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Burn the Koran or the US Constitution.......?
Daniel Greenfield article: Burn the Koran or the Constitution
Burn the Koran or the Constitution
Posted: 11 Sep 2010 08:03 PM PDT
The media's coverage of the 9th anniversary of the Muslim murder of 3,000 people was overshadowed by their panicked coverage of the possibility that Terry Jones, the pastor of a tiny Florida church, might actually burn the Koran. Last week Newsweek ran Fareed Zakaria's piece insisting that Americans overreacted to 9/11. So instead the media showed us where their priorities lie, by shortchanging the dead, ignoring their killers and instead turning the pastor of a small Florida church into a villain for even talking about the possibility of torching a book, whose contents helped inspire 9/11. It's as if on Holocaust Memorial Day, the key topic of discussion was not the murder of 6,000,000 Jews, but a protester who wanted to get his Bic lighter close to Mein Kampf.
In the weeks leading up to the anniversary, the media had been sanctimoniously lecturing Americans that their sensitivities regarding Ground Zero were irrelevant in the face of a Muslim desire to put up a massive and completely unnecessary Islamic complex in the area. Constitutional freedoms, real or imagined, trumped any sensitivities. But when a Gainesville pastor proposed returning a couple of copies of the Koran back to the environment by way of lighter fluid, suddenly freedom of speech and freedom of religion, and all that other stuff created by dead white men before the age of Walter Kronkite and CNN, were irrelevant in face of Muslim sensitivities.
Time Magazine and USA Today both ran polls asking whether burning the Koran should be criminalized as a hate crime. CNN gave a forum to a Dr. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri to argue that burning a Koran would have been worse than 9/11 and warned that such actions "should be stopped by the U.S. government at any cost". Now Dr. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri shows in his article that while he may not know the difference between "principal" and "principle", or "ensure" and "insure", he understands exactly how to push for the imposition of the horrifying barbarity of Islamic Sharia law in America.
In Dr. Qadri's own words: "any act of an individual or group which... hurts the feelings of 1.5 billion Muslim should be stopped at any cost." There are no details of just what "any cost" would imply, but certainly Dr. Qadri argues that Freedom of Speech cannot be used to protect anything that offends Muslims. And since just about everything from eating on Ramadan to liquor in taxi cabs to ice cream cones that look like Allah, that means for September 11 you can kiss freedom goodbye. Or risk offending 1.5 billion Muslims. And we know what happens every time you offend the peaceful worshipers of the Religion of Peace. Riots, murder, terrorism and of course burning the American flag.
The same media which has consistently opposed a Constitutional amendment that bans flag burning (generally because they tend to agree with the flag burners), has now decided that burning the Koran should be a crime. Because burning the flag or killing thousands of Americans is no big deal-- but burning a Koran, someone should make a law about that.
Given a choice between burning the US Constitution or burning the Koran-- the media happily raises a lighter to the First Amendment. To them nothing American is sacred, but everything Islamic is.
Their defense of the Ground Zero Mosque was never about the Constitution. It was about kowtowing to the morally superior victims of American imperialism, starving in Dubai or Islamabad. If it helps them make their case to the people they think of as "The Great Unwashed", still clinging to their guns and religion, they will invoke the Constitution or the Magna Carta or an instruction manual from IKEA. From Obama on down, centuries of ideas about self-government are nothing but toys that they keep in the attic and bring out whenever particularly dull companies comes over. They don't believe in self-government themselves. That is something they have in common with their brethren ruling with an iron fist beneath the sickle and hammer, or the crescent and star. Ideas, not the referendum or a national legacy of rights and responsibilities, are their source of political power. What the people and the law has to say about it, doesn't matter.
And so we come down to the ugly choice. Burning the Koran or burning the Constitution. The left has already made its choice. You can walk down the streets of Europe's greatest cities and see what remains of centuries of national struggle, republican ambitions and millions dying so that their language and their culture might have the shelter of a nation of their own. Now America is being presented with the same option. Touch your head to the floor or risk offending 1.5 billion Muslims. And what is the value of freedom compared to the feelings of a bunch of followers of Mohammed, with a long string of zeroes trailing after them around the globe.
It isn't about whether burning someone else's sacred book is right or wrong. To appease Muslim sensitivities, the US military burned a large number of Christian bibles last year. The same media which is panting breathlessly at the notion that anybody would dare use a holy book for kindling, smiled approvingly then. Because the issue isn't about burning anyone's holy books, but offending Muslims. That is the one law we are left with, after all the others have been tossed into the fire. Thou Shalt Not Enrage the Mohammedan.
What offends Muslims is anyone who disobeys their laws. And if our laws are to always defer to their sensitivities, then that means we have replaced the United States Constitution... with the Koran.
The media has put on a show of being concerned about US troops as outraged murderous members of the Religion of Peace might try to kill US soldiers in the full fury of their peacefulness, but if the media hadn't focused attention on the story, how would all those peaceful bearded types in Pakistan have even known about the Koran burning? In 2005, Newsweek falsely reported that American personnel in Gitmo had flushed a Koran. There was no actual truth to the report, but still 15 people died in the rioting. Yet the smug blond talking head on CNN who berated Terry Jones for "having blood on his hands", did not accuse Newsweek of having blood on their hands, even though they actually did. Just as there are no "blood on their hands" accusations for the media outlets who broadcast the heavily edited Wikileaks tape, or any of the Bin Laden videos, or leaked sensitive information about US military operation.
Dead US soldiers, like the Constitution, are only of interest when they're a handy talking point. If dead US soldiers were of interest to the media or General Petraeus, perhaps there might be some interest in just how many US soldiers have died in Afghanistan because they were denied proper aerial support or the right to fire on their assailants under McChrystal and Petraeus's Rules of Engagement, which put the focus on appeasing Muslims, over the lives of American boys on the front line.
But like the Constitution, the bodies of American soldiers must burn, in the name of Muslim sensitivities.
In 1987, the National Endowment for the Arts partially funded Piss Christ, an image of a crucifix in urine. Two decades later in 2007, a Koran in a Pace University toilet triggered a 10 month investigation (in New York City, few murder cases are investigated half that long) and finally led to the arrest of one Stanislav Shmulevich on Hate Crime charges. Piss Christ, you see is a work of art. But Piss Koran is a hate crime. Similarly burning the Christian Bible soothes Muslim sensitivities. Burning the Koran inflames them. Killing US soldiers makes Muslims feel good. Killing Muslim terrorists inflames their sensitivities.
The Pace University case, in which a Muslim NYPD detective was assigned to pursue a student for a violation of Muslim law, served as a warning that the media chatter at Time, USA Today and CNN about making burning the Koran into a hate crime should not be taken lightly. Under the Constitution, burning the Koran is completely legal. But the Islamists and their Leftist allies have no regard for the Constitution. No more than they do for the lives of US soldiers or the dead at Ground Zero. They prefer Islamic law, with all its concomitant tyranny and brutality, over the freedoms and values of Americans.
Why do the hate the Constitution of ours so much? Because it is premised on legal equality and self-government, two sets of values anathema to the left and Islam. Under Islamic law, Christians, Jews, Hindus and all others are inferior to Muslims. Women are inferior to men. Koranic experts are superior to ordinary Muslims. First wives are superior to second wives. And so on it goes, a pyramid of discrimination and segregation, sanctioned and approved by Allah, Mohammed and Islam.
Under Islamic law, the sensitivities of Muslims trump the rights of non-Muslims. That is why in the Muslim world, no church or synagogue was allowed to be taller than a mosque. The Twin Towers which dared to be one of the world's tallest buildings, had to be knocked down to make way for Muslim skyscrapers in Dubai and Malaysia. Such is the arrogance and brutality of the Islamic worldview. And such are the horrors that it gives birth to.
Today at Ground Zero, a man did burn the Koran. He gave no interviews, only to say; "Americans should never be afraid to give their opinion". Such a view is not favored by Islam and the Liberal media, which is very determined that people should be afraid to give their opinions. And this last week has been a tremendous exercise in just that. In intimidating Americans. In intimidating America itself, with the threat of 1.5 billion Muslim sensitivities inflamed into a killing rage. Yet again.
But these handful of pages from the Koran were not the first thing burned at Ground Zero. Nine years ago, thousands of human beings were burned alive in the name of the Koran at this place. Pages from their books, their Rolodexes, their memos and their family photographs flew burning into the air, taking wing over the city and drifting down to the place where Imam Rauf and his gang of grinning henchmen would like to erect their symbol of contempt for the dead. The Muslim world did not tremble at the sensitivities of 300 million Americans when they burned 3,000 people at this spot. Like Fareed Zakaria, they either did not care, or they grinned in triumph, and danced in the streets.
Now when the moderate Muslims crawl out of their sewers to warn us that burning the Koran will lead to murder-- all they manage to do is show off their sick and hateful values. A value system that places a higher priority on printed pages than on the lives of non-Muslims. Such a value system cannot and must not be allowed to impose its will on the people of a free nation. Not on this sacred day, and not on any day. Ever.
Burn the Koran or the Constitution
Posted: 11 Sep 2010 08:03 PM PDT
The media's coverage of the 9th anniversary of the Muslim murder of 3,000 people was overshadowed by their panicked coverage of the possibility that Terry Jones, the pastor of a tiny Florida church, might actually burn the Koran. Last week Newsweek ran Fareed Zakaria's piece insisting that Americans overreacted to 9/11. So instead the media showed us where their priorities lie, by shortchanging the dead, ignoring their killers and instead turning the pastor of a small Florida church into a villain for even talking about the possibility of torching a book, whose contents helped inspire 9/11. It's as if on Holocaust Memorial Day, the key topic of discussion was not the murder of 6,000,000 Jews, but a protester who wanted to get his Bic lighter close to Mein Kampf.
In the weeks leading up to the anniversary, the media had been sanctimoniously lecturing Americans that their sensitivities regarding Ground Zero were irrelevant in the face of a Muslim desire to put up a massive and completely unnecessary Islamic complex in the area. Constitutional freedoms, real or imagined, trumped any sensitivities. But when a Gainesville pastor proposed returning a couple of copies of the Koran back to the environment by way of lighter fluid, suddenly freedom of speech and freedom of religion, and all that other stuff created by dead white men before the age of Walter Kronkite and CNN, were irrelevant in face of Muslim sensitivities.
Time Magazine and USA Today both ran polls asking whether burning the Koran should be criminalized as a hate crime. CNN gave a forum to a Dr. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri to argue that burning a Koran would have been worse than 9/11 and warned that such actions "should be stopped by the U.S. government at any cost". Now Dr. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri shows in his article that while he may not know the difference between "principal" and "principle", or "ensure" and "insure", he understands exactly how to push for the imposition of the horrifying barbarity of Islamic Sharia law in America.
In Dr. Qadri's own words: "any act of an individual or group which... hurts the feelings of 1.5 billion Muslim should be stopped at any cost." There are no details of just what "any cost" would imply, but certainly Dr. Qadri argues that Freedom of Speech cannot be used to protect anything that offends Muslims. And since just about everything from eating on Ramadan to liquor in taxi cabs to ice cream cones that look like Allah, that means for September 11 you can kiss freedom goodbye. Or risk offending 1.5 billion Muslims. And we know what happens every time you offend the peaceful worshipers of the Religion of Peace. Riots, murder, terrorism and of course burning the American flag.
The same media which has consistently opposed a Constitutional amendment that bans flag burning (generally because they tend to agree with the flag burners), has now decided that burning the Koran should be a crime. Because burning the flag or killing thousands of Americans is no big deal-- but burning a Koran, someone should make a law about that.
Given a choice between burning the US Constitution or burning the Koran-- the media happily raises a lighter to the First Amendment. To them nothing American is sacred, but everything Islamic is.
Their defense of the Ground Zero Mosque was never about the Constitution. It was about kowtowing to the morally superior victims of American imperialism, starving in Dubai or Islamabad. If it helps them make their case to the people they think of as "The Great Unwashed", still clinging to their guns and religion, they will invoke the Constitution or the Magna Carta or an instruction manual from IKEA. From Obama on down, centuries of ideas about self-government are nothing but toys that they keep in the attic and bring out whenever particularly dull companies comes over. They don't believe in self-government themselves. That is something they have in common with their brethren ruling with an iron fist beneath the sickle and hammer, or the crescent and star. Ideas, not the referendum or a national legacy of rights and responsibilities, are their source of political power. What the people and the law has to say about it, doesn't matter.
And so we come down to the ugly choice. Burning the Koran or burning the Constitution. The left has already made its choice. You can walk down the streets of Europe's greatest cities and see what remains of centuries of national struggle, republican ambitions and millions dying so that their language and their culture might have the shelter of a nation of their own. Now America is being presented with the same option. Touch your head to the floor or risk offending 1.5 billion Muslims. And what is the value of freedom compared to the feelings of a bunch of followers of Mohammed, with a long string of zeroes trailing after them around the globe.
It isn't about whether burning someone else's sacred book is right or wrong. To appease Muslim sensitivities, the US military burned a large number of Christian bibles last year. The same media which is panting breathlessly at the notion that anybody would dare use a holy book for kindling, smiled approvingly then. Because the issue isn't about burning anyone's holy books, but offending Muslims. That is the one law we are left with, after all the others have been tossed into the fire. Thou Shalt Not Enrage the Mohammedan.
What offends Muslims is anyone who disobeys their laws. And if our laws are to always defer to their sensitivities, then that means we have replaced the United States Constitution... with the Koran.
