5/31/2005

Michael Crook Quit Playing Dodgeball

Filed under: General , Kit , bwahahahaha! @ 9:49 pm

Remember Michael Crook, the fool behind such pathetic attempts at fame as ForsaketheTroops and ForsakethePolice? He was recently on Hannity and Colmes looking like a village idiot, and he ended up shutting down his ForsakeTheTroops site and moving to this site, which he was running like a blog with one theme.

Heidi over at Euphoric Reality fisked the hell out of him in this post, doing what few others before her had done - expose the real reason Michael is such an anti-military little p…erson. Turns out Michael spent 2 years trying to get into the military, and finally succeeded in being a recruit for a not-so-glorious 2-week period, at which point he was rendered “unfit for training” and sent home.

No one loves a good fool-exposing piece like Heidi and I do, so we had some fun today.

Truth is a diminishing attribute

Filed under: General , History , Mustang @ 10:07 am

In 1871, Albert Pike wrote of social morality when he said,

“Truth, in act, profession, and opinion, is rarer now than in the days of chivalry. Falsehood has become a current coin, and circulates with a certain degree of respectability; because it has an actual value. It is indeed the great vice of the age—it, and its twin sister, dishonesty. Men, for political preferment, profess whatever principles are expedient and profitable. At the bar, in the pulpit, and in the halls of legislation, men argue against their own convictions. And with what they term logic, prove to the satisfaction of others that which they do not themselves believe. Insincerity and duplicity are valuable to their possessors, like estates in stocks, that yield a certain revenue; and it is no longer the truth of an opinion or a principle, but the net profit that may be realized from it, which is the measure of its value.”

I believe that this is precisely where we are today in American society; rather than progress, we have a wider application of the maladies Pike described. Before our children have reached their teenage years, they often demonstrate proficiency in falsehood and dishonesty such that all that remains for them in the rest of their lives is to perfect it.

What assumptions should we make about the immorality of American society? If we assume that parents teach their children honesty, perhaps we should ask where they are learning to perfect dishonesty. Could it be our system of public education, and/or exposure to other people’s children?

Do schools reinforce parental instruction, and are parents part of the problem? Public education lacks across-the-board honesty because here are two parts to this system: (a) that hyped and (b) that modeled. Even young students are smart enough to recognize hypocrisy when they see it, and they quickly learn to become at least initially successful within that framework. For example, they note that teachers tell them how wonderful they are as human beings, an esteem-building strategy involving lies. Teachers overlook spelling errors, they ignore poor grammar, they reinforce negative behaviors, and they inflate grades. Who benefits most, ultimately?

Dishonesty serves the teacher more than students because teachers want to be successful according to the framework established for them by corrupt administrators. It is manifested in the way teachers avoid high failure rates, disciplinary problems, and complaints from parents. Principals set the tone for this dishonesty by evaluating teachers as poor performers when students fail, or when teachers send disciplinary problems to the office. They frequently override teachers who do fail students by offering athletic or band exemptions to otherwise ineligible students.

Students learn a great deal from public schools — most of it unscrupulous. And parents who enable failure and unseemly behavior negatively reinforce children. Parents both cajole and threaten educators until students receive promotions, or until misconduct is swept under the carpet. If this is not duplicity, I don’t know what is.

I find it odd that when people talk of “unspeakable” ills perpetrated against children, no one mentions the damage of dishonest schools, and mendacious parents. Both are charged with teaching young people that honesty is to be recognized and rewarded. They should be reinforcing one another by teaching students that honesty is doing the right thing when no one is looking. Mr. Albert Pike was correct. Insincerity and duplicity are valuable to their possessors, and there is a great deal of profit in such a system—just look at how much money is paid in school taxes.

Copyright, 2005

X-Post: Social Sense

Anatomy of a Troll: The Story of Jane

Filed under: Afghanistan, Iraq & Military , General , Kit @ 5:41 am

From Euphoric Reality:

According to the Urban Dictionary, a “troll” is someone who “posts a deliberately provocative message to a newsgroup or message board with the intention of causing maximum disruption and argument.”

Allow me to introduce you to a real life troll. Her alias is Jane Howard. You might know Jane from her many posts throughout the blogosphere, all of which had the same tone: Lt. Ilario Pantano is a horrible officer. Those of us who followed the Pantano case with bated breath and fearful, prayer-filled hearts know Jane well, for we couldn’t go anywhere in the blogosphere without seeing her snide, hateful comments. We were all certain that Jane had a hidden agenda; for no other “regular citizen” was nearly as pointed or personal in their verbal attacks on Ilario’s character. Jane was tireless; posting with three aliases at all hours of the day and night, on any blog that talked about Pantano and allowed comments. Sadly, Jane was as unoriginal as she was venomous, and was forced to resort to cutting and pasting the same tired, embittered story that she got from her “son”, who she claimed was a classmate of Pantano’s in Officer School.

Here at ER, we take great pride in our ability to ferret out the idiots who like to think that because they hide behind an alias, their immature ramblings will not be tied to their real life persona. As with Coburn, whose oral diarrhea is preserved for posterity on this blog and in court testimony, our curiosity was piqued at the idea that yet another cretin whose bitterness far outweighed their intelligence was running amok.

Being the enterprising minds that we are, we finally decided that with such an abundance of clues as to the posters’ identity, we would be doing the public a disservice by not outing these weasels and parading their insanity and stupidity for the entire world to see. After all, they seemed to be begging for attention, and who are we to deny them that?

So now, in keeping with our tradition of exposing losers who think they’re anonymous, I present to you the true story of Jane.

A tribute to Hack

Filed under: Afghanistan, Iraq & Military , General @ 4:21 am

Here’s his website.

Col. David H. Hackworth, the United States Army’s legendary, highly decorated guerrilla fighter and lifelong champion of the doughboy and dogface, ground-pounder and grunt, died May 4, 2005, on a Wednesday, in Mexico. He was 74 years old. The cause of death was a form of cancer now appearing with increasing frequency among Vietnam veterans exposed to the defoliants called Agents Orange and Blue.

There are two groups of people who “support the troops” in Iraq and Afghanistan: There are the people who stick the ribbon magnets on their SUVs and talk about “supporting our troops” while staying a safe distance away from the fight (or maybe simultaneously declaring they don’t support the war), and then there are the people who work to make sure that our soldiers are well-trained, well-equipped and well-led-people, unafraid to tell the truth, no matter who gets upset about it.

We lost a great man in the latter group with the death of Col. David Hackworth, a champion of the common soldier who died of cancer at age 74 on May 4.

