Gateway Part Two.

In response to having been banned by Gateway Pundit I sent the following missive to their service address.

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"I have been a frequent commentor on Gateway for several years and have frequently garnered positive reations to my posts as FVS.

"My comment on the recent story concerning the blatently racist UVA student who was calling, for all intents and purposes, a return to segregation, was intended as both irony and sarcasm. Yet whoever you have monitoring comments on this story took it literally and chose to not simply remove the post or temporarily suspended my posting privileges but instead issued an outright ban on my IP address and remove all of the hundreds of comments I have made over the years.

"I find such a reaction to be antithetical to what I and so many others have come to believe your site stands for. It is what one might expect from Twitter or Facebook.

"Your consideration and review of this matter would be greatly appreciated and simply because I feel I have made meaningful contributions in the past but have have developed relationships with several of my fellow contributors over the years."
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Rather than address any of the points I raised their response was a terse one liner. "The ban was for racism." It only proved my point regarding their over reaction and lack of perceptive capabilities.

Not being one to accept such a terse and arrogant dismissal I sent off the following reply.
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"Horse feathers. Your inability to perceive tongue in cheek sarcasm is apparently limited. If my comment was intended as racist why then did I end it with suggesting that a trip to West Africa might give her a greater appreciation for what living in a majority white country has provided? Have you ever been to Africa? I have.

Or perhaps it's that banning people with perspectives different than your staff's gives you some sense if power. It seems you are more concerned about what you perceive as my racism than you are about the real racism of the left that goes largely unchallenged.

I am of that generation that grew up with and were part of the desegregation movement. We lived with and freely associated blacks and accepted them as equals. We believed in Dr. King's message of judgement based on character rather than color.  Our thanks for this has been that today our children and grandchildren are taught in school that they are inherently evil and racist simply based on the color of their skin.

If you are offended by the disillusionment and sarcasm of my generation at the destruction of those things we were brought up to believe in and act in accordance with just wait to you see what happens when the full reaction of a generation taught to be self loathing sets in.

I harbor no illusions that you will reconsider your decision but I would suggest you broaden your perspectives on history and consider the repercussions of the destruction of the nobility of what others were taught and sincerely believed in rather than simply dismissing what you don't understand as racism while the world around us sinks into yet another fascist nightmare."
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These morons might think that this is over. It's not. There are larger issues here than their petty arrogance. Stay tuned.

Gateway Pundit goes full PC on Race

A great many conservatives Gateway Pundit has been both a reliable source of news without the filter of leftist bill crap and a place where commentary was freewheeling and largely unrestricted. Irony, sarcasm and all measures of snark were openly accepted and debate where disagreement occured was accepted and expected.

Some how that has now changed, at least when it comes to the subject of criticizing black racism with the same aformentioned irony and sarcasm.

My regular readers will also know me by my Disqus handle of FVS. I commented on Gateway's leading story of the day concerning  a black UVA student making a blatantly racist statement that there were "to many white people" at the opening of the newly built campus "Cultural Diversity Center".
I responded, implying that if she is so much in favor of segregation, that perhaps we should just return to full blown segregation with colored only drinking fountains and perhaps the 3/5ths rule as well.  I closed the comment, proving it was sarcasm directed at the irony of her idiotic remark, by suggest she take an extended trip to her ancestral homelands of West Africa and she might come home with a greater appreciation of what living in a majority white country has provided for her.

This comment was met with immediate reaction from Gateway's nameless moderator who took such offence that the comment was not simply removed not was I put in some kind of "time out" like I was a petulant child, but I was permanently banned from commenting on the platform.

I can only conclude that Gateway is hiring ex twitter employees as moderators or they are so afraid of the racecard Nazis that no such absurd sarcasm is to be tolerated.. Or perhaps they have hired former Obama AG William Holder as their race issue moderator. Holder was after all the guy who made his first speech at the DOJ saying that "We are a nation of cowards" on the subject of race. It would certainly appear that that mindset had taken root at Disqus.

