Does Greece have the right to exist?

• Greece sinking into a Socialist Black Hole
• 500,000 mostly Moslem illegal immigrants
• Slashed wages, higher taxes, and job losses
• Riots in the streets, massive crime wave

Greece's debt crisis, shrinking economy and surging unemployment have transformed Athens, once considered one of Europe's safest capitals, into a city of fear.  Somehow I don't think all of that will be in the next TV ad asking people to vacation in Greece. 

All of the above came to a head last week when Police in Greece clashed with gangs of youths throwing petrol bombs and stones, a month on from the country's worst civil unrest in decades.  Violence flared when a group of around 30 self-declared anarchists and left-wing activists set rubbish bins alight and smashed paving stones for ammunition to throw at police.

Moslem immigrants in Athens

Greek government officials have called for calm after three straight days of attacks against immigrants in Athens.

Murder Sparked Riots

The violence was reportedly sparked by the fatal mugging of a 44-year old Greek national in the capital last week.

Manolis Kandaris' wife was in labor and he wanted to get her to a hospital, fast. So he reached for the car keys, fetched the video camera and dashed out to get his Citroen running.  He never made it.

As he sprinted to the car, muggers attacked him about a block from his apartment. And when he resisted their attempts to wrench the camera from him, the 44-year-old pharmaceuticals executive was stabbed to death.  His wife found him lying in a pool of blood as she hobbled to the car with the help of her mother. She was taken to a maternity ward; he was taken to the morgue.

Authorities announced the arrest of two Afghans in the killing.

Frustrated residents, meanwhile, are taking things into their own hands.  At an impromptu shrine that sprang up at the site of Kandaris' killing, emotions run high. Angry crowds have sealed off the area, shielding mounds of flowers, candles and prayer notes behind a makeshift wall of dumpsters donned with Greek flags.

"Enough!" cried Giorgos Lambrou, head of a newly formed neighborhood watch team. "We're reclaiming our city, and this is the first patch."

Members of the local Pakistani community said more than 100 Asian and African migrants were attacked Thursday by rampaging Greek youths. Other reports claimed that hundreds of youths wielding baseball bats chase, punched and kicked immigrants.

Pakistani spokesman Irfan Tamur Mohammad told reporters 17 immigrants have been hospitalized from the violence and dozens of immigrant-owned shops were looted or destroyed.


Greek riot police fired tear gas to break up clashes in
Athens between anarchists and right-wingers who
were holding an anti-immigration rally

"It all happened very suddenly, we didn't expect something that extreme. The police were everywhere, but neither did they offer us protection nor did they stop those who were attacking us. I have a wife and three children. Should I leave Greece, or stay and maybe get killed?"  Mohammad said.

 Is Greece Imploding?

"Greek society as a whole is at a breaking point," criminologist Angelos Tsigris said. "Things are going from bad to worse, and crime, which mirrors the state of a society at a given time and moment, will naturally follow that course."

"It never used to be this way," said Ioannis Makris, president of the Athens police union. "We're seeing a lot of rage as a result of the financial crisis, a lot of desperate people resorting to fistfights, not to mention gunfire and stabbings, for trite causes."

Residents fear the disorder and lawlessness gripping the capital will hamper desperately needed recovery or, worse, incite further violence, including police brutality and vigilantism.

"I'm losing my city," Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis said. "Something has to happen fast.  "It's starting to look like Beirut in the 1970s," he said, referring to a rash of killings in the Lebanese capital that preceded that country's civil war.

A recent wave of public-safety budget cuts hasn't helped.  "Only a third of the 500 motorcycles and police cars are in operation for patrols," said Makris, the police union president. "The rest are in the pits because there's no money to service them. From boots to bulletproof vests, police resources are ailing in Athens."

Thefts and break-ins jumped from 26,872 recorded cases in 2007 to 47,607 two years later; homicides likewise nearly doubled in the period.


The Balkans before World War One.
The Greeks and other Christian
nations fought for 100 years to get
their freedom from Islam.

Does Greece have the right to exist?

We can all understand the economic problems and tensions that face nations all over the world.  These have always existed and always will.  But with massive immigration there is a larger question.  Does Greece have the right to exist?

