“This G-damned mooslim nigger has to be stopped!!!!!!!!”

Dear John,

The original subject line of your forwarded email speaks volumes: “This G-damned mooslim nigger has to be stopped!!!!!!!!”  

The rest of the email is equally credible: "Obama Gives 7 Oil-Rich Islands to Russia: Secret Give Away - Alaska Not Consulted" - http://www.maggiesnotebook.com/2012/02/obama-gives-7-oil-rich-islands-to-russia-secret-giveaway-alaska-not-consulted/

Facts:

The 1990 deal that acknowledges Russian sovereignty over the seven "disputed" islands was struck by George H.W. Bush – http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/joe-miller-blasts-obama-letting-russia-keep-oil-rich-islands  (Yes, that would be Dubyah’s daddy, a personal friend of the Saudi royal family - http://www.amazon.com/House-Bush-Saud-Relationship-Dynasties/dp/074325337X)

And here is a 2003 U.S. State Department Fact Sheet (issued during Baby Bush's administration) that defines the border between Russia and Alaska. http://www.statedepartmentwatch.org/FactSheet.htm 

This State Department fact sheet is followed by a lengthy allegation that the document is false, an allegation reminiscent of the “birther” position that Obama was not born in Hawaii. (BTW... Did you know Mitt Romney's Dad was born in Mexico? And that Mitt's great grandfather was a polygamist?)

Here is Wikipedia’s article about Wrangell Island, by far the largest island in this group - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrangel_Island

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I predict no Republican candidate will "pick up" on this "scandal" – even though Santorum and Gingrich are sufficiently self-serving to be attracted by flies.

Here’s why candidates will avoid this issue:

1.) Terrified by their Know Nothing Base - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_nothing - Republicans have no interest in spotlighting the fact that cession of these islands was a Republican initiative. As one right-wing blog asks “If this isn’t treason, tell me what is.” So, if this is treason... presumably George H.W. Bush is the “Traitor-in-Chief.” (Yes, I know. Many have already claimed this title for his son, Smirk.)   

2.) Burned once, Republicans will shun any allegation that government-issued documents (such as Hawaiian birth certificates) are false.

Think about it.

What would the GOP gain by putting the spotlight on the presumed "stupidity" of a Republican president who decided to recognize Russia’s superior claim to sovereignty, a decision that is now (apparently) being formalized by a Democratic president? 

Far from reprehensible behavior, this diplomatic mission is based on bipartisan cooperation – with Republican leadership at the forefront. (Of course, many Republicans see any bipartisan cooperation as reprehenisble in itself.)

If this story gets traction, I will be interested to observe the new manifestations of lunacy that emerge from the "conservative" closet.

Speaking of lunacy, it is hard to beat the title of your forwarded email: “This G-damned mooslim nigger has to be stopped!!!!!!!!”

"Mooslim nigger."

For all the right-wing chatter about "purity," they'll sleep with anyone.  In the end, however, we are known by the company we keep. 

Two time Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan -- the living American who has worked longest as an Oval Office counselor -- offers this assessment: "The Republican philosophy might be summarized thus: To hell with principle; what matters is power, and that we have it, and that they do not.” "Where the Right Went Wrong" - http://www.amazon.com/Where-Right-Went-Wrong-Neoconservatives/dp/0312341156

The GOP's clear and present threat to the survival of American Democracy hinges on its 24/7 Falsehood Fabrication Machine. 

"There are two ways of lying, as there are two ways of deceiving customers. If the scale registers 15 ounces, you can say: 'It's a pound.' Your lie will remain relative to an invariable measure of the true. If customers check it, they can see that they are being robbed, and you know by how much you are robbing them: a truth remains as a judge between you. But if the demon induces you to tamper with the scale itself, it is the criterion of the true which is denatured, there is no longer any possible control. And little by little you will forget that you are cheating." Denis de Rougemont

Increasingly, Republican electoral victory depends - not on spin, which is "the way of the world" - but on whole cloth lies.

The GOP is committed to a Bog of Falsehood where people get permanently lost and become so psycho-spiritually crippled that they lose the ability to separate Truth from fiction. 

In effect, American conservatives want to be lied to. 

Recently, after sending a Snopes "correction" to a right-wing friend (whose "chain emails" are cornucopias of grotesque distortion) he wrote back: "I like being partially right."

In traditional Christian parlance, any fondness for fiction where Truth should prevail smacks of "Satan worship."

