Sunday, August 21, 2005
Here's one to get your blood boiling. It appears that the International Freedom Center at Ground Zero is still under a cloud of controversy. This time, an international body of such museums which has a hand in advising the IFC is calling upon the museum not to be too "America-centric."
NY Daily News: Another insult to America's heritage at Freedom Center
The outrageous request is the latest controversy to torment the Freedom Center, whose leaders have tried to dispel the perception that it would be a home for America bashers.
"Don't feature America first," the IFC has been advised by the consortium of 14 "museums of conscience" that quietly has been consulting with the Freedom Center for the past two years over plans for the hallowed site. "Think internationally, where America is one of the many nations of the world."
Those words rang hollow with some 9/11 family members...
...In April...the Freedom Center said on its Web site and newsletter that it had "drawn inspiration" and received "important practical advice" from the International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience...
..."No one in the civilized world would ever defend what happened on 9/11," said Sarwar Ali, the coalition's chairman and a trustee of the Liberation War Museum in Bangladesh.
"But what happened after 9/11 - with restrictions placed on human rights and the cycle of revenge and the allegations of human rights abuses in prisons - must also be explored," Ali said in a call from London...
As this generally isn't one of "those blogs," I'll spare you the language that flashed through my mind as I read that. It went something like "The f*** it does!"
Among its suggestions for the place where the United States was attacked and nearly 3,000 innocents massacred: "The Freedom Center must signal its openness to contrary ideas."
Philip Kunhardt, the Freedom Center's editorial director, was in attendance at a session called Bringing Conscience to Ground Zero and was given this advice:
- "Help distinguish between American people and the U.S. government in exhibits ..."
- "Use reports from human rights organizations to examine contemporary abuse of rights."
- "Involve the United Nations, UNESCO and other international bodies."
- "Use the museum as a venue for international meetings, where all views are welcomed and considered."
At the conference, the coalition also leveled barbs at the IFC: "The Freedom Center is a caricature of the typical American response to everything [telling every story from an American viewpoint]."
Members of the coalition also expressed these concerns:
- "It seems that whatever Americans want, Americans get!" the conference report states. "Is the definition of the 'struggle for freedom' simply defined by the victors, or also by those engaged in ongoing struggles? Will Americans really create a balanced vision of freedom?"
- "The WTC was attacked because it was a symbol of power and influence. In building the Freedom Tower, the U.S. reasserts its power in an arrogant way: Does this mean the U.S. will not only build the biggest building, but also define freedom for the world?"
- "Many nonsecular Muslims may be very skeptical about the intent of this museum (e.g. the average Bangladeshi condemns the Sept. 11 attacks, yet at the same time feels his/her human rights have been violated by the U.S.)."
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Exactly. Reminds me of a theme song from Team America movie..America, Fuck YEAH!"
Perhaps they should also solicit some input from the ACLU, to cover the lack of civil rights by the terrorists at Gitmo. And don't forget Moveon, as they have some unique perspectives on Iraq and the Bush Administration. And yes, I am being sarcastic. September 11th was not the opening shot of this war, but it is the one that took the lives of almost 3,000 of our neighbors. To disrespect their loss is to minimize their lives. Shame on the coalition for making these outrageous comments at their conference, and shame on the IFC for not responding in a patriotic manner.
The average Bangladeshi better worry about his/her rights being violated by his/her bombing brother/sister Bangladeshis.
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Psychological assault forces Malkin to reveal Crowdist roots
Populist profiteer who infiltrated right unmasked
3:17 PM 8/21/2005
ANUS News
San Francisco (NNN) - A two week campaing of information terror culminated early yesterday with the Michelle Malkin award-winning blog disconnecting its trackback and response features as a consequence of ANUS activist antagonism. By taking refuge behind social pretense, and claiming to be victim, Malkin is validating claims that despite her right-wing pedigree, she is in fact an instrument of class/tribal revolt much as her leftist counterparts are.
Modern "conservatives" most commonly claim to be a bastion against a cluster of related mentalities, including Marxism and pacifism and rabble revolt, which are propelled by the ego-drama necessary to compensate for lack of superior traits in any form. The undifferentiated crowd will always be slaves to the machine, and they know it, and hate anyone who is not condemned to such a life. While Malkin insists that her "conservative" agenda would reverse this, her agenda in fact supports the very same mass revolt. ANUS activists were determined to prove this.