To paraphrase Dr. Michael Savage, "Socialism is a Mental Disorder".  The left-wingers of the world do everything in their power to undermine national borders, trash our history as evil and destroy the free market capitalist system. 

The open borders leftists with the help of businessmen who want cheap exploitable labor have together imported millions of people into Europe from Africa and Asia.

The 500,000 or so illegal Moslem immigrants in Greece could easily be followed by millions and millions more poor Arabs, Pakistanis or Turks all looking for a better life.  But then what happens to the Greek nation?

The Greeks are the very foundation of Western Civilization.  Thousands of years ago they gave us democracy, mathematics, philosophy, literature and more.  Greece is a small nation.  Is it right that an entire culture could be wiped out by uncontrolled immigration in a couple of generations?

Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos died
in 1453 defending the walls of Constantinople
from Islamic invasion. 

In 1453 the Moslem Turks conquered Constantinople and enslaved the Greek people for the next 400 years.  The same was true for the conquered Serbs, Bulgars, Romanians and Hungarians.  After 100 years of war the Greeks slowly regained their independence and lands. 

The current map of Europe looked radically different a century ago.  The subjugated peoples of the Balkans had to fight for every inch on the map. 

Borders are not written in stone.  Entire peoples have lost their independence and culture to invasion and immigration:  the Incas, the Carthaginians,  the Scots, the Egyptian Coptic Christians or the Hawaiian islanders.

The Greek people have vanished from the map of the world more than once.  There is nothing to say that they will exist 50 years from today.

The left-wing press plays the eternal Race Card when people dare to take any action and demand border enforcement.

People who want to protect their culture are racists, but the immigrants who would impose their alien culture on the locals are good and pure.

Don't listen to the Leftists and their lap-dog media.  All nations and cultures have the right to exist and live in peace within recognized borders. 


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Lenin monument pulled down in Tajikistan

The fall of Communism Part II

Tajikistan pulled down Central Asia's tallest statue of revolutionary Russian leader Vladimir Lenin as it sought to distance itself from its Soviet past, a city spokesman said Tuesday.


Lenin statue finally toppled


"The Lenin monument was taken off its pedestal on Monday evening," the mayor's office spokesman Makhmujon Ibragimov told AFP. The 23-meter monument to the founder of the Soviet state had stood in Tajikistan's second largest city of Khujand - formerly called Leninabad - for two decades after the Soviet Union crumbled.

The statue, 12.5 meters high without the pedestal, will be moved to a park on the outskirts of the city, Ibragimov said. Cordoned off by police, the monument's dismantling started on Monday night and lasted for several hours, an eyewitness, who asked not to be named, told AFP. "In the Soviet times, this monument was our pride because even the city was called Leninabad," the eyewitness said.

As the Soviet Union crumbled in 1991 and the Communist system collapsed, people demolished Lenin statues in many Soviet cities. But in some parts of the former Soviet Union, the statues still remain. The mayor's office denied the move was political, saying it was part of preparations for Tajikistan's 20th independence anniversary this September, it said.

The mayor's office denied the move was political, saying it was part of preparations for Tajikistan's 20th independence anniversary this September, it said.

The statue, built in 1974 to mark the 50th anniversary of Lenin's death, will be replaced by a new city park with hundreds of fountains and a monument to the founder of the 9th century father of the Tajik nation, Ismail Samani, Ibragimov said.

Tajikistan, a Persian-speaking nation that is the poorest state in ex-Soviet Central Asia, has sought to slacken Russian cultural influence since the collapse of the USSR but still needs close economic ties.

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San Francisco ball players are not Gay enough

William Shakespeare was right:
"The First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All the Lawyers"

Three men suing a gay baseball association, for ruling that they were not gay enough to be included in a 2008 competition, will have their day in court, a judge has ruled.

The men, members of a San Francisco softball team competing in the 2008 Gay Softball World Series near Seattle, say they were discriminated against and humiliated when questioned in front of a room full of people about their sexual orientation.

After a vote on whether the men were 'gay or non-gay', the trio were disqualified from the competition.


