The Last Man Standing

'In a generation or two, the US will ask itself: who lost Europe?'

Dutch Parliament Member Geert Wilders gave this speech at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York earlier this year:

Dear friends:

Thank you very much for inviting me.

I come to America with a mission. All is not well in the old world. There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic. We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe. This not only is a clear and present
danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the West. The United States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe.

First I will describe the situation on the ground in Europe. Then, I will say a few things about Islam. To close I will tell you about a meeting in Jerusalem.

The Europe you know is changing.

You have probably seen the landmarks... But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world. It is the world of the parallel society created by? Muslim mass-migration.

All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim neighborhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen. And if they are, they might regret it.

This goes for the police as well. It's the world of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of children. Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps ahead. With mosques on many street corners. The shops have signs you and I cannot read. You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity. These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics. These are Muslim neighborhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe.

These are the building g-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger
portions of Europe, street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by
city.

There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe. With larger congregations than there are in churches. And in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in the region. Clearly, the signal is: we rule.

Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take Amsterdam, Marseille and Malmo in Sweden. In many cities the majority of the under-18 population is Muslim. Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods. Mohammed is the most popular name among boys in many cities.

In some elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm can no longer be mentioned, because that would also mean mentioning the pig, and that would be an insult to Muslims.

Many state schools in Belgium and Denmark only serve halal food to all pupils. In
once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are beaten up almost exclusively by Muslims. Non-Muslim women routinely hear 'whore, whore.' Satellite dishes are not pointed to local TV stations, but to stations in the country of origin.

In France school teachers are advised to avoid authors deemed offensive to Muslims, including Voltaire and Diderot; the same is increasingly true of Darwin. The history of the Holocaust can no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity.
In England Sharia courts are now officially part of the British legal system. Many neighborhoods in France are no-go areas for women without head scarves. Last week a man almost died after being beaten up by Muslims in Brussels, because he was drinking during the Ramadan.

Jews are fleeing France in record numbers, on the run for the worst wave of anti-Semitism since World War II. French is now commonly spoken on the streets of Tel Aviv and Netanya, Israel. I could go on forever with stories like this. Stories about Islamization.

A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live in Europe. San Diego University recently calculated that a staggering 25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now. Bernhard Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority by the end of this century.

Now these are just numbers. And the numbers would not be threatening if the Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to assimilate. But there are few signs of that. The Pew Research Center reported that half of French Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their loyalty to France. One-third of French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks. The British Centre for Social Cohesion reported that one-third of British Muslim students are in favor of a worldwide caliphate. Muslims demand what they call 'respect.' And this is how we give them respect. We have Muslim official state holidays.

The Christian-Democratic attorney general is willing to accept Sharia in the Netherlands if there is a Muslim majority. We have cabinet members with passports from Morocco and Turkey.

Muslim demands are supported by unlawful behavior, ranging from petty crimes and random violence, for example against ambulance workers and bus drivers, to small-scale riots. Paris has seen its uprising in the low-income suburbs, the banlieus. I call the perpetrators 'settlers'. Because that is what they are. They do not come to integrate into our societies; they come to integrate our society into their Dar-al-Islam. Therefore, they are settlers.

Much of this street violence I mentioned is directed exclusively against non-Muslims, forcing many native people to leave their neighborhoods, their cities, their countries. Moreover, Muslims are now a swing vote not to be ignored.

The second thing you need to know is the importance of Mohammed the prophet. His behavior is an example to all Muslims and cannot be criticized. Now, if Mohammed had been a man of peace, let us say like Gandhi and Mother Theresa wrapped in one, there would be no problem. But Mohammed was a warlord, a mass murderer, a pedophile, and had several marriages - at the same time. Islamic tradition tells us how he fought in battles, how he had his enemies murdered and even had prisoners of war executed. Mohammed himself slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza. If it is good for Islam, it is good. If it is bad for Islam, it is bad.

Let no one fool you about Islam being a religion. Sure, it has a God, and a hereafter, and 72 virgins. But in its essence Islam is a political ideology. It is a system that lays down detailed rules for society and the life of every person. Islam wants to dictate every aspect of life. Islam means 'submission.' Islam is not compatible with freedom and democracy, because what it strives for is Sharia. If you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to communism or national-socialism, these are all totalitarian ideologies.

Now you know why Winston Churchill called Islam 'the most retrograde force in the world,' and why he compared Mein Kampf to the Quran. The public has wholeheartedly accepted the Palestinian narrative, and sees Israel as the aggressor. I have lived in this country and visited it dozens of times. I support Israel. First, because it is the Jewish homeland after two thousand years of exile up to and including Auschwitz, second because it is a democracy, and third because Israel is our first line of defense.

This tiny country is situated on the fault line of jihad, frustrating Islam's territorial advance. Israel is facing the front lines of jihad, like Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines, Southern Thailand, Darfur in Sudan, Lebanon, and Aceh in Indonesia. Israel is simply in the way. The same way West-Berlin was during the Cold War.

The war against Israel is not a war against Israel. It is a war against the West. It is jihad. Israel is simply receiving the blows that are meant for all of us. If there would have been no Israel, Islamic imperialism would have found other venues to release its energy and its desire for conquest. Thanks to Israeli parents who send their children to the army and lay awake at night, parents in Europe and America can sleep well and dream, unaware of the dangers looming.

Many in Europe argue in favor of abandoning Israel in order to address the grievances of our Muslim minorities. But if Israel were, God forbid, to go down, it would not bring any solace to the West. It would not mean our Muslim minorities would all of a sudden change their behavior, and accept our values. On the contrary, the end of Israel would give enormous encouragement to the forces of Islam. They would, and rightly so, see the demise of Israel as proof that the West is weak, and doomed. The end of Israel would not mean the end of our problems with Islam, but only the beginning. It would mean the start of the final battle for world domination. If they can get Israel, they can get everything. So-called journalists volunteer to label any and all critics of Islamization as a 'right-wing extremists' or 'racists'. In my country, the Netherlands, 60 percent of the population now sees the mass immigration of Muslims as the number one policy mistake since World War II. And another 60 percent sees Islam as the biggest threat.

