The American Garden: an allegory

The American Garden is the most beautiful on earth. No other garden produces more bounty and benefit for the people of the world than this one. It’s filled with plants and trees of different sizes that produce all matter of fruits and vegetables. The market stalls are filled daily with this wondrous bounty, and it has been so for a couple of hundred years. Yet if the Garden is to continue to blossom and yield its bounty, every generation of gardeners is obligated to fertilize, water, weed, and prune constantly the ever present gnarled socialist dead roots. They must dig out the old and unproductive to make room for the new. Only if this is done will the American Garden continue to flourish.

Many of the plants migrated here from European gardens. The European gardeners in centuries past expelled these plants, deciding they only wanted certain sorts of plants. Or the plants themselves decided to come to the North American Garden to find room to grow. The European gardens are much older than the American one. In Europe, every square centimeter of land has been cultivated for centuries. The gnarled socialist dead root structures suck most of the nutrients from the land. The blossoms are very small, and there is absolutely no room for anything new. Yet the plants that came here wanted to be a part of our Garden. They wanted to blossom and grow, and add to the beauty of the American Garden.

But the American Garden is now threatened. Progressive gardeners, who identify with the European gnarled socialist dead roots, believe that is the important thing in a garden. They take the market stalls filled with produce for granted. “Has it not always been so?” they ask? In their eyes, it’s more important to make the Garden “fair”. It’s unfair that there are plants that are taller and have more fruit than others, or are bigger and have more blossoms than others.

Their vision is a European Marxist-style garden with all the same size plants, few blossoms, and all utterly dependent on the gnarled socialist dead root structure they wish to establish. And they recognize if they can import enough squatty yucca plants from south of the border, they can take over the Garden and put their plan into action.

The progressive gardeners are also nostalgic about the Garden of 1945. They write books entitled “The Greatest Generation of gardeners” or do TV specials called “The Weeding”, not admitting they are forsaking their generational responsibility to keep the Garden flourishing. “We have the most beautiful garden in the world” they say. “Therefore, it can tolerate a few weeds, and we don’t need to prune, fertilize or water as much”. Rather than dirty their hands pruning or fertilizing, they attend cocktail parties criticizing the Garden’s ‘inequities’ or fantasizing about the virtues of the Marxist Garden, ignoring the Eastern European garden’s utter failure, including the death toll of a hundred million plants.

In a Marxist garden, the Marxist gardeners give the plants blossom quotas, and threaten to uproot them if they fail. Yet all the water and fertilization is consumed by the gnarled socialist roots. Marxist gardeners believe that all the plants should have the “social consciousness” to blossom properly. In their view, it is “social deviationism” that causes them to fail. Thus, more blossoms can be achieved by threats and uprootings as an example to others.

Another threat to the Garden is the Islamic thistle that is blowing in from the distant deserts. There is some talk about the necessity of weeding out these thistles to preserve the Garden. But the Progressive tolerant gardeners argue “was not our garden established with transplants originally?” That’s true, but the Islamic thistles are not like the other transplants.

Islamic Thistles derive from parched, poverty-stricken, barren lands that have remained unchanged for thousands of years. They can’t comprehend fertile lands and flowing rivers except as an afterlife paradise. Yet their long-dead gardener has given them the mission to spread their barren, medieval, weed-strewn poverty around the world. They have no intention of blossoming and adding to the American Garden. It is their stated intention to replace every plant in our Garden with their noxious weed and choke out and kill everything else. That is reason enough to cull these thistles from our garden. And there is some weeding taking place in distant lands. Even so, the progressive gardeners object.

Progressive gardener George Soros argues that pulling the thistles is what’s causing them to grow. Other Progressive gardeners lament that the thistles seem to return no matter how fast they are pulled. They wish to give up and withdraw the weeders. The Ecclesiastical gardeners hold that weeding of any kind is immoral, because it destroys life. They choose to ignore the death and destruction over the centuries and up to the present day caused by the Islamic thistles. They have forgotten the thousand-year struggle of their church forefathers to keep the Islamic Thistles from overwhelming all of Christendom! “We just need to reach out, understand, and dialogue with the Islamic thistle” they say.

FBI and Homeland Security gardeners are told by their lawyers that they are forbidden to pull up the Islamic thistles until they actually go to Jihad-seed and do real damage. This in spite of their own studies that show the earlier the Thistles are uprooted, the fewer Jihad-seeds there will be.

Thus is the state of the Garden today. The Marxist Progressive gardeners strive to bring in 40 million yucca plants. They fuel their chain saws while they eye the fruit trees and produce-laden plants. Islamic thistles sprout in every corner of the garden, but are ignored. The Marxist Progressive gardeners prefer to concentrate on “Justice and Equality for the American Garden” and assume the bounty will continue indefinitely.

A closer look at the Jena affair

When a gang of “chip on their shoulders” black youth terrorize and beat white kids, it’s called an “expression of ethnic identity”. But if the white kids band together for protection, it’s called “racist white supremacy.” As shown by this Snopes.com fact check of the Jena affair, the assumed direct linkage of the noose incident and the beatings omits significant intervening events.

The biggest racists in this whole mess are Jesse Jackson and Rev Al Sharpton. The foundational outrage in all of this is the Progressive theological notion that “only the dominant group can be racist”, which is utter nonsense. Either we strive for Martin Luther King’s color blind society or we do not.