Regular competitors: Steven Apilado (kneeling, second from

right), Jon Russ (holding banner left) and LaRon Charles

(centre, next to Russ) seen in 2007

 Steven Apilado, Jon Russ and LaRon Charles - who are openly bisexual - allege that the event's sponsor and competition rules violate state anti-discrimination laws.

Rules of the annual Gay Softball World Series, sponsored by the National Gay Amateur Athletic Association (NAGAA), state that only two members of each team can be heterosexual.  The event disqualified Messrs Apilado, Russ and Charles because they were on a team that already had two heterosexual members.

The trio allege in their lawsuit that the ruling is discriminatory. Both sides had been preparing for an August 1 trial, with the trio's suit backed by the National Center for Lesbian Rights in San Francisco.

The group, which advocates bisexual rights, said NAGAA's rule discriminated against bisexuals by not including them in the definition of 'gay'.

The men's lawsuit alleges that they were individually questioned about their sexuality - in a room containing as many as 25 people. Panel members then voted on whether they men were gay or not.

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War on Drugs has failed

Nearly 35,000 dead in Mexico.  War on drugs has caused 'devastating consequences for societies worldwide' claims global narcotics watchdog

The worldwide war on drugs and organised narcotics gangs has been a 'failure' according to a leading international drugs commission.

The Global Commission on Drug Policy  urged world leaders to replace the system of strictly criminalising drugs and imprisoning drug users.  The group also argued that countries who use a 'law enforcement' approach to drug crime should focus their efforts on violent organised crime and drug traffickers.



Commission member Sir Richard
Branson says legalize 

 In a report issued by the commission, the 19-member panel said it wanted to encourage governments to legalise drugs like marijuana in an effort to 'undermine the power of organised gangs'.

The report states: 'The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world.'

The commission, whose panel members include former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, and businessman Sir Richard Branson, argued that decriminalisation does not always result in significant increases in drug use.

Current Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz are also on the Global Commission on Drug Policy.

Other members of the panel include former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, former Swiss President Ruth Dreifuss, former Colombian President Cesar Gaviria, former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, and former U.S. Federal Reserve chief Paul Volcker.

'Vast expenditures on criminalisation and repressive measures directed at producers, traffickers and consumers of illegal drugs have clearly failed to effectively curtail supply or consumption,' the report states.

The Mexican Drug War is Failing

People executed by drug gangs in Mexico

Mexican president Felipe Calderon’s war on drugs is failing.

Last year the drug-related death toll in Mexico stood at 15,273 after skyrocketing a massive 60 per cent on the previous year.  In the four years since Calderon’s first wave of 6,500 troops went into battle with the cartels, 34,612 people have died.

That figure includes 30,913 execution-style killings, 3,153 deaths in shootouts between gangs, and 546 deaths involving attacks on authorities, according to federal security spokesman Alejandro Poire.

The violence was so intense in the country in 2008 that the Pentagon warned Mexico was on the verge of becoming a failed state.  A bolster of more troops – some 50,000 are now fighting the war on drugs – has done little to reduce the death toll.

Leader of Sinaloa drug cartel Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman has even made it onto the Forbes billionaire list.  This year his net worth stands at $1 Billion according to the financial authority.

Calderon freely admits his strategy needs to be overhauled.  'We are aware that we are going through a very difficult time on security issues,' he said at a meeting with anti-crime groups last year.

Drug legalization in Portugal works

Portugal in 2001 became the first European country to officially abolish all criminal penalties for personal possession of drugs, including marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine.

At the recommendation of a national commission charged with addressing Portugal's drug problem, jail time was replaced with the offer of therapy. The argument was that the fear of prison drives addicts underground and that incarceration is more expensive than treatment — so why not give drug addicts health services instead? Under Portugal's new regime, people found guilty of possessing small amounts of drugs are sent to a panel consisting of a psychologist, social worker and legal adviser for appropriate treatment (which may be refused without criminal punishment), instead of jail.

Five years after personal possession was decriminalized, illegal drug use among teens in Portugal declined and rates of new HIV infections caused by sharing of dirty needles dropped, while the number of people seeking treatment for drug addiction more than doubled.



