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The New McCarthyism

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In 1905 George Santayana wrote “Those who cannot remember history are condemned to repeat it.” Today western society is on the verge of imploding because we cannot remember the past. Politicians and news outlets, on both sides of the aisle, have reverted to using supposition and innuendo to libel anyone who does not agree with their political ideology.

While there are many examples in history that should tell us of the danger the most effective is to go back to the McCarthy era. While McCarthy used the red scare tactic, calling out people as Communist the new McCarthy’s are calling out those who disagree with them Nazis or Homophobes or Islamophobes etc. The reason is the same and the results are the same. Paint your opposition as dangerous and then ruin them personally. 

In the past, the House Committee on Un-American Activities was responsible for promoting witch hunts, but now similar behaviors are seen in various Congressional hearings and through political influence over government departments such as the Justice Department and the FBI.   The press has also joined in with inuendo and sometimes outright lies.

We can go back and look at the January 6 committee that had already concluded its findings before even the first hearings. Some will say there is no proof of this and that it was a fair hearing that collected strong evidence. However, the committee destroyed the evidence.   The constant calling Trump a liar and a pedophile with noting to back it up. Although efforts are being made to release the Epstein files—whatever they may contain—Trump faces allegations of being associated with Epstein, despite substantial evidence suggesting otherwise.    A recent photo dump from Democrat lawmakers from the House Oversight Committee show one of Trump surrounded by women with there faces redacted implying, as the photo was from the Epstein estate, that Trump was in fact part of the trafficking. Although the photo was revealed to be an old image of adult models at Mar-a-Lago, it continued to circulate online as supposed evidence.  Even though similar photos have been exposed as photoshopped, they continue to surface as alleged evidence.   

Representative Jasmine Crockett did a deep dive on contribution by Jeffery Eptsein to prove he was still part of the Trump team. She showed money coming from Epstein to republican candidate such as Lee Zelden, only it was the wrong Epstein.  When confronted she said that her staff did quick research, and they never said it was that Epstein but an Epstein.

This all tracks with the concept of “McCarthyism”, the truth does not matter just the accusation.

McCarthyism and the Red Scare put the country in a dark place and runed lives. We appear to be returning to this time with the left using anything to attack the right. This has once again put the country in a dark place. There is no true governance that does not include an attack on the other side. Effecting politicians ignore any positive coming from the right and in fact will automatically reject any proposals that do not meet their agenda. This needs to stop quickly or we will lose our society.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

American Politics, American Politics, Current events, Military

To Six Members of Congress (you know who you are) Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Over

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“Are you Really going to do That? Why is it wrong? Just asking a question.”

every Solder, Sailor, Marine, and Airman knows they do not have to follow an illegal order. The statement that you were just reminding the troops of their legal obligations is just so much hot air. Everyone with a brain knows what you were doing and the intended message of your double speak. By attempting to sow doubt into the minds of those who are defending your right to say such nonsense is despicable. Your lawyers of course were smart enough to have you to include the term “Illegal” order, but the intent is not lost.

The rest of their backers then come out with reminders of the Nurenberg trials and the establishment of the fact that just following orders is not a legal defense. This again warps intent. The bulk of the defendants at Nurenberg were senior political and military leaders. Should POTUS or any senior military leader give an American service member an illegal order then they should face the consequence.

 Your video, however, seemed aimed at private Joe Snuffy who would never be able to understand the nuances of an order being legal or not. If you are on duty guarding a federal building in some city when you see a large crowd screaming and running at you waving foreign flags, what do you do? You have been told that the use of deadly force in authorized and your officers order you to open fire as this crowd is a group of terrorist intent on killing the people inside, yet someone says don’t shoot as this is a peaceful group of innocent protestors, now what.   

On the one hand you are obligated to obey the orders of the officers in charge and yet some politicians reminded you that you are obligated to disobey an illegal order. Do you all get together and discuss it? This is the problem with the kind of dangerous rhetoric that comes from that video. Your video has all the earmarks of an old Soviet stile disinformation campaign. The first and foremost aspect is that it contains a kernel of truth, that you do not have to obey an illegal order.

