Fromm and Weber Speak on America's Pastand Today's Crisis at Spirited Meeting

Written by Paul Fromm

Wednesday, 23 March 2011 04:41

*Fromm and Weber Speak on America's Past and Today's Crisis at Spirited Meeting* *News from the Institute for Historical Review* http://www.ihr.org/news/mar11meeting.html At one of the most spirited and successful IHR meetings in many months, Paul Fromm and Mark Weber delivered informed, well-received talks about social-political decline in America and Canada, and the factors behind this trend. About 40 men and women, including a good showing of younger people and local activists, gathered on Saturday evening, March 12, 2011, for this upbeat meeting in Orange County, southern California. One young couple brought their infant son. Donations by several attendees to help support the IHR and its work totaled more than $400. *Paul Fromm and Mark Weber at the March 2011 IHR Meeting* A businessman who had brought along some younger friends wrote afterwards to the Institute's director: "We must continue to build a future for the IHR and bring a new generation into the fold. I will continue to do just that. Your speech was fantastic. The three 18-year-olds had never heard anything like it. Your voice is one that they heard clearly, and I appreciate you very much my friend. We are just beginning, Mark!" In his opening remarks, the IHR director announced that the "our landlord has notified us that he's not be renewing our lease, which means that we'll have to move out of our offices by the end of June." While it's not clear just what's behind the decision, Weber noted that "anti-fascist" and Zionist groups such as the "Jewish Defense Organization" have been targeting the Institute's landlord, and publicizing his name, address and telephone number. Finding a new location, moving furniture, books and equipment, and setting up everything again in a new location, will be a costly, time-consuming and laborious task, Weber said. Several attendees responded by volunteering to help with the move, and others offered to help look for a suitable new office-warehouse property. Paul Fromm, the meeting's featured guest speaker, provided a penetrating look at the crisis of identity and purpose that's gripped America, Canada and the western world. Over the years this veteran activist, who is director of the Canadian Association for Free Expression (CAFE), has addressed numerous IHR meetings. Canada is undergoing rapid and profound ethnic-cultural transformation, Fromm said. Parallel to what's also happening in the US, non-whites are replacing Canada's traditional, European-origin population. In Canadian schools, people of European origin and European culture are portrayed negatively. Whites are allegedly guilty of a range of terrible sins, including genocide and environmental destruction. Increasingly, said Fromm, "we don't know who we are." Most Canadians have responded to all this with passivity or resignation. Although some say that white people are a superior race, he added, "I've seen no evidence to support that view." An important factor in determining the level of prosperity, order and progress in a society, said Fromm, is the intelligence of its people. A third world population can't maintain a "first world" society. In his address, Mark Weber spoke about how America has changed drastically over the past 60 years, as reflected in the country's high school history textbooks. In the US, as elsewhere, history textbooks both mirror and help to shape the people's outlook and thinking, as well as reflect and strengthen the country's "national narrative" of its past. American high school textbooks are semi-official publications, because they are selected for classroom use by school boards, state commissions or other governmental agencies. In every society, how history is presented is an expression of the outlook and agenda of those who hold power. For about half a century -- and especially during the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s and 1950s -- by far the most popular and influential American high school history textbook was the one written by David S. Muzzey. Continually updated, it remained in print for 65 years. During this period, a high percentage -- perhaps even a majority -- of American schoolchildren learned US history from Muzzey. Weber held up and quoted from a 1953 edition, entitled A History of Our Country, which portrays a very different America than the one that's now regarded as normal. It presents the US as a white country with a European culture, one in which blacks and other minorities play no active or formative role in society. This book's purpose, writes Muzzey in an introductory "Letter" to his young readers, is "above all, to increase your patriotism by inspiring in each of you the desire and determination to do