Do you understand why there are Checkpoints at every commercial airport in the world – which screen (X-Ray, sniff) passengers, luggage, cargo?

Consider:
– Hamas pushing gays to their death off rooftops in Gaza?
– Islamic Republic of Iran hanging gays from construction cranes?
– FGM and Honour Killings
– 500,000 dead in Syrian civil war?
– Thousands of people (many military age men) from the Middle East and Africa flooding into Western Europe?
– People murdered by Islamists in Western Europe (like Lee Rigby, French schoolteacher Samuel Paty, bombing of Pan Am 103, London’s 7/7 transport bombings)?
– Syrian born (NOT a white guy) murderer of 10 in Boulder Colorado.

Since there about 50 countries that are predominantly Muslim, there would be coverage that would would dwarf the focus on Israel

Lee Stevenson wrote: “Take the India / Pakistan conflict, another example of “the west” intervention and division of land based upon western ideals…. Hindi over there, Muslim over there… With no respect for traditional borders or the will of the people.”

Except that your knowledge of the history of India’s partition is entirely wrong. It was not western intervention that produced the separation of India and Pakistan. It was the Muslim part of India that demanded its own country. Gandhi opposed it, as did many.

“The Chinese Communist Party’s Cyberspace Administration of China has boasted of one of the most critical connections between the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the groups and individuals campaigning to stop President Trump and his “America First” agenda, The National Pulse can exclusively reveal.

New, bombshell admissions over China’s influence in both the United States and Europe link organizations such as the Berggruen Institute with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The Berggruen Institute first rose to national attention after co-founding the “Transition Integrity Project” which advised on how Joe Biden could seize power on the back of an ostensible Trump victory.”

And that is the Ying and the Yang of where America finds itself at this moment in time.

“The Washington Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the effort to remove a Seattle councilwoman, who was accused of allowing protesters into city hall during riots in the city, can proceed.”

“City official Kshama Sawant, a socialist, faced a recall after she purportedly “admitted hundreds of people into Seattle City Hall,” “led a protest march to Mayor Jenny Durkan’s private residence,” and “failed to comply with public disclosure requirements,” the court wrote.

Charges were “factually and legally sufficient for recall,” and the effort was allowed to continue, justices concluded.”

She has a Right to be a radical Socialist, and the city council has the Right to remove her for her radical Socialism.

Lee: Of course there are people who are trying to weaponize the term “antisemitism” to shut others up. The one example however you decided to use to prove this — the UK Labour Party under Corbin — was the one example that did no such thing.

You still need to reread my essays, as it is very clear you did not absorb them. To sum them up: The only ones in Israel and the West Bank that are in favor of apartheid are the Palestinians. The only ones there who hate others, as the policy of their governments, are the Palestinians. The only ones whose governments wish to commit genocide against their opponents, as stated by their own founding documents, are the Palestinians.

And as I concluded in the last essay in the 2013 series, none of that excuses the original sin behind the founding of both, the concept that you can create separate Jewish and Arab states, each based on religion or ethnicity. Such a concept, brought to us by the UN, was guaranteed in the end to bring us to where we are today, with hate and endless war.

Lee: I admit I do not focus my reading on European news, so I might not have the full picture.

However, if you think there was no antisemitism in Britain’s UK Labour party, you yourself have not been reading enough. Corbyn did enormous harm to that party while its leader, bringing in many antisemites and pushing their agenda. He was not attacked for his criticism of Israel. His own party recognized this, eventually suspending him while since trying to make amends. Its reputation remains, along with many in that party who harbor such bigoted views. Thus, in this case the accusations in were justified.

Lee Stevenson wrote, “My question was how do you feel about the fact that every and any criticism of Israeli policy is claimed to be anti semetic?”

I don’t “feel” anything because this statement by you is wrong. While of course some people do what you claim, it is an outright falsehood to say that everyone in Israel or all Jews routinely accuse any critics of Israel of antisemitism. I don’t, certainly, and I read the Israeli press regularly and almost never see such accusations there, except when it appears justified.

ExCal. Yup to all your points. Note I could sign myself as ExNY or ExMD if I wanted.

In this sense I blame myself for running rather than staying and fighting it out even more loudly then I was. Trust me, I had my own bad experiences of being shunned in both NY and MD. Yet, if we are to win how do we do it if we all run from the fight?

Considering all however maybe survival required fleeing. At some point one can no longer live with such people.

That is arguably a personal statement, and the brush used to paint it is a perhaps overly broad. Nonetheless, I get that you don’t mean me personally, and no offense is taken. I see my reply to you as correcting some misunderstanding on your part, and perhaps providing some color and texture that may not be quite so apparent from 3,000 miles away.

Funny thing about being a Californian. Even people who have never lived there think they know what it’s like. When I traveled the US for work I would often encounter those who would tell me all about the place I had lived in since birth, and they’d generally get it wrong. I blame movies and television.

Speaking of blame, you are right that the apathetic and anonymous conservative types need to be called out, but I understand their reluctance. To be openly conservative in the blue parts of CA is to invite unwelcome consequences. The actions I took in my own small way were enough to get me shunned in certain circles and branded as undesirable. (And I’m a nice guy! Handsome, too.) Putting a bumper sticker on your car that had a conservative candidate or message was to invite vandalism. That wasn’t just in the Trump years, but since the mid-1990s. You were taking a guaranteed social risk, and occasionally a physical one, to come out as conservative. After what I endured, I can’t really blame the quiet ones for staying that way.

