Two blogs have picked up on a common theme: the international peace movement is thus far silent over the Russio-Georgian War.

Charlie Foxtrot has this to say:

“Remember all those breathless, and wholly incorrect, charges leveled at the U.S. at numerous "peace" protests concerning the war in Iraq? Well now all those charges are *actually* happening in South Ossetia.....so where are the calls for vast marches on the National Mall, or in Paris or Berlin, to protest this *actual* imperialist aggression?? Nowhere to be seen....”

‘Everybody Has An Opinion’ looks for reason with this:

…when it is clear it is an imperialistic grab for territory and resources, when it is clear innocent civilians are being killed, when it is clear it is about oil, why no protests???

Could it be the anti-war protesters' operational principle is "I am against war only if America is involved??????”

EHAO comes close to nailing it.

Why are there no major protests over the Russio-Georgian War? There are two reasons:  the international peace movement is corrupt and they see no gain in it.

The international peace movement is actually a socialist movement. Their real strategy is to weaken western (American) power. If they truly stood for peace, they would be in the streets with the same force they protested the Iraqi War. Their cause is corrupted through their associations with their old Soviet masters. In my article “The Coming Darkness: An Analysis of the Left” I say this:

Once a movement has crossed the Phase Five threshold, the final stage is close behind... Phase Six is Corruption- when the power brokers have completely compromised a movement and power itself becomes the new cause.

The KGB most likely held the reigns on many of these organizations all the way through early 1990s and their influence can still be felt today. They won’t use the war to bludgeon their old benefactor. Its not about peace, it’s now about power.

They see no gain protesting this war. Leftist movements have three goals: acquire power, expand power, and defend power. They use a simple formula to attain these goals.

All leftist movements are built on two elements. The first element is the crisis. The crisis is a victim class, a disaster (imminent or occurring), or both. The second element is the grievance. The grievance is always targeted at a villain, who by action or inaction is responsible for the crisis. The crisis is an excuse to file the grievance. The grievance serves two purposes. It’s is a lighting rod to manipulate the movement’s faithful - a conduit to channel hate, anger or guilt. It also serves to punish the villain. Built on fear and envy, these movements are never for something, but always against something.

The Russians are the villains, the invasion is the crisis, and the victims are the innocent civilians caught in the crossfire. Its all legitimate, but useless to the peace movement. The grievance won’t further their power.

The purpose of punishing the villain is to strip him of his wealth, power and resources. It requires the villain adhere to a rule of law. The Russians, being a thugocracy, don’t bend to international law or public opinion. The weapons of the left don’t work on the left. The peace movement can’t use this crisis to gain or expand its power.

To summarize, the Russians are an old ally of the peace movement, they are immune to the peace movement’s tactics, and there is nothing to be gained by protesting the Russians. This is why you aren’t seeing protests on the scale of those against the Iraq War in 2003.

What will the peace movement’s excuse be if pressed on this question by the media? They will say the suddenness of the invasion caught them off guard.

If you want to learn more about how the Left operates, read The Coming Darkness: An Analysis of the Left.

From the 13 August Southeast Sun, Page 3A: Illegal Immigrant Charged: Mexican native Jorge Romero remains behind bars at the Coffee County Jail following his arrest on various sex-related crimes.

Romero was taken into custody by Enterprise investigators and charges with rape, two counts of sodomy and two counts of sex abuse in the fist degree according to arrest reports.

His arrest follows a week long investigation into Romero’s' role in the molestation of two girls, ages 6 & 7.

According to Lolley, the EPD was contacted by Geneva County Department of Human Resources about an alleged sex crime that occurred in the city. The department informed officers the young girls, both residents of Geneva County, had told their mother about the abuse and she called human resources.

The girls informed the department Romero had been molesting them while they visited a family friend, Romero’s girlfriend, according to Lolley.

The molestation, according to the girls, had been ongoing for almost a year.

Officers conducted interviews with both victims and Romero as well as had the girls undergo medical examinations.

While in custody Romero admitted to the officers he was an illegal immigrant.

At least this story was on page 3A and presents the story in a straightforward manner.