“He was perhaps the finest soldier of his generation,” observed the novelist and war correspondent Nicholas Proffit, who described Col. Hackworth’s combat autobiography, About Face, a national best-seller, as “a passionate cry from the heart of a man who never stopped loving the Army, even when it stopped loving him back.”

“Hack never lost his focus,” said Roger Charles, president of Soldiers for the Truth. “That focus was on the young kids that our country sends to bleed and die on our behalf. Everything he did in his retirement was to try to give them a better chance to win and to come home. That’s one hell of a legacy.”

Hackworth will be buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery on Tuesday, May 31. His legacy is the group “Soldiers For The Truth,” (www.sftt.org), a group devoted to military reform that has become the main conduit for the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan to tell people back home the real story of what’s happening at the front. His 1989 autobiography, “About Face,” will be read for years to come by all who are seeking the nuts and bolts of leadership. And most of all, his example of speaking out in favor of common sense when it comes to defending the nation will be remembered by all who know the difference between saying you support the troops and actually doing so.

God bless him and his family.

Soldiers For The Truth is now working on legal action to compel the Pentagon to recognize Agent Blue alongside the better known Agent Orange as a killer and to help veterans exposed to it during the Vietnam War. Memorial contributions can be sent to Soldiers For The Truth either by internet or by mail to, P.O. Box 54365, Irvine, California, 92619-4365.

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Senator Kerry, free your 180!~

Filed under: General , Jean Francois Kerrie @ 4:21 am


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Important update: John Kerry signed his 180, now all he needs to do is set it free so we can see the records. We are altering the “Sign the 180″ blogburst to the “FREE the 180 blogburst” and we’re going to keep hammering on it!

We’re going to make this post a fun poetry meme. Link to me with your poetry meme! SET KERRY’s 180 FREE!

Here’s a sample from Polipundit’s friend, Tom:

Free your ‘180′, John Kerry!
You said you’d release it, when queried…
We will never forget!
Your word is your debt!
Forever, you can’t keep it buried!

And here’s my little poetry meme:

Mr. Kerry, you gave us your word
Which thousands of Americans heard
On meet the press tv
Won’t you set free
The records that you have incurred?

Set that 180 free John Kerry
Before the nation gets even more scarey
You never can tell
What righwingers from hell
Can do if you don’t answer our query.

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The more people we have, the merrier!

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New York-2 more terrorists arrested

Filed under: General , Terrorism and Islam @ 4:18 am

These two guys could be your next door neighbors, but some of the stuff in this article is even more chilling.

One is a Florida doctor and the other is a self-described martial arts expert (apparently a jazz musician by night). The Boca Raton doctor, Rafiq Abdus Sabir, 50, and and Tarik Shah, 42, became enthusiastic followers of al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden before they were arrested on terrorism charges, according to court papers released Monday.

They were arrested Friday on a charge that they conspired to provide material support to al-Qaida, an FBI agent said.

An 18-page complaint unsealed on Monday repeatedly described Shah’s zest to train “brothers” for urban warfare. It alleged both men pledged their allegiance to al-Qaida during a May 20 meeting on the first floor of a Bronx apartment.

“Shah indicated that his `greatest cover has been’ his career as a professional’ jazz musician,” wrote Brian Murphy, the FBI agent who prepared the complaint.

Shah also discussed a desire to start a martial arts school only for Muslims and said he hoped to be trained in chemicals, explosives, firearms, AK-47 assault rifles and hand grenades, the complaint said. The defendant allegedly discussed martyrdom with the informant, saying he and Sabir had been persecuted for many years.

On April 1, 2004, Shah was meeting with the informant when he exchanged smiles with a girl standing nearby, the complaint said. Shah allegedly turned to the informant and said, “I could be joking and smiling and then cutting their throats in the next second.”

That is pretty damned chilling…!

Update: The muslims are coming to the defense of these two, claiming they’re not terrorists, they’re “good muslims”. Yeah, so is Osama Bin Laden.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Brown requested no bond because she said Sabir was a flight risk and a “danger to the community.”

Apparently there’s quite a difference in style between the two men, the doctor being more subdued than the jazz musician:

Sabir showed no outward signs of emotion Tuesday, wearing a blue prison outfit, handcuffs and leg shackles. He spoke calmly when he answered Hopkins’ questions.

Shah, on the other hand, smiled and waved to supporters at his initial hearing Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan, the Associated Press reported.

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5/30/2005

Jane is pissing off the Yemens

Filed under: General , Terrorism and Islam @ 1:40 pm

It’s just too much fun. The jihadis don’t like to have attention drawn to what they’re doing, they’re accustomed to killing people who don’t agree with them, or act like dhimmis. Aww. Take a look at her post for today referencing a whole article in the Yemen Times.

MARD PAR AMRICA MARD PAR ISRAEL
“Jane Novak a docile pupil of a monkey monk”

Jane Novak unfortunately has fallen as a victim to the allegations of the Houthists.

Nevermind that the Houthists are anti-American rebels.

Dear Jane Novak, this is not in defense of Ali Abdullah Saleh or in defense of the Yemeni influential people who are in control of Yemen at the moment. You should know the thoughts of the Houthists whom you naively defend.

Jane is a Houthist? But haven’t we heard these naiive and stupid attacks before? Get a load of this one:

So, if you like racists and backward people and is enamored with the use of a backfiring gun, then it is your business and Americans cannot fall victims to a mentally retarded monkey like Al-Wazeer the Tabaranist (a native of Tabaristan in northern Iran) who has not learnt yet after all those years of stay in USA to look at the world and humanity from a different developed perspective but is still narrow-minded thinking that he is a descendant of a sublime extraterrestrial jewel and other Yemenis are dung-descendants.

Did you get that mouthful of unintelligable slop? The world is full of them, I guess. That racist sons of pigs and monkeys stuff is rampant with these leftists all over the world. Some of them, after all, come over here and visit ME. After all, it’s very recognizable; it’s what the Palestinians are teaching their children about the West–that they’re the sons of pigs and monkeys. It makes it easier to kill them. But then~that’s a very irrational and long rant, much like the ones I’ve seen Iranian terrorist sympathizers do. tssk tssk. And dung descendants? I didn’t know dung could multiply. :lol:. Well you’ve got the proof right there, I’d say.

You can see more of an explanation of the Yemen situation here: Yemen’s Facade of Freedom.

One of the worst parts about that article were these two sections:

In late November, Yemeni authorities admitted that Saddam Hussein’s wife, Sajida Kheirallah Telfah, and daughter, Hala, along with the wives of several senior Iraqi officials, were offered free government housing in Sana’a by the Yemeni government prior to the fall of Baghdad.

