White House Plays Santa Claus For 7 Years

[From article]
It was the year 2009, and it was official. The Obama administration shelved the anti-missile shield from Poland and Czech Republic and let it marinate in an attic jar. The move was done with an unparalleled subtlety, on the same day that Poland was commemorating the 70th anniversary of its World War II invasion by the USSR. After months of ballet pirouettes in public statements where the Eastern Europeans were “reassured” that their concerns on the issue were totally groundless, the inevitable (and predictable) happened. The Obama administration, citing budgetary reasons, upended the agreements with two NATO allies by cancelling the Bush-era project that angered Russia.
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In July, president Obama was addressed in an open letter signed by 22 prominent Eastern European leaders, who voiced their concern that the region had ceased to be a priority on the U.S. foreign policy agenda. The letter warned against “the misguided notion” that the region was largely stable and on a secure path to full trans-Atlantic integration. In reality, this traditional pro-American region was increasingly critical to the United States’ cave in to Russia’s “revisionist power pursuing a 19th-century agenda with 21st-century tactics.”
Had the administration wanted to show contempt for faithful allies in Eastern Europe, there was no better way than scrapping the planned anti-missile shield. It was obvious that, at that moment and even later, the United States did not consider Central and Eastern Europe as a priority any more.
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In fact, this was Obama’s free gift to the Russians, offered with a red bow on a golden plate way before the September 2012 president’s tete-a-tete with Medvedev at the Seoul nuclear safety summit and during his “open mike” genuine moment of sincerity.
While it was obvious that U.S. world policy had turned 180 degrees since Obama assumed office, Russian policy continued to look disturbingly unchanged.
In terms of firsthand knowledge of communism, America should have given more credit to Eastern Europe. After all, the Eastern Europeans’ deeper understanding of the multiple facets -- theoretical, clinical, and practical -- of a totalitarian ideology and society exceeds by far Obama’s occasional exotic incursions in the Marxism-pigmented readings during his university years. And this goes for Obama’s international and domestic policies. His obstinacy in promoting collectivist ideas of a “fair share” type has managed to produce confusion in America and hilarity in Eastern Europe. In this context, Jimmy Carter’s 1977 remarks about being “free of that inordinate fear of communism” appear as an equally sinister and pathetic joke.
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When he alienated the allies by allying himself with the aliens, he ended up looking more like Terry Crews, as the goofy president Camacho in Idiocracy. In the end, even Camacho came back to his senses. Let us all hope that we, as a nation, do not end up living those “idiocratic” apocalyptic times.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/05/the_american_idiocracy_and_eastern_europe.html

May 30, 2016
The American 'Idiocracy' and Eastern Europe
By Tiberiu Dianu

End Of Ramadan 2015

The Empire State Building is lit in green July 17, 2015 in New York City to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr holiday that marks the end of Ramadan.
(AFP PHOTO/BRIGITTE DUSSEAU)

For the observant among the 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, the end of Ramadan is a holiday. The Empire State Building in New York City bathed its top floors in a sea of green light to join the celebration. Some young Muslim men celebrated by bombing or trying to bomb civilians and military targets in the Middle East, China, Africa, Europe and North America. There may be more places but journalists are keeping these activities secret for unstated reasons. The Islamic State which the United States government says is not Islamic urged young men where they live to conduct Jihad against Europe, the United States, and Americans. One Muslim man killed five Americans, four Marines and a sailor in Tennessee. The United States government, and the Southern Poverty Law Center, the official source for journalists for motives of terrorists, assured Americans the mass murder had no connection to the Muslim religion, and had no connection to the Not Islamic State. It was repeatedly stated by journalists who support and obey the White House, that the young man was a "Lone Wolf," who came up with the idea one day and acted on his own initiative. Some journalists blame Republicans for violence, as well as the murder of Kate Steinle, about who, the Secretary of Homeland Security never heard. The gunman's parents said he was depressed. The Washington Post reported that the gunman was taking psychiatric drugs and stopped taking them. Oh? Is that another factor which journalists do not like to share with the public?  


