Opuscula When they came for … And I did not speak out Then they came for me

I AM NOT A SUPPORTER OF “BLACK LIVES MATTER” (BLM).

Not because they don’t matter. They do. But so do ALL lives.

I am not a supporter of BLM because I see too many — far, far too many — BLM supporters who are using the movement as a front for anarchism, an excuse to abuse, destroy, and cause death.

 

I DO NOT AGREE THAT a black person cannot achieve greatness — many have.

I do not agree that our governments continue to discriminate against blacks, or Jews, or Orientals, or Latinos. Statistics, and opening the eyes, confirms that there are many blacks, Jews, etc. working in federal, state, and municipal jobs.

I do not accept that women, regardless of “color,” cannot advance in our society.

I DO believe that with diligence, hard work, and occasional encouragement, any citizen can not only aim high but arrive at a higher position in life.

I admit there are exceptions to all of the above, but in general

Discrimination

Yes, there has been discrimination. It came with the earliest European immigrants.

The Europeans, more than anyone else, came with a superior attitude, even when there was no justification for it. They did it in America. They did it on the Indian sub-continent. They did it in Africa. They did it in the Middle East.

English, Dutch, Germans, even the French and Italians left home so they could feel good about themselves, if only at the expense of others who were “different.”

Granted, most blacks in the U.S. today are descendants of slaves.

Slaves that were captured by other blacks.

Slaves that were sold to (mostly) European slavers by Muslims.

That’s history. It can be argued. But the facts will remain.

Jews faced discrimination in the U.S.

The Irish faced discrimination.

The Italians faced discrimination.

All of the above overcame, primarily through their own group efforts, discrimination.

They valued education and hard work.

They did NOT survive on welfare — government handouts were non-existent.

They went to night school, often after working a 10-hour shift, to learn English.

If the Jews, the Irish, the Italians, etc., managed to overcome discrimination, why not blacks? They have had more than enough time to overcome any discrimination.

About the only people who (still) are discriminated against in America are the natives; Indians.

White anarchists

Look at the people rioting, destroying property and injuring people.

Many are black, but count the number of white faces (most sans masks), running to destroy, to injure.

Most of the rioters are between 18 and 25 years of age.

Most are products of “progressive” parents, and many learned to hate at university.

Anarchists are not restricted to Democrat-controlled cities, but in those cities — often “sanctuary cities” — protecting citizens and their property seems to be secondary to “making a statement.”

My way or the highway

If you are not like me, even if you support my cause, you are less than me.

This is not the era of the “hippie” with flowers and love beads.

This is not an era when a person’s uniqueness is celebrated.

This is the era of mob violence; mob control.

This is the era when governments abrogate their primary responsibility: to protect the citizens.

This is the era when politicians not only sway with the prevailing winds, but bow down to those who make the most noise; common sense and reason be damned.

This is the era when privileged white “progressives” align themselves with anarchists to destroy communities. The “progressives” don’t necessarily destroy, but they protect the anarchists while they do their work.

This is the era when Black Lives Matter — ONLY black lives matter. Never mind others lives. Never mind that some blacks may not agree — they are just Oreos anyway.

This is the era when all minorities save one are the darlings of “privileged progressives.”

This is the era when JINOs condemn Israel and rally in support of the PLO/PFLP, Hamas/Islamic Jihad that are trying hard to destroy Israel — with a little help from the UN and leftist politicians.

This is the era when college and universities compete to see what institution can teach that democracy is the bane of the world; that Marxism is the panacea for all the world’s ills.

This is the era when history is rewritten; Santayana’s comment about history forgotten will someday come to haunt these revisionists.

This is the era when civility disappeared; few hear and fewer listen. Eyes that do not see; ears that do not hear.

This is the era of entitlement and privilege.

This is the era of my embarrassment.

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Opuscula Leftists, Indians, And the PLO

WHY IS IT LEFTISTS IN THE U.S. tell Israel to let the PLO terrorists return to Israel yet they say nothing about American Indians.

*   The United States stole land from the American Indians.

*   The United States repeatedly lied to the American Indians.

*   The United States forced the American Indians into ghettos.

*   The United States forced the American Indians to give up their languages.

By contrast, MOST of the so-called “Palestinians” left Israel on instruction from their religious leadership and Muslim politicians. (True, some were forced out in fear they would be a “fifth column” within Israel.)