The media has put on a show of being concerned about US troops as outraged murderous members of the Religion of Peace might try to kill US soldiers in the full fury of their peacefulness, but if the media hadn't focused attention on the story, how would all those peaceful bearded types in Pakistan have even known about the Koran burning? In 2005, Newsweek falsely reported that American personnel in Gitmo had flushed a Koran. There was no actual truth to the report, but still 15 people died in the rioting. Yet the smug blond talking head on CNN who berated Terry Jones for "having blood on his hands", did not accuse Newsweek of having blood on their hands, even though they actually did. Just as there are no "blood on their hands" accusations for the media outlets who broadcast the heavily edited Wikileaks tape, or any of the Bin Laden videos, or leaked sensitive information about US military operation.
Dead US soldiers, like the Constitution, are only of interest when they're a handy talking point. If dead US soldiers were of interest to the media or General Petraeus, perhaps there might be some interest in just how many US soldiers have died in Afghanistan because they were denied proper aerial support or the right to fire on their assailants under McChrystal and Petraeus's Rules of Engagement, which put the focus on appeasing Muslims, over the lives of American boys on the front line.
But like the Constitution, the bodies of American soldiers must burn, in the name of Muslim sensitivities.
In 1987, the National Endowment for the Arts partially funded Piss Christ, an image of a crucifix in urine. Two decades later in 2007, a Koran in a Pace University toilet triggered a 10 month investigation (in New York City, few murder cases are investigated half that long) and finally led to the arrest of one Stanislav Shmulevich on Hate Crime charges. Piss Christ, you see is a work of art. But Piss Koran is a hate crime. Similarly burning the Christian Bible soothes Muslim sensitivities. Burning the Koran inflames them. Killing US soldiers makes Muslims feel good. Killing Muslim terrorists inflames their sensitivities.
The Pace University case, in which a Muslim NYPD detective was assigned to pursue a student for a violation of Muslim law, served as a warning that the media chatter at Time, USA Today and CNN about making burning the Koran into a hate crime should not be taken lightly. Under the Constitution, burning the Koran is completely legal. But the Islamists and their Leftist allies have no regard for the Constitution. No more than they do for the lives of US soldiers or the dead at Ground Zero. They prefer Islamic law, with all its concomitant tyranny and brutality, over the freedoms and values of Americans.
Why do the hate the Constitution of ours so much? Because it is premised on legal equality and self-government, two sets of values anathema to the left and Islam. Under Islamic law, Christians, Jews, Hindus and all others are inferior to Muslims. Women are inferior to men. Koranic experts are superior to ordinary Muslims. First wives are superior to second wives. And so on it goes, a pyramid of discrimination and segregation, sanctioned and approved by Allah, Mohammed and Islam.
Under Islamic law, the sensitivities of Muslims trump the rights of non-Muslims. That is why in the Muslim world, no church or synagogue was allowed to be taller than a mosque. The Twin Towers which dared to be one of the world's tallest buildings, had to be knocked down to make way for Muslim skyscrapers in Dubai and Malaysia. Such is the arrogance and brutality of the Islamic worldview. And such are the horrors that it gives birth to.
Today at Ground Zero, a man did burn the Koran. He gave no interviews, only to say; "Americans should never be afraid to give their opinion". Such a view is not favored by Islam and the Liberal media, which is very determined that people should be afraid to give their opinions. And this last week has been a tremendous exercise in just that. In intimidating Americans. In intimidating America itself, with the threat of 1.5 billion Muslim sensitivities inflamed into a killing rage. Yet again.
But these handful of pages from the Koran were not the first thing burned at Ground Zero. Nine years ago, thousands of human beings were burned alive in the name of the Koran at this place. Pages from their books, their Rolodexes, their memos and their family photographs flew burning into the air, taking wing over the city and drifting down to the place where Imam Rauf and his gang of grinning henchmen would like to erect their symbol of contempt for the dead. The Muslim world did not tremble at the sensitivities of 300 million Americans when they burned 3,000 people at this spot. Like Fareed Zakaria, they either did not care, or they grinned in triumph, and danced in the streets.
Now when the moderate Muslims crawl out of their sewers to warn us that burning the Koran will lead to murder-- all they manage to do is show off their sick and hateful values. A value system that places a higher priority on printed pages than on the lives of non-Muslims. Such a value system cannot and must not be allowed to impose its will on the people of a free nation. Not on this sacred day, and not on any day. Ever.
Friday, September 10, 2010
A Mosque, A Koran and A Preacher...........................
Point #1 the truth behind what the Ground Zero Mosque Imam is saying. Does anyone actually here his words? He is saying that America’s national security will be in jeopardy if the mosque is moved? So what he is actually saying is that Islam is an extremely radical and violent religion?
Point # 2 is that if a pastor in Gainesville Florida burns a Koran he will be putting our soldiers in harm’s way and jeopardize our national security? What we are actually discovering is how Radical and Violent Islam truly is?
"There are two kinds of pain, the pain of discipline and the pain of regret. You can avoid one but not both"
Point # 2 is that if a pastor in Gainesville Florida burns a Koran he will be putting our soldiers in harm’s way and jeopardize our national security? What we are actually discovering is how Radical and Violent Islam truly is?
"There are two kinds of pain, the pain of discipline and the pain of regret. You can avoid one but not both"
Monday, July 5, 2010
NASA Chief: Next Frontier Better Relations With Muslim World...?
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his "foremost" mission as the head of America's space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world.
Though international diplomacy would seem well outside NASA's orbit, Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera that strengthening those ties was among the top tasks President Obama assigned him. He said better interaction with the Muslim world would ultimately advance space travel.
"When I became the NASA administrator -- or before I became the NASA administrator -- he charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering," Bolden said in the interview.
The NASA administrator was in the Middle East last month marking the one-year anniversary since Obama delivered an address to Muslim nations in Cairo. Bolden spoke in June at the American University in Cairo -- in his interview with Al Jazeera, he described space travel as an international collaboration of which Muslim nations must be a part.
"It is a matter of trying to reach out and get the best of all worlds, if you will, and there is much to be gained by drawing in the contributions that are possible from the Muslim (nations)," he said. He held up the International Space Station as a model, praising the contributions there from the Russians and the Chinese.
However, Bolden denied the suggestion that he was on a diplomatic mission -- in a distinctly non-diplomatic role.
"Not at all. It's not a diplomatic anything," he said.
He said the United States is not going to travel beyond low-Earth orbit on its own and that no country is going to make it to Mars without international help.
Bolden has faced criticism this year for overseeing the cancellation of the agency's Constellation program, which was building new rockets and spaceships capable of returning astronauts to the moon. Stressing the importance of international cooperation in future missions, Bolden told Al Jazeera that the moon, Mars and asteroids are still planned destinations for NASA.
Though international diplomacy would seem well outside NASA's orbit, Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera that strengthening those ties was among the top tasks President Obama assigned him. He said better interaction with the Muslim world would ultimately advance space travel.
"When I became the NASA administrator -- or before I became the NASA administrator -- he charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering," Bolden said in the interview.
The NASA administrator was in the Middle East last month marking the one-year anniversary since Obama delivered an address to Muslim nations in Cairo. Bolden spoke in June at the American University in Cairo -- in his interview with Al Jazeera, he described space travel as an international collaboration of which Muslim nations must be a part.
"It is a matter of trying to reach out and get the best of all worlds, if you will, and there is much to be gained by drawing in the contributions that are possible from the Muslim (nations)," he said. He held up the International Space Station as a model, praising the contributions there from the Russians and the Chinese.
However, Bolden denied the suggestion that he was on a diplomatic mission -- in a distinctly non-diplomatic role.
"Not at all. It's not a diplomatic anything," he said.
He said the United States is not going to travel beyond low-Earth orbit on its own and that no country is going to make it to Mars without international help.
Bolden has faced criticism this year for overseeing the cancellation of the agency's Constellation program, which was building new rockets and spaceships capable of returning astronauts to the moon. Stressing the importance of international cooperation in future missions, Bolden told Al Jazeera that the moon, Mars and asteroids are still planned destinations for NASA.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
ISLAMABAD (AFP) – Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud has vowed to attack major US cities in two purported new videos released months after his reported killing in a US missile strike.
The videos emerged after an attempted car bombing in New York City, for which his faction claimed responsibility in a third video, and provided the most substantial evidence so far that he survived a US attempt on his life.
Mehsud threatened to retaliate against the United States for the killing of Islamist militant leaders, appearing in a nine-minute video allegedly made on April 4, after his supposed death in January.
The videos spotlight the Islamist militant threat in nuclear-armed Pakistan, which the United States has put on the front line of the war on Al-Qaeda and where Pakistani troops have waged multiple offensives against the Taliban.
"The time is very near when our fedayeen will attack the American states in the major cities," said Mehsud, who was seen flanked by two armed and masked men in the video released by the SITE and IntelCenter monitoring groups.
The video is the first showing Mehsud since January and was issued on the heels of a claim by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan that it was behind the attempted bombing in New York's Time Square on Saturday.
US officials believed Mehsud was likely killed in a US drone strike in northwestern Pakistan on January 14, but the Taliban denied his death and Pakistani intelligence officials said last week that he had survived.
The Islamist leader, who took over leadership of the TTP last August, rubbished reports of his death as an "open lie and propaganda".
"Inshaallah (God willing) very soon in some days or a month's time, the Muslim ummah (world) will see the fruits of most successful attacks of our fedayeen in USA," Mehsud said.
He made similar remarks in an audio message in another TTP video that was apparently recorded on April 19 and features Mehsud's face next to a map of the United States showing multiple explosions across the country.
IntelCenter, a US-based group that monitors Islamist websites, said it believed all the TTP videos issued since the New York bomb scare were credible and said there was a "high threat of further attack" in days and weeks ahead.
But the authorities in New York discounted an Al-Qaeda link and police said they were hunting a white man seen near the bomb in Times Square.
The TTP claim of responsibility also met with scepticism in Pakistan, where the military has claimed the faction's capability was dented following an offensive against its South Waziristan nerve centre last year.
If the allegation -- made by the TTP's master trainer of suicide bombers Qari Hussain and broadcast in a video on YouTube -- was authenticated, it would be the first attack by the TTP against a target in the United States.
Mehsud assumed leadership of Pakistan's Taliban, which is blamed for the deaths of thousands of people in attacks at home, after his predecessor Baitullah Mehsud was killed in a US drone strike in August 2009.
The January US missile attack was launched after Mehsud appeared in a video alongside the Jordanian double agent who blew himself up on a US base in eastern Afghanistan in December that killed seven CIA agents.
Islamabad has offered a reward of 50 million rupees (about 590,000 dollars) for information leading to the militant's capture, dead or alive.
Mehsud, believed to be aged about 31, also warned members of NATO and other allies to abandon the United States, telling them: "You will face even worse humiliation, destruction and defeat than America itself."
The videos coincided with a visit to Pakistan by General David Petraeus, the commander of the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, who held talks with Pakistan's army chief of staff General Ashfaq Kayani, officials said.
The Pentagon said last week Mehsud was no longer running the TTP.
Rahimullah Yusufzai, one of Pakistan's most prominent experts on the tribal belt where the Taliban are holed up, said the emergence of Mehsud in the videos was embarrassing for the US and Pakistani security establishments.
"He and the TTP are closely now aligned with Al-Qaeda and they're making efforts for joint attacks, so he should be taken seriously. Although I don't think he alone or TTP has the capacity to launch attacks in the US," he said.
Meanwhile, a US drone strike on Monday killed two militants in a vehicle in Marcikhel, an Al-Qaeda and Taliban stronghold in Pakistan's northwest tribal belt, local security officials said.
The videos emerged after an attempted car bombing in New York City, for which his faction claimed responsibility in a third video, and provided the most substantial evidence so far that he survived a US attempt on his life.
Mehsud threatened to retaliate against the United States for the killing of Islamist militant leaders, appearing in a nine-minute video allegedly made on April 4, after his supposed death in January.
The videos spotlight the Islamist militant threat in nuclear-armed Pakistan, which the United States has put on the front line of the war on Al-Qaeda and where Pakistani troops have waged multiple offensives against the Taliban.
"The time is very near when our fedayeen will attack the American states in the major cities," said Mehsud, who was seen flanked by two armed and masked men in the video released by the SITE and IntelCenter monitoring groups.
The video is the first showing Mehsud since January and was issued on the heels of a claim by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan that it was behind the attempted bombing in New York's Time Square on Saturday.
US officials believed Mehsud was likely killed in a US drone strike in northwestern Pakistan on January 14, but the Taliban denied his death and Pakistani intelligence officials said last week that he had survived.
The Islamist leader, who took over leadership of the TTP last August, rubbished reports of his death as an "open lie and propaganda".
"Inshaallah (God willing) very soon in some days or a month's time, the Muslim ummah (world) will see the fruits of most successful attacks of our fedayeen in USA," Mehsud said.
He made similar remarks in an audio message in another TTP video that was apparently recorded on April 19 and features Mehsud's face next to a map of the United States showing multiple explosions across the country.
IntelCenter, a US-based group that monitors Islamist websites, said it believed all the TTP videos issued since the New York bomb scare were credible and said there was a "high threat of further attack" in days and weeks ahead.
But the authorities in New York discounted an Al-Qaeda link and police said they were hunting a white man seen near the bomb in Times Square.
