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July 4 2014 Rockaway Park NY in the 43rd year of The Society |
On Islamophomia
David Lawrence: There is no such thing as Islamophobia. That implies that the fear of Islam is a mental illness, a phobia. But it is a correct conclusion in a world of jihad. On Islamics celebrating the brutal assassination of Lee Rigby a soldier in the British Palace Guard:
David Lawrence: Disgusting
On Sharia Law in Britain
David Lawrence: I can`t see the British stoning their wives. On the other hand, when you bend over backwards for foreigners, they break your back.
In response to the remarks of Recep Tayyip Erdogans, Prime Minister of Turkey: "Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers,"
David Lawrence: Interesting that Erdogan confuses religion with violence.
David Lawrence: It is a religion of killing. Death be not proud. It is Muslim.
David Lawrence: Muslims are baffling. They are so prejudiced and antique that their religion should be illegal.
Awesome David Lawrence: tells it like it is:
When Obama tells us that Islam is a religion of peace, he is selling us another clunker. He doesn`t care. He says whatever comes into his head. He is not a thinker. He is an orator of ideas opposed to the truth and American traditions.
He feeds on the anger of the young to speak out against his own country. He wants a revolution. He wants to replace the greatest government in the world by the misogynistic, brutal, male-centered, intolerance of Islam.
David Lawrence: It`s amazing that feminists complain about one dollar raises but don`t give a damn about female executions in Muslim countries.
David Lawrence: Islam insults itself through its cruelty.
David Lawrence: Muslims are interested in heaven in heaven and hell on earth.
On A SHARIA FREE ZONE
David Lawrence: With these animals and the liberals failing to block them the world will be gone in twenty years.
On using U.S. taxpayers` money to pay for preaching of Islam,
David Lawrence: We should have bought the Nazis helmets in WWII. Separation of church and state covers synagogues and churches but not mosques.
On a group which instructs Muslims to infiltrate positions of power in order to implement sharia law in America:
David Lawrence: They should be in jail for threatening to overthrow our government and replacing it with sharia.
David Lawrence: The Muslims are the French sans culottes during the Reign of Terror. It always starts with the angry lower classes linking extremism to self-righteousness. The Moslems are spiritually and physically ugly. The French at least have the redeeming grace of beauty.
David Lawrence: Pearl Harbor was nothing compared to 9/11. And yet weak-minded US folk feel that Muslims should still have rights, mosques and liberties. We did more than ban Japanese temples in America during WWII. We should ban mosques. This is not disallowing religious freedom but protecting our freedoms from a brutal, misogynistic religion.
David Lawrence: Muslims are jealous that we have heads, brains and kindliness.
To the ISLAM SCHOLAR who SUGGESTED SEX WITH GOATS
David Lawrence: What idiocy. Screwing a sheep is not sinful? Alright, it`s simply disgusting. And killing sheep because of your lust is disgusting.
David Lawrence: Sick people. The Nazis have no religion and the Moslems have a recent one with no historical validity.
David Lawrence: All women should leave Muslim countries and refuse to reproduce with those beastly men.
David Lawrence: Peace is the sham liberals promote to hide their fascination with violence and self-destruction.
David Lawrence: Feminists in America worry about men earning ten cents an hour more than them. The torture of women in Moslem countries is only secondary to these self-centered, irrational women. Feminism is undercut by its failure to empathize with the plight of women in other countries. It is a spoiled, joke.
On the teenage Austrian girls who ran away from home to join jihad and wear niqabs,
David Lawrence: What idiots.
On Disloyal Soldiers
David Lawrence: He has the right to say f * * k the flag. But he has no right to join the army with that attitude.
David Lawrence: We are enemies to ourselves.
On The Obama-Nation
Obama is an island to himself. He is not touched by the truth of invasive oceans.
