For the relativists who think Padilla deserves his “rights”

Watch out, this post has some shocking images in it that are not suitable for younger viewers.

I just want to make this perfectly clear for the guy who keeps sending me trackbacks from their leftist commie blogs complaining that I don’t care about American values.

This is not an example of American values, ok?

In case you’re not familiar with the story, this is the case of the 16-year-old Christian schoolgirls in Indonesia who were walking through a field on their way to school during Ramadan. You know, the “holy” days where Islamofascists everywhere start to harrass the infidel just like their pedophile prophet did.

The girls were among a group of students from a private Christian high school who were ambushed while walking through a cocoa plantation in Poso Kota subdistrict on their way to class.

Three of the dead victims’s heads were found 10 feet or more from their bodies. Yeah, that’s a good example of “the religion of peace”.

Bangladeshi women scarred in acid attacks. These women survived the horrible things their husbands tried to do to them. There are many women who are set on fire, or simply look forward to getting their throats slit or their heads sawed off by supposedly benevolent male family members who want to preserve the family “honor” because the girl–perhaps there was a rumor that she held hands with a man in private. They will do these things to women based entirely on a rumor with no proof.

Oh and let’s not forget the punishment they deal to 7-year old starving boy. Now apparently–for the people who are whining about my portrayal of this incident–the guy with the whistle is calling people to witness this horrible incident–as we would do a side show at the circus. The one thing that I don’t understand is how people are poo-poohing this incident as though it isn’t something horrible, but in fact, is justifiable because it’s a sideshow incident and the child isn’t significantly hurt. HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?

They don’t give a f*** about the rights of innocent schoolgirls walking to school…or small boys with terrible hunger pangs…and husbands have absolutely no respect for their wives, considering them mere property….because it’s taught in the Qu’ran.

Where’s the outrage about the “human rights” violations in these cases? For some reason the demonization of people who just want to prevent another 9/11 from happen seems off the wall and misplaced.

Ever hear from people in New York who lost 40 friends and were going to funerals for well over a year because the people in the bucket brigade kept finding pieces of the people they knew in the wreckage of the towers and the 7 buildings that went down around them?

It constantly baffles me that leftists–the supposed proponents of women’s rights are supporting people who hold these ideological beliefs as if they even belong to our society. Plainly, they do not. Their prophet told men that if their wives don’t do this or that, it’s perfectly ok to beat them. So don’t lecture me how I don’t “support American values”. I have to question people who are going to bat for delinquents like Padilla or weirdos like John Walker Lindh who converted to Islam and joined Al Qaeda in fighting to destroy America and American values.

Read the indictment on Padilla and just think about these pictures and the ideology he represents.

You can read the full indictment here courtesy of the AP (Acrobat file), and you can read the DOJ press release on the indictment below. The indictment cites the defendants’ support of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, leader of the Egyptian-based Islamic Jihad, who was convicted for his role in the 1993 WTC bombings (in a case led by current CIA leak case prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald). Daveed Gartenstein-Ross posted about Rahman’s attorney, Lynne Stewart, who was convicted for smuggling messages from him to his followers. I posted on October 3 about the Treasury Department’s designation of seven of his followers, and I gave a brief history of the group.

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You know the American heritage that I believe in? The death penalty. I believe in the death penalty for people who perpetrate these kinds of crimes against innocents. They shouldn’t be getting all kinds of opportunities to appeal their cases based on stupidity like whether or not they get crunchy peanut butter or cable tv. This is what my bible teaches, it’s what our laws have upheld until the ACLU got involved and started pushing the nonexistent rights of child molesters, rapists and murderers. You wonder why parents don’t let their kids go out to play in the neighborhood at night? Because there are pedophiles in the neighborhood, and it’s not safe. Because all kinds of crimes are being waged against children these days, and our court system doesn’t make certain that these criminals stay in jail or get the death penalty–they “feel for them”. They are trying to “understand and rehabilitate” them.

Forgetting that some people are just born that way, and cannot be rehabilitated.

You can go to hell with your moral relativism. I will defend my country and my old fashioned values–which doesn’t include nailing our military for human rights violations for doing the job they were sent to do. Get a freakin’ grip–these people don’t give a damn about ‘human rights’. Where were you people when Saddam Hussein was murdering and torturing his people in the most horrible ways possible? I didn’t hear anybody complaining then, as a matter of fact, people like Ramsey Clark were out there complaining about the Iraq invasion because they didn’t want Saddam to be taken from power.

