- There is a Jewish tale, in which a man is promised that
he will be granted any wish he chooses, so long as his neighbour will get
twice as much. After some thought he states his wish: please put me out
one of my eyes! This is a very American attitude. An American refuses to
get free medical care, if the condition is that others will get it, too.
This we learned from the rallies against Obama's health reform. The slogans
and ideas of the demonstrators were just too weird!
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- A little girl asks how she will pay the bill for the
reformed health services. This little girl -- or rather, her parents
did not go out and ask how she was going to pay off the bills for the Iraqi
and Afghani wars, how she was going to pay for the US involvement in Palestine,
how she would repay the trillions given away to the bankers. Up until now,
Big Government was good. It provided billions for AIG - ok. Billions for
a new fighter jets - great. Billions to Blackwater to kill more Afghanis
and Pakistanis - fine. Billions to Israel - perfect. But funding for health?
What a communist notion!
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- The US health insurance problem is something we foreigners
can't understand. All of us, whether in England or Russia or Israel or
France, have a national health service; we regret only that it is not as
good as it used to be. But how can normal people prefer turning their health
into a commodity and making it dependent on their bank accounts? This strange
attitude is rooted in America's older ills.
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- The US is an experimental 'project' to see what
would happen when a rather empty space is colonized by people of diverse
backgrounds, ethnicities and affiliations, all moved by the desire to get
rich and knowing no moral inhibitions but the Smith and Wesson. At first,
they destroy the natives and the neighbours, afterwards they turn to cannibalism.
If the Americans do not eat each other, it is only because they have found
somebody else to eat together.
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- America was informed by love of profit and by hatred
of communism. Her anticommunism is visceral, brutal, basic, inherent. The
United States was created as the supreme sheriff, as the bastion of staunch
individualism, of 'homo homini lupus est', of rejection of the notions
of solidarity and mutual help. This was the plan of project designers.
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- Human nature being what it is, this satanic plan was
partly upset by the inherent goodness of men and women. There are many
wonderful Americans, rebels against crass materialism and unbridled greed,
but they are isolated in their milieu; the best American characters are
living and fighting alone. Such is Thoreau in his Walden. Such is Ishmael
aboard the Pequod. Such is the Old Man at the Sea. Solidarity togetherness
is conspicuous by its absence from American literature.
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- Every European state, from England to Russia, has its
National Health, for every nation considers self a living body, and every
member of the nation is as valued as a body part. All these nations are
or were Christian and solidarist. Their citizens were embraced by one church.
The US is different because of the anti-solidarist and anti-Christian spirit
of her founders. Her Manifest Destiny did not connect to the faith. The
US founders openly denied she was a Christian nation when concluding the
Tripoli treaty, and their denial was sincere, because solidarity is a basic
tenet of the Christian faith.
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- Every part of American society Left, Right, churches,
parties - are touched by this lack of compassion magnified by envy. The
US Right is obsessed with anticommunism. This goes without saying for the
imperialist Right of Ronald Reagan and George Bushes Junior and Senior.
What is upsetting is that even the traditional anti-imperialist, nationalist
American Right (the "paleocons") are equally anti-communist and
anti-Christian. I, for one, hoped they would understand their mistakes
of yesteryear and become allies of other anti-imperialist forces including
China, Russia andIran. Alas, while they do not like neocons, and this is
all to the good, they are no better themselves: Instead of fighting Arabs,
they would rather kill Russians.
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- In a recent essay, Patrick Buchanan glorifies Adolf Hitler's
Germany and vilifies Communist Russia. He is sorry that the US allied with
the Russians against the Germans, and not vice versa. Though Russia is
no longer Communist, he would like to fight it anyway.
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- Mind you, I do not need smelling salts every time Hitler's
name is mentioned. I do not think everyone has to hate Hitler. I am at
peace with people who admire Hitler for sentimental reasons: they like
his solidarism, or German greatness or his vegetarianism, or his treatment
of banks and bankers or unification of German lands. But there is a red
line: people who admire Hitler because he attacked Russia and/or massacred
civilians are my enemies too. In the battle of Stalingrad, I know which
side I am on. And Buchanan is on the other side.
