Politickles

Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier:

REVERSE RIDE
Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the Boylston St. bombers’ brief career:
How demagogues avidly used the alarm
To bully their betters and make them disarm
And a people once free succumbed to their fear.

From the archive:

MAKING AN OMELET
It’s not optimal spilling the beans,
And far safer to hide behind screens,
Using cute comrade code
Such as “bumps in the road”
When an end’s deemed to justify means.
(2012)

HERE WE GO AGAIN!
Jimmy Carter’s the president when
Some insane Arab protests begin
And is justly rewarded,
Being rightly regarded
As a laughingstock ever since then.
(2012)

THIS JUST IN!
More attacks from al Qaeda ahead!
Rising prices for milk, eggs, and bread!
Higher government spending!
Higher taxes impending!
And Osama bin Laden’s still dead!
(2011)

OBAMA DOCTRINE
There’s no need for a war on terror.
Just say no to the c’est-la-guerrer.
Everything will be ducky
As long as we’re lucky
And the terrorist makes an error.
(2010)

CORDOBA
Like a swaggering conquering hero,
Rauf is building a mosque at Ground Zero
– Where some 3000 bodies
Were interred by jihadis –
And Obama just fiddles like Nero.
(2010)

SUBMISSION
These new guidelines are certainly odd:
“We must never denounce the jihad;
We must never demean
The mujahideen,
As they force us to worship their god.”
(2008)

SEPTEMBER 11th
Kissed my loved one at the door.
No idea what lay in store.
In the tower
Not an hour.
Now my loved one is no more.
(2001)

Last week’s limerick:

IRON LADY
There was no one in England could match her,
Not one woman or man of her stature.
She was destined to be
In that Triumphant Three:
John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, Dame Thatcher.

Radical Muslims are using U.S. prisons to recruit hardened criminals for terrorist activities, counterterrorism experts told Congress [in June]. – Washington Times

Back in 1988, when I was on the staff of a national conservative news magazine, an old Jewish inventor named Eli Raitport contacted me and asked me to edit a couple of manuscripts that he’d written about the security problems facing the United States at that time. At least once, he came to my house in Brockton, about a half hour south of Boston, to discuss the projects.

Among other things, Raitport had invented a small robotic assault vehicle that police departments were already using to make their way into “rock houses,” the heavily fortified lairs of drug dealers.

I don’t recall whether or not this made it into either of his books, but at one point Raitport related to me his disturbing vision of an amazingly simple scenario by which a revolution could be quickly launched in the United States. It was sheer genius.

Raitport had noted that there were large penal institutions all over America filled with hardened criminals and sociopaths — the perfect raw material for a terrorist army. He’d also noted that these penitentiaries were designed to keep people in, not out.

Supposing, he said, that a series of commando units simultaneously attacked these institutions all across the country? How hard would it be for them to gain entry and overpower the guards? Having done so, and moving from cell to cell, they would then release every prisoner who agreed to join their revolutionary army.

Most, presumably, would jump at the chance. Those who balked would be shot.

How many would stay in the ranks after gaining their freedom? It didn’t really matter, said Raitport. If they stayed with the commandos, all the better. But, having hundreds of thugs and murderers running amok in communities all across America would wreak its own unpredictable havoc and distract police and citizens alike from the larger threat.

Raitport’s disturbing vision seemed plausible enough in 1988. Twenty-three years later, it seems almost inevitable.

The overt and aggressive private and public anti-Christian sentiment so evident in Iraq . . . is not limited to Iraq. It is to be found throughout the lesser and greater Middle East, throughout Asia. It is to be found also in Africa and increasingly it is being found within the once-Christian lands of Western Europe. – Cardinal Seán Brady, archbishop of Armagh, Ireland

Free to Serve

Muslim terrorism is simply a false flag operation, managed in the background by our main enemies, Russia and Red China.  Almost since the beginning, Muslim terrorist organizations have been supported and nurtured by the Soviet Union or its Middle Eastern surrogates. – James Simpson

Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier:

REVOLTING DEVELOPMENT
Revolution’s a natural desire
When we lack what our natures require,
But it loses its glow
When oppressed people go
From the frying pan into the fire.

From the archive:

IT COULD’VE BEEN WORSE
Democrats in the White House are scary.
Jimmy Carter and Bill made us wary
And relieved there weren’t more:
Mike Dukakis, Al Gore,
And spandexterous dullard John Kerry!
(2007)

WORLD FREEDOM
If freedom can come to Romanians,
Albanians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians,
Why must others abide
While their freedom’s denied:
Brother Syrians, Saudis, Iranians?
(2006)

Last week’s verse:

ARTIFICIAL FAMINE
There’s no benefit to coal
If you cannot dig a hole,
And the value is nil
Of oil you can’t drill.
Who would favor such control?

[Editor's note: Lars Hedegaard, a Danish critic of Islam, is on trial in Denmark for remarks he made regarding dysfunctions and abuse within Islamic family culture. Under Denmark's law 266b dealing with alleged hate speech, defendants are not allowed to prove the truth of their comments and all that is needed for conviction is whether any one person feels offended. Below are his final words in the Court of Frederiksberg on January 24, 2011.] – Common Sense & Wonder

SUBMISSION
These new guidelines are certainly odd:
“We must never denounce the jihad;
We must never demean
The mujahideen,
As they force us to worship their god.”
(2008)

Today, the United States faces [an] insidious ideological threat: Shariah, the authoritarian doctrine that animates the Islamists and their jihadism. Translated as “the path,” Shariah is a comprehensive framework designed to govern all aspects of life. Though it certainly has spiritual elements, it would be a mistake to think of it as a “religious” code in the Western sense because it seeks to regulate all manner of behavior in the secular sphere — economic, social, military, legal and political. That regulation is oppressive, discriminatory, utterly inimical to our core constitutional liberties, and destructive of equal protection under the law, especially for women. – James Woolsey, Andrew C. McCarthy and Harry E. Soyster

Over the next several decades, Christianity will become a faith that can speak in the public square less and less freely. A society where faith is prevented from vigorous public expression is a society that has fashioned the state into an idol. And when the state becomes an idol, men and women become the sacrificial offering. – Charles Chaput

Coming to America

Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier:

CORDOBA
Like a swaggering conquering hero,
Rauf is building a mosque at Ground Zero
– Where some 3000 bodies
Were interred by jihadis –
And Obama just fiddles like Nero.

From the archive:

SEPTEMBER 11th
Kissed my loved one at the door.
No idea what lay in store.
In the tower
Not an hour.
Now my loved one is no more.
(2001)

Last week’s limerick:

ME SHELL, CONT.
While the rest of us scrimp all the time,
She displays an indifference sublime:
Our First Lady, Michelle,
Does exceedingly well
As she travels the world on our dime.