your part to make your `patria' a fatherland more and more worthy of the reverence and love of its generations of sons and daughters to come." Weber read from the textbook's description of the Ku Klux Klan in the aftermath of the Civil War: "Deprived of any legal means of defense against such iniquitous government, the South naturally resorted to intimidation. Secret organizations, chief of which was the Ku Klux Klan, took advantage of the Negroes' superstition and fear to force them back into a position of social and political obscurity ... Exaggerated reports of these deeds of violence were spread through the North and used by the radical politicians to justify the tightening of military rule in the South." In a passage about Puerto Rico, also quoted by Weber, the textbook explained that "it was impossible to give statehood or even a territorial status to a people containing but 17 per cent of literates, alien in blood and speech and without any experience in self-government." The national debate during the 1920s about immigration is treated by Muzzey with these words: "American labor leaders were disturbed over the influx of foreigners who were accustomed to work for low wages, and patriotic citizens were alarmed at the numbers of newcomers who had no knowledge of American institutions or ideals. If we were not to become what Theodore Roosevelt called `an international boarding-house,' some step must be taken to limit the unrestricted immigration of the prewar days ... The net result of these [1920s] immigration laws has been to put a stop to the steady flow of aliens to our shores." In the textbook's section about World War II, Weber noted, there is no mention of "the Holocaust," persecution of Jews in Europe, or even that Hitler and his government was anti-Jewish. Reflecting the prevailing outlook and values of the time, the misfortunes of Europe's Jews were regarded as irrelevant. America's self-image as a white, European nation was methodically discarded during the 1960s as part of what Weber called a "cultural revolution." History textbooks were drastically rewritten in a systematic campaign of "historical revisionism." New, revised texts embraced a bold vision of the US as a universalist multicultural, multiracial society. In this regard, Weber cited *America Revised*, an informative, well-written work by acclaimed writer Frances Fitzgerald. "Only in the nineteen-sixties did the textbooks finally end their rear-guard action on behalf of a Northern European America," she writes. "The texts of the sixties contain the most dramatic rewriting of history ever to take place in American school books." "The mid-sixties," says Fitzgerald, "must have been a bewildering period for the textbook companies. In the space of a year or two, the political wind veered a hundred and eighty degrees ... To read all the editions of the sixties texts is thus a bewildering experience. What changes is nothing less than the character of the United States." In today's obligatorily multicultural history textbooks, said Weber (quoting Fitzgerald) "the non-white minorities seem to have hero figures and `leaders,' which the European groups do not." A lively question and answer period, with trenchant remarks by Weber, Fromm and attendees, followed the main talks. If the history of the twentieth century teaches anything, said Weber, it's that ethnic cohesion and unity are characteristic features of stable, orderly and prosperous societies. The notion that "diversity is our strength," he went on, a view that's embraced by our politicians and repeated endlessly in our schools, is a lie. In that regard Weber noted that the behavior of the intelligent and ethnically cohesive Japanese in the wake of the recent flooding and destruction of their homeland has been orderly and law-abiding. This is in striking contrast to the orgy of looting, pillage and crime in New Orleans in the aftermath of the Katrina hurricane of 2005, and the chaos and widespread rape in Haiti following the earthquake of January 2010. In a healthy society, said Weber, quality is more important than quantity. Nothing more strikingly underscores the decline of America and its place in the world , he went on, than the fact that no one outside the US looks to American cities such as Los Angeles, Detroit or Houston as models for their own countries. President Obama, said Weber, is a daily reminder that the culture and society that Americans once took for granted is gone -- gone forever. Many critics of Obama denounce him as a aberrant radical, a "socialist" or even a "fascist," who is pushing new and dangerous policies. But what's remarkable about the Obama administration, Weber said, is how little things have changed. 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MOSLEM MAN CUTS OFF COUSIN'S LEG FOR REFUSING TO MARRY HIM