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- Similar anti-communist and anti-Russian notes prevail
in other far-right white-nationalist writings. Be on the look out for the
telling word "hordes". For neocons, there are Muslim hordes,
for the white-nationalists, these are Russian hordes, as in Patrick Buchanan:
"By May 1945, Red Army hordes occupied all the great capitals of Central
Europe: Vienna, Prague, Budapest,Berlin". He forgot to explain that
this happened because the people of these great capitals had decided to
try their luck in Moscow under Hitler's banners, and it may well happen
again if this lesson is forgotten.
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- Our erstwhile friend Tom Sunic came from his search for
a New Right to the Old Hitlerism: "The last shot in the European capital
of Berlin was fired by a drunken Soviet soldier, killing the young French
Waffen SS volunteer." Well, God bless the Soviet soldier, drunken
or sober, for his steady mark, and to hell with the SS-man, young or middle-aged,
especially if hevolunteered to do that butcher job.
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- Buchanan writes of "the most barbarous tyranny in
history: the Bolshevik regime of the greatest terrorist of them all, Joseph
Stalin". Hatred of Stalin, the man who stopped Hitler, created modern
Russia and resurrected the Russian Church after the Trotskyite excesses,
is the common ground of these anticommunists. If they care at all about
the Russian people as they pretend they do, they can ask them and find
out that despite decades of anticommunist propaganda, Stalin is much loved
by Russians. In the huge recent poll run by the Russian TV, Stalin was
chosen 'the most important personality in the whole history of Russia'
next to St Alexander Nevsky. The Russians remember that Stalin became the
leader of an illiterate country devastated by civil war a country
of no industry, of dying agriculture, of no money and of plenty of debts,
surrounded by enemies. He created industry, built housing and roads, created
full free health care and comprehensive free education for all; he made
Russia the best educated country in the world.
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- Unprejudiced Americans may find Stalin's simple attitude
to life and business rather to their liking. He'd have solved the current
financial crisis by dispatching the bankers to chop wood somewhere deep
in Oregon and by canceling all debts. The automobile plants of Detroit
would be saved. When Stalin discovered a Zionist Lobby in his country,
he smashed it on the spot instead of surrendering to them, while ordinary
Jews who were loyal to Russia retained their positions. That is why his
name is besmirched by anticommunists.
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exaggerations of alleged Soviet crimes. It is enough to state that they
are fantastic. Nobody, even Stalin, could have killed one hundred million
people out of one hundred sixty million, won a war and yet found himself
with two hundred fifty million at the end of it.
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- This sick hatred of communism pours out of a column by
another anti-imperialist right-winger, Chuck Baldwin. This "alternative
candidate" fumed against the Chinese national flag, which is red,
being hoisted at the White House's South Lawn for an anniversary of the
Chinese national holiday. He speaks of "the extreme offensiveness
of flying the Communist Chinese flag". This is "unbelievable,
unreal, horrific, obscene, even traitorous for the communist leaders of
Mao's China are the Butchers of Beijing, and this proves the communist
leanings of President Barack Obama".
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Chinese people's suffering under the cruel leadership of Mao. If Communist
leadership is so bad, how come the US is indebted toChina to the tune of
a few trillions? Before Mao, China was an impoverished semi-colony of the
West, 'the Chinese and dogs were not allowed' into some parts of Shanghai,
famines were annual, and Anglo-American navies studiously supplied the
people with opium when they weren't busy burning Beijing Palace. Now, after
so many years of Communist tyranny, the Chinese are a shining example for
the rest of the world.
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events is not a proclamation of Communism as state doctrine, it is just
a normal sign of courtesy. Likewise, flying the Israeli flag over the same
lawn was not considered by the sane as a sign of submission to the Elders
of Zion, nor flying the British flag as cancellation of Declaration of
Independence. It is pity that the Obama administration allegedly got cold
feet and decided to cancel the event. This suppleness of Obama's back is
not a good sign, as we have already learned in the Middle East.
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- The US Left is afraid of communism as well. In many,
many articles and responses to the anti-Obama rallies, left-wing authors
invariably stress the racism of the demonstrators. William Rivers Pitt
called the "white, middle-aged, overweight, pissed-off right-wingers
a Klan rally minus the bedsheets and torches." Susie Day pretends
that the rallies were formed by those whites upset by Obama's mouthing
off to a white cop.
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- I am not a great believer in racism. Reputation of this
sin is largely overblown, to the best of my knowledge. The Russians, who
are supposed to be racists, loved Stalin, a Georgian. The French and the
Germans, presumably also racist, had a Jewish prime minister and a foreign
minister respectively in the last century. The Americans had no problem
electing the black Obama. So much for racism. The American leftists who
explain everything by racism are barking up the wrong tree, and they know
it but they dare not speak about the real problems.
