Andy Martin: Contrarian Commentary

My Photo
Name:
Location: Manchester, New Hampshire, United States

Friday, February 06, 2015

Andy Martin accepts Jeb Bush’s offer to resolve Bush family failures with fisticuffs


Independent New Hampshire Republican Party leader Andy Martin has written presidential wannabe Jeb Bush accepting Jeb Bush’s offer to “go outside” with anyone who questions the Bush family’s “greatness,” presumably to resolve the dispute over the Bush family’s failures with fisticuffs. Andy is leading the opposition to Bush’s presidential campaign and has vowed to prevent Bush from either being the Republican candidate or being elected president. Andy charges that behind his veneer of establishment respectability, Jeb Bush is just a front man for political, governmental and Wall Street corruption. “The Bush family is not great,” Andy says. “The Bushes are the greatest disaster to happen to the United States in the last fifty years.”


NEWS FROM:                                                                                       

New Hampshire Republicans
www.NewHampshireRepublicans.wordpress.com
www.NewHampshireRepublicanParty.blogspot.com
www.NewHampshireRepublicanParty.wordpress.com
Not affil. with N. H. Republican St. Comm.

Andy Martin,  J. D.
executive director
New Hampshire Republicans

you can call Andy:
National (866) 706-2639
Cell (917) 664-9329

you can email Andy:
andynewhampshire@aol.com

you can write Andy by
faxing (866) 214-3210

Blogs/web sites  (partial):
www.AndyMartin.com
www.FirstRespondersOnline.us
ContrarianCommentary.wordpress.com
ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com

To become a regular subscriber to our emails please send an email to AndyNewHampshire@aol.com and place “SUBSCRIBE” in the subject line.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

New Hampshire Republican leader Andy Martin accepts Jeb Bush’s challenge to “go outside” with anyone that questions the bush family’s “greatness”

Andy says two failed Bush presidencies and two failed Bush wars are enough

(MANCHESTER, NH) (February 6, 2015) Independent New Hampshire Republican Party leader Andy Martin has written presidential wannabe Jeb Bush accepting Jeb Bush’s offer to “go outside” with anyone who questions the Bush family’s “greatness,” presumably to resolve the dispute over the Bush family’s failures with fisticuffs. Andy is leading the opposition to Bush’s presidential campaign and has vowed to prevent Bush from either being the Republican candidate or being elected president. Andy charges that behind his veneer of establishment respectability, Jeb Bush is just a front man for political, governmental and Wall Street corruption. “The Bush family is not great,” Andy says. “The Bushes are the greatest disaster to happen to the United States in the last fifty years.”

Andy’s letter to Bush follows (links to claims in the letter are also posted below):

(letterhead removed)

February 6, 2015

Jeb Bush
RighttoRisePAC.org
P.O. Box 14349
Tallahassee, FL 32317
and email:
info@RighttoRisePAC.org

Dear Jeb:

We met in Orlando a little over 25 years ago. I became one of your earliest opponents way back in 1993 when I criticized you for seeking to profit from family connections by peddling water pumps in Africa (remember my headline “Andy is ‘pumped up’ about Jeb Bush’s pump business?). (As a footnote, I actually visited your grandfather’s U. S. Senate office; I go back a long way with your family.) Later, you were to abuse the powers of your office to attack me and to seek to rig elections in Florida.

We also tangled about the disconnect and hypocrisy involving your public views on drug abuse and the drug addiction of a family member. A little research on the Internet will produce links to confirm our past history. While I think you are an agreeable person and would not have a problem sitting down with you for a chat, I do not believe you are remotely qualified to be president. I have been startled by what some of my recent preliminary research has developed about your personal life. I will be disclosing that research in the days ahead.

At a speech in Detroit earlier this week, you said:

"I love my dad. In fact, my dad is the greatest man alive. If anybody disagrees, we'll go outside, unless you're like 6-foot-5, 250 pounds and much younger than me. Then we'll negotiate," he said to laughter from the audience.

"And I love my brother. I think he has been a great president.

In a nutshell, you have explained why you are totally unfit to be the Republican Party’s candidate for president in 2016. You have visibly linked yourself to two failed presidencies and two failed wars. Now back to the issue of fisticuffs.

You say that if anybody disagrees your father “is the greatest man alive” you want to “go outside” and presumably resolve the dispute with fisticuffs. I accept your offer. And, since we are both roughly the same age and the same size, I am an ideal opponent for you.

1. The failures of George H. W. Bush (“GHWB”)

I have no doubt you love your dad. Most children, especially sons, idolize their parents. But by your own admission you are totally unable to divorce your filial love from an objective understanding of your father’s abject failure as a president and as a leader.

Your father obtained party support on the promise of “no new taxes.” He made that promise, and then broke it. “Poppy” Bush was often “out of it.” He didn’t even know the price of milk while people were suffering through a recession. GHWB was totally the creature of and lived in the Washington, DC “bubble.”

More devastatingly to his place in history, through his bungling your father created an unnecessary war that cost tens of thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars. Your loyalty as a son obviously blinds you to the reality that GHWB’s State Department implicitly gave Saddam Hussein a green light to attack Kuwait. Even when it was obvious Saddam had misread GHWB’s signals, your father did nothing to stop Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait (which cost Kuwaiti lives as well as American ones).

Yes, GHWB did organize a collation to undo the mess he had created. He was lucky in that regard. But the First Gulf War was totally unnecessary and only became unavoidable because April Glaspie, the U. S. Ambassador, fed Saddam false evidence that was never refuted by your father’s administration.

The “greatest man in the world?” Your father is far from it. In retirement, people have forgotten his leadership failures and focused on his lovable eccentricities.

The Democrats would like nothing better than to run against your family’s failures in public office and your irrational, inflated and totally false claims to “greatness.” GHWB’s failures as a leader in no way qualify your father for any rational claim of “greatness.”

2. George W. Bush (“GWB”) is the next-to-worst president

You call your brother George W. Bush “a great president.” Until Barack Obama came along to rescue your brother from being the worst president of the modern era, your brother was a total and complete failure. GWB damaged America with trillions of dollars of unnecessary war costs (over the decades), enhanced the power of Iran by destabilizing the Middle East and created the conditions for the chaos which is still festering today.

When the history of this era is written it will be the utter incompetence of your brother’s two terms as president that destabilized the world. The fact that you claim your brother is a “great president” simply disqualifies you as a credible presidential candidate. Obama is now obviously the worst president in modern history (as I clearly predicted he would be, way back in 2007). Your brother is securely second in line for that dubious honor.

GWB was totally unqualified for the presidency and he was totally unqualified to lead the nation. He blundered into a horrible war based on false claims and a total lack of a plan or policy for the “day after.” Many believe GWB started a false war to avenge a slight to your father by Saddam Hussein. Was/is your brother a ”good guy” in a colloquial sense? I think he is. I think we could probably sit down and have a cookout and tell jokes and yuck it up. But not about his presidency (we’d be joking about his successor, off the record, of course). Sadly, you seem incapable of separating family loyalty from political reality and the national interest. But then I knew you were a lightweight way back in 1993.