So they gave Saddam’s wife safe sanctuary. How cozy. And this

“Saleh’s regime is considered one of the most corrupted regimes. And it starts from the very top.”

The fact that these things are coming to light must be absolutely causing them to wring their hands and fret like a bunch of old women. The guy writing that article about Jane asks her to come to Yemen…

If you do not believe me, you are welcome in Yemen to read their thoughts and ideas so that you can have an unbiased opinion and I am ready to meet you if you so wish.

I guess they want her to go to Yemen because…? Because they want to welcome her with open arms and enter into a civilized debate, like the jihadis are doing with Ali Sina? hehehe.

There are several mind boggling points in that rant, and I’d like to point a few of them out to you. Here’s another one:

Some women like being battered and it is only natural that there are other women who are for predators.

And some men like to do that battering. Particularly Islamist men, it’s according to their sharia law, which is what Ali has pointed out many times.

My friend Jane is getting me “up to snuff” on all the goings on in the area, along with Ali Sina and a few others, so, they can’t pull the wool over my eyes the way they do the people who live there. This is a free nation, and we’re allowed to say whatever the hell we please; which is the truth. Unlike what’s going on in the middle east where the terrorists have control over the media. Read this piece by Jane herself over at Religion Journal:

The Yemeni Ambassador to Syria, Ahmed Abdullah al-Hasani, is attempting to defect to the UK. He says that members of Al-Qaeda are in the highest ranks of Yemen’s military and security forces. Al-Hasani says that it is very likely that President Ali Abdullah Saleh “knew in advance of the Cole explosion” which killed 17 U.S. servicemen. Indeed, Freedom House in 2003 reported that Saleh refused to even investigate the Cole bombing until the United States threatened military action. Also in 2003, al-Qaeda praised President Saleh as the only Arab and Muslim leader who is not an agent for the West or the East.

They just can’t stand it that Jane is speaking out against the terrorists who have control over there. And I suppose, in true Islamist fashion, they can’t stand it that she speaks the truth, and that she speaks against the Jihadis, which is the first rate apostate crime.

The goal we all should have is to get conservatives to understand, clearly and simply, that Saleh is tightly associated with al-Qaeda, is targeting his own people (Zaidis, socialists, journalists, reformers ect.) That there’s al-Qaeda throughout all the official power structures in Yemen (and beyond). And that there’s also al-Qaeda run training camps in Yemen for Baathists who go back to Iraq and target our troops.

Go read this article by Jane up at Frontpage Magazine. Kudos, girlfriend!

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Memorial Day; honor their sacrifice

Filed under: General , History , Russ Vaughn Vietnam Vet Poet @ 5:39 am

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. . . . I have called you friends . . .
—John 15:13, 15

In honor of Memorial Day, there will be parades and flowers laid at gravesites of people who lost their lives serving our country all around the nation. There has never been a time that I have been more accutely aware of the problems before our honorable service men and women as they go about the notable duties of serving our country and protecting our God given freedoms. Too many people, it seems, are living in some kind of a fantasyworld where there is no war and there are no evil people.

But for some, on 9/11, that idea changed forever when 19 islamist crazies crashed the towers and hit the pentagon, hoping that in the process of taking their own lives, they would, in the spirit of Islamofacism, take many Americans with them and drive a sword straight into the belly of the infidel.

You can recognize fallen veterans and their families by joining with other Patriots placing flags at your nearest National Cemetery (generally done on Saturday before Memorial Day). Remember to pause at 1500 (your local time) on Memorial Day, and offer remembrance and prayer for these great Patriots.

Additionally, please show your support for our troops standing in harm’s way today by signing “An Open Letter in Support of America’s Armed Forces”

Today there are representatives of newer generations laying beside those who fought in Korea, in Vietnam, WWII, and WWI; they are those who have fought against the terrorists in the middle east who would see us destroyed just the same as their ideological brothers, the Nazis in the ’30’s. Let us pray that we are able to prevail over this threat, although much more sinister, as representatives exist in cells right here in the US, plotting our destruction, and imams and clerics call for our destruction in American mosques.

God be with all of our service men and women.

“Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”

Rough Men

There’s a character trait that’s decided by fate
Comes (sadly) to many, far too faint, far too late.
They won’t face the aggressor, stand up to his ire
They have not the will to fight his fire with fire.
So they bend over backwards to see all sides as fair,
Till they’re faced with dragon breath fire in their hair.
Like our brethren in France, who’d know better than we,
Yet seem never to learn, seem doomed never to see.

Yes, it seems there are some who’re determined by fate,
To possess not the courage to step up to the plate,
Who shrink from all threat because nothing’s worth war.
But how can they know lest they’ve been there before?
Thank God some have courage, the will, yes, the grace,
To stand for the shirkers, stand strong in their place.
Thank God we have stalwarts who’ll stand for us all,
Who will rise to the challenge at their nation’s call.

The faint-hearted, who fear, whose reaction is flight,
Have no comprehension of those who will fight.
To hide their own trepidation they attempt to demean
The rough men, who defend them, as barbaric, obscene.
Yet these rough men stand ready, hard weapons to hand,
To put placaters behind them, draw a line in the sand,
To preserve for the peaceniks what they won’t defend,
So their own unearned freedom won’t perish, won’t end.

To appeasers, rough men are coarse government tools.
To rough men, appeasers are dumb delusional fools.

Russ Vaughn
2d Bn, 327th Parachute Infantry Regiment
101st Airborne Division
Vietnam 65-66


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Pilot

Filed under: General @ 5:38 am

This is the kind of pilot I want flying me around!

Yamin Zakaria boasts win over Ali Sina like a clucking rooster

Filed under: General , Terrorism and Islam @ 5:24 am

Read the debate here. I particularly like this page.

Yamin Zakaria is a typical Arab male crowing like a rooster, looking down his nose at the dhimmi unbelievers who he thinks should pay the jizah tax, or die. Only –we (both Ali and I) live in societies where Islam is not prevalent. Islam and sharia law are not the rule here. Yamin Zakria is not to be confused with Fareed Zakaria, who works for Newsweek. Yamin lives in London, England, which I’m sure will get the Rotty Pup’s hackles up.