Yet there is a danger greater danger than terrorist attacks, the scenario of America as the last man standing. The lights may go out in Europe faster than you can imagine. An Islamic Europe means a Europe without freedom and democracy, an economic wasteland, an intellectual nightmare, and a loss of military might for America - as its allies will turn into enemies, enemies with atomic bombs. With an Islamic Europe, it would be up to America alone to preserve the heritage of Rome, Athens and Jerusalem.

Dear friends, liberty is the most precious of gifts. My generation never had to fight for this freedom, it was offered to us on a silver platter, by people who fought for it with their lives. All throughout Europe, American cemeteries remind us of the young boys who never made it home, and whose memory we cherish. My generation does not own this freedom; we are merely its custodians. We can only hand over this hard won liberty to Europe's children in the same state in which it was offered to us. We cannot strike a deal with mullahs and imams.

Future generations would never forgive us. We cannot squander our liberties. We simply do not have the right to do so.

Corrupt Scientists Attack the Uncorrupted as DENIALISTS

It is nothing new for the corrupt to attack the uncorruptible:

• Galileo was threatened with death unless he publicly agreed with mainstream astronomers that the Earth was the center of the universe.


• Ignaz Semmelweis MD was ridiculed, imprisoned and beaten to death in prison for telling mainstream physicians that they should wash their hands before delivering babies.


• The father of chemistry was killed for offending mainstream Islamic clerics.

For those familiar with drug companies that pay gay and socialist activists to attack real scientists with political arguments, the Telegraph's examination of Ian Plimer's book Heaven & Earth is no surprise. The comments are telling as well. Said Dr. Plimer:

"We cannot stop carbon emissions because most of them come from volcanoes... It is a normal element cycled around in the earth and my science, which is looking back in time, is saying we have had a planet that has been a green, warm wet planet 80 per cent of the time. We have had huge climate change in the past and to think the very slight variations we measure today are the result of our life - we really have to put ice blocks in our drinks."

... Prof Plimer said the world has experienced three periods of cooling since 1850 and furthermore carbon dioxide was increasing during many of those cooler periods.

"If we had only had warming, then there would be a connect between co2 and temperature, there is not," he added.

Prof Plimer has come under attack as a "denialist poster boy" whose theories are in danger of stopping the world from tackling the grave dangers of climate change.

But he said the scientists "frightening people witless by following the party line" are motivated by politics and research funding.

"They are taking advantage of the current situation. That is understandable. In previous times people got wonderful research grants in a war against cancer and they achieved a lot of money for that. Now we have a war on climate change and we have a huge number of people out there who have their career staked on it and are beneficiaries of this process."

Vicky Pope, Head of Climate Change Advice at the Met Office, said it is widely accepted that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has doubled in the last 200 years and as a result the globe is warming.

She said there are "natural variations" in temperature caused by the weather as well as natural phenomenon like El Nino and human effects like pollution, but overall the climate has been getting hotter and has reached its warmest period in recent years.

"The basic physics is that if carbon dioxide increases then the temperature goes up," she said.

A number of "climate change sceptics" will be giving talks in the run up to a key UN Summit in Copenhagen in December when the world is expected to agree an international deal to stop global warming.(more here)

Sound familiar? The good news is that, with the Internet and Plimer's book, people around the world are smarter than they were when corrupt individuals like disgraced Robert Gallo and Cornell's John P. Moore sold their degrees to the pharmaceutical industry to support the HIV scam. Professor Plimer's book contains 2200 easily understood footnotes and references that support his arguments while the hopeful recipients of Al Gore's scam call him a denialist. Before you make up your mind about global warming, read Dr. Plimer's book.

Here's to the Heroes

A Lesson for Americans Who Have Forgotten

Burial at Sea

Retired Marine Lt Colonel George Goodson's essay first appeared in the Marine Corps Gazette two years ago. I found it a haunting and timeless tribute to America's quiet heroes.
Semper Fidelis!

In my 76th year, the events of my life appear to me, from time to time, as a series of vignettes. Some were significant; most were trivial. War is the seminal event in the life of everyone that has endured it. Though I fought in Korea and the Dominican Republic and was wounded there, Vietnam was my war. Now 37 years have passed and, thankfully, I rarely think of those days in Cambodia, Laos, and the panhandle of North Vietnam where small teams of Americans and Montangards fought much larger elements of the North Vietnamese Army. Instead I see vignettes: some exotic, some mundane:

• The smell of Nuc Mam.

• The heat, dust, and humidity.

• The blue exhaust of cycles clogging the streets.

• Elephants moving silently through the tall grass.

• Hard eyes behind the servile smiles of the villagers.

• Standing on a mountain in Laos and hearing a tiger roar.

• A young girl squeezing my hand as my medic delivered her baby.

• The flowing Ao Dais of the young women biking down Tran Hung Dao.

• My two years as Casualty Notification Officer in North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland.

It was late 1967. I had just returned after 18 months in Vietnam. Casualties were increasing. I moved my family from Indianapolis to Norfolk, rented a house, enrolled my children in their fifth or sixth new school, and bought a second car. A week later, I put on my uniform and drove 10 miles to Little Creek, Virginia. I hesitated before entering my new office.

Appearance is important to career Marines. I was no longer, if ever, a poster Marine. I had returned from my third tour in Vietnam only 30 days before. At 5′9″, I now weighed 128 pounds - 37 pounds below my normal weight. My uniforms fit ludicrously, my skin was yellow from malaria medication, and I think I had a twitch or two. I straightened my shoulders, walked into the office, looked at the nameplate on a Staff Sergeant’s desk and said, “Sergeant Jolly, I’m Lieutenant Colonel Goodson. Here are my orders and my Qualification Jacket.”

Sergeant Jolly stood, looked carefully at me, took my orders, stuck out his hand; we shook and he asked, “How long were you there, Colonel?” I replied “18 months this time.”

Jolly breathed, “Jesus, you must be a slow learner Colonel.”

I smiled.

Jolly said, “Colonel, I’ll show you to your office and bring in the Sergeant Major."

I said, “No, let’s just go straight to his office.”

Jolly nodded, hesitated, and lowered his voice, “Colonel, the Sergeant Major. He’s been in this G*dd@mn job two years. He’s packed pretty tight. I’m worried about him.”

I nodded. Jolly escorted me into the Sergeant Major’s office. “Sergeant Major, this is Colonel Goodson, the new Commanding Officer.

The Sergeant Major stood, extended his hand and said, “Good to see you again, Colonel.”

