Friday, October 14, 2011

Hey Pelosi, Here is A REAL Spitting Incidence By The Pigs You Support



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Hey Pelosi, Here is A REAL Spitting Incidence By The Pigs You Support

by catscanner150

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US Coast Guard: Occupy Boston Protesters Spit On Female Officer

The Coast Guard is confirming Friday morning that one of its female officers in uniform was spit on an harassed while near the Occupy Boston protest.

"The woman was walking to the train and said protesters spit on her twice, called her foul names and even threw a water bottle at her," MyFoxBoston.com reports.

Now, the Coast Guard is warning all staff working on Atlantic Avenue to avoid Occupy Boston protesters while in uniform.

"The peaceful protestors say the violence wasn't supposed to happen and a group of anarchists were the ones rebelling. They say they do not condone that type of behavior," MyFoxBostong.com says.

Hot Air's Ed Morrissey isn't buying it, however:

A spokesman for Occupy Boston tells Fox that anyone could have shown up at their protest to spit on and harass Coast Guard officers in an attempt to "defamate" the movement. Uh, sure. Two men spent time at Occupy Boston just on the off chance that a uniformed member of the armed forces might walk by so that they could spit on her — just to discredit the movement?

And that raises other question: Does the Occupy Boston crowd encourages and foster this type of behavior?

Morrissey concludes:

I know that this is already going to be the first reaction to this story among readers, but let me state it anyway. Had even one Tea Party rally resulted in 140 arrests, defecation on police cars, speakers calling for a violent French Revolution-style change in society, or members of the military getting attacked with spit and epithets, would the national media have offered such a balanced report — or would the media have used any of these incidents to warn America about the latent hate and violence in the movement?

The answer seems obvious. Knowing the left's fondness for scare tactics, had members of the Tea Party engaged in any of the aforementioned behavior, the media would be warning of increases in rape, murder and that women would die on the floor.

They are starting to ramp up the violence and sooner than later it will get out of control of the police and it will be up to the people to bring about order. These filthy bastards have no idea of the pandora's box of kick-ass that is about to be opened on them.

Tom in NC

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The first nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System, or EAS, will take place at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time,12:00 noon, Mountain Time and 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time on November 9, 2011.  The broadcasters, along with FEMA and the FCC, have been working hard to ensure both the success of the test AND that the public is informed and fully aware in advance.  However, no matter how much outreach is conducted, or how plain the language is that accompanies the test alert, it's likely that some of the public may be confused and feel compelled to contact police, fire, or other emergency services through calls to their local 911 centers.
 

 

 


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Re: WHITE HOUSE PETITION RE SCIENTOLOGY

On Oct 13, 4:40 pm, Terril Park <terrilpa...@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> Sometimes I ponder as to how much of a sucker I have been, what was it
> that made me so dense ? In my last 3-4 years I paid them $250,000 !!!

I have to say that if she spent 250 grand over 4 years without coming
to her senses?
I have had "a teachable moment" after a $19.95 purchase.

> I saw the out points. I witnessed the insanities, but I was tunnel
> visioned within the cult and could not think straight.

She may be just as vulnerable to a door to door vacuum salesman. I
don't know if we can protect people like this.
Are you telling me these "salesmen" are that good? I suspect the
customers are a little too easy.

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Re: The Seven Biggest Economic Lies

Nice rebuttal! You should write more often. You did write that
right?