Once decriminalized in Portugal
drug use has declined 

"Judging by every metric, decriminalization in Portugal has been a resounding success," says Glenn Greenwald, an attorney.

The Cato paper reports that between 2001 and 2006 in Portugal, rates of lifetime use of any illegal drug among seventh through ninth graders fell from 14.1% to 10.6%; drug use in older teens also declined. Lifetime heroin use among 16-to-18-year-olds fell from 2.5% to 1.8% (although there was a slight increase in marijuana use in that age group). New HIV infections in drug users fell by 17% between 1999 and 2003, and deaths related to heroin and similar drugs were cut by more than half. In addition, the number of people on methadone and buprenorphine treatment for drug addiction rose to 14,877 from 6,040, after decriminalization, and money saved on enforcement allowed for increased funding of drug-free treatment as well.

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HORROR: Nigerian 'baby farm' raided

Teenage mothers were allegedly forced to give up newborns for adoption and witchcraft

Nigerian police have raided an alleged "baby farm" where teenage mothers were forced to give up their newborns for sale to human traffickers.

Cases of child abuse trafficking are common in West Africa

Thirty-two pregnant girls were rescued from a maternity home run by a trafficking ring in the southern city of Aba, police said.

The girls, mostly of school age, were allegedly locked up at the Cross Foundation clinic so they could produce babies to be sold for illegal adoption or for use in ritual witchcraft.

Bala Hassan, the Abia state police commissioner, said: "We stormed the premises of the Cross Foundation in Aba three days ago following a report that pregnant girls aged between 15 and 17 are being made to make babies for the proprietor.

"We rescued 32 pregnant girls and arrested the proprietor, who is undergoing interrogation over allegations that he normally sells the babies to people who may use them for rituals or other purposes."

Hassan added that four babies, already sold in an alleged deal but not yet collected, were also recovered in the raid.

Estimates of the girls' ages varied. Geoffrey Ogbonna, another police spokesman, was quoted by CNN: "There are about 30 pregnant young ladies; the eldest was 20 years old. Some belong in secondary, even in primary school."

Some of the rescued girls told police that the hospital owner gave them $192 (£118) for newborn boys and $161 for newborn girls after they were sold.

Dr Hyacinth Orikara, proprietor of the Cross Foundation, is likely to face charges of child abuse and human trafficking, police said. Buying or selling babies can carry a 14-year jail sentence.

Babies are sold for up to $6,400 each, depending on the sex.

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Does anyone really give a damn about Iowa?

or New Hampshire either . . . . the way we select Presidents is insane


Gotta love those California girls

"I've been all around this great big world
And I seen all kinds of girls
Yeah, but I couldn't wait to get back in the states
Back to the cutest girls in the world

I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California girls"

- - - The Beach Boys


It is that time again.  Another Presidential election is coming.  Someone has to say it, but no one will.  So I guess it is up to me.

Does anyone really give a damn about Iowa?  or New Hampshire for that matter.

The answer is a solid NO.  No one cares about the opinions of the voters of either state.  In any sane world why would our leaders allow the next President of the United States to be chosen by two tiny and insignificant states?

Yes I said it.  TINY and INSIGNIFICANT.  Sorry but those are the facts.



With nearly 38,000,000 people California is once again
given the shaft and ignored in Presidential politics

California:  The Golden State

I am a proud 4th generation Californian, and I am mad as Hell that another election is coming and the voters of the largest state in the nation are not allowed a voice. 

Our Presidential primary was moved back to June so California voters would have no voice in any way, shape or form in the selection a President.

When a young child dreams his great dreams late at night I can guaran-damn-tee you he is not dreaming about Iowa.

The children and adults of the world dream of the greatness of California and long to come here with every fiber of their being.  And come they do.  California is a melting pot of almost every culture on earth.  A short list of some my business clients shows it.  They have come from Vietnam, Mexico, Poland, Korea, Indonesia, India, Russia, the United Kingdom, the Philippines and more.

Simply with nearly 38,000,000 people California has it all and then some.  The Golden Gate, the wonders of the Hollywood film industry, the Colorado River, the Redwoods, Lake Tahoe, Surfing, Carmel, Disneyland, Silicon Valley, Palm Springs, Monterey, San Diego, Yosemite, Santa Barbara, the Sierra Nevadas and the Central Valley the bread basket of the world.