Read more at Awesome Dave in Eagle Rising
David Lawrence: It`s embarrassing that Americans are naïve and stupid enough to like Ob amacare. They will wake up before they die and there are no doctors to help them. Death is a beautiful thing when it is not your own.
Read more at Awesome David Lawrence in Eagle Rising
David Lawrence: President Obama is a pathetic joke. Obama openly defies our security and our country and the traitorous Democrats think nothing of backing his treason. He should be impeached just for this. And a million other failures.
David Lawrence: A media owned by the White House is a dangerous disease.
David Lawrence: The world disappoints President Obama because he can`t fantasize that the world could believe him.
Our President went to Harvard, the refuge of slick thinking and truncated depth. A university that gives away good grades so that they don`t have to admit they accepted rich dummies and affirmative action charity cases.
Read more at Awesome David Lawrence in Eagle Rising
David Lawrence: President Obama is not very bright. He is a light bulb shining on himself and not seeing the filaments.
From the mouth of an idiot, comes a good phrase. From empty heads come good quotes. Witness our President.
From Eagle Rising at Awesome Dave in Eagle Rising
David Lawrence: Grass is for morons who just want to break the rules to be different when they are monotonously the same. President Obama`s choice of morons shows that he thinks that we are morons. We are.
David Lawrence: British Prince Harry is a prince; Prince Obama is a princess.
OBAMA: THE DRUM MAJORETTE
You fold into the lapel of your blackness like a handkerchief into a suit pocket.
You place your whiteness in a dish on the side.
walking around the White House like a donkey,
Kicking your legs up into liberal ideology like you want to hoof
And dance with made-up beneficent thoughts.
You are a majorette leading a band of praise for yourself.
Read more in Awesome David Lawrence in Eagle Rising<
OBAMA ON BENGHAZI: phony scandal
David Lawrence: Great poster. Teleprompters dictate scandals.
David Lawrence: Democrats tell lies like Republicans tell truths. It seems lies are real vote getters.
David Lawrence: President Obama is on the side of aimless speech. He wanders in the stupidity of his own rhetoric.
David Lawrence: Obama has no right to ruin America. Winning the vote is just an indication of the stupidity of the majority.
David Lawrence: Obama defines himself as unpatriotic.
David Lawrence: You can judge President Obama as historically bad, lacking in experience, intelligence and integrity. He is the joke whispered by an ignorant public. He is the youth vote. The product of dummies.
David Lawrence: We knew what we were getting. Our votes for Obama were our violations of ourselves. What idiots. On President Obama`s refusal to enforce laws barring Iranian Hostage takers From US,
David Lawrence: President Obama is not an enforcer. He is enforced by a stupid ideology.
David Lawrence: If thought were a crime we needn`t worry. President Obama couldn`t commit the crime. He is thoughtless.
On the SATANIC STATUE ON A STATEHOUSE LAWN FOR "INSPIRATION"
David Lawrence: Obama`s fingers are pointing.
David Lawrence: President Obama isn`t worth more words. I don`t want his stupidity messing up my gift of language.
On Michelle Obama`s red banner
David Lawrence: She doesn`t stand up for her country because she has such an amorphous personality that she identifies with the enemy. What we see here is an effete rich woman playing at being a liberal just because it gives her political clout.
On Michael Obama`s Vacations:
David Lawrence: From the fantasy world she`s living in?
On The Obam-acylypse
David Lawrence: The horrors of Obamacare are just beginning to unfold. No one understands it. We don`t want to.
On Obama`s Collaborators
Commenting on the democrat senator who though a crusader for Gun Control Crusader was arrested for Gun Trafficking:
David Lawrence: He reminds me of Obama pretending that he cares about the Middle Class while he lowers their standard of living. Hypocrisy is endemic to Democrats because they are always pronouncing Utopian palaver.
Responding to a leftist pundit who declared: "We have an aging white America. They are not making babies. They are dying. The explosion is in our population… "
David Lawrence: This jerk has got to be kidding. We are not shitting in our pants. He has inane thoughts in his moronic head.
