George Rebane
The attack on Georgia’s new voter law is turning out to be a national disgrace. The evidence is clear – it is not the launch of Jim Crow 2.0, neither does is suppress black voter turnout. As many have shown, in the 40 states that have similar election laws, the ratios of black voter turnouts have been higher than those of white voters. Yet the Biden administration is doubling down on their Big Lie about Georgia, with all of it being picked up and echoed by the lamestream. Most revealing is how the corporatist CEOs are falling in line to support the leftwing narrative. As always, the Democrats’ African-American constituents don’t have a clue about any of this, and continue their plantation lives blaming the whole thing on ‘racism’ and ‘white supremacy’.
JFK was elected on an historical Big Lie – the non-existent 1960 “missile gap”. In fact, the missile gap did exist, as subsequent post-USSR revelations attest, but was definitely in favor of the US. Nikita Khrushchev had very few long-range ballistic missiles that could hit North American targets, and for that reason he got Castro to permit him to secretly station Soviet mid-range nuclear missiles in Cuba. As history has shown, it was basically dumb luck that kept the world from a global nuclear exchange, and not anything that Kennedy and his military planners did back in October 1962. (more here) LBJ followed suit four years later with his own Big Lie about the Gulf of Tonkin ‘attack’ that got us bigtime into Vietnam. The upshot of Vietnam was Jimmy Carter’s military standdown that invited Brezhnev into starting WW3 in Europe. The Soviet leaders knew that the USSR economy was on its last legs in being able to maintain par force with America and NATO; for the communists in 1980 it was now or never. And it was Reagan who convinced Brezhnev and then Gorbachev that ‘never’ was their best option.
The Left's response to the above Big Lies is to point at Bush2 getting us to invade Iraq after 9/11 because Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. That was true because Saddam used his Soviet-era WMDs on his own people. There are a number of explanations as to why none were found when the Americans finally got to search the country. (e.g. where did Syria subsequently and suddenly get the WMDs to use on its people?) But Bush2 didn't tell a Big Lie, because both our and EU intelligence sources confirmed the existence of Iraq's WMDs, and all western leaders accepted that report even if they all didn't agree on how to respond. This debate continues to this day.
[12apr21 update] Biden one-ups Obama’s “fundamental transformation” with his insane program to erase America as we know it. Kevin McCullough writes (here) – “He’s attempting to undo American accountability in elections through his support of HR1. He’s attempting to undo our economic foundations with massive printing (read that: devaluing) of our currency. He’s attempting to destroy free enterprise and job growth with coming massive tax increases. He’s attempting to take away individual liberties with proposed mask mandates, and desired lockdowns. He supports any attempt to end the Senate filibuster—in order to push through horrific laws by the thinnest margins ever attempted. He’s attempting to overwhelm our security at our borders by encouraging 100’s of 1000’s of unverifiable persons of unknown origins to cross our borders without scrutiny nor penalty. He wants the police weakened. He is pledging to take guns away from law abiding owners. And he wants to pervert the justice system so dramatically that the Constitution becomes unrecognizable.”
[14apr21 update] The typo in my ‘Farewell Unity’ column in the 2apr21 Union continues to draw the ire of local liberals, most recently today’s letter from a Ms Rachel Howard (here). I had already posted the correction in these pages and on Union’s online edition, but that has made no never mind to our progressive neighbors. What really needs pointing out repeatedly and often is how the Left responds to analyses like mine regarding the tragic condition of our national unity – Ex uno pluria. For most of them, understanding that the first step toward a common ground that can launch a productive conversation requires understanding each other’s desiderata for our country’s future, this is an intellectual bridge too far. Anyone who posits such a requirement by identifying potential targets of a transformed America is immediately vilified for, of all things, seeking to sow the seeds of disunity.
He is Risen!
George Rebane
Hearing that strong assertion, the Christian answers joyfully, ‘He is risen indeed!’
For us, Christmas is the promise, and Easter its fulfillment. The summation of all Christianity is Christ’s covenant in the promised transcendence of Man, all concentrated into one simple declaration – ‘He is risen!’ Without this, our faith is a fraud; with it, Christianity promises Man to become an unending part of God’s love of all Creation.
This has now become RR's annual message celebrating Easter.
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