The TTP claim of responsibility also met with scepticism in Pakistan, where the military has claimed the faction's capability was dented following an offensive against its South Waziristan nerve centre last year.
If the allegation -- made by the TTP's master trainer of suicide bombers Qari Hussain and broadcast in a video on YouTube -- was authenticated, it would be the first attack by the TTP against a target in the United States.
Mehsud assumed leadership of Pakistan's Taliban, which is blamed for the deaths of thousands of people in attacks at home, after his predecessor Baitullah Mehsud was killed in a US drone strike in August 2009.
The January US missile attack was launched after Mehsud appeared in a video alongside the Jordanian double agent who blew himself up on a US base in eastern Afghanistan in December that killed seven CIA agents.
Islamabad has offered a reward of 50 million rupees (about 590,000 dollars) for information leading to the militant's capture, dead or alive.
Mehsud, believed to be aged about 31, also warned members of NATO and other allies to abandon the United States, telling them: "You will face even worse humiliation, destruction and defeat than America itself."
The videos coincided with a visit to Pakistan by General David Petraeus, the commander of the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, who held talks with Pakistan's army chief of staff General Ashfaq Kayani, officials said.
The Pentagon said last week Mehsud was no longer running the TTP.
Rahimullah Yusufzai, one of Pakistan's most prominent experts on the tribal belt where the Taliban are holed up, said the emergence of Mehsud in the videos was embarrassing for the US and Pakistani security establishments.
"He and the TTP are closely now aligned with Al-Qaeda and they're making efforts for joint attacks, so he should be taken seriously. Although I don't think he alone or TTP has the capacity to launch attacks in the US," he said.
Meanwhile, a US drone strike on Monday killed two militants in a vehicle in Marcikhel, an Al-Qaeda and Taliban stronghold in Pakistan's northwest tribal belt, local security officials said.
Friday, May 28, 2010
Tickets................................!
This was written by a Mexican who is now a naturalized US Citizen, and I think it's a great explanation of the illegal immigration issue.
Here is the quote:
"If you had tickets to a sports event, concert, Disneyland, or for an airline flight, and when you got to your assigned seat you found someone else was in that seat, what would you do? You would call for a person in charge of ticket checking and have the person in your seat removed. You would properly be asked to show your ticket, and you would gladly and proudly do so, for you have bought and paid for that seat. The person in your seat would also be asked for a ticket, which they would not be able to produce. They would be called “gate crashers” and they would properly be removed.
Now in this huge stadium called the USA we have had millions of gate crashers. We have been asking security to check for tickets and remove the gate crashers. We have been asking security to have better controls in checking at the door. We have asked security to lock the back doors. Security has failed us. They are still looking the other way. They are afraid to ask to see the tickets. Many people say there is unlimited seating, and whether there is or not, no one should be allowed in for free while the rest of us pay full price!
In “section AZ”, of “Stadium USA”, we have had enough of the failures of Security. We have decided to do our own ticket checking, and properly remove those who do not have tickets. Now it seems very strange to me that so many people in the other 49 “sections”, and even many in our own “section” do not want tickets checked, or even to be asked to show their ticket! Even the head of Security is chastising us, while not doing his own job which he has sworn to do.
My own ticket has been bought and paid for, so I am proudly going to show it when asked to do so. I have a right to my seat, and I want the gate crashers to be asked to show their tickets too. The only reason that I can imagine anyone objecting to being asked for their ticket is that they are in favor of gate crashing, and all of the illegal activities that go with it, such as drug smuggling, gang wars, murder, human smuggling for profit, and many more illegal and inhumane acts that we are trying to prevent with our new legislation. Is that what I am hearing from all of the protestors such as Phoenix Mayor Gordon, US Rep. Grijalva, even President Obama? If you are not in favor of showing tickets, (proof of citizenship, passport, green card, or other legal document) when asked, as I would do proudly, then you must be condoning those illegal activities."
Written by a US Citizen, Globe, Arizona.
Here is the quote:
"If you had tickets to a sports event, concert, Disneyland, or for an airline flight, and when you got to your assigned seat you found someone else was in that seat, what would you do? You would call for a person in charge of ticket checking and have the person in your seat removed. You would properly be asked to show your ticket, and you would gladly and proudly do so, for you have bought and paid for that seat. The person in your seat would also be asked for a ticket, which they would not be able to produce. They would be called “gate crashers” and they would properly be removed.
Now in this huge stadium called the USA we have had millions of gate crashers. We have been asking security to check for tickets and remove the gate crashers. We have been asking security to have better controls in checking at the door. We have asked security to lock the back doors. Security has failed us. They are still looking the other way. They are afraid to ask to see the tickets. Many people say there is unlimited seating, and whether there is or not, no one should be allowed in for free while the rest of us pay full price!
In “section AZ”, of “Stadium USA”, we have had enough of the failures of Security. We have decided to do our own ticket checking, and properly remove those who do not have tickets. Now it seems very strange to me that so many people in the other 49 “sections”, and even many in our own “section” do not want tickets checked, or even to be asked to show their ticket! Even the head of Security is chastising us, while not doing his own job which he has sworn to do.
My own ticket has been bought and paid for, so I am proudly going to show it when asked to do so. I have a right to my seat, and I want the gate crashers to be asked to show their tickets too. The only reason that I can imagine anyone objecting to being asked for their ticket is that they are in favor of gate crashing, and all of the illegal activities that go with it, such as drug smuggling, gang wars, murder, human smuggling for profit, and many more illegal and inhumane acts that we are trying to prevent with our new legislation. Is that what I am hearing from all of the protestors such as Phoenix Mayor Gordon, US Rep. Grijalva, even President Obama? If you are not in favor of showing tickets, (proof of citizenship, passport, green card, or other legal document) when asked, as I would do proudly, then you must be condoning those illegal activities."
Written by a US Citizen, Globe, Arizona.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Mexican President out of line Democrats applaud……..!
Rep. Tom McClintock (a Republican Congressman from CA) gave this speech in response to President Calderon's lecture to Congress, given in the House Chamber in Washington, DC on May 20, 2010.
M. Speaker:
I rise to take strong exception to the speech of the President of Mexico while in this chamber today.
The Mexican government has made it very clear for many years that it holds American sovereignty in contempt and President Calderon's behavior as a guest of the Congress confirms and underscores this attitude. It is highly inappropriate for the President of Mexico to lecture Americans on American immigration policy, just as it would be for Americans to lecture Mexico on its laws.
It is obvious that President Calderon does not understand the nature of America or the purpose of our immigration law.
Unlike Mexico's immigration law -- which is brutally exclusionary – the purpose of America's law is not to keep people out. It is to assure that as people come to the United States, they do so with the intention of becoming Americans and of raising their children as Americans. Unlike Mexico, our nation embraces immigration and what makes that possible is assimilation.
A century ago President Teddy Roosevelt put it this way. He said: "In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language ... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
That is how we have built one great nation from the people of all the nations of the world. The largest group of immigrants now comes from Mexico. A recent RAND study discovered that during most of the 20th Century, while our immigration laws were actually enforced, assimilation worked and made possible the swift attainment of the American dream for millions of immigrants seeking to escape conditions in Mexico.
That is the broader meaning of our nation's motto, "E Pluribus Unum" - from many people, one people, the American people. But there is now an element in our political structure that seeks to undermine that concept of "E Pluribus Unum." It seeks to hyphenate Americans, to develop linguistic divisions, to assign rights and preferences based on race and ethnicity, and to elevate devotion to foreign ideologies and traditions, while at the same time denigrating American culture, American values and American founding principles.
In order to do so, they know that they have to stop the process of assimilation. In order to do that, they must undermine our immigration laws.
It is an outrage that a foreign head of state would appear in this chamber and actively seek to do so. And it is a disgrace that he would be cheered on from the left wing of the White House and by many Democrats in this Congress.
Arizona has not adopted a new immigration law. All it has done is to enforce existing law that President Obama refuses to enforce. It is hardly a radical policy to suggest that if an officer on a routine traffic stop encounters a driver with no driver's license, no passport, and who doesn't speak English, that maybe that individual might be here illegally.
And to those who say we must reform our immigration laws - I reply that we don't need to reform them - we need to enforce them. Just as every other government does. Just as Mexico does!
Above all, this is a debate of, by and for the American people. If President Calderon wishes to participate in that debate, I invite him to obey our immigration laws, apply for citizenship, do what 600,000 LEGAL immigrants to our nation are doing right now, learn our history and our customs, and become an American. And then he will have every right to participate in that debate.
Until then, I would politely invite him to have the courtesy while a guest of this Congress to abide by the fundamental rules of diplomacy between civilized nations not to meddle in each other's domestic debates.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Did you know Ground Zero and downtown Manhattan has a huge Muslim population?
The Ground Zero Mosque - First You Bomb and Then You Occupy
Did you know that downtown Manhattan has a huge Muslim population? That's right, a Muslim population so huge that it can only be serviced by a 100 million dollar mosque to be constructed in a 13 story building.
With that kind of project, you would have to assume that there's a local Muslim community in the tens of thousands that need to be served by a Muslim center. In fact there is no such community. The existing local mosques, including a nondescript metal door stamped Masjid, 5 blocks from Ground Zero, mainly cater to vendors selling burned meat from stores and carts, the "Halal Mafia" who insist on sending waves of foul smelling black smoke everywhere in their vicinity and are known to violently assault other vendors who want to do business in their vicinity.
Then there are the employees of closeout and discount stores selling everything from items bought up from stores that have gone out of business to used clothes and pirated movies in the vicinity of City Hall. These are being gentrified out of business as the neighborhood continues attracting a better class of businesses. Also the majority of those who work there are women. There are a few Muslims working at financial firms on Wall Street, but they are a minority, and they are also not neighborhood residents.
Unlike Park Slope or Boerum Hill or that ugly part of Midwood lined with rundown shops selling phone cards and cheap beads, Lower Manhattan is not home to a large Muslim community. No one seriously claims that it is. Manhattan's storefront mosques are largely used by Pakistani and Afghan Muslims who work nearby but who actually live in Brooklyn, Queens or New Jersey. None of this is seriously in dispute.
Imam Feisal himself admits in an interview that the majority of the worshipers at his mosque in Tribeca are not local members of the community.
The people who come here for jum'a [prayer] come from within the New York tri-state area. Of course, the majority work around here, but a number of them come from Uptown, Brooklyn or New Jersey , specifically to participate in the Friday prayer here and to hear my sermon.
Feisal doesn't even mention any actual Lower Manhattan residents attending his mosque. Only Muslims who work in the area and some who travel just to hear him preach. Which means that contrary to what Feisal told the Community Board, his proposed mosque is not similar to local Jewish and Christian community centers which serve local Jewish and Christian populations. Instead this will be a mosque that may serve something like a 100-200 commuting Muslims at a cost of approximately 1 million dollars per Muslim.
The question then is who is this Ground Zero mosque actually for? If there aren't thousands of Muslim families in need of a 100 million dollar Mosque/Islamic cultural center-- why is it actually being built?
The number of mosques in New York City has increased dramatically in a generation, going from under 10 in 1970 to over a 100 in 2001, including 17 in Manhattan. That number is much higher today and many of the mosques have gone from storefront operations to occupying large buildings and using outreach programs to find converts. Those mosques have also begun to muscle in on local businesses, trying to shut down nearby bars. This establishes the mosque as not just a building where Muslims enter and do what they do, but as a foothold for controlling and remaking entire neighborhoods on a street by street basis.
A number of Manhattan liquor stores have already lost their licenses as the New York Muslim brethren of the Taliban use the municipal bureaucracy to drive them out of business, and if they can't do it legally, then they use threats and intimidation. These are not isolated incidents. Like the Minnesota Muslim cabbies who refused to transport passengers carrying alcohol and instead tried to impose two lines, one for those obedient to Sharia and one for the infidels, or the Target cashiers who refused to scan pork products, this is about imposing Islamic law on Americans.
Turkey's Islamist Prime Minister Erdogan once wrote, "The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers." Erdogan's vision of Islam is the same as that of the Saudis, which awarded him the "King Faisal International Prize for Service to Islam". And it is Saudi money that is behind the Islamist groups in the US such as CAIR which serve as the public face of Muslims in America.
What does building an Islamic "barracks" near Ground Zero really mean? What does taking over a building that was made defunct by the 9/11 attacks, buying up property for a fraction of their real price in a neighborhood whose commercial property values were destroyed by Islamic terrorism... in order to build one of those "barracks" really say? It's the next phase of the invasion. First you bomb and then you occupy.
After Al Queda "cleared the ground" in the attacks of September 11. This not only killed 3,000 people, but it also poisoned large numbers of rescue workers and damaged a number of nearby buildings, such as the Deutsche Bank building and the old Burlington Coat factory building-- which the proposed Mosque is taking over. And thanks to the massacre and devastation staged by their co-religionists, the 18 million dollar building was instead sold to a Muslim company for under 5 million dollars.
Quite a discount, wouldn't you say? Kill 3,000 infidels and you get to buy the building that your co-religionists devalued at less than a third of the price. Now that is what real Sharia economics looks like.
But occupation forces do this all the time. When the US occupied Germany, it used the IG Farben building, formerly the keystone of the Nazi industrial war machine as its military government headquarters. When the US occupied Baghdad, it took over and used Saddam's palaces as ops centers. First you bomb, then you occupy the headquarters of the enemy. The proposed mosque will be built on property that was hit by Muslim terrorism. Now it will serve as the staging ground for the next phase of the invasion.