I responded, “Hello Walt, how are you?”

Jolly looked at me, raised an eyebrow, walked out, and closed the door. I sat down with the Sergeant Major. We had the obligatory cup of coffee and talked about mutual acquaintances.

Walt’s stress was palpable. Finally, I said, “Walt, what’s the hell’s wrong?”

He turned his chair, looked out the window and said, “George, you’re going to wish you were back in Nam before you leave here. I’ve been in the Marine Corps since 1939. I was in the Pacific 36 months, Korea for 14 months, and Vietnam for 12 months. Now I come here to bury these kids. I’m putting my letter in. I can’t take it anymore.”

I said, “OK Walt. If that’s what you want, I’ll endorse your request for retirement and do what I can to push it through Headquarters Marine Corps.

Sergeant Major Walt ------ retired 12 weeks later. He had been a good Marine for 28 years, but he had seen too much death and too much suffering. He was used up.

Over the next 16 months, I made 28 death notifications, conducted 28 military funerals, and made 30 notifications to the families of Marines that were severely wounded or missing in action. Most of the details of those casualty notifications have now, thankfully, faded from memory. Four, however, remain.

MY FIRST NOTIFICATION - My third or fourth day in Norfolk, I was notified of the death of a 19 year old Marine. This notification came by telephone from Headquarters Marine Corps. The information detailed:

• Name, rank, and serial number.

• Name, address, and phone number of next of kin.

• Date of and limited details about the Marine’s death.

• Approximate date the body would arrive at the Norfolk Naval Air Station.

• A strong recommendation on whether the casket should be opened or closed.

The boy’s family lived over the border in North Carolina, about 60 miles away. I drove there in a Marine Corps staff car. Crossing the state line into North Carolina, I stopped at a small country store/service station/Post Office.

I went in to ask directions. Three people were in the store. A man and woman approached the small Post Office window. The man held a package. The Storeowner walked up and addressed them by name, “Hello John. Good morning Mrs. Cooper.”

I was stunned. My casualty’s next-of-kin’s name was John Cooper! I hesitated, then stepped forward and said, “I beg your pardon. Are you Mr. and Mrs. John Copper of (address)? The father looked at me - I was in uniform - and then, shaking, bent at the waist, he vomited.

His wife looked horrified at him and then at me. Understanding came into her eyes and she collapsed in slow motion. I think I caught her before she hit the floor.

The owner took a bottle of whiskey out of a drawer and handed it to Mr. Cooper who
drank. I answered their questions for a few minutes. Then I drove them home in
my staff car. The storeowner locked the store and followed in their truck. We
stayed an hour or so until the family began arriving. I returned the storeowner
to his business. He thanked me and said, “Mister, I wouldn’t have your job for a
million dollars.” I shook his hand and said; “Neither would I.”

I vaguely remember the drive back to Norfolk. Violating about five Marine Corps regulations, I drove the staff car straight to my house. I sat with my family while they ate dinner, went into the den, closed the door, and sat there all night, alone.

My Marines steered clear of me for days. I had made my first death notification.

THE FUNERALS - Weeks passed with more notifications and more funerals. I borrowed Marines from the local Marine Corps Reserve and taught them to conduct a military funeral: how to carry a casket, how to fire the volleys and how to fold the flag.

When I presented the flag to the mother, wife, or father, I always said, “All Marines share in your grief.” I had been instructed to say, “On behalf of a grateful nation.” I didn’t think the nation was grateful, so I didn’t say that. Sometimes, my emotions got the best of me and I couldn’t speak. When that happened, I just handed them the flag and touched a shoulder. They would look at me and nod.

Once a mother said to me, “I’m so sorry you have this terrible job.” My eyes filled with tears and I leaned over and kissed her.

ANOTHER NOTIFICATION - Six weeks after my first notification, I had another. This was a young PFC. I drove to his mother’s house. As always, I was in uniform and driving a Marine Corps staff car. I parked in front of the house, took a deep breath, and walked towards the house. Suddenlythe door flew open, a middle-aged woman rushed out. She looked at me and ran across the yard, screaming “NO! NO! NO!NO!”

I hesitated.

Neighbors came out. I ran to her, grabbed her, and whispered stupid things to reassure her. She collapsed. I picked her up and carried her into the house. Eight or nine neighbors followed.

Ten or fifteen later, the father came in followed by ambulance personnel. I have no recollection of leaving. The funeral took place about two weeks later. We went through the drill. The mother never looked at me. The father looked at me once and shook his head sadly.

ANOTHER NOTIFICATION - One morning, as I walked in the office, the phone was ringing. Sergeant Jolly held the phone up and said, “You’ve got another one, Colonel.”

I nodded, walked into my office, picked up the phone, took notes, thanked the officer making the call, I have no idea why, and hung up. Jolly, who had listened, came in with a special Telephone Directory that translates telephone numbers into the person’s address and place of employment.

The father of this casualty was a Longshoreman. He lived a mile from my office. I called the Longshoreman’s Union Office and asked for the Business Manager. He answered the phone, I told him who I was, and asked for the father’s schedule. The Business Manager asked, “Is it his son?”

I said nothing. After a moment, he said, in a low voice, “Tom is at home today.”

I said, “Don’t call him. I’ll take care of that.”

The Business Manager said, “Aye, Aye Sir,” and then explained, “Tom and I were Marines in WWII.”

I got in my staff car and drove to the house. I was in uniform. I knocked and a woman in her early forties answered the door. I saw instantly that she was clueless.
I asked, “Is Mr. Smith home?”

She smiled pleasantly and responded, “Yes, but he’s eating breakfast now. Can you come back later?”

I said, “I’m sorry. It’s important, I need to see him now.”

She nodded, stepped back into the beach house and said, “Tom, it’s for you.”

A moment later, a ruddy man in his late forties, appeared at the door. He looked at me, turned absolutely pale, steadied himself, and said, “Jesus Christ man, he’s only been there three weeks!”

Months passed. More notifications and more funerals. Then one day while I was running, Sergeant Jolly stepped outside the building and gave a loud whistle, two fingers in his mouth... I never could do that... and held an imaginary phone to his ear. Another call from Headquarters Marine Corps. I took notes, said, “Got it” and hung up.

I had stopped saying “Thank You” long ago.

Jolly, “Where?”