Barbara Stock is, apparently, Zakaria’s nemesis, so this has been very interesting to watch. I was pulled into the fray simply because I’m aware of the debate that’s been going on between Zakaria and Ali Sina, and because Zakaria came here exposing himself as a pompous ass. Apparently, I am linked now with Answers.com regarding my friend, Ali Sina, who owns Faithfreedom.org. I, too, have received death threats–both on this website and through email. And I, too, prefer to remain anonymous. That is the beauty of the blogosphere, we have the freedom to do just that. I need elbow room to be able to talk about what I believe, without fear of reprisals anywhere. And these days it is becoming more and more clear that Christians in general are being persecuted more and more each day, just for being who they are. The other point is–terrorists do not want the truth about Islam exposed. Such a strange culture it is; taking over the world by conquest, lying, and killing your opponents. Reminds me of communism, but that’s why leftists have joined together with Islamists to destroy America.

I’d like to refer you to this link where Barbara takes on Zakaria. Zakaria can’t help himself; he’s a middleastern man who doesn’t think much of women, and that’s according to their culture and the Koran. Women are but vessels for male heirs and that’s about it. They should be beaten by their husbands, and they should keep themselves covered and quiet. They’ve been kept out of all kinds of things that Western women take for granted–for example, voting, or going out in public with a short-sleeved shirt or letting the wind blow through your hair. And a young single woman shouldn’t be alone with a man, because the implications will be that she has had sex with him. Regardless if that’s true or not; and she could be killed by her family as a result of insulting her family’s honor. It’s called “honor killing”. Fathers will kill daughters, sometimes brothers will kill sisters. It’s pretty convoluted and sick.

But enough of that. Zakaria came here jumping up and down like some immature teenage boy, claiming victory over Ali. I have as yet to see any victory by any of the Islamists who are debating Ali. He is cool, calm and eloquent. I’d like to see more people in America who can defend their ideas with such calmness and respectfulness of his opponents. Ali finds it all mildly amusing, I’m afraid. There is no bigger fool than Zakaria, only his arrogance blinds him to it. And this is why:

Islam is not a doctrine based on logical argument, commonsense or reasoning. It is based on hype and bravado. Muslims are triumphalists. Islam is a religion of idiocy. Its followers pride themselves on their blind faith. It is a fideistic religion, where faith is valued more than rational thought. In fact rational thought is despised and blind faith is praised. This can be easily seen from the statements of al-Gazali (1058 – 1111) who said: “Where the claims of reason come into conflict with revelation, reason must yield to revelation.” and even Jalaleddin Rumi who said.

The legs of the rationalists is made of wood
The wooden leg is draggy and it’s no good.

How do you fight with people who despise reason and pride themselves in their irrational faith?

Good question, Ali. I doubt if there’s an answer to that…unless they’re coming after you with a sword to cut your head off. It seems to me we should be getting ready for that to happen, since you can check at this website how many Islamist organizations are in your area by zip code. If you put in your zip code, you’ll get a comprehensive listing of all the Islamic organizations including Mosques that are near you. I couldn’t believe how many are right here in my town!

This from a column written by Zakaria titled, What would you rather be: Ethnic Minority, Gentile or Dhimmi: “If anything it is the Muslims that have always shown the greatest degree of tolerance.” Yet, in an email to me, he made this statement: (The) prophecy of Prophet Muhammad (SAW), (is) that the end of time will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them all. Prior to that time anti-Semitism will become a virtue not a stigma!” He has even stated that moderate Muslims will have no safe haven. Now that’s tolerance!

As this article at Frontpage talks about, when it comes down to taking a stand against terrorism, most muslims don’t say a word. How can they? Terror is how they deal with the infidel; it’s taught to them in the Koran, the surah and it’s pushed on them from their local mosques, imams and clerics.

Yamin goes on to say in this same column that Muslims have “…no track records of the Islamic state forcefully converting people en masse or exterminating them.” This statement would put anyone who is in touch with reality into fits of hysterical laughter! How does one explain the genocide in Sudan? The Islamic government has a policy of killing all those who refuse to convert to Islam. That is called extermination and forced conversion in anyone’s dictionary but Yamin’s. On average, 10,000 people a month are dying of starvation in camps in Sudan because the people have fled the marauding Islamic death squads. Then, the Islamic government blocks the food from getting to the camps. If you can’t disembowel them — starve them to death. Sudan is but one example, there are many more.

The fact is, Muslims can’t even get along with each other. Sunni hate Shia, Shia hate Sunni, and the Wahhabi sect hates everyone.

Because the Wahhabi sect came up with the bright idea that Wahhabi is the only true Islam which makes the other sects infidels. Isn’t THAT a great one? So that means if you’re wahhabi, you’re out to kill the unbelievers who are also your fellow muslims. That’s kind of a mindblower, isn’t it?

Another startling statement made by Mr. Zakaria is: “The recent convergences of the European countries to persecute the Muslim communities are not due to any real threats but driven by prejudice.” The fact that Muslims are blowing up trains, slitting people’s throats, and attacking firemen that dare enter Muslim neighborhoods to put out fires has nothing to do with people becoming intolerant of Muslims. The civilized world is expected to accept the violent and irrational behavior of Islam without question. Muslims are not expected to abide by the laws of the land or respect their host country’s culture. It is their right to just be Muslim and all that encompasses. They don’t have to “get along.” Why? Because they feel they are above the rest of us “infidels.”

Yamin’s continued attacks on his debate opponent were a combination of twisted words and outright lies. In his epistle called: Freethinkers’ VS Islam and the Burden of Proof, Zakaria makes the nonsensical statement: “The clearest evidence of their hypocritical and cowardly nature with pretence of being ‘rational’ lies in fact that they do not to elaborate on their alternative solutions as vociferously as they express criticisms of Islam and Muslims!” HUH? This is an old Yamin trick, use lots of big words to confuse the ignorant but actually say nothing at all. What did he say here? Those who try to debate with him had better not challenge him because his small, closed mind can’t grasp the repetitive explanation of the “alternative solution.”

What Zakaria completely missed by bringing up the “golden rule” that although Ali is not a Christian, he points out that Christianity is very tolerant and the “golden rule” is all about respecting other people. To me, that’s the beauty in Christianity, it is based on the premise of every man’s free will. Every time Ali brings up a point like pedophaelia in Islam, Zakaria goes back to the Golden Rule. Beating Ali over the head with that is pretty ridiculous, since most reasonable people accept it as a good rule, whether you’re a Christian or not, and which Ali pointed out–is not unreasonable to expect people to follow a simple rule like that -which respects others. But that doesn’t fit within the concepts of Islam, because Islam is not about respecting others. Islam is about being dominant over others. (including women)

“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Pretty simple logic, heh? But Islamic arrogance demonstrates only that they believe they should be dominant in the world, and unbelievers should be treated as dhimmis. They’ve proven that time and again; particularly in this last round of events where they’re bleating from their prison cells at Gitmo about atrocities that are being committed against them and an Al Qaeda training manual is proof that they’re instructed to make false charges against their captors. And of course, the leftists are jumping up and down about it; but the simple truth of the matter is –it’s a tactic that liars use. And al-Taqiyya is lying for the sake of Islam, and is approved and sanctioned if it furthers the cause. I know, if you’re a religious person (other than a muslim) that is mind-bending, but Islam’s goal is to be dominant in the world, by any method at your disposal, and it’s much more difficult to catch a liar.