As I have demonstrated, this proposed mosque is not meant to serve local Muslims. For one thing there are hardly any. For another thing, Imam Feisal has repeatedly emphasized that the mosque will be an educational and cultural center in order to promote Islam. It will have a swimming pool, a restaurant, a theater, a basketball court and all the trappings of Jewish and Christian community centers-- which makes perfect sense since it is really only aimed at Jews and Christians (and any other assorted infidels that may wander in). Its real model however is that of the Scientology centers which seek to lure in people so that they will join up. And this is just the beginning.
“From a programmatic point of view, this has never been done before,” Feisal added. “If we do this right, we want to franchise this concept, and build other Cordoba Houses like this in other American cities, and cities around the globe.”
Like McDonalds, except for Islam. One billion served. Or is that really one billion serving.
Remember those mosque barracks again? The barracks train the faithful in the way of Islam. And since the days of Mohammed, the way of Islam has been Jihad. And converts to Islam have proven to be extremely reliable terrorists.
The name Cordoba House is a popular one among Muslims operating in the West, because gullible Westerners can be convinced that it's about looking back to a golden age of tolerance between Muslims, Christians and Jews in Spain. In reality however, the use of Cordoba references the Muslim domination of Christians and Jews under the Caliphate of Cordoba which invaded and occupied Spain and parts of France.
The mission of Feisal's Cordoba Initiative; "to achieve a tipping point in Muslim-West relations within the next decade, bringing back the atmosphere of interfaith tolerance and respect that we have longed for since Muslims, Christians and Jews lived together in harmony and prosperity eight hundred years ago"... can be read in one of two ways.
There is the gullible Westerner reading, which is thrilled by the idea of everyone living in peace. And then there is the informed reading which understands that in the Muslim cultural worldview, co-existence and harmony is the product of living under Islamic law. In the Muslim reading of history, there was general tolerance and prosperity under Islam, which can only be restored when the "tipping point" of a global Caliphate is reached and everyone once again is living happily under Islam. Just like in the good old days of Al Andalus and the Cordoba Caliphate.
Is this what Imam Feisal means? Let's consider his explanation of what the Cordoba Initiative is named for.
During its peak in the tenth and eleventh centuries, Cordoba was the most enlightened, pluralistic and tolerant society on earth, one where Muslims and Jews enjoyed a special relationship. My own organisation, the Cordoba Initiative, draws upon this legacy to once again shift Jewish-Muslim relations towards collaboration around our common values and interests
This of course sounds perfectly innocuous to Western ears. Except that one minor detail has been left out. The 10th and 11th centuries were the period of the Cordoba Caliphate. This "special relationship" that Imam Feisal is speaking about consisted of Jews living under Muslim rule and being tolerated by Muslim rulers.
What did this wonderful "special relationship" in Cordoba really look like?
In 1011 in Cordoba, Spain, under Muslim rule, there were pogroms in which, according to various estimates, from hundreds to thousands were murdered.
Meanwhile last month, before wowing gullible Community Board members, Imam Feisal was busy whitewashing Sudan's election where Sudan's El Bashir, who had presided over the genocide of Animists and Christians, was reelected by a sizable majority. The actual election was hopelessly corrupt. How bad was it really? So bad that even the Carter Center panned it. And the Carter Center had previously endorsed Chavez's and Hamas' elections. But that didn't stop Imam Feisal from giving it the green light in numerous articles posted on his Cordoba Initiative site and on Al Jazeera, urging "constructive engagement" with the genocidal Sudanese regime.
Because Cordoba can be anywhere. Anywhere at all that Muslims rule over non-Muslims. So long as Islamic law rules. And what's a little genocide between "believers"? And speaking of Islamic law, another project of the Cordoba Initiative, is the Shariah Index which measures the "Islamicity" of a state that determines how well the country complies with Islamic law. And that is where we are now. The next phase of the invasion. Occupation.
Imam Feisal has already said that terrorism won't end until the West acknowledges the harm it's done to Muslims. This of course is always the starting point at which the cycle of appeasement begins with terrorists. Acknowledge the harm you've done to us. Stop drawing cartoons of Mohammed. Give over some of your civil rights, your women's rights and your rights period. Accept the Medina Charter under which all conflicts are to be resolved by Islamic law. Submit.
The Ground Zero mosque is an obscenity and an abomination. It is no better than raising the Swastika over Auschwitz. Like the Crescent of Embrace, it symbolizes the Islamic dominance even over the graves of its victims. It is a despicable crime against the living and the dead, against the memory of an atrocity, by those who have profited from it.
The Prophet Elijah's rebuke to Ahab, "Have you murdered and also inherited?" would ring in the ears of any civilized person who sees such a terrible thing done. Who watches as the religion of the murderers seeks to erect a monument to its own self-glorification over the incinerated bodies of its victims. Not victims who happened to be killed by people who just happened to be Muslims. But who were murdered in the name of Islam. So that, in the words of the Koran, Islam may be, "victorious over all religions even though the infidels may resist". (Koran 61:9)
So where will the next Times Square bomber come from? Perhaps he will be an ordinary American college student who stops by to look over Ground Zero and is puzzled over the beliefs of those who did this. And so he takes a free tour at the nearby Cordoba House. He is given the heavily whitewashed version of Islam, and he accepts it. He stops by whenever he's in the area and eventually he converts to Islam. As he goes through the stages, he's given more and more of the real beliefs of Islam. And by now he accepts those too. Soon he has no more use for the watered down preaching of Imam Feisal, who has served his purpose by bringing him and so many others through the door. Instead he grows a beard and begins attending a real mosque. Where they talk about the resistance in Palestine and Chechnya and Iraq. Where the Believers are really doing their part to make the world a better place by forcing everyone to live under Islamic law.
Three years later he is standing in front of a Manhattan bar wearing a heavy vest. Underneath it is a bomb. He enters the bar, and cries out, "Allah Akbar." Two years later, the burned remains of the bar finally find a buyer at a fraction of its original price. There is an Imam who wants to open a mosque there.
Did you know that downtown Manhattan has a huge Muslim population? That's right, a Muslim population so huge that it can only be serviced by a 100 million dollar mosque to be constructed in a 13 story building.
With that kind of project, you would have to assume that there's a local Muslim community in the tens of thousands that need to be served by a Muslim center. In fact there is no such community. The existing local mosques, including a nondescript metal door stamped Masjid, 5 blocks from Ground Zero, mainly cater to vendors selling burned meat from stores and carts, the "Halal Mafia" who insist on sending waves of foul smelling black smoke everywhere in their vicinity and are known to violently assault other vendors who want to do business in their vicinity.
Then there are the employees of closeout and discount stores selling everything from items bought up from stores that have gone out of business to used clothes and pirated movies in the vicinity of City Hall. These are being gentrified out of business as the neighborhood continues attracting a better class of businesses. Also the majority of those who work there are women. There are a few Muslims working at financial firms on Wall Street, but they are a minority, and they are also not neighborhood residents.
Unlike Park Slope or Boerum Hill or that ugly part of Midwood lined with rundown shops selling phone cards and cheap beads, Lower Manhattan is not home to a large Muslim community. No one seriously claims that it is. Manhattan's storefront mosques are largely used by Pakistani and Afghan Muslims who work nearby but who actually live in Brooklyn, Queens or New Jersey. None of this is seriously in dispute.
Imam Feisal himself admits in an interview that the majority of the worshipers at his mosque in Tribeca are not local members of the community.
The people who come here for jum'a [prayer] come from within the New York tri-state area. Of course, the majority work around here, but a number of them come from Uptown, Brooklyn or New Jersey , specifically to participate in the Friday prayer here and to hear my sermon.
Feisal doesn't even mention any actual Lower Manhattan residents attending his mosque. Only Muslims who work in the area and some who travel just to hear him preach. Which means that contrary to what Feisal told the Community Board, his proposed mosque is not similar to local Jewish and Christian community centers which serve local Jewish and Christian populations. Instead this will be a mosque that may serve something like a 100-200 commuting Muslims at a cost of approximately 1 million dollars per Muslim.
The question then is who is this Ground Zero mosque actually for? If there aren't thousands of Muslim families in need of a 100 million dollar Mosque/Islamic cultural center-- why is it actually being built?
The number of mosques in New York City has increased dramatically in a generation, going from under 10 in 1970 to over a 100 in 2001, including 17 in Manhattan. That number is much higher today and many of the mosques have gone from storefront operations to occupying large buildings and using outreach programs to find converts. Those mosques have also begun to muscle in on local businesses, trying to shut down nearby bars. This establishes the mosque as not just a building where Muslims enter and do what they do, but as a foothold for controlling and remaking entire neighborhoods on a street by street basis.
A number of Manhattan liquor stores have already lost their licenses as the New York Muslim brethren of the Taliban use the municipal bureaucracy to drive them out of business, and if they can't do it legally, then they use threats and intimidation. These are not isolated incidents. Like the Minnesota Muslim cabbies who refused to transport passengers carrying alcohol and instead tried to impose two lines, one for those obedient to Sharia and one for the infidels, or the Target cashiers who refused to scan pork products, this is about imposing Islamic law on Americans.
Turkey's Islamist Prime Minister Erdogan once wrote, "The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers." Erdogan's vision of Islam is the same as that of the Saudis, which awarded him the "King Faisal International Prize for Service to Islam". And it is Saudi money that is behind the Islamist groups in the US such as CAIR which serve as the public face of Muslims in America.
What does building an Islamic "barracks" near Ground Zero really mean? What does taking over a building that was made defunct by the 9/11 attacks, buying up property for a fraction of their real price in a neighborhood whose commercial property values were destroyed by Islamic terrorism... in order to build one of those "barracks" really say? It's the next phase of the invasion. First you bomb and then you occupy.
After Al Queda "cleared the ground" in the attacks of September 11. This not only killed 3,000 people, but it also poisoned large numbers of rescue workers and damaged a number of nearby buildings, such as the Deutsche Bank building and the old Burlington Coat factory building-- which the proposed Mosque is taking over. And thanks to the massacre and devastation staged by their co-religionists, the 18 million dollar building was instead sold to a Muslim company for under 5 million dollars.
Quite a discount, wouldn't you say? Kill 3,000 infidels and you get to buy the building that your co-religionists devalued at less than a third of the price. Now that is what real Sharia economics looks like.
But occupation forces do this all the time. When the US occupied Germany, it used the IG Farben building, formerly the keystone of the Nazi industrial war machine as its military government headquarters. When the US occupied Baghdad, it took over and used Saddam's palaces as ops centers. First you bomb, then you occupy the headquarters of the enemy. The proposed mosque will be built on property that was hit by Muslim terrorism. Now it will serve as the staging ground for the next phase of the invasion.
As I have demonstrated, this proposed mosque is not meant to serve local Muslims. For one thing there are hardly any. For another thing, Imam Feisal has repeatedly emphasized that the mosque will be an educational and cultural center in order to promote Islam. It will have a swimming pool, a restaurant, a theater, a basketball court and all the trappings of Jewish and Christian community centers-- which makes perfect sense since it is really only aimed at Jews and Christians (and any other assorted infidels that may wander in). Its real model however is that of the Scientology centers which seek to lure in people so that they will join up. And this is just the beginning.
“From a programmatic point of view, this has never been done before,” Feisal added. “If we do this right, we want to franchise this concept, and build other Cordoba Houses like this in other American cities, and cities around the globe.”
Like McDonalds, except for Islam. One billion served. Or is that really one billion serving.
Remember those mosque barracks again? The barracks train the faithful in the way of Islam. And since the days of Mohammed, the way of Islam has been Jihad. And converts to Islam have proven to be extremely reliable terrorists.
The name Cordoba House is a popular one among Muslims operating in the West, because gullible Westerners can be convinced that it's about looking back to a golden age of tolerance between Muslims, Christians and Jews in Spain. In reality however, the use of Cordoba references the Muslim domination of Christians and Jews under the Caliphate of Cordoba which invaded and occupied Spain and parts of France.
The mission of Feisal's Cordoba Initiative; "to achieve a tipping point in Muslim-West relations within the next decade, bringing back the atmosphere of interfaith tolerance and respect that we have longed for since Muslims, Christians and Jews lived together in harmony and prosperity eight hundred years ago"... can be read in one of two ways.
There is the gullible Westerner reading, which is thrilled by the idea of everyone living in peace. And then there is the informed reading which understands that in the Muslim cultural worldview, co-existence and harmony is the product of living under Islamic law. In the Muslim reading of history, there was general tolerance and prosperity under Islam, which can only be restored when the "tipping point" of a global Caliphate is reached and everyone once again is living happily under Islam. Just like in the good old days of Al Andalus and the Cordoba Caliphate.
Is this what Imam Feisal means? Let's consider his explanation of what the Cordoba Initiative is named for.
During its peak in the tenth and eleventh centuries, Cordoba was the most enlightened, pluralistic and tolerant society on earth, one where Muslims and Jews enjoyed a special relationship. My own organisation, the Cordoba Initiative, draws upon this legacy to once again shift Jewish-Muslim relations towards collaboration around our common values and interests
This of course sounds perfectly innocuous to Western ears. Except that one minor detail has been left out. The 10th and 11th centuries were the period of the Cordoba Caliphate. This "special relationship" that Imam Feisal is speaking about consisted of Jews living under Muslim rule and being tolerated by Muslim rulers.