Commenting on the EPA Bureaucrat who watched Porn all day on Government time and qualified for a bonus ,
David Lawrence: The EPA fantasizes. Global warming is pornography.
David Lawrence: People like USAG Erick Holder threaten because they have power. Take away the power; watch him cower.
On Al Sharpton`s snitching for the FBI:
David Lawrence: A guy wore a wire against me. He was more guilty than I. My snitch got no time and I got two years. He was a disgusting rat.
On His Excellency Governor Andrew Cuomo
Governor Cuomo, I live in New York but New York doesn`t live in me.
From Awesome Dave in Eagle Rising
On White Liberals
David Lawrence: A Harvard education is the first sign of stupidity. It inflates the student with a false sense of superiority, leading him to make simple-minded mistakes.
David Lawrence: Put the liberals in the field and let them get shot in the backs as they run carrying their ideological garbage in their knapsacks.
David Lawrence: Stupid greed at least admits that it`s greedy. False philanthropy is dishonest taking of credit where none is due.
Liberals hate any race different from them even though they put up a big, fake song and dance about how accepting and all-encompassing they are. Bigots are prejudiced people dressed in the Klu Klux Clan robes of academia and hipster jeans. They are hatred hidden beneath false love.
From TPN Awesome Dave in TPN
On Sharia Law for White Liberals
David Lawrence: Dip White Liberals noses in dog poop--that`s why they are $ # ! 7 heads.
On Holy Hillery`s Declaration of Moral Bankruptcy
David Lawrence: Her first honest words.
David Lawrence: Democrats are Jungian examples of thoughtless impetus towards ideological thought.
David Lawrence: Holy Hillary Clinton does have an accomplishment--she stayed married to Bill while he was cheating all over town. Shows self-effacement or political ambition.
David Lawrence: `Holy` Hillary Clinton is a spaced out reflection of mindless liberal ideology.
David Lawrence: When will the Democrats trot out Sandra Fluke again? Fluke is a flake. She is an insult to women who have suffered real injuries.
David Lawrence: Liberals are literally stupid, boring and dull.
WHILE WHITE LIBERALS WEPT…
Since when is a lethal injection as "horrible (a) thing to witness" as serial felon Lockett shooting Stephanie Neiman with a sawed-off shotgun and watching as two friends buried her alive.
Read more at Awesome Dave in Eagle Rising
For an anti-capitalist Mayor Bill Diblaso of NYC who hates income inequality he seems to place a lot of value on money.
David Lawrence: Does our Mayor Bill DiBlaso of NYC lose his brain inside his humongous body? He can`t find it. So he spouts liberal clichés in imitation of thought.
"The word "racism" has become an accusation rather than an exploratory option. It is not an opening for discussion. It is a stubborn condemnation." ~ Awesome Dave
On the college debate clubs abandonment of the traditional tournament format because it promotes white privilege,
David Lawrence: There are a lot worse things than racism. What about rape and murder. Get over the modern racist icon.
On a School District`s appeasement of Mouslem residents by organizing a debate whether the Holocaust really happened:
David Lawrence: Why doesn`t the school ask if the sun is real or just a light placed in the sky to promote the sale of suntan cream?
AWESOME David Lawrence: compares Wo-Boma & Deblasio:
"When you call a shipwreck a plane crash you still end up on the bottom of the sea."
Mayor de Blasio honeymooned in Cuba. Cuba is an insult to liberty and a failure economically. It is an island paradise without the paradise.
Read more at Awesome Dave at Eagle Rising
ON RACISM
David Lawrence: racist comments don`t compare to racist actions
"Racism has become a name-calling device pointing at opposition, an accusation which floats in the air till it lands on a victim and is used for argumentation rather than honest debate."
"Whisper to your friend that I`m a Jew, I don`t care. Think that you dislike me because I`m a Jew, I don`t care. But try to put a swastika on my forehead and I will *** [make you regret same]."