Me, “Eastern Shore of Maryland. The father is a retired Chief Petty Officer. His brother will accompany the body back from Vietnam.”

Jolly shook his head slowly, straightened, and then said, “This time of day, it’ll take three hours to get there and back. I’ll call the Naval Air Station and borrow a helicopter. And I’ll have Captain Tolliver get one of his men to meet you and drive you to the Chief’s home.”

He did, and 40 minutes later, I was knocking on the father’s door. He opened the door, looked at me, then looked at the Marine standing at parade rest beside the car, and asked, “Which one of my boys was it, Colonel?”

I stayed a couple of hours, gave him all the information, my office and home phone number and told him to call me, anytime. He called me that evening about 2300 (11:00PM). “I’ve gone through my boy’s papers and found his will. He asked to be buried at sea. Can you make that happen?”

I said, “Yes I can, Chief. I can and I will.”

My wife who had been listening said, “Can you do that?” I told her, “I have no idea. But I’m going to break my ass trying.”

I called Lieutenant General Alpha Bowser, Commanding General, Fleet Marine Force Atlantic, at home about 2330, explained the situation, and asked, “General, can you get me a quick appointment with the Admiral at Atlantic Fleet Headquarters?”

General Bowser said,” George, you be there tomorrow at 0900. He will see you.

I was and the Admiral did. He said coldly, “How can the Navy help the Marine Corps, Colonel.” I told him the story. He turned to his Chief of Staff and said, “Which is the sharpest destroyer in port?”

The Chief of Staff responded with a name. The Admiral called the ship, “Captain, you’re going to do a burial at sea. You’ll report to a Marine Lieutenant Colonel Goodson until this mission is completed.” He hung up, looked at me, and said, “The next time you need a ship, Colonel, call me. You don’t have to sic Al Bowser on my ass.”

I responded, “Aye Aye, Sir” and got the hell out of his office. I went to the ship and met with the Captain, Executive Officer, and the Senior Chief. Sergeant Jolly and I trained the ship’s crew for four days. Then Jolly raised a question none of us had thought of. He said, “These government caskets are air tight. How do we keep it from floating?”

All the high priced help including me sat there looking dumb. Then the Senior Chief stood and said, “Come on Jolly. I know a bar where the retired guys from World War II hang out.”

They returned a couple of hours later, slightly the worst for wear, and said, “It’s simple; we cut four 12″ holes in the outer shell of the casket on each side and insert 300 lbs of lead in the foot end of the casket. We can handle that, no sweat.”

The day arrived. The ship and the sailors looked razor sharp. General Bowser, the Admiral, a US Senator, and a Navy Band were on board. The sealed casket was brought aboard and taken below for modification. The ship got underway to the 12-fathom depth. The sun was hot. The ocean flat. The casket was brought aft and placed on a catafalque. The Chaplin spoke. The volleys were fired. The flag was removed, folded, and I gave it to the father. The band played “Eternal Father Strong to Save.” The casket was raised slightly at the head and it slid into the sea. The heavy casket plunged straight down about six feet. The incoming water collided with the air pockets in the outer shell. The casket stopped abruptly, rose straight out of the water about three feet, stopped, and slowly slipped back into the sea. The air bubbles rising from the sinking casket sparkled in the in the sunlight as the casket disappeared from sight forever.

The next morning I called a personal friend, Lieutenant General Oscar Peatross, at Headquarters Marine Corps and said, “General, get me the f*ck out of here. I can’t take this sh_t anymore.”

I was transferred two weeks later. I was a good Marine but, after 17 years, I had seen too much death and too much suffering. I was used up. Vacating the house, my family and I drove to the office in a two-car convoy. I said my goodbyes. Sergeant Jolly walked out with me. He waved at my family, looked at me with tears in his eyes, came to attention, saluted, and said, “Well Done, Colonel. Well Done.”

I felt as if I had received the Medal of Honor!

That is all - s/f

Unaccomplished Nobel Laureate Presents Coins to Dead Soldiers

Let me get this straight:

Guilt-ridden Americans elect a hopelessly incompetent and unaccomplished "community organizer" to the White House. The Nobel Committee awards him a prize for being charismatic and the best our President can do at the Fort Hood memorial service is present "challenge coins" to soldiers who died defending our country?

Unlike Obama, those men deserved something more than a Nobel Prize or a "challenge coin." Mailed IPods to the next of kin would have been a better choice – at least he would not have soiled the hallowed ground where those men and women unnecessarily gave their lives.

Like Major Hasan, Barak Obama reminds America why political correctness and affirmative action have no place in a democratic republic. Major Hasan is a terrorist and President Obama is a Marxist. Until we accept these belligerents for what they are, they will continue to be a threat to the country they swore to protect and defend.

Happy Birthday Marines!

This photo was shot 30 years ago from the roof of the US Embassy in El Salvador. I'm the skinny guy fourth from the left. It seems so long ago. Happy Birthday to the guys I served with so long ago. We're all still friends after the passage of so many years. In all of the military and LAPD units I ever belonged to, this group of marines was the standard. Happy Birthday!

Happy 234th Birthday to the United States Marine Corps!

Aging HIV+ Patients Have More to Worry About

Now that HIV co-discoverer and Nobel Laureate Luc Montagnier admits that HIV is easily cured within weeks with a good diet without HIV drugs, these deadly and highly addictive AIDS drugs are finally sickening and killing patients in ways that HIV never did - exposing the corrupt makers of these drugs and the so-called "research centers" at Cornell and Harvard.

To their defense come the gay activists at the Treatment Action Group (TAG). To understand what they're defending, let's read about someone who bought into the HIV mythology and is now dying from the drugs that harmed him more than the harmless retrovirus ever could.

After testing HIV+ in 2001, James L. (46) went on a drug cocktail and life returned to normal with little effort. His exercise regime only intensified. He even went back to school for a master’s degree. At work, he rose to a six-figure position at a telecommunications firm, and his personal life flourished. He was a regular gay male:

Then, halfway through a screening of the film Syriana in his local cinema, he had a disturbing revelation. “He sat through about half the movie before he realized suddenly that he had seen the same movie two weeks earlier,” says Simpson. Indeed, James ultimately pieced together evidence suggesting he’d seen the film on three separate occasions. The same problem haunted him at work. Where he had once earned praise for his organizational skills, he now drew warnings. He seemed incapable of recalling recent events with any reliability. “It’s an Alzheimer’s-like state,” he explains. Earlier this year, Simpson diagnosed him with HIV-associated cognitive motor disorder.