It is not only Democrats who know you are out of touch with reality. Republicans are also aware you are nothing but the latest in a long line of Bush family blowhards that use Wall Street corporate money to purchase public office to enrich your cronies and impoverish the nation. That you now claim to be a “born again” populist is a joke. Show me the money! Show me where in your track record as Florida governor you went out of your way to help ordinary citizens.

I am leading the effort to deny you any semblance of credibility for the presidential nomination. If the Republican Party engages in yet another suicide mission by nominating you, I am prepared to work hard to see you are not elected president. Two failed Bush presidencies, and two unnecessary wars, are enough!

By this letter I have now accepted your challenge to “step outside” because, frankly, your claims that your dad and brother are “great men” is delusional and poses a severe risk to every honorable and honest Republican that wants to recapture the White House in 2016.

In the past you have used your political power and public office to retaliate by harassing and abusing me for exposing your corruption and conflicts of interest. So I welcome the opportunity to “step outside” or step inside the ring or do whatever is necessary to deflate your bloated, insincere and irrational claims about the “greatness” of your relatives and maybe to beat some common sense into your pampered head.

Collectively, the Bush family has done more than any other family to undermine and endanger our national security and to devastate our economic security. Your family obviously has no shame, because despite all the incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, you continue to claim a false mantle of “greatness” when precisely the opposite is the reality.

Let’s put on the gloves so you can have at me, and vice versa. I am happy to sell tickets to our match, and I am happy to donate the proceeds of the fight to charity. Those proceeds will be the first time the Bush family has ever done anything to financially benefit ordinary citizens.

Cordially,

Andy

AM:sp

----------

LINKS TO THIS STORY (cut and paste the entire link below and not just the underlined portion):

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2015/02/04/jeb-bush-detroit/22854797/%20

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/florida-radio-talk-show-host-andy-martin-and-the-new-york-based-drug-policy-alliance-will-sponsor-an-internetradio-teach-in-broadcast-concerning-political-hypocrisy-drug-laws-and-governor-jeb-bush-of-florida-75940582.html

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1993-12-25/news/9312230484_1_martin-jeb-bush-paper-mache

----------

ABOUT ANDY:

Andy is a legendary New Hampshire, New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, talk television pioneer, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. Andy’s family immigrated to New Hampshire 100 years ago; today his home overlooks the Merrimack River and he lives around the corner from where he played as a small boy. He has forty-five years of background in radio and television. He is the author of “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” [www.OrangeStatePress.com] and he produced the Internet film "Obama: The Hawaii’ Years” [www.BoycottHawaii.com]. Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on New Hampshire, national and international events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience both in the USA and around the world.

Andy has been a leading corruption fighter in American politics and courts for over forty-five years. [www.AndyMartin.com] He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us; www.EnglishforAmerica.org

He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES:
www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSA
www.Facebook.com/AndyMartin

Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com ContrarianCommentary.wordpress.com
ContrarianCommentary.typepad.com
andymartinusa.posterous.com

[NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in our stories; find the latest version on our blogs.]
--------------------------
© Copyright by Andy Martin 2015– All Rights Reserved
--------------------------

Labels: , , , ,

Monday, December 29, 2014

NEW HAMPSHIRE NEWS CONFERENCE: New Hampshire GOP activist Andy Martin formally opens opposition to Jeb Bush


Conservative New Hampshire Republican Party activist Andy Martin will hold a Manchester, New Hampshire news conference today, Monday December 29th to formally open his campaign opposing presidential candidate wannabe Jeb Bush. “Jeb Bush is being promoted by the liberal media in the latest ‘polls’ because the liberal media want to promote a sure loser for the Republican Party in 2016,” charges Andy. “Jeb would make an excellent opponent for Hillary Clinton, in the Democratic Party’s primaries. The false claim that Bush ‘governed as a conservative’ as Florida governor is pure nonsense. Bush governed as a front-man for the most corrupt elements in the Florida Republican Party. Bush played conservatives like suckers, tossing out right-wing catnip when it had no practical significance, such as his participation in the Schiavo case. The Bush Family has failed America and destroyed both our economy and national security. Only the liberal media promote Bushes as genuine public servants. The reaction in New Hampshire to my opposition to Jeb Bush has been good; ordinary folk do not want Bush anywhere near the presidential race. The usual power-brokers and ‘consultants’ in New Hampshire will no doubt back Bush, the same way they backed Mitt Romney in 2012. But they lost with Romney and Brown; Jeb Bush is an even bigger loser than both of them.”

  
NEWS FROM:
                                                                                          
ContrarianCommentary.com
“The Internet Powerhouse”
Andy Martin,  J. D.
adjunct professor of law
executive editor
one of America’s most respected
independent authors/investigators

“Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct”

you can call Andy:
New Hampshire (603) 518-7310
National (866) 706-2639
Cell (917) 664-9329

you can email Andy:

you can write Andy by
faxing (866) 214-3210

Blogs/web sites  (partial):
ContrarianCommentary.wordpress.com
ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com
ContrarianCommentary.typepad.com

To become a regular subscriber to our emails please send an email to andynewhampshire@aol.com and place “SUBSCRIBE” in the subject line.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Attention New Hampshire, National daybook/assignment editors

Announcement of New Hampshire news conference Monday December 29th

Andy Martin formally opens the New Hampshire opposition to Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential campaign

Andy says “polls” showing Bush as a “leader” in 2016 reflect biased polling and liberal media saturation coverage for a sure loser - another failed Bush Family member

Andy says the Bush Family “has an unparalleled record of failure at the national and international level”

(Manchester, NH) (December 29, 2014) Independent Republican Andy Martin will hold a New Hampshire news conference today, December 29th to open his opposition to Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential campaign.

“The latest ‘poll’ showing Jeb Bush as a leading Republican presidential contender represents a liberal media wish list [see link #1 below]. The media are saturating people with coverage of the ‘Jeb - will he or won’t he?’ story line without any reflection of what ordinary Republicans really feel and really want.

“Republicans, like everyone else, get through life with a healthy dose of hypocrisy. They know George W. Bush was a disaster as president and destroyed both our economy and our foreign policy. And they know Barack Obama made matters even worse. Incompetence was followed by incompetence. But Republicans are reluctant to openly oppose Republican powerhouses such as the Bush Family.

“I have no such reluctance.

“I am preparing the foundation for a campaign that will undermine and ultimately defeat Jeb Bush in New Hampshire and elsewhere along the 2016 campaign trial. America can’t stand another Bush Family disaster in the White House. Two failed Bush presidencies are enough,” Andy says.