On Oct 14, 5:24 am, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
>     Tax cuts for the rich trickle down to everyone else. Baloney.
> Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush both sliced taxes on the rich and
> what happened? Most Americans' wages (measured by the real median
> wage) began flattening under Reagan and has dropped since George W.
> Bush. Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.How is it again that taking water from the deep end of the pool -- sloshing some of it on the pool deck -- and pouring it into the shallow end raises the level of the pool? When Government confiscates dollars to funnel into THEIR politically motivated schemes and providing livelihood to those who produce nothing, those Individuals can no longer spend/save/invest them ... taking those dollars away from THOSE recipients.    Higher taxes on the rich would hurt the economy and slow job
> growth. False. From the end of World War II until 1981, the richest
> Americans faced a top marginal tax rate of 70 percent or above. Under
> Dwight Eisenhower it was 91 percent. Even after all deductions and
> credits, the top taxes on the very rich were far higher than they've
> been since. Yet the economy grew faster during those years than it has
> since. (Don't believe small businesses would be hurt by a higher
> marginal tax; fewer than 2 percent of small business owners are in the
> highest tax bracket.)Same things as above, only NOW Reich introduces causality problems. Post WWI part 2 the US had capital advantages over other countries like Japan -- as those economies 'came back' that advantage waned.    Shrinking government generates more jobs. Wrong again. It means
> fewer government workers - everyone from teachers, fire fighters,
> police officers, and social workers at the state and local levels to
> safety inspectors and military personnel at the federal. And fewer
> government contractors, who would employ fewer private-sector workers.
> According to Moody's economist Mark Zandi (a campaign advisor to John
> McCain), the $61 billion in spending cuts proposed by the House GOP
> will cost the economy 700,000 jobs this year and next.And yet we MORE of the same thing as above. Here Reich imagines that he is creating jobs by having 10 people pay an 11th but ignoring the loss created for each of the 10. Why not make EVERYONE a Government worker and SOLVE the unemployment woes AND the economy itself?    Cutting the budget deficit now is more important than boosting the
> economy. Untrue. With so many Americans out of work, budget cuts now
> will shrink the economy. They'll increase unemployment and reduce tax
> revenues. That will worsen the ratio of the debt to the total economy.
> The first priority must be getting jobs and growth back by boosting
> the economy. Only then, when jobs and growth are returning vigorously,
> should we turn to cutting the deficit.And yet MORE of the same thing as above. Now Reich wants those 10 people above plus a few more to pay people NOT to work.    Medicare and Medicaid are the major drivers of budget deficits.
> Wrong. Medicare and Medicaid spending is rising quickly, to be sure.
> But that's because the nation's health-care costs are rising so fast.
> One of the best ways of slowing these costs is to use Medicare and
> Medicaid's bargaining power over drug companies and hospitals to
> reduce costs, and to move from a fee-for-service system to a fee-for-
> healthy outcomes system. And since Medicare has far lower
> administrative costs than private health insurers, we should make
> Medicare available to everyone.Health care costs are rising precisely BECAUSE of Medicaid/Medicare (and numerous other interventions into the marketplace). What incentive do bureaucrats -- spending other people's money -- have to economize? None.    Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. Don't believe it. Social
> Security is solvent for the next 26 years. It could be solvent for the
> next century if we raised the ceiling on income subject to the Social
> Security payroll tax. That ceiling is now $106,800.Correct. In a Ponzi scheme the dupes have a choice. With social security the dupes are forced. Raising the ceiling proves the point made by those who correctly identify this scam as largely identical to Ponzi. What is raising the ceiling but the equivalent to finding new dupes to support the others?    It's unfair that lower-income Americans don't pay income tax.
> Wrong. There's nothing unfair about it. Lower-income Americans pay out
> a larger share of their paychecks in payroll taxes, sales taxes, user
> fees, and tolls than everyone else.What is actually fair is for ALL Individuals to pay the same dollar amount. Why should one Individual be forced to pay more or less for the monopoly 'service' Government? How -- exactly -- is this section a purported 'myth'?Demagogues through history have known that big lies, repeated often
> enough, start being believed - unless they're rebutted. These seven
> economic whoppers are just plain wrong. Make sure you know the truth -
> and spread it on.As William Anderson observed, "Robert Reich, the former U.S. Labor Secretary and full-time crank".
> Don't take his advice and continue chanting his big lies. I guess we can at least take refuge in the fact that he announced he was going to lie.
> Regard$,
> --MJThe art of politics, under democracy, is simply the art of ringing it. Two branches reveal themselves. There is the art of the demagogue, and there is the art of what may be called, by a shot-gun marriage of Latin and Greek, the demaslave. They are complementary, and both of them are degrading to their practitioners. The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. The demaslave is one who listens to what these idiots have to say and then pretends that he believes it himself. -- H.L. Mencken

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**JP** USA debt in visual perspective..