Kate Steinle, Killed in San Francisco

The end of Ramadan was celebrated in my life by an increase in harassment from the California Syndicate and their associated Communists from Washington State. My hundreds of complaints to local police, state police, the FBI and other taxpayer funded agencies were ignored. Police agencies say, "He's crazy." which is a legal disability under state and federal laws. They withhold police protection from crime, in violation of state and U.S. discrimination laws. They interpret disability as a license to prey on the person they perceive as having a disability. But under the Obama-Holder doctrine now in force in the United States, inconvenient laws may be ignored. In Cambridge, MA disability protections are only extended to members of the three most powerful special interest lobby groups, i.e., black Americans, homosexuals and women. The war on white heterosexual men continues in Cambridge, MA where blame the victim is the ruling paradigm.



The Massachusetts Attorney General, a proud lesbian, explained she awaits a request from the state legislature before investigating reports of Planned Parenthood selling body parts from aborted fetuses, a felony. I requested hundreds of times (including previous attorneys general), that she investigate the criminal abuse I experience every day. She did not act. So it is not just a request that she waits for. One paralegal in the AG's office explained when I called "I'll, tell them." She did not explain to me who "them" is. In any case the harassment did not stop.


Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey

In response to statements from police agencies, alleging craziness, and the legal protections of having a legal disability, I complained to the taxpayer funded disability agencies in the state and even outside the state. When an agency in another state asked me why I called them if I live in Massachusetts, I explained "They won't help me in Massachusetts."



Currently one Harvard University building superintendent manages the "Campaign" as I call it. It consists of a team made up of at least one psychologist or psychiatrist, one lawyer, one police employee or a FBI employee, often a Harvard University campus police employee, an associate of the local crime family, or a crime family from elsewhere with permission of the local crime family. The police employees and the FBI employees are usually criminals, who are often called CIs, confidential informants or CWs, cooperating witnesses. They are willing to commit criminal acts for the police or FBI handlers in order to stay out of jail. This allows the police and the FBI to say "I did nothing wrong." Or better, "There is no evidence of wrongdoing."



In any case since the police are involved, the District Attorney and the Attorney General do not want to get involved with investigating, no less prosecuting police. Unless the victim can prove to some misguided journalist what the policeman did. It is the same with FBI informants and the US Attorney. Considering the capabilities of the police and the FBI to conduct electronic surveillance on civilians the same technology can be used on the police and the FBI criminals. But that does not happen in Massachusetts, with a modern recent history of 20 years of the crime boss running the organized crime squad of the FBI, and using FBI informants to frame four white men for murder they did not commit.



The other team member is a Communist. Today they call themselves Progressives. They used to call themselves Liberals. It is usually a Communist from Washington State. But sometimes it is from New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts or Florida. They bring them from elsewhere too. They hire local students, criminals and assorted psychopaths to conduct the daily harassment. One lesbian graduate student in psychology, was the primary harasser for about three years. It is about the length of time that they last. A new primary harasser has not been chosen yet. I guess they are interviewing and conducting a nation wide search at present. Whenever a new team takes charge of harassment there is the obligatory search of my apartment and belongings. I do not know what they look for, but I suspect they take something of value so that they feel they are being compensated by the criminal they are watching and harassing. Historically I learned that when a criminal steals from you, subsequently he may return or repay you for your loss. But when police or a government thug steals, fuhgeddaboudit.



Sometimes the team is smaller. One person can be both an associate of a crime family, and a police employee. Some call that type of person, a police criminal, crime family police, or a police guy. One instead of two. But also the psychologist or psychiatrist can be a Communist too. One instead of two, again. Or the lawyer can also be a Communist. Seldom is one team member a Communist, a lawyer and a psychologist. So the teams can be as small as three. But they can be larger as they have substitutes for vacation days when students are away, or when they allow the other crime families to participate.



This is a result of collectivism which dominates American society. If you are a member of a group you get benefits, protection from police, from theft and other crimes. If you are not a member of a group or a weak group you may suffer harms without protection. Even if you are a member of a group you may suffer more serious harms from the group leaders if you become a threat to one of the leaders. Then you do not need enemies. Your friends will do you more harm than any enemy would imagine doing.



