Trump's Moscow Declaration?

The USA Today reported:[1]

“In a departure from predecessors on both sides of the political aisle, President Trump’s statement Friday marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day did not mention the deaths of six million Jews — a lapse the head of the Anti-Defamation League called ‘puzzling and troubling.’ In the three-paragraph statement Friday, Trump said:

“‘It is with a heavy heart and somber mind that we remember and honor the victims, survivors, heroes of the Holocaust. It is impossible to fully fathom the depravity and horror inflicted on innocent people by Nazi terror. Yet, we know that in the darkest hours of humanity, light shines the brightest.? As we remember those who died, we are deeply grateful to those who risked their lives to save the innocent... In the name of the perished, I pledge to do everything in my power throughout my Presidency, and my life, to ensure that the forces of evil never again defeat the powers of good... Together, we will make love and tolerance prevalent throughout the world.’”

New Anti-Defamation League chieftain Jonathan Greenblatt was incensed – and we’re not taking about mugmar.

“The White House statement with Trump’s remarks ‘misses that it was six million Jews who perished, not just innocent people,’ tweeted Jonathan Greenblatt, national director of the ADL shortly after the comments were released. ‘Puzzling and troubling’ that it ‘has no mention of Jews,’ Greenblatt added in a follow up tweet.”[2]

It’s interesting, however, that an official condemnation of “Nazi atrocities” – released as World War Two was unfolding – also makes no mention of the Jews.

In the Joint Four-Nation Declaration penned during the Moscow Conference (Oct. 1943), the “Statement on Atrocities” reads thus:[3]

“The United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union have received from many quarters evidence of atrocities, massacres and cold-blooded mass executions which are being perpetrated by Hitlerite forces in many of the countries they have overrun and from which they are now being steadily expelled. The brutalities of Nazi domination are no new thing, and all peoples or territories in their grip have suffered from the worst form of government by terror. What is new is that many of the territories are now being redeemed by the advancing armies of the advancing armies of the liberating powers, and that in their desperation the recoiling Hitlerites and Huns are redoubling their ruthless cruelties. This is now evidenced with particular clearness by monstrous crimes on the territory of the Soviet Union which is being liberated from Hitlerites, and on French and Italian territory.

“Accordingly, the aforesaid three Allied powers, speaking in the interest of the thirty-two United Nations, hereby solemnly declare and give full warning of their declaration as follows:

“At the time of granting of any armistice to any government which may be set up in Germany, those German officers and men and members of the Nazi party who have been responsible for or have taken a consenting part in the above atrocities, massacres and executions will be sent back to the countries in which their abominable deeds were done in order that they may be judged and punished according to the laws of these liberated countries and of free governments which will be erected therein. Lists will be compiled in all possible detail from all these countries having regard especially to invaded parts of the Soviet Union, to Poland and Czechoslovakia, to Yugoslavia and Greece including Crete and other islands, to Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Italy.

“Thus, Germans who take part in wholesale shooting of Polish officers or in the execution of French, Dutch, Belgian or Norwegian hostages of Cretan peasants, or who have shared in slaughters inflicted on the people of Poland or in territories of the Soviet Union which are now being swept clear of the enemy, will know they will be brought back to the scene of their crimes and judged on the spot by the peoples whom they have outraged.

“Let those who have hitherto not imbrued their hands with innocent blood beware lest they join the ranks of the guilty, for most assuredly the three Allied powers will pursue them to the uttermost ends of the earth and will deliver them to their accusors in order that justice may be done.

“The above declaration is without prejudice to the case of German criminals whose offenses have no particular geographical localization and who will be punished by joint decision of the government of the Allies.”

“Signed by President [Franklin D.] Roosevelt [FDR], Prime Minister [Winston] Churchill and Premier [Joseph] Stalin.”