Read more at Awesome Dave at Eagle Rising
ON Illegal Immigration:
David Lawrence: They are not assimilated. They are a direct threat and threaten to take jobs from our youth.
AWESOME DAVE ON
David Lawrence:
David Lawrence: Thanks. I enjoyed the comments. Of course, I forget them after I write them.
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Charles Frederickson:
Kerry on, John!
In 2004, I wrote an article published by Peace Corps’ Worldview Magazine titled “The future of peace lies with John Kerry”, stating “I was born in the buckle of the Bible Belt and was taught to respect and honour the democratic values of fair play, liberty and justice for all humanity. As a Peace Corps volunteer, I became a pragmatic idealist, chronic optimist and heretical “just do it” believer, appreciative of free opportunities and conveniences I had for too long simply taken for granted, but also emotionally disturbed and perturbed about the indignities and inequities suffered by the circumstantially less fortunate, determined to somehow make a significant positive impact.
Now, a decade later, Prince Valiant John Kerry has been fighting an extraordinarily fierce uphill battle to broker a framework for a sustainable peaceful coexistence deal between Israel and the Palestinians. Continuing the occupation would be catastrophic, deepening distrust and isolation. The Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas sides remain diametrically opposed on the final issues of borders, settlements, Jerusalem, refugees, security and declaration of Israel as a Jewish state. I find especially offensive the contempt, mockery and unfair strident criticism of Kerry’s tireless efforts, with hardcore right-wing bigots playing the shame & blame game, calling John “naïve and Messianic.” He deserves our grateful admiration and wholehearted support for taking on and relentlessly pursuing a seemingly impossible mission.
As an increasingly isolated and bellicose Israel moves closer to the abyss, we must not ignore the urgent pleas of the Palestinian people (and the silent majority of Israelis) for a safe and secure solution for disillusioned future generations. The Palestinians deserve to be treated with dignity in their own independent sovereign state instead of constantly facing discrimination regarding such issues as health, education, property rights, infrastructure, political process, free access and fair-minded justice. Peaceful coexistence with Jerusalem as a shared capital is the only viable negotiated solution. Pax vobiscum.
No Holds Bard Charles Frederickson
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Charles Fredrickson:
Mongering
A monger is defined as someone involved with something in a petty or contemptuous way. Fear is triggered by condescension and being treated unfairly with lack of dignified respect. A warmonger is someone who urges or attempts to stir up conflict, with synonyms including agitator, firebrand, belligerent, chauvinist. Other kinds of mongers intent on causing trouble and outrage range from scaremonger and rumormonger to sensation-monger and hatemonger.
Israel’s “hawkward” thinking power-monger birds of prey Gaza striptease strategy is being plotted by 3 B’s – Prime Minister Bibi, Defense Minister Bogie and Chief of Staff Benny, excluding the hard-line extremist Foreign Minister who advocates the total annihilation of Hamas. In classical music, supposed primacy of Brahms (lullabies), Bach (Brandenberg Concertos) and Beethoven celebrate Odes to Joy. In occupied Gaza, however, the harsh off-key siege plays nonstop cacophonous, atonal, disharmonic death-monger dirges. Ever since the no-go-tiations aiming to reach an accord potentially leading to peace and eventual reconciliation failed miserably, acts of revenge, brutality, retribution, violence and intolerance have intensified. The major culprits torpedoing any peaceful coexistence deal were Netanyahu, aptly described as “a fossilized relic of the past” and his ultra-nationalist strident right-wing settler supporters.
