The Council Has Spoken!! This Week’s Watcher’s Council Results - 07.12.13

JoshuaPundit - The Council Has Spoken!, the votes have been cast, and we have the results for this week’s Watcher’s Council match up.

“A little rebellion is a good thing. ” ― Thomas Jefferson

This week’s winner, Joshuapundit’s The Coup In Egypt And Why It’s Important   looks at  one of those ‘little rebellions’ , what it means and yes,  why it’s very, very important.   Here’s a slice:

The military coup in Egypt is pretty much a done deal. Former president Morsi’s in jail, along with the real people who were pulling the strings, the top figures from the Muslim Brotherhood including its chief Mohammed Badie and his deputy Khairat el-Shater.

I first saw this coming back in late June, and those of you who were awake and online at 3 AM Left Coast Time got the first reports of the army’s move, thanks to a couple of my notorious Lil’ Birdies.

So why is this important? To put that together, we have to get into the back story on what happened. Thanks to the Lil’ Birdies, I have some new details on how the whole deal went down.

The Egyptian Army is not like the U.S. Army. Like China’s PLA, it owns farms, companies and private businesses that are often staffed by conscripts.

A lot of the ‘military aid’ from us goes to the army directly to fund these enterprises.

Morsi had purged a number of the top generals of the Egyptian military and replaced them with men whop were either fellow Islamists or apolitical.. or so he thought. With the Muslim Brotherhood government receiving support and patronage from President Obama, Morsi figured he had the Army under his thumb.

One of his appointments, as defense minister and chief of the Army was General Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, a former junior member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), the junta that ruled Egypt until the Brotherhood took over.

As Egypt’s economy spiraled out of control, Morsi and his Brotherhood allies began leaning heavily on al-Sissi and the military to eliminate a number of their prerogatives and to transfer most of the military aid they receive back to the government, so the government could use it for their own purposes.

Morsi and the Brotherhood were fairly certain that they would be able to put the squeeze on al-Sissi with President Obama’s help. They were wrong.

After his phone call with Morsi, President Obama tried exactly that, telling al-Sissi and the other generals that a military coup would have a loss of U.S. aid as a consequence. That had worked before for the president, when the SCAF tried to limit Morsi and the Brotherhood’s power and President Obama intervened.

This time, Al-Sissi and the other generals decided to call Obama’s bluff. They realized that giving in to Obama and Morsi would lead to them losing any vestige of independence and freedom they had, and since Morsi was already poised to take their aid money away they had nothing to lose anyway. In the end, al-Sissi and his fellow general’s first loyalty was to Egypt and the army, not the Brotherhood.

Not only that, but not only had Morsi and the Brotherhood become deeply unpopular, so had President Obama. The Egyptian street was very much familiar with Obama’s role in putting the Brotherhood in power and keeping them there.

Once the decision was made, the coup proceeded smoothly, without any hesitation from the army generals or the soldiers under their command.

So what does this mean? Why is it important?

Today’s events amounted to a tremendous loss of prestige for the genocidal Muslim Brotherhood. It was one thing to be the romantic opposition, operate a few soup kitchens, schools and clinics and tell everyone that if only Mubarak was out and they were in power, they would bring true greatness and prosperity to Egypt by following Allah’s divine sharia-licious path.

But when they finally got in power, things were different. They were almost as corrupt, far more dictatorial and brutal and far more incompetent than Mubarak ever was. They will not be trusted with power for years, if ever. And their loss extends to other countries aside from Egypt, like Jordan, Libya, the rest of the Maghreb and the Arabian Peninsula. Egypt was the Muslim Brotherhood’s chance to show that their version of a Sunni Islamist state could work. They failed miserably, and not only did they lose Egypt but they did major damage to the Caliphate President Obama and his administration were trying so desperately to put together in the Arab World. People who were prepared to put the Islamists in power are now looking at what happened in Egypt are having second thoughts.

More at the link.

In our non-Council category, the winner was Andrew McCarthy’s  superb Elections Are Not Democracy  submitted by Joshuapundit. It details exactly why so many  efforts to export democracy to countries in the Muslim World without a history and tradition of democratic institutions fail. As supplemental reading for those of you so inclined, I recommend  William Manchester’s biography of General Douglas MacArthur, American Caesar, an excellent example of the right way to do this with reference to how General MacArthur imported democracy to Japan.