James is on medical disability today, acutely aware of what he is missing. “I want more out of life,” he told me one afternoon recently. “I spent a lot of money on my education, and this barrier might keep me from enjoying my fifties and sixties. But I’m much more concerned about my financials than my own health at the moment. People like me in the business world? I don’t believe they go together well.”

Some fifteen years into the era of protease inhibitors and drug cocktails, doctors are realizing that the miracles the drugs promised are not necessarily a lasting solution to the disease. Most news accounts today call HIV a chronic, manageable disease. But patients who contracted the virus just a few years back are showing signs of what’s being called premature or accelerated aging. Early senility turns out to be an increasingly common problem, though not nearly as extreme as James’s in every case. One large-scale multi-city study released its latest findings this summer that over half of the HIV-positive population is suffering some form of cognitive impairment. Doctors are also reporting a constellation of ailments in middle-aged patients that are more typically seen at geriatric practices, in patients 80 and older. They range from bone loss to organ failure to arthritis.

Making matters worse, HIV patients are registering higher rates of insulin resistance and cholesterol imbalances, and they suffer elevated rates of melanoma and kidney cancers and seven times the rate of other non-HIV-related cancers.

Whether this is a result of the drugs or the disease itself, or some combination, is still an open question and certainly varies from patient to patient and condition to condition. Either way, it is now clear that even patients who respond well to medications by today’s standards are not out of the woods. Current life-expectancy charts show that people on HIV medications could live twenty fewer years on average than the general population. “It’s spooky,” says Mark Harrington, who heads Treatment Action Group, a New York–based HIV think tank. “It seems like the virus keeps finding new tricks to throw at us, and we’re just all left behind going, What’s going on?” (more)

Treatment Action Group (TAG) is part of the problem. Although it calls itself a think tank, TAG is one of dozens of gay pharmaceutical front groups that run interference for the AIDS industry that funds them. One of their think-tankers (Richard Jefferys) is currently being sued in the NY Supreme Court for using libel to cover up pharmaceutical corruption. Then again, what can we expect from an organization that was founded by gay crystal meth addicts?

Jack Dunphy on the LAPD's New Chief

Patterico has posted Jack Dunphy's piece on the LAPD's new chief.

I too want to congratulate Chief Beck. Although I never worked for him, I heard good things about him. I worked for Moore when he was a new sergeant at Foothill with what seemed a fraction of the patrol experience that many of us possessed. Back then he struck me as young and diplomatic - attributes that work better for those he reported to than those who reported to him.

I expect that Villaraigosa was impressed by Moore's willingness to do what the Vignali brothers want him to do. Although none of the chiefs have the protections that allow our administrators to behave like real chiefs of police, Beck was probably the right choice for LA residents and the officers who will work for him. I wish him well.

I also worked with and for Earl Paysinger. He was a terrific cop and training officer - but that was years ago under the LAPD's last real police chief, Daryl Gates. I have no idea what happened along the way. Regardless, I couldn't be more pleased that LA got rid of Bratton. While he was better than Parks, I had no desire to work for an East Coast chief.

Here are Dunphy's comments:

My column on Charlie Beck’s appointment as LAPD’s next chief is up on Pajamas Media today. I point out the welcome differences between Beck and his predecessor, differences also discussed in today’s Los Angeles Times.

I was surprised to read, in Wednesday’s L.A. Times, that Deputy Chief Michel Moore had made such a strong impression on the police commission as they narrowed the field of contenders down to three. It was generally assumed within the department that the three finalists would be Beck, Assistant Chief Jim McDonnell, and either the department’s highest-ranking black officer, Earl Paysinger, or one of the two high-ranking women, Assistant Chief Sharon Papa or Deputy Chief Sandy Jo MacArthur.

This is Los Angeles, after all, where one has come to expect identity politics to play a role.

So while it was surprising to see Moore among the finalists, I was all the more taken aback to read that the commission had ranked him ahead of Beck and McDonnell when they submitted the names to Mayor Villaraigosa, and that Villaraigosa had been “bowled over” by Moore during their one-on-one interview. This points out a flaw that has long plagued the LAPD’s promotion process. The department’s upper ranks are liberally supplied with people who know how to take tests and give great interviews, but who nonetheless are ineffective leaders. I have no doubt that Moore was impressive in his talks with the police commissioners and the mayor, but when it comes to leading a police department he isn’t in the same league with either Beck or McDonnell, a fact plainly obvious to the department’s rank and file but not, apparently, to the commission and the mayor.

The Huffington Post discussed Beck’s solid reputation with the rank and file, pointing out that “[i]n 2003, Bratton appointed Beck captain of the Rampart Division, which was struggling with fallout from a 1999 corruption scandal in its anti-gang unit.”

What wasn’t mentioned was that Beck had been preceded as Rampart’s commanding officer by Michel Moore, who was installed by former Chief Bernard Parks following the explosion of the Rampart scandal.

The officers at Rampart had already been demoralized by the scandal, which, we must remember, was confined to a handful of officers. But Moore’s tenure at Rampart made things even worse, exemplifying the excesses of the Parks years that brought the LAPD close to ruin.

Discipline was unduly harsh and capriciously meted out, with officers suspended for petty infractions that would ordinarily have resulted in nothing more than a chewing out from the watch commander.

Moore’s departure from Rampart was celebrated, and Beck’s tenure there was marked by improved morale and falling crime, all accomplished without even a hint of corruption. When Beck received his well-deserved promotion to commander, a huge contingent of Rampart officers filled the Parker Center auditorium to see him receive his new badge and be sworn in. Such displays of support for someone so high in the chain of command are all but unheard of. Moore’s promotion ceremonies could have been held in the men’s room with plenty of room to spare.

I think most in the LAPD would have been just as pleased had Jim McDonnell been selected, but it’s frightening to know that Moore, who has 90 percent of William Bratton’s arrogance but only five percent of his talent, came so close to being
chosen. –Jack Dunphy

Fort Hood Killer was a Psychiatrist

This was a sickening and cowardly act. I wonder if he was taking SSRIs like Prozac. As more men, women and children take more SSRIs, more of these invidents will occur.