Whether black, white, beige, mottled, all of humanity with the same colored blood share basic wants, desires and needs for food, water, shelter, and deserve to be indiscriminately treated as physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually equals. We all aspire to wellness, safety, affection, love, passion and a future of hopeful possibilities for our beloved families and disheartened, over-stressed children, free of imposed occupation unfriendly invasion constraints. Continuing the bellicose fear-monger occupation without reaching a fair-minded sustainable 2-state mutually sovereign solution would be catastrophic. There’s increasing international pressure for a de-legitimization campaign that’s been gaining momentum, including boycotts, divestment and sanctions further isolating Israel, which I now support as the only legitimate alternative.
No Holds Bard Charles Frederickson Bangkok, Thailand
SEPARATENESS WITHOUT EQUALITY
Apartheid (meaning apartness or separation) segregates groups based on racial, political or socio-economic distinctions, but in Israel, a 2-tiered system of privilege and favoritism for Jews compared with deprivation and discrimination for Palestinians is blatantly obvious, deepening fear, distrust, insecurity concerns related to change and threats of extinction. More than 5 million Palestinians are denied equal rights and fair treatment by Israel ultra-nationalists enforcing ethnic segregation. Under bellicose Israeli military occupation, Palestinians suffer humiliating restrictive abuses including: no right of free speech, expression, assembly or movement; arrest and imprisonment without charge or trial; home searches without warrant; and no right to vote for the Israeli government (even though it controls virtually every aspect of their beleagured lives.
Failure to reach an accord leading to peaceful coexistence and reconciliation focuses on the point during the testy negotiations when PM Netanyahu imposed a new pre-condition – that the Palestinian delegation must recognize Israel as the “nation state of the Jewish people,” rephrased as an exclusively Jewish state. It seemed obvious that Netanyahu, aptly described as a fossilized relic of the past, was looking for a cop-out to pacify his hardcore right-wing extremists, torpedoing any potential deal. Throughout the negotiating process, Israel continued to expand and speed-up illegal settlements, reportedly finalizing 4868 home tenders and processing plans for an additional 8983 settler homes. An estimated 180,000 Palestinians live in Israel-controlled areas. Israel controls all Palestinian borders, all air space, all imports and exports, water access and all movement between towns and cities.
The Gaza Strip – surrounded, besieged and controlled by Israel has been sealed off and effectively turned into the world’s largest open-air concentration camp. Millions of displaced Palestinians remain refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and elsewhere, disallowed from returning to their former homes and land in present-day Israel, even though the right of return for refugees is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Continuing the suffocating occupation would be catastrophic for all sides. The growth of Israel is tied to its enormous high-tech start-ups and overpowering nuclear arsenal capabilities. The United Nations must take a more pro-active stance in remedying an untenable situation. There’s an increasingly de-legitimization campaign that’s been building momentum to end apartheid, including boycotts, divestment and sanctions which I personally see as the only way to break the strident in-denial bullyrag persecution stifling dissent.
No Holds Bard Bangkok, Thailand
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John Blandy:
GINGER
I think I will never see
a red, red rose as beautiful as you.
In the film of my life
you were a glorious flower.
Dancing across the stage
in the theater of the unconscious--
in my dreams, Ginger, behave.
R.P.P.S
PO Box 280
Ronkonkoma, NY 11779
March 28, 2014
Gerald Baker, Editor In Chief
Wall Street Journal
1211 Avenue of the Americas (6th Ave)
New York City, NY 10036
Reference: Brett Stephens, Misunderestimating Vladimir
WSJ 3/11/14, pA13
Dear Mr. Baker:
The Gentlemen of the Rockaway Park Philosophical Society bid you greetings. Recently, the Gentlemen were discussing the upheaval in the Ukraine following the ouster of its pro-Russian president in a US engineered coup d’etat. One of our members raised Mr. Stephen’s most fascinating article comparing Russian resurgence to the tragic comedy of Mussolini’s adventures in Abyssinia. The peaceful reunification of the Crimea with Mother Russia was obtained after a popular vote.
Russia has been in the Crimea since the 17th century. By comparison the US has only been in Texas since 1846. In the 17th and 18th century the Czars ousted the Tartu sand reestablished Russian control there lost two centuries earlier when the Asiatic hoards brought down the principality.