Andy has a long history of battling with the Bush Brothers. Andy began opposing Jeb Bush in Florida in 1993. In 2000, Andy was credited with producing and running a controversial TV ad that cost then Texas Governor George W. Bush the New Hampshire presidential primary.

In November, Andy quietly orchestrated the defeat of Scott Brown for the U. S. Senate in New Hampshire. “Scott Brown wasn’t defeated by Democrats,” Andy says. “Brown was defeated by conservative Republicans who refused to be bullied by the corrupt Republican Party leadership in New Hampshire. Conservative voters rebelled. Despite a nationwide Republican tide, Brown was defeated when conservatives refused to vote for him. I helped expose Brown’s lies, military fraud and other Massachusetts manipulations. Conservatives listened to me, not Brown. (Obviously, there was also negative advertising against Brown by Democrats, but conservatives completely discount such Democratic attacks.)

“Jeb Bush is a creation of the Bush Family’s propaganda machine’s manipulation the liberal media. The liberal media love Bushes, because they are losers. Despite rampant sex scandals surrounding his campaign, ‘Bubba’ Clinton knocked off a sitting president, George H. W. Bush, in 1992.

“Jeb is nothing more than a liberal media patsy for whomever the Democrats nominate.

“In 1993, over twenty (20) years ago, I started exposing Jeb Bush as a ‘rent-seeker,’ someone who uses his family name to collect ‘rent’ by renting out his name for cash,” Andy says. “He was using his father’s political influence to collect commissions for helping to sell water pumps in Africa. Jeb Bush has never had a legitimate job in his life. He is a ‘rent-seeker’ and influence peddler par excellance.

“When Bush was Governor, he ran a corrupt administration. Details to follow.

“By opposing Jeb I am standing up for conservatives and I am standing against the corrupt Big Money people and big shot ‘leaders’ in the Republican Party who keep giving us big failures as presidential candidates,” Andy says. [See link #2 below]

DECEMBER 29 NEW HAMPSHIRE NEWS CONFERENCE DETAILS:

WHO:

New Hampshire conservative Republican Party activist Andy Martin

WHAT:

Andy Martin formally opens his New Hampshire opposition to Jeb Bush’s presidential candidacy

WHERE:

Manchester, NH, Northwest corner of Elm and Webster Streets

WHEN:

Monday, December 29, 5:30 P.M.


LINKS TO THIS STORY (cut and paste the entire link below and not just the underlined portion):
#1

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-12-28/jeb-bush-leads-the-republican-pack-poll-finds

#2

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2016/republicans_aren_t_thrilled_by_another_bush_candidacy

WHAT OTHERS SAY:
“Andy Martin is revolutionizing journalism… [Andy] brings to online journalism what Rush Limbaugh [brings] to radio or Michael Moore to film: sleek little stories that fit into larger political narratives…”
“The only American journalists that are “standing UP” [to Obama] are, Andy Martin…”

ABOUT ANDY:
Andy is a legendary New Hampshire, New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, talk television pioneer, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. Andy’s family immigrated to Manchester 100 years ago; today his home overlooks the Merrimack River and he lives around the corner from where he played as a small boy. He has forty-five years of background in radio and television. He is the author of “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” [www.OrangeStatePress.com] and he produced the Internet film “Obama: The Hawaii’ Years” [www.BoycottHawaii.com]. Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on New Hampshire, national and international events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience both in the USA and around the world. For more, go to: www.AndyMartin.com

Andy has also been a leading corruption fighter in American politics and courts for over forty-five years and he is executive director of the National Anti-Corruption Policy Institute. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us; www.EnglishforAmerica.org

He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES:

www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSA
www.Facebook.com/AndyMartin

Andy’s columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com ContrarianCommentary.wordpress.com
ContrarianCommentary.typepad.com

[NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in our stories; find the latest version on our blogs.]

----------

© Copyright by Andy Martin 2014 – All Rights Reserved

Labels: , , , , ,

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

NEW YORK NEWS CONFERENCE: New Hampshire GOP activist Andy Martin formally announces opposition to Jeb Bush

Conservative New Hampshire Republican Party activist Andy Martin will hold a New York news conference today, Wednesday December 24th to formally announce he will lead opposition to presidential candidate wannabe Jeb Bush. Andy Martin is recognized as one of America’s most successful and creative practitioners of negative politics, with a long string of successes defeating or undermining corrupt or fraudulent candidates. “Jeb Bush is the biggest political fraud in America today,” Andy charges. “I was Jeb’s first political opponent, going back to 1993 (link #3 below). I know where the Bush bodies are buried. I promise that Bush will not win the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary and Bush will not be the Republican presidential candidate in 2016. The Bush Family has an unparalleled record of failure at the national level. I can lead the opposition to Jeb, and I will.”
  
NEWS FROM:
                                                                                          
ContrarianCommentary.com
“The Internet Powerhouse”
Andy Martin,  J. D.
adjunct professor of law
executive editor
one of America’s most respected
independent authors/investigators

“Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct”

you can call Andy:
National (866) 706-2639

Cell (917) 664-9329

you can email Andy:

you can write Andy by
faxing (866) 214-3210

Blogs/web sites  (partial):
ContrarianCommentary.wordpress.com
ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com
ContrarianCommentary.typepad.com

To become a regular subscriber to our emails please send an email to andynewhampshire@aol.com and place “SUBSCRIBE” in the subject line.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Attention New York, National daybook/assignment editors

Announcement of New York news conference Wednesday December 24th

Andy Martin formally announces he will lead the opposition to Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential campaign

Andy says the Bush Family “has an unparalleled record of failure at the national level”

(New York) (December 24, 2014) Andy Martin, perhaps one of the most skilled practitioners of negative politics in America at the national level, will hold a New York news conference today, December 24th to formally announce he will lead the opposition to Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential campaign. Andy will make his announcement at a suite in the Millenium Hilton, New York (World Trade Center).

“The Bush Family has an unprecedented and unparalleled record of failure at the national level,” Andy charges. “‘Poppy’ Bush created the need for the first Iraq War, due to the incompetence of his foreign policy. Remember April Glaspie? The second Bush concocted a war in the Middle East under fraudulent pretenses that unnecessarily devastated our nation’s economy and continues to endanger our national security. Now Jeb Bush wants to hit Bush Family contributors for another round of failure and no doubt another war in the Middle East. Two Bush wars are enough.

“I am leading the opposition to Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential campaign. The initial reaction to my ‘stone cold welcome’ to Jeb in Chicago last was overwhelmingly positive. Last week I focused attention on the fact that the American people do not want a First Lady in the White House such as Jeb’s wife, originally from Mexico, who supports illegal immigration and amnesty. Today I focus on the Bush Family’s overwhelming history of failure in foreign policy leadership.