OK, here are this week’s full results. Both Bookworm Room and the Noisy Room were unable to vote this week, but neither was subject to the usual 2/3 vote penalty:

Council Winners

• *First place with 5 votes! Joshuapundit – The Coup In Egypt And Why It’s Important
• Second place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – The Right Planet - NSA Fever and the Sinister Entity
• Second place *t* with 1 1/3  vote – The Political Commentator - New York State I-STOP law: Obamacare incarnate?
• Third place *t* with 1 vote – The Colossus of Rhodey - Asimov’s robots as a metaphor for human nature
• Third place *t* with 1 vote – Liberty’s Spirit - Attacking the Interest Rate Hike Instead of the Real Problem: No Future Inducing Jobs
• Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Nice Deb -The New Hotness: Libs Keep Comparing Conservatives To Islamofascists
• Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Bookworm Room - Lois Lerner’s demand for immunity before she’ll testify before Congress
• Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote – GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD –Democrazy Démarche
• Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote – VA Right! – Has Obama Actually Accomplished Anything Positive in 5 Years?
• Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Noisy Room – Allen West at His Best – Teach Obama a Lesson
• Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Glittering Eye – The Compliant Press
• Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Razor – The Liberal Fetish For Elections

Non-Council Winners

• First place with 2 2/3 votes! – Andrew McCarthy - Elections Are Not Democracy  submitted by Joshuapundit
• Second place with 2  votes – Doug Ross@ Journal – Comic Book Version Suitable for Low Information Voters: The Road to Serfdom   submitted by Rhymes With Right
• Third place  with 1 2/3 votes – The Whited Sepulchre – Happy Independence Day ! – (let’s start another government)   – submitted by Simply Jews
• Fourth place with 1 1/3 votes -American Thinker - Political Correctness Is Cultural Marxism   submitted by The Right Planet
• Fifth place *t* with 1 vote – The Augean Stables - The Constriction of Western Intelligentsia-Honor/Shame Dynamics submitted by Liberty’s Spirit
• Fifth place *t* with 1 vote - The Duck of Minerva – The Israel Lobby and the Nixon Administration   submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• Sixth place *t* with 2/3 vote - Aeon Magazine – Magic or Medicine?   submitted by The Razor
• Sixth place *t* with 2/3 vote -ABC Religion And Ethics –The End of American Protestantism   submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Sixth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Victor Davis Hanson – Nemesis, After All   submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote -The Lonely Conservative – The Horrific, Brutal Murder The Media Has Ignored    submitted by The Watcher
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote -Canada Free Press – Obama ducks criticism of his support of Muslim Brotherhood Morsi with lies submitted by The Political Commentator
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote -The Chronicle of Higher Education – Against Environmental Panic   submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey

Honorable Mentions

• Ask Marion – Democrat (State) Senator Switches Parties… Video Goes Viral (Nationally)

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Democrat Senator Switches Parties… Video Goes Viral

Marion Algier - AskMarion

Black Democrat Louisiana State Senator Elbert Guillory of Opelousas, who made history as Louisiana's first black Republican legislator since Reconstruction when he switched political parties posted an Internet video railing against the Democrat Party that has gone viral (nationally) and has been featured on several talk shows in its entirety.

Video: Elbert Guillory: "Why I Am a Republican"

Guillory has been mentioned as a possible candidate for lieutenant governor.

When asked about it, he told reporters, “This is politics. People say a lot of things. We’ll see how things shape up over the next couple of years.”

Guillory called the Democrat party “the party of disappointment” and said its policies had “left Louisiana behind.”

In the video, filmed in the rear of the Senate chamber, he used harsher words, calling it “the party of Jim Crow” while the Republican Party was described as “the party of freedom and progress.”

He said returning to the GOP was “not only right for me, but for all of my brothers and sisters in the black community.” 

Sadly as our history has been rewritten, many black Americans, in fact Americans in general, do not remember that Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican Party president and that most blacks voted Republican, including Martin Luther King, Jr., until the mid-1960’s. 

A re-writing of history, that certainly contributes to having a first lady just coming off her latest $100-million combination vacation (including a pre-trip for herself and 1st daughters) and state trip with her husband, make statements at a conference like: living in the White House is sometimes like living in a “really nice prison”… and that the first time she was ever proud of America is when her husband was elected president… plus the underlying feelings that go with statements like that.

Democrats were able to secure a huge majority of the black vote comprised of those afraid to cast an alternate ballot through violence, property damage, rape, and murder, and Disgustingly, they have somehow been able to maintain that death-grip on the African-American community to this day.

When these reprehensible strategies, though unquestionably effective, did not satiate their need to keep the black population down, Democrat-supported legislation such as Jim Crow laws that made sure these minorities would remain second-class citizens even after the ratification of the 13th Amendment. There are plenty of examples of heralded Democrats, including Presidents LBJ and Truman, expressing disdain for blacks in their own words.  Most also do they realize that the Founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, was a racist who believed in eugenics and supported The Negro Project.