Using a scientifically-calculated mixture of gay pornography, racist innuendos and scatological/morbid humor, ANUS activists deliberately pushed Malkin and her blog maintainers past the tolerance threshold for socially offensive material. At this point, as psychological profiles such as the Stockholm study suggest, Malkin and staff violently reversed their positive outlook into a negative, paranoid one. Victory was achieved with a notice posted on the Malkin blog.
"We've had to turn the trackbacks feature off while Michelle is away. There was some nasty porno spam in the trackbacks and some other problems. I believe that Michelle's kind assistants are working on the problem and hope to turn it back on when she returns. I'm sorry for the inconvenience," said the statement, attributed to someone named "Betsy" (probably a bot, since even the conservatives prefer minkier names for their women these days).
Chuckling, ANUS activist Iconoclast, back from temporary confinement in the FMP room of the ANUS compound's dank and fetid basement, conjectured about the psychology of Malkin's staff. "I like how they said 'some other problems,'" he said. "When the enemy gets vague, you know they've been forced into hiding something. What they're hiding here is that they're afraid to cross the taboo line and admit that most people are idiots, and that the idea of a Filipina conservative married to a Jew is ludicrous cover for their actual Crowdist activities."
ANUS CTO (Chief Trolling Officer) Penisbird voiced his own sympathy for the situation. "People try to distract us with labels and orientations," he said. "The truth is that politics is a question of personal integrity. Those who can lead do so, and the rest form masses to tear those others down because they hate them for being beautiful and smart and capable, and we call this mass revolt 'Crowdism.' Malkin is clearly a Crowdist, no matter what she insists."
Apparently, the onslaught of sodomy, feces and burning crosses caused profound psychological change in the fifth columnist "conservative" Crowdist. Dr. Siegfried Freund, a goyish psychologist from Eastern Philadelphia, summed up his conclusion this way: "Burroughs says in Naked Lunch that the greatest hazard for an agent is merging with his cover story. Subversives like Malkin and her Jew penis, Craig Newmark, sublimate their actual intent, but when they're forced up against the thread of Crowd disapproval, they snap back to the fight and in doing so, reverse polarity."
Since the assaults began, Malkin's comments have veered away from her traditional reactionary brain-in-a-bucket conservatism and have become increasingly like cocktail party small talk or the rhyming sentiments written in greeting cards. Dr. Freund predicts that within 48 hours she will own a pair of Birkenstocks and support al-Qaeda. In the meantime, ANUS infoterror group chalks up another success for its mixture of politics and antagonism that treats Net publishing the way it was meant to be treated: like a masochistic, incontinent, HIV positive gimp.
About ANUS
The American Nihilist Underground Society advocates nihilism, or a removal of interpretive layers from our perception of physical reality, as a means of transcending neurotic crowdism and thus achieving adaptive success. It has been online since 1995 and attracts thousands of readers daily with articles about philosophy, politics, music and culture. Every major internet filtering service bans anus.com, and many "anti-hate" organizations decry it as an anti-crowdist site which must be censored and its perpetrators bankrupted.
http://www.anus.com/
About Nihilism
Nihilism is the belief that nothing we perceive has Absolute value; reality exists, but beyond its inherent meaning to us as the physical container of our existence, it has no significance outside of what we perceive. "The world is my representation," indeed. When we strip away all of the values projected onto physical reality and its outcomes, we are left only with personal ideal and natural ideal, and bringing the former into adaptation with the latter is the lifetime task to which nihilism is a gateway.
http://www.nihil.org/
About Michelle Malkin
Nationally-syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin began life by slandering liberals for the Los Angeles times, but was quickly promoted when it was discovered that her conservatism infused with leftist core values was a convenient propaganda talking point for the NWO, which supports Crowdist revolt in all its forms as heck, it's good for business. Currently Malkin churns out dreary editorials endorsing the Same Old Failing "Solutions" to problems that never go away, and when she's not busy with that, posts dramatic crap on her blog that people link so they don't have to read it. She is married to Craig Newmark, a fat Jew with one Catholic grandparent.
http://michellemalkin.com/
That's supposed to be funny or clever, I guess.