“In the coming days I will draw attention to Jeb’s failed record in Tallahassee as governor of Florida. That record has been falsely portrayed by the Bush propaganda machine as ‘successful’ when Jeb was a mere figurehead for corruption, as he has been his entire life. I started opposing Jeb Bush in 1993, over twenty years ago, so I have a very detailed picture of who Jeb Bush is and what Jeb Bush is.”

Andy is often criticized by national media but he has been a player on the station stage for decades, particularly where negative politics and negative political advertising is concerned.

In 2000, Andy was credited with producing and running a controversial TV ad that cost then Texas Governor George W. Bush the New Hampshire presidential primary. In 2009 Andy began running radio ads that exposed Mark Kirk as a military fraud and also focused on rumors about Kirk’s closeted personal life. The Washington Post and other activists later confirmed and expanded on all of Andy’s factual claims and Kirk was almost defeated. Chicago media attacked Andy for telling the truth, but national media exposed Kirk’s lies. Andy vows to defeat Kirk in 2016.

In 2005 Andy began a campaign to expose lies by Barack Obama, eventually landing Andy on the front page of the New York Times (link #6 below), and earning him more attacks from phonies such as senile billionaire Rupert Murdoch.

Andy is routinely pilloried by Obamabots, liberal media, liberal Democrats and liberal Republicans. But Andy has shown over and over again he can use the Internet to mobilize conservative Republican voters. Andy is credited with being the first to use the term “Obamacare” (link #4 below).

In November, Andy quietly orchestrated the defeat of Scott Brown for the U. S. Senate in New Hampshire. “Scott Brown wasn’t defeated by Democrats,” Andy notes. “Brown was defeated by conservative Republicans who refused to be bullied by the corrupt Republican Party leadership in New Hampshire. Conservative voters rebelled. Despite a nationwide Republican tide, Brown was defeated when conservatives refused to vote for him. I helped expose Brown’s lies, military fraud and other Massachusetts manipulations. Conservatives listened to me, not Brown. (Obviously, there was also negative advertising against Brown by Democrats, but conservatives discount such Democratic attacks.)

“Ironically, truth be told, I have shown greater promise as a ‘vote denier’ than a ‘vote getter’” Andy admits. “But that’s not a problem for me. I am concerned with the purity and integrity of the political process, not with my own personal power. I predicted, on Bill O’Reilly’s Factor show in 2009 and on WMUR-TV in my ads in New Hampshire, that George Bush wanted to attack Iraq. He did, with devastating consequences for every American. New Hampshire voters listened to me, and denied Bush a primary victory, though Bush went on to win the presidency and Americans suffered the consequences of another Bush Family war.

“Jeb Bush is a creation of the Bush Family’s propaganda machine’s manipulation the liberal media.

“Jeb Bush’s political prospects in Florida were so dismal that his own son left Florida and moved to Texas. Bush’s own son chose not to run in Florida. So much for Jeb’s Florida coattails or influence.” Andy will be detailing Bush’s failed years as a leader in Tallahassee. Homework assignment: ask yourself, how many national reporters have dug deep into Bush’s years in Tallahassee? None. Andy knows Tallahassee. Do they?


“So who is Jeb Bush kidding?” Andy demands. “Who is promoting this colossal hypocrite? Big money, big business, big hypocrites.

“In 1993, over twenty (20) years ago, I exposed Jeb Bush as a ‘rent-seeker,’ someone who uses his family name to collect ‘rent’ by renting out his name for cash. He helped to sell water pumps in Africa using his family’s influence.

“In 2002, I exposed how hypocritical Jeb and his wife Columba were when they promoted anti-drug efforts while their own daughter was a drug addict (see link #5). I embarrassed Jeb by contacting his daughter in the Orange County (Fla.) jail. Tragically, she was a neglected and abused child.

“When Bush was Governor, he ran a corrupt administration.

“By opposing Jeb I am standing up for conservatives and I am standing against the corrupt Big Money people and big shot ‘leaders’ in the Republican Party who keep giving us big failures as presidential candidates,” Andy says.

DECEMBER 24 NEW YORK NEWS CONFERENCE DETAILS:

WHO:

New Hampshire conservative Republican Party activist Andy Martin

WHAT:

Andy Martin formally announces in New York that he will lead opposition to Jeb Bush’s presidential candidacy

WHERE:

Andy Martin suite, Millenium Hilton, 55 Church Street, New York, NY 10007

WHEN:

Wednesday, December 24, 5:00 P.M.


LINKS TO THIS STORY (cut and paste the entire link below and not just the underlined portion):

[#1]

[#2]

[#3]

{#4]


[#5]



[#6]
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/us/politics/13martin.html?_r=1&

WHAT OTHERS SAY:
“Andy Martin is revolutionizing journalism… [Andy] brings to online journalism what Rush Limbaugh [brings] to radio or Michael Moore to film: sleek little stories that fit into larger political narratives…”
“The only American journalists that are “standing UP” [to Obama] are, Andy Martin…”

ABOUT ANDY:
Andy is a legendary New Hampshire, New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, talk television pioneer, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. Andy’s family immigrated to Manchester 100 years ago; today his home overlooks the Merrimack River and he lives around the corner from where he played as a small boy. He has forty-five years of background in radio and television. He is the author of “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” [www.OrangeStatePress.com] and he produced the Internet film “Obama: The Hawaii’ Years” [www.BoycottHawaii.com]. Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on New Hampshire, national and international events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience both in the USA and around the world. For more, go to: www.AndyMartin.com

Andy has also been a leading corruption fighter in American politics and courts for over forty-five years and he is executive director of the National Anti-Corruption Policy Institute. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us; www.EnglishforAmerica.org

He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES:

www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSA
www.Facebook.com/AndyMartin

Andy’s columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com ContrarianCommentary.wordpress.com
ContrarianCommentary.typepad.com

[NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in our stories; find the latest version on our blogs.]

----------

© Copyright by Andy Martin 2014 – All Rights Reserved

Labels: , , , , ,

Friday, July 05, 2013

“Is Barack Obama the Islamist in the White House?” [Islam is the enemy, Part III]

Foreign policy expert Andy Martin says Barack Obama’s Islamic roots are distorting American foreign policy:
2014 New Hampshire U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin, possibly the Republican Party’s most knowledgeable Middle East/Egypt foreign policy expert with actual overseas experience, has been looking back into Barack Obama’s family history and reviewing the record of Obama’s religious roots in Islam. In 2004 Andy was the first person to focus on Obama’s Islamic parentage; as a result Andy has been relentlessly attacked by Obama operatives for focusing attention on the president’s peculiar family history. As always, we welcome your feedback to Andy’s comments. Is President Barack Obama the “Islamist in the White House?” You be the judge.
NEWS FROM:




ContrarianCommentary.com

“The Internet Powerhouse”

Andy Martin, J. D.

adjunct professor of law

executive editor

America’s most respected

independent author/investigator



“Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct”



you can call Andy:

NH (603) 518-7310

NTL (866) 706-2639



you can email Andy:

andynewhampshire@aol.com



you can write Andy by

faxing (866) 214-3210



Blogs/web sites (partial):

ContrarianCommentary.wordpress.com

ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com

www.AndyMartin.com

www.FirstRespondersOnline.us

ContrarianCommentary.typepad.com



To become a regular subscriber to our emails please send an email to andynewhampshire@aol.com and place “SUBSCRIBE” in the subject line.



