The United States should always and without fail be an advocate of human rights.  During the Cold War, political prisoners in the USSR, like Solzhenitsyn and Sharansky took heart from the thought that there were American leaders who were not willing to appease the Soviets and who steadfastly demanded that the citizens of the USSR have their rights acknowledged and defended.  The demand from some US leaders was non-partisan.  Reagan obviously walked the walk, but so did Democrat Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson.  In his book, The Case for Democracy, Natan Sharansky acknowledged that the continuous support of western leaders like Reagan and Jackson was something that gave them hope and encouraged them to continue to work to bring about change.

A couple of weeks ago, Barack Hussein Obama appeared to continue that tradition, stating this in his address to the “Muslim World”:

That does not lessen my commitment, however, to governments that reflect the will of the people. Each nation gives life to this principle in its own way, grounded in the traditions of its own people. America does not presume to know what is best for everyone, just as we would not presume to pick the outcome of a peaceful election. But I do have an unyielding belief that all people yearn for certain things: the ability to speak your mind and have a say in how you are governed; confidence in the rule of law and the equal administration of justice; government that is transparent and doesn’t steal from the people; the freedom to live as you choose. Those are not just American ideas, they are human rights, and that is why we will support them everywhere.

There is no straight line to realize this promise. But this much is clear: governments that protect these rights are ultimately more stable, successful and secure. Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away. America respects the right of all peaceful and law-abiding voices to be heard around the world, even if we disagree with them. And we will welcome all elected, peaceful governments – provided they govern with respect for all their people.

Similarly, now is also the time for leadership from the west when it comes to the Iranian elections.  As more and more evidence arises that there was fraud in last week’s election, and as the protests against the current hateful, apocalyptic regime continue to grow, now would be the time for the President of the United States to speak out in support of human rights and the ideals of freedom that we have and wish for all people to share.  If America appears weak or ambivalent to the protests or the violent government response, the government of Iran will be heartened and will accelerate the crackdown.  And if America appears weak when it comes to Iran, what image will that convey to our other rivals in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Venezuela, North Korea, and even in Russia and China?

Weakness begets weakness, but strength now will have repercussions in our ability to execute diplomacy with other countries.  We have a moral responsibility to support freedom and human rights for everybody.

Barack Hussein Obama’s response to the crisis in one of our sister Muslim countries has been tepid at best.  He’s said he’s “deeply troubled.”  A president shouldn’t be “troubled,” he should be outraged and vocally supportive of those who are currently fighting for, and starting to die for, human rights in Iran.

His strongest words so far have been to say that, “I do believe something has happened in Iran where there is a questioning of the kind of antagonistic postures toward the international community that have take place in the past.”  Great!  Let’s take a stand on the side of good and human rights and come out in support of those who are demanding new, free, uncorrupted elections.

Obama has responded to the crisis also by suggesting that differences between Ahmadinejad and Mousavi may not be great, and the US would still be dealing with a hostile regime.

That may be.  Maybe Mousavi isn’t exactly Thomas Jefferson, but consider three things:

1) The Iranian people should, as Obama suggested in his speech, get the leader they peacefully elected, and allow them to trust the rule of law.

2) Mousavi has advanced the idea of reengaging with America in a spirit of openness and diplomacy again.

3) Supporting a just, open and fair election now would encourage reformists to continue to come forward and participate in the political process in the future.  But if we leave the people who are demonstrating for their human rights to their own devices and hang them out to dry today, they’ll know they can’t rely on the West to support them in the future, either.  It’s essential that we unequivocally support these people.

Now’s your chance, Barry.  You talked the talk.  Walk the walk.  These people no doubt heard your words and took strength from them, believing that someone with a name like theirs, with a Muslim history like them, finally understood their plight and their yearning for freedom.  You portrayed yourself as a hero for freedom, a fellow traveler who understood their religion and their struggle.  If you let this chance for change wither and allow the authoritarians in Iran to crush these people under their bootheels, this will be blood on your hands.  These people are demonstrating for change.  This is your moment.  Reach out to them.