What did this wonderful "special relationship" in Cordoba really look like?
In 1011 in Cordoba, Spain, under Muslim rule, there were pogroms in which, according to various estimates, from hundreds to thousands were murdered.
Meanwhile last month, before wowing gullible Community Board members, Imam Feisal was busy whitewashing Sudan's election where Sudan's El Bashir, who had presided over the genocide of Animists and Christians, was reelected by a sizable majority. The actual election was hopelessly corrupt. How bad was it really? So bad that even the Carter Center panned it. And the Carter Center had previously endorsed Chavez's and Hamas' elections. But that didn't stop Imam Feisal from giving it the green light in numerous articles posted on his Cordoba Initiative site and on Al Jazeera, urging "constructive engagement" with the genocidal Sudanese regime.
Because Cordoba can be anywhere. Anywhere at all that Muslims rule over non-Muslims. So long as Islamic law rules. And what's a little genocide between "believers"? And speaking of Islamic law, another project of the Cordoba Initiative, is the Shariah Index which measures the "Islamicity" of a state that determines how well the country complies with Islamic law. And that is where we are now. The next phase of the invasion. Occupation.
Imam Feisal has already said that terrorism won't end until the West acknowledges the harm it's done to Muslims. This of course is always the starting point at which the cycle of appeasement begins with terrorists. Acknowledge the harm you've done to us. Stop drawing cartoons of Mohammed. Give over some of your civil rights, your women's rights and your rights period. Accept the Medina Charter under which all conflicts are to be resolved by Islamic law. Submit.
The Ground Zero mosque is an obscenity and an abomination. It is no better than raising the Swastika over Auschwitz. Like the Crescent of Embrace, it symbolizes the Islamic dominance even over the graves of its victims. It is a despicable crime against the living and the dead, against the memory of an atrocity, by those who have profited from it.
The Prophet Elijah's rebuke to Ahab, "Have you murdered and also inherited?" would ring in the ears of any civilized person who sees such a terrible thing done. Who watches as the religion of the murderers seeks to erect a monument to its own self-glorification over the incinerated bodies of its victims. Not victims who happened to be killed by people who just happened to be Muslims. But who were murdered in the name of Islam. So that, in the words of the Koran, Islam may be, "victorious over all religions even though the infidels may resist". (Koran 61:9)
So where will the next Times Square bomber come from? Perhaps he will be an ordinary American college student who stops by to look over Ground Zero and is puzzled over the beliefs of those who did this. And so he takes a free tour at the nearby Cordoba House. He is given the heavily whitewashed version of Islam, and he accepts it. He stops by whenever he's in the area and eventually he converts to Islam. As he goes through the stages, he's given more and more of the real beliefs of Islam. And by now he accepts those too. Soon he has no more use for the watered down preaching of Imam Feisal, who has served his purpose by bringing him and so many others through the door. Instead he grows a beard and begins attending a real mosque. Where they talk about the resistance in Palestine and Chechnya and Iraq. Where the Believers are really doing their part to make the world a better place by forcing everyone to live under Islamic law.
Three years later he is standing in front of a Manhattan bar wearing a heavy vest. Underneath it is a bomb. He enters the bar, and cries out, "Allah Akbar." Two years later, the burned remains of the bar finally find a buyer at a fraction of its original price. There is an Imam who wants to open a mosque there.
Monday, May 10, 2010
They Walk Among Us....................in the USA!
They walk among us!
Working in the same TSquare neighborhood where Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistan-born U.S. citizen lit his crude VBIED, I can tell you this "Hostile Surveillance" is a daily occurence. So much so that the same vendors who reported this crude attempt or (probe?) are also the ones conducting the surveillance. Security at critical infrastructure, national landmarks and our largest real estate (buildings) has been infiltrated and we have been comprimised!
Complacency and political correctness will kill many.
Luck is not an ally!
We may be headed down a path where history will repeat itself?
Remember Dhirein Barot! The father of Hostile Surveillance in NYC!
If we do not learn from history we are destined to repeat it!
Why?
Stay safe,
Andrew
Working in the same TSquare neighborhood where Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistan-born U.S. citizen lit his crude VBIED, I can tell you this "Hostile Surveillance" is a daily occurence. So much so that the same vendors who reported this crude attempt or (probe?) are also the ones conducting the surveillance. Security at critical infrastructure, national landmarks and our largest real estate (buildings) has been infiltrated and we have been comprimised!
Complacency and political correctness will kill many.
Luck is not an ally!
We may be headed down a path where history will repeat itself?
Remember Dhirein Barot! The father of Hostile Surveillance in NYC!
If we do not learn from history we are destined to repeat it!
Why?
Stay safe,
Andrew
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Our Legislators and Leadership Needs to Wake UP
Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistan-born U.S. citizen has been arrested for parking the bomb-laden SUV in Times Square, which could have killed hundreds if not thousands of people. Kudos to the members of the NYPD and Joint Terrorist Task Force.
Luckily for us, his concoction of explosives failed to detonate and a local street vendor notified a mounted police officer that initiated what appears to be by all accounts a textbook response.
Today, there are more than 100 definitions of terrorism, and they differ even within the United States government. However, at a bare minimum and according to the FBI, terrorism is the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a Government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.
From the outset of this event, there were still members of our government at various levels debating or showing reluctance to classify this as a terrorist act, and based on the contents of the vehicle, where it was placed and the damage that could have been done, I find that hard to believe.
After the arrest of Najibullah Zazi last year, the man who planned the attack of the New York City subway system, I wrote a column outlining just some of the loopholes in our immigration laws that could allow our enemies to infiltrate our borders legally. http://thepillarofstrength.com/?p=236. Given that Shahzad was naturalized just last year, and that his wife is living in Pakistan, it is evidently clear that the system is flawed and needs repaired.
Vigilance and intelligence is a must if we are going to be victorious over this enemy, but we need to address the immigration loopholes that presently exist.
The investigative abilities of the United States government at the local, state and federal levels are the best in the world, and our response protocols are getting better everyday as well. It is the leadership and our legislators that must catch up.
We still have leaders that are in denial or attempting to be politically correct when responding to events like this, and there are very few legislators, that truly understand the threats we face and are full steam ahead in creating new laws or amending old ones to keep us safe.
The frequency of the attacks against us are increasing and it is only a matter of time before a good Samaritan, like the Manhattan vendor is no where to be found.
We really really need to wake up.
Posted by Bernard B. Kerik at 10:05 AM
Labels: Faisal Shahzad, Kerik, Najibullah Zazi, NYPD
Our Legislators and Leadership Needs to Wake UP
Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistan-born U.S. citizen has been arrested for parking the bomb-laden SUV in Times Square, which could have killed hundreds if not thousands of people. Kudos to the members of the NYPD and Joint Terrorist Task Force.
Luckily for us, his concoction of explosives failed to detonate and a local street vendor notified a mounted police officer that initiated what appears to be by all accounts a textbook response.
Today, there are more than 100 definitions of terrorism, and they differ even within the United States government. However, at a bare minimum and according to the FBI, terrorism is the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a Government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.
From the outset of this event, there were still members of our government at various levels debating or showing reluctance to classify this as a terrorist act, and based on the contents of the vehicle, where it was placed and the damage that could have been done, I find that hard to believe.
After the arrest of Najibullah Zazi last year, the man who planned the attack of the New York City subway system, I wrote a column outlining just some of the loopholes in our immigration laws that could allow our enemies to infiltrate our borders legally. http://thepillarofstrength.com/?p=236. Given that Shahzad was naturalized just last year, and that his wife is living in Pakistan, it is evidently clear that the system is flawed and needs repaired.
Vigilance and intelligence is a must if we are going to be victorious over this enemy, but we need to address the immigration loopholes that presently exist.
The investigative abilities of the United States government at the local, state and federal levels are the best in the world, and our response protocols are getting better everyday as well. It is the leadership and our legislators that must catch up.
We still have leaders that are in denial or attempting to be politically correct when responding to events like this, and there are very few legislators, that truly understand the threats we face and are full steam ahead in creating new laws or amending old ones to keep us safe.
The frequency of the attacks against us are increasing and it is only a matter of time before a good Samaritan, like the Manhattan vendor is no where to be found.
We really really need to wake up.
Posted by Bernard B. Kerik at 10:05 AM
Labels: Faisal Shahzad, Kerik, Najibullah Zazi, NYPD
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Daniel Greenfield article: The Constitution and the Times Square Car Bomber
The Constitution and the Times Square Car Bomber
Posted: 04 May 2010 07:58 PM PDT
Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square Car Bombing suspect, has been caught and will predictably enough be routed through all the formal legalities reserved for Islamic terrorists trying to kill Americans. He will get a criminal trial, a lawyer and a jail sentence after which he, like so many of his compatriots will be released to try and kill again. And quite possibly sooner than anyone might think.
Meanwhile on FOX, Glenn Beck protested the idea of denying a Miranda Warning to Shahzad because he is a US citizen and "you don't shred the constitution." Obviously Beck isn't very familiar with the Constitution, because at no point in time does it mandate a Miranda warning, or compel civil trials for armed insurgents. Instead Beck has confused the Miranda Warning, one of the Warren court's judicial innovations with the Constitution. This is a mistake commonly made by liberals and those who have not educated themselves regarding what the Constitution actually says.
The Warren court pursued its radical agenda of judicial activism by creating an entire spectrum of "rights" based on spurious readings of the Constitution. Warren's technique was simple enough. He would take the actual Constitution and reinterpret the text to suit his political agenda. The actual ruling was not anything that the Framers had ever intended, and had nothing to do with the actual purpose the text was meant to serve. It was just a convenient hook to hang his ruling on.
Take Cruel and Unusual Punishment, which had been meant to ban all sorts of hideous executions and tortures that had been practiced in Europe. The Warren court used it to ban the denaturalization of a army deserter and to rule that imprisoning heroin addicts is illegal, because their addiction is a sickness, not a crime. This had nothing to do with the Eight Amendment of the United States Constitution which was meant to ban certain painful physical punishments, not to control whether junkies could be taken off the street or defectors could be deprived of citizenship. Instead it was used by the court to ban the death penalty for rape, to ban the death penalty for 17 year old murderers, and temporarily the idea of the death penalty itself.
The Miranda Warning that Beck insists is in the Constitution is based on a similarly spurious reading which made the leap to arguing that questioning a suspect without informing him of his rights, such as the aforementioned Ernesto Arturo Miranda, a serial rapist, was the equivalent of denying him those rights. The court's argument in Miranda was that being taken into custody is so intimidating that it is essentially a form of compulsory self-incrimination.
For Beck to argue that a failure to Mirandize "shreds the Constitution" would mean that he seriously believes that the Constitution had been shredded all along until 1966 when Earl Warren fixed it by adding the requirement of a Miranda Warning. This is a belief widely held on the liberal side of the aisle, but I don't think Beck believes that. He is simply following the widely held liberal indoctrination which treats the rulings made through Judicial Activism as equivalent to the actual text of the Constitution.
In his dissent Justice Harlan warned quite accurately that; "I believe the decision of the Court represents poor constitutional law and entails harmful consequences for the country at large. How serious these consequences may prove to be, only time can tell" and pointed out that this was not a ruling meant to prevent abuse, but to protect abusers; "The new rules are not designed to guard against police brutality or other unmistakably banned forms of coercion... Rather, the thrust of the new rules is to negate all pressures, to reinforce the nervous or ignorant suspect, and ultimately to discourage any confession at all."
And Harlan pointed out the risks of treating such a criminal rights agenda as Constitutional. "To incorporate this notion into the Constitution requires a strained reading of history and precedent and a disregard of the very pragmatic concerns that alone may on occasion justify such strains."
All this applies rather glaringly to terrorists, where the question goes well beyond mere criminal conviction. The bottom line is that we are at war. Not with a single serial rapist, but with a fanatical Islamic ideology that like Communism before it, demands world conquest.
Faisal Shahzad was naturalized barely a year ago. Does anyone seriously believe that before this time he did not hold whatever views impelled him to try and set off a car bomb in Times Square? Does being an enemy combatant who took US citizenship under false pretenses entitle him to full immunity?
The Bill of Rights was intended to preserve the rights of Americans, not of enemy combatants masquerading as something they are not. An Islamic terrorist has by definition taken a false oath, as he certainly does not bear "true faith and allegiance" to the United States. He had no intention of defending it against its enemies. He is one of its enemies.
During WW2, Nazi Germany sent a number of saboteurs into the United States, one of whom was a US Citizen. They were not given Miranda Warnings, obviously. They were not treated with kid gloves. They were tried by a military tribunal and executed less than two months after they arrived in the United States. Read that again. Less than 2 months. If you want to understand why we won WW2 and are losing the war now, consider the implications of what you just read.
The old United States could take an enemy combatant, arrest him, try him, run the decision through the Supreme Court, and still execute him in under two months. We're lucky if we can bring a captured terrorist to trial after 7 years. At which point we release him on time served and send him back to fight us again. If we had Osama bin Laden sitting in the dock right now, if he confessed to every crime and begged for the death penalty, it would probably still take us at least a decade to execute him, assuming we could even find a jury that would vote for the death penalty for him.
And Miranda is one of the reasons why. Not so much Miranda itself, as the agenda behind it. The agenda that gives the murderer every form of defense and discretion, and provides none to his victims. The agenda that rewards evil, but punishes good.