The District Attorney has an elder and disability abuse unit. That person tells me, "You have no evidence." They are used to having police gather evidence of a crime and pass it along to the District Attorney. It is how the system works. The US Attorney subscribes to the same paradigm. The FBI gathers evidence and they pass it to the US Attorney for prosecution.



One element of the psychologist's harassment is to urge me to kill myself. Why should I do them a favor? That would solve their problem. Police used to ask me (when I would call to complain, but stopped because it was a waste of time ), why they are harassing me. I answered "Why don't you ask them? The best answer I can give is that they are paid to do it." 



The crime families say "He's a Communist." They used to say "He's a Communist political leader for the Kennedy cult." But after 45 years of extreme abuse and non stop character assassination with no response from me or them, the Kennedy Cult no longer considers me a viable candidate. So they abandoned me. One Kennedy Cult Communist said to me, "If you're not a lawyer you're nobody." This from a Communist? They called me "Nobody" for many years. The California Syndicate used to call me "Everybody" and later "Everything."



The homosexual lobby and the black racism lobby who participated for the past 45 years has withdrawn from the Campaign. There is probably no longer any benefit to them, or they are no longer being paid to participate. Beginning in 1973 when the Campaign began in earnest (it was when government psychiatrists drugged me for 80 consecutive days contrary to law), the FBI broadcast a profile about me that included but was not limited to "He's a black homosexual." Sometime in or about 1979 they changed that part to "He's a white racist, but still a homosexual."



Without knowing how depraved government can be, most people would have lost their minds forever. I am able to maintain some semblance of normalcy knowing that these criminals are trying desperately to provoke me so that they can have the police arrest me and/or put me in a hospital to silence me permanently. It is flattering that after 45 years of egregious criminal abuse and relentless character assassination and harassment, I am still so important to these criminals.



Having destroyed my career, my reputation, eliminated my social, economic and political support systems, they are still concerned about my speech and activities. I am not sure if I am so great, or they are so misguided and obsessed. They scare away ordinary civilians and keep me surrounded by hateful and hostile psychopaths. With good reason decent people stay away. Who would want to get near any of this? Especially when the FBI and police, whose mission is to protect vulnerable people, refuse to do so. Ramadan ended, but the Campaign continues.

White Privilege, Meet Black Privilege

[From article]
Sharpton's explicit words were meanwhile, "I want to make it clear to the radio and audience and to you here that we will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business on 125th St." Powell added, "We are not going to stand idly by and let a Jewish person come in black Harlem and methodically drive black people out of business up and down 125th St. If we stand for that, we will stand for anything."
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It is also necessary to recall Mr. Sharpton's role in the Crown Heights riot, in which Sharpton's followers murdered a Jew, and his proven defamation of an innocent person in the Tawana Brawley scandal. Black privilege is the only conceivable explanation for Mr. Sharpton's continued presence on news shows, or indeed in any other mainstream media, along with tolerance of misogynist rap artists.
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Obama's pastor, Jeremiah Wright, posted an opinion piece by a Hamas terrorist, and also published blood libels of the United States and Israel.
Wright’s church printed the "Letter to Oprah", which includes the following blood libel of Israel: "Both [Israel and South Africa] worked on an ethnic bomb that kills Blacks and Arabs." Wright himself blood-libeled the United States by accusing it of developing the AIDS virus -- i.e., of waging biological warfare, and added that "white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01."
Barack and Michelle Obama attended this "church" for roughly 20 years, and exposed their children to Jeremiah Wright's hateful rhetoric
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The bottom line is that our society already acknowledges that socioeconomic privilege exists, as it has existed throughout human history. It is past time to acknowledge, however, that black privilege in the form of lower behavioral standards holds African-Americans back rather than helping them achieve economic equality.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/04/its_past_time_to_acknowledge_black_privilege.html

April 15, 2015
It's Past Time to Acknowledge Black Privilege
By William A. Levinson

