Pope to Youth: Do You Selflessly Accept the Challenge of Helping to Destroy Western Civilization?

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The new Pope Video is out.

It's called "Youth"

I'm not sure when it was officially released. The YouTube stamp says April 4th. That would make it three days late. I'm honestly sorry it didn't come out on April Fools Day.

It's the sixteenth such video. Attentive readers of this blog will know that I stopped reviewing them a few videos ago. I was tired of it, to tell you the truth. They have become annoyingly predictable - pseudo-slick productions endorsing the latest secular liberal cause of the day, often in implicit contradiction to Catholic teachings.

Back in January, taking a suggestion from St. Corbinian's Bear, I did an analysis of the video traffic for the videos. It seemed clear that it was rapidly dropping off. At this point, I doubt very many people look at the damn things anymore - whether they're Catholics or non-Catholics, Francis fans or detractors. The current YouTube video has only 2,332 views so far. Admittedly, there are a few other ways to watch it, but still. Given that there are 1.2 billion Catholics and over 7 billion "citizens of the world," many if not most of whom have access to this sort of thing, that's a ridiculously low number.

At this point the videos exist primarily to nurture the Pope's ego and enrich La Machi, the Argentina based production company.

For those readers who don't wish to burn 1:07 of their lives on Francis tripe, here's the text:

I know that you, young people, don’t want to be duped by a false freedom, always at the beck and call of momentary fashions and fads. I know that you aim high. Is that true, or am I wrong?

Don’t leave it to others to be the protagonists of change.

You, young people, are the ones who hold the future! I ask you to be builders of the world, to work for a better world. It is a challenge, yes it is a challenge. Do you accept it?

Pray with me that young people may respond generously to their own vocation and mobilize for the great causes of the world.

So, as expected, there's one "change," two "challenges" and three "worlds."

No "God," "Christ" or "Church."

One "pray."

The central story, not apparent from the words, is that the young female volunteer, fresh from working out in the gym, is helping to unload Muslim "refugees" from a boat onto the (presumably) Italian dock. Interestingly, the video makes no attempt to stock this boat with women, children or families. There are perhaps two women wearing hijabs, although it's hard to tell as they're sort of in the background. The rest of the passengers appear to be mostly young adult males.

Once again, Mahound's Paradise would also like to point out the curious absence of black people, or at least of very black people. These refugees are pretty white, as refugees go. They wouldn't look out of place on, say, the Boca football field in Buenos Aires. Maybe that's where La Machi found them.

The volunteer wears a mask to protect herself from refugee cooties. Or perhaps it's to protect the noble boaters from Italian cooties.

The actual message of this particular video is pretty gross - for Catholics or non-Catholics. Pope Francis believes that the among the highest callings of today's "youth" is to facilitate Muslim mass-migration into Europe, and thus collaborate in the destruction of Christian or post-Christian or whatever-you-want-to-call-it Western civilization.

As well as making life in much of contemporary Western Europe increasingly unpleasant. Of course, it's possible that these particular arrivals won't rape anyone. I would advise the young woman to leave her spandex workout costume in the gym and be careful of those tight jeans (featured earlier in the video). Wearing the helmet - with its red crescent - off of the dock might also help.

But before the boat scene, there's the old man, pointing his finger at us again. Do we accept the challenge?

No, actually.

It's being increasingly reported that Francis has lost the support of most Italians, whether they be Catholic or no, largely because they perceive him as being the chief proponent of an invasion - let's call it by its name - that they naturally oppose.

And more and more Catholics and Christians in Italy, Europe and around the world are certainly praying for something having to do with this Pope.

But it's not exactly the prayer that Francis had in mind.

BREAKING: "Pro-Migrant" Obama Ends US Welcome for Fleeing Cubans

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Too bad you're not Muslim

With only a week to go in his presidency, Obama is about to end the current quasi-welcoming policy for Cuban refugees.

I have no idea if this will or can be easily reversed by the next administration.

The twenty-two-year old policy was not an unconditional welcome. Rather, President Clinton's "wet-foot, dry foot" policy granted residency to escapees from communist Cuba who made it to American soil. If they were instead intercepted on the water, they were subject to deportation.

That policy was morally problematic, obviously. And it led to a few grotesque situations where the Coast Guard tried to literally sink refugee boats with water hoses (picking up the survivors) before they made it to shore. 

But for people fleeing Castro's tyranny (often risking their lives to do it), it was better than nothing.

And the refugees themselves felt strongly enough about the crossing that an estimated 80,000 died attempting it.

But under the change in policy, even the "dry-feet" may now be deported. This apparently comes after "successful" negotiations with Cuban authorities.

This shows one thing (as if we didn't know it already): Obama and his allies on this are not "pro-immigrant" per se. They like "Syrians" because they're Muslim. They like Mexican and other Central American immigrants because they perceive them as being good "people of color" or whatever. They dislike Cuban refugees because they're anti-communist.

Cuban are merely "white Hispanics" after all. Those who choose to leave Cuba are reactionaries who will probably vote Republican. Send them back to the tropical gulag. The worms.

Not all liberals are this hypocritical or dishonest, obviously, but many are.

Immigration is just a political game to them, and immigrants (or now, "migrants") are merely tools to be used to advance a particular ideological agenda.

They don't give one damn about people.

From Jerry Iannelli at the Miami New Times:

Barack Obama Ends "Wet Foot, Dry Foot" Cuban Immigration Policy, AP Reports 

Barack Obama will be the U.S. president for eight more days. But he's decided something that will have lasting ramifications for Miami and South Florida: the end of the long-standing and controversial "wet foot, dry foot" Cuban immigration policy, which granted residency to Cuban immigrants who entered the United States without visas, according to the Associated Press. 

The policy was first implemented in 1995, after then-President Bill Clinton announced the U.S. Coast Guard would deport migrants caught floating in the waters between Cuba and the States but would accept any refugees who made it onto U.S. soil. If a Cuban migrant reached American land, he or she would then be able to apply for an expedited green card. 

The law sparked a significant amount of criticism over the years: When it was enacted, Cuba and the United States had no formal diplomatic relations. But over the years, the Cuban government has relaxed punishments for some crimes, and Cuban "refugees" in South Florida have increasingly traveled back and forth between the two nations without fear of imprisonment or worse. As relations between the two countries have improved, critics of the law have said it no longer makes sense to give Cubans immigrants an advantage over those from other nations. 

As relations have thawed, Cubans have increasingly fled to South Florida and other parts of the United States over concerns that "wet foot, dry foot" would likely come to an end. Over the years, hundreds of Cuban migrants have landed on Florida's beaches, sometimes to the cheers of locals.