Thursday, February 21, 2019

Seeking to trade a rickety Jalopy for your Gold

Imagine yourself visiting a used car dealership to buy a car. The salesman takes you to a car you recognize as the one that your neighbor used to complain about before he was able to sell it — or more like give it away for a token one dollar — to that same dealership.

The salesman starts pitching it as the best used car ever to be displayed on the lot of a dealership. You get tired of the sound of his voice, and cut him off to let him know that you know the history of this car, and it isn't worth being taken away for free.

The salesman immediately changes the tone of his pitch, and begins to say things like: Yes, the transmission may seize after a month or two. Yes, a wheel may fall off the moment that you drive the car out of the lot, assuming you can start the engine to begin with. Yes, the hydraulic system may burst and you'll lose control of the steering wheel. But he adds: What the heck, this is the best used car you'll ever buy with the pot of gold you said you set aside to exchange for a used car.

Well my friend, if you think this guy ought to be locked up in an institution where he cannot harm himself or the public, what would you think of a so-called opinion journalist that tries to sell you a politico-journalistic jalopy that's not plagued with a bad transmission, or loose wheels, or bursting hydraulics, but something dandier? It is a jalopy in which these systems were turned into a pile of junk along with the rest of the vehicle. This happened because the vehicle was involved in a horrific accident, and burst into a ball of fire.

That, my friend, is the pile of politico-journalistic junk that Benjamin Parker is trying to sell to the public. He is making his pitch under the title: “How Ilhan Omar Slandered Venezuela's Opposition,” an article that also came under the subtitle: “In targeting Elliott Abrams, she impugned the people who've been victims of the Maduro regime.” The article was published on February 19, 2019 in The Bulwark.

Having performed an intellectual somersault of the Judeo-deceptive kind; one that landed him on his belly (saying basically that Ilhan Omar is evil and what's happening in Venezuela is innocent) Benjamin Parker changed the tone of his pitch and admitted to the following:

“It's possible to imagine that, in a failed state like Venezuela, armed bands could one day prey on innocents while in opposition to the government. The struggle in Venezuela has not been entirely peaceful. In January, the military suppressed a national guard unit that had defected. As for those protesting the regime, their violence has so far been directed against property and in clashes with police, in which the resistance may have used firearms and a grenade launcher against police.”

As if the author had suddenly changed the tone of his pitch, the gist of that argument is that it is possible to imagine that one day, those armed bands will turn around and prey on innocents. And that's exactly what Ilhan Omar wanted to make sure will never happen. She thought that Elliott Abrams, having gained experience in such matters, would be able to assure the public that atrocities such as happened in El Salvador will not happen again under his watch in Venezuela or anywhere else. But Abrams was too self-conscious of his shortcomings, and was unable to respond like a normal human being.

In consequence of all that, and in a feeble attempt to turn the table on Ilhan Omar, Benjamin Parker listed all sorts of crimes he says were committed against the opposition by the Venezuelan government. True or not, exaggerated or not, the fact remains that an outside interference in the internal situation of the country will only help escalate the quarrel between the two sides.

And if the desire of Elliott Abrams, as quoted by Benjamin Parker, is to “support the Venezuelan people's effort to restore democracy to their country,” Abrams will again want to score a “fabulous achievement,” whose chances of succeeding is zero. The effort will fail the way it did in El Salvador, and will result in a horrific series of massacres instead of calming the situation.

Parker complained that when “the Bulwark asked her [Ilhan Omar's] office which groups or events, if any, she was referring to in her question,” he did not get a reply. This prompted him to end the article with this proposition: “Someone ought to ask Omar what her policy is”.

Do you know what this means, my friend? I'll tell you what it means. Given that Ilhan Omar's duty is to answer to the constituents that elected her, and more generally to the American public, when characters of dubious loyalties make demands that confuse the issues and serve the interests of Israel, they show themselves to be not human beings, but ferocious cannibalistic beats that ought to be called what they are, and treated accordingly.

Neither Ilhan Omar nor any elected official, owes an explanation to a Jew, to a Jewish organization or the Jewish-trained or hypnotized moral prostitutes that seek to supplant the American people who elect the candidates of their choice to represent them in their government.

Harassing these good people — by doing more than write opinion pieces — as they do their job in full view of the public, and surrounded by colleagues from both sides of the partisan divide, ought to be considered an assault on the democratic process. It must be outlawed, and the violators who pose as journalists must be punished like you would punish a sick dog.