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Thread ID: 17225 | Posts: 19 | Started: 2005-03-10
2005-03-10 16:51 | User Profile
[I]I really can't comprehend how Vdare, who once ran Sam Francis' brilliant commentary and continues to run Paul Craig Roberts' commentaries, could lower itself to run the despicable non-White neocon fool Michelle Malkin. I can't support Vdare at all when they offer up a dish of steaming doo-doo like this column below, and I can't understand what they find in her shilling commentary that benefits what Vdare supposedly stands for.
The grotesque rationalization of an obvious hit and subsequent death because Ms Sgrena happens to write for a Communist paper is way too much for me to accpet and right up Freak Republic's alley-hole of applauding wanton slaughter......as long as someone else is doing the slaughter, of course.
If Malkin's scrawny ass ever had the fortitude to match her big mouth, maybe she should make her way over to Iraq and find out the true facts on the ground. Yea, she might get herself kidnapped and she might need her country to negotiate for her release.....or would she say, "I'll show you how a Filipino dies!"[/I]
[B]The Ransom Of The Red Reporter[/B] By Michelle Malkin [url]http://www.vdare.com/malkin/050308_reporter.htm[/url]
International furor over Giuliana Sgrena, an Italian communist writer who claims American troops in Iraq may have deliberately shot at her car after being released by kidnappers, misses the bigger scandal.
The scandal is not that an anti-war propagandist has accused the U.S. of targeting journalists.
Thatââ¬â¢s par for the course. (Yes, hello again, Eason Jordan.)
The scandal is not that mainstream media sympathizers are blaming our military and dredging up every last shooting accident along the treacherous routes to Baghdad Airport.
Again, no surprise here.
The scandal is that Italyââ¬âour reputed ally in the global War on Terrorââ¬ânegotiated with Sgrenaââ¬â¢s Islamist kidnappers and may have forked over a massive ransom to cutthroats for Sgrenaââ¬â¢s release.
Where is the uproar over this Islamist insurgency subsidy plan?
Iraqi politician Younadem Kana told Belgian state TV that he had "non-official" information that Italy paid the terrorists $1 million in tribute. The Washington Times, citing the Italian newspaper La Stampa, pinned the ransom figure at $6 million. Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reported that the Italian Government forked over between $10 million $13.4 million to free Sgrena.
Whatever the final tally, itââ¬â¢s a whopping bounty that will undoubtedly come in handy for cash-hungry killers in need of spiffy new rocket-propelled grenade launchers, AK-47s, mortars, landmines, components for vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices, and recruitment fees. (To put this windfall in perspective, bear in mind that the 9/11 plot was a half-million dollar drop in the bucket for Osama bin Laden.)
Or maybe Italian advocates of this terrorist get-rich-quick scheme think the thugs will spend their money on Prada handbags and Versace couture.
Both the Italian government and members of the Iraq Islamic Army who abducted Sgrena vehemently deny that money was exchanged. Yet, even as his government was officially rebuff reports of a ransom arrangement in the Sgrena affair, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was quoted by the newspaper Il Messaggero conceding: "We have to rethink our strategy in dealing with kidnappings."
A little late for a do-over, donââ¬â¢t you think?
According to the New York Post, Lucia Annunziata, former president of Italian state television RAI, said government sources estimate Italy has paid kidnappers nearly $15 million for hostages in the past year alone. Indeed, last September, Gustavo Selva, chairman of parliament's foreign affairs committee, confirmed that two Italian aid workersââ¬âwho praised their kidnappers as ââ¬Åresistersââ¬Â--were freed after the government paid at least $1 million in cash to their Iraqi captors.
The admission came after heated denials by top government officials. Selva, auditioning Italy for a spot in the Axis of Weasels pantheon, mused at the time:
"In principle, we shouldn't give in to blackmail but this time we had to, although it's a dangerous path to take because, obviously, it could encourage others to take hostages, either for political reasons or for criminal reasons.ââ¬Â Ransom row after Italians freed, CNN, October 4, 2004
How do you say ââ¬ÅNo duhââ¬Â in Italian?