Our children are being attacked and raped by people here illegally. These aliens are being let in our nation’s back door by corrupt politicians bowing to misguided activists and business and foreign lobbyists. These links detail the how illegals are savaging our children:

Impact of Illegal Immigration

Predatory Aliens

Another Child Gang Raped by Illegals In America

They "just disappeared," says beekeeper Louise Rossberg. "There's nothing there. There's no bees on the ground anywhere. There's just a completely empty hive." This is known as “Colony Collapse Disorder”, or CCD. It’s still a mystery to scientist.

Until now…

All the bees have moved to Miami. Over 3 million bees, Italian bees at that, have suddenly turned up in Miami. A Miami beekeeper said he removed the second largest hive he has encountered in his 20-year career -- about 3 million bees -- from a home.

While scientist are baffled, Democrats are not, they’re blaming the Bush Adminstration. It would appear bees from across America took out risky adjustable rate mortgages and have had their hives either foreclosed or just walked away from their properties entirely. “Hillary Clinton's got interested in this in the last week or so," said David Hackenberg, the beekeeper leading the drive to publicise their plight…And she's not alone," he said. "There's a lot of Congressmen have called...wanting to know what's going on. It's serious.”

However, the recent mortgage bail-out bill just passed by congress and signed by the president has coaxed bees out of hiding, making them feel safe to start over again. They’re refinancing to stable fixed-rate mortgages and snapping up bargain-rate properties in Florida’s depressed real-estate markets.

Republicans are concerned, since most of these Italian bees come from the Democratic strongholds of New York and New Jersey, and will put Florida in play for Obama this fall.

The left is predictable. So predictable we as conservatives should NEVER be surprised or caught off-guard by them…period. Their behaviors, membership, and actions follow a standard template which I detail in my article The Coming Darkness, An Analysis of the Left. In that article I analyzed those who populate modern leftist movements. The most dangerous class of leftists are those I call "Angry Ones.” I described them this way:

At the bottom are the hard core believers, the revolutionaries. They are the legacy of the 1960’s campus radical movement. These anarchists often populate universities and are the faithful shock-troops. Bored, self-centered, immature, and spoiled they are society’s bitter and disaffected. Their anger gives them purpose and makes them difficult to reason with. These movements exploit and focus that anger. Usually men...(they are) the first to protest, their zeal and mindless devotion make them easy to mobilize and prone to radicalism. For this reason sometimes their role is denied by the organization’s higher levels. The Angry Ones...are their movements’ true believers, the common foot soldiers. They operate under the illusion they are expressing individualism. In reality, they surrender their identity to the movement and independent thought for dogma.

The Animal Rights Movement has a particular vicious class of Angry Ones. This week Angry Ones at the University of California tried to kill two researchers and their families by firebombing their houses and cars. They call themselves 'animal liberationist,' conjuring comic images of gerbils dressed up like Che Guevara. There is nothing funny about them, however. They targeted small children in these attacks. These people are dangerous anarchist terrorists and should be pursued by law enforcement as tenaciously as any Islamofascist.

They’re spawned by groups like North American Animal Liberation (I guess if you're an oppressed varmint in Asia they don't care). I’m sure this group dutifully and predictably denies any affiliation with these radicals. Neither is it an accident they operate in the vicinity of the University of California. It’s a safe bet they are current or recent students. They might even be faculty, but probably not. Most leftist professors don’t have the courage of their convictions, preferring the safety of academia and letting useful idiots do their dirty work.

So, for their spot-on adherence to the left-wing script I hereby bestow upon the criminally dangerous UC Animal Rights Movement the 12 Monkeys Trophy for being the Angry Ones of the Month. 

If you’re new to this blog and want to know how the left really operates, read The Coming Darkness, An Analysis of the Left. You’ll never watch the news or read the paper the same way again.

LEVEL PLAINS MAN CHARGED WITH RAPE OF 4-YEAR OLD GIRL (Staff reporter) A 32-year old Level Plains man is on federal hold at the Dale County Jail after being charged with raping a 4-year old girl, according to the Dale county Sheriff’s Office.