USA debt in visual perspective.


One Hundred Dollars


$100 - Most counterfeited money denomination in the world. Keeps the world moving.

Ten Thousand Dollars


$10,000 - Enough for a great vacation or to buy a used car. Approximately one year of work for the average human on earth.

One Million Dollars


$1,000,000 - Not as big of a pile as you thought, huh? Still this is 92 years of work for the average human on earth.

One Hundred Million Dollars


$100,000,000 - Plenty to go around for everyone. Fits nicely on an ISO / Military standard sized pallet.

One Billion Dollars


$1,000,000,000 - You will need some help when robbing the bank. Now we are getting serious!

One Trillion Dollars


$1,000,000,000,000


When the U.S government speaks about a 1.7 trillion deficit - this is the volumes of cash the U.S. Government borrowed in 2010 to run itself.
Keep in mind it is double stacked pallets of $100 million dollars each, full of $100 dollar bills. You are going to need a lot of trucks to freight this around.

If you spent $1 million a day since Jesus was born, you would have not spent $1 trillion by now...but ~$700 billion - same amount the banks got during bailout.


One Trillion Dollars


Comparison of $1,000,000,000,000 dollars to a standard-sized American Football field and European Football field.
Say hello to the Boeing 747-400 transcontinental airliner that's hiding on the right. This was until recently the biggest passenger plane in the world.

15 Trillion Dollars


$15,000,000,000,000 - Unless the U.S. government fixes the budget, US national debt (credit bill) will top 15 trillion by Christmas 2011.



Statue of Liberty seems rather worried as United States national debt passes 20% of the entire world's combined GDP (Gross Domestic Product). In 2011 the National Debt will exceed 100% of GDP, and venture into the 100%+ debt-to-GDP ratio that the European PIIGS have (bankrupting nations).


114.5 Trillion Dollars


$114,500,000,000,000. - US unfunded liabilities


To the right you can see the pillar of cold hard $100 bills that dwarfs the WTC & Empire State Building - both at one point world's tallest buildings. If you look carefully you can see the Statue of Liberty.

The 114.5 Trillion dollar super-skyscraper is the amount of money the U.S. Government knows it does not have to fully fund the Medicare, Medicare Prescription Drug Programme, Social Security, Military and civil servant pensions. It is the money USA knows it will not have to pay all its bills.

If you live in USA this is also your personal credit card bill; you are responsible along with everyone else to pay this back. The citizens of USA created the U.S. Government to serve them, this is what the U.S. Government has done while serving The People.

The unfunded liability is calculated on current tax and funding inputs, and future demographic shifts in US Population.

Note:
On the above 114.5T image the size of the base of the money pile is half a trillion, not 1T as on 15T image. The height is double. This was done to reflect the base of Empire State and WTC more closely.


Source
: Federal Reserve &
www.USdebtclock.org - visit it to see the debt in real time and get a better grasp of this amazing number.



















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OH, BOO HOO! Iranians try but fail to launch a monkey into space

Should have used Obama instead.  Less weight between the ears.

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OH, BOO HOO! Iranians try but fail to launch a monkey into space

by barenakedislam

A little behind the times, the Iranian Space Agency got a further setback last month, failing to launch a Rhesus monkey into space. It has postponed future attempts for monkey launches indefinitely, which could also push back their hopes for sending up a human. THE BLAZE  According to an Agence-France Press report (via Space.com), the [...]

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Fwd: [LeftLibertarian2] Carson: "Which side are you on?"



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excerpt:

"Occupy Wall Street has come under fire from some libertarians, on the grounds that it's relatively silent about the role of big government, and its proposed remedies lean heavily toward increased government intervention.