To be fair to Italy, which continues to maintain a 3,000-troop presence in Iraq despite enormous anti-war pressure, its reported payoffs to terrorists are dwarfed by the mollycoddlers in Manila and Malaysia, who have fed Abu Sayyafââ¬â¢s head-chopping kidnappers tens of millions in tribute over the past several yearsââ¬âmoney that is now reportedly being channeled to worldwide al Qaeda operations.
Still, you would expect a country that once embraced the defiant spirit of Fabrizio Quattrochiââ¬âthe murdered Italian security guard taken hostage in Iraq last year who stoically told his assassins, ââ¬ÅIââ¬â¢m going to show you how an Italian diesââ¬Âââ¬âto resist the Quisling impulse with every fiber of its collective being.
The consequences of capitulation are bloody obvious.
When you allow your people to be used as terrorist collection plates, the thugs will keep coming back for more.
Might as well hang a sign around the neck of every Italian citizen left in Iraq:
Buon appetito.
Michelle Malkin [email her] is author of Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores. Click here for Peter Brimelowââ¬â¢s review. Click here for Michelle Malkin's website.
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2005-03-10 19:17 | User Profile
The neocons seem to have a foot in every door. It's bet-hedging at its finest, whereby they make certain that if any grassroots political movement on the right ever takes off (for instance, VDARE-stype immigration reform), they'll have their own people in the organization to hijack and subvert it. They did this on a large scale with Buckley's National Review and the "Reagan Revolution," and they are now attempting to do the same with groups like VDARE and AmRen.
The fact that Middle American News runs (or at least ran the last time I checked) Annie Coulter's column is also disconcerting.
2005-03-10 19:40 | User Profile
I assume "Malkin" is her married name? I wouldn't trust some Flip, let alone one who married a Jew.
2005-03-10 20:31 | User Profile
Perhaps I haven't been paying close enough attention, but I thought that up until this point, Brimelow had been playing it smart.
He tended to post Malkin's columns on immigration only, while posting nearly everything from PCR and Francis and Sailer which often had nothing to do with that topic.
Strategically it strikes me as effective, because for example it's allowed me to recommend Vdare to my less-aware "conservative" friends. They go there expecting to get their Malkin-fix, while in reality they were much more likely to get walloped with a dose of Francis, (RIP).
2005-03-10 21:24 | User Profile
[QUOTE=EDUMAKATEDMOFO]Perhaps I haven't been paying close enough attention, but I thought that up until this point, Brimelow had been playing it smart.
He tended to post Malkin's columns on immigration only, while posting nearly everything from PCR and Francis and Sailer which often had nothing to do with that topic.
Strategically it strikes me as effective, because for example it's allowed me to recommend Vdare to my less-aware "conservative" friends. They go there expecting to get their Malkin-fix, while in reality they were much more likely to get walloped with a dose of Francis, (RIP).[/QUOTE]
That's an interesting perspective. In other words, who is using whom in this case?
It could very well be that MANEWS runs Coulter and Brimelow runs Malkin with the hopes that some Fox News FReeper types might be tempted to look at their websites and publications, and, with any luck, learn from the higher quality material that makes up the rest of their outfits.
2005-03-10 21:30 | User Profile
[QUOTE=AntiYuppie]The neocons seem to have a foot in every door.
Yup, just like Ilana Mercer now writes for Antiwar.com and is beginning to appear in The American Conservative. How that ever happened after her tit-for-tat with Raimondo over Israel is a mystery to me.
The fact that Middle American News runs (or at least ran the last time I checked) Annie Coulter's column is also disconcerting.[/QUOTE]
M.A.N. still runs Coulter, even over my protestations on one of Jerry Woodruff's questionnaires last year, and manages to hardly ever run Sobran. Come to think of it, they never run any of Sobran's anti-zionist stuff. Same goes for Reese. Sometimes they'll run PJB's stuff on Israel....and started to for Francis before his demise. With Francis gone, I wonder what the paper's content will shift to....they'll have to run more of other columnists to fill the gaps, since Francis used to get 4-6 columns printed per issue.
2005-03-10 21:37 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Centinel]Yup, just like Ilana Mercer now writes for Antiwar.com and is beginning to appear in The American Conservative.