The fact of the matter is that it was common practice to treat spies, saboteurs and pirates as unlawful combatants who were tried by military tribunals and executed at will, regardless of whether their disguise included US citizenship or not.
In the case of the WW2 saboteurs, Ex parte Quirin, the court stated that;
...entry upon our territory [317 U.S. 1, 37] in time of war by enemy belligerents, including those acting under the direction of the armed forces of the enemy, for the purpose of destroying property used or useful in prosecuting the war, is a hostile and war-like act. It subjects those who participate in it without uniform to the punishment prescribed by the law of war for unlawful belligerents. It is without significance that petitioners were not alleged to have borne conventional weapons or that their proposed hostile acts did not necessarily contemplate collision with the Armed Forces of the United States.
Paragraphs 351 and 352 of the Rules of Land Warfare, already referred to, plainly contemplate that the hostile acts and purposes for which unlawful belligerents may be punished are not limited to assaults on the Armed Forces of the United States. Modern warfare is directed at the destruction of enemy war supplies and the implements of their production and transportation quite as much as at the armed forces. Every consideration which makes the unlawful belligerent punishable is equally applicable whether his objective is the one or the other. The law of war cannot rightly treat those agents of enemy armies who enter our territory, armed with explosives intended for the destruction of war industries and supplies, as any the less belligerent enemies than are agent similarly entering for the purpose of destroying fortified places or our Armed Forces. By passing our boundaries for such purposes without uniform or other emblem signifying their belligerent status, or by discarding that means of identification after entry, such enemies become unlawful belligerents subject to trial and punishment.
Citizenship in the United States of an enemy belligerent does not relieve him from the consequences of a belligerency which is unlawful because in violation of the law of war.
The only remaining objection to treating Faisal Shahzad as an enemy combatant is that there is no "declared war" and thus there can be no enemy combatants. This is a basic fallacy that relies on the fact that we are not fighting individual nations, but rather an ideology. We have come as close as possible to declaring war, within that limitation. Islam is not an enemy state, just as Communism is not an enemy state. It is a war waged by followers of a global ideology who number in the hundreds of millions. The language of conventional wars fought by one nation against another cannot encompass this.
But those who would condemn the War on Terror as illegitimate because it is not against a named state, had better be prepared to argue that the Tripolitan War fought against Muslim pirates without a formal Declaration of War under Thomas Jefferson, their destruction supported by George Washington, was equally "Unconstitutional".
Jefferson's push for an international alliance and his eventual determination to go it alone, arguably made him the first Neoconservative. The likes of Ron Paul might castigate the Founders as "Unconstitutional" because they fought the Tripolitan War without a declaration of war, assaulted the sovereignty of the Pasha of Tripoli, and didn't read anyone their Miranda Rights, but I don't think anyone else in their right mind would. And the War on Terror has been more formally declared than the Tripolitan War.
Indeed what warmonger neoconservative was it that said; "Would to Heaven we had a navy able to reform those enemies to mankind or crush them into non-existence". Was it Dick Cheney? No, I'm afraid it was George Washington, who would no doubt be pilloried today for his genocidal rhetoric in the editorial pages of the modern New York Times and the op eds of Pat Buchanan on AntiWar.com. But Washington was a man of peace as well as a man of war, and he understood that there are times when "war is not of our choice." This is one of those times.
There's something fundamentally wrong when people who should be conservatives instead start talking like ACLU lawyers. Start believing that Miranda is a Constitutional right, rather than a bit of judicial activism legerdemain. Start thinking that we should be fighting the War on Terror by following the model of the American Bar Association, rather than that of Washington, Jefferson, FDR and every wartime President between them.
The Constitution was never intended to serve as a suicide pact. It was never intended to protect enemies of the United States under the colors of the flag. Its Bill of Rights protected the rights of Americans, not the rights of its enemies. Our laws exist in order to safeguard the rights of Americans. When they are exploited to aid those who deprive Americans of their lives and liberties, then they have been undeniably perverted to play a role opposite to that of their original purpose. The work of the Warren Court is a comprehensive illustration of laws turned in on themselves. No country can have or maintain laws inimical to its survival for very long. And a country that protects its enemies will eventually fall by their sword.
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The Constitution and the Times Square Car Bomber
Posted: 04 May 2010 07:58 PM PDT
Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square Car Bombing suspect, has been caught and will predictably enough be routed through all the formal legalities reserved for Islamic terrorists trying to kill Americans. He will get a criminal trial, a lawyer and a jail sentence after which he, like so many of his compatriots will be released to try and kill again. And quite possibly sooner than anyone might think.
Meanwhile on FOX, Glenn Beck protested the idea of denying a Miranda Warning to Shahzad because he is a US citizen and "you don't shred the constitution." Obviously Beck isn't very familiar with the Constitution, because at no point in time does it mandate a Miranda warning, or compel civil trials for armed insurgents. Instead Beck has confused the Miranda Warning, one of the Warren court's judicial innovations with the Constitution. This is a mistake commonly made by liberals and those who have not educated themselves regarding what the Constitution actually says.
The Warren court pursued its radical agenda of judicial activism by creating an entire spectrum of "rights" based on spurious readings of the Constitution. Warren's technique was simple enough. He would take the actual Constitution and reinterpret the text to suit his political agenda. The actual ruling was not anything that the Framers had ever intended, and had nothing to do with the actual purpose the text was meant to serve. It was just a convenient hook to hang his ruling on.
Take Cruel and Unusual Punishment, which had been meant to ban all sorts of hideous executions and tortures that had been practiced in Europe. The Warren court used it to ban the denaturalization of a army deserter and to rule that imprisoning heroin addicts is illegal, because their addiction is a sickness, not a crime. This had nothing to do with the Eight Amendment of the United States Constitution which was meant to ban certain painful physical punishments, not to control whether junkies could be taken off the street or defectors could be deprived of citizenship. Instead it was used by the court to ban the death penalty for rape, to ban the death penalty for 17 year old murderers, and temporarily the idea of the death penalty itself.
The Miranda Warning that Beck insists is in the Constitution is based on a similarly spurious reading which made the leap to arguing that questioning a suspect without informing him of his rights, such as the aforementioned Ernesto Arturo Miranda, a serial rapist, was the equivalent of denying him those rights. The court's argument in Miranda was that being taken into custody is so intimidating that it is essentially a form of compulsory self-incrimination.
For Beck to argue that a failure to Mirandize "shreds the Constitution" would mean that he seriously believes that the Constitution had been shredded all along until 1966 when Earl Warren fixed it by adding the requirement of a Miranda Warning. This is a belief widely held on the liberal side of the aisle, but I don't think Beck believes that. He is simply following the widely held liberal indoctrination which treats the rulings made through Judicial Activism as equivalent to the actual text of the Constitution.
In his dissent Justice Harlan warned quite accurately that; "I believe the decision of the Court represents poor constitutional law and entails harmful consequences for the country at large. How serious these consequences may prove to be, only time can tell" and pointed out that this was not a ruling meant to prevent abuse, but to protect abusers; "The new rules are not designed to guard against police brutality or other unmistakably banned forms of coercion... Rather, the thrust of the new rules is to negate all pressures, to reinforce the nervous or ignorant suspect, and ultimately to discourage any confession at all."
And Harlan pointed out the risks of treating such a criminal rights agenda as Constitutional. "To incorporate this notion into the Constitution requires a strained reading of history and precedent and a disregard of the very pragmatic concerns that alone may on occasion justify such strains."
All this applies rather glaringly to terrorists, where the question goes well beyond mere criminal conviction. The bottom line is that we are at war. Not with a single serial rapist, but with a fanatical Islamic ideology that like Communism before it, demands world conquest.
Faisal Shahzad was naturalized barely a year ago. Does anyone seriously believe that before this time he did not hold whatever views impelled him to try and set off a car bomb in Times Square? Does being an enemy combatant who took US citizenship under false pretenses entitle him to full immunity?
The Bill of Rights was intended to preserve the rights of Americans, not of enemy combatants masquerading as something they are not. An Islamic terrorist has by definition taken a false oath, as he certainly does not bear "true faith and allegiance" to the United States. He had no intention of defending it against its enemies. He is one of its enemies.
During WW2, Nazi Germany sent a number of saboteurs into the United States, one of whom was a US Citizen. They were not given Miranda Warnings, obviously. They were not treated with kid gloves. They were tried by a military tribunal and executed less than two months after they arrived in the United States. Read that again. Less than 2 months. If you want to understand why we won WW2 and are losing the war now, consider the implications of what you just read.
The old United States could take an enemy combatant, arrest him, try him, run the decision through the Supreme Court, and still execute him in under two months. We're lucky if we can bring a captured terrorist to trial after 7 years. At which point we release him on time served and send him back to fight us again. If we had Osama bin Laden sitting in the dock right now, if he confessed to every crime and begged for the death penalty, it would probably still take us at least a decade to execute him, assuming we could even find a jury that would vote for the death penalty for him.
And Miranda is one of the reasons why. Not so much Miranda itself, as the agenda behind it. The agenda that gives the murderer every form of defense and discretion, and provides none to his victims. The agenda that rewards evil, but punishes good.
The fact of the matter is that it was common practice to treat spies, saboteurs and pirates as unlawful combatants who were tried by military tribunals and executed at will, regardless of whether their disguise included US citizenship or not.
In the case of the WW2 saboteurs, Ex parte Quirin, the court stated that;
...entry upon our territory [317 U.S. 1, 37] in time of war by enemy belligerents, including those acting under the direction of the armed forces of the enemy, for the purpose of destroying property used or useful in prosecuting the war, is a hostile and war-like act. It subjects those who participate in it without uniform to the punishment prescribed by the law of war for unlawful belligerents. It is without significance that petitioners were not alleged to have borne conventional weapons or that their proposed hostile acts did not necessarily contemplate collision with the Armed Forces of the United States.
Paragraphs 351 and 352 of the Rules of Land Warfare, already referred to, plainly contemplate that the hostile acts and purposes for which unlawful belligerents may be punished are not limited to assaults on the Armed Forces of the United States. Modern warfare is directed at the destruction of enemy war supplies and the implements of their production and transportation quite as much as at the armed forces. Every consideration which makes the unlawful belligerent punishable is equally applicable whether his objective is the one or the other. The law of war cannot rightly treat those agents of enemy armies who enter our territory, armed with explosives intended for the destruction of war industries and supplies, as any the less belligerent enemies than are agent similarly entering for the purpose of destroying fortified places or our Armed Forces. By passing our boundaries for such purposes without uniform or other emblem signifying their belligerent status, or by discarding that means of identification after entry, such enemies become unlawful belligerents subject to trial and punishment.
Citizenship in the United States of an enemy belligerent does not relieve him from the consequences of a belligerency which is unlawful because in violation of the law of war.
The only remaining objection to treating Faisal Shahzad as an enemy combatant is that there is no "declared war" and thus there can be no enemy combatants. This is a basic fallacy that relies on the fact that we are not fighting individual nations, but rather an ideology. We have come as close as possible to declaring war, within that limitation. Islam is not an enemy state, just as Communism is not an enemy state. It is a war waged by followers of a global ideology who number in the hundreds of millions. The language of conventional wars fought by one nation against another cannot encompass this.
But those who would condemn the War on Terror as illegitimate because it is not against a named state, had better be prepared to argue that the Tripolitan War fought against Muslim pirates without a formal Declaration of War under Thomas Jefferson, their destruction supported by George Washington, was equally "Unconstitutional".
Jefferson's push for an international alliance and his eventual determination to go it alone, arguably made him the first Neoconservative. The likes of Ron Paul might castigate the Founders as "Unconstitutional" because they fought the Tripolitan War without a declaration of war, assaulted the sovereignty of the Pasha of Tripoli, and didn't read anyone their Miranda Rights, but I don't think anyone else in their right mind would. And the War on Terror has been more formally declared than the Tripolitan War.
Indeed what warmonger neoconservative was it that said; "Would to Heaven we had a navy able to reform those enemies to mankind or crush them into non-existence". Was it Dick Cheney? No, I'm afraid it was George Washington, who would no doubt be pilloried today for his genocidal rhetoric in the editorial pages of the modern New York Times and the op eds of Pat Buchanan on AntiWar.com. But Washington was a man of peace as well as a man of war, and he understood that there are times when "war is not of our choice." This is one of those times.
There's something fundamentally wrong when people who should be conservatives instead start talking like ACLU lawyers. Start believing that Miranda is a Constitutional right, rather than a bit of judicial activism legerdemain. Start thinking that we should be fighting the War on Terror by following the model of the American Bar Association, rather than that of Washington, Jefferson, FDR and every wartime President between them.
The Constitution was never intended to serve as a suicide pact. It was never intended to protect enemies of the United States under the colors of the flag. Its Bill of Rights protected the rights of Americans, not the rights of its enemies. Our laws exist in order to safeguard the rights of Americans. When they are exploited to aid those who deprive Americans of their lives and liberties, then they have been undeniably perverted to play a role opposite to that of their original purpose. The work of the Warren Court is a comprehensive illustration of laws turned in on themselves. No country can have or maintain laws inimical to its survival for very long. And a country that protects its enemies will eventually fall by their sword.
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Sunday, April 25, 2010
Defending Our Freedom.....Arizona Immigration Law.....................!
Arizona Law Sparks Fears of Racial Profiling
Associated Press
Gov. Jan Brewer signed a bill that requires police to question people about their immigration status -- including asking for identification -- if they suspect someone is in the country illegally.