But it's quite understandable that many in the Occupy movement position themselves in opposition to the "free market" and in favor of government intervention. After all, ever since they were born they've heard loathsome cretins like Dick Armey, Tom Delay, along with the usual suspects on CNBC and the WSJ editorial staff, defend corporate capitalism as we know it and the unbelievable concentration of wealth and power as the result of "our free market system."

Every time you look at a debate on economic policy, the liberal is saying the free market can't be left to itself because the inevitable result is polarization of wealth and corporate tyranny. And the conservative is saying corporate tyranny and polarization of wealth are good things, and that government should stay out of it.

All the things the Occupiers are rightfully against, like the plutocratic oligarchy and abusive corporate power, they've seen defended — or attacked — in terms of "our free enterprise system." If I thought the free market meant what Dick Armey said it was, I'd hate it too."

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Fwd: [I-S] The ‘Terrorist’ Who Couldn’t Think Straight



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The 'Terrorist' Who Couldn't Think Straight
Iranian 'terrorist' plot unravels
by Justin Raimondo, October 14, 2011

Would Iran recruit a used car salesman with a memory problem to conduct assassinations in the US?

This is a question you have to ask yourself when evaluating the alleged Iranian "terrorist" plot supposedly uncovered by Attorney General Eric Holder the other day. The arrest of Mansour Arbabsiar, a 56-year-old Iranian immigrant who came to this country as a college student, was the occasion for a trumpet blast of anti-Iranian propaganda and belligerent declarations by US officials, who vowed to " hold Iran accountable" for purportedly mounting a plot [.pdf] to kill the Saudi ambassador, bomb the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington, and strike at the Jewish community in Argentina.

The alleged plot was supposed to have been carried out by a member of the Zetas drug cartel, who was to be paid up to $1.5 million to implement the plan. US officials, even while acknowledging the "B-movie" aspect of the story, reportedly " fanned out" to convince our allies the plot was real and – with Congress already demanding new sanctions on Iran – that the economic vise be tightened. Not only are the more hysterical neocons calling for military action against Iran – no surprise there ­ but the headlines had the normally staid and relatively reserved Steve Clemons, a prominent Obama shill, babbling that "this is a serious situation" and "the U.S. has reached a point where it must take action," and  Sen. Carl Levin calling the plot "an act of war."

Less than 24 hours after Holder's press conference, the whole fantasy began to unravel under closer scrutiny. Gary Sick, of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University, averred that the alleged plot "departs from all known Iranian policies and procedures," and went on to write:

"It is difficult to believe that they would rely on a non-Islamic criminal gang to carry out this most sensitive of all possible missions. In this instance, they allegedly relied on at least one amateur and a Mexican criminal drug gang that is known to be riddled with both Mexican and U.S. intelligence agents.

"Whatever else may be Iran's failings, they are not noted for utter disregard of the most basic intelligence tradecraft, e.g. discussing an ultra-covert operation on an open international line between Iran and the U.S. Yet that is what happened here."

Kenneth Katzman, a Middle East analyst with the Congressional Research Office, concurs:

"There is simply no precedent ­ or even reasonable rationale ­ for Iran working any plot, no matter where located, through a non-Muslim proxy such as Mexican drug gangs. No one high up in the Quds, the I.R.G.C. command, the Supreme National Security Committee, or anywhere else in the Iranian chain of command would possibly trust that such a plot could be kept secret or carried out properly by the Mexican drug people. They absolutely would not trust such a thing to them, given Iran's undoubted assumption that the Mexicans are penetrated by the D.E.A. and F.B.I. and A.T.F., etc ­ and indeed this plot was revealed by just such a U.S. informant….

"Are we to believe that this Texas car seller was a Quds sleeper agent for many years resident in the U.S.? Ridiculous. They (the Iranian command system) never ever use such has-beens or loosely connected people for sensitive plots such as this."

Ridiculous – that just about says it all. 