Ah, yes, I forgot about that one. I thought she and Justin Raimondo hated one another's guts, how on Earth did she manage to become a regular contributor there?
M.A.N. still runs Coulter, even over my protestations on one of Jerry Woodruff's questionnaire's last year, and manages to hardly ever run Sobran. Come to think of it, they never run any of Sobran's anti-zionist stuff. Same goes for Reese. Sometimes they'll run PJB's stuff on Israel....and started to for Francis before his demise. With Francis gone, I wonder what the paper's content will shift to....they'll have to run more of other columnists to fill the gaps, since Francis used to get 4-6 columns printed per issue.[/QUOTE]
The death of Francis will leave gaps in a number of publications. His column was often the first and only thing I'd read in Chronicles, and it tends to be the most substantive thing in the CofCC newsletter as well. Even though Brimelow and Paul Craig Roberts are quality writers (particularly the latter on economic issues), VDARE is a much less interesting place in his absence too. It's remarkable how one person's intellectual presence manages to hold a movement and its outlets together, and I wonder where many of these websites and publications will go in his absence. Personally, I'd rather see them disappear altogether rather than turn into neocon mouthpieces.
2005-03-11 01:23 | User Profile
I have written for a number of nationalist/populist/paleo publications and I can say that a lot of these publications are starved for writers. The one exception is CHronicles. A brilliant friend of mine took years to get regularly published there. It was like breaking into an exclusive club.
2005-03-11 08:43 | User Profile
[QUOTE=AntiYuppie]The neocons seem to have a foot in every door. It's bet-hedging at its finest, whereby they make certain that if any grassroots political movement on the right ever takes off (for instance, VDARE-stype immigration reform), they'll have their own people in the organization to hijack and subvert it. They did this on a large scale with Buckley's National Review and the "Reagan Revolution," and they are now attempting to do the same with groups like VDARE and AmRen.
The fact that Middle American News runs (or at least ran the last time I checked) Annie Coulter's column is also disconcerting.[/QUOTE]
The rule of tumb is: any organization that is not explicitly anti-Jewish will ultimately be overrun by the tribe, if need be. It wouldn't surprise me if the 'moderate' wing of the so-called WN movement (amren, CofCC etc.), ends up agitating for the "support of our white brothers in Israel who are surrounded by sand n*ggers" in the not so distant future. This is the weakness of the 'moderate' approach...
2005-03-11 10:43 | User Profile
[QUOTE=AntiYuppie] It could very well be that MANEWS runs Coulter and Brimelow runs Malkin with the hopes that some Fox News FReeper types might be tempted to look at their websites and publications, and, with any luck, learn from the higher quality material that makes up the rest of their outfits.[/QUOTE]
I think itââ¬â¢s a good idea to ââ¬Ëmuddy the watersââ¬â¢ this way with the neocons. This was one of the tactics they used to hijack the authentic conservative movement in the first place, so itââ¬â¢s only savvy for paleos to return the favor. You also have (or had?) Srdja Trifkovic writing for Horowitzââ¬â¢s Frontpagemag, Thomas Woodsââ¬â¢ recent bestseller (which the neocons were surprisingly slow to catch on to & denounce), quasi-paleo figures like Derbyshire in National Review and Crocker III in Crisis, etc, etc. Itââ¬â¢s certainly much better for paleoconservative ideas to penetrate the mainstream than remain ghettoized in a couple of purist publications.
2005-03-11 13:11 | User Profile
Quote AY above "The neocons seem to have a foot in every door. It's bet-hedging at its finest, whereby they make certain that if any grassroots political movement on the right ever takes off (for instance, VDARE-stype immigration reform), they'll have their own people in the organization to hijack and subvert it."
Yes, but there is more behind it, now. 1. the Judge Lefkow family killings. 2. the Italian journalist shooting. 3. The rise of Hezbollah in Lebanon. 4. John Bolton's UN appointment (where the Lebanon/Syria stand-off is headed). 5. Mueller's initiative against Al Quaida sleeper cells in the US (but: one could download "Secret FBI report says no true sleeper cells have been found in the US from ABC news 3.10) ...