NOTICE QUOTE WHERE 18 YO STATES WHAT IF HE IS RIDING AROUND WITH HIS ILEEGAL ALIEN FRIENDS AND COUSINS!!!!!!
"But the 18-year-old high school student from Phoenix said he's afraid he'll be arrested anyway if police see him driving around with friends and relatives, some of them illegal immigrants."
This is an absolute necessity; our country has been over run. Every community in America is affected by “Illegal Aliens”.
It has nothing to do with fully documented aliens or citizens of the United States. It has everything to do with the unlawful entry into the United States of America and it must be stopped!
Document and Assimilate!
In order to drive a car you need documentation, in order to be in America you need to obtain the proper documentation!
Document and Assimilate!
American schools, hospitals & health care and our nation’s infrastructure can no longer sustain an Illegal Population estimated to be in the 10’s of million’s.
Don't let the Illegal Aliens win! Americans must win!
The only rights any illegal alien from any country is entitled to are human rights civil rights are reserved for American Citizens!
We cannot afford to carry these people any longer it does not matter what country they come from! If not now than when!
"Document and assimilate or stay home"
“In God We Trust”
God Bless America!
For all Americans we must make English the official language of the United States of America!
HMA
Associated Press
Gov. Jan Brewer signed a bill that requires police to question people about their immigration status -- including asking for identification -- if they suspect someone is in the country illegally.
NOTICE QUOTE WHERE 18 YO STATES WHAT IF HE IS RIDING AROUND WITH HIS ILEEGAL ALIEN FRIENDS AND COUSINS!!!!!!
"But the 18-year-old high school student from Phoenix said he's afraid he'll be arrested anyway if police see him driving around with friends and relatives, some of them illegal immigrants."
This is an absolute necessity; our country has been over run. Every community in America is affected by “Illegal Aliens”.
It has nothing to do with fully documented aliens or citizens of the United States. It has everything to do with the unlawful entry into the United States of America and it must be stopped!
Document and Assimilate!
In order to drive a car you need documentation, in order to be in America you need to obtain the proper documentation!
Document and Assimilate!
American schools, hospitals & health care and our nation’s infrastructure can no longer sustain an Illegal Population estimated to be in the 10’s of million’s.
Don't let the Illegal Aliens win! Americans must win!
The only rights any illegal alien from any country is entitled to are human rights civil rights are reserved for American Citizens!
We cannot afford to carry these people any longer it does not matter what country they come from! If not now than when!
"Document and assimilate or stay home"
“In God We Trust”
God Bless America!
For all Americans we must make English the official language of the United States of America!
HMA
Monday, April 5, 2010
“THE DESTABILIZATION AND DESTRUCTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FROM WITHIN”
Gen IV Warfare?
“THE DESTABILIZATION AND DESTRUCTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FROM WITHIN”
A friend and talented writer, excellent speaker and nationally recognized instructor recently wrote a brief on 4GW and its threat primarily to Law Enforcement. It is an excellent article and I would recommend it be read, as the wolf is at the door. I would like to take a moment to embellish on it and discuss the collateral damage associated with what was discussed. I will also include and discuss additional threats to our nation as a whole.
I have listed some of the causes for the destruction of the United States of America from internally below. This is not a complete list it does not include the entire spectrum of crimes against people that occur every minute in our country.
“Does it make sense to keep framing the issue in terms of “terrorism” when the enemy itself, taking a leaf from the book of the most advanced American strategists, talks about “fourth-generation warfare?
Terrorism
Narco-Terrorism
Gang Violence
Illegal Immigration
Human Smuggling
Identity Theft
Welfare Fraud
Retail Organized Crime
Counterfeiting
Cyber Crime
While Australia started as a penal colony, America’s over crowded correctional facilities and lack of border security may one day make it a penal colony? We have not helped our citizenry if we keep them perpetually on the government cheese, and allow non-citizens to share the cheese? Sure it is an excellent way to get votes but it has become a source of major decay of our country. Welfare and associated programs were designed to temporarily help those in need, not sustain families for generations. We have given certain segments of our population trillions of dollars and hundreds of programs and they have become addicted to them like a “Crack Addict” is to crack cocaine. The influx of illegal’s into America has led to the loss of millions of jobs and trillions of dollars that federal, state and local government have had to shell out to support , not to prevent this problem. No wonder we have no money!
There is a percentage of the illegal alien population that feeds and preys off American citizens they rape and they murder us, and they traffic in drugs and humans and Americans quibble like piss ants on their blogs.
If it were your child and you had a chance to stop it you would hack your own arm off and beat them to death with the "Wet End"! We must stop this influx of blood suckers into our great nation we have enough problems of our own! They have turned every community they have infested in to trash piles, much like they have done to their own countries. They come here piss and crap all over us and leave once they have amassed a small fortune (tax free) where they can live very well back in their home countries.
This does not include the hard working resident aliens who came here legally and also suffer at the hands of this illegal scourge. Once they move into the neighborhoods of the bleeding heart liberals, then and only then you will see “Change We Can Believe In”……………!
America is being attacked by residents of literally every country on the planet; they are feeding off us like some giant organism. We are under attack constantly, and relentlessly from predator nations as well as parasitic individuals and institutions.
Fourth Generation Warfare is defined as conflicts which involve the following elements:
• Are complex and long term.
• Terrorism and all its shapes and forms.
• A non-national or transnational base, highly decentralized.
• A direct attack on the enemy's culture.
• Highly sophisticated, Psychological warfare, especially through "Media manipulation", “Lawfare”
• All available pressures are used - political, economic, social and military.
• Occurs in Low Intensity conflicts involving actors from all networks.
• Non-combatants are tactical dilemmas.
John Robb discusses;
“Victory in 4GW warfare is won in the moral sphere. The aim of 4GW is to destroy the moral bonds that allow the organic whole to exist -- cohesion.
This is done by reinforcing the following (according to Boyd):
• Menace. Attacks that undermine or threaten basic human survival instincts.
• Mistrust. Increases divisions between groups (i.e. conservatives and liberals in the US).
• Uncertainty. Undermine economic activity by decreasing confidence in the future.
This is what I believe will be added to Boyd’s list;
• Divide. The classes of people further apart, until the middle class are the new slaves.
• Government Dependence. The lower class will be government dependent.
• Government weary. The upper class is weary and fearful of the other 2 classes.
This “Altered State” shall we call it, is clearly a product of the list I discussed above with the 10 most lethal threats faced by America and its citizenry. Maybe John F. Kennedy was on to something when he said: “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country”!
Stay safe and God Bless America,
Hammer M. Awl
http://defendersofourfreedom.blogspot.com/
http://www.lesc.net/blog
“THE DESTABILIZATION AND DESTRUCTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FROM WITHIN”
A friend and talented writer, excellent speaker and nationally recognized instructor recently wrote a brief on 4GW and its threat primarily to Law Enforcement. It is an excellent article and I would recommend it be read, as the wolf is at the door. I would like to take a moment to embellish on it and discuss the collateral damage associated with what was discussed. I will also include and discuss additional threats to our nation as a whole.
I have listed some of the causes for the destruction of the United States of America from internally below. This is not a complete list it does not include the entire spectrum of crimes against people that occur every minute in our country.
“Does it make sense to keep framing the issue in terms of “terrorism” when the enemy itself, taking a leaf from the book of the most advanced American strategists, talks about “fourth-generation warfare?
Terrorism
Narco-Terrorism
Gang Violence
Illegal Immigration
Human Smuggling
Identity Theft
Welfare Fraud
Retail Organized Crime
Counterfeiting
Cyber Crime
While Australia started as a penal colony, America’s over crowded correctional facilities and lack of border security may one day make it a penal colony? We have not helped our citizenry if we keep them perpetually on the government cheese, and allow non-citizens to share the cheese? Sure it is an excellent way to get votes but it has become a source of major decay of our country. Welfare and associated programs were designed to temporarily help those in need, not sustain families for generations. We have given certain segments of our population trillions of dollars and hundreds of programs and they have become addicted to them like a “Crack Addict” is to crack cocaine. The influx of illegal’s into America has led to the loss of millions of jobs and trillions of dollars that federal, state and local government have had to shell out to support , not to prevent this problem. No wonder we have no money!
There is a percentage of the illegal alien population that feeds and preys off American citizens they rape and they murder us, and they traffic in drugs and humans and Americans quibble like piss ants on their blogs.
If it were your child and you had a chance to stop it you would hack your own arm off and beat them to death with the "Wet End"! We must stop this influx of blood suckers into our great nation we have enough problems of our own! They have turned every community they have infested in to trash piles, much like they have done to their own countries. They come here piss and crap all over us and leave once they have amassed a small fortune (tax free) where they can live very well back in their home countries.
This does not include the hard working resident aliens who came here legally and also suffer at the hands of this illegal scourge. Once they move into the neighborhoods of the bleeding heart liberals, then and only then you will see “Change We Can Believe In”……………!
America is being attacked by residents of literally every country on the planet; they are feeding off us like some giant organism. We are under attack constantly, and relentlessly from predator nations as well as parasitic individuals and institutions.
Fourth Generation Warfare is defined as conflicts which involve the following elements:
• Are complex and long term.
• Terrorism and all its shapes and forms.
• A non-national or transnational base, highly decentralized.
• A direct attack on the enemy's culture.
• Highly sophisticated, Psychological warfare, especially through "Media manipulation", “Lawfare”
• All available pressures are used - political, economic, social and military.
• Occurs in Low Intensity conflicts involving actors from all networks.
• Non-combatants are tactical dilemmas.
John Robb discusses;
“Victory in 4GW warfare is won in the moral sphere. The aim of 4GW is to destroy the moral bonds that allow the organic whole to exist -- cohesion.
This is done by reinforcing the following (according to Boyd):
• Menace. Attacks that undermine or threaten basic human survival instincts.
• Mistrust. Increases divisions between groups (i.e. conservatives and liberals in the US).
• Uncertainty. Undermine economic activity by decreasing confidence in the future.
This is what I believe will be added to Boyd’s list;
• Divide. The classes of people further apart, until the middle class are the new slaves.
• Government Dependence. The lower class will be government dependent.
• Government weary. The upper class is weary and fearful of the other 2 classes.
This “Altered State” shall we call it, is clearly a product of the list I discussed above with the 10 most lethal threats faced by America and its citizenry. Maybe John F. Kennedy was on to something when he said: “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country”!
Stay safe and God Bless America,
Hammer M. Awl
http://defendersofourfreedom.blogspot.com/
http://www.lesc.net/blog
Monday, March 29, 2010
Homicide Commuters.................?
Is this coming to an American City near you?
Why has this not happened in America yet?
Have we trained our local Law Enforcement Officers to recognize Hostile Surveillance of our outlying mass transit facilities in the suburbs? The two women who blew themselves up and killed and injured scores of people, did pre-operational surveillance and possibly even dry runs, someone saw something! The terrorists who place explosives on mass transportation or “Homicide Bombers” will board the trains in unguarded suburban locations outside our major cities and ride them to the crowded urban stations to kill, maim and destroy. The death and destruction (hair and skin blown from the human body) as seen in Moscow, London, Madrid and Mumbai may be coming to an American City sooner than we think. We must stop playing “Ostrich” take our heads out of the sand and prepare our first responders Police, fire and EMS to deter, detect and respond to attacks on our mass transportation systems. Just look globally to know what may be coming to and American City near you!
Stay safe,
Andrew
Why has this not happened in America yet?
Have we trained our local Law Enforcement Officers to recognize Hostile Surveillance of our outlying mass transit facilities in the suburbs? The two women who blew themselves up and killed and injured scores of people, did pre-operational surveillance and possibly even dry runs, someone saw something! The terrorists who place explosives on mass transportation or “Homicide Bombers” will board the trains in unguarded suburban locations outside our major cities and ride them to the crowded urban stations to kill, maim and destroy. The death and destruction (hair and skin blown from the human body) as seen in Moscow, London, Madrid and Mumbai may be coming to an American City sooner than we think. We must stop playing “Ostrich” take our heads out of the sand and prepare our first responders Police, fire and EMS to deter, detect and respond to attacks on our mass transportation systems. Just look globally to know what may be coming to and American City near you!
Stay safe,
Andrew
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Why?
This article is dedicated to all the brave men and women who have and do wear the uniform. Stay safe.
Why? That is the question hundreds if not thousands of AT/CT professionals ask themselves constantly. Why? Why haven’t we been hit yet, why haven’t we been hit again? Where are the “Homicide Bombers”, where are the back pack laden IED’S? Why haven’t they struck here in the United States of America yet? Why? Why? Why? London, Madrid, Israel, Mumbai and many other countries have been victims of hundreds of attacks, to their subways, buses and other forms of mass transportation why not in America???
The answer, only “God Knows”, if you believe in god, which ever god you choose to believe in, is your choice and no one else’s. I believe in God, and I know he is not “short on cash”. I also believe the recent arrest’s in NY, Denver and several other states is very telling. I also believe that the attacks are coming and the perpetrators’ are still educating and training them in the art of “Homicide Bombing”.
