Jihad Watch : Out of the question? Of course, except for all the leftists who are calling for it. My latest in FrontPage:
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Kolyma) tweeted
Friday: āIs anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try
to downplay or deny their complicity in the future? I foresee decent
probability of many deleted Tweets, writings, photos in the future.ā
Michael Simon, a former Obama administration staffer, tweeted in
response (and later deleted the tweet): āYes, we are. Every
administration staffer, campaign staffer, bundler, lawyer who
represented them ā everyone.ā He linked to āThe Trump Accountability Project,ā
a website that proclaims ominously: āRemember what they did.ā Remember
it, apparently, in order to hound these people out of public life and
into poverty or worse. Is the age of American gulags about to dawn?
Emily Abrams, a Pete Buttigieg campaign worker, tweeted (and then
made her account private): āWeāre launching the Trump Accountability
Project to make sure anyone who took a paycheck to help Trump undermine
America is held responsible for what they did.ā The Trump Accountability
Project website proclaims its intention to destroy Trump supporters:
We must never forget those who furthered the Trump agenda.
We should welcome in our fellow Americans with whom we differ politically.
But those who took a paycheck from the Trump Administration should
not profit from their efforts to tear our democracy apart. The world
should never forget those who, when faced with a decision,
chose to put their money, their time, and their reputations behind
separating children from their families, encouraging racism and
anti-Semitism, and negligently causing the unnecessary loss of life and
economic devastation from our countryās failed response to the COVID-19
pandemic.
Aside from the tissue of falsehoods this presents about the Trump
administration, this statement raises the obvious question about what
āthe worldā should do after it recalls all these things about Trump
supporters. The answer is not hard to imagine: they should be shunned by
everyone: denied employment, denied housing, denied a bank account,
denied everything. Camps will have to be constructed to house them,
unless Emily Abrams, Michael Simon and AOC want the streets to be filled
with millions of starving Trump supporters.
Remember also that on October 17, Bill Clintonās Labor Secretary Robert B. āThirdā Reich tweeted:
āWhen this nightmare is over, we need a Truth and Reconciliation
Commission. It would erase Trumpās lies, comfort those who have been
harmed by his hatefulness, and name every official, politician,
executive, and media mogul whose greed and cowardice enabled this
catastrophe.ā
A Truth and Reconciliation Commission to shame and vilify Trumpās
supporters! And what will this Commission decide to do with them, Mr.
Reich? Reeducation camps? Worse? Reich may be a doctrinaire
authoritarian fanatic, but there has been no chorus of condemnation from
Democrat leaders for his ugly little threat, either.
Ultimately, Reich, Abrams, Simon, Ocasio-Cortez and their ilk will
not be satisfied with anything short of the deaths of those whom they
have targeted. You think thatās an exaggeration? Consider the fact that
last year, fascist ājournalistā Andrew Kaczynski of CNN tried to get the
acting director of the Interior Departmentās Bureau of Land Management,
William Perry Pendley, fired
not just for denying the Leftās āclimate changeā mythology, but also
for opposing jihad violence and illegal immigration. The guy is in the
Bureau of Land Management. What does that have to do with jihad violence
and illegal immigration, much less āglobal warmingā? Nothing. But that
doesnāt matter. Kaczynski showed here that the cancel culture wants its
targets nothing less than dead: if Pendley had sought a position as a
grocery clerk, Kaczynski would have shown up to get him fired, because
he departs from the Leftās orthodoxy.
Nor is Kacyzynski alone. A few years ago I was invited to address an
education conference in California that had nothing whatsoever to do
with Islam; the hate-filled fascist āIslamophobiaā propagandist and future real estate agent
Nathan Lean got the cowardly Catholic bishop Jaime Soto, under whose
auspices the conference was being held, to cancel my appearance. (I
spoke at the conference as scheduled, in a venue outside the bishopās
purview.) And also a few years ago, the Washington Post discovered
that the Qurāan-burning pastor Terry Jones was driving for Uber; they
duly got him fired. I donāt approve of book-burning, but it is not
illegal in the United States, and the idea that a man must be hounded
forever and prevented from making a living for views that dissent from
the Leftās reveals what Leftists really are.
So it has been clear for years that if you dissent from Leftist
orthodoxy, you must be destroyed. Not just ādebunkedā or ādiscreditedā
in your field, but also prevented from doing everything else, so that
the only option you have is to die. Will Biden open the gulags? Or will
he leave that to Kamala Harris? Or perhaps for a future President
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, elected in 2024 or 2028, now that stolen
elections have become the norm in this unhappy nation?