04/14/13

Honoring Margaret Thatcher – The Ultimate Progressive Hunter

By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

And they still hate her for it… Evil always despises strength and Baroness Margaret Thatcher was holy water to the vampiric Progressive Left. The Lioness of the British Isles roared onto the scene with Ronald Reagan and John Paul II to fight Communism and oppression. The Iron Lady was a warrior for freedom and she will forever be admired by me and millions of others.

From Rush Limbaugh:

Some people call it a coincidence — I think it’s more than that — that at the same time in the world we had Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, and Margaret Thatcher. During those years were the only time in my lifetime where the left was actually turned back. Not just stopped, but defeated and turned back. It was the only time in my life. Poland, Berlin, Moscow, the United States. Wherever. Those three leaders on the political stage, the world stage at the same time, did more for freedom and liberty for people all over this world than any three people since the founding of this country — and they all served at the same time, overlapping.

From Sara Palin:

Today we say goodbye to a towering figure of the 20th century. With the passing of Margaret Thatcher, we’ve sadly lost the last living member of that great triumvirate that included Ronald Reagan and John Paul II – those giants who defeated the evil empire of Soviet Communism and allowed the liberation of its captive nations. We’ve also lost one of the great champions of economic freedom and democratic ideals.

The Grocer’s Daughter was indeed iconic and one of the greatest leaders of our time. She was not afraid to voice her opinions and go toe to toe with the Leftists – summarily wiping the political floor with them time and again. A debater that had no equal, she used facts and logic as her weapons of choice, burnishing their mortal impact with eloquent prose and stunning delivery. Thatcher was a titan spearheading accomplishment, while dragging Progressives kicking and screaming into the light of capitalistic success and growth:

She put those beliefs into action. Like Reagan, she was a leader for whom word and deed were one and the same. A leader of a conservative think tank behind the Thatcher revolution famously said, “We were not interested in political office for the Conservative party. We were interested in power for them to get things done.” And that’s exactly what Thatcher did. While others in her party were interested in holding on to political office and overseeing “the orderly management of [Britain’s] decline,” she actually radically reformed a broken system and brought it back to free-market principles, leaving her country stronger, wealthier, and a leader in the world when just a decade before it had been dismissed as “the sick man of Europe.” Her push to privatize British industry and lower tax rates led to a substantial economic expansion and became a model for other countries shrugging off the yoke of socialism.

The Real Legacy of Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s Iron Lady:

She knew what Ronald Reagan knew. That free markets and a free people are the best defense against tyranny and that peace comes through strength, not accommodation.

Prophetic in her vision for a stronger Britain as well as a freer world, Thatcher diagnosed the Socialist disease that plagues the globe and offered the cure of smaller government, lower taxation and economic expansion. Her enemies put forth wealth redistribution and equal misery for all with more taxation, regulation and government rule. It is small wonder her enemies celebrate her death in the streets, but all Americans and the world should reflect and hold in wonder the ideals of Margaret Thatcher, while reimplementing them before it is too late. Communism/Socialism/Marxism/Progressivism never succeed, they always fail. They end in massive death, poverty and misery. The world cries out for another Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher to deliver us from One World rule.

Will America once again follow the vision of Reagan and Thatcher? We do indeed stand at the crossroads of history — a choice between what the Founding Fathers saw in smaller government, less regulation, less taxation and the power lying with the States and the people vs. the horrific future of the Progressive Left with an all-encompassing Nanny State, never-ending regulation and government control, crony capitalism and dictatorial rule.

JoshuaPundit:

What can you say about Margaret Thatcher’s accomplishments? She was a green grocer’s daughter who rose to become Britain’s Prime Minister, who did her best to reverse what she clearly saw as her country’s decline, who led Britain in war and peace, who survived a terrorist assassination by the IRA that killed five people.This was someone who put principle first, who informed the people who wanted business as usual that this lady was not for turning. She literally scared Britain’s Socialist establishment witless by pointing out loudly and clearly what they were doing to her country and where it would ultimately lead.

America owes much to Margaret Thatcher, a courageous, principled leader who laid the foundations for Reagan’s revolution that brought massive prosperity to the United States.

Carrying on Margaret Thatcher’s Vision

I identify with Baroness Thatcher. I consider her my role model and I grieve her passing. Her legacy, however, will live on and so will our fight for conservative ideals and individual liberty. The fight will never end while Communism lives. While Constitutional Conservatives fight to regain America’s freedoms, Democrats are blocking a resolution to honor Lady Thatcher. How sick and twisted is that? It shows a dearth of character and a lack of morality. I guess they only honor commies these days. The death of morality presages the death of a country. Always.

The Moral Foundations of the American Founding:

Free societies demand more care and devotion than any others. They are, moreover, the only societies with moral foundations, and those foundations are evident in their political, economic, legal, cultural, and, most importantly, spiritual life.

We who are living in the West today are fortunate. Freedom has been bequeathed to us. We have not had to carve it out of nothing; we have not had to pay for it with our lives. Others before us have done so. But it would be a grave mistake to think that freedom requires nothing of us. Each of us has to earn freedom anew in order to possess it. We do so not just for our own sake, but for the sake of our children, so that they may build a better future that will sustain over the wider world the responsibilities and blessings of freedom.

Heritage’s Nile Gardiner on the Passing of Margaret Thatcher

I intend to honor Margaret Thatcher by continuing the research into and the hunt for Progressives on both sides of the political aisle. You can see my research and work with Trevor Loudon over at KeyWiki.org. To paraphrase Lady Thatcher, “Our job is to stop America from going Red.”