Collective Punishment, Individual Rights and Terrorism

[From article]
Modern terrorism is in many ways just a revival of customary tribal retaliation or the application of ‘guilt by association’. The September 11 hijackers had no particular beef with the individuals in the World Trade Center. They were out to slaughter anyone in New York. None of the people in New York had to be individually guilty of anything. They were simply the most handy targets available to expiate the collective Western guilt for its real or imagined offenses against Islam.
The participants of the Jihad see it as a matter of “them” against “us”. Even though Western politicians are at pains to deny there is any “them”, “they” know who “they” are, despite the fact that “we” do not acknowledge who “we” are. ’Us’ versus ‘them’ pervades everything. When the Taliban could not strike at the Pakistan military directly it struck at the Pakistani Army Public School in Peshawar. The hand-wringing articles asking why innocent children were attacked miss the point completely. To the Taliban there are no “innocent children”. In a world of collective guilt there is naturally only collective punishment.
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But the prohibition does not run the other way. There is no strong taboo among ISIS or al-Qaeda, for example, against punishing individual Jews for the collective guilt of Israeli existence. It is enough to kill a Jew, any Jew. It doesn’t matter who. Their model of punishment doesn’t require detailed information.
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When hackers bring down companies or terrorists commit outrages and then obfuscate their identity, the Western moral code goes “tilt” because it cannot resolve the contradiction between having to punish somebody and not knowing the name of that someone to punish. Although we might guess the identities of the guilty parties — more or less — that’s not good enough to mete out only individual punishment. Without the names of individuals to punish the whole Western defense and legal mechanism grinds to a halt. Without information and the ability to punish individuals lawfare is nothing but a pitiful, helpless giant.
Terrorism uses obfuscation to defuse lawfare knowing that the West will not turn to the alternative form of warfare.
The danger of course is that a “pitiful, helpless giant” sooner or later loses the the legitimacy to govern. A sufficiently enraged public will demand something more than impotence. Collective punishment is what happens when individual justice is seen to fail.
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In order to avoid the horrors of war The King’s Justice cannot afford to be seen as totally impotent. The best way to forestall private revenge is for the King to act against those who would disturb his realm, if not strictly according to the law then at least in the spirit of justice.
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That is human nature. Every king worth his throne must defend his subjects or they will defend themselves.

http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2015/01/02/the-future-of-collective-punishment/

The Future of Collective Punishment
January 2nd, 2015 - 2:03 am
by Richard Fernandez

CA College Professor Obsessed With Stereotyping All White People and All Non White People

[From article]
Ja’Nina Walker, a psychology professor at USF and a member of the “Check Your Privilege” campaign team, first came up with the idea when she realized the challenges of talking about people’s inherent privilege. According the San Francisco Foghorn, USF’s student newspaper, Walker believes the campaign will challenge students and faculty to recognize the structural inequalities around them.
“We just hope that people use this as an opportunity to think critically about the world around them and challenge themselves to really consider the implications of structural inequalities and how they, as an individual, can help mitigate the negative effects of social inequalities,” said Walker.
Walker, along with assistant professors Scott Murray and Sonja Poole—have distributed shirts and fliers around campus, each exhibiting privilege-checking criteria. Organizers say they originally planned to continue the campaign for two weeks, but now hope to schedule a discussion forum in the spring semester to continue the dialogue.

http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=6041

University professors attack white, heterosexual, Christian males for being "privileged”
Maggie Lit, Reporter
@MaggieLitCRO
Today at 10:53 AM EDT

Che Day, October 9th

[From article]
Che also said, “Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think as individuals.” This seems to be the direction that colleges are going today—with many schools trying to suppress free speech through “free speech” zones and other restrictive campus policies.
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Che should not be hailed as a revolutionary hero. He should be known for the evil mass murderer that he was. His socialist ideas should be exposed for what they are—part of the Communist governments that are responsible for murdering more than 100,000,000 people.

http://townhall.com/columnists/ashleypratte/2014/10/09/che-guevara-the-man-the-myth-the-atrocities-n1902951?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm

Che Guevara: The Man, the Myth, the Atrocities
Ashley Pratte
Oct 09, 2014

What Do You Mean "We" White Man?