What is called Ukraine is a construct of Stalinist times to divide and rule the Russian people. In 1940, Ukraine was enlarged by absorption of Polish territories west of the Dnieper River. Thus, one of the difficulties with Ukraine as a state lies in the very foundation, its historical origins.
To the Russian, the Second World War is the Great Patriotic War in which Russia having first sought a peaceful accommodation with its German neighbor was savagely attached and betrayed. To those absorbed into Ukraine in 1940 with the Soviet Union’s invasion of Poland, the war was an act of aggression against them by Russia.
No state can exist with such a fundamental chasm, a contradiction at its basis. Recently when the US inspired mobs forced the democratically elected Russian President of Ukraine out of office, Russians naturally sought the protection of the Red Army against the Drang Nach Osten launched by President Obama.
Mr. Stephens believes that Putin is determined. In that he is correct. Russian blood boils against a repeat of June, 1940.
Mr. Stephens is as incorrect on The Historic President Obama’s resort to moral opprobrium. I’m pretty sure the gutter crawling Chicago rabble rouser could not define either word. If by “moral opprobrium” Mr. Stephens means hot air, then Mr. Obama may use such liberally. The US has nothing more formidable capable of facing the Red Army.
How many years would alleged “super patriots” like Mr. Stephens serve in the front lines to give the Red Army a little run for its money? Answer none.
On that note, the Society bids you a most cheery cheerio.
For the Society,
Jack Acies
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Anthony Mendez:
FOREVER SEARCH
It has become the vision that holds truth
The dream that never comes
The stars are lovers that all must burn
If they were mine to choose, I`d have reason to look up
But little control we all poses
If black is my light, have no cause to fear night
Pain is a way for the ones who talk
translated to us all in some form of truth
Lessons that never resolve upon arrival
Just a permanent vacation in the form of hurt, in which they all reside
You give me something to lose
The lesser of two evils
I now hold serenity with a certainty to fail
But without you, I will forever search
Rockaway Park Philosophical Society
P.O. Box 280
Ronkonkoma, NY 11779
23 March 2014
Gerard Baker
Managing Editor, The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
1211 Avenue of the Americas (6th Ave)
New York, NY 10036
Reference: Daniel Henninger, AMERICAN FATIGUE SYNDROME, WSJ 3.20.14 p A13
Dear Gerard Baker:
The Gentlemen of the Rockaway Park Philosophical Society bid you greetings. Some of our members read the Wall Street Journal for inspiration before preparing most scholarly tracts. At a recent discussion of the war in Irak, one of our members raised Mr Henninger`s most fascinating article on the reluctance of the HISTORIC PRESIDENT Barak Hussein Obama to become involved in a tussle with the Red Army over the Ukraine, historically part of the old Russian Empire since the 17th century. Russia has greater claim to Ukrainia than the US has to Ohio.
Mr Henninger sees in the HISTORIC PRESIDENT`s demurer from active involvement in internal Russian matters a withdrawal from involvement in world affairs to the detriment of spreading the type of rule by decree (executive order) democracy that prevails in the US. Indeed contrary to Mr Henninger, the US had no qualms fairly recently in joining its allies Britain and France in bombing Libya to such a saturation point that the allies lacked the munitions to attack Syria and THE HISTORIC PRESIDENT was left a pathetic figure with some empty sabre waving at Syria and Iran.
Mr Henninger misreads the tea leaves incorrectly on the War in Irak. Surely, there US propaganda claims a great victory. Indeed THE HISTORIC PRESIDENT`s Hussein Obama`s predecessor claimed victory any number of times. US propaganda bills the "victory" as the foundation of democracy in the Middle East. Reality somewhat differs.
There is something to power that is so addicting that when it fades, the illusion of it remains and when it is broken the memory is still served. Mr Henninger is caught between the illusion and the memory.
