Communism accomplished one thing that was truly unique. They managed the only white countries on earth that managed to live like third worlders. While Japan and Germany got from desperation to American living standards, Russia and China managed to remain completely stagnant. Today Communist Mozambique has managed a feat once thought impossible: they actually have a living standard as low as that of HAITI!

I believe The Comedians, with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor was the only movie I have ever seen which actually showed third-world reality without the whole movie being devoted to showing the CIA or white men in coats and ties were responsible. The movie, even with Peter Ustinov and Alec Guinness, was a total box office flop.

No one noticed that Ethiopian children were starving, not because of white men in coats and ties, but because the ample food supplies being sent were blocked by Communists and stolen by locals.

The bottom line is that no one CARES about starving Ethiopian children or starving Haitians. If they did they would be raising hell about the Communist blockade of Ethiopia and about the stealing of children’s food locally, because you can’t do anything about it THERE as long as these things are in place.

But, just as Futurology has nothing to do with the future, Food for Children seldom has anything to do with starving children. They are not doing anything that happens THERE. The promoters are HERE, just as Futurology has no interest in the future, its job is to get publish NOW, to become famous NOW, to become Futurology Experts NOW.

As long as children keep starving in Ethiopia, you can raise huge amounts of money HERE. Those who blockade and steal the food keep the money-raisers in cash and get a lot of fame for those who want a fashionable cause to push.

Money is not the only, or even the main payoff starving black children provide. Jane Fonda talked about “starving children in upstate South Carolina.” She doesn’t even know what starvation IS. No one really criticizes her for this, because it makes no difference HERE. She is using the standard word “starvation” to push her political agenda and everybody knows it.

And no one CARES what it really is THERE.

Haiti is one of the very, very few countries on earth which has managed to routinely STARVE its children with no outside aid. As in Ethiopia no matter how much aid you pour in it is the LOCALS who will get their share before any of it gets to anybody poor.

In fact, when it comes to actual starvation, only pure imperialism can possibly work. And it is “imperialism” that the local authorities use to be sure THEY get the stuff first. It is a classic Catch-22: a country is going to have starving children if the locals are stupid, greedy, merciless and all the things you are not allowed to say about third world countries.

Compared to avoiding saying things you shouldn’t say, starving children mean nothing at all.

One of these days I am going to see a bad Communist on TV.

Maybe.

I have seen villages after The People’s Friends got through with them. I have seen what is left of men they captured. I have never seen either on TV.

One American woman got into trouble in South America. She was wearing a fashionable tee-shirt with Chinese written on it, and it never occurred to her that Latin American peasants in the back country would recognize a Chinese slogan popular — and unrecognized — in Yuppie San Francisco.

They had seen it before. It was carried by the Shining Path guerrillas, a Progressive Socialist group down there.

Americans tend to idolize law-breakers like John Dillinger and Bonnie and Clyde, so the left uses this lawless tendency to advertise Shining Path and Che Guevara. But John Dillinger only killed one person and that was accidental. Che was a little different.

As with Lenin and Trotsky, also worshiped by our left, Che loudly proclaimed and practiced “Terrorism,” mass killings, torture to an extent you don’t want to hear about. They would call Dillinger and even Bonnie and Clyde “bourgeois,” as in bourgeois thinking.”

Communism sees all income distribution as a “political matter.” Anyone who has anything stole it from someone else. The is no other consideration. Not only is religion the Opiate of the Masses, but every value which takes one mind off the Objective Goal is a diversion from Reality. As with the Inquisition, mercy is such a diversion.

The Church said that mercy got in the way of Mercy. Burn ‘em SLOW so they learned what the flames of Hell were like, use fire to save them from the hotter and Eternal fire. The Communists had no ideas that fanatics had not practiced earlier. And Nazis had no ideas that were not already in action among Communists.

Institutions are always alike, because they compete with each other. Every institutions sees things like simple mercy or simple truth as delusions, EVIL delusions. For the Church they came from the Devil. For Nazis they came from Jews, for Communists they are the product of the bourgeoisie.