Quotes from the Iron Lady:

  • To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukemia with leeches.
  • I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society — from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain.
  • We want a society where people are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. This is what we mean by a moral society; not a society where the state is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the state.
  • My job is to stop Britain from going red.
  • There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
  • They’re casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It’s our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour.
  • Socialists cry “Power to the people,” and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean — power over people, power to the State.
  • Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. … In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.
  • Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
  • I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.
  • Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people’s money. It’s quite a characteristic of them.
  • Pennies don’t fall from heaven, they have to be earned here on earth.
  • Good Conservatives always pay their bills. And on time. Not like the Socialists who run up other people’s bills.
  • Let us never forget this fundamental truth: The State has no source of money other than the money people themselves earn.
  • Let me give you my vision: A man’s right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master.
  • All corporatism – even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea – encourages inflexibility, discourages individual accountability, and risks magnifying errors by concealing them.
  • Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.
  • It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
  • No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.
  • Many of our troubles are due to the fact that our people turn to politicians for everything.
  • People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations, because there is no such thing as an entitlement unless someone has first met an obligation.
  • When all the objectives of government include the achievement of equality – other than equality before the law – that government poses a threat to liberty.
  • Socialists have always spent much of their time seeking new titles for their beliefs, because the old versions so quickly become outdated and discredited.
  • Socialism’s results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic – poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of communism, the deaths this century of perhaps 100 million people. Against that doctrine was set a contrary, conservative belief in a law-governed liberty. It was this view which triumphed with the crumbling of the Berlin Wall. Since then, the Left has sought rehabilitation by distancing itself from its past.
  • Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.

Update: OBAMA…SCORNING OUR ALLIES…A NATIONAL DISGRACE

04/14/13

Caving Not Allowed

Arlene from Israel

When Jews cave in the face of threats by radical Muslims or their supporters, it leads to increased Jewish weakness and more threats. And yet sometimes, Jews do cave. (In some places in the world Jews have become timid because they are thoroughly beleaguered — a small vulnerable minority in a growing sea of Islamists.) Increasingly, however, does it seem to be the case in the US, where this must not be permitted to happen.

What I will describe here is an incident that many of you may already be aware of. But I cannot let this day pass without writing about it, and sharing further details of which you may not be aware.

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Pamela Geller is proprietor of the blog “Atlas Shrugs,” and President of both the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) and Stop Islamization of America (SIOA). Author of several books, she works against radical Islam — which is decidedly anti-Israel and anti-Jewish, as well as being antithetical to the spirit of democratic freedoms — and what she refers to as “creeping Sharia’a.”

Credit: Breitbart

Geller had been invited to speak today, Sunday, April 14, at a Men’s Club breakfast at the Great Neck Synagogue in New York. Once words of her talk was out, the intimidation began.

It came, in particular, from one Habeeb Ahmed, who threatened a march on the synagogue. What is particularly shocking here is that Habeeb Ahmed is a member of the Nassau County Commission on Human Rights and used his position in pressuring the synagogue.

Please see more about this here. It provides a very alarming window on how far matters have already gone in the US:

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2013/04/free-speech-demo-at-habeeb-ahmeds-human-rights-office-on-sunday-stand-against-islamic-supremcist-int.html

There will be a free speech demonstration, protesting Ahmed’s behavior, in front of the human rights office at 240 Old Country Road, Mineola, at 1 PM today.

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Protest against Geller’s talk also came from Jewish Voices for Peace (JVP) which ADL once identified as “one of the ten most anti-Israel organizations in America.” JVP put out a message to its members asking that they contact the synagogue and ask that the event be cancelled.

See: http://yidwithlid.blogspot.co.il/2013/04/the-real-truth-about-pamela-geller.html

This is perhaps most distressing of all. Far left Jews are both deluded and dangerous for the rest of us.

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At any rate, and sadly, the two-pronged campaign worked. The Executive Board of the Great Neck Synagogue, citing “…notoriety and media exposure…legal liability and potential security exposure…” cancelled.

The notoriety and media exposure is less than no excuse. A courageous board would have turned it around and used the media exposure to make important points about American freedom of speech and the genuine problems that Geller was about to confront.

As to legal liability and “potential” security exposure, it was the responsibility of the synagogue to properly confront these problems. Hire security guards for the day, if that seems appropriate, consult lawyers within the congregation, etc. But no, they caved.

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I will make a personal comment here: I made aliyah in 2001 in the midst of the intifada that incorporated suicide bombings here in Jerusalem where I live. Twice I was within hearing distance of/ mere blocks away from explosions that indicated major suicide bombing attacks. And I said, they want me to be so afraid that I leave, but I will not leave. And, I assure you, my attitude was not unique.

I have little patience for the attitude of the Great Neck Synagogue Executive Board.

Geller, on her site, referred to the decision of this synagogue as “unconscionable self-imposed dhimmitude”: “particularly craven and cowardly, as it sends the message that if leftists and Muslims defame those they hate loudly enough and for a long enough time, they will succeed in getting them silenced.”

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All was not lost however, as two rabbis came forward and invited Geller to speak:

At 10 AM today, following a rally:
Chabad of Great Neck
400 East Shore Rd,
Great Neck, NY 11024
Rabbi Yoseph Geisinsky

At 7 PM today:
Congregation Beth-El Edison
91 Jefferson Boulevard
Edison, N.J. 08817
Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg

Bravo to both rabbis. I particularly note the situation of Rabbi Geisinsky, however: Not long ago, he had a massive heart attack and was pronounced dead when he had no pulse. It was anticipated that if he were revived he would have severe damage. The community prayed fervently for their rabbi without stop, and he recovered fully — physically and mentally. Now, unafraid, he is prepared to take a strong stand.

Credit: moshiach.ru

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Tonight begins Yom HaZikaron here in Israel: Memorial Day for all of those who have died in defense of Israel. A time most somber.

Credit: erinamsili.blogspot

I am eager to post this now, and I will follow with more shortly.