But as Ayn Rand once said: "Don't bother to question a fallacy, ask yourself only what it accomplishes." The idea is to target Iran as the next al-Qaeda: with the late unlamented Osama bin Laden out of the picture, the US has to find a replacement – and quick! – in order to justify its decade-long post-9/11 rampage across the Middle East and much of the rest of the world. What's a war without an enemy? Iran has always been the War Party's ultimate Middle Eastern target, and now they are making their move.

As an opening shot in a propaganda war, Holder's startling announcement had high impact – but low credibility, as the excitement died down and the details came into focus. The problem with the narrative woven by the Justice Department is that the supposed fulcrum of this heinous plot, Senor Arbabsiar, is hardly the sort of character who makes a convincing terrorist/foreign agent. Longtime associate Tom Hosseini, a fellow Iranian-American who has known Arbabsiar for over 30 years, wondered aloud to a Washington Post reporter "how anyone – but most especially an elite military organization such as Iran's Quds force ­ would get involved with Arbabsiar in the first place."

"Maybe," says Hosseini, "somebody offered him some money. He doesn't have the brain to say no."

Arbabsiar certainly had a lot of money on him when he and Hosseini met in Iranian Kurdistan last August: the Post reports he was "waving around crisp $100 bills" and declaring that there was a lot more where that came from. Yet Arbabsiar's many businesses – "from used cars to kebabs" – had all failed. Perhaps this lack of business acumen was tied to his general inability to think straight, or, as the Post puts it: 

"Within the small Iranian American community in this Gulf Coast city, Arbabsiar, 56, was well known and well liked. But he was also renowned for being almost comically absent-minded, perpetually losing keys, cellphones, briefcases, anything that wasn't tied down."

The Post profile is headlined "Mansour Arbabsiar recalled as upbeat about finances during summer encounter," but the actual story deserves a title more along the lines of "The 'terrorist' who couldn't think straight":

"'He was just not organized,' said David Tomscha, who once owned a car lot with Arbabsiar. 'He would lose the titles to cars. Or he'd say it was a 1989 Grand Marquis when it was an '82. And when you'd call him on it, he'd say, 'What's the difference?' Eventually, I bought him out.'"

"There is a certain bewilderment in Corpus Christi that anyone as apparently hapless as Arbabsiar could get involved in an international conspiracy. 'A goofy guy who always had a smile on his face,' said Mitchel Hamauei, also a store owner. 'Let me put it this way: He's no mastermind.'"

Either the Iranian Revolutionary Guards have lowered their standards considerably, or Arbabsiar wasn't working for them, but for someone else. The question is: who are the real masterminds?  Whoever they are, their intent was clear: this was a plot designed to be discovered.

The sheer implausibility of the position taken by both the US Justice Department and the State Department – that the Iranian government was behind the plot – necessitates a more subtle spin, such as the view taken by Meir Javadenfar, of the Israel-based Middle East Economic and Political Analysis Company. Javadenfar speculates that the whole thing was a "set up" of the Supreme Ayatollah Khamenei by a dissident faction within the Iranian national security apparatus. This assumes, of course, that the patently ridiculous Official Story is true, and even heightens its impact: for if there is a "rogue" element at work within Iranian ruling circles, then the danger is even more extreme. After all, here are presumed radicals who wouldn't hesitate to bring destruction – in the form of US bombs falling on Tehran – on their own country, and certainly wouldn't hesitate to inflict the same and worse on American soil. 

This view, however, is fatally flawed, in that it assumes the veracity of the Justice Department's narrative, which, as we have seen, is a fiction that fails – and fails badly – in the realm of character development. It is just not credible that the goofy Arbabsiar, who may have sustained brain damage as the result of a brutal beating he received in his student years, was the mastermind behind a plot that might have proved to be a twenty-first century Sarajevo.