I read every word of this non-debate. First, let me point out that “freethinkers” are not allowed in Islam. Second, Ali Sina made it very clear that he didn’t care if people worshipped mushrooms as long as they didn’t roam the world killing innocent people on the orders of the head mushroom. To put it simple enough for even Yamin to understand, Sina wanted people to simply live by The Golden Rule of life — “Do unto others…” At no time was it stated that Muslims should become Hindu or Catholic or Buddhist. They should be able to live their lives free from fear of their own religion. When that “religion” tells them to kill in God’s name, and they follow that command, civilization must stop them. A six year old could understand this — but not Yamin.

While Yamin doesn’t tote a gun, he uses his words to incite hatred and violence. He enshrines those that kill and urges them to kill more. Sadly, his words are eagerly posted on Islamic sites. Many of these sites don’t know the real Yamin Zakaria. I do. I will continue to closely follow his hate filled rhetoric, as are others more powerful than I. From time to time I will report on his more outlandish statements. There is no way to keep him honest, but I will continue to expose his true nature — a terrorist who uses words instead of a sword. Yamin fights his wars like he debates: as a coward, hiding behind his computer screen, urging others to do his murderous dirty work.

And that, my friends, is how they do it. Hiding, shooting at Americans from Mosques, hiding behind women and children, the tactics are despicable to the western mind, but we’re going to have to get a grip on this rather quickly or we’re going to be destroyed.

Muslims are hellbent on taking over the world through deceptive strategies. One group of them commits all sorts of crimes against humanity and the other group, says: Ah! but these are not true Muslims. Everything is just a game - a game of deception! One group quotes the Quran to cause mayhem and the other group says these are misguided. If anyone says any thing against Islam the entire Muslim world enters in a state of frenzied mass hysteria, lives are destroyed everywhere and they demand apologies from everyone.

Islam is based on stupidity, not on reason. It is psychopathology. Muhammad was a psychopath. We have a billion people emulating a psychopath. How shall we deal with these people?

Leaving them alone is not an option. Islam is evil and as Edmund Burke said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” We can’t let Muslims destroy our world. We must stop them.

You can see Ali participating in a synopsium here at Frontpage Magazine. It’s particularly interesting because this synopsium talks about Islam’s treatment of women.

The death threat against Ali Sina

Barbara Stock’s piece, Sherlock Holmes and Me

Ali’s site: Faithfreedom.org


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5/29/2005

Flush Newsweek!

Filed under: General , Leftist Agenda , News @ 7:25 am

And what makes Newsweek’s Koran report even worse is the fact that British police captured an al Qaeda training manual several years ago that instructs detainees to make false charges against their captors. That means Newsweek published a story based on unsubstantiated charges made by America’s enemies who have been told to make false accusations if captured. So is Newsweek following Al Qaeda’s training manual, too?

While a Japanese edition of Newsweek dated Feb. 2 published a cover story featuring an American flag in a trash can under the headline, “The day America died,” and the international edition featured a photo of President Bush with the headline, “America Leads … But Is Anyone Following?,” the cover story in the foreign editions, titled, “Dream on, America,” about what Newsweek characterized as “the world’s rejection of the American way of life,” did not run in the U.S. edition of the magazine.

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Japanese cover with headlines translated to English. (Image: RickAdams.org.)

“It’s one thing for Newsweek to actively promote the notion that America is a ‘dead,’ ‘rotting’ country overseas,” writes Gaijinbiker at the Riding Sun. “But it’s quite another thing indeed to hide those efforts from its American readers. If Newsweek really think America is dead, and our flag belongs in the trash, why won’t it tell us?”

Footnote: Not to be outdone, the loyal lefty soldiers of DEZINFORMATSIA are writing on different forums that Newsweek doesn’t even publish a Japanese edition and the bloggers are making the whole thing up about that American Flag in the trashcan cover. Oh really? Here’s a link to the actual web site of the Japanese edition Newsweek doesn’t publish. PUHLEEZE.

Cross posted at The Wide Awakes and Patriots for Bush


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The Christian Underground

Filed under: Faith in God , General @ 5:11 am

We’re fighting back. Frankly, I’m pretty sick of the attacks like from that idiot just a little bit ago from the UK, telling me to burn in hell. Looks to me like there are clouds gathering on the horizon. It also looks like there’s a backlash coming. A Christian backlash to the anti-Christian fascist type hatred that’s coming from all over the blogosphere and elsewhere against Christians who just want to do what they’ve always done: act like who they are.

We have the right to do that; our Constitution doesn’t have that “separation of church and state” jargon in it anywhere. That language is in the Soviet Constitution, not ours. Are the liberals who use that language trying to make the United States into another Socialist utopian paradise where Christians don’t have any freedom to pray wherever they feel like it? It would seem so. So the pilgrims who came here to escape religious persecution are probably rolling over in their graves right now. The legacy they left us–of freedom to pray, freedom to act like who we are in public- is at great risk.

Here’s a piece up at Stop the ACLU. Apparently the people who keep thinking that we live in Russia and that our founders wanted a secular society, are moving to make praying in public worthy of serving jailtime.

That makes it pretty clear to me that we’re facing facists in our midst who don’t support our freedom of religion; they’d rather see to it that we’re silenced as far as our faith is concerned. Hitler’s regime was all about not only persecuting Jews, but persecuting Christians, as well. Hitler had an actual compaign against the Christian churches. So as much as people are saying the Bushitler meme, it couldn’t be further from the truth. Where our country is headed and has been headed for some time now, isn’t all Bush’s fault, although leftists want a scapegoat so badly they’re willing to make the most ridiculous accusations.

So I guess those “secularist” founding fathers –who declared a day of Thanksgiving didn’t mean for us to thank God, heh? Despite the fact that several presidents declared it a national holiday to thank God?

Next thing you know, the pilgrims didn’t come here to escape religious persecution, they came here on a joy ride, to create a tree-hugging pagan utopia.

5/28/2005

The World’s Village Idiots

Friday’s headlines were an interesting study for those who are able to read and are clever enough to process and analyze information. Both of the following headlines were provided by the Associated Press, by the way — and both were filed from Pakistan.

