Have you noticed that the mainstream American media just can’t say certain words or express certain ideas anymore? You know, like “Trump is innocent” or “Islamic terrorists”?
I know, Trump is often an obnoxious, self-absorbed boor, intemperate and vindictive toward his enemies, but that doesn’t mean he’s a criminal. The main reason so many—including myself—voted for him is the failure of Democrats to offer anything better; often what they offered was measurably worse. Given the direction of the Democratic Party to date, I and millions more will likely vote to re-elect Trump for a second term.
Living in California gives a distorted perspective of America and the values of tens of millions of us, which are not the values of California’s urban centers, especially the Bay Area. Most Americans value family and are appalled at the idea of a child surviving an abortion being denied medical care or even actively killing the infant. The word not used by most media in this case is “infanticide” and rightly so. When children are so casually discarded and rebranded as “not viable human life,” it’s a short step to euthanasia of elders, first the terminally ill, then the mentally challenged, and finally an official policy of a “duty to die” for everyone. In Europe there are cases of chronically ill patients in their early 20s being euthanized. What passes for doctors in those countries more closely resembles the legacy of the infamous Nazi, Dr. Mengele, than the humanitarian Dr. Schweitzer who spent his life in service to the indigenous peoples of Africa.
Other words the media tends to choke on are anything complimenting Trump as president or as a human being. Did you know that Trump donates his salary each month to either a government department or national charity? Did you know prior to becoming president he sued the city of Palm Beach when he bought a segregated club, Mar A Lago, to open it to Jews and blacks? How about the time he paid to ensure a Mexican-American boy would graduate from college when he saw a news story about his terminally ill mom, or when he dispatched his personal plane to fly a sick Jewish boy for special care when no airline would accommodate his medical condition? Did you know that when American troops were stranded in Saudi Arabia after the first Gulf War in 1991, he dedicated his airline to fly a combat battalion home at the cost of gas only?
Other words not spoken or quickly discarded are “arson” or “terrorism” if any suspicion might be cast upon Islamic terrorists. The destruction of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris comes to mind. Before the ashes had cooled, national media, taking their cue from the French government, left unchallenged the assertion that the fire was accidental and not terrorist related. I’ve participated in arson investigations and never was the cause of a fire of this magnitude so easily dismissed as accidental without witnesses to verify the source of ignition.
France has an issue that our media and most international media refuses to address: a growing problem with Islamic-instigated violence against non-Muslims. France is a very secular state, with its Christian population living under virtual siege from both secularists and a growing and militant Muslim population. Last year, not reported in most media, France experienced 875 attacks, acts of vandalism or arson against Christian churches. Several major Christian churches were vandalized in the two weeks prior to the fire at Notre Dame. That doesn’t mean that the Notre Dame fire was arson, but the media is far too quick to accept the “official explanation” without challenge.
Attacks on Christians globally are on the increase, so much so that Christians are now the most persecuted religious community in the world. According to former White House Press Spokesperson Dana Perino, since 2012 more than 23,000 Christians have been murdered for their faith. The Christian Charity “Open Doors” routinely reports on persecution of the Christian church, especially in Africa and in Muslim-majority countries. Open Doors reports that an average of 105 Christian churches or buildings are attacked or burned every month and that 345 Christians are murdered for their faith every month: 4,136 were killed for their faith in 2018. Did you hear that 120 Christians were killed by Islamic terrorists in Nigeria in March 2019, women and children killed with machetes, entire villages burned down? No major U.S. media outlet covered these stories.
On Easter Sunday, the National Thowheeth Jama’ath, a Sri Lankan Islamic terrorist group, murdered more than 310 people and wounded more than 500 in highly coordinated, technically advanced attacks on Christian churches and tourist hotels. They used high-grade military explosives and demonstrated technically advanced bomb-making techniques. The Sri Lankan government had detailed warning of impending attacks upon churches 10 days prior to the attack but failed to act.
Democratic Party leadership demonstrated its usual level of indifference, if not hostility toward Christians by referring to the Christian victims as “Easter worshippers” instead of referring to them as Christians. That’s the problem with being “politically correct”: You choke on the truth. Δ
Al Fonzi is an Army lieutenant colonel of military intelligence who had a 35-year military career, serving in both the Vietnam and Iraq wars. Send comments through the editor at clanham@newtimesslo.com.
This article appears in Apr 25 – May 5, 2019.
Why compare women exercising their reproductive rights to Nazis when you have a president taking children from mothers and putting them in concentration camps? And why is it that “you just can’t say” white nationalist domestic terrorism? The bar has been lowered so far by this administration of grifters, traitors and racists that it is disingenuous to suggest any criticism is political or a form of derangement syndrome. You’ve gone way past willful ignorance to hostile nihilism defending Trump.
How many unwanted children have you adopted, Al?
Kids born of irresponsible parents know they are not wanted and that nobody cares about how well they do in school, whether they commit crimes or run the streets with a gang of similarly uncontrollable kids. Very few of them turn out ok, and most of those who do turn out to be productive people have been adopted or fostered by loving parents. You can’t complain if you offer no solutions.
And yes, the MMS can’t say what we’re all thinking: Trump is a dick.
Yes, Trump is the ultimate post-modern president. He was elected because of his stance on immigration which is the primary issue that acutely affects all working Americans. However, Trump has proven to be completely unwilling to act on anything not related to Israel. Obama was much better at securing the border than Trump.
Bernie Sanders is the conservative choice now. He is an old fashioned moralist promising what Europe had 50 years ago. He was a critic of the Koch Brothers promotion of open borders. 20th Century notions of left and right are over, capitalism vs. socialism is a false dichotomy. There is infinitely more at stake now, the entire existence of a peoples is hanging in the balance.
If Bernie Sanders promises to end the open borders policy of the Trump Administration he will win, guaranteed.
Al, forget it you can never convince the left in SLO County that Trump is not a leader nor willing to make America stronger. By the comments mentioned already they continue to criticize and demean him only because his view towards anti semitic ranting congresswomen makes him a racists and encourages the mentally ill of murdering attacks on the innocent, because he believes in pro life he is Satan himself.
The Democrats have no one that can make changes for the better, Bernie is a committed socialist and it’s great for him to earn millions and not share the wealth but for the average Joe he wants to control your worth because he knows better according to him. All the others have no true direction or purpose other than making claims that will never be played out and make statements without any factual data but they can assure you that the end of civilization is coming soon (10 years).
Tump will walkway with another win come 2020 so not too worry SLO will continue to hate because that’s what hypocrites do.
Lucio Acosta gets the Tucker-Carlson-Pissed-Off award of the week!
Regarding the “innocence” of the self-proclaimed sex offender, liar, bigot, and nationalist, all I have to say is this:
199, 37, 5
Let’s see if you can guess what those numbers represent, aside from the Republican willingness to allow Russia to attack our elections so long as they can benefit from it.