More interesting, and much more credible, is the view of Hamid Serri, an Iran expert at Florida International University, who is cited in the New York Times as suggesting "another alternate explanation for the plot":

"That it could have been the work of a non-Iranian intelligence agency or even a terrorist organization with an interest in creating 'a confrontation that involves the U.S., Iran and Saudi Arabia.' Referring to the fact that the only money that apparently changed hands before the alleged plot was exposed was $100,000 wired from what was said to be an Iranian-controlled bank account to a man posing as a member of the Mexican cartel Los Zetas (who turned out to be an informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency), Mr. Serri observed that this would be a 'cheap price' for an enemy of Iran to pay for the damning headlines that have appeared since the alleged plot was exposed."

Which non-Iranian intelligence agencies and/or terrorist organizations would stand to gain from such a confrontation? I can think of two: the Israelis and al-Qaeda. The former, after all, have been agitating for war quite openly; and as for al-Qaeda, those vultures are likely to be found circling over any Middle Eastern battlefield. 

In choosing between these two as the likely culprit, I'll await fresh evidence before making a final judgment. I would note, however, that al-Qaeda isn't in very good shape these days, with their top leadership mostly dead, and their ranks scattered and demoralized. 

The Israelis, on the other hand, have both the means and the motivation: they are desperate to provoke a war between the US and Iran, and have been for years. Moreover, there are elements of Netanyahu's government who would stop at nothing to achieve this end. Remember that Avigdor Lieberman is the Foreign Minister, and controls a good chunk of the Israeli national security bureaucracy: his extremist party, the successor to the infamous Kach movement, which wants to deport all Arabs and create a "Greater Israel," is the electoral expression of the radical "settler" movement, which is now defying the Israeli army and carrying out terrorist attacks within Israel. In Weimar Israel, the extremists are on the rise – and they have their supporters within the establishment and the government itself, including the intelligence services. 

Analysts often point, almost by default, to the option of attributing the alleged plot to a " rogue faction" of the Iranian government, but it's just as likely – if not more likely – that this "rogue faction" is Israeli. It wouldn't be the first time the Israelis have been strongly suspected of carrying out extensive covert activities in the US. 

If, indeed, this is the case, then the question arises: has Holder's Justice Department been duped, or are they complicit in the deception? In this scenario, no doubt evidence of both will rise to the surface, but I'm betting on the former. These are the same people who were duped by the cartels into replenishing their arsenals, and it looks to me like that same undercover operation has been duped ­ by an unknown third party ­ into provoking an incident that could lead to World War III. 

Another possibility is that the Justice Department thought this up all by themselves, as a way to curry favor within an administration where they're no doubt on the outs, and also to justify their Mexican operation, of which "Fast and Furious" is but a small part. The Law of Bureaucratic Self-Justification applies here, and that could well be the full explanation – although it may have played a complementary role to Serri's thesis. 

In any case, what you need to know about this case is that it's one-hundred percent baloney, from start to finish. It's the crudest sort of war propaganda, the kind that insults the intelligence of the audience it is supposed to convince – and that, too, is a clue to its provenance.

NOTES IN THE MARGIN

Julian Borger makes an important point in the Guardian:

"The key evidence that the alleged plot was serious was the $100,000 wire transfer. It came from a foreign bank account, but that cannot be an Iranian account because such transfers are impossible under US law. The money must have come from a third country, but which? And how can the US authorities be so sure the foreign accounts were under the control of the Quds force?"

I have a feeling this case will never come to an open and extended trial, at which the details of this absurdly fishy case would spill out and stink up the courtroom.

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[The_Fair_Forum] Flea Party Eviction



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Rats, pee, poop, rotting garbage, fleas, and a stench detected blocks away.  Oh, and the Liberal Flea Party sleeps there too.  These people are disgusting.  
What amazes me is the flea party people whine about not being able to find jobs, but I would not consider living in a park for a month a person sincerely looking for work.  Job hunting is a full time job in and of itself.  Then again...that means work...and the flea party people don't actually want to "work", they just want to be taken care of.
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[PAG] Op-ed: A New State for Homophobia?



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Op-ed: A New State for Homophobia?

