Kill’em All Conservatism

Ann Hendon — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 00:50:22 +0000

What is it about the modern so-called conservatives that makes them so bloodthirsty?

by Richard Hoste

RICHARD SPENCER and Robert Burnham’s Facebook conversation is pretty frightening, but I must say that it pales in comparison to a recent Free Republic thread about Julian Assange. A commentator recommends the government go after the man’s family and when someone objects he’s shouted down as a liberal commie.

Some other representative suggestions.

“His head would look good on a pike.”

“He truly needs to be carbombed…”

“Surely someone in our DOD can take this pipsqueak out. We have killed better men for less in the past.”

“I support a CIA covert operation to coat his butt-plug with arsenic. ARSEnic…get it? (too strong? sorry.)”

“This truly has become deadly serious. He needs to be taken out. No internet bravado here, our government or allies need to act and end this. I don’t know if our various agencies can act on their own, but if they can, I hope they do soon.”

“$200 for a bullet between that mother effer’s eyes.”

All this hatred, and for what? Ten years ago a couple fanatics killed three thousand Americans. Every death is a tragedy, but the US has sinned against the Muslim world much more than it’s been sinned against. Half a million Iraqis died due to US sanctions and then another half million thanks to the war. Yet if any Muslim in the world talks like these so-called patriotic citizens do it’s proof of the inherent depravity of the religion.

What’s really scary is speculating on what Republicans would advocate if there actually was a terrorist problem-this is, if the murder rate for Muslims ever reached 50% of what it is for Americans blacks or people of the Islamic faith ever managed to kill 1/10th as many people as the US murders overseas. They already defend the right of the president to murder anyone whom he deems a “terrorist” and hold “enemy combatants” indefinitely. Thankfully the “war on terror” is a government fabrication, for if it wasn’t and people actually were dying in any large numbers the US would by now make North Korea look like Hong Kong.

What indicates that conservatives are particularly dull is that they seem to understand that everybody in power is against them, but at the same time desire the state to have the prerogative to decide whether they live or die. …

I don’t know if I quite agree with Richard and Robert who believe that these sentiments represent something healthy that simply should be channeled into another direction….

The wars that resulted out of the attacks managed to somehow combine the worst aspects of White Man’s Burden imperialism and Wilsonian idealism. And of course hostilities in the Middle East have facilitated the complete Zionist take over of the Republican Party. Sure, there’s a decent bit of implicit whiteness and anti-ethnomasochism in there, but it’s in a very thick neo-con shell which will be very difficult to crack.

Read the full article at Alternative Right

China Resumes Gasoline Sales to Iran

Ann Hendon — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:05:25 +0000

A CHINESE state oil company has just agreed to send two shipments of gasoline to Iran, showing Beijing’s essential disagreement and non-cooperation with any sanctions on Tehran that might seriously impact trade between the two countries.

China’s position on Iran has become a concern to pro-Israel elements in the U.S. government, while Russia has recently made some concessions to those same elements, who, through government spokesmen, say they are “pressing for swift, bold sanctions.” Critics claim that an alliance of Zionists and neoconservatives actually want war with Iran, with sanctions merely being a first step.

China did agree to to negotiate with other U.N. member states on possible sanctions against the Islamic Republic, but its skepticism of the whole process underlies the Chinese call for “a diplomatic solution.” China also insisted that any sanctions that hurt trade or the Iranian people would be unacceptable.

“The Chinese are obviously concerned about what ramifications this might have on the economy generally,” President Barack Obama stated yesterday.

Although under pressure to produce proof of an Iranian “nuclear threat,” even the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies admit that Iran is currently incapable of producing a single nuclear weapon, whereas Israel and Pakistan — among other conflict-ridden and unstable states — possess many atomic warheads, with the capability of making thousands more. There is no push by the U.S. or its clients for sanctions against Pakistan or Israel — or any other nuclear state.

Although it has received little publicity in the U.S. corporate media (an omission which we at the American Mercury aim to correct), Washington is threatening unilateral sanctions not only on Iran, but on any supplier of fuel to Iran. This has had the effect of causing many countries and oil companies to severely cut back on shipments to Iran to pre-empt any hostile actions by Washington.

But state-run ChinaOil remains firm, and will be shipping 600,000 barrels of gasoline to Iran immediately, according to market observers.

Iran, one of the world’s largest producers of crude petroleum, has become a net importer of gasoline because U.S. sanctions have caused financial and other difficulties in constructing refineries.

Neoconservatives – The American Mercury

Kill’em All Conservatism

China Resumes Gasoline Sales to Iran