When sadists unleash this kind of “morality” on Latin Americans, they recognize the Chinese phrase that came with it.

It is usually said that the court protects our constitutional rights. This is the major argument that has led us to the point that, today, the Court IS the Constitution. As a matter of fact the United States its free speech crisis before Marshall became Chief Justice, and Marshall in 1801 began, timidly, the process of making the Court into the Constitution.

It should be particularly important toe the dozen or so American who actually know our history that the British courts, in the case of hate crimes, have reinstituted the doctrine of “The truth is no defense.” That was the theme of the last Federalist Congress in the two years of the Alien and Sedition Acts.

That crisis is also familiar for us today. American feared the Terror of the French Revolution. In 1798 the Federalists won a huge victory in congressional election because Jefferson’s Republicans showed hostility to Britain and accommodation to the French.

With its overwhelming majority President Adams and his Federalists passed the Alien and Sedition Acts which put Jefferson and all opposition under threat of imprisonment. This was an attempt to keep any real opposition party. It almost succeeded.

Criticism of Federalist policy became a crime. It was a Gag Law. No one knew exactly what violated the law until one was arrested.

Above all, the opposition could not tell the truth. Truth was not a defense. Truth is, after all, all an opposition has to fight with. It is not coincidental that people in power want truth to be no defense. If truth is a defense, you KNOW what you CAN say.

So in 1799 hundreds of opposition were put in prison. In response to French Terror, we had our own Terror.

Sound familiar?

Another note that would be familiar in Britain today was that the courts not only didn’t defend the Constitution, they ruled that the truth did not matter, they ruled that what DID matter was giving offense, truthfully or untruthfully, to a certain group of people. That certain group of people in 1799 was public officials rather than minorities but the principle was exactly the same.

Today any inconvenient truth is racism, just as the excuse then was that truth was anti-government.

The Alien and Sedition Acts were a combination of Bush’s War on Terror and liberal Hate Laws.

The gag laws did not work. But it was the PEOPLE who reversed them. In 1800, largely because the Federalists had demonstrated that they were as despotic as the most extreme Republican had claimed, were defeated overwhelmingly for the presidency as well as congress.

After the Alien and Sedition Acts, the Federalists got less votes at every election until they soon ceased to exist. Their last office holder was Chief Justice Marshall, appointed by Adams as he left office in 1801. One of the architects of the Alien and Sedition Acts became Chief Justice.

When Marshall took over the Court, all its members had been appointed by Federalists and all of them supported the Alien and Sedition Acts. They began, timidly at first, to rule that the court was there to keep the voters in line. There were seven of them then.

Those seven men faced an electorate which totally rejected unchallenged rule by the oligarchy represented by the Federalists. Congress and President Jefferson were, specifically, against the idea that the truth was no defense. In 1801 every member of the Court was for it.

The Court began to slowly to extend its power under Marshall’s leadership.

Then as now, the Court began to use its power for the powers that be and against the people.

I have noticed that leftists tried to reply to one of our commenters using the Mantra. Their reply was that Mantra users were, thought they don’t say it, stealing THEIR thunder. We are “exploiters claiming victim status.”

If you don’t know Marxists theology well, the idea that white non-whites cannot be racist puzzles you. That is, in your terms, a racist concept. But Marxism looks at the world entirely in victim versus exploiter terms. When it comes to race, only one group can be exploiters.

“The distribution of income, said Marx, “is a POLITICAL question.” It is an outstanding fact of Marxist thought that there is no such thing as economics. In Marxism there is no such thing as race relations. There is only exploited and exploiters. There is ONLY exploitation.

They are painfully aware that when the Soviet Empire’s people realize that THEY were being exploited and shot by the Communists, the whole thing collapsed. You would think that the hungry, terrorized people under the Reds would have realized that, but they had to wait for a sign of the State weakening before the balloon exploded.