They may be willing to die for their cause, but they are petrified of getting caught prior to it, and that much we know (maybe water boarding is paying collateral long term dividends). Take for example Afghan National Najibullah Zazi, a coffee cart vendor who once lived in New York, and worked near Ground Zero (those of you from New York and other large Metro areas have seen plenty of curbside vendors) they are almost A-typical, much like cab-drivers? Zazi is somewhat meek and innocent looking, David Von Drehle and Bobby Gosh wrote in their article for Time Magazine;” from the training camp in Pakistan to his bomb recipe and backpack delivery system, bears the marks not of some fluky local scheme of the kind that the feds have sniffed out in the past but of a plausible al-Qaeda operation.” not your typical (hack their head off) variety terrorist. He has been the mild mannered airport limo driver, coffee cart vendor, aspiring “Homicide Bomber” we frequently read about across the globe, but not here in America! “They walk among us” is a term used periodically, does anyone else think or feel like that? Recently there have been Intel reports of men being spotted with wires around there necks and going up under their sweaters or jackets, in major metropolitan cities.
Have those pent on death and destruction to the “Great Satan” started their pre-operational planning and put something in motion? Was Najibullah Zazi supposed to get caught??? Where are his accomplices? Were there a dozen backpacks and cell phones confiscated in one of the raids? Will the devices be placed on trains and buses in the outlying suburbs and taken into the major metropolis? How important is mass transportation on-time performance? Aren’t you upset when your bus or train is late? Where’s the mass transportation information made available to the public? Schedules etc….the internet! No “Hostile Surveillance” techniques needed there, he just logs on from the comfort of his terrorist’s living room or cave and surfs and plans their next attack?
I recently completed a yearlong security/counter terrorism training contract with one of the nation’s largest Public Mass Transportation providers, moving hundreds of millions of people above and below ground annually. I presently provide security/counter terrorism guidance to several large Maritime Mass Transportation providers with sole access to some of the nation’s HVT’S. When I ask myself the same question why? Deep down I know it is only a matter of time, but I also know that as long as we keep doing our jobs, like the men and women who wear a uniform, whether it be Police, Fire, EMS, Military or Security and keep changing our posture and techniques we will keep those hell bent on our destruction back peddling and re-formulating their plans, because we keep changing ours.
That is my answer and only one man’s opinion as to why, hasn’t it happened here, so keep your guard up, keep your people from becoming complacent, keep them motivated, keep them focused (and not sleeping while guarding the GW Bridge) and a byproduct of that, is your safety, our safety, your families safety and your friends safety.
“IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING”
Stay safe, and God Bless America
Andrew Clayton Hopkinson
Sergeant Andrew Hopkinson (Ret.)
This article is dedicated to all the brave men and women who have and do wear the uniform. Stay safe.
Why? That is the question hundreds if not thousands of AT/CT professionals ask themselves constantly. Why? Why haven’t we been hit yet, why haven’t we been hit again? Where are the “Homicide Bombers”, where are the back pack laden IED’S? Why haven’t they struck here in the United States of America yet? Why? Why? Why? London, Madrid, Israel, Mumbai and many other countries have been victims of hundreds of attacks, to their subways, buses and other forms of mass transportation why not in America???
The answer, only “God Knows”, if you believe in god, which ever god you choose to believe in, is your choice and no one else’s. I believe in God, and I know he is not “short on cash”. I also believe the recent arrest’s in NY, Denver and several other states is very telling. I also believe that the attacks are coming and the perpetrators’ are still educating and training them in the art of “Homicide Bombing”.
They may be willing to die for their cause, but they are petrified of getting caught prior to it, and that much we know (maybe water boarding is paying collateral long term dividends). Take for example Afghan National Najibullah Zazi, a coffee cart vendor who once lived in New York, and worked near Ground Zero (those of you from New York and other large Metro areas have seen plenty of curbside vendors) they are almost A-typical, much like cab-drivers? Zazi is somewhat meek and innocent looking, David Von Drehle and Bobby Gosh wrote in their article for Time Magazine;” from the training camp in Pakistan to his bomb recipe and backpack delivery system, bears the marks not of some fluky local scheme of the kind that the feds have sniffed out in the past but of a plausible al-Qaeda operation.” not your typical (hack their head off) variety terrorist. He has been the mild mannered airport limo driver, coffee cart vendor, aspiring “Homicide Bomber” we frequently read about across the globe, but not here in America! “They walk among us” is a term used periodically, does anyone else think or feel like that? Recently there have been Intel reports of men being spotted with wires around there necks and going up under their sweaters or jackets, in major metropolitan cities.
Have those pent on death and destruction to the “Great Satan” started their pre-operational planning and put something in motion? Was Najibullah Zazi supposed to get caught??? Where are his accomplices? Were there a dozen backpacks and cell phones confiscated in one of the raids? Will the devices be placed on trains and buses in the outlying suburbs and taken into the major metropolis? How important is mass transportation on-time performance? Aren’t you upset when your bus or train is late? Where’s the mass transportation information made available to the public? Schedules etc….the internet! No “Hostile Surveillance” techniques needed there, he just logs on from the comfort of his terrorist’s living room or cave and surfs and plans their next attack?
I recently completed a yearlong security/counter terrorism training contract with one of the nation’s largest Public Mass Transportation providers, moving hundreds of millions of people above and below ground annually. I presently provide security/counter terrorism guidance to several large Maritime Mass Transportation providers with sole access to some of the nation’s HVT’S. When I ask myself the same question why? Deep down I know it is only a matter of time, but I also know that as long as we keep doing our jobs, like the men and women who wear a uniform, whether it be Police, Fire, EMS, Military or Security and keep changing our posture and techniques we will keep those hell bent on our destruction back peddling and re-formulating their plans, because we keep changing ours.
That is my answer and only one man’s opinion as to why, hasn’t it happened here, so keep your guard up, keep your people from becoming complacent, keep them motivated, keep them focused (and not sleeping while guarding the GW Bridge) and a byproduct of that, is your safety, our safety, your families safety and your friends safety.
“IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING”
Stay safe, and God Bless America
Andrew Clayton Hopkinson
Sergeant Andrew Hopkinson (Ret.)
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
"United States of American Jihad"
“United States of American Jihad”
“Homegrown Terrorism”
By Andrew C. Hopkinson FSO CSO CT/AT
Questions & Informational Brief February-2010
Is a “Terror Event” imminent?
Will we be struck by a Man Made disaster?
Let’s call it like it is; Radical Fundamental Islamist Extremists planning another attack on America?
Will it be perpetrated by “Female Homicide Bombers?” Will females attack America?
Osama Bin Laden speaks again, what does it mean for America?
“It is not just a fundamental Islamic belief that fuels homegrown terrorism, but a combination of hormones, video games and the media, social or otherwise that is fueling the current rage to be a Homegrown Terrorist (HGT)?” ACH
It has been just over 8 years since the discovery by CIA Officer Johnny “Mike” Spann (KIA Afghanistan 11-25-2001) of John Walker Lindh the convicted enemy combatant; we have come a long way since the first American casualty in Afghanistan. Lindh was an American citizen who left America to seek Jihad; the current crop apprehended in Pakistan appeared to have gone to Pakistan for similar reasons? What does John Walker Lindh do now from his prison cell in Terre Haute? Who does he communicate with? We know the prison system is a breeding ground for gangs, as well as an educational system for criminals of all types. The important point to emphasize is that the prison system has been and is now the new breeding ground for Home Grown Terrorists (HGT). The spread of Anti-American hatred is rampant in our great nation, from diverse groups and individuals; it is no wonder the NYPD now has the largest intelligence division second only to the CIA? There are thousands of individuals who seek to terrorize in one form or another, some more violent than others, for a multitude of reasons? Some want to terrorize here in America, and some in other corners of the globe? In a recent article entitled WHY? I discussed the inevitable event when terrorism comes back to America and becomes more common here as it is in other countries.
“U.S. counterterrorism officials say 2009 has turned into the year of homegrown jihad, with the unmasking of the most serious suspected terror plots involving Americans in about five years.”
What can we do about this phenomenon? We must do something? How do we prevent indoctrination? The American youth are being targeted by these groups and radical individuals from all across the globe, another group of predators preying on our youth, we must act now. The prisons in America are breeding grounds for Muslim Extremists the indoctrinators’ pounce on their prey in the violence filled penitentiary’s across America.
Home Grown Terrorist Recognition (HGTR) for Law Enforcement professionals the need is now!
I recommend Steve Emerson his book was so far ahead of the pack when he wrote it “American Jihad” if you have not read this book it is a must read!
“They have left the video game training phase and now seek actual operational involvement; there are no more levels to complete in the video game.”
Remember if you see something say something! 1-866-347-2423
Stay safe and God bless America!
“Homegrown Terrorism”
By Andrew C. Hopkinson FSO CSO CT/AT
Questions & Informational Brief February-2010
Is a “Terror Event” imminent?
Will we be struck by a Man Made disaster?
Let’s call it like it is; Radical Fundamental Islamist Extremists planning another attack on America?
Will it be perpetrated by “Female Homicide Bombers?” Will females attack America?
Osama Bin Laden speaks again, what does it mean for America?
“It is not just a fundamental Islamic belief that fuels homegrown terrorism, but a combination of hormones, video games and the media, social or otherwise that is fueling the current rage to be a Homegrown Terrorist (HGT)?” ACH
It has been just over 8 years since the discovery by CIA Officer Johnny “Mike” Spann (KIA Afghanistan 11-25-2001) of John Walker Lindh the convicted enemy combatant; we have come a long way since the first American casualty in Afghanistan. Lindh was an American citizen who left America to seek Jihad; the current crop apprehended in Pakistan appeared to have gone to Pakistan for similar reasons? What does John Walker Lindh do now from his prison cell in Terre Haute? Who does he communicate with? We know the prison system is a breeding ground for gangs, as well as an educational system for criminals of all types. The important point to emphasize is that the prison system has been and is now the new breeding ground for Home Grown Terrorists (HGT). The spread of Anti-American hatred is rampant in our great nation, from diverse groups and individuals; it is no wonder the NYPD now has the largest intelligence division second only to the CIA? There are thousands of individuals who seek to terrorize in one form or another, some more violent than others, for a multitude of reasons? Some want to terrorize here in America, and some in other corners of the globe? In a recent article entitled WHY? I discussed the inevitable event when terrorism comes back to America and becomes more common here as it is in other countries.
“U.S. counterterrorism officials say 2009 has turned into the year of homegrown jihad, with the unmasking of the most serious suspected terror plots involving Americans in about five years.”
What can we do about this phenomenon? We must do something? How do we prevent indoctrination? The American youth are being targeted by these groups and radical individuals from all across the globe, another group of predators preying on our youth, we must act now. The prisons in America are breeding grounds for Muslim Extremists the indoctrinators’ pounce on their prey in the violence filled penitentiary’s across America.
Home Grown Terrorist Recognition (HGTR) for Law Enforcement professionals the need is now!
I recommend Steve Emerson his book was so far ahead of the pack when he wrote it “American Jihad” if you have not read this book it is a must read!
“They have left the video game training phase and now seek actual operational involvement; there are no more levels to complete in the video game.”
Remember if you see something say something! 1-866-347-2423
Stay safe and God bless America!
Saturday, February 13, 2010
"Comprehensive Amnesty Threat "
Rep. Gary Miller Says Amnesty Will Kill American Jobs
Posted on NumbersUSA
Rep. Gary Miller
In an op-ed piece published by the Daily Caller, Rep. Gary Miller (R-Calif.) criticizes the Administration and Congressional leadership for not doing enough for America's 15 million unemployed. Rep. Miller says that the Gutierrez Amnesty bill introduced in the House would "jeopardize millions of jobs for Americans and legal residents."
Rep. Miller criticizes the Administration for constantly saying that its No. 1 priority is jobs, while allowing job-killing bills to come up for votes in Congress. And allowing the Gutierrez Amnesty bill to be introduced proves the point.
Rep. Miller points out several key points in the bill that would hurt unemployed Americans. First, Miller criticizes the offering of amnesty to the nation's 12 million illegal aliens, saying that "granting amnesty to those that have recklessly disregarded our nation’s immigration laws is an affront to American citizens and legal residents."
Second, Rep. Miller points to the bill's overhaul of the E-Verify system; "... the legislation severely weakens existing and proven worksite enforcement activities."
Rep. Miller says the best way to protect American workers is to pass his legislation, the Loophole Elimination and Verification Enforcement Act (H.R.994), which puts immigration enforcement first.
Read Rep. Miller's full column at the DailyCaller.com.
Posted on NumbersUSA
Rep. Gary Miller
In an op-ed piece published by the Daily Caller, Rep. Gary Miller (R-Calif.) criticizes the Administration and Congressional leadership for not doing enough for America's 15 million unemployed. Rep. Miller says that the Gutierrez Amnesty bill introduced in the House would "jeopardize millions of jobs for Americans and legal residents."
Rep. Miller criticizes the Administration for constantly saying that its No. 1 priority is jobs, while allowing job-killing bills to come up for votes in Congress. And allowing the Gutierrez Amnesty bill to be introduced proves the point.
Rep. Miller points out several key points in the bill that would hurt unemployed Americans. First, Miller criticizes the offering of amnesty to the nation's 12 million illegal aliens, saying that "granting amnesty to those that have recklessly disregarded our nation’s immigration laws is an affront to American citizens and legal residents."
Second, Rep. Miller points to the bill's overhaul of the E-Verify system; "... the legislation severely weakens existing and proven worksite enforcement activities."
Rep. Miller says the best way to protect American workers is to pass his legislation, the Loophole Elimination and Verification Enforcement Act (H.R.994), which puts immigration enforcement first.
Read Rep. Miller's full column at the DailyCaller.com.
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