Oy vey! According to the Israel-based newspaper Haaretz: “Mass killings of Jews became commonplace following the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941.”[4] Late political scientist Raul Hilberg, writing in his supposedly “definitive,” multivolume The Destruction of the European Jews, claims that “2,600,000” Jews were killed in 1942.[5]

It’s also “puzzling” then, that in this wartime statement from 1943, we find “no mention of Jews” either.

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[1] David Gibson, “Trump Fails to Mention Jews in Holocaust Remembrance Statement,” Religion News Service via USA Today, Jan. 27, 2017, <http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/01/27/trump-fails-mention-jews-holocaust-remembrance-statement/97150252/>.

[2] Ibid. It also fails to mention the holocausts of Germans at Dresden and of Japanese at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. For more on unmentioned holocaust, see Michael A. Hoffman II, “The World War Two Revisionist FAQ,” Revisionist History, <http://www.revisionisthistory.org/revisionist4.html>.

[3] A Decade of American Foriegn Policy: Basic Documents, 1941-49, Prepared at the request of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations By the Staff of the Committe and the Department of State, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1950; reproduced online as “The Moscow Conference; October 1943,” The Avalon Project, Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale University, 2008, <http://avalon.law.yale.edu/wwii/moscow.asp>.

[4] “When Did the Holocaust Begin?” Haaretz, Feb. 17, 2014, <http://www.haaretz.com/1.574739>.

[5] Raul Hilberg, “Deaths by Year,” Table B-3, The Destruction of the European Jews, 3rd Ed., Vol. 3, New Haven, Conn. and London, Yale University Press, 2003, p. 1321, <https://books.google.com/books?id=HinIpmliz2MC&pg=PA1321>.

Here’s Why We Celebrate Today

Here’s Why We Celebrate Today:

Answering John Pavlovitz in Kind[1]

by Tom Carlyle, Jr.

I don’t think you understand us right now.

I think you think that we think that this is about politics.

I think you believe this is all just gloating; the “trash-talk” of the winning locker room with the scoreboard going for us after the buzzer.

I can only tell you that you’re wrong. This is not about winning an election.

This is about two very different ways of seeing the world.

Trump supporters are opposed to the cult of diversity – the “multi-cult” – one effect of which, if its evangelists have their way, would be to reduce the majority ethnic group in the United States to a minority. The multi-cultists treat opposition to this program as a moral defect, an oddity given their proclivity towards ethical relativism.

Multi-cultists insincerely advance the notion that religion or skin color or sexual orientation or place of birth aren’t liabilities or deficiencies or moral defects.

Their insincerity becomes clear when one realizes that certain varieties of “religion” are indeed treated as “liabilities or deficiencies or moral defects.” This fact is obvious to anyone who listens to left-liberal rants directed against supposedly “bigoted” Christians - Christians who have the temerity to adhere to doctrines (for example regarding the sanctity of life and of sexuality) that have been staples of their faith since its inception.

Their insincerity is plain in the myriad tirades that employ phrases such as “white and straight and Christian” as though that description were indeed expressive of a set of liabilities and defects.

Trump supporters believed that Hillary’s campaign, while posturing itself as one of inclusion and connection and interdependency, was simply the latest battle against forces aiming to enfeeble American nationalism, replace historic Christianity with a theologically liberal simulacrum, and undermine the white majority of this country (or, rather, to induce it to undermine itself).

Trump supporters believe in preserving the cultural and ethnic heritage of America.

Although it is impolitic to state this overtly, the voting verified it. Trump ran a campaign based upon the truism that the continuation of unrestricted immigration – whether illegal or legal – will, sooner or later, render Anglo-European, working-class Americans a minority in the country their forefathers founded.

Donald Trump has never made any assertions otherwise. And that’s the vision of the world those who voted for him have opposed.

They have aligned against the email-“deleter,” rapist-defender, and turn-coat white, and they have repudiated the countless misdeeds on her criminal rap sheet:

Every scandal from Chinagate, Whitewater and the strange death of Vince Foster, to Filegate and Emailgate.

Every profanity-laced altercation with individuals, including members of her own staff (covered up or otherwise ignored by the press).