Dale County Chief Sheriff’s Investigator Harvey Mathis said sheriff’s investigators arrested Marcs Velazquez Morales on Wednesday on Private Road 1428 after allegations were reported to the Coffee County Department of Human Resources.

Morales was charged with rape and sexual abuse.

Mathis said Morales is an illegal alien who was departed from Kansas in 2003.

Mathis said Morales in on hold at the Dale County Jail for federal authorities, although a $90,000 cash bond was set.

In my blog, The Third Betrayal, I discuss the ongoing lie-by-omission local media perpetrates about illegal aliens. These aliens are dramatically altering our nation’s small town social fabric and little of it is being reported. This story is a prime example of this phenomenon.

Why does this important story rate mention on the very last page of local, state and national news? What’s on page 1? The city is getting it’s first bike path. What’s on page 5? A job fair announcement. On page 9? A nice story about a dominoes tournament at a local senior citizens home. A baby getting raped by someone who shouldn’t even be here gets a tiny blurb on page 10.

Second, the headline is intentionally misleading. Morales is not a “Level Plains man.” He isn’t a legal resident of the tiny town of Level Plains, let alone Alabama or the United States. A more accurate headline would be PREVIOUSLY DEPORTED ILLEGAL ALIEN CHARGED WITH RAPE OF 4-YEAR OLD.

Third, if he is on federal hold how does he rate bond? Can there be any better candidate for flight risk? What is going on here?

The betrayal continues.

Why does John McCain irritate so many conservatives in his own party? Why don’t they trust him, no matter how much he claims he was a ‘foot soldier’ in the Reagan Revolution? Maybe it’s because he makes statements like this (from Bloomberg at http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aVLF68kNBUgAO):

Senator John McCain put the blame on Wall Street for the home mortgage credit crisis that has roiled financial markets around the world. ``Wall Street is the villain in the things that happened in the subprime lending crisis and other areas where investigations and possible prosecution is going on,'' McCain said during a taped appearance on ABC's ``This Week'' program.

…he supports the housing bill passed by Congress yesterday to stem foreclosures and aid Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the largest U.S. mortgage-finance companies, even though it may cost taxpayers as much as $25 billion.

McCain, 71, said the risk of the mortgage companies' failure is outweighed by the potential cost. He also said Fannie and Freddie should be barred from lobbying Congress and their executives' compensation should be reduced.

``We should eliminate the pay and bonuses that these people rake in,'' McCain said

Now take his statements on the mortgage issue and compare them to what I said in my article The Coming Darkness: Analysis of the Left:

All leftist movements are built on two elements. The first element is the crisis. The crisis is a victim class, a disaster (imminent or occurring), or both. The second element is the grievance. The grievance is always targeted at a villain, who by action or inaction is responsible for the crisis. The crisis is an excuse to file the grievance. The grievance serves two purposes. It’s is a lighting rod to manipulate the movement’s faithful - a conduit to channel hate, anger or guilt. It also serves to punish the villain. Built on fear and envy, these movements are never for something, but always against something..

Power Barons use these movements as convenient tools to acquire, expand and defend political power. Seldom true believers, they usually come from the ranks of the Crusaders and are politicians, national and international high-level bureaucrats, dictators, and despots…In their hearts they serve no ideology other than their own personal interest, even to the detriment of the society around them. They will ride the movement until it serves their ends. Then, like locusts, they’ll move on...

McCain’s statements are clearly those of a leftist, an unvarnished democrat. He adopts the victim/crisis/grievance strategy which as serves the left so well. He is the quintessential poster child of why conservatives grow ever more disgusted with the Republican Party. Here is another excerpt from ‘Coming Darkness…”

The last bastion of conservative thought in the western world, the Republican Party, has adopted the strategy of the enemy. With terms like ‘compassionate conservatism’ and ‘common sense conservatism’ Republicans seek many of the same clients as the Power Syndicate. They’ve ceded their conservative ideology for a Power Syndicate ‘big-tent’ approach. They’ve embraced big government and forsaken Reagan and the Contract with America.