Flu Shot Victim Cured of "Incurable Disease"

Remember Desiree Jennings? She's the Washington Redskin cheerleader who got sick shortly after receiving a flu shot last August. The experts and scientists at the CDC denied that the flu shot had anything to do with her illness, claiming that she was actually suffering from an incurable neurological disease called dystonia:

In this exclusive interview, Dr. Rashid Buttar describes her medical condition, treatment and full recovery, including concerns that highly paid pharmaceutical marketing groups will attack Dr. Buttar and Ms. Jennings to support the CDC's unwarranted hysteria regarding H1N1.

Will what Desiree Jennings has exposed be noticed by other news outlets? Because the CDC, FDA and NIH are infested by pharmaceutical executives and so-called epidemiological scientists like Walter Senterfitt PhD, I doubt it. After all, why would we believe Dr. Buttar and Jennings over a self-described gay anti-capitalist social revolutionary like Dr. Senterfitt?

Dr. Buttar describes her treatment and recovery here. More in the H1N1 flu scam here. Kudos to Robert Scott Bell for breaking this explosive story!

Acclaimed Director: House of Numbers Compelling

Acclaimed director and Chairman of the Jury S. Krishnaswamy has awarded Brent Leung's documentary House of Numbers one of two Certificates of Merit at India's Global Film Festival.

Apparently unimpressed by the unhinged pseudo-scientists of HIV, Dr. Krishnaswamy reviewed the documentary in India's national magazine Frontline:

House of Numbers, directed by Brent Leung, challenges the common understanding of HIV-AIDS, with a combination of perceptive research, investigative journalism and a sharp eye for detail, compelling you to change your perspective. One learns that the AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) threat is highly exaggerated. Through interviews with patients, doctors and scientists, the film establishes that the mortality rate among those who receive treatment after testing positive for HIV, or the human immunodefiency virus, is far higher than in people who ignored the diagnosis more than 15 years ago and refused to take the prescribed medicines. Interviews with Nobel laureates and senior scientists reveal that HIV has never been recognised in any laboratory and that all treatment is based on vague hypotheses. The film indirectly suggests that pharmaceutical lobbies have created the threat in the minds of possibly well-meaning but ignorant politicians.

No wonder pharmaceutically-funded South African activists and the New York Times hated it.

Barack Obama's Most Frequent White House Visitor

SEIU President Andy Stern

Jeremiah Wright Praises His Marxist Buddies

If someone extolled the virtues of Communism to you, would you notice befreo 20 years passed?

If a few false allegations make Rush Limbaugh a racist, what do the Marxists, anti-Americans and anti-capitalists who surround our President make Barack Obama?

Didn't Obama tell us to judge him by the people he surrounds himself with?

ObamaCare Bill Contains Soviet-Style Mental Screening

As more reports come in regarding the intrusive and Orwellian mental illness laws proposed by the Democrats, it's hard not to think about how the Soviet government controlled political dissidents. Those who opposed the regime were declared crazy, incarcerated and treated with psychotropic drugs against their will. Because SSRIs like Prozac cause depression and suicidal ideation, Americans subjected to treatment would also be vulnerable to political targeting, forced treatment and isolation against their will.

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHRI) reports many reasons to oppose the newly-forged 1990-page “Affordable Health Care for America Act” (HR 3962 aka ObamaCare) by filling the act with mental health provisions intended to prop up psychiatry as well as the pharmaceutical industry with billions of dollars in future income. Key mental health components of this House bill:

The MOTHERS Act expands "treatment for postpartum conditions” and calls for the development of “improved screening and diagnostic techniques,” but makes no provisions to ensure any entities doing such research are free from conflicts of interest or pharmaceutical funding.

For example, Screening for Mental Health, Inc., and its sub-organization Signs of Suicide, who heavily promote and conduct mental health screening, received $4,985,925 from pharmaceutical companies prior to 2008, and ten leading psychiatric researchers have been exposed in the last year for failing to disclose millions of dollars in pharmaceutical payments. Despite their conflicts of interest and biased research, many pharma funded psychiatrists and researchers have been used by so-called advocacy groups (Screening for Mental Health, NAMI, etc which are also heavily funded by Pharma) to promote the need for federal laws that will only increase the number of Americans being needlessly targeted for psychiatric treatment and drugged.

Like HIV, the more people they identify as sick the more money and kickbacks they get from the pharmaceutical industry. The bill:

… contains no provisions for full disclosure of conflicts of interest for any “entity” that could receive federal taxpayer funded grants, do research or promotional campaigns – such as the provision in the bill calling for a national PR campaign using TV, radio public and other public service announcements to urge women be screened and seek treatment for postpartum depression. The bill also calls for “clinical research” for the development of new treatments (drugs), but again, no guidelines for ensuring that any researchers/research entities are free from pharmaceutical funding or conflicts of interest. (Section 2529, Page 1418)

The bill mandates Mental Health Parity, or equal insurance coverage for mental disorders as what are covered for physical diseases, whether under their regular health insurance or whether a person gets their new coverage through the Health Insurance Exchange. Psychiatric patients are traditionally “cured” when their insurance benefits run out. In this bill, those benefits never run out. Considering there are no medical tests to verify the existence of any psychiatric disorder, and without anything other than a psychiatrist’s opinion about whether or not the person’s “illness” is “cured,” this legislation becomes nothing more than taxpayer funded billions to the psycho/pharmaceutical industry who will continue their jihad of mass drugging of Americans. This provision could easily encompass all 374 diagnoses in psychiatry’s diagnostic manual (diseases identified, funded and cured by the pharmaceutical industry), covering everything from Phase of Life Problem to Arithmetic Disorder. (Section 214, Page 100)

The Home Visitation Programs for Families with Young Children or Families Expecting Children bill creates a home visitation program for families with young children or which are expecting children or who have certain “risk factors.” The program provides assessments regarding matters of “age appropriate behaviors,” for children, prevention of family violence and referral to outside services. – (Section 1904, Page 1177)

The bill includes funding for School Based Health Clinics that will include subjective psychiatric mental health screening (called mental health assessments) of children, and “referral to a continuum of services including emergency psychiatric care, community support programs, inpatient care, and outpatient programs” as part of their “comprehensive primary health services.” This is a direct feeder line for the psycho/pharmaceutical industry directly into our schools. – (Section 2511, Page 1352)