Let’s face it. These people are scum. And anyone who supports them, IMO, should be shot. There still are a few states that have the death penalty and one of them actually still has on the books–death by firing squad. I support that.

Maybe if something more serious had been done the first time Padilla committed horrible crimes, it wouldn’t have come to this point.

Jose Padilla. (From rotten.com) The “poster boy” for just about everything that can go wrong with today’s youth in America. As a teenage gang member in Chicago, he cast himself as the perfect extra in “Natural Born Killers”. After a string of arrests for petty crime, he was arrested at the age of 14 for taking part in a group assault, robbery and a murderous stabbing that was notable for its simple-minded brutality.

He spent his teen years in juvenile hall. Young adulthood didn’t suit him much better. His series of petty crimes continued unrelentingly. He didn’t learn from experience, fighting with and fleeing cops virtually every single time he was arrested, despite the fact that fleeing clearly wasn’t his forte.

When his family moved to Florida, he came along for the ride, perhaps in the hopes that a warmer climate would mellow his disposition. No such luck. In 1991, he was stopped after firing a gun at another driver in a road rage incident. He resisted arrest, of course, and spent 10 months in jail.

After this stint in prison, Padilla emerged a changed man. Well, OK, not so much a changed man as a slightly calmer version of the same man. He continued a lifelong pattern of traffic violations but managed to avoid pulling guns on cops for a while.

The “new” Jose Padilla hooked up with a girl and got himself a job at a Taco Bell in Davie, Fla. He also got religion. And suddenly his life changed.

There are conflicting reports about when Padilla found Islam. Several anonymous government sources have told news organizations that he converted while in that South Florida prison. But several news stories indicate that he first started seeking out information about Islam during his stint at Taco Bell.

Padilla’s boss, a Muslim, told reporters that young Jose asked him about where he could study Islam. Citing a workplace policy against discussing religion, the supervisor says he told Padilla to find a mosque through the yellow pages.

South Florida, and the Fort Lauderdale area in particular, has long been considered a center for radical and extremist Islam in the U.S., and several mosques and organizations in the area have been tied to al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.

One of the first people Jose Padilla met was Adham Hassoun, an outspoken Palestinian activist living in the area. Hassoun had recently quit his job as a computer programmer to oversee the opening of a Muslim charity in Plantation, Fla., five minutes from Padilla’s Taco Bell.

The Benevolence International Foundation was new to the area and had only recently incorporated in the U.S. But the purported charity had existed for a couple of years in previous incarnations — with offices in Pakistan, the Sudan, Saudi Arabia and the Philippines.

The organization can be traced back to the wealthy Saudis who founded its predecessor groups, two sheikhs with strong ties to Osama bin Laden. The federal government charges that Benevolence is a front organization for al Qaeda, and that it diverted funds and other resources from charitable causes to terrorist activities.

Benevolence was hardly the only major connection to terrorism in South Florida, although it is a significant one for Padilla. The federal government charges that Hassoun (who is currently fighting deportation) recruited Padilla into Islam and possibly into al Qaeda. But there were plenty of opportunities. Other figures in Padilla’s new social circle have been connected to charities under investigation, and to terrorist groups Hizbollah and Hamas.

Padilla began studying Islam at the nearby Darul Uloom Islamic Institute and the al-Iman mosque, both of which were reputed to have connections to extremism. In 1994, Padilla formally converted to Islam and changed his name to “Ibrahim.”

From Ibrahim to Abdullah
Millions of people convert to Islam, but only a fraction of them turn into Islamofascist terrorists. Jose Padilla, unremarkable in most ways, would at least be able to claim that distinction.

At the time of Padilla’s conversion, al Qaeda was actively recruiting U.S. citizens in the Fort Lauderdale area, seeking the power of “clean” U.S. passports in the hands of operatives with no prior connection to terrorism. In its quest to get its hands on those passports, al Qaeda recruited some of its most fucked-up and useless operatives, including insane “20th hijacker” Zacarias Moussaoui and incompetent shoe-bomber Richard Reid.

Padilla appears to have kept a low profile in the mid-1990s, studying Islam and marrying his girlfriend, who also converted. He quit the Taco Bell in spring 1994, and after a brief stint as a maintenance worker, Ibrahim nee Jose left the 9-to-5 world behind by that summer. Without visible means of support, he and his wife nevertheless seemed to get along just fine, and by some accounts, he appeared to be quite well off.

Absent a job and a visible role in the community, Padilla didn’t leave large footprints in South Florida during this time, save for a steady stream of traffic violations for lousy driving, which even Islam couldn’t cure.