This video was not directed at the troops as a reminder but rather to the public to say the President and the rest of the senior chain of command are breaking the law because they do not agree with his politics. If you want to say that you disagree with the policies and direction of the President, fine. Just do not hide behind a false moral stand.

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Is the Signal Chat leak the End of Civilization As We Know it or a Nothing burger?

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OK a group chat included the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine, Jeffrey Goldberg. The chat discussed the political implications of an attack by the United States on the terrorist group known as the Houthis and was designed to be between high level government officials. The Houthis are a radical Islamic terrorist group They started out rebelling against the government in Yemen and have been for years attacking shipping entering or exiting the Red Sea from the Suez Canal. Houthis use weapons supplied by Iran to disrupt commercial traffic that supplies a large percentage of good to the world.

So why has the United States only now acted? This was not the first strike by the U.S. just the latest. What is the problem with the leak from the Atlantic and why was Goldberg even on the chat.

The questions that must be answered are whether Goldbergs’ inclusion was a mistake or intentional? How much of what was in the chat classified? 

To answer the last question from Waltz’s text on March 14, per the New York Times, he advised the group that the Presidents guidance would be in their high side inboxes. High side is government speak for classified, and reading through the rest of the messages there was nothing that could be called classified. What was released would at best been noted as sensitive but not classified, yes there is a classification for things that are not classified. So, what do we know? There was classified material provided between the principals but not in the signal text. So, to that point there were no war plans or other secrets discussed on signal.

Now to the inclusion of Goldberg. It was either intentional or unintentional, so which was it? We do not know and may never know so the following is speculation based on a lifetime of being in the IC and studying history.

It may have been unintentional but how? Why would Goldberg even be on Waltz’s contact list? If he was on the contact list, which would have allowed for his inclusion in the group, or the list of some staffer who added him to Waltz’s contact list by mistake. To accept this scenario requires the belief that a number of mistakes were made within the confines of the NSC and no one caught it in time. I would say the odds of this are less than 10%.

The more likely scenario is that Goldberg was added intentionally for an unknown reason. The first and most likely reason is that someone wanted to embarrass Waltz or cause harm. It must be remembered that this administration has only been in office for a little over two months. There is likely many in holdovers that are not happy. If this is the case, they will be found. A second but less likely scenario is that for some reason the administration wanted the information to leak or for it to find its way to allies or enemies. A similar use of a journalist was during the Cuban missile crises when both the U.S. and the Soviet Union used ABC News correspondent John Scali to pass backdoor messages. This is unlikely as Scali was an ally of Kennedy and Goldberg is an enemy of Trump. Be more interested in

In any case we need to wait and see what facts come out as there has been nothing to date other than the Signal Chat was passed to Goldberg, and the Houthis were hit. We should in fairness to all parties since nothing classified was passed and lesions learned we need to all just sit back and Pleasethink.

American Politics, Current events

Our Election and Democracy

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It has now been three days since the democrat party initiated a #coup and removed the president. While technically still in office. it is apparent that he is not in charge. He has not been in charge for some time, but now it’s out in the open. The Democrats like to say they are saving democracy, yet #Biden won his primaries because the party would not allow anyone to run against him and now Harris has been anointed without a primary.

The left is now touting Biden as the best president that has ever been while building up #Harris as the second coming of #Obama. This last comes from the Wisconsin rally that the organizers said had the energy level they have not seen since Obama. We all remember when Biden in the last election said if you don’t vote for him you ain’t black. Now MSNBCs Joy Reid posted “”Given just the stratospheric entrance of Vice President Kamala Harris into the presidential campaign, and she has now secured enough delegates to become the nominee, you’re going to look real crazy being on the other side of that line, particularly as a person of color, but really as anyone who claims to have any connection to the culture, You’re going to look real weird and real lonely on that side,” she added. “You’re really going to look crazy being on that side given the cultural phenomenon of Vice President Kamala Devi Harris. She’s about to make history. She’s about to become the first woman president.” 

We now know that she will run on the platform that Trump is a convicted felon and a sex offender, both of which were shown not to be true, and the felony conviction will likely be overturned. To this point she says she knows his type and she is likely right as she is the same type of prosecutor that has gone after #Trump. Does not care about the facts, the law, and will intimidate witnesses.  

