link Islamist rebel urges total war with Russia.
Not that pleas for a united front against the enemies of Islam are new, but refreshingly this time, it’s not against the Great Satan but against Russia. I’m not sure how Russia stands in the Satan pecking order but since Great has been taken, the logical position is Pretty Big Satan, or Next Biggest Satan. This may stir the competitive sensibilities of the Russians who do not like to be inferior to anyone.
A new twist in this plea for a united war is that they are calling for women to join the fight as well. This can be regarded as progressive for that movement because in the past, women have never been considered as anything other than chattel. Now they are at least being addressed as people. I’m not sure how tempting the invitation is however, given that if they eventually win and an Islamist regime ensues, women will have the privelege of being subjugated and treated as less than human as a reward. Hmm. Wonder if option B is better?
This offer is no less preposterous than the situation that exists in the U.S. When you think of the platform of the progressive movement, their model is just as ludicrous. If you vote for them, they will spread the wealth and make sure that rules and regulations are in place that won’t allow any wealth creation. The implication is that corporations and wealthy people will be taxed so that the ‘average’ person can have a good wage, whatever that is. Those with some basic grasp of economics may figure out that if no one is rewarded for taking a chance on business, then no one will start one. All of a sudden, the only employers are the various tentacles of government, which of course are the people themselves. In essence, people will be taxed at ever higher rates in order to pay… themselves.
Oddly, in the case of the Islamists, some women will heed the call for the struggle. Even more sadly, as has been proven over and over again, voters here are happy to be bought with their own money. For example, as rabid a guy as Michael Moore is, he can still claim people who sympathize with his worldviews. It shows that you don’t have to create elaborate stories to fool the people. You only need tell part of the truth to a gullible audience.
link RealClearPolitics – Video – Moore On Wealthy Peoples Money: “Thats Not Theirs, Thats A National Resource, Its Ours”.
It’s pretty clear that news conduits are publishing Moore’s comments for comic relief on a slow news day. It’s obvious that at core, he harbors strong communist values despite his curious success in the capitalist world. The appearance is even a giveaway. The unkempt hair, the hat, the scruffy beard. He looks like a Fidel Castro but much better fed. Some may recall that just recently, he was suing the Weinstein brothers for monies allegedly owed to him from his recent celluloid delusion. If he believes everyone’s money belongs in the collective socialist pool, why bother fighting for it?
There is no more remarkable testament to America’s freedom of expression than the fact that Moore is able to spread his deranged gospel …and people will pay for it! He reminds me of the precocious but annoying kid at family gatherings who always wishes to be the centre of attention by doing goofy things such as pulling spaghetti from one nostril through to the other. As he gets older, he becomes a social pariah and thus behaves more bizarrely to get attention from increasingly aloof peers. Somehow, kindred spirits to Moore find him and they glom onto each other like so many globules of mercury. Unfortunately for us, some of those kindred spirits own media outlets and so Moore’s warped views reach the mainstream without his parents around to tell him to go to his room.
What our hero is advocating in the linked video is outright socialism. Someone should drop a note in his breakfast barrel to remind him that he lives in a country that happens to be ground zero of capitalism in the world, though admittedly many are trying to change that. It’s as if he had filled himself at the buffet table and then preached to the people after him not to eat there. Why don’t people get tired of hypocrites like Moore? Why don’t they tie him up in the dead of night, throw him in a rucksack and ship him one way to Cuba? His opinion of things may change when he’s in a place where the access to Big Macs is not as easy as he has obviously become accustomed to. It will dawn upon him as to why there are no fat communists, except the leaders. He may be surprised to find that in a society which shares the wealth, there isn’t any. It’s easy to share nothing. All those with brains and drive have left…to the U.S. But maybe he’ll find a more willing audience for his opinions there…if they let him speak at all. I’m sure there would be many Cubans willing to swap places with him.
Moore mistakes his limited commercial success to genius. In America, they’ll buy anything. Even William Hung of American Idol fame sold albums. He should confine his voracious appetite to restaurants instead of the hand that feeds him.