This being said, McCain is the only realistic game in town for conservatives. It comes down to one issue: the Supreme Court. I must to vote for him and beseech other conservatives to vote for him as well. If Obama wins, the Supreme Court will be lost for a generation. Based on the 5-4/4-5 rulings on guns and eminent domain an Obama presidency is too dangerous to contemplate. It’s a bitter pill, but one conservatives must swallow.

If you want to know more about how the left operates, read the handbook: The Coming Darkness: Analysis of the Left.

In my article "The Coming Darkness: An Analysis of the Left" I made this statement:

After almost 18 years away, I recently returned to my small Alabama hometown.  Most things hadn’t changed. The high school has moved, but the football team was still one of the state’s best. The cost of living is still reasonable and people are as friendly as ever. At first glance it even appeared my local paper hadn’t changed much either, but it had.

Years ago my hometown paper centered on down-home stories important to the average person in our little town. Small town politics, farming, cultural events, human interest, local crime, and, of course, football dominated its thin pages. The opinion section was small, but clearly local and conservative in flavor. It took only cursory glances at world beyond the state capitol. If you wanted to understand this small southern town, you only had to read The Ledger.

Today, the paper is printed out of town and national and international AP stories dominate its pages. The editorial section is a conglomerate of national syndicated, mostly liberal, columnists. My hometown newspaper has become a clone of every city newspaper I’ve seen in my 20 years of traveling across America.  The local newscasts are glitzier than what I remembered from years ago, but they seem void of any real news and are equally generic.  After talking to my family and friends (one of which is a local policeman) and having a few weeks of reacquainting myself with the area I’ve come to this conclusion: there’s a lot of news not getting reported in my hometown newspaper these days. 

Missing are the stories about how entire local farming communities have been taken over by immigrants from Mexico and Central America, places where Spanish was never heard a decade ago. Nothing is printed about the fact most of the workforce in the chicken processing plants are illegals. There is no mention of the gangs of young Spanish speaking teens stealing purses in front of Wal-Mart. “Action News” seems to have missed the action about the steady infiltration of hardened Mexican gangs into the area and their connections to the methamphetamine plague killing our children. Local investigative journalist can’t seem to find their way to the local emergency rooms clogged with illegals having children funded by the local taxpayers.   No, none of this is covered between the pages of my local newspaper or on the 10 O’clock news.  Instead, I find stories of Angelina Jolie’s new baby or hear Al Gore’s latest proclamation on global warming.  

If you live in small town America, start reading the local paper. Can you find any mention of the hordes of illegals clogging your local Wal-Mart at 2 a.m.? Do you see one story about the strange “Little Mexico” growing at the edge of your town? Is your local paper silent like mine? I’ve come to believe one of our most cherished private institutions, small town newspapers and broadcast media, are failing to report the single most important event of our time: the invasion of our small rural America by illegal aliens.

How did it come to this?  The American citizen has been betrayed us not once, but thrice. The first betrayal came in the late 1980s and early 90s when transnational corporations lobbied our government to open our borders to free trade. Overnight our heavy industries fled to China and points beyond. The second betrayal quickly followed when the remaining industries, unable to compete with the new foreign competition, made a dark deal with government to survive. They would be allowed to ‘insource’ illegal foreign workers. I know why the national corporate media didn’t cover this, but what of our hometown papers? What excuse did they have?

The greatest mass migration in human history, happening right where I grew up, is being soundly ignored by the local print and broadcast media and no one thinks to ask why. Such grand omissions are never by accident, they are engineered in the proud tradition of Stalin, Castro and Chavez: fueled with fear, money, or both. This is the third betrayal.

Even while facing dwindling readership hometown media mysteriously ignores the issues most important to their immediate readership. Small town papers were once the conscious of this great nation. Now our country finds itself without its grassroots voice. The giant awakens, only to realize he is mute.  

The following is complete fiction (duh!)

Come with me as we travel back to that bizarre alternate universe where anything can happen. In this parallel dimension we find Senators McCain and Obama in their first televised debate, sometime this September.