Leftists did not realize it was balloon. That explosion is not forgotten. You would think whites would long since have realized they are set up for extermination, but that is what respectable conservatives are for. When it comes to exterminating whites by “assimilation” conservatives are in perfect Solidarity with their liberal icons.

Leftists said that the Mantra “sickened” them because it was exploiters claiming to be victims. But they did not challenge its truth. Exploiters are to be destroyed. Non-whites cannot be racists. Therefore whites must be destroyed. Their argument is their admission.

But to True Believers who are still deaf from the last explosion, the Mantra is a danger sign. You will see regular features in the media about the fall of Fascist Italy or Nazi Germany, but you NEVER see anything about the relatively recent collapse of the larger Soviet Empire. That is because there is nothing in it for the left.

But don’t mistake the media’s ignoring that catastrophe for their not remembering it. They are still half deaf from the explosion they had no idea was coming. Any group which shouts Genocide is too much like the suppressed but vocal samizdat in the USSR that pointed out the terror and need their so-called Liberated People lived under.

When they hear the Mantra, their pants are never quite dry again.

The economic crash we are living with is a repetition of the one Japan had some years ago. The crash and part of the underlying conditions came from trusting the wrong people.

PLEASE don’t send a flood of your economic opinions unless they have to do with OUR subject. Our economic bureaucracy is a great deal like our academic bureaucracy. People put on coats and ties, went to the right lunches, stated the proper opinions, and after a certain number of years they seniored their way up the ladder to Financial Experts.

The same thing happened when Republicans gave the presidential nomination to Bob Dole, “because it was his turn.” Academic advancement has nothing to do with truth, futurology has nothing to do with the actual future, and economic trust has nothing to do with whether the guy with the coat and tie is accomplishing anything. If you choose your experts by anything but results, you get bad results.

Please note that, besides those who actually went to prison, no financial expert will cease to be a highly-paid financial expert because he helped cause a major national catastrophe. The actual result is to increase their exposure and income. In a financial crisis you call in recognized experts.

I predicted the same result on 9-11 when people were screaming about the criminal negligence in national security that caused that problem. I pointed out calmly that no one would-be fired, no one would be demoted, not one of the thousands, no one would even be criticized. As always people thought I was nuts.

Actually what people remember is not that I was right, but that I was nuts. Just as an experts who cause a crisis benefit from it, all people remember about me is that every time anything happens I say something ridiculous.

This is the same general impression the term “expert” is based on. People do not remember I was RIGHT. They only remember I was outrageous.

In our society, there is no benefit in being right unless you run your OWN small business. In that case the results count. But if you give EXPERT opinion, you get paid for fitting in.

One illustration of the reason experts have to be consistently wrong is how one set of experts cannot lose by causing a disaster, but they can lose by contradicting another set of professional experts. ONE of the reasons — please note I keep using that phrase — that the response to a terrorist act by a consistently ethnic set of terrorists is to strip search white grandmothers is that doing anything else would put the terrorists experts in conflict with the civil rights experts.

And LEGAL experts in general. The reason the public goes to planes with their shoes off and their pants dragging the floor is that a terrorist expert can do anything he wants to to the general public. But he cannot allow people to have their own weapons because low self-esteem types with costumes have that monopoly, because shirttail Napoleons with resplendent costumes at the top of the police bureaucracy want to be the only ones who control guns.

All the bureaucracies are happiest when protecting the public is left to experts only, while Americans cower in the corner with British fathers while burglars come in and rob with the family at home.

At the bottom of all this is our inability to be OUTRAGED. Before the Obedient Generation, Americans would not have put up with it.

In a sort of vague, brain-damaged way, Americans are beginning to mumble into their drool that outrage is missing, hence the Tea Party Movement. But this is light years away from the real problem. Nobody is more careful than those who are suddenly in the limelight as Tea Party Spokesmen to avoid saying anything that would lose them their new and only chance at fame. They want to become media EXPERTS on the Tea Party Movement, like respectable conservatives who are EXPERTS on opposing the left.

And so it goes on.

Experts chase their own asses in a circle, and we pay them and praise them for it.