetime and have devastating consequences for our nation, yet we still cling to the belief that leftists are good natured friends and neighbors who are simply wrong about some policy or another. For more than 30 years leftists have bombed, rioted, murdered, raped and killed hundreds of their fellow Americans and we reward them by making their leaders college professors, by giving their ideological brethren our children to educate, by allowing them to bankrupt our country using their union and community organization front groups. We allowed them to continue to fester and drive America, and the Republican ideal, to the brink where we now teeter precariously as we enter financial ruin.

And in our darkest hour, with Wahhabism and Salafism ascendant in the Muslim world, Europe collapsing into chaos and a Soviet style bloc forming on our southern border America is being led by the very epitome of the academic leftist, whose foreign and domestic policies could just as easily have been hatched in an undergraduate sociology classroom as in a Washington think tank, and is just as radical and anti-Republic as any policy supported by Stalin or Mao. Americans have stood by dumbfounded as President Obama and the Stalinist kleptocracy he heads have nationalized banks then bullied those institutions into supporting policies designed to destroy our wealth. We’ve watched in horror as car companies were taken over and small businesses without the right connections were penalized, while Democratic donors have been enriched. We stand by as thugs from A.C.O.R.N. are being used to collect census data, Obama builds a civilian paramilitary and the Democrats lie, cheat and steal their way into a permanent majority, and all the while our leaders on the right tell us it’s still possible live as one People, one Nation, one Republic.

But what good is a Republic where rule of law is replaced by the tyranny of the masses? What kind of nation are we being told to be part of if we have an unelected elite dictating policy to our officials? I ask you, are these your people? Are you willing to stand shoulder to shoulder with people who seek to strip you of your rights, your dignity and your humanity? The only way to peacefully coexist with the rising tide of progressivism is to become slaves to a state run by people who believe that you and your desire to live free are not just threats to world peace, but fundamentally evil.

Right now the republic of Honduras has exerted the primacy of rule of law and refused to allow a communist lackey of Hugo Chavez to orchestrate a bloodless coup by holding an illegal election which would have violated the Constitution of that great country. In response Chavez has threatened invasion of the sovereign country, the European Union has cut diplomatic ties and the American news media is literally shilling for the return of the leftist dictator who is a criminal in his country. In a move that should have shocked no one, Obama publicly cut military ties with Honduras in an act that was little more than implicit permission for Chavez to invade our ally.

Predictably many on the right treated this betrayal of Republican ideals as if Obama simply didn’t understand the import of what he did. People compared his tepid reactions to the brutal and thuggish crackdown by the Iranian theocracy on protesters to his anger at Honduran enforcement of the laws of their land and came away with the laughable conclusion that Obama simply doesn’t know what he’s doing. But this caricature of President Obama as a bumbling buffoon, a 21st Century Jimmy Carter, is a gross underestimation of a pernicious and resolute enemy that has installed a like-minded radical in our highest office and buffered him with a stolen majority in our legislative bodies. Most of all, it minimizes the danger America, and indeed liberty itself faces today.

In a few days a book called The Coming Insurrection, written by apocalyptic anarchists in the wake of the horrible riots that engulfed France in 2005, will be available in America and already the same leftist groups whose ideology President Obama and the progressives represent are preparing to use the book’s call to violence against people like you and me to cause the sort of civil unrest that the authoritarians need to consolidate even more power. All the while the authorities will no doubt allow the targets of the political violence, Republicans, Conservatives, Libertarians, Capitalists and small business owners, to be swept away in the tide of persecution and bloodshed driven by the current of class warfare, class envy and minority grievance mongering that the academic left replaced education with in our school system. We stand on the precipice today and it is now our decision whether we step off into oblivion or stand up against the totalitarian horde and defend our liberty as savagely as they try to take it.

The storm that was once on the horizon is now here; it carries tyranny in its wind and it will drown those who do nothing in a torrent of oppression. If we do nothing, if we continue to reach out to the enemy within our country while they continue reach out to the enemies without we will find ourselves holding only our own destruction. We have never been so close to war in this country in my lifetime and the forces of liberty seem intent on taking the Chamberlain-like road we so often accuse our ideological opponents of being on. But make no mistake, our so-called friends on the left are not pacifists looking to avoid confrontation, but statists looking to stifle dissent and enforce ideological purity on America and the world. They hold no illusions as to the viability of continued coexistence with proponents of individual freedom, free markets and a rule of law that protects the hated minority with the “enlightened” elites who teach that pogroms and intimidation are acceptable political tools. They are not looking for middle ground on which to meet, but soft ground in which to bury us. They aren’t worried about building bridges, but burning houses and desecrating graves. The new left in this country will not settle for some imagined indefinite detente for America, but are actively working to destroy anything and everything that challenges their revolutionary worldview.

The tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots, but how much blood do patriots in America still have? What is the line you won’t let America cross? What is your final straw? The second holocaust Obama seems intent on seeing happen on his watch? Our allies in Latin America invaded and destroyed by Communist regimes that will consolidate into a Soviet style federation just a missile away from our border states? Gun confiscation? Election fraud? Or will it be when Obama and the Democrats hold their own referendum to make him dictator for life? Where is our line in the sand?

I am not calling for civil war. I am not asking for people to fight. What I’m calling for is for you to stand up before the only option left is war. I’m asking for you to be as radical, passionate and dedicated to freedom and liberty as the left has been. We must win this ideological battle and take back this country before there is no choice but to win a physical battle to keep small sections of it. We must organize, we must rally and we must prepare for what is the greatest threat to America we have ever seen and barely notice.

This is just weird. Not only can the Canadian government not account for more than 15 million dollars worth of gold bars that were supposed to be sitting in their version of Fort Knox but after weeks of investigation they still aren’t sure if they were robbed. At least that’s what they’re claiming:

OTTAWA — The distinct possibility that precious metals may have been stolen from the Royal Canadian Mint is “inexcusable,” the federal minister responsible for the Crown corporation said Monday.

The findings of a long-awaited external audit, released earlier in the day, concluded that $15.3 million in missing gold is not the result of accounting or bookkeeping errors, raising even more questions about the whereabouts of the metals from what has been touted as one of the most secure facilities in Canada.

“The mint’s still unexplained loss of precious metals is inexcusable,” Transport Minister John Baird and Minister of State for Transport Rob Merrifield, whose department is responsible for the mint, said in a joint release. “The mint will be held accountable.”

The Royal Canadian Mint says the precious metals seem to have vanished from its inventory in the 2008 fiscal year, according to the third-party review conducted by Deloitte & Touche LLP.

External auditors have been working since early March to determine whether theft or an accounting error is behind an “unreconciled difference” between the mint’s 2008 financial records and its physical stockpile of gold and other precious metals at its downtown Ottawa headquarters.

The report released Monday concluded that “the unaccounted-for difference in gold does not appear to relate to an accounting error in the reconciliation process, an accounting error in the physical stock count schedules, or an accounting error in the record-keeping of transactions during the year.”

It is not clear at this stage whether any gold is physically missing from the inventory, the corporation said in a release. “All possible explanations for the inventory difference need to be investigated.”

The Mint is claiming that the missing amount is a small portion of their total “stock” but the Mint’s total stock, as I understand it, includes non-gold precious metals (some of which are also missing!) and gold certificates. That means that A) the missing stock should have been noticed rather quickly and B) this loss may not be so nominal if it turns out Canada has more precious metal commodity contracts than gold on hand.

Either way this is a heist of historic proportions, even if it turns out not to have been a heist in the traditional sense. Countries, like investors, have been buying up gold to weather the recession and like many investors countries have been accepting paper in lieu of physical gold. Of course there is much more paper representing gold out there than actual gold (which is why there’s a market for your crap necklaces - they need those scraps to honor their commitments) so a big chunk of a country’s gold horde that’s gone missing may not be easily replaced even if Canada had the cash to do so.

h/t Survivalblog

While the big Conservative blogs like Hot Air are busy reporting on Lope de Vega channeling governor/Casanova Mark Sanford, the rank betrayal of a man who has helped us avert terrorist attacks has gone largely unnoticed:

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5) ― He’s a Pakistani immigrant who helped the United States in the war on terror, but now the U.S. government wants to deport him. His lawyers are working furiously to try to allow him to stay in his adopted country.

The man, who wants to remain unidentified, said he put himself in harm’s way by working as an undercover informant in California for ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, searching out terrorist connections.

He said ICE agents told him if he worked for ICE, he could stay here indefinitely or even get a green card.

The former informant is originally from Karachi, Pakistan and has lived in the US for over 20 years, first as a student and then as a white-collar professional. But now he faces deportation back to Pakistan.

[…]

San Francisco immigration attorney Katherine Lewis represents the informant.