Written by Paul Fromm

Monday, 21 March 2011 05:48

MOSLEM MAN CUTS OFF COUSIN'S LEG FOR REFUSING TO MARRY HIM Now, here's a dude who just won't take "no" for an answer. Note, as well, the disgenic practice of marrying one's cousin -- a good way to breed idiots and people with chronic health problems. We just need a horde more of these backward people to enrich us with their diversity. Multiculturalism is insanity. Multiculturalism is as lunatic as this monster. MOSLEM MAN CUTS OFF COUSIN'S LEG FOR REFUSING TO MARRY HIM See video ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HqdJ49dOyw&feature=player_embedded

 

Sikh accused of killing wife with kirpan

Written by Paul Fromm

Sunday, 20 March 2011 07:17

*Sikh accused of killing wife with kirpan* ** *In a fierce editorial entitled "Has intolerance become a Quebec value?", the* *Montreal * *Gazette* *raged about the unanimous resistance by the Quebec National Assembly against caving into the the latest example of minorities refusing** to accommodate to Canadian ways: **"There they sat in the National Assembly, beneath the crucifix above the speaker's chair, 113 members present, and one by one they rose, every last one of them, to register a vote in favour of religious intolerance. It may be that a majority of their constituents approves, and in democracy majority rules, but that doesn't make it right. * *The vote was to formalize a ban on kirpans, the ceremonial daggers worn at all times by devout Sikhs as a profession of their faith, in the National Assembly building. It followed on the heels of an incident last month in which a Sikh delegation was turned away from the building when the members declined to hand over their kirpans at the security desk." (The Gazette February 11, 20111)* *Part of the special privileges for Sikhs argument fobbed off by the multculturalists on the Canadian public is that the kirpan -- a dagger -- is "ceremonial" and must be worn at all times (even to bed?) Pearl Eliadis, one of the few people to support the Canadian Human Rights Commission's Internet censorship provision, even asserted that the kirpan is "a weapon that is a religious symbol of personal restraint and social justice." ("The National Assembly Should Not be a Rights Free Zone," The Gazette, January 26, 2011) * *There's nothing "ceremonial" about a shiv and that's what the kirpan is. Some apologists insist the kirpan must always be sheated. Over the past few years, there've been a number of incidents in Canada demonstrating that the kirpan is exactly what it seems, a dangerous weapon. Sikhs, whose gurdwaras(temples) are often fractious places, have assaulted and carved each other up with kirpans in recent years.* *Here's the latest example of the aggressive use of the "ceremonial" shiv "an religious symbol of personal restraint and social justice": "A Calgary man has been charged with murder in India after his wife was killed days after their son's wedding, according to police and media reports out of that country. Police there say Gurdial Singh, who reportedly has lived with his wife and family in Calgary for about a year, also injured a son who tried to help his mother following a fight in a village in Punjab.* The 57-year-old man and his wife, Ranjit Kaur, 55, were arguing at a home in the village of Raipur early Wednesday morning, police said, when Gurdial Singh used a kirpan to slit his wife's throat. 'It was suddenly, and it was over some property matters and domestic problems,' Hoshiarpur police Insp. Paramjeet Singh said Thursday. 'He ran away from the scene of the crime and he is arrested now and in police custody.' ... The *India Times* reported the family arrived in Punjab on March 1 for the wedding of their younger son, Gurvinder. An older son, Kamaljit, was injured in the fight. Family members reportedly told police that Kamaljit lived in Canada for seven years. His parents and other family members migrated to Canada last year." (*Calgary Herald*, March 18, 2011) Slicing wifey's throat doesn't sound too "ceremonial," restrained or socially just, for that matter. One wonders exactly what weighty benefit the alleged killer, Gurdial, 57, and the slain Ranjit, 55, were bringing to Canada. They and the rest of the family arrived to join son Kamaljit who'd been in Canada seven years. It sounds like the rancid fruits of Canada's permissive "family reunification" immigration policies which allow a person who has gained a toe-hold in Canada to sponsor, essentially, the whole family. Medicare and pensions would seem to be just the beginning of Canadian taxpayers obligations to the *kirpan*-wielding Gurdial and his unfortunate spouse. Many Canadians are becoming increasingly fed up with multiculturalism, a bankrupt and illogical policy already declared a failture by Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain. The Canadian media has carefully sheltered the dupes in English Canada that Quebec has never accepted this anti-Majority policy. Parti Quebcois spokesman Louise Beaudoin, a long-time MNA and former cabinet minister, let the cat out of the bag recently declaring: "Multiculturalism may be a Canadian value. But it is not a Quebec one." "Charles-Philippe Courtois, who has a doctorate in history and teaches at College militaire royal in St. Jean sur Richelieu, says no political party in power in Quebec in the last 50 years has endorsed multiculturalism. "If we look at Quebec's policies on immigration and integration from the 1960s until today, the Quebec government has always maintained that multiculturalism is not a Quebec value," Courtois said. "This reflects, and by a large majority, the opinion of Quebecers as well." He recalled that when the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in 2006 that the kirpan was not a weapon but a religious symbol, a poll indicated 85 per cent of Quebecers disagreed with the ruling." (*The Gazette*, February 11, 2011) Paul Fromm Director CANADA FIRST IMMIGRATION REFORM COMMITTEE By Deborah TetleyMarch 18, 2011 6:02 PM *A Calgary man has been arrested in India and charged with the murder of his wife.* A Calgary man has been charged with murder in India after his wife was killed days after their son's wedding, according to police and media reports out of that country. Police there say Gurdial Singh, who reportedly has lived with his wife and family in Calgary for about a year, also injured a son who tried to help his mother following a fight in a village in Punjab. The 57-year-old man and his wife, Ranjit Kaur, 55, were arguing at a home in the village of Raipur early Wednesday morning, police said, when Gurdial Singh used a kirpan to slit his wife's throat. "It was suddenly, and it was over some property matters and domestic problems," Hoshiarpur police Insp. Paramjeet Singh said Thursday. "He ran away from the scene of the crime and he is arrested now and in police custody." Calgary police said they have been advised of the case and are prepared to assist foreign authorities. Raipur is 15 kilometres from Hoshiarpur, in the northeastern corner of the state of Punjab. Members of Calgary's Sikh community say the allegations are shocking. "There are many ways to kill somebody, but this kind of brutality is very rare in the Sikh community," said Dalel Thiara, past-president of the Sikh Society of Calgary. "The way she died is very sad and shocking and violent." Thiara, 75, said he doesn't know the family involved, but he has relatives who live in the village where the incident occurred and some of them attended the wedding, which was in a neighbouring village. "They were at the wedding on March 11. It was an arranged marriage and they said the marriage went well." Thiara said Raipur is an agricultural village of about 1,000 people. It's not clear why the couple argued. Some reports out of India say they were fighting over why Gurdial's in-laws were left off the wedding guest list, but police did not confirm that for the Calgary Herald. Other reports say the husband was upset that the family wanted him to sell his land. The India Times reported the family arrived in Punjab on March 1 for the wedding of their younger son, Gurvinder. An older son, Kamaljit, was injured in the fight. Family members reportedly told police that Kamaljit lived in Canada for seven years. His parents and other family members migrated to Canada last year. *(Calgary Herald*, March 18, 2011)