ANTI-AMERICAN RALLIES STAGED IN MIDDLE EAST
Thousands of Muslims throughout South Asia marched and burned symbols of the United States in protest to the alleged desecration of the Koran by military personnel at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

20 KILLED IN BOMB BLAST AT MUSLIM SHRINE
A suicide bomb detonated while hundreds of Shi’ite Muslims recited verses from the Koran during a religious festival at a shrine near Pakistan.

In the first story, the report provides information about “thousands” of Muslims who are upset about the alleged mishandling of the Koran (which, by the way, is a book printed, published, and distributed by human beings), even when allegations are simply that. Oh yes, the ugly, ever satanic America has done tremendous psychological damage to these simple, good, God-fearing people, by insulting their religion, debauching their culture, and taking advantage of their surprisingly good nature. No doubt, we also conspired with the Jews to kidnap their children and use their body parts in pastries.

In the second story, the reporter tells — well, the headline says it all, but apparently one of these simple, good, God-fearing people wrapped himself in explosives and detonated it in an effort to expedite his fellow Muslims’ arrival at the gates of paradise. On the face of it, the suicide bomber did a remarkably decent thing, spiritually — unless his passengers weren’t ready to make the trip yet. In the land of the Ugly American, such conduct is called murder in the first degree. There are appropriate adjectives for this kind of behavior, as well — cowardly, spineless, ruthless, and decadent comes to mind, but then we’ve come to expect no more, or no less from Jihadists with their twisted mindset.

Always On Watch noticed a “feeding frenzy” on the so-called desecration story, but notes that competing newspapers differ on the substance of the story: The Washington Post, parent company of Newsweek is taking the accusatory track, while the Washington Times is providing a more in-depth, balanced approach. Says AOW, Islamic protestors, the people who adore the religion of peace, have proclaimed, “We will cut off the feet that desecrated the Quran! No one has the right to debase our holy book. We are prepared to die to protect the honor of our religion.”

Meanwhile, the ACLU continues its condemnation of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, echoing charges made by Michael RATner of the Center for Constitutional Rights that military guards have defiled the Muslim prisoners by smearing them with menstrual fluid. It is bad enough that Americans have to contend with Jihadis who are at best the world’s “village idiots,” but now we also have to contend with the home-grown variety at the ACLU and CCR. I wonder how advocates of the ACLU and CCR would fare living under Islamic law, which is an interesting concept.

Post Script:

According to Brigadier General Hood, Commander of the Joint Task Force at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, his inquiry revealed five cases of “mishandling” of the Koran by military personnel: three incidents were “probably” intentional, two were not. According to the media, “mishandling” is defined as any act specifically prohibited by Army or DoD regulations, including “touching the Koran without wearing white gloves.”

Give me a break! Why in hell we are bending over backwards for these prisoners is beyond my comprehension. It is insulting to me as a Christian that any Muslim thinks that my hands are too soiled to touch a book. Our priorities are horribly skewed here . . . in my opinion, the liberal policies of DoD is part of the problem with Koran-gate.

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Those International America-hating Elites

The Friday 27 May column by Victor Davis Hanson, titled “Our Spoiled and Unhappy Global Elites”, is a study in just how the liberal annointed class worldwide can provide endless hours of entertainment even as they persistently and predictably annoy. Hanson provides four recent textbook examples of hypocritical anti-Americans of global stature that, while not quite household names yet, should be — for their rank hypocrisy.

The Hollywood Ignorantsia have gotten enough attention in recent years, so let’s spread it around a bit shall we? Pepsi Cola’s CEO Indra Nooyi, Pakistani politician and former cricket star Imran Khan, Booker literature prize winner from India Arundhati Roy, and Danish anti-American filmmaker Lars von Trier have showered the world (or at least their respective chattering classes) with intense loathing of America and the West, even as they reap the manifold benefits of Western capitalism. As true hypocrites, they shield themselves through money and celebrity from the little people who would shout and riot and even kill to further the causes they espouse.

Writes Hanson:

There are easily identifiable constants in these sad examples. Rhetoric is always at odds with lifestyle: A novelist who tours and writes in English is the epitome of the Western liberal tradition that allows freedom of expression, promotes book sales through open markets, and enjoys unfettered peer review. Ms. Roy will always operate deeply embedded in the system she ridicules, and Western grandees will always pay her well for making them feel badly for a few hours. Islamists, Communists, and theocrats — in a Saudi Arabia, Iran, Cuba, or China — would not only not pay her, but might well issue a fatwa, jail time, or a death sentence for what they didn’t like to read or hear.

As a cricketer Khan made a fortune doing what most normal Westerners do not do. By some reports, corporate grandee Nooyi took in $5 million-plus a year — and lives a life that most Americans outside of Greenwich, Connecticut, and without her access to a globalized captain’s seat at PepsiCo could only dream of.

So it is not just the West per se that has enriched these megaphones, but the hard-driving, over-hyped culture of the West, as exemplified by marquee sports, highbrow publishers, and the Pepsi Corporation.

In other words, Khan, Roy, and Nooyi are, by their own volition, knee-deep in the supposed greed of the West in a way that most ordinary Americans surely are not. Maligned Americans on the tractor in Kansas or walking the beat in the Bronx have not a clue about the privileges that a Roy or Nooyi enjoy — and they are not whining, complaining, or biting the hand that feeds them far less well.

To von Trier, who bemoans that there is so much America in his beloved Denmark, Hanson suggests:

There is no compelling reason to have anything American in your country — except in the past to expel German invaders you either could not or would not keep out. Simply stop buying American. Don’t watch American movies. Admonish not us, but your own leaders to get out of NATO, pronto — the faster the better. Deny entry to all American troops — and tourists. Embrace the EU. It’s bigger and more populous than the U.S. Create an all-EU defense force. Go for it all!

Hanson, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a classicist by training, often supports his present-day observations with allusions to ancient civilizations, especially in the context of war, politics, and international diplomacy. I wonder how pundits a hundred years from now will view these “spoiled and unhappy global elites.” Were they simply a pimple on the fanny of history? Or, did their perfidy fuel Islamic hatred of America and incite a fundamentalist anti-Western backlash that simply overwhelmed the once-great Pax Americana through asymmetric warfare, collusion with the Axis of Evil, and sheer numbers? I don’t want to give these goofs any more attention than they deserve (which is little to none). It’s best just to ignore them or, perhaps more effective: laugh. Or yawn. Hanson closes with this suggestion to the perpetrators themselves:

A final suggestion for these unhappy and privileged few: To end your obsessions with the pathologies of America and the West, find a way to create your own alternative sports, literature, corporations, soft drinks, and filmmaking in the non-West.