The Hollywood film industry has impacted the entire
planet earth like few others

Politically California has the largest Congressional delegation with 53 Congressmen.  Republicans hold 19 of those seats making California a major player in the GOP Caucus.

The entire state of Iowa has the population of San Diego County.  A single California county. 

The population of entire state of New Hampshire is 700,000 less than the County of San Bernardino.  Again, a single California County.

It is a joke of the highest order and an insult to anyone with a brain that tiny and insignificant states have first crack at voting and thinning the field of candidates.

California should have the first shot.  Period.  We are the biggest and the best.  Sorry you guys from those lesser 49 states.  But you don't cut it.  But even so, the large states of  New York, Florida and Texas should be front loaded into the primaries.  There has to be election reform.


Sorry . . . No one cares about Iowa or New Hampshire girls

But California girls . . . that is another matter.

Afghan judge whips man for drinking alcohol

The BBC Afghan service has acquired recently-shot video evidence of a man being publicly whipped by a judge as a punishment for drinking alcohol.

The lashing was carried out inside a courtroom in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar Province in eastern Afghanistan.

Such punishments are legal under the Afghan constitution but are rarely implemented.

It appears Islamists never met Ben Franklin

The Afghan human rights commission has expressed concern about the incident.  It is not clear when exactly the lashing happened, but it is believed to have been last week.

Correspondents say that most punishments of this nature are carried out by the Taliban.

In January the authorities pledged to bring to justice a group of men who stoned a couple to death in north Afghanistan after footage of their killings came to light.

The man and woman were accused of adultery in the district of Dashte Archi in Kunduz province - an area still under Taliban control - last August.

Hundreds of people attended the stoning, but no-one has yet been charged over the incident.

Obama and the end of the American Republic

Obama tells Congress to shove it . . . and Congress rolls over and says thank you.



James Madison

“If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
- - - - James Madison


Under the War Powers Act, President Barack Obama had until Friday to get congressional authorization to continue U.S. military operations in Libya. But the day passed without his even asking for it, which means he has to disengage within 30 days. Obama may not heed that requirement either.

What is interesting to me is how happy Congress is to give away the Constitutional powers granted to them by our Federalist Founding Fathers.

All together now Congress.  Drop your pants, bend over
and say "Hail Caesar".

Ever since World War II members of Congress have hidden under their desk quivering in fear that they might be called upon to obey the Constitution and declare war.  Heaven forbid they might have to take a position on matters of life and death.

So we can use 1945 as the point where we can say an Imperial America was born.  Congress has granted Presidents the Imperial authority to wage war as they feel like it.

In Libya, Obama went to war at the orders of the United Nations.  Not the Congress. 

Six Republican (only six) senators, led by Kentucky's Rand Paul, sent the president a letter, challenging him to comply with the War Powers Resolution. But they got near zero help from their colleagues. There's no Senate action scheduled on the WPR, Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., says it's because "we're deferring to NATO."

Republicans in the House are falling all over themselves to kiss the Imperial Ring of Caesar Obama and back and fund him in whatever wars he wishes to start.

The slow Fall of the American Republic is there for anyone with eyes to see.  Bit by bit holes are being punched in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.  The rule of Law is breaking down.  Politicians do what they want to and then retroactively look for the stamp of approval for their acts later from corrupt and boot-licking partisan judges.

“No president,” says Sen. John McCain, “has ever recognized the constitutionality of the War Powers Act, and neither do I.  So I don’t feel bound by any deadline.”  Oh? No law is actually a law if presidents and senators do not “recognize” it?  Now, there is an interesting alternative to judicial review, and an indicator of how executive aggrandizement and legislative dereliction of duty degrade the rule of law.

"The last nail is being driven into the coffin of the American Republic. Yet, Congress
remains in total denial as our liberties are rapidly fading before our eyes. The
process is propelled by unwarranted fear and ignorance as to the true meaning
of liberty. It is driven by economic myths, fallacies and irrational good intentions. The
rule of law is constantly rejected and authoritarian answers are offered as panaceas
for all our problems."

Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas)  May 25, 2011



James Madison and the Constitution



James Madison's Declaration of War in 1812

An Act Declaring War Between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Dependencies Thereof and the United States of America and Their Territories.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That war be and the same is hereby declared to exist between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the dependencies thereof, and the United States of America and their territories; and that the President of the United States is hereby authorized to use the whole land and naval force of the United States to carry the same into effect, and to issue to private armed vessels of the United States commissions or letters of marque and general reprisal, in such form as he shall think proper, and under the seal of the United States, against the vessels, goods, and effects of the government of the said United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the subjects thereof.

APPROVED, June 18, 1812


War of 1812

Our Federalist Founding Fathers saw with their own eyes the corrupt power of a King.  For that reason a vote by both houses of Congress was required to go to war.

When the 1812 conflict with England came along the Founders put their words into action and voted an official declaration of war.

Our current crop of third-rate political hacks are frightened of their own shadows.  They do nothing without polls and focus groups.  They live in fear that any action they take on any subject might cost them 2.7% of the vote of some special interest group. 

These Congressional cowards are only concerned with personal political power so they have abdicated their Constitutional authority to the President and vote him whatever money he needs so they cannot be attacked for being "unpatriotic".  Our brave men and women are being sent into danger and death and these hacks are afraid to even vote on a declaration of war.

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Bangladesh woman cuts off attacker's penis

But was the "removal" Sharia Compliant?

Police in southern Bangladesh say a woman cut off a man's penis during an alleged attempt to rape her and took it to a police station as evidence.

The incident took place in Mirzapur village, Jhalakathi, about 200km (124 miles) south of the capital, Dhaka.

Monju Begum, 40, a married mother of three, told police that neighbour Mozammel Haq Mazi forced his way into her shanty and started assaulting her.

Mr Mazi, who denies the accusation, has been admitted to a nearby hospital.

"We will arrest him once his condition gets better,"  police spokesman Abul Khaer told the BBC.

"She said she fought back and cut off his penis and brought it to our police station in a polythene bag to prove that Mr Mazi tried to rape her," police spokesman Abul Khaer told the BBC.

"She has registered a case accusing him of attempted rape," he said.

Monju Begum says her neighbour had
been harassing her for months

"It is quite an unusual incident. As far as I am aware, this is the first time that a woman has brought a severed penis to the police station as evidence."

Monju Begum told police that Mr Mazi, a married father of five, had been harassing her for the past six months.

'Revenge attack'

But Mr Mazi denied the allegations.

"We were having an affair and recently she suggested that both of us can go and settle down in Dhaka," Mr Mazi told the BBC from the hospital in nearby Barisal.

"I refused and told her that I cannot leave my wife and children, so she took revenge on me."

Prof AMSM Sharfuzzaman, a senior surgeon at the Sher-e-Bangla Medical College and Hospital in Barisal town, told the BBC it had not been possible to reattach the organ.

"Police brought his severed penis several hours after the incident," he said.

"We are treating him so that he can urinate normally without the penis."

Sudan agrees demilitirised zone for north-south border

Northern and southern Sudan have agreed to set up a demilitarised zone along their border to be jointly patrolled.

The African Union-mediated deal comes 10 days after northern troops seized the disputed border region of Abyei.

Details of the deal are still sketchy, but a BBC reporter say the fact that both sides are talking is positive.
Analysts have feared the Abyei dispute could reignite the civil war between the north and South Sudan, which is due to become independent in July.

The UN Security Council condemned the occupation of Abyei and called for the immediate withdrawal of northern troops from the oil-producing region also claimed by the south. 

Under the 2005 peace deal, which ended the 22-year civil war, Abyei was granted special status and a joint administration was set up in 2008 to run the area until a referendum decided its fate.

Meanwhile, the UN refugee agency says Abyei town has been "virtually emptied" of its population of between 50,000 and 55,000 people, and large numbers of fighters are present on the streets. 

Last week, South Sudan's humanitarian affairs minister said he estimated 150,000 people had fled from Abyei state and border regions fearing further attacks. The UN's currently overall figure is 60,000.

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