With an application pending for Palestinian statehood at the United Nations, two pro-Israel experts wonder what kind of attitude a new country would have toward gay people.
By Lillian Faderman and Roz Rothstein, op-ed contributors
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Defense secretary Leon Panetta meets withMahmoud Abbas in October in the West Bank.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas formally asked the United Nations on September 23 to recognize a Palestinian state. And on September 28 the application was passed to a standing committee that must now review whether to return to the pre-1967 borders. Abbas's bid doesn't just violate past Palestinian Liberation Organization-Israel agreements, which were witnessed by the UN, the United States, the European Union and other states, and which are the basis for peacemaking. It doesn't just defy UN Security Council resolutions that call for direct negotiations. It doesn't just fail to meet elementary standards for statehood with its divided government and leaders whose term of office ended more than a year ago.
The Palestinians also declare, openly and shamelessly, that their future state will not allow Jews or homosexuals.
There are many bigoted nations in the world, but they don't often proudly broadcast their racism and homophobia like the leaders of the proposed Palestinian state.
Although the United States and Israel have publicly opposed the application, where are the rest of the world's leaders? Where is the outcry against this travesty?
Abbas and PLO officials have repeatedly said there would be no Jews in their future state. Palestinian government-controlled media are suffused with traditional anti-Semitism, denials of Jewish history and rights, and demonization of Jews. The Hamas charter explicitly calls for murdering Jews and borrows from the Czarist anti-Semitic forgery "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," which is regarded as one of the blueprints for genocide of Jews.
Homosexuals would fare no better. This past September 14, when the PLO ambassador to the U.S. was asked directly whether homosexuality would be legal in the Palestinian state, he dodged the question: "This is beyond my authority," he answered. But homosexuality is a crime in Hamas-governed Gaza, and 82% of Palestinians support making homosexuality illegal, according to a July 2011 poll by the respected polling firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research.
So we will witness Abbas pleading his case before the UN, sounding like a homeless orphan plaintively asking the international body to give the Palestinians a state and to uphold "justice." Anyone who votes "no" will seem heartless and unjust. But what will Palestinian statehood mean? Will it empower the proposed state to ethnically cleanse or transfer all Jewish and gay citizens? Is this what the international community wants to endorse? Because anyone who supports this Palestinian state will knowingly be voting to create a nation that openly violates elementary principles of international law, human rights, and fairness that should be the basis of any modern state.
Has the international community decided that a future Palestinian state does not need to live up to these basic standards? Is it in such a rush to establish this state that it is willing to abandon all its commitments to diversity and tolerance?
Responsible international leaders should be telling the world that the UN cannot endorse a state that is based on racism, homophobia, and hatred of its neighbor.
Palestinian leaders still refuse to recognize Israel as the Jewish state. The charters of the Palestinians' ruling parties, Fatah and Hamas, still call for the obliteration of Israel. No society, no matter how oppressed, is entitled to ask for statehood when it denies statehood to its neighbor. No society has a right to ask for legitimacy as a nation while disparaging its neighbor's history and rights as falsehoods. No group should have the nerve to ask for statehood while teaching its children to hate and kill its neighbors.
If the UN grants recognition of statehood to a dysfunctional, intolerant entity that remains committed to violence, then the humanitarian and political ideals painstakingly forged since World War II will suffer an irreparable blow. The UN will be setting a dangerous precedent for the future.
International leaders must uphold justice and decency, and they must keep us from spiraling backward to the dark times when Judeophobia and homophobia prevailed, causing unspeakable suffering and signaling the rise of conflict and war.  
Lillian Faderman has published eight books on LGBT history and literature. She is the recipient of several LGBT lifetime achievement awards, including Yale University's James Brudner Award, the Monette/Horwitz Award, Publishing Triangle's Bill Whitehead Award, and the ONE National Archives Culture Hero Award.  
 
Roz Rothstein is the CEO of StandWithUs, a 10 year old, non-profit Israel education organization. Through its Los Angeles base and with 15 chapters throughout the U.S., Israel, the U.K. and France, SWU supports people around the world who want to educate their campuses and communities about Israel.  
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