But, to your point of four decades of the outrage you’ve felt, the real blame needs to be laid at the feet of the Silent Generation. They raised the next generation, which brought about this debacle. Their overprotective overindulgence (understandable after what they had seen, though still shockingly wrong) of the 1946 – 1964 cohort planted the seeds of our demise. We’re reaping exactly what we’ve sown. It happened in CA first, and it’s coming to a theater near you.

Buckle up.

ExCel: Why do you and others take what I write so personally? I would think it is patently obvious I am referring to the millions of “vast brainwashed masses” (as you put it).

I must also say that from my long experience in New York and DC, it isn’t just these masses who are at fault. Blame also falls to the many conservatives I have known who did not pay attention, or simply never bothered to vote, or would simply refuse to believe me when I would describe stories like this to them.

They exist. You know they do. They need to be called out for their apathy, as do all those brainwashed masses. If they had acted with the outrage I have felt now for four decades, the left would not have won all those battles.

I am a California native who recently left my beloved state after 50+ years. I had to leave in order to preserve a future for my “privileged” white children and to live out the rest of my days in something like peace and freedom. Your assertion that Californians voted for this, actively or otherwise, is patently absurd. I say this as a longtime fan of yours (first heard you many years ago on the John Batchelor Show) and not as an adversary.

Those of us who aren’t part of the vast brainwashed masses have worked to oppose measures such as this through all legal means available. This includes voting at the ballot box, meeting with legislators at the local as well as state level, participating in and organizing whatever passes for political activism on the right, running for local offices and local boards, participating in the redistricting programs, trying to influence friends and neighbors one-on-one, and most importantly, educating our kids in both the corrosive nature of programs such as this one and the overall slide toward the Marxist abyss. We fought all the smaller incremental issues that didn’t make national news the way this one did. We did the things that we were “supposed” to do as responsible Americans.

We played by the rules, fought like hell, and lost. But don’t you dare say we voted for this, actively or otherwise. We did not. We have been outmaneuvered and outnumbered.

The blue coastal hives and Sacramento have far more people than the mostly red remainder of the state (I have lived in both parts) and the corruption in those blue areas runs miles deep. The left has been working every angle to make make this revolution happen since at least the 1960s, miseducating generations in the schools and propagandizing relentlessly through the media. The gerrymandering of districts, and outright theft of elections, has created a permanent one-party state. Unfettered illegal immigration–and illegal aliens voting–has also played a role. There are more factors, but this is already too long.

What do you think we should have done? I don’t know what more we could have tried, but I’d be interested to hear your thoughts. Better still, if you have any ideas I’d suggest you put them into action now where you live. What happened in California is coming your way too. And please don’t say “it can’t happen here.” Remember that California was a red state until the 1990s. If you’re not already fighting where you are, you may be too late.

But in any case, please stop piling on. We lost paradise already, don’t rub it in. Let’s pull together on the right and fight together.

Its what the left is trying to do to America as a whole.

Well all you conservatives in California can you not find a way to overwhelm the Californian system and bring down that whole state?

One way is to get California to seceded from the union. That state can not stand on its own. It just doesn’t have enough natural resources, power or water.

Its on the verge of ripping itself apart now just help it along. a little.

Evan Schackman: I have been a conservative Jew living in liberal New York and Washington for almost my entire life. I know very well what it would be like to be a conservative in California.

Rather than take my email personally, you should be showing it to every liberal person you know. Rather than attacking me for pointing out the problem you should be using what I wrote as a weapon against the blind and ignorant people I know you know, using it to try and educate them.

You have no clue what you are talking about and no idea what it is like to be a conservative in CA. Look to the mote in your own eye.

Civil actions aren’t going to work. Pleading your cases before courts that ignore the law and constitution isn’t going to work. Jury nullification might work, but jury selection has been a joke for decades, and recent asset forfeiture laws mean you might not ever see a jury as the state takes everything you’ve built over a lifetime. Our state and local representatives, people we might still have some degree of control over, aren’t even able to *speak* about the problem without facing legal harassment up to and including death threats from assassins!

So we aren’t “asleep”. We’re aware. We just have no idea what to do about it. Being caught in public disapproving of the regime will get you fired, blacklisted or jailed. Disobedience will get you jailed. Individual rebellion will get you killed. The government is going into a paranoia spiral right now about anyone organizing anything over any channel they don’t control or monitor: The FCC directive a few months ago threatening HAM operators (heretofore a scrupulously law abiding group) was cute.

Mr. Zimmerman, given what we’ve learned about our government this past year, how sure are you that Californians *did* vote for this? The state is very interesting: Ballot initiatives almost always tend to favor freedom. The politicians on offer are usually a choice between two communists: Republicans, or even anyone remotely freedom-minded, often don’t even bother to run anymore, the system is so rigged. Can you really berate people for their government, when the supposed democracy is a sham?

Blair K Ivey: Not a meme, merely a screen capture from the video, with a subtitle of Rick’s line, which expressed exactly the situation just before Pearl Harbor. Americans were asleep, refusing to face the horror that the Nazis were bringing to the world.

Thank god after December 7th Americans woke up. Today I fear nothing will wake them.

UNTIL they come for me: Then I will say “Where were you all when I needed help?”