In psychological parlance, the GOP is so deeply (and deliberately) deluded that the relationship between The Party and The Faithful calls to mind the pathology of folie à deux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folie_%C3%A0_deux 

Pax on both houses

Alan

PS Will Rush Limbaugh trumpet this "scandal?" Or, will he realize its eventual damage to the GOP? "Smart money" bets that simian self-aggrandizement will win the day. On the other hand, the central strategy of right-wing propagandists is to proclaim any brazen falsehood knowing that "damage will be done" and "alarm bells cannot be un-rung." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_the_Magic_Negro

From "Nigger Mania"

http://www.niggermania.net/forum/nigger-barack-hussein-obama/

From: JT

Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 8:25 PM

To: Alan Archibald

Subject: Fw: (no subject)

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: JG
To: Undisclosed
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 11:08 AM
Subject: This G-damned mooslim nigger has to be stopped!!!!!!!!

Obama Gives 7 Oil-Rich Islands to Russia: Secret Give Away – Alaska Not Consulted

Saturday, February 18, 2012 11:02

It appears Congress had nothing to do with this 7-island giveaway with tens of thousands of square miles of oil-rich seabeds. The Department of the Interior says these islands are a source of BILLIONS of barrels of oil. Our president and the State Department can just give away American sovereign land – Alaskan land. A story like this leaves me speechless. I’ll let Joe Miller, a former US Senate candidate from Alaska, do the talking: 

World Net Daily (read the entire story here including the American historical connection to these islands):

Part of Obama’s apparent war against U.S. energy independence includes a foreign-aid program that directly threatens my state’s sovereign territory. Obama’s State Department is giving away seven strategic, resource-laden Alaskan islands to the Russians. Yes, to the Putin regime in the Kremlin.

The seven endangered islands in the Arctic Ocean and Bering Sea include one the size of Rhode Island and Delaware combined. The Russians are also to get the tens of thousands of square miles of oil-rich seabeds surrounding the islands. The Department of Interior estimates billions of barrels of oil are at stake.

The State Department has undertaken the giveaway in the guise of a maritime boundary agreement between Alaska and Siberia. Astoundingly, our federal government itself drew the line to put these seven Alaskan islands on the Russian side. But as an executive agreement, it could be reversed with the stroke of a pen by President Obama or Secretary Clinton.

The agreement was negotiated in total secrecy. The state of Alaska was not allowed to participate in the negotiations, nor was the public given any opportunity for comment. This is despite the fact the Alaska Legislature has passed resolutions of opposition – but the State Department doesn’t seem to care.

The imperiled Arctic Ocean islands include Wrangell, Bennett, Jeannette and Henrietta. Wrangell became American in 1881 with the landing of the U.S. Revenue Marine ship Thomas Corwin. The landing party included the famed naturalist John Muir. It is 3,000 square miles in size.

Northwest of Wrangell are the DeLong Islands, named for George Washington DeLong, the captain of USS Jeannette. Also in 1881, he discovered and claimed these three islands for the United States. He named them for the voyage co-sponsor, New York City newspaper publisher James Gordon Bennett. The ship’s crew received a hero’s welcome back in Washington, and Congress awarded them gold medals.

In the Bering Sea at the far west end of the Aleutian chain are Copper Island, Sea Lion Rock and Sea Otter Rock. They were ceded to the U.S. in Seward’s 1867 treaty with Russia.

The State Department’s maritime agreement is a loser – it gives us nothing in return for giving up Alaska’s sovereign territory and invaluable resources. We won the Cold War and should start acting like it.

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Jim Garner <jimgarner@comcast.net>
To: a@mindspring.com
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 11:08 AM
Subject: This G-damned mooslim nigger has to be stopped!!!!!!!!

Obama Gives 7 Oil-Rich Islands to Russia: Secret GiveAway – Alaska Not Consulted

February 18, 2012

By Maggie

It appears Congress had nothing to do with this 7-island giveaway with tens of thousands of square miles of oil-rich seabeds. The Department of the Interior says these islands are a source of BILLIONS of barrels of oil. Our president and the State Department can just give away American sovereign land – Alaskan land. A story like this leaves me speechless. I’ll let Joe Miller, a former US Senate candidate from Alaska, do the talking: (see an important UPDATE below)
READ THIS FIRST – LATEST IMPORTANT UPDATE 1-21-12 10:30 pm: This is a very complicated matter. Please go to this article for in-depth details and sources.