(The picture brightens, showing a packed auditorium and a panel of media questioners. A flashy CNN logo scrolls across the screen with “Decision 2008” and a very serious theme song.)

CANDY CROWLY: Welcome back to the first of 8,234 televised presidential debates before the November election. We only have 5 minutes left. For the past 55 minutes both of you have talked about how much you admire Senator McCain’s military service and which of your campaign lackeys should apologize for various public statements. Unfortunately, we only have time for one more question, one which actually will touch on a legitimate issue.

Senator McCain, Americans are paying on average $10.50 for a gallon of gas, the airlines are out of business, GM has been bought by the Chinese, and the dollar is worth less than Monopoly money. Senator, what is your plan to address America’s future energy needs?

(Senator McCain wiggles his stiff arm and looks for a teleprompter. Unable to find one he stutters and begins to talk.)

MCCAIN: I think we need to drill and, uh…drill now. I am ready to reach across the aisle and work with the Democrats to open our coastal waters to ‘common sense’ oil exploration.

CANDY: What do you mean by ‘common sense’ exploration?

MCCAIN: Well, I don’t support drilling in ANWR. I also think we should keep some areas of our beautiful coasts pristine and untouched for future generations.

CANDY: What coastal areas do you refer to?

MCCAIN: Uh, well, a…California. I have assured my good friend Governator Schwarzenegger I won’t open his coast to any oil drilling. Other than California, the coasts should be wide open for solving America’s energy needs (coughs) ah...except for Florida.

CANDY: Excuse me? Did you say ‘except for Florida’?  

MCCAIN: Ah, yes, we can’t take the chance of spoiling such a delicate and beautiful coastline in a state with so many wonderful moderate republicans. Without their vote I would not be here today.

CANDY: Are you telling the American people California and Florida are exempt from any off-shore drilling?

MCCAIN: Yes, but we have a great deal of other promising coastal areas for energy exploration. I pledge to open vast swaths of the east coast to meet our growing energy needs.

CANDY: What about the west coast?

MCCAIN: With the small exception of California and a few isolated environmentally sensitive locations, the entire west coast is open to exploration.

CANDY: Can you elaborate on where these isolated and sensitive locations are?

MCCAIN: Ahh, uhmm…Oregon and Washington. Oh, and Alaska.

CANDY: Senator McCain, is there ANYWHERE you would allow off-shore drilling?

MCCAIN: Candy, I’m not going to get into the nuts and bolts of energy policy here in this very limited forum. However, I will vastly expand exploration in areas already approved for exploration as well as 30 additional square feet off New Jersey.  I also plan to initiate several programs to help oil companies keep production costs down. For example, I would start a guest worker program allowing oil companies to hire undocumented Children of God instead of whiny American citizens. We all know oil drilling is a dirty, dangerous business and Americans won’t do jobs like that anymore. My good friend Felipe Cauldron, the president of Mexico, has assured me he would be glad to provide us with plenty of workers.

(light applause)

CANDY: Thank you, Senator McCain. I think we all can agree you are only half as evil as most republicans. Senator Obama, before I let you reply to Senator McCain’s statement I just wanted to say how much we in the media love you. I love you, Senator Messiah…I mean Senator Obama. Now, I will give you twice as much time as allotted to the mildly evil maverick senator from Arizona.  

OBAMA: First, I would like to once again thank Senator McCain for his service to our country in Vietnam. However, his mildly evil policies are just a continuation of the super evil policies of the Bush Administration. He doesn’t represent the change Americans are calling for. We can’t drill ourselves to energy independence anymore than we can breathe our way out of suffocation or eat our way out of starvation. If we started drilling right now it would take 130,000 years before the first drop of gas arrives at the pumps. We need real solutions, we need real alternatives. We need earth-friendly green energy. This is why I propose a new partnership with industry.  Candy, this is why tonight, in this forum, I am unveiling my Green Solutions Plan for America.

(Obama pauses for dramatic effect while Candy and the rest of the media panel lean forward in girlish, giddy excitement.)