It is not that we Americans are mad at what you say. It is just that you have all become so hypocritical, then predictable, and now boring — you are all so boring.

Cross-posted at TMH’s Bacon Bits.


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lies lies and more Koran flushing lies–it’s just al-taqiyya

Filed under: General , Terrorism and Islam @ 10:13 am

It’s just al-taqiyya, lying for the sake of Islam, which is permitted and sanctioned by Mohammed’s teachings and the Koran. You’d think we’d be accustomed to it by now. But leftists’ overly capitulating sensitivities towards Saddam, the Baathists, and the terrorists, even now, makes the outrageous claims of the enemy combatants who were captured in Afghanistan and are now being held at Gitmo seem more and more ridiculous as more information comes to light. It also seems as though Americans are more than willing to become dhimmis under Islamic sharia rule, and doesn’t anyone find that just a little bit frightening after what we’ve seen that Saddam perpetrated under the banner of socialism and Islamofacism? (Mass graves, beheadings, horrible methods of torture come immedately to mind but then~I think leftists are in denial that any of that occurred, and think Iraq was some kind of utopian paradise until the nasty American went over there and spoiled it all. tut tut.)

For example:

  • Not one of these illegal enemy combatant detainee’s who came from Afghanistan had a Qur’an in his possession when captured.
  • A brand new Qur’an in the specific, native language of each individual was provided to each “enemy combatant”.

So no matter what their language was, the US bowed down to them and provided them with a Koran in whatever language they spoke. Out of political correctness, we are afraid of our own prisoners, it seems. We’ve bent over backwards in appeasing these scumbags when I don’t think they deserve half of what they’re getting. Doesn’t that say something about our promoting their freedom of religion rather than beating them over the head with Christianity or any other such nonsense? And further:

  • Each illegal enemy combatant detained at Guantanamo is given three nutritious halal meals (culturally-appropriate and in accordance with Islamic dietary law) per day. The meals include all optional condiments.
  • Each illegal enemy combatant detainee receives Muslim feast meals at special times in accordance with Muslim feasts and holy periods during the year.
  • Each illegal enemy combatant detainee has unrestricted access to Muslim Imams and religious instruction.
  • Each illegal enemy combatant detainee has a Quibla, a large green and white sign in his cell which points toward Mecca.
  • Each illegal enemy combatant detainee hears Islamic loudspeaker calls to prayer five times daily.
  • Each illegal enemy combatant detainee received a brand new Muslim prayer cap.
  • Each illegal enemy combatant detainee received a brand new prayer rug.
  • Each illegal enemy combatant detainee received brand new Islamic prayer beads. Each illegal enemy combatant detainee received Islamic holy oil.

Each illegal enemy combatant had ALL of this done and paid for him at US taxpayer expense and this is far, far in excess of requirements delineated by Geneva Convention Cat. III protocols on the treatment of Prisoners of War. Why is none of this information coming forth from the mainstream media?

America is overwhelmingly a Christian nation, and there has been not one word of taxpayer protest concerning the above facts, which are in essence a glaring omission of the first order by the hate-America first mass media of this country and the world at large.

This information can also be seen at the Northeast Intelligence Network, original work ©Copyright 2005 Sean Osborne, Northeast Intelligence Network; reprints permitted with proper citation and link

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Department of Homeland Security hires criminals

Filed under: General , News @ 7:55 am

Doing its part to keep criminals off the streets, the Department of Homeland Security is hiring them. The DHS’s Transportation Security Administration as been developing a well-earned reputation for hiring petty thieves to inspect baggage at airports. But now we learn that the Federal Emergency Management Agency or FEMA, which has now been placed under the Homeland Security’s unbrella, has hired recidivist criminals to work as disaster-relief inspectors.

“Government inspectors entrusted to enter disaster victims’ homes and verify damage claims include criminals with records for embezzlement, drug dealing and robbery, ” reports the Sun Sentinal.

REEAALLL nice. Dan Craig, FEMA’s director of recovery programs, said: ” Our contract inspectors are our first line of accountability.”

The Sun Sentinal conducted an investigation without much cooperation from FEMA which produced some disturbing results. In spite of the fact that they hire inspectors from one of three Washington-area firms, FEMA is required to “conduct a complete background check” of inspectors that includes local, state and national criminal searches, FEMA said in a statement. But the Sun Sentinal discovered that:

30 inspectors or managers with criminal records out of 133 it was able to identify through confidential sources, news clips, FEMA applicants and the Internet. A case against another inspector, charged in Mississippi with the attempted rape of a Hurricane Ivan victim, is still pending. The count includes those with at least one misdemeanor offense, such as drunken driving, but excludes traffic citations or infractions.

Of the inspectors and supervisors identified as having records, 17 had criminal histories at the time they were hired. At least four lost their jobs for arrests after they were hired, including one scheduled for sentencing May 6 in California for child molestation, and two convicted of federal bribery charges for promising higher FEMA payments in exchange for money.

Seven inspectors have records for marijuana or cocaine possession, including one convicted in 2002 after being hired as an inspector in what the local sheriff described as one of the largest drug busts ever in his Louisiana county.

Another inspector is a house burglar who served three stints in prison in Ohio.

These are people who you would think would have been rigorously checked and double checked rather than be felons and x-cons. Interestingly, it seems to be a trend in our society; not only to release criminals onto the street, but turn them against unsuspecting citizens.

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5/27/2005

Of Narcissism and The Big Flinch

Stalled presidential appointments. Unprecidented judicial filibusters. Not to mention a filibuster of John Bolton for UN Embassador that wasn’t really a filibuster because the Democrats said it wasn’t — even though there was, if I recall, a failed cloture vote. If the Constitutional/Nuclear Option is still viable, as Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) would have you believe, then the patient is at best on life support and I pray that this noble senator-heart surgeon can save it.

In all, a splendid week for the Republic.

There’s been plenty of snap-punditry on that new sea-faring comedy film playing in DC: The Misadventures of the Seven Dwarf RINOs, starring Sens. John “Watch My A&E Special” McCain (RINO-AZ), Lindsey “One Term” Graham (RINO-SC) and Mike “Remember Me?” DeWine (RINO-??). In this flick, these wacky and mischevious little men are too-clever-by-half. In an effort to save something (either a grandiose abstraction like verisimilitude or a small dingey with three weary judges; exactly which is not quite clear in the plot), they in fact sink their own battleship, the USS GOP Majority, with a skill to match all of this nation’s Benedict Arnolds put together.