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:



U. S. Senate candidate and conservative columnist Andy Martin

says President Barack Obama’s Islamist sympathies may be undermining U. S. foreign policy



Is Barack Obama “the Islamist in the White House?” You be the judge



Part III of a continuing series, “Islam is the Enemy”



(New York) (July 5, 2013)



Andy’s views:



[First, a disclaimer: in my opinion the upheaval in Egypt is a significant challenge to the established world order in the Middle East. How the U. S. responds will affect American national security. In analyzing President Barack Obama’s Islamist history I do not bear Muslims any ill will. And, surprisingly, I also do not bear Obama any personal ill will. Mr. Obama is merely (1) an interesting political figure and (2) a political opponent in the sense that he leads the Democratic Party. I am a conservative and a Republican. Generally speaking, I believe Obama is bad for America. That is my point of view.



In writing about Obama-the-man, I try to separate my personal feelings from the factual records of his life. No one is perfect, but I try to keep my opinions about Obama separate from the facts.]



Here are some thoughts:



1. My 2004 article on Obama’s religion



I first encountered Barack Obama when he was an obscure state senator in the Illinois legislature. In 2004 I watched with amazement as David Axelrod’s investigative wizardry gave Obama the nomination and eventually the election for U.S. Senator. So I was not surprised when Obama emerged on the national stage in August 2004. But Obama’s “story” about a “goat herd” father and his Kenyan roots did not make sense to me. Still, that was what Obama claimed as his family background.



I picked up the phone, called London and asked, “Do you suppose the FCO has something on Obama’s background?” The eventual response was “yes.” Obama’s grandfather was a wealthy and sophisticated man who had traveled to Europe. His son, Obama’s father, was well educated when he left for Hawai’i. Obama’s grandfather had been linked to the Mau Mau rebellion which sought to end British rule in Kenya. (Obama did not admit to his family’s Mau Mau links until he visited London and disclosed why he loathed Britain.)



In August, 2004 I conducted a news conference in New York to announce the results of my overseas research (link #1 below). I exposed that Obama’s “story” was largely a fraud. Based on Muslim law, which transfers religion from the father to the child, Obama had been born a Muslim. Obama’s father was not an uneducated goat herd but rather the offspring of a wealthy colonial family. I exposed that Obama’s book, “Dreams From My Father,” was largely fiction and urged the publisher to withdraw Obama’s fabrications from the “autobiography” section.



My remarks were duly noted in 2004, but back then few thought Obama would move beyond the U. S. Senate. I continued my research into Obama’s past “just in case.”



When Obama announced he was a presidential candidate in 2007 I published a series of articles under the topic of “Obama Week.” The most profound of those articles was a psychological study of the candidate. That study predicted almost exactly how Obama would react if he reached the Oval Office. My activity did not go unnoticed among Obama’s staff and sycophants. The more I investigated the more I came under criticism and investigation from Obama’s minions.



2. Nicholas Kristof speaks about Islam with Obama



In 2007 New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, who is very sympathetic to Obama, published a column relating Obama’s religious background while living in Indonesia (link #2 below). As a child Obama had been a practicing Muslim. My original 2004 accusation was confirmed. When Kristof realized his disclosures had boomeranged with the American public he began attacking me and others who raised questions about Obama’s religious heritage (link #3 below). During the 2008 campaign Obama did everything he could to mislead the public about both his religious background and his family history in Hawai’i.



I was the first independent investigator/author to actually go to Hawai’i to start studying public records about Obama. By then, Obama’s press secretary Robert Gibbs had gone on the Hannity and Colmes program and tried to suggest I was an anti-Semite based on ridiculous remarks in a twenty-five year old lawsuit (I am not an anti-Semite; quite the opposite). Gibbs and his mentor David Axelrod play politics Chicago-style, which means phony and dirty. I fired back, Chicago-style. I also published doubts about who Obama’s biological father really was. My doubts remain to this date.



As I continued to write about Obama in 2007 and 2008 some of my readers in the Middle East contacted me and asked me to “go easy on Obama” because “he’s one of us,” a Muslim. I paid no attention to the request but found it strange that Muslims had firmly decided Obama was one of them. Whatever Americans believed or believe today, Muslims have always believed that Obama is a Muslim and that he has never renounced his birth faith.



3. Obama’s bizarre 2009 speech in Egypt



After becoming President Obama went to Cairo and delivered a bizarre speech. The Cairo apologia became the basis for subsequent accusations that Obama was on an “apology tour.” (Obama had also apologized in Turkey before he landed in Egypt.)



In preparation for writing these remarks, I went back and took another look at Obama’s 2009 speech (link #4 below). Obama’s remarks were weird. He spoke of “great tension” between Islam and America. What tension? America had and has no cavil with the religion of Islam. We had no colonial history with Muslims. America was and is logically and justifiably opposed to Islamic extremists.



Obama claimed he was coming to Cairo with a “new beginning.” More peculiar was his admission that he had “known Islam on three continents” before arriving in Cairo. Three continents? “Known” Islam? In his speech Obama also confirmed my 2004 accusation that his family was Muslim. Looking back four years, Obama’s Cairo remarks partake of delusion and self-deception.



Cairo, where Obama made his grandiose remarks in 2009, has since experienced two revolutions, one a generic revolution to throw off a decades-old military dictatorship and a second revolution this month (2013) to throw off the yoke of a budding Islamic dictatorship.



4. The pro-Islamist cocoon in Washington



The reaction of the “foreign policy community” to efforts by Egyptians to free themselves from religious oppression has also been peculiar. The Washington Post seems to be part of Obama’s Islamist cocoon (link # 5 below). It is clear that Obama and his supporters do not want freedom in the Middle East. They want Islamist (not just Islamic) rule over the oppressed peoples of that region.



The idea that Egyptians should rebel against the noxious Islamic regime that was being imposed on them was unacceptable to Obama. Amazingly, the U. S. ambassador in Cairo had become an apologist for the Islamist regime and, not surprisingly, freedom-living Egyptians began attacking our ambassador as a tool and stooge of the Morsi regime.



Obama has triggered a great debate over whether a “coup” has been staged in Egypt. The accusation is nonsense. Cairo’s celebrations have been even more excessive than our own contemporaneous July 4th festivities. When millions of people come into the streets and demand change, that’s not a coup. That is the-people-in-action “Internet democracy.”