Every piece of pro-sodomy and pro-infanticide legislation she has championed.

Half of our country has declared these things unacceptable, ignoble, and anti-American.

This is the disconnect and the source of ourcelebration today. It isn’t a political victory that we’re lamenting, it’s a victory for Humanity – including the innumerable female “fetuses,” murdered in their own mothers’ wombs, who do not fall under the “protection” of the self-proclaimed “champion for women.”

We’re not happy that our candidate won. We’re relieved because your candidate’s losing means this country will hopefully be safer for the unborn and the born, more focused upon kindness (that is, concern for our own kind), and less apt to cater to minority segments of its population at the expense of the majority’s vital interests and welfare. And that’s just the truth.

Those who have been called “deplorable” have voted to taken their country back. Those rural voices have refused to remain silenced and will not be further quieted. Those who have been marginalized by minority interests and turn-coat white liberals will not be pushed further to the periphery. Those who are routinely demeaned as “uneducated” and inferior now have confirmation in actual percentages.

Those things have essentially been campaign promises of Donald Trump, and so many of our fellow citizens have said this is what they want too.

This has never been about politics.

This is not about one candidate over the other.

It is not blue vs. red.

It’s not her dishonesty vs. his bad language.

It’s about covert Communism and hostility toward country folk.

It’s about religion being liberalized.

It’s about disregard for yeoman whites.

It’s about a nation of borders.

It’s about America for historic Americans.

It’s about not giving up our heritage to globalists and their shills (like Hillary Clinton).

And it is not only that these things have been ratified by our nation that give us cause to celebrate; it’s knowing that these things have been “amen”-ed by our neighbors, our families, our friends, those we work with and worship alongside. That is the most validating thing of all. We now know how close this is.

It no longer feels like living in enemy territory being here now. We refuse to wake up tomorrow in a home we no longer recognize. We are celebrating the dodging of a multi-cult bullet. This may have been the America of Obama and his legions of doting fanatics, but it is not the America we believe in or recognize or want.

This is not about a difference of political opinion, as that’s far too small to mourn over. It’s about a fundamental difference in how we make judgments about morality.

As a nation we took the opportunity to affirm the beauty of our heritage, to choose tradition over Pollyanna, multi-cult maxims invoking “tolerance.”

The Scriptures say: “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” (2 Chronicles 7:14, New Intl. Vers.)

We believe that true humility and repentance are impossible – collectively – so long as we wink at evils such as the murder of millions of babies in utero or the expansion of a global neo-liberal empire under the misnomer “spreading democracy” or the institutionalization of the sin of sodomy masked by euphemisms like “gay marriage.”

While Trump is no Jesus Christ, the movement that seems to have crystallized around him seeks to push back against these grave evils.

And this is why we celebrate.

(For the original article, to which this piece is a response, see: http://johnpavlovitz.com/2016/11/09/heres-why-we-grieve-today/.)

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[1] This post draws from, and is a reply to, John Pavlovitz, “Here’s Why We Grieve Today,” [personal website], November 9, 2016, http://johnpavlovitz.com/2016/11/09/heres-why-we-grieve-today/.

Muslims Played a Significant Role in U.S. History?

Reaction to Stuart Jeffries’s article “The Muslims Who Shaped America – From Brain Surgeons to Rappers.”[1]

The handful of names turned up by Stuart Jeffries is statistically insignificant. Mr. Jeffries has not managed to marshal anything close to a damning indictment of the supposed ignorance of Donald Trump regarding the issue of Muslims-in-America.