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12:47 PM - 19 Aug 2014

How To Argue With Closed Minds, Don't

[From article]
The truth is that conservatism is an ideology that is in accord with natural law and basic human decency, while liberalism is merely the summit of a slippery slope leading down to the hellish depths of collectivist misery.
Liberals aren’t going to like to hear this manifest and demonstrable truth. So you’re going to get called “racist,” “sexist” and “homophobic,” even if you’re a conservative black lesbian.
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If you're trying to win an Oxford Union debate with a liberal, you’ve missed the point. This isn't about the Marquess of Queensberry’s fussy little rules. This isn't about some sort of extended-pinky exchange of ideas over a fine glass of port. This is about fighting for our way of life and our fundamental rights against the intellectual heirs of Stalin, Mao and Hitler.
Attack. This is about winning. First prize is freedom. Second prize is tyranny.

http://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2014/06/02/dont-argue-with-liberalsit-only-encourages-them-n1845401

Don’t Argue With Liberals – It Only Encourages Them
Kurt Schlichter

Jun 02, 2014

Charles Koch Answers Character Assassins

[From essay]
the fundamental concepts of dignity, respect, equality before the law and personal freedom are under attack by the nation's own government. That's why, if we want to restore a free society and create greater well-being and opportunity for all Americans, we have no choice but to fight for those principles. I have been doing so for more than 50 years, primarily through educational efforts. It was only in the past decade that I realized the need to also engage in the political process.A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value.
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The central belief and fatal conceit of the current administration is that you are incapable of running your own life, but those in power are capable of running it for you. This is the essence of big government and collectivism.
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Instead of encouraging free and open debate, collectivists strive to discredit and intimidate opponents. They engage in character assassination.
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I believe that cronyism is nothing more than welfare for the rich and powerful, and should be abolished.
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Instead of fostering a system that enables people to help themselves, America is now saddled with a system that destroys value, raises costs, hinders innovation and relegates millions of citizens to a life of poverty, dependency and hopelessness. This is what happens when elected officials believe that people's lives are better run by politicians and regulators than by the people themselves. Those in power fail to see that more government means less liberty, and liberty is the essence of what it means to be American. Love of liberty is the American ideal.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303978304579475860515021286?mod=hp_opinion&mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303978304579475860515021286.html%3Fmod%3Dhp_opinion

Koch: I'm Fighting to Restore a Free Society
Instead of welcoming free debate, collectivists engage in character assassination.
By CHARLES G. KOCH
Updated April 2, 2014 7:47 p.m. ET
Wall Street Journal

State Rep. Has Epiphany(?) On Individual Rights. An Addition To The Constitution?

Councillor Marjorie C. Decker, who grew up in Cambridge public housing, said she thought it was important to safeguard the dignity and rights of public housing tenants.
 “It is about trying to protect the individual rights and liberties of tenants who live in public housing at the same time as somebody has to protect the children. This is an issue [the children] can’t protect themselves for,” Decker said. Civil libertarian Rep. Decker has suddenly discovered individual rights? For the many years as a city councilor she joined the other collectivists on the council arguing for collective rights, of women, homosexuals, black Americans, Muslims, Illegal immigrants. Individual rights? What individual rights? I don't got to give you no stinkin' individual rights. If you got no group, or no power in Cambridge, you get no individual rights. You want individual rights go to Russia. Does Harvard University teach politicians how to mouth words as they did with Obama, and Deval Patrick?