I hope this time around the Republicans can run a campaign that just deals with the issues and ignores the lefts taunts. While the left has lived off ideological statements and feel-good legislation, the people have had to face reduced standards of living. We need to demand a government that will be responsive to the people and not the party.  We will hear about the threats MAGA and Project 2025 pose to democracy without hearing about how and why. MAGA has become a pejorative and Project 2025 a term that no one on the left or right understands or has read. At the end of the day Project 2025 has been rejected by Trump yet the left started a misinformation campaign including setting up a Trump Project 2025 web site. I will not tell anyone how to vote only to PLEASETHINK and research issues and candidates

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Project 2025

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Recently there has been a lot of talk from the left regarding a think piece from the Heritage Foundaton known to the left as Project 2025, the title is actually “Mandate for Leadership 2025: The Conservative Promise.”  According to the left this is a handbook that will allow Donald Trump to become a dictator and destroy democracy.  I will admit to not having read the full 920 pages I did skim most of it and drilled into the parts the left continues to point out as draconian.

What I discovered is that it is a think piece from a conservative think tank that pushes conservative values. While the left claims it will make the President all powerful, it calls for a reduction of the bureaucracy and for the President to be more directly accountable to the people. In other words it calls for a smaller government. It also calls for more power to be returned to the people.

None of this is new or revolutionary. It is a basic conservative manifesto that pushes conservative ideology. This is no different from the left using post-modern/woke/CRT ideals to run the government. The difference is it is upfront and in writing rather than hidden behind a bunch of buzz words.

If you don’t believe me I suggest you read it for yourself instead of having it spoon feed to you with all the bias.

American Politics, Hamas, International Politics

HOW HATRED WINS

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Two things we have learned from the terror attacks in Israel and the reaction against the Hamas animals is that the impact of post-modern philosophy is almost complete. Past decades of indoctrination have taught that there are no consequences for actions. Hamas knew that Israel would retaliate and that the Arab propaganda machines would pump out lies about what the IDF was doing. It was Israels apartheid government that caused the attack, untrue.  It was Israels occupation that caused the attack, untrue. It was always Israels fault that the Palestinians do not have a country, untrue. We have been told for years that if only Israel would accept a two-state solution the Palestine problem would be settled, untrue as the two-state solution has been presented several times and rejected by the Arabs but accepted by Israel.  This is all part of post-modern deconstruction

Next, we see linguistic manipulation. For the propaganda to work the Arabs must make you believe that what you are seeing is false and the reality is what they tell you. In order to do this, they must twist activities. Apartheid as was mentioned is in fact prevalent in Gaza, the West Bank, and most Arab countries. Israel is in fact a free nation. Jewish is the official religion but that does not stop others, such as Muslims from freely practicing their religion. Arabs own their own businesses and are judges and members of the Knesset. The Jews are also called occupiers and colonizers. The region has established Jewish roots going back almost 4000 years. The name Palestine came from the Romans when they occupied the area. Palestine was never a country but a province of Rome. To say Palestine will be free is a poor message as there is no country, now or in the past, called Palestine. Therefore, there is no ethnicity called Palestinian, they are Arabs.  

Another term used is oppressors. Israel has never oppressed the Arab population in fact the only ones oppressing the Arabs in Gaza is Hamas. This is, however, an interesting word to use now. An offshoot of post-modernism is Critical Race Theory (CRT).  The main thrust of CRT has been that there are two entities in the world, the oppressed and the oppressor. Ignoring fact, the left’s propaganda machine has turned on the victims of hate and they are now oppressors. This is like blaming southern blacks for Jim Crow laws. If you open your mind and learn the facts of history, you will see a number of other ways that language has been used to obscure facts.

American Politics, Current events

Anti-Semitism

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As Israel moves to secure its border and ensure its safety, members of congress and others around the country continue to support the Palestinian terrorist. Rep. Rashida Tlaio, a member of the far-left radical group known as “The Squad” has even gone so far as to put a Palestinian flag outside her office on Capitol Hill. There is now concern about the spread of anti-semitism around the world which should not come as a shock to anyone as anti-semitism has never really gone away. What needs to be explored, is how many people can be pulled into a narrative so deadly that supports a murderous organization like HAMAS and vilifies those who were victims.