Fully funded, this plan will completely make America energy independent in 3 months and eliminate 3 trillion-trillion-trillion metric tons of carbon from the atmosphere overnight. It will also create world peace, help working mothers and soccer moms, get our troops out of Iraq, rebuild New Orleans, and create jobs for inner city youth.

CANDY: This is extraordinary! We love you! Please go on!   

OBAMA: I will, minion. I’ve forged a strategic partnership with industry, specifically Monsters Incorporated, a truly ‘green’ initiative. Together, we will harness the clean energy of children’s laughter to power a future of change. Change we can believe in. Soon, every child in America will be giggling hysterically every night as big green monsters emerge from their closets to entertain and amuse them. Monsters with big footprints, not carbon footprints!

(Wild applause, women faint. Obama holds his hands up to shush the crowd.)

I know...(pauses to let the roar die down)…I know what many of you are thinking, not every child in America is fortunate enough to have a bedroom closet. That’s why I’m proposing the Klosets for Kids Act, providing closet doors to underprivileged children across this great country. During the Great Depression FDR said ‘a chicken in every pot.’ I say ‘a closet door in every project!’ For only 1.2 trillion dollars the government will manufacture closet doors in every influential democratic district in America.

(The camera pans to the audience standing and applauding. It focuses on two monsters enthusiastically clapping with the caption “Monsters Inc. employees James P. ‘Sully’ Sullivan and Mike Wazowski.” Mike is wiping a tear from his eye.)

If we act now we can be at the forefront of this exciting energy frontier. But it’s a frontier for everyone, not just a privileged few. If children of color produce as much laughter as white children, then monsters of color should be given the same opportunities as green monsters. Purple, black, blue monsters…it doesn’t matter, it’s all the same. I believe in a country where, one day, homosexual, transgendered, physically challenged, economically underprivileged, polka-dotted monsters will jump out of children’s closets to solve our energy needs. COME OUT OF THE CLOSET FOR THE CHILDREN! That’s the kind of America I want to live in! THAT’S CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!

(Deafening applause and cheers. The camera pans to slug-like monster lightly clapping with caption “Roz, lesbian monster activist”)

OBAMA: My opponent, mildly evil Senator McCain, voted against Klosets for Kids last year unless it contained a clause stating 25% of all energy produced had to come from children’s screams.

(Boos.)

CANDY: Senator McCain, why do you hate children?

MCCAIN: (shuffles his notes and looks around for a teleprompter) I don’t hate children. In fact, I’ve reached across the aisle to work with monsters of all colors to solve our nation’s energy needs.

CANDY: So you deny it? 

MCCAIN: I deny nothing. I want my opponent to come clean and quit distorting my record. John McCain loves children. John McCain loves big green monsters. (McCain looks agitated and starts sweating. A pen appears from nowhere in his crippled hand.) I’m John McCain, and John McCain knows what’s best for America!

OBAMA: I’ve also come to learn my opponent would restrict the scaring to green monsters, excluding monsters of color. His racist policies don’t represent America. He’s even arranged to have my former opponent, Senator Clinton, to jump out and scare children in the middle of the night. If McCain is elected, when you hear the phone ring at 3 am it’ll be your kids calling to say scary old Hillary just jumped out of their closet and made them pee their pants. That’s not the America I want to live in. THAT’S NOT CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!

CANDY: (covers the microphone and whispers loudly to Obama) Messiah…I mean Senator, we’re not supposed to label Senator McCain a racists unless he pulls ahead in the polls.

OBAMA: (smiles sheepishly) oh...right, I forgot.

MCCAIN: (waving pen in bad hand and screaming almost incoherently) I’m John McCain! John McCain won’t have his record misrepresented! John McCain knows how to work with the democrats to fix gridlock! (Suddenly, McCain’s head splits open and his skin falls to the floor. Bob Dole emerges.)

DOLE: I’m Bob Dole and its Bob Dole’s turn to be president! Bob Dole knows what’s best for America!

CANDY: (shocked) Ahh…uhhh…we’ll be right back.

OBAMA: Before we break for commercial I’d like to thank Bob Dole for his service to our country in World War II.