RUTHFULLY YOURS

I am always dazzled by the genius of John Stuart Mill-philosopher, political economist, parliamentarian, and civil servant.  In a few pithy words he lances the arguments defending the present curtailment of freedom of speech and opinion.

“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”

― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

I went to the Bronx High School of Science, year of don’t ask, don’t tell. At that time the class was predominantly Jewish, immigrants as well as first generation Americans. The diversity was economic- wealthier kids from stately doormen buildings in Manhattan, and working class students from the Bronx, but all passed a highly competitive test to gain admission.

Formerly an all boys school, in 1946 under the guidance of Principal Morris Meister, the faculty and parents the school became co-ed without any local government mandates.

Over the ensuing years the demographics changed, and more blacks and Hispanics, as well as a significant number of Asians entered the school. No government or local intervention. Today, the majority of students are Asian, a fact that ruffles “progressive” feathers and local leaders lobby for a lowering of admission standards to achieve “diversity.”

That is really ridiculous! Great diversity exists in the Asian-American community. A Filipino has nothing in common with a Lebanese, who has nothing in common with  Korean or Chinese students, who have nothing in common with Saudis or Arab Israelis (Israel is an Asian nation).

Much of this mirrors higher education where universities and colleges opened admissions and abandoned formerly restrictive quotas without any legislative interference.

The obsession with diversity has had the pernicious effect of restoring the once reviled quotas…..rsk

I often ask if there is a single Democrat in Congress with integrity and independence. There was. Tulsi Gabbard retired from the House District-2 in Hawaii.

She is an Iraq War veteran and the first Hindu elected to Congress. She is a liberal who continually ruffles “progressive” feathers.   She’s met with Donald Trump, and she would not march in the anti-Trump women’s rally.   Her views on foreign policy, immigration, and gun laws run contra current progressive cant. She opposed the first impeachment and is against open borders.

In September 2020 she warned:

“We’re getting closer and closer to Election Day now, and it is critical to remember that the strength of our democracy lies in the integrity of our elections, that every one of us has to have faith that our vote will count. But right now, there are still many states in our country that allow for something called ballot harvesting. This is a system that allows for third parties to collect and deliver ballots for other people, potentially large numbers of people.Unfortunately, ballot harvesting has allowed for fraud and abuse to occur by those who could tamper with or discard ballots to try to sway an election.” (https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2020/09/29/tulsi-gabbard-raises-)

Her recent words: January 27, 2021 :

“The mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6 to try to stop Congress from carrying out its constitutional responsibilities were behaving like domestic enemies of our country. But let’s be clear, the John Brennans, Adam Schiffs, and oligarchs in Big Tech who are trying to undermine our constitutionally-protected rights and turn our country into a police state with KGB-style surveillance, are also domestic enemies, and much more powerful, and therefore dangerous, than the mob that stormed the Capitol.”( https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2021/01/26/gabbard-sounds-the-alarm-leftists-are-plotting-kgb-style-surveillance-of-conservatives-n1411860)

Senator Mazie Hirono, whose pulse is higher than her I.Q. was re-elected in 2018 but maybe Gabbard could run against Hawaii’s “progressive” Democrat Brian Schatz in 2 years.

https://eagleforum.org/psr/1998/june98/psrjune98.html

Congress Must Stop Kowtowing to China

The vote on Most Favored Nation (MFN) status for Communist China is coming up again. Taking a principled position against MFN would give Republicans the high ground on morals, national security, and economics. It would put them on the side of human rights, freedom, fair trade, and jobs for Americans, while at the same time exposing Clinton’s policy of abandoning human rights, exporting U.S. jobs, and endangering national security in order to get cash for his reelection.

We were promised that trade relations would encourage the Chinese Communists to become civilized members of the family of nations and open up a billion-person market. We gave them 17 years of MFN to prove it, and they flunked the test.

The Chinese cracked down brutally on all the brave Tiananmen Square youngsters in 1989. If we care about human rights, we must not forget those who marched with the papier-maché Statue of Liberty.

China leads the world in the persecution of people of all religious faiths, especially Christians. China bans all religious activity and expression unless directed by Communist Party officials. Priests have been arrested for saying Mass. Evangelical “house churches” have been disrupted and closed. Christians have been interned for “re-education.” The police intimidate the people with anti-religious slogans painted in public places. China’s policy of forced abortions, sterilizations, and infanticide is a festering scandal.

The Chinese are professional thieves. Chinese plants openly steal, then manufacture and sell, our computer software, video films, musical recordings, compact disks, books, and other intellectual property. These illegal products are sold all over the world, resulting in a loss to Americans of $2 billion a year.

In 1996, the Chinese were caught red-handed smuggling 2,000 AK-47 automatic assault rifles to Los Angeles street gangs. Our BATF uncovered a sophisticated operation, which must have enjoyed the complicity of the Chinese government, to sell weapons at a 400% mark-up to U.S. big-city gangs that want to wipe out their rivals. Those arrested had direct links to China’s Defense Ministry, Deng Xiaoping’s son-in-law, and arms dealer Wang Jun (the same one who attended a Clinton White House coffee).

In April 2014, in China, a courtroom was convened in Beijing to convict a member of  the resistance group New Citizens Movement .