What must be understood is that the West has been moving away from the philosophical and cultural roots which have allowed it to grow and thrive. To be more specific we are not moving away but being pushed.  The west has moved through stages of philosophical and religious belief systems. Most recently The Modern or better known as the Enlightenment area which encompassed the growth of the individual as the center of government and social organization is being replaced by a series of teachings loosely called post-modernism.

Without getting into an explanation of post-modernism lets focus on the one aspect that is relevant today, linguistic manipulation. Propaganda has always used linguistic manipulation to cause misdirection and support misinformation campaigns today is no different. Israel has been called an occupier, a colonizer and an apartheid state, none of which is true. Further aspects of this are the claim that an Israeli missile hit a hospital and caused 500 deaths, again not true. This last was reported by the mainstream media, and retracted later but without an apology. Then it was spoken about on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives but this time without the retraction. MS Talib has said there is no clear indication of who did it and must be accepted unless there is a third-party investigation on the ground which she knows is impossible. HAMA and their allies speak of a humanitarian crisis in Gaza but fail to acknowledge it was them who instigated the crisis and that they could end it by releasing the 200+ hostages they are holding.

The truth has been put out and ignored by many. On elite campuses we see students demonstrating and rioting. On the campus of Cooper Union in NYC Jewish students had to hid from the rioters. They were hidden in the attic of the library, think Ann Frank. Large rally’s have been held with the slogan “From the River to the Sea Palestine will be free,” a chant that only rhymes in English. We must ignore the propaganda and linguistic manipulation and just fast facts and truths. .

PleaseThink for yourselves

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Does America Have a Representative Government?

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The House Select Committee on the January 6th riots held a professionally produced TV event, the result of which, to no one’s surprise, placed the blame for the attack on the capitol building on Donald Trump.  This result was a foregone conclusion from the outset of the hearings. The committee was designed to come to this conclusion from and by packing the so called “bipartisan” committee. The committee and the mass media have continued to call this event an attack on the foundation of democracy. They proceeded through the night to present evidence to back up their claim. The problem is that most of what they called evidence would likely not be allowed in a court of law in any democratic country.

Evidence implies facts and the facts are well known. On January 6th of 2021 a riot broke out in front of the Capitol building and proceeded into the building itself. No one denies this. The riot and subsequent assaults were and are criminal. There have been several arrests and convictions related to this. The problem now comes as we leave the world of evidence and enter the world of fantasy. While fantasy may be a harsh word, we could use assumption or conspiracy. Regardless of what you wish to call it, the intent is to prove Trump was responsible and controlled events. To this end there is no evidence, no facts to point to.

There have been civilian attacks on the government since the very beginning of the country. Shay’s Rebellion, The Whiskey Rebellion, John Brown at Harpers Ferry, The anti-war riots and race riots of the 1960’s. The list goes on and on. In 2011 union activist attacked and occupied the Wisconsin Capitol Building, which Nancy Pelosi called true democracy in action. Most recently we have seen a number of race riots directed by the Black Lives Matter movement, which have resulted in death and the destruction of businesses and other personal property. The congress has done nothing about those criminal acts and DOJ did nothing but try to blame whole police departments.

As I said what happened on Jan 6th 2021 was criminal and an insult to America. The reaction of congress however is far beyound what should have been done. The fact is that what the majority in congress has done has taken a criminal act of a few and turned it into a political drum beat. The way in which the Jan 6th committee has acted is so transparently partisan that it is insulting. From the beginning the majority attempted to ignore the facts and went after Trump through an impeachment that was doomed to fail and whose only reason was to keep Trump from running again. The special select committee is also an attempt to stop Trump and anyone who thinks of following him from regaining any power. In fact the actions of the left and this committee have done just the opposite by keeping Trump in the news. It is time to return to the age of reason were reason and reality are objective. The way that the truth has been ignored by the left indicates that they consider reason and reality to be subjective. They twist and turn every fact or rumor into what ever they what it to be and hope that the people will be fooled. This committee has been seated for over a year and has in fact come up with nothing, however their report will be issued sometime in September, just in time to impact the midterm elections.