What to make of all this? For me, all I can do is sputter pathetically in mixed metaphors. Rather than pretend that I have anything other than head-nodding parrot soundbites to add to this issue, I turn it over to two far wiser than I: Peggy Noonan and Charles Krauthammer. Their columns this week put into perspective exactly what I am so furious about: not Frist and the GOP leadership (for how does one herd feral RINOs?), but the RINOs themselves. (more…)


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Step Up And Help

Filed under: Afghanistan, Iraq & Military , General , Kit @ 10:44 am

Chad over at InTheBullpen has a call to action of sorts.

I simply cannot believe there are soldiers stationed accross the globe that do not receive any words of encouragement from home. We must It is our duty to do so and support those who are supporting us.

Again I ask, please join me in Letters to Heroes and let’s make this a success by showing our nation’s support for the fine men and women risking their lives for ours.

Chad is collecting emails for the troops. Stop by and leave a letter for the troops in his comments, or send him an email. It’s a few minutes out of your day, and it means the world to them.

They’re fighting for us. It’s the least we can do.

Cross-posted at Euphoric Reality, GOPBloggers, and GOPInsight

Looking for balance . . .

Filed under: Afghanistan, Iraq & Military , General , Mustang @ 9:46 am

The Iraqi government is moving to curtail insurrectionists responsible for the murder of hundreds of its citizens, instituting an operation to block all 23 access points into the city of Baghdad that will ultimately involve 40,000 soldiers and police officers. According to the Associated Press the government hopes to create a protective ring around a capital city that has become accustomed to large explosions and the loss of innocent lives. Iraqi officials asserted that an “impenetrable blockade” would be established, but would not comment on how long the checkpoints would remain in place. Not surprisingly, the MSM — ever looking to discredit any positive effort — was quick to point out that there are few elite police units in Baghdad, emphasizing that most newly appointed police officers are only seeking higher paying jobs by joining up with the police.

Naturally, police barricades will become the focus of insurgency operations and whoever is assigned to this duty will be standing in harm’s way. Perhaps Iraqi police officers should be making three times more than the average working man. I find it incredible that such snide MSM commentaries are made by people who are themselves being paid hefty salaries for covering the war in Iraq. How about giving the Iraqis a positive shot in the arm for a change? How about some balance?

MEANWHILE, left-wing crackpot Michael RATner, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, is making outrageous claims against those involved with the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. On Thursday, appearing on Fox News, RATner claimed that while the infamous “flushing” episode may not have actually happened, there are documented incidents where military guards “mishandled” the Koran, a violation of “civil rights.” In his interview on the O’Reilly Factor with John Kasich, RATner also claimed that prison guards have smeared menstrual blood on Muslim detainees so that they could not participate in daily prayers.

RATner’s charges are nothing less than ludicrous. Does anyone believe that the American military stockpiles menstrual fluid so that it can be used against Muslim detainees? I have a difficult time understanding what motivates Mr. RATner to make such preposterous charges, and I’m really confused about his sense of proportionality. On the one hand, we have scum-sucking pigs beheading their captives, and that seems to be okay with RATner, but when or if a prison guard “mishandles” the Koran, a charge made by detainees who are not known for their truthfulness, he wants a full investigation and accountability for human rights violations. His agenda may be similar to that of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Amnesty International, which is, as far as I can tell, staunchly anti-American. No one could be clearer on this than Marcia Coyle, who is quoted on the Human Rights Organization website, “In it’s nearly four decades of existence, the Center for Constitutional Rights has never represented clients whose politics it did not share in one way or another.”

Well, at least the wolf is not dressed in sheep’s clothing.

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Damn Right I’m Questioning Your Patriotism!

Since September 11th, our military under commander-in-chief George W. Bush have been kicking ass and taking names in the war against Islamic terrorism, particularly Al-Queda. We’ve taken the battle to two countries that have harbored and supported terrorists; Afghanistan and Iraq, we’ve almost depleted their financial network, and have captured over three quarters of their members. The war is long from over, but we are winning. Our military is protecting our country from another attack and also spreading democracy in nations that haven’t known freedom in quite some time in order to crush tyranny and terror.

But some have been less enthusiastic in our battle, and even seeming to root for the other side. That would be some of those on the left side of the political spectrum. Since 9/11, we’ve heard from Michael Moore that there “Is no terrorist threat” and other lies regarding the matter. We’ve seen the protesters in the streets with signs comparing the president to Adolf Hitler and calling Bush “the real terrorist” and the war “all about oil”. Our military has had almost no help or support from politicians such as Ted Kennedy who said the battle in Iraq was “concocted in Texas for political gain” and Dennis Kucinich who claimed that our forces were “targeting innocent Afghanis for assassination”. Some Hollywood celebrities go abroad and demean our president and our military in time of war. Our news media has been nothing but pessimistic in our fight against the terrorists and have even gone to alleging stories of U.S. guards at Guantanomo flushing the holy Qu’aran down a toilet enraging Muslims worldwide. Now you’ve got Amnesty International calling our holding prison for Al-Queda terrorists “gulags”. Maybe it’s me, but you guys on the Left.. I don’t see you trying to help here. See why I’m questioning your patriotism?

Question is…. Do they really want America to lose? Seems like it to me. Perhaps it’s because the Left view every single military encounter we’ve had since Vietnam, well.. like it’s Vietnam. Here’s something that they might not think of though. Our campaign in Vietnam was to HELP the South Vietnamese. And all they did was protest and call our brave veterans who served over there “babykillers” and hold Communist Party rallies in favor of Ho Chi Mihn. The Vietcong loved it, and used it to fuel their fire against us, and also to demoralize our troops, such as the Winter Soldier hearings. But where were the protesters when the gates fell down in Saigon and thousands of South Vietnamese were rounded up in prison camps or killed? Silent. Their job was done. We left, and the South Vietnamese were left to bear the ill fruits of our departure.

The same could happen here. Our job in Iraq is almost done, yet if we leave, Iraq leaves itself open for more terrorist insurgents to come in and cause unholy chaos for the Iraqi people. The American military is not committing a “war against brown people” as some on the Left would have you think, nor are we there to steal any resources that clearly belong to the Middle East. I’ll reiterate here because I could really go off on a tangent.. Our military is protecting us, annihilating the terrorists, and delivering freedom to people who have only known tyranny. So if you want to claim that the United States is committing “genocide”, that the war is “all for oil”, fine. That’s your First Amendment right. It’s also my First Amendment right to call you unpatriotic, a useful idiot to Al-Queda, and unworthy of even kissing the boots of the brave men and women who protect your sorry ass’s right to say dumb crap like that.

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