Gottheimer is trying to smear veterans/ police as “terrorists”.

By Rubashov

A chicken-hawk is someone who has no problem sending someone else into harm’s way but is very reticent about going there himself. They come in all shapes and sizes, all colors and creeds, and from both major political parties.

America has been in one foreign conflict after another for twenty years. The reason America is broke, in debt, with no money to fund health care in the midst of a pandemic is because our political class is too intent on being the world’s policeman.

President Dwight Eisenhower, a great military leader himself, as President warned against what he called “the military-industrial complex”. Congress did not heed his warning and today is so drunk on the money it takes from corporate PACs and lobbyists that it simply can’t say no.

The media is much the same way. They really don’t like the idea of the “military” per se, but they love corporate money and how it spends. That’s why establishment media is so quick to fire a journalist who questions the latest “foreign adventure” too closely. The New York Times is a cheerleader for war – and when Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges questioned why, they had him out the door as quick as they could.

Like many chicken-hawks in Congress, Josh Gottheimer has taken to promoting the latest Establishment “message” coming from the New York Times. In an article published this week, the Times claims veterans and police are the primary sources of the extremism that resulted in the Capitol riot on January 6th.

This is very convenient for the Times because it can protect its friends in the Military-Industrial Complex, while blaming those who formerly served as cogs in that machine. Gottheimer, in common with other chicken-hawks, was quick to post the attempt by the New York Times to shift the blame from the war machine to its victims.

Gottheimer even scheduled a “messaging” event at Sussex County Community College to advance plans on how to blame America’s political extremism on veterans and police. Like other chicken-hawks, Gottheimer wants to avoid having to blame groups like BLM and Antifa, and especially organizations like Action Together, a group that helped his re-election in 2018.

Remember, it was members of Action Together and Sussex County Democrats who called the VFW a bunch of “old white men” and mocked them. It was a member of Action Together and the Chair of the Sussex County Democrats who mocked a disabled veteran who had lost an eye – calling him a “pirate”.

Action Together has infiltrated the Democrat Party at all levels, while accepting awards from and working with actual TERRORIST organizations banned by our allies overseas. This is problematic for Gottheimer, who cut a recruitment video for Action Together the same year it was cavorting with government-named terrorists.

Why is it that media outlets like the New York Times and chicken-hawk politicians like Josh Gottheimer never even try to understand how people get to where they are? It’s like there is not an ounce of humanity in these “so-certain-they-are-good” Establishment types.

As a politician, a corporate lobbyist/spinmeister, and a Washington DC political staffer Josh Gottheimer has been involved in every scumbag incarnation of the Military-Industrial Complex over the last quarter century. At the same time, deindustrialization, offshoring, and outsourcing by corporate America has made the military the most attractive job opening in much of America. And what happens to those who serve and who suffer, if not from bodily wounds but from what’s left over from being taught to kill? What do they return to? Perhaps Matt Damon put it best…

Remember when mainstream liberals understood that war was bad? He just described why Veterans laugh when chicken-hawks like Josh Gottheimer say, “Thank you for your service.”

But it doesn’t end with veterans. Chicken-hawk politicians are pushing the New York Times’ line that the police are also responsible for violent extremism in America.

Cops and veterans. Two groups of people who are sent by politicians into harm’s way. Why doesn’t the New York Times ever question the buckets of new laws passed each year that expand the job of the police and require more interactions between police officers with guns and citizens who are often emotionally, psychologically, or chemically off-balance?

In one of his most famous essays, columnist George Will argued that this kind of “overcriminalization” was responsible for the death of Eric Garner, a sidewalk merchant who was killed in a confrontation with police trying to crack down on sales tax scofflaws. Will raised the question of how many new laws are created by state legislatures or by Congress in the rush to be seen to be “doing something”.

But that is the way of the chicken-hawk… first, cause the problem, then try to play “hero” by coming up with a solution that makes it worse. Instead of a “problem solvers” caucus in Congress, maybe we need adults who can diagnose how a problem came to be in the first place.

“Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.”

Frank Zappa

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Columbus Day and the worst lynching in American history

By Rubashov

Social media can be a smorgasbord of depravities.  The other day, we read a post by a self-proclaimed person “of color” who claimed that Jews were “privileged” and had not suffered as people “of color” had.  Apparently this wanker had missed the part about the Holocaust in his high school history class or the part in Sunday School about how Jews were slaves of the Egyptians.
 
Now it seems that the discrimination faced by Italian immigrants into the United States is also being lost down the memory hole of what was once called public education but increasing has become a form of madrasah, offering modern-day, woke ideological or religious indoctrination. 

Ask Senator Cory Booker to discuss lynching and he’ll talk for hours without ever once referring to the worst incidence of lynching in American history.  Is that because it happened to Italians?

On March 14, 1891, 11 Italians were lynched in New Orleans.  They were murdered by a mob for their alleged role in the death of a police officer.  They were lynched after they had been acquitted at trial.  One man was hauled outside, hanged from a lamppost, and shot.  Another was hanged from a tree and shot. Nine others were shot or clubbed to death inside the prison.  The bullet-riddled bodies of the two men were left hanging for hours.
 