With the exception of Manhattan New York, allegedly “sold” to the Europeans for a bunch of trinkets, all the land on which the American Indians lived was taken from them by force.

One of the worst cases was the forced relocation of Cherokee Indians from their ancestral home in Georgia and force marched to the west.

The Cherokee had an established government, a written language – yet, because some European though there was gold under the land, the U.S. Army marched men, women, and children across the country.^{1, 2}

 


Partial Trail of Tears Map Source: Britannica.com http://tinyurl.com/y638ppdy

 

This was in preparation for Democrat Franklin Roosevelt’s forced internment of Japanese-Americans and a few Germans and Italians during World War 2.

American Indians in the western states were promised land where they could live and hunt in exchange for being pushed off their ancestral lands so Europeans could build cities and fence off land for their own use.

Not only were the Indians driven off their lands, but the settlers hated the people from whom they stole the land. Because they were not Europeans, the native Americans were considered savages and sub-human to be killed as animals.

Unfortunately for the Indians, wealth was discovered on the land the U.S. promised them and they were forced to move again, this time to smaller reservations. Good Christians forced the Indians to abandon their religion and language in favor of the invaders’ religion and language. The government also forced the Indians to go on the dole, and then often cheated them of what little the government had promised.

The American Indians did not provoke war with the Europeans until the Europeans attempted to deprive them of their land.

 

BY COMPARISON

 

In Israel, Jews, and non-Jews, i.e. Muslims, Christians, and sundry others, have equal freedom. While there ARE communities based on religion or ethnicity, these primarily are voluntarily populated by like-minded people. That is human nature.

The Muslims living under PLO rule are taught to hate Israelis specifically and Jews generally, and to a lesser extant, anyone who is not Muslim. PLO Muslims face the death penalaty for selling land to a Jew; not so in Israel. Jews in Israel are not taught hatred, at least not by the government.

I briefly taught school in Zefat in northern Israel.
Some Muslims who fled Israel, due to fear or by encouragement from Muslim religious or political leaders, ended up in UN-sponsored welfare camps. Muslims who wanted to leave a camp, could leave a camp, unlike the American Indians who were hunted down if they escaped from the reservation.

PLO Muslims can travel wherever they are welcome, via Israel air and sea ports or via Jordan or Egypt — when Egypt allows Muslims in Gaza to cross its border, closed more often to them that Israel’s border.

Most American Indians, contrary to tv westerns, did not attack European settlers, unlike the Muslims of the PLO and Gaza who believe dying while killing a Jew will gain for them 70 virgins. (I never figured out what a female martyr can expect.)

 

TIME FOR LEFTIST TO LOOK INWARD

 

It’s time for America’s leftists to look at their own country.

Is everything so perfect here that they have to demonize Israel?

And why only Israel? The rest of the world if fine? What about Somalia (and Boko Haram). What about ISIS (by any name) and the Islamic Brotherhood that attack indiscriminately around the world? What about the lack of freedoms in Saudi Arabia, China, and North Korea, to name just three countries notorious for their abuse of American-style civil rights?

America’s liberals can’t see because of the mote in one eye and myopia in the other.

Leftists — work to make America a better country for ALL Americans.

Take time out from bashing Israel and Donald Trump.

If you want to live in America, work to improve life for all Americans; once America is perfected, THEN go on to other countries.

On the other hand, if you don’t CARE about America, leave.

Move to a country where the PLO is in charge. Move to Saudi Arabia or China or even North Korea. You can emigrate to Europe for socialized medicine (and take Bernie Sanders with you, he is, after all, a socialist).

The border is open for all leftists who loudly bawled “If Trump is elected, I’ll leave the country.” No one is stopping you.

The Democrat darling with feet of clay, John Kennedy, admonished Americans to ask what they could do for their country.

His call for action is valid even today.

What I fail to comprehend is why the leftists prefer to attack Israel and, with the likes of Ilhan Omar in Congress, American Jews.

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. Martin Niemöller (http://tinyurl.com/yaj53q57)

 


Trail of Tears Map Source: Britannica.com http://tinyurl.com/y638ppdy

 

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Sources

1. A Brief History of the Trail of Tears
http://tinyurl.com/y2qt8o7y

2. Trail of Tears http://tinyurl.com/yasfag62

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