Egypt is not a well-developed democracy; unfortunately, the military plays a larger role in Egyptian society than officers do in western societies. But the military could not act and did not act without massive public support from the Egyptian “street.” Egyptians live without basic services. Illiteracy is a serious problem. Morsi was more concerned with imposing Sharia than he was with servicing sewers. Good riddance.



5. “The ring”



My unique contribution to the Obama oeuvre was the original research on his family history and religion in Kenya, as well as my disclosures about the candidate’s links to criminal figures in Chicago. My psychological profile was “prophetic” in a political sense. I predicted almost exactly how Obama would react in the Oval Office. But, generally speaking, “I don’t do jewelry.”



Nevertheless, in preparing these comments on the “Islamist in the White House” I went back and reread much of the Obama literature. I came across the “ring” controversy and have given Obama’s “ring” serious review and reconsideration. My evaluation is that Obama’s “ring” is a Muslim ring and that the entire issue of the ring is creepy. I don’t often use the term creepy, because I am someone who cherishes freedom of lifestyle for myself and every American. But when I went back and looked at Obamas “ring” controversy, I could only say “creepy.”



Obama, of course, has a “thing” with rings. He kissed the Saudi king’s ring.



Here are what I believe the undisputed facts. According to the liberal web site snopes.com (see link # 6 below) Obama was given a ring when he was living in Indonesia. Obama left Indonesia as a ten year-old and never returned. What kind of a “ring” would a mother who claimed to be financially strapped give to a 10 year-old child? The ring became an object of controversy in 2008 when some writers claimed it was an “Islamic ring.” The New York Times (link # 6) stated that Obama wears as his wedding ring the same Indonesian ring he received as a 10 year-old.



I find it creepy that a ring given to Obama by his mother who claimed to be in financial distress has been retained for forty years and is worn in lieu of a wedding ring. This is such a strange situation that if anyone knows of any married man who wears a ring he received as a child, still wears the ring as a wedding ring in lieu of a gold band, please let me know. I’m not an expert on jewelry.



My honest opinion: the ring is some form of an Islamic symbol, and the ring reflects Obama’s lifetime of reverence for and attachment to Islam.



6. The mystery continues



I chose the title for my 2008 book: “Obama: the Man Behind the Mask.” Since then many writers have adopted the “mask” allusion to raise questions about Obama’s true nature. Controversy continues about who Obama is and what he is (link # 7 below).



Islam is an accepted and protected religion in the United States. Law-abiding Muslims enjoy the same rights as any other law-abiding citizens to worship God as they wish. But there is no question that Islamic extremists have continued to infiltrate the United States. The Somalis in Minnesota and Maine and the notorious Tsarnaev brothers in Massachusetts are merely the tip of the iceberg. Obama’s efforts to “Islamicize” the U. S. Government will be the topic of a future column. Today it is sufficient to state that Obama’s life history makes him an Islamist president. His religious and political views are a threat to U. S. National security around the world.



Obama will not be deposed by an Egyptian-style revolution. But if Americans do not elect a Republican congress in 2014 (and if Republicans do not nominate too many extremist “crazies” as candidates) the last two years of Obama’s term will place every American in extreme danger.



----------------------



MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639; CELL (917) 664-9329; E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com



----------------------



LINKS TO THIS STORY (cut and paste the entire link below and not just the underlined portion):



Link # 1



http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/

columnist-says-barack-obama-lied-to-the-

american-people-asks-publisher-to-

withdraw-obamas-book-71586122.html



Link # 2



http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/opinion/

06kristof.html?_r=0



Link # 3



http://contrariancommentary.wordpress.com/

2008/09/22/andy-martin-calls-nicholas-kristof-

of-the-new-york-times-a-bigot-for-using-

bigotry-to-support-barack-obama/



Link # 4



http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/

remarks-president-cairo-university-6-04-09



Link # 5



http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/

us-must-suspend-aid-after-egypts-coup/2013/

07/04/cd53f248-e4a8-11e2-a11e-c2ea876a8f30_

story.html?hpid=z3



http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/

jackson-diehl-egypts-misguided-coup/2013/

07/04/64bd121c-e4b4-11e2-a11e-c2ea876a8f30_

story.html?hpid=z3



Link # 6



(see Part II):



http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/magazine/

01Obama-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0



http://5tjt.com/obamas-muslim-ring-there-

is-no-god-but-allah/



http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/

weddingring.asp



Link # 7



www.examiner.com/article/it-looks-like-president-

obama-is-still-a-muslim



http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/

sep/11/obama-my-muslim-faith/?page=all



http://www.ilanamercer.com/NotQuiteMuslimNot

QuiteChristian.htm



--------------------------



WHAT OTHERS SAY:



“Andy Martin is revolutionizing journalism… [Andy] brings to online journalism what Rush Limbaugh [brings] to radio or Michael Moore to film: sleek little stories that fit into larger political narratives…”



“The only American journalists that are “standing UP” [to Obama] are, Andy Martin…”



ABOUT ANDY:



Andy is a legendary New Hampshire, New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, talk television pioneer, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. Andy’s family immigrated to Manchester 100 years ago; today his home overlooks the Merrimack River and he lives around the corner from where he played as a small boy. He has forty-five years of background in radio and television. He is the author of “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” [www.OrangeStatePress.com] and he produced the Internet film "Obama: The Hawaii’ Years” [www.BoycottHawaii.com]. Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on New Hampshire, national and international events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience both in the USA and around the world. For more, go to: www.AndyMartin.com



Andy has also been a leading corruption fighter in American politics and courts for over forty-five years and he is executive director of the National Anti-Corruption Policy Institute. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us; www.EnglishforAmerica.org



He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).



UPDATES:



www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSA

www.Facebook.com/AndyMartin



Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com ContrarianCommentary.wordpress.com

ContrarianCommentary.typepad.com



[NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in our stories; find the latest version on our blogs.]

--------------------------

© Copyright by Andy Martin 2013 – All Rights Reserved

--------------------------

Labels: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Wednesday, July 03, 2013

Foreign policy expert Andy Martin says “the Egyptian takeover was prompted by unrest in Turkey”

New Hampshire U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin, possibly the Republican Party’s most knowledgeable Middle East/Egypt foreign policy expert with actual overseas experience, is standing by in New York to analyze the military takeover in Egypt. “World politics changed today,” Andy says. We have now seen the second generation of ‘Internet Revolution.’ The Egyptian military takeover is a direct result of the unrest in Turkey last month. Not only has Islam suffered a stunning defeat but the Egyptian revolution will probably lead to a fall of the Erdogan dictatorship in Turkey. The mullahs in Tehran must be apoplectic. It is not often you can ascribe ‘tectonic’ to a military takeover. But the removal of the Morsi regime is a stunning defeat for political Islam and for the rising tide of Islamic dictatorships. A ‘Second Arab [Egyptian] Spring’ is beginning; this time the ‘spring’ may lead to genuine democracy in Egypt and throughout the Middle East. The brief experience Egyptians had with an Islamist regime was too much for them; Turkey may be the next nation where the people decide to remove Erdogan’s budding Islamist dictatorship. Politics no longer operates in separate, individualized national spheres. Because of the Internet and social media every nation is interconnected with its neighbors. Particularly in the Middle East, where Egypt is the unofficial leader, the second Egyptian revolution unfolding today is a revolution that will change the face of the region and may reflect that Time to celebrate. the high water mark of political Islam has been reached, and passed,” Andy believes.