The Wellness Program Grants for small employers serves as an incentive for employers to include “mental health” as part of the Wellness Program Grants to businesses. Part of the program entails a “Behavioral Change Component” that encourages “healthy living through counseling” and may include programs relating to “tobacco use, obesity, stress management, depression and mental health.” – (Section 112, Page 67)

The bill creates new “Federally Qualified Behavioral Health Centers” and in order for existing community mental health centers to qualify, they have to provide, among other things, “mental health screening, assessment, and diagnosis,” as well as “outpatient clinic mental health services, including screening, assessment, diagnosis, psychotherapy and medication,” in addition to “crisis mental health services including 24-hour mobile crisis teams.” - (Section 2513, Page 1367)

Your voice needs to be heard in Washington on this outrageous bill. Call, fax, or email your Representative and tell them that you are opposed to the above points in the Health Care Reform bill. Contact your Congressional Representative (enter your zip code) or call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121.

After that, go rent a movie:

The Self Portrait

ObamaCare: The Worst Bill Ever

WSJ calls it the worst bill ever:

All of this is intentional, even if it isn't explicitly acknowledged. The overriding liberal ambition is to finish the work began decades ago as the Great Society of converting health care into a government responsibility. Mr. Obama's own Medicare actuaries estimate that the federal share of U.S. health dollars will quickly climb beyond 60% from 46% today. One reason Mrs. Pelosi has fought so ferociously against her own Blue Dog colleagues to include at least a scaled-back "public option" entitlement program is so that the architecture is in place for future Congresses to expand this share even further.

As Congress's balance sheet drowns in trillions of dollars in new obligations, the political system will have no choice but to start making cost-minded decisions about which treatments patients are allowed to receive. Democrats can't regulate their way out of the reality that we live in a world of finite resources and infinite wants. Once health care is nationalized, or mostly nationalized, medical rationing is inevitable—especially for the innovative high-cost technologies and drugs that are the future of medicine.

Mr. Obama rode into office on a wave of "change," but we doubt most voters realized that the change Democrats had in mind was making health care even more expensive and rigid than the status quo. Critics will say we are exaggerating, but we believe it is no stretch to say that Mrs. Pelosi's handiwork ranks with the Smoot-Hawley tariff and FDR's National Industrial Recovery Act as among the worst bills Congress has ever seriously contemplated.

H1N1 Hysteria in Perspective

If you saw the 60 Minutes story on H1N1 last night you would have seen the CDC's unmerited hysteria and their declaration that NO ONE has gotten sick from the vaccine.

Although Scott Pelley asked about the 400 healthy Americans who Acquired this Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) from the 1976 vaccine, he forgot to mention that only one person died from the FLU in 1976. Pelley also failed to ask about the NIH's exclusion of pregnant women who got sick from 2009 vaccine trials that were designed to measure the risk to pregnant woman. By excluding the sickened mothers the NIH had no sick mothers to report.

Eric Nordstrom said more in one graph that Pelley's entire segment. It's certainly not the emergency the NIH says it is.



Compare the risks H1N1 and HIV pose... Also notice that killing 1,200,000 babies would be a shock except that Our Great Leader's followers have reclassified them fetuses - just as Democrats once classified their slaves as livestock (and worse). By dehumanizing the target their mortality becomes irrelevant.

Although the CDC spokesman told Pelley that the flu shot hasn't harmed anyone, this woman would disagree.

(Story here)

Dr. Rauni Kilde also discusses the motives of H1N1:

As does Rush Limbaugh...

Gay Columnist Celebrates New Travel Plans

For the first time in 25 years, people diagnosed as HIV+ are no longer restricted by a travel ban. Columnist Andrew Sullivan writes:

I'm not exaggerating when I say that it's one of the happiest days of my whole life. For two and a half decades, I have longed to be a citizen of the country I love and have made my home. I now can. There is no greater feeling… I've lived with this awful sense of insecurity, of fear of leaving the country, of visiting my family, of the lingering sense that my virus rendered me potentially deportable, that any roots I put down might be dug up suddenly one day - for fifteen years. The lifting of this threat - the sense that I now have a home I know will be secure for me and my husband - is indescribable.

Compared to those who unnecessarily suffered and died from what turns out to be nothing more than a political disease, Sullivan got off easy. He thanks Republicans and Democrats alike - including (gasp!) George Bush.

But being politically correct, he was careful not to question the theology that has funded fake research and gay activism at the expense of his own civil rights since 1981.

Conceived by corrupt scientists (who faced unemployment) and gay activists (who didn't want to admit that their symptoms were related to promiscuity and drug abuse), HIV provided cover for both. Activists pressured politicians for funding and, in return, Robert Gallo blamed the consequences of their behavior on a harmless retrovirus. (more here)

Pharmaceutical marketers like AIDSTruth and AIDSMap continue to pressure politicians who refuse to accept the propaganda. As one expert explained:

"The chief function of propaganda is to convince the masses, whose slowness of understanding needs to be given time so they may absorb information; and only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on their mind."

The lifting of travel restrictions is a first step toward the unraveling of a lie. Sullivan doesn't question the deadly drug treatments or the $billions that have been wasted on activism and research. He doesn't ask why Congress sent $48 billion to Africa's corrupt politicians or why taxpayers continue to dump three quarters of all medical research into a political disease that has never medically identified as a leading cause of death in the US or Africa (as recently as 2006).

Like a cancer survivor who celebrates a Happy Meal, Sullivan's travel plans have somehow eclipsed the admission by Nobel Laureate and HIV co-discoverer Luc Montagnier that HIV can be cured with a nutritious diet.

Nor does Sullivan mention the civil rights of Philippe Padieu, who expects to spend the next 40 years in prison for behaving like Bill Clinton. Why are Sullivan's travel plans more important than Willie Campbell, who will unnecessarily spend the rest of his life in prison for spitting on a cop?

If HIV is as dangerous as the pharmaceutical industry wants us to believe it is, how can we allow people like Sullivan, who is allegedly infected with a disease that supposedly kills 900 persons a day in South Africa, to sit in buses and airplanes next to our friends and family? If the hysteria that led to travel restrictions has unraveled, why should a lothario and homeless man remain in prison? Is Sullivan's celebration about human rights or a trip to Piccadilly Circus?"