The lynching took place the day after the trial of nine men indicted in the case.  Six of the defendants were acquitted, with a mistrial declared for the remaining three because the jury failed to agree on their verdicts.  The lynch mob numbered thousands and included some of the city's most prominent citizens, including a lawyer, local politicians (among them a future Governor), and the editor of the New Delta newspaper.  The mob that lynched the Italians even included some black residents, like Colonel James Lewis, a member of the elite Committee of Fifty and an officer in the Louisiana militia.
 
Mainstream American press coverage of the event was largely congratulatory.  A Boston Globe front-page headline read, "STILETTO RULE: New Orleans Arose to Meet the Curse."  Those responsible for the lynching were never charged.
 
But hey, it gets in the way of the current narrative – that all people of a certain skin tone are “privileged” and have always been “privileged” simply because of that skin tone thing.  Of course, the truth is a bit more complicated than are the certainties offered by the evangelists of BLM and Antifa.  Writing of the Anti-Italian sentiment in New Orleans, Wikipedia notes:
 
In late 19th-century America, there was a growing prejudice against Italians, although they were recruited to satisfy the demand for cheap labor. They were immigrating to the American South, particularly Florida and Louisiana, in large numbers because of poor conditions at home and to fill the shortage of cheap labor created by the end of slavery and the preference of freedmen to work on their own accounts as sharecroppers. Sugar planters, in particular, sought workers who were more compliant than former slaves; they hired immigrant recruiters to bring Italians to southern Louisiana. In the 1890s, thousands of Italians were arriving in New Orleans each year. Many settled in the French Quarter, which by the early 20th century became known as "Little Sicily."
 
…New Orleans Mayor Joseph A. Shakspeare expressed the common anti-Italian prejudice, complaining that the city had become attractive to "...the worst classes of Europe: Southern Italians and Sicilians...the most idle, vicious, and worthless people among us."  He claimed they were "filthy in their persons and homes" and blamed them for the spread of disease, concluding that they were "without courage, honor, truth, pride, religion, or any quality that goes to make a good citizen."
 
Wow… and people today claim about coded words and dog-whistling???

Say their names!  Antonio Bagnetto, James Caruso, Loreto Comitis, Rocco Geraci, Joseph P. Macheca, Antonio Marchesi, Pietro Monasterio, Emmanuele Polizzi, Frank Romero, Antonio Scaffidi, and Charles Traina.

And remember their “privilege” when pandering politicians talk about destroying the monuments to Italian-American culture in America – like those statues to Christopher Columbus, paid for with money collected by Italian-American children. 

Which brings up another point about the BLM/Antifa gang:  Why do they hate art so much that they seek to destroy it?  The sculpture they rip down is the work of artists and craftsmen.  But instead of replacing one piece of art with another, they destroy art and leave the space empty… without art. 
 
Hank Bukowski was right to warn against such preachers…

They will attempt to destroy anything
That differs from their own
Not being able to create art
They will not understand art
They will consider their failure as creators
Only as a failure of the world

And we cannot close without a mention of Congressman Josh Gottheimer, a Democrat, who seems to be channeling some of what that New Orleans mayor, a fellow Democrat, was on about. 

Gottheimer’s campaign has been pushing that old trope linking a certain looking Italian with criminality.  The Gottheimer campaign – 

through direct mail paid for by the Democrat State Committee – has been darkening up the image of opponent Frank Pallotta

and labeling him a “fraudster” for simply working on Wall Street at around the time of the 2008 meltdown.  By “dirtying-up” and darkening Pallotta’s image, Gottheimer invites voters to make the stereotype of the Italian mafioso – long established in the popular imagination of Americans.    
 
Pallotta’s Sicilian good looks aids Gottheimer and the Democrat State Committee in their frankly racist attempt to imply that people who look like Pallotta are criminals or somehow linked to criminal behavior (the Mafia?), as the word “fraudster” plainly indicates.  This has long been part of the eastern Establishment lexicon.  Consider this

New York Times editorial from March 16, 1891:    “These sneaking and cowardly Sicilians, the descendants of bandits and assassins, who have transported to this country the lawless passions, the cut-throat practices, and the oath-bound societies of their native country, are to us a pest without mitigation. Our own rattlesnakes are as good citizens as they... Lynch law was the only course open to the people of New Orleans.”

They got acquitted, so we need to kill them.  A bit like “no justice, no peace”?

Did the New York Times ever apologize for that piece of racism?  Will anyone ask them to apologize?

Wikipedia notes that “most anti-Italian hostility in the United States was directed at Southern Italians, particularly Sicilians.  This was especially true in the American South, where Southern Italians were not considered full-fledged members of the ‘white race’.  The U.S. Bureau of Immigration reinforced this distinction, classifying Northern and Southern Italians as two different races.  Between 1890 and 1910, Sicilians made up less than 4 percent of the white male population, yet were roughly 40 percent of the white victims of southern lynch mobs.  Before that, many white victims were ethnic Irish. They often had peripheral positions, working on construction of levees and railroads, and as farm workers.”
 
Well, it appears that a staple of Establishment hatred continues in America – the hatred of Italians and especially Sicilians.  Long fanned by the media and the entertainment industry, heavily ladled over political campaigns… and now politicians and their mobs are coming to pull down your statues and erase the memory of your ethnic struggle. 
 
Look on the bright side.  At least the New York Times isn’t editorializing that the mob lynch anyone… not yet, anyway.
 

They will attempt to destroy anything
That differs from their own
Not being able to create art
They will not understand art
They will consider their failure as creators
Only as a failure of the world

Charles “Hank” Bukowski