Xu Zhiyong  was accused and convicted of “inciting a crowd to disturb public order.” His response to the court ?

“This ridiculous judgment cannot hold back the tide of human progress. The haze of the communist dictatorship must eventually lift and the light of freedom, fairness, justice and love will eventually fill China.”

To understand his decency, his wisdom and his legacy, here is a list of the mediocre secretaries of state who followed him until the advent of the equally admirable Michael Pompeo:

  James Addison Baker (1989-1992)-Nasty obsessively anti- Israel ,

 Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger (1992-1993) Very brief tenure….no lasting impact.

Warren Minor Christopher (1993-1997)-Very Minor well named.

Madeleine Korbel Albright (1997-2001) Better named Halfbright. Discovered her Judaism in her 50s (??)

Colin Luther Powell (2001-2005) No lasting legacy.

 Condoleezza Rice (2005-2009) Nothing to remember her by except for disastrous North Korea policy.

 Hillary Rodham Clinton (2009-2013) Deleter of the free world.

 John Kerry (2013-2017) Quit possibly the worst ever!

 Rex Wayne Tillerson (2017-2018) A parenthesis at best and worst.

 Michael R. Pompeo (2018-2021)-His legacy is a new Middle East, and recognition of America’s enemies like George Shultz (RIP)

Many folks are speculating on what will be President-Select’s policies with respect to Israel and the Middle East.

Here it is: Barack Obama’s speech to Al-Azhar University in Egypt on June 4, 2009:

It is very long and if the platitudes were removed, it could be shorter but it is a preview of what is to come…..rsk

The following is a text of President Obama’s prepared remarks to the Muslim world, delivered on June 4, 2009, as released by the White House.

I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt’s advancement. Together, you represent the harmony between tradition and progress. I am grateful for your hospitality, and the hospitality of the people of Egypt. I am also proud to carry with me the goodwill of the American people, and a greeting of peace from Muslim communities in my country: assalaamu alaykum.

We meet at a time of tension between the United States and Muslims around the world – tension rooted in historical forces that go beyond any current policy debate. The relationship between Islam and the West includes centuries of co-existence and cooperation, but also conflict and religious wars. More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations. Moreover, the sweeping change brought by modernity and globalization led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/02/three_cheers_for_jared_kushner_and_michael_pompeo.html

President Biden’s ventriloquist, Barack Obama, will make every effort to scuttle or damage the historic Abraham Accords between Israel and Arab nations. Those efforts will fail thanks to the sage counsel and logistical cooperation of his trusted adviser, confidante, and son-in-law Jared Kushner and his loyal and effective Secretary of State Michael Pompeo.

From 1967 until the advent of President Donald Trump, every single administration has put forth peace plans that air-brushed the terror and genocidal ambitions of Israel’s Arab enemies and predicated a gratuitous demand that Israel accept concessions and territorial withdrawals in exchange for “recognition of its right to exist.” The Camp David Accords, the Oslo Accords, and the Gaza withdrawal were clones of each other.

No sober democracy would have accepted those terms from tyrants, and no good-faith American President would have demanded them. However, the Israeli governments of Menachem Begin, Itzhak Rabin, Ariel Sharon, and Benjamin Netanyahu did so, and each agreement was followed by unrelenting terror against hapless civilians. The dead were cynically referred to as “casualties of peace.”

Enter President Donald Trump who, breaking with tradition, relied more on Jared Kushner, David Friedman (America’s Ambassador to Israel), and Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, rather than on the standard recommendations from the military and State Department officials.

A Trojan Horse has galloped into the President Select’s administration.  Emerging are all the former Obama administration officials who tried, and will do so again, to fundamentally transform America to a one-party Socialist state with the absolute control of big tech and media.

This time they may succeed. Those of us who value capitalism and the freedoms inherent in a democracy have only one alternative. The midterm elections of 2022.

The 2014 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 4, 2014, in the middle of Democrat President Barack Obama’s second term. Republicans retained control of the House of Representatives and regained the majority of the Senate. They held all of their seats and gained nine Democrat-held seats. That year Carol Taber of Family Security Matters and Ruthfully yours  published a comprehensive voter guide featuring incumbents and challengers in every single Senate and Congressional districts including the primaries.

Stay tuned……rsk

It is obvious by now that the next four years will be Barack Obama’s third term. Virtually every cabinet post and nomination for government office will be filled by former Obama officials. The demonic rush to “cancel” the Trump administration and treat it as a parenthesis and interregnum has begun.

Here is the President-select’s to do list right after inauguration:

Biden Aide: ‘Roughly a Dozen’ Executive Actions on Day One

Plans To Cancel Keystone XL Permit

Will Ask Congress to Grant Path to Citizenship to 11M Illegal Immigrants

Biden’s ambitious 100-day plan to erase Trump’s legacy https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/17/opinions/biden-ambitious-first-hundred-days-zelizer/index.html

Andy Puzder: Biden proposal to boost hourly minimum wage to $15 would destroy jobs, hurt unemployed Any minimum wage increase should be at the state or local level — and the more local the better:https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/minimum-wage-biden-andy-puzder

Biden set to cancel Keystone XL pipeline and right out the gate enrages Canada By Monica Showalter

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