World Net Daily (read the entire story here including the American historical connection to these islands):

Part of Obama’s apparent war against U.S. energy independence includes a foreign-aid program that directly threatens my state’s sovereign territory. Obama’s State Department is giving away seven strategic, resource-laden Alaskan islands to the Russians. Yes, to the Putin regime in the Kremlin.
The seven endangered islands in the Arctic Ocean and Bering Sea include one the size of Rhode Island and Delaware combined. The Russians are also to get the tens of thousands of square miles of oil-rich seabeds surrounding the islands. The Department of Interior estimates billions of barrels of oil are at stake.
The State Department has undertaken the giveaway in the guise of a maritime boundary agreement between Alaska and Siberia. Astoundingly, our federal government itself drew the line to put these seven Alaskan islands on the Russian side. But as an executive agreement, it could be reversed with the stroke of a pen by President Obama or Secretary Clinton.
The agreement was negotiated in total secrecy. The state of Alaska was not allowed to participate in the negotiations, nor was the public given any opportunity for comment. This is despite the fact the Alaska Legislature has passed resolutions of opposition – but the State Department doesn’t seem to care.
The imperiled Arctic Ocean islands include Wrangell, Bennett, Jeannette and Henrietta. Wrangell became American in 1881 with the landing of the U.S. Revenue Marine ship Thomas Corwin. The landing party included the famed naturalist John Muir. It is 3,000 square miles in size.
Northwest of Wrangell are the DeLong Islands, named for George Washington DeLong, the captain of USS Jeannette. Also in 1881, he discovered and claimed these three islands for the United States. He named them for the voyage co-sponsor, New York City newspaper publisher James Gordon Bennett. The ship’s crew received a hero’s welcome back in Washington, and Congress awarded them gold medals.
In the Bering Sea at the far west end of the Aleutian chain are Copper Island, Sea Lion Rock and Sea Otter Rock. They were ceded to the U.S. in Seward’s 1867 treaty with Russia.
The State Department’s maritime agreement is a loser – it gives us nothing in return for giving up Alaska’s sovereign territory and invaluable resources. We won the Cold War and should start acting like it.

UPDATE 2-19-12 @ 9:18 a.m. CDT: The longer story is that this covert mission began under G.W.H. Bush, but the thing to remember is that no he, nor any president following made the giveaway reality. Reader Sheri left a link to another WND report dated May 2000. Here’s a snippet:

The tranfer would have gone unnoticed were it not for State Department Watch, a Washington-based group that monitors State Department acitivities.
Retired U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Carl Olson, who heads State Department Watch, recently checked with the Census Bureau, asking if it had plans to count the inhabitants of these disputed islands in the current census.
Olson was stunned by the response he received from the Census Bureau.
“Census Bureau officials were informed by the U.S. Department of State that these islands remain under the jurisdiction of Russia,” wrote Kenneth Prewitt, director of the Census Bureau in a letter to Olson.
“Without confirmation and appropriate documentation from the Department of State to the contrary, the Census Bureau cannot include these islands as part of the State of Alaska,” Prewitt concluded.
Americans Become Russians
Olson notes that the Census Bureau, with the approval of the State Dept., has just stripped Americans of their citizenship.
Consider the inhabitants of Wrangell Island, the largest of eight disputed islands – five lying in the Arctic Ocean and three in the Bering Sea.
Geographically speaking, the island’s inhabitants would also be citizens of the state of Alaska since no other American state comes even close to the proximity of the islands.
But if anyone desired to visit Wrangell Island, they would be greeted not by the Stars and Stripes waving proudly in the brisk air but by a Russian military tower.
According to Olson, the islands including Wrangell have 18 Russian soldiers and one officer and 50 to 100 inhabitants.
Olson insists these people have been made to endure foreign occupation by the Russian military and believes the U.S. government should do something about taking the islands back.
NewsMax.com contacted Mark Seidenberg, a former senior traffic management specialist within the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and asked him if he believed the United States should pursue its sovereignty on the islands. Seidenberg, without hesitation, said “yes.”

The article linked above says after Congress ratified the Maritime Boundary Treaty, Russia DID NOT SIGN IT. At that time, the industry was up-in-arms. American fisherman did not want to lose their right to the waters in the area. Russians didn’t care.

Nevertheless, former U.S. Secretary of State Jim Baker and the Soviet Union’s Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze signed a secretive executive agreement the year before that bound both governments to the treaty. ["Executive Agreement!"]
Currently, Russia is demanding hundreds of millions of pounds more fishing rights from the United States that would undermine the Alaskan fish industry and, subsequently, the state’s economy.
A wealth of petroleum and natural gas hang in the balance as well.

Again, this is 2000:

Even though now recognizing Russian jurisdiction over the islands, the State Department had testified at the June 13, 1991, treaty hearing that the maritime boundary agreement “does not recognize Soviet sovereignty over these [five Arctic] islands.”