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I’m thinking along the lines of Jonah Goldberg’s “Liberal Fascism”: We won’t see the vicious purges, the assassinations, the executions of the useful idiots, a la Lenin’s Russia and Hitler’s Germany. These guys are much more subtle than that.

These guys are about centralizing power. It’s total tyranny, but without the blood and the bodies in the streets. They use the useful idiots to assume power, and then to solidify their power. Those of us who see what is happening struggle against it – and let’s assume we lose. We then become victims of the tyrannical and entrenched oligarchy.

And what happens to the useful idiots then? Not blood and bodies in the streets. No… they are simply discarded, and to their dismay, they find themselves powerless, cast in the same victim role that the rest of us find ourselves in.

The argument for the blood and the bodies in the street – from Lenin and Hitler – is that the useful idiots are dangerous once they find that they’ve been discarded. Their disappointment and rage, and subsequent rebellion, can bring down the new tyrannical regime. That’s why Lenin and Hitler assaulted them once power had been solidified. Their supporters in the universities disappeared. The lucky ones were simply dismissed; many others ended up disappeared six feet under with bullet holes into the head.

Can’t really see that happening here. I don’t even see the dismissals coming. It’s a dangerous tightrope for the Obamacons to walk. They have to rely on “soft power” of their allies in the media to obscure the truth; they have to be able to point to continued progress on Statist fronts to keep their intellectual Statist elites from grumbling (too loudly). The obfuscation of the media (“Nothing to see here, move along, go home, be quiet”) should be enough to keep their Statist useful idiots from rising in rebellion.

They simply need to keep the lid on the boiling pot while they remake American society into one where the individual disappears, where all power and money flow into the national government to then be parcelled out in a manner that strengthens their power bases while advancing their agenda.

April 15th is a big day for us. Please consider joining your local Tea Party Protest. Bring a sign if you can. Be prepared with two or three main short, concise talking points in case anyone asks you. Make friends, talk to each other!

April 15th is a big day.

When that happens, there will be a great smile on my face, for finally, somebody if not the boss at the top, has just got what was coming to them.

Congratulations to all vote-getters in this week’s rigorous competition! Winning Council Submissions First place with 3 points! – Joshuapundit – What Netanyahu Should Say About Peace To The Arab World Second place with 2 points – Soccer Dad – If……

Council submissions are up. And it is quite a good week. I will be changing my mind about what to vote for quite a few times. Rethinking the Federal Reserve – The Provocateur agrees with an article in the nation that we need to change the way that the …

Here’s this week links: * The Provocateur – Rethinking the Federal Reserve * Joshuapundit – What Netanyahu Should Say About Peace To The Arab World * The Razor – The Great Academic Swindle * The Glittering Eye – Portrait of……

The ‘silent jihad’ is practiced by the MSM – the rest of us hear it loud and clear.

http://www.chronwatch-america.com/blogs/964/Sharia-Banking–The-Silent-Jihad-Against-the-West.html

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/25/banks-are-helping-sharia-make-a-back-door-entrance/

Here’s a little something that the NYT won’t be covering either anytime soon.
If I am not mistaken, isn’t this the same state where 20 Somalis are ‘missing’ and believe to be now active Jihadists ‘somewhere’.

Mortgage Madness

By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Wednesday, March 11, 2009 4:20 PM PT

Politics: Minnesota is offering a program to Muslims who want to buy a home but don’t want to break their religion’s laws about interest. Where are the civil libertarians who want to keep church and state separated?

The Minnesota program, the first in the nation, will be administered by the state’s housing agency, which will buy homes, with taxpayers’ dollars, and resell them at higher prices to Muslim buyers.

To circumvent Islamic Shariah law, which, we’re told, forbids Muslims from buying or selling loans that charge interest, the transaction will have higher up-front costs, including the amount of interest that would have been charged over the life of the loan.

This is a clear mixing of religion and state, which runs afoul of the Constitution and should incite the American Civil Liberties Union to launch a complaint and file a lawsuit. Yet we’ve seen no word from the group that recently filed a lawsuit against a Muslim, mosque-based charter school that takes public funds.

Is the organization acting cautiously, afraid to anger a group whose more enraged members have gained a reputation for taking advantage of our politically correct culture and bullying officials to get their way? Have ACLU leaders lost their nerve, fearful activists will target them? They’ve already seen Minnesota officials, who, when pushed by activists demanding preferential treatment for Muslims, agreed to provide foot-washing facilities on the campuses of several universities.

Surely if the Minnesota home-buying program — called Murabaha financing — were reserved for only Christians or Jews, the ACLU would have roared by now.

But it hasn’t. If this lack of interest goes on, someone else needs to take up the cause. It’s not within the legitimate duties of government to ensure that members of certain religions can buy homes.

The private sector, however, is under no such restrictions. It’s free to offer Shariah-compliant loans and will do so if there’s a demand.

So far, though, only a few U.S. lenders make the loans. That’s not evidence of market failure nor a compelling reason for government to meddle in the market or ruin a good business opportunity. It’s simply evidence of a weak, or possibly burgeoning, market.

The economy is troubled because policymakers have subsidized a politically favored group of homebuyers and skewed the housing market.

While financing homes for a few thousand Minnesota Muslims won’t kill the economy, the program isn’t likely to be limited to only that state for long. Political correctness and lawmakers’ eagerness to appear “tolerant” drive much public policy, while the hard-earned lessons of the past and present go unheeded.

“The libels on me and their easily traceable email trails show conclusively that there is a powerful lobby determined to prevent any view other than its own from being aired, still less to factor in American understanding of trends and events in the Middle East. The tactics of the Israel Lobby plumb the depths of dishonor and indecency and include character assassination, selective misquotation, the willful distortion of the record, the fabrication of falsehoods, and an utter disregard for the truth. The aim of this Lobby is control of the policy process through the exercise of a veto over the appointment of people who dispute the wisdom of its views, the substitution of political correctness for analysis, and the exclusion of any and all options for decision by Americans and our government other than those that it favors.”

His behavior reminds me of the “White Period” that the 7-year-old son of one of my friends went through years ago. During the “White Period,” Evan would only eat white food—rice, white bread, macaroni, milk, white cheese, etc. Trying to get him to eat something else only evinced panic.

It would be interesting to see the panic in Mr. Book’s eyes were you to suggest he read something like the New Criterion or National Review, or, heck, even the Wall Street Journal.