The true attack on Democracy is a representative government that has stopped representing the people and is only concerned with partisan politics. Lets spend time and money on addressing the problems that currently face all Americans.

American Politics, Current events, Russia

When Does Freedom of Press Become Propaganda

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I want to give you my thoughts on the current crisis gripping Washington. It is not the fact that a war in Europe is raging and could potentially expand into a nuclear conflict, but a purported seven-hour gap in phone logs of President Trump on Jan 6th. These logs have been turned over to the House JAN 6TH committee and were reported by none other than Bob Woodward. This revelation comes soon after President Biden called for the removal of Russian Putin, suggested the 82d Airborne would be in Ukraine soon and suggests a possible US chemical weapons attack in response to Russia using chemicals in Ukraine, all which Biden denies but is on tape saying.

We are also in the midst of learning that Hunter Biden’s lap top is in fact real and the information that has been reported is in fact correct. All of this despite the fact that a number of Intelligence Professionals had claimed to be Russian misinformation.

But the big news is that a federal judge said Trump “probably” committed a crime. Not to forget that a Supreme Court Justices wife exchanged tweets with the WH CoS. This last has been followed by calls for his impeachment or at the least his resignation.

We are also recipients of reports from the confirmation hearings for a new Supreme Court Justise, that has not discussed her qualifications but centers on the “fact” that all the white republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are nothing more than racist for actually asking questions. As an aside I do not like the politics of this nominee but see no reason to deny confirmation.

In the end it would be remiss of me not to mention the biggest national news story, Will Smith Slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars. Which has people talking about violence and racial stereotypes. Oh, and in case you missed it the Federal Election Commission has fined both Hilary Clintons campaign and the DNC for its part in the Steele Dossier. You remember the t.hing that started the whole Trump-Russia collusion hoax.

The news industry keeps asking why they are losing readers/viewers? Perhaps if they went back to reporting the new instead of pushing a narrative people would begin to trust them again. My blog is PleaseThink1.com and all I ask of people id to please think. Look at the facts and see if it meets the criteria of news. News organizations are always going to take a side and have an opinion but leave that on the OpEd page. Opinions and personal agendas have no place in a front-page news story

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Moral Obligations

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Today the world faces a dilemma it had always hoped to avoid, morality going up against ideology. How do we handle the situation in Ukraine without understanding our moral obligation to the world? What is happening in Ukraine is a moral outrage with leadership acknowledging the fact. President Biden and Secretary of State Blinken as well as many of our NATO allies have called Putin a war criminal and say there is evidence that the Russians are committing war crimes in Ukraine. The crimes being committed are a daily occurrence. Economic sanctions will take time to become effective, if ever. The legal process that could be used is dysfunctional at best. The ICC in the Hauge has already opened an investigation, but it has no true power to charge Russia or Russians with any crime. The evidence to support the charges are inside a war zone.

The West has hidden behind the legalities of international treaties and law. I am not suggesting that we ignore laws or abrogate treaties, just that we need to remember who and what we are. Ukraine is not a NATO member so Russian actions do not trigger a NATO response. Russia is a nuclear power which means we must proceed carefully, but at what cost? President Biden likes to whisper into microphones that if we engage Russia its WWIII. This goes back to the claim President Obama made while negotiating the Iran deal, “Its this deal or war.” Is this the mentality we need to follow, let Ukraine be crushed or it’s WWIII? Does the West have a moral obligation that overrides the arguments of diplomacy?

We have been faced with these questions before. Our founding fathers needed the moral courage to stand up the greatest military force in fighting for independence. Then there came a time to fight to remove the stain of slavery from the country. The greatest generation then had to face off against the Axis powers. Let it be known there was much objection to this last in the US even through our leadership knew about the holocaust, but we found a way. Yes, Russia is a nuclear power but we faced off with them during the Cuban missile crisis. We found the moral courage to face down the bigots of the Jim Crow era. Can we find the courage now to understand our moral obligation before it is too late? If we cannot find the moral courage to do what is right now, what becomes of us in the future.