Relevantly, a quick-and-dirty search turned up the interesting information that the alleged Islamic affiliation of the Revolutionary-era persons mentioned in the Guardian's article is questionable. The Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History states that "...Bampett Muhamed; Yusuf Ben Ali, whose slave name was Joseph Benhaley; Salem Poor; and Peter Salem, whose slave name was Peter Buckminister" are listed as "four Americans who may have been Muslim".[2]

The author goes on to note: "Much of the research on Muslims in the military [in the relevant period] depends on identifying Muslim last names. This does not guarantee that the bearer was a Muslim, since some may have converted to Christianity or have had no religious beliefs."[3]

Of course, it is possible that at least one of the people named was a Muslim. In passing, however, I note that in other contexts, researchers run the risk of being labeled "anti-Semitic" for alleging that persons are adherents of Judaism merely on the basis of their possession of "Jewish-sounding names." At least part of the reason to object to such onomatological inferences might be that names alone do not entail that their possessor's subscribe to particular faith-professions. However, if this is correct, then it ought to generalize to the present cases.

Given the level of uncertainty concerning these individuals' alleged Islamic connections, it is irresponsible of the Guardian to represent these conjectures as established fact.

In any event, With the obvious exception of Cassius Clay, Jr. (alias "Muhammad Ali," who was of course born in the U.S. and only converted to Islam), the remainder of the immigrants cited by the article[4] do not seem to me to impel one to endorse the anything like a more-or-less "open door policy" for people seeking exit from Islamic countries.

It might be prudentially justifiable for the U.S. to try to encourage "brain drain" emigration in particular, carefully-chosen instances. This would demand, however, that citizenship applicants be able to demonstrate themselves to be of the caliber of the engineers and neurosurgeon spotlighted.

The idea that without the scattered persons named “the country would be a much poorer place” has hardly been established.

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[1] Guardian [U.K.], Dec. 8, 2015, <http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/08/donald-trump-famous-muslims-us-history>.

[2] Edward E. Curtis, Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History, New York: Facts on File; Infobase Publishing, 2010, p. 561; emphasis supplied; archived online at <https://books.google.com/books?id=owZCMZpYamMC&pg=PA561>.

[3] Ibid.

[4] The “rapper”-angle is too foolish to warrant much by way of comment.

'A Turnout Battle' For or Against the Multi-Cult

Rolling Stones writer Matt Taibbi has to reconfirm his liberal bona fides. His earlier efforts have grown stale.

Taibbi's anti-Catholic screed "The 52 Funniest Things About The Upcoming Death of The Pope" (New York Press, Mar. 9, 2005) has been pulled down and can now only be found in the dark recesses of Internet archives.

He cannot be expected to write a sequel to The Exile: Sex, Drugs and Libel in the New Russia (with Mark Ames, New York: Grove Press, 2000) now that he has (presumably) quit using H.

Ever since his criticisms of the investment firm Goldman Sachs were construed as "anti-Semitic," Taibbi might even have been facing banishment from Starbucks.

This has all of the makings of a serious crisis for a "progressive" like Taibbi.

What to do?

The most obvious starting point, for a loathsome anti-traditionalists of his ilk, is anti-white invective.

His latest establishment screed ("The Republicans Are Now Officially the Party of White Paranoia," Rolling Stone, Sept. 4, 2015) can be summarized in two sentences.

The upcoming national elections will plausibly be, as Taibbi writes, "a turnout battle between people who believe in a multicultural vision for the country, and those who don't." The remainder of his text is merely a sustained deprecation of "those who don't."

Most of his words are therefore unworthy of serious attention, let alone a response.

After all, what can be the reply to such as Taibbi when their tirades barely rate as the intellectual equivalents of schoolyard "raspberries"? The best his audience can do, perhaps, is to shield their faces from his rancid spittle.

Concerning the one sentence that he managed to type lucidly, however, I pray that it would serve as a rallying cry for those who are too cowed to speak plainly.

Unless your vision for national rejuvenation involves airplanes full of Africans, boatloads of Arab immigrants and semi-trucks full of Mexicans unloading their passengers to a HUD house near you, then I suggest that you line up on the side of "those that don't" want to follow Nimrod's doomed building plan and that you not stand by while Europe and the United States are being possessed by the spirit of the Tower of Babel.

"From one man he [i.e. God] made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands." (The Book of Acts, the Bible, chapter 17, verse 26; New International Version.)