We were told that Barack Obama would fix our crumbling alliances, restore international faith in America, fluff everybody’s pillows at night, and regale us with the magical songs of yesteryear, when America and Europe were as one.

He works in strange ways.

So far, he’s given the mostly blind Prime Minister of Britain region-coded DVDs to not watch at his leisure.  He’s offered the Queen an iPod with all of his best speeches.  Secretary of State Clinton wowed the Russians with the government’s kickass inability to translate English to Russian.  Now he’s deported Guantanamo terrorists to the UK territory of Bermuda, without letting the UK know.

Senior aides to President Barack Obama accompanied four Uighur prisoners as they were flown from Guantanamo Bay to the British colony of Bermuda, without the UK being informed, it was revealed yesterday.

In an escalating diplomatic row over the transfer of the former terrorist suspects, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discussed the transfer with British Foreign Secretary David Miliband in what was said to be an uneasy conversation. Privately Whitehall officials accused America of treating Britain, with whom it is supposed to have a "special relationship", with barely disguised contempt.

One senior official said: "The Americans were fully aware of the foreign-policy understanding we have with Bermuda and they deliberately chose to ignore it. This is not the kind of behaviour one expects from an ally."

On the other hand, he’s been widely praised for telling the "Muslim world" (another great collectivist shortcut) that America is, really, deep down, a Muslim nation and that America shouldn’t be considered "above" any other country (presumably including the oppressive apocalyptic theocracies that wish death to the Jews and the Great Satan).  Oh, yeah, he also threw a bone to the rest of the rational, civilized world by reminding us that holocaust denial is bad.  So don’t let anybody tell you that he’s without moderation.

So it looks like the Russian “press” has a clearer idea of what’s happening in the states than our own media have.  I mean, if you look past the classic bashing of McDonalds and some of the other Soviet-style cliches and stereotypes about Americans, it’s pretty interesting.  Remember, the Russians have lived under Marxism and socialism.  They know it when they see it.

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their “right” to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our “democracy”. Pride blind the foolish.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different “branches and denominations” were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the “winning” side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the “winning” side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?

These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more then a whimper to their masters.

Then came Barack Obama’s command that GM’s (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of “pure” free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.

So it should be no surprise, that the American president has followed this up with a “bold” move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK’s Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our “wise” Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.

Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper…but a “freeman” whimper.

So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury department the power to set “fair” maximum salaries, evaluate performance and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses? Senator Barney Franks, a social pervert basking in his homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive.

The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.

The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.

The President gave the Queen of England an iPod

I don’t know what the usual protocol is, but it seems like when one head of state meets up with another, the proper gesture should be something more than mass-market consumer electronics and region-encoded DVDs.  I mean, President Smoove and his well-toned harpy are considered the ultimate in elegance and class, aren’t they?  They could have at least thrown in a Snuggie and a pack of Sham-Wows with it.

Oh well.  It’s the thought that counts, and I’m sure Marie was busy all night uploading his Ludacris collection onto Her Majesty’s Gadget.

Ha!

Barack Obama’s campaign scrubbed his presidential Web site over the weekend to remove criticism of the U.S. troop “surge” in Iraq, the Daily News has learned.

The presumed Democratic nominee replaced his Iraq issue Web page, which had described the surge as a “problem” that had barely reduced violence.

“The surge is not working,” Obama’s old plan stated, citing a lack of Iraqi political cooperation but crediting Sunni sheiks – not U.S. military muscle – for quelling violence in Anbar Province.

The News reported Sunday that insurgent attacks have fallen to the fewest since March 2004.

Obama’s campaign posted a new Iraq plan Sunday night, which cites an “improved security situation” paid for with the blood of U.S. troops since the surge began in February 2007.

It praises G.I.s’ “hard work, improved counterinsurgency tactics and enormous sacrifice.”

Campaign aide Wendy Morigi said Obama is “not softening his criticism of the surge. We regularly update the Web site to reflect changes in current events.”

What an ass.