The reverse discrimination to “undo the years of discrimination” is fraudulent. And there is no mechanism to turn it off, no way to measure when enough is enough. It is conferring perks and privilege on the basis of skin color, which has fragmented our nation into warring racial and ethnic groups. Diversity is not our strength! It is a source of weakening, division, and conflict. But then, weakening America has always been the Progressive agenda.

Our forefathers realized that in order to build unity they had to leave religious denomination off the table. So must we now concerning race and ethnicity. We enjoy our rights and liberties on an individual basis, not on the basis of our race. We need to eliminate the 3 pages of racial group check boxes we find now on every government application.

The racist agitators such as Jackson and Sharpton need to be shamed, ostracized, put out of business, and recognized as the hypocrites they are.

Churchill's tribalized acid trip

Disgraced CU professor Ward Churchill is hoisting the red herring flag of 1st Amendment rights, hoping that his plagiarism and dishonesty will be overlooked. His left wing supporters are glad to do so. But I would like to ask Mr. Churchill some questions about his ideas. If he were successful in dismantling the United States into the 500 tribal areas that he advocates: What would he do with the 250 million people in the United States that would be unable to live off the land?

How would he handle the 20 million men nuclear equipped Chinese Army that would soon come to fill the North American power vacuum thus created by 500 squabbling Native American tribes? Does he really think his nostalgia for Indian warriors on horseback would be any match for Chinese armored divisions?

In that the concern for Native American rights exists only in the Progressive Anglo guilt ridden mind, a guilt not shared by 5000 years of Chinese political tradition, why would not the Chinese merely exterminate this residue of whining contentious Native Americans to pave the way for Chinese resettlement of all of North America? They could do so with only half the population that now resides in the Yangtze River Valley!

Say no to Peres' appeasement

Shimon Peres’ remark in a Wall Street Journal interview last weekend that Israel must “get rid of” the territories it has occupied for 40 years tells us a couple of things: (1) He has bought into the Arab deception that their issue is a territorial dispute and not a basic desire to destroy Israel outright. (2) He is willing to betray the memory of those who have given their lives and blood in the 6 Day War. Israel, like America, has grown prosperous and complacent. Their Left wing vision for the future, as in America, is only to go about one’s life and live comfortably. If appeasing our vicious enemies will buy enough time to assure the apocalypse doesn’t happen during MY lifetime, that’s all that’s necessary. Since Mr. Peres is 83 years old, it may be a good strategy for him. But the Radical Islamic Apocalyptic visions won’t wait for the rest of us!

Every concession, rather than bringing peace, only feeds the radical perception that the end times are NOW! It energizes them to move to the next step towards the fulfillment. The final destruction of Israel and the West, the establishment of the world wide Caliphate! It’s almost all within their grasp!

No Mr. Peres: “getting rid” of the Sacred Eretz will only hasten the destruction of us all. Rather than bringing peace, the Radicals will trumpet “another triumph for Arab arms!” Hizbollah bunkers, rockets and Syrian artillery will be moved to the Golan, and all the Galilee will become uninhabitable. It will pave the way for the American Intifada.

What is victory in Iraq?

To the progressives, victory is “stopping the violence”. Thus, each new car bombing only confirms at we are “failing” in Iraq, and that it is a “quagmire”. I saw a woman on CSPAN desperately crying “We must end it! We must end it!” It was clear she just couldn’t bear it! This Progressive secularist attitude is understandable. If you a moral relativist and don’t believe in a “hereafter”, and if your only vision for the future is just to live a comfortable life, a couple of things follow:

1- There is no such thing as good or evil. (And this is why President Bush talking about the “axis of evil” sticks in the progressive craw!)

2- Absolutely NOTHING is worth dying for! Therefore the only worthy strategy in dealing with any threat is appeasement: to try to buy time so any dire predictions “won’t happen in my lifetime!” Thus going after terrorists is disturbing and upsetting the “peace”!

Another feature of the progressive point of view is the preface that “we are the most powerful country in the world”. As far as America’s position is concerned, the progressives are locked in a 1945 time warp. They have forgotten the maxims that “Freedom is only a generation from being lost” and that “Each generation has the obligation to secure freedom and pass it to the next generation”. They prefer to ride on the coattails of “The Greatest Generation” 60 years ago and turn away from today’s difficult responsibilities! Defending freedom would interfere with living the good life: the Lexus, the season tickets to the plays, vacations in Europe. They prefer to sort wine bottles for recycling and go to Global Warming symposia.

To the patriots who wish to defend democracy and Western civilization, victory is simply preventing medieval radical Islam from taking over Iraq. The violence may last 50 years! It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to think through the disaster were we to lose our will and hand victory to Al Qaeda and their sponsors. But the Progressives refuse to see the danger in Radical Islam as did the British elite in the late 1930’s who refused to see the danger in Hitler.

The German invasion of Poland in 1939 thoroughly discredited the British elite and brought Churchill to power. But the attack on 9-11, which should have had a similar effect here, hasn’t. The strong denial and the unwillingness to face reality have transformed 9-11 into some one time natural disaster like hurricane Katrina in the minds of most Progressives. The “evil” as far as the Progressives are concerned is President Bush “persecuting innocent Muslims!” Quite an Alice in Wonderland view! One can only speculate how the Progressives will persist in explaining away the continuing Islamist violence which only grows in ferocity, frequency and ever closer.