The connection would be this: the need to penetrate cells of anti-neoconism, preparatory to setting them up by a staged atrocity. The knee-jerk reaction to 1. was "blame white supremacists" (corrolary: racists, extremists, refusers of their war unction), with columnists and pundits all over the place linking Matt Hale, McVeigh and Osama bin Laden (no joking: N,. Kristoff: "Homegrown Osama's" ..."they're here" NY Times 3.10) with no evidence whatever. The Lefkow killings have the stench of a composit-propaganda assassination (snipers, O.C., Basques,) pulled off "in America's heartland" in order to draw attention away, not only from that political charade, but from the real stand-offs faced by those who have put this country in the position its in. In other words, the arrow of suspicion begins to point, once again, as if swing by an unerring, undeviating gravitational beam, ... to those who benefit by equating us, on this board, and the spectrum of true American opinion it represents, if it could be heard without perversion, ... with "Islamic extremists"... and Koresh-type weirdos. Michelle Malkin is a missionary brought in to troll. Why they would let her...maybe many know the answer.
As a spectrum we are, I am convinced on many grounds, a centrist core a mile wide, a mile high and, and unfathomably deep, in my opinion. Their intent is to hollow out America's core to save the apple.
2005-03-12 17:01 | User Profile
[QUOTE=CornCod]I have written for a number of nationalist/populist/paleo publications and...[/QUOTE] On a different topic, I would love to know how many of these pubs are out there. I'm aware of the following:
Are there any others? :nerd:
2005-03-12 17:09 | User Profile
I think Malkin is very sound on the issues of immigration, racial profiling, and internment. But that's it. The fact that the Murray Rothbard-worshiping, libertarian extremists ("Libertoids") over at LewRockwell.com keep denouncing her for her defence of internment, means she can't be all bad, despite her Neocon credentials and non-white status.
2005-03-15 21:32 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Stuka]Are there any others?[/QUOTE]
[url=http://www.americanfreepress.net]American Free Press[/url] (Willis Carto's successor to The Spotlight)
[url=http://www.thenewamerican.com]The New American[/url] (The John Birch Society's magazine)
2005-03-15 21:50 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Stuka]I think Malkin is very sound on the issues of immigration, racial profiling, and internment. But that's it. The fact that the Murray Rothbard-worshiping, libertarian extremists ("Libertoids") over at LewRockwell.com keep denouncing her for her defence of internment, means she can't be all bad, despite her Neocon credentials and non-white status.[/QUOTE]
Malkin's defense of FDR's internment of Japanese during WWII as a defence to intern today's Muslims was another disgraceful rant from the mouth of a necon. Non-Whites shouldn't be in the country in the first place, nevermind imprisoning them for collective punishment because of the actions of a dozen of their brethren somewhere far away. The neocon hacks like Malkin certainly wouldn't address the disease of immigration and it's hideous origins, but get their jollys in scapegoating immigrants who shouldn't be in America to begin with. 'Treat the symptoms, ignore the disease' is neoconbabblespeak.
No, the LewRockwells are certainly right to denounce her for her defence of internment. Now, if Malkin were talking about deportations of all legal and illegal non-White immigrants.....shoot! she could even lead by example and deport herself!
2005-03-16 01:51 | User Profile
[QUOTE=xmetalhead]Now, if Malkin were talking about deportations of all legal and illegal non-White immigrants.....shoot! she could even lead by example and deport herself![/QUOTE]I always assumed that internment of the non-white settler population, or at least significant portions of it, would precede deportation. :thumbsup:
If only we could get her to buy a one-way ticket to the Philippines (or whatever Asian cesspool her people are from).
2005-03-16 04:01 | User Profile
VDARE also published a letter from some Soviet zhid emigre on its front page, blaming criminality on fake zhids who'd snuck into the US along with the zhid immigration wave.
2005-03-16 06:24 | User Profile
It's my understanding that while Raimondo is the "face" of Antiwar.com, he is not in fact the owner of the site.
2005-03-16 20:46 | User Profile
Isn't the Jewish Eric Garris the owner of antiwar.com?