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- This sick fear of human solidarity is American society's
knee-jerk reaction. It was activated by the Lobby in order to undermine
President Obama. Because he spoke against Israeli expansion, because he
mentioned Palestinian rights and sorrows, they fight against him on every
possible occasion even on the issue of national health. If Obama
would just do everything they want in the Middle East, his domestic initiatives
would pass as easily as a steamer through the Golden Gate.
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- Obama is attacked at every step. Look at the Middle East:
Israel wants to bomb Iran. The President refused Netanyahu's pleas to attack
Tehran, but the Lobby doesn't take no for an answer. In the Voice of the
Lobby, a.k.a. The Wall Street Journal, Bret Stephens impossibly claims:
Obama Is Pushing Israel Toward War. How? Obama's refusal to attack Iran
is "pushingIsrael toward a pre-emptive military strike on Iran".
The Voice of the Lobby does not hide the fact that such a strike could
well usher in a "price of oil at $300 a barrel, a Middle East war,
and American servicemen caught in between." For a normal reader, the
conclusion is clear: that's why Obama forbade the Israelis to attack Iran.
But the Lobby's sophist offers another solution: let Obama's America attack
Iran instead of Israel. Obama's refusal to interfere with Iran is presented
as "Obama's pushing Israel toward war". Begorrah!
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- While the enemy is active, no friends are forthcoming
to help the embattled American President. Many of us received and forwarded
an email claiming that Obama supported the coup d'etatin Honduras. But
much less attention was paid when Obama actually cut off US aid to Honduras
in response to the coup.
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- Sensing this loneliness of the President, Netanyahu ridicules
his mild and limited demands. There is no other word for Israel's response
that they will freeze some settlements' construction work for a few
months. Such a response is only marginally better than "shove it".
This was followed by an announcement that some five hundred new Jewish
homes will be built in the teeth of Obama's demand. Obama does not dare
to push intransigent Israel any more, for Congress and the Senate are in
the Jewish pocket, and these powerful Jews prefer Zionism to Communism.
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- What a pity! Once upon a time, the Jews were all for
Communism and none for Zionism, and the human lot markedly improved. In
a remarkable article, Winston Churchill wrote in 1920s: the Jews are choosing
between Communism and Zionism, let us direct them towards Zionism so they
will isolate themselves and stop bothering us. His plan was realised: Jews
were seduced by the Zionist idea, parted with communism and became its
enemies. The result was quite sad: the positive contribution of Israeli
Jews to mankind's welfare is next to zero, unless you count the development
of new torture and surveillance techniques. Jews elsewhere waste their
abilities and time on the same rotten Zionist project, instead of helping
their fellow countrymen to improve their lives. Winston Churchill lit a
candle, and its light attracts the butterflies who die in its flames. The
daring report of Judge Richard Goldstone is a first harbinger of a weather
change: despite his pro-Israel sympathies he condemned the recent Zionist
atrocities in Gaza.
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- Now it is time for Obama to move forward fearlessly.
He should listen to his fellow- Americans. If they are so upset and worried
by immigration, stop immigration completely. Send away illegal aliens,
or legalise those who have lived long enough in America. Show people that
you care about them.
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- Proceed with the health care. This field is ripe for
revolution. Only in a time of crisis can a great leader enact radical reforms:
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minimise the cost of medical care. Do it the Cuban way.
- * Treat health care like fire brigades human bodies
are no less important than buildings. Nobody is amazed that the fire brigades
are not private. Turn health care into a public service, and make all doctors
public employees.
- * Ban private medical care.
- * Provide medical help for everyone, at the state's expense.
- * Stop expensive live-saving, life-supporting devices.
No transplantations, no complicated infertility treatments, no reproductive
technology, no heart-and-brain operations, no abortions.
- * Cut down research. Let incurable diseases remain incurable.
- * Allow people to get born and to die; this is normal,
as opposed to this morbid fear of death.
- * While he's at it, nationalise pharmaceutical companies.
Let them sell medicine to the national health service at the cost of production.
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comprehensive and inexpensive. Communism? Yes! Good for you? Yes, unless
you are a wealthy gynecologist. And Comrade Stalin would approve of it!
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