NEWS FROM:




ContrarianCommentary.com

“The Internet Powerhouse”

Andy Martin, J. D.

adjunct professor of law

executive editor

America’s most respected

independent author/investigator



“Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct”



you can call Andy:

NH (603) 518-7310

NTL (866) 706-2639



you can email Andy:

andynewhampshire@aol.com



you can write Andy by

faxing (866) 214-3210



Blogs/web sites (partial):

ContrarianCommentary.wordpress.com

ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com

www.AndyMartin.com

www.FirstRespondersOnline.us

ContrarianCommentary.typepad.com



To become a regular subscriber to our emails please send an email to andynewhampshire@aol.com and place “SUBSCRIBE” in the subject line.



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:



U. S. Senate candidate and conservative columnist Andy Martin

explains how “Turkey begat Egypt,” and how Egypt may now trigger a removal of the Erdogan dictatorship in Turkey



“The Egyptian generals have come out of the barracks,”

Andy says, “and Islam may be on its way back to the mosque, where it belongs”



“Islam is not the answer,” Andy says



Part II of a continuing series, “Islam is the Enemy”



(New York) (July 3, 2013)



[Andy’s foreign policy background:



Andy has forty-eight years of experience in Asia, Southwest Asia and the Middle East; he is regarded overseas as one of America’s most respected independent foreign policy, military and intelligence analysts. He is known as an “over-the-horizon” expert who synthesizes conditions to prepare predictive opinions.



Andy first landed in Cairo in 1971; he was in Iran and Afghanistan during the hostage crisis in 1979-80, and has regularly returned to Southwest Asia since then. He lived in Iraq in 2003. His analysis of the terrorist threat in Iran during 1979-80, and again in Iraq in 2003, were leading-edge predictions of what Americans faced in the future. Andy has lived in or been in Israel, Jordan, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Viet-Nam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.]



Andy’s views:



My family first went to Egypt around 130 years ago, during the period of the British and French influence. Near as I can determine (nothing is certain) my great-grandmother lived in Alexandria, Egypt. My grandmother told me my grandfather was an archaeologist before World War I; then he fought in the desert with Lawrence against the Ottomans. My dad also served in the British military and fought the Nazis. So you can imagine I heard a lot about Egypt and the Middle East growing up. I landed in Egypt a few months after the death of President Nasser in 1970.



Here is the bottom line: the overthrow of the Morsi government is a major step forward for democracy in the Arab world. Once again the Obama regime in Washington is making a mess of U. S. foreign policy. Although the “Arab Spring” which reached its high point in Egypt had largely petered out by the time Morsi took office, the underlying currents favoring democratic revolution continued to develop. Educated young Egyptians “did not return to their barracks.” Obama, as usual, looked at the Islamist “trees” Morsi was planting and missed the growing secular pressure building within the Egyptian “forest.”



Here are some thoughts:



1. Is it a “coup” when tens of millions of people rebel?



Wednesday night Barack Obama was quick to threaten the new Egyptian government with a suspension of aid. Obama’s threat was and is a hollow one. The “permanent” U.S. Government will not allow Obama to further endanger our national interests. There is legitimate language in federal statutes that says we will not subsidize military juntas. And properly so. But what do you say when ten or twenty million people reject their leaders and demand a change? That is not a coup. What we have seen over the past few days in Egypt is “Internet democracy” in action.



Have you seen the endless celebrations on TV from Cairo? The Egyptian “revolution” has been just as impressive as American celebrations on the 4th of July. There has not been a “coup in Cairo.” There has been a popular uprising that removed a budding Islamic dictatorship-in-the-making. Let’s share the joy with our Egyptian allies, not make sad faces as they fight for their freedom. Americans are not party poopers. We love it when other countries fight for their own freedom and opportunity. How many U.S. troops were involved in “Operation Egyptian Freedom?” 0. Time to celebrate.



There will be difficult days ahead. Revolutions are never easy even when they appear to begin that way. But political Islam has lost a major battle. Suddenly, the future looks brighter for the people of the Middle East.



2. Who are those people?



I was always irritated when I saw Sean Hannity and the Fox News usuals attacking military aid to Egypt. Why? Because the Egyptian military is a copy of the U.S. Military. Two or three generations of U. S. officers have worked with their counterparts in Egypt. The Egyptian military is a professional military and they are representative of the nation. As in any developing nation, the military’s role is not as limited as it is in our own more established democracy.



But military officers who work together for decades develop a shared sense of mission. They may not be celebrating in the White House tonight, but I do not see any long faces in the Pentagon.



Because Barack Obama doesn’t understand the military culture, and knows nothing about the Middle East, he has a total lack of awareness of what is happening. I doubt Obama even trusts or listens to his military advisers when Islamic issues arise. Obama’s “administration” is not an “administration” at all. It is a collection of campaign hacks who have been placed in politically sensitive government jobs but who have no real world experience and no ability to offer the president any meaningful insight and counsel.



That’s why Obama looked pathetic as he went joyriding across Africa with his family while the world was literally shifting under his feet. He had no sense of priorities, or propriety.



What happened is Egypt is genuinely “tectonic.” Americans have no idea how Egyptian culture and Egyptian governance influence the Arab world. The fact that Egyptians started one revolution, and then another, does not go unnoticed. The fact that Barack Obama is seen as being on the losing side, the Islamist side, will also not go unnoticed. Obama was trying to prop up the Islamists; he failed. (See my column tomorrow: “JULY 4TH: Islam is the enemy, Part III;” Obama, the “Islamist in the White House”



The political hacks who work in the Obama White House have no idea what is happening in the real world. That is why they always appear to be acting like scurrying rats, one day canceling a major part of Obamacare, the next day standing by in stunned silence as the Egyptian people speak and throw off the yoke of Islamic dictatorship.



3. So what triggered the military intervention in Egypt?



In a word, Turkey. The Egyptian military saw how the Turkish military has been Islamized and did not want to suffer a similar fate.



The Egyptian military saw what happened when Turks demonstrated peacefully in Istanbul. Recep Erdogan unleashed the Turkish military against his own populace. During the past decade Erdogan has emasculated the Turkish military and Islamicized the officer corps. Egyptian officers saw that if Morsi was allowed to take control of the military and take control of Egypt, they would have to accept Islamic diktats or be discharged.



The demonstrations in Istanbul were a warning to the Egyptian military, and a catalyst to action. It is no accident that within days of the Istanbul demonstrations the Egyptian military took action to remove the Islamic cabal in Cairo.