This is just a glimpse of the bizarre political pseudoscience called HIV. No wonder they hate me.

Denounce, Demonize, Marginalize, Neutralize

Kudos to Jack Kinsella for reminding us that those who do not understand history are condemned to repeat it:

"The chief function of propaganda is to convince the masses, whose slowness of understanding needs to be given time so they may absorb information; and only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on their mind."

Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf (1925)

Hitler came to power in 1933 on a plurality vote of 43.9% which gave the Nazis the majority of seats in the German Parliament. Through the use of various contrived crises, Hitler managed to consolidate his power by seizing control of the German mainstream media.

All means of communication were monopolized by the government. The media and movies had to show pictures glorifying the Nazi movement and its illustrious leader. The Ministry of Propaganda, Josef Goebbels, had two main tasks:

• First, to censor anything that might be viewed as harmful to the Nazi Party or its agenda and eliminate the visible opposition.
  
• Secondly, to ensure that the Party’s agenda was presented in the most seductive and attractive way possible. But before he could eliminate the opposition, he had to first get the man on the street on his side. Those who held the ‘right’ views were rewarded with status and inculcated with a sense of privilege.

Anyone who disagreed with the Reich was demonized as a liar, an agent of the Jews, or a tool of the special interests. Goon squads would show up at opposition rallies and provoke confrontations while the media portrayed the rallies and their participants as “angry mobs.”

The Nazis also used the public school system to indoctrinate the next generation
of Nazis. Parents who tried to teach their own values were denounced by their
children. Politically incorrect views were criminalized. Opposing viewpoints
were heavily censored.

To ensure that everybody thought in the correct manner, Goebbels set up the Reich Chamber of Commerce in 1933. This organization dealt with literature, art, music, radio, film, newspapers etc. To produce anything that was in these groups, you had to be a member of the Reich Chamber.

The Nazi Party decided if you had the right credentials to be a member. Any person who was not credentialed was not allowed to have any work published or performed.

The aim of censorship under the Nazi regime was simple: to reinforce Nazi power and to suppress opposing viewpoints and information. Punishments ranged from banning of presentation and publishing of works at first; then later, deportation, imprisonment and even execution.

Eliminating the opposition always followed the same formula; denounce, demonize, marginalize, and neutralize. Sort of along the lines of the way the Obama administration does it, but not quite as subtle.

A study by the Pew Research Center showed that 40 percent of Fox News stories on Obama in the last six weeks of last year's presidential campaign were negative.
Similarly, 40 percent of Fox News' stories on Obama's Republican opponent, Senator John McCain, were negative.

On CNN, by contrast, there was a 22-point disparity in the percentage of negative stories on Obama (39 percent) and McCain (61 percent). The disparity was even greater at MSNBC, according to Pew, where just 14 percent of Obama stories were negative, compared to a whopping 73 percent of McCain stories — a spread of 59 points.

Because the Obama administration is a political entity made up of hundreds of individuals and not just Barack Obama himself, one must assume that there is some kind of political strategy behind the administration's declaration of war against Fox News.

It has to be more than pettiness. Even among Democrats. One pretty much has to assume that not all of them are clinically deranged. And they can't all be that stupid. Fox News reaches more Americans on any given day than all the rest of the networks combined.

And if there is one thing that the administration's very public declaration of war means is that Fox's ratings will only go up in direct proportion to the level of public conflict.

The White House has very publicly assigned Anita Dunn to fact-check Fox News' Glenn Beck. Beck responded (brilliantly, I thought) by installing a hotline on his set and giving Dunn the phone number.

Robert Gibbs mentions Fox News at almost every opportunity; the President himself has publicly identified Fox News as his principle antagonist. A few weeks ago, Obama conducted what they called a 'Sunday blitz' appearing on all major network news programs except Fox:

The administration has declared Fox News off-limits to all its senior members - again, very publicly - as a form of 'punishment' for what the administration is now calling 'outright lies and distortions' but without offering to either provide examples or correct the allegedly distorted record.

It is hard to imagine that the administration really believes that it can 'break' Fox News and convince it to parrot the party line the way that CNN and the major networks do in exchange for access.

And by attacking Fox, it has to know that it is alienating itself further from Fox's core audience. The very audience the administration needs to persuade. What's up with that?

Denounce, demonize, marginalize, neutralize. By pushing the message that Fox News is just a propaganda arm of the Republican Party and keeping the fight in the public
arena, it reinforces the message that Fox News is unreliable.

That the mountains of evidence being heaped up by Glenn Beck, for example, are all
Republican lies. By repeatedly denouncing them as liars and demonizing them as Republican shills, they hope to marginalize Fox in the eyes of all but the most devoted viewers, thereby neutralizing the threat posed to the administration's agenda.

When a government denounces an opposing point of view as being "against the state" and then actively discriminates against that point of view, that's called 'censorship'. The Obama administration has unleashed the full force of the federal government against the Fox News Channel.

TIME Magazine is anything but conservative-friendly. But even they couldn't help but wonder what Obama is hoping to gain:

It may be that, by seeking out a controversy that will get a lot of press (the media loves a "fight" with antagonists, which is why it's important to call out Fox by name), the Administration wants to plant a seed in assigning editors' and producers' minds, to make them more likely to look at these stories with suspicion or think twice about giving them credence simply because they're on an endless loop on Fox.

TIME even noted the stories Fox reported that nobody else would report:

"The Administration, openly and not so openly, has been annoyed with the mainstream press (I know, I know, but I have to call it something) for picking up stories driven by Fox News, its hosts and various conservative media outlets — the town hall protests, the ACORN-pimp videos, the schoolteachers-are-brainwashing-kids-with-Obama-songs videos or what have you."

What I found most astonishing is the matter-of-fact way that the mainstream media is dealing with it:

"Sure, the administration is trying to censor Fox News" ..."Sure, the rest of the mainstream media is in the tank for Obama..."

Is it just me or is anybody else shaking their heads at the cheerful admission that the mainstream media actively suppresses news that doesn't favor the administration unless they are forced to in order to compete with Fox?

I used to think, "it can't happen here." It's already happened. Even as I was watching it all unfold, right before my eyes.

And I still can't quite believe it.

Coincidentally, Kinsella has described the pharmaceutical marketing template.