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/10/8/smoking-ban-city-council/

Residents Try To Smoke Out Public Housing Smoking Ban at City Council Meeting
By ANJA C. NILSSON,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
October 8, 2013

Courts Are Politicized, No Longer Serve The Constitution

[From article]
media hysteria, popular anger, and ideology determine whether revolutionary courts go after someone like Scooter Libby as an enemy of the people, or ignore those in the Obama administration who lie under oath or take the Fifth Amendment. The court system has become a valuable tool of perceived social, rather than individual, justice.
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That prosecutorial overreach came in response to the popular furor whipped up by racialists like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, veiled suggestions from Attorney General Holder that civil-rights violations might be prosecuted, and improper editorializing by the president of the United States about his and Trayvon Martin’s shared racial makeup.
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The American court system is insidiously focusing on social transformation rather than individual justice.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/352873/revolutionary-tribunals-victor-davis-hanson

JULY 9, 2013 4:00 AM
Revolutionary Tribunals
Our courts have too often become expressions of the popular will.
By Victor Davis Hanson
National Review

Sarah Palin Concerned About TV Pundit's Opinion of Children

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2305991/Sarah-Palin-Glenn-Beck-slam-MSNBC-promo-anchor-Melissa-Harris-Perry-says-children-belong-communities.html

'Unflippingbelievable': Sarah Palin slams TV news promo in which MSNBC anchor says children 'belong to whole communities,' not to their parents
Melissa Harris-Perry laments the lack of a 'collective notion of "these are our children'
Former GOP VP nominee Sarah Palin tweets her outrage
Conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck calls promo an 'announcement of where they’re headed
Hillary Clinton's book It Takes A Village first proposed the idea of community child-rearing
By DAVID MARTOSKO
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 16:05 EST, 8 April 2013 | UPDATED: 06:24 EST, 9 April 2013

Democratic Congressman Supports Socialism, Communism

This Democratic Congressman argues for collectivism against individualism. He sees people as members of groups not as individuals. That thinking is foreign to American freedom and the US Constitutiton. He appears to support a socialist or Communist view of government.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/01/31/dem_congressman_west_not_representative_of_african-american_community.html

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Dem Congressman: West "Not Representative Of African-American Community"
January 31, 2012

Individualism vs Collectivism

http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/50634

Village idiocy
January 30, 2012
by Don Surber

Exposing Black Racism

Individual rights and responsibilities are American values. Collectivism was imported from socialist countries and think tanks. Racism, sexism, homophobia are socialist propaganda tactics to divide Americans. Oleg Kalugin, chief KGB agent in the US, revealed the goal of dividing Americans. They did a great job. It was perhaps the Frankfort School In Germany which first proposed political correctness. That was adopted by socialists and added to collectivism.

[From article]
"Collective guilt is a notion that is so laser-focused on race, it is actually racist.
It's also anti-God because no legitimate religion preaches culpability based on race or gender. According to Hinduism and Buddhism, we each reap what we sow karmically. Christians and Jews believe in individual accountability for sins on Judgment Day."

July 20, 2011
Black Privilege
Robin of Berkeley
American Thinker

Collectivism Is Destroying American Exceptionalism

This essay did not discuss the collectivism of blame, e.g., regarding the tragic shootings in Tucson. Instead of holding the individual accountable for his evil actions they were blamed on hate speech by conservatives, mental illness, and public policy toward access to guns. A corollary is that benefits, e.g., government protection and financial aid are allocated based on membership in groups. Some groups are favored over others. Members of favored groups get protection and benefits. Others do not.

http://biggovernment.com/jdunetz/2011/01/20/collectivism-the-loss-of-individual-power-and-the-future-of-america/

Collectivism, the Loss of Individual Power and the Future of America
by Jeff Dunetz
BigGovernment.com
January 20, 2011

Cambridge, MA, the Un-Community


This writer is correct. In Cambridge there is no support for individuals by other individuals. The city is dominated by academics who are the most competitive humans on earth. They thrive and delight in another's suffering. Collectivism rules in Cambridge and other cities. If you are a member of a group of preferred victims you may get support. But if not you are ignored and the predators are free to devour. Look to the successes of the Amish and Mennonite communities. They support each other unlike the secular humanists in Cambridge.

http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x1593365603/Guest-commentary-Community-is-ultimate-answer-to-recession-malaise

Guest commentary: Community is ultimate answer to recession malaise
By Peter Pruyn
Cambridge Chronicle
Mon Mar 09, 2009, 04:00 PM EDT