Al-Jazeera has been attacked by the Egyptian military as a tool of Islamic domination and propaganda. That may be. But Arab media today are much freer and open than they have ever been. Satellite dishes are widespread, even in Iran where they are banned. Whatever “slant” Al-Jazeera’s news may carry, the network’s pictures tell the real story. The emergence of a second Arab Spring, and the second Egyptian revolution, will be carried to every corner of the Islamic Caliphate.



4. Whose side are we on?



Barack Obama, as usual, is confused, contradictory and on the wrong sided of history. Because of the communications revolution, the Internet, social media and ideas that have not even been invented yet, history is not on the side of political Islam. The mullahs have been a disaster in Iran. The Morsi regime fell of its own weight. In Turkey, so-called “modern” Islam is bumping up against the reality that Islamists now want to start controlling and dictating how ordinary citizens live their lives.



While Islamists use the media as well, their messages go against human nature. People want nicer homes, better food, more entertainment, more education and opportunities for their children. They want to make choices and have options. Political Islam offers none of that. Political Islam largely rejects modern amenities and cultural freedoms.



As long as the Turkish dictatorship offered secular progress and opportunity, Turks remained silent; as soon as the Erdogan regime began to impose rigid Islamist rules on ordinary citizens, and particularly middle class and young Turks, they rebelled. The Turkish rebellion is only smoldering. It could ignite at any time. Obama is on the side of the Islamists, not on the side of ordinary citizens of the world who want more freedom and more opportunity for themselves and their families.



Unlike some, I have no personal antipathy towards Islam. I respect the religion as a religion but believe it should be confined to the mosque and not allowed to dominate city hall. I cannot accept Islam as a “way of life,” where women are veiled, enslaved and subordinated to men, as they are in Saudi Arabia. I am not against Islam as a religion; I am opposed to Islam as a political theology to control peoples’ lives.



5. “Islam is not the answer”



It was New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia who famously said “there is no Republican way or Democratic way to clean the streets.” Before the Internet and social media, Islam survived as a “solution” because it had no governing responsibility in the modern world. People were isolated; communications even fifty years ago were nonexistent by today’s starboards. So people could chant “Islam is the answer” without any awareness of what the question was.



When President Morsi took office I knew he would have a rough time even if he “succeeded.” Egyptians are notoriously independent and indifferent to government control. The idea that Egyptians stay awake at night plotting wars against Israel is sheer nonsense. Egyptians stay awake at night partying and enjoying life even given their limited circumstances. Egyptians as a whole are a happy people, not a morose nation. Most Egyptians are Muslims in the same way that most Americans are “Christians.” They follow the religion but it dos not dominate their lives. (There are always exceptions, as the existence of the Muslim Brotherhood and other fundamentalist organizations confirm.)



But before the Internet and social media, Egyptians were cut off from the modern world, and isolated even from themselves. But communications advances have now created the media “revolution,” the “Internet Revolution.” Today’s rebellion in Cairo was the Internet Revolution 2.0.



Dictators can no longer repress their populations in isolation. The populace cannot be kept ignorant. Ordinary Arabs see the “good life” on Al-Jazeera and elsewhere and compare their own poverty and miserable daily conditions. They want better and they want more.



Islamists thought they could create an "Islamic way to clean the streets" and deliver clean water and more jobs. Sadly for President Morsi, Cairo’s streets were not cleaner. Morsi was more interested in imposing his rigid social beliefs than he was in public administration. Morsi was a test case, a failed test case, for Islamic revolution.



Recep Erdogan and Turkey is another test case.



Rather than immediately impose an Islamic dictatorship, Erdogan allowed Turks to have a taste of the good life: increased incomes, improved standards of living. Like the proverbial frog initially being boiled in cold water, Erdogan turned up the Islamic temperature very gradually during the first decade of his rule. Unlike the impatient Mr. Morsi, Erdogan was the epitome of patience.



That is why Erdogan may have succeeded in neutering the Turkish military, for now. But Erdogan’s opposition is building and waiting for its own “Morsi moment”



5. So, what happens with Turkey?



The explosions in Istanbul led to the fall of the government in Cairo. The explosions in Cairo will lead to the fall of the government in Istanbul/Ankara. It is too early to predict whether Erdogan falls by military coup or popular uprising. I suspect his downfall will be a mixture of public demonstrations and a military revolt that begins slowly and catches fire quickly. Ultimately, some part of the army may refuse to shoot Turkish civilians.



What happened in Cairo was unavoidable. What will happen in Istanbul/Ankara is equally unavoidable. Ordinary Muslims do not want to live under an Islamist dictatorship. Muslims may pray, and they may be pious; but they still enjoy privacy and the right to decide for themselves how they live.



Islam is not the answer. Islam is the enemy. Just as generals should be confined to their barracks, Islamists should be confined to their mosques. (The religious right in the Republican Party should also take notice.)



JULY 4TH: “Islam is the enemy, Part III;” Obama, the Islamist in the White House



----------------------



MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639; CELL (917) 664-9329; E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com



----------------------



LINKS TO THIS STORY (cut and paste the entire link below and not just the underlined portion):

Link #1



http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/egypts-morsi-defiant-

under-pressure-as-deadline-looms/2013/07/03/28fda81c-e39d-

11e2-80eb-3145e2994a55_story.html?hpid=z1



http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/world/middleeast/egypt.html?hp



Link #2



http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/

no_democratic_or_republican_way_to_clean_the_streets

--------------------------



WHAT OTHERS SAY:



“Andy Martin is revolutionizing journalism… [Andy] brings to online journalism what Rush Limbaugh [brings] to radio or Michael Moore to film: sleek little stories that fit into larger political narratives…”



“The only American journalists that are “standing UP” [to Obama] are, Andy Martin…”



ABOUT ANDY:



Andy is a legendary New Hampshire, New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, talk television pioneer, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. Andy’s family immigrated to Manchester 100 years ago; today his home overlooks the Merrimack River and he lives around the corner from where he played as a small boy. He has forty-five years of background in radio and television. He is the author of “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” [www.OrangeStatePress.com] and he produced the Internet film "Obama: The Hawaii’ Years” [www.BoycottHawaii.com]. Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on New Hampshire, national and international events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience both in the USA and around the world. For more, go to: www.AndyMartin.com



Andy has also been a leading corruption fighter in American politics and courts for over forty-five years and he is executive director of the National Anti-Corruption Policy Institute. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us; www.EnglishforAmerica.org



He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).



UPDATES:



www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSA

www.Facebook.com/AndyMartin



Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com ContrarianCommentary.wordpress.com

ContrarianCommentary.typepad.com



[NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in our stories; find the latest version on our blogs.]

--------------------------

© Copyright by Andy Martin 2013 – All Rights Reserved

--------------------------

Labels: , , , , , , , , , , ,