Republicans, thankfully, emerged as the pro-freedom, anti-slavery alternative to the juggernaut that was the Democrat party. Despite the fact that significantly more Republicans supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act than did Democrats (and the fact that Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first to initiate the legislation which finally passed and was enacted under Democrat Presidents JFK and LBJ), the party of the left has somehow hoodwinked much of the black community into thinking they are its savior. In fact until the passing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Martin Luther King was a Republican, re-registering as a Democrat as part of the negotiations, and so were most blacks Republicans (the party of Abraham Lincoln) until that time. Facts like these are part of the reason the Progressives consistently fight to re-write and edit the history that is taught and skew media productions.  Read more about the history of racism in the Democrat party…

MLK’s niece, Alveda King, stood with Glenn Beck and conservative political and religious leaders from around the country, including Sarah Palin, at Beck’s ‘Restore Honor’ Event in DC… Against hate and racism.

Dr. Alveda King says her uncle’s dream was not about the redistribution of wealth and that he knew that we all needed to be Americans… not separate races. He fought for the rights of all men.  He fought for the life, the liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all…

Guillory says Democrats use welfare and food stamps “as a mechanism for politicians to control the black community. The idea that blacks, or anybody for that matter, need the government to get ahead is despicable.”  It is a theme supported by former Democrat welfare mom and now Republican author and Founder of CURE, who ran for Congress in 2012, Star Parker in her book Uncle Sam's Plantation.

Guillory makes several references to slavery.

“Our self-initiative and our self-reliance have been sacrificed in exchange for allegiance to our overseers who control us by making us dependent on them.”

He urges “my brothers and sisters of the American community, please join with me today in abandoning the government plantation and the party of disappointment. So that we may all echo the words of one Republican leader, MLK, who famously said, ‘Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, we are free at last.’”

The End of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech:

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual,

"Free at last, free at last.

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last."

There is a new wave of black conservative awakening at hand. Former Congressman Artur Davis left the Democrat party for the GOP and was a featured speaker at the Romney Republican Convention in 2012 and the pool of conservative black leaders is growing including GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, Congressman Allen West, Dr. Ben Carson, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Mayor Mia Love, Senator Tim Scott, political activist, songwriter and vocalist of the "American Tea Party Anthem" Lloyd Marcus, author of Blacklash and political activist Deneen Borelli, talk show host and co-founder of TeaParty365 David Webb, and the list goes on.  Just watch below; people who see themselves as proud Americans, conservatives… not black-conservatives.

Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck have both hosted specials giving black conservative leaders a forum.

Video:  African American Conservatives Townhall - COMPLETE - Sean Hannity - Fox News - 6-21-13

Video:  "Hannity" Special On African American Conservatives - COMPLETE - 4-8-13  

Video:  Dr. Benjamin Carson Wipes The Smile Off Obamas Face At The National Prayer Breakfast

Great book:  Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln

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ZONATION: Oh, How Liberals Contradict Themselves

This is great!! You have to watch this!!!

ZONATION: Oh, How Liberals Contradict Themselves – Video

ZONATION: Oh, How Liberals Contradict Themselves

by Alfonzo Rachel – Posted at Big Hollywood

Obama, Haiti and the Bold & Fresh Tour

(Even some of the not so conservative are seeing the reality and speaking out)

"Glenn Beck and I are here on the Gulf Coast to do two sold-out Bold & Fresh shows. We knew when we signed on for the tour that creepy far-left people would be stalking us, and they are. After our first show, the loopy Media Matters rejoiced in saying that I had compared the South Side of Chicago to Haiti. Here's what I said: 'If you've ever been to the South Side of Chicago, it's a disaster. It's like Haiti. I support some charities there, but Haiti just never gets better, no matter how much money you put in there ... but Obama really believes the government can do it.' Those comments deeply offend far-left kool-aid drinkers, even though every word is true. For decades Chicago's South Side has been a pocket of poverty and brutality; Barack Obama's well aware of that because he worked there. An enormous amount of federal and state money has poured into the South Side, yet it remains a major problem. The situation directly parallels what's happened in Haiti - massive aid, few results. Self-reliance is the key to success in life; a nanny state chokes that. If the President and I have one area of disagreement, it is big government. I believe it can not solve problems, he believes it can level the playing field, at least somewhat. That hasn't happened on Chicago's South Side, has it?"

The Rise of the Black Conservative Voice

Mr. President You are Blocking the Sun