“They needed his assistance,” Lewis explained. “They needed him to go wear a wire and go to an asylum interview with this notary, who had been repeatedly filing false asylum claims, but they needed the evidence to show that he was actually doing this.”

His work paid off for ICE. The government indicted Chaudhry, who pled guilty on two counts. But that wasn’t all. The man said the agents had another job for him.

The informant said, “They said go to the mosque and talk to the people and engage them in conversation to find out if there’s any activity going on like money laundering, or you know there’s terrorist activity going on in the United States.”

Which he did, working for ICE for three years.

At the same time, the informant himself had to go back to court for a deportation hearing. So he says he asked the agents if he needed a lawyer. But he said instead, the agents came to the hearing, and then gave him this
advice:

“They told me to take the deportation order. They say don’t worry about it we will take care of it and everything will be okay,” the informant recalled.
So he said he followed their advice and then waived his appeals. His attorney said the informant, understandably, believed what the agents told him.

“I mean, it’s reasonable to think that the agency that’s deporting you tells you it’s okay to go take a deportation order,” Lewis said. “We’ll take care of you, you know, it’s reasonable for…any kind of reasonable person would say, ‘Okay, that seems like a reliable source of information to say I can take this deportation order and yet you know, it’s not going to be enforced, they’re going to let me stay in the United States.’”

Now they’re sending the man back to Pakistan where people he rolled on will no doubt be waiting, having figured out who fingered them while cooling their heels in the third world. Law enforcement folks out there know that how you treat your informants determines how willing they and other potential informants will be to help in the future. Deporting a guy who wore a wire to catch people who would have killed him if he was caught will not predispose future C.I.’s to being cooperative. This guy deserves a little consideration but now that the Obama administration has decided to play softball with terrorists I.C.E. is throwing him to the wolves.

It’s an outrage clearly, but I guess Michelle Malkin and Allahpundit have a better sense than I of what sort of political stories merit attention.

There’s video at the link. h/t N.T.A.

And when one of their fellow Dems dared stand up to honor his country other Democrats roughly pulled him back into his chair. Watch this and tell me again how we can’t question their patriotism:

h/t Islam in Action

The recent under reported news of the Duke University associate director of the Center for Health Policy Frank Lombard being exposed as a child rapist who transmitted his molestation live on the Internet goes to show what I’ve said all along: pedophilia is an act not a orientation. In this case Frank Lombard gained access to his victims by adopting them with his gay partner. A gay partner that was not aware of Lombard’s degeneracy. Lombard clearly performed as a gay man well enough to fool his patsy live-in lover, and was apparently able to ingratiate himself into both the gay and academic community well enough to be above suspicion.

Even when he planned on adopting only boys.

It is perhaps the sign of my suspicious mind but if a straight man wanted to adopt only girls I would want him to be checked out rather thoroughly. Maybe I’m just a big hearted guy, but if I decided to adopt I wouldn’t have a preference for gender, only for a child that needed love. Lombard, under the cover of identity politics, ordered victims for the most vile perversions and no one suspected a thing until he was caught by undercover police raping the children on a webcam.

Lombard used the children as bait to lure other adult men to him, and it is in this fact we see that Lombard was not simply a “pedophile” pretending to be gay to access children. Lombard was using the children as a sexual accessory, in some instances a masturbatory aid, in other cases a reward to other men who we presume he was interested in. Lombard’s interest was in sadistically exploiting and abusing children as part of larger sexual fantasy life that had nothing to do with being “oriented” to children.

Those who abuse children have waged a successful campaign to convince the world that one can be a “pedophile” who is exclusively attracted to children, romantically as well as sexually. The reason for this is that it makes harshly punishing them seem less reasonable, especially when their crimes involve no contact with victims such as downloading child pornography. Child pornography, as this case aptly shows, is far from a victimless crime and there is no romantic love, no pure love, between a degenerate and a child.

Lombard didn’t “love” children, just as Alia Jacobson does not love the little girls she fantasizes about hurting, or Harold Spurling didn’t love the infants he raped. These people all are garden variety perverts for whom children were the preferred victims. Frank Lombard, contrary to popular myth, is in fact a gay man. Unlike most gay men he is also a sexual sadist who wanted to see other men abuse his children. We call this pedophilia when in fact it is simply rape. And just as straight men who rape women aren’t rape-o-sexuals gay or straight men who abuse children aren’t acting on an orientation, they’re simply bad people who belong in prison.