Flags did go up after THE HISTORIC PRESIDENT`s predecessor took flight on 9-11 and ran off into Canada. Enlistments did not. Where in World War II the ground trembled with the boots of US troops, in Irak, a scratch force, probably less than that of Switzerland`s, was maintained only by recycling those unlucky enough to have been under enlistment contracts on 9-12-01 until their brains fried or they ran away. They were calling back officers (or trying to) who had retired or resigned as late as 1990. Some were in their 60s by that time. Nation Guard troops mutinied and refused to do S & T duties (that`s Supply and Transportation to you US people; American Army folk call it by the descriptive slang: Smoke and Tote.)
You left Irak a pristine democracy, one where the people were living in rubble or the port-o-potties left behind by US troops who slipped away in the middle of the night like a defeated rabble.
Should the supposed evil dictator Putin, acting after a US engineered coup ousted an Orthodox Christian and ethnic Russian from Ukrainia`s presidency, have held the Red Army back from resisting the US`s DRAG NACH OSTEN?
What could the HISTORIC PRESIDENT Hussein Obama do? Use the "wonder weapons" and commit the legions of Bullet Headed Troops. Both were conspicuously absent when the "liberated" Libyans took down THE HISTORIC PRESIDENT`s personal representative, the US Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and his marine body guard. ANSWER: you don`t have them.
THE HISTORIC PRESIDENT Hussein Obama can only do what he has done: the sanctions. That only means that the US is refusing to ante up and pay its debts. A man of Mr Putin`s caliber acting on just cause in conformance with the democratic wishes of the Crimean electorate expressed in its plebiscite already knows the US is a bankrupt hulk which can`t pay its debts any more than it can fight Russia over The Ukraine.
It is on that note, The Society, bids you A Most Cheery Cherio,
Sincerely,
FOR THE SOCIETY,
Thomas Dean
TD/dfs
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28 July 2014
Gerard Baker, Editor in Chief
Wall Street Journal
1211 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
RE: Gladstone Republicans WSJ 31 May 2014, p A-11
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Dear Gerard Baker:
The Gentlemen of THE ROCKAWAY PARK PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY bid you greetings. Some of our members read the WSJ for inspiration before preparing most scholarly tracts.
Recently, The Society was discussing the projection of power through the Gun Boat Diplomacy of the Gladstone-Disraeli Age in England and comparing it to the interventionism of the self-proclaimed President George W Bush and his successor The Historic President popularly elected with a heavy vote from the cemeteries. One of our number raised the most fascinating article urging Republicans to espouse a Gladstonian posture.
The Society believes that most inside the US and many of those jumping the barrier in Texas are living in an Empire of Wishful Thinking. The article Gladstone Republicans by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge is illustrative. The author reads the power curve incorrectly. Contrary to those learned authors, the US is not in the stage of the growing empire of Disraeli and Gladstone but somewhere in eclipse well beyond the sunset years of The Imperium some 70-80 years later post 1956 Suez crisis as the Empire floundered in the tempest of the winds of change.
Endless wars, countless interventions, beneficent Social Welfare programmes, entitlements and boondoggles generous beyond the nation`s capacity to support, a tidal wave of inassimilable immigrants, and losing face in front of the Arabs at Suez in 1956, the hijackings of 1960s and 1970s, the oil crisis of 1970, the Iranian hostage crisis, failures in the war in Irak and Afghanistan, and most recently at Benghazi where The Historic President danced the night away with Beyonce and allowed his personal representative Ambassador Chris Stevens to be raped and murdered without a wonder weapon in sight have taken their toll.
If we put The US on the curve of Imperial decline, the US hardly rising. Indeed it is folding faster than Britain. There is a certain predestination in the lives of men and nations that simply cannot be avoided.
It is on that note, The Society bids you,
A most cheery Cherio,
FOR THE SOCIETY
Thomas Dean TD/dfs
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