Padilla incurred violations like clockwork from the moment he emerged from prison until his license was suspended in 1997 (with the exception of a six-month quiet period around the time of the Oklahoma City bombing; perhaps coincidentally, Padilla bears a striking resemblance to police sketches of “John Doe 2″, an alleged Hispanic accomplice of Timothy McVeigh sought in the immediate aftermath of the bombing, who the FBI subsequently claimed never existed).

Perhaps having fulfilled all his traffic ambitions, Padilla was ready to move on to bigger and better things. In 1998, he abruptly left his wife and went to Egypt to “learn Arabic,” as he told acquaintances. His trip was sponsored by “friends.”

Following a well-established pattern among American al Qaeda recruits, Padilla traveled to Egypt largely as a waystation to the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region, a diversion designed to minimize suspicion from customs officials. He apparently married at some point along the way.

Once in Pakistan, Padilla changed his name once more, to Abdullah al-Muhajir, which translates as “Abdullah the Immigrant” (an improvement over Padilla’s boyhood nickname “Pucho,” which translates as “pudgy”).

Little has been disclosed about Padilla’s time in training, but when it was completed, the terrorist formerly known as Pucho was assigned to a task that, to all appearances, lay well beyond his limited skill set — obtaining uranium for use in a radiological dispersion device, or a “dirty bomb” which combines conventional explosives with radioactive toxins.

Abu Zubayda, the Qaeda lieutenant in charge of Padilla for at least some of his time in Pakistan, must surely have realized that Pucho was muy estupido. Time Magazine related an anecdote from early 2002 in which Padilla came to Zubayda proudly flourishing schematics to build a nuclear warhead… which he had found on the Internet. You can probably guess where this is going. Time called the plans “laughably inaccurate” and suggested they might have come from a parody Web site.

Despite the fact he was obviously no Ramzi Yousef, Padilla seemed to have inexplicably ingratiated into the very highest level of al Qaeda. Before his capture by U.S. forces shortly after the meeting cited above, Zubayda was a top al Qaeda planner. While in Pakistan, Padilla also reported to Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, al Qaeda’s No. 3 leader and the mastermind of the September 11 attacks.

Zubayda and Khalid Shaikh jointly sealed Padilla’s fate as 2002 moved forward. In April, it appears that Khalid Shaikh personally dispatched Padilla to the United States, with a few grand in cash to execute a mission. Abu Zubayda, in U.S. custody by this time, allegedly fingered Padilla as an “important” al Qaeda operative, providing color on the “dirty bomb” plot. By Zubayda’s account, which may not be reliable, Padilla’s assignment was to scout targets for a radiological dispersion attack.

As a result of the tip, government officials arrested Padilla in May when he walked off his plane at the international airport in Chicago, his hometown and (likely not coincidentally) the current headquarters of the Benevolence International Foundation.

Attorney General John Ashcroft announced the arrest one month later, in a melodramatic televised speech which scared the hell out of many Americans. The speech inflated little Pucho into a front page story, much to the displeasure of the White House, which reportedly restricted Ashcroft’s press activities severely in the wake of the fiasco.

Padilla was yanked from the criminal justice system and declared an enemy combatant, a legal term which means “nonentity.” He was tossed in a military brig in North Carolina and held incommunicado, forbidden from contacting family or legal counsel.

Now that he’s been “charged”, reports indicate that the evidence linking Padilla to the ‘dirty bomb’ plot may have been obtained under ‘harsh questioning.’ OH MY!

USAToday writes in an editorial that by moving Padilla “from a military brig to a federal detention center, Bush might have avoided a Supreme Court showdown he was likely to lose.”

The Detroit Free Press reported that the charges against Padilla did include conspiring to murder, kidnap, and maim Americans overseas and of providing material support to terrorists. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Padilla had traveled overseas for training to fight in “violent jihad” and was part of a terrorist support cell that operated in the United States.

But these are things that leftists don’t even want to acknowledge in this case. “Providing material support to terrorists” doesn’t seem to bother them, since a lot of the leftist groups–like Code Pink, International Answer, the Russian Communist Party, etc.,–are all doing the very same thing. Nowadays aiding and abetting the enemy doesn’t seem to be something that people seem to think is criminal, which in itself is astonishing.

Actually, I could give a damn if this individual ever sees the light of day. It appears as though his days of international terrorism are as kaput as his days in the fast-food service industry.

Perhaps Padilla thinks fondly of those days at Taco Bell…and maybe he wonders if being stuck in a dead-end job wasn’t really as big a deal as it seemed at the time…