Explain How This Is OK You Leftist Scumbags

Tell us again why we don't need a wall on the Mexican border...

Jan 31 (Reuters) - A man accused of killing two police officers while acting as the leader of an al Qaeda group in the Iraqi city of Fallujah was arrested in Phoenix, Arizona, federal officials said on Friday.

Ali Yousif Ahmed Al-Nouri, 42, is wanted in Iraq on charges of premeditated murder of the Iraqi police officers in 2006, according to a statement by the U.S. Attorney's Office District of Arizona.

An Iraqi judge issued a warrant for Al-Nouri's arrest and the government there issued an extradition request to the U.S. Justice Department, the statement said.

The Justice Department sought an arrest warrant for Al-Nouri and he was taken into custody on Thursday in Phoenix.

He appeared before a federal magistrate judge in Phoenix on Friday in connection with proceedings to extradite him to Iraq, the statement said.

According to the Iraqi government, al-Nouri was the leader of an al Qaeda group in Fallujah which planned operations targeting Iraqi police.

The statement noted the details in the Iraqi complaint were allegations that had yet to been proven in court.

Al-Nouri's extradition would have to be certified by the U.S. court and the U.S. Secretary of State would then decide whether to surrender him to Iraq, the statement said.

It was not immediately possible to contact Al-Nouri for comment or determine whether he had hired a lawyer.

The statement did not provide information on when Al-Nouri entered the United States or how long he had lived in Phoenix. (Reporting by Andrew Hay in New Mexico; Editing by Lincoln Feast.)

China: Second Degree Effects

In my previous post I mentioned how the coronovirus has the potential to seriously impair the Chinese economy and destabilize the government with possible serious repercussions for the party leadership.

This has been all but confirmed by Chinese attacks on the US as "cruel" for taking steps to  protect itself from further contagion by prohibiting entry to foreigners with recent Chinese travel in their passport records and cutting off of air travel on US carriers.

I have seen no mention so far about shutting out ocean traffic of vessels coming from or through Chinese ports but I expect that will be coming soon both here and elsewhere. As it stands the US, while vulnerable to further contagion it is not the most vulnerable nation.

Once that happens we can expect to see the Chinese stock market to crash rapidly with repercussions for other markets that have become overly dependent on interaction with the Chinese economy including our own. In fact we are already seeing this effect beginning in full anticipation of a highly probable health quarantine of China.

All this of course raises the possibility of even more second degree effects and necessary reactions to them. Firstly, severe contraction of access to foreign markets and cash will trigger waves of loan defaults and unemployment and with it social unrest, as I mentioned previously. This they will try to stem with rapid money creation leading to inflation if not hyperinflation.

Then thr question will become what will the People's Liberation Army do? Will they simply be used in the internal quarantine and  suppression of internal unrest, will they be used in a manufactured foreign crisis as both a distraction and to attempt to create a false patriotic national unity or does the government think they have the logistical capabilities to do both? Or is there the possibility of a straight up military coup and dictatorship?

As to the impact on and reaction to a Chinese quarantine on Western economies I think that is going to depend on how capable of and how quickly they can gear up their own production capabilities to manufacture critical goods presently coming out of China and or create and expand sources from other nations as well as how quickly a vaccine and new antiviral treatments can be developed.

On the US domestic political front we have already seen some of the Democrats insanely trying to blame this crisis on Trump. It is true that the general population has a strong tendency to strictly vote their pocket books and how they perceive the direction of the economy. The impact of Trump Derangement Syndrome on this is going to be hard to measure, at least at first.

In this regard a lot is going to depend on whether or not Trump's team can quickly produce an emergency response plan that addresses both public health concerns and economic contraction that can garner public support.  The other factor will be how willing the Democrats can be to put aside their blind hatred long enough to secure the nation from a real existential threat.

Sadly if recent history is any indicator they won't be able to and will try to exploit the crisis for political gain no matter how much suffering and death it causes.

In any case the next few weeks and months are going to be very interesting if not dangerous.